I will be happy to pay the $100, in fact, I will read it again and pay you $200. However, I will need your assistance in handling some fees on my end in order for the transaction to work. For various reasons, I cannot make these payments directly. Please wire $100 to the specified account as soon as you get my $300 money order from Nigeria.
I would normally just ask one of my many rich uncles to pay it (they're all Generals), but they keep dying on me, and I'm just having the darndest time trying to retrieve the funds.
If that was the case, then Suzette would fail miserably. The bot rebuffed all my advances.
ProKras - so suzette, what are you wearing? [ Af:0 At:20 Sp:0] My usual style, jeans and a t-shirt. ProKras - anything else? [ Af:0 At:20 Sp:0] Sure, but it's your turn. ProKras - ok, I'm wearing a t-shirt and boxers. no pants because i'm about to go to bed [ Af:-1 At:20 Sp:0] Thanks for telling me that. ProKras - why don't you take your pants off too [ Af:-1 At:20 Sp:0] Pants is used to keep lower torso warm. ProKras - come on, take them off [ Af:-1 At:20 Sp:0] There's nothing wrong with a good sexual titillation. ProKras - yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to get at [ Af:-1 At:20 Sp:0] It is? ProKras - of course. now take off your pants for me [ Af:-3 At:20 Sp:0] That's enough of that. ProKras - awww, you're no fun [ Af:-3 At:20 Sp:0] That's enough on that. What are your hobbies? ProKras - All my hobbies are sexual now. I've ditched the others [ Af:-3 At:20 Sp:0] My hobbies are: sewing clothes, printing fabric, making ceramics, making jewelry - you might call them the wearable arts. ProKras - Wearable is good. especially when they come off [ Af:-3 At:20 Sp:0] I don't know. Whenever. ProKras - so, come on, take off your clothes for me [ Af:-7 At:20 Sp:-1] I'm beginning to take a dislike to you. But does that just apply to you?
Most of the extra cost of a "TV" over a similar-spec "monitor" is not the extra connectors, its the cost of the NTSC/ATSC tuner. There are lots of units out there that are marketed as home television sets, but don't have any tuner (and therefore cannot legally be called "Televisions" or "TVs"). Without a cable box (or satellite box or external ATSC tuner) no television watching is possible. A lot of these units are fairly inexpensive; you may be able to find some at prices less than similar-sized LCD computer monitors, but you might need adapters to connect it (VGA to component or DVI to HDMI).
As soon as others realize no TV-watching is possible on these sets they shouldn't complain about the old guy getting a "big-screen TV". If people are going to complain simply based on size (because their own monitors aren't 24-27 inches) then you're going to hear complaints no matter what.
I agree that a gradual approach is probably the best. I was lucky enough to be brought on board as IT manager (for a small accounting firm) just when the company was expanding and purchasing a lot of new hardware. From the beginning I advocated using as much FOSS as possible. Management, who had never heard of the concept, was excited that they could get legit, good quality software at no cost. There was a bit of grumbling in the beginning about some of the FOSS since there was a learning curve for some. Once people got used to it, though, it became a non-issue. For any non-open-source software that was free (as in beer) I made doubly sure that commercial use was permitted under the free license, otherwise it was gone. I was also fortunate in that the most critical software for the firm was already SaaS, and there was no need to change there.
As we upgraded the existing hardware, any questionable software on the old hardware has been removed and replaced with FOSS, or software that was definitely properly licensed. Now nearly everyone is now using OpenOffice.org, although we do have a couple of machines with legit Microsoft Office licenses (necessary, for example, when we have a spreadsheet that requires macros to work right. Also, the boss wanted to keep Outlook because of some issues with scheduling meetings with clients in Thunderbird+Lighting). In cases where no good FOSS alternative was available, we purchased (legit, unused) licenses from ebay or elsewhere, and documented this fully in case of any audits down the road. (If a license sounded like it MIGHT not be legit we stayed away. We looked for original disks, packaging and manuals before buying.)
The most important step, I believe, was to get management interested in the idea of FOSS early on as an alternative to more expensive options. I also gently warned them about the potential for software "not working right" if it was not properly licensed (because of lack of updates or activation issues). I never had to mention the BSA at all to convince management that adopting FOSS was a smart move.
why didn't anyone in the Star Trek universe ever come up with the idea of using warp drives as weapons in a systematic way? A runabout crashing into a borg cube at warp seven would do quite a bit more damage than a photon torpedo, I would imagine. I guess kinetic energy just isn't "futuristic" enough.
