We have a local free magazine called California Computer News who got in a little hot water with Hormel about an article in which the cover of the magazine featured a picture of a can of SPAM actively being crushed by a sledgehammer. They sent a letter (I can't find it on their website) to CCN and asked them very nicely not to show images of crushed SPAM on their magazine. CCN promptly made an apology in their magazine the next month. The whole point about this is that Hormel was a good sport about it. They said they understand the use of the term SPAM for UCE but that they objected to having a can of it destroyed as a frontpage graphic. To this I agree.
This was handled in a very nice way, not like the snippy letters 2600 seems to get all the time.
and other natural pain killers are great. I'm not recommending this ahead of going to a doctor, but for most of us who suffer from chronic pain and even those who have gone to a doctor in addition to the exercises. I've been to the doctor and been given the exercises and many prescriptions for pain killers. The exercises help some and the pain killers do more damage than they do good. Don't use them unless you need to and ONLY for a short time. I take a coral calcium that comes looking like sand in a small sachet.
This type of thing helps in chronic arthritis pain as well as your normal daily aches and pains. This is also HELPFUL to your body! Most pain killers are bad for you in one way or another. We Americans don't get enough calcium (as well as many other good nutrients) in our diets anyway, so this helps out on that front in addition to reducing the pain.
I know quite a few people who take prescription calcium or calcium injections for their pain, but this stuff is just dropped into your jug of water and you drink it up. Don't even know you are actually doing something good for you! I whole-heartedly recommend it.
If you want more info, click on URL above and email link on bottom of page.
I am just glad that someone was able to document so much of the great architecture of old Russia in such beautiful color. During the revolution many of these buildings were destroyed. I have seen some incredible photos of some, but they were all black and white. It just doesn't do these buildings justice. Several of those buildings were painted with such incredible colors and it would be a shame to lose this record. It is amazing some of these churches survived the Soviets.
Read about it.There is a bunch-o-hardware dependant stuff that goes on when you are doing task switching. It isn't as simple as a recompile. This is a MAJOR undertaking to get it to a different platform. Bus widths are different, cache sizes are different, register sizes are different, number of registers, etc. are all different.
I just like to see a 1.0 for anything Linux. It means that it is a mature product with a really stable API. This is the opposite of most commercial software manufacturers that I have a dealing with. These guys can't get a stable release after 5 or 6 releases. I hate that.
This service is absolutely nothing like your at home small sat tv service. Can you take this with you on the road? Can you mount one of these dishes on top of your car and pick up these stations? Nope. This is an entirely different technology that uses specialized receivers in the cars/homes that do not require a dish to be aimed and aligned. It is just a small antenna. Simple to install and operate.
There are a couple of these type of services here in the states, XM being on of the two. Unfortunately they are not yet compatible with each other, but the manufacturers of the receivers are trying their best to make them capable of receiving both the different signals.
The main advantages of these types of systems fall to the frequent traveller and remote listeners. I know several travelling salesmen and they would love to not have to always switch their stations and find some local equivilent to whatever they like to listen to.
Many people consider architecture to be an art-form (myself included). Art is a protected free speech item.
Architecture can be both beautiful and functional as well as hideous and non-functional (see that funky music building in Seattle). A single building can be a beautiful expression of the architects vision for a city, region, or style. This can be on a large scale or small. It doesn't matter.
When I look at my code, I find some of each. I find beautifully architected routines with great functionality and are aesthetically pleasing (proper indentation!) as well as quick hacks that do the job and no more (like a concrete tilt-up building). This is an expression of how I think and feel. I express my anal retentiveness quite well in my code. I express my desire for both form and functionality in my code. I enjoy my programming. If anyone argues that programming is not an art form deserving of protection, they do not understand what goes into a program, especially a considerably difficult one. The best program completely fools the user into not even knowing that there is something going on behind the scenes. It is graceful and elegant. It is powerful and subtle. I love programming. Whenever we come up with a "special" solution to a problem, we always show it off to our friends saying "Look! I did it in one line of code!" or something along those lines. That is art.
Oh, did I mention I almost went into architecture?;-)
Lithium ion polymer based battery rather than the standard lithium ion. The most impressive features is the $500 for the price tag. Ouch. At that price I can get a couple of "normal" batteries that fit right inside my laptop rather than underneath. Still cool to see new battery technology come out, though.
