Yeah, I'm another ruraloid, who checked out of the big city 25 years ago.
I live in a log cabin in the deep woods- Chateau Plonque (the dog in pic is now dead)
and basically I like my reclusive lifestyle-
I sleep with my cats and my chainsaw.
The kids live in the city, and their main complaint when coming home
is the DAMN LACK OF HIGHSPEED! grrrr...
Currently my Bell Canada telephone wire is lying on the ground and in a swamp, and has been that way FOR TWO FUCKING DAMN YEARS
But I somehow still manage to pull about 37Kbs with the dial up...
Grrr........ grr- GODDAM FUKING BELL CANADA!!
Wheww... well- thanx fer letting me get that out.
(Perhaps I should get out more often myself)
I'm currently developing a petition for rural hi-speed... you can be sure once it's operational, it will be posted to/. !! Grrrrr..... but a fat lot it will probably do...
It's approximately 8,792 metres.
So what's your point?
But a 750ml bottle of Pinoqachole at the top would make it 8792.5 metres!
Geez, you guys are pathetic, what?
Were Sir Edmund alive, he'd be rolling around in your graves!
... geostationary orbit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit.... but for the most part it just sits in one place above the earth and appears stationary to an observer on the ground.
Golly! America just solved another one! In spite of its pathetic relative scientific illiteracy...
Alas, the "Geostationary orbit" whereof you speak is about 36,000 Km above the Earth, as I recall from my high-school physics (that's about 22,000 miles to you Americans). And only on the equator.
(Actually, I believe the Anglo-Ceylonese science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke first proposed this technique about 60 years ago in one of his SF novels)
Most low-Earth birds fly around 250 to 500 miles up, just above the remaining atmospheric drag.
And that includes all this Chinese Anti-sat "junk" that the article refers to.
But if you feel that your geo-stationary orbits can somehow be brought down a tad closer
to this level, then NASA and perhaps the US Military might be interested in your theories and pedantry.
Why not give them a call?
Or perhaps suggest they start to spy on this low-level Geostationary Chinese technology?
Now, best you go back to watching your DirectTV (sic), lad! Hint: try watching some of the science channels - if there are any on Hughes...
Huh!
Phooey.
You sound just like a couple of the IT managers I worked for about 20 years ago.
When I suggested/recommended that a new office be wired with the "new" cat-5 ethernet cables,
they sneered and basically questioned (with much wit and derision) who the hell would need some
relatively expensive cable for (ha ha) 100 Megabit! per second transmissions?
Wasn't the 10 million enough? (sneer)
Luckily the executive director trusted me, not them.
But strangely, 10 years later, they still had their jobs, while I was outsourced and scrambling for one.
The less you knew, the better your chances of keeping your job...
Not sure what this Java is, is it the stuff I drink at Storbucks?
However, I would dearly love some help- any help! for my project:
I am writing a program to translate ADA into COBOL (and optionally PL/1).
I hope to make big bucks upon its completion! You can too! (with the right input)
It is currently being written in APL. Sorry, but I gave up up on that freaky Pascal stuff.
Anyone who can supply me with a genuine APL keyboard stands to gain mucho pesos, if you know what I mean.
Bill Gates has apparently taken a recent interest in COBOL, (seems to be something to do with Africa) and I suspect this may just be a killer app!
I will let you know about the forthcoming IPO. No triflers please!
I think, once the initial knee-jerk anti-MS crud is past, people won't mind. Just like any web/presentation technology, it has it's pros and cons. But look, to work with Silverlight, to create Silverlight, you don't need an expensive suite of tools.
Having worked with various Flash devel. tools, (I have an old Company-purchased version of MM (pre-Adobe) Flash) I decided to DL some silverlight intros- "Hello BillGates World", etc.
They immed asked me to integrate it into Visual Studio, which I do not have; it's a $600+ option...
Any FREE silverlight devel. tools that you know of?
This may be a silly question, but how to they know when there's going to be a meteor shower?
Yes. It IS a silly question.
But not, I suppose, to the avaerage American.
Presumably you flunked high-school physics, like most other 'mericans.
Oh wait- In the USA, physics is only taught to "nerds". Obviously you do not qualify.
We ALL (both people and meteor "swarms") go around the sun in very predictable orbits. This
has been known for hundreds of years.
Having said that, please send me $100,000 (Canadian$, not those crappy US greenbacks)
or I will make the sun go out and NOT RE-LIGHT IT next April!
You have been warned, America!
(Paypal details will sent under separate cover)
For one thing, you can learn that MOST clouds are under 40,000 feet.
Try seeing a meteor shower or an eclipse or F....ng ANYTHING in the sky when it's full of clouds!
Most nights, I don't use my 'scope...
Sorry... Yes, I DO speak troll... but only late at night after several glasses of wine. LOL!
To translate the 13-yr-old niece language:
I get extremely frustrated with Ubuntu- there is seemingly always some key aspect of it that makes it unusable, unless I go to forums somewhere and pour over all kinds of command suggestions.
Whereas the Vista (or XP) simply installs. And works.
I'd dearly love to use Ubuntu, and even give it to dear old auntie.
The price is right.. but I'm afraid it's still not quite ready for prime-time. I.E. the mass-market.
My message above was meant for whoever was saying how great Ubuntu was, compared to Vista.
But I DO SO get tired of these incessant "M$ is the evil empire, Vista sux, etc"/. posts....
If that wasn't you, my apologies.
Hmmnn... troll language... maybe I could convince Google or Babelfish to add it! LOL!
You forgot how Andreeson crowed that he was gonna "wipe out" Microsoft with web apps including Netscape.
"Windows is DEAD! MWAAAHAA Ha Ha HAAA!"
That's when Gates &co. woke up and silently declared war on Netscape.
IE3 wasn't much, but by IE4 they were at least equal to NS4.
And when IE5 came out, I knew it was the end for Netscape
And then-
And then, astonishly, Time-Warner/AOL BOUGHT netscape! LOL!
What a drunken party those guys must have been at! Would've liked to see the cocktail-napkin scribblings!
All I can say (again) is "Die AOL, DIE!" Be smothered to death by your own billions 'n billions of floppies and CDs! Ha ha ha....!
And that goes for the Pudgy loudmouth Andreeson Netscape also!
I don't know how many times I was told several years ago to stop installing IE5 on users' PCs, and reinstall Netscape by pointy-haired bosses and "consultants", because "Netscape was the standard"
F---ng morons!
Great!
I will tell this to my old auntie, who has a Vista system (which works PERRRFECTLY) but was asking about Linux.
I'll give her the Ubuntu Gutsy Gaboon CD to install, and give her *your* email address! OK?
You can uuhh... help her with the Flash install!
Don't mind, do you?
Hey, Ubuntu is a piece of cake!
...recommends just installing Ubuntu on a cheap PC
F U
Eggzactly what I tried to do, with my old Win2K desktop!
It balked while trying to read the Grumpy Gerkin - whatever (7.10) CD.
If I cld find my festy fox backup CD I'd try it.
Why was I installing it there? Hmmnnn
Because.. On my current high-end laptop, Ubuntu will not use the wireless.
(and do NOT tell me to use some arcane command lvl commands to use a windows-driver envelope- I wuz gonna give the PC to my aunt, who, alas, is uhh, not too familiar with greps & sudos)
So I always boot into VISTA!
Which WORKS PERFECTLY.
Geezzz... you l'il linux nerdies are sooo annoying!
YOU ARE SUCH PESTS! (As Orson Welles once remarked)
GET A LIFE!
I admit I have not read every post here, but everyone seems to get their knockers in a knicker, when the topic of hazardous waste comes up.
"Don't throw your CFLs into the garbage; you will pollute the landfill/dump, and consequently the environment"
Has anyone asked where the Hg (and I think it is elemental Hg, much like the stuuf that fills, along with Ag, the remaining teeth in my mouth) -
... has anyone asked where this disgusting highly toxic dastardly elemental Mercury originally COMES FROM?
Like, uhhh... is it imported from the Moon? Or some other planet?
Some answers, please.
1. CFLs can't be dimmed: it's either on or off with these bulbs, so dimmer switches are worthless
2. CFL's have a warm-up time: unlike Tungsten-based bulbs, CFLs take between 5-60 seconds to reach "full brightness", so don't plan on seeing much immediately after turning it on
3. CFLs can't be used with a solar control: Solar indicators (seats for type-A bulbs which turn on when the sun goes down) provide variable power and so they can't be used to control CFL's
4. CFLs contain mercury: I know the common counter-argument to this is that it is only a small amount of mercury and it doesn't pollute the environment if properly recycled, but there's just something odd about a so-called green bulb containing a known carcinogen and toxin. Especially when we're getting rid of mercury-based thermometers, it seems the wrong time to be mandating a new mercury based product
5. CFLs give off harsh light: this is an aesthetic reason, which is why I'm listing it last, but it's still pretty significant. In all the CFL's I've tried, the light tends to be too-white, kind of glaring compared to the warm/soft light of Tungsten bulbs. You'd think this would be the easiest one to solve, but in the half-dozen or so different models of CFLs I've tried, the light they produce is always too harsh.
All BS.
Except for #3. Read some of the more erudite posts here.
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Yeah, I'm another ruraloid, who checked out of the big city 25 years ago.
... .. grr- GODDAM FUKING BELL CANADA!!
/. !! Grrrrr..... but a fat lot it will probably do...
I live in a log cabin in the deep woods-
Chateau Plonque (the dog in pic is now dead)
and basically I like my reclusive lifestyle- I sleep with my cats and my chainsaw.
The kids live in the city, and their main complaint when coming home is the DAMN LACK OF HIGHSPEED! grrrr...
Currently my Bell Canada telephone wire is lying on the ground and in a swamp, and has been that way FOR TWO FUCKING DAMN YEARS
But I somehow still manage to pull about 37Kbs with the dial up...
Grrr...
Wheww... well- thanx fer letting me get that out.
(Perhaps I should get out more often myself)
More disgusting details at this 1996 DIATRIBE
I'm currently developing a petition for rural hi-speed... you can be sure once it's operational, it will be posted to
All I ever hear from you is stuff about
"White holes", "Black Holes", etc etc.
Now, north of the border, a good Canadian Asstrophysical lad would simply say
"Up Uranus!"
and be done with it!
Hey...
On Earth here we use fission to produce fusion (Thermonclear weapons - ask your mom)...
But your pungent post suggests that our planetary overloads (perhaps Soviet) use fusion to produce fission!
Well, I for one... aw, forget it!
Huh!
And I suspect neither of them are plugged in.
Am I right?
Now, what's the height of Mt Everest in meters?
It's approximately 8,792 metres.
So what's your point?
But a 750ml bottle of Pinoqachole at the top would make it 8792.5 metres!
Geez, you guys are pathetic, what?
Were Sir Edmund alive, he'd be rolling around in your graves!
grrr...
Well, I tend to refuse inhalation of anything containing the word Uranus.
Shoot- /. ?
Does this mean I'll now be expelled from
(On Soviet slashdot, it is rumoured that Commander Tacov and KDawsov shoot YOU!)
... geostationary orbit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit. ... but for the most part it just sits in one place above the earth and appears stationary to an observer on the ground.
Golly! America just solved another one! In spite of its pathetic relative scientific illiteracy...
Alas, the "Geostationary orbit" whereof you speak is about 36,000 Km above the Earth, as I recall from my high-school physics (that's about 22,000 miles to you Americans). And only on the equator.
(Actually, I believe the Anglo-Ceylonese science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke first proposed this technique about 60 years ago in one of his SF novels)
Most low-Earth birds fly around 250 to 500 miles up, just above the remaining atmospheric drag.
And that includes all this Chinese Anti-sat "junk" that the article refers to.
But if you feel that your geo-stationary orbits can somehow be brought down a tad closer to this level, then NASA and perhaps the US Military might be interested in your theories and pedantry.
Why not give them a call?
Or perhaps suggest they start to spy on this low-level Geostationary Chinese technology?
Now, best you go back to watching your DirectTV (sic), lad! Hint: try watching some of the science channels - if there are any on Hughes...
Huh! Phooey.
/recommended that a new office be wired with the "new" cat-5 ethernet cables,
they sneered and basically questioned (with much wit and derision) who the hell would need some
relatively expensive cable for (ha ha) 100 Megabit! per second transmissions?
You sound just like a couple of the IT managers I worked for about 20 years ago.
When I suggested
Wasn't the 10 million enough? (sneer)
Luckily the executive director trusted me, not them.
But strangely, 10 years later, they still had their jobs, while I was outsourced and scrambling for one.
The less you knew, the better your chances of keeping your job...
A pox on all you Luddites.
Not sure what this Java is, is it the stuff I drink at Storbucks? However, I would dearly love some help- any help! for my project:
I am writing a program to translate ADA into COBOL (and optionally PL/1).
I hope to make big bucks upon its completion! You can too! (with the right input)
It is currently being written in APL. Sorry, but I gave up up on that freaky Pascal stuff.
Anyone who can supply me with a genuine APL keyboard stands to gain mucho pesos, if you know what I mean.
Bill Gates has apparently taken a recent interest in COBOL, (seems to be something to do with Africa) and I suspect this may just be a killer app!
I will let you know about the forthcoming IPO. No triflers please!
Wait for it....
...
Hee hee... it's gonna be good...!
umm... uhh..
In Soviet Science lab,
Glass vacuum tubes blow YOU!
And miguel can still suck my cock with his left eye socket.
Migod!
An homage to Paul Krassner's 1964 REALIST issue about LBJ and JFK's body aboard AirForce-One!! (I happen to have a treasured copy)
I think, once the initial knee-jerk anti-MS crud is past, people won't mind. Just like any web/presentation technology, it has it's pros and cons. But look, to work with Silverlight, to create Silverlight, you don't need an expensive suite of tools.
Having worked with various Flash devel. tools, (I have an old Company-purchased version of MM (pre-Adobe) Flash) I decided to DL some silverlight intros- "Hello BillGates World", etc.
They immed asked me to integrate it into Visual Studio, which I do not have; it's a $600+ option...
Any FREE silverlight devel. tools that you know of?
This may be a silly question, but how to they know when there's going to be a meteor shower?
Yes. It IS a silly question.
But not, I suppose, to the avaerage American.
Presumably you flunked high-school physics, like most other 'mericans.
Oh wait- In the USA, physics is only taught to "nerds". Obviously you do not qualify.
We ALL (both people and meteor "swarms") go around the sun in very predictable orbits. This has been known for hundreds of years.
Having said that, please send me $100,000 (Canadian$, not those crappy US greenbacks) or I will make the sun go out and NOT RE-LIGHT IT next April!
You have been warned, America!
(Paypal details will sent under separate cover)
idiot.
For one thing, you can learn that MOST clouds are under 40,000 feet.
Try seeing a meteor shower or an eclipse or F....ng ANYTHING in the sky when it's full of clouds!
Most nights, I don't use my 'scope...
But WTF do you care, Luddite.
Sorry... Yes, I DO speak troll... but only late at night after several glasses of wine.
/. posts....
LOL!
To translate the 13-yr-old niece language:
I get extremely frustrated with Ubuntu- there is seemingly always some key aspect of it that makes it unusable, unless I go to forums somewhere and pour over all kinds of command suggestions.
Whereas the Vista (or XP) simply installs. And works.
I'd dearly love to use Ubuntu, and even give it to dear old auntie.
The price is right.. but I'm afraid it's still not quite ready for prime-time. I.E. the mass-market.
My message above was meant for whoever was saying how great Ubuntu was, compared to Vista. But I DO SO get tired of these incessant "M$ is the evil empire, Vista sux, etc"
If that wasn't you, my apologies.
Hmmnn... troll language... maybe I could convince Google or Babelfish to add it! LOL!
You forgot how Andreeson crowed that he was gonna "wipe out" Microsoft with web apps including Netscape.
"Windows is DEAD! MWAAAHAA Ha Ha HAAA!"
That's when Gates &co. woke up and silently declared war on Netscape.
IE3 wasn't much, but by IE4 they were at least equal to NS4.
And when IE5 came out, I knew it was the end for Netscape
And then-
And then, astonishly, Time-Warner/AOL BOUGHT netscape! LOL!
What a drunken party those guys must have been at! Would've liked to see the cocktail-napkin scribblings!
All I can say (again) is "Die AOL, DIE!"
Be smothered to death by your own billions 'n billions of floppies and CDs! Ha ha ha....!
And that goes for the Pudgy loudmouth Andreeson Netscape also!
I don't know how many times I was told several years ago to stop installing IE5 on users' PCs, and reinstall Netscape by pointy-haired bosses and "consultants", because "Netscape was the standard"
F---ng morons!
Great!
I will tell this to my old auntie, who has a Vista system (which works PERRRFECTLY) but was asking about Linux.
I'll give her the Ubuntu Gutsy Gaboon CD to install, and give her *your* email address!
OK?
You can uuhh... help her with the Flash install!
Don't mind, do you?
Hey, Ubuntu is a piece of cake!
...recommends just installing Ubuntu on a cheap PC
F U Eggzactly what I tried to do, with my old Win2K desktop!
It balked while trying to read the Grumpy Gerkin - whatever (7.10) CD.
If I cld find my festy fox backup CD I'd try it. Why was I installing it there? Hmmnnn
Because.. On my current high-end laptop, Ubuntu will not use the wireless.
(and do NOT tell me to use some arcane command lvl commands to use a windows-driver envelope- I wuz gonna give the PC to my aunt, who, alas, is uhh, not too familiar with greps & sudos)
So I always boot into VISTA!
Which WORKS PERFECTLY.
Geezzz... you l'il linux nerdies are sooo annoying!
YOU ARE SUCH PESTS! (As Orson Welles once remarked)
GET A LIFE!
In Soviet Science, Gladnost satellite launch YOU!
I admit I have not read every post here, but everyone seems to get their knockers in a knicker, when the topic of hazardous waste comes up.
... has anyone asked where this disgusting highly toxic dastardly elemental Mercury originally COMES FROM?
"Don't throw your CFLs into the garbage; you will pollute the landfill/dump, and consequently the environment"
Has anyone asked where the Hg (and I think it is elemental Hg, much like the stuuf that fills, along with Ag, the remaining teeth in my mouth) -
Like, uhhh... is it imported from the Moon? Or some other planet?
Some answers, please.
1. CFLs can't be dimmed: it's either on or off with these bulbs, so dimmer switches are worthless
2. CFL's have a warm-up time: unlike Tungsten-based bulbs, CFLs take between 5-60 seconds to reach "full brightness", so don't plan on seeing much immediately after turning it on
3. CFLs can't be used with a solar control: Solar indicators (seats for type-A bulbs which turn on when the sun goes down) provide variable power and so they can't be used to control CFL's
4. CFLs contain mercury: I know the common counter-argument to this is that it is only a small amount of mercury and it doesn't pollute the environment if properly recycled, but there's just something odd about a so-called green bulb containing a known carcinogen and toxin. Especially when we're getting rid of mercury-based thermometers, it seems the wrong time to be mandating a new mercury based product
5. CFLs give off harsh light: this is an aesthetic reason, which is why I'm listing it last, but it's still pretty significant. In all the CFL's I've tried, the light tends to be too-white, kind of glaring compared to the warm/soft light of Tungsten bulbs. You'd think this would be the easiest one to solve, but in the half-dozen or so different models of CFLs I've tried, the light they produce is always too harsh.
All BS.
Except for #3.
Read some of the more erudite posts here.
and he's usually on the same side as me.
Well if he ever does decide to cross that bridge to the other side, just make sure you're not in the car with him.
Now-
all you have to do is stop eating at McDonalds, and stop drinking pasteurized dairy products.
and all will be OK.