You've never played nine-ball for money have you? Banging one object into another doesn't always have predictable results.
Ahh, but they are predictable IF all the variables are known. By all the variables, I mean even the effect of your sweaty fingerprints on the balls from the last time they were racked. There are numerous effects to contend with on the billiard table, many of which are not very well known, or under our control. Those who can guess well, or have some sense of those effects are the ones we call champions. And knowing your own table is a large advantage too, because you know the exact amount of bounce from the cushions, and how it varies over the location on the table. I'm pretty fair on my own table, but only just average on the average bar table that has had little or no maintainance other than a fresh rug every 5 years or so.
Well, for starters, we don't have a very good idea of the value of the m in that equation, where the m actually stands for the mass of the (rock? we don't often know).
v we know pretty closely, but whats your definition of p?
"Toner running out?", thats a nice one when a toner cart is several hundred bucks for some of them, and management has to see it with their own eyes before they'll authorize cutting a check for a new one.
"Paper jam?", again, I can lay that little problem squarely in managements lap when they see that this no-name brand of 16 lb recycled paper is 1/3rd the cost of a decent grade of name brand 20-24 lb.
So don't be so damned quick to blame IT when IT doesn't have the ability to specify and order sufficient stocks of quality expendables.
This is the same IT dept that, when one of the machines catches a cold because the dip in sales thought the "don't open attachments from unknown sources" rule didn't apply to her/him, has no guilty concience whatsoever in re-imaging the drive while the guy/gal is screaming about losing their contact list. Do that 3-4 times and they get religion, enforced by the losses they will have if they don't.
I was afraid of that Bruce. So the EFF has in fact, no standing in regards to defending these patents. Unforch, if anything concrete is developed in the next month, I probably won't hear about it as I'll be netless during that time, working on location in upstate MI. Its kind of nice that they think an old (70) fart like me can walk on water when it comes to fixing tv related stuff, in this case a dual Harris 50kw transmitter that got zapped by lightning a couple of weeks back. I get a nice take home that screws me into the next tax bracket on 4/15 next year plus all expenses except food. Since most of my income these days is SS, it comes in handy for buying new toys etc.:-)
At any rate, I've noticed a lot of AC's denegrating your comments. Ignore them if they aren't willing to put their handle on the comment. In the longer view, the current skepticism you are exhibiting is good. Being "from Missouri" has kept me out of some stuff that later proved to have been bad judgement, even the promoter who was selling it sees it too.
There's that old saw about experience I can't quite repeat verbatum, but you get the picture I'm sure.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
When OSDL has an effective patent pool, they will show us how it can be effective. Until then, I believe that belief in the pool only diverts people from solving the problem.
Bruce
Ok, I'll buy that Bruce, but can you or someone privy to the info tell us frogs, if for example, the 500 patents IBM donated have in fact been transferred to the full ownership of the EFF?
If that was the case, and I highly doubt it, the the EFF & Eban would be relatively free to take any detected violations to court, with a decent chance of prevailing I'd think.
But as I doubt the actual transfer of the patents has taken place, then Ebans hands are quite tightly bound and he can do nothing except posture for the press. He simply has no 'standing' in the legal sense. It remains I've Been Moved's game in its entirety since they are the only one with 'standing' in the matter. And that, as IBM very well knows, is a double edged sword, to be used very carefully.
So I see the next step after forming the patent pool, is to populate it, which will take a considerable sum of money for the application fees, money the EFF probably doesn't have access to right now.
But while doing that, keep looking over our collective shoulders too because until its big enough to represent a club we can swing a wide clear path with, there is gonna be some 2-bit shyster nibbling at our heels and any revenue streams the OS folks can use to pay the rent.
And yes, I'd put SCO in the 2 bit shyster pidgenhole. Hopefully, Novells asking for the jugular vein in cash will be granted since that will, in one swell foop, put an end to all the fud coming from Linden Utah.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
The text of the patent displays nicely, but the images are nowhere to be viewed, and the text isn't simplicated enough to tell me what the hell it is they've managed to get by the USTPO's blind clerks now.
