He's likely (understandably) worried that by the time everything's evened-out he'll be dead and gone. Not earning enough to drive a Porsche is one thing; not being able to afford a $250,000 mortgage or $300/month healthcare is another.
...we have to assure our more senior executives that these boxes have the same level of security and protection as the commercial products.
"They want to be still able to run funny executable downloads from their golf buddies and surf porn sites without being caught in potentially embarassing situations. We're working on easily enabling these things in Linux by enabling an 'I-didn't-do-it,-it-was-a-virus' button".
Evolutionary explanations tend to leave out the existing "natural" mind-state of adults wanting to care for the littler people. Some might say that this is just silly modern conditioning of a few thousands years' worth of parenting.
I am not a religious person.
I like kids because they are neat intellectually, and yes, vulnerable (that's why silly jokes can be played on them). As a father myself, of course I am biased.
Anyone that can look at a child and think of personal, selfish "opportunity" instead of "wow, pretty nifty creation" probably has the wrong outlook. If I may be so bold as to define a "proper" outlook.
Everyone saw it live on Tee-Vee!
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Surely the major goal of the co-ordinated 911 attackers was to instigate a defensive and vulnerable posture from US government, media and population.
There can be no better horrific message than one which is seen worldwide in real time.
Stores that sell the seasonal gourd could also offer custom carving (laser would be better, though) designed by the kids that accompany the parents to the grocery store. What to do with the sprayed pumpkin guts? Duh! Collect, distill and sell as pumpkin wine for next year so Dad can sit at home throwing candy from the front door as he gets slowly pissed (not having had to do the artwork himself)!
1. Enthusiasm (widespread use of email)
2. Disillusionment (spam and UL transmission)
3. Panic and hysteria (scams, phishing, extortion)
4. Searching for the Guilty (ongoing)
5. Punishment of the innocent (Joe Jobs)
6. Praise and honor for the non-participants [...]
He's an engineering and BBQ legend that had to remove his site about lighting and enhancing flames with liquid oxygen.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot that open source education thingie is probably a good idea. I'd have to buy a Linux for Dummies book and then look for the "if you are still too dense..." part.
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That was incredibly funny, you must be one very warped individual.
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What hump?
The quoted dialogue above is a hilarious exchange from an extremely funny movie. They made it in B&W and it still worked in 1974. Today it's quite a cult classic.
I haven't seen a slashdot name of Abby Normal yet and you can always slip brains through slot in door after 5PM.
The station is a joke. 80% of the content is console crap, any of the shows worth watching are either cut into by fake hockey clips, or are so short for time that the content is way to compressed.
Canada must have stricter regulations on advertising time for a program slot because we get homegrown productions of mini computer howtos. You can also see this type of thing on Space, where the average program ends about 10 minutes (for a one-hour show) ahead of time.
Funny that you should mention compression problems. G4 Tech TV is the only station that screws-up if I move near the TV. Since I have a digital cable connection this baffles me. Maybe I have a radiant personality that transcends the known laws of physics. I *have* noticed that streetlights turn off when I walk by and sometimes my computer crashes for no apparent reason.
While reading this do you feel some kind of unusual vibration or difficult-to-describe feeling?
One thing that should be noted is that Leo Laporte's Call For Help show got continued by G4TechTV Canada in a primetime slot... but the show is nowhere to be found on the USA version of the channel. Odd for a show to get upgraded and canceled at the same time by two networks that share the same name.
Leo speaks his mind and if that means that he "disses" some company I could see why advertisers might be upset.
The new version of the show is a bit glitchy (what would you expect - it's Canadian) but since I am a newcomer to watching computer-related stuff on TV I'm hooked.
It is very possible that G4 Tech TV (Canada) gets funding from various government agencies in the form of CanCon. So Leo's probably making only 60% of what he could but at least he gets free health care in case Basil zooms in too close and breaks his ankle.
Call for Help with Leo (now broadcast out of Toronto) and Screen Savers (AKA what happened on slashdot today) and maybe that Martin guy is all I watch on the channel.
