Not only do you want to run non-distilled water through your computers, but you want to use heavily chlorinated pool water? You're using a continuous rated water pump, but one that's not rated for outdoor use? Below water level (of the pool)?
I was unaware that gold could corrode or cause corrosion; that's why it's used so heavily in jewelry to begin with? Could that in fact be the chlorine comming in contact with the aluminum, creating aluminum salts? Hopefully the first computer's water block doesn't completely fill with salt before the second one does. I pray you aren't running any sort of commercial hosting off those computers. Hopefully you have some serious filtration system for your intake.
If you're going to adjust the flow of the water to your computers, it's best if you have a Y valve before each computer so you can divert water around the computer rather than through it, giving you more control over each computer, and secondly, so you don't create extraneous pressure build up and causing your pump to overheat/die an early death.
I was once in west, west austin, when I saw something like this. Except every single driver had merged to the left lane, a full mile in advance. My jaw dropped. Then some bald fat fucker with NJ licence plates decided he would drive in the right lane. People glared at him. You could feel the hostility from every driver. As people in the left lane approached the BFFfromNJ they would drive inches away from the person in front of them's back bumper, and as close to the dashed white lane divider as possible. I bet that guy didn't get anywhere for more than an hour. It was glorious, and I'll probably never see anything like that ever again.
...because you have a PC hardware platform that won't be changed significantly for about 8 years, raising it to the level of Ubuntu-like support, plus it plays all your PS1/2/3 games (1/2 that are supported at least), plus emulators for nes/snes/genesis buys you a great system. Now all you need is a Apple LCD monitor that supports HDMI when they come out at macworld...
Canon's LIDE scanners will only install their software/drivers to internal hard drives. I use an external firewire drive as my primary drive on my notebook (7500 vs. 4200rpm) and I ended up having to return the scanner, which sucked, because the next cheapest scanner at Fry's is $150, while the LIDE is $40-60, depending on wether or not you go with USB 1 or 2.0
I priced how much it costs to put a new fan in my G4 powerbook (2001 model)... I now run a $25 Targus laptop cooler with 2x 60mm fans. The internal fan has come on 2-3 times in the last 3 years, and only the fan in "slow" mode. So techincally my computer could run without any moving parts, just so long as I have an external cooling device, or I happen to be outside (plenty of air flow there).
I don't know about where you live, but there's only one significant backup in Dallas that I know of (southbound), which is immediately after the 75 and 635 interchange it slows to a crawl/stop and immediately after Royal Ln on ramp, everything goes back to normal. Just recently they made it illegal to park your car on the highway unless you got in an accident involving a serious injury.
Stop going to mainstream theaters. Try out an art house theater. In Dallas alone, there are two separate art house theater chains(!) (Angelika & Landmark). Most movies approach or go well beyond the 2 hour mark, due to character development and plot. You'll never see a sequel in one of those theaters, and many of them have budgets in the 20-50 million dollar range, and top ranked actors like Edward Norton, (Painted Veil), Brad Pitt (Babel), or George Cloony/Toby MacGuire (Good German).. Doogie Houser starred in a film adaptation of the book Running With Scissors.
At least one "independent" film comes out of studios like Warner Independent, Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures classics etc every month. Typically 2-3.
I can't wait to set this up for some sort of battle bot. Just rip the servos, etc out of the roomba and put them on a battle bot or RC truck. RC plane would be neat, but I think BT tops out at 30 ft or so.
Well for starters the SNES N64 and Gamecube all share a common A/V connector, so that should cut down on cables considerably. NES uses and Wii use a different connector, so you'll have to connect them to the switch box seperately. PS3 and XBox2 can both connect to the switch box directly (they don't share their A/V connectors with their direct predecessors)... that still leaves you with your TV in, assuming you're using S-Video and not component (which is only better when using greater than 480p). Video switches are less than $20 at gamestop. A few $$$ more if you want one with a remote.
Trebuschet with 16' throwing arm that can throw a 10ft bowling ball 300 feet, made with authentic roman construction methods (hardwood pegs instead of nails, glue, etc)... came in first in TX state latin 3d art competition.
8' sailboat (PDRacer.com); mine is Hull #68
Pot still (for distilling water for my iron, of course).
Indeed. The solution? Re-write the IPv6 protocol to allow non latin characters, and leave IPv4 alone. Kill two birds with one stone. Leave the existing IPv4 DNS servers working, and force the rest of the world to upgrade to IPv6, thus jumpstarting Internet 2.
