I was with you all they way up until you said "harem". I'm totally down with Molly, but you do realize that the first 3 people you listed were jesus, bill gates, and bill nye -- you do realize these people are not typical harem material, right?
From the picture, it looks like they are using Charmed Lab's Xport development kit. Glad to see it being put to good use. Although you could use this product to pirate games hopefully Nintendo won't sue again. I just wish courts could clearly see the benefits of home-brew development tools.
It appears it's already up on ebay. But what I don't get is why it's listed in ten different auctions... wasn't there just one? As cool as this would be to have, I wouldn't buy it from the scammer off of ebay, unless he really really really promised to send it.
A Chinese bank issued a credit card small enough to be used as an earring or belly-button ring. No pictures, though, and I don't know how it would work. The mini credit cards in the grandparent post probably just have their stripes encoded at a higher density so you swipe them slower than normal cards.
Actually, I do get higher than my epa rated milage -- my car is rated at 30 mpg, I usually get 32 mpg if I keep the speed reasonable. That's 1mpg less than the best MO MILES ever saw. My car (bmw 330i) is a 3-liter 3100 pound sedan, so it's no econobox, but it's ULEV and I'm very happy with it.
The CD player will have some sort of CPU, and that CPU is driven by some sort of clock. They are worried that that clock, or some harmonic of it, will interefere with a frequency that the pilots need. Two things to note:
- the cd player isn't an intentional transmitter, but it'll probably leak RF noise (especially if it has a plastic case) - a lot of the frequencies planes use are older and lower-frequency. AM radios are at 1.6 MHz, FM radios are at 100 MHz -- all exotic frequencies for processors 30 years, but now totally surpassed by normal electronics. Even my 2.4GHz phone uses a lower frequency than my desktop.
I worked at a company that made sophisticated bouys. The last step in assembling them is to purge them with dry nitrogen (so that even with temperature changes, there will be no water vapor in the air to condense on the circuit boards inside) and then seal them up tight. We know they're sealed tight because we need to keep the nitrogen in and the water out - otherwise they'd sink.
So, some researchers using our bouy in hawaii had one wash ashore on the beach. It didn't work anymore, so they sent it back to us. They swore they never opened it... but when we got it back to the lab (well inland), we found the seals were still good, but there was sand in it. I guess they let the nitrogen out when they first got their new toy, it failed in service because of that, and then they tried to fix it but couldn't.
(p.s. you bet I have the apple disassembly manual on my hard drive, but I've never opened it -- I'm saving it for when my applecare runs out)
This device can get away with using much slower RAM than your desktop, so the bulk price should be cheaper. Also, it can use many many banks (because it is custom-designed), while your desktop has a limited number of slots (and a limited number of slots may forec you to use more expensive 1GB DIMMS rather than what's the best value).
If it weren't for those two significant factors, then regular-old-ram would be a better investment. But then, throw in the fact that this is sharable between many machines on a FC loop, and it does something better than normal CPU RAM could do.
At 3 GB/sec, you can get 3000x3000 uncompressed video at 100 Hz refresh rate, with 1600 channels of uncompressed 96kHz 32-bit sound. Or compress it and get 35000x35000 resolution.
Pure bliss. But, at that rate, the largest drive (64GB) would only last 21 seconds.
That's weird... I ran the same test with my lexar 8x and it was faster: 8.43 seconds --> 1586 kb/sec = 10.6x Read speed. Slightly faster and about what's expected, but close to the speed of the ultra II.
I'm pretty sure most PCMCIA CF adaptors are passive and I'm a bit surprised that it's doing PIO. But I'll totally believe it! My card looks like a PCMCIA and not Cardbus, so it's probably 16 bits. Thanks.
Next step: try out the transfer rates in my camera. The ultra II feels slower there, too, but I'll have to get some hard numbers. My initial tests I did months ago could have been tainted by a Finder problem that chews CPU time in an attempt to make thumbnails when hi-res pictures exist in the directory.
I'd try your advice, but I don't have that hardware.. I chose the PCMCIA because it's really portable (I mean... it stows inside he computer - how much better can you get than that!)
My short review on the SanDisk Ultra II: I wasn't able to reach anywhere near the claimed speed with my G4 laptop and a PCMCIA adaptor, reading or writing. The 8x lexar that came with my camera (1.2Mbyte/sec) felt faster using the same setup.
I just did a speed test using 'time cp' - 13372kB in 5 files, transfered in 9.19 seconds = 1445 kB/sec = 10x 9000 kB/sec.
Of course, that's reading and not writing. And my cache wasn't cleared... but both of those things should have made it faster.
ah, new jersey. the place where the guy pumping my gas was smoking a cigarette and I wasn't legally allowed to do it myself because I'm not a qualified professional gas pumper.
On Sept. 29, 2004 an asteroid the size of a small city... Toutatis is about 2.9 miles long and 1.5 miles wide (4.6 by 2.4 kilometers).
Well, most small cities are about 30 feet thick (about 10 feet of plumbing underground, plus a two story building above-ground), so I'm not so worried.
Slashdot Mirror
if the PM's rockin', don't come a-knockin'
whadda mean it only seats one? That rule still applies!!!
I was with you all they way up until you said "harem". I'm totally down with Molly, but you do realize that the first 3 people you listed were jesus, bill gates, and bill nye -- you do realize these people are not typical harem material, right?
My neighbor went to Adnan Khashoggi's birthday party.
From the picture, it looks like they are using Charmed Lab's Xport development kit. Glad to see it being put to good use. Although you could use this product to pirate games hopefully Nintendo won't sue again. I just wish courts could clearly see the benefits of home-brew development tools.
But there's ten links - that's a lot to post!! Nah, there is no auction; I was just making a funny.
It appears it's already up on ebay. But what I don't get is why it's listed in ten different auctions... wasn't there just one? As cool as this would be to have, I wouldn't buy it from the scammer off of ebay, unless he really really really promised to send it.
You're not doing it right. Try this:
Vorb-Vorb Vorbbity Vorb Vorb.
Bissy Bis... ba bis bis bis.
Vorbbity Vorbbity va va vorb. bissity bis.
A Chinese bank issued a credit card small enough to be used as an earring or belly-button ring. No pictures, though, and I don't know how it would work. The mini credit cards in the grandparent post probably just have their stripes encoded at a higher density so you swipe them slower than normal cards.
That's why they have smaller credit cards that fit on keychains. I've seen square ones, too.
forgot- that's all highway milage. I average 25 mpg with mixed usage.
Actually, I do get higher than my epa rated milage -- my car is rated at 30 mpg, I usually get 32 mpg if I keep the speed reasonable. That's 1mpg less than the best MO MILES ever saw. My car (bmw 330i) is a 3-liter 3100 pound sedan, so it's no econobox, but it's ULEV and I'm very happy with it.
"milking Mario"
Uh, thanks for that visual image.
Every webpage they serve will be in a frame, with all the credit card info of the person who paid for the service at the top.
Ok, I made that up, but it would be a good deterence.
The CD player will have some sort of CPU, and that CPU is driven by some sort of clock. They are worried that that clock, or some harmonic of it, will interefere with a frequency that the pilots need. Two things to note:
- the cd player isn't an intentional transmitter, but it'll probably leak RF noise (especially if it has a plastic case)
- a lot of the frequencies planes use are older and lower-frequency. AM radios are at 1.6 MHz, FM radios are at 100 MHz -- all exotic frequencies for processors 30 years, but now totally surpassed by normal electronics. Even my 2.4GHz phone uses a lower frequency than my desktop.
I could see that first guy clicking "share this connection" with his other wireless card.
:)
Oh yeah, that first guy would be me
I worked at a company that made sophisticated bouys. The last step in assembling them is to purge them with dry nitrogen (so that even with temperature changes, there will be no water vapor in the air to condense on the circuit boards inside) and then seal them up tight. We know they're sealed tight because we need to keep the nitrogen in and the water out - otherwise they'd sink.
So, some researchers using our bouy in hawaii had one wash ashore on the beach. It didn't work anymore, so they sent it back to us. They swore they never opened it... but when we got it back to the lab (well inland), we found the seals were still good, but there was sand in it. I guess they let the nitrogen out when they first got their new toy, it failed in service because of that, and then they tried to fix it but couldn't.
(p.s. you bet I have the apple disassembly manual on my hard drive, but I've never opened it -- I'm saving it for when my applecare runs out)
So, if this picture is detected as a face, does that count as correct, or not? I submitted it, so we'll see what they get.
This device can get away with using much slower RAM than your desktop, so the bulk price should be cheaper. Also, it can use many many banks (because it is custom-designed), while your desktop has a limited number of slots (and a limited number of slots may forec you to use more expensive 1GB DIMMS rather than what's the best value).
If it weren't for those two significant factors, then regular-old-ram would be a better investment. But then, throw in the fact that this is sharable between many machines on a FC loop, and it does something better than normal CPU RAM could do.
At 3 GB/sec, you can get 3000x3000 uncompressed video at 100 Hz refresh rate, with 1600 channels of uncompressed 96kHz 32-bit sound. Or compress it and get 35000x35000 resolution.
Pure bliss. But, at that rate, the largest drive (64GB) would only last 21 seconds.
That's weird... I ran the same test with my lexar 8x and it was faster: 8.43 seconds --> 1586 kb/sec = 10.6x Read speed. Slightly faster and about what's expected, but close to the speed of the ultra II.
I'm pretty sure most PCMCIA CF adaptors are passive and I'm a bit surprised that it's doing PIO. But I'll totally believe it! My card looks like a PCMCIA and not Cardbus, so it's probably 16 bits. Thanks.
Next step: try out the transfer rates in my camera. The ultra II feels slower there, too, but I'll have to get some hard numbers. My initial tests I did months ago could have been tainted by a Finder problem that chews CPU time in an attempt to make thumbnails when hi-res pictures exist in the directory.
I'd try your advice, but I don't have that hardware.. I chose the PCMCIA because it's really portable (I mean... it stows inside he computer - how much better can you get than that!)
My short review on the SanDisk Ultra II: I wasn't able to reach anywhere near the claimed speed with my G4 laptop and a PCMCIA adaptor, reading or writing. The 8x lexar that came with my camera (1.2Mbyte/sec) felt faster using the same setup.
I just did a speed test using 'time cp' - 13372kB in 5 files, transfered in 9.19 seconds = 1445 kB/sec = 10x 9000 kB/sec.
Of course, that's reading and not writing. And my cache wasn't cleared... but both of those things should have made it faster.
ah, new jersey. the place where the guy pumping my gas was smoking a cigarette and I wasn't legally allowed to do it myself because I'm not a qualified professional gas pumper.
ps: those warnings seem voluntary in N.C.
On Sept. 29, 2004 an asteroid the size of a small city ...
Toutatis is about 2.9 miles long and 1.5 miles wide (4.6 by 2.4 kilometers).
Well, most small cities are about 30 feet thick (about 10 feet of plumbing underground, plus a two story building above-ground), so I'm not so worried.
Nah, this kind of high-end stuff is usually sent to a chop-shop, where they'll part each one out into 28 T1 lines.
800k is 0.002% of $40B, so a $5 fine is equal if have a net worth of $250k.