It's fairly good but the billions of videogame-related shows are essentially useless.
Not exactly. You don't need a full cellar extending below the frost line. You just need the foundation extending below the frost line. Generally once it is a given that you are digging down 6 feet all around the house, and putting in that much concrete block, you may was well put in the full cellar.
Probably a more correct description would be that you need anchored *footings* that extend below the frost line, but as you say, once you're down there why not go further.
[This reminds me of a paraphrased Homer quote: "Get out of that rut and get into the groove, man"]
Four piles properly pounded to rejection at the corners of your house could perform the same function (negating the need for a basement) but most house building contractors don't have access to pile-drivers. For you young audio enthusiasts out there, a pile driver is not necessarily a subwoofer thingie - once you hear the real thing you'll know what I'm talking about and where the term comes from.
I've seen 2" thick styrofoam used as an insulator under shallow foundations for big vertical liquid nitrogen and LOX tanks, it actually works quite well without having to excavate below the frost line.
The majority of houses in the UK do not have cellars. The majority of those that did pre-1939 have since been bombed flat.
Interesting, do you know what the frost level is there? Cellars (AKA basements) that extend below the frost line are necessary[1] for all houses built in cold climates like Canada but are not always seen in warmer areas. It always strikes me as strange that some homes don't have basements.
Where do all your teenage, slashdot-posting nerd children live?
Paul
[1] Judicious use of styrofoam can get around this.
If spam is such a problem for networks and humans (and definitely it is, and getting worse), then why aren't we seeing TV/Radio PSAs explaining why it is inherently a bad thing? Since everyone universally hates spam, this lack of public service information seems to be an implicit blind eye to the problem. Intel, AMD, Apple, etc. could bump up the corporate goodwill by publicly denouncing that which 99.9% of all email users consider to be a scourge of the internet. What would it cost, a few dozen millions in order to saturate the popular media for a few weeks? That's peanuts to these guys.
I have a feeling that spammers make a huge amount of money selling lists to other would-be spammers.
Things like calculus and advanced chemistry should be introduced at as young as 9 or 10.
Yes. These concepts along with many other of the hard sciences can be easily introduced and taught to pre-teens via interactive computer graphics. It doesn't really matter that most won't fully understand it at that age (or maybe never), it will be good enough that a minority will and they will all be at least comfortable with the subject matter during future studies. There are incredible things that can be done by using computer simulation for education. I'm not talking about plunking a 5 year-old in front of a screen for hours full of ad-supported edutainment.
Note that this concept doesn't replace teachers. If anything, it demands better and more teachers.
Anyone (parents, mostly) that's taken the time to educate a child knows that they learn very fast and grasp larger concepts easily if they can "see" the concept and play and experiment with it. We all learn best from playing, because the consequences of making a mistake are trivial.
That's probably why computers are so compelling to inquisitive and smart people.
cities all over the USA who are perfectly happy to build stadiums at taxpayers' expense
The Expos just left Montreal for many reasons, but one of them was that the city/provincial/federal governments refused to kick in money for the construction of a new downtown stadium.
Effing stupid government, failing to underwrite millionaires' wishes.
Now we have the NHL strike/lockout (which, to me, is unimportant) that is another dispute between millionaires (I.E., athletes and their agents and owners). Who loses due to this pissing contest?
Hint, it's the "little people" whose jobs relied on these events, not the wealthy spectacles' main participants.
Sports events used to be a night out treat for the common man. What is the current cost of two tickets to a major league event?
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wow you've totally missed my point haven't you.
He's likely (understandably) worried that by the time everything's evened-out he'll be dead and gone. Not earning enough to drive a Porsche is one thing; not being able to afford a $250,000 mortgage or $300/month healthcare is another.
"They want to be still able to run funny executable downloads from their golf buddies and surf porn sites without being caught in potentially embarassing situations. We're working on easily enabling these things in Linux by enabling an 'I-didn't-do-it,-it-was-a-virus' button".
