"E flat diminished ninth is ' a man's chord ' - you could lose a finger"
Will it be any easier on a Digi Gueetar!?
Yea, yea, I know that chord doesn't actually exist!
For me, I'd far rather have an analogue guitar any day, better sound, better quality. You can't get the same effect from anything but the real thing.
According to Bradley C. Edwards paper on the plausability, that I believe was given to Nasa at one time or another, stated its final predicted (and revised) cost estimate to be around $40bn.
Alot yes, but how much is spent on other means of space travel?
Centrifugal force. I have the.pdf file, the examination on the plausability of this working. The cable would be 60,000 miles long. At this length the force of the Earth spinning would hold the end of the cable outwards in a straight line.
The first cable would be 1 micron thick, and taper from 5cm wide at Earth to 11.5cm in space. This would be added to each climb. By the 107th addition it would be capable of holding a climber of 22tons with a 14 ton payload.
Of course it would be made of Carbon nanotubes (the only thing that could possibly be strong enough and light enough).
Now I'm not saying I believe it can or will be done. I'm only quoting Bradley C. Edward's paper.
/agrees.
Plus the size of my music collection always crashed Winamp3 through it's media library. And I have it organized so I don't need a library.
Music ..Artist ....Album
does the job fine for mixing and picking out an album.
lol if only there was that good a reason.
UK, 60 miles from both Newcastle and Edinburgh, and nowhere closer has broadband. Easiest method I can come up with is to use WiFi with, well it would take at least 2 nodes, from the library in town, since I live 7 miles away, without line of sight (though i do live within sight of a huge RAF radio mast).
I used Sensiva for a while, and it worked well with the graphics tablet I have. But I found since upgrading my system and being able to have both mouse and tablet plugged in at the same time it is just as easy to swap to the mouse to do things that I could do with a gesture. It was good for things like back and forward in browsers, and you could customize it do more elaborate things which was somewhat useful.
and not everyone lives in a country dedicated to actually supplying broadband to all. Let alone being able to get it living 60 miles from the nearest cities that offer it.
*shakes fist at evil stupid government promises*
So... (just interested in getti8ng this right in my head ya see) it is possible to generate a truly random number, by inputting a random number into the workings to get a random number as it were? Or am I still just, say increasing the encryption of a psuedo-random number?
You have to remember that to generate a random number, you have to start off with an equation. Be it to select the time you access a clock cycle (ala windows random number, which isn't truly random because of the other things accessing the clock cycles), or merely doing it all by equation. But the random number has to come out of some sort of working. And whatever that working is, it can be reproduced, which even if it doesn't find the same number, may have a higher probability of doing so.
"Why does it have to be such a big deal? Why can't it be like, like Human Beings are a planetary disease. Like the Earth's got German Measles or Facial Herpes right, and that's why all the other planets give Earth such a wide berth and say 'Oh, don't go near Earth, it's got Human Beings on it, they're contagious'"
"So you're saying Lister, you're an intergalactic puss-filled coldsore? At last Lister, we agree on something!"
Well, there's nothing to say that if the expanding universe theory is proven that the big bang didn't happen. Just like if the universe would crunch, then re-bang, well it would have to have exploded a first time wouldn't it?
One of the theories of the big bang, based on work at CERN, reckons that particles pop out of other dimensions when you collide particles on this one (as i heard it put, "you bang together an apple and an apple, and you don't get lots of little bits of apples, you get a whole fruit salad appear for a fraction of a milisecond"). I've never quite made up my mind what my opinion on the big bang or expanding universe theories and whatnot. I guess it comes down toit being such a vast thing, spread over such a vast amount of time that it's kind of hard to get a fully subjective view. Plus I'm of the opinion that what we think of as the universe isn't all there is, be it multiple universes through dimensions or whatever. I tried to say that without it sounding like a Sci-Fi outline but it just didn't work!
I read about this project about 2 and a half years ago. It's Fincher and Freeman's production company doing it. And as I say, has been around in the works for aaaaaaaaaaages. I was just thinking about it again the other day, for while I don't really like Clarke's writing style and thus don't read much of his stuff, I do think Rama could make a great movie, and feel that if Fincher has anything to do with it, it really oughta. Let alone the effects work. That's how I had come across the info in the first place, just cannot remember what struck me about it being so positive. oh well...
Back to extreme pain now...
Yea, I gave up on floppies.
None of the things I want to backup/move would fit on one, and spanning is just such a nightmare. For the cost a blank cdr is fine for me, and floppies do die too easily. I keep meaning to take my floppy drive out of my machine, since it doesn't even work anymore (died from lack of use I guess, in the 4 years it's sat in the machine).
