I find that during the day, kids ask how to get around school firewalls and get to myspace. After school hours there are questions on how to customize my space or lots of Indians asking test questions. I speculate there's some pay for test thing going on.
On the points side, you can go back and select your own answer as the best answer. If no one else selects another answer, yours will be identified as the best answer even if it's crap.
What would have happened is the nephew would have received the health care anyway but the parents would have filed for bankruptcy because they couldn't pay the bills. All the companies that now can't get all their money back due to the bankruptcy plus the hospital costs would be spread out to be absorbed by everyone else by raising the prices of everything by a few bucks.
See now. With all the jobs being outsourced and offshored, we don't have much more to do that see if we can get patents into the lame Patent Office and sue so we can continue to drive 3mpg Hummers and 10mpg SUV's and live way out in the boonies so we have to drive everywhere.
(FYI, I work from home and drive a 52mpg motorcycle when I have to go somewhere.:) )
Work:
Laptop: Browser with four work related and 5 non-work related tabs, 3 putty sessions, e-mail (notes), work chat (with 2 or 3 chat windows in addition to the main chat window) and Trillian for personal/customer stuff.
Solaris: Four desktops, three terminal windows, one browser.
Home:
Laptop: Browser with 5 or 6 tabs, 2 or three terms
Desktop: Browser with 5 or 6 tabs including safari.oreilly.com, ebook I'm browsing, a term or two if I'm "studying", Trillian. Since it's my game machine, I'll have something up in between, lately Doom 3.
Today I had 6 putty sessions open and a dos session on work box. Two to my two sun boxes so I can build custom solaris patch clusters for work, and four for various checking on target boxes and the dos window for transferring patches (I work at home so I work on the two sun boxes and laptop then transfer files up to work as necessary).
If I get too many windows open (about 10 or so), I'll start check and closing them down.
The Downtown level I believe. I climbed that one lone tower about half way back. I got to the top and experienced some acrophobia and a lurch of panic in my chest as I got close to the edge that first time. That's probably the only time I was actually scared in a video game.
It took about two years after I first downloaded it from the BBS' in the mid-80's before I ascended. And I did it without spoilers or even internet access:) When I did finally get on the 'net at Johns Hopkins APL, I snarfed the source and compiled it so I had the most up to date version and got involved in the usenet group. Ultimately I participated in a small way in the coding for which my name is in the credits. Now my daughter plays it.
As the e-mail admin receiving the bounces are even more enlightening. There was a torrid love exchange in e-mail going on but they'd put an extra, invalid e-mail address in so the thread kept bouncing down to us. We tried to let them know about the problem but they were ignoring our messages.
I created a t-shirt for work a couple of years back when I heard someone saying that we were reading their e-mails.
A couple of years back when I was just leaving a job, they put in a picture scanning device that was able to retrieve pics from the data stream and pull out skin pics. It was just installed as a test at the time and it was a pretty cool device. They were very surprised by the amount of skin people were looking at (this is a government agency btw) and in one or two cases, what they found forced the government folks to take action against two employees. I suspect it was child porn since they were just laughing at the regular porn I saw.
If you're talking about the first bombing of the WTC, it wasn't Al Qaeda according to Biography which was just on A&E. The organizer was Yosef. His uncle later became one of the higher functionaries of Al Qaeda though.
Are we going to need a 7 myths of Al Qaeda soon?:)
While not a bad idea in concept, I found that I really want the book in my hand. I had the bookshelf for several months when I signed up for the free bookshelf as part of a purchase and I think I actually "read" the book once. The problem is, once I get online, I have other things I'm doing. Plus, many times I can find the answer with a quick google search for free.
But when I'm reading, I'm off in a chair reading and making notes. Being online and reading a book just don't go well together for me.
I'm still considering a subscription for my company, just so I have access to books when I'm not home, but not for me personally.
Street signals connected to signs a short distance down the road (already done now). If on, your car slows down and stops at the appropriate place.
Radar to determine the distance from objects.
Sensor, if you didn't use the turn signal, you won't be allowed to change lanes. You can't change lanes for 10 seconds after successfully changing lanes.
