Wohoo a serial number tattooed on your forearm. The extra advantage is, that concentration camp survivors come pre-tattooed so the state can save a few bucks right there.
(Yes it's a sick comment, but this is a sick plan so what do you expect?)
BeOS was a marketing disaster, and Plan9 was never more than a proof of concept, that doesn't mean that their core ideas were bad, just that their time hasn't come yet.
Squeak is another 'proof of concept' system with a lot of promising ideas. (Finally a system where you can rotate your windows 37.5 degrees anticlockwise. Pointless but very cool)
It will probably take another 50 years or so, before a viable OS is built based on these ideas (Squeak for example needs a host OS and has no security at all, making it useless for real world applications), and until that time, we'll have to get by with Unix variants. Just remember that computing today is extremely primitive compared to both the visions and working prototypes of the 1960s and 70s. We have made enormous advances in hardware, but progress in software engineering seems to have stalled in the early '80s.
(Personally I blame Bill Gates and Bjarne Soustrup for that, but I have no hard evidence to back it up)
As it is, the cold cathode fluorescent lamp in LCDs doesn't last all that long. 50k-100k hours before it loses 50% of its brightness.
Our definitions of 'not long' seem to differ slightly. 50k-100k hours is about six to twelve years running contiuously, or about 15-30 years if you get off the couch once in a while and have your TV on for ten hours a day. I can't remember a CRT that was still crisp and bright after 20 years in service.
Yet for some reason I think that the French were fully justified in sinking the Rainbow Warrior.
You approve of bombing a ship and killing one of it's crew? That's tantamount to condoning state sponsored terrorism. Expect a visit from law enforcement any minute now.
If you read the fine print, Russia will hire George Lucas to create a special-effect driven "Your Trip to The Moon" film for $100 million.
I can see it now:
Space tourist: "But Mr. Lucas, when I went to the moon there were no annoying muppets on board!"
GL:"I know, but I always felt there should be annoying racially stereotyped muppets on the moon, and with your money I could finally realise my vision."
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I can feel the freedom from here.
So is there a way to try this out without having to register on a forum where the vast majority of downloaders will never post?
I understand that they want to keep the bandwith bills down, but would it be too hard to put up a torrent or provide an ed2k:// link? It would certainly help spreading the word (and the code) much quicker.
I know this looks like BS on the surface, but just possibly they had an epiphany no one else has had and figured out a better way.
To paraphrase a great man who passed away yesterday: "You cannot change the laws of physics"
Current Peltier elements simply aren't that efficient. And building a novel Peltier element (which is the only way to increase total efficiency) requires quite a bit more than two guys in a garage.
we geeks are pretty much pacifists and don't care about this stuff.
You misspelled apathetic.
Seriously, this attitude is why crappy patents and laws like the DMCA are passed uncontested. It's all very nice living with blinkers on your eyes, ignoring the real world, but don't go crying when that world rudely intrudes on your own life.
If you really were a pacifist, then you should be extremely interested in the ways states have of hurting dissenters, since this thing could be used against you or your fellow humans (but not while you're locked in your bedroom playing Everquest) Not to mention that inhumane weaponry like this is the best propaganda tool for those opposing war.
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Further proof that manned missions capture the public imagination far better than unmanned missions.
I'm usually the first to accuse Americans of not caring about the world outside the US borders, but since they are commemorating the first man on the moon, it stands to reason that they only mark the manned moon missions.
Sure, as a geek I love the idea of humanoid robots, but in practice how useful can they be?
Sheesh! If you had WTFV, you would have your answer: Cute little humanoid robots attract pretty girls. This is important news for nerds, it may even be stuff that matters.
Come on, this isn't a site for little nifty hacks, its for news.
It is? Now that's news to me. I always thought that the "News for nerds. Stuff that matters" bit was meant ironically. Perhaps someone should inform the editors.
I don't know if they plan to market this as the cheery hydrogen fuel that produces only water as a byproduct, but this process produces large quantities of sodium hydroxide (better known as lye) as a byproduct. So unless they have a way to recycle the waste products back into metallic sodium this will not be a clean fuel.
Signa claims "non-toxic by-products and waste", but I'm very sceptical about this claim. (Unless you don't count extremely corrosive as toxic, in which case I urge their entire PR department to prove non-toxicity by drinking a bottle of lye.)
