That picture doesn't really do it justice though, truely an amazing ship design that's attractive to look at. (I think the Australians have a slightly smaller one of similar hull design in service.)
For great pictures, skim through back issues of "Proceedings" magazine. (Basically, Time magazine for old Navy brass.)
It doesn't need to work. There just has to be a chance that it will.
Reagan used Star Wars to drive an economic stake through the heart of the USSR and their weakened economy. Star Wars forced them to spend a huge amount of money on useless research and stuff. The U.S. did too, but they had a huger pile of money to draw on than the USSR did.
Sagan, though a great scientist I am sure... had little clue about economics and politics. (Probably what made him a good scientist in the first place...)
That's just the CIA/Aliens. The new guy forgot to put the disappearing ink in the scanner, so you are just seeing normal routing information involved in scanning your mail.
Those ink cartriges only last for a week or two at the rate you get mail. So it should not be too much longer, when it runs out you will not see that information any more... it will have faded by the time it gets to you.
[/tinfoilhat]
Seriously, you should check into that belief there is a law... I "fought" junk mail pretty aggresively for a long time and never ran across anything like that. Some places do ADV (Korea?) on email, but that's different.
Come on, give me a break. When did the hardware EVER outperform the software (or games) you could run on it for very long. Look at what Doom3 is rumored to require. Why the heck would I want a lot of CPU, memory and graphics power sitting around unused? Cool but useless apps, spyware and everything else will quickly make hardware excess go away. THAT IS A GOOD PROCESS, and should be encouraged.
Bill Gates is smoking Crack.
Also, what is the damn fascination with speech and hand writing recognition? I do not want to TALK to anything. I DO NOT want to write stuff. I have terrible hand-writing and need a computer to help me spell (as you may have noticed in this post). In addition, I can type faster and create better, complex thoughts than I ever could on paper. I am working with computers PRECICELY BECAUSE I do not want to talk to shit. If I liked talking I'd be a damn sales-weasel instead.
I can see if you want to sell Windows to the as of yet computerless droolers out there that speech recognition would be needed. Also, it might be nice for things like PDAs and people who cannot interact with a computer in other ways. But the main-stream does not need that stuff, and probably does not WANT that stuff.
I view this vision as entirely self-serving and clouded.... Gates has lost touch with stuff up there in his billion dollar mansion. He should invite Michael Jackson over so he can have another wacko to relate to.
Yeah. Buckyballs are everywhere. They have only recently been discovered to be occurring naturally and discovered what their properties are, also it's only recently that they could be made cheaply and en masse. They are not some sort of crazy nano-tech invention.
They've been around since the beginning when carbon and oxygen got togther to combust.
Here's a link that mentions they occur naturally in candle soot.
Many, many mail admins are using reverse DNS as a means to block spam already. It is highly effective as the goobers that don't do it are either virus-zombies or goobers that shouldn't be sending mail to my server anyway. Anybody that is serious about email can do the reverse pretty easily.
However there are also many many people in this thread that do not understand it, or understand how it works with email or spam blocking.
Reverse DNS checking for email has two options:
a) check that reverse DNS exists (i.e. that when one is done a response comes back)
b) check that revesse DNS matches up with an particluar hostname and the hostname with that IP address. I.e. if mail comes from mail.yourisp.com from 127.0.0.1, then the reverse for 127.0.0.1 is a zone 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa that holds the hostname "mail.yourisp.com".
MOST email admins DO NOT USE option B. They use option A. That means any crap-wildcard reverse DNS the ISP chooses to put in will work just fine. They do not care if the reverse is correct or not, just that it is there. This is for speed reasons (all those lookups take time, CPU time and bandwidth), as well as NATing reasons, you can't name a single IP both www.companyname.com and mail.companyname.com in reverse.... so matching the reverse DNS cannot be used as a criteria for sending mail. It would quickly be shut off as it is an admin's nightmare.
So, most of the time, you just need your ISP to get a reverse DNS entry to say something like "ip-address.modempool.ispname.com" or whatever. No delegation required, no upkeep required, permenent for anybody using that IP.
So before complaining about "i want to run a mail server I have the right to send mail without reverse DNS" be sure you know what is happening with the filtering.
Many ISPs do not bother to set reverse unless there is a reason to... so a lot of times the "not important to the ISP" ip addresses don't get it. That's a pretty good way to filter mail, as if the ISP doesnt know there might be mail coming from it... you probably don't want to get that mail.
Learn more here: http://www.dnsstuff.com/info/revdns.htm
Well on pre-NT stuff (95/98/ME) removing "io.sys" will yak it up pretty good. That tiny little file does something important. Which is funny, because its very similar to "LO.sys" (in caps so you can see the letter difference) which is one of the windows start/shut graphics. Cool guys liked to change that around.... too bad they couldnt see exactly what was there.:(
A group wants to control their property by using technology which locks things up.
Sorry, but when the vehicle is paid off. Its MY property.
The car manufacturers have as much right telling me what I can do with the computer codes (or whom I have choose to do so for me) as they do telling me what stickers I choose to put on the bumper, i.e. NONE.
I respect the man and all.... but didn't Carl think that the rouge governments could just make bombs and missiles... much cheaper and an easier technology to use.
Any government that would do that type of thing, would have cheaper means with conventional warfare....
I have caught my wife putting a second CD in the tray more than once. The first time, she even had the balls to get mad a me because I was fooling with it.
(Strange how that ELO Greatest Hits sounds a lot like TMBG if you stack it right on top of the TMBG already in the player.)
Spin-up time sucks though, so you probably couldnt do that for data CDs.
In BE there were implantes the Phychlos (or whatever) had in their heads that are implanted at birth in the baby farms.
The mechanic didnt have one (being a runt, he was thrown in the dustbin or something) and thus did not act like a psychopath... leading up to be the pal of the main character.
Dunno about troopers, haven't read that in a while.
That makes a lot of sense, actually. (The part that the missile batteries lock on to the non-missile aircraft, makes sense.)
The Patriot missile system was adapted from an earlier design that was basically a SAM (surface to air missile) that was supposed to shoot down airplanes and helicopters.
So it's probably good at it. Plus, helicopters are easier to catch.:)
With timing and dosage, I can get my "business" done during the lulls in the day. And after a bout of drinking (and thus dehydration) it helps out re-start things again.
I hear that over time helps reduce the probability of colon cancer, as well as keeping me happy.:)
I have to say as a recovering Textronixer that when the thing worked, it worked beautifully. I have not seen any printer that could make full color graphic printouts that nice.
On the other hand, the thing almost never worked right. Aside from the 10 minute (yeah) warm up cycle, it had to go through 5 minute "re-warm" cycles to print big jobs.
Oh, and it couldn't handle a wide range of paper stock.
Oh, and the web server interface for configuration has wide open security holes in it. (firewall your printer guys)
Oh, and it was a lot of money to replace the wax.
Oh, and repairs and cleaning are super expensive.
I have no doubt that the printers in the lobby of the company that makes them get enough TLC to work right all the time.
Anywhere else though, and they are a waste of money, and probably time as well.
[That "do not move while hot" thing probably should be pasted on big stickers all over the thing, as the first response to a jam or glitch is usually to open it up and re-seat the wax rollers... which probably killed ours for good.]
(anyone want to buy a 740? cheap, just gotta figure out how to keep it from bleeding ink onto every page)
Despite consumer complaints about unsolicited commercial e-mail, the Direct Marketing Association yesterday released a study showing U.S. consumers spent $11.7 billion on products and services advertised in unsolicited messages.
Notice they didn't tie the correlation off.
advertised in unsolicited emails
Not:
"because they followed a link in an unsolicited email"
Big difference there. Viagra is "advertised" in email. Viagra is also obtained by perscription by doctors for legit medical reasons. The way they worded that makes it sound like they counted normal Viagra perscriptions in that 11 billion dollars. Even if the patient did not in fact follow a link from a spam email but just went to the doctor to help with the "get woody" problem.
I am not sure why they would word it that way, but it makes me suspicious of the motives of the person that wrote the article... like they want to be convincing that spam is a good way to advertise and does actually cause sales. (Which I only half believe.)
