shrug. my father, recent recipent of major brain surgery for a rather large golfball sized tumor, still manages to hop on one of his 6 recumbents, 3 of which he built himself, and ride down to the corner store (1.2 miles) in a major metropolitan area (north dallas), despite being nearly blind in his left eye and having trouble walking. he's still alive and has yet to be hit by a vehicle.
before the surgery, he told me about an article that talked about how recumbents are actually safer psychologically than a standard double diamond frame bike because you're at eye level with the driver of the car, which makes the drive more aware of you and treats you as an equal. not sure how true this is, but my dad's been riding his recumbent in the area for 4 years now and has yet to hit or be hit by anything other than a rollerblader occasionally.
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these speed records were done under the guidelines of the HPVA, which specifies that the conditions must be under 4000 ft above sea level, on flat ground, or a track where 0 ft of altitude is lost or gained at the end of a specified length of track. this allows time/speed trials to be held in nearly any part of the world, accounting for air density in various altitudes, and those being below 4000 ft are neglible/uncontrollable due to temperature fluxuations in various regions where one might perform.
race cars often 'draft' behind other race cars in car races to conserve fuel/strain on engine. this is another reason why you don't see cars strugling to pass the lead car, as he's already pushing most of the air out of the way for the rest of the cars, making it easier on them. same concept for a bike drafting behind a car, hiding in it's 'wind shadow'.
thirdly, the bike mentioned was probably so highly geared that it would not be able to be started without assitance. HPVA (hpva.org,.com) specifies that all competing bikes must be started from a complete stop by the rider _only_. there are some loopholes for those of them with full farrings (enclosures), which are using a single rollerblade wheel as suppor while they get enough speed that they can balance on two wheels while accelrating slowly using the enormous (100 tooth) sprokets, once moving, the wheel is retracted, so there are limits on the size/gearing of a bike under these testing conditions. however, speed testing/timing doesn't start until the bike is in full motion.
that 'fastest speed achieved' probably was a burst speed. the 86.6 mph was a sustained 86.6 mph over a period of 30 seconds, somthing to think about.
the average human (read: 30 yr old male who's idea of exercise is walking across the parking lot to get from his car to work) can produce ~100 watts of energy sustained when biking on a mountain bike @ about 12 mph; 15-16 mph on a roadbike (tires have less rolling resistance). with little training you can achieve about 200 watts of continious energy output, and people like lance armstrong (won the tour defrance several years running) can produce almost 400 watts contiously. this guy can do that also. my dad did alot of research on recumbent bycicles before he recently contracted a brain tumor and was in close contact with Matt Weaver, who was looking for software (windows based, i'm guessing) help to calculate exactly how many watts he was producing. another thing not mentioned was that matt weaver was doing this as his Ph.d project for berkley.
as for areodynamics, the most areodynamic shape is a teardrop shape, blunt end going forward. a minvan driving backwards @ 30 mph is somthing like 3 or 4 times more areodynamically efficent than going forward. take a look at solar powered vehicles for design ques like this. the reason cars aren't any more areodynamic is b/c a) they look funny, and b)they're expensive.
"An Athlon [amd.com] needs 76W and runs at up to 95 degrees C die temperature. Ouchie!
Funnily enough, in some areas, it's illegal to put an incandescent lightbulb of that power in a confined area, e.g. the closet under the stairs where I run my (pleasantly warm) P133 firewall. I don't know of any such restrictions for computers.
it seems odd, that such fire ordinances are put in place so that those without the time or intelligence to think about such saftey hazards have a house at the end of the day....you know of such ordinances, yet blatantly violate them anyways:)
as a counterpoint, exposed, bare lightbulbs are usually directly, or nearly directly connected to a flamable surface (celing, wall), while on the other hand, computer processors are for the most part sealed in a fire retardant case (the neXt cube burning article comes to mind, despite the fact that it's magnesium), and there's not much that's flammable inside the case. i'm sure the condenser in my refridgerator falls into the same catergory.
the apartment explosion scene in fight club comes to mind randomly
one way to show off your girlfriend. not too shabby. incase you're wondering what i'm talking about, take a look at SkyOS's latest screenshot. Not the most flattering picture, though, lol.
