The high end duplicating systems that I'm thinking of typically need a few service calls a month, but that's to be expected when you're making a million impressions a month.
And you need the aforementioned flatbed truck and winch.
Is it just me or is this the single worst day of the year to release a product?
It's you.
The stores will be crowded, full of people returning/exchanging stuff, pockets full of Christmas money, and there, there, in a shining new heap, Quake III for Linux!
Yeah, honey, wait in line, I'll just go to the 'warez store.
Is it only me? I've always thought the "Space Race" was a grotesque display of materialistic BS. All the many hundreds of billions of dollars that have been spent world-wide on missions to space (many with little or no scienctific value).
Dang useless weather satellites, who cares how the weather is going to be, hurricanes are much more fun if you no warning about them.
And forget about studying weather on other planets, the only people who would benefit from being able to predict weather months in advance would be farmers, and people that eat.
Military recon satellites, a big effin' waste. I feel much more secure not knowing how much weapons my enemy has, and whether or not they're massing arms at my border. Let's just start a war on a whim, or a guess about an oncoming attack.
I'm sorry, I don't see your point. There have always been poor, starving diseased people. Probably the first group of proto-humans to leave their tribe was told "why do you want to go over the hill, stay here and help us dig roots."
The Mars Society is talking a $20 billion dollar price tag. Assume half the Earth is starving, poor and diseased, and we split that $20 billion among 3 billion people. $7 is going to make their life better?
Someone finds the robot's arm, uses it to build Skynet.
Wow, I never realized that was how SkyNet got built. I thought it was some kind of defense computer network gone wild, or at the least Micorsoft Windows 2010 beta (Are you sure you want to delete humanity? Yes, No, Cancel).
Isn't anti-gravity when a magnet placed over another magnet on the side (with the same polarization) stands in mid air and doesn't fall down? What makes the magnets cancel gravity?
No, it's not anti-gravity, it's magnetic repulsion.
What next, helicopters induce anti-gravity by rapidly rotating thier rotors?
George
Seems to repeat himself a lot
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Or maybe we need better editing, instead of four (five) repeated segments?
My cars are like my computers, cheap, slow, old and fully depreciated.
I have an 88 Escort wagon that was totaled a few years ago, with a RedHat sticker on the back. 100k+ miles on it.
My wife drives an 88 Subaru Wagon that reminds me on NT on a P90, lots of neat dohickeys, but too underpowered to do much (it overheats if you try to run the a/c in temps over 70 F).
Computerwise, I have a few 386's in parts, a 486dx33 FreeBSD server, a 386/486 cyrix box that barely runs Linux, a 486slc50 laptop for email, a P90 that needs to be put together, and my flagship is another P90 with a CD burner.
An elegant way to bring incoming air moving at Mach 1+ down to subsonic without too much of a performance hit.
A gently concave curve throws lots of little shockwaves into the air flow, each shockwave drops the air speed a little bit, and eventually you get subsonic flow into the engine.
Come to think of it, the F-104 is pretty elegant, it can almost reach space, depending on your definition of space. And it was used to train astronauts for orbital maneuvers.
I seem to recall IPv6 will include the MAC address of your NIC, which makes it easy to track most internet users (not us/.'ers who have a bunch of spare NE2000's floating around, though).
The most interesting things you never hear about. I spent a lot of time travelling with him to do various things. The really great hacks of the entire Apollo program will never make general knowledge. I'm pleased that I've had a chance to hear about many of them first hand from someone who really was there.
Well?
You can't just tantalize us like that, spill some, even if you have to log on as AC.
The Mitsubishi engineers wanted a certain level of performance out of his Zero, mostly very high maneuverability. They found that they couldn't make his design because using the materials handbooks, it would end up too heavy.
So they bypassed the engineering materials handbooks, retested the materials they wanted to use, discovered some were underrated in the handbooks, and designed the Zero.
When the Allied forces tried to reverse engineer the Zero, they discovered it was an impossible plane, it performed better than it was physically possible. But then, they used the old handbooks.
I recall reading this in an old Air and Space Magazine, but no luck finding a link.
Bonus airplane hack,the P-51.
One, the wing.
