I was so disappointed when on the day when Gerald Ford actually died, none of the TV networks played the Dana Carvey SNL skit. Not even the Daily Show, which did not air a new episode that night. They completely missed a fantastic comedic opportunity.
Anyway, put a little "Works" toilet bowl cleaner in a plastic bottle, but a strip of aluminum foil in it, screw on the cap, shake it, toss it down and walk away and it waill react violently and noisily, louder than a shotgun blast.
Works is 20% hydrochloric acid. This is reacting with aluminum to make hydrogen and heat. Be sure to keep this reaction away from flame! (Or add flame if you want to make it as dangerous as a shotgun blast...)
I'm sure it's not just an exposed spinning bowl of mercury outside with dirt underneath. Even so, they could just put a bucket under it to catch the mercury...
From article: "The whole whole process is self sustaining and can last for up to 40 years"...after which it blows up, and you have to doze it and build a new one.
Yes! It was strange watching it get progressively thinner and more expensive as the years went by. Don't think I've seen one in about 8 years though... must be a pamphlet by now.
Recently in Barnes & Noble, I remarked to my friends, "I won't buy magazines because they're all full of ads. Why can't they make a magazine with no ads?", to which one friend responded, "What you want is a book."
Is the closed source code of Windows preventing us from actively defending our systems?
Well, it's preventing US since we don't have the source code... but it's also not our job to fix Windows code. It's Microsoft's job, and that's what they get paid to do.
...the 'baby bootstrap' was considered the holy grail of military applications
I thought the idea of a Holy Grail (as a solution to a problem) was that it's a solution that you don't expect to achieve. How many 'holy grails' of science and engineering do we have under our belts so far? Not many. I'd say that anyone hoping for 'baby bootstrap' shouldn't hold their breath.
But what if you sign your own name? ANd the store still accepts it, is it fraud too then?
Personally, I do not believe it is fraud. I have been asked several times to go to a store and purchase something for people I know. I bring their credit card to the store and make the purchase. I sign the receipt with my name. One time at Circuit City, I was asked why the signature did not match, so I explained the situation - that the card did not belong to me and I was making a purchase for the person named on the card. The cashier nodded and completed the purchase.
I've never had trouble doing this... but I am curious which criminal charges would be brought if it was a thief authorized to make those purchases.
I am such a loser. First for reading comments to this depth, and second for going to post a reply to the parent (about 7:33:17) and discovering that someone I actually know has already posted the reply I intended.
"Panna, a self-confessed wimp, was chosen to represent humanity."
Wonderful. It doesn't sound like they expected it to be much of a contest. They should make the robot arms fight each other first until they get good enough to beat a self-confessed wimp. Then, maybe they won't be wasting everyone's time.
If you don't like your job for any reason, please quit it. That way, there will be an opening that I can have. And when I begin to hate that job, I will keep it because I need the money.
The only thing a non-techical manager needs is the common sence to listen only to the people that know what they are talking about
Correct, but this is easier said than done. It requires identifying who knows what they are talking about - and to do this with confidence requires knowing everything they know, in which case you wouldn't need to ask in the first place.
I thought that the polyphonic ringtones that vibrated to the baseline of the song were pretty neat - until I learned that people not only actually used them, but also paid money for them.
Seriously, I do not understand the level of popularity that ringtones have acheived - especially considering that they cost money! A cellphone plan costs enough already. I use a preprogrammed ringtone on my Audiovox CDM-4000 phone (1st gen CDMA for anyone unfamiliar with the particular phone), and while it's a bit cheesy I can instantly recognize that this tone is coming from my phone and my phone only - It's been ringing like this for almost 5 years. If I were to change ring tones often, not only would it be time&money consuming but I would also lose that mental 'training' of what my phone sounds like when it rings in a room full of people with ringing cellphones. Yes, I do know people who have a ring tone for everyone in their phonebook. Perhaps it is useful to them other than being a fashion statement (since caller ID also identifies incoming callers) but is it really worth paying for?
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I was so disappointed when on the day when Gerald Ford actually died, none of the TV networks played the Dana Carvey SNL skit. Not even the Daily Show, which did not air a new episode that night. They completely missed a fantastic comedic opportunity.
Anyway, put a little "Works" toilet bowl cleaner in a plastic bottle, but a strip of aluminum foil in it, screw on the cap, shake it, toss it down and walk away and it waill react violently and noisily, louder than a shotgun blast.
Works is 20% hydrochloric acid. This is reacting with aluminum to make hydrogen and heat. Be sure to keep this reaction away from flame! (Or add flame if you want to make it as dangerous as a shotgun blast...)
He'll probably also have plenty of male in his outbox.
I'm sure it's not just an exposed spinning bowl of mercury outside with dirt underneath. Even so, they could just put a bucket under it to catch the mercury...
Rob from Cockeyed.com made his own Archimedes Death Ray and it worked:
http://www.cockeyed.com/incredible/solardish/dish01.shtml
From article: "The whole whole process is self sustaining and can last for up to 40 years" ...after which it blows up, and you have to doze it and build a new one.
I have this horrible, sinking feeling that one day they're going to start putting advertisements in books.
I have this sinking feeling that it's already happened - you and I just haven't seen them yet.
Yes! It was strange watching it get progressively thinner and more expensive as the years went by. Don't think I've seen one in about 8 years though... must be a pamphlet by now.
Recently in Barnes & Noble, I remarked to my friends, "I won't buy magazines because they're all full of ads. Why can't they make a magazine with no ads?", to which one friend responded, "What you want is a book."
Is the closed source code of Windows preventing us from actively defending our systems?
Well, it's preventing US since we don't have the source code... but it's also not our job to fix Windows code. It's Microsoft's job, and that's what they get paid to do.
Why not just let the bad guys stand in front of a giant microwave emitter? They'll be toast in no time, then you can just sit back and relax.
That's how they slashdotted the WTC back in '01.
That's not cool, man. Some of those people lost a lot of data.
...the 'baby bootstrap' was considered the holy grail of military applications
I thought the idea of a Holy Grail (as a solution to a problem) was that it's a solution that you don't expect to achieve. How many 'holy grails' of science and engineering do we have under our belts so far? Not many. I'd say that anyone hoping for 'baby bootstrap' shouldn't hold their breath.
What happens if some real news happens today? Nobody will believe it.
"Just don't press the snooze button and keep your current alarm clock!"
"Why not just get up when the alarm goes off the first time? I always wake up and face the day with a smile."
"I disabled the snooze button on my clock so I always have to get up"
But what if you sign your own name? ANd the store still accepts it, is it fraud too then?
Personally, I do not believe it is fraud. I have been asked several times to go to a store and purchase something for people I know. I bring their credit card to the store and make the purchase. I sign the receipt with my name. One time at Circuit City, I was asked why the signature did not match, so I explained the situation - that the card did not belong to me and I was making a purchase for the person named on the card. The cashier nodded and completed the purchase.
I've never had trouble doing this... but I am curious which criminal charges would be brought if it was a thief authorized to make those purchases.
I am such a loser. First for reading comments to this depth, and second for going to post a reply to the parent (about 7:33:17) and discovering that someone I actually know has already posted the reply I intended.
In the ideal world, would the CPU be responsible only for keeping track of ammo and managing the save-game dialogues?
Perhaps the ideal world would have a SPU (Savegame Processing Unit) and APU (Ammo processing unit) and the CPU would only be responsible for NOPs.
"Panna, a self-confessed wimp, was chosen to represent humanity."
Wonderful. It doesn't sound like they expected it to be much of a contest. They should make the robot arms fight each other first until they get good enough to beat a self-confessed wimp. Then, maybe they won't be wasting everyone's time.
Doesn't it bother anyone that these types of extreme measures are necessary in the first place?
Doesn't it bother anyone that people think this is necessary?
If you don't like your job for any reason, please quit it. That way, there will be an opening that I can have. And when I begin to hate that job, I will keep it because I need the money.
Yes, it seems they would benefit more over there from a Linux-enabled AIDS vaccine or Linux-enabled indoor plumbing.
The only thing a non-techical manager needs is the common sence to listen only to the people that know what they are talking about
Correct, but this is easier said than done. It requires identifying who knows what they are talking about - and to do this with confidence requires knowing everything they know, in which case you wouldn't need to ask in the first place.
Vibrate.
I thought that the polyphonic ringtones that vibrated to the baseline of the song were pretty neat - until I learned that people not only actually used them, but also paid money for them.
Seriously, I do not understand the level of popularity that ringtones have acheived - especially considering that they cost money! A cellphone plan costs enough already. I use a preprogrammed ringtone on my Audiovox CDM-4000 phone (1st gen CDMA for anyone unfamiliar with the particular phone), and while it's a bit cheesy I can instantly recognize that this tone is coming from my phone and my phone only - It's been ringing like this for almost 5 years. If I were to change ring tones often, not only would it be time&money consuming but I would also lose that mental 'training' of what my phone sounds like when it rings in a room full of people with ringing cellphones.
Yes, I do know people who have a ring tone for everyone in their phonebook. Perhaps it is useful to them other than being a fashion statement (since caller ID also identifies incoming callers) but is it really worth paying for?