I see all these cool PDA's that can do this and that and have everything built-in, including the kitchen sink.
but let's be realistic here, what these gadgets *really* need is a blow-job attachment.
i've had problems with it too. It dumps all over the carpet, scratches up my costly italian-made OS, it bitches at users it doesn't know, it whines when it needs to be flushed, etc.
i watched the RotJ DVD the other night, i noticed something odd: in that scene where luke reaches for his saber to strike down the emperor, and vader blocks it, you can see that the red line goes over the green one. meaning that vader's saber must have been the one furthest away from the emperor, and luke's must have been the nearer one. If Luke's blade was closer, why was it blocked? If i had a screenshot, i'd post it for clarity, but i think i got the point across. Anyone else notice this?
i don't think this should be such an odd find. what are the prerequisits for a planet/moon having tectonic plates? the article states that Titan has a pretty dense atmosphere, that would protect it from most objects hurdling through space.
...maybe the whole moon is covered in some sorta liquid goo that covers all the valleys and troughs (sp?)
Parent pretty much summed it up: We use.mil as our own internal site (you can search directives, orders, units, etc). The.com version isn't used by anyone of us since (like the parent stated) it's just a recruiting tool. Marines.com makes a whole lot more sense for civilians than.mil (IMHO). and most units do have their own site that falls under usmc.mil (like www.pendleton.usmc.mil).
A few months ago, i saw this clip which had some folks at Good Morning America showing off a liquid that doesn't get things wet. they had a tank of this stuff and put some (powered) electronics in them (laptop, LCD TV) and they operated just fine underwater. They put a book in this stuff and none of the pages got wet as they pulled it out. Check it out
anyway, it would be cool to find out if you can just put your whole computer in this stuff. cooling problem solved, right?
I read this on some IRC channel a couple'a years ago...
A: this school i'm trying to apply for is asking me all these stupid questions. like "why do you want to attend our school?" B: tell them 'cuz you got a phat pipe that i can use to download porn, warez and mp3s.
and (on my page) a microsoft windows server 2003 advertisement right below this article.
beautiful. fucking beautiful.
I got an idea for a hack....
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You know these navigation systems that come in most newer/expensive cars that have a little gps system and map and talks to you (turn left....here). I'd love to hack one of those and add "bitch" to everything. as in...
or does the picture of the dragster look like someone (or something) is flying off the rear end of it? at first glimpse i thought it was a person that was flung from the back seat...some shit that would be...
on closer look it appears to be a flag or something.
ibiza, huh? me and a buddy are planning on making a trip over there next year...i'd like to get in contact w/ you for some information on how to make this trip as cheap and funfilled as possible. drop me a line when u get a chance, thegerman@themindshive.com
"...enabling computers to extract meaning from far-flung information as easily as today's Internet simply links individual documents."
i wonder if this could be used for a computer's local file system as well. I know microsoft is working on this (WinFS or OFS or whatever it's supposed to be called), but it would be damn awesome to apply this not just to the internet.
Physicists at Imperial College London are developing a new optical disk with so much storage capacity that every episode of The Simpsons made could fit on just one. Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Data Storage Conference 2004 in Taiwan today, Dr Peter Török, Lecturer in Photonics in the Department of Physics, will describe a new method for potentially encoding and storing up to one Terabyte (1,000 Gigabytes) of data, or 472 hours of film, on one optical disk the size of a CD or DVD.
Physicists at Imperial College London are developing a new optical disk with so much storage capacity that every episode of The Simpsons made could fit on just one.
Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Data Storage Conference 2004 in Taiwan today, Dr Peter Török, Lecturer in Photonics in the Department of Physics, will describe a new method for potentially encoding and storing up to one Terabyte (1,000 Gigabytes) of data, or 472 hours of film, on one optical disk the size of a CD or DVD.
All 350 scheduled episodes of The Simpsons, totalling 8,080 minutes of film, could be easily stored on the new disk, dubbed MODS - for Multiplexed Optical Data Storage - by the Imperial College team.
The 1TB disk would be double sided and dual layer, but even a single sided, single layer, MODS disk could hold the Lord of the Rings trilogy 13 times over, or all 238 episodes of Friends.
MODS disks will not be the first to challenge DVDs' domination of the audiovisual optical disk market. BluRay disks, which have five times the capacity of a DVD at 25GB per layer, are expected to be released towards the end of 2005 for the home market.
The Imperial researchers, working closely with colleagues at the Institute of Microtechnology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, estimate that MODS disks would cost approximately the same to manufacture as an ordinary DVD and that any system playing them would be backwards compatible with existing optical formats - meaning that CDs and DVDs could be played on a MODS system. Dr Török believes that the first disks could be on the shelves between 2010 and 2015 if his team are able to secure funding for further development.
"According to our experimental results, we can optimistically estimate that we will be able to store about one Terabyte per disk in total using our new method," said Dr Török, leader of the research. "This translates to about 250GB per layer, 10 times the amount that a BluRay disk can hold."
The Imperial researchers and colleagues at Neuchâtel and Thessaloniki filed a patent covering their ideas in July 2004.
Under magnification the surface of CDs and DVDs appear as tiny grooves filled with pits and land regions. These pits and land regions represent information encoded into a digital format as a series of ones and noughts. When read back, CDs and DVDs carry one bit per pit, but the Imperial researchers have come up with a way to encode and retrieve up to ten times the amount of information from one pit.
Unlike existing optical disks, MODS disks have asymmetric pits, each containing a 'step' sunk within at one of 332 different angles, which encode the information. The Imperial researchers developed a method that can be used to make a precise measurement of the pit orientation that reflects the light back. A different physical phenomenon is used to achieve the additional gain.
"We came up with the idea for this disk some years ago," says Dr Török. "But did not have the means to prove whether it worked. To do that we developed a precise method for calculating the properties of reflected light, partly due to the contribution of Peter Munro, a PhD student working with me on this project. We are using a mixture of numerical and analytical techniques that allow us to treat the scattering of light from the disk surface rigorously rather than just having to a
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"...denying service to legitimate users..."
HAHA! that could never happen to me. I feel sorry for the losers that are gonna get hit by th*&$^)### (connection lost)
I see all these cool PDA's that can do this and that and have everything built-in, including the kitchen sink.
...alright, gimme a break, it's friday.
but let's be realistic here, what these gadgets *really* need is a blow-job attachment.
"...on Dell's bad notebook RAM..."
i've had problems with it too. It dumps all over the carpet, scratches up my costly italian-made OS, it bitches at users it doesn't know, it whines when it needs to be flushed, etc.
*rolls up newspaper* bad memory indeed.
i watched the RotJ DVD the other night, i noticed something odd:
in that scene where luke reaches for his saber to strike down the emperor, and vader blocks it, you can see that the red line goes over the green one. meaning that vader's saber must have been the one furthest away from the emperor, and luke's must have been the nearer one. If Luke's blade was closer, why was it blocked? If i had a screenshot, i'd post it for clarity, but i think i got the point across. Anyone else notice this?
"...via penetration testing..."
remember guys, often times computers are like women.
this is not one of them
i didn't RTFA (i'm at work...i can only waste so much time ya know), but i hope it's not all dopey and video-game looking.
anyone remember certain fight scenes from blade 2?
*shudder*
here's a summary
......oooooo0000000OOOOOOO
i don't think this should be such an odd find. what are the prerequisits for a planet/moon having tectonic plates? the article states that Titan has a pretty dense atmosphere, that would protect it from most objects hurdling through space.
...maybe the whole moon is covered in some sorta liquid goo that covers all the valleys and troughs (sp?)
maybe it just wants to be different.
Parent pretty much summed it up: We use .mil as our own internal site (you can search directives, orders, units, etc). The .com version isn't used by anyone of us since (like the parent stated) it's just a recruiting tool. Marines.com makes a whole lot more sense for civilians than .mil (IMHO).
and most units do have their own site that falls under usmc.mil (like www.pendleton.usmc.mil).
"...is almost exactly..."
i always wonder behind the validity of this phrase. If it's not exactly a specific value, then it is not exact. I guess it's just one of those things.
yes yes i know off-topic, but i can't be the only one who's ever thought about it.
is that a Power Mac G5 processor in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
A few months ago, i saw this clip which had some folks at Good Morning America showing off a liquid that doesn't get things wet. they had a tank of this stuff and put some (powered) electronics in them (laptop, LCD TV) and they operated just fine underwater. They put a book in this stuff and none of the pages got wet as they pulled it out. Check it out
anyway, it would be cool to find out if you can just put your whole computer in this stuff. cooling problem solved, right?
"A peltier is a devices that gets cold on one side and warm on the other..."
come up with your own shit. my g/f patented this 'technology' years ago
I read this on some IRC channel a couple'a years ago...
A: this school i'm trying to apply for is asking me all these stupid questions. like "why do you want to attend our school?"
B: tell them 'cuz you got a phat pipe that i can use to download porn, warez and mp3s.
this supposedly happened a few years ago. It seemed appropriate...
"In Italy, a compaign for Schweppes Tonic Water translated the name into Schweppes Toilet Water!" (source)
it seems that DUNDi is now a 'done deal'. get it!?!?
...2 minutes after this post my karma changed to 'throw yourself out the nearest window'
HA!
and (on my page) a microsoft windows server 2003 advertisement right below this article.
beautiful. fucking beautiful.
You know these navigation systems that come in most newer/expensive cars that have a little gps system and map and talks to you (turn left....here).
I'd love to hack one of those and add "bitch" to everything. as in...
"Merge onto...freeway....bitch"
or does the picture of the dragster look like someone (or something) is flying off the rear end of it? at first glimpse i thought it was a person that was flung from the back seat...some shit that would be... on closer look it appears to be a flag or something.
take a look for yourself.
all your massive inflatable space habitat test modules are belong to us
ibiza, huh? me and a buddy are planning on making a trip over there next year...i'd like to get in contact w/ you for some information on how to make this trip as cheap and funfilled as possible. drop me a line when u get a chance, thegerman@themindshive.com
for a nerd shirt design...
"would you like to geek out with me?"
what a great place for a semi-relevant simpsons quote:
wiggum: "That's some good spelunking Lou, mighty fine spelunking."
"...enabling computers to extract meaning from far-flung information as easily as today's Internet simply links individual documents."
i wonder if this could be used for a computer's local file system as well. I know microsoft is working on this (WinFS or OFS or whatever it's supposed to be called), but it would be damn awesome to apply this not just to the internet.
From TFA...
Physicists at Imperial College London are developing a new optical disk with so much storage capacity that every episode of The Simpsons made could fit on just one. Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Data Storage Conference 2004 in Taiwan today, Dr Peter Török, Lecturer in Photonics in the Department of Physics, will describe a new method for potentially encoding and storing up to one Terabyte (1,000 Gigabytes) of data, or 472 hours of film, on one optical disk the size of a CD or DVD.
Physicists at Imperial College London are developing a new optical disk with so much storage capacity that every episode of The Simpsons made could fit on just one.
Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Data Storage Conference 2004 in Taiwan today, Dr Peter Török, Lecturer in Photonics in the Department of Physics, will describe a new method for potentially encoding and storing up to one Terabyte (1,000 Gigabytes) of data, or 472 hours of film, on one optical disk the size of a CD or DVD.
All 350 scheduled episodes of The Simpsons, totalling 8,080 minutes of film, could be easily stored on the new disk, dubbed MODS - for Multiplexed Optical Data Storage - by the Imperial College team.
The 1TB disk would be double sided and dual layer, but even a single sided, single layer, MODS disk could hold the Lord of the Rings trilogy 13 times over, or all 238 episodes of Friends.
MODS disks will not be the first to challenge DVDs' domination of the audiovisual optical disk market. BluRay disks, which have five times the capacity of a DVD at 25GB per layer, are expected to be released towards the end of 2005 for the home market.
The Imperial researchers, working closely with colleagues at the Institute of Microtechnology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, estimate that MODS disks would cost approximately the same to manufacture as an ordinary DVD and that any system playing them would be backwards compatible with existing optical formats - meaning that CDs and DVDs could be played on a MODS system. Dr Török believes that the first disks could be on the shelves between 2010 and 2015 if his team are able to secure funding for further development.
"According to our experimental results, we can optimistically estimate that we will be able to store about one Terabyte per disk in total using our new method," said Dr Török, leader of the research. "This translates to about 250GB per layer, 10 times the amount that a BluRay disk can hold."
The Imperial researchers and colleagues at Neuchâtel and Thessaloniki filed a patent covering their ideas in July 2004.
Under magnification the surface of CDs and DVDs appear as tiny grooves filled with pits and land regions. These pits and land regions represent information encoded into a digital format as a series of ones and noughts. When read back, CDs and DVDs carry one bit per pit, but the Imperial researchers have come up with a way to encode and retrieve up to ten times the amount of information from one pit.
Unlike existing optical disks, MODS disks have asymmetric pits, each containing a 'step' sunk within at one of 332 different angles, which encode the information. The Imperial researchers developed a method that can be used to make a precise measurement of the pit orientation that reflects the light back. A different physical phenomenon is used to achieve the additional gain.
"We came up with the idea for this disk some years ago," says Dr Török. "But did not have the means to prove whether it worked. To do that we developed a precise method for calculating the properties of reflected light, partly due to the contribution of Peter Munro, a PhD student working with me on this project. We are using a mixture of numerical and analytical techniques that allow us to treat the scattering of light from the disk surface rigorously rather than just having to a