Also note, to make a house less worthwhile you would need to take into account the rent money for 5 years could be 20k - 40k and the fact that interest paid on a house gets tax breaks on state and federal level and so on. So one could take a loss of that much and still be ahead.
It is a personal decision though. Renting is an option that you might find better for a lot of reasons. It's just that the original poster mentioned there is no monitary benefit and that is simply not true.
I think you ask a serious question, so I provide a short and hopefully helpful answer:
Money spent on rent pays for the shelter.
Money spent on a mortgage pays for the shelter, AND when you are done with it someone else pays you MORE for the shelter. (Assuming the value went up and you didnt trash it and so on.) Sometimes it's a LOT more. You do have to deal with Mr. Evil bank though.
[Where I live, buying a house and doing a little work and then selling it 5 years later will net about the same money as having a part time job the whole time you lived in it would.]
There is also a great deal of satisfaction with ownership. Some sort of deep down primate thing I guess.
Hmm.. Wild guess, but what created the vibrations for him? If it's a speaker, it's got an electro magnet in it that could have been pushing the background particles away while the experiment was run...
Or the permenent magnet in his speaker was slightly radioactive or something....
1. Peds interact with taxis (you can steal a taxi with the peds, or make money driving peds around in the taxi) True, a parked car never had someone come get in it, but stand on the corner long enough and some ped would jack some other guy's car. They just didn't go after the parked ones. Ambulances and fire trucks had people get in and out too.
2. Peds have different reactions when provoked. Try it, walk up and whack one with a fist or hand weapon. Some try to beat you up. Some will try if you hit them in the car or if you cause an explosion nearby and hit them with splash damage.
3. Agreed. The indoor locations are cool. The AI was pretty poor inside though so they'd need to improve that a bit. (I found the bank heist mission a bitch because of that, the dumb accomplices and the manager never went the right place.)
4. Key to the driver; stay behind until the very last turn near the Malibu Club, then cut through the bushes. Hilary's car is fast accelleration but the Sentinial you race has a higher top speed and better cornering. It's beatable with by following the rules. (You can always try the shoot the tires trick.)
Another hint, get the packages first. Most missiones are a lot easier when you have a Mini gun. The junkyard one is cake with that.
Also, do the Taxi missions to get jumping taxis, then use that to get to one of the boats to the marina and to the other islands early. It's way easier to get packages when the gangs are not trying to kill you all the time.
As I understand it, here's the criteria for being part of the "unemployment" list:
- having lost a job - using state services to look for work - not off the list for some reason - getting unemployment benefits
Of those, the last one is not a necessary, but is a sufficient criterium. (i.e. if you get bennies, you are on the list, but not all people on the list are getting bennies)
There are lots of people who end up off the list for one reason or another;
- after 6 months (i think) they are "rolled-off", so the list represents recent layoffs. - some people do not use state services, and therefore or not on the list - some people take other jobs right away because they need them or want them. One can pay some bills by working at a car wash, but does that mean that car-washer, ex-developer is unemployed or employed?
The unemployment stat is a good way to measure the "at least this bad" senario, if a bad economy is the problem and the numbers go up... it is at least that bad but could be much worse.
So the cable stays taught because it has hairspray on it?
When an elevator climbs the cable it applies no pulling force to the cable? rather it pushes against the ground instead?
Right.
Cut it at the bottom, and it goes in orbit. However the orbit is not such that the cable just comes back to the same place 24 hours later as the grandparent post suggests.
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Of the vessel itself.
Here's One
That picture doesn't really do it justice though, truely an amazing ship design that's attractive to look at. (I think the Australians have a slightly smaller one of similar hull design in service.)
For great pictures, skim through back issues of "Proceedings" magazine. (Basically, Time magazine for old Navy brass.)
It doesn't need to work. There just has to be a chance that it will.
Reagan used Star Wars to drive an economic stake through the heart of the USSR and their weakened economy. Star Wars forced them to spend a huge amount of money on useless research and stuff. The U.S. did too, but they had a huger pile of money to draw on than the USSR did.
