Due to an injury in the late summer I couldn't play football my senior year, so I did Track instead...
As soon as I saw your post, I thought Shotput... 12 pounds, and Discus 4.4 pounds... and they both went pretty far.
A few years later I did some Scottish Highland Games and threw a big rock called the Braemar a 20-26 pound stone, 28 pound weight on a chain and a Telephone pole called the Caber.
The Rock went 25-35 feet, the 28 pound weight gets the advantage of a lever and goes further.
Personally I all for the idea of the Hamster ball with 3 axis movement, and a webcam floating level in the middle that you could roll quietly into the enemy camp. Obviously the surface of the ball needs to be anti-static so dirt won't stick to it, or the webcam won't see much.
And maybe this robot doesn't need to blow up on command, maybe it should strobe lights or drop a flash bang just before the entry team comes in.
My penmanship is good, I can write in a legible cursive, but I never do.
I am left handed, and spent two years in high school doing lettering for blueprints. Printing comes to me more naturally now than cursive ever did. That and no one ever has to ask me what a letter is or what a word is supposed to be. People do ask me why I cross me Zeroes, Z's (Zeds to the Brits and Canadians) and Sevens though.
I am however concerned about the effect typing and easy access to spellcheck are having on my writing. I always have to go over messages more when I'm typing in a program that doesn't have auto-spellcheck and highlighting turned on.
Like others have mentioned I deliberately don't use leet speak, or shortcuts in any medium to prevent it from degrading my professional work.
You can't be held responsible for blacklisting sites right now, what makes this any different from any other Blacklist?
If you want to get traffic to/from the site then Whitelist it.
Now they say their approach is 70% better than existing Predictive Blacklist technology, well how good is that, 70% better than horrible false positives and annoyed customers is not enough. Throwing darts at the DNS listings is also not optimal, so how good is this new technique.
BTW Amazon and Netflix recommend crap to me I don't want all the time.
A while back I was reading a survival page from a practicing guide and Park Ranger working in the Texas desert. He had made a point about the standard "suck out the poison" from a snakebite advice still being in the army field manual long after anyone in the medical community, or desert survival park ranger community had given up the practice.
Now the page is from 2000 and he's quoting the various field manuals up to 1992. There's also advice on why water rationing as described in the manuals is a bad idea. Digging a condensation trap will cost you more sweat than it will gather in drinking water, etc.
So I wonder what other areas it might be better to enlist some subject matter experts in, the idea of opening it up to more voices outside the war colleges is good, maybe they should open it up even more.
And like a good wiki-citizen he cites the books he references and his credentials.
NASA is already paying for payload to LEO services, SpaceX has a contract. While I agree with some of your skepticism, I have a few problems with your conclusion that $50 million isn't serious money.
Soyuz modules can get 3 crew to orbit, and cost $50 million per launch. This isn't even a development cost, its a licensing deal with the Russians.
SpaceX Falcon 9 costs approximately $50 million per launch and they could put the the DEVELOPMENT money towards Man Rating the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon Module which is supposed to carry 7 people. $50 million to work on something you were working on anyway.
Supposedly it would cost 300 million Euros to DEVELOP a Crew Vehicle derived from the European space Agencies Automated Transfer Vehicle which is already man-rated. I guess EADS and Boeing wouldn't take $50 million of NASA's money for something they were already doing.
And lastly I guess the X-Prize folks are all idiots because they put up a paltry $10 million that spurred $100 million dollars in spending by people trying to claim it.
When the woman makes a remark about something that upsets her you must always resist the temptation to offer a solution. Sympathise.
This might just be the hardest part for men to understand, geeks and other problem solvers doubly so. If a woman comes to you and says something is wrong, do not attempt to fix it, diagnose it, or come up with solutions. She needs you to Aknowledge the problem and offer support. When she is past this phase, you can talk about long term solutions.
Obviously Spider!, Mouse!, Fire! demand more immediate action.
I've been married to a geek girl, and I'm married to a reforming-tomboy (she had 2 older brothers) and dated several girly girls. Find out each others strengths and weaknesses, what their do's and don'ts are, this will help you find a balance. Ideally its a 50/50 partnership, but don't be surprised if that swings widely either way from time to time.
