If you travel faster than the speed of light, do we get a massive flash of light?
Of course you do! Sheesh, hasn't everyone seen the Enterprise engage warp speed? There's a big flash at the point they hit light speed. And I always assumed/.'rs were big Star Trek fans.
Actually yes it can. It's all in the LD50's. The LD50 for Caffienne in rats (generally used to compare to humans) is approx 200mg/kg. This means rats given 200mg caffienne per kg of body weight, 50% of them die.
A cup of coffee generally has approx 200mg of caffienne in it. The "average man" in most medical studies/papers is 70kg. So 100 cups of coffee would exceed his LD50.
Great, at this moment, a half million geeks are sitting at their desks flipping quarters nonstop to check it out.
Articles like this are planted by MS into/. to preoccupy our minds and divert our attention.
Now if I can just get the theme from 'My Favorite Martian' that hit me from the previous article out of my head. Then I'd be able to concentrate on stopping flipping this quarter.
Actually, you could use peer pressure from his neighbors against him as well. Just add and subtract 2 from his address to get probable next door neighbor addresses. Sign them up for catalogs too. I'm willing to bet he would become more unpopular on his street.
Acutally, blackouts happen in areas which baseball teams consider their "home territory". The reason for the blackout is to enforce at least some people going to the games. Game not sold out, ok, then you can't watch it on tv at home, you shoulda bought a ticket. If the game is sold out, the game isn't blacked out in that "home" area. The problem is that baseball teams in particular claim HUGE areas as their "home territory", from which their fans travel to see games. We live ~4hrs drive time from our "local" pro team, yet based on our ZIP code, we're not allowed to see some of their games via our satellite dish. When I called and talked to them, they gave the reason above.
With product names of "Chocolate Insanity" and "Pina Colada Chaos" it seems they'll bomb. Some exec at Dr Pepper probably decided to try and see what kind of impact this "new medium" might do for advertising what should be a quickly dead product. If it makes their marketing marginally better, you'll see it down the road for Dr Pepper's regular products. (Dr Pepper Exec)"Let's not just tarnish the good old Dr Pepper and Diet Dr Pepper just yet with something that might be thought of as odd from an advertising standpoint."(/Dr Pepper Exec)
I've sent numerous emails to EBay asking why they won't change their policies. I've yet to get a reply.
The main problem is that many Sellers hold Buyers hostage for ratings. The Seller refuses to leave a feedback for the Buyer, until the Buyer leaves a Positive Feedback for them. This puts the Buyer at a huge disadvantage, if you're not satisfied, and leave a Negative Feedback for the Seller, you run the risk of him retaliating with a Negative one for you. This artificially inflates Seller's ratings.
If a Buyer makes an appropriate payment, either instantly with some form of internet payment, or 'the check clears the bank', he/she has fulfilled his part of the transaction, and should be given their Feedback immediately.
Only when the Buyer gets the package, in good condition, has the Seller fulfilled his half of the transaction, and be eligible for their feedback to be made.
The only way to make it an equitible marketplace is to just require that Sellers don't get Feedback until they've left feedback for the Buyer. For Sellers who feel like noone will take the time to leave feedback for them, put in an "Automated Positive Feedback" after say 15 business days. This gives Buyers about three weeks to leave a personalized Positive (or Negative) Feedback, or else one would assume things went well, and the Seller should therefor get their Positive Feedback.
thehun is also making preparations, for the massive increase in traffic expected when access to pr0n finally arives for these lonely, stranded scientists.
I'll fondly miss my eary OS/2 days. OS/2 was my first venture away from windows many years ago. I guess I was searching out a way to get away from the windows that was so horridly unstable. Little did I know Linux was just beginning in Linus's appartment, and it's impact on me shortly down the road. Back then, OS/2 was the only thing around that did what it did, it seamlessly ran DOS, Win and OS/2 apps side by side. Mind blowing at the time, especially for a windows user to see happen, with stability, at that time.
Oh yeah, Galactic Civilizations by itsself was quite amazing. For it's day, a very complex game, of which the writers said only OS/2 could handle.
http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n2/galciv.html
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If you travel faster than the speed of light, do we get a massive flash of light?
/.'rs were big Star Trek fans.
Of course you do! Sheesh, hasn't everyone seen the Enterprise engage warp speed? There's a big flash at the point they hit light speed. And I always assumed
Actually yes it can. It's all in the LD50's. The LD50 for Caffienne in rats (generally used to compare to humans) is approx 200mg/kg. This means rats given 200mg caffienne per kg of body weight, 50% of them die.
A cup of coffee generally has approx 200mg of caffienne in it. The "average man" in most medical studies/papers is 70kg. So 100 cups of coffee would exceed his LD50.
If it's authentic it gives a place for discovery to start. Knowing something specific is present makes discovery so much easier.