as a side thought, there's a lite version of mozzila called gecko...it's designed for easy portability (i think), which basically is why kmeleon exists....but how much effort is involved in porting gecko over to a new OS? from my POV, what really makes or breaks the popularity, or even someone bothering to download/test out an OS is a working psudeo-graphical web browser, no matter how buggy. MinuetOS was neat from my standpoint, b/c i could load it from a floppy, but after about 10 minutes of playing with it, it lost my interest. yes, i'm sure someone'll reply saying 'hey, why don't *you* volunteer to rewrite gecko to work on SkyOS? i would, but i'm not that much of a software hobbyist. i'd be more interested in writing up some sort of tutorial on how to convert gecko for your OS's needs, however contradictory that is to my previous statment. just a suggestion. as a side question, are there any tutorials like that out there? i haven't looked at the mozzila code myself, so i'm not sure how userfriendly the code is to need a tutorial in the first place.
i did some more research (well, more like it was handed to me), and apparently the tridium _is_ radioactive, although one peculiarity of tridium is that it produces the lowest powered beta emmissions of any substinance known. the radiation cannot penetrate your skin, bones, or major organs. the only way it can be absorbed is through your lungs, which your body promptly removes it through urine or feecees. one company, isolite, has a nifty write up about how safe and pretty friendly the stuff is. check it out, they make those green emergency 'exit' signs that you see in your office, except that theirs glow for 10-20 years w/o electricity.
with the amount of gas required to light up an exit sign, if all the glass tubes continaning the tritium gas were to break, a person in a 10x10 foot, 1 air change per hour room, that one person would recieve the same amount of radiation that one recieves in a dental x ray. tritium seems pretty safe.
in an earlier post, someone talks about tritium glowing watches, and talk about either a metal casing, or 10mm or air would be a sufficent shield against radiation (the dead outer layer of skin would also apply as a sheilf)
i don't think the environmental impact of 10 m^3 of tritium gas released in a 'melt down' would do much, it'd be released into the atmosphere, one or two plant opperators (who somehow survived) would have mild headaches the next day, the rest of the world would get to see faintly glowing clouds that night, maybe. the tritium gas would most likely float immediatly upwards, and not affect anyone anyways.
hmm....my dad once told me about a particular type of watch....not sure what is was anymore, but anyways, it had tritium gas in it i believe....kinda like an early version of indiglo, except it was on _all_ the time, and glowed pink, like in the pic on the page. i guess they discontinued it due to the fact that it gave people cancer? too expensive? i'm not too familiar with tritium gas
personally, i don't particularly care if it's 50 years off, or even 100. so far in this forum, i haven't seen one post speaking of the environmental effects of a fusion generator....so i'm guessing other than excessive heat (used to make steam), there is none. no radioactivity, no cancer, no threat to humanity as we know it when one of these 'melts down'. i personally see fusion power being developed in my lifetime (i'm nearly 18). probably half of you slashdotters will live to see fossil fuels become scarce and the entire atmosphere look like LA on a bad day, i know most of europe is already like this...been there, saw it. it's depressing to stand in a beautiful garden in the mountians and look down over barcelona, and barely be able to make out the cathedreal being built there : (
they've already demonstrated that they can create the the field(s), it's just a matter of fine-tuning things. personally, i'd like to help fund their project, seeing as how electical power is the world's life-blood, and this is the best soultion as of yet to help us generate more of it. nuclear war eventually will be inevitable, but personally i'dlike to be in the country that funded powering these things, so that when the sky is so thick with ash you can't see the sun anymore, our country is still capable of heating all of america's homes (as fusion produces enormous amounts of power).
total score: spammers - billions upon of billions of emails, antispammers: 2 or 3.
the this battle's been won, but we still have the entire war ahead of us. ----------- i can see the MPAA using this as an anti-digital audio tactic, spamming people from a specific network that has alot of MP3 traffic, until the network is blacklisted, and threaten to continue to spam/keep the network blacklisted until they limit the transmission of MP3's across that network.
as a teen, i was given an atm/debit 'cheque' card at the early age of 17, it was free, comming along with a 'student' account, free checking, free this and that till i graduate from college in 4-6 years from now.
