Did any of the Slashdot guys pocket any stock cash? I would imagine that they were locked in pretty tight. Taco probably deserves a million bucks. Anyone know if he has it?
"There is also no way of manufacturing carbon nanotubes of this scale"
These are the kind of problems that a bunch of money can solve. Instead of spending billions on a missile defense system that has never worked, maybe we should do something usefull.
I've worked with machines that try to calculate body fat percentage by measuring conductivity across a person's body. What they really measure is how hydrated a person is. The fluctuation is proably less when measuring just a finger or hand. Hand lotion would proabably mess with conductivity, too.
In 22 channel surround you might be able to hear some way that Ice Ice Baby's beat is different from Under Pressure's. That video clip of Vanilla Ice explaining how his song is nothing like Under Pressure is one of the funniest things MTV has ever shown. For those of you who havn't seen it, Vanilla Ice says "Their version goes like this...ding-ding-ding-dinga-ding-ding...and my version goes like this...ding-ding-ding-dinga-ding-ding". I've probably seen that clip a dozen times and I have yet to tell any difference between his two renditions.
The only people I know that got motion sick from Doom had really slow machines, even for the time. My friend had a 386 and his brother barfed all over the computer desk. I can get badly motion sick in a car, but FPSs have never bothered me.
A few years ago I worked at a company with an 8 person IT dept, an IT boss, and a CEO above him (maybe 40 people in the whole company). The IT boss was fired and we needed a new one. The CEO and CFO interviewed the candidates and then let the IT guys talk to each candidate for maybe 15 minutes without anyone else there. The biggest deciding question for us was "What's your favorite band?" One of the leading guys answered a contemporary Christian band and the other answered "Slayer". The big bosses were on the fence and we begged for them to hire the Slayer guy. Bad move. By far the worst boss I've ever had. He was probably a pretty cool person, but just an aweful boss. My direct superior literally wouldn't talk to me for 2 months at a time.
The casualties are noteworthy because they're the only people killed inside the United States by a foreign military since the Brits burned DC in 1812. There was fighting in Alaska and (obviously) Hawaii during WWII, but they weren't states yet.
In an unfortunate coincidence, US made cluster bombs looked very much like, and were the same color as, the "meals ready to eat" packages we air dropped for humanitarian missions. It went poorly. They've since changed the color of the bomblets.
I've seen the same joke once a week for 4 damn years. I'm just sick of it. Even the "petrified natalie portman" and the "soviet russia" things got old and faded away while this one lives on.
The "640k is enough for anyone" jokes are actually the worst. They've been going on for 10+ years based on a completely fabricated quote. Even those have died down recently.
Damn that was funny 4 years ago. Do you have any good "hanging chad" material?
Al Gore was talking about creating *legislation* that helped foster the Internet.
Why do Conservatives bitch to high hell when anything they say it taken out of context, but repeat dumb quotes by Liberals out of context for years and years?
Maybe they should stop worrying so much about people who havn't had a political job in 4 years and worry about the people who do have important jobs now and are doing them so amazingly badly.
After the Oklahoma City bombing the FBI instructed police to be on the look out for the muslim men they assumed were behind it. Luckily, the White Christian ex-Marine who did it was already in custody for speeding.
That's a valid point. Getting power to our smaller and smaller creations of all kinds will be difficult. But using the argument that nobody has "demonstrated anything even remotely close to grey-goo yet" doesn't fly. In the 50s when they were plugging in thousands of vacuum tubes, engineers didn't worry about viruses and spyware and spam. Our society is going to want to develop real nano-scale machines eventually. We need to head off any major problems now while the poop is still in the proverbial horse.
The Bourcia Mathematical Research Institute will involve more whores and cocaine than a typical research institute, but for tax purposes it's a research institute.
Do you know how many pages of stuff are involved in a case like this? Thousands and thousands and thousands. A group of poor bastards have to read all of them. That takes a long time. An appeal is not a new trial. It's the losing side claiming that the trial wasn't by the book and needs to be thrown out.
