In particular the headlamps I have (Petzl and Black Diamond) are way too blue, they are blinding.
Being a card-carrying NSS member myself, I spend a good amount of time undergound relying on similar equipment.
Quality is everything when you want a focused, bright, white LED; they're almost impossible to get without some kind of flaw (too violet or blue, or a blue halo effect). Caving with low-quality LEDs can be migraine inducing to say the least... I'd hate to see what they would do to someone in their home.
Like you, I'm a bit pessimistic about this LED-floodlight thing.
The drives also will include LightScribe technology, a labeling solution developed by HP that allows silk-screen quality text and graphics to be burned directly onto LightScribe-enabled Blu-ray Discs using the same laser that burns to the data side of the disc.
So, any bets as to how they're going to do this?
My guess is they just going to put thermal printer paper on the backside of the disks and use hardware/software like Yamaha's DiscT@2. Either that, or some kind of substrate embedded in the disc on the data side that turns color(s) instead of a sticker.
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Slashdot hurts my brain.
I couldn't agree more.
Thanks for drawing my attention to the site... those nixie-tube clocks are a real treat.
Also, take a gander at this. I am humbled by the utter geekery of such a sight.
Maybe have some sort of anti-hero villian, who makes himself out to be some sort of overlord who's going to take over the world
A close match to that would be Leslie Nielsen's evil overlord role in Surf Ninjas... which is sort of a "look at how stupid and schmaltzy this is" cult-film with my friends. Good for a cheap laugh, but sincerely pushes the campy-meter a little too far.
It's also IMDB's #82 (just ahead of FearDotCom and Iron Eagle II) on the bottom 100. Go figure.
That sounds good, some modern day evilness, nothing wrong with oldschool meets suburbia.
The beautiful thing with that is they could really riff on Dawn of the Dead. Ya know, zombie shouts "I'll swallow your soul" only to be hit by a minivan piloted by a panicked soccer-mom... or just an Ash-built-riding-lawnmower-of-doom. Good stuff.
I could imagine zombies in mecha outfits... man I better stop now or I'll be no better than fan fiction authors
Ack.. thanks. That just gave me a virus flashback. I need to go wash my brain now.:(
Evil Dead 3 (Army of Darkness) left things wide-open for more mayhem starting with S-MART in a (presumably) necronomicon-tainted suburbia. Perhaps revitalizing the franchise with a few nods from more modern horror films (28 Days for example) in a 4th installment might be the better course? Why yet another remake of Evil Dead 1?
So anyone out there care to guess if we are going to see a top-of-the-line film or another wonderfully campy B-flick held together with cardboard, kayo syrup, and great catch phrases?
My thoughts exactly. I read the headline *here* and thought: "the stupid editor forgot to mention that it released in Japan today. It almost looks like it was release in the US."
Then I realized that I now have to find $55... and fast.
Well anyone familiar with bran muffins knows about how fiber causes sewage.
Now optical fiber on the other hand...
Basically the cable is being put underground, so the utility crews have to dig through the street to install. Obviously, they're not very good at it and aren't paying attention to what was put under the street and damaging sewer and water pipes as they go.
Once a leak develops, it can erode the soil out from under the road, leaving a thin crust of asphalt over the resulting hole. Since not all leaks result in a disruption of service, I'd wager that they'll have to wait for people to 'find' these sinkholes first before going about patching the pipes.
Ya know, I was just thinking the same thing. Multiple, smaller ribbons might also solve the issues of tensile strength and mass that a large single ribbon might have. Plus, as you mention, you get redundancy to boot.
Is it just me, or does this case look like a throwback to the desktop models of the early nineties? (Especially if you can imagine a riser card to support full-height expansion slots.)
Also, combine this trend in thermal mobo/case design with the pentium-M's coming out and you have a nice cold desktop computer just like we all had 12 years ago. Nice.
All it would need is a 'turbo' switch on the front panel to make it fully retro-tastic.;)
Featuring: Wookies, Ewoks, Droids and all your favorite Star-Wars Characters including:
Greedo, Boba Fett, Jabba the Hutt, Yoda and more!
Enjoy a special moment on Tatooine as everyone celebrates the holidays...
(cut to segment from show) C3-PO: My Anakin, I do believe you've had one too many power converters! R2-D2: beep-bop-boop (no kidding!) Anakin (drunk): I can stop any time I want to.
But even a sailboat cannot sail directly/into/ the wind.
It might be able to to sail (indirectly) towards the sun, if it uses gravity to tack. This is akin to how a sailboat tacks by using its keel as an opposing force to the wind. Also, positioning the sails perpendicular to the solar wind will also allow it to use a local gravity well (Earth, Venus, Saturn, etc) more effectively.
Many people I know of, whom are gainfully employed, have wound up buying houses together (two-couples or as many singletons on the mortgage). Individually, they're not pulling down huge wads of cash, but together they have some real spending power and decent credit; so they do what they can. Plus owning a home *now* gives them lending power that they wouldn't have ever seen before retirement.
So you can imagine what your options are if you're broke. Like it or not, you'll probably have to leech off of someone until you're back on your feet. I can tell you from experience that it is no picnic, but doable. Remember that if you have no money, then you probably have time (time = money). If you're willing to sweat for someone (do chores, odd jobs, labor, etc), you'll find a way through.
In contrast, the dream of having your own bachelor pad downtown is really impossible to do comfortably around here for less than 60K/yr. The suburbs are about the same after you factor in car/gas/etc, plus the lack of cheap housing.:(
I've been off the market in DC for 2 years now. Not to cry foul with your comment, but last I checked, employers wanted you to already have said clearance. Is this still the case?
I tried to absorb the syntax docs one afternoon, but it gave me nightmares. Literally. It was as if the C-programming-part of my brain was in conflict with the oddball operators and constructs presented in the perl language. Ever since I've been haunted by perverse unreadbility of it all. I liken the experence to attempting to think in brainfuck.
So by this I know for a fact that perl is Not My Thing(tm).
Now, a more objective reason as to why perl isn't generally a good language (but not completely bad) is evident in the very syntax of perl itself.
Useful code shouldn't be as inscrutable as its compiled counterpart since that defeats the whole point. Perl is a language, so it follows that it is a communication medium. By that it should be able to communicate something to a party outside just the author and the perl interpreter. It can accomplish this, but not without the reader having to go through the mental gyrations of what could be best called linguistic decompression. The language has this tendency to impose this extra step to yield the information communicated. Simply put: it gets in its own way.
Now, useful programs on the other hand follow a different set of criteria of course. I've used perl-coded stuff online all the time, and enjoy its reliability and speed.
I'll give credit to the fact that perl is compact, terse, to the point and has a reputation for string manipulation. It fills this niche rather well, and is a prime example of the being "the right tool for the right job".
IMO, "the right job" for perl is about 2% of all programming tasks out there. This is evident by the fact that even though perl was the prominent CGI language of the mid-nineties, it lost the overwhelming majority of that interest with alarming speed.
As for python, I'm sure it fills a niche too... whatever the hell it is.
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Dramamine is supposed to help with sea-sickness... which is a form of motion sickness. I am not a doctor, but I think it might help.
:(
As for an actual cure, you got me there.
In particular the headlamps I have (Petzl and Black Diamond) are way too blue, they are blinding.
Being a card-carrying NSS member myself, I spend a good amount of time undergound relying on similar equipment.
Quality is everything when you want a focused, bright, white LED; they're almost impossible to get without some kind of flaw (too violet or blue, or a blue halo effect). Caving with low-quality LEDs can be migraine inducing to say the least... I'd hate to see what they would do to someone in their home.
Like you, I'm a bit pessimistic about this LED-floodlight thing.
The drives also will include LightScribe technology, a labeling solution developed by HP that allows silk-screen quality text and graphics to be burned directly onto LightScribe-enabled Blu-ray Discs using the same laser that burns to the data side of the disc.
So, any bets as to how they're going to do this?
My guess is they just going to put thermal printer paper on the backside of the disks and use hardware/software like Yamaha's DiscT@2. Either that, or some kind of substrate embedded in the disc on the data side that turns color(s) instead of a sticker.
Slashdot hurts my brain.
