My college class took a trip to our local NWS weather station.
The guy working there said the data is currently available to people at essentially media cost. They just don't have it on the internet yet.
This is where your local weatherman gets their report. The NWS runs models for up to 3 days in the future. Then AcuWeather and others take the result and digest it some more to get your extended forecasts. They do this because the NWS has the most reliable data gathering equipment (several thousand data poings on the GROUND alone in Indiana). They said the satellites are one thing, but they don't tell the whole story.
The problem is that the redigesting companies don't want the NWS to essentially give away the information that they're selling (which they get from the NWS for a small fee...) Woohoo for lobbyists!
Like the great CS professor Mike Atallah said: If many pay and few benefit, it will pass. If few pay and many benefit, they'll scream bloody murder and it won't happen.
I know Linux is stable as a rock on my machines, but for something that lives depend on I'd expect more than a monolithic kernel. QNX is the only company that's confident enough in its OS to let it be used in life-threatening situations, so why not use it here? It can't be that it's Canadian, can it?
We have a similar system here in Indiana. Almost all lights have road sensors (induction loops I presume) that check how many cars are waiting at a light, and run the lights like you described. Some lights on high speed roads also have sensors a quarter mile before the light, so it can turn before you get to it.
My only complaint would be the sometimes the computer assumes that if a sensor isn't triggered, the light never changes. This made me strap magnets to my motorcycle, and it helps.
It actually surprised me how terrible traffic is without these sensors. In Albuquerque, empty side streets get the same amount of green lights as the busy Route 66. Awful.
You're right, there were people living long in ancient times. The non-murdered Roman emperors would live into their 60s. But what about the average Roman? Even today, there are countries with an average life span in the 40s. So yes, we do live longer in terms of years. I guess the industrial revolution got this rise started, but that's just a guess.
The other thing is averages. Adult cavement would live into their 40s, but the average life span then was in the 20s. Why? Child mortality. If you have kids dying early, then that brings down the average, even though if they survive childhood they'll live to a ripe old age. That is probably responsible for the biggest 'rise' in average life spans over the centuries. That and soap.
If they change the format to be incompatible, that will probably won't buy them much time when OSS is incompatible, but then they're stuck with fully supporting the old format anyway. They can try to force upgrades to use the new format, but it will take many years to get rid of the files in the old format. In that time it just serves as a source of bloat and bugs in MS's software. That gives more reason to switch to an open format which is more consistant.
There is no need to reboot. Both 32 and 64 bit apps can run at the same time, as was demonstrated a while back with a linux system running both 32 and 64 bit versions of the same app side by side on the same machine.
If you use and like this window manager, why not link to this page? It's fun and will make you popular with the ladies. Or the men. Or whichever social demographic you want to be popular with.
Like the guy who bought a hearse and put seats in the back. He claimed that this way he could pick up 17 chicks. You know what's worse than a chick who likes a man in a hearse? 17 of them. I think this applies here somehow.
Jason has a conversation with his new neighbour Pete:
J: So what do you do? P: I teach deducive logic. J: Huh? P: Let me demonstrate. Do you have a dog? J: Yes. P: From this I deduce that you have a family? J: Yeah. P: And a wife? J: Yeah. P: And if you have a wife, I deduce that you are heterosexual. J: That's amazing!
After this Jason visits his friend Chris: J: I just found out this awesome field called deducive logic. C: Say what? J: Let me demonstrate. Do you have a dog? C: No. J: Then you must be gay.
So you keep the invariant sections, and right after them you put in your own section that says to ignore the last section? As an end user, I don't want to hear developers' bickerings. Few people RTFM as it is, and even fewer when TFM is filled with contradictions.
I used to have a Netgear WAB501 card. It got high praise from reviewers, so I figured why not. When I got the thing and started to look for Linux drivers, I noticed nobody gave a fuck about 802.11a chipsets, much less dual bands. There was one project that was in the early stages of a driver for a chipset whose number was close to mine, but it was already abandoned. So off it went back to buy.com.
Now I got me a Netgear MA401. Less than half the price, works every time, and it has a common chipset. It may be 'only' 11 mbps, but that's better than 0 mbps.
clear car hood You know what this means? Now you have to clean whatever dirt a solid case/hood would have hidden... I guess this doesn't matter too much to people who buy new hardware every four months though...
There's only one company that universally changed the keyboard for virtually all PCs: Microsoft. Sorry to say it, but only a monopoly could do that. If logitech made keyboards with extra keys, and bioses/oses didn't support the extra keys, it'll die quick. Plus, my special keys are better then your special keys, so in the end we get nothing. Sun is the other example, but they also have a monopoly (on Sun boxes).
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My college class took a trip to our local NWS weather station.
The guy working there said the data is currently available to people at essentially media cost. They just don't have it on the internet yet.
This is where your local weatherman gets their report. The NWS runs models for up to 3 days in the future. Then AcuWeather and others take the result and digest it some more to get your extended forecasts. They do this because the NWS has the most reliable data gathering equipment (several thousand data poings on the GROUND alone in Indiana). They said the satellites are one thing, but they don't tell the whole story.
