A 72 hour kit is a fairly basic safety precaution. A years food storage is fairly reasonably especially for people that are growing a significant portion of there own food.
You're talking about people who think things through. They're the enemy of the power structure.
A typical broadcast studio has dozens, if not hundreds of simultaneous streams
I see, so 100Ge is primarily for 'backbone' networks then, not necessarily to each station? Or does it just make sense to switch only when the prices are really compelling vs. sorta-like-the-costs-of-foot-thick-cable?
Trading survey answers for content is not micropayments.
It would be more fair to call it 'microbarter'. 'Payments' involves money or currency of some type (fungible consumption value being the important characteristic).
Why do people in this industry need 6 simultaneous unbuffered streams? TFS said that cost isn't really an issue, so a 4-port link aggregation of 10Gbps ought to be widely deployed by now if three of these streams were good enough. There are switches ($$$) that can handle that kind of backplane traffic.
I'm honestly curious where this phrase is used. It means as much as "something new to fish to the ketchup" to me - a verb and a noun, obviously, but I can't figure out the meaning of the words in context.
I forget the 'why' but the first computer class I took had one VIC 20 and the BASIC wasn't working (insufficient RAM?) so we learned how to do stuff in machine code for the class. We didn't know enough to understand that was too hard for beginners.
Apple's touch is currently better. I find Android systems (including mine) as having much more trouble figuring out what my touches are supposed to do ("how many times do I have to click on this goddamn link?"). The hardware and drivers are OK, as the virtual keyboards usually work fine, but there's something in the runtime that's not quite right yet (as least up to ICS).
Which just makes the lack of 'undo' in Android that much more insane, because it's not hard to accidentlly whack a big bock of text with an errant multi-touch gesture.
Y'know, most webcams are sensitive into the IR. If they could filter out the visible, perhaps a heatmap could be built to recognize a living face.
Use some sort of liquid crystal that's opaque to IR or transmissive of IR and opaque to visible light instead of the permanent filters typically used today.
Just happened to hear an NPR interview on the way back to the office. The researcher described most of the 80% as regulating the expression of the protein codes. Brace yourself Slashdot: he called it the 'operating system'.
I'm less than a few centuries old and I've been hit with a small rocket that's gone astray and, boy I sure wouldn't want to be hit with a big one!
This would seem pretty obvious to anybody who has rockets and is oppressed. The next obvious step is to fire it through a length of hollowed bamboo to give it aim. Then to separate the charge from the payload (as many aerial fireworks do).
But to make a cannon needs more than just an idea - working out the metalurgy to build a cannon that doesn't explode is probably a big part of it. Even the Mythbusters did the hollowed-out-log cannon thing, and while practical to make, it's not very practical to bring into battle.
Depending on the amount of social strife going on in a given region of China at the time, a few centuries to get all the details of each step in the process worked out doesn't seem entirely out of scope.
My issue with the organizations like the NRA is that they tend to promote the toys
That's their role. They're "all hat, no cattle" but boy do they talk about their hat all day. If there's ever a serious issue of principle, their motto is "compromise and capitulate". Speaking of which, why not invest $50 right now to protect your freedoms?;)
BTW, every politician who gets up and talks about the second amendment and hunters in the same breath should be booed out of the room, but we have a multitude of ignorant voters out there.
rocketry clubs that could actually provide a real defense against helicopters
Yeah? All my model rockets always went up real fast and then I never saw them again. Aim wasSorta took the fun out of it, but I think I learned a lesson about building models with multiple D engines. Save it for the prairie! But, to the point - people can actually aim these things?
And Debian, no less. You don't pick Debian for 'new hotness'.
I still carry i386 minimal install CD's with me, but it's been feeling odd lately to have to use them on servers. Even some of my Atom machines can handle the AMD64 instruction set. It looks like i386 (especially -proper not i586+MMX) is destined to become a 2nd-rung arch along with MIPS, PPC, etc. At the same time kernel ARM support (e.g. OMAP) is really starting to mature. It looks like the two dominant arches the not-too-distant future will be ARM and AMD64.
Men are asked to do great things, but FUCK your family if you die.
These astronauts covered the scenario cleverly by their own means. Why would you try to force a social safety net upon a situation where it's not needed? That's beyond stubborn ideology.
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A 72 hour kit is a fairly basic safety precaution. A years food storage is fairly reasonably especially for people that are growing a significant portion of there own food.
You're talking about people who think things through. They're the enemy of the power structure.
A typical broadcast studio has dozens, if not hundreds of simultaneous streams
I see, so 100Ge is primarily for 'backbone' networks then, not necessarily to each station? Or does it just make sense to switch only when the prices are really compelling vs. sorta-like-the-costs-of-foot-thick-cable?
and for the broadcaster to know the MAC addresses of the recipients ahead of time
Oh, jesus, are they trying to work some impossible DRM dream into an IEEE protocol?
Trading survey answers for content is not micropayments.
It would be more fair to call it 'microbarter'. 'Payments' involves money or currency of some type (fungible consumption value being the important characteristic).
At 6-8' you'd definitely notice though.
I don't think it's ever going to matter at 6-8'. 6-8cm, is probably more likely.
