Don't forget Construx! I built some kickass jets and robots and airplanes and tanks and TMNT weapons (used a belt to hold my pillow on my back so I'd have a "shell"), and blasters, and grappling hooks, and all kinds of cool shit!
In eleventh grade, I wrote my term paper on The Hobbit. Part of the assignment was to provide literary criticism of the work. I cited sources that stated how JRR Tolkien HATED allegory and reading deeper into works and therefore claimed I didn't need to provide any literary criticism of the Hobbit. My teacher bought it and I got an A. Tolkien rocked because he felt literature should be taken at face value.
Yes, but we commonly view the Rebellion, who toted red energy beam weapons (laser cannons on starfighters and snowspeeders), as being good, and the Empire, with green beamed weapons (TIE fighters,the Death Star's weapon), as being evil. Now confusion sets in when we see various redbeam weapons employed by the Empire (Stormtrooper blasters, for example) and the availability of ion cannons (bluish-whitish color) to both sides. Thus the only conclusion to be made is that there is no generalization that we can make with regard to whether a sides good/evil alignment can be determined by the color of its energy beam weapons.
A really reasonable upgrade for that machine is to grab yourself an adapter from Powerleap. I had an old Dell P3 450, bought just the adapter from Powerleap (Slot 1 to Socket 370) for like $60, and a 1.4 GHz Celeron (Tualatin core) from Newegg for like $50, and had a $110 upgrade that breathed new life into that old machine. I did all this about a year ago, so prices might be a bit cheaper now. You can get the adapters from Powerleap with procs already installed, but you save some $$$ doing it yourself. Also, a 7200rpm harddrive will really speed things up for you. Oh, don't forget to flash your BIOS to recognize the Celeron.
I'd have to disagree. I had an XP 2000 OC'd from 1667 to 1770 on the stock heatsink, and it ran about 50 degrees C. My buddy then gave me the stock heatsink from his 2500 Barton, and now I'm running at about 44C under load, and I'm still at 10 X 177. The stock Barton heatsink rules, I've overclocked those 2500's to 3200 speeds with the stock heatsink, and haven't seen a temp over 52C.
Here in Canada I've seen kph quite a few times, and it most certainly is a correct usage, albeit it is not as common as km/h. I think a lot of car speedometers use kph.
I have a friend attending college in Toronto who would assert that the "km/h" label is actually an abbreviation for "Kegs of Molson consumed in an Hour" at parties.
Shit, I WISH I lived underneath a military air approach. Growing up in RURAL (and I mean RURAL) Western New York State, we used to play baseball in the backyard, but our games would stop when a pair of A10 Warthogs or 2 F15's would essentially buzz our 'ballpark'. No lie, more than half the time they would be banking so low, we could see the pilot's name printed on the side of the fuselage. There's something fucking beautiful about all that raw power... The low rumble that rattles your heart inside your ribcage. Now I live in New Castle, Delaware, and it's a treat to even see the 6 C130 Hercules go up from the Air National Guard at the airport up the road. And, I've seen it twice, it must be privately owned, a MiG (I think it's a MiG 21, but I'm not too good with my Russian aircraft). I Love going to Airshows. Seeing modern military stuff is almost heartstopping, and seeing vintage WW2 stuff like B17's in formation being 'escorted' by a few P51's ALWAYS gives me goosebumps. Anyone aware of any good airshows within a reasonable drive from northern DE?
Here's a tip, I don't know if the Loew's nazis will catch on, but it's worth a shot - Next time you go to the theatre, but the bigass jumbo mofo tub of popcorn, the one that comes with free refills. Enjoy the movie and the popcorn, but don't throw out the tub! Bring it back with you next time, go to the snack counter and get your free refill. I don't think the pimply-faced squeaky-voiced kid is going to realize that the second (and third, and fourth, etc) time you go to the movies and get a free refill that you hadn't already bought the tub that day. So after the 3rd refill, you've FINALLY gotten $8 worth of popcorn. I think the same goes for soft drinks too, especially when the "free refill" size comes in a plastic cup. (Obviously, if either container has a promotion on it for a movie that's no longer in the theatres, this probably won't work)
My roomie at school had a triple monitor set up. Every once in a while when he wasn't around, I would go into Windows Display Properties and rearrange the virtual positioning of the three monitors in relation to each other. He'd come back and try to move the mouse from the leftmost monitor over to the rightmost, but couldn't, because Windows thought the middle monitor was to the LEFT of the left monitor, and the rightmost monitor was below the middle one. Since I had 3 monitors to play with (imagine the possibilities with 4 or more!), I was able to derive several week's worth of entertainment out of the same prank, simply by changing the configurations. My roomie spent more time trying to figure out his monitor positions than writing code/papers/etc for class!
