Actually, it might be possible to do the following.
There was a hack awhile back for using MS write in Windows to edit the flying through space screen saver, using something like smiley faces or frowny faces instead of flags. There is also the ability to get the windows 3.1 driver for a hercules monchrome orange and black screen with adapter and make it run in on Windows 95.
The combinmation of the two will give you a screen saver with orange frowny faces cascading through the black of space. On two phase two.
I actually have sitting on a basement shelf someplace an original 386. This was based on a souped up 286 motherboard, and runs with a glorious maxed out 4 megs of ram at 16 megahurts. Somebody one had Windows 3.1 loaded on the machine, and had upgraded it to 95 because he thought it would run faster with 95. That was a meg-a-hurt.
Combine this with the hercules monochrome setup described above, and you will have one of the slowest machines windows machines on earth with an appropriate orange and black screen saver.
Optionally, you could upgrade the win95 system to a faster system, still with the hercules ega adapter, and see if you could migrate/upgrade to 98, and then to XP, still keeping the ega adapter. Screen shots and photos mandatory if successful.
Aside from Natural Disaster and Unusual Weather Events, the one thing I can imagine being a problem is the run of the mill ignorant human being.
The natives of Cairo stripped the pure white polished casing stones from the great pyramid to build a large number of building in their city. Nothing against the need for public housing, but it is a shame. There are plenty of other examples as well.
actually, seeing simple things is an act of intelligence, as a specialized skill or tactic. Habit will sometimes lead you down the wrong path of seeing more than what is there.
Sorry to say, you made a mistake in your mental math. The answer is not 14
You are making cupcakes for a party at which there will be 40 people. Half of them will be teenagers, a quarter of them will be adults, and the rest will be babies. Half of the babies don't like cupcakes, and one fifth of the babies left are too young to eat cupcakes. Half of the adults and three-quarters of the teenagers like chocolate cupcakes, and the rest of the people like cupcakes with sprinkles on them.
This gives us
20 Teeagers
10 Adults
10 Babies
5 babies do not like cupcakes, 2 are too young, so 3 babies eat cupcakes
5 adults and 15 teenagers do chocolate cupcakes
This leaves us with 5 adults, 5 teens, and 3 babies to eat cupcakes with sprinkles.
Trivia note: Fibonacci, who is known for the fibonacci number series, is the person who introduced and first promoted the use of the arabic number system to Medieval Europe
I could accept mercury because the solar wind has stripped the atmosphere.
Note that above a certain size, gravity tends to compel a sperical shape. Note that Earth out by Pluto would have a frozen atmosphere as well. Possibly the best definition would be mass.
Major planet = with mass sufficient that it retains an atmosphere, baring exceptions for frozen atmospheres, etc.
minor planet = merely maintians sherical shape. Or else maybe something with enough gravity that a human cannot achieve escape velocity or orbit by merely jumping, or even by throwing something into orbit.
The escape velocity on the Moon is about 1.47 miles per second = 5292 MPH
The escape velocity on Ceres is almost 1478 feet per second = 1007 MPH
Let's assume a typical top flight major League pitcher can pitch a ball up to 100 MPH, giving us a practical lower limit to minor planet.
Honesty in government is good for national security, good for socialism, etc.
It can probably be argued that most governments would fail except for the fact that people work to make them work, and the quality of the government is very dependant on the people in the system.
An old example is the idea of a government run by the inmates of a insane asylum. No matter what system you used, the government would still be psycho. This argues that there are more psychos running businesses and in government than many are willing to admit, and might not be far off the mark. It is hard to imagine that a sane and rational implementation of any system would emerge in any such circumstance.
Therefore, corrupt officials would argue that exposing corruption is not good for national security, since it exposes the weaknesses of the system to the potential enemy. In fact, exposing corruption would be the best way to the strengthen any political system. You could argue that this is what happened after the fact in hurricane Katrina, where mother nature applied a test that was failed by many without mercy.
It would be interesting to see how much traction an chinese committee for honesty in government got. Done carefully, it could do well.
