Yep - easiest way to make ball lightning - light a wide based candle, without any metal in it (no tea-lights!), place it in the microwave, in the middle of the plate. Nuke. Plasma ball appears, candle goes out, and plasma ball remains. Turn off microwave, the plasma stays a few seconds, before descending back into the candle.
Bang on right - this is the reason you can't use phones on planes, it causes mayhem for the routing algorithms on the network, as your phone can be seen by literally hundreds of bases.
I live in Bath, moderately quiet city, full of tourists (damn tourists, get off my lawn!). Last night the alarm went off at the shop next door - I was working late, and was astounded to see no fewer than 2 vans *full* of police appear... Maybe Whistles (women's fashion chain) is a secret bullion store. There are cameras everywhere here, vans with bubbles all over their sides and roofs driving around all day and night, filming, and observing.
You can always judge the future direction of a country by the demeanor of the staff on its public transport.
I'll see your septic tank and generator... and I'll raise you a solar panel array, one for power, one for hot water, and a trash incinerator, which also does the hot water.
Being self sufficient is great - although it really bugs me I still have to pay the standard rates for rubbish collection and the usual surcharges for wastewater.
No, outlook '03 doesn't support animated gifs, but supports HTML pretty well, outlook '07 doesn't support animated gifs, and doesn't support about 75% of the CSS standard - they do support Office HTML GREAT though! What a boon....
Outlook doesn't support animated gifs (nor most CSS, but that's another matter...!) - I received one of these this morning but all it showed was the 'buy buy buy' frame - my response was 'what an utterly utterly pointless spam'.
Modafinil. It kicks ass. I jointly own a web development company, and we run several very high profile sites. I have slept 6 hours this week (we launched a site wednesday, it got dugg thursday, we've been worked off our feet since).
I got an ASBO for getting upset (read swearing at a ticket inspector, nothing more than swearing, no threats etc) at Bath Spa Station, as all their machines were off/broken, no-one was selling tickets, and my train was at the platform (last train I could get in order to make an important meeting in London), and the ticket inspector wasn't letting me onto the platform without a ticket.
So the moral is.... looking at someone wrong will get you a criminal record. Getting pissed off because someone isn't doing their job will get you a record. Petty authority figures rule the world. Become a train guard, and you have more power than Rupert Murdoch.
I'm sorry, but I refuse flat out to have respect/deferrence for petty authority figures who are vastly inferior to myself.
I don't make this as an egoistical statement, merely as a matter of fact - I have a PhD in Physics, I run my own business, I *PAY* a huge amount to keep cops in jobs, so why the hell should I respect someone who probably dropped out of high school, and became a cop because no-one else would hire their slipshod self?
I have respect for police in principal, insofar as their role is purportedly to perform the arrest of people who have *potentially* comitted crimes (innocent until proven guilty and all that), and to investigate said crimes. I do, however, have no respect whatsoever for policemen - they are the flotsam and jetsam of society, who couldn't find gainful employ elsewhere. Policing is a last ditch career.
Probably untrue, but there were certainly some old HDDs which could stall in a certain way and 'walk' across the floor, typically as far as their power cords would reach.
Coding for 16 hours and sleeping for 10? Please share your day-lengthening secret with me - the extra sleep would be great.
I'm a web developer - myself and my colleague run a web-app & eCommerce design firm (www.blubolt.com). He works 7am-9pm, with 1-2 hours off, 7 days a week - when he's working, he's working, and he doesn't stop/browse/whatever - he does the design/html/css. I work 9:00 am - 3:00 am - I stop what i'm doing and spend 5 mins browsing/whatever every 20 mins or so, and go for 20 min walks when confronted with a challenging problem - admittedly if I'm interested by something I can focus on it for 4-5 hours on end...
I guess it's different strokes for different folks - I work well in short bursts over a long period of time, he works well in one large chunk over a shorter period of time.
Or you can go the other way entirely - chuck the dayjob in the can, go fully indie, live, eat, breath code, love what you do, and people don't get on your back about it, because you're an entrepreneur, and it's understandable that you dedicate 20 hours a day to your baby.
They probably use the water for cooling, and maybe hydro power - even if they're not using the hydro from where they are, power has got to be cheaper there, due to lower distribution costs from wherever the nearest hydro plant is.
I agree totally - my partner and I work together developing high end eCommerce solutions - we've written a bespoke system, and we pull in high six figures (in pounds stirling) between the two of us month after month - web (particularly eCommerce) development is booming.
Yes, it's a tough job - you have to be prepared to work seven days a week, be on call at 4am, and work 18 hour days (minimum), and put up with shit from clients who don't have a clue. We have a good team insofar as he is a photoshop and design genius, and has a decent working knowledge of PHP/MySQL, and I do all the guts - the javascript, the AJAX, the PHP, the SQL, the server setup, the scalability...
In all - Web development is a tough job to have, but not for the reasons you give... If the work is short, it might be (Sorry about this) because you're not very good.
One piece of advice - find a focus, and stick to it - there's no point in being the jack of all trades and master of none - by this I don't mean a technological focus - I mean a business focus.
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Yep - easiest way to make ball lightning - light a wide based candle, without any metal in it (no tea-lights!), place it in the microwave, in the middle of the plate. Nuke. Plasma ball appears, candle goes out, and plasma ball remains. Turn off microwave, the plasma stays a few seconds, before descending back into the candle.
Oh, it does actually - you just have to design your sites properly - take a look at this site for disabled products in ff - entire site scales.
