Can we please stop with the constant flow of unreasoning right-wing hatred of the French on slashdot? We get it, surrender monkeys. You don't have to throw it in to totally unrelated discussions about other European nations. Kthx.
I'm going to have to refer you to the irrefutable wisdom of Thomas Jefferson.
- "Every man has two countries: his own and France."
So, since Jefferson has asserted that we're all of both our nation and of France, I think it is only fair that we are allowed to talk down about either location. Given that France is much smaller than the rest of the world, if everyone spoke out against their own country and that of France equally, it begins to make sense why we see so much more vitriol toward France.
Your statement assumes that traffic is flowing at a steady rate to allow for a natural progression to a regular 4 way stop. If the flow of traffic is intermittent, then there will be cases were the person with the obscured light may follow 4 way stop precaution and still get into an accident.
Example, the roads are relatively empty, and the first car to the 4 way intersection has an obscured light. Car 1 treats it like a 4 way stop, comes to a complete stop, and then goes. Car 2 is approaching the intersection in a manner that is perpendicular to Car 1. Car 2 has the green light and can clearly see it. Car 2 runs into Car 1, because Car 1 correctly treated it as a 4 way stop and believed they were in the right of way as they already came to a stop, were the first there, and proceeded to drive on. Car 2 correctly treated it as a green light. So following the laws of the road, you still end up with accidents in certain circumstances.
My first trip was this year as well and hope I can go next year:) As for hotel suggestions, I stayed at The Westin, it was very nice (just don't stain their towels (hair dye) or plan on using their laundry service as both are rather expensive). Otherwise it was a very comfortable hotel that seemed well located. Perhaps I'll try the Radisson I saw next time I go, as it was closer to the Moritzbastei (which has to be one of the most awesome clubs I've ever been to).
And I have clothes like these, which I wear if I'm going to the right kind of place.).
Offtopic: Curious about that picture... although it being from wikipedia I doubt you took it. I swear it looks like it is outside the Agra during the Wave-Gotik Treffen in Leipzig. If you haven't gone, you must! Even if you don't speak a word of German you should be able to get around with zero problems (at least between Berlin and Leipzig I had no problems) as almost everyone speaks a little English. It is an amazing event! (not every day you get to see 20,000 people dressed in black, and everyone smiling and friendly)
Since everyone is going all anecdotal, I'll add I'm on a rather cheap flip style cell that is almost 4 years old, using T-Mobile prepaid. I've never had a dropped call, though admittedly I don't use the phone much, my $100 for 1000 minutes card usually lasts me almost the full year.
Your judgment of people and assessment of their value is HIGHLY disturbing. The fact you have a +5 insightful, makes it even more saddening. Those millions of people you'd sooner see die in order to save a single bonds trader puts you on the intellectual level of some of the worlds finest despots.
...Now I've read your post a few times, and I'm unsure if you think this is the correct response, or if you are pointing out how the grossly disproportional response we force on common people (in the form of wars or imposed security at the loss of freedom) to make those that generate wealth more comfortable.
I don't always bother to log in, but today I logged in just to see if I had mod points to give you one. I have NASA TV on all the time as a background TV as well, for pretty much all the same reasons. It fits the job well.
Pretty much my exact same suggestion. You can go fancy or go cheap, but you need a spare server you can stuff your big disks into. Personally I have a pretty extreme setup for my home file/media server. boot drive is 2 drives software RAID 1 with ext3 (wanted to go ZFS, but couldn't get it working on the boot partition, gave up due to time constraints). Then 8, 1TB drives in a software RAID 6 running ZFS. With 1gb switchs being so cheap it isn't a problem accessing large files over the network. I don't bother with backups, trying to keep 6TB of data backed up is just too much work (for things like DVD's from my personal collection, which is the purpose of this server, I can just rip them again. I do keep backups of personal pics/vids/files) I'm putting my hopes on that RAID 6 and ZFS will cover all my bases (short of the machine being physically stolen or my house burning down), it would take a lot of things failing all at once to take it out.
Along with the last vestiges of privacy in IP space. Every single connection you make traced directly to you instantly. Joy.
You have never had privacy in IP space. Not even behind a NAT. Whoever is maintaining that NAT could have every packet you've ever sent (extreme, but possible), and if it is you who are maintaining the NAT, then at best you've obfuscated your topology but it will be traced back to you. Besides, it isn't like proxy servers and services like Tor will stop working when IPv4 becomes a legacy protocol.
Sad but true. For some reason I just had a thought that at some point when we run drastically low on IPv4 space, the US gov might, much like it did with the analog to digital TV transition, be handing out coupons for low end crappy IPv6 routers.
Just for the lols I checked solid_liq history (boring day at work, sorry for the double post, shame on me)... Wow, you've not posted in over a month, and yet you bothered to respond over something as minor as this opinion? Dude, you might be one of the most laid back and relaxed trolls on the entire internet! Bravo!