Evolutionary explanations tend to leave out the existing "natural" mind-state of adults wanting to care for the littler people. Some might say that this is just silly modern conditioning of a few thousands years' worth of parenting.
I am not a religious person.
I like kids because they are neat intellectually, and yes, vulnerable (that's why silly jokes can be played on them). As a father myself, of course I am biased.
Anyone that can look at a child and think of personal, selfish "opportunity" instead of "wow, pretty nifty creation" probably has the wrong outlook. If I may be so bold as to define a "proper" outlook.
Surely the major goal of the co-ordinated 911 attackers was to instigate a defensive and vulnerable posture from US government, media and population.
There can be no better horrific message than one which is seen worldwide in real time.
I'd like to see a Velocihobbit. Relentlessly "stalks" helpless vegetation.
Stores that sell the seasonal gourd could also offer custom carving (laser would be better, though) designed by the kids that accompany the parents to the grocery store. What to do with the sprayed pumpkin guts? Duh! Collect, distill and sell as pumpkin wine for next year so Dad can sit at home throwing candy from the front door as he gets slowly pissed (not having had to do the artwork himself)!
As it was stated, sort of (the implication, not the reality).
Sexual attraction to children implies a projection of power towards the innocent on the part of the offender.
I'm no expert on the subject but it just seem to me that people that are turned-on by kids are brain-wired improperly.
1. Enthusiasm (widespread use of email)
2. Disillusionment (spam and UL transmission)
3. Panic and hysteria (scams, phishing, extortion)
4. Searching for the Guilty (ongoing)
5. Punishment of the innocent (Joe Jobs)
6. Praise and honor for the non-participants [...]
Isn't Perdue where George Goble teaches?
He's an engineering and BBQ legend that had to remove his site about lighting and enhancing flames with liquid oxygen.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot that open source education thingie is probably a good idea. I'd have to buy a Linux for Dummies book and then look for the "if you are still too dense..." part.
(Mr. Pantyhose to you)
I think I've actually gotten emails promising this sort of thing.
Reading this great comment almost makes me want to move to Alaska just due to the cool clothing accessories you guys get to wear...
The best part about being Up North is that the Inuit have a tradition of wife-sharing.
Trollification:
We are in a first world country with a decent infrastructure and it is extremely unlikely that we will have mass powercuts
Yeah, that'll never happen
That was incredibly funny, you must be one very warped individual.
What hump?
The quoted dialogue above is a hilarious exchange from an extremely funny movie. They made it in B&W and it still worked in 1974. Today it's quite a cult classic.
I haven't seen a slashdot name of Abby Normal yet and you can always slip brains through slot in door after 5PM.
The station is a joke. 80% of the content is console crap, any of the shows worth watching are either cut into by fake hockey clips, or are so short for time that the content is way to compressed.
Canada must have stricter regulations on advertising time for a program slot because we get homegrown productions of mini computer howtos. You can also see this type of thing on Space, where the average program ends about 10 minutes (for a one-hour show) ahead of time.
Funny that you should mention compression problems. G4 Tech TV is the only station that screws-up if I move near the TV. Since I have a digital cable connection this baffles me. Maybe I have a radiant personality that transcends the known laws of physics. I *have* noticed that streetlights turn off when I walk by and sometimes my computer crashes for no apparent reason.
While reading this do you feel some kind of unusual vibration or difficult-to-describe feeling?
If you bring up references to The Friendly Giant I'm going to go get my son's old Barney plush toy and hug it.
I don't know why Leo was laid-off in the first place, we're really happy to have him up here. Neener-neener Americans.
One thing that should be noted is that Leo Laporte's Call For Help show got continued by G4TechTV Canada in a primetime slot... but the show is nowhere to be found on the USA version of the channel. Odd for a show to get upgraded and canceled at the same time by two networks that share the same name.
Leo speaks his mind and if that means that he "disses" some company I could see why advertisers might be upset.
The new version of the show is a bit glitchy (what would you expect - it's Canadian) but since I am a newcomer to watching computer-related stuff on TV I'm hooked.
