I got my first on my sixteenth birthday. He died shortly after we got him. Don't know how or why, he was adequately cared for. I got a second one after that, we had fun he would squak while I was gone, and while I was there, he liked listening to my music, he would calm down and bob his head; he lived for 5 or 6 years and died under the care of one of my siblings while I was in college 1,000 miles away (no birds in the dorms).
I got a pair (male/female) as I was finishing up college. The female was a noisy chick, she would not shut up! squack, squack, squack! The male was very tempered. They appeared to have fun, very different temperments (the female was rowdy and would incite the male, the male generally pretty stoic but could get worked up by the female). We'd let them fly around the apartment from time to time when it was safe. The female passed on after about 2 years, I came home from class and found her there, don't know how it happened. The male lived on. I wound up donating it to the humane society when we moved, my wife wasn't thrilled with them since we started having kids.
I always wanted to get a bigger bird, a parrot or macaw, but I keep getting afraid of it passing on too early in life. I realise parakeets are little birds and things happen, especially when you live up in WI in a drafty old house (may be what did either of my first 2 birds in), but birds are just so personable...
The funny thing is, though... drive-through surgery works. Damn well. It's freaking amazing. My wife had to have two this summer: the first was a gallbladder removal, the second was a result of pain during her pregnancy (baby broke something, doc went in and fixed it). Cost $300 a pop, insured, in and out in less than 4 hours. Had 1-2 checkups for each following the surgery.
Would you rather recover in a hospital, or in bed at home? I think that might be half the battle.
Sorry, but it just seems that if we know that $200 million communication satellites will plummet from the sky due to one (1) engine failing while the others still have a reasonable amount of fuel you might have planned for a way to make use of that excess fuel before the thing lifted off. Of course with a measly $200 million budget you can't account for all these niggling little inconveniences, right?
The part you and 90% of slashdot missed is that this particular satellite has met and exceeded its planned service life. It was due to be decomissioned. However, the 'rocket scientists' running the show figured out a way to milk another 6 months of life out of the craft. For a few hundred thousand or so, they could keep it up 6 more months and bring in another $50 million in profit. It is called being resourceful.
A useful analogy would be buying a laptop and expecting it to have a useful service life of 3 years. At the end of three years, you give it a good look, and realise for $50 you can upgrade one critical part that can extend the usefulness of the notebook for a year. Do you do it? Cost-benefit analysis says yes.
Who launches a multimillion satellite to space without making sure that it fully uses resources left onboard before retiring?
It has lived its full life. It has reached the end of service. But wait, for a few hundred thousand or so in research/fuel shifting, we can net an extra six months in orbit and $50M in revenue. Do we do it? Do we? Of course.
**that** is the situation. And yes, it is rocket science. Read the first page of the paper at least, they did something creative.
Same propellant in each tank. But when one tank goes, the whole satellite goes. Note that they are only squeezing 6 months out of a 15 year satellite, or 3.3%. Not exactly planned obsolescence.
I think, there are bigger problems this country is experiencing than pictures on a wall, or a cartoon in a newspaper. But it seems at every turn the ACLU is cherry-picking the little ones, and not taking on the meaningful ones. With few, rare exceptions. That's why I would oppose any tax funding of the ACLU.
What about when he responded to the pharisees about taxes and tithing "give unto Caesar what is Caesar and unto God what is God's". Or the Sermon on the Mount, specifically enumerating murder, divorce, false testimony. How about when he acted as judge in the case of a prostitute? Just a few cases.
Guess I have to say I disagree with you, Jesus belongs up there. And if you believe the Bible, Moses does not because he was just a transcriptionist for God.
I pay my taxes. I do not in any way wish to support the ACLU.
For example, a courthouse has a display of 15 of history's preeminant lawgivers. Among them, is Jesus. ACLU is trying to get rid of the Jesus image. I can't say I agree with that. Jesus is up there with 15 of history's preeminant lawgivers, IMO. Makes sense. He promoted peace and justice, things you want in a courthouse. Or the ethiopian food fight. Were it about Republicans, or about the plight of white overage Americans, the ACLU wouldn't care.
Are those 2 (very recent) examples really what you want your tax dollars going towards? I'd classify it as pork. There are so many things that rank higher in the world of 'civil liberties', the ACLU, from what I have seen, nitpicks the little things that really don't matter. If pictures offend you, you have bigger problems.
