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Tried before? Uhm... you you care to back that statement up, preferable with links? Because, even thought some germans during the last big war messed with rocketproppeled planes, those wasn't meant to go anywhere near space, and the various winged programs (DynaSoar, Shuttle, Buran to name a few) that has been either close to flight or actually has flown have all been large, costly goverment programs.

AFAIK civilians has always dreamed of "cobbling together a rocketship in the backyard" and head up into space, but it's only the last few years that the technology needed has reached a pricepoint where it is possible for anyone but a goverment to afford to develop and build a manned spaceship (or even a suborbital one). Papaerprojects has floated around since before the dawn of the spaceage, but no one went into space on those. It looks like the X-prize and XCOR are the first programs that results in actuall hardware beeing built.

On the other hand, if you want a real affordable, private launch, you could try cobbling together a huge suger or sorbitol rocket, put a chair on it and see if you can't get hold of something like the MOOSE. Off course, you would need a suit too, but as the early suits where souped up versions of a standard flightsuit, a visit to the nearest military surplus store will solve that.

So there you have it... an simple, affordable launchsystem. Wonder why no one has done that... oh, safety. Right.

Tried before? Uhm... you you care to back that statement up, preferable with links? Because, even thought some germans during the last big war messed with rocketproppeled planes, those wasn't meant to go anywhere near space, and the various winged programs (DynaSoar, Shuttle, Buran to name a few) that has been either close to flight or actually has flown have all been large, costly goverment programs.

AFAIK civilians has always dreamed of "cobbling together a rocketship in the backyard" and head up into space, but it's only the last few years that the technology needed has reached a pricepoint where it is possible for anyone but a goverment to afford to develop and build a manned spaceship (or even a suborbital one). Papaerprojects has floated around since before the dawn of the spaceage, but no one went into space on those. It looks like the X-prize and XCOR are the first programs that results in actuall hardware beeing built.

On the other hand, if you want a real affordable, private launch, you could try cobbling together a huge suger or sorbitol rocket, put a chair on it and see if you can't get hold of something like the MOOSE. Off course, you would need a suit too, but as the early suits where souped up versions of a standard flightsuit, a visit to the nearest military surplus store will solve that.

So there you have it... an simple, affordable launchsystem. Wonder why no one has done that... oh, safety. Right.

That's absolutely right. He might want to look into buying a set of service manuals for his car. I have a set for my car. Not cheap, but extremely helpful.

Don't know who prints them for Audi; GM uses HELM.

AOL News is also running a story about this

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use my non-whore AOL News link instead: click here

here is a mirror of the article since its slashdotted

interesting subtle differences between A and B uses of the pixel shader

click here

Hot chick? I could have sworn that was the dude from 3rd Rock From the Sun.

My work bud finally had enough of this Nigerian scam that he decided he would a have a little fun with the situation. His deed of daring do is a damn hilarious read!

• does run Linux
  
  
• proofs that Mirosoft is making bad software
  
  
• shows how stealing intellectual property simply cannot be wrong ("Actually, it is not stealing") because every fucking idiot does it
  
  
• assumes that any law preventing child molesters from distributing their filthy shit is an attack on Free Speech
  
  
• promotes homosexual, interracial or interspecial cohibitation
  

• does run Linux
  
• proofs that Mirosoft is making bad software
  
• shows how stealing intellectual property simply cannot be wrong ("Actually, it is not stealing") because every fucking idiot does it
  
• assumes that any law preventing child molesters from distributing their filthy shit is an attack on Free Speech
  
• promotes homosexual, interracial or interspecial cohibitation

• does run Linux
  
  
• proofs that Mirosoft is making bad software
  
  
• shows how stealing intellectual property simply cannot be wrong ("Actually, it is not stealing") because every fucking idiot does it
  
  
• assumes that any law preventing child molesters from distributing their filthy shit is an attack on Free Speech
  
  
• promotes homosexual, interracial or interspecial cohibitation
  

HyperCard. I believe it is officially cancelled by Apple, but it is still for sale at the Apple Store.

JP

• does run Linux
  
  
• proofs that Mirosoft is making bad software
  
  
• shows how stealing intellectual property simply cannot be wrong ("Actually, it is not stealing") because every fucking idiot does it
  
  
• assumes that any law preventing child molesters from distributing their filthy shit is an attack on Free Speech
  
  
• promotes homosexual, interracial or interspecial cohibitation
  

• does run Linux
  
  
• proofs that Mirosoft is making bad software
  
  
• shows how stealing intellectual property simply cannot be wrong ("Actually, it is not stealing") because every fucking idiot does it
  
  
• assumes that any law preventing child molesters from distributing their filthy shit is an attack on Free Speech
  
  

The part I don't understand is where you think the people have the right to bare arms.

Pfft! clearly you need to get in the know. Aol 9.0 will do all of these things *and* your laundry!

It'll even prevent all the hot aol girlies from dating gurus who fix their computers..

