The announcers are Michael Burger, Anthony Dias Blue and Sissy Biggers.
Michael Burgers is from 'Mike and Maty' fame(?). Anthony Dias Blue is an editor for Bon Appetit, so hopefully he will be able to provide the same insight as Hattori Yukio. Sissy Biggers, well, someone needs to take her into the alley and shoot her. She has to be the most annoying TV personality, second only to Kathie Lee.
http://www.furman.edu/~msvec/ED11/jeffknow.html for the full text. Jefferson had alot to say about trusting the government. Specifically, don't do it. In fact IIRC most if not all of the US founding fathers were supicious of government. That is why they took such great care in the writing the Constitution.
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it to tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge 1778
The motivation is most likely US foreign policy. The motivation behind the attacks were most likely not caused by any single action. More likely, they were a result of US intervention and aid in the Middle East over the years.
With the United States being the only remaining superpower, we (since I am a US citizen) make a perfect target. The sad fact is that the majority of US citizens don't pay much attention to foreign policy. In the case of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the US support given to Israel makes the US just as guilty of killing Palestinians as the Israelis, from a Palestinian point of view. That's why some Palestinians were applauding the attacks. (Others were donating blood and denouncing the attacks. Most people don't mention that.)
US foreign policy in the Middle East is a long and sordid affair. Our government is not innocent and this will make alot of US citizens wake up.
Now that all of the knee jerkers are ready to flame me - NOTHING that our government has done, should result in a tragedy like this. Regardless of the US foreign policy, innocent civilians DO NOT deserve to die. I stared out of my window towards the Financial District in shock and disbelief as the WTC fell. Terrorism is irrational and results in senseless bloodshed, mostly of innocents.
I hope that the people responsible for Tuesdays attacks are brought to justice swiftly. I also hope that the US retaliation doesn't result in further (and possibly worse) terrorist activity.
I started doing something like this in js, for giggles, one day. The idea was to allow gesture based navigation (ala Black and White) within a web page. onmousemove tracks the user movements and stores the coords in an array. A setInterval periodically checks to see if movement has ceased. The resulting array is then run through some algorithms to see if they correspond to any predefined shapes (within a certain margin of error). If it does then another function is called.
Basic shapes work pretty well, but there are limitations in how quickly the mouse coords are captured. Reading the output array shows gaps which can wreak havoc on the shape distinguishing algorithms.
Funny. I did this on a whim and MIT is doing it as research.
I moved into a loft wired with 48+ ethernet ports. We use this for the cable modem connection (net appliance with NAT, feeding into a 3Com switch) and all the telephone equipment.
One possible use for Cat 5 is for speaker wiring for low wattage speakers. 8 wires == 4 speakers. Not too bad and the sound quality, while not audiophile, is good for piping ambient music.
Next on the agenda - home theater PC. Just got the guts, rackmount chassis on it's way. Details to follow.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:R7VWyB6BrGM:w ww.farces.com/farces/999462920/index_html+farces+f un+with+spammers&hl=en
Very odd. I was reading this exact page ~2 hours ago(from nanae I think). Synchronicity?
The announcers are Michael Burger, Anthony Dias Blue and Sissy Biggers.
Michael Burgers is from 'Mike and Maty' fame(?). Anthony Dias Blue is an editor for Bon Appetit, so hopefully he will be able to provide the same insight as Hattori Yukio. Sissy Biggers, well, someone needs to take her into the alley and shoot her. She has to be the most annoying TV personality, second only to Kathie Lee.
When I take my hand off the eyboard, it's not the mouse I'm playing with.
http://www.furman.edu/~msvec/ED11/jeffknow.html for the full text. Jefferson had alot to say about trusting the government. Specifically, don't do it. In fact IIRC most if not all of the US founding fathers were supicious of government. That is why they took such great care in the writing the Constitution.
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it to tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge 1778
With the United States being the only remaining superpower, we (since I am a US citizen) make a perfect target. The sad fact is that the majority of US citizens don't pay much attention to foreign policy. In the case of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the US support given to Israel makes the US just as guilty of killing Palestinians as the Israelis, from a Palestinian point of view. That's why some Palestinians were applauding the attacks. (Others were donating blood and denouncing the attacks. Most people don't mention that.)
US foreign policy in the Middle East is a long and sordid affair. Our government is not innocent and this will make alot of US citizens wake up.
Now that all of the knee jerkers are ready to flame me - NOTHING that our government has done, should result in a tragedy like this. Regardless of the US foreign policy, innocent civilians DO NOT deserve to die. I stared out of my window towards the Financial District in shock and disbelief as the WTC fell. Terrorism is irrational and results in senseless bloodshed, mostly of innocents.
I hope that the people responsible for Tuesdays attacks are brought to justice swiftly. I also hope that the US retaliation doesn't result in further (and possibly worse) terrorist activity.
I started doing something like this in js, for giggles, one day. The idea was to allow gesture based navigation (ala Black and White) within a web page. onmousemove tracks the user movements and stores the coords in an array. A setInterval periodically checks to see if movement has ceased. The resulting array is then run through some algorithms to see if they correspond to any predefined shapes (within a certain margin of error). If it does then another function is called.
Basic shapes work pretty well, but there are limitations in how quickly the mouse coords are captured. Reading the output array shows gaps which can wreak havoc on the shape distinguishing algorithms.
Funny. I did this on a whim and MIT is doing it as research.
That will be the legacy of Bill Gates' genius.
I originally parsed that as genus.
Same thing...
>what does it cost us bandwidth
One possible use for Cat 5 is for speaker wiring for low wattage speakers. 8 wires == 4 speakers. Not too bad and the sound quality, while not audiophile, is good for piping ambient music.
Next on the agenda - home theater PC. Just got the guts, rackmount chassis on it's way. Details to follow.