Now with extra light at night, perhaps they will need dusk/night during the day. Someone get in contact with Mr. Burns. We need his sun blocking device! You'll just have to pay his nuclear power bills.
That's what I was wondering as well. Would all the extra sunlight reflecting onto what normally would be a darker side of the Earth cause it to heat up even more? Some AC made a comment elsewhere about doing this elsewhere at night. That seems like it'd be a huge hit to the temps of the Earth.
The nice thing about the moon is the cycle - when it's full it's nice illumination and the world looks interesting, but a new moon is almost as great with a fairly starry sky even in a city if the air is really clear.
The most amazing that I've seen for it was when up in the mountains, miles from any city. Completely clear night. I've been at this location during a full moon and an almost new moon. Really amazing, especially since most of those nights were cloudless.
But speaking of moon cycles, it always reminds me of a scene from that dumb Angels in the Outfield movie. Where the little brother sees the moon as a sliver and goes: "Look, it's God's thumbnail!"
But the older brother is all salty and mad about something and responds: "THERE IS NO GOD."
This just makes me remember at some point in the 90s when I was struggling with my 1GB hard drive and wanted more storage space. I'd heard about tape drives and DESPERATELY wanted one. I knew nothing more than they could hold a lot of stuff. Would be cool to just keep around as a memory these days.
I'm pretty sure I was under the impression that I could install computer games and such to it at the time, but I'm not sure if that's what I actually thought.
Oddly I always found the gamecube controller very comfortable. I didn't like the controller as much as other systems.... but at least it felt comfortable?
Least ergonomic should go to some of those old systems before the NES. Like the Colecovision I think? There was one where you had a knob you had to turn on the controller. I remember another that was basically the keypad for a phone and you had to put a sticker over it depending on the game you were playing. Fun times in the past.
Speaking of sails, I do remember/. had some article a few months ago about a solar sailboat. I guess it could be interesting if useable for big things.... but I feel like I remember it looking to be about the size of a speed boat and the entire thing was covered in solar panels. Might be a bit much for anything other than a small passenger boat.
I recall seeing a post before that most of the reason for the crew now is maintenance. That if something goes wrong they stay pretty crazy busy. Sounds like most of the ship navigation is already automated. Also I'd not say airplane autopilot does everything for you. Pilots are still supposed to control the plane and keep at least one hand on the equipment for most of the flight.... not having kung fu battles in the back of the plane like in the movies.
For using when you don't want a full phone? It's a "faux phone"? Does it require Bluetooth and being near your phone to work? Or are they just saying all this because "real phones" are 5+ inches and cost $800+? This just seams like a (expensive) cheap phone.
I seem to recall complaints about holding the DS or 3DS with one hand hurting people's wrists at one point. A guy talked about how he ended up in a wrist brace from one of the games.
All I could think is maybe it'd work better if they lifted something heavier than a cheese burger a few times.
Maybe they updated and removed it? Unless it was some other fact checking site. I remember reading it the day after the debate and seeing someone reference it with "wtf why are they being so pedantic about it?" It's been too long now and was mostly a dumb eye rolling moment over Trump using the wrong word/term.
I think the joke was more of referring to the first debate where Trump said she bleached her computer or whatever, and Snopes said: "False, Hillary Clinton did ______ she did not wash it in bleach as that would have no effect."
I remember signing up on Google Plus when it was invite only, but mostly because I thought the hangout idea was cool. I liked the idea that you could chat/talk with friends and watch a youtube video as a group.
I then proceeded to never use that feature, and my google + experience was uploading a picture and saying I was testing Google + out.
Also move voting to Saturday or Sunday and/or make it a national holiday with mandatory
Good luck getting service businesses to allow their employees off for this. Or if you did, I'm sure we'd have plenty of people shrieking about how they are going to die if they can't buy McDonalds at every second of the day.
In the poor ones the director rambles on and on about the different shots and what made it memorable to them
I remember trying to watch the second Lord of the Rings movie with director commentary. It was pretty boring and uninformative. Stuff like: "Oh yeah, this day. It was foggy, I remember we wondered if it would be foggy. Then it was foggy." Also: "That orc there on the left... his name was Steve. He wore another orc suit in another shot. I remember Steve. In that orc suit."
Meanwhile the Space Balls commentary has Mel Brooks almost dying at the super long ship at the start, talking about how he wanted to make that scene last 90 minutes and the only thing stopping him was the rest of the studio staff. Or his laughing reaction to some joke: "That joke makes me want to die, I hate myself for that joke. Oh no."
