The Sierra Nevada range has the highest peak in the contiguous 48 states, Mt Whitney.
Also, the quoted researcher who made the comparison was referring to their similarity, not that he thought the Sierras are the tallest on earth.
And to the earlier pedant, plenty of people refer to the range as "The Sierras", including Doctors of extraterrestrial geology.
Client-side myspace apps of any kind (except IE, I suppose) violate MySpace's terms of service. My brother made some freeware crap that spawned a MySpace nastygram: http://www.davidfinucane.com/index.html
The eclipse-based Workplace is a horrible, crashing memory hog. Using the Notes plugin on Workplace occassionally works, but several of the databases I tried do not work properly. This is the only way to run Notes7 on the IBM Open Desktop.
The Notes6 client running on the Wine emulator also had problems, but at least it worked.
What religion? This is about money. California is stealing money from education funding to pay for this, and other budget shortfalls.
Basically, some medical research companies saw a way to make a quick buck at the expense of a gullible public anxious to stick it to Bush and his religious right cronies. The result: a 3 billion dollar beuraucracy to pad the wallets of people who work the system.
The "strange blasts" seem to be an invention of your memory, or poor reporting at the time.
Do you have a source you can site? I've looked through a few online sources critical of the patriot's poor performance in Gulf War I, and have found no mention of any that destructed near the ground or civilian deaths. For example, here's a House committee report referred to by many other sources who decry the patriots' performance.
In Gulf War II, they've taken out two coalition planes, though. Maybe you were thinking of that?
Big difference: he's using mechanical linkages and hydraulics to operate it--not electronically controlled motors.
Have you ever watched a backhoe operator working? Or, for that matter, driven a car? It's a matter of relying on muscle memory to adjust for slop in the mechanism.
I don't think his project is much different than othermachineson themonster-truckcircuit
(read center paragraph for a riveting description of two giant battling robots). This guy's design is most notable in that it departs from the traditional transforming metal dino-sar theme.
The point is it's not rocket science to design a "control system" for what are basically jerry rigged front-end loaders. In fact, it's demolition derby science: rocket science's archnemesis.
Granted, it would be a bit more tricky to get it to actually walk, but I imagine the operators will just wheel the thing out on a flatbed and wave it's arms around a bit and shoot flames. All his talk of military and forest fighting capabilities is just successful buzz to get rednecks like me out at the local speedway.
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What does this mean?
6. Operating degrees of freedom: Total 34 degrees of freedom (current model: Total 26)
Is "degree of freedom" one of the pre-programmed macros you mention? Or is it something prosaic, like how far it can bend its knees?
It's an op-ed piece, meaning editorial opinion--which needn't include tax.
Typically in The Economist, an opinion piece will be included in an issue with factual articles corresponding to the topic. "Peace" of crap though you believe it to be, the editorial is significant because the newspaper is influences powerful people--such as members of Congress who are responsible for reforming the USPO.
Fewer heads of state and business leaders read Slashdot than The Economist, but other than them, your demographics comment is accurate.
The Economist is fiscally liberal (from the European definition of liberal) and socially liberal (from the American definition). In fact, the previous issue had an editorial on the subject of liberalism. You might have found it, too, shockingly void of statistics and other lies on which to rest your wearied intellect.
Laser printers also have fusers, a teflon-coated tube with a hot incandescent bulb inside that squeezes the pages against an opposing rubber roller. These will develop scratches and pick up munge over time, so you can identify spot patterns.
Plus, there are various pickup rollers that leave somewhat unique smudges if the owner lets them get dirty enough.
Like tonor cartridges, these are all replaceable parts, though, and only scratches and pits (not general munge) will leave a consistent pattern of dots.
Basically, if that is how the feds intend to track down a particular printer, they have their work cut out for them.
What I've always dreamed of doing is hiding a transmitter inside the photoconductive drums. A sensitive detector can measure the tiny increase in current each time the photoconductive material is struck with the laser light. Divide this stream of ons and offs by the revolution rate of the drum, stack the resulting bitmaps and you've assembled an exact record of what was printed!
My bike has a 24 volt power supply. The motor is mounted on the back wheel with its dedicated chain and gear, on the opposite side of the deraileur. The bike is a standard cheap heavy duty mountain bike with front suspension. Currie sells just the kits for around $400 and the complete bikes for around $800. My county offered a generous rebate for electric bikes, without which I would not have bought this one.
I used to live about 13 miles from work. The electric bike was good for beating rush hour. It is heavy as fuck. It starts out on a heavy mountain bike, then add 10 pounds for the motor and 40 pounds for the lead acid battery. It is too slow; to be legally ridable in California without a motorcycle license it must be geared for a top speed of 20 mph.
I wish I had bought a 36 volt system so I could swap out the drive gear for a little more speed.
Now I live about 25 miles from work, which is beyond the battery capacity of my style of riding (full throttle on the motor, pedalling as hard as I can--plus the battery is 3 years old and doesn't hold its full charge anymore). I will occasionally drive the bike in my car to a parking lot halfway to work, and ride the remainder. This is where heavy as fuck, and the small motor jutting out on one side hurt me.
I still arrive at work sweaty and disheveled. Only the sweaty part is unusual, though--and nobody cares if geeks are sweaty in my office. The difference is I am not exausted from riding a standard bike as fast as I can for 13 miles. I am rarely passed by another bicyclist or e-bicyclist. I am definitely faster than traffic at rush hour.
Your in-hub 36 volt bike looks promising. Expect it to be heavy as fuck. Don't expect to find an alternative to lead-acid any time soon, unless you're prepared to fork over serious dough. Expect to find a million standard bicyclists bitching about how you should buy a road bike and have your work install a shower for every person with practical advice about e-bikes.
The point is they work only only well enough to foil people trying to use them legitimately. People selling dvds in the Kmart parking lot were not stymied by any DRM system.
The other message of the talk is there is money to be made by publishing in a format that can be used however the owner desires.
Look into the Liberty spec. One of its optional provisions is forced reauthentication.
Liberty, and its competing standards like WS-Federation and SAML, are good because the partners can run whatever vendor's software they like. You just have to verify your vendor is compliant.
Liberty Specifications
SAML Spec WS Fed Spec
Any number of vendors in the access control realm are jumping on the Liberty bandwagon. My company makes a product competing with Netegrity. Of course ours is superior in every way imaginable:)
How can we prevent the propagation of Multinational corporations without resorting to government regulation?
Asking a liberterian this question is like asking a member of the NRA "You say the right to bear arms will not be infringed; if they aren't infringed, how can we prevent gun ownership?"
OldSCO gear gives you street cred. I get (or at least imagine I get) weird looks wearing my SCO fleece vest at the San Jose airport.
I worked at their last forum in Santa Cruz. In addition to manning a webcam, I was a SCO disc-tosser at the keynote speech/rally. Imagine the dropped balloons at a convention, except we were throwing blades (steeply angled, hard to catch frisbee throw) at a bunch of unsuspecting office workers.
The whole event was a little sad because they had just been bought by Caldera. The powers in charge were trying to talk up Tarrantella and Linux, and the poor UnixWare developers were wondering whether anybody cares about them anymore.
Anyway, the point is I grabbed a few dozen SCO freestyle discs to go with my attractive vest.
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> I'm quite curious as to how/why Akamai is expanding
Millions of suckers not using adblock?
*.akamai.net/*
The Sierra Nevada range has the highest peak in the contiguous 48 states, Mt Whitney.
Also, the quoted researcher who made the comparison was referring to their similarity, not that he thought the Sierras are the tallest on earth.
And to the earlier pedant, plenty of people refer to the range as "The Sierras", including Doctors of extraterrestrial geology.
Yes, but can they read?
Client-side myspace apps of any kind (except IE, I suppose) violate MySpace's terms of service.
My brother made some freeware crap that spawned a MySpace nastygram:
http://www.davidfinucane.com/index.html
The eclipse-based Workplace is a horrible, crashing memory hog. Using the Notes plugin on Workplace occassionally works, but several of the databases I tried do not work properly. This is the only way to run Notes7 on the IBM Open Desktop.
The Notes6 client running on the Wine emulator also had problems, but at least it worked.
What religion? This is about money. California is stealing money from education funding to pay for this, and other budget shortfalls.
Basically, some medical research companies saw a way to make a quick buck at the expense of a gullible public anxious to stick it to Bush and his religious right cronies. The result: a 3 billion dollar beuraucracy to pad the wallets of people who work the system.
Berkeley is NE of San Francisco. Perhaps you were thinking of Stanford?
The "strange blasts" seem to be an invention of your memory, or poor reporting at the time.
Do you have a source you can site? I've looked through a few online sources critical of the patriot's poor performance in Gulf War I, and have found no mention of any that destructed near the ground or civilian deaths. For example, here's a House committee report referred to by many other sources who decry the patriots' performance.
In Gulf War II, they've taken out two coalition planes, though. Maybe you were thinking of that?
Before people get too fired up about the outrageous lawsuits described by the "stella awards"...
They're bogus
Big difference: he's using mechanical linkages and hydraulics to operate it--not electronically controlled motors.
Have you ever watched a backhoe operator working? Or, for that matter, driven a car? It's a matter of relying on muscle memory to adjust for slop in the mechanism.
I don't think his project is much different than other machines on the monster-truck circuit (read center paragraph for a riveting description of two giant battling robots). This guy's design is most notable in that it departs from the traditional transforming metal dino-sar theme.
The point is it's not rocket science to design a "control system" for what are basically jerry rigged front-end loaders. In fact, it's demolition derby science: rocket science's archnemesis.
Granted, it would be a bit more tricky to get it to actually walk, but I imagine the operators will just wheel the thing out on a flatbed and wave it's arms around a bit and shoot flames. All his talk of military and forest fighting capabilities is just successful buzz to get rednecks like me out at the local speedway.
What does this mean?
6. Operating degrees of freedom: Total 34 degrees of freedom (current model: Total 26)
Is "degree of freedom" one of the pre-programmed macros you mention? Or is it something prosaic, like how far it can bend its knees?
Politicians are inherently unable to spend money wisely.
The job of taxpayers is to disregard the demagogues' expansive promises and limit the amount they have available to waste.
It's an op-ed piece, meaning editorial opinion--which needn't include tax.
Typically in The Economist, an opinion piece will be included in an issue with factual articles corresponding to the topic. "Peace" of crap though you believe it to be, the editorial is significant because the newspaper is influences powerful people--such as members of Congress who are responsible for reforming the USPO.
Fewer heads of state and business leaders read Slashdot than The Economist, but other than them, your demographics comment is accurate.
The Economist is fiscally liberal (from the European definition of liberal) and socially liberal (from the American definition). In fact, the previous issue had an editorial on the subject of liberalism. You might have found it, too, shockingly void of statistics and other lies on which to rest your wearied intellect.
Laser printers also have fusers, a teflon-coated tube with a hot incandescent bulb inside that squeezes the pages against an opposing rubber roller. These will develop scratches and pick up munge over time, so you can identify spot patterns.
Plus, there are various pickup rollers that leave somewhat unique smudges if the owner lets them get dirty enough.
Like tonor cartridges, these are all replaceable parts, though, and only scratches and pits (not general munge) will leave a consistent pattern of dots.
Basically, if that is how the feds intend to track down a particular printer, they have their work cut out for them.
What I've always dreamed of doing is hiding a transmitter inside the photoconductive drums. A sensitive detector can measure the tiny increase in current each time the photoconductive material is struck with the laser light. Divide this stream of ons and offs by the revolution rate of the drum, stack the resulting bitmaps and you've assembled an exact record of what was printed!
The text of the book is a dymamically generated jpeg.
/print?id=TpUEyu2mTdoC&pg=3&img=1&q=economic+devel opment&sig=Aty75CJmTJeGBo3RuQNDK2rySFw HTTP/1.0
1 55:S=0M__0IuYQEWmHl8g; expires=
^ G^ G^G
# telnet print.google.com 80
GET
Trying 64.233.161.118...^M
Connected to print.google.com (64.233.161.118).^M
Escape character is '^]'.^M
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=3a4b3c405b55e316:TM=1097254155:LM=1097254
Sun, 17-Jan-2038 19:14:07 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com
Server: OFE/0.1
Content-Length: 95942
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:49:15 GMT
Connection: Keep-Alive
^@^PJFIF^@^A^A^@^@^A^@^A^@^@^@C^@^H^F^F^G^F^E^H
<snip>
The jpeg can be converted to postscript, which can be converted to text.
This gets one page. If someone could reverse-engineer the "sig" argument I'm sure you could specify a page number.
To be honest, it would probably be easier to just check the "Economic Development" out from the library.
I also notice the slashdot effect is starting to crush print.google.com.
My bike has a 24 volt power supply. The motor is mounted on the back wheel with its dedicated chain and gear, on the opposite side of the deraileur. The bike is a standard cheap heavy duty mountain bike with front suspension. Currie sells just the kits for around $400 and the complete bikes for around $800. My county offered a generous rebate for electric bikes, without which I would not have bought this one. I used to live about 13 miles from work. The electric bike was good for beating rush hour. It is heavy as fuck. It starts out on a heavy mountain bike, then add 10 pounds for the motor and 40 pounds for the lead acid battery. It is too slow; to be legally ridable in California without a motorcycle license it must be geared for a top speed of 20 mph. I wish I had bought a 36 volt system so I could swap out the drive gear for a little more speed. Now I live about 25 miles from work, which is beyond the battery capacity of my style of riding (full throttle on the motor, pedalling as hard as I can--plus the battery is 3 years old and doesn't hold its full charge anymore). I will occasionally drive the bike in my car to a parking lot halfway to work, and ride the remainder. This is where heavy as fuck, and the small motor jutting out on one side hurt me. I still arrive at work sweaty and disheveled. Only the sweaty part is unusual, though--and nobody cares if geeks are sweaty in my office. The difference is I am not exausted from riding a standard bike as fast as I can for 13 miles. I am rarely passed by another bicyclist or e-bicyclist. I am definitely faster than traffic at rush hour. Your in-hub 36 volt bike looks promising. Expect it to be heavy as fuck. Don't expect to find an alternative to lead-acid any time soon, unless you're prepared to fork over serious dough. Expect to find a million standard bicyclists bitching about how you should buy a road bike and have your work install a shower for every person with practical advice about e-bikes.
The point is they work only only well enough to foil people trying to use them legitimately. People selling dvds in the Kmart parking lot were not stymied by any DRM system. The other message of the talk is there is money to be made by publishing in a format that can be used however the owner desires.
My brother works for Amec, doing geomelt crap in Washington. He's a geologist, and he's in my fantasy football league!
For a $10 pledge, you can get his autograph.
Look into the Liberty spec. One of its optional provisions is forced reauthentication.
:)
Liberty, and its competing standards like WS-Federation and SAML, are good because the partners can run whatever vendor's software they like. You just have to verify your vendor is compliant.
Liberty Specifications
SAML Spec
WS Fed Spec Any number of vendors in the access control realm are jumping on the Liberty bandwagon. My company makes a product competing with Netegrity. Of course ours is superior in every way imaginable
Indian Health Service routinely sterilized women as late as 1970.
This still goes on today! Medi-Cal, California's public health service, routinely sterilizes the poor.
Perhaps you meant IHS forcibly sterilized Native American women? Bullshit.
OldSCO gear gives you street cred. I get (or at least imagine I get) weird looks wearing my SCO fleece vest at the San Jose airport.
I worked at their last forum in Santa Cruz. In addition to manning a webcam, I was a SCO disc-tosser at the keynote speech/rally. Imagine the dropped balloons at a convention, except we were throwing blades (steeply angled, hard to catch frisbee throw) at a bunch of unsuspecting office workers.
The whole event was a little sad because they had just been bought by Caldera. The powers in charge were trying to talk up Tarrantella and Linux, and the poor UnixWare developers were wondering whether anybody cares about them anymore.
Anyway, the point is I grabbed a few dozen SCO freestyle discs to go with my attractive vest.
Good idea! We can call it the "Consumer's Union" and use the organization to test and report on products. We can call the report "Consumer's Report".