...Is that once you're inside, Holding the button down of the floor you want to go to, will take you there WITHOUT STOPPING!!!! I learned about this in a hospital, of all places, but have learned since, that all elevator controller electronics are set this way by default!!! This explains all the times you see the elevator go by your floor without stopping; Someone knows how to hack the system better than you. I've never tried holding the call button forever; people look at you so weird when you do that... But it could work in theory.
...a script that loads the Goatse.cx photo, makes it the wallpaper, sends it to everyone in your outlook express address book, and overwrites all your porn with tubgirl!!...and then reboots the computer instantly everytime you try to load a floppy or cd or hit the internet....
Originally, OS/2 was a joint project between M$ and IBM; I still remember the lawsuits and all. Then NT development started; Seems like the first release after the split was OS/2 2.1 or close to it; Antone ever see NT 2.xx? I have 3.0, 3.5, and 4, but don't remember anything before that. I beleive that was before the split.
The college I go to changed the Calculus book Three times as I took Calc I,II,And III, and the only thing that changed was the Chapter numbers! It turns out there arent a whole shitload of Calculus problems that give nice, even answers! The publisher bastards were giving kickbacks to the teachers for changing texts. One of the profs noticed that I had remarked Chapter 12 to Chapter 16, and told me I was stealing! These stupid jerks didn't even change the order of the problems, just the chapter numbers! (If you have the fifth, sixth, and seventh ed, you can check yourself.)
What I want to see is textbooks scanned and distributed for free, like alt.binaries.ebooks, or something.
A case for each of these could easily be made, and would stand up in court.
Obviously, this pyros guy works for the RIAA, or just likes goons or something.
If anyone else did this, The above list is what we would be facing at the inevitable session with the Judge.
Without 'Probable Cause', even the police couldn't do this.
They would have to bust you for selling without a liscense, or some such BS, so that they could confiscate your property, and THEN they would have the right to investigate whether or not your property you were selling was infringing on someones copyright. Hell, wal-mart sells DVD's for 5 bucks. They cant reasonably assume that yours are 'stolen' unless they have someone complaining thet you stole from them, or they can see, with their own eyes, evidence of such.
If it's more than 1 on 1, and you can convince a Judge that you felt "In fear of your life or property" then its totally justifiable. You have the right to protect property that you bought; Just because you don't have written authorization from the copyright holder to sell it, doesn't mean it's not yours. As long as you can point to the person you bought them from, they can kiss your ass. Copyright infringement is NOT a criminal offense, it's a civil offense, and all their whining isn't going to make it so until they buy some more legislation.
So, If you're packing, tell them to go fuck themselves, and if they threaten you as a group, blow their silly asses back to hell and call the cops. The cops will love the fact that these 'police impersonators' got what they really needed.
(I can just see these faggots fucking with a real mafia-related vendor.)
..that software engineers at dell can actually understand source code, do you?
Judging from the POS dell systems I have to deal with at work, windows scripting is beyond them.
Our dell-certified microsoft-certified IT idiot recommends reformatting and reinstalling windows after a system crash; He wonders why his schedule is always full.
IBM: We not only OWN Big Brother, but we copyrighted him, and his spawn. Oh, and while you were busy making deals with Micro$oft, we patented the whole thing.
... and UV filters are available for florescent bulbs, just in case you need them. BTW, the high brightness halogen incandescent bulbs do emit UV light, but not the standard coated, screw in bulbs; and florescent bulbs dump a shitload of UV out at the ends, where there is no coating.
I work in a darkroom, around things that are very UV sensitive. Someone taking a flash picture nearly had his head mounted on a pike by the door this week!
Actually, the onboard computer on my car shuts down the fuel injectors at 105mph; the first time that happened, i thought I blew something! Then I did some experimenting and found it only shut down in overdrive, and at also at 5000rpm, so it is a speed/rev limit function. But you can go over 105mph in 3rd. It just shuts down if you go over 105 in overdrive. It doesnt seem to shut down when it shifts up after passing this mark, not that I had a lot of time to fuck around with watching the tach/speedo at over 120mph....
By contrast, the 1963 thunderbird that was my first car (old when I got it) was quite comfy at 140mph; I drove it without a speedo for about two years for a 70 mile commute; most of the drive was interstate, at 5am; no cops, no traffic...You can imagine my surprise when I found out the distance, and by doing the time/distance thing, found out that my 40 minute commute was averaging over 100mph, with the last 10 miles in bumper to bumper traffic!!
Still, even though I drive fast, 90mph (or even 60) is too damn fast for in city driving. Speed should always be reasonable for the driving conditions; 100mph on the freeway, with everyone else driving that speed, is a lot different than 100mph thru an intersection, with cars turning off.
