I highly recommend it. They should have a "wow, thanks!" page with membership numbers though, after your card is charged, instead of just a reciept & a sitemap link.
But anyway, I feel better, and I know that will be the most effective $500 I've ever spent.
PRODUCT FEATURES *RCA-proprietary VPORT allows simplified direct
connection of Microsoft Xbox gaming console, or
can function as a second component video input
Sydney has this kind of thing, but i don't think its GPS related...
What they do here is have little metal detectors about once a kilometer on the track, and at all station stops. they're all wired with cabling that goes along the rails into signal boxes that presumably have some telco connection to the nearest station, which each have connections to their adjacent ones.
What this does is signal to a control room somewhere where each track is. the control dude[ette] knows where all trains in his/her area are at any time. ALL public transportation systems should already have the ability to know exactly where each of their trains are at any time, to avoid collision.
Sydney stations (mostly) have electronic notice boards, displaying the time to the next train, what its stops are, and how many cars are on the train (so you can move to the appropriate place on the platform, shorter trains don't go to both ends of the platform, of course). I think the times here are put in manually by the drones, because they are way, way off once in a while, and other times have TOTALLY incorrect information. In this case they usually come on the PA system in their characteristically overly loud mumbly Australian voice saying things to the effect of "see the TV up there? bugger it! Next train goes to wwhsdkdjsidaoj asdoijasd a stopping at wlaldj alskfhw, shodija, oiweha, oasjas, then all stations to lkasd."
I wouldn't worry too hard about seeking a wireless solution, when the train people already own (or at least control) all the land that the rails rest on. Using a wired solution here is probably more reliable considering the weather up there. (isn't it rainy & cold all the time? i dunno.)
I have a dell, and i must say the support is great.
however, the hinges on these laptops leaves a lot to be desired. mine, after only a month, became loose & felt like it was about to break. I had it replaced with a nice new hinge, and one month later it was feeling fragile & sloppy again. now, this laptop is less than a year old, mind you, the cables in the hinge are going. when i move the hinge, i lose display. i have to wiggle it to get it to come back. this laptop is 11 months old this month.
My Thinkpad (which is almost 4 years old) still has a nice, stiff hinge. Why can't dell get nice hinges?
Well done, Michael for editing (in this case, appending) the correct statement to the story. Other editors would have posted verbatim, but you READ THE STORY.
What's wrong with using Spam Assassin? I don't seek out & destroy porn film makers, i just block their movies' entry into my home.
Its called Freedom of speech. Perhaps you've heard of it. If you don't believe in it, then you belong in another country. For better or for worse, I'm going to fight for person X's right to say whatever they want, even if i don't agree with what they're saying. And this includes spammers. Placing laws that curtail spammers take away our freedom.
Blocking is the correct thing to do here. Eventually enough people will block that most spammers will realize that they are simply not being effective.
Teach your children well & morally bankrupt the practices you disagree with. Tell your children that spam is bad, and they won't grow up to be spammers. simple.
There is no quick way to beat spammers, so bankrupt them by educating other people. Set up spamassassin for them, set up a bayesspam filter for them. Do any one of a million things, just do not take my freedom away, you asshole.
Logic is not on your side. Punishments are not based on the amount of "unhappiness" the criminals cause, but the severity of their crimes. And this is how it should be.
If you vote, you're already controlling the state anyway.
Spammers should be fined in most cases, and have their right to use computers removed, in extreme cases, but not *killed*. However, if one of my children ever recieve a porn spam and I am able to prove who the sender is, that person should be legally viable for every single fucking law we can throw at them, for this is inexcusable.
Also, about the death penalty; Far too many innocent people are put to death with today's justice system. until that number drops to zero, i don't see how anyone can be pro-death. You would quickly understand if you were the innocent man that was found guilty.
And the obligatory LotR quote on the subject, courtesy of Gandalf: "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the wise cannot see all ends."
When you gotta eat, and you're sick of the cardboard box, you don't abandon your morals for cash. you do everything in your power to live as good of a life as you can without throwing your morals out the window.
