You are advocating a society in which the officials are selected the same way the winner of the wet t-shirt contest is chosen every Saturday night. Whoever looks the prettiest or has the best ad campaign will win. Voting is making a decision everyone has to live with. I don't want people being encouraged to "just vote" without the slightest awareness of who or what they're voting for.
If you have no clue of the issues, if you're basing your decision solely on superficial reasons, or if you're just voting because someone told you to, please don't vote.
Don't drown out the voices of actual concerned citizens who have invested a good amount of effort looking at all the issues and reviewing the histories and promises of the various candidates.
I tried to run Nethack once, but that thing is a huge resource hog! I mean, my computer isn't that great, but with a Radeon 9700 and 1.2GHz Athlon it could still only manage a frame every few seconds, at such low detail that it was only some 2D symbols on a black screen.
I've done this from the developer end. I've made prototypes of a few devices for independent inventors, including some simple USB devices. The difference between a typical private inventor's cost estimate, and the realistic cost of development, is about a factor of ten. Same for the time estimates. Real companies are usually closer to realistic figures, since they've done all this before.
And that's just for prototyping. It takes a lot of money, time, advertising, and infrastructure just to bring one device to market. That's why you see very few companies out there who only have one product...you just can't sell enough of one thing to recover your costs. So I would definitely agree that taking the self-starter approach is not realistic. You will have to find a company that will adopt your project, or else come up with an entire product line and develop a business plan for a company worthy of investment.
I don't know of an actual company that is based solely on bringing inventors' ideas to market, but I think it would be pretty neat.
Once we get to the point of people actually working in space, and using the weightless environment and resources to generate products, there will be insane profit. A space-based economy will make some of today's biggest companies look like a kid's piggy bank.
unless someone figures out a way to transfer one via their credit card o.O...
Maybe not credit card, but smart cards.... Actually, the credit card reader is just a data input device, right? Maybe it would be possible to do a buffer-overrun attack on an ATM, unless the card reader hardware specifically limits the possible output data.
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By the time any known star reaches us, I'm sure that we'll have the means to escape.
I used one of those last year (drywall/RotoZip bit). It works, but you have to keep really tight control of it...the pumpkin has areas of different density, so if you're cutting a curve you'll be pushing it along and then it will suddenly run away from you.
I've written USB firmware from scratch for the 68HC908JB8 microcontroller...yes, it is tough. But once you get everything working, you don't have to do much to change from one type of device to another. The problem is that there isn't a huge amount of free USB firmware out there for all the various USB microcontrollers. That's because most people, like me, finally got around to writing firmware when it became their job to do so.
However, USB is powerful and should be adopted by hobbyists. If you really need a serial port, there are many premade serial-to-USB converters and chips.
I saw both of those in flight the Green Bay Model Airplane Club's corn roast and airshow this August. They did a little skit with a guy pushing the lawnmower around and it finally got away from him and started flying. Unfortunately Snoopy had some technical difficulties and limped around at 50 feet while an authentic Fokker triplane replica flew circles around him. The whole show was good though.
There are other mistakes, too...for example, the student laptops ARE part of tuition, in the sense that you are required to buy them. Also, WMHD does stream their radio station on the internet. They had a Usenet server and lively internal groups when I went there...not sure if they still do, but according to this list they don't.
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Actually I would have thought that at first, but on further review it appears you would have to modulate the deflector array with an inverted tachyon pulse.
Yes! I once developed a formula for the 7-times rule which was based on the ratio of material thickness to material dimensions, and the stiffness of the material. With paper there is a sheet size that will let you get to the 7th fold. You need to have enough area left so that there is enough leverage to fold the 64 layers and overcome the semicircular reinforcing folds at the edges.
As far as sitting inside a hull one atom thick...be my guest. But maybe one application would be creating insanely large solar sails that fold up extremely small. You could even carry lots of spares.
So...there's lots of stuff out there discussing "monoatomic filament" as a sci-fi concept. Supposedly the sharpest thing possible, and a dangerous weapon.
How strong is this stuff? If you stretched a band of it between two points, say along the edge of a sword, would you have something that could produce the world's nastiest paper cuts?
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You are advocating a society in which the officials are selected the same way the winner of the wet t-shirt contest is chosen every Saturday night. Whoever looks the prettiest or has the best ad campaign will win. Voting is making a decision everyone has to live with. I don't want people being encouraged to "just vote" without the slightest awareness of who or what they're voting for.
It's great to have a say in who represents you, but if you figuratively open your mouth and let random noises bubble out, what good does that do?
