"The main driving force for the table top prototype is produced by gravity pulling downward. Other forces that could hold the car against a surface, and provide the moving force necessary to increment the car along, include aerodynamic, hydrodynamic, magnetic, electromagnetic, and electrostatic. Such forces could be independent of the car mass, and could thus propel the vehicle with much greater force and velocity. In some instances, these forces could provide their own means to move from wheel to wheel, eliminating the central motor used in the prototype."
Seems that this is merely step one. Making the thing move without its own power source is significant, is it not? A floor with a grid of electromagnetic squares, say. And perhaps in micro-scale devices, as the article suggests.
You gotta love all the ACs who come out of the woodwork to bash M$ haters when they've never fucking even seen a line of code from a real programming language.
Just how often do you have to update your core libraries?
The only time I've had such an issue is inadvertently applying a major glibc update by blindly accepting some dependencies.
Really, all this Vista Reboot Manager is doing is remembering the status of your apps so it can re-launch them after a very brief restart of the core or library. Not that amazing, really.
Yes, and to save all the Lunies from the UN, we'll need a massive artificially intelligent supercomputer, a strong male leader, and a firey redheaded woman who's not opposed to polygamy.
I had 'nerd' in my job title once. There is a light saber in my car. I laugh at things like 'OCT 31 = DEC 25'. I have read User Friendly daily for 7 years. I alternate between science fiction and science fact in my reading. I have a room containing approximately 1400 feet of spare cables. I throw parties (by myself) for important milestones in the up-time of my servers.
My wife is not a nerd. She's a social genius who works with old folks - kind of the opposite of a nerd. She watches "Top Model". She owns a hair straightening device. Perhaps most importantly, she is unaffected by caffeine.
We met online, of course, and have been married for almost six years. Nerddom doesn't preclude marriage - it just makes it harder to achieve.
That is fecking hillarious. Probably even more so without the audio.
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I think they do a good job of explaining just how 'busted' a myth is. Sometimes they will say... this myth is not possible, as stated, because of this small detail, but plausible if you change 'x' (like in 'escape slide parachute'). Sometimes they will say totally busted, like with the rear-window tissue box.
The explanations are more useful than the confirmed/plausible/busted distinction.
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Just to clarify, is this staff of three the entire IT staff or a team dedicated to migrations?
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Okay, let's make some distinctions, please.
When I speak of cow tipping, I refer to the idea that one person can throw himself at an unaware (i.e. sleeping) cow and knock him down in a single thrust.
Using multiple people is not the same.
Wrestling or tripping the cow is not the same.
Binding the cow's legs is not the same.
It is essentially impossible for a human to knock a full grown cow over with his body in one shove. Period!
The truly fascinating thing is the sheer number of people who keep up the charade in order to preserve the classic prank. Most of them are probably the perpetrator or the victims.
I have a standing $100 bet with a friend of mine whether he can do it or not. He insists he's seen it done. He also insists that cows sleep standing up. But I'll expand that offer to Slashdot... anyone sends me a quality recording of a cow being tipped (by a single person in one shot, as I specified) then I'll pay them $100.
True, they do propose a time at which they WILL give us the source, but it's still a nasty, nasty tease. I kind of expected to be able to see the code.
"Free donuts in the break room."
(minutes pass)
"I see no donuts."
"I didn't mean *right now*!"
Why should people have to know anything more than how to get on the internet if that's all they want to do with their computers?
Nature has it right. Biology is perfectly user-friendly. Built in virus protection, even. You don't need to know how your immune system works to fight off a cold. If you catch something that is too much for your immune system, you go to an expert.
Sure, you need to apply a little common sense, but why should checking e-mail require special knowledge?
No kidding! I'm first in line for whatever neat implants they come up with to put a computer in my noggin. Am I going to have to run DRM in my brain for the copyrighted materials that I will remember with perfect clarity? Kind of scarry...
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How about this:
"The main driving force for the table top prototype is produced by gravity pulling downward. Other forces that could hold the car against a surface, and provide the moving force necessary to increment the car along, include aerodynamic, hydrodynamic, magnetic, electromagnetic, and electrostatic. Such forces could be independent of the car mass, and could thus propel the vehicle with much greater force and velocity. In some instances, these forces could provide their own means to move from wheel to wheel, eliminating the central motor used in the prototype."
Seems that this is merely step one. Making the thing move without its own power source is significant, is it not? A floor with a grid of electromagnetic squares, say. And perhaps in micro-scale devices, as the article suggests.
...but Visual Basic is very efficient for small, business applications (e.g., keeping payrolls, databases, etc.
