I wonder if this tech can be super-sized and applied to breast implants. Crank up the current and convex the boob in a millisecond. Could make for improved Super Bowl viewing.
Damn straight. "Forrest Gump", the book, was a complete riot. His best friend was even an orangutan - absolutely priceless! The movie - typical Hollywood schlock. Read the book when you have a chance.
This would also depend on what kind of fruit you purchase, 'cause as most would know, not all fruit ripen after picking.
For example, fruits which will ripen at room temperature AFTER picking:
1. Golden Delicious and Gravenstein Apples only 2. Avocados 3. Apricots 4. Bananas 5. Guava 6. Mangoes 7. Papaya 8. Pears 9. Persimmons 10. Pineapples 11. Plums 12. Pomegranates 13. Cactus fruit
The following fruits will not ripen at room temperature AFTER picking:
1. All Apples (except the Golden Delicious and Gravenstein) 2. All Berries 3. Cherries 4. Citrus fruit 5. Figs 6. Grapes 7. Melons 8. Nectarines 9. Peaches
Reading that interview, you gotta love PJ's laid back attitude to answering those possible blunders. I wonder what other hot shot director would be so forthcoming.
In Seasons of Mist, Lucifer closes hell and chooses to catch a few rays on a deck chair in Perth. An interesting endorsement for my home town, and being utterly biased, one I agree with - any particular reasons for selecting the West?
I also live in HK and you know "what is available" - sweet fuck all to the masses.
Hong Kong's Pay-Tv industry has been slow to develop meaningful competition. This may be about to change as later this year two new entrants, TVB's Galaxy channel and City Telecom will join PCCW (the local fixed line incumbent, for now) in launching a new service. They will all have to compete with the dominant Pay TV provider Hong Kong cable TV (HKCTV). It provides 26 channels of varying quality, safe in the knowledge that its exclusive coverage of live English Premier League football keeps its audience captive if not always content. I couldn't give a rat's bum about soccer so my channel selection falls even further. Having been given a 5 year grace period before it had to face competition from new licences, HKCTV now has 600,000 users and can reach 90% of the population.
PCCW has understandably been keen to exploit its early investment in its broadband network and was possibly ahead of its time launching it iTV pay television service in 1997 (?). However it failed to reach critical mass and was dogged by technology glitches before finally being discontinued. Undeterred it later launched broadband TV with its much-hyped Network of the World (NOW) service - even on its rival HKCTV's backbone in 2000. It proved an embarrassing and costly let down and was quickly dropped (along with Richard Li), along with much of the hyperbole of the dot.com period.
Now PCCW is back again with Broadband TV and is aiming to resurrect its NOW brand - hoping this time will be third time lucky. It plans to launch a series of channels using multicasting technology over its broadband network from next month. While it doesn't have HKCTV's drawcard of live sports, it does have the advantage of flexibility as special interest channels can be purchased individually at a cost of as little as $20.
Somewhere in this melting pot of proposed services is Yes TV, however they've been embellishing their proposed service for three years.
The bottom line is that there is a lot of hype about what you will receice in your home. For now, the bulk of the population are stuck with truckloads of soccer and a healthy dose of hype.
A mate of mine was studying Agriculture Science at University, and for whatever reason they were involved in the collection of pig sperm. So here's my mate, on his haunches holding a container of sorts (I believe the animal is riding a man-made pig's rear), and just before the pig lets the cheese fly, a fellow student knocks the container to the ground. The pig lets rip with what he termed "a staggering amount of spunk" all over his face. My memory is hazy as to this guy's post-blow relationship with the fellow prankster.
Perhaps like others (and maybe this point has been raised previously), I was curious why this "spaceship" has umpteen windows. Searching the Scaled website, this is addressed under FAQs. For those interested:
"The windows must be small to keep the weight of the vehicle down and they must be round to minimize the structural loads. This configuration is also the least expensive to manufacture. Each portal consists of two windows to provide redundancy for the integrity of the pressure vessel should one window crack or fail. The number and location of the windows were selected to provide the pilot a view of the horizon throughout SpaceShipOne's mission profile."
A guy I used to work with was a vegan. Funny thing was, on weekends he would go rabbit shooting. But of course he wouldn't eat the bunnies he shot. Then again, he would duck off to a vegetarian restaurant and order tofu that tasted like rabbit. We never did get along.
I guess not technically called trees (then again bonsais, which tend to be pretty small, low to the ground, are really a tree/shrub grown in a pot), however here are a couple articles concerning organisms (read shrub or bush) which may be older than the Methuselah.
Exactly. Which makes molluscs such as the Nautilus so interesting in that their many chambered shell protects them from the "bends" when brought up to the surface from deep, deep down.
Things could be worse. Taking face value share prices from graphs (thus smoothing out share splits etc) you could have invested in these beauties in 1999:
China Mobile - $78+ down to $18 BT - $240+ down to $33 DT - $90+ down to $14 Vodafone - $60+ down to $21 France Telecom - $160+ to $24 AT&T - $400+ to $20
Letâ(TM)s not forget Worldcom or Global Crossing.
(These are rough numbers of course - just providing some perspective)
Exactly. Look in todayâ(TM)s news. Hutchison is suing their partner in Europe, KPN, for not ponying up the their share in a fund raising exercise this year. KPN in turn, not only wrote-off 900 million pounds for their investment stake during the last financial year, but is probably going to counter sue Hutch to buy out their 15% stake in âoe3â.
Problems you hear with 3G in Europe include drop calls, poor reception, prohibitively expensive, no killer app (as mentioned often) â" hell, you donâ(TM)t even receive streaming video. You can only download vid clips and then play them back.
So operators subsidize the bejesus out of the handsets hoping to make their return on investment through customer data take-up. While you witness people buying these new-fangled phones, how many actually take photos and then email them on from their handset. Sweet FA.
All the while simple voice reception has suffered. Here in Hong Kong, probably one of the most saturated mobile markets in the world, reception sucks major dicks, as operators appear to be focusing resources on the new new thing, while neglecting what the majority of their customers want â" just to talk on the bloody things
Agree. As you get into his style of delivery, and you arrive at the part when he believes Kathy has been knocked up. His line: "I freaked, and was busy orchestrating a complicated plan to throw her down the stairs when I finally got her on the phone." was pretty funny. As a stand-alone line, no, of course it isn't. But RTFA and in the context of the story, it is quite humorous.
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I was in Heidelberg many years ago and just happened to have a "stubbie holder" (beer holder, this one made out of wetsuit material) on me.
Anyway, this German guy at this party asked me (in typical Arnie-type speak): "What is that around your beer?" "It's a stubby holder." I said. "What does it do?" he asked "Keeps the beer cold mate." I said. "Why don't you drink it faster?" he said. "Um, well I, ah...."
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What was really cool, was this girl at my primary school in Perth who brought along a piece of insulation from Skylab to our class. It looked a little bit like straw (in colour at least), but the fact it was from a space vehicle made it seem priceless to a bunch of young whippersnappers. Also some of the farmers in the wheatbelt said the very small particles falling that night sounded, not surprisingly, like hail against their tin roofing. I also remember seeing that same farmer next to a huge chunk of Skylab, around a tonne or so, which they somehow loaded onto a trailer behind their car. I wonder where it is now.
Coles Bay, on the east coast of Tasmania, becomes the first town in Australia (perhaps the world?) to ban plastic bags. With a population of 150, perhaps that should read first village.
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This discussion is getting a little off topic, however you are incorrect in saying "maths" is not a word. In Australia "maths" is used without exception to represent mathematics (or even mathamatics, if that's how you're comfortable spelling it), not "math". I guess by your definition, our country is full of anal instructors in a misguided attempt at regularization. Or is that regularisation? So maths looks funny to you; well math looks strange to me. The English language is a work in progress - just look at the annual additions to the OED as an example. Just because a huge chunk of the English-speaking world (North America) says math, doesn't make it an absolute.
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I wonder if this tech can be super-sized and applied to breast implants. Crank up the current and convex the boob in a millisecond. Could make for improved Super Bowl viewing.
That should explain why Dubya's always smiling even when he's trying to be serious.
Speaking of FBI agents, lax computer security etc, check out Cliff Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg which was recommended on /. recently.
Damn straight. "Forrest Gump", the book, was a complete riot. His best friend was even an orangutan - absolutely priceless! The movie - typical Hollywood schlock. Read the book when you have a chance.
This would also depend on what kind of fruit you purchase, 'cause as most would know, not all fruit ripen after picking.
For example, fruits which will ripen at room temperature AFTER picking:
1. Golden Delicious and Gravenstein Apples only
2. Avocados
3. Apricots
4. Bananas
5. Guava
6. Mangoes
7. Papaya
8. Pears
9. Persimmons
10. Pineapples
11. Plums
12. Pomegranates
13. Cactus fruit
The following fruits will not ripen at room temperature AFTER picking:
1. All Apples (except the Golden Delicious and Gravenstein)
2. All Berries
3. Cherries
4. Citrus fruit
5. Figs
6. Grapes
7. Melons
8. Nectarines
9. Peaches
Reading that interview, you gotta love PJ's laid back attitude to answering those possible blunders. I wonder what other hot shot director would be so forthcoming.
Hey Neil,
In Seasons of Mist, Lucifer closes hell and chooses to catch a few rays on a deck chair in Perth. An interesting endorsement for my home town, and being utterly biased, one I agree with - any particular reasons for selecting the West?
I also live in HK and you know "what is available" - sweet fuck all to the masses.
Hong Kong's Pay-Tv industry has been slow to develop meaningful competition. This may be about to change as later this year two new entrants, TVB's Galaxy channel and City Telecom will join PCCW (the local fixed line incumbent, for now) in launching a new service. They will all have to compete with the dominant Pay TV provider Hong Kong cable TV (HKCTV). It provides 26 channels of varying quality, safe in the knowledge that its exclusive coverage of live English Premier League football keeps its audience captive if not always content. I couldn't give a rat's bum about soccer so my channel selection falls even further. Having been given a 5 year grace period before it had to face competition from new licences, HKCTV now has 600,000 users and can reach 90% of the population.
PCCW has understandably been keen to exploit its early investment in its broadband network and was possibly ahead of its time launching it iTV pay television service in 1997 (?). However it failed to reach critical mass and was dogged by technology glitches before finally being discontinued. Undeterred it later launched broadband TV with its much-hyped Network of the World (NOW) service - even on its rival HKCTV's backbone in 2000. It proved an embarrassing and costly let down and was quickly dropped (along with Richard Li), along with much of the hyperbole of the dot.com period.
Now PCCW is back again with Broadband TV and is aiming to resurrect its NOW brand - hoping this time will be third time lucky. It plans to launch a series of channels using multicasting technology over its broadband network from next month. While it doesn't have HKCTV's drawcard of live sports, it does have the advantage of flexibility as special interest channels can be purchased individually at a cost of as little as $20.
Somewhere in this melting pot of proposed services is Yes TV, however they've been embellishing their proposed service for three years.
The bottom line is that there is a lot of hype about what you will receice in your home. For now, the bulk of the population are stuck with truckloads of soccer and a healthy dose of hype.
A mate of mine was studying Agriculture Science at University, and for whatever reason they were involved in the collection of pig sperm. So here's my mate, on his haunches holding a container of sorts (I believe the animal is riding a man-made pig's rear), and just before the pig lets the cheese fly, a fellow student knocks the container to the ground. The pig lets rip with what he termed "a staggering amount of spunk" all over his face. My memory is hazy as to this guy's post-blow relationship with the fellow prankster.
Perhaps like others (and maybe this point has been raised previously), I was curious why this "spaceship" has umpteen windows. Searching the Scaled website, this is addressed under FAQs. For those interested:
"The windows must be small to keep the weight of the vehicle down and they must be round to minimize the structural loads. This configuration is also the least expensive to manufacture. Each portal consists of two windows to provide redundancy for the integrity of the pressure vessel should one window crack or fail. The number and location of the windows were selected to provide the pilot a view of the horizon throughout SpaceShipOne's mission profile."
A guy I used to work with was a vegan. Funny thing was, on weekends he would go rabbit shooting. But of course he wouldn't eat the bunnies he shot. Then again, he would duck off to a vegetarian restaurant and order tofu that tasted like rabbit. We never did get along.
I guess not technically called trees (then again bonsais, which tend to be pretty small, low to the ground, are really a tree/shrub grown in a pot), however here are a couple articles concerning organisms (read shrub or bush) which may be older than the Methuselah.
http://www.death-valley.us/article652.html
http://www.exn.ca/Stories/1996/10/21/01.asp
Exactly. Which makes molluscs such as the Nautilus so interesting in that their many chambered shell protects them from the "bends" when brought up to the surface from deep, deep down.
This film was initially banned in Norway for blasphemy. It wasn't released there until 1980 - IMDB
Western countries also have their skeletons in the closet.
Thanks mate. Now I donâ(TM)t understand the architect and you.
âoeAU$8.50 in late 1999 to around AU$4.50 todayâ
Things could be worse. Taking face value share prices from graphs (thus smoothing out share splits etc) you could have invested in these beauties in 1999:
China Mobile - $78+ down to $18
BT - $240+ down to $33
DT - $90+ down to $14
Vodafone - $60+ down to $21
France Telecom - $160+ to $24
AT&T - $400+ to $20
Letâ(TM)s not forget Worldcom or Global Crossing.
(These are rough numbers of course - just providing some perspective)
Exactly. Look in todayâ(TM)s news. Hutchison is suing their partner in Europe, KPN, for not ponying up the their share in a fund raising exercise this year. KPN in turn, not only wrote-off 900 million pounds for their investment stake during the last financial year, but is probably going to counter sue Hutch to buy out their 15% stake in âoe3â.
Problems you hear with 3G in Europe include drop calls, poor reception, prohibitively expensive, no killer app (as mentioned often) â" hell, you donâ(TM)t even receive streaming video. You can only download vid clips and then play them back.
So operators subsidize the bejesus out of the handsets hoping to make their return on investment through customer data take-up. While you witness people buying these new-fangled phones, how many actually take photos and then email them on from their handset. Sweet FA.
All the while simple voice reception has suffered. Here in Hong Kong, probably one of the most saturated mobile markets in the world, reception sucks major dicks, as operators appear to be focusing resources on the new new thing, while neglecting what the majority of their customers want â" just to talk on the bloody things
Swim? I thought we were the only primates who canâ(TM)t swim instinctively. We have to be taught. Then again, I could be wrong.
"if you're into misogynistic humor"
Agree. As you get into his style of delivery, and you arrive at the part when he believes Kathy has been knocked up. His line:
"I freaked, and was busy orchestrating a complicated plan to throw her down the stairs when I finally got her on the phone."
was pretty funny. As a stand-alone line, no, of course it isn't. But RTFA and in the context of the story, it is quite humorous.
I was in Heidelberg many years ago and just happened to have a "stubbie holder" (beer holder, this one made out of wetsuit material) on me.
Anyway, this German guy at this party asked me (in typical Arnie-type speak):
"What is that around your beer?"
"It's a stubby holder." I said.
"What does it do?" he asked
"Keeps the beer cold mate." I said.
"Why don't you drink it faster?" he said.
"Um, well I, ah...."
Lou: So what is the name of the other balance technique device?
Bud: Exactly
Now +3 Informative?! Slashdot moderation at its best - or should that be worst. Then again, with a bad karma, what would I know!
What was really cool, was this girl at my primary school in Perth who brought along a piece of insulation from Skylab to our class. It looked a little bit like straw (in colour at least), but the fact it was from a space vehicle made it seem priceless to a bunch of young whippersnappers. Also some of the farmers in the wheatbelt said the very small particles falling that night sounded, not surprisingly, like hail against their tin roofing. I also remember seeing that same farmer next to a huge chunk of Skylab, around a tonne or so, which they somehow loaded onto a trailer behind their car. I wonder where it is now.
Coles Bay, on the east coast of Tasmania, becomes the first town in Australia (perhaps the world?) to ban plastic bags. With a population of 150, perhaps that should read first village.
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http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_p
This discussion is getting a little off topic, however you are incorrect in saying "maths" is not a word. In Australia "maths" is used without exception to represent mathematics (or even mathamatics, if that's how you're comfortable spelling it), not "math". I guess by your definition, our country is full of anal instructors in a misguided attempt at regularization. Or is that regularisation? So maths looks funny to you; well math looks strange to me. The English language is a work in progress - just look at the annual additions to the OED as an example. Just because a huge chunk of the English-speaking world (North America) says math, doesn't make it an absolute.