I'm new to Bitcoin but I've Seti@home'ed a lonnng time ago and done gene folding so I get the distributed CPUs thing. What I'm missing here is why. If I understand it correctly all these processors are essentially looking for rare numbers and when they find one they're give a Bitcoin. Do these numbers have an actual value to science or math or is it just manufactured scarcity? Does all this do anything worthwhile or are bitcoins essentially tokens of luck and wasted electricity? In all that I read about Bitcoins nothing suggested that anything useful is being created by all this cpu time and energy spent crunching hashes. I kinda hope I'm wrong and someone clues me in.
For those musically inclined DIY slashdotters, PAIA has been around for ever. Theremins, tube preamps, effects pedals, analog synths, they could keep you busy for years! They have all sorts of neat kits. http://paia.com/
when was the quality of discourse ever good? Back in before 2000 there were a goatse.cx links all over the comments and you needed to don an asbestos suit before replying to anything.
In 1998 I started as a receptionist at a local mom-n-pop dialup ISP. Having been a computer geek pretty much all my life I moved into tech support pretty quickly. All of us read/. all the time. Some days you guys just coulnt post fast enough. We were hungry for our geek news. My IT career spanned more than half a decade and reading/. was an enjoyable daily requirement. A degree of burn out and a growing family prompted me to take a new position as a stay at home dad. I still read/. occasionally but I noticed an uptick lately. I just can't not be a geek. Anyways/. and CmdrTaco have been integral parts of my geek experience, one of the more enjoyable parts of that experience honestly. So a very heart felt Thank You, and best of luck in the next chapter of you life.
If you also take into account Malthus' dismal theory that human population is only checked by misery, then one solution is to make the poor more miserable. The problem then essentially becomes that the poor have it too good here.
You may be have professional training archive printing to your credit, but your willingness to use logical fallacies in your rhetoric lends one to see it more as a rant. The most glaring fallacy is that of Poisoning the Well. Basicly your statement "if someone declares their inkjets are archival, they have a financial incentive to lie to you" while possibly true, has nothing to do with whether or not pigment based inkjets do or ever will exist. You're simply trying to discredit any opposition before it has a chance. Poisoning the well in this situation doesn't work convincingly because most people infact do believe that pigment based inkjets do exist, rightly or not. The tactic should really be reserved for when you know your position has few supporting points but you and you're audience are agreement that the position should be maintained anyways.
If you want a print that will really last a while, covert it to greyscale, interpolate the image to an 8x10 300dpi, then invert it. Print it on a sheet of transparency. Finally platinum print it. Platinum prints last as long as the paper they're printed on and they look freakin awesome. Archive that! Daguerreotypes are also permanent, though they're made on glass plates which can break, plus the process is more cumbersome for somewhat less spectacular results.
It just took the bullet a while to get there. See they can only maintain this inhuman pace when the line "hey, there's 1000's of college students lined up for your job!" when there actually are. Now there are not. How many people here want to work for EA now? That's what I tought. The prestiege of working there has suddenly fallen off a cliff. No one wants to work 12-14 hours a day seven days a week without being paid extremely well. People want some sort of life, people want to have fun. Let's face it, no one on their death bed ever said "I wish I spent more time at the office!"
No one is talking about the absence of male kindergarten teachers as though it were a problem. Like no one is complaining about the lack of women auto mechanics. Let's stop pretending we're the same. For what ever reason alot of men prefer to work with things and alot of women prefer to work with people. Neither one is right, just different.
"Dell is also offering free shipping, free software, and 25 free songs through MusicMatch"
It's not free, it's included in the price. Just like buy one get one free is really just a half off sale with a catch (you can't just buy one half off). Advertisers push that "free" crap to make you thin you're getting something for nothing even though they still make a profit. Hey, Free Beer! (you just have to drink it out of a $10 cup).
Seems like alot of people agree that, in it's current state most of the distros leave behind the older systems. Others contend that there are window managers that work with older system albeit with with fewer features. So why doesn't a distro detect the hardware configuration and automagically reccommend a slimmer WM? Have one default config for pIII966? Wouldn't that solve the dilemma?
There has to be a work around for this problem. It'll just take a couple of 7337 k1dd135 to buy a ninght vision monocular (less than $150 USD now)and borrow mom and dad's cam corder and figure out a way around it. Night vision relies heavily on IR light. Using dark blue gels over the lcd (or other light emitting parts) might be enough to circumvent this method of detection. Military flashlights do come with blue and red filters after all. Also if it's the LCD being detected wouldn't a plam pilot make for a nice false positive? I'm not advicating piracey but it does create an interesting technology race, sort of like the one between speeders and the police.
