At one time it looked like workstation class computers would be running really elegant chips like MIPS, Alpha, or Sparc. But now, it looks like the i86 instruction set will dominate for at least the near future.
Well, here's something that's pretty cool to want to ride on. The SS United States. It is going to be refitted and put back into service. If you don't know about this ship, it's the fastest ocean liner ever.
The key is sufficiently representitive. And I'm not quite clear on what that means, but I know some examples:
Make a list of the areas of all the lakes in your state. Doesn't matter what the units are. The distribution will be so the highest count will be zeros, and the lowest count will be the nines.
Same for a list of all the house numbers in a city. Same for a list of just about anything you can think of, in whatever units you want.
This can be used to detect fraud. For example, if you look at the finacial statements from a business. Take every number on the page, without regard to what the number is. Count the digits, and they will fall into that same distribution pattern. Unless, they cook the books. Then, the distribution pattern will not fit what you expect. Your physics prof can do the same thing to detect if you've fudged your experimental data to fit the expected results.
We're stagnating on this intarweb thing. The surest way to kick progress in the pants is to take what we've built and give it to the ego-laden beautiful business boys with the shiny white teeth and small peckers, show them the power switch, and tell them to have fun.
Surely, there must be something else to build, a new frontier to conquer. Why do we need to pay any attention to what these suits say? If there's an RFC that says to ignore these fools, the filter will be nearly perfect. All of the idiots will go in one direction - the direction that Verisign points to. All of the smart people that I want to talk to will go the other way - the way of a standard Internet not beholden to a single company's vision of the inside of their own colon.
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Hence, the classic song:
Jump For My Love Lyrics Pointer Sisters
Your eyes tell me how you love me Can feel it in your heart beat I know you like what you see Hold me, I'll give that you need Wrap your love around me You're so excited, I can feel you Getting hotter, oh baby I'll take you down, I'll take you down Where no one's ever gone before And if you want more, if you want more More, more, more
Jump for my love Jump in and feel my touch Jump you want to taste my kisses In the night then
Jump, jump for my love Jump, I know my heart can make you happy Jump in, you know these arms Can feel you up Jump, you want to taste my kisses In the night then Jump, jump for my love
You told me, I'm the only woman for you Nobody does you like I do Then make a move before you try and Go much farther, oh baby You're the one, you, you are the one And heaven waits here at my door And if you want more, If you want more, more, more then When you are next to me, oh I come alive
Your love burns inside Feels so right Come to me if you want me tonight jump Jump if you want to taste my kisses In the night then Jump, jump, jump Jump, you know my heart can Make you happy Jump, you know theese arms can feel you up Jump in, you want to taste my kisses In the night then Jump, jump for my love
Anybody notice the pause in the Sobig series of viruses? Maybe they paused to see how this would turn out. Now that it's gone badly, we may just see some more Sobig viruses released.
I've seen it on a TV show (a documentary, not a drama) and Fire Rescue magazine talks about it too. http://www.jems.com/firerescue/e0302c.html is the link, and it specifically talks about the flames being blown towards the vent that was created.
I think I explained why the house would NOT be turned into a giant blow-torch by a fan that can force cool air into a single room. You're not going to be blowing hurricane force winds into every room at the same time.
Yes, it will fan the flames, but flame isn't what kills people. It's the heat and especially the smoke. By the time fires reach people, they are already dead.
For a while now they've had gas engine powered fans. They open the front door, open a hole on the roof, and point the thing straight into the house. The cool air blowing in displaces the heat and smoke so the firefighters can enter and see what they are doing. Usually, the hoses are right behind them, so the fact that the hoses and people can get right into the house with the water offsets any flame fanning effects.
And particularly ironic, because the author of the pledge was a socialist Baptist minister.
It was the Knights of Columbus who campaigned to have the 'under God' added to the pledge. So, I propose that we, as a nation, petition the Pope to remove that phrase from the pledge rather than bother the Supreme Court about it.
If you're serious about the quality of your music, then you won't settle for anything less than a real Sony Walkman cassette player. It's analog, so you don't miss anything that the digital signal lacks. Analog signals have that human "warmth" that not even a CD will have. Of course, vinyl is the best, but it's hard to pack a turntable in a little device like this. Be sure to get some really nice headphones, and a little secret is to get the expensive batteries that can deliver the current required to reproduce everything that the cassette can deliver.
Their wording is actually a very common way for astronomers to describe how big something is. Usually people will say that something is N degrees in size, or X arc-seconds in size, but sometimes they will make reference to the diameter of the moon.
It might not be the most precise and lawyerly language, but in the conventions of astronomical jargon it's unambiguous.
The solution to the problem is obvious: we need more cameras. This is a good argument why we need to have as many different viewpoints as possible, making it harder for someone to control the sole source of information.
Think about the power of cameras in the hands of ordinary citizens, and the reason for the power hungry and corrupt in government to worry is apparent.
examples:
LA Police beating Rodney King filmed with a camcorder. Dick Morris caught with hooker by a citizen with a camera.
That's exactly why everyone with a camera, regardless of skill or quality of equipment, should take photos of mundane objects in their neighborhood.
-What did a fire hydrant look like 100 years ago? I don't mean a fuzzy distant image, but what was the surface like? Was their writing on it? How many close-ups of fire hydrants as they were installed 100 years ago exist?
-What was a typical telephone pole like 100 years ago? Usually they have boxes and other things sprouting all over. These might have been different back then.
-How about street signs. I remember them being smaller when I was a kid, but I have no idea of how streets were marked 100 years ago.
These are things that are interesting to some people, and if you get out there and take a bunch of photos of your town, there will be historians who will thank you and also remember your name 100 or 200 years from now.
Remember, digital photos might not last. If you're going for the historical archive, you need to use black and white film, and black and white paper. (careful of the pseudo C-41 Black and White film that's out now. might not last)
I'm still using my 12 Mhz 286 computer that I bought in 1989.
Of course, I've replaced the motherboard and CPU five times, the case and power supply twice. It's had three keyboards, five modems, five mice, two network cards, and it's on the third sound card and sixth video card. The floppy drive was replaced once, and the hard drive has been replaced 6 times. But it's a hell of a 286, let me tell you.
I surprised that you didn't mention the Gutenberg project. Well you did, sort of, but not by name. They are the ones who make the.txt files with the books in them.
And they've been going since 1970. I think you might be right that it's just the proprietary formats that don't work. Open formats work just fine.
Get out of the left lane. It's not the smoking end of the high school. You do not just "hang out" in the left lane when there's nothing on TV to watch and you're bored.
Move over to the right. ALL the way to the right. If you have to pass, stay left long enough to pass, then move right again. ALL the way. The middle lane isn't right, it's middle. So if you're in the middle lane, keep moving to the right.
And don't get into the left lane, accelerate to.01 MPH faster than the slower lanes and claim that you're "passing". You're not passing. You're not fooling anybody. Passing is when you get around the other guy quickly and then move over to the right.
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At one time it looked like workstation class computers would be running really elegant chips like MIPS, Alpha, or Sparc. But now, it looks like the i86 instruction set will dominate for at least the near future.
Well, here's something that's pretty cool to want to ride on. The SS United States. It is going to be refitted and put back into service. If you don't know about this ship, it's the fastest ocean liner ever.
The key is sufficiently representitive. And I'm not quite clear on what that means, but I know some examples:
Make a list of the areas of all the lakes in your state. Doesn't matter what the units are. The distribution will be so the highest count will be zeros, and the lowest count will be the nines.
Same for a list of all the house numbers in a city. Same for a list of just about anything you can think of, in whatever units you want.
This can be used to detect fraud. For example, if you look at the finacial statements from a business. Take every number on the page, without regard to what the number is. Count the digits, and they will fall into that same distribution pattern. Unless, they cook the books. Then, the distribution pattern will not fit what you expect. Your physics prof can do the same thing to detect if you've fudged your experimental data to fit the expected results.
ask Google
"SCO sucks" - 21,000 pages
"Verisign sucks" - 19,300 pages
It's SCO.
We're stagnating on this intarweb thing. The surest way to kick progress in the pants is to take what we've built and give it to the ego-laden beautiful business boys with the shiny white teeth and small peckers, show them the power switch, and tell them to have fun.
Surely, there must be something else to build, a new frontier to conquer. Why do we need to pay any attention to what these suits say? If there's an RFC that says to ignore these fools, the filter will be nearly perfect. All of the idiots will go in one direction - the direction that Verisign points to. All of the smart people that I want to talk to will go the other way - the way of a standard Internet not beholden to a single company's vision of the inside of their own colon.
Hence, the classic song:
Jump For My Love Lyrics
Pointer Sisters
Your eyes tell me how you love me
Can feel it in your heart beat
I know you like what you see
Hold me, I'll give that you need
Wrap your love around me
You're so excited, I can feel you
Getting hotter, oh baby
I'll take you down, I'll take you down
Where no one's ever gone before
And if you want more, if you want more
More, more, more
Jump for my love
Jump in and feel my touch
Jump you want to taste my kisses
In the night then
Jump, jump for my love
Jump, I know my heart can make you happy
Jump in, you know these arms
Can feel you up
Jump, you want to taste my kisses
In the night then
Jump, jump for my love
You told me, I'm the only woman for you
Nobody does you like I do
Then make a move before you try and
Go much farther, oh baby
You're the one, you, you are the one
And heaven waits here at my door
And if you want more,
If you want more, more, more then
When you are next to me, oh I come alive
Your love burns inside
Feels so right
Come to me if you want me tonight jump
Jump if you want to taste my kisses
In the night then
Jump, jump, jump
Jump, you know my heart can
Make you happy
Jump, you know theese arms can feel you up
Jump in, you want to taste my kisses
In the night then
Jump, jump for my love
Anybody notice the pause in the Sobig series of viruses? Maybe they paused to see how this would turn out. Now that it's gone badly, we may just see some more Sobig viruses released.
That was good for Ghandi, but I am planning to achieve my own immortality by simply not dying.
I've seen it on a TV show (a documentary, not a drama) and Fire Rescue magazine talks about it too. http://www.jems.com/firerescue/e0302c.html is the link, and it specifically talks about the flames being blown towards the vent that was created.
I think I explained why the house would NOT be turned into a giant blow-torch by a fan that can force cool air into a single room. You're not going to be blowing hurricane force winds into every room at the same time.
Yes, it will fan the flames, but flame isn't what kills people. It's the heat and especially the smoke. By the time fires reach people, they are already dead.
For a while now they've had gas engine powered fans. They open the front door, open a hole on the roof, and point the thing straight into the house. The cool air blowing in displaces the heat and smoke so the firefighters can enter and see what they are doing. Usually, the hoses are right behind them, so the fact that the hoses and people can get right into the house with the water offsets any flame fanning effects.
And particularly ironic, because the author of the pledge was a socialist Baptist minister.
It was the Knights of Columbus who campaigned to have the 'under God' added to the pledge. So, I propose that we, as a nation, petition the Pope to remove that phrase from the pledge rather than bother the Supreme Court about it.
If you're serious about the quality of your music, then you won't settle for anything less than a real Sony Walkman cassette player. It's analog, so you don't miss anything that the digital signal lacks. Analog signals have that human "warmth" that not even a CD will have. Of course, vinyl is the best, but it's hard to pack a turntable in a little device like this. Be sure to get some really nice headphones, and a little secret is to get the expensive batteries that can deliver the current required to reproduce everything that the cassette can deliver.
A few more posts like that and I may just find my Buddha nature.
Good point. Take 3 B&W photos, one each through a red, green, and blue filter.
Their wording is actually a very common way for astronomers to describe how big something is. Usually people will say that something is N degrees in size, or X arc-seconds in size, but sometimes they will make reference to the diameter of the moon.
It might not be the most precise and lawyerly language, but in the conventions of astronomical jargon it's unambiguous.
The solution to the problem is obvious: we need more cameras. This is a good argument why we need to have as many different viewpoints as possible, making it harder for someone to control the sole source of information.
You are obviously NOT the person who would be interested in these photographs. That's OK.
But just because you can't imagine being interested in these types of photographs does not mean that there are not others who would be.
Think about the power of cameras in the hands of ordinary citizens, and the reason for the power hungry and corrupt in government to worry is apparent.
examples:
LA Police beating Rodney King filmed with a camcorder.
Dick Morris caught with hooker by a citizen with a camera.
Don't blame me for the mess. All the people I voted for can be seen on whitehouse.com.
That's exactly why everyone with a camera, regardless of skill or quality of equipment, should take photos of mundane objects in their neighborhood.
-What did a fire hydrant look like 100 years ago? I don't mean a fuzzy distant image, but what was the surface like? Was their writing on it? How many close-ups of fire hydrants as they were installed 100 years ago exist?
-What was a typical telephone pole like 100 years ago? Usually they have boxes and other things sprouting all over. These might have been different back then.
-How about street signs. I remember them being smaller when I was a kid, but I have no idea of how streets were marked 100 years ago.
These are things that are interesting to some people, and if you get out there and take a bunch of photos of your town, there will be historians who will thank you and also remember your name 100 or 200 years from now.
Remember, digital photos might not last. If you're going for the historical archive, you need to use black and white film, and black and white paper. (careful of the pseudo C-41 Black and White film that's out now. might not last)
No, because of caller ID.
I'm still using my 12 Mhz 286 computer that I bought in 1989.
Of course, I've replaced the motherboard and CPU five times, the case and power supply twice. It's had three keyboards, five modems, five mice, two network cards, and it's on the third sound card and sixth video card. The floppy drive was replaced once, and the hard drive has been replaced 6 times. But it's a hell of a 286, let me tell you.
Or assembly. You could have any object you wanted, as long as it fit in a register.
I surprised that you didn't mention the Gutenberg project. Well you did, sort of, but not by name. They are the ones who make the .txt files with the books in them.
And they've been going since 1970. I think you might be right that it's just the proprietary formats that don't work. Open formats work just fine.
You must be one of them.
.01 MPH faster than the slower lanes and claim that you're "passing". You're not passing. You're not fooling anybody. Passing is when you get around the other guy quickly and then move over to the right.
Get out of the left lane. It's not the smoking end of the high school. You do not just "hang out" in the left lane when there's nothing on TV to watch and you're bored.
Move over to the right. ALL the way to the right. If you have to pass, stay left long enough to pass, then move right again. ALL the way. The middle lane isn't right, it's middle. So if you're in the middle lane, keep moving to the right.
And don't get into the left lane, accelerate to