Let me be the first to say I applaud Florida's forward looking policies, which are sure to stamp out the dens of evil file sharers and virus writers that hide on their so-called "Local Area Networks". Tax them into oblivion, I say! And while we're at it, I would like to suggest a ham radio tax, as I know for a fact that various people who *could* talk on land lines use ham radio to circumvent the phone tax.
Ironically, by the time he'd won patents in 47 countries, the Japanese patent office turned him down on the grounds that "[the invention] couldn' t possibly work" and that somehow he was fabricating the claims.
But a few months later they were forced to recant their decision after the US patent office recognized his invention and gave him the first of two patents. As Minato notes: "How typical of Japan's small-minded bureaucrats that they needed the leadership of the US to accept that my invention was genuine."
He's claiming that the current rubberstamp bureaucracy has proven his ability to violate the laws of physics? If he had some respected independent lab test it, I might start to listen, but for now, his magnets are no more special that these magnets of immortality, which will fail when I roll > 3 on attack with my "Vorpal Blade of Truth"...
The more the merrier though. In a theoretical capital market, if there are enough buyers, the producers will make more, enabling more people to buy, and maximizing profit. It's newsworthy in that it's another step closer to non-government sponsored space flight. Personal space travel will come eventually, but maybe market forces can accelerate the process.
The second example is a refrigerated car (or "reefer car" in train yard slang). I found that I couldn't build this car in the all-green of the book design but had the parts to build it in red
Who knew the fast-paced and glamorous world of Lego trains would carry such a dark, drug-driven underside?
Hmm. I think you meant "It is crazy, but your comment is "-1, Stupid"."
stupid adj.stupider, stupidest
1. Slow to learn or understand; obtuse.
2. Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes.
3. Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless:
Why bother? The current line on terrorism seems to be working just fine for the right wing nuts so far.
Actually, it seems like wing nuts are not the correct item for this applaction. Traditional hex nuts can handle more torque and would therefore hold everything together better through the rocky legal battles ahead...
Or, in other words, did you miss a hyphen there? It's ASCII 45, if you can't track it down on your keyboard.
He's trying to make the point that he's worried about the widespread proliferation of canned meats, as apposed to everyone's first, incorrect assumption, that he is talking about unsolicited email.
Woah, deja vu. What did you see? A post just went by my screen, and then twenty minutes later, another one like it went by again. How much alike were they? Were they the same post?
"I first found about this from a friend in L.A.," says black marketeer Hans Gruber. "We are right now mixing cocktails to strip barbituates, THC, amphetamines, you name it. It's going to give a big boost to the illegal drug industry - people don't have to worry about being caught at work anymore".
Isn't he the guy that composed Silent Night? I suppose he could have been revived from the grave, and taken up a career as an imaginary high tech crime lord...
Well, according to this site, it takes about 2 tons of wood to make "942 100-page, hard-cover books" - now, the Library of Congress has "approximately 115 million items". We can assume that the items average out to about a 100-page hardcover book (how nifty, makes my job easier). So, 115,000,000 divided by 942 equals 122,080, which, mulitiplied by 2 tons of wood, equals 244,161 tons of wood. At 98 tons per gallon, assuming a one to one ratio of plant matter to wood, it takes.04% of the Library of Congress to make a gallon of fuel.
If you get 25 mpg, and you drive 12,500 miles a year, you use 500 gallons of gas a year, and so, you consume 20% of the Library of Congress a year.
Still here? OK then, if you drive from age 18 to age 75, that's 57 years of driving. Assuming (obviously grossly innaccurate here, given different fuel consumption at different times) that you drive that 25 mpg car 12,500 miles for all of those 57 years, you have consumed 11.44 Libraries of Congress. You animal. Have you no restraint?
Dollars to donuts these robots aren't coming ThreeLaws-equipped.
Donuts to deutschmarks these robots don't have positronic brains.
Asmiov's three laws of robotics (plus the fourth reproductive law) were designed in a theoretical world containing *AI*. You might as well try to apply the three laws to a blender as apply them to these "robots". It's an apples to orangutans comparison, trying to compare these things with Asimov's robots...
want it. I've got some spare room in the backyard, and I'm more worried about the electricity company trying to gouge me than I am about some paranoid dystopic view that all forms of "nuclear" power are bad. It looks safe, heck, I'll even let my kids play near it.
I won't even charge the electric company full price for all the power I pump back into the grid either. I'll undersell them and watch capitalism take its toll on the slow movers.
>Duke Nukem Forever will be the most realistic game ever realeased.
I've said it once and I'll say it again : it's called Duke Nukem Forever because it's the amount of time it'll require to code the damn thing. There's no release date for that same reason!
You seem to have a problem with capitalization. You may want to get it checked out before it gets worse, and people think you're yelling at them all the time.
The problem comes from words that have the same ending letters, but different middle letters: Like "car" and "cur", or (more confusingly) "from", "form", "firm", "film", "farm", etc. Context would give us some cues, but it would definately require more thought to process.
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No, I think the trick is to use a 5 pound sledgehammer. Once you hit a "mole" with that, it never comes back up.
Let me be the first to say I applaud Florida's forward looking policies, which are sure to stamp out the dens of evil file sharers and virus writers that hide on their so-called "Local Area Networks". Tax them into oblivion, I say! And while we're at it, I would like to suggest a ham radio tax, as I know for a fact that various people who *could* talk on land lines use ham radio to circumvent the phone tax.
Peas, whirled peas! That's what I want.
Ironically, by the time he'd won patents in 47 countries, the Japanese patent office turned him down on the grounds that "[the invention] couldn' t possibly work" and that somehow he was fabricating the claims.
But a few months later they were forced to recant their decision after the US patent office recognized his invention and gave him the first of two patents. As Minato notes: "How typical of Japan's small-minded bureaucrats that they needed the leadership of the US to accept that my invention was genuine."
He's claiming that the current rubberstamp bureaucracy has proven his ability to violate the laws of physics? If he had some respected independent lab test it, I might start to listen, but for now, his magnets are no more special that these magnets of immortality, which will fail when I roll > 3 on attack with my "Vorpal Blade of Truth"...
but I do know there are free [beer] alternatives.
Did you say free beer?! I don't normally drink, but if it's free...
The more the merrier though. In a theoretical capital market, if there are enough buyers, the producers will make more, enabling more people to buy, and maximizing profit. It's newsworthy in that it's another step closer to non-government sponsored space flight. Personal space travel will come eventually, but maybe market forces can accelerate the process.
The second example is a refrigerated car (or "reefer car" in train yard slang). I found that I couldn't build this car in the all-green of the book design but had the parts to build it in red
Who knew the fast-paced and glamorous world of Lego trains would carry such a dark, drug-driven underside?
Hmm. I think you meant "It is crazy, but your comment is "-1, Stupid"."Now, who wrote the "stupid" comment again?
You have a warped sense of humour...
I'll take you up on that bet. How much are you willing to wager, Coward?
If only we could litigate less and innovate more ;-).
Tell you what - come up with an innovative system-wide solution to spam, or I'll sue you. Then you can lead by example.
Why bother? The current line on terrorism seems to be working just fine for the right wing nuts so far.
Actually, it seems like wing nuts are not the correct item for this applaction. Traditional hex nuts can handle more torque and would therefore hold everything together better through the rocky legal battles ahead...
Or, in other words, did you miss a hyphen there? It's ASCII 45, if you can't track it down on your keyboard.
He's trying to make the point that he's worried about the widespread proliferation of canned meats, as apposed to everyone's first, incorrect assumption, that he is talking about unsolicited email.
Woah, deja vu.
What did you see?
A post just went by my screen, and then twenty minutes later, another one like it went by again.
How much alike were they? Were they the same post?
I ran into the same problem myself - they don't even have a press release for it on their site. I'm wondering if this is really true or not. Guess we'll have to wait until eMachines decides to make a little more noise.
From the summary: "the home-brewn supercluster is happily rolling around at 9.555 TFlops"
Ignoring the "brewn" part of things, since when does "home-brewed" mean "designed and funded by a major university"?
I usually think of "home brewed" as something that someone put together at home. With their own money. In their spare time.
This is *not* a home-brew supercomputer, it is an institute designed and created super computer.
That is all.
Well, according to this site, it takes about 2 tons of wood to make "942 100-page, hard-cover books" - now, the Library of Congress has "approximately 115 million items". We can assume that the items average out to about a 100-page hardcover book (how nifty, makes my job easier). So, 115,000,000 divided by 942 equals 122,080, which, mulitiplied by 2 tons of wood, equals 244,161 tons of wood. At 98 tons per gallon, assuming a one to one ratio of plant matter to wood, it takes .04% of the Library of Congress to make a gallon of fuel.
If you get 25 mpg, and you drive 12,500 miles a year, you use 500 gallons of gas a year, and so, you consume 20% of the Library of Congress a year.
Still here? OK then, if you drive from age 18 to age 75, that's 57 years of driving. Assuming (obviously grossly innaccurate here, given different fuel consumption at different times) that you drive that 25 mpg car 12,500 miles for all of those 57 years, you have consumed 11.44 Libraries of Congress. You animal. Have you no restraint?
Dollars to donuts these robots aren't coming ThreeLaws-equipped.
Donuts to deutschmarks these robots don't have positronic brains.
Asmiov's three laws of robotics (plus the fourth reproductive law) were designed in a theoretical world containing *AI*. You might as well try to apply the three laws to a blender as apply them to these "robots". It's an apples to orangutans comparison, trying to compare these things with Asimov's robots...
want it. I've got some spare room in the backyard, and I'm more worried about the electricity company trying to gouge me than I am about some paranoid dystopic view that all forms of "nuclear" power are bad. It looks safe, heck, I'll even let my kids play near it.
I won't even charge the electric company full price for all the power I pump back into the grid either. I'll undersell them and watch capitalism take its toll on the slow movers.
Our favorite scottish dinosaur will soon be in prototype.
>Duke Nukem Forever will be the most realistic game ever realeased.
I've said it once and I'll say it again : it's called Duke Nukem Forever because it's the amount of time it'll require to code the damn thing. There's no release date for that same reason!
But will you say it...
...Forever?
Don't you Microsoft people do anything but read slashdot all day?
Dude, what else am I going to do? Anytime I try to open Word, Excel, or Visual Basic, it crashes. The only thing I can load is Internet Exploder.
But it's apparently not so definite which letters we need.
Et's nut my fualt! A trajic smelting axident left me uneble to spell.
Stop Orpressing Me! Ded you see hem oporsing me?
Yes we defiNITely do.
You seem to have a problem with capitalization. You may want to get it checked out before it gets worse, and people think you're yelling at them all the time.
The problem comes from words that have the same ending letters, but different middle letters: Like "car" and "cur", or (more confusingly) "from", "form", "firm", "film", "farm", etc. Context would give us some cues, but it would definately require more thought to process.