I read somewhere a while ago about injury rates for cats falling from various heights.
Apparently, severity & likelihood of injury climb upward as the height goes up, as you might expect. But then somewhere up several stories, the injury rate and severity suddenly dropped significantly, then began climbing again, but more slowly. After a bit if research, someone discovered an explanation.
Cats reflexively turn to land on their feet as they fall. As you get above a couple of storeys, this becomes more of a liability. The accelerated velocity combined with the tense, standing position increases the likelihood of broken limbs. If the height is above that several-storey mark, the cat gets pretty much to terminal velocity for its weight/wind resistence. At that point, the cat relaxes and spreads it's legs out. The increase in drag actually slows the cat down a bit. And the relaxed posture also spreads out the impact area. Result: fewer and less sever injuries.
I just gotta say, i've never seen a Dutch name "anglisised" by removing the spaces.
The computer system for the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (at least as they use it in Columbus) will drop any letters in a surname that come after a space. Your surname Van Der Vliet would be come Van if left as-is. (Actually, they would print your new license with your whole surname, but the database would quietly drop everything after the first space. Another datapoint in the argument for good programming specs.)
You can shoe-horn you name into the system by either glomming it altogether as VanDerdVliet, or including dashes: Van-Der-Vliet. I'm not sure if it will accept the recognize the inter-capitals, as the licenses print out in all upp-er case.
I know more about this than I ever wanted to. My surname is Ingraham Dwyer, without a dash. I'm STILL trying to get this crap straightened out.
I honestly believe that most of these therapeutic touch therapists are interested in helping people, even if their science is a bit wacky. If that's true, they're far better human beings than Emily and her parents, who are more interested in wholesale discreditation of theories than separating the truth from the lies.
Really? It sound to me like they were doing both. They were able to discredit a theory by separating the truth from the lies. (I guess it might be more accurate to say that they were separating some specific lies from the general body of truth. But that's really just semantics.)
Intention certainly has it's value, as do love and respect. But action is what produces results.
Last night I went to kiss my wife goodnight. In the dark, I bumped my nose into her open eye. My intent was show affection. The results were that she was in a lot of pain and crying for several minutes. Her understanding of my intentions of my Love and Respect *eventually* helped her to feel somewhat better about the whole situation. But the action of it was that I poked her in the eye and that hurt her a great deal.
From what I've heard about maquiladoras and free-trade zones, you'll probably have a hard time getting good information. And when you do get it, you'll have a hard time keeping it current.
The shops work on contract, with the product changing every few months. Overall, the clothing shops stick with clothing, and the electronics assemblers sticking w/ their area, but when orders fall off, or some semblance of human-rights monitoring gets started up, the shop will fold, and the owner will look for greener pastures. A new industry will open up under the old roof pretty quickly.
Worse still, I read recently about someone having developed a manufacturing facility that fits in a cargo container. Now the whole factory can pick up and head for where the wages are cheapest.
At current component price levels, it should be easy to pick out the ones that didn't come from sweatshops. They are the ones that'll cost almost an order of magnitude more than other similar components. Like it or not, large parts of our western affluence is built on their backs. It is only getting more difficult to find products that don't include that kind of exploitation in their production channel.
On FAT volumes, MacOS versions prior to 8.5 thunk their own 32-character (semi-long, you might call them) file names down to 11-character file names with an exclamation mark included as the first character. A dot is inserted between the 8th & 9th characters. Spaces are dropped, and the case distinctions are lost. Extensions are (usually) kept, if a dot is in the original name (though multiple dots in the original name produce odd results). Name colisions are solved by replacing the last character (even in the extension) with a numeral, starting with 0. Info about the original MacOS semi-long name is kept in one of the semi-invisible support files created (Desktop DF, Desktop DB, Resource.frk, etc.), not sure which.
(Interestingly enough, MacOS does manage to give properly formed long file names to several of it's necessary resources: "___Move&Rename", "AppleSharePDS" and "OpenFolderListDF_".)
