Oops, my bad, should be should never go flying less than 12 hours after diving for any length to any depth.
And, yes, I can't stand layovers - I generally like direct flights:).
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They also by their own admitance did their deeper dive later. This also is quite contrary to all of the PADI stuff that I have been taught.
For anyone who doesn't know-- taking the deeper dive second tends to help you get the bends faster (it is similar to the reasons you always start off the night drinking the drink with the highest alcohol content).
There is also some recommendation about not doing more than 3 dives in one day without at least a 1 hour surface interval.
I have been using a Suuanto Stinger for about a year (this is the same one that the British Navy divers use). It has never let me down. But, I also never push it to the limits, nor have I ever done more than three dives in one 24-hour period.
However, your insulin pump probably has a warning (or the doctor who gave you the instruction on how to use it) that says if you do item A and item B, don't do item C.
As a certified diver (of about a year and a half), I know that they specifically say that you should never go flying less than 12 hours before you take a plane ride (even a small cesna), and, if you do multiple dives you should wait at least 24 hours.
This is not to say that the company was not at fault on this one, but, the divers themselves said that they finished the one dive at 10pm for a flight at 6:30am. I know that the absolute minimum is 4 hours (I did a flying after diving study with DAN), but, this is the limit of the dive tables and should NEVER be approached. All of the major certifying organizations will tell you this.
Having been a former student (study abroad) at Sydney Uni, I can assure you, there are many, many, many people who have way more than a track here and a track there. It is one of the worst kept secrets of that campus.
What we need now is a bunch of people dressed in bad Indian (Native American) costumes to raid the ship carrying the cd's from whereever they are made and throw them all into Boston Harbour. We can call it the Boston CD Party.
So, after looking at this information, why does the recording industry insist on spending so much time and money on a protection scheme that will do little to stop pirates from getting the data, and will make it HARDER for people like me to listen to thier CDs?
I actually had the opportunity to ask something like this to a sony executive back in June. He basically said that he didn't know why they were doing it. So, the answer to your question is, even they don't know why they are doing it. Most likely, someone thought it was a good idea, and they all just followed.
Just a dumb thing about the whole 'stealing' of web usage by disabling pop-up adds -- would it be stealing to simply uninstall flash from a computer? You couldn't see these nice big adds. The Weather Channel has a nice and annoying flash add when you connect to their home page. Just wondering what the feelings are about this. I mean, if a web site makes a choice to go with flash for all of their adds and I don't (or can't as in the case of Linux on the Sparc) have flash, what does that mean?
RedHat didn't pay much for the whole road tour, it was in fact, paid for by IBM in a promotion effort from them. All of the copies of Redhat 8 that were given out were supposed to have a "provided by IBM e-series servers" or something like that.
However, on a personal note, I was the organizer for the event at Ursinus College (Collegeville, PA, USA -- on the tour, Nov 2) and I think that it was a very valuable event. The ACM here is trying to promote use of something other than the MS that is basically shoved down our throats. We aren't saying that you have to like, love, or use Redhat, we just want to show that there EXISTS an alternative and that, hopefully, sometime down the road, someone is asked "how can we do such and such, do we have to get a MS guy to do this" to which they can respond, "no, I remember hearing about this thing called 'linux', it might be able to do what we need". I feel we succeeded. We were able to introduce hundreds of people to linux, what it can do, and more importantly, that it exists.
There are two ways to really make money, from the birth of an empire, or the destruction of one. -- Very paraphrased from Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind.
MS originally made its money b/c it jumped in and helped IBM to create the x86 based market. Now, they need a way to keep profits rising, the only way to do this is to force a new market to be created and force the old one to disapear (and of course control the new one).
I know the listing said something about if you are on financial aid they will help you with the purchase of the OS "upgrade", but, what about if your machine isn't fast enough to handle XP? As far as I could see, they aren't offering to help anyone upgrade the hardware, nor is the "My computer is too old for XP, but, I like 2K/NT" a valid reason for keeping 2K, etc.
