Clearly OP has a less than ideal situation, but additional data vectors (child or not) are always good. 24x7 at home nursing care is prohibitively expensive to all but the five richest kings on earth. Do you have a constructive solution?
I'm currently using xmonad as a desktop environment (almost exclusively), as it plays quite nicely on VHRDs (very high resolution displays). At most, you'll have to tweak the borderWidth elements.
Optionally, if you're looking for a bit more eye candy, try twm and its derivatives. Most the the UI elements scale dynamically. (too flashy for my tastes however)
This little tale of immature daring do is utterly irrelevant. At best, it aspires to be Penthouse letters for nerds.
The snickering inexperience of the men (boys) on the team (author included) is reprehensible and pathetic. Most of the best computer folks I've known in my 20+ years in the computer industry have dated in college, are comfortable and mature around members of the opposite gender, and are or have been married.
Petty jealousies, misunderstandings about the seriousness of a relationship, love triangles and narcissistic authors are common in all walks of life. The scenario { A and B are friends, A dates C, C gets bored with A and expresses interest with B } exists within every setting, in and out of the computer industry, amoung co-workers, high school friends and brothers.
I expect this story is just that, a single data point of no statistical significance, an edge condition. The people in it, for practical purposes, don't even exist.
A few points - The videographer commented that he thought he heard 22 fire (I understand 22LR isn't uncommon on pigeon hunts). A falling 22 calibre 40 grain bullet can maim someone. There were people in front and behind him (along the road) who he accused of shooting at the drone, so the line of fire probably wasn't safe. Again, In the video, a human finger is pretty clearly pointing at the prop damage, and that doesn't grok.
I posted this to YouTube, trying not to be provocative, but the post vanished.
Clearly, the fact that folks were shooting up into the air is damn reckless. The fact that they were trying to willfully destroy your property is flat out illegal.
My issue is with the footage at 02:15. It appears that you're trying to indicate the prop damage is what took the drone down. The likelihood of two hits on that single tiny prop area is highly improbable. Moreover, I've seen drone crashes and the prop damage is more consistent with a crash into the brush.
Help me out here. I've watched this a dozen times and I'm trying to believe you. What did I miss? Did the impossible happen?
Suppose you root through people's trash and search for financial information. As long as you promise not to use it to single anyone out, its not malevolent. Anyone who doesn't like it can "opt-out" by keeping the trash in their house.
Skepticism, I'd argue, is inherently good. Being environmentally conscientious should be a result of good science to be meaningful, not of being on the populist "team green". The moment we take a critical eye off our own views is the moment that our causes lose meaning.
I don't want to put my baby daughter through a scanner, pure and simple. Studies can say many things (and in this case, they do), but we won't know the true effect of this largely untested family of (lucrative and rushed to market) technologies for 20 years.There are clear shortcomings evident in many of the "its safe" studies (such as the testing which uses volumetric radiation measurements while the technology doesn't pass through (suggesting much higher concentration at a lower depth)).
Short answer: I think all of us (with children) would prefer our children to opt out of the the complimentary skin cancer and just get the college diploma at 21.
No, it's not scummy when congress does it. They're protecting us. The walls of legislative text are actually a defense barrier, shielding our precious little minds from harmful truths. And let's be realistic, we wouldn't understand the truth anyway.
If this comment was attacking Bush a few years ago, calling him a fascist, it might very well have been modded up (it also would've been true...). If we want a truly open forum here, we really shouldn't so quickly silence those who disagree with us.
Generally, Sun hardware made before 2000 seemed almost "unbreakable". Since then, likely due to wildly fluctuating financial conditions, reliability has been all over the map. My (pre2k) E4000, E4500 and E450 systems never dropped. When they had any hardware problems, they'd announce it in syslog preemptively (ie. "DIMM J3201 correctable errors blah replace module").
I ordered about a dozen E420R's around 2001. E420 and E220 servers made 1999 and later had problems specifically with their stupid "memory riser boards". Each board had two torque screws that needed to be tightened precisely. If they were even slightly under-tightened (as many were from the factory), vibration would eventually shake the connectors slightly loose, causing intermittent system freezes.
A hard-freeze with nothing in the logs was almost unheard of, but that's why we have serial console logging, right? Getting nothing off the serial console post fail, now that was novel. Back then, Sun field engineers were a great bunch, but they were as in the dark on the issue as we were, performing the same checks, making sure everything was clean and properly seated. The same systems would fail a week later.
Eventually, I noticed that the memory board screws on a failed system that I had tightened had actually gotten looser. This led to a simple solution: over-tighten them. Granted, this isn't really an acceptable solution on systems sold for $30k+, and it was inexcusable that Sun didn't vigorously inform its customers (or employees for that matter).
rogerd, Are you talking about E420 rackmount systems that you have now? If so, then I'd say the exception proves the rule, as you're talking about 10 year old systems, over double the 5 year MTBF advertised (lie) for PC hardware. Try bunging the screws next time one goes haywire. I've never played with an M5k, personally. If that's true, (bad) SPOF fan, (worse) faulty temp sensors that (horrible) failed to save the hardware, that's, well, kinda sad.
Our hearts must surely go out to the manager of the movie theatre. In order to press felony charges over so trivial a violation, in order to reach this level of petty self-righteousness, something awful must've happened to him or her.
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Clearly OP has a less than ideal situation, but additional data vectors (child or not) are always good. 24x7 at home nursing care is prohibitively expensive to all but the five richest kings on earth. Do you have a constructive solution?
Mod parent troll or flame bait.
Really, I did a write-in.
