By this point you may be asking yourself, "WTF is FCW.com anyway?" Their about page explains:
Established in 1987, FCW Media Group uniquely integrates government, business and technology news and information to produce resources that help government IT decision-makers achieve results and meet agency missions. Our market-leading print, online, event and custom media products form an integrated information system that serves the information needs of all members of the government IT buying team-agency executives, program managers, IT managers and systems integrators-across all segments of federal, state and local government.
FCW stands for Federal Computer Week, a trade rag that US gov't stooges use to figure out how to best waste our tax dollars of shiny boxes with blinky lights. Their topic headings include the buzzwords:
Defense
Enterprise Architecture
Executive
Integrators
Intelligent Infrastructure
Product Solutions
Program Management
Security/Homeland Security
Wireless
The anonymous submitter might do well to remain so. Scuttlemonkey, OTOH, may have to enter the witness protection program. He's getting as bad as Zonk.
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Uhh....wrong definition number....try again
Ohhh, the great-GP was referring to making someone a saint. That would be "canonize", with one 'N'. That makes a lot more sense, now that I think about it.
BTW, there are clinics for people with sarcasm deficit disorder (or "SDD") like yourself. It worked for me, and it can work for you too.
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...there should be some sort of Nerd/Geek cannonization...
There tend to be aerodynamic problems with nerds flying through the air, to say nothing of fitting them into the cannons in the first place.
Geeks reading tech news stories from news outlets like the Sydney Morning Herald is a little like two people trying to pass messages verbally using a monkey as a go-between.
Why is it that people automatically assume intellectual==liberal? Does this mean that Entertainment Tonight is only for conservatives? Seriously, does being informed about things in the world outside of my own personal interests automatically make me a liberal, with all the poisoned connotations that word has aquired? Am I required to be oblivious to the rest of the world outside of my local 6:00 newscast to be a proper American?
Hehe, that's some very nice trolling there. By asking questions rather than making statements, you've managed to make the responders troll themselves.
But, as long as we're trolling, here's the first definition from a Google of "define:liberal":
broad: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions"
The general idea is that liberals try disproportionately to listen to non-majority viewpoints on the assumption that those viewpoints are underreported to start with and need to be balanced out with some extra attention. Conservatives contend that they already understand both sides of the issues and that extra attention to minority viewpoints is un-Democratic and that viewpoints should be heeded proportionately to the number of people who already believe in them.
Neither's right, neither's wrong, both have merits. Meh.
It's not entirely clear that Ethanol even gives us more energy than it took to harvest and process whatever crops we used for the biomass in the first place. Site
The main reason we hear so much about it is that the US has been subsidising corn for decades, and we've gotta find something to do with it now that we've got it. Companies like ADM want to push up demand by widening new markets, but that doesn't mean Ethanol will save the world, or even delay the unpleasantness.
An engineer was holding an eight pound chunk of coal and say, "This is just about enough power to turn on a laptop computer." I was appaled.
Sorry to nitpick, but how long would that chunk of coal keep the laptop going? Without that piece of information, the statement is meaningless. They could just as well have said that the chunk could power an entire office building...for 3/10 of a second.
I know it's only the Discovery channel, so we can't expect them to keep their science straight, but we as geeks aught to know better.
Word on the rumor sites is that the 700p (for PalmOS, as opposed to 700w for Windows) should be out around late May/early June. Roughly the same hardware specs as the 700w, including Sprint's EVDO high-speed network.
Re:Loved the show, not happy about this.
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When will people learn from the example of Seinfeld, Fawlty Towers, the Office (the real one of course)? They all stopped before the viewers had started going.
Point of order: Seinfeld had been circling the drain for a while before they finally gave up the ghost. The last 2 seasons were just far-fetched plotlines and catchphrases.
If we're a "next step", who's doing the walking, and are they trying to get somewhere in particular? Evolution happens, it's not something people or species do. It's the cumulative effect of the environment on populations over generations. Humanity is great and all, but let's not pretend we're anything other than a happy happenstance.
As soon as we start consciously engineering our own offspring towards some goal other than pure survival, it's no longer "evolution" in the classical sense. Then we can start talking about a purpose.
