From NY Times When you first see the FanWing, you think: there's no way that thing is going to fly. After all, it looks less like an airplane than a big, lumbering combine harvester that has somehow strayed from its wheat field. It has a hollow cylinder where its wings ought to be, and when it trundles down the runway, it moves barely faster than a bicycle. But then it lifts off, angles up and -- whoa -- soars up into the sky.
I have one of these (bought off of eBay for $40). I was under my Cingular contract and my phone self-destructed, and I wanted a cheap replacement.
It lacks the extra features of many cell phones, but the fact is that its menu system is just as complicated and unintuitive as most other cell phones.
What I would like to see is a cell phone with a simple on/off slider switch, and that doesn't play an annoying sound every time you turn it on and off.
Hawaii has an air raid like tsumani warning system along its shores. There are tsunami detecting buoys anchored way offshore in deep water and the motion of the buoys will indicate an arriving tsunami.
"It's problematic, because it has the potential to eviscerate the business model early in its development," said Ted Cohen, EMI Music's senior vice president of digital development and distribution.?
Anyone with an inkling of understanding of digital recording knew this was a completely idiotic business model. A ringtone is just a digital recording. Did they expect no one to realize that you could take a snippet of any song and use it as a ringtone?
Generally, the files I want to backup are only the documents I create (I'm a writer). There are not that many that I generate a week, they're not big compared to things such as mp3s, and they compress well. But I'd like to have a means to automatically backup my work easily and safely.
It should be easy enough to write a script that zips up all document files in specified directories and mail it to my Gmail account as an attachment. Of course, you could encrypt it if you want more security. Then set up the script to be run once or twice a day. It should be easy enough to make most backups to be incremental with only the recent changes, and every so many days make a full backup.
Of course, using Gmail for backup depends on the reliabilty of Google, and it's quite possible that if things go wrong in Gmail, you may have no means of recovering the email with the backups. So, having an alternative place to store the backups on occasion would be a good idea. Maybe Hotmail and Yahoo mail could be used for that.
Old growth lumber is a decadent, unnatural forest, that is caused by man supressing forest fires for the last 100 years, which is nature's only way of renewing a forest, believe-it-or-not. Cones won't open, releasing seeds, unless under extreme heat.
Uh... most old growth forests by definition are over a hundred and fifty years old, existing way before fire suppression. With your logic you can't explain the existence of all those 400 year old trees unless you have Native American firefighters.
Some trees do require fire for their cones to release their seeds, but there are many that don't. In fact, most trees in the Pacific Northwest don't (at least on the west side of the Cascades) - forest fires are extremely uncommon due to the wet climate.
Seattle was covered with old growth forest when the settlers arrived in the 1850s. That certainly was the natural state of the forests. There are only a few old growth trees left within the city.
Dan Brown is the least talented popular writer
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He is an awful writer. His prose is cliche, stilted, often lazy and nearly makes me gag reading it. Here's an especially turgid example of a dream from "Digital Fortress" (courtesy of Amazon):
Looking up from the canopy bed, she knew he was the one. Forever. As she stared into his deep-green eyes, somewhere in the distance a deafening bell began to ring. It was pulling him away. She reached for him, but her arms clutched empty air.
I can think of other examples of his crappy writing in "The Da Vinci Code":
They're trying to get away from the police in the Louvre. She looks out the bathroom window and the flashing turn signal of a truck is "mocking her." Mocking her? How exactly is the flash of the turn signal mocking her? Maybe if she was doing some repetitive motion, but she was just looking for a means of escape.
Whenever a character has a flashback, he returns to the story present by some other character saying something like, "Hey what are you doing just standing there!" as if the character was standing there for a few minutes reliving every detail of the flashback. A flashback is a literary convention to describe a past occurence. But he uses it as if the character is standing there having the flashback go through his mind line-by-line, which is just something that real people don't do. I get the feeling he did that to make the flashback more "realistic" but only makes it less so.
