Did the Star Wars kid make it in? I think the MORE IMPORTANT question is: Which version of the Star Wars Kid will they digitize into the final release of the movie?
What makes the electronic billboard in Jersey City possible (and those installed for trials in London, Tokyo, Toronto and Panama City, among other locations) is an innovation by a New York-based display technology company
whose name, Magink, is a combination of the words magic and ink.
Jeepers! How neato! Did their sales department share that with you, or did ya figure that one out all on your own?
I was just curious about your statement that the space elevator was "invented" by Jurij Artsutanov...
My initial reaction was: "Waitaminute... it wasn't INVENTED; it was just THOUGHT UP/CONCEIVED by that guy. There is no physical structure and, therefore, no INVENTION."
But then I came across this:
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/invent
Apparently in 1913, Webster said "invent" was "to contrive or produce for the first time", but today, WordNet said it is to "come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort".
I just thought it was interesting how the definition has changed over the years.
I'm hydrocephalic, you insensitive clod! I'd prefer a smaller head, thank you. Thanks for the follow-up sentence. Some/. readers may have thought you were trying to refer to something along the lines of a water-proof dildo.
About 600 webcams of 6000 in the pipe are now available. And, of course now that this has been announced on Slashdot, within the next half-hour, there might be only 10% of those 600 that survived the/. effect.
The register is reporting that Forrester is predicting that a third of all financial transactions will be made by credit companies and online banking services in the next five years. They also predict that... ahhh PPPPTTHTHLLTLTTT:-P'''
Just because more sales/downloads are being done online doesn't mean it's the END of the old disk way. A new media format is needed to kill the old media format. [phonograph... 8-tracks... cassettes... CDs... BlueRay??] And even THAT doesn't mean the old format will be completely gone for a long time.
Um, I'm gonna say "not bloody well likely" to that. A few years ago when my car got broken into, my cellphone, digital camera, PDA and CD player were all stolen. They all had serial numbers, which I had documented, and I gave the info to the police. What happened? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Just because it has a unique ID labelled on it (whether it's a number or a barcode or a hologram or anything else!), doesn't mean you can recover it any easier.
Hell, doesn't pretty much everything have a serial number now anyways? Yeah, so what if my couch might have the same serial number as my computer monitor; I'm still not going to confuse the two.
Is the next PlayStation still going to be called the "PlayStation3"? Or is it simply going to be the "PS3"?
I heard a while [months] ago that the name "PlayStation" was already trademarked by some other company so Sony had to call their future game consols somthing else.
Anyone know anything about this? Or was it strictly a rumor and nothing more?
My older brother graduated from Case with a degree in Chemistry several years ago. Upon graduation, he went out looking for a job. Two of the companies [one was Lubrizol; the other I can't remember] actually turned him down for a job because he was "over qualified" for the positions he was applying for. I don't know if it was because he graduated with honors or because he went to a decent school or what. Since there were no higher positions available at the time, he remained jobless for quite a while. (heh, he's actually been a bartender for the past few years.)
We could only think of two reasons why they turned him down, eventhough he didn't mind starting off at a low-level job:
1. they thought he would be bored and leave the company after a few months, thus wasting their effort in training him for the position
OR (what we thought was more likely)
2. the guy who was the next level up was less qualified than my brother and was worried about eventually losing his job to the new college graduate
I recently bought both the Samsung A500 and N400 phones. (Both interfaces are almost exactly alike.)
Settings -> Location -> On/Off
Notice (as shown in the display):
Turning location on will allow the network to determine your position, making some Sprint applications easier to use. Turning location off will hide your location from everyone except 911. Even if location is turned on in this handset, no service may use your location without your express permission.
Also of note, Mozilla's usage share has risen from 1.2% in February to 1.6% now, a 33% improvement!
I'm doing my part to get this number up; I tell everyone about Mozilla and how it great compared to IE primarily for tabbed-browsing and pop-up window blocking. (yeah yeah, I know there's a TON more features, but I think these are the main two that the average user would really appreciate.)
I was impress this past weekend that, when I stopped by my parents' house, I noticed that both of my younger brothers and my parents all had Mozilla (be it Mozilla or Phoenix or Firebird) running as their primary browser on their computers. That means I, personally, helped that number jump up 300%. (Well, kind of: counting me as 1 and then, when I told others, it went up to 4. In the grand scheme of things, yeah, 3 more people is nothin, but I'm still spreadin the word!)
OK. Let's analyze this thread here for a sec... I said: And to the ROBOTS [slashdot.org] too!!! which was obviously meant to be comical, but still slightly serious due to the Slashdot article that mentioned "robots" taking over occupations currently filled by humans.
Then you reply with: Why do you think that India is a cheap labor source? Let's settle it, India has the best brains. period.... uh... what?? First of all, I never mentioned anything about India being a cheap labor source or having better/worse intelligence. Secondly, a statement like "[geographical location] has the best brains, period" is more than likely based on ignorance and/or a big ego. Are you trying to say that the average Indian has more intelligence and ingenuity than an average graduate of, say, MIT? I find that highly doubtful.
From what I got out of the article, it's NOT a "dictionary attack" - where common words are [brute-force] used to obtain access; rather, it's a brute-force attack where they compare the original password string to the encrypted string.
In this case, the "dictionary" consists of, not just a list of words, but a list of strings and their encrypted companions.
But you're still right: not really news worthy.
"This is not a new vulnerability," he said. "It is only the first time that it has been worked in so much detail. Microsoft passwords are just a nice example to demonstrate the theoretical results."
I never troll but I can see the attraction to it.:) Just keep doing it to see what readers' reactions are to it.
Also, I don't think that it is any editor script that does the modding down of these posts; some are modded as Troll and others as Offtopic. I'm guessing it MUST be individual readers modding them down. *shrug* (Why would an editor waste his/her time doing this when they should be reading the articles that we've submitted and checking for dupes or bad articles that shouldn't be posted in the first place.)
If you just want to race into space, just send a rocket with no payload up there. The lightest rocket [that can reach escape velocity] will, in all probability, win it.
Now if you want to send a person and a payload up there too, that requires a different set of rules.
Basically, it'll probably end up being more like Battlebots than NASCAR: there will be several categories of competitions.
(Then again, maybe NASCAR is like that too. I just don't watch it. "*singing* Alienating most of America..." -Conan)
Actually, if you want something that will get the most load up into space the fastest, the space elevator would take the prize hands-down.
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Did the Star Wars kid make it in?
I think the MORE IMPORTANT question is:
Which version of the Star Wars Kid will they digitize into the final release of the movie?
I was just curious about your statement that the space elevator was "invented" by Jurij Artsutanov...
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My initial reaction was: "Waitaminute... it wasn't INVENTED; it was just THOUGHT UP/CONCEIVED by that guy. There is no physical structure and, therefore, no INVENTION."
But then I came across this:
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/inven
Apparently in 1913, Webster said "invent" was "to contrive or produce for the first time", but today, WordNet said it is to "come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort".
I just thought it was interesting how the definition has changed over the years.
I'm hydrocephalic, you insensitive clod! I'd prefer a smaller head, thank you. /. readers may have thought you were trying to refer to something along the lines of a water-proof dildo.
Thanks for the follow-up sentence. Some
As previously reported here and here. Slashdot has yet another dupe article on MRAM here.
Wow... this guys even SAID this is a dupe and he still got his story posted. Sweet!
About 600 webcams of 6000 in the pipe are now available. /. effect.
And, of course now that this has been announced on Slashdot, within the next half-hour, there might be only 10% of those 600 that survived the
And in other news:
:-P'''
The register is reporting that Forrester is predicting that a third of all financial transactions will be made by credit companies and online banking services in the next five years. They also predict that... ahhh PPPPTTHTHLLTLTTT
Just because more sales/downloads are being done online doesn't mean it's the END of the old disk way. A new media format is needed to kill the old media format. [phonograph... 8-tracks... cassettes... CDs... BlueRay??] And even THAT doesn't mean the old format will be completely gone for a long time.
this could potentially aid in goods recovery.
Um, I'm gonna say "not bloody well likely" to that. A few years ago when my car got broken into, my cellphone, digital camera, PDA and CD player were all stolen. They all had serial numbers, which I had documented, and I gave the info to the police. What happened? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Just because it has a unique ID labelled on it (whether it's a number or a barcode or a hologram or anything else!), doesn't mean you can recover it any easier.