Yes, I know we're there to a small degree already. So it begins...
Yeah, I posted to the Myth boards in the area and found out that RCN Boston (my cable co) sends all the channels out in the clear over the firewire link.
Yeah, the part I left out of that scenario before is that in the near future I'm going nuclear.;) I've had this HDTV (well, 1080i & 480p) for a year and a half now, so I figured I might as well, like, do HDTV.
5 250-gig SATA drives in a RAID-5 NVidia 6600 card (256 meg) with component out (TV only takes component, not DVI/HDMI) 25-ft component video/coax digital audio cable to run straight from 'puter to TV/stereo RF combined keyboard/mouse DCT-6200 HDTV receiver w/firewire caputre from my cable company
Through careful scrounging, I've gotten the first 4 items for maybe $500 over the past 6 months or so, and the receiver is on its way. I'm psyched, but describing the new setup doesn't really help my case for an easy MythTV setup.
I think most people who run a home-made PVR full time (mythtv or otherwise) watch it on a TV screen and not a monitor.
I've been running MythTV for over 3 years now, and to tell the truth, I'm really not sure what most people are using for display devices nowadays. Getting decent TV-out in Linux has never been easy for a noob, but Myth isn't exactly noob-friendly either.
As others have mentioned, MythTV setup guides abound, but most of them focus on one specific hardware configuration. For the record, I use an XBox frontend. Since the XBox only comes in a couple of configurations, there are XBox Linux/MythTV distributions that will pretty much work out of the box. For under $100, you get component video, digital audio out and a slick little remote. You still have to set up a back-end machine to record and serve the content, but you can still use that machine as a regular ol' desktop too, which is nice. It fits nicely in the A/V cabinet , hooks right up to your TV and stereo, and can serve up your MP3's through your real stereo too.
Firstly, Bush is promoting world economics, not just U.S. economics. Secondly, everybody always looks at politics and thinks "How does this benefit me?", but the fact is, most things the government does will not benefit you specifically. In the long run, you will benefit, but the effects will not be so easily traceable back to that policy you disagreed with so long ago. Promoting world economics promotes U.S. economics.
Bush should be promoting U.S. citizens' interests. Our taxes pay his job. Just because globalization is inevitable doesn't mean we have to like it, or pay our leaders to promote it.
Personally, I have no idea why he'd even make a trip like that. People obviously don't like him much in Pakistan, and it can't be good for his image stateside.
Sweet! Looks like a fantastic-if-somewhat-overpriced MythTV frontend box for the living room. Anybody got any info on how much of the hardware is Linux-friendly?
A server is a machine that serves more than one user. A Personal Computer is a machine that is generally used by just one person at a time. The types of applications that are better suited to multi-user environments (serving web pages, databases) are different from single-user apps (word processors, web browsers, games). Servers machines tend to have hardware that is optimized for multi-user apps. This usually means memory, I/O bandwidth, storage space (if local and not SAN or NAS), and fast integer operations. Personal computers are optimized for games and multimedia experience, which means faster floating-point operations and more powerful sound and graphics processors.
Think of "server" and "PC" as adjectives that describe a machine rather than nouns that define them.
The second, was that the original Minivans were HORRID.
The Dodge (read "Chrysler") Caravan my parents bought in 1984 was great.
the problem was that the original Mini van was basically a "K car" with a mini van body
That's a good thing. Parents of big families want a vehicle that can carry 6 or so passengers, but is easy to drive like a smaller vehicle.
they died very quickly, and were NOT reliable.
My dad's Caravan ran almost 300k miles.
Decent power, car-like handling, got (I think) mid 20's gas mileage. I think it ran a Mitsu V6. They were all the rage for the second half of the 80's, until they got too recognizable as the preferred transportation of soccer moms. They just weren't cool any more, so the parents of America moved on to heavier, poorer-handling, less-efficient SUV's, so that they could theoretically drive off-road...or something.
Design and reliability problems didn't kill the minivan. American vanity did.
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FCW stands for Federal Computer Week, a trade rag that US gov't stooges use to figure out how to best waste our tax dollars of shiny boxes with blinky lights. Their topic headings include the buzzwords:
The anonymous submitter might do well to remain so. Scuttlemonkey, OTOH, may have to enter the witness protection program. He's getting as bad as Zonk.
