Man, the server room is my oasis, my sanctuary. When the stupid So-Cal people around here start complaining about how cold 72 is I could go into my 55 degree server room and work in peace and comfort, in shorts and a tee shirt no less. Plus it's too cold for them to come in and complain because they don't know how to do something. That was at my old job, at my new job I'm the only one who can control the AC, so it's a balmy 68 in here most of the time, unless you make me mad:)
it wouldn't fool anyone if they touched it, even if they had the right paper.
You'd be surprised, people are stupider and busier than you think. A local news station here did a story on this very phenomena about a year ago. They took bills that they printed on ink jet and color laser printers and went and used them in stores. If I remember right they had about an 80% success rate with normal paper.
I couldn't beleive it, but once they crumpled the bill a little bit a busy cashier didn't even notice. This was before the new alien ware $20's, but I've always been partial to counterfeiting $5's, they are scrutinized a lot less than the larger denominations. I'm not a counterfeiter btw, just if I were that's what I would do:)
I fell in love with GIS over labor day when my family and I went fly fishing up at mount shasta. I found CASIL and got Global Mapper to run under wine (I had no idea of these other projects until now) on my laptop. The amount of information I was able to extract was incredible. My laptop with Global Mapper and a DVD worth of GIS data put any car navigation system I've ever seen to shame. All I was missing was a GPS receiver, but even without one I was able to pinpoint our location on logging roads. I'm really looking forward to playing around with vterrain, and seeing how it stacks up. Global mapper is nice, but it's not free and it run's on Windows only. There is a free version with source code out there that I was considering porting to Linux, but it looks like vterrain might do the trick and more. Thanks for the info.
And please don't forget lousy programming, design and engineering on the part of M$. Not to mention the complete dain bramage on the part of the management schmuck at Deibold who decided that XP embedded was a suitable choice for an ATM, even if they didn't build the ATMs themselves.
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I am no fan of Clear Channel, IMHO they have done way more harm than good when it comes to radio in general. They are in the top 5 of my most hated entities, MPAA, RIAA, IRS, Clear Channel, and the State Franchise Tax Board.
Just FYI, 90% of the hosts on KFI hate clear channel too. Jon and Ken are no fans of clear channel, Bill Handel doesn't like them, and Matt Drudge (syndicated) rarely has anything good to say about them either.
Clear channel is smart enough to realize that the reason that they have the Number 3 station overall in the LA market (including FM) is because they give the hosts a very wide berth when it comes to their opinions, that is why the republican and democrat lambs really don't like the station.
Free minded individuals that dare to question the establishment a little bit are who listen to the station, which, as shown by the recent recall election, is most of us. The recall effort was very much spearheaded by John and Ken, and although I don't think the state elected the best candidte he is better than Gumby, and more importantly we sent a message to the politicians.
Back to my point, there are very few who would like to see Clear Channel and the other radio conglomerates disappear more than I. Sorry Robert;)
At least for California is to download the DRGs, DEMs, DOQQs, road data, hydrography data, landmarks, and anything else that you might find interesting from here CASIL. Also download a GIS viewer, such as Global Mapper runs great under Wine BTW. Get a nice serial interface GPS receiver. Plug them all into your Sony VAIO R505 running Gentoo and go flyfishing where no man has been before;)
My family and I did this over labor day and the amount of detail I was able to extract from the maps was amazing. I could call out the curves on a logging trail to my dad as he was driving. I was also able to identify water metering stations, survey markers, etc. It also blew away any in-car navigation system I have ever seen. Being able to turn on elevation mapping is a huge help.
The state of California does many things very badly, but I have to hand it to them and thank them as well for making all of their GIS data publicly available free of charge. Keep in mind though that NASA does not always look kindly on someone downloading 9GB of data from them in one night:)
Implementations come and go--concepts live on. If you don't even understand the concepts, then you will truely be lost come implementation time--and the performance, scalability, and stability of the resulting system will surely betray your lack of education.
That is truly one of the most profound statements I have read on slashdot. If only more software engineers had that attitude. I ran out of mod points to give you, so I'll post in your honor.
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Hrmm...I would have thought they would have given the homo's a rainbow triangle.
but here goes
You go girl!
My kid says it grahamohr
Funny, I always vomit yellow AND green when people correct tpyos, spellnig; and grammar on slashdot.
Here is your first lesson:
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Write this: I guess it's time to read up on XML and learn what all this hoopla is about! <g>
Like this: I guess it's time to read up on XML and learn waht all this hoopla is about! <g
You AC are an idiot. Your parent poster is, on the other hand, a genius. ZModem, classic!
Man, the server room is my oasis, my sanctuary. When the stupid So-Cal people around here start complaining about how cold 72 is I could go into my 55 degree server room and work in peace and comfort, in shorts and a tee shirt no less. Plus it's too cold for them to come in and complain because they don't know how to do something. That was at my old job, at my new job I'm the only one who can control the AC, so it's a balmy 68 in here most of the time, unless you make me mad :)
Funny, I thought that was RedHat swearing that they only use and provide open source software. Oh wait, that's not true either.