Damn, we have got to fix this patent BS.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Well, the biggest cup I ever saw was on my first, now long deceased (darn, she was a good woman all around & I still miss her), wife. 34-FF. And lemme tell ya folks, bras to fit them right aren't cheap or flimsy. 2 of them was most of a weeks paycheck 40 years back up the log. I didn't complain as it made a knockout out of the lady, who otherwise had to tuck them under her belt because she'd never till then had a bra that would actually support them. Money is hard to come by when you are the oldest daughter of an Arkansas share-cropper.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Wait - you're saying they added regulation that limits busineses' freedoms to innovate with broadband and adds invisible costs to the consumer? I thought that was what commies and big-government Democrats do!
You're new here I take it? This last 2 W as pres things have been damned educational. But don't blame me, I voted, but as an independent, as an independant should,
For those of us with established home network systems that have proven many times they can withstand whatever the black hats have thrown at me so far, I just pray that what I have working now doesn't upchuck and have to be replaced. Then I'd really, really, have to learn howto write iptables rules.
I tried a new router a few months back, had this newfangled VPN capability, and I have a couple of friends in the computer repair business that would like me to be able to join in for the brain power. So I brought it home, pulled the cables out of my old one and plugged them into the new one thinking all I had to do was configure it like the old one.
Yeah, sure, NOT! 2 different routers (both linksys), and 3 different firmware updates later, I still had not succeeded in duplicating the performance and transparency of the old one, and I never did get around to trying out the VPN stuff. Not a hell of a lot of use when I couldn't even get an udp ping thru it, and I had to use the icmp option to traceroute to get it to work through it. Fetchmail and sendmail were down to 50 bytes a minute best.
Guess what... The old one (also a linksys FWIW) is back in service and working very well thank you, doing NAT between the DSL modem and my local 192.168.x.y subnet address. I also have two nics in the firewall box, rigged so that the router path is thru iptables, after which it comes out of the other nic as subnet 192.168.z.y and hits an 8 port switch. Its been pretty bulletproof as portsentry and friends is also watching, and I've had 3 instances of portsentry dropping the hammer on an intruder in 29 months of dsl connection on a 24/7/365 basis. And guess where 2 of those attacks came from? Yup, yur right, verizon is in love with M$, and twice their dns servers they assigned me were rooted.
Can anybodies windows box claim to have survived 3 attacks in 29 months? Donbesilly. I hear its typically 29 minutes for a bare box to be owned.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Chuckle, I hear you loud and clear. I spent a decade back in the 60's in Rapid City, SD, a very happy time in my life till the wife passed, and have managed to get back there on vacation from time to time a few times since, or deer hunting as the case may be. I also have a wife, who died at the age of 34 from a stroke caused by a head blow from a proud baye gelding, buried there. Thats also where I learned my machinest/gunsmithing skills too.
But its electrons that have paid my bills since 1950, I'm now 70 and winding down into retirement, working as a broadcast engineer only part time. I'm the old coot they call on when it adsolutely has to be fixed right. And I still shoot the 30-06 Ackley Improved deer rifle that while I was living there, managed to reach out and touch one at 640 yards out on "Ruslin" Jack Reilly's place north of Wall SD as far as the road goes. That barrel went away though, and the douglas heavy I put on in its place has never quite managed to get into the 3/4" area even on a good day. Jack is quite a character. I'm told he got the nickname because he got charged for loading up some cattle that wasn't his. ISTR I read something in the paper about it.
I've also a 22-250, shilen barrel.
And my 4wd is a Nissan, 88 model, terminally rusty, 202k miles, goes anytime I twist the key, to anyplace. Enough chains for all 4 corners, and they have been on it a few times, but usually the front is enough.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Well, didja ever stop to think, here in WV we need a 4wd just to get to where its safe to shoot a gun? Unless of course I should be forced to exersize my CWP in the local 7/11 cause some dipshit thinks he can rob the place & I just happen to be present.
