was taught in my Bible classes that cloned humans would not have souls.
Never mind that identical twins are, in fact, clones.
Don't put your kids in private schools... it turns them into unthinking, unquestioning sheep.
Well, not private religious schools, anyway. There are private schools out there that are orders of magnitude better than the McEducation you get in most public schools.
c is the speed of light in a vacuum . That's what's been assumed to be a constant.
The speed of light in other materials varies quite a bit. That's what causes refraction to occur. Things like diamonds have a low speed of light (high refraction).
Y is based on some completely arbitrary cost for a strictly limited supply of used hardware
You might have a point if the supply were, in fact, limited. Would you say the same about someone who advised buying a used car?
There are tons of these projectors out there. All the suits insist on having the latest XS-Mega-Giganto-UltraVGA display (whether they know what it means or not) so older projectors get dumped on the used market long before their useful life is up.
It's not QUITE as large as, say, the used car market, but nevertheless there are plenty of them.
Just don't get into any bidding wars and you'll be fine. Educate yourself about what the projectors cost new so you have an idea of what a used one is worth. Compare to similar models NOW, don't go by how much the used projector cost when it was new. Last year's $5K wonderbox is this year's $2K used workhorse is next year's $500 eBay bargain.
Pretty expensive, assuming you aren't handy enough to hack a lower-priced model into it (which isn't really all that difficult if you're at all handy... it's just a light bulb, albeit a very bright one).
You can get 800X600 lcd projectors on ebay for less than $500.00
Yup, that's exactly what I did. Works beautifully, and 800x600 is plenty for anything short of HDTV. It has composite, component, S-Video, and VGA inputs.
Nothing like a nice 9' screen... couple it with a 5.1 sound system, and it's golden.
I buy wholesale and a hardware 56Kbs modem is only $10 more expensive then the equivalant software modem.
Even if your definition of "wholesale quantity" is the same as Walmart's (probably not, eh?:-) that still adds up to a nice chunk of change when you're looking at selling a million or so machines.
Still, this is something people should complain about.
We use dams. Pretty clean (albeit dangerous to wildlife).
In fact, dams are by far the most dangerous form of power generation on a death/amount of power generated basis. Take a look at the chart labeled Comparison of accident statistics in primary energy production at the bottom of this report
A lot of people at UIUC got this message this morning, disguised as a "Massmail" (read: pointless drivel from the administration). Note the name of the doctor and the lot number on the condoms.
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 07:36:04 -0600 From: "Dr. Ivana Fukalot, MD Asst Dir.McKinley Health Center" Subject: MASSMAIL - Emergency Condom Recall To: postmaster@your.smtp.com Precedence: list Reply-To: ivanafuk@uiuc.edu X-Massmail-Tag: 20020401097950-543798 X-URL: http://www.cso.uiuc.edu/services/massmail/ X-Bulk mail: 2.05 X-UIDL: j3*#!%g:"
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"Life" != "Human Life"
The cells in the follicles of my pubic hairs are alive. That doesn't make them entitled to human rights.
was taught in my Bible classes that cloned humans would not have souls.
Never mind that identical twins are, in fact, clones.
Don't put your kids in private schools... it turns them into unthinking, unquestioning sheep.
Well, not private religious schools, anyway. There are private schools out there that are orders of magnitude better than the McEducation you get in most public schools.
All right, hands up all of you who read this as "USCF Acknowledges Tests on Human Cloning",
/wave
c is the speed of light in a vacuum . That's what's been assumed to be a constant.
The speed of light in other materials varies quite a bit. That's what causes refraction to occur. Things like diamonds have a low speed of light (high refraction).
Y is based on some completely arbitrary cost for a strictly limited supply of used hardware
You might have a point if the supply were, in fact, limited. Would you say the same about someone who advised buying a used car?
There are tons of these projectors out there. All the suits insist on having the latest XS-Mega-Giganto-UltraVGA display (whether they know what it means or not) so older projectors get dumped on the used market long before their useful life is up.
It's not QUITE as large as, say, the used car market, but nevertheless there are plenty of them.
Just don't get into any bidding wars and you'll be fine. Educate yourself about what the projectors cost new so you have an idea of what a used one is worth. Compare to similar models NOW, don't go by how much the used projector cost when it was new. Last year's $5K wonderbox is this year's $2K used workhorse is next year's $500 eBay bargain.
Pretty expensive, assuming you aren't handy enough to hack a lower-priced model into it (which isn't really all that difficult if you're at all handy... it's just a light bulb, albeit a very bright one).
The original ones last for thousands of hours.
You can get 800X600 lcd projectors on ebay for less than $500.00
Yup, that's exactly what I did. Works beautifully, and 800x600 is plenty for anything short of HDTV. It has composite, component, S-Video, and VGA inputs.
Nothing like a nice 9' screen... couple it with a 5.1 sound system, and it's golden.
I buy wholesale and a hardware 56Kbs modem is only $10 more expensive then the equivalant software modem.
:-) that still adds up to a nice chunk of change when you're looking at selling a million or so machines.
Even if your definition of "wholesale quantity" is the same as Walmart's (probably not, eh?
Still, this is something people should complain about.
We use dams. Pretty clean (albeit dangerous to wildlife).
In fact, dams are by far the most dangerous form of power generation on a death/amount of power generated basis. Take a look at the chart labeled Comparison of accident statistics in primary energy production at the bottom of this report
Until recently I would have agreed with you, but see this recent Slashdot story .
If this does become feasible it'll take much research and lots of capital, I'm sure, but it's still pretty cool.
A lot of people at UIUC got this message this morning, disguised as a "Massmail" (read: pointless drivel from the administration). Note the name of the doctor and the lot number on the condoms.
k mail: 2.05
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 07:36:04 -0600
From: "Dr. Ivana Fukalot, MD Asst Dir.McKinley Health Center"
Subject: MASSMAIL - Emergency Condom Recall
To: postmaster@your.smtp.com
Precedence: list
Reply-To: ivanafuk@uiuc.edu
X-Massmail-Tag: 20020401097950-543798
X-URL: http://www.cso.uiuc.edu/services/massmail/
X-Bul
X-UIDL: j3*#!%g:"![aO"!UHH!!
To all University students:
It has recently come to the attention of the McKinley Health Center
Staff that a recent batch of condoms purchased and already in partial
distribution on campus may be defective. According to Trojan, the
manufacturer of the condoms, several thousand condoms distributed to the
University of Illinois may have inappropriately passed the quality
control tests at their production facility.
The recall affects all Trojan brand condoms of the normal, non-ribbed,
variety. If you have received such condoms from McKinley or the McKinley
Resource Center since February 3rd, you are strongly advised to take the
following actions:
If you have used such condoms there is small probability that
microscopic holes may have prevented the condom from performing
effectively. To determine if your pack of condoms was part of the batch
that inappropriately passed the quality control tests, please take the
following steps immediately:
1.) Remove an unused condom from its wrapper.
2.) Fully unroll and stretch the condom and rotate it looking for the
lot numbers imprinted near the base of the condom.
3.) Alternatively, place your mouth on the condom and gently exhale,
inflating the condom to reveal the lot numbers.
If the beginning of the lot numbers starts with:
31337-H4Ck
you may have a condom from the defective batch.
Trojan has requested that we collect all unused condoms from this batch and
return them immediately for testing and disposal. If you are unsure as
to whether the condom pack you possess is affected or not please follow
the return instructions below.
Drop points have been conventiently setup at McKinley Health center and
the McKinley Resource Center. For your convinience we have also arranged
for the tuition drop boxes both in the Illini Union and the Henry
Administration building to be opened for condom collection.
We deeply regret this incident and we realize this situation may have
many serious implications. If you have any further questions we urge you
to contact the McKinley Health Center.
Sincerely,
Dr. Ivana Fukalot, MD
Asst. Director of McKinley Health Center
This mailing approved by:
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I'm sure Bose or Bang and Olufsen has made a $300 clock that has a numeric keypad
I can believe that the piss-poor UI on clocks is due to cheapness, but I think $300 is just a tad on the high side for an estimate.
You can get a numeric keypad on a $14.95 el-cheapo phone that probably has just about as much electronics in it as a clock, barring the display panel (OTOH, the phone needs a mic and a speaker, not just a buzzer).
watch out for the Shell stations of you want to find something kinda secret I guess
:-)
I suspect a Dutch espionage ring is behind this (Shell is a Netherlands company).
Wasn't that called DivX? :-)
I mentioned these above (sulfur lamps).
If you check the "Sulfur Lamps" link on the URL you posted, they're claiming commercial availability in 2002, i.e., this year.
These things put out upwards of 150 lumens for every wat of power (compare to about 17 lumens/watt for an incandescent bulb... nearly 10 times more efficient). They also produce almost no UV or IR.
That's why it's called "research". The vast majority of research projects never pan out, but you can't stop doing 'em. Otherwise progress would come to a halt.
Sure thing. Why don't you count up the number of major security holes in Microsoft products and compare them to the number of major security holes in Java and report back to us.
-TM, unamused that his servers are STILL being probed by Code Red/NIMDA variants.
These new LEDs are pretty cool. Another new technology on the horizon is the sulfur lamp
frankly.. NO.. those people are wasting my valuable oxygen :)
The trouble is that they don't just remove themselves from the gene pool, they also tend to take out other drivers, pedestrians, small children.....
But only a very small fraction of Alaska: 571951 sq. miles.
And 3,250 square km is only a very, very, very small fraction of Antarctica: 14,000,000 square km, 13,720,000 of which is covered with ice.
This is No Big Deal.
He should just hack his relay so that it's extreeeemly slow;
That's an interesting idea, actually. Since the bulk of the open relays out there are open because of clueless sysadmins (rather than from genuine spam-friendliness), how about making SMTP default to only accepting, say, 20 emails per hour from a particular IP address? (just a ballpark figure, the actual number would need to be tuned) There'd be a config setting to raise it if necessary, but raising it would require that the sysadmin actually read the docs to learn how.
nobody (especially a Hollywood studio) shoots a movie with 35mm film
Almost all non-huge-budget Hollywood movies are shot on 35mm negative film (though the frame aspect ratio is not the same as 35mm still film). Epics are shot on 70mm. The only movies shot on 16mm are really, really low-budget stuff and indies. 8mm is limited to amateurs (most of whom are using video nowadays) and the occasional experimentalist who wants the, let's face it, crappy image quality for artistic reasons.
And yes, it is overwhelmingly negative film. The only real inroad reversal film ever made into motion photography was for TV news back in the days before portable video cameras. Since you could project the camera original rather than taking the time to strike a print.
Yes, this does differ from the situation in still photography, where pros and serious amateurs tend to use reversal film. That's the way it is, though.
I bet someone with talent could turn Home Alone into a dark action flick...
Do it, dude! I'm serious. This is well within the capability of an individual nowadays.
Getting it legally distributed is another matter, of course, but the guy who recut The Phantom Menace didn't let that stop him.
as recently as the early 1900s actual human beings were still commenly used as slaves.
The early 1900s? Try the early 2000s. Slavery still exists, mores the pity.
So, how far along is your country in implementing the Kyoto treaty?
What's that? They haven't implemented it? They haven't even started?
Hmm... perhaps you should start aiming your criticism a bit closer to home.