Crap-sludge is worth money as fertilizer, plus if dried completely you can burn it.
OT...I dump turtleshit-laden pondwater on part of my yard, and the plants there have exploded with lush growth. My friends joke that I should bottle and sell it.
Uranus is referred to by immature native english-speakers as "Your Anus." Endless laughs in the classroom. "Hey, with this telescope I can see Your Anus!"
The joke is funny because "Your Rectum" is no better. I'm hoping you know Anus and Rectum are Asshole, but lets be thorough.
Most of the people I know who use netflix rip movies.
I think unless there is an easy way to rip blu-ray/HD-DVD demand will grow pretty slowly. Not that I have any doubt that it will be done, but the MPAA will fight it.
I almost forgot about how much they fought de-CSS until I had to install a dvd-rom on a new system and get it to play dvds. Non-trivial.
It'd sure be sad to see our space program outsourced to China, Russia, and India with some greedy short-sighted corporation making a profit on it.
Some things aren't well suited for the private sector.
I'm no rocket scientist, but it seems pretty easy for everyone working on Moon-related projects to get together every so often or read a newsletter or something.
I'm pretty sure you're talking from phone->tower->phone (unless using walkie-talkie mode), so the geometry is a little more complicated than TFA states. Also, depending on your signal strength you may not be using full transmitter power. If you could cook an egg in 3 mins your battery wouldn't last for 6 talk hours.
Boring logic aside, it will be very amusing to think of a boiling egg next time I see someone with 2 cellphones - one on each ear
The ISPs will simply throttle anything encrypted unless it pays extra, or something similar. If we accept this situation, or find short-term workarounds it will become worse and worse.
My connection is severly throttled by my pathetic aDSL upload speed, but that's another bitch entirely.
I'll look into it though, if you can get a free mp3 player phone from t-mobile. What model phone do you have? the motorola v360 looks good, but I've only seen it available free with rebate from weird resellers.
I *can* get a new phone, free. But I have a better plan than they're offering now, plus I'd have to sign another contract.
Now that my phone number is allegedly portable, I like the false sense of freedom to change carriers if I ever need to.
Phones will always be free, they will be more feature-laden every few months, and I feel guilty throwing away a perfectly functional phone. (although they have to recycle them here, it just makes them angry when you insist they do so)
I'll probably use this one until it dies/gets lost. Unless I'm offered an mp3 player phone that I can load from my personal collection for free. I'd be all over that.
They told me it wouldn't work, but an old website said it would. They turned it on when I insisted and it worked, but apparently not as well as modern phones do.
It seemed to me that the RIAA/MPAA were doomed once the barrier to making perfect copies became so low. However if this becomes popular there will be a permanent tax going to these types of entities and we'll be stuck with them forever.
It'd be tragic if truly free music ended up contributing to the cartels through p2p fee collection.
The T-Mobile speeds I was getting topped out at 200k up/down but the latency ended up making me resort to DSL. I was getting 200-500ms ping times. Nearly satellite-like latency.
I didn't like how I couldn't use my phone while online, or even (easily) know if I missed a call.
Oh well, perhaps I'll try again after my DSL angers me enough. I've still got my stupid cable and everything.
All joking aside, if you put B1FF or john_-_winston a "foe" and browse with "foe" set to -5 in your preferences you will never see their postings again.
I don't know if it is just my inerrant ability to choose friends or I've driven everyone else away, but just ONE of my close friends (and I have about a dozen, honest) has a cellphone.
I don't have one either, never have and most likely never will. We notice more and more that we're the only people in the whole bar/coffeeshop/park/etc that aren't talking on phones.
I think they make people rude and our society sad.
I've asked people politely to stop talking (in a theater, at the movies, one time in the library when she was yelling into the phone) and not very often do I get an apology or a cessation of the call. Usually I get the finger. One time I took a man's phone who kept talking and talking at a movie right in front of me. Stupid neon blue waving around in front of my face and stupid details of his life loudly being beamed at me. I gave it back after the movie even though he offered to beat me up for interrupting his call.
Call me an angry jerk, but I'm glad these fucktards are paying $5 for a ringtone and hope to jebus they pay $14.99 for postage-stamp movie downloads. It's just too bad the money goes to cellphone companies.
I replaced a window with something that wasn't glass (I think acrylic) so my turtles would get UV light. They and the window have been healthy for over 10 years now. All the buses and light rail cars I ride have non-glass windows too (although the bus windows degrade rapidly from taggers and the solvents used to remove their "art.")
I am forced to develop windows applications from time to time, and I am ashamed of the poor security of many of these apps. It is definitely something that should be addressed. There are hundreds of thousands of part-time windows developers who know even less (gasp!) than I do about security.
