Nobody old is going to build one of these because they'd feel too stupid, and nobody young is going to build one of these because they are already spending all their money on fartpipes and wheels for their hondas so they can pretend they are "fast and furious". I don't see a market for this.
In the past, when I've got a "thumb up my butt" type job where I'm basically sitting watching servers that hardly ever die, I'll sit and extrapolated and expound on the details with someone. On the other hand, when I've been the lead developer on something huge, they are paying me enough to own every minute of my life and they know it, I'm more inclined to take 5 minutes to SHOW the pesky junior admin HOW to use a search engine logically to find the answers to things. I'll also promote the idea of sharing good sources for information on departmental mailing lists. It's truly awesome when you can say "hmmm, bob had the same problem I'm having three weeks ago and shot mail to the list. Lets see if I have that.........."
It's probably more about what you've done. I've never seen any microsoft OS faster than any unixlike os on identical hardware. You have to have farked up your redhat install pretty badly. Why bother with linux at all. You seem to be a dyed in the wool microsoft fanatic. Linux doesn't appear to be easy enough for you, if you are having problems with redhat. Continue to stay mediocre and stick with what you know. You'll be happier in the long run, trust me.
I made a huge tracer gun "remember these things?" that had a gear that traveled along a rail with teeth on it, and had a slick incline based release system. It could fire one AOL cd fast enough to go through a cardboard box. I got bored with it and stopped work before I solved the problems with rapid reloading and charging. It was also woefully inaccurate much like the original tracer gun. The ammo was free though.
I said almost, because there are other events that can cause lightning. Volcanic eruptions and massive smoke clouds from forest fires come to mind.
However, in accordance with the FMH-1b (Federal Meteorlogical Handbook) that I had to use as both a weather forecaster, and weather observer, YES. In the interests of flight safety, any lightning observed will generate an immediate SP or (special) observation to be automatically taken and recorded as a thunderstorm. (if my memory serves me correctly. It's been a while)
The article talks about hail, but they fail to mention that hail ONLY comes from thunderstorms. Just like tornadoes ONLY come from thunderstorms. And almost all lighting comes from, you guessed it, thunderstorms. They also fail to talk about the freezing level. That's how a thunderstorm becomes a thunderstorm. A cumulus cloud that's growing upwards because of vorticity (air rising fast) grows past the freezing level. The top of the cloud and the bottom of the cloud get different charges and blammo, you have a big floating battery in the sky. The hail forms because there are rapidly moving columns of air moving up and down in the cloud and water trapped in that column gets frozen, recoated with water, frozen again, etc.
The ice clouds he's talking about are cirrus clouds of some kind. That's basically any cloud made up of super tiny ice crystals because they are above the freezing level. a VERY VERY rare type of cloud is called cirrocumulus. This is ice crystal clouds in the shape of the puffy white clouds called cumulus that sometimes turn into thunderstorms. The reason these clouds are so rare is because they are unbelievably heavy. It takes an incredible amount of 'vorticity' to keep them up there, and they don't last long. If you ever see very high puffy cottonball looking clouds, there's a great chance you'll have a thunderstorm soon (24-48 hours) because vorticity (air rising fast) is one of the major things needed. There is NO WAY upper atmosphere vorticity is going to hold water in the air long enough for it to weigh 10 friggin pounds. There is no way that ice clouds would clump together and form ice. There is simply no force there to do that work. You might get a ball of something more like snow, but definitely not ice. I'd be more willing to bet some smartass with a catapult is having fun at the ice factory. If they said this was related to thunderstorm activity, I might buy it. But on a clear day? No way.
I've seen a ton of people asking about/posting about the See Clearly Method. It borders on complete fraud. Here is some information derived from a quick google search.
First, from their own disclaimer on their own page:
"The See Clearly Method (tm) is an educational tool that teaches the user how to see more clearly, comfortably, and efficiently. It is not a medical or assistive device, nor is it a substitute for diagnosis or treatment by an optometrist or ophthalmologist."
This from http://www.allaboutvision.com/buysmart/see_clearly.htm
"The instruction manual recommends personal affirmations to help you along. You might remind yourself, for example, "I am seeing better each day." If you're having any doubts, you might declare, "I can see without my glasses." For a vaguer standard of success, you could simply say, "I feel positive changes in my vision taking place.""
