-------------------------------- We don't need no thought control.
Too much corporatism on the Internet these days. There's a thousand other places to go on the Internet. TC will not be one of them for me, I cannot live with Orwellian measures to restrict free speech.
It's been fun... Goodbye. ------------------------------------
DST sucks! Do they think we are idiots? Setting the clocks back and forth to create some kind of illusion? What this really creates is fourth dimensional disorientation. It causes seasonal depression, car wrecks, suicides, etc.
They say it is to help farmers, however, every farmer I've asked (I live in Nebraska, so there are a lot of them) says it's the dang-most infernal dumbness they ever heard of. We all know that farmers wake up when the rooster crows, and that rooster sure ain't dumb enough to believe in a stupid concept like "Daylight Savings Time".
More power to the only two intelligent states in the union - Indiana and Arizona - neither of them force such a display of advanced moronics on their people!
We geeks should be against DST as a rule - it is nonsensical and kludgy.
I've noticed that only slimy middle-management types use weak words that sound like Ass Toot. I can never hold a straight face when someone says Ass Toot in a meeting.:)
"I read the review and I'm not sure if this shipping date isn't a bit too early though."
OK, if you REALLY read the review before posting this, then why didn't you notice that the review was done of a BETA (That means NOT the final release version, since you don't seem to be aware of the meaning of that word.) copy of WPO.
The Adventures of Beaver and Butthead
Beavis^H^Her: Gee, Wally, does that mean that they would actually have bugs in their beta?
Yes, this is off topic. Does anyone have a reg key for JBuilder 3.5 for Linux? I just downloaded it, but have not been able to log into their Registration page to get my free license key. I've got a lot of coding to do, am am stuck with a text editor (Having wasted 3.0 before installing 3.5) until I can get 3.5 woriing, so any help here would be most appreciated!
Hmmm... Seems interesting that CyberPatrol has added the URL for the swedish site to their database. I wonder how that is offensive to anyone but CyberPatrol?
For once I'm glad I've been cursed with the task of being (among other things) in charge of CyberPatrol - I am going to go put that site on our "Approval" override list!:)
McDonalds has announced its new educational "sue the dinosaur" program. Children from around the world will be able to participate in this activity. What is this world coming to?
You are close, but actually the Ground Effect (or "WiG" as these odd people are referring to it as) calculation depends only on the width of the lifting surface (wing) and its proximity to the ground. (and of course the amount of lift per square [your locally-preferred linear measurement here; cm, inch, lightyear, micron, etc.] needed to support the weight of the traincar.
In this case, the wing simply needs to be wider than the designed flight altitude (Altitude measured from ground level, not sea level) to take effect of Ground Effect. It does not have anything to do with the total length of the train or traincar.
Who made up this "WIG" term? As long as I can remember, this has always been referred to as "Ground Effect".
Essentially, this means that a wing, such as one on an airplane, gets double lift when the wing is as close, or closer, to the ground (vertically) as the wing is wide (horizontally). In other words, if a wing is 75 feet wide, and the plane is 75 feet or less from the ground, the wing will be able to generate twice the normal (above 75 feet) lifting force.
This can create a lethal effect on overloaded or badly balanced (front to back) aircraft: The wings will generate double-lifting force while within the ground-effect zone, but as soon as the plane gets above the ground effect layer, the plane will flip over backwards and splatter all of the runway. Not a fun way to die. Always do those Weight-And-Balance calculations carefully!
One time I was on a puddle-jumper (20 seater deal prop) going from Omaha to Minneapolis. We had gotten on the plane and were waiting to begin taxiing to the run way. The door was closed. Suddenly, they open it back on and let this digustingly fat man on the plane. He must have been 500 pounds or more. The only place he could sit was on a bench all the way at the back of the plane. (The back of the plane is the worst place for weight in the first place, the tailwing doesn't create a whole lot of lift) Since he was on so late, I doubt he made it into the W&B calcs. I love to fly, but this time I about got up and got off the plane. I stayed on and was pretty scared while we passed through the ground effect zone. There has to be a significant chance (at least 10%) that we could have flipped over. One person could have moved the wrong way, or something in the luggage compartment could have shifted and we would have been a textbook case of why obsessive-compulsive people should be kept away from both McDonalds and small airplanes!:)
How long until we can get Gigabit INTERnet?:) Wouldn't that be cool?:)
Anybody remember that weird proposal about renaming the prefixes for binary orders of magnitude because they are not based on powers of ten as the original Kilo/Mega/Giga/Tera prefixes "were intended"? They wanted to make it stupid names like Kebi/Mebi/Gebi/Tebi instead.
