mercury and halogen streetlights (the blue/white ones) were a lot more harmful to astronomers than sodium ones were, last I checked. Sodium lights have a much lower and more narrow emission band.
As to space ads... never underestimate the budget of an advertising department;)
Especially when you consider that the technological database your Legal, Accounting and manufacturing departments rely upon for their datakeeping is maintained by your IT department:)
I've reread that link several times, and I still can't figure out just who bought who there. It makes for a fascinating (if somewhat poorly written) little story of "You kiss my ass, I'll kiss yours."
Nothing new to see here, move along, move along, Consumer.
Given the density of today's communications, that would give a new meaning to the term "Dancing as Fast as I can". Man,the latency would suck worse than AOL in '99, and the data flow would generate lawsuits (Hey, you mowed a swath thru my porn stream, asshole! I missed the best part!)
Event_Lost_Packets(Stepped_On:code[Omega])
Event_Lost_Packets(Pesticide_Application:code[Back Bone_Failure][Omega])
Event_Lost_Packets(Bird_Swarm:code[Random_Noise][O mega])
a lot of those lowboy haulers have a lowered front section for parking the shovel on, bet that was what it was, he parked it backward and the shovel "elbow" was a couple feet higher. Or it wasn't loaded on the right trailer? Of course it could be that whoever loaded it didn't park the arm right; we have that problem at work, if you take the forklift thru the back door the wrong way, you break things.:) Tilted all the way forward and with the tires at 60psi:)
But if the TV cameras were placed down an exact tunnel centerline, that's not real bright either...
That'll teach 'em to recess the cameras into the wall. Otherwise some asshole with a pickup truck, fifty bucks of 2" iron pipe, a welder and some ingenuity could wreak havoc down there:)
(y'know, I think one could do it with a couple hundred feet of 1/2" braided steel cable too, but don't ask:)
I haven't seen it in many, many years, but I remember it, it was one of my favorites when I was a kid.
Thanks for the memory... I'd forgotten about it for a while. So I just got off my ass and bought a copy from Amazon for a few bucks. I'll have to plan seeing that with enough time to really enjoy it.
That movie was on my mind a couple years ago for some reason...couldn't find it in any library system I could search IIRC
LOL. If that's not bootstrapping, I don't know what is:)
Reminds me of an incident I saw some years ago, was following behind two flatbeds tandem-carrying an impossibly large treaded backhoe (it was hanging off the sides of the flatbeds and they were filling two lanes and some, wish I remembered enough to identify it, it was HUGE). They had a two car front and one rear police escort.
Anyway, they apparently got going a little fast, and took a turn onto another two-lane too fast, and the righthand truck beds rear set of springs broke. I thought that backhoe was going right over for a moment, but they got straightened out. Damn good driving that was, but...
A tenth mile down the road there's black smoke pouring from the side of the trailer where the springs broke as the tires burn themselves up on the bed. Despite two cops running interference ahead of them and one behind, nobody gets a hold of the drivers for more than five miles. By that time there's flames coming out of both rear wells and the backhoe's right tread is halfway off the sagging side of the trailer.
We couldn't believe it, we were screaming out the windows at the cop a few score feet ahead of us (they were back up to about 45 mph by then, futile), and a guy in the back seat was calling 911 trying to get a hold of the escort.
There was no divider, and lots of oncoming traffic, so if they'd dumped that beast they could have killed a lot of people. Damned morons.
Finally the got it stopped and tied up traffic for two hours trying to get the bhoe reloaded with winches; had to call in a crane, and completely replace the flatbed it was being carried on, the whole bed was twisted about two feet.
Hope that kid never gets roped into anything crazy like that:)
LOL! Books are going to be my downfall, I don't have the shelf space for them, so they reside in very large totes (for now) other than my most heavily used ones, that is. Bastards are heavy when there's 60 gallons of them.
Mom accidentally washed my backpack once with my Borland 5&1/4" floppies in them. I was understandably upset - well, she didn't think it was that big a deal. So I called Borland and they simply mailed me a new set of disks overnight, and me being an upset 17 year old nobody.
Now that was service! I loved them and expounded about them to all the computer geeks locally - I think there were four or five of us:)
CD manuals can be nice if they are comprehensive (and have a good search engine) but all too often they are simply an afterthought. I don't even really mind too much printing and binding a CD manual - in some ways it's nice, you can tailor the format to your liking - but you still can't beat a good softbound well-written manual...
I bought Borland's first Turbo Pascal - for the IBM PC - a long time ago, and I remember being very impressed by the manual (not to mention the program!:) I showed it to a Vax sysadmin I knew, and he fell in love.
