hey maybe we should blow up all the credit card company's buildings so we reset the debt to zero. it'll create complete chaos.
The world I see -- you're stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You climb the wrist-thick vines that wrap the Sears Tower. You see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of the ruins of a superhighway. *cough*fight club*cough*
which is a complete bitch if you're connecting with a securID code as your dialin password fo raytheonTI. fucker can hardly connect in 30 seconds if you're on an older computer. oh well that's technology for ya.
so you're gonna have to build a bigger computer to figure out what 6 billion people are going to do as a result of knowing what tomorrow's weather is going to be like, and send that to....
ANOTHER computer that then adjusts for the heat of all those bodies and car engines, etc. send this info to the first computer and repeat. oh, and i guess throw in an output function at some point:)
natalie portman pouring hot grits down my pants:-D
no seriously though, you're right, without the exception, these "first" three episodes royally suck ass. jury's still out on ep 3 but most likely it'll be the least bad of the three. the only thing the "first" three have going for them is natalie portman and hans christiansen as attractive spokespeople for the series, the only thing really dragging people in to see these things, besides, of course, their legacy. was ROJ that bad? i'll have to watch it again, it's been a while.
just curious about the 120 on the highway. was the cop at a dead stop when you flew past him, or already following behind at a good clip when he turned on the dreaded red and blue? my experience with cops is if you're going 50% faster than the speed limit you can lose the fucker long before he can accelerate faster than you and pull you over.
that's amazing. i'll have to do some research and maybe make a bid on ebay, or at least seek out someone who has that kind of equipment. pictures really aren't the same as a Real Life experience in my book
i'm guessing this is a reflector telescope, how big of a 'scope do you need to see the spot on jupiter? $150 sounds like the extreme bargain for a 'scope that big; my uncle gave me a handme down 10" (i think) diameter red tasco reflector 'scope when i was 10 or 12ish, i'd guess 18" long. i could see the moon very detailed, but that was about it for my skill set, got to see the hale-bopp commet also with it, but it still looked fairly faint. no idea how much that 'scope cost or how much one would cost these days that you could see details on planets that far away. any suggestions?
Man, I'm getting sick and tired of all these damn ask slashdots that keep asking stupid questions that you can just google in less time than it took to write out the ask slashdot que....
oh wait. huzzah! a legit question for ask slashdot finally! seems like somebody's listening up there:) Thanks guys.
i think the problem with today's technology lies in the bus; the agp bus can deliver the info to the card, but the scenes it renders is an order of magnitude larger in size (uncompressed) than the bus supports. 60 images of 1600x1200 at 32bit color per second across a bus, continiously forever... that's alot of data one way. more than the agp bus was designed to send back to the system. there was a slashdot article about this a ways back.
tvs these days, especially those that will be used in home theater systems are little more than a monitor, the sound and tuning is usually done seperately by a reciever. the internal speakers and remote that comes with the HDTV often will only be used to select the proper outputs to the reciever. those with an external tuner won't ever need the remote as the tuner will output directly to the reciever without ever going through the HDTV.
alcohol is nonconductive last i checked. or maybe that was mineral oil. both go in a home-made lava lamp. anyways a better "lube" would be the electrically conductive K-Y jelly (it's called somthing much, much different in real life) they use on car battery terminals to prevent corrosion.... although how to keep it from crossing the signals... i dunno. you'd have the same problem with alcohol though, although that evaporates much more quickly than the K-Y.
i'd go ahead and get the new machine. newer LCD display means brighter colors at a higher resolution, quartz extreme and as someone else mentioned, a faster bus (12" - 266mhz, 15" - 133 (soon to be upgraded in march), 17" - 366mhz; pismo 66 or 100mhz). you might be able to outperform one of the rev. A tibooks, but the motherboard is now 2 (arguably 3) generations behind the latest tibooks. on the upside, with your current upgrades in there, it sounds like your pismo would fetch 1/3rd or more of your new tibook purchase. As for deciding between a 15 and 17, you have to decide how much time you spend on the plane (15"), and how much money you have to spend (17").
man, if you think the speed increase from 128 megs to 384 was intense, you should try upping to 640 megs. OS X 10.2 isn't even usable with less than 512 megs of ram on a g4 in my opinion (granted it's a 550, but even with 256 it was dog slow). SO-DIMMs can be had on the cheap these days. check it out.
alcohol in everclear has a boiling point of 178 degrees, which is 19% lower than water. it also is noncorrosive and doesn't conduct electricity to the best of my knowledge.
so put the water/rubbing alcohol in a 18" piece of 1"x1" box aluminum, put a cap on either end (weilded), drill a hole in the side, fill it with about 1 fluid Oz of alcohol, put a tire style valve in the hole, and suck the air out until you're at about.25 atm and drop the boiling point is around 65-70C. go ahead and glue/clamp on some old heatsinks to the sides and top for the hell of it, maybe mount a neon light to the side.