Comprimising is not the same as giving in, flexibility here is the lubricant that keeps the relationship going smoothly.
It almost sounds like the same marketing folks that told Pizza Hut to take the 'Pizza' out of their name and just call it "The Hut". Something about them selling Pasta and stuff there too now.
I know this was from the website so I don't refute you, but.
* Rutan said WhiteKnightTwo is very manueverable, and he expected to put the vehicle through aerobatic manuevers at the Oshkosh show next year; * Whitehorn didnâ(TM)t seem to like this idea very much, vigorously shaking his head and trying to dissuade the designer from such an idea.
Richard had been a fighter pilot, and asked Burt for years to build him an Aerobatic plane, Burt wouldn't do it because the liability insurance on such a design would be too expensive.
Instead Burt built an airplane called Voyager to fly around the world, and Richard flew it around the world with his then girlfriend as the copilot.
Dick also flew a Rocket Powered Long EZ for XCOR a test bed for their Rocket motor, and other Rocket Racing League technologies.
One of the consultants I worked with always thought "hit-by-a-bus" was too negative. So she always asked what the company would do if Joe Overworked won the lottery. (sheeyah... the BUS lottery)
Other way more likely scenarios;
Joe takes another job, takes a vacation to avoid burnout, gets sick - job stress lowering his immune system and all...
I tried reading it and its like the South Park episode with the Marklar, only replace Marklar with Wave as the only Noun/Verb in the language.
Its an adressible service like email or newsgroups, users have usernames @ domains and can subscribe to or send content to lists/groups.
It has a collaborative aspect, parts RSS feed/Twitter/Wiki and I think it will be easier to understand when there is more content availble. I do wonder how the providers are supposed to keep these documents like newsgroup retention, with conversations dissappearing after a retentionwindow ends, or like hosting wikis. I don't see where I would download any waves that I was participating in or monitoring, but I'd have to see an implemented client I guess.
At a place I used to work I would put out agendas for technical meetings, I'd include relevant technical or compliance requirements in the "required reading". My boss was of the opinion everyone should do their own research instead of me "spoon feeding" them, which wasn't my job.
Somehow these meetings always seemed shorter when everyone came to them with the same assumptions.
I only started frontloading requirements after we had a requirements meeting come to a dead stop when 2 CISSPs, a Project Manager/Business Analyst, 2 Systems Engineers and 2 Security Analysts couldn't define what the Audit and Logging requrements were for a Windows box.
At the follow on meeting I brought handouts, the Business Analyst asked me why I went to all the trouble, I told her I only wanted to say "I don't know" to the same question once.
If a 1 kiloton nuke were blown up in Central Park the 450 ft blast would not even harm the buildings outside the park.
So if all you have is a tiny bomb, scaring the crap out of people, wiping out electronic infrastructure, most of which might be tied to financial infrastructure, sucking up the first responders, emergency and disaster relief resources for millions of people is a far bigger return on their investment than maybe killing thousands of people.
What the heck is the correlation between Cinnamon Rolls and Chili.
Note the Author did not say they ran out of Cinnamon rolls on a Chilly day when something warm might hit the spot. The author stated they routinely ran out of Cinnamon rolls on chili day.
The obvious question then becomes why does the noise pollution team care about Cinnamon rolls, I can hazard a guess about the Chili.
Well the distilled water bad for you theory relies on the fact that distilled water is hypotonic, and would absorb minerals from the body. According to a quick google search this is absolutely true, only the minerals taken away are usually waste products excreted from the body's cells.
As for tap and mineral water's "healthy" contents, in addition to the dangers mentioned by the parent, minerals found water are often inorganic and bad for the body. There are much better sources for Sodium and Calcium than drinking water. Most of the body's mineral requirements are met with food, some of these minerals may be water soluble, but the water isn't the source.
What intrigues me here is that NASA astronauts are constantly monitored for what they eat, how much they drink, etc. So if distilled IS better for you, we should notice an improvement at some point, assuming the water they previously shipped up from Earth was just Florida tap water.