This from: http://www.fhradio.org/fm/archives/2003/2610(FM).h tml
"The plain truth is that there is no scientific evidence that the "See Clearly Method" can actually improve your eyesight. Dr. Michael Earley, chief of the Binocular Vision Clinic at Ohio State University, has studied the "See Clearly Method" extensively. This professor of optometry -- from our sister institution in Columbus -- didn't mince words when he told a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter last December about his conversation with a "See Clearly" representative: "Everything the . . . representative said was absolutely wrong. He gave me facts on the eye muscle pulling on the lens and that is absolutely backward. He was absolutely anatomically and physiologically wrong on everything he said.""
The long and the short of it is, they have paid a considerable amount of money to have in house testing done that says it works. Dubious sources, no doubt paid by them, talk about how great it is. The rest of the Opthamological world thinks they are snake oil salesmen. You can find a ton of people in news groups complaining that it does not work, and they had trouble getting their money back. I'm wondering if they'll have any legal liability the first time someone is driving and chanting "I feel positive changes in my vision taking place" when they run someone's kid over. I hope this helps.
to a realistic portable personal concealable full motion video device. I can't wait. Especially when the video is automatically shot through the air to somewhere else and can't be taken away, destroyed, etc. So many good uses:
#1 When your girlfriend calls you a liar about where you've been
#2 When the cop lies about what he said and did in traffic court
#3 When your boss tries to take credit for something you did
#4 When that coworker gets fitshaced at the office party
Without taking the time to actually read the FAQ, how many questions could you possibly ask. More importantly, How frequently does anybody actually ask them? Perhaps we need to come up with something new like:
I feel really bad for anyone attempting to use iPlanet for anything big. It's one of the reasons Adelphia was in the state it was. Some idiot listened to the marketing pitch and signed off on it. It made the UNIX department a living hell. It isn't even threaded. Try explaining to a PHB that your email solution sucks ass because it was originally written for win32, then ported to Solaris. Try explaining that the fact that it's non-threaded makes it run out of gas faster than the OS does. Adelphia easily spent 10 times what it should have bandaiding the whole thing together because one idiot made a bad choice and wasn't man enough to admit it.
Me and my friends used to have a blast with legos. The fun for us was that you could ram lego planes, trucks, boats, etc. into each other then put them back together. You could also simulated damage done by removing stuff hit by your imaginary guns. Lots of arguments like, "HEY NOT FAIR I HIT YOUR ROCKET BOOSTER AND YOUR MISSILE LAUNCHER TAKE THEM OFF". The only thing we hated was how big things would get if you tried to make the curves look realistic. I ended up putting half a billion legos into an 'AirWolf' helicopter to make it look realistic and it was too heavy to play with. Another thing was the wars that would break out over "special pieces". Anything transparent, or the antenaes, or the wheels, windshields, etc. We'd have arguements and fights over what pieces belonged to who. It killed a lot of time and probably allowed the picture tube in the TV to last a few years longer than it did
It's just applications and a way to run them. All I do anymore is install kde libs and gnome libs, blackbox, bbconf, bbkeys, and link to the applications I like/need/etc. Too many people hop from one thing to another as soon as something new is announced in the hopes that it's going to be the next big perfect thing instead of taking the time to actually learn how to configure what they had.
There are plenty of people out there that own a playtendoboxcube2000 that don't own a computer. They don't have to install anything. They don't have to upgrade any opengl anything. They don't have to do much of anything but take breaks to let their hands heal once in a while, and remember where they put the instructions they never read when they can't figure something out. They can always call "the guy they know on tha innernet" if they need to go download cheat codes or something.
The thing that bothers me about applications/desktops/wm's/etc that are made to look exactly like microsoft applications is that it only fuels the argument that no actual innovation is happening. There seems to be too much emphasis on making things as pretty and familiar as possible for the annoyed windows user looking to migrate, and less emphasis on making something unique and earth shatteringly ground breaking. I'd think it would be more important to make something that is so much better that it's forgone conclusion as to whether or not you want to bother playing with it.
