Don't give up though. Plenty of things generate a magnetic field. Maybe if you design it to get its energy from any type of magnetic or rf field (after all that cellphone spends plenty of transmission time next to your watch) then it could snarf up juice from wherever ya go:)
Considering all of the miserable failures that have occurred so far in past Mars missions I am hoping that the meters/inches thing doesn't rear its ugly head again... that was just plain embarrasing.
Someone should start a deathpool for this one. Time/date of failure and then a seperate pool for what will be the lame excuse.
I hate to sound so negative but the rate of success on these missions is really frustrating. The missions went so much better when they were planned redundancies in the entire project like Viking 1 & 2. The cost of building two shouldn't double the cost of the entire project. In R&D the cost of two is usually 1.5-1.7 times the cost of building just one.
Hopefully this goes well and I can cheer up about it but until then I am not getting my hopes up on this one.
Our organization has been very busy. Check my posts from yesterday. People in Dade County FL can use our site as the day goes on to help in our efforts. Click here or cut and paste [http://ckfonline.org/arc/]. Thanks for everyones help everywhere.
As I write this preparations or underway to turn our studio into an emergency blood donation center for the American Red Cross. They need help. Business want to help but most do not have the advantage we (martial art schools across the US) do; lots of floor space for them to setup.
If you can't help this way please just go and donate blood today.
My prayers go out to the hundreds, if not thousands of families who lost a loved one today. NYC is my home town. All I can do from 1375 miles away I will.
We are turning our business into an emergency blood donation center for the red cross. I ask that anyone who has a business that has a large amount of free space to donate it as an emergency center for the ARC to setup at.
If you cannot do that please just go and donate blood. It is desperately needed for the hundreds if not thousands injured today.
We are turning our business into an emergency blood donation center for the red cross. I ask that anyone who has a business that has a large amount of free space to donate it as an emergency center for the ARC to setup at.
If you cannot do that please just go and donate blood. It is desperately needed.
Actually if you look back and do a quick scroll down to my previous post on this subject you will see the number is actually quite higher.
The two layers of metal were folded 19 times giving just over half a million layers. If you folded 20 times the sword became too brittle etc. The number 19 also had some other signifigance to the Japanese but the reason escapes me at the moment.
I always thought the word 'but' was the most negative conjunction in the language. Seems you can't really use it in a sentence without it negating the thought that preceeded it.
Dell has never offered Linux on their laptops.
Not true. I was given this option when I ordered my inspiron 7500. I did order it over the phone though. No matter how many times I tried to get their website to quote it with linux installed their website always finished the quote with win2k.
Their site has tons of glitches and is missing a lot of the options available. Call for your order instead of placing it online and you'll be much happier.
Progress like this is really nice to see. I liked the fact that the article didn't come across as one of 'those Linux Zealot' articles and stuck to a well toned and well written piece. The disposable hardware concept is good too considering how cheap they can get it.
That damned Weather Channel site just started using the Pop up ads. Nice to know; the NOAA sites were already paid for by our tax dollars, zero ads and really useful data.
And all this time they have been saying that computers would save us time and make us work less... Funny how we work more and watch that damn hourglass flip over and over and over and over..
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Eddie VanHalen was a fanatic about cables and sound in his guitar rig. GFTPM ran articles back in the early eighties about him recording via patch cable direct into the recording console. I thought he was a nut until I tried it. The difference in sound quality vs. cable lenghth was amazing. I went from a 20 whirlwhind cobra coil to small patches staright into the console for that stuff right after that.
I never bought into what the specs of equipment were after that. Went for what sounded good. The specs can be pretty much taken as marketing bs. My point is if you are grinning like an idiot when you hear something that sounds as wonderful as it possibly could, the hairs on the nape of your neck standing and a shiver through your body... don't think your the only one:)
Jello is made of carageenan which is a naturally occuring substance found in seeweed. When I was a kid we made a seeweed tea that turned into jello in school. It wasn't bad actually.
Interesting side note; they use carageenan as an additive to some concretes when building structures where the concrete has to be a more consistant density throughout. Most commonly the walls of cooling/reactor towers in nuclear plants.
