I think it is from a scene where he is at work (doing what exactly I don't remember). It was some sort of dangerous job that used remote manipulators in a glove box like device.
I wonder if a sheet of anti-static mylar could be used as a liner between the mb and the case. Just punch a few holes where the standoffs go and at least it would protect against accidental contact.
I'd like to see "7 Cities of Gold" redone. I'd also like to know how the heck you establish a self-sustaining colony in that game! I never did figure out how.
Penn and Teller as a primary source of information? I get my info from old Ziggy comics but I digress.
You are wrong about many things so I'll just focus on a couple:
1. AL isn't the only product worth recycling. There is a little thing known as the scrap iron business that has been a major industry for over a century. In China and S Korea scrap metal is so valuable that people in Mongolia are collecting old junk cars and rebar and shipping it to China.
Glass is another item that is especially energy intensive to make.
2. Landfills fill up my friend. Ever see those big piles of dirt with vents all over them near cities and towns? Those are landfills that filled up or got to big to allow to stay open. The cost of transporting trash is going up as there are fewer and fewer places willing to take it (right now poor towns in places like Africa and Pennsylvania are the world's trashcans). Since I haven't seen a plan for taking every scrap of trash and compressing it into a 30 cubic mile box it will continue to sit spread out near the places that generate it, like, for instance, the homes of slashdotters.
The cost of transporting it away to be recycled is real but should be born by the generator. This would be more fair than how people who drive don't pay gas taxes that cover 100% of the cost of roads and are subsidized by other tax payers. The cost of NOT recycling has to be added in to the equation. Quality of life also has a definite value. I doubt even the most die hard anti-environmentalist (a "brown"?) enjoys living in a trash strewn world.
1. You use the right amount (don't know the proportions off the top of my head)
2. You leave it to sit and work based on the temperature of the water. Cold water requires you let it sit longer.
3. Lots of particulate matter (protein!) can protect nasty buggies from the chemicals. Physically filtering the water through something to get the big bits out first is a good idea.
I've had a 100% success rate by using a ceramic filter and my judgment. If the water looks really iffy (i.e. hepatitis) I'll look elsewhere or use iodine after filtering it. Fortunatly really nasty stuff (like viruses) isn't a problem in wilderness areas where human waste isn't present.
"by being able to produce an email from that person stating the exact opposite a year or two previously"
It isn't just the amount of email that you store but the fact that you are able to search through it all to find a piece of text from a specific individual from 1-2 years ago! How the heck do you do it? It must take a good chunk of time.
Actually Linux is like a kit car or a tuner car. People hunt around on the web and at meets looking for answers to odd problems and hard to find parts. Using it requires an intimate knowledge of it's inner workings.
Windows is more like a Cadillac; easy to ride in, lots of corporate hand holding, way expensive and a bit buggy for the price.
"We may never know for sure, unless we find a sign on the city limits: Welcome to Atlantis, Population 3,123"
I'd be happy if they found some items with writing on them along the lines of "Here in Atlantis we received 20 heads of sheep..." or "Oh god ----- protect Atlantis from our enemies!" Plus, if the society was as complex as Plato said then it would leave metalwork, pottery, etc. That sort of thing doesn't dissapear completely, especially from land sites.
I wouldn't use the exploration of Troy as an example of how to run an archelogical project.
To say they found Atlantis based on just a photo is a convincing as if Ballard had taken a boat over to the approximate spot the Titantic had sunk and said he had found the wreck without ever going down for photos and a few small items.
This obviously is English-centric but I doubt it is unique to only that part of Europe:
"Hill Forts - Dating from the Iron Age (approximately 700 B.C. to 50 A.D.) these hilltop enclosures are the youngest of the prehistoric remains to be seen. They are defensive structures enclosing high places with rings of ditches and banks. Often there were wooden or stone walls atop the banks as a further barrier. In some cases a series of concentric ditches and banks were built."
