I burn't out on inernet introductions 10 years ago. I realized that the ony way I was going to meet anyone was to get off my ass, away from the TV, and get out there. There are a multitde of things to do if you are creative. And if you are just looking for friends try Meetin.org. Here in Portland we have 8000 members. There might be 10 things going on in the same night. But this is not a pickup scene. The emphasis is on fun.
Another good method of meeting people is doing charity work or some other activity you like that requires other people- like bowling or volleyball.
In other words, stay out from in front of the phosphor god. Computer can bring people together but they also can keep them apart. Its just too safe and comfotable when you can hit the "off" switch
I know that. Peoples' skin turns blueish grey. Silver wouldn't normally be absorbed into the body except for bacteria which conjugate it and it passes though the intestinal wall. From there is naturally migrates so the skin where some photochemical reaction makes it bluish grey.
Any miniature electronic device is going to need fanout. Thats where the microscopic bond wires attach to lead frames which are soldered in the real world of motherboard, etc. How the hell do you go from a nanometer pad to a leadframe. What about current? Can you expect to run an amp through a nm wire? All of this doesn't seem very practical. But add the prefix "nano" to any wacky scheme these days and you get funding. Just like colloidal silver.The FDA said it was dangerous and didn't kill anything. Now they call it nanosilver and its the miracle disinfectant of the millenium, so powerful that the EPA is worried that waste water plants will get their bacteria killed off. I guess you just follow the money.
they could shrink their people down to nano size, pollution would decrease, people could have unlimited babies, food woundn't be scarce. And the US could build a new Disneyland on what real estate is left over.
Just kidding. If the rocket scientists doesn't get off their ass China will be seeing its own satellites up there- with red, white, and blue stripes. I wish I had a list or link of rocket failures by country, but the US is up there.
I was in a state office and blurted out "Oregon has much natural beauty, but as a state it sucks." I thought I committed a faux pas, but everyone started laughing.
Its true. We have a do nothing photo op governor who is a democrat, both houses of legislature are controlled by democrats, and nothing gets done despite all of that. We are the laughing stock of states in the union.
(oh, I forgot- "save the children," "pedophile related," and "meth laws" always pass) but thats the same anywhere
I seem to remember that most all the great electronic inventions of the last century were made by amateurs. You can argue that electronics is a subset of physics, but lets keep semantics out of this.
And it continues. Amateur radio operators continue to innovate and their work many times gets picked up by universities and corporations.
I've got a triple boot laptop: Vista, FreeBSD, OpenBSD. I only ever had one problem with it and it was fixed- the USB subsystem blue screen. Most of my old programs run on it unless they have some funky driver.
But I customized it so perhaps I just don't see any of the problems. My screen looks like Win2K and all the eye candy and crap is turned off. And I have yet to see any Ultimate Extra that is anything more than a screen background.
One thing that is useful is to download "Server Tools". With it you get a utility that will make bootable iso DVD's. Otherwise I just make DVD's in FreeBSD.
Instead of Gates doing the "Wow" thing, he should have just stuck to the features.
Here I have access to two municipal networks, and a bunch of unsecured networks. Who is going to disconnect me from them? Are they going to put tin foil around my apartment?
My 1950's World Book Encyclopedia claimed that by the year 2000 robots would be doing all the work and everybody would have complete leisure. They forgot that leisure doesn't come with a paycheck.
So I am skeptical of pie in the sky predictions about technology.
Are they planning to have repeaters all over the place like the public wifi? If not they are going to need a lot of power. Some UHF TV stations run with a megawatt of RF. Its especially true in cities where the buildings create multipath distortion and/or block the signals entirely.
Last time I bought an extension cord it had 4 different warning labels I had to take off. I wonder how many warning labels this flashlight will carry? Welcome to the Nanny Nation.
Parts of the hobby are dying out because people no longer have any space to put up antennas. And if they try something indoors, they find it flooded with computer hash. I'll take a country farm any day.
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I burn't out on inernet introductions 10 years ago. I realized that the ony way I was going to meet anyone was to get off my ass, away from the TV, and get out there. There are a multitde of things to do if you are creative. And if you are just looking for friends try Meetin.org. Here in Portland we have 8000 members. There might be 10 things going on in the same night. But this is not a pickup scene. The emphasis is on fun.
Another good method of meeting people is doing charity work or some other activity you like that requires other people- like bowling or volleyball.
