The only question is how well can this be implemented and it will only work if all the sizeable planes use this technology. If only american planes have it, and a terrorist hops aboard an Air France plane, what good is it?
Which is the reason for multiple levels I guess. If the "soft wall" doesn't stop them, a couple missiles from an anti-aircraft battery certainly will.
Which kind of makes me wonder, DCA (Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport) is basically in the middle of DC, rather close to the Pentagon, White House, Capitol, etc, so the air traffic pattern almost certainly goes over/near some crucial buildings.
How can a soft wall be used for this, and then have missiles for back up if everything is so close. Maybe in this case, they'd have to use a "not so soft wall", and then missles if a certain air space is breached.
Those missiles could mean bad, bad news for stupid/newbie pilots, an accident waiting to happen. The problem is, a small prop plane could be loaded down solid with c4, or worse, a nuclear warhead, so it can be as much of a threat as the big planes.
You obviously didn't look that hard, it's also available in quicktime. Both formats, thanks to nice hackers, are very playable under linux. Although maybe not 100% legally...:(
Is that what that "This movie has been altered for your tv" msg or w/e it is means?
Usually that means that the widescreen version has been redited to fit on a normal tv screen without the black bars at the top and bottom.
Yet another editing technique I hate. Sometime you lose valuable information because they chop the sides off. Say, for example, there's a scene where one person is on the far left of the screen and another is on the far right of the screen. If they make it fullscreen, then someone has to be cut out of the shot!
I was going to subscribe to Netflix, but then I realized something... I hate the subscription model. There's no way I spend $20 a month on video rentals now, so subscribing to Netflix would lock me into spending more money than I current spend on rentals. I really don't rent that many movies. A lot of my friends have nice DVD collections, so I borrow from them, and they borrow from me. For $20/mo, I'd rather buy a new dvd every month that other people can borrow and watch, and then I own something in the end.
I had a few titles on my rental list that started "Playboy's...", but after not looking for a month or so, I couldn't even find the category any more.
suddenly head down the Blockbuster path of "extra special no-naked-people" versions of movies.
That annoys the shit out of me. What the fuck is it with people here in the States that makes them so afraid of seeing naked people? BUT THE CHILDREN MIGHT SEE. It's the soccer moms doing it, I'm telling you...
It's not so much that they cut the naked people out. It cutting ANYTHING out of the movie without telling me. I want to see the movie the way the director intended it. Which is why I'm a big fan of director's cuts that have more footage, a lot of times extra scenes that add a LOT to the movie. I hate it when someone high up cuts this and this out to get the pg-13 rating which means bigger sales.
Screw that. Movies are an art form. I don't go to a museum and expect to see black bars on all the naked statues and paintings, do I? I fail to see the difference.
It all depends on how you're dressed, I never get followed around. Although I usually have my yuppie camouflage on so I can "blend in".
The clerks don't care too much about who you are. They just play the odds, and don't want people stealing shit, or it's their ass and would probably lose their job if enough shit was stolen during their shift. Or would you rather they just left everyone alone and boosted all the prices up 30% to make up for the increase in shoplifting?
All depends on where you live. I live in a relatively small town in Ohio and I can get time warner cable tv/cable modem, or the local goverment run cable tv/cable modem. Interesting enough, I can get digital Time Warner cable tv with all the pay channels AND road runner internet service for $72/mo. What's the price for all this if I live one town over? $180-190/mo or so I hear, as no I know would actually order all that shit at that price, but that's what the local Time Warner salesmen tout.
Me? I choose the local cable company out of spite, and it's comparable pricing anyway, maybe you don't get all those channels, you don't get digital cable, but I don't need all that shit, as I don't watch much TV, besides, they offer a business grade cable modem service with better upload, which is very important to me since i work from home.
The local town here also runs it's own eletric company, and buys eletricity in bulk from Ohio Edison. The result? Our eletricity costs 1/3 of neighboring communities.
From what I hear, blockbuster rents movies that have already been edited for content as well, but they're unmarked, which I find revolting.
Either leave the movie alone, or put in big bold letters that this movie has been censored for content (so people like me can avoid selecting this movie).
Also check out darkstat It seems to be a bit better and cleaner than ntop. I just installed it out of curiosity and it seems to be working pretty well.
