i was in Valdez Alaska on the 4th of july, and everyone we talked to said "we don't do fireworks on the 4th, we save em for new years" which was fully explained at around 11:30 that night, when i was trying to sleep, and kept hearing this "bang bang bang" and thinking it was fireworks. but then i started listening carefully, and realized it was people at the gun range up the road from the campsite i was at.
light enough to go to the gun range and be able to see to shoot. at dang near midnight. it was quite weird for me, as I'm from texas and it gets dark pretty early, so the eternal twilight of alaska summer nights was very strange.
exactly, every time the time change rolls around, i go around swearing it'd be simpler to just change the clocks 30 minutes in the direction we're supposed to change them at that time and then never ever ever do it again.
I'm obviously not complaining to the correct people.
but no amount of software is going to prevent someone from either just clicking yes no matter what, or not giving two left handed damns about learning to NOT get phished, or prevent natural stupidity from taking its course.
internet based finance rule number 1: if you get an email from them, delete it, close the browser, then open it again and TYPE the address in. NEVER use a emailed link to login. one simple rule, will save you every time unless the actual site has been compromised.
every computer is secure out of the box. its just that most people tend to plug an internet connection into them shortly after un-boxing them, thus over riding the security.
*waits for his -1 troll scoring*
honestly, as it has been said here before, no amount of software can prevent user stupidity, which is the cause of a vast number of virus and spyware infections.
on a side note, there is not much more entertaining than having a computer come into the shop with 4 AV programs dueling , limewire, kazaa and some other file sharing program running, and 50 porn bookmarks. and the customer saying "its slow, i think i have a virus, and need more virus protection".
until your house burns down from an electrical fire in the middle of the night.
honestly, i balk at the idea of using power strips (surge protecting or not). Its all extra load on one breaker, and if you live in a older house (as I, and many others do) then its a good bet that there are 4 breakers in your breaker box, one for the stove, one for the dryer, one for lights and one for plugs, and thats the whole house. throw in a chance at aluminum wiring, and the idea of daisy-chaining three-way plugs gets scary as hell.
some day, In the distant future, when I build/remodel a house of my own, I'm adding at least half a dozen individually breakered plugs to both the office and wherever my entertainment center lives. For now, i have a surge strip and a nervous twitch.
reading this converstaton reminded me of something i read quite a while back (on/.) i can find the article on./ but i found what it linked to. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0KJI/is_3_114/ai_84237491
there, it discusses how we can easily store, transport, and use hydrogen which has been bonded to borax. (yes, soap.) the net result is safe transportation, and soapy water as the waste.
quite interesting.
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the other kicker, is the captcha's that have some strange caps/lowercase requirement more than once i've had a captcha that a what looked like a capital O was really a Zero. (thats hard to get by) and usually when i find ones that are like that, its on a page that makes a new one every time you fail. (also capitol i's that look like lowercase L's)
forsooth, I as well have a stack of guns, and numerous bad days. The reason i don't shoot people is because i'd rather have a bad day where i live, Vs. a bad day in a federal prison, which comes with a lot more surprise butsecks in the showers. not down with that, so i don't shoot people.
better still, they charge you 100$ a month, and install a tethered balloon in your backyard to relay internet service to you. Then, they add receivers for your neighbor, and you get a price reduction for each customer that comes on via your balloon. with a minimum of 20$ a month. so, if you and 4 of your neighbors get on the service, you got a 20$ balloon in your back yard, and internet.
THEN the company would make money, and not be a pipe dream.
wait what? so let me get this straight. you have a disease where you have slight tremors, so they give you some meds that make you flop around like a fish on shore? that makes a whole lot of sense...
that according to the popular theory, there once was a LOT of dinosaurs and plants and such on Titan, that became these hydrocarbons after millions or billions of years of being dead?
"Such an unbelievable invention would challenge the laws of physics, a no-no in the rigid world of serious science"
this is retarded. good science does not include "no-no's" when it comes to the laws of physics. when something of this nature is found, it is rigorously tested, and either accepted or disproved. saying that there are hard and fast laws that we must not break in serious science is stupid. science is about breaking what we think we know, and finding out why we could break it in the first place.
at the going rate, we probably have this all wrong, and its either ridiculously simple, or so insanely much more complicated that we're going to have a collective infarction when we finally get a grasp on how it really works.
honestly, the thing that stands out to me the most in budget film and TV productions (and soap operas are the most obvious culprits here) is the quality of the sound. noticeable most in soaps, there is this odd.. vacancy... in the sound. This is compounded by bad acting of course. another show that displays this for some reason is the HBO show "curb your enthusiasm" it has the same strangeness to the sound. i'm not a actual recording expert or anything, but i expect the main causes are the quality of the mic, as well as what the set is composed of.
