I partly agree with that. In some ways I think San Andreas was superior. I want to fly a plane, I want to strap on a jetpack, I also liked the handling of the vehicles better. Yes it wasn't as realistic but it was more fun. In particular the motorcycles.
It's a good point, though I think JPEG, or at least code to read it will be around in 30yrs.
I've recently hit this myself. I've been going through everything since the late 1980s and archiving it. Every floppy, every harddisk, everthing.
First PC was a tandy 1000 and I had a lot of drawings I did, PNT, files, nothing reads those. I also had a bunch of.art files, from a freeware long dead art program (VGA Art Studio) which supported no other format. Luckily, the latter install had some (partially wrong) info on the format, so I had to in both cases reverse engineer the formats and write some perl scripts to convert them to BMP. Luckily, they weren't too complex and it was an interesting process, but it also got me thinking too, I've got do wrap all this stuff up now because 10 yrs from now might be too late.
I also notice that USB enclosures do not like old IDE drives. I still have PCs with a PATA interface so that wasn't a big deal.
I was surprised that most of my floppies (hundreds) were fine (~95%)and they weren't well stored.
All my HDDs were good except my 386 laptop which crashed on boot.
So basically I made images of everything. Carbonite for it all, two 16g flashdrives (one offsite) for all the important stuff as well as an external HDD and DVD-R archives every few months. At the moment, I can't see how I can improve on it much.
I have a feeling the current generation of hardware will not hold up as well as the old iron.
Actually, as far as linux, usually everything just works. I'm sure there's a lot of one off modules that never get anything but a first release and sit unloved but almost everything I've needed to install runs without issue and has done so for years. The only module I can think of on Linux that was a PITA was the SDL libraries, due to the different versions and many library dependencies.
As far as Windows, it depends, all the core stuff is fine, and if you can find it in a ppm repository, you're usually fine, other things that rely on c libs and such , well, YMMV.
All good choices, but no love for "Girl in Gold Boots"? I love when the Regis looking "heavy" just magically appears in the middle of the shot in the diner.
Maybe I misread it, but it doesn't mention whether or not the Russian research took place in a vacuum, from the way it reads to me, I took it as not, of course I could be reading that completely wrong. If it wasn't, then that seems like a non trivial modification.
Though if it wasn't, I have a hard time believing no one followed that up in half a century. Honestly, even if the 50yr old research was in a vacuum and counted as prior art, (and there is no other research since), this is one time I wouldn't mind seeing a bogus patent stick, because at least it's in spirit of what patents are actually supposed to foster.
I'm not big on patents but seems to me they've taken a process, added a novel and non-trivial addition and made a "potentially" very practical invention. This is the kind of things patents were made for. If it were that obvious, wouldn't someone have done something with it in the last half of a century?
Now there may be other things that might speak to it's novelty, but from the article, seems fair to me.
I don't know if it will help or not, but I've read of people using it on laptops that were dropped in boat bilges. It's basically a spray on wax developed for Boeing. It is a soft film wax surfactant that inhibits corrosion and it will also displace any moisture that might be left over.
I look at the spam and I get and I think why would anyone respond to this crap? Porno aside, why would anyone think it's a good idea to buy medicine, products or anything else from some shady stranger?
The other surprising with this story, is that efficiency aside, it seems that the makers actually included an attempt at a shoddy (and probably dangerous) pill. I would have just guessed they used sawdust. LOL
Just give your suicidal idiot an Ativan and there goes their "distress" signs.
Though it will make a wonderfully arbitrary excuse to stop anyone you wish. I certainly would think that airports are only step one of deployment. It's hard to imagine that if they become prevalent in airports, that sooner or later they won't be applied elsewhere.
When my girlfriend did a semester on the other coast, we used VLC over SSH. There is a little lag, but you can cut it down by playing with the caching, etc. (Not only did we get encryption but used SSH port tunneling to bypass the NAT, firewall problems with her school's network).
If you didn't need to encrypt it or have a need for tunneling, you could drop SSH, you could make a batch file for them to start it up easy enough.
You know, I had very mixed results. My first Skip Doctor I got years ago, worked like a charm and fixed every disc I threw at it, save one. Even the one I couldn't fix totally, still improved, (I could listen to all but one track as opposed to 4 that were unusable before running it through)
At some point, it got broken and a few years later, I got another one, and it did not fix a single disc, even lightly scratched ones. Ones I was able to repair by hand with a regimen of auto paint paint polishing compounds. So maybe it's a QA issue, or they just got cheap with subsequent revisions of it, or who knows, maybe I was lucky the first time.
