Pale Blue Dot... Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
I'm not that new to linux, but i don't use it for work and so far I have allways installed it on test systems, allways starting fresh, trying a distro here, another there.
Eventually I'll have a stable system, with drivers for custom hardware (802.11 USB card), a fine-tuned XFree86.config, shell config scripts, the list goes on.
In this scenario, how most distros handle the update process? Will I have to strart from scratch again, or is it mostly painless?
Before email was widespread outside the academia, most of the interaction with your customers would be by phone, which if you're a developer can be a PITA, cause when the phone rings you have to stop whatever you're doing to take care of that immediately.
Nowadays I found myself dealing w/ customers thorough mostly email and (sometimes) IM, and it is so much easier to ignore it while on a coding rage and say deal with it once every hour. Customers still get a quick feedback and I can organize myself better.
Had this explosion taken place in a populated area the blood would be on our hands.
Nope. Had it been in a populated area this little story would never have been known. It would be blamed in eastern incompetence, failed economic models and so on. It is only good to brag about if it makes you look good. You know that much.
Your comment just gave me an idea, why not slow down the audio in half (keeping the pitch, common in most editing software) so that you don't need to pause/play? You could just keep yourself typing and finish a tape in two hours instead of four.
Automatic silence removal would also speed things up.
Out of curiosity, might as well ask someone who's in the field and there: what are the typical IT positions in Iraq? What skills are most sought after?
If you have some skill with the soldering iron and basic electronics knowledge (or a friend who does, for that matter), it's pretty easy and cheap to take your battery appart and replace the individual cells inside it.
On older laptops they are just a bunch of standard NiCads strapped together in a series/parallel fashion, no big deal (except that you must be carefull soldering as they can't take much heat).
Newer batteries can be more challenging, I don't know - never did this to any other than the old ones - but still worth the shot.
Movies have a definitive time they are out and you usually go see them during that period.
Books are much more flexible, you don't need to constrain yourself to a rigid schedule or anything. I usually go out a few times a year a pick several interesting books that I'll read as time allows me to. When deciding what to get, release date (that is, the 2003 books for example) is not even considered; I just search for interesting stuff or previously unknown stuff from interesting authors.
That brings forward an interesting detail: filesystems for flash-memory devices should be optimized to avoid writing often to the same memory area (the FAT for example) because the memory position may fail after a few thousand writes to the same position, or is this taken care at the memory controller level and the filesystem need not to care?
It may be the case that one FS is more or less adequate for flash devices given this restriction holds true...
While on the subject: portions of a DVD sometimes have a "no skip" or something flag, that prevents you from using the skip-forward or similar keys. Often seen in previews or in the infamous FBI warning (that you *must* see every time you put that DVD *sigh*)
Anyways: have any of you seen a comprehensive list of DVD players that allow you to easily hack and disable that "feature"? My sony player seems to require a mod chip for that, and I'm not very happy about having to get the soldering iron on it (plus the chip sells for quite a bit in Europe, so it sux)
Next player gotta be more user-friendly; gotta vote with your wallet!
How about a recipt withouth your name, that you see through a plexiglass windown and then it is dropped in a sealed box. You don't take it away with you, it stays there as a "paper version" of your vote, so that random audits can be performed so verify that the counts given by the machines match what the paper says.
Need a re-count? No problem, get the paper out. Simple, thrustworthy.
I would click SEND more often myself if the app would give you back a "support ticket number", or a bug ID in the DB so that you could look back later and see how many other entries have been logged for the same error and if a patch is in the making...
Now that would be cool! (and very much like an automated bugzilla interface compiled w/ the code...)
No troll here, I'm trully interested: could you please post some links to your current setup, suppliers for the pannels and other equipment used? (inverters? meeters?)
Anything on the subject... I was not aware that this was possible in today's world, and I'd like to learn more about it...
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Reminds one of Carl Sagan's words:
... Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Pale Blue Dot
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
For a split second, I read that title as if one of those fammous trolls came true.
;)
Oh well, one can only hope
I'm not that new to linux, but i don't use it for work and so far I have allways installed it on test systems, allways starting fresh, trying a distro here, another there.
Eventually I'll have a stable system, with drivers for custom hardware (802.11 USB card), a fine-tuned XFree86.config, shell config scripts, the list goes on.
In this scenario, how most distros handle the update process? Will I have to strart from scratch again, or is it mostly painless?
thanks!
Anyone happen to know which song plays on the video? It's actually quite good ...
