He does have some Cesium. It's sealed in a glass vial which he keeps in a locked compartment in the Periodic Table Table, along with two gold coins (because it was easier than putting a lock in Au as well. He thinks that if the glass were to break, there would be one hell of an explosion.
It's a good thing I read the PTT site a few days ago linked from the IgNoble Awards, because it's slashdotted all to hell now. If it weren't for that, I'd provide you with a link to the Cesium page.
As for Francium, I think I got to read the page for every element he had, and I don't seem to recall him having any. Some of the cool stuff he did have was some Lite Salt (NaCl/KCl mixture) which was measurably radioactive (!) because of a certain amount of natural Potassium is radioactive, and a Fiestaware bowl (which used Uranium as a dye) which was significantly radioactive and for which he made a cast lead bowl in which to store it.
A little bit of trivia: more than a few of the Wolfram Research folks have purchased samples of Tungsten. Why? Tungsten's symbol is W, representing its name in German: Wolfram.
For maximum compression, the next generation will be Ogg Blipvert. Once they get the bugs out -- one in every hundred thousand people or so explode when watching Ogg Blipvert videos.
Copyright only controls the right to copy the works: reprints of the existing materials. Trademarks cover the superhero names, logos, etc. Trademarks are much tougher to keep going, since in the USA you must actively defend them (TrademarkMan to the rescue!) or you lose them.
I've got to agree with you. I got a "speed holes" Mac last month. My previous machines were a Pismo 500 laptop (bought at deep discount when they went EOL for the TiBook) and a six year old Power Tower Pro 225 which had received enough upgrades during its life that it now runs 10.2 and is about to replace one of my old Linux servers. The Pismo itself replaced a PB 145 that I had long ago stopped using because of the lack of built-in Ethernet.
If you want a good deal at a low price, get an EOL machine just before a major (more than a speed bump) change. If you want a good deal at a high price, get a mid-range model a month or two after the same major upgrade.
I was needing an upgrade really badly, and waited for the DDR because I wanted backside server bandwidth for leeching files around the house. Otherwise I would have waited another cycle to see if they would release G5 models. I'm suspecting that G5 would be a good reason why they wouldn't be able to boot MacOS 9.
I wanted one in my hands right away, since I had just gotten the money. If I had waited another month, I'd be getting the free inDesign offer, but I don't really care about that.
One thing to point out about Macs: unlike PCs, you can keep an old Mac running reasonably well for five or six years, if you choose the right model. My PowerTower Pro replaced a IIci, and they've both proven to be quite upgradeable. The only negative with my new speed holes Mac is that I'm stuck with the 166MHz FSB.
Its like the hotels who charge $15 a night for high speed internet access.
It's not all that bad compared to the $1.50 they charge for a 12 ounce can of soda. A can of soda lasts you what, ten minutes? An hour and a half of leeching and you break even. Besides, it cuts into their PPV pr0n profits, and they have to make that up somewhere.
The original 128K Macintosh had a problem where somtimes the board could sag due to heat and short out on the RF shielding paint on the inside of the case. Apple didn't think this was much of a problem until they wanted to do a television ad... with 100 Macs running at the same time. They simply couldn't get all 100 of them to stay running at the same time long enough to film the commercial. They would crash while sitting there. So they came up with a sheet that was aluminum on one side and plastic on the other, bent to go around the ports in back, that went under the motherboard.
I know some guys at work who I'm sure would like to try wardiving (with no 'r'). All they need is someone to provide them with a couple of water-proof laptops and wireless NICs.
NWN, back then was not supposed to be a PVP game, A player could not even hit another player with his/her sword when in an "encounter" with another. But it was dicovered that magic spells did have an effect on others.
Gemstone was not supposed to be PVP either, but there were problems with the occasional PK, usually named "Chucky", after Manson. They did eventually put in ways to notify GMs of PKing in town (one time when I was stuck in a guild building with no way out, myself and another character playfully plinked each other with rapiers, knowning the GMs would get notifies). In GS3, they added automatic arrest and fines for PK in town.
Stealing they didn't have as much problem with, but the original GS2 implementation of pickpocketing allowed the thief to steal the backpack off your back! (It was stealing the wedding rings off of fingers that really pissed everyone off.) It also allowed you to steal the treasure off of genned monsters, leaving fields full of pissed off trolls with no treasure.
I think Mataga (the programmer)assumed people would cast spells to help each other. So spells like 'haste' were great. But where benificial spells helped, so did the bad spells. Fireball and hold person and lightning come to mind.
That is fscking twisted.
Three years ago when I heard about Bioware [bioware.com] making NeverWinter nights, I was taken back down memory lane. (It's only been 10 years since I played on AOL... Argh!)