Gerald Butler (the OP) who called for mass genocide of people who major in "Sociology, Psychology, Management, HR, Political Science, Law, Philosophy, [and] History
They'll just be killed off by the crushing weight of their student loans (I'm looking at psychology, philosophy, and history here specifically). Those majors should at least somehow require people to learn how to spend their money better. One of the RAs from the dorms I was in was a history major and she's always talking about how she's going to be paying her loans for the next 30-40 years. She also only pays the minimum amount, even though she can afford more. And then she decided to go back to further her education in history....
The psychology one just reminds me of my first roommate. He came for mechanical engineering, but was not very smart. He was also a borderline alcoholic with huge anger issues. When he failed every class his first semester... he switched to psychology. I always envisioned him eventually trying to act as a therapist, but ending up erupting into screaming fits at his patients. (psychology didn't work out for him)
In college, psychology is a dumping ground for people that can't figure out what else to major in.
This just reminds me of the joke (I think someone even made a shirt of it?) from the engineering department when I went to college... An equation that said as the gpa approaches zero the major becomes business.
The robot has mastered drunken baby. And now it has mastered nimble ninja. Before long it will reach the next level - Drunken Baby Nimble Ninja-style Martial Arts. I can't wait to watch the Drunken Master robots fight.
I vaguely remember around 10ish(?) years ago seeing Wikipedia having a donation thing across the top. There was something saying they didn't need money to have the site up, that they had enough to keep it up for a long long time. I can't remember what they said it was for, but it specifically stated it had nothing to do with keeping the site active online.
Now it feels like anytime they have the donation up, the wording is basically: "If you don't donate, Wikipedia might die forever. If everyone just gave a dollar Wikipedia could be up for years!" So I looked up a lot of stuff about Wikipedia and found yep... most donations don't go to keeping the site up. Kind of hate that they put up a giant banner acting like the website and information on it will be lost forever if you don't donate.
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Flutter like a butterfly, sting yourself like(????) a bee.
Now with extra light at night, perhaps they will need dusk/night during the day. Someone get in contact with Mr. Burns. We need his sun blocking device! You'll just have to pay his nuclear power bills.
That's what I was wondering as well. Would all the extra sunlight reflecting onto what normally would be a darker side of the Earth cause it to heat up even more? Some AC made a comment elsewhere about doing this elsewhere at night. That seems like it'd be a huge hit to the temps of the Earth.
Add a magnifying glass to burn the rebels like ants!
The nice thing about the moon is the cycle - when it's full it's nice illumination and the world looks interesting, but a new moon is almost as great with a fairly starry sky even in a city if the air is really clear.
The most amazing that I've seen for it was when up in the mountains, miles from any city. Completely clear night. I've been at this location during a full moon and an almost new moon. Really amazing, especially since most of those nights were cloudless.
But speaking of moon cycles, it always reminds me of a scene from that dumb Angels in the Outfield movie. Where the little brother sees the moon as a sliver and goes: "Look, it's God's thumbnail!"
But the older brother is all salty and mad about something and responds: "THERE IS NO GOD."
This just makes me remember at some point in the 90s when I was struggling with my 1GB hard drive and wanted more storage space. I'd heard about tape drives and DESPERATELY wanted one. I knew nothing more than they could hold a lot of stuff. Would be cool to just keep around as a memory these days.
I'm pretty sure I was under the impression that I could install computer games and such to it at the time, but I'm not sure if that's what I actually thought.
Oddly I always found the gamecube controller very comfortable. I didn't like the controller as much as other systems.... but at least it felt comfortable?
Least ergonomic should go to some of those old systems before the NES. Like the Colecovision I think? There was one where you had a knob you had to turn on the controller. I remember another that was basically the keypad for a phone and you had to put a sticker over it depending on the game you were playing. Fun times in the past.
Speaking of sails, I do remember /. had some article a few months ago about a solar sailboat. I guess it could be interesting if useable for big things.... but I feel like I remember it looking to be about the size of a speed boat and the entire thing was covered in solar panels. Might be a bit much for anything other than a small passenger boat.
I recall seeing a post before that most of the reason for the crew now is maintenance. That if something goes wrong they stay pretty crazy busy. Sounds like most of the ship navigation is already automated. Also I'd not say airplane autopilot does everything for you. Pilots are still supposed to control the plane and keep at least one hand on the equipment for most of the flight.... not having kung fu battles in the back of the plane like in the movies.
