NO NO NO! My god you people are totally ignorant of victorian construction methods! A. Glass does flow, over a GEOLOGIC TIMESCALE. In 200 years, a sheet of glass will not have changed as the result of normal flow.
B. Victorian windows are thicker at the bottom because their glass creation technique sucked at making thin sheets all the same size. There are gaps at the top of the windows because over time the wood SHRINKS because it wasn't pressure treated in victorian construction. This accounts for the gap and the thickness issue at the bottom.
So, yes, glass does flow, but you sure as hell aren't going to notice the effects in a 200 year old house.
That system just wasn't designed for that purpose. It was VERY well designed for its actual purpose, which was tracking AIRCRAFT going WAY slower than that missile. And it was only rated for 14 hours of continuous usage, not 100. So it wasn't a fault in the program per se, but a misapplication of a system designed for a different use.
I would GLADLY GLADLY GLADLY pay, on a per-channel or per-show (hell, even per-episode) basis for the shows I watch. I only watch a few shows out of the sea of absolute stinking shit that is out there...why the hell should I be paying the same fee as people watching all that other crap?
As would I, but I want to be able to do it on my computer, and I want it streamed in decent fsckin quality!! I have a 13" TV that I have a VCR hooked to, I have no cable, no atenna, zilch. I occasionally watch TV when I am over at a friends house and something interesting is on. What I would much rather do is pay 10-15$ per month and have all of the Simpsons, Futurama, and Wrestling stored on a server for me in full quality where I can then stream it and watch it any time up to 60 days after the program originally aired. Come to think of it, I would pay 50$/month for that service... Of course, I would want it to be 100% OS independant, and not require any hardware be purchased. So it would need to be a nice clean Mpeg stream running at around 750kb/sec. They can fit a nice TV quality strem in 750kb/sec right?
I regret to inform you that you are infringing on the rights of my client, heretofore know as REM, by deep linking to a line in one of REMs copyrighted works. If you do not produce the associated Album in full, with all appropriate credits we will be forced to unleash our Rabid Lawyer Pitbulls on you.
Manhatten, LA, places like that I can understand the difference, but unless I am greatly mistaken the payscale usually follows with cost of living increases. I sure as hell know some janitors in Manhatten make 4x what I make as a sysadmin.... So your 70k is probably closer to my 20k on a relative scale.
While I have appreciation for the athletics involved, the rampant use of steroids (and yes it does go on...), the exploitative use of women (come on.. maybe two of em aren't just big breasts and long legs), the trite dialogue, and use of heros such as "Stone Cold" who exemplify the 'fuck you' attitude, doesn't rank highly in my opinion.
I do agree with you that not enough of the women are really chosen for their athletic ability. But using Stone Cold as an example of a 'hero' pushed by the corporates is a bad one. He originally was supposed to be a heel (a bad guy), but everyone liked him, so they set him against Vince and made him a hero, because that's what the fans wanted. I think he's an obnoxious ass and prefer The Undetaker and his more quiet style of intimidating beatdowns (After all, who's crazy enough to mess with a guy with a Tattoo on his THROAT??!?!), the Rock is a really dynamic personality and a GOOD actor when he's given the lines to work with. A few other wrestlers are genuinely good actors as well.
Oh, and Neon Genesis isn't exactly the height of intellectual entertainment either, as much as I love the subtitled version.
As just a point to ponder, some of these galaxies are 14 billion years old now, the light from their formation is just now reaching us. So they've had 14 billion years to form, develop, and die. The chances that were are in the right place at the right time to catch any information about whatever civilizations grew up there is miniscule. How much longer will it take for us to detect information moving slower than the speed of light? We, as a race, may be long dead before some alien race detects signs of our civilization.
you either A. Failed history, or B. Had some funked out revisionist history classes.
The French were giving money to the south, the English were giving money to the north. Both sides saw a lot of help from outside nations. No one dropped a hugeass army in the middle of our country, and we had better be glad they didn't. A significant invasion by either the French or British at that time could have turned a big chunk of the US back into a colony.
I don't see how people can disparage wrestling by reflex. The atheleticism necessary to cary out the spots they do is incredible. And not only to they have to be athletic, they have to be capable of some decent acting, and I'm not talking about their spoken character parts which can range from really well spoken to unintelligible. I'm talking about selling the moves so that it looks like they did get hit, and it looks like they are in pain. The people are talented. Go throw yourself off of a 20 foot tall tower onto a table and see how you feel the next morning. Wrestling is entertainment, but it's also inceredibly physicly demanding.
