The rumor was actually invented by the RIAA in order to make their enemies "cry wolf" and have less of a voice.
If they can whip their enemies into a frenzy over something that isn't true, this serves to discourage their enemies from doing so in the future and also discredits them in the eyes of others.
Sorry, Mulder wants his desk back. Gotta go.
Everyone opposed to the dropping of the A-Bombs should consider themselves to be extremely fortunate they are allowed to have the freedom to express their opinions and are not killed for showing dissent.
Under a world led by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, you would have no such freedom. Just ask the millions of Chinese the Japanese murdered during the time, which Japan has never apologized for or acknowledged (indeed, it is being left out of history books).
The only way to meet violent fascists is with force. Japan got what it deserved, and today has evolved to a better nation because of it.
I do not bear any ill will towards the Japanese of today, but the violent fascist aggressors who started WW2 got what they deserved.
And you should be happy that we won, and were able to do so decisively and strategically through nuclear weapons.
Funny, the power to end the war in our favor, save American lives and keep the world the free, and people still whine.
Thank the power of the atom. Don't whine about it.
And with ordinary tapwater, it didn't produce much cooling at all. With ice, it produced some effect, but a very small one. And this was just in the heat produced by only two computers. The bottomline is the room was still too hot. Also, most people don't get water for free.
The unit claimed up to 12 degrees, but I couldn't detect such a change, especially near the computers.
I would strongly urge anyone considering such a thing to save themselves the headache and just go buy a cheap $99 air conditioner at Walmart or something.
I'd bet when you consider the energy and water consumption of evaporative coolers, the air conditioner is cheaper and more environmentally friendly to operate. And infinitely more effective in my experience.
Again, I don't care, and only about 0.000001% of the population is actually interested in looking at those anyway, so I fail to see how it's a big deal.
Uh seriously, who cares? They might see naked people? Oh nos. It's not damaging, it just has a bad social stigma from religious conservatives. We're born naked, we breastfeed from a naked breast (avert your eyes! AAAAHHHHH!), we are only artificially clothed.
Sorry, but I fail to see why nudity or porn is bad/evil.
Hurray for that. Because in the future, no one will have access to electronic tools to perform math calculations!
You know what? Since graduating from college and doing professional programming, I've used math beyond algebra a total of zero times, and all that calculus I toiled so hard over? Completely useless.
But I do know how to use my calculator still. And the very few professions that actually do use advanced mathematics... do you think they do the work by hand?
No, they do it on a computer or calculator.
Sorry, but institutionalized math instruction is largely useless at higher levels to most people and is an end only to itself, taught because of artificial importance placed upon it by people with bias, who are so anachronistic they can't even accept the fact technology has made most of their instruction obsolete.
IIRC, Win2K didn't have too many vulnerabilities, mostly they were just in IE and Outlook Express. All the more reason to run Firefox and Thunderbird even today, as it seems exploits for IE/OE keep cropping up.
They tried that once, it was called Tianamen Square. The US was so shocked and appalled at the slaughter, we renewed their most favored nation trading status and sold out more American jobs.
Console games have always sold FAR more units than PC games. There's never been a point in recent history when PC games have sold better. In fact, the trend over the last two years has been decreasing sales for PC games and increasing sales for console games.
Consoles are more affordable than gaming PCs, so there's a bigger target market and a lot more profit for companies to develop for them.
That's not to say the PC market isn't worth doing -- it is -- but it's relatively small compared to the console market.
Consoles have always been cheaper than PCs, yet PCs still have done fairly well because of the additional power and flexibility they offer over consoles. The bulk of the game market today is still in consoles, so no, most people don't spend $400 on a video card. That's a small number of PC owners.
They're different markets. And yeah, I've seen the very impressive Powerpoints and pre-rendered FMV "proving" the PS3 will be faster than a PC, but I hope you'll forgive me if I take that with a grain of salt, considering that Sony claimed the exact same thing with the PS2 and it's "emotion engine"... that in the end, turned out to be barely faster than the Dreamcast.
