Yep, i realized that only AFTER i hit "submit"..., but i did try to weasel in on the angle of settlers coming to the US, money (wasted or obtained), and one-way trips... I figure it'll be emotional or political reasons my post'll get shot down in flames... CHEERS!
Mod me troll, for the unwelcome history lesson that tends to shame-face the European "founders"/settlers of the Americas...
But, there are many convincing clues about how Columbus was able to get the money to sail here. There was already evidence that China's/India's/et al Silk Road posed a threat to European power. For whatever reasons, Columbus wanted/needed to get to the new land, whether for fame, or alleviation of personal debt... But...
AFTER he and his thieving brother both lied to the Vatican to obtain said funding, and said funding was granted mainly/only because likely the Vatican or Columbus or both understood the implications of getting to the Americas in volume before China, since the maps Columbus was counterfeiting/duplicating/modifying and passing off as HIS works really were of Chinese origin.
But, since China (back then, as far as seafaring went) was not out CONQUERING whole lands far from home, and not out threatening civilizations with "convert to OUR religion, or DIE and got to HELL by the WILL of God, by the HAND of HUMANS who've never MET God...".
But, China WAS operating a tribute system, and verbally told others they and all the land under them were subject to the Great Ruler/King of China, center of the world.... etc, but China never ENFORCED the claims, unlike.....
But, another point is, China invented a lot of scientific and navigational and medical things that aided in vastly superior navigation (in the NORTH and SOUTH hemispheres) to within 50 miles of indented, whereas Spain and Portugal could only demonstrate some 1500 or so miles of accuracy; China figured out how to save lives of sailors from the ravages of scurvy whereas Columbus and followers suffered many numbers of deaths along the way....)
But, you can bet the Vatican and European powers with fleets had no one-way-trip intentions. It was a power race, or race about power...domination, subsumation...
have NO synthohol, and risk driving and insurance to save another organ or to add live to suffer the misery of having drank too much.
Nahhh, i'll die when i die. Not before, not later. That is the order of things. Unless i find out i am a Vorta named Weyoun attempting to repeatedly defect to some cheeseball planet named Earth, hehehe...
To get colder than Absolut, drink more than the body can handle, the you'll Absolutly shut down..., hehehe
As for the 3D Crystal Ball, that's a better take on Mr. Peabody's 3DBB (3-Dimensional Black Board) Sherman always marveled at. But, these scientists are pretty good, taking on the Matter by the Horn...
But, the Nazi regime abused the Swastika. If valid, pre-existing religions having used the Swastika "in good faith" prior to and since the Nazi-era, then why should those be prevented or prohibited from using it. Granted, it might be easier on them if they list their religous/belief label beneath, near or around it...
When i was in the 5th grade at a Catholic School way back when, in Galveston, TX, i for some reason (probably watching too damned many damned war movies) was drawing the Swastika, mainly because i thought it was cool-looking. Of course, at age 12 or so, even tho i watched all those movies, i still had not grasped the meaning of the symbol as it was abused. One of the nuns told my mom, and THEN i began to learn, and i was urged not to draw or glorify it and advertise it. Course, being of African American descent, that would be a GOOD thing to avoid doing...
One that goes to Walgreens and other stores similar to them in San Francisco, and weekly buys boatloads of sticky rat traps (peanut-butter-scented) to help these stores make up for loss of cigarette sales since SF banned sales of cigs/tobacco in stores like Walgreens & Rite-Aid. (Actually, those traps smell pretty good, but, i don't have a rat heart, fortunately....)
and told others what i did and surmised later that i don't know HOW close i was to being potentially arrested.
See, i'd been ripped off, losing a sizable chunk of money by a scammer in 2001/2002. I was laid off, had a mortgage, was desperate, and when you've been unhirable for almost a year, and burning down your vested stocks because some CEO got a bonus to lay you off when that bonus (several $10s of millions from what i heard) could have kept me and others employed for a few more months), your world starts to implode.
So, i gambled (and lost) some $700 on an asshole who made a dumbass out of me. He promised (IIRC in writing as well as verbally) to return my investment if in 30 days (or so) i wanted to cancel my involvement. He dragged my ass out for weeks past that time, and then I called the FBI. I suggested this guy, one Anthony Brown (who claimed to have contacts at Cisco and ohter places, and claimed he was having meetings at times at their Milpitas location), might be doing this in an interstate manner. I was told they couldn't do anything. The local police in the Sacramento & San Joaquin areas couldn't help either. I suggested to the FBI agent that if they or law enforcement couldn't help me that I should probably find some criminals who would not take kindly to being ripped off, and that I should make an appointment with Mr. Brown (if that was even his real name and real ID), and "steer" him toward some mob or gangster types who would probably also not know Brown was a bottom-feeding piece of scum about to meet his Hell on Earth. I actually wanted BLOOD. I wanted to KILL that m'f'r, as $700 was a serious amount of money to take, STEAL, from someone whose world was already on fire. So, if he actually took their money, and then fucked THEM, he'd be sorry he ever met me or them.
