How will a glass surface respond to tire chains on trucks and frost heave?
As soon as someone shows me glass that is tougher and more durable than granite (which frost will easily shatter over time), I'll believe these panels are suitable for anywhere in Canada.
Anyone who says glass is a suitable highway road surface probably also thinks concrete is as well... You'd fail as a road engineer in Canada.
For what it's worth, I kinda like the ads here, since generally they're not obnoxious and they are on a topic I'm interested in.
I'd love a couple things ad related: 1. to be able to select the types of ads I'd like to see. For example, to see ads like Networking Products but not Hosting Solutions. Some ads just wouldn't fit a category but hey. 2. The ability to rotate an ad out and on to the next one. I'm looking at this SourceForge ad here and it's not doing much for me. I wonder if the next one up is something I'm more interested in...
I was pretty sure plenum and PVC burned the same, the difference being that PVC gives off toxic smoke whereas plenum doesn't.
Plenum is required for in-wall (ceilings included) cabling or the fire marshall will have your ass.
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Ooo, I like that idea.
Especially if the ad base was varied enough to include a wide range of products (preferably from respectable companies). I know I have certain geeky ideas/projects I would like to work on, but I just haven't had time to research starting hardware to hack. I'd actually like to see some ads for decent products. And if they were moderating or rated in a similar matter, that'd be all the better.
This was originally a story broadcast on the CBC on Dec. 6, 2000.
Very, very well done and pretty accurate (for the time). All in all, I was incredibly impressed, this is the first (and only) piece of mainstream journalism that "Get's It" with respect to computers and network security.
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Well, some games are not available for rent, maybe only those with copy protections are allowed to be rented.
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I noticed, when I read the thread originally, that there is some concern that this would take testers away from unstable. But I did not notice the counter-argument (which I happen to fall into). I'd love (really) to test more, except unstable is too unstable. Buggy I can handle, but not working isn't cool. I think this testing dist. would brin MORE testers in from stable.
Just my opinion, I've emailed my support and opinion, perhaps others should send their support for the idea to debian-devel.
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How would M$ deal with the support nightmare of a "Windows 2020: Body and Mind" operating system? People would call up with problems, M$'d say "Reboot your body, does that help?", and the customer would say "My fingers won't move you idiot, how am I supposed to reboot?"
The new Windows OS slogan could be, "Let's You Operate Your Body Reliably 85% of the Time!".
MS is going to be around, and muddying up the waters for a long time. Even if they don't look like they're going to survive "the next wave" as you put it, they've got too many resources behind them to not just outright buy their way into any market they want (a la Hotmail for example).
And I don't think it's going to be about centralized processing. The PC clone manufacturers (and their advertising departments) make far too much money selling incredibly overpowered systems to the average home user. (Come on, it does NOT take a PIII-600 to run a web browser or word processor if all those "extras" (e.g. Windows 98) weren't also running).
People are going to have hugely powerful systems at home, people are going to WANT to have hugely powerful systems at home (PC's have become a status symbol a lot like a nice car has). What would be the point of having all that power and then go and use your ISP's computers for all the work? Distribute the load baby.
If you want to take a look at some really cool foundations for "The Network is the Computer" philosphy, check out what's being down with Active Networks. Very cool shit.
The problem for the U.S. is that we have not just one, but many enemies.