I think the Help reference was for Applications. I know I've had a lot of Windows apps that had REALLY useful helpfiles. Microsoft help is always a steaming pile, but other apps have great help interfaces. And he's right, that's lacking in a lot of Linux apps. I think Linux as an OS has gone plenty far enough that all it really needs now is to be prettified some. It's the applications that now need work in order to garner mainstream usage and acceptance.
Heheheh, yeah I love the climate here, but some people just don't handle it. I couldn't STAND living in maryland, it was too cold for me even in the summer when it was 85+ degrees, they just lack the humidity I'm used to. And I grew up in the woods, so I don't have any problems with bugs and snakes, I'm used to them.
As for the joke, I've heard the same one used to cut on Alabama, Tennesee, and Florida with Ga as the state. And I've heard it used to refer to Canada with the US as the neighbors.>:) Always funny.
Hey now, watch the wrestling bashing. Some of us Geeks like both, and my wife likes both as well. Lucky for me we tend to despise dubbed anime, so we don't watch cartoon network shows, of course, we don't have a TV either so... Anyways, we watch wrestling taped by a friend of ours, and get our Anime DVDs/VCDs from our obscure anime junkie friends. So yes, Anime and Wrestling can live harmoniously together.
I live in the southeast US, more specifically I live in Athens, Georgia. A nice, medium sized college town. But even when I lived on the outskirts of Baltimore making 28K a year I owned a townhouse and 2 cars and paid all of the bills... Thought that was a little tight. If I had been making 35K I would have been plenty comfortable. I just don't see how people manage to spend that much money....
Dude, I'm married, I have an apartment, I'm about to move into a bigger apartment, I pay for DSL, and Phone, I don't watch TV, I don't have a car anymore because I just didn't need it. Me and my wife can go out whenever we want, I can afford to buy random stuff when I want to. My wife is about to get a new laptop (she doesn't work btw, she's preparing for medschool). My parents don't give me any money and haven't for years....
Overexpansion, Overmanagment, Underselling, Overpaid salaries (although 60k isnt much for even a howler monkey)
Holy shit, where do you people live? Around here if you are making 35K a year you can buy pretty much anything you feel like. The cost of living is so low that at 60K a year you may as well be a a millionaire. I'm currently living comfortably at 11$ an hour working around 25-30 hours a week.
I was just about to comment on that! This guy kills more main characters than ANY author I have ever read!!!! EVERY fscking novel he kills of 3 or 4 and introduces a few more, those guys play a big role until the middle of the next novel, when he kills all of them off!! The story is told really well and all, but for crying out loud! How many damn people can DIE before it becomes hopeless to continue the novel because no one can relate to any of the characters?!
Your opponent can ALWAYS create a board position that involves a loss for you unless you are forcing them to make moves. That is where the control aspect of chess comes in, if you can force your opponent to make one or two moves that change the board to your favor you will almost invariably win. Starting from the beginning you can't force moves. There is no way to force a move on your opponents part before move 6. And that's only if you spend your three moves sending your knight on a suicide mission to split the king/rook. It's a waste of moves. The best you can do is position your own pieces in such a fashion that a win for you is a probably outcome. Your opponent can still disrupt your formations, even if you have pefect knowledge of the moves. Every formation has a weakness, and if your opponent has perfect knowledge as well, the game will always be a draw.
Would you consider a Birth Certificate, Death Certificate, or Marriage License a kind of receipt?:P You need to hang onto those, too. "Gee, honey, I lost our marriage certificate. I guess that means I can go boink the cute new sales rep."
Heh, me and my wife don't have a copy of our marriage cert, we lost it almost immediately after we got it. Luckily though the county where you get married keeps a copy on file, so you can always just have them send you a copy. So that particular example isn't much of a problem. You can also get birth cert copies if you have enough ID.
Which have nothing to do with users in the first place.
Since when do users not install software??
Actually its really WIndows which needs some serious work doing on installers. Where is the Windows installer which dosn't need any physicall access to the machine? How about an installer which can copy an application to a shared area, then generate appropriate.BAT and.REG files to be run through a login script? (It is even possible to write Windows applications which don't need anything putting on workstations.)
We aren't talking about mass corporate installs by trained professionals here. We're talking about Joe Average who just bought the latest version of ye Olde Checkbook Balancer and wants to pop the CD in and just hit next a couple of times and be done with it. And he wants an icon created in a consistent location by the installer so that he always knows where to go to run his software. Linux just doesn't do that. The installation procedure for even semi-commercial and some commercial software is a HUGE pain in the ass compared to just popping in a CD and hitting next. And don't start off on a rant about how you want the flexbility of this or that or whatever. It's possible to have both. Just have a Linux distro that installs in "Novice" mode by default where it does everything for you in a nice consistant manner. If you want to choose to switch to Advanced mode it's no problem, you would just go to the control panel and switch to Advanced, which would give you all of the flexibility you were used to.
