I know the number is pretty large but I don't consider it to be that frightening -- I've never really known a martial artist with an anger management problem. I mean I know they must exist, where else could those news stories come from... I've studied in a number of different schools in a number of different forms (dilletante, that's me) and haven't met anyone beyond a green belt who didn't seem to be on an even keel. Dunno if the discipline weeds out those who aren't, or if the discipline levels those who aren't, but that's my experience.
Funny you should raise the question -- of the D&D players I know there are three martial artists (two with brown belts, one with a black in one form and browns in two others) and several accomplished jugglers. A few of the players I know do live-steel choreography (simulated swordfights for stage and film). A couple more do improv theater...
Yes, you can find acne fatties at any Con playing D&D, but that's not the whole story...
They've taken it a bit further, that's for sure. It now plugs in with both Apache and IIS to offload compression of returned pages. Last demo I saw didn't show it but they maintained it could also virus scan mail on a mailserver.
I've got to agree with this one -- there was no clear or unclear line in the game on what was just 'smart play' and what was 'cheating'... I found a couple of the more obvious abuses of the system and then lost interest. 5/5 for effort though....
I'm afraid that's nowhere near enough info for me to find it for you. I'd suggest you start by googling larn and roguelike and see if you can find it. Good luck!
I must say that sort of the thing is the reason I prefer Angband -- there's none of the "cast a wish on an odd number day while wearing no armor and wielding a wooden weapon and..." conditionals you need a spoiler or code dive to figure out...
I'm a little bit surprised that no one has mentioned Amazon.com yet -- but my understanding is that their headquarters is haunted by a number of spectres. For those who are unfamiliar with the building it's a remodeled hospital that was built back in the '30s. The most common 'sighting' sounds a lot like a "who farted" kind of joke. One of the elevators, apparently, will fill with an unbearable stench -- some riders have been known to nearly vomit when they smell it -- while others are unable to smell it at all. Before amazon moved in the building's owners had recieved so many complaints about the smell in this elevator that they hired teams of investigators to find the source of the contamination, tracing back the ventilation shafts, and so on.... No cause has been found and the reports continue.
Without studying you scored a 49%. Passing mark is 74%. So you've got 3/4 of a passing grade taking the exam cold. So after a single night of study you'd probably find yourself passing.
This is in response to your comment but largely addressed to the submitter -- maotx, please don't take the "you" personally in all of this.:)
It's my feeling that every geek should get their ham license. It costs $14 and it's good for 10 years. The study guide for the technician license is published by the arrl and it's called "Now You're Talking". Given that most geeks already know ohms law and how to handle simple wavelengthfrequency conversions you've almost passed right there. Beyond that there's a lot of really obvious stuff ("Why should you wear a hardhat and safety glasses when helping someone work on a tower?" "Er. To protect my eyes and my head..." ). The exam is given in a multiple choice format -- any answer which includes the phrase "control operator" is correct.
Even if you know jack-shit about radio you'll come close to passing just by picking the "correct-looking" answer off the test. SAT style guesswork. Large portions of the exam can easily be gamed: they publish all of the questions, right answers, and wrong answers which will appear on your exam. The hardest part (unless you're really good at rote memorization) is probably memorizing the beginning and end frequencies of each of the bands. This is easy to game because of all of the answers which will appear on your exam only one of them will have the correct width for the band. AA9PW has practice exams on his website. Try it and you'll be amazed at how close you are to passing right now. A single night of study will bring you up to a passing mark.
Don't try and skip on the exam and operate without a license. If you're seriously putting together a convoy to go into the area you can easily get a licensed operator to come in with you and handle any radio contacts on your group's behalf. If you don't know a ham then look up a local club on the ARRL -- or call a local fire department or hospital and ask for the contact information for the local ARES/RACES group. Odds are one of them would love to go down with you -- and will be an extra set of hands. The HAM you get to go with you will probably have a lot better emergency equipment than your group will -- and will have already spent a lot of time drilling for emergencies.
...now if the FCC would just post my callsign I'd be happy. Passed the technician exam on Saturday... Am waiting ever so impatiently for my callsign and radio to show up...
But seriously, what's so wrong with this idea? I would watch a reality show based in a space camp somewhere (and that's me, no TV viewing for the last five years except for a few hours in hotel rooms when the bookstores were closed).
