The FBI file actually says that the deal fell through, and that he stood to make 30k if he could make the study appear favorable to Gilette. Apparently he couldn't do this because he couldn't get the guy who was helping him with the study to help with the lie. Since it turned out that the study showed half preferred the gilette blade and half the generic. This doesn't prove that the lie detector doesn't work, but it might prove that gilette blades of that time period were no better than generic blades. Some FBI person wrote on the bottom of the page, "I always thought this fellow Marston was a phony, and this proves it". He obviously already didn't like the guy when he wrote this. So yes, he did try to lie about some test results to make some money off of gilette, but overall, the file seems like pretty good stuff. Included are letters and memos that talk about how the FBI was excited about the publication of Marston's book, and also Marston's letter to the President offering his services and expertise when the US joined WW2. Gotta love how/. submitters try to swing the story their way.
The Maxtor external drives are reasonably decent, but I've found that they arent as reliable as they seem. We bought 20 of these at work a year ago and 15 are still running. Of the 5 deaths, 3 were failures in the usb-ata electronics, and 2 were hard drive failures. These external hard drives are nice, but I wouldn't myself get too comfortable with them considering the failure rate I've seen. This was in an office environment with normal indoor conditions. The dantz software functions as advertised, and actually does incremental backups quite well. The only thing that holds me back from reccomending them are the failure rates, and for a home user that's an even worse problem, since the warranties on these things arent very long. The home user might not replace the drive in the case of failure at all or as fast as an IT department would, leaving themselves without a backup solution.
I still think tape backups are the best way to go, but most tape solutions are out of the price range of a home user, and the cheap ones don't have the capacity that modern users expect in a storage product. DVD backups are too much of a pain if you need to do any disk spanning. Blu-ray and HD-DVD give us some new options, but currently they are probably too expensive to consider if all you want is backup capability. Really the only resonable choice right now is the external hard drive backup solution, or if you're really serious about your data, you should set up a RAID1 array. If you choose to go the hard drive route, I'd do my research and find out who makes the most reliable external hard drive. Don't worry about what software is bundled with the drive, go ahead and drop 29.95 on SmartBackup. It does a great job and is rock solid for being so cheap.
We have a Designjet 5000ps, and it has 650ml ink tanks with the print heads seperated. Obviously you have to do this when dealing with printers this large. We only print about 15 feet a week on it, fairly light duty. The light cyan ran out about 4 years after it was purchased and I had to replace all 6 printheads(and the printhead cleaners) when I replaced the light cyan cartridge.
At $220 for each ink cartridge and 150 bucks for each printhead, I'm glad they last a long time!
Maybe this will teach them how to teach outside the (sand)box! Maybe they can harness their synergy with this new paridigm shift into sandbox free thinking.
We have a lot of conventional flights for science, so much of our work is run of the mill stuff that we've been doing for 20 years. We have a lot of small teams developing payloads for the balloons. Sure, there are some big collaborative projects, but I think the crux of what we still do is related to smaller teams and university teams. I'm not claiming to be the end all on information in these matters, being a lowly contractor myself, but I do have an ear on what goes on up here most of the time. This particular proposal was solicited, and we already had a good idea on how we wanted to do it. They came with this idea, and we didn't like it. We're currently developing something else that is a different approach. Who knows what the best approach is, I'm just glad I'm not the guy who decides all this stuff.
Well, I was being nice when I said "flawed in many ways". It was a total peice of crap.
This idea is not new, there has been a lot of research in this area and this idea was ours first.
Yes, we have a monopoly on scientific balloons, in this country. We supply millions of dollars in R&D money to lots of folks to advance balloon science, and if NASA were sending balloons to another planet, they'd certainly want to use the expertise of the 40+ years of experience of the BPO. We've been working on mars balloons as far back as 1996(IIRC).
A balloon is a very simple platform, and many science missions are flown from many universities around the country in our many flights every year. Isn't that what you want? Unlike many of the other science vehicles, our balloons can be paid for with currency that doesn't include the "million dollar bill".
This is funny because I work for NASA's Balloon Program Office, and I think this was an idea that we rejected. From what I remember, the relationship between Global Aerospace and the BPO went sour, so I assume that after we rejected their proposal on this, they went around trying to sell it to different parts of NASA.