That's what morals are. The world is what we make it, pal, if you're so quick to do the wrong thing for a quick buck, then you go do that. I'm going to keep my spine and do what's necessary to live with myself & sleep at night.
I'm doing my part to make the world a place less driven by the dollars, and driven more by intelligence. Can you say that you're doing the same?
Money is a tool, and nothing more. It is to help you get out of the gutter & put you in a comfortable place and be able to provide for your children. It is NOT incentive to abandon your judgement.
you don't need 70 "horsepowers" to keep a car moving, you need probably about 20, if you're on a race track (this negates any wind concerns; headwind on one leg means tailwind on another).
But the honest fact is that batteries & motors are not efficient.
That, and you can't get energy from nothing. Unless there's a Mr. Fusion portable fusion reactor on the car somewhere, they're not going anywhere for long on batteries.
there is only one answer to the question of corrupt or immoral politicians: EDUCATION
Politicians can get away with what they do because no one is watching. not enough people to make a difference, anyway. few people care, because few people pay attention. few people pay attention because few people understand what's really happening.
If you want to stop (or at least curb) this crazy behavior, you need to educate yourself and others about what is going on. Find facts, and spread them to everyone you know. Education such as this will help people make up their own minds (don't do their thinking for them, you may be wrong).
EDUCATION is the ONLY way you'll ever get the numbers you need to get people moving in the right direction.
Educate yourself on every aspect of politics, and you'll soon see that it is the only way to get people to move. People go into fits when their favorite ball player is traded because they understand what's going on. Do the world a favor. Be a political reference for your friends. Make things known to people who otherwise would not know about these things. It will help more than you expect.
No... wait... the most pathetic was that time I was in a gaming store and saw a morbidly obese man with poor personal hygiene loudly deriding some 14-year-old kid for buying the plain dice. This is just a close second.
not unlike what you just said to me, except this time its not to a 14 year old. do not critisize others unless you yourself are prepared to recieve the same criticism. what i stated was an opinion. you stated your opinion. do not expect readers to ignore my post after they read yours.
why don't you be a bit more constructive next time and state exactly why you feel my post was "the most incredibly pathetic brand of snobbery [you've] ever witnessed" instead of attempting (and failing) to make me feel inferior.
have a lovely day. I'm going to go make love to my girlfriend.
Want authentic? Do what I do, buy arcade cabinets (real ones) and put games in them (real games). OR do Mame the "Right way". Read on...
Mame is great, and mame is an arcade emulator, however, most people who run mame in an arcade cabinet run it on a PC monitor which is the absolute laziest way of doing it, not to mention the ugliest. If you're not afraid of DOS you can make your DOS mame display on an arcade monitor, which is both authentic and prettier. I mean who has a 38" computer monitor?
Home made cabinets are ASS unless they're designed (DESIGNED, not "based") on real cabinets. Control panels are often too big, monitors are too small. A lot of money went in to the design of the real arcade cabinets, finding out exactly which height was most comfortable (and therefore profitable), which you just can't duplicate with a homemade cabinet unless you use antoher cabinet as a guide. and if you have another cabinet, why build your own.
Buying cabinets is also much cheaper than building them, and much less of a pain in the ass. Arcade Infinity has lots of cabinets that are less than $600. (look for Jamma cabinets in the gallery)
If you're going to do it, do it right. get a J-Pac (www.ultimarc.com), use a computer for the sole purpose of sitting in your mame cabinet, and for God's Sake, please don't build your own cabinet unless you want to watch your friends wince at your effort when you have finished it.
Support for HUGE files, thousands of files open simultaneously, regex search & replace, interactive function listing, syntax highlighting, split window with synchronized scrolling, search & replace in multiple files (with regexes), find in multiple files (like grep), htmltidy built-in, column editing mode, converts to and from dos, mac and unix line endings, hex editing mode, and lots and lots of other stuff.
These trains were built to produce electricity. In fact, all modern locomotives are. the engines are designed to do one thing and one thing only: generate electricity. there are electric motors that do the pushing.
