It's happened to the best of us....just learn from your mistakes and do your research next time. Anime on DVD's "R2 and beyond" forum is a good place to start. There are also "safe" retailers like Yesasia
I own an iPod, and like Jack of AtAT says: someone comes up trying to stick their headphones in my jack and I'll mase their ass.
What's such a big deal about a headphone splitter, anyhow?
Isn't it amazing that a computer could compute in minutes what has taken humans thousands of years to solve? We're in a time in which the sheer calculating power of computers can predict stress and failure in complex structures (FEA), lift and drag of fluid flows (CFD), and even the way a polypeptide will fold into a protein.
And still can't do a 3D model of a supernova explosion. Heck, TWO dimensions is still really pushing it. There are a lot of problems that Moore's law won't catch up with for quite some time.
The director of our astronomy department just got back from DC, where he attended a space sciences conference. He told us that, if we were planning on using (insert laundry list of upcoming satellites) in our research, we should communicate to him what scientific gain we expected to derive. NASA is asking researchers to justify the cost and scientific return of future missions as compared to cost and expected return of a Hubble servicing mission.
Planned, needed instrumentation might get canned to save Hubble.
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This is pretty much what's up with sci fi these days. Legend of the Rangers wasn't greenlighted because the pilot's ratings were "good" but "not good enough for a show that we won't own lock stock and barrel."
One of the reasons for the decline of the channel IMO.
Note that the 2-3 animated movies per year is from an article in AUGUST 2002. Slightly out of date.
On the positive side (assuming the article is still mostly correct)...that's roughly 2 movies internal, 1 from Aardman, and says nothing about their other animation licensing, such as Millennium Actress. Looks like Dreamworks is getting serious about a range of animation.
The technology in a saturn V was taken and used by the military in its ICBMs.
Er, actually, it was the other way around. Redstone (one of the Mercury launch vehicles) and Titan (a Gemini launch vehicle) were originally ICBM's. The massive power of the Saturn V isn't necessary for getting a nuke around the globe--in fact, last I checked, the US isn't capable of producing them anymore (insufficient blueprints). Nor do we have anything with comparable lifting power.
Better examples of solid military/nonmilitary cooperation are--well, borrowing the ICBM's as launch vehicles for one. Or the Clementine mission (which very nicely worked both ways--except the DoD payload failed). GPS. Lots of weather and space weather satellites benefit both.
I always liked the hidden commentary in the movie Chain Reaction that someone really did discover cold fusion
Chain Reaction wasn't about cold fusion. If you paid attention to the "plot," it was about burning hydrogen. They took water and added energy to split it into hydrogen and oxygen. Then they burned the hydrogen, combining it with oxygen to get water and energy. Somehow there was a net gain to this.....
I'll call you on that:) FCC abolished the sending test how long ago? Pre-1993, at any rate...as that's when my Advanced license dates from. You can still receive at 13WPM though (and the test was kinda weak in my opinion...the examiners were amazed at five minutes of solid copy. A one-minute requirement strikes me as barely workable).
Get your extra. And hang onto your CSCE. I still have all of mine around here somewhere.
As far as all these chumps complaining about hams and their "private playground"--yeesh. The REASON for the amateur service is that it's proven, in technological and social resources, to greatly enhance the commons. Same basic reason we have copyright protection--investing or limiting the public domain in the short term to enrich it in the long term. If you want to eliminate all ham bands, fine. Never use your cell phone again. Or TCP/IP (look up Phil Karn...some of us know him as KA9Q). Heck, wireless networking owes a lot to TAPR and other amateur experimenters. Avoid anything using the microwaves--hams developed the technology to make them accessible.
Oh, you mean you want unlicensed usage? Fine. Plenty of bands for that. The ELF area, for example. Or 49MHz. You know why 49MHz, 900MHz, all those other unlicensed bands are shitholes? Because they're unlicensed. There's no responsibility for maintaining equipment or proper operating procedure. Nothing keeping the corporations off there.
