Man A: What's your name, again? Man B: I am Sancho. Man A: Look, I get a lot of people auditioning all the time. What makes you think that you'd be good enough for porno? Man B: I am Sancho. Man A: Great... but what do you do? Man B: What do I do? I am Sancho. Man An: And...? Man B: And there are many Jeffs in the world, and many Toms as well. But I... am Sancho. Man A: And...?! Man B: Are you Sancho? No you are not. Neither is Scott Baio Sancho. Frank Gifford is not Sancho. But I... Man A: You... are Sancho! Man B: That's right. Man A: Okay, you're hired.
Amarallo by mornin'.... up from san antone... took my rubber and some helium, and made a big balloon. I ain't got a date but man I got it made, I ain't laid, but lord I got gas, Amarillo by morning... Amarillo and my balloon.
What keeps some random person who owns a gun from taking one of these down, exactly?
Gravity.
It has been called an "unforgiving motherfucker" by the walker-bound elderly, but the fact is, only gravity can protect our prescious airships from the terrorists who seek to destroy our way of life.
Let's suppose you've got a nice powerful 50 cal that fires at 2000 feet per second.
physics tells us that it'll take 2000 feet per second / 32 feet per second per second = 62.5 seconds to reach it's max height.
Then we can figure out how high that is with this equation:
Are you REALLY that far out of touch with the aftermarket entertainment offerings or is this a Troll? Most of what the OEMs offer is utter crap and built by the lowest bidder. MANY people replace their stereos with aftermarket components and $500 for a good headunit is CHEAP.
No, I don't think I'm out of touch. In fact I've done a couple dozen custom installs myself - amps, custom sub boxes, power cabling, the whole nine yards.
The best example (of many) that comes to mind is the factory Mercedes deck vs a top-of-the-line Pioneer deck that I replaced it with (beacuse Mercedes' deck did not have a built in CD, only a trunk changer option).
The pioneer is crapping out already after only two years. Buttons don't work, CD player skips, etc. By contrast the Mercedes deck was VERY sturdy, with big hefty buttons that also matched the rest of dash. Factory decks don't have all the whiz-bang features but they are a lot more reliable in my experience.
Sure, if all you're doing is swapping the deck AND they happen to have the right factory wiring harness adaptor for your car, then yes it's easy. Not as easy as hooking up a home stereo, but easy.
Still, most people leave their factory decks in, except in older cards. Why do you think that is? Is it possible that I have a point?
few people are willing to have the stereo shop monkey around behind their dash to wire in an aftermarket stereo. Especially one that costs $500+ as I'm sure these HD players will. Also they're unlikely to have good built-in amps so probably you'll have to put on of those in too...
Unless you have an older car, it's generally a bad idea. Nearly all the decks you can buy are of vastly inferior mechnical build quality to your factory deck anyway. The guys at Empeg made a great product but it's just too niche... I don't think this is going to take off until someone partners with the auto makers to get it built in at the factory.
If you go on and read about tactical voting, you'll see it says that "Duverger's law suggests that, for this reason, first-past-the-post election systems will lead to two party systems in most cases." Quite discouraging if you ask me; I'd love to see more parties involved.
You could say Perot cost Bush the election, or that Nader's votes came right out of a Gore's pocket - that's hard to refute if you look at how those voters would otherwise have leaned. But would we have been that much worse off, in either case, had it gone the other way between the two leading candidates?
I suspect the tactical voting phenomenon becomes less certain to prevail as the two leading candiates become less distinguishable from each other. It seems to me that with every passing election, the "middle" becomes more clearly defined by those two.
This relieves voters from worrying if tweedle-dee|dum will "accidentally" win if they "waste" their vote.
Abstaining, or voting for a certain-to-lose candidate, means tacitly accepting whichever crook the rest of the electorate chooses for you.
It is precisely that line of thinking that kept Ross Perot from winning. If we thought he had a chance, it would have been a landslide! Don't waste your vote. Vote for the right candidate, whether R/D/whatever. Even if your guy only gets 0.001%, at least you've made a statement. Simply picking the lesser of two evils does a grave disservice to democracy IMHO.
Thanks to the net, as an American am acutely aware of some heinous problems with our government and our economy. The worst of the dangers (govt spin pro-war 1984-style, Patriot Act, outsourcing, horrific public education system) are largely ignored or spinfully reported by mainstream media and thesecrooks, but I can see for myself online. Hopefully there is a trend here towards more awareness, even though so much is still hidden from us.