Well for one, you don't have to go right to shooting them if you're feeling hospitable. Two, yes, someone breaks in my house, and I'm home, I'm going to do whatever I can to stop them.
That's not to say I'm going to get shot over a TV (if they get the drop on me), but I'm not going to be, "Hey, here's my shit" either, if they don't. Comparing getting robbed in public, as compared to the sanctity of your own home, isn't exactly apples to apples.
As far as the original poster, get an 8ch quad on ebay for like $90 USD, add cameras to taste.
Actually, talking to a friend in law enforcement tonight (wearing a Lojack swag shirt no less), said that in the short time he's dealt with them, they've recovered 12 of 13 laptops. The 13th, they know where it is, but some out of state judicial stuff to deal with.
An article today said, researchers have found a genetic link between autism and a muscle-weakening disorder known as mitochondrial disease.... The disease is often triggered by an illness, such as a high fever, which can result in severe muscle weakening.
While it proves nothing, interesting fodder for my argument.
And what risk, if any, is there in combining so many vaccinations, and what aspects have been studied, and how, and for how long? Not asking you this directly, but it's not exactly the black & white issue you make it out to be.
It's not hard to believe that introducing greater multiples of antigens into a still developing immune system might have additional adverse effects then fewer. Most systems operate better under less stress, biological or otherwise. It's not exactly a crazy idea, actually, it seems pretty logical.
And maybe the risk is minimal or non-existent, and maybe it's not. Maybe it's worth having more visits to the doctor when viable. Regardless, I'd be curious to see how much if any research has been done on that point, and I'm willing to bet, it's pretty limited.
Actually, if medicine is to be believed, she is without a doubt Autistic, closer to severe than moderate. As in, she'll never have a life, relationship, or even conversation etc. She spoke more at 2 than she does now a decade later.
As I said, I totally believe in vaccinations, even if it does somehow cause it, the dangers are worth it. Still, address my point, what benefits are there to combining so many vaccinations besides simple convenience, and in all probability, a higher profit for the mfg? Maybe in 3rd world countries, it's the best course to make sure gets get the vaccinations they need. There's a good point right there, has anyone actually bothered to research that? Perhaps scrutinizing other countries that have less/no vaccinations, or fewer at a time would yield some interesting data one way or the other.
And no disagreement on toxic cesspools, the town I was raised in is a "bubble" for a number of diseases. Including Lupus/Scleroderma and a variety of cancers. Maybe it's nearby Edison that used to coat your clothes with soot everyday when they cleared the stacks, maybe it's the jet fuel emissions (as odd as it sounds, data to support that), or just as probably, the huge number of industries a hundred years ago who filled the ground with every toxin imaginable. The environment is full of poison, no doubt.
I'm not convinced it isn't. Doesn't help that Bush tried to seal everything related to it and give them retroactive immunity somehow relating to 9/11?, also the next day, the approved a new vaccine larger combo vaccine (8 if I recall) but I digress...
I think it's just as likely that combining so many vaccines and introducing them into a still forming body with a weak immune system could be the cause. Obviously, something is causing the increase. And if any of it leads back to them, regardless of the cause, they don't want it known.
OTOH, not giving kids immunizations is retarded, and I say this as someone with an autistic niece.
While I agree that use != abuse, I think your simplifying.
Depending on what substances we are talking about, the following argument doesn't hold up IMHO.
is simply "illegal drug use"... when an adult makes an informed choice about drug
While many drugs won't violate this, many do. A Heroin/Oxy addict, whether informed in the beginning or not, once addicted, well "choice" becomes a bit of a slippery concept. Yes, they made the decision, it's their fault and responsibility, both legally and personally, but rational thought is greatly diminished, if it exists at all, in the equation.
Six years ago, my Mom and a brother were both diagnosed with terminal cancers. Going through that, I'll tell you, I was an angry person. I usually had the urge to strike just about anyone and everyone as hard I could. Even if my "head" wasn't mad, my body felt it. (Yeah, healthy, I know). Anyway, this lasted for a couple *years* after they passed. Very impulsive sensation (disconcerting as well).
So, to vent, I'd fire up GTA and take out my anger on the world. Was very cathartic. I know without that, some of that would have become real-world brawling. Without a doubt, helped me keep the hinges on during that period.
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I partly agree with that. In some ways I think San Andreas was superior. I want to fly a plane, I want to strap on a jetpack, I also liked the handling of the vehicles better. Yes it wasn't as realistic but it was more fun. In particular the motorcycles.
You know, maybe it's inane, but you really can't blame her. She's made quite a living off of it.
Besides, she need it for financing StedMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQMQ7Usqisg
It's a good point, though I think JPEG, or at least code to read it will be around in 30yrs.
