... I hacked the school network once. It's not exactly hard. I used a website I wrote in C++. My monitor's way faster than yours and my CPU's made my GeForce.
Never played MazaWar but I used to have hours of fun on the succesor - supermazewar. Like Mazewar, only with colour and sound. Anyone else here play it much?
Not sure how this is managed by the DNS Servers, or if this is managed by the top-level Networks or what but...
In the UK there is a.me.uk which fulfils an identical function. I think.me.uk sounds slightly err strange, and would deffinately prefer.per, or.per.uk . From http://www.me.uk/,
The.me.uk domain was introduced to fill a gap in the UK domain space for individuals to have an identity on the internet. With.co.uk for commercial, and.org.uk for non profit organtsations, there was not real place for individuals to have their own identity.
Individuals can now get their own.me.uk domain, e.g. you could have fredbloggs.me.uk and so have email me@fredbloggs.me.uk and web space at www.fredblogs.me.uk and so on. The domains are available on a first come first served basis.
If you are lucky, you may be able to get your surname, e.g. smith.me.uk which would allow your whole family to have subdomains and email address at no extra cost - e.g. www.john.smith.me.uk and john@smith.me.uk .
Yes, water travels many times better through water than air (but IANAP). I used to play a game where I'd set my watch alarm for about 10 seconds, then through it in the water and wait for it to go off. Then first one to get to the watch after it starts beeping wins. I still have that watch...
On the other end of the spectrum, in emergencies the BBC submerges microphones in condoms if they need underwater recording. Douglas Adams has a hilarious account of trying to buy a condom in China in order to record the sounds of the Yangtze River Dolphins in his book "Last Chance to See".
hey'll do mass protests and burn their ID cards they will
I don't think they will - I mean, I personally don't know anyone who would - except for me. Well I hope we will, anyway. (Wouldn't want to be the only one doing the burning!)
Agreed. Want an example of that? The War between the BBC and our Government over Iraq. It claimed the life of David Kelly and the jobs of a whole legion of BBC managers from the reporter who broke the story up to the BBC's managing directors.
pure water doesn't conduct electricity
Thanks for the info; I wasn't aware of that.
Coffee on the other hand seems to be a very good conductor...
Interesting you should say that - my dad had the idea (only half-jokingly) of building a drip coffee-maker into a computer case, and using the CPU's HSF as the heat source. (Because a 2AM during a coding challenge, what does a geek need but more caffiene?) I didn't think it could heat the water hot enough and still cool the processer, so we never tried.
While you are right that Peltier devices move heat from one side (the cool side) to the other (the hot side), they also generate a HECK of alot of waste heat themselves. So, great for cooling CPUs, but ussually used only in conjunction with other "extreme" coolers such as a watercooler or a bong. This is because, the more you cool the hot side, the colder the cold side will be. Peltiers are unique amoung extreme cooling in that they can actually cool lower (ussually far lower, when used in conjunction with other extreme technologies) than room temperature. Extreme OC'ers have sometimes (often!) destroyed their systems by letting water wapour condense onto the back of the sub-zero CPUs!
They're really quite amazing devices. I saw one when they first came onto the consumer PC market, about 4 years ago. Bloke had hooked it up to a car battery, and poured some drinking water onto it. Muttered something about the battery being flat, and a few seconds later scraped *ice* of the surface of the Peltier. They're also used to cool scientific equipment, such as CCD imaging devices in medium-to-high power telescopes.
And no I never made a crank emergency call as a kid. There are just somethings you don't do.
Friend of mine has two elder brothers. They used to live in Asia, where the emergency services... err... aren't very reliable. So when they moved back to Canada this guy had no idea about 911 or emergency services. His brothers started teasing him (in the way elder brothers do) and he got slightly upset so they told him if there was an emergency he could call 911.
O: Emergency Services, please state the nature of your emergency.
It's happened/happening in the UK. Most of my friends have freeview - a digital box with a one-time fee that lets viewsers subscribe to free channels in the UK. Digital boxes also let their televisions have access to DAB / Digital Radio, and most shows let viewers interact in some way (Commentator: "To take part in this debate, press the Red Button now.")
