It's probably not a harmful chemical. Who said it was a bacteria. Just because it's organic, it's not alive, and just because it's alive it doesn't mean it would kill you. A wooden desk is organic.
Will my sims get sick and throw up like real people do after eating the McSomething?
They can't rent them anyway.
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You can't rent out someone's movie or game withought their permission, movie studios sell special tapes for rental, they're basically the same as the home video but they can cost the rental store upwards of $100. These games can be borrowed but they can't be rented legally.
Ahh, finally a valid excuse to avoid work.
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We are the Borg, your species will be assimilated. Non-compliance is not an option.
We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own, however your technological distinctiveness will be filtered against our database and monitored.
I know it's a very addictive game, but it's not the best one out there. There are older games that are more widely played. Chess for example. Of course, chess doesn't have all that electronic music.
Do do, do doo do do do da da, da Daa da da da do, dedeledelo dedeledelo, dedeledelooho!
There's no information that leads me to believe it will rival the quality or compression of Mpeg-4. If it were as easy as trying would not realnetworks and quicktime have already made equivalant codecs?
I've tried plugging my mp3 player into a tape converter through the tape deck, there's too much loss of quality with this method and I don't recommend it. The radio I have now has an Aux in (1/8th inch mini line-in), which sounds decent. It's not going to be any worse than headphones or anything, but the mini jack is a really bad way to transfer audio data. I've also found that using that at the same time as pluging my Creative nomad jukebox into the ciggarette lighter will cause the unshielded mini cable to pick up the sound of the generator in the engine that my jukebox is drawing power from.
Never mind, It's not clear at first but they ARE talking merely about using their piping to carry a separate cable for their network. I was thinking it was talking about those systems where the signal is carried over the power line itself... My parents used to have a baby monitor that worked that way. You plug it into the electrical outlet and it sends an rf signal over the power line, boy did that mess with TV sets!
I don't remember where but in the past I read something about a city that tried something like this till they discovered that faint blinking in the city's streetlamps was enough needed to snoop on the data being transferred through it.
I remember that thing. For anyone living in the Los Angeles area, you can see them in an arcade at citywalk outside of universal studios. It's a really stupid game though. I'de never put money into the things. But from watching people playing it, you have to put about 20 spins on the real ball before the one on the screen begins to have an affect. It's like that old crystal quest game but for a dollar a play.
Despite this flaming and unfairly modding down my new account, I don't think people see my point. In the book 1984 cameras are placed all over and people are watched at all times by the police. When you begin to emulate parts of such a nightmarish story you see what it could lead to. Granted it could have many positive benefits, but even so people have a right to privacy. This is what I mostly meant by my first post. Why is was moded down I don't know.
Difficulty:
Above the fact that a hamster sled is a very bad idea in terms of efficiency, and the troubles involved in making thousands of tiny harnesses and attaching them to the sled somehow, there are certain definite things that may preclude this hamster sled from working at all.
1) Surface area/weight. Movement is created from both gravity pushing down on the hamsters and them using it to get friction on the ground, while pushing forwards. Since we are assuming there would be a limit to the number of hamsters you could actually connect to a sled. They may not have the weight to pull it. Even the strongest hampster would simply slip under too much pressure. Unless of course it had some way to cling on to the ground.
2) Motivation/Direction. Unlike dogs, hamsters are not socially pack animals, neither are they as easily trained. Convincing such a large number of creatures to strain themselves in such a task is difficult enough, let alone trying to get them go in the same direction. The natural 'scatter' instinct could leave the sled trapped. In addition to this, hamsters are not known for being all that hard working, unless it applies to chewing a hole in something.
3) Terrain. The most common, and certainly the most effective use of sleds, has always been in a snowy climate. Dogs and other larger animals are usually taller than the snow, hamsters are not. This could lead to several issues that would have to be dealt with. While it would be entertaining to see a sled with no visible source of movement, the hamsters would not find it as amusing, and would also have trouble seeing where they were going, not to mention the stress of tunneling(or leaping) through the snow. Another advantage of being taller is the greater ability to scale tall terrain. If a dog were to encounter a street curb, it could climb up it, while a hamster would have to find a way around.
Scientific Testing:
If someone really wanted to find this out without actually doing it, here is my suggestion. First get a sled, a hamster, some lengths of string, and some weights of varying, uh, weight. Then place the sled on the type of terrain you wish to test, but do so near a very small cliff or on a table. Attaching the weight to the sled, hang the weight over the edge, add weights until they move the sled at the desired speed. Then try a similar test with a hamster. Be sure that the hamster weighs more then then the weight to prevent flying hamsters (Note: always prevent flying hamsters!). Lighten the weights on the hamster until it can pull it at the desired speed. Then devide the finished weight of the first weight, by the final weight of the second weight. This will yeld the correct answer!
This won't go anywhere. DivX was the same thing but with more protection and additional features. I think it's more likely for DivX to return than this to continue.
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It's probably not a harmful chemical. Who said it was a bacteria. Just because it's organic, it's not alive, and just because it's alive it doesn't mean it would kill you. A wooden desk is organic.
Just get a power inverter. Then you can run any 110 volt appliance off a 12volt battery.
Will my sims get sick and throw up like real people do after eating the McSomething?
You can't rent out someone's movie or game withought their permission, movie studios sell special tapes for rental, they're basically the same as the home video but they can cost the rental store upwards of $100. These games can be borrowed but they can't be rented legally.
"Not now, I'm meditating.
I just can't wait till people start accedently swallowing their phones.
"Is it that difficult to push the buttons?"
"It's not that it's difficult, it's unnecessary."
We are the Borg, your species will be assimilated. Non-compliance is not an option.
We will add your biological and technological
distinctiveness to our own, however your technological distinctiveness will be filtered against our database and monitored.
I know it's a very addictive game, but it's not the best one out there. There are older games that are more widely played. Chess for example. Of course, chess doesn't have all that electronic music.
Do do, do doo do do do da da, da Daa da da da do, dedeledelo dedeledelo, dedeledelooho!
"No, bad robot, the earth is not debris."
About half a year ago when I found there was no red stapler on the market. I got a black one and some red enamel. /stares at pink stapler
It didn't quite work right.
There's no information that leads me to believe it will rival the quality or compression of Mpeg-4. If it were as easy as trying would not realnetworks and quicktime have already made equivalant codecs?
Oh right, it was a prank:
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http://www.somethingawful.com/article.php?id=30
I've tried plugging my mp3 player into a tape converter through the tape deck, there's too much loss of quality with this method and I don't recommend it. The radio I have now has an Aux in (1/8th inch mini line-in), which sounds decent. It's not going to be any worse than headphones or anything, but the mini jack is a really bad way to transfer audio data. I've also found that using that at the same time as pluging my Creative nomad jukebox into the ciggarette lighter will cause the unshielded mini cable to pick up the sound of the generator in the engine that my jukebox is drawing power from.
Never mind, It's not clear at first but they ARE talking merely about using their piping to carry a separate cable for their network. I was thinking it was talking about those systems where the signal is carried over the power line itself... My parents used to have a baby monitor that worked that way. You plug it into the electrical outlet and it sends an rf signal over the power line, boy did that mess with TV sets!
I don't remember where but in the past I read something about a city that tried something like this till they discovered that faint blinking in the city's streetlamps was enough needed to snoop on the data being transferred through it.
"Oh no! I missed myst!"
I remember that thing. For anyone living in the Los Angeles area, you can see them in an arcade at citywalk outside of universal studios. It's a really stupid game though. I'de never put money into the things. But from watching people playing it, you have to put about 20 spins on the real ball before the one on the screen begins to have an affect. It's like that old crystal quest game but for a dollar a play.
What happens if the second rubber band hits the kid too?
Despite this flaming and unfairly modding down my new account, I don't think people see my point. In the book 1984 cameras are placed all over and people are watched at all times by the police. When you begin to emulate parts of such a nightmarish story you see what it could lead to. Granted it could have many positive benefits, but even so people have a right to privacy. This is what I mostly meant by my first post. Why is was moded down I don't know.
This coming from a nation that colonized, invaded, and took over countless other countries and cultures? Wow, you have this all backwards!
Difficulty:
Above the fact that a hamster sled is a very bad idea in terms of efficiency, and the troubles involved in making thousands of tiny harnesses and attaching them to the sled somehow, there are certain definite things that may preclude this hamster sled from working at all.
1) Surface area/weight. Movement is created from both gravity pushing down on the hamsters and them using it to get friction on the ground, while pushing forwards. Since we are assuming there would be a limit to the number of hamsters you could actually connect to a sled. They may not have the weight to pull it. Even the strongest hampster would simply slip under too much pressure. Unless of course it had some way to cling on to the ground.
2) Motivation/Direction. Unlike dogs, hamsters are not socially pack animals, neither are they as easily trained. Convincing such a large number of creatures to strain themselves in such a task is difficult enough, let alone trying to get them go in the same direction. The natural 'scatter' instinct could leave the sled trapped. In addition to this, hamsters are not known for being all that hard working, unless it applies to chewing a hole in something.
3) Terrain. The most common, and certainly the most effective use of sleds, has always been in a snowy climate. Dogs and other larger animals are usually taller than the snow, hamsters are not. This could lead to several issues that would have to be dealt with. While it would be entertaining to see a sled with no visible source of movement, the hamsters would not find it as amusing, and would also have trouble seeing where they were going, not to mention the stress of tunneling(or leaping) through the snow. Another advantage of being taller is the greater ability to scale tall terrain. If a dog were to encounter a street curb, it could climb up it, while a hamster would have to find a way around.
Scientific Testing:
If someone really wanted to find this out without actually doing it, here is my suggestion. First get a sled, a hamster, some lengths of string, and some weights of varying, uh, weight. Then place the sled on the type of terrain you wish to test, but do so near a very small cliff or on a table. Attaching the weight to the sled, hang the weight over the edge, add weights until they move the sled at the desired speed. Then try a similar test with a hamster. Be sure that the hamster weighs more then then the weight to prevent flying hamsters (Note: always prevent flying hamsters!). Lighten the weights on the hamster until it can pull it at the desired speed. Then devide the finished weight of the first weight, by the final weight of the second weight. This will yeld the correct answer!
This won't go anywhere. DivX was the same thing but with more protection and additional features. I think it's more likely for DivX to return than this to continue.
They do if they are shot out of a cannon...
"It's not yet known what caused the leak.." - My guess... Hummingbird.