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Let's start this off with some violence!
BigBlockMopar
answered the age-old question: what happens when a tank runs over a hard drive.
NeoCode sent the The Illustrated Guide To Breaking Your Computer, and finally,
matticus discovered The Overclockerz Store is selling burnt-up athlons/durons made into keychains.
Now that we've got that out of our system, lets get some schoolin' by learning
about the facts of life:
spankweasel sent in the invisible condom.
Now math:
Jonathan Hayward sent us
A four-dimensional maze.
And some history:
John Willemin sent us a nostalgia
inducing Microsoft Ad from the days of yore.
After a hard day of education, why not travel home on your lawn mower powered
hoverboard at
a cool 15mph? (thanks LenZ)
Then we can play some
dot-com monopoly (thanks to gmag3) and see what's on TV.
MTO sent us Trailers for the Dune miniseries, and
David Hume sent an abc
article about Vinyl Video which
attempts to generate images from your records. Finally, we better check
the weather channel to find out what the weather is gonna be like ...
on Mars
(thanks noctis).
I have a special drill bit for ceramic lets try that one wonder if i can get a 200 mhz chip working in place of that 90mhz one for freebsd...
Linux on the .com monopoly board
Yeah, I know... Thanks why I mentioned copperheads as being able to hit moving tanks :)
mov ax, 13h
int 10h
mov ax, 13h
int 10h
John Logie Baird, the Scottish inventor of a 25 line mechanical television system, made 78 RPM recordings of his video signal in the 1920s. But, due to difficulties in syncronizing the signal on the disk to the mechanical TV system, he was never able to play them back. An engineer recently obtained some of these audio tracks, and was able to process the audio into video, doing a huge amount of time base correction. Astonishing to see video from 1928. I wish I could find the link, but the link I had seen is now dead.
"How perfectly Goddamn delightful it all is, to be sure" Charles Crumb
Asper is an adjective meaning rough, thus aspera means "rough things." I believe that the word aspire would be related to spirare, to breath. My literal translation would be "To the stars, through rough things"
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
After posting this, I found a working link.
"How perfectly Goddamn delightful it all is, to be sure" Charles Crumb
That's a maze with 4 degrees of freedom, not a 4d maze. Remember the big thing about descent- it offered 6 degrees of freedom, but it wasn't a 6d game.... No I'm afraid this is simply a 3d maze.
--Gfunk
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
Who cares what it is. I just want to know where I have to go in Switzerland to meet those two chicks who were riding that phallic-looking piece of self-propelled artillery.
I do not deploy Linux. Ever.
. He would have a better chance of being say a computer programmer than a religious leader
Yeah. Luckily, it's already been done. You see, Richard Stallman is the new messiah. This may seem like a strange time to break the truth, but it's got to come out some time I suppose. The proof? Just look at the similarity in beard tastes...
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VinylVideo has to be one of the stupidest things I have ever seen. Interesting at first, but when you realise they want you to spend $2,000 on the player and up to $12,000 (!!!!) on the picture disks. Whatever guys, This thing can probably be made for $99 with spare parts, and I'm not even going to comment on the picture disks (12,000 dollars for a fucking ALBUM? COME ON!!) This thing could have been a fun campy thing to show your friends, until these guys got fucking greedy.
.sig
Too pissed for a
Nanite
God is real unless declared integer.
There are a number of classical means of solving a rubik's cube in 3 space do the same apply to 4 space as an extention?
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Interesting family outing. A bunch of people in civilian clothing having the time of their life, riding and crushing hard drives in an M-109 155mm self-propelled howitzer.
I know the Swiss army is largely composed of reservists, but what I don't get is how you can get to drive an SPH out of the base, get civilians on it, and play funky games with it. If you're a Swiss reservist, can you keep a tank or SPH in your garage? How does it work? Don't you get reprimanded for allowing civilians near or in a military vehicle?
And people here in the US whine about lax gun control. Sheesh.
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I believe this chemical is used in most shampoo's. I often read whatever I can whenever I can, and since there isn't much reading material in the shower, I have read the ingredients upon several occations. This chemical sounds aufully familiar (and sodium laureth sulfate). (BTW, I am also a chemist, so it's not _too_ wierd that I remember that sort of thing).
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
IIRC, the luxury tax was between boarwalk and park place, so the ISP fee replaces the luxury tax. I think that the Linux and Sun squares are the utilities, but my memory of the monopoly board is far from flawless so I could be wrong.
I ordered my dead Athlon chip about a year ago. But I never thought to drill a hole in it to memorialize several hundred dollars up in smoke.
Anne Marie's idea about this having an effect as the worldwide AIDS situation has merit. It allows women some control, when the men simply WON'T wear a condom. But it's not perfect. In parts of Africa, men (claim to) prefer sex with a woman whose vagina is very dry. Women go so far as to actually *wipe* dry (ouch) their vaginas before sex to avoid displeasing their husbands. I don't see this slippery solution working very well for them.
Freedom: "I won't!"
...was also interviewed by the corner monkey at waferbaby.
-- BlueCalx | http://nickd.org/
Please donate all of your extra IBM relay-key keyboards to me, I'll gladly send you plenty of crappy Microsoft keyboards in exchange, which you can abuse all you like.
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First, there is no such animal as a "North American Patent" there are Canadian patents, and there are U.S. patents, but there are no "North American patents."
Second, you can not get a patent for "a secret formulation", since in order to obtain the patent, the formulation must be disclosed.
