My parents are Jewish, and the jewish tradition is to not have stones in the wedding band. (This comes from the fact that originally, jewels have 'negotiable' value, whereas precious metal's value is 'absolute'. And a marrige contract is just that, a contract.)
Anyway, being the semi-geeks that they are, they have Moebius rings. Neat.
Not that I am a Brit; in fact, I am a damn Yankee, but I was just at RAL working on an unrelated project and I saw ISIS, which is a syncrotron-based neutron & muon source.
It's not as big as Diamond, but it's not like they are building the Diamond accelerator out of the blue out in the middle of nowhere with no support infrastructure in place. They are building it after some consideration of the infrastructure already at RAL, which just so HAPPENS to be out in the middle of nowhere.;-)
Wonderful country however, I need to go back for more beer.;-)
heh, I never thought about that pronunciation before. 'e-lint' as in "elint.com: Your web laundy":-) as opposed to 'EL-INT', Electronic Intelligence.
Actually, that would have been a cool dot bomb. Go online, put in your addy, then a truck comes by to pick up your skivvies, and they come back the next day all neatly pressed!
From a conservation of energy standpoint, you should try to put as much mass as possible over the back wheels. If I remeber from my Boy Scouting days, the derby cars started out sort of pointing downwards. Having more mass "higher up" the starting ramp means that it will have slightly more gravitational potetntial energy than a car built with mass in the nose once the cars hit the flat part of the ramp near the finish line.
Of course, I think that it would only be a few % difference at most. Something like (length of car)/(height of ramp).
From an engineering standpoint, I think just having the maximum mass (and excellent wheel lubrication) is the most beneficial, so as to reduce the percentage of energy lost to drag.
Remember Galileo dropping the large stone and small stone from the tower of Pisa? (ok, an apocryphal story, but anyway...) The both hit the ground at the same time since they were dropped from the same height. If we negleted friction & drag from the Derby, which is actually a MAJOR concern, all cars would fall equally fast, EXCEPT those with more mass at the back of the car, and therefor furthere up the ramp, and therefore with more potential energy.
I recently had the pleasure of having an ATM lock up on me and eat my card. However, I DID get to see the watchdog timer kick in and reboot the sucker.
It was quite nifty. It was running a 486DX25 with 16 MB of RAM and a 1M video card. For its OS it was running OS/2, as opposed to MS/DOS, which made me feel much safer. One wonders what they will run ATMs on in the future. And NO, I don't really think Linux is ready for that sort of thing. Hrrmmm... mabye QNX?
Right, so this story is currently in the midst of being played out by YOURS TRULY.
Thanks to everyone's FAVOURITE media monopoly, ClearChannel, which is the OWNER of TM, I and a friend were EACH screwed out of $40 because of our dietary restrictions due to our religious/ethical beliefs. Just for the record, I keep Kosher & my friend is a vegan, just like the HEADLINER of the Area2 concert, Moby. We wanted to see the Area2, obviously.
We bought tickets over the web to the Area2 concert when it rolled into Philly. Before purchase there was NO indication of what restrictions would be placed on our tickets. Of course, AFTER we had paid, and our tickets printed on our printer, did we see all the fine print on the ticket that said, "subject to venue rules" or somesuch.
Ok. Fine. We check the website for the venue, the Tweeter Center in Camden, NJ (btw, ALSO owned [or is that 0WN3D?] by ClearChannel), and it seems like we'd be allowed a backpack & a small amount of our own food. Of course, when we GET THERE, they inform us that we cannot bring our own food in. We are REFUSED ENTRY due to our religious beliefs. I and my friend cannot eat the food they have there, and it its a 6 hour+ show. Oh, I also forgot to mention the fact that they were only allowing ONE bottle of water per person. This was on quite possibly the HOTTEST day of the year in a venue that has NO shade.