As far as total data transferred stats, do an ifconfig, it should show stats for network interfaces, writting a few scripts probably wouldn't be that incredibly complex. Or maybe even extending darkstat to incorporate what you want to do, if it's good enough, send the author a patch.:)
If you think the look GBA SP or plain old GBA is a bit too blah, check out gbamod.com for hella cheap stick on skins. No need to buy a new one just for a new color anymore! Heh:)
As am I. I'd definitely love to see a "Ask Justin 10 questions" article on slashdot. But ya, from what I hear Justin didn't really do much coding on winamp3, looks like he's still working on winamp classic aka winamp 2.9x.
I don't believe the man's capable of writing crappy bloated code. Look at waste, the exe is like 170k for all that it does and is blazingly fast. gnutella was the same way back in 2000. Now all gnutella clients are like a 2-3 meg download at least. It's just sad really. Of course his code might be a nightmare to maintain, but I can't really say anything about that. The WASTE code looked quite decent from what I've seen of it.
While I feel for you, there's pretty much nothing you can do but request a different phone number, and change your email address. Well, email can be solved by other means such as spamassassin, but for me, a considerable amount of spam has been getting thru as of late.
You must be getting a different crowd calling you, because I've never had someone hang up when I requested to be put on their DNC list.
You wanna make it pain for telemarketers? Waste their time--Act really interested, and then put them on hold indefinitely because "someone's is at the door" or whatever immediate emergency or just bullshit with them for as long as you can stand it.
Another thing I though of, be REALLY rude to telemarketers, it will make their job miserable so they'll want to quit. And when more telemarketers start quitting, their pay will go up because no one will want to do it. So when you think about it, you'll not really being rude or mean, you're just trying increase their pay.
Nope, I'd say it's more along the lines soccer moms suing EA Games because soccer moms have already patented the idea of "recreational fun", which all games clearly use. The soccer moms also demand that anyone playing computer games must stop because they are infringing on their right. Then E3 sends a "show the evidence or shut up letter" to soccer moms because their hurting the reputation of computer games, thereby hurting the whole concept of their trade show.
pegged my inbound and outbound speeds. 70KB/sec down, high 30's something up. I'm now done any throttling my outbound to 20KB/sec to help out. I just recently got the experimental client working under linux, it'sa very nica.
Hrm, well theoretically you could use a really large magnet, and hopefully you'd eventually attract a magnifying glass with it that you could use to read the cd... but a small magnet? That's right out.
from the bittorent FAQ: I don't want you stealing my bandwidth! How can I stop it from uploading?
You could hack the source to not upload, but then your download rate would suck. BitTorrent downloaders engage in tit-for-tat with their peers, so leeches have very little success downloading.
I've noticed that the more data I upload to other clients, the more willing the other clients are to give me what I need in return. So if you're firewalled, you'll have a slow downloading time.
I ran a bf1942 match server for awhile, I had to shut it down, because with 26-28 people on it (forget exactly how many), it would sustain 250 KB/sec, quite a bit over a T1, we just couldn't afford that type of bandwidth requirements, as we pay per megabit from our upstream.
Kinda sad, they really need to work on optimizing the code... and make the level load times shorter, and they'd have themselves on killer engine. As for the realism part, you can always change the physics and make a realism mod yourself if you're into that, but when I play a game, I want fun, period. I can always code something if I want work.:)
I just can't handle the HL engine anymore, I require "pretty" when I play games, I'm spoiled.:)
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This got me to thinking.... *Warning*, random incoherant thoughts may be ahead....
I've often wordered if it would be possible to write say 3 separte levels of "on" to magnetic or optical media. So you'd have data written to the media say in base 4, off, low powered on, medium on and full on. Instead of just having "on" or 1. That way you should be able to store more data per space instead of just 0's and 1's. I dunno it may be impossible, for cdr's you'd need a laser that could reliably burn diferent levels of intensity into the cdr, and another laser that sensitive enough to determine how strong of a signal is burn into the cd to determine if it's a 1 2 or 3.
I dunno, it may be impossible for something like say cdroms, but may be more feasible for magnetic media, (the direction of the magentization could determine the number), or maybe for some yet undiscovered data storeage technology.
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The only question is how well can this be implemented and it will only work if all the sizeable planes use this technology. If only american planes have it, and a terrorist hops aboard an Air France plane, what good is it?
Which is the reason for multiple levels I guess. If the "soft wall" doesn't stop them, a couple missiles from an anti-aircraft battery certainly will.
