" I subsequently heard of fried coke [wikipedia.org].
Fried beer is a special case of fried coke I giess"
I'd agree, since fried coke has existed since 2006 and, as far as I'm aware, that's the first fried beverage, I really don't think we need a "first" fried beer, fried pepsi, fried vodka, fried milk, fried mt dew, fried kool-aid, etc.... you get the idea. Claiming to be the "First Fried Beer!" is not really an accomplishment, he just made Fried Coke and substituted beer instead of coke
"If you give the pigeon a 64 GB memory card, then you could say that the pigeon has a transfer speed equivalent to 104 mbps, which'll mean it's faster than most broad connections, rural or not. (Assuming an average speed of 60 miles per hour for the bird.)"
Good point. Even 10mbps broadband is only 3.6 gigaBytes/hour, so a bird with a few large MicroSDHC cards strapped to them would whip the pants off broadband.
I was looking up info on carrier pigeons and found this Homing pigeon In computing "The humorous IP over Avian Carriers (RFC 1149) is an Internet protocol for the transmission of messages via homing pigeon. Originally intended as an April Fools' Day RFC entry, this protocol was implemented and used, once, to transmit a message in Bergen, Norway on April 28, 2001.[16]
In September 2009, a South African IT company, based in Durban, pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a data packed 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest internet service provider, Telkom. The pigeon named Winston took an hour and eight minutes to carry the data 80 km (50 miles). Including downloading, it took two hours, six minutes, and 57 seconds for the data to arrive, the same amount of time it took to transfer 4% of the data over the ADSL[17][18]"
So there you have if. Pigeon can transfer XXGB of data across 50 miles in 2 hours and 6 minutes, you're only limited by the size of the MicroSDHC you strap to the pigeon.
If you put a 32gb MicroSD on one you'd beat my 10mbps broadband because I can only download 3.6 gigaByte/hour.
"memory cards) to see which can get 200MB of HD video data"
Why 200MB? 8gb MicroSD are only $14, why did he bother with just 200MB? It's not like it was cheaper or saved any weight, wonder why he chose such a strange size for HD video since 200MB of HD video is what, a few minutes maybe?
"Yes and my 747 filled with DVDs beets the pants off the latest multi-terabit cross Atlantic fibre."
Considering 2 tb hard drives are under $100 you'd save money by filling your 747 with hard drives since it takes 425 DVDs to equal one 2 tb hard drive.
"Based on the/. summary it appears that this was a public airport. What's to stop him from giving the weapons to someone else who is getting on a public flight? No point in having the security check at that point."
And what's to stop him from landing his plane anywhere he wants, buying weapons, flying to a public airport and jumping out to supply everyone in the terminal with weapons? I guess they do a security check for people that get off planes?
No, of course not, because private planes don't land at the same terminals as big 747s. They land at the airport and taxi over to a smaller hanger area where you get off your plane, get in your car and drive way. No gift shop, no lines, no security besides the security gate that your car drives through.
"Real1tyCzech's example means that they would then be able to give the weapons to someone else after they pass through security,"
Same question: do you think private planes pull up at the same terminals 747s do? Private planes go to an entirely different area with different security (just a security gate really) and everything.
"So we'll let Jobs..and anyone else with a private jet, walk through public airports with as may weapons as they can carry. Surely *none* of those weapons would ever make onto a plane that could be hijacked....Right??
Think.
Please?"
Do you think private planes pull up at the same terminals 747s do?
"That changed when some guy flew his private plane into an IRS building."
um.... no one forced that guy to crash, no hijacking, he did it himself. If Jobs wanted to crash his plane into a building he wouldn't need shurikens to do it.
"hijacked by some wacko with the stolen shurikens"
What wacko? It's his own plane, who's the wacko, himself? His pilot? He doesn't need a shuriken to hijack his own plane, he owns it, he could crash it into anything he wants as one pilot made very obvious earlier this year.
I agree with him, if you own the plane and there are no other passengers besides yourself and immediate friends and family then you should be able to take anything you want.
of course they didn't invent the term, but it's used several times in that movie so that's where most people probably heard it.
Very few of us have ever worked as casino operators, stock brokers or bookies, and even if you have worked in one of those industries a whale is still a rare expression since it's not used for a guy that drops $500 at a casino, you'd have to spend at least tens of thousands of dollars before being considered a whale so it's unlikely you'll even hear someone called a whale.
Also I can't find any online evidence that stock brokers refer to clients as whales except for in that movie.
Zynga really does steal everything, but it's ironic that they chose that movie because at the end they're all busted by the FBI. Are you trying to tell us something Zynga?
An article on a unknown blogspot, telling us what we already know, that Apple and Google are battling for the living room and that Youtube is popular. Shouldn't this be in Idle?
"Are you, your friends and your family planning on making websites that include information about your Quran burning activities?"
Well, I figured since Americans hate Islam I didn't need the Quran anymore since I'll never convert now and nobody wanted it (no one else wants to be Muslim either) and I hate to just toss it (what if the trashman finds it!?) and I didn't have a starter log so.... [/sarcasm]
Are you serious? If a Mosque decided to burn some bibles? Just burning some bibles would be a significant upgrade from what muslims are usually known for burning.
