Really, you said it all with the bicycle. I guess this isn't something you can get for Christmas very often, but every kid needs a great bike to play around on--a good BMX-style on/off road with the semi-knobby tires--not a road bike with the narrow tires. Really, that was the funnest "toy" I ever had because I would use it all the time. I built ramps to jump from and even actively searched for whatever kinds of little ridges I could find at the edge of a road, manhole covers, dirt trails, etc. that could be used for new jumps. It also got me well on my way to good coordination/balance by doing wheelies and other bike tricks. And of course, it goes without saying that it's a great way for the kids to stay healthy and in shape.
I don't see many kids out riding bikes like that these days, and I wonder if it is because of the popularity of video games. I was born in 1977, so this would have been mid 80's when I was doing most of my biking. I also wonder if the overprotectiveness of parents is contributing to the decline in biking among kids. It seems like most kids I see riding around are wearing bike helmets. The parents are making them wear those, and I'm sure the kids think it looks totally dorky(well it does!) so they may not want to ride very much so they don't have to look dorky as often.
Also in space I could usually see colored boxes around the Tie Fighters and probably other space ships. In the rips from the laserdiscs I don't see any of that.
Funny you mention that because I noticed it on the DVD versions that there were horrible colored boxes around the TIE fighters--especially in the scene where Luke and Han are manning the gun turrets on the Falcon. I haven't checked my VHS spec. edition version to see how bad they are there. I think the added clarity of the DVDs may have shown up these boxes more than they appeared before. It is actually really distracting on the DVD.
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From the summary:
Looking around for PPC live CD's that support modern hardware (
like a G5) and demo modern versions of KDE and Gnome has proven fruitless so far.
*BA DUM CHING* Thank you, thank you. I'll be refreshing this page all week. Don't forget to mod up your waitress.
The problem with that idea is that he would have to play so much Doom3 to get the water temp up that he would never have time to get in the hot tub with the girl.
It ain't a Beetle if it ain't rear-engine air-cooled.
And don't forget rear-wheel drive. I had a teacher in college that told us about how he used to take the spare tire out of the front to lighten it, and he would run wheelies through intersections when the light turned green.
Amazing how this cooresponds so well with today's Foxtrot comic. (If you see this when it's no longer the "today" one, make sure to view the Nov. 1 one.)
Concrete and conclusive are different words.[...]This provides concrete (ie real) evidence to support this view. It is not conclusive (the same chemistry could conceivably have evolved independently), but they don't say it is.
You're right that they don't say "conclusive", but they imply it because their next sentence is "We had finally solved one of the big mysteries in human eye evolution." That implies "conclusive". The article seems a bit overrated to me. It just doesn't really say that much. It's like:
These cells are kind of like those cells. Therefore...[stretched conclusion]. We've solved the mystery!
The thing that is interesting about faith is that it is not proven before belief. Many people here do not believe in God because they haven't seen sufficient proof of God. Also, they characterize faith as forever having no proof so it doesn't make sense to them. Actually, God usually doesn't show proof in advance, but for those who belive and choose to seek God, he usually shows evidence to them. I personally have witnessed several miracles from God, but significantly they only came after choosing to follow him.
It's kind of like saying, "I won't be friends with that person until I see personal evidence that he's trustworthy." Well, the person wants to show you they are trustworthy, but they need that relationship with you to show it.
This story isn't even listed in the main section on the default homepage, so to see it there, you need to specifically alter your profile to see all Politics stories.
So, my advice is, if you don't want to read Politics topics, don't view the section:)
I'm glad you said something here because I just went back to the preferences page, and they have changed the story selection method to something that actually works. When the Politics section was first created, they used to have a series of checkboxes for story categories instead of these "All" "Some" "None" radio buttons, and I had selected to exclude Politics, and it didn't work. I was kind of ticked at that, so I'm glad they fixed it.
