A word of advice to all the/.ers under the drinking age. Don't take up home brewing Freshman year in college like me just because you can buy the supplies to make beer.
Well, I can do one better -- 20 years ago, when I was a freshman, my roommate and I built a still with equipment we bought from the chem department. It made something rather like Everclear, albeit with a slight rubber taste from the surgical tubing we used to join all the glass bits. What we didn't drink, we'd pour under the doors of neighboring dorm rooms & light on fire -- we got to meet lots of people that way.
Some reports I read after the attack indicated that the collapse would be equivalent to a nuke in the 25 kiloton range.
As I recall, there was at least one report that the Feds were quite interested in calculating the energy of the collapse, with an eye toward arguing that the terrorists used "weapons of mass destruction", which could then justify our using such weapons.
Actually, he's supposedly stopped using satellite phones since it was revealed that the NSA had been intercepting his conversations, at least according to a news report I saw earlier today.
They showed a demonstration video of a typical engineer in a simple short sleeved button down shirt (plain) and simple tie. He neutralized himself (voltage equalization IIRC). Then someone (also equalized) held the tie at shoulder level just away from the 1st guy's shirt. He let go and let the tie brush against the guy's shirt. They then measured how much static electtricity was generated. It was more than enough to damage a circuit board.
So that's why Dilbert's tie is always standing up; to prevent static generation.
What it boils down to is that the copyright owners are too lazy and don't want to spend the money to enforce their copyrights, by nailing the individual violators. So instead, they've been strong-arming ISPs to "tear down the house" instead of "arresting the crack dealers".
It was called Project Orion. It ran for several years in the late 50s and early 60s and was more or less killed off by the nuclear test ban treaty of 1963.
There was a considerable amount of R&D work, including building of at least one prototype (a scale model, using conventional explosives). IIRC, the Coca-Cola folks provided some expertise in desigining the mechanism to store & release the bombs; vending machines have been doing this for many years. One wonders how much change the pilot would have to carry for a trip to Alpha Centauri...
Back when I was with Charter Communications in metro Atlanta (about 2 years ago), I was the first in the neighborhood to sign up. I was getting 1.5/256 solid, with static IP. Within the space of 4 months, average bandwidth plummeted to about 30 kb/s, about 60% of what I got with dialup.
That persisted for several months until Charter added more connectivity between the headend and their provider.
Note that the degradation of bandwidth isn't limited to cable -- I've been with Telocity DSL for 14 months, and average bandwidth has decreased by something in the area of 50%, mostly due to saturation of Telocity's network and significant routing screwups on the part of Telocity and Level3, their backbone provider.
Would you settle for three? Target sells a 7-outlet strip with 4 normally-spaced outlets on one side, and 3 wide-spaced outlets, perfect for warts, on the other.
The general rule, at least according to the various overclocking sites that I've seen, is that the PS fan should blow out of the case, and that other case fans should blow in.
On my systems, I use mini or full tower cases, and I mount an inward-pointing auxilary fan on the lower front of the case (there's almost always a fan holder on the speaker mount or card holder cage). That way, cool air is drawn in from floor level, and once it gets heated up inside the case, it'll be blown out by the PS fan.
If I remember correctly, cows have a virus very similar to smallpox, and making also humans sick. For humans, this is illness is not very dangerous. The viruses were close enough to each other so that having had this virus gave you immunity to smallpox. That's why dairy farmers didn't get smallpox so often.
You do remember correctly -- the disease is called, surprisingly enough, cowpox.
It was this disease that Jenner used to create the first smallpox vaccine (which word is derived from the name of the cowpox virus).
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A word of advice to all the /.ers under the drinking age. Don't take up home brewing Freshman year in college like me just because you can buy the supplies to make beer.
Well, I can do one better -- 20 years ago, when I was a freshman, my roommate and I built a still with equipment we bought from the chem department. It made something rather like Everclear, albeit with a slight rubber taste from the surgical tubing we used to join all the glass bits. What we didn't drink, we'd pour under the doors of neighboring dorm rooms & light on fire -- we got to meet lots of people that way.
Some reports I read after the attack indicated that the collapse would be equivalent to a nuke in the 25 kiloton range.
As I recall, there was at least one report that the Feds were quite interested in calculating the energy of the collapse, with an eye toward arguing that the terrorists used "weapons of mass destruction", which could then justify our using such weapons.
APC makes something pretty close to what you're asking for.
Well, according to NBC, the President has done just that, declaring a national emergency earlier today.