I wish a lot more companies would do what they do (did?)...
But perhaps they should. I know I certainly pay attention to them... humor is always welcome, even if it's lame:)
Come on, can't we have a Slashdot Funny Mods count, no mod limits day? At least once a month (preferably on Hot Fudge Sundaes?:) Or we could make it a real contest by limiting it to the 13th of every month, from midnight to noon.
slashdot is getting ridiculous anyway, right? Right?
Which model did you get, and are you happy with it?
I've been considering an option like that for the bedroom for a while now, but there's a morass of info to wade thru. Couple $150 with the cost of a cheap 15" LCD and it's in my price range:)
So does anyone have any experience with a good, modern, and comprehensive linux book like that? I have a little money to burn right now and could really use a all-in-one similar to The Complete Reference to HTML... and distro specific notes would be very, very nice (yeah, I know what a pain the ass that is, I have notebooks labeled RH, Deb, Gen, Tom, etc;-)
I love what I find online, but I'd love a book to break the spine of so I could lay it beside me in bed while I'm working on the laptop. Plus I seem to learn quicker if I have to type things in rather than the easy route of copy&paste;)
Well, yes, but a properly set up installation would archive the user's data somewhere where a non-root user couldn't get at it (and allow the user to recover it easily:-)
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mercury and halogen streetlights (the blue/white ones) were a lot more harmful to astronomers than sodium ones were, last I checked. Sodium lights have a much lower and more narrow emission band.
;)
As to space ads... never underestimate the budget of an advertising department
SB
That editor was sweet. I don't recall that it scrambled any files for me, but the floppy effect may have masked that
Hard to believe how long ago that was.
Cheers,
SB
Because it's not really a skirt, it's a kilt.
;)
That was my same thought; given his sense of humor, God just *has* to be an Irishman
Cheers!
SB
(Hey, "he" created bagpipes, incredible music that many loath. Heh)
In comparison, Linux doesn't have much by the way of commercial software support.
;)
Which is exactly why this move by HP is a good idea
Bonus points if you can say why it is...
Cheers,
SB
Especially when you consider that the technological database your Legal, Accounting and manufacturing departments rely upon for their datakeeping is maintained by your IT department
PHBs, indeed.
SB
LOL
I've reread that link several times, and I still can't figure out just who bought who there. It makes for a fascinating (if somewhat poorly written) little story of "You kiss my ass, I'll kiss yours."
Nothing new to see here, move along, move along, Consumer.
SB
Then clean it up and make it smaller and faster yet. ExtraC work of course :)
SB
I'd like to read that one
I kind of like his idea of a different registration service for ideas, tho if something like that were to be done it would have to be completely open.
SB
Given the density of today's communications, that would give a new meaning to the term "Dancing as Fast as I can". Man,the latency would suck worse than AOL in '99, and the data flow would generate lawsuits (Hey, you mowed a swath thru my porn stream, asshole! I missed the best part!)
k Bone_Failure][Omega])O mega])
:)
Event_Lost_Packets(Stepped_On:code[Omega])
Event_Lost_Packets(Pesticide_Application:code[Bac
Event_Lost_Packets(Bird_Swarm:code[Random_Noise][
oh, nm, I'm drunk
thanks for the laugh, I needed it
SB
Snail over Satellite; Cooked In Transit with the finest microwaves.
Fresh at Your Door
Condiments at your option
I'm going to see both, but after seeing that trailer, I have a feeling which one I'll buy on DVD first ;-); sorry George...
!! & !
SB
LOL
a lot of those lowboy haulers have a lowered front section for parking the shovel on, bet that was what it was, he parked it backward and the shovel "elbow" was a couple feet higher. Or it wasn't loaded on the right trailer? Of course it could be that whoever loaded it didn't park the arm right; we have that problem at work, if you take the forklift thru the back door the wrong way, you break things.
But if the TV cameras were placed down an exact tunnel centerline, that's not real bright either...
That'll teach 'em to recess the cameras into the wall. Otherwise some asshole with a pickup truck, fifty bucks of 2" iron pipe, a welder and some ingenuity could wreak havoc down there
(y'know, I think one could do it with a couple hundred feet of 1/2" braided steel cable too, but don't ask
SB
I drink heavily and listen to the UT2003 level music files at top volume.
No, seriously.
SB
Yes, and no. :)
I haven't seen it in many, many years, but I remember it, it was one of my favorites when I was a kid.
Thanks for the memory... I'd forgotten about it for a while. So I just got off my ass and bought a copy from Amazon for a few bucks. I'll have to plan seeing that with enough time to really enjoy it.
That movie was on my mind a couple years ago for some reason...couldn't find it in any library system I could search IIRC
Cheers!!