PRECISELY my point, thank you for proving it. Anything coming from Microsoft would be insufficient for you. They could provide code on the same terms as the Linux kernel and you would probably still scoff.
not when it's being examined to see what might need changing.
So you are telling me your company uses a second product to look at the same code for a different scenario ('examining' versus 'coding')? I haven't experianced that. It has either been done in an IDE, or via documents automatically generated via Doxygen, which are hyperlinked, and quite concise, not much worse that hovering in an IDE.
I mean it... DirectX is pretty slick. Some of the big-name developers who swore it off (including John Carmack) are giving it a second look.
The nicest thing I've seen recently is Irrlicht, which runs atop either OpenGL or DirectX, with backup software renderers. But again, you still lose a lot from DirectX, like sound and device support, etc. and the ability to port quickly and easily (relatively speaking) to XBOX 360.
I think this move might have other repercussions than just help the Linux PC game market.
Simulation and Visualization are both huge. Projects like OpenSceneGraph, etc. Lots of people are using Linux to do graphically intense development work - I used to, back when I worked for the Army. nVidia seemed to be the preferred video card by a long shot because it was so well supported. They are probably trying to crack that market.
nVidia also had the advantage of using a unified codebase - 90% of the driver code is identical between Linux and Windows. That's something AMD hasn't been doing (at least back when I kept up on things, they may have changed in the past few years).
So as you say there are markets above and beyond linux desktop gaming (which is pretty minimal... honestly, its a few FPS's and then WINE. And most games under WINE have issues... )
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Of course, I have a 5 year old Dell ... That's why my 3D desktop runs on Intel video.
5 year old intel video? for 3D? *cringe*
You make me miss my parakeets.
I got my first on my sixteenth birthday. He died shortly after we got him. Don't know how or why, he was adequately cared for. I got a second one after that, we had fun he would squak while I was gone, and while I was there, he liked listening to my music, he would calm down and bob his head; he lived for 5 or 6 years and died under the care of one of my siblings while I was in college 1,000 miles away (no birds in the dorms).
I got a pair (male/female) as I was finishing up college. The female was a noisy chick, she would not shut up! squack, squack, squack! The male was very tempered. They appeared to have fun, very different temperments (the female was rowdy and would incite the male, the male generally pretty stoic but could get worked up by the female). We'd let them fly around the apartment from time to time when it was safe. The female passed on after about 2 years, I came home from class and found her there, don't know how it happened. The male lived on. I wound up donating it to the humane society when we moved, my wife wasn't thrilled with them since we started having kids.
I always wanted to get a bigger bird, a parrot or macaw, but I keep getting afraid of it passing on too early in life. I realise parakeets are little birds and things happen, especially when you live up in WI in a drafty old house (may be what did either of my first 2 birds in), but birds are just so personable...
thanks again for the story Rei
Funny thing is Microsoft actually wrote an OS in c# ... Singularity
or did he not coin it? Whoever it was then, colour me curious!
:)
maybe a c++ programmer?
Why can't you have the fish part on top, and the lady part on the bottom? -Fry
but... omg... when he makes himself look bad I can laugh and feel better about myself!!!!!
(sigh, I happen to agree with you. let this guy fade into obscurity)
Al Gore, Inc.
The funny thing is, though... drive-through surgery works. Damn well. It's freaking amazing. My wife had to have two this summer: the first was a gallbladder removal, the second was a result of pain during her pregnancy (baby broke something, doc went in and fixed it). Cost $300 a pop, insured, in and out in less than 4 hours. Had 1-2 checkups for each following the surgery.
Would you rather recover in a hospital, or in bed at home? I think that might be half the battle.
Sorry, but it just seems that if we know that $200 million communication satellites will plummet from the sky due to one (1) engine failing while the others still have a reasonable amount of fuel you might have planned for a way to make use of that excess fuel before the thing lifted off. Of course with a measly $200 million budget you can't account for all these niggling little inconveniences, right?
The part you and 90% of slashdot missed is that this particular satellite has met and exceeded its planned service life. It was due to be decomissioned. However, the 'rocket scientists' running the show figured out a way to milk another 6 months of life out of the craft. For a few hundred thousand or so, they could keep it up 6 more months and bring in another $50 million in profit. It is called being resourceful.