Usually when the source is open, you don't have 'eyes only' anything. Kinda pointless trying to hide something that somebody could find out about tommorow. It's much easier to simply not mention bugs when your source is closed. Even though perhaps 1/100th of the people use Mozilla based browsers over IE, the likelyhood of finding bugs is probably a few degrees of magnitude higher considering you can actually look at what it's made of. Just started using mozilla myself a week ago and I couldn't be happier. Best browser money can't buy.
Forget the ratings issue. (they damaged the show by moving the timeslot)
Forget the success of SG-1. (Farscape viewers killing time watching SG-1 until Farscape comes on)
The important thing is, they took an escape clause out of their contract to get out of season 5 while the show was still drawing a huge crowd. They moved the show to 10pm and that destroyed viewership with fans that have social lives. They effectively mismanaged the hell out of the show, then backed out of their season 5 commitment when they tried to demand a lower amount of money for the show, and EMTV said no. Despite what anybody thinks, the show has at least 1 million viewers in the USA alone, and countless fans overseas. Recent numbers are starting to make it look like even the nielsen numbers are wrong (like that's never happened before) and there are probably even more fans. Also, it's looking like at least 50 percent of those fans are women. And I'm not making this stuff up. This was reported on CNN Headline news 3 days in a row.
How hard would it be for them to actually try to figure out who their viewing audience is, attract sponsors based on that audience, and make a ton of money? Not very hard at all. Especially now that due to massive amount of national, and international coverage, interest in the show will be higher than it's ever been. They'd be idiots to let this kind of opportunity to slip by them. They couldn't hope for better publicity than this for a show. The good news is there are several other interested parties that KNOW the type of advertiser dollars that can be made off this show. To quote Reney at CNN Headline News:
"College educated, professions, typical incomes $50,000 - $150,000. Technologically inclined, and extremely computer literate. I would think that advertisers would jump all over that."
And my favorite quote:
"But Nina Lump is talking, she is the web mistress of the Save Farscape website at Farscape.wdsection.com. I spoke with her today and she said that site and a related one have had over 600,000 hits since yesterday"
And that's just the net savvy viewers. I personally blanketed the area I live in with 500 flyers today. I hit video stores, I hit skateshops, gas stations, malls, you name it. Most of the people I talked to were NOT on the net, and most of the people I talked to did not know the show had been cancelled.
The point is that SciFi said they'd carry the 4th and 5th season, they mismanaged the hell out of the show, they backed out of their 5th season obligation, and they were not going to tell anybody until march. There are plenty of people saying some genuinely misguided things about what's going on here. I recommend you all take the time to read the information at http://www.savefarscape.com before making guesses about what's REALLY going on.
Our privacy rights are being bought and sold with money.
Our civil liberties are slowly eroding because of money.
My favorite show is cancelled because of money.
The Internet is getting ruined because of money.
Politicians are bought and sold with money.
Consumers have less choice in the marketplace because of wait for it............ money.
I'd go on, but I wouldn't want to become a "person of interest" to anyone.
It feels like the world is slowly turning into something from a pulp novel. Hopefully one of those nice drug companies will come up with a pill that will make us all good consumers, and blind to what's going on. I'd be the first in line to test it out.
Pardon my problem with believing every chat log I see, and don't call me a moron. I'm easily twice the intellectual you could ever hope to be. Wow, that rhymes.
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Nobody old is going to build one of these because
they'd feel too stupid, and nobody young is going
to build one of these because they are already
spending all their money on fartpipes and wheels
for their hondas so they can pretend they are
"fast and furious". I don't see a market for this.
In the past, when I've got a "thumb up my butt" type
job where I'm basically sitting watching servers
that hardly ever die, I'll sit and extrapolated and
expound on the details with someone. On the other
hand, when I've been the lead developer on something
huge, they are paying me enough to own every minute
of my life and they know it, I'm more inclined to
take 5 minutes to SHOW the pesky junior admin HOW
to use a search engine logically to find the answers
to things. I'll also promote the idea of sharing
good sources for information on departmental
mailing lists. It's truly awesome when you can
say "hmmm, bob had the same problem I'm having
three weeks ago and shot mail to the list. Lets
see if I have that.........."
Sorry about that last post. Asshole friend. left
xlock off to take a piss. She could have at least
posted anonymously. Like your porn site btw....