The following list of files, together in order of creation, shows MacOS name thunking results:
"My Cool File.doc" -> "!MYCOOLF.DOC"
"My Cool File2.doc" -> "!MYCOOLF.DO0"
"My Cool File3.doc" -> "!MYCOOLF.DO1"
"My Cool File" -> "!MYCOOLF.ILE"
"My Cool File.thing.doc" -> "!MYCOOLF.IL0"
Files created on Win9x as viewed on (pre-8.5) MacOS will show the usual thunking pattern ("MYCOOL~1.DOC") that we've all come to know and hate.
Put a Wintel-formatted floppy (1.44M, ZIP, JAZ, LS-120, whatever) into a Macintosh. Move a long-named Mac file onto it. Bring it to a Windoze box, look for the file. Put a long-named Windoze file on it. Sneaker the disk back to the Mac. Look for the second file.
I'm more concerned with this becoming part of a virus/DOS attack.
Write up a VBScript email attachment that trips the InTether mechanism for all the protected files on the recipient's computer. Instantly all of the protected movies, songs, eBooks, legitimate or not, get deleted.
Or, better yet, fake it into thinking that an InTether document is open, and (according to the article) the recipient won't be able to cut/copy/paste/print anything else on the computer.
We had to destroy the village to save it.
Knowing MS, the differences between the Select version of XP and the non-Select version will be like the diffs between NT 4 Server and NT 4 Workstation: A couple of registry entries and a couple of support files that generate them. And some sort of system that makes it difficult to "migrate" a box from non-Select to Select.
we can decentralize these operations, saving space, energy, commute time, the air, preventing sprawl.
Yeah, now we can locate them in even more greatly dispersed areas, where rent is cheaper. Why pay the rates that a development corp charges for being on the edge of the suburb when we can just take over a cornfield from a farmer who is going under.
As a journalist I would love to be able to step into my car and have all my databases, research and editing tools at my fingertips. [...] We should all SLOW THE HELL DOWN for a bit, anyway.
Perhaps it's me, but this doesn't sound slower to me. Working in the car sounds faster, a la James Gleick.
Decentralizing increases sprawl. As does the proliferation of the personal automobile. By this I mean the decentralization and compartmentalization of the needs of a person's daily life. Perhaps you meant something else...
Used to be that most offices were downtown, in the central city. People lived there, too. Used to be that cities & towns grew up with everything one needed, close by. People lived over storefronts. Neighborhoods had a wide mix of building usages: retail, light manufacturing, office, residential.
These days, developments rigidly enforce zoning separations. Can't put those stores too close to homes! People we don't know might walk through our neighborhood, and we all know what kind of people can't afford to drive! Nope, anyplace worth visiting has to be driven to. LA isn't the only place where nobody walks, it's just the most obvious example.
But yeah, sure, let's do internet access in the car. Let's try to be more "efficient" and get more work done on our way to and from work. It'll be convenient. At first. Then it will become a job reqirement, like pagers and on-call hours.
Besides, just saying something you recognize with the word "Soap" in it, just because it's an article about "SOAP", is not +1 Funny, it's -1 Off Topic.
I'll have to concur with the other AC reply to your post. You have far too limited a sense of humor.
Sure that might have been something of an in-joke, but the comment was also funny in the way the tag line from the sit-com *fit* in the context of the comment to which the poster replied. See, the person was confused about what exactly SOAP is. And the quote... Ah, forget it! Explaining a joke is the quickest way to kill what's funny about it.
I suppose you also despise the little from the better-then-dove! dept. subtitles in every/. article.
Really, ALL humor is culture-reference. Try telling a blonde-joke, or a priest-rabbi-minister-walk-into-a-bar-joke to a native Samoan and see how funny he thinks it is.
Have you heard about the painter Vincent Van Gogh,
Who loved color and who let it show.
Now in the museum what have we here?
The baddest painter since God's Jan Vermeer.
He loved he loved he loved life so bad,
His paintings had twice the color other paintings had.
So bad so bad that the world had to know,
The man loved color and he let it show.
Well in the Amsterdam museum I was feeling bad,
And trying to find a way not to be that sad.
I felt the feeling in the room sincere,
Vincent Van Gogh well he seemed so near.
