So then why did everyone say the US could read license plates in Russia during the Cold War? Old wives tales?
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So those 12 children I saw in National Geographic who had missing left arms are completely normal, right? The radiation didn't remove everything after their elbows, did it? Even though they're not dead, they still weren't affected by Chernobyl, eh? Maybe they're all part of a 6 year-old cult that cuts their arms off and mysteriously sews it all up.
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One of the major reasons the US dropped the nukes was to intimidate the Soviet Union. The real start of the Cold War was the dropping of these two bombs. When did the apparent Cold War start (meaning, when did the public begin to notice)? During WWII peace talks. You know, the Soviet satellites, Berlin occupation, etc.
Forgot to mention that if this above mentioned bike is fitted with a turbocharger or supercharger, it will reach 220 mph, only 30 less than the turbine bike.
This turbine bike also gives off so much heat that as Jay Leno waited at a stoplight, the exhaust from the bike began to melt the front bumper of the Lexus behind him. Wonder why helicopters always have those "heat waves" where the exhaust is? Take that and put it directly behind the bike. True story.
A $10,000 Suzuki Hayabusa, with a 1300cc (1.3L) engine, will do the quarter mile in about 10 seconds, and it runs off of regular gasoline. Top speed: Electronically limited to 186 mph (300kph). Without the limiter, it goes to 195 mph. HP: 160. A cheap bike compared to the turbine bike...
Synopsis: What happens when the air-fiber-optic line is cut underwater and it fills with seawater?
One of the biggest problems facing this is underwater lines. Let's say you produce one of these new lines underwater from California to Japan. All is well for 2 months, when suddenly all communication is completely cut.
A crew investigates at the bottom of the ocean. Something has cut the fiber-optic line into two pieces, and since the fiber is filled with air, the entire line has filled with water. Murky seawater. What do you do now? Pump air through it? There's bound to be residue that will impede light transmission. I guess that means there will have to be a new line laid.
Maybe they'll produce an armored sort of line to reduce the possibility of a cut. Hopefully that will prevent anything weird from happening.
Mark me down as a troll, but having read this book, I believe this to not be suited to much of the slashdot community at all. In fact, I would go so far as to say that pretty much every/.'er should avoid it, as there are much more better sources of information about robotics than this one.
April 15, 2001: Richard Garriott, also known as Lord British, has claimed the moon. He was the leader of a company named Origin, which produced the successful game Ultima Online. Among his ambitious plans, he sees a future for the currently arid moon. Natalie Portman has sanctioned his plans for a petrified-people museum, much like a wax museum. This museum will be the first one of its kind on the moon, and a small city will be built around it. The city will include numerous strip joints and restaurants, some of which will only serve hot grits.
Meanwhile, the United Nations is sending an army corp of 6,352 soldiers to combat the 1,202,379 "Knights of Lord British" that have set themselves up on the moon through secret launches sponsored by Origin, which had, incidentally, been losing money and laying off employees.
Local "Slashdotters" tend to side with Lord British, although some side with the UN, as Lord British also plans to set off atomic explosions on the surface of the moon in such a pattern that the side of the moon facing the earth will look like a smiley face.
You're an old fuddy-duddy, because amihotornot doesn't really do any of what you claim. Let's take a stroll down a popular street:
1. You see a voloptuous woman.
2. You think "Ooh, I'd like to get her in bed."
3. You stare. (maybe)
4. You might introduce yourself.
Now, simply walking down the street are hundreds of amihotornot'ers who are rating men and women who are simply walking down the street. They know theyr'e being watched. They know their being critiqued. The only thing that's different is that hotornot simply makes it easier to see more people.
Besides, it's all in fun and entertainment, and there's an initial disclaimer. Whoever thinks that their rating is who they really are is an idiot and should deserve whatever consequences may occur.
April 1, 2001: Today will certainly be known as a sad day in Linux history. A large component of what made Linux successful, Slashdot.org will be moving to the FreeBSD distribution.
The White House has had tens of thousands of angry "Slashdotters" started to protest in DC, while 500 police and National Guard officers patroled the area. Angry comments to the police such as "You won't understand what Slashdot meant to me!" and "L33T HAXORS OWNZ J00!" were exchanged, resulting in a fiery clash that left hundreds dead. The remaining crowd set fires, destroyed property, and put all the W's back on the keyboards in the White House. Mysteriously, about 50 pairs of pants with what appears to be hot grits in them were left behind.
Even Natalie Portman tried to appease the crowd by unveiling a carved petrified-wood model of herself.
Riots in Redmond, Washington have also broken out, as thousands of pro-Microsofter's started tailgate parties and drunken orgies in the Microsoft parking lot. Bill Gates was quoted as saying "I'm too old for this [sexual activity]."
The global economy has plummeted, the moon has decided to start moving back towards earth, and Linus Torvalds is traveling by armored plane to Rob Malda to propose a Linux unification standard. Whether it will work out remains to be seen.
This failed merger reflects the slowdown of the Net economy. This slowdown was forseen by the pundits several months ago, as the peak of the get-rich-quick IPOs became the slump of the IPO-and-die.
I believe that we are on the verge of an economic slowdown, and although politicians have talked about fixing it, it is very hard to prevent the US economy from doing what investors want.
Face it. Since much of the world's economy is dependent on the US's economy, a global economic slump is likely to fall into a depression. Of what degree remains to be seen. It happened in 1929; it can happen again.
Not really. Being an Asian guy myself, I know that common last names, such as Wong, Huang, and Wang are all pronounced the same. They are the names given by immigration officers who merely try to write out the phonetic sound of the name. The "Fan" of the inventor is the same as "Fong," which is my mother's maiden name.
what are you supposed to be overclocking, then? maybe you'd want to overclock your floppy drive... it might run those text-based games a little faster.
The difference between these is that this one is "a layer of two semiconductors stacked atop one another like tiles" while the other article was about tiny masses of cooling fans. One has moving parts, the other doesn't.
The distance between a cooling surface and the actual chip itself is now much smaller, and so the cooling effect is better. This seems like a very good substitute for heatsinks. However, 7 degrees difference at 100 degrees really doesn't seem all that much now. Hopefully there will be future advances to cool the chips even further.
However, the cost of these things isn't mentioned. Judging by the way this article is presented though, it should be relatively cheap to make.
The cooling units consist of 200 alternating layers of two semiconductors stacked atop one another like tiles.
I wonder how many layers you can put on top of each other before it becomes inefficient.
Better yet, make a chip that's 2 pieces, so that each side of the cooling mini-fridges could cool 2 sides. Of course this isn't feasible because of fabrication costs, but hey, it's an idea!
Forwarding e-mails today can be mainly attributed to teenage girls and others who believe the e-mails that appeal to one's sense of well-doing. For example, if you heard that if you simply send an e-mail, and you can save a person's life because they have a fatal form of a disease, and 7 cents will be donated by the American Cancer Society to cure this FATAL disease, then of course you'll do it, right?
However, it's sad how so many people believe these schemes. Forwards first started out with the "forward to get a good sex life," and then evolved to "save a life, forward this," and next to "protect your kidneys from being stolen!" and finally, the endless numbers of virus hoaxes that will wipe out your hard drive simply by reading the e-mail.
Deception is obviously the easiest way to claim fame. Some really bored nerd (probably a/.'er first poster) are probably the ones who are perpetuating this and saying "hey guys, look at this forward I made and how popular it is!)
While most forwards are merely annoying, they unneccessarily waste bandwidth and time. Until the word gets out in the mass media, forwards will continue to be a caveat of e-mail. Except for the forwards that are real, forwards will be just like death, taxes, spam, and the need to upgrade.
Prisons are a source of cheap labor.
Neo-slavery, if you will...
Not quite. If you break the rules, you know that you have the face the consequences. Consequences include labor. The inmates actually DO have a say in whether or not they are forced to do labor. If you don't commit the crime, they can't incarcerate you, and you don't have to do the work. Simple.
These programs were supposed to bring faster, cheaper, and safer space transport? What happened?
I believe that most people (excluding/.) are not as interested in space anymore. Granted, there are those who salivate over the idea of mining asteroids and getting rich, but the general public really doesn't give a hoot about space. Space used to be a nationalistic thing. The moon landing (which did occur) is probably the one thing that really brought together the US as one nation. Since then, there's been interest in space, but it has been dwindling. Truly, there haven't been any large media events attributed to space, with the exception of the International Space Station.
But go out into the general public (which doesn't include/.) and I'll be you that there'll be more than one person who believes that tax dollars would be better spent on education and civil services than on space.
