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(Same post. I just fixed the italics. Sorry about that. {hides head})
you're saying you will not go to a club because it serves alchohol? I will not go to a club if it serves alcohol.
Why the hell not?! I can only think of three reasons:
a) You are not yet old enough to drink 31. I'm sensitive to alcohol-fueled people and hope to never meet one or be near one again.
Are you gonna propose they take away all the alchohol licenses? Well...yes.
I thought life was about choices.
I thought innovation was about making things better (for example, I just made this post better by fixing the runaway italics) -- like making clubs better by having good music and an alcohol-free atmosphere. There are no major clubs anywhere that are alcohol-free. Where are my choices?
Re:Why is it necessary to serve alcohol?
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you're saying you will not go to a club because it serves alchohol? I will not go to a club if it serves alcohol.
Why the hell not?! I can only think of three reasons:
a) You are not yet old enough to drink 31. I'm sensitive to alcohol-fueled people and hope to never meet one or be near one again.
Are you gonna propose they take away all the alchohol licenses? Well...yes.
I thought life was about choices.
I thought innovation was about making things better -- like making clubs better by having good music and an alcohol-free atmosphere. There are no major clubs anywhere that are alcohol-free. Where are my choices?
Why is it necessary to serve alcohol?
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One of the difficult parts of opening a nightclub in SF is the tangle of alcohol-license hoops one must jump through (as JWZ explained on his DNA site) -- that is, if you want to serve alcohol in your club.
Why would an innovative club be serving alcohol? I don't attend clubs that serve alcohol and would be happy to attend one like the new DNA if it didn't.
The argument that serving alcohol increases revenue is weak. Alcohol drives away customers, and the income that it does produce is watered down by the costs of serving. If you need the income, why not collect extra door money? Your patrons will be happy, your bands will be happy, your employees will be happy and you will be able to call your club innovative.
Distortion you can't hear will affect you. It will cause you to feel tired and stressed. This is one reason that people who have to spend all day listening hard to audio (audio engineers) choose reproduction equipment that introduces the least distortion (or introduces distortion in the least displeasing way).
e.themes.org picked up this story, also. According to them, both Enlightenment running the BlueSteel theme and Window Maker are visible in the scene and their conclusion is that it is a composite.
KiboMaster wrote:
...in most movies they usually create a blue screen on the monitor...
That's because with a traditional CRT monitor the contrast would be terrible and if you could see the picture on the screen at all it would have scan shadows. In this case they used an SGI 1600SW digital LCD flat panel so they might not have had to bother blue screening it.
AC wrote:
Ok.
Now, let's read the requirements: No AGP.
Bzzzzt. You lose!
The comment I was responding to was:
I would say...a...GeForceMX is going to give you the most bang for your buck. More info can be found here and here.
I was adding another info link for the GeForce2 MX he mentioned. That's all. Sorry to offend you.
Tritium releases low-energy beta particles as it decays. A beta particle is an electron -- no different from normal electrons other than its source. Low-energy beta particles can be shielded by skin, paper, or 6mm of air.
Tritium is already used in iso-luminence products, usually taking the form of EXIT signs and aisle marker lights in movie theaters. No batteries, no wires, easy installation.
Tritium has a half-life of ~12.6 years IIRC, so your EXIT sign will be half as bright every ~12.6 years. Lots of informative websites on this. Simply type in *tritium exit* and you'll get a bunch of good hits (though they might be a little weak on the science, since most of the sites are wholesalers selling iso-lights).
One last thing: I suspect that if radiation exposure standards were lower, tritium isoluminent products could be made for less money, perhaps cheap enough to allow their ubiquitous spread through society and reducing night-time/low-light accidents to a point where the safety they provide would outweigh radiation dangers. Example, clothes would be made with isoluminent things sown into them -- when you are driving your car or riding your bike around at night, every ped/biker out there with you would be glowing. Much safer IMO!
