And that's why nuclear chemists continue to search for heavier and heavier artificial elements.
I seem to recall that Isaac Asimov wrote an article about this in F&SF (or Asimov's SF, one of them...), titled "The Magic Isle" (which appears in the collection "Quasar Quasar Burning Bright")... I remember him explaining in his typical way, that elements with high element numbers, as yet undiscovered, would start to be stable, though of course very, very dense...
I didn't know that has ever happened. We've sent stuff there, starting in 1976, but are you sure we (i.e., Terrans) ever managed to bring samples back? And what mission was that?
When that goes up (or comes down from orbit, or whatever) won't that blow all the records out of the water? Or would that not count as a building? Though certainly not as an "office" building. ("Our building is half a mile high" "Yeah? Ours is 40,000 miles high...")
It's not the fault of the newer games, other than that they are umpteenth in line. Games like these, you can continue to play and enjoy, but the novelty of them happens only once.
Until some genius comes up with a whole new genre of gaming experience, playing the FPS will still be fun (can't wait for Halo 2 and Half-Life 2), but the "fix" won't be quite what it was.
visceral reaction to what's happening on a computer monitor
I miss the feeling I got when I first played Doom. When one of those fire-throwing monsters would jump out of the shadows at me, I could feel the hackles rise on the back of my neck. The same kind of feeling you get when you go into an empty room and know you're not alone, or step into a forest at night and feel the fingers of something trace down your back.
Now I'm too jaded on the FPS. I still play them, but not with the same kind of sense of emotional realism.
Let's face it- Powell and his cronies do whatever the fuck they want to. Correction- whatever the media companies want them to do.
Yeah, I'd have to pick my jaw up off the floor if the FCC actually rejected this. They've gotten so bad about pandering to the media companies, even Congress has had to slap them down.
And this will kill HDTV. It's having a hard enough time as it is. If you can't record it, to watch shows when you want, it's not worth the money. The media companies want things to go back to the way they were in the 70's, before VCR's, when everybody rushed home to catch the evening news and Hawaii Five-O. Sorry, that square peg ain't going in that round hole.
So they're afraid of piracy? Well, I suppose killing HDTV is one way of shutting off a potential source of it. Bit like burning down the garage to keep somebody from stealing your car.
I somehow plugged up the power on a 3.5" hard drive incorrectly. I have no idea how this was possible given that the shape of the male and female plugs are keyed to prevent this, but it happened.
Brute force and raw determination. Those 4-pin internal connectors are hard enough to fit even when they're mated right. You must have popped a blood vessel getting that in there...
You must be thinking of a burn barrel. The Navy uses these to destroy classified documents in case of an enemy boarding. Throw the docs in, light the thermite, push it over the side.
does anyone else wish that the government was forced to enforce its own laws, instead of picking and choosing
Yes. Unequal enforcement is unequal justice.
If a law says that you can't spit on the sidewalk (for instance), and you have twenty witnesses and a videotape of the crime, then it should be enforced, regardless of whether you think the silly law might get declared unconstitutional as an eventual outcome. And for the same evidence, you should prosecute whether it's the mayor's son, or a member of the most persecuted minority.
I'm just cynical enough to believe this an ideal which our justice system falls short of. Why waste a potentially unconstitutional law by enforcing it, when you can just wave it around and intimidate people with it?
We live in an adult world. The Internet is an adult invention. Nobody ever intended it to be suitable for children.
I believe the Supreme Court rejected an earlier broader attempt by the Government to censor adult content on the Internet (at least in the US), based upon the "think of the children" argument. Supreme Court rejected it on the basis that it was unacceptable to reduce content on the Internet to the lowest common denominator (rated G stuff) simply because some child might see something naughty.
COPA was the compromise: "Well, ok, then if you insist on putting filth out there, you have to make some effort to shield children from it."
dull droning on and on about sex like 90% of the crap
Most of the remaining 10% is about the artist's angst over how dysfunctional his family is/was. Guess it beats singing about fuzzy bunny rabbits and teddy bears. Barely.
...when it comes to derivative works of GPL software. You get to use the software in your projects under certain licensing terms.
A rough statement of part of the GPL might be "I'm giving you the use of this software for free (of any monetary license fees), but with the provision that you must make any derived works available under the same GPL license."
I suppose this means you can still sell routers with your code, but the code itself has to be freely available. Now if a company has a problem with that, then they should not be using GPL'd software. Unless software is public domain, it's not completely "free."
