Part of the problem is out over-reliance on anti-bacterial soaps|sponges|cuttingboard|etc.
The more we 'sanitize' our society the more susceptible we all are when a big bad bug comes along. Personally, I keep myself clean and all, but I will not use anti-bacterial products, with the excpetions of neosporin when I cut myself. The minute amounts of bactieria, firuses, molds, etc that I probably ingest build my immune system.
Its not a statistically good sampling, but of my friends that are anti-bacterial everything, and my friends that are more like me. The ones that dont use anti-bacterial products tend to get sick less often, and are sick for shorter durations than the people I know that are nuts about anti-bacterial products.
So I think we need to watch out for these sanitary guidelines - too much is a bad thing.
"Important" repostres like Barbera Walters, etc actually do get 2 cameras on interviews. Lesser reports get the 'edit' treatment to show them nodding, and asking questions.
Imediate uses could be in situations where you can store alot of power. Use it to reinforce defensive positions. You can set up a large power source in a fort. Also possibly a tank can use this, since it shouldnt have an issue carrying a big power supply.
The biggest advantage is probably that in close-range artilery situations (like a tank) you can use the laser for close support. The laser wont cause massive explosions at the target, allowing it to fire close to friendly troops and not worry about the ensuing explosion hurting them.
The best way to say something stupid and not get modded down for it is to precede your potentially lame comment with: "I know ill get modded down for this...but..."
You would think a better character would have been responsible for the whole mess with the Empire. I think having Sen. Amedala (or however the hell you spell that) somehow give up the control. Instead she gave the control to that lame, useless, annoying character - who then went and ruined the galaxy for the next 50 years (or so).
If you go to a good school that caters to beginners, then your physical shape wont matter one bit.
We have a couple of guys shaped like you, and while they occasionally have problems with the dojo getting too hot, they are fully capable of doing what we do.
Look for a local martial arts club. The best place to look is for a township-sponsored type. The kind where they distribute flyers to school kids. Those are usually the cheapest (and since the instructor isnt in it for the money, you get teachers who only care about teaching, and not their wallet).
Ive been involved in a program like this for over 10 years and have had alot of good experiences. Excercize, self defense, and lots of the good "mental things" like self-respect, self-esteem, discipline, etc.
We, as (westernized?) humans, do no good to the world for eating fruit. If we eat the seeds at all, they get crapped out into a bowl and flushed to a waste treatment facility. If we dont eat the seeds, they get thrown into a trashcan where they end up at a landfill. However these seeds probably cant germinate (and survive) without its energy coating. Fruit thats intended to be eaten and deposited wont fare well either trying to grow in the town dump (or someone's compost heap).
Therefore eating fruit constitutes murder (abortion!). So what do we do now? I guess we can only generate a glucose substance for us to eat, using only an artificial process. We cant use sugar cane, it kills the plant to extract the juice.
Maybe we can train (evolve) some bacteria to generate a glucose + protine goo that we can all gulp down for nutrition. Wait a minute, thats bacterial slavery!
Now THAT is going to an extreme:) Me? Just give me a nice juicy steak, some lightly steamed grean beans, or snow peas, and some mashed potatoes - made with heavy cream, and ill be happy as a clam. Oh, and a nice hoppy pale ale to finish it all off.
I was working on building a power supply for a vacuum tube amplifier. This one needed a 300V, 50mA supply. I stupidly got a pinky finger in there and touched the high voltage rail off the last 100uF power supply capacitor. *ZAP* It hurt like a bitch when it happened. Then my wrist was stiff. The next day my pinky finger was numb, and stayed numb of a week.
At least at this office, the lights are attached to a motion sensor. If it doesnt detect movement for 20 minutes it shuts off the lights. This is a good thing for the programmers who wouldnt move for hours on end. When the lights go out everyone jumps up and flails their arms. Looks like a whole pack of monkeys all of a sudden woke from a nap.
The only problem is that the bathroom lights are controlled in this way. If you are, uhm, "occupied" for more than 20 minutes you have to finish your business in complete darkness (or wait in hopes that someone will walk in).
I get the feeling that even the digital sets, will (for a while at least) have an "analog output" similar to your coax output from your VCR (for the cable passthrough). You can then record whatever you want after it has been converted to analog.
Barring that, you could always just find the output of the DAC in your TV's guts and run the analog output to your video recorder. Technically this isnt really breaking the DMCA because you arent circumventing any DIGITAL copyright protection. You are just using the analog signal slightly differently then intended.
Slightly OT: You can bypass almost any digital copy protection using analog. Its not as degrading as you may think. The output of any digital to analog converter can be directly input into an analog to digital converter and copied onto whatever medium you like. Again - since the signal is no longer digital, they cant really say you did anything wrong (but they will sure try).
People want bigger ones. DVDs make people want a nice TV.
I am a prime example of this. I wanted a DVD player. I figured since DVD looks good, why not buy a new TV while I am at it? So I bought a new Sony Wega TV (and a bigger one, since I also wanted a bigger TV).
Maybe they will tempt people to switch to digital TVs by offering some kind of back-door incentive. Just like today's DVDs look best on a modern TV, I'm sure by the time the digital switch rolls around there will be a new killer app that will make people want to buy a new set.
The problem comes when you notice that the story line of the movie being promoted is so thin, that you got the entire story in the 150 seconds. I can think of many movies who's trailer started off convincing me to see the movie, but by the end have told me that I got the whole deal for free, while waiting for the feature.
The few times I ended up seeing a movie after determining its entire useful content was dumped into the trailer, I either walked out due to lameness, or just bitched about it to my movie-going companion the whole way home:)
I think the reason for not using regenerative braking is that it would essentially requirew the flywheel to be ON the train. This isnt necessaraly a bad thing. You could regenerativly brake INTO your on-board flywheel and then use the stored energy to get the train moving again (with a little help from the third rail).
They may not have wanted to implement it this way because it might have been easier to build a few flywheels into each station rather than build them into every train in the system. Also this way they can get the idea implemented quickly (install flywheels at stations) rather than have to wait many years while the trains get replaced slowly as they wear out and die.
Ypu cant make energy. Thus this would only be possible with some way of amplifying the 'sound' to high levels with a large amplifier. A few kilowatts will be needed to knock someone over. (It takes a few horsepower to move a person around with a car/lawn tractor). A low (10hz) tone amplified to a few kilowatts will definatly be sufficient to 'move' a large object like a person. Ever been to a rock concert? Notice the multi-kilowatt amp stacks? Ever feel the bass pounding deep in your chest? Imagine that, but have the bass be below your threshold of hearing, much more powerful, and the entire force of the wave directed at you specifically.
There are some riot control devices that look like a cannon. They essentially consist of a massive multi-kilowatt power amplifier that is used to fire 10hz tones (lower limit of human hearing is around 20hz) at the crowds. "Loud" enough sound at 10 hz is enough to knock people over and make them lose control of their bowels.
I imagine this could easily be used to 'beam' a low tone like this at someone specific (a hostage taker, etc) and make them incapacitated without any harm to others in the area.
This could be a case of life imitating art. Somehow I get the feeling that this little R2 lookalike will be the launch pad for actual R2 type droids. If there is sufficient robotics research into this, they may turn something like this 'can with wheels' into something that can serve drinks, take food orders, etc.
It always seems that progress is found in the most unusual places: Porn Industry -> DVD.
Maybe the toy industry will yeild a whole slew of useful robots in the next 10 years or so.
I always thought this movie was "awful" on purpose. As a sort of satire to all the communist propoganda from years ago.
I had to watch it 3 times before I picked up on that fact. I too thought it was just another lame 'kill the aliens' movie. It took a while before it all became clear:)
And technically, you can add a "fart pipe" if you want. You just can't operate the vehicle if that would mean you would violate a noise ordinance. It's not the modification that gets the fine, it's the violation of the noise ordinance.
This is a very good point. The result of the modification is illegal. But the modification itself is not. Nobody can stop you from putting the fart pipe on your car. Just dont drive it on public roads - you violate a noise ordinance, thus breaking the law.
The courts shouldnt be able to make it illegal to put mod chips in game consoles because it can be used to do illegal things.
Im not quite sure this ruling is actually stating that mod chips are illegal - since the guy was essentially conviced for selling pirated games. Thats illegal any way you slice it.
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How can a reply to a post be offtopic? Sheesh...
Besides it was mildly funny - i would give it +3/4 Funny if it was possible.
Part of the problem is out over-reliance on anti-bacterial soaps|sponges|cuttingboard|etc.
The more we 'sanitize' our society the more susceptible we all are when a big bad bug comes along. Personally, I keep myself clean and all, but I will not use anti-bacterial products, with the excpetions of neosporin when I cut myself. The minute amounts of bactieria, firuses, molds, etc that I probably ingest build my immune system.