Which kind of makes me wonder, DCA (Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport) is basically in the middle of DC, rather close to the Pentagon, White House, Capitol, etc, so the air traffic pattern almost certainly goes over/near some crucial buildings.
How can a soft wall be used for this, and then have missiles for back up if everything is so close. Maybe in this case, they'd have to use a "not so soft wall", and then missles if a certain air space is breached.
Those missiles could mean bad, bad news for stupid/newbie pilots, an accident waiting to happen. The problem is, a small prop plane could be loaded down solid with c4, or worse, a nuclear warhead, so it can be as much of a threat as the big planes.
You obviously didn't look that hard, it's also available in quicktime. Both formats, thanks to nice hackers, are very playable under linux. Although maybe not 100% legally... :(
Is that what that "This movie has been altered for your tv" msg or w/e it is means?
Usually that means that the widescreen version has been redited to fit on a normal tv screen without the black bars at the top and bottom.
Yet another editing technique I hate. Sometime you lose valuable information because they chop the sides off. Say, for example, there's a scene where one person is on the far left of the screen and another is on the far right of the screen. If they make it fullscreen, then someone has to be cut out of the shot!
until the Pentium 5 emerges
So are they going to call that new chip the "Pentium Pentium"?
I was going to subscribe to Netflix, but then I realized something... I hate the subscription model. There's no way I spend $20 a month on video rentals now, so subscribing to Netflix would lock me into spending more money than I current spend on rentals. I really don't rent that many movies. A lot of my friends have nice DVD collections, so I borrow from them, and they borrow from me. For $20/mo, I'd rather buy a new dvd every month that other people can borrow and watch, and then I own something in the end.
I had a few titles on my rental list that started "Playboy's...", but after not looking for a month or so, I couldn't even find the category any more.
suddenly head down the Blockbuster path of "extra special no-naked-people" versions of movies.
That annoys the shit out of me. What the fuck is it with people here in the States that makes them so afraid of seeing naked people? BUT THE CHILDREN MIGHT SEE. It's the soccer moms doing it, I'm telling you...
It's not so much that they cut the naked people out. It cutting ANYTHING out of the movie without telling me. I want to see the movie the way the director intended it. Which is why I'm a big fan of director's cuts that have more footage, a lot of times extra scenes that add a LOT to the movie. I hate it when someone high up cuts this and this out to get the pg-13 rating which means bigger sales.
Screw that. Movies are an art form. I don't go to a museum and expect to see black bars on all the naked statues and paintings, do I? I fail to see the difference.
It all depends on how you're dressed, I never get followed around. Although I usually have my yuppie camouflage on so I can "blend in".
The clerks don't care too much about who you are. They just play the odds, and don't want people stealing shit, or it's their ass and would probably lose their job if enough shit was stolen during their shift. Or would you rather they just left everyone alone and boosted all the prices up 30% to make up for the increase in shoplifting?
wadsnet.com is the site for the local cable company. Wadsworth, Ohio is the town.
Here's information on the electric dept: http://www.wadsworthcity.com/depart/eleccom.htm
Cable TV is subject to competition?
All depends on where you live. I live in a relatively small town in Ohio and I can get time warner cable tv/cable modem, or the local goverment run cable tv/cable modem. Interesting enough, I can get digital Time Warner cable tv with all the pay channels AND road runner internet service for $72/mo. What's the price for all this if I live one town over? $180-190/mo or so I hear, as no I know would actually order all that shit at that price, but that's what the local Time Warner salesmen tout.
Me? I choose the local cable company out of spite, and it's comparable pricing anyway, maybe you don't get all those channels, you don't get digital cable, but I don't need all that shit, as I don't watch much TV, besides, they offer a business grade cable modem service with better upload, which is very important to me since i work from home.
The local town here also runs it's own eletric company, and buys eletricity in bulk from Ohio Edison. The result? Our eletricity costs 1/3 of neighboring communities.
From what I hear, blockbuster rents movies that have already been edited for content as well, but they're unmarked, which I find revolting.
Either leave the movie alone, or put in big bold letters that this movie has been censored for content (so people like me can avoid selecting this movie).
On second thought, that's probably not such a bad idea. I'd probably have a life if it weren't for the internet!
Also check out darkstat It seems to be a bit better and cleaner than ntop. I just installed it out of curiosity and it seems to be working pretty well.
