The gp post (budgenator) has hit it right on the mark. Pushing "down" on the top of the water to create a wave is *exactly* how the monstrous wave pool at Noah's Ark in Wisconsin Dells works.
Humoungous fans push compressed air straight down on the the water under the brown building at the front of the wave pool. Since water is incompressible, the liquid in front of the building (which would be the deep end of the wave pool) has no choice but to rise up and get out of the way. This forms a wave that heads toward the shallow end of the pool.
Think of blowing air into a straw that is sitting in a glass of Coke (the beverage, not the nose candy). When you blow into the straw, the Coke level inside the straw goes down while the Coke level in the glass goes up slightly.
The cool thing about the huge wave pool is that there were five chambers across the front of the wave pool that were/are used to create waves.
If you fire tubes 1, 3, and 5, wait a second and then fire tubes 2 and 4, you get a very cool diamaond pattern of wave peaks that travels from the deep end of the pool to the shallow end. I belive the lifeguards used to call that the "Double Diamonds". IIRC, this was also the pattern that was most likely to drown people.
If you fire tube 1, wait, then fire tube 2, then fire tube 3, then fire tube 4, wait and then fire tube 5, you get a wave that travels diagnolly across the pool like the angled blade on a snowplow.
I think I also saw them open all five air chambers at the same time. You get one huge wave the width of the pool that barrels toward the shallow end of the pool.
The coolest thing about the wave pool was that the 400hp motors and the hydraulics that opened and closed the gates were all controlled by a small computer that was about 5" by 5" and an inch thick. The EEs who designed that little baby definitely had my respect.
How do I know all about the wave pool? I worked there the summer she was built!
Long story short, I tend to believe the grandparent post who said "Explode the nuke *above* the water and let the shockwave make the water move".
If you are lucky enough to have 828 Mb of RAM or more, Knoppix has
clever tricks to make good use of all the RAM in your computer. This can
deliver blazingly fast performance.
Did you mean to say "If you are lucky enough to have 128 Mb of RAM or more"?
Thanks,
-Scott
Re:Real world vs. fanboy fantasies
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Mod parent "Score:-1, Cracksmoker"
Dude, are you for real? I mean really, who brags about having certificates from the "largest software company in the world"?
Quantity does not infer quality.
I can honestly say that the astounding number of vulnerabilities in Windows pays my house payment, car payment and for all my toys. There is no shortage of work when it comes to compensating for or trying to repair the damage done by the software from "the largest software company in the world."
Long live Microsoft! (.....at least until I have enough money to retire comfortably.:^) )
It amazes me how unhappy people are in the United States! Look at the comments to any story and count the percentage of people who are adversarial or hostile in some way. Often when someone knows something someone else doesn't, it is considered an acceptable time to act out anger.
Yes, the U.S. is full of "unhappy people". We are unhappy with the status-quo. We are unhappy with our current living conditions. We are unhappy with our salaries. We are unhappy with the houses we live in. We are unhappy with our jobs.
What do we do about it? We work hard. We work long hours. We make signs and we protest - loudly. We complain. We write our congressman. We start small companies because we are sick of working for someone else. Some of us are at work late at nights and on weekends. Some of us work two or three jobs so that the next generation will have things a little better. Some of us work jobs that don't include paid vacation because we are unhappy with our current situation.
You damn right we are unhappy. And we have a history of letting unhappy people come in from other countries. I belive their is a small statue somewhere on the East Coast that says something like this:
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
See? We have the "unhappy people" welcome mat out.
But you will find that the unhappy people in our country are the ones who worked the hardest and made the difference throughout the short history of our country. The people who were pissed about the way that things were done in their home country came here to see if they could improve themselves. The people already here who were unhappy with the way that things were being done took great risks to make things better (I seem to recall something about two Black students who were escorted *into* a university in Alabama by the Alabama National Guard because those students were "unhappy" about the the way things were done at that time. IIRC, the President at that time was a little "unhappy" with the governor of Alabama's behavior as well).
Yes, we are an unhappy people. We are constantly pushing and struggling against "something". We are constantly looking for the next hurdle to overcome or the next roadblock to break down.
It's funny but it seems like the rest of the world (who are much less unhappy) always seems to need the help of the "unhappy" U.S. "Give us your AIDS drugs so an entire generation of our people doesn't vanish." "Give us aid because the tidal wave wiped our little country off the map and the people who didn't drown are going to die from starvation or some disease." "Come rescue our ass, we really don't want to speak German!"
