What, are you still using a 56.6 modem to download your porn? With a good DSL or Cable connection and software like KaZaA, why not go for the high quality, full feature length, DivX movies?
I haven't downloaded nudie pics in several YEARS!!! Sometimes ya just need to hear the moans and...
Anybody got a dime I'll need to call my lawyer shortly...
Dude, you're already on the internet; just email the guy! And if he doesn't check his email 50 times a day (or doesn't have email), then he probably won't be able to help you out with this situation anyways.
That's easy. It helps represent the diversity of the American Populace, who the bureau is counting.
Black and blue?
heh, ok. Makes sense I suppose. (although I would assume there would be more than just two colors in there. Or at least multiple shades of them... eh. whatever. It's just a logo.)
I honestly can't think of a single thing they've done that could be labelled "innovative".
How about this: selling your product at a loss and hoping to make money off of it... while you have a large community of programmers/hackers worldwide that hate everything you stand for and will do anything and everything they can possibly do to make sure your business fails.
I'd call that... oh wait, that's just dumb. Nevermind.
And then after your article gets posted, and hundreds and thousands of Slashdotters start visiting your site... change the homepage to redirect them all to goatse.cx!!!
HA. I got to see the true Slashdot effect in action.
I went to the Current Connections screen and only saw 2... that's right, TWO... connections. Literally, a few seconds later I refreshed the page and constantly got garbage in return. (Basically, it looked like the server would never output the entire HTML document. I'd sometimes see some gibberish, sometimes some CSS code, sometimes only the navigation table...) After about 60 seconds of refreshing the page, I finally saw the page again. Results: about 50 connections. And this Slashdot article only has 19 comments so far.
Don't those little kid's toys, with the white and black vanes in them (shaped like a lightbulb) spin when you put them in sunlight?
uh... isn't that what they're talking about here:
There may also be evidence to support Gold's theory, in the form of a quirky device called a Crookes radiometer. It consists of four paddles attached to the arms of a rotor, inside a vacuum jar. Each paddle is silvered on one side and coated with a black absorber on the other.
Flat rocks? Sandstone? I would have given my left and right kidneys for a flat rock and piece of sandstone!
To write messages to one-another, my whole family had to knaw on the stump of a dead fig-tree... which also happened to double as the roof of our home for all 15 of my siblings, 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 18 aunts and uncles and our dead pet parakeet named Polly.
Back in my day, we had our BS technology; our keyboards had chassis's which allowed 'em to be thrown off a 3-story building and still work - barely dented. Yes those were the days." Not a lot of new information, but some good visuals.
Was anyone else expecting to see pics/vids of keyboards being thrown from the rooftops?
Wow. I wish I could mod you up higher than 5. Good post.
I got interested in the whole Roswell thing a year or two ago after watching some special on the SciFi channel. No, not the Alient Abduction stuff; it was about this declassification of some documents and old military officers who said they were finally coming forward to tell the truth because their commanding officers basically theatened them if they ever said anything about it....
I found essentially the same results from just doing plenty of websearches (but then again, you can't really believe everything you see on the internet) with a minor exception: I read that the "weather balloons" were for detecting radiation from around the world. They were used to detect Russian radio signals and/or nuclear tests. I never heard about anything on "the effect of cosmic rays on living tissue samples".
Also, there was a testimony from some woman who claimed to be a nurse out in Roswell at the time. She claimed to have helped operate on a small (too small to be human) disfigured, humanoid figure with an enlarged head... I took this to mean that what she actually saw was a bloodied/bruised chimpanzee that was used in the testing of parachutes out there.
...providing
150 Mbit/s data rates over ordinary copper wire... at the 1000 feet mark... but the chip can still serve up 4mbps even at 13,000 feet.
[According to what I learned in highschool about the metric system] 150 Mega-bits per second compared to 4 milli-bits per second is an astronomically large difference!
eh. I know how to write my alphabet (print uppercase and lowercase as well as script upper and lower...). My problem is that I lack the coordination to manuever the writing utencil properly. My handwriting looks just as bad today as it did when I was back in 4th grade, from sheer lack of practice. (I realized this from writing checks lately. Those bank people must get a laugh out of stuff like that. hehe)
eh. It's better off like this anyways. I can type WAAAAY faster than I can write. Palm/Handspring realized this a few years ago when they decided to start removing the script pad from their devices and just simply attached a keyboard; it's faster to type with one finger than it is to Palm-script words.
Think of it like when the first quill was used as a writing utencil: "Hey, I can write stuff easily on papyrus without using a hammer and chisel on a flat stone!" It's just evolution of media. Eventually even paper will be outdated (eventhough everyone today says it'll never happen) and everything will be on ePaper or eInk or whatnot.... The next step will probably be straight thought-to-storage-device technology. And beyond that, who knows?
The younger sister of one of my friends is in 9th grade and it has recently become apparent to us that she doesn't even know how to write a lower-case "B". She sent her sister a hand-written letter a few weeks ago for her birthday and every letter "B" in the entire note was written as "B" and not "b"... even if it was in the middle of a word. (Example: "Ben asked aBout your Birthday...")
Scary stuff. And to think that months ago I was complaining that kids now-a-days don't even know how to use a rotary phone.
All the people who were born in zion do not adhere to any type of steriotype at all. The programs, both exile and proper, are perfect steriotypes (Little asian man, Kung fu master, coarse old black lady, pompous rich white man, etc.)
Oh come on now... The Oracle didn't have to sacrifice a chicken or wave a voodoo doll covered in goat blood in the air to predict the future. The Twins didn't constantly yell "BOO!" at people. And the Keymaker... that should have looked like that pimply-faced, red-headed teenager that works at Walmart that will duplicate all of your "DO NOT DUPLICATE" keys for your office for a yuppie-food-stamp ($20 bill).
This reminds me of previousposts of similar experiments involving eel and lamprey brains. So, this doesn't exactly seem like anything new. (Those other articles were from 2000 and 2001!) So it just seems like they used a rat brain instead of an eel or lamprey brain. Even having the "light sensor attraction" thing was done with the lampreys.
...just toss a paint ball out the sunroof.. *poof* all over their windshield. Heh. We used to do this while on roadtrips when I was in college. Except, instead of paintballs, we used those Hostess Snowballs. (spherical cakes coated in coconut and filled with cream.) They worked so well because when they splattered on the windshield and the driver tried to use their wipers, the blades would just smear the cream more and more around the windsheild so they would basically have to pull off the road and wipe it all off by hand.
of course, we weren't STUPID when we did this; we only did it when no other vehicles were around and only to the other cars that were on the trip with us. (I think if you hit anyone else, they would die of a heart attack from thinking they hit a bee that was the size of their fist.)
I'll install one in the rear window of my vehicle and when the pigs start chasing me down, I'll zap 'em before they get close enough to read my license plate.:-)
I have a feeling that what is hindering advancement with nanotechnology is that same thing that hinders the advancement of stem-cell research and many other fields: politics... which goes hand-in-hand with money and religion and thus brings along paranoia, fear, misunderstanding, etc. ("We shouldn't play God with our genetic code...", "What about creating a gray-goo that will destroy everything on our planet...")
As for having absolutely only minor advancements in nanotech, that's just not true. I've read about stain prooffabrics and windows that can keep dirt particles from clinging, not to mention advancements in carbon nanotubes.
Yes, there are no nano-doctors floating around in our bodies yet, but complexity such as this requires a LOT more research. You can't possibly think that the time from an idea popping into his head to the time it gets created is going to only be 20 years, do you? Look how long it took for us just to get to the moon! And we haven't even been to any other planets yet! I doubt we will see any superbly complex nanomachines (such as the nano-doctors (cell-repairmen), or teeth cleaners, etc...) in our lifetime, but we are still continuing research in the field. Nobody has given up on it.
Slashdot Mirror
Krystal Steal
pictures? PICTURES?!?
...
What, are you still using a 56.6 modem to download your porn? With a good DSL or Cable connection and software like KaZaA, why not go for the high quality, full feature length, DivX movies?
I haven't downloaded nudie pics in several YEARS!!! Sometimes ya just need to hear the moans and
uh...
I've said too much. But you get my point.
Anybody got a dime
I'll need to call my lawyer shortly...
Dude, you're already on the internet; just email the guy! And if he doesn't check his email 50 times a day (or doesn't have email), then he probably won't be able to help you out with this situation anyways.
Anyone else expecting a link to a cover story from The Onion?
heh, ok. Makes sense I suppose. (although I would assume there would be more than just two colors in there. Or at least multiple shades of them... eh. whatever. It's just a logo.)
Thanks!
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/img/wordmark.gif
Um. Anyone have any ideas why the logo has some letters highlighted and others just plain black text?
USCENSUSBUREAU
Just curious/paranoid.
I'd call that
Nevermind.
(yeah yeah, "MS Bashing -1")
bastard. I was in the process of converting the amount to different currencies, but you beat me to it.
:D
now I gotta go find something else to do for the next 2.5 hours...
OK, I know I've read something like this before, but I think it was about ninjas. Where'd this originally come from?
And then after your article gets posted, and hundreds and thousands of Slashdotters start visiting your site... change the homepage to redirect them all to goatse.cx!!!
HA. I got to see the true Slashdot effect in action.
... that's right, TWO... connections. Literally, a few seconds later I refreshed the page and constantly got garbage in return. (Basically, it looked like the server would never output the entire HTML document. I'd sometimes see some gibberish, sometimes some CSS code, sometimes only the navigation table...) After about 60 seconds of refreshing the page, I finally saw the page again. Results: about 50 connections. And this Slashdot article only has 19 comments so far.
:D
I went to the Current Connections screen and only saw 2
Burn little server, burn.
Flat rocks? Sandstone? I would have given my left and right kidneys for a flat rock and piece of sandstone!
