Soldier: Sir you're coming too close to our computers
Bill Gates: Come on just try it a little
Soldier: I'm going to have to ask you to step away from the computers!
Bill Gates: Come on here's a CD lemme just install it, it'll only take a minute
Soldier: This is your last warning, if you do not leave this area you will be terminated
immediately!
Bill Gates: Here lemme just *reaches for a mouse*
Soldier: FIRE!
*right about here is some gruesome video of bill gates being ripped to shreds from M4 rounds*
The former model and queen of B-movie gems Cellblock Sisters and Galaxy Girls fished nude photos out of a trash can years ago and went on to create a multimillion-dollar Internet company with the world's largest collection of erotic images.
That's very untrue, I have the world's largest collection of erotic images, and no you can't have it.
Yeah, but if people buy some card because of $x feature knowing that there's NDIS wrappers, when they wouldn't otherwise, it gives companies less economic incentive to develop Linux drivers -- they aren't losing significant market share.
And they aren't gaining many sales to people who use NDIS wrappers, I think those people would say "Ok I have linux, I want a card to work in linux, oh this card supports it natively. If you buy a card for linux that uses some driver that probably won't work, you're not a very smart consumer and don't deserve native linux support in the first place. It's way better to use some kind of hardware with a manufacturers driver (most of the time, unless it really sucks but then at least you look for an open source alternative.) The only people that would use the NDIS wrappers are the people who might have bought a computer a year ago or from gateway or something like that, or found some hardware in a junked computer, then they say "Hey I wish this would work in linux" download some wrapper and they're set. And besides it's not like the company knows what OS anyone is running the hardware on right after they buy it.
Please don't just look at the micro scale -- no one cares about Your Little Problem.
That's exactly why you should use a wrapper, the company isn't going to give a damn that you want to use the hardware in linux so why would they support it? They can't just look at their profits and say "Look at all these people buying our hardware to use in linux, we should develop some drivers for them" they just see people buying the hardware they have no idea what the people are going to do with them.
It's more important to solve the larger problems (like companies that don't *properly* support their hardware aka don't provide linux drivers or specs to create said drivers) than to solve stupid problems like "waa I got a shitty wireless NIC, I want it to work, waa".
Umm you can put anything in there like -
"waa your company doesn't properly support your hardware, don't provide linux drivers, or release the specs to create said drivers"
You even said it before "no one cares about Your Little Problem" they don't care that you want linux support, they already have your money (and if they didn't you don't care about linux support cause you don't have their hardware.)
Buy another NIC, and send the original back to the manufacturer charred and burned, with a note saying "It's about as useful in this state to me as it was when I hadn't drenched it in gasoline and tossed a match at it". A less flippant solution that's less destructive to the environment (heh) is to get a refund for the piece of hardware. That sends a clearer, and less ambiguous message.
That sends a message, your hardware didn't work. They don't know why though! Do you not understand this? There isn't a little bell that goes off every time a linux user refuses to buy their software, you have to tell them and then we're back to square one "no one cares about Your Little Problem".
Take a more long-term look at things. Please.
Take a more long-term look at your comments. Please.
Yeah for shame NVidia for taking your time to support linux, how dare you do that. Don't ever do it again! As much as I love your driver, and how amazingly easy it is to insall, and how great it works in linux, don't EVER do that again! YOU BASTARDS! How dare you corrupt us with some closed source driver! Even though you probably can't open source the driver because it might contain trade secrets or liscensed materials that you're not allowed to show us, but still! Don't you dare make a closed source driver for linux again! Now take your closed source driver away from us and go! We don't care that you're sticking your neck out hoping people will actually buy the cards for the linux support since you actually used your own money to pay your codders to write this thing!
