and scored an 1190. Then I "discovered" the Mary Jane, and happily "donated" lots of time toward "studying" this interesting plant over the next two years. Then I took the SAT's again and scored a 1380.
...was even more annoying pop-under ads, except that instead of enticing me to "Punch out Bush" to win a PS3 or "Punch out Osama" to win a Xbox3D, I'd be punching out someone's lights for a vote.
I'm still waiting for a coming election to be decided by the internet. We were a mere footnote in 2000, just barely alarming in 2004... Who knows what 2008 will bring.
What would it mean if we discovered microbial life on another planet? Honestly. What would it mean. One, it would mean that the posibilty of life is not that uncommon. Life prevails under the harshest of circumstances here on Earth. Why not elsewhere?
Two, if it does exist elsewhere, then what's so special about our planet?
Three, what's stopping it from evolving beyond the microbial stage? It opens the floodgates on "what is possible" in this universe.
I for one, welcome.... nm. I'm interested to know if mankind as a whole is ready to comprehend the fact that life is not indigenous to Earth...
INTERSTELLAR. Just think about that for a minute. Ya sure, it would take a zillion years for them to actually get anywhere, but that's not the point. The Voyager probes have left the solar system and at last we have a physical presence outside of our own comfortable, little corner of the universe.
It's pretty easy to take for granted, what with our volumes of inter-galactic sci-fi and Hollywood, but for once art actually mirrors reality and it blows me away, for one.
This isn't meant to be a troll, but after seeing the first twenty posts joking about roaming charges and what not, it kinda saddened me that one of the first posts wasn't more reflective in nature. Oh well, that's just me.
Nothing really technical, although I'm in the process of aquiring and old PRC-2000 with attachments. Usually I simply use an older military issue iron (can't remember what it is right now) and a set of dental tools, a couple of vises, some magnifying lenses and bases, and the afore-mentioned art-light. I'm not equipped to do micro-miniature, but it's just fine for the occasional component/board/run repair and wire-work. I got the usual suspects of solders, wicking, flux and alcohol and epoxy as well. I can't wait to get that PRC though...
It can get pretty warm, but I get a nice breeze in here most nights by opening the garage door about 6" and turning on a vent fan in the window (not in the pic), plus I have a nice, big oscillating fan in the middle of the garage. And in the cooler months (it can drop to the low 40's here) a space-heater works just fine, provided I'm not hosting a mini-lan party (the breaker is only 15amps, and 4 PC's with a couple of CRT's will blow it when the heat is on).
Also not in the pic is one of those lamps one finds atop framed artwork ($17 from Home Depot) which is really nice since I can direct the output toward the desk for more light, or toward to ceiling for just enough light to type by. It's mounted above the short leg. I also have to apologise as the pic is about 6 months old and I've done lots of little things between now and then like a couple of Guiness tins and other tchochkes mounted for "flair".
I tend to alternate between the two a lot. The barstools now have comfy cushions on them which helps, plus the height is tall enough for me to be comfortable standing when the need arises.
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what's your point? I still check/. every day and there seems to be no dearth in the amount of respones to any given thread... Nice troll. Also, way to have nothing anything remotely constructive to add to this thread.
Not quite related, but my bench is hand made, stands 43" high in a "L" shape, conforming to the layout of my single-car garage. I've got a kegerator in the corner, with the tap mounted 2' from my main PC's keyboard. Also have a 29" tv mounted bar-style in the corner, angled down with an Xbox and PS2 and a 5-disk DVD player attached.
My "console" consists o my main PC, an WinXP machine on an Intel 540 with Raptors in Raid-0 and 2Gb Ramm in the center, with a 2Ghz Dell laptop on the left and a 2.4 Ghz Fed Core server on the right, all controlled via Synergy.
The "L" is 6' by 34" on one leg and 8' by 34" on the other, along the wall. The wall portion is designed to fold down via gate hinges and gas shocks (not installed yet...it's heavy)in case I need to actually get a car in here.
My Fed Core tower has external, front-mounted IDE and Molex connectors, and it and the WinXP pc use LCD's to save on desk space. I've got a 2'6" rack box with nothin in it at the momment but plan to add sound gear and maybe a blade server of some sort when the fundage comes.:)
The workbench surface itself is white laminated 5/8's inch particle board stock which works great for optical mice. I wired in a 12-outlet power strip along the short wall and another 2-outlet box in the middle of the long wall.
