Well I suppose origami is science, in that it uses scientific principals. It reminds me of my favorite scientist, Van Gogh, who had an amazing knack and understanding of Hyrdo-chromatography. I have to give props to a modern day group of acoustic scientists, Medeski, Martin, and Wood.
Now really.. if we can't sort things into categories, what are we going to do? Hell, even Magic is science.
Acording to NOVA, the standing record is 113,739.9 ft (~ 35 km) was set in 1961. Back then however these people were pretty hardcore, as it was too technical to pilot the balloons back down, they would jump (with a parachute).
My grandfather and his brother were some of the balooning pioneers in the US, and I actually had the oppertunity (when I was much younger) to acompany my grandfater taken up in a balloon by Joe Kittinger (first altitude record of ~100,000 ft and the longest freefall to date-where he actually broke the sound-barrier unaided by propultion other than gravity). We didn't go to 100 kft but even back then (I think I may have been about 7) it was quite an experience.
So Most/. won't get this because it requires loading a highrez image, but on the Dragonball Z toy that hangs from the ceiling and 'flys' in circles on a string, it is poorly translated from presumably fomr east-asian country... The warnings read:
With appertain rotor of screw setting pre ceiling on the under standing that screw no wield. May wield two-faced, pressboard securing, wield pre to begin with wiping ceiling of bilge dasto.
Thread of length need half as many again as tad.
Open toy of batteries shuck. Verification batteries.+,- whereafter stow down,to a certainty need locknat lest take place accident.
Hook through toys apside of hole.
Needs switches shoving NO,for pre arrows specifing of orention shiving.Packing it up time,withbold toy pate need switches shoving OFF.
Prythee no sport with stingy of play asperity game. Winding finger have got bloodstream not wallk. Throagh of peril.(bold my addition)
Tad disport of time grown man tatelage.
Till thge cowcomes home. Wield toys damage, burn-in prytheee wind to a close wield.
Give attention to open/close toys, therefore take place peril.for instance slipup batteries wield result in the emission of heat rupture liquid.vent itself prythee pay attention.
Play at sith to a certainty bolt up power supply fetch out batteries.
Batteries no electification dissolution,plunge ioto aquaor fire.
Not trust for tad batteries lest in advertent eat off. In the event of accident without loss of time plythee pillroller tuke order with.
I am not the best typist, but most of the weird spellings above are in the actual warnings. The original may be found here. I wonder if they will ever take the word "prythee" out of their translation dictionary.
Remember back in 1999? It was MSN who was complaining that AOL wouldn't play nicely with them. Now MS throws their IM-bot in with windows, and makes it frustrating to remove if installing Outlook, and then closes the door.
Well according to the extra LWN link, we can follow some of the malloc code to 1974 (soon will be 30 years old). See this link, where this code was contribued.
Linux kernel (2.2.19): 1,780,000 SLOC(Source Lines Of Code) (1,780,000). C amounts for 1,700,000 SLOC, Assembler for 65,000. The Linux 2.x kernels were the stable series at the time of the Debian 2.2 release.
This kernel was 2.2 and was in 2001. I also found that as of 2.4.0, there were about 3 million lines of code. A full 1/3 of the code is ripped from SCO? hmm.. I bet.
According to wininformant, this is not at all the case. In fact, the relavent snippit of that short blurb is:
"[SP2 will] not [include new] features, but there will be a few things that we're adding to that."...
The Microsoft representative also told me that XP SP2 would include no major new features but would instead consist of all the bug and security fixes Microsoft released since XP was issued in October 2001.
Then why hasn't Microsoft changed the typo on this page
Does msblast.exe, Chinese gov't outlawing internal use of MS software, MS losing German gov't contracts to linux distributers, and court cases mean anything? MS has plenty on their plate, and I think an html typo is the least of their worries.
"The current state of technology in gaming had fallen way behind other industries," said MindPlay president and CEO Richard Soltys. "They're very slow to move forward."
To traslate, what this is saying is that the industry was so pitifully behind, Mindplay can come in with half-assed crap and still wow the casinos. This is actually pretty smart, as compared with entering a market in which the competition is robust. It is sort of like the big clown fish in little murky (multimillion dollar) puddle.
MindPlay works by placing a set of 14 digital cameras around a specially built blackjack table tray. The optical equipment registers every card in play by reading special invisible ink printed on them.
And now MindPlay does not just sell cameras and software. They sell the whole shebang. The Cameras, the software, the table, the cards. They probably have a service department to "train" the dealers so the cards can be scanned in correctly. MindPlay is trying to be the microsoft of the casino industry. Once they sell one "round" of product, they have a captive audience, as long as the casinos don't want to waste their initial investment.
MIT is working on this right now using what they call "OmniGuide". However just like most mirrors used in optics, this relies on a DBR-type mirror (i.e. alternating materials at a certain periodicity) around the fiber. As you can imagine, at a bend, this periodicity will become smaller trying to stretch on one side and larger bunching up on the other side. Therefore, I am not sure that this is really the way to go.
When I use the first letter of each word, I get M.A.T.I.X.
That is funny, when I use the first letter of each word, I get M.A.T.I.E.. I guess the pirate reference (something like "eye, matie") was just too close to the truth...
We're wrong to think of Google as a pure reference source. It's closer to a collectively authored op-ed page--filled with bias, polemics, and a skewed sense of proportion--than an encyclopedia.
This is an official correction from msn.com. The correction is found below:
You're wrong to think of this article as a pure reference source. It's closer to a collectively authored op-ed page--filled with bias, polemics, and a skewed sense of proportion--than a worthy article.
The article is transparent. Everyone posting realizes this. On the other hand, a link was made to what I believe to be an incredible site, to which I am not familiar with, yet. It is worth a check, even if you haven't RTFA.
There isn't much that I plan on using this gadget for. I guess mostly its for bragging rights. That, and I hadn't hooked up anything to a PC's printer port in ages. If I wanted to, I could SSH log into it while at work, load a CD in the tray, burn it, and remove it all remotely. Of course, the CD would still be in my basement, so the exercise would be somewhat pointless!
at least he is honest. no need to justify a tinkering project under the guise that it is somehow useful. Tinker for tinker's sake I say!
I can't be sure, as I don't even know the name of the company yet. However I have gotten the impression this is something added to the cell phone itself. Say it is screwed into the same place the phone antenna is, such that the phone is broadcasting a very weak signal at the cell phone frequency, and then the frequency shift happens. Now this new frequency is amplified and transmitted. As I understand this mystery product, it is intended for pilots, which makes me assume that there are specialized towers near airports. But again, this is speculation.
So if this is Toshiba CD has XP already set up, as if it is already set up on the hard drive, how hard would it be to prepare a CD boot partition, or floppy boot disk that runs XP off the CDROM? Maybe linux could reside on the hard drive, and XP could run off the CD (for those rare cases when you *need* to game, or *need* to use Illustrator/Photoshop).
Well from the "I heard about it" department, I have recently been approached by a group of people with out a company, that are building a device to take the cell-phone signal band (which interferes with airline equipment I guess) and retransmits at a different frequency, which is appropriately outside the aircraft transmission band. As I understand, it is a piece of equipment that will clip onto your cell phone to avoid the phone actually transmitting unwanted signal. Interesting (but obvious) concept.
It also lets users personalize their messages and their screen backgrounds more by adding animated emoticons or "smileys," creating their own images and sending photos to friends.
Well I get spam all the time from the whitehouse (www.whitehouse.com). If they are sending me spam, I think it is great they are getting it in return. And strangely enough, Bush is one horny individual. I guess this is why he is a "passionate conservative".
But in all seriousness, I wonder how many people accidently send things to the president (www.whitehouse.gov) that are intended to go to the aptly placed porn server (www.whitehouse.com). Or for that matter, how many emails for GW are actually being received by the porn server (www.whitehouse.com). Does slashdot want to interview Dan Parisi about this?
If I buy a crowbar because someone says it can be used to break windows and steal cars, and I use it to tear down a wall I don't want in my house, is that illegal?
It is illegal if you don't have a building permit...
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Now really.. if we can't sort things into categories, what are we going to do? Hell, even Magic is science.
Isn't anything MEMS closer to origami than science?
Acording to NOVA, the standing record is 113,739.9 ft (~ 35 km) was set in 1961. Back then however these people were pretty hardcore, as it was too technical to pilot the balloons back down, they would jump (with a parachute).
My grandfather and his brother were some of the balooning pioneers in the US, and I actually had the oppertunity (when I was much younger) to acompany my grandfater taken up in a balloon by Joe Kittinger (first altitude record of ~100,000 ft and the longest freefall to date-where he actually broke the sound-barrier unaided by propultion other than gravity). We didn't go to 100 kft but even back then (I think I may have been about 7) it was quite an experience.
- Prythee no sport with stingy of play asperity game. Winding finger have got bloodstream not wallk. Throagh of peril. (bold my addition)
- Tad disport of time grown man tatelage.
- Till thge cowcomes home. Wield toys damage, burn-in prytheee wind to a close wield.
- Give attention to open/close toys, therefore take place peril.for instance slipup batteries wield result in the emission of heat rupture liquid.vent itself prythee pay attention.
- Play at sith to a certainty bolt up power supply fetch out batteries.
- Batteries no electification dissolution,plunge ioto aquaor fire.
- Not trust for tad batteries lest in advertent eat off. In the event of accident without loss of time plythee pillroller tuke order with.
I am not the best typist, but most of the weird spellings above are in the actual warnings. The original may be found here. I wonder if they will ever take the word "prythee" out of their translation dictionary.Remember back in 1999? It was MSN who was complaining that AOL wouldn't play nicely with them. Now MS throws their IM-bot in with windows, and makes it frustrating to remove if installing Outlook, and then closes the door.
But don't think AOL is now held irresponsible in this battle. A few months ago, AOL asked the FCC if it could break the rules. It seems yesterday, AOL announced it would go ahead and break the rules.
It sounds like there needs to be a group "time-out". Everybody goes to their corner and sits for 5 minutes.
Well according to the extra LWN link, we can follow some of the malloc code to 1974 (soon will be 30 years old). See this link, where this code was contribued .
Well according to this page, in Debian 2.2:
Linux kernel (2.2.19): 1,780,000 SLOC(Source Lines Of Code) (1,780,000). C amounts for 1,700,000 SLOC, Assembler for 65,000. The Linux 2.x kernels were the stable series at the time of the Debian 2.2 release.This kernel was 2.2 and was in 2001. I also found that as of 2.4.0, there were about 3 million lines of code. A full 1/3 of the code is ripped from SCO? hmm.. I bet.
In the spirit of this worm, do any of you hackers/crackers want to write a worm to gain access to my machine and complete my dissertation for me?
MIT is working on this right now using what they call "OmniGuide". However just like most mirrors used in optics, this relies on a DBR-type mirror (i.e. alternating materials at a certain periodicity) around the fiber. As you can imagine, at a bend, this periodicity will become smaller trying to stretch on one side and larger bunching up on the other side. Therefore, I am not sure that this is really the way to go.
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That is funny, when I use the first letter of each word, I get M.A.T.I.E.. I guess the pirate reference (something like "eye, matie") was just too close to the truth...
The article is transparent. Everyone posting realizes this. On the other hand, a link was made to what I believe to be an incredible site, to which I am not familiar with, yet. It is worth a check, even if you haven't RTFA.
at least he is honest. no need to justify a tinkering project under the guise that it is somehow useful. Tinker for tinker's sake I say!
I can't be sure, as I don't even know the name of the company yet. However I have gotten the impression this is something added to the cell phone itself. Say it is screwed into the same place the phone antenna is, such that the phone is broadcasting a very weak signal at the cell phone frequency, and then the frequency shift happens. Now this new frequency is amplified and transmitted. As I understand this mystery product, it is intended for pilots, which makes me assume that there are specialized towers near airports. But again, this is speculation.
So if this is Toshiba CD has XP already set up, as if it is already set up on the hard drive, how hard would it be to prepare a CD boot partition, or floppy boot disk that runs XP off the CDROM? Maybe linux could reside on the hard drive, and XP could run off the CD (for those rare cases when you *need* to game, or *need* to use Illustrator/Photoshop).
Well from the "I heard about it" department, I have recently been approached by a group of people with out a company, that are building a device to take the cell-phone signal band (which interferes with airline equipment I guess) and retransmits at a different frequency, which is appropriately outside the aircraft transmission band. As I understand, it is a piece of equipment that will clip onto your cell phone to avoid the phone actually transmitting unwanted signal. Interesting (but obvious) concept.
I knew there was a reason to upgrade!
Well I get spam all the time from the whitehouse (www.whitehouse.com). If they are sending me spam, I think it is great they are getting it in return. And strangely enough, Bush is one horny individual. I guess this is why he is a "passionate conservative".
But in all seriousness, I wonder how many people accidently send things to the president (www.whitehouse.gov) that are intended to go to the aptly placed porn server (www.whitehouse.com). Or for that matter, how many emails for GW are actually being received by the porn server (www.whitehouse.com). Does slashdot want to interview Dan Parisi about this?
It is illegal if you don't have a building permit...
abd oh yeah... the cartrige purchaced was $32, and the 146 pages of porn were printed and for $41. It seems to me after all is said and done, the cartrige costs about -$0.21 a mililitter.