Isn't that how you got all *your* dates?

--Shadar

...with a $150 TV out card, display them to your Plasma TV from your computer.

Even better, many plasma TVs have VGA inputs, so you don't even need a video card with TV out. Also, at least the Radeon 8500, 9500 and 9700 can output Component (Y-Pb-Pr) video, with a US$29 adapter. In fact, VGA (which is a form of analog RGB) can be easily converted to Y-Pb-Pr, which is probably what the ATI cards do. If anyone cares about the details, there's a good explanation at this site.

if this were a 17-year-old instead of AOL, the FBI would be investigating.

According to AOL's online history, AOL is a 17-year-old. OK, it's a bit of a stretch, you have to count from when they went online instead of when they incorporated and they'd still be less than a month away from 18 years, but that's my story and I'm sticking with it.

This is why we must consider: who had something to gain from the disasterous crimes of September 11th? Obviously not Osama Bin Laden, who would net no financial windfall from the destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Although he has loudly applauded the "terrorist" acts of September 11th and even tacitly taken credit for them, there is no reason to believe that he is anything more than a bandwagon jumper. Being blamed for the destruction of the World Trade Center has done more for his image than any amount of militant Islamic rhetoric.

But if not Bin Laden, then who?

It so happens that on December 11th, "coincidentally" 2 months after the tragedy, Credit Suisse First Boston quietly agreed to pay out US$100 million in order to settle an 18 month old investigation into its handling of certain high-profile technology IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). One of the most controversial amongst these being the IPO of VA Linux Systems, Inc. (LNUX) .

VA Linux Systems, Inc., now known as VA Software, is widely derided as a poster child of the dot-com bust, though inexplicably still in business. At the time of the IPO, VA Linux (Software) shares opened trading at nearly 10 times their $30 offer price, closing the first day of trading at $239.25. This meteoric rise made many early investors rich, strangely on account of a company which purports to sell a hobbyist operating system which can be obtained for free on the Internet. "The VA Linux initial public offering is a prime example of market manipulation in an IPO by investment banks, their customers and the issuing firm," said Steven Schulman, a partner in the law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, which specializes in filing shareholder suits.

"Because certain favored customers of the investment banks agreed to buy shares in a new issue at inflated prices in the aftermarket (in return for getting an allocation of the shares at the initial offering price) the share prices to which the IPO eventually soared were actually driven by artificial market forces," continues Schulman.

But what does the VA Software (Linux) IPO have to do with the attacks on September 11th, and what has that to do with the Credit Suisse settlement? Well, considering that VA Linux (Software) got CSFB into trouble in the first place, it stands to reason that the VA Linux (Software) Board of Directors were complicit in the stock fraud from beginning to end. As the investigation progressed against CSFB, the unscrupulous VA Software/Linux executives, their pockets bulging with filthy lucre plundered from trusting, hard-working investors, must have realized that their days in the country club were numbered if the SEC discovered their wrongdoings.

The SEC, or Securities Exchange Commission, is a federal regulatory agency, and cannot be bribed. Therefore, with a possible stint in federal prison looming large, Larry Augustin and the rest of the crooks, including outspoken gun violence advocate Eric S. Raymond, decided to undertake more active means to halt the investigation.

The Plan

It so happened that all the evidence in the CSFB/VA Linux investigation was held at the SEC Northeast Regi

The Illustrated Guide To Breaking Your Computer

If your God is the "God of the Gaps," be warned that the gaps are small and getting smaller all of the time, and the faith you take so much comfort in is doomed. You children won't believe it, and your grandchildren will think it's comical.

The gene for colorblindness is tied to the X chromosome and is recessive. The reason that more males have colorblindness is that the Y chromosome is treated as having the gene.

On topic; Color difficulties usually come into play with puzzle games. I wish that Capcom would release a playable version of Super Puzzle Fighter II X someday. I've been able to play Puzzle Bobble and Columns by using shapes and got pretty good with Klax by using sound as an assistance, but SPFIIX is completely unplayable. For a game that only uses 4 different colors they could at least make them somewhat different.

For a better solution, check out Triptych which has a color select mode. I personally think that they should list that as one of their main features.

BTW, I am a colorblind female who plays games and frequents Slashdot. (How's that for rare)

Read 1421- The Year China Discovered The World, by Gavin Menzies. This book and it's author have been getting a lot of attention from the archeological community lately 9 see also here, here, here, etc. There's a lot of evidence that suggest that Zhang He's fleet continued east to the americas. Early Western explorers reportedly encountered chinese-speaking peoples in both South and North America.

GNN?

Oscar lived in the trashcan of my Mac for a few happy years and I always made sure to give him plenty of digital trash to eat. The kids loved him.

Then the programmer, Eric Shapiro, was threatened with legal action by the "Children's Television Workshop" (a.k.a. Sesame Street), and he had to stop maintaining the program. The next operating system upgrade was the end of Oscar, although I later learned (much later, alas) that someone had hacked the program into working on later OS releases. The kids were sad.

