The US has a huge amount of dark fibre, so the long-haul links are not constrained by early development. And many countries built out consumer broadband before the USA did, but now have better service.
All that dark fiber was put in about 98-01 and is privately owned. Most of it also runs along rail road tracks. Just because the long haul links are out there, that doesn't mean the hard part is done. The long haul links are actually the easy part. The hard part is getting it laid out to all the houses and everything else. Those are the lines that when totaled, will equal at least a few hundred times the length of the long haul link lengths.
Also, remember that those countries heavily subsidised the broadband roll out. That's not happening with Fibre in the US. Give it time, and the US will have the same service.
Buy a few crates of cake containers from a CD or DVD distributor. Then hire an intern. Label each CD with a sequential number and label the cake containers with their sequence number. A simple Excel sheet or simple database can handle mapping a CD with who it came from and the date to a cake container/CD number. The intern then fetches said CD.
I'm gonna modify this slightly for more ease of use. I still like the basic idea, though.
Use the above mentioned CD labeling system.
Place CD's in 208/300 CD/DVD binder.
Get shelving that will fit the Binders (Ikea IVAR works great for adjustments)
Shouldn't be too hard after that. The main thing though, is the numbering system Without that, the whole thing fails miserably no matter what.
not as many accessories (just try to find an arm strap and case!)
DING! I'm in the market for an MP3 Player. Saw the headline and wondered if this would beat out the IPOD Nano I had been looking at. Unfortunately, there are three accessories I am looking for for my MP3 player.
1) Something so I can wear it at the Gym
2) A remote so I can control it while it is in my backpack
3) FM adapter so I can play it through my car sterio
I saw some stuff on tehre website that might meet #1 and I can find stuff to do #3, but I haven't seen any other MP3 player with #2 yet other than an IPOD.
Just remember, a fertility rate of 2.1 (from what I remember) is needed to keep a population level. This keeps it level, instead of increasing, due to various things such as accidents/diseases/murder/other that kill people before they have kids and to account for people who do not have kids at all.
Hmm... Looking at the overpopulaiton website, it looks like the population of the world will stabilize somewhere between 2050 and 2100. Probably at what, 7-8 billion?
I watch all three you've mentioned. It does seem that it is time for StarGate to end however, as they are at the last bad guys they can reasonably do in that universe. I could see them getting one more half season out of the Ori, but that is it as far as it goes.
As to friday Night.
7 Eureka (They need a consistent rerun slot, and this would be perfect)
8 Dr Who
9 Atlantis
10 BSG
Dam, forgot one other character that has been mentioned. The bubble bobble dragon thingies would be great. However, they are nintendo characters (more or less) not sega's.
Thanks for the info on Mega. Wasn't shure who they were associated with exactly. I'm not sure if they could use The to Resident Evil series characters, given the weapons involved. Hell, I'm not even sure how they are going to put Snake in it as it is. All the previous characters have been very... cartoony (for lack of a better word) in both appearance and attacks (this even includes Samus). Sonic and most other sega and Megaman characters would count as well. I have no idea how they would incorporate RE characters or Mortal Combat or even Street Fighter/X-Men/SNK vs. Anything characters weapons and attacks (mainly due to the type of attacks) into this as it would change a good chunk of the game play.
It's believed to be due to an upcoming polar switch (North and South switch polarities). It's nothing new, it's happened many times in the past. National Geographic NG#2 CNN Space.com New Scientist
Oh yeah, magnetic north (and probable south as well) is moving at an accelerating rate. The Magnetic North Pole is leaving Canada on it's way to Siberia. CNN
The interesting thing is, Free Energy might actually be possible. Vacuum energy comes close enough to being. Now if only we could figure out how to harness it.
A few years ago, a few friends of mine and I came up with a list of Sega Characters we'd like to see in Smash Brothers. Unfortunately, Sega doesn't exactly have the multi series character lineup that nintendo has, so we were a bit pressed. Here's the list, though.
Sonic
Tales
Knuckles
Dr. Robotnick
The two guys from Altered Beast
Megaman characters would be a great addition to the game as well, although I'm not sure how much they count as Sega, as I think the last MegaMan game was realeased for the PS1/2
It's a short list. Although we wouldn't have been too adverse to adding the Darkstalkers too.
