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• 38 inches according to a page at Arkansas State University and another at Microflex Technologies. Well the conversion (1 meter = 38 inches) is mentioned actually by some apparently russian website which is linked on this page at the arkansas state university
• 38.16 inches according to a rounding-happy math teacher at Norfolk Collegiate School in Virginia.
• Couldnt test this one, because the website was down (probably slashdotted)
• 38.37 inches according to Honeywell's Sensotec folks.
• Ok, well, this is indeed incorrect. However, on the same PDF it is mentioned that 1 inch = 2.54 cm, 1m = 1.0936 yards, which are both correct values. So I seriously believe that (1 m = 38.37in) is just a typo and should have actually been 1m=39.37 in.
• 38.8 inches according to some numerological babble
• Well, if it is "babble",then why consider it at all?
• 39 inches according to Fife Products and some folks who sell quilting products.
• That makes sense, doesn't it? Quilt and other such manufacturers would want to save on by "trimming" or low-rounding such conversions wouldnt they? For selling 1000m of their product, they save 37 inches!
• 39.14 inches according to the specifications on a measuring wheel for engineers. (uh-oh!)
• This does look incorrect. I can't think of why they'd equate 1m=39.14 inches.
• 39.15 inches according to an October 30 2002 entry in a blog.
• Why would you be concerned about what's on a blog. People put whatever they want to.
• 39.21 inches according to Richard Bowles.
• Again, who is richard bowles? I've no idea.. do other slashdotters know? Even if he is an authority on metric systems, why would you use an individual's figures as a source of reference? Would you not prefer to look at a metrics standards body or other such resource?
• 39.27 inches according to pages at University of Wisconsin Stevens Point and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.
• On the same page you'd notice: "Since many of our students travel to Europe or Australia, we've prepared the chart below to show you how to estimate foreign measurements. We hope you find it helpful:"...Did you notice the word "estimate"? Well, if anything, it wasn't at helpful to you I presume :-)
• 39.28 inches according to Jonathan Brooks at Penn State University.
• Again, I think this "Jonathan Brooks" is a user/student at Penn State University, and this URL you posted isnt an authoritative advisory from the University itself.
• 39.3 inches according to some

This evening, I learned that one meter equals 39.3700787 inches. While this may come as no surprise to some people, it was one to me - for years, I had mistakenly believed a meter was 39.77 inches, and now I know it's basically 39.37.

Of course, I'm not alone in my confusion. A bit of research on Google revealed quite a few different conversions from meters to inches. Here are some of them:

• 38 inches according to a page at Arkansas State University and another at Microflex Technologies.
• 38.16 inches according to a rounding-happy math teacher at Norfolk Collegiate School in Virginia.
• 38.37 inches according to Honeywell's Sensotec folks.
• 38.8 inches according to some numerological babble
• 39 inches according to Fife Products and some folks who sell quilting products.
• 39.14 inches according to the specifications on a measuring wheel for engineers. (uh-oh!)
• 39.15 inches according to an October 30 2002 entry in a blog.
• 39.21 inches according to Richard Bowles.
• 39.27 inches according to pages at University of Wisconsin Stevens Point and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.
• 39.28 inches according to Jonathan Brooks at Penn State University.
• 39.3 inches according to some laser folks.
• 39.34 inches according to a page about photography, and another about a role-playing game. Hey, it's only a game, their meters can be whatever length they want.
• 39.36 inches according to some ham radio sorts and some NASA folks among others. Pretty close... but... shouldn't NASA know better by now?
• 39.38 inches according to people who race 1-meter model yachts, talk about prehistory in California, and, um, other NASA folks. Again, pretty close!
• 39.39 inches according to someone ranting against metric (how ironic), as well as a page about UFOs.
• 39.4 inches according to a list of conversions from a company that makes electric motors and such things, and the Secretary of the Navy.
• 39.45 inches according to a set of math problems f

Tim Sweeney will, in my mind, forever be linked to the wonderful ZZT. This interview, given some time before Unreal 2 is an interesting contrast to the one posted above. In particular, he talks about ease-of-creation:

Hercules: You moved onto to other, bigger projects long ago. It must be good to know that the first thing you ever created is still used/played a lot. Does ZZT still cross your mind, sometimes?