p.s. this only works in desktop systems and not tower cases. you gotta make some sacrifices for silent computing. you're sacrificing desktop space for dollars spent on more expensive means to cool the system.
i'm tired so sorry if this came out sounding like i'm an asshole.
maybe if they developed an non electrically conductive epoxy that had a high thermal conductivity, that would be useful, but they have trouble cooling the damn thing already. a blanket of epoxy would add the need for a considerable amount increase in cooling design.
i'm just going off the saturday NASA press conference. that's what they said. the sunday press conference said specifically they want the bottom (part with the best heat absorbtion) to absorb all the heat, so i suspect you wouldn't want so much heat on the top side.
nope. once they start their decent, thye're committed, they don't have enough fuel to pull out of a descent. there is at best pressurized fuel vapors at that point i would imagine. there's some damn extremely volitile fuel in the attitude jets, but like you said, purely local fuel supplies.
it's difficult to imagine that neither crew nor ground control noticed a roll in progress.
the shuttle does "roll" from time to time, in fact it's pretty routine. it was at about 58 degrees when they lost communication, but it's not uncommon to roll farther than that (they roll to bleed off speed before the final approach).
every ameture wheel to wheel racer owns a camcorder and each race produces about 100 megs of video. corner-carvers.com usually spits out about 100 megs of unique video each day, and there's links to gigs of good race footage from inside the car on famous tracks (leguna seca, for example). these videos usually get pretty low traffic so it's not uncommon to get > 1 megabit/s off of multiple files.
a) ever gotten up in the morning and realized "damn! i don't have any clean (pick any one or more) socks/underwear/pressed shirts or "shit, no milk for the cereal/no cereal for the milk!"? same concept applies, except you cant go without a new tampon, or reuse one. b) to be nice. they're not feeling that great and it's not a whole lot of effort on your part.
granted, they're (for the most part) adults and should be able to do this on their own, but i think everyone should be granted at least 5 "oops"es in their life concerning this.
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hey maybe we should blow up all the credit card company's buildings so we reset the debt to zero. it'll create complete chaos.
The world I see -- you're stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You climb the wrist-thick vines that wrap the Sears Tower. You see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of the ruins of a superhighway. *cough*fight club*cough*
:-D
which is a complete bitch if you're connecting with a securID code as your dialin password fo raytheonTI. fucker can hardly connect in 30 seconds if you're on an older computer. oh well that's technology for ya.
so you're gonna have to build a bigger computer to figure out what 6 billion people are going to do as a result of knowing what tomorrow's weather is going to be like, and send that to....
:)
ANOTHER computer that then adjusts for the heat of all those bodies and car engines, etc. send this info to the first computer and repeat. oh, and i guess throw in an output function at some point
natalie portman pouring hot grits down my pants :-D
no seriously though, you're right, without the exception, these "first" three episodes royally suck ass. jury's still out on ep 3 but most likely it'll be the least bad of the three. the only thing the "first" three have going for them is natalie portman and hans christiansen as attractive spokespeople for the series, the only thing really dragging people in to see these things, besides, of course, their legacy. was ROJ that bad? i'll have to watch it again, it's been a while.
just curious about the 120 on the highway. was the cop at a dead stop when you flew past him, or already following behind at a good clip when he turned on the dreaded red and blue? my experience with cops is if you're going 50% faster than the speed limit you can lose the fucker long before he can accelerate faster than you and pull you over.
as opposed to saran wrap and a fucking rubber band. ouch. and no, duct tape does not apply in this situation.
maybe that's why we've evolved so damn much in the past 4 billion years rather than any other speices on the planet.
that's amazing. i'll have to do some research and maybe make a bid on ebay, or at least seek out someone who has that kind of equipment. pictures really aren't the same as a Real Life experience in my book
i'm guessing this is a reflector telescope, how big of a 'scope do you need to see the spot on jupiter? $150 sounds like the extreme bargain for a 'scope that big; my uncle gave me a handme down 10" (i think) diameter red tasco reflector 'scope when i was 10 or 12ish, i'd guess 18" long. i could see the moon very detailed, but that was about it for my skill set, got to see the hale-bopp commet also with it, but it still looked fairly faint. no idea how much that 'scope cost or how much one would cost these days that you could see details on planets that far away. any suggestions?
Man, I'm getting sick and tired of all these damn ask slashdots that keep asking stupid questions that you can just google in less time than it took to write out the ask slashdot que....