I'd say that the use of concentric rings would be relatively common in very early settlements as a basic form of self defense. Hill forts with circular earthen walls are found in England and Ireland. It is simply the shortest and simplest wall you can make around a site. I wouldn't be surprised if prehistoric settlers in Spain and England were in contact and used similar construction styles. To say that this is an automatic sign that it is Atlantis is like saying everyone who wears a baseball cap must be on a major league baseball team.
So how long would you last in your field if you made a huge claim with only the weakest, unsubstantiated data? This Atlantis claim is based solely on one poorly defined image and absolutely NO physical evidence from the ground. The whole story of Atlantis is based on the assumed infallibility of Plato, as if Plato were incapable of being mistaken or believing a bogus folktale.
"Like it or not, they want their PC to work like their television"
IBM and Microsoft are mainly to blame for starting the marketing line that PCs are just souped-up appliances ("Buy a computer as a Christmas gift!"). This is why people with barely any computer know-how buy them and end up frustrated or with a corrupted machine.
If PCs were designed with limited capabilities like a game console this wouldn't be as much of a problem, but then again PCs wouldn't be as useful.
Talk about motives, I couldn't believe there is actually a group called "The Bromine Science and Environmental Forum" made up of a few big bromine manufacturers. Imagine them as little kids saying "When I grow up I want to lobby for bromine!" These guys must have absolutely fascinating lives.
So if the folks who run this decide it isn't worthwhile anymore and they pull the plug your "investment" disappears? Great, a virtual investment for virtual land using REAL money.
My favorite is the mind numbingly stupid expression "instant classic" that is constantly tossed about by the movie industry. They actually managed to make it worse by turning it into "soon to be an instant classic."
Slashdot Mirror
I think it is from a scene where he is at work (doing what exactly I don't remember). It was some sort of dangerous job that used remote manipulators in a glove box like device.
I wonder if a sheet of anti-static mylar could be used as a liner between the mb and the case. Just punch a few holes where the standoffs go and at least it would protect against accidental contact.
Elevator? Bah! Think of the workout you'd get taking the stairs.
I'm going to install one of these on my bumper.
*BEEEEEEP!*
"Hey! We just hit a.....ooops"
If they could get this system to work at a distance it would be a breakthrough in hitting on girls from your car.
Baba Yaga's Hut
I'd like to see "7 Cities of Gold" redone. I'd also like to know how the heck you establish a self-sustaining colony in that game! I never did figure out how.
Unfortunately he'll have to avoid red kryptonite for the rest of his life.
Penn and Teller as a primary source of information? I get my info from old Ziggy comics but I digress.
You are wrong about many things so I'll just focus on a couple:
1. AL isn't the only product worth recycling. There is a little thing known as the scrap iron business that has been a major industry for over a century. In China and S Korea scrap metal is so valuable that people in Mongolia are collecting old junk cars and rebar and shipping it to China.
Glass is another item that is especially energy intensive to make.
2. Landfills fill up my friend. Ever see those big piles of dirt with vents all over them near cities and towns? Those are landfills that filled up or got to big to allow to stay open. The cost of transporting trash is going up as there are fewer and fewer places willing to take it (right now poor towns in places like Africa and Pennsylvania are the world's trashcans). Since I haven't seen a plan for taking every scrap of trash and compressing it into a 30 cubic mile box it will continue to sit spread out near the places that generate it, like, for instance, the homes of slashdotters.
The cost of transporting it away to be recycled is real but should be born by the generator. This would be more fair than how people who drive don't pay gas taxes that cover 100% of the cost of roads and are subsidized by other tax payers. The cost of NOT recycling has to be added in to the equation. Quality of life also has a definite value. I doubt even the most die hard anti-environmentalist (a "brown"?) enjoys living in a trash strewn world.
Bleach will work if...
1. You use the right amount (don't know the proportions off the top of my head)
2. You leave it to sit and work based on the temperature of the water. Cold water requires you let it sit longer.
3. Lots of particulate matter (protein!) can protect nasty buggies from the chemicals. Physically filtering the water through something to get the big bits out first is a good idea.
