I seriously doubt that the CPU blows up the second you remove the fan.
I saw my roomate's new 1.2 GHz athlon catch fire in about 15 seconds due to a defective heatsink. I also saw him cut his finger rather badly on the fan that was required to cool the new one...
This sounds like a larger version of the aerial robots developed for Georgia Tech's International Aerial Robotics Competition. Although the amateur designed robots don't have the range of the NASA version, the winning designs can perform all of the tasks that the expensive counterpart can. And I'm sure for a fraction of the price.
I took it one step further. The holes in the technic pieces were just wide enough to hold a bottle rocket if you lined 4 or 5 of the 2x1 pieces together. We then had lego rocket car races.
Of course, we didn't always properly remove the exploding end from the bottle rocket... But you got extra points if your car crossed the finish line despite an explosion.
Yeah, jabber would be nice if it actually worked consistantly... Unfortunatly it's hit or miss as to which services it will decide to connect to on any given day.
-Dorsey
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There was a rerelease of BladeRunner awhile back were there was some voice over narration put in.
Just a nitpick, but it was the other way around. The original release of Blade Runner had the voiceovers. The later released director's cut is the narration-free version.
-Dorsey
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That's why its use should be regulated. That's why alcohol use should be regulated. That's why cocaine and heroin should be regulated.
Being regulated is different from being banned. Alcohol is already heavily regulated. In my state (NC) you can only buy liquor at state run stores. I happen think it would be a good idea to regulate marijuana in a similar manner. Users get easier access, at (presumably) lower prices, and consistant quality. And the government makes a killing off of taxes. Everyone wins.
My point was not to argue that it was reasonable for the lawyer on his way to Hawaii to be detained, but mearly to challenge the implication that the case was obviously an instance of racial profiling. I agree that detaining someone who has a lot of cash is harassment.
However, to nitpick... No one is required to accept cash. The "all debts, public and private" bit only means that the bill is backed by the US Treasury. Just as a merchant can refuse to accept a payment that is entirely pennies, they can also say that they will only accept credit cards, or that you must pay only with $50 bills and nickels. If you don't want to pay that way, then you simply look elsewhere for that good or service.
Boy, you're kinda all over the place on that one...
The law is that you may not leave the U.S. with more than $10,000 in currency. Last I checked, Hawai'i is still in the U.S.
Yes, I saw The Seige too, I'm talking about a different law. It's along the lines of, "If a cop sees you with more than X amount of money, they can detain you." Not "If you carry this much moeny, you will go to jail."
Quite common to carry at least $500 in cash and several thousand in traveller's checks, cause let's face it, once you are a few hundred miles in the boonies, your cash availability is curtailed quite a bit.
When did Hawaii get demoted to "boonies"? Pretty much anywhere you go in the US, if you don't have access to an ATM, the cash isn't gonna help too much either.
Not to mention if you lose your wallet
If you lose your wallet, you're gonna lose your cash too. But while the cash is gone, a bank card or a checkbook can be replaced.
I recall a story from years ago (early 90's?) where a black lawyer from LA was 'detained' at LAX. He was on his way for a month's vacation in Hawaii (or some such place). He had a few thousand dollars cash on him. They searched
him, found the cash, and detained him on suspicion of drug trafficking, because he fit their 'profile'. Black, mid-30's, lots of cash on his person.
I would think that the several thousand in cash by itself would be enough to be suspected of trafficing. I seem to remember reading about a law that says that it's illegal to carry more than $500 or $1k in cash, simply because the odds favor that the money would be used for something anonymous and illegal.
And why would he need to carry that much money? Do they not have ATM's in Hawaii? Really, carrying that much in cash is just asking for trouble, either from authorities, or from some random guy who sees a roll of cash the size of a softball and decides mugging isn't so wrong afterall.
Because you are then making a profit off of somebody else's work.
That would be how retail works. A store buys a product from a manufacturer or distributer, doubles the price, and resells it to individual consumers. If I "go to comp USA and buy 500 copies of MS Windows and shove one into every 500lb bag of manure I sell," then CompUSA is simply the distributor, as long as I have a resellers license. As far as I know, a resellers license doesn't specify what I am allowed to resell.
The way I look at it is, when the governemnt pays to display one piece of art, but refuses to display another, for what ever the reason, then it has censored the second piece. The first piece is elevated to "approved" status.
Since it is impossible for the government to fund all art, it shouldn't fund any art. Art will continue to exist without government money.
Jon Stewart is a much better host simply because he can improvise. He actually interviews guests instead of reading a script at them. Craig Kilborn was a funny host cause the show had good writers. This is painfully obvious if you see his new show. The writers suck. I watched it the first week it was on the air, and after seeing the same show five nights in a row, I decided I'd had enough.