... especially the part about waiting in the cold, hoping to die.
Nobody wants a game where we use 'realistic' muskets; we want autoloading RPGs and instant-shot railguns, and fuck anyone who gets in there with us.
WWII was a bitch, yeah, but I don't feel guilty about it, because, I didn't kill any jews, russians, or anybody else, for that matter. And I don't owe them any guilt, either.
Want people to respect jews? Don't be an asshole. It's that easy.
These are games. Get over it. If I want to spend my time off chasing my friends across some terrain with an RPG, saying "Stand still! This will only hurt for a minute!!!" , then, by god, I will.
All your bitching makes me want to do is puke, because you represent the part of humanity that would be fixed by evolution, IF we would stop protecting it.
The precession of the apogee/Perigee of Mercury's orbit does not agree well with Newton or Einstein. There is yet a discrepancy that is currently unexplained.
A florescent tube is still an arc in the the sense of it being a column of ionized gas carrying electricity, but it isn't an 'Arc Lamp'.
The working 'gas' in your typical 40W tube is actually a small amount of mercury, heated and vaporized by the high voltage generated by the ballast and starter. (about 10kV at low current to start it off)
The mercury vaporizes and ionizes, dropping the voltage across the tube to about 80V; it flashes 120 times a second, as the 60Hz is full-wave rectified to make the strobe effect less obvious, as well as keeping everything warm.
The mercury gives off mostly UV light, which is absorbed by the coating inside the tube, and that gives off the visible light we see.
HPS lamps work much the same way, but sodium is used as the phosphor material instead;it takes awhile to vaporize, which is why the light doesn't come on for a few minutes; the UV which is most of the output is absorbed by the inner glass. (thankfully)
Argon is the fill gas for both.
High frequency ballasts exist, but are expensive compared to the old standard, but are coming into wider use. If its running from dc, it is likely running at higher frequency for greater efficiency.
BTW, the outer envelope on a HID or HPS lamp is to block the UV emission; if it breaks, the lamp will still work, it will just dust all your plastic stuff (as well as you) with UV exposure. (UV is bad for plastic.)
So; None of our modern, indoor lights is an arc lamp, those are too inefficient, as well as burning the electrodes as they burn.
Most all are all electric column discharge lamps with the resulting UV converted to visible by a phosphor of some kind.
How many people are you counting for the $100 Million?
The shuttle can haul a shitload of people,(30,000lbs?) if you dont carry cargo, and refit for passengers. I saw pictures when I was a kid showing things like that, when they were deciding to put all their funding into the Shuttle. But, hell, development stopped there, as far as the public can see. Even the concept of a 'space tug' to ferry things between geosysncronous orbit and Low Earth Orbit was discussed, as well as L5 hotels and lunar mining.
This is the shit we should have done instead of ending the Apollo program 30 years ago.
We're spending $87Billion to rebuild a country that we dusted in the first place; what would 10 Billion a year do for the space program?
However, we need to fire all the upper management first; Giving these entrenched assholes more money to piss away on overhead instead of exploration is not going to help our current situation at all.
The managers at NASA murdered the crew of Columbia when the did nothing. And everyone in that decision chain as well.
We, as a country, and a people, need to do this. It will give us a direction, and lead us onward, instead of stagnation.
Remember, this is the same 'Honor' that kept us from glassing large areas of the Middle East. If the object is to use the best available means because it would shorten the war, are you saying that we should have used nukes on Afganistan and Iraq?
"Kill them all, god knows his own" is a good working strategy if you want security. Read Sun Tzu's "Art of War", for a better insight.
Our honor is in our efforts not to annhilate a people, but to use just enough effort to succeed.
If countries continue to be "unreasonable", well, that's what we developed Nukes for.
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...Is that once you're inside, Holding the button down of the floor you want to go to, will take you there WITHOUT STOPPING!!!!
I learned about this in a hospital, of all places, but have learned since, that all elevator controller electronics are set this way by default!!!
This explains all the times you see the elevator go by your floor without stopping; Someone knows how to hack the system better than you.
I've never tried holding the call button forever; people look at you so weird when you do that... But it could work in theory.
...a script that loads the Goatse.cx photo, makes it the wallpaper, sends it to everyone in your outlook express address book, and overwrites all your porn with tubgirl!! ...and then reboots the computer instantly everytime you try to load a floppy or cd or hit the internet....
Man, talk about evil....
... or maybe Doom 3?
Get it finished already and SHIP IT!!
Originally, OS/2 was a joint project between M$ and IBM; I still remember the lawsuits and all.
