I just heard the first 30sec of the mp3 file, and couldn't continue. It was far too painful - the guy doing the interview should slow the fuck down when speaking. You don't get medals for quantity over quality.
Well, not many people seem to agree with the article so far. This is probably because most of the slashdot crowd are people that bestbuy et. al. call "demon" customers anyway! If you penny pinch to find the best deal, try to price match or spend more than 10min with a sales rep, you are probably costing them cash.
To view the story from the other side of the fence, check out http://www.customerssuck.com
I've used/installed linux before, in around 1994 so it's been awhile. I downloaded RH8 awhile ago, but never got around to installing it. I repartitioned a drive on an existing computer and the install went well enough. But at the end of it I had no network. I got the driver disk (gig ethernet) and found that the drivers were two files - the source code.
Fair enough, at least I have drivers. I spent the afternoon working out how to compile them, but finally got it working. I tried to register with RHN, but the program kept crashing. I finally figured out that it was because something had expired and I had to install an update. I found the update and installed it, downladed and installed all the updates and the world was good.
Problem was, that machine was a dual boot system and I wanted it mostly in windows (my drives were formatted ntfs). So I bought a VIA all-inone mini-itx system. I installed RH8 and got cygwin working on my XP machine as well as VNC. The world was good again.
However, when running Azureus, it would crash after about an hour and all these error message were appearing in the terminal window. Also, I got tired of downloading an rpm and trying to install it and have the message "cant find blah.so". So I tried to do the update thing again. I reapplied the patch that allowed me to run the updater, then downloaded all the updates. Halfway through applying the patches though, I get an error saying it cant install one of them and it simply exits.
Great. okay, Ill look at it later then. Meanwhile, the cleaner comes along yesterday and unplugs the machine to plug in the vaccum cleaner. So when I try to boot the machine this time, I cant telnet to it. (it's downstairs with no monitor/keyboard). I drag it upstairs, connect up a monitor/kb and find that it seems to load okay, but when I try to login, it just sits at the login: prompt (dosent ask me for my password). Okay, time to upgrade. I've downloaded Fedora core-2. I try to install over the top and get a "media error or hd full". I try it a few times just to make sure, and no go. So I have to reformat the hd (theres no way it's full - its a 120gb drive with more than 100gb free). Okay, so I have to lose everything that was on my drive to install the new system. I've just (in the last 5min) got to the point where I've finished the install. It took around 3 hours, because I installed everything. Im not really looking forward to setting it up.
I read on here people saying "I like the way linux just works." That is definately not my experience. It does everything BUT "just work". I really want it to work, and have spent hours changing config files. I've spent cash on a new machine just to run linux and at this point if I give up I have to admit to the wife that I didnt really need that new computer anyway.. (sorry thats not an option!)
But when I try it in my new dryer, the tips of the collars come out with small "nicks" in them, as if someone has taken a razor blade and made a small incision near the point of the collar. It completely ruins the shirt. I assume that there's something sharp inside the dryer catching on them.
So now I just iron them.
It can easily become a job
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I had a boss who once told me he used to play poker semi-professionally years ago. He claimed he got to the last table at the world poker championships in the late 80's. He gave up. The reason? "Why the hell would I want to spend my entire day, every day, in a smoke filled room with a bunch of loosers?".
Okay, at the time he was what he defined as a looser too - but he recognised this and "got out" as it were. In the end, it would turn into an 8-24hr a day job
btw, Rounders is probably the best movie I've seen about Poker.
After reading the article again, I noticed that they use aerial film for it. So you wouldn't cut your own film, but you wouldn't be able to buy it from your local photo store either. I doubt even pro film stores would carry this sort of film in stock. In which case, you would have to buy direct from fuji/kodak. (or get it special order)
As other posters have mentioned, this is nothing more than an arial camera updated for "normal" use. Note that the neg size is 9x18 inch - the 5x10 foot print is a print, not a negative.
The reason the film is held flat under pressure and the front standard is held perfectly parallel to the film is that when you are doing aerial spy photography in WW2, you want to use a large apeture and high shutter speed. This means that your DOF is quite narrow and if the film and/or front standard is out of alignment, some of the photo will be out of focus. Using mirrors would also dampen/eliminate some of the vibration of the planes at the time. Of course, when using the photo for non-aerial/spy photography, you sometimes don't want everything parallel, because you want to change the plane of focus (one of the reasons for lugging such a large camera around in the first place!). So I would have thought this would be a disadvantage rather than an advantage.
Plus the fact you would have to cut your own film for it..
