but the goal of these fighters is to take Iraq for Al Qaida. I find it hard to believe that you'd rather see Bin Laden rule Iraq than the Iraqi people through elections.
No. Their goal is to take Iraq for themselves. The Iraqis don't want Bin Laden in power any more than they want Americans. They want Iraqis (who don't support Americans) in power.
Indeed, it took them 3000+ baloons to levitate the little girl. Those ballons, hoever were of the average carnival variety. Also, at the time, they were testing the myth that a small child could be carried away by a large bouquet of carnival balloons, a la Mr. Bean.
The Mysthbusters did a separate segment on "Lawnchair Lary" using large weather ballons. They also tested whether or not a pellet gun could be used to burst ballons to reduce altitude (as reported in the story). I know that they got the lawnchair off the ground (with adult pilot), but I don't remember the outcome of the pellet gun test.
1) First privately funded orbital flight
2)First privately funded lunar rover
3)Compettions to design space habitats
4)Zero-G agriculture projects
5)Contest for student-designed zero-g experiment (to be put on space station and run for period of time)
For those (like me at first) who just read the breakingnewsblog synopsis, this is a highly political article whose author has a rather large axe to grind. In light of this, it is nice to see that most of the rants got modded down. Too bad there isn't some sort of "-1 Flamebait" modifier for articles.
Besides the obvious political leanings of the story, it is interesting to hear about armed, unmanned machines being used in a ground role. They could really come in handy in roles like building searches too keep our soldiers out of harm's way. There are already field recon' robots (the throwable ones) but they can't exactly take out enemy combatants. It will be intersting to see how the program works out.
Yeah, FIRST is really expensive. Our team had a total budget of over $12,000 (US), including the entry fee. To put that in perspective, there are some teams with >$50,000 budgets. Our team budget for BEST, however is about $200 (for t-shirts and office supplies).
BEST was really designed to allow more people to be able to enter a cheaper competition and open up the field of engineering to a greater body of students.
Anyway, I think the challenge is kind of corney. Robots don't have DNA. Under that, though, the actual engineering challenge is kind of cool. You can only use a VERY limited set of parts. Designing a robot out of plywood, cardboard, and duct tape is not that easy*.
As for the challenge, the challenges have always been silly (RAD to the Core was an exception). I think this is to get younger kids (11-13) interested and exicted. The older kids look over the "fix Squeaky's DNA" bit and look at it as a chance to prove they can build a robot in six weeks out of a bucket of miscelaneous junk.
*Yeah, it's hard. I have competed in BEST for the last four years and this is only the second robot I have helped build that works worth a darn. Check out our teams website: http://www.projectneo.net/
Ok, so the article said this explosion happened on Thursday. If it was a nuke, there would have been like eighty kajillion reports of it by now (saturday, in the US). Not that I am dubious, just wanted to point out the time discrepency.
It has been a belief of mine that if we can't fight to get rid off software patents, maybe we could use them to our advantage.
Bascically, the plan would to patent every thing under the sun we developers could think of, then release all the patents to the public domain, thus protecting everyone's right to use the ideas freely and protecting the ideas from being patented by others and used against us.
to my knowladge, all of the internal circutry of a computer (IC's and whatnot) is watertight. As long as everything is fully dried before the power is flipped back on, Pine Sol might do the trick.
Your problems will come when somebody tries to use something corrosive or sticky.
"Digitally enhancing"- hmm... that seems like it would still degrade the picture quality somewhat. Whenever you extrapolate image data it should reduce the acuracy of the image.
There have been a lot of complaints (lately, not so lately) about comapnies like MS taking over the computer world with patents. So, here is an idea: Why don't we fight patents with patents? We (the OSS community) should go patent every fscking thing we can think of and release the patents into the public domain. Even stupid things like "organizing photos based on time". Nothing is too small to be free.
This may get modded down, but I am slightly serious.
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Yeah, I heard about this one guy who made $20's and passed them off at conveinence stores for small stuff such as razor blades, thus gaining the change as profit. He was caught (obviously, or he wouldn't have been on the Discovery Channel), but he had been at it for a couple of years and made a ton of money.
I would go with a ('cheap') MP3 player with an HD, if you need a lot of storage.
For carrying small files, I have found my 128MB USB key drive very useful. You can get a similer one for $30 (US) at Best Buy. Those little flash drives are almost indestructable, too.
Let's watch the "normal" part. At the center (not right or left) of most religions, people are fairly decent to one another. To hopefully douse the imenent flames:
The same can be said of all far-right/left people. Christian/Moslim/Jewish/Davidian/Religion X zealots have killed millions of people who didn't agree with them. The Romans did it, the Greeks did it. Every society in the history of the world has gotten rid of pesky infidels. Not just Christians or Moslims, but EVERYBODY!