Curse you, C.T.W.

More info

AOL allows you to get "content" that you wouldn't be able to get anywhere else.
Gator allows all sorts of useful searching and ads on your computer.
MSN explorer A very nice web browser that takes over your whole web experience.
Webshots is a very nice background rotator that hogs bandwidth and proccesor time and whaterver else it does.
Weatherbug is a handy little sys-tray app that shows the weather, and watches your every move.


So if you are willing to listen to all the "help" given here on /. You will have the buggiest bulkiest computer there is.

Although some essential programs include...
xmms,Mozilla (most incarnations are great), Gimp (The best FREE image editor)
Also check out Easy URPMI for obtaining linux software.

Hmm, this reminds me that we even have some controversy over the use of "billion" thou... Argh, you can never win.

...and that paper title tells us how to pronounce Xen, at least if you're familiar with the Robert Pirsig title.

Pong in Forth for Open Firware. It's about 450 lines of code but I'm sure it could be done in < 450 chars of PERL.

Actually, many Christians have contributed to science throughout the ages. And in the spirit of modern science, I will back up my statement with references so you can have the opportunity to check them out.

Christian Influences in the Sciences
Keppler
Review of "The Galileo Connection"
Scientific Facts and Christian Faith: Are they compatible?

I especially liked the last article. The quotes provided at the end truly sum up my feelings on science and faith.

Get this one instead. It is 26MB zipped. The quality of the 9MB file is not pretty.

http://progressive.stream.aol.com/newline/gl/newli ne/lordoftherings/TheTwoTowers-tlr_fs.zip

The movie 23 depicts hacking in this era, and drastically illustrates the issues which could be caused by the size, cooling and power requirements of a full-grown PDP-11.

-- MarkusQ

Yes, that was deliberate. The term "The Tragedy of the Commons" refers to the story of the decline of common land in England "The Commons".

You can find it by following links from a search engine called "google" here.

A link for more reading about The Tragedy of the Commons as a general phenomenon.

Actually, it was a little earlier.

Founded in 1985, AOL initially offered limited online services for what was then a tiny market of personal-computer users...

Walford has been researching and writing up his results with mice for years. His retort to fad discoveries is to "show me your old mouse".

Recently, an article appeared describing how he' subjecting himself to his own regimen of reduced caloric intake to improve longevity.

He admits it's difficult for people to restrain their diets, but he believes it's necessary if you want to live to be 120 years old.

In addition to quantity, there's the whole issue of diet composition, which is the second part of Calorie Restriction Optimum Nutrition.

The USDA food pyramid is an improvement over the basic 4 food groups I learned when I was young, but it's still been criticized, there are serious profits in making up our current set of foodstuffs.

But others have suggested alternatives that place the carbohydrate group as a smaller portion and put fruits and vegetables as the pyramid base.

The latter would be much more consistent with a hunter gatherer diet that predates agriculture and, IMHO, probably is more closely aligned with the way our bodies were meant to digest food. Our bodies have only recently begun to adapt to the advent of agriculture adn they certainly haven't adapted yet to modern high sugar diets (witness especially the incidence of diabetes among ethnic groups with less exposure to agriculture).

Oh well, soon enough we'll re-engineer ourselves to take power from whatever is highest energy density. Maybe nitromethane:)

I know it sounds HORRIBLE but it's so crazy, it might just work. Find someone with an AoL account. Hit one of the Lobby chatrooms and you're in there like swimwear. Hope this helps! cheers!

IBM has dabbled in desktop-laptop merging for a long time. The PS/2e wasn't convertible between laptop and desktop, but rather it was a desktop designed built like a laptop--it had an LCD display, very small case with room only for PCMCIA slots and a 2.5" hard drive. They were really nice little units. Here's the only one I've found through Google: http://members.aol.com/phwimage1/mycomp01.htm

I would not necessarily call Philo Taylor Farnsworth the inventor of TV. Electronic TV, yes, along with transmission of TV signals (demonstrated in 1927), but Baird was the first to demonstrate a working "television" - a mechanical device, demonstrated in 1925. Farnsworth's used a scanning technique, much different in design to Baird's.

I think Baird was the first to get colour working (in WW2). There were many others too, such as Zworykin (invented similar things, parallel to Farnsworth), Du Mont (invented the CRT), and Nipkow (invented the scanning disk in 1884, the basis for mechanical TVs).

More info here and here.

-- Steve

I currently use two mouse that are my favorites, for desktop use I have a 16 year old IBM mouse from the original PS2, made in Ireland with a big heavy ball and great buttons (like the one you can see here, and for games I use the WingMan Gaming Mouse wich is a high res usb 3 button mouse with the best shape ever turned into a mouse, I can use them both at the same time in X, if you wonder how just set both mice input sections and add
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "AlwaysCore"
in your Server Layout section in your XF86Config

Not only would it enhance your horror movies, but you could watch Earthquake as it was intended to be seen.