Quote from the wiki page: "Black ice, also known as "glare ice" or "clear ice," typically refers to a thin coating of glazed ice on a surface, often a roadway. While not truly black, it is transparent, allowing the usually-black asphalt/macadam roadway to be seen through it, hence the term. It is unusually slick compared to other forms of roadway ice."
*back on topic* I was under the impression that court proceedings were open to the public by default, and required extraordinary circumstances to be closed to the public.
Televising the court proceedings would only scale up the 'open to the public' concept IMHO, but I can also see some of the downside to this: 1. the tendency of our news media to spin, slant, edit, and sensationalize everything to try increasing their audience. 2. the ability to influence public opinion (due to #1 above), which can in turn influence the court's decision. 3. the whole thing turning into a media circus, as per the likes of Jerry Springer-type shows.
Without specific, strict guidelines for this, more harm than good is possible. Some of those guidelines necessary could in themselves be considered unconstitutional. I don't know which side of the fence I'm on in this debate. In an ideal world, transparency and openness is desired. But in this world, the chance of skewing trial results is just too high to be acceptable, IMHO.
""We now have a proper memory manager for video memory, the GEM [Graphics Execution Manager] memory manager," Kroah-Hartman said. "This gives Linux much better graphics performance than it previously had."
The video improvements in Linux also extend to power utilization for graphics. Red Hat Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields told InternetNews.com that the 2.6.28 kernel enables reduced power consumption across the video driver subsystem in the vertical blanking routines, which will be helpful to mobile users."
That is all that is mentioned (above quote) about the state of 'the new graphics' in the new kernel.
"Tie him to an anker..." Which type of anker are you referring to? The car, or 10 gallons equivalent of beer, or (unspecified amount of) Indonesian beer, or the river Anker? It could make a big difference on the demonstrated and expected results here.
If it was a typo, did you mean wanker, cranker, canker, or what?
It's not funny until you learn to communicate so that your audience can understand what you meant.
I think the word you were looking for could be anchor, from the context of your post. (which is not anywhere obvious to a non-native english speaking audience)
Now if you suggested a set of balance scales* to compare the weight of a witch to that of a duck, then we would all have a better understanding of what you are trying to be funny about.
"Someone who disapproves of a witch hunt?! He must be one of them! Tie him to an anker and see if this wickedness floats or not!" This reeks of 'OMGZ!!!teh TERRORISTS!!!!-think of the children!!!', trying for sarcasm. Epic Fail, OMGZ!!!Ponies!!!
Having never been to Cuba, I will take your word for the Cuban Experience; it is similar enough to my visit to Puerto Rico, that you could substitute Puerto Rico for Cuba in your post, and it would be real close (except the mediocre food!) to my experience!.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Caribbean, and hope to revisit soon.
Thanks for the 'heads up' about Cuba, I may try that next. (Besides, I really enjoy a good cigar with either good brandy, or that marvelous, smooth, and tasty aged rum!)
My visit to Puerto Rico was limited to a 5 star resort in San Juan for 5 days, but the beach 20m from the deck of the hotel room looked just like this, but with a few coconut palms scattered around. Every afternoon around 3-4 P.M. (local), it would rain for about an hour or hour and a half(just enough to cool things down), then be nice.
"The island is also popularly known as La Isla del Encanto, which translated means "The Island of Enchantment.""(from the above linked wiki on PR) Yes, it is easy to see where they came up with this, in my VERY limited experience.
This has to be the coolest name for a scientist I have ever encountered!: Dr. Madhat Abdel-Jawad...Madhat FTW!!!
Or, maybe I have watched too many 1950's-1960's grade B (or some/most less than 'B') 'mad scientist' movies for my own good. It could also be Lewis Carroll's fault for "Alice in Wonderland" having the 'MadHatter'....I just don't know anymore...
You have confused me, GNUbee. *Is this where I insert the dynamic duo of : 1. Get off my lawn, you young whippersnappers! 2. You must be new here! ???? 3. Profit! (Why yes, I am posting while intoxicated! Sorry!)
Arghh!! How am I going to explain that those LocoMochaDoubleFrappeEsspressoTripleShots I was TRYING to drink, but ended up splattering across my monitor/keyboard, are NOT cumstains from pr0n....to my PHB!
Oh, yes, and...YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!!!