All Slashdot moderators should have taken at least one junior-high-school course in any subject except P.E.
Now, I know this is going to sound hard, but, moderators, when you are moderating, please attempt to read and understand the candidate post. Troxey was trying hard here to let you know he was not intending to be informative or interesting. In other words, the post was...a joke. It was intended to test the moderation system. Can you dig it? Can you dig what it means when a poster includes a phrase like, "But, and it is a really big "but" here..."?
The word "rhetoric" appears five times. Hello?!? Is anyone in there inside that moderator head?!? Have you ever taken an essay exam unprepared, but decided, "What the heck. It can't hurt to try and fake it." Did you notice any similarities between what you wrote on your faked exam and what troxey wrote here? Have you ever read a peanut's strip? Marcie always B.S.s her way through essay exams. Does it remind you of something? Hmmm?!?
One more question: How is cannabis this time of year? It's good, isn't it?
IIRC, it's been used by the USSR to help make a reservoir.
It's use has been explored by the U.S., but, obviously, they decided against it.
There are some concerns about radioactive fallout, but I believe they are overblown -- the risks would be overshadowed by the rewards.
The problem is, limits for radiation exposure are too low. Coincidentally, there is a new book out on the history of radiation limits: Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century, by J. Samuel Walker. I haven't read it, but I know Walker is an outspoken critic of current radiation policy and I know he knows his stuff.
Unbiased it won't be, but this book is almost guaranteed to give you an education.
Newsgroups: sci.life-extension,sci.cryonics
From: Tom Matthews
Subject: Re: a different type of life extension?
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 08:20:52 GMT
Organization: Longevity Unlimited
Lou Pagnucco wrote:
>
> Good information, Doug.
>
> Cryonic approaches to suspending animation (in hopes of revival
> in the future) involve the freezing of organs or organisms at liquid
> nitrogen temperatures which, although inhibiting most chemical
> activity, cause significant ice damage to the cells.
Not if you vitrify the patient, which is where the current research is
now heading.
> The type of
> "freezing" in your abstract must avoid this difficult to repair ice
> damage.
>
> It would be interesting to know how long an organism (i.e., hibernating
> ground squirrels) can tolerate this temperature.
The answer is: no more than one year (in fact mostly only one normal
length winter).
This is only reasonable. Why would evolution have produced anything more
robust than it needed?
And this is why all of these natural animal hibernation/freezing models
are quite useless for cryonics purposes.
> After all cryonic
> freezing advocates seem to believe that cryonic freezing will be
> required for many years. However, given the hyper-exponential increase
> in biotechnical knowledge, maybe just a couple of decades may be
> enough to get us to the point where we can cure nearly any known
> disease (or the problems of aging) - and reviving an organism kept
> relatively inert using the same techniques that these squirrels use
> seem much, much less difficult.
However, there will always be accidents/diseases/disorders that are
beyond our reach to repair and need some from of long-term suspended
animation if the inflicted person is to remain alive.
Vitrification research is proceeding slowly but surely to eventually
provide us with fully-reversible, long-term suspended animation.
Still, like any major operation it will never be 100% and I for one am
trying very hard to stay alive until the biotechnical advances in
life-extension for existing adults come forth, so that I don't every
have to be cryopreserved.
> Doug Skrecky wrote in message...
> >Title
> > Freeze avoidance in a mammal: body temperatures below 0 degree C in an
> > Arctic hibernator.
> >Source
> > Science. 244(4912):1593-5, 1989 Jun 30.