Ok now that I'm done sounding like an idiot I can be serious, I hate when people complain about NVidia's closed source driver. So it's closed source? Big deal? It's not something they sell, it's free, it's available on their website to anyone who wants it. Even if you have 50 ATI cards and 0 NVidia cards, they don't care, it's still free for you. They actually had to pay money to get that driver out to linux in the first place, if it wasn't for that driver, would their be any new games running in linux (UT 2003, 2004, Doom 3 when it comes out) Probably not since there wouldn't be many good cards out there to run these games. Other than ATI and NVidia what else is out their that you can actually buy easily, that runs on linux? The ATI driver is also closed source, and it's so hard to install and get working. I think the NVidia driver's done more for the linux gaming community than any open source software, well except wine, but isn't winex closed source and available only to subscribers? Also, doesn't wine, which would be the open source free one, run way less games than winex?
And not so long ago (October, 2003) I upgraded my video card, I bought one ATI card for my main computer, and figured I should get another card for my server, of course I went right to the nvidia cards because they have great linux support. I think because of their driver more companies would support linux since a lot of gamers would buy NVidia cards just for the linux support. I don't think I'd buy anything else just for linux support (except maybe a CF card reader with USB 2.0 but that's only cause I'd need it to run on my laptop so I can upload pictures wherever I am.)
But for them to relax more they'd have to be working on something in the first place, most of the hardware makers that are willing to support linux are gonna do it with the best drivers they can, not have people running their software in linux with some little hack. And the ones that don't support linux don't care that some little app lets people run windows drivers, they weren't going to support linux anyway it's not worth it for them. If NDISWRAPPER works then people should use it, I know I'd deffinitely use it if it supports my laptops network card (haven't been able to get this thing to work at all, some fairly old lucent technologies wireless card, I think there is support for some newer version of this card but not mine.) I'd use a newer card with linux support but the laptop itself doesn't support these (dunno why, tried some netgear card it didn't like that very much I think the PCMCIA slot in my laptop is 16 bit or something like that it's an old laptop.)
This is a great sign, if Intel starts supporting all of their products under Linux, other vendors will follow suit, and it won't be long before you'll see Lindows boxes alongside the Macs at CompUSA!
Yeah I know pretty soon we might get some linux support from other companies! Like NVidia, 3Comm, Ceative Labs, ATI, Netgear, Linksys, man pretty soon I'm gonna be able to build a sweet linux computer!
*Looks at his own two linux computers*
Oh...
I'd actually be more excited about Intel's decision if they had any products I actually wanted. I don't know of any companies I'd buy from whose products don't work in linux one way or another. Sure some things might not work, but I haven't run into anything in the past 2-3 years that I couldn't get working in linux although setting up my ATI card was a real pain. There are even a few no name devices that I wouldn't expect to work, that just happened to have support since they use the same chipset as like 40 other no name devies.
Books and the mask have nothing to do with linux, this does because there's a game being ported to linux. I think any time a major game (well I dunno if this is major or not) is ported to linux, it's news worthy since most people are that much closer to installing linux.
Ah. Thanks, I didn't think they'd do something like that. And how could it work both ways? Like how could 128MB = 134MB and still = 128MB? Isn't their one standard unit, then one that's slightly close but not really used for anything important?
I'm suprised with all the comments from people who DON'T want to try it out. This is SLASHDOT! Come on don't we all have dozens of 512MB hard drives? Or even some old 10 gig drive that you found in some computer while you were dumpster diving?
I saw the article title and I was very excited. I've bought many hard drives, and just recently I bought a 160 gig drive (was like $80 too after a mail in rebate, Fry's I love you...) and was about to buy a 250 ($110 after rebate, Fry's, still love you.) But then I figured, well if I do buy the 250, it's going to be able to hold around 200 gigs, and for some reason 50 gigs will be gone without a trace. I think there's 30 gigs missing on my 160 too, I've noticed this on a lot of drives (as drive sizes go up, so does the missing space.)
I thought this would actually let you use up that lost space somehow, you did buy the drive, it should contain the space, but it doesn't. RAM is just the opposite, you buy 512, it has 560 or so, well any ram I bought did. Anyway, is their a way to recover this lost space? Is their something I'm doing wrong? It seems to be worse in linux (but I heard that's cause it reserves space for root to access.)
I just install Windows Me, it crashes before they have any time to screw things up.
