I drive a car, and have come to the opinion that 90% of motorcycle riders are idiots. I feel where you're coming from, car drivers can be oblivious, but at least they're not weaving through traffic on a crotch rocket going 30mph faster than the traffic flow. I'll agree that most drivers are bad (except for me, natch;), but the average car isn't driving nearly so aggressively and dangerously as the average bike.
Motorcycle riders all seem to share this idea that drivers (except them, natch!) are all terrible. So why are they the only ones that notice all these terrible drivers? It's not because people forget how to drive in the proximity of a motorcyle. It's because motorcycles are smaller and harder to see! Combine that with the nutso behavior of some of them, and I'm surprised motorcycle fatalities aren't worse than they already are.
This theory is about the creation of a black hole formed from a *single* large star that collapses. Nothing to do with black holes in the center of galaxies built up from many, many stars.
You're absolutely right. Yup. No such thing as bad PR...
Anyway, this is offtopic, but does anyone know where I can buy a copy of "SCO Unix"? I don't remember how I heard about em, but I know they've been in the news and stuff, so they must be pretty good...
While I agree with your sentiment, comparing the laserjet 6 with the laserjet 4 is a little disengenous. The LJ6 was never meant to be a replacement for the much more serious LJ4. A more valid comparison would be between the LJ4 and LJ4000, which came out roughly around the time of the LJ6. The LJ4 retailed for around $2000, as did the LJ4000. The LJ6 retailed for under $800.
The LJ4000 is a fine printer in my opinion, as are its successors, the 4050 and to a lesser extent the 4100. I do agree though, that the LJ4 probably beats them all for sheer tanklike reliability.
Translation: I am 14 years old and I have no need for any sort of stability in my "rig". I don't have to worry about getting any sort of real work done, so I play games all day and look at porn. If I can overclock a 3% performance increase, I'll cream my virgin shorts.
Translation: I am an out-of-touch Intel fanboy who enjoys hemorrhaging money for equivalent performance because of a delusion that that Intel products are somehow more "stable".
While this is true, it completely ignores the international scientific consensus that the current warming trends are caused by human activities increasing CO2 in the atmosphere to levels not previously seen, at least for the past 400,000 years, probably in the last 20 million years. And this happened over the course of about 150 years since the industrial revolution. The third assessment report by the IPCC Internationalstates:
"In the light of new evidence and taking into account the remaining uncertainties, most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations."
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg2/022.htm
Importants points:
1. These changes are not part of the natural warming/cooling cycles.
2. They are happening at extremely fast rates. And those rates are increasing.
3. Even if we stopped all CO2 production right now, levels would continue to rise for hundreds of years due to lag.
4. Small shifts in global temperatures have large impacts on global climate.
Global climate change is real, we're causing it, and it's not something to be taken lightly.
The Fine Article mentions that a reboot will restore root, but that brings up an interesting point. A system like this MUST have a way to turn it off if you need to, so what's preventing you from doing that when you want to slack?
Really all this is good for is a reminder that you should be working...and for that, simpler methods (PostIt?) would probably suffice.
But that technique is not comparable, since it requires headphones. The article is talking about a way to get the same result, only with everyone in an audience at the same time, no headphones required.
All the solar energy in a 10x10 mile square is not enough to power the US.
10x10 = 100 sq mi ~= 260 million sq meters
The sun puts out (very roughly) 1000 watts of energy per square meter. This means our square will produce 260 GW (million KW). According to Google, the all the US power plants combined at full capacity produce 690 GW. So we're off by factor of almost 3, even assuming: 100% efficiency, constant direct sunlight round the clock.
A more accurate estimate would use this reference: "In Baltimore, Maryland, USA, for example, a flat array will receive about 1400 kWh/m2 per year." This means
1400/(365*24) ~= 0.16kw per sq meter.
This gives us 41.6 GW for the square. Off by a factor of over 15!
So, it's way off, but not ridiculously so. Consider that the numbers would be pretty close if we used a 40x40 mile square (665 GW). The real problem, of course is storing all that energy for use at night!
A couple of the main concerns often cited are that GM crops will interbreed with native plants, possibly creating environmental problems. Another concern is that it is possible that there might health risks associated. The last especially is used to create (possibly) unnecessary fear of GM crops.
That said, the real problem with GM food is that we don't know what the problems are. There is essentially no research done by agribusiness into possible health/environmental problems caused by it. This is why, while I'm very excited about the wonderful possibilities that GM food could bring, I really think there needs to be some money for independant, unbiased research before it is (more) widely used.
The one that really pisses me off, however, is that instead of using GM to create plants more resistant to insects, for example, companies like Monsanto are using is to create crops with more resistance to pesticides! This means that we can keep dumping chemicals with known health risks at greater and greater concentrations onto our food and into our water supplies. All the amazing possibilities for GM, and they use it for something as stupid as that. Yeesh.
Yes, this is the same type of process. Fluid when handled gently, but it becomes rigid when subjected to a sharp impact.
If you jab it, it feels hard and your finger won't go in very far. You can pour it slowly, but you can grab a clump of it, almost as if it's a solid. This kind of fluid is called dilatant. It becomes more viscous when agitated or compressed.
The cornstarch mixture is sometime called ooblick.
From the first line of the article:
"...have storage capacity of up to four gigabytes."
Not to piss on you, but I seriously don't understand how it's harder to click a link and read a paragraph than post a comment.
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Radiation that "punches" through stuff is not interacting with it. The stuff that gets absorbed is the stuff you have to worry about.
I have a Canon F1 that I use exclusively. My father gave it to me for me 13th birthday, one of two that he owned. The fact that it's still in perfect working order after a teenage me dragging it through is a testament to its amazing reliability. It's been worked on once in its life that I know of, a $20 cleaning and replacment of a foam damper. On Ebay these cameras are a little more expensive than you want to pay, but there's a reason that 30 year old cameras still command a good price. I can tell you it'll probably be about the same price if you ever decide to sell it.
It's entirely manual, the small watch battery for the light meter runs for years without a change, goes up to 1/2000 of a second exposure, it's got aperature preview, a timer for shots of yourself, etc, etc, etc. The *only* complaint I've ever had is that it's pretty heavy. Go hiking for a few miles, and you start wishing it was one of those little plastic digital jobies. But the weight does help with both the reliability and taking slow exposure shots without a tripod. Hold your breath, lean against a tree, and you can get shots you might otherwise have missed.
It's old skool, but it's solid, dependable, and a great camera to learn on, since you control *everything*.
I'm looking at my 256MB thumb drive. It seems to be about 1x3x5cm, not counting the USB connector. That would make a 12GB solid state storage device with no moving parts. Not a bad increase, in my opinion.
Or compare this to an iPod. 10x6x1.5cm for the 15GB iPod (the 30GB is thicker - about 1.9). That would make an iPod with about 90GB, with presumably much better battery life, and shock tolerance. You'll need some room for other stuff, so cut that in half, and it's still 3x the storage capacity, with other benefits.
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I drive a car, and have come to the opinion that 90% of motorcycle riders are idiots. I feel where you're coming from, car drivers can be oblivious, but at least they're not weaving through traffic on a crotch rocket going 30mph faster than the traffic flow. I'll agree that most drivers are bad (except for me, natch ;), but the average car isn't driving nearly so aggressively and dangerously as the average bike.
Motorcycle riders all seem to share this idea that drivers (except them, natch!) are all terrible. So why are they the only ones that notice all these terrible drivers? It's not because people forget how to drive in the proximity of a motorcyle. It's because motorcycles are smaller and harder to see! Combine that with the nutso behavior of some of them, and I'm surprised motorcycle fatalities aren't worse than they already are.
This theory is about the creation of a black hole formed from a *single* large star that collapses. Nothing to do with black holes in the center of galaxies built up from many, many stars.
"Akihabara has got everything that men like. That's why almost 90% of the people you see here are men."
I'm sure glad they didn't ruin paradise with any, uh, actual women.
+5 informative...
Slashdot meta-humor is always funnier.
You're absolutely right. Yup. No such thing as bad PR...
Anyway, this is offtopic, but does anyone know where I can buy a copy of "SCO Unix"? I don't remember how I heard about em, but I know they've been in the news and stuff, so they must be pretty good...
Well, they forgot to mention you have to tattoo a barcode on your forehead for this to work...
Okay, Benny, I'm only going to sing this one more time:
Ohhhhhhh, if you want it to be possessive, it's just "ITS."
But, if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's "I-T-apostrophe-S,"
Scalawag.
89!
While I agree with your sentiment, comparing the laserjet 6 with the laserjet 4 is a little disengenous. The LJ6 was never meant to be a replacement for the much more serious LJ4. A more valid comparison would be between the LJ4 and LJ4000, which came out roughly around the time of the LJ6. The LJ4 retailed for around $2000, as did the LJ4000. The LJ6 retailed for under $800.
The LJ4000 is a fine printer in my opinion, as are its successors, the 4050 and to a lesser extent the 4100. I do agree though, that the LJ4 probably beats them all for sheer tanklike reliability.
1. These changes are not part of the natural warming/cooling cycles.
2. They are happening at extremely fast rates. And those rates are increasing.
3. Even if we stopped all CO2 production right now, levels would continue to rise for hundreds of years due to lag.
4. Small shifts in global temperatures have large impacts on global climate.
Global climate change is real, we're causing it, and it's not something to be taken lightly.
I guess I must not have chosen wisely...my SO can occasionally be much more painful than any software I've ever used...
well, almost any
Or a reboot, according to The Fine Article.