Sagan, though a great scientist I am sure... had little clue about economics and politics. (Probably what made him a good scientist in the first place...)
[tinfoilhat]
That's just the CIA/Aliens. The new guy forgot to put the disappearing ink in the scanner, so you are just seeing normal routing information involved in scanning your mail.
Those ink cartriges only last for a week or two at the rate you get mail. So it should not be too much longer, when it runs out you will not see that information any more... it will have faded by the time it gets to you.
[/tinfoilhat]
Seriously, you should check into that belief there is a law... I "fought" junk mail pretty aggresively for a long time and never ran across anything like that. Some places do ADV (Korea?) on email, but that's different.
Unless you use programs on it.....
Come on, give me a break. When did the hardware EVER outperform the software (or games) you could run on it for very long. Look at what Doom3 is rumored to require. Why the heck would I want a lot of CPU, memory and graphics power sitting around unused? Cool but useless apps, spyware and everything else will quickly make hardware excess go away. THAT IS A GOOD PROCESS, and should be encouraged.
Bill Gates is smoking Crack.
Also, what is the damn fascination with speech and hand writing recognition? I do not want to TALK to anything. I DO NOT want to write stuff. I have terrible hand-writing and need a computer to help me spell (as you may have noticed in this post). In addition, I can type faster and create better, complex thoughts than I ever could on paper. I am working with computers PRECICELY BECAUSE I do not want to talk to shit. If I liked talking I'd be a damn sales-weasel instead.
I can see if you want to sell Windows to the as of yet computerless droolers out there that speech recognition would be needed. Also, it might be nice for things like PDAs and people who cannot interact with a computer in other ways. But the main-stream does not need that stuff, and probably does not WANT that stuff.
I view this vision as entirely self-serving and clouded.... Gates has lost touch with stuff up there in his billion dollar mansion. He should invite Michael Jackson over so he can have another wacko to relate to.
Yeah. Buckyballs are everywhere. They have only recently been discovered to be occurring naturally and discovered what their properties are, also it's only recently that they could be made cheaply and en masse. They are not some sort of crazy nano-tech invention.
They've been around since the beginning when carbon and oxygen got togther to combust.
Here's a link that mentions they occur naturally in candle soot.
Reverse DNS confusion ensues.
Many, many mail admins are using reverse DNS as a means to block spam already. It is highly effective as the goobers that don't do it are either virus-zombies or goobers that shouldn't be sending mail to my server anyway. Anybody that is serious about email can do the reverse pretty easily.
However there are also many many people in this thread that do not understand it, or understand how it works with email or spam blocking.
Reverse DNS checking for email has two options:
a) check that reverse DNS exists (i.e. that when one is done a response comes back)
b) check that revesse DNS matches up with an particluar hostname and the hostname with that IP address. I.e. if mail comes from mail.yourisp.com from 127.0.0.1, then the reverse for 127.0.0.1 is a zone 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa that holds the hostname "mail.yourisp.com".
MOST email admins DO NOT USE option B. They use option A. That means any crap-wildcard reverse DNS the ISP chooses to put in will work just fine. They do not care if the reverse is correct or not, just that it is there. This is for speed reasons (all those lookups take time, CPU time and bandwidth), as well as NATing reasons, you can't name a single IP both www.companyname.com and mail.companyname.com in reverse.... so matching the reverse DNS cannot be used as a criteria for sending mail. It would quickly be shut off as it is an admin's nightmare.
So, most of the time, you just need your ISP to get a reverse DNS entry to say something like "ip-address.modempool.ispname.com" or whatever. No delegation required, no upkeep required, permenent for anybody using that IP.
So before complaining about "i want to run a mail server I have the right to send mail without reverse DNS" be sure you know what is happening with the filtering.
Many ISPs do not bother to set reverse unless there is a reason to... so a lot of times the "not important to the ISP" ip addresses don't get it. That's a pretty good way to filter mail, as if the ISP doesnt know there might be mail coming from it... you probably don't want to get that mail.