Personally I'd like to see a space-lottery run in America. Grand prize could be a seat on a launch vehicle and some time in orbit with the real crew. Runner up prizes could be a week at space camp in houston or florida, hats, jackets, etc.
Er... A 15 minute mile is something like six feet a second. That's a brisk walk. I just pulled out the tape-measure in my flat and measured out 15 feet. I walked back and forth along it ten times, it took me all of 36 seconds. That's about 4 feet per second, and that included the time to turn around at each end of the "lap".
If you "struggle" on a 15 minute mile despite an hour long exercise session daily I'm forced to ask what the nature of your disability is.
12 years?! Shouldn't you be an extra-with-all-the-trimmings by now?;)
Thanks for the luck wishes. I'm pretty confident overall -- I've been taking the practice exams (Thanks to AA9PW for putting them out there) and passing consistently. I'll drop you a line Sat evening to let you know how it went.
73!
If a cell tower is destroyed.. HAM antenna will be gone too.
Er. And it takes all of 5 minutes to take the roll-up jpole out of the emergency pack and hang it from something. But of course you knew that.
(Cell network survived Katrina, btw)
In some places. For a while. But those batteries running the tower are going to drain and the generator-backed towers are going to run out of fuel, and the network will already be degraded from the towers that didn't survive and the remaining towers are going to be overloaded.
Amateur radio uses a lot less power can be powered off a car battery which, worst case, can be conveniently looted from any abandoned vehicle, charged off of any car you can hotwire,...
Hams are usually in an emergency traffic only mode anyway until regular communications are restored.
Uhm. No. And why did you feel the urge to post something which is such a blatant falsehood? Yes, a Ham operator will yield their frequency to an emergency communication but the fact is that most of the traffic both in and out of a disaster zone is "Health And Welfare" traffic: "Bob Bozo says call 111-555-1212 tell his grandma he and the kids are doing OK at the superdome"...
OK, I spent some time as a consultant so I've been through a fair few shops and I think I can comment on this point. To put it succinctly a good shop is going to have good tool discipline. Now I don't mean it needs to be as strong as say, NASA's but it's important.
I've seen groups use the "Its just the way of techies!" to excuse any amount of sloppiness and laziness. I got a sinking feeling in the bottom of my stomach when I started my most recent position and found out that the empty cube filled with crap (disassembled computers, random parts, screwdrivers strewn about,...) actually belonged to one of the IT guys so it was no surprise to me that we've been plagued by constant network outages, server downtime, the works.
In closing I'll say that the people leading good IT organizations tend to be serious, driven, and disciplined. And I don't think it's a coincidence.
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I don't know about you but I'd eat the peanuts out of her shit any day of the week.
I know the number is pretty large but I don't consider it to be that frightening -- I've never really known a martial artist with an anger management problem. I mean I know they must exist, where else could those news stories come from... I've studied in a number of different schools in a number of different forms (dilletante, that's me) and haven't met anyone beyond a green belt who didn't seem to be on an even keel. Dunno if the discipline weeds out those who aren't, or if the discipline levels those who aren't, but that's my experience.
Yes, you can find acne fatties at any Con playing D&D, but that's not the whole story...
They've taken it a bit further, that's for sure. It now plugs in with both Apache and IIS to offload compression of returned pages. Last demo I saw didn't show it but they maintained it could also virus scan mail on a mailserver.
I've got to agree with this one -- there was no clear or unclear line in the game on what was just 'smart play' and what was 'cheating'... I found a couple of the more obvious abuses of the system and then lost interest. 5/5 for effort though....
I'm afraid that's nowhere near enough info for me to find it for you. I'd suggest you start by googling larn and roguelike and see if you can find it. Good luck!
I must say that sort of the thing is the reason I prefer Angband -- there's none of the "cast a wish on an odd number day while wearing no armor and wielding a wooden weapon and ..." conditionals you need a spoiler or code dive to figure out...
I'm a little bit surprised that no one has mentioned Amazon.com yet -- but my understanding is that their headquarters is haunted by a number of spectres. For those who are unfamiliar with the building it's a remodeled hospital that was built back in the '30s. The most common 'sighting' sounds a lot like a "who farted" kind of joke. One of the elevators, apparently, will fill with an unbearable stench -- some riders have been known to nearly vomit when they smell it -- while others are unable to smell it at all. Before amazon moved in the building's owners had recieved so many complaints about the smell in this elevator that they hired teams of investigators to find the source of the contamination, tracing back the ventilation shafts, and so on.... No cause has been found and the reports continue.
Laffer was a good character, for sure. But by sheer number of hours spent and emotional investment @ beats our Larry.
Without studying you scored a 49%. Passing mark is 74%. So you've got 3/4 of a passing grade taking the exam cold. So after a single night of study you'd probably find yourself passing.
This is in response to your comment but largely addressed to the submitter -- maotx, please don't take the "you" personally in all of this. :)
It's my feeling that every geek should get their ham license. It costs $14 and it's good for 10 years. The study guide for the technician license is published by the arrl and it's called "Now You're Talking". Given that most geeks already know ohms law and how to handle simple wavelengthfrequency conversions you've almost passed right there. Beyond that there's a lot of really obvious stuff ("Why should you wear a hardhat and safety glasses when helping someone work on a tower?" "Er. To protect my eyes and my head..." ). The exam is given in a multiple choice format -- any answer which includes the phrase "control operator" is correct.
Even if you know jack-shit about radio you'll come close to passing just by picking the "correct-looking" answer off the test. SAT style guesswork. Large portions of the exam can easily be gamed: they publish all of the questions, right answers, and wrong answers which will appear on your exam. The hardest part (unless you're really good at rote memorization) is probably memorizing the beginning and end frequencies of each of the bands. This is easy to game because of all of the answers which will appear on your exam only one of them will have the correct width for the band. AA9PW has practice exams on his website. Try it and you'll be amazed at how close you are to passing right now. A single night of study will bring you up to a passing mark.
Don't try and skip on the exam and operate without a license. If you're seriously putting together a convoy to go into the area you can easily get a licensed operator to come in with you and handle any radio contacts on your group's behalf. If you don't know a ham then look up a local club on the ARRL -- or call a local fire department or hospital and ask for the contact information for the local ARES/RACES group. Odds are one of them would love to go down with you -- and will be an extra set of hands. The HAM you get to go with you will probably have a lot better emergency equipment than your group will -- and will have already spent a lot of time drilling for emergencies.
73 DE KE7EWX
I'd like to go ahead and throw out a character nomination they missed. I think that @ should have a star too.
Er. I guess you missed the xbox buffer overflows used for the same purpose?
73!
If it was really bad, you could also start looting car batteries and charging them on any car you could hotwire, right?
Can someone tell me what "kicking elf" means?
Personally I'd like to see a space-lottery run in America. Grand prize could be a seat on a launch vehicle and some time in orbit with the real crew. Runner up prizes could be a week at space camp in houston or florida, hats, jackets, etc.
If you "struggle" on a 15 minute mile despite an hour long exercise session daily I'm forced to ask what the nature of your disability is.
How, exactly, is it ugly/revolting ? I don't get it.
Thanks for the luck wishes. I'm pretty confident overall -- I've been taking the practice exams (Thanks to AA9PW for putting them out there) and passing consistently. I'll drop you a line Sat evening to let you know how it went. 73!
Technician exam on Saturday though.
Er. And it takes all of 5 minutes to take the roll-up jpole out of the emergency pack and hang it from something. But of course you knew that. (Cell network survived Katrina, btw)
In some places. For a while. But those batteries running the tower are going to drain and the generator-backed towers are going to run out of fuel, and the network will already be degraded from the towers that didn't survive and the remaining towers are going to be overloaded.
Amateur radio uses a lot less power can be powered off a car battery which, worst case, can be conveniently looted from any abandoned vehicle, charged off of any car you can hotwire, ...
Uhm. No. And why did you feel the urge to post something which is such a blatant falsehood? Yes, a Ham operator will yield their frequency to an emergency communication but the fact is that most of the traffic both in and out of a disaster zone is "Health And Welfare" traffic: "Bob Bozo says call 111-555-1212 tell his grandma he and the kids are doing OK at the superdome"...
I've seen groups use the "Its just the way of techies!" to excuse any amount of sloppiness and laziness. I got a sinking feeling in the bottom of my stomach when I started my most recent position and found out that the empty cube filled with crap (disassembled computers, random parts, screwdrivers strewn about, ...) actually belonged to one of the IT guys so it was no surprise to me that we've been plagued by constant network outages, server downtime, the works.
In closing I'll say that the people leading good IT organizations tend to be serious, driven, and disciplined. And I don't think it's a coincidence.
Don't forget "cleave"