Actually, here in WV, the hills are right up in your face and in the wintertime, a 6" snow means you can't get out of the driveway without chaining up all 4 corners of your 4wd. Because of this, more than 15% of us WVians probably drive 4wd's the year round just to be able to reliably get to work. Most places the 4wd is an oddity, a luxury even, but here they are almost a necessity. Overall, I'd guess that gun ownership here probably at least matches the Nebraska, Dakota's, and other similar states where its well over 50%. Do we worry about all those guns? Not a bit, cause almost every local kid grows up with a 22 in his hand and can kill a pop can or a groundhog at 50 yards. That breeds a safety consious kid 99% of the time, one that handles, and uses the weapon responsibly. This is something that your average big city kid never gets to do, and when he gets a chance to grab a gun, he's suddenly 10 foot tall & bulletproof. He probably couldn't hit the barn standing in it, but he's got a gun & he's gonna be the boss.
Now there is your stereotype...
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Along the same lines, I have a suction cuped tag on the backslider of my 4wd. It says:
Notice, driver only carries $20 in ammunition
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
"guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat"
Humm, another clueless gun bashing. A gun is inanimate, just like the spoon. For either to work as described, it takes somebody to miss-use them. In Rosies case, its not the spoon, its the spoon operator.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
300 miles=990km? Not in this universe, wanna try that again, based on 8km = 5 miles?
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I have serious doubts that moonbounce could be made to work at anything like a usable bandwidth.
Why? First: Well, the moon is not a flat object by any means, its highly irregular at those frequencies, which would cause a pretty severe smearing of the reflected signal in time, an effect that will raise hell with any attempts at decent bandwidth even with the cofdm encoding used.
And second, at those frequencies, I expect it (the moon) is rather absorbant. With a 300 milliwatt uplink power, and a satellite dish good for 40db (bigger than the average home dish folks) on each end of the circuit, let somebody thats good with path math figure it out. I recall that the first mile is a 140db loss if the antennas are isotropic but these are not, and from there, its a 6 db loss per doubling of the distance. With the moon about (IIRC) 270k miles away, what would be the incoming signal level assuming the moon itself was a 26 to 30 db loss in its reflectance?
I suspect whoever is doing this will need a calculator good for more digits in internal accuracy to be able to get reliable figures than my TI-51 which only does 13 + 2 IIRC.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
It obviously burns, rather vioently in order to do its job and the burning gas products can be seen escaping from one of the joints between the rockets casings. Looks like sun glare, but I'd bet a bottle of suds its not. That rocket booster is made in 3 sections for shipping convienience and bolted together at the launch site.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Because, in case you haven't noticed, in 2.5 years the chinese will have staked claims on all the choice real estate on the moon, and maybe even mars.
Friggin social do gooder cry babies have so crippled our educational system today that even if technology was suddenly hip again, it would still take us a generation to recover the giddy-up that put us as #1 on this planet 40 years ago.
Unforch, now we have another hurdle to conquer first. 40 years ago we had effectively unlimited energy to do all this with. Today we're going to have to find it, and find it without killing the planet with the excess CO2 that getting it from oil causes.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I wonder if their better solution also includes fixes for the quite obvious joint leakage visible as what looks like sun glare in those pix where the solid fuel boosters are still attached to the tank. Its quite noticeable in several of those shots they've 'randomly' sequenced for the slideshow. Randomly, as in being carefull that things are not in sequence timewise so that the real progress cannot be visualized by Joe & Jane Sixpack.
This is after all, the same exact problem that cost us the first shuttle back in 1987.
But they're so convinced that the solid fuel booster problem been fixed, and so intent on the foam problem that TPTB either haven't noticed it, or are trying to sweep it under the rug. I think some noise needs to be made about that, and what is Thiocol going to do about it.
The more things change, the more they stay the same when it comes to a beaurocracy like NASA.
That slideshow is nice, but about 50 duplicate pix could have been removed, thats gets fscking boring.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
This is a rather wordy but well thought out effort
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The New C Standard
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I skimmed thru the first section and 10 pages or so into the second in trying to decide if this is worth the paper and ink it would take to make a dead tree version of it.
Generally, I think is worth the time & effort to add it to your bookshelf.
