the US is not the exception. neither the UK, Spain, Russia, nobody. 9/11, 11-M (spain), King's Cross and Beslan were executed by Al Qaeda but if you look closely you will see all the loose ends (seismographs, no plane debris in the pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld was not killed, 11-M was 3 days before ellection and turned the result around (rodriguez zapatero won, he responds to the US's interests in Northern African oil), the "terrorists" in king's cross were carrying IDs and filmed by security cameras (what for? if they don't want their families or leaders to be connected with them). UK tried to tighten the security laws, was rejected by the Parliament. another bombing just before the laws were accepted. the bombings were done AFTER london was chosen as the city for 2012 olympics...
why do terrorists kill common people? 9/11 before 9 AM (before high executives arrive), king's cross and spain: buses and trains, places where common people go. Beslan, russia: a school of poor children. what terrorist kills children? terrorism wants to get the "sympathy" of the people, NOT hate. Why kill innocent children? Why did the "plane" that crashed into the pentagon, did crash exactly where no one was working? Why do Iraqi terrorists kill their own people instead of US soldiers? Because they all respond to US+UK interests. Nothing else. And of course you will say all of this are theories and all. But I know they're true, you have been manipulated so much that you can't really tell the reality from the simulation (americans should read Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard).
I use a mix of operating systems myself: Solaris on my server, RouterOS on my RouterBoard, Linux and Vista on a Sony Vaio that came with Vista (even my dad can see how faster it is than vista. XFCE+Compiz Fusion with all eye candy), linux in most of my test VMs and Windows on my main desktop, because I need Visual Studio 2005. I hate.NET but customers ask for it, and also because I didn't pay for it: Microsoft gave them to me (VS 2005, XP Pro SP2, Vista Business, MSDN, because I'm a student at UTN -- Universidad Tecnologica Nacional).
yes, but, I was talking about the general PC market. not the Eee in particular. for general computer usage, Linux doesn't cut it for Average Joe's 16 year old daughter: you can't easily run any (not some, but any) webcam. Can't load smileys and winks. Can't install flash on a 64-bit system, etc. And for Average Joe's 13 year old son, it may be cool for about 5 minutes but then he needs his fix of games and he can't run them.
This is going to cost me some karma but... this just proves what every reader here refuses to believe: people just WON'T use Linux. It doesn't matter if it's free, if it has "everything you need" (no games or yahoo/windows live messenger -- gaim/pidgin don't count because it's NOT THE SAME god damn it), or the supposed deal-breaker: preinstallation. Slashdotters here seem to think that if you preinstall Linux, people WILL use it, and I very well know that it doesn't happen. People here in my country buy PCs with Linux (most retailers don't sell Windows except in high end brand-name machines. value machines come with a completely useless "FreeDOS preinstalled") and the same day they call the techie neighbor to install a pirated copy of windows. Sorry, but that's the way it is. And it leads us to another point: of those "1 in 5 $399 laptops", probably 9 out of 10 will have a pirated windows installed more sooner than later.
a redundant RAID array? is that a redundant redundant array of inexpensive disks array? wow, an array of arrays that is REDUNDANT! So if every RAID had two disks, you need to have 8 drives!
Modded -1 redundant. Best. Mod. Ever. Karma reserve is great.
a redundant RAID array? is that a redundant redundant array of inexpensive disks array? wow, an array of arrays that is REDUNDANT! So if every RAID had two disks, you need to have 8 drives!
no, my point is that you can't say that biochemical engineering is so hard, is the future, whatever. you know, there are other things... rocket science comes to mind: they didn't pick the materials, they had to create them. nuclear plants don't just grow on trees, they need a lot of development (so much that many countries can't afford to have them). and yes, even computers aren't that easy. squeezing 500GB on a hard drive needs a lot of development, materials, and recording a single bit of data in 500G of them is amazing. doing it right for 10 years no stop is, well, out of this world. but it's been done. squeezing 250 million transistors and make them work in sync and not miss a bit (pun intended) is amazing, and it is so hard that they work on things such as "stretched silicon". every science has its own complications. biochemistry is just one of them (and sorry, I am biased, because I am disgusted at companies that work only for profit, many of the drugs that don't get enough development because "there isn't a market" but OH yes! they don't "open source" those drugs, they don't give that research to poor countries, like mine (Argentina), where we have amazing scientists and equipment, and where all those drugs could be developed. no. they just store them in a drawer because if they can't make a profit off it, nobody else will.) sorry for the rant.
