...about 18-20 years ago, when the WorldWideWeb consisted of about 50 sites - all text based - and things were a LOT looser, some yutz screwed up his router config and set his public IP to 127.0.0.1. It didn't really "crash" the internet but there was this incredible sucking sound as all those packets tried to go home.
Then there was the backhoe operator a couple of years later who was working near a railroad right of way and dug up a fiber bundle belonging to one of the major carriers of the time (MCI IIRC). He ended up blacking out most of the US Eastern Seaboard.
And then there was LDDS (sometimes knows as Larry, Darryl and Darryl Service) who reportedly placed a regional switch in a basement near The Point in Pittsburgh just in time for the 1996 flood.
I used my phone book just the day before yesterday. Probably the first time I've needed it in 3-4 years. I had to look up the number for Verizon tech support because my DSL connection died.
I actually sat there for 5 minutes trying to figure out how I was going to look up the number without Internet access before I remembered the phone book.
You're just as likely to see that if the Republicans get a majority. The public reason would be the same. So would the private reason - just oriented toward the other pole of the political magnet.
And just for the record, ain't NOBODY gonna swap my cheeks! Either set! I've grown very attached to them over the years. Of course, if someone wanted to do a cheek swab - as in "run a swab over the inside of my cheek to collect cells for DNA testing" - that would be different. That would only require either sufficient moral or logical grounds for me to agree to participate or a Court Order to compel me to participate. No surgery needed.
Speaking as a (moderate, Republican) conservative who is married to a (moderate, Democrat) liberal I question your premise. It might apply to the radicals of both stripes but the radicals are a minority. An irritatingly overexposed, embarrassingly vocal and obnoxiously militant minority but still a minority.
I'd love to see a nationwide, scientifically/statistically accurate survey looking at where people actually are on the Radical Conservative---Moderate Conservative---Undecided---Moderate Liberal---Radical Liberal line. It'd be very interesting to compare those results to the "unbiased news reporting" we get from the various news outlets. If you listen to them it sounds like 99.9% of the people in this country are either radical Conservatives or radical Liberals. My personal belief is that the bell curve distribution would apply but we're only hearing about the extremes because of the "If it bleeds, it leads" policies that the various reporting agencies use either to espouse their own beliefs or kowtow to/curry favor from their advertisers.
...a bare metal hypervisor that will let me toggle between concurrent Windows and Linux VMs AND also give me SLI and Twinview support so I can take full advantage of my dual GTX-260s and dual monitors.
I'm reminded of a (then) Science Fiction story I read several years back. IIRC, a man was accused of assassinating a public figure. He was seen doing it by several million people on TV. The only problem was that he was completely innocent. His image as edited INTO the video in real time - the flip side of this process. His image was pasted onto the image of the actual killer so everyone watching on TV saw him raise the rifle, pull the trigger and run away.
Consider that this technology runs on a tablet PC. Think about how much computing power can be had for just a few thousand dollars these days (multiple I7 servers, etc). Think about all the other video editing technologies that are old hat these days - wire frame, graphic overlays, scrimmage line markers on televised football games, logo blur, etc. Consider every conspiracy theory video you've ever heard about.
It doesn't really matter if you forget the plot of whatever movie you're watching. Just think back a few years and you'll remember another movie that you've seen with an amazingly similar plot. Different actors mind you but a VERY similar plot.
It's not a terrible concept. It's version.01 of a brilliant concept. Yes, right now it's clunky and limited but that'll change. Let this evolve up to version 1.0 or more and combine it with things like the optical display contact lenses that are being worked on and you have the world of Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End.
Years from now there's an excellent chance that everyone (except you) will look back at this and marvel at the changes it's brought about. I mean, look at other version.01 devices that have changed the world: Watt's Steam Engine, Trevithick's locomotive, the Wright Flyer, the Babbage Difference Engine.
Don't look at what it is. Look at what it can become.
You could try RTG. It's a non-averaging alternative to MRTG. I used it a large telcom provider I used to work for to monitor several thousand circuits. I kept a years worth of data on-hand (MySQL database instead of RRD). It works VERY well. It takes a bit more configuration than MRTG but if you want to keep NON-averaged data, it's a good choice.