Addison-Weseley has inadvertantly done us a favor since historicly they have hung onto the copyrights and vigorously defended them to the detriment of the subject matter at hand. Their treatment of the amiga related materiel they published, by end of life treating it long before the usefullness of the material was appreciated by the users brought the amiga platform to a somewhat premature death because the flow of info on how to program it was severely restricted. But they weren't interested in a production run of only 10,000.
At any rate, I'll give this a **** rating. Its should, unless obvious mistakes are found, serve as the new c99 bible because of its detail.
I also have both K&R books, and you have to read then with the thought of their conciseness in hand before you can grasp what is being said. Concise is nice, until it leads to obtuse. And its not the least bit helped by the poor quality of the printing where whole pages seemed to have been included in the latest version that were printed on an offset press whose plates were, in the vernacular of the pressman, going blind. This makes it more difficult to read than it should be.
Makeing your own dead tree version of this should alleviate all the pain except for its weight as you carry it around since its going to be most of the second ream of paper in duplex mode.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
I don't know about the dupes, possibly. But the classical definition usually names Cockroaches, Coyotes, and White Tailed Deer. It never has, and probably never will, include humans.
And yes, the story is a dupe. I read it in Wired close to 2 months ago.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly.
I cannot begin to express my disbelief in reading this. In my opinion, the justices blew it by not reinforcing the power of private ownership of property.
New Jersey law, or lack of it, not withstanding, this was SCOTUS, and SCOTUS had a moral imperitive to look at it in a "what is right, and what is wrong" light based on the constituion of the United States of America. They failed to do so, and I for one hope this Townships council or whatever its called, use the power of that decision to send a powerfull message from the people to a court that is clearly out of control in several recent rulings.
"We the people" are being nibbled to death by ducks, and its time we started having duck for dinner. I'm beginning to think the dems were right in opposing the shrubs apointments. We have enough of them now, slowly carving away the rights of a free (heh) people.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Chuckle, mod the parent up to funny, thats pretty good.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Seriously, does Jon have to do it all? If some states AG gets a burr under his saddle about something like this, they can again incarcerate him and cost him a boatload of sheckles to get clear of it.
My point is, why does it always have to be 'DVD Jon' that does it, the more contributions by others the merrier the party.
And this comment from a 70 year old who really ought to be more of an 'establishment' type.
Realisticly, both patent and copyright has been expanded to protect the guilty until even I can see the falacy of it and its deleterious effects on society and the needless stifling of technological progress.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Humph. Power toys for me usually make loud noises and throw things called bullets, with the push coming from H414 or Pyrodex RS, or maybe Pyrodex P occasionally.:-)
Back to reality, there is no M$ os product installed here, anyplace. And I don't feel very limited. For instance, I shot the wedding of the oldest girl next door about a month ago on my firewire equipt Sony Hi8 digital movie camera. I imported the roughly 20 minutes of it using kino on this box, edited out the worst of the old farts camera shakes and exported it as an mpeg2, then a few minutes to have a k3b related program turn it into an.iso I could burn to a cd as a video cd file. It played in my region and macrovision free Apex dvd player, so I made 3 more copies and gave it to the kids, who, along with the parents on both sides, were quite profuse in their thanks. And I didn't need windoze to do any of it.
IMO, folks who say that linux is not ready for the desktop on the users machine are simply unwilling to try something new, like tradeing a ford in on a chevy I guess.
I went cruising the net looking for decent cursive style fonts last year, found me some nice ones, then made our christmas cards using the current then version of OOo. Every recipient we gave one to wanted to know what photo processor did them. Sorry, one 4 year old Olympus C3020 3.2 meg digital camera, an install of the gimp to crop the shot artisticly, loaded the shot up in OOo, added the greetings text & fed it to my ageing epson C82 printer, which was all I needed. I'll do it again this year when I get a more recent shot of the 2 of us.
I repeat, who the hell needs windows? I sure don't.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Well, that just goes to show how lacking I am in recent windows experience.
Is it so broken that its not workable, or is it developer lethargy?
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
So I'm just an upstart then? I ran a coco3, then an amiga thru the early 90's. But I'm still an old fart... Oh, well:-)
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
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You've never played nine-ball for money have you? Banging one object into another doesn't always have predictable results.