Its not a statistically good sampling, but of my friends that are anti-bacterial everything, and my friends that are more like me. The ones that dont use anti-bacterial products tend to get sick less often, and are sick for shorter durations than the people I know that are nuts about anti-bacterial products.
So I think we need to watch out for these sanitary guidelines - too much is a bad thing.
"Important" repostres like Barbera Walters, etc actually do get 2 cameras on interviews. Lesser reports get the 'edit' treatment to show them nodding, and asking questions.
Imediate uses could be in situations where you can store alot of power. Use it to reinforce defensive positions. You can set up a large power source in a fort. Also possibly a tank can use this, since it shouldnt have an issue carrying a big power supply.
The biggest advantage is probably that in close-range artilery situations (like a tank) you can use the laser for close support. The laser wont cause massive explosions at the target, allowing it to fire close to friendly troops and not worry about the ensuing explosion hurting them.
The best way to say something stupid and not get modded down for it is to precede your potentially lame comment with: "I know ill get modded down for this...but..."
You would think a better character would have been responsible for the whole mess with the Empire. I think having Sen. Amedala (or however the hell you spell that) somehow give up the control. Instead she gave the control to that lame, useless, annoying character - who then went and ruined the galaxy for the next 50 years (or so).
So Jar Jar is now going to be a BIG pain in the ass instead of just a 'pain in the ass'. Whats next - giant tribbles?
If you go to a good school that caters to beginners, then your physical shape wont matter one bit.
We have a couple of guys shaped like you, and while they occasionally have problems with the dojo getting too hot, they are fully capable of doing what we do.
Unfortunatly this is also easily spoofed. The spammers could set up their own networks that falsely inject "trust" into the system.
Mind you, I dont have an alternative. This sounds great, but I can see how it can be tricked.
Look for a local martial arts club. The best place to look is for a township-sponsored type. The kind where they distribute flyers to school kids. Those are usually the cheapest (and since the instructor isnt in it for the money, you get teachers who only care about teaching, and not their wallet).
Ive been involved in a program like this for over 10 years and have had alot of good experiences. Excercize, self defense, and lots of the good "mental things" like self-respect, self-esteem, discipline, etc.
We, as (westernized?) humans, do no good to the world for eating fruit. If we eat the seeds at all, they get crapped out into a bowl and flushed to a waste treatment facility. If we dont eat the seeds, they get thrown into a trashcan where they end up at a landfill. However these seeds probably cant germinate (and survive) without its energy coating. Fruit thats intended to be eaten and deposited wont fare well either trying to grow in the town dump (or someone's compost heap).
:) Me? Just give me a nice juicy steak, some lightly steamed grean beans, or snow peas, and some mashed potatoes - made with heavy cream, and ill be happy as a clam. Oh, and a nice hoppy pale ale to finish it all off.
Therefore eating fruit constitutes murder (abortion!). So what do we do now? I guess we can only generate a glucose substance for us to eat, using only an artificial process. We cant use sugar cane, it kills the plant to extract the juice.
Maybe we can train (evolve) some bacteria to generate a glucose + protine goo that we can all gulp down for nutrition. Wait a minute, thats bacterial slavery!
Now THAT is going to an extreme
Just for reference:
I was working on building a power supply for a vacuum tube amplifier. This one needed a 300V, 50mA supply. I stupidly got a pinky finger in there and touched the high voltage rail off the last 100uF power supply capacitor. *ZAP* It hurt like a bitch when it happened. Then my wrist was stiff. The next day my pinky finger was numb, and stayed numb of a week.
At least at this office, the lights are attached to a motion sensor. If it doesnt detect movement for 20 minutes it shuts off the lights. This is a good thing for the programmers who wouldnt move for hours on end. When the lights go out everyone jumps up and flails their arms. Looks like a whole pack of monkeys all of a sudden woke from a nap.
The only problem is that the bathroom lights are controlled in this way. If you are, uhm, "occupied" for more than 20 minutes you have to finish your business in complete darkness (or wait in hopes that someone will walk in).
I get the feeling that even the digital sets, will (for a while at least) have an "analog output" similar to your coax output from your VCR (for the cable passthrough). You can then record whatever you want after it has been converted to analog.
