It could be argued that Jupiter isn't a "planet" at all but is really a failed star. It's rotation is too fast given it's size (8.8 hours). It emits more than twice the energy it should if it was just reflecting light. And it has no visible surface. Finally it greatly affects the bodies orbiting around it. For example Io is made vulcanic from Jupiters magetic influence.
Mercury has not atmosphere and should be reclassified as a moon....
See how it starts? Now make your own argument debunking the other orbiting gas balls and big rocks.
Dennis Ritchie kindly makes available source for "two very early compilers". Circa 1970 stuff from under the floor boards resurrected from tape. Check out:http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/primeval C.html
In a public school library you cannot find magazines like Playboy, Elle, or Martha Stuart's Living. Nor is a Kama Sutra available on the shelves or even by request. You won't find any pictographic history books of the Holocaust in the children's area. Looking for details on making beer or building a still? You strike out once again in the school library.
All this is fine with me. Filtering is a good thing with regards to children. It may be okay to say "Shit, fuck, pour hot grits down my pants" on Slashdot. Sometimes you actually get mod'd down for saying that. In the classroom you're sure to get detention.
You might get expelled for for bringing naked pictures of Natalie Portman or other pornographic (insert your own definition of that here) materials to class and showing them to your friends. Why? Because it's disruptive to the learning environment. Besides, why should our tax dollars be used to deliver potentially offensive/disruptive/abusive/racist/etc content when there are so many other things of educational value to have access to.
I've been doing this for years. Instead of empty I toss in some prizes. That way the person opening the letter will have something to talk about on their break. All kinds of things have found a new home this way:
- Little plastic army men.
- Out of focus photographs.
- Change. (Costing more in postage than it's worth)
- Lettuce.
- A printed warning about the Goodtimes virus.
Person man, person man
hit on the head with a frying pan...
Imagine getting hit on the head with a digital frying pan! I'd imagine it would hurt a bit more.
Interviewer: "What's it like searching for porn?"
Worker: "It's hard."
Interviewer: "Your job is hard?"
Worker: "No"
Interviewer: "What's hard then? Oh...never mind."
Allen Steele wrote a chapter on this
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In the book "Orbital Decay" one of the beam jacks uses this exact method to escape to Earth. Steele wrote from the trainers point of view that given the choice between death and flying home on one of these contriptions they'd pick death. Anyway it's a good read if you can find it as it's out of print. So check used: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441498515/
it's possible to telnet in to the pinball machine and get to a shell. I'm using that shell to dump out a bunch of statistic information
It was getting cool until I got to the part about statistics. I was really hoping to read a list of key commands to control the pinball machine. You know "/" for left flipper, "Z" for right flipper, "L" to launch a ball....
No more unsightly spots...
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The guy that invented this was tired of those spots you get on pants accidently when taking a leak. He must have thought of this while trying to figure out what to tell his date:
1. "No, no, it's water that splashed out of the sink."
2. "What spots?"
3. "Damn, I'm inventing a new fabric, and I guess this versions still got bugs."
Just because it's old and there is no record doesn't automatically mean that people from that era were stupid. We assume that because we can send probes to the planets that we're all exponetially smarter than our ancestors.
Maybe it's time for Mattel to make "news break Barbie" which says "Science is hard."
Even though the corp itself didn't pay taxes, the options themselves were taxed at the time of sale at the rate of 50% (or what ever the percent of thecurret capital gains tax). For once it seems like a fair deal as a tax was paid only one time instead of the normal 2 or 3 times that this country has a way of getting.
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It could be argued that Jupiter isn't a "planet" at all but is really a failed star. It's rotation is too fast given it's size (8.8 hours). It emits more than twice the energy it should if it was just reflecting light. And it has no visible surface. Finally it greatly affects the bodies orbiting around it. For example Io is made vulcanic from Jupiters magetic influence.
Mercury has not atmosphere and should be reclassified as a moon....
See how it starts? Now make your own argument debunking the other orbiting gas balls and big rocks.
Dennis Ritchie kindly makes available source for "two very early compilers". Circa 1970 stuff from under the floor boards resurrected from tape.l C.html
Check out:http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/primeva
Finally! A keyboard that will support my head AND prevent the half inch checker board pattern from being imbedded on my face!
In a public school library you cannot find magazines like Playboy, Elle, or Martha Stuart's Living. Nor is a Kama Sutra available on the shelves or even by request. You won't find any pictographic history books of the Holocaust in the children's area. Looking for details on making beer or building a still? You strike out once again in the school library.
All this is fine with me. Filtering is a good thing with regards to children. It may be okay to say "Shit, fuck, pour hot grits down my pants" on Slashdot. Sometimes you actually get mod'd down for saying that. In the classroom you're sure to get detention.
You might get expelled for for bringing naked pictures of Natalie Portman or other pornographic (insert your own definition of that here) materials to class and showing them to your friends. Why? Because it's disruptive to the learning environment. Besides, why should our tax dollars be used to deliver potentially offensive/disruptive/abusive/racist/etc content when there are so many other things of educational value to have access to.
I've been doing this for years. Instead of empty I toss in some prizes. That way the person opening the letter will have something to talk about on their break. All kinds of things have found a new home this way:
- Little plastic army men.
- Out of focus photographs.
- Change. (Costing more in postage than it's worth)
- Lettuce.
- A printed warning about the Goodtimes virus.
Person man, person man ...
hit on the head with a frying pan
Imagine getting hit on the head with a digital frying pan! I'd imagine it would hurt a bit more.
Interviewer: "What's it like searching for porn?"
Worker: "It's hard."
Interviewer: "Your job is hard?"
Worker: "No"
Interviewer: "What's hard then? Oh...never mind."
In the book "Orbital Decay" one of the beam jacks uses this exact method to escape to Earth. Steele wrote from the trainers point of view that given the choice between death and flying home on one of these contriptions they'd pick death. Anyway it's a good read if you can find it as it's out of print. So check used: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441498515/
it's possible to telnet in to the pinball machine and get to a shell. I'm using that shell to dump out a bunch of statistic information
It was getting cool until I got to the part about statistics. I was really hoping to read a list of key commands to control the pinball machine. You know "/" for left flipper, "Z" for right flipper, "L" to launch a ball....
The guy that invented this was tired of those spots you get on pants accidently when taking a leak. He must have thought of this while trying to figure out what to tell his date:
1. "No, no, it's water that splashed out of the sink."
2. "What spots?"
3. "Damn, I'm inventing a new fabric, and I guess this versions still got bugs."
If you have a patent it's your job to inforce it. Sit idlely by and do nothing and your "investment" goes away.
Possibly still influencial. Here's the link to the on going work: http://www.lysator.liu.se/eamon/
Just because it's old and there is no record doesn't automatically mean that people from that era were stupid. We assume that because we can send probes to the planets that we're all exponetially smarter than our ancestors.
Maybe it's time for Mattel to make "news break Barbie" which says "Science is hard."
Even though the corp itself didn't pay taxes, the options themselves were taxed at the time of sale at the rate of 50% (or what ever the percent of thecurret capital gains tax). For once it seems like a fair deal as a tax was paid only one time instead of the normal 2 or 3 times that this country has a way of getting.