I mean, you didn't think guys describing each other as "amigos" were all gay, did you?
Not just for that- but also for all of that machismo crap and oneupsmanship that permeates such cultures. Any man who claims to like women but still treats them like throwaway crap is hiding something.
The British had fun finding out how many milliseconds it was to the next server?
Still, I believe you- but was it the same game or a clever software-based version? (the original pong, surprising as it is, was done entirely in hardware).
And tech can get us out. Now that we've taken care of the root cause, it's time to use the profits from the root cause to solve the symptom. A few million weather balloons with spark gap generators ought to do the trick to cut that 50 years down to something more reasonable.
So you add the overhead of an error checking and correcting protocol (zmodem) over top of a protocol that already checks for and corrects errors (tcp)? Why not just use sftp/scp and skip installing an extra piece of software on your server?
Actually, TCP does a pretty bad job on the error correcting side- packets aren't buffered properly (in that, if a machine suddenly becomes unreachable for a couple of days, TCP will simply never deliver the packets. Zmodem, on the other hand, will resume upon reconnection, discarding spare packets and assembling it's file correctly. Just try to do THAT with a TCP protocol like FTP).
No, Ping isn't a game, it's a network test. Pong is the game, aka "Video Ping Pong", originally programed on an oscilloscope and quite likely the first home video game system many people had (even though it only played the one game). It was also the very first arcade machine with a screen instead of cardboard cutouts and metal ball channels.
Zmodem- the friend that made downloading possible on my rotten phone lines at 1200 baud (why? Because the downloads could be RESUMED! Now there's something they should add to firefox!)
As a format? No, I think OrangeBook will be around and still readable for a while. Or are you talking about archiving problems? I use the 100 year quality gold for such things, the type with two layers of plastic instead of one.
To read TI-99/4A written Display Variable 80 (aka DV80) files- in which all of my early experiments with machine language and my high school word processing papers are saved in. But- and this is a big but- I've got to find a 5.25", 360k drive to do it. So I've kept a few around- I doubt I could still find them new.
Whenever possible, I convert those to plain text- and store them on CDs.
I'd go a step further- and say we should never separate history from evolution. I'm not talking about the specific biological theory here- I'm talking about the fact that the human race has subplanted biological change with cultural, technological, military, and social change- but that the same processes affect both forms of evolution. History is largely the evolution of human societies, from the very simple ritualistic tribal societies (yes, everybody comes from a tribe or clan if you go back far enough) to religious-based societies controling thousands of people, to today's complex socio-economic-religious schemes that control millions.
For those who don't know the stories: the original Peter Principle manager was St. Peter- promoted to Pope by Jesus from fisherman, to a position far in excess of what he thought his aiblities were- and far in excess of what his abilities actually were. Ever since- the Peter Principle is that people get promoted until they are one step past their competancy level- thus, anybody who has been in a Peter Principle company long enough is indeed incompetant in their current job.
In the 1980s, the Dilbert cartoonist noticed something that he eventually named the Dilbert Principle- people got hired directly to high level jobs without climbing the promotion ladder, on basis of such fake credentials as how well they combed their hair, or MBA degrees. Most of these people were, like the Peter Principle managers, incompetant- but they rose to NEW levels of incompetance because they really had no idea what anybody below them actually did.
So tell me, was Peter the IT manager a Dilbert Principle or a Peter Principle hire?
You've got a Dilbert Principle Boss. Take away his computer, give him an etch-a-sketch, and tell him to shake it to reboot.
In the meantime, do some resarch and turn in your resume at a company that believes in the Peter Principle- at least your boss will have done your job at some point in his career, even if he's incompetant to be in his current position.
What I'd sure like to see- as the poster below pointed out- is an investigation of Eliot Spitzer himself. Where does HE get his campaign contributions- and should we possibly be looking at the corporations that provide those contributions?
I wouldn't be surprised if that was a part of the case. But the main point is that when he fights, he fights for others, not himself, even if he's got the facts wrong. If the public restroom janitors weren't even hired- do you really think they had a union or a voting block for him to pay attention to? Or did he just see what he percieved as an injustice- and decided to fight against it? We need much more of the second- and much less of the first.
Funny, I've noticed the opposite- my tank is getting smaller it seems...not much- but my 10 gallon tank can be completely empty on reading the dial, and still only take 8 gallons at the pump. 1999 Ford Escort. Probably the last gasoline vehicle I ever buy- at these prices I'll be switching back to something with a real carborator that I can adjust to run on alcohol, or a diesel that I can adjust to run on pine oil.
Note: I didn't vote for Bush- but I thought his embryonic stem cell policy didn't go far enough.