So you're saying that VB is efficient in applications that do not require efficiency?
s/very efficient/acceptable/
You gotta love all the ACs who come out of the woodwork to bash M$ haters when they've never fucking even seen a line of code from a real programming language.
Oh yeah, that's the fsffrance.com webserver surrendering to the /. bomb.
Just how often do you have to update your core libraries?
The only time I've had such an issue is inadvertently applying a major glibc update by blindly accepting some dependencies.
Really, all this Vista Reboot Manager is doing is remembering the status of your apps so it can re-launch them after a very brief restart of the core or library. Not that amazing, really.
ALL YOUR FREEMONT ARE BELONG TO US
You have no chance to patch make your time.
Yes, and to save all the Lunies from the UN, we'll need a massive artificially intelligent supercomputer, a strong male leader, and a firey redheaded woman who's not opposed to polygamy.
Maybe young William wants to play one of these games and so dad let him have admin rights?
That's why I run the NoScript extension. Makes me that much freer to to click links in /. sigs.
I am using NoScript, Google Toolbar, View Cookies: So far, so good. I think that extension authors have had a long time to test on RC changes.
One major US plumbing manufacturer just released such a dual-flush handle.
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http://www.google.com/search?q=Uppercut+Dual+Flus
I disagree.
I had 'nerd' in my job title once. There is a light saber in my car. I laugh at things like 'OCT 31 = DEC 25'. I have read User Friendly daily for 7 years. I alternate between science fiction and science fact in my reading. I have a room containing approximately 1400 feet of spare cables. I throw parties (by myself) for important milestones in the up-time of my servers.
My wife is not a nerd. She's a social genius who works with old folks - kind of the opposite of a nerd. She watches "Top Model". She owns a hair straightening device. Perhaps most importantly, she is unaffected by caffeine.
We met online, of course, and have been married for almost six years. Nerddom doesn't preclude marriage - it just makes it harder to achieve.
That is fecking hillarious. Probably even more so without the audio.
I think they do a good job of explaining just how 'busted' a myth is. Sometimes they will say... this myth is not possible, as stated, because of this small detail, but plausible if you change 'x' (like in 'escape slide parachute'). Sometimes they will say totally busted, like with the rear-window tissue box.
The explanations are more useful than the confirmed/plausible/busted distinction.
How about this? http://www.kdp.pp.se/chemical.html Don't pretend it didn't happen.
They say it all the time... if they can't recreate the myth, they figure out what they have to do to *make* it work.
If the myth hadn't worked out, they were going to demonstrate just how much it *would* take. But it did work, and from there it's just fun-and-bangs.
Yeah, I can't fathom that this hasn't been on /. before. Oh wait, it has...
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/17/21482
Just to clarify, is this staff of three the entire IT staff or a team dedicated to migrations?
Okay, let's make some distinctions, please.
When I speak of cow tipping, I refer to the idea that one person can throw himself at an unaware (i.e. sleeping) cow and knock him down in a single thrust.
Using multiple people is not the same.
Wrestling or tripping the cow is not the same.
Binding the cow's legs is not the same.
It is essentially impossible for a human to knock a full grown cow over with his body in one shove. Period!
The truly fascinating thing is the sheer number of people who keep up the charade in order to preserve the classic prank. Most of them are probably the perpetrator or the victims.
I have a standing $100 bet with a friend of mine whether he can do it or not. He insists he's seen it done. He also insists that cows sleep standing up. But I'll expand that offer to Slashdot... anyone sends me a quality recording of a cow being tipped (by a single person in one shot, as I specified) then I'll pay them $100.
Sounds like a LiveCD to me. If it ain't broke don't fix it. URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCD
Also, as I'm leading to, it would be extremely hard to read
You mean like a huge block of text with no line breaks?
True, they do propose a time at which they WILL give us the source, but it's still a nasty, nasty tease. I kind of expected to be able to see the code. "Free donuts in the break room." (minutes pass) "I see no donuts." "I didn't mean *right now*!"
Why should people have to know anything more than how to get on the internet if that's all they want to do with their computers?
Nature has it right. Biology is perfectly user-friendly. Built in virus protection, even. You don't need to know how your immune system works to fight off a cold. If you catch something that is too much for your immune system, you go to an expert.
Sure, you need to apply a little common sense, but why should checking e-mail require special knowledge?
Heh, no, she is a few months older than I am in fact - we married young.
No kidding! I'm first in line for whatever neat implants they come up with to put a computer in my noggin. Am I going to have to run DRM in my brain for the copyrighted materials that I will remember with perfect clarity? Kind of scarry...