I live where Rita struck in 05. We took a direct hit from the eye, I live at ground zero. I brought up google maps and google earth (linux) and both are showing POST hurricane photos, at least for the area that Rita hit.. I even know the approximate date of the photos because of my roof and yard, I put a white metal roof on the house in spring of 06 but still had trees down in the back yard, so it's my guess that the google maps photos of our area were taken around April or May of 06.
The previous google photos of our area were at least 10 years old. Several other aerial photo services such as M$ and two or three others all have very outdated photos of our area.
I still think google is evil to the core and I avoid using them at all costs, I won't use google search at all anymore, I prefer http://clusty.com/
that the additional gravitational pull of a second or third sun could contribute to a more vigorous tectonic activity level than would be present in a single star system, perhaps keeping the core of the planet(s) hot and this might keep the magnetic core active enough to preserve an atmosphere. Maybe this would be more conducive to a life sustaining environment, even for planets further out from their sun than ours is. It's an old concept that a planet has to be just the right size, it's sun has to be just the right size and it must be a certain distance from that sun for life to rise and evolve. I think there may be many exceptions to this rule. We are already beginning to seriously rethink our very own little solar system. I think we will soon conclude that life is VERY COMMON in the universe and maybe even in our own back yard.
My first real taste of Linux was Mandrake. I had played with Redhat off and on beginning with Redhat 3.0 (I still have the factory CD I bought) but when I abandoned M$ and converted fully to Linux it was Mandrake. Absolute CRAP. I spent a full year pissing in the wind trying to get Mandrake stabilized and functional but it was always locking up causing me to press the reset button several times a day, each time causing serious damage to the file system.
I finally got a belly full of Mandrake and installed Suse 8.1 From that point on life went so much smoother. I could at last use my computer rather than spend all my time fighting to keep it running or to get it running in the first place.
Being that this new distro is the spawn of one of the Mandrake people I already know without looking that it's shit. I'll pass and I suggest that you pass too if you want a functional, stable system. Now I am in the process of converting my systems from Suse to Gentoo because of the Micro-Novell debacle. Go Debian or Gentoo but avoid Mandr* inspired distros at all costs.
Micro-Suse. Seriously, with all the BS that's gone down over the past few years and the new souls M$ purchased for the low low price of 30 pieces of silver, do you really think it will be anything else?
You know what? I don't care that the back drops are painted. So what? It's just the original way of doing it now. Now everything is computer generated.
What's the big deal you say? With modern CG type movies, the actors suck, the scripts suck, the direction sucks, the entire plot sucks. They attempt to disguise these facts with lots of shit blowing up (CG), extreme closeups and shakey camera shots (example, the new BSG shows).. With all of those distractions the audience doesn't care if the actors can't act, they are too busy having orgasms over the CG explosions, closeups, LOUD music and shakey-cam.
In the OLD movies the actors had to make you BELIEVE in what they were doing, you were engrossed in the plot, the actors/actresses convinced you that it was all real. You didn't care that the back drops were painted or the trees were fakes on a sound stage.
Try watching some classics on TCM sometime. Let me recommend North by Northwest and The Man Who Knew too Much (1956 Jimmy Stewart & Doris Day) for some real entertainment.
Fuck you very much. You are traitors and profiteering scumbags. You sold your soul to the devil for 30 pieces of silver and you're trying to take everyone else down with you.
Go to hell and die. I was a loyal Suse user and financial supporter. No more. I would rather sandpaper a bobcat's ass in a phonebooth than use a Micro-Novell product.
I've recently installed Open Office and Gimp on a few of my customers M$ machines when they were facing the option of a $$$$ M$ Office & Adobe photoshop purchase. Their response? "Free? No way!" Two weeks later: "I LOVE these programs, they work great! Thanks!" I charged them nothing to install the programs, I did it for free because I like my customers and want to keep them happy. I'm not out to gouge them, I'm there to make happy customers.
