I really should thank my ancestors for allowing me to comfortably suck down bowl after bowl of Rice Crispies drowning in milk someday. It's the best thing that's come about since we lost our vestigial tails, I think. Just imagine what a PITA it would be to sit down and exercise our favorite deadly sins with a tail jabbing our spines!
Yeah, but in their idea the CO2 from coal plants would be used, presumably because it will also contribute some heat, or because the co2 concentrations need to be very high, probably the latter. In their vision there is still net co2 production, just less because it gets used twice.
I dunno, I don't get their reasoning with that, if they need heat we can build big insulated solar collecting domes, and I should think that ambient atmospheric concentrations of CO2 should be enough, afterall algae and plants already get enough, I don't see why this should be different.
I do agree, though. Bio diesel is the most promising long-term, non-nuclear, totally solid idea I've ever heard. And the great thing is that we can use the sunny areas all around the world and not have to worry about energy losses in transmission so much. Oil doesn't attenuate, afterall:D
I remember this movie. It was an 80's B or C movie, called "The Stuff"... It was a really good tasting whipped-cream looking dessert, and it consumed you from the inside out. A type of mold or something that crashed in a meteor from outer space, and it was mined fron the crater. The mold could wear your body and use your brain until it decides to leave. Icky.
Yeah, they could've done quite alot differently but consider that English usage in our region has changed quite a bit since then; where "there" means when Americans actually spoke English. I feel their version sounds better, certianly more dignified.
That's really cool, the one thing they needed right after all this hoopla started was water and the basic essential stuff, and I've tried to do my part in that... The've shown airplanes and helicopters full of water, but I have to wonder where our military's water purificaion abilities are in all of this. A few rigs have got to be more efficient and more consistently productive than all the Chinooks and C5's in the world hauling bottled water.
I'm glad I've escaped the cycle of addiction. Their products are about as costly as heroin (in oh so many ways) and much more frustrating. Good riddance.
Like cloudmaster says, you're obviously of the type that don't care about how you get where you're going, so long as you get there. There's nothing wrong with that, you just don't have gasoline in your veins and you don't lust after shiny cars, and you'd probably be just as happy with mass transit if it let you haul the occasional sheet of plywood. I'll try to enlighten you to what appeals people to fast, relatively unique machines--but since you've got it in your mind that power is all that matters, you're going to be a hard case.
Real gearheads don't want fancy cars to look cool or augment their (wo)manhood. We want it because every time we look at it sitting in the driveway, our hearts skip a beat, every time we drive, we're not really driving, we're dancing... And when we really drive, we're not just blasting around corners and crunching gears, we're making love... And it's a torrid three-way between man, machine and asphalt. I won't even get into keeping it clean and maintenance!
It's a relationship that cant exist between any two other things. People get jealous if you eye the new model, you know. I understand the Chinese word for trouble can literally be interpeted as "two women under one roof". Not a problem with cars.
You still don't understand, I'm sure... Perhaps you will someday, when you see one of us passing. You might recognize us by these things: We're probably all alone with our car, we have a smile that goes ear to ear and a look that could only be caused by the injection of pure unadulterated ecstasy--joy from the gasoline gods.
Bah, who needs some fancy six station screen printing machine?
Anyone with a bit of brains, power tools, and decent ability can build a 4 color screen printing station out of nothing more than lumber and common hardware, all of which is easily obtainable from Home Depot. All you need then are screens, squeegees, masking and your consumables.
Most Nike prints I've seen are very simple, either one or two color and they're mostly just the logo at that. You could do rudimentary printing with practically nothing if it were really necessary. Of course, I'm not saying it's easy, you need all kinds of nasty chemicals and special equipment--mostly the screen and squeegee in that respect, and it really helps if you know what you're doing...
Price wise, there's no doubt in my mind that you could beat the cost of a computer+dvd burner to do a couple colors on shirts, and have a few bucks left to spend on shirts and ink. You need special equipment and knowledge to rip and burn a DVD, too, you know. The great thing about DVD burning is you don't typically need badass solvents.
The Accord Hybrid is okay, but unlike the Prius, it can't run just on battery. As long as the key is in the on position, the engine runs, but on three cylinders instead of the full six. So it really defeats the one benefit of the hybrid mode, as far as I'm concerned--not using energy when it's stopped. The electric part is activated during acceleration and is used for regenerative braking, I think. It would be stupid if they didn't, anyway. Also, the Accord hybrid comes in the high end trim package only, and is almost $8000 more than the regular accord in the same trim level (leather seats, etc). It does score you a little more acceleration, despite the 350lbs of added weight, though. (whoopie).