The airwaves are a public resource. Ham bands are a publicly-available way to use them. Just like accessing other public resources may require licensing (such as operating a motor vehicle on the public roads), ham bands require licenses. That doesn't make them some sort of "exclusive club."
Now, cycling has the same problem as Segways, to some degree; cycles are too slow for the road and too fast for the sidewalks. I usually end up on sidewalks because there are no bike lanes in my commute (or really anywhere in my city) and it's far too dangerous on the road.
Disagree with both statements:) Cycles aren't "too slow for the road." Through urban traffic I move just as fast as a car. So it takes me ten seconds longer to reach the next red light. Big deal. In suburban areas I'm moving a bit slower than the motorized traffic, so I yield to the right like any slower vehicle and am passed. Just like driving a junker car.
And, except in certain circumstances, the road is safer than the sidewalk by a good margin. Most cycle/car collisions occur at crossings, intersections, driveways, etc., where the sidewalk is far more dangerous. Read Bicycling Street Smarts to learn how to ride safely and legally.
Well, I played something like that on a VIC-20 (loaded from tape, wimpy me) called "New York Blitz."
See, your plane is out of gas over NYC (which also happens to be toroidal these days, so you're ALWAYS over New York, even when you fly off the end of the city) but you JUST HAPPEN to have a million bombs. So what do you do? Flatten the city so you can glide to a safe landing, of course!
Political and cultural ramifications are left as an exercise to the reader.
The only bikes made from aluminum are the mid to high end bikes in the $500-$1500 range.
Uh, I spent $200 on my bike and it's an aluminum frame. It's VERY common these days; it's just a matter of your preference. Cheap MTB's are more likely to be steel; road bikes more likely aluminum. I ride a hybrid. And in any case, I'd hardly say most of the weight is outside of the frame. Significant amount, sure. Most? Nah.
I do find the issue of "sustainability of bicycles" hilarious though. Frames last damn near forever, barring crashes, and there's not that much metal in them. Figure in the zero emissions and very low wear on the road and the environmental impact's negligable compared to most other means of transportation.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I should have just gone to Gutenberg. Of course they don't seem to have all the amendments, just basic bill of rights. Thanks for the correction, at any rate:)
The U.S. Constitution does not gaurantee the right to peaceful assembly. It gaurantees that the US Congress shall not pass any laws that prevent peaceful assembly (without 3/4 approval). AFAIK, the first amendment doesn't prevent state governments from passing such laws (or cities from passing such ordinances).
10th amendment is usually interpreted as applying the bill of rights to local and state governments, basically saying (don't have it handy) "states shall not infringe upon the rights of their citizens."
I keep my water bottle full and basically deal. With a good A/P and daily bathing I really don't smell. I find it's maybe three-quarters state of mind. If I keep myself calm while riding (some experience in light meditation helps), breath deeply, and ride steadily I don't get nearly as hot or sweaty. When I reach my destination I stay relaxed, wipe my face with a wet paper towel, and within a few minutes you wouldn't even know I rode in.
It's all about a combination of things. As LOTS of people have said, cut out soda. My main replacement is iced tea (technically sun tea). Cheaper (box of twenty teabags is three or four bucks; use about four or five bags per quart of tea). Every day or two I throw a jar on the porch to brew. Zero calories, plenty of anti-oxidants. You might be able to get away with keeping a jar in the fridge at work (if not, well, just use it at home).
I bought a weight machine. This isn't really for building mass or for losing weight, it's for curbing the incessant pain in my back. $200 machine; takes me fifteen or twenty minutes a day to do thirty or forty reps of five exercises (lat pulldown, ab crunch, back extension, butterfly, and the good ol' bench, for the curious).
And, bike to work if you can. If you can't (and by "can't" I mean over five miles--ten's really doable, too), try to bike for short trips. You've got to go a mile to get a gallon of milk; just ride. Save on car wear and tear and serious emissions, too. Massbike has lots of good info on riding in city traffic that's by no means Boston-specific; see also John Allen's page. For short trips, especially in urban or semi-urban areas, it's no slower than a car and may be faster.