But having a support system, whether it be parents or friends or whatever, will raise the your tolerance to where "normal" bullying doesn't cause you to snap.
It's amusing to get a "response" to an email, when it's obvious no human ever read the original messege.
I'm envisioning some kind of autoresponding software the cranks out one of five or so pre-written responses based on a few (poorly chosen) keywords in the original email. Of course, I base this on a single instance when I emailed Jesse Helms' office about the Ashcoft nomination...
Anyway I just had an interesting idea for a way to discourage bad patents. What about imposing a fine on companies who patent things that are subsequently invalidated due to prior art (or any other reason)?
The problem I see with this is that it is a bit unfair towards people or companies who file for patents in good faith, who are genuinly unaware of prior art... Perhaps if you could somehow prove that the patent holder was aware of it when they filed for the patent...
Next question: Anyone ever seen a vinyl record with software on it?
There were rumors of a CED (capacitance electronic disc) ROM device for the ColecoVision game system. The CED player was released, but not the new ColecoVision, so it never really went anywhere. But theoretically this player could be used to load software. If they actually pressed any discs...
And while the disc itself is actually carbon coated PVC and not vinyl, it's still a "record" per se.
Ender's Game started as a short story, and
he was pressured into turning it into a full-length novel by his publisher
The way I heard OSC tell it (at a book signing) was that Ender's Game was just back story. It was originally supposed to be part of Speaker for the Dead but he split it off to a seperate novel to keep Speaker from being obscenely long...
It's called FMD-ROM and is is slated to be ready for production before the end of this year.
The 12mm (CD-ROM/DVD-ROM) disc version of this memory will store up to 140GB!
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I don't think so. Vulcan blood is green because it is copper based. And Human blood is red because it's iron based.
I seriously doubt that the CPU blows up the second you remove the fan.
I saw my roomate's new 1.2 GHz athlon catch fire in about 15 seconds due to a defective heatsink. I also saw him cut his finger rather badly on the fan that was required to cool the new one...
This sounds like a larger version of the aerial robots developed for Georgia Tech's International Aerial Robotics Competition. Although the amateur designed robots don't have the range of the NASA version, the winning designs can perform all of the tasks that the expensive counterpart can. And I'm sure for a fraction of the price.
I took it one step further. The holes in the technic pieces were just wide enough to hold a bottle rocket if you lined 4 or 5 of the 2x1 pieces together. We then had lego rocket car races.
Of course, we didn't always properly remove the exploding end from the bottle rocket... But you got extra points if your car crossed the finish line despite an explosion.
Yeah, jabber would be nice if it actually worked consistantly... Unfortunatly it's hit or miss as to which services it will decide to connect to on any given day.
-Dorsey
There was a rerelease of BladeRunner awhile back were there was some voice over narration put in.
Just a nitpick, but it was the other way around. The original release of Blade Runner had the voiceovers. The later released director's cut is the narration-free version.
-Dorsey
That's why its use should be regulated. That's why alcohol use should be regulated. That's why cocaine and heroin should be regulated.
Being regulated is different from being banned. Alcohol is already heavily regulated. In my state (NC) you can only buy liquor at state run stores. I happen think it would be a good idea to regulate marijuana in a similar manner. Users get easier access, at (presumably) lower prices, and consistant quality. And the government makes a killing off of taxes. Everyone wins.
-Dorsey
My point was not to argue that it was reasonable for the lawyer on his way to Hawaii to be detained, but mearly to challenge the implication that the case was obviously an instance of racial profiling. I agree that detaining someone who has a lot of cash is harassment.
However, to nitpick... No one is required to accept cash. The "all debts, public and private" bit only means that the bill is backed by the US Treasury. Just as a merchant can refuse to accept a payment that is entirely pennies, they can also say that they will only accept credit cards, or that you must pay only with $50 bills and nickels. If you don't want to pay that way, then you simply look elsewhere for that good or service.
-Dorsey
Boy, you're kinda all over the place on that one...
The law is that you may not leave the U.S. with more than $10,000 in currency. Last I checked, Hawai'i is still in the U.S.
Yes, I saw The Seige too, I'm talking about a different law. It's along the lines of, "If a cop sees you with more than X amount of money, they can detain you." Not "If you carry this much moeny, you will go to jail."
Quite common to carry at least $500 in cash and several thousand in traveller's checks, cause let's face it, once you are a few hundred miles in the boonies, your cash availability is curtailed quite a bit.
When did Hawaii get demoted to "boonies"? Pretty much anywhere you go in the US, if you don't have access to an ATM, the cash isn't gonna help too much either.
Not to mention if you lose your wallet
If you lose your wallet, you're gonna lose your cash too. But while the cash is gone, a bank card or a checkbook can be replaced.