Third, I did a search of the U.S. Patent Office and of the Canadian Patent Office, and found no patents issued to Jocelyne Piret.
So, the above data is obviously wrong. Hope you didn't get all riled up.
I do expect that there is a patent application pending for this. However, that is not necessarily a problem, if the patent is licensed, either for a nominal fee or free. So, don't get annoyed before you have all the facts.
Thalia
you know what really rocks? The IBM M2. Lightweight without all the crap around the M1, yet with the firm click. Came with Canadian PS/1's (2123's) Unless you need the weight of the bulletproof steel armor to hurt someone with the M1. Calum
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My girlfriend would be rather upset to hear you say that... It's not only men who like sex. Ever hear that a woman's sex drive peaks around 30? There's a fair amount of evidence to suggest that that's mainly due to the fact that it takes women that long to fully get over having been socially conditioned to believe that girls who like sex are morally inferior. If one takes proper precautions, the risk of sex is no greater than any of a number of other activities we take for granted (such as driving). Trying to project morals from eras before effective safe sex onto the modern world is sickening, and demeaning to women.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD
if the same algorighm used to make 2d mazes were applied, and if the thing were bigger, it would be very very difficult..
/moving/ the way it tends to do in real life.
'specially if the 4th dimension ("time"?) were
perhaps another project to further my own education.
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I want the hoverboard. =)
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Star Trek vs Star Wars. Take a look. You may like it.
http://virusmyth.com/
don't believe the hype.
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Hmm, compare my sexual history with someone who won't post as anything but an AC? No thanks.
Even if your's was true(big if there) then you would certainly see the benefit of this product to non-hookers. I bet a lot of your "women" wonder if they got something from you.(and a fair number of them probably did)
Steven
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Damn, I went over to Overclockerz willing to dish out a few bucks on a cool keychain and I can't find them. Can someone post a link to the keychains please?
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Well, with (much) older CRTs this might be the case, however modern ones are designed to fail in a relatively safe manner. I know, because I was once opening up a monitor to try to extract the flyback transformer (for HV experiments). I snapped the tube right at the stem in from of the electron gun. All I heard was a fairly innocuous 'pop' sound. Hardly any glass left the case, and the front of the tube was almost intact. Just don't much on the lead coatings.
Of course you should wear eye protection when you do such things. Heck, they say you should wear a mask when cutting wood these days! (Something about resin particulates).
-- Sig Sig Sputnik
Yes, but in that sense, from one slice, you would only be able to jump to two other slices, e.g. the left and right ones in this example. But as you can jump to the other two adjacent slices, it becomes "4-D"
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Consultancy: If you're not part of the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem
I live up on a big hill, and each morning I usually go speeding down on my bicycle. There is one house down the hill with a particularly well-hidden driveway, out of which a car occasionally comes backing out. A couple of months ago I was racing down when the car starting backing out. There was no chance of stopping in time, so I had to crash into a nearby tree to avoid hitting the car. The usual pain and obscenities insued.
Now, a rational person would take this as a sign that he should bike more slowly and cautiously down this hill. Fortunately, I am blind to common sense. But a strange thing has happened. Twice since then, as I started biking down the hill, I had the "feeling" that the car was about to come backing out. Both times I slowed down. And both times my instinct was correct, as the car came backing out as my feeling indicated it would.
I could not see or hear the car (my bike is kind of noisy since hitting the tree), and even if I could I would have no way of knowing that the car was actually going to back up (as opposed to just idle there for a while) Is it possible from my previous accident that I've learned how to see where this car is going to be X seconds ahead of time?
The daily bike journey is the only time I ever really get this feeling, so I suppose I will continue the experiment until I either hit the car (or tree while avoiding it), or correctly predict its appearance enough times to convince me that it's not just a coincidence. But regardless, I'm not willing to rule out our capacity to see into a future (not "the future", since there are probably an infinite number of those...)
I didn't see the Olympic games ceremonies... in fact I don't have a TV set. Did these Airboard things really work?
I took a look at the web site, and the pictures look heavily re-touched. And the technical specs page is a real let-down!
Top speed of around 25km/h is not bad compared to an aluminium scooter, but the other stuff makes it a laughable kid's toy!
Limited to an incline of 5% (a 1 in 20 slope) and limited to 100kg payload! I weigh about 90kg already! Add a stout pair of boots, packed lunch and fishing gear, and I'd be well over that limit.
And that disclaimer:
makes me think it's just a joke site.I beat that pansy puzzle in less than 30 seconds...
Connah
Connah
"Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for this change to take effect."
You're missing nothing. It is amazingly trivial. Most of the time to solve the puzzle was involved in reading the instructions. After that, it takes about 20 or 30 seconds.
The question is, will the presence of this stuff in shampoo and toothpaste cause a rash of bathroom product douching?
Mmmm... minty fresh twat... oh sweet jesus, it's got teeth!! Ow, my nose.
-- Notes from the pussy revolution
If the monitor is a vacuum tube, why would it explode like a balloon? Would it not implode like a... ...thing that implodes?
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Your friendly neighborhood mIRC scripter.
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P.S. If you don't get this note, let me know and I'll write you another.
I would try a drill.. I have a chip that we can try it out on.... :)
Actually, you can find them for less than that. PCKeyboard.com (actually a yahoo store) has 'em for $50.
Not that you would ever need to buy one if you already have one. Mine has been through more trauma than I care to recall. I got pissed once and threw it through a plate glass window into a lake, and it was working fine half an hour later.
this is a sig.