Oh, and I normally do snap at people. Rarely, but I do.
Engineers are the ones who make the machines you use at work. But I guess you're so good you could roll out something on VHDL and implement it on a FPGA and it will crunch your numbers faster than a 8-core Xeon. No wait -- you still use big clusters of computers made by engineers! And comparing Perl to biochemical engineering, I can see you have no idea.
I have this 8-year-old neighbor girl, I know her from when she was 3. At 4 or 5 she used to talk to me for long periods. She tells things she's seen on TV, but she also invents stories and songs, which are total nonsense. These may have a meaning for her, but it's nonsense nonetheless. Of course, I don't say it's bad: it's how their imagination works, and that's a good sign because it means she has an active imagination.
She's a smart girl: at 3 she could recite the vowels, musical notes, etc. She had this babysitter that taught her stuff. Their parents couldn't afford the babysitter so they hired this other woman who just watches TV and makes food -- nothing else. And their parent's are not bright (at all: she goes to school to learn, so they don't care. they didn't bother to teach her how to read for example). Now she's 8 and she can't even tell me the multiplication table of 1 or 2, and doesn't have a clue about what "do, re, mi..." means. It's sad to see how minds go wasted.
only they chat by themselves (not needing your input to keep conversation, they just keep talking if you keep giving them attention). and sometimes (most times) they say this total nonsense... just like chatbots. the difference is that they're cute and make you laugh. oh and the main difference is that they're total chick magnets! I mean, if a chick sees you talking to a 4-year-old she will think awww!. but if she knows you talk to Eliza, she'll think ewww! (just don't wear a ring and make sure the kid calls you uncle every now and them... also make sure you're really his/her uncle, you perverted fuck).
So what? I can get 20mbit down 512k up on ADSL2+. What's the joke on that? It's not better because it's cable or DSL. Cable is big in the US, down here DSL is the king.
At the time, the company was in a severe debt (still is but they're much better now, they ordered a couple A380's). Pilots received no training, no simulator, and were forced to work in "if you don't fly, you're fired" conditions. The commercial aviation in Argentina was (and I think it still is) under Argentine Air Force regulations, one of the most corrupt forces. Airports were privatized from the airline desks to the door, but behind that it was still the same. Traffic control wasn't privatized: we have no radars in most airports (the narcs keep it that way), only in the Ezeiza airport. Other radars are powered off at certain times (night, ideal for dropping marijuana loads coming from Bolivia in the middle of the night).
There is no regard for security in air transportation. LAPA 3142 was completely destroyed after aborting takeoff, hitting the fence at the end of the runway, crossing over a busy highway (crushing a Chrysler Neon on its way) and finally crashing into a gas thing. Yes: the runway points straight into a highway and in the middle there are underground gasoline and gas pipes.
In the movies "Fuerza Area S.A." (Air Force Inc.) and "Whiskey Romeo Zulu" (LAPA 3142 was LV-WRZ), former LAPA pilot Enrique Piñeyro explains the causes of both accidents and the situation of aviation in Argentina. Fuerza Aerea is a documentary, WRZ is a movie (based on the true story).
Now, take both movies with a grain of salt: Piñeyro, as a pilot, tries to defend other pilots. But I, personally, think that if you're not trained to fly in other-than-ideal conditions, or if you don't know what to do when alarms flash, you should not fly. The same if planes are not in condition (in LV-WRZ, Piñeyro asks the maintenance staff about the engine fire extinguishers (IIRC), and the guy tells him "Just fly carefully"). But pilots never went on strike or anything. Piñeyro justifies everything on the fact that "pilots didn't receive adequate training" and "airplanes were not in 100% condition". And he gets angry when people call it a "Pilot Error" (just listen to LAPA 3142 CVR, you'll hear "beep beep beep beep..." and the pilot asking "what's that?")
The worst airplane crash of an Argentine airplane was the Austral 2553 (Uruguay, 1997). The pitot tube (the little thingy that gives you the speed of the aircraft) failed (it froze, and the alarms failed due to lack of maintenance), and the pilots just keep pushing the gas. The plane hit the ground, perpendicular, at 1200kph. The black box survived: The speed indicator jumped from 300kph to 800kph in 3 seconds (sudden defrost of the pitot tube).
Anyone who says any kind of consumer electronics device is going to work after hitting the ground at 1200kph, obviously has no idea.
