BTW, a lot of those easily stripped "Phillips" screws are actually JIS screws. They look similar but the angle of the point is different. A Phillips driver doesn't quite make enough contact and will just core the head right out if there is any resistance.
I asked this question in a physics class and the answer I got, which makes quite a bit of sense, is that force travels through a material at the speed of sound. So if in your example your 500 foot pole was made of steel, the opposite end starts moving roughly 30 milliseconds after you push the near end. (The speed of sound in steel is very roughly 5000 meters/sec.)
I always figured that GoogleOS is what we'd be explaining to our children as the reason we're living underground in caves, hiding from the robotic Google Search Engines that scour the earth looking for humans to "index". Oh, and it's also trying to send Ahhhnold back in time to eliminate "the one called Sara Connor".
Or maybe I've watched The Terminator a few too many times.
Okay, did a little googling and found there is a different version sold in CA and about 8 other states. Seems to be the same glue but a different "ozone friendly" propelant.
Unless 3M is selling a different glue under the Super 77 label in CA, it's not banned here. You can buy it pretty much anywhere (Home Depot, Staples, art and craft stores, etc). I have several cans, as it's an important structural component in my Zagi.
The problem with using RAID as a backup is that both copies are online all the time, so while you have protection against a drive failure, you have absolutely no protection against all the other things that can eat your data (accidental modification or deletion, viruses/malware, etc).
RAID is really mostly about availablity, not backup. And, I'd say recommending RAID as a replacement for backups is selling a false sense of security.
NTFS wasn't a journaling filesystem until v5, released with Windows 2000. Ext3 is not the only other journaled file out there. SGI's XFS, IBM's JFS, Sun's UFS logging, Veritas's VxFS, NetApp's WAFL, BSD's soft updates, and ReiserFS all predate journaled NTFS, some of them by quite a few years.
Microsoft Excel is nothing but a fraud simulator! It teaches impressionable kids how to orchestrate massive financial con games! Parents, do you want your child to be the next Ken Lay or Bernie Ebbers? Then do the right thing, and lets get Excel out of our schools.
You think that's bad, check out some of the commentary from the DVD....
Director 1 : (snoring)
Director 2 : (snoring)
Recording Tech: Are you guys going to do some commentary, or just sleep out the rest of the episode?
D1: *wakes up* What?
D2: *wakes up" Where am I?
RT: You're recording comentary for "Enterprise", Season 4, Episode 11, titled "Observer Effect"
D2: Hey, are like one of those super-nerd fans that has every episode memorized?
RT: No. I've got it written on a fucking sticky-note so that there's at least a chance it will end up attached to the right episode on the DVD. No one - and I mean no one - has your show memorized.
D2: (Dejected) Oh
D1: Wait, so what was happening before we nodded off?
RT: Well, we got through the opening credits okay.
D1: Excellent.
RT: Then 3 minutes into act 1 you both got bored and wandered out to the parking lot and played hacky-sack for a while. Then you came back in here and slept for 20 minutes.
D1: Hmmm.
RT: I kept the audio track rolling the whole time.
D2: Really? Why?
RT: Frankly, the snoring was the most interesting thing I've heard come out of either of you.
D1: Can I have you fired?
RT: No. I don't work for you. And besides, I'm in The Union. I could piss in your coffee and all my boss could do is come in here and give me a stern look.
D1: Odd that he's standing right next to you, giving you a stern look right now...
D2: (distant slurp) Hey, does this coffee taste funny to anyone else?
RT: Okay guys, we've got 3 minutes left in this episode. Either of you want to share any of your "razor wit" before we put this one in the can?
D1: Yeah I got something to add.
(Clears throat)
At this point in the show I had the writing process nailed down to a science. It used to be that writers for Star Trek would use a little placeholder word, "tech," which would be filled in with other words, like "anomaly" or "photon torpedo", by the production staff.
I went one step further. I fired all the writers and replaced them chimps. Chimps chained to typewriters. And those typewriters, had just two keys - "dialog" and "tech".
And those chimps produced page after page of glorious manuscripts. They were like two-note symphonies of "dialog" and "tech". And those chimps did all of this for me out respect for my talent as a director. And fear of getting hit with a cattle prod. But mostly respect. And fear.
So I would take these manuscripts and I'd have them sent off to some third-world country where 8 year old children, who spoke not a word of English, would slave away 20 hours a day in squalid and dangerous conditions to replace those "dialog" and "tech" placeholders with the dialog you hear in the show.
D2: And the quality of that process really shows in the finished product.
RT: Why, exactly are child labor and "squalid and dangerous" conditions necessary for this?
D1: You have to suffer to produce great art!
(contemplates)
Anyway, someone has to suffer for my art.
RT: Well, we are all suffering because of your art.
D1: Yes, well. The streamlining of this process really helped me manage my time. I'm a very busy man.
D2: Why don't you tell us all what keeps you so busy.
D1: Ah yes. You see, I'm destroying science fiction. I buy the original master prints of classic science fiction films, and then I burn them.
D2: You burn them?
D1: Yes. Sometimes I shit on them first. But mostly I just burn them.
In fact, while filming this episode I spent most of my time on the Paramount backlot burning the last master copy of "2001: A Space Odyssey".
Actually, I didn't burn the whole copy, though. The makeup for the alien in this episode is made from little fragments of the famous "Starchild" scene. It gives the eyebrow ridges a
You may want to double check the weight of 1.9 million hard drives vs. the maximum cargo weight allowance for a 777-400 freighter. A long time ago I did this same math for DLT cartridges and a 747 cargo plane, and I noticed that you couldn't fill the cargo space more than 60% full with DLTs before the plane was too heavy to take off.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Well, number 3 shouldn't be a problem for this BSG prequel, afterall the Galactica was basically current tech when this sequel takes place. The set designers and FX people have a pretty good model to work with, namely stuff just needs to look pretty much like does in BSG.
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BTW, a lot of those easily stripped "Phillips" screws are actually JIS screws. They look similar but the angle of the point is different. A Phillips driver doesn't quite make enough contact and will just core the head right out if there is any resistance.
I asked this question in a physics class and the answer I got, which makes quite a bit of sense, is that force travels through a material at the speed of sound. So if in your example your 500 foot pole was made of steel, the opposite end starts moving roughly 30 milliseconds after you push the near end. (The speed of sound in steel is very roughly 5000 meters/sec.)
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- A proper update to Elite and/or Frontier
- A better sequel to 1998's Battlezone. Heck, just update the graphics and let it run on a modern PC and I'd be happy
- Baldur's Gate III, Icewind Dale III
- Another Max Payne installment
- An updated Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire that will run stably on a modern PC
Oh, yeah, and I want a pony too....I Believe The Robots Are Our Future
I always figured that GoogleOS is what we'd be explaining to our children as the reason we're living underground in caves, hiding from the robotic Google Search Engines that scour the earth looking for humans to "index". Oh, and it's also trying to send Ahhhnold back in time to eliminate "the one called Sara Connor".
Or maybe I've watched The Terminator a few too many times.
Okay, did a little googling and found there is a different version sold in CA and about 8 other states. Seems to be the same glue but a different "ozone friendly" propelant.
Unless 3M is selling a different glue under the Super 77 label in CA, it's not banned here. You can buy it pretty much anywhere (Home Depot, Staples, art and craft stores, etc). I have several cans, as it's an important structural component in my Zagi.
How about:
"Hello, This is Bill Gates, and I pronounce Windows as..." followed by sounds of Bill Gates rolling around in a giant pile of cash.
or, for anyone who's played Paranoia
"Trust the Computer. The Computer is your Friend. Not trusting the Computer is Treason..."
RAID is really mostly about availablity, not backup. And, I'd say recommending RAID as a replacement for backups is selling a false sense of security.
NTFS wasn't a journaling filesystem until v5, released with Windows 2000. Ext3 is not the only other journaled file out there. SGI's XFS, IBM's JFS, Sun's UFS logging, Veritas's VxFS, NetApp's WAFL, BSD's soft updates, and ReiserFS all predate journaled NTFS, some of them by quite a few years.
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So, does he have a MySpace page yet? Or is he a Facebook kind-of-guy?
And 320x200? My teletype only had 132 columns.
Hold on, I gotta go chase some of those damn kids off my lawn...
Won't someone please think of the children?
Director 1 : (snoring)
Director 2 : (snoring)
Recording Tech: Are you guys going to do some commentary, or just sleep out the rest of the episode?
D1: *wakes up* What?
D2: *wakes up" Where am I?
RT: You're recording comentary for "Enterprise", Season 4, Episode 11, titled "Observer Effect"
D2: Hey, are like one of those super-nerd fans that has every episode memorized?
RT: No. I've got it written on a fucking sticky-note so that there's at least a chance it will end up attached to the right episode on the DVD. No one - and I mean no one - has your show memorized.
D2: (Dejected) Oh
D1: Wait, so what was happening before we nodded off?
RT: Well, we got through the opening credits okay.
D1: Excellent.
RT: Then 3 minutes into act 1 you both got bored and wandered out to the parking lot and played hacky-sack for a while. Then you came back in here and slept for 20 minutes.
D1: Hmmm.
RT: I kept the audio track rolling the whole time.
D2: Really? Why?
RT: Frankly, the snoring was the most interesting thing I've heard come out of either of you.
D1: Can I have you fired?
RT: No. I don't work for you. And besides, I'm in The Union. I could piss in your coffee and all my boss could do is come in here and give me a stern look.
D1: Odd that he's standing right next to you, giving you a stern look right now...
D2: (distant slurp) Hey, does this coffee taste funny to anyone else?
RT: Okay guys, we've got 3 minutes left in this episode. Either of you want to share any of your "razor wit" before we put this one in the can?
D1: Yeah I got something to add.
(Clears throat)
At this point in the show I had the writing process nailed down to a science. It used to be that writers for Star Trek would use a little placeholder word, "tech," which would be filled in with other words, like "anomaly" or "photon torpedo", by the production staff.
I went one step further. I fired all the writers and replaced them chimps. Chimps chained to typewriters. And those typewriters, had just two keys - "dialog" and "tech".
And those chimps produced page after page of glorious manuscripts. They were like two-note symphonies of "dialog" and "tech". And those chimps did all of this for me out respect for my talent as a director. And fear of getting hit with a cattle prod. But mostly respect. And fear.
So I would take these manuscripts and I'd have them sent off to some third-world country where 8 year old children, who spoke not a word of English, would slave away 20 hours a day in squalid and dangerous conditions to replace those "dialog" and "tech" placeholders with the dialog you hear in the show.
D2: And the quality of that process really shows in the finished product.
RT: Why, exactly are child labor and "squalid and dangerous" conditions necessary for this?
D1: You have to suffer to produce great art!
(contemplates)
Anyway, someone has to suffer for my art.
RT: Well, we are all suffering because of your art.
D1: Yes, well. The streamlining of this process really helped me manage my time. I'm a very busy man.
D2: Why don't you tell us all what keeps you so busy.
D1: Ah yes. You see, I'm destroying science fiction. I buy the original master prints of classic science fiction films, and then I burn them.
D2: You burn them?
D1: Yes. Sometimes I shit on them first. But mostly I just burn them.
In fact, while filming this episode I spent most of my time on the Paramount backlot burning the last master copy of "2001: A Space Odyssey".
Actually, I didn't burn the whole copy, though. The makeup for the alien in this episode is made from little fragments of the famous "Starchild" scene. It gives the eyebrow ridges a
Before there were DD floppies there were SD floppies. (ie. In order for there to be double-density floppies, there had to be single-density ones.)
You may want to double check the weight of 1.9 million hard drives vs. the maximum cargo weight allowance for a 777-400 freighter. A long time ago I did this same math for DLT cartridges and a 747 cargo plane, and I noticed that you couldn't fill the cargo space more than 60% full with DLTs before the plane was too heavy to take off.
You, sir, use a very strange calendar.
Well, number 3 shouldn't be a problem for this BSG prequel, afterall the Galactica was basically current tech when this sequel takes place. The set designers and FX people have a pretty good model to work with, namely stuff just needs to look pretty much like does in BSG.
Personally, I was hoping for CSI:Picon.
Not by anyone with a clue, and for a multitude of reasons. The least of which is the little detail of MD5 not being any sort of encryption at all.