I don't like the top lettering either, but to me the worst part of the logo is the gauge. It only goes to 30, which implies a 30 year limit on the lifespan of the product. The needle is at 10/30, so do we have 20 more years until... the engine blows up or what?
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"I'm the root of all evil, but you can call me 'Cookie'"
"I'm the root of all that's evil. Yeh, but you can call me 'Cookie'".
-Bloodhound Gang, Fire Water Burn
I'm just sayin'... I don't mind reading your sig and getting a song stuck in my head, but it's really annoying to have a song with missing words stuck in my head. You screw the rhythm all up if you leave words out. Ya know?
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How did parent get modded up? Google: SBC = fewer keystrokes than asking here. Wikipedia: SBC = fewer keystrokes than asking here. RTFA = fewer yet (one click). Any of which would yield a more complete and reliable description/history of SBC. Any of which wouldn't require waiting for a reply like you have to here. Any of which wouldn't require someone else spoon-feeding you info that's readily available already. Sheesh! Sorry to be so harsh. I'm just sayin'... I'd write the answer, but SOMEONE ALREADY HAS. Why read my answer? Read the ones that are already written. If, on the other hand, parent was supposed to be funny... it wasn't. Sorry.
While games have often regarded more as promotion for movies than as products in themselves, it is becoming clear that a successful game can be a major source of profit. A positive aspect of this is that game releases are no longer so tightly coupled to major movie releases. The rush to release a game in synchrony with the movie often results in mediocre titles.
I can back that up. I have the perfect example, albeit in the opposite temporal direction (in relation to the movie release date) than what might be expected: Lord of the Rings Pinball by STERN.
I played the hell out of this game _long before_ Return of the King hit theatres and the pinball game features audio (sound fx and voices) from all three movies. The twists? It's a pinball game. What do you mean 'Off topic'? Don't split hairs with me, punk! It's a twist, damnit. The other twist, it's based on a book (trilogy, whatever, what did I say about spliting hairs?) not a movie... originally... but it has audio taken from the movie... but the movie is based on... nevermind. Still need another twist? It's LOTR, dude, STFU.
BTW, coming from a pinball aficionado (read 'seasoned pinball ninja'), this is by far THE BEST PINBALL GAME EVAR! If you've played it and disagree, well then you're just jealous because you can't touch my high score!
Um... you just replied to my post that listed 5 reasons and then offered one reason yourself... which was the first of the 5 I offered. I'm just sayin': -1 redundant. Oh, and your 80 f-ing dollars comment is almost verbatum from the TITLES of previous posts: -2 redundant. Sorry, it's just... redundant.
I'd ask for six bullets. Why would you want to risk getting the empty chamber?
Okay, good idea, but I say 3 should do it. You can position the cylinder such that you think the hammer will strike the round in the center (the middle one). If you're off by more than one chamber then you either;
1. don't know how a revolver works and thus shouldn't be handling one.
or
2. weren't really trying, in which case you shouldn't bother going and being all dramatic and stuff. You could accidentally hurt yourself or someone else.
ah, so this is slash-dot for INFORMATIVE...are you one of the relatives? i do not feel bad at all about my bad karma now! thanx and keep up the good work...kinda, i mean, maybe, whatever....b
I'm not sure what you mean. slash-dot for INFORMATIVE? Huh? Yes, informative is always good when your audience is a bunch of nerds/geeks. This is 'news for nerds' so yeh, I guess it's 'for INFORMATIVE' whatever that means.
One of whose relatives? I'm the only nerd/geek in my family, so if you're asking if I'm related to CmdrTaco (or however he abriviates it), no. I'm not related to him or anyone else who has anything to do with this site. I'm not even related to anyone else who's ever been here that I know of. I do think Taco is really cool though and I love his site. You must like it too. I mean, you're here, right?
About your bad karma: Umm, yeh, you shouldn't feel bad. I mean, it's just a number, right? If it does bother you then try saying something informative. M-kay? No, pouting because I got modded up doesn't count, especially since that's the highest I've ever been modded.