You described the U.S. to a "t". We are unhappy. And tomorrow, the world will be a better place because of it. You can bet your ass that there are people at work today (1/1/2005) or thinking about starting a new company because they are unhappy and they are going to improve their situation.
>I find using the phone at work is the most cost effective method for international calls.
That's funny: Your manager finds that the monthly phone report for each extension that is produced by the Telecomm dept is the most cost effective way to reduce headcount when cuts are ordered by your company's execs.
You're lucky I'm not your school's firewall admin. I'd block outbound port 80 for all internal IP addresses and make you bounce through a proxy server to get to the outside world.
Nothing like a good proxy (squid, BorderManager, etc.) to keep an eye on the inmates.:^)
>...communicate over port 80 (which is always open...)
That's the second time you've made that comment in this article.
Port 80 is not *always* open. What if I blocked outbound access to dst port 80 and then added a pinhole in the firewall ruleset which allowed *only* a Squid server to go out via port 80? To surf the web, you'd have to set your web browser to proxy via the Squid box. You don't set the proxy address in your browser, you don't get to surf the Internet.
Do you like apples?
How do you like those apples?
How well will your VOIP app work with a proxy server?
Hemmy? Where the hell did you learn to spell? Did you make it past the fourth grade? Even fourth graders know how to write the first four letters of the word "hemispherical".
I need to add my two cents: I worked in downtown Detroit for a year about five years ago. Detroit is known for being the most dangerous large city in the US. I noticed that drivers on I-75 (major artery leading into/out of downtown) drove less like asshats than people in smaller cities I have lived-in.
When on the road in Detroit, the odds of the person in the next car "carrying" are pretty good. Therefore if you drive like an asshat and cut someone off in traffic, expect to see a gun pointed your way.
The traffic in DTW was heavy and you had to definitely keep your eyes on the road during rush hour but I saw very few drivers cutting anyone off and very few people flipping the bird or laying on their horn.
The roads were *more civilized* because people knew that they had to be on their best behavior.
In that case, guns *did* help improve the overall security and safety of the poplulation.
>There's a case of a person who had a brain that was about a third normal size, and no one even realized it until he was 20 or so and got x-rayed for a head injury.
Yeah, that guy led a pretty normal life. He even went on to run as the Democratic candidate for President in the 2004 election.
The "retards" already have a cure for cancer. It's just that the cure carries with it a number of unpleasant side-effects. [I have witnesed this first-hand.]
Why you should be asking for is a "better" cure for cancer. One that doesn't make the patient extremely sick after each dose and doesn't cause the patient's hair to fall out.
>What makes you so sure that these devices will
shield your privacy from infrared cameras? Cops already have devices that they can use to see through walls. Why are you so sure these types of devices aren't already floating in space pointed towards the earth?
>Mirroring (RAID 1) is strictly for redundancy, striping (RAID 0) is for performance. A mirrored set is still accessed as a single drive where the secondary drive is just a shadow copy.
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Any decent RAID controller will balance the read requests against all of the spindles in a mirrorset (there can be more than two disks in a mirror).
Slashdot Mirror
FWIW, my 2005 Solara was built in Kentucky as well.
. php&imagenum=1&carnum=1659
My first "foreign" car, I love it!
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/frame.php?file=pic
I don't even know what OS will support a TB of RAM!
How 'bout something like this:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/
VMS on Alpha (and soon-to-be Itanium) can support memory over a TB of RAM (your wallet will give out before VMS runs out of address space).
The largest VMS system I have managed had 32GB of RAM onboard.
Thanks,
-Scott
Kelly LeBrock was the shiznit in my book too...until she married that dipshit. Then I lost all lust, er, respect for her.
:^)
-Scott
Your right man! FTP should go to to the shitter and die...
;^)
Yeah, man! Just like you're spell checker!!
-Scott
The gp post (budgenator) has hit it right on the mark. Pushing "down" on the top of the water to create a wave is *exactly* how the monstrous wave pool at Noah's Ark in Wisconsin Dells works.
Humoungous fans push compressed air straight down on the the water under the brown building at the front of the wave pool. Since water is incompressible, the liquid in front of the building (which would be the deep end of the wave pool) has no choice but to rise up and get out of the way. This forms a wave that heads toward the shallow end of the pool.
Think of blowing air into a straw that is sitting in a glass of Coke (the beverage, not the nose candy). When you blow into the straw, the Coke level inside the straw goes down while the Coke level in the glass goes up slightly.