I am, for one, a gamer who runs Linux on my desktop. I hate running Windoze for games because the networking downright sucks. I have to lug my Windoze box to the LAN parties because I just don't have any of the games for my Linux box. I went out and bought QIII for Windoze as soon as it was on the shelf, figuring that I would play it until the Linux version came available for download. They then made a statement on their website stating that the Linux binary would not be available for download for the Windoze version of the program. That got me so mad I haven't played the game but twice since then, have since become hooked on Unreal Tourney, and haven't looked back. Many of the games I really play with have linux based servers, which is nice. I just want to be able to play Unreal Tourney on my Linux box. As well as Need For Speed 5. I would go out and buy both of these in a heartbeat if I saw them available for Linux.
I am playing with the latest versions of Wine and Trans-Gaming's version of wine. Haven't been playing with it too long, but it sounds like that would be a great solution for many of these problems. I will keep evaluating Wine and, until it works for my games, will keep running Windoze on one workstation just for my games.
You can readily integrate the Novell login into the NT login. I see it all the time at a local unnamed government entity who is one of my customers. In addition to all the other mentions regarding SAMBA, etc. to synchronize passwords with systems, I really like the hardware keys and biometrics.
I use fingerprint authentication on several systems here. I enjoy it. It works. To a point. Just don't was your hands right before logging in. That causes enough tissue swelling that you can't get an accurate reading. I use a $100 scanner from Digital Persona that we routinely pick up at Fry's. These things are very flexible and cheap enough to be used on any USB system. They currently only have Windoze support for their drivers, but I haven't checked in a while. I like the hardware tokens like iButton which can store enough data to provide a login for each individual system. Some awefully large amount of storage for keys and completely waterproof, etc.
If you want to keep people from taking them home and losing them, have a security guard type checkout for these bad little boys. That depends upon your level of security, of course. If someone loses one, it can be disabled from the network immediately and a new one issued. Every time they lose one, dock their pay! I know their union would have a fit for that!;-)
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The Space Shuttle and ISS don't necessarily use a conventional "Operating System", rather proprietary systems. Could you imagine porting the millions of lines of code from their proprietary systems to ANYTHING ELSE?!?!?! All it would take is ONE error in the logic and, oops. It is already buggy enough as it is after being refined for decades.
Linux at NASA is, like, SO OLD NEWS! (best Valley-Girl® dialect) Beowulf cluster anyone?;-)
Don't forget they still use Amigas for satellite control.
Well, the SR-71 could take pictures of a golf-ball while moving much faster than sound (MACH 3+) from the upper atmosphere using 1960's technology. I rather think that a relatively stationary helicopter could target a MASER on an individual using far newer technology. Plus, it's a MASER, not a shotgun. It goes one way. It no shooty big dispersal. It would be quite difficult to actually shoot several people at once without re-aiming it. Don't forget about the power requirements to treat a crowd of people like popcorn. Hmmm, a 1000 Watt microwave oven takes at least a minute to cook a small bag of popcorn from a distance of eight inches. That is using dipersal patterns generated by a fan. Literally. I don't think they can cook a full crowd simultaneously without a small nuclear reactor!;-)
When I'm stuck on Windoze, I like using Visual SlickEdit in vi emulation mode. Has all the cool gui features, syntax highlighting, etc. Also works on all kinds of *nix. Only problem is it costs actual money to buy it. A friend of mine said that the vi emulation isn't "100%", but I've never used the vi commands that break it.
I believe that the slow rate of warming will suddenly increase once a lot of the ice that is melting now is gone. You can try this experiment yourself with a glass of cold water with an ice cube in it. The temperature will stay pretty constant while there is ice melting. Once it is all gone, the rate of warming will rapidly increase.
Actually, the entire system is warming at a slowing rate as it aproaches the temperature of the surroundings. Please use an accurate analogy. Oops, sorry. There aren't any. Our ecosystem is so incredibly complex and influenced by so many different variables (solar flares, volcanic activity, continental drift, butterfly's wings, pop-tarts, mankind) that it is impossible to accurately model the planet. If they did have an accurate model, then we could predict what the weather would be like on my 100th birthday. This model is not going to happen any time soon!
Yada, yada, yada.