Except that hydrogen is MUCH more volitile than deisel fuel so storing and transporting it is a bitch. Heck you can't even take a propane tank through the baltimore tunnels, just try a hydrogen tank!
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For one, the problem isn't running out of oil, it's running out of cheap oil. It takes some energy to get oil out of the ground. The less oil in the well the more energy it takes. When it takes one barrel of oil to pump out one barrel of oil, the well is abandoned (zero sum). The problem isn't running out of oil, it running out of oil that's relatively easy to get out of the ground.
Nuclear power would be a great short term stop gap, it's only problem is that it takes a decade to build a reactor.
My last point is that this issue is HUGE. Oil is used in the production of EVERYTHING including alternative energy sources and research. Just imagine how much time and money it would take to produce enough ethenol (or what ever) for everyone's cars, distribute/store it (would current distribution systems work?), and convert every car, truck, big rig, ambulance, firetruck, motorcycle, etc in the country! That only covers land transportation.
Look around you. There is in everything you see a number that represents the ammount of oil it took to create whatever you're looking at and bring it to the spot that it's currently at. Oil was used to produce and transport everything you own (except unimproved realestate). Oil is the constant in equation of everything we make or raise.
Screw being positive! If the CxO is being fucked, he wants to know about it. Now if you're super negative about everything he will write you off. But don't sugar coat any problems that could end up costing the company big money down the road. Any company that short circuits this feedback loop is doing itself a great disservice.
I vote for the Canon A-1 too, you can go all manual if you want to for the experience, or it can be a "focus-n-shoot". I started with an AE-1 which is cheaper, but doesn't have the features. On the used market there really isn't a better deal in 35mm than the used Canon A series (also called FD). EOS cameras can't really use the lenses so they're cheap too. Last time I checked, a used A-1 was about $120, and AE-1 about $50, 50mm/1.8 lenses less than $25, 50mm/1.4 less than $50, a Vivitar Series one 70mm-210mm zoom less than $70,a no-name 3rd party zoom is less than $30, and third party wide angle lenses are cheap too! They make a sub-$50 winder A that will auto-advance for you. As for flash I'd really recommend the Sunpak 422D, I have two; at $25 they're a steal. Plus T-mount, and m42 , old pentax mount, adapters are available in Canon FD allowing you to get generic lenses that can fit a number of bodies! I like the Canon A series cameras, they are good to learn on and I still use them to photograph weddings, candids anyways. Check out my site http://www.jmxphoto.com to see some of my Canon A-series work as well as my medium format and toy camerastuff as well.
For years in HS I heard teachers strict and cool bleet the same old line: "You must get organized or you'll FAIL in college!" Terrifying, every teacher can't be wrong, right? Well I tried with varying degrees of success to get myself organized but in all honesty I often grab the wrong note book or don't really realize how much time is usually passing so I run late, forget to check organizers, don't look at my watch for 3 days, show up missing stuff, etc. So finally 2nd semester senior year I threw caution to the wind and tried an experiment in DISorganization. What I did was this: I got a trpper-keeper like 3 ring binder and a bunch of paper. Affixed my generic weekily schedule to the inside cover and did not separate notes from classes. I'd go from one class to the other and just continue taking notes (and I take lots of notes) on the same page. The system worked great for me I never lost stuff everything was in one spot and I only ever needed to carry around one binder. So I suppose my point is this, don't necessarily buy into the "fact" that you must be organized, if you are naturally disorganized by classical standards go with it. There are some disciplines in which disorganized people flourish.
They can probably try to sue you with the DMCA for removing the GRID. There's gotta be something in that grabasstic piece of legislation that says you can't remove unique identifiers. If not, their lawyers will pretend there is and threaten you with law suits until you pay them (for being a bad customer and increasing the exposure of their product)what they think is appropriate.
First, I'm sorry for your loss, my condolences. Secondly, I'd like to say thank you. Space exploration is a non-trivial endeavor. At this point in time we're not much better at space travel than fish are at land travel. We will get better, but people will be harmed in the process. The astronauts know this and accept the risks. I thank the astronauts and their family for their bravery and sacrafice.
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Boxing, red box, blue box, black box. You might not have had one, but you knew someone who did.
War dialing to find other modems listening in your area.
Kermit, Xmodem, Ymodem, Zmodem
Using a hole punch or exacto knife to turn single sided floppies into double sided.
That your x86 box was nothing compared to a SGI, Dec Alpha, or Sun workstation.
That email took longer around Christmas because every email server was choking on dancing Santa GiFs.
Browsing the internet with lynx and reading email with pine.