:) Thanks guys.
oh wait. huzzah! a legit question for ask slashdot finally! seems like somebody's listening up there
i think the problem with today's technology lies in the bus; the agp bus can deliver the info to the card, but the scenes it renders is an order of magnitude larger in size (uncompressed) than the bus supports. 60 images of 1600x1200 at 32bit color per second across a bus, continiously forever... that's alot of data one way. more than the agp bus was designed to send back to the system. there was a slashdot article about this a ways back.
tvs these days, especially those that will be used in home theater systems are little more than a monitor, the sound and tuning is usually done seperately by a reciever. the internal speakers and remote that comes with the HDTV often will only be used to select the proper outputs to the reciever. those with an external tuner won't ever need the remote as the tuner will output directly to the reciever without ever going through the HDTV.
alcohol is nonconductive last i checked. or maybe that was mineral oil. both go in a home-made lava lamp. anyways a better "lube" would be the electrically conductive K-Y jelly (it's called somthing much, much different in real life) they use on car battery terminals to prevent corrosion.... although how to keep it from crossing the signals... i dunno. you'd have the same problem with alcohol though, although that evaporates much more quickly than the K-Y.
i'd go ahead and get the new machine. newer LCD display means brighter colors at a higher resolution, quartz extreme and as someone else mentioned, a faster bus (12" - 266mhz, 15" - 133 (soon to be upgraded in march), 17" - 366mhz; pismo 66 or 100mhz). you might be able to outperform one of the rev. A tibooks, but the motherboard is now 2 (arguably 3) generations behind the latest tibooks. on the upside, with your current upgrades in there, it sounds like your pismo would fetch 1/3rd or more of your new tibook purchase. As for deciding between a 15 and 17, you have to decide how much time you spend on the plane (15"), and how much money you have to spend (17").
man, if you think the speed increase from 128 megs to 384 was intense, you should try upping to 640 megs. OS X 10.2 isn't even usable with less than 512 megs of ram on a g4 in my opinion (granted it's a 550, but even with 256 it was dog slow). SO-DIMMs can be had on the cheap these days. check it out.
T.R. popularized the phrase "Throw your hat into the ring", slightly adapted here as Throwing their hats into a ring. Your history lesson for the day.
for us "less fortunate" that don't play as many online games, can you translate that into english? :-)
alcohol in everclear has a boiling point of 178 degrees, which is 19% lower than water. it also is noncorrosive and doesn't conduct electricity to the best of my knowledge.
so put the water/rubbing alcohol in a 18" piece of 1"x1" box aluminum, put a cap on either end (weilded), drill a hole in the side, fill it with about 1 fluid Oz of alcohol, put a tire style valve in the hole, and suck the air out until you're at about .25 atm and drop the boiling point is around 65-70C. go ahead and glue/clamp on some old heatsinks to the sides and top for the hell of it, maybe mount a neon light to the side.
p.s. this only works in desktop systems and not tower cases. you gotta make some sacrifices for silent computing. you're sacrificing desktop space for dollars spent on more expensive means to cool the system.
i'm tired so sorry if this came out sounding like i'm an asshole.
maybe if they developed an non electrically conductive epoxy that had a high thermal conductivity, that would be useful, but they have trouble cooling the damn thing already. a blanket of epoxy would add the need for a considerable amount increase in cooling design.
i'm just going off the saturday NASA press conference. that's what they said. the sunday press conference said specifically they want the bottom (part with the best heat absorbtion) to absorb all the heat, so i suspect you wouldn't want so much heat on the top side.
Do they even land with substantial fuel on board?
nope. once they start their decent, thye're committed, they don't have enough fuel to pull out of a descent. there is at best pressurized fuel vapors at that point i would imagine. there's some damn extremely volitile fuel in the attitude jets, but like you said, purely local fuel supplies.
it's difficult to imagine that neither crew nor ground control noticed a roll in progress.
the shuttle does "roll" from time to time, in fact it's pretty routine. it was at about 58 degrees when they lost communication, but it's not uncommon to roll farther than that (they roll to bleed off speed before the final approach).
every ameture wheel to wheel racer owns a camcorder and each race produces about 100 megs of video. corner-carvers.com usually spits out about 100 megs of unique video each day, and there's links to gigs of good race footage from inside the car on famous tracks (leguna seca, for example). these videos usually get pretty low traffic so it's not uncommon to get > 1 megabit/s off of multiple files.
that's how i spent my last saturday morning
113 missions,originally flew in 1981. another coincidence: the shuttle pilot was born in amarillo, texas
a) ever gotten up in the morning and realized "damn! i don't have any clean (pick any one or more) socks/underwear/pressed shirts or "shit, no milk for the cereal/no cereal for the milk!"? same concept applies, except you cant go without a new tampon, or reuse one.
b) to be nice. they're not feeling that great and it's not a whole lot of effort on your part.
granted, they're (for the most part) adults and should be able to do this on their own, but i think everyone should be granted at least 5 "oops"es in their life concerning this.