Uh.. What does altitude have to do with ECC? I'm guessing you mean the Virginia Tech apple supercomputer. Altitude in blacksburg VA is maybe 1000 feet above sea level.
How can a motherboard have all this stuff and leave out ECC? I would never buy a motherboard without ECC. Don't people want their machines to stay up more than a week at a time???
I've run multiple systems with non-ECC memmory. Uptime was originaly limited by time between brownouts/blackouts (~3 months). Then I got a UPS and uptimes have only gone up. If you need ECC to keep your system up for more than a week, you've got problems.
In 1909, Chicago publisher William D. Boyce lost his way in a dense London fog. A boy came to his aid and, after guiding the man, refused a tip, explaining that as a Scout he would not take a tip for doing a Good Turn. This gesture by an unknown Scout inspired a meeting with Robert Baden-Powell, the British founder of the Boy Scouts. As a result, William Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America on February 8, 1910. He also created the Lone Scouts, which merged with the Boy Scouts of America in 1924.
I hope that the Canadian government doesn't present too many miles of red tape. Won't there be negative impact to launching from a high latitude? I know that other spaceports boast about how close to the equator they are.
There is both a pro and a con to launching from the higher latitude.
Con: It takes more energy (fuel) to get to orbit as you have less of a "push" from the earth's rotation to help you get to orbital velocity.
Pro: If your destination is in a relatively highly inclined orbit (as the International Space Station is), you use less energy (fuel) changing your orbital inclination compared to starting from the equator.
As you quoted, it is intended to supply the ISS. A higher inclination than Canaveral would be beneficial. However, for anything beyond (such as the moon), a more equatorial launching pad would be better.
Paintball involves shooting at people..22's are shot at targets. Any and all events where a gun like object is pointed at a humanoid target is prohibited in the Boy Scouts.
Oh, and on the uniforms, marching and badges? Girls Scouts do the same thing. As do several other groups.
Don't mess with the frame rate. It won't get you anything, because an NTSC DVD will always be 29.97 Frames per second
NTSC DVDs are not always encoded at 29.97 FPS. They are sometimes encoded at 24fps or 23.976 fps. This kind of DVD is typically a digital conversion from film since movies have traditionaly been filmed at 24FPS. It's a lot harder to encode (and maintain quality) on a digitized version of a 24fps movie converted to 29.97 than it is to just do an inverse tecline (24->29.97) after decoding inside the DVD player. Best way to maintain quality and reduce bitrate is to have hte DVD encoded at the same FPS as the source material.
I definitely agree with the audio. He needs to quite using uncompressed audio and use MP2 at the minimum and preferably some form of dolby if possible.
And the fact that after losing a primary election he says "this will not stand" and continues to run... as an "independent democrat" says that he has no respect for voters or democracy. By definition he is saying that votes don't count. Don't like the outcome? Don't listen to the concerns of the public, then wait until next election cycle and run again. Just ignore the public, tell them that they're all wacky, and continue to claim you're involved in the process.
Why even hold primaries?
I'll be both he and Bush make a great show of still turning up for work after losing in the general elections, claiming that what the "radical public" has done by voting them out of office is wrong and therefore they don't have to "stand for" it. No point in holding elections at all, they just let "radical elements" vote incumbents out.
Something tells me you don't know how the US election system works. First, Bush can not even run for re-election again as he is already serving his second term. In the US, presidents for about the past 60 years have been limited to 2 terms by the US Constitution.
Now, on to primaries and Lieberman. Primaries are for politcal parties to decide who they are going to push for as the party candidate. Primaries have nothing to do with who can run in the general elections. The only people who can vote in the Democrat Connecticut Primary are registered Democrat voters living in Connecticut. People who are not registered voters of a specific political party, a group that makes up the vast majority of voters in any state, can not vote in Primaries in most states, including Connecticut. So, the Democrat party in Connecticut has decided they do not want Lieberman to run as the Democrat's official candidate. This means nothing to what the rest of the voters of the state may feel.
Lieberman will find out if the people of Connecticut want him to continue to be their Senator in November, not some primary three months beforehand.
