I think you were being facetious, but you got my curiosity up. Dang! It's real! (Well... LUnix - the Next Generation, instead of Linux) But Dang! http://lng.sourceforge.net/
Well, if by "light bulb" you mean electric light, the phenomenom was well known in scientific circles back in 1820, as the folowing quote from "Oersted and the Discovery of Electromagnetism" at http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/fgregory/oersted.htm shows:
"Since I expected the greatest effect from a discharge associated with incandescence, I inserted in the circuit a very fine platinum wire above the place where the needle was located."
In other words, a current through a thin wire made electric light. Not very practical though, only known power source was galvanic batteries (Which quickly ran down), and needed expensive platinum wire to keep the filament from melting or burning up right away.
The obvious solution was to encase a cheaper filament in a vaccum (ie: bulb), but good vaccums were difficult to achieve, and good filaments were also a problem at the time. They needed to be cheap, very thin, mechanically strong, electrically conductive, (but not too much) and with stand high temprature, not an easy combo to come by.
After some twenty years of research, English physicist and electrician, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan successfully demonstrated a true incandescent bulb in 1878 (a year earlier than Edison) http://www.maxmon.com/1878ad.htm
Not that they were the only two working on it, just the first two to produce a practical version that got public attention. (As I recall, a German and a Canadian also demonstrated similar lights at about the same time, but I can't remember their names.) }:-P
Fortunately; TI eventually decided to put all the periphials in a single case, the P.E.B., ending up with a computer system that looked a lot like a modern PC.
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(Quick synopsis: Genetically engineered wolf is accidently assigned to alien as ship's engineer on an earth colony heavily populated with Asimov type robots... hilarity ensues.)
"The biggest surprise for me was that Microsoft, who usually pisses me off, actually was the only company to step up to the plate in a meaningful way."
Not to me, MS is already getting burned by security problems causing people to switch to Apple, linux, and open source. The last thing they need is Sony throwing gas on the fire.
Boycotts won't work unless the right people know about them.
The next time you're in... oh say Walmart or Best buy, or where ever, make it a point to tell the management that you and your friends aren't buying any of the nice shiny Sony CDs and gadgets that they carry, and that you never will. (Be sure to tell them why!)
Retailers just love to have stock on their shelves that won't move.
"Oh, yeah?! Well Windows XP is pretty dumb, but it still seems to get off on telling me what to do."
That's because it's following the version of the three laws where the word "human" has been replaced with "Microsoft corp."
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From my childhood days reading Archie Comics, I'd say Springfield was somewhere close to Riverdale. They both seem to have similar geography, and there was even an episode where Archie and the gang dropped Homer off at his house.
(And warned him never to set foot in Riverdale again!)
I block ad sites! Seriously, there are two types of ad I can't tolerate, the flash and java ads that with annoying animation and noise, and the ones that are stuck smack in the middle of the article I'm trying to read, pushing the bottom three quarters of the text off page.
In both cases, I don't block the ad, I just add http://www.annoying/ ass-site/* (you get the idea) to adblock and problem solved!
There's still lots of ads visible on the sites I frequent, in the borders and non-obtrusive, ready to view when I'm finished with the main stuff. Ad sites make note of this!!
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Oh, it just means he reads The Register. };-)i cating_hoover/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/11/self_repl
Well, just off the top of my head: Dell, HP, Lenova, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Acer, NEC, Legend, and Gateway, among others.
Well, all I know about superconductors I learned here: http://freefall.purrsia.com/~color/ffstrip.php?num =215
But that's what they were doing, until someone discovered the exploit being used in the wild, and reported it. Surely it's better then to alert people.e shold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=14982711
Read this previous comment; http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=181121&thr
Heh-heh, reminds me of the old joke:
He got away sir!
How? we had all the exits covered.
He left through an entrance, sir!
(I'll be quiet now)
So, you're saying that French-speaking nobles don't eat chicken?
Best part of the whole controversy is that now everyone and his cat seems to be coming out with a theory why global warming is not caused by humans.
l ?id=13ef7006-c549-4543-8ed8-89b8f4ca63d6&k=42927w elt_naturschutz/bericht-56600.html .
A couple of the latest blame things like cosmic rays http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.htm
, and the Tunguska Event http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/um
(I'm willing to bet bet someone, some where has a tie-in between global warming, the Kennedy assasination and bigfoot.) };-)
I think you were being facetious, but you got my curiosity up.