it's a great thing, it pays for my lunches at schlotski's every day (1.99$ kids cheese pizza), subway subs (4.68$ spicy italian), weekend dinners (tgi friday's, chili's, bennegan's, ect), gas, and food. even the occasional random buying spree at amazon.com; snatch soundtrack, fightclub (the novel), a clockwork orange (novel). even my copy-protected commercial music cd, 'closer', by better than ezra.
the only things today i find thati need cash for are a) fast food resturants, and b)the floral shop (they require a 15$ purchase to use crdit or debit, i usually get single long stemmed roses for the gf (6$)). then again i live in upper rich-ville, a suburb of dallas. most things here are debit/atm; although what bothers me is that you still can't get a happy meal with a coke w/o handleing that dirty green stuff. with other major food chains such as Quizno's subs, and Subway having atm things, i can't see why Micky D's or BK wouldn't have these too by now.
on another thought, plastic is probably infinitly better for the public's health interests; youdon't have to deal with disease and bacteria toting bills and change. then again, if we're not exposed to it, our immune system goes lax, we pick up some horrible disease, and die as a result. same paradox applies to using that silly bacterial gel 'hand cleaner'. sigh.
if you're going to go to the effort of installing a tv of any size, semi-permantly into your vehicle, it might be wise to look into a 100 amp alternator, avalible for all chevy/gmc cars, standard on any '72 caddy or newer, and all conversion vans (obviously). i'm sure ford sells them too, you can probably pull one off of a f250 of 350 in a junkyard for ~20 bucks. altenators are pretty interchangable. be sure to have your battery completely charged before replacing the alternator; as with alot of mechanical things that move, 90% of the damage done in the object's life is done in the first 2 seconds of operation
i personally still own a SNES, and F-Zero, a game that uses the 'mode 7' function, and as i understand it, you had two layers of mode 7, the 'city' below you, and the track itself, not to mention the scrolling background & more or less static sprite of your 'car', or maybe the track was a dynamic sprite....i dunno. can you clear this up?
also, has anyone ever looked inside a SNES? those seem pretty portable...
i bought the new cd 'closer', by better than ezra after downloading a few of the tracks off of kazaa (www.kazaa.com), and they have a 'special feature' that lets me watch music videos of the songs on that cd, check out band bios....very neat, except winamp, nor explorer will recognize the cd as having any audio on it. any ideas, anyone?
by the way, i'm glad they're using this on michael jackson cd's.....not many people in the US buy his stuff anyways, it's mostly overseas popularity from what i understand. if anything, this anti-copying scheme should bring press to MJ and give him some free advertising. i myself did not know until today that he'd released any new music in the past 3 years anyways
i'm guessing being a 3x clone, it'll have the standard 2 1/2" screen, instead of the rather small screen of my m100....25% at that size is a huge difference. I'm curious though, i have a copy of a palm OS rom, 4.5.....would I be able to flash the linux rom with a true palm OS (for testing purposes only, of course ; )
a linux palm sold mainstream is neat, but this is hardware compatible only . you still aren't getting the huge benifit of the palm os, which is the infinite supply of quick, useful and more importantly, FREE programs out there.
now you might say 'but this is nothing more than a simple organizer, it's not made to emulate game boy games and various other things, it is simply an electronic address book and datebook', it is, that's what my palm is used for for 90% of the time also, but i also enjoy the versatility of the (shudder) mainstream os, and it's ablity to download play with a new gam at will. avantgo is handy also. i think palm os program compatiblity would be a huge step up.
i'll probably get one anyways, the concept of programming and modifying the kernel of a device like that is too apetizing for me not to : )
I hate reading on the Palm : the screen is too small, the contrast sucks and you have to scroll all the time, but the Palm is small and convenient enough to convince me not to load my suitcase sometimes.
you can download cspotrun, a great doc reader, and a copy of MakeDoc (to make your own compressed ebooks from text)...i've downloaded all 5 of the books of the HHGTTG trilogy, and read 4 of them on my palm durring math in high school in the past 2 months...it has an auto scroll feature, with easily adjustable scroll speed. check it out. it's GPL'd, too!
as for the ebook copies of HHGTTG....you'll have to contact me : ), i'm working on scanning Dune in : )
so as the article puts it, they're going from an *inefficent* means of domain name admin. to a much more efficent and government-regulated....
so maybe i missed the point, but there doesn't seem to be any signifigance to this post...almost too obscure for even slashdot....or does this mean that there'll be an easier time dealing with domain-name disputes, or is that handled by another party altogether (melborne judicail system?)?
when will ther be a group like this in the dallas/fort worth metroplex? the DFW area is the ideal area for an open wireless network:
high population density low precipitation flat land
with the number of broadband clients in the area, one could dedicate a 20 kb stream to the open network and supply most of the metroplex with free, wireless networking. it'd also make for killer WAN parties : ) i know i've wanted a low-ping game of quake every once in a while with my friends w/in a 1 mi radius...