Digital speedo that keeps you at the appropriate speed limit.
Sensors in the asphalt so that if you're slower than surrounding traffic, you're automatically sped up or your signal hits and you are shifted to a slower lane.
The radar will prevent you from changing lanes if there's an object in the lane next to you.
Sensors in stop signs that make you stop and not roll through.
RFID chips in people with birthdate so if a "kid" runs out into the street, your car is already sounding the horn and stopping.
When passing other vehicles, the road sensors let you exceed the speed limit by 15mph. Since there are sensors and radar, you won't be allowed to attempt to pass if you don't have enough horsepower to successfully pass.
Eliminate the need for stopsigns, lights, double yellow lines, solid yellow lines on your side of the road. Everyone knows where everyone is so you can pass on a blind curve without a chance of encountering oncoming traffic (can't help you with deer or other wildlife, or road hazards).
Your car can download weather conditions beamed directly from points on the highway. With sensors, your speed will be adjusted for conditions as necessary.
Since every will be id'd, the best routes to work will be known. Traffic density will be monitored and your car won't start if there's an issue or you'll be rerouted to avoid problems.
Cars will automatically pull over if an emergency vehicle is approaching. Cars will stop when approaching school buses that are picking up or dropping off kids. Emergency vehicles will be able to trigger lights to all be green. With cars pulling over, they won't have to slow down going through intersections.
The RFID chips that are embedded in people will light up adjacent signs warning traffic, for example if kids are playing, the "Children Playing" signs will be lit. Otherwise they'll be turned off.
With traffic density known, lights will be able to know the best traffic flow pattern and we'll get to work better.
Traffic will be able to approach speeds appropriate to the vehicle and surrounding conditions and will be able to sit a car length behind the next car which will let the traffic density increase safely.
Another thing is that the power plant's emissions are in a single location. This lets someone manage the emissions and even make them cleaner. Certainly cleaner than a slowly disintegrating vehicle that spews more emissions as the years go by and then is discarded to pollute the landscape.
Personally though I ride a motorcycle and don't own a four+ wheeled vehicle. My wife rides a scooter around town for her errands and we walk to the shops whenever possible.
I read them at the same times you do I'm sure. Maybe I read faster. I typically have 4 or 5 books open in various places around the house. I get several new ones every month including computer books, motorcycle books and other books.
Just got Hell's Angels, Motorcycle Adventuring, Harry Turtledove: Victorious Opposition, Web Mapping Illustrated. I'm reading Galactic Empires book 1, Gripping Hand, Year's best SciFi and Year's best Fantasy, and HP Lovecraft (one of the newer compilations since I don't have all the stories on paper yet; all on my iPod though:) ).
So I read before I go to bed (about an hour), in the bathroom of course, when the wife wants to watch something I don't even want to be in the same room for I'll head to the library (not bathroom, library). Plug in the iPod, kick my feet up and crack a book.
I'll take books and magazines on my multi-day motorcycle trips. I get extra time since the place where I work required that I take four weeks of furlough this past year. I've visited, jeeze 30 states and Canada this past year. My daughter got married so I had time to read on the way there and back.
Eh? I have quite a few books and enjoy reading them over again. I've read some books 20 times or more. Sometimes books that are a series or have relation to other books don't come out very often. So I have to break out the first books and read them again to figure out where I am in the series:)
What, do you listen to music only once? Watch movies only once?
I get the Denver Post every morning and I read the paper. But the "news" is a single column or one and a half of each page. The rest are ads. Sometimes there are a couple of pages of ads (to offset the front pages full of news). Even the comics are mostly inane and unfunny (with a few exceptions; zits, sherman's lagoon, and a few others).
Then I read the news reading some of the interesting bits. Then I research the data on-line and see that it's just part of the story. I feel bad for the people who just read the newspaper(s) and don't get all the info or who aren't even interested in getting more data.
The funny part is that the ads that are targetted towards a male like me, are in the sports section which I don't read at all so I get all the guy info from the motorcycle forums I frequent or from the geek ones like/.