1. Wait 100 years for all Britney, Christina, NSuck and BSB song copyrights to expire.
2. Remake their songs and copyright your version.
3. ???
4. Profit!
'This is a victory for consumer choice -- it ultimately protects consumers' right to control what they see on their computer screens.'
What a retard. If I go to the U-Haul site, it's because I WANT to be there. I could go to Ryder as well, if I chose to do business with them. In fact, I'd check both websites, make my decision, and then do business with one of them. Having a popup assault me with another choice is stupid. It'd be like going to the Subaru dealer for a WRX, but a Honda salesperson from accross the street accosts you in the Subaru lot, trying to shove an Accord down your throat. Stuff like that turns me off.
"I have the suspicion that those who object to this would think it would be the coolest thing if RedHat decided to help a school become a pure Linux organization, with a Zarus PDA for every child."
Actually, Newark High School in Newark, DE has just unveiled a new schoolwide network (built by volunteer Dads and Moms, totally funded by fundraising that people in the school community had done) featuring boxes with AMD procs all running Red Hat, Open Office, and a myriad of other programs included in the K-12 Linux Terminal Server Project. Basically, the only cost was hardware, otherwise, the volunteers built all the boxes, installed the software, and configured the network. What a great step away from Microsoft, eh?
At about 5:00, I called Apple, to get their opinion on this whole thing. They had no clue what's going on. What I did get from them was a number direct into their corporate headquarters (I had asked for PR or the legal dept.) This means we've got a prime opportunity to voice our opinions to Apple and hopefully sway them in a direction that will be favorable to all us/.ers.... Call them at 1(408) 996 1010 and simply wait for a rep or leave a message. Let's all urge Apple to support and embrace the resale of digital music. This could be a huge victory and give us ammuniton against the RIAA. Call Apple, tell them that they'd better not screw this up. Do the right thing, Apple.
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Don't forget Construx! I built some kickass jets and robots and airplanes and tanks and TMNT weapons (used a belt to hold my pillow on my back so I'd have a "shell"), and blasters, and grappling hooks, and all kinds of cool shit!
In eleventh grade, I wrote my term paper on The Hobbit. Part of the assignment was to provide literary criticism of the work. I cited sources that stated how JRR Tolkien HATED allegory and reading deeper into works and therefore claimed I didn't need to provide any literary criticism of the Hobbit. My teacher bought it and I got an A. Tolkien rocked because he felt literature should be taken at face value.
Yes, but we commonly view the Rebellion, who toted red energy beam weapons (laser cannons on starfighters and snowspeeders), as being good, and the Empire, with green beamed weapons (TIE fighters,the Death Star's weapon), as being evil. Now confusion sets in when we see various redbeam weapons employed by the Empire (Stormtrooper blasters, for example) and the availability of ion cannons (bluish-whitish color) to both sides. Thus the only conclusion to be made is that there is no generalization that we can make with regard to whether a sides good/evil alignment can be determined by the color of its energy beam weapons.
I get paid to Slashdot all day! (Don't tell my PHB)
A really reasonable upgrade for that machine is to grab yourself an adapter from Powerleap. I had an old Dell P3 450, bought just the adapter from Powerleap (Slot 1 to Socket 370) for like $60, and a 1.4 GHz Celeron (Tualatin core) from Newegg for like $50, and had a $110 upgrade that breathed new life into that old machine. I did all this about a year ago, so prices might be a bit cheaper now. You can get the adapters from Powerleap with procs already installed, but you save some $$$ doing it yourself. Also, a 7200rpm harddrive will really speed things up for you. Oh, don't forget to flash your BIOS to recognize the Celeron.
AMD chips run super hot.
I'd have to disagree. I had an XP 2000 OC'd from 1667 to 1770 on the stock heatsink, and it ran about 50 degrees C. My buddy then gave me the stock heatsink from his 2500 Barton, and now I'm running at about 44C under load, and I'm still at 10 X 177. The stock Barton heatsink rules, I've overclocked those 2500's to 3200 speeds with the stock heatsink, and haven't seen a temp over 52C.
Here's the gun I want to shoot you with, will you load it for me?
Here in Canada I've seen kph quite a few times, and it most certainly is a correct usage, albeit it is not as common as km/h. I think a lot of car speedometers use kph.
I have a friend attending college in Toronto who would assert that the "km/h" label is actually an abbreviation for "Kegs of Molson consumed in an Hour" at parties.
Bring back the abacus, and the bartering system...
Did anyone else read that as "bartending"?
You know, the system by which you and I square up our financial differences at the bar, I give the bartender my money, you get beer, we're even?
punished with the full extend...
