I just keep a handful of dice in the desk to roll new passwords with. 2d6 >> base 36 >> letters and numbers. My logon pw, for instance, is 24 digits of that stuff.
I've noticed a growing trend at these shows- March Air Museum (on the west side of the base at Van Buren & 215 Fwy) is good example. They brought a number of their planes over and parked them in a semi-roped off area. You can walk up to the ropes and look, but if you want to walk past the ropes, it's $2 a shot. Also courtesy of the air museum, they had an SR-71 on the ground, no ropes. You could walk up the platform and look in the open cockpit, but if you want to actually sit in it, it's $10 a shot. Blech.
Presumably due to 9/11, they didn't have the F117 on the ground like last time. Just a flyover.
The most frustrating thing about these shows is that I always set out with the goal of getting a picture or video of one of the Thunderbirds during their show. Every show, just one time, all but one of the jets will fly by at a fairly slow pace, then the other one zooms by with (I think it is) full afterburners. Every darned time I intend to get the pic and ever time, no matter how much I try to remember, i'm always looking at the slow planes and miss the shot.
Partly for shameless plug and partly...for shameless plug- here's the pics I took at the show:...darned slashdot...how about go to johnperkins.com and click on "Air Show 99" or Air Show 04"
More evidence that Lucas won't give us what we want.
Give us a prequel that doesn't suck! Um...No.
Let Stephen take a crack at it! Um...No.
Give us the original original trilogy! Um..No.
Try to understand that I don't give a flying-f about your art, that i'm a consumer and I very much want to spend my money on what I saw in theaters as a kid! Um...No.
Ah, the joy of seeing my most hated of all anime characters in English. "I don't want to fly the Eva and save the world because my father hates me." Grrrrr.
My thanks to my anime club pres for the plush Shinji to torture.
I don't remember if it's at the end of the regular series or in the movies, but the one redeeming part of the whole show for me is Asuka's looks and attitude when fighting the white Evas alone.
I remember reading this article way back when that talked about using Jimson weed to more efficiently store nuclear waste, water with plutonium in I think...
The gist of the story was that Jimson weed is supposed to be fairly hardy when exposed to nuclear waste. Feed the plant water with waste in it and the plant supposedly filters out and stores the waste material. The idea was to start with around 1000 barrels of liquid and end up with 1 barrel of radioactive Jimson weed. The end of the story was that this would all be a no-no because Jimson weed was a cousin to Marijuana- a controlled substance and so on.
I wonder- would doing this make the waste easier or harder to deal with? Wouldn't that barrel be much more radioactive? I know the total amount of radiation would be roughly the same, but it would be concentrated in a smaller volume. Ooh...critical mass maybe?
Wouldn't that be better than a certain train I sort of remember from way back when that was carrying nuclear waste, but no one would let it offload? The train just kept driving around with its happy cargo, until several weeks (months?) later when someone finally accepted it.
A country using blocking software to prevent its citizens from accessing a large chunk of the net is not perverting the net. It might be perverting their citizens rights, but not the net itself.
I think the question boils down to: To what extent does a sovereign nation have the right to determine what its population is exposed to? The answer probably changes when looking at it from a moral vs legal vs economic standpoint.
I'm a bit concerned that in banging the drum of a completely open net, might we not become, at least in part, the zealots ourselves?
I mean the one where Rosebud's dressed up as a babushka. I think it was the X-17 Stealth Basselope. For the life of me I can't seem to find an image online. Plenty of Cruise Basselopes but no Stealth Basselopes.
Roswell. I know, I know, it would be more fun if it was aliens. This makes me think maybe the govt just did something really stupid and they're still embarassed.
Call me sick and perverted, but i'd like to see the secret tapes of animals exposed to space and the first tape of naughtiness in space...
John doesn't know, but he's passed the 600 cd mark and he's watched..um...some of it.
In ye olde days the collection got up to about 800 3.5" floppies. Approximately 2 cds. If the progression follows, should be switching to a new medium at 800 cds with the new media carring about 266 gb per unit.
Cost aside (ha!), if they were to build something like the Leonov in "2001", making the arms longer would increase the apparent gravity at the ends. Balance the relationship between arm length and angular velocity to get 1g at the ends. Do that many of the degeneration/atrophy issues ought to disappear.
On Earth, it's 1 g, on Earth's moon it's about 1/6 g, on Mars it's about 1/3 g.
Maybe I ought to take a crack an idea I had a few years ago for a cheap launch vehicle- sort of a motorized bolas...
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I'm sorry, but the advertisement on the left of that story is just too damn annoying to make reading the story bearable.
I just keep a handful of dice in the desk to roll new passwords with. 2d6 >> base 36 >> letters and numbers. My logon pw, for instance, is 24 digits of that stuff.
I've noticed a growing trend at these shows- March Air Museum (on the west side of the base at Van Buren & 215 Fwy) is good example. They brought a number of their planes over and parked them in a semi-roped off area. You can walk up to the ropes and look, but if you want to walk past the ropes, it's $2 a shot. Also courtesy of the air museum, they had an SR-71 on the ground, no ropes. You could walk up the platform and look in the open cockpit, but if you want to actually sit in it, it's $10 a shot. Blech.
Presumably due to 9/11, they didn't have the F117 on the ground like last time. Just a flyover.
