"Fortunately, the remaining fragments of the meteorite have already been sold for 65 million dollars on eBay, which the local populance has agreed to split evenly. A month long drunken celebration has been scheduled to begin October 1st and everyone's invited."
"Hey/. I found this Differential Equations take-home final that has been BOUNCED OFF THE MOON and I'll give $100 to the first person that completes it! Should only take about 24hrs, and I think it would be great to generate some interest in this."
Screw internet taxes: you want quick money? Legalize pot. Stop laughing, I'm serious, think about it: 1) People sell it for $5 a joint and risk jail, so they must be making a incredible profit off the shit. Imagine if the state was taxing that? 2) Legal pot = A lot less $$$ wasted chasing potheads and 10x more $$$ chasing hard drug dealers 3) The whole illegal aspect probably makes pot "cool" to kids, encouraging them to smoke. Think about it: was drinking cooler before or after you turned 21? Don't know about you guys, but after walking into a bar a few times drinking became passe, but before 21 drinking was soooo cool. Probably drank more before 21 than after. 4) Legalizing pot would put many more farmers to work, stimulating the economy 5) They're already smoking pot, why not legalize it and at least make some $$$ off it? 6) Pot is a weed, probably one of the easiest grown cash crop in the entire world. A joint worth of weed could be grown for pennies, then sold for $5, 80% of which could be taxes and still leave the farmer tons of $$$. Imagine $4 of every $5 being taxes! 7) The market already exists, the price has already been determined, the money is there, waiting for someone to take it. Why not the state?
You don't even have to be a pothead to realize the potential taxable revenue legalizing pot would create, but everyone's afraid to even mention such a radical idea.
so you hit the ball, then watch it bounce around for an hour before getting back to the flippers?
talk about getting your quarter's worth.
"In this movie the ball travels past a flock of noisy sheep which, not by coincidence, are very much like the herds of tourists that populate the ski resorts."
Doesn't sound like the tourists are wanted, strange considering the game is "located at the Touriseum, a museum dedicated to the history of tourism in the province of Southtyrol". When I hit the ball do I hear "Tourists suck!" and "Tourists go home!"?
"The (PC's) major selling point: a front-access six-in-one media-card reader" (worth $9)
Are you sure these are geeks? They're buying PCs based on nifty $9 features, sounds more like something a Average Guy would do: "Oh look, the mouse glows red! I want this PC!"
And isn't Searl the same site that claims anti-gravity?
So if I'm understanding what you've said there's a huge conspiracy to keep electric cars expensive with poor range? Yeah, right. If AC Propulsion could make a electric car that got 400 miles per charge for 20 grand and still achieved 60 in 3.7 seconds wouldn't they already be doing that?
What the... considering all the power grid failures we've been having the LAST thing I thought I'd see on/. is how great electric cars are. That's all we need, a few thousand people sucking down more juice when our electrical system can't handle the current load.
At least when the power was out you still had a car that could get you to a shelter, if it was some electric car with a 50-mile range you'd be SOL.
Electric is wonderful for the golf course, but by the time they can offer decently sized electric vehicles that get 300-500 miles per charge we'll all be driving 70mpg hybrids or fuel cell cars. Electric died before there was even a market, why don't these people invest their time in technology that actually has a future?
Isn't this really the fault of the lawyers and the courts?
Think about it: one of these lawsuits come out every year. Whether it's a band being sued, amovie, or a video game, these lawsuits NEVER win.
So if the lawsuits never win why are they filed? Because it's usually easier and cheaper for the game manufacture, movie studio or band to just pay out a million to settle the case, and that's why they file, in the hopes the defendant will just settle and they'll become instant millionaires.
I think that's crap, and the lawyers and courts should be held responsible for their negligence, otherwise we're just going to hear more of these frivolous lawsuits.
Crew Directors CLARENCE HO CALVIN HO CARY HO Martial Arts Choreography CALVIN HO Editor CALVIN HO Titles/Credits CLARENCE HO Rotoscoping CLARENCE HO CALVIN HO Special Effects CLARENCE HO "
If the public gets stirred up over a asteroid that may hit the planet 50+ years from now, won't that somehow help NASA? I can see millions of people all afraid of a comet, so politicians realize they'll be elected if they promise $$$$ to help stop the comet, and so NASA gets the trillions of dollars they've always wanted. Maybe it's just me, but panick over asteroids sounds like a good thing...