The government does have some business in space, but as of late, there have been a large number of private corporations that, I believe, will take over getting people and things into space and onto other celestial bodies. The government already depends on private contractors (Boeing, Lockheed-Martin), and it very well may relinquish its space influence to legislation.
However, I am all for space exploration, because once we kill Earth off with the various negative global influences, we're going to have to find somewhere else to live.
Slashdot Mirror
This is funny because nobody goes to my website... I guess I'm unreachable.
So then why did everyone say the US could read license plates in Russia during the Cold War? Old wives tales?
So those 12 children I saw in National Geographic who had missing left arms are completely normal, right? The radiation didn't remove everything after their elbows, did it? Even though they're not dead, they still weren't affected by Chernobyl, eh? Maybe they're all part of a 6 year-old cult that cuts their arms off and mysteriously sews it all up.
One of the major reasons the US dropped the nukes was to intimidate the Soviet Union. The real start of the Cold War was the dropping of these two bombs. When did the apparent Cold War start (meaning, when did the public begin to notice)? During WWII peace talks. You know, the Soviet satellites, Berlin occupation, etc.
Forgot to mention that if this above mentioned bike is fitted with a turbocharger or supercharger, it will reach 220 mph, only 30 less than the turbine bike.
This turbine bike also gives off so much heat that as Jay Leno waited at a stoplight, the exhaust from the bike began to melt the front bumper of the Lexus behind him. Wonder why helicopters always have those "heat waves" where the exhaust is? Take that and put it directly behind the bike. True story.
A $10,000 Suzuki Hayabusa, with a 1300cc (1.3L) engine, will do the quarter mile in about 10 seconds, and it runs off of regular gasoline. Top speed: Electronically limited to 186 mph (300kph). Without the limiter, it goes to 195 mph. HP: 160. A cheap bike compared to the turbine bike...
The StinkyMeat Project won't be around for much longer...
Synopsis: What happens when the air-fiber-optic line is cut underwater and it fills with seawater?
One of the biggest problems facing this is underwater lines. Let's say you produce one of these new lines underwater from California to Japan. All is well for 2 months, when suddenly all communication is completely cut.
A crew investigates at the bottom of the ocean. Something has cut the fiber-optic line into two pieces, and since the fiber is filled with air, the entire line has filled with water. Murky seawater. What do you do now? Pump air through it? There's bound to be residue that will impede light transmission. I guess that means there will have to be a new line laid.
Maybe they'll produce an armored sort of line to reduce the possibility of a cut. Hopefully that will prevent anything weird from happening.
Mark me down as a troll, but having read this book, I believe this to not be suited to much of the slashdot community at all. In fact, I would go so far as to say that pretty much every /.'er should avoid it, as there are much more better sources of information about robotics than this one.
April 15, 2001: Richard Garriott, also known as Lord British, has claimed the moon. He was the leader of a company named Origin, which produced the successful game Ultima Online. Among his ambitious plans, he sees a future for the currently arid moon. Natalie Portman has sanctioned his plans for a petrified-people museum, much like a wax museum. This museum will be the first one of its kind on the moon, and a small city will be built around it. The city will include numerous strip joints and restaurants, some of which will only serve hot grits.
Meanwhile, the United Nations is sending an army corp of 6,352 soldiers to combat the 1,202,379 "Knights of Lord British" that have set themselves up on the moon through secret launches sponsored by Origin, which had, incidentally, been losing money and laying off employees.
Local "Slashdotters" tend to side with Lord British, although some side with the UN, as Lord British also plans to set off atomic explosions on the surface of the moon in such a pattern that the side of the moon facing the earth will look like a smiley face.
I live in Central Florida. The real pics are at http://tomcrooze.myip.org
Cameron
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Gino
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You're an old fuddy-duddy, because amihotornot doesn't really do any of what you claim. Let's take a stroll down a popular street:
1. You see a voloptuous woman.
2. You think "Ooh, I'd like to get her in bed."
3. You stare. (maybe)
4. You might introduce yourself.
Now, simply walking down the street are hundreds of amihotornot'ers who are rating men and women who are simply walking down the street. They know theyr'e being watched. They know their being critiqued. The only thing that's different is that hotornot simply makes it easier to see more people.
Besides, it's all in fun and entertainment, and there's an initial disclaimer. Whoever thinks that their rating is who they really are is an idiot and should deserve whatever consequences may occur.
The White House has had tens of thousands of angry "Slashdotters" started to protest in DC, while 500 police and National Guard officers patroled the area. Angry comments to the police such as "You won't understand what Slashdot meant to me!" and "L33T HAXORS OWNZ J00!" were exchanged, resulting in a fiery clash that left hundreds dead. The remaining crowd set fires, destroyed property, and put all the W's back on the keyboards in the White House. Mysteriously, about 50 pairs of pants with what appears to be hot grits in them were left behind.
Even Natalie Portman tried to appease the crowd by unveiling a carved petrified-wood model of herself.
Riots in Redmond, Washington have also broken out, as thousands of pro-Microsofter's started tailgate parties and drunken orgies in the Microsoft parking lot. Bill Gates was quoted as saying "I'm too old for this [sexual activity]."
The global economy has plummeted, the moon has decided to start moving back towards earth, and Linus Torvalds is traveling by armored plane to Rob Malda to propose a Linux unification standard. Whether it will work out remains to be seen.
I believe that we are on the verge of an economic slowdown, and although politicians have talked about fixing it, it is very hard to prevent the US economy from doing what investors want.
Face it. Since much of the world's economy is dependent on the US's economy, a global economic slump is likely to fall into a depression. Of what degree remains to be seen. It happened in 1929; it can happen again.
Oh crap. Better go change all my passwords now.
That test was a hoax. The clock on the motherboard couldn't support that kind of multiplier and bus speed. It was all just free publicity from /.
what are you supposed to be overclocking, then? maybe you'd want to overclock your floppy drive... it might run those text-based games a little faster.
The difference between these is that this one is "a layer of two semiconductors stacked atop one another like tiles" while the other article was about tiny masses of cooling fans. One has moving parts, the other doesn't.
However, the cost of these things isn't mentioned. Judging by the way this article is presented though, it should be relatively cheap to make.
The cooling units consist of 200 alternating layers of two semiconductors stacked atop one another like tiles.
I wonder how many layers you can put on top of each other before it becomes inefficient.
Better yet, make a chip that's 2 pieces, so that each side of the cooling mini-fridges could cool 2 sides. Of course this isn't feasible because of fabrication costs, but hey, it's an idea!
Forwarding e-mails today can be mainly attributed to teenage girls and others who believe the e-mails that appeal to one's sense of well-doing. For example, if you heard that if you simply send an e-mail, and you can save a person's life because they have a fatal form of a disease, and 7 cents will be donated by the American Cancer Society to cure this FATAL disease, then of course you'll do it, right?
/.'er first poster) are probably the ones who are perpetuating this and saying "hey guys, look at this forward I made and how popular it is!)
However, it's sad how so many people believe these schemes. Forwards first started out with the "forward to get a good sex life," and then evolved to "save a life, forward this," and next to "protect your kidneys from being stolen!" and finally, the endless numbers of virus hoaxes that will wipe out your hard drive simply by reading the e-mail.
Deception is obviously the easiest way to claim fame. Some really bored nerd (probably a
While most forwards are merely annoying, they unneccessarily waste bandwidth and time. Until the word gets out in the mass media, forwards will continue to be a caveat of e-mail. Except for the forwards that are real, forwards will be just like death, taxes, spam, and the need to upgrade.
whoever modded this down is an idiot.
don't you dare mod me down.
I like pudding too!
Not quite. If you break the rules, you know that you have the face the consequences. Consequences include labor. The inmates actually DO have a say in whether or not they are forced to do labor. If you don't commit the crime, they can't incarcerate you, and you don't have to do the work. Simple.
I believe that most people (excluding /.) are not as interested in space anymore. Granted, there are those who salivate over the idea of mining asteroids and getting rich, but the general public really doesn't give a hoot about space. Space used to be a nationalistic thing. The moon landing (which did occur) is probably the one thing that really brought together the US as one nation. Since then, there's been interest in space, but it has been dwindling. Truly, there haven't been any large media events attributed to space, with the exception of the International Space Station.
But go out into the general public (which doesn't include /.) and I'll be you that there'll be more than one person who believes that tax dollars would be better spent on education and civil services than on space.
The government does have some business in space, but as of late, there have been a large number of private corporations that, I believe, will take over getting people and things into space and onto other celestial bodies. The government already depends on private contractors (Boeing, Lockheed-Martin), and it very well may relinquish its space influence to legislation.
However, I am all for space exploration, because once we kill Earth off with the various negative global influences, we're going to have to find somewhere else to live.