I'm not sure about EMS usage, but I would think they would be most useful outside of large cities. Its a constant phenomenon that I'm sitting at a red light waiting even though there are no other cars in sight, esp. in the evenings. Cities seem to love putting up lights where just a simple four way stop would have sufficed nicely.
Not that I would actually fork up real money for something so frivelous.
I usually hate posts that have subject lines like this, but I'd really like to know the answer to this one as well. I'm in a LUG at our local Univ. too, and this does sound like a good idea. PartionMagic is fun and all, but if this comes with an analogue...
Yes. I did some research on these things a couple years ago, with the grand idea of making one. Never got around to it.
Its completely different from anything nuclear. The explosion sends the "pulse" down the tube, most of it excapes giving thrust. The sheer momentum of the air moving in that direction creates a low pressure zone in the tube, and some of the hot gasses shoot back up the tube, compressing as well as igniting the new fuel/air mixture which has in the meantime been put into the front of the engine.
I guess I don't know much about these "pulse" nuclear engines, but I can't see how a nuclear blast could use the momentum of itself to create a low pressure zone back inside the engine (lower pressure than the vaccuum of space outside?!), and then the backlash would have to create the huge amount of pressure to spontaneously create another nuclear blast. Nope, the same principal just doesn't seem possible to me.
Who is really getting tired of mis-information based mainpage posts on slashdot? I mean, yes, I SHOULD RTFA, but in all honesty do I really need to do it just to make sure the people posting (and the editors...) are on the up and up?
If I am really interested in something, I read the article. But mostly, I just skim the headlines and descriptions, and then go read the comments because they usually add a LOT of interesting information, at a fairly quick read no less. Is it too much to ask that I not be mislead right from the start?
Just a little karma whoring here for a sec (don't give me any, I certainly don't deserve it for this.)
From the cray website:
In conjunction with some of the world's most creative scientific and engineering minds, these formidable tools already have made automobiles safer and more fuel-efficient; located new deposits of oil and gas; saved lives and property by predicting severe storms; created new materials and life-saving drugs; powered advances in electronics and visualization; safeguarded national security; and unraveled mysteries ranging from protein-folding mechanisms to the shape of the universe.
Precisely. College is probably the worst place they could try out something like this at. Sure, a lot of college kids like the force fed crap, but it is also the place with the highest incidence of people who don't like pop music. They simply won't be able to please enough people with the service such that there won't be a huge uproar.
Now if this was something that a cable company offered as an (optional) add on to cable internet, then MAYBE they'd be able to do something.
What about a system just like slashdot, where the constituents do the modding?
Though, it would be VERY important to make sure that you can uniquely identify everyone on it, so that people can't make a bunch of user accounts and skew the system.
This might require some heavy advancements in technology (I don't know much about encryption, but maybe it will work), but this is what I REALLY REALLY want.
I was sickened by the "futures in terror" thing, all I want is a place where I can read about what's happening and put my word in before it's over and done with. I emailed my reps to that affect, but I have to do it again with my home address at the top of the letter:-/ I hate to say it, but I really get the feeling no one's listening...
I wrote an email to my state reps, and I got a reply back stating:
Thank you for contacting my office via email. You are receiving this autoresponse because I was unable to find a Michigan address in your letter. Please rest assured that my staff keeps me appraised of all incoming emails, but because of the enormous volume of mail received daily, I am only able to send responses to my constituents at this time. In the future, you can avoid receiving this message by including your full name and mailing address at the top of your letter.
I got the email address from www.eff.org, in the action center tab. I'm going to resend it by the way.
Waimea is a very customizable window manager, I suggest checking it out. It's a little tricky to get "just right" but that is the downfall of anything customizable.
Of course, as an earlier post stated, almost any decent windowmanager should be able to do this. I use fluxbox, theres Windowmaker, and I'm sure KDE and GNOME have font size features as well.
The people do want parking tickets. Because they know that its either that, or higher taxes so they can have their new roads and whatnot. And everyone has to pay higher taxes, so they like the idea of taking some of the cost out on those who park where they shouldn't.
