My understanding of what's in that region makes me think that a playboy would make better bait than a beer. I heard a story from a tank commander who got one smuggled in with an "engineering monthly" coverjacket... He's lucky his commander didn't inspect his tank that month!
What is C:? What is E:? Is it a mapped drive? Is it a floppy? CD-ROM? Is it my USB keyring? C: isn't always the system drive on your Windows machine
Even though you're whining, you know that 95% of the time, it is the system drive on a windows machine. If you're working tech support, and someone comes up and tells you their c: just exploded, then you're going to know what they mean. And don't even try to argue that you think it's a floppy drive, that's just plain silly. Who even uses those anymore?
. . . My sarcasm meter is swaying for this post, I can't tell if you're serious or not.
What's wrong with good ole c:? Whenever you read it, you know exactly what the person is talking about. If you go with hda3 or somesuch, you're not going to know if you're talking about a swap file or what have you. Linux is unnecessarily complicated on this point. I've gone through hell trying to get my flash drive working on different linux machines at work because they aren't set up to mount sda volumes or somesuch. Then I couldn't fix the problem because the only guy who knew the su password was out of town. Went home early that day -- so I guess it wasn't all bad.
Is there a reason for slash direction preference? Or are we in the realm of keyboard layout?
What's wrong with the maximize button? Don't they all have that?
Okay, I agree with you on the file moving thing. Mostly because I like to delete programs that crash, and part of them lingers in the memory so I can't delete them without rebooting first.
I never liked tang, but the world of tomorrow according to yesterday is pretty fun. Fallout 3 is quite enjoyable. I bet they considered putting in tang. But they definitely should have put in more poontang.... What was I yapping about?
Isn't continual rain something that happened in Bladerunner? Do we have to buy those lightup umbrellas now? They started being sold recently on thinkgeek. Coincidence? I think not.
I don't think this guy is flamebait at all guys, the wii really does need some more games. I bought Twilight Princess, MP3, and RE4 soon after they came out. Since then, I haven't gotten anything. After they figured out the awesome control of MP3, I figured they had it down and would release several more games at that level, but nothing yet.
I rented the new Super Smash Bros game. I got bored with that after a couple hours. Having movies of the characters I liked was cool (though way too darn fast), but the gameplay was just a weak sidescroller with no plot. I'm not a fan of typical Mario games, so Mario Galaxy was a pass for me also -- that lowers my decent game count to only 3.:(
And no, I don't count the virtual console as contributing to the Wii game count.
I had a friend who had just come out of the closet when we started a d&d group. We really bugged the hell out of him. One of the guys in the group was playing a pyromaniac wizard, and his catch phrase was "flaming." Every time it was said, we all snickered a bit as our gay friend glared at us. Then we gave him a slice of pizza so he'd stay. Good times. I don't think he was offended. But then, xbox doesn't distribute apologetic pizza slices yet....
I played Starflight when I was younger, twas a very enjoyable game. I ended up going into physics where I have rubbed elbows with NASA folks a number of times. I'm not saying that a game talked me into it, but it probably contributed.
I don't think NASA should make it's own MMO though. They should just throw their backing behind the upcoming Stargate or Star Trek MMOs, then they'd hit a larger audience. I mean, I'd enjoy a game with mining and colonizing other planets, but it isn't going to be enough on it's own. The Seed MMO tried that a couple years back... it died before I even had a chance to sign up for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_(computer_game)
Plus wouldn't it be more fun to colonize a planet with folks running around in those hot trek costumes?:) I mean, who wouldn't have a fling with a klingon?
In my undergrad days, we chose from a series of things to do. This gave us all a chance to choose something we were interested in. Most of the grade came from presentation and analysis though. It took us all a long time to figure out how to attach an importance to error analysis, and how to present our results in an interesting way. We ended up all designing websites with our results using the university's servers. I got more out of designing my own experiment and report than I ever would have gotten out of a pre-conceived lab.
Just to show how fun it could be to have them design a website, check this one out: http://ratphysics.com/
(This is not mine...)
How ironic. The only god to really come out of Rome was the one with no name.... Now people want to do the same thing with evolution to compete with Him who is usually named by capital letters.
Maybe if we just say Evolution with a capital it'll get them.;)
Amen to that! My first NVIDIA card had a faulty heatsink that kept falling off. I had to ship it off to have it fixed after it started smoking, then the new heatsink fell off too. My second one can't run any older games because their drivers have been "improved" for newer titles. I end up googling driver reviews to see what drivers worked with what games, quite ridiculous.