And he loved he loved he loved life like he did,
HIs paintings had things that painters keep hid.
He loved life so bad that the world had to know,
He loved color and he let it show.
OK, so what can we say about this Vincent Van Gogh?
Ellie.
He loved color and he let it show,
Ok, Michael, now in the museum, what have we here?
The baddest painter since Jan Vermeer.
He loved he loved he loved life with that heart,
His paintings took off where the other paintings just start.
He loved life so bad that the world had to know,
He loved color and he let it show.
Alright.
Have you heard about the painter Vincent Van Gogh?
Who loved color and who let it show.
Now in the museum what have we here?
The baddest painter since God's Jan Vermeer.
He loved he loved he loved life with a passion,
His paintings said things that men generally don't do in that fashion.
He loved life so bad that the world had to know,
The man loved life folks and he let it show.
Vincent Van Gogh, who we talkin' about?
Vincent Van Gogh.
One of my friends told me about a nifty split-apart keyboard - two separate pieces,
Sounds like an ErgoMagic, though I think those actually have 3 pieces, with the numberpad separated also.
Re:If it's on the web, I'd say not..
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I suspect he's not talking about an HTML/web version. I pretty sure he's talking about an electronic-book-specific format like Adobe's eBook or some other. I bet the "browser" he was referring to was not a web browser, but an "ebook browser".
The general "if it is on my computer I can copy it" argument still stands in this case. But your HTML-specific methods fail to apply.
Does anybody have enough EE knowledge to know which power strips have good surge protection and which are crappy?
I've been told that some compare hot-to-hot instead of hot-to-ground. In those cases, if a spike comes in evenly and in phase on both sides, it won't trip the surge protector, but will still blow your equip.
I've heard that others fail silently. They eat up spikes without complaining and their circuitry just degrades over time and eventually stops protecting your equip.
Anybody know which makes/models give you real, lasting protection? Or should I just give it up, considering power strips to be mere outlet multipliers, and only trust a UPS?
The Mr. Dataplay Commercial:
(A geek at his computer blows a whistle, bringing
Mr. Dataplay to life off of his box. He calls to him.) Mr. Sparkle:I'm disrespectful to unprotected music! Can you see I
am serious? (Mr. Dataplay hovers over the geek's CD's, releasing
sparkles over them. The discs disappear. Mr.
Dataplay floats to the living room, where he bounces over
a baby's xylophone. He then appears underwater,
where three women are dancing.) Mr. Dataplay: Get out of my way, all of you! This is no
place for music pirates! Join me or die. Can you do any less? (The women stop dancing.) Two of the women: What a brave corporate logo! I
accept the challenge of "Mr. Dataplay." Woman: Awsoma power! (Mr. Dataplay blows magic dust over the girls as a graphic
of a drumming monkey toy hovers in the upper left of
the screen. The dust turns the girls into blue Sumos.)
(The scene changes to a reporter interviewing a two-
headed cow.) Reporter:Any plans for the summer?
(Mr. Dataplay appears and shatters the cow. It's
disembodied eyes blink at him. The scene changes to
Mr. Dataplay coming at us from an orange background.) Mr. Dataplay: For lucky best music, use Mr. Dataplay!
They aren't likely to merge/get bought out any time soon. And they DO give shell access, but I'm not so sure about the multi-GIG user space mentioned in the original request. That kind of shopping list sounds more like a co-loc than a conventional ISP to me.
ARLINGTON, Virginia (AP) -- Osama bin Laden and other Muslim extremists are using food and air to give them the sustenance they need to plan terrorist activities against the United States and its allies, USA Today reported Tuesday.
The paper said weeks of interviews with U.S. law enforcement officials and other experts disclosed details of how extremists take oxygen into their lungs and consume readily available foodstuffs.
The report said instructions for "respirating" and "aquiring calories" are apparently part of the earliest indoctrination that (potential) terrorists recieve.
"To a greater and greater degree, terrorist groups, including Hezbollah, Hamas and bin Laden's al Qaeda group, are eating, drinking and breathing to support their operations," CIA Director George Tenet wrote last March to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
USA Today said the testimony was presented at a closed-door hearing and made public later.
