It's possible to retrofit some newer technologies into older cars. I've had the interior out of my '78 Chrysler Cordoba, and there's room to add side impact protection, a cage, or other such devices. People who are really concerned can have a sixties-seventies uniframe constructed car reinforced through frame connectors to hook the front and rear subframes together to reduce or prevent deforming of the passenger compartment in extremely forceful collisions.
Considering the vehicles on the road these days, I'll stick with the heavy car. Other cars and SUVs will crumple, and my car still outweighs many of them, which gives me a momentum advantage in many kinds of car accidents.
Somehow I think it'd be much more touching to leave behind CDs or DVDs of video clips, audio, or whatever message is to be given to someone digitally, as the recipient can store it in The Real World as opposed to on some hotmail account somewhere. It just seems tacky to send e-mail this way. One would even be assured of having enough storage space on the medium for the contents, and not being filtered out by a broken e-mail server.
I'm lazy when it comes to automobile maintenance. I have a couple of late seventies Chrysler Cordobas that I switch back and forth between, and they're both over 140,000 miles. They each do have problems, but it's usually on a ccount of doing things like changing rear end gear ratios, upgrading the exhaust, and installing bigger carburetors that causes the original (weaker) parts to fail. It's not that Japanese cars are necessarily better...
Car manufacturers do not operate under the same mentality as computer manufacturers. Theoretically computers offer significantly more potential every year as hardware development increases power exponentially. Car manufacturers are in the business of taking a core technology and repackaging it until they are forced to concede to a partial redesign or new implementation to satisfy consumers or federal regulators. Sheet metal on most vehicles remains 90% similar for more than five years, uni-frame designs may last twenty years before a redesign, usually for crash safety modernization. Engine castings are used, with different bore, stroke, and cam choices, until the engines no longer meet federal emissions or fuel economy reqirements.
The auto industry made its money convincing consumers that they had to have a new car, never mind that it was mechanically almost identical to the last three they had. Computers actually do develop new technologies, more power, and new end-user features at a fairly brisk pace.
Thing is, though, Internet Explorer has sucked from the first release that was bundled with Windows NT 4.0, which was called v2.0. It has never been properly fixed. After the debacle of MS forcing IE on to computers with the OS I decided that I'd never use their browser again for my own computers, and I've stuck to that. I've watched countless exploits for the browser come out and wreak widespread havoc on Internet users, while I've been very safe using Netscape or Mozilla, depending on my fancy. My computers have never had spyware/trojans/hijacks or any of the like.
Microsoft's web browser is a piece of shit. It allows Internet-based stuff to invade down to a service level on the workstation. It allows massive quantities of unsolicited popups, a problem that the Mozilla team fixed at least two years ago. It has been documented to have "arbitrary code execution" security holes on a regular basis.
I haven't had these problems with the Mozilla/Netscape strain. My friends with Safari and Opera haven't had these problems. How hard is it to code a fucking layout interpreter and display program?
yeah, I need to learn how to use HTML properly. I've only been working with it since Netscape was at version.99, so I haven't had time to learn how to close tags...
Since Rocky Horror Picture Show has "The Timewarp", would this maybe have The Cylon Sidestep", or a country-western style tune about losing your planet?
...it's time to get the tree trimmers out, heat them up to temperatures that will cauterize, and then truncate something important to the spyware authors...
Of course, if the dominant web browser weren't vulnerable to installing trojan software on a user's computer in the first place this would be a moot point.
If the computers that run SkyNet constantly crash, requiring human intervention to keep them running that doesn't bode well for SkyNet's functionality, regardless of how malicious it is supposed to be.
"I don't know much about computers other than the one we got at my house; my mom put a couple games on there and I play
unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;unmou nt;sleep"
This is why my signature file includes a couple of line breaks...
I worked QA for a team developing what could have been the next big thing in Unified Messaging, conversion of any kind of messaging protocol to another for routing to email, fax, cell phones, alphapagers, text-to-speech, etc. There were something like ten developers total during the company's largest point. Due to the company's going out of business during the dotcom burst (despite it not being a dotcom, we had a stupid investor) the software was never quite finished and fell away. It's basically gone now. The perceived value of the intellectual property was just in the wrong place for people to consider it worth the money. Consequently that hard work is gone.