Are you some sort of cripple? It's a mouse. It's an extension of your hand. Just aim the cursor. Slow movements are more precise, fast movements are coarser.
are you retarded or just plain stupid? read the fucking GGP! he was saying that os x has big icons to make them easier to hit and save time, and now you come and tell me that I have to waste time aiming the close button! fucking apple fanbois, get your stories straight!
I really don't know why people like the GP care to post. They seem to think that when there's a new technology, the whole world just ditches all their old stuff and replaces it with whatever is new. Seriously... how many DVI projectors are out there? In my university, they're all VGA, and they work fine. No need to replace it with DVI just because it's new.
Also, if it has a DVI out, you need to make sure it's a DVI-I output (good luck finding that by other than testing it), and you need to carry your adaptor around. With VGA, there's always a VGA input and a VGA cable that you can borrow if needed.
Megan's mother, who monitored her daughter's online communications, returned home and said she was shocked at the vulgar language her own daughter was sending. She told her daughter how upset she was about it.
Megan ran upstairs, and her father, Ron, tried to tell her everything would be fine. About 20 minutes later, she was found in her bedroom. She died the next day.
A class-A netblock has 16 million IP addresses. I seriously doubt MIT has 16 million computers, routers, phones etc. The same for IBM, even counting all their datacenters around the world.
I guess you haven't read the complete 3000+ pages of the Harry Potter, a professionally written novel divided in 7 volumes, with layers and layers and subplots, and tens of characters, and the essence of each character nicely captured, in a convincing manner, while keeping the story line free of plot holes and full of forward and back-references spanning several books at a time, with a quick and easy start, a thorough description of events (book 5, 900+ pages and the movie was boring, the book was great), and a predictable but still surprising grand finale (which I, as most "fans" didn't like).
Well, I did. Twice the translated version (except for the last book which comes out today), and once the American version. Yes, the full 3000+ pages. And it's quite entertaining and makes you think that the woman is either a genius or she had written the whole thing before the books were published. Probably the last, with a big board to keep all these ideas together. Harry Potter, despite the fact that it's a "children's" book (yeah, because every child likes to read 3000 pages dealing with murder and racism), and a very popular one, is a good story and will probably be a matter of study at some point.
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just proves my point. thank you.
the US is not the exception. neither the UK, Spain, Russia, nobody. 9/11, 11-M (spain), King's Cross and Beslan were executed by Al Qaeda but if you look closely you will see all the loose ends (seismographs, no plane debris in the pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld was not killed, 11-M was 3 days before ellection and turned the result around (rodriguez zapatero won, he responds to the US's interests in Northern African oil), the "terrorists" in king's cross were carrying IDs and filmed by security cameras (what for? if they don't want their families or leaders to be connected with them). UK tried to tighten the security laws, was rejected by the Parliament. another bombing just before the laws were accepted. the bombings were done AFTER london was chosen as the city for 2012 olympics...
why do terrorists kill common people? 9/11 before 9 AM (before high executives arrive), king's cross and spain: buses and trains, places where common people go. Beslan, russia: a school of poor children. what terrorist kills children? terrorism wants to get the "sympathy" of the people, NOT hate. Why kill innocent children? Why did the "plane" that crashed into the pentagon, did crash exactly where no one was working? Why do Iraqi terrorists kill their own people instead of US soldiers? Because they all respond to US+UK interests. Nothing else. And of course you will say all of this are theories and all. But I know they're true, you have been manipulated so much that you can't really tell the reality from the simulation (americans should read Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard).
the oil stolen by Spain with the disgustingly corrupt sale of YPF (Argentina's state-owned oil company) to Repsol (Spain's oil monopoly) in the 90's
never heard of Tarija, Bolivia, right?
I use a mix of operating systems myself: Solaris on my server, RouterOS on my RouterBoard, Linux and Vista on a Sony Vaio that came with Vista (even my dad can see how faster it is than vista. XFCE+Compiz Fusion with all eye candy), linux in most of my test VMs and Windows on my main desktop, because I need Visual Studio 2005. I hate .NET but customers ask for it, and also because I didn't pay for it: Microsoft gave them to me (VS 2005, XP Pro SP2, Vista Business, MSDN, because I'm a student at UTN -- Universidad Tecnologica Nacional).
yes, but, I was talking about the general PC market. not the Eee in particular. for general computer usage, Linux doesn't cut it for Average Joe's 16 year old daughter: you can't easily run any (not some, but any) webcam. Can't load smileys and winks. Can't install flash on a 64-bit system, etc. And for Average Joe's 13 year old son, it may be cool for about 5 minutes but then he needs his fix of games and he can't run them.