Tim Sweeney: Yes, one of the interesting things to do is contrast ZZT and Unreal, and look at how incredibly far we've come in graphics quality in that time. But also to see how little the industry has progressed -- or maybe even gone backwards in some respects... So, how will game development be 10 years from now? If levels take six months to build, and compiles take 5 hours each, and it costs $20 million to develop a game, then developing games won't be fun or even possible anymore.

I'm a fan of creation tools that are accessible to anyone who can play the game. (Casual players who may not be technically inclined.) As a developer, I'm hoping that we will be among the first to offer something that lets even the most casual user plink around. As a player, I'm hoping that Sweeney has retained this philosophy, and that future Epic offerings let us build -- at least a little bit -- with the same ease that ZZT did.

See for yourself. L4 is 93,000,000 miles out. Or are we talking Earth/Moon L points? That would still be 200,000 miles out for L1.

See: this transcript.

Thanks to: This site for the link.

After the bit, Will Ferrell (sp?) came out and ate a (the?) banana that was used...

Wow. That's a pretty impressive show of completely ignoring the facts in order to make your point. Neato.

Look, numbers don't lie. Plain facts don't lie. Last December, the story broke that the homicide rate in Baghdad had fallen to below the largest American cities. If you took the military casualties out of the equation, the Baghdad murder rate was lower than any American city.

(The story was covered in depth by Canada's National Post. They don't have it on their site any more, but here's what appears to be a reasonably intact copy of the original.)

A cynical friend of mine came up with this gem a long while back:

http://meejalab.tripod.com/

P.

Don't forget Nosferatu, the first vampire movie.

Actually, I think it should be legal to reuse characters as long as something is labeled "unofficial". Japan is much less uptight about this than the US.

Fandom: The Barbarians at the Gate
- or -
Yes, I still like Ranma 1/2

(blantantly stolen without permission from here)

It is an unfortunate fact about fandom, whether it be gaming fandom, anime fandom, or Linux fandom that it goes through stages:

1. Stage One: A small group of people discover something that they like and think is fun and interesting. They form clubs based on it, talk to each other about references from it and generally enjoy themselves. Often, they will be persecuted by people who don't get it, "You're into that?!? How can you be into that?!?!" they'll sneer as they pass you in the street, at school or at work. This is also the evangelism phase, you try to convince people to become involved in the thing you are into. "The more the merrier" is what you think at this stage. In some ways, this is the best stage of fandom. There is a lot you have to do by yourself and normally a dearth of commercial support, but it is exciting.

2. Stage Two: Some charismatic people become interested in what you like, unfortunately, leading the people who were sneering at you to think, "Oh! He's into that? Oh, maybe I misjudged it then..." (You'll see why this is unfortunate soon enough.) More support becomes available, so you don't have to do everything yourself. Instead of third generation fan-subs, for instance, commercial tapes become available. Maybe not the ones you want, but still, maybe good in their own way.

3. Stage Three: This is the transitional phase, your hobby becomes well known enough that the mainstream media picks up on it, usually portraying it as a weird and evil sub-culture. Of course, this causes it to appeal to bored mainstreamers who want to appear cool by taking on the establishment (until they grow up to become corporate lawyers and/or investment bankers, natch.) These are the people who start showing up at your AD&D club meetings and when you suggest a game of Call of Cthuhlu for a change, mock you. They don't mock you because they know anything about CoC , but because "the name sounds goofy, man." You start feeling resentful as they try feeding your sixth level magic user to a gelatinous cube, and in my case you stop attending group meetings.