Following up on that report, the paper said it learned from various unnamed officials and investigators that life is sustained by using freely available air and nutritious consumables that are sold for a profit all over the globe.
"It's something the intelligence, law-enforcement and military communities are really struggling to deal with," Ben Venzke of the cyberintelligence company iDEFENSE told the paper.
I'm sorry if I'm a traditionalist, but aren't games about having fun? Why do they have to teach us about zero sum? They shouldn't teach us anything.
Have you never been around young (pre-school, kindergarten) children?
Play is learning. Games do teach.
Have a look at a book like You Can't Say "You Can't Play" for a great example of what some Kindergartners and their teacher learn when she decides to make a new rule; not for any particular game, but for *play in general*.
Sure, some of the worst games created are the ones that were designed above all else to teach particular lessons. Those ones are far too didactic to be fun. But even the fun games teach.
Even if these games weren't designed with lesson plans in mind, they still teach, or at the least encourage the independent development and exercise of these skills.
I don't see anything wrong with someone casting about for games that suit a particular learning outcome. But yeah, make sure it can *also* be enjoyed.
About a half-decade ago I worked for AOL. This was shortly after they "got" the internet. I was in the one group (Web development) that really had a clue about what went on in the net at large, outside of AOL's little gated community. But we never had much support from our VP, so most of our efforts were fruitless. I digress. I *will* digress.
Boy, will I ever digress:
Back then, the bosses tried to distribute the new AOL 2.6 software via the internet, in addition to the ubiquitous mailings (at least the floppies were more re-usable than the later CD's). The problem was that damn Certification Code. (You know, the paper with "Garble-Grabel" printed on it.) The Cert was the key to letting the software install. They made it necessary, because it would tie your account into whichever mailing list or magazine attachment got you the disks. (AOL paid a premium to the mags and list sellers for everyone who signed up.) The Certs were designed to all be unique.
So the problem was that no-one was going to download the software from AOL's FTP site or homepage, and then have to WAIT for snail-mail to get them their Cert. So AOL decided to make an exception. There would be *one* non-expiring Cert, and it would be published with the software on the FTP and web site.
And that was just the chink in the armor that AOHell needed.
AOHell was a script kiddie tool for AOL. It could fake the system out to think you were in a "free" area and still let you access premium content. It had canned macros that let you fish clueless lusers for passwords. It could "bust" into chat rooms by sending the entry command several hundred times a second until either you got in quick when someone left, or sometimes the overloaded system just *let* you in. But most of all, it had a fake credit card/name/address info and could reset your software so that you didn't have to re-install it. And it had the non-expiring Cert wired in.
Your (current) account would get cancelled after you got caught. AOHell would let you roll another account up in seconds. Of course, the screen-names couldn't be released for reuse until the account had been dead for more than 3 years.
There was such a proliferation of l33t haxors during that year that AOL *almost* ran out of screen-names. They'd hang out in known private "WAREZ" chat rooms, forwarding emails with attachments of pirated software to one another. (Yes, AOL *knew* about the chat rooms, but figured that if the policed those areas, they'd be legally required to police ALL private chat rooms.)
Since screen-names without numbers appended (Icarus4639) were becoming hard to find, they were pretty highly prized by the AOHell kiddies. I saw some pretty hilarious ones. I'll give the kiddies that. Many of them showed at least some inklings of creativity.
Sporktoast was the first one of them I could remember when it came time for a Slashdot NickName.
Not that flywheels are crank science like the above... But they do put on a spectacular show when they fail! All that radial inertia suddenly free to go off in the straight line it's always dreamt about.
Um, no. The man will just have his jackboots at both of your necks.
Of course, if your college's network is like the network I manage, not all of those 8 network ports at the faceplate in your dorm room are patched into the switch at the other end. I mean, if you and your roommate are the average case (only using 2 of the 8 ports), why should Network Services pay for 4 times as many hubs/switches just to have a bunch of live outlets gathering dust behind cheap dorm furniture?