What the Chinese govt seems to understand, and what I fear most for their subjects, is that sniffing, blocking, filtering, and controlling the Internet is the most important means of keeping power from the people in the future. How will they do it? Is it possible? I fear that it IS possible. If you control all the fiber coming into the country, and you control everything published inside the country, then you can just keep on governing the old-fashioned way.
The Atmel AVR is probably the most powerful (as in, raw performance) line of 8-bit MCUs, and there is a ton of code and utilities out there.
Actually I'm pretty sure the SX/Ubicom processors hold that title - certainly way faster that Atmel's and Microchip's 8-bit parts anyway. The ip2022 is 160 MIPS (@ 160MHz) running a PIC-like instruction set on an improved, pipelined architecture. That part can run two 10 base T ethernet MACs at full speed in software.
This looks like it could be the worst Window virus to date. What is the easiest way block this specific code from getting through a Linux NAT/firewall?
- how can I drop any packet containing a particular sequence of bytes? - better: how would one do it at the TCP level so you catch it even if it spans more than one packet?
Indeed. They're now *fighting* VOIP, not embracing it.
Also, great timing for this story - right on the heels of the asterisk announcement.
If you thought p2p was a disruptive technology, just wait until the masses get a hold of VOIP (yes, I'm asserting that voip is "not there" yet, but it will be soon).
You think **AA lobbying congress is bad? Just wait until every established telecom interest digs their tendrils into capitol hill on this.
All the infrastructure owners will be relgated to selling bits per second instead of high-margin channellized services. And those bits per second are going to be dirt cheap thanks to pr0n (not kidding).
The telecoms who fight voip and bandwidth commoditization are going to die overnight. The ones who see that this is where it's going will focus on how to sell raw bps (if they have infrastructure to do that) or they'd better just close their doors.
"The Innovator's Dilemma" pulls a lot of material from a large study of the disk drive industry.
I've read that book and I don't think the author could have picked a worse example.
3.5 vs 5.25"? What is disruptive about that? He argues desperately to present it as a distruptive innovation but it's not - just evolution towards smaller/faster/cheaper.
I never understood that book. He got the whole premise completely wrong.
Disruptive technologies are things like VOIP, p2p... the personal computer itself. Not disk drives getting better. Few things are LESS disruptive/predictable than that..
I typed out a few more lines and immedaitely noticed the following:
1) you can obviously never have a digit over 3 2) if you right-justify the numbers you immediately see many 2d structures, as well as periodicity to each column, but the way the pattern changes from one col to the next is not obvious 3) if you sum each row, or look at the differences in sums between rows, there are even more patterns... is there a fibonacci sequence buried in there? will have to spend some more time on this one.:)
For a sufficiently broad definition of "life", you will find it everywhere you look, including through the cheapest and simplest of telescopes.
What we're looking for with SETI, however, is life forms who can say "I'm here; I can communicate with you".
It's just a specific strata that we're seeking in a broad range of forms that I'd call "life". I consider life to include things as simple as the weekly cycle of my trash can filling up and getting emptied as a sort of growing/dying/communicating thing. Certainly there are more obvious "life" effects like freeway traffic etc that are easier to correlate to human life functions (blood flow).
Broaden your concept of "life" and the goal of SETI will become clearer. We're looking for a particular kind of life that we, as humans, might be able to talk to in interesting ways. It's not to say we don't recognize that there's already life all around, in forms quite different from our own.
Is celcius even part of the metric standard? And if anything, wouldn't the metric unit be Kelvin anyway? I always thought of temperature units as being separate from weight/mass/distance...
5. Most of north korea is useless rugged mountain terrain and nobody would live there or have electric service anyway.
But that's not really why. If you read the CIA world fact book entry you will see just how fuxxored they are, due to inept and corrupt government. GDP per capita is less than most Californians spend JUST on their electric service. Does that put it in perspective?
Could you eat and keep a roof over your head for a year on $1000? I'll bet one could collect more than that on a freeway offramp in a week or two. Makes you feel a bit spoiled when all you have to complain about is GWB and his dept of homeland terro... er secutiry, eh?
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Man A: What's your name, again?
Man B: I am Sancho.
Man A: Look, I get a lot of people auditioning all the time. What makes you think that you'd be good enough for porno?
Man B: I am Sancho.
Man A: Great... but what do you do?
Man B: What do I do? I am Sancho.
Man An: And...?
Man B: And there are many Jeffs in the world, and many Toms as well. But I... am Sancho.
Man A: And...?!
Man B: Are you Sancho? No you are not. Neither is Scott Baio Sancho. Frank Gifford is not Sancho. But I...
Man A: You... are Sancho!
Man B: That's right.
Man A: Okay, you're hired.
