>if NASA tried to launch a nuclear fission power plant?
They did: the Apollo program used reactors for power. SNAP reactors. Basically a subcritical but warm fissionable near a thermocouple. I can recall the pictures of a astronaut putting the 2nd part of the fissionable into the LEM power plant. I wonder if those generators are still pumping out power.
ever cracked open a hard drive? the super magnets inside are real hany for use on RFID equipped keys. they disable them rather quickly. SHHH! don't tell anyone.
I have a couple of 2000s and a 130. Amazing how the rush to get the "New Thing" leaves behind such interesting and useful tools. Back a decade ago I could not afford a Newton, today, I use them more then the common PDAs Now that a TCP/IP stack, and various Net (Browser, News reader, telent, etc) tools have been developed, as well as expanded storage , the Newton has just grown in usefulness. The form factor? well, Chinos are perfect for pocketing a Newton!
THink of all the many poor starving lawyers who have spent their whole lives specializing in the file sharing extortion paradigm. This deal will put them out of work! Will they be compensated?
Lawyers care not one whit the veracity or validity of a claim. The only issue here is one of how long it can drag out to increase legal fees.
Resolving these extortive issues should take place in a system of justice, not require a millionaire being harassed and wishing to fight the good fight. Being dependent on this is more feudal then modern.
I am speaking of a later model. it had a cylinder with the proper message already encoded on a cylinder using the same tech as a music box; A lever sticking out which lifted keys. Rather then playing a musical note, the keys would do a long or short to the transmiter making the proper emergency message. No morse key was required. crank away and it transmits. And yes, it was still shaped like a "Gibson Girl":)
Howard the Duck "trapped in a world he never made". The concept was a parallel universe much like our own only inhabited by Ducks. Howard slips through a crack in space-time and here he is; a Cigar chomping foul mouthed normal sort of guy who is constantly running into Marvel universe super heros and villans but basically represents the common Everyman... "every duck?" Oh and has a babe (human) GF...
In World War II in the War in the Pacific, American planes were outfitted with a special emergency device. This was a hand crank generator coupled to a Morse Code transmiter on a spindle much like a music box. As you turned the crank it would power the trasnmiter and the spindle would key the correct di di di dah dah dah di di dit (SOS) and some other information so a search plane or ships with direction finding equipment could find you. The slang name for this box was a "Gibson Girl".
in print adverts, you associate the bright colors of the ad with the pleasure of the article. In online articles, where the page is bracketed into less then 200 words, then spread over 24 pages all resplendent with ads,one picture, and a host of shockwave crud flashing at you while the article, instead of smoothly flipping from page to page...slooooooowly loads that revolting ad on page 12... Your anger subtly builds as you watch Acme brand blink blink blink. You forget about it till... The next day at the store: "humm Acme... Brand X... where WAS it I heard something bad about Acme? I KNOW there was SOMETHING I dislike about them.." I'll buy brand X. -I am not sure this is the goal but advertisement DOES work. Web guys, please take this effect into account..
the Sticky Pad works. I have one, now granted I got it on a real mark down from a seller who had overstocked, so it was far cheaper then retail but. Put one of those suckers ont he dash and the iPod (and almost anythign else you put there) STAYS there! it works.
In a first coup for the Hong Kong police, the kids found 1000 copies of pirated Microsoft Offce and dutifully reported the discovery. The culprits in question turn out to be....the Hong Kong Police...
A excellent Science Fiction writer named David Drake wrote a series of stories about a future inteplanetary mercenary corp. -VERY good stuff, highly recomended, but as a throw-away plot device in the series he had the officers of "Hammer's Spammers" use a transmitter/receiver implanted in their mastoid for easy and discrete communication with home base. Like Robert Hienlien inventing the waterbed (and other tech), Engineering (eventually) imitates art..
"Great Artists Steal" Microsoft forgot its basics. They know what they must do, they have experience here already and a clear direction and focus: Just like the last time, steal the Apple interface, make a crude but easy to ship UI that kinda sorta looks almost like it, let the marketing dweebs blaze the trail, chuckle on stage at blue screens, issue a service pack every other Tuesday, and if all else fails, throw a chair.
I think what we REALLY need is a "uber-fast-forward button" so we can GET to the commercials! Given the quality of ABC (and most other) programming, the commercials are the only productions worth viewing
Frim Chaucer's A Cook's Tale (Canterbury Tales): 4365: A prentys whilom dwelled in oure citee, 4366: And of a craft of vitailliers was hee. 4367: Gaillard he was as goldfynch in the shawe, 4368: Broun as a berye, a propre short felawe, 4369: With lokkes blake, ykembd ful fetisly. 4370: Dauncen he koude so wel and jolily 4371: That he was cleped perkyn revelour. 4372: He was as ful of love and paramour 4373: As is the hyve ful of hony sweete: 4374: Wel was the wenche with hym myghte meete.
Methinks English could benifit seemly from a simple for the auge of spelling. But hey, its just a language...
GASP! a kid (and the local cops) recognize the difference between a icon as a stress relief on his computer from a delivered threat in the real world? and without a focus group? without a planning session? without a proper briefing on social, cultural, gender, life style, and species cohabitation issues that may be raised during proceedings? GET THAT KID ON MEDS NOW!
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>if NASA tried to launch a nuclear fission power plant?
They did: the Apollo program used reactors for power. SNAP reactors. Basically a subcritical but warm fissionable near a thermocouple.
I can recall the pictures of a astronaut putting the 2nd part of the fissionable into the LEM power plant. I wonder if those generators are still pumping out power.
ever cracked open a hard drive? the super magnets inside are real hany for use on RFID equipped keys. they disable them rather quickly. SHHH! don't tell anyone.
