Ahh my childhood days of estes rockets
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I used to have this payloader rocket that you could load an egg in. One day I was digging around the yard under rocks (like most 14yro boys do) and I found some newts. Hmm, astro... astro... ASTRONEWTS YEAH!
So being the unusually cruel kind of kid that pulled the wings off of flies, and pretended his magnifying glass was the death star at alderon over an ant hill, I began my devious little plan.
I packed up my rockets, grabbed a few C6-7 engines I had (I love the long delay) and headed out to the school on my schwinn with the newt safely in tow.
I set up the launch pad, did all my pre-flight checks (make sure the fins aren't unglued, ect) and loaded the little guy in my egg payloader.
5...4...3...2...1 LIFTOFF!!!
Pretending that I was in mission control, I started saying things to myself like "Ok Houston, we have liftoff, going to full throttle" "Booster seperation complete, deploying parachute" I hopped back on my bike too chase the red and white striped parachute down.
The wind had carried the rocket south off school grounds, it was an overcast day so there must have been some high winds. I must have followed it for a 1/2 mile or so before I lost site of it. Then I noticed the red and white parachute dragging the cone and body of the rocket around the expressway from the wind that was kicked up by the cars. Then the unimaginable happened...
A orange 1976 toyota celica came barreling down the road. I swear to god, the driver looked me right in the eye, looked back at the rocket, and made a beeline straight towards it. I watched in horror as the right front wheel drove right over the plastic payload bay. After the cars had passed, I walked over to my injured rocket, which was now just a mess of carboard tubing, some balsa wood, and a bloody flattened carcase of a newt encased in a polyetheline casket.
We want shatner and the rest of the original crew back. We don't want the sissy bald man flying around in the "jelly bean" style enterprise with his pinochio sidekick (data) and the klingon with the anus protrusion on his head (I mentioned the anus head thing before, someone pointed to a DS9 episode but STILL nobody can explain why the klingons went through such a drastic change between TOS and TNG)
Just give us a good plot, that deals with modern day social issues. Terrorism, genocide, YRO stuff like privacy invasion.
My previous post on this subject stated that I want to see kirk running around banging alien chicks at every possible turn. After seeing a recent picture of him though, maybe that wouldn't be such a believable plot for a man of his age.
So don't make him and his crew the swashbuckling people they once were. Instead, put them IN CHARGE of starfleet. Here's my idea for a new show.
It takes place 30 years after TOS (would be about right for age progression) Kirk and his old crew are now at starbase 001 orbiting earth. They all have cozy desk jobs and each are in charge of different aspects of starfleet operations. Kirk of course would be the almighty leader and diplomat. Scotty would be in charge of the starfleet equivelent of the US Army of Engineers, Ohura with her communication skills would be the equivelent of the NSA, Spock would be an investigator of ancient artifacts and legends, and Dr Mcoy would be the Starfleet General Surgeon.
Now i'm sure you're wondering how can you get an exciting plot with a bunch of old geezers floating around a space station on earth. Simple.
The shows focus would shift weekly. One week Kirk could be smoothing out warring planets. Next week you could have Ohura send out teams of spies for information. Maybe Scotty could send out the starfleet core of engineers to save some planet from imploding, or spock would send out a team to investigate some relic with weird powers. Their teams would stay in touch with thier bosses through subspace video messages (that way we still get too see our old favortite TOS characters involved) but most of the episodes would revolve around the different situations each TOS character has to deal with, and how they have to deal with them.
The neat thing about doing it this way too is you could also show more variety of starfleet ships, without having to wind it into some unbelievable story line. Sure we saw the Excaliber in ST4 the movie, but did we ever actually see it go on a real mission? What about the Science ship kirks son served on in the wrath of khan? What sort of things do the other science ships in startfleet discover?
Star Trek after TOS and the movies got lame, because there was so much variety in TOS between episodes, you could hardly find the same plot twice. TNG, DS9, Voy, Ent, all off them stretched episodes into week long "SPACE OPERA'S" that had plots with so many holes in them, you could strain pasta with it.
Just give us back our old captain. First thing that came to mind when I saw Scott Bakula for the first time was "Quantum Leap" He's no Captain kirk, thats for sure.
Hey, there's an idea for a/. poll, who would win in a fight? Kirk Janeway Picard Cisco Cowboyneal?
Mabey some of those animators, now that they have some time on their hands, will decide to group together to work on some non-family animation here in the US.
Wow, Slashdot is posting retailer release dates now?