In an inertial reference frame you would be absolutely correct, however, a coordinate system rotating with the earth moon system is in acceleration (since the direction of the speeds varies constantly) so other rules apply and suddenly a centrifugal force (dependent on the distance from the center of gravity of the system) and a coriolis force (dependent on the speed of the object relative to the frame of reference) appear as if by magic.
They may not be real by your standards, but since they can be used to make accurate calculations, they are real enough.
Saying there is no such thing is like saying there is no such thing as gravitational force (Objects keep moving in a straight line, it's just space that happens to be curved). It's partly true in a pedantic sort of way, but it is irrelevant in daily practice.
Next you'll be telling us that other old chestnut of incompetent high school physics teachers, namely that all objects always fall at the same rate (conveniently ignoring atmospheric friction).
Jokes are often an expression of societies deepest fears. They are a way of coping with a bad situation. Therefore it is not only expected that there are many so called 'sick' jokes out there, it is to be encouraged.
Not laughing at the awful reality of this world is a ticket to paralysing neurosis. This might explain why the 'politically correct' are full of talk but without any real power. They are so concerned about the wrongs in the world that they can't find the energy to right them.
So I will continue to laugh at AIDS jokes, prison-rape jokes and dead baby jokes. It's the only way to retain enough sanity to actually improve the world.
Hydrogen stores energy without any problem, but storing the hydrogen is difficult. Hydrogen will not liquify at room temperature, so you either have to carry cylinders of gas at high pressure, cryogenic tanks to keep it liquid (which is no problem when you fill up the Space Shuttle, but having slowly boiling hydrogen in your car makes storing it in a garage impossible) or turn it into a metal hydride, which means carrying around a tank filled with wire mesh, which is very heavy. Without these problems we would have had hydrogen powered cars thirty years ago.
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Wohoo a serial number tattooed on your forearm. The extra advantage is, that concentration camp survivors come pre-tattooed so the state can save a few bucks right there.
(Yes it's a sick comment, but this is a sick plan so what do you expect?)
BeOS was a marketing disaster, and Plan9 was never more than a proof of concept, that doesn't mean that their core ideas were bad, just that their time hasn't come yet.
Squeak is another 'proof of concept' system with a lot of promising ideas. (Finally a system where you can rotate your windows 37.5 degrees anticlockwise. Pointless but very cool)
It will probably take another 50 years or so, before a viable OS is built based on these ideas (Squeak for example needs a host OS and has no security at all, making it useless for real world applications), and until that time, we'll have to get by with Unix variants. Just remember that computing today is extremely primitive compared to both the visions and working prototypes of the 1960s and 70s. We have made enormous advances in hardware, but progress in software engineering seems to have stalled in the early '80s.
(Personally I blame Bill Gates and Bjarne Soustrup for that, but I have no hard evidence to back it up)
As it is, the cold cathode fluorescent lamp in LCDs doesn't last all that long. 50k-100k hours before it loses 50% of its brightness.
Our definitions of 'not long' seem to differ slightly. 50k-100k hours is about six to twelve years running contiuously, or about 15-30 years if you get off the couch once in a while and have your TV on for ten hours a day. I can't remember a CRT that was still crisp and bright after 20 years in service.
Yet for some reason I think that the French were fully justified in sinking the Rainbow Warrior.
You approve of bombing a ship and killing one of it's crew? That's tantamount to condoning state sponsored terrorism. Expect a visit from law enforcement any minute now.
If you read the fine print, Russia will hire George Lucas to create a special-effect driven "Your Trip to The Moon" film for $100 million.
I can see it now:
Space tourist: "But Mr. Lucas, when I went to the moon there were no annoying muppets on board!"
GL:"I know, but I always felt there should be annoying racially stereotyped muppets on the moon, and with your money I could finally realise my vision."
Downloading it now. Thanks.
I can feel the freedom from here.
So is there a way to try this out without having to register on a forum where the vast majority of downloaders will never post?
I understand that they want to keep the bandwith bills down, but would it be too hard to put up a torrent or provide an ed2k:// link? It would certainly help spreading the word (and the code) much quicker.
I've heard that Untitled by Eidos will be the best game ever, but that they may have to change the name if Untitled by Cavia hits the shelves first.
I know this looks like BS on the surface, but just possibly they had an epiphany no one else has had and figured out a better way.
To paraphrase a great man who passed away yesterday: "You cannot change the laws of physics"
Current Peltier elements simply aren't that efficient. And building a novel Peltier element (which is the only way to increase total efficiency) requires quite a bit more than two guys in a garage.
I read this yesterday when it did its round through the blogosphere...