We're developing our own balloon trajectory control system that hasn't been publicised yet, and it will be what flies on mars and earth, not this pile of garbage from GAC. I beleive the model they showed us was flawed in many ways, so we decided we could design it better in-house. Not really sure why there's an article on this, but you might as well not worry about any advancements on this particular project, as it will never materialize.
Woah guys, this is a bit incorrect. The survey was talking about CD
singles, not overall CD sales. The article you posted is a bit
misleading. Also, the most popular CD single still beat the most
popular digital single.
Could you please translate this for those of us that smoke crack? Now all we have is Caldera/SCO trying hard to be a defunct company! I need to wrap something around my torso before I bust my gut laughing.
Remember, it's not paranoia if they really are all out to get them. Now that I've seen those words, my time at Slashdot is done. I can move on. Darl's head must be spinning so fast that he doesn't know which way is up any more. I nearly blew Mountain Dew through my nose on that one. Quick, bust out vi and change all the variable names! By development methods, do they mean "use of the vi editor"?
You watch, SCO is getting ready to sue itself. Does Darl know you've found his stash? Who wants to be a Darl McBride? It's like saying gential warts is sexy.
This is another example of Microsoft buying its way out of trouble. I've just posted a rant on this subject, heres an excerpt:
A tiny bump for Microsoft, well worth keeping their "Hoe"EMs in the harem. I can hear the conversation now, "Where's my money Compaq? I know you sold more boxes than that, bitch! I want my money!"
Lets see... morning coffee... morning donut... morning SCO story... I'm so glad to see that they've landed on their feet. Normally I would have to pay top dollar for bullshit that rich and strong. Let us put aside any negative feelings we might have toward them and simply put flame to some feces on their doorsteps. After all... there can't be more than one person that actually comments their code, can there? In fact, they must be shitting their pants.
I apparently dont have the Karma-O-Matic, since this keeps getting modded down as troll and offtopic. I just thought it would be something funny for the slashdot crowd. Oh well.
Well everyone knows that two wrongs don't make a right, but three copyrights make a copyleft:) It makes sense, when you really hunker down and think about it. SCO has committed the most vile of sin. The article didn't mention if you received a license for one cpu along with the immunity from the standard baby killing.
Why did someone mod this down "overrated"? Is easily accessible contact information overrated? I'm just trying to encourage activism here, I love Google as much as the next guy.
Google really needs to grow a spine in matters like this. Let them know how you feel about censorship by contacting them. I've posted a rant on this topic here on my site. The rant contains contact information to do something about this, but I'm not a nazi, so here:
And here:
Google, Inc.
2400 Bayshore Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
phone: (650) 623-4000
fax: (650) 618-1499
I'm sure they would love to hear what the Slashdot crowd thinks about injustice like this.
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The Age is the only place i could find this story, and it contradicts everything that SCO has said so far. The only somewhat related story I could find is this one. Oh well, maybe I'm just paranoid, but I trust SCO about as much as a nigerian spammer on peyote, so I think they're up to something.
We need to make our voices heard in this issue so that we don't have this kind of thing happening in every state. Show some love to the Dave Bruns, the chief of public information of the Florida Department of Revenue.
Contact info:
Dave Bruns, Chief of Public Information
Voice: (850) 487-2747
Pager: (850) 531-3259
Fax: (850) 488-0024
E-mail: brunsd@dor.state.fl.us
I've taken the time to post a rant on this topic on my website, as well as this contact information. It is here.
I hope to make the website a hub for activism against issues like this one.
The problem is, when Sealand was created, England only claimed 3 miles of territorial boundary. They changed their claim in the 90's to 10 miles, therefore in Sealand's eyes, they're grandfathered in. I have no doubt that Sealand could be taken by england in two seconds, according to their own laws, they have no right to do so.