If he'd use cash, the Kodiak wouldn't be able to charge. By using his credit cards, he's only enabling the poor bear. Next thing you know, we'll be hearing about credit help services for bears.
"Do you have have more than $10,000.00 in credit card debt? Are threats of foreclosure endangering your family's cave leaving you to worry about where you will hibernate this winter?"
Several years ago I worked for a NASA project called the National Technology Transfer Center. A big part of the job there is organizing and searching through tens of thousands of pages of research documents. They used a document oriented database at the time although they may have migrated to something else since then. You might want to contact them for advice.
A friend of mine was the person primarily responsible for scanning in the documents. IIRC, the process involved OCR of the scans for key word search and indexing and then storing a compressible graphic image of the page - this got them around the problem of text databases not storing technical drawings, etc.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
On US Currency, is says "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE".
However, according to the U.S. Treasury, "There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services."
"Mankind huddled in the dark on baron continents..." Are you sure they're not huddling on duke continents or maybe count continents? Or did you mean "barren" continents.
And then there's "He carried in his hand, a single vile." A single vile what? What vile thing does he later turn on its side so he can read the inscription? Or did you perchance mean "vial"?
The sad thing is that, based on the grammar and spelling, I'm guessing that you're American. Since I'm also American, you'll understand why I find posts like yours so humiliating and embarrassing. (If you're not an American, I humbly apologize. I doubt that I would do as well in your native language.)
Please learn the damn language before you write in it.
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...about 18-20 years ago, when the WorldWideWeb consisted of about 50 sites - all text based - and things were a LOT looser, some yutz screwed up his router config and set his public IP to 127.0.0.1. It didn't really "crash" the internet but there was this incredible sucking sound as all those packets tried to go home.
Then there was the backhoe operator a couple of years later who was working near a railroad right of way and dug up a fiber bundle belonging to one of the major carriers of the time (MCI IIRC). He ended up blacking out most of the US Eastern Seaboard.
And then there was LDDS (sometimes knows as Larry, Darryl and Darryl Service) who reportedly placed a regional switch in a basement near The Point in Pittsburgh just in time for the 1996 flood.
I used my phone book just the day before yesterday. Probably the first time I've needed it in 3-4 years. I had to look up the number for Verizon tech support because my DSL connection died.
I actually sat there for 5 minutes trying to figure out how I was going to look up the number without Internet access before I remembered the phone book.
You're just as likely to see that if the Republicans get a majority. The public reason would be the same. So would the private reason - just oriented toward the other pole of the political magnet.
And just for the record, ain't NOBODY gonna swap my cheeks! Either set! I've grown very attached to them over the years. Of course, if someone wanted to do a cheek swab - as in "run a swab over the inside of my cheek to collect cells for DNA testing" - that would be different. That would only require either sufficient moral or logical grounds for me to agree to participate or a Court Order to compel me to participate. No surgery needed.
Speaking as a (moderate, Republican) conservative who is married to a (moderate, Democrat) liberal I question your premise. It might apply to the radicals of both stripes but the radicals are a minority. An irritatingly overexposed, embarrassingly vocal and obnoxiously militant minority but still a minority.
I'd love to see a nationwide, scientifically/statistically accurate survey looking at where people actually are on the Radical Conservative---Moderate Conservative---Undecided---Moderate Liberal---Radical Liberal line. It'd be very interesting to compare those results to the "unbiased news reporting" we get from the various news outlets. If you listen to them it sounds like 99.9% of the people in this country are either radical Conservatives or radical Liberals. My personal belief is that the bell curve distribution would apply but we're only hearing about the extremes because of the "If it bleeds, it leads" policies that the various reporting agencies use either to espouse their own beliefs or kowtow to/curry favor from their advertisers.
Just my $.02 worth.
OK, just to get it said and out of the way...
Wow, check out the headlights on that girl over there!!!
If they're high enough intensity and properly installed (forward pointing) and you'll never need that Flashlight app on your phone ever again.