The old guy says to his daughter (in flashbacks). "Speak English at home. French at school." Why? It's never explained but it's obvious that Brown is fearful of putting any French words in dialogue.
And in "Angels & Demons" what's with the timer on the anti-matter container? It's supposedly a timer that at zero the battery will die and the anti-matter will be released and cause an explosion. You can't have timer knowing in advance when a battery is going to die! You have a meter measuring how much power the battery has left. But Brown made it a timer because it was more convenient for his story.
I will say that his prose has improved in each book.
And why do I torture myself reading his crap? Who knows, probably to entertain myself on how bad a writer he is. Plus my mother-in-law gives the books to me after she reads them.
Actually, Das is generally a diminutive term. Hence Das Boot (small boat), or Das Mädchin (little girl).
Well, you clearly don't know any German. Das is the neuter definite article (equivalent to English's the). Der is the masculine, and die is the feminine.
The German word for boat boat has a neutral gender, and so does the word for little girl. It may not make sense that a little girl is of neutral gender, but consider it more that the word has a neutral gender as opposed to little girls being of neutral gender. Just be glad that in English we don't have to worry about the gender of things in most cases.
Suppose in a DVD-like media you include this new epoxy token encryption mechanism and have the data stored on the DVD encrypted by it. Each individual DVD would have a unique built-in token (and encryption scheme) that could only be decrypted if you read the token of the DVD.
Of course, at some point, the decrypted data is visible internally to the computer.
I decided to use Blarg! online services as my alternative ISP on my Qwest DSL line. I called up Blarg! gave them my info, and they told me to a certain number at Qwest.
Well, I called that number, and was redirected to another Qwest department. There they told me that I had the wrong department, and gave me the original phone number I had. I again called that number, and the same thing happened. The third time I refused to be transferred to another department, and they figured out who it was I was supposed to talk to.
My $30 ISP switching fee was waived (apparently a Qwest special before 12/31/01).
The only configuration I needed to change was login and password information on my Cisco modem.
You should check out the novel Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin (see it here). I would call it a black comedy about the Soviet space program. Maybe it wasn't only the Americans who faked things....
I'll add a thumbs-up to Speakeasy. I no longer use them for DSL (not due to any problems with them), but I maintain a $10 a month shell account which has ssh access (and I still use pine for my personal email). You can access your email through the web, too. ===
In high-school photography class (about 13 or 14 years ago), I made a 35mm pinhole camera out of a small cardboard box, a chunk out of a pie pan, some construction paper and electrician's tape, and part of a toothbrush handle (for the film advance). I loaded it up with Ektachrome 400, shot some pictures around the school, and developed and mounted the film. Several frames actually turned out fairly well (properly lit and in usable focus), for having come from such crude technology. Try doing that with a sensor from a digital camera.
If you do a web search for "digital pinhole camera" you'll get a lot of hits. They are made, and I imagine you could build you own. Of course, they still be somewhat high tech.
But even if the retinas were visible, the lenses of the eyes would be invisible and unable to refract light and focus a image on the retinas. You'd be able to detect light and dark, but that's about it. ===
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You could also just put the password in the name your wireless connection, e.g. "Starbucks:Use Password XXX"
Not necessarily. Here's the SparrowHawk, a carbon-fiber single-place sailplane with a wingspan of 36 feet that weighs only 155 pounds
You don't have to make them. Regular polarized sunglasses already have identically-polarized lenses.
If the outside air is cold (winter, night, etc.) blowing it into the server room costs next to nothing.
Of course, if it's humid outside air, it may not be a good idea.
www.fanwing.com
From NY Times
When you first see the FanWing, you think: there's no way that thing is going to fly. After all, it looks less like an airplane than a big, lumbering combine harvester that has somehow strayed from its wheat field. It has a hollow cylinder where its wings ought to be, and when it trundles down the runway, it moves barely faster than a bicycle. But then it lifts off, angles up and -- whoa -- soars up into the sky.
