All my equipment made it thru okay. If it didn't I might be knocking on the door of the company that made the surge protector--guaranteed to protect $25000 worth of equipment.
Actually maybe it's too bad it didn't fry my computer, I could've assembled a decent G5 rig with that money...;-)
I was at my home computer. Speakers started making odd noises, like it was suffering a power drop before coming back up (it makes a whoomph whenever I turn it on or off). This happened a couple times in the half-minute before the oddest thing (in my power outage experiences anyway) happened: first my computer shut off, but the monitor, speakers and DSL modem and router were still running (monitor wasn't receiving a signal anymore of course, but was nevertheless still "on" because the power light was still lit). Then the monitor switched off, speakers made a bottoming-out sound, and the modem and router lost power about the same time.
That suggested to me a voltage sag first, because the systems using the most power cut out first, while those using the least remained to the end; usually they all cut out at the same time if there's a power outage. All these components were connected to a surge protector.
The US never lost a space crew in a capsule. We've lost two in the shuttle.
Some perspective is needed. Apollo had 12 manned capsules, three people each. One capsule was lost in a fire, one was almost lost in space. Accident rate is 1 in 6 flights.
Space shuttle has had about 114 missions, with crews numbering from 2 to 7. Two catastrophic losses. Accident rate is 1 in 57.
Prior foam strikes and other in-flight damage to the shuttle could of course have led to the more accidents. Nevertheless your own statement needed some qualification.
Also, neither Challenger nor, IMHO, Columbia were technically lost in space. But that's up for interpretation...
For everyone who thinks they should be allowed, nay, be provided a mechanism to re-sell, lend or otherwise transfer ownership of music purchased from the iTMS because you can do that with old CDs and books... that's hypocritical.
We accuse the RIAA, MPAA, and other big special interest groups of not adapting to the internet and clinging to outdated paradigms. Aren't you doing the exact same thing, applying a paradigm that easily applies to physical property but can't be applied (or is technically unfeasible) in the digitial realm?
which therefore makes it America's fault, because it's still stuck in the dark ages using imperial measurements when everyone else has switched to Canadi--I mean, metric units...
IMHO, them Brits need to be more embracing of the "right to bear arms". You'd be amazed how much things can change when the government is made to realise who is supposed to have controll and who isn't.
Of course! It's totally obvious that because everyone and their pet dog have handguns, and people own M16s for "hunting deer", that the US government would never dare enact outrageous laws against its people.
And hmm, get a ticket versus being fired at with a shotgun because I accidentally cut someone off on the road...
Can't speak for the UK, but here in Canada we're doing just fine without the "right to bear arms."
This should've been mod'ed insightful, not funny. My house is exactly the same (except my dad KNOWS he's costing the telcos to support it, having worked with the systems).
Bell Canada tried to force all pulse users to switch to digitone a couple years ago, but there was a massive uprising from pensioners, retirees and other low/fixed income people, who had better things to do with the extra $2 per month, especially since digitone had ZERO benefit for them. In the end Bell Canada backed down.
The point was to educate newbies, by employing the same methods as the spammers themselves to spread white-hat spam. If white hat spam attack is proactive enough such that they're the VERY FIRST spam newbies receive, and lessens the chance they'll click spam links in the future, then what's a little bit more inconvenience to savvy users?
Hence the parent title--to stop the spread of a wildfire they'll sometimes "backburn", or start another fire to create a firebreak, so when the wildfire reaches it they burn each other out, halting the fire in its tracks.
White hat spam could even include some marker or signature to identify it as such, so any half-decent filter would automatically delete 100% of white hat spam. Not just dumping it to a junk mailbox for double-checking. Deleted outright.
Anyone savvy enough to set up their filter to do this already knows not to click on spam links. Anyone who ISN'T will still have to deal with it, but that's the idea--make them understand why that's a problem, take action, and don't click on spam, right?
Send out "white hat" spam, which for all intents and purposes looks like real (ie "black hat") spam. Except clicking on the link takes you to any number of webpages that basically say "are you so f***ing stupid you actually believe pills can make your penis/breasts/whatever larger?"
Adjust content to suit type of spam. Include disgusting images if the type of spam you're emulating is adult-oriented (pr0n, enlargements, etc), something else entirely if you're "selling" mortgages or similarly benign wares (ie no goatse.cx-type images if you're "selling".
And to cap it off, if viewers are so enraged at what they see, the page will have a feedback link. The link will either be a known spammer's email so they receive their venting instead of their money, or link to yet another anti-spam site.
Geeks and filters will automatically block this stuff out, so there's no harm done to us, aside from having to filter out even more spam.
But with any luck, if enough of these anti-spam spams get sent out that people start associating spam messages with informative, insulting or disgusting websites, they'll learn to stop clicking on those damn links, stop buying their bullshit products, the spam model becomes unprofitable, and spam is reduced to a saner level or eliminated entirely.
Legal implications? No better and no worse than black hat spammers.
Sounds a bit like the/. comment moderation system!
Bring Webb up and Hubble down in same mission?
