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Evgenij Barsoukov has a page with a pretty convincing theory of lifters here. His equasions predict the thrust and efficiency of models built by many experimenters with fairly good accuracy.

In, not on, the forehead/hand. Read the KJV or Tomson translation - they're more accurate.

-uso.
Die-hard fundie, die-hard geek.

If you can tolerate a Tripod popup, I have an article here.

so if you were to do a translation of a popular online comic strip, with the author's blessing, who then linked to the translated strips from his main page, do you then 'own' the translated comic, images and all, or only the text?

I'm pretty damn conservative, you know, and I *know* that Jesus was a Jew.

BTW I am a Bible thumper in the extreme.

YFI

-uso.

This is why copyrights shouldn't be more than 25 years.

I say, make 'em 10 years renewable up to 50 (and non-transferable).

If only there were more works there like, er, hmm, Roald "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory"/"Matilda"/"The Witches" Dahl. :}

Meh, well, better than nothing. Too bad though they don't have the Tomson New Testament of 1576.

-uso.

this glossary of legal terms says:

Blackmail is the extortion of money by threats or overtures towards criminal prosecution or the destruction of a person's reputation or social standing.

• Spam Museum
• The Official SPAM Home Page
• Spam Carving Contest
• Amazing and Fabulous Spam Site
• Uncle Mikey's House of Spam
• The Ultimate SPAM gift catalog
• Bob Bragner's "Hormhell" page
• Uncle Kevin's Spam page
• Spamland
• on and on...

While RSI does exist and natural keyboards help, many people would reduce the chances of having pains in their hands and joints by drinking less coffee, caffeine etc..

The body needs water and beverages with caffeine cause dehydration.

Link to information about dehydration

The Amazons on TV do no such thing. Those are the only ones we care about. Forget all that Greek myth crap!

Once I saw a thing at the toy store called the "Squiggle Wiggle Writer" which was a pen that had interchangeable tips and a small motor with an offset weight that shook it around so that you wrote all in squiggles.

Sound familiar? Maybe that's basically because it was a vibrator marketed at children. Your post brought back my memory of this thing, so I decided to see if it was still around. It is indeed still around and you can still buy it for about 3-9 bucks.

Here is some linkage I dug up out of morbid curiosity:

Someone recounts her childhood memories of the Squiggle Wiggle Writer

Therapy fun for kids?! What's even sicker than the site itself is that they are serious!

In an otherwise innocuous page of poetry find a sordid bit about this horrible children's toy.

Another page talking about the Squiggle Wiggle Writer as a masturbation tool.

And finally, narrowly getting edged out by necrophiliacs, the Squggly Wiggly makes an appearance on a nice big List o' things that are gross.

You get the idea.

Hopefully Hart's Whackin' Pals won't leave as many scarred childhood memories.

Ideo may design a lot of things well, but they have made some mistakes.

They designed the US version of Sega's Saturn controller, which many gamers considered inferior to the Japanese version. The US verison had the same features as the Japanese version but a clunkier layout and more internal parts. Sega eventually dropped the US version and sold the Japanese version everywhere. Plus, Saturn was one of few consoles to put more than four buttons under the right thumb, but that was probably Sega's decision, not Ideo's.

I'd suggest we send Sally Struthers to China to launch a massive "Save the IPs" campaign, but I'm too afraid she'd end up eating half the population.

Of course, that would solve the problem..

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I remeber Battletech, I wrote the darned thing (or a goodsized piece of it anyway) I was the Chief Engineer at the company that made the games and simulators.

A good portion of the company was swallowed by Microsoft in '97 to become the MechWarrior development team but what's left of the original company (Virtual World Entertaniment) continues to operate quite a few sites.

True, it's not as nice looking as today's games but considering that the hardware hasn't been updated since '95 I'd expect that. What's really surprising is that this game has been in continuous play since 1990! How many games hold people's interest for that long?

I understand they are going through a hardware/software upgrade right now.

For some time I've been interested in starting up a new company to do something like this but haven't found anyone interested in putting up the money.

There's more info on the BattleTech cockpits on my website (which is a mess right now, look here and also here). And don't forget about Red Planet, the less popular (but in many people's opinion) more exciting second game we had.

I remeber Battletech, I wrote the darned thing (or a goodsized piece of it anyway) I was the Chief Engineer at the company that made the games and simulators.

A good portion of the company was swallowed by Microsoft in '97 to become the MechWarrior development team but what's left of the original company (Virtual World Entertaniment) continues to operate quite a few sites.

True, it's not as nice looking as today's games but considering that the hardware hasn't been updated since '95 I'd expect that. What's really surprising is that this game has been in continuous play since 1990! How many games hold people's interest for that long?

I understand they are going through a hardware/software upgrade right now.