> >Abstract
> > Hibernating arctic ground squirrels, Spermophilus parryii,
> > were able to adopt and spontaneously arouse from core body temperatures
> as
> > low as -2.9 degrees C without freezing. Abdominal body temperatures of
> ground
> > squirrels hibernating in outdoor burrows were recorded with
> > temperature-sensitive radiotransmitter implants. Body temperatures and
> soil
> > temperatures at hibernaculum depth reached average minima during February
> of
> > -1.9 degrees and -6 degrees C, respectively. Laboratory-housed ground
> > squirrels hibernating in ambient temperatures of -4.3 degrees C
> maintained
> > above 0 degree C thoracic temperatures but decreased colonic temperatures
> to
> > as low as -1.3 degrees C. Plasma sampled from animals with below 0 degree
> C
> > body temperatures had normal solute concentrations and showed no evidence
> of
> > containing antifreeze molecules.
> >
--Tom
Tom Matthews
The LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION - http://www.lef.org - 800-544-4440
A non-profit membership organization dedicated to the extension
of the healthy human lifespan through ground breaking research,
innovative ideas and practical methods.
LIFE EXTENSION MAGAZINE - The ultimate source for new
health and medical findings from around the world.
While they don't provide any resolution specs that would give it away,
Correction: They do give it away. 3.9 megapixels which works out to three 1280x1024 flat panels. You would do much better taping together three 1600SWs (which are 1600x1024).
On second thought, I hadn't seen the pixel count: 3.9M. 3.9M pixels suggests that this thing is made of three 1280x1024 flat panels as opposed to the SGI 1600SW's 1600x1024.
You would spend far less and get far more real estate by slapping together three 1600SWs.
While they don't provide any resolution specs that would give it away, this thing appears to be, in fact, three SGI 1600SWs (or the Mitsubishi panels that SGI uses for its 1600SWs).
tigert said:
...1600x1200 on a 21" screen is closing to the maximum...
This is true for CRTs, since all CRTs are blurry. The SGI 1600SW gets away with 1600x1024 in only 17" diagonal because it is far crisper than any CRT. You can make your text smaller than you would on a CRT and still be able to read it.
I'm using a high-end 21" 1600x1200 (it will do 2048x1536).24mm dot-pitch trinitron monitor. I wish I was using a 1600SW. Since it's crisper, I could make things on the screen smaller, hence getting more screen real-estate despite the 1600SW's smaller pixel count.
Michelle wrote:
Plans are also in the works for a model integrating a low-power 600Mhz chip and 128MB of RAM. (Now from where does that sound familiar?) The folks at VIA promise an announcement about that new model at Comdex, but there aren't that many lines to read between here............ What does that mean? I need some help reading between the lines! Michelle
The the low-power chip would be possibly Intel's new low-power 600Mhz Pentium III or more probably the revolutionary Crusoe processor made by Transmeta. Most Slashdotters are big fans of Transmeta, which only recently began shipping products.
Use the search tool at the bottom of the Slashdot homepage to search for Transmeta articles.
Slashdot Mirror
(Same post. I just fixed the italics. Sorry about that. {hides head})
you're saying you will not go to a club because it serves alchohol?
I will not go to a club if it serves alcohol.
Why the hell not?! I can only think of three reasons:
a) You are not yet old enough to drink
31. I'm sensitive to alcohol-fueled people and hope to never meet one or be near one again.
Are you gonna propose they take away all the alchohol licenses?
Well...yes.
I thought life was about choices.
I thought innovation was about making things better (for example, I just made this post better by fixing the runaway italics) -- like making clubs better by having good music and an alcohol-free atmosphere. There are no major clubs anywhere that are alcohol-free. Where are my choices?
you're saying you will not go to a club because it serves alchohol?
I will not go to a club if it serves alcohol.
Why the hell not?! I can only think of three reasons:
a) You are not yet old enough to drink
31. I'm sensitive to alcohol-fueled people and hope to never meet one or be near one again.
Are you gonna propose they take away all the alchohol licenses?
Well...yes.
I thought life was about choices.
I thought innovation was about making things better -- like making clubs better by having good music and an alcohol-free atmosphere. There are no major clubs anywhere that are alcohol-free. Where are my choices?