I had to do a bunch of tech installs for the USDA back in 1997, we were putting network cards into Windows 3.11 Machines, installing Netscape, network printing, and 10 Mbit networking was being wired in all the offices.
Until I hit Bozeman, the site had already been done by the local USDA the year before as a technology demonstrator, it was 100 Mbit everywhere. They told us to pack up our crap and take it elsewhere. Nice town, friendly folks, I still have pictures from that trip.
The folks in Butte, Miles City and Minot did not have 100 Mbit.
Tivo already has a feature to show you actors in a show, and other shows they have been in. It will also tell you if the other shows they have been in have any hits on Amazon On-Demand you can stream to the Tivo or watch through YouTube on the Tivo.
Slashdot Mirror
Due to an injury in the late summer I couldn't play football my senior year, so I did Track instead...
As soon as I saw your post, I thought Shotput... 12 pounds, and Discus 4.4 pounds... and they both went pretty far.
A few years later I did some Scottish Highland Games and threw a big rock called the Braemar a 20-26 pound stone, 28 pound weight on a chain and a Telephone pole called the Caber.
The Rock went 25-35 feet, the 28 pound weight gets the advantage of a lever and goes further.
Personally I all for the idea of the Hamster ball with 3 axis movement, and a webcam floating level in the middle that you could roll quietly into the enemy camp. Obviously the surface of the ball needs to be anti-static so dirt won't stick to it, or the webcam won't see much.
And maybe this robot doesn't need to blow up on command, maybe it should strobe lights or drop a flash bang just before the entry team comes in.
My penmanship is good, I can write in a legible cursive, but I never do.
I am left handed, and spent two years in high school doing lettering for blueprints. Printing comes to me more naturally now than cursive ever did. That and no one ever has to ask me what a letter is or what a word is supposed to be. People do ask me why I cross me Zeroes, Z's (Zeds to the Brits and Canadians) and Sevens though.
I am however concerned about the effect typing and easy access to spellcheck are having on my writing. I always have to go over messages more when I'm typing in a program that doesn't have auto-spellcheck and highlighting turned on.
Like others have mentioned I deliberately don't use leet speak, or shortcuts in any medium to prevent it from degrading my professional work.
Or greatly exaggerated...
"The team mined a database of hundreds of millions of security logs"
Nobody actually keeps security logs, certainly not hundreds of millions of somebodies.
The kind of people that DO keep security logs probably wouldn't hand them over either.
I call shenanigans
You can't be held responsible for blacklisting sites right now, what makes this any different from any other Blacklist?
If you want to get traffic to/from the site then Whitelist it.
Now they say their approach is 70% better than existing Predictive Blacklist technology, well how good is that, 70% better than horrible false positives and annoyed customers is not enough. Throwing darts at the DNS listings is also not optimal, so how good is this new technique.
BTW Amazon and Netflix recommend crap to me I don't want all the time.
NO CARRIER
A while back I was reading a survival page from a practicing guide and Park Ranger working in the Texas desert. He had made a point about the standard "suck out the poison" from a snakebite advice still being in the army field manual long after anyone in the medical community, or desert survival park ranger community had given up the practice.
http://ridgerunnersurvival.tripod.com/da1.htm
Now the page is from 2000 and he's quoting the various field manuals up to 1992. There's also advice on why water rationing as described in the manuals is a bad idea. Digging a condensation trap will cost you more sweat than it will gather in drinking water, etc.
So I wonder what other areas it might be better to enlist some subject matter experts in, the idea of opening it up to more voices outside the war colleges is good, maybe they should open it up even more.
And like a good wiki-citizen he cites the books he references and his credentials.
Google would have joined them, but Beta software doesn't count.
That and the Universe asploding
Either that or Quality Control esting will drop to Zero and bug databases will get wiped right before shipping.
Oh the ironies
Quality Control Testing
Well hell there goes the Video game industry.
No more just ship it and we'll patch it later mentality. Because at that point you "knowingly" shipped product with defects.
