as it does for most of India's people, a cyber-cafe makes sense.
Here in the affluent west, we forget that computers are a luxury, and not a cheap commodity for most of the world. Indeed, we tend to rub the noses of the people of color in it, by continually talking about our home lans, and beowulf clusters, and bragging that we wouldn't even stoop to pick up a 486 that's on the curb.
Seriously, the culture that brought you the Kama Sutra and has carvings of every conceivable sexual practive on their temples walls should not be so prudish about a little skin.
Though I find it very had to believe that the powers that be would allow some country outside the G8 to control a space elevator. Friggin Ron Reagan has a shitfit that Nicarauga has a democratically elected government that did not cow-tow to the Capitalistic line, what would his spiritual descendants do if say Libya built a space elevator?
Hey Rob, could you not post such code heavy topics on a Friday? I'm still caffeine deficient, burnt from the week, and I'd like a lighter, funnier/. to get me in the weekend mood. Save this stuff for Monday, and put up some Katz or Star Wars stuff.
journaling is nice, but how about a better RAID?
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A journaling file system is grea,t but Linux needs better RAID support, maybe even data striping.
Where I'm coming from:
I just upgraded my home network to 100baseT. Now, how the hell am I going to saturate a 100Mbps link with a shitty IDE hard drive, or even a faster SCSI?
I need some way to stream my DIVX:) at 100Mbps, so I can transfer a movie to my set side box in 10 seconds.
but you should have timed your reappearance from the supposed dead for last Sunday.
modern day gaming is alienating, though
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When I was in high school, I got a fair amount of ribbing due to my geeky tendencies.
I was a gamer, too, but back then, a gamer meant something different. It meant I got together with 4-5 of my buds, and played AD&D, Traveller and Car Wars together.
So, our gaming dealt with healthy peer interactions, a group of people working together to overcome a hostile dungeon, triumph through a patron's mission, or deal with a dangerous motorcycle gang. WE learned the value of people and co-operation.
Contrast this with today's gamer, who learns little more than the value of a head shot in a first person shooter.
Also, I had a peer group, these friends I would see 5-7 times a week.We played RPG's, and we talked about life, and how much better life would get after high school.
Contrast this with today's gamers, who may join a Quake team, yet only see their teammates in person twice a year. Alienating indeed.
It may be troll heresy to admit, but I think Nat's a little too thin. I prefer woman with a few more curves, maybe Tiffany Amber-Theissen, or even Rene Zellweger (as Bridget Jones).
Did you approve of the Parrot joke about combining Python and PERL?
I didn't especially like it, I think it hurts Open Source and reinforces the perception of Open Source software and funny and a toy.
I work for a large corporation, and it's an uphill battle to incorporate Open Source software. I'm tryin to move several web servers from IIS to Apache, but without my manager's blessing, it's hard. Jokes like PARROT make it harder for IT personell to make a case for Python or PERL being ready for corporate use.
I seriously think Open Source needs to rethink it's attitude if it wants to gain market share. IBM didn't became the monopolist it became in the 1970's by selling mainframes that made fart noises and having service reps wear joy buzzers, instead they had an image of an ultra serious, suit and tie wearing, dependable company. Now, I'm not advocating that kernel developers wear suits and tie for PR shots, or language developers don't chose more appropriate names (perhaps PYTH-96 instead of PYTHON?) but you have to admit such steps would give a lot more credibility to Open Source software.
I'm glad it hasn't been launched, solar sails are far too dangerous to be allowed in orbit.
Before you condem me, think of the facts. They are talking about orbiting a huge, acre sized, piece of mylar, with controls to change it's orientation.
It's a giant space mirror!
For those of you didn't read the Mars trilogy, think back to the first time you played with a magnifying glass in your backyard.
Now, scale that up to a beam of light, a yard wide and more intense than a steel melting laser beam. Think what the beam of light could do to any cities or countries that don't kow-tow to the US-Russian space hegemony.
Worried yet?
Gravity's Rainbow was nominated for the Nebula
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So obviously the nominators thought it was Science Fiction.
For all their talk of rationality and science, geeks and engineers are just as full of their stereotypes as those hated jocks. Case in point, NASA, a geek paradise.
If they were truly rational at NASA, they would look at launch costs of $22,000 USD a kilo, and conclude that the lighter the astronaut they launch, the more scientific payloads they could carry, and the more consumables they could carry, thus allowing longer duration missions.
And who would the lightest astronauts be? Women and Asians, that's who. But no, your typical Space Shuttle crew looks more like a cleanly shaven Linux kernel developers meeting than a multicultural experience, mostly white men, with perhaps a token woman or Asian.
As an American taxpayer, I am outraged at this inefficiency. Join me in writing your congresspersons to rectify this.
If you're not an American, consider emigrating, or perhaps you could ask ESA to allow more women and Asians on Ariane missions.
no, seriously, there was no provision for removing waste from Skylab, apparently the higher-ups at NASA felt astronauts were do perfect, they didn't shit.