The press can suck, no doubt, but they're the best check on government we have in this country. Every law that hinders their ability to do their jobs, is a law that favors closed, tyrannical, government.
You're assuming the press is doing their job. From what I've seen, the last time they did their job was circa 1980. I believe there is a quote along the lines of "I don't want NBC reporting on Disney. I don't want Disney reporting on Disney." from the CEO of Disney about a decade back. He didn't want NBC reporting any negative publicity on it's parent company.
The news for the past 20 years has seen itself soley as an entertainment service. They don't care about the truth one bit anymore. They're in the business of selling adds to make money, not to inform the public.
Hey, there's lots a reasons to jab at SLC but not because a company not based in Utah (but in Washington DC and Phoenix) filed a lawsuit in a Federal Court that just happens to be in that city.
Actually, acording to the complaint it appears to have been filed in the Eastern District Court of Texas. Which is interesting given that I think that may be one of the shopping areas for attorneys seeking to get a large judgement against a company.
I recently heard that when the fiber lines that are run all over the US were originally planned and put in back in the 70's/80's, it was planned for each house in the US to get FREE 150Mb fiber. I'm unable to find any documentation for this, but I'm assuming that The Telco's bought/leased it instead and are selling it to us.
My guess is that the breakup of AT&T caused this. Otherwise I heard we would have ALL had DSL circa 1982.
In 1800's the Chinese started building a giant stepladder to reach the Moon. While some said they should wait for a better technology, the Emperor decided to sink the country's resources into the 'project' anyways "because the country needed to evolve modern stepladders if we're to reach Mars, if we're to populate the solar system, and if we're one day to go out among the stars"
I hope this litte joke illustrates the problem with what you are proposing.
Joke? What Joke? This sounds just like an idea that has been talked about for 40 years. Only instead of a steplader, it's called a Space Elevator
As for the ION engines you talk about. The problem with them is they provide very little thrust at any given time. A nuclear engine version would be much more practical.
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The US has a huge amount of dark fibre, so the long-haul links are not constrained by early development. And many countries built out consumer broadband before the USA did, but now have better service.
All that dark fiber was put in about 98-01 and is privately owned. Most of it also runs along rail road tracks. Just because the long haul links are out there, that doesn't mean the hard part is done. The long haul links are actually the easy part. The hard part is getting it laid out to all the houses and everything else. Those are the lines that when totaled, will equal at least a few hundred times the length of the long haul link lengths.
Also, remember that those countries heavily subsidised the broadband roll out. That's not happening with Fibre in the US. Give it time, and the US will have the same service.
Buy a few crates of cake containers from a CD or DVD distributor. Then hire an intern. Label each CD with a sequential number and label the cake containers with their sequence number. A simple Excel sheet or simple database can handle mapping a CD with who it came from and the date to a cake container/CD number. The intern then fetches said CD.
I'm gonna modify this slightly for more ease of use. I still like the basic idea, though.
Use the above mentioned CD labeling system.
Place CD's in 208/300 CD/DVD binder.
Get shelving that will fit the Binders (Ikea IVAR works great for adjustments)
Shouldn't be too hard after that. The main thing though, is the numbering system Without that, the whole thing fails miserably no matter what.
not as many accessories (just try to find an arm strap and case!)
DING! I'm in the market for an MP3 Player. Saw the headline and wondered if this would beat out the IPOD Nano I had been looking at. Unfortunately, there are three accessories I am looking for for my MP3 player.
1) Something so I can wear it at the Gym
2) A remote so I can control it while it is in my backpack
3) FM adapter so I can play it through my car sterio
I saw some stuff on tehre website that might meet #1 and I can find stuff to do #3, but I haven't seen any other MP3 player with #2 yet other than an IPOD.
Just remember, a fertility rate of 2.1 (from what I remember) is needed to keep a population level. This keeps it level, instead of increasing, due to various things such as accidents/diseases/murder/other that kill people before they have kids and to account for people who do not have kids at all.
Hmm... Looking at the overpopulaiton website, it looks like the population of the world will stabilize somewhere between 2050 and 2100. Probably at what, 7-8 billion?
I watch all three you've mentioned. It does seem that it is time for StarGate to end however, as they are at the last bad guys they can reasonably do in that universe. I could see them getting one more half season out of the Ori, but that is it as far as it goes.