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As far as total data transferred stats, do an ifconfig, it should show stats for network interfaces, writting a few scripts probably wouldn't be that incredibly complex. Or maybe even extending darkstat to incorporate what you want to do, if it's good enough, send the author a patch.
Check out ntop for the per ip bandwidth utilization. Not exactly what you wanted, but it might do the job.
As for the bar on kernel.org, just click on it for the source. Dang kernel.org has been slower than balls for me lately.
If you think the look GBA SP or plain old GBA is a bit too blah, check out gbamod.com for hella cheap stick on skins. No need to buy a new one just for a new color anymore! Heh :)
As am I. I'd definitely love to see a "Ask Justin 10 questions" article on slashdot. But ya, from what I hear Justin didn't really do much coding on winamp3, looks like he's still working on winamp classic aka winamp 2.9x.
I don't believe the man's capable of writing crappy bloated code. Look at waste, the exe is like 170k for all that it does and is blazingly fast. gnutella was the same way back in 2000. Now all gnutella clients are like a 2-3 meg download at least. It's just sad really. Of course his code might be a nightmare to maintain, but I can't really say anything about that. The WASTE code looked quite decent from what I've seen of it.
While I feel for you, there's pretty much nothing you can do but request a different phone number, and change your email address. Well, email can be solved by other means such as spamassassin, but for me, a considerable amount of spam has been getting thru as of late.
You must be getting a different crowd calling you, because I've never had someone hang up when I requested to be put on their DNC list.
You wanna make it pain for telemarketers? Waste their time--Act really interested, and then put them on hold indefinitely because "someone's is at the door" or whatever immediate emergency or just bullshit with them for as long as you can stand it.
Another thing I though of, be REALLY rude to telemarketers, it will make their job miserable so they'll want to quit. And when more telemarketers start quitting, their pay will go up because no one will want to do it. So when you think about it, you'll not really being rude or mean, you're just trying increase their pay.
What's your number? Post it here, we'll slashdot your phone for you.
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Nope, I'd say it's more along the lines soccer moms suing EA Games because soccer moms have already patented the idea of "recreational fun", which all games clearly use. The soccer moms also demand that anyone playing computer games must stop because they are infringing on their right. Then E3 sends a "show the evidence or shut up letter" to soccer moms because their hurting the reputation of computer games, thereby hurting the whole concept of their trade show.
This is like a burglar suing a homeowner because he cut himself on a knife he was stealing along with the rest of their silverware...
Ah but the burglar CAN sue you for cutting himself on your knife. Welcome to the good old US of A.
pegged my inbound and outbound speeds. 70KB/sec down, high 30's something up. I'm now done any throttling my outbound to 20KB/sec to help out. I just recently got the experimental client working under linux, it'sa very nica.
Hrm, well theoretically you could use a really large magnet, and hopefully you'd eventually attract a magnifying glass with it that you could use to read the cd... but a small magnet? That's right out.
I don't want you stealing my bandwidth! How can I stop it from uploading?
I've noticed that the more data I upload to other clients, the more willing the other clients are to give me what I need in return. So if you're firewalled, you'll have a slow downloading time.
I ran a bf1942 match server for awhile, I had to shut it down, because with 26-28 people on it (forget exactly how many), it would sustain 250 KB/sec, quite a bit over a T1, we just couldn't afford that type of bandwidth requirements, as we pay per megabit from our upstream.
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Kinda sad, they really need to work on optimizing the code... and make the level load times shorter, and they'd have themselves on killer engine. As for the realism part, you can always change the physics and make a realism mod yourself if you're into that, but when I play a game, I want fun, period. I can always code something if I want work.
I just can't handle the HL engine anymore, I require "pretty" when I play games, I'm spoiled.
This got me to thinking.... *Warning*, random incoherant thoughts may be ahead....
I've often wordered if it would be possible to write say 3 separte levels of "on" to magnetic or optical media. So you'd have data written to the media say in base 4, off, low powered on, medium on and full on. Instead of just having "on" or 1. That way you should be able to store more data per space instead of just 0's and 1's. I dunno it may be impossible, for cdr's you'd need a laser that could reliably burn diferent levels of intensity into the cdr, and another laser that sensitive enough to determine how strong of a signal is burn into the cd to determine if it's a 1 2 or 3.
I dunno, it may be impossible for something like say cdroms, but may be more feasible for magnetic media, (the direction of the magentization could determine the number), or maybe for some yet undiscovered data storeage technology.