The most frustrating thing about these shows is that I always set out with the goal of getting a picture or video of one of the Thunderbirds during their show. Every show, just one time, all but one of the jets will fly by at a fairly slow pace, then the other one zooms by with (I think it is) full afterburners. Every darned time I intend to get the pic and ever time, no matter how much I try to remember, i'm always looking at the slow planes and miss the shot.
Partly for shameless plug and partly...for shameless plug- here's the pics I took at the show:...darned slashdot...how about go to johnperkins.com and click on "Air Show 99" or Air Show 04"
"data were" not "data was"
...i'll get unit B1-66ER.
Somewhere out there- God help us- must be adult fanart of this.
More evidence that Lucas won't give us what we want.
Give us a prequel that doesn't suck! Um...No.
Let Stephen take a crack at it! Um...No.
Give us the original original trilogy! Um..No.
Try to understand that I don't give a flying-f about your art, that i'm a consumer and I very much want to spend my money on what I saw in theaters as a kid! Um...No.
Nokia Takes Control Of Sybian...
What's this I keep hearing about a foundation?
I thought he was being rewarded for Microsoft's Bob.
Some of them being issues for me...such as 18 years / 18 months being 12, not 10...
So...(2x)^12 = 60,000 gives us... about 1.25 for x.
And if x = 1.25, then 2x = 2.5, then 2.5^6 * 60gb gives us about 14.6tb, not 1...
"We see a 60,000 fold fall in price." How much stronger than Moore's Law is that?
(2x)^10 = 60,000 where 10 is (18 years)/(18 months) and x is 'how much stronger.'
Solving for x gives us roughly 1.5, not 18...
Mmm... Chestnuts and squirrels.
Nothing compares to the Oscar-level performances of...Ebichu!
Ah, the joy of seeing my most hated of all anime characters in English. "I don't want to fly the Eva and save the world because my father hates me." Grrrrr.
My thanks to my anime club pres for the plush Shinji to torture.
I don't remember if it's at the end of the regular series or in the movies, but the one redeeming part of the whole show for me is Asuka's looks and attitude when fighting the white Evas alone.
I remember reading this article way back when that talked about using Jimson weed to more efficiently store nuclear waste, water with plutonium in I think...
The gist of the story was that Jimson weed is supposed to be fairly hardy when exposed to nuclear waste. Feed the plant water with waste in it and the plant supposedly filters out and stores the waste material. The idea was to start with around 1000 barrels of liquid and end up with 1 barrel of radioactive Jimson weed. The end of the story was that this would all be a no-no because Jimson weed was a cousin to Marijuana- a controlled substance and so on.
I wonder- would doing this make the waste easier or harder to deal with? Wouldn't that barrel be much more radioactive? I know the total amount of radiation would be roughly the same, but it would be concentrated in a smaller volume. Ooh...critical mass maybe?
I tried to find the article online, but the closest thing was a reference in The Ultimate Resource II: People, Materials, and Environment.
They would find a reason. For instance, they might argue that using it in this manner would encourage increased use of nuclear power.
Wouldn't that be better than a certain train I sort of remember from way back when that was carrying nuclear waste, but no one would let it offload? The train just kept driving around with its happy cargo, until several weeks (months?) later when someone finally accepted it.
A country using blocking software to prevent its citizens from accessing a large chunk of the net is not perverting the net. It might be perverting their citizens rights, but not the net itself.
I think the question boils down to: To what extent does a sovereign nation have the right to determine what its population is exposed to? The answer probably changes when looking at it from a moral vs legal vs economic standpoint.
I'm a bit concerned that in banging the drum of a completely open net, might we not become, at least in part, the zealots ourselves?
Some people might not want their computers to know where their fingers have been...
It always bugged me that on Next Generation keyboards/control panels were nearly always completely flat.
I mean the one where Rosebud's dressed up as a babushka. I think it was the X-17 Stealth Basselope. For the life of me I can't seem to find an image online. Plenty of Cruise Basselopes but no Stealth Basselopes.
Heh...Stealth Basselope...
Roswell. I know, I know, it would be more fun if it was aliens. This makes me think maybe the govt just did something really stupid and they're still embarassed.
Call me sick and perverted, but i'd like to see the secret tapes of animals exposed to space and the first tape of naughtiness in space...
John doesn't know, but he's passed the 600 cd mark and he's watched..um...some of it.
In ye olde days the collection got up to about 800 3.5" floppies. Approximately 2 cds. If the progression follows, should be switching to a new medium at 800 cds with the new media carring about 266 gb per unit.
Dammit, I want isolinear chips. (and some Nachos)
Legacy Of The Ancients. Updated, but not too updated. That would be nice. Not like, say, the updated Battlezone with too much junk to be fun.
Serialz for software. Keyz for 5x albums. Heck no, that would never happen...
Cost aside (ha!), if they were to build something like the Leonov in "2001", making the arms longer would increase the apparent gravity at the ends. Balance the relationship between arm length and angular velocity to get 1g at the ends. Do that many of the degeneration/atrophy issues ought to disappear.
On Earth, it's 1 g, on Earth's moon it's about 1/6 g, on Mars it's about 1/3 g.
Maybe I ought to take a crack an idea I had a few years ago for a cheap launch vehicle- sort of a motorized bolas...