For some time I've been interested in starting up a new company to do something like this but haven't found anyone interested in putting up the money.

There's more info on the BattleTech cockpits on my website (which is a mess right now, look here and also here). And don't forget about Red Planet, the less popular (but in many people's opinion) more exciting second game we had.

It seems to me comparable to all the "brand-x" stuff you see in a grocery store. Look at all the Dr. Pepper rip-offs [quick google search...] - here - most have names that start with Dr. and end with something similar to Pepper. Those are legal, right? How is this any different?

I think that Halo has some great characters. The grunts are my favorites. They are just hilarious! They have some of the best Quotes.

One of my favorite things is to sneak up on a group of Grunts that are sitting somewhere chilling and stick a plasma grenade to one of their backs. Sometimes they will let out an anguished "NOOOOOOooOOOOOO!!!"

I think that the master chief is also well designed. When you're playing you feel like walking destruction with a sense of humor. I read that they purposefully never show the Master Chief's face because they want the player to be able to identify with him.

Here's a link to a Gamasutra article on Character Design

Ask and ye shall receive. (With apologies to the Tick)

;)
-T

An interesting paper on Quantumlike Chaos in the Frequency Distributions of the Bases A, C, G, T in human chromosome.

I think you must be refering to Marana, AZ.
Here is a photo.

Or, if you need more obvious proof. ;)

Lenny Breau - unknown canadian, murdered, arguably the best jazz guitarist ever, kooky 7-string player

Kenny Burrell - one of the best, plays with B.B. King now, straight ahead bob

Wes Montgomery - one the first, one of the most influential

Charlie Christian - the first, groundbreaker

Ed Bickert - i think I've seen him play live about 50 times, just incredible, and he uses a Telecaster

John Pizzarelli - wonderful tone, fantastic voice, good trio, and his dad Bucky is quite good as well.

There are a lot more, Tal Farlow, Herb Ellis (Oscar Peterson), Russel Malone (plays with Diana Krall and Harry Connick), Jim Hall.

Anyway, just some ramblings and potential starting points if anything interests you.

Me either. I, instead, will find myself humming the MacGyver theme song.

Not sure what a Mac Guyver TV series would be like.

The Rice Transliteration Scheme (this one's in Telugu, although it's pretty much same for most Brahmi-based languages) suggests that "gaandhi" be spelt thus, although, as other posters have already pointed out, Gandhi himself used to autograph his name as "Gandhi". :-)

Ugh...
Hotmail supplies me with the following things:
Slashdot Updates
Porn

Oh yeah, and I occasionally get asked if my privates are O.K.

Check.
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The movie of the summer

Right, those Stalin Organs were US artillery. Har Har. You can find some data here. As you can see, AA Lend-lease was the only significant artillery contribution. It was still less than a quarter of what the russians produced themselves (26thou vs 6thou). AT and field guns from the US and UK constituted an even smaller part of the russians artillery force.

Hitler couldn't take either Moscow or the oil fields because he overextended his army and diverted troops to try to take an unimportant city. After he lost at Stalingrad, he no longer had the ability to take either Moscow or the oil fields. Especially after a major part of his army got encircled and destroyed. Many months later, Hitler was losing on the eastern front and the western Allieds invaded France. So perhaps you should check your timeline again, before you start making ridiculous claims. I would recommend Antony Beevor's The Fall of Berlin 1945 and Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943

Well, not really. Frag Island didn't use "Java 3D" or any other fancy API that didn't exist 5 years ago.
It was doing all its rendering in software, and was drawing a plain bitmap on a plain AWT canvas, probably using a method very similar to yours (ImageProducer etc..).

The (now rather dead and smelly) site for the applet is at: http://hem.passagen.se/carebear/fraggame.htm

Unfortunately it doesn't load as it seems to be missing some data files, but the code is there for the grabbing and the jading.

This guy might know.

I went looking for more info and found this instead...

(You might want to make sure your pop-up blocker is working before clicking...)

Are you a Red Dupe?

Oh, and this may inspire donations to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

I actually got hold of Xmas NiGHTS when it was included as a cover-CD for the UK Sega Saturn magazine (here's a link that includes a picture of the disc.)

Would have to agree - NiGHTS is an all-time classic - there's something about the wonderful sense of well-being you get while playing it, and the strange but intuitive controls, that really make it gel - maybe even more so than the Sonic games for me. Yay.

The Red Pill Project tries to claim there are no plot holes (of course applying a strict standard to what is considered a plot hole) but clearly Reloaded blows some of the theories out of the water, but it's interesting apologetics nonetheless.

Use JAD. It's the best one for Java. If you want a decent GUI front end, get DJ Java Decompiler.

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, which had two horns like the Lamb, but he spake like the dragon. And he did all that the first beast could do before him, and he caused the earth, and them which dwell therein, to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he did great wonders, so that he made fire to come down from heaven on the earth, in the sight of men, and deceived them that dwell on the earth by the signs, which were permitted to him to do in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make the image of the beast, which had the wound of a sword, and did live. And it was permitted to him to give a spirit unto the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast should speak, and should cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast, should be killed. And he made all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads, and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath wit, count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred threescore and six. Revelation 13.11-18 Tomson

Last time I was out in the Maritimes, I was told that a dam/causway was built to satisfy some rich landowners. This basically ruined the Tidal Bore because the water doesn't go as high anymore.

See this link for details.

I'll add to the list of similar places: the House of Mystery in Hungry Horse, Montana. They give you marbles before you go in, and you can watch them roll uphill.

The effect is caused by an unexplained vortex on the site. Science is unable to explain it, and you get to stand pretty much as near to the centre of the vortex as is safe.... :)

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I'll add to the list of similar places: the House of Mystery in Hungry Horse, Montana. They give you marbles before you go in, and you can watch them roll uphill.

The effect is caused by an unexplained vortex on the site. Science is unable to explain it, and you get to stand pretty much as near to the centre of the vortex as is safe.... :)

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I do not know about compatibility, but why not build one yourself... No joke. This very cool project is one of the many available at the 6502.org page. Then you could port LUNIX to your own computer...

"The N64 was the first, and for a while, the only console that was built with 3d in mind"

I never said it was a very good security system -- but you can't deny:

1) You can't reset(RST) a connection without knowing the port pair and position along the sequence continuum,
2) When Mitnick (actually an associate of his) cracked Shimomura's machine using a blind spoofing attack, people were quite surprised.

Going from insecure challenge-response to secure challenge-response (due to deploying an actual RNG) to secure challenge-response at a higher level than TCP fails to add anything new -- we're talking about obvious moves on a clear continuum in direct response to exposed threats.

The moment people started attacking the 64K clock, people stopped using it. You can't say it was a novel idea to replace it; the attack exposed the defense. It's the same with SPAM: The moment you're receiving email from large numbers of false email addresses, it's obvious to test those email addresses before allowing a connection to get through. That's what you're already doing at the TCP layer -- no data generally passes until the handshake is complete; you're refusing to accept data until some level of authentication has occurred. But TCP isn't enough, because IP doesn't map well enough to identity. The IP can be true but the email is false. So we test email instead.

--Dan

Interesting link at the bottom of the page. Explanations welcome.

Full Text Here. I've been meaning to read that book for some time, and googleing for a single sentence from the quoted passage above helped me find a copy online. Thanks, now I'll get nothing done today :)

snip: The URL for the webcam broadcast that Jim emails to his friends is http://128.220.27.192/temp/NadiaVision. (The IP address actually belongs to the Department of Psychology of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.)/snip

SeiHono'oAi ~Fire Soul Love~ / performed by Michie Tomizawa (lyrics by Sukehiro Tomita, music by Nobuhiko Kashihara)

Don't quote me, but I think it's ©1993 EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)

Transcribed by yours truly from a Kanji lyric scan.

-uso.

"'Who the hell are you communists! Get off my doorstep. I listen to the ARTISTS not communists like you!'"

Please, old chap, you're letting the side down.

The copyright holders in almost every case are the record companies. Those contracts that every starstruck artist signs tend to include the transfer of rights to the holding label/company, which means that the RIAA actually represents the copyrights of the artists, something that they point out while raping both the consumers and the artists.

Some further reading;
Prince Versus Warners
Same thing, different angle (with popups)

I believe that George Micheal has also had disputes with his record company over what actually gets released, and I'm wholly amused by the scramble to recoup losses over Aaliyah's pre-contract expiration.

I wish someone would make the distinction to the record companies that the majority of people have NO problem with supporting the artists, it's just the robbing bastards at the top of the food chain who employ the lawyers to beat people over the head.

OD

They come up with some great and crazy stuff in Parma Ohio...

I have never heard about Hands Across America (probably because I was 7).

Anyway, here's a link for those that were drinking out of juice boxes in 1986.

http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id248.htm

It's hard to believe that such a thing was possible.

Haaaannnndddssss Across A-mer-i-ca. I leave the kazaa links as an excercise for the reader.

"Hands across America" in the mid eighties. But that was for a good reason (if you think those things are good). I recall in my county there were not enough people to go from one side of the county to the other. (Aside: My little brother had to sit through a teacher lecturing at school about how this failing signalled the downfall of society.)

The "Let's do it for-the-hell-of-it" mentality is not going to get a lan across from coast to coast. Now if Each person were asked to share one folder on a hard drive with a favorite song/movie/picture, then I think people would buy their own wireless paraphenalia to jump into this big p2p event.

Well, that's my intial comment. Off to read the article.