"With the completion of the successful X-43A flight and the ground-testing of several full-sized demonstration engines, confidence in the viability of the hydrogen- and hydrocarbon-fueled scramjet engines has increased significantly. NASA plans to launch another X-43A this fall and fly it at Mach 10, or 6,750 mph."
If you had read the article you would see that they can apparently also run on hydrogen, and that, unless I am mistaken, it is the fuel of choice because of its greater efficiency.
"Propulsion efficiency decreases with speed as we progress through turbojets to ramjets and scramjets to rockets; hydrogen is more efficient than jet fuel."
I got my eyes done last summer and I have absolutely no regrets. My eyes weren't awful (-2.75), but having 20/15 vision in both eyes is certainly a lot better. No more glasses flying when I tumble (I'm a gymnast), nore more glasses/contacts while swimming, no more blurry glasses in the rain, no more stepped on glasses during a nap etc etc etc.
It's a beautiful thing.
Make sure you get a good (experienced) doctor and make sure you take the valium if they offer it.
Moderation in all things my son. I'm a gamer too, and I have to limit my gaming to a reasonable amount. This means that I have to take care of my responsibilities and spend quality time with my spouse. I don't know that giving up on gaming is the answer as it's just a hobby. Some people build model airplanes, some people collect stamps - I blow people up on the internet. Hope that helps.
Vehicles can also be a good equalizer -- no matter how twitch fast that enemy is, if you're in a tank, and he's on foot, he's toast.
Not quite true. Indeed the tank has a great advantage, but I have taken out more tanks than I can recall with det-packs/C4 or even with just the bazooka and good dodging/hiding skills.
I'm self employed actually. Didn't you read the article? Anyway, my friends call me Ben, but while working I go by Benjamin. Though I wonder if you're pronouncing my name right. Practically no one does. It's just a ch with a hard O sound. Like ch + oat.
I guess either no one caught the fact that I was posting about my own quote or no one thought it was funny.
Planescape: Torment was one of the finest games I've ever played. Unfortunately the copy I played was pirated (I was in Russia at the time).
Even now I rarely buy games just because I can't afford to spend $50 on it. I'm really really poor. That's about all there is to it. If I could get the game for $20 then I would skip a few meals to do so, but for $50 I just can't justify it. The last game I bought was FFVII (which I bought off of eBay for $12). I bought it because I liked the game so much that I wanted to own it. I had already beaten it. Now I just don't play the games and make do with what I've got until I'm making enough money to afford them. It's too bad.
I am an independant contractor as well. I often go out to do work on-site.
1) Slashdot, I kid you not, it is interaction check...
2) Member of a Linux User Group check...
3) Ice Hockey Ref well.. no..
4) Excercise daily (jog, bike, skate, etc) I try... see #5
5) Do something with the wife hehe.. check
6) Do something with the dog I'm not into that kind of thing.. also see #5
7) Take courses (painting, etc) I'm a musician.. I'm thinking about taking up drawing as well. This is actually one of the main reasons I chose to avoid the standard 8-5 job. That and I hate corporate America.
I think that he did quite a good job. Sure the audio could've been better, but then again, he didn't have a $30M budget and you didn't have to pay $10 to go see it.
Thanks Simon, I enjoyed the video.
Benjamin Choate
Not that I disagree or anything, I just thought it was funny. I think that you both have good points. Maybe he could contact the company and give the software to them on the condition that they agree to release any needed information (now and in future products) for the development of better drivers?
Not really - it would be better to compare it to a religion than a company since the 'Open Source Movement' is more of an ideology than anything else. So since, SCO's from Utah why not substitute "mormons" for "open source": you're not born a mormon, you either become one by choice or are indoctrinated into the community by your parents just as parents indoctrinate their open source ideology onto their children. But just because there are mormons out there kidnapping young girls, it doesn't mean they're all guilty by association.
Not quite correct. Any "mormon" found to be kidnapping young girls would be immediately ecommunicated, and thus would cease to be a mormon. In the case of Elizabeth Smart, the kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell, had already been excommunicated many years previously and formed his own religion.
