But the buildup of poisons in the fuel is dependent on the total amount of energy released so far. So moving the reflector too fast should either (A) produce more heat or (B) not affect the lifetime of the core very much.
Well, unless I'm totally mistaken, the reflector sleeve will only travel down the core *once* in those 30 years, i.e. it's not meant to be moved up again. If it suddenly falls down to the bottom, I doubt there'll be much of a reaction (Disclaimer: I'm a computer scientist, not a physics major) in that short a timespan, and after that the sleeve is completely out of the picture.
I'd also hazard a guess that the speed of the sleeve travelling along the core is calculated to get the most out of the parts of the core it comes by, so I guess the most you could do is reset it to the position it fell down from once you fixed the problem, but it's probably safer to just replace the whole thing...
np: Tied & Tickled Trio - Radio Jovian (Observing Systems)
Aphex Twin's music has done this for me. At first it just sounds like crappy noise randomly generated, but then you just "get it"...
I dunno, but most of Aphex's stuff doesn't sound that strange. Autechre's latest albums, on the other hand, do - especially since most phrases were algorithmically generated and then hand-selected by Sean and Rob.
Or take almost anything made by Fennesz. Or T.Raumschmiere.
(Disclaimer: I own almost anything by Aphex Twin [except for the really obscure and hard-to-get stuff, but only rarely listen to any of it anymore... and lately, I much prefer to play dubby, ambient stuff like Basic Channel, Gas, Pole, Deadbeat while I'm doing something...)
There are the wildly ambitious ones (
Star Control II, [...]
And then there are those simple but ridiculously fun games. [...]
Actually, in the case of Star Control II you can have your cake and eat it to - play the whole game for the big plot and story, and melee mode if you just want to have fun for those spare 20 minutes you've got...
np: Sole - Tokyo (Selling Live Water)
Re:Where do I sign up?!?
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!** laptop dancing **! woo-hoo. I'll have some of that...
Maybe you've got an entry for "general.useragent.override" in your prefs.js in your profile? That way you can even make Mozilla pretend it's IE in it's about screen.
If you find such a line, you can just safely delete it, and your user agent string should be back to normal.
np: Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - Royal Roost (Secret Rhythms)
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Why click in the URL bar anyway? Just hit CTRL-L and type away, since you're going to use the keyboard anyway...
(CTRL-L also selects the whole URL bar, so you can start typing right away.)
np: Senor Coconut - Musica Moderna (El Gran Baile)
And exactly HOW is it Mozilla's fault that other browsers (i.e. *NOT* Mozilla) use "Mozilla" in their UserAgent strings? If it's a Gecko based browser, it shouldn't behave differently, and if it's totally different, someone ought to get a good beating over the head with a large cluestick...
np: Styrofoam - Forever, You Said Forever (I'm What's There To Show That Something's Missing)
Now that seems a bit unlikely to me, as there's no such project on SourceForge. And "GNU/Cubase/Logic Audio" is as dumb as project names can get, huh? (and don't even start thinking about the legal minefield you get with such a name...)
I don't think there's an easier and faster way to fill up approximately 80 GB of your disk than putting a full Debian repository on it... (trust me - I should know; I just had to throw a few arches out of our local mirror as the 80 gig partition we've got reserved for it was 99% full... and that's without mirroring potato...)
Now all we need is a P2P-method for apt... *g*
Oh yeah, throw in a few CD images of Debian (or some other Linux distro) and you'll fill up your drive in no time...
While I agree with you about the limited usefulness of this device when it doesn't support MP4 ASP (don't give a damn about DivX 3.11...) there's no reason why you couldn't make the drive region free; there's even a page with illustrated step-by-step instructions so probably even Joe Sixpack could do it, as long as he owns a PC...
np: Sabi - A Scene When The Train Leaves (Metamatics - Rewired In My Manor)
Why in the world is there a constant 8 or 9 in the code?
Maybe because it's the number of items in the array that's the only other member of the TagList, and defining a constant for this would be pretty senseless?
(The patch added a member to gHeadKids' array, so the counter had to be bumped up by one. If they removed that extra member, but forgot to reduce it by one that would probably give you a nasty random pointer at the end of the list...)
You know, this would make an excellent mod for Unreal Tournament 2003 - the physics engine already exists, so it'd just be a bit of coding the user interface and scoring plus a bit of level design...:)
Pretty please?
np: Takeshi Muto - 7me7a (Expect More From A Past Life)
If you look at the site's front page, you'll find the entry for the trailer (from the 28th of August) striked through - looks like they've pulled the trailer...:(
np: Andrew Pekler - First Snow, Last Year (Station To Station)
Of course, this wasn't online yesterday when I submitted the story, but since the Production I.G. site linked to Bandai Entertainment for licensing outside of Asia anyway, it's not *that* surprising:
Slashdot Mirror
Well, unless I'm totally mistaken, the reflector sleeve will only travel down the core *once* in those 30 years, i.e. it's not meant to be moved up again. If it suddenly falls down to the bottom, I doubt there'll be much of a reaction (Disclaimer: I'm a computer scientist, not a physics major) in that short a timespan, and after that the sleeve is completely out of the picture.
I'd also hazard a guess that the speed of the sleeve travelling along the core is calculated to get the most out of the parts of the core it comes by, so I guess the most you could do is reset it to the position it fell down from once you fixed the problem, but it's probably safer to just replace the whole thing...
np: Tied & Tickled Trio - Radio Jovian (Observing Systems)
Electronic Arts bought 'em. That's what happened.
