I was part of a team responsible for snow making at a resort in the Sierras. We had a man-made resevior that held 1 million gallons. Took 14 hours to fill and 10 hours to drain when making snow. The snow that came out of the nozzles was perfect...
I came to work one morning, only to be greated with a plume of smoke from the compressor shack. Seems one of the aftercoolers sprung a leak, and ATF was being fed into the input for the main airstream. Imagine the cycle of death as the heat grew and grew and the ATF finally ignited. All the while being circulated and compressed....
The local volunteers put out the fire, but they left the smoldering air filters in place, and I had to take action to see that everything was truly under control, and then find a way to be back in business for making more snow asap.
We arranged for two giant portable Ingersol Rand compressors (12 cyl. supercharged Detriot Diesels) to be trucked in and set up as close to the manifold system as possible. Lots of fun with snow cats and blocks, etc. The bandaids did the job, and we were back to making snow in two days. The ski area was waiting for insurance to pay for the rental compressors, but the contractor wanted them back... I was ordered to hide the wheels and tires long enough to stall. Eight mounted sets of wheels/tires were placed into the area manager's pickup truck bed and covered with snow. He drove around for two weeks, and kept asking me where they were.... a man has to know his options.
Brace yourselves for another 10 stories in a row on how to piss in your pants without anyone knowing, or how to fly without wings, using nothing but peanut butter and airmail stamps.
I hate these stretches when he gets going like this. Time to filter him out, I guess. And I was so getting used to 1/2 decent items around here....dopey me for thinking the fog had lifted.
I never claimed it would happen by noon today. Lighten up.
You're in a small little world if you think CD's have a future. HP, as an example, just stated that DVD is their new norm, and such hardware will be ubiquitous by end of this year. Yamaha just dropped out of the CD writer market. Pirates in Asia can produce DVD's that sell for under USD$1.00, and still make a profit. The writing is on the cave wall, right where you live...try light. Not my problem if you or someone else can't afford better equipment. Don't get pissed at me for your shortcomings.
DVD-R, maybe....but CD-R's are simply too small. Apple and SUSE as an example distribute using DVD. The message is smaller media is already on the demise, so why encourage it. Otherwise, a 'reusable' piece of (free) storage isn't a bad way to gain some respect.
If it takes a patented search engine to link pages, we're all in big trouble. No one can improve on basic relevance, and claiming first dibs or mine is bigger than yours holds little promise over something we already call 'indexing'. Might as well patent the act of walking as a means of mobility.
This is just another misuse of the system in search of fatter wallets.
The application is called Hit Song Science (HSS) [clip] Now the company is working at various levels within all five major label groups. Some of the labels already using or exploring the service include Universal UK, Sony, RCA, J,(of the BMG group) Innocent,(of the EMI group) and Liquid 8 (independent).
These early tests already reveal that anything by Michael Jackson...all rap and disco and all music between 1988 and 2002 has been flagged by HSS as 'UC1' (utter crap, level one).
Select 'YES' to move hilighted items to the trash now.
Today, Kenwood announced a new model in their line of automotive head units that incorporates the fruits of their recent alliance with the Chinese software group SinOn.
SinOn is providing the AI side of the new MoDI car stereo that can be trained to recognize the owner's favorite style of music, and subsequently anticipate which streams, with permission, will be selected for play. The user simply puts the unit in training mode for approximately 10 hours, after which it is then set for autoplay. When set for autoplay, the software will prescreen all incoming audio streams and compare "underlying mathematical patterns" to determine if they match the listener's preference in music.
We tested the unit against the North Atlantic music satellite weave, giving it the suggested 10 hours of training. Once switched to autoplay, we travelled along the coast for two days, allowing MoDI to select music for us. We were happily surprised with the serendipity of track selection, and pleased with the seamless performance of the unit at all times.
We can report a positive experience with Kenwood's latest, and a recommendation for anyone looking for the newest in mobile audio while avoiding the pap of modern programmed listening.
