Having worked with some brilliant coders, I have found the best are: ones who will smile and speak casually while talking about problems, solutions, etc.. as opposed to frowny intense confrontation laden interactions. Also, I cannot say how many times decent coders will use "No, can't be done." as an answer to everything.. once that doesn't scare you off, a solution might occur.. a much better question is "How?" Those two simple things are keystones for me.
I have been afraid of the ad servers, not only for the parasite risks, but also the stall.... ie adhosts actually have the site they are hosted on by the balls.. that is, if the ad don't load, the page don't load. Restrict the ad serving and you shut down most websites.. That is unless users engage in ad blocking.. and this nice hosts file looks good to me. Anyone warn against trying this?
I too use a samsung phone on the web daily. I use it for reverse phone number lookups, directory assistance, google maps, Calendar schedulizer, email checking, news reading. I have a $10/month unlimited web on Bell Canada pay as you go.
The PIM synching for phones sux! Not all are functions or phones are supported, with BitPIM or DataPilot. I did find a googlesync app which does not resolve duplicate events, but seems to be the only hack that almost works. Bluetooth is an option, but usually you have to send contacts or appts one at a time. The manufacturers and carriers have shown almost criminal ineptness or intent when it comes to actually using the features of these devices.
An as far as iPhone and iPod, I was doing most of that with my Compaq/HP iPaq PDA 5 years ago. The problem was the lack of easily accessable apps for majority of non-techno users. Then the PDA market never really matured properly due to poor designs/marketing, and even todays PDA is only marginally better than the early devices.
The amount of "carrier" brand web content that gets pushed to users is enough to make anyone doubt the usefulness of it. It takes some downloading and hacking service codes to get proper filesystem access so that cool apps, etc can be easily installed.
I know several who have ended up looking after people who have "G-holed". That is they took too much GHB "recreationally" or by accident (drank from someones waterbottle.. not water) or their high/stupid/sadistic friend screwed up the dose.
The problem is extremely low metabolism and inability to protect your own airway.. some people die.It can real ruin someones night. It has definitely been used for sexual coercion, and in our community has been involved in date rapes, which does not have to include a fully passed out person.. heck happens even without intoxicants.. just someone who is not able to exit from a sexual situation where they are abused and later subsequently confused about their own level of responsibility, so it is left unaddressed.
Labelling a woman who wants to fuck a "slut" is a pattern of gender abuse. It does not make a woman a slut if she is appreciates sex. I agree that 2 times a week is too little overall.. I've heard its possible to improve your sex life, in fact I get emails about it all the time! You're anonymous, or I would forward them to you..
True, as a starting point.. Tho, failures tend to be things that snowball. Its sort of an anthropic principle of failures. ie Bad things happened because failures were happening. I have always tried to learn from air crash investigations and so on how failure modes develop. In problem solving mode, it seems one should assume the distinct possibility of multiple problems all at once. In this case, multiple failure paths existed, tho it took a power spike to set it off as I interpretted it. Even without corrosion, it seems the system would have failed, though not irrecoverably. I repeatedly ask the question "Is that everything? Is there anything else that could come from that?" It seems the engineers didn't perform enough diligence on the trickle down effects.
Too many times I have found either the front, or back side of a plug connector has a fault and breaks the current.. and to top it off, most times the plugs aren't rebuildable. It always comes down to 1) is it plugged in? (double triple check) 2) did you hit it? (twice? tap, knock and slap?) 3) did you turn it off and on (a bunch?)
Also, faulty switches.. so often a cheap switch disables an otherwise perfect device. (hence step 3)
Really bad design/construction flaw too! Methinks proper marine grade plugs would have avoided it. Fortunately these guys have been working on an ISS escape system.
How could you not? There has been a LOT of coverage about what people don't like about it. Following the growth curves, there are LOTS of people who have not been "using Windows for years". The particular reasons people don't like Microsoft can be that their products make sucking noises due to hiring and management practices where inexperienced college grads reproduce decades old Comp Sci problems. The farther we get from the 70's and 80's, the fewer well educated designers there seem to be.
Enjoy watching videos and playing iTunes on your new cube heater. =)
A new Toshiba A200 laptop a friend bought came with Vista. The excessive amount of system alerts which pop-up confused the hell out of him, leading him to click on the adware / spyware browser pop-up ads which also looked like systems alerts, so he installed 5 competing blackmailing "buy me now or you computer is toast" apps for his "protection". These stalled his machine FLAT.
He was ready to axemurder his new computer, and still is cheesed about his first big computer purchase leaving him with such a bad after taste. Luckily I could somewhat untangle the extensive damage.. although we almost did a full wipe and restore, but decided to save that for when we put XP onto it instead (provided we drivers are available!!)