Barring that, you could always just find the output of the DAC in your TV's guts and run the analog output to your video recorder. Technically this isnt really breaking the DMCA because you arent circumventing any DIGITAL copyright protection. You are just using the analog signal slightly differently then intended.
Slightly OT: You can bypass almost any digital copy protection using analog. Its not as degrading as you may think. The output of any digital to analog converter can be directly input into an analog to digital converter and copied onto whatever medium you like. Again - since the signal is no longer digital, they cant really say you did anything wrong (but they will sure try).
People want bigger ones. DVDs make people want a nice TV.
I am a prime example of this. I wanted a DVD player. I figured since DVD looks good, why not buy a new TV while I am at it? So I bought a new Sony Wega TV (and a bigger one, since I also wanted a bigger TV).
Maybe they will tempt people to switch to digital TVs by offering some kind of back-door incentive. Just like today's DVDs look best on a modern TV, I'm sure by the time the digital switch rolls around there will be a new killer app that will make people want to buy a new set.
Not to metion Heisenburg's Uncertanty Principle.
We cant really ever tell if the electron is spinning one way or another, the simple act of checking could make it do something else entierly.
The problem comes when you notice that the story line of the movie being promoted is so thin, that you got the entire story in the 150 seconds. I can think of many movies who's trailer started off convincing me to see the movie, but by the end have told me that I got the whole deal for free, while waiting for the feature.
:)
The few times I ended up seeing a movie after determining its entire useful content was dumped into the trailer, I either walked out due to lameness, or just bitched about it to my movie-going companion the whole way home
I think the reason for not using regenerative braking is that it would essentially requirew the flywheel to be ON the train. This isnt necessaraly a bad thing. You could regenerativly brake INTO your on-board flywheel and then use the stored energy to get the train moving again (with a little help from the third rail).
They may not have wanted to implement it this way because it might have been easier to build a few flywheels into each station rather than build them into every train in the system. Also this way they can get the idea implemented quickly (install flywheels at stations) rather than have to wait many years while the trains get replaced slowly as they wear out and die.
Ypu cant make energy. Thus this would only be possible with some way of amplifying the 'sound' to high levels with a large amplifier. A few kilowatts will be needed to knock someone over. (It takes a few horsepower to move a person around with a car/lawn tractor). A low (10hz) tone amplified to a few kilowatts will definatly be sufficient to 'move' a large object like a person. Ever been to a rock concert? Notice the multi-kilowatt amp stacks? Ever feel the bass pounding deep in your chest? Imagine that, but have the bass be below your threshold of hearing, much more powerful, and the entire force of the wave directed at you specifically.
There are some riot control devices that look like a cannon. They essentially consist of a massive multi-kilowatt power amplifier that is used to fire 10hz tones (lower limit of human hearing is around 20hz) at the crowds. "Loud" enough sound at 10 hz is enough to knock people over and make them lose control of their bowels.
I imagine this could easily be used to 'beam' a low tone like this at someone specific (a hostage taker, etc) and make them incapacitated without any harm to others in the area.
This could be a case of life imitating art. Somehow I get the feeling that this little R2 lookalike will be the launch pad for actual R2 type droids. If there is sufficient robotics research into this, they may turn something like this 'can with wheels' into something that can serve drinks, take food orders, etc.
It always seems that progress is found in the most unusual places: Porn Industry -> DVD.
Maybe the toy industry will yeild a whole slew of useful robots in the next 10 years or so.
I always thought this movie was "awful" on purpose. As a sort of satire to all the communist propoganda from years ago.
:)
I had to watch it 3 times before I picked up on that fact. I too thought it was just another lame 'kill the aliens' movie. It took a while before it all became clear
And technically, you can add a "fart pipe" if you want. You just can't operate the vehicle if that would mean you would violate a noise ordinance. It's not the modification that gets the fine, it's the violation of the noise ordinance.
This is a very good point. The result of the modification is illegal. But the modification itself is not. Nobody can stop you from putting the fart pipe on your car. Just dont drive it on public roads - you violate a noise ordinance, thus breaking the law.
The courts shouldnt be able to make it illegal to put mod chips in game consoles because it can be used to do illegal things.
Im not quite sure this ruling is actually stating that mod chips are illegal - since the guy was essentially conviced for selling pirated games. Thats illegal any way you slice it.
Odd - my brain must be mixed. You are right - I stand corrected.
However that still doesnt render the point about hardware moot. There are a bunch of drivers available for various devices based off the open system.