Im not very well versed in physics but I remember many years ago hearing that somehow you could split an atom or part of an atom so that you had two electrons and no matter what distance they were seperated by, change in spin of one electron would be duplicated by the other. I remember thinking that if you could alter the spin fast enough and read it reliably, this could be used as a wireless modem technology. I beleive the backstory of earth and beyond mentions this technology as well. Does anyone know the term for this and if it would ever be technologicaly feasable?
I don't feel comfortable toutching ANYTHING in a portajohn, much less a keyboard thats been toutched by god knows how many people. I guess Microsoft realized the average keyboard is dirtier than your average toilet seat so by combining the two filth magnets they can corner the the future germ based computing maret
All day long I was trying to connect to my home PC and Remote Desktop Connection was laging so bad it was unusable... then I get home and find that my poor little mirror is being raped by slashdot! (http://www.wereallmadhere.com/files/straw.gif)
From the site:
The word hack at MIT usually refers to a clever, benign, and "ethical" prank or practical joke, which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!). Note that this has nothing to do with computer (or phone) hacking (which we call "cracking").
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Yah, I have to agree with you, that should be news. The gnomes were mildly amusing but I wouldn't concider them front page material.
Suuure...a 'Technical Review' of 'Red Hat Linux 9', hahaha, yah ri...errr, oh wait...
I hate when the post real news on April fools day, I get confuzed!
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I took Interactive Digital Media with Professor Phelps 2 quarters ago! Hes a great guy and he realy knows his stuff, this should be an interesting blog.
I've got an Avatar in the There beta and the economy has to be my least favorite part of the experience. Given, this is only beta so hopefuly we'll see some changes but heres how it works:
Every player was given 10,000 there bucks to start. Theres a wide variety of stuff to purchase from the there store. The problem is that almost everything has the same price. A Buggy, a Hoverboard, and a dog all range around 9,000-10,000 there bucks. A Tshirt costs 2,000-5,000 there bucks. I have never gone to a dealership and picked up a buggy or even a plain old manual powere bicycle for around the cost of a shirt and a pair of pants. The economy in there is flaky at best. This is just a personal opinion of course, and I know people are already spending money on there bucks, but at least in EQ and other similar online games, there was a general value of virtual money felt by players, but I still can't figure out what a there buck's worth.
You'r loss. Theres a reason that a film that was released in only a handful of theaters won the best animated picture oscar! Spirited Away isn't the normal Disney crap, in fact its Disney in name only...
Now when Disney releases Spirited Away 3: Voyage to Snow Whites Castle i'll be disinterested.
I think floppy drives have become 'Comfort' devices. I could use CD-Rs and CD-RWs for all my data transfers, or to boot when my PC goes down, but there have been times when something has gone horribly wrong with my system and a Floppy was there to fix the problem. I like that! Its not so much that I need my floppy or that some other media couldn't be used, but it gives me that sense of security that only a floppy drive can give. It says "Hey big boy, don't you worry! Ill be here when you need to boot to a DOS prompt". Maybe its just me, but even tho floppys can be flaky sometimes, for emergency recovery purposes id rather have trusty boot disk than relying on bootable CDs (Maybe its just me but my PCs dont always like to boot off bootable CDs)
A guy I know had this happen to him last month. He went to the doctor after about a week of pains in his leg. He ended up having to go to the hospital to have the clot loosened with anti-coagulants.