This is the Opera, after all, so you would do wise to co-ordinate your alcohol with the performance, eh? Jack for 'The Turn of the Screw' and Tequila for 'La Bohème', perhaps. Only a suggestion to get you started. Feel free to ask your local liquor store owner for his/her advice...stop off on the way to the Met, I'm sure they will have just the brand to suit the event.
Buy a bottle of your favorite upscale whisky, and hit off of it frequently before the opera starts. I promise everything on stage will glow and appear more colorful. Heck even the sound will glow....you'll glow!
'Color by J. Daniels, of Tennessee'.
It's up to your partner to supply an upgraded scent, however. No platform-pizza jokes, please.
MS sells hotmail info to marketers. That means MS profits by selling my email address to spammers. If spammers are constrained, so is a prime MS revenue channel.
How is that kind of obvious scheme odd, except in that it is allowed to exist in the first place...
Remember, investing in MS is risking having your own money used against you in the marketplace.
Me too. Great software...always has been. I always compare other same type apps to BBEdit.
And I happily paid for a 6.x version mid-2002. When the upgrade to 7.x came out, and I saw the price, for the first time I stopped and asked if I was really interested. I've never questioned paying for BBEdit until now, but when the pricing structure for 7.x hit, I began to wonder if it was a tool I really needed. I don't think I'll follow along this time. I'm sure someone else will enter the market and replace BBEdit with the traditional no-limits text editing we've all enjoyed for so long. If BBEdit wants to be a major developer app, that's fine, but all I need is a text editor that can open any sized file, provide line numbers, and global search/replace.
Server Update. If you're not running OS X Server, this puppy will sit on your drive like the corpse of a dead muskrat under the front porch, rotting in the hot summer sun.
agree...not agree...what do I care...this is/. - not some cubscout meeting with rules. The day this place starts making sense is the day I move on.
You'd have more luck gettin popular agreement here by stapling your opinion to your ass.
Funny thing about my opinion...I never care whether anyone takes it or not. But when the back-chatter comes around as others talking out their little brown holes, it's kind of fun to be able to see them squirm.
Or was i absent the day they handed out./ debate manuals...joke.
Ok, as for proof...NDAs tend to get in the way, you know? Makes being able to read between the lines more than just a dating skill.
You mean when I said Safari would have tabs, and tons of people ran me down and others supposedly in the know said 'no way...not ever'...you mean to say that I was right all along?
Terabiit BM announced their latest offering in the 'Eye of the Needle' premium hard drive series, the LOC Plus, which uses the planetary orbit measurement of data storage and promises to hold in excess of 10X12> LOCs. The new unit goes on sale just in time for this season's channel fest on DynSat XIV.
A dictionary attack helps them determine which combinations are genuienly not valid, thus putting more uumph behind the guesses. They want to know when they are wasting effort...not if. In this case, a miss is as good as a hit.
And in other news, sendmail honeypots are more entertaining than ever.
...Yahoo, today, was accused of seeding 2.5 million user blogs with keywords designed to influence/fool/skew robots that attempt to identify what's cool by automatically searching weblogs for so called 'word bursts'.
How'd you like to go home tonight and tell your Mama that Socrates kicked your pimple ridden ass?
"Son! Oh my God!! What happened to you?" "Some guy named Socrates kicked my pimply ass..." "Socrates? Why, he's hundred of years old...my, my, my, you are such a shameless wimp. Next time, try making fun of someone on TV...they can't hear you and you just might not get your puny adolescent ass kicked so badly. Now go to your room and I'll bring you your glow-in-the-dark Gamegirl so you'll have something to do while you get 'betta."
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I was part of a team responsible for snow making at a resort in the Sierras. We had a man-made resevior that held 1 million gallons. Took 14 hours to fill and 10 hours to drain when making snow. The snow that came out of the nozzles was perfect...
I came to work one morning, only to be greated with a plume of smoke from the compressor shack. Seems one of the aftercoolers sprung a leak, and ATF was being fed into the input for the main airstream. Imagine the cycle of death as the heat grew and grew and the ATF finally ignited. All the while being circulated and compressed....