The problem is that a lot of people looking for Atlantis aren't good scientists and make stupid announcements. There are two reasons why I'm still hoping that we'll find Atlantis. Troy was assumed to be mythological right up until somebody found it. Also, Plato is very clear that Atlantis was a real place. He hears about it from an Egyptian priest who says Atlantis existed 9000 years prior. Many people assume there was a bad translation somewhere from 900 to 9000. That would make Atlantis Minoan Crete. I have faith that Plato knew what he was talking about and we'll find it someday.
I've watched a lot of Iron Chef episodes (even the Shatner ones). Big Pussy was the most ignorant taster ever. I understand that they want to get an "average" person on the panel that represent the common man's tastes. But putting an Italian guy who talks about his love for Italian food on there was stupid.
I also watch a lot of Good Eats (I like to cook). Alton Brown is a genius. My favorite thing I've learned from him is to soak pork chops in a "brine bag" with water, cider vinegar, salt, and brown sugar. They will be the best pork chops you have ever tasted. FoodTV.com has all of his recipes.
You need a gun to act confident? How about walking with your chin up and not looking behind you every three seconds. I've lived in a variety of bad neighborhoods (I live 200 yards from a peep booth right now) and I've never even been harrassed, much less robbed. I've been offered a lot of drugs and dates, but never robbed.
The important issues are much larger and more complex than the little ones like email. That makes them difficult to solve. More importantly, any attempt to solve a huge issue like the budget is going to piss off a big group of voters. The way we have organized the system, pissing off any significant group of voters is political suicide. So what we get are state legislatures like Louisiana that ban low rise pants. The important stuff is ignored at all of our expense.
The display is the kicker. If this console could plug into a standard TV, it might work. Everyone already has a TV. Very few people have HDTVs and the adoption rate is a fraction of what was expected.
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Did any of the Slashdot guys pocket any stock cash? I would imagine that they were locked in pretty tight. Taco probably deserves a million bucks. Anyone know if he has it?
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"There is also no way of manufacturing carbon nanotubes of this scale"
These are the kind of problems that a bunch of money can solve. Instead of spending billions on a missile defense system that has never worked, maybe we should do something usefull.
-B
I've worked with machines that try to calculate body fat percentage by measuring conductivity across a person's body. What they really measure is how hydrated a person is. The fluctuation is proably less when measuring just a finger or hand. Hand lotion would proabably mess with conductivity, too.
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David Bowie did most of the vocals, but it was a collaboration with Queen.
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In 22 channel surround you might be able to hear some way that Ice Ice Baby's beat is different from Under Pressure's. That video clip of Vanilla Ice explaining how his song is nothing like Under Pressure is one of the funniest things MTV has ever shown. For those of you who havn't seen it, Vanilla Ice says "Their version goes like this...ding-ding-ding-dinga-ding-ding...and my version goes like this...ding-ding-ding-dinga-ding-ding". I've probably seen that clip a dozen times and I have yet to tell any difference between his two renditions.
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The only people I know that got motion sick from Doom had really slow machines, even for the time. My friend had a 386 and his brother barfed all over the computer desk. I can get badly motion sick in a car, but FPSs have never bothered me.
-B
There's another side to that.
A few years ago I worked at a company with an 8 person IT dept, an IT boss, and a CEO above him (maybe 40 people in the whole company). The IT boss was fired and we needed a new one. The CEO and CFO interviewed the candidates and then let the IT guys talk to each candidate for maybe 15 minutes without anyone else there. The biggest deciding question for us was "What's your favorite band?" One of the leading guys answered a contemporary Christian band and the other answered "Slayer". The big bosses were on the fence and we begged for them to hire the Slayer guy. Bad move. By far the worst boss I've ever had. He was probably a pretty cool person, but just an aweful boss. My direct superior literally wouldn't talk to me for 2 months at a time.
-B
The casualties are noteworthy because they're the only people killed inside the United States by a foreign military since the Brits burned DC in 1812. There was fighting in Alaska and (obviously) Hawaii during WWII, but they weren't states yet.
-B
In an unfortunate coincidence, US made cluster bombs looked very much like, and were the same color as, the "meals ready to eat" packages we air dropped for humanitarian missions. It went poorly. They've since changed the color of the bomblets.
