So, as the project itself is so boring and uninspired...
BROADCASTED?! Please don't tell me people have actually started using that. The word is BROADCAST. The sounds will be broadcast, the sounds are being broadcast, the sounds WERE broadcast. There is no past tense for that word.
The cottingly fairies were one of the most pathetically executed hoaxes ever.
Back when I was a kid was when I first saw the pictures of those paper cutout fairies dancing around a little girl and the fakeness of it leapt out of the page.
They LOOK like they're made of paper!
How anyone could've fallen for that astounds me. The only reason people probably DID fall for it was because Doyle was a gullible fool desperate for anything to prove there was more to life than just "this". (spiritualists, et al).
There are some uses to which a PAL TV can still be put. Especially if you have an old video recorder and piles and piles of tapes. (OK, the recorder might have scart too, but some equipment doesn't...)
Also, if you're into retrocomputing, it's sometimes the only way to get a picture out of older machines, like the ZX Spectrum (48k, the 128 had an RGB socket if you can find a monitor)
Are you seriously trying to suggest that no-one had digitised audio back in 1979?
That there were no compression algorithms? Data compression work mainly began in the 19*40*s. Software data compression began in earnest in the mid 1970s (using a technique originally developed in the '50s).
OK, his music player is very different to what we have today. I imagine his idea revolved around the idea popular in consoles of the time, buy a song on a cartridge and plug it into the device, rather than download it, so it wouldn't matter if there "was no stored music available", because he would've licensed the tech to music companies (or they would've licensed their music to him) and he would've manufacted cartridges with the music on them.
It was still ahead of its time, considering all you had available for portable music was radio or audio tape back then.
Whatever happened to limited copyright? The earth is BILLIONS of years old, and the only justification anyone could possibly have that it was still in copyright would be if they tried to claim the creator was still alive...
But if that were the case, they still wouldn't own the copyrights... Which-ever one of the religions that got it RIGHT would.
'course it didn't. Microsoft hadn't even produced their first DOS when the original was released. All they had were a few crappy BASIC interpreters. (as seen in such masterpieces of technology *snigger* as the commode Pet and Vic 20)
One thing the moon has going for it is, it will've cooled a lot more quickly than the earth due to its mass being so much less. Which means the elements in question are still likely to be more evenly distributed than on the earth.
They might be more concentrated nearer the centre, but I imagine the concentrations on/close to the surface will be higher than they are on earth.
Sod the asteroids... We've got a huuuuge chunk of something derived from the same material as our planet a few hundred thousand miles away. Why go millions when the moon is right on our doorstep?
The enemy IS a signator of the Geneva convensions. You just chose to ignore that in my last post didn't you?
Look... Afganistan signed the geneva convention. Britain signed. So the USA are breaking the law in not honouring it when it comes to citizens from those countries.
How can Al Qaeda, a terrorist organisation in the same way the IRA or ETA are terrorist organisations, be expected to have signed a treaty? They are NOT a nation!
You might just as well say microsoft employees are fair game for abduction and indefinite imprisonment because microsoft didn't sign the geneva convention.
Face up to the fact that the USA is committing war crimes by failing to abide by those convensions. Bush and his cronies should be dragged before a court for those crimes.
But they haven't gone to any effort to actually prove the people imprisoned there ARE members of Al Qaeda, have they?
Hell, they kidnapped a couple of brits who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and kept them there until the british government FINALLY managed to get them released. 2 *years* later.
Also, Al Qaeda is not a nation. It's a terrorist organisation on a par with the IRA or ETA. NATIONS sign the geneva convention (is afganistan a signatory? I think you'll find they are.)
Besides, it's the country that signed that's bound by it, not the country the signator invaded. That would be VERY convenient wouldn't it? Let's invade some little country that hasn't signed so we can do what the hell we want with the populace without breaking international law?
Oh, well...
That's alright then.
I can be just walking down the street one day...
Have someone walk up to me and say "Hello meister" while someone else bops me on the head.