On the plus side, I do get a wider view of the news. I use that to step into the wider world and make myself check out non USAian news.
The American magazine: Motorcycle Consumer News (there's a British MCN so don't confuse the two). It's not a color publication but black and white. It contains great info, is 30 or so pages long (or more, I don't really count the pages). It's been in business for many years (20?).
I went through several OS's trying to get them to work on my older system so I could play with it. I tried a couple of the BSD flavors (net and open), I tried Red Hat, Debian, and Mandrake (I used Slackware back at 0.9 when it was multiple sets of floppies), I even tried Solaris x86, BeOS and looked at Plan9. I eventually settled what worked for me: Mandrake. It supported all my hardware, it got me running, and I had several books that worked with it.
I have two prime boxes: Windows XP on a home built and a Mac PowerBook G4. My wife has Windows 98 and refuses to upgrade (it works for her, why change). I have two Sun Ultra 60's, one Mandrake linux box and one extra older Mandrake box that I'll be running through OS's again after backing it off. I'll be trying OpenBSD again just to play. We'll see how it pans out.
None of my home computers have ever contracted a virus, loaded a trojen, or installed any spyware and I don't have A/V software installed. I recently ran ad-aware because I'd worked on a couple of extended family members machines on a recent trip and found many instances of bots installed. Nothing on my home systems though. Probably the main difference? Both of the extended families had children. Our kids are grown and gone.
You mean you weren't buying new clothes, houses and cars after making a killing? The money's going to get spent unless you're hoarding it. They could certainly have cut up the trees themselves unless physically unable. Now, having the money isn't benefiting them but it is benefiting someone.
Slashdot Mirror
I point newbies to wikipedia on many of the questions asked.
:)
On the google front, I never knew they had an answers site. Publicity does help
[John]
I find that during the day, kids ask how to get around school firewalls and get to myspace. After school hours there are questions on how to customize my space or lots of Indians asking test questions. I speculate there's some pay for test thing going on.
On the points side, you can go back and select your own answer as the best answer. If no one else selects another answer, yours will be identified as the best answer even if it's crap.
[John]
What would have happened is the nephew would have received the health care anyway but the parents would have filed for bankruptcy because they couldn't pay the bills. All the companies that now can't get all their money back due to the bankruptcy plus the hospital costs would be spread out to be absorbed by everyone else by raising the prices of everything by a few bucks.
[John]
See now. With all the jobs being outsourced and offshored, we don't have much more to do that see if we can get patents into the lame Patent Office and sue so we can continue to drive 3mpg Hummers and 10mpg SUV's and live way out in the boonies so we have to drive everywhere.
:) )
(FYI, I work from home and drive a 52mpg motorcycle when I have to go somewhere.
[John]
Work:
Laptop: Browser with four work related and 5 non-work related tabs, 3 putty sessions, e-mail (notes), work chat (with 2 or 3 chat windows in addition to the main chat window) and Trillian for personal/customer stuff.
Solaris: Four desktops, three terminal windows, one browser.
Home:
Laptop: Browser with 5 or 6 tabs, 2 or three terms
Desktop: Browser with 5 or 6 tabs including safari.oreilly.com, ebook I'm browsing, a term or two if I'm "studying", Trillian. Since it's my game machine, I'll have something up in between, lately Doom 3.
Today I had 6 putty sessions open and a dos session on work box. Two to my two sun boxes so I can build custom solaris patch clusters for work, and four for various checking on target boxes and the dos window for transferring patches (I work at home so I work on the two sun boxes and laptop then transfer files up to work as necessary).
If I get too many windows open (about 10 or so), I'll start check and closing them down.
[John]
The Downtown level I believe. I climbed that one lone tower about half way back. I got to the top and experienced some acrophobia and a lurch of panic in my chest as I got close to the edge that first time. That's probably the only time I was actually scared in a video game.
Man, that was great!
Carl
It took about two years after I first downloaded it from the BBS' in the mid-80's before I ascended. And I did it without spoilers or even internet access :) When I did finally get on the 'net at Johns Hopkins APL, I snarfed the source and compiled it so I had the most up to date version and got involved in the usenet group. Ultimately I participated in a small way in the coding for which my name is in the credits. Now my daughter plays it.