Then NT development started; Seems like the first release after the split was OS/2 2.1 or close to it;
Antone ever see NT 2.xx? I have 3.0, 3.5, and 4, but don't remember anything before that. I beleive that was before the split.
The college I go to changed the Calculus book Three times as I took Calc I,II,And III, and the only thing that changed was the Chapter numbers!
It turns out there arent a whole shitload of Calculus problems that give nice, even answers!
The publisher bastards were giving kickbacks to the teachers for changing texts. One of the profs noticed that I had remarked Chapter 12 to Chapter 16, and told me I was stealing! These stupid jerks didn't even change the order of the problems, just the chapter numbers! (If you have the fifth, sixth, and seventh ed, you can check yourself.)
What I want to see is textbooks scanned and distributed for free, like alt.binaries.ebooks, or something.
A case for each of these could easily be made, and would stand up in court.
Obviously, this pyros guy works for the RIAA, or just likes goons or something.
If anyone else did this, The above list is what we would be facing at the inevitable session with the Judge.
Without 'Probable Cause', even the police couldn't do this.
They would have to bust you for selling without a liscense, or some such BS, so that they could confiscate your property, and THEN they would have the right to investigate whether or not your property you were selling was infringing on someones copyright.
Hell, wal-mart sells DVD's for 5 bucks. They cant reasonably assume that yours are 'stolen' unless they have someone complaining thet you stole from them, or they can see, with their own eyes, evidence of such.
If it's more than 1 on 1, and you can convince a Judge that you felt "In fear of your life or property" then its totally justifiable.
You have the right to protect property that you bought; Just because you don't have written authorization from the copyright holder to sell it, doesn't mean it's not yours. As long as you can point to the person you bought them from, they can kiss your ass. Copyright infringement is NOT a criminal offense, it's a civil offense, and all their whining isn't going to make it so until they buy some more legislation.
So, If you're packing, tell them to go fuck themselves, and if they threaten you as a group, blow their silly asses back to hell and call the cops.
The cops will love the fact that these 'police impersonators' got what they really needed.
(I can just see these faggots fucking with a real mafia-related vendor.)
..that software engineers at dell can actually understand source code, do you?
Judging from the POS dell systems I have to deal with at work, windows scripting is beyond them.
Our dell-certified microsoft-certified IT idiot recommends reformatting and reinstalling windows after a system crash; He wonders why his schedule is always full.
If you read the thread at Groklaw, "SOMEONE" bought 70,000 shares to pump up the sale price, just before close.
"Painting", I think they called it.
IBM: We not only OWN Big Brother, but we copyrighted him, and his spawn.
Oh, and while you were busy making deals with Micro$oft, we patented the whole thing.
I think He'll make LOTS of friends in prison!!!
I still have a Titanium d20, that I bought at a con in the early 80's.
Wish I'd bought the whole set.
Is that anything like having an obsession for Necrophelia with dead Orcs? ...And anyway; who the hell uses the new rules for anything?
We still play 1st edition AD&D in my crew. Fuck the new shit.
... and UV filters are available for florescent bulbs, just in case you need them.
BTW, the high brightness halogen incandescent bulbs do emit UV light, but not the standard coated, screw in bulbs; and florescent bulbs dump a shitload of UV out at the ends, where there is no coating.
I work in a darkroom, around things that are very UV sensitive. Someone taking a flash picture nearly had his head mounted on a pike by the door this week!
Great joke; but, really, the story would suck at the end without Gollum...
Damn. I wish I had mod points today!
But how many people will 'get'it?
Actually, the onboard computer on my car shuts down the fuel injectors at 105mph; the first time that happened, i thought I blew something!
Then I did some experimenting and found it only shut down in overdrive, and at also at 5000rpm, so it is a speed/rev limit function.
But you can go over 105mph in 3rd. It just shuts down if you go over 105 in overdrive. It doesnt seem to shut down when it shifts up after passing this mark, not that I had a lot of time to fuck around with watching the tach/speedo at over 120mph....
By contrast, the 1963 thunderbird that was my first car (old when I got it) was quite comfy at 140mph; I drove it without a speedo for about two years for a 70 mile commute; most of the drive was interstate, at 5am; no cops, no traffic...You can imagine my surprise when I found out the distance, and by doing the time/distance thing, found out that my 40 minute commute was averaging over 100mph, with the last 10 miles in bumper to bumper traffic!!
Still, even though I drive fast, 90mph (or even 60) is too damn fast for in city driving. Speed should always be reasonable for the driving conditions; 100mph on the freeway, with everyone else driving that speed, is a lot different than 100mph thru an intersection, with cars turning off.
