I can understand copper being stolen for its scrap value (heck, it happens lots here in Canada) but stealing glass fiber? They plan to weave a fireproof swimsuit?
Yeah right. Pain signals travel through nerves at less than 10 feet per second and it takes much, much longer for the brain to recognize something's wrong. But you hear something almost instantaneously.
Com'n, man- this is a subjective observation. And from a 14-yr-old punk (more subjectivism on my part)
"Pea-sized". "Foot in diameter". "feet-per-second". etc etc.
Hey, don't they use the metric system in Germany?
Geez.. Stop carping.
Last month, I spent a coupla weeks helping sail a small sloop from the Caribbean to Bermuda and thence to NYC and upriver, etc.
In the Sargasso Sea, the night sky was never more brilliant and beautiful, even with a half moon. A common rule is that only THREE astronomical objects are simultaneously visible in daylight: The Sun, The Moon, and the planet Venus. I had the night shift piloting the yacht, and a coupla nights (at dawn) I could easily see all three simultaneously, and was ALMOST able to see a fourth- either the planet Saturn or Jupiter which had risen earlier.
But as the Sun rose, and the stars gradually disappeared in the blue sky, I had more and more difficulty keeping track of this fourth faint object. Finally I had to admit I could see only the 3 aforementioned objects. Well, I hope to try again someday...
I live right on the 45th parallel, between Canada on the USA. (the "official" border is a few hundred feet south of here). Yes, it is dark at night. Nearest "big" lights are in Valleyfield, Quebec (north) and Malone, NY (south).
I'd love to go out more at night and observe, but the damn mosquitoes (in summer) and cold (in winter) make it rather uncomfortable. But I do easily recognize Polaris (45 deg North), the Pleaides. and others, and of course, the dark band of the milky way. Sadly, my kids were not impressed and have moved to the big city. Ah well.. they'll be back someday. I shall keep the telescope ready.
Is there any way to run ethernet over phone lines?
Phone twisted-pair is not usually twisted as tightly as Cat5- So it may not be good enough for 100Mbs, particularly if it's a long run. But Cat5 (and Cat3) are good for 100M (about 330 ft), so you'll probably be OK.
The 4 wires use pins 1,2,3 and 6, as I recall.
Just google "ethernet pins" or some such keyword choices...
Microsoft rely on the average user being kept dumb. The more the user knows about day to day computing, the more they can make the decisions Microsoft make on their behalf because they understand them, at least on a basic level. Other OS's find ways to get decent defaults but do ask the users for confirmation on stuff, with help options available; taking the approach of trying to educate the user to some degree and giving them control. We have a LONG way to go before this is working perfectly, but at least some are trying.
This may be the wine talking on a Monday night, but the average user,both Mac and PC, IS dumb!
I have met many users with Mac systems- some are smart and know whats going on, but the majority are dumb, and cannot use their Mac any better than they could use a PC.
At least MS is trying to protect their dummies, although I (as a somewhat tech-savvy user) don't like the "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS?"
But it's the price we have to pay for popularity. Sorry, you Mac "non-dummies".
I remember, half a century ago, just walkin' in to a local shoe store, with a coupla pals. We'd have fun playing with the shoe-store X-ray machine. "Wow! watch me wiggle my toes !" etc etc
And then would go home, and later that night in bed, after Mom or Dad told me to turn the light off, I would read my Captain Marvel comics to the light of my glowing feet...
Then those evil machines got banned.
Strangely, all my kids seem to have assumed adult-hood without... uhhh.. "mutations". We were just lucky I guess. And my feet are OK. 'Cept when I go barefoot in cold weather...
Jeez. 50 years later. I can still run a daily 10Km on those feet. Is there something that I don't know?
Now watch for it: I [predict that the so-called "environmental movement" will scream in horror at this prospect, and we will learn yet again that they are mostly about enforcing eco-puritan poverty on us all
Awww Shit- just nuke 'em all.
BUT- AND I am serious- try 'n conserve energy any way possible- such as less hot water for showers, and recyl... WTF...?
..engineering a spider-like, sticky-footed climbing robot destined to explore Mars
Sorry, but I saw one of these creatures at a stag party a coupla years ago - on film of course. It was apparently wearing the obligatory black socks and a tool belt. Please don't ask about the negligée-wearing blonde
(Yes, this archaic ceremony is still observed by some of us older geeks.)
Even worse were his troops throwing Kuwaiti babies out of incubaters and then bayoneting them. And golly! Aall the rapes committed in Kuwait against the "royal leaders".