Will the next-gen consoles outsell and outmarket PC gaming? Absolutely. There's no doubt in my mind. They always have, and they do today. But that's hardly the death of PC gaming. It's apples and oranges.
But the batteries weren't failing after 2 months, they were failing after years of use. Guess what, your car battery is going to do exactly the same thing. And I promise you, it will be more expensive and time consuming to replace. Better call your lawyer.
Man, I feel sorry for Toyota once the Prius owners get wind of this...
I think this is a very baseless legal suit. First of all, you can buy a new replacement battery for the iPod from any number of vendors very cheaply and easily, or even have Apple replace it for you if you want.
Secondly, who said things last forever? The battery wears out, the hard drive wears out, the buttons wear out... nothing lasts forever.
Do you sue Honda because the battery in your Honda died?
Every consumer device that ships with a rechargable battery is going to fail, many of which are even internal like the iPods. So you have to open the case and replace it every few years. So what? How is that any more difficult or expensive than getting a new battery for your car?
It's the price you pay for a flashy new lithium polymer battery instead of alkaline AAs.
Yes, but if it can fire a burst or full auto, it's legally a machine gun under US law, regardless of caliber or design. It's silly to call the Glock 18 a machine gun, but it legally is.
Ah, you're right... my bad, it was the HK-94. Appearently they also had a SP-89 that was a semiauto MP5k without a stock. (as a pistol with a stock moves it into class III territory)
At 9 p.m., Nagel, the Secret Service's assistant director for investigations, issued the "go" order. Agents armed with Sig-Sauer 229 pistols and MP5 semi-automatic machine guns swooped in
So, what's a "semi-automatic machine gun"? The MP5 is a select fire submachine gun. A semi-auto only civilian version that was briefly available was called the HK-91, and certainly wouldn't be used by the Secret Service.
Yep, I was at Comdex in '96 when it was released. I liked it more than the MS units, which I thought were slow and had god-awful screens. Back then all the MS Pocket PCs had keyboards and were clamshell devices, but MS later changed to a stylus only formfactor after getting owned by Palm. But, the MP2K was still big and expensive as you mention. It was funny, almost no one was at the Apple booth, so I got to play with the eMate and MP2K for quite a while. The eMate was pretty cool, too.
The best PDA toy was the color Sharp Zaurus. This was before they had linux on it, but it was a very small, fast, and capable device with a brilliant color screen which stood out from the other PDAs that all used greyscale back then. There was a huge crowd around it. The web browser was actually pretty good. Unfortunately we never saw that one in the US.
I owned a MP130. The other problems were the built in software, while innovative, wasn't nearly as streamlined as the Palm PIM suite later released with the Pilot, the device was a bit sluggish, and the screen -- especially the MP100 -- was very hard to see and had a poor contrast ratio, and was really reflective and had lots of glare.
Also, the handwriting recognition really sucked.
And you're right, they were also pretty expensive.
The Newton had a ton of good ideas and was very innovative, but it wasn't quite there.
It's titled "Uranbombe" yet it uses plutonium, which the Germans didn't know you could produce from the transmutation of U-235, and for which no natural supply exists. The Germans did not have a fission reactor to produce it. Further the bomb is a gun-type rather than an implosion sphere, which only works with uranium, not plutonium. If you read anything about the actual designs the Germans were pursuing, they were in reality pursuing neither design which were both American creations. Further, the design is a hybrid fission/fusion device which didn't come around until much later under Edward Teller, and the Germans and Heisenberg certainly weren't pursuing that, either.
Looks like a fake from some guy with Photochop that doesn't really understand nuclear physics.
I don't see how that's a very relevant argument; there are a large number of commercial products already powered by tritium for illumination. For example, tritium gun sights vs. battery powered red dots, or tritium watch illumination instead of Indiglo. That didn't stop those products from going to the market, and it wouldn't make betavoltaics any less viable.
Not really, you'd have to have a LOT of material to produce any sort of heat gain. Even the tritium "betalights" which are essentially tritium-powered flashlights and have massive amounts of it aren't any warmer than the background temperature.