Either that or Quality Control esting will drop to Zero and bug databases will get wiped right before shipping.
NASA is already paying for payload to LEO services, SpaceX has a contract. While I agree with some of your skepticism, I have a few problems with your conclusion that $50 million isn't serious money.
Soyuz modules can get 3 crew to orbit, and cost $50 million per launch. This isn't even a development cost, its a licensing deal with the Russians.
SpaceX Falcon 9 costs approximately $50 million per launch and they could put the the DEVELOPMENT money towards Man Rating the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon Module which is supposed to carry 7 people. $50 million to work on something you were working on anyway.
Supposedly it would cost 300 million Euros to DEVELOP a Crew Vehicle derived from the European space Agencies Automated Transfer Vehicle which is already man-rated. I guess EADS and Boeing wouldn't take $50 million of NASA's money for something they were already doing.
And lastly I guess the X-Prize folks are all idiots because they put up a paltry $10 million that spurred $100 million dollars in spending by people trying to claim it.
You take that back!
The hard part:
When the woman makes a remark about something that upsets her you must always resist the temptation to offer a solution. Sympathise.
This might just be the hardest part for men to understand, geeks and other problem solvers doubly so. If a woman comes to you and says something is wrong, do not attempt to fix it, diagnose it, or come up with solutions. She needs you to Aknowledge the problem and offer support. When she is past this phase, you can talk about long term solutions.
Obviously Spider!, Mouse!, Fire! demand more immediate action.
I've been married to a geek girl, and I'm married to a reforming-tomboy (she had 2 older brothers) and dated several girly girls. Find out each others strengths and weaknesses, what their do's and don'ts are, this will help you find a balance. Ideally its a 50/50 partnership, but don't be surprised if that swings widely either way from time to time.
Comprimising is not the same as giving in, flexibility here is the lubricant that keeps the relationship going smoothly.
$6 Billion to paint Nose Art on a new stealth bomber
$3 Billion for the arts and artists to paint it
$3 billion to buy the "canvas" to paint it on
Well,
It almost sounds like the same marketing folks that told Pizza Hut to take the 'Pizza' out of their name and just call it "The Hut". Something about them selling Pasta and stuff there too now.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Extra/pizza-hut-changes-its-name.aspx?GT1=33009
So who's next "The Depot" you could never actually buy a 'Home' there anyway. Ever buy an Olive at Olive Garden, nope, there ya go "The Garden" it is.
I know this was from the website so I don't refute you, but.
* Rutan said WhiteKnightTwo is very manueverable, and he expected to put the vehicle through aerobatic manuevers at the Oshkosh show next year;
* Whitehorn didnâ(TM)t seem to like this idea very much, vigorously shaking his head and trying to dissuade the designer from such an idea.
Burt Rutan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Rutan
has a brother Richard "Dick" Rutan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Rutan
Burt designs aircraft, and Dick flies them.
Richard had been a fighter pilot, and asked Burt for years to build him an Aerobatic plane, Burt wouldn't do it because the liability insurance on such a design would be too expensive.
Instead Burt built an airplane called Voyager to fly around the world, and Richard flew it around the world with his then girlfriend as the copilot.
Dick also flew a Rocket Powered Long EZ for XCOR a test bed for their Rocket motor, and other Rocket Racing League technologies.
Knowing how conservative Burt is, and the fact he doesn't like Aerobatics;
http://www.avweb.com/news/profiles/182970-1.html
I have to believe it was Dick not Burt that said he'd fly aerobatics in WhiteKnightTwo at Oshkosh next year.
One of the consultants I worked with always thought "hit-by-a-bus" was too negative. So she always asked what the company would do if Joe Overworked won the lottery. (sheeyah... the BUS lottery)
Other way more likely scenarios;
Joe takes another job, takes a vacation to avoid burnout, gets sick - job stress lowering his immune system and all...
Whatever you do, don't read this
http://sites.google.com/a/waveprotocol.org/wave-protocol/draft-protocol-spec
I tried reading it and its like the South Park episode with the Marklar, only replace Marklar with Wave as the only Noun/Verb in the language.
Its an adressible service like email or newsgroups, users have usernames @ domains and can subscribe to or send content to lists/groups.
It has a collaborative aspect, parts RSS feed/Twitter/Wiki and I think it will be easier to understand when there is more content availble. I do wonder how the providers are supposed to keep these documents like newsgroup retention, with conversations dissappearing after a retentionwindow ends, or like hosting wikis. I don't see where I would download any waves that I was participating in or monitoring, but I'd have to see an implemented client I guess.
At a place I used to work I would put out agendas for technical meetings, I'd include relevant technical or compliance requirements in the "required reading". My boss was of the opinion everyone should do their own research instead of me "spoon feeding" them, which wasn't my job.
Somehow these meetings always seemed shorter when everyone came to them with the same assumptions.
I only started frontloading requirements after we had a requirements meeting come to a dead stop when 2 CISSPs, a Project Manager/Business Analyst, 2 Systems Engineers and 2 Security Analysts couldn't define what the Audit and Logging requrements were for a Windows box.
At the follow on meeting I brought handouts, the Business Analyst asked me why I went to all the trouble, I told her I only wanted to say "I don't know" to the same question once.
Sure, that's what you'd do.
You should also notice "wiping a city, not even a major one, off a map" was not a requirement.
It would take a 10 kiloton bomb air burst to damage electronics coast to coast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_bomb
Expect that the bad guys will have something smaller than 10 kilotons, maybe like the 2.4 kiloton one the North Koreans tested in May.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_North_Korean_nuclear_test
If a 1 kiloton nuke were blown up in Central Park the 450 ft blast would not even harm the buildings outside the park.
So if all you have is a tiny bomb, scaring the crap out of people, wiping out electronic infrastructure, most of which might be tied to financial infrastructure, sucking up the first responders, emergency and disaster relief resources for millions of people is a far bigger return on their investment than maybe killing thousands of people.
What the heck is the correlation between Cinnamon Rolls and Chili.
Note the Author did not say they ran out of Cinnamon rolls on a Chilly day when something warm might hit the spot. The author stated they routinely ran out of Cinnamon rolls on chili day.
The obvious question then becomes why does the noise pollution team care about Cinnamon rolls, I can hazard a guess about the Chili.
Well the distilled water bad for you theory relies on the fact that distilled water is hypotonic, and would absorb minerals from the body. According to a quick google search this is absolutely true, only the minerals taken away are usually waste products excreted from the body's cells.
As for tap and mineral water's "healthy" contents, in addition to the dangers mentioned by the parent, minerals found water are often inorganic and bad for the body. There are much better sources for Sodium and Calcium than drinking water. Most of the body's mineral requirements are met with food, some of these minerals may be water soluble, but the water isn't the source.
What intrigues me here is that NASA astronauts are constantly monitored for what they eat, how much they drink, etc. So if distilled IS better for you, we should notice an improvement at some point, assuming the water they previously shipped up from Earth was just Florida tap water.
I had to do a bunch of tech installs for the USDA back in 1997, we were putting network cards into Windows 3.11 Machines, installing Netscape, network printing, and 10 Mbit networking was being wired in all the offices.
Until I hit Bozeman, the site had already been done by the local USDA the year before as a technology demonstrator, it was 100 Mbit everywhere. They told us to pack up our crap and take it elsewhere. Nice town, friendly folks, I still have pictures from that trip.
The folks in Butte, Miles City and Minot did not have 100 Mbit.
Tivo already has a feature to show you actors in a show, and other shows they have been in. It will also tell you if the other shows they have been in have any hits on Amazon On-Demand you can stream to the Tivo or watch through YouTube on the Tivo.
NO human embryo into a non-human womb
NO non-human embryo into a human womb
Well once they get through testing all of the non-human embryos incubated in non-human wombs, the artificial womb can begin testing outside Louisiana.
Do Legislators understand Set Theory?
In Louisiana...
Its the STATE Senate, not the US...
Somebody just needs to tell them about all the Good Eatin' they about to miss out on...