-Dorsey
I recall a story from years ago (early 90's?) where a black lawyer from LA was 'detained' at LAX. He was on his way for a month's vacation in Hawaii (or some such place). He had a few thousand dollars cash on him. They searched him, found the cash, and detained him on suspicion of drug trafficking, because he fit their 'profile'. Black, mid-30's, lots of cash on his person.
I would think that the several thousand in cash by itself would be enough to be suspected of trafficing. I seem to remember reading about a law that says that it's illegal to carry more than $500 or $1k in cash, simply because the odds favor that the money would be used for something anonymous and illegal.
And why would he need to carry that much money? Do they not have ATM's in Hawaii? Really, carrying that much in cash is just asking for trouble, either from authorities, or from some random guy who sees a roll of cash the size of a softball and decides mugging isn't so wrong afterall.
-Dorsey
Because you are then making a profit off of somebody else's work.
That would be how retail works. A store buys a product from a manufacturer or distributer, doubles the price, and resells it to individual consumers. If I "go to comp USA and buy 500 copies of MS Windows and shove one into every 500lb bag of manure I sell," then CompUSA is simply the distributor, as long as I have a resellers license. As far as I know, a resellers license doesn't specify what I am allowed to resell.
-Dorsey
The way I look at it is, when the governemnt pays to display one piece of art, but refuses to display another, for what ever the reason, then it has censored the second piece. The first piece is elevated to "approved" status.
Since it is impossible for the government to fund all art, it shouldn't fund any art. Art will continue to exist without government money.
-Dorsey
No.
Jon Stewart is a much better host simply because he can improvise. He actually interviews guests instead of reading a script at them. Craig Kilborn was a funny host cause the show had good writers. This is painfully obvious if you see his new show. The writers suck. I watched it the first week it was on the air, and after seeing the same show five nights in a row, I decided I'd had enough.
-Dorsey
My mother, who is a terrible driver, always insists that she is a better driver than I am simply because she has been driving for longer than I have.
Just remember, a wealth of experience doesn't make up for a complete and total lack of ability.
-Dorsey
But having a support system, whether it be parents or friends or whatever, will raise the your tolerance to where "normal" bullying doesn't cause you to snap.
-Dorsey
It's amusing to get a "response" to an email, when it's obvious no human ever read the original messege.
I'm envisioning some kind of autoresponding software the cranks out one of five or so pre-written responses based on a few (poorly chosen) keywords in the original email. Of course, I base this on a single instance when I emailed Jesse Helms' office about the Ashcoft nomination...
-Dorsey
You ever put a cdrom in a microwave. its pretty scrambeled after about 2 seconds.
Ever put a human or other animal in a microwave? I dare say they'd be pretty scrambled too.
-Dorsey
Anyway I just had an interesting idea for a way to discourage bad patents. What about imposing a fine on companies who patent things that are subsequently invalidated due to prior art (or any other reason)?
The problem I see with this is that it is a bit unfair towards people or companies who file for patents in good faith, who are genuinly unaware of prior art... Perhaps if you could somehow prove that the patent holder was aware of it when they filed for the patent...
-Dorsey
Next question: Anyone ever seen a vinyl record with software on it?
There were rumors of a CED (capacitance electronic disc) ROM device for the ColecoVision game system. The CED player was released, but not the new ColecoVision, so it never really went anywhere. But theoretically this player could be used to load software. If they actually pressed any discs...
And while the disc itself is actually carbon coated PVC and not vinyl, it's still a "record" per se.
-Dorsey
Ah, he might have gotten beaten up (ie toppled), but did he get hurt? Having super powers does not make one a skillful fighter.
Since it looked like he was bleeding from scratches on his face, I would say that yes, he got hurt.
-Dorsey
Maybe the child is. I know this is more unfounded, but he could have inherited the super attibutes of Bruce Willis
Except for that scene where the kid had gotten into a fight cause he thought he might have been like his father. But he wasn't, and he got beat up.
-Dorsey
once in some (I forget exactly which) bookstore in Raleigh when he was signing Ender's Shadow.
Quail Ridge Books. You were directly behind my group of friends in line. Or maybe you were directly in front of us. Something like that...
-Dorsey
Ender's Game started as a short story, and he was pressured into turning it into a full-length novel by his publisher
The way I heard OSC tell it (at a book signing) was that Ender's Game was just back story. It was originally supposed to be part of Speaker for the Dead but he split it off to a seperate novel to keep Speaker from being obscenely long...
-Dorsey
Who says the number is slashdotted? It only took me two tries using dialpad.
course, the song sounds like he's singing into a telephone handset instead of a microphone...
-Dorsey
Or This?
It's called FMD-ROM and is is slated to be ready for production before the end of this year. The 12mm (CD-ROM/DVD-ROM) disc version of this memory will store up to 140GB!
-Dorsey