1. It's much cooler and geekier to make your own like my buddy did.
2. If you make your own you won't have that white label reading 'Das Keyboard' ruining your otherwise all black beauty.
3. These are not at all new. They've been around for a long time, so the trendy factor has already worn off.
4. Real geeks have all black keyboards because the white characters have all worn off from excesive use.
5. I don't even have a keyboard you insensitive clod.
...how is that there were an impact at all? Wouldn't the probe just sunk into the comet?
I'm guessing that what you're really asking is why any debris was thrown from the surface of the comet instead of the impactor just uneventfully sinking into the surface. Think of it like this: If you take a bowl and fill it with talc powder or flour (a very loosely bound together substance) and shoot a projectile into it with a slingshot, would it just sink in without producing any debris (a small puff of powder or flour)? Add to this the fact that there's far less gravity holding the comet together than there is holding the powder down/together (in the bowl). Does that visualization help?
It's an easy experiment. Try it. I might suggest a coffe can instead of a bowl though so that 1. you don't break the bowl and 2. you minimize the risk of the projectile flying back up and hitting you or someone/something else. Also use plenty of powder or flour as to slow the projectile enough that it can't hit the bottom and bounce back up and of course you want to wear safety glasses. Alternatively you could just view the images sent back from the mission (included in TFA) and trust that it's not all just a hoax.
From one of my originals:... now i ain't all about being liked by the masses. don't give a fuck if i got pimples and glasses. i get straight As and skip all of my classes. got an IQ that's as big as your ass is....
I don't like the idea of the movement being organized into a union of sorts. I don't think it will happen personally. The Linux/FOSS community seems to like its very loosely organized nature. That's how the movement began. That's how the software is (usually) written. That's fundamental to the commonly held ideology of the members of the community and I think that's a major point missed completely by the author. Nonetheless it's an interesting little piece.
Another point I'd add is that the author states that power without leadership is a dangerous thing. I don't think it's necessarily so. I think that power without leadership is a dangerous thing when not sufficiently distributed. When it is sufficiently distributed, it's power held by the people. It's democracy in it's purest form. Anyone is free to join the movement and thus have an equal say in how that power is utilized.
An effort that requires a large degree of collaboration on the parts of many (i.e. the Groklaw case mentioned in the article) can only be successful when a large number of people feel very adamantly about a given cause. This is the power of a wide-spread mutually held strong belief, not the power of a charismatic, affluent, or otherwise powerful leader.
Further, the effort (much like FOSS development is) was the result of a goal and/or opinion shared by members of a community that spans the world, not a pocket community the members of which are uniformly influenced by any single political or religious entity or culture.
I stand corrected. Lakipea does in fact throw sharpeas like I said, but this picture was actually a Lakitu like you said. Actually though, Lakitu's throw Spiny Eggs, not Spineys. Spiny Eggs turn into Spinys when they hit the ground, but they're just eggs when Lakitu throws them. Lakipea on the other hand throws Sharpeas, not Sharpea Eggs. There are no Sharpea Eggs AFAIK. Anyway, you were correct that the pic in question is in fact a Lakitu, not a Lakipea.
There are no barrels in this pic. There are no falling barrels in the game from which this pic is taken. You're thinking of Donky Kong, which was the first game Mario appeared in.
This scene is from the origional Super Mario Bros. I'm a very long time fan/addict of SMB. I don't remember any SMB game with falling barrels anywhere in it.
The falling object in this scene is a Sharpea. Sharpea is a little fella that hits the ground and walks back and forth until you kill him, he kills you, or he falls off a cliff. Sharpea is a small creature with a spiked shell. Please don't insult Sharpea by calling him a barrel.
The guy (some say turtle, but I'm not so sure) that flies back and forth throwing Sharpeas at you is called Lakipea. Damnit, I forgot my informative tag and my nit-pick tag.
