If I could, I'd live in a dry county. It drives away the people who need to have intoxicants to survive.
Yeah... when the US made alcohol illegal in the 1920s all the drinkers just moved to Canada. It certianly didn't suddenly make a large percentage of the population criminals, divert tons of resources and money to enforce it, and of course it didn't make the mob rich.
I think you need to move out of your neighborhood into a nice gated community that doesn't allow those pesky lower class people in.
You would get... 'Into the Looking Glass'
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A series of novels by John Ringo and Travis Taylor is what happens when you get a geek who (co)writes a novel.
It's filled with rednecks with big guns and tough marines who spend their time between blowing up alien monsters discussing the finer points of quantum mechanics.
It's sort of like reading a WWII novel while attending a college physics class and the two people behind you are talking about last nights Babylong 5 episode.
There are many sites that give you tons of storage for backing up files, with various ways of storing the data, many of which are free. Google and http://www.adrive.com/ are two that come to mind. No need to deal with your slow connection.
The time it would take filling out the forms and cashing the $5 check is better spent on something else.
And frankly, anyone who buys Grand Theft Auto, the game that lets you kill hookers instead of paying them, is going to be hard to offend with some sex scene they have to use a hack to see in the first place.
That lawsuit never should have been brought to court, I hope the laywers don't see a penny!
My friends and I always thought that BattleBots on Comedy Central was a bad idea.
The humor was funny, but the sportscasting was awful. Weird stats, rarly any good discussion over what happened or any more details. The after-fight interviews were pretty much just, "How did you feel about winning?". And the crazy stats and numbers rarely had any relation to the judges scores, which were glossed over and never explained.
We always wished ESPN would have shown it.. THEY at least know how to host a sporting event. Hopefully they will treat Battle Bots just like any other sport this time around, explaining judge decisions, giving people a better idea of why someone wins, focusing on the exciting parts more than long, long clips about someones garage.
Here's to hoping we get lucky and ESPN doesn't screw it up this time around.:-)
You would need to put some sort of skin over this to keep it from self-reparing in ways it wasn't meant to. If you accidently fold a sheet of this stuff it would adhere to itself. And you though trying to work with plastic wrap without getting it all stuck together was hard.
I bet it would be fun to sculpt with. Cut bits off, stick them back in in other places.. would be a really strange medium to work in.
Or the ultimate version of those pads to stick your cell phone to your dashboard. Except now it will NEVER come off until you slice it off with a razor.
The IBM PC had no joystick ports and as it became the dominant gaming platform over machines from Commodore and Atari the inexpensive, simple 8-way joystick was abandoned to be replaced by expensive sound cards and complicated joysticks.
I find it sad that entire genres of gaming became extinct with it.
Only now are flash games reviving the idea of simple, but fun games.
It's funny that in 2008 there are tons of games being developed that play with.... a keyboard!
Seriously, I would rather have one in my backyard than live anywhere near a coal fired plant that emits polution, particulates, mercury and... radiation!
I had a several year old Dell 21" LCD monitor catch on fire. Luckily I was in the house and awake at the time, so I smelled the smell of burning plastic and found the monitor sizzling inside and emitting smoke.
After unplugging it and setting it outside I called Dell support and after finally getting a real human to talk to told them my monitor caught fire. Apparently they were not paying attention because I was told I had to turn it on and run some diagnostics to make sure it wasn't my computer that was at fault. I had to repeat "It. Was. On. FIRE." twice before they finally got it and quickly told me, "Um, don't turn it back on!"
Once the point was made, I got a nice new one shipped to me and all was well.
I'm not suprised computers and monitors set things on fire. You have several high voltage sections and a large amount of amps available. If something gets shaken loose, breaks, or is shorted by say hair/dust buildup or spiders making a nest in it you can easily get a dangerous situation.
And thats for something well built and designed. You get one with a design flaw or using crappy components and it can go up in flames all by itself.
Do you really spend that much time in front of a TV that the better usability of the TiVo makes that much difference in your life?!
I can go days without turning on my TV, and it's because I have a TiVo. To me the TiVO is clearly a superior device than the $10 cable DVR's. But just having a DVR at all is a huge step from a VCR, so it's a hard sell to get anyone to spend extra money for that last bit of quality.
