Some phone lines won't support anything over the theoretical 28.8, as they split the bandwidth between you an one of your neighbors. This is probably why DSL is not an option.
have your future self send you the names of all the famous artists of the time
Ahh, but if your future self did this, you'd be rich in the future, and have no reason to send a message. Hasn't anyone seen the crappy remake of "The Time Machine"?
I'm not really sure if this is heedless. I haven't rtfa (server too busy) but have seen previous (like this one from 2003) robochairs, and another article about the hubo, and I think it's a great idea. I'm thankful that I have working legs so I can walk up and down stairs without a problem, but for those people who are paralyzed or otherwise have limited mobility, what's wrong witha wheelchair that can get them up and down stairs? Or go on hikes in the forest with their friends? Or any of the other leg-related things many people take for granted.
If you don't want to sound like a luddite then stop talking like one.
Are you implying that I should feel bad about buying something that creates a job in a part of the world that desperately needs them?
That's very short sighted. (not that there's anything wrong with being short sighted.)
If you should feel "bad" about anything (not saying that you should, feel free to feel however you want) you should probably feel "bad" for supporting a company that artificially (and tgemporarilly) inflates the local economy until it is no longer financially beneficial for them. Because, you know, eventually they'll find someone else that will work cheaper, and as soon as it is cost effective to move production there, they will.
So take an economy that desperately needs jobs, and give them all jobs making 2 bucks a day (or whatever). So local businesses notice "Hey, these guys are making more money, and we're not... we better charge more for our goods and services." And they do. But still, that 2 bucks a day buys a lot of rice or goat cheese or panaphonics radios. Everything's pretty good.
So when Philips (or whoever, that's where I got my cheap ass DVD player [100 dollars 4 years ago was pretty cheap, although no one would pay that today when you can get something comparable that will last 1 year for 25 dollars]) finds out that they can save money moving their manufacturing upstream a couple of hundred miles to the next impoverished area (they'll only have to pay them 1.50 a day) what do they do? Move upstream. Now the price of goat cheese has gone up and no one can afford it, plus, they don't have jobs, and the local environment is pretty much shit, what with all the dolphins dying and all (yes, I rtfa and I know that's not what caused it, but this thread got started somehow) and the rivers being all full of mercury and the resources depleted and whatnot, well, tell me if you feel good for buying something that creates jobs in a part of the world that obviously, desperately needed them.
I read the headline: Doctor who Makes Guinness Book of World Records
I was wondering exactly what this Doctor did to make it in, then I read the summary and realized it was the TV show "Doctor Who" (notice I put quotes around it to imply "Doctor Who" is one concept, and has nothing to do with a doctor who did something extraordinary. Or is this about a doctor who actually, physically, out of sticks and mud, makes Guinness Book of World Records?
So the second season is premiering soon? Second season? Longest running scifi show? How long are the seasons, 20 years or something? To me 2 doesn't seem very record worthy.
(yes I realize what is on scifi channel is probably a remake or something, this is a joke)
(( yes I realize if you have to explain your jokes they are not that funny.))
I would like to point out the irony in your attempt to educate me on the moon's lack of atmosphere. Wow. The moon's in a vacuum. I had no idea. This is like, the greatest thing ever. Has our language downgraded so much that you need a:-) at the end of a sentence to realize it's a joke?
(Hint: It was a joke. Obviously the K-10 roaming around in the fucking heat of the desert needs case fans, but the actual lunar module will have to have it's temerature regulated in another way. IANARS, but I am fully aware that there's no air on the moon for the "fans to move")
As I recall the 6 million dollar man could jump a lot higher than the 4 centimeters this leg would give him.
I seem to recall MIT building a on legged hopping robot back in, oh... 1988. Sure, it doesn't look as "human" as toyota's leg, but toyota's doesn't seem any more impressive than MIT's. Maybe I'm missing the point.
Impressive? In the fact that I couldn't build one yes, but 4 centimeters? ehh. I have a wind-up plastic kangaroo that can do back flips, that didn't make slashdot's front page.
Honestly, if it weren't for the Internet hype I would not have gone to see that movie. Also it didn't hurt that my manager bought our entire department tickets for a Friday matinee as a "team building" exercise. And all in all I had a blast at the film. My favorite part was at the very end when I said to my coworker "The only thing that could make this worse (therefor better) is if [sorry no spoiler] happened right now." And then, 2 seconds later, it did. It was awesome.
Let me correct myself before someone else does. Applications > System Tools > Software updater to UPDATE software, Applications > Add/Remove Software to add / remove software.
We pay the same type of royalty in the US too. That's why blank "Data CDs" are (slightly) less expensive than blank "Music CDs" for the same quality disc. We pay it on blank audio / video cassettes as well, and have been paying it ever since technology to copy tapes has been widely available to citizens. It just doesn't show up as a seperate item on your receipt, it's built in. At least, that is my understanding. It still doesn't make it legal to violate the crypto on the disc.
Disclaimer: IANAL or a guy who you should be taking advice from, in general.
I see your point, and yes, I'd much rather have someone spoof their MAC adderss (trivial enough) and gain access to my WiFi network than have them enter my home and pee on my floor. But in either case it is still a violation of my privacy in one form or another. The point I was (poorly) trying to make is that if a police officer can gain access to my network without my permission, regardless of how secure it is, this is just as much an invasion of my privacy as if some anonymous perv gained access to my network without my permission and used it to download child pornography. The difference, in the eyes of the law, is "I'm a cop, what's the big deal? I'm protecting and serving." If I discovered the local police station had an unprotected (or poorly protected) network and gained access to it, then later told them I did it, and what they could do to protect themselves, I'd be in jail.