If the government prevents the suit under this basis, then it can be proposed in some sort of legislation this alone is proof sufficient to prove the case and damages.
All too often these are literally rotting away in storage, because the originals are decaying, and the movie companies are unwilling to invest money to rescue them, even though they would sue you for millions if you published these on your own.
For World of Warcraft users, The Register ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/21/wow_virtua l_plague ) reports that "When Blizzard introduced the God of Blood - Hakkar to his mates - in a new World of Warcraft scenario called Zul'Gurub, little did it know it was summoning up the online equivalent of Ebola or AIDS. According to a posting on WoW fansite Shacknews, anyone who ends up in a fusticuffs-style confrontation with Hakkar will be attacked with a magic spell called Corrupted Blood. It's a nasty one. There's little the victim can do to resist it, and it should do sufficient damage to wipe them out."... "the contagion continues to spread from non-player characters to non-player character and anyone else entering the game."
Sound like they would be perfect for this, as test subjects.....
Ok, yes, people do in fact create enough of a static charge to shock themselves.... not to start electrical fires. Unless his office was a QA team of gasoline sniffers (you know, to make sure it smells right), there is no way that a static charge built up around a human could ever ignite carpet, or melt plastic.
Note that the original story, not the ignorant rewrite on rueters mentions only 30,000 volts and a mention of amps at the end. And in Australia, they are in late winter, this being the southern hemisphere.
So plenty of potential for walking leyden jars. Obviously this all is unpossible. Modern science tells us so.
Original Story
Freak static
By SARAH SCOPELIANOS
September 16, 2005
A DENNINGTON man was none the worse for wear yesterday despite
having 30,000 volts running through his clothes.
Warrnambool firefighters were baffled after Dennington cleaner
Frank Clewer unintentionally caused three Koroit Street buildings
to be evacuated.
Last night fire officers said they remained puzzled about the
incident in which carpet was scorched where Mr Clewer had
walked.
Mr Clewer, 58, was jovial about his fiery experience but said
the circumstances were hard to believe.
Soon to be made redundant from Nestle, he had arrived for a job
interview that never quiet started.
He could only chuckle about the events which led to firefighters
stripping him of his clothes and finding 30,000 volts running
through his synthetic jacket.
"My wife has told me I'm not allowed to put on the electric
blanket tonight and I'm going to have to lay off the surfing
because I'll stun the sharks and we'll have fried flake in the
bay," he laughed.
Fire crews were called to Karingal's office yesterday after
staff heard loud cracking sounds and noticed the carpet was burnt
in several places.
The "seriously weird" events began when Mr Clewer was standing
at the office front counter when he heard a "mighty crack" before
being led into a room to begin an interview for a carer's job.
Then staff noticed burn marks the size of ten cent pieces on the
carpet and called the fire brigade.
Fire officers' investigations included removing carpet and
evacuating surrounding buildings.
Mr Clewer spoke with them for about 20 minutes then went to the
bank and a surf store before returning to his car at the Ozone car
park.
There he found that a plastic bag used to protect his seat from
water after surfing was badly charred beneath his feet.
Thinking staff at Karingal were experiencing the same "strange"
happenings, which included electric zapping sounds, he returned to
the Koroit Street building to consult fire officers.
"I was talking to them and I let out a crack. It is all too
bizarre...and when I was getting inside my car after giving them my
name and phone number, I let out another almighty crack and it was
heard inside the building by the fire officers and inside the ABC
studio."
Mr Clewer was given overalls to wear as fire officers used a
device to check static electricity on him and his belongings.
The device measured a remarkable 30,000 volts on a synthetic
zip-up jacket Mr Clewer had been wearing under a woollen
jacket.
His jeans had a small burn at the knee.
Warrnambool fire officer Trevor Roberts said officers were
baffled.
"We called Powercor, an electrician, and spoke to a technician
from the ABC."
He said Mr Clewer's clothes were at no stage dangerous because
they were low in amps which could be deadly.