I used to play EQ years ago and every single point made in this article was exactly how I felt every time I tried to quit. I quit and restarted a couple times and now im off the crack:-p tho I still have urges every now and then. I no longer buy MMORPGs until ive played the beta to make sure its not like EQ. Of the people I knew who played with me, some of which I still talk to, every single one of them felt this way too. The game is like a drug, without the part where you enjoy the high. RUN AWAY:-p
I use PocketSCUMM to play all my favorite classic lucas arts adventure games. So far Ive goten Monkey Island 1 and 2, Sam & Max, Indiana Jones (4), and Day of the tenticle working perfectly on it:) (With sound...Some with voice if I put the monster.sou (or compressed mp3 versions) files on my memory card)
The fact that I can go to the store and pick up whatever software I want. If mac software wasnt so hard to find and didnt come out 10 years after the PC version had become obsolite Id be using a mac (OSX of course). If I could pick up the latest games/programs for linux as quickly and as easily as windows software id be using linux. The OS is only as useful as the software runing on it. I know theres a wide variety of open source alternitives, but compatability/ease of use are a big part of making a switch between OS's
Actualy, Samhain is one of 8 pegan sabbat days. There are both major and minor sabbats. The major sabbats are Samhain (Oct. 31), Imbolc (Feb. 2), Beltane (Apr. 30), and Lammas (Aug. 1). The minor sabbats are the two equinoxes of March 21 and September 21st and the two solstices on December 21, (the longest night of the year) and June 21 (the shortest night of the year. The celtic people devided the year into two parts, summer and winter. Samhain is the end of the summer half of the year and is also considered to be the first of the new year. Samhain meens 'Summers End'. Samhain is a day to honor the dead, not worship evil. For more information you can search for Samhain on google or go to religioustolerance.org
AppleWorks DOES pale in comparison to Microsoft Office XP. I wouldn't know how to function without that wonderfully useful animated paperclip! *It looks like you are writing a resume, would you like to run the resume wizard?* No, wait! Im not writing a resume! Im posting on slashdot! Go Away!! Ahhh!! kghklarj thgos34289n
How many people actualy buy a lindows pc to use Lindows? It seems to me that most people I've talked to buy low cost lindows PCs and install a pirated copy of Windows. In the short term this benifits Lindows since they will profit from the sale of the pc, but in the long term it would seem that Microsoft will come out ahead, since even tho the copies of Windows are pirated, Microsoft is expanding its user base as Lindows user base dwindles.
My point wasn't that its right or wrong, just that its being done. Right now the embroys are just being destroyed. At least through stem cell research theres a chance that they could be used to help others. In-vitro is going to go on no matter what happens with stem cell research.
Is there anyone in the slashdot crowd who's qualified for this job? Preferably somebody who's willing to leak company secrets on encryption/copy protection methods and p2p 'Warfare' strategy! Lets take em down from the inside!
Slashdot Mirror
Im not very well versed in physics but I remember many years ago hearing that somehow you could split an atom or part of an atom so that you had two electrons and no matter what distance they were seperated by, change in spin of one electron would be duplicated by the other. I remember thinking that if you could alter the spin fast enough and read it reliably, this could be used as a wireless modem technology. I beleive the backstory of earth and beyond mentions this technology as well. Does anyone know the term for this and if it would ever be technologicaly feasable?
I don't feel comfortable toutching ANYTHING in a portajohn, much less a keyboard thats been toutched by god knows how many people. I guess Microsoft realized the average keyboard is dirtier than your average toilet seat so by combining the two filth magnets they can corner the the future germ based computing maret
America v2.0 All the laws of the origional without that pesky 'Bill of Rights' bug...
All day long I was trying to connect to my home PC and Remote Desktop Connection was laging so bad it was unusable... then I get home and find that my poor little mirror is being raped by slashdot! (http://www.wereallmadhere.com/files/straw.gif)
From the site: The word hack at MIT usually refers to a clever, benign, and "ethical" prank or practical joke, which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!). Note that this has nothing to do with computer (or phone) hacking (which we call "cracking").
Yah, I have to agree with you, that should be news. The gnomes were mildly amusing but I wouldn't concider them front page material.
Looks like we killed the site hosting the comic! I just put a copy up on my server, so I guess we'll see how long it lasts.
Win2k box vs. Slashdot, Round 1:
Strawberry Shortcake Parody
LINUX!
If whats in them dosen't kill you, having them launched towards your head at 90mph sure will!
Porn, from concentrate...
Suuure...a 'Technical Review' of 'Red Hat Linux 9', hahaha, yah ri...errr, oh wait... I hate when the post real news on April fools day, I get confuzed!
I took Interactive Digital Media with Professor Phelps 2 quarters ago! Hes a great guy and he realy knows his stuff, this should be an interesting blog.
Is that any different then being Slashdoted?
I've got an Avatar in the There beta and the economy has to be my least favorite part of the experience. Given, this is only beta so hopefuly we'll see some changes but heres how it works: Every player was given 10,000 there bucks to start. Theres a wide variety of stuff to purchase from the there store. The problem is that almost everything has the same price. A Buggy, a Hoverboard, and a dog all range around 9,000-10,000 there bucks. A Tshirt costs 2,000-5,000 there bucks. I have never gone to a dealership and picked up a buggy or even a plain old manual powere bicycle for around the cost of a shirt and a pair of pants. The economy in there is flaky at best. This is just a personal opinion of course, and I know people are already spending money on there bucks, but at least in EQ and other similar online games, there was a general value of virtual money felt by players, but I still can't figure out what a there buck's worth.
You'r loss. Theres a reason that a film that was released in only a handful of theaters won the best animated picture oscar! Spirited Away isn't the normal Disney crap, in fact its Disney in name only... Now when Disney releases Spirited Away 3: Voyage to Snow Whites Castle i'll be disinterested.
I think floppy drives have become 'Comfort' devices. I could use CD-Rs and CD-RWs for all my data transfers, or to boot when my PC goes down, but there have been times when something has gone horribly wrong with my system and a Floppy was there to fix the problem. I like that! Its not so much that I need my floppy or that some other media couldn't be used, but it gives me that sense of security that only a floppy drive can give. It says "Hey big boy, don't you worry! Ill be here when you need to boot to a DOS prompt". Maybe its just me, but even tho floppys can be flaky sometimes, for emergency recovery purposes id rather have trusty boot disk than relying on bootable CDs (Maybe its just me but my PCs dont always like to boot off bootable CDs)
A guy I know had this happen to him last month. He went to the doctor after about a week of pains in his leg. He ended up having to go to the hospital to have the clot loosened with anti-coagulants.
I used to play EQ years ago and every single point made in this article was exactly how I felt every time I tried to quit. I quit and restarted a couple times and now im off the crack :-p tho I still have urges every now and then. I no longer buy MMORPGs until ive played the beta to make sure its not like EQ. Of the people I knew who played with me, some of which I still talk to, every single one of them felt this way too. The game is like a drug, without the part where you enjoy the high. RUN AWAY :-p
I use PocketSCUMM to play all my favorite classic lucas arts adventure games. So far Ive goten Monkey Island 1 and 2, Sam & Max, Indiana Jones (4), and Day of the tenticle working perfectly on it :) (With sound...Some with voice if I put the monster.sou (or compressed mp3 versions) files on my memory card)
The fact that I can go to the store and pick up whatever software I want. If mac software wasnt so hard to find and didnt come out 10 years after the PC version had become obsolite Id be using a mac (OSX of course). If I could pick up the latest games/programs for linux as quickly and as easily as windows software id be using linux. The OS is only as useful as the software runing on it. I know theres a wide variety of open source alternitives, but compatability/ease of use are a big part of making a switch between OS's
Actualy, Samhain is one of 8 pegan sabbat days. There are both major and minor sabbats. The major sabbats are Samhain (Oct. 31), Imbolc (Feb. 2), Beltane (Apr. 30), and Lammas (Aug. 1). The minor sabbats are the two equinoxes of March 21 and September 21st and the two solstices on December 21, (the longest night of the year) and June 21 (the shortest night of the year. The celtic people devided the year into two parts, summer and winter. Samhain is the end of the summer half of the year and is also considered to be the first of the new year. Samhain meens 'Summers End'. Samhain is a day to honor the dead, not worship evil. For more information you can search for Samhain on google or go to religioustolerance.org
AppleWorks DOES pale in comparison to Microsoft Office XP. I wouldn't know how to function without that wonderfully useful animated paperclip! *It looks like you are writing a resume, would you like to run the resume wizard?* No, wait! Im not writing a resume! Im posting on slashdot! Go Away!! Ahhh!! kghklarj thgos34289n
How many people actualy buy a lindows pc to use Lindows? It seems to me that most people I've talked to buy low cost lindows PCs and install a pirated copy of Windows. In the short term this benifits Lindows since they will profit from the sale of the pc, but in the long term it would seem that Microsoft will come out ahead, since even tho the copies of Windows are pirated, Microsoft is expanding its user base as Lindows user base dwindles.
My point wasn't that its right or wrong, just that its being done. Right now the embroys are just being destroyed. At least through stem cell research theres a chance that they could be used to help others. In-vitro is going to go on no matter what happens with stem cell research.
Is there anyone in the slashdot crowd who's qualified for this job? Preferably somebody who's willing to leak company secrets on encryption/copy protection methods and p2p 'Warfare' strategy! Lets take em down from the inside!