I'm new to Bitcoin but I've Seti@home'ed a lonnng time ago and done gene folding so I get the distributed CPUs thing. What I'm missing here is why. If I understand it correctly all these processors are essentially looking for rare numbers and when they find one they're give a Bitcoin. Do these numbers have an actual value to science or math or is it just manufactured scarcity? Does all this do anything worthwhile or are bitcoins essentially tokens of luck and wasted electricity? In all that I read about Bitcoins nothing suggested that anything useful is being created by all this cpu time and energy spent crunching hashes. I kinda hope I'm wrong and someone clues me in.
For those musically inclined DIY slashdotters, PAIA has been around for ever. Theremins, tube preamps, effects pedals, analog synths, they could keep you busy for years! They have all sorts of neat kits.
http://paia.com/
Sheet mang, I know that cat from back in the CALUG 2004-ish days! Hit me up man if you catch this.
when was the quality of discourse ever good? Back in before 2000 there were a goatse.cx links all over the comments and you needed to don an asbestos suit before replying to anything.
In 1998 I started as a receptionist at a local mom-n-pop dialup ISP. Having been a computer geek pretty much all my life I moved into tech support pretty quickly. All of us read /. all the time. Some days you guys just coulnt post fast enough. We were hungry for our geek news. My IT career spanned more than half a decade and reading /. was an enjoyable daily requirement. A degree of burn out and a growing family prompted me to take a new position as a stay at home dad. I still read /. occasionally but I noticed an uptick lately. I just can't not be a geek. Anyways /. and CmdrTaco have been integral parts of my geek experience, one of the more enjoyable parts of that experience honestly. So a very heart felt Thank You, and best of luck in the next chapter of you life.
If you also take into account Malthus' dismal theory that human population is only checked by misery, then one solution is to make the poor more miserable. The problem then essentially becomes that the poor have it too good here.
You may be have professional training archive printing to your credit, but your willingness to use logical fallacies in your rhetoric lends one to see it more as a rant. The most glaring fallacy is that of Poisoning the Well. Basicly your statement "if someone declares their inkjets are archival, they have a financial incentive to lie to you" while possibly true, has nothing to do with whether or not pigment based inkjets do or ever will exist. You're simply trying to discredit any opposition before it has a chance. Poisoning the well in this situation doesn't work convincingly because most people infact do believe that pigment based inkjets do exist, rightly or not. The tactic should really be reserved for when you know your position has few supporting points but you and you're audience are agreement that the position should be maintained anyways.
If you want a print that will really last a while, covert it to greyscale, interpolate the image to an 8x10 300dpi, then invert it. Print it on a sheet of transparency. Finally platinum print it. Platinum prints last as long as the paper they're printed on and they look freakin awesome. Archive that! Daguerreotypes are also permanent, though they're made on glass plates which can break, plus the process is more cumbersome for somewhat less spectacular results.
It just took the bullet a while to get there. See they can only maintain this inhuman pace when the line "hey, there's 1000's of college students lined up for your job!" when there actually are. Now there are not. How many people here want to work for EA now? That's what I tought. The prestiege of working there has suddenly fallen off a cliff. No one wants to work 12-14 hours a day seven days a week without being paid extremely well. People want some sort of life, people want to have fun. Let's face it, no one on their death bed ever said "I wish I spent more time at the office!"
I'm still on kernel 2.2.16C37_III ! :) No seriously, I am.
I can see me taking a laptop to a game and downloading their pictures too!
While I'm kidding, I'm sure it's just a matter of time...
This has been around for a while (since 2000 I think), but I still get a laugh out of it:
Catbert's Mission statement generator
Perfect for this thread!
No one is talking about the absence of male kindergarten teachers as though it were a problem. Like no one is complaining about the lack of women auto mechanics. Let's stop pretending we're the same. For what ever reason alot of men prefer to work with things and alot of women prefer to work with people. Neither one is right, just different.
"Dell is also offering free shipping, free software, and 25 free songs through MusicMatch"
It's not free, it's included in the price. Just like buy one get one free is really just a half off sale with a catch (you can't just buy one half off). Advertisers push that "free" crap to make you thin you're getting something for nothing even though they still make a profit. Hey, Free Beer! (you just have to drink it out of a $10 cup).
Seems like alot of people agree that, in it's current state most of the distros leave behind the older systems. Others contend that there are window managers that work with older system albeit with with fewer features. So why doesn't a distro detect the hardware configuration and automagically reccommend a slimmer WM? Have one default config for pIII966? Wouldn't that solve the dilemma?
There has to be a work around for this problem. It'll just take a couple of 7337 k1dd135 to buy a ninght vision monocular (less than $150 USD now)and borrow mom and dad's cam corder and figure out a way around it. Night vision relies heavily on IR light. Using dark blue gels over the lcd (or other light emitting parts) might be enough to circumvent this method of detection. Military flashlights do come with blue and red filters after all. Also if it's the LCD being detected wouldn't a plam pilot make for a nice false positive? I'm not advicating piracey but it does create an interesting technology race, sort of like the one between speeders and the police.
Except that hydrogen is MUCH more volitile than deisel fuel so storing and transporting it is a bitch. Heck you can't even take a propane tank through the baltimore tunnels, just try a hydrogen tank!
For one, the problem isn't running out of oil, it's running out of cheap oil. It takes some energy to get oil out of the ground. The less oil in the well the more energy it takes. When it takes one barrel of oil to pump out one barrel of oil, the well is abandoned (zero sum). The problem isn't running out of oil, it running out of oil that's relatively easy to get out of the ground.
Nuclear power would be a great short term stop gap, it's only problem is that it takes a decade to build a reactor.
My last point is that this issue is HUGE. Oil is used in the production of EVERYTHING including alternative energy sources and research. Just imagine how much time and money it would take to produce enough ethenol (or what ever) for everyone's cars, distribute/store it (would current distribution systems work?), and convert every car, truck, big rig, ambulance, firetruck, motorcycle, etc in the country! That only covers land transportation.
Look around you. There is in everything you see a number that represents the ammount of oil it took to create whatever you're looking at and bring it to the spot that it's currently at. Oil was used to produce and transport everything you own (except unimproved realestate). Oil is the constant in equation of everything we make or raise.
Screw being positive! If the CxO is being fucked, he wants to know about it. Now if you're super negative about everything he will write you off. But don't sugar coat any problems that could end up costing the company big money down the road. Any company that short circuits this feedback loop is doing itself a great disservice.
I vote for the Canon A-1 too, you can go all manual if you want to for the experience, or it can be a "focus-n-shoot". I started with an AE-1 which is cheaper, but doesn't have the features. On the used market there really isn't a better deal in 35mm than the used Canon A series (also called FD). EOS cameras can't really use the lenses so they're cheap too. Last time I checked, a used A-1 was about $120, and AE-1 about $50, 50mm/1.8 lenses less than $25, 50mm/1.4 less than $50, a Vivitar Series one 70mm-210mm zoom less than $70 ,a no-name 3rd party zoom is less than $30, and third party wide angle lenses are cheap too! They make a sub-$50 winder A that will auto-advance for you. As for flash I'd really recommend the Sunpak 422D, I have two; at $25 they're a steal. Plus T-mount, and m42 , old pentax mount, adapters are available in Canon FD allowing you to get generic lenses that can fit a number of bodies! I like the Canon A series cameras, they are good to learn on and I still use them to photograph weddings, candids anyways. Check out my site http://www.jmxphoto.com to see some of my Canon A-series work as well as my medium format and toy camerastuff as well.
For years in HS I heard teachers strict and cool bleet the same old line: "You must get organized or you'll FAIL in college!" Terrifying, every teacher can't be wrong, right? Well I tried with varying degrees of success to get myself organized but in all honesty I often grab the wrong note book or don't really realize how much time is usually passing so I run late, forget to check organizers, don't look at my watch for 3 days, show up missing stuff, etc. So finally 2nd semester senior year I threw caution to the wind and tried an experiment in DISorganization. What I did was this: I got a trpper-keeper like 3 ring binder and a bunch of paper. Affixed my generic weekily schedule to the inside cover and did not separate notes from classes. I'd go from one class to the other and just continue taking notes (and I take lots of notes) on the same page. The system worked great for me I never lost stuff everything was in one spot and I only ever needed to carry around one binder. So I suppose my point is this, don't necessarily buy into the "fact" that you must be organized, if you are naturally disorganized by classical standards go with it. There are some disciplines in which disorganized people flourish.
They can probably try to sue you with the DMCA for removing the GRID. There's gotta be something in that grabasstic piece of legislation that says you can't remove unique identifiers. If not, their lawyers will pretend there is and threaten you with law suits until you pay them (for being a bad customer and increasing the exposure of their product)what they think is appropriate.
check out Slumtone on a Friday with IE, it'll break. Thanks to mod_msff.
First, I'm sorry for your loss, my condolences. Secondly, I'd like to say thank you. Space exploration is a non-trivial endeavor. At this point in time we're not much better at space travel than fish are at land travel. We will get better, but people will be harmed in the process. The astronauts know this and accept the risks. I thank the astronauts and their family for their bravery and sacrafice.