I'm asking out of ignorance—is corn much higher lately? I know it's a little higher because I could only get 3 ears for a dollar at the store instead of four.
I live in the Washington DC area, so I'm not exactly close to "corn country". But just a few years ago corn was normally 12 ears for a $1. And was often on sale for even less.
Win7 is so much easier, so much more usable, so much powerful...
Apparently grammar correction works better in XP.;-)
I can't imagine why anyone with the hardware to run Win7 (which isn't that much) would still WANT to run XP.
I have three computers in my house that could easily run Win7. In fact I have a copy of Win7 that's been sitting unopened on my desk for almost a year that I was intending to install on one of them.That computer is running XP64(8 GB of RAM) but I can't get motivated enough to deal with all of the software installations that are going to go along with it. My wife's laptop and two of my company laptops have Win7, which I like more than XP. But not enough to deal with the headaches of actually upgrading to it.
I don't, however, get why so many individuals free-willingly choose Windows for their personal use.
I haven't purchased an entire brand new computer in over 20 years. With Windows I can choose from a very large array of options what hardware I want to use. And I can upgrade specific bits when I need to. Cases and PSU's tend to last a very long time. As do CD/DVD ROM/burners and hard drives. I tend to upgrade the MB and CPU together. If needed the RAM at the same time. About half the time the VGA too. This tends to spread the expense out over time. Plus the hardware for a Windows/Linux/BSD system tends to be cheaper. The company I work for is almost exclusively Mac based and they seem fine to me too. But I don't see how they are any better/worse than Windows based computers either. Just slightly different. Now I won't tell anyone at work this, because I get a kick out of telling them that Windows is better and watching them go off the deep end.;-)
Unlike a satellite, a transmitter station is stationary, so you can point a nice, high-gain dish at it.
Relatively speaking a geostationary satellite is just as stationary as a ground transmitter/receiver. Neither one changes position in relation to you. A parabolic dish works just fine for a satellite too.
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Also gold plated ethernet cables will make IE 7 on Joes laptop scream and look fluid like IE 9 or chrome.
The Denon AKDL1 is obviously the pinnacle of Ethernet cables, but no gold plating. It will make Joe's laptop scream like versions of IE that have yet to have been envisioned. For what it costs, it must use some kind of wormhole technology.
You're forgetting about THX 1138 which for a student project, starring Duvall and Pleasence, was a true sci-fi piece of brilliance. Too bad about most everything afterwards.
Actually he did two versions. Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB was the the student project in 1967. The 1971 movie THX1138 was the Warner Brothers/American Zoetrope version based on the short he did as a student in 1967.
It's a shame that the world is scared silly about anything nuclear now. I'd guess that projects like this would be more feasible with modern reactor tech.
The Peel P50 is widely recognized as a car (specifically, the smallest car ever commercially produced). It had room for one passenger, had three wheels... and a single door and a few windows. So I guess we're pretty close. Honestly, I'm surprised they didn't stick a light one-piece Lexan windscreen/canopy on it to cut down on the wind resistance.
"The P50 used a 49 cc (3.0 cu in) DKW engine which gave it a top speed of approximately 61 kilometres per hour (38 mph), and was equipped with a three-speed manual transmission that had no reverse gear. Consequently, turning in a confined area could only be achieved by pushing, or lifting the car using the handle on the rear and physically pulling it round."
"At 54 in (1,372 mm) long and 41 in (1,041 mm) wide[3] and with an unladen weight of 59 kilograms (130 lb),"
That sounds more like an enclosed, stripped down golf cart to me. It weighs almost 1/7 of the average golf cart. Finland classified it as a moped.
I'm surprised it's taken this long for this to happen. I remember "hacking" my Big Track when I was a kid by using the 1/8 inch jack that was used to activate the dumping bin to activate a solenoid. Of course my parents only allowed me to use a toy pellet gun.
