Re:Beowulf seems older than that
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I mean how long have you been sick of the "imagine a beowulf cluster of those" comments? Doesn't seem like only 10 years would make me that sick of it.
Depends... it only took 4 weeks for Floridians to get real sick of hurricanes.:-)
Hmm. Okay, basic Chicago knowledge, from someone born in the 80's. Feel free to edit.:-)
Richard J. Daley was Richard M. Daley's father. He ruled Chicago, ins and outs, for about 10 to 15 years starting in the 1960's through 1978. There's a term up here that's still used in present day because it's so true; the Democratic Machine. The machine was, as you might expect, corrupt to the core, although the elder Daley never was implicated in any particular scandal. The machine was also celebrated in the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention, where Daley and the machine crushed protesters outside the then-Chicago Stadium with excessive force. Tear gas, nightsticks, the whole nine yards, although admittedly no one got killed. This is was started the fall of the machine, interestingly enough, as the national Democratic Party withdrew support from Daley Sr.
He died in office in the mid 70's from a heart attack, and the mayoral role in Chicago passed on to a few minor names... mostly Democrats. Sometime in the late 70's one of the mayors was voted out of office for responding poorly to a 30" blizzard that caused the city to shut down for a solid week, but I digress...
Herald Washington was mayor of the city from 1982 to roughly 1985. I say roughly because I'm not googling this stuff and I was 3 at the time. He was the first African American mayor of the city, and very popular. When he suddenly died of a heart attack in roughly 1985, Richard M. Daley came to power. Twenty years later, he's still there. There has been token opposition in the elections during his tenure, usually to African American preachers from the South Side, and occasionally someone like Jesse Jackson. But all but one of his elections have been 70/30, 80/20 type landslides. That one was when he first came up for re-election.
Since then, I have a better memory of Mr. Daley. There have been plenty of scandals that the New Machine has been involved in since he came up... the Silver Shovel scandal involving asphalt and disposal contractors, this Hired Trucks scandal involving fake minority trucking companies taking city money for being allowed to be used as city trucks... yet Richard M. Daley has also never been implicated (criminally) in any such scandal. Understandably, this leads to an aura of untouchability for the younger Daley.
I guess that it's the things he has done which explain why people still vote for him. That and the Republican Party has almost no presence in the city itself. And I guess African American preachers aren't considered good politicians. He's rebuilt Wacker Drive, built the gem/eyesore that is the new Soldier Field, rebuilt Lake Shore Drive -- north and south -- torn down Meigs Field (for better, I say, for worse, people with planes say), laid out hundreds of miles of bike paths, built the awesome Millenium Park, expanded McCormick Place thrice over, and has tried to mow down the mostly Republican suburbs by expanding O'Hare.
Truth be told, if you were to ask any Chicagoan, they will tell you... corruption is part of the process. It's gonna happen.
So there you have it... a Daley primer. Please correct where necessary.:-)
Foolish, yes, but from a non-nerd point of view, not so obvious. It looks like it comes from the company. Why not provide their login, password and account number?
Since I haven't sensed that a widespread educational movement is in place to tell users otherwise (besides the occasional article in the newspaper, and I personally believe that doesn't count), can someone else step up to the plate? It sucks to have to repeat the "who's responsibility is it"? thing ad infinitum.
So here's a story... I have two Macs hooked up at home. Comcast gives you the cable modem and basically just tells you to plug it in. Not surprisingly, if I were to have an old WinXP system that was stuck on dial-up (I can't download 400 MB service packs or security updates), I would be virus infected. Fortunately, I had OS X with a firewall... except they told me to disable the firewall and virus software since I was having problems. If that works, ordinary user thinks, "Wow, well if I can't use a high-speed internet connection with a firewall/virus software, what's the point"? That seems like a setup for disaster.
Remember, most users come up with questions like this. I don't think they're at all aware of what can happen, or what the effects of identity theft are, or how much it sucks. All they know is that geeks like us tend to berate them, companies like Comcast give them a mile of rope to hang themselves, and companies like Microsoft push insecure solutions that have enough security holes to cause companies like Comcast to shut off their internet access.
That reminds me of a white elephant gift I got while I was still in the fraternity. It was, in all the Slanted Text glory, a "The Force is in My Pants" shirt.
I wore it once... needless to say, that's one of those things you only tend to wear around the (frat) house. Or, I suppose, trying to hit on girls at a Star Wars convention.
I'm not the biggest fan of this reasoning. You have a right to complain even if you made an informed decision not to vote for either candidate in any race.
