Re:built one in high school (aroound 1991)...
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DIY Railgun Projects
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I've been looking into this, wondering if it could be used as an alternate way to move things into space. It seems that the best way to for a railgun to be used in that capacity would be as the inital boost, then use rocket engines to handle the rest of the flight. Otherwise, you're dealing with a VERY long railgun with EXTREME accelleration speeds.
Wouldn't that be a lot like the "catapults" from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (and probably described in other places as well)? --
Basically, it's an onomatopoeization of a beagle howling (try it, with a lazy pause on the 'r'). I grew up out in the country, and once a couple of friends were dropping me off from a night of drinking around 2 in the morning. Our neighbors, much like the Bumpuses of A Christmas Story, have approximately 782 hound dogs, and one of them started barking/baying/howling at us (we were doing something dumb which made noise, but I forget what exactly), as only a beagle can do. Anyway, my comment was "that dog is just like 'what the fuck?'", and it kind of became an inside joke amongst us that a certain type of howl/bark was beagle for 'what the fuck?'.
A few months later, I was signing up for hotmail, or yahoo, or something, and every nickname I could think of was taken, so I say to myself "self, what the fuck?" and then for giggles type in barooo. It wasn't taken, and it kind of stuck. I use it everywhere I can (but there are a few other barooo's out there). --
Glad I didn't take that job with AC. Accenture is a lame name. But their CEO is right up there with Ransome Love for "coolest name in an exec", Joe W. Forehand. --
If you want, then disqualify the 25 Florida electoral votes - the result's the same: neither candidate has the 270 electoral votes needed, so the decision is made by the (R-controlled) Senate.
Bzzzzt!
In the event that no candidate has a majority, the HOUSE decides the winner. THey choose among the top 3 vote-getters (bush, gore, and nader), and each state casts one vote. If a state is split between decmocratic and republican representatitives, then they would be unable to cast a vote. The candidate with a majority of state votes in the house is the winner.
In the meantime, the senate chooses the VP, in straight voting. Again, a majority is required.
If the house is unable to choose a majority winner, then the VP selected by the senate is the acting president.
The newly elected senate and house would be the one to vote, but I'm not sure who would be president pro tempore of the senate. Would it be gore (current) or lieberman or bush? Or would there not be one? --
Here's my question. Pi is infinite, right? 2 is contained in pi. So is 2347134 if you look hard enough. And so is 1271828777271891727176172. But is any number contained in Pi if you mine deep enough? Is e contained in pi? --
Er, exactly how does NT/2000 and ActiveDirectory go away if MS loses its anti-trust appeals? He seems to think that the trial is about forcing Microsoft into bankruptcy.
I have to agree. We have them here where I'm at now and it's great. My two favorite things are 1.) the way it leans forward if you want to hunch. It's almost more comfy than leaning back. b.) The meshy stuff. It breathes great, and keeps you from getting a sweaty sack if you're sitting in it for 16 hours. Plus if you crank the armrests all the way up and angle them in, it's perfect for typing. And looks like something that could get you chicks, in that idealized geek world where things like this get you chicks. --
Take, for example, resolution and refresh rate. You do realize, don't you, that 90% of home users without at least an intermediate computer knowledge (or a sysadmin) are sitting there running there 19" moniter at 640x480 @60hz.
That's one of my pet peeves. There's some jackass here at work (I don't mean that in a defamatory sense:) that has a 21" monitor running at maybe 800x600. To use outlook and word and project.
To paraphrase Patterson & Hennessy, No single number can ever encapsulate the speed of a system. Not MIPS, not MFLOPS, not specints. Any single test or single number can be artificially inflated, and this inflation probably won't carry over into general performance.
cybercandy.co.uk doesn't have pocky!!! It even has a japanese section, so where's the farking pocky? It doesn't have jelly babies either, but I guess since it's a brit site the assumption is you can just walk over to the chemist's or some such and buy those, so that's forgivable.
No mexican salty plum balls either. Pretty poor selection if you ask me!!!
And the rest of the world does a lot of other stuff different from America, as well. Sometimes they're right, but a lot of the time they're downright bass-ackwards, in my American view.
The article was making a statement about the way things should be, not about what is, and is backed up (seemingly) by some numbers, research and thought.
Even if you have the source, that isn't a 100% guarantee that there aren't any back doors. Surely everyone remembers the famous Ken Thompson article about the back door in login with support in the C compiler, which is even referenced in the Jargon File.
