There's a huge difference between Hitachi Microdrives and a quality CF card - speed! Professional Digital SLR cameras such as those made by Nikon and Canon are able to shoot very large frames at a pretty stiff frame rate. A professional photographer would quickly be frustrated at the time it takes to write such frames to a Microdrive, making them next to worthless.
As for the 12GB capacity, I can also see these being used in the recent crop of micro-size digital video cameras.
WTF...these guys are touting "Paste Link" a.k.a. DDE/OLE/etc. as some sort of high-tech super-advanced feature. That pretty much turned me off to the whole deal right there.
And if I wanted 1 program for all my office needs, I'd use the shitty MS Works that comes with every computer these days...
This is very speculative, but this looks like the sort of thing somebody does to ease the transition when they turn something over to another leader. Yeah, it's about a 1:10000 chance that I'm right, but remember you heard it here first...
OK, well here's a list of things I see wrong with this article:
Using uncertified transmitters in a GA aircraft
Unexperienced pilots flying formation
DOOR POPPING OPEN AT TAKEOFF
As a pilot myself, I've got to say that these guys didn't exactly have their heads screwed on straight the day they went to do this. You couldn't PAY me enough to fly formation with another pilot whom I didn't know well, and someone obviously wasn't being too careful if doors are popping open. The wi-fi transmitters probably aren't that big of a deal, but I believe it may still be illegal, and I'd hate to do have all that gear running without a decent idea of what it was going to do to my avionics. Overall, a stunt like this does little to advance any sort of "science", and probably wasn't worth the risk to the 4 lives involved
Is this songs by the "Megabyte", or what? Acronyms without at least one explanation given in the text are re-tar-ded. The way they say it makes it sound like it's a musical group or something.
- Always check your uptime. If it's better than the guy in your shop that's always preaching the benefits of BSD/Windows 2003 Server/Coco Puffs, then you have free rein to feel better than yourself. Otherwise, you should go home, beat yourself up, and make angry anonomyous coward postings to Slashdot.
- When trying to figure out a problem with a command-line utility, it shouldn't be "Awww, man!", but rather "[user]# man awk".
The front page says, "If you know of an act of censorship you believe is deserving of a Jefferson Muzzle, the Center encourages and invites your nomination."
To this end, I nominate the Slashdot Editors. Congratulations guys!
(just a joke folks...now watch this thread disappear due to the whims of mgmt)
In short, there has never been a better time to be an anorak - a word that now has affectionate, rather than pejorative, connotations. The word 'geek' has also lost its stigma, having been promoted from a noun to verb, as in to 'geek out'.
Call me crazy, but I thought an 'anorak' was a puffy coat? Maybe this is some obtuse slang that I don't know about...
I wonder how this combines with the idea of a "Quantum Consciousness", as posted on/. a few years back. Hameroff's work is pretty interesting , and I've got to say pretty enticing. You can check it out HERE.
Some of Canada's largest pension funds as well as Toronto conglomerate Onex Corp. and several U.S. vulture funds have been mentioned as possible replacement investors in the airline.
At $3,000 per settlement, it takes only 200 full CDs at $15 per CD to make this worth it. Considering your average CD has about 15 songs on it, that would be about 3,000 songs...very close to the 99 cent price given out by the various online music stores.
Now that NASA's press release giving the PHONE NUMBER for "reporters only" to call in and listen to the briefing has been Slashdotted, the same is sure to happen to said phone number.
Too bad, I'd have liked to hear about it from some reputable news sources instead of reading a comment in some tard's blog that says, "I WAS ON TEH PHONE WEN NASAW ANNOUNSED 10th PLANAT! LETS NAME IT RUPART!!!"
Just got to thinking, what are the chances that Metal Slug X was the influence for Duke Nukem? I mean, rakish hero fighting alien bastards? Hardly an original plot premise, but Duke's "attitude" seems to be a natural progression of the Metal Slug Guy's tough-man image:)
The thing I don't know is, what came first - MSX or DN3D? Perhaps the influence was actually the other way around?
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There's a huge difference between Hitachi Microdrives and a quality CF card - speed! Professional Digital SLR cameras such as those made by Nikon and Canon are able to shoot very large frames at a pretty stiff frame rate. A professional photographer would quickly be frustrated at the time it takes to write such frames to a Microdrive, making them next to worthless.
As for the 12GB capacity, I can also see these being used in the recent crop of micro-size digital video cameras.
-JT
WTF...these guys are touting "Paste Link" a.k.a. DDE/OLE/etc. as some sort of high-tech super-advanced feature. That pretty much turned me off to the whole deal right there.
And if I wanted 1 program for all my office needs, I'd use the shitty MS Works that comes with every computer these days...
-JT
This is very speculative, but this looks like the sort of thing somebody does to ease the transition when they turn something over to another leader. Yeah, it's about a 1:10000 chance that I'm right, but remember you heard it here first...