Amarallo by mornin'.... up from san antone... took my rubber and some helium, and made a big balloon. I ain't got a date but man I got it made, I ain't laid, but lord I got gas, Amarillo by morning... Amarillo and my balloon.
oops, that's in a vacuum. :)
What keeps some random person who owns a gun from taking one of these down, exactly?
:)
Gravity.
It has been called an "unforgiving motherfucker" by the walker-bound elderly, but the fact is, only gravity can protect our prescious airships from the terrorists who seek to destroy our way of life.
Let's suppose you've got a nice powerful 50 cal that fires at 2000 feet per second.
physics tells us that it'll take 2000 feet per second / 32 feet per second per second = 62.5 seconds to reach it's max height.
Then we can figure out how high that is with this equation:
distance = initial speed * time - ( 1/2 ) * acceleration * time^2
2000 * 62.5 - 0.5 * 32 * 62.5^2
125000 - 62500
== 62500
So your bullet will turn around roughly a mile short of the target.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Can you answer this:
Still, most people leave their factory decks in, except in older cards. Why do you think that is?
Once you figure that out, it will become clearer to you why expensive hard disk decks have not sold well.
I've been putting in car stereos for 20+ years. It is easy and rewarding. I can't believe a geek on /. wouldn't do it.
Oh come off it dude. I've put in plenty of car stereos, and I design audio products for a living. I know how easy it is to swap a deck.
Are you REALLY that far out of touch with the aftermarket entertainment offerings or is this a Troll? Most of what the OEMs offer is utter crap and built by the lowest bidder. MANY people replace their stereos with aftermarket components and $500 for a good headunit is CHEAP.
No, I don't think I'm out of touch. In fact I've done a couple dozen custom installs myself - amps, custom sub boxes, power cabling, the whole nine yards.
The best example (of many) that comes to mind is the factory Mercedes deck vs a top-of-the-line Pioneer deck that I replaced it with (beacuse Mercedes' deck did not have a built in CD, only a trunk changer option).
The pioneer is crapping out already after only two years. Buttons don't work, CD player skips, etc. By contrast the Mercedes deck was VERY sturdy, with big hefty buttons that also matched the rest of dash. Factory decks don't have all the whiz-bang features but they are a lot more reliable in my experience.
Sure, if all you're doing is swapping the deck AND they happen to have the right factory wiring harness adaptor for your car, then yes it's easy. Not as easy as hooking up a home stereo, but easy.
Still, most people leave their factory decks in, except in older cards. Why do you think that is? Is it possible that I have a point?
few people are willing to have the stereo shop monkey around behind their dash to wire in an aftermarket stereo. Especially one that costs $500+ as I'm sure these HD players will. Also they're unlikely to have good built-in amps so probably you'll have to put on of those in too...
Unless you have an older car, it's generally a bad idea. Nearly all the decks you can buy are of vastly inferior mechnical build quality to your factory deck anyway. The guys at Empeg made a great product but it's just too niche... I don't think this is going to take off until someone partners with the auto makers to get it built in at the factory.
But isn't the "kaboom" the hardest part to predict.?
,as massive underground formations suddenly decide to move.
I understand that the kaboom happens when built up forces give way
We can measure seizmic vibrations all day long, but the built up pressures, deep underground, are harder to see.
If you go on and read about tactical voting, you'll see it says that "Duverger's law suggests that, for this reason, first-past-the-post election systems will lead to two party systems in most cases." Quite discouraging if you ask me; I'd love to see more parties involved.
You could say Perot cost Bush the election, or that Nader's votes came right out of a Gore's pocket - that's hard to refute if you look at how those voters would otherwise have leaned. But would we have been that much worse off, in either case, had it gone the other way between the two leading candidates?
I suspect the tactical voting phenomenon becomes less certain to prevail as the two leading candiates become less distinguishable from each other. It seems to me that with every passing election, the "middle" becomes more clearly defined by those two.
This relieves voters from worrying if tweedle-dee|dum will "accidentally" win if they "waste" their vote.
Abstaining, or voting for a certain-to-lose candidate, means tacitly accepting whichever crook the rest of the electorate chooses for you.
It is precisely that line of thinking that kept Ross Perot from winning. If we thought he had a chance, it would have been a landslide! Don't waste your vote. Vote for the right candidate, whether R/D/whatever. Even if your guy only gets 0.001%, at least you've made a statement. Simply picking the lesser of two evils does a grave disservice to democracy IMHO.
Thanks to the net, as an American am acutely aware of some heinous problems with our government and our economy. The worst of the dangers (govt spin pro-war 1984-style, Patriot Act, outsourcing, horrific public education system) are largely ignored or spinfully reported by mainstream media and these crooks, but I can see for myself online. Hopefully there is a trend here towards more awareness, even though so much is still hidden from us.