If you have no clue of the issues, if you're basing your decision solely on superficial reasons, or if you're just voting because someone told you to, please don't vote.
Don't drown out the voices of actual concerned citizens who have invested a good amount of effort looking at all the issues and reviewing the histories and promises of the various candidates.
I tried to run Nethack once, but that thing is a huge resource hog! I mean, my computer isn't that great, but with a Radeon 9700 and 1.2GHz Athlon it could still only manage a frame every few seconds, at such low detail that it was only some 2D symbols on a black screen.
That...is a poorly done, butt-ugly costume.
That's 100 times better than the stupid video. Great job!
I've done this from the developer end. I've made prototypes of a few devices for independent inventors, including some simple USB devices. The difference between a typical private inventor's cost estimate, and the realistic cost of development, is about a factor of ten. Same for the time estimates. Real companies are usually closer to realistic figures, since they've done all this before.
And that's just for prototyping. It takes a lot of money, time, advertising, and infrastructure just to bring one device to market. That's why you see very few companies out there who only have one product...you just can't sell enough of one thing to recover your costs. So I would definitely agree that taking the self-starter approach is not realistic. You will have to find a company that will adopt your project, or else come up with an entire product line and develop a business plan for a company worthy of investment.
I don't know of an actual company that is based solely on bringing inventors' ideas to market, but I think it would be pretty neat.
Profit...yes.
Once we get to the point of people actually working in space, and using the weightless environment and resources to generate products, there will be insane profit. A space-based economy will make some of today's biggest companies look like a kid's piggy bank.
unless someone figures out a way to transfer one via their credit card o.O...
Maybe not credit card, but smart cards.... Actually, the credit card reader is just a data input device, right? Maybe it would be possible to do a buffer-overrun attack on an ATM, unless the card reader hardware specifically limits the possible output data.
By the time any known star reaches us, I'm sure that we'll have the means to escape.
I used one of those last year (drywall/RotoZip bit). It works, but you have to keep really tight control of it...the pumpkin has areas of different density, so if you're cutting a curve you'll be pushing it along and then it will suddenly run away from you.
I'm going to go all-out l337 and install a water-cooling kit!
This is very true. And you are complaining about an annoying group....
I'm so sorry for being distro-ist. I apologize to all Gentoo-Americans for my extreme insensitivity.
Now they can compile their kernel with "-mday=Wednesday" for even better optimization.
I don't know what Kerry would do about the nuclear stuff.
Build a rocket with a nuclear motor pointing up and a chemical motor pointing down.
I've written USB firmware from scratch for the 68HC908JB8 microcontroller...yes, it is tough. But once you get everything working, you don't have to do much to change from one type of device to another. The problem is that there isn't a huge amount of free USB firmware out there for all the various USB microcontrollers. That's because most people, like me, finally got around to writing firmware when it became their job to do so.
However, USB is powerful and should be adopted by hobbyists. If you really need a serial port, there are many premade serial-to-USB converters and chips.
I saw both of those in flight the Green Bay Model Airplane Club's corn roast and airshow this August. They did a little skit with a guy pushing the lawnmower around and it finally got away from him and started flying. Unfortunately Snoopy had some technical difficulties and limped around at 50 feet while an authentic Fokker triplane replica flew circles around him. The whole show was good though.
Not to mention being light-years ahead of these little 366MHz Geodes, in terms of raw speed.
There are other mistakes, too...for example, the student laptops ARE part of tuition, in the sense that you are required to buy them. Also, WMHD does stream their radio station on the internet. They had a Usenet server and lively internal groups when I went there...not sure if they still do, but according to this list they don't.
Actually I would have thought that at first, but on further review it appears you would have to modulate the deflector array with an inverted tachyon pulse.
Yes! I once developed a formula for the 7-times rule which was based on the ratio of material thickness to material dimensions, and the stiffness of the material. With paper there is a sheet size that will let you get to the 7th fold. You need to have enough area left so that there is enough leverage to fold the 64 layers and overcome the semicircular reinforcing folds at the edges.
As far as sitting inside a hull one atom thick...be my guest. But maybe one application would be creating insanely large solar sails that fold up extremely small. You could even carry lots of spares.
So...there's lots of stuff out there discussing "monoatomic filament" as a sci-fi concept. Supposedly the sharpest thing possible, and a dangerous weapon.
How strong is this stuff? If you stretched a band of it between two points, say along the edge of a sword, would you have something that could produce the world's nastiest paper cuts?
That's brilliant.