Still, your post was funny and I'd mod it as such had I mod points.
By examining the heat shield, and the thermal damage, they can get a better feel for the physical and thermal stresses caused by a martian re entry.
'Re entry'? Um... can an object re-enter an atmosphere in which it's never been?
Damn, I forgot my close nitpicking tag. At least I didn't mention that 're-entry' is hypenated and 'Martian' is capitalized. Damn it, there I go again.
In all fairness I do agree with what the parent said. I just like funning with the ACs.
I think in this case it would be called a Beowulf school, no? Since Linux is really taking off in the ecucation sector, I think it is safe to say that the new schools of laser-on-chip-in-brain sharks will run Linux.
Since the sharks will need chips inserted into their brains anyway (for remote control purposes) these chips could now utilize laser-on-chip tech. This would allow the the lasers to come directly out of the sharks' eyes. With the laser removed from the exterior of the shark, there will be no increased water drag, thus no reduction in speed. The sharks could in fact be overclocked for an increase in speed! The laser-on-chip-in-brain configuration would also allow the remote control death sharks to blend in with non-armed sharks without detection. Current models are easily spotted by their externally mounted lasers. The chip-in-brain mounted laser would of course destroy the sharks eyes when used, but they won't need them anyway because they're remote controlled. The opening from the brain mounted chips through the eyes could be made by... you guessed it, laser surgery performed from within the shark's own head. This greatly reduces the risk of infection from surgery.
We're still awaiting approval from... never mind.
PETA has contacted our office and... never mind.
I for one welcome our... damn it! I promised I wouldn't say that.
I don't think any of those 'traditions' were started intentionally. At least I hope not. That would... well, take all the fun out of repeating them, right? Don't think 'tradition'. Just think 'witty'. If it really is all that witty, then maybe we'll make it a tradition. But then I never have repeated one, so what do I know?
Maybe it's not directly techno-geeky, but perhaps the poster was looking for opinions and insights from a techno-geeky group of people. I can certainly understand that. I usually value more hightly the opinions of people who are analytical enough to be techno geeks and I typically can understand their ideas better and more easily. Even better than to ask techno-geeks about something like this is to ask techno-geeks with interests varied enough that they would care about something non-geeky so much that they would take the time to read and reply to a non-geeky post like this. That, my friend, is exactly what the poster did. Further, if you don't like posts that pose non-geeky questions to geeks, then don't RTFP. After all, you seem to think it shouldn't be posted on this site, that people here wouldn't care about this sort of non-geeky thing, but yet here you are reading and even replying to it. Hmmm...
'this just isn't the place to discuss it'
The why the hell are you discussing it? Don't like it? Then don't read it and don't reply to it, but don't be so critical of those who choose to post, read and discuss things that YOU're not interested in. There's no rule that I know of that states that geeks must only be interested in tech related subjects, or that people should never ask geeks for their opinions on non-tech questions.
Indiana University (my employer) and Purdue University (where I got my undergrad degree) have a joint institution in Indianapolis called Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis or IUPUI (where I work and take grad courses). I found it shocking that a joint venture between the two top rated doesn't even rank. None the less, as someone from IUPUI (or Indian in general)it makes me proud to see IU and PU listed as the top two, especially considering that Indiana is far from what I would consider a high-tech state, rather to the contrary actually. Indiana is still a farming state to some degree. Purdue is actually known for two things: engineering and agriculture. Go figure.
Yeah, I thought it was a nerd site too. Too bad the people investigating this aren't nerds or they would've figured it out by now. Consider this quote from the article:
"We're working in the dark. We don't have a single lead so far,"
You dumn shit. If you're working in the dark you need a LED not a LEAD. Sheesh.
'I thought we didn't have to pretend about our sexuality in this day and age by saying "I don't have a date".'
We don't have to. I don't. I'm as gay as can be and I don't deny it. Neither should you or anyone else. Be yourself and encourage others to do the same.