As to friday Night.
7 Eureka (They need a consistent rerun slot, and this would be perfect)
8 Dr Who
9 Atlantis
10 BSG
Wrong Vacuum Energy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_energy
Dam, forgot one other character that has been mentioned. The bubble bobble dragon thingies would be great. However, they are nintendo characters (more or less) not sega's.
Thanks for the info on Mega. Wasn't shure who they were associated with exactly. I'm not sure if they could use The to Resident Evil series characters, given the weapons involved. Hell, I'm not even sure how they are going to put Snake in it as it is. All the previous characters have been very ... cartoony (for lack of a better word) in both appearance and attacks (this even includes Samus). Sonic and most other sega and Megaman characters would count as well. I have no idea how they would incorporate RE characters or Mortal Combat or even Street Fighter/X-Men/SNK vs. Anything characters weapons and attacks (mainly due to the type of attacks) into this as it would change a good chunk of the game play.
It's believed to be due to an upcoming polar switch (North and South switch polarities). It's nothing new, it's happened many times in the past.
National Geographic
NG#2
CNN
Space.com
New Scientist
Oh yeah, magnetic north (and probable south as well) is moving at an accelerating rate. The Magnetic North Pole is leaving Canada on it's way to Siberia.
CNN
Enough sources for ya?
The interesting thing is, Free Energy might actually be possible. Vacuum energy comes close enough to being. Now if only we could figure out how to harness it.
A few years ago, a few friends of mine and I came up with a list of Sega Characters we'd like to see in Smash Brothers. Unfortunately, Sega doesn't exactly have the multi series character lineup that nintendo has, so we were a bit pressed. Here's the list, though.
Sonic
Tales
Knuckles
Dr. Robotnick
The two guys from Altered Beast
Megaman characters would be a great addition to the game as well, although I'm not sure how much they count as Sega, as I think the last MegaMan game was realeased for the PS1/2
It's a short list. Although we wouldn't have been too adverse to adding the Darkstalkers too.
Uh.. What does altitude have to do with ECC? I'm guessing you mean the Virginia Tech apple supercomputer. Altitude in blacksburg VA is maybe 1000 feet above sea level.
How can a motherboard have all this stuff and leave out ECC? I would never buy a motherboard without ECC. Don't people want their machines to stay up more than a week at a time???
I've run multiple systems with non-ECC memmory. Uptime was originaly limited by time between brownouts/blackouts (~3 months). Then I got a UPS and uptimes have only gone up. If you need ECC to keep your system up for more than a week, you've got problems.
To quote another poster "If the drivers are precompiled binaries, it could be a problem."
In this case, how much do you trust Lenovo not to give you drivers that aren't full of security flaws?
William D. Boyce
In 1909, Chicago publisher William D. Boyce lost his way in a dense London fog. A boy came to his aid and, after guiding the man, refused a tip, explaining that as a Scout he would not take a tip for doing a Good Turn. This gesture by an unknown Scout inspired a meeting with Robert Baden-Powell, the British founder of the Boy Scouts. As a result, William Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America on February 8, 1910. He also created the Lone Scouts, which merged with the Boy Scouts of America in 1924.
I hope that the Canadian government doesn't present too many miles of red tape. Won't there be negative impact to launching from a high latitude? I know that other spaceports boast about how close to the equator they are.
There is both a pro and a con to launching from the higher latitude.
Con: It takes more energy (fuel) to get to orbit as you have less of a "push" from the earth's rotation to help you get to orbital velocity.
Pro: If your destination is in a relatively highly inclined orbit (as the International Space Station is), you use less energy (fuel) changing your orbital inclination compared to starting from the equator.
As you quoted, it is intended to supply the ISS. A higher inclination than Canaveral would be beneficial. However, for anything beyond (such as the moon), a more equatorial launching pad would be better.
Paintball involves shooting at people. .22's are shot at targets. Any and all events where a gun like object is pointed at a humanoid target is prohibited in the Boy Scouts.
Oh, and on the uniforms, marching and badges? Girls Scouts do the same thing. As do several other groups.
