I agree with you that no one really dreams of moving to Sacramento for any reason, but a lot of people end up there. As a UC Davis graduate working for a software company in the Sacramento area (El Dorado Hills technically, about 40 minutes east of Sac), I'd have to say it does seem like a little version of Silicon Valley in some ways. Not Sacramento itself, to be more specific Folsom and El Dorado Hills, because there's a huge Intel campus in Folsom, and lots of little tech and software companies strewn around the whole area. I wish there were more software companies in Sacramento proper though, because when I moved from Sac to Folsom to reduce my commute stresses my cost of living doubled. Stupid sub-burbs.
NOOOOOOBody expects the Russian Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and thermonuclear missiles. Our TWO weapons are surprise and thermonuclear missiles... and ruthless efficiency.
I think most intelligent people who have used psychedelic drugs would attest to this. There's definitely certain things hardwired into our brains, and certain drugs can open up those areas for exploration. LSD and psilocybin both induce a predisposition for religious and spiritual thoughts, as well as many of the patterns and images found in the earliest of art.
I've had many strange experiences like this in dreams. Sometimes I wonder if it isn't just that my subconscious is so perceptive it can practically predict the future through extrapolation, but sometimes there's some comfort in believing otherwise.
My fiance died in August, and in the following two or three weeks I had several dreams about her. In some she was just trying to show me she was happy and tried to make me feel better, but there was one that really made me question. I don't remember the exact date, but it was in the middle of the week after her funeral, between Aug 11 - 16th, she appeared in a dream to show me a meteor shower, which we sat and watched together in the dream, something we never got to do while she lived. The next day my brother told me about the Perseid meteor shower that had peaked the previous night, which I had been unaware of. Now, I will admit that it's possible somehow that my subconscious did know of the meteor shower and invented this dream out of forgotten memories, but I like to think that she came back specifically so I wouldn't miss something beautiful that we always wanted to experience together.
A vote for Nader is a vote for McCain. People like you are the reason why America is locked into a two party system, with only the choice between the lesser of two evils. I voted for Nader in 2000, and if he wasn't on the ballot I still wouldn't have voted for Gore, or Bush for that matter. My vote for Nader was not a vote for Bush, and I doubt many of the other were either. I have no trouble believing that there are 5% of voters in America who feel the same and would never vote for the Democratic or Republican candidate because it's obvious that they are both in the pockets of lobbyists.
I'm sorry, but as a geek I'm only going to vote for someone with an ounce of intelligence and common sense, not the one who needs the votes to beat the greater of two evils. Nothing is ever going to change unless the greater population of the US realizes that professional politicians, regardless of party, are all the same. If you don't vote for who you actually want to win what is the point of living in a democracy, why not move to China?
I believe the original famous picture shot from this perspective was shot with a Hasselblad. I think even with 1970's film stock, 120 film still qualifies as HD, probably even more so than this new digital picture. I could be wrong however...
Why not? The new Lexus 600h has a 5 litre V8 hybrid engine, so I don't see why they wouldn't put something similar in trucks designed for towing/4-wheeling. There's plenty of power/torque to be had from this kind of setup.
What might those options be? I have a Dell Inspiron which runs 2.6.17 fine, then I tried to compile and boot 2.6.20 and got Kernel Panic. The kernel that comes with Feisty Fawn does something similar. To install Edgy Eft originally I had to pass pci=nomsi so the SATA hard disk would work, which I supposedly don't need to pass ever again... Anyway, I've tried compiling that kernel a few times with SATA stuff compiled in rather than modular and every time I boot it I get a Kernel Panic. I still have to use 2.6.17-11 on Feisty Fawn. I'm not that annoyed yet, but if every subsequent kernel does this I will be very pissed.
S-video out isn't OS controlled, if you have it plugged in to the tv at boot it will work. Period. Also, double monitors (i.e. one desktop over two screens) is simple too. If you have ATI, just use the command line aticonfig --dtop=horizontal --overlay-on=1 Or if you just installed the ATI drivers then run aticonfig --initial=dual-head
I don't think I even have to look up a reference to answer this.