I can see where this AC is coming from. Iran seems to be doing a good job these last few years, but people still give them a bad rap. This isn't the first headline I've seen with something positive about Iran. If anyone actually bothers reading a bio, you'll see that Ahmadinejad has been doing a really nice job compared to his predecessors. For example, he reestablished relations with the US after 30 years of the silent treatment. That sounds like a step in the right direction to me.
I just hope the intelligent, calm, undiscriminating folk on slashdot can give Iran a chance. Both of them.
Yes, electrons could be thought of as a field. I'm trying to keep things simple for the non-physicists in the audience. Electricity and magnetism is always covered together. One is always the result of the movement of the other. Look up "right-hand-rule" if you want to see how they relate....
How I managed to get a "troll" mod by pointing out the highschool level understanding of magnetic fields is beyond me though. Notice whoever modded me couldn't make an argument against what I said though. Lame. You guys could at least troll me for actually saying something offensive, like "Beta tapes used magnetic monopoles -- but they suck so we just ignore them."
I never really got the idea of magnetic monopoles. I studied them for a couple weeks, but they just seem so intuitively wrong. Magnetic fields are caused by electrons moving... but if you have a monopole, that's like saying that you have electrons going somewhere but coming from nowhere. Or coming from somewhere and going to nowhere. This isn't possible though because energy is conserved -- even if you blew up the electron, it'd still just turn into waves that are still there. It is a fundamentally flawed idea.
I'm not saying mag monopoles are impossible, but it would take a drastic rewrite of everything we "know" to get it to work. Yes, yes, I know Maxwell's equations can be modified to get them to work, but so what? Remember when you studied aether as an undergrad before relativity? Same thing here -- an idea that is most likely wrong, but you can still play with it for mental exercise. Plus a bunch of physicists just love to try to find it because it's an automatic Nobel prize if they pull it off.
This would be wonderful stateside too. There are a lot of homeless people that hang around the public library here looking at porn all day. Imagine if after one day of begging, they could be looking at porn anywhere! Why, they could even look at it at their favorite hangout outside of XXX Liquor!
Seriously, I went to the library one time to get a copy of "Linux for Dummies", and I felt very out of place....
So their next title is probably going to be fighting against Skynet, the cylons, or what have you... The most powerful AI in the world will legitimately be trying to wipe out humanity in your game. Then 90% of the players would whine, saying they'd rather be the robots wiping out humanity. So in an expansion pack you'd have the most powerful AI in the world trying to defend humanity against a fictional AI played by the player. The poor AI is going to be quite confused.
I'm glad you pointed this out -- I've been starting to wonder about the/. crowd after the debates over the last few weeks.
"Child porn is wrong, think of the children!!" But shouldn't it be "Child porn is wrong, DON'T think of the children!!"? Why are there so many articles about it?
I also think the bricks are going to be used within tunnels. Like dig a hole, build a room out of bricks, and cover the whole thing under a couple meters of moon-dirt... errr.... Let's see, Earth -> earth, Luna -> luna? Yeah, cover it in a couple meters of luna.
A similar technique was used in "Red Mars" by K. S. Robinson. The first book was decent, the rest of the trilogy was about as fun as a fictional history book though.
Okay, I've seen a few articles on here with everyone saying how wonderful nuclear power is. Well, here's the thing: fission isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Here is the problem: at a global capacity of 400 GWe (we use 15000 GWe in a year), we'd be out of our low-cost uranium reserves in 25 years. That comes from a publication from the University of Guelph physics dept in 1996. That's right, the number is even lower now.
If we start building more reactors now, we'd be about out of fuel right when they came online. We can overcome this by using breeder reactors, but that's a big international no-no.
So guys, wait until fusion gets working. We'll have enough fuel for that for 4 million years or somesuch. Besides, no self-respecting mech pilot would use pathetic fission.
Gosh guys, all I was saying was that I'm not reading Aramaic is all. I don't know much about the history behind the book. All I learned about it was from a university course "Star Trek and Religion".
I also actually thought it would be worthwhile reading it so got the New International Version so I could follow it, but apparently no one does that these days. Okay guys, send the hate mail. I'm gonna kill this name anyway, my karma is dropping like a rock from this.
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My understanding of what's in that region makes me think that a playboy would make better bait than a beer. I heard a story from a tank commander who got one smuggled in with an "engineering monthly" coverjacket... He's lucky his commander didn't inspect his tank that month!
I'll grant you, I'm annoyed when I plug my xd card into my card reader and have to guess at drive letters to see where it mounted.
/dev/hda# anyway. Yeah yeah, tab complete... blah.
