Worse than that... a friend's sister once dumped OJ into the back of a TV and didn't bother to clean up. At least, not more than the exterior of the cabinet. This was also a nice, warm spot that the cat liked to sleep on. And shed in. Eventually, of course, the TV died and my friend opened it up to check it out.
I've seen some pretty gross electronics in my day (the computer from a greenhouse comes to mind), but nothing that could match the utter grossness of this TV.
No problem. These batteries will be twice as stable as they are today in just 12.3 years!
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I'm so disgusted with what passes for programming on the American TV networks that I'd be more than happy to pay the British TV license fee if it'd get me all the BBC content.
Yeah, I'm sure the founding fathers are turning over in their graves at the idea of an American volunteering to pay a British tax, but then the founding fathers would understand if they had to watch the WB...
Pffft. You obviously haven't worked on any government contracts. $400 million by 2008 means $3 billion for a scaled-back, re-purposed vehicle that doesn't meet the original design goals, and MIGHT be ready by 2015.
Keep Lockheed Martin out of it and you might have a chance of producing something for under $1 billion and less than 3 years late.
$20 million sounds awfully low - I think the current expendable, non-manrated Delta II launches cost around $50 million each. Speaking of which, we've got one sitting on the pad right now and I ought to get back to work...
I would have done this years ago if I could. I may be rusty, but I can still send code faster than I can use this Godawful text entry interface on my phone.
Plus, with vibrate mode you could learn to receive messages with no audible indication at all.
I just looked up the current SMS speed record. It works out to about 36 WPM. Average is something like 10 WPM. Anyone who practiced code as much as the average teenager uses SMS could probably expect to do at least 20 WPM, and I've known military telegraphers that could do 40.
Not really. I swapped the F and J keys, so the bumps are in the right place at least. If you don't look at the keys, you can't tell that there's any difference.
Hey, me too. My QWERTY keyboard looks like a RIYOUP keyboard. Might not prevent keyloggers, but it bugs the hell out of anyone who sits down here and doesn't know how to touch type.
They've been doing this, unofficially at least, for years. I had a customer buy a few copies of Windows 95 for his office computers (this was back in 1995 or 1996), only to find out they were all fake. I had him call the MS anti-piracy hotline and they sent him at least one legit copy for his trouble.
I don't see why this merits a story here. It's a nice customer service policy, and it makes sense from a business perspective. But I guess you can always count on Slashdot to put a negative spin on anything MS does...
You would think by now that the government would either distributed a tool for correctly redacting PDFs or prohibit them.
That still leaves a lot of possibilities. Here's a better idea: In your classified processing facility, start with a hardcopy of the document in question. Mark out everything you don't want revealed. When you're done, RE-TYPE the declassified version in a new file. There's something to be said for the low-tech approach.
Been trying to find the article that mentioned it. I think it had something to do with Mars 96, but it wasn't the Mars 96 accident that provided the hand warmer.
Bullshit or not, it's funny. It's just too bad they don't have enough output to heat your coffee. Hmm, maybe if you had one INSIDE a thermos...
Pfff. We've already got nuclear hand warmers. Apparently a failed Russian space launch resulted in the loss of a radioisotope heater unit. Finally turned up in a guard shack, where the guards had been using it to keep their hands warm.
I just spoke with some Google guys the other day, and it sounds like they have some plans in the works to offer an API for integration with Google Maps. They were impressed with the hacking that's been done on it already.
I've got my own open source tracker project that uses the ham radio APRS system and I'd love to be able to point users to a Google Maps enabled site, rather than the fairly inadequate sites that are out there now.
I had a user inform me that he had to remove Dr. Watson, because he didn't even use that program and all it did was interrupt him with errors and crash his programs.
Well, it's only going to intersect the proper altitude at two points, right? Remember that geosynchronous satellites occupy a very narrow band over the equator. The asteroid may not intersect that plane at all. Even if it did, it'd be unlikely to hit anything.
I'm not sure what standard spacing is out there, but I'm sure it's at least a few hundred km. The chance of a 1 km object hitting one of these widely spaced, small objects is not great.
As for perturbation, I'm sure it's negligible. Even if it wasn't, the satellites should have sufficient station keeping ability to stay put.
"That way the village could have much easier access to information about market conditions, weather, etc"
This is the justification I keep hearing. Have these people ever heard of a radio? Amazing invention, been around more than a century now.
A basic AM/FM radio can be bought for $2.50 (44 Rupees), and gives you access to market conditions, news, weather, entertainment, and so on. A shortwave radio gives you access to international content for a few dollars more.
I'm afraid I don't have a lot of sympathy for the Simputer's failure. It's the wrong technology in the wrong place for the wrong price.
"Then I think they cut everything out except the 30-second snatches of "music" on TRL"
Maybe someone can clue me in here... TRL is a request show, right? How the hell do the viewers know what to request, if they never show the videos in the first place!
It's a sad, sad thing when attention spans have decreased to the point that people can't even watch and entire 3-minute music video in one sitting...
Speaking as someone who once had to wire up a busted vibrator to a benchtop supply (insert jokes about/.'ers and made-up girlfriends here), I'd say that yes, additional voltage DOES seem to have an effect.
Not so much as removing the little motor assembly from the silicone sleeve, though. She wouldn't let me put it back together.
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Worse than that... a friend's sister once dumped OJ into the back of a TV and didn't bother to clean up. At least, not more than the exterior of the cabinet. This was also a nice, warm spot that the cat liked to sleep on. And shed in. Eventually, of course, the TV died and my friend opened it up to check it out.
