Seems pretty obvious to me... but then, all of my great ideas do. Unfortunately, so do all of my bad ones.
Make the foundation of the base an inverted cone. That way, inward pressure will push the base up, out of the snow. Additional upward force can be generated with hydraulics, and heaters could be used to melt the ice off of the surface, and reduce friction that would prevent the rise of the base up out of the snow.
Hitler sentenced non-aryans, cripples, etc., to death with the ideal of breeding a superior race. If you think about it, his legacy lives on today. The people of Germany might be quite a bit more likely to produce such a mutant, as their gene pool has already been concentrated.
Actually, "its" was spelled just fine. The error was not one of spelling, but of grammar. Don't go around correcting people unless you're 100% sure you're correct yourself.
Fortunately, Google can get out of it in two ways -- not only is "google" distinct from the word "googol" and there is no sort of market collision (since nobody is making money off of the word googol anyway), but they can put away the issue of "not promoting the concept" by claiming that their goal is to achieve a googol of links.
As a web developer, I found myself having to learn a bit about the math behind mortgage calculations. Now that I'm back in school, I just discovered that I was using differential calculus! Fortunately, I didn't have to do any of the math myself; I was able to find the appropriate equations in other code, and occasionally math sites. (terribly little finance info on math sites, oddly enough)
I did that in high school, too... I got mine to fly a maximum of 7' (2m) or so. Whenever I tried to outfit the drive with more or bigger springs, it'd warp the casing to the point that the disk wouldn't eject.
Sheesh. I'd only pull pranks on co-workers if I knew 'em well enough to hang out with outside of the job. And I did almost everything after-hours so nobody would see it coming -- I mean, so it wouldn't get in the way of my work.
Pride is my #1 goal, if it'll pay the bills. Currently, I work to pay my tuition. I find web work comperable to washing dishes at a nice restaurant. Sounds great, but thats often about it. Sure, I get an exciting project once and a while, but I've written enough webscripts that I've made macros for the job just to make it interesting.
In the past, I worked the same job for 50k a year. I had a helluvalot less to worry about in life, and by god, I was happy. It ended only up being a paid vacation; I dicked off the money and moved back home to get a degree. Now I work freelance.
Doesn't work that way. These plants are poisonous because they have absorb large amounts of mercury and gold from the soil. It logically follows that the pollen from these plants will also have a relatively high concentration of gold. Consider the microscopic size of a particle of pollen -- I'm making some big assumptions here, but that particle of pollen should have something on the order of a few thousand gold atoms. Every plant is born from exactly 1 pollen particle. So those thousand or so gold atoms will be spread out over the entire plant -- if you formed 10 thousand atoms of gold into a bullet, and shot that bullet into the head of the bee that pollinated the plant, the bee would live. Just ain't that much gold. And there's only half as much mercury.
The difference is, GM crops are genetically modified. These plants are just contaminated by heavy metals. If those heavy metals were highly radioactive, you might have a point -- but even then, a few thousand atoms per plant probably wouldn't do anything to anybody.
These guys are obviously slick. Look how small of a space they got that digital camera into. That obviously takes a lot of planning. My guess is that they have the installation worked down to about a one-handed maneuver that they can execute in less than a minute. This is possibly an inside job, or at least done by somebody who works with ATMs on a daily basis.
The article is talking about server security. NOT platform security. Which do you prefer -- vulnerability to MSBLAST, which restarts your computer, or vulnerability to a hacker, who steals your data? As a Linux user, I say the community needs to pull its collective head out of its ass and work on this problem PRONTO. We've gotten lazy.
For the record, I've never owned a portable game system. In fact, the last (and only) game system I ever owned was a Nintendo. But that doesn't mean I can't see them as a valid application. Personally, I'd like to see desktop-sized writers -- but from the sound of the article, writing to these things is far less than trivial. They say that it's a potential method to hamper piracy -- a foolish concept for audio and video, but until writers are small and cheap enough for home use, it could be an extremely secure software media. Not that I've bought software since win98. Consider how long it took for CD writers to become inexpensive.
I guess the applications all depend on how much they cost. A gig on a stamp is great, but what if that stamp costs $50 or more? Is a write-once media worth that to you? Bootlegs and interviews, absolutely. But for most other applications, people are going to want a re-writable media -- unless that stamp is $5 or less, that is.
Clumsy gameboy? This ain't your daddy's gameboy, if a game system has 10gb cartridge capacity, that's a helluva lot of space for some pretty awesome games. We're talking about 10 gigs of ROM with almost zero seek time. That isn't clumsy, that's slick. Imagine a handheld gaming platform that reads these things with a 6" rollup screen? Slick.
Did you read the article? Do you understand that this material is write once? And that writing to it sounds inefficient and expensive? What the hell does a long-term heart monitor need a gig of ROM for? Who would want ROM for a digital camera, or an audio recorder? I know I wouldn't. But a game system could rock.
That got modded 'insightful'? Cripes. The only thing scarier than people who can't recognize a joke if they're slapped with one stapled to a wet carp, is people who take my jokes seriously. Man.
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A big red button, and a joystick! What else could you possibly need?
Seems pretty obvious to me... but then, all of my great ideas do. Unfortunately, so do all of my bad ones.
Make the foundation of the base an inverted cone. That way, inward pressure will push the base up, out of the snow. Additional upward force can be generated with hydraulics, and heaters could be used to melt the ice off of the surface, and reduce friction that would prevent the rise of the base up out of the snow.