I always thought c: meant "colon" starts with "c", lol. It's shorter to type than
What is C:? What is E:? Is it a mapped drive? Is it a floppy? CD-ROM? Is it my USB keyring? C: isn't always the system drive on your Windows machine
Even though you're whining, you know that 95% of the time, it is the system drive on a windows machine. If you're working tech support, and someone comes up and tells you their c: just exploded, then you're going to know what they mean. And don't even try to argue that you think it's a floppy drive, that's just plain silly. Who even uses those anymore?
. . . My sarcasm meter is swaying for this post, I can't tell if you're serious or not.
... What was I yapping about?
What's wrong with good ole c:? Whenever you read it, you know exactly what the person is talking about. If you go with hda3 or somesuch, you're not going to know if you're talking about a swap file or what have you. Linux is unnecessarily complicated on this point. I've gone through hell trying to get my flash drive working on different linux machines at work because they aren't set up to mount sda volumes or somesuch. Then I couldn't fix the problem because the only guy who knew the su password was out of town. Went home early that day -- so I guess it wasn't all bad.
Is there a reason for slash direction preference? Or are we in the realm of keyboard layout?
What's wrong with the maximize button? Don't they all have that?
Okay, I agree with you on the file moving thing. Mostly because I like to delete programs that crash, and part of them lingers in the memory so I can't delete them without rebooting first.
I never liked tang, but the world of tomorrow according to yesterday is pretty fun. Fallout 3 is quite enjoyable. I bet they considered putting in tang. But they definitely should have put in more poontang.
Isn't continual rain something that happened in Bladerunner? Do we have to buy those lightup umbrellas now? They started being sold recently on thinkgeek. Coincidence? I think not.
I don't think this guy is flamebait at all guys, the wii really does need some more games. I bought Twilight Princess, MP3, and RE4 soon after they came out. Since then, I haven't gotten anything. After they figured out the awesome control of MP3, I figured they had it down and would release several more games at that level, but nothing yet.
:(
I rented the new Super Smash Bros game. I got bored with that after a couple hours. Having movies of the characters I liked was cool (though way too darn fast), but the gameplay was just a weak sidescroller with no plot. I'm not a fan of typical Mario games, so Mario Galaxy was a pass for me also -- that lowers my decent game count to only 3.
And no, I don't count the virtual console as contributing to the Wii game count.
I had a friend who had just come out of the closet when we started a d&d group. We really bugged the hell out of him. One of the guys in the group was playing a pyromaniac wizard, and his catch phrase was "flaming." Every time it was said, we all snickered a bit as our gay friend glared at us. Then we gave him a slice of pizza so he'd stay. Good times. I don't think he was offended. But then, xbox doesn't distribute apologetic pizza slices yet....
I played Starflight when I was younger, twas a very enjoyable game. I ended up going into physics where I have rubbed elbows with NASA folks a number of times. I'm not saying that a game talked me into it, but it probably contributed.
:) I mean, who wouldn't have a fling with a klingon?
I don't think NASA should make it's own MMO though. They should just throw their backing behind the upcoming Stargate or Star Trek MMOs, then they'd hit a larger audience. I mean, I'd enjoy a game with mining and colonizing other planets, but it isn't going to be enough on it's own. The Seed MMO tried that a couple years back... it died before I even had a chance to sign up for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_(computer_game)
Plus wouldn't it be more fun to colonize a planet with folks running around in those hot trek costumes?
In my undergrad days, we chose from a series of things to do. This gave us all a chance to choose something we were interested in. Most of the grade came from presentation and analysis though. It took us all a long time to figure out how to attach an importance to error analysis, and how to present our results in an interesting way. We ended up all designing websites with our results using the university's servers. I got more out of designing my own experiment and report than I ever would have gotten out of a pre-conceived lab.
Just to show how fun it could be to have them design a website, check this one out:
http://ratphysics.com/
(This is not mine...)
How ironic. The only god to really come out of Rome was the one with no name.... Now people want to do the same thing with evolution to compete with Him who is usually named by capital letters.
;)
Maybe if we just say Evolution with a capital it'll get them.
Amen to that! My first NVIDIA card had a faulty heatsink that kept falling off. I had to ship it off to have it fixed after it started smoking, then the new heatsink fell off too. My second one can't run any older games because their drivers have been "improved" for newer titles. I end up googling driver reviews to see what drivers worked with what games, quite ridiculous.
I can see where this AC is coming from. Iran seems to be doing a good job these last few years, but people still give them a bad rap. This isn't the first headline I've seen with something positive about Iran. If anyone actually bothers reading a bio, you'll see that Ahmadinejad has been doing a really nice job compared to his predecessors. For example, he reestablished relations with the US after 30 years of the silent treatment. That sounds like a step in the right direction to me.
I just hope the intelligent, calm, undiscriminating folk on slashdot can give Iran a chance. Both of them.