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The FBI file actually says that the deal fell through, and that he stood to make 30k if he could make the study appear favorable to Gilette. Apparently he couldn't do this because he couldn't get the guy who was helping him with the study to help with the lie. Since it turned out that the study showed half preferred the gilette blade and half the generic. This doesn't prove that the lie detector doesn't work, but it might prove that gilette blades of that time period were no better than generic blades. Some FBI person wrote on the bottom of the page, "I always thought this fellow Marston was a phony, and this proves it". He obviously already didn't like the guy when he wrote this. So yes, he did try to lie about some test results to make some money off of gilette, but overall, the file seems like pretty good stuff. Included are letters and memos that talk about how the FBI was excited about the publication of Marston's book, and also Marston's letter to the President offering his services and expertise when the US joined WW2. Gotta love how /. submitters try to swing the story their way.
The Maxtor external drives are reasonably decent, but I've found that they arent as reliable as they seem. We bought 20 of these at work a year ago and 15 are still running. Of the 5 deaths, 3 were failures in the usb-ata electronics, and 2 were hard drive failures. These external hard drives are nice, but I wouldn't myself get too comfortable with them considering the failure rate I've seen. This was in an office environment with normal indoor conditions. The dantz software functions as advertised, and actually does incremental backups quite well. The only thing that holds me back from reccomending them are the failure rates, and for a home user that's an even worse problem, since the warranties on these things arent very long. The home user might not replace the drive in the case of failure at all or as fast as an IT department would, leaving themselves without a backup solution.
I still think tape backups are the best way to go, but most tape solutions are out of the price range of a home user, and the cheap ones don't have the capacity that modern users expect in a storage product. DVD backups are too much of a pain if you need to do any disk spanning. Blu-ray and HD-DVD give us some new options, but currently they are probably too expensive to consider if all you want is backup capability. Really the only resonable choice right now is the external hard drive backup solution, or if you're really serious about your data, you should set up a RAID1 array. If you choose to go the hard drive route, I'd do my research and find out who makes the most reliable external hard drive. Don't worry about what software is bundled with the drive, go ahead and drop 29.95 on SmartBackup. It does a great job and is rock solid for being so cheap.
We have a Designjet 5000ps, and it has 650ml ink tanks with the print heads seperated. Obviously you have to do this when dealing with printers this large. We only print about 15 feet a week on it, fairly light duty. The light cyan ran out about 4 years after it was purchased and I had to replace all 6 printheads(and the printhead cleaners) when I replaced the light cyan cartridge.
At $220 for each ink cartridge and 150 bucks for each printhead, I'm glad they last a long time!
Apparently he was running his mysql server on dinosaur hardware!
Maybe this will teach them how to teach outside the (sand)box! Maybe they can harness their synergy with this new paridigm shift into sandbox free thinking.
:)
Ahh, its 1999 all over again
We have a lot of conventional flights for science, so much of our work is run of the mill stuff that we've been doing for 20 years. We have a lot of small teams developing payloads for the balloons. Sure, there are some big collaborative projects, but I think the crux of what we still do is related to smaller teams and university teams. I'm not claiming to be the end all on information in these matters, being a lowly contractor myself, but I do have an ear on what goes on up here most of the time. This particular proposal was solicited, and we already had a good idea on how we wanted to do it. They came with this idea, and we didn't like it. We're currently developing something else that is a different approach. Who knows what the best approach is, I'm just glad I'm not the guy who decides all this stuff.
Well, I was being nice when I said "flawed in many ways". It was a total peice of crap.
This idea is not new, there has been a lot of research in this area and this idea was ours first.
Yes, we have a monopoly on scientific balloons, in this country. We supply millions of dollars in R&D money to lots of folks to advance balloon science, and if NASA were sending balloons to another planet, they'd certainly want to use the expertise of the 40+ years of experience of the BPO. We've been working on mars balloons as far back as 1996(IIRC).
A balloon is a very simple platform, and many science missions are flown from many universities around the country in our many flights every year. Isn't that what you want? Unlike many of the other science vehicles, our balloons can be paid for with currency that doesn't include the "million dollar bill".
This is funny because I work for NASA's Balloon Program Office, and I think this was an idea that we rejected. From what I remember, the relationship between Global Aerospace and the BPO went sour, so I assume that after we rejected their proposal on this, they went around trying to sell it to different parts of NASA.
We're developing our own balloon trajectory control system that hasn't been publicised yet, and it will be what flies on mars and earth, not this pile of garbage from GAC. I beleive the model they showed us was flawed in many ways, so we decided we could design it better in-house. Not really sure why there's an article on this, but you might as well not worry about any advancements on this particular project, as it will never materialize.
