Take a dump in each machine; they sure won't be complaining about the former porky pig (now deceased).
Try peeing in every third one or so, just so you don't get bored.
This is one way to get management to buy new machines. Tell them "Here's a nice new machine. It's as fast as shit" and see what they say after you set it up in their office at 5pm on a friday before a holiday.
If nothing else, you didn't like working there anyway.
A fave writer of mine, John McPhee, years ago wrote a story, "Ice Pond" about an idea along these lines.
It has to do with running water in the winter into a pit to make slushy ice. Keep it covered, and it will last through summer. Put pipes at the bottom and run water through it, and the water will get cold (duh). Use this new 'reserve of cold' to cool buildings. Easy and cheap.
The story is in the books "Table of Contents" and "The Control of Nature". Both are highly recommended.
I just RTFA (sorry) and had a thought - this technique could be adapted to a device that could read the information from an LP or an old wax cylinder without touching it.
This could make a recordings museum caretaker very happy. He could hear the recordings that are too fragile to play.
If there was a contact-free record player, I wouldn't feel like I should sell all my LPs.
I remember a story in Analog a few years ago about a man with the only recording of his father's voice on an old lacquer disk which had unfortunately broken. He ends up being able to listen to it due to a tech not unlike this.
A good story. Damn, I miss having the time to read those every month.
An affordable application of this for repairing a damaged record (not just applying filters) would certainly end up on my dock.
kenny g style 'lite' jazz cheezy 'lite' or 'soft' rock christmas songs or the worst, flaccid flatulent fatass 'classic' rock. if i NEVER hear 'stairway to hotel freebird' again it will be too soon. how many times in a life can one listen the same crap over and over and over and over and over and over.
i like the idea of a local station. preferably college radio.
or real classical.
or a dozen different covers of the carpenters 'close to you'
i don't like that it has 600 lbs of batteries and such a short range. i something like this but with a 500 or 1000 cc turbodiesel would be a lot faster and have much better range, depending on the tank size (600 lbs is almost 100 gallons).
it would probably get close to 100 mpg.
two seats would be nice, but for 100 mpg i'll only complain a few times a week.
hybrid turbodiesel 2 or 3 seater would be very cool.
I have been putting my Mac (G4/400) to sleep instead of shutting down for at least 2 years. With Panther on my machine, I restart every 2 months or so. I don't log out very often either (like every 2 months or so).
sleep is good. If I can't get any, at least my computer can.
seriously, it wakes up in 4 or 5 seconds. It takes almost a minute to restart.
Panther seems to restart a lot faster than Jaguar. Anyone else notice this or am I just hallucinating again?
A few years ago before I quit smoking (I know, QUITTER!) i took a dead drive and removed the lid, plugged it in, and used it for an ashtray while it was spinning. For some reason I thought this was the funniest thing. All the years of hype i remembered about "this is a dust particle, this is your hard drive, see how much bigger the dust is" just tickled a weird seldom-seen part of my brain.
sharing is stealing. sharing is evil. sharing is (blank). i learned in kindergarten that sharing is good. it's different now?
i came up with an anology recently. sharing is kinda like bringing popcorn into a movie. i wasn't going to buy their overpriced stale flavacol-soaked tish in the first place. if i bring or don't bring my own snack is largely irrelevent. it certainly doesn't deprive them of a sale. is it still stealing? am i still the antichrist? do i have to pay a $150,000 fine for each kernel i eat?
'No matter what their credentials or rationale, it is wrong to use one's knowledge and the cover of academia to facilitate piracy and theft of digital property.'
amusing out-of-context snippet: 'it is wrong to use one's knowledge'
something george the bush joonyur never has to worry about
i know, it's flamebait. as long as it doesn't go on my PERMANENT record
salvation army. thrift stores. it is not uncommon to find half decent '80's vintage roadbikes for $10-20. some are huffys. (they get their name from the effect on the rider - huffy and puffy) some are schwinn (nothing like cast iron to make a durable bike. better exercise on a 80 pound bike, too!) or others. i just picked up a '82 univega for $10 us. under 30 lbs, 12 speed. not flashy. a decent bike in its day. if it gets stolen, i'll buy something else for $20 or less.
plus, you'll learn how to lube a chain, adjust brakes, and other simple maintenance thingies.
befriend a bike messenger if you have them where you are. they'll tell you lots of stuff. it's a cool culture.
caution - bike riding can be very addictive! but it's better than lots of other addictions. it helps keep me away from cigarettes (14 months now)
Slashdot Mirror
not to mention pedantic, but...
really, a RAID array?
isn't that like an ATM machine?
a PIN number?
BMG music group?
RAS syndrome? (Redundant Acronym Syndrome)
check out garagegames.com
they have the Torque game engine.
$100 for a license. i am in the middle of a project using it.
some pretty well-known games have been made with it.
might not be what you're looking for, but it might be.
cross platform, too!
the old method requires you stand next to the person with the key and hit them on the head with a shovel.
more effective, but not as 1337.
this sure isn't scary right now...
Despotism
Take a dump in each machine; they sure won't be complaining about the former porky pig (now deceased).
Try peeing in every third one or so, just so you don't get bored.
This is one way to get management to buy new machines. Tell them "Here's a nice new machine. It's as fast as shit" and see what they say after you set it up in their office at 5pm on a friday before a holiday.
If nothing else, you didn't like working there anyway.
A fave writer of mine, John McPhee, years ago wrote a story, "Ice Pond" about an idea along these lines.
It has to do with running water in the winter into a pit to make slushy ice. Keep it covered, and it will last through summer. Put pipes at the bottom and run water through it, and the water will get cold (duh). Use this new 'reserve of cold' to cool buildings. Easy and cheap.
The story is in the books "Table of Contents" and "The Control of Nature". Both are highly recommended.
I just RTFA (sorry) and had a thought - this technique could be adapted to a device that could read the information from an LP or an old wax cylinder without touching it.
This could make a recordings museum caretaker very happy. He could hear the recordings that are too fragile to play.
If there was a contact-free record player, I wouldn't feel like I should sell all my LPs.
I remember a story in Analog a few years ago about a man with the only recording of his father's voice on an old lacquer disk which had unfortunately broken. He ends up being able to listen to it due to a tech not unlike this.
A good story. Damn, I miss having the time to read those every month.
An affordable application of this for repairing a damaged record (not just applying filters) would certainly end up on my dock.
leaving law to lawyers is like leaving daycare to pedophiles.
personally, i can't stand being subjected to:
kenny g style 'lite' jazz
cheezy 'lite' or 'soft' rock
christmas songs
or the worst, flaccid flatulent fatass 'classic' rock. if i NEVER hear 'stairway to hotel freebird' again it will be too soon. how many times in a life can one listen the same crap over and over and over and over and over and over.
i like the idea of a local station. preferably college radio.
or real classical.
or a dozen different covers of the carpenters 'close to you'
i don't like that it has 600 lbs of batteries and such a short range. i something like this but with a 500 or 1000 cc turbodiesel would be a lot faster and have much better range, depending on the tank size (600 lbs is almost 100 gallons).
it would probably get close to 100 mpg.
two seats would be nice, but for 100 mpg i'll only complain a few times a week.
hybrid turbodiesel 2 or 3 seater would be very cool.
comments? discuss among yourselves.
imagine a beowolf cluster of these - you could heat a whole town!
what if the dinosaurs on their planet weren't wiped by a huge meteor (too lazy for link) 65 mya. they would have a lot of time on us.
reptiles (were they?)(what do you think?) hunt by hiding and waiting for food to hop by. we're pretty close to sending ships with crews on them.
they might find us rather tasty!
RAS Syndrome (Redundant Acronym Syndrome)
PIN number
VIN number (same thing almost, i know)
and my favorite, from people who should know better - RAID Array!
BTW, an ATM machine is what they use to make ATMs, right?
I work at Intel and the names basically translate to "Is this thing supposed to get so hot?"
Some of them mean "hey, watch the lights dim when I open MSWord!"
Another means "This one is really really big, and heavy too."
There ya go - mystery solved!
I have been putting my Mac (G4/400) to sleep instead of shutting down for at least 2 years. With Panther on my machine, I restart every 2 months or so. I don't log out very often either (like every 2 months or so).
sleep is good. If I can't get any, at least my computer can.
seriously, it wakes up in 4 or 5 seconds. It takes almost a minute to restart.
Panther seems to restart a lot faster than Jaguar. Anyone else notice this or am I just hallucinating again?
A few years ago before I quit smoking (I know, QUITTER!) i took a dead drive and removed the lid, plugged it in, and used it for an ashtray while it was spinning. For some reason I thought this was the funniest thing. All the years of hype i remembered about "this is a dust particle, this is your hard drive, see how much bigger the dust is" just tickled a weird seldom-seen part of my brain.
Then I stuck the magnets to my fridge.
you read the article?
you're new here, right?
how bout 'win don't'
well yeah, but look - the dell comes with a TWO BUTTON MOUSE!!!!!!!
that makes up for the difference, at least.
sharing is stealing. sharing is evil. sharing is (blank). i learned in kindergarten that sharing is good. it's different now?
i came up with an anology recently. sharing is kinda like bringing popcorn into a movie. i wasn't going to buy their overpriced stale flavacol-soaked tish in the first place. if i bring or don't bring my own snack is largely irrelevent. it certainly doesn't deprive them of a sale. is it still stealing? am i still the antichrist? do i have to pay a $150,000 fine for each kernel i eat?
it's getting silly.
if nothing else comes of this, at least it means we'll be able to get cooler rocket toys at the dollar store!
ha ha
what kind of voltage are we talking about here, 10? 100? 1000?
some tubes regularly operate at 650 volts. i don't think 10 or even 100 volts is going to slag them.
all bets off if we're talking 1000 or more. (i know, distance squared blah blah blah)
anyone know?
actually, i think it was "hop on pop". maybe that was the one he needed help with. i know that 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar" is one of his favorites.
"presidenting for the compleate retard" is way beyond his level. daddy Dick has to read that one to him. when he can find him, that is.
'No matter what their credentials or rationale, it is wrong to use one's knowledge and the cover of academia to facilitate piracy and theft of digital property.'
amusing out-of-context snippet: 'it is wrong to use one's knowledge'
something george the bush joonyur never has to worry about
i know, it's flamebait. as long as it doesn't go on my PERMANENT record
salvation army. thrift stores. it is not uncommon to find half decent '80's vintage roadbikes for $10-20. some are huffys. (they get their name from the effect on the rider - huffy and puffy) some are schwinn (nothing like cast iron to make a durable bike. better exercise on a 80 pound bike, too!) or others. i just picked up a '82 univega for $10 us. under 30 lbs, 12 speed. not flashy. a decent bike in its day. if it gets stolen, i'll buy something else for $20 or less.
plus, you'll learn how to lube a chain, adjust brakes, and other simple maintenance thingies.
befriend a bike messenger if you have them where you are. they'll tell you lots of stuff. it's a cool culture.
caution - bike riding can be very addictive! but it's better than lots of other addictions. it helps keep me away from cigarettes (14 months now)
just my 2k millicents.