I've seen some pretty gross electronics in my day (the computer from a greenhouse comes to mind), but nothing that could match the utter grossness of this TV.
Yeah, the 'install modchip here' silkscreen on the motherboard was a dead giveaway.
No problem. These batteries will be twice as stable as they are today in just 12.3 years!
I'm so disgusted with what passes for programming on the American TV networks that I'd be more than happy to pay the British TV license fee if it'd get me all the BBC content.
Yeah, I'm sure the founding fathers are turning over in their graves at the idea of an American volunteering to pay a British tax, but then the founding fathers would understand if they had to watch the WB...
Not at all.
He's got a rockfish.
Pffft. You obviously haven't worked on any government contracts. $400 million by 2008 means $3 billion for a scaled-back, re-purposed vehicle that doesn't meet the original design goals, and MIGHT be ready by 2015.
Keep Lockheed Martin out of it and you might have a chance of producing something for under $1 billion and less than 3 years late.
$20 million sounds awfully low - I think the current expendable, non-manrated Delta II launches cost around $50 million each. Speaking of which, we've got one sitting on the pad right now and I ought to get back to work...
I would have done this years ago if I could. I may be rusty, but I can still send code faster than I can use this Godawful text entry interface on my phone.
Plus, with vibrate mode you could learn to receive messages with no audible indication at all.
I just looked up the current SMS speed record. It works out to about 36 WPM. Average is something like 10 WPM. Anyone who practiced code as much as the average teenager uses SMS could probably expect to do at least 20 WPM, and I've known military telegraphers that could do 40.
Not really. I swapped the F and J keys, so the bumps are in the right place at least. If you don't look at the keys, you can't tell that there's any difference.
Hey, me too. My QWERTY keyboard looks like a RIYOUP keyboard. Might not prevent keyloggers, but it bugs the hell out of anyone who sits down here and doesn't know how to touch type.
They've been doing this, unofficially at least, for years. I had a customer buy a few copies of Windows 95 for his office computers (this was back in 1995 or 1996), only to find out they were all fake. I had him call the MS anti-piracy hotline and they sent him at least one legit copy for his trouble.
I don't see why this merits a story here. It's a nice customer service policy, and it makes sense from a business perspective. But I guess you can always count on Slashdot to put a negative spin on anything MS does...
Compaq V1100. Not that old. Might have been a coincidence, but I've used it on a daily basis for a few years.
I HAD a nice monitor until Friday, when a brand new install of Red Hat 9 chose the wrong frequency settings for XFree86.
Guess I'll have to wait for SVG support in Lynx.
That still leaves a lot of possibilities. Here's a better idea: In your classified processing facility, start with a hardcopy of the document in question. Mark out everything you don't want revealed. When you're done, RE-TYPE the declassified version in a new file. There's something to be said for the low-tech approach.
Been trying to find the article that mentioned it. I think it had something to do with Mars 96, but it wasn't the Mars 96 accident that provided the hand warmer.
Bullshit or not, it's funny. It's just too bad they don't have enough output to heat your coffee. Hmm, maybe if you had one INSIDE a thermos...
Pfff. We've already got nuclear hand warmers. Apparently a failed Russian space launch resulted in the loss of a radioisotope heater unit. Finally turned up in a guard shack, where the guards had been using it to keep their hands warm.
I've got my own open source tracker project that uses the ham radio APRS system and I'd love to be able to point users to a Google Maps enabled site, rather than the fairly inadequate sites that are out there now.
"it said there were errors in the experiment and it in fact produced less energy than was added"
Did anyone claim otherwise? This is a novel way to produce fusion, I don't see any claims of net energy production.
I can build a Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor in my garage, too, and get fusion out of it. Just not 1/100 as much as I put in.
This is another (interesting) avenue of experimentation. No one's saying it's going to be producing power any time soon.
I had a user inform me that he had to remove Dr. Watson, because he didn't even use that program and all it did was interrupt him with errors and crash his programs.
No, he wasn't worried about the nuclear submarines because he didn't know about them.
Now you've done it.
Well, it's only going to intersect the proper altitude at two points, right? Remember that geosynchronous satellites occupy a very narrow band over the equator. The asteroid may not intersect that plane at all. Even if it did, it'd be unlikely to hit anything.
I'm not sure what standard spacing is out there, but I'm sure it's at least a few hundred km. The chance of a 1 km object hitting one of these widely spaced, small objects is not great.
As for perturbation, I'm sure it's negligible. Even if it wasn't, the satellites should have sufficient station keeping ability to stay put.
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"That way the village could have much easier access to information about market conditions, weather, etc"
This is the justification I keep hearing. Have these people ever heard of a radio? Amazing invention, been around more than a century now.
A basic AM/FM radio can be bought for $2.50 (44 Rupees), and gives you access to market conditions, news, weather, entertainment, and so on. A shortwave radio gives you access to international content for a few dollars more.
I'm afraid I don't have a lot of sympathy for the Simputer's failure. It's the wrong technology in the wrong place for the wrong price.
How about doing the same with the Segway IT?
That way we could all get a Round Two IT.
"Then I think they cut everything out except the 30-second snatches of "music" on TRL"
Maybe someone can clue me in here... TRL is a request show, right? How the hell do the viewers know what to request, if they never show the videos in the first place!
It's a sad, sad thing when attention spans have decreased to the point that people can't even watch and entire 3-minute music video in one sitting...
Speaking as someone who once had to wire up a busted vibrator to a benchtop supply (insert jokes about /.'ers and made-up girlfriends here), I'd say that yes, additional voltage DOES seem to have an effect.
Not so much as removing the little motor assembly from the silicone sleeve, though. She wouldn't let me put it back together.