Can someone tell me what happens after Bill Murry says "Okay, I have a plan. I know exactly what to do. Now stay close, stay close. I know. Do exactly as I say. Ready, ready, get her!"? this cheap Chinese import Ghostbusters USB stick turned out to be a fake 2gb, it's only a 128mb stick.
A friend gave me one of those a few years ago because it fitted on my night vision monocular, the apature wasn't large enough to give a very bright picture, but you could see pretty far.
I recently bought a domain+hosting space from a well known site, one that I don't ever recall buying domains from in the past (even searched through years worth of emails - nothing), and when signing up for a new account I was unexpectedly greeted with "that email address is already in use".
So I did went to the password retreival page, entered in my email address and it asked me the stupidest hint question (for me) ever: "What was the make of your first car?", it didn't make sense at all because I still haven't bought my first car!
The price difference is so massive that it really will be worth importing one from the US, even if (bloody) customs slap import duty on it.
In fact the difference is so much that I wouldn't be suprised if small companies imported them from the US in bulk and undercut their fellow sellers.
I thought the price difference was because they could sell more in the US than in Europe? the whole bulk-buying reduces costs strategy
"When I first moved in, more than half were unsecured, default SSID, default password. Now only 2 are unsecured. Even the layperson has caught on and I believe this is in part of the war driving/flying/carting craze that went on."
Isn't that more to do with the fact that routers mostly now arrive with encryption turned on?
Elwood: Shit!
Jake: What?
Elwood: Rollers.
Jake: No?
Elwood: Yeah.
Jake: Shit.
Elwood: What? What did I do?
Officer Daniel: You failed to stop at a red signal.
Elwood: The light was yellow sir.
Officer Daniel: May I see your license please?
Jake: Goddamnit!
Elwood: Man I haven't been pulled over in six months. I bet those cops have got SCMODS.
Jake: SCMODS?
Elwood: State, County, Municipal, Offender, Data, System.
how many actual real "terrorists" have they caught by taking their papers/pda/music player/laptop etc. at the border?
Not that many I suspect or they'd be bleating about it all over the news saying how good it is they have these draconican measures in place to "protect" America's inhabitants.
I have to agree, cycling to work is great, just twist the throttle and you're there in no time, without even breaking a sweat!
O, wait, you meant a non-electric bike.
I think that explains why I'm now accumulating mass around my middle after over 30 years of being skinny. If I owned a car I'd have gotten big & round years ago just like my uncles, maybe it's time I got a normal bike again for the excersize.
As much as I agree with your post in how they've trashed the original ideas on how kinetics work in the virtual world of Tron, as a major geek I have to point out:
"Light cycles turn 90 degrees instantly. Seeing pathetic little air brakes (is that what they were?) and a sideways skidding bike make me wanna puke. He could have come withing an inch of the wall and taken off to the side without losing any speed."
Have you not seen Tron recently or don't you remember that the 90 degrees instant turn only happened on the game grid, when they broke out of the game they were subject to more 'real world' kinetics, enabling leaning to corner gracefully, sliding out & jumping etc.
I will watch this new film out of curiosity and nostaliga for the original film but based on what I've seen of the trailer and how hollywood almost always completely fucks over the original film ideas & subject matter when re-making or doing a sequal to an 80s or earlier film (seen Lost Boys 2 yet?) I won't build up any hopes of Tr2n being as memorable as Tron, which incedentally I first saw on a 12" black/white tv when I was a kid and it still made a serious impression on me. Loved watching the 1.5 hour documentary on the DVD.
and for the forseeable future will definitely be so.
I can go an entire day without touching the keyboard of my main PC just by relying on my trusty mouse - which is in fact a cheap miniature laptop wheelmouse with retractable cable because I've found they're much easier to use than 'standard sized' mice, less weight to physically move around (thumb & ring finger is all you need) and the very thin lightweight cable doesn't hamper the mouse's movement at all. Could go wireless for mouse input so there's no cable getting in the way but they're bigger, heavier, need batteries/recharging and the biggest annoyance for me is the lag, they're just not as instant as wired mice.