I've had a 100% success rate by using a ceramic filter and my judgment. If the water looks really iffy (i.e. hepatitis) I'll look elsewhere or use iodine after filtering it. Fortunatly really nasty stuff (like viruses) isn't a problem in wilderness areas where human waste isn't present.
They want Sweden's lutefisk!
"by being able to produce an email from that person stating the exact opposite a year or two previously"
It isn't just the amount of email that you store but the fact that you are able to search through it all to find a piece of text from a specific individual from 1-2 years ago! How the heck do you do it? It must take a good chunk of time.
Actually Linux is like a kit car or a tuner car. People hunt around on the web and at meets looking for answers to odd problems and hard to find parts. Using it requires an intimate knowledge of it's inner workings.
Windows is more like a Cadillac; easy to ride in, lots of corporate hand holding, way expensive and a bit buggy for the price.
As a modern day witch-doctor I find that speaking the sacred word "reboot" works wonders.
I'm patenting the act of patenting.
I'm designing a fully autonomous Congressman who can cut the military's bloated corporate-welfare budget. It'll be 100% lobbyist proof!
"We may never know for sure, unless we find a sign on the city limits: Welcome to Atlantis, Population 3,123"
I'd be happy if they found some items with writing on them along the lines of "Here in Atlantis we received 20 heads of sheep..." or "Oh god ----- protect Atlantis from our enemies!" Plus, if the society was as complex as Plato said then it would leave metalwork, pottery, etc. That sort of thing doesn't dissapear completely, especially from land sites.
I wouldn't use the exploration of Troy as an example of how to run an archelogical project.
To say they found Atlantis based on just a photo is a convincing as if Ballard had taken a boat over to the approximate spot the Titantic had sunk and said he had found the wreck without ever going down for photos and a few small items.
"Hill Forts - Dating from the Iron Age (approximately 700 B.C. to 50 A.D.) these hilltop enclosures are the youngest of the prehistoric remains to be seen. They are defensive structures enclosing high places with rings of ditches and banks. Often there were wooden or stone walls atop the banks as a further barrier. In some cases a series of concentric ditches and banks were built."
Other info:
Ironage Britain
The Berth fort
I'd say that the use of concentric rings would be relatively common in very early settlements as a basic form of self defense. Hill forts with circular earthen walls are found in England and Ireland. It is simply the shortest and simplest wall you can make around a site. I wouldn't be surprised if prehistoric settlers in Spain and England were in contact and used similar construction styles. To say that this is an automatic sign that it is Atlantis is like saying everyone who wears a baseball cap must be on a major league baseball team.
(I'm not criticizing you here...)
So how long would you last in your field if you made a huge claim with only the weakest, unsubstantiated data? This Atlantis claim is based solely on one poorly defined image and absolutely NO physical evidence from the ground. The whole story of Atlantis is based on the assumed infallibility of Plato, as if Plato were incapable of being mistaken or believing a bogus folktale.
"Like it or not, they want their PC to work like their television"
IBM and Microsoft are mainly to blame for starting the marketing line that PCs are just souped-up appliances ("Buy a computer as a Christmas gift!"). This is why people with barely any computer know-how buy them and end up frustrated or with a corrupted machine.
If PCs were designed with limited capabilities like a game console this wouldn't be as much of a problem, but then again PCs wouldn't be as useful.
Riders must leave their pride with the ticket booth before joining the tour.
Talk about motives, I couldn't believe there is actually a group called "The Bromine Science and Environmental Forum" made up of a few big bromine manufacturers. Imagine them as little kids saying "When I grow up I want to lobby for bromine!" These guys must have absolutely fascinating lives.
Maybe this is a way to finally get techno-geeks to clean the dust and crumbs off of their systems.
I hope they do some followup research on the things hiding in my keyboard.
So if the folks who run this decide it isn't worthwhile anymore and they pull the plug your "investment" disappears? Great, a virtual investment for virtual land using REAL money.
My favorite is the mind numbingly stupid expression "instant classic" that is constantly tossed about by the movie industry. They actually managed to make it worse by turning it into "soon to be an instant classic."