A useful analogy would be buying a laptop and expecting it to have a useful service life of 3 years. At the end of three years, you give it a good look, and realise for $50 you can upgrade one critical part that can extend the usefulness of the notebook for a year. Do you do it? Cost-benefit analysis says yes.
The only disagreement I'd have is that, in general, IE is quicker than FF under Windows XP. At least in my experience.
Sure beats getting miffed over a cartoon!
Who launches a multimillion satellite to space without making sure that it fully uses resources left onboard before retiring?
It has lived its full life. It has reached the end of service. But wait, for a few hundred thousand or so in research/fuel shifting, we can net an extra six months in orbit and $50M in revenue. Do we do it? Do we? Of course.
**that** is the situation. And yes, it is rocket science. Read the first page of the paper at least, they did something creative.
Same propellant in each tank. But when one tank goes, the whole satellite goes. Note that they are only squeezing 6 months out of a 15 year satellite, or 3.3%. Not exactly planned obsolescence.
I think, there are bigger problems this country is experiencing than pictures on a wall, or a cartoon in a newspaper. But it seems at every turn the ACLU is cherry-picking the little ones, and not taking on the meaningful ones. With few, rare exceptions. That's why I would oppose any tax funding of the ACLU.
What about when he responded to the pharisees about taxes and tithing "give unto Caesar what is Caesar and unto God what is God's". Or the Sermon on the Mount, specifically enumerating murder, divorce, false testimony. How about when he acted as judge in the case of a prostitute? Just a few cases.
Guess I have to say I disagree with you, Jesus belongs up there. And if you believe the Bible, Moses does not because he was just a transcriptionist for God.
Next thing you know, socialized housing, assigned socialized jobs, heaven forbid anyone should be unemployed ...
I pay my taxes. I do not in any way wish to support the ACLU.
For example, a courthouse has a display of 15 of history's preeminant lawgivers. Among them, is Jesus. ACLU is trying to get rid of the Jesus image. I can't say I agree with that. Jesus is up there with 15 of history's preeminant lawgivers, IMO. Makes sense. He promoted peace and justice, things you want in a courthouse. Or the ethiopian food fight. Were it about Republicans, or about the plight of white overage Americans, the ACLU wouldn't care.
Are those 2 (very recent) examples really what you want your tax dollars going towards? I'd classify it as pork. There are so many things that rank higher in the world of 'civil liberties', the ACLU, from what I have seen, nitpicks the little things that really don't matter. If pictures offend you, you have bigger problems.
They need to eat.
GET A JOB!
yup, his one and only journal entry links to the same site, different article.
database row would sound too much like prison :P
when any geek can flash thousands of times and not have problems with his hard disk.
in a row?
PRECISELY my point, thank you for proving it. Anything coming from Microsoft would be insufficient for you. They could provide code on the same terms as the Linux kernel and you would probably still scoff.
not when it's being examined to see what might need changing.
So you are telling me your company uses a second product to look at the same code for a different scenario ('examining' versus 'coding')? I haven't experianced that. It has either been done in an IDE, or via documents automatically generated via Doxygen, which are hyperlinked, and quite concise, not much worse that hovering in an IDE.
I mean it ... DirectX is pretty slick. Some of the big-name developers who swore it off (including John Carmack) are giving it a second look.
The nicest thing I've seen recently is Irrlicht, which runs atop either OpenGL or DirectX, with backup software renderers. But again, you still lose a lot from DirectX, like sound and device support, etc. and the ability to port quickly and easily (relatively speaking) to XBOX 360.
I think this move might have other repercussions than just help the Linux PC game market.
... honestly, its a few FPS's and then WINE. And most games under WINE have issues ... )
Simulation and Visualization are both huge. Projects like OpenSceneGraph, etc. Lots of people are using Linux to do graphically intense development work - I used to, back when I worked for the Army. nVidia seemed to be the preferred video card by a long shot because it was so well supported. They are probably trying to crack that market.
nVidia also had the advantage of using a unified codebase - 90% of the driver code is identical between Linux and Windows. That's something AMD hasn't been doing (at least back when I kept up on things, they may have changed in the past few years).
So as you say there are markets above and beyond linux desktop gaming (which is pretty minimal