I wonder what the feasability is of getting two mobile phones, each with unlimited text accounts, hook one up to your home PC and the other to your laptop. Now for the tricky part; write custom software that would enable you to use the text messaging system as a communication system between the two computers.
So with such a setup you can do rudimentary webbrowsing (without images) / emailing etc., your laptop sends an url via the mobile to the mobile at your home, which the PC there picks up, retrieves the webpage & sends it back in txt message "packets" and your laptop retreives and combines back into a web page, with all the txt messages encrypted so the carriers can't directly snoop on your browsing/emails.
Works very well on this 3ghz Win2k machine, had to remove it from my Asus Eee with XP because when starting the browser up it would pause for a couple of minutes whilst it digested the massive hosts file, so now I manually enter in unwanted advertisment URLs (from sites I regularly visit like slashdot/TheRegister etc.) into the Eee's hosts file and that works nicely as I very rarely see pop-ups and the browser window on the 7" screen has more signal (article) to noise (spam) ratio.
You're just about dead-on with the 80% efficiency after 25 years, I have a polycrystalline Kyocera solar panel made in 1983, in full direct sunlight it generates a measured 24 watts of electricity, exactly 80% of the original 30 watt rating.
Fractals look ok when they're on a computer screen or on a poster, but fill an entire wall and the effect is something else.
For years I had a black/white fractal that completely covered one of my bedroom walls, I used fractint on an 086 'emulation' board in my Amiga to generate all the individual images which were then printed out on A4 & put together on the wall.
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I'm not worried about such trivial things, I bought a BATES 4000, I'm set for life!
Can someone tell me what happens after Bill Murry says "Okay, I have a plan. I know exactly what to do. Now stay close, stay close. I know. Do exactly as I say. Ready, ready, get her!"? this cheap Chinese import Ghostbusters USB stick turned out to be a fake 2gb, it's only a 128mb stick.
Julie Moult is an idiot.
Full story at the first link Google gives.
I for one welcome ou....hey stop following me!
Aw shit, 7:72am, I'm 2 hours past my bedtime!
"blogosphere"
Another term as bad as "cloud computing".
Could this perhaps be the worst camera lens to own in this day and age?
http://www.binocularsmart.com/cameras/photosniper.shtml
A friend gave me one of those a few years ago because it fitted on my night vision monocular, the apature wasn't large enough to give a very bright picture, but you could see pretty far.
If you think that this initiative to snoop on all UK internet communications is unique to Labor, just look at what the Tories are proposing: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/12/tory_ripa_reform/
Rock & hard place. Time to bend over.
I recently bought a domain+hosting space from a well known site, one that I don't ever recall buying domains from in the past (even searched through years worth of emails - nothing), and when signing up for a new account I was unexpectedly greeted with "that email address is already in use".
So I did went to the password retreival page, entered in my email address and it asked me the stupidest hint question (for me) ever: "What was the make of your first car?", it didn't make sense at all because I still haven't bought my first car!
I wonder if this person learnt from his mistake...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZZXslsLDLs&fmt=18
The price difference is so massive that it really will be worth importing one from the US, even if (bloody) customs slap import duty on it.
In fact the difference is so much that I wouldn't be suprised if small companies imported them from the US in bulk and undercut their fellow sellers.
I thought the price difference was because they could sell more in the US than in Europe? the whole bulk-buying reduces costs strategy
"When I first moved in, more than half were unsecured, default SSID, default password. Now only 2 are unsecured. Even the layperson has caught on and I believe this is in part of the war driving/flying/carting craze that went on."
Isn't that more to do with the fact that routers mostly now arrive with encryption turned on?
Ah, so that's what happens when you post to slashdot after vodka shots, the inability to remember your html tags...
Elwood: Shit! Jake: What? Elwood: Rollers. Jake: No? Elwood: Yeah. Jake: Shit. Elwood: What? What did I do? Officer Daniel: You failed to stop at a red signal. Elwood: The light was yellow sir. Officer Daniel: May I see your license please? Jake: Goddamnit! Elwood: Man I haven't been pulled over in six months. I bet those cops have got SCMODS. Jake: SCMODS? Elwood: State, County, Municipal, Offender, Data, System.
how many actual real "terrorists" have they caught by taking their papers/pda/music player/laptop etc. at the border?
