And the spontaneous orgasms of thousands of Nvidia, Ati, AMD and Intel sales persons awaiting the gullible geeks desperate for a video card upgrade to enjoy the full splendour of a video game for > 300
And the simple acknowlegement of people like me that can buy the new knocked down Geforce9's to replace my voodoo 3 and play some modern games
This really shows the naivety of some of our schools towards technology, which in my school, was always a huge problem. Teachers could NOT keep up with the kids in computer classes, which left a whole slew of kids "left behind" per se (thanks Bush).
Thanks Bush? Which Bush? What did he do to deserve your thanks?
It's true though, hacking arround with a device trying to get it to do interesting things. You might hack together a few electronic components and build a radio, or you might hack together a sledge out of an old table.
I do wonder about the sanity of our boss, who sends an all-employee email out (5 in the last two months) with a read receipt request. IIRC there's somewhere in the region of 20,000 employees.
Dont know about the U.S. but in the UK we've had digital TV for over 6 years, so even if it does take 21 years from start to finish that's only 15 years left. The government is keen to turn off analog (they originally dreamed 2006, HA), and the major broadcasters are all keen to get rid of analog (well, the BBC, Sky, Cable co's and Five are, Four aren't too bothered, ITV will suffer drasticly)
Here in the UK, DAB is no longer a long way off. The BBC have been heavily promoting it, and it does seem to have finally left the ground.
Oh I know, the sets are all arround work and that stations are plugged internally even more! A lot of the country still doesn't even *get* DAB. Digital TV is much nearer, if the BBC advertsied Sky's "100 for a dish and box and better then freeview service and no catch" offer then even more people would switch! While Analog TV can be switched off zone by zone, say starting by turning off London in 2008, FM needs to broadcast across the country all the time as people move radio's arround (especially in cars) more then TV's.
Of course the TV spectrum is what they want to sell off, the 20Mhz allocated to FM is peanuts by comparrison. Some services will never be switched off though. I can see BBC Radio 4 on Long Wave for the next 50 years at least, and the World Service will always be on a variety of analog frequencies so people can pick it up with a long piece of wire and something acting as a diode.
As for sound quality, I can't tell the difference between a CD and an MP3, even at edit suites at work (and they're pretty good obviously). Bit embarrasing being a broadcast engineer and all:)
While you exploit your analog "hole" (until its shut off. DAB is a long way off, but analog TV should be off in 10 years) in reception, millions others will exploit the rarely used "headphone" socket.
Oh you can. 10 times colder is 1/10th of the temperature. 20 degrees (I assume Farrenheit as america is still wierd:p) is 266.48 Kelvin. 1/10th of that is 26.6K, which is -412 degrees Fahrenheit, pretty damn cold.
Most people prefer a 24 hour day. I used to live a 26 - 26.5 hour day when I was a student, now I prefer about 25 hours. Thing to do is cycle round. Assume 8 hours sleep and need to be up by 8AM. Go to sleep at 9PM monday, 10PM tuesday, 11PM wednesday, 12PM thursday, then stay up all night friday, until arround 6PM saturday, then get 12 hours sleep and go to bed at 8PM sunday. Probably not healthy, but I've done it before, and when I start shift work in a few months I'll be doing something similar to get back onto days.
Another thing: Turn everything off (even the PC) and lie in bed for an hour. You should be asleep unless it's ridicuously early.
For waking up, I need to be up at 8:30AM at the moment to leave at 9:30AM. I set the 3 alarms on my mobile phone, 8AM, 8:15 and 8:25, and plug it in on the other side of the room. I also set my normal radio alarm clock to come on quietly at 7:30AM (when wogan comes on), and stay on until 8:30AM (meaning I have to get up to turn it back on).
I used to have a cron job of "cat/dev/urandon >/dev/dsp" too, but I'm getting better now.
Keep the clock out of reach, once you get up you'll stay up.