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If Webb is going to be a literal replacement for Hubble, it could be in a similar orbit as Hubble. If so you could kill two birds with one stone--shuttle up with Webb in it, deploy it, then retrieve Hubble on the same trip.
Ya, that introduces a ton of logistical problems--three massive objects in close proximity (shuttle, Webb, Hubble), or fuel to shift orbit, tech crew has to be trained in deployment and capture of different satellite, etc; and I suppose Hubble wasn't meant to be returned to Earth to begin with.
But it sure wouldn't cost an additional $600M (the cost of a typical shuttle launch), and an important piece of space history could be preserved.
all I'm saying is that Austin Meyer doesn't seem to be a typical diehard Mac user
IIRC, Austin doesn't make the interface, that's farmed out to someone else. His concern is more the guts of the sim, as it should be.
I'm not a fan of the X-Plane interface. I'm an interface freak myself, and have argued your point before about other games. But X-Plane is not a Mac application in the sense that you can use other apps at the same time--this isn't Photoshop.
It's either a game or a highly accurate simulation tool. If it's a game, games (esp. cross-platform ones) usually use their own interface, and I've seen a LOT worse. If it's a sim, then it's no different than an app that lays out and simulates microcircuitry, i.e. a lot of techy options that don't fit neatly into a standard window.
"Blum also called on the leaders of the music industry to work together to develop a standards organization like the ones in the computer industry to bring cohesion to the various music services."
He calls on leaders of another industry to work together to develop a standards body, yet his buy.com's offering deliberately requires Windows, WMP and IE, the last of which is notorious for NOT conforming to web standards?
At least in a western-style government, you can vote out politicians that you don't like.
Only if the majority of the voters agree with you. And only if he/she is representing your area. There are plenty of politicians I don't like that I'll never have the pleasure of voting out.
I'm in agreement, but just want to make a few corrections to the hypothetical scenario:
If Atlantis went up on a rescue mission, there'd only be two people on board, not another 7. Two is the minimum needed to fly a shuttle.
Also, they're always supposed to have one or two simple EVA suits for emergencies, specifically to manually close and secure the payload bay doors if the automatics fail. The rescue shuttle could bring the additional suits for the rescue op. Because this emergency EVA needs to be performed regardless of what payload is on board, I am guessing there's an alternate way to get out and back in.
Finally, IIRC as part of the emergency ditching procedure, they blow the egress hatch out and slide down a pole to get away from the shuttle. Last person out could blow the hatch to get to the rescue shuttle; Columbia would have been declared a loss at that point anyway.
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Still downloaded fine. Canadian servers hold up better against the slashdot effect, eh? ;-)
All my equipment made it thru okay. If it didn't I might be knocking on the door of the company that made the surge protector--guaranteed to protect $25000 worth of equipment.
;-)
Actually maybe it's too bad it didn't fry my computer, I could've assembled a decent G5 rig with that money...
I was at my home computer. Speakers started making odd noises, like it was suffering a power drop before coming back up (it makes a whoomph whenever I turn it on or off). This happened a couple times in the half-minute before the oddest thing (in my power outage experiences anyway) happened: first my computer shut off, but the monitor, speakers and DSL modem and router were still running (monitor wasn't receiving a signal anymore of course, but was nevertheless still "on" because the power light was still lit). Then the monitor switched off, speakers made a bottoming-out sound, and the modem and router lost power about the same time.
That suggested to me a voltage sag first, because the systems using the most power cut out first, while those using the least remained to the end; usually they all cut out at the same time if there's a power outage. All these components were connected to a surge protector.
Some perspective is needed. Apollo had 12 manned capsules, three people each. One capsule was lost in a fire, one was almost lost in space. Accident rate is 1 in 6 flights.
Space shuttle has had about 114 missions, with crews numbering from 2 to 7. Two catastrophic losses. Accident rate is 1 in 57.
Prior foam strikes and other in-flight damage to the shuttle could of course have led to the more accidents. Nevertheless your own statement needed some qualification.
Also, neither Challenger nor, IMHO, Columbia were technically lost in space. But that's up for interpretation...
We accuse the RIAA, MPAA, and other big special interest groups of not adapting to the internet and clinging to outdated paradigms. Aren't you doing the exact same thing, applying a paradigm that easily applies to physical property but can't be applied (or is technically unfeasible) in the digitial realm?
which therefore makes it America's fault, because it's still stuck in the dark ages using imperial measurements when everyone else has switched to Canadi--I mean, metric units...
Always wondered why you couldn't just hook up say an exercise bike to a generator to feed the grid. Save money and stay in shape at the same time!
"Woo-hoo! I'm gonna write me a new minivan this afternoon!"
and here I thought he was trying to say "arse"...
I was rooting for Firefly's "Serenity", but this Buffy ep was about as deserving. Far more so than the two nominated "Enterprise" eps.
Of course! It's totally obvious that because everyone and their pet dog have handguns, and people own M16s for "hunting deer", that the US government would never dare enact outrageous laws against its people.
And hmm, get a ticket versus being fired at with a shotgun because I accidentally cut someone off on the road...
