Sept. 98 for 2000ish uid sounds about right. I (very vaguely) recall that I started reading slashdot in the fall of '98 about the time I first got interested in linux. I don't recall when registration started, but Alot of people joined in late '98 and uid's grew pretty rapidly.
It may have been caused by atmospheric ducting, but Chances are that it was actually caused by the meteor shower. I don't know all the vagueries, but VHF signals in particular are susceptible to scattering by meteor trails. Quite a few hams work meteor scatter on 2 meters (which is about half again as high in frequency as the FM broadcast band) single side band . I imagine FM would be affected similarly, however SSB is easier to work on wavering signals (the audio doesn't drop off completely.) I didn't take the rig with me, however...with a lovely wife, a nice dark beach, and a mostly clear sky, who needs the radio?:)
Zelazny, followed closely by Heinlein and Burroughs, is my favorite author. Jack Whyte, however, is quickly gaining. His Arthurian cycle is into 7 books, and unlike Jordan's series, is as good now as it was at the start.
I'd gush on about the Camulod series, but my rambling won't help his book sales...just go check out one of them for yourself (however, do yourself a favor, and don't start with The Sorceror.) You will probably need to look in the general fiction section for them.
I don't have any doubts he'll be read by sci-fi/fantasy fans 50 or 100 years from now.
for what little it's worth, your lockups were probably related to your sound card problems. i had the same problem with this install (suse 7.2) until i swapped out the sound card and now it works beautifully.
Let's see...Quayle misspelled and Clinton doesn't know the definition of sex. I'm not entirely certain what definition of literacy you are using, but I think you've made the original poster's point beautifully, thanks.
I missed out on the classic Amiga goodness, so I'm pretty clueless about the good points of this company. However, in three years or so of reading/., we've been inundated with announcements on upcoming new Amiga goodness which somehow never seems to materialize.
The guy may have been a smartass, but his point is worth pondering.
probably because people have many, many years to get sick and tired of their family, whereas the burglar just wanders in and out of your life rather quickly...
Many states have in the past, and are currently selling their drivers license databases. I'll agree that the number sounds farfetched, but it's not impossible.
Probably because Bigelow Aerospace is a defense contracter, and he'll probably manage to make more doing it this way. If the feds try to keep him from doing it, he'll likely look elsewhere.
hmm. a new use for those old boot floppies still sitting around...
some disks, a little ductape, and walah! a beowulf cluster wrist rest.
if that doesn't strike your fancy...peel off those useless plastic covers of said boot floppies, grab a jar of jam and a stylus of some sort, add a little saliva on back and you get strawberry flavored linux post-it notes.
i don't know that i'd trust every 'real' linux user to have half a brain, but it's entirely possible that you are essentially correct. it's a time honored political tradition to slap a few of your opponents stickers on car windows so that they are difficult to remove...which is pretty much what this sounds like to me.
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for what little it's worth, here's what i would add to your plan-
after the smartcard is inserted, once the ballot has been cast, instead of spitting it back out, the machine needs to toss that bastard into a locked box which should be picked up by the county sheriffs at regular intervals.
if any question of fraud is raised, you can simply compare the number of votes vs. the numbers of counters. if they don't match, pitch the precinct.
this might work. i was thinking of something similar, but instead of messing with the smartcards, i'd have the machine spit out a paper receipt/ballot which is then locked away. that way a manual recount _could_ be done, with safeguards similar to what i espoused above.
or you could do all three, i suppose. token, electronic vote, receipt...but how much redundancy is actually needed?
i just went and checked myself. bush still listed as being ahead by 1785 votes. (same numbers as of 7:00 this morning...perhaps it's not been updated? who knows.)
i just heard one of the state representatives in palm beach moaning about how he was terribly confused by the ballots in his area, and how he saw people crying as they left the polls because they were so befuddled. essentially he said because most of the electorate there was elderly and jewish, this ballot was too confusing for them (no, i'm not making this up. cnn at 9:45...i doubt he meant the last bit the way it sounded, but it is what he said.)
frankly, i don't have a damned bit of sympathy for anyone who was confused over the ballot. after seeing it, it seems pretty clear to me what needed to be done...we had similar ballots here in volusia in the 1992 election, and i don't remember any outcry over it. i suppose what it comes down to is this...if people can't figure out how to fill out their ballot (and are too dumb to ask if they don't understand it,) i'm not sure they should be voting anyway.
gods how i hate thinking that.
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Hey now...Conan doesn't owe it's life to Tolkien.