Actually it was falling. Obviously A doesnt neccersarilly cause B, but we were told that Gun Crime would fall when handguns were banned. Instead every amesty since has had people handing in old revolvers and stuff that were in display cases, but never the ones on the streets.
Anyone remember battlezone (or was it just battlezone 2). Not only could you control your units from an RTS point of view, but you could also run arround, jump into vehicles, etc Wasn't a bad game really.
First there is a matter of 4 Billion 1960's US dollars, of which only 4 to 10 Million was actually used. Where did the rest of this money go?
Source? Besides even were it true the rest went to funding Area 51.
The abundance of all kinds of unfriendly radiation, inluding extraordinary heat, exists outside the earth's protecting magnetic field requiring a suite to contain many protective layers, which would make it quite bulky.
you mean as bulky as space suits are? They're not exactly speedos.
What is well known from the MIR and International Space station it that the body slowly starts turning into slush the moment it is in a weightless environment, so even if they could get a man to the moon (1st hurdle), develope a adequately protective suite (2nd hurdle) they need to provide an artificial gravity on the body of the travellers to maintain bone and muscle density (3rd hurdle) so that they have enough strength to crawl, let alone walk on the moon even though the moon has eight times less a gravitational pull than the earth!
They wen't for a week. People have lived in space for over a year.
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Debian kills small babies. Gentoo doesn't. You do like small babies right?
Only with mint source
And the spontaneous orgasms of thousands of Nvidia, Ati, AMD and Intel sales persons awaiting the gullible geeks desperate for a video card upgrade to enjoy the full splendour of a video game for > 300
And the simple acknowlegement of people like me that can buy the new knocked down Geforce9's to replace my voodoo 3 and play some modern games
I'm more concerned about when to short SCO stock
Didn't Microsoft give SCO a bucket full of money?
Let's use an indestructable shell around the entire unit, made of a couple of layers of Unobtanium!
They did it wrong, they should have called it Robo-puppy and made it out of dolomite
This really shows the naivety of some of our schools towards technology, which in my school, was always a huge problem. Teachers could NOT keep up with the kids in computer classes, which left a whole slew of kids "left behind" per se (thanks Bush).
Thanks Bush? Which Bush? What did he do to deserve your thanks?
It's true though, hacking arround with a device trying to get it to do interesting things. You might hack together a few electronic components and build a radio, or you might hack together a sledge out of an old table.
I do wonder about the sanity of our boss, who sends an all-employee email out (5 in the last two months) with a read receipt request. IIRC there's somewhere in the region of 20,000 employees.
Dont know about the U.S. but in the UK we've had digital TV for over 6 years, so even if it does take 21 years from start to finish that's only 15 years left. The government is keen to turn off analog (they originally dreamed 2006, HA), and the major broadcasters are all keen to get rid of analog (well, the BBC, Sky, Cable co's and Five are, Four aren't too bothered, ITV will suffer drasticly)
Here in the UK, DAB is no longer a long way off. The BBC have been heavily promoting it, and it does seem to have finally left the ground.
:)
Oh I know, the sets are all arround work and that stations are plugged internally even more! A lot of the country still doesn't even *get* DAB. Digital TV is much nearer, if the BBC advertsied Sky's "100 for a dish and box and better then freeview service and no catch" offer then even more people would switch! While Analog TV can be switched off zone by zone, say starting by turning off London in 2008, FM needs to broadcast across the country all the time as people move radio's arround (especially in cars) more then TV's.
Of course the TV spectrum is what they want to sell off, the 20Mhz allocated to FM is peanuts by comparrison. Some services will never be switched off though. I can see BBC Radio 4 on Long Wave for the next 50 years at least, and the World Service will always be on a variety of analog frequencies so people can pick it up with a long piece of wire and something acting as a diode.
As for sound quality, I can't tell the difference between a CD and an MP3, even at edit suites at work (and they're pretty good obviously). Bit embarrasing being a broadcast engineer and all
While you exploit your analog "hole" (until its shut off. DAB is a long way off, but analog TV should be off in 10 years) in reception, millions others will exploit the rarely used "headphone" socket.
If you all put your heads together maybe you could light a Xmas tree light.
Perhaps, but it's twelth night, and I've taken my xmas lights down for another year
Oh you can. 10 times colder is 1/10th of the temperature. 20 degrees (I assume Farrenheit as america is still wierd :p) is 266.48 Kelvin. 1/10th of that is 26.6K, which is -412 degrees Fahrenheit, pretty damn cold.
Libertarian != liberals
Liberals are leftist whackjobs
Add to that the fact the leak will slow down as the pressure reduces
They'll have to install a microsoft vacuum cleaner, the only thing in the universe guarenteed not to suck.
Begining of the week go to bed at 6PM and get up at 2AM. End of week get up at 7AM and go to bed at 11PM, then weekend re-oient.
Most people prefer a 24 hour day. I used to live a 26 - 26.5 hour day when I was a student, now I prefer about 25 hours. Thing to do is cycle round. Assume 8 hours sleep and need to be up by 8AM. Go to sleep at 9PM monday, 10PM tuesday, 11PM wednesday, 12PM thursday, then stay up all night friday, until arround 6PM saturday, then get 12 hours sleep and go to bed at 8PM sunday. Probably not healthy, but I've done it before, and when I start shift work in a few months I'll be doing something similar to get back onto days.
/dev/urandon > /dev/dsp" too, but I'm getting better now.
Another thing: Turn everything off (even the PC) and lie in bed for an hour. You should be asleep unless it's ridicuously early.
For waking up, I need to be up at 8:30AM at the moment to leave at 9:30AM. I set the 3 alarms on my mobile phone, 8AM, 8:15 and 8:25, and plug it in on the other side of the room. I also set my normal radio alarm clock to come on quietly at 7:30AM (when wogan comes on), and stay on until 8:30AM (meaning I have to get up to turn it back on).
I used to have a cron job of "cat
Keep the clock out of reach, once you get up you'll stay up.
Actually it was falling. Obviously A doesnt neccersarilly cause B, but we were told that Gun Crime would fall when handguns were banned. Instead every amesty since has had people handing in old revolvers and stuff that were in display cases, but never the ones on the streets.
Anyone remember battlezone (or was it just battlezone 2). Not only could you control your units from an RTS point of view, but you could also run arround, jump into vehicles, etc Wasn't a bad game really.
First there is a matter of 4 Billion 1960's US dollars, of which only 4 to 10 Million was actually used. Where did the rest of this money go?
Source? Besides even were it true the rest went to funding Area 51.
The abundance of all kinds of unfriendly radiation, inluding extraordinary heat, exists outside the earth's protecting magnetic field requiring a suite to contain many protective layers, which would make it quite bulky.
you mean as bulky as space suits are? They're not exactly speedos.
What is well known from the MIR and International Space station it that the body slowly starts turning into slush the moment it is in a weightless environment, so even if they could get a man to the moon (1st hurdle), develope a adequately protective suite (2nd hurdle) they need to provide an artificial gravity on the body of the travellers to maintain bone and muscle density (3rd hurdle) so that they have enough strength to crawl, let alone walk on the moon even though the moon has eight times less a gravitational pull than the earth!
They wen't for a week. People have lived in space for over a year.
Why don't the politicians pass a law to really throw the book at bank-robbers who double-park during the robbery?
:D
Ahh, the old tale of the two guys that rob the bank, run outside to the car, and find it's been clamped
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Anyone else think Slashdot should have a "Score 5: Worrying" button?
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Gun crime has increased in recent years, including a near doubling of handgun offences since 1996, the year of the Dunblane massacre.
Doubling, not trebling then. The ban on hand guns came in 1997 because of Dunblane.
I put mine on the Mars Polar Lander, after what happened there I figured I'd better not risk putting my name on anything else