for the ultimate geek challange - bulid your own breadmaker.
(bonus points for incorporating novel mechanics,
incorporating unexpected tech, and super bonus points for making it more efficient than a commerially available model)
perhaps the lesser mind was the first "one"
after all, the one is the key to the matrix,
he/she survives the destruction of the old matrix,
chooses 35 people (imho, etc)(not 12, as has been posted) to start the new zion.
he lives for some time in the next matrix.
especially given her husbands hobby of creating
exotic foods, that do strange things to the people who eat them, Causing them ot do things, without the ability to choose not too.
greek legend tells of persephone eating 6 of 12 pomegranit seeds, causing her to spend 6 of the 12 months of the year traped, married to hades. the other 6 are spent in the gardens of earth, when seperated from her mother, demeter, the mother weeps, and the trees, and skies weep with her - winter.
why would a pregnant woman be at an orgy?? there seems to be little point.
Any Girls care to comment on the desireablitity of being in an orgy, when you allready know you are pregnant??
If you are visibly, seriously, late stages pregnant, in war time, how much are you going to be up and about?? when the health of your offspring is something that the continued existence of humankind may be dependant on?? in a place like zion? Also, A large fraction of the population is fresh from the matrix. And all this assumes a neutrall gender ballance.
the billing is easy, move back to dialup style, monthly flat rates, Everybody prefers them anyway. If I can get a comparatively slow cable connection, on flat rate, I dont care if it cost me slightly more per m/b, At least I know what kind of bill im paying at the end of the month. and I f I pull down an ISO, im not going to worry about being capped
no, it was spent to deepen the pockets of the us treasury (arent taxes great?) after all, its hemoraging money on military spending because it needs to 'liberate' all these 'terrorist states' and I think another poster pointed out, they allready had a perfictly serviceable set of laws, including IP, as defined by the koran.
doesnt seem like much of a liberation if the are doing the exact thing that the war of the colonies(independence for those USAinians out there) happend to stop.
You say "Only a theory" like its a bad thing??
care to suggest something better than a theory?
theories are great, certainly better than the alternatives.
A good theory takes existing data, allows you to see a pattern in the data, and then make predictions based on that pattern, the theory remains a good theory until it fails to match observed reality, at wich point you create a new theory around the (now larger) body of data.
A theory may still be usefull, even if it is wrong, newtonian mechanics for example.
Personally I find it unnecesary to "believe" in evolution, or creation, I hold that evolution is a good explanation, and that a god may or may not have created the universe, at the time of the so called big bang. I dont think that, if there was/is a creator, he/she/it does much, post creation event.
arent there systems built into usenet to allow authors to retract comments, Gloablly??
and to Usenet server administrators, to allow censored/moderated posts to be globally deleted or edited.
Further, wasnt there a big row a few years ago when the general puplic found out that some enterprising and malicsious people had figured out how to forge these commands??
The second (third??) time I "read" lotr, we, as a family, borrowed a full, unabridged set of talking books from the library, I think it was read by tolkien, although I am unsure. We listned to it while we drove around the entirety of the south island, New Zealand. it was good, because you could hear the original author putting his own emotional overlay onto the written material.
as for the movie, I liked it. I also liked starship troopers. the parts of the book, starship troopers, that I have read so far I also like. (civilised aliens fighting back, seems much more likly than insects cabable of shooting down things in orbit..) Both movies entertaind me, Which is I think, the most importaint part of seeing a movie. I wont say that starship troopers was a *good* movie, but I was entertained.
I have been involved in making a short film, for a friend. The main issue with making a movie, and one which I have NEVER seen discused, (especially from novel adaptaion), is that in a book, the author can convey what the charecter is thinking. Its written down, right there on the page. seperate events can be wriiten down, explanatiosn and *descriptions of proccesses* can be put on the page. these simply do not translate to film. you can go part of the way, as the original hitch hikers guide to the Galaxy (hereafter h2g2) tv series did, and the radio play, by inserting "the book" as, I suppose, a sort of muse(?) but it still isnt the same.