4. Stage Four: Congressmen start talking about the evils of the whatever-it-is that you like, of course making it more cool among mainstreamers . Although the thing you like is more readily available now from a variety of commercial sources, it has been rendered palatable for the mainstreamers . All the rough edges are sanded off, and you get accosted by people who don't know that you used to be really into the thing who try to tell you how cool their bland, pallid version of the thing you used to love is. The barbarians are at the gate! People are overunning your hobby with the same predjudices they had back when it wasn't cool. They accost you at conventions and say, "You are into that!?! How could you be into that?!? This new is so much cooler than that. I wouldn't be caught dead being into that." Note: As always, you are not trying to force your tastes on anyone. In fact, because the quality of people you are meeting has declined so much, you try to identify the bad ones and just "smile and nod" as they pass you by. You are just trying to "live and let live," but the mainstreamers only want to appear rebellious, even though by their very nature they are conformists. Because of this, they will seek you out and try to force conformity on you, basically forcing you to hide your interests within a hobby from them the same way you used to hide your interest in the hobby from them.

5. Stage Five: Everyone is into your hobby now... but it's become so palatable and mainstream that it isn't recognizable as the thing you used to love. You've since moved on to other things. Soon after this, it becomes uncool and people start dropping it. You still like the old things that got you into it in the first place, but you no longer mention it to

Well, firstly: there are a lot of stupid inventions (e.g.: hat that spreads into an umbrella).
Secondly: there are a lot of inventions that are developed based on previous ideas and are fully exploited (e.g.: paperclips - there are many designs, quite a few still being used).
Thirdly: many inventions are innovative, but just not quite good enough to use (e.g.: the development of the zipper took several tries).
Fourthly: The technology is often not good/economical enough in practice (e.g. Lilienfeld's invention of the field effect transistor in 1925 (patented in 1930).
Finally: some inventions are so far advanced for the time that no one (other than the inventor) sees any realistic use for it (e.g. Babbage's analytical engine)

Maybe I'm just a sentimental fuddie-duddie ;-) but I don't understand why there is such large excitement about wireless Internet access. Its range isn't generally much better than those of nonwireless methods and nor are access speeds. In my past experiences with wireless networking I've been plagued by random connection drops and noisy data transfer. I sure hope things have improved or else Austin could be in for a world of hurt.

If you had the two computers in a room together, they'd probably be able to communicate. If no one moved, turned the light on, opened a window, got up to get a cup of coffee. I learned about wireless networking as an expensive pipe dream where it's just too flaky to be a practical solution. Hopefully by standardizing protocols like this we'll be able to get reliable through-the-air services and anakin murders padme in episode three in a fit of rage. Having an edge of a few hotspots in coffeeshops or parks is not likely to provide as much of an advantage as if the same money was spent keeping homeless off the streets, say.

Still, Wi-Fi, 2.6GHz, 802.11b, whatever, does sound promising. If it works as well as I hear it does, it will lead to a revolution in telecommunications in Austin. Whereas in the past we'd be trailing cables and leads everywhere - people will be able to walk up and just share data. I look forward to being able to share power wirelessly! Won't that be great? Hey, maybe Pick and Drop will become commonplace! (I'll always remember Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, though.)

I'm glad that there are some small subsidies being spent to enable local business to hop aboard. Being able to share inventory and computer usage tips will help them a great deal and I'll be watching Austin's statistics closely to see how well it copes with the proliferation of cheap computing and communications and networking for all.

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GNAA

...and it works for you, why do you need still more?

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GNAA

...They were removed almost immediately, but not before dozens of people had already posted about the mistake on the official Star Wars Galaxies forum."

C'mon man! The Star Wars universe has ALWAYS been about Soviet style revisionism with Lucas playing the part of Ulianov! Hey, it's HIS toy universe so if you don't like his choices well, he's already got his billions. so nyah!