I missed NWN on AOL (then again, I used a Mac, and it required a PC client based on the SSI game engine), but I eagerly await being able to set up my own world at home.
On a vaguely related note, my dual 1GHz PowerMac, which was ordered on 8/13 and quoted to ship in 3-5 business days took 8 business days to get to shipping (Jaguar will be pre-loaded).
Will be? Are you still waiting for yours? I haunted the local CompuUSA for a mere three days until they got their second shipment in (one day late). The 1gig I got had Jaguar loaded.
I wonder if the "update" is a regular boxed version. Then I could sell it on ebay. Heh. Except I don't want to bother. And it would probably be the "coupon version" anyhow.
Not like it's anything special for me; I've been running it for almost two weeks on my Powerbook. (I downloaded 6C115 from the developer site.) I've only restarted three times, and the third was to activate the Wacom drivers I installed so I could try Ink.
I find out that Mac OS X will detect when you're plugged into ethernet 'straight-though' and cross the cable with software.
That is incorrect. The feature has nothing to do with OS X (it works under 9 as well), and everything to do with the gigabit compatible version of the Ethernet hardware.
You're a Linux user and a gamer? That must be tough, with Linux game ports not selling well enough to keep companies in business. Unless you happen to like tinkering with Wine to get Windows versions of games working. I happen to not like wasting my time tinkering (which is why I hated XFree 3.x enough to not have tried 4.x) with low level stuff to get things working.
Besides, nobody is keeping you from having two computers. I have a cheap 1G Athlon box as a token W2K machine and video->TV player. I also have a couple of Linux boxes as X-less servers.
Indeed. Ask anyone who has tried to get OS X running on a pre-G3 Power Mac. I lost one of the two built-in SCSI interfaces in my PowerTower Pro, had to dump an ancient unsupported Adaptec SCSI card (and one of the drives that were attached to it), and the original ixMicro video card too. That stuff and the old Aurora Fuse video capture card will eventually go to the $60 PowerWave that I found a few months ago. And the IDE card I got wouldn't work reliably in the fast (50MHz?) PCI slots, so I had to move it to a slow (25MHz) slot.
It wouldn't even have been worth it if I hadn't got that Radeon PCI a few months before (the current 7000 series supposedly has a problem running on older Power Macs and OS X).
But the old thing won't take 10.2. I got it to install, but it crashed on startup. Good thing I installed it to a different drive and didn't trash my working 10.1.5 install. I'm getting me one of those new dual 1GHz boxes today. (I tried yesterday, but nobody had them in stock.)
But copying those 27GB Blu-Ray discs might be a problem if The Man never makes any Blu-Ray-ROM or Blu-Ray-R drives.
Making Blu-Ray players might be a problem if nobody makes any Blu-Ray-ROM drives. Have you ever opened up a cheap DVD player? The cheap ones have IDE drives inside.
Okay, so you can't add any wires that aren't already there. What wires do you already have?
For instance, the existing ISDN line could be changed (note that ISDN and DSL can't share a wire pair) to run "dry pair DSL" to a telephone junction box down the road, with equipment kept in a nearby barn, or even just a splice to connect two SDSL modems in different buildings. Or at least it could, if BT weren't such fine arseholes.
Probably the best idea is to use a mains LAN if there are existing electrical power lines. As long as all the important outlets are on the same side of the final transformer, they should be able to communicate.
Just as long as the wheel ruts on the God Planet are clearly visible. I noticed those things when I was watching it in the theatre. "What does God need with a 4x4?"
You can't seem them on the widescreen LD because there isn't enough resolution, but I could clearly see them on a pan & scan TV broadcast.
Few may be aware but 'Solothane' is not used in aerospace circles. The stuff is called 'Solithane' and while it is clear and viscous, it's a two-part mix, a bit like an epoxy resin.
Google turns up exactly one link to "blue solothane". (At least until it gets to index this article.) Guess which one. It also turns up exactly one link to "blue solithane".
During review of the PTA electronics, capacitors are found not to be staked.
This is requirement governed by the NASA workmanship standard NHB 5300.
Blue solithane is a preferred material for staking electrical components on printed circuit boards.
Looking for more info on Solithane, I find that it is a urethane polymer, commonly used as a conformal coating on printed circuit boards. Solithane 113 is pale yellow with a clear catalyst (castor oil). Some variations do include flourescent brighteners, so it is not impossible that there could indeed be a blue version.
In the current generation of telephone switch equipment, it's actually more expensive to support rotary dial, because they have to have special equipment to detect those line flashes. I'll bet most of you in US cities are on a line that doesn't support rotary dial at all.
