it's more like: "This 200kb program requires.NET to run" OK, no problem, I'll go get.NET ".NET framework download is 22MB and will take approximately Umpteen Bumtillion minutes on a 28.8k modem to download" Hmmm... 1 hour.... just to run program X to try out on a whim... 1 hour... nah.
I know, it's one off, but still the one-off stops a lot of non-broadband people in their tracks. And there's more poor modem saps out there than you think.
Even I go, "Hmmm. 5 minutes at 50K/s, to run program X.... nah." Goddamit , I want "teh interweb" NOW, not in 5 minutes!
You run your water through a double distiller or something? For most municipal water supplies it goes like: - Filter large crud and let dirt drop out of suspension - Add a flocculant and coagulant to settle the fines (micron sized particles) to the bottom and drain them off. - Chlorinate / UV treat the water. - Pipe to home.
Whilst there is some loss from pumping the settled crud from the bottom of thickeners , it's nowhere near 50:1
I'll pass, having installed their previous efforts.
And besides, my (here we go again) MythTV box does the same... and also lets me:
- Play my giant MP3/Ogg collection - Have a slideshow of all the digital photos I've ever taken. - watch DVD's and rip them if they're any good. - play about 40G of movies on command,and share them on my local network. - Have a nice auto-updating weather display, with forecasts and satellite photos. - Read a bunch of RSS newsfeeds
All of which is accessible from my remote.... and free, if your time is worth nothing;-)
Seriously, first person who makes a 'standard' mythTV box for under a grand (AUD) will make a killing.
Prof. Frink: "Brace yourselves gentlemen... according to the gas chromatograph, the secret ingredient is... love!? Ok, who's been screwing with the machine?"
Me and a friend discovered that if I forwarded my calls to him, and he forwarded them to me, that we got the "network error" sound when anyone tried to call either of us.... and you fuse six racks in the exchange every time you do it.
(cut to a group of telephone technicians playing cards in the lunch room of the local exchange. The lights dim and flicker ominously for a few seconds - everyone looks up.)
Steve the Phone Technician : "Looks like those idiots are diverting to each other again. I think it's your turn this time, Bob" Bob the Phone Technician : "Those fuckers!! I'm gonna shove those phones so far up their asses they'll have to yell into their belly button to make calls!! Fuckers Fuckers FUCKERS!"
That doesn't rule out subsurface life. Which is a likely place for life (if any) to be, considering that there's: - Possibly liquid water / brine there. - Possibly adequate sheilding from the crap atmosphere above ground / radiation from space.
Another excellent informative post, except for the fact that the article is talking about *cassini* and *Saturn*, not galileo and jupiter, and hence the parent is totally offtopic.
The 'esc thing' is the emulation for terminals that don't have function keys - eg: esc-1 to esc-0 is equivalent to F1-F10.
I've used this before when logging in remotely - on a few terminal emulators where the function keys don't work. So there is a reason for it.
It's probably too late for you now, but to turn it off you put "old_esc_mode=1" in your mc.ini file. This took me about 3 minutes to find after I pressed F1 for help in MC.
Or you could just press "esc-esc" in quick succession,which will do just about everything you ask except clear the command line for some reason:-)
Seeing that carbon generation is a long way down the chain from the present hydrogen -> helium main cycle our star is in, it is logical to conclude that all carbon here on earth must at one point have come from some extra-solar source.
But the gas still weighs something and the venusian gravity will stop that gas from exceeding 100km, whether it's inside the straw or not.
Gas will only rush up the straw *until* the pressure on the inside at the bottom of the straw (due to gravity on the gas) builds to equalise the pressure on the outside. Strangely enough;-) this pressure is the surface atomospheric pressure of venus. Once those pressures balance at the inlet side of the straw, there'll be no more movement.
Consider a tank of water and a hose attached to the bottom of it. No matter how you try, you cannot get water out of that hose if you are above the level of water in the tank.
Except of course that the cable is stationary from the surface of the earth all the way up past geosync orbit (30,000k's).
The ISS however, is moving at about 6-7km/s, in a different orbital inclination, barely a few hundred k's up. Getting material from the elevator to the ISS is going to be rather tricky.
I hope they've done all the sums involved with regards to moving the base of the cable around a bit, wouldn't want it to get severed by a LEO satellite.
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It seems that this modification affects your ability to spell and use correct grammar too!
For the love of god, WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?
they get some sort of rare seizure than causes them to sue the next thing they see... a nintendo game in this case.
"This game is great!!"
(cue strobe effect)
"gahhhhhhh..(twitch).. SUE! I'll SUE those bastards for every cent they've got!!"
My browser had a seizure when I clicked, does that count?
OMG! SUE! SUE! SUUUUUUUE!
"Hmm, that's funny, the airlock to the science module won't open... I'll just open it manually..."
it's more like : .NET to run" .NET
.... nah." Goddamit , I want "teh interweb" NOW, not in 5 minutes!
"This 200kb program requires
OK, no problem, I'll go get
".NET framework download is 22MB and will take approximately Umpteen Bumtillion minutes on a 28.8k modem to download"
Hmmm... 1 hour.... just to run program X to try out on a whim... 1 hour... nah.
I know, it's one off, but still the one-off stops a lot of non-broadband people in their tracks. And there's more poor modem saps out there than you think.
Even I go, "Hmmm. 5 minutes at 50K/s, to run program X
try using your BIOS clock's wake-up feature creatively if possible.