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Then there should be one tick labled 0 below the pin and the pin should be on the 1 tick. Alternatively, the first tick could be labled 1.
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I don't like the top lettering either, but to me the worst part of the logo is the gauge. It only goes to 30, which implies a 30 year limit on the lifespan of the product. The needle is at 10/30, so do we have 20 more years until... the engine blows up or what?
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Ah, yes, but what of the unknown knowns? Are there things that we don't know we know?
From one of my poems: 'Sometimes there are somethings that somepeople shouldn't know.'
Perhaps this isn't so. Perhaps in these situations it would suffice that those in question should simply not be aware of what they really do know.
"I'm the root of all evil, but you can call me 'Cookie'"
"I'm the root of all that's evil. Yeh, but you can call me 'Cookie'".
-Bloodhound Gang, Fire Water Burn
I'm just sayin'... I don't mind reading your sig and getting a song stuck in my head, but it's really annoying to have a song with missing words stuck in my head. You screw the rhythm all up if you leave words out. Ya know?
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How did parent get modded up?
Google: SBC = fewer keystrokes than asking here.
Wikipedia: SBC = fewer keystrokes than asking here.
RTFA = fewer yet (one click).
Any of which would yield a more complete and reliable description/history of SBC.
Any of which wouldn't require waiting for a reply like you have to here.
Any of which wouldn't require someone else spoon-feeding you info that's readily available already.
Sheesh!
Sorry to be so harsh. I'm just sayin'... I'd write the answer, but SOMEONE ALREADY HAS. Why read my answer? Read the ones that are already written. If, on the other hand, parent was supposed to be funny... it wasn't. Sorry.
While games have often regarded more as promotion for movies than as products in themselves, it is becoming clear that a successful game can be a major source of profit. A positive aspect of this is that game releases are no longer so tightly coupled to major movie releases. The rush to release a game in synchrony with the movie often results in mediocre titles.
I can back that up. I have the perfect example, albeit in the opposite temporal direction (in relation to the movie release date) than what might be expected: Lord of the Rings Pinball by STERN.
I played the hell out of this game _long before_ Return of the King hit theatres and the pinball game features audio (sound fx and voices) from all three movies. The twists? It's a pinball game. What do you mean 'Off topic'? Don't split hairs with me, punk! It's a twist, damnit. The other twist, it's based on a book (trilogy, whatever, what did I say about spliting hairs?) not a movie... originally... but it has audio taken from the movie... but the movie is based on... nevermind. Still need another twist? It's LOTR, dude, STFU.
BTW, coming from a pinball aficionado (read 'seasoned pinball ninja'), this is by far THE BEST PINBALL GAME EVAR! If you've played it and disagree, well then you're just jealous because you can't touch my high score!
Um... you just replied to my post that listed 5 reasons and then offered one reason yourself... which was the first of the 5 I offered. I'm just sayin': -1 redundant. Oh, and your 80 f-ing dollars comment is almost verbatum from the TITLES of previous posts: -2 redundant. Sorry, it's just... redundant.
I'd ask for six bullets. Why would you want to risk getting the empty chamber?
Okay, good idea, but I say 3 should do it. You can position the cylinder such that you think the hammer will strike the round in the center (the middle one). If you're off by more than one chamber then you either;
1. don't know how a revolver works and thus shouldn't be handling one.
or
2. weren't really trying, in which case you shouldn't bother going and being all dramatic and stuff. You could accidentally hurt yourself or someone else.
My $00.02, thanks for playing.
ah, so this is slash-dot for INFORMATIVE...are you one of the relatives? i do not feel bad at all about my bad karma now! thanx and keep up the good work...kinda, i mean, maybe, whatever....b
I'm not sure what you mean. slash-dot for INFORMATIVE? Huh? Yes, informative is always good when your audience is a bunch of nerds/geeks. This is 'news for nerds' so yeh, I guess it's 'for INFORMATIVE' whatever that means.