It is very possible that G4 Tech TV (Canada) gets funding from various government agencies in the form of CanCon. So Leo's probably making only 60% of what he could but at least he gets free health care in case Basil zooms in too close and breaks his ankle.
Call for Help with Leo (now broadcast out of Toronto) and Screen Savers (AKA what happened on slashdot today) and maybe that Martin guy is all I watch on the channel.
It's fairly good but the billions of videogame-related shows are essentially useless.
Not exactly. You don't need a full cellar extending below the frost line. You just need the foundation extending below the frost line. Generally once it is a given that you are digging down 6 feet all around the house, and putting in that much concrete block, you may was well put in the full cellar.
Probably a more correct description would be that you need anchored *footings* that extend below the frost line, but as you say, once you're down there why not go further.
[This reminds me of a paraphrased Homer quote: "Get out of that rut and get into the groove, man"]
Four piles properly pounded to rejection at the corners of your house could perform the same function (negating the need for a basement) but most house building contractors don't have access to pile-drivers. For you young audio enthusiasts out there, a pile driver is not necessarily a subwoofer thingie - once you hear the real thing you'll know what I'm talking about and where the term comes from.
I've seen 2" thick styrofoam used as an insulator under shallow foundations for big vertical liquid nitrogen and LOX tanks, it actually works quite well without having to excavate below the frost line.
The majority of houses in the UK do not have cellars. The majority of those that did pre-1939 have since been bombed flat.
Interesting, do you know what the frost level is there? Cellars (AKA basements) that extend below the frost line are necessary[1] for all houses built in cold climates like Canada but are not always seen in warmer areas. It always strikes me as strange that some homes don't have basements.
Where do all your teenage, slashdot-posting nerd children live?
Paul
[1] Judicious use of styrofoam can get around this.
If spam is such a problem for networks and humans (and definitely it is, and getting worse), then why aren't we seeing TV/Radio PSAs explaining why it is inherently a bad thing? Since everyone universally hates spam, this lack of public service information seems to be an implicit blind eye to the problem. Intel, AMD, Apple, etc. could bump up the corporate goodwill by publicly denouncing that which 99.9% of all email users consider to be a scourge of the internet. What would it cost, a few dozen millions in order to saturate the popular media for a few weeks? That's peanuts to these guys.
I have a feeling that spammers make a huge amount of money selling lists to other would-be spammers.
I deliver 30-40 babies a year
Yes, I know, and I've been getting these for a while now. Please stop the onslaught of poop machines!
So what's the answer, you ask?
Outsource to Canada, bring parkas.
(sorry)
Things like calculus and advanced chemistry should be introduced at as young as 9 or 10.
Yes. These concepts along with many other of the hard sciences can be easily introduced and taught to pre-teens via interactive computer graphics. It doesn't really matter that most won't fully understand it at that age (or maybe never), it will be good enough that a minority will and they will all be at least comfortable with the subject matter during future studies. There are incredible things that can be done by using computer simulation for education. I'm not talking about plunking a 5 year-old in front of a screen for hours full of ad-supported edutainment.
Note that this concept doesn't replace teachers. If anything, it demands better and more teachers.
Anyone (parents, mostly) that's taken the time to educate a child knows that they learn very fast and grasp larger concepts easily if they can "see" the concept and play and experiment with it. We all learn best from playing, because the consequences of making a mistake are trivial.
That's probably why computers are so compelling to inquisitive and smart people.
cities all over the USA who are perfectly happy to build stadiums at taxpayers' expense
The Expos just left Montreal for many reasons, but one of them was that the city/provincial/federal governments refused to kick in money for the construction of a new downtown stadium.
Effing stupid government, failing to underwrite millionaires' wishes.
Now we have the NHL strike/lockout (which, to me, is unimportant) that is another dispute between millionaires (I.E., athletes and their agents and owners). Who loses due to this pissing contest?
Hint, it's the "little people" whose jobs relied on these events, not the wealthy spectacles' main participants.
Sports events used to be a night out treat for the common man. What is the current cost of two tickets to a major league event?