[John]
As the e-mail admin receiving the bounces are even more enlightening. There was a torrid love exchange in e-mail going on but they'd put an extra, invalid e-mail address in so the thread kept bouncing down to us. We tried to let them know about the problem but they were ignoring our messages.
:D
I created a t-shirt for work a couple of years back when I heard someone saying that we were reading their e-mails.
"I Read Your E-mail"
" It's Boring "
[John]
Yep. It's why a lot of stores have a $5 minimum charge.
[John]
A couple of years back when I was just leaving a job, they put in a picture scanning device that was able to retrieve pics from the data stream and pull out skin pics. It was just installed as a test at the time and it was a pretty cool device. They were very surprised by the amount of skin people were looking at (this is a government agency btw) and in one or two cases, what they found forced the government folks to take action against two employees. I suspect it was child porn since they were just laughing at the regular porn I saw.
[John]
Why aren't we hearing about how Snoop Dogg calls the plumber, too?
Because this isn't crackdot
[John]
If you're talking about the first bombing of the WTC, it wasn't Al Qaeda according to Biography which was just on A&E. The organizer was Yosef. His uncle later became one of the higher functionaries of Al Qaeda though.
:)
Are we going to need a 7 myths of Al Qaeda soon?
[John]
While not a bad idea in concept, I found that I really want the book in my hand. I had the bookshelf for several months when I signed up for the free bookshelf as part of a purchase and I think I actually "read" the book once. The problem is, once I get online, I have other things I'm doing. Plus, many times I can find the answer with a quick google search for free.
But when I'm reading, I'm off in a chair reading and making notes. Being online and reading a book just don't go well together for me.
I'm still considering a subscription for my company, just so I have access to books when I'm not home, but not for me personally.
[John]
Come on here, use some imagination.
Street signals connected to signs a short distance down the road (already done now). If on, your car slows down and stops at the appropriate place.
Radar to determine the distance from objects.
Sensor, if you didn't use the turn signal, you won't be allowed to change lanes. You can't change lanes for 10 seconds after successfully changing lanes.
Digital speedo that keeps you at the appropriate speed limit.
Sensors in the asphalt so that if you're slower than surrounding traffic, you're automatically sped up or your signal hits and you are shifted to a slower lane.
The radar will prevent you from changing lanes if there's an object in the lane next to you.
Sensors in stop signs that make you stop and not roll through.
RFID chips in people with birthdate so if a "kid" runs out into the street, your car is already sounding the horn and stopping.
When passing other vehicles, the road sensors let you exceed the speed limit by 15mph. Since there are sensors and radar, you won't be allowed to attempt to pass if you don't have enough horsepower to successfully pass.
Eliminate the need for stopsigns, lights, double yellow lines, solid yellow lines on your side of the road. Everyone knows where everyone is so you can pass on a blind curve without a chance of encountering oncoming traffic (can't help you with deer or other wildlife, or road hazards).
Your car can download weather conditions beamed directly from points on the highway. With sensors, your speed will be adjusted for conditions as necessary.
Since every will be id'd, the best routes to work will be known. Traffic density will be monitored and your car won't start if there's an issue or you'll be rerouted to avoid problems.
Cars will automatically pull over if an emergency vehicle is approaching. Cars will stop when approaching school buses that are picking up or dropping off kids. Emergency vehicles will be able to trigger lights to all be green. With cars pulling over, they won't have to slow down going through intersections.
The RFID chips that are embedded in people will light up adjacent signs warning traffic, for example if kids are playing, the "Children Playing" signs will be lit. Otherwise they'll be turned off.
With traffic density known, lights will be able to know the best traffic flow pattern and we'll get to work better.
Traffic will be able to approach speeds appropriate to the vehicle and surrounding conditions and will be able to sit a car length behind the next car which will let the traffic density increase safely.
Just some quick thoughts.
[John]
Another thing is that the power plant's emissions are in a single location. This lets someone manage the emissions and even make them cleaner. Certainly cleaner than a slowly disintegrating vehicle that spews more emissions as the years go by and then is discarded to pollute the landscape.
Personally though I ride a motorcycle and don't own a four+ wheeled vehicle. My wife rides a scooter around town for her errands and we walk to the shops whenever possible.
[John]
I read them at the same times you do I'm sure. Maybe I read faster. I typically have 4 or 5 books open in various places around the house. I get several new ones every month including computer books, motorcycle books and other books.
:) ).
Just got Hell's Angels, Motorcycle Adventuring, Harry Turtledove: Victorious Opposition, Web Mapping Illustrated. I'm reading Galactic Empires book 1, Gripping Hand, Year's best SciFi and Year's best Fantasy, and HP Lovecraft (one of the newer compilations since I don't have all the stories on paper yet; all on my iPod though
So I read before I go to bed (about an hour), in the bathroom of course, when the wife wants to watch something I don't even want to be in the same room for I'll head to the library (not bathroom, library). Plug in the iPod, kick my feet up and crack a book.
I'll take books and magazines on my multi-day motorcycle trips. I get extra time since the place where I work required that I take four weeks of furlough this past year. I've visited, jeeze 30 states and Canada this past year. My daughter got married so I had time to read on the way there and back.
Eh? I have quite a few books and enjoy reading them over again. I've read some books 20 times or more. Sometimes books that are a series or have relation to other books don't come out very often. So I have to break out the first books and read them again to figure out where I am in the series :)
What, do you listen to music only once? Watch movies only once?
[John]
I get the Denver Post every morning and I read the paper. But the "news" is a single column or one and a half of each page. The rest are ads. Sometimes there are a couple of pages of ads (to offset the front pages full of news). Even the comics are mostly inane and unfunny (with a few exceptions; zits, sherman's lagoon, and a few others).
/.
Then I read the news reading some of the interesting bits. Then I research the data on-line and see that it's just part of the story. I feel bad for the people who just read the newspaper(s) and don't get all the info or who aren't even interested in getting more data.
The funny part is that the ads that are targetted towards a male like me, are in the sports section which I don't read at all so I get all the guy info from the motorcycle forums I frequent or from the geek ones like
On the plus side, I do get a wider view of the news. I use that to step into the wider world and make myself check out non USAian news.
[John]
The American magazine: Motorcycle Consumer News (there's a British MCN so don't confuse the two). It's not a color publication but black and white. It contains great info, is 30 or so pages long (or more, I don't really count the pages). It's been in business for many years (20?).
[John]
Part of the settlement was that he couldn't file for bankruptcy.
I went through several OS's trying to get them to work on my older system so I could play with it. I tried a couple of the BSD flavors (net and open), I tried Red Hat, Debian, and Mandrake (I used Slackware back at 0.9 when it was multiple sets of floppies), I even tried Solaris x86, BeOS and looked at Plan9. I eventually settled what worked for me: Mandrake. It supported all my hardware, it got me running, and I had several books that worked with it.
I have two prime boxes: Windows XP on a home built and a Mac PowerBook G4. My wife has Windows 98 and refuses to upgrade (it works for her, why change). I have two Sun Ultra 60's, one Mandrake linux box and one extra older Mandrake box that I'll be running through OS's again after backing it off. I'll be trying OpenBSD again just to play. We'll see how it pans out.
I still have my old IBM XT-286 keyboard. It works great even after spilling half a glass of diet-coke on it.
Carl
I'm ready for the beavers.
Oh wait...
[John]
None of my home computers have ever contracted a virus, loaded a trojen, or installed any spyware and I don't have A/V software installed. I recently ran ad-aware because I'd worked on a couple of extended family members machines on a recent trip and found many instances of bots installed. Nothing on my home systems though. Probably the main difference? Both of the extended families had children. Our kids are grown and gone.
[John]
You mean you weren't buying new clothes, houses and cars after making a killing? The money's going to get spent unless you're hoarding it. They could certainly have cut up the trees themselves unless physically unable. Now, having the money isn't benefiting them but it is benefiting someone.
[John]