THis is off topic but...
In response to your Sig. The difference between science and religeon is that Religeon is based on belief and Science is based on doubt.
Now programming on the other hand contains a big chunk of religeon, voodoo, and black magic:)
If you really like Nescape 6.2, you should download the latest Mozilla Nightly Build and run that. Make sure any feed back gets back to the mozilla team. Short of taking an active development role, this is the one thing you can do to make sure you havethe best possible web browser
Most animals do not poo in their drinking water... Actually, one of the water filter companies had a great picture of a moose in the middle of a stream taking a leak.
I love nature, but I still filter the water I drink while camping.
I had an instructor at USMA (Yes, I am a ring Knocker) That did a test on whether frequency hopping made a radio signal harder to dectect. THe result was that, since you have to scan a whole spectrum anyway, frequency hopping did nothing to mask where the signal was coming from. If you want to Identify where a soldier is on a battle field (as opposed to figure out what he is saying) you want him to have a radio, and to use it.
All of the physical fitness of a serious competitive sport, far more satisfaction, and a heavy emphasis on cooperation.
And the cliff doesn't lose if you succeed in climbing it.
In the end, the only competition is agains one's self. Yes there are climbing competitions. Anything can be made into a competitive sport, but that is as much what climbing about as a bake-off is what cooking is about.
And kids are usually better at it than adults (come on, Dad. It's sooooo easy).
Just because the fork() command was written back in the 1970s does not mean that Linux was written in the 70s. Just because linux is based on Unix doed not mean that Linux was written in the 1970s. You might as well say that Macintosh is really just a version of the old Xerox windowing system, that since transitors were invented in the 50s, that since boolean logic is just based on the rules of logic from ancient greece, that since electricity is used in lightning this whole technological revolution is really just an extension of the primordial soup. OK, so I fell down a slippery slope, but the fact remains that what is cool about Linux, BSD, Solaris and all flavors of Eunichs is that they took a solid base, the unix programing environment, and built on it. Last I checked, Xwindows wasn't in the original Unix spec, and that is how most people view the magical workings of there Linux systems. I now Gnome is a little more recent than 1976, as I think Miguel was in the very low single digits in 1976 (was he even born?) Perl wasn't around back then. By the logic in the article the C64 is hotter than Unix because it came around later.
I remember seeing a User Friendly link of the day that pointed to the grammerizer about a year or so ago. Looks like someone too this piece of venerable spam and grameerized it. My particular favorite way to grammerize was the french chef (de Bork Bork)
So what you guys are saying is that if we take the edges off the CD and angle them upward on the forward facing half of each edge (which way does aCD rotate any way) we could get life, and turn our CD's into helicopers? Flying Linux boxes, the new weapon in the war agains Monopoly and ppor code. Course, we need to solve the counter rotarion problem....hmmm maybe two cd players. Or maybe we'll link to machines togeth to make the ultimate ggek flying machine. Makes you rethink the term Beowulf now doesn't it.
Yeah, I'd wondered about the power consumption. I still think magnetism is the way to go, though. I mean, it is the direct conversion of electricity to kinectic energy required and in controllable amounts.
Recently I've been wondering about the possiblilty of using a chained array of solenoids as an artificial muscle. The shaft of the solenid could pull on the chassis of the one infront of it, providing muscular pull. The ones I've spected on some of the web sites have a pull of about 5 lbs. A quad can push 350+ Lbs.. so to make a leg strength musclce would require 60-70. Expensive but do-able. The best parts is the solenoids are responsive to varying amounts of currents. Anyone with more electronics knowledge care to comment
This is a difficult argument to counter and one I have been dealing with for a long time. As a West Point graduate, I am often asked why I chose to go in the Army. My answer is usually, "Too complex a question for the time alloted for the answer." However, one of the major deciding factors was studying about Mei Lai in high school. THe majority of people in a South Vietnam village were massacred by US troops. Only one person went to prison: The Platoon Leader. I remembered thinking, "If I had been in his position, that would not have happened." That is why a free thinking computer geek from liberal Massachusetts decided to forgo the college (read party) career he had been looking forward to for most of his life to go through the rigors of military schooling and traiing. I graduated and was an Infantry officer (not a very good one, in retrospect).
After vietnam, the Army was viewed as a dishonorable profession. As a result the army of the 1970's was riddled with problems. It took many years and a shift to a president concerned about the military to fix them.
The fact remains that we will have a military. While it would be wonderful if we could ensure world peace without guns and bombs, it is not going to happen soon. Work towards it, it is a wonderful goal. But understand that in the interim there will be men and women standing guard. If we the American public dedicide to treat the profession as honorable, then honorable men and women will be drawn to it. It is not a fixed thing; the attitude we spread today will directly affect the actions of the military tomorrow. Express your concern about the choices the civlian leaders make when they decide to deploy our troops. But support them men and women who have to make very difficult decisions. In short, ensure the morality of the military lines up with the morality of the people. The Military of the past has made mistakes. It is up to us, all of us, to learn from them.
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THis is off topic but...
:)
In response to your Sig. The difference between science and religeon is that Religeon is based on belief and Science is based on doubt.
Now programming on the other hand contains a big chunk of religeon, voodoo, and black magic
If you really like Nescape 6.2, you should download the latest Mozilla Nightly Build and run that. Make sure any feed back gets back to the mozilla team. Short of taking an active development role, this is the one thing you can do to make sure you havethe best possible web browser
Just make sure you understand the difference between ideas, ideals, and idealists
Didn't that concept get pushed by R Heinlein in Alternate Reality
Yes, any Sys admin worth his Salt would use fork and commit parallel murder.
Just to nitpick, but Mozilla was the originall project name: The Mosaic Killer -> Mozilla
Netscape was the Branded name
Most animals do not poo in their drinking water...
Actually, one of the water filter companies had a great picture of a moose in the middle of a stream taking a leak.
I love nature, but I still filter the water I drink while camping.
I feel really silly for not knowing this one. I kept typing doc2 and not finding anything.
Thanks, I actually learned something practical
Read Carl Sagen's "Demon Haunted World" and it will probably help you come to a rational explanation of what you saw.
I had an instructor at USMA (Yes, I am a ring Knocker) That did a test on whether frequency hopping made a radio signal harder to dectect. THe result was that, since you have to scan a whole spectrum anyway, frequency hopping did nothing to mask where the signal was coming from. If you want to Identify where a soldier is on a battle field (as opposed to figure out what he is saying) you want him to have a radio, and to use it.
Are you the Software Liberation Front?
piss off
what?
We're the Liberation Front of Software.
I thought we were the popular front of software
Naw, he's over there.
Splitter!
Go Climb A Rock.
All of the physical fitness of a serious competitive sport, far more satisfaction, and a heavy emphasis on cooperation.
And the cliff doesn't lose if you succeed in climbing it.
In the end, the only competition is agains one's self. Yes there are climbing competitions. Anything can be made into a competitive sport, but that is as much what climbing about as a bake-off is what cooking is about.
And kids are usually better at it than adults (come on, Dad. It's sooooo easy).
Just because the fork() command was written back in the 1970s does not mean that Linux was written in the 70s. Just because linux is based on Unix doed not mean that Linux was written in the 1970s. You might as well say that Macintosh is really just a version of the old Xerox windowing system, that since transitors were invented in the 50s, that since boolean logic is just based on the rules of logic from ancient greece, that since electricity is used in lightning this whole technological revolution is really just an extension of the primordial soup. OK, so I fell down a slippery slope, but the fact remains that what is cool about Linux, BSD, Solaris and all flavors of Eunichs is that they took a solid base, the unix programing environment, and built on it. Last I checked, Xwindows wasn't in the original Unix spec, and that is how most people view the magical workings of there Linux systems. I now Gnome is a little more recent than 1976, as I think Miguel was in the very low single digits in 1976 (was he even born?) Perl wasn't around back then. By the logic in the article the C64 is hotter than Unix because it came around later.
Ahhh. I feel better now.
I remember seeing a User Friendly link of the day that pointed to the grammerizer about a year or so ago. Looks like someone too this piece of venerable spam and grameerized it. My particular favorite way to grammerize was the french chef (de Bork Bork)
So what you guys are saying is that if we take the edges off the CD and angle them upward on the forward facing half of each edge (which way does aCD rotate any way) we could get life, and turn our CD's into helicopers? Flying Linux boxes, the new weapon in the war agains Monopoly and ppor code. Course, we need to solve the counter rotarion problem....hmmm maybe two cd players. Or maybe we'll link to machines togeth to make the ultimate ggek flying machine. Makes you rethink the term Beowulf now doesn't it.
Yeah, I'd wondered about the power consumption. I still think magnetism is the way to go, though.
I mean, it is the direct conversion of electricity to kinectic energy required and in controllable amounts.
Recently I've been wondering about the possiblilty of using a chained array of solenoids as an artificial muscle. The shaft of the solenid could pull on the chassis of the one infront of it, providing muscular pull. The ones I've spected on some of the web sites have a pull of about 5 lbs. A quad can push 350+ Lbs.. so to make a leg strength musclce would require 60-70. Expensive but do-able. The best parts is the solenoids are responsive to varying amounts of currents.
Anyone with more electronics knowledge care to comment
This is a difficult argument to counter and one I have been dealing with for a long time. As a West Point graduate, I am often asked why I chose to go in the Army. My answer is usually, "Too complex a question for the time alloted for the answer." However, one of the major deciding factors was studying about Mei Lai in high school. THe majority of people in a South Vietnam village were massacred by US troops. Only one person went to prison: The Platoon Leader. I remembered thinking, "If I had been in his position, that would not have happened." That is why a free thinking computer geek from liberal Massachusetts decided to forgo the college (read party) career he had been looking forward to for most of his life to go through the rigors of military schooling and traiing. I graduated and was an Infantry officer (not a very good one, in retrospect).
After vietnam, the Army was viewed as a dishonorable profession. As a result the army of the 1970's was riddled with problems. It took many years and a shift to a president concerned about the military to fix them.
The fact remains that we will have a military. While it would be wonderful if we could ensure world peace without guns and bombs, it is not going to happen soon. Work towards it, it is a wonderful goal. But understand that in the interim there will be men and women standing guard. If we the American public dedicide to treat the profession as honorable, then honorable men and women will be drawn to it. It is not a fixed thing; the attitude we spread today will directly affect the actions of the military tomorrow. Express your concern about the choices the civlian leaders make when they decide to deploy our troops. But support them men and women who have to make very difficult decisions. In short, ensure the morality of the military lines up with the morality of the people. The Military of the past has made mistakes. It is up to us, all of us, to learn from them.
Adam Young,
1LT, Infantry
(USAR)