If anyone ever bothers to look at the temperature cycles that we have experienced through the past few millennia, they would realize that temperature increases and decreases are a normal part of our planet. We have crop harvest dates going back several hundred years in Europe and a couple thousand in China. These show a standard cyclic temperature. I'm not talking about ice-age level phenomenon, just a few degrees here and there. That is what we are seeing.
Please don't forget about the lovely predictions of global cooling 50 years ago. Most of this is bunk.
I am all for lowering pollution, but for other reasons: I enjoy breathing.
Speaking of retrofitting coal plants, we should first burn cleaner coal in the plants until we can retrofit them. Former President Clinton, as one of his last deeds as president, signed an executive order forbidding the mining of the cleanest burning coal in the country. He has relegated us to heavily polluting coal from other areas. If he was really concerned with the environment, that would never have happened. I hope the new leadership backs out this order.
P.S. Anyone looked at how much "pollution" an average volcanic eruption spews? More than man. Ever.
Tthose are the speakers that were developed for Compaq and their THX system. THX requires speakers as well as sound source to be compliant. Speakers are just one piece of the puzzle. One awesome piece! (have some at home)
I was more making a comment about the social problem that Indians have with expressing any kind of affection. I'm not talking about their religion and the meaning of the sexuality and fertility, even though that is a fun and intriguing topic. We have a country where the predominent religion has the above mentioned religious views, brought us the Kama Sutra, yet can not hold hands or kiss in public. I find that to be a bit of a shame and slightly ironic. I also find the opposite to be quite appalling.
Oh, you sound a bit jaded. This book actually never advocates such "blind adherence" as faith, rather living it, experiencing it, and questioning it is actually, contrary to popular belief, encouraged. The miracles you mention were even mocked by the miracle-maker and those that required those miracles to believe were considered faithless wimps.
It is in Russian. My grandfather is from the Ukraine and speaks both Russian and Ukrainian. He says that Ukrainian is harder than Russian. There is a considerable difference.
Yes, a site must have the information about putting extra lights on my truck, but please don't put just the regulations online. Put up something that we can actually read! I am a computer programmer, not a lawyer.
Any time there is something in the news regarding your agency, put up a link with the appropriate phone numbers, addresses, etc. right off the front page (or on a News page).
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We have a local free magazine called California Computer News who got in a little hot water with Hormel about an article in which the cover of the magazine featured a picture of a can of SPAM actively being crushed by a sledgehammer. They sent a letter (I can't find it on their website) to CCN and asked them very nicely not to show images of crushed SPAM on their magazine. CCN promptly made an apology in their magazine the next month. The whole point about this is that Hormel was a good sport about it. They said they understand the use of the term SPAM for UCE but that they objected to having a can of it destroyed as a frontpage graphic. To this I agree.
This was handled in a very nice way, not like the snippy letters 2600 seems to get all the time.
and other natural pain killers are great. I'm not recommending this ahead of going to a doctor, but for most of us who suffer from chronic pain and even those who have gone to a doctor in addition to the exercises. I've been to the doctor and been given the exercises and many prescriptions for pain killers. The exercises help some and the pain killers do more damage than they do good. Don't use them unless you need to and ONLY for a short time. I take a coral calcium that comes looking like sand in a small sachet.
This type of thing helps in chronic arthritis pain as well as your normal daily aches and pains. This is also HELPFUL to your body! Most pain killers are bad for you in one way or another. We Americans don't get enough calcium (as well as many other good nutrients) in our diets anyway, so this helps out on that front in addition to reducing the pain.
I know quite a few people who take prescription calcium or calcium injections for their pain, but this stuff is just dropped into your jug of water and you drink it up. Don't even know you are actually doing something good for you! I whole-heartedly recommend it. If you want more info, click on URL above and email link on bottom of page.
With new advances in medical science you can type any way you want!
I am just glad that someone was able to document so much of the great architecture of old Russia in such beautiful color. During the revolution many of these buildings were destroyed. I have seen some incredible photos of some, but they were all black and white. It just doesn't do these buildings justice. Several of those buildings were painted with such incredible colors and it would be a shame to lose this record. It is amazing some of these churches survived the Soviets.
Read about it.There is a bunch-o-hardware dependant stuff that goes on when you are doing task switching. It isn't as simple as a recompile. This is a MAJOR undertaking to get it to a different platform. Bus widths are different, cache sizes are different, register sizes are different, number of registers, etc. are all different.
