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Build Your Own Boeing 737 Simulator
crux6rind writes "This guy built his own Boeing 737-700 simulator in his garage. The simulator uses elements of a retired Continental B-737-100 along with other genuine Boeing 737 avionics and system components. The simulator will be of the fixed-base variety (no motion, just outside visuals), using Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000, interfaced with R&R Electronics' EPIC system. This system allows you to interface switches, lights, buzzers, gauges, digital readouts with virtually any PC flight simulator out there."
Heh!
Yeah, I remember my first beer.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
when i read your post, i felt the neck of my scrotum tighten as blood rushed to my sac heralding a handsome hard-on pending.
ALLAHU AKBAR! ALLAHU AKBAR!
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
About 10 posts, and it's already slashdotted...
Anyway, I guess here would be a good place to post my Build Your Own Sex Simulator article...
Hardware Required and Cost
Your Hand (Free!)
Lubricant (Less than 5 bucks, or if you're a really cheap bastard, use the handwash liquid in a public toilet).
HOW-TO
1) Put lubricant on your hand
2) Work it all over your shaft
3) Spank the monkey till it pukes
Welley Corporation - SLM Scammers
Speaking of "attending to school," you might consider my forthcoming class, "English as an n-th language, for n > 1"
Do you remember sucking on your first cock-n-balls, you fucking faggot, homo, dick lickig, ass munching, rim job giving, queer bait, dingleberry munching, pube flossong, hershey highway riding, ass pirate?
God 4 comments and it's slashdotted already!
Don't you guys ever go out? I know we're geeks and all but you could leave the house once in a while and do something on a FRIDAY NIGHT!?!??!
Isn't there a lanparty you should be at.
Damn it you are screwing the guys who have to work the graveyard shift!
What am I supposed to do now? Work...?
Cock-n-balls are pretty popular in the Solomon Islands.
Do you remember sucking on your first cock-n-balls, you fucking faggot, homo, dick lickig, ass munching, rim job giving, queer bait, dingleberry munching, pube flossong, hershey highway riding, ass pirate?
Yes, honeybuns, you were great....but I prefer adults now.
What's it like being perfect and never making a typo? I'm writing an essay about it, and would to have an interview.
The letter n is not a vowel dipshit, so you should say:
"English as a n-th language, for n > 1"
Actually, dipshit, when speaking a letter that has a sound that begins with a vowel (as in "en" for the letter n), the article "an" is appropriate.
No, you are wrong. Remove your pseudo grammar-Nazi intellect from my Internet.
an -
The form of a used before words beginning with a vowel or with an unpronounced h: an elephant; an hour.
He wouldn't know ;)
But "n" is not a word.
HOW FUCKING STUPID ARE YOU?
Why are you yelling? "n" is not a word, neither is "l", which is why you can say "an l" or "an an." Does "a l" sound correct to you?
Does "a l" sound correct to you?
Just kill yourself and get it over with. The world will be a better place without self-righteous morosophs such as yourself murdering the continuity and definition of language.
It is pointless to argue the semantics of whether something can "sound" right (e.g. - if I say 1+1=3 "sounds" right, it does not make it right). The reason languages have definitions and rules is to enable us to communicate. If I should decide transpose the definition of two words or change a definition entirely, it would be silly and incorrect if I did not inform the reader of the definition change.
Changing a definition retroactively, as in your case, is simply stupid and ignorant.
Go read some Lewis Carroll if you want to survive "Semantics 101".
You've still not addressed the fact that "n" and "l" are not words, and thus do not meet the terms of your earlier rule. In fact, I just looked up "n" on m-w.com (Merriam Webster), and they directed me to... "en." So, when speaking, you would say "an en" since that's how the word that represents that letter is spelled.
A vowel is a vowel, a consonant is a consonant.
You really don't get it do you?
It only applies to WORDS. It was your definition. Accept it all, or accept none of it. "n" is a letter, not a word. The word "en" means the letter n, and starts with a vowel, meaning you say "an n."
YOU ARE AN POOP, I WIN!!!
Poop is a word that starts with a consonant, you'll want to use "a."
Have you ever seen an grown man naked?
Just your dad on COPS after he beat your mom.
whoring the karma ;]
YOU SUCK BALLS!
Does he wear an "Worlds Greatest Dad" shirt that I make for him?
No, he was naked, remember?
A little bit of linguistic knowledge will solve this:
Actually, the form of the morpheme "a" is not dependent on the word following it, it is dependent on the phoneme following it. When "a" is followed by a vowel, it becomes 'an'; when it is followed by a consonant, it becomes 'a'. Since the letter "n" is pronounced as [En]*, it is proceeded by 'an'. If the variable the original posted used was "k", pronounced as [ke]*, it would be preceded by 'a'.
Long story short, the poster was right.
*: E is pronoucned like eh, e is pronounced like the letter a
Did you mean you would like to give me an interview?
Yes he wears shirt when naked too and plays with me and sing Jesus song.
Which poster is right?
No, I meant love, actually. I suppose this means you're not perfect, so nevermind.
The Anonymous Coward, durr.
The "English as an n-th language" guy.
Oh, duh!
they are both trolls :\
i don't intend to flame, but why do you criticize the discussion of language so vehemently? all he was doing was correcting a criticization someone made about using "a" over "an". it seems as if you thought he had been screaming "I INVENTED ENGLISH, WORSHIP ME". if anyone is the grammar nazi, it's you, buddy. and yes, i know you shouldn't go by how something sounds when dealing with grammar, but this isn't exactly grammar. it's the ease of pronunciation. for example,spanish shortens "a el" to "al", "de el" to "del". the same applies when saying either "a" or "an", and although it is a rule in grammar, the purpose is not a grammatical one like in spanish because "a" and "an" essentially have the same meaning, and are not attached to a certain gender as would be un/una.. de la/de el (del). ok?
Dear rotten.com,
I am unsure if you are aware of the problems that your "Incident with the bird" picture has caused on the popular technology website slashdot (http://slashdot.org).
Many users of this site's messageboards are posting links to http://smoke.rotten.com/bird/ and making text based representations of a bird on a man's penis. Frankly, while I am pro-freedom, this type of photo sickens me. Could you please move the location of the bird page on your site to keep slashdot readers from seeing things that are completeley unrelated to computers and technology? I'm not asking you to remove the content, just to relocate it.
FYI the text representation of the bird is:
*p_e_n_i_s_b_i_r_d_p_e_n_i_s_b_i_r_d_*
p______...___________________________p
e____(_..__`'-.,--,__________________e
n_____'-._'-.__`\a\\_________________n
i_________'.___.'_(|_________________i
s____________7____||_________________s
b___________/___.'_|_________________b
i__________/_.-'__,J_________________i
r_________/_________\________________r
d________||___/______;_______________d
*________||__|_______|_______________*
p________`\__\_______|__/__''\_______p
e__________'._\______/.-`____{}|_____e
n___________/\_`;_.-'_________/______n
i___________\_;(((____.--'\_/________i
s_________.(((_____.-;\______________s
b____.--'`_____,;`'.'-;\_____________b
i_taco's____.'____'._.'\\____________i
r_dick_--'_________|__\_|____________r
d__________________\_\,_/____________d
*p_e_n_i_s_b_i_r_d_p_e_n_i_s_b_i_r_d_*
with a link to the offensive site (http://smoke.rotten.com/bird/) underneath, these "Penis Birds" are posted by Penis Bird Guy, Penis Bird MAN and several other users.
Regards, Andrew J. Tosh
"I INVENTED BLOWJOBS, SUCK ME OFF"
ksaj djfh dfjkh xfdfdsrf dor;kjdkjd
It's just as well. I assume you'd have butchered the transcript anyway.
Wouldn't n-th become a word? You don't say EN [pause] THHHH. You say ENTHHH. A dash would make it a legal word right?
Dear rotten.com,
I am unsure if you are aware of the problems that your "Incident with the bird" picture has caused on the popular technology website slashdot (http://slashdot.org).
Many users of this site's messageboards are posting links to http://smoke.rotten.com/bird/ and making text based representations of a bird on a man's penis. Frankly, while I am pro-freedom, this type of photo sickens me. Could you please move the location of the bird page on your site to keep slashdot readers from seeing things that are completeley unrelated to computers and technology? I'm not asking you to remove the content, just to relocate it.
FYI the text representation of the bird is:
*p_e_n_i_s_b_i_r_d_p_e_n_i_s_b_i_r_d_*
p______...___________________________p
e____(_..__`'-.,--,__________________e
n_____'-._'-.__`\a\\_________________n
i_________'.___.'_(|_________________i
s____________7____||_________________s
b___________/___.'_|_________________b
i__________/_.-'__,J_________________i
r_________/_________\________________r
d________||___/______;_______________d
*________||__|_______|_______________*
p________`\__\_______|__/__''\_______p
e__________'._\______/.-`____{}|_____e
n___________/\_`;_.-'_________/______n
i___________\_;(((____.--'\_/________i
s_________.(((_____.-;\______________s
b____.--'`_____,;`'.'-;\_____________b
i_taco's____.'____'._.'\\____________i
r_dick_--'_________|__\_|____________r
d__________________\_\,_/____________d
*p_e_n_i_s_b_i_r_d_p_e_n_i_s_b_i_r_d_*
with a link to the offensive site (http://smoke.rotten.com/bird/) underneath, these "Penis Birds" are posted by Penis Bird Guy, Penis Bird MAN and several other users.
Regards, Andrew J. Tosh
This is the greatest troll on Slashdot I have ever seen.
Enrollment is still open.. is that you, parent author? Enrollment is still open for you, at ANGER MAANAGEMNTE CRITIZICER. L000K I C4N SPEL GOOD. I AM KEWL. CUZ SPELING MOST BEE PERFECT
Good point, I'll be sure to ask your mom the next time I'm fucking her up the ass.
It's irrelevant. It's not about words, it's about phonemes. Both begin with a vowel phoneme and therefore have "an" as their indefinite article.
Are you an idiot? I am full of faults and self doubt. I pick the battles I can win, fuckwit, and as far as this one's concerned, game over -- you're out 30 minutes and some dignity.
You should post under your account so I know who not to fuck with. And maybe post a picture of yourself so I can have something to jerk off to.
YOU ARE MY GRAMMER/SPELLING GOD!
will you scratch my butt for me? i have a itchy spot. everyone has doubt, do not worry. i am on YOUR side.
I am full of faults and self doubt.
I'm sure the ladies look at you and go "OMG HE KAN SPEEL" and then get naked and have lesbian sex and ask you to join.
and then you wake up
already you stupid shitbag, try watching wheel of fortune any day. do they say:
GIVE ME A EN!!!
or do they say:
GIVE ME AN EN!!
YOU GOD DAMN BALL LICKER
Sincerely,
Josh Crawley
- avert their eyes uncomfortably or
- give me too much change for my Big Mac value meal purchase because they neglected to ring it up as "large size".
Haha, you mean "wipe off."H is an consonant, you FUCKING SHIT licking DICK SHIT BITCH FUCK!!!!!!!
Sincerely,
Josh Crawley
now that is just an brilliant post
Damn dude, I may have fucking lost the a/an flamware we had going on here, and I am kinda geeky... but at least I get laid on a fairly consistent basis. It's all about self-esteem really, and shape up, nobody wants to look at a fat-ass or have sex with them.
"I INVENTED SHIT EATING, EAT MY SHIT."
grabualsa grabualsa grabualsa grabualsa
semantics.
good point. it's all in the your attitude. even simply the way you stand. you see a lot of geeks that are scared to socialize. they just sorta hide when a group is chatting (IRL NOW!!). you need to have presence and charisma. any self-confidence you lack is society's pressure on you to be this or that. it's all bullshit and even the guys getting laid knows that. of course, their are many types of lay. so... well GET FREAKIN'
but girls are icky! THEY L000K AT M3 AND 1 GET SCAR3D VERY VERY SCARED. OH GOD I 4M N0T PERF3CT WHAT D0 1 D0? I N33D T0 BE PERFECT!! RELAX AND WHIP OUT YOUR COCK AND FUCK SOME WARM WET PUSSY
You = future serial rapist.
I'm going to bust more than your transcript tonight, buster.
copacetic
HTH, HAND.