One of whose relatives? I'm the only nerd/geek in my family, so if you're asking if I'm related to CmdrTaco (or however he abriviates it), no. I'm not related to him or anyone else who has anything to do with this site. I'm not even related to anyone else who's ever been here that I know of. I do think Taco is really cool though and I love his site. You must like it too. I mean, you're here, right?
About your bad karma: Umm, yeh, you shouldn't feel bad. I mean, it's just a number, right? If it does bother you then try saying something informative. M-kay? No, pouting because I got modded up doesn't count, especially since that's the highest I've ever been modded.
Feel better now? Great!
Top 5 reasons not to buy one:
1. It's much cooler and geekier to make your own like my buddy did.
2. If you make your own you won't have that white label reading 'Das Keyboard' ruining your otherwise all black beauty.
3. These are not at all new. They've been around for a long time, so the trendy factor has already worn off.
4. Real geeks have all black keyboards because the white characters have all worn off from excesive use.
5. I don't even have a keyboard you insensitive clod.
...how is that there were an impact at all? Wouldn't the probe just sunk into the comet?
I'm guessing that what you're really asking is why any debris was thrown from the surface of the comet instead of the impactor just uneventfully sinking into the surface. Think of it like this: If you take a bowl and fill it with talc powder or flour (a very loosely bound together substance) and shoot a projectile into it with a slingshot, would it just sink in without producing any debris (a small puff of powder or flour)? Add to this the fact that there's far less gravity holding the comet together than there is holding the powder down/together (in the bowl). Does that visualization help?
It's an easy experiment. Try it. I might suggest a coffe can instead of a bowl though so that 1. you don't break the bowl and 2. you minimize the risk of the projectile flying back up and hitting you or someone/something else. Also use plenty of powder or flour as to slow the projectile enough that it can't hit the bottom and bounce back up and of course you want to wear safety glasses. Alternatively you could just view the images sent back from the mission (included in TFA) and trust that it's not all just a hoax.
Wow, can I mod this down -1 toll?
From one of my originals: ... ...
now i ain't all about being liked by the masses.
don't give a fuck if i got pimples and glasses.
i get straight As and skip all of my classes.
got an IQ that's as big as your ass is.
I don't like the idea of the movement being organized into a union of sorts. I don't think it will happen personally. The Linux/FOSS community seems to like its very loosely organized nature. That's how the movement began. That's how the software is (usually) written. That's fundamental to the commonly held ideology of the members of the community and I think that's a major point missed completely by the author. Nonetheless it's an interesting little piece.
Another point I'd add is that the author states that power without leadership is a dangerous thing. I don't think it's necessarily so. I think that power without leadership is a dangerous thing when not sufficiently distributed. When it is sufficiently distributed, it's power held by the people. It's democracy in it's purest form. Anyone is free to join the movement and thus have an equal say in how that power is utilized.
An effort that requires a large degree of collaboration on the parts of many (i.e. the Groklaw case mentioned in the article) can only be successful when a large number of people feel very adamantly about a given cause. This is the power of a wide-spread mutually held strong belief, not the power of a charismatic, affluent, or otherwise powerful leader.
Further, the effort (much like FOSS development is) was the result of a goal and/or opinion shared by members of a community that spans the world, not a pocket community the members of which are uniformly influenced by any single political or religious entity or culture.
I for one would like to see it stay that way.
I stand corrected. Lakipea does in fact throw sharpeas like I said, but this picture was actually a Lakitu like you said. Actually though, Lakitu's throw Spiny Eggs, not Spineys. Spiny Eggs turn into Spinys when they hit the ground, but they're just eggs when Lakitu throws them. Lakipea on the other hand throws Sharpeas, not Sharpea Eggs. There are no Sharpea Eggs AFAIK. Anyway, you were correct that the pic in question is in fact a Lakitu, not a Lakipea.
That's funny, but...