Moments after this story was posted, the download links were unavailable. Glory be the power that is slashdot!
This post may contain anti-SCO content sposored secretly by IBM. In fact, they must be shitting their pants.
RTFL = Read the Fucking License
Darl: "Bwahahahaha. Mom, mom, it isn't fair! That big bully, GPL is cheating.
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Woah guys, this is a bit incorrect. The survey was talking about CD singles, not overall CD sales. The article you posted is a bit misleading.
Also, the most popular CD single still beat the most popular digital single.
Could you please translate this for those of us that smoke crack? Now all we have is Caldera/SCO trying hard to be a defunct company! I need to wrap something around my torso before I bust my gut laughing.
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Who wants to be a Darl McBride? I think that Darl's SCO gig is going to end Real Soon Now. Does Darl know you've found his stash?
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Remember, it's not paranoia if they really are all out to get them. Now that I've seen those words, my time at Slashdot is done. I can move on. Darl's head must be spinning so fast that he doesn't know which way is up any more. I nearly blew Mountain Dew through my nose on that one. Quick, bust out vi and change all the variable names! By development methods, do they mean "use of the vi editor"?
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You watch, SCO is getting ready to sue itself. Does Darl know you've found his stash? Who wants to be a Darl McBride? It's like saying gential warts is sexy.
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This is another example of Microsoft buying its way out of trouble. I've just posted a rant on this subject, heres an excerpt:
A tiny bump for Microsoft, well worth keeping their "Hoe"EMs in the harem. I can hear the conversation now, "Where's my money Compaq? I know you sold more boxes than that, bitch! I want my money!"
Lets see... morning coffee... morning donut... morning SCO story... ... there can't be more than one person that actually comments their code, can there? In fact, they must be shitting their pants.
I'm so glad to see that they've landed on their feet. Normally I would have to pay top dollar for bullshit that rich and strong. Let us put aside any negative feelings we might have toward them and simply put flame to some feces on their doorsteps. After all
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I apparently dont have the Karma-O-Matic, since this keeps getting modded down as troll and offtopic. I just thought it would be something funny for the slashdot crowd. Oh well.
Well everyone knows that two wrongs don't make a right, but three copyrights make a copyleft :) It makes sense, when you really hunker down and think about it. SCO has committed the most vile of sin. The article didn't mention if you received a license for one cpu along with the immunity from the standard baby killing.
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Why did someone mod this down "overrated"? Is easily accessible contact information overrated? I'm just trying to encourage activism here, I love Google as much as the next guy.
Google really needs to grow a spine in matters like this. Let them know how you feel about censorship by contacting them. I've posted a rant on this topic here on my site. The rant contains contact information to do something about this, but I'm not a nazi, so here:
Google can be contacted at comments@google.com.
And here:
Google, Inc.
2400 Bayshore Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
phone: (650) 623-4000
fax: (650) 618-1499
I'm sure they would love to hear what the Slashdot crowd thinks about injustice like this.
I've created a random comment generator for stories about SCO, with Slashdot in mind. All you geeks with no ability to write +5 Funny articles, here's your savior. Have fun!
The Age is the only place i could find this story, and it contradicts everything that SCO has said so far. The only somewhat related story I could find is this one. Oh well, maybe I'm just paranoid, but I trust SCO about as much as a nigerian spammer on peyote, so I think they're up to something.
We need to make our voices heard in this issue so that we don't have this kind of thing happening in every state. Show some love to the Dave Bruns, the chief of public information of the Florida Department of Revenue.
Contact info:
Dave Bruns, Chief of Public Information
Voice: (850) 487-2747
Pager: (850) 531-3259
Fax: (850) 488-0024
E-mail: brunsd@dor.state.fl.us
I've taken the time to post a rant on this topic on my website, as well as this contact information. It is here.
I hope to make the website a hub for activism against issues like this one.
The problem is, when Sealand was created, England only claimed 3 miles of territorial boundary. They changed their claim in the 90's to 10 miles, therefore in Sealand's eyes, they're grandfathered in. I have no doubt that Sealand could be taken by england in two seconds, according to their own laws, they have no right to do so.