If you think the average consumer (and potential consumer digital camera buyer) is shooting velvia slide film, you might want to check to see what you are smoking....
Reversal film, as a niche product, always costs significantly more than color neg C41 developing, which is available at any consumer photoprocessing location.
And, as someone else pointed out, don't forget to differentiate between develop-only and develop-and-print, which is more expensive.
When the original telescope at Green Bank was put up, they made an educational film about the task of bringing the large and heavy materials over the small roads and bridges. The movie either had a title of or was commonly referred to as something like "West Virginia's Big Erection" when it was shown to attendees of the National Youth Science Camp, which is located not too far from Green Bank. Here's hoping they updated the classic movie when they put the new one up!
Perhaps I've been watching too much Babylon 5, but it strikes me that KDE = Vorlons, and Gnome = Shadows. Of course in the B5 storyline, both philosophies ended up getting kicked out.....
Since this has turned into a "name your favorite easter egg" thread, I'll add mine: the Gatorbox, which acted as a bridge between traditional AppleTalk & Ethernet networks, could be telnetted into for administration purposes. Typing "yow" at the prompt gave you a random Zippy the Pinhead quote. Kind of a software-in-hardware easter egg...
ObOpenSource: How to hide Easter Eggs in open source projects? Obfuscated Perl, of course!
Buckyballs aren't that hard to make, as it turns out. I'm not sure what the state of the art is, but you can get reasonable lab-scale quantities from an electric arc and a carbon rod. That process probably scales well, if/when we are given a reason to make lots of buckyballs....
I think "allotrope" is probably the word the original poster is looking for. Graphite, diamond, and the various buckyballs are allotropes of carbon, i.e. structurally different forms of an element.
I think "allotrope" is probably the word the original poster is looking for. Graphite, diamond, and the various buckyballs are allotropes of carbon, i.e. structurally different forms of an element.
See http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=all otrope
With the comments about maintaining optical contact for IR communications, it occurs to me that if MindStorms machines could pick up stuff from AirPort, a lot of possibilities open up. Hmmm... radio-control of a home-built LEGO robot via an iBook.... yummy.
I can speak to how nice this concept is, since I took a Powerbook along with me on a car trip from New York to Wisconsin. The PB was powered by the cigarette lighter, and the audio out was piped nicely into the in-dash tape player using a CD car adapter "tape with wires" that came with my portable CD player. Reading data from a CD-R, the PB had no problems with skipping, and one CD played for hours and hours. With the track-shuffle and playlist capabilities of the MP3 decoder software, it was as full-featured a music jukebox as I could hope for.
The PB went down on the floor between the driver & passenger (Taurus wagon, lots of room there). You could skip to the next song by tapping the space bar with your foot. The only problem with this solution was the size of the laptop. For me, the ideal car companion would be an eMate-sized iBook or similar. I would run mapping software for navigation and MP3 (and/or normal CD audio) for tunes. A solution likely to come sooner is a Palm-based device that does mp3 & mapping s/w....
Psychoderelict is responsible for an inauspicious moment on broadcast television. A live performance of the show was shown on PBS's "Great Performances", uncut. Included was the line "We're all c***s anyway..." with no censoring. I didn't hear any uproar afterwards, so I guess the FCC & language police weren't watching....
I have no problem with this. It was stated upfront that this guy is a lawyer and a lobbyist, and he clearly stated who his client is and what they represent at the point in the editorial where he discussed Internet Ventures. An editorial is a statement of opinion. Katz has his opinions, and they are appropriate to post here (labeled as his opinions). A lobbyist is _paid_ to give opinions (usually the opinions of his or her clients, although this editorial is presented as the personal opinions of the author), but so is an editorial journalist.
If you really think that Rob would turn away an opposing view on this, you just haven't been paying attention. The nice thing about the discussion on Slashdot is that opposing views do get posted, often within minutes. I would welcome a corresponding "feature" from the other side if someone in that camp takes the time to write up an editorial.
Note that the ticker symbol is one small penstroke erasure away from being PHAT. I can see the headlines now: "RHAT's phat IPO" (As far as I can tell, no-one actually has ticker symbol "PHAT" either...)
Perhaps one of the items on the list was "Get a national newspaper to print that you have made a nuclear reactor".....
(Or maybe "Convince a local newscast to run a story about hackers stealing AOL credit card information from a web page and threatening users if they didn't forward the message to 10 people.")
Yep, I made one Personics tape at Tower Records in Boston. The idea didn't take off, apparently. CD's are better than tapes, but today's market has so many other ways of getting music that it may be difficult to find a big enough niche. Drop the price per song a bit and I'd consider it...
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Archon - still a classic, play it with MAME
Star Raiders - people bought Atari 800s just to play it
Bolo - consuming copious net resources when the 'net was young
Zork, original Adventure (Colossal Cave) - nuff said
Marathon - Mac only, but outclassed many of its PC contemporaries
X-Wing - for pulling in the story, music, & feel of Star Wars
Maelstrom - fun and highly editable
If you think the average consumer (and potential consumer digital camera buyer) is shooting velvia slide film, you might want to check to see what you are smoking....
