Good god man, post a warning or something!! I was chewing my bagel, reading contentedly, then you had to slap that image into my head mid-chew!! And it was a good bagel too...
I know this post is completely useless and will get moderated to nothing, but the parent is so relevant that it's a shame the mod cap is only 5... Good show!!
I got one of these for Christmas a few years ago. It's much heavier/sturdier than any Leatherman I've ever used, and has a second tool with it that is a screw/allen/torx driver. Other than a few rare occasions (trips to the airport, wearing a suit) it hasn't left my belt since.
As soon as ROTK comes on in the extended version, I'm buying it and a new DVD player with a 5-disk (6 if they have one) changer. Then it's time for the all-day, 12-hour nerdathon!!
I don't know if my butt (or my couch) can handle it, but it's worth a shot.
No matter how strong of a wall you put up, all it takes is a big wrecking ball to bring it down.
True, but the problem is that the wall is even there in the first place. If everyone (who's not a member of the MPAA) agrees that a law requiring all hardware support the broadcast flag, then instead of everyone hacking around it, the law just shouldn't exist.
Joking/trolling or not, you actually do have a point. DVDs are usually released to stores on Tuesdays, so it's only fitting that they not be evil on those days:-)
This isn't too far from what Nintento and Square have done with Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicals. Multiplayer is done via multiple Game Boys hooked up to the Gamecube. This way each person can access their own speciall menus without pausing the game or sucking up screen space.
My brother just got this game and even if you only play single-player, you can hook a GBA up to the second controller port to view a special map on the GBA screen.
I've heard of hacks to force the brushed metal or Aqua look onto certain apps, what this guys needs it a way to force the "wood" look in GarageBand onto everything (I wonder if that's a new OS interface option or just specific to GarageBand).
Ok, IANAP, but what would be the requirements to build a device capable of generating a magnetic field similar to the earth's magnetosphere? I would imagine that it's more efficient to generate a powerful magnetic field around a spaceship than it would be to line the whole thing with lead bricks...
Would the energy requirements be far to high, or maybe the diameter has to be a certain size to deflect solar radiation around the ship? This is all pure non-researched speculation of course, but I know that there's more than a few intelligent/.s out there who may be able to answer this.
Ok, since everyone else replying to this post doesn't seem to get it, I'll put it in terms/.ers can relate to...
Think of it as MS vs Open Source. The US military gets to be MS (more $$ than god, everywhere, and nearly all-powerful). And the "terrorists" get to be Open Source (devoted to some ideal, hard/impossible to discourage, and extremely decentralized).
Just as you can't kill Open Source because it's too decentralized and adaptive, you can't win Bush's "War on Terrorism". It's just not possible. The only way to stop it is to somehow come to terms with it.
Instead of trying to wipeout all these people, why not try to figure out why they see us as such a threat and such a hated enemy that hundreds of people each year are willing to violently kill themselves in an attemt to hurt us. Everyone here knows (or at least suspects) that the US has done many terrible things over the decades to many different people around the world in order to shape things to our liking. We can never win a war against terrorism, but we will destroy ourselves trying to, and you all know it.
Because, apparently some people have problems following simple instructions. Even with something so simple as filling in the circles, there will be people who can't figure it out and instead put and 'X' or check mark and then complain that their vote wasn't counted correctly.
This phenomenon (sp?) is explained in today's news
If you'd actually read the article, you'd see that the writers covers the story in the preface of the book and researches it in much greater detail. Apparently everyone involved at the time has their own version of the story, and some of them have rather strong feelings about it. It's really an interesting read. it's too bad the link is posted before all 4 parts of the article are finished.
That's a great idea, although seeing as how I'm not an astro-physicist (IANAAP?) I'm not sure if that would be viable.
I've thought for a while the best way to make a space station useful is to use it as a general settelite hosting platform. Build a dozen of these in geo-synch orbit (like the GPS sattelites), and mount different systems to them, like the aforementioned GPS, communications relays (TV, phone, etc.) and some outward-facing stuff like hubble. Then you can make money by charging people for hosting and upkeep, and keep a crew onboard for occastional maintenance.
This would have the added bonus of consolidating a bunch of the sattelites spinning around the planet, making it safer for further launches. And forget the shuttle, it's too over-engineered and expensive. Stick to simple rockets and capsules, it's cheaper and more reliable. This is how you make money in space.