Yes, electrons could be thought of as a field. I'm trying to keep things simple for the non-physicists in the audience. Electricity and magnetism is always covered together. One is always the result of the movement of the other. Look up "right-hand-rule" if you want to see how they relate....
How I managed to get a "troll" mod by pointing out the highschool level understanding of magnetic fields is beyond me though. Notice whoever modded me couldn't make an argument against what I said though. Lame. You guys could at least troll me for actually saying something offensive, like "Beta tapes used magnetic monopoles -- but they suck so we just ignore them."
I never really got the idea of magnetic monopoles. I studied them for a couple weeks, but they just seem so intuitively wrong. Magnetic fields are caused by electrons moving... but if you have a monopole, that's like saying that you have electrons going somewhere but coming from nowhere. Or coming from somewhere and going to nowhere. This isn't possible though because energy is conserved -- even if you blew up the electron, it'd still just turn into waves that are still there. It is a fundamentally flawed idea.
I'm not saying mag monopoles are impossible, but it would take a drastic rewrite of everything we "know" to get it to work. Yes, yes, I know Maxwell's equations can be modified to get them to work, but so what? Remember when you studied aether as an undergrad before relativity? Same thing here -- an idea that is most likely wrong, but you can still play with it for mental exercise. Plus a bunch of physicists just love to try to find it because it's an automatic Nobel prize if they pull it off.
This would be wonderful stateside too. There are a lot of homeless people that hang around the public library here looking at porn all day. Imagine if after one day of begging, they could be looking at porn anywhere! Why, they could even look at it at their favorite hangout outside of XXX Liquor!
Seriously, I went to the library one time to get a copy of "Linux for Dummies", and I felt very out of place....
Isn't there a transvestite comedian with a skit about this? I find him/her to be a good representation of British English. Oooh I found a clip! H
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IzDbNFDdP4
I agree though, herb should definitely have the h sound. I always use it.
So their next title is probably going to be fighting against Skynet, the cylons, or what have you... The most powerful AI in the world will legitimately be trying to wipe out humanity in your game. Then 90% of the players would whine, saying they'd rather be the robots wiping out humanity. So in an expansion pack you'd have the most powerful AI in the world trying to defend humanity against a fictional AI played by the player. The poor AI is going to be quite confused.
I'm glad you pointed this out -- I've been starting to wonder about the /. crowd after the debates over the last few weeks.
"Child porn is wrong, think of the children!!" But shouldn't it be "Child porn is wrong, DON'T think of the children!!"? Why are there so many articles about it?
I also think the bricks are going to be used within tunnels. Like dig a hole, build a room out of bricks, and cover the whole thing under a couple meters of moon-dirt... errr.... Let's see, Earth -> earth, Luna -> luna? Yeah, cover it in a couple meters of luna.
A similar technique was used in "Red Mars" by K. S. Robinson. The first book was decent, the rest of the trilogy was about as fun as a fictional history book though.
Do you think the Dell execs are fans of the Witcher series? That is just now making it to the US in translated form. Coincidence? I think not.
Oops, I forgot folks on here are probably all Tolkien loyalists. *sways hand* This is not the flamebait you're looking for...
Okay, I've seen a few articles on here with everyone saying how wonderful nuclear power is. Well, here's the thing: fission isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Here is the problem: at a global capacity of 400 GWe (we use 15000 GWe in a year), we'd be out of our low-cost uranium reserves in 25 years. That comes from a publication from the University of Guelph physics dept in 1996. That's right, the number is even lower now.
If we start building more reactors now, we'd be about out of fuel right when they came online. We can overcome this by using breeder reactors, but that's a big international no-no.
So guys, wait until fusion gets working. We'll have enough fuel for that for 4 million years or somesuch. Besides, no self-respecting mech pilot would use pathetic fission.
You want the military to go to Mars? Watch this:
Mars has oil!!
Oh wait, that's the bait for republicans... Oh well, in 8 years it'll work.
TRON strikes again! Eat it MCP! Oh wait...
:(
Come to think of it, I bet TRON caused a bunch of layoffs too. Gosh, that kinda makes the movie more of a bummer
Gosh guys, all I was saying was that I'm not reading Aramaic is all. I don't know much about the history behind the book. All I learned about it was from a university course "Star Trek and Religion".
I also actually thought it would be worthwhile reading it so got the New International Version so I could follow it, but apparently no one does that these days. Okay guys, send the hate mail. I'm gonna kill this name anyway, my karma is dropping like a rock from this.
xoxox,
the nerd formerly unknown as hort_wort
Awww this isn't fair. I was saying the same thing as SpeedyDX below, and my score is -1. I even learned how to line break in html just to type it too.
I bet if I cited examples from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy instead, I would've gotten at least a +2...