Ahh, but they are predictable IF all the variables are known. By all the variables, I mean even the effect of your sweaty fingerprints on the balls from the last time they were racked. There are numerous effects to contend with on the billiard table, many of which are not very well known, or under our control. Those who can guess well, or have some sense of those effects are the ones we call champions. And knowing your own table is a large advantage too, because you know the exact amount of bounce from the cushions, and how it varies over the location on the table. I'm pretty fair on my own table, but only just average on the average bar table that has had little or no maintainance other than a fresh rug every 5 years or so.
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Cheers, Gene
What's wrong with the good old p=mv (momentum)?
Well, for starters, we don't have a very good idea of the value of the m in that equation, where the m actually stands for the mass of the (rock? we don't often know).
v we know pretty closely, but whats your definition of p?
Cheers, Gene
"Toner running out?", thats a nice one when a toner cart is several hundred bucks for some of them, and management has to see it with their own eyes before they'll authorize cutting a check for a new one.
"Paper jam?", again, I can lay that little problem squarely in managements lap when they see that this no-name brand of 16 lb recycled paper is 1/3rd the cost of a decent grade of name brand 20-24 lb.
So don't be so damned quick to blame IT when IT doesn't have the ability to specify and order sufficient stocks of quality expendables.
This is the same IT dept that, when one of the machines catches a cold because the dip in sales thought the "don't open attachments from unknown sources" rule didn't apply to her/him, has no guilty concience whatsoever in re-imaging the drive while the guy/gal is screaming about losing their contact list. Do that 3-4 times and they get religion, enforced by the losses they will have if they don't.
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Cheers, Gene
I was afraid of that Bruce. So the EFF has in fact, no standing in regards to defending these patents. Unforch, if anything concrete is developed in the next month, I probably won't hear about it as I'll be netless during that time, working on location in upstate MI. Its kind of nice that they think an old (70) fart like me can walk on water when it comes to fixing tv related stuff, in this case a dual Harris 50kw transmitter that got zapped by lightning a couple of weeks back. I get a nice take home that screws me into the next tax bracket on 4/15 next year plus all expenses except food. Since most of my income these days is SS, it comes in handy for buying new toys etc. :-)
At any rate, I've noticed a lot of AC's denegrating your comments. Ignore them if they aren't willing to put their handle on the comment. In the longer view, the current skepticism you are exhibiting is good. Being "from Missouri" has kept me out of some stuff that later proved to have been bad judgement, even the promoter who was selling it sees it too.
There's that old saw about experience I can't quite repeat verbatum, but you get the picture I'm sure.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
When OSDL has an effective patent pool, they will show us how it can be effective. Until then, I believe that belief in the pool only diverts people from solving the problem.
Bruce
Ok, I'll buy that Bruce, but can you or someone privy to the info tell us frogs, if for example, the 500 patents IBM donated have in fact been transferred to the full ownership of the EFF?
If that was the case, and I highly doubt it, the the EFF & Eban would be relatively free to take any detected violations to court, with a decent chance of prevailing I'd think.
But as I doubt the actual transfer of the patents has taken place, then Ebans hands are quite tightly bound and he can do nothing except posture for the press. He simply has no 'standing' in the legal sense. It remains I've Been Moved's game in its entirety since they are the only one with 'standing' in the matter. And that, as IBM very well knows, is a double edged sword, to be used very carefully.
So I see the next step after forming the patent pool, is to populate it, which will take a considerable sum of money for the application fees, money the EFF probably doesn't have access to right now.
But while doing that, keep looking over our collective shoulders too because until its big enough to represent a club we can swing a wide clear path with, there is gonna be some 2-bit shyster nibbling at our heels and any revenue streams the OS folks can use to pay the rent.
And yes, I'd put SCO in the 2 bit shyster pidgenhole. Hopefully, Novells asking for the jugular vein in cash will be granted since that will, in one swell foop, put an end to all the fud coming from Linden Utah.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
The text of the patent displays nicely, but the images are nowhere to be viewed, and the text isn't simplicated enough to tell me what the hell it is they've managed to get by the USTPO's blind clerks now.