Furthermore, you can score a prius for $25000, and the Accord hybrid is going to cost about 30k-31. It's no wonder that the Prius is picking up everyone that wants a hybrid. It's a better deal all around. I'm sure that if the Accord hybrid was a bit better in the mileage and price departments, it would sell just fine regardless of the external styling.
No joke... The compensating argument is perhaps the most worn and contrite argument ever, and it goes to show the depth of the mind clumsily wielding it. By that metric, the Amish and various aborigines have the biggest genitals of all. I can't say if it's true or not, mind you...
Vegans and other hippies with their hybrids, metropolitian lofts, starbucks latte and hemp sandles who care to call others on their lifestyle choices can go suck roots in the jungle as far as I'm concerned; because there's sure to be some tribesman in Africa who's living closer to the earth than any of these poseurs could hope. And ultimately, isn't that were the argument goes?
People who are genuinely interested in reducing their impact on the earth are okay in my book, and I feel such a hypothetical person could own a sportscar if they were simply concious of what they were doing in other directions... Like hybrid batteries are any better in the long run than a few more cubic feet of mostly CO2. Teehee. People who are "environmental" mostly because it's fashionable deserve to be drug out into the street, shot, and then used as organic compost.
I would kill for a multi-multi player remake of Galaxy 5000 or Rock and Roll Racing... Those are two of the most fun, replayable games I've ever played, and I think they'd work very well on a portable with wireless multiplayer. I'd definitely consider getting a DS if there were something like this.
Screw that... I'd be fixing a blown small block Chevy to a ginormous grinder before I'd get one of those. I'd make the shredder only Tim Allen and myself could love! Ohhh oh oh...
Mine will shred bowling balls, whole cabinets full of 3-ring binders and an entire meeting room full of PHBs... All at once!
I'm the evil midnight shredder what shreds at midnight! Bwahahahahaha! --It's the only jib I've got Baby!
I had a hard enough time parsing this comment, but it seems you completely fail at understanding why a mainframe is necessary when it's necessary. It's about never going down, ever. Who cares about the hardware or the software? Who cares if it were written in C or anything else? As long as it does the job that's being asked of it with relative efficiency, then that's all she wrote. End of story.
Software has evolved from a usability standpoint, but there are mainframes out there running basically the same stuff that was written in the 70's. The software hasn't had to change because the job asked of it hasn't changed. It's not about netscape or Windows, it's about doing a relative few tasks, doing them precisely and unfailably.
Hell yes, I'd pay too. Between having an unmolested Top Gear and some of that wacky British humor, and no commercial interruptions, it would be very much worth it.
An anonymous coward calling bullshit, or dearest me! Whatever should I do?!
If it must be known--if you dare come back to read, that is--my cousin who was a BBS freak set the modem up because dad was that much of a moran, he set up the terminal, and I watchec, he showed dad the basics, and I understood most of it. I was born in Early 81, and it was mid-late '85 when this came about--the modem was an early Christmas gift to himself. Do the math. **I** had to show him how to use it when Cousin Greg wasn't around. Oh, and I was reading competantly earlier than two, and by the time I was six I was enjoying fiction that most highschoolers still wouldn't comprehend.
No, in fact, I was born in 1981 and the movie came out in 1984 apparently... I'm certian I watched it at a theatre. I was pretty small and already I was headed towards geekdom. It wasn't too long after that when Dad got me an R/C car kit, and I put it together before he got the chance. I did everything but the gearbox and paint! After that he got an IBM XT because he thought he had a use for it (he's a computer dolt, was and still is). That thing had to cost an arm and a leg, too... I took that over and frequented a few BBSes back '85 or so (after he decided he wanted a modem), the rest is history, as they say.
Anyway, no, this isn't an Ebayed UID (honestly, who'd be pathetic enough to do that--especially for an ID this high). I had an ID in the 3000 area once upon a time, but I only posted a couple times before I forgot the password and changed ISP (lost the registration e-mail address.) I lost interest because/. just wasn't appealing and like a year later or so I came back. Never would've guessed it would get this big!
One of my first memories that I still remember is when my parents were watching Dune the movie. Holy shit that creeped me out, those worms with the lightning and that fat flying bastard... I must've been 2 or 3.
I agree, there are some things kids shouldn't see--they're smarter and more aware than most adults would like to give them credit for... And I know that if I ever see a giant fat man eating worm that spits lightning, I'ma runnin' away screamin like a little girl!