And wake up as a permanent resident of a hellhole like guantanamo bay. After all, most of the world population aren't US citizens. And if they're not US citizens then obviously, we're ALL terrorist suspects, cos we all hate the US government.
Right...
So, you maintain that Guantanamo Bay is a prisoner of war camp, eh?
If that's the case, the united states is bound by the geneva convention.
But... They're not abiding by the laws set down in the geneva convention because they deny they're prisoners of war.
So if they're NOT prisoners of war, and they're NOT convicted criminals, that means the USA has conducted a mass kidnapping campaign.
There IS nothing in international law that can make what they've done legal.
There're numerous bubble bobble clones now, some of them (IMO) actually play better and harder than frozen bubble...
xbubble is good because you can play in duel mode against the computer or (I think) another player.
And if the simulation really IS buggy... The last thing people should be doing is trying to poke holes in it. Sorry... But...
I don't want to end my life as a hexadeximal digit in a core dump or kernel panic. (originally said blue screen of death, but, windows? running the UNIVERSE? We wouldn't've lasted to the formation of the first proton)
I did say "For the same amount of power". Your 220v@2A is 440W. 220v@1A is 220W So your example is twice the power. 220v@50mA is a lot more deadly than 22,000v@0.5mA.
We were always taught in electronics that it's the volts that cause muscle contraction and the current that causes burns. When it comes to AC at least, there's always a current limiting factor. With a car battery, yes, you can melt a steel spanner if you drop it across the contacts. With AC, you can't unless you're connected directly to a substation. You might take the street's supply out (if you bypassed your fuse box)...
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The word remains unmodified though.
You didn't say "It was broadcasted yesterday" did you?
So, as the project itself is so boring and uninspired...
BROADCASTED?!
Please don't tell me people have actually started using that. The word is BROADCAST.
The sounds will be broadcast, the sounds are being broadcast, the sounds WERE broadcast.
There is no past tense for that word.
There is absolutely nothing "illegal" about using bittorrent to download the latest linux distro or open office release.
But they want to tar every use with the same brush so they can stamp it out completely because it CAN be used in a naughty manner.
A bread knife CAN be used to kill someone but that's not what it was designed for.
The cottingly fairies were one of the most pathetically executed hoaxes ever.
Back when I was a kid was when I first saw the pictures of those paper cutout fairies dancing around a little girl and the fakeness of it leapt out of the page.
They LOOK like they're made of paper!
How anyone could've fallen for that astounds me.
The only reason people probably DID fall for it was because Doyle was a gullible fool desperate for anything to prove there was more to life than just "this". (spiritualists, et al).
I always used tux racer for the GLX test myself.
He WAS shot... :)
Maybe he tried and only the shooter noticed.
There are some uses to which a PAL TV can still be put. Especially if you have an old video recorder and piles and piles of tapes. (OK, the recorder might have scart too, but some equipment doesn't...)
Also, if you're into retrocomputing, it's sometimes the only way to get a picture out of older machines, like the ZX Spectrum (48k, the 128 had an RGB socket if you can find a monitor)
Are you seriously trying to suggest that no-one had digitised audio back in 1979?
That there were no compression algorithms?
Data compression work mainly began in the 19*40*s.
Software data compression began in earnest in the mid 1970s (using a technique originally developed in the '50s).
OK, his music player is very different to what we have today. I imagine his idea revolved around the idea popular in consoles of the time, buy a song on a cartridge and plug it into the device, rather than download it, so it wouldn't matter if there "was no stored music available", because he would've licensed the tech to music companies (or they would've licensed their music to him) and he would've manufacted cartridges with the music on them.
It was still ahead of its time, considering all you had available for portable music was radio or audio tape back then.
Whatever happened to limited copyright?
The earth is BILLIONS of years old, and the only justification anyone could possibly have that it was still in copyright would be if they tried to claim the creator was still alive...
But if that were the case, they still wouldn't own the copyrights... Which-ever one of the religions that got it RIGHT would.
'course it didn't.
Microsoft hadn't even produced their first DOS when the original was released. All they had were a few crappy BASIC interpreters. (as seen in such masterpieces of technology *snigger* as the commode Pet and Vic 20)
What have lawyers and sperm got in common?
1 in 100,000,000 has the chance of becoming human.
I, I read the ! as an I. :)
Thought he said 7.
One thing the moon has going for it is, it will've cooled a lot more quickly than the earth due to its mass being so much less. Which means the elements in question are still likely to be more evenly distributed than on the earth.
They might be more concentrated nearer the centre, but I imagine the concentrations on/close to the surface will be higher than they are on earth.
What does Kirk's meeting with Picard have to do with it?
Sod the asteroids...
We've got a huuuuge chunk of something derived from the same material as our planet a few hundred thousand miles away. Why go millions when the moon is right on our doorstep?
As someone else said... AI research...
See if you can get it to deduce the existence of rice pudding and income tax...
If it can do that, it's on the way to solving the ultimate question. Then we could see if douglas was right.
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The enemy IS a signator of the Geneva convensions.
You just chose to ignore that in my last post didn't you?
Look... Afganistan signed the geneva convention.
Britain signed.
So the USA are breaking the law in not honouring it when it comes to citizens from those countries.
How can Al Qaeda, a terrorist organisation in the same way the IRA or ETA are terrorist organisations, be expected to have signed a treaty? They are NOT a nation!
You might just as well say microsoft employees are fair game for abduction and indefinite imprisonment because microsoft didn't sign the geneva convention.
Face up to the fact that the USA is committing war crimes by failing to abide by those convensions. Bush and his cronies should be dragged before a court for those crimes.
But they haven't gone to any effort to actually prove the people imprisoned there ARE members of Al Qaeda, have they?
Hell, they kidnapped a couple of brits who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and kept them there until the british government FINALLY managed to get them released. 2 *years* later.
Also, Al Qaeda is not a nation. It's a terrorist organisation on a par with the IRA or ETA. NATIONS sign the geneva convention (is afganistan a signatory? I think you'll find they are.)
Besides, it's the country that signed that's bound by it, not the country the signator invaded. That would be VERY convenient wouldn't it? Let's invade some little country that hasn't signed so we can do what the hell we want with the populace without breaking international law?
Don't think so somehow.
Oh, well... That's alright then. I can be just walking down the street one day... Have someone walk up to me and say "Hello meister" while someone else bops me on the head. And wake up as a permanent resident of a hellhole like guantanamo bay. After all, most of the world population aren't US citizens. And if they're not US citizens then obviously, we're ALL terrorist suspects, cos we all hate the US government.
Right... So, you maintain that Guantanamo Bay is a prisoner of war camp, eh? If that's the case, the united states is bound by the geneva convention. But... They're not abiding by the laws set down in the geneva convention because they deny they're prisoners of war. So if they're NOT prisoners of war, and they're NOT convicted criminals, that means the USA has conducted a mass kidnapping campaign. There IS nothing in international law that can make what they've done legal.
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There're numerous bubble bobble clones now, some of them (IMO) actually play better and harder than frozen bubble... xbubble is good because you can play in duel mode against the computer or (I think) another player.
And if the simulation really IS buggy...
The last thing people should be doing is trying to poke holes in it.
Sorry... But...
I don't want to end my life as a hexadeximal digit in a core dump or kernel panic.
(originally said blue screen of death, but, windows? running the UNIVERSE? We wouldn't've lasted to the formation of the first proton)
I did say "For the same amount of power".
Your 220v@2A is 440W.
220v@1A is 220W
So your example is twice the power.
220v@50mA is a lot more deadly than 22,000v@0.5mA.
We were always taught in electronics that it's the volts that cause muscle contraction and the current that causes burns.
When it comes to AC at least, there's always a current limiting factor.
With a car battery, yes, you can melt a steel spanner if you drop it across the contacts.
With AC, you can't unless you're connected directly to a substation. You might take the street's supply out (if you bypassed your fuse box)...