I hope this is not too OT, but here is the sound of a pulsar
Actually, according to the link xi Hydrae is not a pulsar. It is a large star (about 10 times that of the Sun) that is getting ready to start expanding into a red giant. They are converting the changing radial velocity of the solar upper atmospheric layers into sound. Not a pulsar at all, but it does have a good dance beat...
For example, look at ecstasy. There's countless tales of someone trying it once and then dying from it.
And there are countless tales of people tripping on LSD staring at the sun and burning their corneas out... Well I'll call bullshit here. Show me a documented fatality from a resonable dose of MDMA. Bueller. Bueller.. Bueller...
Now since ecstacy is an illegal, uncontrolled drug I'm sure many people have been fucked over by what they thought was ecstacy, but if you want to back up that statement give me 1 (one) legitimate reference to an MDMA toxicity related death.
Get some facts and get back to me when you have a clue.
For instance, thanks to the innumerable advances in creating genetically-engineered plants, we will soon see the day where the characteristics of interest in plants such as cannabis, coca, psilocybin, and opium are capable of being integrated within such ordinary plants as grass, seaweed, ferns, etc.
That's already been done with THC Oranges. Nice try, but it never worked out. Now if all the pro-marijuana activists would stop wasting their time and money lobbying for changes in drug laws and hire a few Mad Scientist...
The orange thing was cute, but imagine THC producing kudzu. Have you ever tried killing kudzu? You can't, short of a Napalm strike. Hell that won't even faze the roots, and they'll just keep growing.
The easiest way to delete New.Net is to do the following: 1. remove it using "Add/remove" programs 2. if still not working, remove the WinSock and WinSock2 registry keys from CurrentControlSet
This is the "easiest" way? Slow down there Turbo... Now, over the phone, YOU try to talk my mother through this "easy" way. Believe me, I'll Make Money Fast selling you a couple of Valium when (and if) you ever get the job done;)
Have you checked out the rotors on that weldbot in section 17? The way she beads that 6-4 titanium alloy is just hot. __ "We can bring up three flavors of Lisp if we want, and we can make those brain-damaged chewers of punched card chaff support them, too. Dave Touretzky at CMU-10A, October 20th, 1982
I've been playing recently with a nifty Dell PowerEdge NT server I managed to acquire. It seems the GF's place of employment was convinced to "upgrade" their server by some outsourced IT company. So they traded in their old server (a measly P3 with 13gig of drive space) for a nify P4 with a 30gig harddrive. They got a "great deal" and were very happy...
...until a week later their 30gig IDE drive bit the dust. After a lot of hair pulling, gnashing of teeth, and an expensive service call all was well. Minus a day's productivity and a hefty bill from the outsourced IT company.
So I've got the old, obsolete server sitting right here. It's "just" a P3 (yeah, both CPUs;) with a tiny 13gig SCSI RAID array.
Hold on a second... Okay, I just pulled one of the SCSI drives out of the "obsolete" server. It's still grinding away with SETI@Home.
Cheap IDE for a desktop, SCSI for a server. Apples and oranges.
There's another good reason to trick a product into not requiring a CD: Security.
Once you put a CD drive on a Windows computer, it no longer is red book class C2 certified. The obvious reason is that you can boot from a CD.
If you can trick a High Security Server into doing this, then it's not exactly a High Security Server, is it? __ Holly: I've got to admit it I've flamingoed up. Rimmer: You what? Holly: It's like a cock-up, only much, much bigger.
The Right Juice Holes would be a good name for a Rock band. I just hope Dave Barry has electricity so he can read this...
-- "Anyone who would carpet a garage would also attempt to hydraulicize a cat, would dress up as the word "Umlaut," and would watch and enjoy the hit series "The Bachelor." Clearly, therefore, he is not well." The Internet Oracle
Think of all the species that could be saved if there was a GM cat that ate vegetarian food pellets and didn't hunt. Cats wipe out many native species
Uhm, can you cite any real world examples of this? I know there are countless cases of non-indigenous species being introduced to an environment and wreaking havok, but (indigenous or otherwise) cats?.?..?...