If I provide my software to you, and it's not public domain (that's why I call it "mine"), then I will do so under certain licensing terms. My terms if GPL, will say, no license fee, but if I'm going to share it with you, then you have to "share and share alike." No exceptions.
Oh, and that "comrade" bullshit at the end... I'm thinking some hateful shit about the author, but I'm trying to be better than that.
Hobbies. Some people sail, climb mountains, collect stamps, set up miniature scale railroads, etc. If you got the spare time, you figure out something to do with it, or go crazy.
These people chose hacking the Gamecube. Not my thing, exactly, but I'm sure it's entertaining as hell to them.
Linux isn't as yet close to a desktop alternative for the general user.
The general user is not technical, almost by definition. Owning a computer, for the general user, is a frustrating and unsatisfactory experience. Why? Because to get the most from the computer, you have to be the sysadmin, not just a general user.
A computer is a technical beast which is not very friendly to the non-technical. Some OS's may be slightly less mysterious than others, but not by much. True for Windows, Mac and Linux. Don't let the click and point icons fool you.
Hey, asshole, if you're going to call somebody's statements moronic, you should be specific and give reasons why you think so. And don't hide behind AC either. You afraid of somebody?
just save the "Hey buddy, guess what" bit until the end of the call
Reminded me of when I was calling this company about a laptop (still under warranty) that had kind of a flutzy floppy drive. I'd talk to one person, explain that the laptop was under warranty, can I speak to someone about getting it repaired.
Twice, I got put on hold, and then hold turned into *disconnected*.
So the third time I called I told the person that I had an expensive repair for a laptop not under warranty, got through to a tech, got my RMA #, and only then said, "Oh, yeah, and it's under warranty, asshole." (I left the asshole part out, but I was thinking it.)
What would give the DNC list some teeth is to make CID blockers illegal for telemarketers. Too many telemarketers are arrogant about how they treat you since they know you can't trace them.
Also, try to make it sound like your interested in what they are selling when you ask.
IANAL, but if you try deception up front to keep them on the line, couldn't the telemarketer come back and say that you got their info under false pretenses? Would that make any difference?
Sure, it's fun sometimes to try stringing them along for 15-20 minutes, but as soon as you get legal on them, they might want to get legal right back, charging you for lost time, etc.
And if you try saying that was the only way to get their info without them hanging up immediately, of course, their official corporate response will be "our policy is to deal with these alleged DNC violations in a courteous and responsible manner, yada, yada... The customer does not need to resort to deception to address these issues..."
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I seem to recall that Isaac Asimov wrote an article about this in F&SF (or Asimov's SF, one of them...), titled "The Magic Isle" (which appears in the collection "Quasar Quasar Burning Bright")... I remember him explaining in his typical way, that elements with high element numbers, as yet undiscovered, would start to be stable, though of course very, very dense...
I didn't know that has ever happened. We've sent stuff there, starting in 1976, but are you sure we (i.e., Terrans) ever managed to bring samples back? And what mission was that?
Well... since they have them beat on quantity, they must have them beat on quality.
When that goes up (or comes down from orbit, or whatever) won't that blow all the records out of the water? Or would that not count as a building? Though certainly not as an "office" building. ("Our building is half a mile high" "Yeah? Ours is 40,000 miles high...")
Until some genius comes up with a whole new genre of gaming experience, playing the FPS will still be fun (can't wait for Halo 2 and Half-Life 2), but the "fix" won't be quite what it was.
I miss the feeling I got when I first played Doom. When one of those fire-throwing monsters would jump out of the shadows at me, I could feel the hackles rise on the back of my neck. The same kind of feeling you get when you go into an empty room and know you're not alone, or step into a forest at night and feel the fingers of something trace down your back.
Now I'm too jaded on the FPS. I still play them, but not with the same kind of sense of emotional realism.
Yeah, I'd have to pick my jaw up off the floor if the FCC actually rejected this. They've gotten so bad about pandering to the media companies, even Congress has had to slap them down.
And this will kill HDTV. It's having a hard enough time as it is. If you can't record it, to watch shows when you want, it's not worth the money. The media companies want things to go back to the way they were in the 70's, before VCR's, when everybody rushed home to catch the evening news and Hawaii Five-O. Sorry, that square peg ain't going in that round hole.