It's quite cozy in here and I love having all this surface to work on whether standing or sitting on my barstools. And currently, I have Pyramid Heffe on tap which doesn't hurt either. Here's a link for a pic:
Hope you all like. I know it's kinda off-topic, but I do have a full range of miniature/microminiature solder repair equipment availible to repair PCB's and such.:) Lemme know what ya all think, and if you're even in the SD area, look me up and I'll pour ya a pint.
but I think this is pretty cool. Sure, we all make jokes about how corny the Shatner has been and can be, but I think nothing could be cooler than to have a pioneer of modern space sci-fi actually participating in the new generation of space-flight. Gives me chills, personally.
Although, the comedic value is hard to pass up.
It's too bad Deforest Kelley won't be around.. "Damnit, Jim! Your an Actor, not an astronaut!"
Nothing beats sending up your aircraft (GWS Slowstick in my example) for about 20 minutes at a time, snapping a few dozen pics, landing, and then transfering the pics to your laptop for instant viewing.
So many different variations on a theme, and some ppl even send up their expensive digitals and there are also video camera options available (Aiptek makes a half-way decent one for $99). You can wire them directly to the rx or simply mount a servo to actuate the shutter. Suprised this hasn't come up--I consider this a major geek hobby.:)
CPU and Computer Games Magazine. These are on par with Playboy, where as PC Mag, Max PC, CGW, PCG and a whole slew of others are of the same calibur as Maxim and FHM, i.e.: when I want information and insight, I read the former. When I want entertainment and stupidness, I read the latter.
I actually had to force myself to stop my subs to Maxim and FHM because, honestly, how many times can you "learn how to do [something] to a girl or [something] to your boss or [something] to your buddies" etc. I read about two years' worth of those, and then they started to get seriously repetative. All the pretty girls started to look the same. And what is the deal with not being able to see a little nip here and there! Foreign versions of Maxim and FHM don't care... grrr our puritanical society
And when I even glance at a Stuff mag, I can actually feel my IQ oozing out of my ears. That magazine actually insults my intelligence.
Here! Here! I totally agree! I mean, I revel in the amount of obscure geek knowledge I posess, but it would be nice if some things were explained in plain English right from the outset, without having to research what everything may or may not mean. But then, I guess that's what separates the Net users from the AOL lusers. So, Long Live ambiguousity! Um, or something. Slashdot rules!
It occurred to me as I read the article how closely the events described therein mimicked the back history presented in 'BiCentenial Man'. Isn't this how robotic "life" is supposed to start, in adherence to an 'Asimovian' line of thought? Seemed eerily portentious to me. A sense of wonderment (I do not own an Aibo -yet-) and uneasiness... Anyone else get the same feelings from this?
I think a more accurate comparison here would be to liken a Microsoft GUI to an American car, and then anything else (*nix) to a British car. Drivers from each country are able to drive the other's, it's just couterintuitive to what they have learned. (It actually took me about an hour to feel comfortable here in Cornball.) Ahem.
XP has crashed on me twice in two days since I've installed it, but I think my HD is about to die. Looks nice, though, and I've noticed a nice speed boost on my 1G Athlon rig.
Has it occured to anybody that the names of the operations the US mil uses aren't normally the most eloquent or even intelligent? The name of an op does not necessarily have to relate to what the op is about. My point is, the name is only really there as a point of reference. They could call it Operation Speghetti and Meatballs for all anyone really cares.
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and scored an 1190. Then I "discovered" the Mary Jane, and happily "donated" lots of time toward "studying" this interesting plant over the next two years. Then I took the SAT's again and scored a 1380.
It kinda made me wonder...
...was even more annoying pop-under ads, except that instead of enticing me to "Punch out Bush" to win a PS3 or "Punch out Osama" to win a Xbox3D, I'd be punching out someone's lights for a vote.
I'm still waiting for a coming election to be decided by the internet. We were a mere footnote in 2000, just barely alarming in 2004... Who knows what 2008 will bring.
What would it mean if we discovered microbial life on another planet? Honestly. What would it mean. One, it would mean that the posibilty of life is not that uncommon. Life prevails under the harshest of circumstances here on Earth. Why not elsewhere?