I'm not sure if I like this term "Joe Sixpack." I would probably consider myself a person of this description, judging from most contexts in which it is used - except my name isn't Joe. Also, when I drink I hardly ever finish off a whole sixpack before I get depressed and go to sleep. Sheesh.
I make 5.50/hr, I worked 74.7 hours last pay period (they automatically take out lunch) (I'm looking at my payroll stub now.) That comes out to 410.85. Looking at my taxes now... FICA; 25.47. Medicare; 5.96. Federal; 32.78. State; 16.44.
Total income, 410.85; Total Taxes; 80.65. Thats 19.6 percent of my measly income going to taxes.
Total take home pay for this pay period, 330.2. SO, I guess that means I take home about 650/month. After rent, utilites, food...
Sorry, I probably shouldn't complain, but these comments about "basically not paying taxes" and "500 a month is chump change" sort of rubbed me the wrong way, especially after another failure to get an evening job.
Then again, I'm not going out of my way to piss off multi-million dollar corporations (and the governments they have in their pocket), either.
I read 1984 for the first time as the whole Iraq thing came to fruition, as a part of the "war on terror" thing.
I have to be honest, it scared me quite a bit to read it at that particualar time. I noticed all of the things you mentioned in the above. The scariest part for me though, was the idea of the government (or governments) creating a war that could never be won. Hey, war on terror, yeah that fits the description.
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency... Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real."
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I'm not sure about EMS usage, but I would think they would be most useful outside of large cities. Its a constant phenomenon that I'm sitting at a red light waiting even though there are no other cars in sight, esp. in the evenings. Cities seem to love putting up lights where just a simple four way stop would have sufficed nicely.
Not that I would actually fork up real money for something so frivelous.
I usually hate posts that have subject lines like this, but I'd really like to know the answer to this one as well. I'm in a LUG at our local Univ. too, and this does sound like a good idea. PartionMagic is fun and all, but if this comes with an analogue...
I would normalize the distrobution periodically and set the cap at the higher 10% level.
And thus the introduction of another category, usually good for karma leverage: the metacomment.
Abuses of the legal system are helping to feed this problem. I think continuing along the same trend more than likely won't help much.
The Princess Bride!!! What is more amazing, I just finished watching it 5 minutes ago.
you must believe that 2+2=5.
Oh, yeah I was looking at building a pulse jet, which is very simple. But this PDE thing looks to be a pulse jet on speed.
Yes. I did some research on these things a couple years ago, with the grand idea of making one. Never got around to it.
Its completely different from anything nuclear. The explosion sends the "pulse" down the tube, most of it excapes giving thrust. The sheer momentum of the air moving in that direction creates a low pressure zone in the tube, and some of the hot gasses shoot back up the tube, compressing as well as igniting the new fuel/air mixture which has in the meantime been put into the front of the engine.
I guess I don't know much about these "pulse" nuclear engines, but I can't see how a nuclear blast could use the momentum of itself to create a low pressure zone back inside the engine (lower pressure than the vaccuum of space outside?!), and then the backlash would have to create the huge amount of pressure to spontaneously create another nuclear blast. Nope, the same principal just doesn't seem possible to me.
No, or at least not anyone that I know of. But they're so damn cute!
starts putting rfid tags in each bag, then I'll be pissed. Otherwise, I don't care if the feds know how many pounds of coffee I have in my house.
Wait...
Dammit! That's the SECOND time I've clicked your .sig link thinking it would be something interesting. This dratted memory...
Who is really getting tired of mis-information based mainpage posts on slashdot? I mean, yes, I SHOULD RTFA, but in all honesty do I really need to do it just to make sure the people posting (and the editors...) are on the up and up?
If I am really interested in something, I read the article. But mostly, I just skim the headlines and descriptions, and then go read the comments because they usually add a LOT of interesting information, at a fairly quick read no less. Is it too much to ask that I not be mislead right from the start?
Oh, and no, I did not RTFA.
Just a little karma whoring here for a sec (don't give me any, I certainly don't deserve it for this.)