I just like to see a 1.0 for anything Linux. It means that it is a mature product with a really stable API. This is the opposite of most commercial software manufacturers that I have a dealing with. These guys can't get a stable release after 5 or 6 releases. I hate that.
This service is absolutely nothing like your at home small sat tv service. Can you take this with you on the road? Can you mount one of these dishes on top of your car and pick up these stations? Nope. This is an entirely different technology that uses specialized receivers in the cars/homes that do not require a dish to be aimed and aligned. It is just a small antenna. Simple to install and operate.
There are a couple of these type of services here in the states, XM being on of the two. Unfortunately they are not yet compatible with each other, but the manufacturers of the receivers are trying their best to make them capable of receiving both the different signals.
The main advantages of these types of systems fall to the frequent traveller and remote listeners. I know several travelling salesmen and they would love to not have to always switch their stations and find some local equivilent to whatever they like to listen to.
Many people consider architecture to be an art-form (myself included). Art is a protected free speech item.
;-)
Architecture can be both beautiful and functional as well as hideous and non-functional (see that funky music building in Seattle). A single building can be a beautiful expression of the architects vision for a city, region, or style. This can be on a large scale or small. It doesn't matter.
When I look at my code, I find some of each. I find beautifully architected routines with great functionality and are aesthetically pleasing (proper indentation!) as well as quick hacks that do the job and no more (like a concrete tilt-up building). This is an expression of how I think and feel. I express my anal retentiveness quite well in my code. I express my desire for both form and functionality in my code. I enjoy my programming. If anyone argues that programming is not an art form deserving of protection, they do not understand what goes into a program, especially a considerably difficult one. The best program completely fools the user into not even knowing that there is something going on behind the scenes. It is graceful and elegant. It is powerful and subtle. I love programming. Whenever we come up with a "special" solution to a problem, we always show it off to our friends saying "Look! I did it in one line of code!" or something along those lines. That is art.
Oh, did I mention I almost went into architecture?
Lithium ion polymer based battery rather than the standard lithium ion. The most impressive features is the $500 for the price tag. Ouch. At that price I can get a couple of "normal" batteries that fit right inside my laptop rather than underneath. Still cool to see new battery technology come out, though.
I am, for one, a gamer who runs Linux on my desktop. I hate running Windoze for games because the networking downright sucks. I have to lug my Windoze box to the LAN parties because I just don't have any of the games for my Linux box. I went out and bought QIII for Windoze as soon as it was on the shelf, figuring that I would play it until the Linux version came available for download. They then made a statement on their website stating that the Linux binary would not be available for download for the Windoze version of the program. That got me so mad I haven't played the game but twice since then, have since become hooked on Unreal Tourney, and haven't looked back. Many of the games I really play with have linux based servers, which is nice. I just want to be able to play Unreal Tourney on my Linux box. As well as Need For Speed 5. I would go out and buy both of these in a heartbeat if I saw them available for Linux.
I am playing with the latest versions of Wine and Trans-Gaming's version of wine. Haven't been playing with it too long, but it sounds like that would be a great solution for many of these problems. I will keep evaluating Wine and, until it works for my games, will keep running Windoze on one workstation just for my games.
You can readily integrate the Novell login into the NT login. I see it all the time at a local unnamed government entity who is one of my customers. In addition to all the other mentions regarding SAMBA, etc. to synchronize passwords with systems, I really like the hardware keys and biometrics.
;-)
I use fingerprint authentication on several systems here. I enjoy it. It works. To a point. Just don't was your hands right before logging in. That causes enough tissue swelling that you can't get an accurate reading. I use a $100 scanner from Digital Persona that we routinely pick up at Fry's. These things are very flexible and cheap enough to be used on any USB system. They currently only have Windoze support for their drivers, but I haven't checked in a while. I like the hardware tokens like iButton which can store enough data to provide a login for each individual system. Some awefully large amount of storage for keys and completely waterproof, etc.
If you want to keep people from taking them home and losing them, have a security guard type checkout for these bad little boys. That depends upon your level of security, of course. If someone loses one, it can be disabled from the network immediately and a new one issued. Every time they lose one, dock their pay! I know their union would have a fit for that!
The Space Shuttle and ISS don't necessarily use a conventional "Operating System", rather proprietary systems. Could you imagine porting the millions of lines of code from their proprietary systems to ANYTHING ELSE?!?!?! All it would take is ONE error in the logic and, oops. It is already buggy enough as it is after being refined for decades.