Submitting an empty ballot can be an individually powerful message. It tells both parties that "Hey, I don't like either of you guys. Come up with something that better suits me in the future". Selfish, perhaps, but seeing as they're public servants, better to let them know this way than by idlly letting someone else decide for you.
You know, I was about to mod you up +1 Insightful before I took a second look at what you were saying and decided it was completely counterintuitive to do so...
Give me a link to a peer-reviewed paper describing a reputable, repeatable experiment on cold fusion which showed a clear neutron reading above background and I'll strip naked and shout the praises of cold fusion from the roof tops.
Judging by your username, I'll take a pass on that challenge...
Among other things, as of 1:45 PM EDT the hurricane is still a solid Category 4 with sustained winds of 145 miles per hour (and gusts to more than that), no, they don't know exactly where landfall is going to be, (there's pictures here but the 4-5 day error has been up to 250 miles, and the 2-3 day error has been a tad less), and if you're anywhere within 80 miles of the eye you've got hurricane force winds.
There are disagreements in the meteorlogical community as to whether or not the hurricane will take the Vero Beach Path or recurve north to around Jacksonville or by the Georgia state line.
In any event, the likelihood of a direct hit on Titusville is a long shot, but then again, there's probably a forty to fifty mile length of the coastline that will experience major hurricane strength winds (110 - 120 mph) somewhere, and when you consider there's 350 miles of coastline warned, the odds are quite higher than they would normally be.
Sweet. I had Pontifex for my old PC and I missed that game quite a bit. Time to download and perhaps buy.
Marble Blast Gold... or whatever it is actually called... is it anything like Marble Madness ((c) 1987 Nintendo, I do believe) or more recently... Super Monkey Ball? I own both and this game sounds like both.
I own a Sony Ericsson T610. So far, it hasn't had any battery problems like the AT&T cell I had a few years back, or any display problems like the Nokia cheap phones I had before this one.
It has cheap Java games on it that I could probably write better games for. It has mini golf and some random adventure game. I play both every now and then... especially the golf.
It does an okay job of organizing my contacts without bluetooth. But this is an article about bluetooth, so let me go further. My phone knows everything about my PowerBook's Address Book thanks to iSync over bluetooth. My PowerBook has sent music files to the phone via bluetooth. And it's sent back the (admittedly crappy yet cool) pictures I took of Wrigley Field when I decided to go ahead and set a pic of Wrigley as the background.
It has text messaging and WAP services, but I don't need those, so I don't pay for them or use them. If I ever need a hotspot from T-Mobile, it'll be for the PowerBook, not the phone.
This is my experience, and why I think the Ericsson I have makes an excellent phone to mark as the standard to beat for the next couple of years.
If I'm required to give the source code out, can I conveniently withhold any makefiles / antscripts, or does that fall under the realm of "source code"?
You're right... but I've also got some money riding on "Warp Speed 1,000,000,000:1", so I figure if I lose the Titan bet once the probe warps there, I'm covered...
Yes, I understand that it's an X10 thing... but when I saw "4-Piece Firecracker Automation System" I thought of my own solution to the problem.
When the build first breaks, light a big aerial shell firecracker that goes BOOM. Since you're supposed to run these tests once on the hour, the next two would go on the hour while the build was still broken.
The fourth piece would be a flare aimed at the offender's cube. Think of it as a 4-gun salute...
Something as simple as making the first account not root, shuffling away Administrator Mode into the "Advanced..." section of setup, and even showing the fire-engine red background and menubars with a "WARNING: You are in administrator mode. Only proceed if you're an advanced user..." would do.
That would show Windows users the difference. Now if only all the people that makes Windows apps could allow them to be installed in limited mode...
The article as a whole is an entertaining read, so I preface this post with a spoiler alert...
doo bee do...
Standing front and center in the crowd, Dara, the young lady who photographed Renderman, reaches into her purse and pulls out a pocketbook. She unzips the pocketbook and pulls out a Zaurus handheld running Linux. The pocketbook is lined with a Lay's potato chip bag, the aluminum in the bag dampening the radio signal by about 7 or 8 dBm. She holds up the Zaurus, and sure enough -- it shows up on nearby wireless laptops as the real RunningMan AP.
I therefore submit proof that contrary to popular belief, women do use Linux!
Maybe if you make it into more than just a game. I'd probably only watch it if it were Battlefield: 1942, and only if there was professionals designing the missions, and only if there were advanced players, and only if, if the setup were to be modeled on an actual event in history, if historical parallels were available and on-hand -- and the players didn't know (or at least weren't told) about them.