I believe REAL player had a special codec like what you speak of, about 2 years back....the animation looked somthing like macromedia's earlier flash animation, but windowed by a REAL player box....but the new streaming format didn't fare to well, despite the fact that they used SouthPark shorts to promote it, it seemed to do pretty well, I could stream about a 300x400 box over my (then) 28.8 modem @ ~15fps.
get a lava lamp, set it on the part of the monitor that sticks out on the back. elevate it with an old copy of some spec book so you can see it. you'd be suprised at hoe often you find yourself looking at it. that should solve your problem. my vision's signifigantly improved over about a year with it there...i'm 17 though, so it may not work as well as you get older.
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before i get flamed, in "rebellion", you play as someone of Mon Mothma's position, directing fleets, planetary seiges, diplomatic talks, espionage, kidnapping and assasination missions throughout the galaxy, developing new technologies and ships along the way. This new game should remove the galaxy-wide stratigy and put you more in the shoes of someone like Han Solo, an individual changing his own path in small steps and bounds. More personalized, in a sense
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i remember way back in the day when lucas arts put out an old game, "Rebellion", which, although at first, was a crappy game, once playing it in about 20 minutes, was maddeningly addictive. I remember borrowing it from my friend for "a night"....6 months later he had to pry it from my hands. I'd suggest picking up a copy and playing it to tide you over.
This looks to be almost an extension of the game, except that you (i'm assuming, if it's inline with everquest) play as one charicter and you play the part of a single thread in the intracate tapestry of the star wars universe, influencing it in your own miniscule way. The graphics look amazing, I sure hope those are actual ingame graphics....I've been dissapointed by previous releases of games. B&W had some amazing "screenshots", and almost delivered with that kind of detail. I'm just afraid that the sys req.'s of this game will prevent too many people from playing it.
I'm hoping to see this ported to the X box and PS2 in the future, that would definatly help the initial bit of having enough human players to make the world interesting and not boring.
while literature can often be a poor substitute for a picture, or even video (a picture is worth a thousand words), a video can also be a poor substitute for literature. Upon finding out about the death of Douglas Adams, my friends and I got out our trusty towels, and hung them from our sunroofs, windows, and tailgates as we caravaned slowly with our lights on to blockbuster with black arm bands, rented the hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy (two cassetes!), and retired to john to watch the 3 hour epic.
somewhat depressing was the starwars-ish intro, written by Douglas Adams, and john speaks out "words from the grave." We all sat in silence as the rest of the "inspiring" words scrolled into the inky blue vastness of space (old 80's VHS color deterioration). They're alright movies. Check em' out sometime.
A great man, no doubt. I'm curious as to what his gravestone will have on it.
Not for myself really...just a nifty little browser called K-Meleon, a lightweight browser that uses the M18 basecode for Windows. They're currently up to version.3, so it tends to eat up visual memory (has it's own graphical widgets (scroll bars, ect)), and has some trouble copying and pasting. You can now set your own home page (defualted to the Kmeleon website in previous versions), and change "skins" (somewhat). It's definatly faster than IE on a dialup modem, not to mention light-weight (2.9 or 3.0 megs), and is completely independent of IE (to the best of my knowledge...there may be IP stacks shared or somthing.
and yes, there's a "linux port", Gecko, for the uninformed. Actually, Kmeleon was ported from Galeon's Gecko engine, hence the similarity in lizard names. Both are nifty, although I believe Galeon has more features (Kmeleon is about as bare bones as you get before downgrading to Mosaic).
You can download Window's Kmeleon here, and find the main page for Galeon here.
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shrug. my father, recent recipent of major brain surgery for a rather large golfball sized tumor, still manages to hop on one of his 6 recumbents, 3 of which he built himself, and ride down to the corner store (1.2 miles) in a major metropolitan area (north dallas), despite being nearly blind in his left eye and having trouble walking. he's still alive and has yet to be hit by a vehicle.
before the surgery, he told me about an article that talked about how recumbents are actually safer psychologically than a standard double diamond frame bike because you're at eye level with the driver of the car, which makes the drive more aware of you and treats you as an equal. not sure how true this is, but my dad's been riding his recumbent in the area for 4 years now and has yet to hit or be hit by anything other than a rollerblader occasionally.
these speed records were done under the guidelines of the HPVA, which specifies that the conditions must be under 4000 ft above sea level, on flat ground, or a track where 0 ft of altitude is lost or gained at the end of a specified length of track. this allows time/speed trials to be held in nearly any part of the world, accounting for air density in various altitudes, and those being below 4000 ft are neglible /uncontrollable due to temperature fluxuations in various regions where one might perform.
.com) specifies that all competing bikes must be started from a complete stop by the rider _only_. there are some loopholes for those of them with full farrings (enclosures), which are using a single rollerblade wheel as suppor while they get enough speed that they can balance on two wheels while accelrating slowly using the enormous (100 tooth) sprokets, once moving, the wheel is retracted, so there are limits on the size/gearing of a bike under these testing conditions. however, speed testing/timing doesn't start until the bike is in full motion.
race cars often 'draft' behind other race cars in car races to conserve fuel/strain on engine. this is another reason why you don't see cars strugling to pass the lead car, as he's already pushing most of the air out of the way for the rest of the cars, making it easier on them. same concept for a bike drafting behind a car, hiding in it's 'wind shadow'.
thirdly, the bike mentioned was probably so highly geared that it would not be able to be started without assitance. HPVA (hpva.org,
that 'fastest speed achieved' probably was a burst speed. the 86.6 mph was a sustained 86.6 mph over a period of 30 seconds, somthing to think about.
the average human (read: 30 yr old male who's idea of exercise is walking across the parking lot to get from his car to work) can produce ~100 watts of energy sustained when biking on a mountain bike @ about 12 mph; 15-16 mph on a roadbike (tires have less rolling resistance). with little training you can achieve about 200 watts of continious energy output, and people like lance armstrong (won the tour defrance several years running) can produce almost 400 watts contiously. this guy can do that also. my dad did alot of research on recumbent bycicles before he recently contracted a brain tumor and was in close contact with Matt Weaver, who was looking for software (windows based, i'm guessing) help to calculate exactly how many watts he was producing. another thing not mentioned was that matt weaver was doing this as his Ph.d project for berkley.
as for areodynamics, the most areodynamic shape is a teardrop shape, blunt end going forward. a minvan driving backwards @ 30 mph is somthing like 3 or 4 times more areodynamically efficent than going forward. take a look at solar powered vehicles for design ques like this. the reason cars aren't any more areodynamic is b/c a) they look funny, and b)they're expensive.
"An Athlon [amd.com] needs 76W and runs at up to 95 degrees C die temperature. Ouchie!
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Funnily enough, in some areas, it's illegal to put an incandescent lightbulb of that power in a confined area, e.g. the closet under the stairs where I run my (pleasantly warm) P133 firewall. I don't know of any such restrictions for computers.
it seems odd, that such fire ordinances are put in place so that those without the time or intelligence to think about such saftey hazards have a house at the end of the day....you know of such ordinances, yet blatantly violate them anyways
as a counterpoint, exposed, bare lightbulbs are usually directly, or nearly directly connected to a flamable surface (celing, wall), while on the other hand, computer processors are for the most part sealed in a fire retardant case (the neXt cube burning article comes to mind, despite the fact that it's magnesium), and there's not much that's flammable inside the case. i'm sure the condenser in my refridgerator falls into the same catergory.
the apartment explosion scene in fight club comes to mind randomly
one way to show off your girlfriend. not too shabby. incase you're wondering what i'm talking about, take a look at SkyOS's latest screenshot. Not the most flattering picture, though, lol.
as a side thought, there's a lite version of mozzila called gecko...it's designed for easy portability (i think), which basically is why kmeleon exists....but how much effort is involved in porting gecko over to a new OS? from my POV, what really makes or breaks the popularity, or even someone bothering to download/test out an OS is a working psudeo-graphical web browser, no matter how buggy. MinuetOS was neat from my standpoint, b/c i could load it from a floppy, but after about 10 minutes of playing with it, it lost my interest. yes, i'm sure someone'll reply saying 'hey, why don't *you* volunteer to rewrite gecko to work on SkyOS? i would, but i'm not that much of a software hobbyist. i'd be more interested in writing up some sort of tutorial on how to convert gecko for your OS's needs, however contradictory that is to my previous statment. just a suggestion. as a side question, are there any tutorials like that out there? i haven't looked at the mozzila code myself, so i'm not sure how userfriendly the code is to need a tutorial in the first place.
i did some more research (well, more like it was handed to me), and apparently the tridium _is_ radioactive, although one peculiarity of tridium is that it produces the lowest powered beta emmissions of any substinance known. the radiation cannot penetrate your skin, bones, or major organs. the only way it can be absorbed is through your lungs, which your body promptly removes it through urine or feecees. one company, isolite, has a nifty write up about how safe and pretty friendly the stuff is. check it out, they make those green emergency 'exit' signs that you see in your office, except that theirs glow for 10-20 years w/o electricity.
with the amount of gas required to light up an exit sign, if all the glass tubes continaning the tritium gas were to break, a person in a 10x10 foot, 1 air change per hour room, that one person would recieve the same amount of radiation that one recieves in a dental x ray. tritium seems pretty safe.
in an earlier post, someone talks about tritium glowing watches, and talk about either a metal casing, or 10mm or air would be a sufficent shield against radiation (the dead outer layer of skin would also apply as a sheilf)
i don't think the environmental impact of 10 m^3 of tritium gas released in a 'melt down' would do much, it'd be released into the atmosphere, one or two plant opperators (who somehow survived) would have mild headaches the next day, the rest of the world would get to see faintly glowing clouds that night, maybe. the tritium gas would most likely float immediatly upwards, and not affect anyone anyways.
hmm....my dad once told me about a particular type of watch....not sure what is was anymore, but anyways, it had tritium gas in it i believe....kinda like an early version of indiglo, except it was on _all_ the time, and glowed pink, like in the pic on the page. i guess they discontinued it due to the fact that it gave people cancer? too expensive? i'm not too familiar with tritium gas
any ideas anyone?
personally, i don't particularly care if it's 50 years off, or even 100. so far in this forum, i haven't seen one post speaking of the environmental effects of a fusion generator....so i'm guessing other than excessive heat (used to make steam), there is none. no radioactivity, no cancer, no threat to humanity as we know it when one of these 'melts down'. i personally see fusion power being developed in my lifetime (i'm nearly 18). probably half of you slashdotters will live to see fossil fuels become scarce and the entire atmosphere look like LA on a bad day, i know most of europe is already like this...been there, saw it. it's depressing to stand in a beautiful garden in the mountians and look down over barcelona, and barely be able to make out the cathedreal being built there : (
they've already demonstrated that they can create the the field(s), it's just a matter of fine-tuning things. personally, i'd like to help fund their project, seeing as how electical power is the world's life-blood, and this is the best soultion as of yet to help us generate more of it. nuclear war eventually will be inevitable, but personally i'dlike to be in the country that funded powering these things, so that when the sky is so thick with ash you can't see the sun anymore, our country is still capable of heating all of america's homes (as fusion produces enormous amounts of power).
notch one up for the anti-spammers,
total score: spammers - billions upon of billions of emails, antispammers: 2 or 3.
the this battle's been won, but we still have the entire war ahead of us.
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i can see the MPAA using this as an anti-digital audio tactic, spamming people from a specific network that has alot of MP3 traffic, until the network is blacklisted, and threaten to continue to spam/keep the network blacklisted until they limit the transmission of MP3's across that network.
just an idea.
as a teen, i was given an atm/debit 'cheque' card at the early age of 17, it was free, comming along with a 'student' account, free checking, free this and that till i graduate from college in 4-6 years from now.
it's a great thing, it pays for my lunches at schlotski's every day (1.99$ kids cheese pizza), subway subs (4.68$ spicy italian), weekend dinners (tgi friday's, chili's, bennegan's, ect), gas, and food. even the occasional random buying spree at amazon.com; snatch soundtrack, fightclub (the novel), a clockwork orange (novel). even my copy-protected commercial music cd, 'closer', by better than ezra.
the only things today i find thati need cash for are a) fast food resturants, and b)the floral shop (they require a 15$ purchase to use crdit or debit, i usually get single long stemmed roses for the gf (6$)). then again i live in upper rich-ville, a suburb of dallas. most things here are debit/atm; although what bothers me is that you still can't get a happy meal with a coke w/o handleing that dirty green stuff. with other major food chains such as Quizno's subs, and Subway having atm things, i can't see why Micky D's or BK wouldn't have these too by now.
on another thought, plastic is probably infinitly better for the public's health interests; youdon't have to deal with disease and bacteria toting bills and change. then again, if we're not exposed to it, our immune system goes lax, we pick up some horrible disease, and die as a result. same paradox applies to using that silly bacterial gel 'hand cleaner'. sigh.
if you're going to go to the effort of installing a tv of any size, semi-permantly into your vehicle, it might be wise to look into a 100 amp alternator, avalible for all chevy/gmc cars, standard on any '72 caddy or newer, and all conversion vans (obviously). i'm sure ford sells them too, you can probably pull one off of a f250 of 350 in a junkyard for ~20 bucks. altenators are pretty interchangable. be sure to have your battery completely charged before replacing the alternator; as with alot of mechanical things that move, 90% of the damage done in the object's life is done in the first 2 seconds of operation
i personally still own a SNES, and F-Zero, a game that uses the 'mode 7' function, and as i understand it, you had two layers of mode 7, the 'city' below you, and the track itself, not to mention the scrolling background & more or less static sprite of your 'car', or maybe the track was a dynamic sprite....i dunno. can you clear this up?
also, has anyone ever looked inside a SNES? those seem pretty portable...
i bought the new cd 'closer', by better than ezra after downloading a few of the tracks off of kazaa (www.kazaa.com), and they have a 'special feature' that lets me watch music videos of the songs on that cd, check out band bios....very neat, except winamp, nor explorer will recognize the cd as having any audio on it. any ideas, anyone?
by the way, i'm glad they're using this on michael jackson cd's.....not many people in the US buy his stuff anyways, it's mostly overseas popularity from what i understand. if anything, this anti-copying scheme should bring press to MJ and give him some free advertising. i myself did not know until today that he'd released any new music in the past 3 years anyways
i'm guessing being a 3x clone, it'll have the standard 2 1/2" screen, instead of the rather small screen of my m100....25% at that size is a huge difference. I'm curious though, i have a copy of a palm OS rom, 4.5.....would I be able to flash the linux rom with a true palm OS (for testing purposes only, of course ; )
a linux palm sold mainstream is neat, but this is hardware compatible only . you still aren't getting the huge benifit of the palm os, which is the infinite supply of quick, useful and more importantly, FREE programs out there.
now you might say 'but this is nothing more than a simple organizer, it's not made to emulate game boy games and various other things, it is simply an electronic address book and datebook', it is, that's what my palm is used for for 90% of the time also, but i also enjoy the versatility of the (shudder) mainstream os, and it's ablity to download play with a new gam at will. avantgo is handy also. i think palm os program compatiblity would be a huge step up.
i'll probably get one anyways, the concept of programming and modifying the kernel of a device like that is too apetizing for me not to : )
I hate reading on the Palm : the screen is too small, the contrast sucks and you have to scroll all the time, but the Palm is small and convenient enough to convince me not to load my suitcase sometimes.
you can download cspotrun, a great doc reader, and a copy of MakeDoc (to make your own compressed ebooks from text)...i've downloaded all 5 of the books of the HHGTTG trilogy, and read 4 of them on my palm durring math in high school in the past 2 months...it has an auto scroll feature, with easily adjustable scroll speed. check it out. it's GPL'd, too!
as for the ebook copies of HHGTTG....you'll have to contact me : ), i'm working on scanning Dune in : )
so as the article puts it, they're going from an *inefficent* means of domain name admin. to a much more efficent and government-regulated....
so maybe i missed the point, but there doesn't seem to be any signifigance to this post...almost too obscure for even slashdot....or does this mean that there'll be an easier time dealing with domain-name disputes, or is that handled by another party altogether (melborne judicail system?)?
i think your best results would come from a google search of
ascimosaic
when will ther be a group like this in the dallas/fort worth metroplex? the DFW area is the ideal area for an open wireless network:
high population density
low precipitation
flat land
with the number of broadband clients in the area, one could dedicate a 20 kb stream to the open network and supply most of the metroplex with free, wireless networking. it'd also make for killer WAN parties : ) i know i've wanted a low-ping game of quake every once in a while with my friends w/in a 1 mi radius...