SB
LOL. If that's not bootstrapping, I don't know what is :)
:)
Reminds me of an incident I saw some years ago, was following behind two flatbeds tandem-carrying an impossibly large treaded backhoe (it was hanging off the sides of the flatbeds and they were filling two lanes and some, wish I remembered enough to identify it, it was HUGE). They had a two car front and one rear police escort.
Anyway, they apparently got going a little fast, and took a turn onto another two-lane too fast, and the righthand truck beds rear set of springs broke. I thought that backhoe was going right over for a moment, but they got straightened out. Damn good driving that was, but...
A tenth mile down the road there's black smoke pouring from the side of the trailer where the springs broke as the tires burn themselves up on the bed. Despite two cops running interference ahead of them and one behind, nobody gets a hold of the drivers for more than five miles. By that time there's flames coming out of both rear wells and the backhoe's right tread is halfway off the sagging side of the trailer.
We couldn't believe it, we were screaming out the windows at the cop a few score feet ahead of us (they were back up to about 45 mph by then, futile), and a guy in the back seat was calling 911 trying to get a hold of the escort.
There was no divider, and lots of oncoming traffic, so if they'd dumped that beast they could have killed a lot of people. Damned morons.
Finally the got it stopped and tied up traffic for two hours trying to get the bhoe reloaded with winches; had to call in a crane, and completely replace the flatbed it was being carried on, the whole bed was twisted about two feet.
Hope that kid never gets roped into anything crazy like that
Cheers,
SB
Too true.
:)
LOL! Books are going to be my downfall, I don't have the shelf space for them, so they reside in very large totes (for now) other than my most heavily used ones, that is. Bastards are heavy when there's 60 gallons of them.
Mom accidentally washed my backpack once with my Borland 5&1/4" floppies in them. I was understandably upset - well, she didn't think it was that big a deal. So I called Borland and they simply mailed me a new set of disks overnight, and me being an upset 17 year old nobody.
Now that was service! I loved them and expounded about them to all the computer geeks locally - I think there were four or five of us
Cheers!
SB
Yeah. Sigh :(
CD manuals can be nice if they are comprehensive (and have a good search engine) but all too often they are simply an afterthought. I don't even really mind too much printing and binding a CD manual - in some ways it's nice, you can tailor the format to your liking - but you still can't beat a good softbound well-written manual...
Is Borland still observing their tradition?
Cheers,
SB
I bought Borland's first Turbo Pascal - for the IBM PC - a long time ago, and I remember being very impressed by the manual (not to mention the program!:) I showed it to a Vax sysadmin I knew, and he fell in love.
I wish a lot more companies would do what they do (did?)...
SB
But perhaps they should. I know I certainly pay attention to them... humor is always welcome, even if it's lame :)
:) Or we could make it a real contest by limiting it to the 13th of every month, from midnight to noon.
Come on, can't we have a Slashdot Funny Mods count, no mod limits day? At least once a month (preferably on Hot Fudge Sundaes?
slashdot is getting ridiculous anyway, right? Right?
bam bam bam crunch **no carrier**
SB
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is a paranoid schizophrenic.
:)
;)
I think there's a science fiction/fantasy story in there ala TZ. Or a couple dozen
I think it's something about the way I wear my socks.
Practicality triumphs, then. Good
Oh, and I believe the term you are looking for is "Lemmings"
*activates medallion of I_already_know_that against the urban legend karma whores*
Cheers,
SB
I hate it when my important muses of 6 AM get interrupted by something as basic as putting clothes on. Blows my whole day
(Socks? Oh, yeah...)
SB
Which model did you get, and are you happy with it?
:)
I've been considering an option like that for the bedroom for a while now, but there's a morass of info to wade thru. Couple $150 with the cost of a cheap 15" LCD and it's in my price range
SB
So does anyone have any experience with a good, modern, and comprehensive linux book like that? I have a little money to burn right now and could really use a all-in-one similar to The Complete Reference to HTML... and distro specific notes would be very, very nice (yeah, I know what a pain the ass that is, I have notebooks labeled RH, Deb, Gen, Tom, etc ;-)
;)
I love what I find online, but I'd love a book to break the spine of so I could lay it beside me in bed while I'm working on the laptop. Plus I seem to learn quicker if I have to type things in rather than the easy route of copy&paste
SB
Well, yes, but a properly set up installation would archive the user's data somewhere where a non-root user couldn't get at it (and allow the user to recover it easily
SB
That's the best way I've seen that said yet, and I'll add that there are many adults for whom it's just as dangerous, whether it's linux or windows.
Robertson is talking out of his ass.
SB