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Some phone lines won't support anything over the theoretical 28.8, as they split the bandwidth between you an one of your neighbors. This is probably why DSL is not an option.
Hmm... if installing linux voids the warranty, I'm sure removing the hard drive does as well.
Common newbie mistake.
Ahh, but if your future self did this, you'd be rich in the future, and have no reason to send a message. Hasn't anyone seen the crappy remake of "The Time Machine"?
>>> Even primates don't normally walk on their legs...
Uh... some of us do.
>>> even more common than that is 6+ legs.
more common, yes, but not nescessarilly better for all circumstances. The environment I live is was designed for bipeds.
If you don't want to sound like a luddite then stop talking like one.
I don't think anyone has ever in their entire life assumed that, since dinosaurs were here a long time before birds.
You recall what's going to happen in march? do you happen to remember what the lottery numbers are?
boingboing has a copy of the pic here.
I had an interesting conversation with Jabberwocky myself.
Me: Do you have a boyfriend?
JW: I have the right to bare arms, but I wave that right in the winter.
What about Furbys that live far away, like in Darfur.
If you should feel "bad" about anything (not saying that you should, feel free to feel however you want) you should probably feel "bad" for supporting a company that artificially (and tgemporarilly) inflates the local economy until it is no longer financially beneficial for them. Because, you know, eventually they'll find someone else that will work cheaper, and as soon as it is cost effective to move production there, they will.
So take an economy that desperately needs jobs, and give them all jobs making 2 bucks a day (or whatever). So local businesses notice "Hey, these guys are making more money, and we're not... we better charge more for our goods and services." And they do. But still, that 2 bucks a day buys a lot of rice or goat cheese or panaphonics radios. Everything's pretty good.
So when Philips (or whoever, that's where I got my cheap ass DVD player [100 dollars 4 years ago was pretty cheap, although no one would pay that today when you can get something comparable that will last 1 year for 25 dollars]) finds out that they can save money moving their manufacturing upstream a couple of hundred miles to the next impoverished area (they'll only have to pay them 1.50 a day) what do they do? Move upstream. Now the price of goat cheese has gone up and no one can afford it, plus, they don't have jobs, and the local environment is pretty much shit, what with all the dolphins dying and all (yes, I rtfa and I know that's not what caused it, but this thread got started somehow) and the rivers being all full of mercury and the resources depleted and whatnot, well, tell me if you feel good for buying something that creates jobs in a part of the world that obviously, desperately needed them.
Careful, in this day and age that might be considered a threat. /me shines bright light in your eyes: Where were YOU on the night of October 30th?
Doctor who Makes Guinness Book of World Records
I was wondering exactly what this Doctor did to make it in, then I read the summary and realized it was the TV show "Doctor Who" (notice I put quotes around it to imply "Doctor Who" is one concept, and has nothing to do with a doctor who did something extraordinary. Or is this about a doctor who actually, physically, out of sticks and mud, makes Guinness Book of World Records?
So the second season is premiering soon? Second season? Longest running scifi show? How long are the seasons, 20 years or something? To me 2 doesn't seem very record worthy.
(yes I realize what is on scifi channel is probably a remake or something, this is a joke)
(( yes I realize if you have to explain your jokes they are not that funny.))
Funny. Why didn't they announce that on Slashdot, and then again the next day?
(Hint: It was a joke. Obviously the K-10 roaming around in the fucking heat of the desert needs case fans, but the actual lunar module will have to have it's temerature regulated in another way. IANARS, but I am fully aware that there's no air on the moon for the "fans to move")
Nah. Didn't you see the case fans on the side of the K-10? Perfect for keeping it cool in that lunar environment.
It never says what version they're running. They may be using a pre-commercial (ie non RHEL) version of redhat.
I seem to recall MIT building a on legged hopping robot back in, oh... 1988. Sure, it doesn't look as "human" as toyota's leg, but toyota's doesn't seem any more impressive than MIT's. Maybe I'm missing the point.
Impressive? In the fact that I couldn't build one yes, but 4 centimeters? ehh. I have a wind-up plastic kangaroo that can do back flips, that didn't make slashdot's front page.
Honestly, if it weren't for the Internet hype I would not have gone to see that movie. Also it didn't hurt that my manager bought our entire department tickets for a Friday matinee as a "team building" exercise. And all in all I had a blast at the film. My favorite part was at the very end when I said to my coworker "The only thing that could make this worse (therefor better) is if [sorry no spoiler] happened right now." And then, 2 seconds later, it did. It was awesome.
Let me correct myself before someone else does. Applications > System Tools > Software updater to UPDATE software, Applications > Add/Remove Software to add / remove software.
On Fedora Core 5:
Applications > System Tools > Software Updater
Enter root password.
From there you're on your own, I personally prefer the command line version of yum to the GUI. But there is a GUI available.
Disclaimer: IANAL or a guy who you should be taking advice from, in general.
I see your point, and yes, I'd much rather have someone spoof their MAC adderss (trivial enough) and gain access to my WiFi network than have them enter my home and pee on my floor. But in either case it is still a violation of my privacy in one form or another. The point I was (poorly) trying to make is that if a police officer can gain access to my network without my permission, regardless of how secure it is, this is just as much an invasion of my privacy as if some anonymous perv gained access to my network without my permission and used it to download child pornography. The difference, in the eyes of the law, is "I'm a cop, what's the big deal? I'm protecting and serving." If I discovered the local police station had an unprotected (or poorly protected) network and gained access to it, then later told them I did it, and what they could do to protect themselves, I'd be in jail.