"You can't come down on a business organization for distancing themselves from that vitriol. They didn't stick their nose into anything. They just cut ties to a customer they no longer wanted to service. Happens all the time."
Sure I can, because it's ridiculous. They're not the KKK, they're not killing people, they're just burning some Korans and rackspace cut them for that reason only. As Americans we have the right to burn any book we want, why are you defending a company so anti-american? If I burn some Kelly Clarkson CDs would Rackspace call it hate and pull the site?
Also, if you didn't read the synopsis, it's pretty clear the author is against Rackspace shutting them down so your pro-censorship stance is not popular here.
"Christians burnt down the Saint Michel theater in Paris [wikipedia.org], putting 13 people in hospital, just to protest against the film "The Last Temptation of Christ"
They burnt down a theater to protest a shitty movie, I have no problem with that;)
"(The Bible actually insists that blasphemers" should be killed by Christian congregations...."
How ironic that you quote Leviticus 24:13-16, because Leviticus 24:20 says "fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; the injury inflicted is the injury to be suffered."
Which is where we get the "eye for an eye" idea. I don't see too many one-eyed christians, do you?
Oh and if you're going to bash scriptures try not to get your quotes from The Skeptics Annotated Bible because it makes it just too easy (and harder to believe).
"You're certainly not going to have these people suddenly roll over and say "oh hey, you know, this whole book burning thing has really opened my eyes!" Not even one."
Unless some Muslim group decides this peaceful book burning by a small group of people enrages them so they decide to blow up buildings and kill innocent people on the other side of the world, which makes millions of other Muslims think "Gee, do I really want to be part of the religion that kills people?" (in 2010, not talking about the crusades)
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" I subsequently heard of fried coke [wikipedia.org]. Fried beer is a special case of fried coke I giess"
I'd agree, since fried coke has existed since 2006 and, as far as I'm aware, that's the first fried beverage, I really don't think we need a "first" fried beer, fried pepsi, fried vodka, fried milk, fried mt dew, fried kool-aid, etc.... you get the idea. Claiming to be the "First Fried Beer!" is not really an accomplishment, he just made Fried Coke and substituted beer instead of coke
"If you give the pigeon a 64 GB memory card, then you could say that the pigeon has a transfer speed equivalent to 104 mbps, which'll mean it's faster than most broad connections, rural or not. (Assuming an average speed of 60 miles per hour for the bird.)"
Good point. Even 10mbps broadband is only 3.6 gigaBytes/hour, so a bird with a few large MicroSDHC cards strapped to them would whip the pants off broadband.
I was looking up info on carrier pigeons and found this Homing pigeon In computing
"The humorous IP over Avian Carriers (RFC 1149) is an Internet protocol for the transmission of messages via homing pigeon. Originally intended as an April Fools' Day RFC entry, this protocol was implemented and used, once, to transmit a message in Bergen, Norway on April 28, 2001.[16] In September 2009, a South African IT company, based in Durban, pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a data packed 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest internet service provider, Telkom. The pigeon named Winston took an hour and eight minutes to carry the data 80 km (50 miles). Including downloading, it took two hours, six minutes, and 57 seconds for the data to arrive, the same amount of time it took to transfer 4% of the data over the ADSL[17][18]"
So there you have if. Pigeon can transfer XXGB of data across 50 miles in 2 hours and 6 minutes, you're only limited by the size of the MicroSDHC you strap to the pigeon.
If you put a 32gb MicroSD on one you'd beat my 10mbps broadband because I can only download 3.6 gigaByte/hour.
"memory cards) to see which can get 200MB of HD video data"
Why 200MB? 8gb MicroSD are only $14, why did he bother with just 200MB? It's not like it was cheaper or saved any weight, wonder why he chose such a strange size for HD video since 200MB of HD video is what, a few minutes maybe?
"Yes and my 747 filled with DVDs beets the pants off the latest multi-terabit cross Atlantic fibre."
Considering 2 tb hard drives are under $100 you'd save money by filling your 747 with hard drives since it takes 425 DVDs to equal one 2 tb hard drive.
"Based on the /. summary it appears that this was a public airport. What's to stop him from giving the weapons to someone else who is getting on a public flight? No point in having the security check at that point."
And what's to stop him from landing his plane anywhere he wants, buying weapons, flying to a public airport and jumping out to supply everyone in the terminal with weapons? I guess they do a security check for people that get off planes?
No, of course not, because private planes don't land at the same terminals as big 747s. They land at the airport and taxi over to a smaller hanger area where you get off your plane, get in your car and drive way. No gift shop, no lines, no security besides the security gate that your car drives through.
"Real1tyCzech's example means that they would then be able to give the weapons to someone else after they pass through security,"
Same question: do you think private planes pull up at the same terminals 747s do? Private planes go to an entirely different area with different security (just a security gate really) and everything.
"So we'll let Jobs..and anyone else with a private jet, walk through public airports with as may weapons as they can carry. Surely *none* of those weapons would ever make onto a plane that could be hijacked....Right?? Think. Please?"
Do you think private planes pull up at the same terminals 747s do?
I think you need to do some more thinking.
"Did you actually bother to think that through at all before posting your emotional knee-jerk?"
obviously not
" Does that mean we have to go through security checkpoints every 100 miles on American highways?"
/.ers it means we should have checkpoints on our driveways before we enter the public roads.
According to the logic of some
"That changed when some guy flew his private plane into an IRS building."
um.... no one forced that guy to crash, no hijacking, he did it himself. If Jobs wanted to crash his plane into a building he wouldn't need shurikens to do it.
"hijacked by some wacko with the stolen shurikens"
What wacko? It's his own plane, who's the wacko, himself? His pilot? He doesn't need a shuriken to hijack his own plane, he owns it, he could crash it into anything he wants as one pilot made very obvious earlier this year.
I agree with him, if you own the plane and there are no other passengers besides yourself and immediate friends and family then you should be able to take anything you want.
And that's the only time it's said in that entire movie, in that huge paragraph. It's emphasized at least 3 times in Boiler Room.
I'm sure it's been used in casinos since the dawn of time but Boiler Room brought the term to the masses.
of course they didn't invent the term, but it's used several times in that movie so that's where most people probably heard it.
Very few of us have ever worked as casino operators, stock brokers or bookies, and even if you have worked in one of those industries a whale is still a rare expression since it's not used for a guy that drops $500 at a casino, you'd have to spend at least tens of thousands of dollars before being considered a whale so it's unlikely you'll even hear someone called a whale.
Also I can't find any online evidence that stock brokers refer to clients as whales except for in that movie.
it's stolen from the movie Boiler Room about young stockbrokers lying to clients about worthless stocks in the late 90s.
"Guy's probably a whale . See what he's playing with. Truth is it doesn't matter these days. With the DOW where it is now, everyone wants a piece of the market. I can close anyone at any time anywhere in the country. Just give me a phone number. "
Zynga really does steal everything, but it's ironic that they chose that movie because at the end they're all busted by the FBI. Are you trying to tell us something Zynga?
this is bad even for idle, but I like IKEA less now so that's good if that was the point of this
"Sure, it might turn out to be crap, but that's doesn't give your point any merits on the known facts. "
Maybe you should read the articles you're linking to:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/touchdevice-software-makes-dumb-phones-touch-sensitive-50000706/
"InputDynamics says the software can recognise a tap anywhere on a phone's surface to with 1cm square. "
1 cm might not sound like a lot, but when you're talking about ~4" diagonal screen and using your finger being off by 0.4 inches is huge.
Yes.... In east texas civil court
An article on a 2 week old unknown blogspot, seriously his first post is August 27 2010
/. front page? Is CmdrTaco being blackmailed by this Henk guy?
How did this get to
"An anonymous reader pointed us to an article..."
An article on a unknown blogspot, telling us what we already know, that Apple and Google are battling for the living room and that Youtube is popular. Shouldn't this be in Idle?
"Are you, your friends and your family planning on making websites that include information about your Quran burning activities?"
Well, I figured since Americans hate Islam I didn't need the Quran anymore since I'll never convert now and nobody wanted it (no one else wants to be Muslim either) and I hate to just toss it (what if the trashman finds it!?) and I didn't have a starter log so.... [/sarcasm]
Are you serious? If a Mosque decided to burn some bibles? Just burning some bibles would be a significant upgrade from what muslims are usually known for burning.
"You can't come down on a business organization for distancing themselves from that vitriol. They didn't stick their nose into anything. They just cut ties to a customer they no longer wanted to service. Happens all the time."
Sure I can, because it's ridiculous. They're not the KKK, they're not killing people, they're just burning some Korans and rackspace cut them for that reason only. As Americans we have the right to burn any book we want, why are you defending a company so anti-american? If I burn some Kelly Clarkson CDs would Rackspace call it hate and pull the site?
Also, if you didn't read the synopsis, it's pretty clear the author is against Rackspace shutting them down so your pro-censorship stance is not popular here.
and some flags and some constitutions and a few bill of rights, although IMHO a few phone books would probably burn better
"Christians burnt down the Saint Michel theater in Paris [wikipedia.org], putting 13 people in hospital, just to protest against the film "The Last Temptation of Christ"
;)
They burnt down a theater to protest a shitty movie, I have no problem with that
"(The Bible actually insists that blasphemers" should be killed by Christian congregations...."
How ironic that you quote Leviticus 24:13-16, because Leviticus 24:20 says "fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; the injury inflicted is the injury to be suffered."
Which is where we get the "eye for an eye" idea. I don't see too many one-eyed christians, do you?
Oh and if you're going to bash scriptures try not to get your quotes from The Skeptics Annotated Bible because it makes it just too easy (and harder to believe).
"You're certainly not going to have these people suddenly roll over and say "oh hey, you know, this whole book burning thing has really opened my eyes!" Not even one."
Unless some Muslim group decides this peaceful book burning by a small group of people enrages them so they decide to blow up buildings and kill innocent people on the other side of the world, which makes millions of other Muslims think "Gee, do I really want to be part of the religion that kills people?" (in 2010, not talking about the crusades)