Given that- I fully support adult stem cell research, and this is an exciting step merging the two branches. Next step- creating an adult stem cell from a non-stem cell, and researching the difference between the embryonic and the adult stem cells. Either that or figuring out how to remove the 2nd set of DNA from the lab-created embryonic stem cells. Note that embryos aren't the only potential source- cord blood, if it can be kept and donated, is full of embryonic stem cells, and the embryo, now a post-birth baby, survives. This method of giving an embryonic stem cell whatever DNA we want to feed it is potentially a way to make cord blood stem cells usefull- and encourages the continuation of human life by encouraging the rich, powerfull, and impotent to support poor families that have more children than they can financially take care of.
And, last I checked, they don't give you a power hookup for most tombstones --- this just sounds like yet another silly application of technology to me.
RTFA- they're SOLAR powered tombstones- which leads to an entirely different potential application and source of revenue for the smart funeral director- pick a nice sunny spot of the graveyard to limit these things to, network them together to charge huge arrays of batteries and sell power back to the grid.
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RTFA- no speakers, so unless the passer by plugs in a standard headphone jack, no you can't have the last say.
They could do it now: http://www.vidstone.com/ has these for sale right now- their services include scanning in your snapshots, mixing them with music, 30 day "tribute" website where you can preview before it gets burned into the memory of the tombstone, and local funeral homes doing the rest.
http://www.vidstone.com/ if you've got an immediate need. Looks like it only supports a sound-and-slideshow format so far, burned onto some sort of flash ROM before installation.
The average computer uses as much as seventeen swimming pools worth of coal to run on any given day.
I'd like to see the math behind that point please. Show all your work, and include just how much tonage a swimming pool is. I don't know what the conversion ration of tons of coal to kilowatts is- so include that as well. You might also want to compare it to the hydropower and wind power we enjoy out here on the left coast.
I do know that the computer I use most of the time can run on it's 900mah battery for up to 2 hours straight without a recharge while playing full motion video.
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I mean, you didn't think guys describing each other as "amigos" were all gay, did you?
Not just for that- but also for all of that machismo crap and oneupsmanship that permeates such cultures. Any man who claims to like women but still treats them like throwaway crap is hiding something.
Semicolon in most forms of early basic, when on the end of a print statement, meant "Supress carriage return".
The British had fun finding out how many milliseconds it was to the next server?
Still, I believe you- but was it the same game or a clever software-based version? (the original pong, surprising as it is, was done entirely in hardware).
And tech can get us out. Now that we've taken care of the root cause, it's time to use the profits from the root cause to solve the symptom. A few million weather balloons with spark gap generators ought to do the trick to cut that 50 years down to something more reasonable.
So you add the overhead of an error checking and correcting protocol (zmodem) over top of a protocol that already checks for and corrects errors (tcp)? Why not just use sftp/scp and skip installing an extra piece of software on your server?
Actually, TCP does a pretty bad job on the error correcting side- packets aren't buffered properly (in that, if a machine suddenly becomes unreachable for a couple of days, TCP will simply never deliver the packets. Zmodem, on the other hand, will resume upon reconnection, discarding spare packets and assembling it's file correctly. Just try to do THAT with a TCP protocol like FTP).
No, Ping isn't a game, it's a network test. Pong is the game, aka "Video Ping Pong", originally programed on an oscilloscope and quite likely the first home video game system many people had (even though it only played the one game). It was also the very first arcade machine with a screen instead of cardboard cutouts and metal ball channels.
Zmodem- the friend that made downloading possible on my rotten phone lines at 1200 baud (why? Because the downloads could be RESUMED! Now there's something they should add to firefox!)
Not if it was formatted on a Myarc DCC. I'm not entirely sure why, but it seems to have to do with how that card used to run the stepper motor.
As a format? No, I think OrangeBook will be around and still readable for a while. Or are you talking about archiving problems? I use the 100 year quality gold for such things, the type with two layers of plastic instead of one.
To read TI-99/4A written Display Variable 80 (aka DV80) files- in which all of my early experiments with machine language and my high school word processing papers are saved in. But- and this is a big but- I've got to find a 5.25", 360k drive to do it. So I've kept a few around- I doubt I could still find them new.
Whenever possible, I convert those to plain text- and store them on CDs.
I'd go a step further- and say we should never separate history from evolution. I'm not talking about the specific biological theory here- I'm talking about the fact that the human race has subplanted biological change with cultural, technological, military, and social change- but that the same processes affect both forms of evolution. History is largely the evolution of human societies, from the very simple ritualistic tribal societies (yes, everybody comes from a tribe or clan if you go back far enough) to religious-based societies controling thousands of people, to today's complex socio-economic-religious schemes that control millions.