The Microsoft Ad seems to be /.ed or just gone entirely. Any mirrors?
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
I wonder if this is why they have started making them lighter and "safer" nowadays; perhaps the designers are taking workplace violence into consideration in their designs.
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Four words...
Don't worry, it's invisible.
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Ding Ding!!! Give the man a cigar! (As long as you're not really William J. Clinton that is, we've seen what happens to cigars in the oval office(ewww))
Steven
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You don't have coasts where you are?
So where are you living? Sealand? The ISS? A Zeplin? Where?
-Andy
Looks more like an M-109 155mm Howitzer.
Less of a tank and more of a SP howitzer.
each row could be stacked into a 3d block - a single row gives you X, Y & Z movements ... but the columns change the number of dimensions a tad, and in a rather elegant fashion (imho)
if you don't believe me then just try building a physical model that has the same topological adjacenies as that maze
Dave
Copperhead shells require a Ground/Vehicular Laser Locator/Designator (G/VLLD) for final approach. The shell is programmed with the laser code for that particular G/VLLD before firing, and locks onto that pattern on final approach. Generally, the party calling for fire paints for the final 10 seconds of the shell trajectory.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
It's a female condom. ahem. So are you still wearing one??
For all of you insisting on a 4D maze with time as the 4th dimension, check out the movie Cube. I won't go into too much detail to spare those who haven't seen it yet. Great movie!
Here's the official link on the Monopoly website. Also here is a big picture of the game board.
It's good to see that Tux has made it on to one of the squares!
Is that really in 4 dimensions? Or just one way to make a 3d maze on a flat screen? I don't see where the 4th dim comes in. You can move L and R, and back and forth to adjacent squares. It just seems like a 3d maze and you view slices of it that you can move between.
But then again I could be missing something here. Wouldn't be the first time, I was wrong once before but it turned out I was mistaken.
:)
Jason
If you want a real challenge, check out http://www.superliminal.com/cube/cube. htm for a 4D Rubik's Cube. I literally wasted two hours when I should have been working messing with that thing. Each face of the hypercube that you are solving is a cube of 9 colored cubes. Try it out. They have Windows AND Linux binaries, as well as Windows and Unix source code.
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Michael C. Hollinger
Try to get to Big Ben in London on Dec 4th, 1932.
Someone you trust is one of us.
I have to say that that maze was extremely easy. I solved it in a couple of seconds. The path is very short, and not very twisty.
You don't even have to try to visualize it in four dimensions or anything like that. Just remember that you can jump from your current position to the same position in an adjecent slice.
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Zardoz has spoken!
Oper on the Nightstar
I finished 3 versions of the maze in less than a minute. 4 dimensions are easier than 2!
The SWISS have tanks?? Run for your lives - the Swiss are not longer nuetral!!!
There is no problem so great that Armegeddon wouldn't solve it.
Dude. South Park is one of the most often pirated series on TV. Minutes after it airs you can download it online.
As long as Comedy Central's advertisers don't realize this (and they haven't seem to yet), Comedy Central is ok. I think the case will be the same with Dune; if people really want to pirate it, they will, but it won't hurt Scifi's revenue much.
-z129
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So what are you doing with your life that's so nobel and moral that you can deride others for turning a profit?
If she sucsedes she will save countless lives and make some money on the side. How many hours of your life have you devoted(for profit or otherwise) to saving countless lives?
You're too busy putting a roof over your head and paying for your computer? *shrug* It's all well and good to say after the fact what she should do with it but then it's always easy to spend other people's money. If your so concerned why don't you buy the patent(or at least a few thousand units. Depending on how much cash you can save up.) and then do whatever the hell you want to do with it?
-Andy
I'll second that. It's amazing what you loose when you take away the wheels: control, breaks, gyroscopic stability and speed. Yes indeed, that engine could be used to build a scooter that can be safely driven at 45 mph, steered and stoped.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Condoms are always breaking news for those who depend on them.
Don't want AIDS? Sit down and keep your mouth shut.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
LOL I had you absolutely pegged for a troll from your second post. The first smelled like a troll, but I figured it needed to be said that this product could have more applications than just protecting postitutes. This could be huge in the free love/swinger scene(and yes it still exists). But as soon as you started in with the "sexual record" it was classic troll. I've spent too many years on usenet not to recognize a troll when I see one. I considered going all out alt.flame on you, but I had a crisis at work I was dealing with between our banter. Come to alt.flame sometime and we'll really roast each other. Drop me a line at smerr612@mailandnews.com before you go though because I don't normally lurk in alt.flame
Steven
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The first IBM 101-keys came with the 8MHz AT's. I know, I had one of the last original 8MHz AT.s God I loved that keyboard. And, it could double as a bulletproof vest if necessary!
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
but they also explode.
When the front of the tube is smashed, the fragments go flying to the rear of the tube. They hit the back of it and then rebound and fly back out the front.
It is very very nasty if you happen to be near it.
First, dimensions don't have a specific ordering. Time is, according to relativity, one dimension, and space gives us three more. You are welcome to mix them up, that's the Lorentz transform (stationary -> moving frame).
Time is a little different from space, though. Spacetime is hyperbolic, not Euclidean, since time has a different metric sig (or if you prefer, is represented by imaginary rather than real coordinates). Also, if we believe in causality it is one way.
When people say n-D, they are usually referring to a Euclidean space, so spacetime doesn't work. Of course you are welcome to pick any n dimensions you want. In the maze the dimensions are quantized, so the four dimensions are easy to choose - the coordinates of the board and on the board!