Except for materials and gears, mainstream bikes have truly changed little in the last 100 years.
Yeah, but "mainstream" is what people tool around on for a couple of miles on a weekend. They aren't going to feel changes much. On the far end, of course, you have the maniac racers, where the tech keeps going and going....
Commuting bikes, though, have gone through a lot. The materials advancements that you mentioned (I never want to go back to steel), cantilever braking, next-gen battery tech for lighting...and of course, the development of the hybrid bicycle. It's all "incremental" in some sense, but I don't want to get around town on Orville's bike! (Nor would I want to be involved in an accident wearing Orville's helmet...advances in helmet tech in just five years have been amazing.)
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That's île, not ile. Circumflex accent in French usually indicates the removal of an s (thus hôtel, forêt).
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a word is defined by the people who use it and not by some dictionary from Oxford. The latter can be changed.
I refuse to comment on whether or not your statement was ironic, but it certainly was both true and misinformed.
The OED is a highly DESCRIPTIVE dictionary; it strives to document current accepted usage rather than dictate correct usage. Compare with the French Academy (don't remember the full name) and Webster's original dictionary, both PRESCRIPTIVE. Nobody said "le baladeur": they were all busy with "le walkman" before the academy stepped in. Similarly nobody has EVER spelled a small body of land entirely surrounded by water as "ile" (In contrast, Webster did successfully prescribe the spelling of centre and colour).
I presume you're referring to the aphorism "taken with a grain of salt". In which case, it would not be applied liberally...
Grain is insufficient for this sort of thing; I'm referring more to the aphorism "take it with a keg of salt."
Is this a first? Has/. taken out an entire nation?
Well, dunno about slash, but Once Upon a Time maybe a decade ago somebody at MIT managed to take Portugal off the net. See, MIT and Portugal happened to have about the same size pipe....
Of course this is based on hearsay from a sysadmin friend; apply NaCl liberally.
Is this (sars hoax) affecting other cities? (I'm sure that it is; i'm just curious which ones...)
As of mid-April (when I was doing SARS research persuant to flying guests to Boston from Japan and Vancouver) most Chinatowns in the US had taken about a 50% hit in business. I think the CDC may have even issued a counter-advisory, and as you've mentioned many local governments tried to show the public it was just a hoax. Despite all that I still had a hard time getting people to go to Dim Sum...."it's only prudent!" (No, actually, it's racist).
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It's happened to the best of us....just learn from your mistakes and do your research next time. Anime on DVD's "R2 and beyond" forum is a good place to start. There are also "safe" retailers like Yesasia
I own an iPod, and like Jack of AtAT says: someone comes up trying to stick their headphones in my jack and I'll mase their ass.
What's such a big deal about a headphone splitter, anyhow?
And still can't do a 3D model of a supernova explosion. Heck, TWO dimensions is still really pushing it. There are a lot of problems that Moore's law won't catch up with for quite some time.
Planned, needed instrumentation might get canned to save Hubble.
One of the reasons for the decline of the channel IMO.
Any other suggestions?
Gino's East, man. Can't go to Chicago without getting pizza. And what geek visits the Windy City and skips MSI?
On the positive side (assuming the article is still mostly correct)...that's roughly 2 movies internal, 1 from Aardman, and says nothing about their other animation licensing, such as Millennium Actress. Looks like Dreamworks is getting serious about a range of animation.
The technology in a saturn V was taken and used by the military in its ICBMs.
Er, actually, it was the other way around. Redstone (one of the Mercury launch vehicles) and Titan (a Gemini launch vehicle) were originally ICBM's. The massive power of the Saturn V isn't necessary for getting a nuke around the globe--in fact, last I checked, the US isn't capable of producing them anymore (insufficient blueprints). Nor do we have anything with comparable lifting power. Better examples of solid military/nonmilitary cooperation are--well, borrowing the ICBM's as launch vehicles for one. Or the Clementine mission (which very nicely worked both ways--except the DoD payload failed). GPS. Lots of weather and space weather satellites benefit both.