I think the word you wanted was closer to 'counterfeited' than 'pirated'. They made fake baby formula, they did not put it in "Formula Burn-O-Matic 2000" and copy it to give to their friends.
If I have admin privs, and I run a piece of software (unless it's managed like.NET code), it can do ANYTHING I can do. That includes turning off firewalls.
Damn straight. Of course, every Windows user I know of runs their box as an admin all the time, so almost all arguments dealing with limited privilages are null.
True, but I can bang out @least 30+ on a laptop keyboard (one of the smaller ones, 12" screen). For laptops, the point is almost mute anyway, since you still have the keyboard out. No way in heck is anyone going to hook it to a PDA or convertable Tablet PC. Maybe a straight tablet, but there's a reason they bought a really expensive computer with a stylus. WEB TV users, maybe; but then nobody should be hampered by typing speed while browsing the net.
The only good application I can see for this device is as a game pad. I can so imagine playing HALO PC, Freelancer, or Doom and kicking so much arse not having to span the whole keyboard/mouse distance. Plus, this thing is probably way more comfortable than the keyboard/mouse
So, in short: Desktop Typing - no
Laptop typing - no
Replacement for stylus - no
Gaming - Heck yeah!
The real issue here is with the settlemens in general, not the specific CD's.
The record companies settled for millions of dollars. They decided to pay this with CD's. In the deal, the CDs were presumably valued at market price.
Whoa! Hold on, the record companies do not pay anywhere near market value for any of the CDs. They pay for the production costs, which sure a hell ain't $16 a CD; more like $0.50.
So this really wasn't any sort of punishment for the recording industry. More like a lesson that they could do whatever the hell they want and "repay" their debt to society with worthless crap.
I agree. I found SuSe to be very n00b friendly. It looks good and actually works. The only thing that sucked was the lack of a compiler. But, SuSe will surely get the job done for the majority of people who use their laptops for web browsing, word processing, email, and Solitare.
So, bravo HP! It is good to see someone finally bring Linux into the realm of the "common" computer consumer.
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but the goal of these fighters is to take Iraq for Al Qaida. I find it hard to believe that you'd rather see Bin Laden rule Iraq than the Iraqi people through elections.
No. Their goal is to take Iraq for themselves. The Iraqis don't want Bin Laden in power any more than they want Americans. They want Iraqis (who don't support Americans) in power.
Also, take the flamewar to email or IRC.
Indeed, it took them 3000+ baloons to levitate the little girl. Those ballons, hoever were of the average carnival variety. Also, at the time, they were testing the myth that a small child could be carried away by a large bouquet of carnival balloons, a la Mr. Bean.
The Mysthbusters did a separate segment on "Lawnchair Lary" using large weather ballons. They also tested whether or not a pellet gun could be used to burst ballons to reduce altitude (as reported in the story). I know that they got the lawnchair off the ground (with adult pilot), but I don't remember the outcome of the pellet gun test.
I agree. Here is what I would put on it in terms of basic apps:
1. Firefox
2. SuperTux
3. The GIMP
4. GAIM
5. OO.o
6. Solitare
That should show them that they can do everything they want; games, web browsing, photo editing, and word processing. All the basics.
PS- If you can, make sure that Firefox is ready to go with java, flash, and shockwave
what's to stop someone with $99 from picking up this kit and printing replica holograms on top of the ID?
This kit makes holograms which are only visable with a laser or an LED like the one thy provide.
1) First privately funded orbital flight
2)First privately funded lunar rover
3)Compettions to design space habitats
4)Zero-G agriculture projects
5)Contest for student-designed zero-g experiment (to be put on space station and run for period of time)
For those (like me at first) who just read the breakingnewsblog synopsis, this is a highly political article whose author has a rather large axe to grind. In light of this, it is nice to see that most of the rants got modded down. Too bad there isn't some sort of "-1 Flamebait" modifier for articles.
Besides the obvious political leanings of the story, it is interesting to hear about armed, unmanned machines being used in a ground role. They could really come in handy in roles like building searches too keep our soldiers out of harm's way. There are already field recon' robots (the throwable ones) but they can't exactly take out enemy combatants. It will be intersting to see how the program works out.
the teams can design a robot to repair the DNA of an exploded webserver?
Yeah, FIRST is really expensive. Our team had a total budget of over $12,000 (US), including the entry fee. To put that in perspective, there are some teams with >$50,000 budgets. Our team budget for BEST, however is about $200 (for t-shirts and office supplies).
BEST was really designed to allow more people to be able to enter a cheaper competition and open up the field of engineering to a greater body of students.
Anyway, I think the challenge is kind of corney. Robots don't have DNA. Under that, though, the actual engineering challenge is kind of cool. You can only use a VERY limited set of parts. Designing a robot out of plywood, cardboard, and duct tape is not that easy*.
As for the challenge, the challenges have always been silly (RAD to the Core was an exception). I think this is to get younger kids (11-13) interested and exicted. The older kids look over the "fix Squeaky's DNA" bit and look at it as a chance to prove they can build a robot in six weeks out of a bucket of miscelaneous junk.
*Yeah, it's hard. I have competed in BEST for the last four years and this is only the second robot I have helped build that works worth a darn. Check out our teams website: http://www.projectneo.net/
Ok, so the article said this explosion happened on Thursday. If it was a nuke, there would have been like eighty kajillion reports of it by now (saturday, in the US). Not that I am dubious, just wanted to point out the time discrepency.
It has been a belief of mine that if we can't fight to get rid off software patents, maybe we could use them to our advantage.
Bascically, the plan would to patent every thing under the sun we developers could think of, then release all the patents to the public domain, thus protecting everyone's right to use the ideas freely and protecting the ideas from being patented by others and used against us.
to my knowladge, all of the internal circutry of a computer (IC's and whatnot) is watertight. As long as everything is fully dried before the power is flipped back on, Pine Sol might do the trick.
Your problems will come when somebody tries to use something corrosive or sticky.
"Digitally enhancing"- hmm... that seems like it would still degrade the picture quality somewhat. Whenever you extrapolate image data it should reduce the acuracy of the image.
There have been a lot of complaints (lately, not so lately) about comapnies like MS taking over the computer world with patents. So, here is an idea: Why don't we fight patents with patents? We (the OSS community) should go patent every fscking thing we can think of and release the patents into the public domain. Even stupid things like "organizing photos based on time". Nothing is too small to be free.
This may get modded down, but I am slightly serious.
Yeah, I heard about this one guy who made $20's and passed them off at conveinence stores for small stuff such as razor blades, thus gaining the change as profit. He was caught (obviously, or he wouldn't have been on the Discovery Channel), but he had been at it for a couple of years and made a ton of money.
So, is their server is running on a cash register?
I would go with a ('cheap') MP3 player with an HD, if you need a lot of storage.
For carrying small files, I have found my 128MB USB key drive very useful. You can get a similer one for $30 (US) at Best Buy. Those little flash drives are almost indestructable, too.
Let's watch the "normal" part. At the center (not right or left) of most religions, people are fairly decent to one another. To hopefully douse the imenent flames:
The same can be said of all far-right/left people. Christian/Moslim/Jewish/Davidian/Religion X zealots have killed millions of people who didn't agree with them. The Romans did it, the Greeks did it. Every society in the history of the world has gotten rid of pesky infidels. Not just Christians or Moslims, but EVERYBODY!
I think the word you wanted was closer to 'counterfeited' than 'pirated'. They made fake baby formula, they did not put it in "Formula Burn-O-Matic 2000" and copy it to give to their friends.
If I have admin privs, and I run a piece of software (unless it's managed like .NET code), it can do ANYTHING I can do. That includes turning off firewalls.
Damn straight. Of course, every Windows user I know of runs their box as an admin all the time, so almost all arguments dealing with limited privilages are null.
True, but I can bang out @least 30+ on a laptop keyboard (one of the smaller ones, 12" screen). For laptops, the point is almost mute anyway, since you still have the keyboard out. No way in heck is anyone going to hook it to a PDA or convertable Tablet PC. Maybe a straight tablet, but there's a reason they bought a really expensive computer with a stylus. WEB TV users, maybe; but then nobody should be hampered by typing speed while browsing the net.
The only good application I can see for this device is as a game pad. I can so imagine playing HALO PC, Freelancer, or Doom and kicking so much arse not having to span the whole keyboard/mouse distance. Plus, this thing is probably way more comfortable than the keyboard/mouse
So, in short:
Desktop Typing - no
Laptop typing - no
Replacement for stylus - no
Gaming - Heck yeah!
"Up to 50 WPM!" Wow!
With a standard keyboard, I can type 65+ and some people can go to 100+ WPM. And QWERTY was designed to slow people down!
The open office drawing program should do exactly what you need. It can do everything you wanted and then some.
The real issue here is with the settlemens in general, not the specific CD's.
The record companies settled for millions of dollars. They decided to pay this with CD's. In the deal, the CDs were presumably valued at market price.
Whoa! Hold on, the record companies do not pay anywhere near market value for any of the CDs. They pay for the production costs, which sure a hell ain't $16 a CD; more like $0.50.
So this really wasn't any sort of punishment for the recording industry. More like a lesson that they could do whatever the hell they want and "repay" their debt to society with worthless crap.
I agree. I found SuSe to be very n00b friendly. It looks good and actually works. The only thing that sucked was the lack of a compiler. But, SuSe will surely get the job done for the majority of people who use their laptops for web browsing, word processing, email, and Solitare.
So, bravo HP! It is good to see someone finally bring Linux into the realm of the "common" computer consumer.