Ok, I'm 5'7", 125lbs, I've bumped into 275lb+ people on the sidewalk, some of them jogging at much faster than 3mph. I've never been knocked down, much less injured. I still don't see these as dangerous on the sidewalk. Oh, and to clarify my opening statement in the other post, the Segway is going less than the top speed after the brakes are applied, so it doesn't go from top speed to 0 instantly after going 15 feet from the point the brakes where applied.
Do you people ALL ignore bloody deceleration?! If you are stopping that doesn't mean you go from full speed to 0 in the magical 15 feet after you hit the breaks. You go from full speed gradually down to 0, so if you hit someone who's 10 feet away from you after you hit the breaks it's not going to be much more than bumping shoulders with someone on the sidewalk. Not enough to injure, just enough to start a fight if the other guy is an asshole. Oh, and it's easier to make a sudden turn with the segway without falling on your ass too. They have 8 or so in Atlanta being used by various agencies and so far the cops using them haven't had any trouble running into people, and they use them on crowded Atlanta sidewalks.
I'd say installation of the OS and installation of new software are the two places where Windows still has Linux beat. I've done tons of installs of both. And If your hardware is all good, they both go super smooth, the advantage with Windows is that more hardware is good for Windows, I know this isn't the fault of linux developers in most cases, but of hardware manufacturers who won't release specs or drivers. But the application installations REALLY need some work. It would be nice if someone released a standardized installer creator, something like Wise for Windows. That way most installations would be the same. Would make life a lot easier.
Yup, just listen to him spew that socialist dogma at us! Cover your precious virgin ears (eyes?) people! He'll brainwash you with his communist mind control ray!!! >:)
Hence the Living long enough to be transplanted into a Robot body part. But while I'm at it, I'll just have the nanobots replace my chromosomes with the ones from the clone I intend to have created as an Organ farm as soon as it's feasible....
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NO NO NO! My god you people are totally ignorant of victorian construction methods!
A. Glass does flow, over a GEOLOGIC TIMESCALE. In 200 years, a sheet of glass will not have changed as the result of normal flow.
B. Victorian windows are thicker at the bottom because their glass creation technique sucked at making thin sheets all the same size. There are gaps at the top of the windows because over time the wood SHRINKS because it wasn't pressure treated in victorian construction. This accounts for the gap and the thickness issue at the bottom.
So, yes, glass does flow, but you sure as hell aren't going to notice the effects in a 200 year old house.
Kintanon
That system just wasn't designed for that purpose. It was VERY well designed for its actual purpose, which was tracking AIRCRAFT going WAY slower than that missile. And it was only rated for 14 hours of continuous usage, not 100. So it wasn't a fault in the program per se, but a misapplication of a system designed for a different use.
Kintanon
I would GLADLY GLADLY GLADLY pay, on a per-channel or per-show (hell, even per-episode) basis for the shows I watch. I only watch a few shows out of the sea of absolute stinking shit that is out there...why the hell should I be paying the same fee as people watching all that other crap?
As would I, but I want to be able to do it on my computer, and I want it streamed in decent fsckin quality!! I have a 13" TV that I have a VCR hooked to, I have no cable, no atenna, zilch. I occasionally watch TV when I am over at a friends house and something interesting is on. What I would much rather do is pay 10-15$ per month and have all of the Simpsons, Futurama, and Wrestling stored on a server for me in full quality where I can then stream it and watch it any time up to 60 days after the program originally aired. Come to think of it, I would pay 50$/month for that service... Of course, I would want it to be 100% OS independant, and not require any hardware be purchased. So it would need to be a nice clean Mpeg stream running at around 750kb/sec. They can fit a nice TV quality strem in 750kb/sec right?
Kintanon
I regret to inform you that you are infringing on the rights of my client, heretofore know as REM, by deep linking to a line in one of REMs copyrighted works. If you do not produce the associated Album in full, with all appropriate credits we will be forced to unleash our Rabid Lawyer Pitbulls on you.
Kintanon
Manhatten, LA, places like that I can understand the difference, but unless I am greatly mistaken the payscale usually follows with cost of living increases. I sure as hell know some janitors in Manhatten make 4x what I make as a sysadmin.... So your 70k is probably closer to my 20k on a relative scale.
Kintanon
While I have appreciation for the athletics involved, the rampant use of steroids (and yes it does go on...), the exploitative use of women (come on.. maybe two of em aren't just big breasts and long legs), the trite dialogue, and use of heros such as "Stone Cold" who exemplify the 'fuck you' attitude, doesn't rank highly in my opinion.