I believe REAL player had a special codec like what you speak of, about 2 years back....the animation looked somthing like macromedia's earlier flash animation, but windowed by a REAL player box....but the new streaming format didn't fare to well, despite the fact that they used SouthPark shorts to promote it, it seemed to do pretty well, I could stream about a 300x400 box over my (then) 28.8 modem @ ~15fps.
i'm not sure if the parent is a flame, or what, but it's the most logical, level-headed and probably true comment i've seen all day about this topic
get a lava lamp, set it on the part of the monitor that sticks out on the back. elevate it with an old copy of some spec book so you can see it. you'd be suprised at hoe often you find yourself looking at it. that should solve your problem. my vision's signifigantly improved over about a year with it there...i'm 17 though, so it may not work as well as you get older.
before i get flamed, in "rebellion", you play as someone of Mon Mothma's position, directing fleets, planetary seiges, diplomatic talks, espionage, kidnapping and assasination missions throughout the galaxy, developing new technologies and ships along the way. This new game should remove the galaxy-wide stratigy and put you more in the shoes of someone like Han Solo, an individual changing his own path in small steps and bounds. More personalized, in a sense
i remember way back in the day when lucas arts put out an old game, "Rebellion", which, although at first, was a crappy game, once playing it in about 20 minutes, was maddeningly addictive. I remember borrowing it from my friend for "a night"....6 months later he had to pry it from my hands. I'd suggest picking up a copy and playing it to tide you over.
This looks to be almost an extension of the game, except that you (i'm assuming, if it's inline with everquest) play as one charicter and you play the part of a single thread in the intracate tapestry of the star wars universe, influencing it in your own miniscule way. The graphics look amazing, I sure hope those are actual ingame graphics....I've been dissapointed by previous releases of games. B&W had some amazing "screenshots", and almost delivered with that kind of detail. I'm just afraid that the sys req.'s of this game will prevent too many people from playing it.
I'm hoping to see this ported to the X box and PS2 in the future, that would definatly help the initial bit of having enough human players to make the world interesting and not boring.
while literature can often be a poor substitute for a picture, or even video (a picture is worth a thousand words), a video can also be a poor substitute for literature. Upon finding out about the death of Douglas Adams, my friends and I got out our trusty towels, and hung them from our sunroofs, windows, and tailgates as we caravaned slowly with our lights on to blockbuster with black arm bands, rented the hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy (two cassetes!), and retired to john to watch the 3 hour epic.
somewhat depressing was the starwars-ish intro, written by
Douglas Adams, and john speaks out "words from the grave." We all sat in silence as the rest of the "inspiring" words scrolled into the inky blue vastness of space (old 80's VHS color deterioration). They're alright movies. Check em' out sometime.
A great man, no doubt. I'm curious as to what his gravestone will have on it.
"So long and thanks for all the fish"
, no doubt.
Not for myself really...just a nifty little browser called K-Meleon, a lightweight browser that uses the M18 basecode for Windows. They're currently up to version .3, so it tends to eat up visual memory (has it's own graphical widgets (scroll bars, ect)), and has some trouble copying and pasting. You can now set your own home page (defualted to the Kmeleon website in previous versions), and change "skins" (somewhat). It's definatly faster than IE on a dialup modem, not to mention light-weight (2.9 or 3.0 megs), and is completely independent of IE (to the best of my knowledge...there may be IP stacks shared or somthing.
and yes, there's a "linux port", Gecko, for the uninformed. Actually, Kmeleon was ported from Galeon's Gecko engine, hence the similarity in lizard names. Both are nifty, although I believe Galeon has more features (Kmeleon is about as bare bones as you get before downgrading to Mosaic).
You can download Window's Kmeleon here, and find the main page for Galeon here.