Damn I am glad about this discovery. Actually I am almost feeling good enough to get off Prozac.
That means that our couragous space explorers are able to drink a decent whiskey on the rocks after travelling to mars for years, fleeing the problems of Planet Earth. After a ride like this, they will need one, that is for sure.
Gotta love science.
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Reboot, bypass autoexec.bat and config.sys, start exploring HD to find any sort of interesting stuff.:)
Hehe... I remember these kids. When I worked in retail over here in Germany we had to reinstall most of the boxes on display quite regularly because some smart alec would love to show off to his friends ho the format command worked. So a simple script was made that renamed FORMAT.COM to TAMROF.COM and added a empty FORMAT.BAT into the path to get called instead. Later we even had a box on display on which we challenged the kids to do so. It had no disk drive and therefore DOS was your only tool. It was pretty safe actually, until someone with a good knowledge of DEBUG came along and wiped the MBR manually.
As far as I can tell this unit gets it altitude signals by constantly checking the air pressure levels. By comparing them to the previous signal and a hardcoded altitude/air pressure chart. This is quite accurate enough to figure out when to put on the oxygen mask but for an avid biker who has worked hard for every uphill inch it is not accurate enough, as air pressure is subject to change often and rapidly due to weather conditions, humidity of air and stuff like that.
So it is quite good for absolute altitudes, but not for measuring how mand altitude meters you pedaled in a constant up-and-down terrain.
Older bike computers got these figures by employing a special part that measures the slope on which the bike stands. It was a bitch to setup (as you need a total plane surface and line the thing up exactly parallel to the floor. But once they were installed a very good accuracy was reached. (it would just check how steep the bike was "standing" and then compute the altitude done with this figure and the speed readouts from the wheel sensor). Of course these things could never tell you the absolute altitude, but then again there have not been too many Mt. Everest excursions on 2 wheels.
When i was serving here in Germany, the vest we got we're called "Splinter and Stab protection". Granted they were not Kevlar hi-tech articles. Yet they wore in at around 20kg and we were told that any assault rifle round would rip right through your body and both sides of the vest. This may have gotten better with todays hi-tech Kevlar, but I am sure a rifle round from a very short distance would still rip right through.
Absolutely the same is true for the helmets, be them simple sttel or hi-tech kevlar - it is just a thin piece of metal and believe me it rips...
Sometimes they don't even last five minutes under the load of traffic
...nor would slashdot...
Seriously, the expansion of the pipe and the server farm needed to accomodate the mirroring of all of the links posted in stories would pretty quickly ruin OSDN (who own and fund/. last time i checked). Maybe someone could code a google applet (they are still running this programming contest, right?) that checks on/. once a minute and automatically refreshes the cache for the links posted in new stories. And then posts a comment with google cache links that could be used as a mirror even *before* the server is hammered to a clinical death.
A friend of mine described how a government tax agent and several company officers had to witness the destruction of a perfectly working, hand-crafted, grand piano. Warehouse workers raised and dropped the two ton monster fifteen times from a forklift before it was destroyed to the point where the tax agent would allow it to be written off.
THIS is legal? I mean a tax inspector actually watches the destruction of an item before he allows it to written off?
that every product is a liability forever. This was/is a big problem for small aircraft manufacturers...their planes easily last 50 years or more. 60 years later, the 8th owner crashes it because the fuel filter got clogged, and guess who get's sued?
Hmmm... I don't get it? Does the law distinguish between large and small manufacturers? When was the last time Boeing or Airbus got sued for a plane that came down? All I ever hear is the airlines shelling out big money and the manufacturer pre-emptively sending experts to find out what went wrong and how it could have been prevented.
So basically, I think the liability is stuck to the people who do the mandatory inspections and overhauls on the machine. A clogged fuel filter is very certainly a part subject to wear and therefore something to be checked repeatedly and changed if needed. Would someone get through with suing Dodge or Ford because he rear-ended into a truck with nearly no brake pads left on his car? I doubt it.
Is it a good idea? Of course; it's advancing science. Medical science and NASA would be about thirty years behind where we are now were it not for German scientific data garnered from the second world war.
If you could turn back time and do a majority poll, I think people would rather discard 30 years of medical advance for the sake of millions of jewish/anti-fascist lives saved.