Seems every woman in Kuwait got raped,... except, strangely for that poor sobbing girl testifying to the US congress.
Miraculously she managed to preserve her precious virginity!
How wonderful Kuwait is, compared to Saddam's Iraq~
If you had Saddam in your prison, you know you'd do the same thing.
Well by now, we certainly know that YOU would, B3ttikky, my brave man!
When the time comes to torture some enemies we shall keep you in mind. Until then, you may stick to pulling wings off of flies, and setting fire to cats.
Hey! In some countries you can legally torture children! Interested? Just pretend they are terrorists.
After the following terrible incident, I NO LONGER plan to have my body and its Amalgam-filled teeth cremated. Instead, they will use a concrete vault for my remains. What about you, Obfuscant? Got any tooth-fillings?
-----
Read on. IF YOU DARE! About a year ago ago, one of my cats knocked over a small table lamp containing a CFL bulb, which subsequently smashed.
I quickly evacuated the house, except for poor Tigger who had broken the toxic bulb.
We made sure that the house was sealed- all doors and windows closed - and I then dialed 9-1-1. Within an hour or so ( I was amazed at the quick response!), a group of professionally trained "Hazardous Materials" (HazMat) specialists had been dispatched from Health Canada, and arrived on my property in a large white step-van. Yes, it even had a yellow flashing light! Maybe two- I don't remember. Seems exciting, huh? The house was quickly cordoned off with those yellow ribbons that you see on TV all the time.
Men in exotic Hazmat suits with specail breathing devices began to file into the house and professionally seal all the windows and doors. We were warned that the house would be "off-limits" while it was disinfected of the extremely poisonous Mercury. We gratefully spent two nights at a friend's house half a mile down the road.
The Hazmat team set upon clearing the house of any residual Mercury. A day or two later, they finally said that the house was safe to re-enter. Alas, the poor cat had been "put down" by the Health Canada team. I told them that I would bury Tigger in the flower garden, but they refused to permit this. I was told that the cat was now considered toxic waste, and would have to be removed to a special waste site somewhere in Ungava. I was heartbroken, but did not question this.
By now, you are probably suspecting that there seems to be something terribly amiss in this story.
Well! I'm sorry but some of the above facts must be set straight.
Yes, Tigger did indeed knock over the lamp and break the CFL bulb. But after this incident, things actually happened somewhat differently than reported above:
I quickly.. no, slowly- procured from the cellar stairs (while swearing at the cat under my breath,) a device commonly referred to as a "dustpan". The hazardous broken glass was then swept into it with a special Hazmat tool known as a "brush". Once all the glass was thusly secured, it was dumped surreptitiously into the very small household garbage can. (hey- we recycle and compost extensively) And any residual glass shards were then eradicated with the standard household Vacuum cleaner. No droplets of the dreaded toxic Mercury were ever detected (read further below)
The cat, (Tigger) I might add, watched silently from across the room, perhaps realizing he had committed a faux-pas (or is that a Fax-paws?.)
And! So far, I am ahppy to report that we are all still alive and seemingly healthy. Including the miscreant Tigger.
Anyhow this is my testimony that, somehow, both the cat and I survived this terrible accident. Gosh, there is hope for modern Canadian 21st humanity yet, in spite of these worrisome CFL incidents.
---- An addendum: ----- A couple of years ago, during a dinner party, I broke a small tooth filling whilst chewing on a lobster claw. As discretely as possible, I withdrew the small amalgam filling from my my mouth, and placed it on the side of my dinner plate, while casually informing my dinner guests that this small tooth filling actually had about ten times as much Mercury in it as a CFL bulb!
Wow! This fact did not go go down too well. Most dinner guests gasped and quickly departed ("evacuated"might be a better term), and some actually reported me to the Canada Heath special Hazmat team. My house was sealed until the missing tooth filling was secured and... uhh...
SO?
What would happen to North Korea if, say, that Ill Kim's Dong managed to somehow nuke Seattle? (Yay, Comrade! Lucky Hit!)
What? Tell me. What?
Are you Americans THAT paranoid? WTF is goin on? Is LSD being piped into the godforsaken Middle America's public water supplies?
What does a small, third world, militaristic dictatorship on an island need a communications satellite for? The idea that that is all it was is laughable.
You are an American, aren't you?
I have watched enough Jeopardy, and read enough National Geographics to deduce THIS.
"On an island" LOL!
You're an American, aren't you? I just know it!
A news report this morning say they they may be able to "nuke" the Aleutians.
So? Is Kim's Ill Dong that crazy? Then South Korea WILL be an island!
Geez! What fuckin shit! Last time I heard this crap was just before Bush Invaded Iraq. WMDs! LOL!
Maudit Troll ?
LOL! Troll, huh? OK, Hostie, I'm one also. Au Québec soviétique, c'est le jeu d'ordinateur qui joue avec VOUS !
Moi, pour un, je me met à mes genoux devant nos nouveaux suzerains Loi-101. (OK, d'abord- anciens)
As an Anglo-Québecois, I have no problems here. All the rednecks (hopefully) left about 25 years ago.
Malheuresement, en Québec, we DO have our malls and Mal-Warts and other American shit. And thankfully, the FLQ crap is a thing of the past.
That's the price for being part of North Amerika, whilst fighting to maintain a "unique identity", whateverTF THAT means.
Calice! I am continually astonished at the large percentage of/.ers that have some freaky hatred towards Québec, and French in general. Is it the obligatory love of Linux, or is Microsoft secretly planning to move their Siege-Sociale from Redmond to here? What causes this? I am completely mystified.
And these dorks are peculiarly PROUD to confirm themselves as being perfectly unilingual! WOW! What an accomplishment.
Oh, you poor benighted Albertans. At least the USA gets some respect by having a nuclear arsenal. All you got is a lot of sticky tar. Not "oil"; TAR!
Hostie, Tabarnouche! What an odd set of folk on this continent!
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In Soviet Russia, the new overlords welcome you! ... There. Fixed that for you.
In Soviet CANADA , the new overlords welcome you!
I can understand copper being stolen for its scrap value (heck, it happens lots here in Canada) but stealing glass fiber?
They plan to weave a fireproof swimsuit?
Yeah right. Pain signals travel through nerves at less than 10 feet per second and it takes much, much longer for the brain to recognize something's wrong. But you hear something almost instantaneously.
Com'n, man- this is a subjective observation. And from a 14-yr-old punk (more subjectivism on my part)
"Pea-sized". "Foot in diameter". "feet-per-second". etc etc.
Hey, don't they use the metric system in Germany?
Geez.. Stop carping.
Last month, I spent a coupla weeks helping sail a small sloop from the Caribbean to Bermuda and thence to NYC and upriver, etc.
In the Sargasso Sea, the night sky was never more brilliant and beautiful, even with a half moon.
A common rule is that only THREE astronomical objects are simultaneously visible in daylight: The Sun, The Moon, and the planet Venus.
I had the night shift piloting the yacht, and a coupla nights (at dawn) I could easily see all three simultaneously, and was ALMOST able to see a fourth- either the planet Saturn or Jupiter which had risen earlier.
But as the Sun rose, and the stars gradually disappeared in the blue sky, I had more and more difficulty keeping track of this fourth faint object.
Finally I had to admit I could see only the 3 aforementioned objects.
Well, I hope to try again someday...
I live right on the 45th parallel, between Canada on the USA. (the "official" border is a few hundred feet south of here).
Yes, it is dark at night. Nearest "big" lights are in Valleyfield, Quebec (north) and Malone, NY (south).
I'd love to go out more at night and observe, but the damn mosquitoes (in summer) and cold (in winter) make it rather uncomfortable.
But I do easily recognize Polaris (45 deg North), the Pleaides. and others, and of course, the dark band of the milky way.
Sadly, my kids were not impressed and have moved to the big city.
Ah well.. they'll be back someday.
I shall keep the telescope ready.
Is there any way to run ethernet over phone lines?
Phone twisted-pair is not usually twisted as tightly as Cat5- So it may not be good enough for 100Mbs, particularly if it's a long run.
But Cat5 (and Cat3) are good for 100M (about 330 ft), so you'll probably be OK.
The 4 wires use pins 1,2,3 and 6, as I recall.
Just google "ethernet pins" or some such keyword choices...
Microsoft rely on the average user being kept dumb. The more the user knows about day to day computing, the more they can make the decisions Microsoft make on their behalf because they understand them, at least on a basic level. Other OS's find ways to get decent defaults but do ask the users for confirmation on stuff, with help options available; taking the approach of trying to educate the user to some degree and giving them control. We have a LONG way to go before this is working perfectly, but at least some are trying.
This may be the wine talking on a Monday night, but the average user,both Mac and PC, IS dumb!
I have met many users with Mac systems- some are smart and know whats going on, but the majority are dumb, and cannot use their Mac any better than they could use a PC.
At least MS is trying to protect their dummies, although I (as a somewhat tech-savvy user) don't like the "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS?"
But it's the price we have to pay for popularity.
Sorry, you Mac "non-dummies".
I just wanna know will it run my 1973 System/370 COBOL payroll system?
This is absolutely ESSENTIAL!
What, no comments yet?
I remember, half a century ago, just walkin' in to a local shoe store, with a coupla pals. We'd have fun playing with the shoe-store X-ray machine.
"Wow! watch me wiggle my toes !" etc etc
And then would go home, and later that night in bed, after Mom or Dad told me to turn the light off, I would read my Captain Marvel comics to the light of my glowing feet...
Then those evil machines got banned.
Strangely, all my kids seem to have assumed adult-hood without... uhhh.. "mutations".
We were just lucky I guess.
And my feet are OK. 'Cept when I go barefoot in cold weather...
Jeez. 50 years later. I can still run a daily 10Km on those feet. Is there something that I don't know?
Now watch for it: I [predict that the so-called "environmental movement" will scream in horror at this prospect, and we will learn yet again that they are mostly about enforcing eco-puritan poverty on us all
Awww Shit- just nuke 'em all.
BUT- AND I am serious- try 'n conserve energy any way possible- such as less hot water for showers, and recyl... WTF...?
Sorry- my damn altruism almost had me there! Hah!
This could have many uses around airports....
Yes. I've heard Al-Qaeerda is currently examining this idea.
..engineering a spider-like, sticky-footed climbing robot destined to explore Mars
Sorry, but I saw one of these creatures at a stag party a coupla years ago - on film of course.
It was apparently wearing the obligatory black socks and a tool belt. Please don't ask about the negligée-wearing blonde
(Yes, this archaic ceremony is still observed by some of us older geeks.)
My apologies.
No, not to you.
To the (probably) non-existent shredding machine.
Seeing THIS CITATION below has somewhat widened my already-open eyes. First time I had ever read such a rebuttal ('tho I certainly suspected so)
Yeah....
Brush teeth, shower, ...
and before going out the door, make sure you have a big T-bone steak snugly strapped to your belt.
YOU IDIOT !
Didn't you know?
It's named after Max Planck, the CHIMP!
In Soviet Ivory Coast, chimps trade sex for meat!
?? uhh.. (redundancy alarm rings) Wait- that didn't make much sense.
OK- Let's try again:
In Soviet Ivory Coast, chimps trade meat for YOU!
Well... better, but still needs improvement...
Even worse were his troops throwing Kuwaiti babies out of incubaters and then bayoneting them. And golly! Aall the rapes committed in Kuwait against the "royal leaders".
Seems every woman in Kuwait got raped,... except, strangely for that poor sobbing girl testifying to the US congress.
Miraculously she managed to preserve her precious virginity!
How wonderful Kuwait is, compared to Saddam's Iraq~
If you had Saddam in your prison, you know you'd do the same thing.
Well by now, we certainly know that YOU would, B3ttikky, my brave man!
When the time comes to torture some enemies we shall keep you in mind. Until then, you may stick to pulling wings off of flies, and setting fire to cats.
Hey! In some countries you can legally torture children!
Interested? Just pretend they are terrorists.
Just because HE fed his prisoners into a woodchipper feet-first, doesn't mean we... excuse me- YOU have to do the same thing.
Or perhaps, you really would like to do this sort of thing...
Hmmnnn... you would, wouldn't you, my brave man?
Com'n now: 'fess up!
I kinda agree, - the bastard certainly was braver and more dignified than most men on the gallows, but I never knew he was "hung".
Was he known for this while alive, or did they find this out only after he was hanged?
(hmmnn did he ever do any porno movies?)
Is the "A" team still around?
B.A. Barakus will take care of them spammers, fool!!
After the following terrible incident, I NO LONGER plan to have my body and its Amalgam-filled teeth cremated. Instead, they will use a concrete vault for my remains.
What about you, Obfuscant? Got any tooth-fillings?
-----
Read on. IF YOU DARE!
About a year ago ago, one of my cats knocked over a small table lamp containing a CFL bulb, which subsequently smashed.
I quickly evacuated the house, except for poor Tigger who had broken the toxic bulb.
We made sure that the house was sealed- all doors and windows closed - and I then dialed 9-1-1.
Within an hour or so ( I was amazed at the quick response!), a group of professionally trained "Hazardous Materials" (HazMat) specialists had been dispatched from Health Canada, and arrived on my property in a large white step-van.
Yes, it even had a yellow flashing light! Maybe two- I don't remember. Seems exciting, huh?
The house was quickly cordoned off with those yellow ribbons that you see on TV all the time.