Imagine: It could have been Gebibit Ethernet. (Would that have been Geh-bee or Gee-bee?)
What about all the sperm cells forced to die, needlessly shriveling from dehydration on your bedroom carpet? These things are identical genetic copies of yourself, carelessly spurted all over yourself in the name of "pleasure".
Each time, you destroy over a quarter billion copies of yourself! Instead you should concentrate on lining up as many fertile females as you can and building your own demi-clones for world domination!
SDMI? Sony people: I'm sure a few of you read slashdot: SDMI is a bad word. We do not want it. I for one will not buy it.
Repeat after me: I do not like SDMI. I think they should stick it in their eye. If you want to make us use SDMI then you will not get good demographics in the MP3 Pie.
Right now, the whole PDA interface thing sucks ass. They still essentially look like 'horseless carriages'. Blurry/tiny Little screen, sucky little pointy input device, and this Graffiti shit is fully lame and slow.
Direct neuro-connect would be great, but I don't see it happening soon. Voice interaction would be nice, but still some shorthand in validating input has to be done or we are at the level of the telephone "Say Yes if you want to kill the monster, Say No elsewise". Yuck.
Right now they are still at the level of expensive toy for those lacking in self-confidence and need a fancy gizmo to impress their other cube dweller buddies. I think they are quite lame. Give me a paper notebook and a pen for now.
I can actually perform the incredible task of remembering phone numbers and today's meetings IN MY BRAIN! That's basically all the dumb gadgets are used for - an exotic alarm clock/phone book.
Here is the/. post from the last even day, apparently something got screwed up since then. It originally said 8-28-888:
"Today is November 19, 1999. The numerical format for today is 11-19-1999. All of the digits are odd. The next Odd day will be 1-1-3111 - which is well over a thousand years away, which we will never see. Days such as 4-13-89 have both even and odd digits, thus, it is neither odd nor even. The next even day will be 2-2-2000 - the first one since 8-28-888. So, now you have a reason to celebrate this Friday as it'll be your last odd day on Earth!!!!!!"
Make sure you have your own lawyer review ALL contracts!
Keep your emotions out of all interactions with partners. Be purely logical. Screaming matches will lead to destruction.
Dream big, but don't forget the details!
Be prepared to work very VERY hard! But be on the lookout for signs of burnout! Delegate anything you can. If you bite off more than you get chew, get help before you go down in flames!
I dunno if it's a Y2K1 problem, or they decided to put a new look on the site tonight (really doubt it), or just a system problem, but after midnight I have been unable to connect to the US Government HTTP time server at http://www.time.gov
Is this just a localized network problem on my connection, or can anyone else hit it?
Slashdot Mirror
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We don't need no thought control.
Too much corporatism on the Internet these days. There's a thousand other places to go on the Internet. TC will not be one of them for me, I cannot live with Orwellian measures to restrict free speech.
It's been fun... Goodbye.
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Enough said...
They say it is to help farmers, however, every farmer I've asked (I live in Nebraska, so there are a lot of them) says it's the dang-most infernal dumbness they ever heard of. We all know that farmers wake up when the rooster crows, and that rooster sure ain't dumb enough to believe in a stupid concept like "Daylight Savings Time".
More power to the only two intelligent states in the union - Indiana and Arizona - neither of them force such a display of advanced moronics on their people!
We geeks should be against DST as a rule - it is nonsensical and kludgy.
I've noticed that only slimy middle-management types use weak words that sound like Ass Toot. I can never hold a straight face when someone says Ass Toot in a meeting. :)
OK, if you REALLY read the review before posting this, then why didn't you notice that the review was done of a BETA (That means NOT the final release version, since you don't seem to be aware of the meaning of that word.) copy of WPO.
The Adventures of Beaver and Butthead
Beavis^H^Her: Gee, Wally, does that mean that they would actually have bugs in their beta?
Butthead: Uh-huh-huh-huh... You dumbass.
JBuilder 3.5 is here.
I'm behind a CyberPatrol'ed proxy and those slimy people have added it to their database as an "offensive" site.
For once I'm glad I've been cursed with the task of being (among other things) in charge of CyberPatrol - I am going to go put that site on our "Approval" override list! :)
McDonalds has announced its new educational "sue the dinosaur" program. Children from around the world will be able to participate in this activity. What is this world coming to?
In this case, the wing simply needs to be wider than the designed flight altitude (Altitude measured from ground level, not sea level) to take effect of Ground Effect. It does not have anything to do with the total length of the train or traincar.
