I also found this snippet from another article amusing:
"While the eruption was going on, a man--who could only be described as Christopher Lloyd--was seen flying around Io in what appeared to be a DeLorean. Reportedly, gigawatts were the closest actual value he could find to jigawatts."
Hey good thing only the 80's on had bands that sold-out and groups owned and put together by record execs.
Now, let's just forget all that and Payola and go on with our thinking that no matter what, our time was better than whatever time we're living in now.
...that as part of the ruling, the head executives of the branches of Nintendo International concerned with this case will have large barrels hurled at them by a giant ape while trying to get up several stories of floors. In a press release, one of the executives said simply, "BEEP."
"After seeing this, the scientists are still looking frantically through the motherboard manual that controls the light to find out what exactly the POST code is for one trillion beats in a second"
And if nothing better comes out of this, at least we know we can hook the driver circuit up to a speaker to scare the hell out of any insect in a 4 mile radius.
A few years ago, the miniaturization and processing power just weren't there, let alone the LCD capabilities. You need the miniaturization because you need smaller components to run cooler; a proc that's running at 120 directly behind an lcd screen will probably do more bad than good. You'll need the processing power because good handwriting recognition/speech recognition requires a relatively good amount of it, not to mention very good algorithims and a lot of RAM to store the reference characters in. And to make LCD screens that large with LCD screen drivers that small is an accomplishment in and of itself. Sometimes the public isn't ready because the product isn't ready.
Of course, if you draw the short straw driving to get the surgery done and another person crashes into your car, your need for eyes might all together disappear.
If you happen to draw the short straw at bank, it gets robbed, and you get shot, than your need for eyes might all together disappear as well.
If you draw the short straw walking near a tree, and a twig pokes you in the eye, you're effed as well.
Point being, no matter what you do, you run the risk. And, quite frankly, nothing is 100%, and the fact that this surgery, as you say, is 95% to 99% is incredible in and of itself. Whatever endeavor you choose to impart on, be it sword fighting or waking up, you take a calculated risk. Remember that.
But how many of those HDTV outputs are utilized? Unfortunately, for the next 3 years or so, most people won't actually know someone with an HDTV. Computers, on the other hand, provide high-resolution, varied inputs, and a lot of upgradable horsepower--now. And affordably, at that. Upgradable, now, multipurpose, high-compatibility rate, and affordable...how many game consoles can say that?
I'm thinking that the greatest President we've ever seen, George W. Bush, should pull another states governer out of his/her office and give them a special job: Director of Universal Uncollapsablebility (a term first coined by our great, intelligent leader) Security. Therein that position lies the tiring task of giving us a color that would indicate just how close we are to dying in a horrible, cosmis collapse. The colors will range from Bridal White (no chance of collapse today) to Macaroni (who knows?) to Dark Black (kiss your ass goodbye). Other job details would be erecting giants statues of our President throughout the universe, thus holding the universe from collapsing due to the size of their ears. I'm sure that this idea, being the most sensible in this kind of situation, will be implemented by President Bush as soon as he sees the news. Thank god we have such a great person in office.
Well good thing a super-powerful, omnipotent, omnipresent being doesn't violate any laws. Especially not common sense. Thanks for clearing that up...I appreciate it. What church do I make 25% of my wages payable towards?
You're right. I was talking about his philosphy, not science. His philosphy was taken a lot of flack from religious buffs, though, so I'll get behind my original point. 'Course, there's no way to know he didn't just steal all of his stuff from Socrates, but that's a topic for another discussion.
Aristotle and Newtown were wrong? Would you mind telling me where? I'd like to know. And Religious people make more concessions than anyone else and still whole-heartedly believe in the Bible. How old do you think the Earth is? Because if it's anything besides what the Old Testament said, you just disproved your religion. If a word comes from a God--or people writing what they say God has told them to--then one indiscrepancy disproves it all. All of it. Science is beautiful because if something is wrong, it's revised, and we carry on. The fight for truth is a long battle that may never be won; truth can not be found in a book writ be a couple of guys wanting to control people through usage of a Heaven, Hell, and ultimate creater who they must appease.
He said he was in a college town: that's perfect. A lot of college students have laptops, and a lot are shipping with WiFi now. And plus, you're thinking big time advertisers...why? You're in a local setting; Dirty John's Coffee Shop and Billy the Rapists Automotive would love that kind of directed advertising. In a localized thing like a wireless network, advertising works perfectly. If anyone from out of town shows up (and in a college town, 'twill happen), to find out what there is to eat or anything like that, just bring their laptop or PDA and bam...all at your finger tips. Making reservations and checkign prices when clickign on the banners would also do much good. You obviously didn't read--or at least didn't pay much attention to--any thing said before your post.
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will the dvd include my badassness?
I can tell you why Tunguska-sized asteroid impacts aren't so common: the fact that Tunguska was probably cause by a comet. Go figure.
I also found this snippet from another article amusing:
"While the eruption was going on, a man--who could only be described as Christopher Lloyd--was seen flying around Io in what appeared to be a DeLorean. Reportedly, gigawatts were the closest actual value he could find to jigawatts."
Size doesn't matter? Oh, I believe good ol' /. would like to disagree with you there.
1 1/129221 :)
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/
Unless the violin was made with iron trees, I don't see how an MRI is destructive.
Hey good thing only the 80's on had bands that sold-out and groups owned and put together by record execs.