There are no barrels in this pic. There are no
falling barrels in the game from which this
pic is taken. You're thinking of Donky Kong,
which was the first game Mario appeared in.
This scene is from the origional Super Mario
Bros. I'm a very long time fan/addict of SMB.
I don't remember any SMB game with falling
barrels anywhere in it.
The falling object in this scene is a
Sharpea. Sharpea is a little fella that
hits the ground and walks back and
forth until you kill him, he kills you,
or he falls off a cliff. Sharpea is a small
creature with a spiked shell. Please don't
insult Sharpea by calling him a barrel.
The guy (some say turtle, but I'm not so sure)
that flies back and forth throwing Sharpeas
at you is called Lakipea. Damnit, I forgot my
informative tag and my nit-pick tag.
Still, your post was funny and I'd mod it as
such had I mod points.
about 60 minutes
By examining the heat shield, and the thermal damage, they can get a better feel for the physical and thermal stresses caused by a martian re entry.
'Re entry'? Um... can an object re-enter an atmosphere in which it's never been?
Damn, I forgot my close nitpicking tag. At least I didn't mention that 're-entry' is hypenated and 'Martian' is capitalized. Damn it, there I go again.
In all fairness I do agree with what the parent said. I just like funning with the ACs.
I think in this case it would be called a Beowulf school, no? Since Linux is really taking off in the ecucation sector, I think it is safe to say that the new schools of laser-on-chip-in-brain sharks will run Linux.
Since the sharks will need chips inserted into their brains anyway (for remote control purposes) these chips could now utilize laser-on-chip tech. This would allow the the lasers to come directly out of the sharks' eyes. With the laser removed from the exterior of the shark, there will be no increased water drag, thus no reduction in speed. The sharks could in fact be overclocked for an increase in speed! The laser-on-chip-in-brain configuration would also allow the remote control death sharks to blend in with non-armed sharks without detection. Current models are easily spotted by their externally mounted lasers. The chip-in-brain mounted laser would of course destroy the sharks eyes when used, but they won't need them anyway because they're remote controlled. The opening from the brain mounted chips through the eyes could be made by... you guessed it, laser surgery performed from within the shark's own head. This greatly reduces the risk of infection from surgery. We're still awaiting approval from... never mind. PETA has contacted our office and... never mind. I for one welcome our... damn it! I promised I wouldn't say that.
I don't think any of those 'traditions' were started intentionally. At least I hope not. That would... well, take all the fun out of repeating them, right? Don't think 'tradition'. Just think 'witty'. If it really is all that witty, then maybe we'll make it a tradition. But then I never have repeated one, so what do I know?
'this just isn't the place to discuss it'
The why the hell are you discussing it? Don't like it? Then don't read it and don't reply to it, but don't be so critical of those who choose to post, read and discuss things that YOU're not interested in. There's no rule that I know of that states that geeks must only be interested in tech related subjects, or that people should never ask geeks for their opinions on non-tech questions.
I feel better. Thanks,
Indiana University (my employer) and Purdue University (where I got my undergrad degree) have a joint institution in Indianapolis called Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis or IUPUI (where I work and take grad courses). I found it shocking that a joint venture between the two top rated doesn't even rank. None the less, as someone from IUPUI (or Indian in general)it makes me proud to see IU and PU listed as the top two, especially considering that Indiana is far from what I would consider a high-tech state, rather to the contrary actually. Indiana is still a farming state to some degree. Purdue is actually known for two things: engineering and agriculture. Go figure.
Yeah, I thought it was a nerd site too. Too bad the people investigating this aren't nerds or they would've figured it out by now. Consider this quote from the article: "We're working in the dark. We don't have a single lead so far," You dumn shit. If you're working in the dark you need a LED not a LEAD. Sheesh.
'I thought we didn't have to pretend about our sexuality in this day and age by saying "I don't have a date".'
We don't have to. I don't. I'm as gay as can be and I don't deny it. Neither should you or anyone else. Be yourself and encourage others to do the same.