When I was 10 or so, I made something like this. I took a 2-liter pop bottle, turned it sideways, and duct taped it to a set of wheels from an old plastic train. Then I hot-glued part of a pen cap into a hole in the bottom of the bottle, and connected a hose from the pen cap to the side (now the bottom) of the bottle. In order to make it work, I opened the lid and filled it about halfway with water. Then I attached a bike pump to the pen cap, and pushed in some air. When the pump was removed, the air pressure pushed the water up through the hose and out the back, shooting the car forward 3 meters or so. The only problem I had was that I could never get the hot glue to seal well around the pen cap, so it would break loose after a few runs. All in all, it was pretty cool.
Couldn't the construction of a very large number of these facilities start to increase the amount of force necessary to raise and lower the oceans, and therefore affect the orbit of the moon? Kinda like how the orbit of a planet decreases in radius by a very small amount when you slingshot a space probe around it.
There are reports that NASA is working on a solution to this problem. They're developing a small white triangular spacecraft that fires white projectiles at an oncoming asteroid, causing it to break up into smaller pieces. Then the smaller pieces are then targeted and detroyed. This continues until the fragments cease to exist. Unfortunately, seconds after the asteroid is completely destroyed, dozens more appear out of nowhere.
I sent an email to SonicBlue asking if they were planning on adding support for ogg vorbis on the RioVolt SP250 via a firmware update. I received the following response:
Dear Valued Customer, Nothing in the works yet. Maybe in the future.
Looks like I won't have portable oggs for a while.
I just took an 80kb PNG image from mandrake.com, converted it to a bitmap, and zipped the bitmap. The resulting zip file was about 50kb. I also tried the same thing with some PNGs that I had created for my website, and a similar thing happened.
Conclusion: ZIP compression is better than PNG?
"The mirrors slide up from their stowed position, and it is important that you push up in the correct place to avoid damage."
Now I really want to buy this keyboard. Not only do I have to keep my hands in midair and adjust mirrors to read the numbers backwards, but I can also cause damage by pushing in the wrong place!
If you're willing to pay a big startup fee, then you should look into getting a two-way satellite connection. From what I've read, it's a few hundred dollars for the equipment, and somewhere around $50-$90 per month. I too am stuck with 26.4k dial-up, but cable (Comcast) should be arriving any day now, and as you said, just about anything is better than dial-up.
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When I was 10 or so, I made something like this. I took a 2-liter pop bottle, turned it sideways, and duct taped it to a set of wheels from an old plastic train. Then I hot-glued part of a pen cap into a hole in the bottom of the bottle, and connected a hose from the pen cap to the side (now the bottom) of the bottle. In order to make it work, I opened the lid and filled it about halfway with water. Then I attached a bike pump to the pen cap, and pushed in some air. When the pump was removed, the air pressure pushed the water up through the hose and out the back, shooting the car forward 3 meters or so. The only problem I had was that I could never get the hot glue to seal well around the pen cap, so it would break loose after a few runs. All in all, it was pretty cool.
Does anyone have a link to one of these micrographs? I think it'd be interesting to see.
atcually, yes it was.
I sure hope your mispelling of "loosers" was intentional. (yes, my misspelling of "misspelling" was intetional)
Couldn't the construction of a very large number of these facilities start to increase the amount of force necessary to raise and lower the oceans, and therefore affect the orbit of the moon? Kinda like how the orbit of a planet decreases in radius by a very small amount when you slingshot a space probe around it.
There are reports that NASA is working on a solution to this problem. They're developing a small white triangular spacecraft that fires white projectiles at an oncoming asteroid, causing it to break up into smaller pieces. Then the smaller pieces are then targeted and detroyed. This continues until the fragments cease to exist. Unfortunately, seconds after the asteroid is completely destroyed, dozens more appear out of nowhere.
According to my Windows 2000 "System Properties" dialog, my PC is already AT/AT compatible! I guess I won't have to buy a special interface card now.
Dang that's a lot of gigs. It would take me over 2 years of sustained downloading on my 26400bps connection to fill that thing up.
I thought geeks used Nero, and everyone else used Easy CD Creator.
I sent an email to SonicBlue asking if they were planning on adding support for ogg vorbis on the RioVolt SP250 via a firmware update. I received the following response:
Dear Valued Customer,
Nothing in the works yet. Maybe in the future.
Looks like I won't have portable oggs for a while.
I just took an 80kb PNG image from mandrake.com, converted it to a bitmap, and zipped the bitmap. The resulting zip file was about 50kb. I also tried the same thing with some PNGs that I had created for my website, and a similar thing happened. Conclusion: ZIP compression is better than PNG?
"The mirrors slide up from their stowed position, and it is important that you push up in the correct place to avoid damage."
Now I really want to buy this keyboard. Not only do I have to keep my hands in midair and adjust mirrors to read the numbers backwards, but I can also cause damage by pushing in the wrong place!
If you're willing to pay a big startup fee, then you should look into getting a two-way satellite connection. From what I've read, it's a few hundred dollars for the equipment, and somewhere around $50-$90 per month. I too am stuck with 26.4k dial-up, but cable (Comcast) should be arriving any day now, and as you said, just about anything is better than dial-up.
it would be an interesting experiment to send a package with some type of shock sensor/data recorder in it, to see what type of impact it undergoes.