One of the best pieces of advice I have read: Don't make your hobby your job. Except in extremely rare cases, you will start hating your hobby. I have investigated a few alternative jobs in the last few years including photographer, videographer/moviemaker, professional gambler, scuba diving instructor, commercial diver, motorcycle build/repair, vehicle spraypainter. All of these things have been/still are hobbies and I have stopped myself every time, because I know that as soon as I start in a new career I will hate that hobby.
# THX 1138 was based on a student film Lucas made while attending USC. # The original title was Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB # The stars of the film were Robert Duvall as THX 1138 (yes it's a name!), Donald Pleasence as SEN 5241, and Maggie McOmie as LUH 3417 # THX 1138 was not only ahead of its time in sound effects, but also in the themes which it portrayes, such as the loss of individuals for the good of the group, the self-corruption of the human spirit, racism in science fiction, and yes, even channel-surfing # The film was produced by American Zoetrope Studios, then co-owned by Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola # The extras used in the film came from a drug rehabilitation center called Delancey Street Foundation. The only way to enter Delancey Street was to have your head shaved. (Thanks to donasso@pacbell.net) # When George Lucas lived in the San Francisco Bay area, where the tunnel scenes in THX were filmed, one of his phone numbers was 849-1138, or as a mnemonic, THX-1138. (Thanks to nbeckett@gte.net) # The "shell dwellers" in THX served as the basis for the Jawas in Star Wars. # The sound made by the staves which the robots use to condition prisoners are remarkably similar to the lightsaber sound effect. # Star Wars was, at one point, going to be a prequel to THX, with the character who would become Luke Skywalker conceived as a young THX. # The licence plate number on Milner's deuce coupe in American Graffiti was THX 138. # In Star Wars, Luke says "Prisoner transfer from cell block 1138." # During the car chase scene, someone can be heard over the intercom saying "I think I ran over a Wookiee back there on the expressway." As any good Star Wars fan can tell you, Chewbacca is a Wookiee. # In The Empire Strikes Back, General Rieekan says, "Send Rogues ten and eleven to station three-eight." # Not from a Lucas movie, but in The Lawnmower Man, the experimental chimp is named Rosco 1138. # This is unconfirmed (I'll confirm it as soon as I can get to the theatre again!) but a reliable source told me that the battle droid who loses it's head in The Phantom Menace has the number "1138" on its back.
shamelessly stolen from this site (it's geocities, so go easy)
This one is from one of my coworkers.. Apparently, one of their production sun server reset itself suddenly one day (this is in the late 80's/early 90's). They got some people from Sun in to have a look at it and they spent days looking over the machine and checkig logs. In the end, the explaination given was "A gamma particle from space". I shit you not. According to them, one flew through space, straight though the processor and caused the machine to reboot.
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er, that should read solar powered Plane
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$50k Airscooter Brainball - play pong with our brainwaves! semi transparent cloak (seem to remember this on/. before) Automatic vacuum cleaner Asimo - Honda's newest robot Power Assist Suit - think Aliens Packbot - remote explosion detonation Hy-Wire - GN's Hydrogen powered car Moller Skycar - (video only - no working prototype exists) Helios - solar powered lane.
I personally think the solar powered plane & the Hydrogen powered car are much more interesting than a TV on a t-shirt (direct link to pic here btw). Although alot of the stuff seems to have been on slashdot before.
I own an NEC1300A 4xDVD +/- rewriter. The 1300A is *very* sensitive about which media you use. I bought some name brand DVD-R's from PCWorld when I first bought the drive a year ago and they wouldn't work. I then bought 25 cheap blank disks and they didn't work either. I thought the drive was faulty, until I bought the Ritek G04 dye (purple) disks. They work like a charm and I've had no problems since. Do these same problems exist on the 2500? (I assume yes, since they are supposed to be the same drive, except the 2500 is faster). If so, I imagine it's going to be a PITA to get this drive burning reliably with hacked firmware and potentially incompatile disks.
I've worked with Thoughtworks on a few projects and they looove XP. They also love the idea of refactoring and used to keep a project wiki for each project - similar to what is being described here, except without the historical info. Martin Fowler, owner of Thoughtworks and XP evangelist, keeps a Bliki (his name for a cross between a Blog & a Wiki)
First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they attack you --> (you are here) then you win.
M. Ghandi
It sounds like it would be permanent
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Well, it *has* to be permanent. If it was easy to pull apart, it would easily fall apart. And the article does say that it goes together like velcro.. not that it pull apart like velcro.
Useless joing metal to metal however - we already have many faster and cheaper ways of welding for that, which would be much stronger than this technology.
I imagine with this technology, the cost of car repairs (if it was applied to cars) would increase, since you wouldn't be able to do it at home. And of course, the manufacturer would say "you cannot just glue or rivet the two parts together, it wont be as strong and we will not warranty the vehicle"
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I just heard the first 30sec of the mp3 file, and couldn't continue. It was far too painful - the guy doing the interview should slow the fuck down when speaking. You don't get medals for quantity over quality.
Don't touch anything that uses Western Union.
Unless you're the one recieving the cash of course...
If you penny pinch to find the best deal, try to price match or spend more than 10min with a sales rep, you are probably costing them cash.
To view the story from the other side of the fence, check out http://www.customerssuck.com
I believe you spend more on your military than the rest of the world combined.
Performance & stress tested as well!
... polarise the hull plating?
I've used/installed linux before, in around 1994 so it's been awhile. I downloaded RH8 awhile ago, but never got around to installing it. I repartitioned a drive on an existing computer and the install went well enough. But at the end of it I had no network. I got the driver disk (gig ethernet) and found that the drivers were two files - the source code.
Fair enough, at least I have drivers. I spent the afternoon working out how to compile them, but finally got it working. I tried to register with RHN, but the program kept crashing. I finally figured out that it was because something had expired and I had to install an update. I found the update and installed it, downladed and installed all the updates and the world was good.
Problem was, that machine was a dual boot system and I wanted it mostly in windows (my drives were formatted ntfs). So I bought a VIA all-inone mini-itx system. I installed RH8 and got cygwin working on my XP machine as well as VNC. The world was good again.
However, when running Azureus, it would crash after about an hour and all these error message were appearing in the terminal window. Also, I got tired of downloading an rpm and trying to install it and have the message "cant find blah.so". So I tried to do the update thing again. I reapplied the patch that allowed me to run the updater, then downloaded all the updates. Halfway through applying the patches though, I get an error saying it cant install one of them and it simply exits.
Great. okay, Ill look at it later then. Meanwhile, the cleaner comes along yesterday and unplugs the machine to plug in the vaccum cleaner. So when I try to boot the machine this time, I cant telnet to it. (it's downstairs with no monitor/keyboard). I drag it upstairs, connect up a monitor/kb and find that it seems to load okay, but when I try to login, it just sits at the login: prompt (dosent ask me for my password).
Okay, time to upgrade. I've downloaded Fedora core-2. I try to install over the top and get a "media error or hd full". I try it a few times just to make sure, and no go. So I have to reformat the hd (theres no way it's full - its a 120gb drive with more than 100gb free). Okay, so I have to lose everything that was on my drive to install the new system. I've just (in the last 5min) got to the point where I've finished the install. It took around 3 hours, because I installed everything. Im not really looking forward to setting it up.
I read on here people saying "I like the way linux just works." That is definately not my experience. It does everything BUT "just work". I really want it to work, and have spent hours changing config files. I've spent cash on a new machine just to run linux and at this point if I give up I have to admit to the wife that I didnt really need that new computer anyway.. (sorry thats not an option!)
Thats exactl how I used to do it.
But when I try it in my new dryer, the tips of the collars come out with small "nicks" in them, as if someone has taken a razor blade and made a small incision near the point of the collar. It completely ruins the shirt. I assume that there's something sharp inside the dryer catching on them.
So now I just iron them.
Okay, at the time he was what he defined as a looser too - but he recognised this and "got out" as it were. In the end, it would turn into an 8-24hr a day job
btw, Rounders is probably the best movie I've seen about Poker.
After reading the article again, I noticed that they use aerial film for it. So you wouldn't cut your own film, but you wouldn't be able to buy it from your local photo store either. I doubt even pro film stores would carry this sort of film in stock. In which case, you would have to buy direct from fuji/kodak. (or get it special order)
The reason the film is held flat under pressure and the front standard is held perfectly parallel to the film is that when you are doing aerial spy photography in WW2, you want to use a large apeture and high shutter speed. This means that your DOF is quite narrow and if the film and/or front standard is out of alignment, some of the photo will be out of focus. Using mirrors would also dampen/eliminate some of the vibration of the planes at the time. Of course, when using the photo for non-aerial/spy photography, you sometimes don't want everything parallel, because you want to change the plane of focus (one of the reasons for lugging such a large camera around in the first place!). So I would have thought this would be a disadvantage rather than an advantage.
Plus the fact you would have to cut your own film for it..
Penthouse/Playboy used to all use cameras similar to this - and some still do. Of course, they use regular 4x5 inch, rather than 9x18 inch.
Call yourself a geek? boxen dude, boxen
In all seriousness, you are probably right.
One of the best pieces of advice I have read: Don't make your hobby your job. Except in extremely rare cases, you will start hating your hobby. I have investigated a few alternative jobs in the last few years including photographer, videographer/moviemaker, professional gambler, scuba diving instructor, commercial diver, motorcycle build/repair, vehicle spraypainter. All of these things have been/still are hobbies and I have stopped myself every time, because I know that as soon as I start in a new career I will hate that hobby.
