What exactly is the point of this? Do calculators take too long to report 2 + 2? I can't think of a situation where I sat waiting for my TI-83 to finish calculating and though "Man, I should really overclock this baby."
I agree. This sounds like one of the most boring TV shows ever. And I say this having seen both "Crossing Over with John Edward" and that View-ish show that's on at like 1 am with the four uninteresting lady hosts.
Linus Torvalds has even turned up a couple of times. You never know what he's going to be dressed in; one year it was a penguin suit, another year speedos.
Is this true? If so, does anyone have a link to the penguin suit pictures? You can keep the speedo link to yourself, thank you very much...
Imagine what would happen if they found silver, uranium, plutonium, platinium, etc. on Titan! The biggest "gold" rush ever!
Given the expense needed simply to travel to Titan (not to mention the expense needed to design a craft that is able to get there, obtain a meaningful amount of silver/uranium/plutonium, lift off, and travel back to Earth), I doubt that it would be the biggest "gold" rush ever.
You can also designate any AAC file as an iPod audiobook by changing the file extension to m4b instead of m4a. Useful for if you rip your own audiobook CDs.
Slightly off-topic: I'm pretty sure I was the first one to make this joke on Slashdot (see the post), but I knew that I had finally made a difference in the world when I saw myself quoted in a Slashdotter's sig. Sad, I know...
Regarding that point, I noticed a peculiar coincidence on the CNN.com poll the other day.
I read CNN every day, and I vote in all the polls, and I have come to notice that the poll results tend to end up in a 65/35 split, with the majority vote going to the liberal or Democratic option. (e.g., "Do you approve of the job President Bush is doing?" will get 65% no, 35% yes.)
The question the other day was something like "Are you satisfied with the choices for President?" Lo and behold, the results were 65% no, 35% yes. While this may be just a coincidence, it reinforced the feeling that I had that Republicans/conservatives like Bush and think that Kerry is a poor choice, and, while Democrats/liberals don't disagree that Kerry is a poor choce, they think Bush is a poor choice as well.
I don't know what significance this has, but I just found it interesting and thought I would share.
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What's wrong with just letting people save money on their own for their retirement? I say we end Social Security and let people plan for themselves.
What exactly is the point of this? Do calculators take too long to report 2 + 2? I can't think of a situation where I sat waiting for my TI-83 to finish calculating and though "Man, I should really overclock this baby."
Here's a Slashdot story that covered building your own digital picture frame, if you do decide to go that route.
I can't wait for the next two Slashdot stories: "The sky is still blue" and "There's nothing interesting to report."
I agree. This sounds like one of the most boring TV shows ever. And I say this having seen both "Crossing Over with John Edward" and that View-ish show that's on at like 1 am with the four uninteresting lady hosts.
Here's the Google cache of the main pages of the site:
Overview
Hardware
Firmware
Software
Fabrication
Downloads
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Does anyone know why the "o" in the Phoenix logo is the symbol for male? Also, what does the year 2007 have to do with anything?
That would be torturing the user, not the computer.
In other news, the U.S. government ran a $1 billion dollar surplus in the month of December.
Yeah, because your name is the same as your DNA...
You can also designate any AAC file as an iPod audiobook by changing the file extension to m4b instead of m4a. Useful for if you rip your own audiobook CDs.
We've already got one; it is a-very nice!
Kerry's polling well in France? You don't say!
Slightly off-topic: I'm pretty sure I was the first one to make this joke on Slashdot (see the post), but I knew that I had finally made a difference in the world when I saw myself quoted in a Slashdotter's sig. Sad, I know...
Regarding that point, I noticed a peculiar coincidence on the CNN.com poll the other day.
I read CNN every day, and I vote in all the polls, and I have come to notice that the poll results tend to end up in a 65/35 split, with the majority vote going to the liberal or Democratic option. (e.g., "Do you approve of the job President Bush is doing?" will get 65% no, 35% yes.)
The question the other day was something like "Are you satisfied with the choices for President?" Lo and behold, the results were 65% no, 35% yes. While this may be just a coincidence, it reinforced the feeling that I had that Republicans/conservatives like Bush and think that Kerry is a poor choice, and, while Democrats/liberals don't disagree that Kerry is a poor choce, they think Bush is a poor choice as well.
I don't know what significance this has, but I just found it interesting and thought I would share.
By that math, the circulation of the Iconoclast is even less than absolutely nothing! So why is there a Slashdot story about it?