For those who don't know the stories: the original Peter Principle manager was St. Peter- promoted to Pope by Jesus from fisherman, to a position far in excess of what he thought his aiblities were- and far in excess of what his abilities actually were. Ever since- the Peter Principle is that people get promoted until they are one step past their competancy level- thus, anybody who has been in a Peter Principle company long enough is indeed incompetant in their current job.
In the 1980s, the Dilbert cartoonist noticed something that he eventually named the Dilbert Principle- people got hired directly to high level jobs without climbing the promotion ladder, on basis of such fake credentials as how well they combed their hair, or MBA degrees. Most of these people were, like the Peter Principle managers, incompetant- but they rose to NEW levels of incompetance because they really had no idea what anybody below them actually did.
So tell me, was Peter the IT manager a Dilbert Principle or a Peter Principle hire?
You've got a Dilbert Principle Boss. Take away his computer, give him an etch-a-sketch, and tell him to shake it to reboot.
In the meantime, do some resarch and turn in your resume at a company that believes in the Peter Principle- at least your boss will have done your job at some point in his career, even if he's incompetant to be in his current position.
What I'd sure like to see- as the poster below pointed out- is an investigation of Eliot Spitzer himself. Where does HE get his campaign contributions- and should we possibly be looking at the corporations that provide those contributions?
That's exactly what a puppet of the corporations would want you to think.
True enough- so maybe other AGs looking to make a name for themselves should start investigating the companies he's avoiding.
I wouldn't be surprised if that was a part of the case. But the main point is that when he fights, he fights for others, not himself, even if he's got the facts wrong. If the public restroom janitors weren't even hired- do you really think they had a union or a voting block for him to pay attention to? Or did he just see what he percieved as an injustice- and decided to fight against it? We need much more of the second- and much less of the first.
Funny, I've noticed the opposite- my tank is getting smaller it seems...not much- but my 10 gallon tank can be completely empty on reading the dial, and still only take 8 gallons at the pump. 1999 Ford Escort. Probably the last gasoline vehicle I ever buy- at these prices I'll be switching back to something with a real carborator that I can adjust to run on alcohol, or a diesel that I can adjust to run on pine oil.
Because he's the only public servant I know who actually IS a PUBLIC servant- as opposed to a bribed-and-bought puppet of the corporations.
Note: I didn't vote for Bush- but I thought his embryonic stem cell policy didn't go far enough.
Given that- I fully support adult stem cell research, and this is an exciting step merging the two branches. Next step- creating an adult stem cell from a non-stem cell, and researching the difference between the embryonic and the adult stem cells. Either that or figuring out how to remove the 2nd set of DNA from the lab-created embryonic stem cells. Note that embryos aren't the only potential source- cord blood, if it can be kept and donated, is full of embryonic stem cells, and the embryo, now a post-birth baby, survives. This method of giving an embryonic stem cell whatever DNA we want to feed it is potentially a way to make cord blood stem cells usefull- and encourages the continuation of human life by encouraging the rich, powerfull, and impotent to support poor families that have more children than they can financially take care of.
And, last I checked, they don't give you a power hookup for most tombstones --- this just sounds like yet another silly application of technology to me.
RTFA- they're SOLAR powered tombstones- which leads to an entirely different potential application and source of revenue for the smart funeral director- pick a nice sunny spot of the graveyard to limit these things to, network them together to charge huge arrays of batteries and sell power back to the grid.
RTFA- no speakers, so unless the passer by plugs in a standard headphone jack, no you can't have the last say.
From the pictures on the website- looks like ones that face east or west have a nice little door that stays closed most of the time, hiding the LCD.
They could do it now: http://www.vidstone.com/ has these for sale right now- their services include scanning in your snapshots, mixing them with music, 30 day "tribute" website where you can preview before it gets burned into the memory of the tombstone, and local funeral homes doing the rest.
http://www.vidstone.com/ if you've got an immediate need. Looks like it only supports a sound-and-slideshow format so far, burned onto some sort of flash ROM before installation.
The average computer uses as much as seventeen swimming pools worth of coal to run on any given day.
I'd like to see the math behind that point please. Show all your work, and include just how much tonage a swimming pool is. I don't know what the conversion ration of tons of coal to kilowatts is- so include that as well. You might also want to compare it to the hydropower and wind power we enjoy out here on the left coast.
I do know that the computer I use most of the time can run on it's 900mah battery for up to 2 hours straight without a recharge while playing full motion video.