P4 1.8G $180
256MB ram $50
DVD-ROM $50
80G HD $60
Non-epoxy motherboard $60
Total system cost: $400
Killer mobo $180 P4C800 deluxe
p4 2.6G $210
512MB DDR (4 DIMMS for dual channel) $120
DVD $50
80G HD $60
Total for killer system: $620
If you dont count the video card in the equation, A killer pc is pretty cheap.
The mobo above with dual channel DDR is the only thing I've seen faster than the P4T I bought last year with 32bit rambus.
Now if the video card is removable, then these guys are going to be raped silly!
... especially the part about waiting in the cold, hoping to die.
Nobody wants a game where we use 'realistic' muskets; we want autoloading RPGs and instant-shot railguns, and fuck anyone who gets in there with us.
WWII was a bitch, yeah, but I don't feel guilty about it, because, I didn't kill any jews, russians, or anybody else, for that matter. And I don't owe them any guilt, either.
Want people to respect jews? Don't be an asshole. It's that easy.
These are games. Get over it. If I want to spend my time off chasing my friends across some terrain with an RPG, saying "Stand still! This will only hurt for a minute!!!" , then, by god, I will.
All your bitching makes me want to do is puke, because you represent the part of humanity that would be fixed by evolution, IF we would stop protecting it.
Imagine a beowolf cluster of Gay Hot Natlie Portman Grits poured down your pants.....
Mmmmmm, Slashdot....
The precession of the apogee/Perigee of Mercury's orbit does not agree well with Newton or Einstein. There is yet a discrepancy that is currently unexplained.
A florescent tube is still an arc in the the sense of it being a column of ionized gas carrying electricity, but it isn't an 'Arc Lamp'.
;it takes awhile to vaporize, which is why the light doesn't come on for a few minutes; the UV which is most of the output is absorbed by the inner glass. (thankfully)
The working 'gas' in your typical 40W tube is actually a small amount of mercury, heated and vaporized by the high voltage generated by the ballast and starter. (about 10kV at low current to start it off)
The mercury vaporizes and ionizes, dropping the voltage across the tube to about 80V; it flashes 120 times a second, as the 60Hz is full-wave rectified to make the strobe effect less obvious, as well as keeping everything warm.
The mercury gives off mostly UV light, which is absorbed by the coating inside the tube, and that gives off the visible light we see.
HPS lamps work much the same way, but sodium is used as the phosphor material instead
Argon is the fill gas for both.
High frequency ballasts exist, but are expensive compared to the old standard, but are coming into wider use. If its running from dc, it is likely running at higher frequency for greater efficiency.
BTW, the outer envelope on a HID or HPS lamp is to block the UV emission; if it breaks, the lamp will still work, it will just dust all your plastic stuff (as well as you) with UV exposure. (UV is bad for plastic.)
So; None of our modern, indoor lights is an arc lamp, those are too inefficient, as well as burning the electrodes as they burn.
Most all are all electric column discharge lamps with the resulting UV converted to visible by a phosphor of some kind.
How many people are you counting for the $100 Million?
The shuttle can haul a shitload of people,(30,000lbs?) if you dont carry cargo, and refit for passengers.
I saw pictures when I was a kid showing things like that, when they were deciding to put all their funding into the Shuttle. But, hell, development stopped there, as far as the public can see.
Even the concept of a 'space tug' to ferry things between geosysncronous orbit and Low Earth Orbit was discussed, as well as L5 hotels and lunar mining.
This is the shit we should have done instead of ending the Apollo program 30 years ago.
We're spending $87Billion to rebuild a country that we dusted in the first place; what would 10 Billion a year do for the space program?
However, we need to fire all the upper management first; Giving these entrenched assholes more money to piss away on overhead instead of exploration is not going to help our current situation at all.
The managers at NASA murdered the crew of Columbia when the did nothing. And everyone in that decision chain as well.
We, as a country, and a people, need to do this.
It will give us a direction, and lead us onward, instead of stagnation.
Remember, this is the same 'Honor' that kept us from glassing large areas of the Middle East. If the object is to use the best available means because it would shorten the war, are you saying that we should have used nukes on Afganistan and Iraq?
"Kill them all, god knows his own" is a good working strategy if you want security. Read Sun Tzu's "Art of War", for a better insight.
Our honor is in our efforts not to annhilate a people, but to use just enough effort to succeed.
If countries continue to be "unreasonable", well, that's what we developed Nukes for.
If Nortk Korea takes out California, would that end the RIAA bullshit?? (And the MPAA!)
And just think, no recall election!