It's the magic smoke inside the cell phones that do it, it's ionized such that it can it maintains polarity with the magic cell towers. That's why if you break one, letting the magic smoke out, it won't work anymore.
It may be time to put NASA brains on some more immediate problems
FYI - they're doing just that, NASA actually works on more than one thing at a time.
Visiting Mars may be a lot nicer knowing that the astronauts have a habitable planet to return to.
And if things really do get to the point that earth is uninhabitable, it'd be a lot nicer knowing that everyone else has a place to go.
The "war" in Iraq, along with othe "police actions" around the world, cost orders of magnitude more than NASA's entire budget, while providing fewer benefits to us at home - how about we cut those instead?
I'm waiting for the study of what happens if you check email for 2 hours, code for 30 minutes, surf the web for another hour or so, code for another hour, check email again, then sneak out early.
Reading this post and the thread that goes with it makes me wonder if anyone else out there bothers to RTFA... If you even read the summary here on/. rather than hust the headline you'd see that the article is about linux being 5 years away from mainstream in IT environments. No mention of joe sixpack or your grandma not knowing how to use linux. They are 2 VERY different things, makes me wish I could mod the whole thread off-topic... (and redundant)
[Personally, I agree with the artice, linux is already moving fast in the IT sector. Depending on how you define 'mainstream' it could already be there. IMO that's where it belongs anyway. I know I definately prefer to work in a *nix environment]
There's a big difference between expecting past behavior to continue and actually being intelligent (and then going crazy) Sure, if you perform certain calculations enough time, the hardware might automatically optimize itself for that operation, but it's more like pixel burning on a tv, or forming a road simply by walking a path enough to form a noticable rut. Maybe when we truley have thinking computers we might have to worry about them going crazy, but until then I'm more worried about my toaster. I think it has a rash.....
Your sig is so appropriate here... I don't remember the name of it, but one of his [Clark] short stories hints at just this, and is basically about what happens when the aliens return.
(I read that story wondering why the aliens never let people see their true forms, until at the end their 'demonic' appearance is revealed.)
True, but if the label said that it could make the DVD unplayable by you (and in fact that it could not legally be called a DVD, but that's a different point) would you still buy it? It's not the fact that they are "copy-protected" but rather the fact that they only work with some playback devices.
And how is this a bad thing? Fortran was killed a long time ago (except for legacy apps and such), and I'm certainly not complaining.
(It may be obvious that I don't like Java, but even if I did I'd still look for something better on the horizon. No sense in living in the past, especially in such a fast evolving field.)
Actually, even the T-1000 was not invulnerable. In the special edition DVD with the restored scenes you can see the effects of the battle on it. (possibly it was only due to the freezing sequence, but it is still a weakness) In the last 15 minutes of the end it is far from 100% operational, and in fact is having quite a bit of difficulty controlling it's shape. (For the record, this is how John knew which one was his mother when confronted by twin Sarah's. The terminator's feet were morphing to match the floor, something that few humans are capable of)
First, that was in the 'joke' section of the post. Maybe you didn't see the XML tags. (See, that was another joke)
As for the kernel of truth behind that humor, statics seem to imply that people love the MPAA on Fridays, and some Wednesdays, especially around holidays, while Tuesday seems to be the day for the RIAA. Hence the running joke that most people boycott these companies for at least about 75% of every week. (I, on the other hand, prefer to boycott the MPAA every day except mondays or tuesdays, as I hate crowded theaters.)
As for the DMCA, yes, we hate that every day, but as it added variety to the joke, I left it in there. And not everyone hates microsoft. I don't like their business practices, but they are pretty much identical to any other large business. I do pity them for their huge codebase, and I'm willing to bet that at least half the engineers working there would love the opportunity to rewrite windows from the ground up, eliminating as much of the legacy code as they could. Imagine that...)
It's tuesday, hence we hate the MPAA and live the RIAA. Or is it the other way around?.... hmmm, when was the last full moon..... I think today is a DMCA day, but I'll have to check my calendar.
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Seriously, though, the biggest problem lies in organizing such and event. Sure, it could be done, but I don't see it happening anytime soon. (Especially since their products are so popular among so many. Most people probably wouldn't follow through with such a boycot even if you got them started.)
Sure, there were only a few episodes, but when you don't get to watch much tv anymore that's forgivable. (Especially the classic scooby-doo episode...) Well, they'd better not touch sealab then.
I never really got into Ripping Friends and Home Movies, but I'd watch Mission Hill just for the opening bars of Cake's 'Itallian Leather Sofa'
Now you're going to tell me that they cancelled Brak too.... Oh well.
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Oh crap, I thought those signs were advertising the lower limit, at least thats what it looks like when I'm watching traffic
Liike like this one sure beat the odds and proved everyone wrong...
It's the magic smoke inside the cell phones that do it, it's ionized such that it can it maintains polarity with the magic cell towers. That's why if you break one, letting the magic smoke out, it won't work anymore.
FYI - they're doing just that, NASA actually works on more than one thing at a time.
And if things really do get to the point that earth is uninhabitable, it'd be a lot nicer knowing that everyone else has a place to go.
The "war" in Iraq, along with othe "police actions" around the world, cost orders of magnitude more than NASA's entire budget, while providing fewer benefits to us at home - how about we cut those instead?
All I can say is "Why?" - This really does sound like a stupid(tm) idea to throw money at...
Note - I'm not being rhetorical, I'd really like a [good] answer...
And encrypted media ends up on P2P services 2 seconds later....
I can see it now... "Hi, I'm a Mac" ... "And I'm the RIAA"
Should make for some amusing ads...
RTFA - It's DSi Tokyo
But does it have electrolytes? It's what artists crave!
Thanks a lot
I'm waiting for the study of what happens if you check email for 2 hours, code for 30 minutes, surf the web for another hour or so, code for another hour, check email again, then sneak out early.
I'm counting on it, I'm passing out copies of firefox to all the women I know....
Reading this post and the thread that goes with it makes me wonder if anyone else out there bothers to RTFA... /. rather than hust the headline you'd see that the article is about linux being 5 years away from mainstream in IT environments. No mention of joe sixpack or your grandma not knowing how to use linux.
If you even read the summary here on
They are 2 VERY different things, makes me wish I could mod the whole thread off-topic... (and redundant)
[Personally, I agree with the artice, linux is already moving fast in the IT sector. Depending on how you define 'mainstream' it could already be there. IMO that's where it belongs anyway. I know I definately prefer to work in a *nix environment]
While researching this, the scientists also discovered that the earth is not flat, and that gravity usually pulls towards the center.
Seriously, though, what's the big deal? This wasn't even news 10 years ago, so why make a big fuss over it now...
Bah, get OSX on it and you can have your very own iBox...
Well, your problem is in assuming that this is a 'reasonably sensible user community.' IMO that's not really the case here.
xeyes....
It's great running remotely on someone else's terminal...
Here we go again with the over-personification.
There's a big difference between expecting past behavior to continue and actually being intelligent (and then going crazy) Sure, if you perform certain calculations enough time, the hardware might automatically optimize itself for that operation, but it's more like pixel burning on a tv, or forming a road simply by walking a path enough to form a noticable rut. Maybe when we truley have thinking computers we might have to worry about them going crazy, but until then I'm more worried about my toaster. I think it has a rash.....
Your sig is so appropriate here...
I don't remember the name of it, but one of his [Clark] short stories hints at just this, and is basically about what happens when the aliens return.
(I read that story wondering why the aliens never let people see their true forms, until at the end their 'demonic' appearance is revealed.)
True, but if the label said that it could make the DVD unplayable by you (and in fact that it could not legally be called a DVD, but that's a different point) would you still buy it?
It's not the fact that they are "copy-protected" but rather the fact that they only work with some playback devices.
And how is this a bad thing? Fortran was killed a long time ago (except for legacy apps and such), and I'm certainly not complaining.
(It may be obvious that I don't like Java, but even if I did I'd still look for something better on the horizon. No sense in living in the past, especially in such a fast evolving field.)
Actually, even the T-1000 was not invulnerable. In the special edition DVD with the restored scenes you can see the effects of the battle on it. (possibly it was only due to the freezing sequence, but it is still a weakness) In the last 15 minutes of the end it is far from 100% operational, and in fact is having quite a bit of difficulty controlling it's shape.
(For the record, this is how John knew which one was his mother when confronted by twin Sarah's. The terminator's feet were morphing to match the floor, something that few humans are capable of)
First, that was in the 'joke' section of the post. Maybe you didn't see the XML tags. (See, that was another joke)
As for the kernel of truth behind that humor, statics seem to imply that people love the MPAA on Fridays, and some Wednesdays, especially around holidays, while Tuesday seems to be the day for the RIAA. Hence the running joke that most people boycott these companies for at least about 75% of every week. (I, on the other hand, prefer to boycott the MPAA every day except mondays or tuesdays, as I hate crowded theaters.)
As for the DMCA, yes, we hate that every day, but as it added variety to the joke, I left it in there. And not everyone hates microsoft. I don't like their business practices, but they are pretty much identical to any other large business. I do pity them for their huge codebase, and I'm willing to bet that at least half the engineers working there would love the opportunity to rewrite windows from the ground up, eliminating as much of the legacy code as they could. Imagine that...)
It's tuesday, hence we hate the MPAA and live the RIAA. Or is it the other way around? ....
hmmm, when was the last full moon.....
I think today is a DMCA day, but I'll have to check my calendar.
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Seriously, though, the biggest problem lies in organizing such and event. Sure, it could be done, but I don't see it happening anytime soon. (Especially since their products are so popular among so many. Most people probably wouldn't follow through with such a boycot even if you got them started.)
Sure, there were only a few episodes, but when you don't get to watch much tv anymore that's forgivable. (Especially the classic scooby-doo episode...) Well, they'd better not touch sealab then.
I never really got into Ripping Friends and Home Movies, but I'd watch Mission Hill just for the opening bars of Cake's 'Itallian Leather Sofa'
Now you're going to tell me that they cancelled Brak too.... Oh well.