You'll need to make friends with someone who can get to the patch panel and make sure those outlets are active before you can find out that they aren't any use because the bottleneck is that your school only has a single T1 line.
The Smithsonian's exclusion of Tesla has more to do with Edison's legacy than to do with secretive applications for Tesla's work.
Edison's estate and the philathropic foundations he started are high up on the donor list for the Smithsonian. You don't piss off your big money makers. That's why the statue mentioned in the link you gave above is currently displayed in a side hallway to a restroom at the Museum of American History.
There are also efforts underway to port Perl to the JVM, but I'm not sure what the status of that effort is (something for Perl 6.0? I'm not sure at the moment...).
Larry Wall was asked about that when he spoke at the Cincinnati GNU/Linux Users Group last night. He pretty much rolled his eyes, shrugged, mentioned a masters candidate's thesis he'd just passed that had asserted that it would be very difficult to do, and went on to talk about a conversation he'd had with someone from Sun who'd admitted that part of the design goals included making it extremely difficult to port C to the JVM.
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I read somewhere a while ago about injury rates for cats falling from various heights.
Apparently, severity & likelihood of injury climb upward as the height goes up, as you might expect. But then somewhere up several stories, the injury rate and severity suddenly dropped significantly, then began climbing again, but more slowly. After a bit if research, someone discovered an explanation.
Cats reflexively turn to land on their feet as they fall. As you get above a couple of storeys, this becomes more of a liability. The accelerated velocity combined with the tense, standing position increases the likelihood of broken limbs. If the height is above that several-storey mark, the cat gets pretty much to terminal velocity for its weight/wind resistence. At that point, the cat relaxes and spreads it's legs out. The increase in drag actually slows the cat down a bit. And the relaxed posture also spreads out the impact area. Result: fewer and less sever injuries.
The computer system for the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (at least as they use it in Columbus) will drop any letters in a surname that come after a space. Your surname Van Der Vliet would be come Van if left as-is. (Actually, they would print your new license with your whole surname, but the database would quietly drop everything after the first space. Another datapoint in the argument for good programming specs.)
You can shoe-horn you name into the system by either glomming it altogether as VanDerdVliet, or including dashes: Van-Der-Vliet. I'm not sure if it will accept the recognize the inter-capitals, as the licenses print out in all upp-er case.
I know more about this than I ever wanted to. My surname is Ingraham Dwyer, without a dash. I'm STILL trying to get this crap straightened out.
Really? It sound to me like they were doing both. They were able to discredit a theory by separating the truth from the lies. (I guess it might be more accurate to say that they were separating some specific lies from the general body of truth. But that's really just semantics.)
Intention certainly has it's value, as do love and respect. But action is what produces results.
Last night I went to kiss my wife goodnight. In the dark, I bumped my nose into her open eye. My intent was show affection. The results were that she was in a lot of pain and crying for several minutes. Her understanding of my intentions of my Love and Respect *eventually* helped her to feel somewhat better about the whole situation. But the action of it was that I poked her in the eye and that hurt her a great deal.
From what I've heard about maquiladoras and free-trade zones, you'll probably have a hard time getting good information. And when you do get it, you'll have a hard time keeping it current.
The shops work on contract, with the product changing every few months. Overall, the clothing shops stick with clothing, and the electronics assemblers sticking w/ their area, but when orders fall off, or some semblance of human-rights monitoring gets started up, the shop will fold, and the owner will look for greener pastures. A new industry will open up under the old roof pretty quickly.
Worse still, I read recently about someone having developed a manufacturing facility that fits in a cargo container. Now the whole factory can pick up and head for where the wages are cheapest.
At current component price levels, it should be easy to pick out the ones that didn't come from sweatshops. They are the ones that'll cost almost an order of magnitude more than other similar components. Like it or not, large parts of our western affluence is built on their backs. It is only getting more difficult to find products that don't include that kind of exploitation in their production channel.
I'm willing to pay for good information.