Indeed, I agree. To add a bit, my campus found that even with the prioritizing of web traffic, less than 20 people could saturate 3 T-1's and basically choke the rest of the campus (~1300 students). It was so bad you would have to hit refresh about 10 times (no kidding, really) just to get any web page to load. They finally set a hard limit of 20% of the school's bandwidth and web pages are much better. They still allow us to use the P2P stuff, but, the performance both before and after the adjustments was/is horrible.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but, isn't Mr. Fett, Sr played by a Maori actor? Maori being the natives of New Zealand, and not a "Latino" as people have complained about.
on top of that, the USA hardly uses text messages. In this case, it seems like having a gadget for the sake of having one (which is often good enough for me).
That said, while I was in Japan, I actually saw people using phones w/ cameras as their cameras. I was at Nara Park and saw a couple taking a picture of themselves with their phone. It was quite odd. I also saw people using their phones to make a copy of what was written on a classroom board, instead of writing it down. Interesting use of technology, but, rather useless.
USA isn't all that far behind for some of this stuff. I have a New York based cell phone and can recieve calls/SMS/voicemail in Sydney, Melbourne, Bangkok, Paris, London, Munich, Athens, etc no problem (although not Tokyo, but, the Australian mobile phones don't work in Tokyo either -- yes, tried it 2 weeks ago). Of course, the cost is insane, but, SMS prices are much lower.
Australia also picked up on cell phones a lot faster than the US did -- and with a huge installed base, they could justify upgrades to the system, etc.
And, sure, you can drive from Melbourne to Cape York on the same call, but, what about Alice Springs to Perth? That's about the same distance. The problem with your original comparison is that you would be driving up the east coast of Australia -- where more than half the population lives, and, the area that has the best coverage in the whole country.
It is just as easy for someone in the US to drive from Florida to Maine and keep coverage. But, the US has a many more providers and also a lot better coverage in the 'middle'.
Please, please, please. Sharks are not naturally violent and will almost always not attack you unless you bother them first (where bother means attack or look like their food). Having personally been about 8 inches from the face of a shark before, I can assure you that they are way less violent that MS has a reputation for being. MS will attack for many reasons, one may be if provoked, but, there are many unprovoked attacks (like the X-box, it could be seen as an unprovoked attack on Sony and Nintendo).
Basically, MS is many times more violent than any shark I have ever seen (other than Jaws, but, he doesn't count).
To me, I would talk to them about why people like open source so much. For instance, if there is a problem, you might have thousands of people all over the world with all sorts of experience, sleep schedules, and knowledge. You don't have 100 or so people shoved into an office and told to code all day. You have people who do this because they like what they do. The ability for community auditing of code has produced better, cleaner code than MS could in their 2 month audit.
On top of that, most opensource OSes are very modular. If you don't want this piece, you don't have to install it (Win2K server is a pain for changing some setups, like the dhcp server, the dns server, the active directory server, WINS master/backup -- at least, for me it was a pain to try to change, but, I'm not a MSCE). People like modular. I know that there is some fix for WinXP that does this to an extent (or it is supposed to).
Perhaps also the idea that, for the most part, you don't have to pay $100 for your bug fixes/upgrades. Granted, the upgrade money is how MS stays in buisness (ok, I know people will argue with this, but, it have probably been said before and will be again, they license software, that is how they make money), some people can't afford all of the upgrades -- and if they can, they don't know how the bugs were fixed or how to work with some of the new things -- sometimes old programs don't work anymore.
Those are a few ideas, I know that others will have lots more.
Don't know about burning (or even obtaining) the mini-dvdrs that Nintendo uses, but, Sega tried just this with Dreamcast. The Dreamcast used a proprietary cd (I think it was called a GCD or a CDG or something) and was supposed to have a capacity of about 1GB (making buring impossible on a standard cd). There were two problems with this. The first one was, since the products were slightly non-standard, they were very easy to scratch and this would make the game not work. The second was the fault of the developers, they never used the full potential of the disk and only used less than 650MB -- so, people could burn them on CD writers (after some modifications here and there, it isn't quite that easy, but, it is close).