So, to sum up, I (and my friend) were REFUSED ADMITTANCE based upon our religious beliefs, not to mention the fact that apparently, ClearChannel wants to KILL all of their customers through dehydration. They refuse to refund the ticket price, claiming "all sales are final." However, they did NOT divulge the terms of purchase until AFTER the purchase had been made, and then even CHANGED terms on us!
If that's not a tangible example of someone being harmed by CC's evil monopolistic behavior, I don't know what is.
then maybe if they stopped losing $1 million plus worth of equipment, they could get budget for an airplane trip to DC.;-)
You mean like the FBI got its funding cut for losing all those laptops & guns? Yeah, right.;-P
They did this, it was called a CrossPad developed by IBM and marketed by Cross Pens. Unfortunately, they EOL'd it and no more were produced. They were even working on a newer USB version, which I beta tested, but that disappeared, too.
Be warned!!! These products are INCREDBILY DANGEROUS!!
These converters can cause Spontaneous Incinerations, Plague, Pestilince and Famine, Birth Defects, Sour Milk, Global Thermonuclear Annihilation, Premature Baldness, Tire Sidewall Blowout, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Acid Reflux Disease, Parachute Deployment Malfunction, O-Ring Seal Degredation, Spurious Airbag Inflation, Mass Hallucinations, Alien Invasion, Asteroid Impact, Genetic Mutations, and Loss of Balance to the Force!
Yep, he was cool, i wear my AMD tshirt with pride;-). I was trying to work up the nerve to ask him if i could possible try it out, but i figure that maybe they wouldn't let a klutz like me try it.:-D
How's that for underdog geekiness. When I was at SIGGRAPH last year, the AMD booth had a display booth with a dude using the the Henson "Muppet-tronics" platform running on a AMD-Powered Linux workstation. I think the control software said something like version 0.8. It was pretty neat.
I like stale and frozen. Flash frozen to be precise! In LIQUID NITROGEN!!! YEAH!!
It livens up the flavour of the stale peep and gets them shockingly cold. So cold that when you put a bit of peep in your mouth (not a whole one or you'll burn yourself) you can breathe out "smoke"!! It ROCKS!!!
Well, cause the original Indios are pretty damn slow these days. They've mostly got R3k processors and weird proprietray memory. They also can't run IRIX6.5 (I believe), which is "good" version of IRIX.
there was a stack SGIs in one of the labs here. I already took the only good thing, the Indy, it can still make a decent webbrowser/workstation. I suppose one could turn the Indigos into little webserver/printserver/nameserver boxes, but any old 386/486/pentium or 68k-mac will do just as good with OpenBSD on 'em.
Indigo 2s, on the other hand, are i think better than the Indys.
Still it _IS_ dman sexy to have an SGI on your desktop!:-)
recently on the History channel's "Boy's toys" week they talked about a >1lb. pocket watch that not only contained a face that told time in like 3 timezones, the opposite side contained a siderial time ([time around the sun]/365.25.... as opposed to rotation of the earth) clock with integrated realtime nighttime sky cart. It went for > $5e6 at auction recently. personally I would love some company to make a 'clone' of the watch. like quartz/electronics based , still with analog faces, tho' it would be hella cool!
It TOTALLY worked for me. I lost like ~40 ponds in 3 months. And, no, the Hacker's Diet isn't Mountain Dew and Twinkies. It was devised by the dude who invented Autodesk who was like, "I'm rich and I have a family and a company, and damn well everything I could ever want, but I'm still a BIG, FAT ASS!!" So he decided to do something about it.
Its got Palm Pilot tools and stuff to help you manage your weight. A diet program written by a geek for geeks.
BTW, this topic has been on/. at least twice in the past few years, but I guess this question is a pretty pressing one this time of year.:-)
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My parents are Jewish, and the jewish tradition is to not have stones in the wedding band. (This comes from the fact that originally, jewels have 'negotiable' value, whereas precious metal's value is 'absolute'. And a marrige contract is just that, a contract.)
Anyway, being the semi-geeks that they are, they have Moebius rings. Neat.
It's not as big as Diamond, but it's not like they are building the Diamond accelerator out of the blue out in the middle of nowhere with no support infrastructure in place. They are building it after some consideration of the infrastructure already at RAL, which just so HAPPENS to be out in the middle of nowhere. ;-)
Wonderful country however, I need to go back for more beer. ;-)
Your friendly neigborhood physicist.
Actually, that would have been a cool dot bomb. Go online, put in your addy, then a truck comes by to pick up your skivvies, and they come back the next day all neatly pressed!
I smell VENTURE CAPITAL!!! :-D
Ugh! I know what you mean! Has IE gotten PNG transparency YET?!?!?!
Corporate?!?!
;-)
Ethics?!?!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
P.S. I feel the need to burn karma.
IAAP (I am a physicst)
From a conservation of energy standpoint, you should try to put as much mass as possible over the back wheels. If I remeber from my Boy Scouting days, the derby cars started out sort of pointing downwards. Having more mass "higher up" the starting ramp means that it will have slightly more gravitational potetntial energy than a car built with mass in the nose once the cars hit the flat part of the ramp near the finish line.
Of course, I think that it would only be a few % difference at most. Something like (length of car)/(height of ramp).
From an engineering standpoint, I think just having the maximum mass (and excellent wheel lubrication) is the most beneficial, so as to reduce the percentage of energy lost to drag.
Remember Galileo dropping the large stone and small stone from the tower of Pisa? (ok, an apocryphal story, but anyway...) The both hit the ground at the same time since they were dropped from the same height. If we negleted friction & drag from the Derby, which is actually a MAJOR concern, all cars would fall equally fast, EXCEPT those with more mass at the back of the car, and therefor furthere up the ramp, and therefore with more potential energy.
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Actually, what I'd really meant is that I don't think the BANKS are ready for linux. ;-)
It was quite nifty. It was running a 486DX25 with 16 MB of RAM and a 1M video card. For its OS it was running OS/2, as opposed to MS/DOS, which made me feel much safer. One wonders what they will run ATMs on in the future. And NO, I don't really think Linux is ready for that sort of thing. Hrrmmm... mabye QNX?
MMmmmmm..... Moon Pie.
Right, so this story is currently in the midst of being played out by YOURS TRULY.
Thanks to everyone's FAVOURITE media monopoly, ClearChannel, which is the OWNER of TM, I and a friend were EACH screwed out of $40 because of our dietary restrictions due to our religious/ethical beliefs. Just for the record, I keep Kosher & my friend is a vegan, just like the HEADLINER of the Area2 concert, Moby. We wanted to see the Area2, obviously.
We bought tickets over the web to the Area2 concert when it rolled into Philly. Before purchase there was NO indication of what restrictions would be placed on our tickets. Of course, AFTER we had paid, and our tickets printed on our printer, did we see all the fine print on the ticket that said, "subject to venue rules" or somesuch.
Ok. Fine. We check the website for the venue, the Tweeter Center in Camden, NJ (btw, ALSO owned [or is that 0WN3D?] by ClearChannel), and it seems like we'd be allowed a backpack & a small amount of our own food. Of course, when we GET THERE, they inform us that we cannot bring our own food in. We are REFUSED ENTRY due to our religious beliefs. I and my friend cannot eat the food they have there, and it its a 6 hour+ show. Oh, I also forgot to mention the fact that they were only allowing ONE bottle of water per person. This was on quite possibly the HOTTEST day of the year in a venue that has NO shade.
So, to sum up, I (and my friend) were REFUSED ADMITTANCE based upon our religious beliefs, not to mention the fact that apparently, ClearChannel wants to KILL all of their customers through dehydration. They refuse to refund the ticket price, claiming "all sales are final." However, they did NOT divulge the terms of purchase until AFTER the purchase had been made, and then even CHANGED terms on us!
If that's not a tangible example of someone being harmed by CC's evil monopolistic behavior, I don't know what is.
then maybe if they stopped losing $1 million plus worth of equipment, they could get budget for an airplane trip to DC. ;-)
You mean like the FBI got its funding cut for losing all those laptops & guns? Yeah, right. ;-P
To remove all the proprietary bits from you software, simple bitwise-AND your program with the INVERSE proprietary bitmask!
Gosh! A single line of C code, what's Ask Slashdot coming to these days?!?!
FreeSoftware = !(PROPRIETARY BITMASK) && YourSoftware;
They did this, it was called a CrossPad developed by IBM and marketed by Cross Pens. Unfortunately, they EOL'd it and no more were produced. They were even working on a newer USB version, which I beta tested, but that disappeared, too.
Be warned!!! These products are INCREDBILY DANGEROUS!!
These converters can cause Spontaneous Incinerations, Plague, Pestilince and Famine, Birth Defects, Sour Milk, Global Thermonuclear Annihilation, Premature Baldness, Tire Sidewall Blowout, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Acid Reflux Disease, Parachute Deployment Malfunction, O-Ring Seal Degredation, Spurious Airbag Inflation, Mass Hallucinations, Alien Invasion, Asteroid Impact, Genetic Mutations, and Loss of Balance to the Force!
Yep, he was cool, i wear my AMD tshirt with pride ;-). I was trying to work up the nerve to ask him if i could possible try it out, but i figure that maybe they wouldn't let a klutz like me try it. :-D
AMD!
How's that for underdog geekiness. When I was at SIGGRAPH last year, the AMD booth had a display booth with a dude using the the Henson "Muppet-tronics" platform running on a AMD-Powered Linux workstation. I think the control software said something like version 0.8. It was pretty neat.
One can only wonder what the FBI will do.
Why, outlaw quantum mechanics, of course!
I like stale and frozen. Flash frozen to be precise! In LIQUID NITROGEN!!! YEAH!!
It livens up the flavour of the stale peep and gets them shockingly cold. So cold that when you put a bit of peep in your mouth (not a whole one or you'll burn yourself) you can breathe out "smoke"!! It ROCKS!!!
i guess in the airforce the CIO is a REAL O. ;-)
Well, cause the original Indios are pretty damn slow these days. They've mostly got R3k processors and weird proprietray memory. They also can't run IRIX6.5 (I believe), which is "good" version of IRIX.
:-)
there was a stack SGIs in one of the labs here. I already took the only good thing, the Indy, it can still make a decent webbrowser/workstation. I suppose one could turn the Indigos into little webserver/printserver/nameserver boxes, but any old 386/486/pentium or 68k-mac will do just as good with OpenBSD on 'em.
Indigo 2s, on the other hand, are i think better than the Indys.
Still it _IS_ dman sexy to have an SGI on your desktop!
one could argue that an ipod is quite a bit more useful than Office X. ;-)
recently on the History channel's "Boy's toys" week they talked about a >1lb. pocket watch that not only contained a face that told time in like 3 timezones, the opposite side contained a siderial time ([time around the sun]/365.25.... as opposed to rotation of the earth) clock with integrated realtime nighttime sky cart. It went for > $5e6 at auction recently. personally I would love some company to make a 'clone' of the watch. like quartz/electronics based , still with analog faces, tho' it would be hella cool!
Is whether you can make a bong out of a Linux Box. Or is it can you run Linux on a bong? Help! I'm confused!! ;-P
It TOTALLY worked for me. I lost like ~40 ponds in 3 months. And, no, the Hacker's Diet isn't Mountain Dew and Twinkies. It was devised by the dude who invented Autodesk who was like, "I'm rich and I have a family and a company, and damn well everything I could ever want, but I'm still a BIG, FAT ASS!!" So he decided to do something about it.
Its got Palm Pilot tools and stuff to help you manage your weight. A diet program written by a geek for geeks.
BTW, this topic has been on /. at least twice in the past few years, but I guess this question is a pretty pressing one this time of year. :-)