I saw that once in a bar near LA: there was a urinal with a 3x3 square hole and the top half of a small paddlewheel behind it. A small sign advised that it was an electronic pissing contest machine, and that men who could turn the paddlewheel the fastest would win a free supersize softdrink (to play again no doubt). A bulb on top of the urinal would go brighter and brighter as the paddlewheel would turn faster.
search query: blog -1337 -teh -kewl -hugz -omg -bored -lol -lmao -"can't wait to get my drivers license"
Ah! I guess you missed the following blog entry then: Hi everybody, it's Sunday today and I'm bored. So I guess I'll get on with my homemade engine that runs on water. As you know, it's almost finished, and I expect it to put out as much as 1337 horsepower. The reliability of the motor should be good too: my friend, Ray Kewl in engineering, said it should provide well beyond 10,000 TEH (total engine hours).
Update: the engine is in the car, and it runs! on nothing but water! OMG I'm so happy! check the pictures and the diagrams to build your own. I can't wait to get my drivers license renewed so I can take it for a spin!
Tell that to all the people suffering from obesity. I don't think it's a stretch to call Col. Saunders, Ray Crock or Dave Thomas mass-murderers, not for serving ultra-unhealthy food, but for mass-marketting it to kids from the youngest age and distorting their tastes, making them overweight junk-food addicts as adults.
Real progress is made by small teams that see risk as opportunity, while NASA-style science is done by large teams that see risk as something to be avoided at all costs.
First of all, up to recently, space exploration was an activity that can't possibly be boosted by competition. Totally New Things[tm] usually come from government-funded research labs, such as the ARPANET, the moon landing program, etc... That's because such ground-breaking experiments can only be put together at a complete loss. Once the road is open, let competition pave it.
Secondly, it's true NASA today is stifled by a risk-avoiding attitude, but that's only because the administration (and the public) doesn't really have a strong desire to go to space, therefore any small problem leads to a reduction in NASA budget. The great things NASA did in the past were done because the administration just had to achieve what Kennedy promised, otherwise they'd have lost the race to the moon. In that light, loss of astronauts and giant rockets exploding right and left weren't very big concerns compared to losing face with the USSR. Nowadays, there is no USSR to compete against.
Let's see: space travel, nanotech... And you want NASA to move on from those things to find something harder to work on?
You seem to have totally missed the GP's post: NASA is good at *ground-breaking work* in space travel and nanotech. But as space exploration becomes space exploitation, the ESA and the Russians do a much better job.
Tell me: if someone downloads kiddy porn at work, does the IT guy gets fired?
Same for this dude. He has nothing to do with it, provided he took reasonable precautions prior to letting patrons on the library computers (i.e. install "sanctioned" filters). If patrons know how to circumvent the filter, then it's either the patrons who should be arrested, or the filter's manufacturer who should bear some responsability.
What I'm driving at is that if the librarian did whatever he could to prevent downloading kiddy porn (and remember, he's no IT guy, he's a librarian, so installing a commercial web filter is about as much as he's expected to do) then he's not to be blamed.
Then again, so many of us want the kind of "cradle-to-grave" care our government has evolved into providing.
That phrase alone tells me you're not American. In the US, many millions of people are left without medical coverage, the poor with sub-poverty-level food assistance, if not simply left to starve. In the middle-class sections of US society, most pay private medical insurances. As for the rich and very rich, they're the ones taken care of by the government really well, in the form of huge tax breaks.
If any modern society doesn't have a "cradle-to-grave" state, it's the US. Look at Sweden and you'll know what a true one is.
I wonder if Australian police are as (radar gun) trigger happy as they are in certain parts of the U.S.
Hello? have you ever been to the UK or to France? there is a friggin' *network* of automated speed cameras that track you every-bloody-where and send you the bill directly by mail. There is almost no place where you can truly go over the speed limit. The US is a relaxed, friendly place compared to those countries...