Can't speak for the UK, but here in Canada we're doing just fine without the "right to bear arms."
Any two-year-old could design a better interface than Longhorn's using only crayons and... oh wait...
This should've been mod'ed insightful, not funny. My house is exactly the same (except my dad KNOWS he's costing the telcos to support it, having worked with the systems).
Bell Canada tried to force all pulse users to switch to digitone a couple years ago, but there was a massive uprising from pensioners, retirees and other low/fixed income people, who had better things to do with the extra $2 per month, especially since digitone had ZERO benefit for them. In the end Bell Canada backed down.
Given a choice between $300 to go from X.0 to X.3 (X.1 was free for most) or $700 for the SCO license...
Hence the parent title--to stop the spread of a wildfire they'll sometimes "backburn", or start another fire to create a firebreak, so when the wildfire reaches it they burn each other out, halting the fire in its tracks.
White hat spam could even include some marker or signature to identify it as such, so any half-decent filter would automatically delete 100% of white hat spam. Not just dumping it to a junk mailbox for double-checking. Deleted outright.
Anyone savvy enough to set up their filter to do this already knows not to click on spam links. Anyone who ISN'T will still have to deal with it, but that's the idea--make them understand why that's a problem, take action, and don't click on spam, right?
Send out "white hat" spam, which for all intents and purposes looks like real (ie "black hat") spam. Except clicking on the link takes you to any number of webpages that basically say "are you so f***ing stupid you actually believe pills can make your penis/breasts/whatever larger?"
Adjust content to suit type of spam. Include disgusting images if the type of spam you're emulating is adult-oriented (pr0n, enlargements, etc), something else entirely if you're "selling" mortgages or similarly benign wares (ie no goatse.cx-type images if you're "selling".
And to cap it off, if viewers are so enraged at what they see, the page will have a feedback link. The link will either be a known spammer's email so they receive their venting instead of their money, or link to yet another anti-spam site.
Geeks and filters will automatically block this stuff out, so there's no harm done to us, aside from having to filter out even more spam.
But with any luck, if enough of these anti-spam spams get sent out that people start associating spam messages with informative, insulting or disgusting websites, they'll learn to stop clicking on those damn links, stop buying their bullshit products, the spam model becomes unprofitable, and spam is reduced to a saner level or eliminated entirely.
Legal implications? No better and no worse than black hat spammers.
Comments?
Sounds a bit like the /. comment moderation system!
If Webb is going to be a literal replacement for Hubble, it could be in a similar orbit as Hubble. If so you could kill two birds with one stone--shuttle up with Webb in it, deploy it, then retrieve Hubble on the same trip.
Ya, that introduces a ton of logistical problems--three massive objects in close proximity (shuttle, Webb, Hubble), or fuel to shift orbit, tech crew has to be trained in deployment and capture of different satellite, etc; and I suppose Hubble wasn't meant to be returned to Earth to begin with.
But it sure wouldn't cost an additional $600M (the cost of a typical shuttle launch), and an important piece of space history could be preserved.
Sure, add billions more fragments of space junk that will have to be tracked.
They had to paint the surviving exterior to cover the fire damage, and the fine tradition of whitewashing continues today! ;-)
Seen it as well, but it's probably version 5, almost two generations out of date.
IIRC, Austin doesn't make the interface, that's farmed out to someone else. His concern is more the guts of the sim, as it should be.
I'm not a fan of the X-Plane interface. I'm an interface freak myself, and have argued your point before about other games. But X-Plane is not a Mac application in the sense that you can use other apps at the same time--this isn't Photoshop.
It's either a game or a highly accurate simulation tool. If it's a game, games (esp. cross-platform ones) usually use their own interface, and I've seen a LOT worse. If it's a sim, then it's no different than an app that lays out and simulates microcircuitry, i.e. a lot of techy options that don't fit neatly into a standard window.
"Blum also called on the leaders of the music industry to work together to develop a standards organization like the ones in the computer industry to bring cohesion to the various music services."
He calls on leaders of another industry to work together to develop a standards body, yet his buy.com's offering deliberately requires Windows, WMP and IE, the last of which is notorious for NOT conforming to web standards?
Only if the majority of the voters agree with you. And only if he/she is representing your area. There are plenty of politicians I don't like that I'll never have the pleasure of voting out.
I'm in agreement, but just want to make a few corrections to the hypothetical scenario:
If Atlantis went up on a rescue mission, there'd only be two people on board, not another 7. Two is the minimum needed to fly a shuttle.
Also, they're always supposed to have one or two simple EVA suits for emergencies, specifically to manually close and secure the payload bay doors if the automatics fail. The rescue shuttle could bring the additional suits for the rescue op. Because this emergency EVA needs to be performed regardless of what payload is on board, I am guessing there's an alternate way to get out and back in.
Finally, IIRC as part of the emergency ditching procedure, they blow the egress hatch out and slide down a pole to get away from the shuttle. Last person out could blow the hatch to get to the rescue shuttle; Columbia would have been declared a loss at that point anyway.