I do agree with you that not enough of the women are really chosen for their athletic ability. But using Stone Cold as an example of a 'hero' pushed by the corporates is a bad one. He originally was supposed to be a heel (a bad guy), but everyone liked him, so they set him against Vince and made him a hero, because that's what the fans wanted.
I think he's an obnoxious ass and prefer The Undetaker and his more quiet style of intimidating beatdowns (After all, who's crazy enough to mess with a guy with a Tattoo on his THROAT??!?!), the Rock is a really dynamic personality and a GOOD actor when he's given the lines to work with. A few other wrestlers are genuinely good actors as well.
Oh, and Neon Genesis isn't exactly the height of intellectual entertainment either, as much as I love the subtitled version.
Kintanon
As just a point to ponder, some of these galaxies are 14 billion years old now, the light from their formation is just now reaching us. So they've had 14 billion years to form, develop, and die. The chances that were are in the right place at the right time to catch any information about whatever civilizations grew up there is miniscule. How much longer will it take for us to detect information moving slower than the speed of light? We, as a race, may be long dead before some alien race detects signs of our civilization.
Kintanon
But no one helped us out during the Civil War.
you either A. Failed history, or B. Had some funked out revisionist history classes.
The French were giving money to the south, the English were giving money to the north. Both sides saw a lot of help from outside nations. No one dropped a hugeass army in the middle of our country, and we had better be glad they didn't. A significant invasion by either the French or British at that time could have turned a big chunk of the US back into a colony.
Kintanon
I don't see how people can disparage wrestling by reflex. The atheleticism necessary to cary out the spots they do is incredible. And not only to they have to be athletic, they have to be capable of some decent acting, and I'm not talking about their spoken character parts which can range from really well spoken to unintelligible. I'm talking about selling the moves so that it looks like they did get hit, and it looks like they are in pain. The people are talented. Go throw yourself off of a 20 foot tall tower onto a table and see how you feel the next morning. Wrestling is entertainment, but it's also inceredibly physicly demanding.
Kintanon
I think the Help reference was for Applications. I know I've had a lot of Windows apps that had REALLY useful helpfiles. Microsoft help is always a steaming pile, but other apps have great help interfaces. And he's right, that's lacking in a lot of Linux apps. I think Linux as an OS has gone plenty far enough that all it really needs now is to be prettified some. It's the applications that now need work in order to garner mainstream usage and acceptance.
Kintanon
Heheheh, yeah I love the climate here, but some people just don't handle it. I couldn't STAND living in maryland, it was too cold for me even in the summer when it was 85+ degrees, they just lack the humidity I'm used to. And I grew up in the woods, so I don't have any problems with bugs and snakes, I'm used to them.
As for the joke, I've heard the same one used to cut on Alabama, Tennesee, and Florida with Ga as the state. And I've heard it used to refer to Canada with the US as the neighbors.>:) Always funny.
Kintanon
Hey now, watch the wrestling bashing. Some of us Geeks like both, and my wife likes both as well. Lucky for me we tend to despise dubbed anime, so we don't watch cartoon network shows, of course, we don't have a TV either so...
Anyways, we watch wrestling taped by a friend of ours, and get our Anime DVDs/VCDs from our obscure anime junkie friends. So yes, Anime and Wrestling can live harmoniously together.
Kintanon
I live in the southeast US, more specifically I live in Athens, Georgia. A nice, medium sized college town. But even when I lived on the outskirts of Baltimore making 28K a year I owned a townhouse and 2 cars and paid all of the bills... Thought that was a little tight. If I had been making 35K I would have been plenty comfortable. I just don't see how people manage to spend that much money....
Kintanon
Dude, I'm married, I have an apartment, I'm about to move into a bigger apartment, I pay for DSL, and Phone, I don't watch TV, I don't have a car anymore because I just didn't need it. Me and my wife can go out whenever we want, I can afford to buy random stuff when I want to. My wife is about to get a new laptop (she doesn't work btw, she's preparing for medschool). My parents don't give me any money and haven't for years....
Kintanon
Overexpansion, Overmanagment, Underselling, Overpaid salaries (although 60k isnt much for even a howler monkey)
Holy shit, where do you people live? Around here if you are making 35K a year you can buy pretty much anything you feel like. The cost of living is so low that at 60K a year you may as well be a a millionaire. I'm currently living comfortably at 11$ an hour working around 25-30 hours a week.