This is pretty much unverified, no-guarantee, observations of one person, but I use hotmail, and I've been getting a lot more errors (I use ie5 at work, and it's error basically just says "an error occurred"), but lately about 1 or 2 out of every 10 clicks gives me an error.
It also seems like it doesn't balance right. I can tell a difference in pages. Sometimes I get graphical buttons, other times text (blue with blue links is hard to read guys. Duh.).
FUCK! i figured if one state, out of all our glorious fifty, could hold on their illusions about life on this planet...it was going to be Kansas!
damn this rationality! That state is going to burn in hell with all their new fangled scientific idears! Next they'll probably remove all board members who belong to the flat earth society! (yeah right...like the earth is ROUND?!?!) that's when the whores and the crack move in!
Hey! I'm in kansas right now (kansas city, or at least overland park), and I want my whores and crack!!!
(BTW, Im in favor of radio astronomy, however, dow we really think the benefits of radio astronomy outweight the benefits of such a large data channel?)
I'm not proposing this as truth, merely advancing the idea... But this could lend some credence to all of the "man,/. sold out to the MAN" mumblings.
Perhaps ANDN saw k5 as a competitor, and in order to maximize shareholder value, told CT & company "put some links to k5 on slashdot. let's see if we can attract the script kiddies & hot grits people over their way".
At any rate, I do believe that the recent spate of slashdot stories mentioning k5 led to their downfall. Whether or not that was part of the man's plans, I don't know.
What the world really needs is a B2C eLawsuit service. This program could automatically create an eLawsuit suing the person hosting the file, possibly naming some other defendants (napster, whoever).
Actually I should probably shut up becuase this might be a profitable idea. *shudder*.
Slashdot Mirror
he probably uses vigor.
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I've been looking into this, wondering if it could be used as an alternate way to move things into space. It seems that the best way to for a railgun to be used in that capacity would be as the inital boost, then use rocket engines to handle the rest of the flight. Otherwise, you're dealing with a VERY long railgun with EXTREME accelleration speeds.
Wouldn't that be a lot like the "catapults" from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (and probably described in other places as well)?
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strangely enough, after hitting "post", the ad that came up was this one:
WTF.
(it's a thinkgeek link to t-shirts and coffee cups emblazoned with 'WTF?'). Ain't life funny?
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there is a story behind this one.
Basically, it's an onomatopoeization of a beagle howling (try it, with a lazy pause on the 'r'). I grew up out in the country, and once a couple of friends were dropping me off from a night of drinking around 2 in the morning. Our neighbors, much like the Bumpuses of A Christmas Story, have approximately 782 hound dogs, and one of them started barking/baying/howling at us (we were doing something dumb which made noise, but I forget what exactly), as only a beagle can do. Anyway, my comment was "that dog is just like 'what the fuck?'", and it kind of became an inside joke amongst us that a certain type of howl/bark was beagle for 'what the fuck?'.
A few months later, I was signing up for hotmail, or yahoo, or something, and every nickname I could think of was taken, so I say to myself "self, what the fuck?" and then for giggles type in barooo. It wasn't taken, and it kind of stuck. I use it everywhere I can (but there are a few other barooo's out there).
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No, but the bass-line to that song (I play) has been stuck in my head since reading the headline :)
"spinning, whirling, still descending, like a spiral sea unending!!!!"
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Glad I didn't take that job with AC. Accenture is a lame name. But their CEO is right up there with Ransome Love for "coolest name in an exec", Joe W. Forehand.
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Go after him. Dig his eye out. Tunnel in through his eye.
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And even worse, Amazon could now target prices based on the economy of your neighborhood.
They already have your ZIP. Wouldn't that work just as well?
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If you want, then disqualify the 25 Florida electoral votes - the result's the same: neither candidate has the 270 electoral votes needed, so the decision is made by the (R-controlled) Senate.
Bzzzzt!
In the event that no candidate has a majority, the HOUSE decides the winner. THey choose among the top 3 vote-getters (bush, gore, and nader), and each state casts one vote. If a state is split between decmocratic and republican representatitives, then they would be unable to cast a vote. The candidate with a majority of state votes in the house is the winner.
In the meantime, the senate chooses the VP, in straight voting. Again, a majority is required.
If the house is unable to choose a majority winner, then the VP selected by the senate is the acting president.
The newly elected senate and house would be the one to vote, but I'm not sure who would be president pro tempore of the senate. Would it be gore (current) or lieberman or bush? Or would there not be one?
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Here's my question. Pi is infinite, right? 2 is contained in pi. So is 2347134 if you look hard enough. And so is 1271828777271891727176172. But is any number contained in Pi if you mine deep enough? Is e contained in pi?
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Er, exactly how does NT/2000 and ActiveDirectory go away if MS loses its anti-trust appeals? He seems to think that the trial is about forcing Microsoft into bankruptcy.
You mean it's not???
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I have to agree. We have them here where I'm at now and it's great. My two favorite things are 1.) the way it leans forward if you want to hunch. It's almost more comfy than leaning back. b.) The meshy stuff. It breathes great, and keeps you from getting a sweaty sack if you're sitting in it for 16 hours. Plus if you crank the armrests all the way up and angle them in, it's perfect for typing. And looks like something that could get you chicks, in that idealized geek world where things like this get you chicks.
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Take, for example, resolution and refresh rate. You do realize, don't you, that 90% of home users without at least an intermediate computer knowledge (or a sysadmin) are sitting there running there 19" moniter at 640x480 @60hz.
That's one of my pet peeves. There's some jackass here at work (I don't mean that in a defamatory sense :) that has a 21" monitor running at maybe 800x600. To use outlook and word and project.
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To paraphrase Patterson & Hennessy, No single number can ever encapsulate the speed of a system. Not MIPS, not MFLOPS, not specints. Any single test or single number can be artificially inflated, and this inflation probably won't carry over into general performance.
I wasn't implying that you would eat the Mexican Salty Plum Balls. Just that an international candy supersource should have them.
I can't think of anything fouler, unless maybe it would be regurgitated circus peanuts with tequila.
cybercandy.co.uk doesn't have pocky!!! It even has a japanese section, so where's the farking pocky? It doesn't have jelly babies either, but I guess since it's a brit site the assumption is you can just walk over to the chemist's or some such and buy those, so that's forgivable.
No mexican salty plum balls either. Pretty poor selection if you ask me!!!
And the rest of the world does a lot of other stuff different from America, as well. Sometimes they're right, but a lot of the time they're downright bass-ackwards, in my American view.
The article was making a statement about the way things should be, not about what is, and is backed up (seemingly) by some numbers, research and thought.
Even if you have the source, that isn't a 100% guarantee that there aren't any back doors. Surely everyone remembers the famous Ken Thompson article about the back door in login with support in the C compiler, which is even referenced in the Jargon File.
Is it really necessary that my neighborly seat neighbor is hot synching his palm while spilling his bloody mary on my white jeans ?
Is it really necessary to wear white jeans?
Would playing the DVD on an international flight be violating region encoding?
This is pretty much unverified, no-guarantee, observations of one person, but I use hotmail, and I've been getting a lot more errors (I use ie5 at work, and it's error basically just says "an error occurred"), but lately about 1 or 2 out of every 10 clicks gives me an error.
It also seems like it doesn't balance right. I can tell a difference in pages. Sometimes I get graphical buttons, other times text (blue with blue links is hard to read guys. Duh.).
Anyway, my $.02, not worth much more than that.
FUCK! i figured if one state, out of all our glorious fifty, could hold on their illusions about life on this planet...it was going to be Kansas!
damn this rationality! That state is going to burn in hell with all their new fangled scientific idears! Next they'll probably remove all board members who belong to the flat earth society! (yeah right...like the earth is ROUND?!?!) that's when the whores and the crack move in!
Hey! I'm in kansas right now (kansas city, or at least overland park), and I want my whores and crack!!!
(BTW, Im in favor of radio astronomy, however, dow we really think the benefits of radio astronomy outweight the benefits of such a large data channel?)
Yes.
I'm not proposing this as truth, merely advancing the idea... But this could lend some credence to all of the "man, /. sold out to the MAN" mumblings.
Perhaps ANDN saw k5 as a competitor, and in order to maximize shareholder value, told CT & company "put some links to k5 on slashdot. let's see if we can attract the script kiddies & hot grits people over their way".
At any rate, I do believe that the recent spate of slashdot stories mentioning k5 led to their downfall. Whether or not that was part of the man's plans, I don't know.
Just my $.02 CAN.
What the world really needs is a B2C eLawsuit service. This program could automatically create an eLawsuit suing the person hosting the file, possibly naming some other defendants (napster, whoever).
Actually I should probably shut up becuase this might be a profitable idea. *shudder*.
I see that suesombody.com is already taken....