That's an interesting thought. My dad was a nuclear vet...I think he was in Nevada in '52 or '54. I only learned about it six months before he died. He'd never said anything about it to anyone.
FWIW, he had leukemia (one of the causes of his death). I did some research after he died, and had he filed for it himself, he would have received a $75,000 payout for medical expenses as part of a government settlement. No benefit for survivors though. If your dad's still alive and is having any medical problems, you might check it out.
I'm betting that if you put the bullet in a bench vice and whack the back end with a hammer, it'll still discharge the bullet. Not that I'd um, ever do such a silly thing...not since Jr. High anyway.:)
If I remember high school chemistry correctly, sodium and water make and interesting combination.
So, use the sodium based liquid metal cooler on your video card, and a water based cooler on your cpu. Then, wait for leaks and your whole computer will explode!
Fun, fun, and more fun! They'll have to print warning labels on computers - WARNING: Do not hit this computer with a large blunt instrument. Serious injury or death may result.
They should have shot for pi billion dollars to the nearest integer...they'd have raised more money that way.;)
I always liked pi better than e anyhow.
There's a line from Jerry Maguire -
"It's not show-friends, it's show-business."
The scene in the movie is the reverse situation as this thread (it's the "bad" guy that says it), but the sentiment is the same.
If you have to leave a company, it's business, not personal.
My nine-year-old son has been learning to program (brings a tear of geeky-paternal-pride to my eye). Our approach has been two-fold.
On the expensive side, we've purchased a Lego Mindstorm set (VERY cool! I like it as much as he does). The starter set runs about 200 bucks, but you can get 'em a little cheaper on eBay.
The Mindstorm development environment is drag and drop based and you fill in property settings to make things work. It has most of the fundamental coding constructs - if statements, for loops, while loops, etc. You can use variables, and it also has various I/O functionality by way of timers and external sensors. My son and his 10 year old friend both picked up on it very quickl, and are now doing really cool things with their Lego robots.
On the free side, we've also been teaching him Web development with JavaScript. My computer at home has a whole host of development tools/environments on it (VS6, VS.NET, PHP, Java, etc). He doesn't use any of it - Just notepad and a web browser (IE and Mozilla - to point out the differences!).
My point is this - if a kid wants to learn how to code, he/she doesn't need the computer to come with BASIC or anything more fancy than a text editor and a web browser. I'm familiar with the argument that "scripting isn't programming", but as an ealier post pointed out, programming is about learning to solve problems, and you can do that just as well without a compiler.
This may be slightly off topic, but I have to say that Mozilla's ability to suppress unrequested popups has helped reduce my blood pressure tremendously. I haven't seen an ad for an X10 camera in MONTHS now.
This is a great web site. I have a nine year old son - we've done several of the experiments together (electric motors, and steamboats!). I had as much fun as he did, and we were able to do the experiments with junk we had laying around the garage.
What's the point of compiling win apps and linux apps on the same machine?
I develop windows apps for a living (hey...it's a living). Even in our 99% windows environment, I don't build _everything_ on my machine. We have an automated build environment. It's very simple to launch a little client app to trigger a build on a different machine. All of the source is checked out of source control, and then built. I wrote the "remote build" app myself so it was tailored to our companies use, but I would guess there are commercial/free utilities out there. If not, it ain't that hard to write a windows service that reads a file and executes command lines written in that file (which is what our remote build app does).
If you're going to have to have native windows machines to test on anyway, why not just set up an environment where you can build your windows apps on a windows machine while still sitting at your linux machine?
On the one hand, I think what was done was neat (sometimes just showing it can be done is worth while), but on the other hand, it doesn't sound like the most efficient way of doing things.
Ironically, I could probably take 1/10th of my salary here, and have a better standard of living in India.
As a software developer, I've worked with and been friends with several people from India. The salaries are much lower, but the cost of living is lower still. For 1/10th my current salary, I could have a beautiful, modern home, with a housekeeper/cook.
Ironically, the US Gov't doesn't carry insurance on its vehicles. Neither does it carry bonds. This is because the US Gov't essentially has "infinity cash" - at least in US Dollars. If a gov't employee rear-ends somebody, the gov't just pays the damages.
Off topic I suppose, but interesting trivia none the less.
Well, that depends on what you're targeting and destroying with. If you're targeting and destroying with conventional weapons, what's to keep the laser from just shooting them too?
If you're targeting and destroying with another laser, then there are other things to consider.
If the laser is surface based and is shooting targets in the air, then you either have to take out the surface based laser with an air born laser, or you have to be closer than about 25 miles or the curvature of the earth will get in the way of your shot.
Everybody on/. add webmaster/support/marketing/whatever@permissionedm edia.com to their contact list, then start sending Friend Greetings to each other.
We could make their EULA worm into a/. denial of service attack.
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That's an interesting thought. My dad was a nuclear vet...I think he was in Nevada in '52 or '54. I only learned about it six months before he died. He'd never said anything about it to anyone.