...a bare metal hypervisor that will let me toggle between concurrent Windows and Linux VMs AND also give me SLI and Twinview support so I can take full advantage of my dual GTX-260s and dual monitors.
Unfortunately, no. I believe it was in an issue of Analog but I could be wrong about that. It was probably well over 10 years ago.
Sorry.
I'm reminded of a (then) Science Fiction story I read several years back. IIRC, a man was accused of assassinating a public figure. He was seen doing it by several million people on TV. The only problem was that he was completely innocent. His image as edited INTO the video in real time - the flip side of this process. His image was pasted onto the image of the actual killer so everyone watching on TV saw him raise the rifle, pull the trigger and run away.
Consider that this technology runs on a tablet PC. Think about how much computing power can be had for just a few thousand dollars these days (multiple I7 servers, etc). Think about all the other video editing technologies that are old hat these days - wire frame, graphic overlays, scrimmage line markers on televised football games, logo blur, etc. Consider every conspiracy theory video you've ever heard about.
Scared yet?
Version 10.10 gets released on 10/10/10. That's 5 10s. 5X10=50. I turn 50 on that day. So it's all about me.
...for why Windows has more market share than Linux. ""Evil" acts in particular give a person a large boost in physical strength. "
...that the final shuttle flight touched down on Sally Ride's birthday?
I just tuck mine in my sock.
It doesn't really matter if you forget the plot of whatever movie you're watching. Just think back a few years and you'll remember another movie that you've seen with an amazingly similar plot. Different actors mind you but a VERY similar plot.
Sounds like the setup for Daemon.
It's not a terrible concept. It's version .01 of a brilliant concept. Yes, right now it's clunky and limited but that'll change. Let this evolve up to version 1.0 or more and combine it with things like the optical display contact lenses that are being worked on and you have the world of Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End.
Years from now there's an excellent chance that everyone (except you) will look back at this and marvel at the changes it's brought about. I mean, look at other version .01 devices that have changed the world: Watt's Steam Engine, Trevithick's locomotive, the Wright Flyer, the Babbage Difference Engine.
Don't look at what it is. Look at what it can become.
You could try RTG. It's a non-averaging alternative to MRTG. I used it a large telcom provider I used to work for to monitor several thousand circuits. I kept a years worth of data on-hand (MySQL database instead of RRD). It works VERY well. It takes a bit more configuration than MRTG but if you want to keep NON-averaged data, it's a good choice.
If he'd use cash, the Kodiak wouldn't be able to charge. By using his credit cards, he's only enabling the poor bear. Next thing you know, we'll be hearing about credit help services for bears.
"Do you have have more than $10,000.00 in credit card debt? Are threats of foreclosure endangering your family's cave leaving you to worry about where you will hibernate this winter?"
Several years ago I worked for a NASA project called the National Technology Transfer Center. A big part of the job there is organizing and searching through tens of thousands of pages of research documents. They used a document oriented database at the time although they may have migrated to something else since then. You might want to contact them for advice.
A friend of mine was the person primarily responsible for scanning in the documents. IIRC, the process involved OCR of the scans for key word search and indexing and then storing a compressible graphic image of the page - this got them around the problem of text databases not storing technical drawings, etc.
Under Bill, vi will be the national standard. Yeah!!!
There will be a revolt! We, the Emacs revolutionary council, will take up arms and fight to the death!
You should revolt. Emacs is revolting.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Can you say 'Licensing Fees'?
John Coxen
On US Currency, is says "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE".
However, according to the U.S. Treasury, "There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services."
I buy new movies - from the $5.00 bin at WalMart.
I'm sorry but I just gotta...
"Mankind huddled in the dark on baron continents..." Are you sure they're not huddling on duke continents or maybe count continents? Or did you mean "barren" continents.
And then there's "He carried in his hand, a single vile." A single vile what? What vile thing does he later turn on its side so he can read the inscription? Or did you perchance mean "vial"?
The sad thing is that, based on the grammar and spelling, I'm guessing that you're American. Since I'm also American, you'll understand why I find posts like yours so humiliating and embarrassing. (If you're not an American, I humbly apologize. I doubt that I would do as well in your native language.)
Please learn the damn language before you write in it.