As I have said before, TiVo changed my life. Freed me from being a slave to the TV schedule. But yea, any old DVR will do that. A TiVo just makes the experience even better.
"So they had to endure giving free boxes of two pizzas until the guy came to work to fix it"
Or, they could simply put the mis-priced pizzas back into cold storage in about 30 seconds, problem solved.
Anyways, the workers there at the them were most likely minimum wage earners with no control over policies so they are not to blame and you should feel sorry for them, not enjoy their misery.
Oxygen leves go up drasticly the higher you get, so there should be a lot more oxygen at the surface than 2000 meters down. But... its colder down there so that means more oxygen than at the warmer surface. Bah, I guess I have no idea what I'm talking about.:-)
The patent covered those methods too. In fact, it covered ANY implementation of public key encrypyion no matter what kind of math was involved, even if teh math had not yet been invented.
Without public key cryptography, ecommerce would be an idea as opposed to an enabler of billions of daily transactions.
And without the patent on public-key encryption that covered not just the method but the very idea of it, we might all have secured communications by now. But instead we are not much further ahead except for ssh which at least helps network admins.
I just have a hard time cheering for RSA which did nothing other than patent a mathematical formula discovered by multiple people and prevent it's dfree use in America and other countries that allow software patents.
I was using PGP back in the early 90's and was frustrated that it's use was hamstrung by the patent and US laws on exporting encryption software. What a waste.
If a LOT of people bought windmills, the cost of oil would go DOWN because the demand dropped. So go ahead and buy one, it will make my electricity cheaper.:-)
Now now, lets not be mean. This poor guy is probably suffering from schizophrenia and really can't tell reality from his delusions. No amount of arguing is going to change his mind, only treatment. Sadly it will most likely not happen as mental health issues are not dealt with like more obvious problems like a broken arm.
I used to laugh a lot at sites like the Time Cube Guy but now it just makes me sad that they are sick and unable to get help.
Simple, small gas engines in lawnmowers and scooters are far, far dirtier than in a large modern car engine that has extensive polution control systems even when you take into account how much more gas a car uses than a lawnmower.
So I can't imagine this thing will run very clean at all. Not much room to put in a catalytic converter or other cleaning methods.
I have to wonder what a hundred million of these things running will do to indoor air quality. I don't think I want a thousand of these inside my office building.
Interesting, but how many times can you reuse paper that has been out in the real world?
Spilled drinks, people drawing on it with pen, folding, crumping, tearing, chewing.
I know most printers can't handle the paper if it's not in 100% perfect condition.. I can just imagine the kind of paper jams this thing could produce when someone thwoes in 6 pages stuck together with bubble gum, corners torn off and grease from their lunch calzone smeared all over it.
Neat idea with the UV though. I love the idea of inkless printing, as long as the paper doesn't end up being more expensive than gold.
Yes, that was David Hahn who used quite a bit of social engineering to get information and equipment to build his own little breeder reactor in his mothers garden shed. A very interesting story. Lots of writeups all over the web.
A few things of note about dealing with smoke detector sources.
First, removing the source from a smoke detector is illegal in the US. I'm not aware of anyone being put in jail for doing it, but with the state of affairs currently I would not go posting the fact that you did it all over the internet.
Second, those sources can be very dangerous if mishandled. The source is coated in a THIN layer of gold and/or silver.. only a few atoms thick. If you touch it with anything you will break the seal and contaminate the object. If you then happen to touch it, you have a good chance of ingesting or inhaling it. This is bad. Am-231 is what is called a bone-seeker. It will be used in new bone growth and eventually kill you by causing bone tumors and other cancers.
Now with a little care you can be pretty safe, but the article in question should have been a little more explict about the dangers involved here.
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Yes, turning hard drives into clocks can be fun... :-)
http://www.ian.org/HD-Clock/
If I could, I'd live in a dry county. It drives away the people who need to have intoxicants to survive.
Yeah... when the US made alcohol illegal in the 1920s all the drinkers just moved to Canada. It certianly didn't suddenly make a large percentage of the population criminals, divert tons of resources and money to enforce it, and of course it didn't make the mob rich.
I think you need to move out of your neighborhood into a nice gated community that doesn't allow those pesky lower class people in.
