"wake up people, cassini does not exist and for that matter NEITHER DOES JUPITER"
So when I take my telescope into my backyard and see that big non-twinkling globe with the four dots that seem to go around it when I look every night, or to a larger telescope at a local planetarium and actually see the cloud bands and the great red spot for myself, I'm looking at a governemtn conspiracy?
Oh right, it's the government chip implaneted in my brain to transmit govt approved images into my eye.:)
(why can't I just obey the sign "do not feed the trolls"...)
It depends. Your bandwidth could *be* your telephone line by the time they're finished. If IP telephony became commonplace enough, I might cancel my phone services.
.. still looking forward to being able to plug my phone directly into my hub...
I'm sorry if this is off topic, but I know why there's a manual recount going on in Palm county right now. It has nothing to do with fairness or legalities. It has everything to do with mathematicss and mechanics.
A number of facts:
1) The mechanical punch card voting system has been shown to occasionally miss poorly punched holes (CNN, others)
2) Palm county is HUGE. Around 300,000 voters.
3) Palm county voted primarily for Gore, perhaps 7 votes for gore for every 3 for Bush.
If even 3 tenths of one percent of all ballots are spoiled because of poor punching, Gore will get the 400 votes he needs to push him over the top. The Gore group is trying to increase the sample bias toward a county mostly on his side.
It looks as if neither candidate has 50% of the popular vote. Doesn't this mean that the majority of the American voting populace will not support the victor?
Another instance of "Icon gives context", user doesn't look at icon. I'll give in on this one.
An analogy would be Linux iconed articles refering only to "The Operating System", or Microsoft iconed Articles talking only about "The Corporation". You don't see that assumption as much. It's not that I don't want to see articles on American Politics on Slashdot, it's just weird to see it out of context.
I guess "election" is shorter to type and read than "US election". (as opposed to examples above). Oh well, time to burn off karma..
Regardless, tomorrow is the day. No matter what you believe, get out and vote tomorrow.
Personally, I plan to vote on November the 27th.
Ohhhhh the *AMERICAN* election.. Right, gotcha.
What about the other 95% of us on the planet?
At least the campaign here in the Great White North is marginally less boring than the one down south. Canadians seem to be the king of politics. If you do happen to get CBC, tune in Thursday night for the English debate. Do a comparison.
Wow, I get to rule your contry AND made slashdot history all on one contentless post. I'm honoured...
Actually I once submitted an "ask slashdot" if there was a bias toward giving high scores to posters in the eastern time zone over the pacific time zone, seeing as how everyone gets to work earlier. Got rejected of course...
The true geek will set up stop motion photography Web Cams in his home office, record himself coding, add in a cool techno soundtrack and stream it out to the world.
Maybe enchance it a litte and have his fingers dodge virtual bullets as they dance across the keyboard...
OK, I've been thinking about such devices for a while now (not actually able to buy one yet), and there's a few features I'd like to see. I'm still thinking of "rolling my own" someday, but probably one of these devices will catch up first.
Real time MPEG encoder cards are vastly superior to the first-gen all-in-wonder cards. Added to an 80 GB HD and you've got a lot of recording power.
Does anyone know if these channel lineup databases are public in any way? It would be great to be able to build a system that could query all episodes of "ALF" in your area so that you could cronjob all the recording. Step back for 3 weeks, and you should have a substantial collection. (Substitute ALF for your favorite show. If ALF *is* your favorite show, you need therapy).
TCP/IP connection via 10BaseT is a must, not only for fast download of database info (I don't have a local phone ISP, just @Home) but also to get data OFF the unit for:
Without some form of backup, storage of these files is a problem. Your unit would fill up with favorite program you were unwilling to get rid of and unable to transfer on to tape. As for backup? Dat tape? CD-Rom, DVD-Ram? It would be great to be able to generate a disk playable in a DVD player.
Fast editing would be a key feature too. What tools are available to take a half hour program and trim its commercials in about 2-3 minutes of user effort?
Don't get me wrong on the distribution thing. I would personally love to be able to build my own collection of home recorded DVDs of James Burke or Carl Sagan instead of racks of hard to store VHS tapes. Perhaps loan the DVD (physically) to my friends. I'd rather get these things from my cable line than from external sources. Bandwidth limitations gives the TV/cable industry a few years yet before the real sweating begins... (Why have cable when you can download that program and hour after it appears on air?)