Too bad that Capitalism is an unstoppable (and possibly planet killing) meme, instantly absorbing any competing ideology, stripping the ideology of it's danger, and reselling it.
into a literary ghetto populated by geeks, loners and weirdos. So that all these strange, revolutionary ideas will be disregarded by the masses.
Science fiction is by its very nature, a revolutionary, subservice literature, so it must be shunted aside by the man into a secluded ghetto. Sometime this works to well, as science fiction is one genre of literature that proliferated in the Soviet Union, and was even given it's blessing by the Politburo. True, most of it was rah-rah first Soviet on the moon,but quite a lot of subversive anti-Soviet literature became published, if you doubt me, check out Lem's Memoirs Found in a Bathtub.
The last time SF attempted to get itself out of the ghetto was during the New Wave movement of the '70's, led by Ellison, Dick and Pynchon. Needless to say, popularizing SF and exposing it to the masses would never do, also, raising the consciousness of the geeky SF readers by exposing them to drugs, sex and politics would also upset the status quo of the miliary-industrial complex. SO the military-industrail complex reacted, making REndevsous with Rama beat Gravity's Rainbow for the NEbula in 1973, funding Niven and Pournelle to write right-wing spacve opera, and generally silencing the left wing New WAve movement. Have we heard anything much from Delany, Dick, Pynchon or Ellison since?
Spoilers? If you haven't seen the Matrix, go away
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Honestly, I can't think of a film that more of the/. readership has seen than the MAtrix, havne't we all seen it?
The real solution is to look through the/. databases, find out who the real trolls are, hunt them down, and lock them in a room with the soon-to-be unemployed XFL cheerleaders demanding oral sex, until they die of dehydration.
Basically, look like you're 18, walk into a Walmart, and have money.
Pistols are a little more regulated, but if you live in a state that respects your Constitutional Rights, like Texas, Virginia or California, they're easy enough to come by.
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as it does for most of India's people, a cyber-cafe makes sense.
Here in the affluent west, we forget that computers are a luxury, and not a cheap commodity for most of the world. Indeed, we tend to rub the noses of the people of color in it, by continually talking about our home lans, and beowulf clusters, and bragging that we wouldn't even stoop to pick up a 486 that's on the curb.
just go to a temple.
Seriously, the culture that brought you the Kama Sutra and has carvings of every conceivable sexual practive on their temples walls should not be so prudish about a little skin.
I suspect it's the English influence.
ish.
The Wife of Bath, the Cook with the running sore, really, good ole Geoff was aiming for middle-brow yucks just as much as the Farelly brothers do.
Undoubtably, the high born of Chaucer's age were publically aghast at his lewdnes and vulgarity (while enjoying him in private,i'm sure).
So, A Knights Tale is just another middle-brow targeted tale.
TG
to would control it.
Though I find it very had to believe that the powers that be would allow some country outside the G8 to control a space elevator. Friggin Ron Reagan has a shitfit that Nicarauga has a democratically elected government that did not cow-tow to the Capitalistic line, what would his spiritual descendants do if say Libya built a space elevator?
Hey Rob, could you not post such code heavy topics on a Friday? I'm still caffeine deficient, burnt from the week, and I'd like a lighter, funnier /. to get me in the weekend mood. Save this stuff for Monday, and put up some Katz or Star Wars stuff.
A journaling file system is grea,t but Linux needs better RAID support, maybe even data striping.
Where I'm coming from:
I just upgraded my home network to 100baseT. Now, how the hell am I going to saturate a 100Mbps link with a shitty IDE hard drive, or even a faster SCSI?
I need some way to stream my DIVX:) at 100Mbps, so I can transfer a movie to my set side box in 10 seconds.
and everyone knows that girls can't troll.
but you should have timed your reappearance from the supposed dead for last Sunday.
When I was in high school, I got a fair amount of ribbing due to my geeky tendencies.
I was a gamer, too, but back then, a gamer meant something different. It meant I got together with 4-5 of my buds, and played AD&D, Traveller and Car Wars together.
So, our gaming dealt with healthy peer interactions, a group of people working together to overcome a hostile dungeon, triumph through a patron's mission, or deal with a dangerous motorcycle gang. WE learned the value of people and co-operation.
Contrast this with today's gamer, who learns little more than the value of a head shot in a first person shooter.
Also, I had a peer group, these friends I would see 5-7 times a week.We played RPG's, and we talked about life, and how much better life would get after high school.
Contrast this with today's gamers, who may join a Quake team, yet only see their teammates in person twice a year. Alienating indeed.
Oooh, I forgot about her!
Yeah, Jessica Alba!
It may be troll heresy to admit, but I think Nat's a little too thin.
I prefer woman with a few more curves, maybe Tiffany Amber-Theissen, or even Rene Zellweger (as Bridget Jones).
Wow, mod this up!
Post it somewhere where I can reread it at my leasure.
Did you approve of the Parrot joke about combining Python and PERL?