According to some of the best speculative physics out there, warp drive must operate by either manipulating space-time itself, or by creating an artificial wormhole or some other means of traveling in extra dimensions. Within your local frame of reference your velocity would be quite low, as would your kinetic energy. You could also move at EXACTLY the speed of light by reducing the relativistic mass of your vessel to zero. Still no kinetic energy weapon there.
Using warped space itself as a weapon is a possibility, but who is to say that phasers don't already do some of that. Phasers certainly can't work merely by firing a beam of photons at the target, like a laser. If they did work like lasers, you wouldn't be able to see the beam.
Sublight engines, on the other hand, might be a possibility as the basis of a kinetic energy weapon. IIRC impulse drive could move a starship somewhere around 1/2c.
Just read TFA and it looks like the project's goal is not to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, but to find out how to use sunlight as an energy source to synthesize molecules.
Over here, across the pond, we've got a team of Yanks already working on the other side of the carbon equation: Artificial leaves to capture CO2 from the air. And, in typical Yank fashion, its being done by private enterprise.
Your average slashdotter is not going to get a cheapy $550 computer. Your average Joe maybe, and then they will complain to us that their computer is so slow...
Your average slashdotter probably has enough old hardware lying around to build a file server that's good enough, or knows where to scrounge up the hardware for nil. The only thing to buy would be the hard drives. You can find a 500 GB EIDE hard drive for around $60. Put 4 of those in and you've got plenty of storage. Or if you want SATA, I've seen SATA cards for under $10.
You have to bypass the Heisenberg Compensaters to create an inertial sump, then reverse the polarity on the Warp Field Generators, then combine the streams(yes, this time you do!) and reroute the output to the deflector dish to emit a focused tachyon pulse that has to be synchronized and modulated with the inertia compensator's artificial gravity generator, pipe your Tor proxy through that and Lynx then flies at near light speeds down the 'tubes'!
*disclaimer:you can exceed ISP 'bandwidth' caps in milliseconds this way, so type FAST!*
Why don't you just focus the bandwidth using some dilithium crystals? You can order some at very good prices direct from Rura Penthe. They've got very little overhead, you see. Very cheap labor. But shipping costs can be a little much.
I thought that there was a big lawsuit a while back by adobe about the PDF standard.
There probably was. But when was the last time Microsoft lost a lawsuit, after appeals? And more importantly, when was the last time that losing a lawsuit actually made Microsoft change its business practices? Microsoft does what Microsoft wants, lawsuits be damned!
Yeah, yeah, we all know how arduous the trip to the West Coast was during the gold rush years. We lived through the whole thing ourselves! Many many times on those Apple II machines so many years ago...
There is literally a 7-Eleven on nearly every street corner there. If every one of their stores had an access point, nearly the entire city would easily have coverage.
I'm sure they already have some sort of network linking the stores. You can already pay your utility bills, parking tickets, etc. there (when you pay they scan a bar code printed on the bill and the transaction goes into the system). They also have copy and fax services, private parcel deliveries, and Slurpees. Its like a Quick-E-Mart and Kinko's rolled into one.
Here's a simple proof:
1/3 = 0.33333...
0.333... + 0.333... + 0.333... = 0.999...
1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 1
0.333... + 0.333... + 0.333... = 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3
0.99999... = 1
It can also be proven with limits and stuff, but this proof is easier.
Strange things happen when you start dealing with infinities.
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Wasn't '50 Shades Of Grey' originally some sort of shitty Twilight fanfic?
Yes it was. Meanwhile, the potter story was better written AND more entertaining!
True. Compared to most industrialized countries, Japan has buried far fewer of their utility cables, even in the largest cities.
https://japantoday.com/categor...
I will be happy to pay the $100, in fact, I will read it again and pay you $200. However, I will need your assistance in handling some fees on my end in order for the transaction to work. For various reasons, I cannot make these payments directly. Please wire $100 to the specified account as soon as you get my $300 money order from Nigeria.
I would normally just ask one of my many rich uncles to pay it (they're all Generals), but they keep dying on me, and I'm just having the darndest time trying to retrieve the funds.
If that was the case, then Suzette would fail miserably. The bot rebuffed all my advances.
ProKras - so suzette, what are you wearing?