1. Maybe chimps have shorter lifespans. Thus there have been more generations of chimps to mix and mingle the chimp gene pool. Not necessarily, Cheetah from the original Tarzan movie is still alive. Maybe in the wild they don't live nearly as long, but it's not genetic.
2. Perhaps chimps have a bigger gene pool. More chimps=more genetic variety=more chance for beneficial genes to surface. Bigger than 5 billion people?
3. Maybe human DNA doesn't have the same genetic variety as chimp DNA. Thus the variability in chimps could be greater than in humans. I suppose the difference of a chromosome could make some difference, but supposedly one of our specific chromosomes looks like two of the chimp's chromosomes melded together.
4. Perhaps the population density has kept chimp DNA in greater flux. Humans have ranged all over the planet, thus human genes don't get as much of a chance to mix. I think this is backwards.
5. Maybe human evolution has slowed because there are different social pressures on our mating practices. It's not all about physical prowess and attractiveness with people. Certain families/tribes don't mix with certain others, or perhaps only mix with others. Religion, money, power, history, language, etc all affect how (with whom) humans mate. Chimps are free from these pressures. Spot on.
Yeah probably about the same. After "signing" it however, I received an email from Barbara Boxer responding to my comments. Well, not responding per se, really more of a form letter about the war in Iraq which related in no way whatsoever to my comments about criminals in the white house, but it's nice to know that senators get enough complaints about Iraq that every email response pertains only to that issue.
Thank you for contacting me about the war in Iraq . I appreciate hearing from you.
As you may know, on March 23 and March 29, 2007, the House of Representatives and the Senate respectively approved historic legislation to begin bringing our troops home and ending the war.
I was proud to vote in favor of a war spending bill that will not only provide the resources needed for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan but will also require the President to begin withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq within 120 days of enactment, with all U.S. forces being redeployed from Iraq by March 31, 2008 except for a small contingent remaining for security purposes.
After four years of failed strategy in Iraq , Congress has at last sent a clear message to the President, a message that it is time to start bringing our troops home. We need to redeploy our troops out of Iraq as part of a sorely needed new policy on Iraq, one that emphasizes diplomatic and political methods - not military strategies - as the best way of bringing stability to Iraq.
Since American forces went into Iraq in March 2003, more than 3,200 of our troops have been killed and more than 24,000 have been wounded. The clear reality is that putting additional U.S. troops in the middle of a civil war will only result in the loss of more American lives and will not make up for the lack of a political solution to solve this deadly conflict.
Please be assured that I will continue doing all I can to bring this tragic and ill-fated war to an end. Once again, thank you for your letter and for caring deeply about this critical matter.
It's called Rockbox, and it's an open source OS for media players. It's been ported to most of the popular ones, and some obscure ones. I run it on my Toshiba Gigabeat F40, and I can play any media type except WMA, including MPEG movies now, which was not a feature that Toshiba put on the Gigabeat. There's all sorts of plugins too. Ever wanted to play Doom on your iPod? Rockbox comes with that too. http://www.rockbox.org/
They're probably running identical software, perhaps with occasional upgrades. Probably some custom application providing access to their database I work for Sacramento county mental health services. Our computers here run Win2k, and the most important software we use is apparently located on a couple IBM mainframes which serve the entire county/state, which we access through telnet. I can't imagine any single area where my productivity would improve by "upgrading" to Vista. However, considering we deal with Private Health Information, which includes SS#, Medi-Cal ID, etc.. I'd feel much more comfortable running linux using ssh. I'm surprised there isn't a huge botnet running out of every county office in the state.. in fact, there probably is for all I know.
They do still care actually. The MPAA is after a friend of mine now over his mirror of the DeCSS source on a university server. In fact he has a meeting scheduled with them today. Hopefully he'll see this and let us know how it went.
The Matian Chronicles was by Ray Bradbury, and was a collection of somewhat related short stories taking place on Mars. C.S. Lewis did a trilogy starting on Mars that was a biblical allegory, seems kinda corny by today's SF standards, though still a good read.