Too things. First you missed a great opportunity to bash the 'Mystery Meat' Navigation that a lot of flash designers think is acceptable (good god man, a button that brings up a 3d icon and no text label as to where it goes or what it does is Just Plain Dumb®). Second, after reading Phillip G's most excellent works people should go read;
Well those should be a good start. I couldn't verify the links (my ISP's DNS is borked and the only pages I could pull this morning are slash and cnn) Sorry if they don't work but I am sure you can read them in google's cache if the sites are down.
fyi... your adsl pipe is weak and inferior;) I have 1.1M sdsl service and on any given thursday/friday/saturday/sunday the gameplay on battlenet ranges pings from 30 to 10,000. From what I can see the desynch of games and player gets unplayable at 7,000 games. Log on and see more than that running and your dsl will not save you.It is not a rumor it is the hard cold truth. I've had people comeover to play on bnet frustrated because their dialup made gameplay unplayable only to discover the joys of battlenet are not bandwidth related from an end user point of view.
Diablo is a fun game... to a point. I have to say I absolutely hate the fact that for all the money Blizzard is reaping on sales they are jerks in that they are unwilling to add more server capacity to the realms. Over 7,000 games running on any given realm and the game is completely unplayable regardless of your connection type.
I don't think I'll buy the expansion until they improve the service.
It's because the american sheeple are so puritanical (and wholly hippocritical;)that they are fascinated with the taboo sex stuff. Funny (ironic really) how here porn is considered bad and pushed away into the 18+ crowd for sale in stores with blacked out windows to protect us from ourselves. In other places like europe it is a tolerated and open subject matter. The difference being? USians have a much higher sex crime rate (for all that protection from the evil pr0n, imho) than anywhere else on the planet. I for one would rather see the games lean more towards the sex than violence.
Wouldn't it be nice to see a wave of sex spreading across the us again (make love not war, sound familiar?) instead of the rampaging uberviolence we see in our schools? yeah, there are downside to that too(aids, pregnancy, etc.) and I know I am going to get flamed for it but the teen attitude of the 60's and 70's didn't get their classmates killed like it did in the 90's and 00's.
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Don't give up though. Plenty of things generate a magnetic field. Maybe if you design it to get its energy from any type of magnetic or rf field (after all that cellphone spends plenty of transmission time next to your watch) then it could snarf up juice from wherever ya go:)
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yeah... I know. They set out to do the impossible on tiny budgets with an infintessimly small margin for error.
I still wish they would go back to doubles on projects. Budgets be dammed. Then we would have a 1.0 and a 1.1 flying out there again.
hrm... I was thinking that a silo would already be redundantly wired to the backbones...
Considering all of the miserable failures that have occurred so far in past Mars missions I am hoping that the meters/inches thing doesn't rear its ugly head again... that was just plain embarrasing.
Someone should start a deathpool for this one. Time/date of failure and then a seperate pool for what will be the lame excuse.
I hate to sound so negative but the rate of success on these missions is really frustrating. The missions went so much better when they were planned redundancies in the entire project like Viking 1 & 2. The cost of building two shouldn't double the cost of the entire project. In R&D the cost of two is usually 1.5-1.7 times the cost of building just one.
Hopefully this goes well and I can cheer up about it but until then I am not getting my hopes up on this one.
Our organization has been very busy. Check my posts from yesterday. People in Dade County FL can use our site as the day goes on to help in our efforts. Click here or cut and paste [http://ckfonline.org/arc/]. Thanks for everyones help everywhere.
As I write this preparations or underway to turn our studio into an emergency blood donation center for the American Red Cross. They need help. Business want to help but most do not have the advantage we (martial art schools across the US) do; lots of floor space for them to setup.
If you can't help this way please just go and donate blood today.
My prayers go out to the hundreds, if not thousands of families who lost a loved one today. NYC is my home town. All I can do from 1375 miles away I will.
Peace,
Sandor Urban
We are turning our business into an emergency blood donation center for the red cross. I ask that anyone who has a business that has a large amount of free space to donate it as an emergency center for the ARC to setup at.
If you cannot do that please just go and donate blood. It is desperately needed for the hundreds if not thousands injured today.
We are turning our business into an emergency blood donation center for the red cross. I ask that anyone who has a business that has a large amount of free space to donate it as an emergency center for the ARC to setup at.
If you cannot do that please just go and donate blood. It is desperately needed.