Woohoo. I'm glad I haven't entirely lost it:D And yeah, I take time to clean after I shoot, so that's not a big concern to me--it's not like I have to do it in the field or anything. Very interesting stuff, as always.
I'm sure I read in a magazine somewhere a while ago that the.223 Rem is actually.222, but since there's like 5 different.222 (Specials, Magnums, Winchester, etc) cartriges by various makers Remington decided to call it a.223 just so there would be no confusion, or something like that. It's been a long time ago, but I do recall it. Of course, that dosen't mean that the writer wasn't full of shit, and therefore so I am by associative property:O
I think part of the different bullet weight and power charges was that the military wanted a higer down range velocity than the standard.223, in addition to what you said about buildup. I don't see powder having a signifigant impact on rate of fire, because as I understand it (at least on gas operated guns), that's determined mostly by the length and location of the gas tube.
I'm almost entirely certian that I've fired NATO rounds through my AR-15 with no event, though I have a 1:9 barrel and typically shoot 60 grain loads, it would be a very similar round to what I'm used to. Hrm, anyway. This is very interesting, but Gawd, all this gun talk makes me want to run to the range. It's been entirely too long!
Doesn't the.223 Remington (which is really a.222, IIRC) have the exact same dimensions of the 5.56x45 NATO round? If I'm not mistaken, the only difference is that the NATO round has a grain or two more charge. That would have an impact on the rifling twist that the round could be capable of... It would have to be a bit "slower" of a twist to accomidate a faster round. Aside from that I'd guess that most.223 Remington civilian guns could fire the NATO rounds just fine.
Yeah, you're right, if Eterm (or another terminal that was as snappy) supported those features, I wouldn't complain, and I'd probably even use them occasionally. Those things would probably be innanely simple to implement in Eterm, too-the tabs being a little more difficult. I think, though, that tabs would probably end up confusing me more than helping:D
I'll give gnome's terminal another try here to see if it's improved since the last time I regularly used it--which was when I was using some Linux machines at school where we didn't have the ability to install Eterm:( Never know, I guess!
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This is almost the same plot to a Star Trek next generation episode, and just about the opposite to a Red Dwarf episode, too. (ick)
I really should thank my ancestors for allowing me to comfortably suck down bowl after bowl of Rice Crispies drowning in milk someday. It's the best thing that's come about since we lost our vestigial tails, I think. Just imagine what a PITA it would be to sit down and exercise our favorite deadly sins with a tail jabbing our spines!
Yeah, but in their idea the CO2 from coal plants would be used, presumably because it will also contribute some heat, or because the co2 concentrations need to be very high, probably the latter. In their vision there is still net co2 production, just less because it gets used twice.
:D
I dunno, I don't get their reasoning with that, if they need heat we can build big insulated solar collecting domes, and I should think that ambient atmospheric concentrations of CO2 should be enough, afterall algae and plants already get enough, I don't see why this should be different.
I do agree, though. Bio diesel is the most promising long-term, non-nuclear, totally solid idea I've ever heard. And the great thing is that we can use the sunny areas all around the world and not have to worry about energy losses in transmission so much. Oil doesn't attenuate, afterall
I remember this movie. It was an 80's B or C movie, called "The Stuff"... It was a really good tasting whipped-cream looking dessert, and it consumed you from the inside out. A type of mold or something that crashed in a meteor from outer space, and it was mined fron the crater. The mold could wear your body and use your brain until it decides to leave. Icky.
Yeah, they could've done quite alot differently but consider that English usage in our region has changed quite a bit since then; where "there" means when Americans actually spoke English. I feel their version sounds better, certianly more dignified.
That's really cool, the one thing they needed right after all this hoopla started was water and the basic essential stuff, and I've tried to do my part in that... The've shown airplanes and helicopters full of water, but I have to wonder where our military's water purificaion abilities are in all of this. A few rigs have got to be more efficient and more consistently productive than all the Chinooks and C5's in the world hauling bottled water.
I'm glad I've escaped the cycle of addiction. Their products are about as costly as heroin (in oh so many ways) and much more frustrating. Good riddance.
Like cloudmaster says, you're obviously of the type that don't care about how you get where you're going, so long as you get there. There's nothing wrong with that, you just don't have gasoline in your veins and you don't lust after shiny cars, and you'd probably be just as happy with mass transit if it let you haul the occasional sheet of plywood. I'll try to enlighten you to what appeals people to fast, relatively unique machines--but since you've got it in your mind that power is all that matters, you're going to be a hard case.