I always liked the hidden commentary in the movie Chain Reaction that someone really did discover cold fusion
Chain Reaction wasn't about cold fusion. If you paid attention to the "plot," it was about burning hydrogen. They took water and added energy to split it into hydrogen and oxygen. Then they burned the hydrogen, combining it with oxygen to get water and energy. Somehow there was a net gain to this.....
I'll call you on that :) FCC abolished the sending test how long ago? Pre-1993, at any rate...as that's when my Advanced license dates from. You can still receive at 13WPM though (and the test was kinda weak in my opinion...the examiners were amazed at five minutes of solid copy. A one-minute requirement strikes me as barely workable).
Get your extra. And hang onto your CSCE. I still have all of mine around here somewhere.
As far as all these chumps complaining about hams and their "private playground"--yeesh. The REASON for the amateur service is that it's proven, in technological and social resources, to greatly enhance the commons. Same basic reason we have copyright protection--investing or limiting the public domain in the short term to enrich it in the long term. If you want to eliminate all ham bands, fine. Never use your cell phone again. Or TCP/IP (look up Phil Karn...some of us know him as KA9Q). Heck, wireless networking owes a lot to TAPR and other amateur experimenters. Avoid anything using the microwaves--hams developed the technology to make them accessible.
Oh, you mean you want unlicensed usage? Fine. Plenty of bands for that. The ELF area, for example. Or 49MHz. You know why 49MHz, 900MHz, all those other unlicensed bands are shitholes? Because they're unlicensed. There's no responsibility for maintaining equipment or proper operating procedure. Nothing keeping the corporations off there.
The airwaves are a public resource. Ham bands are a publicly-available way to use them. Just like accessing other public resources may require licensing (such as operating a motor vehicle on the public roads), ham bands require licenses. That doesn't make them some sort of "exclusive club."
Disagree with both statements :) Cycles aren't "too slow for the road." Through urban traffic I move just as fast as a car. So it takes me ten seconds longer to reach the next red light. Big deal. In suburban areas I'm moving a bit slower than the motorized traffic, so I yield to the right like any slower vehicle and am passed. Just like driving a junker car.
And, except in certain circumstances, the road is safer than the sidewalk by a good margin. Most cycle/car collisions occur at crossings, intersections, driveways, etc., where the sidewalk is far more dangerous. Read Bicycling Street Smarts to learn how to ride safely and legally.
Segway stopping distances are comparable to a bicycle.
Well, I played something like that on a VIC-20 (loaded from tape, wimpy me) called "New York Blitz."
See, your plane is out of gas over NYC (which also happens to be toroidal these days, so you're ALWAYS over New York, even when you fly off the end of the city) but you JUST HAPPEN to have a million bombs. So what do you do? Flatten the city so you can glide to a safe landing, of course!
Political and cultural ramifications are left as an exercise to the reader.
Uh, I spent $200 on my bike and it's an aluminum frame. It's VERY common these days; it's just a matter of your preference. Cheap MTB's are more likely to be steel; road bikes more likely aluminum. I ride a hybrid. And in any case, I'd hardly say most of the weight is outside of the frame. Significant amount, sure. Most? Nah.
I do find the issue of "sustainability of bicycles" hilarious though. Frames last damn near forever, barring crashes, and there's not that much metal in them. Figure in the zero emissions and very low wear on the road and the environmental impact's negligable compared to most other means of transportation.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I should have just gone to Gutenberg. Of course they don't seem to have all the amendments, just basic bill of rights. Thanks for the correction, at any rate :)
The U.S. Constitution does not gaurantee the right to peaceful assembly. It gaurantees that the US Congress shall not pass any laws that prevent peaceful assembly (without 3/4 approval). AFAIK, the first amendment doesn't prevent state governments from passing such laws (or cities from passing such ordinances).