Agreed. The RI's Christmas lectures rule. I saw them one year, I was a child at the time, and they had a female professer talking about heat and the sun. She even had a graduate student of hers immerse himself in ~10 C water, while she and her other students took measurements. But she was a really fascinating speaker, made it all really interesting - but not by dumbing it down, either. Now that was quality programming.
Movie, Radio Series 1, Radio Series 2, 5 books, and now this one. Anyone else get really confused between all the different timelines? Care to help us out?
You're absolutely right; Man and Superman rocked. I havn't actually read it, but I was lucky enough to see it performed by a rather good acting company in Bristol recently. Smashing reviews from The Guardian, et al. And it was so funny...
Yes, and the 5th Anniversery of his unfortunate demise was 2 days ago. Since then they have been lead fearlessly by joint leaders Alan "Howling Laud" Hope and Cat Mandu, photographed here.
Unfortunately, Cat Mandu was found dead last year - the victim of a traffic accident, having ended his days as another road death statistic, renewing calls from Loony Party activists to introduce Cat crossings on main roads so that cats have the same chance of crossing the road as pelicans and Zebras.
This is because most of the English-language authors are America. One of the best things about Wikipedia is it is also available in other languages - and these arent just "translations" of what you'll see in the English-language sections. There are pages which are completely different, entire topics and groups of topics which exist in the other language Wikis and do not exist in the English wiki. Why, and why is this good? Because these topics are important to other, non-american people. It's quite interesting to compare and contrast.
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... I hacked the school network once. It's not exactly hard. I used a website I wrote in C++. My monitor's way faster than yours and my CPU's made my GeForce.
Never played MazaWar but I used to have hours of fun on the succesor - supermazewar. Like Mazewar, only with colour and sound. Anyone else here play it much?
I actually think this is a VERY VERY good idea.
Not sure how this is managed by the DNS Servers, or if this is managed by the top-level Networks or what but... In the UK there is a .me.uk which fulfils an identical function. I think .me.uk sounds slightly err strange, and would deffinately prefer .per, or .per.uk . From http://www.me.uk/,
The .me.uk domain was introduced to fill a gap in the UK domain space for individuals to have an identity on the internet. With .co.uk for commercial, and .org.uk for non profit organtsations, there was not real place for individuals to have their own identity.
Individuals can now get their own .me.uk domain, e.g. you could have fredbloggs.me.uk and so have email me@fredbloggs.me.uk and web space at www.fredblogs.me.uk and so on. The domains are available on a first come first served basis.
If you are lucky, you may be able to get your surname, e.g. smith.me.uk which would allow your whole family to have subdomains and email address at no extra cost - e.g. www.john.smith.me.uk and john@smith.me.uk .
(Hoping this isn't off-topic...)
Yes, water travels many times better through water than air (but IANAP). I used to play a game where I'd set my watch alarm for about 10 seconds, then through it in the water and wait for it to go off. Then first one to get to the watch after it starts beeping wins. I still have that watch...
On the other end of the spectrum, in emergencies the BBC submerges microphones in condoms if they need underwater recording. Douglas Adams has a hilarious account of trying to buy a condom in China in order to record the sounds of the Yangtze River Dolphins in his book "Last Chance to See".
hey'll do mass protests and burn their ID cards they will
I don't think they will - I mean, I personally don't know anyone who would - except for me. Well I hope we will, anyway. (Wouldn't want to be the only one doing the burning!)
Agreed. Want an example of that? The War between the BBC and our Government over Iraq. It claimed the life of David Kelly and the jobs of a whole legion of BBC managers from the reporter who broke the story up to the BBC's managing directors.
I think the BBC is pretty independant.
Damn good show. Very funny. Apparently, it was Margret Thatcher's favorite program.
pure water doesn't conduct electricity Thanks for the info; I wasn't aware of that. Coffee on the other hand seems to be a very good conductor... Interesting you should say that - my dad had the idea (only half-jokingly) of building a drip coffee-maker into a computer case, and using the CPU's HSF as the heat source. (Because a 2AM during a coding challenge, what does a geek need but more caffiene?) I didn't think it could heat the water hot enough and still cool the processer, so we never tried.
While you are right that Peltier devices move heat from one side (the cool side) to the other (the hot side), they also generate a HECK of alot of waste heat themselves. So, great for cooling CPUs, but ussually used only in conjunction with other "extreme" coolers such as a watercooler or a bong. This is because, the more you cool the hot side, the colder the cold side will be. Peltiers are unique amoung extreme cooling in that they can actually cool lower (ussually far lower, when used in conjunction with other extreme technologies) than room temperature. Extreme OC'ers have sometimes (often!) destroyed their systems by letting water wapour condense onto the back of the sub-zero CPUs!
They're really quite amazing devices. I saw one when they first came onto the consumer PC market, about 4 years ago. Bloke had hooked it up to a car battery, and poured some drinking water onto it. Muttered something about the battery being flat, and a few seconds later scraped *ice* of the surface of the Peltier. They're also used to cool scientific equipment, such as CCD imaging devices in medium-to-high power telescopes.
DanielDishwashers playing chess, eh? That's a new one on me...
And no I never made a crank emergency call as a kid. There are just somethings you don't do.
Friend of mine has two elder brothers. They used to live in Asia, where the emergency services... err... aren't very reliable. So when they moved back to Canada this guy had no idea about 911 or emergency services. His brothers started teasing him (in the way elder brothers do) and he got slightly upset so they told him if there was an emergency he could call 911.
O: Emergency Services, please state the nature of your emergency.
J: My brothers are teasing me... :-|
It's happened/happening in the UK. Most of my friends have freeview - a digital box with a one-time fee that lets viewsers subscribe to free channels in the UK. Digital boxes also let their televisions have access to DAB / Digital Radio, and most shows let viewers interact in some way (Commentator: "To take part in this debate, press the Red Button now.")
Agreed. The RI's Christmas lectures rule. I saw them one year, I was a child at the time, and they had a female professer talking about heat and the sun. She even had a graduate student of hers immerse himself in ~10 C water, while she and her other students took measurements. But she was a really fascinating speaker, made it all really interesting - but not by dumbing it down, either. Now that was quality programming.
You just gotta know how to configure it properly! Don't wanna flame, but Camui's should not be held responsible for the (in)competance of their owner!
Err wasn't the reason he fell off was because he forgot to turn the thing on!
Agreed. I was seeing adverts for this years ago. And BTW, vodaphone is a very well known cellphone provider here in the UK.
"...Found this on some European site." (Shakes head sadly.)
Movie, Radio Series 1, Radio Series 2, 5 books, and now this one. Anyone else get really confused between all the different timelines? Care to help us out?
Yes, and the flowers in his books changed colour as well, oscilating in time to the sound. Cool concept, when can we get one?
Honestly, let it go. If you want to complain about the pillaging and raping of a franchise, go complain about Star Trek.
Ok. (Commences complaining.)
You're absolutely right; Man and Superman rocked. I havn't actually read it, but I was lucky enough to see it performed by a rather good acting company in Bristol recently. Smashing reviews from The Guardian, et al. And it was so funny...
Here's what I thought of it.
Parent is correct - broaden your horizons! Go see a play!
Yes, and the 5th Anniversery of his unfortunate demise was 2 days ago. Since then they have been lead fearlessly by joint leaders Alan "Howling Laud" Hope and Cat Mandu, photographed here.
Unfortunately, Cat Mandu was found dead last year - the victim of a traffic accident, having ended his days as another road death statistic, renewing calls from Loony Party activists to introduce Cat crossings on main roads so that cats have the same chance of crossing the road as pelicans and Zebras.
Slasdotters, welcome to British Politics and the British Monter Raving Loony Party>Celebrities more important than the rest of us
More important says who?
I think DARPA tried that a few years ago, but then the academics took it over.. Can't quite remember what it was called though - any ideas?
This is because most of the English-language authors are America. One of the best things about Wikipedia is it is also available in other languages - and these arent just "translations" of what you'll see in the English-language sections. There are pages which are completely different, entire topics and groups of topics which exist in the other language Wikis and do not exist in the English wiki. Why, and why is this good? Because these topics are important to other, non-american people. It's quite interesting to compare and contrast.