You say that the US has a lot of enemies. But you may forget that you have a number of friends as well. (I'm a Canadian). I'm not a big fan of the U.S. all the time, I don't agree with a lot of the policies that you guys have, or the fact that those policies influence our own politicians in the way that they do, but that's life. I've seen over the history of my news-watching years (most notably the IRAQ conflict) that for the most part, the U.S. acts as part of the NATO whole. It might be unfortunate that a lot of the hate from the groups NATO acts against is directed towards America. Canada participates in, and usually fully supports, these actions but does not seem to generate the same animosity that you guys do. I strongly suspect this is simply because we're less visible, and the American forces are the most visible and audiable in an engagement. This may be, however, the price of the "Empire" as you call it. America influences a lot of things (perhaps not as much as you guys think sometimes, but enough) and perhaps as a result, your leaders feel that it's important to contribute their fair share to the "solutions" (we don't need to discuss whether the action is appropriate, that's a whole 'nother arguement:). For good or ill, a course of action is decided and the people with the lion's share of the influence contribute the lion's share of the resources to implementing the solution. You guys probably don't have to, but it seems to me like it's an act of good faith on your part, and I suspect that as much as many people dislike the influence the American Empire has on their own lives, they respect and appreciate the resources that same Empire contributes to problems that are not it's own.
The US is composed of vastly divergent ethnic groups that have so far been able to live together with an understood peace between them that is enforced through governement policies such as affirmative action. As we go into the next century, the ethnic make up of the U.S will drastically change from being primarilly a white country to a nation where whites, blacks, and Latinos have almost equal shares in the population.
I think you're missing the point of diversity. I would hope that as we (as a world) move into the next century, the general consensus will be that programs like affirmative action will be unnecesary because most of the population will realize that diversity benefits everyone. Different natural strenghts, skills, history and perspectives combined give an organization or even country an incredible edge. Understanding and respect for everyone's culture is such a benefit to the whole.
You can't force this understanding though, only education will give a country this kind of advantage. Unfortunately, old hatreds die hard, but as one generation fades out, and a more educated generation takes over, I hope that perhaps the U.S. will adopt some of Canada's policies on cultural diversity (as it already has begun to do).
This isn't to say there won't be tension. That's inevitable, (just look at situation in Atlantic Canada here between Native and Non-Native fishermen).:)
Oh well, at least you're all able to defend yourselves in the case of trouble.:( (Sorry, just a dig at those rediculous firearm laws, couldn't resist). --
That has always been the problem with the space science programs. People do not see an immediate benifit to going into space. There is no oil to drill for, no gold to mine, no resources to rape, no buck to be made. Or at least they think so. Pure science and abstract knowledge is all that is left, and that never sells very well to the unwashed masses.
I'm not sure I agree. There's a lot of advantages to doing things in space, (think of how much you could overclock you celeron if it ran in the 0.3 kelvins (is that right?) environment of empty space.:)
I think within a half a century or so, populations will be such that it will become more popular to look for other places to expand. China went through a hard time curbing their growth rate, but it's working. India, unfortunately, is going to be the site of a number of enormous human disasters for the next couple generations. So many people crowded like that are just too vulnerable to disaster.
Why oh why can we not travel faster than the speed of light? I want my warp speed!!!
Seriously, NASA (and other space agencies around the world facing serious budget restraints) are going to have to do some fancy dancing to keep "us" (in the lower common denomenator type sense) interested in their exploration projects. I notice that it won't be 7 or 8 years before the laser spectrometer can partially confirms this theory (and then probably another 7 or 8 years before the next craft to "study it further" could conceivably arrive).
15 years. That's a long time to people becoming used to psuedo-instant gratification. The MTV generation can't keep focused on more than one thing for more than 10 seconds apparently (at least, that's what I assume based on those nauseating videos I happen see, anyone else feel seasick watching these music videos now?).
Hopefully, a proliferation of stories like this will generate and expand peoples interest in innerspace exploration and travel. NASA's servers (and the other space agencies around the world of course, let's not be USA-centric here) have an incredible amount of cool info. Maybe someday American's will elect representatives who think agencies like NASA are more important than making sure everyone can have their own personal semi-automatic rifle and direct the extra funding and resources accordingly.
Just a couple thoughts, probably offtopic, so moderate accordingly.
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How will a glass surface respond to tire chains on trucks and frost heave?
As soon as someone shows me glass that is tougher and more durable than granite (which frost will easily shatter over time), I'll believe these panels are suitable for anywhere in Canada.