What the Chinese govt seems to understand, and what I fear most for their subjects, is that sniffing, blocking, filtering, and controlling the Internet is the most important means of keeping power from the people in the future. How will they do it? Is it possible? I fear that it IS possible. If you control all the fiber coming into the country, and you control everything published inside the country, then you can just keep on governing the old-fashioned way.
The Atmel AVR is probably the most powerful (as in, raw performance) line of 8-bit MCUs, and there is a ton of code and utilities out there.
Actually I'm pretty sure the SX/Ubicom processors hold that title - certainly way faster that Atmel's and Microchip's 8-bit parts anyway. The ip2022 is 160 MIPS (@ 160MHz) running a PIC-like instruction set on an improved, pipelined architecture. That part can run two 10 base T ethernet MACs at full speed in software.
Please don't mod up a punchline that doesn't include the rest of the
This looks like it could be the worst Window virus to date. What is the easiest way block this specific code from getting through a Linux NAT/firewall?
- how can I drop any packet containing a particular sequence of bytes?
- better: how would one do it at the TCP level so you catch it even if it spans more than one packet?
Indeed. They're now *fighting* VOIP, not embracing it.
Also, great timing for this story - right on the heels of the asterisk announcement.
If you thought p2p was a disruptive technology, just wait until the masses get a hold of VOIP (yes, I'm asserting that voip is "not there" yet, but it will be soon).
You think **AA lobbying congress is bad? Just wait until every established telecom interest digs their tendrils into capitol hill on this.
All the infrastructure owners will be relgated to selling bits per second instead of high-margin channellized services. And those bits per second are going to be dirt cheap thanks to pr0n (not kidding).
The telecoms who fight voip and bandwidth commoditization are going to die overnight. The ones who see that this is where it's going will focus on how to sell raw bps (if they have infrastructure to do that) or they'd better just close their doors.
"The Innovator's Dilemma" pulls a lot of material from a large study of the disk drive industry.
I've read that book and I don't think the author could have picked a worse example.
3.5 vs 5.25"? What is disruptive about that? He argues desperately to present it as a distruptive innovation but it's not - just evolution towards smaller/faster/cheaper.
I never understood that book. He got the whole premise completely wrong.
Disruptive technologies are things like VOIP, p2p... the personal computer itself. Not disk drives getting better. Few things are LESS disruptive/predictable than that..
Very interesting things happen if you try it in binary, i.e. 111100 -> 1001100
I'd post the results but I haven't the patience to circumvent the lameness filters.
I typed out a few more lines and immedaitely noticed the following:
:)
1) you can obviously never have a digit over 3
2) if you right-justify the numbers you immediately see many 2d structures, as well as periodicity to each column, but the way the pattern changes from one col to the next is not obvious
3) if you sum each row, or look at the differences in sums between rows, there are even more patterns... is there a fibonacci sequence buried in there? will have to spend some more time on this one.
I've had similar difficulties in using the Linux-based "google". You're right, it's not for the masses yet.
For a sufficiently broad definition of "life", you will find it everywhere you look, including through the cheapest and simplest of telescopes.
What we're looking for with SETI, however, is life forms who can say "I'm here; I can communicate with you".
It's just a specific strata that we're seeking in a broad range of forms that I'd call "life". I consider life to include things as simple as the weekly cycle of my trash can filling up and getting emptied as a sort of growing/dying/communicating thing. Certainly there are more obvious "life" effects like freeway traffic etc that are easier to correlate to human life functions (blood flow).
Broaden your concept of "life" and the goal of SETI will become clearer. We're looking for a particular kind of life that we, as humans, might be able to talk to in interesting ways. It's not to say we don't recognize that there's already life all around, in forms quite different from our own.
Is celcius even part of the metric standard? And if anything, wouldn't the metric unit be Kelvin anyway?
I always thought of temperature units as being separate from weight/mass/distance...
You could add:
5. Most of north korea is useless rugged mountain terrain and nobody would live there or have electric service anyway.
But that's not really why. If you read the CIA world fact book entry you will see just how fuxxored they are, due to inept and corrupt government. GDP per capita is less than most Californians spend JUST on their electric service. Does that put it in perspective?
Could you eat and keep a roof over your head for a year on $1000? I'll bet one could collect more than that on a freeway offramp in a week or two. Makes you feel a bit spoiled when all you have to complain about is GWB and his dept of homeland terro... er secutiry, eh?
eh... sorry.
You have to do it in assembler for the full 5 points.