Really though, well my parents don't use PCs, my sister does and she has this problem. I pretty much installed some spyware removal software, and every once in a while I run it. If I see anything running in the taskbar I just close it. I don't expect her to have a perfect PC, but every time I remove the software there's less of it, so I think she's learning on her own. Teaching a person how to pick up on spy ware usually doesn't work, they just have to experience it for themselves, then they start to catch on (well at least my sister did) and learn through trial and error. If you just restrict them from being able to do anything, or install some program like bull guard, they'll just learn how to remove that program since it's not letting them install the spyware (if they try to install something, and it has spyware with it or whatever, then like they're gonna see that the program is blocking it and they will think it's probably broken or something and disable it.)
You need to, without making them feel unwanted or put down by suggestions, make them think a bit about their outwards apperence.
After reading this I understand why you have a hard time socializing with girls, and how you have a girlfriend at all is simply amazing. You do NOT need to make a girl think about her outward appearance, if anything you need to make the girl think LESS about her outward appearance. A lot of girls are obsessive over the way they look (eating disorders, breast implants) and it can be damaging, it doesn't help to hand your girlfriend a comb and say something stupid like that. That's like saying "Your hair doesn't look good enough for me today, here's a comb and you'd better fix it." No one likes their faults pointed out, even if you do it subtly.
Unless you're girlfriend's dead or in a coma or something I'm sure you'd never have to hint to her that her hair is messed up, she knows, she doesn't even need a mirror she just knows. The WORST thing for you to do is hint that it's messed up and the BEST thing to do is say something possitive about her to take her mind off her hair (and maybe YOU can be a nice boyfriend and fix her hair for her while you talk about something together.)
$20 per month for the first 6 months (regular price: $40 per month)
and thought, damn that's really good for 2.2mbps down wireless internet, then I saw
Monthly transfer: up to 20 GB (download) and 5 GB (upload)
I wouldn't want any kind of internet that gives you limits. I don't know how often I'd use 20GB a month but I'm sure it's very often (lots of bittorent downloading, websites full of flash animations and streaming video, and even games.) If you play UT 2K3 for just 4 hours a day, 25 days a month (that's like coming home from school or work, and playing a few hours) that's around 2 gigs or 1/10th your total bandwidth, for something that uses hardly any bandwidth (around 5-6K/sec and remember there's also hundreds of mutators on like every server and then 10 meg maps.) And how's the upload speed? Latency? I dunno I like the idea of having a wireless ISP and it'd be really cool for a laptop, I don't think this should be uses as your main ISP alone.
... the cartoon network ultimate wish list. Does anyone actually buy this stuff? Well I can see the module being bought by a museum, MAYBE, but 1.65 million dollars is a lot of money to buy on something like that, it seems you could build your own for much cheaper. Sure it wouldn't be as accurate but you could make it as accurate as you want, and is this one even accurate? Does the real module weigh 20,000lbs? Wouldn't it have some super lightweight materials? Would any real people pay for one? I don't think anyone who actually has the money for this, would want this, since for a few million more they can probably go up to the ISS.
Microsoft would have thousands of nuclear weapons, except they would constantly explode in their own silos. Everyone would have an easy to use rifle (with baby blue color theme), but only a handfull of people will be able to keep the rifle out of enemy hands, everyone else will just leave it lying around outside cause they're too lazy (or stupid) to secure it anywhere.
Linux would have some great weapons but only 20 people would know how to use them, 12 of these people would have them loaded correctly, 5 will accidentally shoot themselves in the face, 2 would use the guns of the people who shot themselves in the face, and continue to shoot those people in the face, and the last person would develop a new loading mechanism and distribute it to everyone so they now have to figure out how to load it all over again.
I'm pretty sure that in japan a dragon isn't anything like what a dragon looks like in the non asian countries. In america a dragon traditionally looks very big (tall), fat, with some giant wings. I'm pretty sure a japanese dragon is long, skinny, with small or no wings. Now this looks nothing like either dragon, but try not to confuse your idea of what a dragon looks like with what the designer of this thing thinks a dragon looks like.
Also, I read this from one of the articles
``We expect to have it operational this year. We're also in the process of developing, with Waseda University, a robot that can walk on two legs with a person riding on its back. Once that becomes a reality, it'll be able to help out in hospitals and homes for the elderly.''
Have you ever rode on a persons back? It requires a bit of strength (to hold on) how would this help out in hospitals and homes for the elderly unless it could hold the person? Wouldn't a motorized wheelchair be more effective? Why design a robot that walks on two legs (and probably falls over when the battery dies, like a segway) when you can just design some type of "smart" wheelchair that can memorize paths, detect hazards (puddles, extreme heat in case of a fire), and help guide the user to important things? Like a doctor could put in some name of a room and some time (like "room 135 5:30PM" for physical therapy or something) and the wheelchair can use some type of wireless technology and find out the location by downloading the path from a database in the hospital and the wheelchair can remind the patient when to go their and drive them their automatically? I dunno I think companies are just designing robots by throwing darts "Ok we landed on legs, 2 and hospital, now we need a robot with 2 legs that can be used in hospitals." or "Ok we've got dragon, 4, and home, we need a home security robot that looks like a dragon and walks on 4 legs!"
Actually there was an electric car on slashdot that was faster than a ferrari (but that was only 0-60.) The viper has more hp through it's whole range but the electric car would accelerate waaaaaaay faster in the beginning (even you said it, more torque even at 0RPM, torque causes the car to move while it's stopped, horsepower lets it move faster while it's already moving.) The one linked on slashdot had a 60mph top speed so it'd out accelerate any manufactured car but then once you got to 60 you'd be stuck their to watch as the ferrari flew by at 200+ MPH (or 180+ if you were racing a viper.) If an electric car had a 120 mph top speed you'd deffinitely win some 1/4 mile races (hell your 1/8 mile time would be VERY fast, and the trap speed for that would probably be your cars top speed.)
I think it gets up to the top speed (which is probably a lot lower than 75) VERY quickly (with 400 lbs of torque, AT ALL TIMES, no waiting till it's at a certain RPM for the max HP and then shifting, it's just ALWAYS at 400lbs of torque.) But then since it has very little horsepower it can't get any higher than a pretty low speed. Well that's most electric cars I've seen, dunno about this one.
This car (and most electric cars) wouldn't have sufficient space, well I don't think they would, since the batteries use a lot of space and weigh a LOT. And wouldn't a van use less gas than a SUV? They have smaller engines and less weight (no 4 wheel drive and they're front wheel drive usually so that eliminates the driveshaft, a special differential, the transfer case for 4 wheel drive and a bunch of other stuff that adds unecessary weight.) And then there's the commercial vans (I've driven one before) they use around the same amount of gas as a large SUV. They're much harder to drive (since your field of view is very limited) but then again since you're carrying all that stuff around your field of view is probably very limited anyway.
...Aircraft Maker Produce Cars 2006 and fill in the blanks with "Aircraft Maker Will Produce Flying Cars In 2006"? I was really excited for a minute:-/
I don't know if I'm reading this right but 400+ lbs of torque, that's a lot. But then again it's an electric car I heard they have a lot of torque. And low horsepower, so it can accelerate up to 60mph faster than most other cars, but then it gets their and you can't go any faster. I'd buy an electric car if it wasn't for that.
And the looks, the looks suck too. Although I would deal with the looks for an electric car with a high top speed (at LEAST 100mph, 120-150 would be VERY nice.) It'd be worth it, drive up to a dodge viper, in something that looks like a 4 year old drew (and then threw up on, and then the dog ate it, and then crapped out the drawin), and drag race them (and win:-D.)
I'm sorry I didn't post a lengthy comment explaining how excited I am about this news but I figured "Um... yay!" would cover it, unfortunatly it didn't so here goes.
Wow this is so f-ing awesome, I really like the idea it sounds really cool and I hope to contribute (and learn) a lot!
Sorry you couldn't get all that from "Yay!" I would of posted more but I couldn't think of anything at the time and I was running late for work.
Slashdot Mirror
Soldier: Sir you're coming too close to our computers
Bill Gates: Come on just try it a little
Soldier: I'm going to have to ask you to step away from the computers!
