Definitely worth downloading to your PDA for your next trip to the bookstore.
What I think you mean is "Definitely worth saving to your PDA". Despite what you see in the mainstream media, the term 'download' is not a generic reference to a file transfer. To put it in language a child could understand:
'download' comes before 'from.'
You download FROM someplace. You upload TO someplace.
I'd recomend getting a Cisco CCIE (cisco certified internetwork expert) certification if you have any interest in networking. It'll take a few years, but you'll be made for life career wise if you pull it off.
Give the robots a Kevlar skin, then load up soldiers' and Marines' rifles with training rounds. Then set the robots running around a mock battlefield to give our guys more realistic practice.
Robots with assault rifles and blanks:
Cost: $$$$$$$
Battery life: 20 minutes
Be able to tactically think or move like a human? No.
Robots have more moving parts to break then people or paintball guns, hence more maintinence.
Divide your marines into two teams. Use either laser tag rig or paintball guns. Cost: $1000 per paintball gun (built to look and feel like their standard issue equipment). 2000 paintablls ~$50. A lot less than m16 rounds. Lasertag would cost a bit more. $10/each for goggles.
Except for the ammo, everything get reused.
Soldiers would be competing with other soldiers with the approximatly same level of training and tactical ability as themselves.
No danger of injury provided they keep their goggles on.
Downside: paintballs can't acheive the muzzle velocity bullets can, and therefore don't have nearly the range.
Once they hit 1 billion they should start a record label. In that event, they'd either fail miserably, or become the microsoft of music distribution. Or something.
A couple of people inquired about putting a railroad bridge under the Bering Straight. Here's why it won't happen anytime soon: There is no railroad anywhere near either side! For the North American side, the nearest rail point that's connected to anything is in Prince Rupert British columbia, which is about 2500 miles (i think) from the Bering Straight. The nearest rail line in Asia is the Trans-Siberian Railroad, which from Kharborosk to the Bering Straight is about 3000 miles. So that's about 6000-6500 miles considering things like rivers and mountain ranges that would get in the way. Not to mention that fact that most of the project would be built on some of the most hostile terrain on the planet. Even if it were done, I would guess that it would be faster and cheaper to ship material by boat between the two areas. Not to mention how expensive maintinence would be on the rail line, or the fact that a rail tunnel under the Bering Straight would cross a major fault line.
Daryl McBride's parents make people dumb.
Heroine makes people dumb.
Getting hit in the head with a hammer might make people dumb.
The US public school system encourages people to be dumb.
People trying to convey information to others by reading sentence fragments off of a wall doesn't make people dumb. They merely subconsciously promote spacing out, smut surfing, homework for another class, quake3, or watching 0-day m0vi3Z, depending on your position in the back of the class and your laptop's battery life.
You could probably coble something together with a lego mindstorms, a barcode scanner, and a mysql database for $400. Assuming you have loads of free time on your hands. Otherwise, buy a 300gb maxtor hd and call it good.
Several people in this forum are saying that the lack of mainstream software and peripheral driver support will cripple Sun's Java Desktop. The artical mentions that Walmart is going to be putting a lot of effort into selling SJD boxen. Furthermore, Walmart as a retailer has an unrivaled ability to force suppliers to make products play by it's rules. For example, it forces record labels to censor certain lyrics, or else it won't sell their wares. Now is it any stretch of the imagination for them to tell peripheral and software manufactures to port their drivers and software to SJD? All they have to do is put out a memo that says something like "By 2005 all computer software and peripherals must be SJD certified to be carried by Walmart Stores and Sam's Club. Now bend over so that we can thank you." And by 2005 every company that sells peripherals and software through walmart will make damned sure their products are SJD certified.
At this point (mid to late 2004) the Linux distros, Mac OS, and *BSD will be 100% compatable with SJD software, and Adobe, Quark, Mooneshine Automation Sys, etc., will port their software to SJD/Linux, assuming it catches on. The status quo may go back to what it is now, depending on how the hardware/M$ DRM situation works out, but it looks like there is hope for 'the free world.'
Or, one month from now Microsoft will start selling a WinXP lite edition for $15/cpu to OEMs and basically buy back their dominance.
Rumer has it that you can prop up the side of a house with an HP laserjet II or III. I've dropped several 5Ms and 4s onto concrete from up to 1 meter and still gotten test pages along with burning smells and grinding noises. Their newer printers are a lot more fragile though. Still, if you want to really abuse something, buy an old rackmount Prolient server. I've never had the privilage of destroying one, but ruined several drillbits on a modding project.
Someone mentioned John Markoff of the New York Times as a potential writer for your story. Declan Mccullagh might be a good choice too. He used to write for wired. I think he currently writes for Salon.com, but I'm not positive. His website is www.Mccullagh.org. If what your are saying is true (no offence, but this is slashdot) you should have no trouble tracking down his contact info. Good luck.
A Novell/SuSE merger won't be good for M$ in the enterprise. Meanwhile it looks like Apple is denying them their WMA monopoly (or at least postponing it) with itunes. Now if Apple and Novell were to push Open Office or some derivative...
I wonder what would happen if Apple were to buy Novell right now? They could certainly use the enterprise tools, though there would be an obvious conflict between the linux and OSX desktop interests. Apple has something like $4b in the bank, and Novell's market capitalization is about $2b. Thoughts?
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Given the per capita fitness attitudes in the US, that'a whole lot of content most of of the world doesn't want to see.
*ducks*
A Peter Jackson Thrawn Trilogy after Lucas dies would be awesome.
Look on the bright side- you have unreturnable APPLE kit.
You should have no trouble getting most of your money back unloading it on Ebay.
This would probably result in the cat peeing and shitting on the cables.
What I think you mean is "Definitely worth saving to your PDA". Despite what you see in the mainstream media, the term 'download' is not a generic reference to a file transfer. To put it in language a child could understand:
'download' comes before 'from.'
You download FROM someplace. You upload TO someplace.
I'd recomend getting a Cisco CCIE (cisco certified internetwork expert) certification if you have any interest in networking. It'll take a few years, but you'll be made for life career wise if you pull it off.
They like to call the method called "many carrots and more sticks".
=9,765.6 petabytes [I guessed at the average size of a spam email]
I wonder how much that costs AOL?
I did all of my christmas shopping in July at garage sales you insensitive clod!
Give the robots a Kevlar skin, then load up soldiers' and Marines' rifles with training rounds. Then set the robots running around a mock battlefield to give our guys more realistic practice.
Robots with assault rifles and blanks:
Cost: $$$$$$$
Battery life: 20 minutes
Be able to tactically think or move like a human? No.
Robots have more moving parts to break then people or paintball guns, hence more maintinence.
Divide your marines into two teams. Use either laser tag rig or paintball guns.
Cost: $1000 per paintball gun (built to look and feel like their standard issue equipment). 2000 paintablls ~$50. A lot less than m16 rounds. Lasertag would cost a bit more. $10/each for goggles.
Except for the ammo, everything get reused.
Soldiers would be competing with other soldiers with the approximatly same level of training and tactical ability as themselves.
No danger of injury provided they keep their goggles on.
Downside: paintballs can't acheive the muzzle velocity bullets can, and therefore don't have nearly the range.
Once they hit 1 billion they should start a record label. In that event, they'd either fail miserably, or become the microsoft of music distribution. Or something.
my bad. Grammar too.
It would be a cool project though.
This company has some products that will REALLY impress the suites. Round the setup out with a few 1337 dvorak gesture keyboards, comfortable chairs, and a network camera outside the door. Did I miss anything?
That's not something one would normally brag about in this forum.
Heroine makes people dumb.
Getting hit in the head with a hammer might make people dumb.
The US public school system encourages people to be dumb.
People trying to convey information to others by reading sentence fragments off of a wall doesn't make people dumb. They merely subconsciously promote spacing out, smut surfing, homework for another class, quake3, or watching 0-day m0vi3Z, depending on your position in the back of the class and your laptop's battery life.
They probably have them already, only they keep them secret to avoid creating a fuss. That'd be the smart thing to do anyway...
You could probably coble something together with a lego mindstorms, a barcode scanner, and a mysql database for $400. Assuming you have loads of free time on your hands. Otherwise, buy a 300gb maxtor hd and call it good.
At this point (mid to late 2004) the Linux distros, Mac OS, and *BSD will be 100% compatable with SJD software, and Adobe, Quark, Mooneshine Automation Sys, etc., will port their software to SJD/Linux, assuming it catches on. The status quo may go back to what it is now, depending on how the hardware/M$ DRM situation works out, but it looks like there is hope for 'the free world.'
Or,
one month from now Microsoft will start selling a WinXP lite edition for $15/cpu to OEMs and basically buy back their dominance.
Either way I'm sticking with Apple.
I wonder if it'll look anything like the Nagul King's beacon in the Return of the King trailer?
Rumer has it that you can prop up the side of a house with an HP laserjet II or III. I've dropped several 5Ms and 4s onto concrete from up to 1 meter and still gotten test pages along with burning smells and grinding noises. Their newer printers are a lot more fragile though. Still, if you want to really abuse something, buy an old rackmount Prolient server. I've never had the privilage of destroying one, but ruined several drillbits on a modding project.
Someone mentioned John Markoff of the New York Times as a potential writer for your story. Declan Mccullagh might be a good choice too. He used to write for wired. I think he currently writes for Salon.com, but I'm not positive. His website is www.Mccullagh.org. If what your are saying is true (no offence, but this is slashdot) you should have no trouble tracking down his contact info. Good luck.
If you read slashdot more often you'd be able to subconscously correct minor typoes like that.
A Novell/SuSE merger won't be good for M$ in the enterprise. Meanwhile it looks like Apple is denying them their WMA monopoly (or at least postponing it) with itunes. Now if Apple and Novell were to push Open Office or some derivative...
I wonder what would happen if Apple were to buy Novell right now? They could certainly use the enterprise tools, though there would be an obvious conflict between the linux and OSX desktop interests. Apple has something like $4b in the bank, and Novell's market capitalization is about $2b. Thoughts?