Please, in the interest of both brevity and clarity, abbreviate that word.
Example:
I read this yesterday when it did its round through the BS...
See, isn't that better?
we geeks are pretty much pacifists and don't care about this stuff.
You misspelled apathetic.
Seriously, this attitude is why crappy patents and laws like the DMCA are passed uncontested. It's all very nice living with blinkers on your eyes, ignoring the real world, but don't go crying when that world rudely intrudes on your own life.
If you really were a pacifist, then you should be extremely interested in the ways states have of hurting dissenters, since this thing could be used against you or your fellow humans (but not while you're locked in your bedroom playing Everquest)
Not to mention that inhumane weaponry like this is the best propaganda tool for those opposing war.
Further proof that manned missions capture the public imagination far better than unmanned missions.
I'm usually the first to accuse Americans of not caring about the world outside the US borders, but since they are commemorating the first man on the moon, it stands to reason that they only mark the manned moon missions.
Sure, as a geek I love the idea of humanoid robots, but in practice how useful can they be?
Sheesh! If you had WTFV, you would have your answer: Cute little humanoid robots attract pretty girls. This is important news for nerds, it may even be stuff that matters.
And if I was running a school, I would surley want somebody to yell at when things go foobar.
Isn't that what students are for?
Come on, this isn't a site for little nifty hacks, its for news.
It is? Now that's news to me. I always thought that the "News for nerds. Stuff that matters" bit was meant ironically. Perhaps someone should inform the editors.
You can trademark facts now?
This planet is doomed, doomed I tell you!
"If U dnt like it, dnt blog it", as I blogged yesterday in my retro blog (that's a paper diary for you unhip people)
Current mood: smug as hell
Current music: My U2 iPod is so cool, I don't need music on it to feel good.
investigate? just hook up one of these to the unauthorised cable (with a FF RJ45 adapter of course) and your network problems are solved.
I don't believe a word of that. This obviously calls for a five year follow-up study. Where do I apply for funding so I can start ordering supplies?
I don't know if they plan to market this as the cheery hydrogen fuel that produces only water as a byproduct, but this process produces large quantities of sodium hydroxide (better known as lye) as a byproduct. So unless they have a way to recycle the waste products back into metallic sodium this will not be a clean fuel.
Signa claims "non-toxic by-products and waste", but I'm very sceptical about this claim. (Unless you don't count extremely corrosive as toxic, in which case I urge their entire PR department to prove non-toxicity by drinking a bottle of lye.)
In an inertial reference frame you would be absolutely correct, however, a coordinate system rotating with the earth moon system is in acceleration (since the direction of the speeds varies constantly) so other rules apply and suddenly a centrifugal force (dependent on the distance from the center of gravity of the system) and a coriolis force (dependent on the speed of the object relative to the frame of reference) appear as if by magic.
They may not be real by your standards, but since they can be used to make accurate calculations, they are real enough.
Saying there is no such thing is like saying there is no such thing as gravitational force (Objects keep moving in a straight line, it's just space that happens to be curved). It's partly true in a pedantic sort of way, but it is irrelevant in daily practice.
Next you'll be telling us that other old chestnut of incompetent high school physics teachers, namely that all objects always fall at the same rate (conveniently ignoring atmospheric friction).
Jokes are often an expression of societies deepest fears. They are a way of coping with a bad situation. Therefore it is not only expected that there are many so called 'sick' jokes out there, it is to be encouraged.
Not laughing at the awful reality of this world is a ticket to paralysing neurosis. This might explain why the 'politically correct' are full of talk but without any real power. They are so concerned about the wrongs in the world that they can't find the energy to right them.
So I will continue to laugh at AIDS jokes, prison-rape jokes and dead baby jokes. It's the only way to retain enough sanity to actually improve the world.
Toshiba is going to sink with HD-DVD...
I won't believe it until Netcraft confirms it and another bombshell hits the beleaguered HD-DVD community.
No need to worry. It's a hands free set, so it should be pretty safe to drive while wearing one of these,right?
Hydrogen stores energy without any problem, but storing the hydrogen is difficult. Hydrogen will not liquify at room temperature, so you either have to carry cylinders of gas at high pressure, cryogenic tanks to keep it liquid (which is no problem when you fill up the Space Shuttle, but having slowly boiling hydrogen in your car makes storing it in a garage impossible) or turn it into a metal hydride, which means carrying around a tank filled with wire mesh, which is very heavy. Without these problems we would have had hydrogen powered cars thirty years ago.