Is there a '+1 ROFLCopter!!111!! mod that I haven't found?
Note: set sarcasm filter to 'full speed ahead, and dam* the torpedoes!
*yes, I know the diff between dam and damn...think about it if you are a pedant, or going full speed ahead.
"This is probably the best time for Science in the history of Humanity."
Yes, I agree wholeheartedly with you. (In spite of my comment above) I was just in a frustrated, pessimistic mood due to a discussion with several cow-orkers earlier. Sorry about that, and the following discourse.:-)
*disclaimer* I haven't completely regained a harmonious and balanced mood yet, but it is steadily getting there! Seems easier now days to lose sight of the beauty and goodness of the forest due to so many gnarly, fugly, and sinister trees growing in it's midst.
Back on topic though...I'm kind of sad that my age will most likely prevent me from seeing/experiencing some of the cool discoveries and tech that will come to be in 50-100 years from now***, yet I am also grateful to have seen/experienced what I have lived through.
I'm a NASA brat, and enjoyed playing in the old Mercury and Gemini capsules outside of my dad's building when I was a kid. (Goddard Spaceflight Center, in Greenbelt, MD.)
I watched Neil Armstrong step down on the moon in 1969, and was awed and amazed!
Got a joyride from a USMC fighter pilot in an F-4C Phantom (he was a combat 'ace' with 16 air to air victories against Mig's in Vietnam) when I was in Jr. High- then my younger brother hooked me up with a ride in an F-15 Eagle when I was in my early 30's. The F-4 ride thrilled me, and I thought that nothing could top that...until the F-15 ride! Holy Shit My Pants, Batman! Wow! I came embarrassingly close to having to use the barf-bag the pilot handed me (with a VERY wicked smile on his face). Thanks, bro! (He told the pilot that I could not be scared, and would laugh at anything the pilot tried! Talk about a challenge/dare to a fighter jock!- I was unaware of this conversation until several days later) It took the ground crew 2 days, several prybars, a crane, and 2 sticks of TNT to get me seperated from the seat- apparently my arsehole clenched so forcefully, the suction created sucked 3/4's of the seat up my posterior.:-) How those guys do that on a regular basis bemuses me, and is comforting at the same time.
I've watched the birth of AARPANET, the World Wide Web and the Information SuperHighway, and then the Internet we love and sometimes hate today.
Stem cells, cloning, genetic engineering, modern medicine, robotic assembly lines, etc., etc., ad nauseum.
BTW, your reply raised 'scientist replying' flags for me: "All in all, we're not."
If you are one (a scientist), then: I salute you! And carry on...you have my respect and admiration.
If you are not one, or only 'play one on T.V.', then you have raised a valid point, and I appreciate the 'slap to the face/get a hold of yourself!' effect your reply had on me.
At any rate, thanks for the reply- it was appreciated, and helped 'center' me, but more importantly, you focused on the truly wonderful stuff happening now, and stuff 'just around the corner'***!
"Probably, yeah. In the worst case, though, the disc might have gotten finalized incorrectly (e.g. using a bad optical drive), in which case even the original DVD burner might not play it....
The lead-in area (at least for the first session) is the innermost recordable portion of the media. If something went wrong in media fabrication, I'd expect that to be the second-most likely part to have problems, second only to the outer edge (which fails verification frequently in cheap media). So this could have been a media defect as well."
*disclaimer* This is only my limited experience, so take with a grain of salt....
I have had this very problem in the past, and can currently reproduce it at will today.
Facts: 1. 100 disc stack of blank CD-R | 1x-52x, 700MB, 80 minute Imation (tm) discs. 2. at the time troubles started:
a. One PC (500MHz P3 slot A, 768MB PC 100 RAM, CyberDrv CW058D CD-R/Rw @ 32x/12x/48x cd drive, Win XP Pro SP2, Nero 7
b. Dell desktop: 1.8 GHz AMD Athlon, 1GB PC 2700 RAM, Sony DRUxxx? DVD-+r/rw 4x burner, Win XP SP2, MyDVD-came with drive
c. P4 Prescott socket 478 3.0 GHz, 1 GB PC 2700 RAM, Lite-on DVD-ROM/CD-+r/rw, Kubuntu 6.10 Dapper Drake, K3b.
Results: 2.a,b. would not even recognize the discs, c. would use and burn with no problem.
The perplexing thing is after I burnt a disc in Kubuntu, it would then 'work' in the other two Win XP machines, but the two XP machines refused to use the Imation blanks.
Since then, b.(above) has been dual boot with XP SP2, and Kubuntu 8.04, and XP refuses to recognize the blanks, while Kubuntu/K3b on the same hardware uses them with no problem.
The MEDIA used CAN make a big difference here, as I have found out the hard way.
If I had mod points, I would have given you some '+1 Insightful' love, but alas, this lame reply is the best I can currently do for now.
That sounds like a reasonable approach to a data recovery business that will allow for a solid reputation and huge trust factor to build up a good business to grand levels of market share. Kudos to them!
Your comment makes me wonder two things: who were the two outfits that claimed it impossible, and how SRS found the lead-in corruption so fast....Hmmmm...
As a comment above asks, who are these two outfits that claimed impossible-I don't ever want to use them!
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Quote from the wiki page:
"Black ice, also known as "glare ice" or "clear ice," typically refers to a thin coating of glazed ice on a surface, often a roadway. While not truly black, it is transparent, allowing the usually-black asphalt/macadam roadway to be seen through it, hence the term. It is unusually slick compared to other forms of roadway ice."
Wicked stuff!
Yes, I was there. (no, not there, but over there!)
Linus and RMS got into a fight, and RMS pulled out his katana....*shudder* ...and well, now Linus is sleeping with the penguins.
RMS was last seen rounding up the HURD to assault Antarctica to exterminate those pesky, compromising, commie penguins.
Wait! What?!?
Wow, those are some good med's the doctor gave me, nevermind!
Hear! Hear!
Thanks for the reply.
*cringes*
I RTFA, but did not see anything about invisible cameras there.
After I read your reply, I went back, to double check.
Okay, not familiar with Courtroom View Network, checked that link, and now it makes more sense.
I retract my doubts, and thanks for the info. (and persistence-it took a bit to sink through my thick skull)
"Think about how the RIAA lawyers feel."
Hi Mom! I'm on TV!!!
*back on topic*
I was under the impression that court proceedings were open to the public by default, and required extraordinary circumstances to be closed to the public.
Televising the court proceedings would only scale up the 'open to the public' concept IMHO, but I can also see some of the downside to this:
1. the tendency of our news media to spin, slant, edit, and sensationalize everything to try increasing their audience.
2. the ability to influence public opinion (due to #1 above), which can in turn influence the court's decision.
3. the whole thing turning into a media circus, as per the likes of Jerry Springer-type shows.
Without specific, strict guidelines for this, more harm than good is possible. Some of those guidelines necessary could in themselves be considered unconstitutional.
I don't know which side of the fence I'm on in this debate.
In an ideal world, transparency and openness is desired. But in this world, the chance of skewing trial results is just too high to be acceptable, IMHO.
Just for the record, I'm a he. (despite the /. basement dweller's manboobs)
Man, it must really be xmas! LOL!
Polly wants a cracker!
""We now have a proper memory manager for video memory, the GEM [Graphics Execution Manager] memory manager," Kroah-Hartman said. "This gives Linux much better graphics performance than it previously had."
The video improvements in Linux also extend to power utilization for graphics. Red Hat Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields told InternetNews.com that the 2.6.28 kernel enables reduced power consumption across the video driver subsystem in the vertical blanking routines, which will be helpful to mobile users."
That is all that is mentioned (above quote) about the state of 'the new graphics' in the new kernel.
*sarcasm disclaimer*
"Tie him to an anker..."
Which type of anker are you referring to? The car, or 10 gallons equivalent of beer, or (unspecified amount of) Indonesian beer, or the river Anker?
It could make a big difference on the demonstrated and expected results here.
If it was a typo, did you mean wanker, cranker, canker, or what?
It's not funny until you learn to communicate so that your audience can understand what you meant.
I think the word you were looking for could be anchor, from the context of your post. (which is not anywhere obvious to a non-native english speaking audience)
Now if you suggested a set of balance scales* to compare the weight of a witch to that of a duck, then we would all have a better understanding of what you are trying to be funny about.
*You can use my largest scales.[3:45/5:33]
"Someone who disapproves of a witch hunt?! He must be one of them! Tie him to an anker and see if this wickedness floats or not!"