Damn, we have got to fix this patent BS.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Well, the biggest cup I ever saw was on my first, now long deceased (darn, she was a good woman all around & I still miss her), wife. 34-FF. And lemme tell ya folks, bras to fit them right aren't cheap or flimsy. 2 of them was most of a weeks paycheck 40 years back up the log. I didn't complain as it made a knockout out of the lady, who otherwise had to tuck them under her belt because she'd never till then had a bra that would actually support them. Money is hard to come by when you are the oldest daughter of an Arkansas share-cropper.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Wait - you're saying they added regulation that limits busineses' freedoms to innovate with broadband and adds invisible costs to the consumer? I thought that was what commies and big-government Democrats do!
You're new here I take it? This last 2 W as pres things have been damned educational. But don't blame me, I voted, but as an independent, as an independant should,
For those of us with established home network systems that have proven many times they can withstand whatever the black hats have thrown at me so far, I just pray that what I have working now doesn't upchuck and have to be replaced. Then I'd really, really, have to learn howto write iptables rules.
I tried a new router a few months back, had this newfangled VPN capability, and I have a couple of friends in the computer repair business that would like me to be able to join in for the brain power. So I brought it home, pulled the cables out of my old one and plugged them into the new one thinking all I had to do was configure it like the old one.
Yeah, sure, NOT! 2 different routers (both linksys), and 3 different firmware updates later, I still had not succeeded in duplicating the performance and transparency of the old one, and I never did get around to trying out the VPN stuff. Not a hell of a lot of use when I couldn't even get an udp ping thru it, and I had to use the icmp option to traceroute to get it to work through it. Fetchmail and sendmail were down to 50 bytes a minute best.
Guess what... The old one (also a linksys FWIW) is back in service and working very well thank you, doing NAT between the DSL modem and my local 192.168.x.y subnet address. I also have two nics in the firewall box, rigged so that the router path is thru iptables, after which it comes out of the other nic as subnet 192.168.z.y and hits an 8 port switch. Its been pretty bulletproof as portsentry and friends is also watching, and I've had 3 instances of portsentry dropping the hammer on an intruder in 29 months of dsl connection on a 24/7/365 basis. And guess where 2 of those attacks came from? Yup, yur right, verizon is in love with M$, and twice their dns servers they assigned me were rooted.
Can anybodies windows box claim to have survived 3 attacks in 29 months? Donbesilly. I hear its typically 29 minutes for a bare box to be owned.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Chuckle, I hear you loud and clear. I spent a decade back in the 60's in Rapid City, SD, a very happy time in my life till the wife passed, and have managed to get back there on vacation from time to time a few times since, or deer hunting as the case may be. I also have a wife, who died at the age of 34 from a stroke caused by a head blow from a proud baye gelding, buried there. Thats also where I learned my machinest/gunsmithing skills too.
But its electrons that have paid my bills since 1950, I'm now 70 and winding down into retirement, working as a broadcast engineer only part time. I'm the old coot they call on when it adsolutely has to be fixed right. And I still shoot the 30-06 Ackley Improved deer rifle that while I was living there, managed to reach out and touch one at 640 yards out on "Ruslin" Jack Reilly's place north of Wall SD as far as the road goes. That barrel went away though, and the douglas heavy I put on in its place has never quite managed to get into the 3/4" area even on a good day. Jack is quite a character. I'm told he got the nickname because he got charged for loading up some cattle that wasn't his. ISTR I read something in the paper about it.
I've also a 22-250, shilen barrel.
And my 4wd is a Nissan, 88 model, terminally rusty, 202k miles, goes anytime I twist the key, to anyplace. Enough chains for all 4 corners, and they have been on it a few times, but usually the front is enough.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Well, didja ever stop to think, here in WV we need a 4wd just to get to where its safe to shoot a gun? Unless of course I should be forced to exersize my CWP in the local 7/11 cause some dipshit thinks he can rob the place & I just happen to be present.