That was before he started asking "what is all this crap on the desktop" re: the widgets, etc. I can't imagine anyone as a beginner getting through the installs, setups, intertangled "welcome" dialog boxes and learning curve without being fully baffled and damaging their system to boot. Obviously Vista is designed to sell more hardware, since noobs can brick their O/S so easily, they will just toss the whole computer as a PoS. Expect vendors to step up as Vista based returns increase!
Oh yeah, this doesn't even mention the amount of buy me and trialware and "marketplace" shortcuts on the desktop.. I'd LOL but I'm gagging.
Most cheap / free video editors have lots of what you don't need, and miss features which I go to a higher end package for. AVI Edit strikes a great balance. The workflow is straight forward, but not always completely intuitive. It is essentially file based.
It is great for taking a sequence of still frames (ie stop motion animation done with a digital camera.. kids love that!)
It is also good for format work, and as a general video swiss army knife. AVI Edit Homepage - Thank you Alexander Milukov!!
Yes, I was referring to the later set of manuals that shipped with the Apple ][+ and not the original Red book. As another poster indicated, the Technical Reference gave it all to you in nice chunks.
As an aside, In Grade 5, I taught myself to program, hacked keyboard interfaces onto games which required paddle controllers so I could play them. Over a few years learned assembler, made variable Level of Detail animations, rendered 3D wireframes with one of the first desktop 3D apps. I still remember the first good digitized audio I ever heard, it was the riff of the MTV theme, sampled as a series of very fast clicks. The cheesy voices in the first wolfenstein doesnt count.
hmm and other memories like 10 and 50 baud modems..
RTFM = Best Evar.. BASIC, etc, etc
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The BEST thing about starting with the Apple ][ was the manuals. They explained clearly and with examples how to use the computer and write BASIC programs. Nothing since has been as comprehensive, or easy to use.
There are so many layers and problems which todays desktop make difficult, and were easy back then. A much better introduction to computers couldn't be had.
now if the next post is "Then I'll get on my knees and pray"
and the following one "We don't get fooled again"
or the equivalent TAB to this WHO song Won't Get Fooled Againhas any one person broken copyright? Information could also be segmented across multiple websites.. like a webring.
Similar to the ancient petition style of signing in a names in a ring, so no single name was at the top of the petition.
Anyhow, seems like sound waves might make a plasma confinement field and also pump energy into it, rather than using magnets and lasers etc.
Some other thread Definition of Sonoluminescence PS If the universe is electrical and acoustic, it must be a giant stereo!
In Canada, we pay a steep additional tax on all blank CD media, because copyright infringement is assumed. This money suposedly goes back to the recording companies on some percentage scheme, where the big labels get most of it. Dumb huh? Especially since most downloaded music hits hard drives and flash RAM. Feels like the same kind of theft to me.
I think the accurate Google Earth Service will be the one you pay subscription for. Can anyone Confirm?
I spent some time looking thru online map services, including this comparative one Flash Earth All of them look pre-Katrina to my untrained eye.
Round firewalls are actually fire rings. Fire rings are not able to plug holes, because of their topology.
Home made fire rings can actually explode, which is probably why a commercial firewall is a good idea. Unfortunately, commercial firewalls cannot be used for cooking, but they can get warm enough to thaw a burrito.
Wikipedia Definition:
A fire ring is a device used to contain campfires and prevent them from spreading and turning into wildfires.
A fire ring may be nothing more than a short, wide section of metal tube, partially buried in the ground. Slightly more advanced fire rings may be partially covered with metal bars so that the fire may be used for cooking. These types are seen at many campsites. Fire rings in urban areas, such as on beaches, may be made of poured concrete. Makeshift fire rings can be constructed out of a ring of stones where pre-constructed rings are not available (care should be taken as some stones can explode when heated due to trapped gas pockets or thermal expansion).
The victims here are the citizens. They ran away out of fear of being observed and commanded, not from shame of their actions or fear of retribution. I would run too, no matter what i had done, and if there was no where to run, like any rat, I would fight
It is total propaganda to attribute their fear as creating an almost religious moral awakening in them.
By increasing peoples stress levels, isn't it more likely that the rate of serious violent incidents would escalate, rather than decrease? It could become a compulsively violent society because they just can't handle the increasing stresses of our "civilization".. Or is that why they put the cameras up in the first place?
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Having worked with some brilliant coders, I have found the best are: ones who will smile and speak casually while talking about problems, solutions, etc.. as opposed to frowny intense confrontation laden interactions. Also, I cannot say how many times decent coders will use "No, can't be done." as an answer to everything.. once that doesn't scare you off, a solution might occur.. a much better question is "How?" Those two simple things are keystones for me.
Let me be the first to welcome our informantively illuminated overlords. My love for them is as big as for a brother.