I like what jackson did for gollum/smeagol. he had to give some indication of what is going on inside the poor creatures head. the way he did it carries well.
also, regards the film my friend made, A budget greater than "you can use the schools camera's and editing equipment, and here, have a tape" also helps.
finaly, I have heard that jacksons first cut for fellowship was over 9 hours long. some of the cuts are obvious - galadriels gifts, they sudenly have them, but no explanation is given as to where they came from. (although I believe galadriel is cut in as a flashback, giving the star glow vial to frodo). I presume the two towers was similar. I hope one day to get massively long blu-ray(or something else) disks of the films, but ill have to wait.
ever meet a pilot that cant hand crank a propeller plane??
sure there are easier, and safer ways to do it, but if your out in the middle of knowhere on a beach, about to get overtaken by the tide, and the engine wont crank, you may as well do it the old fasioned way.
why would DC be better for distrabution??
you cant run it through a transformer.
using high voltage/low current minimises
loss of power in the transmission lines
(P=i*(r^2)) increasing the voltage by a facto of 100, and decreasing current by a factor of 100, at the transformer means that you only use 1% of the power you would otherwise have done heating up the high tension lines.
DC motors are very easy compared to AC motors,
nikolai tesla was told as a child that an AC motor was a physical imposibility by his science teacher, (whom tesla proved worng in fairly short order) on the other hand, AC generators had been shown to proved to be much more efficent allready by this time. (remember, tesla basically invented the modern power grid - from the exact type of generator, the three phase/mono phase scheme (although he favourd universal twin phase) to the transformers, industrial motors, and an knock off of eddisons lightbulb(tesla had worked for eddison, when he first mooved to america, they didnt get along, and tesla ended up working for General Electric Corporation, GEC won. tesla/gec could transmit power hundreds of times further than edisons low voltage DC system could manage.)
here in NZ we use a 500KV DC+ve line to run power from the south island to the north island,(-ve is ground return!) where it is instantly re-inverted to AC, and transformed down.
DC is only used where special cercumstances make it neccesary (about 70%(?) of NZ's power generating capacity is in the south island, and the gap, cook straight is big enough that running 3 wires is much more than a trivial problem, compared to 1 wire.)
anyways, DC is ineficeint, except in special circumstances, its to be avoided, because you cant transform it.
DC motors are ineffecient, but conceptulally simple. AC motors need a bit more thought, but the eliminate the most ineficent part of a (good) DC motor - the comutator brushes. and AC motor can use bearings, or rotoate the magnets, and leave the coils stationary (even better)
AC generators ar massivly supereor to a dynamo.
especially b/c if you want AC so you can use transformers, from a dynamo, oyu need to build an inverter, which is a horrid mess of transistors, or higher capacity equivelents and hideously expensive.
has ANYBODY here actually done high school science??
take a DC electric motor, spin the shaft - easy dead short the terminals, try to spin the shaft, if its a good motor - verry dificult - the energy your inputting into the motor by trying to spin it is being converted into current in the wires, and then to heat. the same principle still applies using AC generators -when all those big industrial plants fire up thier equipment it draws a huge amount of current. its going to take more torque to turn the generator, there may simply not be enough to turn the generator fast enough, the boilers, the hydro feed, the diesel engine powering the generator is no longer able to spin it as fast as usual, under ideal circimstances theey all spin at 60(where i am)Hz divided by the number of poles in the generator (take 3 as a guess) all times 60 seconds in a miute gives 1200rpm the rate of spin is directly linked to the frequency of the output power. my apologies to those of you who allready know this/have a better understanding than myself)
the frequency is NOT lowered intentionally. although it will have an effect on the voltage/current output of a transformer, remember the voltage is transformed up at the power station, and tranformed back down at the sub stations. depending on the generators native voltage, (wich wont be anything like high tension) the affect of varying frequency on consumer end voltages should be minamal.