In other words, stay out from in front of the phosphor god. Computer can bring people together but they also can keep them apart. Its just too safe and comfotable when you can hit the "off" switch
Where would all the fleas go?
I know that. Peoples' skin turns blueish grey. Silver wouldn't normally be absorbed into the body except for bacteria which conjugate it and it passes though the intestinal wall. From there is naturally migrates so the skin where some photochemical reaction makes it bluish grey.
announces new data center in Havana.
Errors so small that you would never be able to find them, yet they show up on the macro scale due to the zillions of calculations involved.
that takes advantage of this by downloading in an on/off switch manner.
Any miniature electronic device is going to need fanout. Thats where the microscopic bond wires attach to lead frames which are soldered in the real world of motherboard, etc. How the hell do you go from a nanometer pad to a leadframe. What about current? Can you expect to run an amp through a nm wire? All of this doesn't seem very practical. But add the prefix "nano" to any wacky scheme these days and you get funding. Just like colloidal silver.The FDA said it was dangerous and didn't kill anything. Now they call it nanosilver and its the miracle disinfectant of the millenium, so powerful that the EPA is worried that waste water plants will get their bacteria killed off. I guess you just follow the money.
Whats it like being dead? Are there really billions and billions of solar systems out there?
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they could shrink their people down to nano size, pollution would decrease, people could have unlimited babies, food woundn't be scarce. And the US could build a new Disneyland on what real estate is left over.
Just kidding. If the rocket scientists doesn't get off their ass China will be seeing its own satellites up there- with red, white, and blue stripes. I wish I had a list or link of rocket failures by country, but the US is up there.
I was in a state office and blurted out "Oregon has much natural beauty, but as a state it sucks." I thought I committed a faux pas, but everyone started laughing.
Its true. We have a do nothing photo op governor who is a democrat, both houses of legislature are controlled by democrats, and nothing gets done despite all of that. We are the laughing stock of states in the union.
(oh, I forgot- "save the children," "pedophile related," and "meth laws" always pass) but thats the same anywhere
Download a file, kill a salmon.
How the hell does a Canon camera without a macro lens focus on your eye. I'm lucky if I can get a shot a foot away.
but all I got was yellow dots
I seem to remember that most all the great electronic inventions of the last century were made by amateurs. You can argue that electronics is a subset of physics, but lets keep semantics out of this.
And it continues. Amateur radio operators continue to innovate and their work many times gets picked up by universities and corporations.
Any work in chemistry will get you a visit from the DEA. In some states, its illegal to even own glassware.
I've got a triple boot laptop: Vista, FreeBSD, OpenBSD. I only ever had one problem with it and it was fixed- the USB subsystem blue screen. Most of my old programs run on it unless they have some funky driver.
But I customized it so perhaps I just don't see any of the problems. My screen looks like Win2K and all the eye candy and crap is turned off. And I have yet to see any Ultimate Extra that is anything more than a screen background.
One thing that is useful is to download "Server Tools". With it you get a utility that will make bootable iso DVD's. Otherwise I just make DVD's in FreeBSD.
Instead of Gates doing the "Wow" thing, he should have just stuck to the features.
Granted, it was not incredibly bright, but it did a good job of converting 110VAC to a nice greenish night light.
Here I have access to two municipal networks, and a bunch of unsecured networks. Who is going to disconnect me from them? Are they going to put tin foil around my apartment?
Thats about the cost of one day in Iraq.
My 1950's World Book Encyclopedia claimed that by the year 2000 robots would be doing all the work and everybody would have complete leisure. They forgot that leisure doesn't come with a paycheck.
So I am skeptical of pie in the sky predictions about technology.
Are they planning to have repeaters all over the place like the public wifi? If not they are going to need a lot of power. Some UHF TV stations run with a megawatt of RF. Its especially true in cities where the buildings create multipath distortion and/or block the signals entirely.
Last time I bought an extension cord it had 4 different warning labels I had to take off. I wonder how many warning labels this flashlight will carry?
Welcome to the Nanny Nation.
My bet on the premier hosting location will be Antarctica. Think of the HVAC bills a server farm would save. Plus its neutral territory.
Parts of the hobby are dying out because people no longer have any space to put up antennas. And if they try something indoors, they find it flooded with computer hash. I'll take a country farm any day.