A few years back, he thought it may even be a 'cool' idea to toss a few chunks of dry ice into a super soaker. Long range and continuous stream... for the first 20 seconds or so. Then, it slowed (freezing the internal valves) and only took another second or two to explode.
He's still got the scars from having the emergency room pull the plastic from his arm... but even he can't tell the story without laughing.
I wandered the city whenever I could - fascinating place.
You'd think SD is nothing, because it's familiar, but when you think about it, you've always got to keep your wits about you in town. One of the guys rolled for his wallet was a good friend of mine - who was hit while ON THE PIER! When the base is in a crappy part of town and you don't watch the gates during the daytime - it's asking for trouble.
Your guess is close, I was on DDG-56 from '94-'97 as an Electronic Warfare technician.
I spent 4 years in the Navy, 3 of them living on a ship.
On the ship, we visited Alcupulco, Panama, Hong Kong, Singapore, India (forget the port name), Newcastle and Freemantle (Australia), Abu Dhabi and Dhubi (United Arab Emirates), Oman (again forget the port name) and several US ports.
Most dangerous port I've been to: San Diego - where we had one of our guys shot at a night club, and a couple others mugged.
A friend of mine had told me (a few years ago) about how his company was working on ways to use body conductivity and the electical fields surrounding our bodies to pass data. This article sounds very familiar.
Passing data from one person to another was one of the uses, but the other I found much more interesting.
Imagine a personal device "cloud" where your PDA, watch, and cell phone all pass data back and forth. Your watch acts as a small display for your cell and/or your PDA and receives time updates via the cell. Your PDA uses the cell for data calls. Your cell uses your PDA to look up names and numbers. All (theoretically;) seamlessly.
Take it a step further, and create small modules that plug into this personal network. Maybe a keychain of functions all accessable through your watch or PDA. Maybe carry a Quake quarter in your pocket.
Nokia make a lot of press with putting a camera in a cell phone. I haven't looked at the spec, but I'd imagine that like many multi-function devices, it doesn't do either well. Imagine your (dedicated to task) camera taking pics, and storing them on another device (is that smart card in your wallet or are you just happy to see me?), previewing the pics on your phone and sending them from there. You could easily give them to someone else with a handshake.
Quite a lot of possibility. I had often thought that the business card exchange application was the least exciting...
This sounds quite close to tech a friend of mine was working on (before getting laid off) a few years back.
If I remember correctly, it actually worked by modulating a signal over the electrical field near your skin, and although the sensor didn't have to touch skin, it worked better if it did.
I was thinking the same thing looking at this shot of the interior of a hull. When I was stationed on a ship, we were trained that the ONLY thing that kept a ship afloat in combat was watertight compartments.
The ship I was on (DDG-56) even had cross-flooding zones so if a compartment on the port was compromised, a compartment (non COMBAT essential) on the starboard would cross-flood to keep the ship level (important for guns a missle launchers).
A similar arguement is made against HIV/AIDS... How can so many different symptoms come under a common disease? the list of HIV/AIDS symptoms is HUGE and added to every few years. Whens the last time you saw someone with KS (almost everyone diagnosed with AIDS had KS in the early days)? Today it's unheard of. However, it was postulated that "huffers" popular in the 70s may have actually caused KS.
" Duesberg's theory that HIV is not the cause of AIDS has been disproved to the satisfaction of every scientist but him."
Oh, you mean like Dr. Gordon Stewart (the former WHO advisor on AIDS), or Dr. Robert Root-Bernstein (who made a thorough study of the AIDS and could not find any evidence to back up the claim that HIV is the cause of AIDS, that AIDS is a new disease, or that it is contagious) or how about the Perth Group (a group of medical researchers from Perth Australia) who has an excellent set of links on their home page.
Many many more... just don't have time to post them.
Deusberg claims AIDS is caused by recrational drugs/AZT.
How do you explain Africa's AIDS problem? Not like they have a lot of spare cash laying around for recreational IV drugs, nor are they exactly awash in AZT.
A large part of the arguement is whether or not HIV exists at all. South Africa's President Mbeki's position is that his people are dying from the same things they've always been dying of - malnutrition.
Looking at the diagnosis guidlines for AIDS, a rural doctor can diagnose AIDS on an assumption (no funds for the actual test). Now if said rural doctor diagnoses (say) malnutrition - he doesn't get paid because there is no international support for malnutrition. If he diagnoses his patient with HIV, now the bills are paid. HIV and malnutrition have several of the same same symptoms - "unintended and progressive weight loss often accompanied by weakness, fever, nutritional deficiencies and diarrhea." it is therefore up to the doctor to decide what the problem is.
Even when AIDS tests are available, the less expensive ones have the alarming habit of producing a very large number of false positives.
"Beyond the monetary risks, there is also a very serious privacy threat as we have become accustomed to government regulation that at least protects our privacy from everyone outside government."
Protects our privacy?? Oh, you mean like when I use e-mail, IMs or even those less expensive wireless phones?
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I worked in a battery shop for a few months. Cooling batteries makes them discharge slower, and freezing them destroys them (expanding/crystalizing electrolite destroys the membrane between the plates). Last month I left my cell in the car overnight, it got a bit cold (in the 40s), and my phone wouldn't work until the battery warmed back up.
...also, as Jeff67 points out: "Alcohol only gives the perception of warmth. It does it by dilating blood vessels in the skin. The result is you lose heat faster. Drinking when you're really cold is a good way to get dead."
So, fake longer battery life, and fake warmth. In short, this looks like a bogus story. I guess CNN is taking it's cues from the Chinese news media these days...
I'd like to thank both of you (Phil Hands and Compulawer) for debating this. I had heard something similar to this concept (OPL) previously, but had not yet formed an opinion on this subject.
...Probably should have patented it as a business method;)
Well, I know two CEOs and a rocket scientist - CEO A (sorry, I simply can't name names) lives in a mansion, has a nice car, all his kids go to private schools, he doesn't accept large bonuses because he doesn't need them. CEO B has the mansion, kids in private schools, a collection of 23 Ferraris (he doesn't drive them, they are, simply, a collection!), and pulls in a huge salary with bonuses. They both do an excellent job at running their respective companies (one that I couldn't do), but are the 23 Ferraris that important? If he got a bonus, would he now have 26?
The rocket scientist friend of mine (Scott Zeber - he won't care if I name names;) shares an apartment in San Jose and can barely make ends meet. I can't do his job either.
Another arguement is that even the bad CEOs that don't do a good job are given huge salaries and perks - both Enron and Pacific Bell's execs all gave themselves bonuses as they were driving thier companies into the ground. Do you really think that's right? Were they doing a good job? (hint: haveing your company go under and being investigated for fraud is not considered a "good job")
Because REALLY good CEO's know that they don't really need the uber-high paycheck (how many millions do you need every year??), and that the money could go back into company benefits, and workers will tend to feel less put-upon, and more productivity, etc.
CONVERSLY, Bad CEO's still make an uber-high paycheck (from companies like Enron, Pacific Bell, to name a few), and keep getting bonuses at the injury to a company's fluidity, putting their workforce into layoffs, killing productivity, maybe even while driving the company into bankruptcy.
The way that it seperates the documents is by an overhead tab system that can be easily modified to be placed on the bottom, top or side of the browser. Overall this is a very cool and unique feature...
Need to do a little more homework there sluggo.
It also looks the editor (if any) was asleep at the wheel. After showing that all the sites he visited rendered well, he states:
For the most part I could not find a site that didn't completely blowup in Opera.
It would be nice, however, if the pilots actually had a cockpit wherever they were stationed to control the drone. Controlling a drone with a small joystick and a few flight controls in front of a B&W television is just annoying.
Note that this is a robot, not a mindless drone. Remembering some of the military systems in use a few years ago (when I was stationed on-board a ship) I would guess that the controls to this plane would be more along the lines of "turn left to 030, increase altitude, attack this target, return home, land", and much less like a sim that you may be used to.
Over the last few years, the US has become allergic to ANY casualties, and therfore has made more use of cruise missles to destroy targets in dangerous situations. The 9/11 events have changed that view somewhat, but the military would still like to avoid loss of life (at least on OUR side), and the resulting bad press that a downed pilot can bring. Remember that cruise missles are preprogrammed to fly autonomously to a location and strike a target. This may be thought of as a cheaper alternative.
I keep on hearing this, but the truth is the net was rolling back when you had to obtain a 3rd party TCP/IP stack to make Win 3.1 work.
If the net went IP6, Microsoft would either release a patch for WinME,2k,XP, and I bet some 3rd party would offer a d/l to support 95/98 (maybe even 3.1!)
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So, there ya go. There are probably five dots in the way on those floors. A little cleaning may help.
To elaborate on what zzyrc said, TTL wont decrement when it passes through a typical layer 2 switch - only a router or other layer 3 device.
Maybe they would have had more hits if they'd have gotten a better picture of the nudist beach.
Great place, was there for the 4th.
...could you imagine a beouwolf cluster of us things?
A coworker of mine likes to do this.
A few years back, he thought it may even be a 'cool' idea to toss a few chunks of dry ice into a super soaker. Long range and continuous stream... for the first 20 seconds or so. Then, it slowed (freezing the internal valves) and only took another second or two to explode.
He's still got the scars from having the emergency room pull the plastic from his arm... but even he can't tell the story without laughing.
I wandered the city whenever I could - fascinating place.
You'd think SD is nothing, because it's familiar, but when you think about it, you've always got to keep your wits about you in town. One of the guys rolled for his wallet was a good friend of mine - who was hit while ON THE PIER! When the base is in a crappy part of town and you don't watch the gates during the daytime - it's asking for trouble.
Your guess is close, I was on DDG-56 from '94-'97 as an Electronic Warfare technician.
I spent 4 years in the Navy, 3 of them living on a ship.
On the ship, we visited Alcupulco, Panama, Hong Kong, Singapore, India (forget the port name), Newcastle and Freemantle (Australia), Abu Dhabi and Dhubi (United Arab Emirates), Oman (again forget the port name) and several US ports.
Most dangerous port I've been to: San Diego - where we had one of our guys shot at a night club, and a couple others mugged.
A friend of mine had told me (a few years ago) about how his company was working on ways to use body conductivity and the electical fields surrounding our bodies to pass data. This article sounds very familiar.
;) seamlessly.
Passing data from one person to another was one of the uses, but the other I found much more interesting.
Imagine a personal device "cloud" where your PDA, watch, and cell phone all pass data back and forth. Your watch acts as a small display for your cell and/or your PDA and receives time updates via the cell. Your PDA uses the cell for data calls. Your cell uses your PDA to look up names and numbers. All (theoretically
Take it a step further, and create small modules that plug into this personal network. Maybe a keychain of functions all accessable through your watch or PDA. Maybe carry a Quake quarter in your pocket.
Nokia make a lot of press with putting a camera in a cell phone. I haven't looked at the spec, but I'd imagine that like many multi-function devices, it doesn't do either well. Imagine your (dedicated to task) camera taking pics, and storing them on another device (is that smart card in your wallet or are you just happy to see me?), previewing the pics on your phone and sending them from there. You could easily give them to someone else with a handshake.
Quite a lot of possibility. I had often thought that the business card exchange application was the least exciting...
This sounds quite close to tech a friend of mine was working on (before getting laid off) a few years back.
If I remember correctly, it actually worked by modulating a signal over the electrical field near your skin, and although the sensor didn't have to touch skin, it worked better if it did.
I was thinking the same thing looking at this shot of the interior of a hull. When I was stationed on a ship, we were trained that the ONLY thing that kept a ship afloat in combat was watertight compartments.
The ship I was on (DDG-56) even had cross-flooding zones so if a compartment on the port was compromised, a compartment (non COMBAT essential) on the starboard would cross-flood to keep the ship level (important for guns a missle launchers).
A similar arguement is made against HIV/AIDS... How can so many different symptoms come under a common disease? the list of HIV/AIDS symptoms is HUGE and added to every few years. Whens the last time you saw someone with KS (almost everyone diagnosed with AIDS had KS in the early days)? Today it's unheard of. However, it was postulated that "huffers" popular in the 70s may have actually caused KS.
" Duesberg's theory that HIV is not the cause of AIDS has been disproved to the satisfaction of every scientist but him."
Oh, you mean like Dr. Gordon Stewart (the former WHO advisor on AIDS),
or Dr. Robert Root-Bernstein (who made a thorough study of the AIDS and could not find any evidence to back up the claim that HIV is the cause of AIDS, that AIDS is a new disease, or that it is contagious)
or how about the Perth Group (a group of medical researchers from Perth Australia) who has an excellent set of links on their home page.
Many many more... just don't have time to post them.
A large part of the arguement is whether or not HIV exists at all. South Africa's President Mbeki's position is that his people are dying from the same things they've always been dying of - malnutrition.