One of the difficult parts of opening a nightclub in SF is the tangle of alcohol-license hoops one must jump through (as JWZ explained on his DNA site) -- that is, if you want to serve alcohol in your club.
Why would an innovative club be serving alcohol? I don't attend clubs that serve alcohol and would be happy to attend one like the new DNA if it didn't.
The argument that serving alcohol increases revenue is weak. Alcohol drives away customers, and the income that it does produce is watered down by the costs of serving. If you need the income, why not collect extra door money? Your patrons will be happy, your bands will be happy, your employees will be happy and you will be able to call your club innovative.
...really do want an Athlon because they are faster, run cooler...
Athlons don't run cooler, they run hotter.
Distortion you can't hear will affect you. It will cause you to feel tired and stressed. This is one reason that people who have to spend all day listening hard to audio (audio engineers) choose reproduction equipment that introduces the least distortion (or introduces distortion in the least displeasing way).
e.themes.org picked up this story, also. According to them, both Enlightenment running the BlueSteel theme and Window Maker are visible in the scene and their conclusion is that it is a composite.
KiboMaster wrote:
...in most movies they usually create a blue screen on the monitor...
That's because with a traditional CRT monitor the contrast would be terrible and if you could see the picture on the screen at all it would have scan shadows. In this case they used an SGI 1600SW digital LCD flat panel so they might not have had to bother blue screening it.
AC wrote:
Ok.
Now, let's read the requirements: No AGP.
Bzzzzt. You lose!
The comment I was responding to was:
I would say...a...GeForceMX is going to give you the most bang for your buck. More info can be found here and here.
I was adding another info link for the GeForce2 MX he mentioned. That's all. Sorry to offend you.
...but how many people change cpus every 2months? ...
Well, since new 700MHz CPUs cost ~$80, my guess would be people who can afford to spend $40 a month, or roughly $1.33 a day.
(Remove space between "duro" and "n%2" to view the link.)
The GeForce2 MX GPU is winning editor awards all over the place. Happenstancilly, I found a card with it for $104, shipped: come 'n get it.
f m? Task=Vi ewProduct&SearchText=geforce2%2520mx&IdCatalog=256 0321
Slashcode won't let me insert the URL correctly; it adds spaces. Please remove the spaces from the URL after clicking on the link in order to view. Should look like this:
http://www.onvia.com/CnetShopper/products/index.c
Yes. The Duron 700 is an $82 CPU. This is low-end, kidz, and that price includes shipping, on your doorstep in three days from a reputable company.
Low end. Say it slowly and enunciate clearly.
These guys do some art on palms. Pretty good.
(Yes, these are the fellows who do many of those amazing backgrounds that you see on screenshots at themes.org)
Tritium releases low-energy beta particles as it decays. A beta particle is an electron -- no different from normal electrons other than its source. Low-energy beta particles can be shielded by skin, paper, or 6mm of air.
Tritium is already used in iso-luminence products, usually taking the form of EXIT signs and aisle marker lights in movie theaters. No batteries, no wires, easy installation.
Tritium has a half-life of ~12.6 years IIRC, so your EXIT sign will be half as bright every ~12.6 years. Lots of informative websites on this. Simply type in *tritium exit* and you'll get a bunch of good hits (though they might be a little weak on the science, since most of the sites are wholesalers selling iso-lights).
Here's a decent science intro site on Tritium:
Brookhaven National Laboratory: Introduction to Tritium and Radioactivity.
One last thing: I suspect that if radiation exposure standards were lower, tritium isoluminent products could be made for less money, perhaps cheap enough to allow their ubiquitous spread through society and reducing night-time/low-light accidents to a point where the safety they provide would outweigh radiation dangers. Example, clothes would be made with isoluminent things sown into them -- when you are driving your car or riding your bike around at night, every ped/biker out there with you would be glowing. Much safer IMO!
(Free the tritium!)
-Zoyd
My proposed new moderator requirement:
All Slashdot moderators should have taken at least one junior-high-school course in any subject except P.E.
