It has to be. There is no way you could achieve injection this way without causing some real injury. Assuming you could get this to work at all, would it really "feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second?" I don't think so... ever been shot with a BB-gun? That hurts a lot more than a mosquito-bite even if it doesn't break the skin.
As many others have pointed out, enjoy the taste of your words.
"The 1.5 GB drive, which has been in volume manufacturing since mid-April, sells for $65 in quantities of 10,000. The company is aiming for $50, Magenis said. By contrast, existing standard 1-inch Microdrives from IBM sell for $219 at retail or more, while 1GB flash cards go for around $200."
Damn, yes. They could redesign the vacuum assembly to be increadibly simple: A tube with a WindowsCE PDA at one end! With that kind of sucking power, they would put every vacuum maker out of business!
Their slogan will be "MS SuxDelux: So powerful, it'll suck the carpets right off your floors!"
Let's hope they already have asked permission. We don't need something else for the boobs at SCO to use to fuel their FUD. "In addition to being composed entierely of our source code, Linux distros violate EULA's and cause baldness... in women."
Sweet Christ...
According to this PDF from vt.edu, the $5.2M price only covers the cost of the systems, memory, storage, primary and secondary communications fabrics, and cables.
The building would obviously be a seperate expense because a building would have a life-span many times that of the computer. Duh.
Still, my point was that the project could be done at the price they claim without special discounts. Although I'm sure VT appreciated saving an extra third of a million dollars.
Well, the cost of the project was said to be about five million dollars and consists of 1100 dual-G5s.
These retail at the Apple store for $2999USD. Multiply that by 1100 and you get... $3,298,900. They very well could have paid full retail, as that would still leave $1,701,100 for everything else they would need to build this thing.
You are probably going on this quote from the GWR web site:
"In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, went on a shooting party and became involved in an argument. Which was the fastest game bird in Europe - the golden plover or the grouse? He realized then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove popular. He was right!"
However, their corporate page says this:
"Guinness World Records is a division of HIT Entertainment." (Guinnes World Records) HIT Entertainment also happens to be the wonderful people who bring the world's children "Bob the Builder, Barney, Thomas & Friends, Kipper and Angelina Ballerina" via "programme sales to 150 countries and territories".
While the other Guinness seems to be currently owned by these folks.
Somehow I don't think they will see the Mac sales they were hoping for...
From the press release for EQ Mac: "Now over 25 million Apple Macintosh users everywhere can now experience the leading massively multiplayer online role-playing game on systems running Mac OS X 10.2.5."
According to Steve Jobs, there's only 7 million macs running any version of MacOSX...
People seem to think that all this SCO crap is a threat to Linux-the-OS (GNU/Linux) when it's only a threat to Linux-the-Kernel. The rest of Linux-the-OS (The GNU bits, etc.) is safe and can carry on with any of several different kernels if it has to.
In his typical fasion, RMS used this confusion as another example to continue in his dead-horse beating: GNU/Linux vs. Linux.
"Would RMS mind so much if Linux kernel fell down because of this controversy as long as GNU carried on with a different kernel?" I don't think he'd mind at all. Many others would, however.
I would say RMS serves as a warning to us all: be careful not to come across as a zealot or people won't listen to what you say even when you're right.
I considered that, but the cable running to the front USB ports was squished between the card and the slot with sufficient force to give it a permanent kink in only one place. Also worth mentioning, it was in the middle of the connector edge. I find it inprobable that this could have happened through dropping it. The impact would had to have caused the card to pop at least 1/2 CM out of it's slot for that cable to get where it was and the packaging was in decent shape.
It probably was dropped a couple times since that would explain the HD, but I tend to think the card was not installed properly from the start.
Of course, I could be wrong, but I'm not ready to perform drop tests with this box quite yet. In a couple weeks maybe, but not now.
I'll be interested to see what this segment of the market looks like in a couple of years.
I picked up one of the cheep $200 Lindows PCs mentioned in an article here last monday to play with. When it arrived on Friday the modem card wasn't installed correctly (it was screwed into the case but not actually in the PCI slot) and the HD was dead. I'm waiting on a replacement HD. (I'm still hoping it will make an ok toy.)
Based on the photocopied sheets in the box I assume the DOA percentage of these machines is pretty high. I would hope that increased competition would have a positive effect on this, but at these low margins I won't bet on it.
The thing I really wonder about is whether anyone will still be selling Linux PCs at $199 in two years or if they will move slightly higher to be able to afford some form of quality control.
To my knowledge, MacHack focuses on writing software that makes creative use of the various technologies and features of the platform. From that perspective, MacOSX contains a lot more than "just Aqua with Darwin at the core."
I personally would like to have world-addressable IP addresses for all the machines on my home network, but the cost is out of my range at the moment. In China, it will be totally impossible for not only home and small office networks, but many ISPs as well. Just the cost of getting an address for *one* server will become insane. IPv6 is the way to go. Period.
I just wonder if all these water on Mars claims will be verified before we send Humans there.
By that I mean, if all of our probes can't confirm this and in 10, 20, or 30 years we finally get Humans out there and they do confirm water on Mars, will that justify the expense and danger of manned space exploration?
It just seems to me that if there is any water on Mars, a probe will have a lot harder time finding definative proof of it than an intelligent human being.
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Yeah, guys with equipment small enough to be "navigated" with one hand. Maybe Bill G. designed it for himself?
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You are correct. ewhac is a moron.
/. for a brain while he was at it....
He needs a real adaptor not just one of those wiring addaptors for USB/PS2 combo devices.
I've used the real PS2->USB adaptors to use PS2 keyboards and mice via USB under Win2k and XP and they work perfectly.
This guy should have asked
Where the hell is the fun in running magnets over the backup tapes?
Try this: download a couple gigs of granny anal-fisting porn and change the backup scripts to fill the tapes with that!
It has to be. There is no way you could achieve injection this way without causing some real injury. Assuming you could get this to work at all, would it really "feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second?" I don't think so... ever been shot with a BB-gun? That hurts a lot more than a mosquito-bite even if it doesn't break the skin.
This sounds like a really stupid way to waste money. I'm glad my son is still too little to want this crap.
Anyone willing to confess to buying these and provide an opinion?
As many others have pointed out, enjoy the taste of your words.
"The 1.5 GB drive, which has been in volume manufacturing since mid-April, sells for $65 in quantities of 10,000. The company is aiming for $50, Magenis said. By contrast, existing standard 1-inch Microdrives from IBM sell for $219 at retail or more, while 1GB flash cards go for around $200."
Damn, yes. They could redesign the vacuum assembly to be increadibly simple: A tube with a WindowsCE PDA at one end! With that kind of sucking power, they would put every vacuum maker out of business!
Their slogan will be "MS SuxDelux: So powerful, it'll suck the carpets right off your floors!"
With the developer taking over the job of "Government" to fuck you in the ass all the time...
Let's hope they already have asked permission. We don't need something else for the boobs at SCO to use to fuel their FUD. "In addition to being composed entierely of our source code, Linux distros violate EULA's and cause baldness... in women."
Behold... iRobot Now
Awesome, we've made one more step towards a Space Elevator! Unfortunately, we've still got about 100,000 more to go... but hey, progress is progress.
Sweet Christ...
According to this PDF from vt.edu, the $5.2M price only covers the cost of the systems, memory, storage, primary and secondary communications fabrics, and cables.
The building would obviously be a seperate expense because a building would have a life-span many times that of the computer. Duh.
Oh yeah... I forgot about that...
Still, my point was that the project could be done at the price they claim without special discounts. Although I'm sure VT appreciated saving an extra third of a million dollars.
Well, the cost of the project was said to be about five million dollars and consists of 1100 dual-G5s.
These retail at the Apple store for $2999USD.
Multiply that by 1100 and you get... $3,298,900.
They very well could have paid full retail, as that would still leave $1,701,100 for everything else they would need to build this thing.
I've not used this device, but I've done lots of work with various lpd network adaptors...
The most comon queue names are:
PRINT, RAW, LP, and LPT1
I would expect one of those to work.
Same spacecraft, but same pilots? Computer equipment can stand a bit higher heat than the human body. Saves on the thermal insulation.
Yeah, that's just what I want... to go into space in a giant flying oven. Maybe my family could eat me for Christmas.
The are actually the same company. (seriously)
Um, I don't think so...
You are probably going on this quote from the GWR web site:
"In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, went on a shooting party and became involved in an argument. Which was the fastest game bird in Europe - the golden plover or the grouse? He realized then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove popular. He was right!"
However, their corporate page says this: "Guinness World Records is a division of HIT Entertainment."
(Guinnes World Records) HIT Entertainment also happens to be the wonderful people who bring the world's children "Bob the Builder, Barney, Thomas & Friends, Kipper and Angelina Ballerina" via "programme sales to 150 countries and territories".
While the other Guinness seems to be currently owned by these folks.
Somehow I don't think they will see the Mac sales they were hoping for...
From the press release for EQ Mac:
"Now over 25 million Apple Macintosh users everywhere can now experience the leading massively multiplayer online role-playing game on systems running Mac OS X 10.2.5."
According to Steve Jobs, there's only 7 million macs running any version of MacOSX...
God, what a wonderful world that will be...
Or maybe not.
"God Damn it! I can't load this web page because my toaster keeps downloading high definition pornographic videos of tosters f*&king!"
RMS's points on this were:
People seem to think that all this SCO crap is a threat to Linux-the-OS (GNU/Linux) when it's only a threat to Linux-the-Kernel. The rest of Linux-the-OS (The GNU bits, etc.) is safe and can carry on with any of several different kernels if it has to.
In his typical fasion, RMS used this confusion as another example to continue in his dead-horse beating: GNU/Linux vs. Linux.
"Would RMS mind so much if Linux kernel fell down because of this controversy as long as GNU carried on with a different kernel?" I don't think he'd mind at all. Many others would, however.
I would say RMS serves as a warning to us all: be careful not to come across as a zealot or people won't listen to what you say even when you're right.
I considered that, but the cable running to the front USB ports was squished between the card and the slot with sufficient force to give it a permanent kink in only one place. Also worth mentioning, it was in the middle of the connector edge. I find it inprobable that this could have happened through dropping it. The impact would had to have caused the card to pop at least 1/2 CM out of it's slot for that cable to get where it was and the packaging was in decent shape.
It probably was dropped a couple times since that would explain the HD, but I tend to think the card was not installed properly from the start.
Of course, I could be wrong, but I'm not ready to perform drop tests with this box quite yet. In a couple weeks maybe, but not now.
I'll be interested to see what this segment of the market looks like in a couple of years.
I picked up one of the cheep $200 Lindows PCs mentioned in an article here last monday to play with. When it arrived on Friday the modem card wasn't installed correctly (it was screwed into the case but not actually in the PCI slot) and the HD was dead. I'm waiting on a replacement HD. (I'm still hoping it will make an ok toy.)
Based on the photocopied sheets in the box I assume the DOA percentage of these machines is pretty high. I would hope that increased competition would have a positive effect on this, but at these low margins I won't bet on it.
The thing I really wonder about is whether anyone will still be selling Linux PCs at $199 in two years or if they will move slightly higher to be able to afford some form of quality control.
To my knowledge, MacHack focuses on writing software that makes creative use of the various technologies and features of the platform. From that perspective, MacOSX contains a lot more than "just Aqua with Darwin at the core."
NAT is a hack, not solution.
I personally would like to have world-addressable IP addresses for all the machines on my home network, but the cost is out of my range at the moment. In China, it will be totally impossible for not only home and small office networks, but many ISPs as well. Just the cost of getting an address for *one* server will become insane. IPv6 is the way to go. Period.
I just wonder if all these water on Mars claims will be verified before we send Humans there.
By that I mean, if all of our probes can't confirm this and in 10, 20, or 30 years we finally get Humans out there and they do confirm water on Mars, will that justify the expense and danger of manned space exploration?
It just seems to me that if there is any water on Mars, a probe will have a lot harder time finding definative proof of it than an intelligent human being.
Yeah, guys with equipment small enough to be "navigated" with one hand.
Maybe Bill G. designed it for himself?