The local volunteers put out the fire, but they left the smoldering air filters in place, and I had to take action to see that everything was truly under control, and then find a way to be back in business for making more snow asap.
We arranged for two giant portable Ingersol Rand compressors (12 cyl. supercharged Detriot Diesels) to be trucked in and set up as close to the manifold system as possible. Lots of fun with snow cats and blocks, etc. The bandaids did the job, and we were back to making snow in two days. The ski area was waiting for insurance to pay for the rental compressors, but the contractor wanted them back... I was ordered to hide the wheels and tires long enough to stall. Eight mounted sets of wheels/tires were placed into the area manager's pickup truck bed and covered with snow. He drove around for two weeks, and kept asking me where they were.... a man has to know his options.
Brace yourselves for another 10 stories in a row on how to piss in your pants without anyone knowing, or how to fly without wings, using nothing but peanut butter and airmail stamps.
I hate these stretches when he gets going like this. Time to filter him out, I guess. And I was so getting used to 1/2 decent items around here....dopey me for thinking the fog had lifted.
I never claimed it would happen by noon today. Lighten up.
You're in a small little world if you think CD's have a future. HP, as an example, just stated that DVD is their new norm, and such hardware will be ubiquitous by end of this year. Yamaha just dropped out of the CD writer market. Pirates in Asia can produce DVD's that sell for under USD$1.00, and still make a profit. The writing is on the cave wall, right where you live...try light. Not my problem if you or someone else can't afford better equipment. Don't get pissed at me for your shortcomings.
Exactly how do PowerPC processors compare to regular x86 processors?
As stated, apples/oranges. RISC (PPC) vs. CISC. This discussion has been going on for eons. Use the net, Luke.
Me, I prefer RISC. Always have, always will. CISC is so yesterday.
DVD-R, maybe....but CD-R's are simply too small. Apple and SUSE as an example distribute using DVD. The message is smaller media is already on the demise, so why encourage it. Otherwise, a 'reusable' piece of (free) storage isn't a bad way to gain some respect.
If it takes a patented search engine to link pages, we're all in big trouble. No one can improve on basic relevance, and claiming first dibs or mine is bigger than yours holds little promise over something we already call 'indexing'. Might as well patent the act of walking as a means of mobility.
This is just another misuse of the system in search of fatter wallets.
The application is called Hit Song Science (HSS) [clip] Now the company is working at various levels within all five major label groups. Some of the labels already using or exploring the service include Universal UK, Sony, RCA, J,(of the BMG group) Innocent,(of the EMI group) and Liquid 8 (independent).
These early tests already reveal that anything by Michael Jackson...all rap and disco and all music between 1988 and 2002 has been flagged by HSS as 'UC1' (utter crap, level one).
Select 'YES' to move hilighted items to the trash now.
Get it over with and move up....find a way to wire in an iPod and live large :)
My 10gb iPod will stay in the car, and I'll get a new 20gb model to carry around.
I want software that writes itself first...
Today, Kenwood announced a new model in their line of automotive head units that incorporates the fruits of their recent alliance with the Chinese software group SinOn.
SinOn is providing the AI side of the new MoDI car stereo that can be trained to recognize the owner's favorite style of music, and subsequently anticipate which streams, with permission, will be selected for play. The user simply puts the unit in training mode for approximately 10 hours, after which it is then set for autoplay. When set for autoplay, the software will prescreen all incoming audio streams and compare "underlying mathematical patterns" to determine if they match the listener's preference in music.
We tested the unit against the North Atlantic music satellite weave, giving it the suggested 10 hours of training. Once switched to autoplay, we travelled along the coast for two days, allowing MoDI to select music for us. We were happily surprised with the serendipity of track selection, and pleased with the seamless performance of the unit at all times.
We can report a positive experience with Kenwood's latest, and a recommendation for anyone looking for the newest in mobile audio while avoiding the pap of modern programmed listening.