Robert Howard wrote his Conan stories back in the '30's, so he beat Tolkien by a good 30 years.
well, you can always just plug it into a socket at the house.:)
i'm pretty sure that the solar cells wouldn't add enough weight to make a tremendous difference. now, i'm not sure you could blanket the top of the thing to generate all the electricity you'd need for the compressor...but it would help.
i'm basing my assumption upon my possibly erronious assumption that that a volume of compressed air is cooler than the same volume of uncompressed air...as i said...
anyway, if you were going to directly inject compressed air in, you could conceivably shut off the intake from the outside air...so you wouldn't have the warm outside air interfering in the process.
gods...i can't even spell. no wonder i don't remember any of this stuff.
If you could inject compressed (cooled, right?) air directly into the combustion chamber, wouldn't this then lower T2 without moving to canada?
Just asking...my physics knowledge has woefully fallen out of the sieve of my mind.
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The original article, and the bbc articles listed here didn't really go into it, but it does operate as a combustion engine at speeds of over 50kmh or so (if i'm recalling what i read a few weeks ago correctly, anyway.)
They also show three different models of the thing...a station wagon of sorts, the taxi, and a pickup truck. (look here)
Max speed was about 63mph, which still isn't too bad.
I don't know how well it would do here in the states, but I know I'd bloody well buy one (and maybe another for the wife) at the prices they are initially talking about. That is however, a big if.:P
According to the website of the company designing these things: zeropollution.com, the reason why it will run 10 hours in the city is because the brakes are on some sort of generator system which drives an internal air compressor.
This thing is actually pretty damned cool. I was really skeptical about it when I first ran across it a few weeks ago, but I think I've some idea how it works. Check out the url above for all sorts of interesting info, with a diagram of the engine (I don't think the spark plug is used during the air-only phase of operation...that's what confused me at first.)
Also, be sure and check out their planned factories. Instead of building huge factories ala Ford/GM, they want to put small factories producing a few thousand units a year outside big cities...I don't know how that would fly over here, but it's intriguing.
It puts out about 25 hp, which ain't much...but when your fuel is air....
Besides, these would make dandy emergency generators. Just hook up a number of small air tanks, a few solar cells, a compressor, etc. etc.
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Sept. 98 for 2000ish uid sounds about right. I (very vaguely) recall that I started reading slashdot in the fall of '98 about the time I first got interested in linux. I don't recall when registration started, but Alot of people joined in late '98 and uid's grew pretty rapidly.
It may have been caused by atmospheric ducting, but Chances are that it was actually caused by the meteor shower. I don't know all the vagueries, but VHF signals in particular are susceptible to scattering by meteor trails. Quite a few hams work meteor scatter on 2 meters (which is about half again as high in frequency as the FM broadcast band) single side band . I imagine FM would be affected similarly, however SSB is easier to work on wavering signals (the audio doesn't drop off completely.) I didn't take the rig with me, however...with a lovely wife, a nice dark beach, and a mostly clear sky, who needs the radio? :)
Zelazny, followed closely by Heinlein and Burroughs, is my favorite author. Jack Whyte, however, is quickly gaining. His Arthurian cycle is into 7 books, and unlike Jordan's series, is as good now as it was at the start.
I'd gush on about the Camulod series, but my rambling won't help his book sales...just go check out one of them for yourself (however, do yourself a favor, and don't start with The Sorceror.) You will probably need to look in the general fiction section for them.
I don't have any doubts he'll be read by sci-fi/fantasy fans 50 or 100 years from now.
for what little it's worth, your lockups were probably related to your sound card problems. i had the same problem with this install (suse 7.2) until i swapped out the sound card and now it works beautifully.
Let's see...Quayle misspelled and Clinton doesn't know the definition of sex. I'm not entirely certain what definition of literacy you are using, but I think you've made the original poster's point beautifully, thanks.
I missed out on the classic Amiga goodness, so I'm pretty clueless about the good points of this company. However, in three years or so of reading /., we've been inundated with announcements on upcoming new Amiga goodness which somehow never seems to materialize.
The guy may have been a smartass, but his point is worth pondering.
probably because people have many, many years to get sick and tired of their family, whereas the burglar just wanders in and out of your life rather quickly...
if i heard that coming out of anyone's cellphone, i believe i'd have to shoot them (particularly the reversed one.)
Hey, my wife hit on me after I first gave her this book. ;)
Many states have in the past, and are currently selling their drivers license databases. I'll agree that the number sounds farfetched, but it's not impossible.