I'm currently using xmonad as a desktop environment (almost exclusively), as it plays quite nicely on VHRDs (very high resolution displays). At most, you'll have to tweak the borderWidth elements.
Optionally, if you're looking for a bit more eye candy, try twm and its derivatives. Most the the UI elements scale dynamically. (too flashy for my tastes however)
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
This little tale of immature daring do is utterly irrelevant. At best, it aspires to be Penthouse letters for nerds.
The snickering inexperience of the men (boys) on the team (author included) is reprehensible and pathetic. Most of the best computer folks I've known in my 20+ years in the computer industry have dated in college, are comfortable and mature around members of the opposite gender, and are or have been married.
Petty jealousies, misunderstandings about the seriousness of a relationship, love triangles and narcissistic authors are common in all walks of life. The scenario { A and B are friends, A dates C, C gets bored with A and expresses interest with B } exists within every setting, in and out of the computer industry, amoung co-workers, high school friends and brothers.
I expect this story is just that, a single data point of no statistical significance, an edge condition. The people in it, for practical purposes, don't even exist.
Mod parent up.
Funny.
It came first.
Informative.
Not the worst.
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A few points - The videographer commented that he thought he heard 22 fire (I understand 22LR isn't uncommon on pigeon hunts). A falling 22 calibre 40 grain bullet can maim someone. There were people in front and behind him (along the road) who he accused of shooting at the drone, so the line of fire probably wasn't safe.
Again, In the video, a human finger is pretty clearly pointing at the prop damage, and that doesn't grok.
I posted this to YouTube, trying not to be provocative, but the post vanished.
Or at least Higgins tells me so.
Suppose you root through people's trash and search for financial information. As long as you promise not to use it to single anyone out, its not malevolent. Anyone who doesn't like it can "opt-out" by keeping the trash in their house.
Hmmm, buy separately and save a penny. Sounds like the groundwork for a new economic policy...
Skepticism, I'd argue, is inherently good. Being environmentally conscientious should be a result of good science to be meaningful, not of being on the populist "team green". The moment we take a critical eye off our own views is the moment that our causes lose meaning.
I don't want to put my baby daughter through a scanner, pure and simple. Studies can say many things (and in this case, they do), but we won't know the true effect of this largely untested family of (lucrative and rushed to market) technologies for 20 years.There are clear shortcomings evident in many of the "its safe" studies (such as the testing which uses volumetric radiation measurements while the technology doesn't pass through (suggesting much higher concentration at a lower depth)).
Short answer: I think all of us (with children) would prefer our children to opt out of the the complimentary skin cancer and just get the college diploma at 21.
If you get it from the store, and its in a blister pack, they're pretty much guaranteed to be secure.
"...run out of the building screaming incoherently..."
Oh, wait, that won't do. That's what I do every day...
When I get sacked, I plan to grab all the doughnuts I can and run out of the building screaming incoherently.
No, it's not scummy when congress does it. They're protecting us. The walls of legislative text are actually a defense barrier, shielding our precious little minds from harmful truths. And let's be realistic, we wouldn't understand the truth anyway.
Mod parent up (extremely) +Informative.
(seriously, some earlier posts now have "+5 Funny" for one-line quips about breastfeeding.)
If this comment was attacking Bush a few years ago, calling him a fascist, it might very well have been modded up (it also would've been true...). If we want a truly open forum here, we really shouldn't so quickly silence those who disagree with us.
Moderators, please "untroll" this comment.
Is directing negative comments towards ${YOUR_PARTY} inherently trollish and anything positive "insightful"?
Miniluv really has a doubleplusgood idea here. Crimethink must be stopped, and this is a great first step to protecting us from ourselves.
Mod parent up funny, really. Someone is really taking those moderator points a little too seriously...
You're both right.
Generally, Sun hardware made before 2000 seemed almost "unbreakable". Since then, likely due to wildly fluctuating financial conditions, reliability has been all over the map. My (pre2k) E4000, E4500 and E450 systems never dropped. When they had any hardware problems, they'd announce it in syslog preemptively (ie. "DIMM J3201 correctable errors blah replace module").
I ordered about a dozen E420R's around 2001. E420 and E220 servers made 1999 and later had problems specifically with their stupid "memory riser boards". Each board had two torque screws that needed to be tightened precisely. If they were even slightly under-tightened (as many were from the factory), vibration would eventually shake the connectors slightly loose, causing intermittent system freezes.
A hard-freeze with nothing in the logs was almost unheard of, but that's why we have serial console logging, right? Getting nothing off the serial console post fail, now that was novel. Back then, Sun field engineers were a great bunch, but they were as in the dark on the issue as we were, performing the same checks, making sure everything was clean and properly seated. The same systems would fail a week later.
Eventually, I noticed that the memory board screws on a failed system that I had tightened had actually gotten looser. This led to a simple solution: over-tighten them. Granted, this isn't really an acceptable solution on systems sold for $30k+, and it was inexcusable that Sun didn't vigorously inform its customers (or employees for that matter).
rogerd, Are you talking about E420 rackmount systems that you have now? If so, then I'd say the exception proves the rule, as you're talking about 10 year old systems, over double the 5 year MTBF advertised (lie) for PC hardware. Try bunging the screws next time one goes haywire. I've never played with an M5k, personally. If that's true, (bad) SPOF fan, (worse) faulty temp sensors that (horrible) failed to save the hardware, that's, well, kinda sad.
...and I'm not easily impressed.
Our hearts must surely go out to the manager of the movie theatre.
In order to press felony charges over so trivial a violation, in order to reach this level of petty self-righteousness, something awful must've happened to him or her.