Now, I know this is going to sound hard, but, moderators, when you are moderating, please attempt to read and understand the candidate post. Troxey was trying hard here to let you know he was not intending to be informative or interesting. In other words, the post was...a joke. It was intended to test the moderation system. Can you dig it? Can you dig what it means when a poster includes a phrase like, "But, and it is a really big "but" here..."?
The word "rhetoric" appears five times. Hello?!? Is anyone in there inside that moderator head?!? Have you ever taken an essay exam unprepared, but decided, "What the heck. It can't hurt to try and fake it." Did you notice any similarities between what you wrote on your faked exam and what troxey wrote here? Have you ever read a peanut's strip? Marcie always B.S.s her way through essay exams. Does it remind you of something? Hmmm?!?
One more question: How is cannabis this time of year? It's good, isn't it?
IIRC, it's been used by the USSR to help make a reservoir.
It's use has been explored by the U.S., but, obviously, they decided against it.
There are some concerns about radioactive fallout, but I believe they are overblown -- the risks would be overshadowed by the rewards.
The problem is, limits for radiation exposure are too low. Coincidentally, there is a new book out on the history of radiation limits: Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century, by J. Samuel Walker. I haven't read it, but I know Walker is an outspoken critic of current radiation policy and I know he knows his stuff.
Unbiased it won't be, but this book is almost guaranteed to give you an education.
A flurry of new .sigs is going to result from the publication of this interview.
"I do not go believe comes out therefrom that I will concentrate on always more special zones."
--Linus Torvalds
"Until perhaps sometime someone, am better that than I so that I withdraw."
--Linus Torvalds
"Organizations are obvious PR-work, and there are enough people who could that just as well."
--Linus Torvalds
"A classic example is that. A quantity of thing seem incompatible together to be."
--Linus Torvalds
"At the same time fewer the technology is interesting, but rather the conversion in uses."
--Linus Torvalds
clawrockz wrote:
...and the crystals that form expand so that cell walls become torn.
1 2.html
...
This has been addressed:
http://www.mailgate.org/sci/sci.cryonics/msg001
Newsgroups: sci.life-extension,sci.cryonics
From: Tom Matthews
Subject: Re: a different type of life extension?
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 08:20:52 GMT
Organization: Longevity Unlimited
Lou Pagnucco wrote:
>
> Good information, Doug.
>
> Cryonic approaches to suspending animation (in hopes of revival
> in the future) involve the freezing of organs or organisms at liquid
> nitrogen temperatures which, although inhibiting most chemical
> activity, cause significant ice damage to the cells.
Not if you vitrify the patient, which is where the current research is
now heading.
> The type of
> "freezing" in your abstract must avoid this difficult to repair ice
> damage.
>
> It would be interesting to know how long an organism (i.e., hibernating
> ground squirrels) can tolerate this temperature.
The answer is: no more than one year (in fact mostly only one normal
length winter).
This is only reasonable. Why would evolution have produced anything more
robust than it needed?
And this is why all of these natural animal hibernation/freezing models
are quite useless for cryonics purposes.
> After all cryonic
> freezing advocates seem to believe that cryonic freezing will be
> required for many years. However, given the hyper-exponential increase
> in biotechnical knowledge, maybe just a couple of decades may be
> enough to get us to the point where we can cure nearly any known
> disease (or the problems of aging) - and reviving an organism kept
> relatively inert using the same techniques that these squirrels use
> seem much, much less difficult.
However, there will always be accidents/diseases/disorders that are
beyond our reach to repair and need some from of long-term suspended
animation if the inflicted person is to remain alive.
Vitrification research is proceeding slowly but surely to eventually
provide us with fully-reversible, long-term suspended animation.
Still, like any major operation it will never be 100% and I for one am
trying very hard to stay alive until the biotechnical advances in
life-extension for existing adults come forth, so that I don't every
have to be cryopreserved.