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The rumor was actually invented by the RIAA in order to make their enemies "cry wolf" and have less of a voice. If they can whip their enemies into a frenzy over something that isn't true, this serves to discourage their enemies from doing so in the future and also discredits them in the eyes of others. Sorry, Mulder wants his desk back. Gotta go.
Everyone opposed to the dropping of the A-Bombs should consider themselves to be extremely fortunate they are allowed to have the freedom to express their opinions and are not killed for showing dissent. Under a world led by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, you would have no such freedom. Just ask the millions of Chinese the Japanese murdered during the time, which Japan has never apologized for or acknowledged (indeed, it is being left out of history books). The only way to meet violent fascists is with force. Japan got what it deserved, and today has evolved to a better nation because of it. I do not bear any ill will towards the Japanese of today, but the violent fascist aggressors who started WW2 got what they deserved. And you should be happy that we won, and were able to do so decisively and strategically through nuclear weapons. Funny, the power to end the war in our favor, save American lives and keep the world the free, and people still whine. Thank the power of the atom. Don't whine about it.
Sniper rifle on the roof! Damn that T-Virus.
And with ordinary tapwater, it didn't produce much cooling at all. With ice, it produced some effect, but a very small one. And this was just in the heat produced by only two computers. The bottomline is the room was still too hot. Also, most people don't get water for free. The unit claimed up to 12 degrees, but I couldn't detect such a change, especially near the computers. I would strongly urge anyone considering such a thing to save themselves the headache and just go buy a cheap $99 air conditioner at Walmart or something. I'd bet when you consider the energy and water consumption of evaporative coolers, the air conditioner is cheaper and more environmentally friendly to operate. And infinitely more effective in my experience.
Wait... you're asking a personal sexual experience sex question on /. ? :)
Again, I don't care, and only about 0.000001% of the population is actually interested in looking at those anyway, so I fail to see how it's a big deal.
Uh seriously, who cares? They might see naked people? Oh nos. It's not damaging, it just has a bad social stigma from religious conservatives. We're born naked, we breastfeed from a naked breast (avert your eyes! AAAAHHHHH!), we are only artificially clothed. Sorry, but I fail to see why nudity or porn is bad/evil.
When are the Ents attacking Redmond?
Hurray for that. Because in the future, no one will have access to electronic tools to perform math calculations! You know what? Since graduating from college and doing professional programming, I've used math beyond algebra a total of zero times, and all that calculus I toiled so hard over? Completely useless. But I do know how to use my calculator still. And the very few professions that actually do use advanced mathematics... do you think they do the work by hand? No, they do it on a computer or calculator. Sorry, but institutionalized math instruction is largely useless at higher levels to most people and is an end only to itself, taught because of artificial importance placed upon it by people with bias, who are so anachronistic they can't even accept the fact technology has made most of their instruction obsolete.
IIRC, Win2K didn't have too many vulnerabilities, mostly they were just in IE and Outlook Express. All the more reason to run Firefox and Thunderbird even today, as it seems exploits for IE/OE keep cropping up.
They tried that once, it was called Tianamen Square. The US was so shocked and appalled at the slaughter, we renewed their most favored nation trading status and sold out more American jobs.
Console games have always sold FAR more units than PC games. There's never been a point in recent history when PC games have sold better. In fact, the trend over the last two years has been decreasing sales for PC games and increasing sales for console games.
Consoles are more affordable than gaming PCs, so there's a bigger target market and a lot more profit for companies to develop for them.
That's not to say the PC market isn't worth doing -- it is -- but it's relatively small compared to the console market.
Consoles have always been cheaper than PCs, yet PCs still have done fairly well because of the additional power and flexibility they offer over consoles. The bulk of the game market today is still in consoles, so no, most people don't spend $400 on a video card. That's a small number of PC owners.
They're different markets. And yeah, I've seen the very impressive Powerpoints and pre-rendered FMV "proving" the PS3 will be faster than a PC, but I hope you'll forgive me if I take that with a grain of salt, considering that Sony claimed the exact same thing with the PS2 and it's "emotion engine"... that in the end, turned out to be barely faster than the Dreamcast.