To write messages to one-another, my whole family had to knaw on the stump of a dead fig-tree... which also happened to double as the roof of our home for all 15 of my siblings, 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 18 aunts and uncles and our dead pet parakeet named Polly.
Wow. I wish I could mod you up higher than 5. Good post.
I got interested in the whole Roswell thing a year or two ago after watching some special on the SciFi channel. No, not the Alient Abduction stuff; it was about this declassification of some documents and old military officers who said they were finally coming forward to tell the truth because their commanding officers basically theatened them if they ever said anything about it....
I found essentially the same results from just doing plenty of websearches (but then again, you can't really believe everything you see on the internet) with a minor exception: I read that the "weather balloons" were for detecting radiation from around the world. They were used to detect Russian radio signals and/or nuclear tests. I never heard about anything on "the effect of cosmic rays on living tissue samples".
Also, there was a testimony from some woman who claimed to be a nurse out in Roswell at the time. She claimed to have helped operate on a small (too small to be human) disfigured, humanoid figure with an enlarged head... I took this to mean that what she actually saw was a bloodied/bruised chimpanzee that was used in the testing of parachutes out there.
[According to what I learned in highschool about the metric system] 150 Mega-bits per second compared to 4 milli-bits per second is an astronomically large difference!
eh. I know how to write my alphabet (print uppercase and lowercase as well as script upper and lower...). My problem is that I lack the coordination to manuever the writing utencil properly. My handwriting looks just as bad today as it did when I was back in 4th grade, from sheer lack of practice. (I realized this from writing checks lately. Those bank people must get a laugh out of stuff like that. hehe)
eh. It's better off like this anyways. I can type WAAAAY faster than I can write. Palm/Handspring realized this a few years ago when they decided to start removing the script pad from their devices and just simply attached a keyboard; it's faster to type with one finger than it is to Palm-script words.
Think of it like when the first quill was used as a writing utencil: "Hey, I can write stuff easily on papyrus without using a hammer and chisel on a flat stone!" It's just evolution of media. Eventually even paper will be outdated (eventhough everyone today says it'll never happen) and everything will be on ePaper or eInk or whatnot.... The next step will probably be straight thought-to-storage-device technology. And beyond that, who knows?
The younger sister of one of my friends is in 9th grade and it has recently become apparent to us that she doesn't even know how to write a lower-case "B". She sent her sister a hand-written letter a few weeks ago for her birthday and every letter "B" in the entire note was written as "B" and not "b"... even if it was in the middle of a word. (Example: "Ben asked aBout your Birthday...")
Scary stuff. And to think that months ago I was complaining that kids now-a-days don't even know how to use a rotary phone.
You're just being silly.
This reminds me of previous posts of similar experiments involving eel and lamprey brains. So, this doesn't exactly seem like anything new. (Those other articles were from 2000 and 2001!) So it just seems like they used a rat brain instead of an eel or lamprey brain. Even having the "light sensor attraction" thing was done with the lampreys.
...just toss a paint ball out the sunroof.. *poof* all over their windshield.
Heh. We used to do this while on roadtrips when I was in college. Except, instead of paintballs, we used those Hostess Snowballs. (spherical cakes coated in coconut and filled with cream.) They worked so well because when they splattered on the windshield and the driver tried to use their wipers, the blades would just smear the cream more and more around the windsheild so they would basically have to pull off the road and wipe it all off by hand.
of course, we weren't STUPID when we did this; we only did it when no other vehicles were around and only to the other cars that were on the trip with us. (I think if you hit anyone else, they would die of a heart attack from thinking they hit a bee that was the size of their fist.)
oh man. i wish i had some mod points for ya. :)
funny funny funny.
(ok. so i should have finished that entire bottle of wine for dinner... i'm sure i'll still find that funny in the morning tho.)
I'll install one in the rear window of my vehicle and when the pigs start chasing me down, I'll zap 'em before they get close enough to read my license plate. :-)
This is the game that never ends...
It just goes on and on my friends...
I have a feeling that what is hindering advancement with nanotechnology is that same thing that hinders the advancement of stem-cell research and many other fields: politics... which goes hand-in-hand with money and religion and thus brings along paranoia, fear, misunderstanding, etc. ("We shouldn't play God with our genetic code...", "What about creating a gray-goo that will destroy everything on our planet...")
As for having absolutely only minor advancements in nanotech, that's just not true. I've read about stain proof fabrics and windows that can keep dirt particles from clinging, not to mention advancements in carbon nanotubes.
Yes, there are no nano-doctors floating around in our bodies yet, but complexity such as this requires a LOT more research. You can't possibly think that the time from an idea popping into his head to the time it gets created is going to only be 20 years, do you? Look how long it took for us just to get to the moon! And we haven't even been to any other planets yet! I doubt we will see any superbly complex nanomachines (such as the nano-doctors (cell-repairmen), or teeth cleaners, etc...) in our lifetime, but we are still continuing research in the field. Nobody has given up on it.