Dang! It's real! (Well... LUnix - the Next Generation, instead of Linux) But Dang!
http://lng.sourceforge.net/
(Now where is BSD for Commodore?) };-)
Oh, I dunno... It seems fairly easy to get a major news hoax going outside of China too - http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments /4033/
Well, if by "light bulb" you mean electric light, the phenomenom was well known in scientific circles back in 1820, as the folowing quote from "Oersted and the Discovery of Electromagnetism" at http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/fgregory/oersted.htm
shows:
"Since I expected the greatest effect from a discharge associated with incandescence, I inserted in the circuit a very fine platinum wire above the place where the needle was located."
In other words, a current through a thin wire made electric light.
Not very practical though, only known power source was galvanic batteries (Which quickly ran down), and needed expensive platinum wire to keep the filament from melting or burning up right away.
The obvious solution was to encase a cheaper filament in a vaccum (ie: bulb), but good vaccums were difficult to achieve, and good filaments were also a problem at the time. They needed to be cheap, very thin, mechanically strong, electrically conductive, (but not too much) and with stand high temprature, not an easy combo to come by.
After some twenty years of research, English physicist and electrician, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan successfully demonstrated a true incandescent bulb in 1878 (a year earlier than Edison) http://www.maxmon.com/1878ad.htm
Not that they were the only two working on it, just the first two to produce a practical version that got public attention. (As I recall, a German and a Canadian also demonstrated similar lights at about the same time, but I can't remember their names.) }:-P
actually, it's already begun; http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/sh ownh.php3?img_id=13209
This looks like an updated version of the original TI-99/4a computer, with the modules upended.
http://oldcomputers.net/index.html
Fortunately; TI eventually decided to put all the periphials in a single case, the P.E.B., ending up with a computer system that looked a lot like a modern PC.
Here's one that goes back further than most of us here; The Friden March.
http://www.embedded.com/98/9802fe2.htm
Just scroll down to the sectio titled "The Friden Algorithm", now that's Ooold school, when your desktop had gears!
No, not Soviet Russia, BUGTOWN! http://www.matthowarth.com/bugtown.php
Well, wadda y'know:c Index=55275
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/weatherInfo.php?lo
You're right!
Uh, no, he was right they *are* countless. (I sure ain't gonna count'em!)
Oh, Com'on! All us geeks on Slashdot and nobody else has geard of:
http://freefall.purrsia.com/lastthree.htm
(Quick synopsis: Genetically engineered wolf is accidently assigned to alien as ship's engineer on an earth colony heavily populated with Asimov type robots... hilarity ensues.)
"The biggest surprise for me was that Microsoft, who usually pisses me off, actually was the only company to step up to the plate in a meaningful way."
Not to me, MS is already getting burned by security problems causing people to switch to Apple, linux, and open source.
The last thing they need is Sony throwing gas on the fire.
After reading the article, the first thing that came to mind, was this:
http://www.crapville.com/toon_holder.asp?ID=179
Boycotts won't work unless the right people know about them.
The next time you're in... oh say Walmart or Best buy, or where ever, make it a point to tell the management that you and your friends aren't buying any of the nice shiny Sony CDs and gadgets that they carry, and that you never will. (Be sure to tell them why!)
Retailers just love to have stock on their shelves that won't move.
"Oh, yeah?! Well Windows XP is pretty dumb, but it still seems to get off on telling me what to do."
That's because it's following the version of the three laws where the word "human" has been replaced with "Microsoft corp."
From my childhood days reading Archie Comics, I'd say Springfield was somewhere close to Riverdale.
They both seem to have similar geography, and there was even an episode where Archie and the gang dropped Homer off at his house.
(And warned him never to set foot in Riverdale again!)
How'd that work out for you?
When My mom tried it with me, the dog turned vegan. }:P
I block ad sites!
Seriously, there are two types of ad I can't tolerate, the flash and java ads that with annoying animation and noise, and the ones that are stuck smack in the middle of the article I'm trying to read, pushing the bottom three quarters of the text off page.
In both cases, I don't block the ad, I just add http://www.annoying/ ass-site/* (you get the idea) to adblock and problem solved!
There's still lots of ads visible on the sites I frequent, in the borders and non-obtrusive, ready to view when I'm finished with the main stuff. Ad sites make note of this!!
Radiaion proof? I've heard of this stuff, it's dalekinium! http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dalekinium&bt nG=Google+Search
This can only mean that there's life on Mars and Bush believes it mus be EXTERMINATED!