Real gearheads don't want fancy cars to look cool or augment their (wo)manhood. We want it because every time we look at it sitting in the driveway, our hearts skip a beat, every time we drive, we're not really driving, we're dancing... And when we really drive, we're not just blasting around corners and crunching gears, we're making love... And it's a torrid three-way between man, machine and asphalt. I won't even get into keeping it clean and maintenance!
It's a relationship that cant exist between any two other things. People get jealous if you eye the new model, you know. I understand the Chinese word for trouble can literally be interpeted as "two women under one roof". Not a problem with cars.
You still don't understand, I'm sure... Perhaps you will someday, when you see one of us passing. You might recognize us by these things: We're probably all alone with our car, we have a smile that goes ear to ear and a look that could only be caused by the injection of pure unadulterated ecstasy--joy from the gasoline gods.
Bah, who needs some fancy six station screen printing machine?
Anyone with a bit of brains, power tools, and decent ability can build a 4 color screen printing station out of nothing more than lumber and common hardware, all of which is easily obtainable from Home Depot. All you need then are screens, squeegees, masking and your consumables.
Most Nike prints I've seen are very simple, either one or two color and they're mostly just the logo at that. You could do rudimentary printing with practically nothing if it were really necessary. Of course, I'm not saying it's easy, you need all kinds of nasty chemicals and special equipment--mostly the screen and squeegee in that respect, and it really helps if you know what you're doing...
Price wise, there's no doubt in my mind that you could beat the cost of a computer+dvd burner to do a couple colors on shirts, and have a few bucks left to spend on shirts and ink. You need special equipment and knowledge to rip and burn a DVD, too, you know. The great thing about DVD burning is you don't typically need badass solvents.
Oh, I think I've seen those... Are they by chance near the Scientologist's secret bunkers?
The Accord Hybrid is okay, but unlike the Prius, it can't run just on battery. As long as the key is in the on position, the engine runs, but on three cylinders instead of the full six. So it really defeats the one benefit of the hybrid mode, as far as I'm concerned--not using energy when it's stopped. The electric part is activated during acceleration and is used for regenerative braking, I think. It would be stupid if they didn't, anyway. Also, the Accord hybrid comes in the high end trim package only, and is almost $8000 more than the regular accord in the same trim level (leather seats, etc). It does score you a little more acceleration, despite the 350lbs of added weight, though. (whoopie).
Furthermore, you can score a prius for $25000, and the Accord hybrid is going to cost about 30k-31. It's no wonder that the Prius is picking up everyone that wants a hybrid. It's a better deal all around. I'm sure that if the Accord hybrid was a bit better in the mileage and price departments, it would sell just fine regardless of the external styling.
No joke... The compensating argument is perhaps the most worn and contrite argument ever, and it goes to show the depth of the mind clumsily wielding it. By that metric, the Amish and various aborigines have the biggest genitals of all. I can't say if it's true or not, mind you...
Vegans and other hippies with their hybrids, metropolitian lofts, starbucks latte and hemp sandles who care to call others on their lifestyle choices can go suck roots in the jungle as far as I'm concerned; because there's sure to be some tribesman in Africa who's living closer to the earth than any of these poseurs could hope. And ultimately, isn't that were the argument goes?
People who are genuinely interested in reducing their impact on the earth are okay in my book, and I feel such a hypothetical person could own a sportscar if they were simply concious of what they were doing in other directions... Like hybrid batteries are any better in the long run than a few more cubic feet of mostly CO2. Teehee. People who are "environmental" mostly because it's fashionable deserve to be drug out into the street, shot, and then used as organic compost.
I would kill for a multi-multi player remake of Galaxy 5000 or Rock and Roll Racing... Those are two of the most fun, replayable games I've ever played, and I think they'd work very well on a portable with wireless multiplayer. I'd definitely consider getting a DS if there were something like this.
Screw that... I'd be fixing a blown small block Chevy to a ginormous grinder before I'd get one of those. I'd make the shredder only Tim Allen and myself could love! Ohhh oh oh...
Mine will shred bowling balls, whole cabinets full of 3-ring binders and an entire meeting room full of PHBs... All at once!
I'm the evil midnight shredder what shreds at midnight! Bwahahahahaha!
--It's the only jib I've got Baby!
I had a hard enough time parsing this comment, but it seems you completely fail at understanding why a mainframe is necessary when it's necessary. It's about never going down, ever. Who cares about the hardware or the software? Who cares if it were written in C or anything else? As long as it does the job that's being asked of it with relative efficiency, then that's all she wrote. End of story.