On FAT volumes, MacOS versions prior to 8.5 thunk their own 32-character (semi-long, you might call them) file names down to 11-character file names with an exclamation mark included as the first character. A dot is inserted between the 8th & 9th characters. Spaces are dropped, and the case distinctions are lost. Extensions are (usually) kept, if a dot is in the original name (though multiple dots in the original name produce odd results). Name colisions are solved by replacing the last character (even in the extension) with a numeral, starting with 0. Info about the original MacOS semi-long name is kept in one of the semi-invisible support files created (Desktop DF, Desktop DB, Resource.frk, etc.), not sure which.
(Interestingly enough, MacOS does manage to give properly formed long file names to several of it's necessary resources: "___Move&Rename", "AppleSharePDS" and "OpenFolderListDF_".)
The following list of files, together in order of creation, shows MacOS name thunking results:
Files created on Win9x as viewed on (pre-8.5) MacOS will show the usual thunking pattern ("MYCOOL~1.DOC") that we've all come to know and hate.
Try this:
Put a Wintel-formatted floppy (1.44M, ZIP, JAZ, LS-120, whatever) into a Macintosh. Move a long-named Mac file onto it. Bring it to a Windoze box, look for the file. Put a long-named Windoze file on it. Sneaker the disk back to the Mac. Look for the second file.
Post your results here.
I'm more concerned with this becoming part of a virus/DOS attack.
Write up a VBScript email attachment that trips the InTether mechanism for all the protected files on the recipient's computer. Instantly all of the protected movies, songs, eBooks, legitimate or not, get deleted.
Or, better yet, fake it into thinking that an InTether document is open, and (according to the article) the recipient won't be able to cut/copy/paste/print anything else on the computer. We had to destroy the village to save it.
Knowing MS, the differences between the Select version of XP and the non-Select version will be like the diffs between NT 4 Server and NT 4 Workstation: A couple of registry entries and a couple of support files that generate them. And some sort of system that makes it difficult to "migrate" a box from non-Select to Select.
Yeah, now we can locate them in even more greatly dispersed areas, where rent is cheaper. Why pay the rates that a development corp charges for being on the edge of the suburb when we can just take over a cornfield from a farmer who is going under.
Perhaps it's me, but this doesn't sound slower to me. Working in the car sounds faster, a la James Gleick.
Decentralizing increases sprawl. As does the proliferation of the personal automobile. By this I mean the decentralization and compartmentalization of the needs of a person's daily life. Perhaps you meant something else...
Used to be that most offices were downtown, in the central city. People lived there, too. Used to be that cities & towns grew up with everything one needed, close by. People lived over storefronts. Neighborhoods had a wide mix of building usages: retail, light manufacturing, office, residential.
These days, developments rigidly enforce zoning separations. Can't put those stores too close to homes! People we don't know might walk through our neighborhood, and we all know what kind of people can't afford to drive! Nope, anyplace worth visiting has to be driven to. LA isn't the only place where nobody walks, it's just the most obvious example.
But yeah, sure, let's do internet access in the car. Let's try to be more "efficient" and get more work done on our way to and from work. It'll be convenient. At first. Then it will become a job reqirement, like pagers and on-call hours.
I'll have to concur with the other AC reply to your post. You have far too limited a sense of humor.
Sure that might have been something of an in-joke, but the comment was also funny in the way the tag line from the sit-com *fit* in the context of the comment to which the poster replied. See, the person was confused about what exactly SOAP is. And the quote... Ah, forget it! Explaining a joke is the quickest way to kill what's funny about it.
I suppose you also despise the little from the better-then-dove! dept. subtitles in every /. article.
Really, ALL humor is culture-reference. Try telling a blonde-joke, or a priest-rabbi-minister-walk-into-a-bar-joke to a native Samoan and see how funny he thinks it is.
I was pretty startled that someone with mod privs was old enough to get the reference and rate that post as "funny".
Just when all the 31337 kidz around here were making me feel old, slashdot surprises me again.
Or perhaps I just have cable and syndication to thank...
Vincent Van Gogh
Have you heard about the painter Vincent Van Gogh,
Who loved color and who let it show.
Now in the museum what have we here?
The baddest painter since God's Jan Vermeer.
He loved he loved he loved life so bad,
His paintings had twice the color other paintings had.
So bad so bad that the world had to know,
The man loved color and he let it show.
Well in the Amsterdam museum I was feeling bad,
And trying to find a way not to be that sad.
I felt the feeling in the room sincere,
Vincent Van Gogh well he seemed so near.
And he loved he loved he loved life like he did,
HIs paintings had things that painters keep hid.
He loved life so bad that the world had to know,
He loved color and he let it show.
OK, so what can we say about this Vincent Van Gogh?
Ellie.
He loved color and he let it show,
Ok, Michael, now in the museum, what have we here?
The baddest painter since Jan Vermeer.
He loved he loved he loved life with that heart,
His paintings took off where the other paintings just start.
He loved life so bad that the world had to know,
He loved color and he let it show.
Alright.
Have you heard about the painter Vincent Van Gogh?
Who loved color and who let it show.
Now in the museum what have we here?
The baddest painter since God's Jan Vermeer.
He loved he loved he loved life with a passion,
His paintings said things that men generally don't do in that fashion.
He loved life so bad that the world had to know,
The man loved life folks and he let it show.
Vincent Van Gogh, who we talkin' about?
Vincent Van Gogh.
Sounds like an ErgoMagic, though I think those actually have 3 pieces, with the numberpad separated also.
I suspect he's not talking about an HTML/web version. I pretty sure he's talking about an electronic-book-specific format like Adobe's eBook or some other. I bet the "browser" he was referring to was not a web browser, but an "ebook browser".
The general "if it is on my computer I can copy it" argument still stands in this case. But your HTML-specific methods fail to apply.
Does anybody have enough EE knowledge to know which power strips have good surge protection and which are crappy?
I've been told that some compare hot-to-hot instead of hot-to-ground. In those cases, if a spike comes in evenly and in phase on both sides, it won't trip the surge protector, but will still blow your equip.
I've heard that others fail silently. They eat up spikes without complaining and their circuitry just degrades over time and eventually stops protecting your equip.
Anybody know which makes/models give you real, lasting protection? Or should I just give it up, considering power strips to be mere outlet multipliers, and only trust a UPS?
With apologies totThe Simpsons / Mr. Sparkle...
In those areas of Texas, I recommend Illuminati Online. They have a well-deserved rep for fighting the 1st Ammendment fight, having stood up to the Feds once before.
They aren't likely to merge/get bought out any time soon. And they DO give shell access, but I'm not so sure about the multi-GIG user space mentioned in the original request. That kind of shopping list sounds more like a co-loc than a conventional ISP to me.
ARLINGTON, Virginia (AP) -- Osama bin Laden and other Muslim extremists are using food and air to give them the sustenance they need to plan terrorist activities against the United States and its allies, USA Today reported Tuesday.
The paper said weeks of interviews with U.S. law enforcement officials and other experts disclosed details of how extremists take oxygen into their lungs and consume readily available foodstuffs.
The report said instructions for "respirating" and "aquiring calories" are apparently part of the earliest indoctrination that (potential) terrorists recieve.
"To a greater and greater degree, terrorist groups, including Hezbollah, Hamas and bin Laden's al Qaeda group, are eating, drinking and breathing to support their operations," CIA Director George Tenet wrote last March to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
USA Today said the testimony was presented at a closed-door hearing and made public later.
Following up on that report, the paper said it learned from various unnamed officials and investigators that life is sustained by using freely available air and nutritious consumables that are sold for a profit all over the globe.
"It's something the intelligence, law-enforcement and military communities are really struggling to deal with," Ben Venzke of the cyberintelligence company iDEFENSE told the paper.
Have you never been around young (pre-school, kindergarten) children?
Play is learning. Games do teach.
Have a look at a book like You Can't Say "You Can't Play" for a great example of what some Kindergartners and their teacher learn when she decides to make a new rule; not for any particular game, but for *play in general*.
Sure, some of the worst games created are the ones that were designed above all else to teach particular lessons. Those ones are far too didactic to be fun. But even the fun games teach.
Even if these games weren't designed with lesson plans in mind, they still teach, or at the least encourage the independent development and exercise of these skills.I don't see anything wrong with someone casting about for games that suit a particular learning outcome. But yeah, make sure it can *also* be enjoyed.