10th amendment is usually interpreted as applying the bill of rights to local and state governments, basically saying (don't have it handy) "states shall not infringe upon the rights of their citizens."
I keep my water bottle full and basically deal. With a good A/P and daily bathing I really don't smell. I find it's maybe three-quarters state of mind. If I keep myself calm while riding (some experience in light meditation helps), breath deeply, and ride steadily I don't get nearly as hot or sweaty. When I reach my destination I stay relaxed, wipe my face with a wet paper towel, and within a few minutes you wouldn't even know I rode in.
It's all about a combination of things. As LOTS of people have said, cut out soda. My main replacement is iced tea (technically sun tea). Cheaper (box of twenty teabags is three or four bucks; use about four or five bags per quart of tea). Every day or two I throw a jar on the porch to brew. Zero calories, plenty of anti-oxidants. You might be able to get away with keeping a jar in the fridge at work (if not, well, just use it at home).
I bought a weight machine. This isn't really for building mass or for losing weight, it's for curbing the incessant pain in my back. $200 machine; takes me fifteen or twenty minutes a day to do thirty or forty reps of five exercises (lat pulldown, ab crunch, back extension, butterfly, and the good ol' bench, for the curious).
And, bike to work if you can. If you can't (and by "can't" I mean over five miles--ten's really doable, too), try to bike for short trips. You've got to go a mile to get a gallon of milk; just ride. Save on car wear and tear and serious emissions, too. Massbike has lots of good info on riding in city traffic that's by no means Boston-specific; see also John Allen's page. For short trips, especially in urban or semi-urban areas, it's no slower than a car and may be faster.
Yeah, but "mainstream" is what people tool around on for a couple of miles on a weekend. They aren't going to feel changes much. On the far end, of course, you have the maniac racers, where the tech keeps going and going....
Commuting bikes, though, have gone through a lot. The materials advancements that you mentioned (I never want to go back to steel), cantilever braking, next-gen battery tech for lighting...and of course, the development of the hybrid bicycle. It's all "incremental" in some sense, but I don't want to get around town on Orville's bike! (Nor would I want to be involved in an accident wearing Orville's helmet...advances in helmet tech in just five years have been amazing.)
That's île, not ile. Circumflex accent in French usually indicates the removal of an s (thus hôtel, forêt).
I refuse to comment on whether or not your statement was ironic, but it certainly was both true and misinformed.
The OED is a highly DESCRIPTIVE dictionary; it strives to document current accepted usage rather than dictate correct usage. Compare with the French Academy (don't remember the full name) and Webster's original dictionary, both PRESCRIPTIVE. Nobody said "le baladeur": they were all busy with "le walkman" before the academy stepped in. Similarly nobody has EVER spelled a small body of land entirely surrounded by water as "ile" (In contrast, Webster did successfully prescribe the spelling of centre and colour).
I presume you're referring to the aphorism "taken with a grain of salt". In which case, it would not be applied liberally...
Grain is insufficient for this sort of thing; I'm referring more to the aphorism "take it with a keg of salt."
Is this a first? Has /. taken out an entire nation?
Well, dunno about slash, but Once Upon a Time maybe a decade ago somebody at MIT managed to take Portugal off the net. See, MIT and Portugal happened to have about the same size pipe....
Of course this is based on hearsay from a sysadmin friend; apply NaCl liberally.
Is this (sars hoax) affecting other cities? (I'm sure that it is; i'm just curious which ones...)
As of mid-April (when I was doing SARS research persuant to flying guests to Boston from Japan and Vancouver) most Chinatowns in the US had taken about a 50% hit in business. I think the CDC may have even issued a counter-advisory, and as you've mentioned many local governments tried to show the public it was just a hoax. Despite all that I still had a hard time getting people to go to Dim Sum...."it's only prudent!" (No, actually, it's racist).
Have a gander at John Allen's analysis of the fall. Somewhat tongue-in-cheek of course.