back in the day it was soo badass. I could get on IRC and download music, then send those songs to the computer i built for my car and cruise with that. for once the 'crusin' crowd thought i had something sweet, but no. then napster came out and everyone's dog is downloading music.
damn. I want to be a badass again...
quit yer bitchin!
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This is a good thing. 46k complaints is not that many, when you consider just how many people there are. It's not fair to directly compare that with the population, becuase it just wouldn't work, but It's still a small percentage of people that complained.
How many of us actually sent an email to the ftc complaining about spam? I bet most of the people bitching about this taking so long never formally complained.
The fact is, no government can respond to every complaint. I hardly hear anyone saying 'yaay, something good's coming out of this'. Oh wait, i know. Dems can't give any credit to President Bush's administration.
It's not the price of the license for me, it's the fact that you have to sell your soul to accept the TOC. Then again, this guy i know (heh) has a borrowed copy, so I guess it's not selling your soul then...?
I looked away as I glanced at the first line and read it as "With future CPUs expected to generate as much as four times the heat of the sun..."
I was going to agree... my t-bird 1.3ghz gets daamn hot.:)
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had a good show about these methane type pockets on the bottom of the ocean. I think they were trying to explain bermuda triangle stuff. anyway, They said the pressure and coldness down on the bottom of the ocean made the methane solid. For some reason, if some of this solid methane became a gas, it'd release soo many bubbles of methane that it if there was a ship above it, the ship would lose bouyancy and sink. They showed a test done on a model ship in a testing pool, and the ship sank almost immediately.
anyway, thats one source of solid methane... Don't know how usable it'd be, being on the ocean floor, but if they could find a way to mine it, it could be a sweet deal.
Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson said on Thursday his airline was interested in buying British Airways' doomed Concorde fleet, but would offer just £1 (1.5, $1.6).
I think your idea's awesome! Has it been done already with webcams pointed at monitors?
Other people have dismissed your post as being a stupid idea, but I can actually see a use for it. If you had a computer and a PDA, but didn't have your cable with you, and both LCDS happened to be of this type, you could hold your PDA up to the screen and get data.
Last year my physics teacher told me a story about a guy who was stacking hay bales under power lines. These weren't super-powerful powerlines, just regular ones alongside the road. Anyhow, the guy had a nice stack going when he was blown off his tractor by some mini lightning caused by the hay powerlines.
The way he explained it, the hay on the ground built up a charge and it was just a matter of time before it discharged with the power lines. When he was stacking, he must have gotten the charged hay too close or something, and it shocked him.
I suppose it's possible you're getting a little stray charge, but as long as you're not wearing a suit made of hay...
At one point I thought there was an idea around to revive vacuum tubes on a micron scale for some applications
I saw on techTV not too long ago a motherboard that had little vacuum tubes on it. It was for a computer for high-end audio producing. It didn't interest me too much at the time, so I don't really know the details, other than that's another application of them.
I read books on my iPaq all the time. The main advantages for me are that I hate the feel of books and I hate actually turning pages. The only problem is that my ipaq doesn't have a comfortable jog-wheel type scroller, so it's a little uncomfortable to hold it up and read while pushing the thumb scroller.
Once I go off to college I might actually use it for work, but for now its just a toy.
the NSA doesn't even use email. They don't use hard disks. They don't use printers. In fact, you can't even get a radio signal, microwave frequency signal, or anything else to even get through the walls of their offices.
I never realized that steadfast opposition to using violence made a person a coward.
Nobody who'se ever been in a war wants war. Nobody wants violence except our enemies. There's a time and a place for diplomacy and talking nice, but you can not reason with the unreasonable. The potential damage he can, will, and does cause to his people and his region is reason enough to use voilence to remove him. The fact that he has horrific weapons and harbors terrorists only adds to our cause.
Your "we had to bomb the village to save it" logic...
You've got to be joking. We dont' bomb villages of innocent people. We bomb camps that are known to have enemies in it. Even then, when we bombed Afghanistan, the precision bombs were so accurate that they could destroy the house of a terrorist without touching the surrounding houses.
Your uninformed sarcasm pissses me off. People who disagree with policy and are well-informed can be reasoned with and I have respect for. You people who base your argument on feelings and conjecture are jokes.
buy something you didn't hear about on the tv. Something local. Something original.