Need I go into specifics? Greedo...blah...George going all schizo on "Yes there is/No There won't be" a third trilogy (he claims both at various points in his career)...blah....Natalie Portman to be "photoshopped" into DVD release of SW SE ...blah....

Long and the short, let's cut to the chase, shall we? When it comes to something that either will/will not happen with the Star Wars universe, whatever my degree of fanboy nerdniness on the matter at any given point in my life I just "go all zen" about the topic. Either it happens, or it don't. I just don't get my panties in a wad over ANY SW crap anymore. Or maybe, hopefully, I'm just getting too old to care! :)

I do like SWG, but unfortunately life prevents me from getting too much into it. Plus, I was turned off by the lousy physics. Can you still walk through walls on this game, or have they fixed that?

I've no idea who Shel is, if it matters. . .

Yes, it matters a good deal.

Academy of American Poets bio of Shel Silverstein

NYTBR "A Light in the Attic"

You might know him best as the author of the song "A Boy Named Sue".

KFG

After all, how many of us remember this diva named Jem? As I recall, she was "truely truely truely outrageous"...

On the whole "dx" is used to show what the varible of integration is.

At a more advanced level, the "x" in the "dx" is used to denote a notion of measure on subsets of the real line, and this measure is used to define the integral in terms of a sequence of (finite) sums.

Newton may have believed in the existence of infinitesimal quanitites (such as the dx), but they have lost all favour in standard analysis, being relegated to the area of non-standard analysis.

I think most geeks became familiar with the term "amalgam" through the DC/Marvel Comics collaboration where two characters from their respective companies were combined into one. Like Batman + Wolverine = ??? Profit!

How would this apply to Sega/Sammy (Segammy)? Maybe they'll release Guilty Gear X vs. Sonic the Hedgehog as a fighter/platform hybrid. We can only hope.

Look up Christian Reconstructionism. Look up Rushdoony. Google is your friend. Christian Reconstrutionism is the core of the mass movement you couldn't find. The exoteric term for this is "the Religious Right". I presume you've heard of them? How far have they gotten in the past 20 years?

"All these atrocities continue in spite of the fact that we now have the 'right' people in places of power. Indeed, the occupant of the White House is a professing Christian. The U.S. Attorney General is believed to be a devout Christian. 'Conservatives' control both Houses of Congress, and Republican presidents appointed seven of the nine Supreme Court justices. Christian activists placed the right party in power, but are we now witnessing the return to moral and constitutional government that we have demanded for so long?"

This is from Christian Exodus explaining why they want to take over a state because they've effectively taken over the national government and the New Millenium hasn't started yet, i.e. the nation hasn't converted to an Old Testament legal regime comparable to sharia law quite yet. Their problem of their political leadership is that little things like the Constitution and the Bill of Rights have been standing in their way, though the work of dismantling is in progress. In the above, "conservative" and Christian mean "Religious Right"... those are the only people the Christian Reconstructionists recognize as real fellow Christians. Every one of the last several Presidents, Democratic and Republican have been "professing Christians". But except for George W Bush, not their kind of Christian.

For more information:

• Here are some interesting quotes that explain why some people are very concerned. You wouldn't think that responsible citizens would seriously discuss the return of slavery, would you? Don't bother with the TOC at the top, just scroll down the page.
• Here's a pretty good historical document on Christian Reconstructionis
• You've probably heard of at least some of these people.
• Where tax-exempt right-wing foundation money is going. Look towards the bottom of the list of people they've been funding. There are some very interesting Europeans on that list. More about these interesting people.

I've got a bad feeling about this...

Wasnt there something called "XWindows" or "Windows X" on Unix years before M$ coined their Windows?

According to Wikipedia, The X Window System originated at MIT in 1984, while Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released in 1985.

Not that it makes much of a difference as "Window" was a generic term for a particular GUI widget long before either of these. (See for example the Xerox Star.)

Sorry to be anal...I think it's 2038

You mean something like this, or these?

I think you misunderstood the post. Here's a handy link to help explain it.