This reeks of 'OMGZ!!!teh TERRORISTS!!!!-think of the children!!!', trying for sarcasm.
Epic Fail, OMGZ!!!Ponies!!!
*end sarcasm*
Aghh!
The cake is a lie!
Well, this should take care of the rest of the German's personal finances that did not get sold to the undercover journalists earlier this winter.
It must of been one hell of a good fruitcake, but I wonder if it was worth the risk for the mail person.
Having never been to Cuba, I will take your word for the Cuban Experience; it is similar enough to my visit to Puerto Rico, that you could substitute Puerto Rico for Cuba in your post, and it would be real close (except the mediocre food!) to my experience!.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Caribbean, and hope to revisit soon.
Thanks for the 'heads up' about Cuba, I may try that next. (Besides, I really enjoy a good cigar with either good brandy, or that marvelous, smooth, and tasty aged rum!)
My visit to Puerto Rico was limited to a 5 star resort in San Juan for 5 days, but the beach 20m from the deck of the hotel room looked just like this, but with a few coconut palms scattered around. Every afternoon around 3-4 P.M. (local), it would rain for about an hour or hour and a half(just enough to cool things down), then be nice.
"The island is also popularly known as La Isla del Encanto, which translated means "The Island of Enchantment.""(from the above linked wiki on PR)
Yes, it is easy to see where they came up with this, in my VERY limited experience.
Well, there will be someone to try something like this.
*quote from above link:*
"Meanwhile, the entire neighbourhood is whimpering and standing in puddles of their own urine.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I don't really have to say anything else here, do I?"
And it has clowns!
This has to be the coolest name for a scientist I have ever encountered!:
Dr. Madhat Abdel-Jawad...Madhat FTW!!!
Or, maybe I have watched too many 1950's-1960's grade B (or some/most less than 'B') 'mad scientist' movies for my own good.
It could also be Lewis Carroll's fault for "Alice in Wonderland" having the 'MadHatter'....I just don't know anymore...
Oh yeah, have pink flamingo, will travel...BTW, WHO are you, again?. (Don Ameche's character as the senile father)
Worth watching, a very funny but family safe movie- I give it a 'two thumbs up' rating.
Uhmm...No.
Just the joy of life and a little caffeine, why?
Is this a problem for you?
I'll be happy with your solution, as long as no snakes are involved.
*I HATE M'f'ing snakes on a plain, or a plane!*
Yes, BSoD can be very bad on a sub...It makes for a very short sequel.
YES!...Uhm,No?
*mental picture*
Whoa!!v
You have confused me, GNUbee.
*Is this where I insert the dynamic duo of :
1. Get off my lawn, you young whippersnappers!
2. You must be new here!
????
3. Profit! (Why yes, I am posting while intoxicated! Sorry!)
Arghh!!
How am I going to explain that those LocoMochaDoubleFrappeEsspressoTripleShots I was TRYING to drink, but ended up splattering across my monitor/keyboard, are NOT cumstains from pr0n....to my PHB!
Oh, yes, and...YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!!!
Is there a '+1 ROFLCopter!!111!! mod that I haven't found?
Note: set sarcasm filter to 'full speed ahead, and dam* the torpedoes!
*yes, I know the diff between dam and damn...think about it if you are a pedant, or going full speed ahead.
"This is probably the best time for Science in the history of Humanity."
Yes, I agree wholeheartedly with you. (In spite of my comment above) :-)
I was just in a frustrated, pessimistic mood due to a discussion with several cow-orkers earlier. Sorry about that, and the following discourse.
*disclaimer*
I haven't completely regained a harmonious and balanced mood yet, but it is steadily getting there!
Seems easier now days to lose sight of the beauty and goodness of the forest due to so many gnarly, fugly, and sinister trees growing in it's midst.
Back on topic though...I'm kind of sad that my age will most likely prevent me from seeing/experiencing some of the cool discoveries and tech that will come to be in 50-100 years from now***, yet I am also grateful to have seen/experienced what I have lived through.
I'm a NASA brat, and enjoyed playing in the old Mercury and Gemini capsules outside of my dad's building when I was a kid. (Goddard Spaceflight Center, in Greenbelt, MD.)
I watched Neil Armstrong step down on the moon in 1969, and was awed and amazed!
Got a joyride from a USMC fighter pilot in an F-4C Phantom (he was a combat 'ace' with 16 air to air victories against Mig's in Vietnam) when I was in Jr. High- then my younger brother hooked me up with a ride in an F-15 Eagle when I was in my early 30's. :-)
The F-4 ride thrilled me, and I thought that nothing could top that...until the F-15 ride! Holy Shit My Pants, Batman! Wow! I came embarrassingly close to having to use the barf-bag the pilot handed me (with a VERY wicked smile on his face).
Thanks, bro! (He told the pilot that I could not be scared, and would laugh at anything the pilot tried! Talk about a challenge/dare to a fighter jock!- I was unaware of this conversation until several days later)
It took the ground crew 2 days, several prybars, a crane, and 2 sticks of TNT to get me seperated from the seat- apparently my arsehole clenched so forcefully, the suction created sucked 3/4's of the seat up my posterior.
How those guys do that on a regular basis bemuses me, and is comforting at the same time.
I've watched the birth of AARPANET, the World Wide Web and the Information SuperHighway, and then the Internet we love and sometimes hate today.
Stem cells, cloning, genetic engineering, modern medicine, robotic assembly lines, etc., etc., ad nauseum.
BTW, your reply raised 'scientist replying' flags for me: "All in all, we're not."
If you are one (a scientist), then: I salute you! And carry on...you have my respect and admiration.
If you are not one, or only 'play one on T.V.', then you have raised a valid point, and I appreciate the 'slap to the face/get a hold of yourself!' effect your reply had on me.
At any rate, thanks for the reply- it was appreciated, and helped 'center' me, but more importantly, you focused on the truly wonderful stuff happening now, and stuff 'just around the corner'***!
"...taking into consideration the religious beliefs and the gullibility of the masses on those times."
And scientists today are still struggling up this same mountain.
I for one, welcome our new estrogen-based overlords!
"Probably, yeah. In the worst case, though, the disc might have gotten finalized incorrectly (e.g. using a bad optical drive), in which case even the original DVD burner might not play it....
The lead-in area (at least for the first session) is the innermost recordable portion of the media. If something went wrong in media fabrication, I'd expect that to be the second-most likely part to have problems, second only to the outer edge (which fails verification frequently in cheap media). So this could have been a media defect as well."
*disclaimer*
This is only my limited experience, so take with a grain of salt....
I have had this very problem in the past, and can currently reproduce it at will today.
Facts:
1. 100 disc stack of blank CD-R | 1x-52x, 700MB, 80 minute Imation (tm) discs.
2. at the time troubles started:
a. One PC (500MHz P3 slot A, 768MB PC 100 RAM, CyberDrv CW058D CD-R/Rw @ 32x/12x/48x cd drive, Win XP Pro SP2, Nero 7
b. Dell desktop: 1.8 GHz AMD Athlon, 1GB PC 2700 RAM, Sony DRUxxx? DVD-+r/rw 4x burner, Win XP SP2, MyDVD-came with drive
c. P4 Prescott socket 478 3.0 GHz, 1 GB PC 2700 RAM, Lite-on DVD-ROM/CD-+r/rw, Kubuntu 6.10 Dapper Drake, K3b.
Results:
2.a,b. would not even recognize the discs, c. would use and burn with no problem.
The perplexing thing is after I burnt a disc in Kubuntu, it would then 'work' in the other two Win XP machines, but the two XP machines refused to use the Imation blanks.
Since then, b.(above) has been dual boot with XP SP2, and Kubuntu 8.04, and XP refuses to recognize the blanks, while Kubuntu/K3b on the same hardware uses them with no problem.
The MEDIA used CAN make a big difference here, as I have found out the hard way.
If I had mod points, I would have given you some '+1 Insightful' love, but alas, this lame reply is the best I can currently do for now.
That sounds like a reasonable approach to a data recovery business that will allow for a solid reputation and huge trust factor to build up a good business to grand levels of market share. Kudos to them!
Your comment makes me wonder two things:
who were the two outfits that claimed it impossible,
and how SRS found the lead-in corruption so fast....Hmmmm...
As a comment above asks, who are these two outfits that claimed impossible-I don't ever want to use them!
Does this mean that I have been *gasp!* pirating Kubuntu illegally for the past 6 years???
*frantically starts digging bunker in back yard*