Also, Wikipedia
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12429-three- ways-to-levitate-a-magic-carpet.html/
I have one of these (bought off of eBay for $40). I was under my Cingular contract and my phone self-destructed, and I wanted a cheap replacement.
It lacks the extra features of many cell phones, but the fact is that its menu system is just as complicated and unintuitive as most other cell phones.
What I would like to see is a cell phone with a simple on/off slider switch, and that doesn't play an annoying sound every time you turn it on and off.
Well, that's not really an issue since there's no state income tax in Washington state.
(Although having residents like Bill Gates and Paul Allen is a good reason to consider it.)
Hawaii has an air raid like tsumani warning system along its shores. There are tsunami detecting buoys anchored way offshore in deep water and the motion of the buoys will indicate an arriving tsunami.
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Here's a link at the National Oceanographic and Atmostpheric Administration:
http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/grounders/tsuna
"It's problematic, because it has the potential to eviscerate the business model early in its development," said Ted Cohen, EMI Music's senior vice president of digital development and distribution.?
Anyone with an inkling of understanding of digital recording knew this was a completely idiotic business model. A ringtone is just a digital recording. Did they expect no one to realize that you could take a snippet of any song and use it as a ringtone?
This method was talked about in a Suck.com column four years ago:
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The author's suggestion: register thousands of accounts Napster with hundreds of song titles. Each song is actually "Achy-Breaky Heart"
Generally, the files I want to backup are only the documents I create (I'm a writer). There are not that many that I generate a week, they're not big compared to things such as mp3s, and they compress well. But I'd like to have a means to automatically backup my work easily and safely.
It should be easy enough to write a script that zips up all document files in specified directories and mail it to my Gmail account as an attachment. Of course, you could encrypt it if you want more security. Then set up the script to be run once or twice a day. It should be easy enough to make most backups to be incremental with only the recent changes, and every so many days make a full backup.
Of course, using Gmail for backup depends on the reliabilty of Google, and it's quite possible that if things go wrong in Gmail, you may have no means of recovering the email with the backups. So, having an alternative place to store the backups on occasion would be a good idea. Maybe Hotmail and Yahoo mail could be used for that.
Old growth lumber is a decadent, unnatural forest, that is caused by man supressing forest fires for the last 100 years, which is nature's only way of renewing a forest, believe-it-or-not. Cones won't open, releasing seeds, unless under extreme heat.
... most old growth forests by definition are over a hundred and fifty years old, existing way before fire suppression. With your logic you can't explain the existence of all those 400 year old trees unless you have Native American firefighters.
Uh
Some trees do require fire for their cones to release their seeds, but there are many that don't. In fact, most trees in the Pacific Northwest don't (at least on the west side of the Cascades) - forest fires are extremely uncommon due to the wet climate.
Seattle was covered with old growth forest when the settlers arrived in the 1850s. That certainly was the natural state of the forests. There are only a few old growth trees left within the city.
Looking up from the canopy bed, she knew he was the one. Forever. As she stared into his deep-green eyes, somewhere in the distance a deafening bell began to ring. It was pulling him away. She reached for him, but her arms clutched empty air.
I can think of other examples of his crappy writing in "The Da Vinci Code":
They're trying to get away from the police in the Louvre. She looks out the bathroom window and the flashing turn signal of a truck is "mocking her." Mocking her? How exactly is the flash of the turn signal mocking her? Maybe if she was doing some repetitive motion, but she was just looking for a means of escape.
Whenever a character has a flashback, he returns to the story present by some other character saying something like, "Hey what are you doing just standing there!" as if the character was standing there for a few minutes reliving every detail of the flashback. A flashback is a literary convention to describe a past occurence. But he uses it as if the character is standing there having the flashback go through his mind line-by-line, which is just something that real people don't do. I get the feeling he did that to make the flashback more "realistic" but only makes it less so.