Hello, FBI? This is the hijacker calling with our demands. WE HAVE THE MEAT.
For using when you don't want a full phone? It's a "faux phone"? Does it require Bluetooth and being near your phone to work? Or are they just saying all this because "real phones" are 5+ inches and cost $800+? This just seams like a (expensive) cheap phone.
I seem to recall complaints about holding the DS or 3DS with one hand hurting people's wrists at one point. A guy talked about how he ended up in a wrist brace from one of the games.
All I could think is maybe it'd work better if they lifted something heavier than a cheese burger a few times.
Maybe they updated and removed it? Unless it was some other fact checking site. I remember reading it the day after the debate and seeing someone reference it with "wtf why are they being so pedantic about it?" It's been too long now and was mostly a dumb eye rolling moment over Trump using the wrong word/term.
Did Bezos ever make is flying yachts that he wanted to do? First he wanted sky yachts.... Now he wants to begin his space yacht?
I think the joke was more of referring to the first debate where Trump said she bleached her computer or whatever, and Snopes said: "False, Hillary Clinton did ______ she did not wash it in bleach as that would have no effect."
I remember signing up on Google Plus when it was invite only, but mostly because I thought the hangout idea was cool. I liked the idea that you could chat/talk with friends and watch a youtube video as a group.
I then proceeded to never use that feature, and my google + experience was uploading a picture and saying I was testing Google + out.
Also move voting to Saturday or Sunday and/or make it a national holiday with mandatory
Good luck getting service businesses to allow their employees off for this. Or if you did, I'm sure we'd have plenty of people shrieking about how they are going to die if they can't buy McDonalds at every second of the day.
In the poor ones the director rambles on and on about the different shots and what made it memorable to them
I remember trying to watch the second Lord of the Rings movie with director commentary. It was pretty boring and uninformative. Stuff like: "Oh yeah, this day. It was foggy, I remember we wondered if it would be foggy. Then it was foggy." Also: "That orc there on the left... his name was Steve. He wore another orc suit in another shot. I remember Steve. In that orc suit."
Meanwhile the Space Balls commentary has Mel Brooks almost dying at the super long ship at the start, talking about how he wanted to make that scene last 90 minutes and the only thing stopping him was the rest of the studio staff. Or his laughing reaction to some joke: "That joke makes me want to die, I hate myself for that joke. Oh no."
Gerald Butler (the OP) who called for mass genocide of people who major in "Sociology, Psychology, Management, HR, Political Science, Law, Philosophy, [and] History
They'll just be killed off by the crushing weight of their student loans (I'm looking at psychology, philosophy, and history here specifically). Those majors should at least somehow require people to learn how to spend their money better. One of the RAs from the dorms I was in was a history major and she's always talking about how she's going to be paying her loans for the next 30-40 years. She also only pays the minimum amount, even though she can afford more. And then she decided to go back to further her education in history....
The psychology one just reminds me of my first roommate. He came for mechanical engineering, but was not very smart. He was also a borderline alcoholic with huge anger issues. When he failed every class his first semester... he switched to psychology. I always envisioned him eventually trying to act as a therapist, but ending up erupting into screaming fits at his patients. (psychology didn't work out for him)
In college, psychology is a dumping ground for people that can't figure out what else to major in.
This just reminds me of the joke (I think someone even made a shirt of it?) from the engineering department when I went to college... An equation that said as the gpa approaches zero the major becomes business.
Keeping JNCO jeans alive and well.
4. War
War. Huh. Yeah. What is it good for?
The robot has mastered drunken baby. And now it has mastered nimble ninja. Before long it will reach the next level - Drunken Baby Nimble Ninja-style Martial Arts. I can't wait to watch the Drunken Master robots fight.
Didn't Slashdot report on this when it happened?
I vaguely remember around 10ish(?) years ago seeing Wikipedia having a donation thing across the top. There was something saying they didn't need money to have the site up, that they had enough to keep it up for a long long time. I can't remember what they said it was for, but it specifically stated it had nothing to do with keeping the site active online.
Now it feels like anytime they have the donation up, the wording is basically: "If you don't donate, Wikipedia might die forever. If everyone just gave a dollar Wikipedia could be up for years!" So I looked up a lot of stuff about Wikipedia and found yep... most donations don't go to keeping the site up. Kind of hate that they put up a giant banner acting like the website and information on it will be lost forever if you don't donate.