This is a story about Doom. It's important to us geeks because we will all be trading in our mothers to get the hardware needed to play this game. It will drive the PC gaming market and force everyone to upgrade meaning.
1. I will be playing it. 2. I will be getting a lot of calls from people wanting me to "fix" their machines (for $$$) so they can play it.
Dec 10 1993 was when it all started. (Hard to believe its been over 10 years. From that day forward a group of gamers were turned truly geek. They sat up long hours tweaking their machines to get that extra 1-2 fps. They learned the basics of networking for multiplayer.(Funny, same day my mother and stepfather got married? Coincidence? I think not)
Doom got me and a lot of my friends interested in networking to the point where we all became sysadmins. We started on tweaking ipxodi.com to run high for doom and it led to working with novell servers. From there Windows servers, and in the end Linux.
I'm glad Slashdot reported it. Even if it is an early Aprils Fools joke, it's related very much to my lifestyle, my friends, nerds.
BTW i'm going to tangent this thread here, who's not buying new hardware till they can have Doom3, PCI express video and a 64bit CPU?
Reliability: the hydraulic system was every prone to produce leaks and it wasn't even remotely bullet proof. A single foot soldier could take it out with an old WW I gun.
This has bigger implications than Nvidia or any graphics card company will be able to deal with.
Hi, I'm Mr. Knockoff in some foriegn country outside of the US juristiction. I just bought 1 of your top of the line cards and scanned in it's packaging. I have this pirate printer that will print out a million copies for dollars a roll.
I have this shack full of little kids I pay a dollar a day. They scratch out FX5900 and remark them FX5950 all day long.
And guess what, i'll be sending these back to the USA as grey market products. People won't even know the difference because I will have scratched out all references to FX5900 on the board/chips/bios/packaging and replaced them with that of the FX5950.
By that logic, people who spend a lot of time reading books would have the same issues.
Book reading isn't nearly as monotonous to your body as sitting in front of a CRT though. A book you can change its viewing distance by extending your hands, the light is reflected off the pages wheras a CRT the light is being emitted from the screen itself.
Books can be read in front of a nice warm fire on a cozy couch. They can be taken to your bathroom for a good read during a nice long sit down.
CRT's have refresh rates. Maybe high refresh rates have an undocumented side effect (we all know low refresh rates leads to headaches) Books refresh in realtime, at the maximum rate our eyes can see the text.
A book is waaaay more relaxing to your body than the computer is.
Mann, a 41-year-old engineering professor at the University of Toronto, spends hours every day viewing the world through that little monitor in front of his eye -- so much so that going without the apparatus often leaves him feeling nauseous, unsteady, naked.
I think it's called anxiety. I get it alot when i'm away from my computer, I don't have that clickly click click of the keyboard (it's bordering on OCD now)
I would also think the nauseous side effects he's experiencing when he takes his headgear off might be what I suffer from too. I think my eyes are used to focusing on my CRT a foot away from my eyes since i'm in front of the PC so much. Also my cochlea in my ear is used to my head not moving so much. When I go outside I get the double whammy of viewing objects that are not in my average focus, and i'm moving around.
My fri/sat night fun job is doorman for a SJ karaoke bar...
I swear to god if I hear that song being sung by a group of sorority girls screaming into the mics at the top of their lungs one more time i'm going to shoot myself.
Probably how the conversation will go when SCO approaches the French arm of google, google.fr.
SCO: You owe us money for Linux licenses Google: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough water! SCO: But we own the UNIX source code! Google: I fart in your general direction. SCO: We require $699 per CPU Google: Your mother was a hamster, and your father smells of elderberries SCO: Is there someone else up there we could talk to? Google:No, now go away before I taunt you a second time.
Originally posted by JPL-Jeff (737613) I'm very new to Slashdot (ok, ok, I joined just so I could announce Maestro:) ). Does this happen often? How is it usually dealt with?
We just ask the British to send a probe to the GNAA home planet to find intelligent life.:D
Mod parent and everyone who participates in "Yeah!/Boo! America" in this thread down please.
Personally I think I should be getting "Insightful" modpoints. Look at all the discussion my parent post has generated! I'm not kidding here!
We've seen this discussion bounce through many facts about space travel, to say the least which have been on topic and on discussion with the original story section "space" We've examined which countries were first at what, and who were the men behind these achievements in space exploration.
I think my original parent post was OK. It should at least get a +3 Funny
I suppose you don't want to talk about that piece of quality american math that went to Mars a few years ago????