My father was an engineer for Burlington Northern before Santa Fe merged with them, and i remember as a child, going to the engine plant, and actually being INSIDE an engine cylinder - they're massive!
When i asked my dad why they were so big, he said "they need to be, they run all the time and it takes a lot of electricity to pull a train." being a smart lad of 8, i asked "don't the engines push the wheels?" through a lengthy discussion that i repeated with him over the years to get more detail, i learned that the engines produce electricity and the wheels are driven by electric motors.
It turns out that this is more efficient, in money, fuel effeciency, and repair time (imagine replacing the drive train if it were not electrically driven). all you do is replace a motor, instead of a drive shaft and/or transmission. (simplified explanation, of course)
It makes perfect sense for them to do this. Resourcefullness demonstrated brilliantly!
its possible to "open source" your software without following the GPL, a licence which I myself do not choose when i write software.
off-on-a-tangent-time: to me, truly "free" software means adding no stipulations of any kind, unlike the GPL. therefore, short of paying a lawyer lots of $ to write the Naikrovek(tm) license, i use the BSD license for all the software i write. Fortunately for me, my entire company licenses the software they work on under the BSD license, unless its trade-secret.
there's nothing saying that you have to use the GPL for your in-house tools.
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don't forget some of us in other countries.
yeah, also there's this great new band. they're brand new, they're called KISS, and they rock!
Slashdot Mirror
I highly recommend it. They should have a "wow, thanks!" page with membership numbers though, after your card is charged, instead of just a reciept & a sitemap link.
But anyway, I feel better, and I know that will be the most effective $500 I've ever spent.
is here.
PRODUCT FEATURES
*RCA-proprietary VPORT allows simplified direct
connection of Microsoft Xbox gaming console, or
can function as a second component video input
"Guh!!" - Amy on Futurama
Sydney has this kind of thing, but i don't think its GPS related...
What they do here is have little metal detectors about once a kilometer on the track, and at all station stops. they're all wired with cabling that goes along the rails into signal boxes that presumably have some telco connection to the nearest station, which each have connections to their adjacent ones.
What this does is signal to a control room somewhere where each track is. the control dude[ette] knows where all trains in his/her area are at any time. ALL public transportation systems should already have the ability to know exactly where each of their trains are at any time, to avoid collision.
Sydney stations (mostly) have electronic notice boards, displaying the time to the next train, what its stops are, and how many cars are on the train (so you can move to the appropriate place on the platform, shorter trains don't go to both ends of the platform, of course). I think the times here are put in manually by the drones, because they are way, way off once in a while, and other times have TOTALLY incorrect information. In this case they usually come on the PA system in their characteristically overly loud mumbly Australian voice saying things to the effect of "see the TV up there? bugger it! Next train goes to wwhsdkdjsidaoj asdoijasd a stopping at wlaldj alskfhw, shodija, oiweha, oasjas, then all stations to lkasd."
I wouldn't worry too hard about seeking a wireless solution, when the train people already own (or at least control) all the land that the rails rest on. Using a wired solution here is probably more reliable considering the weather up there. (isn't it rainy & cold all the time? i dunno.)
I have a dell, and i must say the support is great.
however, the hinges on these laptops leaves a lot to be desired. mine, after only a month, became loose & felt like it was about to break. I had it replaced with a nice new hinge, and one month later it was feeling fragile & sloppy again. now, this laptop is less than a year old, mind you, the cables in the hinge are going. when i move the hinge, i lose display. i have to wiggle it to get it to come back. this laptop is 11 months old this month.
My Thinkpad (which is almost 4 years old) still has a nice, stiff hinge. Why can't dell get nice hinges?
don't ask legal questions of people who get in fights over brower preference.
Well done, Michael for editing (in this case, appending) the correct statement to the story. Other editors would have posted verbatim, but you READ THE STORY.
Thank you, & keep it up.
What's wrong with using Spam Assassin? I don't seek out & destroy porn film makers, i just block their movies' entry into my home.
Its called Freedom of speech. Perhaps you've heard of it. If you don't believe in it, then you belong in another country. For better or for worse, I'm going to fight for person X's right to say whatever they want, even if i don't agree with what they're saying. And this includes spammers. Placing laws that curtail spammers take away our freedom.
Blocking is the correct thing to do here. Eventually enough people will block that most spammers will realize that they are simply not being effective.
Teach your children well & morally bankrupt the practices you disagree with. Tell your children that spam is bad, and they won't grow up to be spammers. simple.
There is no quick way to beat spammers, so bankrupt them by educating other people. Set up spamassassin for them, set up a bayesspam filter for them. Do any one of a million things, just do not take my freedom away, you asshole.
we understand.
Logic is not on your side. Punishments are not based on the amount of "unhappiness" the criminals cause, but the severity of their crimes. And this is how it should be.
If you vote, you're already controlling the state anyway.
Spammers should be fined in most cases, and have their right to use computers removed, in extreme cases, but not *killed*. However, if one of my children ever recieve a porn spam and I am able to prove who the sender is, that person should be legally viable for every single fucking law we can throw at them, for this is inexcusable.
Also, about the death penalty; Far too many innocent people are put to death with today's justice system. until that number drops to zero, i don't see how anyone can be pro-death. You would quickly understand if you were the innocent man that was found guilty.
And the obligatory LotR quote on the subject, courtesy of Gandalf: "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the wise cannot see all ends."
When you gotta eat, and you're sick of the cardboard box, you don't abandon your morals for cash. you do everything in your power to live as good of a life as you can without throwing your morals out the window.
That's what morals are. The world is what we make it, pal, if you're so quick to do the wrong thing for a quick buck, then you go do that. I'm going to keep my spine and do what's necessary to live with myself & sleep at night.
I'm doing my part to make the world a place less driven by the dollars, and driven more by intelligence. Can you say that you're doing the same?
Money is a tool, and nothing more. It is to help you get out of the gutter & put you in a comfortable place and be able to provide for your children. It is NOT incentive to abandon your judgement.
Will any of the Xbox Linux participants take a stab at this job?
Why? So they can be part of the winning team that kills modchips forever?
no thanks.
you don't need 70 "horsepowers" to keep a car moving, you need probably about 20, if you're on a race track (this negates any wind concerns; headwind on one leg means tailwind on another).
But the honest fact is that batteries & motors are not efficient.
That, and you can't get energy from nothing. Unless there's a Mr. Fusion portable fusion reactor on the car somewhere, they're not going anywhere for long on batteries.
Naik.
Naikrovek is changing his presentation style.
THis is really well done.
Christ, even I have two computers. Don't tell us you've wasted all your money already.
there is only one answer to the question of corrupt or immoral politicians: EDUCATION
Politicians can get away with what they do because no one is watching. not enough people to make a difference, anyway. few people care, because few people pay attention. few people pay attention because few people understand what's really happening.
If you want to stop (or at least curb) this crazy behavior, you need to educate yourself and others about what is going on. Find facts, and spread them to everyone you know. Education such as this will help people make up their own minds (don't do their thinking for them, you may be wrong).
EDUCATION is the ONLY way you'll ever get the numbers you need to get people moving in the right direction.
Educate yourself on every aspect of politics, and you'll soon see that it is the only way to get people to move. People go into fits when their favorite ball player is traded because they understand what's going on. Do the world a favor. Be a political reference for your friends. Make things known to people who otherwise would not know about these things. It will help more than you expect.
Incidentally, the "I'm not pathetic, I have sex!" defense is now a pathetic cliche.
Yes, i know. Its funny though. I know i was basically invalidating myself but i found it funny enough to do anyway.
no hard feelings (of course), and thanks for your opinion.
No... wait... the most pathetic was that time I was in a gaming store and saw a morbidly obese man with poor personal hygiene loudly deriding some 14-year-old kid for buying the plain dice. This is just a close second.
not unlike what you just said to me, except this time its not to a 14 year old. do not critisize others unless you yourself are prepared to recieve the same criticism. what i stated was an opinion. you stated your opinion. do not expect readers to ignore my post after they read yours.
why don't you be a bit more constructive next time and state exactly why you feel my post was "the most incredibly pathetic brand of snobbery [you've] ever witnessed" instead of attempting (and failing) to make me feel inferior.
have a lovely day. I'm going to go make love to my girlfriend.
Want authentic? Do what I do, buy arcade cabinets (real ones) and put games in them (real games). OR do Mame the "Right way". Read on...
Mame is great, and mame is an arcade emulator, however, most people who run mame in an arcade cabinet run it on a PC monitor which is the absolute laziest way of doing it, not to mention the ugliest. If you're not afraid of DOS you can make your DOS mame display on an arcade monitor, which is both authentic and prettier. I mean who has a 38" computer monitor?
Home made cabinets are ASS unless they're designed (DESIGNED, not "based") on real cabinets. Control panels are often too big, monitors are too small. A lot of money went in to the design of the real arcade cabinets, finding out exactly which height was most comfortable (and therefore profitable), which you just can't duplicate with a homemade cabinet unless you use antoher cabinet as a guide. and if you have another cabinet, why build your own.
Buying cabinets is also much cheaper than building them, and much less of a pain in the ass. Arcade Infinity has lots of cabinets that are less than $600. (look for Jamma cabinets in the gallery)
If you're going to do it, do it right. get a J-Pac (www.ultimarc.com), use a computer for the sole purpose of sitting in your mame cabinet, and for God's Sake, please don't build your own cabinet unless you want to watch your friends wince at your effort when you have finished it.
UltraEdit32 does it for me.
Support for HUGE files, thousands of files open simultaneously, regex search & replace, interactive function listing, syntax highlighting, split window with synchronized scrolling, search & replace in multiple files (with regexes), find in multiple files (like grep), htmltidy built-in, column editing mode, converts to and from dos, mac and unix line endings, hex editing mode, and lots and lots of other stuff.
definately worth a look.
jeremiah
Yes: http://www.google.com/appliance/
However, this is not open source, it is not free and doesn't at all meet the goals of the person asking the question.
These trains were built to produce electricity. In fact, all modern locomotives are. the engines are designed to do one thing and one thing only: generate electricity. there are electric motors that do the pushing.
My father was an engineer for Burlington Northern before Santa Fe merged with them, and i remember as a child, going to the engine plant, and actually being INSIDE an engine cylinder - they're massive!
When i asked my dad why they were so big, he said "they need to be, they run all the time and it takes a lot of electricity to pull a train." being a smart lad of 8, i asked "don't the engines push the wheels?" through a lengthy discussion that i repeated with him over the years to get more detail, i learned that the engines produce electricity and the wheels are driven by electric motors.
It turns out that this is more efficient, in money, fuel effeciency, and repair time (imagine replacing the drive train if it were not electrically driven). all you do is replace a motor, instead of a drive shaft and/or transmission. (simplified explanation, of course)
It makes perfect sense for them to do this. Resourcefullness demonstrated brilliantly!
Naikrovek
uhh, she's not that good looking, just over par for marketing women, i'd say.
Not a nerd, that's for sure, so the whole "Hot Chick" business is out.
picture
would someone please make a 1000 watt wireless radio transmitter.... PLEASE!!
its possible to "open source" your software without following the GPL, a licence which I myself do not choose when i write software.
off-on-a-tangent-time: to me, truly "free" software means adding no stipulations of any kind, unlike the GPL. therefore, short of paying a lawyer lots of $ to write the Naikrovek(tm) license, i use the BSD license for all the software i write. Fortunately for me, my entire company licenses the software they work on under the BSD license, unless its trade-secret.
there's nothing saying that you have to use the GPL for your in-house tools.
don't forget some of us in other countries.
yeah, also there's this great new band. they're brand new, they're called KISS, and they rock!