We are using a couple of cordless Cisco VOIP phones in exactly the opposite environment. We use these in the middle of the forest in a fire camp. I guess I should mention that we have a trailer outfitted with a satellite uplink, GIS workstations, Crew Dispatch, and high resolution video into the hospital when needed.
Canada.com has a story on how crappy the gov't grown dope is. There was also a story on CBC radio about a Compassion Society testing the federal dope, and the dope had high levels of arsenic -- so much so that most countries wouldn't import it for medicinal uses or scientific tests. They said that its THC levels were around 4% while the average type grown by the Compassion Society was 12.5%. Even though the gov't pot was gamma-irradiated, there were 4x the number of biocontaminates in it over the organic homegrown.
The figures may be slightly off, but that is what I recall, and the damn Vancouver Island CBC website is woefully lacking in content and archives.
In Vancouver, cops don't blink if you roll a joint on the street and have not for years. I have personally tested this by accident. That coupled with the fact that BCBud(tm) is among the best and strongest in the world, and is arguably the third largest industry in the province.
Was the survey skewed to represent society as a whole? Consider that mortality rates for women between the ages between 18 and 29 -- not dramatically more than that for boys between 6 and 17. Even assuming that those samples are the same size (11 years), there still remains a very large group of women to add weight to the 18+ category (30+ year olds). I wonder if the 30+ year olds make up much of the difference?
I may be in the minority here, but I do believe that if you design a software project with a specific standard in mind, there had better be a compelling reason for that decision. The only one I can think of offhand is interoperability with other software or hardware. Where the problem lies is software or hardware that doesn't publish its storage or communication formats. Those formats become a defacto standard for others to inter-operate with your software or hardware. I am sure anyone who has tried to write to a standard has required only a portion of that standard, and would have liked other features in order to increase speed, or decrease size, or cut down on code-bloat. I do not have the resources to start a standards body, but if I write a program or have a product that gains noticable market-share, my "standard" will at least be looked at by that body. If you are lucky enough to have the lion-share of the market, you HAVE the standard, and everyone will support your format or protocol. So yes, as a market stabilizes, so do the standards, and as more people agree on them other protocols are left behind.
Standards evolve! help them along.
<backPedallingContradiction> Err... Except you Microsoft, this IS Slashdot after all, and your embrace and extend techniques.... ummm yeah... don't do that... at least not without publishing them, and preferrably before you release a product that uses it. </backPedallingContradiction>
Are you guys talking about the real world, because while my EQ character has most of the skills listed, I'd sure like to know how to make soap and tie knots so I could tie down a few trolls and give them baths.
The main reason for Mainframe worker attrition is those bloody games that keep dropping into the zone, and those users that keep derezzing the workers. Gaagh!! If only we had a guardian to mend and defend, then we might be able to keep some workers around.
I have read most of the comments, and they all seem to tend toward the negative uses, so I am going to offer a counter-example. MoviX. You could mass-produce a bootable cd that would be capable of playing any movie or mp3/ogg file(s) you happened to burn onto it.
I would love a chair that talked. And a clock, and maybe a pterodactyl. Whenever anyone who visits me and says the word of the day, we would all scream real loud.
</WAVY-LINE DREAM SEQUENCE INTRO> hmm... nah, I'll just sit here and masturbate to the streaming porn movies.
While working for a tracking company, 3 years ago we had this same technology exactly. The Vancouver Police trialed it, but the monopoly vehical insurance company (ICBC) would not allow it. We had the vehicle tracked in realtime to a cop car using CDPD modems. We also had an applet so that you could watch the chase in real time on a kick-ass map and monitor the status of the headlights, door locks, and engine. Alas, the technology was shelved by the company that bought us.:(
It IS pretty, but I found the inability to use the vi-like movement keys:
yku
\|/
h-.-l /|\
bjn
and to limit the autopickup and everything being laid out on the diagonal detracted more from the game-play than was gained by making it look so pretty. Stick with the QT version.
Not one of your arguments against digital cameras is valid.
it's still a heck of a lot easier to schlep a bunch of film than a bunch of memory cards, and to know that it will more or less stand up to the conditions.
I don't know a roll of film (24-36 pics) weighs 10 times as much as a SmartMedia card (~54 pics Super high quality) so you have to carry half as many. My SmartMedia cards have stood up to my 9 yr. old i think that the wilds of Borneo would be hard-pressed to do more to them than he is capable of.
Many professional photographers have more than one camera body, sometimes for different films, but mostly for backup.
That doesn't change with digital cameras.
If you're shooting with a film camera, that's easy. If you're shooting with digital, that means some way of backing up your memory cards.
Do you develop, backup and store your photos while in Borneo or do you do that work once you reach civilization? If you are so inclined, you could do so spend 2K on a laptop, but why? when you could spend 2K on more SmartMedia and deal with the "processing" later.
But the number of photographs that on film that are viewable now from 100 years ago, vs. the number that are shot on digital and will be viewable 100 years from now is probably not comparable.If you find a trunk of old photos from 100 years ago, you'll probably at least go through it once. If you find an old CD 100 years from now, you might think "huh! How quaint! It's like one of those old 45s my grandpa talked about". And those photos will probably never be seen again.
Read every other post on the topic of digital backups and perfect copies the falling cost of media why wouldn't they all be online and accessible?
I have personally archived (to my webserver) over 3600 photos in less than a year since purchasing my camera. I had to buy a new harddrive for them. The year before that I took maybe 100 photos (all un-indexed and sitting in the bottom drawer of the coffee table, and the junk drawer
The only other thing that I would add to this comment is that the community also served the community well. There was little or no racial slurs or immediate calls for retaliation that were evident in all the mainstream news sources. Sensationalism, showing racist comments or violence-advocating comments prominently because there was a lack of real information to keep viewers tuned in (CNN infographics/editorials).
/. user comments and mirrors were far more useful for delivering information than TV, radio, or any other website.
Slashdot Mirror
To paraphrase Dennis Miller:
What is "tat?" How do I get it, and more importantly, how do I trade it for the other thing?
don't forget the 65+ hours of burning and babysitting the burning
We are using a couple of cordless Cisco VOIP phones in exactly the opposite environment. We use these in the middle of the forest in a fire camp. I guess I should mention that we have a trailer outfitted with a satellite uplink, GIS workstations, Crew Dispatch, and high resolution video into the hospital when needed.
I would like to propose Manimal.
To quote tvtome:
Jonathan Chase, master of the secrets that divide man from animal, animal from man, Manimal."
image
The only image google had was a dead link so all that image is is the google thumbnail.
Wasn't this already patented/invented by Professor Hubert J Farnsworth?
Canada.com has a story on how crappy the gov't grown dope is.
There was also a story on CBC radio about a Compassion Society testing the federal dope, and the dope had high levels of arsenic -- so much so that most countries wouldn't import it for medicinal uses or scientific tests. They said that its THC levels were around 4% while the average type grown by the Compassion Society was 12.5%. Even though the gov't pot was gamma-irradiated, there were 4x the number of biocontaminates in it over the organic homegrown.
The figures may be slightly off, but that is what I recall, and the damn Vancouver Island CBC website is woefully lacking in content and archives.
In Vancouver, cops don't blink if you roll a joint on the street and have not for years. I have personally tested this by accident. That coupled with the fact that BCBud(tm) is among the best and strongest in the world, and is arguably the third largest industry in the province.
Was the survey skewed to represent society as a whole? Consider that mortality rates for women between the ages between 18 and 29 -- not dramatically more than that for boys between 6 and 17. Even assuming that those samples are the same size (11 years), there still remains a very large group of women to add weight to the 18+ category (30+ year olds). I wonder if the 30+ year olds make up much of the difference?
I may be in the minority here, but I do believe that if you design a software project with a specific standard in mind, there had better be a compelling reason for that decision. The only one I can think of offhand is interoperability with other software or hardware. Where the problem lies is software or hardware that doesn't publish its storage or communication formats. Those formats become a defacto standard for others to inter-operate with your software or hardware. I am sure anyone who has tried to write to a standard has required only a portion of that standard, and would have liked other features in order to increase speed, or decrease size, or cut down on code-bloat. I do not have the resources to start a standards body, but if I write a program or have a product that gains noticable market-share, my "standard" will at least be looked at by that body. If you are lucky enough to have the lion-share of the market, you HAVE the standard, and everyone will support your format or protocol. So yes, as a market stabilizes, so do the standards, and as more people agree on them other protocols are left behind.
Standards evolve! help them along.
<backPedallingContradiction>
Err... Except you Microsoft, this IS Slashdot after all, and your embrace and extend techniques.... ummm yeah... don't do that... at least not without publishing them, and preferrably before you release a product that uses it.
</backPedallingContradiction>
-bhs
Are you guys talking about the real world, because while my EQ character has most of the skills listed, I'd sure like to know how to make soap and tie knots so I could tie down a few trolls and give them baths.
The main reason for Mainframe worker attrition is those bloody games that keep dropping into the zone, and those users that keep derezzing the workers. Gaagh!! If only we had a guardian to mend and defend, then we might be able to keep some workers around.
I have read most of the comments, and they all seem to tend toward the negative uses, so I am going to offer a counter-example. MoviX. You could mass-produce a bootable cd that would be capable of playing any movie or mp3/ogg file(s) you happened to burn onto it.
I wouldn't mind a spindle of these.
-bhs
Maybe the problems started when they stopped putting Roman numerals in the titles.
Damnit I was looking forward to this tonight.
<WAVY-LINE DREAM SEQUENCE INTRO>
</WAVY-LINE DREAM SEQUENCE INTRO>
hmm... nah, I'll just sit here and masturbate to the streaming porn movies.
Could you mirror it?
While working for a tracking company, 3 years ago we had this same technology exactly. The Vancouver Police trialed it, but the monopoly vehical insurance company (ICBC) would not allow it. We had the vehicle tracked in realtime to a cop car using CDPD modems. We also had an applet so that you could watch the chase in real time on a kick-ass map and monitor the status of the headlights, door locks, and engine. Alas, the technology was shelved by the company that bought us. :(
It IS pretty, but I found the inability to use the vi-like movement keys:
/|\
yku
\|/
h-.-l
bjn
and to limit the autopickup and everything being laid out on the diagonal detracted more from the game-play than was gained by making it look so pretty. Stick with the QT version.
- bhs_turf
You forgot the all-important:
d. They use a base-10 number system or would know enough to recognise a base-10 prime number.
(sending out prime numbers is about as useful as sending out the nth digit of pi)
I don't know a roll of film (24-36 pics) weighs 10 times as much as a SmartMedia card (~54 pics Super high quality) so you have to carry half as many. My SmartMedia cards have stood up to my 9 yr. old i think that the wilds of Borneo would be hard-pressed to do more to them than he is capable of.
That doesn't change with digital cameras.
Do you develop, backup and store your photos while in Borneo or do you do that work once you reach civilization? If you are so inclined, you could do so spend 2K on a laptop, but why? when you could spend 2K on more SmartMedia and deal with the "processing" later.
Read every other post on the topic of digital backups and perfect copies the falling cost of media why wouldn't they all be online and accessible?
I have personally archived (to my webserver) over 3600 photos in less than a year since purchasing my camera. I had to buy a new harddrive for them. The year before that I took maybe 100 photos (all un-indexed and sitting in the bottom drawer of the coffee table, and the junk drawer
The only other thing that I would add to this comment is that the community also served the community well. There was little or no racial slurs or immediate calls for retaliation that were evident in all the mainstream news sources. Sensationalism, showing racist comments or violence-advocating comments prominently because there was a lack of real information to keep viewers tuned in (CNN infographics/editorials).
/. user comments and mirrors were far more useful for delivering information than TV, radio, or any other website.
Thank you all for your part,
BHS_Turf
a beowolf cluster of these?
I am at JavaOne, and it is true... Sony announced in the keynotes yesterday that there is java support on the PS2