The sounds in every video clip are awful. I remember transformations back when I watched the show in the 80s sounding like a serious of computer generated tones in a bit of dischord. The previews makes every mechanical action sound like a dozen cheap power drills going into metal and a few prison cell doors slamming shut. Since the transformations are all CG and not necessarily realistic, using supposedly realistic sounds just ruins things for fans. Also the attempt to tie the plot into a transmission from a crashed Mars lander seems overplayed. Is George Bush directly funding this film? Who gives a damn about Mars these days?
It's economical. Despite being a tad illegal, several of my neighbors share one cable connection through a wireless router. Since the only ones using much bandwidth are the fellas that own it, they're perfectly fine with sharing their internet with a few neighbors who use laptops to check email and browse the web in exchange for a few bucks a month. They use a MAC filter and run some kind of log to ensure nobody's going too bandwidth-greedy. All-in-all, its cheaper to get cable and cable internet then sell/share a bit of it than to have a phone line and a DSL modem in a two person apartment.
There's more than one way to skin a cat. By controlling the stoichiometry of a gas reaction, a mixture of gases can be used to produce hydrogen much more efficiently than through electrolysis of water. It still takes a fair amount of heat energy input, but that's really not a big deal. Hydrogen itself would be a pain in the tuchus to transport; it would have to be compressed and is a little on the flammable side. Carrying methanol for use in hydrogen production would be both safer and simpler. With good catalysts and control of waste output, fuel cells which rely on hydrogen from wood alcohol in microreactors could be a viable alternative.
http://www.answers.com/hummus If you never made hummus with your food processor, it's really easy. Replacing the lemon juice with lime juice or grapefruit/orange juice makes for really tangy or sweet hummus suitable for breakfasts.
Somebody should check his calculation of the very large number. His math doesn't check out in at least one instance. From TFA:
1)"...and there are six billion humans on Earth...," said David Kessens
2)50 billion - the number of e-mails dispatched every day wordwide
3)32 - The average number of e-mail messages received per person per day
My USA-genius-math works fifty billion emails daily divided by six people peoples to be between eight and nine messages per person per day.
Students are shifty. Unless you know and trust everyone who lives in your dorms and the other dorms that use your laundry room, don't expect your clothes to be there when you return. Nobody's gonna steal your underpants unless they're really creepy, but if you leave decent-looking clothes from popular brands sitting in public laundry rooms without security cameras, somebody is gonna lift your stuff. I know most of my neighbors in the condos where I live now, and even though I have a washer/dryer in mine I would feel comfortable trusting most of them with access to my partially laundered clothes. Once somebody steals your favorite shirt you'll lose a little faith in the trustworthiness of your peers and neighbors.
A lot of people use laundromats. For those who have machines in their homes, they're already saving a lot of time to be able to start the thing, walk off, and return when it's done. There are audible alerts for washers and dryers already, and a majority of the time spent dealing with washing machines is spent loading and unloading. I'd rather see a program that can check my oven to ensure it's off or, if set to go at a certain time confirms its action remotely, when I'm away from home.
My father's Chevy Suburban has a tank that holds about 40 gallons. I seriously doubt that would move a cruise ship. Does it take 40 gallons per amount of time at a certain speed? Does it take 40 gallons to actually get the thing into motion from a dead stop? Your statistic is very useless as presented, particularly when it's "from a friend" rather than "from a friend who fuels cruise ships" or "from a friend who is an accountant for a cruise ship company."
TheStonepedo: While wikipedia decides to throw homonyms and homophones on the same page, it still defines them as different. Homonyms are words with the same spelling and different meanings such as "yore" and "you're." Homophones have the same sound despite different spellings such as "tide" and "tied." Somewhere past the root word "homo" for same, there's a distinction between "nym" for name and "phone" for sound. Some people will be spelling-tarded forever, and it is more important that people know the meanings of big words they use when trying to pose logical points than it is for them to spell every little thing properly.
[zoom camera out as "The More You Know" infomercial sound plays]
I've had some overly fishy-tasting caviar in my day, but death roe must be awful. You'd think he would just spit the little eggs out rather than repeatedly ingesting them as suggested by your saying he's "on death roe."
I can understand misspelling Guantanamo as it's not an English word, but you managed to bumblefuck a 3-letter word.
Cycling instead of driving is not for pussies. If you're a pussy, feel free to ride. If you're not, deal with the few curveballs nature may throw at you and understand that not all things you can do while driving are possible while riding; there are still times for cars.
