My TASP comment was meant for you, so Take A Suck Pill.
My hopes for movie-making were brightened last night when I saw the movie adaptation of Stephen King's Dreamcatcher. Ok, they changed the ending, but the rest was pretty good for a two hour version of a 900 page tome it took me two weeks to read.
I was on the HP web site to look up some info on a printer I'm buying, and there was a "live chat" option. It was initiated by me, rather than by them, but I must say it was a very efficient means of communication, if a litle slow.
I have a small house, but my wife knows I'm always on IM, so she does occasionally ask questions like "what's for dinner?"... I find it less intrusive than yelling through the house.
Until the early 1980s, DEC used to have its own underground facility. I think it was in Burlington, MA, if memory serves. It was then sold to Iron Mountain.
Tough to find pictures of these things.. they don't exactly want to draw attention to themselves.
Well about 10 years ago, just down the hall from Jim Gettys' office, they were working on this. It was called audiofile, and basically did for audio what X did for graphics.
I had a "DECaudio" box on my DECstation-5000.. and had audiofile running. It was pretty cool.
I live in the next town over, and one of the roads in my development got renamed, since a change in plans left that road in two disjoint pieces, which was confusing emergency workers, among others.
The change showed up in mapquest within a couple of months...
First of all I doubt these laptops are ever going to leave the school. They'll probably be put to bed in a safe place between classes and after school.
Second, for pete's sake order them with no writable removable storage.
And give a team of about a dozen people about a year to develop a custom bootable cdrom or dvdrom. These would be unique to each user, and would contain crytpo certificates to identify the user. Don't even bother trying to get a hundred thousand 11yos to remember their passwords.
First thing it would do on boot is checksum itself and everything that needs to be on the hard drive. If it found problems it would reinstall itself.
Then it would connect to the WLAN, cryptographically authenticated, using a VPN over the WLAN if nothing else is secure enough. If it detected a duplicate or other suspicious activity, that boot cd would be invalidated. Without the keys, nothing gets on the network.
All storage on the network.. use afs/dfs w/kerberos.
Kerberize all other apps.. you could even kerberize web proxy with the sources to mozilla.
You get the idea. This is the only way to keep maintenance/admin cost down.
Well, if you figure your local service costs 20 bucks with all the features turned on (caller id, call waiting, 3-way, etc) then yes, you can get unlimited long distance for 30 bucks a month right now, in 46 states. Check out this site.
I saw Adm. Hopper at an IDECUS (Internal DEC User Society) symposium in Boxborough, MA back in the 80s. She gave me a nanosecond, which I still have somewhere, and also some picoseconds (a small paper packet of ground black pepper).
The more memorable part of her talk was about how she "appropriated" hardware that she couldn't get with out excessive red tape. Basically she sent her staff out to steal it from projects that weren't using it.
Not more than a couple of years after the "spilled coffee suit" made headlines, I went to McDonald's and got some coffee. I sat the cup on the driver's side armrest of my car and popped open the little spout so I could put the cream in. Just then my gf (now wife) opened the passenger door and got in, shaking the car. I spilled a small amount of this coffee on my side, no more than an ounce or two. It burned me quite badly. Serious 2nd degree burn, and it blistered and then festered. I had bandages and bacitracin over it for a couple of weeks. No lie. Finally I started putting raw aloe on it straight out of an aloe plant, and then it started to heal.
If I had had the coffee between my legs I might have been truly in a world of outlandish hurt.
Note that back then McDonalds had a poor cup of coffee with an extreme over-extracted taste. It's much better these days. I think they must have re-thought their whole coffee-brewing method somewhere along the way.
As far as I know, all these pitch correction devices use an equally tempered scale.
After a few years of singing Barbershop harmony, and listening to my quartet's vowel match get progressively better, I can really start to sense how almost all non-acapella music is a little out of tune. Oddly enough, the two instruments I play are guitar and trombone, both of which let you tune by ear to a certain extent. Trombone is obvious but even on a guitar you can bend a note up if it's sounding a little flat. You just can't bend it down. I used to tune my low E a little flat because I always ended up bending it a little and rarely played it open.