...I find much greater gratification from seeing downloads of my software... So... buying some ads for you on Google would be a Good Thing ® then eh?
woah... thanks man:)
That was totally more info than i ever expected as a reply.
Actually if you look back and do a quick scroll down to my previous post on this subject you will see the number is actually quite higher. The two layers of metal were folded 19 times giving just over half a million layers. If you folded 20 times the sword became too brittle etc. The number 19 also had some other signifigance to the Japanese but the reason escapes me at the moment.
I always thought the word 'but' was the most negative conjunction in the language. Seems you can't really use it in a sentence without it negating the thought that preceeded it.
Dell has never offered Linux on their laptops. Not true. I was given this option when I ordered my inspiron 7500. I did order it over the phone though. No matter how many times I tried to get their website to quote it with linux installed their website always finished the quote with win2k. Their site has tons of glitches and is missing a lot of the options available. Call for your order instead of placing it online and you'll be much happier.
after the guy goes and reads the story on slashdot and realizes Radeck is on the way.
here is another hugh priced limited function controller that aint cheap
Progress like this is really nice to see. I liked the fact that the article didn't come across as one of 'those Linux Zealot' articles and stuck to a well toned and well written piece. The disposable hardware concept is good too considering how cheap they can get it.
That damned Weather Channel site just started using the Pop up ads. Nice to know; the NOAA sites were already paid for by our tax dollars, zero ads and really useful data.
And all this time they have been saying that computers would save us time and make us work less... Funny how we work more and watch that damn hourglass flip over and over and over and over..
Eddie VanHalen was a fanatic about cables and sound in his guitar rig. GFTPM ran articles back in the early eighties about him recording via patch cable direct into the recording console. I thought he was a nut until I tried it. The difference in sound quality vs. cable lenghth was amazing. I went from a 20 whirlwhind cobra coil to small patches staright into the console for that stuff right after that. I never bought into what the specs of equipment were after that. Went for what sounded good. The specs can be pretty much taken as marketing bs. My point is if you are grinning like an idiot when you hear something that sounds as wonderful as it possibly could, the hairs on the nape of your neck standing and a shiver through your body ... don't think your the only one :)
Jello is made of carageenan which is a naturally occuring substance found in seeweed. When I was a kid we made a seeweed tea that turned into jello in school. It wasn't bad actually. Interesting side note; they use carageenan as an additive to some concretes when building structures where the concrete has to be a more consistant density throughout. Most commonly the walls of cooling/reactor towers in nuclear plants.
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Well those should be a good start. I couldn't verify the links (my ISP's DNS is borked and the only pages I could pull this morning are slash and cnn) Sorry if they don't work but I am sure you can read them in google's cache if the sites are down.fyi... your adsl pipe is weak and inferior ;) I have 1.1M sdsl service and on any given thursday/friday/saturday/sunday the gameplay on battlenet ranges pings from 30 to 10,000. From what I can see the desynch of games and player gets unplayable at 7,000 games. Log on and see more than that running and your dsl will not save you.It is not a rumor it is the hard cold truth. I've had people comeover to play on bnet frustrated because their dialup made gameplay unplayable only to discover the joys of battlenet are not bandwidth related from an end user point of view.
Diablo is a fun game... to a point. I have to say I absolutely hate the fact that for all the money Blizzard is reaping on sales they are jerks in that they are unwilling to add more server capacity to the realms. Over 7,000 games running on any given realm and the game is completely unplayable regardless of your connection type. I don't think I'll buy the expansion until they improve the service.
It's because the american sheeple are so puritanical (and wholly hippocritical;)that they are fascinated with the taboo sex stuff. Funny (ironic really) how here porn is considered bad and pushed away into the 18+ crowd for sale in stores with blacked out windows to protect us from ourselves. In other places like europe it is a tolerated and open subject matter. The difference being? USians have a much higher sex crime rate (for all that protection from the evil pr0n, imho) than anywhere else on the planet. I for one would rather see the games lean more towards the sex than violence.
Wouldn't it be nice to see a wave of sex spreading across the us again (make love not war, sound familiar?) instead of the rampaging uberviolence we see in our schools? yeah, there are downside to that too(aids, pregnancy, etc.) and I know I am going to get flamed for it but the teen attitude of the 60's and 70's didn't get their classmates killed like it did in the 90's and 00's.