What does credibility have to do with it? I have stated facts that are easily verified. Besides, only a confounded moron would trust a single stranger on the internet, regardless of his freaking sig.
To get back on topic, in case you didn't get it, there is a higher probability of you being killed by a frozen pig that fell out of a cargo plane that was hit by a meteor than being harmed in any ever so subtle way by x-rays emmitted from a TV, even if you were living and sleeping between 10 foot high stacks of running TVs.
I've always wanted to build a really detailed diorama with model trains and a little city. In fact, I'm gonna do that when I retire... some 40 years from now. I just hope I'm going to find my bookmark for this story when that time comes...
Only if it's a color CRT (which, even with modern designs, generates a non-trivial amount of soft X-rays due to the electrons slamming into the shadow-mask).
Fucking bullshit. Even if you watch TV (yes *gasp* in color) 12 hours every day, this amounts to a yearly dosage of about.5 uSv. Just for comparison, the average natural radition dosage (sun, cosmic radiation and incorporation of radionuclides) at sea level is about 2400 uSv/yr and travelling in an airplane for 50 hours a year would give you an additional dose of about 300 uSv.
Yeah, but what if one of the SETI packets actually contained the signal of an intelligent alien race, trying to contact us to give us the solutions to all the problems we have on earth, and your CPU glitched out and misinterpreted the data as noise. Failing to solve its problems, humanity eradicates itself in WWIII only a short time from now.
You DESTROYED the HUMAN RACE only because of OVERCLOCKING! I HOPE it was WORTH IT!
The Adaptec 1542CF (probably other 1542 versions as well) supported flopticals. You could boot off of them, and you could use them in DOS like any other disk.
I agree, most people actually seem to be happy deceiving themselves. In fact, denial and self-deception might be a part of human nature.
There is a psychological disorder called anosognosia. People with this disorder refuse to admit anything is wrong with them and come up with ridiculous explanations for their deficiencies, despite obvious facts to the contrary, e.g. a man's arm is amputated, he says it isn't, and when the doctor asks why he is missing an arm then, he says his wife put it away. The patient can otherwise think completely normally and rationally.
There's obviously a psychlogical mechanism that makes us face the cold, hard facts, despite our desire live in a happy world. The problem is, this mechanism seems to be too weak for most people. Look how many people believe in religion, life after death and stuff like that. My guess is that this is also the reason why drugs are so popular, they make people feel comfortable and forget about the problems they are facing.
And like I said, some consider it the first computer because of this, some dont (nor do some consider ENIAC or MARK I fully programmable either).
The difference is that the Zuse machines were fully binary and had a system clock, so in that sense they are more closely related to our current computers.
FWIW, you can find an online simulator of the Z3 (written in Java) here. It's all in German, though.
Hi, I'm the manager of a clown troupe called "Jerk Bozos". Should I consider having our group renamed?
Thinking about it, I actually believe that our act, which consists of doing ridiculously stupid things and babbling incoherent nonsense, might infringe on Mr. Bezos' activities. We do not want any legal trouble and are willing to fully cooperate with Mr. Bezos' demands. Please advise.
Slightly OT, there are actually watch stands made specifically for these kinds of watches. You put your watch on it, and there's a motor inside that swings the whole thing from side to side. How do I know this? I saw such a contraption on eBay once. It sold for about $300. It's really one of those "WTF LOL" things.
Here you go. 6mm BB bullets. But you know how cats are... once the batteries are down and the thing sits in the corner, they'll just pee on it (that is how cats show their discomfort with something - they pee on it). Even the electronics aren't shorted out, you'll still have a $130 toy tank that smells of cat pee.
What I'm trying to say, just get one of those stun batons.
I still have my Asus P2B ('98 vintage, BX chipset), which I successively upgraded from a Celeron 300 to a PIII 800 and now a Tualatin Celeron 1300 (running at 1500). The one thing I needed was a $15 slotket and a bit of soldering for the Tualatin. RAM is maxed out at 768MB. This board was easily my best computer-related investment ever.
Germany had a constitution before WWII, granting all kinds of rights and protection, much like the U.S. constitution, and what happened? Someone burned the Reichstag down, and Hitler passed some "emergency laws", suspending the constitution and disbanding the parliament.
The constitution is just a piece of paper. If nobody really stands up for these rights, they'll be taken away, one by one.
One of the first things you are told when you learn handling firearms is that you put your finger outside the trigger guard until the very moment you intend to shoot and after that immediately get your finger outside the trigger guard again. So any photo where you see someone with his finger inside the trigger guard has been taken at a time when shots were given off.
Of course this excludes "unprofessionals", but a soldier or policeman definitively gets this kind of training. So the guy having his finger outside the trigger guard really means nothing.
The soldier also appears larger and more prominent in the altered photo. In the first original it looks like the Iraqis don't listen or maybe disobey him. The altered photo OTOH shows the soldier more "in control". Pretty subtle really, but it changes the mood of the picture. I wonder what the motivation of the photographer was.
Internet April Fools Jokes are inheritently un-funny.
Well, it's what you make of it. For example, this morning I exchanged the sugar in the sugar bowl with salt and watched someone spit coffee all over the place. That was funny.
Oh, you mean jokes with, like, words and stuff...
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I bought a 172T too, and to be honest, I was disappointed. The manufacturing quality was a bit shoddy (uneven edges where the front part meets the back, flimsy foot), the ghosting was barely tolerable (e.g. text would disappear completely when scrolling on pages with a black background, CS was virtually unplayable), and worst of all, it whistled! It produced a sort of high-pitched whine, the frequency and intensity of which was dependent on the type of image displayed; while showing the desktop it would be almost silent, but e.g. while displaying a CS screen you could hear it from the next room. Of course, I sent it back and got a refund.