In the area of the US I live in, "867" is a valid phone prefix. Who knows how many contless drunk/stoned locals have tried calling that number over the years. Nobody ever answers - I just tried;)
__ "That'd be the Necrotelecomnicom - the Tibetan phone book of the dead." odaiwai
The Space Shuttle is perfect for what we're doing now, which is establishing a reasonable presence in orbit via satellites and space stations.
The shuttle is a very pretty, high tech solution, but "old school" rockets (arianne, energia, etc) have a dramatically lower cost/weight ratio. Couple that with the fact that the shuttle is not so much "re-used" as it is "re-built" every time and watch the costs skyrocket (pun intended).
We just strapped people to a giant bomb and sent them off,
Which is different from the shuttle how? It's just a damned expensive giant bomb. Until we have antigravity that's pretty much how it's going to be.
__
"I'd like to visit the age of space exploration when people thought astronauts were cool not because they grew earthworms in zero-gravity, but because they had the balls to climb up on top of a fucking rocket and light it."
Company A: Goes open source, puts their mission critical DB on a nifty cluster of RedHat boxes run by a linux guru...
Company B: Pays IBM for the big iron and the support contract.
Friday afternoon @ about 4:30 local time there's a nasty hardware failure. Which company is back up and running first? My guess is B. __ "The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second." Douglas Adams
"University of One to Three were destroyed. University of Four disappeared shortly after it was constructed. Then, we built University of Five...
It sank into the swamp. So, I built a sixth one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a seventh one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the eighth one... stayed up! __ "He was summarily keel-hauled, demoted to Bilge Hand - Fourth Class, and assigned to Pointless Lubrication Duty." Unknown
I am helpless against your volley of acronyms. ___ "So this summer will be pretty much taken up by screaming and wishing for death. Isn't that lovely?" Tsuran
HOWEVER, I have seen the evidence that the moon landing skeptics have provided and some of it is damn compelling and yet to be answered by NASA.
Compelling only if you have your head so far up your ass you've lost contact with the real world. The evidence is total crap. If I felt like blowing a chunk of my own personal budget I could bounce a laser off of one of the mirrors they put there. Where is your "damn compelling" evidence monkey boy? $15,000 is a small price to pay if thet actually answer convincingly the questions and compelling "wholes" presented by the moon hoax crowd.
That's $15,000 that I paid a percentage of to try to convince brain damaged twits that we really did land on the moon. That's $15,000 more that could be spent getting data off of Galileo's flyby of Amalthea
Nope, urban myth. The "Space Pen" was developed by Paul Fisher (the founder of the Fisher pen company). NASA didn't spend a dime on it. Thank you for playing, please try again when you have a clue what you're talking about. __
Smile, it's National Random Knife Attack Day! Unknown
Gumber wrote: > Given that the record industry is facing decling > sales, I am not convinced that they do have a > handle on what "most people" want, at least not > right now.
A few percentage points off last year's sales and they (the RIAA, MPAA, etc) start bitching and moaning. The fact that the whole US economy is in a slump is somehow irrelevant - just blame Napster... > The dirty secret about the record industry, > indeed, the whole damn entertainment industry, > is that their ability to give the people what > they want is really pretty weak.
Excuse me? They don't give a rats ass about "giving the people what they want". Between the major record labels and their ties with folks like ClearChannel they pretty much tell the people what they want.
The media companies want the masses to remain mindless - it's easier crank out the mindless pap that keeps the "target market" happy than it is to actually worry about making good music.
__
He was summarily keel-hauled, demoted to Bilge Hand - Fourth Class, and assigned to Pointless Lubrication Duty. Unknown
The thing here is that there are federal regulations
(written or not) that require you to prove who you are in order to be a passenger on a scheduled commercial airliner.
So now we have to worry about being in compliance with laws that (for security reasons) we can't even read? So without being able to know exactly what the laws actually are, how can we be sure (as law abiding citizens) that we don't break them?
So if ya piss off the Speaker for the Fed you get put on Double Secret Probation?
"Once upon a time, the Constitution was worth a whole lot more than just 6000 lives."
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I hope this is not too OT, but here is the sound of a pulsar
Actually, according to the link xi Hydrae is not a pulsar. It is a large star (about 10 times that of the Sun) that is getting ready to start expanding into a red giant. They are converting the changing radial velocity of the solar upper atmospheric layers into sound. Not a pulsar at all, but it does have a good dance beat...
MP3 version.
And there are countless tales of people tripping on LSD staring at the sun and burning their corneas out... Well I'll call bullshit here. Show me a documented fatality from a resonable dose of MDMA. Bueller. Bueller.. Bueller...
Now since ecstacy is an illegal, uncontrolled drug I'm sure many people have been fucked over by what they thought was ecstacy, but if you want to back up that statement give me 1 (one) legitimate reference to an MDMA toxicity related death.
Get some facts and get back to me when you have a clue.
That's already been done with THC Oranges. Nice try, but it never worked out. Now if all the pro-marijuana activists would stop wasting their time and money lobbying for changes in drug laws and hire a few Mad Scientist...
The orange thing was cute, but imagine THC producing kudzu. Have you ever tried killing kudzu? You can't, short of a Napalm strike. Hell that won't even faze the roots, and they'll just keep growing.
1. remove it using "Add/remove" programs
2. if still not working, remove the WinSock and WinSock2 registry keys from CurrentControlSet
This is the "easiest" way? Slow down there Turbo... Now, over the phone, YOU try to talk my mother through this "easy" way. Believe me, I'll Make Money Fast selling you a couple of Valium when (and if) you ever get the job done
Yes, imagine the vast potential for undersea porn! I can't wait until I can download "Chicks Who Dig Blowfish" from some Japanese icthoporn site...
Have you checked out the rotors on that weldbot in section 17? The way she beads that 6-4 titanium alloy is just hot.
__
"We can bring up three flavors of Lisp if we want, and we can make those brain-damaged chewers of punched card chaff support them, too.
Dave Touretzky at CMU-10A, October 20th, 1982
with a 30gig harddrive. They got a "great deal" and were very happy...
So I've got the old, obsolete server sitting right here. It's "just" a P3 (yeah, both CPUs
Hold on a second... Okay, I just pulled one of the SCSI drives out of the "obsolete" server. It's still grinding away with SETI@Home.
Cheap IDE for a desktop, SCSI for a server. Apples and oranges.
The harder you try to know "God", the less you know about "man"... and vicea versa.
__
David Barry reference:
"Schrodinger's Soul" would be a great name for a band...
There's another good reason to trick a product into not requiring a CD: Security.
Once you put a CD drive on a Windows computer, it no longer is red book class C2 certified. The obvious reason is that you can boot from a CD.
If you can trick a High Security Server into doing this, then it's not exactly a High Security Server, is it?
__
Holly: I've got to admit it I've flamingoed up.
Rimmer: You what?
Holly: It's like a cock-up, only much, much bigger.
probably enough to fill at least 57,000 Pentium 4's
So how many VW Bugs worth of magic smoke are we talking about? I was never any good at those conversion tables...
__
"There are no problems that can't be solved
with a liberal application of blimps."
NKcell
The Right Juice Holes would be a good name for a Rock band. I just hope Dave Barry has electricity so he can read this...
--
"Anyone who would carpet a garage would also attempt to hydraulicize a
cat, would dress up as the word "Umlaut," and would watch and enjoy the
hit series "The Bachelor." Clearly, therefore, he is not well."
The Internet Oracle
Uhm, can you cite any real world examples of this? I know there are countless cases of non-indigenous species being introduced to an environment and wreaking havok, but (indigenous or otherwise) cats?.?..?...
Actually, call Jenny, 867-5309
;)
In the area of the US I live in, "867" is a valid phone prefix. Who knows how many contless drunk/stoned locals have tried calling that number over the years. Nobody ever answers - I just tried
__
"That'd be the Necrotelecomnicom - the Tibetan phone book of the dead."
odaiwai
The shuttle is a very pretty, high tech solution, but "old school" rockets (arianne, energia, etc) have a dramatically lower cost/weight ratio. Couple that with the fact that the shuttle is not so much "re-used" as it is "re-built" every time and watch the costs skyrocket (pun intended).
Which is different from the shuttle how? It's just a damned expensive giant bomb. Until we have antigravity that's pretty much how it's going to be.
__
"I'd like to visit the age of space exploration when people thought astronauts were cool not because they grew earthworms in zero-gravity, but because they had the balls to climb up on top of a fucking rocket and light it."
Jeffrey Baker
Any research to back this up? I don't doubt your claim as as such, I'd just like to read more on this.
__
I am old; I shall refrain from always saying no
Stanislaw Lem
Company A: Goes open source, puts their mission critical DB on a nifty cluster of RedHat boxes run by a linux guru...
Company B: Pays IBM for the big iron and the support contract.
Friday afternoon @ about 4:30 local time there's a nasty hardware failure. Which company is back up and running first? My guess is B.
__
"The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second."
Douglas Adams
It sank into the swamp. So, I built a sixth one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a seventh one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the eighth one... stayed up!
__
"He was summarily keel-hauled, demoted to Bilge Hand - Fourth Class, and
assigned to Pointless Lubrication Duty."
Unknown
I'd love to say I'm number 2 or 3, but if you've actually read the posts on this topic you'd know it's a hell of a lot more than 3.
__
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're
pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings."
Philip Marlow
I am helpless against your volley of acronyms.
___
"So this summer will be pretty much taken up by screaming and wishing for
death. Isn't that lovely?" Tsuran
Compelling only if you have your head so far up your ass you've lost contact with the real world. The evidence is total crap. If I felt like blowing a chunk of my own personal budget I could bounce a laser off of one of the mirrors they put there. Where is your "damn compelling" evidence monkey boy?
$15,000 is a small price to pay if thet actually answer convincingly the questions and compelling "wholes" presented by the moon hoax crowd.
That's $15,000 that I paid a percentage of to try to convince brain damaged twits that we really did land on the moon. That's $15,000 more that could be spent getting data off of Galileo's flyby of Amalthea
I'm not really sure you've ever read anything by Kevin J. Anderson.
I know I haven't - too many friends whose literary opinions I trust warned me that he wasn't worth reading.
He's one of the best science fiction authors out there today
So where's his Hugo, Nebula, or John W. Campbell award?.?..?... Yes, he's had a few other "awards" and kudos, but they're all mostly fluff
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Holly: I've got to admit it I've flamingoed up.
Rimmer: You what?
Holly: It's like a cock-up, only much, much bigger.
Nope, urban myth. The "Space Pen" was developed by Paul Fisher (the founder of the Fisher pen company).
NASA didn't spend a dime on it. Thank you for playing, please try again when you have a clue what you're talking about.
__
Smile, it's National Random Knife Attack Day!
Unknown
> Given that the record industry is facing decling
> sales, I am not convinced that they do have a
> handle on what "most people" want, at least not
> right now.
A few percentage points off last year's sales and they (the RIAA, MPAA, etc) start bitching and moaning. The fact that the whole US economy is in a slump is somehow irrelevant - just blame Napster...
> The dirty secret about the record industry,
> indeed, the whole damn entertainment industry,
> is that their ability to give the people what
> they want is really pretty weak.
Excuse me? They don't give a rats ass about "giving the people what they want". Between the major record labels and their ties with folks like ClearChannel they pretty much tell the people what they want.
The media companies want the masses to remain mindless - it's easier crank out the mindless pap that keeps the "target market" happy than it is to actually worry about making good music.
__
He was summarily keel-hauled, demoted to Bilge Hand - Fourth Class, and
assigned to Pointless Lubrication Duty.
Unknown
"150-tonnes of brute force" never seemed safer...
So if ya piss off the Speaker for the Fed you get put on Double Secret Probation?
"Once upon a time, the Constitution was worth a whole lot more than just 6000 lives."
Erasmus Darwin