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It's still somewhere in my old bedroom at my parents place.
If your parents are anything like mine, it was tossed into the trash a month after you moved out. Quick run home and get it now, before all your childhood memorabilia is tossed and your old room is turned into a sewing room!
Why not a few good distros with kickbutt installers that let you install EXACTLY what you want? Instead of everyone wasting their time working on 100+ piddly distros? A few distros (light version=as small as possible, general version=bloat to the max, and maybe a newbie friendly version). Don't get me wrong, choice is a great thing, but at what point are people just wasting their time making YAD (Yet Another Distro)? And if I were creating software, which distro should I pick? Technically software should work great on any distro, but with so many distros/libraries out there, "out of the box" installs seem to be getting less and less common, which is a huge deal to linux newcomers.
Here question is a field of landmines. Your only hope of a right answer is, "Honey you are the most gorgeous woman on the planet, I wouldn't change a thing". Any other answer and you are pretty much doomed. Of course by ignoring her you made her think you were fantasizing about Jolie.
Who modded this flaimbait? The RIAA does stuff like this all the time. Do you seriously think they will just sit by while artists find other ways to distribute their music (and make money) that leaves them out of the loop? If not, feel free to post a reply!
This looks awesome, but how long before the RIAA starts feeding copyrighted music into the system and then gets it shut down? Things like this have to be their worst nightmare.
peter303 writes with a more optimistic story in USA Today " about building and launching a satellite for as little as $65K,", as long as you can squeeze it into a 4 inch-cube.
Urm how are these stories even related (aside from them both being about satellites)? Are we all supposed to chip in and buy a satellite for taking our own pictures? (Wondering if an X-10 camera plus transmitter will fit into a 4" cube).
And after that they're gonna be going after your general "look," what you're wearing, where exactly you are when it spots you, how much disposable money you actually have in your accounts at the time, and on and on and on.
Thank God, I can finally justify dressing like a homeless person.
the culprit will be set for life when it comes to toilet paper and snacks.
Ummm, considering the number of cameras in every Walmart I have ever seen, it will only be a matter of time before whoever is doing this gets caught. I would bet money that sooner or later Walmart will start sending fake cards through the system (with high dollar amounts) to catch these kinds of people too.
Maybe he can sell plans for making this kind of tracker on the internet to help with his legal fees.
On the flip side, maybe his punishment could fit the crime: fit him with a GPS collar and allow people to stalk him (or at least let his ex know where he is currently stalking her from).
Helium production would be a bonus, since we are currently using up the helium we have. My understanding is once it gets into the atmosphere it floats away and is essentially gone forever. We should quit using it in kids balloons, since it is needed to cool some medical equipment.
Technically isn't the Universe itself a perpetual motion machine? Until (if?) it collapses back into a singularity there is always something moving somewhere relative to something else. I must hurry and go patent this before someone else does.....
Over the years, a number of groups around the world have reproduced the original Pons-Fleischmann excess heat effect, yielding sometimes as much as 250 percent of the energy put in.
(snip)
Other researchers are finally beginning to explain why the Pons-Fleischmann effect has been difficult to reproduce. Mike McKubre from SRI International, in Menlo Park, Calif., a respected researcher who is influential among those pursuing cold fusion, says that the effect can be reliably seen only once the palladium electrodes are packed with deuterium at ratios of 100 percent--one deuterium atom for every palladium atom. His work shows that if the ratio drops by as little as 10 points, to 90 percent, only 2 experimental runs in 12 produce excess heat, while all runs at a ratio of 100 percent produce excess heat.
Something is going on here that we don't understand, and it looks like it can be reproduced. Yeah I would say it would be worth looking into further. The 250% heat output sounds like a good thing (especially if no toxic by-products are produced) so how does that compare to other types of heat generation I wonder?
Certainly this isn't hard to get around, do they filter out images for example? Rot-13, images containing text (or even with the text tacked on the end of the image), or any number of other ways that data could slip through, isn't the Chinese govt fighting a serious uphill battle here? Though one must wonder what the penalty for circumventing the firewall must be.
...the Skipper trades his fish for Ginger's decorative shells, not because he wants shells, but because he knows he can trade them for Gilligan's coconuts.
And later we see:
Right now, the Skipper is willing to trade one of his fish for two coconuts...
What is wrong with the Skipper, why didn't he ignore Gilligan and go straight to Ginger, the source of the premium coconuts?
So this is what people with advanced degrees in economics do with their time! I could have been writing papers about Gilligan's Island instead of coding until 3am. Boy did I pick the wrong degree or what????
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If your parents are anything like mine, it was tossed into the trash a month after you moved out. Quick run home and get it now, before all your childhood memorabilia is tossed and your old room is turned into a sewing room!