-B
I've seen the same joke once a week for 4 damn years. I'm just sick of it. Even the "petrified natalie portman" and the "soviet russia" things got old and faded away while this one lives on.
The "640k is enough for anyone" jokes are actually the worst. They've been going on for 10+ years based on a completely fabricated quote. Even those have died down recently.
-B
Damn that was funny 4 years ago. Do you have any good "hanging chad" material?
Al Gore was talking about creating *legislation* that helped foster the Internet.
Why do Conservatives bitch to high hell when anything they say it taken out of context, but repeat dumb quotes by Liberals out of context for years and years?
Maybe they should stop worrying so much about people who havn't had a political job in 4 years and worry about the people who do have important jobs now and are doing them so amazingly badly.
-B
After the Oklahoma City bombing the FBI instructed police to be on the look out for the muslim men they assumed were behind it. Luckily, the White Christian ex-Marine who did it was already in custody for speeding.
-B
That's a valid point. Getting power to our smaller and smaller creations of all kinds will be difficult. But using the argument that nobody has "demonstrated anything even remotely close to grey-goo yet" doesn't fly. In the 50s when they were plugging in thousands of vacuum tubes, engineers didn't worry about viruses and spyware and spam. Our society is going to want to develop real nano-scale machines eventually. We need to head off any major problems now while the poop is still in the proverbial horse.
-B
Your Ray Bradbury quote makes more sense when you know it's a translation from a French interview.
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The Bourcia Mathematical Research Institute will involve more whores and cocaine than a typical research institute, but for tax purposes it's a research institute.
-B
Do you know how many pages of stuff are involved in a case like this? Thousands and thousands and thousands. A group of poor bastards have to read all of them. That takes a long time.
An appeal is not a new trial. It's the losing side claiming that the trial wasn't by the book and needs to be thrown out.
-B
The problem is that a lot of people looking for Atlantis aren't good scientists and make stupid announcements. There are two reasons why I'm still hoping that we'll find Atlantis. Troy was assumed to be mythological right up until somebody found it. Also, Plato is very clear that Atlantis was a real place. He hears about it from an Egyptian priest who says Atlantis existed 9000 years prior. Many people assume there was a bad translation somewhere from 900 to 9000. That would make Atlantis Minoan Crete. I have faith that Plato knew what he was talking about and we'll find it someday.
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There is a big demand for air. Air isn't valueable because it isn't scarce.
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A, C, and D are very very expensive to create and/or maintain. B is against EPA regulations (for good reason).
Value is created by scarcity. There's a limited ammount of good land, so it costs a lot of money.
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I've watched a lot of Iron Chef episodes (even the Shatner ones). Big Pussy was the most ignorant taster ever. I understand that they want to get an "average" person on the panel that represent the common man's tastes. But putting an Italian guy who talks about his love for Italian food on there was stupid.
I also watch a lot of Good Eats (I like to cook). Alton Brown is a genius. My favorite thing I've learned from him is to soak pork chops in a "brine bag" with water, cider vinegar, salt, and brown sugar. They will be the best pork chops you have ever tasted. FoodTV.com has all of his recipes.
-B
The 470 million arable acres is for everything, not just soy beans, right?
So the US could stop growing corn, wheat, and everything else in order to provide a whopping 2 percent of our gasoline?
Here's a crazy idea. Why don't we use less gas.
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You need a gun to act confident? How about walking with your chin up and not looking behind you every three seconds. I've lived in a variety of bad neighborhoods (I live 200 yards from a peep booth right now) and I've never even been harrassed, much less robbed. I've been offered a lot of drugs and dates, but never robbed.
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(looks it up)
It passed a house committee and lost in the house.
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The important issues are much larger and more complex than the little ones like email. That makes them difficult to solve. More importantly, any attempt to solve a huge issue like the budget is going to piss off a big group of voters. The way we have organized the system, pissing off any significant group of voters is political suicide. So what we get are state legislatures like Louisiana that ban low rise pants. The important stuff is ignored at all of our expense.
-B
The display is the kicker. If this console could plug into a standard TV, it might work. Everyone already has a TV. Very few people have HDTVs and the adoption rate is a fraction of what was expected.
-B