Absolutely, I mean can you look at the Bush family and not say "OMG that's one fucked up religion!".
I'm with Hick's "Oh great, we got another fundamentalist christian with his finger on the button. 'When Lord, when?'".
Fuck, that guy scares me!
lol.
Not always. I do it too, but I have CFS. I lost a lot fo the muscle I had on ly legs during a particularly bad virus a few years ago, and ever since have had this 'restless leg' thing. Especially when I'm concentrating I have to jiggle my legs, which is so frustrating, but I guess safer now! And forfty percent of the time I'm doing it is just cos of the music anyway.
Magrathea.
"Until 1988 the facility stored a $1 billion stock of currency to be used to reactivate the American economy following a nuclear attack."
I mean next thing they'll just be off to sleep 'til the economic slump has ended.
Guy: "That seems like rather unethical behaviour?"
GWBush: "Unethi-wha?"
Quite...
Any post about the/. editors etc. that ever comes out this harsh (and i've seen a few) are ever posted as anything but anonymous.
Well, I preferr personally to not care about some of the stuff on/. since it's free and there are downsides to everything, community based or not.
But like anyone cares what I think. Hell I don't most of the time...
absolutely!
It reminds me of that guy who spent years proving that the Sphinx was thousands of years older than perviously assumed. And came out with data that I was compelled by and believe, it seemed pretty likely, and frankly, not that out of this world. It explained a lot about it, and I'm not so small minded to think that people couldn't have built something that remarkable long before.
Then however he decided that while the original face of the Sphinx would be a cat, that the current one is carved into, seemed to resemble that of the 'face' on Mars, and that obviously it was built by Martians. At this point I just lost all respect for him and his scientific mind!
the number of artists I've heard commenting in the media and at shows about how cool it is.
Foo Fighters said they loved it that straight after releasing an album, and touring it, they could go halfway across the world, and thanks to P2P, everyone knew thew songs already.
I totally agree, there may be downsides to it, some people may just download songs and never buy them, but I do if I like it. It's just an advancement of people copying cd's for each other. It's better quality than tapes, and what's the betting it's not made that much difference to sales in reality than that type of piracy, it's just more noticable and out in the open.
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"E flat diminished ninth is ' a man's chord ' - you could lose a finger"
Will it be any easier on a Digi Gueetar!?
Yea, yea, I know that chord doesn't actually exist!
For me, I'd far rather have an analogue guitar any day, better sound, better quality. You can't get the same effect from anything but the real thing.
93% of all statistics are made up.
"Forfty percent of people know that, Kent."
Well, I'd been going to go into an analogy for how it works, then I thought nah, it'll be understood. Oh well...
According to Bradley C. Edwards paper on the plausability, that I believe was given to Nasa at one time or another, stated its final predicted (and revised) cost estimate to be around $40bn.
Alot yes, but how much is spent on other means of space travel?
Centrifugal force. I have the .pdf file, the examination on the plausability of this working. The cable would be 60,000 miles long. At this length the force of the Earth spinning would hold the end of the cable outwards in a straight line.
The first cable would be 1 micron thick, and taper from 5cm wide at Earth to 11.5cm in space. This would be added to each climb. By the 107th addition it would be capable of holding a climber of 22tons with a 14 ton payload.
Of course it would be made of Carbon nanotubes (the only thing that could possibly be strong enough and light enough).
Now I'm not saying I believe it can or will be done. I'm only quoting Bradley C. Edward's paper.
/agrees.
..Artist
....Album
Plus the size of my music collection always crashed Winamp3 through it's media library. And I have it organized so I don't need a library.
Music
does the job fine for mixing and picking out an album.
lol if only there was that good a reason.
UK, 60 miles from both Newcastle and Edinburgh, and nowhere closer has broadband. Easiest method I can come up with is to use WiFi with, well it would take at least 2 nodes, from the library in town, since I live 7 miles away, without line of sight (though i do live within sight of a huge RAF radio mast).
I used Sensiva for a while, and it worked well with the graphics tablet I have. But I found since upgrading my system and being able to have both mouse and tablet plugged in at the same time it is just as easy to swap to the mouse to do things that I could do with a gesture. It was good for things like back and forward in browsers, and you could customize it do more elaborate things which was somewhat useful.
and not everyone lives in a country dedicated to actually supplying broadband to all. Let alone being able to get it living 60 miles from the nearest cities that offer it.
*shakes fist at evil stupid government promises*
So... (just interested in getti8ng this right in my head ya see) it is possible to generate a truly random number, by inputting a random number into the workings to get a random number as it were? Or am I still just, say increasing the encryption of a psuedo-random number?
