Ditto...my only irritation is she refuses to work with anything but VB (and she's feeling the pain with.NET) and Access.
She doesn't have the time to do anything else, since she's overloaded herself with too much work to even finish a project she started that could bring some serious income in.
Maybe because they all did a lot of the same things. It's still interesting, especially if you like family history.
A lot of my ancestors had to be tethered to posts in their front-yards because they had a tendency to go running out into roads without looking. (Probably the same ADHD I was diagnosed with as a kid.)
I've got an IBM 40GB drive. (Not sure of model number)... I repeatedly run it non-stop for a couple of weeks before rebooting the machine. (And, even then, I only reboot it because I'm trying a new kernel compilation.)
It's been running fine for months, with a cron'd updatedb every night, and smartd running constantly.
Ah, but the real-life stories they can tell you can have real-life lessons. You figure them out.
When my grandfather was a boy, he and his friends used to go out and tip outhouses in fields. Well, one farmer got wind of their plan ahead of time, and moved the outhouse over a few feet.
When they went out that night to tip the outhouse, they didn't see that it had been moved.
SPLASH!
One kid fell into the hole in the ground. He had to ride on the back bumper all the way back to his house, where they sprayed him off with the hose.
--
When he was in elementary school, he and his friends would draw a circle on a table, then put flies they'd caught (and pulled the wings off of) in the center of the ring, and whoever's fly left the circle first won.
Well, his teacher saw them doing something at their table, and as soon as one boy took his hand off the ring, their teacher slammed her hand down onto the flies (she didn't know they were there) and said, "OK, I'll take this!"
'cept when a customer undercuts their current dealer, then goes back when the other one raises their prices. Their original dealer then gives them a little poison.
Of course, I've never actually seen it happen. I was in the play "Juvie" in high school, and one of the characters gave a monologue to that effect.
Whatever you're building won't have to be capable of leaving the surface of large gravity wells like the Earth and (possibly) the Moon. You can build cheaper crafts that are essentially interplanetary shuttles.
The Space Shuttle by comparison, would be a forklift. All the brute power, but not really capable of long-distance travel.
Building spacecraft in space is a huge proposition. First you have to think of the crew. Moving large, heavy objects around in null gravity is going to require a lot of training. To do it even remotely safely is going to require a crew who find the physics and behavior to be second-nature.
And what about when one of such a crew gets killed in an accident? The press will have a field day, and critics will say "I told you so! Space is dangerous! Bring our boys home!"
Not that I'm saying it shouldn't be done. In order for it to work, though, you need to raise the average knowledge level of both voters and the people in office. Otherwise, it just becomes another liability for anyone who supports it.
It's probably not going to be truly feasible until space operation is either commercialized, or is in some other way unencumbered by popular politics.
However, I'm going to avoid detailing the attitude that apparently goes along with contractions. I think Bill Cosby did a decent job with his skit on natural child birth, though. Lore was a bit more violent, but I don't know if the fact that he was physically able to move around had anything to do with it.
It's only purjury if it happens in court. Or in an impeachment. I don't think we're likely to see either. (Congress can't alienate the massive number of voters who support the war in Iraq.)
The larger a project is, the more eyes get focused on improving it. The Linux kernel has had a great deal of fanatical attention, so a lot of people are dedicated to keeping it great.
Besides, if Sendmail lets someone into the system, or bind, UNIX permissions and Access Control Lists help keep the infection from spreading. The developers aren't under an insane amount of pressure to get it right every time. They can get lazy. Or something.
Heh. The kernel doesn't have anything to fall back on, so kernel developers aware of their responsibility are under stupendous pressure to get it right every time, despite the peer-review process. Hehe. That kind of pressure makes you crazy. Makes you fanatical. heh. Makes you work harder. Makes a good crazy, you know?
(disclaimer: I'm not a kernel developer (yet)... but I don't mind being crazy. Heh.)
Well, on Slashdot, I get fans because people see and like what I post. (Except for one guy, I think he's just trying to max out his friends list.) I set friends based on whether I like and appreciate what they say, and would like to be reminded that I have them set as "friends" whenever they say something I don't necessarily agree with. It helps me consider other points of view.
Granted, its a set of small steps towards understanding the opposing point of view, but it does help broaden my horizons.
Except that in the future, PCI-X cards won't have AGP cousins. The current cards will be the last of those. (ideally, anyway) Hopefully, the entire PCI bus will be able to be replaced with PCI-X. If I'm making some glaring technical mistake, someone hit me with a 20 lb carp.
The only reson it hasn't happened before is becuase 8086 systems weren't all that upgradable, and because Intel produced 80386 chips with both 16- and 32-bit front-side buses. That eased the transition. by making it possible to put the same cards you had in your 286 system in your 386 system. Unless they ship systems with both AGP and PCI Express, that transition isn't going to be easy.