I understand that the poster was not attacking mormons in general, however the many comments I've read about Darl McBride being mormon and this "explaining it all" strike me as very uneducated and very closed-minded. I myself am a "mormon", a Linux user, a slashdot reader, and an open source advocate in my own small way. I am honest and fair in my dealings with others, and I deplore what Darl McBride and SCO are doing. I have formally complained to the FTC about SCO, and even written a personal letter to Darl McBride and the SCO executives expressing my condemnation of their blatently dishonest and (IMO) fraudulent actions and my desire for their cooperation and disclosure of any offending copyrighted code so that this charade can be ended.
While everyone certainly has their right to free speech, attacking all mormons because of what Darl McBride and SCO choose to do is simply bad form. Let's take a look at a controverial subject. Al Qaeda kills in the name of Allah and the Muslim religion. These are not just bad people who happen to be Muslim. They are killing Christans because of how they interpret their religion. So that means all Muslims are bad, right? Wrong. I know plenty of good people who are Muslim.
Stop the offensive stereotyping, it's distasteful and petty and when shared, conveys more about the stereotyper than the stereotyped.
Ooops, I left it in HTML... this is how I meant to say that:
if you look at the SCO executive profiles they all look like nice enough guys... except darl... he kind of has that... evil glint in his eyes. I bet he's POSSESSED THEM!
Take a look at them yourselves:
http://www.sco.com/company/execs/
(Foreword: I don't need any critical words OR acts of violence/terrorism committed against my person for my use of the web-based email provider named below. I began my account with the unsaid provider before they were owned by the unnamed current owner of unsaid provider so everyone has this address. If you can't contain yourself then read no further.)
Also... an interesting side note. Did anyone know that hotmail's junkmail filter regards mail sent from slashdot as junkmail? I thought that was hilarious. I was trying to get my password emailed to me and it would never come. Finally I turned off the filter and sent it again and it came:). Ben
if you look at the SCO executive profiles they all look like nice enough guys... except darl... he kind of has that... evil glint in his eyes. I bet he's POSSESSED THEM! Take a look at them yourselves:
http://www.sco.com/company/execs/
(Foreword: I don't need any critical words OR acts of violence/terrorism committed against my person for my use of the web-based email provider named below. I began my account with the unsaid provider before they were owned by the unnamed current owner of unsaid provider so everyone has this address. If you can't contain yourself then read no further.)
Also... an interesting side note. Did anyone know that hotmail's junkmail filter regards mail sent from slashdot as junkmail? I thought that was hilarious. I was trying to get my password emailed to me and it would never come. Finally I turned off the filter and sent it again and it came:).
Ben
In Moscow it was like 400 bucks for installation and then 80 bucks/month. It was a little better in Kazan -$300 something for installation but still around $70 or $80/month for service. BTW I've been to Latvia and Lithuania... I heard that estonia's nice though.
I currently use Windows XP for nearly everything. I use Linux (RedHat 7.3?) in my Java class at a private technical school that I'm currently attending. I have tried several times in the past to install Linux (usually RedHat but also Mandrake 8.0) on my computers and have *always* run into something that really prevented me from using it efficiently - or even at all.
I like to think of myself as someone who knows their way around a computer fairly well. My first computer was a 286 with 1 MB of RAM (I think?) and ran DOS. I have been very interested in computers my whole life and have worked as a technician building and troubleshooting windows/hardware as well as worked as a SysAdmin for a small network of Windows NT/2000 computers for a little while and now I'm learning to program. My point, I don't claim to be an expert but I'm certainly not granny. I'm usually the one that friends and neighbors call when they can't figure something out.
I first installed Linux about 4 years ago. I was irritated by Windows 98 always crashing and had heard about the stability and speed that Linux offered as well as it being free. I was about 18 at the time, had no experience with Linux and really noone around me who did, but I thought that I would be able to work it out with the documentation available online. I installed RedHat (5.x I think?) and could not for the LIFE of me get my hardware ISA 56k modem working. It's pretty hard to get help online when your modem isn't working. I ran to another computer and looked and looked and poked and read. I could not get it to work. Maybe I'm stupid, but this isn't really about that is it... it's about why I'm not using Linux.