It'll also make SCO work hard to prove it's not authentic if it's not discoverable.
Great, at this moment, a half million geeks are sitting at their desks flipping quarters nonstop to check it out.
Articles like this are planted by MS into /. to preoccupy our minds and divert our attention.
Now if I can just get the theme from 'My Favorite Martian' that hit me from the previous article out of my head. Then I'd be able to concentrate on stopping flipping this quarter.
part of this agreement stipulates that they will no longer steal our probes for fun,...
The Martians are also to stop probing Earthlings for fun.
MS makes a brilliant move to preemptively kill projects, in an effort to stem any further source code leaks.
"No source code here to leak, project's axed, move on."
I'm installing pyrotechnic devices and a gentle spring on all my beagles ASAP.
10 years from now I don't want to be explaining to my sons "I'm sorry, but we had our back turned and gave up our freedom of choice."
Please call your representatives and keep this stuff from passing. /.'ers have shown that they can have a large concerted voice if properly motivated.
Actually, you could use peer pressure from his neighbors against him as well. Just add and subtract 2 from his address to get probable next door neighbor addresses. Sign them up for catalogs too. I'm willing to bet he would become more unpopular on his street.
Darn, Iraq isn't listed. Just trying to do my part for the effort.
Bill the Cat Lives! (again)
Acutally, blackouts happen in areas which baseball teams consider their "home territory". The reason for the blackout is to enforce at least some people going to the games. Game not sold out, ok, then you can't watch it on tv at home, you shoulda bought a ticket. If the game is sold out, the game isn't blacked out in that "home" area. The problem is that baseball teams in particular claim HUGE areas as their "home territory", from which their fans travel to see games. We live ~4hrs drive time from our "local" pro team, yet based on our ZIP code, we're not allowed to see some of their games via our satellite dish. When I called and talked to them, they gave the reason above.
I've got dibs on Hugh Hefner as who I'd have my report emailed to!
With product names of "Chocolate Insanity" and "Pina Colada Chaos" it seems they'll bomb. Some exec at Dr Pepper probably decided to try and see what kind of impact this "new medium" might do for advertising what should be a quickly dead product. If it makes their marketing marginally better, you'll see it down the road for Dr Pepper's regular products. (Dr Pepper Exec)"Let's not just tarnish the good old Dr Pepper and Diet Dr Pepper just yet with something that might be thought of as odd from an advertising standpoint."(/Dr Pepper Exec)
"I'm familiar with Linux (11+ years familiar)."
As an employer, I abhor when people add years to their resume.
From ftp.us.kernel.org :
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 63362 Oct 29 1993 linux-0.01.tar.bz2
Soooo, it seems Linux is 9.5 years old, or thereabouts.
If smart dust and dust bunnies under the furniture get together, there'd be no end to the mess they produce, and produce, and produce...
I've sent numerous emails to EBay asking why they won't change their policies. I've yet to get a reply.
The main problem is that many Sellers hold Buyers hostage for ratings. The Seller refuses to leave a feedback for the Buyer, until the Buyer leaves a Positive Feedback for them. This puts the Buyer at a huge disadvantage, if you're not satisfied, and leave a Negative Feedback for the Seller, you run the risk of him retaliating with a Negative one for you. This artificially inflates Seller's ratings.
If a Buyer makes an appropriate payment, either instantly with some form of internet payment, or 'the check clears the bank', he/she has fulfilled his part of the transaction, and should be given their Feedback immediately.
Only when the Buyer gets the package, in good condition, has the Seller fulfilled his half of the transaction, and be eligible for their feedback to be made.
The only way to make it an equitible marketplace is to just require that Sellers don't get Feedback until they've left feedback for the Buyer. For Sellers who feel like noone will take the time to leave feedback for them, put in an "Automated Positive Feedback" after say 15 business days. This gives Buyers about three weeks to leave a personalized Positive (or Negative) Feedback, or else one would assume things went well, and the Seller should therefor get their Positive Feedback.
Problem Solved.
thehun is also making preparations, for the massive increase in traffic expected when access to pr0n finally arives for these lonely, stranded scientists.
Here's a link to it: http://www.cosmiverse.com/space12030102.html
It also explains how the thin atmosphere of Mars actually works to help their design of a flapping winged robot.
I'll fondly miss my eary OS/2 days. OS/2 was my first venture away from windows many years ago. I guess I was searching out a way to get away from the windows that was so horridly unstable. Little did I know Linux was just beginning in Linus's appartment, and it's impact on me shortly down the road. Back then, OS/2 was the only thing around that did what it did, it seamlessly ran DOS, Win and OS/2 apps side by side. Mind blowing at the time, especially for a windows user to see happen, with stability, at that time. Oh yeah, Galactic Civilizations by itsself was quite amazing. For it's day, a very complex game, of which the writers said only OS/2 could handle. http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n2/galciv.html