You could push 6 of those streams over 100GbE.
Why do people in this industry need 6 simultaneous unbuffered streams? TFS said that cost isn't really an issue, so a 4-port link aggregation of 10Gbps ought to be widely deployed by now if three of these streams were good enough. There are switches ($$$) that can handle that kind of backplane traffic.
something new to flog to the punters
I'm honestly curious where this phrase is used. It means as much as "something new to fish to the ketchup" to me - a verb and a noun, obviously, but I can't figure out the meaning of the words in context.
but once they nuke pakistan from orbit they'll have enough wealth to spread to everyone!
The ultimate broken window. Nukes for Jobs!
Ah well, at least they won't die of dysentery.
I wonder if anybody has the mortality rate of Western settlers to compare with astronauts.
I forget the 'why' but the first computer class I took had one VIC 20 and the BASIC wasn't working (insufficient RAM?) so we learned how to do stuff in machine code for the class. We didn't know enough to understand that was too hard for beginners.
Contrast that with my Xoom running Jellybean
It would be great if this is one of the improvements in Jellybean!
Apple's touch is currently better. I find Android systems (including mine) as having much more trouble figuring out what my touches are supposed to do ("how many times do I have to click on this goddamn link?"). The hardware and drivers are OK, as the virtual keyboards usually work fine, but there's something in the runtime that's not quite right yet (as least up to ICS).
Which just makes the lack of 'undo' in Android that much more insane, because it's not hard to accidentlly whack a big bock of text with an errant multi-touch gesture.
You probably should go to intrade [intrade.com]... yeah yeah yeah... I know it's pretty obvious to everybody here, but... what the hell
Intrade 'predictions' often become extremely volatile close to an election. That's not an accurate reflection of the electorate.
Comment first, fill in the code later.
and not a photo of that person
Y'know, most webcams are sensitive into the IR. If they could filter out the visible, perhaps a heatmap could be built to recognize a living face.
Use some sort of liquid crystal that's opaque to IR or transmissive of IR and opaque to visible light instead of the permanent filters typically used today.
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Just happened to hear an NPR interview on the way back to the office. The researcher described most of the 80% as regulating the expression of the protein codes. Brace yourself Slashdot: he called it the 'operating system'.
The only previous technology along the same lines that I can think of is the blowgun, which wasn't very common in medieval China.
In a society using bamboo commonly, I think you underestimate the potential for spitballs!
Guns and cannon were not an obvious application
I'm less than a few centuries old and I've been hit with a small rocket that's gone astray and, boy I sure wouldn't want to be hit with a big one!
This would seem pretty obvious to anybody who has rockets and is oppressed. The next obvious step is to fire it through a length of hollowed bamboo to give it aim. Then to separate the charge from the payload (as many aerial fireworks do).
But to make a cannon needs more than just an idea - working out the metalurgy to build a cannon that doesn't explode is probably a big part of it. Even the Mythbusters did the hollowed-out-log cannon thing, and while practical to make, it's not very practical to bring into battle.
Depending on the amount of social strife going on in a given region of China at the time, a few centuries to get all the details of each step in the process worked out doesn't seem entirely out of scope.
My issue with the organizations like the NRA is that they tend to promote the toys
That's their role. They're "all hat, no cattle" but boy do they talk about their hat all day. If there's ever a serious issue of principle, their motto is "compromise and capitulate". Speaking of which, why not invest $50 right now to protect your freedoms? ;)
BTW, every politician who gets up and talks about the second amendment and hunters in the same breath should be booed out of the room, but we have a multitude of ignorant voters out there.
rocketry clubs that could actually provide a real defense against helicopters
Yeah? All my model rockets always went up real fast and then I never saw them again. Aim wasSorta took the fun out of it, but I think I learned a lesson about building models with multiple D engines. Save it for the prairie! But, to the point - people can actually aim these things?
And Debian, no less. You don't pick Debian for 'new hotness'.
I still carry i386 minimal install CD's with me, but it's been feeling odd lately to have to use them on servers. Even some of my Atom machines can handle the AMD64 instruction set. It looks like i386 (especially -proper not i586+MMX) is destined to become a 2nd-rung arch along with MIPS, PPC, etc. At the same time kernel ARM support (e.g. OMAP) is really starting to mature. It looks like the two dominant arches the not-too-distant future will be ARM and AMD64.
Men are asked to do great things, but FUCK your family if you die.
These astronauts covered the scenario cleverly by their own means. Why would you try to force a social safety net upon a situation where it's not needed? That's beyond stubborn ideology.
TFTFY
(two minutes from where I buy my snowplow parts)
When a platform is dying because of lack of customer interest (See Solaris, BeOS, Irix), going open source won't save it.
The platform may die but any good ideas will live on in other platforms, as code is ported (if the licenses are compatible).
Even something like BeOS is still kicking because a few hobbyists think its ideas haven't yet been integrated effectively elsewhere.
Stop posting so much stuff inside parenthesis!
Stop being such an OCD punctuation nazi. You're ruining the SNR here.
Ask him if he know:
hey, I know what those are, enough to BS a unix guy, and I'm a unix guy.
And will filter 80% of the Windows guys on your "audition" :headpalm: