Agreed. I used to hear about the whale, and I was like "great, it's a life-sized model of a blue whale. I get it. It's big. Why is that so exciting?"
Then, of course, I walked into the room, and as soon as I could pick my jaw up off of the ground, I said "holy fuck". I hope I said it quietly enough that the little kids around me couldn't hear, but that was my reaction.
It is a life sized blue whale, and it is bigger than you can possibly imagine.
The entire trip to AMNH is worth it individually for:
The Hayden Planetarium
The blue whale
That's leaving out things like the entire 5th floor, the amazing geological section, the grand entrance, the IMAX, and so much more.
My only wish was that the Hayden Planetarium would switch up the planetarium shows. Cosmic Collisions was playing forever. It's hard to tell how long Journey to the Stars will play, but it would be great to rotate through the three, so that new visitors could come back and see Cosmic collisions. Even if it were a single showing a day, it would be worth it. And I only got to see it once.
Electronic bits do not have the quality of being static. Electronic votes can be changed without obvious physical evidence, and as long as they're purely electronic, it will always be like that.
Even an optical disk is more static than electronic bits that live in a database.
People need to demand paper ballots until electronic voting machines are all enhanced with built-in paper trails.
The trick will be to do it like Cadillac did with the deer-sensor (http://www.vxm.com/Impact.cadillac.nitevision.html), and reflect it onto the lenses, and still make it so that the person can see it, despite their focus being well past the lens.
Let me be the first on record as saying if I could somehow hack a D90 screen on my D50, I would do it in a heartbeat. The D50 body was so perfect that they killed it and broke it in two, in order to create the crippled D40 and the somewhat usable D80 (though the 80 has a newer sensor, but not as good as the 90). I don't ever want to have to give up my D50. The only thing it lacks is the ISO sensitivity of the newer models.
I disagree on the ethics. They've made the source code available, and as many other commenters here have mentioned, anyone is free to jump through the very same hoops that these developers did to publish the software, or they're free to make it available gratis via one of the jailbreak sources.
You are applying an ethical argument against the platform to the developers who are writing software for it...and developers who are bending over backwards to help the community.
I think you're probably right. The manner in which this was brought to light probably guarantees that CentOS won't have this problem again. But yes, I'll be watching too.
The problem of this is scale. Especially for a small company like mine, where we don't have the budget to put out an extra few thousand per server, especially now that virtualization is the new hotness.
I admin a network that is on the large side of small.....50-70 servers, both physical and virtual. That's going to be around $18k-$19k per year for the infrastructure. No way will that work with our budget. So we run CentOS, which is (supposedly) as stable as RHEL and has full binary compatibility with it. We just don't have support from Redhat, and apparently we're at the mercy of stuff like this happening.
As soon as I heard about the management practices at CentOS, I immediately began shopping around for another distro.
I've so far come to the conclusion that if I stick with RH based distros, I'll probably go with Scientific Linux, and if I make the break, it'll be Ubuntu Server.
Of course, CentOS can keep my loyalty by immediately implementing a large amount of transparency in their operations. I wish this had been brought to light much earlier, but hopefully it will the the catalyst that fixes things over there. I really don't want to have to redeploy 70 servers.
If you mean on paper with a pen, my grandpa would've done that. If you mean the demise of the punchcards, good luck with that. Today, only the punch card can satisfy the information density required by today's programming languages, and I don't think this will change anytime soon.
Right, but how's your cursive fare against your typing?
There are people who still write using calligraphy. There will still be people who write cursive. It'll just be a niche skill, sort of like Blacksmithing is.
Keep practicing your cursive. Some day you'll be useful in the SCA.;-)
> With an earthquake, isn't the building less solid than than Earth?
IANASiesmologist (but I play one on TV (ok, I can't back that up))
Actually, sometimes it isn't. Depending on the properties of the quake (strength, depth, etc), the ground itself (particularly soil) acts a lot like a liquid. A "slab" house might float while a bedrock based building may have major structural issues due to compression of the major structural elements. This is one of the big reasons that building in earthquake zones have "floating" structural members. They need to be able to "move" independently, relative to the ground, because the ground doesn't move uniformly. One particularly inventive solution stored inertia in a giant multi-ton sphere suspended in the top of a skyscraper. This reduced lateral movement while maintaining flexibility of the structure.
Just so you know, reading your post made me flash back to somewhere around 9 years ago.
I was in a Radioshack Training Course, and I didn't fit in. At all. I wasn't a salesman, I was a techie/hacker kid who just wanted to work there for a discount.
So at one point in the training, the guy teaching the class asked the question, "what kinds of things does Radio Shack sell that can be used illegally?"
My hand shot up, and he called on my. 30 seconds later, after listing things like 555 timers, phone dialers, crystals, phone recorders, radio antennas, radio scanners, etc etc, the room got really quiet. He shook his head, and he just said "You know, you scare me a little", and moved in a different line of questions.
> "Concentration" game - an SCR and buzzer were used to make a game where you passed a metal loop > over a bend metal wire without them touching. Once the two parts touched, completing a circuit, the SCR > would latch on and the buzzer would sound until the reset button was pressed. > I recall this project also used a voltage regulator
As opposed to a relay connected to the mains line...
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Ah, I miss 1999, too.
Seriously, have you used a Windows machine at all in the past, say, decade?
A _real_ Windows machine, not the crap they sell you at Best Buy. No? OK then.
Sorry, yes, I did. I equate that with the "top", but of course, there's the roped off stairway that I've never quite managed to sneak up :-)
Agreed. I used to hear about the whale, and I was like "great, it's a life-sized model of a blue whale. I get it. It's big. Why is that so exciting?"
Then, of course, I walked into the room, and as soon as I could pick my jaw up off of the ground, I said "holy fuck". I hope I said it quietly enough that the little kids around me couldn't hear, but that was my reaction.