Don't mess with the frame rate. It won't get you anything, because an NTSC DVD will always be 29.97 Frames per second
NTSC DVDs are not always encoded at 29.97 FPS. They are sometimes encoded at 24fps or 23.976 fps. This kind of DVD is typically a digital conversion from film since movies have traditionaly been filmed at 24FPS. It's a lot harder to encode (and maintain quality) on a digitized version of a 24fps movie converted to 29.97 than it is to just do an inverse tecline (24->29.97) after decoding inside the DVD player. Best way to maintain quality and reduce bitrate is to have hte DVD encoded at the same FPS as the source material.
I definitely agree with the audio. He needs to quite using uncompressed audio and use MP2 at the minimum and preferably some form of dolby if possible.
Then we need independent review panels established to determine issues such as these.
I thought that was what a grand jury was?
And the fact that after losing a primary election he says "this will not stand" and continues to run... as an "independent democrat" says that he has no respect for voters or democracy. By definition he is saying that votes don't count. Don't like the outcome? Don't listen to the concerns of the public, then wait until next election cycle and run again. Just ignore the public, tell them that they're all wacky, and continue to claim you're involved in the process.
Why even hold primaries?
I'll be both he and Bush make a great show of still turning up for work after losing in the general elections, claiming that what the "radical public" has done by voting them out of office is wrong and therefore they don't have to "stand for" it. No point in holding elections at all, they just let "radical elements" vote incumbents out.
Something tells me you don't know how the US election system works. First, Bush can not even run for re-election again as he is already serving his second term. In the US, presidents for about the past 60 years have been limited to 2 terms by the US Constitution.
Now, on to primaries and Lieberman. Primaries are for politcal parties to decide who they are going to push for as the party candidate. Primaries have nothing to do with who can run in the general elections. The only people who can vote in the Democrat Connecticut Primary are registered Democrat voters living in Connecticut. People who are not registered voters of a specific political party, a group that makes up the vast majority of voters in any state, can not vote in Primaries in most states, including Connecticut. So, the Democrat party in Connecticut has decided they do not want Lieberman to run as the Democrat's official candidate. This means nothing to what the rest of the voters of the state may feel.
Lieberman will find out if the people of Connecticut want him to continue to be their Senator in November, not some primary three months beforehand.
A friggin release date already!
The press can suck, no doubt, but they're the best check on government we have in this country. Every law that hinders their ability to do their jobs, is a law that favors closed, tyrannical, government.
You're assuming the press is doing their job. From what I've seen, the last time they did their job was circa 1980. I believe there is a quote along the lines of "I don't want NBC reporting on Disney. I don't want Disney reporting on Disney." from the CEO of Disney about a decade back. He didn't want NBC reporting any negative publicity on it's parent company.
The news for the past 20 years has seen itself soley as an entertainment service. They don't care about the truth one bit anymore. They're in the business of selling adds to make money, not to inform the public.
Hey, there's lots a reasons to jab at SLC but not because a company not based in Utah (but in Washington DC and Phoenix) filed a lawsuit in a Federal Court that just happens to be in that city.
Actually, acording to the complaint it appears to have been filed in the Eastern District Court of Texas. Which is interesting given that I think that may be one of the shopping areas for attorneys seeking to get a large judgement against a company.
I recently heard that when the fiber lines that are run all over the US were originally planned and put in back in the 70's/80's, it was planned for each house in the US to get FREE 150Mb fiber. I'm unable to find any documentation for this, but I'm assuming that The Telco's bought/leased it instead and are selling it to us.
My guess is that the breakup of AT&T caused this. Otherwise I heard we would have ALL had DSL circa 1982.
In 1800's the Chinese started building a giant stepladder to reach the Moon. While some said they should wait for a better technology, the Emperor decided to sink the country's resources into the 'project' anyways "because the country needed to evolve modern stepladders if we're to reach Mars, if we're to populate the solar system, and if we're one day to go out among the stars"
I hope this litte joke illustrates the problem with what you are proposing.
Joke? What Joke? This sounds just like an idea that has been talked about for 40 years. Only instead of a steplader, it's called a Space Elevator
As for the ION engines you talk about. The problem with them is they provide very little thrust at any given time. A nuclear engine version would be much more practical.