Uhh....wrong definition number....try again
Ohhh, the great-GP was referring to making someone a saint. That would be "canonize", with one 'N'. That makes a lot more sense, now that I think about it.
BTW, there are clinics for people with sarcasm deficit disorder (or "SDD") like yourself. It worked for me, and it can work for you too.
...there should be some sort of Nerd/Geek cannonization...
There tend to be aerodynamic problems with nerds flying through the air, to say nothing of fitting them into the cannons in the first place.
Geeks reading tech news stories from news outlets like the Sydney Morning Herald is a little like two people trying to pass messages verbally using a monkey as a go-between.
Why is it that people automatically assume intellectual==liberal? Does this mean that Entertainment Tonight is only for conservatives? Seriously, does being informed about things in the world outside of my own personal interests automatically make me a liberal, with all the poisoned connotations that word has aquired? Am I required to be oblivious to the rest of the world outside of my local 6:00 newscast to be a proper American?
Hehe, that's some very nice trolling there. By asking questions rather than making statements, you've managed to make the responders troll themselves.
But, as long as we're trolling, here's the first definition from a Google of "define:liberal":
broad: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions"
The general idea is that liberals try disproportionately to listen to non-majority viewpoints on the assumption that those viewpoints are underreported to start with and need to be balanced out with some extra attention. Conservatives contend that they already understand both sides of the issues and that extra attention to minority viewpoints is un-Democratic and that viewpoints should be heeded proportionately to the number of people who already believe in them.
Neither's right, neither's wrong, both have merits. Meh.
Ethanol looks to be a slam dunk replacement...
It's not entirely clear that Ethanol even gives us more energy than it took to harvest and process whatever crops we used for the biomass in the first place. Site
The main reason we hear so much about it is that the US has been subsidising corn for decades, and we've gotta find something to do with it now that we've got it. Companies like ADM want to push up demand by widening new markets, but that doesn't mean Ethanol will save the world, or even delay the unpleasantness.
An engineer was holding an eight pound chunk of coal and say, "This is just about enough power to turn on a laptop computer." I was appaled.
Sorry to nitpick, but how long would that chunk of coal keep the laptop going? Without that piece of information, the statement is meaningless. They could just as well have said that the chunk could power an entire office building...for 3/10 of a second.
I know it's only the Discovery channel, so we can't expect them to keep their science straight, but we as geeks aught to know better.
The problem isn't if the game MADE him do it, but if the game helped him do it MORE EFFICIENTLY.
Well, good. The last thing this country needs is more inept, half-assed murderers.
This just in: The next version of Microsoft Windows will suck. More at 11, 11:05, 11:10, 11:15...
Word on the rumor sites is that the 700p (for PalmOS, as opposed to 700w for Windows) should be out around late May/early June. Roughly the same hardware specs as the 700w, including Sprint's EVDO high-speed network.
When will people learn from the example of Seinfeld, Fawlty Towers, the Office (the real one of course)? They all stopped before the viewers had started going.
Point of order: Seinfeld had been circling the drain for a while before they finally gave up the ghost. The last 2 seasons were just far-fetched plotlines and catchphrases.
Anthropomorphize much?
If we're a "next step", who's doing the walking, and are they trying to get somewhere in particular? Evolution happens, it's not something people or species do. It's the cumulative effect of the environment on populations over generations. Humanity is great and all, but let's not pretend we're anything other than a happy happenstance.
As soon as we start consciously engineering our own offspring towards some goal other than pure survival, it's no longer "evolution" in the classical sense. Then we can start talking about a purpose.
Yes, I know we're there to a small degree already. So it begins...
Nanotech? Frankly, it's not in my top 100 list of things likely to end the world within my lifetime.
No, what really keeps me up is Femtotech.
My XBox 360 drank all my beer, ran off with my girlfriend and kicked my dog on the way out.
Yeah, I posted to the Myth boards in the area and found out that RCN Boston (my cable co) sends all the channels out in the clear over the firewire link.
Comcast, on the other hand, is the devil.