I bicycle home from school in the afternoon when it is hot, but I can see how after a long day of real work that would get old. I find that time of day to be right for exercise anywho, so I don't mind breaking a bit of a sweat before changing and going to work out. Regarding flat/vandalized/stolen: There are "Mr. Tuffy" strips you can put in your tires to prevent some little punctures as well as nice rim strips to prevent spokes from getting you from the other side. Other than that, adequate pressure will keep you from pinching flat. Vandalism and theft will ruin your day, but it's easy to avoid some of the simpler problems. Get a nice U-lock and remove your front wheel then lock through your front wheel, rear wheel, and rear triangle to prevent frame/wheel theft. Go by a bike shop and ask them to fasten your seat to your frame above the rear brakes; no more riding the no-seat bike for you. Actual vandalism can only be avoided by putting your bicycle in an area with high visibility and pedestrian traffic. Sometimes you must rely on the goodness of strangers to stop other bad strangers who want to mess with your stuff. As an alternative to all of these, see if the building where you work has a storage closet. Your bicycle somewhat disassembled and locked together will take up only a little space inside while avoiding getting rained on parked outside.
I topped out my dual suspension mountain bike around 44 MPH on a downhill. It was geared for climbing so once I ran out of pedal power I tucked and that's all the faster I went.
Sweat: You will sweat if you leave for work with a ride that takes at least 40 minutes and give yourself 40 minutes to arrive at your destination. If you time your ride such that you don't have to hammer up hills and race between traffic lights and stop signs you can ride in most weather without sweating. Trunk Space: Most road bicycles (there's no good reason to ride mountain bike sized wheels and knobby tires on pavement) can be equipped with rear and front racks. With a pannier on each side of the rack, you can add more weight than you'd be willing to carry walking. Add a backpack and you're a big rig. If you don't want to put your 30 inch CRT on the rear rack, you could always pick up a gaming laptop with the money you've saved over a year or two in fuel and car maintenance. Girlfriend: Are you sure you're a geek? Diamonds are a girl's best friend, but second best is buying your woman a nice bicycle she can ride next to you. If you're the old-fashioned, dominant type you can get a tandem bicycle and make her ride behind you, serving merely as a means to get more power. If she's the new-fashioned, dominant type you can get a tandem bicycle and let her steer while forcing you to ride stoker. A/C and Sun: If you're going to work in the morning, the angle of the Sun in the sky is probably low enough that a little sunscreen will keep you from burning. If you ride outdoors frequently you'll become better accustomed to the heat and humidity and not find the lack of air conditioning to be so awful. Rain: It is not easy to bicycle with an umbrella, however the same full-body rainsuits that can be rolled into tiny little bags for backpacking work when cycling. If you can keep your work clothes at work, who is going to care if you arrive a little wet with time to dry and dress?
Mission control: "Astronaut this is mission contol. We have a problem. Over." Astronaut: "Mission control this is Astronaut. What is the problem. Over." Mission control: "Astronaut we're looking at the live biosigns from your transmitter and have come across a concern. Did your mother drop you as a child? Over." Astronaut: "I don't believe so. Why? Over." Mission control: "Because..." *general snickering from mission control* Mission control: "Because there's a big crack in your butt! Over and out."
You still have to use their clunky custom software but you can stream their stream from their player to another player which accepts streaming mp3 audio. It's a roundabout way, but it lets you keep their minimally functional player minimized or on another desktop out of the way.
Could it be that no terrorist groups were based in Iraq before the invasion because Saddam was ruling with an iron fist? The fact that Saddam was terrorizing his own people and those of nearby places is the only reason I saw to support the war. Forget oil, and forget weapons of mass destruction; when a man's policy is nearly in line with those of terrorist organizations, there's no reason for them to terrorize his country. When foreign invaders move in with intentions of turning that country's practices inside out and upside down, local conservatives will suddenly appear to be terrorists.
While child porn is certainly on a different level of wrong relative to illicit drug distribution, doing illegal activities in moderation to catch those causing bigger problems is common. In prostitution stings police officers dress as prostitutes and offer sex to would-be customers then haul them away when they reach the hotel room where they would have had sex. In drug stings police officers sell drugs by posing as drug dealers and sometimes even buy drugs until they have sufficient amounts of evidence to put away violent criminals for longer terms. Police officers cracking down on paid sex or dangerous drug dealings do not have paid sex or use dangerous drugs. If it is necessary to maintain a cache of child porn to bait pedophiles and that cache leads to more arrests and convictions, then it is a necessary measure.
As said the thing may have its place in kinda fast real time processing of steady input, but that input would have to be supplied at a much greater rate. Until everything down the line from user input to disk/display output is quick enough to move that much data this proof of concept device is just an entry in the Guinness Book.
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I'm a college student. How do I get the fuck over myself and my situation and realize it's common rather than unique?
What the fuck happened to new stories? Or even comments about moderately old stories. This place is going to pot.
First Post-Human!