Hell, doesn't pretty much everything have a serial number now anyways? Yeah, so what if my couch might have the same serial number as my computer monitor; I'm still not going to confuse the two.
Is the next PlayStation still going to be called the "PlayStation3"? Or is it simply going to be the "PS3"?
I heard a while [months] ago that the name "PlayStation" was already trademarked by some other company so Sony had to call their future game consols somthing else.
Anyone know anything about this? Or was it strictly a rumor and nothing more?
I thought it was typically 2 or 3 months' salary.
Maybe it's different in various parts of the world... or maybe we're just differing over "before/after taxes" values. *shrug*
My older brother graduated from Case with a degree in Chemistry several years ago. Upon graduation, he went out looking for a job. Two of the companies [one was Lubrizol; the other I can't remember] actually turned him down for a job because he was "over qualified" for the positions he was applying for. I don't know if it was because he graduated with honors or because he went to a decent school or what. Since there were no higher positions available at the time, he remained jobless for quite a while. (heh, he's actually been a bartender for the past few years.)
We could only think of two reasons why they turned him down, eventhough he didn't mind starting off at a low-level job:
1. they thought he would be bored and leave the company after a few months, thus wasting their effort in training him for the position
OR (what we thought was more likely)
2. the guy who was the next level up was less qualified than my brother and was worried about eventually losing his job to the new college graduate
Settings -> Location -> On/Off
Notice (as shown in the display):
...and how they're going to take this little piece of news; especially after this news.
Plain and simply put: if it exists, SOMEone will find a use for it all.
I was impress this past weekend that, when I stopped by my parents' house, I noticed that both of my younger brothers and my parents all had Mozilla (be it Mozilla or Phoenix or Firebird) running as their primary browser on their computers. That means I, personally, helped that number jump up 300%. (Well, kind of: counting me as 1 and then, when I told others, it went up to 4. In the grand scheme of things, yeah, 3 more people is nothin, but I'm still spreadin the word!)
OK. Let's analyze this thread here for a sec...
...
I said: And to the ROBOTS [slashdot.org] too!!! which was obviously meant to be comical, but still slightly serious due to the Slashdot article that mentioned "robots" taking over occupations currently filled by humans.
Then you reply with: Why do you think that India is a cheap labor source? Let's settle it, India has the best brains. period.
uh... what??
First of all, I never mentioned anything about India being a cheap labor source or having better/worse intelligence. Secondly, a statement like "[geographical location] has the best brains, period" is more than likely based on ignorance and/or a big ego. Are you trying to say that the average Indian has more intelligence and ingenuity than an average graduate of, say, MIT? I find that highly doubtful.
And to the ROBOTS too!!!
In this case, the "dictionary" consists of, not just a list of words, but a list of strings and their encrypted companions.
But you're still right: not really news worthy.
I never troll but I can see the attraction to it. :)
Just keep doing it to see what readers' reactions are to it.
Also, I don't think that it is any editor script that does the modding down of these posts; some are modded as Troll and others as Offtopic. I'm guessing it MUST be individual readers modding them down. *shrug* (Why would an editor waste his/her time doing this when they should be reading the articles that we've submitted and checking for dupes or bad articles that shouldn't be posted in the first place.)
Just my $0.02
Nice schematic but you do realize that you just left an open invitation for trolls to start posting more ASCII art of "birds on cocks" and whatnot.
:)
The extent of my ASCII design capabilities:
If you just want to race into space, just send a rocket with no payload up there. The lightest rocket [that can reach escape velocity] will, in all probability, win it.
Now if you want to send a person and a payload up there too, that requires a different set of rules.
Basically, it'll probably end up being more like Battlebots than NASCAR: there will be several categories of competitions.
(Then again, maybe NASCAR is like that too. I just don't watch it. "*singing* Alienating most of America..." -Conan)
Actually, if you want something that will get the most load up into space the fastest, the space elevator would take the prize hands-down.
OooOOOoooo... _10_ channels. :]
I've heard that DirecTV has like 5 or 6, but 10?!?! sweetness.
I LOVE MY COUNTRY
I AM AMERICAN
(you canucks gotta import your thieved goods. hehe)