About 20-30 miles west of Chicago. The visitor's center is more like a science lab for grade-schoolers. Real basic.
Finagle a visitors pass from one of the desk clerks there (or it may not even be necessary - I didn't see any security except for a couple vehicle checkpoints). On around the 15th floor of the main admin building (sort of looks like a big "A") there's a ton of displays explaining all about the lab, what everything is/does, the current state of knowledge of particle physics research, history, and more. Great views out over the lab and surroundings too.
And the Johnson Space Center in Houston. You can see the old Command Center, a Saturn rocket up close, the Neutral Buoyancy Lab, Astronaut Training Center, plus there's a ton of exhibits to see in the visitor's center (which is kind of like an amusement park) and some speakers.
Oh yeah, there's also a space and science museum in Alamagordo (back up on the hills). Five stories - filled with artifacts from the space program. There are missiles, rocket sled, and other exhibits outside as well.
There's also some solar observatory somewhat nearby (in the hills south of Cloudcroft).
...and White Sands Missile Range. There's the Missile Park with all sorts of missiles and related machinery. Next to it is a museum with lots of information, pictures, equipment, specimens (such as look-a-like Trinitium [sp?]), a model of the Trinity site, and more. You really get a feel for the progression of missile technology by visiting here.
The Trinity site is open twice a year. I read about it and it seems more like a tourist-trap fest than anything else.
The VLA is pretty cool. There's a museum explaining it, plus other telescopes (like the Very Large Baseline something or other), and a walking tour that goes by the base of a telescope, the computer room, and more.
Gone are the days of storage floppies and zip drives
No, not really - if you're working on something like docs back and forth between computers you use either floppies/zip or a network connection. The files' small sizes and constant updates makes burning ridiculous.
If you weren't spending your spare time in the years 99-00 downloading MP3s like a champ, it's likely you were still in diapers or dancing with wolves.
Or, found far far better uses of one's time. Has the definition of "culture maven" been updated to include "loner geek pirating mp3s in their parent's basement"?
A *democrat* will be filling in for him! Who in the world would have ever guessed? I really don't pay much attention to Lessig, but my impression is that he's your typical full-of-themselves professor, and a socialist to boot.
(Weiss reads off the uplink code numbers to Amber.) Weiss: Eighteen, twenty four. C'mon. Amber: Eighteen, twenty four. Weiss: Sixty one, B. Say them. Say them! Amber: Eighteen, twenty four, sixty one, B. Can we go now? Weiss: Not yet. Amber: Not yet? What do you mean, not yet? Weiss: Seven, seventeen, seventeen, four. Amber: Seventeen, seven, four. Weiss: Seventeen, seventeen, four.
http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/80schild/runningman 1. html
Extremely long work hours. No clue what your company was really about and how it had any hope in hell of ever turning a profit someday. Loads of sleazy people in the industry. HUGE egos everywhere (dot-snobs). Impossible to keep up with all the latest and greatest "next hot things". Everybody spouting off like they know everything.
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Marc Richards wrote:
> I apologies if this is the wrong place for asking. Is non-experimental
> Apache2 support planned for PHP 5?
Nope. Until someone sits down and goes through every 3rd-party library
that can be linked into PHP on every platform and identifies whether or
not they are threadsafe and under which conditions they remain threadsafe,
using PHP in a threaded web server on UNIX is going to remain
experimental.
You can of course stick with non-threaded prefork mode, in which case you
basically have Apache-1.3.x. Nobody so far have been motivated to test
Apache2-prefork+PHP extensively, so even that combination is going to
remain experimental.
The basic problem here is that the average UNIX library has not been
written with thread safety in mind. You can write very good specific
threaded programs on UNIX, but it is extremely difficult to write
something which can potentially link in hundreds of random libraries and
expect them to all be threadsafe.
What can you do with somebody's IP address (that was in the email they harvested)? Resolve it and hope email sent to abuse@theirdomain.com does something?
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About 20-30 miles west of Chicago. The visitor's center is more like a science lab for grade-schoolers. Real basic.
Finagle a visitors pass from one of the desk clerks there (or it may not even be necessary - I didn't see any security except for a couple vehicle checkpoints). On around the 15th floor of the main admin building (sort of looks like a big "A") there's a ton of displays explaining all about the lab, what everything is/does, the current state of knowledge of particle physics research, history, and more. Great views out over the lab and surroundings too.
And the Johnson Space Center in Houston. You can see the old Command Center, a Saturn rocket up close, the Neutral Buoyancy Lab, Astronaut Training Center, plus there's a ton of exhibits to see in the visitor's center (which is kind of like an amusement park) and some speakers.
Oh yeah, there's also a space and science museum in Alamagordo (back up on the hills). Five stories - filled with artifacts from the space program. There are missiles, rocket sled, and other exhibits outside as well.
There's also some solar observatory somewhat nearby (in the hills south of Cloudcroft).
NCAR - Atmosphere research center. On a bluff above Boulder. Exhibits, Cray supercomputers, and more.
NREL - Lakewood (West Denver). Alternative energy technologies.
NORAD - SW of Colorado Springs. You'll need to make a tour reservation months ahead of time.
Missile Silos - there's a bunch in the NE part of the state.
Air Force Academy - Colorado Springs.
Rocky Flats - West of Denver. Made plutonium triggers. If you call, you might be able to arrange a personal tour.
...and White Sands Missile Range. There's the Missile Park with all sorts of missiles and related machinery. Next to it is a museum with lots of information, pictures, equipment, specimens (such as look-a-like Trinitium [sp?]), a model of the Trinity site, and more. You really get a feel for the progression of missile technology by visiting here.
The Trinity site is open twice a year. I read about it and it seems more like a tourist-trap fest than anything else.
The VLA is pretty cool. There's a museum explaining it, plus other telescopes (like the Very Large Baseline something or other), and a walking tour that goes by the base of a telescope, the computer room, and more.
Finally, there's Los Alamos. Nice museum there.
What is the entirely new form of bit storage?
Gone are the days of storage floppies and zip drives
No, not really - if you're working on something like docs back and forth between computers you use either floppies/zip or a network connection. The files' small sizes and constant updates makes burning ridiculous.
If you weren't spending your spare time in the years 99-00 downloading MP3s like a champ, it's likely you were still in diapers or dancing with wolves.
Or, found far far better uses of one's time. Has the definition of "culture maven" been updated to include "loner geek pirating mp3s in their parent's basement"?
Do your IP activities include Copyright Infringement? If so, what types of cases do you pursue?
Movies Shawn Fanning has appeared in: Italian Job, The (2003) .... Himself
Any others?
A *democrat* will be filling in for him! Who in the world would have ever guessed? I really don't pay much attention to Lessig, but my impression is that he's your typical full-of-themselves professor, and a socialist to boot.
(Weiss reads off the uplink code numbers to Amber.)
n 1. html
Weiss: Eighteen, twenty four. C'mon.
Amber: Eighteen, twenty four.
Weiss: Sixty one, B. Say them. Say them!
Amber: Eighteen, twenty four, sixty one, B. Can we go now?
Weiss: Not yet.
Amber: Not yet? What do you mean, not yet?
Weiss: Seven, seventeen, seventeen, four.
Amber: Seventeen, seven, four.
Weiss: Seventeen, seventeen, four.
http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/80schild/runningma
There might be problems with letting US companies code things...
Is there anything to make that rasberry fart exhaust EVEN LOUDER too!!??
Extremely long work hours.
No clue what your company was really about and how it had any hope in hell of ever turning a profit someday.
Loads of sleazy people in the industry.
HUGE egos everywhere (dot-snobs).
Impossible to keep up with all the latest and greatest "next hot things".
Everybody spouting off like they know everything.
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Marc Richards wrote:
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> I apologies if this is the wrong place for asking. Is non-experimental
> Apache2 support planned for PHP 5?
Nope. Until someone sits down and goes through every 3rd-party library that can be linked into PHP on every platform and identifies whether or not they are threadsafe and under which conditions they remain threadsafe, using PHP in a threaded web server on UNIX is going to remain experimental.
You can of course stick with non-threaded prefork mode, in which case you basically have Apache-1.3.x. Nobody so far have been motivated to test Apache2-prefork+PHP extensively, so even that combination is going to remain experimental.
The basic problem here is that the average UNIX library has not been written with thread safety in mind. You can write very good specific threaded programs on UNIX, but it is extremely difficult to write something which can potentially link in hundreds of random libraries and expect them to all be threadsafe.
-Rasmus
http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.interna
What happens if something is swallowed or put up some body cavity? Looks like it just shows what's outside.
RFID RTFMs!
Or the ones about "Get Your Diploma Now!"...
Sounds like an episode from the upcoming Discovery show "Monster PC".
So...cell phones will eventually just call those 900 numbers themselves?
What can you do with somebody's IP address (that was in the email they harvested)? Resolve it and hope email sent to abuse@theirdomain.com does something?
Why don't they just buy Safari, then discontinue it?
Here's something that can convert your Word files to PDF...
Wouldn't you want to convert them to an editable format (like whatever OpenOffice uses)? Then export PDFs...
ANOTHER review for a PHP+MySQL book?? I switched to PostgreSQL a while ago and aint looking back.