Essentially, this means that a wing, such as one on an airplane, gets double lift when the wing is as close, or closer, to the ground (vertically) as the wing is wide (horizontally). In other words, if a wing is 75 feet wide, and the plane is 75 feet or less from the ground, the wing will be able to generate twice the normal (above 75 feet) lifting force.
This can create a lethal effect on overloaded or badly balanced (front to back) aircraft: The wings will generate double-lifting force while within the ground-effect zone, but as soon as the plane gets above the ground effect layer, the plane will flip over backwards and splatter all of the runway. Not a fun way to die. Always do those Weight-And-Balance calculations carefully!
One time I was on a puddle-jumper (20 seater deal prop) going from Omaha to Minneapolis. We had gotten on the plane and were waiting to begin taxiing to the run way. The door was closed. Suddenly, they open it back on and let this digustingly fat man on the plane. He must have been 500 pounds or more. The only place he could sit was on a bench all the way at the back of the plane. (The back of the plane is the worst place for weight in the first place, the tailwing doesn't create a whole lot of lift) Since he was on so late, I doubt he made it into the W&B calcs. I love to fly, but this time I about got up and got off the plane. I stayed on and was pretty scared while we passed through the ground effect zone. There has to be a significant chance (at least 10%) that we could have flipped over. One person could have moved the wrong way, or something in the luggage compartment could have shifted and we would have been a textbook case of why obsessive-compulsive people should be kept away from both McDonalds and small airplanes! :)
I see it now: AOL/Time-Warner/USPS/Verisign/Network Solutions/[Your Private Company Here]
I've been there, done that, been fucked, back to the cube job.
If you beleive that, then you should probably take some drugs so that you can find reality.
Think BIGGER!
Ah, yes, good point. I obviously didn't think it all the way through! :)
Anybody remember that weird proposal about renaming the prefixes for binary orders of magnitude because they are not based on powers of ten as the original Kilo/Mega/Giga/Tera prefixes "were intended"? They wanted to make it stupid names like Kebi/Mebi/Gebi/Tebi instead.
Imagine: It could have been Gebibit Ethernet. (Would that have been Geh-bee or Gee-bee?)
Time: It's getting away from us! Somebody help while there's still time!
What about all the sperm cells forced to die, needlessly shriveling from dehydration on your bedroom carpet? These things are identical genetic copies of yourself, carelessly spurted all over yourself in the name of "pleasure".
Each time, you destroy over a quarter billion copies of yourself! Instead you should concentrate on lining up as many fertile females as you can and building your own demi-clones for world domination!
Repeat after me:
I do not like SDMI.
I think they should stick it
in their eye.
If you want to make
us use SDMI
then you will not get
good demographics in the
MP3 Pie.
(Sorta rhymes. Sorta Suess-like. I tried :) )
Direct neuro-connect would be great, but I don't see it happening soon. Voice interaction would be nice, but still some shorthand in validating input has to be done or we are at the level of the telephone "Say Yes if you want to kill the monster, Say No elsewise". Yuck.
Right now they are still at the level of expensive toy for those lacking in self-confidence and need a fancy gizmo to impress their other cube dweller buddies. I think they are quite lame. Give me a paper notebook and a pen for now.
I can actually perform the incredible task of remembering phone numbers and today's meetings IN MY BRAIN! That's basically all the dumb gadgets are used for - an exotic alarm clock/phone book.
"Today is November 19, 1999. The numerical format for today is 11-19-1999. All of the digits are odd. The next Odd day will be 1-1-3111 - which is well over a thousand years away, which we will never see. Days such as 4-13-89 have both even and odd digits, thus, it is neither odd nor even. The next even day will be 2-2-2000 - the first one since 8-28-888. So, now you have a reason to celebrate this Friday as it'll be your last odd day on Earth!!!!!!"
Lord of the Rings Movie Trilogy
Keep your emotions out of all interactions with partners. Be purely logical. Screaming matches will lead to destruction.
Dream big, but don't forget the details!
Be prepared to work very VERY hard! But be on the lookout for signs of burnout! Delegate anything you can. If you bite off more than you get chew, get help before you go down in flames!
Be happy that there is a Lord of the Rings movie trilogy in the works!
That would be very interesting, and quite valuable. (As well as probably a dangerous thing to have in ones possesion!)
How would one go about constructing such a list?
Imagine: Kurt Cubane and a molecule that destroys itself. Hmmm... Is there some similarity here?
Is this just a localized network problem on my connection, or can anyone else hit it?
See ya on the other side! :)