You have to remember that to generate a random number, you have to start off with an equation. Be it to select the time you access a clock cycle (ala windows random number, which isn't truly random because of the other things accessing the clock cycles), or merely doing it all by equation. But the random number has to come out of some sort of working. And whatever that working is, it can be reproduced, which even if it doesn't find the same number, may have a higher probability of doing so.
"Why does it have to be such a big deal? Why can't it be like, like Human Beings are a planetary disease. Like the Earth's got German Measles or Facial Herpes right, and that's why all the other planets give Earth such a wide berth and say 'Oh, don't go near Earth, it's got Human Beings on it, they're contagious'"
"So you're saying Lister, you're an intergalactic puss-filled coldsore? At last Lister, we agree on something!"
Well, there's nothing to say that if the expanding universe theory is proven that the big bang didn't happen. Just like if the universe would crunch, then re-bang, well it would have to have exploded a first time wouldn't it?
One of the theories of the big bang, based on work at CERN, reckons that particles pop out of other dimensions when you collide particles on this one (as i heard it put, "you bang together an apple and an apple, and you don't get lots of little bits of apples, you get a whole fruit salad appear for a fraction of a milisecond").
I've never quite made up my mind what my opinion on the big bang or expanding universe theories and whatnot. I guess it comes down toit being such a vast thing, spread over such a vast amount of time that it's kind of hard to get a fully subjective view. Plus I'm of the opinion that what we think of as the universe isn't all there is, be it multiple universes through dimensions or whatever. I tried to say that without it sounding like a Sci-Fi outline but it just didn't work!
I read about this project about 2 and a half years ago. It's Fincher and Freeman's production company doing it. And as I say, has been around in the works for aaaaaaaaaaages. I was just thinking about it again the other day, for while I don't really like Clarke's writing style and thus don't read much of his stuff, I do think Rama could make a great movie, and feel that if Fincher has anything to do with it, it really oughta. Let alone the effects work. That's how I had come across the info in the first place, just cannot remember what struck me about it being so positive. oh well...
Back to extreme pain now...
Wow, looks like someone set hex value of #000000!
Yea, I gave up on floppies.
None of the things I want to backup/move would fit on one, and spanning is just such a nightmare. For the cost a blank cdr is fine for me, and floppies do die too easily. I keep meaning to take my floppy drive out of my machine, since it doesn't even work anymore (died from lack of use I guess, in the 4 years it's sat in the machine).
It would have to be ruthlessreviews.com
An don't tell me, someone told you to shut the fuck up last time too?
Absolutely, I mean can you look at the Bush family and not say "OMG that's one fucked up religion!".
I'm with Hick's "Oh great, we got another fundamentalist christian with his finger on the button. 'When Lord, when?'".
Fuck, that guy scares me!
lol.
Not always. I do it too, but I have CFS. I lost a lot fo the muscle I had on ly legs during a particularly bad virus a few years ago, and ever since have had this 'restless leg' thing. Especially when I'm concentrating I have to jiggle my legs, which is so frustrating, but I guess safer now! And forfty percent of the time I'm doing it is just cos of the music anyway.
Magrathea.
"Until 1988 the facility stored a $1 billion stock of currency to be used to reactivate the American economy following a nuclear attack."
I mean next thing they'll just be off to sleep 'til the economic slump has ended.
Guy: "That seems like rather unethical behaviour?"
GWBush: "Unethi-wha?"
Quite...
Any post about the /. editors etc. that ever comes out this harsh (and i've seen a few) are ever posted as anything but anonymous.
/. since it's free and there are downsides to everything, community based or not.
Well, I preferr personally to not care about some of the stuff on
But like anyone cares what I think. Hell I don't most of the time...
why do people feel the need to comment on this fact? *sigh* oh well. Guess I should just get over it and continue ignoring it...
absolutely!
It reminds me of that guy who spent years proving that the Sphinx was thousands of years older than perviously assumed. And came out with data that I was compelled by and believe, it seemed pretty likely, and frankly, not that out of this world. It explained a lot about it, and I'm not so small minded to think that people couldn't have built something that remarkable long before.
Then however he decided that while the original face of the Sphinx would be a cat, that the current one is carved into, seemed to resemble that of the 'face' on Mars, and that obviously it was built by Martians. At this point I just lost all respect for him and his scientific mind!
the number of artists I've heard commenting in the media and at shows about how cool it is. Foo Fighters said they loved it that straight after releasing an album, and touring it, they could go halfway across the world, and thanks to P2P, everyone knew thew songs already.
I totally agree, there may be downsides to it, some people may just download songs and never buy them, but I do if I like it. It's just an advancement of people copying cd's for each other. It's better quality than tapes, and what's the betting it's not made that much difference to sales in reality than that type of piracy, it's just more noticable and out in the open.