In Barbershop it gets weird. You can be singing a note, and say that note is the 3rd of the chord you're in, so it's a little flatter than an equally tempered 3rd. The next note may still be written a the same note but if it's the 5th of the chord you have to sing it sharper and louder or it won't be right. You have to be Justly in tune and listening to your three buddies to get the chord you want. There's no longer just major and minor, there's also bright, blue and everywhere in between.
It's the world's best ear training, and loads of fun. Try it.
As others have noted, even if sea levels don't rise, this could be bad news, especially for those of us in the eastern US.
If the Gulf Stream stops because the salinity of the water has decreased, then not only will northern Europe get colder, but the maritime provinces of Canada will too.
The real nightmare scenario could be if the St. Lawrence river freezes to the bottom. I've heard (no references available, sorry) that this could happen in less than a decade if the Gulf Stream stops.
Then the entire Great Lakes system backs up and has to drain down the Ohio Valley. Instant inland sea. Oops...
When I'm on the Atkins diet, and eating a lot more red meat than usual, I do notice an improvement in mental clarity. Part of this is surely due to more stable blood sugar levels, but who knows ?
I don't supplement with Creatine, but I do take lots of B, C & E along with fish and borage oil and L-Carnitine.
On the the other hand, my hair loss has definitely accelerated since I've been "doing Atkins". I figure that more protein + more exercise (hiking, biking) = more testosterone, and so an acceleration of the hair loss I'm genetically predisposed to.
Too bad it's been raining for the last 10 days
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Haven't seen much of the sky lately here in New England.
I was down at my church this afternoon updating their machine.
It has ZoneAlarm so it's probably safe for now. But oddly, in the hour or so I was watching, ZA did not hear one connection attempt on port 135. They have Verizon DSL.
First, I have this cool CD alarm clock, so I can wake up to whatever sound I want.. currently it's a birdsong recording. But the LED display in it is so damn bright you can practically read by it. I have to turn it away from the bed or it drives my wife crazy. I sleep turned away from it so it doesn't bother me as much. Some time I'm going to have to get some kind of a filter to tape over it.
Also, when I'm out in the woods at night, when camping with the kids, for instance, I carry a flashlight but leave it turned off unless it's a really pitch dark night. I finally convinced my oldest son to try it last year. With a bright spot of light at your feet all you see is a few feet of trail, and that's it. But if you let your eyes adjust to what light there is, you can generally make out more detail than you can with the flashlight. And it sure is more fun. I keep my thumb on the flashlight switch in case it's needed but it rarely is.
It may be mainly true that people who follow the Atkins diet lose weight because they're eating fewer calories.
But I see you've missed the point. For the right person, following the Atkins diet changes you profoundly. You no longer crave carbohydrates. Really. It's true. If you experienced otherwise, then 1, you never tried it, 2 you didn't do it right or 3, you don't really have a problem with hyperinsulism, and the attending wildly fluctuating blood sugar levels. Number 3 there, that's the point in case you missed it.
And no shit, I'm less prone to depression, have more energy and less joint pain. I've been "doing Atkins" roughly 3 out of 4 weeks for over a year, and have lost 60 pounds. And I *never* have felt like I was starved. When I get off the sugar wagon for a few days I feel lousy and wonder why I ever did.
Outfits like gosolo.com will give you a toll-free voicemail/fax number for cheap. You download your faxes as TIF files. It sends you an email when you have new messages.
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making it that much more of a challenge.
Hmm... might have to arrange a little malfunction...
The weather's going to be great. Time for a Geocaching marathon!
My TASP comment was meant for you, so Take A Suck Pill.
My hopes for movie-making were brightened last night when I saw the movie adaptation of Stephen King's Dreamcatcher. Ok, they changed the ending, but the rest was pretty good for a two hour version of a 900 page tome it took me two weeks to read.
TASP.. now there's something that should be interesting.