Also eat tony, the complete text for "a salmon doubt"
try to compete, how many PC's brute forcing large one time pad encrypted files does it take to output the complete works of shakespeare, in a reasonable amount of time? which edition?
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I allways forget that the US is deprived in not having eftpos. The eftpos system is owned by the eftpos company, and links directly to your bank account. the termanals are tamper proof and vacumm sealed - open or crack the handset and poof, all the silicon burns. Most stores have a terminal and the terminals connect directly to the stores bank over a standard phone line. I have a student account so I never get fee's for anything. Its rare that I carry cash. I usually only use cash at bars, were they never seem to have enough terminals. I will also carry some if I supect im going somewere where there isnt eftpos, but this is becoming rare. Oh yeah, cash is also good for coke machines, but now these are comming with built in terminals, and automated petrol pumps have eftpos built in as well.(pay first...) seeing as lack of cellular service is becoming a rarity in NZ, the portables work allmost anywhere. Ski fields have been hiring them for use at gate houses to rent chains for the last couple of years. the only reason I use ATM's nowdays is to retrieve my bank ballance FYI, im 19, and have had an eftpos card since I was 12.
actually, it doesnt have to be all that complex, the shuttle is fly-by-wire anyway (I think) so Having the wiring harness breakable may actually simplify things. and remember all the crew are on the flight deck during launch and re-entry. (are there any launch seats on the main deck??) also, you only need a pressure door, and not a complete airlock seperating the flight deck from the rest of the ship I cant find any of my old posters, so I cant check
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I seem to remember an interview of christopher tolkien, where he recounts something to the effect of "I like it dady, but its not long enough".....
you have to link all the ant farms together with tunnels(esp if you want to feed the ands, and leave the farms sealed with respect to the cases
And is anybody else thinking of the diskworlds Hex??
for the ultimate geek challange - bulid your own breadmaker. (bonus points for incorporating novel mechanics, incorporating unexpected tech, and super bonus points for making it more efficient than a commerially available model)
that being true,
How can monitoring the honeypot possibly be
interception, which imply's actively interfering/capturing the data at some mid-point??
Niobe looks different in real life to what she does in the matrix, Or was that just me??
perhaps the lesser mind was the first "one" after all, the one is the key to the matrix, he/she survives the destruction of the old matrix, chooses 35 people (imho, etc)(not 12, as has been posted) to start the new zion. he lives for some time in the next matrix.
especially given her husbands hobby of creating exotic foods, that do strange things to the people who eat them, Causing them ot do things, without the ability to choose not too. greek legend tells of persephone eating 6 of 12 pomegranit seeds, causing her to spend 6 of the 12 months of the year traped, married to hades. the other 6 are spent in the gardens of earth, when seperated from her mother, demeter, the mother weeps, and the trees, and skies weep with her - winter.
why would a pregnant woman be at an orgy??
there seems to be little point.
Any Girls care to comment on the desireablitity of being in an orgy, when you allready know you are pregnant??
If you are visibly, seriously, late stages pregnant, in war time, how much are you going to be up and about?? when the health of your offspring is something that the continued existence of humankind may be dependant on??
in a place like zion?
Also, A large fraction of the population is fresh from the matrix.
And all this assumes a neutrall gender ballance.
the billing is easy,
move back to dialup style, monthly flat rates,
Everybody prefers them anyway.
If I can get a comparatively slow cable connection, on flat rate, I dont care if it cost me slightly more per m/b, At least I know what kind of bill im paying at the end of the month.
and I f I pull down an ISO, im not going to worry about being capped
just you wait.....
no, it was spent to deepen the pockets of the us treasury (arent taxes great?)
after all, its hemoraging money on military spending because it needs to 'liberate' all these 'terrorist states'
and I think another poster pointed out,
they allready had a perfictly serviceable set of laws, including IP, as defined by the koran.
doesnt seem like much of a liberation if the are doing the exact thing that the war of the colonies(independence for those USAinians out there) happend to stop.
at least, not withou ridiculus charge levels on the spoon, which wont last for long
my duron heatsink is caked with dust,
but I wouldnt claim its filtering the air that passes through it......
You say "Only a theory" like its a bad thing?? care to suggest something better than a theory? theories are great, certainly better than the alternatives. A good theory takes existing data, allows you to see a pattern in the data, and then make predictions based on that pattern, the theory remains a good theory until it fails to match observed reality, at wich point you create a new theory around the (now larger) body of data. A theory may still be usefull, even if it is wrong, newtonian mechanics for example. Personally I find it unnecesary to "believe" in evolution, or creation, I hold that evolution is a good explanation, and that a god may or may not have created the universe, at the time of the so called big bang. I dont think that, if there was/is a creator, he/she/it does much, post creation event.
arent there systems built into usenet to allow authors to retract comments, Gloablly??
and to Usenet server administrators,
to allow censored/moderated posts to be globally deleted or edited.
Further, wasnt there a big row a few years ago when the general puplic found out that some enterprising and malicsious people had figured out how to forge these commands??
The second (third??) time I "read" lotr,
we, as a family, borrowed a full, unabridged set of talking books from the library, I think it was read by tolkien, although I am unsure.
We listned to it while we drove around the entirety of the south island, New Zealand. it was good, because you could hear the original author putting his own emotional overlay onto the written material.
as for the movie, I liked it.
I also liked starship troopers.
the parts of the book, starship troopers, that I have read so far I also like. (civilised aliens fighting back, seems much more likly than insects cabable of shooting down things in orbit..)
Both movies entertaind me, Which is I think, the
most importaint part of seeing a movie.
I wont say that starship troopers was a *good* movie, but I was entertained.
I have been involved in making a short film, for a friend. The main issue with making a movie, and one which I have NEVER seen discused, (especially from novel adaptaion), is that in a book, the author can convey what the charecter is thinking. Its written down, right there on the page. seperate events can be wriiten down, explanatiosn and *descriptions of proccesses* can be put on the page. these simply do not translate to film.
you can go part of the way, as the original hitch hikers guide to the Galaxy (hereafter h2g2) tv series did, and the radio play, by inserting "the book" as, I suppose, a sort of muse(?) but it still isnt the same.
I like what jackson did for gollum/smeagol.
he had to give some indication of what is going on inside the poor creatures head. the way he did it carries well.
also, regards the film my friend made,
A budget greater than "you can use the schools camera's and editing equipment, and here, have a tape" also helps.
finaly, I have heard that jacksons first cut for fellowship was over 9 hours long. some of the cuts are obvious - galadriels gifts, they sudenly have them, but no explanation is given as to where they came from. (although I believe galadriel is cut in as a flashback, giving the star glow vial to frodo).
I presume the two towers was similar.
I hope one day to get massively long blu-ray(or something else) disks of the films, but ill have to wait.
ever meet a pilot that cant hand crank a propeller plane??
sure there are easier, and safer ways to do it,
but if your out in the middle of knowhere on a beach, about to get overtaken by the tide,
and the engine wont crank, you may as well do it the old fasioned way.