Perhaps those ballots are being temporarily "rerouted" so they can be filled in "correctly" before coming back round to the polls again. After all, they couldn't trust the citizens in Florida to punch the right chad in 2000, so they wouldn't want to let them fill out their own ballots, where they might screw it up again. Let's see, how do you make a sarcasm tag?
There's an alternate form that is sold with different attachments as a tool for grinding down dogs' nails instead of having to use clippers. It's a total piece of s**t. It runs on 4 AA batteries. If it just needed to sit there and spin without touching anything, it might be fine, but if you actually press it against something--you know, to accomplish something useful--the tiny motor can't handle it. I was trying to grind my dogs nails for just a minute or two, and the thing got really hot and then stopped working. I took the batteries out, and they were too hot to touch. After the thing had cooled down, I put the batteries back in and tried again later. When I tried to grind the nails again, it just got hot and died again.
Basically this orange Dremel that runs on batteries it junk. Get a real Dremel if you want, but I guess they don't sell that pumpkin attachment separately.
Is there a discussion of common car annoyances such as fart pipes, chain-link license plate frames, spoilers on family sedans, ill-fitting aftermarket plastic body kits, and drivers of any type of Pontiac?
If we work under the assumption that the wing in question actually produces signifigant downforce (not a trivial assumption, given the typical aluminum extrusion pretending to be a wing from most rice shops)
the download generated by the wing will be borne by all 4 tires.
I heard the part about this being your day job, but you'll have to explain the physics of that specific part to me because that doesn't make sense. If the wing is on the rear deck of the car (behind the rear wheels), it is going to act as a lever with the rear wheels acting as the fulcrum. Any downward force applied behind the rear wheels will necessarily lift weight off the front wheels. If the force is applied anywhere in between the axles, then you would have it distributed between all four tires.
Then that is a problem with Windows multi-tasking, rather than the P4 3GHz being a slow processor. I didn't want to suggest switching your operating system because that's drastic and not a realistic option for most people, but I'll bet most Linux distros would handle that kind of multi-tasking very well with a 3GHz P4.
Windows XP is sluggish on my p4 3ghz machine with a gig of ram.
Guess what? You are slammed with spyware that's eating up your resources. If you tried a clean install without connecting the computer to the 'net so it didn't get owned, you would see how it flies on local apps.
The technology is certainly valid in the Star Wars universe. That would be the same thing they use in ship hangars. They have people inside the hangars that seem to be open to space. That is referenced in some of the novels how there is a force field in place at the hangar opening that air molecules cannot pass through, which keeps the interior pressurized. Ships can apparently fly through it, though.
I'm bummed about the removal of Luke's ad-lib on Dagobah, "you're lucky you don't taste very good," to R2.
I agree. That was one of the changes that bothered me on these. The other one like it was in ROTJ when Han was hanging from the skiff and was about to shoot the tentacle holding Lando. Lando said, "Wait, I thought you were blind!" Han originally says, "It's all right. Trust me." versus the new line, "It's all right. I can see a lot better." That seemed to me to be another case of a funny line getting replaced with a boring line.
I found this really funny because you guys are on totally different wavelengths and are arguing furiously because neither of you understands what the other is talking about.
From badasscat: pick up an OEM copy of Windows XP for cheap at a site like Newegg.com. Install iTunes, install Media Portal, put them both in your startup folder. He's referring to Windows XP as a base operating system and using other apps to handle the media portion.
From AstroDrabb: The MS Media PC tried to lock EVERYTHING to the MS PC. Any audio or video I recorded was LOCKED to the MS ONLY MEDIA CENTER...MythTV doesn't try to lock EVERY PIECE OF MEDIA to only one computer while MS's media offering does. He's talking about the Windows Media Center Edition, where it uses built-in programs to do recording and streaming in a DRM protected format, as he says. What he says is true, but is not what badasscat was talking about.
From badasscat: As for the "tried to lock EVERYTHING", either you don't know how to setup a shared drive with Windows, you are using a funky software (in which case, your bad), or you are just plain lying. Windows Media Player does lock the current file it is playing, nothing more. He missed the mention of "Media Center", so he doesn't know what he means by "locked" and thinks he is referring to a temporary lock of an in-use file.