And the Russions almost beat you to the Moon. (They did beat you to orbit, both unmanned, dogged(sp?) and manned)
A. I don't know what you're talking about. AND B. I didn't mention first to space for a reason, but if you want to call the russian k-9 experiments a great success don't forget there's a little dog skeleton floating around in a tin can out there in space.
Why is it every CMS based site out there now wants to be sectioned out like slashdot?
Tom if you're listening. Just keep the site the way it is. You don't need to copy slashdot. I go to your site for good reviews. My favorite part about your site is the graph analysis you provide with every review that compares a product to a similiar line of products. Also I know you're a smart guy, who knows his stuff, and I hold your opinion in high regard.
Keep doing what you do best. Slashdot is here for bullshit comments, karma, and is generally not considered a "valid journalistic source". Your site is considered journalism by many.
GTA VC is one of the greatest games EVER! I'm not just saying this as a total fansy, but after watching it win so many awards on G3 awards show, I think i'm right in saying it is.
I should be suing the HBO for the soprano's, I should sue MGM for the Godfather, I should sue tristar for Goodfellas.
Every time some idiot hears that i'm italian, suddenly they start thinking i'm some stupid mafia goomba, and they start doing the whole Robert Di Nero accent when they talk to me. Fact is, I was raised in California, and so many of my family members were trying to hard to be "American" that most of them talked like John Wayne.
But I do enjoy afformentioned films and shows, as well as GTA. It's not like rockstar made a game that promotes Haitian genocide. They just did the whole voodoo momma stereotype(which *IS* a part of Haitian culture, just like the Mafia is part of my heritige)
I think these people need to get a life. It's a game, liven up.
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I used to have this payloader rocket that you could load an egg in. One day I was digging around the yard under rocks (like most 14yro boys do) and I found some newts. Hmm, astro... astro... ASTRONEWTS YEAH!
So being the unusually cruel kind of kid that pulled the wings off of flies, and pretended his magnifying glass was the death star at alderon over an ant hill, I began my devious little plan.
I packed up my rockets, grabbed a few C6-7 engines I had (I love the long delay) and headed out to the school on my schwinn with the newt safely in tow.
I set up the launch pad, did all my pre-flight checks (make sure the fins aren't unglued, ect) and loaded the little guy in my egg payloader.
5...4...3...2...1 LIFTOFF!!!
Pretending that I was in mission control, I started saying things to myself like "Ok Houston, we have liftoff, going to full throttle" "Booster seperation complete, deploying parachute" I hopped back on my bike too chase the red and white striped parachute down.
The wind had carried the rocket south off school grounds, it was an overcast day so there must have been some high winds. I must have followed it for a 1/2 mile or so before I lost site of it. Then I noticed the red and white parachute dragging the cone and body of the rocket around the expressway from the wind that was kicked up by the cars. Then the unimaginable happened...
A orange 1976 toyota celica came barreling down the road. I swear to god, the driver looked me right in the eye, looked back at the rocket, and made a beeline straight towards it. I watched in horror as the right front wheel drove right over the plastic payload bay. After the cars had passed, I walked over to my injured rocket, which was now just a mess of carboard tubing, some balsa wood, and a bloody flattened carcase of a newt encased in a polyetheline casket.
I never flew a newt again.
We want shatner and the rest of the original crew back. We don't want the sissy bald man flying around in the "jelly bean" style enterprise with his pinochio sidekick (data) and the klingon with the anus protrusion on his head (I mentioned the anus head thing before, someone pointed to a DS9 episode but STILL nobody can explain why the klingons went through such a drastic change between TOS and TNG)
/. poll, who would win in a fight?
Just give us a good plot, that deals with modern day social issues. Terrorism, genocide, YRO stuff like privacy invasion.
My previous post on this subject stated that I want to see kirk running around banging alien chicks at every possible turn. After seeing a recent picture of him though, maybe that wouldn't be such a believable plot for a man of his age.
So don't make him and his crew the swashbuckling people they once were. Instead, put them IN CHARGE of starfleet. Here's my idea for a new show.
It takes place 30 years after TOS (would be about right for age progression) Kirk and his old crew are now at starbase 001 orbiting earth. They all have cozy desk jobs and each are in charge of different aspects of starfleet operations. Kirk of course would be the almighty leader and diplomat. Scotty would be in charge of the starfleet equivelent of the US Army of Engineers, Ohura with her communication skills would be the equivelent of the NSA, Spock would be an investigator of ancient artifacts and legends, and Dr Mcoy would be the Starfleet General Surgeon.
