This is not unreasonable given the current so-called state of war...
So-calling the current state that of war is however extremely unreasonable.
...and in any event it's certainly not unconstitutional. Denial of a particular mode of travel is not the same as denial of travel.
Then I ask what particular modes of travel are constitutionally protected? The only mode of transportation that was common when the constitution was written and still is today that I can think of is walking. When a new unforeseen form of transportation (teleporter anyone?) enters common use who decides if it is constitutionally protected?
If 1 gallon of water in the atmosphere over 1 year retains an extra, say, 10 thousand calories of heat, and your device only expends 5 thousand calories to condense and trap a single gallon of water (I have a dehumidifier sitting right next to me so I could probably work up some better numbers, but feh, whatever), then you've broken even in 6 months, and get a bonus 5k every 6 months thereafter.
I've never done the Wizard of Oz one, but I just recently tried Pink Floyd's Echoes with 2001: A Space Odyssey and the "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" sequence. It's uncanny, and really works much better than the existing soundtrack.
I'd really like to just mod up what's already been said so far, but lacking mod points I'll just reiterate what others have mentioned:
It's incredibly good. Even though it's not trying to be bullet-proof the whole time, that doesn't make those points any less valid.
EVERYONE should see it, and at the very least THINK about what it presents. I personally think it's amazingly accurate and expounds upon a lot of what I've had going through my mind lately.
Burn CDs/DVDs of it and give them to your friends.
Grr.. I hate it when people drop the http:/// from their links, making it relative and thus pointing at slashdot. Now I've gone and done it. ANN is the correct link.
As usual, if you're interested in this sort of news ANN covers this sort of things more closely and much more promptly. They posted about this several days ago.
Alright then. Let's fund education sufficiently that vouchers make sense, instead of just leech away money from an already underfunded system. And let's do it federally to promote equality across the country.
If we'd done that 50 years ago we wouldn't have to deal with all the bullshit like this today./rant
Maybe the cars I've used just had bad implementations of ABS...
Crappy ABS will allow you to keep steering authority no matter how much you hammer the brake pedal, and that's the main point of it. However, it is reasonable to believe that any given ABS implementation is not going to give you the best possible stopping distance.
I've had the opportunity to drive a wide variety of vehicles, and I have a habit of testing the ABS just for kicks. Some are too quick to release brake pressure, well before you'd lose steering authority due to skidding. Some leave the brake pressure off too much of the time, affecting stopping distance. But there are good ABS implementations.
Most of the better ABS implementations are extremely difficult to outperform. I've had the opportunity to drive several different vehicles with the ABS activated and disabled. The Ford Econoline Van's ABS is a joke as far as stopping distance performance, and I've come to prefer the ABS deactivated in that vehicle even lacking the panic stop safety net. The BMW 3 Series on the other hand has a superb ABS implementation. You can just stand on the brakes in nearly any situation and it yanks you down to zero with little fuss or muss. With the ABS off I may have been able to improve upon it, but not repeatably and certainly not when it might matter most.
And then there are more modern systems which modulate brake pressure to individual wheels. That is, they'll release pressure on ONLY the wheel(s) that slip. That's a trick a human with only one pedal simply can't accomplish. It's not a terribly common feature yet though.
Most people have various triggers for the conditioned response of getting tired and wanting to go to bed. For some people it's just darkness, other's maybe the evening news. For a while I played Pink Floyd's "Pigs on the Wing" (both tracks, none of the ones between them) each night as I went to bed. They're short, but it got so I would be unconscious before the second one finished.
To this day my strongest trigger is still dawn. When it gets dark it may not be very late, but when the sun comes up you know it's friggin' late.
This is the first time since Cassini arrived in orbit around Saturn last summer that an atmosphere has been detected around a moon of Saturn, other than its largest moon, Titan.
That's the actual quote from the article, which says what you said. But that's different from what the summary said. Which is what I was commenting on.
And for the record I wasn't trying to be insightful, or interesting, just make a wise crack about the poorly written summary. I suspect the non-funny mods were simply an attempt to give Karma. Of which I am in no particular need.