Probably because Bigelow Aerospace is a defense contracter, and he'll probably manage to make more doing it this way. If the feds try to keep him from doing it, he'll likely look elsewhere.
hmm. a new use for those old boot floppies still sitting around...
some disks, a little ductape, and walah! a beowulf cluster wrist rest.
if that doesn't strike your fancy...peel off those useless plastic covers of said boot floppies, grab a jar of jam and a stylus of some sort, add a little saliva on back and you get strawberry flavored linux post-it notes.
of course he exists...he brought me lincoln logs this year.
mind you, his handwriting looks suspiciously like my mother's...but so long as he keeps bringing the loot, who cares what his penmanship looks like.
i don't know that i'd trust every 'real' linux user to have half a brain, but it's entirely possible that you are essentially correct. it's a time honored political tradition to slap a few of your opponents stickers on car windows so that they are difficult to remove...which is pretty much what this sounds like to me.
for what little it's worth, here's what i would add to your plan-
after the smartcard is inserted, once the ballot has been cast, instead of spitting it back out, the machine needs to toss that bastard into a locked box which should be picked up by the county sheriffs at regular intervals.
if any question of fraud is raised, you can simply compare the number of votes vs. the numbers of counters. if they don't match, pitch the precinct.
this might work. i was thinking of something similar, but instead of messing with the smartcards, i'd have the machine spit out a paper receipt/ballot which is then locked away. that way a manual recount _could_ be done, with safeguards similar to what i espoused above.
or you could do all three, i suppose. token, electronic vote, receipt...but how much redundancy is actually needed?
i just went and checked myself. bush still listed as being ahead by 1785 votes. (same numbers as of 7:00 this morning...perhaps it's not been updated? who knows.)
same here in volusia county (daytona beach area.)
i just heard one of the state representatives in palm beach moaning about how he was terribly confused by the ballots in his area, and how he saw people crying as they left the polls because they were so befuddled. essentially he said because most of the electorate there was elderly and jewish, this ballot was too confusing for them (no, i'm not making this up. cnn at 9:45...i doubt he meant the last bit the way it sounded, but it is what he said.)
frankly, i don't have a damned bit of sympathy for anyone who was confused over the ballot. after seeing it, it seems pretty clear to me what needed to be done...we had similar ballots here in volusia in the 1992 election, and i don't remember any outcry over it. i suppose what it comes down to is this...if people can't figure out how to fill out their ballot (and are too dumb to ask if they don't understand it,) i'm not sure they should be voting anyway.
gods how i hate thinking that.
Hey now...Conan doesn't owe it's life to Tolkien.
Robert Howard wrote his Conan stories back in the '30's, so he beat Tolkien by a good 30 years.
well, you can always just plug it into a socket at the house. :)
i'm pretty sure that the solar cells wouldn't add enough weight to make a tremendous difference. now, i'm not sure you could blanket the top of the thing to generate all the electricity you'd need for the compressor...but it would help.
i don't think you would need to, would you?
i'm basing my assumption upon my possibly erronious assumption that that a volume of compressed air is cooler than the same volume of uncompressed air...as i said...
anyway, if you were going to directly inject compressed air in, you could conceivably shut off the intake from the outside air...so you wouldn't have the warm outside air interfering in the process.
gods...i can't even spell. no wonder i don't remember any of this stuff.
unfold it hell....just put one big solar bank up on the roof. :)
If you could inject compressed (cooled, right?) air directly into the combustion chamber, wouldn't this then lower T2 without moving to canada?
Just asking...my physics knowledge has woefully fallen out of the sieve of my mind.
The original article, and the bbc articles listed here didn't really go into it, but it does operate as a combustion engine at speeds of over 50kmh or so (if i'm recalling what i read a few weeks ago correctly, anyway.)
:P
They also show three different models of the thing...a station wagon of sorts, the taxi, and a pickup truck. (look here)
Max speed was about 63mph, which still isn't too bad.
I don't know how well it would do here in the states, but I know I'd bloody well buy one (and maybe another for the wife) at the prices they are initially talking about. That is however, a big if.
According to the website of the company designing these things: zeropollution.com, the reason why it will run 10 hours in the city is because the brakes are on some sort of generator system which drives an internal air compressor.
This thing is actually pretty damned cool. I was really skeptical about it when I first ran across it a few weeks ago, but I think I've some idea how it works. Check out the url above for all sorts of interesting info, with a diagram of the engine (I don't think the spark plug is used during the air-only phase of operation...that's what confused me at first.)
Also, be sure and check out their planned factories. Instead of building huge factories ala Ford/GM, they want to put small factories producing a few thousand units a year outside big cities...I don't know how that would fly over here, but it's intriguing.
It puts out about 25 hp, which ain't much...but when your fuel is air....
Besides, these would make dandy emergency generators. Just hook up a number of small air tanks, a few solar cells, a compressor, etc. etc.