Now i'm sure you're wondering how can you get an exciting plot with a bunch of old geezers floating around a space station on earth. Simple.
The shows focus would shift weekly. One week Kirk could be smoothing out warring planets. Next week you could have Ohura send out teams of spies for information. Maybe Scotty could send out the starfleet core of engineers to save some planet from imploding, or spock would send out a team to investigate some relic with weird powers. Their teams would stay in touch with thier bosses through subspace video messages (that way we still get too see our old favortite TOS characters involved) but most of the episodes would revolve around the different situations each TOS character has to deal with, and how they have to deal with them.
The neat thing about doing it this way too is you could also show more variety of starfleet ships, without having to wind it into some unbelievable story line. Sure we saw the Excaliber in ST4 the movie, but did we ever actually see it go on a real mission? What about the Science ship kirks son served on in the wrath of khan? What sort of things do the other science ships in startfleet discover?
Star Trek after TOS and the movies got lame, because there was so much variety in TOS between episodes, you could hardly find the same plot twice. TNG, DS9, Voy, Ent, all off them stretched episodes into week long "SPACE OPERA'S" that had plots with so many holes in them, you could strain pasta with it.
Just give us back our old captain. First thing that came to mind when I saw Scott Bakula for the first time was "Quantum Leap" He's no Captain kirk, thats for sure.
Hey, there's an idea for a
Kirk
Janeway
Picard
Cisco
Cowboyneal?
here.
I have a mirror of the photo and specs here. I'll work on getting the website mirrored next.
Mabey some of those animators, now that they have some time on their hands, will decide to group together to work on some non-family animation here in the US.
Yes I for one vote they make a sequel to Fritz The Cat.
Wow, Slashdot is posting retailer release dates now?
This is a story about Doom. It's important to us geeks because we will all be trading in our mothers to get the hardware needed to play this game. It will drive the PC gaming market and force everyone to upgrade meaning.
1. I will be playing it.
2. I will be getting a lot of calls from people wanting me to "fix" their machines (for $$$) so they can play it.
Dec 10 1993 was when it all started. (Hard to believe its been over 10 years. From that day forward a group of gamers were turned truly geek. They sat up long hours tweaking their machines to get that extra 1-2 fps. They learned the basics of networking for multiplayer.(Funny, same day my mother and stepfather got married? Coincidence? I think not)
Doom got me and a lot of my friends interested in networking to the point where we all became sysadmins. We started on tweaking ipxodi.com to run high for doom and it led to working with novell servers. From there Windows servers, and in the end Linux.
I'm glad Slashdot reported it. Even if it is an early Aprils Fools joke, it's related very much to my lifestyle, my friends, nerds.
BTW i'm going to tangent this thread here, who's not buying new hardware till they can have Doom3, PCI express video and a 64bit CPU?
Reliability: the hydraulic system was every prone to produce leaks and it wasn't even remotely bullet proof. A single foot soldier could take it out with an old WW I gun.
Did they have kevlar back then?
This has bigger implications than Nvidia or any graphics card company will be able to deal with.
Hi, I'm Mr. Knockoff in some foriegn country outside of the US juristiction. I just bought 1 of your top of the line cards and scanned in it's packaging. I have this pirate printer that will print out a million copies for dollars a roll.
I have this shack full of little kids I pay a dollar a day. They scratch out FX5900 and remark them FX5950 all day long.
And guess what, i'll be sending these back to the USA as grey market products. People won't even know the difference because I will have scratched out all references to FX5900 on the board/chips/bios/packaging and replaced them with that of the FX5950.
Maybe it's cochlear offset from the added weight on one side of his head... not visual fixation
If I had mod points you would get at least a +1 insightful. Good call!
By that logic, people who spend a lot of time reading books would have the same issues.
Book reading isn't nearly as monotonous to your body as sitting in front of a CRT though. A book you can change its viewing distance by extending your hands, the light is reflected off the pages wheras a CRT the light is being emitted from the screen itself.
Books can be read in front of a nice warm fire on a cozy couch. They can be taken to your bathroom for a good read during a nice long sit down.
CRT's have refresh rates. Maybe high refresh rates have an undocumented side effect (we all know low refresh rates leads to headaches) Books refresh in realtime, at the maximum rate our eyes can see the text.
A book is waaaay more relaxing to your body than the computer is.
Mann, a 41-year-old engineering professor at the University of Toronto, spends hours every day viewing the world through that little monitor in front of his eye -- so much so that going without the apparatus often leaves him feeling nauseous, unsteady, naked.
