Ever watched how quickly soldiers setup and take down a camp?
One interesting point from the article was that these buildings would be sterile, allowing medical procedures to be carried out immediately. I don't know if the portable army structures would also allow that.
he wrote some wonderful stuff and created the modern fantasy novel - but he was racist and sexist as most people in his time and society were
I'm not so sure about racist bit but I think he's defendable on the sexist charge. His female characters, while few, are strong. Who kills the witch king, after all?
I personally believe that had Tolkien lived and changed with the times he would have loved the movies
It's not like Tolkien was in sync with popular culture and entertainment forms in his own time. Why should he be enamoured of ours?
When someone exploits this and takes out 90% of the Internet's routers, you're screwed no matter what.
Unless your business really doesn't care if most of the "internet's routers" are having trouble. My workplace can live very well with reduced internet access/functionality. When they get their troubles sorted out, we'll still be here (and be quite "un-screwed").
"[Encrypting transactions on the Internet] is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit-card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench." -- Eugene Spafford (Purdue)
Unfortunately, Tivo is only available in the US and UK... so the rest of us have to go to strange lengths like building our own pvr or smuggling a tivo across the border, eh?:-)
An easier path to myth installation is to use knoppmyth which (just like it sounds) uses a knoppix style boot-and-detect-everything followed by a myth installation-to-hd script.
Well, no, and that's the point. Current radar installations are huge and expensive. As a consequence, they are spread out hundreds of miles apart 'cause we can only afford a few. The coverage that they provide is really not all that great because radar only sees by reflecting off objects. Whatever is behind that object is invisible (in this case; object == cloud). With these smaller radars every 20 miles, the number of potential blind spots drops dramatically.
Additionally, these smaller radars can see closer to the ground and provide higher resolution data than their larger counterparts. All good stuff for the met community.
What happens to the world when so many corporations own patents on so many intangible things that a corporate dynasty like IBM can bring anyone in the world to their knees financially.
Even foreign governments.
Great comment. I'd like to make one change though: s/foreign gov/gov/.
That is, unless you mean to imply that "corporate dynast[ies]" are a form of gov't and that their host country's gov't is therefore foreign.
Why not just have a "legit" business (like mp3.com) set up service in canada? Offer my unlimited downloads from a collection of say, 150,000 mp3s for $10/month and I'm in, baby.
The act protects personal use, not resale. I expect that the Cdn gov would get you for selling the mp3s and the RIAA would go after your US customers as well.
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One interesting point from the article was that these buildings would be sterile, allowing medical procedures to be carried out immediately. I don't know if the portable army structures would also allow that.
I've been running a mythtv box for 9 months now and it has been a wonderful experience.
Anyone got up-to-date recommendations on a PC box that won't look like utter crap on the TV cart?
COOLERMASTER 620-BX1 (matx)
I also like this power supply (coolmaster case takes atx ps, not included):
Zalman ZM400A-APF
Anyway, a Sharpie is a permanent marker and here is the website:
http://www.sharpie.com
Captain Louvois: Data is a toaster. Have him report immediately to Commander Maddox for experimental refit.
To which the response ought to be:
Uh, wtf is a toaster?
Remember that re-electing Bush will be seen as an endorsement of his policies, so Kerry's election would, at least, send an important message.
I'm not so sure about racist bit but I think he's defendable on the sexist charge. His female characters, while few, are strong. Who kills the witch king, after all?
I personally believe that had Tolkien lived and changed with the times he would have loved the movies
It's not like Tolkien was in sync with popular culture and entertainment forms in his own time. Why should he be enamoured of ours?
It's from "wish you were here", the official biography by Nick Webb. I don't have it handy, so I can't give you a page number.
Douglas Adams said that there are two things that a Brit misses when living in California: oxygen and irony.
I love that this got modded +5 insightful. :-)
That ipod article was posted Oct 23rd... when? 2001? 2002?
It'd be nice to know.
Unless your business really doesn't care if most of the "internet's routers" are having trouble. My workplace can live very well with reduced internet access/functionality. When they get their troubles sorted out, we'll still be here (and be quite "un-screwed").
I still backup my hard disk in 1.44MB chunks, you insensitive clod.
The problem comes when that same car intervenes to cause an accident.
Man, that would suck. Get a real editor, type in "%s/old/new/g", and knock off early. :)
Well, yes, but it would be pretty shitty lighting, wouldn't it?
#!/bin/sh
wget http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0274518/
That guy has got to find another hobby... :-)
"[Encrypting transactions on the Internet] is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit-card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench." -- Eugene Spafford (Purdue)
Unfortunately, Tivo is only available in the US and UK... so the rest of us have to go to strange lengths like building our own pvr or smuggling a tivo across the border, eh? :-)
An easier path to myth installation is to use knoppmyth which (just like it sounds) uses a knoppix style boot-and-detect-everything followed by a myth installation-to-hd script.
Trying typing with your fingers instead of snapping them. It works for me...
Me, I'd agree with you but the author states (quite clearly) that this box is to be a capable workstation:
we wanted this server to act as a workstation with as much capability as the other systems attached to the storage server
Well, no, and that's the point. Current radar installations are huge and expensive. As a consequence, they are spread out hundreds of miles apart 'cause we can only afford a few. The coverage that they provide is really not all that great because radar only sees by reflecting off objects. Whatever is behind that object is invisible (in this case; object == cloud). With these smaller radars every 20 miles, the number of potential blind spots drops dramatically.
Additionally, these smaller radars can see closer to the ground and provide higher resolution data than their larger counterparts. All good stuff for the met community.
There's probably a joke here. Anyone know where?
What happens to the world when so many corporations own patents on so many intangible things that a corporate dynasty like IBM can bring anyone in the world to their knees financially.
Even foreign governments.
Great comment. I'd like to make one change though: s/foreign gov/gov/.
That is, unless you mean to imply that "corporate dynast[ies]" are a form of gov't and that their host country's gov't is therefore foreign.
The act protects personal use, not resale. I expect that the Cdn gov would get you for selling the mp3s and the RIAA would go after your US customers as well.