Reversal film, as a niche product, always costs significantly more than color neg C41 developing, which is available at any consumer photoprocessing location.
And, as someone else pointed out, don't forget to differentiate between develop-only and develop-and-print, which is more expensive.
I looked it up -- the movie was called "The 140 Foot Erection."
When the original telescope at Green Bank was put up, they made an educational film about the task of bringing the large and heavy materials over the small roads and bridges. The movie either had a title of or was commonly referred to as something like "West Virginia's Big Erection" when it was shown to attendees of the National Youth Science Camp, which is located not too far from Green Bank. Here's hoping they updated the classic movie when they put the new one up!
Perhaps I've been watching too much Babylon 5, but it strikes me that KDE = Vorlons, and Gnome = Shadows. Of course in the B5 storyline, both philosophies ended up getting kicked out.....
Since this has turned into a "name your favorite easter egg" thread, I'll add mine: the Gatorbox, which acted as a bridge between traditional AppleTalk & Ethernet networks, could be telnetted into for administration purposes. Typing "yow" at the prompt gave you a random Zippy the Pinhead quote. Kind of a software-in-hardware easter egg...
ObOpenSource: How to hide Easter Eggs in open source projects? Obfuscated Perl, of course!
I note that Cybersitter deprives users of one of the main pillars of online journalism: The Onion.
d iot,ass,fag,dolt,dummy]
[you][are][,a,an,too,to][stupid,dumb,ugly,fat,i
...matches the official Onion motto, which not a little bit of irony relating to Cybersitter's error rate:
You are dumb.
Cybersitter: saving the world from the dolts of the net. (tm)
llach dot
Buckyballs aren't that hard to make, as it turns out. I'm not sure what the state of the art is, but you can get reasonable lab-scale quantities from an electric arc and a carbon rod. That process probably scales well, if/when we are given a reason to make lots of buckyballs....
I think "allotrope" is probably the word the original poster is looking for. Graphite, diamond, and the various buckyballs are allotropes of carbon, i.e. structurally different forms of an element.
:-)
-a real chemist
I think "allotrope" is probably the word the original poster is looking for. Graphite, diamond, and the various buckyballs are allotropes of carbon, i.e. structurally different forms of an element.
l otrope
See http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=al
No, no, no.... the microchip is implanted in the back of the _neck_!
With the comments about maintaining optical contact for IR communications, it occurs to me that if MindStorms machines could pick up stuff from AirPort, a lot of possibilities open up. Hmmm... radio-control of a home-built LEGO robot via an iBook.... yummy.
I can speak to how nice this concept is, since I took a Powerbook along with me on a car trip from New York to Wisconsin. The PB was powered by the cigarette lighter, and the audio out was piped nicely into the in-dash tape player using a CD car adapter "tape with wires" that came with my portable CD player. Reading data from a CD-R, the PB had no problems with skipping, and one CD played for hours and hours. With the track-shuffle and playlist capabilities of the MP3 decoder software, it was as full-featured a music jukebox as I could hope for.
The PB went down on the floor between the driver & passenger (Taurus wagon, lots of room there). You could skip to the next song by tapping the space bar with your foot. The only problem with this solution was the size of the laptop. For me, the ideal car companion would be an eMate-sized iBook or similar. I would run mapping software for navigation and MP3 (and/or normal CD audio) for tunes. A solution likely to come sooner is a Palm-based device that does mp3 & mapping s/w....
I believe The Onion says it best:
You are dumb.
Psychoderelict is responsible for an inauspicious moment on broadcast television. A live performance of the show was shown on PBS's "Great Performances", uncut. Included was the line "We're all c***s anyway..." with no censoring. I didn't hear any uproar afterwards, so I guess the FCC & language police weren't watching....
I have no problem with this. It was stated upfront that this guy is a lawyer and a lobbyist, and he clearly stated who his client is and what they represent at the point in the editorial where he discussed Internet Ventures. An editorial is a statement of opinion. Katz has his opinions, and they are appropriate to post here (labeled as his opinions). A lobbyist is _paid_ to give opinions (usually the opinions of his or her clients, although this editorial is presented as the personal opinions of the author), but so is an editorial journalist.
If you really think that Rob would turn away an opposing view on this, you just haven't been paying attention. The nice thing about the discussion on Slashdot is that opposing views do get posted, often within minutes. I would welcome a corresponding "feature" from the other side if someone in that camp takes the time to write up an editorial.
Note that the ticker symbol is one small penstroke erasure away from being PHAT. I can see the headlines now: "RHAT's phat IPO" (As far as I can tell, no-one actually has ticker symbol "PHAT" either...)
Perhaps one of the items on the list was "Get a national newspaper to print that you have made a nuclear reactor".....
(Or maybe "Convince a local newscast to run a story about hackers stealing AOL credit card information from a web page and threatening users if they didn't forward the message to 10 people.")
Yep, I made one Personics tape at Tower Records in Boston. The idea didn't take off, apparently. CD's are better than tapes, but today's market has so many other ways of getting music that it may be difficult to find a big enough niche. Drop the price per song a bit and I'd consider it...