-JT
Combined with the story that someone is starting to make paper discs, I'd say a xerox machine would work quite nicely :)
-JT
As a pilot myself, I've got to say that these guys didn't exactly have their heads screwed on straight the day they went to do this. You couldn't PAY me enough to fly formation with another pilot whom I didn't know well, and someone obviously wasn't being too careful if doors are popping open. The wi-fi transmitters probably aren't that big of a deal, but I believe it may still be illegal, and I'd hate to do have all that gear running without a decent idea of what it was going to do to my avionics. Overall, a stunt like this does little to advance any sort of "science", and probably wasn't worth the risk to the 4 lives involved
-JT
Is this songs by the "Megabyte", or what? Acronyms without at least one explanation given in the text are re-tar-ded. The way they say it makes it sound like it's a musical group or something.
...The Photocopier.
-JT
WTF was this mod'd -1 Offtopic? Someone having a grumpy day?
ooh - meant to say "better ABOUT yourself".
Damn.
-JT
Why, oh why did they forget such gems as:
:)
- Always check your uptime. If it's better than the guy in your shop that's always preaching the benefits of BSD/Windows 2003 Server/Coco Puffs, then you have free rein to feel better than yourself. Otherwise, you should go home, beat yourself up, and make angry anonomyous coward postings to Slashdot.
- When trying to figure out a problem with a command-line utility, it shouldn't be "Awww, man!", but rather "[user]# man awk".
- Penguins are much more cuddly than windowpanes
And so on...
-JT
The front page says, "If you know of an act of censorship you believe is deserving of a Jefferson Muzzle, the Center encourages and invites your nomination."
To this end, I nominate the Slashdot Editors. Congratulations guys!
(just a joke folks...now watch this thread disappear due to the whims of mgmt)
:P
-JT
From the article: "You don't wake up and turn on your hand," Mr. Surgenor said.
:)
Later overheard in the Mos Eisley Cantina:
Damn Luke! You need to get you some of that!
-JT
In short, there has never been a better time to be an anorak - a word that now has affectionate, rather than pejorative, connotations. The word 'geek' has also lost its stigma, having been promoted from a noun to verb, as in to 'geek out'.
Call me crazy, but I thought an 'anorak' was a puffy coat? Maybe this is some obtuse slang that I don't know about...
-JT
I wonder how this combines with the idea of a "Quantum Consciousness", as posted on /. a few years back. Hameroff's work is pretty interesting , and I've got to say pretty enticing. You can check it out HERE.
-JT
From the article:
:)
Some of Canada's largest pension funds as well as Toronto conglomerate Onex Corp. and several U.S. vulture funds have been mentioned as possible replacement investors in the airline.
What a freudian slip
-JT
...your server has that much more spam to send to the bitbucket. :)
--JT
My search for D'ni can finally begin!!!
:)
-JT
...Phil Katz (creator of PKZip), announces that an angel visited him in the night and bestowed upon him the secret to infinite compression.
Hard drive makers are subsequently scrambling to produce 0 GB hard drives.
And in addition to GMail, Google now finally has the capacity to fully index the porn sites.
-JT
Orrin Hatch is a senator from Utah, not the District of Columbia.
And I have a hard time believing the Latter Day Saints would elect a guy in favor of any sort of marijuana...
:)
-JT
At $3,000 per settlement, it takes only 200 full CDs at $15 per CD to make this worth it. Considering your average CD has about 15 songs on it, that would be about 3,000 songs...very close to the 99 cent price given out by the various online music stores.
:)
More than 3,000 songs - and you're making money
-JT
Now that NASA's press release giving the PHONE NUMBER for "reporters only" to call in and listen to the briefing has been Slashdotted, the same is sure to happen to said phone number.
:)
Too bad, I'd have liked to hear about it from some reputable news sources instead of reading a comment in some tard's blog that says, "I WAS ON TEH PHONE WEN NASAW ANNOUNSED 10th PLANAT! LETS NAME IT RUPART!!!"
-JT
1. Break into the Pentagon.
2. Dodge robotic tank under development by DARPA.
3. Stumble breathlessly into Rumsfeld's office.
4. Jump out the window.
If this doesn't make sense, try reading this
Or, depending on how you see it, the Improbability Drive is working perfectly :)
--JT
Huh, guess that explains why hairdressers always seem to be such dingbats :)
(Laugh -- it's a joke!)
-JT
Just got to thinking, what are the chances that Metal Slug X was the influence for Duke Nukem? I mean, rakish hero fighting alien bastards? Hardly an original plot premise, but Duke's "attitude" seems to be a natural progression of the Metal Slug Guy's tough-man image :)
The thing I don't know is, what came first - MSX or DN3D? Perhaps the influence was actually the other way around?
-JT