Another good one is The Sands of Mars by Arthur C. Clarke, although it's probably one of his least accurate novels.. He says the sand is actually blue on mars. Well, can't be right all the time I guess. (or was it Bradbury that had the blue sand idea?... time to read those again probably)
This is the first I've ever heard of the Joshua processor. Does anyone know anything about these? i.e. are there any benchmarks yet? how do they compare to celerons, can you SMP etc.. An even lower cost SMP setup would be really sweet, I was thinking of getting a dual celeron, but now I may have to wait and see how these stack up.
--Drive carefully. 90% of people are caused by accidents.
German to English, Eglish to Italian, Italian to English:
I creator British of the figures comic Wallace and Gromit, park of signal of the head, with steven a mountain of the game of four films will turn London - the British creator of the figures comic Wallace and Gromit, park of signal of the head, is with the director of the United States steven the mountain of the game one series of four films in order to turn. A contract rolling-mill 239 adapted beyond 250 million dollars (. Euro/3,29 billion S) has signed the two film-creatives second the specific one of the mountain of the cat of Jeffrey, a united founder of the DreamWorks company of the mountain of the game. The figures Wallace and the relative Gromit dog of figurefigure have piloted to teuflischen the penguin to the films of the parks between the other to the moon, in order to observe the cheese in on and have fought piume the McGraw of the ladro here d
Take 4 potatoes, mash thoroughly. Add two packages of Penguin Mints, and stirr until all lumps are worked out. Cook for 30 min at 375 degrees, and voila, instant photographic memory. =8-)
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I agree with you that no one really dreams of moving to Sacramento for any reason, but a lot of people end up there. As a UC Davis graduate working for a software company in the Sacramento area (El Dorado Hills technically, about 40 minutes east of Sac), I'd have to say it does seem like a little version of Silicon Valley in some ways. Not Sacramento itself, to be more specific Folsom and El Dorado Hills, because there's a huge Intel campus in Folsom, and lots of little tech and software companies strewn around the whole area. I wish there were more software companies in Sacramento proper though, because when I moved from Sac to Folsom to reduce my commute stresses my cost of living doubled. Stupid sub-burbs.
NOOOOOOBody expects the Russian Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and thermonuclear missiles. Our TWO weapons are surprise and thermonuclear missiles... and ruthless efficiency.
I think most intelligent people who have used psychedelic drugs would attest to this. There's definitely certain things hardwired into our brains, and certain drugs can open up those areas for exploration. LSD and psilocybin both induce a predisposition for religious and spiritual thoughts, as well as many of the patterns and images found in the earliest of art.
I've had many strange experiences like this in dreams. Sometimes I wonder if it isn't just that my subconscious is so perceptive it can practically predict the future through extrapolation, but sometimes there's some comfort in believing otherwise.
My fiance died in August, and in the following two or three weeks I had several dreams about her. In some she was just trying to show me she was happy and tried to make me feel better, but there was one that really made me question. I don't remember the exact date, but it was in the middle of the week after her funeral, between Aug 11 - 16th, she appeared in a dream to show me a meteor shower, which we sat and watched together in the dream, something we never got to do while she lived. The next day my brother told me about the Perseid meteor shower that had peaked the previous night, which I had been unaware of.
Now, I will admit that it's possible somehow that my subconscious did know of the meteor shower and invented this dream out of forgotten memories, but I like to think that she came back specifically so I wouldn't miss something beautiful that we always wanted to experience together.
Standard looney disclaimer applies.
Yes you did! You invaded Poland!
I'm sorry, but as a geek I'm only going to vote for someone with an ounce of intelligence and common sense, not the one who needs the votes to beat the greater of two evils. Nothing is ever going to change unless the greater population of the US realizes that professional politicians, regardless of party, are all the same. If you don't vote for who you actually want to win what is the point of living in a democracy, why not move to China?
I believe the original famous picture shot from this perspective was shot with a Hasselblad. I think even with 1970's film stock, 120 film still qualifies as HD, probably even more so than this new digital picture. I could be wrong however...
Why not? The new Lexus 600h has a 5 litre V8 hybrid engine, so I don't see why they wouldn't put something similar in trucks designed for towing/4-wheeling. There's plenty of power/torque to be had from this kind of setup.