I've recently hit this myself. I've been going through everything since the late 1980s and archiving it. Every floppy, every harddisk, everthing.
First PC was a tandy 1000 and I had a lot of drawings I did, PNT, files, nothing reads those. I also had a bunch of .art files, from a freeware long dead art program (VGA Art Studio) which supported no other format. Luckily, the latter install had some (partially wrong) info on the format, so I had to in both cases reverse engineer the formats and write some perl scripts to convert them to BMP. Luckily, they weren't too complex and it was an interesting process, but it also got me thinking too, I've got do wrap all this stuff up now because 10 yrs from now might be too late.
I also notice that USB enclosures do not like old IDE drives. I still have PCs with a PATA interface so that wasn't a big deal.
I was surprised that most of my floppies (hundreds) were fine (~95%)and they weren't well stored.
All my HDDs were good except my 386 laptop which crashed on boot.
So basically I made images of everything. Carbonite for it all, two 16g flashdrives (one offsite) for all the important stuff as well as an external HDD and DVD-R archives every few months. At the moment, I can't see how I can improve on it much.
I have a feeling the current generation of hardware will not hold up as well as the old iron.
Actually, as far as linux, usually everything just works. I'm sure there's a lot of one off modules that never get anything but a first release and sit unloved but almost everything I've needed to install runs without issue and has done so for years. The only module I can think of on Linux that was a PITA was the SDL libraries, due to the different versions and many library dependencies.
As far as Windows, it depends, all the core stuff is fine, and if you can find it in a ppm repository, you're usually fine, other things that rely on c libs and such , well, YMMV.
All good choices, but no love for "Girl in Gold Boots"? I love when the Regis looking "heavy" just magically appears in the middle of the shot in the diner.
Maybe I misread it, but it doesn't mention whether or not the Russian research took place in a vacuum, from the way it reads to me, I took it as not, of course I could be reading that completely wrong. If it wasn't, then that seems like a non trivial modification.
Though if it wasn't, I have a hard time believing no one followed that up in half a century. Honestly, even if the 50yr old research was in a vacuum and counted as prior art, (and there is no other research since), this is one time I wouldn't mind seeing a bogus patent stick, because at least it's in spirit of what patents are actually supposed to foster.
I'm not big on patents but seems to me they've taken a process, added a novel and non-trivial addition and made a "potentially" very practical invention. This is the kind of things patents were made for. If it were that obvious, wouldn't someone have done something with it in the last half of a century?
Now there may be other things that might speak to it's novelty, but from the article, seems fair to me.
I don't know if it will help or not, but I've read of people using it on laptops that were dropped in boat bilges. It's basically a spray on wax developed for Boeing. It is a soft film wax surfactant that inhibits corrosion and it will also displace any moisture that might be left over.
http://www.boeshield.com/index.htm
For the record, I've not used it for that, only on my car.
Exactly. I have some old 3.5HDDs that can be used with an enclosure. Requires too much power I'm guessing.
Hear hear!
I look at the spam and I get and I think why would anyone respond to this crap? Porno aside, why would anyone think it's a good idea to buy medicine, products or anything else from some shady stranger?
The other surprising with this story, is that efficiency aside, it seems that the makers actually included an attempt at a shoddy (and probably dangerous) pill. I would have just guessed they used sawdust. LOL
Just give your suicidal idiot an Ativan and there goes their "distress" signs.
Though it will make a wonderfully arbitrary excuse to stop anyone you wish. I certainly would think that airports are only step one of deployment. It's hard to imagine that if they become prevalent in airports, that sooner or later they won't be applied elsewhere.
I dunno, all I could think of when I read "A Space" was South Park and "Project: Imagination Doorway"
When my girlfriend did a semester on the other coast, we used VLC over SSH. There is a little lag, but you can cut it down by playing with the caching, etc. (Not only did we get encryption but used SSH port tunneling to bypass the NAT, firewall problems with her school's network).
If you didn't need to encrypt it or have a need for tunneling, you could drop SSH, you could make a batch file for them to start it up easy enough.
You know, I had very mixed results. My first Skip Doctor I got years ago, worked like a charm and fixed every disc I threw at it, save one. Even the one I couldn't fix totally, still improved, (I could listen to all but one track as opposed to 4 that were unusable before running it through)
At some point, it got broken and a few years later, I got another one, and it did not fix a single disc, even lightly scratched ones. Ones I was able to repair by hand with a regimen of auto paint paint polishing compounds. So maybe it's a QA issue, or they just got cheap with subsequent revisions of it, or who knows, maybe I was lucky the first time.
I F*CKING hate it, I just installed FF3 today and it's coming right off. No reason it's not optional
Anyone remember this? And the spiel she had about how huge her company would be? I believe an IPO was mentioned.
Ah the days of reading F*ckedCompany religiously.
Well for one, you don't have to go right to shooting them if you're feeling hospitable. Two, yes, someone breaks in my house, and I'm home, I'm going to do whatever I can to stop them.
That's not to say I'm going to get shot over a TV (if they get the drop on me), but I'm not going to be, "Hey, here's my shit" either, if they don't. Comparing getting robbed in public, as compared to the sanctity of your own home, isn't exactly apples to apples.
As far as the original poster, get an 8ch quad on ebay for like $90 USD, add cameras to taste.
Actually, talking to a friend in law enforcement tonight (wearing a Lojack swag shirt no less), said that in the short time he's dealt with them, they've recovered 12 of 13 laptops. The 13th, they know where it is, but some out of state judicial stuff to deal with.
How fricking hard could it be to support gpsd?
And interesting update.
...
An article today said, researchers have found a genetic link between autism and a muscle-weakening disorder known as mitochondrial disease.
The disease is often triggered by an illness, such as a high fever, which can result in severe muscle weakening.
While it proves nothing, interesting fodder for my argument.
And what risk, if any, is there in combining so many vaccinations, and what aspects have been studied, and how, and for how long? Not asking you this directly, but it's not exactly the black & white issue you make it out to be.
It's not hard to believe that introducing greater multiples of antigens into a still developing immune system might have additional adverse effects then fewer. Most systems operate better under less stress, biological or otherwise. It's not exactly a crazy idea, actually, it seems pretty logical.
And maybe the risk is minimal or non-existent, and maybe it's not. Maybe it's worth having more visits to the doctor when viable. Regardless, I'd be curious to see how much if any research has been done on that point, and I'm willing to bet, it's pretty limited.
Actually, if medicine is to be believed, she is without a doubt Autistic, closer to severe than moderate. As in, she'll never have a life, relationship, or even conversation etc. She spoke more at 2 than she does now a decade later.
As I said, I totally believe in vaccinations, even if it does somehow cause it, the dangers are worth it. Still, address my point, what benefits are there to combining so many vaccinations besides simple convenience, and in all probability, a higher profit for the mfg? Maybe in 3rd world countries, it's the best course to make sure gets get the vaccinations they need. There's a good point right there, has anyone actually bothered to research that? Perhaps scrutinizing other countries that have less/no vaccinations, or fewer at a time would yield some interesting data one way or the other.
And no disagreement on toxic cesspools, the town I was raised in is a "bubble" for a number of diseases. Including Lupus/Scleroderma and a variety of cancers. Maybe it's nearby Edison that used to coat your clothes with soot everyday when they cleared the stacks, maybe it's the jet fuel emissions (as odd as it sounds, data to support that), or just as probably, the huge number of industries a hundred years ago who filled the ground with every toxin imaginable. The environment is full of poison, no doubt.
I'm not convinced it isn't. Doesn't help that Bush tried to seal everything related to it and give them retroactive immunity somehow relating to 9/11?, also the next day, the approved a new vaccine larger combo vaccine (8 if I recall) but I digress...
I think it's just as likely that combining so many vaccines and introducing them into a still forming body with a weak immune system could be the cause. Obviously, something is causing the increase. And if any of it leads back to them, regardless of the cause, they don't want it known.
OTOH, not giving kids immunizations is retarded, and I say this as someone with an autistic niece.
While I agree that use != abuse, I think your simplifying.
... when an adult makes an informed choice about drug
Depending on what substances we are talking about, the following argument doesn't hold up IMHO.
is simply "illegal drug use"
While many drugs won't violate this, many do. A Heroin/Oxy addict, whether informed in the beginning or not, once addicted, well "choice" becomes a bit of a slippery concept. Yes, they made the decision, it's their fault and responsibility, both legally and personally, but rational thought is greatly diminished, if it exists at all, in the equation.
Totally agree.
Six years ago, my Mom and a brother were both diagnosed with terminal cancers. Going through that, I'll tell you, I was an angry person. I usually had the urge to strike just about anyone and everyone as hard I could. Even if my "head" wasn't mad, my body felt it. (Yeah, healthy, I know). Anyway, this lasted for a couple *years* after they passed. Very impulsive sensation (disconcerting as well).
So, to vent, I'd fire up GTA and take out my anger on the world. Was very cathartic. I know without that, some of that would have become real-world brawling. Without a doubt, helped me keep the hinges on during that period.