Looking at the diagnosis guidlines for AIDS, a rural doctor can diagnose AIDS on an assumption (no funds for the actual test). Now if said rural doctor diagnoses (say) malnutrition - he doesn't get paid because there is no international support for malnutrition. If he diagnoses his patient with HIV, now the bills are paid. HIV and malnutrition have several of the same same symptoms - "unintended and progressive weight loss often accompanied by weakness, fever, nutritional deficiencies and diarrhea." it is therefore up to the doctor to decide what the problem is.
Even when AIDS tests are available, the less expensive ones have the alarming habit of producing a very large number of false positives.
Been noticing that over at SF Gate with Mark Fiore's stuff. Heavy handed political cartoonist whose pieces are often presented in a flash game format.
Protects our privacy?? Oh, you mean like when I use e-mail, IMs or even those less expensive wireless phones?
I guess that head in sand == privacy.
Credited to one of my coworkers (who designs UIs), after pressing the wrong button on a shoddy UI:
"ARRGH, do what I'm THINKING, not what I'm telling you!!!"
they dont.
I worked in a battery shop for a few months. Cooling batteries makes them discharge slower, and freezing them destroys them (expanding/crystalizing electrolite destroys the membrane between the plates). Last month I left my cell in the car overnight, it got a bit cold (in the 40s), and my phone wouldn't work until the battery warmed back up.
...also, as Jeff67 points out:
"Alcohol only gives the perception of warmth. It does it by dilating blood vessels in the skin. The result is you lose heat faster. Drinking when you're really cold is a good way to get dead."
So, fake longer battery life, and fake warmth. In short, this looks like a bogus story. I guess CNN is taking it's cues from the Chinese news media these days...
I'd like to thank both of you (Phil Hands and Compulawer) for debating this. I had heard something similar to this concept (OPL) previously, but had not yet formed an opinion on this subject.
;)
...Probably should have patented it as a business method
Well, I know two CEOs and a rocket scientist - CEO A (sorry, I simply can't name names) lives in a mansion, has a nice car, all his kids go to private schools, he doesn't accept large bonuses because he doesn't need them. CEO B has the mansion, kids in private schools, a collection of 23 Ferraris (he doesn't drive them, they are, simply, a collection!), and pulls in a huge salary with bonuses. They both do an excellent job at running their respective companies (one that I couldn't do), but are the 23 Ferraris that important? If he got a bonus, would he now have 26?
;) shares an apartment in San Jose and can barely make ends meet. I can't do his job either.
The rocket scientist friend of mine (Scott Zeber - he won't care if I name names
Another arguement is that even the bad CEOs that don't do a good job are given huge salaries and perks - both Enron and Pacific Bell's execs all gave themselves bonuses as they were driving thier companies into the ground. Do you really think that's right? Were they doing a good job? (hint: haveing your company go under and being investigated for fraud is not considered a "good job")
Because REALLY good CEO's know that they don't really need the uber-high paycheck (how many millions do you need every year??), and that the money could go back into company benefits, and workers will tend to feel less put-upon, and more productivity, etc.
CONVERSLY, Bad CEO's still make an uber-high paycheck (from companies like Enron, Pacific Bell, to name a few), and keep getting bonuses at the injury to a company's fluidity, putting their workforce into layoffs, killing productivity, maybe even while driving the company into bankruptcy.
Need to do a little more homework there sluggo.
It also looks the editor (if any) was asleep at the wheel. After showing that all the sites he visited rendered well, he states:
Note that this is a robot, not a mindless drone. Remembering some of the military systems in use a few years ago (when I was stationed on-board a ship) I would guess that the controls to this plane would be more along the lines of "turn left to 030, increase altitude, attack this target, return home, land", and much less like a sim that you may be used to.
Over the last few years, the US has become allergic to ANY casualties, and therfore has made more use of cruise missles to destroy targets in dangerous situations. The 9/11 events have changed that view somewhat, but the military would still like to avoid loss of life (at least on OUR side), and the resulting bad press that a downed pilot can bring. Remember that cruise missles are preprogrammed to fly autonomously to a location and strike a target. This may be thought of as a cheaper alternative.
I keep on hearing this, but the truth is the net was rolling back when you had to obtain a 3rd party TCP/IP stack to make Win 3.1 work.
If the net went IP6, Microsoft would either release a patch for WinME,2k,XP, and I bet some 3rd party would offer a d/l to support 95/98 (maybe even 3.1!)
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