Excellent, that works out to 1.1 gigabytes used for 20 hours of 128kb stream, so I could get by comfortably with the Sprint plan. grumbel, thank you again for pointing out my error.
Yeah, that has been my solution. I'd just like the freedom of not having to chose what band / song is playing or bothering to put in the time to get together a good set of music. I prefer just to turn on the music and let whomever is broadcasting worry about the mix. I guess I'll keep waiting for the price on phone data plans to come down. I just find it pretty crazy that 20 hours of a 128kb stream comes out to $254 a month.
128 kilobyte stream is 131,072 bytes/s. Listening to music to and from work is a 60 minute round trip 5 days a week.
131072 * 60 seconds * 60 minutes * 5 days * 4 weeks = 9,437,184,000 bytes for the month = 8.789 gigabytes of data usage. This doesn't count the weekends or before/after work activities that involve driving.
Sprints $60 a month mobile broadband plan only allows 5 gigabytes of transfer, then it is $0.05/megabyte. That leaves me with 3879.93 megabytes (i.e. the remaining 3.789 gigabytes) of transfer at.05/megabyte for the price of $193.99. So to get a 128kb stream of music for 20 hours a month would cost me $253.99. Like I mentioned, I'm interested in something cheapish. But not something that is going to be a reoccurring cost of $3047.96 a year.
I honestly hope their is something wrong with my math that someone can point out. I'd really like to be wrong and find out I misplaced the decimal. If not, does anyone else have a cheaper suggestion?
Having a wifi in my car sounds interesting. But I cannot imagine you'd keep a good connection while driving around. Is anyone aware of a solution of getting a shoutcast stream to play in a car that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? Their is simply no industrial / ebm / futurepop music on the air in the US, not even satellite radio carries any (last I checked, please tell me if anyone knows if that has changed), I just want to be able to listen to Digital Gunfire in my car. I keep asking Santa to bring me this tech, but each year its just more coal.
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Can we please stop with the constant flow of unreasoning right-wing hatred of the French on slashdot? We get it, surrender monkeys. You don't have to throw it in to totally unrelated discussions about other European nations. Kthx.
I'm going to have to refer you to the irrefutable wisdom of Thomas Jefferson.
- "Every man has two countries: his own and France."
So, since Jefferson has asserted that we're all of both our nation and of France, I think it is only fair that we are allowed to talk down about either location. Given that France is much smaller than the rest of the world, if everyone spoke out against their own country and that of France equally, it begins to make sense why we see so much more vitriol toward France.
Your statement assumes that traffic is flowing at a steady rate to allow for a natural progression to a regular 4 way stop. If the flow of traffic is intermittent, then there will be cases were the person with the obscured light may follow 4 way stop precaution and still get into an accident.
Example, the roads are relatively empty, and the first car to the 4 way intersection has an obscured light. Car 1 treats it like a 4 way stop, comes to a complete stop, and then goes. Car 2 is approaching the intersection in a manner that is perpendicular to Car 1. Car 2 has the green light and can clearly see it. Car 2 runs into Car 1, because Car 1 correctly treated it as a 4 way stop and believed they were in the right of way as they already came to a stop, were the first there, and proceeded to drive on. Car 2 correctly treated it as a green light. So following the laws of the road, you still end up with accidents in certain circumstances.
My first trip was this year as well and hope I can go next year :) As for hotel suggestions, I stayed at The Westin, it was very nice (just don't stain their towels (hair dye) or plan on using their laundry service as both are rather expensive). Otherwise it was a very comfortable hotel that seemed well located. Perhaps I'll try the Radisson I saw next time I go, as it was closer to the Moritzbastei (which has to be one of the most awesome clubs I've ever been to).
And I have clothes like these, which I wear if I'm going to the right kind of place.).
Offtopic: Curious about that picture... although it being from wikipedia I doubt you took it. I swear it looks like it is outside the Agra during the Wave-Gotik Treffen in Leipzig. If you haven't gone, you must! Even if you don't speak a word of German you should be able to get around with zero problems (at least between Berlin and Leipzig I had no problems) as almost everyone speaks a little English. It is an amazing event! (not every day you get to see 20,000 people dressed in black, and everyone smiling and friendly)
If it keeps moving, regulate it.
Using that logic, in order to raise former President Reagan from the dead, all we would need to do is subsidize him.
Ah yes, we have a saying around here when things come down from up high with this kind of mandate. I'm unsure from whom it was cited...
-"Don't get it done right, get it done right now."
Since everyone is going all anecdotal, I'll add I'm on a rather cheap flip style cell that is almost 4 years old, using T-Mobile prepaid. I've never had a dropped call, though admittedly I don't use the phone much, my $100 for 1000 minutes card usually lasts me almost the full year.