;-)
Linux at NASA is, like, SO OLD NEWS! (best Valley-Girl® dialect) Beowulf cluster anyone?
Don't forget they still use Amigas for satellite control.
Well, the SR-71 could take pictures of a golf-ball while moving much faster than sound (MACH 3+) from the upper atmosphere using 1960's technology. I rather think that a relatively stationary helicopter could target a MASER on an individual using far newer technology. Plus, it's a MASER, not a shotgun. It goes one way. It no shooty big dispersal. It would be quite difficult to actually shoot several people at once without re-aiming it. Don't forget about the power requirements to treat a crowd of people like popcorn. Hmmm, a 1000 Watt microwave oven takes at least a minute to cook a small bag of popcorn from a distance of eight inches. That is using dipersal patterns generated by a fan. Literally. I don't think they can cook a full crowd simultaneously without a small nuclear reactor! ;-)
When I'm stuck on Windoze, I like using Visual SlickEdit in vi emulation mode. Has all the cool gui features, syntax highlighting, etc. Also works on all kinds of *nix. Only problem is it costs actual money to buy it. A friend of mine said that the vi emulation isn't "100%", but I've never used the vi commands that break it.
I believe that the slow rate of warming will suddenly increase once a lot of the ice that is melting now is gone. You can try this experiment yourself with a glass of cold water with an ice cube in it. The temperature will stay pretty constant while there is ice melting. Once it is all gone, the rate of warming will rapidly increase.
Actually, the entire system is warming at a slowing rate as it aproaches the temperature of the surroundings. Please use an accurate analogy. Oops, sorry. There aren't any. Our ecosystem is so incredibly complex and influenced by so many different variables (solar flares, volcanic activity, continental drift, butterfly's wings, pop-tarts, mankind) that it is impossible to accurately model the planet. If they did have an accurate model, then we could predict what the weather would be like on my 100th birthday. This model is not going to happen any time soon!
Yada, yada, yada. If anyone ever bothers to look at the temperature cycles that we have experienced through the past few millennia, they would realize that temperature increases and decreases are a normal part of our planet. We have crop harvest dates going back several hundred years in Europe and a couple thousand in China. These show a standard cyclic temperature. I'm not talking about ice-age level phenomenon, just a few degrees here and there. That is what we are seeing. Please don't forget about the lovely predictions of global cooling 50 years ago. Most of this is bunk. I am all for lowering pollution, but for other reasons: I enjoy breathing. Speaking of retrofitting coal plants, we should first burn cleaner coal in the plants until we can retrofit them. Former President Clinton, as one of his last deeds as president, signed an executive order forbidding the mining of the cleanest burning coal in the country. He has relegated us to heavily polluting coal from other areas. If he was really concerned with the environment, that would never have happened. I hope the new leadership backs out this order. P.S. Anyone looked at how much "pollution" an average volcanic eruption spews? More than man. Ever.
Tthose are the speakers that were developed for Compaq and their THX system. THX requires speakers as well as sound source to be compliant. Speakers are just one piece of the puzzle. One awesome piece! (have some at home)
I was more making a comment about the social problem that Indians have with expressing any kind of affection. I'm not talking about their religion and the meaning of the sexuality and fertility, even though that is a fun and intriguing topic. We have a country where the predominent religion has the above mentioned religious views, brought us the Kama Sutra, yet can not hold hands or kiss in public. I find that to be a bit of a shame and slightly ironic. I also find the opposite to be quite appalling.
Oh, you sound a bit jaded. This book actually never advocates such "blind adherence" as faith, rather living it, experiencing it, and questioning it is actually, contrary to popular belief, encouraged. The miracles you mention were even mocked by the miracle-maker and those that required those miracles to believe were considered faithless wimps.
This is coming from a country that worships a giant penis? I've never quite understood that.
It is in Russian. My grandfather is from the Ukraine and speaks both Russian and Ukrainian. He says that Ukrainian is harder than Russian. There is a considerable difference.
Yes, a site must have the information about putting extra lights on my truck, but please don't put just the regulations online. Put up something that we can actually read! I am a computer programmer, not a lawyer.
Any time there is something in the news regarding your agency, put up a link with the appropriate phone numbers, addresses, etc. right off the front page (or on a News page).