The results don't always justify the means. This is clearly the case in this topic. You can't justify "murdering" or better said "stealing" life for medical archievements. Not even in retrospective.
Developments like this really offer tremendous opportunities for creating a family for those who cannot have children the old fashioned way.
What's up over there in the States? Is it rendered illegal to adopt a poor child from your local community or even a poor foreign country? Or is it unpopular now, because that cute little kiddie might have terrorist genes because it came from Somalia?
I don't get this planet anymore. Millions of kids die of treatable diseases and undernourishment every year, but billions are spent every year to produce breeding technology for those who are biologically disabled from offspring production.
Beam me up Scotty. There ain't no intelligent life down here.
I'd say that the US can now finally show if they really mean it when say "Infinite Justice" or "Enduring Freedom". They've neen doing a good job and made a decent decision ba releasing Sklyarov but it still is a scandal that he was jailed so long for such a "questionable" delict.
I'll be bashed by almost anyone from the States for this, but what the heck - life gets boring at karma cap.
The letter distribution is based on frequency of use
If you are referring to the distribution of letters over the keyboard area, you are wrong. The original QWERTY design still dates back to the early ages of mechanical typewriters. With the mechanical system not being fully optimized, it was decided to move the often used letter conbinations as far apart as it was possible to physically slow the typist down and allow time for the "type" to move back from the paper before the next letter is launched. If you have ever typed on an old mechanical writer you know what i mean - typing too fast or accidentally pressing two keys at once would result in both types bolting forward and getting stuck.
Just look at Dvorak (an alternative keyboard layout). After getting used to it, you are easily 10% faster compared to QWERTY.
Hehe I had visions of old white haired master craftsmen taking months to hone every part of every car to perfection
You'd have to visit the old Bentley plant for that. When they were taken over, the controllers checking the production for possible optimizing were astonished to find the guy who was sewing the leather steering wheels. He would produce two or three at most during a month. But this guy fits your description of a beardy guru who is a crack in his field.
As stated before, this is far away from being "stuff that matters".
What bugs me as weird though, is the fact that the car had a new angine at a little more than 33000 miles. I know that Ferrari's are not really known for longevity, but the engines are commonly seen as the best parts of the entire car. How can you kill an engine with that few miles? He must have a terrible driving style... I don't think I would buy that car based on that info.
And it will still be worth something 10 years from now
It might be worth somethin, but not a lot. A buddy of mine has worked at the Hamburg (germany) outlet of Ferrari for three years. He had the time of his life, for sure, but also had his illusions taken away from him. These cars rock if you turn them in for heavy inspection every 5000miles or once a year and face a 8000 bill every time. If you dont, the thing will fall apart under your ass in less than 5 years. EVERYTHING is inferior save the engine, gearbox and suspension. The interior is cheap and cracks and chuckles in fast turns. The door fittings (the rubber parts) are porous after two years of middle-european weather (mild winters, actually). They start falling off in the third year. Also, rusting is an issue if you don't live in the middle of the desert (or Italy). People who use their Ferrari on a regular basis (daily driving, at least when road conditions permit) buy a Ferrari exactly ONCE. The only regular customers are those who drive their car a few times a year (and even those get rid of it after 3 years max).
How explosive would a "bottle of pure hydrogen" be that could "provide 1.2kW for up to 10 hours"?
Not a definate answer, but an (educated?) guess. I think it would safer than the equivalent amount of fuel/diesel needed to power an traditional internal combustion generator. Why? Storage. Hydrogen comes in sturdy metal canisters with safety valves. Fuel/diesel is usually stored in plastic or sheet metal containers with an pretty insecure screw-on lid.
Also, I am not sure about the circumstances under which hydrogen becomes explosive. I think it needs a special atmospheric ratio to be dangerous (i.e. mixed with oxygen). I faintly remember some test tube popping in chemistry classes and it involved a mixture of gases instead of pure hydrogen.
...to get the "hydrogen economy" rolling are european conditions on the fuel/oil market. A gallon, for.... hmm say $3.50. You would still be well of compared to most of europe, but people would start scouting alternatives.
And just imagine the budget money saved from not having to wage a war for oil every 5 to 8 years...