Actually, he's supposedly stopped using satellite phones since it was revealed that the NSA had been intercepting his conversations, at least according to a news report I saw earlier today.
Well, at my station in Alpharetta (20 miles north of ATL), gas was $1.339 early this AM (before the WTC attack), and was still that price this PM.
However, it was $1.179 yesterday PM; so, unless QuikTrip employs psychics, I'm not ready to ascribe this to price gouging.
Well, regular unleaded at my favorite station in metro Atlanta is $1.339; it was $1.179 yesterday.
However, the increase occurred hours before the WTC attack -- I assume it was merely coincidence, unless QuikTrip employs psychics.
Q: Why did the mathematician name his dog Cauchy?
A: Because he left residues at all the poles.
So that you know exactly what not to do.
Companies like Concept Kitchen make disposable adhesive overlays that protect the touchscreen.
They showed a demonstration video of a typical engineer in a simple short sleeved button down shirt (plain) and simple tie. He neutralized himself (voltage equalization IIRC). Then someone (also equalized) held the tie at shoulder level just away from the 1st guy's shirt. He let go and let the tie brush against the guy's shirt. They then measured how much static electtricity was generated. It was more than enough to damage a circuit board.
So that's why Dilbert's tie is always standing up; to prevent static generation.
Lisa proved that in the Simpsons episode Bye Bye Nerdie, rerun last Sunday.
15.75 kHz for NTSC.
How about Seven of Nine on Boston Public ?
There's also a Tir na nOg in Alpharetta, GA (northern suburb of Atlanta) -- it's a horse farm.
Telocity never went bankrupt -- they were acquired by DirectTV back in December.
I've been with Telocity for 16 months now, with no major complaints. Sure, their customer service sucks, but that's true of most companies nowadays.
The real news here is that they're positioning this cement blend for use in space structures.
They should wait till this guy launches his cement mixer.
What it boils down to is that the copyright owners are too lazy and don't want to spend the money to enforce their copyrights, by nailing the individual violators. So instead, they've been strong-arming ISPs to "tear down the house" instead of "arresting the crack dealers".
Well, with the Feds settings such a good example, can you blame them?
True -- this is explained in a bit more detail in John McPhee's The Curve of Binding Energy.
It was called Project Orion. It ran for several years in the late 50s and early 60s and was more or less killed off by the nuclear test ban treaty of 1963.
There was a considerable amount of R&D work, including building of at least one prototype (a scale model, using conventional explosives). IIRC, the Coca-Cola folks provided some expertise in desigining the mechanism to store & release the bombs; vending machines have been doing this for many years. One wonders how much change the pilot would have to carry for a trip to Alpha Centauri...
Back when I was with Charter Communications in metro Atlanta (about 2 years ago), I was the first in the neighborhood to sign up. I was getting 1.5/256 solid, with static IP. Within the space of 4 months, average bandwidth plummeted to about 30 kb/s, about 60% of what I got with dialup.
That persisted for several months until Charter added more connectivity between the headend and their provider.
Note that the degradation of bandwidth isn't limited to cable -- I've been with Telocity DSL for 14 months, and average bandwidth has decreased by something in the area of 50%, mostly due to saturation of Telocity's network and significant routing screwups on the part of Telocity and Level3, their backbone provider.
Would you settle for three? Target sells a 7-outlet strip with 4 normally-spaced outlets on one side, and 3 wide-spaced outlets, perfect for warts, on the other.
The general rule, at least according to the various overclocking sites that I've seen, is that the PS fan should blow out of the case, and that other case fans should blow in.
On my systems, I use mini or full tower cases, and I mount an inward-pointing auxilary fan on the lower front of the case (there's almost always a fan holder on the speaker mount or card holder cage). That way, cool air is drawn in from floor level, and once it gets heated up inside the case, it'll be blown out by the PS fan.
If I remember correctly, cows have a virus very similar to smallpox, and making also humans sick. For humans, this is illness is not very dangerous. The viruses were close enough to each other so that having had this virus gave you immunity to smallpox. That's why dairy farmers didn't get smallpox so often.
You do remember correctly -- the disease is called, surprisingly enough, cowpox. It was this disease that Jenner used to create the first smallpox vaccine (which word is derived from the name of the cowpox virus).
Instead, the scientists say, the big bang stemmed from a collision of two universes that had been separated by a "fifth dimension."
Those of us of a certain age know that the universe existed before that band existed, and continues to exist even after the band broke up.