This is going to cost me some karma but... this just proves what every reader here refuses to believe: people just WON'T use Linux. It doesn't matter if it's free, if it has "everything you need" (no games or yahoo/windows live messenger -- gaim/pidgin don't count because it's NOT THE SAME god damn it), or the supposed deal-breaker: preinstallation. Slashdotters here seem to think that if you preinstall Linux, people WILL use it, and I very well know that it doesn't happen. People here in my country buy PCs with Linux (most retailers don't sell Windows except in high end brand-name machines. value machines come with a completely useless "FreeDOS preinstalled") and the same day they call the techie neighbor to install a pirated copy of windows. Sorry, but that's the way it is. And it leads us to another point: of those "1 in 5 $399 laptops", probably 9 out of 10 will have a pirated windows installed more sooner than later.
a redundant RAID array? is that a redundant redundant array of inexpensive disks array? wow, an array of arrays that is REDUNDANT! So if every RAID had two disks, you need to have 8 drives!
no, my point is that you can't say that biochemical engineering is so hard, is the future, whatever. you know, there are other things... rocket science comes to mind: they didn't pick the materials, they had to create them. nuclear plants don't just grow on trees, they need a lot of development (so much that many countries can't afford to have them). and yes, even computers aren't that easy. squeezing 500GB on a hard drive needs a lot of development, materials, and recording a single bit of data in 500G of them is amazing. doing it right for 10 years no stop is, well, out of this world. but it's been done. squeezing 250 million transistors and make them work in sync and not miss a bit (pun intended) is amazing, and it is so hard that they work on things such as "stretched silicon". every science has its own complications. biochemistry is just one of them (and sorry, I am biased, because I am disgusted at companies that work only for profit, many of the drugs that don't get enough development because "there isn't a market" but OH yes! they don't "open source" those drugs, they don't give that research to poor countries, like mine (Argentina), where we have amazing scientists and equipment, and where all those drugs could be developed. no. they just store them in a drawer because if they can't make a profit off it, nobody else will.) sorry for the rant.
Oh, and I normally do snap at people. Rarely, but I do.
Engineers are the ones who make the machines you use at work. But I guess you're so good you could roll out something on VHDL and implement it on a FPGA and it will crunch your numbers faster than a 8-core Xeon. No wait -- you still use big clusters of computers made by engineers! And comparing Perl to biochemical engineering, I can see you have no idea.
I have this 8-year-old neighbor girl, I know her from when she was 3. At 4 or 5 she used to talk to me for long periods. She tells things she's seen on TV, but she also invents stories and songs, which are total nonsense. These may have a meaning for her, but it's nonsense nonetheless. Of course, I don't say it's bad: it's how their imagination works, and that's a good sign because it means she has an active imagination.
She's a smart girl: at 3 she could recite the vowels, musical notes, etc. She had this babysitter that taught her stuff. Their parents couldn't afford the babysitter so they hired this other woman who just watches TV and makes food -- nothing else. And their parent's are not bright (at all: she goes to school to learn, so they don't care. they didn't bother to teach her how to read for example). Now she's 8 and she can't even tell me the multiplication table of 1 or 2, and doesn't have a clue about what "do, re, mi..." means. It's sad to see how minds go wasted.
only they chat by themselves (not needing your input to keep conversation, they just keep talking if you keep giving them attention). and sometimes (most times) they say this total nonsense... just like chatbots. the difference is that they're cute and make you laugh. oh and the main difference is that they're total chick magnets! I mean, if a chick sees you talking to a 4-year-old she will think awww!. but if she knows you talk to Eliza, she'll think ewww! (just don't wear a ring and make sure the kid calls you uncle every now and them... also make sure you're really his/her uncle, you perverted fuck).
So what? I can get 20mbit down 512k up on ADSL2+. What's the joke on that? It's not better because it's cable or DSL. Cable is big in the US, down here DSL is the king.
Oh -- and I live in the "third world" http://productos.arnet.com.ar/20m_zona1.php . Also, I currently get 250KB/sec steady on BT (2.5M down / 256k up).
At the time, the company was in a severe debt (still is but they're much better now, they ordered a couple A380's). Pilots received no training, no simulator, and were forced to work in "if you don't fly, you're fired" conditions. The commercial aviation in Argentina was (and I think it still is) under Argentine Air Force regulations, one of the most corrupt forces. Airports were privatized from the airline desks to the door, but behind that it was still the same. Traffic control wasn't privatized: we have no radars in most airports (the narcs keep it that way), only in the Ezeiza airport. Other radars are powered off at certain times (night, ideal for dropping marijuana loads coming from Bolivia in the middle of the night).
..." and the pilot asking "what's that?")
There is no regard for security in air transportation. LAPA 3142 was completely destroyed after aborting takeoff, hitting the fence at the end of the runway, crossing over a busy highway (crushing a Chrysler Neon on its way) and finally crashing into a gas thing. Yes: the runway points straight into a highway and in the middle there are underground gasoline and gas pipes.
In the movies "Fuerza Area S.A." (Air Force Inc.) and "Whiskey Romeo Zulu" (LAPA 3142 was LV-WRZ), former LAPA pilot Enrique Piñeyro explains the causes of both accidents and the situation of aviation in Argentina. Fuerza Aerea is a documentary, WRZ is a movie (based on the true story).
Now, take both movies with a grain of salt: Piñeyro, as a pilot, tries to defend other pilots. But I, personally, think that if you're not trained to fly in other-than-ideal conditions, or if you don't know what to do when alarms flash, you should not fly. The same if planes are not in condition (in LV-WRZ, Piñeyro asks the maintenance staff about the engine fire extinguishers (IIRC), and the guy tells him "Just fly carefully"). But pilots never went on strike or anything. Piñeyro justifies everything on the fact that "pilots didn't receive adequate training" and "airplanes were not in 100% condition". And he gets angry when people call it a "Pilot Error" (just listen to LAPA 3142 CVR, you'll hear "beep beep beep beep
The worst airplane crash of an Argentine airplane was the Austral 2553 (Uruguay, 1997). The pitot tube (the little thingy that gives you the speed of the aircraft) failed (it froze, and the alarms failed due to lack of maintenance), and the pilots just keep pushing the gas. The plane hit the ground, perpendicular, at 1200kph. The black box survived: The speed indicator jumped from 300kph to 800kph in 3 seconds (sudden defrost of the pitot tube).
Anyone who says any kind of consumer electronics device is going to work after hitting the ground at 1200kph, obviously has no idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral_L%C3%ADneas_A%C3%A9reas_Flight_2553
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Black_box.aeroplane.JPG
jesus!
oh yes. you have to be observant http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/qa/images/dvi-jack-configuration.jpg ...
I really don't know why people like the GP care to post. They seem to think that when there's a new technology, the whole world just ditches all their old stuff and replaces it with whatever is new. Seriously... how many DVI projectors are out there? In my university, they're all VGA, and they work fine. No need to replace it with DVI just because it's new.
Also, if it has a DVI out, you need to make sure it's a DVI-I output (good luck finding that by other than testing it), and you need to carry your adaptor around. With VGA, there's always a VGA input and a VGA cable that you can borrow if needed.
near daily? Try "all day long".
For Argentina, there is www.proyectomapear.com.ar
So there are no power adapters for planes? Good thing you posted AC, you knew someone was gonna mod you down, fucker.
A class-A netblock has 16 million IP addresses. I seriously doubt MIT has 16 million computers, routers, phones etc. The same for IBM, even counting all their datacenters around the world.
I guess you haven't read the complete 3000+ pages of the Harry Potter, a professionally written novel divided in 7 volumes, with layers and layers and subplots, and tens of characters, and the essence of each character nicely captured, in a convincing manner, while keeping the story line free of plot holes and full of forward and back-references spanning several books at a time, with a quick and easy start, a thorough description of events (book 5, 900+ pages and the movie was boring, the book was great), and a predictable but still surprising grand finale (which I, as most "fans" didn't like).
Well, I did. Twice the translated version (except for the last book which comes out today), and once the American version. Yes, the full 3000+ pages. And it's quite entertaining and makes you think that the woman is either a genius or she had written the whole thing before the books were published. Probably the last, with a big board to keep all these ideas together. Harry Potter, despite the fact that it's a "children's" book (yeah, because every child likes to read 3000 pages dealing with murder and racism), and a very popular one, is a good story and will probably be a matter of study at some point.