The FBI agent responded, "You're calling the *FBI* with a question like THAT?" Then he paused, giving me a hint i better hang up.
I hung up. Later, friends and family helped me out a little more, but it is a shame that vigilantism is/can be illegal.
My advice: If your world is on fire and you get involved with anybody who is going to get money from you, get their fingerprints off a restaurant glass, a writing pin from which you can lift the prints with cello tape, or something. Make him/her sign YOUR documents that their ass is voluntarily on a hook to YOU since their exploiting your pitiful situation. But, then if you're that smart, you might not be in my "hindsight is 20/20" situation.
Gets 4, Insightful, then the above posting -- even though by an Anonymous Coward -- should ALSO, for quoting parallels from the bible (which probably are correctly or faithfully quoted, and as yet i see no allegations that AC falsely quoted the bible...) get 4, Insightful, or 4, Informative.
Where is the balance?
Also, I JUST LAST WEEK (IIRC) mentioned in/. that Sony or other some other game maker had sampled music from an Eastern religion/faith around the early 2000's and had to yank back all those released copies for having offended the religion in question.
One would think that a major games producer would not let that one happen again. Seems to me they are courting a religious war or at least risk of one. If not Sony's HQ, then it has defiant, ignorant, or belligerent employees who sampled, inserted, and released the snippets under some misguided assumption that a few seconds here and there won't have negative consequences. In aggregate, they are exposing copyrighted, strenuously defended music that *some* one or many out there will take great umbrage to the use of in a video game. Doesn't matter that many religions' bibles or truth books themselves contain orders to slay/crush/burn/purge/etc. And, even if it was a "good/free PR move/stunt", automakers themselves try to slay/slash/burn/sue those who try to give their cars free rep in videos, movies, and documentaries, even though the cars in in plain public view and are not afforded privacy.
"On the other hand, there is no incentive to design such instability into an airliner and lots of reasons not to (like what happens when the autopilot fails)."
But, that makes flight... less... interesting.
I rather LIKE *most* (but not all) of the turbulence. Sometimes, I had to stick my face between the window and seat to keep my smiles out of view. However, on a trip to Asia in '98, the Air France plane's wings were literally (virtually/almost) flapping like a bird (well, exaggerating...), but it was *quite* noticeable. On landing, the touchdown was so stiff i thought the gear would fail or penetrate the deck.
On an SWA flight from Seattle, same time frame, we had that massive weather front on the West Coast. The turbulence was so horrible, i wasn't smiling on that flight. Nobody was. It was so bad we kept losing altitude, couldn't evade, had little or no room to climb, and it kept getting worse. It got so much worse the SWA attendants were passing out extra food, began jumping around and playing games, and did anything they could to create laughter to distract us from the outside.
When we safely touched down in San Jose, we ALL burst out in cheers. IIRC, some people had tears in their eyes, and seemed drained by the experience. I think everyone of us thanked the cockpit crew and the attendants, but really it was fate/karma/engineering and weather that individually could have yanked our plugs.
a *hot* topic, Google raises a cool argument." But, because you remind us of the Arctic option, i'll have to say YOU raise a cool argument/reminder.
But, is there a feasible way for various sloped shafts to be cored (or existing ones, such as the former Super Conducting Semi Collider (or is it Semi Conducting Super Collider?, etc...used) such that filtered draft air (sounds like beer, huh?) is blown past the chassis?
And, isn't there a way to decouple the processors from such numerically high boards? Can't these processors be (to bring up images of the Star Trek USS Enterprise (NCC-1701 D) central computer core, or even the main warp core, with vertical shafting, but horizontal/azimuthal projections) attached to shafts, and the ancillary wiring be attached down/up stream? Then, the cooling air could be better directed, controlled and overall flow demands reduced, to in essence, cut the high energy costs.
I would envision that at the very least, Google can -- or already has underway -- plans to exploit polar or Canadian, or cold North Dakota type environs in which to shaft-locate their computers.
or try to patent the process of water-blasting a block of aluminum...