Throw in this guy to sit around all day and do the voice and this is a great deal!
Anymore lost nuclear bombs that I should be worrying about? I had no inkling of any any missing nukes before this.
Why not a few good distros with kickbutt installers that let you install EXACTLY what you want? Instead of everyone wasting their time working on 100+ piddly distros? A few distros (light version=as small as possible, general version=bloat to the max, and maybe a newbie friendly version). Don't get me wrong, choice is a great thing, but at what point are people just wasting their time making YAD (Yet Another Distro)? And if I were creating software, which distro should I pick? Technically software should work great on any distro, but with so many distros/libraries out there, "out of the box" installs seem to be getting less and less common, which is a huge deal to linux newcomers.
So where are these worms sticking all this great data they are sniffing? Wouldn't that tend to leave a trail right to the naughty people who made it?
Where can we bet on the fate of Genesis' twin Stardust, and what are the odds the same thing will happen to it?
Some possible safe answers are:
Take off your clothes so I can compare.
What fat?
Damn I think I left the oven on (run from the room and out the front door and don't ever come back).
Here question is a field of landmines. Your only hope of a right answer is, "Honey you are the most gorgeous woman on the planet, I wouldn't change a thing". Any other answer and you are pretty much doomed. Of course by ignoring her you made her think you were fantasizing about Jolie.
Who modded this flaimbait? The RIAA does stuff like this all the time. Do you seriously think they will just sit by while artists find other ways to distribute their music (and make money) that leaves them out of the loop? If not, feel free to post a reply!
This looks awesome, but how long before the RIAA starts feeding copyrighted music into the system and then gets it shut down? Things like this have to be their worst nightmare.
Does taking home "free" pens from work count as overtime pay?
Urm how are these stories even related (aside from them both being about satellites)? Are we all supposed to chip in and buy a satellite for taking our own pictures? (Wondering if an X-10 camera plus transmitter will fit into a 4" cube).
Thank God, I can finally justify dressing like a homeless person.
Ummm, considering the number of cameras in every Walmart I have ever seen, it will only be a matter of time before whoever is doing this gets caught. I would bet money that sooner or later Walmart will start sending fake cards through the system (with high dollar amounts) to catch these kinds of people too.
On the flip side, maybe his punishment could fit the crime: fit him with a GPS collar and allow people to stalk him (or at least let his ex know where he is currently stalking her from).
. There is tons of it out in space, the hard part is getting it back here to earth :-)
Helium production would be a bonus, since we are currently using up the helium we have. My understanding is once it gets into the atmosphere it floats away and is essentially gone forever. We should quit using it in kids balloons, since it is needed to cool some medical equipment.
Technically isn't the Universe itself a perpetual motion machine? Until (if?) it collapses back into a singularity there is always something moving somewhere relative to something else. I must hurry and go patent this before someone else does.....
Over the years, a number of groups around the world have reproduced the original Pons-Fleischmann excess heat effect, yielding sometimes as much as 250 percent of the energy put in.
(snip)
Other researchers are finally beginning to explain why the Pons-Fleischmann effect has been difficult to reproduce. Mike McKubre from SRI International, in Menlo Park, Calif., a respected researcher who is influential among those pursuing cold fusion, says that the effect can be reliably seen only once the palladium electrodes are packed with deuterium at ratios of 100 percent--one deuterium atom for every palladium atom. His work shows that if the ratio drops by as little as 10 points, to 90 percent, only 2 experimental runs in 12 produce excess heat, while all runs at a ratio of 100 percent produce excess heat.
Something is going on here that we don't understand, and it looks like it can be reproduced. Yeah I would say it would be worth looking into further. The 250% heat output sounds like a good thing (especially if no toxic by-products are produced) so how does that compare to other types of heat generation I wonder?
That certainly would make me rethink the whole not going to church thing thats for sure.
We should be fine as long as the signal isn't a countdown.
Certainly this isn't hard to get around, do they filter out images for example? Rot-13, images containing text (or even with the text tacked on the end of the image), or any number of other ways that data could slip through, isn't the Chinese govt fighting a serious uphill battle here? Though one must wonder what the penalty for circumventing the firewall must be.
Actually, my post was attempting to make this joke, but apparently it was far too subtle.....
And later we see:
Right now, the Skipper is willing to trade one of his fish for two coconuts...
What is wrong with the Skipper, why didn't he ignore Gilligan and go straight to Ginger, the source of the premium coconuts?
So this is what people with advanced degrees in economics do with their time! I could have been writing papers about Gilligan's Island instead of coding until 3am. Boy did I pick the wrong degree or what????