If it had been Open Source there still would have been developers working on it, but it would still exist. When the company went under those developers could have taken this and went elsewhere to show what they had. It could have at least been released to the public so that other companies could take it and adapt it to their needs, hiring programmers in the process.
Apparently the retard who moderated my original post to Offtopic never actually read Zodiac to find out that Kryptonite U-Lock bicycle locks were a major tool of the main characters, thus a story element because the enemies of these characters would find their gates locked shut with them.
This might violate overtime rules. If I work over 40 hours, they are required to pay me 1.5 times or give me 1.5 times off. They get no choice from Department of Labor.
I worked for an asshole who seemed to be a lot like ths Mr. Connolly. He literally operated on dog logic. "What I see is mine. What I can get away with is mine. If you leave it here it's mine. It's not yours, it's mine!"
There was a project to build consumer and commercial NAT/routing devices based on Linux for sale that a friend of mine was working on for this guy. This stuff would have been out in slick packaging quite some time before most of the other consumer devices, except that the idiot running the company never would get things straight and managed to destroy every advantage they had until maninstream network device vendors like Linksys, Netgear, and others had their NAT devices out. Then he had the gall to claim that they stolehis idea. Never mind the years of development that went into building IP Masquerading and NAT...
If what we have now isn't stable in your book, this shouldn't impact it too much, right? I mean, the advantage of wind is that you diversify your stations across many regions with different weather patterns in each, so your wind power production as a total isn't particularly impacted. If you have ten generating areas, each with suitable wind 70% of the time, you can build to meet your capacity at any given point.
Regarding atmospheric affects, we've had much stronger weather lately, taking some of that energy out of the air might not be a bad thing.
Lester was NOT a giant rat! He was a Guy in a Rat Suit! They even said so on the show! How could you have missed that but somehow figured out that Josie was a drug addict!?
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It's possible to retrofit some newer technologies into older cars. I've had the interior out of my '78 Chrysler Cordoba, and there's room to add side impact protection, a cage, or other such devices. People who are really concerned can have a sixties-seventies uniframe constructed car reinforced through frame connectors to hook the front and rear subframes together to reduce or prevent deforming of the passenger compartment in extremely forceful collisions.
Considering the vehicles on the road these days, I'll stick with the heavy car. Other cars and SUVs will crumple, and my car still outweighs many of them, which gives me a momentum advantage in many kinds of car accidents.
Somehow I think it'd be much more touching to leave behind CDs or DVDs of video clips, audio, or whatever message is to be given to someone digitally, as the recipient can store it in The Real World as opposed to on some hotmail account somewhere. It just seems tacky to send e-mail this way. One would even be assured of having enough storage space on the medium for the contents, and not being filtered out by a broken e-mail server.
I think that my girlfriend is comprised of this stuff. She seems to suddenly turn frigid as soon as things heat up...
It's more like, "It has to go before we need to worry about making it stop..."
I'm lazy when it comes to automobile maintenance. I have a couple of late seventies Chrysler Cordobas that I switch back and forth between, and they're both over 140,000 miles. They each do have problems, but it's usually on a ccount of doing things like changing rear end gear ratios, upgrading the exhaust, and installing bigger carburetors that causes the original (weaker) parts to fail. It's not that Japanese cars are necessarily better...
Car manufacturers do not operate under the same mentality as computer manufacturers. Theoretically computers offer significantly more potential every year as hardware development increases power exponentially. Car manufacturers are in the business of taking a core technology and repackaging it until they are forced to concede to a partial redesign or new implementation to satisfy consumers or federal regulators. Sheet metal on most vehicles remains 90% similar for more than five years, uni-frame designs may last twenty years before a redesign, usually for crash safety modernization. Engine castings are used, with different bore, stroke, and cam choices, until the engines no longer meet federal emissions or fuel economy reqirements.
The auto industry made its money convincing consumers that they had to have a new car, never mind that it was mechanically almost identical to the last three they had. Computers actually do develop new technologies, more power, and new end-user features at a fairly brisk pace.
Yeah, the collective "we" just took apart his web host...
Thing is, though, Internet Explorer has sucked from the first release that was bundled with Windows NT 4.0, which was called v2.0. It has never been properly fixed. After the debacle of MS forcing IE on to computers with the OS I decided that I'd never use their browser again for my own computers, and I've stuck to that. I've watched countless exploits for the browser come out and wreak widespread havoc on Internet users, while I've been very safe using Netscape or Mozilla, depending on my fancy. My computers have never had spyware/trojans/hijacks or any of the like.