Does anyone have a similar setup? Thinking about one? What other features would you want to see on one of these things?
Do you really think that the amount of fuel on board a space tug that can fit into the Shuttle cargo bay is at all consequential compared to the 102,619 pounds of liquid H2 and 1,359,142 pounds of liquid O2 onboard the external tank at liftoff?
At least (in theory) you can detach from it during liftoff. Sort of the option between pushing a button and opening the cargo doors. Yes, sometimes it takes too long to push the button.
A US unmanned heavy launch option would be good. Unfortuantely it probably won't happen for 5 years.
I would imagine the Right Thing to do would be to modify the Space Shuttle so that it could function as a shuttle for fuel between the ISS and planetside.
That modification would require converting the space shuttle into an unmanned spacecraft.
You've got far far to much to worry about in those 4 minutes of liftoff to add a large container of combustables to that cargo bay. Better to design a resupply ship and send up all the feul without people being anywhere close to it.
Gee, isn't this what the Russian Progress Module is?:)
The Americans might do well to emulate the Russians somewhat. This is the American's second space station. It's the russians sixth? Seventh? They know what they're doing, they just have a hideous lack of funding. (OK, you can argue against this, but the division of Soyuz, Progress, and Proton rockets makes more sense than a single semi-reuable shuttle... Again, this may change once a true reusable launcher becomes feasable.
Seperate out the functions of cargo into space and man into space. More rockets, but it should be more efficient that way. Only thing your missing is a "garage", that open payload bay of the space shuttle. Perhaps there should be some truss structure built onto the space station to haul the hubble space telescope back to the station to be worked on, etc. Also cool would be the pods from the movie "2001" (used in "Project: Space Station, for the C64 and IBM if I recall..:)
Geez, it takes me a half hour to have a dump and have a shower in the morning.... I think I've given up on breakfast myself, though a Nutrigain or Ensure can do the trick.
Robo-employee here works 60h per week and doesn't appear to have bodily functions.
I like the pager idea though...
Oh well, I work 37.5h/week at work then work another 80h/week taking care of my kids. Not in that priority, kids come first. So nyah.
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CNN.com does this, and it's bloddy annoying...:)
I actually have a page on my own web site (not for external browsing, www.arbutus.cx/navbar/) that has a narrow (75px) left sidebar frame where I can navigate between my favorites. Easier for me that having to drag around my favorites whereever I go.
CNN likes to kill my happy little side frame, which is a reason why I usually go to it last. But I guess CNN would have more "frame linking" problems (especially linking directly to articles). I wouldn't be happy is Slashdot did this (the first link on my side navbar), but I guess I could live with it.
As a sysadmin, the real question you should be asking:
"How the F**K do I back this thing up?!?!?!"
Sure it fits into a tiny rack mount, but the 25 tape DLT with robotic arm changer will take up the rest of the room!!! (OK, they have these things down to the size of a small refrigerator, but you get my point...)
1) You expend heat in either transformation (this is where the inefficiencies come in.
2) H20 isn't the best place to get hydrogen from. It's hydrocarbons, which hurt the environment. If you use H20, you need to get the energy from somewhere else, which is either nuclear power, or some other fossil fuel burning process.
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"wake up people, cassini does not exist and for that matter NEITHER DOES JUPITER"
:)
So when I take my telescope into my backyard and see that big non-twinkling globe with the four dots that seem to go around it when I look every night, or to a larger telescope at a local planetarium and actually see the cloud bands and the great red spot for myself, I'm looking at a governemtn conspiracy?
Oh right, it's the government chip implaneted in my brain to transmit govt approved images into my eye.
(why can't I just obey the sign "do not feed the trolls"...)
"I just wonder if they make a Steve Austin style noise when they're used ?"
I hear you move the bionic hand to give the finger, it says:
"AND THAT"S THE BOTTOM LINE, CAUSE STONE COLD SAYS SO!!!"
It depends. Your bandwidth could *be* your telephone line by the time they're finished. If IP telephony became commonplace enough, I might cancel my phone services.
.. still looking forward to being able to plug my phone directly into my hub...