Strangely though, the ghosting was unnoticeable with movies, but here another annoyance came up: in a dark room, playing a dark movie (e.g. Alien), the supposedly black bars on the top and at the bottom of the screen are annoyingly bright, so bright that it's really distracting. Yes, I tested all kinds of different monitor settings, and I know that this is a problem all LCDs have, but it still sucks.
I'm a bit baffled, as this LCD has a high-class PVA panel and is supposedly one of the best 17" LCDs currently available. The picture quality is really great, but there are some big drawbacks.
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So the deaf person can still learn the stuff from the lecture by playing it back and listening really really hard?
No, the military never tests technology which might have military implications.
To get back on topic, in case you didn't get it, there is a higher probability of you being killed by a frozen pig that fell out of a cargo plane that was hit by a meteor than being harmed in any ever so subtle way by x-rays emmitted from a TV, even if you were living and sleeping between 10 foot high stacks of running TVs.
I've always wanted to build a really detailed diorama with model trains and a little city. In fact, I'm gonna do that when I retire ... some 40 years from now. I just hope I'm going to find my bookmark for this story when that time comes ...
Fucking bullshit. Even if you watch TV (yes *gasp* in color) 12 hours every day, this amounts to a yearly dosage of about .5 uSv. Just for comparison, the average natural radition dosage (sun, cosmic radiation and incorporation of radionuclides) at sea level is about 2400 uSv/yr and travelling in an airplane for 50 hours a year would give you an additional dose of about 300 uSv.
Yep.
You DESTROYED the HUMAN RACE only because of OVERCLOCKING ! I HOPE it was WORTH IT !
The Adaptec 1542CF (probably other 1542 versions as well) supported flopticals. You could boot off of them, and you could use them in DOS like any other disk.
There is a psychological disorder called anosognosia. People with this disorder refuse to admit anything is wrong with them and come up with ridiculous explanations for their deficiencies, despite obvious facts to the contrary, e.g. a man's arm is amputated, he says it isn't, and when the doctor asks why he is missing an arm then, he says his wife put it away. The patient can otherwise think completely normally and rationally.
There's obviously a psychlogical mechanism that makes us face the cold, hard facts, despite our desire live in a happy world. The problem is, this mechanism seems to be too weak for most people. Look how many people believe in religion, life after death and stuff like that. My guess is that this is also the reason why drugs are so popular, they make people feel comfortable and forget about the problems they are facing.
The difference is that the Zuse machines were fully binary and had a system clock, so in that sense they are more closely related to our current computers.
FWIW, you can find an online simulator of the Z3 (written in Java) here. It's all in German, though.
Cave? Bin Laden is running a burger joint in downtown Houston, Texas. I can't tell you where exactly, but it's only a few blocks from Saddam's garage.
Thinking about it, I actually believe that our act, which consists of doing ridiculously stupid things and babbling incoherent nonsense, might infringe on Mr. Bezos' activities. We do not want any legal trouble and are willing to fully cooperate with Mr. Bezos' demands. Please advise.
That's great! Finally proof to make my neighbor shut up with all his whining about his walls turning black and his stupid kids getting emphysema.
Slightly OT, there are actually watch stands made specifically for these kinds of watches. You put your watch on it, and there's a motor inside that swings the whole thing from side to side. How do I know this? I saw such a contraption on eBay once. It sold for about $300. It's really one of those "WTF LOL" things.
Note to self: use preveiw next time.
What I'm trying to say, just get one of those stun batons.
"No foreigners allowed"? What the hell is up with that?
Oh, there's more of this.
I still have my Asus P2B ('98 vintage, BX chipset), which I successively upgraded from a Celeron 300 to a PIII 800 and now a Tualatin Celeron 1300 (running at 1500). The one thing I needed was a $15 slotket and a bit of soldering for the Tualatin. RAM is maxed out at 768MB. This board was easily my best computer-related investment ever.
The constitution is just a piece of paper. If nobody really stands up for these rights, they'll be taken away, one by one.
Of course this excludes "unprofessionals", but a soldier or policeman definitively gets this kind of training. So the guy having his finger outside the trigger guard really means nothing.
The soldier also appears larger and more prominent in the altered photo. In the first original it looks like the Iraqis don't listen or maybe disobey him. The altered photo OTOH shows the soldier more "in control". Pretty subtle really, but it changes the mood of the picture. I wonder what the motivation of the photographer was.
Well, there's always one way.
Dang, just noticed you said "internet jokes". Now my post makes absolutely no sense. Sorry, for some reason I haven't had any coffee yet today.
Well, it's what you make of it. For example, this morning I exchanged the sugar in the sugar bowl with salt and watched someone spit coffee all over the place. That was funny.
Oh, you mean jokes with, like, words and stuff ...
Strangely though, the ghosting was unnoticeable with movies, but here another annoyance came up: in a dark room, playing a dark movie (e.g. Alien), the supposedly black bars on the top and at the bottom of the screen are annoyingly bright, so bright that it's really distracting. Yes, I tested all kinds of different monitor settings, and I know that this is a problem all LCDs have, but it still sucks.
I'm a bit baffled, as this LCD has a high-class PVA panel and is supposedly one of the best 17" LCDs currently available. The picture quality is really great, but there are some big drawbacks.