What's more worrysome is, people seem to have forgotten that most of the 9/11 terrorists had valid passports. With this new measure in place, they'd have valid RFID-enabled passport and a chance to pass security faster, so they're a little less jet-lagged when they arrive at the hotel.
I'm really beginning to wonder why nobody points out the fact that all these security measures just aren't any use to catch determined terrorists. My personal conviction is that companies who market those "anti-terrorism" devices are making a fat buck out of the whole deal, and they share the proceeds with the politicians who approve of these things. It disgusts me more and more each time I look at it...
And you'll find only 2,860,000,000 entries. Same for b or s or n (not exactly the same of course, but a lot less). So what's the deal with "a"?
"e" is the most used letter in English (and most latin alphabet-using languages I suppose), but it's not a word. "a" is a very common word, at least in the 3 languages I speak, and search engines work on words. Hence my choice of "a".
If search engines allowed searching with regexes, I'd have used.*e.* of course...
Just go there and see for yourself: a search on the word "a" (letter "a", whatever) yield 11.5bn results. If you admit there may be twice as many pages without "a" in it (say, all non-latin webpages, files, jpgs and such), that's pretty close to their 20bn entries.
Of course, now if you still doubt, you're welcome to count all 11.5bn results and make sure none of them are dupes:-)
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is that it gives you that funky village people hairdo 24/7. No wonder he keeps going back in space...
Calvin becomes new Enron CEO. News at 11...
I saw that once in a bar near LA: there was a urinal with a 3x3 square hole and the top half of a small paddlewheel behind it. A small sign advised that it was an electronic pissing contest machine, and that men who could turn the paddlewheel the fastest would win a free supersize softdrink (to play again no doubt). A bulb on top of the urinal would go brighter and brighter as the paddlewheel would turn faster.
When Firefox hits the 100m mark, it may be something half-worth of a note
I didn't know firefoxes could walk that far...
search query: blog -1337 -teh -kewl -hugz -omg -bored -lol -lmao -"can't wait to get my drivers license"
Ah! I guess you missed the following blog entry then:
Hi everybody, it's Sunday today and I'm bored. So I guess I'll get on with my homemade engine that runs on water. As you know, it's almost finished, and I expect it to put out as much as 1337 horsepower. The reliability of the motor should be good too: my friend, Ray Kewl in engineering, said it should provide well beyond 10,000 TEH (total engine hours).
Update: the engine is in the car, and it runs! on nothing but water! OMG I'm so happy! check the pictures and the diagrams to build your own. I can't wait to get my drivers license renewed so I can take it for a spin!
Tell that to all the people suffering from obesity. I don't think it's a stretch to call Col. Saunders, Ray Crock or Dave Thomas mass-murderers, not for serving ultra-unhealthy food, but for mass-marketting it to kids from the youngest age and distorting their tastes, making them overweight junk-food addicts as adults.
Real progress is made by small teams that see risk as opportunity, while NASA-style science is done by large teams that see risk as something to be avoided at all costs.
First of all, up to recently, space exploration was an activity that can't possibly be boosted by competition. Totally New Things[tm] usually come from government-funded research labs, such as the ARPANET, the moon landing program, etc... That's because such ground-breaking experiments can only be put together at a complete loss. Once the road is open, let competition pave it.
Secondly, it's true NASA today is stifled by a risk-avoiding attitude, but that's only because the administration (and the public) doesn't really have a strong desire to go to space, therefore any small problem leads to a reduction in NASA budget. The great things NASA did in the past were done because the administration just had to achieve what Kennedy promised, otherwise they'd have lost the race to the moon. In that light, loss of astronauts and giant rockets exploding right and left weren't very big concerns compared to losing face with the USSR. Nowadays, there is no USSR to compete against.
Let's see: space travel, nanotech... And you want NASA to move on from those things to find something harder to work on?