I have a MSEE and feel like feeding the news trolls.
MSEE = MicroSoft Engineering Enhancment?
The guy basically describes himself as a walking leyden jar with automatic charger. Shazaam!
A similar effect is often seen in the winter in northern climes. People with fuzzy sweaters and woolen clothing wearing nylon parkas. They shock the heck out of themselves getting in and out of their cars with the nylon weave cushion covers.
The context was security . . . unix security came long after interconnection . ..
This happened when the pool of users was sufficiently large that you could not personally vet the persons with access to the system.
and so you had folks who had no sense of responsibility for the community resources, and who had not been trained or initiated into this by the appropriate wizards or high priests.
Just like when we went into Baghdad, the priority was to protect the building of the Oil Ministry.
Not the bunkers filled with lots and lots of shells and all kinds of ammunition, not the National Museum to protect the Iraqi culture, not even the nuclear power plants with all that extra radioactive stuff laying around.
Or so I've heard, according to Rumor Control Central.
Obviously, here the priority is not to help people, but to follow the rules and regulations, even if it costs lives. Thus we get people sitting on resources because no one got an official request from the Govenor of Louisiana. The bureaucrats probably wanted it in writing, in triplicate. Maybe signed in blood, just to be careful.
Obviously, here the priority is not to help people, but to maintain power and control, even if the people would be a lot more cooperative if you actually rescued them and got them food and water, etc.
this is looking like GWB's Chernoblyl. What's he going to do, declare war on Mother Nature? he's done a good enough job of that as it is, and it looks like Mother Nature is going to fight back.
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It is likely the easiest thing to help people, if that is your actual intention. If you have some other agenda, like profiteering, maintaining power, or what have you, then something else happens. And you can see the obvious results.
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There was a hack awhile back for using MS write in Windows to edit the flying through space screen saver, using something like smiley faces or frowny faces instead of flags. There is also the ability to get the windows 3.1 driver for a hercules monchrome orange and black screen with adapter and make it run in on Windows 95.
The combinmation of the two will give you a screen saver with orange frowny faces cascading through the black of space. On two phase two.
I actually have sitting on a basement shelf someplace an original 386. This was based on a souped up 286 motherboard, and runs with a glorious maxed out 4 megs of ram at 16 megahurts. Somebody one had Windows 3.1 loaded on the machine, and had upgraded it to 95 because he thought it would run faster with 95. That was a meg-a-hurt.
Combine this with the hercules monochrome setup described above, and you will have one of the slowest machines windows machines on earth with an appropriate orange and black screen saver.
Optionally, you could upgrade the win95 system to a faster system, still with the hercules ega adapter, and see if you could migrate/upgrade to 98, and then to XP, still keeping the ega adapter. Screen shots and photos mandatory if successful.
Perfect for a party!
The natives of Cairo stripped the pure white polished casing stones from the great pyramid to build a large number of building in their city. Nothing against the need for public housing, but it is a shame. There are plenty of other examples as well.
actually, seeing simple things is an act of intelligence, as a specialized skill or tactic. Habit will sometimes lead you down the wrong path of seeing more than what is there.
Unfotunately, one rumor says that the smarter you are, the longer it takes to figure out.
Because smart people often fall for complex solutions.
You are making cupcakes for a party at which there will be 40 people. Half of them will be teenagers, a quarter of them will be adults, and the rest will be babies. Half of the babies don't like cupcakes, and one fifth of the babies left are too young to eat cupcakes. Half of the adults and three-quarters of the teenagers like chocolate cupcakes, and the rest of the people like cupcakes with sprinkles on them.
This gives us
20 Teeagers
10 Adults
10 Babies
5 babies do not like cupcakes, 2 are too young, so 3 babies eat cupcakes
5 adults and 15 teenagers do chocolate cupcakes
This leaves us with 5 adults, 5 teens, and 3 babies to eat cupcakes with sprinkles.
Trivia note: Fibonacci, who is known for the fibonacci number series, is the person who introduced and first promoted the use of the arabic number system to Medieval Europe
Bill Gates is said to have solved the problem by memorizing the combinations first, the brute force approach.
It ones of those that requires a knack for seeing the simple things
Note that above a certain size, gravity tends to compel a sperical shape. Note that Earth out by Pluto would have a frozen atmosphere as well. Possibly the best definition would be mass.
Major planet = with mass sufficient that it retains an atmosphere, baring exceptions for frozen atmospheres, etc.
minor planet = merely maintians sherical shape. Or else maybe something with enough gravity that a human cannot achieve escape velocity or orbit by merely jumping, or even by throwing something into orbit.
The escape velocity on the Moon is about 1.47 miles per second = 5292 MPH
The escape velocity on Ceres is almost 1478 feet per second = 1007 MPH
Let's assume a typical top flight major League pitcher can pitch a ball up to 100 MPH, giving us a practical lower limit to minor planet.
It can probably be argued that most governments would fail except for the fact that people work to make them work, and the quality of the government is very dependant on the people in the system.
An old example is the idea of a government run by the inmates of a insane asylum. No matter what system you used, the government would still be psycho. This argues that there are more psychos running businesses and in government than many are willing to admit, and might not be far off the mark. It is hard to imagine that a sane and rational implementation of any system would emerge in any such circumstance.
Therefore, corrupt officials would argue that exposing corruption is not good for national security, since it exposes the weaknesses of the system to the potential enemy. In fact, exposing corruption would be the best way to the strengthen any political system. You could argue that this is what happened after the fact in hurricane Katrina, where mother nature applied a test that was failed by many without mercy.
It would be interesting to see how much traction an chinese committee for honesty in government got. Done carefully, it could do well.
not quite:
imagine a planet with a sugary rain . . .
Major Planet: Sufficiently large to maintain it's own atmosphere
Minor Planet: Sufficiently large to maintain spherical shape
Currently practice demands the following exception:
may not be orbiting another body except a star, or similar body.
Pluto has the problem that most of it's atmosphere is essentially frozen.
Titan maintains an atmosphere via gravity stress from Saturn generating heat.
If the government prevents the suit under this basis, then it can be proposed in some sort of legislation this alone is proof sufficient to prove the case and damages.
All too often these are literally rotting away in storage, because the originals are decaying, and the movie companies are unwilling to invest money to rescue them, even though they would sue you for millions if you published these on your own.
For World of Warcraft users, The Register ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/21/wow_virtua l_plague ) reports that "When Blizzard introduced the God of Blood - Hakkar to his mates - in a new World of Warcraft scenario called Zul'Gurub, little did it know it was summoning up the online equivalent of Ebola or AIDS. According to a posting on WoW fansite Shacknews, anyone who ends up in a fusticuffs-style confrontation with Hakkar will be attacked with a magic spell called Corrupted Blood. It's a nasty one. There's little the victim can do to resist it, and it should do sufficient damage to wipe them out." ... "the contagion continues to spread from non-player characters to non-player character and anyone else entering the game."
Sound like they would be perfect for this, as test subjects.....
Note that the original story, not the ignorant rewrite on rueters mentions only 30,000 volts and a mention of amps at the end. And in Australia, they are in late winter, this being the southern hemisphere.
So plenty of potential for walking leyden jars. Obviously this all is unpossible. Modern science tells us so.
Original Story
Freak static
By SARAH SCOPELIANOS
September 16, 2005
A DENNINGTON man was none the worse for wear yesterday despite having 30,000 volts running through his clothes.
Warrnambool firefighters were baffled after Dennington cleaner Frank Clewer unintentionally caused three Koroit Street buildings to be evacuated.
Last night fire officers said they remained puzzled about the incident in which carpet was scorched where Mr Clewer had walked.
Mr Clewer, 58, was jovial about his fiery experience but said the circumstances were hard to believe.
Soon to be made redundant from Nestle, he had arrived for a job interview that never quiet started.
He could only chuckle about the events which led to firefighters stripping him of his clothes and finding 30,000 volts running through his synthetic jacket.
"My wife has told me I'm not allowed to put on the electric blanket tonight and I'm going to have to lay off the surfing because I'll stun the sharks and we'll have fried flake in the bay," he laughed.
Fire crews were called to Karingal's office yesterday after staff heard loud cracking sounds and noticed the carpet was burnt in several places.
The "seriously weird" events began when Mr Clewer was standing at the office front counter when he heard a "mighty crack" before being led into a room to begin an interview for a carer's job.
Then staff noticed burn marks the size of ten cent pieces on the carpet and called the fire brigade.
Fire officers' investigations included removing carpet and evacuating surrounding buildings.
Mr Clewer spoke with them for about 20 minutes then went to the bank and a surf store before returning to his car at the Ozone car park.
There he found that a plastic bag used to protect his seat from water after surfing was badly charred beneath his feet.
Thinking staff at Karingal were experiencing the same "strange" happenings, which included electric zapping sounds, he returned to the Koroit Street building to consult fire officers.
"I was talking to them and I let out a crack. It is all too bizarre...and when I was getting inside my car after giving them my name and phone number, I let out another almighty crack and it was heard inside the building by the fire officers and inside the ABC studio."
Mr Clewer was given overalls to wear as fire officers used a device to check static electricity on him and his belongings.
The device measured a remarkable 30,000 volts on a synthetic zip-up jacket Mr Clewer had been wearing under a woollen jacket.
His jeans had a small burn at the knee.
Warrnambool fire officer Trevor Roberts said officers were baffled.
"We called Powercor, an electrician, and spoke to a technician from the ABC."
He said Mr Clewer's clothes were at no stage dangerous because they were low in amps which could be deadly.
This story was found at:
http://the.standard.net.au/articles/2005/09/16/112 6750111141.html
MSEE = MicroSoft Engineering Enhancment?
The guy basically describes himself as a walking leyden jar with automatic charger. Shazaam!
A similar effect is often seen in the winter in northern climes. People with fuzzy sweaters and woolen clothing wearing nylon parkas. They shock the heck out of themselves getting in and out of their cars with the nylon weave cushion covers.
move along nothing happening here.
we need to be able to plug this into some nations nuclear launch capability.
Can you imagine bootinh windows into the dulcet tones of the AOL Bot saying, "You got Mail?"
Or AOL with the new and improved advanced Clippy the speaking paperclip help technology?
This happened when the pool of users was sufficiently large that you could not personally vet the persons with access to the system.
and so you had folks who had no sense of responsibility for the community resources, and who had not been trained or initiated into this by the appropriate wizards or high priests.
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As they say, not FEMAs fault
Forethought and planning at it's best.
They are there because there was no permission to get them out or to use them in the evacuation. Obviously.
Take your pick.
Just like when we went into Baghdad, the priority was to protect the building of the Oil Ministry.
Not the bunkers filled with lots and lots of shells and all kinds of ammunition, not the National Museum to protect the Iraqi culture, not even the nuclear power plants with all that extra radioactive stuff laying around.
Or so I've heard, according to Rumor Control Central.
Obviously, here the priority is not to help people, but to follow the rules and regulations, even if it costs lives. Thus we get people sitting on resources because no one got an official request from the Govenor of Louisiana. The bureaucrats probably wanted it in writing, in triplicate. Maybe signed in blood, just to be careful.
Obviously, here the priority is not to help people, but to maintain power and control, even if the people would be a lot more cooperative if you actually rescued them and got them food and water, etc.
this is looking like GWB's Chernoblyl. What's he going to do, declare war on Mother Nature? he's done a good enough job of that as it is, and it looks like Mother Nature is going to fight back.
[Sarcasm Mode = 0]
It is likely the easiest thing to help people, if that is your actual intention. If you have some other agenda, like profiteering, maintaining power, or what have you, then something else happens. And you can see the obvious results.
All at the Behest of the Un-named Politicians of the World.