"10:14 PT: "We discovered that if we started with a thick piece of aluminium and removed material to make physical features in the structure, we could make a much lighter but much stronger part. So that's how we make the palm rest of the MacBook air." He shows an image of an aluminum extrusion to show how the put it together. They create the "locating features," holes in the metal. Then rough cutting, a "noisy stage" where they remove large amounts of material quickly. Remove holes for key caps, and the trackpad. Then they blast it and anodize it."
I hope not, because watersaws and water blasters have been around for a LONG time. Applying that to make a laptop chassis is NOT innovative, novel, nor non-obvious. It's just a matter of marketing, snazziness, and money. Diving bells, diving suits, aircraft parts, and military vehicle parts as well as various medical and other types of instruments all can be made from parts cut, shaped or formed by water jets which can be much sharper in effect than using diamond saws or diamond-tipped drill bits.
However, i wonder exactly how they will recycle the stamped/water-blasted parts punched out for keys and the trackpad and hinge area. If they are a "green company" they should publicly account for how it's being recaptured for recycling.
As for Se7en, maybe ms will (at least in Korea, and in Los Angeles) contract him to open windoze 7 in the US? (probably a far cry better than "Start Me Up", especially since Se7en is much younger, and ms probably needs a serious face lift...
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but they have the income stream correct from Spore Addicts.
"The boy was kicked and beaten and threatened with a knife while forced to log into Runescape and giving his assets to the two perpetrators."
Rob-bin would be impressed (or, impressed upon)... forced to LOG in to Rune's CAPE, and giving his ass sets to the two perp e trators.
Perhaps Rune should have worn a chastity belt? And kept his cape closed...
Anyway, moral of the story: don't store your real assets in the nether... (and, don't brag about the value of the assets...)
Yep, i realized that only AFTER i hit "submit"..., but i did try to weasel in on the angle of settlers coming to the US, money (wasted or obtained), and one-way trips... I figure it'll be emotional or political reasons my post'll get shot down in flames... CHEERS!
Mod me troll, for the unwelcome history lesson that tends to shame-face the European "founders"/settlers of the Americas...
But, there are many convincing clues about how Columbus was able to get the money to sail here. There was already evidence that China's/India's/et al Silk Road posed a threat to European power. For whatever reasons, Columbus wanted/needed to get to the new land, whether for fame, or alleviation of personal debt... But...
AFTER he and his thieving brother both lied to the Vatican to obtain said funding, and said funding was granted mainly/only because likely the Vatican or Columbus or both understood the implications of getting to the Americas in volume before China, since the maps Columbus was counterfeiting/duplicating/modifying and passing off as HIS works really were of Chinese origin.
But, since China (back then, as far as seafaring went) was not out CONQUERING whole lands far from home, and not out threatening civilizations with "convert to OUR religion, or DIE and got to HELL by the WILL of God, by the HAND of HUMANS who've never MET God...".
But, China WAS operating a tribute system, and verbally told others they and all the land under them were subject to the Great Ruler/King of China, center of the world.... etc, but China never ENFORCED the claims, unlike.....
But, another point is, China invented a lot of scientific and navigational and medical things that aided in vastly superior navigation (in the NORTH and SOUTH hemispheres) to within 50 miles of indented, whereas Spain and Portugal could only demonstrate some 1500 or so miles of accuracy; China figured out how to save lives of sailors from the ravages of scurvy whereas Columbus and followers suffered many numbers of deaths along the way....)
But, you can bet the Vatican and European powers with fleets had no one-way-trip intentions. It was a power race, or race about power...domination, subsumation...
How about "Night-Light Savings Time"?...
this time.... They are tired of having "Super Tuesday" associations...
How about New Zoo Review:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zoo_Revue
? hehehe... we're aging ourselves...
hehehe
have NO synthohol, and risk driving and insurance to save another organ or to add live to suffer the misery of having drank too much.
Nahhh, i'll die when i die. Not before, not later. That is the order of things. Unless i find out i am a Vorta named Weyoun attempting to repeatedly defect to some cheeseball planet named Earth, hehehe...
To get colder than Absolut, drink more than the body can handle, the you'll Absolutly shut down..., hehehe
As for the 3D Crystal Ball, that's a better take on Mr. Peabody's 3DBB (3-Dimensional Black Board) Sherman always marveled at. But, these scientists are pretty good, taking on the Matter by the Horn...
