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Small Change, and Other Physics Fun
fishy jew writes "Ever want an easy way to make your 'small change' even smaller? Well, Bert Hickman has it - mix a home-brewed machine, 6.5 kiloJoules, and 100,000 Amps of current! On his website, he has descriptions and pictures of his many exploits with large quantities of electricity, notably including shrinking coins, building a Tesla coil, creating Lichtenberg figures (chaotic sculpture), and more! He has extensively outlined the equipment, procedure, and results for each of his experiments, and included many pretty pictures, too. Here are Google caches for when the site gets /.'ed: Main Page, Shrinking Coins, Tesla Coil, and Lichtenberg Figures."
TACO, IS HE GAY? OR IS HE JUST A MISUNDERSTOOD GENIUS?
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Wonder if he can do the opposite with my...uhum...private parts?
I can liquify deoderant with a 59 cent lighter. Good work.
-B
PC Magazine confirms it - Linux is dying!!!
Linux Will Die
It's always hard to write an obituary, especially when the subject is still alive. It's especially hard for me, because I love the little guy like a brother. But, alas, Linux will die. I was one of the first reviewers to get my hands on an early Linux distro. I compared Linux with Windows, and although I really wanted to like Windows, Linux won my heart over.
It wasn't the cutesy mascot, although that helped. Rather, it was the over complexity and difficulty of use that even the first version evinced. And to top everything off, Linux came with the world's most rabid zealot following ever, even more astounding for such a fiendishly complex OS. Looking at the terminal, it was difficult to use, harder to understand, and a impossible to get installed.
The Wall Street Journal's arbiter of tech--Walt Mossberg--still thinks Windows was better, and we've argued over the brilliance of the desktop. But the acid test, for me, was when I plopped Linux down in front of my computer-averse wife. She spat at me. So much, in fact, that I soon started choking.
But Linux today has a problem--and it's not what you think. Most folks point to Linux's inability to convince consumers just how cool the product is and why they need one. Yes, it's hard to describe why a terminal is better than a GUI--until you use one. Give Linux to your friends for a month and they will hate you. Windows faces the same challenge, but that's not where the real threat lies.
Instead, a convergence of three separate trends is conspiring to kill off Linux.
So there it is
PC Magazine confirms it - LINUX IS DEAD!
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by Mark J Tilford (186) on 09:46 PM March 19th, 2004 (#8617899)
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Outlook is like what you fear; Microsoft decides what you will and won't see. I can add specific senders to the black and white lists (you click to add to the blacklist, but you have to type in an address to add it to the whitelist -- stupid MS shits), but Microsoft decides if I can see that attachment (if they think it's bad, it's gone and I can't recover it) or if this email's spam (it regularly discarded stuff from IBM Developer Works until I added them to my whitelist). With a tool like dspam I can regain control over what gets filtered (although I've found no way to turn off Outlook's attachment blocking).
On the contary, if a site passes itself as an "eNewspaper" site, an eMag or whatever, and it publishes mistruths, then I would expect it to be sued as any pulp publication would be.
Are there any legal precedents or specific laws on this?
I know it's bad practice to reply to a sig, but:
All I know about Bush is I had a job when Clinton was president.
This attitude always pisses me off. People don't seem to realize that there is a substantial delay between when a political figure comes into office and when the economy responds to his actions & policies. It's not like on Jan 27 (random date) a law was passed and you were fired and all your stocks went down 50% because of it.
Chances are, Clinton did things in his years that ahd longterm negative effects, and now you're blaming Bush for it.
I'm not defending Bush, and quite frankly I hate the both of them. This is a general pattern where Guy A fucks it up, but things don't become noticable until Guy B is in office, and gets blamed, so people vote someone similar to guy A back into office.
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