ATTENTION MODERATORS: please mod the post above down, it wasn't mine.
It's probably more about what you've done.
I've never seen any microsoft OS faster than
any unixlike os on identical hardware. You have
to have farked up your redhat install pretty badly.
Why bother with linux at all. You seem to be a
dyed in the wool microsoft fanatic. Linux doesn't
appear to be easy enough for you, if you are
having problems with redhat. Continue to stay
mediocre and stick with what you know. You'll be
happier in the long run, trust me.
I made a huge tracer gun "remember these things?"
that had a gear that traveled along a rail with
teeth on it, and had a slick incline based release
system. It could fire one AOL cd fast enough to
go through a cardboard box. I got bored with it
and stopped work before I solved the problems
with rapid reloading and charging. It was also
woefully inaccurate much like the original tracer
gun. The ammo was free though.
Not true.
I said almost, because there are other events that
can cause lightning. Volcanic eruptions and massive
smoke clouds from forest fires come to mind.
However, in accordance with the FMH-1b
(Federal Meteorlogical Handbook) that I had to use
as both a weather forecaster, and weather observer,
YES. In the interests of flight safety, any lightning
observed will generate an immediate SP or (special)
observation to be automatically taken and
recorded as a thunderstorm. (if my memory serves
me correctly. It's been a while)
Yup. A geologist. That would be like having a
dentist give me his expert opinion on some
matter related to brain surgury.
The article talks about hail, but they fail to
mention that hail ONLY comes from thunderstorms.
Just like tornadoes ONLY come from thunderstorms.
And almost all lighting comes from, you guessed it,
thunderstorms. They also fail to talk about the
freezing level. That's how a thunderstorm becomes
a thunderstorm. A cumulus cloud that's growing
upwards because of vorticity (air rising fast)
grows past the freezing level. The top of the
cloud and the bottom of the cloud get different
charges and blammo, you have a big floating battery in the
sky. The hail forms because there are rapidly
moving columns of air moving up and down
in the cloud and water trapped in that column
gets frozen, recoated with water, frozen again,
etc.
The ice clouds he's talking about are
cirrus clouds of some kind. That's basically
any cloud made up of super tiny ice crystals
because they are above the freezing level.
a VERY VERY rare type of cloud is called
cirrocumulus. This is ice crystal clouds in
the shape of the puffy white clouds called
cumulus that sometimes turn into thunderstorms.
The reason these clouds are so rare is because
they are unbelievably heavy. It takes an
incredible amount of 'vorticity' to keep
them up there, and they don't last long.
If you ever see very high puffy cottonball
looking clouds, there's a great chance you'll
have a thunderstorm soon (24-48 hours) because
vorticity (air rising fast) is one of the major
things needed. There is NO WAY upper atmosphere
vorticity is going to hold water in the air
long enough for it to weigh 10 friggin pounds.
There is no way that ice clouds would clump
together and form ice. There is simply no force
there to do that work. You might get a ball of
something more like snow, but definitely not
ice. I'd be more willing to bet some smartass
with a catapult is having fun at the ice factory.
If they said this was related to thunderstorm
activity, I might buy it. But on a clear day?
No way.
I've seen a ton of people asking about/posting
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about the See Clearly Method. It borders on
complete fraud. Here is some information
derived from a quick google search.
First, from their own disclaimer on their own
page:
"The See Clearly Method (tm) is an educational tool that teaches the user how to see more clearly, comfortably, and efficiently. It is not a medical or assistive device, nor is it a substitute for diagnosis or treatment by an optometrist or ophthalmologist."
This from http://www.allaboutvision.com/buysmart/see_clearl
"The instruction manual recommends personal affirmations to help you along. You might remind yourself, for example, "I am seeing better each day." If you're having any doubts, you might declare, "I can see without my glasses." For a vaguer standard of success, you could simply say, "I feel positive changes in my vision taking place.""
This from: http://www.fhradio.org/fm/archives/2003/2610(FM).
"The plain truth is that there is no scientific evidence that the "See Clearly Method" can actually improve your eyesight. Dr. Michael Earley, chief of the Binocular Vision Clinic at Ohio State University, has studied the "See Clearly Method" extensively. This professor of optometry -- from our sister institution in Columbus -- didn't mince words when he told a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter last December about his conversation with a "See Clearly" representative: "Everything the . . . representative said was absolutely wrong. He gave me facts on the eye muscle pulling on the lens and that is absolutely backward. He was absolutely anatomically and physiologically wrong on everything he said.""