I was on the HP web site to look up some info on a printer I'm buying, and there was a "live chat" option. It was initiated by me, rather than by them, but I must say it was a very efficient means of communication, if a litle slow.
I preferred the wait to waiting on the phone.
I have a small house, but my wife knows I'm always on IM, so she does occasionally ask questions like "what's for dinner?"... I find it less intrusive than yelling through the house.
Unfortunately, or rather fortunately for him, if and when he does land in prison, Bubba won't know enough to treat him like the scum his kind is.
I doubt many big, unpleasant prisoners have much of a spam problem in their lives.
Until the early 1980s, DEC used to have its own underground facility. I think it was in Burlington, MA, if memory serves. It was then sold to Iron Mountain.
Tough to find pictures of these things.. they don't exactly want to draw attention to themselves.
Well about 10 years ago, just down the hall from Jim Gettys' office, they were working on this. It was called audiofile, and basically did for audio what X did for graphics.
I had a "DECaudio" box on my DECstation-5000.. and had audiofile running. It was pretty cool.
Speaking of Templeton, MA...
I live in the next town over, and one of the roads in my development got renamed, since a change in plans left that road in two disjoint pieces, which was confusing emergency workers, among others.
The change showed up in mapquest within a couple of months...
First of all I doubt these laptops are ever going to leave the school. They'll probably be put to bed in a safe place between classes and after school.
Second, for pete's sake order them with no writable removable storage.
And give a team of about a dozen people about a year to develop a custom bootable cdrom or dvdrom.
These would be unique to each user, and would contain crytpo certificates to identify the user. Don't even bother trying to get a hundred thousand 11yos to remember their passwords.
First thing it would do on boot is checksum itself and everything that needs to be on the hard drive. If it found problems it would reinstall itself.
Then it would connect to the WLAN, cryptographically authenticated, using a VPN over the WLAN if nothing else is secure enough. If it detected a duplicate or other suspicious activity, that boot cd would be invalidated. Without the keys, nothing gets on the network.
All storage on the network.. use afs/dfs w/kerberos.
Kerberize all other apps.. you could even kerberize web proxy with the sources to mozilla.
You get the idea. This is the only way to keep maintenance/admin cost down.
Yes, easier.
I refer to this as "Hopper's Law". A nod to the late Adm. Grace Hopper from whom I first heard this.
A retractable ball point with a big fat rubbery grip. About a buck when you buy a dozen at Staples.
Well, if you figure your local service costs 20 bucks with all the features turned on (caller id, call waiting, 3-way, etc) then yes, you can get unlimited long distance for 30 bucks a month right now, in 46 states. Check out this site.
I used those on Xerox Star workstations.. pretty cool. Somewhere I still have one of the mousepads.. no mouse to go with it, though.
Call me sick, but I really liked my old round vaxstation/decstation mouse. Don't know if they ever made a ps/2 version.
I saw Adm. Hopper at an IDECUS (Internal DEC User Society) symposium in Boxborough, MA back in the 80s. She gave me a nanosecond, which I still have somewhere, and also some picoseconds (a small paper packet of ground black pepper).
The more memorable part of her talk was about how she "appropriated" hardware that she couldn't get with out excessive red tape. Basically she sent her staff out to steal it from projects that weren't using it.
Not more than a couple of years after the "spilled coffee suit" made headlines, I went to McDonald's and got some coffee. I sat the cup on the driver's side armrest of my car and popped open the little spout so I could put the cream in. Just then my gf (now wife) opened the passenger door and got in, shaking the car. I spilled a small amount of this coffee on my side, no more than an ounce or two. It burned me quite badly. Serious 2nd degree burn, and it blistered and then festered. I had bandages and bacitracin over it for a couple of weeks. No lie. Finally I started putting raw aloe on it straight out of an aloe plant, and then it started to heal.
If I had had the coffee between my legs I might have been truly in a world of outlandish hurt.