A system like this MUST have a way to turn it off if you need to, so what's stopping you from doing that when you want to slack?
Really all this is good for is a reminder that you should be working...and for that, simpler methods (PostIt?) would probably suffice.
The Fine Article mentions that a reboot will restore root, but that brings up an interesting point. A system like this MUST have a way to turn it off if you need to, so what's preventing you from doing that when you want to slack?
Really all this is good for is a reminder that you should be working...and for that, simpler methods (PostIt?) would probably suffice.
But that technique is not comparable, since it requires headphones. The article is talking about a way to get the same result, only with everyone in an audience at the same time, no headphones required.
3. Patent Profit!
All the solar energy in a 10x10 mile square is not enough to power the US.
10x10 = 100 sq mi ~= 260 million sq meters
The sun puts out (very roughly) 1000 watts of energy per square meter. This means our square will produce 260 GW (million KW). According to Google, the all the US power plants combined at full capacity produce 690 GW. So we're off by factor of almost 3, even assuming: 100% efficiency, constant direct sunlight round the clock.
A more accurate estimate would use this reference: "In Baltimore, Maryland, USA, for example, a flat array will receive about 1400 kWh/m2 per year." This means
1400/(365*24) ~= 0.16kw per sq meter.
This gives us 41.6 GW for the square. Off by a factor of over 15!
So, it's way off, but not ridiculously so. Consider that the numbers would be pretty close if we used a 40x40 mile square (665 GW).
The real problem, of course is storing all that energy for use at night!
You can easily convert a 1.5Mbs wav to a 128Kbps .wav.
.083 seconds!
All you have to do is limit the length of the song to
A couple of the main concerns often cited are that GM crops will interbreed with native plants, possibly creating environmental problems. Another concern is that it is possible that there might health risks associated. The last especially is used to create (possibly) unnecessary fear of GM crops.
That said, the real problem with GM food is that we don't know what the problems are. There is essentially no research done by agribusiness into possible health/environmental problems caused by it. This is why, while I'm very excited about the wonderful possibilities that GM food could bring, I really think there needs to be some money for independant, unbiased research before it is (more) widely used.
The one that really pisses me off, however, is that instead of using GM to create plants more resistant to insects, for example, companies like Monsanto are using is to create crops with more resistance to pesticides! This means that we can keep dumping chemicals with known health risks at greater and greater concentrations onto our food and into our water supplies. All the amazing possibilities for GM, and they use it for something as stupid as that. Yeesh.
Yes, this is the same type of process. Fluid when handled gently, but it becomes rigid when subjected to a sharp impact.
If you jab it, it feels hard and your finger won't go in very far. You can pour it slowly, but you can grab a clump of it, almost as if it's a solid. This kind of fluid is called dilatant. It becomes more viscous when agitated or compressed.
The cornstarch mixture is sometime called ooblick.
From the first line of the article: "...have storage capacity of up to four gigabytes." Not to piss on you, but I seriously don't understand how it's harder to click a link and read a paragraph than post a comment.
Radiation that "punches" through stuff is not interacting with it. The stuff that gets absorbed is the stuff you have to worry about.
I have a Canon F1 that I use exclusively. My father gave it to me for me 13th birthday, one of two that he owned. The fact that it's still in perfect working order after a teenage me dragging it through is a testament to its amazing reliability. It's been worked on once in its life that I know of, a $20 cleaning and replacment of a foam damper. On Ebay these cameras are a little more expensive than you want to pay, but there's a reason that 30 year old cameras still command a good price. I can tell you it'll probably be about the same price if you ever decide to sell it.
It's entirely manual, the small watch battery for the light meter runs for years without a change, goes up to 1/2000 of a second exposure, it's got aperature preview, a timer for shots of yourself, etc, etc, etc. The *only* complaint I've ever had is that it's pretty heavy. Go hiking for a few miles, and you start wishing it was one of those little plastic digital jobies. But the weight does help with both the reliability and taking slow exposure shots without a tripod. Hold your breath, lean against a tree, and you can get shots you might otherwise have missed.
It's old skool, but it's solid, dependable, and a great camera to learn on, since you control *everything*.
Then you might have to deal with the indignant slaps.
That's not the smartest way to do it.
You can send out other pings while you're waiting for the first one to come back.
I'm looking at my 256MB thumb drive. It seems to be about 1x3x5cm, not counting the USB connector. That would make a 12GB solid state storage device with no moving parts. Not a bad increase, in my opinion.
Or compare this to an iPod. 10x6x1.5cm for the 15GB iPod (the 30GB is thicker - about 1.9). That would make an iPod with about 90GB, with presumably much better battery life, and shock tolerance. You'll need some room for other stuff, so cut that in half, and it's still 3x the storage capacity, with other benefits.