The long and the short of it is, they have paid
a considerable amount of money to have in house
testing done that says it works. Dubious sources,
no doubt paid by them, talk about how great it is.
The rest of the Opthamological world thinks they
are snake oil salesmen. You can find a ton of
people in news groups complaining that it does
not work, and they had trouble getting their
money back. I'm wondering if they'll have any
legal liability the first time someone is
driving and chanting "I feel positive changes
in my vision taking place" when they run
someone's kid over. I hope this helps.
to a realistic portable personal concealable full
motion video device. I can't wait. Especially
when the video is automatically shot through the
air to somewhere else and can't be taken away,
destroyed, etc. So many good uses:
#1 When your girlfriend calls you a liar about
where you've been
#2 When the cop lies about what he said and did
in traffic court
#3 When your boss tries to take credit for
something you did
#4 When that coworker gets fitshaced at the
office party
#5 etc.
You get the idea.
New York Times August 10th, 2010
:)
KILLER VENUS MICROBE BROUGHT BACK BY SWEDEN
"EATS EVERYTHING"
You must have an account to read full text of
story.
This means that the palladium and DRM stuff
can be VERY poorly written and still probably
maybe run somewhat fast hopefully.
I can see this is working very well for you :)
considering your slashdot sig.
The BSD troll died. Apparently he didn't have
enough market share.
Without taking the time to actually read
the FAQ, how many questions could you
possibly ask. More importantly, How
frequently does anybody actually ask
them? Perhaps we need to come up with
something new like:
HEAQ - Hardly Ever Asked Questions
QNEA - Questions Nobody Ever Asks
PDDTPONMA - Pointless Document Designed To Push
Our Narrow Minded Agenda
I feel really bad for anyone attempting to use
iPlanet for anything big. It's one of the reasons
Adelphia was in the state it was. Some idiot
listened to the marketing pitch and signed
off on it. It made the UNIX department a living
hell. It isn't even threaded. Try explaining to
a PHB that your email solution sucks ass because
it was originally written for win32, then ported
to Solaris. Try explaining that the fact that it's
non-threaded makes it run out of gas faster than
the OS does. Adelphia easily spent 10 times what
it should have bandaiding the whole thing
together because one idiot made a bad choice
and wasn't man enough to admit it.
that the church of the subgenius tells us to
beware of. It's a much more logical church
than the SoC. Some examples:
"You'd PAY to know what you REALLY think." --Dobbs 1961
"This is the original Time Control program that has helped thousands to fear no longer the STARK FIST of REMOVAL."
"Follow your FOLLIES and COMPULSIONS and become rich like us"
http://www.subgenius.com/
Many many similarities actually. And it's easy
to become an ordained minister. Check it out.
Me and my friends used to have a blast with legos.
The fun for us was that you could ram lego planes,
trucks, boats, etc. into each other then put
them back together. You could also simulated
damage done by removing stuff hit by your imaginary
guns. Lots of arguments like, "HEY NOT FAIR I HIT
YOUR ROCKET BOOSTER AND YOUR MISSILE
LAUNCHER TAKE THEM OFF". The only thing we
hated was how big things would get if you tried to make
the curves look realistic. I ended up putting half a billion
legos into an 'AirWolf' helicopter to make it look
realistic and it was too heavy to play with. Another
thing was the wars that would break out
over "special pieces". Anything transparent, or
the antenaes, or the wheels, windshields, etc. We'd have
arguements and fights over what pieces belonged to
who. It killed a lot of time and probably allowed
the picture tube in the TV to last a few years
longer than it did
It's just applications and a way to run
them. All I do anymore is install kde libs
and gnome libs, blackbox, bbconf, bbkeys,
and link to the applications I like/need/etc.
Too many people hop from one thing to another
as soon as something new is announced in the
hopes that it's going to be the next big perfect
thing instead of taking the time to actually
learn how to configure what they had.
There are plenty of people out there that own
a playtendoboxcube2000 that don't own a computer.