Learn more here:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/info/revdns.htm
Well on pre-NT stuff (95/98/ME) removing "io.sys" will yak it up pretty good. That tiny little file does something important. Which is funny, because its very similar to "LO.sys" (in caps so you can see the letter difference) which is one of the windows start/shut graphics. Cool guys liked to change that around.... too bad they couldnt see exactly what was there. :(
[HomerSimpson]
They have the Internet on computers now?
[/HomerSimpson]
A group wants to control their property by using technology which locks things up.
Sorry, but when the vehicle is paid off. Its MY property.
The car manufacturers have as much right telling me what I can do with the computer codes (or whom I have choose to do so for me) as they do telling me what stickers I choose to put on the bumper, i.e. NONE.
I respect the man and all.... but didn't Carl think that the rouge governments could just make bombs and missiles... much cheaper and an easier technology to use.
Any government that would do that type of thing, would have cheaper means with conventional warfare....
Ok. Let me bring this to terms you non-philos can understand....
"root"
MMmmkay?
Play along nice like.... us old folks will give you candy.
It probably would work if it was an audio CD.
I have caught my wife putting a second CD in the tray more than once. The first time, she even had the balls to get mad a me because I was fooling with it.
(Strange how that ELO Greatest Hits sounds a lot like TMBG if you stack it right on top of the TMBG already in the player.)
Spin-up time sucks though, so you probably couldnt do that for data CDs.
In BE there were implantes the Phychlos (or whatever) had in their heads that are implanted at birth in the baby farms.
The mechanic didnt have one (being a runt, he was thrown in the dustbin or something) and thus did not act like a psychopath... leading up to be the pal of the main character.
Dunno about troopers, haven't read that in a while.
That makes a lot of sense, actually. (The part that the missile batteries lock on to the non-missile aircraft, makes sense.)
:)
The Patriot missile system was adapted from an earlier design that was basically a SAM (surface to air missile) that was supposed to shoot down airplanes and helicopters.
So it's probably good at it. Plus, helicopters are easier to catch.
Seriously, coffee helps my gut "run" correctly.
:)
With timing and dosage, I can get my "business" done during the lulls in the day. And after a bout of drinking (and thus dehydration) it helps out re-start things again.
I hear that over time helps reduce the probability of colon cancer, as well as keeping me happy.
Yeah, and at 700 lumens you'll have to climb in a cardboard box to see the thing.
Other portables are around 1000-2000.
Wall/ceiling mounts are 3000-4000 lumens.
You get what you pay for, even if it is Swedish.
Yeah, well the Tektronix ink did the same thing to ours.
:)
We've had it repaired so many times we could have bought it several times over.
The printers just have a complicated, hard-to-keep-right design. Business must be good for you guys.
Using Xerox now. I miss the wax ink printouts, but I don't miss being on a first name basis with the repair guy.
I have to say as a recovering Textronixer that when the thing worked, it worked beautifully. I have not seen any printer that could make full color graphic printouts that nice.
On the other hand, the thing almost never worked right. Aside from the 10 minute (yeah) warm up cycle, it had to go through 5 minute "re-warm" cycles to print big jobs.
Oh, and it couldn't handle a wide range of paper stock.
Oh, and the web server interface for configuration has wide open security holes in it. (firewall your printer guys)
Oh, and it was a lot of money to replace the wax.
Oh, and repairs and cleaning are super expensive.
I have no doubt that the printers in the lobby of the company that makes them get enough TLC to work right all the time.
Anywhere else though, and they are a waste of money, and probably time as well.
[That "do not move while hot" thing probably should be pasted on big stickers all over the thing, as the first response to a jam or glitch is usually to open it up and re-seat the wax rollers... which probably killed ours for good.]
(anyone want to buy a 740? cheap, just gotta figure out how to keep it from bleeding ink onto every page)
The first paragraph:
Despite consumer complaints about unsolicited commercial e-mail, the Direct Marketing Association yesterday released a study showing U.S. consumers spent $11.7 billion on products and services advertised in unsolicited messages.