Kintanon
I was just about to comment on that! This guy kills more main characters than ANY author I have ever read!!!! EVERY fscking novel he kills of 3 or 4 and introduces a few more, those guys play a big role until the middle of the next novel, when he kills all of them off!! The story is told really well and all, but for crying out loud! How many damn people can DIE before it becomes hopeless to continue the novel because no one can relate to any of the characters?!
Kintanon
Your opponent can ALWAYS create a board position that involves a loss for you unless you are forcing them to make moves. That is where the control aspect of chess comes in, if you can force your opponent to make one or two moves that change the board to your favor you will almost invariably win. Starting from the beginning you can't force moves. There is no way to force a move on your opponents part before move 6. And that's only if you spend your three moves sending your knight on a suicide mission to split the king/rook. It's a waste of moves. The best you can do is position your own pieces in such a fashion that a win for you is a probably outcome. Your opponent can still disrupt your formations, even if you have pefect knowledge of the moves. Every formation has a weakness, and if your opponent has perfect knowledge as well, the game will always be a draw.
Kintanon
Would you consider a Birth Certificate, Death Certificate, or Marriage License a kind of receipt? :P You need to hang onto those, too. "Gee, honey, I lost our marriage certificate. I guess that means I can go boink the cute new sales rep."
Heh, me and my wife don't have a copy of our marriage cert, we lost it almost immediately after we got it. Luckily though the county where you get married keeps a copy on file, so you can always just have them send you a copy. So that particular example isn't much of a problem. You can also get birth cert copies if you have enough ID.
Kintanon
Which have nothing to do with users in the first place.
.BAT and .REG files to be run through a login script? (It is even possible to write Windows applications which don't need anything putting on workstations.)
Since when do users not install software??
Actually its really WIndows which needs some serious work doing on installers. Where is the Windows installer which dosn't need any physicall access to the machine? How about an installer which can copy an application to a shared area, then generate appropriate
We aren't talking about mass corporate installs by trained professionals here. We're talking about Joe Average who just bought the latest version of ye Olde Checkbook Balancer and wants to pop the CD in and just hit next a couple of times and be done with it. And he wants an icon created in a consistent location by the installer so that he always knows where to go to run his software. Linux just doesn't do that. The installation procedure for even semi-commercial and some commercial software is a HUGE pain in the ass compared to just popping in a CD and hitting next. And don't start off on a rant about how you want the flexbility of this or that or whatever. It's possible to have both. Just have a Linux distro that installs in "Novice" mode by default where it does everything for you in a nice consistant manner. If you want to choose to switch to Advanced mode it's no problem, you would just go to the control panel and switch to Advanced, which would give you all of the flexibility you were used to.
Kintanon
Ok, I'm 5'7", 125lbs, I've bumped into 275lb+ people on the sidewalk, some of them jogging at much faster than 3mph. I've never been knocked down, much less injured. I still don't see these as dangerous on the sidewalk.
Oh, and to clarify my opening statement in the other post, the Segway is going less than the top speed after the brakes are applied, so it doesn't go from top speed to 0 instantly after going 15 feet from the point the brakes where applied.
Kintanon
Do you people ALL ignore bloody deceleration?! If you are stopping that doesn't mean you go from full speed to 0 in the magical 15 feet after you hit the breaks. You go from full speed gradually down to 0, so if you hit someone who's 10 feet away from you after you hit the breaks it's not going to be much more than bumping shoulders with someone on the sidewalk. Not enough to injure, just enough to start a fight if the other guy is an asshole.
Oh, and it's easier to make a sudden turn with the segway without falling on your ass too. They have 8 or so in Atlanta being used by various agencies and so far the cops using them haven't had any trouble running into people, and they use them on crowded Atlanta sidewalks.
Kintanon
I'd say installation of the OS and installation of new software are the two places where Windows still has Linux beat. I've done tons of installs of both. And If your hardware is all good, they both go super smooth, the advantage with Windows is that more hardware is good for Windows, I know this isn't the fault of linux developers in most cases, but of hardware manufacturers who won't release specs or drivers.
But the application installations REALLY need some work. It would be nice if someone released a standardized installer creator, something like Wise for Windows. That way most installations would be the same. Would make life a lot easier.
Kintanon
Yup, just listen to him spew that socialist dogma at us! Cover your precious virgin ears (eyes?) people! He'll brainwash you with his communist mind control ray!!! >:)
Kintanon
Linux has a 'hidden cost' a higher learning curve that other OSes. This isn't a bad thing, but it's a cost of sorts.
Kintanon
Hence the Living long enough to be transplanted into a Robot body part. But while I'm at it, I'll just have the nanobots replace my chromosomes with the ones from the clone I intend to have created as an Organ farm as soon as it's feasible....
Kintanon