[ Af:0 At:20 Sp:0] My usual style, jeans and a t-shirt.
ProKras - anything else?
[ Af:0 At:20 Sp:0] Sure, but it's your turn.
ProKras - ok, I'm wearing a t-shirt and boxers. no pants because i'm about to go to bed
[ Af:-1 At:20 Sp:0] Thanks for telling me that.
ProKras - why don't you take your pants off too
[ Af:-1 At:20 Sp:0] Pants is used to keep lower torso warm.
ProKras - come on, take them off
[ Af:-1 At:20 Sp:0] There's nothing wrong with a good sexual titillation.
ProKras - yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to get at
[ Af:-1 At:20 Sp:0] It is?
ProKras - of course. now take off your pants for me
[ Af:-3 At:20 Sp:0] That's enough of that.
ProKras - awww, you're no fun
[ Af:-3 At:20 Sp:0] That's enough on that. What are your hobbies?
ProKras - All my hobbies are sexual now. I've ditched the others
[ Af:-3 At:20 Sp:0] My hobbies are: sewing clothes, printing fabric, making ceramics, making jewelry - you might call them the wearable arts.
ProKras - Wearable is good. especially when they come off
[ Af:-3 At:20 Sp:0] I don't know. Whenever.
ProKras - so, come on, take off your clothes for me
[ Af:-7 At:20 Sp:-1] I'm beginning to take a dislike to you. But does that just apply to you?
Most of the extra cost of a "TV" over a similar-spec "monitor" is not the extra connectors, its the cost of the NTSC/ATSC tuner. There are lots of units out there that are marketed as home television sets, but don't have any tuner (and therefore cannot legally be called "Televisions" or "TVs"). Without a cable box (or satellite box or external ATSC tuner) no television watching is possible. A lot of these units are fairly inexpensive; you may be able to find some at prices less than similar-sized LCD computer monitors, but you might need adapters to connect it (VGA to component or DVI to HDMI).
As soon as others realize no TV-watching is possible on these sets they shouldn't complain about the old guy getting a "big-screen TV". If people are going to complain simply based on size (because their own monitors aren't 24-27 inches) then you're going to hear complaints no matter what.
I agree that a gradual approach is probably the best. I was lucky enough to be brought on board as IT manager (for a small accounting firm) just when the company was expanding and purchasing a lot of new hardware. From the beginning I advocated using as much FOSS as possible. Management, who had never heard of the concept, was excited that they could get legit, good quality software at no cost. There was a bit of grumbling in the beginning about some of the FOSS since there was a learning curve for some. Once people got used to it, though, it became a non-issue. For any non-open-source software that was free (as in beer) I made doubly sure that commercial use was permitted under the free license, otherwise it was gone. I was also fortunate in that the most critical software for the firm was already SaaS, and there was no need to change there.
As we upgraded the existing hardware, any questionable software on the old hardware has been removed and replaced with FOSS, or software that was definitely properly licensed. Now nearly everyone is now using OpenOffice.org, although we do have a couple of machines with legit Microsoft Office licenses (necessary, for example, when we have a spreadsheet that requires macros to work right. Also, the boss wanted to keep Outlook because of some issues with scheduling meetings with clients in Thunderbird+Lighting). In cases where no good FOSS alternative was available, we purchased (legit, unused) licenses from ebay or elsewhere, and documented this fully in case of any audits down the road. (If a license sounded like it MIGHT not be legit we stayed away. We looked for original disks, packaging and manuals before buying.)
The most important step, I believe, was to get management interested in the idea of FOSS early on as an alternative to more expensive options. I also gently warned them about the potential for software "not working right" if it was not properly licensed (because of lack of updates or activation issues). I never had to mention the BSA at all to convince management that adopting FOSS was a smart move.
why didn't anyone in the Star Trek universe ever come up with the idea of using warp drives as weapons in a systematic way? A runabout crashing into a borg cube at warp seven would do quite a bit more damage than a photon torpedo, I would imagine. I guess kinetic energy just isn't "futuristic" enough.
According to some of the best speculative physics out there, warp drive must operate by either manipulating space-time itself, or by creating an artificial wormhole or some other means of traveling in extra dimensions. Within your local frame of reference your velocity would be quite low, as would your kinetic energy. You could also move at EXACTLY the speed of light by reducing the relativistic mass of your vessel to zero. Still no kinetic energy weapon there.