Eg, power up, start cron , run the job for "now" set bios alarm for next cron job, power down.
There was a patch for MythTV to do this for it's scheduler, apparently it worked to some extemt.
50 gallons?
:
You run your water through a double distiller or something?
For most municipal water supplies it goes like
- Filter large crud and let dirt drop out of suspension
- Add a flocculant and coagulant to settle the fines (micron sized particles) to the bottom and drain them off.
- Chlorinate / UV treat the water.
- Pipe to home.
Whilst there is some loss from pumping the settled crud from the bottom of thickeners , it's nowhere near 50:1
What would be more relaxing than a hand charged version of the Hello Kitty Vibrator?
;-)
That's just my two fingers
Joke:
(hold up index and middle finger) Why do girls like to masturbate with these two fingers?
Because they're *my* two fingers.
Boom! Boom!
Average volume of a goldfish (6cmx1cmx3cm) 18cm3
Average volume of a telephone booth 1mx1mx2m - 2m3
Number of goldfish to a telephone booth = 111,000*
* give or take a few, not taking into account any spaces in between goldfish , or hardware in the booth.
something about a 22MB download vs a meg or so for VB6 runtimes worries me....
welllll.... I can do a compile/install from CVS now in about an hour... does that count?
:-)
What? Dependencies? Databases? ah,crap
I'll pass, having installed their previous efforts.
;-)
And besides, my (here we go again) MythTV box does the same... and also lets me:
- Play my giant MP3/Ogg collection
- Have a slideshow of all the digital photos I've ever taken.
- watch DVD's and rip them if they're any good.
- play about 40G of movies on command,and share them on my local network.
- Have a nice auto-updating weather display, with forecasts and satellite photos.
- Read a bunch of RSS newsfeeds
All of which is accessible from my remote.... and free, if your time is worth nothing
Seriously, first person who makes a 'standard' mythTV box for under a grand (AUD) will make a killing.
Marge: Ooh, Lisa, is that too spicy for you?
Lisa (gasping): I can see through time!
Prof. Frink: "Brace yourselves gentlemen... according to the gas chromatograph, the secret ingredient is... love!? Ok, who's been screwing with the machine?"
Me and a friend discovered that if I forwarded my calls to him, and he forwarded them to me, that we got the "network error" sound when anyone tried to call either of us.... and you fuse six racks in the exchange every time you do it.
(cut to a group of telephone technicians playing cards in the lunch room of the local exchange.
The lights dim and flicker ominously for a few seconds - everyone looks up.)
Steve the Phone Technician : "Looks like those idiots are diverting to each other again. I think it's your turn this time, Bob"
Bob the Phone Technician : "Those fuckers!! I'm gonna shove those phones so far up their asses they'll have to yell into their belly button to make calls!! Fuckers Fuckers FUCKERS!"
(Bob leaves the room in a murderous rage)
That doesn't rule out subsurface life.
Which is a likely place for life (if any) to be, considering that there's:
- Possibly liquid water / brine there.
- Possibly adequate sheilding from the crap atmosphere above ground / radiation from space.
How about the viking landers in '76?
They had a little scoop so they could get some soil and perform tests for life.
What? oh, sorry, I wasn't paying attention....
yeah but what you say is true - 99% of it is shit - except for my brilliant prose, of course.
(ego the size of a planet? moi?)
Whee! troll alert! :-p
Another excellent informative post, except for the fact that the article is talking about *cassini* and *Saturn*, not galileo and jupiter, and hence the parent is totally offtopic.
Nah, ya just kick a comms satellite out the door as your landing vehicle goes past aerosynchronous orbit.
The 'esc thing' is the emulation for terminals that don't have function keys - eg: esc-1 to esc-0 is equivalent to F1-F10.
,which will do just about everything you ask except clear the command line for some reason :-)
I've used this before when logging in remotely - on a few terminal emulators where the function keys don't work.
So there is a reason for it.
It's probably too late for you now, but to turn it off you put "old_esc_mode=1" in your mc.ini file.
This took me about 3 minutes to find after I pressed F1 for help in MC.
Or you could just press "esc-esc" in quick succession
Seeing that carbon generation is a long way down the chain from the present hydrogen -> helium main cycle our star is in, it is logical to conclude that all carbon here on earth must at one point have come from some extra-solar source.
So this is news because?
But the gas still weighs something and the venusian gravity will stop that gas from exceeding 100km, whether it's inside the straw or not.
;-) this pressure is the surface atomospheric pressure of venus. Once those pressures balance at the inlet side of the straw, there'll be no more movement.
Gas will only rush up the straw *until* the pressure on the inside at the bottom of the straw (due to gravity on the gas) builds to equalise the pressure on the outside. Strangely enough
Consider a tank of water and a hose attached to the bottom of it. No matter how you try, you cannot get water out of that hose if you are above the level of water in the tank.
Except of course that the cable is stationary from the surface of the earth all the way up past geosync orbit (30,000k's).
The ISS however, is moving at about 6-7km/s, in a different orbital inclination, barely a few hundred k's up. Getting material from the elevator to the ISS is going to be rather tricky.
I hope they've done all the sums involved with regards to moving the base of the cable around a bit, wouldn't want it to get severed by a LEO satellite.
Nah, that's just the pain of one of your neurons struggling to bridge the 4-inch gap to the neuron on the other side of your head ;-P
"c'mon , feel the burn! no pain no gain!"