Of course :)
This is the Opera, after all, so you would do wise to co-ordinate your alcohol with the performance, eh? Jack for 'The Turn of the Screw' and Tequila for 'La Bohème', perhaps. Only a suggestion to get you started. Feel free to ask your local liquor store owner for his/her advice...stop off on the way to the Met, I'm sure they will have just the brand to suit the event.
Buy a bottle of your favorite upscale whisky, and hit off of it frequently before the opera starts. I promise everything on stage will glow and appear more colorful. Heck even the sound will glow....you'll glow!
'Color by J. Daniels, of Tennessee'.
It's up to your partner to supply an upgraded scent, however. No platform-pizza jokes, please.
MS sells hotmail info to marketers. That means MS profits by selling my email address to spammers. If spammers are constrained, so is a prime MS revenue channel.
How is that kind of obvious scheme odd, except in that it is allowed to exist in the first place...
Remember, investing in MS is risking having your own money used against you in the marketplace.
Me too. Great software...always has been. I always compare other same type apps to BBEdit.
And I happily paid for a 6.x version mid-2002. When the upgrade to 7.x came out, and I saw the price, for the first time I stopped and asked if I was really interested. I've never questioned paying for BBEdit until now, but when the pricing structure for 7.x hit, I began to wonder if it was a tool I really needed. I don't think I'll follow along this time. I'm sure someone else will enter the market and replace BBEdit with the traditional no-limits text editing we've all enjoyed for so long. If BBEdit wants to be a major developer app, that's fine, but all I need is a text editor that can open any sized file, provide line numbers, and global search/replace.
Did you? You 'get it' when you get that Sun is still trying to figure out what is what... :)
Sun announced today that they will alter their long standing slogan "THE NETWORK IS THE COMPUTER tm"...
To: "The TREK NOW is the CUT ME PRO tm"
~ that is all...move along.
Server Update ~ It's new, trust us.
Server Update. If you're not running OS X Server, this puppy will sit on your drive like the corpse of a dead muskrat under the front porch, rotting in the hot summer sun.
agree...not agree...what do I care...this is /. - not some cubscout meeting with rules. The day this place starts making sense is the day I move on.
./ debate manuals...joke.
You'd have more luck gettin popular agreement here by stapling your opinion to your ass.
Funny thing about my opinion...I never care whether anyone takes it or not. But when the back-chatter comes around as others talking out their little brown holes, it's kind of fun to be able to see them squirm.
Or was i absent the day they handed out
Ok, as for proof...NDAs tend to get in the way, you know? Makes being able to read between the lines more than just a dating skill.
You mean when I said Safari would have tabs, and tons of people ran me down and others supposedly in the know said 'no way...not ever'...you mean to say that I was right all along?
Imagine that.
Terabiit BM announced their latest offering in the 'Eye of the Needle' premium hard drive series, the LOC Plus, which uses the planetary orbit measurement of data storage and promises to hold in excess of 10X12> LOCs. The new unit goes on sale just in time for this season's channel fest on DynSat XIV.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/bugs/default.asp
A dictionary attack helps them determine which combinations are genuienly not valid, thus putting more uumph behind the guesses. They want to know when they are wasting effort...not if. In this case, a miss is as good as a hit.
And in other news, sendmail honeypots are more entertaining than ever.
...Yahoo, today, was accused of seeding 2.5 million user blogs with keywords designed to influence/fool/skew robots that attempt to identify what's cool by automatically searching weblogs for so called 'word bursts'.
How'd you like to go home tonight and tell your Mama that Socrates kicked your pimple ridden ass?
"Son! Oh my God!! What happened to you?" "Some guy named Socrates kicked my pimply ass..." "Socrates? Why, he's hundred of years old...my, my, my, you are such a shameless wimp. Next time, try making fun of someone on TV...they can't hear you and you just might not get your puny adolescent ass kicked so badly. Now go to your room and I'll bring you your glow-in-the-dark Gamegirl so you'll have something to do while you get 'betta."