Using warped space itself as a weapon is a possibility, but who is to say that phasers don't already do some of that. Phasers certainly can't work merely by firing a beam of photons at the target, like a laser. If they did work like lasers, you wouldn't be able to see the beam.
Sublight engines, on the other hand, might be a possibility as the basis of a kinetic energy weapon. IIRC impulse drive could move a starship somewhere around 1/2c.
Just read TFA and it looks like the project's goal is not to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, but to find out how to use sunlight as an energy source to synthesize molecules.
Over here, across the pond, we've got a team of Yanks already working on the other side of the carbon equation: Artificial leaves to capture CO2 from the air. And, in typical Yank fashion, its being done by private enterprise.
They were featured recently on Nova ScienceNow.
I think maybe you were looking for the touchpad patent article instead?
Your average slashdotter is not going to get a cheapy $550 computer. Your average Joe maybe, and then they will complain to us that their computer is so slow...
Your average slashdotter probably has enough old hardware lying around to build a file server that's good enough, or knows where to scrounge up the hardware for nil. The only thing to buy would be the hard drives. You can find a 500 GB EIDE hard drive for around $60. Put 4 of those in and you've got plenty of storage. Or if you want SATA, I've seen SATA cards for under $10.
I would think given how there are laser 3D scanners, they'd just do scans.
Sort of like this?
You have to bypass the Heisenberg Compensaters to create an inertial sump, then reverse the polarity on the Warp Field Generators, then combine the streams(yes, this time you do!) and reroute the output to the deflector dish to emit a focused tachyon pulse that has to be synchronized and modulated with the inertia compensator's artificial gravity generator, pipe your Tor proxy through that and Lynx then flies at near light speeds down the 'tubes'!
*disclaimer:you can exceed ISP 'bandwidth' caps in milliseconds this way, so type FAST!*
Why don't you just focus the bandwidth using some dilithium crystals? You can order some at very good prices direct from Rura Penthe. They've got very little overhead, you see. Very cheap labor. But shipping costs can be a little much.
We had a choice between assholes that shill for oil companies, or douches that shill for Hollywood. Guess which group we picked.
Both.
So that you can fill in forms that don't let you save what you type.
Wow, your computer must be REALLY old. After all, wasn't it the great BG who commandeth: "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
The bible does NOT say that the earth is 3,000 years old.
What the bible actually says is...
that the earth is 6,009 years old.
i.e. 4004 years from Creation to the birth of Jesus (The first day of Creation was, of course, Sunday, October 23 4004 B.C.)
2005 years from the birth of Jesus to today.
Nevermind that the guy who first officially dated the birth of Jesus was six years off, give or take.
There probably was. But when was the last time Microsoft lost a lawsuit, after appeals? And more importantly, when was the last time that losing a lawsuit actually made Microsoft change its business practices? Microsoft does what Microsoft wants, lawsuits be damned!
Dude, put your tin foil hat back on.
Yeah, yeah, we all know how arduous the trip to the West Coast was during the gold rush years. We lived through the whole thing ourselves! Many many times on those Apple II machines so many years ago...
Deanna Troy or Dr. Crusher?
Dude, Dr. Crusher was old enough to be his mom!
Wait, Dr. Crusher WAS his mom.
There is literally a 7-Eleven on nearly every street corner there. If every one of their stores had an access point, nearly the entire city would easily have coverage.
I'm sure they already have some sort of network linking the stores. You can already pay your utility bills, parking tickets, etc. there (when you pay they scan a bar code printed on the bill and the transaction goes into the system). They also have copy and fax services, private parcel deliveries, and Slurpees. Its like a Quick-E-Mart and Kinko's rolled into one.
oops meant to post this as plain text. should look like this:
Here's a simple proof:
1/3 = 0.33333...
0.333... + 0.333... + 0.333... = 0.999...
1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 1
0.333... + 0.333... + 0.333... = 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3
0.99999... = 1
It can also be proven with limits and stuff, but this proof is easier.
Strange things happen when you start dealing with infinities. And they look even stranger things happen when you screw up the formatting
Here's a simple proof: 1/3 = 0.33333... 0.333... + 0.333... + 0.333... = 0.999... 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 1 0.333... + 0.333... + 0.333... = 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 0.99999... = 1 It can also be proven with limits and stuff, but this proof is easier. Strange things happen when you start dealing with infinities.
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots