Ages ago, I used to work on this sort of thing too. Railguns as weapons were experimented with in the fifties - perhaps earlier for all I know (some Tesla fan will probably tell me he had one).
I never had one, but I saw lots of signs for them.
B) any chance you'll use that 300k a month to drop the price of these independent albums to sub $10 each?;)
All the artists at CDBaby set their own CD prices. CDBaby itself has nothing to do with it, except charging a (very reasonable imho) % per CD for shipping and handling.
Yes, I am a CDBaby artist, and no I'm not going to shill my wares.
This sounds too complex to have been made by human researchers, so I hereby posit the Bendable Concrete Intelligent Design theory. There must be a higher power.
Growing an avacado from a pit is pretty cool. After you use an avacado, take the pit and suspend it, round side down, in a small bowl or glass of water. I use 3 toothpicks, stuck into the outside of the avacado, roughly equidistant around the middle and halfway down. You want maybe the lower 1/3 in the water. After that, some references will tell you to give it a week in the dark, and some say to just sit it in the sun. I am lazy, so I just put mine on the windowsill and let them go.
After a week to a month, the darned thing will sprout. You'll want to keep water in the bowl, and let it grow until you have 3 or 4 strong leaves. Then transplant to a small pot, keep it watered, and there you have it.
You won't get a full-sized tree (they grow 60' 70' tall in the wild) and you probably won't get fruit, but the leaves are pretty, and its cool to tell people that you're growing an avacodo tree.
This is a decent refs: at AllSands.com. Of course a google for "growing avacado" will get 100s of results as well.
I've also grown small herbs (ha ha, not THAT herb) in office settings. Basil, oregano, thyme, some mints.. the plants are pretty, they smell great, and if they get plenty of sun they'll flower. Nothing big and showy, but quite nice overall.
The "popularity = validity" argument doesn't hold. I can refute it in two words: Britney Spears:-)
..or two more on-topic words: Internet Explorer
Apache may very well be the most stable/secure/etc/etc in its marketspace, but the fact that 85% of the internet uses it does not PROVE that it is best. It only proves that it is most popular.
Between 1995 and 2002, the proportion of counterfeit bills that were digitally created grew from 1 percent to 40 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
I think the proportion of ANYTHING that was digitally created grew at least that much during the time period mentioned.
To me, the idea of "bounty hunters" just sounds like open-sourcing the hunt for spammers. Just like with open source code, there are some (many?) people out there who would jump at the chance to track down a spammer just for the pride and glory of being "the h4xx0r that stopped penile enlargement spam"
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Earth is just one of the Nine, after all.
Anonymous Cockroaches?
21.
dammit.
If I become a porn czar, do I get one of those great fur hats?
Never is it so easy to get the /. crowd to RTFA as when the phrase "proceeded to take off their clothes." apprears in the summary.
Signs.
Signs.
Everywhere the signs.
Yes, I am a CDBaby artist, and no I'm not going to shill my wares.
It is testicular enhancement that is called for in the case of most Senators.
Now my warm fuzzy is all cold and sticky.
This sounds too complex to have been made by human researchers, so I hereby posit the Bendable Concrete Intelligent Design theory. There must be a higher power.
Nah, we'd just build one 261,914 floor apartment building on a square mile of land.
It _is_ Texas, after all.
I usually keep them pinched back to about 18" tall, the lower leaves stay on that way.
Growing an avacado from a pit is pretty cool. After you use an avacado, take the pit and suspend it, round side down, in a small bowl or glass of water. I use 3 toothpicks, stuck into the outside of the avacado, roughly equidistant around the middle and halfway down. You want maybe the lower 1/3 in the water. After that, some references will tell you to give it a week in the dark, and some say to just sit it in the sun. I am lazy, so I just put mine on the windowsill and let them go.
.. the plants are pretty, they smell great, and if they get plenty of sun they'll flower. Nothing big and showy, but quite nice overall.
After a week to a month, the darned thing will sprout. You'll want to keep water in the bowl, and let it grow until you have 3 or 4 strong leaves. Then transplant to a small pot, keep it watered, and there you have it.
You won't get a full-sized tree (they grow 60' 70' tall in the wild) and you probably won't get fruit, but the leaves are pretty, and its cool to tell people that you're growing an avacodo tree.
This is a decent refs: at AllSands.com. Of course a google for "growing avacado" will get 100s of results as well.
I've also grown small herbs (ha ha, not THAT herb) in office settings. Basil, oregano, thyme, some mints
Dammit! Thanks for linking ... now myspace will be even SLOWER.
If that's possible.
The "popularity = validity" argument doesn't hold. I can refute it in two words: Britney Spears :-)
..or two more on-topic words: Internet Explorer
Apache may very well be the most stable/secure/etc/etc in its marketspace, but the fact that 85% of the internet uses it does not PROVE that it is best. It only proves that it is most popular.
I think the proportion of ANYTHING that was digitally created grew at least that much during the time period mentioned.
Lies, damn lies,
It scales VERY well financially ... for Oracle :-)
To me, the idea of "bounty hunters" just sounds like open-sourcing the hunt for spammers. Just like with open source code, there are some (many?) people out there who would jump at the chance to track down a spammer just for the pride and glory of being "the h4xx0r that stopped penile enlargement spam"
but later he turns into the most resourceful and most heroic character in the book (very convincingly too).
I suspect that the magic ring that turned him invisible factored into his newfound heroic attitude somewhat.
side note: geez. i'm talking about a character in a book like he's my cousin. its late, and i'm a geek.
Besides, the animated version of The Hobbit is already a gem.
Damn straight. Where there's a whip, there's a way.