From Astrodrabb: Huh? The locking has NOTHING to do with a shared drive bone head. The MS Media PC uses DRM on everything...[extensive rant on how much the MS DRM sucks.] Still doesn't realize badasscat is not talking about Media Center Edition.
Just calm down guys. badasscat has an interesting, simple solution to the original question. Astrodrabb has a valid, but unrelated complaint.
There are a couple of neat aspects of this orbiter. The long distance photography is cool, but I like the idea of its being a long term communications relay. That would take a lot of the transmission power requirements off of the surface probes and landers. They would just have to have a strong enough signal to get up to orbit, and then the orbiter(apparently with the help of solar power) would be able to retransmit back to Earth.
It would be like someone taking one apple from a free apple tree and locking it up. Are people going to be screaming "he poisoned the tree" when he locks up one apple? Of course not!
I think of it more in terms of someone providing apples with no restrictions(BSD). Someone can take those apples and make an apple pie or cobbler with it. They can sell that new product without having to disclose the recipe they used to make it. The GPL apples, however, require that if you use the apples as an ingredient in something, you must disclose your recipe if you sell or give away your cooked product.
I could list many more examples and this is to not even mention that it is nearly impossible to actually earn a living working at Wal-Mart.
Please don't even put this forward as though its some kind of thoughtful point about Wal-Mart. You also can't earn a living at that gas station/video store/burger joint/etc.
If anyone is interested in this phrase, the correct form is "cut and dried". It refers to crops like tobacco that have to be cut and then hung up to dry out before they are ready to be used. It's usage as a phrase is that when it has been "cut and dried", it has already been processed and is ready for use.
Wake me when you can unlock a "Toasty!" delay...twiddles thumbs...*click*
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Since this is not the first machine of theses types of machines, nor has it been modded to run Linux how does this rate as News for Nerds?
Let's see, I'm going to click on this link thing in the summary; I wonder where it goes? Hmm, what's this? "OQO CEO Jory Bell confirms that the x86 architecture is capable of being used with any x86 based OS, such as Linux. Further talks have revealed that some OQO employees have already tested out Linux on the device with success." Gee, it's an x86 computer that doesn't even need to be modded. Now what were you saying and why did you get modded up?
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Really, you said it all with the bicycle. I guess this isn't something you can get for Christmas very often, but every kid needs a great bike to play around on--a good BMX-style on/off road with the semi-knobby tires--not a road bike with the narrow tires. Really, that was the funnest "toy" I ever had because I would use it all the time. I built ramps to jump from and even actively searched for whatever kinds of little ridges I could find at the edge of a road, manhole covers, dirt trails, etc. that could be used for new jumps. It also got me well on my way to good coordination/balance by doing wheelies and other bike tricks. And of course, it goes without saying that it's a great way for the kids to stay healthy and in shape.
I don't see many kids out riding bikes like that these days, and I wonder if it is because of the popularity of video games. I was born in 1977, so this would have been mid 80's when I was doing most of my biking. I also wonder if the overprotectiveness of parents is contributing to the decline in biking among kids. It seems like most kids I see riding around are wearing bike helmets. The parents are making them wear those, and I'm sure the kids think it looks totally dorky(well it does!) so they may not want to ride very much so they don't have to look dorky as often.
I wonder if he even knew the pun he was making.
The problem with that idea is that he would have to play so much Doom3 to get the water temp up that he would never have time to get in the hot tub with the girl.
Amazing how this cooresponds so well with today's Foxtrot comic. (If you see this when it's no longer the "today" one, make sure to view the Nov. 1 one.)
The article seems a bit overrated to me. It just doesn't really say that much. It's like:
The thing that is interesting about faith is that it is not proven before belief. Many people here do not believe in God because they haven't seen sufficient proof of God. Also, they characterize faith as forever having no proof so it doesn't make sense to them. Actually, God usually doesn't show proof in advance, but for those who belive and choose to seek God, he usually shows evidence to them. I personally have witnessed several miracles from God, but significantly they only came after choosing to follow him.