Then, some day in the long run, you use these stations to assemble and launch real space-ships, ones that don't have to deal with the problems of getting to and from the bottom of a gravity well.
Well, it's definately got the most unique case design I've ever seen in a game console, but I'm a little concerned about how that sheet is going to affect its heat dissapation characteristics. Unless that's some sort of highly-conductive metallic mesh, in which case it might be an oversized flexible heatsink...
Either way, I think the floating sheet look fits pretty well with the "phantom" name, ask any little kid and they'll tell you that ghosts wear sheets over their heads.
Every new technology has been heralded
with predictions of doom and gloom
I think that a little bit of this can be very healthy though. Going completely gung-ho on new technologies could be dangerous, and having a little caution is a good thing. Genetic engineering, AI, nanotech, the internet, the hammer, whatever, all of these have the potential to become bad things, but for the most part haven't because people were careful. That said, I'm all for any new technology that comes along, with the understanding that any tool can be used to achieve both positive and negative ends.
Mod the parent up please. I think the reason a lot of/.ers knock flash is because they associate it with annoying banner ads.
The company I work for makes a fairly successful school-focused educational product (online and off), and we use Flash for our lessons because it's fairly easy to work with (a little limited at times, but getting better), and because you cen fit more content into less bytes with Flash than you can with just about anything else. Seriously, take a look at the.swf file format sometime, everything is oriented to producing the max amount of consitent content in the smallest bandwidth possible. And Flash 6 has native support for zlib compression, which really helps.
We just released a product that allows the user to fill out sample forms such as resume's, job applications and the like, with the data stored in XML format in a database to be retrived whenever the user wants, and even translated into HTML for printing.
Don't knock it as just a technology for annoying ads, it's actualy a very clever tool, and as the parent noted, it's available for just about every browser in existence.
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And it will be shipped Temporal Express. "When it absolutely, positively had to be there yesterday: Temporal Express"
I'm somewhat shocked that I had to scroll this far down before someone pointed this out. Slashdotters these days, I tell ya....
Good work pointing this out Mercury, it was the first thing the popped into my head when I read this.
Good god man, post a warning or something!! I was chewing my bagel, reading contentedly, then you had to slap that image into my head mid-chew!! And it was a good bagel too...
I know this post is completely useless and will get moderated to nothing, but the parent is so relevant that it's a shame the mod cap is only 5... Good show!!
Amen!
I got one of these for Christmas a few years ago. It's much heavier/sturdier than any Leatherman I've ever used, and has a second tool with it that is a screw/allen/torx driver. Other than a few rare occasions (trips to the airport, wearing a suit) it hasn't left my belt since.
As soon as ROTK comes on in the extended version, I'm buying it and a new DVD player with a 5-disk (6 if they have one) changer. Then it's time for the all-day, 12-hour nerdathon!!
I don't know if my butt (or my couch) can handle it, but it's worth a shot.
No matter how strong of a wall you put up, all it takes is a big wrecking ball to bring it down.
True, but the problem is that the wall is even there in the first place. If everyone (who's not a member of the MPAA) agrees that a law requiring all hardware support the broadcast flag, then instead of everyone hacking around it, the law just shouldn't exist.
Joking/trolling or not, you actually do have a point. DVDs are usually released to stores on Tuesdays, so it's only fitting that they not be evil on those days :-)
This isn't too far from what Nintento and Square have done with Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicals. Multiplayer is done via multiple Game Boys hooked up to the Gamecube. This way each person can access their own speciall menus without pausing the game or sucking up screen space.
My brother just got this game and even if you only play single-player, you can hook a GBA up to the second controller port to view a special map on the GBA screen.
Hi-freaking-larious.
Where are those lousy mod points when you need them...
I've heard of hacks to force the brushed metal or Aqua look onto certain apps, what this guys needs it a way to force the "wood" look in GarageBand onto everything (I wonder if that's a new OS interface option or just specific to GarageBand).
Yeah!! Zahn's books were great, much better than that crap lucas has been putting out.
Must be something in the name...
Ok, IANAP, but what would be the requirements to build a device capable of generating a magnetic field similar to the earth's magnetosphere? I would imagine that it's more efficient to generate a powerful magnetic field around a spaceship than it would be to line the whole thing with lead bricks...
/.s out there who may be able to answer this.
Would the energy requirements be far to high, or maybe the diameter has to be a certain size to deflect solar radiation around the ship? This is all pure non-researched speculation of course, but I know that there's more than a few intelligent
Ok, since everyone else replying to this post doesn't seem to get it, I'll put it in terms /.ers can relate to...