They don't have to install anything. They don't
have to upgrade any opengl anything. They don't
have to do much of anything but take breaks to
let their hands heal once in a while, and remember
where they put the instructions they never read
when they can't figure something out. They can
always call "the guy they know on tha innernet" if
they need to go download cheat codes or something.
The thing that bothers me about
applications/desktops/wm's/etc
that are made to look exactly like
microsoft applications is that it
only fuels the argument that no
actual innovation is happening.
There seems to be too much
emphasis on making things as
pretty and familiar as possible
for the annoyed windows user looking
to migrate, and less emphasis on
making something unique and earth
shatteringly ground breaking. I'd
think it would be more important to
make something that is so much
better that it's forgone conclusion
as to whether or not you want to bother
playing with it.
Usually when the source is open, you don't have
'eyes only' anything. Kinda pointless trying to
hide something that somebody could find out
about tommorow. It's much easier to simply
not mention bugs when your source is closed.
Even though perhaps 1/100th of the people use
Mozilla based browsers over IE, the likelyhood
of finding bugs is probably a few degrees of
magnitude higher considering you can actually
look at what it's made of.
Just started using mozilla myself a week ago and
I couldn't be happier. Best browser money can't
buy.
Forget the ratings issue. (they damaged the show
by moving the timeslot)
Forget the success of SG-1. (Farscape viewers
killing time watching SG-1 until Farscape comes
on)
The important thing is, they took an escape clause
out of their contract to get out of season 5
while the show was still drawing a huge crowd.
They moved the show to 10pm and that destroyed
viewership with fans that have social lives.
They effectively mismanaged the hell out of
the show, then backed out of their season 5
commitment when they tried to demand a lower
amount of money for the show, and EMTV said
no. Despite what anybody thinks, the show has
at least 1 million viewers in the USA alone,
and countless fans overseas. Recent numbers
are starting to make it look like even the
nielsen numbers are wrong (like that's never
happened before) and there are probably even
more fans. Also, it's looking like at least
50 percent of those fans are women. And I'm not
making this stuff up. This was reported on
CNN Headline news 3 days in a row.
How hard would it be for them to actually
try to figure out who their viewing audience is,
attract sponsors based on that audience, and
make a ton of money? Not very hard at all.
Especially now that due to massive amount of
national, and international coverage, interest
in the show will be higher than it's ever been.
They'd be idiots to let this kind of opportunity
to slip by them. They couldn't hope for better
publicity than this for a show. The good news is
there are several other interested parties that
KNOW the type of advertiser dollars that can
be made off this show. To quote Reney at
CNN Headline News:
"College educated, professions, typical incomes $50,000 - $150,000. Technologically inclined, and extremely computer literate. I would think that advertisers would jump all over that."
And my favorite quote:
"But Nina Lump is talking, she is the web mistress of the Save Farscape website at Farscape.wdsection.com. I spoke with her today and she said that site and a related one have had over 600,000 hits since yesterday"
And that's just the net savvy viewers. I
personally blanketed the area I live in with
500 flyers today. I hit video stores, I hit
skateshops, gas stations, malls, you name it.
Most of the people I talked to were NOT on the
net, and most of the people I talked to did
not know the show had been cancelled.
The point
is that SciFi said they'd carry the 4th and 5th
season, they mismanaged the hell out of the show,
they backed out of their 5th season obligation,
and they were not going to tell anybody until
march. There are plenty of people saying some
genuinely misguided things about what's going
on here. I recommend you all take the time
to read the information at http://www.savefarscape.com
before making guesses
about what's REALLY going on.
Our privacy rights are being bought and sold
with money.
Our civil liberties are slowly eroding because
of money.
My favorite show is cancelled because of money.
The Internet is getting ruined because of money.
Politicians are bought and sold with money.
Consumers have less choice in the marketplace
because of wait for it............ money.
I'd go on, but I wouldn't want to become a
"person of interest" to anyone.
It feels like the world is slowly turning into
something from a pulp novel. Hopefully one of
those nice drug companies will come up with a
pill that will make us all good consumers, and
blind to what's going on. I'd be the first in
line to test it out.
Pardon my problem with believing every chat log
I see, and don't call me a moron. I'm easily twice
the intellectual you could ever hope to be. Wow,
that rhymes.