Current Athlon64 machines with AGP are going to be great "good enough" machines in the future, because my (future) kid isn't going to need the (future) latest and greatest hardware to play educational games like billiards and xscorch. (Both firmly grounded in physics with limited graphical requirements. Though I'm not saying that eyecandy couldn't be added.)
There's something I hadn't thought of. Europa going up in flames.
I don't think it's possible. Or, rather, I don't think it'd have that much impact. After all, asteroids must be pounding into Europa fairly frequently, as geological timescales go. And the H2O2 is still there.
I don't think your nuclear analogy is very apt. We didn't understand nuclear science very well at that time, but we have thorough understanding of the behavior of chemistry at the polyatomic scale.
Probably the biggest problem they'll face is that they just don't know much about the physical conditions. Is the surface covered with ice dust, or is it solid? Are there reactants in the atmosphere? is there a complex airflow pattern over the planet? (i.e. wind, weather.) What about fluid flow below the surface? What the hell does happen when a couple million tons of magma causes a warm convection flow below the icy surface?
Well the solution seems simple to me. H2O2, AFAIK, does not require another oxidant to burn. So it may serve as a useful fuel, especially in a vacuum environment.
Also, since 2 H2O2 can become 2H2O + O2, you can get oxygen and water, both useful. Finally, with the expenditure of energy (freely available if you burn H2O2 as a lone energy source), you can use electrolysis to get H2 and more O2 from the water.
Easy solution? Glass or Pyrex. Or if you want to be a bit more sophisticated, some sort of polymer.
Or you could still use metal, but take an ablative approach...Essentially standing on thick stilts. Make sure they stand vertical (as opposed to at an angle) else they'll only provide a short-term delay rather than a long-term one.
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No, that should be: "If this is the way Open Source treats its friends, I'd hate to see how it treats its litigious bastards.
But that doesn't sound quite right, does it?
I've heard a similar analogy applied to kids throwing candy wrappers on the ground.
Except that with spammers, it's each spammer sending out eight different emails to each person, and often to the same person more than once.
Ditto...my only irritation is she refuses to work with anything but VB (and she's feeling the pain with .NET) and Access.
She doesn't have the time to do anything else, since she's overloaded herself with too much work to even finish a project she started that could bring some serious income in.
Including WW and FDR during the world wars? And including inflation?
I'd love to get my hands on those numbers and wave them in the face of someone I know. Of course, she'll spout "But it's for national security!"
Maybe because they all did a lot of the same things. It's still interesting, especially if you like family history.
A lot of my ancestors had to be tethered to posts in their front-yards because they had a tendency to go running out into roads without looking. (Probably the same ADHD I was diagnosed with as a kid.)
I've got an IBM 40GB drive. (Not sure of model number) ... I repeatedly run it non-stop for a couple of weeks before rebooting the machine. (And, even then, I only reboot it because I'm trying a new kernel compilation.)
It's been running fine for months, with a cron'd updatedb every night, and smartd running constantly.
Could someone please tell me the difference between "DRM" and "DRI"?
Ah, but the real-life stories they can tell you can have real-life lessons. You figure them out.
When my grandfather was a boy, he and his friends used to go out and tip outhouses in fields. Well, one farmer got wind of their plan ahead of time, and moved the outhouse over a few feet.
When they went out that night to tip the outhouse, they didn't see that it had been moved.
SPLASH!
One kid fell into the hole in the ground. He had to ride on the back bumper all the way back to his house, where they sprayed him off with the hose.
--
When he was in elementary school, he and his friends would draw a circle on a table, then put flies they'd caught (and pulled the wings off of) in the center of the ring, and whoever's fly left the circle first won.
Well, his teacher saw them doing something at their table, and as soon as one boy took his hand off the ring, their teacher slammed her hand down onto the flies (she didn't know they were there) and said, "OK, I'll take this!"
--
'cept when a customer undercuts their current dealer, then goes back when the other one raises their prices. Their original dealer then gives them a little poison.
Of course, I've never actually seen it happen. I was in the play "Juvie" in high school, and one of the characters gave a monologue to that effect.
(I got to play Andrew. That was fun!)
Whatever you're building won't have to be capable of leaving the surface of large gravity wells like the Earth and (possibly) the Moon. You can build cheaper crafts that are essentially interplanetary shuttles.
The Space Shuttle by comparison, would be a forklift. All the brute power, but not really capable of long-distance travel.
Building spacecraft in space is a huge proposition. First you have to think of the crew. Moving large, heavy objects around in null gravity is going to require a lot of training. To do it even remotely safely is going to require a crew who find the physics and behavior to be second-nature.
And what about when one of such a crew gets killed in an accident? The press will have a field day, and critics will say "I told you so! Space is dangerous! Bring our boys home!"