So they're afraid of piracy? Well, I suppose killing HDTV is one way of shutting off a potential source of it. Bit like burning down the garage to keep somebody from stealing your car.
Brute force and raw determination. Those 4-pin internal connectors are hard enough to fit even when they're mated right. You must have popped a blood vessel getting that in there...
You must be thinking of a burn barrel. The Navy uses these to destroy classified documents in case of an enemy boarding. Throw the docs in, light the thermite, push it over the side.
Yes. Unequal enforcement is unequal justice.
If a law says that you can't spit on the sidewalk (for instance), and you have twenty witnesses and a videotape of the crime, then it should be enforced, regardless of whether you think the silly law might get declared unconstitutional as an eventual outcome. And for the same evidence, you should prosecute whether it's the mayor's son, or a member of the most persecuted minority.
I'm just cynical enough to believe this an ideal which our justice system falls short of. Why waste a potentially unconstitutional law by enforcing it, when you can just wave it around and intimidate people with it?
Messenger is such a valuable service to me... how can I live without it?
I believe the Supreme Court rejected an earlier broader attempt by the Government to censor adult content on the Internet (at least in the US), based upon the "think of the children" argument. Supreme Court rejected it on the basis that it was unacceptable to reduce content on the Internet to the lowest common denominator (rated G stuff) simply because some child might see something naughty.
COPA was the compromise: "Well, ok, then if you insist on putting filth out there, you have to make some effort to shield children from it."
Makes me think of "efficiency apartment" which is not a good association.
Most of the remaining 10% is about the artist's angst over how dysfunctional his family is/was. Guess it beats singing about fuzzy bunny rabbits and teddy bears. Barely.
...but at least it cost 7 times as much.
A rough statement of part of the GPL might be "I'm giving you the use of this software for free (of any monetary license fees), but with the provision that you must make any derived works available under the same GPL license."
I suppose this means you can still sell routers with your code, but the code itself has to be freely available. Now if a company has a problem with that, then they should not be using GPL'd software. Unless software is public domain, it's not completely "free."
If I provide my software to you, and it's not public domain (that's why I call it "mine"), then I will do so under certain licensing terms. My terms if GPL, will say, no license fee, but if I'm going to share it with you, then you have to "share and share alike." No exceptions.
Oh, and that "comrade" bullshit at the end... I'm thinking some hateful shit about the author, but I'm trying to be better than that.
These people chose hacking the Gamecube. Not my thing, exactly, but I'm sure it's entertaining as hell to them.
Would these be the Avon Lady robots? Just wondering...
The general user is not technical, almost by definition. Owning a computer, for the general user, is a frustrating and unsatisfactory experience. Why? Because to get the most from the computer, you have to be the sysadmin, not just a general user.
A computer is a technical beast which is not very friendly to the non-technical. Some OS's may be slightly less mysterious than others, but not by much. True for Windows, Mac and Linux. Don't let the click and point icons fool you.
Hey, asshole, if you're going to call somebody's statements moronic, you should be specific and give reasons why you think so. And don't hide behind AC either. You afraid of somebody?
Reminded me of when I was calling this company about a laptop (still under warranty) that had kind of a flutzy floppy drive. I'd talk to one person, explain that the laptop was under warranty, can I speak to someone about getting it repaired.
Twice, I got put on hold, and then hold turned into *disconnected*.
So the third time I called I told the person that I had an expensive repair for a laptop not under warranty, got through to a tech, got my RMA #, and only then said, "Oh, yeah, and it's under warranty, asshole." (I left the asshole part out, but I was thinking it.)
What would give the DNC list some teeth is to make CID blockers illegal for telemarketers. Too many telemarketers are arrogant about how they treat you since they know you can't trace them.
IANAL, but if you try deception up front to keep them on the line, couldn't the telemarketer come back and say that you got their info under false pretenses? Would that make any difference?
Sure, it's fun sometimes to try stringing them along for 15-20 minutes, but as soon as you get legal on them, they might want to get legal right back, charging you for lost time, etc.
And if you try saying that was the only way to get their info without them hanging up immediately, of course, their official corporate response will be "our policy is to deal with these alleged DNC violations in a courteous and responsible manner, yada, yada... The customer does not need to resort to deception to address these issues..."
Exactamundo. It was never his bat and ball to begin with, but he's hoping people won't notice.
It's not fair, waaaaaahhhhh! (Red-faced temper tantrum)