Anyone who says glass is a suitable highway road surface probably also thinks concrete is as well... You'd fail as a road engineer in Canada.
They bind it with aluminum to create a stable hydrogen/aluminum powder.
At least, that's what a local news report mentioned a few days back.
For what it's worth, I kinda like the ads here, since generally they're not obnoxious and they are on a topic I'm interested in.
I'd love a couple things ad related:
1. to be able to select the types of ads I'd like to see. For example, to see ads like Networking Products but not Hosting Solutions. Some ads just wouldn't fit a category but hey.
2. The ability to rotate an ad out and on to the next one. I'm looking at this SourceForge ad here and it's not doing much for me. I wonder if the next one up is something I'm more interested in...
Congratulations to you both! :)
I was pretty sure plenum and PVC burned the same, the difference being that PVC gives off toxic smoke whereas plenum doesn't.
Plenum is required for in-wall (ceilings included) cabling or the fire marshall will have your ass.
Ooo, I like that idea.
Especially if the ad base was varied enough to include a wide range of products (preferably from respectable companies). I know I have certain geeky ideas/projects I would like to work on, but I just haven't had time to research starting hardware to hack. I'd actually like to see some ads for decent products. And if they were moderating or rated in a similar matter, that'd be all the better.
http://cbc.ca/news/indepth/hackers/
This was originally a story broadcast on the CBC on Dec. 6, 2000.
Very, very well done and pretty accurate (for the time). All in all, I was incredibly impressed, this is the first (and only) piece of mainstream journalism that "Get's It" with respect to computers and network security.
Good read (for the most part). Check it out.
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Well, some games are not available for rent, maybe only those with copy protections are allowed to be rented.
I dunno the details, but I must say that being able to rent a game out and try it for a couple days has lead me to buy games I would never had considered before.
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I guess everyone cannot rent PC games like you can PSX and N64, etc?
Weird, up here you can just rent them. $2.00 CDN for a night or so, $1 for every night after.
How odd, I didn't realize this wasn't common.
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The above review sounds a lot like how I felt about Tribes 2.
It's a very frustrating feeling for those of us use to Linux-like stability.
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You can't. Once you publish something publically, you cannot patent it. Therefore the winner's idea is not patentable.
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Otherwise it would be funny.
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I noticed, when I read the thread originally, that there is some concern that this would take testers away from unstable. But I did not notice the counter-argument (which I happen to fall into). I'd love (really) to test more, except unstable is too unstable. Buggy I can handle, but not working isn't cool. I think this testing dist. would brin MORE testers in from stable.
Just my opinion, I've emailed my support and opinion, perhaps others should send their support for the idea to debian-devel.
I think this is an awesome idea, and I really hope it is formally implemented.
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This equates to about 5 minutes of downtime a year, which is not too bad.
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Just for the curious,
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The new Windows OS slogan could be, "Let's You Operate Your Body Reliably 85% of the Time!".
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MS is going to be around, and muddying up the waters for a long time. Even if they don't look like they're going to survive "the next wave" as you put it, they've got too many resources behind them to not just outright buy their way into any market they want (a la Hotmail for example).
And I don't think it's going to be about centralized processing. The PC clone manufacturers (and their advertising departments) make far too much money selling incredibly overpowered systems to the average home user. (Come on, it does NOT take a PIII-600 to run a web browser or word processor if all those "extras" (e.g. Windows 98) weren't also running).
People are going to have hugely powerful systems at home, people are going to WANT to have hugely powerful systems at home (PC's have become a status symbol a lot like a nice car has). What would be the point of having all that power and then go and use your ISP's computers for all the work? Distribute the load baby.
If you want to take a look at some really cool foundations for "The Network is the Computer" philosphy, check out what's being down with Active Networks. Very cool shit.
Anywho, just one opinion amoung many.