From the cray website:
In conjunction with some of the world's most creative scientific and engineering minds, these formidable tools already have made automobiles safer and more fuel-efficient; located new deposits of oil and gas; saved lives and property by predicting severe storms; created new materials and life-saving drugs; powered advances in electronics and visualization; safeguarded national security; and unraveled mysteries ranging from protein-folding mechanisms to the shape of the universe.
Precisely. College is probably the worst place they could try out something like this at. Sure, a lot of college kids like the force fed crap, but it is also the place with the highest incidence of people who don't like pop music. They simply won't be able to please enough people with the service such that there won't be a huge uproar.
Now if this was something that a cable company offered as an (optional) add on to cable internet, then MAYBE they'd be able to do something.
What about a system just like slashdot, where the constituents do the modding?
:-/ I hate to say it, but I really get the feeling no one's listening...
Though, it would be VERY important to make sure that you can uniquely identify everyone on it, so that people can't make a bunch of user accounts and skew the system.
This might require some heavy advancements in technology (I don't know much about encryption, but maybe it will work), but this is what I REALLY REALLY want.
I was sickened by the "futures in terror" thing, all I want is a place where I can read about what's happening and put my word in before it's over and done with. I emailed my reps to that affect, but I have to do it again with my home address at the top of the letter
I wrote an email to my state reps, and I got a reply back stating:
Thank you for contacting my office via email. You are receiving this autoresponse because I was unable to find a Michigan address in your letter. Please rest assured that my staff keeps me appraised of all incoming emails, but because of the enormous volume of mail received daily, I am only able to send responses to my constituents at this time. In the future, you can avoid receiving this message by including your full name and mailing address at the top of your letter.
I got the email address from www.eff.org, in the action center tab. I'm going to resend it by the way.
That was incredibly informative... and he even got the FP in there too (and he's actually the FP).
That has to be the best post EVER.
www.waimea.org
Waimea is a very customizable window manager, I suggest checking it out. It's a little tricky to get "just right" but that is the downfall of anything customizable.
Of course, as an earlier post stated, almost any decent windowmanager should be able to do this. I use fluxbox, theres Windowmaker, and I'm sure KDE and GNOME have font size features as well.
I thought legitimate content was a myth.
I like your arguments. A lot, actually. If I could only mod and post in the same discussion... but it's for the best that I can't ;-)
Just thought you'd like to know.
The people do want parking tickets. Because they know that its either that, or higher taxes so they can have their new roads and whatnot. And everyone has to pay higher taxes, so they like the idea of taking some of the cost out on those who park where they shouldn't.
I'm not sure if I like this term "Joe Sixpack." I would probably consider myself a person of this description, judging from most contexts in which it is used - except my name isn't Joe. Also, when I drink I hardly ever finish off a whole sixpack before I get depressed and go to sleep. Sheesh.
I make 5.50/hr, I worked 74.7 hours last pay period (they automatically take out lunch) (I'm looking at my payroll stub now.) That comes out to 410.85. Looking at my taxes now... FICA; 25.47. Medicare; 5.96. Federal; 32.78. State; 16.44.
Total income, 410.85; Total Taxes; 80.65. Thats 19.6 percent of my measly income going to taxes.
Total take home pay for this pay period, 330.2. SO, I guess that means I take home about 650/month. After rent, utilites, food...
Sorry, I probably shouldn't complain, but these comments about "basically not paying taxes" and "500 a month is chump change" sort of rubbed me the wrong way, especially after another failure to get an evening job.
Then again, I'm not going out of my way to piss off multi-million dollar corporations (and the governments they have in their pocket), either.
I read 1984 for the first time as the whole Iraq thing came to fruition, as a part of the "war on terror" thing.
I have to be honest, it scared me quite a bit to read it at that particualar time. I noticed all of the things you mentioned in the above. The scariest part for me though, was the idea of the government (or governments) creating a war that could never be won. Hey, war on terror, yeah that fits the description.
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency... Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real."
-- General Douglas MacArthur, 1957