The cool thing about the huge wave pool is that there were five chambers across the front of the wave pool that were/are used to create waves.
If you fire tubes 1, 3, and 5, wait a second and then fire tubes 2 and 4, you get a very cool diamaond pattern of wave peaks that travels from the deep end of the pool to the shallow end. I belive the lifeguards used to call that the "Double Diamonds". IIRC, this was also the pattern that was most likely to drown people.
If you fire tube 1, wait, then fire tube 2, then fire tube 3, then fire tube 4, wait and then fire tube 5, you get a wave that travels diagnolly across the pool like the angled blade on a snowplow.
I think I also saw them open all five air chambers at the same time. You get one huge wave the width of the pool that barrels toward the shallow end of the pool.
The coolest thing about the wave pool was that the 400hp motors and the hydraulics that opened and closed the gates were all controlled by a small computer that was about 5" by 5" and an inch thick. The EEs who designed that little baby definitely had my respect.
How do I know all about the wave pool? I worked there the summer she was built!
Long story short, I tend to believe the grandparent post who said "Explode the nuke *above* the water and let the shockwave make the water move".
-Scott
Excellent! Thank you, Kind AC, for enlightening me. :^)
I actually learned something from Slashdot today.
-Scott
When you said:
If you are lucky enough to have 828 Mb of RAM or more, Knoppix has clever tricks to make good use of all the RAM in your computer. This can deliver blazingly fast performance.
Did you mean to say "If you are lucky enough to have 128 Mb of RAM or more"?
Thanks,
-Scott
Mod parent "Score:-1, Cracksmoker"
:^) )
Dude, are you for real? I mean really, who brags about having certificates from the "largest software company in the world"?
Quantity does not infer quality.
I can honestly say that the astounding number of vulnerabilities in Windows pays my house payment, car payment and for all my toys. There is no shortage of work when it comes to compensating for or trying to repair the damage done by the software from "the largest software company in the world."
Long live Microsoft! (.....at least until I have enough money to retire comfortably.
-Scott
It amazes me how unhappy people are in the United States! Look at the comments to any story and count the percentage of people who are adversarial or hostile in some way. Often when someone knows something someone else doesn't, it is considered an acceptable time to act out anger.
Yes, the U.S. is full of "unhappy people". We are unhappy with the status-quo. We are unhappy with our current living conditions. We are unhappy with our salaries. We are unhappy with the houses we live in. We are unhappy with our jobs.
What do we do about it? We work hard. We work long hours. We make signs and we protest - loudly. We complain. We write our congressman. We start small companies because we are sick of working for someone else. Some of us are at work late at nights and on weekends. Some of us work two or three jobs so that the next generation will have things a little better. Some of us work jobs that don't include paid vacation because we are unhappy with our current situation.
You damn right we are unhappy. And we have a history of letting unhappy people come in from other countries. I belive their is a small statue somewhere on the East Coast that says something like this:
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
See? We have the "unhappy people" welcome mat out.
But you will find that the unhappy people in our country are the ones who worked the hardest and made the difference throughout the short history of our country. The people who were pissed about the way that things were done in their home country came here to see if they could improve themselves. The people already here who were unhappy with the way that things were being done took great risks to make things better (I seem to recall something about two Black students who were escorted *into* a university in Alabama by the Alabama National Guard because those students were "unhappy" about the the way things were done at that time. IIRC, the President at that time was a little "unhappy" with the governor of Alabama's behavior as well).
Yes, we are an unhappy people. We are constantly pushing and struggling against "something". We are constantly looking for the next hurdle to overcome or the next roadblock to break down.
It's funny but it seems like the rest of the world (who are much less unhappy) always seems to need the help of the "unhappy" U.S. "Give us your AIDS drugs so an entire generation of our people doesn't vanish." "Give us aid because the tidal wave wiped our little country off the map and the people who didn't drown are going to die from starvation or some disease." "Come rescue our ass, we really don't want to speak German!"
You described the U.S. to a "t". We are unhappy. And tomorrow, the world will be a better place because of it. You can bet your ass that there are people at work today (1/1/2005) or thinking about starting a new company because they are unhappy and they are going to improve their situation.
Thanks,
-Scott
>I find using the phone at work is the most cost effective method for international calls.
:^)
That's funny: Your manager finds that the monthly phone report for each extension that is produced by the Telecomm dept is the most cost effective way to reduce headcount when cuts are ordered by your company's execs.