Wind tunnel tests showed that for certain shaped airfoils, laminar flow could be maintained far back along the wing, resulting in much decreased drag. The Mustang has these wings, giving it less drag, higher speed and greater range. Of course, they had to be kept clean of bugs and debris.
Two, the radiator.
The radiator/oil cooler was positioned to add a little more thrust to the plane, cool air came in the front, removed heat from the oil, became hotter, and became a primitive jet engine.
Seriously, what is happening to you is that you are coming out the Lego Dark Ages, and becoming an Adult Friend of Lego. Check out Lugnet, the discussion groups may have strategies for admitting your Lego dependence.
Good luck, enjoy your Lego, I just put the blimp (5956) together on my lunch hour, and it's kewl!
George
A gift certificate to computer surplus outlet
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I buy lots of parts at Computer Surplus Outlet, just the place to keep my P90s and 486's happy.
Slashdot Mirror
I think it's based on Katz's Rolling Stone article.
It is referenced on Slashdot, which is where I first read about it.
And Jesse and Eric post to Slashdot
George
so the correct pronunciation is
brah-zeer
As in,
"Did you read that article, the Cathedral and the brah-zeer?"
"Whoa, this is a huge brah-zeer"
"Do you need help opening or closing that brah-zeer?"
"Honey, I have to go to New York City to see an important brah-zeer."
I hope this helps.
George
Named Have Gun,Will Travel had a protagonist named Paladin. I've only seen one or two episodes at most, but my dad thinks a lot of it.
George
1977 Soviet Cosmonaut Georgi Grechko makes the first space walk, from the Salyut spaceship
1977? More than a decade past Gemini?
What about Leonov, in 1965 , Voskhod 2?
George
The high end duplicating systems that I'm thinking of typically need a few service calls a month, but that's to be expected when you're making a million impressions a month.
And you need the aforementioned flatbed truck and winch.
George
Is it just me or is this the single worst day of the year to release a product?
It's you.
The stores will be crowded, full of people returning/exchanging stuff, pockets full of Christmas money, and there, there, in a shining new heap, Quake III for Linux!
Yeah, honey, wait in line, I'll just go to the 'warez store.
George
You do know that the English first sent undesirable convicts to the Americas before Australia was a British colony?
Oh, that ruins my joke.
Why did America get Puritans and Australia convicts?
Australia got first choice.
George
what do you think can happen if you can spend $200 billion on research to eliminate pollution?
Who is talking $200 billion? The number I read was $20 billion.
George
If this turns out to be anything like the RED,GREEN,BLUE MARS series, then we are in for a
very BORING adventure.
Even worse, half of us are gonna spend eternity pining over some Russian babe.
George
Is it only me? I've always thought the "Space Race" was a grotesque display of materialistic BS. All the many hundreds of billions of dollars that have been spent world-wide on missions to space (many with little or no scienctific value).
Dang useless weather satellites, who cares how the weather is going to be, hurricanes are much more fun if you no warning about them.
And forget about studying weather on other planets, the only people who would benefit from being able to predict weather months in advance would be farmers, and people that eat.
Military recon satellites, a big effin' waste. I feel much more secure not knowing how much weapons my enemy has, and whether or not they're massing arms at my border. Let's just start a war on a whim, or a guess about an oncoming attack.
I'm sorry, I don't see your point. There have always been poor, starving diseased people. Probably the first group of proto-humans to leave their tribe was told "why do you want to go over the hill, stay here and help us dig roots."
The Mars Society is talking a $20 billion dollar price tag. Assume half the Earth is starving, poor and diseased, and we split that $20 billion among 3 billion people. $7 is going to make their life better?
George
If AltaVista is worth $5 billion, I'll pour a hot bowl of grits down my pants !!! Wait a minute...I'll do that anyway !!!
Altavista will help you buy books from Amazon about pouring hot grits down your pants.
George
I so rarely use altavista anymore, I like google much better.
Now if they had done an IPO a year ago, they might have done better.
George
Someone finds the robot's arm, uses it to build Skynet.
Wow, I never realized that was how SkyNet got built. I thought it was some kind of defense computer network gone wild, or at the least Micorsoft Windows 2010 beta (Are you sure you want to delete humanity? Yes, No, Cancel).
George
Isn't anti-gravity when a magnet placed over another magnet on the side (with the same polarization) stands in mid air and doesn't fall
down? What makes the magnets cancel gravity?
No, it's not anti-gravity, it's magnetic repulsion.
What next, helicopters induce anti-gravity by rapidly rotating thier rotors?
George
Or maybe we need better editing, instead of four (five) repeated segments?
George
My cars are like my computers, cheap, slow, old and fully depreciated.
I have an 88 Escort wagon that was totaled a few years ago, with a RedHat sticker on the back. 100k+ miles on it.
My wife drives an 88 Subaru Wagon that reminds me on NT on a P90, lots of neat dohickeys, but too underpowered to do much (it overheats if you try to run the a/c in temps over 70 F).
Computerwise, I have a few 386's in parts, a 486dx33 FreeBSD server, a 386/486 cyrix box that barely runs Linux, a 486slc50 laptop for email, a P90 that needs to be put together, and my flagship is another P90 with a CD burner.
George
An elegant way to bring incoming air moving at Mach 1+ down to subsonic without too much of a performance hit.
A gently concave curve throws lots of little shockwaves into the air flow, each shockwave drops the air speed a little bit, and eventually you get subsonic flow into the engine.
Come to think of it, the F-104 is pretty elegant, it can almost reach space, depending on your definition of space. And it was used to train astronauts for orbital maneuvers.
George
My co-workers bought me a K'nex kit as a going away present for my last position (as well as a CompUSA gift cert!!!).
I tried it a few times, but I just can't get into it, I still prefer Lego. If I'm gonna build something K'nex like, I'll just break out the Technics.
Any ideas on how I can get more into K'nex?
George
I seem to recall IPv6 will include the MAC address of your NIC, which makes it easy to track most internet users (not us /.'ers who have a bunch of spare NE2000's floating around, though).
George
The most interesting things you never hear about. I spent a lot of time travelling with him to do various things. The really great hacks of the entire Apollo program will never make general knowledge. I'm pleased that I've had a chance to hear about many of them first hand from someone who really was there.
Well?
You can't just tantalize us like that, spill some, even if you have to log on as AC.
George
The Mitsubishi engineers wanted a certain level of performance out of his Zero, mostly very high maneuverability. They found that they couldn't make his design because using the materials handbooks, it would end up too heavy.
So they bypassed the engineering materials handbooks, retested the materials they wanted to use, discovered some were underrated in the handbooks, and designed the Zero.
When the Allied forces tried to reverse engineer the Zero, they discovered it was an impossible plane, it performed better than it was physically possible. But then, they used the old handbooks.
I recall reading this in an old Air and Space Magazine, but no luck finding a link.
Bonus airplane hack,the P-51.
One, the wing.
Wind tunnel tests showed that for certain shaped airfoils, laminar flow could be maintained far back along the wing, resulting in much decreased drag. The Mustang has these wings, giving it less drag, higher speed and greater range. Of course, they had to be kept clean of bugs and debris.
Two, the radiator.
The radiator/oil cooler was positioned to add a little more thrust to the plane, cool air came in the front, removed heat from the oil, became hotter, and became a primitive jet engine.
George
When my NT goes blue, the MP3 player starts skipping (playing the last 1/2 second repeatedly).
That's not a bug, that's the rap turntable feature.
George
Then use NT clients. The screen doesn't go blue.
Oh, was that a screen saver on that Compaq running NT 4, whenever I tried to surf (with Internet Exploder) and listen to CD's (with MS Media Player)?
I was impressed that the CD kept playing, even after the BSOD.
George
Have a child, and say they're for your kid.
Seriously, what is happening to you is that you are coming out the Lego Dark Ages, and becoming an Adult Friend of Lego. Check out Lugnet, the discussion groups may have strategies for admitting your Lego dependence.
Good luck, enjoy your Lego, I just put the blimp (5956) together on my lunch hour, and it's kewl!
George
I buy lots of parts at Computer Surplus Outlet, just the place to keep my P90s and 486's happy.
George