I have been afraid of the ad servers, not only for the parasite risks, but also the stall.... ie adhosts actually have the site they are hosted on by the balls.. that is, if the ad don't load, the page don't load. Restrict the ad serving and you shut down most websites.. That is unless users engage in ad blocking.. and this nice hosts file looks good to me. Anyone warn against trying this?
I too use a samsung phone on the web daily. I use it for reverse phone number lookups, directory assistance, google maps, Calendar schedulizer, email checking, news reading. I have a $10/month unlimited web on Bell Canada pay as you go.
The PIM synching for phones sux! Not all are functions or phones are supported, with BitPIM or DataPilot. I did find a googlesync app which does not resolve duplicate events, but seems to be the only hack that almost works. Bluetooth is an option, but usually you have to send contacts or appts one at a time. The manufacturers and carriers have shown almost criminal ineptness or intent when it comes to actually using the features of these devices.
An as far as iPhone and iPod, I was doing most of that with my Compaq/HP iPaq PDA 5 years ago. The problem was the lack of easily accessable apps for majority of non-techno users. Then the PDA market never really matured properly due to poor designs/marketing, and even todays PDA is only marginally better than the early devices.
The amount of "carrier" brand web content that gets pushed to users is enough to make anyone doubt the usefulness of it. It takes some downloading and hacking service codes to get proper filesystem access so that cool apps, etc can be easily installed.
I know several who have ended up looking after people who have "G-holed". That is they took too much GHB "recreationally" or by accident (drank from someones waterbottle.. not water) or their high/stupid/sadistic friend screwed up the dose.
The problem is extremely low metabolism and inability to protect your own airway.. some people die.It can real ruin someones night.
It has definitely been used for sexual coercion, and in our community has been involved in date rapes, which does not have to include a fully passed out person.. heck happens even without intoxicants.. just someone who is not able to exit from a sexual situation where they are abused and later subsequently confused about their own level of responsibility, so it is left unaddressed.
I for one, welcome our new overlords with their smaller probes.
Are there sharks there or something?
In Soviet Russia the robot operates YOU!
"Your Mommma" qualifies as the single most powerful comedic device ever utilized throughout the history of humility.
Labelling a woman who wants to fuck a "slut" is a pattern of gender abuse. It does not make a woman a slut if she is appreciates sex. I agree that 2 times a week is too little overall.. I've heard its possible to improve your sex life, in fact I get emails about it all the time! You're anonymous, or I would forward them to you..
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In Soviet Russia girlfriends FUCK YOU!
That means I could make out in a car and an elevator at the same time! If I had a girlfriend, and 4.7 million.. But just think of it! A girlfriend!
I'll never forget that crashed UFO in a crater picture. Bravo for the humpty dumpty project's success!
True, as a starting point.. Tho, failures tend to be things that snowball. Its sort of an anthropic principle of failures. ie Bad things happened because failures were happening.
I have always tried to learn from air crash investigations and so on how failure modes develop. In problem solving mode, it seems one should assume the distinct possibility of multiple problems all at once.
In this case, multiple failure paths existed, tho it took a power spike to set it off as I interpretted it. Even without corrosion, it seems the system would have failed, though not irrecoverably.
I repeatedly ask the question "Is that everything? Is there anything else that could come from that?" It seems the engineers didn't perform enough diligence on the trickle down effects.
Too many times I have found either the front, or back side of a plug connector has a fault and breaks the current.. and to top it off, most times the plugs aren't rebuildable. It always comes down to
1) is it plugged in? (double triple check)
2) did you hit it? (twice? tap, knock and slap?)
3) did you turn it off and on (a bunch?)
Also, faulty switches.. so often a cheap switch disables an otherwise perfect device. (hence step 3)
Really bad design/construction flaw too! Methinks proper marine grade plugs would have avoided it. Fortunately these guys have been working on an ISS escape system.
How could you not? There has been a LOT of coverage about what people don't like about it. Following the growth curves, there are LOTS of people who have not been "using Windows for years". The particular reasons people don't like Microsoft can be that their products make sucking noises due to hiring and management practices where inexperienced college grads reproduce decades old Comp Sci problems. The farther we get from the 70's and 80's, the fewer well educated designers there seem to be.
Enjoy watching videos and playing iTunes on your new cube heater. =)
A new Toshiba A200 laptop a friend bought came with Vista. The excessive amount of system alerts which pop-up confused the hell out of him, leading him to click on the adware / spyware browser pop-up ads which also looked like systems alerts, so he installed 5 competing blackmailing "buy me now or you computer is toast" apps for his "protection". These stalled his machine FLAT.
He was ready to axemurder his new computer, and still is cheesed about his first big computer purchase leaving him with such a bad after taste. Luckily I could somewhat untangle the extensive damage.. although we almost did a full wipe and restore, but decided to save that for when we put XP onto it instead (provided we drivers are available!!)