As much as I like to see expensive electronic equippent reduced to a pile of rubble, I have to offer a voice of dissent:
Why not give the stuff to the disadvantaged kids and adults who could actually use it? It's bad enough that we've created an enormous social gap between those with computer access and those without, but destroying computers instead of giving them to the needy seems pretty senseless and self-serving.
If you get the urge to destroy useful electronic equipment, drive down to your local Salvation Army, give them the computer, buy some rag for a dollar, and tear it apart with your teeth or something. Don't deprive poor kids of the greatest invention of the 20th century. Even if the computer as a whole is no longer working, the parts could still be used.
You can call it a "hoverboard" all you want, but that makes me think Back To The Future II, which is a problem for two reasons. First, that was the worst movie of the series and second, the ones in the movie were MUCH cooler. You haven't made a hoverboard. It's a freaking miniature hovercraft with a handle. Nice try tho...
Well, obviously. It's hosted by America On-Line, which is America's most popular and therefore best on-line service.
The funny part is that Tom still kept it up, despite the fact that he is now privy to the world's largest Internet uplink for civilian use, and is also a TA for 15-212, which I'm currently taking.
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Post DivX (MP4) encodings of the series on the internet!!!
Screw the Tank and the Hard Drive,
what I really want is the digits of that chick. The burnette, not the redhead.
Anyone?
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..but I must. I submitted something about the new Star Trek:TMP DVD overhaul. It sounds like it's going to be hugely different from both the former releases; it will actually be FINISHED this time. Instead, we get morons running over hard drives with tanks. *sigh*
Yeah, I know; I complain when other people do this. But I'm starting to see what people are bitching about. =P
Stating on Slashdot that I like cheese since 1997.
Perhaps you meant
"Ad Astra per ardua"which means "through perseverence, to the stars" and is the motto of the Royal Air Force.
Ben^3
The Slashdot Paradox: "100% Overrated"
Your post seems like a dream - for WOMEN WHO CAN'T EVEN BE BOTHERED TO HAVE SOME DISCRETION ABOUT WHO THEY FUCK!
Seriously, it shouldn't be a problem as intercourse requires two people. If a man doesn't want to put on a condom, the woman can close her legs and say no. You can argue that he might force her anyways and rape her, but how would she get into this situation in the first place? People have sex too easily, and should try to be a little more picky about who they let in their pants. This goes for both men and women. It's not that difficult to wait longer than a week after meeting someone before having sex. It just takes a little bit of common sense, which most humans don't seem to have.
One thing that seperates humans from animals is the fact that we can restrain ourselves from acting on impulses. If you want to have sex with someone but don't have a lot of trust with that person, then you are an idiot if you act on it. Sex is more than just having an orgasm, because there can be very life changing consequences. Try to have a meaningful relationship rather than just busting a nut and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Mas vale cholo, que mal acompañado.
ya know Briggs n stratton motors were fine when I was a bit shorter and playing with the cheapo go-karts... I look at this hovercraft thing and imeddatly the thought pops into mind... hmm wonder what happens when we put in a professional racing engine... I do have that old motorcycle sitting out back... it had about 45 hp :P
might be able to lift me AND my backpack at that point!
Also would have to replacy that handle with something a bit more classy
oh and install a gps navigation system
and foglights :P
While we're on the subject of destroying things does anyone have any good links to "battlebots" or any information on how you might get involved with this. I've got some good ideas for some mean machines myself, I'm just trying to find out how to register or something...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
Domain Names for $13
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
www.haidacarver.com
You bastard! That is a IBM's legendary buckling spring M-type keyboard that the kid drilled on! Those keyboards deserve some respect, I tell ya, they are better than any of CmdrTaco's lame keyboards combined.
There are a lot of fans for these keyboards who will happily adopt it from you, please don't destroy them. A new one is 80+ dollars.
Actually, it's a reference to "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast" (which is why the subtitle is "from the then-why-are-you-singing-it-zorak dept.")
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Oper on the Nightstar
People who brag about how much karma they have are more pathetic than people who brag about their sexual exploits.
I love how you can read so much into my life since I have given you _NO_ information to work with except my username. This is hilarious. Unfortunately it's drawn to a close, I'm tired of being trolled.
Steven
PS Space Alien pussy is out of this world.
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What else is there to say
-- the computer doesn't want any beer, no matter how much you think it does. NEVER, EVER feed your computer beer.
Nah, definitely go with shotguns. A nice heavy load, like a 10 or 8 gauge, 12 if you're not used to firing, or just don't have that strong of a shoulder. For best results, bring some friends and do it in a Pulp Fiction kind of sytle. OK, everyone circle around now... (Wait... don't circle around. This would be bad if you made a circle. A little bit about having someone directly across from you with a loaded shotgun... doesn't inspire confidence.)
What's limited? It is a 4-SPATIAL-dimension maze. Perhaps not a very good one, but 4D none the less. Games Magazine printed a similar 4D maze back when dirt was young and Apple ]['s ruled the earth. Sometime between '79 and '82 I would say, probably closer to the early end of that time frame. In theirs, every square was colored, and you could jump to a same color square in an adjacent 2D slice. As I recall it was only 3x3x3x3, but it was certainly much more difficult than this one.
NannyMUD used to have a six-dimensional maze in a Discworld-themed area done by Profezzorn. The maze was set in a 2x2x2x2x2x2 "cube" where the possible directions of travel were north/south, east/west, up/down, meta-north/meta-south, meta-east/meta-west, and meta-up/meta-down. The "goal" of the maze was to locate the one room out of the 64 that was not accessible and then use a one-shot device for destroying the wall. Conceptually, the way I envisioned the maze was as 8 separate 2x2x2 cubes. Each time I moved in a meta direction, it was as if I teleported to a different cube, while retaining my same spatial coordinate. I also named each cube using an ordered triple of its meta-coordinate. So the initial cube was (0,0,0). If I went 'meta-up', I was in the cube identified as (0,0,1), and so forth.
The energizer bunny was funny, but the real Mars weather can be found here:
Mars Today It includes current conditions. I believe this site has been up before the Internet was popular.
And current solar data for those intersted
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
Richard von Weizs
Can't do it, sorry. If it wasn't for D&D and wife, I wouldn't have a life...
I can give up the wife...
Sorry...
;)
"Only one thing, is impossible for god: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." Mark Twain
Not Dune again? After the Gulf War, guerrela warfare in the desert against an opponent with tanks and aircraft just isn't a convincing story line.
I think I've found my calling. I believe I took the most direct path, no mistakes, the first try, in about 20 seconds. Am I a puzzle genius, and don't know it? Has anyone else had the insane luck of winning so immediately?
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Those RCA VideoDisks lost to LaserDiscs just like Beta lost to VHS: the LaserDiscs are imperious to wear, and handled special formatting in regular play mode like exact still-frame and slow motion play (backwards AND forwards! it's pretty cool)
:)
Note: I have a bunch of Lasers, and there's nothing like freaking out a bunch of people when they come over and see a pristine copy of Bladerunner playing backwards at 1/8 speed
Pope
Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! Monopolies offer Choice!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
He could have also ended up a starving artist, had he been accepted to a German art school.
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Remember 3d tictactoe? It had three dimensions (up a square, right a square, right a block of squares). This maze adds a fourth (up a row).
Will I retire or break 10K?
Ok...is it just me or do the dune trailers just scream DVD?
I think I'm going to get me a TIVO just because I do not trust my VCR to tape DUNE in the quality it deserves.
"Only one thing, is impossible for god: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." Mark Twain
well, if only .5% of people watch the cartoon network, than yes possibly
(for your info-it's a cartoon talk show on the cartoon network based on an old cartoon that I remember watching when I was like 12 on nickolodean?)
Slackware: old school feel, new school gear.
Maybe I am mistaken but I believe that the Germans were fond of large railway mounted cannons which could have a substantial range. Easyly outclasses a standard howitzer and could cream even a modern tank.
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Well this subject on slashdot is really stretching it but there are various means of "convincing" people you are charming or useful. Lieing, cheating, stealing and killing work well for starters. Also gratituous use of constuming, mind control, lethal weapons, and espionage are also alternatives.
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or at least reasonably pleasant tasting
they do wonderful things with flavored lubes these days....
Somebody came up with an analog video disk system in the late 40s/early 50s, but surprisingly it went nowhere.
There's something cool and anachronistic and vaguely eerie about the idea. I envision an alternate reality where the Ministry of Information distributes hit movies to Oceania's Inner Party members via big albums of vinyl disks.
Stefan
If it's to any permutation of http://www.goatse.cx or http://goatse.cx then have the lameness filter applied to it. It has no relevence to slashdot and is just troll material and so is hence lame.
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those tank photos look awfully damn suspect. the hair on all those women seems glued to their heads (at odd angles even)
maybe it was the flash, eh?
fisfhcuekr.
photoshop masters in switzerland?
I was looking at the "Illustrated Guide To Breaking Your Computer" page when I noticed a serious safety hazzard in the "Mano a Diskette" section.
Fearing I might sound like your mother I will say this - it happened to me:
I often broke floppies that contained viruses or that had lost data before throwing them away to prevent them from returning to circulation.
One time I did this I took a nasty cut to the hand from the metal shutter. Ouch.
So remember, listen to your mother when she gives you advice.
Joshua
Terradot
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!
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That vinylvideo thing.. I recall viewing it years and years ago. Nothign new, somewhat of a joke.
I'm am glad to hear that Mr. Bergeron's vagina did not become irritated.
Personally, I kinda like the Automated Windows Technical Support script from the maker of the 4D maze that can solve any problem with any version of windows! Try it, it's magical!
Where did you get the patent info? It definitely isn't in the article.
I think if it's patentable that person should do it otherwise some other sneaky bastard might do it and that bastard wouldn't play as nice.
I don't know how many third world countries have signed a patent treaty anyways.
I suspect it wouldn't fly in many areas as many fear the West's technology and cling to old wive's tales about sex diseases. Some in certain areas believe sex with a virgin brings a cure. So what that means is that female AIDS victins are younger and younger, and I doubt they'd want an invisible condom to get in the way of their cure.
Is there really any better use for an AOL CD?
What's up with all you people thinking time is the 4th dimension? Who said that? Time can be treated as a dimension mathematically, yes. Did anyone say anything in the article or the web page of that being the case here? No.
According to the VinylVideo website, VinylVideo made its public debut during April 1998 at the exhibition "Sub-techs: The New Post-Digital Sculpture" curated by Charles Gute at The Lab in San Francisco.
For those interested in seeing VinlyVideo in action, the VinylVideo website states:
Only Women Bleed (Sex, Sharia remix)
It's not even really a maze in the traditional sense - just a bunch of cubic spaces removed from a solid hypercube. Being randomly generated, and very small, makes it trivally easy. Make it a bit bigger and apply a "fog of war" effect and it would be a bit more challenging.
The Linux square is the standard Electric Company square, the Sun square is the Waterworks. I have no idea why I know that. They make sense as utilities, in a way, I guess...
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
So Linux represents power and Sun is all wet? :)
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Yeah. The 4th dimension is TIME.
...It's one of those new "invisible" condoms. Trust me. I put it on earlier today.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
They'll probably look something like this.
You see, my brain was filled with these products at an early age, like most of the other guys here. We learned a lot from those 30 second clips at the end of every G.I. Joe cartoon where they told us, "knowing is half the battle."
For many of us, Hasbro is the company that raised us as our parents were working/abandoning us/etc so we grew up with what we learned from TV, comic books, and our toys. Hasbro was a major company that helped me become the person I am today.
Mas vale cholo, que mal acompañado.
...is hosted on AOL.
Is anyone surprised?
It's snowing over Mt. Olympus! I'll be lucky if my flight gets there! We need to get going if we ever want the B2M (business to martian) contract going.
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Typically, yes. Luckily, my significant other is very understanding about this.
Greg
It could most likely end in failure. He would have a better chance of being say a computer programmer than a religious leader. It's the same things with people who think that even if anyone could clone Hitler that he would automatically just start where he left off with world conquest. All you get with cloning is just a physical replica and not an intellectual one.
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The bit that really cracked me up though was this:
Prostitutes whose clients refuse to wear condoms could find discreet protection, as could women at risk of catching sexually transmitted diseases from philandering partners .... "If we're successful in this, that would be for me the dream of my life."
Oh, yeah mate. We know what you're thinking.
its fun to watch the counter on the Illustrated guide to breaking your computer page go up and up by the second, at least his page is handling the /. effect pretty well.
I can assure you that everyone here lives on a landmass that features coasts.
for those who are wondering, the keychains are in the "Specials" section of the OCZ store. here's hoping that cuts down on the emails :)
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Much research has gone on to deal with these kinds of assertions that people have the ability to perceive new dimensions. All you are seeing is a simple application of the multiprocessing nature of the brain. Your brain and your logic centers were able to pick up on some clue that your were not conciouslly aware of and apply that to the situation. We cannot detect the 4th dimension with our senses because we are limited to what we have avaible in terms of our senses. Time is in motion and we cannot perceive it's movements because it appears to us that it is constant. The only way to measure changes in 4d space is to somehow remove ourselves from 4d motion and be in an inertial frame of reference or apply a Galliean(sp) Transformation to the condition. Now I am not an expert but that seems to be the only reasonable means of doing any real experimentation with 4d space.
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so, i put it up on my verio account. here's the new link (if there are any moderators, either please moderate this up or tell taco or whatever so the link will be right:
http://www.p3.net/~kritik/microsoft-ad/windows-fu
anyways... reading my web server logs should be interesting =)
-jjw
That was the most annoying web ad I've ever seen. Especially because it was so damn loud relative to everything else on my system.
here's the link that wasn't working earlier.
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Did anyone else notice in the FAQ they ask:
Please, Mr. Corporation, may I?
Sorry, u got it backwards. it's SCREW the chicks, to hell with the tank/harddrive. They (the chicks) were quite lovely weren't they?
--Clay
i've got it down to an average of about 5 seconds--and I don't feel like I am working at this--is it just me or is the maze algorithm a bit too simple(not that I could do better--but I am not publishing it)--all you have to do is aim for the biggest white spot, then towards the top corner from there
Slackware: old school feel, new school gear.
Michel Bergeron hopes to save lives with something that's barely there: a colorless, odorless, imperceptible gel that blocks the AIDS virus and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Ok, colorless, odorless, all these are great accomplishments. But for me(and admit it guys, a lot of you too) this thing needs to be tasteless as well.
Steven
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This message typed on one hardly used 1995 Model M (82G2383) rescued from the trash at a research center, but I could have used the 1984 model M (part 1391401) just as well. They really don't die.
Stupid kid must think it's obsolete because it's not USB. Anyone who has ever used one of these boards never wants to go back.
You know, the Microsoft future of computing that never comes.
Well...safe sex doesn't have to look that way...
(moderators: tired of election jokes? then moderate this down as flamebait!)
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And now you know why field artillery is called "The King Of Battle."
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BAH! Give my a (soon-to-be-)dead computer, and a high power rifle any day of the week! You should see what an Enfield .303, a .30-06, or better still a .458 Magnum does to a monitor. An AR-15 is fun too, but a little light for real satisfaction. Nothing like dumping 3500 foot-pounds of energy into something to take your frustrations out.
www.eFax.com are spammers
I've seen (and admittedly) participated in a couple threads here about pirating the Dune miniseries. I beg everyone NOT to do this.
:)
It's stated on Sci-Fi's website that if there's enough interest, we stand a chance of seeing books 2-6 come to the small screen. I would LOVE to see this happen, and don't want to see anything out there that might jeapordize the rest of the serieses (serii?).
I'm a big fan of Lynch's film, mostly because I'm a Lynch fan and partly because I can tell myself that it was just "inspired" by Herbert, and not an adaptation thereof. If the SciFi channel's miniseries is as good as it looks, many Herbert fans (myself included) will be VERY happy, and VERY hungry for more.
South Park made Comedy Central... It's hard to argue this. Once SP started, they received some pitiful number of nielsen points -- but it was a LOT for cable networks. It gave them the room to charge more for advertising and fund other creative ventures. That's what SciFi is gambling on with Dune, I'd imagine.
I don't have cable, and Sci Fi isn't in the basic lineup where I am. So I've called TCI this week to get it installed. If/when SciFi offers this on video/dvd, I'll purchase it. Things like this are what they need. It may cost a bit for the effort, but think if it as an investment in the future -- for all of us geeks.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
I remember back a while that someone developed a pair of boots that were based on magnetic repulsion that allowed the user to walk on water for various distances. However the problem was that if you ever capsized in the boots that you could sink to the bottom of the lake, ocean, pond and suffocate and the boots were too heavy to actually allow for a prompt escape.
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While it's amusing to read about the tank, considering I've seen real live people run over by tanks and APCs (score: tanks 5, humans 0.9 (one lived but badly injured)), another interesting field test of PCs (386 ones) was recently conducted in Seattle.
We took an old 386 PC, with keyboard and monitor and threw it from the top of the Fremont Troll during Trolloween. Result was:
case of monitor cracked slightly - tube still intact (landed face down due to weight);
case of PC broke loose from mounting, some boards chipped and some connectors split, but motherboard over 90 percent intact;
keyboard split in four parts, keys sprung, springs still connected - total writeoff.
So, a PC can survive a 30 foot drop onto hard packed dirt if tossed downwards at an 80 degree angle from vertical. Will reuse the PC for the next art event where we need non-working PCs, maybe lawn bowling (one of my faves, just love to hear the tinkle of monitor glass).
--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?
anyone know how they drill the holes in the athlons without cracking the ceramic?
"Ad Astra Per Aspera" means "To Stars, Aspiration" or, less literally (and more literately) "The Stars My Destination."
There's nothing about roads, rough or otherwise, in the latin.
...is that after a while the Energizer bunny rabbit goes accross it. I bet a lot of people don't think about the rabbit anymore. What I'm wondering, is if they made arrangements to have some bunny appearances 100 years into the future. The company might not even be around any more. That would be trippy.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Hovercraft are generally slow and cumbersome compared to their wheeled bretheren, but the main advantage is that they're amphibious an all terrain. Why would I want something that has the disadvantages of a hovercraft but not the advantages?
Yeah, ok. It's pretty cool anyway. But I wouldn't buy one.
To the best of my knowledge the only thing that LSD actually does it basically cross a lot of wires in the brain and then shows what you perceive to be reality through that mask. This explains why people think they can "hear" yellow and "taste" music. None of these are based on actually allowing you to see anything different just screwing up your perceptions. The same is true of time. The passage of time is based on our ability as a species to be sentient and self aware. As soon as you change those variables you get a different perception. The only possible test for someone on LSD to actually prove that they could perceive time is a formal laboratory experiment wherein the individual could perdict say a specific event in history and then measure that prediction in some manner.
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ABC News has an interesting article about Vinyl Video. Quoting the article: "Picture a TV sitting next to a turntable. Then imagine placing the needle on a record, but rather than just hearing sounds, you see an image on the screen. Lift the needle, and the monitor goes blank. Place the needle anywhere on the record, and it picks up the video at that point." Black and white, 8 fps, amplitude modulation. Each pixel is assigned a number from 0 to 256, which is assigned to a sound level. The sound is low for black, and high for white. The Home Kit for playing back picture disks is only $2,000. Each set is produced as a limited edition of 10 copies plus 2 Artist's copies. Prices range from $6,000 to $12,000 for each three record group. Titles include 'Guinea Pig Massacre.'
Only Women Bleed (Sex, Sharia remix)
It seems to me that the 4D maze is actually only 3D!
AF-Design, web development.
A discovery such as this sodium lauryl sulfate gel (an invisible HIV-fighting non-toxic topical gel) could rewrite the face of the current world-wide AIDS epidemic. But instead of sharing her finding with the world and saving millions of lives, Piret is choosing to patent her discovery and make a profit off the suffering of others.
I encourage all of you to write or call her at (418) 654-2705 and andre.desormeaux@crchul.ulaval.ca and tell her that there are more important things in this world than money. It's the moral thing to do.
-- Anne Marie
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Does anyone actually have a Java program designed to control air traffic, or for the operation of a nuclear facility?
Is that another one of those obscure japanese cartoons that .5% of people actually see in the states? Could someone explain to me what this is supposed to mean?
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I dunno... I can live without electricity (although it won't be easy) but should the waterworks stop working, I'll be up in arms - I like working toilets...
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
yep--that was about what I did--I think it is just too easy too be useful as a 4d maze
Slackware: old school feel, new school gear.
Another cool site I thought might make a good quickie: clonejesus.com describes bringing about the second coming of Christ through cloning.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Unless you have POWER! Don't you remember Back to the Future part 2?
-- Erich
Slashdot reader since 1997
It's hardly a hoverboard... it's a bit too big.
:-)
But it bears a striking resemblance to the Hawkman hovercycle thingy that Flash Gordon escaped from the palace on, after Ming the Merciless' forces blew it up.
Fantasically cheesy film
'Gordon's alive?'
Hrmmm..if the 4th dimension is time, then maybe the maze isn't written yet?
Or maybe I just have to wait for a better browser to be developed for my non-standard OS?
Every dollar given to Hasbro is a dollar that goes towards illegally taking away people's domains. They'll only stop their tactics if you let them know where it counts: in the pocketbook.
-- Anne Marie
It's a female condom. ahem. So are you still wearing one??
I am, and let me tell you -- I don't know how the hell I'm getting it out of there. But it's going to take some pliers and a little elbow grease, that much I'm certain of.
Bite me.
No, I didn't get the reference to Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
Yes, I automatically took it as a typical American World champions of the Iowa Pig Tossing Competion/no one else in the world exists view of the world (I wonder why?)
My apologies.
'sapientia potestas est'
It's good for a couple of minutes of entertainment, but I'm sure that most slashdotters can figure it out before five minutes. I was confused on how this was supposed to represent 4 dimensions until I saw that the up to down part of the grid represents the 3rd dimension and the left to right part of the grid represents the 4th dimension (time, or what have you) - or vice versa. So I guess it really IS a 4d maze in a very very very limited fashion of the phrase.
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That's the one thing I really wanted to check out, and I keep getting Site Not Found errors. Was is slashdotted to death, or just taken offline?
PS: I'm posting this from Mozilla Carbon for MacOS X! Lookin' good...
Pope
Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! Monopolies offer Choice!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Just go to Canada.
They used Linux as the icon for the luxury tax square? Isn't that more suited for VeriSign (wtf they charge so much for prime numbers anyway?)?
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Personally, I was expecting fetish films.
What I want to know is, why would anyone bother with a thing like this? It's closely akin to those plasma globes they sell at radio shack, in that you'll play with it for a while, put it on your coffee table, get high and fondle it, but after a while you'll get tired of tripping over the cord and the space it wastes that could be better used by issues of Trendy Crap and the Vicky's Secret catalog, and put it back in the box and on the shelf. Except that this thing is two grand without any media.
Folks, save yourself some cash, go buy a DVD player and about twenty movies. If you really want crappy ones to rival the unappealing titles that are produced for the vinyl video nonsense, you can always buy any movie adapted from a Steven King book.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I'm only anonymous cowarding because i'm at work
buy "Ant i-M onopoly"
(or at least read about another nasty lawsuit involving a billion dollar corp and anti-trust law)
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And who says you can't /. more than one site at a time!
Don't bother buying an AMD keychain from OCZ, I'll sell you the one they sold me!
I bought a Duron 600 pretested to do 950 from these guys. At first it seemed to work fine, but within a week it had developed serious stability problems, and eventually refused to boot at all (no POST, not even sync to the monitor). So I contacted customer service. They recommended e-mail, so I tried that first. After a week (I should have waited less time), I picked up the phone. Their only phone contact system is voice mail! You can't call up and talk to a real person, you MUST leave a message and wait to be called back. So it was 3 to 4 weeks after my initial purhcase that I was first meaningfully contacted and offered a small tech tidbit (that should have been on their site in the first place) that helped me out a bit, but in the end was a wash. Even after I had solved my first problem, tracked down another show-stopper and thought I had everything licked, my chip eventually did die.
The end result was a chip they promised to do 950 lasted less than 2 months, most of that time running at its stock 600. And unfortunately for me, as I was re-applying thermal compound and re-mounting the heatsink in a (vain) effort to revive my dead chip (I was grasping at straws at this point), I cracked a corner of the die, thus making the damned thing completely un-returnable.
So I have a $110 AMD-brand keychain-to-be of my own sitting right here on the desk.
Moral of the story? %$#@ those &*@#$es at OCZ! I bought a replacement Duron 600 for $50 and did the unlock job myself with a pencil and am running fine at 900 right now. You're better off doing it yourself than spending extra money and writing off any chance of getting service should they sell you crap akin to what I got.
MoNsTeR
http://www.accuweather.com/adcbin/alien_index
"Hot lesbian witches! It's fucking genius!"
I was surprised at how easy the 4d maze was. Johnathan needs to do some tweaking to make it harder! It was very interesting though...thanks Johnathan...
Independent study of calculus huh?......ahhh!
Alright, I'm putting the challenge out: who can be the first to get the hoverboard to run Linux or add some geek-centric feature? How about about a hoverboard-cam? You'd need a web cam, a system small enough to fit on that, and some method of transmitting. Bonus points if it can receive and display as well.
Kurdt
Kurdt
I'm not anti-social. Just pro-technology.
I've got a bunch of vintage computer ads on my website. These are much older, circa 1981
Steve Browning http://www.sbrowning.com
If you stack a bunch of two-dimensional squares, what do you get? A normal three-dimensional cube.
If you want a four-dimensional maze, you will need to have several three-dimensional mazes (like the one on the page) linked together.
"The unicode stuff in the latest version is working fabulously well. My russian mafia friends are ecstatic."
This has to be the silliest news I've seen at Slashdot!4 .htm) :^)
Even though a tank is obviously MUCH heavier than commercial vehicles, commercial vehicles typically have much higher ground pressure: a commercial vehicle's higher ground pressure will, therefore, cause much more damage to a hard drive than a tank. Tracked vehicles have a larger contact area with the ground and spread their ground pressure out, whereas wheeled vehicles have smaller contact areas and, therefore, higher ground pressure.
I'd be more impressed with a circa '72 Ford F250 Pickup (aka Highboy) with stock tires running over a hard drive than a WWII M4A3 (68,500 lbs, 14.1psi ground pressure) running over a hard drive! (check out this link: http://www.shadowsfolly.com/WWII/USA/MediumTanksM
This isn't news!
-SubRat
> In eighth grade, when I first wrote this, I was very interested in higher dimensions, and I tried to learn to visualize in four dimensions; I never really succeeded
Write your congressman about legalizing LSD, so the next generation of eighth graders won't suffer the disadvantages your generation did.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade