Once again, timothy can't put down the paint thinner long enough to check his submission - look at the very first sentence. "... lower literacy leve." See what you did wrong there, timothy? But no, he manages to embarrass himself once again.
Go and get yourself cleaned up, timothy, and try again.
Also, you'd think that timothy could lay off the huffing paint fumes and eating crayons for a moment, and maybe avoid using the word "hackers" in the pejorative sense on a site where many view themselves as hackers in the real sense. But no, he manages to embarrass himself once again.
Go and get yourself cleaned up, timothy, and try again.
I hate to think what horses have. If they're so badly treated then think about this - who gets up at 6am to go out in the snow and bring who their breakfast?
And yes, you don't "own" a cat, they just come and live with you.
The problem is that PETA don't think *any* animals should be domesticated, so mostly they don't even bother to try to rehome animals.
Quite often they don't bother to find out if they're abandoned or unwanted - a couple of years ago two PETA activists were arrested for basically trapping cats and dogs (and indeed, going into people's gardens to catch them) and killing them. They claimed that the animals were "abandoned" or "strays", but couldn't offer any convincing reason for thinking they were. They weren't interested in animal welfare, they just liked stealing then torturing and killing people's pets.
That does sound a bit "ZOMG YOUR COMPUTER IS BROADCASTING AN IP ADDRESS!!!11!!!one!!1" though.
Give me a compelling reason why I should care if Facebook know I visit two different sites with Facebook "Like" buttons on them, without knowing anything else about me.
The problem is that it is tracking ME. Someone who has NEVER had and NEVER WILL HAVE a facebook account, because I visit some random companies website and they have that retarded Like It button.
How exactly are they tracking you? They don't know anything about you, since you don't have a facebook account.
Somewhere in a box here I have a copy of Hobby Electronics from the early 1980s, which has a sound-triggered flash sync unit. If I recall correctly, it used a couple of opamps as a mike amplifier/filter and a comparator, and an SCR to actually trigger the flash.
It's a shame there aren't any pictures, or any description of how it actually works. It would have been nice to see his results.
Well, I live in the UK, so the greatest impact on my life has been the vast quantity of money getting sucked from my wallet to pay for pulling US soldiers out of trouble - again. Other than that, we don't have pornoscanners or serial gropers at our airports, and I prefer to drive anyway. The only restriction on travel I encountered was when the very polite lady at the UK Customs checkpoint in Dover asked me if I could possibly leave my multi-tool in the car, rather than carry it with me on the ferry to France. Fuck flying.
I wish to fsck I could remember useful stuff, like Mrs Gordonjcp's phone number, or the alarm code for the workshop, or where I left the keys for the shed...
September 8th 2001 I replaced the knackered front wing and the windscreen washer bottle on my car, trolled slashdot for a bit, went to band rehearsals and then went to the pub with my sister and her then-boyfriend, then went back to theirs to drink beer and play on the Playstation. I can't remember what we played, probably Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (possibly THPS2, but I'd need to check Wikipedia for the release date to be sure).
September 14th 2001 was the second Friday in the month and therefore payday, so I went into work late having spent the morning paying bills and doing the bank run. We had joiners in building an enclosed server room and workshop, so when I got into the office I hung around for a meeting then cleared off home early. I tended to work from home a lot then anyway, having blazingly-fast 512kbps cable internet. Once I'd got a bunch of PHP crap out of the way (hey, shouldn't we be updating to PHP4? Me and my big mouth) I went to the pub with my sister and a couple of her friends from work. We won the pub quiz, four bottles of rather nice Chilean Burgundy, with our arch-rivals "Splodgeness Abounds" just trailing us until it ended in a tie-breaker.
The fact that some bedouin didn't know about it doesn't mean it was uninteresting---it doesn't even mean it would have been uninteresting to the bedouin to the bedouin.
It wasn't even particularly interesting to me, and I'm not a bedouin.
Do you seriously mean to suggest he would have been bored to hear that the tallest buildings in the world were destroyed by a couple of planes?
<shrug> and...? The main thing I remember about September 11th 2001 was that I had to drive around a few different places to find some hydraulic fluid, and there wasn't anything interesting on the radio - just some shite about a building collapsing in the US.
If someone really couldn't do better than a Walmart job, then they probably couldn't run a business either.
Many of these people *were* running their own business, until Walmart drove them out of business by selling at close to zero margin until the competition went under.
Uhh...so students for whom English was not their native language did not read and write English as well as native English speakers in the US?
No, I should have made this clearer - the students from the US were native English speakers, in a class along with students from other parts of the world who did not speak English as their first langauge. Or, to put it another way, when they arrived in the UK their standard of reading and writing in English was similar to that of (for example) Middle Eastern students who speak (and read and write) Arabic and French, and then English as a distant third. Their *spoken* English was just fine; only their reading and writing was poor.
Strangely enough, we had American exchange students in because there was no "Remedial English" class for university students. These were ostensibly English-speaking (well, they could *speak* English, they just couldn't read or write it) students from the US - English was supposedly their first language.
As Boortz has said, sending your children to a government school in the U.S. is tantamount to child abuse. ... and the public-educated pupils from American schools are the clever ones. Private schools in America appear to just exist to take money from parents, and store the children during the day.
A while ago I used to help out with an ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) class - we had American exchange students. Students who had made their way to university from state schools in the US read and wrote at about the equivalent of a UK 14- to 15-year-old. Students from a private school background were essentially retarded. They managed to read at a UK high-school level with some encouragement, and struggled to write at that level.
Maybe at night we run longer, more widely spaced cooling cycles because we know the door rarely opens to lose our cold air.
You know that fridges only run the compressor when they warm up inside, right? So if you don't open the door, they don't warm up as frequently and the compressor stays off.
A one-way clutch would let the pedals fold back to be "alongside" each other - think clock hands at 12 o'clock, as opposed to 6 o'clock when pedalling normally. With the pedals "folded" they would be about right for the normal footrests. A screw jack similar to the ones used to adjust the seat back angle in certain chairs would be able to extend the arm with the "bottom bracket" out to a more comfortable pedalling position. There wouldn't be a chain, and where the chain ring is would be a generator similar to the "brake disc alternators" popular in the homebrew wind turbine scene. Potentially this could have a small epicyclic gearbox to bring the slow pedal speed up to something more suitable for the generator - think Sturmey-Archer gearbox.
Leg strength
No argument from me on this one - it will take time to get used to pedalling, and regain muscle strength. Some people won't like it. It's not for them.
I don't think full-power generation is currently practical.
It must be, because it's currently possible to pedal a bicycle, and it's currently possible to power a wheelchair by batteries. You're just replacing a chain drive with an electrical one.
Still not convinced? Okay, scrap the generator and motors, and have the pedals drive a hydraulic pump with hydraulic motors to power the wheels. This is considerably less practical but would have much less loss than an electrical system. Could you make a bicycle powered by an electric motor and a generator instead of a chain drive? It has already been done with hydraulics.
As for speed, I know about that - I wired up both motors of a scrap electric wheelchair to both (fairly flat) 12V batteries without the speed controller. I wasn't able to catch it until it took off up a steep hill and eventually ran up against a tree. Good job it was well away from other people and vehicles - it must have been doing about 30mph at one point!
Pirates use their own time and resources to copy data. ... which other people created. If you want to give your own work away for nothing, that's fine. Other people might want paid for their time, and rightly get annoyed when people steal from them.
Slashdot Mirror
Once again, timothy can't put down the paint thinner long enough to check his submission - look at the very first sentence. "... lower literacy leve." See what you did wrong there, timothy? But no, he manages to embarrass himself once again.
Go and get yourself cleaned up, timothy, and try again.
Also, you'd think that timothy could lay off the huffing paint fumes and eating crayons for a moment, and maybe avoid using the word "hackers" in the pejorative sense on a site where many view themselves as hackers in the real sense. But no, he manages to embarrass himself once again.
Go and get yourself cleaned up, timothy, and try again.
he was an illegal alien who ran from the police trying to make an arrest
He wasn't an illegal alien, and the CCTV footage released of the incident shows he wasn't running, or wearing a big bulky jacket. NEXT!
I hate to think what horses have. If they're so badly treated then think about this - who gets up at 6am to go out in the snow and bring who their breakfast?
And yes, you don't "own" a cat, they just come and live with you.
The problem is that PETA don't think *any* animals should be domesticated, so mostly they don't even bother to try to rehome animals.
Quite often they don't bother to find out if they're abandoned or unwanted - a couple of years ago two PETA activists were arrested for basically trapping cats and dogs (and indeed, going into people's gardens to catch them) and killing them. They claimed that the animals were "abandoned" or "strays", but couldn't offer any convincing reason for thinking they were. They weren't interested in animal welfare, they just liked stealing then torturing and killing people's pets.
That does sound a bit "ZOMG YOUR COMPUTER IS BROADCASTING AN IP ADDRESS!!!11!!!one!!1" though.
Give me a compelling reason why I should care if Facebook know I visit two different sites with Facebook "Like" buttons on them, without knowing anything else about me.
The problem is that it is tracking ME. Someone who has NEVER had and NEVER WILL HAVE a facebook account, because I visit some random companies website and they have that retarded Like It button.
How exactly are they tracking you? They don't know anything about you, since you don't have a facebook account.
... until there's an action figure of you.
"Sorry, you cannot access Netflix from Comcast Internet. Please contact your local Comcast retentions department for advice."
Ray is a hack that spouts inexact and mainly non-confirmable crap who deserves about as much respect as Nostradamus
He makes some bloody good synthesizers though. What have you done with your talents?
Somewhere in a box here I have a copy of Hobby Electronics from the early 1980s, which has a sound-triggered flash sync unit. If I recall correctly, it used a couple of opamps as a mike amplifier/filter and a comparator, and an SCR to actually trigger the flash.
It's a shame there aren't any pictures, or any description of how it actually works. It would have been nice to see his results.
Well, I live in the UK, so the greatest impact on my life has been the vast quantity of money getting sucked from my wallet to pay for pulling US soldiers out of trouble - again. Other than that, we don't have pornoscanners or serial gropers at our airports, and I prefer to drive anyway. The only restriction on travel I encountered was when the very polite lady at the UK Customs checkpoint in Dover asked me if I could possibly leave my multi-tool in the car, rather than carry it with me on the ferry to France. Fuck flying.
And your diagnostics are...!?
I wish to fsck I could remember useful stuff, like Mrs Gordonjcp's phone number, or the alarm code for the workshop, or where I left the keys for the shed...
September 8th 2001 I replaced the knackered front wing and the windscreen washer bottle on my car, trolled slashdot for a bit, went to band rehearsals and then went to the pub with my sister and her then-boyfriend, then went back to theirs to drink beer and play on the Playstation. I can't remember what we played, probably Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (possibly THPS2, but I'd need to check Wikipedia for the release date to be sure).
September 14th 2001 was the second Friday in the month and therefore payday, so I went into work late having spent the morning paying bills and doing the bank run. We had joiners in building an enclosed server room and workshop, so when I got into the office I hung around for a meeting then cleared off home early. I tended to work from home a lot then anyway, having blazingly-fast 512kbps cable internet. Once I'd got a bunch of PHP crap out of the way (hey, shouldn't we be updating to PHP4? Me and my big mouth) I went to the pub with my sister and a couple of her friends from work. We won the pub quiz, four bottles of rather nice Chilean Burgundy, with our arch-rivals "Splodgeness Abounds" just trailing us until it ended in a tie-breaker.
The fact that some bedouin didn't know about it doesn't mean it was uninteresting---it doesn't even mean it would have been uninteresting to the bedouin to the bedouin.
It wasn't even particularly interesting to me, and I'm not a bedouin.
Do you seriously mean to suggest he would have been bored to hear that the tallest buildings in the world were destroyed by a couple of planes?
<shrug> and...? The main thing I remember about September 11th 2001 was that I had to drive around a few different places to find some hydraulic fluid, and there wasn't anything interesting on the radio - just some shite about a building collapsing in the US.
lightweight construction reminiscent of the Osborne I.
Admit it, you've never even seen an Osborne 1 except in pictures.
If someone really couldn't do better than a Walmart job, then they probably couldn't run a business either.
Many of these people *were* running their own business, until Walmart drove them out of business by selling at close to zero margin until the competition went under.
Uhh...so students for whom English was not their native language did not read and write English as well as native English speakers in the US?
No, I should have made this clearer - the students from the US were native English speakers, in a class along with students from other parts of the world who did not speak English as their first langauge. Or, to put it another way, when they arrived in the UK their standard of reading and writing in English was similar to that of (for example) Middle Eastern students who speak (and read and write) Arabic and French, and then English as a distant third. Their *spoken* English was just fine; only their reading and writing was poor.
ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages)
Strangely enough, we had American exchange students in because there was no "Remedial English" class for university students. These were ostensibly English-speaking (well, they could *speak* English, they just couldn't read or write it) students from the US - English was supposedly their first language.
As Boortz has said, sending your children to a government school in the U.S. is tantamount to child abuse.
... and the public-educated pupils from American schools are the clever ones. Private schools in America appear to just exist to take money from parents, and store the children during the day.
A while ago I used to help out with an ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) class - we had American exchange students. Students who had made their way to university from state schools in the US read and wrote at about the equivalent of a UK 14- to 15-year-old. Students from a private school background were essentially retarded. They managed to read at a UK high-school level with some encouragement, and struggled to write at that level.
Maybe at night we run longer, more widely spaced cooling cycles because we know the door rarely opens to lose our cold air.
You know that fridges only run the compressor when they warm up inside, right? So if you don't open the door, they don't warm up as frequently and the compressor stays off.
Why the hell would you need 200bhp to go at 75mph?
Where do those pedals fit?
A one-way clutch would let the pedals fold back to be "alongside" each other - think clock hands at 12 o'clock, as opposed to 6 o'clock when pedalling normally. With the pedals "folded" they would be about right for the normal footrests. A screw jack similar to the ones used to adjust the seat back angle in certain chairs would be able to extend the arm with the "bottom bracket" out to a more comfortable pedalling position. There wouldn't be a chain, and where the chain ring is would be a generator similar to the "brake disc alternators" popular in the homebrew wind turbine scene. Potentially this could have a small epicyclic gearbox to bring the slow pedal speed up to something more suitable for the generator - think Sturmey-Archer gearbox.
Leg strength
No argument from me on this one - it will take time to get used to pedalling, and regain muscle strength. Some people won't like it. It's not for them.
I don't think full-power generation is currently practical.
It must be, because it's currently possible to pedal a bicycle, and it's currently possible to power a wheelchair by batteries. You're just replacing a chain drive with an electrical one.
Still not convinced? Okay, scrap the generator and motors, and have the pedals drive a hydraulic pump with hydraulic motors to power the wheels. This is considerably less practical but would have much less loss than an electrical system. Could you make a bicycle powered by an electric motor and a generator instead of a chain drive? It has already been done with hydraulics.
As for speed, I know about that - I wired up both motors of a scrap electric wheelchair to both (fairly flat) 12V batteries without the speed controller. I wasn't able to catch it until it took off up a steep hill and eventually ran up against a tree. Good job it was well away from other people and vehicles - it must have been doing about 30mph at one point!
Pirates use their own time and resources to copy data.
... which other people created. If you want to give your own work away for nothing, that's fine. Other people might want paid for their time, and rightly get annoyed when people steal from them.
Yes. Using the logic of those who utilize the potential profit argument, this would mean that they have 'stolen' potential profit from the store
Using your logic, you should do all your work for free. Nothing has been taken from you, so why do you expect to be paid?