Hitler sentenced non-aryans, cripples, etc., to death with the ideal of breeding a superior race. If you think about it, his legacy lives on today. The people of Germany might be quite a bit more likely to produce such a mutant, as their gene pool has already been concentrated.
Actually, "its" was spelled just fine. The error was not one of spelling, but of grammar. Don't go around correcting people unless you're 100% sure you're correct yourself.
k thx.
Free hardware + Free software = free computing! Awesome. Microsoft is going to shoot itself straight through the foot with this plan.
Fortunately, Google can get out of it in two ways -- not only is "google" distinct from the word "googol" and there is no sort of market collision (since nobody is making money off of the word googol anyway), but they can put away the issue of "not promoting the concept" by claiming that their goal is to achieve a googol of links.
The report, that is: here.
As a web developer, I found myself having to learn a bit about the math behind mortgage calculations. Now that I'm back in school, I just discovered that I was using differential calculus! Fortunately, I didn't have to do any of the math myself; I was able to find the appropriate equations in other code, and occasionally math sites. (terribly little finance info on math sites, oddly enough)
Exactly. I'm healthy as a horse, and already don't have any qualms against cannibalism. The rest of the world can go to hell, or get eaten.
Around here, we call 'em turtles.
I did that in high school, too... I got mine to fly a maximum of 7' (2m) or so. Whenever I tried to outfit the drive with more or bigger springs, it'd warp the casing to the point that the disk wouldn't eject.
Sheesh. I'd only pull pranks on co-workers if I knew 'em well enough to hang out with outside of the job. And I did almost everything after-hours so nobody would see it coming -- I mean, so it wouldn't get in the way of my work.
Pride is my #1 goal, if it'll pay the bills. Currently, I work to pay my tuition. I find web work comperable to washing dishes at a nice restaurant. Sounds great, but thats often about it. Sure, I get an exciting project once and a while, but I've written enough webscripts that I've made macros for the job just to make it interesting.
In the past, I worked the same job for 50k a year. I had a helluvalot less to worry about in life, and by god, I was happy. It ended only up being a paid vacation; I dicked off the money and moved back home to get a degree. Now I work freelance.
According to everybody I know, the world is crazy.
Doesn't work that way. These plants are poisonous because they have absorb large amounts of mercury and gold from the soil. It logically follows that the pollen from these plants will also have a relatively high concentration of gold. Consider the microscopic size of a particle of pollen -- I'm making some big assumptions here, but that particle of pollen should have something on the order of a few thousand gold atoms. Every plant is born from exactly 1 pollen particle. So those thousand or so gold atoms will be spread out over the entire plant -- if you formed 10 thousand atoms of gold into a bullet, and shot that bullet into the head of the bee that pollinated the plant, the bee would live. Just ain't that much gold. And there's only half as much mercury.
The difference is, GM crops are genetically modified. These plants are just contaminated by heavy metals. If those heavy metals were highly radioactive, you might have a point -- but even then, a few thousand atoms per plant probably wouldn't do anything to anybody.
Hmm... maybe I should stipulate in my will that my eyes be replaced with red glowing ones, lids open.
Too bad my estate wouldn't cover the burial costs... I'm gettin' roasted.
The latin "verbum" means "word". Besides, mononouno has too many vowels. Far too silly.
Monoverbojudgementalist!
Umm... look! It's an elephant!
*zing*
I most certainly paid for that software! Unfortunately... I washed my pants with the receipt... and um... the box too.
These guys are obviously slick. Look how small of a space they got that digital camera into. That obviously takes a lot of planning. My guess is that they have the installation worked down to about a one-handed maneuver that they can execute in less than a minute. This is possibly an inside job, or at least done by somebody who works with ATMs on a daily basis.
That previous years haven't been filled with sloppy coding.
The article is talking about server security. NOT platform security. Which do you prefer -- vulnerability to MSBLAST, which restarts your computer, or vulnerability to a hacker, who steals your data? As a Linux user, I say the community needs to pull its collective head out of its ass and work on this problem PRONTO. We've gotten lazy.
For the record, I've never owned a portable game system. In fact, the last (and only) game system I ever owned was a Nintendo. But that doesn't mean I can't see them as a valid application. Personally, I'd like to see desktop-sized writers -- but from the sound of the article, writing to these things is far less than trivial. They say that it's a potential method to hamper piracy -- a foolish concept for audio and video, but until writers are small and cheap enough for home use, it could be an extremely secure software media. Not that I've bought software since win98. Consider how long it took for CD writers to become inexpensive.
I guess the applications all depend on how much they cost. A gig on a stamp is great, but what if that stamp costs $50 or more? Is a write-once media worth that to you? Bootlegs and interviews, absolutely. But for most other applications, people are going to want a re-writable media -- unless that stamp is $5 or less, that is.
Clumsy gameboy? This ain't your daddy's gameboy, if a game system has 10gb cartridge capacity, that's a helluva lot of space for some pretty awesome games. We're talking about 10 gigs of ROM with almost zero seek time. That isn't clumsy, that's slick. Imagine a handheld gaming platform that reads these things with a 6" rollup screen? Slick.
Did you read the article? Do you understand that this material is write once? And that writing to it sounds inefficient and expensive? What the hell does a long-term heart monitor need a gig of ROM for? Who would want ROM for a digital camera, or an audio recorder? I know I wouldn't. But a game system could rock.
That got modded 'insightful'? Cripes. The only thing scarier than people who can't recognize a joke if they're slapped with one stapled to a wet carp, is people who take my jokes seriously. Man.