It may not be a viable open source project like most of the projects we associate on a daily basis with open source (linux, asterisk, whate have you). But if this project was open source it would have avoided this mess entirely. Honeywell could compete with Transdyn on this project without Transdyn having a strangehold on it because you'd have to start from scratch if you go with someone else.
Broadvoice's config details are misleading, and Asterisk itself can be a bit arcane at times. However check out this wiki page. The "Second example" is actually mine. I've spelled out a bit more clearly what each element is, and used the terminology that BV does for the elements, as well as removed some superfluous elements that don't even do anything. I know of several people who couldn't get it working before tried it, and haven't had problems since.
Oh, and then there's the "Broadvoice patch". It used to be BV people had to patch their own installs to work with BV, but 1.0.6 works unpatched, which saves some headaches. It's more likely this was actually your issue than any configuration.
I just setup an Asterisk PBX box (Fedora) and got myself a Broadvoice account with a local phone number. Where as Skype uses a proprietary protocol, even most SIP based providers don't allow you to use anything but their 'locked' phone/adapters. Broadvoice happily suggests you 'bring your own device', and plays nice with Asterisk.
I just put together a little python script running against Asterisk through AGI (Asterisk's CGI) which pulls weather data from NOAA's site based on a zip code you enter, and speaks it to you. I can call it from any telephone through broadvoice.
You do realize slashdot is written in perl, yes? Or have you not noticed the contents of the URL, your own comment for example http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=140256&cid =11781397
Slashdot Mirror
This is not unreasonable given the current so-called state of war...
...and in any event it's certainly not unconstitutional. Denial of a particular mode of travel is not the same as denial of travel.
So-calling the current state that of war is however extremely unreasonable.
Then I ask what particular modes of travel are constitutionally protected? The only mode of transportation that was common when the constitution was written and still is today that I can think of is walking. When a new unforeseen form of transportation (teleporter anyone?) enters common use who decides if it is constitutionally protected?
Not necessarily.
If 1 gallon of water in the atmosphere over 1 year retains an extra, say, 10 thousand calories of heat, and your device only expends 5 thousand calories to condense and trap a single gallon of water (I have a dehumidifier sitting right next to me so I could probably work up some better numbers, but feh, whatever), then you've broken even in 6 months, and get a bonus 5k every 6 months thereafter.
~Lake
I've never done the Wizard of Oz one, but I just recently tried Pink Floyd's Echoes with 2001: A Space Odyssey and the "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" sequence. It's uncanny, and really works much better than the existing soundtrack.
y #Trivia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odysse
Better yet: Anyone know how to suggest guests on The Daily Show?
~Lake
I'd really like to just mod up what's already been said so far, but lacking mod points I'll just reiterate what others have mentioned:
It's incredibly good. Even though it's not trying to be bullet-proof the whole time, that doesn't make those points any less valid.
EVERYONE should see it, and at the very least THINK about what it presents. I personally think it's amazingly accurate and expounds upon a lot of what I've had going through my mind lately.
Burn CDs/DVDs of it and give them to your friends.
~Lake
Grr.. I hate it when people drop the http:/// from their links, making it relative and thus pointing at slashdot. Now I've gone and done it. ANN is the correct link.
~Lake
As usual, if you're interested in this sort of news ANN covers this sort of things more closely and much more promptly. They posted about this several days ago.
~Lake
Alright then. Let's fund education sufficiently that vouchers make sense, instead of just leech away money from an already underfunded system. And let's do it federally to promote equality across the country.
/rant
If we'd done that 50 years ago we wouldn't have to deal with all the bullshit like this today.
~Lake
Maybe the cars I've used just had bad implementations of ABS...
Crappy ABS will allow you to keep steering authority no matter how much you hammer the brake pedal, and that's the main point of it. However, it is reasonable to believe that any given ABS implementation is not going to give you the best possible stopping distance.
I've had the opportunity to drive a wide variety of vehicles, and I have a habit of testing the ABS just for kicks. Some are too quick to release brake pressure, well before you'd lose steering authority due to skidding. Some leave the brake pressure off too much of the time, affecting stopping distance. But there are good ABS implementations.