Takedown notice, in ... the 70s? Early 80s? That's soooo PDMCA (pre-DMCA), dude...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
But, the Nazi regime abused the Swastika. If valid, pre-existing religions having used the Swastika "in good faith" prior to and since the Nazi-era, then why should those be prevented or prohibited from using it. Granted, it might be easier on them if they list their religous/belief label beneath, near or around it...
When i was in the 5th grade at a Catholic School way back when, in Galveston, TX, i for some reason (probably watching too damned many damned war movies) was drawing the Swastika, mainly because i thought it was cool-looking. Of course, at age 12 or so, even tho i watched all those movies, i still had not grasped the meaning of the symbol as it was abused. One of the nuns told my mom, and THEN i began to learn, and i was urged not to draw or glorify it and advertise it. Course, being of African American descent, that would be a GOOD thing to avoid doing...
Looney, but...
One that goes to Walgreens and other stores similar to them in San Francisco, and weekly buys boatloads of sticky rat traps (peanut-butter-scented) to help these stores make up for loss of cigarette sales since SF banned sales of cigs/tobacco in stores like Walgreens & Rite-Aid. (Actually, those traps smell pretty good, but, i don't have a rat heart, fortunately....)
seriously "capped"...
and told others what i did and surmised later that i don't know HOW close i was to being potentially arrested.
See, i'd been ripped off, losing a sizable chunk of money by a scammer in 2001/2002. I was laid off, had a mortgage, was desperate, and when you've been unhirable for almost a year, and burning down your vested stocks because some CEO got a bonus to lay you off when that bonus (several $10s of millions from what i heard) could have kept me and others employed for a few more months), your world starts to implode.
So, i gambled (and lost) some $700 on an asshole who made a dumbass out of me. He promised (IIRC in writing as well as verbally) to return my investment if in 30 days (or so) i wanted to cancel my involvement. He dragged my ass out for weeks past that time, and then I called the FBI. I suggested this guy, one Anthony Brown (who claimed to have contacts at Cisco and ohter places, and claimed he was having meetings at times at their Milpitas location), might be doing this in an interstate manner. I was told they couldn't do anything. The local police in the Sacramento & San Joaquin areas couldn't help either. I suggested to the FBI agent that if they or law enforcement couldn't help me that I should probably find some criminals who would not take kindly to being ripped off, and that I should make an appointment with Mr. Brown (if that was even his real name and real ID), and "steer" him toward some mob or gangster types who would probably also not know Brown was a bottom-feeding piece of scum about to meet his Hell on Earth. I actually wanted BLOOD. I wanted to KILL that m'f'r, as $700 was a serious amount of money to take, STEAL, from someone whose world was already on fire. So, if he actually took their money, and then fucked THEM, he'd be sorry he ever met me or them.
The FBI agent responded, "You're calling the *FBI* with a question like THAT?" Then he paused, giving me a hint i better hang up.
I hung up. Later, friends and family helped me out a little more, but it is a shame that vigilantism is/can be illegal.
My advice: If your world is on fire and you get involved with anybody who is going to get money from you, get their fingerprints off a restaurant glass, a writing pin from which you can lift the prints with cello tape, or something. Make him/her sign YOUR documents that their ass is voluntarily on a hook to YOU since their exploiting your pitiful situation. But, then if you're that smart, you might not be in my "hindsight is 20/20" situation.
Exploder, instead of Internet Exploder.
Any synaptic, haptic, sinhaptic feeback coming to this product?
I am sure some are ... "re-coiling", and some are saying, "I'm SHOCKED! SHOCKED I tell ya..." by Tesla's sudden dissipation/discharge.
"Hmm... do religions of peace say things like:"
Gets 4, Insightful, then the above posting -- even though by an Anonymous Coward -- should ALSO, for quoting parallels from the bible (which probably are correctly or faithfully quoted, and as yet i see no allegations that AC falsely quoted the bible...) get 4, Insightful, or 4, Informative.
Where is the balance?
Also, I JUST LAST WEEK (IIRC) mentioned in /. that Sony or other some other game maker had sampled music from an Eastern religion/faith around the early 2000's and had to yank back all those released copies for having offended the religion in question.
One would think that a major games producer would not let that one happen again. Seems to me they are courting a religious war or at least risk of one. If not Sony's HQ, then it has defiant, ignorant, or belligerent employees who sampled, inserted, and released the snippets under some misguided assumption that a few seconds here and there won't have negative consequences. In aggregate, they are exposing copyrighted, strenuously defended music that *some* one or many out there will take great umbrage to the use of in a video game. Doesn't matter that many religions' bibles or truth books themselves contain orders to slay/crush/burn/purge/etc. And, even if it was a "good/free PR move/stunt", automakers themselves try to slay/slash/burn/sue those who try to give their cars free rep in videos, movies, and documentaries, even though the cars in in plain public view and are not afforded privacy.