I used to love computers btw.
# THX 1138 was based on a student film Lucas made while attending USC.
# The original title was Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB
# The stars of the film were Robert Duvall as THX 1138 (yes it's a name!), Donald Pleasence as SEN 5241, and Maggie McOmie as LUH 3417
# THX 1138 was not only ahead of its time in sound effects, but also in the themes which it portrayes, such as the loss of individuals for the good of the group, the self-corruption of the human spirit, racism in science fiction, and yes, even channel-surfing
# The film was produced by American Zoetrope Studios, then co-owned by Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola
# The extras used in the film came from a drug rehabilitation center called Delancey Street Foundation. The only way to enter Delancey Street was to have your head shaved. (Thanks to donasso@pacbell.net)
# When George Lucas lived in the San Francisco Bay area, where the tunnel scenes in THX were filmed, one of his phone numbers was 849-1138, or as a mnemonic, THX-1138. (Thanks to nbeckett@gte.net)
# The "shell dwellers" in THX served as the basis for the Jawas in Star Wars.
# The sound made by the staves which the robots use to condition prisoners are remarkably similar to the lightsaber sound effect.
# Star Wars was, at one point, going to be a prequel to THX, with the character who would become Luke Skywalker conceived as a young THX.
# The licence plate number on Milner's deuce coupe in American Graffiti was THX 138.
# In Star Wars, Luke says "Prisoner transfer from cell block 1138."
# During the car chase scene, someone can be heard over the intercom saying "I think I ran over a Wookiee back there on the expressway." As any good Star Wars fan can tell you, Chewbacca is a Wookiee.
# In The Empire Strikes Back, General Rieekan says, "Send Rogues ten and eleven to station three-eight."
# Not from a Lucas movie, but in The Lawnmower Man, the experimental chimp is named Rosco 1138.
# This is unconfirmed (I'll confirm it as soon as I can get to the theatre again!) but a reliable source told me that the battle droid who loses it's head in The Phantom Menace has the number "1138" on its back.
shamelessly stolen from this site (it's geocities, so go easy)
This one is from one of my coworkers..
Apparently, one of their production sun server reset itself suddenly one day (this is in the late 80's/early 90's). They got some people from Sun in to have a look at it and they spent days looking over the machine and checkig logs. In the end, the explaination given was "A gamma particle from space". I shit you not. According to them, one flew through space, straight though the processor and caused the machine to reboot.
er, that should read solar powered Plane
Brainball - play pong with our brainwaves!
semi transparent cloak (seem to remember this on
Automatic vacuum cleaner
Asimo - Honda's newest robot
Power Assist Suit - think Aliens
Packbot - remote explosion detonation
Hy-Wire - GN's Hydrogen powered car
Moller Skycar - (video only - no working prototype exists)
Helios - solar powered lane.
I personally think the solar powered plane & the Hydrogen powered car are much more interesting than a TV on a t-shirt (direct link to pic here btw). Although alot of the stuff seems to have been on slashdot before.
I own an NEC1300A 4xDVD +/- rewriter. The 1300A is *very* sensitive about which media you use. I bought some name brand DVD-R's from PCWorld when I first bought the drive a year ago and they wouldn't work. I then bought 25 cheap blank disks and they didn't work either. I thought the drive was faulty, until I bought the Ritek G04 dye (purple) disks. They work like a charm and I've had no problems since.
Do these same problems exist on the 2500? (I assume yes, since they are supposed to be the same drive, except the 2500 is faster). If so, I imagine it's going to be a PITA to get this drive burning reliably with hacked firmware and potentially incompatile disks.
We just haven't found them all yet.
Seriously, is this news?
I've worked with Thoughtworks on a few projects and they looove XP. They also love the idea of refactoring and used to keep a project wiki for each project - similar to what is being described here, except without the historical info.
Martin Fowler, owner of Thoughtworks and XP evangelist, keeps a Bliki (his name for a cross between a Blog & a Wiki)
then they laugh at you
then they attack you --> (you are here)
then you win.
M. Ghandi
Well, it *has* to be permanent. If it was easy to pull apart, it would easily fall apart. And the article does say that it goes together like velcro.. not that it pull apart like velcro.
Useless joing metal to metal however - we already have many faster and cheaper ways of welding for that, which would be much stronger than this technology.
I imagine with this technology, the cost of car repairs (if it was applied to cars) would increase, since you wouldn't be able to do it at home. And of course, the manufacturer would say "you cannot just glue or rivet the two parts together, it wont be as strong and we will not warranty the vehicle"
Well, it's strength makes it more difficult. I should have written it in a different order (expensive, stronger).