I had an account at USA.NET for a while. "Free email for life!"
After a while I started getting lots of spam. The spam seemed to be addressed to 50 or so accounts that all started with "da" and ended with "@usa.net". Fairly obvious they were selling their lists to the highest bidder, and the second highest, and...
A few years later the whole domain closes it's free email service. Guess my life was up.
RTV is the material of choice. Fairly rubbery and non-conductive. It also has various viscosities for various purposes. Some of it is like tooth paste and you just smear it around. Some of it is a bit like watered down syrup and you'll actually put it under a vacuum to pull the air bubbles out. This is good for filling in pins around connectors and such.
About one hour ago we launched a payload from Wallops Flight Facility called DEBI. The payload acheived 40 G's acceleration and a velocity of mach 10. The wire wrap boards survived the flight and the DIPs were merely pressed into the wire wrap sockets.
I think a bigger concern would be whether the connectors are properly held together and maintain electrical connection. The boards should be fine.
You can find lots of DEBI info by looking through the past two weeks of my journal. You'd have to follow links from my web page link below in my sig. I won't link it directly since the machine will probably tank after only a few concurrent connections.
> Users can attempt to steer the pendulum, but it will always remain somewhat unpredictable.
Users may apply forces to this pendulum while it follows laws of physics and gravitation, but it's still unpredictable.
What part of a pendulum with forces acting on it is anything but calculatable to a highschool sophomore in a physics class?
Just because some hippy artist isn't able to figure out that the pendulum is going to move away from him when he pushes it DOESN'T make in unpredictable.
Now, if it would suddenly transform into a small cactus with the ability to alter colors on a small wood working shop in the bronx - that would be unpredictable.
"For my next art project I have used the curious attractive force known as gravity. Watch as I let these objects go, from rest! They seem to accelerate rather unpredictably. Some go down. Others go downer. Some might even go up!"
That's a shame. In the years I worked in sales and tech support for a computer store in Florida we considered Fujitsu the RMA king because they had such a high percentage of new drives that were DOA. We eventually stopped offering Fujitsu drives.
If you have the space, spread out with a projector. At home I use an Infocus projector. It doesn't have an absolute resolution but it doubles as a multi-media center quite nicely.
For serious work with limited space you need the 3840x1000 resolution. At work I have a pair of Sony GDM-FW900 monitors. Great resolution, crisp imagines, easy on the eyes. Beautiful
Pateince man, please don't take my reply as an attack on you.
I guess I should have been more precise as to which point I considered a legend.
From http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/airstrip.asp
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Claim: The American interstate highway system was designed to be used for emergency airstrips in case of war.
Status: False.
Origins: Numerous folks swear Interstate highways in the United States must be designed so that one mile in every five is perfectly straight and flat. According to this whispered bit of facetious lore, if the U.S. ever comes under attack, those straight, flat stretches will be used as landing strips.
Richard Weingroff, information liaison specialist for the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Infrastructure and the FHA's unofficial historian, says the closest any of this came to touching base with reality was in 1944, when Congress briefly considered the possibility of including funding for emergency landing strips in the Federal Highway-Aid Act (the law that authorized designation of a "National System of Interstate Highways"). At no point was the idea kited of using highways or other roads to land planes on; the proposed landing strips would have been built alongside major highways, with the highways serving to handle ground transportation access to and from these strips. The proposal was quickly dropped, and no more was ever heard of it. (A few countries do use some of their roads as military air strips, however.)
Some references to the one-mile-in-five assertion claim it's part of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. This piece of legislation committed the federal government to build what became the 42,800-mile Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, which makes it the logical item to cite concerning regulations about how the interstate highway system was to be laid out. The act did not, however, contain any "one-in-five" requirement, nor did it even suggest the use of stretches of the interstate system as emergency landing strips. The one-out-of-five rule was not part of any later legislation either.
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Computers built into monitors with fold-up keyboards are far from new. Laptops have been doing it for a while. Don't confuse laptops with notebooks, laptops typically had real monitors in them, albeit small, and real ISA slots.
If only the satellite pictures with high enough resolution to see the kids making these things would be released to the public.
Nevermind, the public would still say it was alien crop circles made to prove that NASA faked the moon landings, as was written in the email I got proclaiming that I would get 14 million longer penises in Nigeria because of the government conspiracy to spy on us using the IR receivers for our television remotes.
As long as religion reigns, ignorance will be our biggest social problem.
I know this comment is probably too late to ever be read, but I didn't see anyone else comment on this.
Whether there was an exploit or not may not be the question. The RIAA has a way of cataloging the files you have available and they're received in the p2p stream. Isn't that what a search does? Can't I just type something into my search box and the gnutella client will return with a list of files and IPs?
... It was attacked by terrorists. So, I built a second one. That was attacked by terrorists. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then was attacked by terrorists, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest monument in these islands.
So does this mean if I play Crazy Taxi that if I keep the sound on I get less of a tip from the customers? Nothing's worse than them stepping out of the taxi in the middle of my drive because they're unsatisfied.
Now, if the taxi driver drives past some kids in the street with their portable stereo thumping, do the kids have to pay the fee too? This would really quiet down my neighborhood at night.
The taxi driver needs to start billing the artists for the advertising he's providing for them.
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After a while I started getting lots of spam. The spam seemed to be addressed to 50 or so accounts that all started with "da" and ended with "@usa.net". Fairly obvious they were selling their lists to the highest bidder, and the second highest, and...
A few years later the whole domain closes it's free email service. Guess my life was up.
RTV is the material of choice. Fairly rubbery and non-conductive. It also has various viscosities for various purposes. Some of it is like tooth paste and you just smear it around. Some of it is a bit like watered down syrup and you'll actually put it under a vacuum to pull the air bubbles out. This is good for filling in pins around connectors and such.
I think a bigger concern would be whether the connectors are properly held together and maintain electrical connection. The boards should be fine.
You can find lots of DEBI info by looking through the past two weeks of my journal. You'd have to follow links from my web page link below in my sig. I won't link it directly since the machine will probably tank after only a few concurrent connections.
It's the RIAA!
You are so going to get anally raped for even mentioning this is possible. Raped with a 50 quadrillion dollar lawsuit.
Now, how can we mod down the original article and get it off the main page? :)
Users may apply forces to this pendulum while it follows laws of physics and gravitation, but it's still unpredictable.
What part of a pendulum with forces acting on it is anything but calculatable to a highschool sophomore in a physics class?
Just because some hippy artist isn't able to figure out that the pendulum is going to move away from him when he pushes it DOESN'T make in unpredictable.
Now, if it would suddenly transform into a small cactus with the ability to alter colors on a small wood working shop in the bronx - that would be unpredictable.
"For my next art project I have used the curious attractive force known as gravity. Watch as I let these objects go, from rest! They seem to accelerate rather unpredictably. Some go down. Others go downer. Some might even go up!"
That's a shame. In the years I worked in sales and tech support for a computer store in Florida we considered Fujitsu the RMA king because they had such a high percentage of new drives that were DOA. We eventually stopped offering Fujitsu drives.
When my 2000 hours are up, I'll just buy another :)
For serious work with limited space you need the 3840x1000 resolution. At work I have a pair of Sony GDM-FW900 monitors. Great resolution, crisp imagines, easy on the eyes. Beautiful
The removal of the splash screen is a checkbox option. But, short of something that drastic, rename the directory called "Splash Screen".
Anyone else look at the heading and instantly think of Nier's Open Source Spectrometer?
However, MLB plans to go on strike after the third game, thus reducing the total number of webcast games.
I guess I should have been more precise as to which point I considered a legend.
From http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/airstrip.asp
--
Claim: The American interstate highway system was designed to be used for emergency airstrips in case of war.
Status: False.
Origins: Numerous folks swear Interstate highways in the United States must be designed so that one mile in every five is perfectly straight and flat. According to this whispered bit of facetious lore, if the U.S. ever comes under attack, those straight, flat stretches will be used as landing strips.
Richard Weingroff, information liaison specialist for the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Infrastructure and the FHA's unofficial historian, says the closest any of this came to touching base with reality was in 1944, when Congress briefly considered the possibility of including funding for emergency landing strips in the Federal Highway-Aid Act (the law that authorized designation of a "National System of Interstate Highways"). At no point was the idea kited of using highways or other roads to land planes on; the proposed landing strips would have been built alongside major highways, with the highways serving to handle ground transportation access to and from these strips. The proposal was quickly dropped, and no more was ever heard of it. (A few countries do use some of their roads as military air strips, however.)
Some references to the one-mile-in-five assertion claim it's part of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. This piece of legislation committed the federal government to build what became the 42,800-mile Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, which makes it the logical item to cite concerning regulations about how the interstate highway system was to be laid out. The act did not, however, contain any "one-in-five" requirement, nor did it even suggest the use of stretches of the interstate system as emergency landing strips. The one-out-of-five rule was not part of any later legislation either.
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Urban Legend. I'm too lazy to look it up, but try snopes.com
Computers built into monitors with fold-up keyboards are far from new. Laptops have been doing it for a while. Don't confuse laptops with notebooks, laptops typically had real monitors in them, albeit small, and real ISA slots.
But you see, to the rest of us it wasn't off topic at all. Thus the problem.
Nevermind, the public would still say it was alien crop circles made to prove that NASA faked the moon landings, as was written in the email I got proclaiming that I would get 14 million longer penises in Nigeria because of the government conspiracy to spy on us using the IR receivers for our television remotes.
As long as religion reigns, ignorance will be our biggest social problem.
Whether there was an exploit or not may not be the question. The RIAA has a way of cataloging the files you have available and they're received in the p2p stream. Isn't that what a search does? Can't I just type something into my search box and the gnutella client will return with a list of files and IPs?
Don't forget the stickers and large exhaust tip. Every 20 year-old knows that those two items will give you another 78 horsepower.
6. Free software
By Natchswing
Since your software is so successful, have you thought about charging money for it?
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Actually, that was meant to be a sarcastic joke aimed at making a few people laugh, not a serious question that actually got sent.
Successful free software... charge money for it...
*sigh*
You're Batman, eh?
... It was attacked by terrorists. So, I built a second one. That was attacked by terrorists. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then was attacked by terrorists, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest monument in these islands.
Since your software is so successful, have you thought about charging money for it?
Now, if the taxi driver drives past some kids in the street with their portable stereo thumping, do the kids have to pay the fee too? This would really quiet down my neighborhood at night.
The taxi driver needs to start billing the artists for the advertising he's providing for them.
Funny you should mention it. I have two DOS games that I keep a win98 partition for, UFO and SC2.