"On the other hand, there is no incentive to design such instability into an airliner and lots of reasons not to (like what happens when the autopilot fails)."
But, that makes flight... less ... interesting.
I rather LIKE *most* (but not all) of the turbulence. Sometimes, I had to stick my face between the window and seat to keep my smiles out of view. However, on a trip to Asia in '98, the Air France plane's wings were literally (virtually/almost) flapping like a bird (well, exaggerating...), but it was *quite* noticeable. On landing, the touchdown was so stiff i thought the gear would fail or penetrate the deck.
On an SWA flight from Seattle, same time frame, we had that massive weather front on the West Coast. The turbulence was so horrible, i wasn't smiling on that flight. Nobody was. It was so bad we kept losing altitude, couldn't evade, had little or no room to climb, and it kept getting worse. It got so much worse the SWA attendants were passing out extra food, began jumping around and playing games, and did anything they could to create laughter to distract us from the outside.
When we safely touched down in San Jose, we ALL burst out in cheers. IIRC, some people had tears in their eyes, and seemed drained by the experience. I think everyone of us thanked the cockpit crew and the attendants, but really it was fate/karma/engineering and weather that individually could have yanked our plugs.
I wouldn't mind owning some of Apples products. I readily admit they by far outdo almost anything out there.
But, these are sexy machines, too:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/14/2391134.htm
http://www.mobilewhack.com/reviews/flybook_vm_laptop.html
http://gizmodo.com/5043374/samsung-x360-laptop-is-super-skinny
a *hot* topic, Google raises a cool argument." But, because you remind us of the Arctic option, i'll have to say YOU raise a cool argument/reminder.
But, is there a feasible way for various sloped shafts to be cored (or existing ones, such as the former Super Conducting Semi Collider (or is it Semi Conducting Super Collider?, etc...used) such that filtered draft air (sounds like beer, huh?) is blown past the chassis?
And, isn't there a way to decouple the processors from such numerically high boards? Can't these processors be (to bring up images of the Star Trek USS Enterprise (NCC-1701 D) central computer core, or even the main warp core, with vertical shafting, but horizontal/azimuthal projections) attached to shafts, and the ancillary wiring be attached down/up stream? Then, the cooling air could be better directed, controlled and overall flow demands reduced, to in essence, cut the high energy costs.
For visuals, see:
http://startrekspace.blogspot.com/2007/01/geordi-la-forge-and-his-warp-core.html
http://www.loony-archivist.com/lowerdecks/life.html
http://www.ussenterprise.co.uk/enterprise/entd/
I would envision that at the very least, Google can -- or already has underway -- plans to exploit polar or Canadian, or cold North Dakota type environs in which to shaft-locate their computers.
or try to patent the process of water-blasting a block of aluminum...
"10:14 PT: "We discovered that if we started with a thick piece of aluminium and removed material to make physical features in the structure, we could make a much lighter but much stronger part. So that's how we make the palm rest of the MacBook air." He shows an image of an aluminum extrusion to show how the put it together. They create the "locating features," holes in the metal. Then rough cutting, a "noisy stage" where they remove large amounts of material quickly. Remove holes for key caps, and the trackpad. Then they blast it and anodize it."
I hope not, because watersaws and water blasters have been around for a LONG time. Applying that to make a laptop chassis is NOT innovative, novel, nor non-obvious. It's just a matter of marketing, snazziness, and money. Diving bells, diving suits, aircraft parts, and military vehicle parts as well as various medical and other types of instruments all can be made from parts cut, shaped or formed by water jets which can be much sharper in effect than using diamond saws or diamond-tipped drill bits.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question553.htm
However, i wonder exactly how they will recycle the stamped/water-blasted parts punched out for keys and the trackpad and hinge area. If they are a "green company" they should publicly account for how it's being recaptured for recycling.
ried that the Beverly Hillbilies were entering the surgical suites with cutting-edge (or, bleeding edge) music...
Tubular!
Now, we have some validation of the Internets being full of pipes and tubes!
What does that make win2k? Win4.5?
As for Se7en, maybe ms will (at least in Korea, and in Los Angeles) contract him to open windoze 7 in the US? (probably a far cry better than "Start Me Up", especially since Se7en is much younger, and ms probably needs a serious face lift...
http://aznconcerts.blogspot.com/2008/04/se7en-who-is-scheduled-to-release-his.html