Sometimes, it is just easier (and arguably better) to use the standard equipment rather than have to create something totally new.
according to netcraft it looks like the main website is both running on and hosted by SuSE. Not that I'm complaining (I happen to like SuSE a lot), it just feels like one of the companies might be taking over the others.
On the more serious side, microwave popcorn is always good -- college students go through tons of it (if you want to go healthy, buy her the low-butter kind) -- pizza gift certificates are always good, a DVD player (region free ones are the best) and lots of movies to go along with it (chick flicks for her and the roomie, action movies for the guy friends), perhaps a TV to go along with that DVD player, and maybe a video game system.
Oh, soups, the soups in a can are good -- easy to make, especially when you feel sick. On that note, Nyquil and Dayquil are highly recommended to go along with the rest of the stuff -- she'll thank you when she needs them when she gets her first really bad cold.
Won't this have the potential to hurt MS embeded OSes as well as embeded linux? Maybe Redhat is just protecting themselves from having some other company come up and steal this patent out from under them and make Redhat pay someone else to liscense something that Redhat created in the first place. Not that I am a total Redhat supporter, but, we should wait and see what happens with this one.
Sorry about that. No hard feelings I hope. I was just pointing out what appeared obvious to me (and probably some others as well).
I for one agree that DC has some stupid people inhabiting the capital building. I guess if we really want change, we (the slashdot/technology/linux/bsd/sane people community) should all start running for local seats for the senate and house and then we can get these stupid tech laws canceled/repealed.
At my school we had a problem with Macrovision too. We actually had permission to use sections of a DVD for an educational presentation. The problem was, we had just updated the software to capture (don't remember the name right now) and the new version refused to capture the video (off of an RCA cable from the DVD player). It was really odd trying to explain to the person trying to do the capturing that she couldn't do it b/c of copy protection. We eventually installed the older version and proceeded to make our presentation.
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Oops, my bad, should be should never go flying less than 12 hours after diving for any length to any depth.
:).
And, yes, I can't stand layovers - I generally like direct flights
-CPM
They also by their own admitance did their deeper dive later. This also is quite contrary to all of the PADI stuff that I have been taught.
For anyone who doesn't know-- taking the deeper dive second tends to help you get the bends faster (it is similar to the reasons you always start off the night drinking the drink with the highest alcohol content).
There is also some recommendation about not doing more than 3 dives in one day without at least a 1 hour surface interval.
I have been using a Suuanto Stinger for about a year (this is the same one that the British Navy divers use). It has never let me down. But, I also never push it to the limits, nor have I ever done more than three dives in one 24-hour period.
-CPM
However, your insulin pump probably has a warning (or the doctor who gave you the instruction on how to use it) that says if you do item A and item B, don't do item C.
As a certified diver (of about a year and a half), I know that they specifically say that you should never go flying less than 12 hours before you take a plane ride (even a small cesna), and, if you do multiple dives you should wait at least 24 hours.
This is not to say that the company was not at fault on this one, but, the divers themselves said that they finished the one dive at 10pm for a flight at 6:30am. I know that the absolute minimum is 4 hours (I did a flying after diving study with DAN), but, this is the limit of the dive tables and should NEVER be approached. All of the major certifying organizations will tell you this.
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...would I have every thought I would be so happy for my campus' overly protective firewall.
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I never met her, but I heard the story from my CS prof (who showed us one of these wires).
There is something like it takes a nanosecond for a signal to go down a piece of wire of the length mentioned above (copper I believe).
I believe that she helped to invent a programming language - but I don't remember which one.
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What we need now is a bunch of people dressed in bad Indian (Native American) costumes to raid the ship carrying the cd's from whereever they are made and throw them all into Boston Harbour. We can call it the Boston CD Party.
-CPM
I actually had the opportunity to ask something like this to a sony executive back in June. He basically said that he didn't know why they were doing it. So, the answer to your question is, even they don't know why they are doing it. Most likely, someone thought it was a good idea, and they all just followed.
-CPM
Maybe I'm just crazy
-CPM
However, on a personal note, I was the organizer for the event at Ursinus College (Collegeville, PA, USA -- on the tour, Nov 2) and I think that it was a very valuable event. The ACM here is trying to promote use of something other than the MS that is basically shoved down our throats. We aren't saying that you have to like, love, or use Redhat, we just want to show that there EXISTS an alternative and that, hopefully, sometime down the road, someone is asked "how can we do such and such, do we have to get a MS guy to do this" to which they can respond, "no, I remember hearing about this thing called 'linux', it might be able to do what we need". I feel we succeeded. We were able to introduce hundreds of people to linux, what it can do, and more importantly, that it exists.
My 2 cents
-CPM
MS originally made its money b/c it jumped in and helped IBM to create the x86 based market. Now, they need a way to keep profits rising, the only way to do this is to force a new market to be created and force the old one to disapear (and of course control the new one).
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Maybe people just like complaining. -CPM
That said, while I was in Japan, I actually saw people using phones w/ cameras as their cameras. I was at Nara Park and saw a couple taking a picture of themselves with their phone. It was quite odd. I also saw people using their phones to make a copy of what was written on a classroom board, instead of writing it down. Interesting use of technology, but, rather useless.
-CPM
Australia also picked up on cell phones a lot faster than the US did -- and with a huge installed base, they could justify upgrades to the system, etc.
And, sure, you can drive from Melbourne to Cape York on the same call, but, what about Alice Springs to Perth? That's about the same distance. The problem with your original comparison is that you would be driving up the east coast of Australia -- where more than half the population lives, and, the area that has the best coverage in the whole country.
It is just as easy for someone in the US to drive from Florida to Maine and keep coverage. But, the US has a many more providers and also a lot better coverage in the 'middle'.
-CPM
Basically, MS is many times more violent than any shark I have ever seen (other than Jaws, but, he doesn't count).
-CPM
On top of that, most opensource OSes are very modular. If you don't want this piece, you don't have to install it (Win2K server is a pain for changing some setups, like the dhcp server, the dns server, the active directory server, WINS master/backup -- at least, for me it was a pain to try to change, but, I'm not a MSCE). People like modular. I know that there is some fix for WinXP that does this to an extent (or it is supposed to).
Perhaps also the idea that, for the most part, you don't have to pay $100 for your bug fixes/upgrades. Granted, the upgrade money is how MS stays in buisness (ok, I know people will argue with this, but, it have probably been said before and will be again, they license software, that is how they make money), some people can't afford all of the upgrades -- and if they can, they don't know how the bugs were fixed or how to work with some of the new things -- sometimes old programs don't work anymore.
Those are a few ideas, I know that others will have lots more.
-CPM
Sometimes, it is just easier (and arguably better) to use the standard equipment rather than have to create something totally new.
-CPM
-CPM
On the more serious side, microwave popcorn is always good -- college students go through tons of it (if you want to go healthy, buy her the low-butter kind) -- pizza gift certificates are always good, a DVD player (region free ones are the best) and lots of movies to go along with it (chick flicks for her and the roomie, action movies for the guy friends), perhaps a TV to go along with that DVD player, and maybe a video game system.
Oh, soups, the soups in a can are good -- easy to make, especially when you feel sick. On that note, Nyquil and Dayquil are highly recommended to go along with the rest of the stuff -- she'll thank you when she needs them when she gets her first really bad cold.
-CPM
-CPM
I for one agree that DC has some stupid people inhabiting the capital building. I guess if we really want change, we (the slashdot/technology/linux/bsd/sane people community) should all start running for local seats for the senate and house and then we can get these stupid tech laws canceled/repealed.
-CPM
-CPM