You seem to have totally missed the GP's post: NASA is good at *ground-breaking work* in space travel and nanotech. But as space exploration becomes space exploitation, the ESA and the Russians do a much better job.
Well, they seem to have trouble exploring the infinitely large, so they may have better luck with the infinitely small...
You are so first half of 2005. The hip thing to ask is whether it runs OSX/x86 these days...
Windows 95 == DOS + GUI
You can see Win95 run on the screenshot, unless it photoshopping.
Looking to broadcast your tunes around the house? We look at a product that does that without the hassles of wires
Like an FM transmitter?
Tell me: if someone downloads kiddy porn at work, does the IT guy gets fired?
Same for this dude. He has nothing to do with it, provided he took reasonable precautions prior to letting patrons on the library computers (i.e. install "sanctioned" filters). If patrons know how to circumvent the filter, then it's either the patrons who should be arrested, or the filter's manufacturer who should bear some responsability.
What I'm driving at is that if the librarian did whatever he could to prevent downloading kiddy porn (and remember, he's no IT guy, he's a librarian, so installing a commercial web filter is about as much as he's expected to do) then he's not to be blamed.
My guess is they'll get him on the ground that he didn't install a proper web filter or something like that.
The head librarian of the Valparaiso Community Library in Florida was suspended
They lynched him?
Maybe they had mono...
Then again, so many of us want the kind of "cradle-to-grave" care our government has evolved into providing.
That phrase alone tells me you're not American. In the US, many millions of people are left without medical coverage, the poor with sub-poverty-level food assistance, if not simply left to starve. In the middle-class sections of US society, most pay private medical insurances. As for the rich and very rich, they're the ones taken care of by the government really well, in the form of huge tax breaks.
If any modern society doesn't have a "cradle-to-grave" state, it's the US. Look at Sweden and you'll know what a true one is.
I wonder if Australian police are as (radar gun) trigger happy as they are in certain parts of the U.S.
Hello? have you ever been to the UK or to France? there is a friggin' *network* of automated speed cameras that track you every-bloody-where and send you the bill directly by mail. There is almost no place where you can truly go over the speed limit. The US is a relaxed, friendly place compared to those countries...
What's more worrysome is, people seem to have forgotten that most of the 9/11 terrorists had valid passports. With this new measure in place, they'd have valid RFID-enabled passport and a chance to pass security faster, so they're a little less jet-lagged when they arrive at the hotel.
I'm really beginning to wonder why nobody points out the fact that all these security measures just aren't any use to catch determined terrorists. My personal conviction is that companies who market those "anti-terrorism" devices are making a fat buck out of the whole deal, and they share the proceeds with the politicians who approve of these things. It disgusts me more and more each time I look at it...
Narrow the beam more and more, up the frequency more and more, and eventually you get a laser modem :-)
And you'll find only 2,860,000,000 entries. Same for b or s or n (not exactly the same of course, but a lot less). So what's the deal with "a"?
.*e.* of course...
"e" is the most used letter in English (and most latin alphabet-using languages I suppose), but it's not a word. "a" is a very common word, at least in the 3 languages I speak, and search engines work on words. Hence my choice of "a".
If search engines allowed searching with regexes, I'd have used
Just go there and see for yourself: a search on the word "a" (letter "a", whatever) yield 11.5bn results. If you admit there may be twice as many pages without "a" in it (say, all non-latin webpages, files, jpgs and such), that's pretty close to their 20bn entries.
:-)
Of course, now if you still doubt, you're welcome to count all 11.5bn results and make sure none of them are dupes
Now all Yahoo has to do is create a real search engine that can actually spew out relevant results amongst those 20 billion entries...
Oh come ON! I mean, we're going to MARS! G.W. promised that, how much more exciting can this get?!?
Yeah, perhaps you're right...
Could certain software companies start spewing out secure software, so worms don't have much of a chance to exist in the first place?
The number of companies getting fat over those needless insecurities is just gross...