Isn't that what happened to Michael Jackson's kiddie friends?
Shit, I WISH I lived underneath a military air approach. Growing up in RURAL (and I mean RURAL) Western New York State, we used to play baseball in the backyard, but our games would stop when a pair of A10 Warthogs or 2 F15's would essentially buzz our 'ballpark'. No lie, more than half the time they would be banking so low, we could see the pilot's name printed on the side of the fuselage. There's something fucking beautiful about all that raw power... The low rumble that rattles your heart inside your ribcage. Now I live in New Castle, Delaware, and it's a treat to even see the 6 C130 Hercules go up from the Air National Guard at the airport up the road. And, I've seen it twice, it must be privately owned, a MiG (I think it's a MiG 21, but I'm not too good with my Russian aircraft). I Love going to Airshows. Seeing modern military stuff is almost heartstopping, and seeing vintage WW2 stuff like B17's in formation being 'escorted' by a few P51's ALWAYS gives me goosebumps. Anyone aware of any good airshows within a reasonable drive from northern DE?
Can you imagine a Beowulf swarm of these? (/ducks)
clicky clicky!
A high powered radiation dampener / jamming device ..to save my body from being dowsed in EM radiation
Dude, it's called a tinfoil hat.
What's that icon labelled "3 1/2 in. Floppy" ??? Could it be some sort of new storage media that we'll see in 2006???
Here's a tip, I don't know if the Loew's nazis will catch on, but it's worth a shot - Next time you go to the theatre, but the bigass jumbo mofo tub of popcorn, the one that comes with free refills. Enjoy the movie and the popcorn, but don't throw out the tub! Bring it back with you next time, go to the snack counter and get your free refill. I don't think the pimply-faced squeaky-voiced kid is going to realize that the second (and third, and fourth, etc) time you go to the movies and get a free refill that you hadn't already bought the tub that day. So after the 3rd refill, you've FINALLY gotten $8 worth of popcorn. I think the same goes for soft drinks too, especially when the "free refill" size comes in a plastic cup. (Obviously, if either container has a promotion on it for a movie that's no longer in the theatres, this probably won't work)
My roomie at school had a triple monitor set up. Every once in a while when he wasn't around, I would go into Windows Display Properties and rearrange the virtual positioning of the three monitors in relation to each other. He'd come back and try to move the mouse from the leftmost monitor over to the rightmost, but couldn't, because Windows thought the middle monitor was to the LEFT of the left monitor, and the rightmost monitor was below the middle one. Since I had 3 monitors to play with (imagine the possibilities with 4 or more!), I was able to derive several week's worth of entertainment out of the same prank, simply by changing the configurations. My roomie spent more time trying to figure out his monitor positions than writing code/papers/etc for class!
1. Wait 100 years for all Britney, Christina, NSuck and BSB song copyrights to expire. 2. Remake their songs and copyright your version. 3. ??? 4. Profit!
'This is a victory for consumer choice -- it ultimately protects consumers' right to control what they see on their computer screens.'
What a retard. If I go to the U-Haul site, it's because I WANT to be there. I could go to Ryder as well, if I chose to do business with them. In fact, I'd check both websites, make my decision, and then do business with one of them. Having a popup assault me with another choice is stupid. It'd be like going to the Subaru dealer for a WRX, but a Honda salesperson from accross the street accosts you in the Subaru lot, trying to shove an Accord down your throat. Stuff like that turns me off.
"I have the suspicion that those who object to this would think it would be the coolest thing if RedHat decided to help a school become a pure Linux organization, with a Zarus PDA for every child."
Actually, Newark High School in Newark, DE has just unveiled a new schoolwide network (built by volunteer Dads and Moms, totally funded by fundraising that people in the school community had done) featuring boxes with AMD procs all running Red Hat, Open Office, and a myriad of other programs included in the K-12 Linux Terminal Server Project. Basically, the only cost was hardware, otherwise, the volunteers built all the boxes, installed the software, and configured the network. What a great step away from Microsoft, eh?
...after all, we have the VW-Bug scale for meteorites!
At about 5:00, I called Apple, to get their opinion on this whole thing. They had no clue what's going on. What I did get from them was a number direct into their corporate headquarters (I had asked for PR or the legal dept.) This means we've got a prime opportunity to voice our opinions to Apple and hopefully sway them in a direction that will be favorable to all us /.ers.... Call them at 1(408) 996 1010 and simply wait for a rep or leave a message. Let's all urge Apple to support and embrace the resale of digital music. This could be a huge victory and give us ammuniton against the RIAA. Call Apple, tell them that they'd better not screw this up. Do the right thing, Apple.