Bill Gates: Come on here's a CD lemme just install it, it'll only take a minute
Soldier: This is your last warning, if you do not leave this area you will be terminated immediately!
Bill Gates: Here lemme just *reaches for a mouse*
Soldier: FIRE!
*right about here is some gruesome video of bill gates being ripped to shreds from M4 rounds*
Wow it'd be like a real life xBill
lol flaimbait, I was joking, i have like 80 gigs of porn on my 160 gig drive though...
The former model and queen of B-movie gems Cellblock Sisters and Galaxy Girls fished nude photos out of a trash can years ago and went on to create a multimillion-dollar Internet company with the world's largest collection of erotic images.
That's very untrue, I have the world's largest collection of erotic images, and no you can't have it.
Yeah, but if people buy some card because of $x feature knowing that there's NDIS wrappers, when they wouldn't otherwise, it gives companies less economic incentive to develop Linux drivers -- they aren't losing significant market share.
And they aren't gaining many sales to people who use NDIS wrappers, I think those people would say "Ok I have linux, I want a card to work in linux, oh this card supports it natively. If you buy a card for linux that uses some driver that probably won't work, you're not a very smart consumer and don't deserve native linux support in the first place. It's way better to use some kind of hardware with a manufacturers driver (most of the time, unless it really sucks but then at least you look for an open source alternative.) The only people that would use the NDIS wrappers are the people who might have bought a computer a year ago or from gateway or something like that, or found some hardware in a junked computer, then they say "Hey I wish this would work in linux" download some wrapper and they're set. And besides it's not like the company knows what OS anyone is running the hardware on right after they buy it.
Please don't just look at the micro scale -- no one cares about Your Little Problem.
That's exactly why you should use a wrapper, the company isn't going to give a damn that you want to use the hardware in linux so why would they support it? They can't just look at their profits and say "Look at all these people buying our hardware to use in linux, we should develop some drivers for them" they just see people buying the hardware they have no idea what the people are going to do with them.
It's more important to solve the larger problems (like companies that don't *properly* support their hardware aka don't provide linux drivers or specs to create said drivers) than to solve stupid problems like "waa I got a shitty wireless NIC, I want it to work, waa".
Umm you can put anything in there like -
"waa your company doesn't properly support your hardware, don't provide linux drivers, or release the specs to create said drivers"
You even said it before "no one cares about Your Little Problem" they don't care that you want linux support, they already have your money (and if they didn't you don't care about linux support cause you don't have their hardware.)
Buy another NIC, and send the original back to the manufacturer charred and burned, with a note saying "It's about as useful in this state to me as it was when I hadn't drenched it in gasoline and tossed a match at it". A less flippant solution that's less destructive to the environment (heh) is to get a refund for the piece of hardware. That sends a clearer, and less ambiguous message.
That sends a message, your hardware didn't work. They don't know why though! Do you not understand this? There isn't a little bell that goes off every time a linux user refuses to buy their software, you have to tell them and then we're back to square one "no one cares about Your Little Problem".
Take a more long-term look at things. Please.
Take a more long-term look at your comments. Please.
Yeah for shame NVidia for taking your time to support linux, how dare you do that. Don't ever do it again! As much as I love your driver, and how amazingly easy it is to insall, and how great it works in linux, don't EVER do that again! YOU BASTARDS! How dare you corrupt us with some closed source driver! Even though you probably can't open source the driver because it might contain trade secrets or liscensed materials that you're not allowed to show us, but still! Don't you dare make a closed source driver for linux again! Now take your closed source driver away from us and go! We don't care that you're sticking your neck out hoping people will actually buy the cards for the linux support since you actually used your own money to pay your codders to write this thing!
Ok now that I'm done sounding like an idiot I can be serious, I hate when people complain about NVidia's closed source driver. So it's closed source? Big deal? It's not something they sell, it's free, it's available on their website to anyone who wants it. Even if you have 50 ATI cards and 0 NVidia cards, they don't care, it's still free for you. They actually had to pay money to get that driver out to linux in the first place, if it wasn't for that driver, would their be any new games running in linux (UT 2003, 2004, Doom 3 when it comes out) Probably not since there wouldn't be many good cards out there to run these games. Other than ATI and NVidia what else is out their that you can actually buy easily, that runs on linux? The ATI driver is also closed source, and it's so hard to install and get working. I think the NVidia driver's done more for the linux gaming community than any open source software, well except wine, but isn't winex closed source and available only to subscribers? Also, doesn't wine, which would be the open source free one, run way less games than winex?