So that they become the Eminems, and brittanys and we can lose respect for them?!?!
Don't all punk bands start off 'sticking it to the man' and end up getting huge and becoming just another cog in the machine? I'm thinking Green Day in particular (no offense to GD fans), but there's countless other bands who've sold their soul after making it big being a local band sticking it to the man.
My point is the whole system is a joke, and I don't see any way to win in the current situation. I've said this in another post, the only way to win is by paying people (musicians, actors, etc.) what they're worth, and by charging what a cd is worth. I'm not saying give the music away, becuase the artists do need to make a profit, but find some fair ground in there somewhere.
It's sad, but it's all part of the dumbing down of our school system in the US.
It's a joke to think that you can honestly pass a class without being able to read and understand the material on your own, and an insult to those of us who actually try for standards.
I think one of the funniest parts of Super Troopers is where the guy is sittin' there hitting like 3 keys and saying 'enhance' like 5 times, then gettin' smacked over the head. It's not a geek movie, but whenever I'm at a lan party I just know someone's going to be over there saying 'enhance' until he gets hit.
I've been looking for something that'll take my eBooks on my iPaq and read them to me while I'm driving...
as for webpages... At least on windows, wouldn't it be possible to use the Microsoft Agent program and make your own plugins? I remember back in my mIRC days, you could integrate the agent with your scripts and sort of do what you want, but it wasn't really that good.
which is why geeks don't go to clubs(at least I don't).
Some of the best fun I've ever had was going to a dance club just to watch all the crazy popular people. I sat on the sidelines with a pepsi (it was like, highschool night or something) just absorbing everything. With about an hour left in my little expirament, i went out onto the dance floor and flailed around with everyone else for a song or 2. the world didn't stop, and no one beat me up.
I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere...
Re:I think it can be better summed up by..
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If only we knew then what we know now.
... then we wouldn't be any better off than we are now. By recognizing the patterns and thinking about them i think we grow more than just being able to automatically react and 'fit in'
I luve jEdit. When you get a set of plugins for it you really like, there's no beating it. of course... I haven't used one since i started using jEdit, so there may be something better these days.
The computer has been taught, very explicitly, how to study possible future moves as well as to interpret past moves. That's the difference between intelligence and... well.. computer inteligence.
Isn't that like saying that because you taught a guy how to fish, he's not intelligent just becuase he was taught? Just as the guy senses bites on the line, the computer sees offensive moves and counters.
If a computer could be taught to fish, there'd be people saying that because the computer couldn't catcha fish 100% of the time, or because he was programmed to do it that way it's not intelligent. But... if we could find the perfect chess algorithm and the perfect 'catch a fish' algorithm and put them in a computer... could we say it had some real intelligence?
Computers will be inteligent when, as the chessmaster sits down to play a game, the machine responds "I'd rather not."
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back in the day it was soo badass. I could get on IRC and download music, then send those songs to the computer i built for my car and cruise with that.
for once the 'crusin' crowd thought i had something sweet, but no. then napster came out and everyone's dog is downloading music.
damn. I want to be a badass again...
This is a good thing. 46k complaints is not that many, when you consider just how many people there are. It's not fair to directly compare that with the population, becuase it just wouldn't work, but It's still a small percentage of people that complained.
How many of us actually sent an email to the ftc complaining about spam? I bet most of the people bitching about this taking so long never formally complained.
The fact is, no government can respond to every complaint. I hardly hear anyone saying 'yaay, something good's coming out of this'. Oh wait, i know. Dems can't give any credit to President Bush's administration.
It's not the price of the license for me, it's the fact that you have to sell your soul to accept the TOC. Then again, this guy i know (heh) has a borrowed copy, so I guess it's not selling your soul then...?
13.5% people replying with statistics about replies
btw, 83% of all statistics are made up.
I looked away as I glanced at the first line and read it as "With future CPUs expected to generate as much as four times the heat of the sun..."
:)
I was going to agree... my t-bird 1.3ghz gets daamn hot.
had a good show about these methane type pockets on the bottom of the ocean. I think they were trying to explain bermuda triangle stuff. anyway, They said the pressure and coldness down on the bottom of the ocean made the methane solid. For some reason, if some of this solid methane became a gas, it'd release soo many bubbles of methane that it if there was a ship above it, the ship would lose bouyancy and sink. They showed a test done on a model ship in a testing pool, and the ship sank almost immediately.
anyway, thats one source of solid methane... Don't know how usable it'd be, being on the ocean floor, but if they could find a way to mine it, it could be a sweet deal.
Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson said on Thursday his airline was interested in buying British Airways' doomed Concorde fleet, but would offer just £1 (1.5, $1.6).
Here's the article.
I think your idea's awesome! Has it been done already with webcams pointed at monitors?
Other people have dismissed your post as being a stupid idea, but I can actually see a use for it. If you had a computer and a PDA, but didn't have your cable with you, and both LCDS happened to be of this type, you could hold your PDA up to the screen and get data.
geeze, anyone tried to read his website?
[sarcasm]Mabye if he wrote a little BIGGER and used the word evil some more he'd have an argument. [/sarcasm]
Last year my physics teacher told me a story about a guy who was stacking hay bales under power lines. These weren't super-powerful powerlines, just regular ones alongside the road. Anyhow, the guy had a nice stack going when he was blown off his tractor by some mini lightning caused by the hay powerlines.
The way he explained it, the hay on the ground built up a charge and it was just a matter of time before it discharged with the power lines. When he was stacking, he must have gotten the charged hay too close or something, and it shocked him.
I suppose it's possible you're getting a little stray charge, but as long as you're not wearing a suit made of hay...
I read books on my iPaq all the time. The main advantages for me are that I hate the feel of books and I hate actually turning pages. The only problem is that my ipaq doesn't have a comfortable jog-wheel type scroller, so it's a little uncomfortable to hold it up and read while pushing the thumb scroller.
Once I go off to college I might actually use it for work, but for now its just a toy.
What do they use then, telepathy?
Your uninformed sarcasm pissses me off. People who disagree with policy and are well-informed can be reasoned with and I have respect for. You people who base your argument on feelings and conjecture are jokes.
heh, true, true
Don't all punk bands start off 'sticking it to the man' and end up getting huge and becoming just another cog in the machine? I'm thinking Green Day in particular (no offense to GD fans), but there's countless other bands who've sold their soul after making it big being a local band sticking it to the man.
My point is the whole system is a joke, and I don't see any way to win in the current situation. I've said this in another post, the only way to win is by paying people (musicians, actors, etc.) what they're worth, and by charging what a cd is worth. I'm not saying give the music away, becuase the artists do need to make a profit, but find some fair ground in there somewhere.
Are you suggesting that we actually start paying celebs what the're worth? You've got to be kidding!
It's sad, but it's all part of the dumbing down of our school system in the US.
It's a joke to think that you can honestly pass a class without being able to read and understand the material on your own, and an insult to those of us who actually try for standards.
I think one of the funniest parts of Super Troopers is where the guy is sittin' there hitting like 3 keys and saying 'enhance' like 5 times, then gettin' smacked over the head. It's not a geek movie, but whenever I'm at a lan party I just know someone's going to be over there saying 'enhance' until he gets hit.
I've been looking for something that'll take my eBooks on my iPaq and read them to me while I'm driving...
as for webpages... At least on windows, wouldn't it be possible to use the Microsoft Agent program and make your own plugins? I remember back in my mIRC days, you could integrate the agent with your scripts and sort of do what you want, but it wasn't really that good.
which is why geeks don't go to clubs(at least I don't).
Some of the best fun I've ever had was going to a dance club just to watch all the crazy popular people. I sat on the sidelines with a pepsi (it was like, highschool night or something) just absorbing everything. With about an hour left in my little expirament, i went out onto the dance floor and flailed around with everyone else for a song or 2. the world didn't stop, and no one beat me up.
I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere...
I luve jEdit. When you get a set of plugins for it you really like, there's no beating it. of course... I haven't used one since i started using jEdit, so there may be something better these days.
If a computer could be taught to fish, there'd be people saying that because the computer couldn't catcha fish 100% of the time, or because he was programmed to do it that way it's not intelligent. But... if we could find the perfect chess algorithm and the perfect 'catch a fish' algorithm and put them in a computer... could we say it had some real intelligence? heh, nice