Men in exotic Hazmat suits with specail breathing devices began to file into the house and professionally seal all the windows and doors. We were warned that the house would be "off-limits" while it was disinfected of the extremely poisonous Mercury. We gratefully spent two nights at a friend's house half a mile down the road.
The Hazmat team set upon clearing the house of any residual Mercury. A day or two later, they finally said that the house was safe to re-enter. Alas, the poor cat had been "put down" by the Health Canada team.
I told them that I would bury Tigger in the flower garden, but they refused to permit this.
I was told that the cat was now considered toxic waste, and would have to be removed to a special waste site somewhere in Ungava. I was heartbroken, but did not question this.
By now, you are probably suspecting that there seems to be something terribly amiss in this story.
Well!
I'm sorry but some of the above facts must be set straight.
Yes, Tigger did indeed knock over the lamp and break the CFL bulb.
But after this incident, things actually happened somewhat differently than reported above:
I quickly.. no, slowly- procured from the cellar stairs (while swearing at the cat under my breath,) a device commonly referred to as a "dustpan".
The hazardous broken glass was then swept into it with a special Hazmat tool known as a "brush".
Once all the glass was thusly secured, it was dumped surreptitiously into the very small household garbage can. (hey- we recycle and compost extensively)
And any residual glass shards were then eradicated with the standard household Vacuum cleaner.
No droplets of the dreaded toxic Mercury were ever detected (read further below)
The cat, (Tigger) I might add, watched silently from across the room, perhaps realizing he had committed a faux-pas (or is that a Fax-paws?.)
And!
So far, I am ahppy to report that we are all still alive and seemingly healthy. Including the miscreant Tigger.
Anyhow this is my testimony that, somehow, both the cat and I survived this terrible accident. Gosh, there is hope for modern Canadian 21st humanity yet, in spite of these worrisome CFL incidents.
---- An addendum: -----
A couple of years ago, during a dinner party, I broke a small tooth filling whilst chewing on a lobster claw. As discretely as possible, I withdrew the small amalgam filling from my my mouth, and placed it on the side of my dinner plate, while casually informing my dinner guests that this small tooth filling actually had about ten times as much Mercury in it as a CFL bulb!
Wow! This fact did not go go down too well.
Most dinner guests gasped and quickly departed ("evacuated"might be a better term), and some actually reported me to the Canada Heath special Hazmat team. My house was sealed until the missing tooth filling was secured and... uhh...
Oh wait. Did I already tell you this?
SO?
What would happen to North Korea if, say, that Ill Kim's Dong managed to somehow nuke Seattle? (Yay, Comrade! Lucky Hit!)
What? Tell me. What?
Are you Americans THAT paranoid? WTF is goin on? Is LSD being piped into the godforsaken Middle America's public water supplies?
What does a small, third world, militaristic dictatorship on an island need a communications satellite for? The idea that that is all it was is laughable.
You are an American, aren't you?
I have watched enough Jeopardy, and read enough National Geographics to deduce THIS.
"On an island" LOL!
You're an American, aren't you? I just know it!
A news report this morning say they they may be able to "nuke" the Aleutians.
So? Is Kim's Ill Dong that crazy? Then South Korea WILL be an island!
Geez! What fuckin shit! Last time I heard this crap was just before Bush Invaded Iraq. WMDs! LOL!
Maudit Troll ?
/.ers that have some freaky hatred towards Québec, and French in general. Is it the obligatory love of Linux, or is Microsoft secretly planning to move their Siege-Sociale from Redmond to here? What causes this? I am completely mystified.
LOL! Troll, huh? OK, Hostie, I'm one also.
Au Québec soviétique, c'est le jeu d'ordinateur qui joue avec VOUS !
Moi, pour un, je me met à mes genoux devant nos nouveaux suzerains Loi-101. (OK, d'abord- anciens)
As an Anglo-Québecois, I have no problems here. All the rednecks (hopefully) left about 25 years ago.
Malheuresement, en Québec, we DO have our malls and Mal-Warts and other American shit.
And thankfully, the FLQ crap is a thing of the past. That's the price for being part of North Amerika, whilst fighting to maintain a "unique identity", whateverTF THAT means.
Calice! I am continually astonished at the large percentage of
And these dorks are peculiarly PROUD to confirm themselves as being perfectly unilingual! WOW! What an accomplishment.
Oh, you poor benighted Albertans. At least the USA gets some respect by having a nuclear arsenal. All you got is a lot of sticky tar. Not "oil"; TAR!
Hostie, Tabarnouche! What an odd set of folk on this continent!