Nothing in the whole country can even dent an Abrams tank.

Hellooooooooooooooooooooo?

Obviously, you have never seen this little page... Just scroll down through pictures. Don't ever underestimate the power of single RPG round fired at close range.

A lot of people seem to consider the British "Challenger" a much better tank than the Abrams, btw.

I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but are you sure your using your wife correctly? Mine stayed out with me for about three hours watching the same Leonid show -- she loved it and now we watch skystuff whenever we get the chance! (She thinks it's vewwwwy womantic!)

Maybe it's time to call tech support about it?

I know what you mean about the binoculars, though. (sigh)

I'm sorry, I thought this was Slashdot, not alt.religion.kibo.

Don't most people here understand what religions really are? They are memes, that infect human culture. The more successful memes (such as Islam) reproduce themselves through reinforcement of cultural paradigms (although are themselves changed by the cultural meme), and by encouraging begetting. (Think of a computer virus -- now imagine the computer is a human mind. Voila! You have a meme.)

It's actually quite difficult to live without some form of meme infection -- only a few people have achieved this (J.Krishnamurti for example.) My own meme of choice is Buddhism, with a strong flavour of Secular Humanism.

At least one SF write has speculated that memes could be used as weapons by advanced ET races.
Perhaps the true evidence of the existence of ETs may be inferred by looking for their memes, which might serve to render a populace docile and compliant when the alien overlords arrive. :-)

AHH, to be young, single, in love with the world, and filthy rich enough to ride around it in 3 yrs.

anyhow, while I understand you want to burn pics to cd from storage media, the question is why? if for archival purposes until you get pics uploaded then by all means go for it. if you are doing it in order to upload pics because you are afraid of running out of space, that may not be necessary. you are carrying more than 1 quantity of digital pic storage, are you not? many photo processing places in the US nowadays allow you to bring in your xD/SD/Flashmem/etc storage media and create printed pics right on the spot as well as burning them to cdrom. uploading them to the web is up to you, though.
now, if you had a wireless PDA that accepted Sony mem sticks and your digital camera also happened to use those, I foresee an easy way to bypass needing cdroms to upload to the 'net.

As for your travels, swing on by, we'll hold a cold one for you and keep the view beautiful.
I have no idea who these guys are http://www.texastrials.com/subwebs/txtrials/defaul t.htm

btw, i ran the first website about college tunnels, first started around '94.. tunnels.tripod.com .. no longer maintained, but the info is up there for prosperity if anyone wants tunnel plans. :)

-Ben

While Apple seems to be patching fairly regularly, the last security update (the group of 4) was a little lacking in that it offered no explanations. Microsoft (which has gotten good at revealing weaknesses) at least gives a full technical explanation, often right down to the files affected. As I work in IT, I'm often left installing patches with Apple with no clue what they're doing under the hood (a bad situation to be in, but worse if we didn't patch at all). Fortunately, Mac users are a very small minority at my company. Also, the guys who's putting together some of the patches seem to be falling asleep at the wheel. The last Quicktime upgrade (33 MB) apparently include 18 MB of the Quicktime logo for each of language it supports: Not So Quickthinking on this page. That's just lazy work.

Hey, I'm new to Slashdot and I am having trouble figuring things out like how I can just relpy to you directly.

Can't do it. But you can feel free to email me.

A very general response--airships rarely have serious stability problems. They tend to have a very long moment arm between the center of lift (in the middle of the gas bag) and the center of mass, because fuel, payload, and a lot of structural weight tends to be down on the bottom.

But the stability is a direct result of the weight suspension. If we're talking a carrier, the weight distribution would have to be different to allow for a takeoff and landing deck. If it were suspended beneath a lift structure it would tend to swing and would create a narrow approach vector for planes. Another point is that the side suspension idea would allow the craft to use thrust in all directions instead of just forward and rudder. Rudders are a poorly suited control mechanism to such a slow craft. Assuming a thrust force like tilting rotors, the airship could be made to quickly slide, yaw, and adjust altitdude.