Before email was widespread outside the academia, most of the interaction with your customers would be by phone, which if you're a developer can be a PITA, cause when the phone rings you have to stop whatever you're doing to take care of that immediately.
Nowadays I found myself dealing w/ customers thorough mostly email and (sometimes) IM, and it is so much easier to ignore it while on a coding rage and say deal with it once every hour. Customers still get a quick feedback and I can organize myself better.
he US having the ability to rain down death and destruction on anyone who gets in our way does make the world a safer place.
Nope. it makes instant enemies of almost all the rest of the world. Why do you think there is so much anti-US bashing around here these days.
Sad state of affairs indeed.
I believe you are talking about Tory Allen. A saw her climbing at Climb-Time/Indianapolis, and oh boy, is that impressive!
The story about the chimp is true, check the bio, in the above link.
You know, they are YOUR family, it does not hurt to be nice ...
my $0.02
RFC3251 - Electricity over IP
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3251.txt
Now THAT'S a beast I would like to see implemented!
Had this explosion taken place in a populated area the blood would be on our hands.
Nope. Had it been in a populated area this little story would never have been known. It would be blamed in eastern incompetence, failed economic models and so on. It is only good to brag about if it makes you look good. You know that much.
Your comment just gave me an idea, why not slow down the audio in half (keeping the pitch, common in most editing software) so that you don't need to pause/play? You could just keep yourself typing and finish a tape in two hours instead of four.
Automatic silence removal would also speed things up.
Out of curiosity, might as well ask someone who's in the field and there: what are the typical IT positions in Iraq? What skills are most sought after?
So your neighbors too can watch that spicy channel late night?
No thanks, I'll stick to regular.
now the battery has died
If you have some skill with the soldering iron and basic electronics knowledge (or a friend who does, for that matter), it's pretty easy and cheap to take your battery appart and replace the individual cells inside it.
On older laptops they are just a bunch of standard NiCads strapped together in a series/parallel fashion, no big deal (except that you must be carefull soldering as they can't take much heat).
Newer batteries can be more challenging, I don't know - never did this to any other than the old ones - but still worth the shot.
Be carefull to replace the cells w/ similar ones.
Movies have a definitive time they are out and you usually go see them during that period.
Books are much more flexible, you don't need to constrain yourself to a rigid schedule or anything. I usually go out a few times a year a pick several interesting books that I'll read as time allows me to. When deciding what to get, release date (that is, the 2003 books for example) is not even considered; I just search for interesting stuff or previously unknown stuff from interesting authors.
But it may just be me.
That brings forward an interesting detail: filesystems for flash-memory devices should be optimized to avoid writing often to the same memory area (the FAT for example) because the memory position may fail after a few thousand writes to the same position, or is this taken care at the memory controller level and the filesystem need not to care?
...
It may be the case that one FS is more or less adequate for flash devices given this restriction holds true
Is it just me or the first astronaut in this picture is likelly telling the other about the size of that fish he caught and let go? ;)
While on the subject: portions of a DVD sometimes have a "no skip" or something flag, that prevents you from using the skip-forward or similar keys. Often seen in previews or in the infamous FBI warning (that you *must* see every time you put that DVD *sigh*)
Anyways: have any of you seen a comprehensive list of DVD players that allow you to easily hack and disable that "feature"? My sony player seems to require a mod chip for that, and I'm not very happy about having to get the soldering iron on it (plus the chip sells for quite a bit in Europe, so it sux)
Next player gotta be more user-friendly; gotta vote with your wallet!
thanks!
the MSVS IDE is what keeps Microsoft/Windows up and above Linux as far as ease of development goes.
Have you tried #develop latelly? Free as in beer and as in speech;
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/
How about a recipt withouth your name, that you see through a plexiglass windown and then it is dropped in a sealed box. You don't take it away with you, it stays there as a "paper version" of your vote, so that random audits can be performed so verify that the counts given by the machines match what the paper says.
Need a re-count? No problem, get the paper out. Simple, thrustworthy.
I would click SEND more often myself if the app would give you back a "support ticket number", or a bug ID in the DB so that you could look back later and see how many other entries have been logged for the same error and if a patch is in the making ...
...)
Now that would be cool! (and very much like an automated bugzilla interface compiled w/ the code
What is time on Mars?
No troll here, I'm trully interested: could you please post some links to your current setup, suppliers for the pannels and other equipment used? (inverters? meeters?)
... I was not aware that this was possible in today's world, and I'd like to learn more about it ...
Anything on the subject
thanks!
hum, that would be KLOP ABEF ABEF :)