"The collapsible rod extends out of the handle of the lightsaber when activated, much like a high-tech version of a toy lightsaber with a flickable blade. The plasma and magnetic field are energized immediately when powered up"
For the rod to be able to fit inside the handle it would firstly have to be of very, very thin material, otherwise it would simply not fit in there. Secondly, there's not that many ways of making something that could expand and retract in such a limit space without making it very fragile. Combine that with the aforementioned fragile material and these things wouldn't be able to even sustain their own weight; fighting with those would be completely out of the question.
I was thinking the same thing and imagining them collapsing and folding over in the same way wrapping paper tubes do when my daughter uses them as lightsabers.
Of course who knows what magical materials there must be in that galaxy from a long time ago and far far away. Judging by the size of the windows in their ships and how they can get to orbit an maneuver around in space w/o refueling they've obviously invented some pretty impressive tech.
He hasn't solved the most difficult problem, though: the noise. Normally, a light saber like that would be completely silent. How do you let it make those whooshing sounds?
The same way you did with a stick when you were a kid. Make "Vruu Vruu" noises while swinging it.;-)
It's a shame as we're getting to the end of the regenerations, but they need to do something to give some life back to this franchise, it's a shame it's going down the toilet so fast.
I'm just guessing, but fairly sure that the 12 regenerations thing has been dropped in the reboot. There has been no mention of it that I am aware of since the start of the 2005 season. If they were still considering it, then when the Master returned would have been a good time to mention it as he was well past his 12th regeneration prior to the reboot. Plus David Tennant started to regenerate to heal himself in an episode and shunted the extra energy to his hand at one point. I would assume that it would count as his 11th regeneration and the current would be his last if that were the case.
Properly cooked food, yes. However, most people do not eat properly cooked food - for instance, rare and medium steaks do not count as properly cooked.
I guess that depends on how you define "properly" cooked. There's a difference between cooked and sterilized you know. Personally i like my steak rare to med.-rare. If you find that it's the most flavorful after 20 minutes in an autoclave, then by all means enjoy.
Not a chance, really. You're seriously underestimating the production volume of precious metals on Earth, if you think any conceivable spacecraft could bring enough of it in to make a dent in the prices. You're also vastly underestimating the effort it would take to mine an asteroid.
And you are seriously underestimating the volatility of the commodities markets. It really doesn't matter if a mission can bring back a lot of, say, gold. If a company brings back an ounce of gold, the market will go nuts over speculation alone. Not to mention the stock of the company that managed it spiking to insane levels (and probably going bankrupt 6 months later).
Also, the OP stated that bringing a metric-fuck-ton [sic] would be the threshold. As I'm not familiar with that unit, it very well could be double the amount of gold on the entire planet for all I know. It may even be the exact mass of Voga.;-)
it's about putting the set-top box functionality into the TV.
I know it's off topic, but I find it humorous that we still call anything a "set-top box" I would guess it's been many years since anyone on/. has purchased a TV that you could place much of a box on top of. I think the last floor model console type CRT I had was over 20 years ago.
The name that has everyone snickering in Germany: A shameless attempt at raising associations with the MIT by giving a German university a similar name.
With Germans obsession with David Hasselhoff, I figured it had more to do with KITT.
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I'm asking out of ignorance—is corn much higher lately? I know it's a little higher because I could only get 3 ears for a dollar at the store instead of four.
I live in the Washington DC area, so I'm not exactly close to "corn country". But just a few years ago corn was normally 12 ears for a $1. And was often on sale for even less.
So Nebraska has something worthwhile! That is news!
With the price of corn these days, I'd say they have something else that's worthwhile.
Win7 is so much easier, so much more usable, so much powerful...
Apparently grammar correction works better in XP. ;-)
I can't imagine why anyone with the hardware to run Win7 (which isn't that much) would still WANT to run XP.
I have three computers in my house that could easily run Win7. In fact I have a copy of Win7 that's been sitting unopened on my desk for almost a year that I was intending to install on one of them.That computer is running XP64(8 GB of RAM) but I can't get motivated enough to deal with all of the software installations that are going to go along with it. My wife's laptop and two of my company laptops have Win7, which I like more than XP. But not enough to deal with the headaches of actually upgrading to it.
I don't, however, get why so many individuals free-willingly choose Windows for their personal use.
I haven't purchased an entire brand new computer in over 20 years. With Windows I can choose from a very large array of options what hardware I want to use. And I can upgrade specific bits when I need to. Cases and PSU's tend to last a very long time. As do CD/DVD ROM/burners and hard drives. I tend to upgrade the MB and CPU together. If needed the RAM at the same time. About half the time the VGA too. This tends to spread the expense out over time. Plus the hardware for a Windows/Linux/BSD system tends to be cheaper. The company I work for is almost exclusively Mac based and they seem fine to me too. But I don't see how they are any better/worse than Windows based computers either. Just slightly different. Now I won't tell anyone at work this, because I get a kick out of telling them that Windows is better and watching them go off the deep end. ;-)
Well, he could have skipped ME and XP and went from Win98 2E right to Win7 (the only 2 decent OSes out of Redmond in my lifetime).
I thought 2K was pretty good. I think I finally retired my last 2K box 3 years ago.
Unlike a satellite, a transmitter station is stationary, so you can point a nice, high-gain dish at it.
Relatively speaking a geostationary satellite is just as stationary as a ground transmitter/receiver. Neither one changes position in relation to you. A parabolic dish works just fine for a satellite too.
Also gold plated ethernet cables will make IE 7 on Joes laptop scream and look fluid like IE 9 or chrome.
The Denon AKDL1 is obviously the pinnacle of Ethernet cables, but no gold plating. It will make Joe's laptop scream like versions of IE that have yet to have been envisioned. For what it costs, it must use some kind of wormhole technology.
have bigger eyes and bigger brains to cope with poor light during long winters and cloudy days,
So the decedents of Slashdotters could develop larger eyes and brains? Hmm.
You're forgetting about THX 1138 which for a student project, starring Duvall and Pleasence, was a true sci-fi piece of brilliance. Too bad about most everything afterwards.
Actually he did two versions. Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB was the the student project in 1967. The 1971 movie THX1138 was the Warner Brothers/American Zoetrope version based on the short he did as a student in 1967.
It's a shame that the world is scared silly about anything nuclear now. I'd guess that projects like this would be more feasible with modern reactor tech.
Do you think for one second that the administration could have gotten away clean with wireless wiretapping if not for the ...
So we're talking about some type of quantum wire then?
The Peel P50 is widely recognized as a car (specifically, the smallest car ever commercially produced). It had room for one passenger, had three wheels... and a single door and a few windows. So I guess we're pretty close. Honestly, I'm surprised they didn't stick a light one-piece Lexan windscreen/canopy on it to cut down on the wind resistance.
"The P50 used a 49 cc (3.0 cu in) DKW engine which gave it a top speed of approximately 61 kilometres per hour (38 mph), and was equipped with a three-speed manual transmission that had no reverse gear. Consequently, turning in a confined area could only be achieved by pushing, or lifting the car using the handle on the rear and physically pulling it round."
"At 54 in (1,372 mm) long and 41 in (1,041 mm) wide[3] and with an unladen weight of 59 kilograms (130 lb),"
That sounds more like an enclosed, stripped down golf cart to me. It weighs almost 1/7 of the average golf cart. Finland classified it as a moped.
I'm surprised it's taken this long for this to happen. I remember "hacking" my Big Track when I was a kid by using the 1/8 inch jack that was used to activate the dumping bin to activate a solenoid. Of course my parents only allowed me to use a toy pellet gun.
"The collapsible rod extends out of the handle of the lightsaber when activated, much like a high-tech version of a toy lightsaber with a flickable blade. The plasma and magnetic field are energized immediately when powered up"
For the rod to be able to fit inside the handle it would firstly have to be of very, very thin material, otherwise it would simply not fit in there. Secondly, there's not that many ways of making something that could expand and retract in such a limit space without making it very fragile. Combine that with the aforementioned fragile material and these things wouldn't be able to even sustain their own weight; fighting with those would be completely out of the question.