Most of the better ABS implementations are extremely difficult to outperform. I've had the opportunity to drive several different vehicles with the ABS activated and disabled. The Ford Econoline Van's ABS is a joke as far as stopping distance performance, and I've come to prefer the ABS deactivated in that vehicle even lacking the panic stop safety net. The BMW 3 Series on the other hand has a superb ABS implementation. You can just stand on the brakes in nearly any situation and it yanks you down to zero with little fuss or muss. With the ABS off I may have been able to improve upon it, but not repeatably and certainly not when it might matter most.
And then there are more modern systems which modulate brake pressure to individual wheels. That is, they'll release pressure on ONLY the wheel(s) that slip. That's a trick a human with only one pedal simply can't accomplish. It's not a terribly common feature yet though.
That's my $0.02.
~Lake
Here's ANN's coverage of the story.
If you're interested in this and similar sort of news, ANN is a great daily news site you should probably check out.
~Lake
Most people have various triggers for the conditioned response of getting tired and wanting to go to bed. For some people it's just darkness, other's maybe the evening news. For a while I played Pink Floyd's "Pigs on the Wing" (both tracks, none of the ones between them) each night as I went to bed. They're short, but it got so I would be unconscious before the second one finished.
To this day my strongest trigger is still dawn. When it gets dark it may not be very late, but when the sun comes up you know it's friggin' late.
~Lake
If anyone was wondering why Slashdot would choose to link the Minneapolis daily paper for this story: Best Buy is based in Minnesota.
Aero News Net (ANN), a great daily news site for aviation, has been covering this as well.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
~Lake
Gah. I thought we were done with the Roland Piquepaille articles. Good idea posting the article text in the comments to reduce the ad hits though.
~Lake
This is the first time since Cassini arrived in orbit around Saturn last summer that an atmosphere has been detected around a moon of Saturn, other than its largest moon, Titan.
That's the actual quote from the article, which says what you said. But that's different from what the summary said. Which is what I was commenting on.
And for the record I wasn't trying to be insightful, or interesting, just make a wise crack about the poorly written summary. I suspect the non-funny mods were simply an attempt to give Karma. Of which I am in no particular need.
~Lake
Apparently you get modded up for Star Wars quotes. Here's mine.
~Lake
Excluding Saturn's giant moon Titan, which was already known to have an atmosphere, it's the first discovery of an atmosphere...
Excluding the first it's the first? We have a word for that. "Second".
~Lake
Actually, 'acaben' of MacSlash fame was apparently the first one to mention it in this post on his blog.
~Lake
It may not be a viable open source project like most of the projects we associate on a daily basis with open source (linux, asterisk, whate have you). But if this project was open source it would have avoided this mess entirely. Honeywell could compete with Transdyn on this project without Transdyn having a strangehold on it because you'd have to start from scratch if you go with someone else.
~Lake
Broadvoice's config details are misleading, and Asterisk itself can be a bit arcane at times. However check out this wiki page. The "Second example" is actually mine. I've spelled out a bit more clearly what each element is, and used the terminology that BV does for the elements, as well as removed some superfluous elements that don't even do anything. I know of several people who couldn't get it working before tried it, and haven't had problems since.
Oh, and then there's the "Broadvoice patch". It used to be BV people had to patch their own installs to work with BV, but 1.0.6 works unpatched, which saves some headaches. It's more likely this was actually your issue than any configuration.
~Lake
I just setup an Asterisk PBX box (Fedora) and got myself a Broadvoice account with a local phone number. Where as Skype uses a proprietary protocol, even most SIP based providers don't allow you to use anything but their 'locked' phone/adapters. Broadvoice happily suggests you 'bring your own device', and plays nice with Asterisk.
I just put together a little python script running against Asterisk through AGI (Asterisk's CGI) which pulls weather data from NOAA's site based on a zip code you enter, and speaks it to you. I can call it from any telephone through broadvoice.
~Blake
And then it was posted to Slashdot. Well, it had a good run.
~Lake
You do realize slashdot is written in perl, yes? Or have you not noticed the contents of the URL, your own comment for example http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=140256&cid =11781397
~Lake
Was there ever an explanation for that story being posted?
~Lake
Bravo. Well done. And you saved me the trouble of posting my own rendition.
~Lake