Your judgment of people and assessment of their value is HIGHLY disturbing. The fact you have a +5 insightful, makes it even more saddening. Those millions of people you'd sooner see die in order to save a single bonds trader puts you on the intellectual level of some of the worlds finest despots.
...Now I've read your post a few times, and I'm unsure if you think this is the correct response, or if you are pointing out how the grossly disproportional response we force on common people (in the form of wars or imposed security at the loss of freedom) to make those that generate wealth more comfortable.
I don't always bother to log in, but today I logged in just to see if I had mod points to give you one. I have NASA TV on all the time as a background TV as well, for pretty much all the same reasons. It fits the job well.
Pretty much my exact same suggestion. You can go fancy or go cheap, but you need a spare server you can stuff your big disks into. Personally I have a pretty extreme setup for my home file/media server. boot drive is 2 drives software RAID 1 with ext3 (wanted to go ZFS, but couldn't get it working on the boot partition, gave up due to time constraints). Then 8, 1TB drives in a software RAID 6 running ZFS. With 1gb switchs being so cheap it isn't a problem accessing large files over the network. I don't bother with backups, trying to keep 6TB of data backed up is just too much work (for things like DVD's from my personal collection, which is the purpose of this server, I can just rip them again. I do keep backups of personal pics/vids/files) I'm putting my hopes on that RAID 6 and ZFS will cover all my bases (short of the machine being physically stolen or my house burning down), it would take a lot of things failing all at once to take it out.
Along with the last vestiges of privacy in IP space. Every single connection you make traced directly to you instantly. Joy.
You have never had privacy in IP space. Not even behind a NAT. Whoever is maintaining that NAT could have every packet you've ever sent (extreme, but possible), and if it is you who are maintaining the NAT, then at best you've obfuscated your topology but it will be traced back to you. Besides, it isn't like proxy servers and services like Tor will stop working when IPv4 becomes a legacy protocol.
Sad but true. For some reason I just had a thought that at some point when we run drastically low on IPv4 space, the US gov might, much like it did with the analog to digital TV transition, be handing out coupons for low end crappy IPv6 routers.
Just for the lols I checked solid_liq history (boring day at work, sorry for the double post, shame on me)... Wow, you've not posted in over a month, and yet you bothered to respond over something as minor as this opinion? Dude, you might be one of the most laid back and relaxed trolls on the entire internet! Bravo!
You sound like a Microsoft junkie. I suppose you think opensource is, "evil evil bad!"?
The deftness of your cunning response, and the visuals they invoke make me think you've really been enjoying your Jump to Conclusions Mat.
That was an excellent if funny response, I wish I had mod points for you. I got quite a laugh seeing the juxtaposition of these arguments.
Excellent, that works out to 1.1 gigabytes used for 20 hours of 128kb stream, so I could get by comfortably with the Sprint plan. grumbel, thank you again for pointing out my error.
Doh! Thank you very kindly! Time to work the math again.
Yeah, that has been my solution. I'd just like the freedom of not having to chose what band / song is playing or bothering to put in the time to get together a good set of music. I prefer just to turn on the music and let whomever is broadcasting worry about the mix. I guess I'll keep waiting for the price on phone data plans to come down. I just find it pretty crazy that 20 hours of a 128kb stream comes out to $254 a month.
Thanks for the link, I'll have to give you a listen :)
128 kilobyte stream is 131,072 bytes/s. Listening to music to and from work is a 60 minute round trip 5 days a week.
.05/megabyte for the price of $193.99. So to get a 128kb stream of music for 20 hours a month would cost me $253.99. Like I mentioned, I'm interested in something cheapish. But not something that is going to be a reoccurring cost of $3047.96 a year.
131072 * 60 seconds * 60 minutes * 5 days * 4 weeks = 9,437,184,000 bytes for the month = 8.789 gigabytes of data usage. This doesn't count the weekends or before/after work activities that involve driving.
Sprints $60 a month mobile broadband plan only allows 5 gigabytes of transfer, then it is $0.05/megabyte. That leaves me with 3879.93 megabytes (i.e. the remaining 3.789 gigabytes) of transfer at
I honestly hope their is something wrong with my math that someone can point out. I'd really like to be wrong and find out I misplaced the decimal. If not, does anyone else have a cheaper suggestion?
Having a wifi in my car sounds interesting. But I cannot imagine you'd keep a good connection while driving around. Is anyone aware of a solution of getting a shoutcast stream to play in a car that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? Their is simply no industrial / ebm / futurepop music on the air in the US, not even satellite radio carries any (last I checked, please tell me if anyone knows if that has changed), I just want to be able to listen to Digital Gunfire in my car. I keep asking Santa to bring me this tech, but each year its just more coal.
Thanks, I've added it to my netflix que :-)