The intent of Alstons bill is to shutdown sites WITHIN Australia or by Australians that publish content which is deemed inappropriate as per australia's publishing laws. This is not always a bad thing..
I totally agree with this statement.
In related news, germany is still a fascist country because Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" is still banned from librarys, reproduction, publishing and sale and has been for more than 50 years.
this sounds like a really good hack, by my own definition of Good Hack, which is "do something nobody else has done yet, that's really hard and at the same time, almost completely useless to most people"
To quote the (in)famous words of Wau Holland (founder of the german EFF-pendant CCC): "You're a hacker when you're stuck with nothing but a cup of noodles and coffee machine but still manage to have a warm meal."
Slashdot Mirror
Damn I am glad about this discovery. Actually I am almost feeling good enough to get off Prozac.
That means that our couragous space explorers are able to drink a decent whiskey on the rocks after travelling to mars for years, fleeing the problems of Planet Earth. After a ride like this, they will need one, that is for sure.
Gotta love science.
...and then there is also this baby...
Hehe... I remember these kids. When I worked in retail over here in Germany we had to reinstall most of the boxes on display quite regularly because some smart alec would love to show off to his friends ho the format command worked. So a simple script was made that renamed FORMAT.COM to TAMROF.COM and added a empty FORMAT.BAT into the path to get called instead. Later we even had a box on display on which we challenged the kids to do so. It had no disk drive and therefore DOS was your only tool. It was pretty safe actually, until someone with a good knowledge of DEBUG came along and wiped the MBR manually.
As far as I can tell this unit gets it altitude signals by constantly checking the air pressure levels. By comparing them to the previous signal and a hardcoded altitude/air pressure chart. This is quite accurate enough to figure out when to put on the oxygen mask but for an avid biker who has worked hard for every uphill inch it is not accurate enough, as air pressure is subject to change often and rapidly due to weather conditions, humidity of air and stuff like that.
So it is quite good for absolute altitudes, but not for measuring how mand altitude meters you pedaled in a constant up-and-down terrain.
Older bike computers got these figures by employing a special part that measures the slope on which the bike stands. It was a bitch to setup (as you need a total plane surface and line the thing up exactly parallel to the floor. But once they were installed a very good accuracy was reached. (it would just check how steep the bike was "standing" and then compute the altitude done with this figure and the speed readouts from the wheel sensor). Of course these things could never tell you the absolute altitude, but then again there have not been too many Mt. Everest excursions on 2 wheels.
When i was serving here in Germany, the vest we got we're called "Splinter and Stab protection". Granted they were not Kevlar hi-tech articles. Yet they wore in at around 20kg and we were told that any assault rifle round would rip right through your body and both sides of the vest. This may have gotten better with todays hi-tech Kevlar, but I am sure a rifle round from a very short distance would still rip right through.
Absolutely the same is true for the helmets, be them simple sttel or hi-tech kevlar - it is just a thin piece of metal and believe me it rips...
...nor would slashdot...
Seriously, the expansion of the pipe and the server farm needed to accomodate the mirroring of all of the links posted in stories would pretty quickly ruin OSDN (who own and fund
Is water wet?
THIS is legal? I mean a tax inspector actually watches the destruction of an item before he allows it to written off?
This planet never ceases to surprise me.
Hmmm... I don't get it? Does the law distinguish between large and small manufacturers? When was the last time Boeing or Airbus got sued for a plane that came down? All I ever hear is the airlines shelling out big money and the manufacturer pre-emptively sending experts to find out what went wrong and how it could have been prevented.
So basically, I think the liability is stuck to the people who do the mandatory inspections and overhauls on the machine. A clogged fuel filter is very certainly a part subject to wear and therefore something to be checked repeatedly and changed if needed. Would someone get through with suing Dodge or Ford because he rear-ended into a truck with nearly no brake pads left on his car? I doubt it.
If you could turn back time and do a majority poll, I think people would rather discard 30 years of medical advance for the sake of millions of jewish/anti-fascist lives saved.
The results don't always justify the means. This is clearly the case in this topic. You can't justify "murdering" or better said "stealing" life for medical archievements. Not even in retrospective.
What's up over there in the States? Is it rendered illegal to adopt a poor child from your local community or even a poor foreign country? Or is it unpopular now, because that cute little kiddie might have terrorist genes because it came from Somalia?