You could always make it out of plutonium. It'd glow nicely then. Wear it for long enough and you might get superpowers.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amit amicitus est.
In London you wouldnt' get anything - a closet (literally a closet) above a shop recently sold for over $400k.
Bang on right - this is the reason you can't use phones on planes, it causes mayhem for the routing algorithms on the network, as your phone can be seen by literally hundreds of bases.
I live in Bath, moderately quiet city, full of tourists (damn tourists, get off my lawn!). Last night the alarm went off at the shop next door - I was working late, and was astounded to see no fewer than 2 vans *full* of police appear... Maybe Whistles (women's fashion chain) is a secret bullion store. There are cameras everywhere here, vans with bubbles all over their sides and roofs driving around all day and night, filming, and observing.
You can always judge the future direction of a country by the demeanor of the staff on its public transport.
/Ramble over
I'll see your septic tank and generator... and I'll raise you a solar panel array, one for power, one for hot water, and a trash incinerator, which also does the hot water.
Being self sufficient is great - although it really bugs me I still have to pay the standard rates for rubbish collection and the usual surcharges for wastewater.
No, outlook '03 doesn't support animated gifs, but supports HTML pretty well, outlook '07 doesn't support animated gifs, and doesn't support about 75% of the CSS standard - they do support Office HTML GREAT though! What a boon....
lightspeed briefs!
Outlook doesn't support animated gifs (nor most CSS, but that's another matter...!) - I received one of these this morning but all it showed was the 'buy buy buy' frame - my response was 'what an utterly utterly pointless spam'.
Modafinil. It kicks ass. I jointly own a web development company, and we run several very high profile sites. I have slept 6 hours this week (we launched a site wednesday, it got dugg thursday, we've been worked off our feet since).
Those shirts are now illegal - you can be arrested for wearing them in public.
I got an ASBO for getting upset (read swearing at a ticket inspector, nothing more than swearing, no threats etc) at Bath Spa Station, as all their machines were off/broken, no-one was selling tickets, and my train was at the platform (last train I could get in order to make an important meeting in London), and the ticket inspector wasn't letting me onto the platform without a ticket.
So the moral is.... looking at someone wrong will get you a criminal record. Getting pissed off because someone isn't doing their job will get you a record. Petty authority figures rule the world. Become a train guard, and you have more power than Rupert Murdoch.
I'm sorry, but I refuse flat out to have respect/deferrence for petty authority figures who are vastly inferior to myself.
I don't make this as an egoistical statement, merely as a matter of fact - I have a PhD in Physics, I run my own business, I *PAY* a huge amount to keep cops in jobs, so why the hell should I respect someone who probably dropped out of high school, and became a cop because no-one else would hire their slipshod self?
I have respect for police in principal, insofar as their role is purportedly to perform the arrest of people who have *potentially* comitted crimes (innocent until proven guilty and all that), and to investigate said crimes. I do, however, have no respect whatsoever for policemen - they are the flotsam and jetsam of society, who couldn't find gainful employ elsewhere. Policing is a last ditch career.
Probably untrue, but there were certainly some old HDDs which could stall in a certain way and 'walk' across the floor, typically as far as their power cords would reach.
Works fine here. use frameborder=0, and in the css use border:0px solid black;
Hey presto no border.
Coding for 16 hours and sleeping for 10? Please share your day-lengthening secret with me - the extra sleep would be great.
I'm a web developer - myself and my colleague run a web-app & eCommerce design firm (www.blubolt.com). He works 7am-9pm, with 1-2 hours off, 7 days a week - when he's working, he's working, and he doesn't stop/browse/whatever - he does the design/html/css. I work 9:00 am - 3:00 am - I stop what i'm doing and spend 5 mins browsing/whatever every 20 mins or so, and go for 20 min walks when confronted with a challenging problem - admittedly if I'm interested by something I can focus on it for 4-5 hours on end...
I guess it's different strokes for different folks - I work well in short bursts over a long period of time, he works well in one large chunk over a shorter period of time.
I keep it in a box under the bed.
Or you can go the other way entirely - chuck the dayjob in the can, go fully indie, live, eat, breath code, love what you do, and people don't get on your back about it, because you're an entrepreneur, and it's understandable that you dedicate 20 hours a day to your baby.
They probably use the water for cooling, and maybe hydro power - even if they're not using the hydro from where they are, power has got to be cheaper there, due to lower distribution costs from wherever the nearest hydro plant is.
Thanks for the laugh :)
I agree totally - my partner and I work together developing high end eCommerce solutions - we've written a bespoke system, and we pull in high six figures (in pounds stirling) between the two of us month after month - web (particularly eCommerce) development is booming.
Yes, it's a tough job - you have to be prepared to work seven days a week, be on call at 4am, and work 18 hour days (minimum), and put up with shit from clients who don't have a clue. We have a good team insofar as he is a photoshop and design genius, and has a decent working knowledge of PHP/MySQL, and I do all the guts - the javascript, the AJAX, the PHP, the SQL, the server setup, the scalability...
In all - Web development is a tough job to have, but not for the reasons you give... If the work is short, it might be (Sorry about this) because you're not very good.
One piece of advice - find a focus, and stick to it - there's no point in being the jack of all trades and master of none - by this I don't mean a technological focus - I mean a business focus.
~That's actually the old version - new version (done in vim (c#)) isn't yet up.
http://www.hdosport.com/
http://www.letsbuyshoes.com/
http://www.pelime.com/
http://www.hdotrainer.com/