The sounds in every video clip are awful. I remember transformations back when I watched the show in the 80s sounding like a serious of computer generated tones in a bit of dischord. The previews makes every mechanical action sound like a dozen cheap power drills going into metal and a few prison cell doors slamming shut. Since the transformations are all CG and not necessarily realistic, using supposedly realistic sounds just ruins things for fans. Also the attempt to tie the plot into a transmission from a crashed Mars lander seems overplayed. Is George Bush directly funding this film? Who gives a damn about Mars these days?
It's economical. Despite being a tad illegal, several of my neighbors share one cable connection through a wireless router. Since the only ones using much bandwidth are the fellas that own it, they're perfectly fine with sharing their internet with a few neighbors who use laptops to check email and browse the web in exchange for a few bucks a month. They use a MAC filter and run some kind of log to ensure nobody's going too bandwidth-greedy. All-in-all, its cheaper to get cable and cable internet then sell/share a bit of it than to have a phone line and a DSL modem in a two person apartment.
There's more than one way to skin a cat. By controlling the stoichiometry of a gas reaction, a mixture of gases can be used to produce hydrogen much more efficiently than through electrolysis of water. It still takes a fair amount of heat energy input, but that's really not a big deal. Hydrogen itself would be a pain in the tuchus to transport; it would have to be compressed and is a little on the flammable side. Carrying methanol for use in hydrogen production would be both safer and simpler. With good catalysts and control of waste output, fuel cells which rely on hydrogen from wood alcohol in microreactors could be a viable alternative.
http://www.answers.com/hummus
If you never made hummus with your food processor, it's really easy. Replacing the lemon juice with lime juice or grapefruit/orange juice makes for really tangy or sweet hummus suitable for breakfasts.
Cheers
Hey genius, his supposed statistic was emails per person per day, not emails per account per day. RTFA ;)
Somebody should check his calculation of the very large number. His math doesn't check out in at least one instance. From TFA:
1)"...and there are six billion humans on Earth...," said David Kessens
2)50 billion - the number of e-mails dispatched every day wordwide
3)32 - The average number of e-mail messages received per person per day
My USA-genius-math works fifty billion emails daily divided by six people peoples to be between eight and nine messages per person per day.
Students are shifty. Unless you know and trust everyone who lives in your dorms and the other dorms that use your laundry room, don't expect your clothes to be there when you return. Nobody's gonna steal your underpants unless they're really creepy, but if you leave decent-looking clothes from popular brands sitting in public laundry rooms without security cameras, somebody is gonna lift your stuff. I know most of my neighbors in the condos where I live now, and even though I have a washer/dryer in mine I would feel comfortable trusting most of them with access to my partially laundered clothes. Once somebody steals your favorite shirt you'll lose a little faith in the trustworthiness of your peers and neighbors.
A lot of people use laundromats. For those who have machines in their homes, they're already saving a lot of time to be able to start the thing, walk off, and return when it's done. There are audible alerts for washers and dryers already, and a majority of the time spent dealing with washing machines is spent loading and unloading. I'd rather see a program that can check my oven to ensure it's off or, if set to go at a certain time confirms its action remotely, when I'm away from home.
How is this different? .zip WinNT/9x binary, .zip format.
From the nano download page:
nano-1.2.5
My father's Chevy Suburban has a tank that holds about 40 gallons. I seriously doubt that would move a cruise ship. Does it take 40 gallons per amount of time at a certain speed? Does it take 40 gallons to actually get the thing into motion from a dead stop? Your statistic is very useless as presented, particularly when it's "from a friend" rather than "from a friend who fuels cruise ships" or "from a friend who is an accountant for a cruise ship company."
TheStonepedo: While wikipedia decides to throw homonyms and homophones on the same page, it still defines them as different. Homonyms are words with the same spelling and different meanings such as "yore" and "you're." Homophones have the same sound despite different spellings such as "tide" and "tied." Somewhere past the root word "homo" for same, there's a distinction between "nym" for name and "phone" for sound. Some people will be spelling-tarded forever, and it is more important that people know the meanings of big words they use when trying to pose logical points than it is for them to spell every little thing properly.
[zoom camera out as "The More You Know" infomercial sound plays]
I've had some overly fishy-tasting caviar in my day, but death roe must be awful. You'd think he would just spit the little eggs out rather than repeatedly ingesting them as suggested by your saying he's "on death roe."
I can understand misspelling Guantanamo as it's not an English word, but you managed to bumblefuck a 3-letter word.
Cycling instead of driving is not for pussies. If you're a pussy, feel free to ride. If you're not, deal with the few curveballs nature may throw at you and understand that not all things you can do while driving are possible while riding; there are still times for cars.
I bicycle home from school in the afternoon when it is hot, but I can see how after a long day of real work that would get old. I find that time of day to be right for exercise anywho, so I don't mind breaking a bit of a sweat before changing and going to work out.
