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Quickies, Coast to Coast
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).
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
After posting this, I found a working link.
"How perfectly Goddamn delightful it all is, to be sure" Charles Crumb
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.
...was also interviewed by the corner monkey at waferbaby.
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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
F0 07 C7 C8
Same here! I can't find them!
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
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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Actually, you can find them for less than that. PCKeyboard.com (actually a yahoo store) has 'em for $50.
Not that you would ever need to buy one if you already have one. Mine has been through more trauma than I care to recall. I got pissed once and threw it through a plate glass window into a lake, and it was working fine half an hour later.
this is a sig.
Looks more like an M-109 155mm Howitzer.
Less of a tank and more of a SP howitzer.
Copperhead shells require a Ground/Vehicular Laser Locator/Designator (G/VLLD) for final approach. The shell is programmed with the laser code for that particular G/VLLD before firing, and locks onto that pattern on final approach. Generally, the party calling for fire paints for the final 10 seconds of the shell trajectory.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Here's the official link on the Monopoly website. Also here is a big picture of the game board.
It's good to see that Tux has made it on to one of the squares!
Is that really in 4 dimensions? Or just one way to make a 3d maze on a flat screen? I don't see where the 4th dim comes in. You can move L and R, and back and forth to adjacent squares. It just seems like a 3d maze and you view slices of it that you can move between.
But then again I could be missing something here. Wouldn't be the first time, I was wrong once before but it turned out I was mistaken.
:)
Jason
Try to get to Big Ben in London on Dec 4th, 1932.
Someone you trust is one of us.
The SWISS have tanks?? Run for your lives - the Swiss are not longer nuetral!!!
There is no problem so great that Armegeddon wouldn't solve it.
Condoms are always breaking news for those who depend on them.
Don't want AIDS? Sit down and keep your mouth shut.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
And I, also being male, also having experienced with and without condoms, can honestly say that there is enough of a sensation difference to matter. Sure, if it's a condom or nothing, I choose the condom, but anything that makes the condom unnecessary is great in my book. I won't even use latex condoms, I buy the polyurethane (if that's how you spell it) ones, because they're thinner. People have different tastes, just because you don't feel a difference doesn't mean others won't.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD
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!
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.
For more information, click here.
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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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
Bill - aka taniwha
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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.
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
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.
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.
That vinylvideo thing.. I recall viewing it years and years ago. Nothign new, somewhat of a joke.
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?
if you could HIT a modern tank... you need something along the lines of a laser guided copperhead (howitzer based anti-tank munition) to accomplish this.
mov ax, 13h
int 10h
mov ax, 13h
int 10h
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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Fuck the system? Nah, you might catch something.
I found them, buried near the bottom of the specials page:
http://ocz.safeshopper.com/29/5934.htm?562
It may be cheaper than blowing up your own chip, but it's less fun.
in the specials section.
i ordered one a couple days ago
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
here's the link that wasn't working earlier.
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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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The shareholder is always right.
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...
"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"?
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
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?'
It's not Japanese. It's a talk show (with skits) that shows on Cartoon Network, using clips from a cheesy old Hanna-Barbera (Scooby Doo, The Flintstones) adventure cartoon from the 60s (IIRC) with new voices dubbed over. "Coast to Coast" was developed by Joel Hodgson, the genius who also created Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Space Ghost is the superhero who hosts the show, and Zorak is the evil alien bug who acts as the show's band leader.
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Zardoz has spoken!
Oper on the Nightstar
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 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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I'm just an ordinary man with nothing to lose.
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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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
Hell, I *remember* analog video disks! RCA had a system in the late '70s early '80s that was actually fairly popular until the VCR killed it.
It played video disks with a needle, not too different from that of a turntable.
Actually, it's because we had dozens of them, and they weigh more than my monitor.