What might those options be? I have a Dell Inspiron which runs 2.6.17 fine, then I tried to compile and boot 2.6.20 and got Kernel Panic. The kernel that comes with Feisty Fawn does something similar. To install Edgy Eft originally I had to pass pci=nomsi so the SATA hard disk would work, which I supposedly don't need to pass ever again...
Anyway, I've tried compiling that kernel a few times with SATA stuff compiled in rather than modular and every time I boot it I get a Kernel Panic. I still have to use 2.6.17-11 on Feisty Fawn. I'm not that annoyed yet, but if every subsequent kernel does this I will be very pissed.
S-video out isn't OS controlled, if you have it plugged in to the tv at boot it will work. Period. Also, double monitors (i.e. one desktop over two screens) is simple too. If you have ATI, just use the command line aticonfig --dtop=horizontal --overlay-on=1
t ors.html/
Or if you just installed the ATI drivers then run aticonfig --initial=dual-head
For more info, and NVIDIA instructions see http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxAndDualMoni
After "signing" it however, I received an email from Barbara Boxer responding to my comments. Well, not responding per se, really more of a form letter about the war in Iraq which related in no way whatsoever to my comments about criminals in the white house, but it's nice to know that senators get enough complaints about Iraq that every email response pertains only to that issue.
It's called Rockbox, and it's an open source OS for media players. It's been ported to most of the popular ones, and some obscure ones. I run it on my Toshiba Gigabeat F40, and I can play any media type except WMA, including MPEG movies now, which was not a feature that Toshiba put on the Gigabeat. There's all sorts of plugins too.
Ever wanted to play Doom on your iPod? Rockbox comes with that too.
http://www.rockbox.org/
This is a petition to impeach both Bush and Cheney, citing offenses agaist the American public.d =g1&gclid=CKGNhKyZvosCFSOUEAodm3xSwg/
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/65?a
The goal is 100,000, they are at 85,000. You can also include a short message which they claim will be routed to your senator by state.
is This what you mean?
They do still care actually. The MPAA is after a friend of mine now over his mirror of the DeCSS source on a university server. In fact he has a meeting scheduled with them today. Hopefully he'll see this and let us know how it went.
The Matian Chronicles was by Ray Bradbury, and was a collection of somewhat related short stories taking place on Mars. C.S. Lewis did a trilogy starting on Mars that was a biblical allegory, seems kinda corny by today's SF standards, though still a good read.
Another good one is The Sands of Mars by Arthur C. Clarke, although it's probably one of his least accurate novels.. He says the sand is actually blue on mars. Well, can't be right all the time I guess.
(or was it Bradbury that had the blue sand idea?... time to read those again probably)
Most of the geeks I know dress completely in black, listen to bands no one has ever heard of,
and hate traditional media of any kind.
I have trouble imagining any geek discussing the last night's episode of Friends around a water cooler at the office
Thank you, that is all.
This is the first I've ever heard of the Joshua processor.
Does anyone know anything about these? i.e. are there any benchmarks yet? how do they compare
to celerons, can you SMP etc..
An even lower cost SMP setup would be really sweet, I was thinking of getting a dual celeron,
but now I may have to wait and see how these stack up.
--Drive carefully. 90% of people are caused by accidents.
German to English, Eglish to Italian, Italian to English:
I creator British of the figures comic Wallace and Gromit, park of signal of the head, with steven a mountain of the game of four films will turn London - the British creator of the figures comic Wallace and Gromit, park of signal of the head, is with the director of the United States steven the mountain of the game one series of four films in order to turn. A contract rolling-mill 239 adapted beyond 250 million dollars (. Euro/3,29 billion S) has signed the two film-creatives second the specific one of the mountain of the cat of Jeffrey, a united founder of the DreamWorks company of the mountain of the game. The figures Wallace and the relative Gromit dog of figurefigure have piloted to teuflischen the penguin to the films of the parks between the other to the moon, in order to observe the cheese in on and have fought piume the McGraw of the ladro here d
Take 4 potatoes, mash thoroughly. Add two packages of Penguin Mints, and stirr until all lumps are worked out. Cook for 30 min at 375 degrees, and voila, instant photographic memory. =8-)