I never really understood the concept of buying 4 games at launch. I can only play through a game in about a week if I really try. I can understand buying maybe red steel along with the wii (and included wii sports), but really, how many games can you play simotaniously? (spelling)
Pick up a second hand 512 SD card if you don't already have one with your digicam, and definately a second wii-mote. The online functionality doesn't work yet, so you can probably put off the classic controller until Feb.
$250 - Wii $50 - Red Steel $40 - Second Wii-mote $10 - SD card (second hand) ------ $350
I inherited two Canon FD QLs from my parents; one from 1969 the other from 1972... both work perfectly to this day. In fact one still has a now illegal to buy new mercury battery for it's light meter. Besides that, it's entirley mechanical, and sat in our 32-105 degree garage for 20 years before I discovered them, and continue to take great pictures with them. The only difference I can tell between the A series and the FD is that the FD only goes up to 1/2000. The camera looks beat to hell, but it keeps on taking pictures just fine. It wouldn't suprise me if it lasted another 40 years. By then anyone who could have done maintanence on a mechanical SLR would have retired from the industry long ago anyways.
Really? I read the article too - you tell me - which would camera would you prefer to do this to? "Waterproof" for swimming with a ziploc bag, wrap up in a sandy towel with grains of sand as fine as sugar? Entrust to a stranger to take a picture of you at a busy landmark/tourist destination?
Far too many things break when alcohol is involved. I can only imagine what happens to SLR lenses in a purse with car keys and the lens cap between the couch cushions. Heaven forbid you drop it on your way out to the car and bend the baynet mount.
Maybe you don't take your SLR camera with you to casual events, but at least I have pictures to show friends later on, even if they aren't perfectly framed or have the proper white balance.
In college, my high school girlfriend went to Miami (Florida) and I went to a school in Dallas TX; we spent all the breaks together, and other than that we didn't see eachother. Since this time was special to us, we took a lot of pictures. She owned a Casio Exlim camera basically a point and shoot the size of a credit card x 1cm thick, I a Canon Powershot A80 - about as big as three decks of playing cards stacked together. After the first day, the Powershot got left behind, and we ended up taking over a thousand pictures (many retakes) over the course of the week.
Now, if you're shooting a wedding, prom, or family reunion pictures, something many people will see, or will go in a frame on display, I'd definately bring out the Powershot, or consider getting a DSLR.
But the fact of the matter is that BIG Digicams don't go to the bar, to the beach (unless your girlfriend's friends are really hot), skiing, etc. Too expensive, too BIG, too fragile. A two year old $200 point and shoot is ok to risk for these sorts of things. Being smaller, you can talk your girlfriend in to sticking it in her tiny ass purse/clutch, or stick it in your pocket at a bar/club if she doesn't bring her purse. Good luck talking her in to carrying around your DSLR with 80-300mm zoom lens. Yeah, the DSLR takes fucking fantastic pics, even on auto mode, but what are the chances you're actually going to bring it with you everywhere?
My recomendation, buy the cheaper model DSLR from canon for your artsy shit, and spend what you just saved on a 3MP point and shoot with a rechargeable battery and docking station (that charges it)... my Reccomendation is last year's Casio Exlim... My girlfriend has over 10,000 photos on her current 4MP model, and another 8,000 on her previous 3MP model... very durable.
No, I don't work for Casio. The Canon Powershot A320-ish series is pretty good too.
Nice troll! I'll bite. I'm glad ashtrays are long gone from the social consiousness. Screw you, smokers, the rest of us don't want to watch you guys take a hit of niccotine just to keep from going crazy. Suck it up and deal with the fact that society is finally cracking down on unproductive drug addicts.
It would be nice if the wii supported 1080p for things like 4 or 8 player Smash Bros. on a 65" widescreen. Unless they make a drastic departure from their current art style to make up for it (ala Windwaker), Smash Bros. is going to look awful.
And where the fuck is Smash Bros. DS?
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I'm pretty sure you can set up GAIM to post the last 10-20 lines from the previous conversation; also you should be able to narrow down the number of windows by putting AIM conversations in tabs in 3-4 GAIM windows. That's what I do with Adium, which is basically Mac GAIM. Also, Adium comes with OTR preinstalled.
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Err... I meant H2O2. It's been 5 years since freshman (or any) Chem. Also, here's the relevant Armadillo Aerospace thread from March 2005 on slashdot:
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/0
Is this some sort of HCL shorthand I'm not aware of?
You should talk to armadillo airspace. They were looking for a reliable supply of 90%+ Supply of Hydrogen Peroxide last year.