The old guy says to his daughter (in flashbacks). "Speak English at home. French at school." Why? It's never explained but it's obvious that Brown is fearful of putting any French words in dialogue.
And in "Angels & Demons" what's with the timer on the anti-matter container? It's supposedly a timer that at zero the battery will die and the anti-matter will be released and cause an explosion. You can't have timer knowing in advance when a battery is going to die! You have a meter measuring how much power the battery has left. But Brown made it a timer because it was more convenient for his story.
I will say that his prose has improved in each book.
And why do I torture myself reading his crap? Who knows, probably to entertain myself on how bad a writer he is. Plus my mother-in-law gives the books to me after she reads them.
>> Paul also raped a girl at his home - He setteled out of court and the girl refused to testify - it never went to trial.
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> I just searched Google [google.com] and can find no stories whatsoever to even remotely substantiate this claim.
Try again:
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/9924/featur
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/9939/featur
Allegedly raped & not a girl, but a woman.
Actually, Das is generally a diminutive term.
Hence Das Boot (small boat), or Das Mädchin (little girl).
Well, you clearly don't know any German. Das is the neuter definite article (equivalent to English's the). Der is the masculine, and die is the feminine.
The German word for boat boat has a neutral gender, and so does the word for little girl. It may not make sense that a little girl is of neutral gender, but consider it more that the word has a neutral gender as opposed to little girls being of neutral gender. Just be glad that in English we don't have to worry about the gender of things in most cases.
A review I read of Starship Troopers summed up the movie pretty well as "a parody of facist propaganda films."
If you take the movie as that, just sit back and enjoy it without worrying about how it deviated from the book.
Suppose in a DVD-like media you include this new epoxy token encryption mechanism and have the data stored on the DVD encrypted by it. Each individual DVD would have a unique built-in token (and encryption scheme) that could only be decrypted if you read the token of the DVD.
Of course, at some point, the decrypted data is visible internally to the computer.
I decided to use Blarg! online services as my alternative ISP on my Qwest DSL line. I called up Blarg! gave them my info, and they told me to a certain number at Qwest.
Well, I called that number, and was redirected to another Qwest department. There they told me that I had the wrong department, and gave me the original phone number I had. I again called that number, and the same thing happened. The third time I refused to be transferred to another department, and they figured out who it was I was supposed to talk to.
My $30 ISP switching fee was waived (apparently a Qwest special before 12/31/01).
The only configuration I needed to change was login and password information on my Cisco modem.
You should check out the novel Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin (see it here). I would call it a black comedy about the Soviet space program. Maybe it wasn't only the Americans who faked things ....
I'll add a thumbs-up to Speakeasy. I no longer use them for DSL (not due to any problems with them), but I maintain a $10 a month shell account which has ssh access (and I still use pine for my personal email). You can access your email through the web, too.
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In high-school photography class (about 13 or 14 years ago), I made a 35mm pinhole camera out of a small cardboard box, a chunk out of a pie pan, some construction paper and electrician's tape, and part of a toothbrush handle (for the film advance). I loaded it up with Ektachrome 400, shot some pictures around the school, and developed and mounted the film. Several frames actually turned out fairly well (properly lit and in usable focus), for having come from such crude technology. Try doing that with a sensor from a digital camera.
If you do a web search for "digital pinhole camera" you'll get a lot of hits. They are made, and I imagine you could build you own. Of course, they still be somewhat high tech.
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Its the year 2000! I was promised flying cars! Where are my flying cars!
They also promised us worldwide nuclear destruction. Sometimes life is unfair.
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But even if the retinas were visible, the lenses of the eyes would be invisible and unable to refract light and focus a image on the retinas. You'd be able to detect light and dark, but that's about it.
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There's an article in New Scientist on supersonic cavitating torpedos and submarines.