Will the next-gen consoles outsell and outmarket PC gaming? Absolutely. There's no doubt in my mind. They always have, and they do today. But that's hardly the death of PC gaming. It's apples and oranges.
But the batteries weren't failing after 2 months, they were failing after years of use. Guess what, your car battery is going to do exactly the same thing. And I promise you, it will be more expensive and time consuming to replace. Better call your lawyer.
Man, I feel sorry for Toyota once the Prius owners get wind of this...
I think this is a very baseless legal suit. First of all, you can buy a new replacement battery for the iPod from any number of vendors very cheaply and easily, or even have Apple replace it for you if you want. Secondly, who said things last forever? The battery wears out, the hard drive wears out, the buttons wear out... nothing lasts forever. Do you sue Honda because the battery in your Honda died? Every consumer device that ships with a rechargable battery is going to fail, many of which are even internal like the iPods. So you have to open the case and replace it every few years. So what? How is that any more difficult or expensive than getting a new battery for your car? It's the price you pay for a flashy new lithium polymer battery instead of alkaline AAs.
Yes, but if it can fire a burst or full auto, it's legally a machine gun under US law, regardless of caliber or design. It's silly to call the Glock 18 a machine gun, but it legally is.
Ah, you're right... my bad, it was the HK-94. Appearently they also had a SP-89 that was a semiauto MP5k without a stock. (as a pistol with a stock moves it into class III territory)
At 9 p.m., Nagel, the Secret Service's assistant director for investigations, issued the "go" order. Agents armed with Sig-Sauer 229 pistols and MP5 semi-automatic machine guns swooped in
So, what's a "semi-automatic machine gun"? The MP5 is a select fire submachine gun. A semi-auto only civilian version that was briefly available was called the HK-91, and certainly wouldn't be used by the Secret Service.
Yep, I was at Comdex in '96 when it was released. I liked it more than the MS units, which I thought were slow and had god-awful screens. Back then all the MS Pocket PCs had keyboards and were clamshell devices, but MS later changed to a stylus only formfactor after getting owned by Palm. But, the MP2K was still big and expensive as you mention. It was funny, almost no one was at the Apple booth, so I got to play with the eMate and MP2K for quite a while. The eMate was pretty cool, too. The best PDA toy was the color Sharp Zaurus. This was before they had linux on it, but it was a very small, fast, and capable device with a brilliant color screen which stood out from the other PDAs that all used greyscale back then. There was a huge crowd around it. The web browser was actually pretty good. Unfortunately we never saw that one in the US.
I owned a MP130. The other problems were the built in software, while innovative, wasn't nearly as streamlined as the Palm PIM suite later released with the Pilot, the device was a bit sluggish, and the screen -- especially the MP100 -- was very hard to see and had a poor contrast ratio, and was really reflective and had lots of glare. Also, the handwriting recognition really sucked. And you're right, they were also pretty expensive. The Newton had a ton of good ideas and was very innovative, but it wasn't quite there.
Sorry, that should read "transmutation of U-238".
It's titled "Uranbombe" yet it uses plutonium, which the Germans didn't know you could produce from the transmutation of U-235, and for which no natural supply exists. The Germans did not have a fission reactor to produce it. Further the bomb is a gun-type rather than an implosion sphere, which only works with uranium, not plutonium. If you read anything about the actual designs the Germans were pursuing, they were in reality pursuing neither design which were both American creations. Further, the design is a hybrid fission/fusion device which didn't come around until much later under Edward Teller, and the Germans and Heisenberg certainly weren't pursuing that, either.
Looks like a fake from some guy with Photochop that doesn't really understand nuclear physics.
Uh, so you can't make a profit on a product that lasts for years? What?
I don't see how that's a very relevant argument; there are a large number of commercial products already powered by tritium for illumination. For example, tritium gun sights vs. battery powered red dots, or tritium watch illumination instead of Indiglo. That didn't stop those products from going to the market, and it wouldn't make betavoltaics any less viable.
Not really, you'd have to have a LOT of material to produce any sort of heat gain. Even the tritium "betalights" which are essentially tritium-powered flashlights and have massive amounts of it aren't any warmer than the background temperature.