As a grown up kid who grew up with legos (before all the specialized peices for the models came out), and a parent:
Duplo's: seem to be manufactured to less exacting tolerances, because they tend to fit very loosely together, to the point where they're no better off structurally than stackable building blocks.
Lego structural integrity: Some wicked-strong members can be fabricated by laminating staggered flat peices. Although you're somewhat limited geometrically, those 1-wide 6 to 8 long blocks can be used to build walls, to connect two of these flat laminates, to create fairly strong tubes. As long as the joints remain staggered, and reinforced, these can be fairly strong.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
one of the less interesting "bizarre rumors" about the HAARP facility -
Up there with - weapon to control weather weapon to disrupt radio communications regionally weapon to "cook" an entire city's population mind-control beam doomsday device to disrupt Earth's magnetic field (and plunge Earth into the Sun)
The only credible "bizarre rumor" I ever read was that this would be some sort of "ground penetrating radar (reflected off the ionosphere) to detect subterranian nuclear weapons facilities.
The scientists there claim that they only study the ionosphere. That's it.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
It went up about 10 minutes after sunset, so the flare of the engine was easily visible as it cleared the hills, and as it climbed, the smoke trail went from a dark purple to orange, to yellow to white. As the rocket gained altitude, there were some very beautiful shimmering effects against the deep blue sky, and when it was way up there, the ice crystals in the upper atmosphere made a scintillating ring, with radiating white lines. Again, I've got several size 11 footprints in my ass for forgetting to bring the camcorder.
Ironic that this goes down as one of the most incredibly beautiful sights I've ever seen in my life - and not only was it not natural, it was probably one of the most evil devices ever constructed by mankind.
I hope that I never someday see dozens of these things climbing from the low hills into the sky, headed towards the Evil Despot (TM) of the day. I may have to gouge my eyes out after witnessing that beauty.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Oh, it wouldn't be on the Full Moon. It would be best during the NEW moon, where more dark surface would be available to reflect the laser at a higher contrast.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Kind of reminds me of that issue of "The Tick" where Chairface constructs a giant heat-ray to perform the ultimate act of vandalism; carve his name onto the surface of the moon so that it's visible from Earth.
I've always wondered if Neil Armstrong didn't march out some letters in the lunar soil: First Post! Nixon sucks!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Just because we don't see all that many offtopic posts anymore (like this one), doesn't mean that we should do away with what has proven to be an effective solution.
Yes, moderation can be abused, yes, we have a system to moderate the moderators. No it's not foolproof - but it does work dang well for most cases.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
okay, I've been reading slashdot for like 2 years now, and I still can't figure out what the fsck ^H^H^H^H^H^H is supposed to mean. What the h#() is it?
(sorry for being so blatantly offtopic, but nobody I know uses this or knows what it means either, and I work at a software company)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Maybe what "the market" needs is a strong competitor like @Home/Netscape/Compuserve/AOL/who's next? to keep Microsoft at bay. Did you ever think of that? I mean, MS dominates the software and OS industry, in the consumer space, and they're making significant inroads in other markets (witness Steve Ballmer's recent spiel about how MSN is going to take over the ISP scene because - hey man, that's where the game is at now baby, renting Office 2000 out to hapless consumers over the internet man!) On the other hand, when Stalin liberated east-Germany from Hitler. . . (significant artistic license taken from history to make a silly but valid point)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
"Duck and Cover" was to make the skeletons easier to clean up afterwards. Not sprawled out across the floor, just roll the neat little ball into the bodybag. . . wow, that was pretty nasty. Is there a moderation selection: -1 morbid?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
The way I look at it, the Open Source model forces a software corporation to abandon it's original business model, which is renting intellectual property, along with a little marketshare enforcement via proprietary protocols and file formats, and adopt a business model of selling service.
Now, if a company makes all of it's money off of supporting it's product, there's NO incentive to engineer useability into that product.
Now, we all know that if a software engineer put enough effort into automation and UI design that a kindergartner with a mouse could effectively admin a network of database servers. (we're talking ideal situations here). But if they can't make money off of supporting the software (because the software supports itself), and if they can't make money selling software licenses, and forcing upgrades, etc., then they can't make money period.
Put that in your Bazarr Cathedral and smoke it.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
And humanity may not ever make a machine of that magnitude again, for 100 years or so. But eventually, history will be forgotten, and someone will try it again, or perhaps it may happen "accidentally" through processes we do not understand, networking of many "stupefied" computers, genetic algorithms, etc. If that machine ever comes up with a "survival mechanism" that allows it to compete in the physical world, and if that same machine also puts 2+2 together (potentially, I am a threat to them, and if they see that they will destroy me, and they do not now, but eventually may, so I must destroy them as a matter of survival), you can kiss Humanity goodbye, along with McDonalds, tennis shoes, Madonna, and bad haiku.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I think that's the effect that causes "frame dragging", and I assume they're compensating for that, or at least have eliminated that as a potential cause for the discrepency in their data.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Now, who was it who was arguing with me a few weeks ago about how flawless newtonian physics was, and how we (mankind) had complete understanding and mastery of the laws of nature?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Actually, the universe ends just outside the orbit of the moon. "the diety" to which you refer has gathered-up the space probes, and positioned holy radio transmitting sources at the locations where the probes should be and they are broadcasting data, spoofing what NASA expects to be hearing from the probes.
When we finally send men to Mars, "the diety" is going to have to drug them and hypnotize them into believing they actually travelled to Mars, when in reality, they landed on the dark side of the moon, and went into a secret complex with a big room with walls painted on the inside to resemble Mars, so that the photographic equipment and such broadcasts the expected pictures. Mockups of Pathfinder and Viking will probably also be present.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
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Not only that, every time I end up with Australia in RISK, I end up kicking ASS!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
As a grown up kid who grew up with legos (before all the specialized peices for the models came out), and a parent:
Duplo's:
seem to be manufactured to less exacting tolerances, because they tend to fit very loosely together, to the point where they're no better off structurally than stackable building blocks.
Lego structural integrity:
Some wicked-strong members can be fabricated by laminating staggered flat peices. Although you're somewhat limited geometrically, those 1-wide 6 to 8 long blocks can be used to build walls, to connect two of these flat laminates, to create fairly strong tubes. As long as the joints remain staggered, and reinforced, these can be fairly strong.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
oh yeah, more fiber for more internet bandwidth.
Faster banners. That's what we need.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
one of the less interesting "bizarre rumors" about the HAARP facility -
Up there with -
weapon to control weather
weapon to disrupt radio communications regionally
weapon to "cook" an entire city's population
mind-control beam
doomsday device to disrupt Earth's magnetic field (and plunge Earth into the Sun)
The only credible "bizarre rumor" I ever read was that this would be some sort of "ground penetrating radar (reflected off the ionosphere) to detect subterranian nuclear weapons facilities.
The scientists there claim that they only study the ionosphere. That's it.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
It went up about 10 minutes after sunset, so the flare of the engine was easily visible as it cleared the hills, and as it climbed, the smoke trail went from a dark purple to orange, to yellow to white. As the rocket gained altitude, there were some very beautiful shimmering effects against the deep blue sky, and when it was way up there, the ice crystals in the upper atmosphere made a scintillating ring, with radiating white lines. Again, I've got several size 11 footprints in my ass for forgetting to bring the camcorder.
Ironic that this goes down as one of the most incredibly beautiful sights I've ever seen in my life - and not only was it not natural, it was probably one of the most evil devices ever constructed by mankind.
I hope that I never someday see dozens of these things climbing from the low hills into the sky, headed towards the Evil Despot (TM) of the day. I may have to gouge my eyes out after witnessing that beauty.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Um, thanks. I didn't expect a non-insulting response. (good think I didn't ask what LOL meant!)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Lennin and Marx spinning in their graves.
(okay, I know Lennin isn't even in a grave, it's a figure of speech. Alright?)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
hey, brainstorming. No bad ideas.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Oh, it wouldn't be on the Full Moon. It would be best during the NEW moon, where more dark surface would be available to reflect the laser at a higher contrast.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Kind of reminds me of that issue of "The Tick" where Chairface constructs a giant heat-ray to perform the ultimate act of vandalism; carve his name onto the surface of the moon so that it's visible from Earth.
I've always wondered if Neil Armstrong didn't march out some letters in the lunar soil: First Post! Nixon sucks!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
How about boycotting them simply because the pizza sucks?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Just because we don't see all that many offtopic posts anymore (like this one), doesn't mean that we should do away with what has proven to be an effective solution.
Yes, moderation can be abused, yes, we have a system to moderate the moderators. No it's not foolproof - but it does work dang well for most cases.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
okay, I've been reading slashdot for like 2 years now, and I still can't figure out what the fsck ^H^H^H^H^H^H is supposed to mean. What the h#() is it?
(sorry for being so blatantly offtopic, but nobody I know uses this or knows what it means either, and I work at a software company)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Maybe what "the market" needs is a strong competitor like @Home/Netscape/Compuserve/AOL/who's next? to keep Microsoft at bay. Did you ever think of that? I mean, MS dominates the software and OS industry, in the consumer space, and they're making significant inroads in other markets (witness Steve Ballmer's recent spiel about how MSN is going to take over the ISP scene because - hey man, that's where the game is at now baby, renting Office 2000 out to hapless consumers over the internet man!)
On the other hand, when Stalin liberated east-Germany from Hitler. . . (significant artistic license taken from history to make a silly but valid point)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Oh, that's fine, change us over to metric, then we'll just have to change again when the 12-fingered aliens take over.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
"Duck and Cover" was to make the skeletons easier to clean up afterwards. Not sprawled out across the floor, just roll the neat little ball into the bodybag. . . wow, that was pretty nasty. Is there a moderation selection: -1 morbid?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
if Perl is the ultimate language, why didn't they write it in Perl?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
oh, it's a noise problem all right.
Intel's marketing department is making all the noise. Not Intel's engineering department.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
PPC and/or Alpha is still looking more and more attractive. . .
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
"We've decided to trade you Seattle and
Redmond for Montreal. I think it's a damn good trade."
Artie FM, have you ever considered running for public office?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
The way I look at it, the Open Source model forces a software corporation to abandon it's original business model, which is renting intellectual property, along with a little marketshare enforcement via proprietary protocols and file formats, and adopt a business model of selling service.
Now, if a company makes all of it's money off of supporting it's product, there's NO incentive to engineer useability into that product.
Now, we all know that if a software engineer put enough effort into automation and UI design that a kindergartner with a mouse could effectively admin a network of database servers. (we're talking ideal situations here). But if they can't make money off of supporting the software (because the software supports itself), and if they can't make money selling software licenses, and forcing upgrades, etc., then they can't make money period.
Put that in your Bazarr Cathedral and smoke it.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
And humanity may not ever make a machine of that magnitude again, for 100 years or so. But eventually, history will be forgotten, and someone will try it again, or perhaps it may happen "accidentally" through processes we do not understand, networking of many "stupefied" computers, genetic algorithms, etc. If that machine ever comes up with a "survival mechanism" that allows it to compete in the physical world, and if that same machine also puts 2+2 together (potentially, I am a threat to them, and if they see that they will destroy me, and they do not now, but eventually may, so I must destroy them as a matter of survival), you can kiss Humanity goodbye, along with McDonalds, tennis shoes, Madonna, and bad haiku.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I think that's the effect that causes "frame dragging", and I assume they're compensating for that, or at least have eliminated that as a potential cause for the discrepency in their data.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Now, who was it who was arguing with me a few weeks ago about how flawless newtonian physics was, and how we (mankind) had complete understanding and mastery of the laws of nature?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Actually, the universe ends just outside the orbit of the moon. "the diety" to which you refer has gathered-up the space probes, and positioned holy radio transmitting sources at the locations where the probes should be and they are broadcasting data, spoofing what NASA expects to be hearing from the probes.
When we finally send men to Mars, "the diety" is going to have to drug them and hypnotize them into believing they actually travelled to Mars, when in reality, they landed on the dark side of the moon, and went into a secret complex with a big room with walls painted on the inside to resemble Mars, so that the photographic equipment and such broadcasts the expected pictures. Mockups of Pathfinder and Viking will probably also be present.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."