That was before he started asking "what is all this crap on the desktop" re: the widgets, etc. I can't imagine anyone as a beginner getting through the installs, setups, intertangled "welcome" dialog boxes and learning curve without being fully baffled and damaging their system to boot. Obviously Vista is designed to sell more hardware, since noobs can brick their O/S so easily, they will just toss the whole computer as a PoS. Expect vendors to step up as Vista based returns increase!
Oh yeah, this doesn't even mention the amount of buy me and trialware and "marketplace" shortcuts on the desktop.. I'd LOL but I'm gagging.
Microsoft Vista: teh noobs kill YOU!
Most cheap / free video editors have lots of what you don't need, and miss features which I go to a higher end package for. AVI Edit strikes a great balance. The workflow is straight forward, but not always completely intuitive. It is essentially file based.
It is great for taking a sequence of still frames (ie stop motion animation done with a digital camera.. kids love that!)
It is also good for format work, and as a general video swiss army knife. AVI Edit Homepage - Thank you Alexander Milukov!!
Yes, I was referring to the later set of manuals that shipped with the Apple ][+ and not the original Red book.
As another poster indicated, the Technical Reference gave it all to you in nice chunks.
As an aside, In Grade 5, I taught myself to program, hacked keyboard interfaces onto games which required paddle controllers so I could play them. Over a few years learned assembler, made variable Level of Detail animations, rendered 3D wireframes with one of the first desktop 3D apps. I still remember the first good digitized audio I ever heard, it was the riff of the MTV theme, sampled as a series of very fast clicks. The cheesy voices in the first wolfenstein doesnt count.
hmm and other memories like 10 and 50 baud modems..
The BEST thing about starting with the Apple ][ was the manuals. They explained clearly and with examples how to use the computer and write BASIC programs. Nothing since has been as comprehensive, or easy to use.
There are so many layers and problems which todays desktop make difficult, and were easy back then. A much better introduction to computers couldn't be had.
Just like yesterday!
now if the next post is "Then I'll get on my knees and pray"
and the following one "We don't get fooled again"
or the equivalent TAB to this WHO song Won't Get Fooled Againhas any one person broken copyright? Information could also be segmented across multiple websites.. like a webring.
Similar to the ancient petition style of signing in a names in a ring, so no single name was at the top of the petition.
After all, obscenely noisey, light emitting shrimp bubbles have been jamming their sonar.. Someone finally went hmmmm...
Oh yeah, something similar proposed to kick off supernovae and detected in solar reactions
Anyhow, seems like sound waves might make a plasma confinement field and also pump energy into it, rather than using magnets and lasers etc. Some other thread Definition of Sonoluminescence
PS If the universe is electrical and acoustic, it must be a giant stereo!
In Canada, we pay a steep additional tax on all blank CD media, because copyright infringement is assumed. This money suposedly goes back to the recording companies on some percentage scheme, where the big labels get most of it. Dumb huh? Especially since most downloaded music hits hard drives and flash RAM. Feels like the same kind of theft to me.
I think the accurate Google Earth Service will be the one you pay subscription for. Can anyone Confirm?
I spent some time looking thru online map services, including this comparative one Flash Earth All of them look pre-Katrina to my untrained eye.
I did find documentation on a lighthouse (mentioned in news articles) which had collapsed, but was visible in Google maps.
Google Map of West End Lighthouse
Image of Lighthouse Documenting its Collapse
Lighthouse Society Rebuilding Efforts
Round firewalls are actually fire rings. Fire rings are not able to plug holes, because of their topology.
Home made fire rings can actually explode, which is probably why a commercial firewall is a good idea. Unfortunately, commercial firewalls cannot be used for cooking, but they can get warm enough to thaw a burrito.
Wikipedia Definition:
A fire ring is a device used to contain campfires and prevent them from spreading and turning into wildfires. A fire ring may be nothing more than a short, wide section of metal tube, partially buried in the ground. Slightly more advanced fire rings may be partially covered with metal bars so that the fire may be used for cooking. These types are seen at many campsites. Fire rings in urban areas, such as on beaches, may be made of poured concrete. Makeshift fire rings can be constructed out of a ring of stones where pre-constructed rings are not available (care should be taken as some stones can explode when heated due to trapped gas pockets or thermal expansion).
The victims here are the citizens. They ran away out of fear of being observed and commanded, not from shame of their actions or fear of retribution. I would run too, no matter what i had done, and if there was no where to run, like any rat, I would fight
It is total propaganda to attribute their fear as creating an almost religious moral awakening in them.
By increasing peoples stress levels, isn't it more likely that the rate of serious violent incidents would escalate, rather than decrease? It could become a compulsively violent society because they just can't handle the increasing stresses of our "civilization".. Or is that why they put the cameras up in the first place?