The problem is that the redigesting companies don't want the NWS to essentially give away the information that they're selling (which they get from the NWS for a small fee...) Woohoo for lobbyists!
Like the great CS professor Mike Atallah said: If many pay and few benefit, it will pass. If few pay and many benefit, they'll scream bloody murder and it won't happen.
They can buy it back at returned-merchandise discounts, then apply for the rebate with the form they got when they bought it new.
It's the quiet ones you've got to watch...
While you're watching the quiet ones, a loud one will fucking kill you! -- George Carlin
I know Linux is stable as a rock on my machines, but for something that lives depend on I'd expect more than a monolithic kernel. QNX is the only company that's confident enough in its OS to let it be used in life-threatening situations, so why not use it here? It can't be that it's Canadian, can it?
We have a similar system here in Indiana. Almost all lights have road sensors (induction loops I presume) that check how many cars are waiting at a light, and run the lights like you described. Some lights on high speed roads also have sensors a quarter mile before the light, so it can turn before you get to it.
My only complaint would be the sometimes the computer assumes that if a sensor isn't triggered, the light never changes. This made me strap magnets to my motorcycle, and it helps.
It actually surprised me how terrible traffic is without these sensors. In Albuquerque, empty side streets get the same amount of green lights as the busy Route 66. Awful.
You're right, there were people living long in ancient times. The non-murdered Roman emperors would live into their 60s. But what about the average Roman? Even today, there are countries with an average life span in the 40s. So yes, we do live longer in terms of years. I guess the industrial revolution got this rise started, but that's just a guess.
The other thing is averages. Adult cavement would live into their 40s, but the average life span then was in the 20s. Why? Child mortality. If you have kids dying early, then that brings down the average, even though if they survive childhood they'll live to a ripe old age. That is probably responsible for the biggest 'rise' in average life spans over the centuries. That and soap.
Only a programmer would even dream of numbering their lines in multiples of 10.
... but two Wrights make an airplane.
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Gentoo LiveCD which also has a demo of UT2003 pre-installed and ready to run.
If they change the format to be incompatible, that will probably won't buy them much time when OSS is incompatible, but then they're stuck with fully supporting the old format anyway. They can try to force upgrades to use the new format, but it will take many years to get rid of the files in the old format. In that time it just serves as a source of bloat and bugs in MS's software. That gives more reason to switch to an open format which is more consistant.
I can dream, can't I?
There is no need to reboot. Both 32 and 64 bit apps can run at the same time, as was demonstrated a while back with a linux system running both 32 and 64 bit versions of the same app side by side on the same machine.
No wonder the space program costs so much! We've got Micheal Jackson doing the dirty work!
This reminds me of a joke:
Jason has a conversation with his new neighbour Pete:
J: So what do you do?
P: I teach deducive logic.
J: Huh?
P: Let me demonstrate. Do you have a dog?
J: Yes.
P: From this I deduce that you have a family?
J: Yeah.
P: And a wife?
J: Yeah.
P: And if you have a wife, I deduce that you are heterosexual.
J: That's amazing!
After this Jason visits his friend Chris:
J: I just found out this awesome field called deducive logic.
C: Say what?
J: Let me demonstrate. Do you have a dog?
C: No.
J: Then you must be gay.
Just another piece to make me think that desktop computers should become more like overpowered PDAs and not the other way around.
So you keep the invariant sections, and right after them you put in your own section that says to ignore the last section? As an end user, I don't want to hear developers' bickerings. Few people RTFM as it is, and even fewer when TFM is filled with contradictions.
I used to have a Netgear WAB501 card. It got high praise from reviewers, so I figured why not. When I got the thing and started to look for Linux drivers, I noticed nobody gave a fuck about 802.11a chipsets, much less dual bands. There was one project that was in the early stages of a driver for a chipset whose number was close to mine, but it was already abandoned. So off it went back to buy.com.
Now I got me a Netgear MA401. Less than half the price, works every time, and it has a common chipset. It may be 'only' 11 mbps, but that's better than 0 mbps.
gawk; talk; no; !fsck;
Which Royal Mail Ship are you talking about?
clear car hood
You know what this means? Now you have to clean whatever dirt a solid case/hood would have hidden... I guess this doesn't matter too much to people who buy new hardware every four months though...
To avoid confusion with MS Paint, the CinePaint project has renamed itself to Film Gimp.
...who thought that 'Kuiper' was just a horrible way to spell 'Jupiter'?
Measure Twice...Cut Once
I cut twice and it's still too short.
A wise teacher once told me that a pun is the puniest form of humor. :)
There's only one company that universally changed the keyboard for virtually all PCs: Microsoft.
Sorry to say it, but only a monopoly could do that. If logitech made keyboards with extra keys, and bioses/oses didn't support the extra keys, it'll die quick. Plus, my special keys are better then your special keys, so in the end we get nothing. Sun is the other example, but they also have a monopoly (on Sun boxes).