/me gets back to hard-coding plaintext database passwords.
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OT...I dump turtleshit-laden pondwater on part of my yard, and the plants there have exploded with lush growth. My friends joke that I should bottle and sell it.
I'm gonna need more turtles.
Are those African children pirates?
The joke is funny because "Your Rectum" is no better. I'm hoping you know Anus and Rectum are Asshole, but lets be thorough.
I personally like to skip the ads, but can't unless I play with my PC, using non-MPAA sanctioned drivers.
I think unless there is an easy way to rip blu-ray/HD-DVD demand will grow pretty slowly. Not that I have any doubt that it will be done, but the MPAA will fight it.
I almost forgot about how much they fought de-CSS until I had to install a dvd-rom on a new system and get it to play dvds. Non-trivial.
I'd bet that way more than 900 have lax security.
Lame link to some study
Some things aren't well suited for the private sector.
I'm no rocket scientist, but it seems pretty easy for everyone working on Moon-related projects to get together every so often or read a newsletter or something.
Boring logic aside, it will be very amusing to think of a boiling egg next time I see someone with 2 cellphones - one on each ear
My connection is severly throttled by my pathetic aDSL upload speed, but that's another bitch entirely.
I'll look into it though, if you can get a free mp3 player phone from t-mobile. What model phone do you have? the motorola v360 looks good, but I've only seen it available free with rebate from weird resellers.
Now that my phone number is allegedly portable, I like the false sense of freedom to change carriers if I ever need to.
Phones will always be free, they will be more feature-laden every few months, and I feel guilty throwing away a perfectly functional phone. (although they have to recycle them here, it just makes them angry when you insist they do so)
I'll probably use this one until it dies/gets lost. Unless I'm offered an mp3 player phone that I can load from my personal collection for free. I'd be all over that.
They told me it wouldn't work, but an old website said it would. They turned it on when I insisted and it worked, but apparently not as well as modern phones do.
It'd be tragic if truly free music ended up contributing to the cartels through p2p fee collection.
I didn't like how I couldn't use my phone while online, or even (easily) know if I missed a call.
Oh well, perhaps I'll try again after my DSL angers me enough. I've still got my stupid cable and everything.
All joking aside, if you put B1FF or john_-_winston a "foe" and browse with "foe" set to -5 in your preferences you will never see their postings again.
I sure loved them when I was a kid. Who knows if they'll hold up. I kinda doubt they will.
You can even download them here
I don't think the Aquabats are RIAA-afiliated but look out if they get signed.
Please don't take this seriously. Sadly, I felt it necessary to state that.
sad nobody recognized a nice brazil reference
Granted, I poured an entire 5-lb sack in there and the blockage was most likely mechanical, but still...
If you don't have a boot cd google for something, I like bart's stuff.
If the computer acts strangely from a boot cd then it has to be a mobo/memory/cpu/ps problem.
I don't have one either, never have and most likely never will. We notice more and more that we're the only people in the whole bar/coffeeshop/park/etc that aren't talking on phones.
I think they make people rude and our society sad.
I've asked people politely to stop talking (in a theater, at the movies, one time in the library when she was yelling into the phone) and not very often do I get an apology or a cessation of the call. Usually I get the finger. One time I took a man's phone who kept talking and talking at a movie right in front of me. Stupid neon blue waving around in front of my face and stupid details of his life loudly being beamed at me. I gave it back after the movie even though he offered to beat me up for interrupting his call.
Call me an angry jerk, but I'm glad these fucktards are paying $5 for a ringtone and hope to jebus they pay $14.99 for postage-stamp movie downloads. It's just too bad the money goes to cellphone companies.
At least it is the science of tanning!
I replaced a window with something that wasn't glass (I think acrylic) so my turtles would get UV light. They and the window have been healthy for over 10 years now. All the buses and light rail cars I ride have non-glass windows too (although the bus windows degrade rapidly from taggers and the solvents used to remove their "art.")
I am forced to develop windows applications from time to time, and I am ashamed of the poor security of many of these apps. It is definitely something that should be addressed. There are hundreds of thousands of part-time windows developers who know even less (gasp!) than I do about security.
/me gets back to hard-coding plaintext database passwords.
Yeah, I'm pasty, and yeah I burn easily but still...
Also, they could use polycarbonate or acrylic or whatever clear material transmits the most UV. Or simply use frontsilvered mirrors.
It'd be kinda cool to hit one from a long way off if it was aimed at you. You'd know when you hit your target!
ok, now I'm picturing a duel between a dozen 10-square meter 1000 meter focal length concave mirrors and a mortar.