But you're still paying extra for the phone company to provide a service that costs them less money! It's about time to switch that around and charge rotary customers (aside from grandfathering current customers) extra instead of Touch-Tone users.
Of course this will never happen, since they already consider it part of the regular phone fee, and writing it up as an extra service is just a billing formality. Rotary customers are so rare these days that they can afford to eat the extra costs.
If it does break, the phone company will supply you with another one.
Except some of these old phones simply don't break. I find good old AT&T touch phones at thrift stores every now and then. Follow that "timeless rotary traditional" link, and look at that upper-right phone. I've got one of those red desk phones, and the handset wire looks just as gangly as the one in the picture.
About the only one I have that doesn't work is a rotary phone. It doesn't work because the phone companies don't support rotary any more, except in special cases. And then they charge you less for going to the trouble of providing rotary-only service.
In about a one-week period during late September 2000, some group of people went and registered every available three-character name combination in.com and.net. The only reason I knew was because I had a 3-character.com name (picked at random using a Casio calculator's random number function and a lookup table) and one day I noticed the.net got registered. Then I looked at "nearby" names and noticed they were all recently registered too.
Just don't run 10.0 on a Pismo. Sleep mode supposedly didn't put everything to sleep, and I could see the difference between X and 9 on the battery indicator after a couple of hours of sleep. In fact, I'm quite certain that's why my original battery took only 12 months to die.
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So that's why they call those big tailpipes on the backs of sticker-laden Hondas "fart pipes"!
It's a good thing I read the PTT site a few days ago linked from the IgNoble Awards, because it's slashdotted all to hell now. If it weren't for that, I'd provide you with a link to the Cesium page.
As for Francium, I think I got to read the page for every element he had, and I don't seem to recall him having any. Some of the cool stuff he did have was some Lite Salt (NaCl/KCl mixture) which was measurably radioactive (!) because of a certain amount of natural Potassium is radioactive, and a Fiestaware bowl (which used Uranium as a dye) which was significantly radioactive and for which he made a cast lead bowl in which to store it.
A little bit of trivia: more than a few of the Wolfram Research folks have purchased samples of Tungsten. Why? Tungsten's symbol is W, representing its name in German: Wolfram.
For maximum compression, the next generation will be Ogg Blipvert. Once they get the bugs out -- one in every hundred thousand people or so explode when watching Ogg Blipvert videos.
Copyright only controls the right to copy the works: reprints of the existing materials. Trademarks cover the superhero names, logos, etc. Trademarks are much tougher to keep going, since in the USA you must actively defend them (TrademarkMan to the rescue!) or you lose them.
After Al Capone's Vault, you'd think Geraldo would be a natural choice for this event.
If you want a good deal at a low price, get an EOL machine just before a major (more than a speed bump) change. If you want a good deal at a high price, get a mid-range model a month or two after the same major upgrade.
I was needing an upgrade really badly, and waited for the DDR because I wanted backside server bandwidth for leeching files around the house. Otherwise I would have waited another cycle to see if they would release G5 models. I'm suspecting that G5 would be a good reason why they wouldn't be able to boot MacOS 9.
I wanted one in my hands right away, since I had just gotten the money. If I had waited another month, I'd be getting the free inDesign offer, but I don't really care about that.
One thing to point out about Macs: unlike PCs, you can keep an old Mac running reasonably well for five or six years, if you choose the right model. My PowerTower Pro replaced a IIci, and they've both proven to be quite upgradeable. The only negative with my new speed holes Mac is that I'm stuck with the 166MHz FSB.
It's not all that bad compared to the $1.50 they charge for a 12 ounce can of soda. A can of soda lasts you what, ten minutes? An hour and a half of leeching and you break even. Besides, it cuts into their PPV pr0n profits, and they have to make that up somewhere.
The original 128K Macintosh had a problem where somtimes the board could sag due to heat and short out on the RF shielding paint on the inside of the case. Apple didn't think this was much of a problem until they wanted to do a television ad... with 100 Macs running at the same time. They simply couldn't get all 100 of them to stay running at the same time long enough to film the commercial. They would crash while sitting there. So they came up with a sheet that was aluminum on one side and plastic on the other, bent to go around the ports in back, that went under the motherboard.
I know some guys at work who I'm sure would like to try wardiving (with no 'r'). All they need is someone to provide them with a couple of water-proof laptops and wireless NICs.
Gemstone was not supposed to be PVP either, but there were problems with the occasional PK, usually named "Chucky", after Manson. They did eventually put in ways to notify GMs of PKing in town (one time when I was stuck in a guild building with no way out, myself and another character playfully plinked each other with rapiers, knowning the GMs would get notifies). In GS3, they added automatic arrest and fines for PK in town.