It is a life sized blue whale, and it is bigger than you can possibly imagine.
The entire trip to AMNH is worth it individually for:
That's leaving out things like the entire 5th floor, the amazing geological section, the grand entrance, the IMAX, and so much more.
My only wish was that the Hayden Planetarium would switch up the planetarium shows. Cosmic Collisions was playing forever. It's hard to tell how long Journey to the Stars will play, but it would be great to rotate through the three, so that new visitors could come back and see Cosmic collisions. Even if it were a single showing a day, it would be worth it. And I only got to see it once.
Hey, no worries :-) Great minds!
Electronic bits do not have the quality of being static. Electronic votes can be changed without obvious physical evidence, and as long as they're purely electronic, it will always be like that.
Even an optical disk is more static than electronic bits that live in a database.
People need to demand paper ballots until electronic voting machines are all enhanced with built-in paper trails.
The trick will be to do it like Cadillac did with the deer-sensor (http://www.vxm.com/Impact.cadillac.nitevision.html), and reflect it onto the lenses, and still make it so that the person can see it, despite their focus being well past the lens.
Let me be the first on record as saying if I could somehow hack a D90 screen on my D50, I would do it in a heartbeat. The D50 body was so perfect that they killed it and broke it in two, in order to create the crippled D40 and the somewhat usable D80 (though the 80 has a newer sensor, but not as good as the 90). I don't ever want to have to give up my D50. The only thing it lacks is the ISO sensitivity of the newer models.
I must be...I'm not sure what you're getting at?
I LOL'd at "sheeyah...the BUS lottery"
But each of the hosted VMs needs their own license, as I understand it. I could be mistaken.
I disagree on the ethics. They've made the source code available, and as many other commenters here have mentioned, anyone is free to jump through the very same hoops that these developers did to publish the software, or they're free to make it available gratis via one of the jailbreak sources.
You are applying an ethical argument against the platform to the developers who are writing software for it...and developers who are bending over backwards to help the community.
So are you arguing against the platform or arguing against the app being sold?
And how would you feel if the app were offered for sale through one of the sources available post-jailbreak?
I think you're probably right. The manner in which this was brought to light probably guarantees that CentOS won't have this problem again. But yes, I'll be watching too.
The problem of this is scale. Especially for a small company like mine, where we don't have the budget to put out an extra few thousand per server, especially now that virtualization is the new hotness.
I admin a network that is on the large side of small.....50-70 servers, both physical and virtual. That's going to be around $18k-$19k per year for the infrastructure. No way will that work with our budget. So we run CentOS, which is (supposedly) as stable as RHEL and has full binary compatibility with it. We just don't have support from Redhat, and apparently we're at the mercy of stuff like this happening.
As soon as I heard about the management practices at CentOS, I immediately began shopping around for another distro.
I've so far come to the conclusion that if I stick with RH based distros, I'll probably go with Scientific Linux, and if I make the break, it'll be Ubuntu Server.
Of course, CentOS can keep my loyalty by immediately implementing a large amount of transparency in their operations. I wish this had been brought to light much earlier, but hopefully it will the the catalyst that fixes things over there. I really don't want to have to redeploy 70 servers.
I completely understand what you mean. My busfactor is off the charts, though I'm getting a junior admin within a month.
If you mean on paper with a pen, my grandpa would've done that. If you mean the demise of the punchcards, good luck with that. Today, only the punch card can satisfy the information density required by today's programming languages, and I don't think this will change anytime soon.
FTFY
Right, but how's your cursive fare against your typing?
There are people who still write using calligraphy. There will still be people who write cursive. It'll just be a niche skill, sort of like Blacksmithing is.
Keep practicing your cursive. Some day you'll be useful in the SCA. ;-)
How do you propose to get the water high enough at that point to fall into the ocean?
Really???
You chose to make a coconut joke on slashdot, and DIDN'T include the phrase "it could grip it by the husk"???
You silly 8-digit UIDs...
Your mother was a hamster
I should also have mentioned, sometimes the house "floats". Other times it gets sucked under and disappears.
> With an earthquake, isn't the building less solid than than Earth?
IANASiesmologist (but I play one on TV (ok, I can't back that up))
Actually, sometimes it isn't. Depending on the properties of the quake (strength, depth, etc), the ground itself (particularly soil) acts a lot like a liquid. A "slab" house might float while a bedrock based building may have major structural issues due to compression of the major structural elements. This is one of the big reasons that building in earthquake zones have "floating" structural members. They need to be able to "move" independently, relative to the ground, because the ground doesn't move uniformly. One particularly inventive solution stored inertia in a giant multi-ton sphere suspended in the top of a skyscraper. This reduced lateral movement while maintaining flexibility of the structure.
Just so you know, reading your post made me flash back to somewhere around 9 years ago.
I was in a Radioshack Training Course, and I didn't fit in. At all. I wasn't a salesman, I was a techie/hacker kid who just wanted to work there for a discount.
So at one point in the training, the guy teaching the class asked the question, "what kinds of things does Radio Shack sell that can be used illegally?"
My hand shot up, and he called on my. 30 seconds later, after listing things like 555 timers, phone dialers, crystals, phone recorders, radio antennas, radio scanners, etc etc, the room got really quiet. He shook his head, and he just said "You know, you scare me a little", and moved in a different line of questions.
I look back on that with much amusement :-)
> "Concentration" game - an SCR and buzzer were used to make a game where you passed a metal loop
> over a bend metal wire without them touching. Once the two parts touched, completing a circuit, the SCR
> would latch on and the buzzer would sound until the reset button was pressed.
> I recall this project also used a voltage regulator
As opposed to a relay connected to the mains line...