"While Wallace was in grade school, his mother got a flat tire while he was riding with her. He fixed it."
Wow, he changed a tire while in grade school!! Kid must be some kind of genius!
Anyone suspicious that his only other accomplishment was changing a tire? Maybe I'm a pessimist, but it just seems strange he's never won any science fairs anywhere (or even placed), then suddenly builds a fusion reactor? "Craig and his father..." have to wonder how much work his dad put into this project.
No: the design and computer are two separate entities. What they spent on the case should be separate than what they spent on the computer parts itself.
For example, if I bought a new 20 grand Civic today and blew 3 grand on a wing, body kit and hood, I couldn't say 10 years from now I spent 3 grand and my Civic is still 20 grand... well I could, but I'd be laughed at.
If they're going to start requiring licenses for stupid things then how about a license to breed?? Less stupid people would mean we wouldn't need licenses to surf.
The Shiny Aluminum PC:
"SPECS: 350-MHz Intel Pentium II, 256 Mbytes RAM, 4-Gbyte Ultrawide SCSI hard disk
COST: $84 in scrap aluminum, abrasives, screws, and LEDs; $1,800 in computer components"
Maybe they should quote the prices with deflation in mind, since it looks silly to have a "2.2-GHz AMD Athlon (overclocked to 2.4 GHz), 1 Gbyte RAM, 240-Gbyte hard disk, Nvidia GeForce FX 5600 graphics card" PC priced at the same $1800 the 350mhz PC costs listed on the same page.
Moron! You're just suppose to break in and steal stuff, not unlock the door, announce yourself to the occupants, then offer to buy them much better locks!
I got the e-mail too, about two weeks ago (two week old news?).
Don't think I'll do anything with it though, $5 off their services isn't worth the bother since better registers are available for more than $5 less (did that make sense? didn't think so).
i know this is -1 flamebait but I don't care: reality check, no one gives a damn about your baby. Your friends and family might, so register a simple domain and give them the url, but don't force the rest of us. Hundreds of thousands of babies are born daily, why is yours special? Because it's yours, so you think everyone should care? We don't, and the last thing I want is for your baby's site to pop-up as the first link on google everytime I do a search.
inner city youth get a 46 million dollar high school from Microsoft and/. makes it sound like a bad thing?? Why? Saves taxpayers millions and gives these kids a technological advantage most kids only dream about. Eventually they'll learn that Microsoft is the "evil empire" and move on to better things, but first they need get familiar with computers. I started out thinking M$ was great, then as I became more familiar with computers I eventually learned there are better alternatives. These kids will too.
What was the alternative? Taxpayers blow $100 million on a poorly built school with half the amenities?? Jezz/., M$ finally does something right and you still come down on them.
According to the BBC News article the Aquada "Has a range of 50 miles".
50 miles?!? What does it have, a 3 gallon gas tank? I couldn't find that information on the Aquada website, I sure hope it's a misprint and a zero is missing, otherwise at that "100 miles top speed" you'd be out of gas in 30 minutes:-/
"How many people still consider a RAM based audio player when shopping?"
You say that like we're weird for "considering" a RAM based audio player, as if we're choosing between either a car or hot-air ballon as our primary form of transportation.
My reasons for RAM:
-- lower price than HD
-- easier to access than HD
-- (potentially) better battery life
-- easy upgrade (just add larger RAM)
-- no moving parts = less likely to fail
-- small player (than CD, but HD is catching up)
My Nex II was less than $100 2 years ago and 512megs of CF is about $100 now. $200 for 512megs isn't a bad price, I really don't have a need to carry my entire music collection with me everywhere like HD based players offer.
Transferring music is easy: pop out card and put it in CF reader. No propritary software, no special drivers, works with any OS that can use a CF reader. Battery life is only around 10 hours, but modern RAM players should easily trumpt HD players. Upgrading is easy too: just buy a larger memory card. Only limit is the maximum size the hardware can access, which I believe is 2gig on this unit. And with no moving parts the player is less likely to fail, even if the CF card does fail all I need to do is replace the card, not throw out the player like with a HD player.
The time for HD players will come, but it's not today, at least not for me.