Stealing they didn't have as much problem with, but the original GS2 implementation of pickpocketing allowed the thief to steal the backpack off your back! (It was stealing the wedding rings off of fingers that really pissed everyone off.) It also allowed you to steal the treasure off of genned monsters, leaving fields full of pissed off trolls with no treasure.
I think Mataga (the programmer)assumed people would cast spells to help each other. So spells like 'haste' were great. But where benificial spells helped, so did the bad spells. Fireball and hold person and lightning come to mind.
That is fscking twisted.
Three years ago when I heard about Bioware [bioware.com] making NeverWinter nights, I was taken back down memory lane. (It's only been 10 years since I played on AOL... Argh!)
I missed NWN on AOL (then again, I used a Mac, and it required a PC client based on the SSI game engine), but I eagerly await being able to set up my own world at home.
How do we make the reservations? How much do we have to pay? What about international orders?
Will be? Are you still waiting for yours? I haunted the local CompuUSA for a mere three days until they got their second shipment in (one day late). The 1gig I got had Jaguar loaded.
I wonder if the "update" is a regular boxed version. Then I could sell it on ebay. Heh. Except I don't want to bother. And it would probably be the "coupon version" anyhow.
Not like it's anything special for me; I've been running it for almost two weeks on my Powerbook. (I downloaded 6C115 from the developer site.) I've only restarted three times, and the third was to activate the Wacom drivers I installed so I could try Ink.
Any bets this crap works (if it's working at all, and not just a vaporware announcement) only under Windoze?
That is incorrect. The feature has nothing to do with OS X (it works under 9 as well), and everything to do with the gigabit compatible version of the Ethernet hardware.
Besides, nobody is keeping you from having two computers. I have a cheap 1G Athlon box as a token W2K machine and video->TV player. I also have a couple of Linux boxes as X-less servers.
It wouldn't even have been worth it if I hadn't got that Radeon PCI a few months before (the current 7000 series supposedly has a problem running on older Power Macs and OS X).
But the old thing won't take 10.2. I got it to install, but it crashed on startup. Good thing I installed it to a different drive and didn't trash my working 10.1.5 install. I'm getting me one of those new dual 1GHz boxes today. (I tried yesterday, but nobody had them in stock.)
Making Blu-Ray players might be a problem if nobody makes any Blu-Ray-ROM drives. Have you ever opened up a cheap DVD player? The cheap ones have IDE drives inside.
For instance, the existing ISDN line could be changed (note that ISDN and DSL can't share a wire pair) to run "dry pair DSL" to a telephone junction box down the road, with equipment kept in a nearby barn, or even just a splice to connect two SDSL modems in different buildings. Or at least it could, if BT weren't such fine arseholes.
Probably the best idea is to use a mains LAN if there are existing electrical power lines. As long as all the important outlets are on the same side of the final transformer, they should be able to communicate.
You can't seem them on the widescreen LD because there isn't enough resolution, but I could clearly see them on a pan & scan TV broadcast.
Google turns up exactly one link to "blue solothane". (At least until it gets to index this article.) Guess which one. It also turns up exactly one link to "blue solithane".
Looking for more info on Solithane, I find that it is a urethane polymer, commonly used as a conformal coating on printed circuit boards. Solithane 113 is pale yellow with a clear catalyst (castor oil). Some variations do include flourescent brighteners, so it is not impossible that there could indeed be a blue version.
I think this one has even been reposted twice. Mark your calendars for six months from now, folks!
But you're still paying extra for the phone company to provide a service that costs them less money! It's about time to switch that around and charge rotary customers (aside from grandfathering current customers) extra instead of Touch-Tone users.
Of course this will never happen, since they already consider it part of the regular phone fee, and writing it up as an extra service is just a billing formality. Rotary customers are so rare these days that they can afford to eat the extra costs.
Except some of these old phones simply don't break. I find good old AT&T touch phones at thrift stores every now and then. Follow that "timeless rotary traditional" link, and look at that upper-right phone. I've got one of those red desk phones, and the handset wire looks just as gangly as the one in the picture.
About the only one I have that doesn't work is a rotary phone. It doesn't work because the phone companies don't support rotary any more, except in special cases. And then they charge you less for going to the trouble of providing rotary-only service.
As I expected, they didn't get renewed.
Just don't run 10.0 on a Pismo. Sleep mode supposedly didn't put everything to sleep, and I could see the difference between X and 9 on the battery indicator after a couple of hours of sleep. In fact, I'm quite certain that's why my original battery took only 12 months to die.