Actually, here in WV, the hills are right up in your face and in the wintertime, a 6" snow means you can't get out of the driveway without chaining up all 4 corners of your 4wd. Because of this, more than 15% of us WVians probably drive 4wd's the year round just to be able to reliably get to work. Most places the 4wd is an oddity, a luxury even, but here they are almost a necessity. Overall, I'd guess that gun ownership here probably at least matches the Nebraska, Dakota's, and other similar states where its well over 50%. Do we worry about all those guns? Not a bit, cause almost every local kid grows up with a 22 in his hand and can kill a pop can or a groundhog at 50 yards. That breeds a safety consious kid 99% of the time, one that handles, and uses the weapon responsibly. This is something that your average big city kid never gets to do, and when he gets a chance to grab a gun, he's suddenly 10 foot tall & bulletproof. He probably couldn't hit the barn standing in it, but he's got a gun & he's gonna be the boss.
Now there is your stereotype...
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Chuckle;
Along the same lines, I have a suction cuped tag on the backslider of my 4wd. It says:
Notice, driver only carries $20 in ammunition
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
"guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat"
Humm, another clueless gun bashing. A gun is inanimate, just like the spoon. For either to work as described, it takes somebody to miss-use them. In Rosies case, its not the spoon, its the spoon operator.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
300 miles=990km? Not in this universe, wanna try that again, based on 8km = 5 miles?
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I have serious doubts that moonbounce could be made to work at anything like a usable bandwidth.
Why? First: Well, the moon is not a flat object by any means, its highly irregular at those frequencies, which would cause a pretty severe smearing of the reflected signal in time, an effect that will raise hell with any attempts at decent bandwidth even with the cofdm encoding used.
And second, at those frequencies, I expect it (the moon) is rather absorbant. With a 300 milliwatt uplink power, and a satellite dish good for 40db (bigger than the average home dish folks) on each end of the circuit, let somebody thats good with path math figure it out. I recall that the first mile is a 140db loss if the antennas are isotropic but these are not, and from there, its a 6 db loss per doubling of the distance. With the moon about (IIRC) 270k miles away, what would be the incoming signal level assuming the moon itself was a 26 to 30 db loss in its reflectance?
I suspect whoever is doing this will need a calculator good for more digits in internal accuracy to be able to get reliable figures than my TI-51 which only does 13 + 2 IIRC.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
It obviously burns, rather vioently in order to do its job and the burning gas products can be seen escaping from one of the joints between the rockets casings. Looks like sun glare, but I'd bet a bottle of suds its not. That rocket booster is made in 3 sections for shipping convienience and bolted together at the launch site.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Because, in case you haven't noticed, in 2.5 years the chinese will have staked claims on all the choice real estate on the moon, and maybe even mars.
Friggin social do gooder cry babies have so crippled our educational system today that even if technology was suddenly hip again, it would still take us a generation to recover the giddy-up that put us as #1 on this planet 40 years ago.
Unforch, now we have another hurdle to conquer first. 40 years ago we had effectively unlimited energy to do all this with. Today we're going to have to find it, and find it without killing the planet with the excess CO2 that getting it from oil causes.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I wonder if their better solution also includes fixes for the quite obvious joint leakage visible as what looks like sun glare in those pix where the solid fuel boosters are still attached to the tank. Its quite noticeable in several of those shots they've 'randomly' sequenced for the slideshow. Randomly, as in being carefull that things are not in sequence timewise so that the real progress cannot be visualized by Joe & Jane Sixpack.
This is after all, the same exact problem that cost us the first shuttle back in 1987.
But they're so convinced that the solid fuel booster problem been fixed, and so intent on the foam problem that TPTB either haven't noticed it, or are trying to sweep it under the rug. I think some noise needs to be made about that, and what is Thiocol going to do about it.
The more things change, the more they stay the same when it comes to a beaurocracy like NASA.
That slideshow is nice, but about 50 duplicate pix could have been removed, thats gets fscking boring.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I skimmed thru the first section and 10 pages or so into the second in trying to decide if this is worth the paper and ink it would take to make a dead tree version of it.
Generally, I think is worth the time & effort to add it to your bookshelf.
