Old fashioned metal pencil sharpeners have a high magnesium content. They're not as easy to get going as (say) magnesium ribbon, but when they start they burn fantastically!
As an Englishman in Sweden, Lagom is one of those words I am very careful with. It is all too easy to use it in a way that one thinks is right, but which has missed the boat entirely.
For instance if someone asks you if you are full up after a meal and you answer "lagom" it can be misinterpreted that you are being ironic and that you aren't quite as full up as you would like to be. (Or so my girlfriend has explained it to me).
It's definitely a very tricky concept and much deeper than it seems when you first come across it.
Experience has shown that email addresses posted on/. tend to attract the same trolls who post their innane rambling here to post similarly innane and/or abusive crap to the unfortunate whos email address was posted.
*Hopefully* you are correct and everyone will write polite well reasoned mails, but somehow I suspect that the small handful of abusive idiots may cause more of a negative reaction than all the constructive mails put together.
Building a computer into one of those aluminium flightcases is something I've seen before. The big problem in this instance would be the screen though. Independent LCD monitors still cost a bundle and using Laptop LCD screens would seem to be out based on many other earlier Slashdot questions.
It bombed! In fact it bombed bad! Unfortunately such metaphors are very difficult to implement beyond a basic subset of functionality. Where in your house do you look for (for instance) your Seti@home program, or perhaps your astronomy program, where is your IRC chat program?
OK - so one *can* find a metaphor for each of those, but as you add more and more functions to your metaphor, it becomes harder and harder to remember where the less obvious items are.
The answer is either that the user is offered a very basic computing environment with little control over where thinsg are and what can be integrated with it, or the metaphor breaks and becomes clumsy to use.
Another thing you may want to add to your software list is a mini-linux, preferably something that runs from a single floppy such as
http://pocket-linux.coven.vmh.net/about.html.en
or
http://jspiro.tripod.com/linux/hal91.htm
(There's a good list of various distros at
http://www.linux.org/dist/index.html
including various foreign language distros that may be useful)
The article refers to low *electromagnetic* noise. It also points out that these piezo fans will require conventional fans to dissipate heat further away. Their action will lead to increased heat transfer at the chip itself.
So, if I understand the article correctly, they won't in themselves lead to any reduction in audible noise.
I know the poor guy who's box is being slashdotted to hell who KPMG sent the mail to. It was definitely not deep linkinng they were talking about - it's links to kpmg.com.
AFAIK the majority of anonymiser services have gone underground to the extent that they tend not to want to advertise their services, working instead by word of mouth. Personally I wouldn't even want to be a user of an anonymising service where the operator/s weren't in some way known to be to be trustworthy.
There's possibly more safety in diversity when it comes to anonymising services. (Though that is debatable)
Maybe I'm in a minority here, but I was disappointed by Army of Darkness - the intensity and clautrophobia of the first two films, plus the sheer "man-having-worst-day-of-his-life" nastiness was completely missing. I'm wondering what lay behind the decision to turn the Evil Dead series from one of coolest series of horror films to a 15 rated (in the UK) comedy full of cheapo Marx brothers humour?
There's an arcade game I've played before which features something like this (though more robust). In the game one flew a pedal-powered aircraft over a fantasy landscape and had to fly through dertain power-ups within a certain time limit to gain more flying time. I have NO idea what the game was called, but it was fantastic. Rather like I imagein Pilot Wings to be (though I admit to not hvaing played that!).
Pedalling harder meant one could ascend, pedalling slower meant one began to descend. The dynamics of the game were excellent.
Damn - I'm rambling now! Basically, I would want *that* game to go with this device.
After seeing all these responses, I'm really curious to hear what you as the original poster think of them. Are you gonna go for the hovercraft, or will it be the low emission high power tennisball blender?
I had AG working fine for ages on Linux, then a couple of months back it just stopped working. It's still not working for me either. Any tips? I couldn't see an upgraded client on their site.
Well, I don't remember much about frequency from my physics lessons at school, but I thought I should just confirm that the article states 30 hertz. They also describe the movement as imperceptible:
"The researchers have found that when sheep are made to stand on a platform vibrating at an imperceptible 30 hertz for 20 minutes a day, their legs gained 35 per cent more bone mass within a year", oh, it also mentions that the information comes from Nature vol 412, p 603.
I must admit that the story mostly stood out in my mind because I had a great image of sheep being made to stand on a vibrating platform that made them wobble around and lose their balance - but then I was on the tram to work so my mind was wandering!
Just this morning I was reading issue 2303 of New Scientist and read an article that states that research has shown that the activity of standing on a vibrating platform moving at 30 hertz for 20 minutes a day has induced sheep to gain 35 % more bone mass within a year.
Trials have been started on elderly female patients with osteporosis and seem to be showing positive results.
Of course, 0G could make it difficult to stand *on* a vibrating platform, but these experiments must be able to teach reserachers something about ways to combat the problems. If tiny, high frequency strains can help improve bone growth then there must be other ways to induce those strains within a 0G environment.
"I love people...
but crowds are as dumb as a sack of hammers!"
As someone who easily gets irritated by the behaviour of others, I find that stopping and thinking about this often helps me avoid worsening a situation.
Slashdot Mirror
Old fashioned metal pencil sharpeners have a high magnesium content. They're not as easy to get going as (say) magnesium ribbon, but when they start they burn fantastically!
As an Englishman in Sweden, Lagom is one of those words I am very careful with. It is all too easy to use it in a way that one thinks is right, but which has missed the boat entirely.
For instance if someone asks you if you are full up after a meal and you answer "lagom" it can be misinterpreted that you are being ironic and that you aren't quite as full up as you would like to be. (Or so my girlfriend has explained it to me).
