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It's quickie time! Let's get into the action with some blood and guts. cthulhubob told us about Overkill. In light of all the irritating infringement news, An anonymous coward pointed us at http://www.groucho.com. I don't know why, but
Jesper Skov thinks that having turbojets on model airplanes is a fantastic idea. Hey Doc, are you reading? Gabriel Golden submitted The Boomtrain Manifesto.
leviathan shared the l33t surfer.
According to our anonymous source, "Wired News is reporting that Danni Ashe has become the Most Downloaded Woman on the Internet. In your face, Cindy Margolis!"
Bluedove (with a little help from Wes) showed us how to pirate music and video without a computer.
alienmole gave us the origin of @.
Mantis! is a Sega Saturn obsessive. Check out his site.
Garth, while busy turning it up to eleven, told us about the upcoming re-release of Spinal Tap. On a personal note, just wanted to tell my friend Raja to get well, and that we're all thinking about him.
Ok, so you read the article. The thing was a joke. The moderators mistook your ignorance for malice. He wasn't serious saying that mymp3 == a cassette. It's called humor.
The engine was the Dynajet, which hasn't been manufactured for a long time. Some pictures of pulse jet powered model airplanes can be found here, including some using the Dynajet.
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
Actually... There was a LARGE controversy about this here in Canada, and stores were warned that there might be a huge tax, though they were never told what it was, even though they were told to start collecting for it before they had decided what it was going to be. So, not surprisingly, just before this kicked in, there was a HUGE run on blank CDs in the country. There was such a protest, though, that they ended up taxing 'regular' CD-Rs only $0.25 or so and put the big tax on "audio" CD-Rs, about $1.75. What is the difference between a regular CD-R and and Audio CD-R, you ask? Well, Audio CD-Rs are marked with some identifier that allows them to be played on certain new audio equipment (namely, some Sony equipment, I believe). This same equipment will NOT play regular CD-Rs. That sure sounds like a 'feature' that the consumer asked for. In any case, this falls under a digital home recording act, so now it is perfectly legal to copy CDs and give them to your friends. It could have been MUCH worse.
Just as a thought - have you tried quitting being a vegetarian for long enough so you body settles into processing animal protein (going either way, there *is* an adjustment period), and see how you feel after that?<p>I used to have serious genetic (all down my father's side of the family) acid reflux. Going on Atkins actually cured me. I'm not saying that I'd recommend it (unless you are looking to lose weight)... but a change in diet sure helped me.<p>
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Bluedove's homepage is at http://www.gatewest.net/~bluedove/stickinit/sticki n_it.html, not the one referenced in the quickies (characters truncated)
Demonstrant's Open Source Tools
All the time I thought you could only transfer data over the internet and now you tell me, I could download women?
Internet sure is a weird place...
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You need to check out Tapster, Spinal Tap's music distribution site. Nigel said that the real problem with Napster is "too many songs", so it originally had just one song, though now there're a few more Spinal Tap songs, posted by David, Nigel, Lars, and others.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
Raja we love you!
Raja is my hero, and can play a good game of Diablo 2. Raja-the-tiger, get better for us so I can help you finish up act1!
Come pet raja on #slashdot on OPN, when is is strong enough to come.
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Raja, rest up, we sure do miss you.
...Damn that cancer...
http://www.freebsd.org
The most stupid politicofeminazilycorrectly stupid transformation was Ombudsperson instead of Ombudsman (sp?). Or what about this one: shero instead of hero ... duh.
Their messages can be moderated up to 11!
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Just an explanatory note. Raja hangs on OPN #slashdot, and he's a Very Cool Guy. But he has cancer, which isn't good. We wish him all the best, so he can get back to enjoying Emmett's Air Canada flames and various degrees of trolldom.
Get well soon, dude.
Chris / thoric.
I want to see the first use of the dot.
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Most downloaded woman? I thought it was Pam Anderson.
Or was it before Tommy Lee downloaded her?
Mode (3) smart-aleck mode. Press * to return to main menu.
You know, I've always wondered why do people want a text-mode action game, but then I recall my Cirrus Logic video card which is still humming on my 486/66 DX, and it all comes back.
Ahh, the sweet memories...
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Hear! Hear! Let me go and have one right now.
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Yes, but who is she? Before today, I'd never heard of her. I guess she's famous for something in the US, but I couldn't figure out what. Her site is extremely lynx unfriendly.
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
I was fairly dissappointed that the hacker speak does not translate elite into 31337. It seems to only do characters and has no recognition of common hacker words. Take a look at our 31337 21 N technical specs or our product line to see what I mean.
I don't know if they are still being manufactured, but there used to be a small pulse-jet engine, like the German V1 Buzz Bomb, suitable for use on model airplanes. The engine was very simple. The only moving parts were the flapper valves that admitted air into the combustion chamber.
That has been done, at least mounting cameras with transmitters to watch from the ground, I don't know of anyone ever flying that way though. Would imagine the field of view would be limited and unless you could also have some kind of instrumentation show up to compensate, I would be very doubtful that this could work.
It does take some getting used to, but flying a plane from a fixed position is pretty easy. If you've ever tried a R/C car, you know what it is like at first. You get quickly disoriented and turn the wrong way unless the car is heading directly away.
After a bit, your brain learns to compensate for the orentation of the vehicle and you automatically make the proper control inputs. The same thing happens with a R/C plane, only in 3 degrees instead of 2. I found that getting the PC simulator helped me the most. After a few hours of crashing the plane everytime I turned, I got quite proficient at recognizing the position and attitude of the aircraft and was soon flying inverted with no problem.
When I finally got out to the field with my trainer R/C, I had little trouble adjusting to it. R/C flying is great.
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
Are you on Smack??? blank tapes cost so much?? That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. anyone with a clue knows where to buy tapes for about 35 cents apiece. This is for BSR brand high speed duplication grade (I.E. the same grade as what you buy at the store with your metallica sons on it) Cripes there is no "TAX",
Please get a clue before posting.... as for the reason that TDK ultra-cd golds cost 5 bucks apiece? that's because stupid consumers will pay that price for the fancy labels and stupid buzzwords ("look dear it's stereo-certified!").... the tape is no better than the crap they make production grade tapes at.
No there is not "tax" there is no conspiriacy, and there is no content in this discussion.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Well, in Canada they have a tax on CDRs as well...
What a crock. If they're going to tax media to cover the loss incurred from pir8s, then doesn't that make pirating okay? They get their money anyways? Maybe entertainment costs should just become part of income tax, and then we can all watch movies, and listen to music for Free! Then they should do the same to gas prices!
From each according to their abilities, to those according to their needs!!
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In the RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) test: So, this test is of most impotency for us all
Really? Dude! I mean, I knew RFI was bad and stuff, but I never knew it would get like that! Ouch, I'd better go recalibrate my ham transceiver.
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Spinal Tap is giving out a bunch of songs free in mp3 on their new site, Tapster
#define F(x) int main(){printf(#x,10,#x);}
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Did you look at the website of the guy who wrote overkill? It's pretty funny, wonder what his attraction to strawberries is???
I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress -J Adams
The tax is applied to digital media. DAT tapes, Hi-8 tapes for Tascam recording equipment, Minidisc media and the like have a small tax added for the reason you give. It is not applied to analog media because the RIAA doesn't fear analog piracy, only digital.
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pulse jets still need a compressor..plus an external starter. usually this is a major pain..no restarts in flight etc...they also are limited in thrust and the micro explosions of the pulses cause damage internally to the engine.
heres a fairly good modern design with a relatively long life and is much safer : http://www.gtba.cnuce.cnr.it/GT2000.HTM
The thing about the tax (and likely why it remains unknown) is that by paying the tax, that legitimizes my using it for piracy; I've already paid the RIAA. Why should I pay the tax to compensate for copying, and then be told that I can't copy! If I pay for something, I want it, and I have right to it.
This sort of tax is bad PR. Unfortunately, I guess it is cheaper to use the money collected in this way to pay for some glitzy ad campaign to offset that PR.
Actually, I think her inflated boo^H^H^Hstatistics are due to the fact that someone (not necessarily her) spams the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* heirarchy on USENET with her stuff.
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yeah, I'm actually old enough to remember when blank VHS tapes could cost over $20 each. I remember something about how there was a cost built-in to cover money lost to the studios from prople copying movies. Funny thing, it was a huge luxury to even own one VCR, let alone the two you'd need to make copies and rob the poverty-stricken movie studios of the VHS sales (except everyone rented anyway because movies on VHS didn't cost $19.95, more like $50 and up)
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
Someplace else it said the engine supplies 75N at what looks like maximum power. Now:
g=10 m/s^2.
1N=1kg * 1m/s^2 (F=ma)
So, let's assume lawn chair + human + fuel + control system + misc = 150kg.
That's 1500N so you need at least 20 of those bad boys.
I was thinking that 4 on the back of a bicycle might provide a nice assist up hill, but it would probably be loud, and I'd hate to be riding this if it blew up.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Did you read the article?
Why would you want to back out of CindyMargolis? I'd wanna stay there until I was done...
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Take a look at nt6. Its a real turbine engine (120,000 rpm no less) that runs off cordwood. They even sell plans. (and it looks like fairly straightforward plumbing, for those that don't have an engine lathe in the basement).. Its on my list as one of the loudest noises you can make with wood.
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For one, like you say, they are very expensive. They obviously fly much faster than traditional prop R/C and require a much larger flying field. Most fields in the area here around Chicago either have grass strips or short asphalt.
Another problem would be the noise. It is hard enough these days to get away with 2-stroke gas prop engines. Many of the fields around here are now sitting close to residential areas and restrictions on flying hours have been imposed because of noise (you did see the park-district R/C field out the back _before_ you bought your $400,000 town house, right?).
And aside from all that, they are harder than hell to fly. I've obviously never personally flown one, but I have the Dave Brown simulator that let's you fly R/C planes, helicopters and jets on the PC. Flying a jet is _damn_ hard. (no, actually _landing_ is the tricky bit.)
In addition to turbojets, there have been ducted-fan propelled 'jet' models around for a while too. These still have a prop for propulsion and are quite a bit slower than turbojets, but are much less expensive and heavy (doesn't need to fly as fast to generate enough lift to overcome weight) and can been seen at larger AMA events.
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
www.danni.com is running "Apache/1.3.12 (Unix)",
www.cindymargolis.com is running "Microsoft-IIS/4.0".
Just found it funny to notice...
The point is, Groucho just took the threat as a joke, and eventually so did WB. I hope that still works today.
Ohmigod - I was reading /. through the 1337 filter and accidentally got a glimpse of a Jon Katz article! Err, a J0n K47z article. Remember that it doesn't respect your filters or you might be exposed to rambling about c0rp0r4715m 4nd g33k5 1n 0ur p057-C0lum81n3 w0rld!
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
You know all those 1x1 pixel web bugs? They're just really lossy pictues of Danni.
Hey, now that would be such a great way to get back at your nosy neighbors!
Well, I was flying my model airplane around and it got hit by some strong wind and ran into Ms. Oppenheimer's house, and, uh, well, also ran _unto_ Ms. Oppenheimer... and, uh, yeah, it was flying pretty fast, about 180 mph...
Yup, that's what we need, more powerful toys for all the little geeks-in-training growing up around the world.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Learning to fly, Pink Floyd.
Just FYI... makes me rethink that dual-Xeon III server I was looking at...
Potato chips are a by-yourself food.
The article on osOpinion (analog "piracy") was interesting but slightly uninformed.
Wonder why analog tapes cost so much? The RIAA imposes a TAX on every one. This piracy issue has arisen before with analog cassetes and vcrs; in both cases, the RIAA was scared out of its collective minds (or what little minds it has). Eventually, the manufacturers of blank tapes were forced to pay to the RIAA a small fee for each blank tape to cover the cost of piracy. Nowadays, not that many people know about this.
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I fly R/C planes, and there are almost always at least one or two jets flying at the field in los Angeles I fly at.
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I'm finishing up a radio controlled rocketplane right now myself, based on the X-20 spaceplane. A friend of mine has an R/C turbojet, and he was thinking of helping me with my drop tests by taking my rocket plane up on his jet and dropping it from there for the glide tests so it would be going fast enough.
If you want pics of the plane I'm modeling mine after, check out this link:
http://www.friends-partners.org/~mwade/craft/dy
I saw gas turbines mentioned and figured I'd post a url to the Gas Turbine Builder Association. It's amazing what these guys have done. Check it out. http://www.gtba.cnuce.cnr.it/
Teen Pirate Radio is hilarious. That's some good shit, man.
Which only provides more ammo for my theory...Canadians are funny. (which is why we keep them around)
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This is a pretty strong claim for 'prior art' on the @. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop when someone claims to have patented the 'name@host' email address format and sues every email client in the world.
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
Haven't you read RFC 1437?
sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f(q{sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f});
The cheapest one they had was 12500 DKR, which translates to $1507.50 US Dollars.
So, how many of these would you have to strap to a lawn chair to get it to fly with a person in it?
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
A couple of years ago I spent a good day trying to track down the name for the symbol in response to a question posed on the radio (I wonder if this team was inspired by the same question) well, anyway I never found an answer and the radio show never addressed the question again.
Now I can let them know that the answer has been found.
One correction to the article though. Amphora is a unit of liquid volume, not weight (as is also indicated in the article since it is a fraction of a barrel). Amphora's were a conical ceramic jug that were used as far back as Roman times, and have been found intact on sunken Roman ships at the bottom of the Mediterranean filled with wine, olive oil, and fish-sauce (my guess is the fish sauce was actually Ceasar dressing B^) ). Since the use of them goes back so far, I wouldn't be surprised if the symbol also goes back further than the 1500's.
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