Addison-Weseley has inadvertantly done us a favor since historicly they have hung onto the copyrights and vigorously defended them to the detriment of the subject matter at hand. Their treatment of the amiga related materiel they published, by end of life treating it long before the usefullness of the material was appreciated by the users brought the amiga platform to a somewhat premature death because the flow of info on how to program it was severely restricted. But they weren't interested in a production run of only 10,000.
At any rate, I'll give this a **** rating. Its should, unless obvious mistakes are found, serve as the new c99 bible because of its detail.
I also have both K&R books, and you have to read then with the thought of their conciseness in hand before you can grasp what is being said. Concise is nice, until it leads to obtuse. And its not the least bit helped by the poor quality of the printing where whole pages seemed to have been included in the latest version that were printed on an offset press whose plates were, in the vernacular of the pressman, going blind. This makes it more difficult to read than it should be.
Makeing your own dead tree version of this should alleviate all the pain except for its weight as you carry it around since its going to be most of the second ream of paper in duplex mode.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
I don't know about the dupes, possibly. But the classical definition usually names Cockroaches, Coyotes, and White Tailed Deer. It never has, and probably never will, include humans.
And yes, the story is a dupe. I read it in Wired close to 2 months ago.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly.
I cannot begin to express my disbelief in reading this. In my opinion, the justices blew it by not reinforcing the power of private ownership of property.
New Jersey law, or lack of it, not withstanding, this was SCOTUS, and SCOTUS had a moral imperitive to look at it in a "what is right, and what is wrong" light based on the constituion of the United States of America. They failed to do so, and I for one hope this Townships council or whatever its called, use the power of that decision to send a powerfull message from the people to a court that is clearly out of control in several recent rulings.
"We the people" are being nibbled to death by ducks, and its time we started having duck for dinner. I'm beginning to think the dems were right in opposing the shrubs apointments. We have enough of them now, slowly carving away the rights of a free (heh) people.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Chuckle, mod the parent up to funny, thats pretty good.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Seriously, does Jon have to do it all? If some states AG gets a burr under his saddle about something like this, they can again incarcerate him and cost him a boatload of sheckles to get clear of it.
My point is, why does it always have to be 'DVD Jon' that does it, the more contributions by others the merrier the party.
And this comment from a 70 year old who really ought to be more of an 'establishment' type.
Realisticly, both patent and copyright has been expanded to protect the guilty until even I can see the falacy of it and its deleterious effects on society and the needless stifling of technological progress.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Humph. Power toys for me usually make loud noises and throw things called bullets, with the push coming from H414 or Pyrodex RS, or maybe Pyrodex P occasionally. :-)
.iso I could burn to a cd as a video cd file. It played in my region and macrovision free Apex dvd player, so I made 3 more copies and gave it to the kids, who, along with the parents on both sides, were quite profuse in their thanks. And I didn't need windoze to do any of it.
Back to reality, there is no M$ os product installed here, anyplace. And I don't feel very limited. For instance, I shot the wedding of the oldest girl next door about a month ago on my firewire equipt Sony Hi8 digital movie camera. I imported the roughly 20 minutes of it using kino on this box, edited out the worst of the old farts camera shakes and exported it as an mpeg2, then a few minutes to have a k3b related program turn it into an
IMO, folks who say that linux is not ready for the desktop on the users machine are simply unwilling to try something new, like tradeing a ford in on a chevy I guess.
I went cruising the net looking for decent cursive style fonts last year, found me some nice ones, then made our christmas cards using the current then version of OOo. Every recipient we gave one to wanted to know what photo processor did them. Sorry, one 4 year old Olympus C3020 3.2 meg digital camera, an install of the gimp to crop the shot artisticly, loaded the shot up in OOo, added the greetings text & fed it to my ageing epson C82 printer, which was all I needed. I'll do it again this year when I get a more recent shot of the 2 of us.
I repeat, who the hell needs windows? I sure don't.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Well, that just goes to show how lacking I am in recent windows experience.
Is it so broken that its not workable, or is it developer lethargy?
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
So I'm just an upstart then? I ran a coco3, then an amiga thru the early 90's. But I'm still an old fart... Oh, well :-)
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly