Jesus I'd never seen those. Just for those of you at home, I'm a professional sound designer for films, and I use ethernet cables that I bought at Fry's for a couple bucks a piece.
The film was really only documentary style for the first 30 minutes or so. When the shit hits the fan the documentary is clearly over (in the context of the story the documentary camera man is no longer following the main character around), but yet they still continued with the shaky cam. I cannot stand shaky cam, it's annoying and I get bad motion sickness. I had to leave the theater after 1 hour and didn't finish watching the movie. Too bad because I was looking forward to it.
In about 1995 we were making toy soldiers out of lead in junior high. The teacher would supervise as one of us cut lead off of a huge block with an acetylene torch and then we would melt it in a forge and pour it into molds, and then we would paint them.
Still can't believe they let us do that in school.
He also felt a stab of fear that he had saddled all his unborn grandchildren -- and their grandchildren -- with a lifetime of debt. "Down the generational line, nobody would have any money."
Another one that happens to me all the time is related to running Windows XP on boot camp. Once in a while the 'system' process will start eating ~20% of the CPU for no reason, which makes the computer painfully slow. There are two ways to fix it. I can go into device manager and disable Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery. Alternately I can remove the battery with the laptop still on AC power and it will instantly start working like normal. Put the battery back in and system starts eating the CPU and it runs slow again.
I tell my wife all the time that one day all cars at least in the cities and major highways will be automated and she doesn't believe me. But it would be a huge deal, saving many lives and a ton of time for everyone. Imagine that when you are stuck at a red light behind 50 other cars you don't have to wait for the reaction time of every individual car until you got to go. All the cars could simultaneously start driving.
Or even better not stop at all: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kdresner/2004aamas/sixbysixres.html
(Parent page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kdresner/2004aamas/index.html)
Next, legalize opium... I mean, if people can grow it themselves, why buy from Arif the Taliban drug thug?
For suggested reading I would recommend The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit drugs http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/cu/cumenu.htm . It's free online.
It details how prohibition got us from relatively harmless opium to the dangerous drugs such as heroin.
Sort of related to this, I just finished the Blind Watchmaker and Dawkins talks about genes being like recipes to create animals. I wonder if one day we will be able to put a gene sequence into a computer and have it simulate what the animal would look and behave like. You could test it out by plugging in your own DNA and seeing if your likeness shows up on the computer screen. Then you could see all the animals that may not have ever existed but could given the right DNA sequence. Maybe you could even then print out the genetic code and grow the actual animal.
Dawkins basically says that at the basis of all life are the rules of physics, which can fundamentally be described by math. In fact you can see a lot of mathematical patterns in nature. See http://mobiusdynamo.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/patterns-in-nature-and-math/. For some reason seeing the world in this way has had a profound effect on me lately.
He keeps talking about 'girls' in the story, for example that he had a girl in his bed, or he was flying his plane and a girl called him, but what he forgot to mention that the girl he is referring to is his mom, and the party he was invited to was Friday pizza night, with his mom.
Alternately, you can get a router that supports Tomato firmware (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) and implement QoS (quality of service) such that torrents are on the lowest priority. Then when you play games, or take a call on your VOIP phone or stream a youtube clip or... it will automatically throttle your torrents. And you never have to think about it again.
I have two vehicles, one with ABS and one without, and I prefer the one without. I'm in Canada so often the roads are slippery. If you are smart enough to pump the brakes yourself when you need to steer than ABS is just noisy and annoying.
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Jesus I'd never seen those. Just for those of you at home, I'm a professional sound designer for films, and I use ethernet cables that I bought at Fry's for a couple bucks a piece.
It's because you are not an idiot!
Never buy cables from a big box store.
http://steadycam.org/
You can make one yourself for about $14. There is no excuse for shaky cam any longer.
The film was really only documentary style for the first 30 minutes or so. When the shit hits the fan the documentary is clearly over (in the context of the story the documentary camera man is no longer following the main character around), but yet they still continued with the shaky cam. I cannot stand shaky cam, it's annoying and I get bad motion sickness. I had to leave the theater after 1 hour and didn't finish watching the movie. Too bad because I was looking forward to it.
In about 1995 we were making toy soldiers out of lead in junior high. The teacher would supervise as one of us cut lead off of a huge block with an acetylene torch and then we would melt it in a forge and pour it into molds, and then we would paint them.
Still can't believe they let us do that in school.
He also felt a stab of fear that he had saddled all his unborn grandchildren -- and their grandchildren -- with a lifetime of debt. "Down the generational line, nobody would have any money."
Give me a break.
Mosquitoes in Alaska have been known to be so voracious as to kill a moose that happens upon a swarm.
Citation needed.
Another one that happens to me all the time is related to running Windows XP on boot camp. Once in a while the 'system' process will start eating ~20% of the CPU for no reason, which makes the computer painfully slow. There are two ways to fix it. I can go into device manager and disable Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery. Alternately I can remove the battery with the laptop still on AC power and it will instantly start working like normal. Put the battery back in and system starts eating the CPU and it runs slow again.
I tell my wife all the time that one day all cars at least in the cities and major highways will be automated and she doesn't believe me. But it would be a huge deal, saving many lives and a ton of time for everyone. Imagine that when you are stuck at a red light behind 50 other cars you don't have to wait for the reaction time of every individual car until you got to go. All the cars could simultaneously start driving. Or even better not stop at all: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kdresner/2004aamas/sixbysixres.html (Parent page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kdresner/2004aamas/index.html)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jETv3NURwLc
Been using SyncBackSE at work and home and it's great: http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/syncback-hub.html
The problem with heroin is more social than physiological. I'm glad you're reading that book though, it's a good one.
Read the book and try again.
Next, legalize opium... I mean, if people can grow it themselves, why buy from Arif the Taliban drug thug?
For suggested reading I would recommend The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit drugs http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/cu/cumenu.htm . It's free online. It details how prohibition got us from relatively harmless opium to the dangerous drugs such as heroin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jETv3NURwLc
Sort of related to this, I just finished the Blind Watchmaker and Dawkins talks about genes being like recipes to create animals. I wonder if one day we will be able to put a gene sequence into a computer and have it simulate what the animal would look and behave like. You could test it out by plugging in your own DNA and seeing if your likeness shows up on the computer screen. Then you could see all the animals that may not have ever existed but could given the right DNA sequence. Maybe you could even then print out the genetic code and grow the actual animal. Dawkins basically says that at the basis of all life are the rules of physics, which can fundamentally be described by math. In fact you can see a lot of mathematical patterns in nature. See http://mobiusdynamo.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/patterns-in-nature-and-math/. For some reason seeing the world in this way has had a profound effect on me lately.
I feel exactly the same way about Matrix and Fight Club. Weird. Are you me?
He keeps talking about 'girls' in the story, for example that he had a girl in his bed, or he was flying his plane and a girl called him, but what he forgot to mention that the girl he is referring to is his mom, and the party he was invited to was Friday pizza night, with his mom.
Myself and another person I know have this in Edmonton and it works as advertised also. 15Mbps.
Alternately, you can get a router that supports Tomato firmware (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) and implement QoS (quality of service) such that torrents are on the lowest priority. Then when you play games, or take a call on your VOIP phone or stream a youtube clip or... it will automatically throttle your torrents. And you never have to think about it again.
You can easily save streaming video to disk. There are many ways to do it, just google it.
Eve is a bitch. I always knew.
I have two vehicles, one with ABS and one without, and I prefer the one without. I'm in Canada so often the roads are slippery. If you are smart enough to pump the brakes yourself when you need to steer than ABS is just noisy and annoying.
Heck, give me free power for life and you can bury one of these in my FRONT yard.
Also, dry humping them is a sure fire way to express your dominance over them.