Now that I think about it, that's a hell of a lot of restrictions. But third-party omniscient, professional commentary on "what they did, what they should've done, and what really happened" would very much interest me, especially if we're talking about times and places of major battles in the past.
The www4 only shows that it's a subdomain of usbank.com, though. That shouldn't prove anything unless usbank.com leases its subdomains to irresponsible phishers.
Re:Does it matter? Opera's still the best browser.
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Best is relative... it was quite a memory hog, and the memory vs. features tradeoff was one I wasn't willing to take. Mouse gestures were cool, but eventually went unused. The bookmark system was adequate but not spectacular. It was... neat... to browse as a lynx browser, or IE 6.01... but not necessary for me.
You're probably a web developer, which means Opera probably is best for you. But it wasn't even worth the Google ads for me. I'll hang onto Firefox for my customizable tabs and memory.
I did pretty good on that quiz, but the only one I got wrong was #4 (the U.S. Bank one). Interestingly enough, I don't really know why, unless it's because U.S. bank doesn't exist. The URL looks valid (it's of the form https://*.usbank.com/*), and the format of the quiz means you can't see where that URL is actually pointing to.
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Depends... it only took 4 weeks for Floridians to get real sick of hurricanes. :-)
You're right! I'm going to run out and see Battlefield Earth as soon as I can!
"Welcome to Corneria!"
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"I like swords!"
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"I like swords!"
Richard J. Daley was Richard M. Daley's father. He ruled Chicago, ins and outs, for about 10 to 15 years starting in the 1960's through 1978. There's a term up here that's still used in present day because it's so true; the Democratic Machine. The machine was, as you might expect, corrupt to the core, although the elder Daley never was implicated in any particular scandal. The machine was also celebrated in the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention, where Daley and the machine crushed protesters outside the then-Chicago Stadium with excessive force. Tear gas, nightsticks, the whole nine yards, although admittedly no one got killed. This is was started the fall of the machine, interestingly enough, as the national Democratic Party withdrew support from Daley Sr.
He died in office in the mid 70's from a heart attack, and the mayoral role in Chicago passed on to a few minor names... mostly Democrats. Sometime in the late 70's one of the mayors was voted out of office for responding poorly to a 30" blizzard that caused the city to shut down for a solid week, but I digress...
Herald Washington was mayor of the city from 1982 to roughly 1985. I say roughly because I'm not googling this stuff and I was 3 at the time. He was the first African American mayor of the city, and very popular. When he suddenly died of a heart attack in roughly 1985, Richard M. Daley came to power. Twenty years later, he's still there. There has been token opposition in the elections during his tenure, usually to African American preachers from the South Side, and occasionally someone like Jesse Jackson. But all but one of his elections have been 70/30, 80/20 type landslides. That one was when he first came up for re-election.
Since then, I have a better memory of Mr. Daley. There have been plenty of scandals that the New Machine has been involved in since he came up... the Silver Shovel scandal involving asphalt and disposal contractors, this Hired Trucks scandal involving fake minority trucking companies taking city money for being allowed to be used as city trucks... yet Richard M. Daley has also never been implicated (criminally) in any such scandal. Understandably, this leads to an aura of untouchability for the younger Daley.
I guess that it's the things he has done which explain why people still vote for him. That and the Republican Party has almost no presence in the city itself. And I guess African American preachers aren't considered good politicians. He's rebuilt Wacker Drive, built the gem/eyesore that is the new Soldier Field, rebuilt Lake Shore Drive -- north and south -- torn down Meigs Field (for better, I say, for worse, people with planes say), laid out hundreds of miles of bike paths, built the awesome Millenium Park, expanded McCormick Place thrice over, and has tried to mow down the mostly Republican suburbs by expanding O'Hare.
Truth be told, if you were to ask any Chicagoan, they will tell you... corruption is part of the process. It's gonna happen.
So there you have it... a Daley primer. Please correct where necessary. :-)
Since I haven't sensed that a widespread educational movement is in place to tell users otherwise (besides the occasional article in the newspaper, and I personally believe that doesn't count), can someone else step up to the plate? It sucks to have to repeat the "who's responsibility is it"? thing ad infinitum.