"Scott Evans (famous to video game collectors as the sole owner of Army Battlezone and two Marble Madness 2 machines)..."
ok... so why is this so remarkable? I read both the pages and I understand that only two Army Battlezone machines exist and he went through a lot of trouble getting the marble madness board to work, but that still doesn't explain it.
Not like it's Spot with no Spot Beanie Baby or something...
After seeing a picture of how it works I'm not especially impressed. Seems to be nothing more than a glass lens and a video driver to "compress" the edges of the displays.
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"Fortunately, the remaining fragments of the meteorite have already been sold for 65 million dollars on eBay, which the local populance has agreed to split evenly. A month long drunken celebration has been scheduled to begin October 1st and everyone's invited."
"Hey /. I found this Differential Equations take-home final that has been BOUNCED OFF THE MOON and I'll give $100 to the first person that completes it! Should only take about 24hrs, and I think it would be great to generate some interest in this."
Screw internet taxes: you want quick money? Legalize pot. Stop laughing, I'm serious, think about it:
1) People sell it for $5 a joint and risk jail, so they must be making a incredible profit off the shit. Imagine if the state was taxing that?
2) Legal pot = A lot less $$$ wasted chasing potheads and 10x more $$$ chasing hard drug dealers
3) The whole illegal aspect probably makes pot "cool" to kids, encouraging them to smoke. Think about it: was drinking cooler before or after you turned 21? Don't know about you guys, but after walking into a bar a few times drinking became passe, but before 21 drinking was soooo cool. Probably drank more before 21 than after.
4) Legalizing pot would put many more farmers to work, stimulating the economy
5) They're already smoking pot, why not legalize it and at least make some $$$ off it?
6) Pot is a weed, probably one of the easiest grown cash crop in the entire world. A joint worth of weed could be grown for pennies, then sold for $5, 80% of which could be taxes and still leave the farmer tons of $$$. Imagine $4 of every $5 being taxes!
7) The market already exists, the price has already been determined, the money is there, waiting for someone to take it. Why not the state?
You don't even have to be a pothead to realize the potential taxable revenue legalizing pot would create, but everyone's afraid to even mention such a radical idea.
I say screw books, I want a Pocket PC with one of these displays. Sounds thrifty on battery power.
talk about getting your quarter's worth.
"In this movie the ball travels past a flock of noisy sheep which, not by coincidence, are very much like the herds of tourists that populate the ski resorts."
Doesn't sound like the tourists are wanted, strange considering the game is "located at the Touriseum, a museum dedicated to the history of tourism in the province of Southtyrol". When I hit the ball do I hear "Tourists suck!" and "Tourists go home!"?
Are you sure these are geeks? They're buying PCs based on nifty $9 features, sounds more like something a Average Guy would do: "Oh look, the mouse glows red! I want this PC!"
And isn't Searl the same site that claims anti-gravity?
So if I'm understanding what you've said there's a huge conspiracy to keep electric cars expensive with poor range? Yeah, right. If AC Propulsion could make a electric car that got 400 miles per charge for 20 grand and still achieved 60 in 3.7 seconds wouldn't they already be doing that?
umm... why not slashdot? Give it to us, we'll get you some spam.
I know that'd make me happy...
At least when the power was out you still had a car that could get you to a shelter, if it was some electric car with a 50-mile range you'd be SOL.
Electric is wonderful for the golf course, but by the time they can offer decently sized electric vehicles that get 300-500 miles per charge we'll all be driving 70mpg hybrids or fuel cell cars. Electric died before there was even a market, why don't these people invest their time in technology that actually has a future?
Think about it: one of these lawsuits come out every year. Whether it's a band being sued, a movie, or a video game, these lawsuits NEVER win.
So if the lawsuits never win why are they filed? Because it's usually easier and cheaper for the game manufacture, movie studio or band to just pay out a million to settle the case, and that's why they file, in the hopes the defendant will just settle and they'll become instant millionaires.
I think that's crap, and the lawyers and courts should be held responsible for their negligence, otherwise we're just going to hear more of these frivolous lawsuits.