-Scott
>they block all ports except 80, 110, and 443
:^)
You're lucky I'm not your school's firewall admin. I'd block outbound port 80 for all internal IP addresses and make you bounce through a proxy server to get to the outside world.
Nothing like a good proxy (squid, BorderManager, etc.) to keep an eye on the inmates.
-Scott
>...communicate over port 80 (which is always open...)
That's the second time you've made that comment in this article.
Port 80 is not *always* open. What if I blocked outbound access to dst port 80 and then added a pinhole in the firewall ruleset which allowed *only* a Squid server to go out via port 80? To surf the web, you'd have to set your web browser to proxy via the Squid box. You don't set the proxy address in your browser, you don't get to surf the Internet.
Do you like apples?
How do you like those apples?
How well will your VOIP app work with a proxy server?
-Scott
Sorry to hear about your loss, friend.
Don't worry, though. We are going to kill 1000 (or maybe 10,000) of "them" for every one of "us" who died in the attacks on 9/11.
I know that won't bring your bro back but a little "payback" will keep it from happening again.
Thanks,
-Scott
AC:
Grow some balls and get a lawyer if things are really that bad at your place of employment.
Otherwise, STFU. You sound like a real crybaby. "Waaaa! Someone is giving me the evil eye because I am a contractor."
Thanks,
-Scott
Where the hell else would you live? Isn't "home" by definition wherever you live?
:^)
Well, I have heard of people who were:
A) Living out of a suitcase.
B) Living in hotels.
C) Living in a van down by the river.
D) Livin on a Prayer.
E) Livin on the Edge.
So, I guess people don't always live "at home."
-Scott
>Ford F-350, Chevy CK 3500, Dodge Hemmy Ram...
Hemmy? Where the hell did you learn to spell? Did you make it past the fourth grade? Even fourth graders know how to write the first four letters of the word "hemispherical".
Sheesh!
-Scott
Your ISP can't delegate ip space smaller than a Class C (256 ips).
Not true. We have a block of 16 contiguous IPs at work. Our ISP points the reverse lookup for that block of addresses to the DNS servers I administer.
Reverse lookup works fine for our small block of addresses. I am even ready for SPF.
-Scott
I need to add my two cents: I worked in downtown Detroit for a year about five years ago. Detroit is known for being the most dangerous large city in the US. I noticed that drivers on I-75 (major artery leading into/out of downtown) drove less like asshats than people in smaller cities I have lived-in.
When on the road in Detroit, the odds of the person in the next car "carrying" are pretty good. Therefore if you drive like an asshat and cut someone off in traffic, expect to see a gun pointed your way.
The traffic in DTW was heavy and you had to definitely keep your eyes on the road during rush hour but I saw very few drivers cutting anyone off and very few people flipping the bird or laying on their horn.
The roads were *more civilized* because people knew that they had to be on their best behavior. In that case, guns *did* help improve the overall security and safety of the poplulation.
Back in Cheeseheadland now,
-Scott
>There's a case of a person who had a brain that was about a third normal size, and no one even realized it until he was 20 or so and got x-rayed for a head injury.
;^)
Yeah, that guy led a pretty normal life. He even went on to run as the Democratic candidate for President in the 2004 election.
-s
Badgers are undefeated! Woooo!!!
> Why not cure cancer you retards?
The "retards" already have a cure for cancer. It's just that the cure carries with it a number of unpleasant side-effects. [I have witnesed this first-hand.]
Why you should be asking for is a "better" cure for cancer. One that doesn't make the patient extremely sick after each dose and doesn't cause the patient's hair to fall out.
-Scott
>What makes you so sure that these devices will shield your privacy from infrared cameras? Cops already have devices that they can use to see through walls. Why are you so sure these types of devices aren't already floating in space pointed towards the earth?
:^)
Three words:
1) Insulate
2) Your
3) Attic
-s
>You will know fear, and you will know pain and then you will die.
:^)
Say, you're not related to Inigo Montoya, are you?
-s
>Raid 1 = Mirrored disks, writing same data to all disks so if one fails you simply replace it and no loss of data. (Total storage = 1/2 of disks)
Actually, the total storage is 1/n where 'n' is the number of disks in the mirror set. You can have more than two disks in a mirror set.
-Scott
>Mirroring (RAID 1) is strictly for redundancy, striping (RAID 0) is for performance. A mirrored set is still accessed as a single drive where the secondary drive is just a shadow copy.
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Any decent RAID controller will balance the read requests against all of the spindles in a mirrorset (there can be more than two disks in a mirror).
-Scott