So here's a story... I have two Macs hooked up at home. Comcast gives you the cable modem and basically just tells you to plug it in. Not surprisingly, if I were to have an old WinXP system that was stuck on dial-up (I can't download 400 MB service packs or security updates), I would be virus infected. Fortunately, I had OS X with a firewall... except they told me to disable the firewall and virus software since I was having problems. If that works, ordinary user thinks, "Wow, well if I can't use a high-speed internet connection with a firewall/virus software, what's the point"? That seems like a setup for disaster.
Remember, most users come up with questions like this. I don't think they're at all aware of what can happen, or what the effects of identity theft are, or how much it sucks. All they know is that geeks like us tend to berate them, companies like Comcast give them a mile of rope to hang themselves, and companies like Microsoft push insecure solutions that have enough security holes to cause companies like Comcast to shut off their internet access.
Come on, we can do better, all around.
I wore it once... needless to say, that's one of those things you only tend to wear around the (frat) house. Or, I suppose, trying to hit on girls at a Star Wars convention.
Submitting an empty ballot can be an individually powerful message. It tells both parties that "Hey, I don't like either of you guys. Come up with something that better suits me in the future". Selfish, perhaps, but seeing as they're public servants, better to let them know this way than by idlly letting someone else decide for you.
Ack! At least warn us that it's not work safe next time! ;-)
You know, I was about to mod you up +1 Insightful before I took a second look at what you were saying and decided it was completely counterintuitive to do so...
Judging by your username, I'll take a pass on that challenge...
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
Among other things, as of 1:45 PM EDT the hurricane is still a solid Category 4 with sustained winds of 145 miles per hour (and gusts to more than that), no, they don't know exactly where landfall is going to be, (there's pictures here but the 4-5 day error has been up to 250 miles, and the 2-3 day error has been a tad less), and if you're anywhere within 80 miles of the eye you've got hurricane force winds.
There are disagreements in the meteorlogical community as to whether or not the hurricane will take the Vero Beach Path or recurve north to around Jacksonville or by the Georgia state line.
In any event, the likelihood of a direct hit on Titusville is a long shot, but then again, there's probably a forty to fifty mile length of the coastline that will experience major hurricane strength winds (110 - 120 mph) somewhere, and when you consider there's 350 miles of coastline warned, the odds are quite higher than they would normally be.
(Yes, I use Firefox ;-) )
Marble Blast Gold... or whatever it is actually called... is it anything like Marble Madness ((c) 1987 Nintendo, I do believe) or more recently... Super Monkey Ball? I own both and this game sounds like both.
It has cheap Java games on it that I could probably write better games for. It has mini golf and some random adventure game. I play both every now and then... especially the golf.
It does an okay job of organizing my contacts without bluetooth. But this is an article about bluetooth, so let me go further. My phone knows everything about my PowerBook's Address Book thanks to iSync over bluetooth. My PowerBook has sent music files to the phone via bluetooth. And it's sent back the (admittedly crappy yet cool) pictures I took of Wrigley Field when I decided to go ahead and set a pic of Wrigley as the background.
It has text messaging and WAP services, but I don't need those, so I don't pay for them or use them. If I ever need a hotspot from T-Mobile, it'll be for the PowerBook, not the phone.
This is my experience, and why I think the Ericsson I have makes an excellent phone to mark as the standard to beat for the next couple of years.
If I'm required to give the source code out, can I conveniently withhold any makefiles / antscripts, or does that fall under the realm of "source code"?
You're right... but I've also got some money riding on "Warp Speed 1,000,000,000:1", so I figure if I lose the Titan bet once the probe warps there, I'm covered...
When the build first breaks, light a big aerial shell firecracker that goes BOOM. Since you're supposed to run these tests once on the hour, the next two would go on the hour while the build was still broken.
The fourth piece would be a flare aimed at the offender's cube. Think of it as a 4-gun salute...
Something as simple as making the first account not root, shuffling away Administrator Mode into the "Advanced..." section of setup, and even showing the fire-engine red background and menubars with a "WARNING: You are in administrator mode. Only proceed if you're an advanced user..." would do.
That would show Windows users the difference. Now if only all the people that makes Windows apps could allow them to be installed in limited mode...
doo bee do...
I therefore submit proof that contrary to popular belief, women do use Linux!
Definitely better than baked eggs.
Here you go!
Now that I think about it, that's a hell of a lot of restrictions. But third-party omniscient, professional commentary on "what they did, what they should've done, and what really happened" would very much interest me, especially if we're talking about times and places of major battles in the past.
Examples:
You're probably a web developer, which means Opera probably is best for you. But it wasn't even worth the Google ads for me. I'll hang onto Firefox for my customizable tabs and memory.
Is there something I can be doing better?