I couldn't agree more.
Thanks for drawing my attention to the site... those nixie-tube clocks are a real treat.
Also, take a gander at this.
I am humbled by the utter geekery of such a sight.
Maybe have some sort of anti-hero villian, who makes himself out to be some sort of overlord who's going to take over the world
A close match to that would be Leslie Nielsen's evil overlord role in Surf Ninjas... which is sort of a "look at how stupid and schmaltzy this is" cult-film with my friends. Good for a cheap laugh, but sincerely pushes the campy-meter a little too far.
It's also IMDB's #82 (just ahead of FearDotCom and Iron Eagle II) on the bottom 100. Go figure.
"For as we all know: money can't buy knives"
So it is. Thank you.
More accurately, as one source has it:
Ash: It got into my hand and it went bad. So I lopped it off at the wrist.
<PSA>
Remember kids: get your ears checked regularily or you'll be embarassed like uncle Pragma here.
</PSA>
That sounds good, some modern day evilness, nothing wrong with oldschool meets suburbia.
:(
The beautiful thing with that is they could really riff on Dawn of the Dead. Ya know, zombie shouts "I'll swallow your soul" only to be hit by a minivan piloted by a panicked soccer-mom... or just an Ash-built-riding-lawnmower-of-doom. Good stuff.
I could imagine zombies in mecha outfits... man I better stop now or I'll be no better than fan fiction authors
Ack.. thanks. That just gave me a virus flashback. I need to go wash my brain now.
Evil Dead 3 (Army of Darkness) left things wide-open for more mayhem starting with S-MART in a (presumably) necronomicon-tainted suburbia. Perhaps revitalizing the franchise with a few nods from more modern horror films (28 Days for example) in a 4th installment might be the better course? Why yet another remake of Evil Dead 1?
So anyone out there care to guess if we are going to see a top-of-the-line film or another wonderfully campy B-flick held together with cardboard, kayo syrup, and great catch phrases?
My thoughts exactly. I read the headline *here* and thought: "the stupid editor forgot to mention that it released in Japan today. It almost looks like it was release in the US."
Then I realized that I now have to find $55... and fast.
My spacefaring friends, the parking lot is getting rather full. Good luck finding room for them up there.
I could spend an hour just throwing television sets out windows at the police on the ground.
Apparently, you're not the only one.
Steam ran out of steam. ..and users get steamed?
<crickets>Is it hot in here?</crickets>
Well anyone familiar with bran muffins knows about how fiber causes sewage.
Now optical fiber on the other hand...
Basically the cable is being put underground, so the utility crews have to dig through the street to install. Obviously, they're not very good at it and aren't paying attention to what was put under the street and damaging sewer and water pipes as they go.
Once a leak develops, it can erode the soil out from under the road, leaving a thin crust of asphalt over the resulting hole. Since not all leaks result in a disruption of service, I'd wager that they'll have to wait for people to 'find' these sinkholes first before going about patching the pipes.
I found myself asking some similar questions to my wife, who proposed the (whimsical) notion of moving to Iceland.
3. Do you like trees, or enjoy the fact that there is vegetation within sight of your front door?
(_) Yes (_) No (_) Do B-Trees count?
4. Do you enjoy going outside for leisure?
(_) Yes (_) No (_) What is 'outiside'?
5. Do you find any of the following terms and phrases exciting: total isolation, arctic desert, extremophile, snowblind, and ozone hole?
(_) Yes (_) No
6. How do you feel about having sunlight for only half the year, 20-24 hours a day?
(_) Hate it (_) Love it (_) What is 'sunlight'?
7. What career would you like to persue on the artic circle (check all that apply)?
(_) Scientist
Ya know, I was just thinking the same thing. Multiple, smaller ribbons might also solve the issues of tensile strength and mass that a large single ribbon might have. Plus, as you mention, you get redundancy to boot.
Pictures of the demo case in the article
;)
Is it just me, or does this case look like a throwback to the desktop models of the early nineties? (Especially if you can imagine a riser card to support full-height expansion slots.)
Also, combine this trend in thermal mobo/case design with the pentium-M's coming out and you have a nice cold desktop computer just like we all had 12 years ago. Nice.
All it would need is a 'turbo' switch on the front panel to make it fully retro-tastic.
correction: positioning the sails parallel to the solar wind will also allow it to use a local gravity well more effectively.
...treat for the whole family:
The Jar-Jar Binks Holiday Extravaganza!!!
Hosted by Jar-Jar and Ewan McGregor
Featuring:
Wookies, Ewoks, Droids and all your favorite Star-Wars Characters including:
Greedo, Boba Fett, Jabba the Hutt, Yoda and more!
Enjoy a special moment on Tatooine as everyone celebrates the holidays...
(cut to segment from show)
C3-PO: My Anakin, I do believe you've had one too many power converters!
R2-D2: beep-bop-boop (no kidding!)
Anakin (drunk): I can stop any time I want to.
But even a sailboat cannot sail directly /into/ the wind.
It might be able to to sail (indirectly) towards the sun, if it uses gravity to tack. This is akin to how a sailboat tacks by using its keel as an opposing force to the wind. Also, positioning the sails perpendicular to the solar wind will also allow it to use a local gravity well (Earth, Venus, Saturn, etc) more effectively.
Its not easy, if not impossible to do alone.
:(
Many people I know of, whom are gainfully employed, have wound up buying houses together (two-couples or as many singletons on the mortgage). Individually, they're not pulling down huge wads of cash, but together they have some real spending power and decent credit; so they do what they can. Plus owning a home *now* gives them lending power that they wouldn't have ever seen before retirement.
So you can imagine what your options are if you're broke. Like it or not, you'll probably have to leech off of someone until you're back on your feet. I can tell you from experience that it is no picnic, but doable. Remember that if you have no money, then you probably have time (time = money). If you're willing to sweat for someone (do chores, odd jobs, labor, etc), you'll find a way through.
In contrast, the dream of having your own bachelor pad downtown is really impossible to do comfortably around here for less than 60K/yr. The suburbs are about the same after you factor in car/gas/etc, plus the lack of cheap housing.
Well one interpretation of that definition would be:
/respect/ with all of these traits, even though its position (low market share) is somewhat ironic.
Age = relatively new
Dignity = free: no catch
character = works well plus standards compliant
position = growing market-share rapidly
And it commands
I've been off the market in DC for 2 years now.
Not to cry foul with your comment, but last I checked, employers wanted you to already have said clearance. Is this still the case?
Actually, I for one tried to learn perl once.
I tried to absorb the syntax docs one afternoon, but it gave me nightmares. Literally. It was as if the C-programming-part of my brain was in conflict with the oddball operators and constructs presented in the perl language. Ever since I've been haunted by perverse unreadbility of it all. I liken the experence to attempting to think in brainfuck.
So by this I know for a fact that perl is Not My Thing(tm).
Now, a more objective reason as to why perl isn't generally a good language (but not completely bad) is evident in the very syntax of perl itself.
Useful code shouldn't be as inscrutable as its compiled counterpart since that defeats the whole point. Perl is a language, so it follows that it is a communication medium. By that it should be able to communicate something to a party outside just the author and the perl interpreter. It can accomplish this, but not without the reader having to go through the mental gyrations of what could be best called linguistic decompression. The language has this tendency to impose this extra step to yield the information communicated. Simply put: it gets in its own way.
Now, useful programs on the other hand follow a different set of criteria of course. I've used perl-coded stuff online all the time, and enjoy its reliability and speed.
I'll give credit to the fact that perl is compact, terse, to the point and has a reputation for string manipulation. It fills this niche rather well, and is a prime example of the being "the right tool for the right job".
IMO, "the right job" for perl is about 2% of all programming tasks out there. This is evident by the fact that even though perl was the prominent CGI language of the mid-nineties, it lost the overwhelming majority of that interest with alarming speed.
As for python, I'm sure it fills a niche too... whatever the hell it is.
If you don't mind me asking: what's up with that?
I dont' mean any disrespect, but I'm sincerely curious about how that happened. Any ideas?
I'm from Washington,DC myself and the area south of here through Baltimore is a sea of blue (from where you're sitting anyway).