For the record, I don't drink.
http://www.ian.org/HD-Clock/ :-)
A series of novels by John Ringo and Travis Taylor is what happens when you get a geek who (co)writes a novel.
It's filled with rednecks with big guns and tough marines who spend their time between blowing up alien monsters discussing the finer points of quantum mechanics.
It's sort of like reading a WWII novel while attending a college physics class and the two people behind you are talking about last nights Babylong 5 episode.
(Not that I ever had that happen to me...)
The "3 casts" is actually "3 bounces" in the article. It has nothing to do with anti-aliasing or shadows.
They are talking about how many surfaces a single ray can refract through or reflect off of.
With no bounces, you get no reflections.
With one bounce, you can see the reflection of the room in a mirror.
With two bounces, you can see the room reflected in a chrome sphere viewed in a mirror.
With three bounces, you can see a tiny reflection of the mirror on the surface of the chrome sphere that is seen through the reflection of the mirror.
With four bounces.. well you get the idea.
Three is good enough so you would have to look REAL close to notice the limited reflections unless you loaded up CHROME_WORLD.WAD on your server.
There are many sites that give you tons of storage for backing up files, with various ways of storing the data, many of which are free. Google and http://www.adrive.com/ are two that come to mind. No need to deal with your slow connection.
The need for SLI/crossfire is because the bandwith needed for multiple cards to work on a frame buffer is too high for even the newest PC memory bus.
Intel's cards are not going to be able to get around this, so we will most likely add a third method of card interconnect to the mess.
The time it would take filling out the forms and cashing the $5 check is better spent on something else.
And frankly, anyone who buys Grand Theft Auto, the game that lets you kill hookers instead of paying them, is going to be hard to offend with some sex scene they have to use a hack to see in the first place.
That lawsuit never should have been brought to court, I hope the laywers don't see a penny!
My friends and I always thought that BattleBots on Comedy Central was a bad idea.
:-)
The humor was funny, but the sportscasting was awful. Weird stats, rarly any good discussion over what happened or any more details. The after-fight interviews were pretty much just, "How did you feel about winning?". And the crazy stats and numbers rarely had any relation to the judges scores, which were glossed over and never explained.
We always wished ESPN would have shown it.. THEY at least know how to host a sporting event. Hopefully they will treat Battle Bots just like any other sport this time around, explaining judge decisions, giving people a better idea of why someone wins, focusing on the exciting parts more than long, long clips about someones garage.
Here's to hoping we get lucky and ESPN doesn't screw it up this time around.
You would need to put some sort of skin over this to keep it from self-reparing in ways it wasn't meant to. If you accidently fold a sheet of this stuff it would adhere to itself. And you though trying to work with plastic wrap without getting it all stuck together was hard.
I bet it would be fun to sculpt with. Cut bits off, stick them back in in other places.. would be a really strange medium to work in.
Or the ultimate version of those pads to stick your cell phone to your dashboard. Except now it will NEVER come off until you slice it off with a razor.
The IBM PC had no joystick ports and as it became the dominant gaming platform over machines from Commodore and Atari the inexpensive, simple 8-way joystick was abandoned to be replaced by expensive sound cards and complicated joysticks.
I find it sad that entire genres of gaming became extinct with it.
Only now are flash games reviving the idea of simple, but fun games.
It's funny that in 2008 there are tons of games being developed that play with.... a keyboard!
ASDF!
Bring on the nuclear power plant in my backyard!
Seriously, I would rather have one in my backyard than live anywhere near a coal fired plant that emits polution, particulates, mercury and... radiation!
I had a several year old Dell 21" LCD monitor catch on fire. Luckily I was in the house and awake at the time, so I smelled the smell of burning plastic and found the monitor sizzling inside and emitting smoke.
After unplugging it and setting it outside I called Dell support and after finally getting a real human to talk to told them my monitor caught fire. Apparently they were not paying attention because I was told I had to turn it on and run some diagnostics to make sure it wasn't my computer that was at fault. I had to repeat "It. Was. On. FIRE." twice before they finally got it and quickly told me, "Um, don't turn it back on!"
Once the point was made, I got a nice new one shipped to me and all was well.
I'm not suprised computers and monitors set things on fire. You have several high voltage sections and a large amount of amps available. If something gets shaken loose, breaks, or is shorted by say hair/dust buildup or spiders making a nest in it you can easily get a dangerous situation.
And thats for something well built and designed. You get one with a design flaw or using crappy components and it can go up in flames all by itself.
I can go days without turning on my TV, and it's because I have a TiVo. To me the TiVO is clearly a superior device than the $10 cable DVR's. But just having a DVR at all is a huge step from a VCR, so it's a hard sell to get anyone to spend extra money for that last bit of quality.
As I have said before, TiVo changed my life. Freed me from being a slave to the TV schedule. But yea, any old DVR will do that. A TiVo just makes the experience even better.
I'd rather see the former CEO be a former employee rather than just move him to another important position.
But, at least they did something.
"So they had to endure giving free boxes of two pizzas until the guy came to work to fix it"
Or, they could simply put the mis-priced pizzas back into cold storage in about 30 seconds, problem solved.
Anyways, the workers there at the them were most likely minimum wage earners with no control over policies so they are not to blame and you should feel sorry for them, not enjoy their misery.
Oxygen leves go up drasticly the higher you get, so there should be a lot more oxygen at the surface than 2000 meters down. But... its colder down there so that means more oxygen than at the warmer surface. Bah, I guess I have no idea what I'm talking about. :-)
The patent covered those methods too. In fact, it covered ANY implementation of public key encrypyion no matter what kind of math was involved, even if teh math had not yet been invented.
Don't you just love software patents?
And without the patent on public-key encryption that covered not just the method but the very idea of it, we might all have secured communications by now. But instead we are not much further ahead except for ssh which at least helps network admins.
I just have a hard time cheering for RSA which did nothing other than patent a mathematical formula discovered by multiple people and prevent it's dfree use in America and other countries that allow software patents.
I was using PGP back in the early 90's and was frustrated that it's use was hamstrung by the patent and US laws on exporting encryption software. What a waste.
If a LOT of people bought windmills, the cost of oil would go DOWN because the demand dropped. So go ahead and buy one, it will make my electricity cheaper. :-)
Now now, lets not be mean. This poor guy is probably suffering from schizophrenia and really can't tell reality from his delusions. No amount of arguing is going to change his mind, only treatment. Sadly it will most likely not happen as mental health issues are not dealt with like more obvious problems like a broken arm.
I used to laugh a lot at sites like the Time Cube Guy but now it just makes me sad that they are sick and unable to get help.
Simple, small gas engines in lawnmowers and scooters are far, far dirtier than in a large modern car engine that has extensive polution control systems even when you take into account how much more gas a car uses than a lawnmower.
So I can't imagine this thing will run very clean at all. Not much room to put in a catalytic converter or other cleaning methods.
I have to wonder what a hundred million of these things running will do to indoor air quality. I don't think I want a thousand of these inside my office building.
Interesting, but how many times can you reuse paper that has been out in the real world?
Spilled drinks, people drawing on it with pen, folding, crumping, tearing, chewing.
I know most printers can't handle the paper if it's not in 100% perfect condition.. I can just imagine the kind of paper jams this thing could produce when someone thwoes in 6 pages stuck together with bubble gum, corners torn off and grease from their lunch calzone smeared all over it.
Neat idea with the UV though. I love the idea of inkless printing, as long as the paper doesn't end up being more expensive than gold.
Yes, that was David Hahn who used quite a bit of social engineering to get information and equipment to build his own little breeder reactor in his mothers garden shed. A very interesting story. Lots of writeups all over the web.
A few things of note about dealing with smoke detector sources.
First, removing the source from a smoke detector is illegal in the US. I'm not aware of anyone being put in jail for doing it, but with the state of affairs currently I would not go posting the fact that you did it all over the internet.
Second, those sources can be very dangerous if mishandled. The source is coated in a THIN layer of gold and/or silver.. only a few atoms thick. If you touch it with anything you will break the seal and contaminate the object. If you then happen to touch it, you have a good chance of ingesting or inhaling it. This is bad. Am-231 is what is called a bone-seeker. It will be used in new bone growth and eventually kill you by causing bone tumors and other cancers.
Now with a little care you can be pretty safe, but the article in question should have been a little more explict about the dangers involved here.