BTW, I ran across a "history" of the Iron Vulture here. It's such an interesting read that it's easy to believe that such development really happened! :-)

As far as the driving like assholes, that only happens with idiot rockstars and the like who just got a million dollar paycheck. The vast majority of the people driving this car will be doctors, investment bankers and the like. These guys drive carefully.

You mean like Bill Gates was doing when he got arrested for reckless driving?

Hmmmm, where do I begin. The people who are in the market to buy this automobile are not going to drive it every day. In fact, they will probably transport it in its own trailer if they take it to any concours, etc.

Yes, but a car says something about your taste as well. It's like the guy who chooses the most expensive wine in the restraurant vs. the guy who chooses the best. The Veyron has a lot of power, but power isn't free.

Excerpt from an earlier post of mine:
This actually has the interesting implication that if you know the fastest you ever want to go and can sustain 1G acceleration up to that point, any additional horsepower is a waste of weight which will detract from the vehicle's braking and cornering performance. (Tire frictional force is nonlinear WRT weight.)

For me, it's about taste. I'd rather have a less powerful car with much better handling than 1000 "look how big my penis is" horsepower. For a true automotive enthusiast, there are other factors that must be considered besides straight line performance.

A good car is a real balancing act. One has to weigh horsepower, aerodynamics, weight balance, moment of intertia, suspension geometry, unsprung mass, etc.
I like to joke, that with enough money you could make a picnic table run a 10 sec. quarter mile, but in the end you've just got a really fast picnic table.

Personally, I'd rather have Bill Gate's Porsche 959 than this monstrosity. It's like the difference between wearing huge gawdy gold chains around your neck vs. wearing a classic and valuable wristwatch.

1. Personally, and go ahead and mod me down for this, but I believe God has kept people from checking out the location.

So true. God would find it meaningful to do that, being all-powerful and all. Maybe it's embarrasment? Here are some satellite photos that I find really interesting; i, B, 3.

(Special note to the text from one of the links.)

1. Personally, and go ahead and mod me down for this, but I believe God has kept people from checking out the location.

So true. God would find it meaningful to do that, being all-powerful and all. Maybe it's embarrasment? Here are some satellite photos that I find really interesting; i, B, 3.

(Special note to the text from one of the links.)

They're annoying because they're not regulated in N. America. People either go for higher power blue halogen bulbs which glare a lot without the E-spec light cut-off, or they do their own HID conversion/upgrade and screw it up. People mis-align them, or don't get them with self-levelling or washer units.

This page shows the difference. E-spec lights can be much brighter but the cut-off ensures that there is actually *less* glare. This page shows somebody fitting the HIDs themselves. As you can see, they started with E-spec lights with halogen bulbs... but misconfigured. The HIDs look okay though - in fact the head-on shots show how little glare they really produce (compare ankle vs belly height photos).

As for the blue-tint... I think that's people trying to make their bulbs look whiter and mimic Xenon. Xenon bulbs can be bluer, but it depends on the manufacturer and the colour temperature of the particular bulb.

I didn't buy in to the HID upgrades a few years back as they were too expensive ($1,500), but I'm looking around now. I would love to find some bi-xenon's for my '99 Passat, even used ones. I think it's well worth it. We have daytime running lights here in Canada so I wonder if it would save me anything in the long run due to the lower power requirements...

I drove an SUV (Nissan Pathfinder) once (standard filament headlights). Fullbeam just didn't seem to make a difference. Maybe the driver's position is too far above the light position.

This page might help you understand the difference in the lighting patterns. Even though E-spec lights can legally be far brighter, they should actually produce a lot less glare. The ones in N. America that do cause glare are probably dodgy home-made conversions or upgrades and so misaligned, and with the lack of DOT regulation, missing washer units (they really glare when dirty) and self-levelling (they should adjust downwards if you load up the back of the car).