Not http://www.archive.org/details/OnGuard1956 S.A.G.E.?
You played with Blunt? http://www.40hz.org/Blunt/
get a PCMICACF converter and a CF Bluetooth card and you are good to go. Very very way cool.
I have a couple of 2000s and a 130. Amazing how the rush to get the "New Thing" leaves behind such interesting and useful tools. Back a decade ago I could not afford a Newton, today, I use them more then the common PDAs Now that a TCP/IP stack, and various Net (Browser, News reader, telent, etc) tools have been developed, as well as expanded storage , the Newton has just grown in usefulness. The form factor? well, Chinos are perfect for pocketing a Newton!
THink of all the many poor starving lawyers who have spent their whole lives specializing in the file sharing extortion paradigm. This deal will put them out of work! Will they be compensated?
Lawyers care not one whit the veracity or validity of a claim. The only issue here is one of how long it can drag out to increase legal fees.
Resolving these extortive issues should take place in a system of justice, not require a millionaire being harassed and wishing to fight the good fight. Being dependent on this is more feudal then modern.
I am speaking of a later model. it had a cylinder with the proper message already encoded on a cylinder using the same tech as a music box; A lever sticking out which lifted keys. Rather then playing a musical note, the keys would do a long or short to the transmiter making the proper emergency message. No morse key was required. crank away and it transmits. And yes, it was still shaped like a "Gibson Girl" :)
Howard the Duck "trapped in a world he never made". The concept was a parallel universe much like our own only inhabited by Ducks. Howard slips through a crack in space-time and here he is; a Cigar chomping foul mouthed normal sort of guy who is constantly running into Marvel universe super heros and villans but basically represents the common Everyman... "every duck?" Oh and has a babe (human) GF...
In World War II in the War in the Pacific, American planes were outfitted with a special emergency device. This was a hand crank generator coupled to a Morse Code transmiter on a spindle much like a music box. As you turned the crank it would power the trasnmiter and the spindle would key the correct di di di dah dah dah di di dit (SOS) and some other information so a search plane or ships with direction finding equipment could find you.
The slang name for this box was a "Gibson Girl".
Does anyone remember Howard the Duck? now THAT was reality fiction of the viceral visual kind...
Interesting article
in print adverts, you associate the bright colors of the ad with the pleasure of the article. In online articles, where the page is bracketed into less then 200 words, then spread over 24 pages all resplendent with ads,one picture, and a host of shockwave crud flashing at you while the article, instead of smoothly flipping from page to page...slooooooowly loads that revolting ad on page 12... Your anger subtly builds as you watch Acme brand blink blink blink. You forget about it till... The next day at the store: "humm Acme... Brand X... where WAS it I heard something bad about Acme? I KNOW there was SOMETHING I dislike about them.." I'll buy brand X. -I am not sure this is the goal but advertisement DOES work. Web guys, please take this effect into account..
Sananju that early? All becomes clear...
the Sticky Pad works. I have one, now granted I got it on a real mark down from a seller who had overstocked, so it was far cheaper then retail but. Put one of those suckers ont he dash and the iPod (and almost anythign else you put there) STAYS there! it works.
I think Balmer has the chair
In a first coup for the Hong Kong police, the kids found 1000 copies of pirated Microsoft Offce and dutifully reported the discovery. The culprits in question turn out to be....the Hong Kong Police...
the perfect opsys, for the perfect application: and an application that will ebready just intime: Duke Nukem Forever!
I do believe Dante mentioned these people. The were suposed to have a place reserved on the lowest ring.
A excellent Science Fiction writer named David Drake wrote a series of stories about a future inteplanetary mercenary corp. -VERY good stuff, highly recomended, but as a throw-away plot device in the series he had the officers of "Hammer's Spammers" use a transmitter/receiver implanted in their mastoid for easy and discrete communication with home base. Like Robert Hienlien inventing the waterbed (and other tech), Engineering (eventually) imitates art..
"Great Artists Steal"
Microsoft forgot its basics. They know what they must do, they have experience here already and a clear direction and focus: Just like the last time, steal the Apple interface, make a crude but easy to ship UI that kinda sorta looks almost like it, let the marketing dweebs blaze the trail, chuckle on stage at blue screens, issue a service pack every other Tuesday, and if all else fails, throw a chair.
the old L5 Society wanted to place a module they called a High Orbital Mini-Earth there... sort of a H.O.M.E. on LaGrannge.....
I think what we REALLY need is a "uber-fast-forward button" so we can GET to the commercials! Given the quality of ABC (and most other) programming, the commercials are the only productions worth viewing
Frim Chaucer's A Cook's Tale (Canterbury Tales):
4365: A prentys whilom dwelled in oure citee,
4366: And of a craft of vitailliers was hee.
4367: Gaillard he was as goldfynch in the shawe,
4368: Broun as a berye, a propre short felawe,
4369: With lokkes blake, ykembd ful fetisly.
4370: Dauncen he koude so wel and jolily
4371: That he was cleped perkyn revelour.
4372: He was as ful of love and paramour
4373: As is the hyve ful of hony sweete:
4374: Wel was the wenche with hym myghte meete.
Methinks English could benifit seemly from a simple for the auge of spelling.
But hey, its just a language...
Rememeber Kip Kinkle? check his scrips. You are absolutely right.
GASP! a kid (and the local cops) recognize the difference between a icon as a stress relief on his computer from a delivered threat in the real world? and without a focus group? without a planning session? without a proper briefing on social, cultural, gender, life style, and species cohabitation issues that may be raised during proceedings? GET THAT KID ON MEDS NOW!