It's definitely a very tricky concept and much deeper than it seems when you first come across it.
Experience has shown that email addresses posted on /. tend to attract the same trolls who post their innane rambling here to post similarly innane and/or abusive crap to the unfortunate whos email address was posted.
*Hopefully* you are correct and everyone will write polite well reasoned mails, but somehow I suspect that the small handful of abusive idiots may cause more of a negative reaction than all the constructive mails put together.
Building a computer into one of those aluminium flightcases is something I've seen before. The big problem in this instance would be the screen though. Independent LCD monitors still cost a bundle and using Laptop LCD screens would seem to be out based on many other earlier Slashdot questions.
I don't recall any operators promising 3G within 2001 anyway. Definitely a case of hyped expectations.
It bombed! In fact it bombed bad! Unfortunately such metaphors are very difficult to implement beyond a basic subset of functionality. Where in your house do you look for (for instance) your Seti@home program, or perhaps your astronomy program, where is your IRC chat program?
OK - so one *can* find a metaphor for each of those, but as you add more and more functions to your metaphor, it becomes harder and harder to remember where the less obvious items are.
The answer is either that the user is offered a very basic computing environment with little control over where thinsg are and what can be integrated with it, or the metaphor breaks and becomes clumsy to use.
Another thing you may want to add to your software list is a mini-linux, preferably something that runs from a single floppy such as
http://pocket-linux.coven.vmh.net/about.html.en
or
http://jspiro.tripod.com/linux/hal91.htm
(There's a good list of various distros at
http://www.linux.org/dist/index.html
including various foreign language distros that may be useful)
The article refers to low *electromagnetic* noise. It also points out that these piezo fans will require conventional fans to dissipate heat further away. Their action will lead to increased heat transfer at the chip itself.
So, if I understand the article correctly, they won't in themselves lead to any reduction in audible noise.
Oh well!
I know the poor guy who's box is being slashdotted to hell who KPMG sent the mail to. It was definitely not deep linkinng they were talking about - it's links to kpmg.com.
... it'll make you go blind :-)
40,000 lines = 2 full time developers!
Would you believe it! You got it right first time. Well done.
AFAIK the majority of anonymiser services have gone underground to the extent that they tend not to want to advertise their services, working instead by word of mouth. Personally I wouldn't even want to be a user of an anonymising service where the operator/s weren't in some way known to be to be trustworthy.
There's possibly more safety in diversity when it comes to anonymising services. (Though that is debatable)
Tree
Hi Bruce,
Maybe I'm in a minority here, but I was disappointed by Army of Darkness - the intensity and clautrophobia of the first two films, plus the sheer "man-having-worst-day-of-his-life" nastiness was completely missing. I'm wondering what lay behind the decision to turn the Evil Dead series from one of coolest series of horror films to a 15 rated (in the UK) comedy full of cheapo Marx brothers humour?
There's an arcade game I've played before which features something like this (though more robust). In the game one flew a pedal-powered aircraft over a fantasy landscape and had to fly through dertain power-ups within a certain time limit to gain more flying time. I have NO idea what the game was called, but it was fantastic. Rather like I imagein Pilot Wings to be (though I admit to not hvaing played that!).
Pedalling harder meant one could ascend, pedalling slower meant one began to descend. The dynamics of the game were excellent.
Damn - I'm rambling now! Basically, I would want *that* game to go with this device.
After seeing all these responses, I'm really curious to hear what you as the original poster think of them. Are you gonna go for the hovercraft, or will it be the low emission high power tennisball blender?
Let us know!!
This post is a karmawhoring rip-off! The proof is here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=6429&cid=95196 2 a post I made over a year ago when the opinions expressed here made more sense!
Gah! What's galling is that the karma-whoring worked, the guy got modded up to 4 points anyway! Oh well, no damage done!
I had AG working fine for ages on Linux, then a couple of months back it just stopped working. It's still not working for me either. Any tips? I couldn't see an upgraded client on their site.
WAANCT
(OK, I'm ignoring Nullsoft there, but still...)
... and in my last post I forgot to agree that yes, of course you're right. 30 hertz is neither tiny nor high frequency!
Well, I don't remember much about frequency from my physics lessons at school, but I thought I should just confirm that the article states 30 hertz. They also describe the movement as imperceptible:
"The researchers have found that when sheep are made to stand on a platform vibrating at an imperceptible 30 hertz for 20 minutes a day, their legs gained 35 per cent more bone mass within a year", oh, it also mentions that the information comes from Nature vol 412, p 603.
I must admit that the story mostly stood out in my mind because I had a great image of sheep being made to stand on a vibrating platform that made them wobble around and lose their balance - but then I was on the tram to work so my mind was wandering!
Just this morning I was reading issue 2303 of New Scientist and read an article that states that research has shown that the activity of standing on a vibrating platform moving at 30 hertz for 20 minutes a day has induced sheep to gain 35 % more bone mass within a year.
Trials have been started on elderly female patients with osteporosis and seem to be showing positive results.
Of course, 0G could make it difficult to stand *on* a vibrating platform, but these experiments must be able to teach reserachers something about ways to combat the problems. If tiny, high frequency strains can help improve bone growth then there must be other ways to induce those strains within a 0G environment.
2 inch pizza??
What kind of bulltacky is that? A world where a regular pizza is 2 inches in diameter isn't worth living in!
"Give the anarchist a cigarette"
They wouldn't rock very far with a sheet of lead in them...
"Give the anarchist a cigarette"
As a friend of mine once succinctly put it -
"I love people...
but crowds are as dumb as a sack of hammers!"
As someone who easily gets irritated by the behaviour of others, I find that stopping and thinking about this often helps me avoid worsening a situation.
"Give the anarchist a cigarette"