Not that many I suspect or they'd be bleating about it all over the news saying how good it is they have these draconican measures in place to "protect" America's inhabitants.
I have to agree, cycling to work is great, just twist the throttle and you're there in no time, without even breaking a sweat!
O, wait, you meant a non-electric bike.
I think that explains why I'm now accumulating mass around my middle after over 30 years of being skinny. If I owned a car I'd have gotten big & round years ago just like my uncles, maybe it's time I got a normal bike again for the excersize.
As much as I agree with your post in how they've trashed the original ideas on how kinetics work in the virtual world of Tron, as a major geek I have to point out:
"Light cycles turn 90 degrees instantly. Seeing pathetic little air brakes (is that what they were?) and a sideways skidding bike make me wanna puke. He could have come withing an inch of the wall and taken off to the side without losing any speed."
Have you not seen Tron recently or don't you remember that the 90 degrees instant turn only happened on the game grid, when they broke out of the game they were subject to more 'real world' kinetics, enabling leaning to corner gracefully, sliding out & jumping etc.
I will watch this new film out of curiosity and nostaliga for the original film but based on what I've seen of the trailer and how hollywood almost always completely fucks over the original film ideas & subject matter when re-making or doing a sequal to an 80s or earlier film (seen Lost Boys 2 yet?) I won't build up any hopes of Tr2n being as memorable as Tron, which incedentally I first saw on a 12" black/white tv when I was a kid and it still made a serious impression on me. Loved watching the 1.5 hour documentary on the DVD.
and for the forseeable future will definitely be so.
I can go an entire day without touching the keyboard of my main PC just by relying on my trusty mouse - which is in fact a cheap miniature laptop wheelmouse with retractable cable because I've found they're much easier to use than 'standard sized' mice, less weight to physically move around (thumb & ring finger is all you need) and the very thin lightweight cable doesn't hamper the mouse's movement at all.
Could go wireless for mouse input so there's no cable getting in the way but they're bigger, heavier, need batteries/recharging and the biggest annoyance for me is the lag, they're just not as instant as wired mice.
"there will be plenty of 8' tall women."
Death by snoo snoo?
I wonder what the feasability is of getting two mobile phones, each with unlimited text accounts, hook one up to your home PC and the other to your laptop. Now for the tricky part; write custom software that would enable you to use the text messaging system as a communication system between the two computers.
So with such a setup you can do rudimentary webbrowsing (without images) / emailing etc., your laptop sends an url via the mobile to the mobile at your home, which the PC there picks up, retrieves the webpage & sends it back in txt message "packets" and your laptop retreives and combines back into a web page, with all the txt messages encrypted so the carriers can't directly snoop on your browsing/emails.
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File
Works very well on this 3ghz Win2k machine, had to remove it from my Asus Eee with XP because when starting the browser up it would pause for a couple of minutes whilst it digested the massive hosts file, so now I manually enter in unwanted advertisment URLs (from sites I regularly visit like slashdot/TheRegister etc.) into the Eee's hosts file and that works nicely as I very rarely see pop-ups and the browser window on the 7" screen has more signal (article) to noise (spam) ratio.
You're just about dead-on with the 80% efficiency after 25 years, I have a polycrystalline Kyocera solar panel made in 1983, in full direct sunlight it generates a measured 24 watts of electricity, exactly 80% of the original 30 watt rating.
I loved those space sets, seeing them still in their packaging was simply amazing, but the best thing was..
I HAD THAT EXACT HELICOPTOR SET!!!
Fractals look ok when they're on a computer screen or on a poster, but fill an entire wall and the effect is something else.
For years I had a black/white fractal that completely covered one of my bedroom walls, I used fractint on an 086 'emulation' board in my Amiga to generate all the individual images which were then printed out on A4 & put together on the wall.
You have just described every collector of Star Wars action figures.