I think it's called anxiety. I get it alot when i'm away from my computer, I don't have that clickly click click of the keyboard (it's bordering on OCD now)
I would also think the nauseous side effects he's experiencing when he takes his headgear off might be what I suffer from too. I think my eyes are used to focusing on my CRT a foot away from my eyes since i'm in front of the PC so much. Also my cochlea in my ear is used to my head not moving so much. When I go outside I get the double whammy of viewing objects that are not in my average focus, and i'm moving around.
My fri/sat night fun job is doorman for a SJ karaoke bar...
I swear to god if I hear that song being sung by a group of sorority girls screaming into the mics at the top of their lungs one more time i'm going to shoot myself.
Probably how the conversation will go when SCO approaches the French arm of google, google.fr.
SCO: You owe us money for Linux licenses
Google: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough water!
SCO: But we own the UNIX source code!
Google: I fart in your general direction.
SCO: We require $699 per CPU
Google: Your mother was a hamster, and your father
smells of elderberries
SCO: Is there someone else up there we could talk to?
Google:No, now go away before I taunt you a second time.
Seems like a better solution to me, especially if it's just your photos.
I remember hearing an urban legend that copy machines also have a secret counter that detects when money has been copied.
Originally posted by JPL-Jeff (737613) :) ). Does this happen often? How is it usually dealt with?
:D
I'm very new to Slashdot (ok, ok, I joined just so I could announce Maestro
We just ask the British to send a probe to the GNAA home planet to find intelligent life.
Mod parent and everyone who participates in "Yeah!/Boo! America" in this thread down please.
Personally I think I should be getting "Insightful" modpoints. Look at all the discussion my parent post has generated! I'm not kidding here!
We've seen this discussion bounce through many facts about space travel, to say the least which have been on topic and on discussion with the original story section "space" We've examined which countries were first at what, and who were the men behind these achievements in space exploration.
I think my original parent post was OK. It should at least get a +3 Funny
I suppose you don't want to talk about that piece of quality american math that went to Mars a few years ago????
And the Russions almost beat you to the Moon. (They did beat you to orbit, both unmanned, dogged(sp?) and manned)
A. I don't know what you're talking about. AND
B. I didn't mention first to space for a reason, but if you want to call the russian k-9 experiments a great success don't forget there's a little dog skeleton floating around in a tin can out there in space.
w00t go U.S.A.! First to the moon, first outside the solar system, first to discover life on mars.
Why is it every CMS based site out there now wants to be sectioned out like slashdot?
Tom if you're listening. Just keep the site the way it is. You don't need to copy slashdot. I go to your site for good reviews. My favorite part about your site is the graph analysis you provide with every review that compares a product to a similiar line of products. Also I know you're a smart guy, who knows his stuff, and I hold your opinion in high regard.
Keep doing what you do best. Slashdot is here for bullshit comments, karma, and is generally not considered a "valid journalistic source". Your site is considered journalism by many.
It was a trojan in the default messanger that comes with XP. Add/Remove did not remove it, nor did trying to delete the messanger.exe program file.
The fix was to download the newest MSM, which upon reboot overwrote the pesky trojan.
Sorry I don't have more info than that.
Oh and on top of all I said above...
GTA VC is one of the greatest games EVER! I'm not just saying this as a total fansy, but after watching it win so many awards on G3 awards show, I think i'm right in saying it is.
I should be suing the HBO for the soprano's, I should sue MGM for the Godfather, I should sue tristar for Goodfellas.
Every time some idiot hears that i'm italian, suddenly they start thinking i'm some stupid mafia goomba, and they start doing the whole Robert Di Nero accent when they talk to me. Fact is, I was raised in California, and so many of my family members were trying to hard to be "American" that most of them talked like John Wayne.
But I do enjoy afformentioned films and shows, as well as GTA. It's not like rockstar made a game that promotes Haitian genocide. They just did the whole voodoo momma stereotype(which *IS* a part of Haitian culture, just like the Mafia is part of my heritige)
I think these people need to get a life. It's a game, liven up.
Or any other movie that makes heavy use of CG. While fans are visiting the fan site, they'll be helping to produce the sequel.
Might be cheaper than render farms.
What if's
She's doing something that's illegal where she lives, and she's posting to the
Internet photos of herself doing it.
If a tree falls in the woods does anyone hear it? If someone strips naked in public with a camera around, are you really seeing it?
She could have just as easily photohshopped herself into these backgrounds. Big what if.