Yeah, the part I left out of that scenario before is that in the near future I'm going nuclear. ;) I've had this HDTV (well, 1080i & 480p) for a year and a half now, so I figured I might as well, like, do HDTV.
5 250-gig SATA drives in a RAID-5
NVidia 6600 card (256 meg) with component out (TV only takes component, not DVI/HDMI)
25-ft component video/coax digital audio cable to run straight from 'puter to TV/stereo
RF combined keyboard/mouse
DCT-6200 HDTV receiver w/firewire caputre from my cable company
Through careful scrounging, I've gotten the first 4 items for maybe $500 over the past 6 months or so, and the receiver is on its way. I'm psyched, but describing the new setup doesn't really help my case for an easy MythTV setup.
I think most people who run a home-made PVR full time (mythtv or otherwise) watch it on a TV screen and not a monitor.
I've been running MythTV for over 3 years now, and to tell the truth, I'm really not sure what most people are using for display devices nowadays. Getting decent TV-out in Linux has never been easy for a noob, but Myth isn't exactly noob-friendly either.
As others have mentioned, MythTV setup guides abound, but most of them focus on one specific hardware configuration. For the record, I use an XBox frontend. Since the XBox only comes in a couple of configurations, there are XBox Linux/MythTV distributions that will pretty much work out of the box. For under $100, you get component video, digital audio out and a slick little remote. You still have to set up a back-end machine to record and serve the content, but you can still use that machine as a regular ol' desktop too, which is nice. It fits nicely in the A/V cabinet , hooks right up to your TV and stereo, and can serve up your MP3's through your real stereo too.
Thank you, Captain Cliche!
So, why exactly are you wasting time here on Slashdot instead of revelling in family bliss?
Finally! A story that I can use the "crustacean" tag on!
So you're saying the same toys we enjoyed as children, we still enjoy as adults? It seems only natural that we might outgrow...
Hold on one sec, FunPhone call.
Yes Goofy, I like talking to you too.
As I was saying...
Firstly, Bush is promoting world economics, not just U.S. economics. Secondly, everybody always looks at politics and thinks "How does this benefit me?", but the fact is, most things the government does will not benefit you specifically. In the long run, you will benefit, but the effects will not be so easily traceable back to that policy you disagreed with so long ago. Promoting world economics promotes U.S. economics.
Bush should be promoting U.S. citizens' interests. Our taxes pay his job. Just because globalization is inevitable doesn't mean we have to like it, or pay our leaders to promote it.
Personally, I have no idea why he'd even make a trip like that. People obviously don't like him much in Pakistan, and it can't be good for his image stateside.
Sweet! Looks like a fantastic-if-somewhat-overpriced MythTV frontend box for the living room. Anybody got any info on how much of the hardware is Linux-friendly?
A server is a machine that serves more than one user. A Personal Computer is a machine that is generally used by just one person at a time. The types of applications that are better suited to multi-user environments (serving web pages, databases) are different from single-user apps (word processors, web browsers, games). Servers machines tend to have hardware that is optimized for multi-user apps. This usually means memory, I/O bandwidth, storage space (if local and not SAN or NAS), and fast integer operations. Personal computers are optimized for games and multimedia experience, which means faster floating-point operations and more powerful sound and graphics processors.
Think of "server" and "PC" as adjectives that describe a machine rather than nouns that define them.
The second, was that the original Minivans were HORRID.
The Dodge (read "Chrysler") Caravan my parents bought in 1984 was great.
the problem was that the original Mini van was basically a "K car" with a mini van body
That's a good thing. Parents of big families want a vehicle that can carry 6 or so passengers, but is easy to drive like a smaller vehicle.
they died very quickly, and were NOT reliable.
My dad's Caravan ran almost 300k miles.
Decent power, car-like handling, got (I think) mid 20's gas mileage. I think it ran a Mitsu V6. They were all the rage for the second half of the 80's, until they got too recognizable as the preferred transportation of soccer moms. They just weren't cool any more, so the parents of America moved on to heavier, poorer-handling, less-efficient SUV's, so that they could theoretically drive off-road...or something.
Design and reliability problems didn't kill the minivan. American vanity did.
I swear, if I hear one more story about how fscked up the Japanese are, I think I'm gonna kill myself.
Who's with me?