Regarding flat/vandalized/stolen:
There are "Mr. Tuffy" strips you can put in your tires to prevent some little punctures as well as nice rim strips to prevent spokes from getting you from the other side. Other than that, adequate pressure will keep you from pinching flat.
Vandalism and theft will ruin your day, but it's easy to avoid some of the simpler problems. Get a nice U-lock and remove your front wheel then lock through your front wheel, rear wheel, and rear triangle to prevent frame/wheel theft. Go by a bike shop and ask them to fasten your seat to your frame above the rear brakes; no more riding the no-seat bike for you. Actual vandalism can only be avoided by putting your bicycle in an area with high visibility and pedestrian traffic. Sometimes you must rely on the goodness of strangers to stop other bad strangers who want to mess with your stuff. As an alternative to all of these, see if the building where you work has a storage closet. Your bicycle somewhat disassembled and locked together will take up only a little space inside while avoiding getting rained on parked outside.
I topped out my dual suspension mountain bike around 44 MPH on a downhill. It was geared for climbing so once I ran out of pedal power I tucked and that's all the faster I went.
Sweat:
You will sweat if you leave for work with a ride that takes at least 40 minutes and give yourself 40 minutes to arrive at your destination. If you time your ride such that you don't have to hammer up hills and race between traffic lights and stop signs you can ride in most weather without sweating.
Trunk Space:
Most road bicycles (there's no good reason to ride mountain bike sized wheels and knobby tires on pavement) can be equipped with rear and front racks. With a pannier on each side of the rack, you can add more weight than you'd be willing to carry walking. Add a backpack and you're a big rig. If you don't want to put your 30 inch CRT on the rear rack, you could always pick up a gaming laptop with the money you've saved over a year or two in fuel and car maintenance.
Girlfriend:
Are you sure you're a geek? Diamonds are a girl's best friend, but second best is buying your woman a nice bicycle she can ride next to you. If you're the old-fashioned, dominant type you can get a tandem bicycle and make her ride behind you, serving merely as a means to get more power. If she's the new-fashioned, dominant type you can get a tandem bicycle and let her steer while forcing you to ride stoker.
A/C and Sun:
If you're going to work in the morning, the angle of the Sun in the sky is probably low enough that a little sunscreen will keep you from burning. If you ride outdoors frequently you'll become better accustomed to the heat and humidity and not find the lack of air conditioning to be so awful.
Rain:
It is not easy to bicycle with an umbrella, however the same full-body rainsuits that can be rolled into tiny little bags for backpacking work when cycling. If you can keep your work clothes at work, who is going to care if you arrive a little wet with time to dry and dress?
Mission control: "Astronaut this is mission contol. We have a problem. Over."
Astronaut: "Mission control this is Astronaut. What is the problem. Over."
Mission control: "Astronaut we're looking at the live biosigns from your transmitter and have come across a concern. Did your mother drop you as a child? Over."
Astronaut: "I don't believe so. Why? Over."
Mission control: "Because..."
*general snickering from mission control*
Mission control: "Because there's a big crack in your butt! Over and out."
You still have to use their clunky custom software but you can stream their stream from their player to another player which accepts streaming mp3 audio. It's a roundabout way, but it lets you keep their minimally functional player minimized or on another desktop out of the way.
Could it be that no terrorist groups were based in Iraq before the invasion because Saddam was ruling with an iron fist? The fact that Saddam was terrorizing his own people and those of nearby places is the only reason I saw to support the war. Forget oil, and forget weapons of mass destruction; when a man's policy is nearly in line with those of terrorist organizations, there's no reason for them to terrorize his country. When foreign invaders move in with intentions of turning that country's practices inside out and upside down, local conservatives will suddenly appear to be terrorists.
Oh dear. They've red-flagged all my posts now :(
While child porn is certainly on a different level of wrong relative to illicit drug distribution, doing illegal activities in moderation to catch those causing bigger problems is common. In prostitution stings police officers dress as prostitutes and offer sex to would-be customers then haul them away when they reach the hotel room where they would have had sex. In drug stings police officers sell drugs by posing as drug dealers and sometimes even buy drugs until they have sufficient amounts of evidence to put away violent criminals for longer terms. Police officers cracking down on paid sex or dangerous drug dealings do not have paid sex or use dangerous drugs. If it is necessary to maintain a cache of child porn to bait pedophiles and that cache leads to more arrests and convictions, then it is a necessary measure.
As said the thing may have its place in kinda fast real time processing of steady input, but that input would have to be supplied at a much greater rate. Until everything down the line from user input to disk/display output is quick enough to move that much data this proof of concept device is just an entry in the Guinness Book.