And not so long ago (October, 2003) I upgraded my video card, I bought one ATI card for my main computer, and figured I should get another card for my server, of course I went right to the nvidia cards because they have great linux support. I think because of their driver more companies would support linux since a lot of gamers would buy NVidia cards just for the linux support. I don't think I'd buy anything else just for linux support (except maybe a CF card reader with USB 2.0 but that's only cause I'd need it to run on my laptop so I can upload pictures wherever I am.)
But for them to relax more they'd have to be working on something in the first place, most of the hardware makers that are willing to support linux are gonna do it with the best drivers they can, not have people running their software in linux with some little hack. And the ones that don't support linux don't care that some little app lets people run windows drivers, they weren't going to support linux anyway it's not worth it for them. If NDISWRAPPER works then people should use it, I know I'd deffinitely use it if it supports my laptops network card (haven't been able to get this thing to work at all, some fairly old lucent technologies wireless card, I think there is support for some newer version of this card but not mine.) I'd use a newer card with linux support but the laptop itself doesn't support these (dunno why, tried some netgear card it didn't like that very much I think the PCMCIA slot in my laptop is 16 bit or something like that it's an old laptop.)
This is a great sign, if Intel starts supporting all of their products under Linux, other vendors will follow suit, and it won't be long before you'll see Lindows boxes alongside the Macs at CompUSA!
Yeah I know pretty soon we might get some linux support from other companies! Like NVidia, 3Comm, Ceative Labs, ATI, Netgear, Linksys, man pretty soon I'm gonna be able to build a sweet linux computer!
*Looks at his own two linux computers*
Oh...
I'd actually be more excited about Intel's decision if they had any products I actually wanted. I don't know of any companies I'd buy from whose products don't work in linux one way or another. Sure some things might not work, but I haven't run into anything in the past 2-3 years that I couldn't get working in linux although setting up my ATI card was a real pain. There are even a few no name devices that I wouldn't expect to work, that just happened to have support since they use the same chipset as like 40 other no name devies.
Books and the mask have nothing to do with linux, this does because there's a game being ported to linux. I think any time a major game (well I dunno if this is major or not) is ported to linux, it's news worthy since most people are that much closer to installing linux.
I'm sorry the frikking sharks with the frikking laser beams on their heads aren't here yet but for now enjoy our ill-tempered sea bass.
Ah. Thanks, I didn't think they'd do something like that. And how could it work both ways? Like how could 128MB = 134MB and still = 128MB? Isn't their one standard unit, then one that's slightly close but not really used for anything important?
I'm suprised with all the comments from people who DON'T want to try it out. This is SLASHDOT! Come on don't we all have dozens of 512MB hard drives? Or even some old 10 gig drive that you found in some computer while you were dumpster diving?
I saw the article title and I was very excited. I've bought many hard drives, and just recently I bought a 160 gig drive (was like $80 too after a mail in rebate, Fry's I love you...) and was about to buy a 250 ($110 after rebate, Fry's, still love you.) But then I figured, well if I do buy the 250, it's going to be able to hold around 200 gigs, and for some reason 50 gigs will be gone without a trace. I think there's 30 gigs missing on my 160 too, I've noticed this on a lot of drives (as drive sizes go up, so does the missing space.)
I thought this would actually let you use up that lost space somehow, you did buy the drive, it should contain the space, but it doesn't. RAM is just the opposite, you buy 512, it has 560 or so, well any ram I bought did. Anyway, is their a way to recover this lost space? Is their something I'm doing wrong? It seems to be worse in linux (but I heard that's cause it reserves space for root to access.)
I just install Windows Me, it crashes before they have any time to screw things up.