I didn't especially like it, I think it hurts Open Source and reinforces the perception of Open Source software and funny and a toy.
I work for a large corporation, and it's an uphill battle to incorporate Open Source software. I'm tryin to move several web servers from IIS to Apache, but without my manager's blessing, it's hard. Jokes like PARROT make it harder for IT personell to make a case for Python or PERL being ready for corporate use.
I seriously think Open Source needs to rethink it's attitude if it wants to gain market share. IBM didn't became the monopolist it became in the 1970's by selling mainframes that made fart noises and having service reps wear joy buzzers, instead they had an image of an ultra serious, suit and tie wearing, dependable company. Now, I'm not advocating that kernel developers wear suits and tie for PR shots, or language developers don't chose more appropriate names (perhaps PYTH-96 instead of PYTHON?) but you have to admit such steps would give a lot more credibility to Open Source software.
uncompetitive.
Dang unions see dollar signs on the internet, and now they're killing streaming radio because of their greed.
Maybe Reagan was right about that union thing.
I'm glad it hasn't been launched, solar sails are far too dangerous to be allowed in orbit.
Before you condem me, think of the facts. They are talking about orbiting a huge, acre sized, piece of mylar, with controls to change it's orientation.
It's a giant space mirror!
For those of you didn't read the Mars trilogy, think back to the first time you played with a magnifying glass in your backyard.
Now, scale that up to a beam of light, a yard wide and more intense than a steel melting laser beam. Think what the beam of light could do to any cities or countries that don't kow-tow to the US-Russian space hegemony.
Worried yet?
So obviously the nominators thought it was Science Fiction.
And yeah, you could consider some WSB to be SF.
Though not the way you would think.
There's an inverse size relationship between the size of a car and the driver's penis.
There's a positive relationship between the acceleration of the car and the ejaculation time.
this is why I drive a small, slow Japanese car.
would be the most common astronauts.
For all their talk of rationality and science, geeks and engineers are just as full of their stereotypes as those hated jocks. Case in point, NASA, a geek paradise.
If they were truly rational at NASA, they would look at launch costs of $22,000 USD a kilo, and conclude that the lighter the astronaut they launch, the more scientific payloads they could carry, and the more consumables they could carry, thus allowing longer duration missions.
And who would the lightest astronauts be? Women and Asians, that's who. But no, your typical Space Shuttle crew looks more like a cleanly shaven Linux kernel developers meeting than a multicultural experience, mostly white men, with perhaps a token woman or Asian.
As an American taxpayer, I am outraged at this inefficiency. Join me in writing your congresspersons to rectify this.
If you're not an American, consider emigrating, or perhaps you could ask ESA to allow more women and Asians on Ariane missions.
no, seriously, there was no provision for removing waste from Skylab, apparently the higher-ups at NASA felt astronauts were do perfect, they didn't shit.
Getting a man into space before the US.
Too bad that Capitalism is an unstoppable (and possibly planet killing) meme, instantly absorbing any competing ideology, stripping the ideology of it's danger, and reselling it.
into a literary ghetto populated by geeks, loners and weirdos. So that all these strange, revolutionary ideas will be disregarded by the masses.
Science fiction is by its very nature, a revolutionary, subservice literature, so it must be shunted aside by the man into a secluded ghetto. Sometime this works to well, as science fiction is one genre of literature that proliferated in the Soviet Union, and was even given it's blessing by the Politburo. True, most of it was rah-rah first Soviet on the moon,but quite a lot of subversive anti-Soviet literature became published, if you doubt me, check out Lem's Memoirs Found in a Bathtub.
The last time SF attempted to get itself out of the ghetto was during the New Wave movement of the '70's, led by Ellison, Dick and Pynchon. Needless to say, popularizing SF and exposing it to the masses would never do, also, raising the consciousness of the geeky SF readers by exposing them to drugs, sex and politics would also upset the status quo of the miliary-industrial complex. SO the military-industrail complex reacted, making REndevsous with Rama beat Gravity's Rainbow for the NEbula in 1973, funding Niven and Pournelle to write right-wing spacve opera, and generally silencing the left wing New WAve movement. Have we heard anything much from Delany, Dick, Pynchon or Ellison since?
Honestly, I can't think of a film that more of the /. readership has seen than the MAtrix, havne't we all seen it?
and correcting them in M2 is only a bandaid.
/. databases, find out who the real trolls are, hunt them down, and lock them in a room with the soon-to-be unemployed XFL cheerleaders demanding oral sex, until they die of dehydration.
/. be free and pure as it once was.
The real solution is to look through the
Only then with
Basically, look like you're 18, walk into a Walmart, and have money.
Pistols are a little more regulated, but if you live in a state that respects your Constitutional Rights, like Texas, Virginia or California, they're easy enough to come by.
textbooks.
Ie., given a certain inlet spike geometry, figure out the greatest Mach number that will keep the mach cone from infringing on the inlet.
The F-104 (also by Lockheed) had a nifty convex inlet curve to allow lots of little compression shocks.
But this is all probably over your head.