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You say that the US has a lot of enemies. But you may forget that you have a number of friends as well. (I'm a Canadian). I'm not a big fan of the U.S. all the time, I don't agree with a lot of the policies that you guys have, or the fact that those policies influence our own politicians in the way that they do, but that's life. I've seen over the history of my news-watching years (most notably the IRAQ conflict) that for the most part, the U.S. acts as part of the NATO whole. It might be unfortunate that a lot of the hate from the groups NATO acts against is directed towards America. Canada participates in, and usually fully supports, these actions but does not seem to generate the same animosity that you guys do. I strongly suspect this is simply because we're less visible, and the American forces are the most visible and audiable in an engagement. This may be, however, the price of the "Empire" as you call it. America influences a lot of things (perhaps not as much as you guys think sometimes, but enough) and perhaps as a result, your leaders feel that it's important to contribute their fair share to the "solutions" (we don't need to discuss whether the action is appropriate, that's a whole 'nother arguement :). For good or ill, a course of action is decided and the people with the lion's share of the influence contribute the lion's share of the resources to implementing the solution. You guys probably don't have to, but it seems to me like it's an act of good faith on your part, and I suspect that as much as many people dislike the influence the American Empire has on their own lives, they respect and appreciate the resources that same Empire contributes to problems that are not it's own.
The US is composed of vastly divergent ethnic groups that have so far been able to live together with an understood peace between them that is enforced through governement policies such as affirmative action. As we go into the next century, the ethnic make up of the U.S will drastically change from being primarilly a white country to a nation where whites, blacks, and Latinos have almost equal shares in the population.
I think you're missing the point of diversity. I would hope that as we (as a world) move into the next century, the general consensus will be that programs like affirmative action will be unnecesary because most of the population will realize that diversity benefits everyone. Different natural strenghts, skills, history and perspectives combined give an organization or even country an incredible edge. Understanding and respect for everyone's culture is such a benefit to the whole.
You can't force this understanding though, only education will give a country this kind of advantage. Unfortunately, old hatreds die hard, but as one generation fades out, and a more educated generation takes over, I hope that perhaps the U.S. will adopt some of Canada's policies on cultural diversity (as it already has begun to do).
This isn't to say there won't be tension. That's inevitable, (just look at situation in Atlantic Canada here between Native and Non-Native fishermen). :)
Oh well, at least you're all able to defend yourselves in the case of trouble. :( (Sorry, just a dig at those rediculous firearm laws, couldn't resist).
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I'm not sure I agree. There's a lot of advantages to doing things in space, (think of how much you could overclock you celeron if it ran in the 0.3 kelvins (is that right?) environment of empty space. :)
I think within a half a century or so, populations will be such that it will become more popular to look for other places to expand. China went through a hard time curbing their growth rate, but it's working. India, unfortunately, is going to be the site of a number of enormous human disasters for the next couple generations. So many people crowded like that are just too vulnerable to disaster.
Any, this is seriously offtopic now. :)
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Why oh why can we not travel faster than the speed of light? I want my warp speed!!!
Seriously, NASA (and other space agencies around the world facing serious budget restraints) are going to have to do some fancy dancing to keep "us" (in the lower common denomenator type sense) interested in their exploration projects. I notice that it won't be 7 or 8 years before the laser spectrometer can partially confirms this theory (and then probably another 7 or 8 years before the next craft to "study it further" could conceivably arrive).
15 years. That's a long time to people becoming used to psuedo-instant gratification. The MTV generation can't keep focused on more than one thing for more than 10 seconds apparently (at least, that's what I assume based on those nauseating videos I happen see, anyone else feel seasick watching these music videos now?).
Hopefully, a proliferation of stories like this will generate and expand peoples interest in innerspace exploration and travel. NASA's servers (and the other space agencies around the world of course, let's not be USA-centric here) have an incredible amount of cool info. Maybe someday American's will elect representatives who think agencies like NASA are more important than making sure everyone can have their own personal semi-automatic rifle and direct the extra funding and resources accordingly.
Just a couple thoughts, probably offtopic, so moderate accordingly.
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