I don't get this planet anymore. Millions of kids die of treatable diseases and undernourishment every year, but billions are spent every year to produce breeding technology for those who are biologically disabled from offspring production.
Beam me up Scotty. There ain't no intelligent life down here.
This thing would really rock if you could use it to boot up your machine. Imagine an instant OS. Rebooting in less than ten seconds.
i'm off to change my pants.
I'd say that the US can now finally show if they really mean it when say "Infinite Justice" or "Enduring Freedom". They've neen doing a good job and made a decent decision ba releasing Sklyarov but it still is a scandal that he was jailed so long for such a "questionable" delict.
I'll be bashed by almost anyone from the States for this, but what the heck - life gets boring at karma cap.
So you american-english havenow scrapped the letter "S" from the alphabet by now? Way to go!
Make that "jumps" and it should be set...
Just look at Dvorak (an alternative keyboard layout). After getting used to it, you are easily 10% faster compared to QWERTY.
You'd have to visit the old Bentley plant for that. When they were taken over, the controllers checking the production for possible optimizing were astonished to find the guy who was sewing the leather steering wheels. He would produce two or three at most during a month. But this guy fits your description of a beardy guru who is a crack in his field.
Here in Germany they're dubbed "Fehler in allen Teilen" which translates to "Faulty in all of its parts".
Actually this seems to be not an overall-Italian problem. Alfa's run very good and have a decent longevity.
What bugs me as weird though, is the fact that the car had a new angine at a little more than 33000 miles. I know that Ferrari's are not really known for longevity, but the engines are commonly seen as the best parts of the entire car. How can you kill an engine with that few miles? He must have a terrible driving style... I don't think I would buy that car based on that info.
It might be worth somethin, but not a lot. A buddy of mine has worked at the Hamburg (germany) outlet of Ferrari for three years. He had the time of his life, for sure, but also had his illusions taken away from him. These cars rock if you turn them in for heavy inspection every 5000miles or once a year and face a 8000 bill every time. If you dont, the thing will fall apart under your ass in less than 5 years. EVERYTHING is inferior save the engine, gearbox and suspension. The interior is cheap and cracks and chuckles in fast turns. The door fittings (the rubber parts) are porous after two years of middle-european weather (mild winters, actually). They start falling off in the third year. Also, rusting is an issue if you don't live in the middle of the desert (or Italy). People who use their Ferrari on a regular basis (daily driving, at least when road conditions permit) buy a Ferrari exactly ONCE. The only regular customers are those who drive their car a few times a year (and even those get rid of it after 3 years max).
Ergo: The image is better than the cars.
Well, i'd say it leaves room for quite some exploits. That's when the Plug'n'Play mode turns into Plug'n'Punish...
How explosive would a "bottle of pure hydrogen" be that could "provide 1.2kW for up to 10 hours"?
Not a definate answer, but an (educated?) guess. I think it would safer than the equivalent amount of fuel/diesel needed to power an traditional internal combustion generator. Why? Storage. Hydrogen comes in sturdy metal canisters with safety valves. Fuel/diesel is usually stored in plastic or sheet metal containers with an pretty insecure screw-on lid.
Also, I am not sure about the circumstances under which hydrogen becomes explosive. I think it needs a special atmospheric ratio to be dangerous (i.e. mixed with oxygen). I faintly remember some test tube popping in chemistry classes and it involved a mixture of gases instead of pure hydrogen.
...to get the "hydrogen economy" rolling are european conditions on the fuel/oil market. A gallon, for.... hmm say $3.50. You would still be well of compared to most of europe, but people would start scouting alternatives.
And just imagine the budget money saved from not having to wage a war for oil every 5 to 8 years...
I totally agree with this statement.
In related news, germany is still a fascist country because Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" is still banned from librarys, reproduction, publishing and sale and has been for more than 50 years.
What you are looking for is this
If you find it, steal it, dump the boat and the BMW for some cash and add a Beowulf cluster.
To quote the (in)famous words of Wau Holland (founder of the german EFF-pendant CCC): "You're a hacker when you're stuck with nothing but a cup of noodles and coffee machine but still manage to have a warm meal."
May he rest in piece.
The site seems to run off that Apple II... no response for me :(
Anyone got the content mirrored?