Or else Minnesota may have sent Brock Lesnar and Jesse Ventura after them. They could easily beat Gates and Ballmer in a tag match.

This is Old News

"i think sco's building is only two floors so you'd blow yourself up along with your office chair/monitor/c4 contraption"

And to think there are people who think there is no role for IT outsourcing!

Happy trails, Darl

Someone beat you to it back in the 80's.

Foo: If you've got nothing to hide...
Bar: Why do I need to have something to hide in order to want privacy? Can't I simply desire to prevent others from gathering unnecessary information on me?

My definition of "liberty" includes the right to explore the boundaries... and sometimes, to step on the other side.

When I was younger (in the '80s, statute of limitations has long passed, heh), I did my share of vadding (long before I ever heard the term). Technically, I was trespassing -- got caught once, while still in high school, and were my parents ever pi^Wupset!

I sure wouldn't explore those places now -- I'm older and I know better. But would I have known better if I hadn't checked out the limits when I was young?

Online, there are places that probably shouldn't be found (goat-related links are just one eye-melting example). But truthfully, I'm not terribly worried about my teens finding the goatse guy -- because once they know how bad it can get, they'll be much happier back in the "safe" zone.

Contrast that with the self-appointed mavens of online "decency", whose worst online experience was the face on Janet's nipple, and therefore want to regulate everything into blandness.

Of course, this is threading away from the main topic, the A9 "I Know Where You Surfed Last Summer" search engine. I guess the risk is that A9's all-seeing eye could become the norm, rather than the exception. At least we still have Lance Cottrell on our side.

I never have gotten to the end of Conker... I like the game, but I'm not gamer enough (read: too many RL responsibilities) to commit the time required.

But I was going to point out Bad Fur Day as one of the games that knows it's a game. For one thing, the game is littered with "B" buttons -- I mean, they're actually green buttons with the letter "B" on them. When you stand on the "B" button, you do something special, like throw toilet paper at the Great Mighty Poo. Conker occasionally quips "Hmm, this looks like one of those 'B' button moments."

Best of all, one of his idle states involves playing his Game Boy. You can use the "view change" buttons without disturbing him, and look over his shoulder to see how he's doing. It's some sort of generic fighting game, IIRC.

Best nine bucks I ever spent -- there were a stack of BFD's when the local K-Marts closed.

I meant to include this link.

That's what excites me. Look at how cheap and safe air travel is now. Wright brother's flight was in 1903, right? In less than 20 years you had airplanes EVERYWHERE. In less than 40 years there were jets. (July '42 for the first real jet fighter, yes yes I know there were actually jet engines in the 30's but come on).

Much faster than that. The first flight of a jet airplane was December 16, 1910.

Pikachu is a free JPEG sniffer for windows. It sniffs emails too :)

There are tons of networks sniffers that can sniff emails,passwords etc. But Pikachu is different from nornal sniffers.

Unlike normal sniffers, Pikachu sniffs images.Using this software, you have visual indiaction of what is flowing in your network.

It's fun to watch Pikachu sniff tons of images from network.

A nice free tool for easy tracking of users downloading offensive materials.

There are tons of networks sniffers that can sniff emails,passwords etc. But Pikachu is different from nornal sniffers.

Unlike normal sniffers, Pikachu sniffs images.Using this software, you have visual indiaction of what is flowing in your network.

It's fun to watch Pikachu sniff tons of images from network.

A nice free tool for easy tracking of users downloading offensive materials.

There are tons of networks sniffers that can sniff emails,passwords etc. But Pikachu is different from nornal sniffers.

Unlike normal sniffers, Pikachu sniffs images.Using this software, you have visual indiaction of what is flowing in your network.

It's fun to watch Pikachu sniff tons of images from network.

A nice free tool for easy tracking of users downloading offensive materials.

You mean this Mushroom Mushroom?

They have the same thing at Chuck E. Cheese.