Not that I'm saying it shouldn't be done. In order for it to work, though, you need to raise the average knowledge level of both voters and the people in office. Otherwise, it just becomes another liability for anyone who supports it.
It's probably not going to be truly feasible until space operation is either commercialized, or is in some other way unencumbered by popular politics.
I thought they used Linux's transparent decompression...
I don't think that's supported under UDF, the DVD FS.
Lore could perform contractions very well.
However, I'm going to avoid detailing the attitude that apparently goes along with contractions. I think Bill Cosby did a decent job with his skit on natural child birth, though. Lore was a bit more violent, but I don't know if the fact that he was physically able to move around had anything to do with it.
It's only purjury if it happens in court. Or in an impeachment. I don't think we're likely to see either. (Congress can't alienate the massive number of voters who support the war in Iraq.)
The larger a project is, the more eyes get focused on improving it. The Linux kernel has had a great deal of fanatical attention, so a lot of people are dedicated to keeping it great.
Besides, if Sendmail lets someone into the system, or bind, UNIX permissions and Access Control Lists help keep the infection from spreading. The developers aren't under an insane amount of pressure to get it right every time. They can get lazy. Or something.
Heh. The kernel doesn't have anything to fall back on, so kernel developers aware of their responsibility are under stupendous pressure to get it right every time, despite the peer-review process. Hehe. That kind of pressure makes you crazy. Makes you fanatical. heh. Makes you work harder. Makes a good crazy, you know?
(disclaimer: I'm not a kernel developer (yet)... but I don't mind being crazy. Heh.)
Well, on Slashdot, I get fans because people see and like what I post. (Except for one guy, I think he's just trying to max out his friends list.) I set friends based on whether I like and appreciate what they say, and would like to be reminded that I have them set as "friends" whenever they say something I don't necessarily agree with. It helps me consider other points of view.
Granted, its a set of small steps towards understanding the opposing point of view, but it does help broaden my horizons.
It's actually a very useful system.
What do the colors represent?
Except that in the future, PCI-X cards won't have AGP cousins. The current cards will be the last of those. (ideally, anyway) Hopefully, the entire PCI bus will be able to be replaced with PCI-X. If I'm making some glaring technical mistake, someone hit me with a 20 lb carp.
Nobody appreciates a good pun, these dais though.
It seems so obvious to someone who's been using OSS for years.
Linux source code has been around for how long? An how many exploits have been released for it?
On second thought, if you apply electrolysis directly to the H2O2, you may get your H2 and your O2 without the waste heat of 2H2O2 becoming 2H2O + O2
But if you're talking about a manned facility, you'll want that H2O. You can get it from the original reaction, or from fuel cells.
The only reson it hasn't happened before is becuase 8086 systems weren't all that upgradable, and because Intel produced 80386 chips with both 16- and 32-bit front-side buses. That eased the transition. by making it possible to put the same cards you had in your 286 system in your 386 system. Unless they ship systems with both AGP and PCI Express, that transition isn't going to be easy.
Current Athlon64 machines with AGP are going to be great "good enough" machines in the future, because my (future) kid isn't going to need the (future) latest and greatest hardware to play educational games like billiards and xscorch. (Both firmly grounded in physics with limited graphical requirements. Though I'm not saying that eyecandy couldn't be added.)
There's something I hadn't thought of. Europa going up in flames.
I don't think it's possible. Or, rather, I don't think it'd have that much impact. After all, asteroids must be pounding into Europa fairly frequently, as geological timescales go. And the H2O2 is still there.
I don't think your nuclear analogy is very apt. We didn't understand nuclear science very well at that time, but we have thorough understanding of the behavior of chemistry at the polyatomic scale.
Probably the biggest problem they'll face is that they just don't know much about the physical conditions. Is the surface covered with ice dust, or is it solid? Are there reactants in the atmosphere? is there a complex airflow pattern over the planet? (i.e. wind, weather.) What about fluid flow below the surface? What the hell does happen when a couple million tons of magma causes a warm convection flow below the icy surface?
Well the solution seems simple to me. H2O2, AFAIK, does not require another oxidant to burn. So it may serve as a useful fuel, especially in a vacuum environment.
Also, since 2 H2O2 can become 2H2O + O2, you can get oxygen and water, both useful. Finally, with the expenditure of energy (freely available if you burn H2O2 as a lone energy source), you can use electrolysis to get H2 and more O2 from the water.
Sounds to me like a sweet deal.
Easy solution? Glass or Pyrex. Or if you want to be a bit more sophisticated, some sort of polymer.
Or you could still use metal, but take an ablative approach...Essentially standing on thick stilts. Make sure they stand vertical (as opposed to at an angle) else they'll only provide a short-term delay rather than a long-term one.