I don't expect them to convert to a "Linux" installation because they use some proprietary applications for their business but some of them may entertain the idea for their home computers.
How long before they begin to offer new movies ONLY on the new discs thus forcing us old timers to "upgrade or die"?
I have no use for this new hi-def stuff. My old legacy dvd players and TV's work fine, thank you very much and I don't and won't shell out for new equipment, period. People throw away old CRT TV's all the time, I just pick them up from the curb, repair them and "watch on".. It will be many years before I run out of old style legacy CRT's. I get them for free and it costs me just about as much to repair them. Why should I go spend money on new stuff when what I have works fine?
Besides, most of the new movies suck anyway. Too much CG and "shaky-cam" and not enough real acting. I'm perfectly happy watching Turner Classic Movies on my 36" CRT which looks most excellent!
Who is to say how Sci-fi should be presented since it's bullshit from the get go. Some people may get a chubby over the more recent Star Trek shows because they throw in some actual scientific lingo but it's just buzz words that make the eyes of the masses glaze over. Anyone with a decent IQ knows they are just spitting out buzz words and on a very rare occassion they throw out an actual working theory.
Hell, it's entertainment. Leave it alone. If it's space opera, then fine, let it be space opera. I like the original "Space Westerns" concept. I am currently watching every episode of "Lost in Space" which I grew up with. It's the ultimate in cheesy sci-fi with very little "sci" and a whole lot of "fi"
I saw this on The Science Channel and I knew instantly that I had to have one. I'm going to put solar panels up to power the compressor. Then I plan to drive around to all the gas stations, pull up to the pump sit there a minute then proclaim "No, I don't think so." as I pull away with a huge shit eating grin.
FU to all the mega corporations that have made it religion to rape the little people into utter poverty.
The PC sellers don't make much money on the hardware, they make their big bucks on support and extended warranties.
They are too "Linux ignorant" to support Linux, IE field tech support calls, hell they barely can handle supporting M$. But your typical PC owner is dumber than the cue card readers at the tech support centers and they think the person reading cue cards in India or Pakistan are GODS of technology. What's the typical solution to a PC problem? Put in the system restore disc, wipe it clean and install a fresh copy of M$. What a wonderful solution. Solving Linux problems that way isn't acceptable and reading cue cards for Linux won't work either, it requires someone that knows what they are doing to solve a Linux problem over the phone.
Dell and companies like them rake in huge $$$ fielding calls for the M$ boxes they peddle and for selling extended warranties. I know several people that recently bought new Dell's and they dropped an extra $500 for priority support. One person had a mobo die and Dell sent someone out to replace it the next day. That was fine for them, for Dell, warranties are a crap shoot, just as all "insurance" is.
As long as they can make money from your misery you'll never see naked PC's being offered by the big companies. Their business model is a parasitical one.
I hope they have some or will have some. I was looking around the many NASA pages and discovered that there are a LOT of 3D stereoscopic images online from Mars, the new Solar STEREO twin satellites, etc.. I found so much stuff that I decided to order a professional grade pair of 3D glasses for viewing it.
I agree 100% with you on all points. Last time I went to a theater was about 10 years ago with the wife & kids and it was a miserable experience. The teenagers running the system obviously were suffering severe hearing loss (from their 200,000 watt ghettomobiles). They had turned the sound levels up in the theater so loud that the speakers rattled and it hurt my ears. I was PISSED. The picture quality was shit too. And every dumbass in there had a cell phone going off every 10 minutes.
Of course the kids had to have sodas and snacks so add that to the ticket price plus gas to get there and back and it was like $50 by the time it was all said and done.
I swore then that I would never piss my money away on a movie ever again. I have a 36" TV and an HTPC and I can watch stuff now without the shitty video, shitty sound, dumbasses with cellphones and high prices. Best thing, I can pause it to go to the bathroom or walk the dogs. Now it's MY theater and I'm the projectionist and I call the shots.
I upgraded from Suse 10.0 to 10.1 and I was PISSED at the total piece of shit, I think it was called "Smart" or something like that. What a pile of monkey shit that was. I found it to be so broken and so unusable that I wiped my disk clean and reinstalled Suse 10.0.
I have no intentions of even looking into 10.2 because I'm in the process of backing up everything so I can wipe Suse (for their sins) from my system and replace it with Gentoo. 2007.0 should be out soon but I'm going to go ahead and load up with 2006.1 for now.
Heh.. My dogs are trained not to eat *anything* without my approval. Ever seen a movie where some evil bad guy has two scary looking dogs, he places a steak in front of each one then sits down to eat his steak, after taking a bite he snaps his fingers and the dogs wolf down their steaks? My dogs are trained like that. They will NOT touch food or water until I tell them to.
I have no worries about someone trying to slip them something. Besides, they live indoors with me, when they go outside I stay with them the entire time. They are under my never blinking eye 24/7.. Oh, and lots of NV cameras, all running on SIX 3kw battery backup systems. I also have a 60kw military generator. Cut my power and I'll stay fully powered up inside for over 12 hours, longer if I shut down non-essentials. That's on battery alone. My generator can power half my neighborhood. I learned some lessons after going through a hurricane and have made adjustments. Cops don't protect you from bad guys, they just show up and write reports after it's all over with. YOU are your first line of defense.
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I live where Rita struck in 05. We took a direct hit from the eye, I live at ground zero.
I brought up google maps and google earth (linux) and both are showing POST hurricane photos, at least for the area that Rita hit..
I even know the approximate date of the photos because of my roof and yard, I put a white metal roof on the house in spring of 06 but still had trees down in the back yard, so it's my guess that the google maps photos of our area were taken around April or May of 06.
The previous google photos of our area were at least 10 years old.
Several other aerial photo services such as M$ and two or three others all have very outdated photos of our area.
I still think google is evil to the core and I avoid using them at all costs, I won't use google search at all anymore, I prefer http://clusty.com/
that the additional gravitational pull of a second or third sun could contribute to a more vigorous tectonic activity level than would be present in a single star system, perhaps keeping the core of the planet(s) hot and this might keep the magnetic core active enough to preserve an atmosphere.
Maybe this would be more conducive to a life sustaining environment, even for planets further out from their sun than ours is. It's an old concept that a planet has to be just the right size, it's sun has to be just the right size and it must be a certain distance from that sun for life to rise and evolve.
I think there may be many exceptions to this rule. We are already beginning to seriously rethink our very own little solar system. I think we will soon conclude that life is VERY COMMON in the universe and maybe even in our own back yard.
At least I hope so.
it's crap.
My first real taste of Linux was Mandrake. I had played with Redhat off and on beginning with Redhat 3.0 (I still have the factory CD I bought) but when I abandoned M$ and converted fully to Linux it was Mandrake.
Absolute CRAP. I spent a full year pissing in the wind trying to get Mandrake stabilized and functional but it was always locking up causing me to press the reset button several times a day, each time causing serious damage to the file system.
I finally got a belly full of Mandrake and installed Suse 8.1
From that point on life went so much smoother. I could at last use my computer rather than spend all my time fighting to keep it running or to get it running in the first place.
Being that this new distro is the spawn of one of the Mandrake people I already know without looking that it's shit. I'll pass and I suggest that you pass too if you want a functional, stable system.
Now I am in the process of converting my systems from Suse to Gentoo because of the Micro-Novell debacle.
Go Debian or Gentoo but avoid Mandr* inspired distros at all costs.
Easy to use =/= good.
Micro-Suse. Seriously, with all the BS that's gone down over the past few years and the new souls M$ purchased for the low low price of 30 pieces of silver, do you really think it will be anything else?
You know what? I don't care that the back drops are painted. So what? It's just the original way of doing it now. Now everything is computer generated.
What's the big deal you say? With modern CG type movies, the actors suck, the scripts suck, the direction sucks, the entire plot sucks. They attempt to disguise these facts with lots of shit blowing up (CG), extreme closeups and shakey camera shots (example, the new BSG shows).. With all of those distractions the audience doesn't care if the actors can't act, they are too busy having orgasms over the CG explosions, closeups, LOUD music and shakey-cam.
In the OLD movies the actors had to make you BELIEVE in what they were doing, you were engrossed in the plot, the actors/actresses convinced you that it was all real. You didn't care that the back drops were painted or the trees were fakes on a sound stage.
Try watching some classics on TCM sometime. Let me recommend North by Northwest and The Man Who Knew too Much (1956 Jimmy Stewart & Doris Day) for some real entertainment.
BTW, get off my grass!!
Fuck you very much.
You are traitors and profiteering scumbags.
You sold your soul to the devil for 30 pieces of silver and you're trying to take everyone else down with you.
Go to hell and die. I was a loyal Suse user and financial supporter. No more.
I would rather sandpaper a bobcat's ass in a phonebooth than use a Micro-Novell product.
That will be all.
I've recently installed Open Office and Gimp on a few of my customers M$ machines when they were facing the option of a $$$$ M$ Office & Adobe photoshop purchase.
Their response? "Free? No way!"
Two weeks later: "I LOVE these programs, they work great! Thanks!"
I charged them nothing to install the programs, I did it for free because I like my customers and want to keep them happy. I'm not out to gouge them, I'm there to make happy customers.
I don't expect them to convert to a "Linux" installation because they use some proprietary applications for their business but some of them may entertain the idea for their home computers.
It's the camel's nose under the tent.
How long before they begin to offer new movies ONLY on the new discs thus forcing us old timers to "upgrade or die"?
I have no use for this new hi-def stuff. My old legacy dvd players and TV's work fine, thank you very much and I don't and won't shell out for new equipment, period. People throw away old CRT TV's all the time, I just pick them up from the curb, repair them and "watch on".. It will be many years before I run out of old style legacy CRT's. I get them for free and it costs me just about as much to repair them.
Why should I go spend money on new stuff when what I have works fine?
Besides, most of the new movies suck anyway. Too much CG and "shaky-cam" and not enough real acting.
I'm perfectly happy watching Turner Classic Movies on my 36" CRT which looks most excellent!
I mean come on, it's science FICTION, FFS..
Who is to say how Sci-fi should be presented since it's bullshit from the get go.
Some people may get a chubby over the more recent Star Trek shows because they throw in some actual scientific lingo but it's just buzz words that make the eyes of the masses glaze over. Anyone with a decent IQ knows they are just spitting out buzz words and on a very rare occassion they throw out an actual working theory.
Hell, it's entertainment. Leave it alone. If it's space opera, then fine, let it be space opera.
I like the original "Space Westerns" concept. I am currently watching every episode of "Lost in Space" which I grew up with. It's the ultimate in cheesy sci-fi with very little "sci" and a whole lot of "fi"
Really, what else can fiction be but fiction?
I guess you didn't see the many programs on The Science Channel about this car, nor read the website about the safety features.
I would rather ride around on a tank of compressed air than a tank full of GASOLINE. Thank you that will be all.
I saw this on The Science Channel and I knew instantly that I had to have one.
I'm going to put solar panels up to power the compressor.
Then I plan to drive around to all the gas stations, pull up to the pump
sit there a minute then proclaim "No, I don't think so." as I pull away with a huge shit eating grin.
FU to all the mega corporations that have made it religion to rape the little people into utter poverty.
Live free or die! (Through recycling)
The PC sellers don't make much money on the hardware, they make their big bucks on support and extended warranties.
They are too "Linux ignorant" to support Linux, IE field tech support calls, hell they barely can handle supporting M$. But your typical PC owner is dumber than the cue card readers at the tech support centers and they think the person reading cue cards in India or Pakistan are GODS of technology. What's the typical solution to a PC problem? Put in the system restore disc, wipe it clean and install a fresh copy of M$. What a wonderful solution. Solving Linux problems that way isn't acceptable and reading cue cards for Linux won't work either, it requires someone that knows what they are doing to solve a Linux problem over the phone.
Dell and companies like them rake in huge $$$ fielding calls for the M$ boxes they peddle and for selling extended warranties. I know several people that recently bought new Dell's and they dropped an extra $500 for priority support. One person had a mobo die and Dell sent someone out to replace it the next day.
That was fine for them, for Dell, warranties are a crap shoot, just as all "insurance" is.
As long as they can make money from your misery you'll never see naked PC's being offered by the big companies. Their business model is a parasitical one.
That's what you humans think!
For the naysayers..
to do Vince?
Google made my list of sucky corporations a long time ago.
I've banned google from my network. There's a new search engine in town.
http://clusty.com/
See ya google.
I hope they have some or will have some.
I was looking around the many NASA pages and discovered that there are a LOT of 3D stereoscopic images online from Mars, the new Solar STEREO twin satellites, etc.. I found so much stuff that I decided to order a professional grade pair of 3D glasses for viewing it.
I agree 100% with you on all points.
Last time I went to a theater was about 10 years ago with the wife & kids and it was a miserable experience.
The teenagers running the system obviously were suffering severe hearing loss (from their 200,000 watt ghettomobiles). They had turned the sound levels up in the theater so loud that the speakers rattled and it hurt my ears. I was PISSED. The picture quality was shit too. And every dumbass in there had a cell phone going off every 10 minutes.
Of course the kids had to have sodas and snacks so add that to the ticket price plus gas to get there and back and it was like $50 by the time it was all said and done.
I swore then that I would never piss my money away on a movie ever again.
I have a 36" TV and an HTPC and I can watch stuff now without the shitty video, shitty sound, dumbasses with cellphones and high prices. Best thing, I can pause it to go to the bathroom or walk the dogs.
Now it's MY theater and I'm the projectionist and I call the shots.
Traditional theaters are so yesteryear.
/etc is where you put all your etc stuff. /etc and it's there every time.
When I need to get to my etc stuff I always look in
Doh! Anyone knows that!
haha tag
1. Horse
2. Gate
3. ???
4. Profit!
How about a MINIMUM of two years in prison?
I upgraded from Suse 10.0 to 10.1 and I was PISSED at the total piece of shit, I think it was called "Smart" or something like that. What a pile of monkey shit that was. I found it to be so broken and so unusable that I wiped my disk clean and reinstalled Suse 10.0.
I have no intentions of even looking into 10.2 because I'm in the process of backing up everything so I can wipe Suse (for their sins) from my system and replace it with Gentoo. 2007.0 should be out soon but I'm going to go ahead and load up with 2006.1 for now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_Effect
Invented almost 200 years ago. I have a huge box full of Peltier "chips" sitting in my store room..
Heh.. My dogs are trained not to eat *anything* without my approval.
Ever seen a movie where some evil bad guy has two scary looking dogs, he places a steak in front of each one then sits down to eat his steak, after taking a bite he snaps his fingers and the dogs wolf down their steaks?
My dogs are trained like that. They will NOT touch food or water until I tell them to.
I have no worries about someone trying to slip them something. Besides, they live indoors with me, when they go outside I stay with them the entire time. They are under my never blinking eye 24/7..
Oh, and lots of NV cameras, all running on SIX 3kw battery backup systems.
I also have a 60kw military generator.
Cut my power and I'll stay fully powered up inside for over 12 hours, longer if I shut down non-essentials.
That's on battery alone. My generator can power half my neighborhood.
I learned some lessons after going through a hurricane and have made adjustments.
Cops don't protect you from bad guys, they just show up and write reports after it's all over with.
YOU are your first line of defense.