Because there is no spoon!
I was unable to find any such 'proof' other than their claim that they own errno.h.
They think they own *.h, the only problem with that is that I'm Ivory sure that Microsoft has a valid IP claim on errno.h.
it wouldn't fool anyone if they touched it, even if they had the right paper.
:)
You'd be surprised, people are stupider and busier than you think. A local news station here did a story on this very phenomena about a year ago. They took bills that they printed on ink jet and color laser printers and went and used them in stores. If I remember right they had about an 80% success rate with normal paper.
I couldn't beleive it, but once they crumpled the bill a little bit a busy cashier didn't even notice. This was before the new alien ware $20's, but I've always been partial to counterfeiting $5's, they are scrutinized a lot less than the larger denominations. I'm not a counterfeiter btw, just if I were that's what I would do
Until some schmuck causes a 50 car pileup on the 405 because they wanted microwave popcorn.
I fell in love with GIS over labor day when my family and I went fly fishing up at mount shasta. I found CASIL and got Global Mapper to run under wine (I had no idea of these other projects until now) on my laptop. The amount of information I was able to extract was incredible. My laptop with Global Mapper and a DVD worth of GIS data put any car navigation system I've ever seen to shame. All I was missing was a GPS receiver, but even without one I was able to pinpoint our location on logging roads. I'm really looking forward to playing around with vterrain, and seeing how it stacks up. Global mapper is nice, but it's not free and it run's on Windows only. There is a free version with source code out there that I was considering porting to Linux, but it looks like vterrain might do the trick and more. Thanks for the info.
And please don't forget lousy programming, design and engineering on the part of M$. Not to mention the complete dain bramage on the part of the management schmuck at Deibold who decided that XP embedded was a suitable choice for an ATM, even if they didn't build the ATMs themselves.
I am no fan of Clear Channel, IMHO they have done way more harm than good when it comes to radio in general. They are in the top 5 of my most hated entities, MPAA, RIAA, IRS, Clear Channel, and the State Franchise Tax Board.
;)
Just FYI, 90% of the hosts on KFI hate clear channel too. Jon and Ken are no fans of clear channel, Bill Handel doesn't like them, and Matt Drudge (syndicated) rarely has anything good to say about them either.
Clear channel is smart enough to realize that the reason that they have the Number 3 station overall in the LA market (including FM) is because they give the hosts a very wide berth when it comes to their opinions, that is why the republican and democrat lambs really don't like the station.
Free minded individuals that dare to question the establishment a little bit are who listen to the station, which, as shown by the recent recall election, is most of us. The recall effort was very much spearheaded by John and Ken, and although I don't think the state elected the best candidte he is better than Gumby, and more importantly we sent a message to the politicians.
Back to my point, there are very few who would like to see Clear Channel and the other radio conglomerates disappear more than I. Sorry Robert
Paypal link my ass, they have the federal government subsidising their FUD. Go here for real talk radio.
It's actually the speed of his joke flying over your head.
At least for California is to download the DRGs, DEMs, DOQQs, road data, hydrography data, landmarks, and anything else that you might find interesting from here CASIL. Also download a GIS viewer, such as Global Mapper runs great under Wine BTW. Get a nice serial interface GPS receiver. Plug them all into your Sony VAIO R505 running Gentoo and go flyfishing where no man has been before ;)
:)
My family and I did this over labor day and the amount of detail I was able to extract from the maps was amazing. I could call out the curves on a logging trail to my dad as he was driving. I was also able to identify water metering stations, survey markers, etc. It also blew away any in-car navigation system I have ever seen. Being able to turn on elevation mapping is a huge help.
The state of California does many things very badly, but I have to hand it to them and thank them as well for making all of their GIS data publicly available free of charge. Keep in mind though that NASA does not always look kindly on someone downloading 9GB of data from them in one night
Typo...honest...I do know how to spell lose, I also know how to spell loser, which is what you are :)
blar@nath blar $ mount
blar@nath blar $ cp
blar@nath blar $ mplayer blah.wma -ao pcm -aofile blah.wav
blar@nath blar $ lame -h blah.wav blah.mp3
blar@nath blar $ rm *.wma
You loose a little quality, but who cares? At least it's not WMA!
Nova was behind the times, I learned how to reconstruct a face on MacGyver at least 10 years ago.
Implementations come and go--concepts live on. If you don't even understand the concepts, then you will truely be lost come implementation time--and the performance, scalability, and stability of the resulting system will surely betray your lack of education.
That is truly one of the most profound statements I have read on slashdot. If only more software engineers had that attitude. I ran out of mod points to give you, so I'll post in your honor.
I personally enjoy the feeling of recoil as the pustule-pebble leaves it's chamber at mach 3 and goes streaking towards the mirror.
You haven't popped a zit in a while have you?