About a half-decade ago I worked for AOL. This was shortly after they "got" the internet. I was in the one group (Web development) that really had a clue about what went on in the net at large, outside of AOL's little gated community. But we never had much support from our VP, so most of our efforts were fruitless.
I digress.
I *will* digress.
Boy, will I ever digress:
Back then, the bosses tried to distribute the new AOL 2.6 software via the internet, in addition to the ubiquitous mailings (at least the floppies were more re-usable than the later CD's). The problem was that damn Certification Code. (You know, the paper with "Garble-Grabel" printed on it.) The Cert was the key to letting the software install. They made it necessary, because it would tie your account into whichever mailing list or magazine attachment got you the disks. (AOL paid a premium to the mags and list sellers for everyone who signed up.) The Certs were designed to all be unique.
So the problem was that no-one was going to download the software from AOL's FTP site or homepage, and then have to WAIT for snail-mail to get them their Cert. So AOL decided to make an exception. There would be *one* non-expiring Cert, and it would be published with the software on the FTP and web site.
And that was just the chink in the armor that AOHell needed.
AOHell was a script kiddie tool for AOL. It could fake the system out to think you were in a "free" area and still let you access premium content. It had canned macros that let you fish clueless lusers for passwords. It could "bust" into chat rooms by sending the entry command several hundred times a second until either you got in quick when someone left, or sometimes the overloaded system just *let* you in. But most of all, it had a fake credit card/name/address info and could reset your software so that you didn't have to re-install it. And it had the non-expiring Cert wired in.
Your (current) account would get cancelled after you got caught. AOHell would let you roll another account up in seconds. Of course, the screen-names couldn't be released for reuse until the account had been dead for more than 3 years.
There was such a proliferation of l33t haxors during that year that AOL *almost* ran out of screen-names. They'd hang out in known private "WAREZ" chat rooms, forwarding emails with attachments of pirated software to one another. (Yes, AOL *knew* about the chat rooms, but figured that if the policed those areas, they'd be legally required to police ALL private chat rooms.)
Since screen-names without numbers appended (Icarus4639) were becoming hard to find, they were pretty highly prized by the AOHell kiddies. I saw some pretty hilarious ones. I'll give the kiddies that. Many of them showed at least some inklings of creativity.
Sporktoast was the first one of them I could remember when it came time for a Slashdot NickName.
Good luck. Most of Tonka's products these days are made out of plastic. And they talk.
Is that the same section of Yahoo that has the link to a company who sells informational tapes on Free Energy, Gravity Engines, DC to DC converters with no amperage loss!, Fuelless Engines and Fuel from Water?
Not that flywheels are crank science like the above... But they do put on a spectacular show when they fail! All that radial inertia suddenly free to go off in the straight line it's always dreamt about.
Um, no. The man will just have his jackboots at both of your necks.
Of course, if your college's network is like the network I manage, not all of those 8 network ports at the faceplate in your dorm room are patched into the switch at the other end. I mean, if you and your roommate are the average case (only using 2 of the 8 ports), why should Network Services pay for 4 times as many hubs/switches just to have a bunch of live outlets gathering dust behind cheap dorm furniture?
You'll need to make friends with someone who can get to the patch panel and make sure those outlets are active before you can find out that they aren't any use because the bottleneck is that your school only has a single T1 line.
The Smithsonian's exclusion of Tesla has more to do with Edison's legacy than to do with secretive applications for Tesla's work.
Edison's estate and the philathropic foundations he started are high up on the donor list for the Smithsonian. You don't piss off your big money makers. That's why the statue mentioned in the link you gave above is currently displayed in a side hallway to a restroom at the Museum of American History.
Larry Wall was asked about that when he spoke at the Cincinnati GNU/Linux Users Group last night. He pretty much rolled his eyes, shrugged, mentioned a masters candidate's thesis he'd just passed that had asserted that it would be very difficult to do, and went on to talk about a conversation he'd had with someone from Sun who'd admitted that part of the design goals included making it extremely difficult to port C to the JVM.