And I can't remember ever seeing an EA game without copy protection.
np: Plaid - Yak (Trainer)
You mean he's playing sandpaper on his turntable *again*? Either you're on Drukqs, or better make that "27 Mixes for Cash", then. *g*
(Just had to Ventolin... sorry 'bout that...)
np: LFO - Ultra Schall (Advance)
np: Aphex Twin - On (Reload Mix) (On Remixes)
I, for one, welcome your new Singaporean bandwidth overlords. And I don't even live in the United States...
*g,d&r*
np: Bogdan Raczynski - Ahou Bouken (Samurai Math Beats)
I dunno, but most of Aphex's stuff doesn't sound that strange. Autechre's latest albums, on the other hand, do - especially since most phrases were algorithmically generated and then hand-selected by Sean and Rob.
Or take almost anything made by Fennesz. Or T.Raumschmiere.
(Disclaimer: I own almost anything by Aphex Twin [except for the really obscure and hard-to-get stuff, but only rarely listen to any of it anymore... and lately, I much prefer to play dubby, ambient stuff like Basic Channel, Gas, Pole, Deadbeat while I'm doing something...)
np: Thomas Fehlmenn - Decke (Visions Of Blah)
Actually, in the case of Star Control II you can have your cake and eat it to - play the whole game for the big plot and story, and melee mode if you just want to have fun for those spare 20 minutes you've got...
np: Sole - Tokyo (Selling Live Water)
np: Apollo 440 - Escape To Beyond The Planet Of The Super Ape (Dude Descending A Staircase)
C:\>ps /usr/bin/zsh /usr/bin/zsh /usr/bin/ps
;)
PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
1120 1 1120 1120 con 1000 16:02:06
620 1120 620 1212 con 1000 23:15:20
952 1 952 952 con 1000 23:30:23
C:\>
Now what?
np: Apollo 440 - Liquid Cool (Millennium Fever)
Maybe you've got an entry for "general.useragent.override" in your prefs.js in your profile? That way you can even make Mozilla pretend it's IE in it's about screen.
If you find such a line, you can just safely delete it, and your user agent string should be back to normal.
np: Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - Royal Roost (Secret Rhythms)
Why click in the URL bar anyway? Just hit CTRL-L and type away, since you're going to use the keyboard anyway...
(CTRL-L also selects the whole URL bar, so you can start typing right away.)
np: Senor Coconut - Musica Moderna (El Gran Baile)
No rock, though.
np: Sixtoo - Outremont Mainline Runs Across The Sunset (Antagonist Survival Kit)
And exactly HOW is it Mozilla's fault that other browsers (i.e. *NOT* Mozilla) use "Mozilla" in their UserAgent strings? If it's a Gecko based browser, it shouldn't behave differently, and if it's totally different, someone ought to get a good beating over the head with a large cluestick...
np: Styrofoam - Forever, You Said Forever (I'm What's There To Show That Something's Missing)
Now that seems a bit unlikely to me, as there's no such project on SourceForge. And "GNU/Cubase/Logic Audio" is as dumb as project names can get, huh? (and don't even start thinking about the legal minefield you get with such a name...)
Stallman? Stallman? Is that you again?
np: Chris Bowden - Zoo Zoo (Slightly Askew)
I don't think there's an easier and faster way to fill up approximately 80 GB of your disk than putting a full Debian repository on it... (trust me - I should know; I just had to throw a few arches out of our local mirror as the 80 gig partition we've got reserved for it was 99% full... and that's without mirroring potato...)
Now all we need is a P2P-method for apt... *g*
Oh yeah, throw in a few CD images of Debian (or some other Linux distro) and you'll fill up your drive in no time...
np: The Orb - Ubiquity (Orblivion)
All your IDM is belong to Autechre. Launch every Richard Devine. For great DSP wankery!
You know, reading the *whole* news item beforehand might have helped... *eg*
np: Kenji Kawai - Ghosthack (Ghost In The Shell OST)
While I agree with you about the limited usefulness of this device when it doesn't support MP4 ASP (don't give a damn about DivX 3.11...) there's no reason why you couldn't make the drive region free; there's even a page with illustrated step-by-step instructions so probably even Joe Sixpack could do it, as long as he owns a PC...
np: Sabi - A Scene When The Train Leaves (Metamatics - Rewired In My Manor)
It sure as hell isn't - is anybody else having a deja vu currently?
np: Amon Tobin - Cosmo Retro Intro Outro (Out From Out Where)
Maybe because it's the number of items in the array that's the only other member of the TagList, and defining a constant for this would be pretty senseless?
(The patch added a member to gHeadKids' array, so the counter had to be bumped up by one. If they removed that extra member, but forgot to reduce it by one that would probably give you a nasty random pointer at the end of the list...)
np: Populous - Ext. Rhodes Bank
You know, this would make an excellent mod for Unreal Tournament 2003 - the physics engine already exists, so it'd just be a bit of coding the user interface and scoring plus a bit of level design... :)
Pretty please?
np: Takeshi Muto - 7me7a (Expect More From A Past Life)
Actually, having listened to this probably makes the use of those names funnier... :)
np: Aesop Rock ft. Vast Air- Attention Span (Float)
Drat...
If you look at the site's front page, you'll find the entry for the trailer (from the 28th of August) striked through - looks like they've pulled the trailer... :(
np: Andrew Pekler - First Snow, Last Year (Station To Station)
np: Nils Petter Molvaer - Hurry Slowly (NP3)
Of course, this wasn't online yesterday when I submitted the story, but since the Production I.G. site linked to Bandai Entertainment for licensing outside of Asia anyway, it's not *that* surprising:
Bandai Entertainment Announces Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Why do I have the feeling that you've watched NieA_7 a little too often? ^_^
np: Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - Royal Roost (Secret Rhythms)