Soon after I left the country and didn't even have my own computer for a while. Later, when I finally got my own computer again (I was in Moscow at the time) I decided I was fed up with Windows 98 (again:)) and wanted to give Linux a shot. I picked up a copy of Mandrake 8.0 and ran home like a giddy school girl. The installation was smooth, most of my hardware auto-detected and installed and I was on my way! I set up my internet account and tried to configure my modem. What's this? My modem doesn't work. I looked at my modem (which had worked fine on Windows 98) closely for the first time. Oh no! A winmodem!!! It was a lucent chipset and I was actually able to find a driver for it (though it did take about 2 days). Talk about amazing! After downloading it (I forgot to mention that I was dual-booting to 98) and putting it where I could get to it, I went back to Mandrake. And began following the instructions that came with the driver. It asked me to remove the current driver if there was one present. My modem's enumerator apparently had been detected and installed and so I looked for ways to uninstall it. I looked... and looked and looked and looked - you get the point. I could not find a way to do it, I don't know if I need to recompile the kernel or what, but remember, I am a newbie here, I don't know how to recompile the freaking kernel! I'm just installing Linux so that I can LEARN how to use it! Eventually I gave up on that and hoped that it wouldn't matter. Using whatever RPM program came with Mandrake I installed the driver. Nothing happened, no new hardware detected no nothing. I dinked around with it for several weeks (all the while still using Windows 98), I sent emails, I posted questions in various Linux-help forums. The replies I got were brief and not helpful, many of them pointed me back to the sigh where I downloaded the driver originally (which I had practically memorized). I was frustrated. While Linux would run on my machine, I had no internet access, which limited 80% of what I did on my computer at the time. Finally I backed up my needed files and installed Windows 2000. It ran well and was much more stable than Linux.
I would much rather have used Linux. I like the idea of Linux, I like the idea of a community of computer-savvy users banding together to topple the monopoly of Microsoft... and so on a so forth. Unfortunately I just couldn't get past these elementary things to even find out if I LIKED using it as a permanant solution to MS. I am not a complete idiot (my tested IQ is around 135), I am not grandma, I work in the IT industry for pete's sake! For me, Linux needs either better documentation or easier configuration/setup. Please feel free to disagree with me or call me stupid. I don't care... it still won't get my modem working.
That's my experience to take as you wish.
- Benjamin Choate
P.S. - I'm back in the States now and have a "new" (to me) computer. I have XP on it right now, but, due to a faulty mothergboard, I could not install Linux, but for some reason could install XP. I don't hold that against Linxu, I just need a new MB.
Slashdot Mirror
'nuff said
I think with all those processors and GPUs more likely it will be in the refrigerator ;)
"With the completion of the successful X-43A flight and the ground-testing of several full-sized demonstration engines, confidence in the viability of the hydrogen- and hydrocarbon-fueled scramjet engines has increased significantly. NASA plans to launch another X-43A this fall and fly it at Mach 10, or 6,750 mph."
If you had read the article you would see that they can apparently also run on hydrogen, and that, unless I am mistaken, it is the fuel of choice because of its greater efficiency.
"Propulsion efficiency decreases with speed as we progress through turbojets to ramjets and scramjets to rockets; hydrogen is more efficient than jet fuel."
troll: mod parent down
I got my eyes done last summer and I have absolutely no regrets. My eyes weren't awful (-2.75), but having 20/15 vision in both eyes is certainly a lot better. No more glasses flying when I tumble (I'm a gymnast), nore more glasses/contacts while swimming, no more blurry glasses in the rain, no more stepped on glasses during a nap etc etc etc.
It's a beautiful thing.
Make sure you get a good (experienced) doctor and make sure you take the valium if they offer it.
Udachi
-Ben
Moderation in all things my son. I'm a gamer too, and I have to limit my gaming to a reasonable amount. This means that I have to take care of my responsibilities and spend quality time with my spouse. I don't know that giving up on gaming is the answer as it's just a hobby. Some people build model airplanes, some people collect stamps - I blow people up on the internet. Hope that helps.
Vehicles can also be a good equalizer -- no matter how twitch fast that enemy is, if you're in a tank, and he's on foot, he's toast.
Not quite true. Indeed the tank has a great advantage, but I have taken out more tanks than I can recall with det-packs/C4 or even with just the bazooka and good dodging/hiding skills.
I'm self employed actually. Didn't you read the article? Anyway, my friends call me Ben, but while working I go by Benjamin. Though I wonder if you're pronouncing my name right. Practically no one does. It's just a ch with a hard O sound. Like ch + oat.
I guess either no one caught the fact that I was posting about my own quote or no one thought it was funny.
"He's no geek," says Benjamin Choate, a self-trained Linux user living in Logan. "His tan's too good."....
;)
What stunning elegance in his words... truly an icon to the linux community!
Planescape: Torment was one of the finest games I've ever played. Unfortunately the copy I played was pirated (I was in Russia at the time).
Even now I rarely buy games just because I can't afford to spend $50 on it. I'm really really poor. That's about all there is to it. If I could get the game for $20 then I would skip a few meals to do so, but for $50 I just can't justify it. The last game I bought was FFVII (which I bought off of eBay for $12). I bought it because I liked the game so much that I wanted to own it. I had already beaten it. Now I just don't play the games and make do with what I've got until I'm making enough money to afford them. It's too bad.
-Ben
I am an independant contractor as well. I often go out to do work on-site.
1) Slashdot, I kid you not, it is interaction
check...
2) Member of a Linux User Group
check...
3) Ice Hockey Ref
well.. no..
4) Excercise daily (jog, bike, skate, etc)
I try... see #5
5) Do something with the wife
hehe.. check
6) Do something with the dog
I'm not into that kind of thing.. also see #5
7) Take courses (painting, etc)
I'm a musician.. I'm thinking about taking up drawing as well. This is actually one of the main reasons I chose to avoid the standard 8-5 job. That and I hate corporate America.
I think that he did quite a good job. Sure the audio could've been better, but then again, he didn't have a $30M budget and you didn't have to pay $10 to go see it. Thanks Simon, I enjoyed the video. Benjamin Choate
Not that I disagree or anything, I just thought it was funny. I think that you both have good points. Maybe he could contact the company and give the software to them on the condition that they agree to release any needed information (now and in future products) for the development of better drivers?
Just a thought-
Benjamin
I understand that the poster was not attacking mormons in general, however the many comments I've read about Darl McBride being mormon and this "explaining it all" strike me as very uneducated and very closed-minded. I myself am a "mormon", a Linux user, a slashdot reader, and an open source advocate in my own small way. I am honest and fair in my dealings with others, and I deplore what Darl McBride and SCO are doing. I have formally complained to the FTC about SCO, and even written a personal letter to Darl McBride and the SCO executives expressing my condemnation of their blatently dishonest and (IMO) fraudulent actions and my desire for their cooperation and disclosure of any offending copyrighted code so that this charade can be ended.
While everyone certainly has their right to free speech, attacking all mormons because of what Darl McBride and SCO choose to do is simply bad form. Let's take a look at a controverial subject. Al Qaeda kills in the name of Allah and the Muslim religion. These are not just bad people who happen to be Muslim. They are killing Christans because of how they interpret their religion. So that means all Muslims are bad, right? Wrong. I know plenty of good people who are Muslim.
Stop the offensive stereotyping, it's distasteful and petty and when shared, conveys more about the stereotyper than the stereotyped.
Benjamin Choate
Sandy, Utah
Ooops, I left it in HTML... this is how I meant to say that:
:). Ben
if you look at the SCO executive profiles they all look like nice enough guys... except darl... he kind of has that... evil glint in his eyes. I bet he's POSSESSED THEM!
Take a look at them yourselves:
http://www.sco.com/company/execs/
(Foreword: I don't need any critical words OR acts of violence/terrorism committed against my person for my use of the web-based email provider named below. I began my account with the unsaid provider before they were owned by the unnamed current owner of unsaid provider so everyone has this address. If you can't contain yourself then read no further.)
Also... an interesting side note. Did anyone know that hotmail's junkmail filter regards mail sent from slashdot as junkmail? I thought that was hilarious. I was trying to get my password emailed to me and it would never come. Finally I turned off the filter and sent it again and it came
if you look at the SCO executive profiles they all look like nice enough guys... except darl... he kind of has that... evil glint in his eyes. I bet he's POSSESSED THEM! Take a look at them yourselves: http://www.sco.com/company/execs/ (Foreword: I don't need any critical words OR acts of violence/terrorism committed against my person for my use of the web-based email provider named below. I began my account with the unsaid provider before they were owned by the unnamed current owner of unsaid provider so everyone has this address. If you can't contain yourself then read no further.) Also... an interesting side note. Did anyone know that hotmail's junkmail filter regards mail sent from slashdot as junkmail? I thought that was hilarious. I was trying to get my password emailed to me and it would never come. Finally I turned off the filter and sent it again and it came :).
Ben
In Moscow it was like 400 bucks for installation and then 80 bucks/month. It was a little better in Kazan -$300 something for installation but still around $70 or $80/month for service. BTW I've been to Latvia and Lithuania... I heard that estonia's nice though.
I currently use Windows XP for nearly everything. I use Linux (RedHat 7.3?) in my Java class at a private technical school that I'm currently attending. I have tried several times in the past to install Linux (usually RedHat but also Mandrake 8.0) on my computers and have *always* run into something that really prevented me from using it efficiently - or even at all.
:)) and wanted to give Linux a shot. I picked up a copy of Mandrake 8.0 and ran home like a giddy school girl. The installation was smooth, most of my hardware auto-detected and installed and I was on my way! I set up my internet account and tried to configure my modem. What's this? My modem doesn't work. I looked at my modem (which had worked fine on Windows 98) closely for the first time. Oh no! A winmodem!!! It was a lucent chipset and I was actually able to find a driver for it (though it did take about 2 days). Talk about amazing! After downloading it (I forgot to mention that I was dual-booting to 98) and putting it where I could get to it, I went back to Mandrake. And began following the instructions that came with the driver. It asked me to remove the current driver if there was one present. My modem's enumerator apparently had been detected and installed and so I looked for ways to uninstall it. I looked... and looked and looked and looked - you get the point. I could not find a way to do it, I don't know if I need to recompile the kernel or what, but remember, I am a newbie here, I don't know how to recompile the freaking kernel! I'm just installing Linux so that I can LEARN how to use it! Eventually I gave up on that and hoped that it wouldn't matter. Using whatever RPM program came with Mandrake I installed the driver. Nothing happened, no new hardware detected no nothing. I dinked around with it for several weeks (all the while still using Windows 98), I sent emails, I posted questions in various Linux-help forums. The replies I got were brief and not helpful, many of them pointed me back to the sigh where I downloaded the driver originally (which I had practically memorized). I was frustrated. While Linux would run on my machine, I had no internet access, which limited 80% of what I did on my computer at the time. Finally I backed up my needed files and installed Windows 2000. It ran well and was much more stable than Linux.
... and so on a so forth. Unfortunately I just couldn't get past these elementary things to even find out if I LIKED using it as a permanant solution to MS. I am not a complete idiot (my tested IQ is around 135), I am not grandma, I work in the IT industry for pete's sake! For me, Linux needs either better documentation or easier configuration/setup. Please feel free to disagree with me or call me stupid. I don't care... it still won't get my modem working.
I like to think of myself as someone who knows their way around a computer fairly well. My first computer was a 286 with 1 MB of RAM (I think?) and ran DOS. I have been very interested in computers my whole life and have worked as a technician building and troubleshooting windows/hardware as well as worked as a SysAdmin for a small network of Windows NT/2000 computers for a little while and now I'm learning to program. My point, I don't claim to be an expert but I'm certainly not granny. I'm usually the one that friends and neighbors call when they can't figure something out.
I first installed Linux about 4 years ago. I was irritated by Windows 98 always crashing and had heard about the stability and speed that Linux offered as well as it being free. I was about 18 at the time, had no experience with Linux and really noone around me who did, but I thought that I would be able to work it out with the documentation available online. I installed RedHat (5.x I think?) and could not for the LIFE of me get my hardware ISA 56k modem working. It's pretty hard to get help online when your modem isn't working. I ran to another computer and looked and looked and poked and read. I could not get it to work. Maybe I'm stupid, but this isn't really about that is it... it's about why I'm not using Linux.
Soon after I left the country and didn't even have my own computer for a while. Later, when I finally got my own computer again (I was in Moscow at the time) I decided I was fed up with Windows 98 (again
I would much rather have used Linux. I like the idea of Linux, I like the idea of a community of computer-savvy users banding together to topple the monopoly of Microsoft
That's my experience to take as you wish.
- Benjamin Choate
P.S. - I'm back in the States now and have a "new" (to me) computer. I have XP on it right now, but, due to a faulty mothergboard, I could not install Linux, but for some reason could install XP. I don't hold that against Linxu, I just need a new MB.