Not only do you want to run non-distilled water through your computers, but you want to use heavily chlorinated pool water? You're using a continuous rated water pump, but one that's not rated for outdoor use? Below water level (of the pool)?
I was unaware that gold could corrode or cause corrosion; that's why it's used so heavily in jewelry to begin with? Could that in fact be the chlorine comming in contact with the aluminum, creating aluminum salts? Hopefully the first computer's water block doesn't completely fill with salt before the second one does. I pray you aren't running any sort of commercial hosting off those computers. Hopefully you have some serious filtration system for your intake.
If you're going to adjust the flow of the water to your computers, it's best if you have a Y valve before each computer so you can divert water around the computer rather than through it, giving you more control over each computer, and secondly, so you don't create extraneous pressure build up and causing your pump to overheat/die an early death.
I was once in west, west austin, when I saw something like this. Except every single driver had merged to the left lane, a full mile in advance. My jaw dropped. Then some bald fat fucker with NJ licence plates decided he would drive in the right lane. People glared at him. You could feel the hostility from every driver. As people in the left lane approached the BFFfromNJ they would drive inches away from the person in front of them's back bumper, and as close to the dashed white lane divider as possible. I bet that guy didn't get anywhere for more than an hour. It was glorious, and I'll probably never see anything like that ever again.
...because you have a PC hardware platform that won't be changed significantly for about 8 years, raising it to the level of Ubuntu-like support, plus it plays all your PS1/2/3 games (1/2 that are supported at least), plus emulators for nes/snes/genesis buys you a great system. Now all you need is a Apple LCD monitor that supports HDMI when they come out at macworld...
Canon's LIDE scanners will only install their software/drivers to internal hard drives. I use an external firewire drive as my primary drive on my notebook (7500 vs. 4200rpm) and I ended up having to return the scanner, which sucked, because the next cheapest scanner at Fry's is $150, while the LIDE is $40-60, depending on wether or not you go with USB 1 or 2.0
I priced how much it costs to put a new fan in my G4 powerbook (2001 model)... I now run a $25 Targus laptop cooler with 2x 60mm fans. The internal fan has come on 2-3 times in the last 3 years, and only the fan in "slow" mode. So techincally my computer could run without any moving parts, just so long as I have an external cooling device, or I happen to be outside (plenty of air flow there).
I don't know about where you live, but there's only one significant backup in Dallas that I know of (southbound), which is immediately after the 75 and 635 interchange it slows to a crawl/stop and immediately after Royal Ln on ramp, everything goes back to normal. Just recently they made it illegal to park your car on the highway unless you got in an accident involving a serious injury.
Stop going to mainstream theaters. Try out an art house theater. In Dallas alone, there are two separate art house theater chains(!) (Angelika & Landmark). Most movies approach or go well beyond the 2 hour mark, due to character development and plot. You'll never see a sequel in one of those theaters, and many of them have budgets in the 20-50 million dollar range, and top ranked actors like Edward Norton, (Painted Veil), Brad Pitt (Babel), or George Cloony/Toby MacGuire (Good German).. Doogie Houser starred in a film adaptation of the book Running With Scissors.
At least one "independent" film comes out of studios like Warner Independent, Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures classics etc every month. Typically 2-3.
I can't wait to set this up for some sort of battle bot. Just rip the servos, etc out of the roomba and put them on a battle bot or RC truck. RC plane would be neat, but I think BT tops out at 30 ft or so.
It's a SNNNNNNaaaaAAAAAAKKKE!
What's an IRRC patent? Infra-Red Remote Control? There's a specific subdivision of patents for this type of patent? Or did you simply mean IIRC?
Well for starters the SNES N64 and Gamecube all share a common A/V connector, so that should cut down on cables considerably. NES uses and Wii use a different connector, so you'll have to connect them to the switch box seperately. PS3 and XBox2 can both connect to the switch box directly (they don't share their A/V connectors with their direct predecessors)... that still leaves you with your TV in, assuming you're using S-Video and not component (which is only better when using greater than 480p). Video switches are less than $20 at gamestop. A few $$$ more if you want one with a remote.
Google for MXM chips. They're mentioned further upstream in this thread.
Trebuschet with 16' throwing arm that can throw a 10ft bowling ball 300 feet, made with authentic roman construction methods (hardwood pegs instead of nails, glue, etc)... came in first in TX state latin 3d art competition.
8' sailboat (PDRacer.com); mine is Hull #68
Pot still (for distilling water for my iron, of course).
Aluminum foundry & casting setup.
Homebrew beer.
Cigar Box guitar, now converted to a banjo.