"Cast
Sith Warrior CALVIN HO
Jedi Knight CARY HO
Crew
Directors CLARENCE HO
CALVIN HO
CARY HO
Martial Arts Choreography CALVIN HO
Editor CALVIN HO
Titles/Credits CLARENCE HO
Rotoscoping CLARENCE HO
CALVIN HO
Special Effects CLARENCE HO "
Lot of ho's in this film...
If the public gets stirred up over a asteroid that may hit the planet 50+ years from now, won't that somehow help NASA? I can see millions of people all afraid of a comet, so politicians realize they'll be elected if they promise $$$$ to help stop the comet, and so NASA gets the trillions of dollars they've always wanted. Maybe it's just me, but panick over asteroids sounds like a good thing...
Wow, he changed a tire while in grade school!! Kid must be some kind of genius!
Anyone suspicious that his only other accomplishment was changing a tire? Maybe I'm a pessimist, but it just seems strange he's never won any science fairs anywhere (or even placed), then suddenly builds a fusion reactor? "Craig and his father..." have to wonder how much work his dad put into this project.
For example, if I bought a new 20 grand Civic today and blew 3 grand on a wing, body kit and hood, I couldn't say 10 years from now I spent 3 grand and my Civic is still 20 grand... well I could, but I'd be laughed at.
If they're going to start requiring licenses for stupid things then how about a license to breed?? Less stupid people would mean we wouldn't need licenses to surf.
"SPECS: 350-MHz Intel Pentium II, 256 Mbytes RAM, 4-Gbyte Ultrawide SCSI hard disk
COST: $84 in scrap aluminum, abrasives, screws, and LEDs; $1,800 in computer components"
Maybe they should quote the prices with deflation in mind, since it looks silly to have a "2.2-GHz AMD Athlon (overclocked to 2.4 GHz), 1 Gbyte RAM, 240-Gbyte hard disk, Nvidia GeForce FX 5600 graphics card" PC priced at the same $1800 the 350mhz PC costs listed on the same page.
Moron! You're just suppose to break in and steal stuff, not unlock the door, announce yourself to the occupants, then offer to buy them much better locks!
Don't think I'll do anything with it though, $5 off their services isn't worth the bother since better registers are available for more than $5 less (did that make sense? didn't think so).
i know this is -1 flamebait but I don't care: reality check, no one gives a damn about your baby. Your friends and family might, so register a simple domain and give them the url, but don't force the rest of us. Hundreds of thousands of babies are born daily, why is yours special? Because it's yours, so you think everyone should care? We don't, and the last thing I want is for your baby's site to pop-up as the first link on google everytime I do a search.
What was the alternative? Taxpayers blow $100 million on a poorly built school with half the amenities?? Jezz /., M$ finally does something right and you still come down on them.
50 miles?!? What does it have, a 3 gallon gas tank? I couldn't find that information on the Aquada website, I sure hope it's a misprint and a zero is missing, otherwise at that "100 miles top speed" you'd be out of gas in 30 minutes :-/
You say that like we're weird for "considering" a RAM based audio player, as if we're choosing between either a car or hot-air ballon as our primary form of transportation.
My reasons for RAM:
-- lower price than HD
-- easier to access than HD
-- (potentially) better battery life
-- easy upgrade (just add larger RAM)
-- no moving parts = less likely to fail
-- small player (than CD, but HD is catching up)
My Nex II was less than $100 2 years ago and 512megs of CF is about $100 now. $200 for 512megs isn't a bad price, I really don't have a need to carry my entire music collection with me everywhere like HD based players offer.
Transferring music is easy: pop out card and put it in CF reader. No propritary software, no special drivers, works with any OS that can use a CF reader. Battery life is only around 10 hours, but modern RAM players should easily trumpt HD players. Upgrading is easy too: just buy a larger memory card. Only limit is the maximum size the hardware can access, which I believe is 2gig on this unit. And with no moving parts the player is less likely to fail, even if the CF card does fail all I need to do is replace the card, not throw out the player like with a HD player.
The time for HD players will come, but it's not today, at least not for me.
ok... so why is this so remarkable? I read both the pages and I understand that only two Army Battlezone machines exist and he went through a lot of trouble getting the marble madness board to work, but that still doesn't explain it.
Not like it's Spot with no Spot Beanie Baby or something...
After seeing a picture of how it works I'm not especially impressed. Seems to be nothing more than a glass lens and a video driver to "compress" the edges of the displays.