Really though, well my parents don't use PCs, my sister does and she has this problem. I pretty much installed some spyware removal software, and every once in a while I run it. If I see anything running in the taskbar I just close it. I don't expect her to have a perfect PC, but every time I remove the software there's less of it, so I think she's learning on her own. Teaching a person how to pick up on spy ware usually doesn't work, they just have to experience it for themselves, then they start to catch on (well at least my sister did) and learn through trial and error. If you just restrict them from being able to do anything, or install some program like bull guard, they'll just learn how to remove that program since it's not letting them install the spyware (if they try to install something, and it has spyware with it or whatever, then like they're gonna see that the program is blocking it and they will think it's probably broken or something and disable it.)
Wouldn't it be "Kazakhstan, we have a problem"? this isn't NASA you know...
You need to, without making them feel unwanted or put down by suggestions, make them think a bit about their outwards apperence.
After reading this I understand why you have a hard time socializing with girls, and how you have a girlfriend at all is simply amazing. You do NOT need to make a girl think about her outward appearance, if anything you need to make the girl think LESS about her outward appearance. A lot of girls are obsessive over the way they look (eating disorders, breast implants) and it can be damaging, it doesn't help to hand your girlfriend a comb and say something stupid like that. That's like saying "Your hair doesn't look good enough for me today, here's a comb and you'd better fix it." No one likes their faults pointed out, even if you do it subtly.
Unless you're girlfriend's dead or in a coma or something I'm sure you'd never have to hint to her that her hair is messed up, she knows, she doesn't even need a mirror she just knows. The WORST thing for you to do is hint that it's messed up and the BEST thing to do is say something possitive about her to take her mind off her hair (and maybe YOU can be a nice boyfriend and fix her hair for her while you talk about something together.)
I saw this -
$20 per month for the first 6 months (regular price: $40 per month)
and thought, damn that's really good for 2.2mbps down wireless internet, then I saw
Monthly transfer: up to 20 GB (download) and 5 GB (upload)
I wouldn't want any kind of internet that gives you limits. I don't know how often I'd use 20GB a month but I'm sure it's very often (lots of bittorent downloading, websites full of flash animations and streaming video, and even games.) If you play UT 2K3 for just 4 hours a day, 25 days a month (that's like coming home from school or work, and playing a few hours) that's around 2 gigs or 1/10th your total bandwidth, for something that uses hardly any bandwidth (around 5-6K/sec and remember there's also hundreds of mutators on like every server and then 10 meg maps.) And how's the upload speed? Latency? I dunno I like the idea of having a wireless ISP and it'd be really cool for a laptop, I don't think this should be uses as your main ISP alone.
... the cartoon network ultimate wish list. Does anyone actually buy this stuff? Well I can see the module being bought by a museum, MAYBE, but 1.65 million dollars is a lot of money to buy on something like that, it seems you could build your own for much cheaper. Sure it wouldn't be as accurate but you could make it as accurate as you want, and is this one even accurate? Does the real module weigh 20,000lbs? Wouldn't it have some super lightweight materials? Would any real people pay for one? I don't think anyone who actually has the money for this, would want this, since for a few million more they can probably go up to the ISS.
Microsoft would have thousands of nuclear weapons, except they would constantly explode in their own silos. Everyone would have an easy to use rifle (with baby blue color theme), but only a handfull of people will be able to keep the rifle out of enemy hands, everyone else will just leave it lying around outside cause they're too lazy (or stupid) to secure it anywhere.
Linux would have some great weapons but only 20 people would know how to use them, 12 of these people would have them loaded correctly, 5 will accidentally shoot themselves in the face, 2 would use the guns of the people who shot themselves in the face, and continue to shoot those people in the face, and the last person would develop a new loading mechanism and distribute it to everyone so they now have to figure out how to load it all over again.
I'm pretty sure that in japan a dragon isn't anything like what a dragon looks like in the non asian countries. In america a dragon traditionally looks very big (tall), fat, with some giant wings. I'm pretty sure a japanese dragon is long, skinny, with small or no wings. Now this looks nothing like either dragon, but try not to confuse your idea of what a dragon looks like with what the designer of this thing thinks a dragon looks like.