I was thinking the same thing and imagining them collapsing and folding over in the same way wrapping paper tubes do when my daughter uses them as lightsabers.
Of course who knows what magical materials there must be in that galaxy from a long time ago and far far away. Judging by the size of the windows in their ships and how they can get to orbit an maneuver around in space w/o refueling they've obviously invented some pretty impressive tech.
He hasn't solved the most difficult problem, though: the noise. Normally, a light saber like that would be completely silent. How do you let it make those whooshing sounds?
The same way you did with a stick when you were a kid. Make "Vruu Vruu" noises while swinging it. ;-)
It's a shame as we're getting to the end of the regenerations, but they need to do something to give some life back to this franchise, it's a shame it's going down the toilet so fast.
I'm just guessing, but fairly sure that the 12 regenerations thing has been dropped in the reboot. There has been no mention of it that I am aware of since the start of the 2005 season. If they were still considering it, then when the Master returned would have been a good time to mention it as he was well past his 12th regeneration prior to the reboot. Plus David Tennant started to regenerate to heal himself in an episode and shunted the extra energy to his hand at one point. I would assume that it would count as his 11th regeneration and the current would be his last if that were the case.
They should do a spinoff that shows the situation from the Dalek point of view.
I don't think you really need a show to get that across. They're not exactly the most nuanced of charters, a 30 second commercial would be sufficient:
"EX-TERM-IN-ATE!"
"DALEKS-ARE-SUPREME! EVERYTHING-NOT-DALEK-MUST-BE-EXTERMINATED!
"THE-DOC-TOR-IS-THE-ENEMY!"
"EX-TERM-IN-ATE!!!"
Never mind. a 15 second commercial will do.
Properly cooked food, yes. However, most people do not eat properly cooked food - for instance, rare and medium steaks do not count as properly cooked.
I guess that depends on how you define "properly" cooked. There's a difference between cooked and sterilized you know. Personally i like my steak rare to med.-rare. If you find that it's the most flavorful after 20 minutes in an autoclave, then by all means enjoy.
At what age do men stop looking up girls dresses? Does it really matter?
I'm not even male yet even I do that, too!
With the screen name, "Gaygirlie" should I find this surprising? ;-)
Is Einhorn just pissed that the stock hasn't moved, or is he trying to manipulate the price through the media?
Yes.
Maybe not physically - but his personality is in the elephant category.
Please stop insulting elephants.
Not a chance, really. You're seriously underestimating the production volume of precious metals on Earth, if you think any conceivable spacecraft could bring enough of it in to make a dent in the prices. You're also vastly underestimating the effort it would take to mine an asteroid.
And you are seriously underestimating the volatility of the commodities markets. It really doesn't matter if a mission can bring back a lot of, say, gold. If a company brings back an ounce of gold, the market will go nuts over speculation alone. Not to mention the stock of the company that managed it spiking to insane levels (and probably going bankrupt 6 months later).
Also, the OP stated that bringing a metric-fuck-ton [sic] would be the threshold. As I'm not familiar with that unit, it very well could be double the amount of gold on the entire planet for all I know. It may even be the exact mass of Voga. ;-)
it's about putting the set-top box functionality into the TV.
I know it's off topic, but I find it humorous that we still call anything a "set-top box" I would guess it's been many years since anyone on /. has purchased a TV that you could place much of a box on top of. I think the last floor model console type CRT I had was over 20 years ago.
Residents rarely complain about a draft horse tromping through their yards
Except when he plods over certain types of drain fields for septic systems and causes thousands of dollars worth of damage.
The name that has everyone snickering in Germany: A shameless attempt at raising associations with the MIT by giving a German university a similar name.
With Germans obsession with David Hasselhoff, I figured it had more to do with KITT.