Two, if it does exist elsewhere, then what's so special about our planet?
Three, what's stopping it from evolving beyond the microbial stage? It opens the floodgates on "what is possible" in this universe.
I for one, welcome.... nm. I'm interested to know if mankind as a whole is ready to comprehend the fact that life is not indigenous to Earth...
INTERSTELLAR. Just think about that for a minute. Ya sure, it would take a zillion years for them to actually get anywhere, but that's not the point. The Voyager probes have left the solar system and at last we have a physical presence outside of our own comfortable, little corner of the universe. It's pretty easy to take for granted, what with our volumes of inter-galactic sci-fi and Hollywood, but for once art actually mirrors reality and it blows me away, for one. This isn't meant to be a troll, but after seeing the first twenty posts joking about roaming charges and what not, it kinda saddened me that one of the first posts wasn't more reflective in nature. Oh well, that's just me.
Nothing really technical, although I'm in the process of aquiring and old PRC-2000 with attachments. Usually I simply use an older military issue iron (can't remember what it is right now) and a set of dental tools, a couple of vises, some magnifying lenses and bases, and the afore-mentioned art-light. I'm not equipped to do micro-miniature, but it's just fine for the occasional component/board/run repair and wire-work. I got the usual suspects of solders, wicking, flux and alcohol and epoxy as well. I can't wait to get that PRC though...
It can get pretty warm, but I get a nice breeze in here most nights by opening the garage door about 6" and turning on a vent fan in the window (not in the pic), plus I have a nice, big oscillating fan in the middle of the garage. And in the cooler months (it can drop to the low 40's here) a space-heater works just fine, provided I'm not hosting a mini-lan party (the breaker is only 15amps, and 4 PC's with a couple of CRT's will blow it when the heat is on).
Also not in the pic is one of those lamps one finds atop framed artwork ($17 from Home Depot) which is really nice since I can direct the output toward the desk for more light, or toward to ceiling for just enough light to type by. It's mounted above the short leg. I also have to apologise as the pic is about 6 months old and I've done lots of little things between now and then like a couple of Guiness tins and other tchochkes mounted for "flair".
BTW I'm in San Diego, not South Dakota.
wow, thanks!
I tend to alternate between the two a lot. The barstools now have comfy cushions on them which helps, plus the height is tall enough for me to be comfortable standing when the need arises.
what's your point? I still check /. every day and there seems to be no dearth in the amount of respones to any given thread... Nice troll. Also, way to have nothing anything remotely constructive to add to this thread.
Not quite related, but my bench is hand made, stands 43" high in a "L" shape, conforming to the layout of my single-car garage. I've got a kegerator in the corner, with the tap mounted 2' from my main PC's keyboard. Also have a 29" tv mounted bar-style in the corner, angled down with an Xbox and PS2 and a 5-disk DVD player attached.
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:) Lemme know what ya all think, and if you're even in the SD area, look me up and I'll pour ya a pint.
My "console" consists o my main PC, an WinXP machine on an Intel 540 with Raptors in Raid-0 and 2Gb Ramm in the center, with a 2Ghz Dell laptop on the left and a 2.4 Ghz Fed Core server on the right, all controlled via Synergy.
The "L" is 6' by 34" on one leg and 8' by 34" on the other, along the wall. The wall portion is designed to fold down via gate hinges and gas shocks (not installed yet...it's heavy)in case I need to actually get a car in here.
My Fed Core tower has external, front-mounted IDE and Molex connectors, and it and the WinXP pc use LCD's to save on desk space. I've got a 2'6" rack box with nothin in it at the momment but plan to add sound gear and maybe a blade server of some sort when the fundage comes.
The workbench surface itself is white laminated 5/8's inch particle board stock which works great for optical mice. I wired in a 12-outlet power strip along the short wall and another 2-outlet box in the middle of the long wall.
It's quite cozy in here and I love having all this surface to work on whether standing or sitting on my barstools. And currently, I have Pyramid Heffe on tap which doesn't hurt either. Here's a link for a pic:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y41/testbenchdud
Hope you all like. I know it's kinda off-topic, but I do have a full range of miniature/microminiature solder repair equipment availible to repair PCB's and such.
..a game where you used preset commands and scripted them into a run routine for robots and then pitted them against one another?
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http://www.gamespot.com/ps/strategy/carnageheart/
I was never really very good at it but it intrigued the heck out of me back in 98/99...
I get it, even if no one else did. Mod this one up.
You know it's bad when you percieve your "social" skill as having improved after talking on the phone or hanging out with your friends.
but I think this is pretty cool. Sure, we all make jokes about how corny the Shatner has been and can be, but I think nothing could be cooler than to have a pioneer of modern space sci-fi actually participating in the new generation of space-flight. Gives me chills, personally.
Although, the comedic value is hard to pass up.
It's too bad Deforest Kelley won't be around.. "Damnit, Jim! Your an Actor, not an astronaut!"
This is one of my hobbies.
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High-lift model aircraft=$30
Electronics for said aircraft=~$100-$300
Cheap 1.3megapixel pocketcam (Aiptek)=~$50
Transmitter=~$100
Total=~$280-$48
Here is a site dedicated to radio controled aircraft and in particular AP.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f
Nothing beats sending up your aircraft (GWS Slowstick in my example) for about 20 minutes at a time, snapping a few dozen pics, landing, and then transfering the pics to your laptop for instant viewing.
So many different variations on a theme, and some ppl even send up their expensive digitals and there are also video camera options available (Aiptek makes a half-way decent one for $99). You can wire them directly to the rx or simply mount a servo to actuate the shutter. Suprised this hasn't come up--I consider this a major geek hobby.
CPU and Computer Games Magazine. These are on par with Playboy, where as PC Mag, Max PC, CGW, PCG and a whole slew of others are of the same calibur as Maxim and FHM, i.e.: when I want information and insight, I read the former. When I want entertainment and stupidness, I read the latter.
I actually had to force myself to stop my subs to Maxim and FHM because, honestly, how many times can you "learn how to do [something] to a girl or [something] to your boss or [something] to your buddies" etc. I read about two years' worth of those, and then they started to get seriously repetative. All the pretty girls started to look the same. And what is the deal with not being able to see a little nip here and there! Foreign versions of Maxim and FHM don't care... grrr our puritanical society
And when I even glance at a Stuff mag, I can actually feel my IQ oozing out of my ears. That magazine actually insults my intelligence.
Here! Here! I totally agree! I mean, I revel in the amount of obscure geek knowledge I posess, but it would be nice if some things were explained in plain English right from the outset, without having to research what everything may or may not mean. But then, I guess that's what separates the Net users from the AOL lusers. So, Long Live ambiguousity! Um, or something. Slashdot rules!
It occurred to me as I read the article how closely the events described therein mimicked the back history presented in 'BiCentenial Man'. Isn't this how robotic "life" is supposed to start, in adherence to an 'Asimovian' line of thought? Seemed eerily portentious to me. A sense of wonderment (I do not own an Aibo -yet-) and uneasiness... Anyone else get the same feelings from this?
...can think of a half dozen ways to power a hundred watt bulb for ten minutes just off the top of my head (ding!)... Wait a second...
:)
Anyhow, why not? I don't think the Second Law ever mentioned anything about a machine from Robot Wars...
I think a more accurate comparison here would be to liken a Microsoft GUI to an American car, and then anything else (*nix) to a British car. Drivers from each country are able to drive the other's, it's just couterintuitive to what they have learned. (It actually took me about an hour to feel comfortable here in Cornball.) Ahem.
XP has crashed on me twice in two days since I've installed it, but I think my HD is about to die. Looks nice, though, and I've noticed a nice speed boost on my 1G Athlon rig.
Check out http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query =fnord
...Must be at werk...
:)
Oh, no! I'm Anonimous!
Has it occured to anybody that the names of the operations the US mil uses aren't normally the most eloquent or even intelligent? The name of an op does not necessarily have to relate to what the op is about. My point is, the name is only really there as a point of reference. They could call it Operation Speghetti and Meatballs for all anyone really cares.
Sorry for the stupid post. It's late.
OR...."Send In the CLOWNS"??? Sorry, couldn't resist *snicker*
Dude! Cornwall Rocks! (Even though I'm a Yank...:)
Actually being in the military, I've probably eaten my fair share as well...
Just not sure if I'd have known.