Also, I read this from one of the articles
``We expect to have it operational this year. We're also in the process of developing, with Waseda University, a robot that can walk on two legs with a person riding on its back. Once that becomes a reality, it'll be able to help out in hospitals and homes for the elderly.''
Have you ever rode on a persons back? It requires a bit of strength (to hold on) how would this help out in hospitals and homes for the elderly unless it could hold the person? Wouldn't a motorized wheelchair be more effective? Why design a robot that walks on two legs (and probably falls over when the battery dies, like a segway) when you can just design some type of "smart" wheelchair that can memorize paths, detect hazards (puddles, extreme heat in case of a fire), and help guide the user to important things? Like a doctor could put in some name of a room and some time (like "room 135 5:30PM" for physical therapy or something) and the wheelchair can use some type of wireless technology and find out the location by downloading the path from a database in the hospital and the wheelchair can remind the patient when to go their and drive them their automatically? I dunno I think companies are just designing robots by throwing darts "Ok we landed on legs, 2 and hospital, now we need a robot with 2 legs that can be used in hospitals." or "Ok we've got dragon, 4, and home, we need a home security robot that looks like a dragon and walks on 4 legs!"
...I imagined someone who hacked up a way to use the heat from a rack of servers to cook at the ISP they work at.
Actually there was an electric car on slashdot that was faster than a ferrari (but that was only 0-60.) The viper has more hp through it's whole range but the electric car would accelerate waaaaaaay faster in the beginning (even you said it, more torque even at 0RPM, torque causes the car to move while it's stopped, horsepower lets it move faster while it's already moving.) The one linked on slashdot had a 60mph top speed so it'd out accelerate any manufactured car but then once you got to 60 you'd be stuck their to watch as the ferrari flew by at 200+ MPH (or 180+ if you were racing a viper.) If an electric car had a 120 mph top speed you'd deffinitely win some 1/4 mile races (hell your 1/8 mile time would be VERY fast, and the trap speed for that would probably be your cars top speed.)
I think it gets up to the top speed (which is probably a lot lower than 75) VERY quickly (with 400 lbs of torque, AT ALL TIMES, no waiting till it's at a certain RPM for the max HP and then shifting, it's just ALWAYS at 400lbs of torque.) But then since it has very little horsepower it can't get any higher than a pretty low speed. Well that's most electric cars I've seen, dunno about this one.
This car (and most electric cars) wouldn't have sufficient space, well I don't think they would, since the batteries use a lot of space and weigh a LOT. And wouldn't a van use less gas than a SUV? They have smaller engines and less weight (no 4 wheel drive and they're front wheel drive usually so that eliminates the driveshaft, a special differential, the transfer case for 4 wheel drive and a bunch of other stuff that adds unecessary weight.) And then there's the commercial vans (I've driven one before) they use around the same amount of gas as a large SUV. They're much harder to drive (since your field of view is very limited) but then again since you're carrying all that stuff around your field of view is probably very limited anyway.
...Aircraft Maker Produce Cars 2006 and fill in the blanks with "Aircraft Maker Will Produce Flying Cars In 2006"? I was really excited for a minute :-/
I don't know if I'm reading this right but 400+ lbs of torque, that's a lot. But then again it's an electric car I heard they have a lot of torque. And low horsepower, so it can accelerate up to 60mph faster than most other cars, but then it gets their and you can't go any faster. I'd buy an electric car if it wasn't for that.
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And the looks, the looks suck too. Although I would deal with the looks for an electric car with a high top speed (at LEAST 100mph, 120-150 would be VERY nice.) It'd be worth it, drive up to a dodge viper, in something that looks like a 4 year old drew (and then threw up on, and then the dog ate it, and then crapped out the drawin), and drag race them (and win
I'm sorry I didn't post a lengthy comment explaining how excited I am about this news but I figured "Um... yay!" would cover it, unfortunatly it didn't so here goes.
Wow this is so f-ing awesome, I really like the idea it sounds really cool and I hope to contribute (and learn) a lot!
Sorry you couldn't get all that from "Yay!" I would of posted more but I couldn't think of anything at the time and I was running late for work.