FWIW, he had leukemia (one of the causes of his death). I did some research after he died, and had he filed for it himself, he would have received a $75,000 payout for medical expenses as part of a government settlement. No benefit for survivors though. If your dad's still alive and is having any medical problems, you might check it out.
I'm betting that if you put the bullet in a bench vice and whack the back end with a hammer, it'll still discharge the bullet. Not that I'd um, ever do such a silly thing...not since Jr. High anyway. :)
If I remember high school chemistry correctly, sodium and water make and interesting combination. So, use the sodium based liquid metal cooler on your video card, and a water based cooler on your cpu. Then, wait for leaks and your whole computer will explode! Fun, fun, and more fun! They'll have to print warning labels on computers - WARNING: Do not hit this computer with a large blunt instrument. Serious injury or death may result.
You know...I read the synopsis for this story, and thought to myself..."I've seen this on Userfriendly!"
They should have shot for pi billion dollars to the nearest integer...they'd have raised more money that way. ;)
I always liked pi better than e anyhow.
Somebody should sic the BSA on the RIAA and find out how much software they've copied themselves.
I'm a firm believer in making sure your own closet is free of skeletons, before you go poking around in somebody elses looking for them.
There's a line from Jerry Maguire - "It's not show-friends, it's show-business." The scene in the movie is the reverse situation as this thread (it's the "bad" guy that says it), but the sentiment is the same. If you have to leave a company, it's business, not personal.
My nine-year-old son has been learning to program (brings a tear of geeky-paternal-pride to my eye). Our approach has been two-fold.
On the expensive side, we've purchased a Lego Mindstorm set (VERY cool! I like it as much as he does). The starter set runs about 200 bucks, but you can get 'em a little cheaper on eBay.
The Mindstorm development environment is drag and drop based and you fill in property settings to make things work. It has most of the fundamental coding constructs - if statements, for loops, while loops, etc. You can use variables, and it also has various I/O functionality by way of timers and external sensors. My son and his 10 year old friend both picked up on it very quickl, and are now doing really cool things with their Lego robots.
On the free side, we've also been teaching him Web development with JavaScript. My computer at home has a whole host of development tools/environments on it (VS6, VS.NET, PHP, Java, etc). He doesn't use any of it - Just notepad and a web browser (IE and Mozilla - to point out the differences!).
My point is this - if a kid wants to learn how to code, he/she doesn't need the computer to come with BASIC or anything more fancy than a text editor and a web browser. I'm familiar with the argument that "scripting isn't programming", but as an ealier post pointed out, programming is about learning to solve problems, and you can do that just as well without a compiler.
This may be slightly off topic, but I have to say that Mozilla's ability to suppress unrequested popups has helped reduce my blood pressure tremendously. I haven't seen an ad for an X10 camera in MONTHS now.
This is a great web site. I have a nine year old son - we've done several of the experiments together (electric motors, and steamboats!). I had as much fun as he did, and we were able to do the experiments with junk we had laying around the garage.
The bottle of vodka is only for charging my laptop!
What's the point of compiling win apps and linux apps on the same machine?
I develop windows apps for a living (hey...it's a living). Even in our 99% windows environment, I don't build _everything_ on my machine. We have an automated build environment. It's very simple to launch a little client app to trigger a build on a different machine. All of the source is checked out of source control, and then built. I wrote the "remote build" app myself so it was tailored to our companies use, but I would guess there are commercial/free utilities out there. If not, it ain't that hard to write a windows service that reads a file and executes command lines written in that file (which is what our remote build app does).
If you're going to have to have native windows machines to test on anyway, why not just set up an environment where you can build your windows apps on a windows machine while still sitting at your linux machine?
On the one hand, I think what was done was neat (sometimes just showing it can be done is worth while), but on the other hand, it doesn't sound like the most efficient way of doing things.
Ironically, I could probably take 1/10th of my salary here, and have a better standard of living in India.
As a software developer, I've worked with and been friends with several people from India. The salaries are much lower, but the cost of living is lower still. For 1/10th my current salary, I could have a beautiful, modern home, with a housekeeper/cook.
Ironically, the US Gov't doesn't carry insurance on its vehicles. Neither does it carry bonds. This is because the US Gov't essentially has "infinity cash" - at least in US Dollars. If a gov't employee rear-ends somebody, the gov't just pays the damages.
Off topic I suppose, but interesting trivia none the less.
"they can be targeted and destroyed"
Well, that depends on what you're targeting and destroying with. If you're targeting and destroying with conventional weapons, what's to keep the laser from just shooting them too?
If you're targeting and destroying with another laser, then there are other things to consider.
If the laser is surface based and is shooting targets in the air, then you either have to take out the surface based laser with an air born laser, or you have to be closer than about 25 miles or the curvature of the earth will get in the way of your shot.
Everybody on /. add webmaster/support/marketing/whatever@permissionedm edia.com to their contact list, then start sending Friend Greetings to each other.
/. denial of service attack.
We could make their EULA worm into a
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