> Doug Skrecky wrote in message
> >Title
> > Freeze avoidance in a mammal: body temperatures below 0 degree C in an
> > Arctic hibernator.
> >Source
> > Science. 244(4912):1593-5, 1989 Jun 30.
> >Abstract
> > Hibernating arctic ground squirrels, Spermophilus parryii,
> > were able to adopt and spontaneously arouse from core body temperatures
> as
> > low as -2.9 degrees C without freezing. Abdominal body temperatures of
> ground
> > squirrels hibernating in outdoor burrows were recorded with
> > temperature-sensitive radiotransmitter implants. Body temperatures and
> soil
> > temperatures at hibernaculum depth reached average minima during February
> of
> > -1.9 degrees and -6 degrees C, respectively. Laboratory-housed ground
> > squirrels hibernating in ambient temperatures of -4.3 degrees C
> maintained
> > above 0 degree C thoracic temperatures but decreased colonic temperatures
> to
> > as low as -1.3 degrees C. Plasma sampled from animals with below 0 degree
> C
> > body temperatures had normal solute concentrations and showed no evidence
> of
> > containing antifreeze molecules.
> >
--Tom
Tom Matthews
The LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION - http://www.lef.org - 800-544-4440
A non-profit membership organization dedicated to the extension
of the healthy human lifespan through ground breaking research,
innovative ideas and practical methods.
LIFE EXTENSION MAGAZINE - The ultimate source for new
health and medical findings from around the world.
While they don't provide any resolution specs that would give it away,
Correction: They do give it away. 3.9 megapixels which works out to three 1280x1024 flat panels. You would do much better taping together three 1600SWs (which are 1600x1024).
On second thought, I hadn't seen the pixel count: 3.9M. 3.9M pixels suggests that this thing is made of three 1280x1024 flat panels as opposed to the SGI 1600SW's 1600x1024.
You would spend far less and get far more real estate by slapping together three 1600SWs.
$22,750 will get you 14.7 megapixels worth of SGI 1600SW monitors.
This thing looks like it is, in fact, three SGI 1600SWs.
...Buy three SGI 1600SW's...
While they don't provide any resolution specs that would give it away, this thing appears to be, in fact, three SGI 1600SWs (or the Mitsubishi panels that SGI uses for its 1600SWs).
tigert said:
...1600x1200 on a 21" screen is closing to the maximum...
.24mm dot-pitch trinitron monitor. I wish I was using a 1600SW. Since it's crisper, I could make things on the screen smaller, hence getting more screen real-estate despite the 1600SW's smaller pixel count.
This is true for CRTs, since all CRTs are blurry. The SGI 1600SW gets away with 1600x1024 in only 17" diagonal because it is far crisper than any CRT. You can make your text smaller than you would on a CRT and still be able to read it.
I'm using a high-end 21" 1600x1200 (it will do 2048x1536)
-Zoyd
"Read between the lines" comes straight from them....
:)
Sorry, I thought those were your words. If that's what they said, they're not talking about an Intel chip.
(And I believe it's you, T)
-Zoyd
Michelle wrote:
Plans are also in the works for a model integrating a low-power 600Mhz chip and 128MB of RAM. (Now from where does that sound familiar?) The folks at VIA promise an announcement about that new model at Comdex, but there aren't that many lines to read between here............
What does that mean? I need some help reading between the lines! Michelle
The the low-power chip would be possibly Intel's new low-power 600Mhz Pentium III or more probably the revolutionary Crusoe processor made by Transmeta. Most Slashdotters are big fans of Transmeta, which only recently began shipping products.
Use the search tool at the bottom of the Slashdot homepage to search for Transmeta articles.
Also for those who care, Handkey corp is taking pre-orders on the new model of the Twiddler, the T2.
Link for handykey.com. I have a T2 on order. Read this wear-hard post from Handykey president (and practically sole employee), Dr. Chris George.