It's kind of like saying, "I won't be friends with that person until I see personal evidence that he's trustworthy." Well, the person wants to show you they are trustworthy, but they need that relationship with you to show it.
Perhaps those ballots are being temporarily "rerouted" so they can be filled in "correctly" before coming back round to the polls again. After all, they couldn't trust the citizens in Florida to punch the right chad in 2000, so they wouldn't want to let them fill out their own ballots, where they might screw it up again.
Let's see, how do you make a sarcasm tag?
There's an alternate form that is sold with different attachments as a tool for grinding down dogs' nails instead of having to use clippers. It's a total piece of s**t. It runs on 4 AA batteries. If it just needed to sit there and spin without touching anything, it might be fine, but if you actually press it against something--you know, to accomplish something useful--the tiny motor can't handle it. I was trying to grind my dogs nails for just a minute or two, and the thing got really hot and then stopped working. I took the batteries out, and they were too hot to touch. After the thing had cooled down, I put the batteries back in and tried again later. When I tried to grind the nails again, it just got hot and died again.
Basically this orange Dremel that runs on batteries it junk. Get a real Dremel if you want, but I guess they don't sell that pumpkin attachment separately.
Then that is a problem with Windows multi-tasking, rather than the P4 3GHz being a slow processor. I didn't want to suggest switching your operating system because that's drastic and not a realistic option for most people, but I'll bet most Linux distros would handle that kind of multi-tasking very well with a 3GHz P4.
The technology is certainly valid in the Star Wars universe. That would be the same thing they use in ship hangars. They have people inside the hangars that seem to be open to space. That is referenced in some of the novels how there is a force field in place at the hangar opening that air molecules cannot pass through, which keeps the interior pressurized. Ships can apparently fly through it, though.
I found this really funny because you guys are on totally different wavelengths and are arguing furiously because neither of you understands what the other is talking about.
From badasscat: pick up an OEM copy of Windows XP for cheap at a site like Newegg.com. Install iTunes, install Media Portal, put them both in your startup folder.
He's referring to Windows XP as a base operating system and using other apps to handle the media portion.
From AstroDrabb: The MS Media PC tried to lock EVERYTHING to the MS PC. Any audio or video I recorded was LOCKED to the MS ONLY MEDIA CENTER...MythTV doesn't try to lock EVERY PIECE OF MEDIA to only one computer while MS's media offering does.
He's talking about the Windows Media Center Edition, where it uses built-in programs to do recording and streaming in a DRM protected format, as he says. What he says is true, but is not what badasscat was talking about.
From badasscat: As for the "tried to lock EVERYTHING", either you don't know how to setup a shared drive with Windows, you are using a funky software (in which case, your bad), or you are just plain lying. Windows Media Player does lock the current file it is playing, nothing more.
He missed the mention of "Media Center", so he doesn't know what he means by "locked" and thinks he is referring to a temporary lock of an in-use file.
From Astrodrabb: Huh? The locking has NOTHING to do with a shared drive bone head. The MS Media PC uses DRM on everything...[extensive rant on how much the MS DRM sucks.]
Still doesn't realize badasscat is not talking about Media Center Edition.
Just calm down guys. badasscat has an interesting, simple solution to the original question. Astrodrabb has a valid, but unrelated complaint.
There are a couple of neat aspects of this orbiter. The long distance photography is cool, but I like the idea of its being a long term communications relay. That would take a lot of the transmission power requirements off of the surface probes and landers. They would just have to have a strong enough signal to get up to orbit, and then the orbiter(apparently with the help of solar power) would be able to retransmit back to Earth.
Wake me when you can unlock a "Toasty!"
delay...twiddles thumbs...*click*
Gee, it's an x86 computer that doesn't even need to be modded. Now what were you saying and why did you get modded up?