Note that back then McDonalds had a poor cup of coffee with an extreme over-extracted taste. It's much better these days. I think they must have re-thought their whole coffee-brewing method somewhere along the way.
As far as I know, all these pitch correction devices use an equally tempered scale.
After a few years of singing Barbershop harmony, and listening to my quartet's vowel match get progressively better, I can really start to sense how almost all non-acapella music is a little out of tune. Oddly enough, the two instruments I play are guitar and trombone, both of which let you tune by ear to a certain extent. Trombone is obvious but even on a guitar you can bend a note up if it's sounding a little flat. You just can't bend it down. I used to tune my low E a little flat because I always ended up bending it a little and rarely played it open.
In Barbershop it gets weird. You can be singing a note, and say that note is the 3rd of the chord you're in, so it's a little flatter than an equally tempered 3rd. The next note may still be written a the same note but if it's the 5th of the chord you have to sing it sharper and louder or it won't be right. You have to be Justly in tune and listening to your three buddies to get the chord you want. There's no longer just major and minor, there's also bright, blue and everywhere in between.
It's the world's best ear training, and loads of fun. Try it.
As others have noted, even if sea levels don't rise, this could be bad news, especially for those of us in the eastern US.
If the Gulf Stream stops because the salinity of the water has decreased, then not only will northern Europe get colder, but the maritime provinces of Canada will too.
The real nightmare scenario could be if the St. Lawrence river freezes to the bottom. I've heard (no references available, sorry) that this could happen in less than a decade if the Gulf Stream stops.
Then the entire Great Lakes system backs up and has to drain down the Ohio Valley. Instant inland sea. Oops...
When I'm on the Atkins diet, and eating a lot more red meat than usual, I do notice an improvement in mental clarity. Part of this is surely due to more stable blood sugar levels, but who knows ?
I don't supplement with Creatine, but I do take lots of B, C & E along with fish and borage oil and L-Carnitine.
On the the other hand, my hair loss has definitely accelerated since I've been "doing Atkins". I figure that more protein + more exercise (hiking, biking) = more testosterone, and so an acceleration of the hair loss I'm genetically predisposed to.
Haven't seen much of the sky lately here in New England.
I was down at my church this afternoon updating their machine.
It has ZoneAlarm so it's probably safe for now.
But oddly, in the hour or so I was watching, ZA did not hear one connection attempt on port 135. They have Verizon DSL.
First, I have this cool CD alarm clock, so I can wake up to whatever sound I want.. currently it's a birdsong recording. But the LED display in it is so damn bright you can practically read by it. I have to turn it away from the bed or it drives my wife crazy. I sleep turned away from it so it doesn't bother me as much. Some time I'm going to have to get some kind of a filter to tape over it.
Also, when I'm out in the woods at night, when camping with the kids, for instance, I carry a flashlight but leave it turned off unless it's a really pitch dark night. I finally convinced my oldest son to try it last year. With a bright spot of light at your feet all you see is a few feet of trail, and that's it. But if you let your eyes adjust to what light there is, you can generally make out more detail than you can with the flashlight. And it sure is more fun. I keep my thumb on the flashlight switch in case it's needed but it rarely is.
I must reply, really I feel compelled.
It may be mainly true that people who follow the Atkins diet lose weight because they're eating fewer calories.
But I see you've missed the point. For the right person, following the Atkins diet changes you profoundly. You no longer crave carbohydrates. Really. It's true. If you experienced otherwise, then 1, you never tried it, 2 you didn't do it right or 3, you don't really have a problem with hyperinsulism, and the attending wildly fluctuating blood sugar levels. Number 3 there, that's the point in case you missed it.
And no shit, I'm less prone to depression, have more energy and less joint pain. I've been "doing Atkins" roughly 3 out of 4 weeks for over a year, and have lost 60 pounds. And I *never* have felt like I was starved. When I get off the sugar wagon for a few days I feel lousy and wonder why I ever did.
Outfits like gosolo.com will give you a toll-free voicemail/fax number for cheap. You download your faxes as TIF files. It sends you an email when you have new messages.