I'm sorry if this is off topic, but I know why there's a manual recount going on in Palm county right now. It has nothing to do with fairness or legalities. It has everything to do with mathematicss and mechanics.
A number of facts:
1) The mechanical punch card voting system has been shown to occasionally miss poorly punched holes (CNN, others)
2) Palm county is HUGE. Around 300,000 voters.
3) Palm county voted primarily for Gore, perhaps 7 votes for gore for every 3 for Bush.
If even 3 tenths of one percent of all ballots are spoiled because of poor punching, Gore will get the 400 votes he needs to push him over the top. The Gore group is trying to increase the sample bias toward a county mostly on his side.
It looks as if neither candidate has 50% of the popular vote. Doesn't this mean that the majority of the American voting populace will not support the victor?
(Electoral College not withstanding)
Another instance of "Icon gives context", user doesn't look at icon. I'll give in on this one.
An analogy would be Linux iconed articles refering only to "The Operating System", or Microsoft iconed Articles talking only about "The Corporation". You don't see that assumption as much. It's not that I don't want to see articles on American Politics on Slashdot, it's just weird to see it out of context.
I guess "election" is shorter to type and read than "US election". (as opposed to examples above). Oh well, time to burn off karma..
Regardless, tomorrow is the day. No matter what you believe, get out and vote tomorrow.
Personally, I plan to vote on November the 27th.
Ohhhhh the *AMERICAN* election.. Right, gotcha.
What about the other 95% of us on the planet?
At least the campaign here in the Great White North is marginally less boring than the one down south. Canadians seem to be the king of politics. If you do happen to get CBC, tune in Thursday night for the English debate. Do a comparison.
Wow, I get to rule your contry AND made slashdot history all on one contentless post. I'm honoured...
Actually I once submitted an "ask slashdot" if there was a bias toward giving high scores to posters in the eastern time zone over the pacific time zone, seeing as how everyone gets to work earlier. Got rejected of course...
Does that mean the rest of us get to rule your country?
10) Fed to sharks and then used as fertilizer for Microsoft Campus Lawn.
...and as I wandered into the slashdot post page, they all yelled "Karma Whore!"
9) Boiled in oil
8) Exiled in a Klingon excommunication ceremony
7) "Would you like fries with that?"
6) Tech support for hotmail
5) 1000 lines by tomorrow: "I will not leak memos.."
4) Working at new Microsoft sattelite campus in Siberia
3) Tied down to a bench and had his pants run up the MS flagpole
2) killed slowly by... Snails....
1) Forced to debug Windows 2002
IMDB Link:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0190374
... it will probably break down in about 3 months... :(
Has anyone else here had problems with Acer products? I've resolved never to buy from them again.
It doesn't matter what IP you have when people are portscanning:
24.112.*.*
The IP blocks of @Home connections are WELL known and are scanned constantly by hax0r dudes across the planet.
Just treat @Home as a hostile network environment, and act accordingly.
Why 20 reasons? Reminds me of the good old days of D&D..
DM: And then suddenly the world of Almathia was destroyed by...
(roll d20... 18.)
DM: Alien Invasion!
Player: Aww, geez! Oh well, time to roll up another character...
The true geek will set up stop motion photography Web Cams in his home office, record himself coding, add in a cool techno soundtrack and stream it out to the world.
Maybe enchance it a litte and have his fingers dodge virtual bullets as they dance across the keyboard...
OK, I've been thinking about such devices for a while now (not actually able to buy one yet), and there's a few features I'd like to see. I'm still thinking of "rolling my own" someday, but probably one of these devices will catch up first.
Real time MPEG encoder cards are vastly superior to the first-gen all-in-wonder cards. Added to an 80 GB HD and you've got a lot of recording power.
Does anyone know if these channel lineup databases are public in any way? It would be great to be able to build a system that could query all episodes of "ALF" in your area so that you could cronjob all the recording. Step back for 3 weeks, and you should have a substantial collection. (Substitute ALF for your favorite show. If ALF *is* your favorite show, you need therapy).
TCP/IP connection via 10BaseT is a must, not only for fast download of database info (I don't have a local phone ISP, just @Home) but also to get data OFF the unit for:
1) editing
2) backup
3) online distribution^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmore backup
Without some form of backup, storage of these files is a problem. Your unit would fill up with favorite program you were unwilling to get rid of and unable to transfer on to tape. As for backup? Dat tape? CD-Rom, DVD-Ram? It would be great to be able to generate a disk playable in a DVD player.
Fast editing would be a key feature too. What tools are available to take a half hour program and trim its commercials in about 2-3 minutes of user effort?
Don't get me wrong on the distribution thing. I would personally love to be able to build my own collection of home recorded DVDs of James Burke or Carl Sagan instead of racks of hard to store VHS tapes. Perhaps loan the DVD (physically) to my friends. I'd rather get these things from my cable line than from external sources. Bandwidth limitations gives the TV/cable industry a few years yet before the real sweating begins... (Why have cable when you can download that program and hour after it appears on air?)
Does anyone have a similar setup? Thinking about one? What other features would you want to see on one of these things?
Okay, so you've hacked Slashdot, fixed the security hole and pulled a classic white hat move which will live in infamy.
What are you going to do now?
We're going to DISNEYLAND!!!
Uh Oh!
:)
Why didn't this get posted earlier?
Do you really think that the amount of fuel on board a space tug that can fit into the Shuttle cargo bay is at all consequential compared to the 102,619 pounds of liquid H2 and 1,359,142 pounds of liquid O2 onboard the external tank at liftoff?
At least (in theory) you can detach from it during liftoff. Sort of the option between pushing a button and opening the cargo doors. Yes, sometimes it takes too long to push the button.
A US unmanned heavy launch option would be good. Unfortuantely it probably won't happen for 5 years.
I would imagine the Right Thing to do would be to modify the Space Shuttle so that it could function as a shuttle for fuel between the ISS and planetside.
:)
:)
;)
That modification would require converting the space shuttle into an unmanned spacecraft.
You've got far far to much to worry about in those 4 minutes of liftoff to add a large container of combustables to that cargo bay. Better to design a resupply ship and send up all the feul without people being anywhere close to it.
Gee, isn't this what the Russian Progress Module is?
The Americans might do well to emulate the Russians somewhat. This is the American's second space station. It's the russians sixth? Seventh? They know what they're doing, they just have a hideous lack of funding. (OK, you can argue against this, but the division of Soyuz, Progress, and Proton rockets makes more sense than a single semi-reuable shuttle... Again, this may change once a true reusable launcher becomes feasable.
Seperate out the functions of cargo into space and man into space. More rockets, but it should be more efficient that way. Only thing your missing is a "garage", that open payload bay of the space shuttle. Perhaps there should be some truss structure built onto the space station to haul the hubble space telescope back to the station to be worked on, etc. Also cool would be the pods from the movie "2001" (used in "Project: Space Station, for the C64 and IBM if I recall..
Oh well...
Umm... When do you:
1) Eat?
2) Go to the bathroom?
3) Bathe?
Geez, it takes me a half hour to have a dump and have a shower in the morning.... I think I've given up on breakfast myself, though a Nutrigain or Ensure can do the trick.
Robo-employee here works 60h per week and doesn't appear to have bodily functions.
I like the pager idea though...
Oh well, I work 37.5h/week at work then work another 80h/week taking care of my kids. Not in that priority, kids come first. So nyah.
CNN.com does this, and it's bloddy annoying... :)
I actually have a page on my own web site (not for external browsing, www.arbutus.cx/navbar/) that has a narrow (75px) left sidebar frame where I can navigate between my favorites. Easier for me that having to drag around my favorites whereever I go.
CNN likes to kill my happy little side frame, which is a reason why I usually go to it last. But I guess CNN would have more "frame linking" problems (especially linking directly to articles). I wouldn't be happy is Slashdot did this (the first link on my side navbar), but I guess I could live with it.
As a sysadmin, the real question you should be asking:
"How the F**K do I back this thing up?!?!?!"
Sure it fits into a tiny rack mount, but the 25 tape DLT with robotic arm changer will take up the rest of the room!!! (OK, they have these things down to the size of a small refrigerator, but you get my point...)
1) You expend heat in either transformation (this is where the inefficiencies come in.
:)
2) H20 isn't the best place to get hydrogen from. It's hydrocarbons, which hurt the environment. If you use H20, you need to get the energy from somewhere else, which is either nuclear power, or some other fossil fuel burning process.
Crappy day for nature either way...
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