Notice they didn't tie the correlation off.
advertised in unsolicited emails
Not: "because they followed a link in an unsolicited email"
Big difference there. Viagra is "advertised" in email. Viagra is also obtained by perscription by doctors for legit medical reasons. The way they worded that makes it sound like they counted normal Viagra perscriptions in that 11 billion dollars. Even if the patient did not in fact follow a link from a spam email but just went to the doctor to help with the "get woody" problem.
I am not sure why they would word it that way, but it makes me suspicious of the motives of the person that wrote the article... like they want to be convincing that spam is a good way to advertise and does actually cause sales. (Which I only half believe.)
It hasn't been and IF in many years.
Choose a house location wisely and you'd be OK.
Also note, to make a house less worthwhile you would need to take into account the rent money for 5 years could be 20k - 40k and the fact that interest paid on a house gets tax breaks on state and federal level and so on. So one could take a loss of that much and still be ahead.
It is a personal decision though. Renting is an option that you might find better for a lot of reasons. It's just that the original poster mentioned there is no monitary benefit and that is simply not true.
I think you ask a serious question, so I provide a short and hopefully helpful answer:
Money spent on rent pays for the shelter.
Money spent on a mortgage pays for the shelter, AND when you are done with it someone else pays you MORE for the shelter. (Assuming the value went up and you didnt trash it and so on.) Sometimes it's a LOT more. You do have to deal with Mr. Evil bank though.
[Where I live, buying a house and doing a little work and then selling it 5 years later will net about the same money as having a part time job the whole time you lived in it would.]
There is also a great deal of satisfaction with ownership. Some sort of deep down primate thing I guess.
Hmm.. Wild guess, but what created the vibrations for him? If it's a speaker, it's got an electro magnet in it that could have been pushing the background particles away while the experiment was run...
Or the permenent magnet in his speaker was slightly radioactive or something....
You must not have played enough;
1. Peds interact with taxis (you can steal a taxi with the peds, or make money driving peds around in the taxi) True, a parked car never had someone come get in it, but stand on the corner long enough and some ped would jack some other guy's car. They just didn't go after the parked ones. Ambulances and fire trucks had people get in and out too.
2. Peds have different reactions when provoked. Try it, walk up and whack one with a fist or hand weapon. Some try to beat you up. Some will try if you hit them in the car or if you cause an explosion nearby and hit them with splash damage.
3. Agreed. The indoor locations are cool. The AI was pretty poor inside though so they'd need to improve that a bit. (I found the bank heist mission a bitch because of that, the dumb accomplices and the manager never went the right place.)
4. Key to the driver; stay behind until the very last turn near the Malibu Club, then cut through the bushes. Hilary's car is fast accelleration but the Sentinial you race has a higher top speed and better cornering. It's beatable with by following the rules. (You can always try the shoot the tires trick.)
Another hint, get the packages first. Most missiones are a lot easier when you have a Mini gun. The junkyard one is cake with that.
Also, do the Taxi missions to get jumping taxis, then use that to get to one of the boats to the marina and to the other islands early. It's way easier to get packages when the gangs are not trying to kill you all the time.
You need a good tip page, here's one:
http://vcworld.gtagaming.com/
As I understand it, here's the criteria for being part of the "unemployment" list:
- having lost a job
- using state services to look for work
- not off the list for some reason
- getting unemployment benefits
Of those, the last one is not a necessary, but is a sufficient criterium. (i.e. if you get bennies, you are on the list, but not all people on the list are getting bennies)
There are lots of people who end up off the list for one reason or another;
- after 6 months (i think) they are "rolled-off", so the list represents recent layoffs.
- some people do not use state services, and therefore or not on the list
- some people take other jobs right away because they need them or want them. One can pay some bills by working at a car wash, but does that mean that car-washer, ex-developer is unemployed or employed?
The unemployment stat is a good way to measure the "at least this bad" senario, if a bad economy is the problem and the numbers go up... it is at least that bad but could be much worse.
No tension eh?
So the cable stays taught because it has hairspray on it?
When an elevator climbs the cable it applies no pulling force to the cable? rather it pushes against the ground instead?
Right.
Cut it at the bottom, and it goes in orbit. However the orbit is not such that the cable just comes back to the same place 24 hours later as the grandparent post suggests.