Microsoft's web browser is a piece of shit. It allows Internet-based stuff to invade down to a service level on the workstation. It allows massive quantities of unsolicited popups, a problem that the Mozilla team fixed at least two years ago. It has been documented to have "arbitrary code execution" security holes on a regular basis.
I haven't had these problems with the Mozilla/Netscape strain. My friends with Safari and Opera haven't had these problems. How hard is it to code a fucking layout interpreter and display program?
yeah, I need to learn how to use HTML properly. I've only been working with it since Netscape was at version .99, so I haven't had time to learn how to close tags...
Since Rocky Horror Picture Show has "The Timewarp", would this maybe have The Cylon Sidestep", or a country-western style tune about losing your planet?
...it's time to get the tree trimmers out, heat them up to temperatures that will cauterize, and then truncate something important to the spyware authors...
Of course, if the dominant web browser weren't vulnerable to installing trojan software on a user's computer in the first place this would be a moot point.
If the computers that run SkyNet constantly crash, requiring human intervention to keep them running that doesn't bode well for SkyNet's functionality, regardless of how malicious it is supposed to be.
... should be:
"Microsoft: Writing the software to prevent SkyNet since 1981."
"I don't know much about computers other than the one we got at my house; my mom put a couple games on there and I playu nt;sleep"
unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;unmo
This is why my signature file includes a couple of line breaks...
I worked QA for a team developing what could have been the next big thing in Unified Messaging, conversion of any kind of messaging protocol to another for routing to email, fax, cell phones, alphapagers, text-to-speech, etc. There were something like ten developers total during the company's largest point. Due to the company's going out of business during the dotcom burst (despite it not being a dotcom, we had a stupid investor) the software was never quite finished and fell away. It's basically gone now. The perceived value of the intellectual property was just in the wrong place for people to consider it worth the money. Consequently that hard work is gone.
If it had been Open Source there still would have been developers working on it, but it would still exist. When the company went under those developers could have taken this and went elsewhere to show what they had. It could have at least been released to the public so that other companies could take it and adapt it to their needs, hiring programmers in the process.
Apparently the retard who moderated my original post to Offtopic never actually read Zodiac to find out that Kryptonite U-Lock bicycle locks were a major tool of the main characters, thus a story element because the enemies of these characters would find their gates locked shut with them.
Not that I'm bitter or anything.
Those environmentalists in Neal Stephenson's Zodiac won't be very happy to learn this...
This might violate overtime rules. If I work over 40 hours, they are required to pay me 1.5 times or give me 1.5 times off. They get no choice from Department of Labor.
I worked for an asshole who seemed to be a lot like ths Mr. Connolly. He literally operated on dog logic. "What I see is mine. What I can get away with is mine. If you leave it here it's mine. It's not yours, it's mine!"
There was a project to build consumer and commercial NAT/routing devices based on Linux for sale that a friend of mine was working on for this guy. This stuff would have been out in slick packaging quite some time before most of the other consumer devices, except that the idiot running the company never would get things straight and managed to destroy every advantage they had until maninstream network device vendors like Linksys, Netgear, and others had their NAT devices out. Then he had the gall to claim that they stole his idea. Never mind the years of development that went into building IP Masquerading and NAT...
If what we have now isn't stable in your book, this shouldn't impact it too much, right? I mean, the advantage of wind is that you diversify your stations across many regions with different weather patterns in each, so your wind power production as a total isn't particularly impacted. If you have ten generating areas, each with suitable wind 70% of the time, you can build to meet your capacity at any given point.
Regarding atmospheric affects, we've had much stronger weather lately, taking some of that energy out of the air might not be a bad thing.
"Chances are you've probably not seen my desk -- not an easy task."
Ah, but have you seen your desk? If not in the past few years I'll be impressed.
"Didn't you see last year's Discover article? Nothing sucks, it just blows."
Please explain that one to my date from last Friday...
Hmmm...
"Heeeeelllp Meeeeee! Heeeeeellllp Meeee!"
"...like a giant rat and..."
Lester was NOT a giant rat! He was a Guy in a Rat Suit! They even said so on the show! How could you have missed that but somehow figured out that Josie was a drug addict!?
Sheesh!