The sinks and toilets in Nova Prospekt can be torn out of the wall and thrown with the grav gun. They do shatter on impact, though, so the radiator remains more useful since you can reuse it.
The rule of thumb we used to use in color offset printing was LPI * 1.5 = necessary DPI. This is because you're not using the 1200+ dpi resolution of the the imagesetter for individual pixels from the image, you're using it to print the dots in a halftone, something a magazine will be able to reproduce using a 4-color printing process.
So if you were printing a 100 lpi halftone you only need a 150 dpi image. For the best stuff we had to print, we rarely exceeded 150 lpi, which would require 225 dpi, at 11x17 = 9,466,875 pixels, about 9.5MP.
You may not see a point, but I do. Sure, I can use a standard consumer 900MHz phone at home, but where this technology really shines is in mobile phones.
The idea is: you have a mobile phone that you carry around with you. When you are not in range of WiFi, then you use the normal GSM/CDMA network and pay the normal price for it. But when you are in range of a WiFi network, like at the office, you can switch to VoIP and talk for free (more or less).
It may not be perfect today, but I think it's pretty close, and in a few years it will be obvious.
Rumor has it that Mass Storage support is underway for the Karma. There are even a few tantalizing hints from the Rio engineers themselves on those forums. No specific dates though.
Actually FreeCache was not made for this kind of problem. FreeCache is made to cache large files, such as the videos archive.org hosts. FreeCache won't work for files under 5MB. Even if it did, you would have to construct freecache links for every image on the page.
"Morlock" certainly trips off the tongue easier than "digitician," but realistically I think Ma & Pa Kettle refer to the computer-fixer-guy as a "tech" or "techie."
The article just says that the email was questionable, not that it was fraudulent:
No aspect of the email headers appears forged. The reply from Citibank originated from the Citibank Development Center in Los Angeles, California (CDCLA). It is now left to the reader to draw his own conclusions from this email.
I read it to mean that the department in charge of fraud was not very well organized (bad phone numbers, using an aol email address) and not very cognizant of the fraud problem. But not that the Citibank website had been compromised.
I wouldn't say programming on the C64 was "more fun" than programming in C++/VB/Java today, in many ways it was a tremendous hassle in comparison to today's tools.
However, the key thing for me was that when you turned the thing on and saw the initial READY prompt, you were already in a BASIC interpreter and the thing was inviting you to go ahead and try out a little BASIC coding. I was more interested in playing games at the time than writing programs, but I wound up writing a few just because I was already in the interpreter.
I had a Mac for years and never wrote a line of code for it, because the tools weren't included with the machine. It wasn't until I encountered UNIX in college that I started programming again.
"AltGr" still exists on non-US keyboards. It's usually where the right Alt key would be on a US keyboard. On the keyboards I've used, there are three symbols on some keys, for example the 2 key also has " and @ on it. Shift-2 produces ", AltGr-2 produces @.
Flight attendants don't take tips, and get offended when you offer one.
That has not been my experience. In my experience, I try to tip flight attendants when I order drinks on the plane, and they have always said "thank you" and accepted the tip. Sometimes they show up, drop off the drink and split before I can give them the tip, but I assume that's because they don't expect the tip, not because they don't want it.
In fact, the airlines generally allow you to talk on cell phones while sitting at the gate up to the point they close the door.
From then on, you're not supposed to use your phone, but it will still work and people who have been detained for hours on airplanes on the ground ("waiting for the part to arrive") will often use their phones.
I concur completely. Just a few days ago I was looking at the much smaller rack we have in our office, and lamenting the low number of blinkenlights there. Just a few green LEDs to indicate power, disk activity, and network activity on each machine.
Now, in the old days when all of a machine's output was through blinkenlights or line printers, it was important to display more diagnostic information on the machines. Now we have consoles and logs, but maybe we don't watch those as often as we should.
I think it would be great if boxmakers could give you an option for a blinkenlights panel that told you a little more about the system's state: processor load, memory load, disk capacity would all be nice. I remember the BeBox's great dual-processor load monitor on twin strips of LEDs along either side of the front of the case. I would probably even pay an extra $100 or so for the extra lights (on a $10K server it's a pretty small incremental addition to the price). If I walked past the machine and saw it was heavily loaded when I didn't expect it to be, I could go check it out and see what was going on.
And if the unused lights just did programmable effects, that would be nice too... it would be a nice, reassuring little "Still here, just waiting for some data to chew on."
I also did this. I moved into a house full of cockroaches (in the SF Bay Area), and after the poisons didn't work, I bought two house geckos and released them behind our fridge. I never saw another roach for as long as I lived in that house.
I see Empire Strikes Back in this vein. A bit darker then the other movies, but bad? No. It was different, and it was good. Did everyone like it? No again, but few claim to outright hate the movie.
Actually, Empire's my favorite episode, and it's also got 52% of the vote on the linked MSNBC article, so I'm actually in the majority on that opinion, for once.
Actually, I found Death & Rebirth (at least the versions I saw) to be redundant. "Death" was one long flashback with no new scenes, edited together from the preceding 26 episodes, and "Rebirth" was short and unfinished--and reproduced at the beginning of "End of Evangelion."
So if you're watching them at your leisure, you can skip straight from episode 24 or 26 directly to End of Evangelion and not miss anything you haven't already seen. Personally, I liked the 25th and 26th episodes, but then I knew that as soon as I finished watching them, I could watch the movie; I didn't have to wait like the earlier viewers did.
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An acquaintance cut his finger pretty deeply when his ring got caught on a nail, as he jumped out of a truck. (the bed of the truck had high wooden sides)
Fortunately his gold ring was already worn pretty thin from years of wear and it broke, and he kept his finger. But these things do happen.
Actually I've stopped using my real alarm clock, and now I just use the alarm function on my cell phone--I can use the keypad to set the alarm, and the time is always correct, even if the power goes out in my apartment. I also tend to have it with me when I'm crashing at a friend's house and need to wake up at a particular time.
As far as I'm concerned, this cell phone (a Samsung 3500) is the best alarm clock I've ever had.
Those interested in buying and playing around with the PS2 Linux kit should be aware of some things before getting it: Access to the PS2's DVD drive is restricted so that only official PlayStation discs can be read; and CD-Rs and DVD-R discs won't work in the drive. However, the USB ports on the PS2 are standard, so some USB external CD and DVD drive models that are supported under Linux could be used with this kit.
Too bad it can't even read CD-Rs, though I suppose there's probably a mod that would let you do that.
OK, I have never wanted to jump on the Katz-callers' bandwagon before, but this is too much.
Jon, you've worked for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and Wired, and you must know that none of them would accept a movie review like this. It hardly criticizes the movie, instead vaguely trying to position it within the social milieu of early 2002.
I even admit thinking your "Hellmouth" stuff was brave and relevant at the time, but lately you've been writing reviews of pop-culture movies that lack fact checking, grammar checking, and often even spell checking. In this article, for example, you consistently use "Columbia" in place of "Colombia," which is humorous to some readers and embarrassing to others.
Also recently, some of your articles have been seriously criticized for missing the facts (Commodores in Kabul, Ewan McGregor in Mogadishu), yet you haven't bothered to respond. If I'm mistaken here, I'd love to see the rebuttals.
So in closing, please make a little more effort. You shouldn't churn out mediocre material just because it's Slashdot.
These will look terrific in my underground laboratory. Maybe I can set up an array of them to count down to Armageddon, or St. Patrick's Day, or something.
But where the hell would I get Nixie tubes if I don't happen to have any in the attic (I looked).
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The sinks and toilets in Nova Prospekt can be torn out of the wall and thrown with the grav gun. They do shatter on impact, though, so the radiator remains more useful since you can reuse it.
So if you were printing a 100 lpi halftone you only need a 150 dpi image. For the best stuff we had to print, we rarely exceeded 150 lpi, which would require 225 dpi, at 11x17 = 9,466,875 pixels, about 9.5MP.
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You may not see a point, but I do. Sure, I can use a standard consumer 900MHz phone at home, but where this technology really shines is in mobile phones.
The idea is: you have a mobile phone that you carry around with you. When you are not in range of WiFi, then you use the normal GSM/CDMA network and pay the normal price for it. But when you are in range of a WiFi network, like at the office, you can switch to VoIP and talk for free (more or less).
It may not be perfect today, but I think it's pretty close, and in a few years it will be obvious.
Rumor has it that Mass Storage support is underway for the Karma. There are even a few tantalizing hints from the Rio engineers themselves on those forums. No specific dates though.
Actually FreeCache was not made for this kind of problem. FreeCache is made to cache large files, such as the videos archive.org hosts. FreeCache won't work for files under 5MB. Even if it did, you would have to construct freecache links for every image on the page.
"Morlock" certainly trips off the tongue easier than "digitician," but realistically I think Ma & Pa Kettle refer to the computer-fixer-guy as a "tech" or "techie."
I read it to mean that the department in charge of fraud was not very well organized (bad phone numbers, using an aol email address) and not very cognizant of the fraud problem. But not that the Citibank website had been compromised.
However, the key thing for me was that when you turned the thing on and saw the initial READY prompt, you were already in a BASIC interpreter and the thing was inviting you to go ahead and try out a little BASIC coding. I was more interested in playing games at the time than writing programs, but I wound up writing a few just because I was already in the interpreter.
I had a Mac for years and never wrote a line of code for it, because the tools weren't included with the machine. It wasn't until I encountered UNIX in college that I started programming again.
"AltGr" still exists on non-US keyboards. It's usually where the right Alt key would be on a US keyboard. On the keyboards I've used, there are three symbols on some keys, for example the 2 key also has " and @ on it. Shift-2 produces ", AltGr-2 produces @.
That has not been my experience. In my experience, I try to tip flight attendants when I order drinks on the plane, and they have always said "thank you" and accepted the tip. Sometimes they show up, drop off the drink and split before I can give them the tip, but I assume that's because they don't expect the tip, not because they don't want it.
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In fact, the airlines generally allow you to talk on cell phones while sitting at the gate up to the point they close the door.
From then on, you're not supposed to use your phone, but it will still work and people who have been detained for hours on airplanes on the ground ("waiting for the part to arrive") will often use their phones.
Now, in the old days when all of a machine's output was through blinkenlights or line printers, it was important to display more diagnostic information on the machines. Now we have consoles and logs, but maybe we don't watch those as often as we should.
I think it would be great if boxmakers could give you an option for a blinkenlights panel that told you a little more about the system's state: processor load, memory load, disk capacity would all be nice. I remember the BeBox's great dual-processor load monitor on twin strips of LEDs along either side of the front of the case. I would probably even pay an extra $100 or so for the extra lights (on a $10K server it's a pretty small incremental addition to the price). If I walked past the machine and saw it was heavily loaded when I didn't expect it to be, I could go check it out and see what was going on.
And if the unused lights just did programmable effects, that would be nice too... it would be a nice, reassuring little "Still here, just waiting for some data to chew on."
I also did this. I moved into a house full of cockroaches (in the SF Bay Area), and after the poisons didn't work, I bought two house geckos and released them behind our fridge. I never saw another roach for as long as I lived in that house.
I too have very few books I've loaned out. People usually don't give them back. :(
I can only hope that they give the book to someone else who wouldn't have read it otherwise.
Perhaps, but with its similarity to "Wedgie" it has grave potential for misuse in elementary school.
But is there such a resource for Futurama?
Personally, I use Can't Get Enough Futurama. Perhaps not as in-depth as SNPP, but a good resource.
Actually, Empire's my favorite episode, and it's also got 52% of the vote on the linked MSNBC article, so I'm actually in the majority on that opinion, for once.
Actually, I found Death & Rebirth (at least the versions I saw) to be redundant. "Death" was one long flashback with no new scenes, edited together from the preceding 26 episodes, and "Rebirth" was short and unfinished--and reproduced at the beginning of "End of Evangelion."
So if you're watching them at your leisure, you can skip straight from episode 24 or 26 directly to End of Evangelion and not miss anything you haven't already seen. Personally, I liked the 25th and 26th episodes, but then I knew that as soon as I finished watching them, I could watch the movie; I didn't have to wait like the earlier viewers did.
An acquaintance cut his finger pretty deeply when his ring got caught on a nail, as he jumped out of a truck. (the bed of the truck had high wooden sides)
Fortunately his gold ring was already worn pretty thin from years of wear and it broke, and he kept his finger. But these things do happen.
Actually I've stopped using my real alarm clock, and now I just use the alarm function on my cell phone--I can use the keypad to set the alarm, and the time is always correct, even if the power goes out in my apartment. I also tend to have it with me when I'm crashing at a friend's house and need to wake up at a particular time.
As far as I'm concerned, this cell phone (a Samsung 3500) is the best alarm clock I've ever had.
Too bad it can't even read CD-Rs, though I suppose there's probably a mod that would let you do that.
OK, I have never wanted to jump on the Katz-callers' bandwagon before, but this is too much.
Jon, you've worked for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and Wired, and you must know that none of them would accept a movie review like this. It hardly criticizes the movie, instead vaguely trying to position it within the social milieu of early 2002.
I even admit thinking your "Hellmouth" stuff was brave and relevant at the time, but lately you've been writing reviews of pop-culture movies that lack fact checking, grammar checking, and often even spell checking. In this article, for example, you consistently use "Columbia" in place of "Colombia," which is humorous to some readers and embarrassing to others.
Also recently, some of your articles have been seriously criticized for missing the facts (Commodores in Kabul, Ewan McGregor in Mogadishu), yet you haven't bothered to respond. If I'm mistaken here, I'd love to see the rebuttals.
So in closing, please make a little more effort. You shouldn't churn out mediocre material just because it's Slashdot.
These will look terrific in my underground laboratory. Maybe I can set up an array of them to count down to Armageddon, or St. Patrick's Day, or something.
But where the hell would I get Nixie tubes if I don't happen to have any in the attic (I looked).