Now, let's just forget all that and Payola and go on with our thinking that no matter what, our time was better than whatever time we're living in now.
Good thing that you don't need to take more bubble tests for national certs...
Better than some other frozen mammals fare. I mean, could you imagine waking up after 10,000 years and meeting Pauly Shore?
...that as part of the ruling, the head executives of the branches of Nintendo International concerned with this case will have large barrels hurled at them by a giant ape while trying to get up several stories of floors. In a press release, one of the executives said simply, "BEEP."
"After seeing this, the scientists are still looking frantically through the motherboard manual that controls the light to find out what exactly the POST code is for one trillion beats in a second"
And if nothing better comes out of this, at least we know we can hook the driver circuit up to a speaker to scare the hell out of any insect in a 4 mile radius.
Win9x kernel, anyone?
A few years ago, the miniaturization and processing power just weren't there, let alone the LCD capabilities. You need the miniaturization because you need smaller components to run cooler; a proc that's running at 120 directly behind an lcd screen will probably do more bad than good. You'll need the processing power because good handwriting recognition/speech recognition requires a relatively good amount of it, not to mention very good algorithims and a lot of RAM to store the reference characters in. And to make LCD screens that large with LCD screen drivers that small is an accomplishment in and of itself. Sometimes the public isn't ready because the product isn't ready.
Once
There were these guys who
Thought that using Linux would
Improve their product's safety
And when
they fin'ly did it
They found
Gates had set fire to their work
He said that it was because
The Sherman act had smacked him
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Ah, the good ol' Crash Test Dummies...we hardly knew ye.
it's got a long ways to go before it will ever be able to compete with the Inanimate Carbon Rod
i see nothing wrong/redundant with that.
:p
an inflatable dart board is another good idea
Of course, if you draw the short straw driving to get the surgery done and another person crashes into your car, your need for eyes might all together disappear.
If you happen to draw the short straw at bank, it gets robbed, and you get shot, than your need for eyes might all together disappear as well.
If you draw the short straw walking near a tree, and a twig pokes you in the eye, you're effed as well.
Point being, no matter what you do, you run the risk. And, quite frankly, nothing is 100%, and the fact that this surgery, as you say, is 95% to 99% is incredible in and of itself. Whatever endeavor you choose to impart on, be it sword fighting or waking up, you take a calculated risk. Remember that.
But how many of those HDTV outputs are utilized? Unfortunately, for the next 3 years or so, most people won't actually know someone with an HDTV. Computers, on the other hand, provide high-resolution, varied inputs, and a lot of upgradable horsepower--now. And affordably, at that. Upgradable, now, multipurpose, high-compatibility rate, and affordable...how many game consoles can say that?
Anyone here want to sit in front of a T.V. and play Quake III Arena with horrible resolution with a game pade?
Enough said.
As long as there are first-person shooters and need for high-resolution, sharp graphics, computers will reign.
I'm thinking that the greatest President we've ever seen, George W. Bush, should pull another states governer out of his/her office and give them a special job: Director of Universal Uncollapsablebility (a term first coined by our great, intelligent leader) Security. Therein that position lies the tiring task of giving us a color that would indicate just how close we are to dying in a horrible, cosmis collapse. The colors will range from Bridal White (no chance of collapse today) to Macaroni (who knows?) to Dark Black (kiss your ass goodbye). Other job details would be erecting giants statues of our President throughout the universe, thus holding the universe from collapsing due to the size of their ears. I'm sure that this idea, being the most sensible in this kind of situation, will be implemented by President Bush as soon as he sees the news. Thank god we have such a great person in office.
Well good thing a super-powerful, omnipotent, omnipresent being doesn't violate any laws. Especially not common sense. Thanks for clearing that up...I appreciate it. What church do I make 25% of my wages payable towards?
You're right. I was talking about his philosphy, not science. His philosphy was taken a lot of flack from religious buffs, though, so I'll get behind my original point. 'Course, there's no way to know he didn't just steal all of his stuff from Socrates, but that's a topic for another discussion.
Aristotle and Newtown were wrong? Would you mind telling me where? I'd like to know. And Religious people make more concessions than anyone else and still whole-heartedly believe in the Bible. How old do you think the Earth is? Because if it's anything besides what the Old Testament said, you just disproved your religion. If a word comes from a God--or people writing what they say God has told them to--then one indiscrepancy disproves it all. All of it. Science is beautiful because if something is wrong, it's revised, and we carry on. The fight for truth is a long battle that may never be won; truth can not be found in a book writ be a couple of guys wanting to control people through usage of a Heaven, Hell, and ultimate creater who they must appease.
or a superhero hell-bent on laziness
I guess I'll be seeing the movie 47 times
He said he was in a college town: that's perfect. A lot of college students have laptops, and a lot are shipping with WiFi now. And plus, you're thinking big time advertisers...why? You're in a local setting; Dirty John's Coffee Shop and Billy the Rapists Automotive would love that kind of directed advertising. In a localized thing like a wireless network, advertising works perfectly. If anyone from out of town shows up (and in a college town, 'twill happen), to find out what there is to eat or anything like that, just bring their laptop or PDA and bam...all at your finger tips. Making reservations and checkign prices when clickign on the banners would also do much good. You obviously didn't read--or at least didn't pay much attention to--any thing said before your post.