Software has evolved from a usability standpoint, but there are mainframes out there running basically the same stuff that was written in the 70's. The software hasn't had to change because the job asked of it hasn't changed. It's not about netscape or Windows, it's about doing a relative few tasks, doing them precisely and unfailably.
It's a trap!
Hell yes, I'd pay too. Between having an unmolested Top Gear and some of that wacky British humor, and no commercial interruptions, it would be very much worth it.
An anonymous coward calling bullshit, or dearest me! Whatever should I do?!
If it must be known--if you dare come back to read, that is--my cousin who was a BBS freak set the modem up because dad was that much of a moran, he set up the terminal, and I watchec, he showed dad the basics, and I understood most of it. I was born in Early 81, and it was mid-late '85 when this came about--the modem was an early Christmas gift to himself. Do the math. **I** had to show him how to use it when Cousin Greg wasn't around. Oh, and I was reading competantly earlier than two, and by the time I was six I was enjoying fiction that most highschoolers still wouldn't comprehend.
Not to be a braggart, but that's the fact, Jack.
No, in fact, I was born in 1981 and the movie came out in 1984 apparently... I'm certian I watched it at a theatre. I was pretty small and already I was headed towards geekdom. It wasn't too long after that when Dad got me an R/C car kit, and I put it together before he got the chance. I did everything but the gearbox and paint! After that he got an IBM XT because he thought he had a use for it (he's a computer dolt, was and still is). That thing had to cost an arm and a leg, too... I took that over and frequented a few BBSes back '85 or so (after he decided he wanted a modem), the rest is history, as they say.
/. just wasn't appealing and like a year later or so I came back. Never would've guessed it would get this big!
Anyway, no, this isn't an Ebayed UID (honestly, who'd be pathetic enough to do that--especially for an ID this high). I had an ID in the 3000 area once upon a time, but I only posted a couple times before I forgot the password and changed ISP (lost the registration e-mail address.) I lost interest because
Those worms still freak me out!
One of my first memories that I still remember is when my parents were watching Dune the movie. Holy shit that creeped me out, those worms with the lightning and that fat flying bastard... I must've been 2 or 3.
I agree, there are some things kids shouldn't see--they're smarter and more aware than most adults would like to give them credit for... And I know that if I ever see a giant fat man eating worm that spits lightning, I'ma runnin' away screamin like a little girl!
Woohoo. I'm glad I haven't entirely lost it :D And yeah, I take time to clean after I shoot, so that's not a big concern to me--it's not like I have to do it in the field or anything. Very interesting stuff, as always.
I'm sure I read in a magazine somewhere a while ago that the .223 Rem is actually .222, but since there's like 5 different .222 (Specials, Magnums, Winchester, etc) cartriges by various makers Remington decided to call it a .223 just so there would be no confusion, or something like that. It's been a long time ago, but I do recall it. Of course, that dosen't mean that the writer wasn't full of shit, and therefore so I am by associative property :O
.223, in addition to what you said about buildup. I don't see powder having a signifigant impact on rate of fire, because as I understand it (at least on gas operated guns), that's determined mostly by the length and location of the gas tube.
I think part of the different bullet weight and power charges was that the military wanted a higer down range velocity than the standard
I'm almost entirely certian that I've fired NATO rounds through my AR-15 with no event, though I have a 1:9 barrel and typically shoot 60 grain loads, it would be a very similar round to what I'm used to. Hrm, anyway. This is very interesting, but Gawd, all this gun talk makes me want to run to the range. It's been entirely too long!
Doesn't the .223 Remington (which is really a .222, IIRC) have the exact same dimensions of the 5.56x45 NATO round? If I'm not mistaken, the only difference is that the NATO round has a grain or two more charge. That would have an impact on the rifling twist that the round could be capable of... It would have to be a bit "slower" of a twist to accomidate a faster round. Aside from that I'd guess that most .223 Remington civilian guns could fire the NATO rounds just fine.
Yeah, you're right, if Eterm (or another terminal that was as snappy) supported those features, I wouldn't complain, and I'd probably even use them occasionally. Those things would probably be innanely simple to implement in Eterm, too-the tabs being a little more difficult. I think, though, that tabs would probably end up confusing me more than helping :D
:( Never know, I guess!
I'll give gnome's terminal another try here to see if it's improved since the last time I regularly used it--which was when I was using some Linux machines at school where we didn't have the ability to install Eterm