why would DC be better for distrabution?? you cant run it through a transformer. using high voltage/low current minimises loss of power in the transmission lines (P=i*(r^2)) increasing the voltage by a facto of 100, and decreasing current by a factor of 100, at the transformer means that you only use 1% of the power you would otherwise have done heating up the high tension lines. DC motors are very easy compared to AC motors, nikolai tesla was told as a child that an AC motor was a physical imposibility by his science teacher, (whom tesla proved worng in fairly short order) on the other hand, AC generators had been shown to proved to be much more efficent allready by this time. (remember, tesla basically invented the modern power grid - from the exact type of generator, the three phase/mono phase scheme (although he favourd universal twin phase) to the transformers, industrial motors, and an knock off of eddisons lightbulb(tesla had worked for eddison, when he first mooved to america, they didnt get along, and tesla ended up working for General Electric Corporation, GEC won. tesla/gec could transmit power hundreds of times further than edisons low voltage DC system could manage.) here in NZ we use a 500KV DC+ve line to run power from the south island to the north island,(-ve is ground return!) where it is instantly re-inverted to AC, and transformed down. DC is only used where special cercumstances make it neccesary (about 70%(?) of NZ's power generating capacity is in the south island, and the gap, cook straight is big enough that running 3 wires is much more than a trivial problem, compared to 1 wire.) anyways, DC is ineficeint, except in special circumstances, its to be avoided, because you cant transform it. DC motors are ineffecient, but conceptulally simple. AC motors need a bit more thought, but the eliminate the most ineficent part of a (good) DC motor - the comutator brushes. and AC motor can use bearings, or rotoate the magnets, and leave the coils stationary (even better) AC generators ar massivly supereor to a dynamo. especially b/c if you want AC so you can use transformers, from a dynamo, oyu need to build an inverter, which is a horrid mess of transistors, or higher capacity equivelents and hideously expensive.
has ANYBODY here actually done high school science??
take a DC electric motor, spin the shaft - easy
dead short the terminals, try to spin the shaft,
if its a good motor - verry dificult - the energy your inputting into the motor by trying to spin it is being converted into current in the wires, and then to heat.
the same principle still applies using AC generators -when all those big industrial plants fire up thier equipment it draws a huge amount of current. its going to take more torque to turn the generator, there may simply not be enough to turn the generator fast enough, the boilers, the hydro feed, the diesel engine powering the generator is no longer able to spin it as fast as usual, under ideal circimstances theey all spin at 60(where i am)Hz divided by the number of poles in the generator (take 3 as a guess) all times 60 seconds in a miute gives 1200rpm
the rate of spin is directly linked to the frequency of the output power.
my apologies to those of you who allready know this/have a better understanding than myself)
the frequency is NOT lowered intentionally.
although it will have an effect on the
voltage/current output of a transformer, remember the voltage is transformed up at the power station, and tranformed back down at the sub stations. depending on the generators native voltage, (wich wont be anything like high tension) the affect of varying frequency on consumer end voltages should be minamal.
Also eat tony,
the complete text for "a salmon doubt"
try to compete, how many PC's brute forcing large one time pad encrypted files does it take to output the complete works of shakespeare, in a reasonable amount of time?
which edition?
I allways forget that the US is deprived in not having eftpos. The eftpos system is owned by the eftpos company, and links directly to your bank account. the termanals are tamper proof and vacumm sealed - open or crack the handset and poof, all the silicon burns. Most stores have a terminal and the terminals connect directly to the stores bank over a standard phone line. I have a student account so I never get fee's for anything.
Its rare that I carry cash. I usually only use cash at bars, were they never seem to have enough terminals. I will also carry some if I supect im going somewere where there isnt eftpos, but this is becoming rare. Oh yeah, cash is also good for coke machines, but now these are comming with built in terminals, and automated petrol pumps have eftpos built in as well.(pay first...)
seeing as lack of cellular service is becoming a rarity in NZ, the portables work allmost anywhere. Ski fields have been hiring them for use at gate houses to rent chains for the last couple of years.
the only reason I use ATM's nowdays is to retrieve my bank ballance
FYI, im 19, and have had an eftpos card since I was 12.
actually,
it doesnt have to be all that complex,
the shuttle is fly-by-wire anyway (I think)
so Having the wiring harness breakable may actually simplify things. and remember all the crew are on the flight deck during launch and re-entry.
(are there any launch seats on the main deck??)
also, you only need a pressure door, and not a complete airlock seperating the flight deck from the rest of the ship
I cant find any of my old posters, so I cant check