Think of it as MS vs Open Source. The US military gets to be MS (more $$ than god, everywhere, and nearly all-powerful). And the "terrorists" get to be Open Source (devoted to some ideal, hard/impossible to discourage, and extremely decentralized).
Just as you can't kill Open Source because it's too decentralized and adaptive, you can't win Bush's "War on Terrorism". It's just not possible. The only way to stop it is to somehow come to terms with it.
Instead of trying to wipeout all these people, why not try to figure out why they see us as such a threat and such a hated enemy that hundreds of people each year are willing to violently kill themselves in an attemt to hurt us. Everyone here knows (or at least suspects) that the US has done many terrible things over the decades to many different people around the world in order to shape things to our liking. We can never win a war against terrorism, but we will destroy ourselves trying to, and you all know it.
"Really, why do you need anything else?"
Because, apparently some people have problems following simple instructions. Even with something so simple as filling in the circles, there will be people who can't figure it out and instead put and 'X' or check mark and then complain that their vote wasn't counted correctly.
This phenomenon (sp?) is explained in today's news
Busted.
If you'd actually read the article, you'd see that the writers covers the story in the preface of the book and researches it in much greater detail. Apparently everyone involved at the time has their own version of the story, and some of them have rather strong feelings about it. It's really an interesting read. it's too bad the link is posted before all 4 parts of the article are finished.
For those who can't be bothered to read the article, here's a summary:
Dear Open Source community,
Fsck you!
Sincerely,
Darl MrBride, SCO.
why, "moob" of course...
That's a great idea, although seeing as how I'm not an astro-physicist (IANAAP?) I'm not sure if that would be viable.
I've thought for a while the best way to make a space station useful is to use it as a general settelite hosting platform. Build a dozen of these in geo-synch orbit (like the GPS sattelites), and mount different systems to them, like the aforementioned GPS, communications relays (TV, phone, etc.) and some outward-facing stuff like hubble. Then you can make money by charging people for hosting and upkeep, and keep a crew onboard for occastional maintenance.
This would have the added bonus of consolidating a bunch of the sattelites spinning around the planet, making it safer for further launches. And forget the shuttle, it's too over-engineered and expensive. Stick to simple rockets and capsules, it's cheaper and more reliable. This is how you make money in space.
Then, some day in the long run, you use these stations to assemble and launch real space-ships, ones that don't have to deal with the problems of getting to and from the bottom of a gravity well.
Ahh, dreams...
It's currently flying over Liberia, curtesy of a bunch of offshore marines....
W00t!!!!
Thank you grand-dad...
Tony Zahn
Software Engineer & occasional MP4 swapper
Well, it's definately got the most unique case design I've ever seen in a game console, but I'm a little concerned about how that sheet is going to affect its heat dissapation characteristics. Unless that's some sort of highly-conductive metallic mesh, in which case it might be an oversized flexible heatsink...
Either way, I think the floating sheet look fits pretty well with the "phantom" name, ask any little kid and they'll tell you that ghosts wear sheets over their heads.
I wish I hadn't used all my mod points... but it looks like somebody actually did some fact checking.
Pleas, somebody mod the parent post up.
I think that a little bit of this can be very healthy though. Going completely gung-ho on new technologies could be dangerous, and having a little caution is a good thing. Genetic engineering, AI, nanotech, the internet, the hammer, whatever, all of these have the potential to become bad things, but for the most part haven't because people were careful. That said, I'm all for any new technology that comes along, with the understanding that any tool can be used to achieve both positive and negative ends.
Mod the parent up please. I think the reason a lot of /.ers knock flash is because they associate it with annoying banner ads.
.swf file format sometime, everything is oriented to producing the max amount of consitent content in the smallest bandwidth possible. And Flash 6 has native support for zlib compression, which really helps.
The company I work for makes a fairly successful school-focused educational product (online and off), and we use Flash for our lessons because it's fairly easy to work with (a little limited at times, but getting better), and because you cen fit more content into less bytes with Flash than you can with just about anything else. Seriously, take a look at the
We just released a product that allows the user to fill out sample forms such as resume's, job applications and the like, with the data stored in XML format in a database to be retrived whenever the user wants, and even translated into HTML for printing.
Don't knock it as just a technology for annoying ads, it's actualy a very clever tool, and as the parent noted, it's available for just about every browser in existence.