Indeed. The solution? Re-write the IPv6 protocol to allow non latin characters, and leave IPv4 alone. Kill two birds with one stone. Leave the existing IPv4 DNS servers working, and force the rest of the world to upgrade to IPv6, thus jumpstarting Internet 2.
I never really understood the concept of buying 4 games at launch. I can only play through a game in about a week if I really try. I can understand buying maybe red steel along with the wii (and included wii sports), but really, how many games can you play simotaniously? (spelling)
Pick up a second hand 512 SD card if you don't already have one with your digicam, and definately a second wii-mote. The online functionality doesn't work yet, so you can probably put off the classic controller until Feb.
$250 - Wii
$50 - Red Steel
$40 - Second Wii-mote
$10 - SD card (second hand)
------
$350
I inherited two Canon FD QLs from my parents; one from 1969 the other from 1972... both work perfectly to this day. In fact one still has a now illegal to buy new mercury battery for it's light meter. Besides that, it's entirley mechanical, and sat in our 32-105 degree garage for 20 years before I discovered them, and continue to take great pictures with them. The only difference I can tell between the A series and the FD is that the FD only goes up to 1/2000. The camera looks beat to hell, but it keeps on taking pictures just fine. It wouldn't suprise me if it lasted another 40 years. By then anyone who could have done maintanence on a mechanical SLR would have retired from the industry long ago anyways.
White balance alone is worth switching to RAW for. This is the second post in this thread I've seen you pimping Bibblepro now....
Really? I read the article too - you tell me - which would camera would you prefer to do this to? "Waterproof" for swimming with a ziploc bag, wrap up in a sandy towel with grains of sand as fine as sugar? Entrust to a stranger to take a picture of you at a busy landmark/tourist destination?
Far too many things break when alcohol is involved. I can only imagine what happens to SLR lenses in a purse with car keys and the lens cap between the couch cushions. Heaven forbid you drop it on your way out to the car and bend the baynet mount.
Maybe you don't take your SLR camera with you to casual events, but at least I have pictures to show friends later on, even if they aren't perfectly framed or have the proper white balance.
In college, my high school girlfriend went to Miami (Florida) and I went to a school in Dallas TX; we spent all the breaks together, and other than that we didn't see eachother. Since this time was special to us, we took a lot of pictures. She owned a Casio Exlim camera basically a point and shoot the size of a credit card x 1cm thick, I a Canon Powershot A80 - about as big as three decks of playing cards stacked together. After the first day, the Powershot got left behind, and we ended up taking over a thousand pictures (many retakes) over the course of the week.
Now, if you're shooting a wedding, prom, or family reunion pictures, something many people will see, or will go in a frame on display, I'd definately bring out the Powershot, or consider getting a DSLR.
But the fact of the matter is that BIG Digicams don't go to the bar, to the beach (unless your girlfriend's friends are really hot), skiing, etc. Too expensive, too BIG, too fragile. A two year old $200 point and shoot is ok to risk for these sorts of things. Being smaller, you can talk your girlfriend in to sticking it in her tiny ass purse/clutch, or stick it in your pocket at a bar/club if she doesn't bring her purse. Good luck talking her in to carrying around your DSLR with 80-300mm zoom lens. Yeah, the DSLR takes fucking fantastic pics, even on auto mode, but what are the chances you're actually going to bring it with you everywhere?
My recomendation, buy the cheaper model DSLR from canon for your artsy shit, and spend what you just saved on a 3MP point and shoot with a rechargeable battery and docking station (that charges it)... my Reccomendation is last year's Casio Exlim... My girlfriend has over 10,000 photos on her current 4MP model, and another 8,000 on her previous 3MP model... very durable.
No, I don't work for Casio. The Canon Powershot A320-ish series is pretty good too.
Nice troll! I'll bite. I'm glad ashtrays are long gone from the social consiousness. Screw you, smokers, the rest of us don't want to watch you guys take a hit of niccotine just to keep from going crazy. Suck it up and deal with the fact that society is finally cracking down on unproductive drug addicts.
It would be nice if the wii supported 1080p for things like 4 or 8 player Smash Bros. on a 65" widescreen. Unless they make a drastic departure from their current art style to make up for it (ala Windwaker), Smash Bros. is going to look awful.
And where the fuck is Smash Bros. DS?
I'm pretty sure you can set up GAIM to post the last 10-20 lines from the previous conversation; also you should be able to narrow down the number of windows by putting AIM conversations in tabs in 3-4 GAIM windows. That's what I do with Adium, which is basically Mac GAIM. Also, Adium comes with OTR preinstalled.