Personally, i think that it is possible to make a CGI movie good enough to get people to draw into the movie, and not be put off by the CGI, but as a whole, CGI is overused in budget films, in which case, it really damages the quality of the movie. (i use the second dragonheart movie as an example, the first movie had great CGI, but the second movie had horrible CGI, or the "ride someone else's hype" war of the worlds that was released just ahead of the tom cruise movie. painfully fake CGI in both.
well. at least its a FUN way to waste water, vs letting your toilet run, or your faucet drip, or ignore that leaky pipe in your lawn's sprinkler system that uses up 20,000 dollars worth of water in 2 months and creates a cavern twice the size of your house under your front lawn. (yes, that happened to someone i know)
here's to hoping the heat engine thinger-ma-bob works as described.
i seem to recall the idea that it stops being about how fast your internet is, and becomes about how slow your hard drive is. thats a lot of data to scribble down on magnets in 4 minutes,
I was just thinking about how all this worked, and i'm confident what i'm thinking won't work with wii hardware, but i realized how to make fully functional 2 person VR with this technique. it would require two pairs of shutter glasses, and a system capable of pushing over 144fps, simply put, it broadcasts data set A for user 1 and datas et B for user 2, and closes A's shutters when B is on screen, and B's shutters when A's is on screen. at 144+ fps, each user gets 72fps, which is more than enough to make the dual broadcast un-noticeable. Only hard part is the hardware to do it.
now i know there are lots of problems with shutter glasses and all that, what i just described would be the shortest path i can think of to achieve 2 person function on one screen.
that I see, is that at these speeds, you're on the verge of your passengers needing to pass a nasa physical to be able to take the flight without suffering a heart attack or some other problem. its one thing to go fast, its another to be able to go fast comfortably. your average 50+ CEO (the sort of person who can afford a flight like that) most likely will not be able to handle the stress of the flight.
there was an article in popular science some time ago about these suits, that went into some detail about the physics of it all. The trouble turns out to be, that if you built a suit with enough wing material to give you enough drag to go slow enough to land without a normal 'chute, you'd rip your arms and legs off when you jumped out of the plane. the wings we have at this point are just shy of the maximum size the human body can stand to open mid flight without loosing an appendage. Thus, as it stands now, the current basic design of the suit (wing between the legs, and under each arm to the leg, reverse delta wing style) won't work, and someone has to do some serious design work to come up with an alternate design/materials/technique of flying to create a way to fly, and then finally apply enough drag to land. the way I personally see it (and i am not a physicist ) the solutions may be some sort of imaginary material like in batman that when an electrical charge is applied, it becomes rigid, and has a tensile strength near that of steel, which would allow you to make a suit that became rigid on command. thus, you make the suit, where you launch with small wings, fly, ridgidize the suit, and then cause the wings to expand somehow, giving you enough drag to land, but short of a parachute.
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Exactly. Nail on the head. men are fine, women are just trained in the fine art of confusing them.
I for one welcome our new radioactive-cat overlords.
but they send you the actual damn OS disks, VS the "restore" disks or whatnot.
only if you set it to auto mount them. its STILL a matter of not futzing with settings that protect you to achieve that .04 seconds of convenience.
only a true /. article is going to have the last line be " Vzoooot. Cronk, cronk, cronk. Zip, zip. (Pause.) Gurlagurlagurla...zweeee. "
i was in Valdez Alaska on the 4th of july, and everyone we talked to said "we don't do fireworks on the 4th, we save em for new years" which was fully explained at around 11:30 that night, when i was trying to sleep, and kept hearing this "bang bang bang" and thinking it was fireworks. but then i started listening carefully, and realized it was people at the gun range up the road from the campsite i was at. light enough to go to the gun range and be able to see to shoot. at dang near midnight. it was quite weird for me, as I'm from texas and it gets dark pretty early, so the eternal twilight of alaska summer nights was very strange.
exactly, every time the time change rolls around, i go around swearing it'd be simpler to just change the clocks 30 minutes in the direction we're supposed to change them at that time and then never ever ever do it again. I'm obviously not complaining to the correct people.
but no amount of software is going to prevent someone from either just clicking yes no matter what, or not giving two left handed damns about learning to NOT get phished, or prevent natural stupidity from taking its course. internet based finance rule number 1: if you get an email from them, delete it, close the browser, then open it again and TYPE the address in. NEVER use a emailed link to login. one simple rule, will save you every time unless the actual site has been compromised.
every computer is secure out of the box. its just that most people tend to plug an internet connection into them shortly after un-boxing them, thus over riding the security. *waits for his -1 troll scoring* honestly, as it has been said here before, no amount of software can prevent user stupidity, which is the cause of a vast number of virus and spyware infections. on a side note, there is not much more entertaining than having a computer come into the shop with 4 AV programs dueling , limewire, kazaa and some other file sharing program running, and 50 porn bookmarks. and the customer saying "its slow, i think i have a virus, and need more virus protection".
until your house burns down from an electrical fire in the middle of the night. honestly, i balk at the idea of using power strips (surge protecting or not). Its all extra load on one breaker, and if you live in a older house (as I, and many others do) then its a good bet that there are 4 breakers in your breaker box, one for the stove, one for the dryer, one for lights and one for plugs, and thats the whole house. throw in a chance at aluminum wiring, and the idea of daisy-chaining three-way plugs gets scary as hell. some day, In the distant future, when I build/remodel a house of my own, I'm adding at least half a dozen individually breakered plugs to both the office and wherever my entertainment center lives. For now, i have a surge strip and a nervous twitch.
reading this converstaton reminded me of something i read quite a while back (on /.) i can find the article on ./ but i found what it linked to. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0KJI/is_3_114/ai_84237491
there, it discusses how we can easily store, transport, and use hydrogen which has been bonded to borax. (yes, soap.) the net result is safe transportation, and soapy water as the waste.
quite interesting.
the other kicker, is the captcha's that have some strange caps/lowercase requirement more than once i've had a captcha that a what looked like a capital O was really a Zero. (thats hard to get by) and usually when i find ones that are like that, its on a page that makes a new one every time you fail. (also capitol i's that look like lowercase L's)
forsooth, I as well have a stack of guns, and numerous bad days. The reason i don't shoot people is because i'd rather have a bad day where i live, Vs. a bad day in a federal prison, which comes with a lot more surprise butsecks in the showers. not down with that, so i don't shoot people.
better still, they charge you 100$ a month, and install a tethered balloon in your backyard to relay internet service to you. Then, they add receivers for your neighbor, and you get a price reduction for each customer that comes on via your balloon. with a minimum of 20$ a month. so, if you and 4 of your neighbors get on the service, you got a 20$ balloon in your back yard, and internet. THEN the company would make money, and not be a pipe dream.
ah, i see. forgive me for not being fully up to speed on all the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
wait what? so let me get this straight. you have a disease where you have slight tremors, so they give you some meds that make you flop around like a fish on shore? that makes a whole lot of sense...
that according to the popular theory, there once was a LOT of dinosaurs and plants and such on Titan, that became these hydrocarbons after millions or billions of years of being dead?
"Such an unbelievable invention would challenge the laws of physics, a no-no in the rigid world of serious science" this is retarded. good science does not include "no-no's" when it comes to the laws of physics. when something of this nature is found, it is rigorously tested, and either accepted or disproved. saying that there are hard and fast laws that we must not break in serious science is stupid. science is about breaking what we think we know, and finding out why we could break it in the first place.
at the going rate, we probably have this all wrong, and its either ridiculously simple, or so insanely much more complicated that we're going to have a collective infarction when we finally get a grasp on how it really works.
honestly, the thing that stands out to me the most in budget film and TV productions (and soap operas are the most obvious culprits here) is the quality of the sound. noticeable most in soaps, there is this odd.. vacancy... in the sound. This is compounded by bad acting of course. another show that displays this for some reason is the HBO show "curb your enthusiasm" it has the same strangeness to the sound. i'm not a actual recording expert or anything, but i expect the main causes are the quality of the mic, as well as what the set is composed of. Personally, i think that it is possible to make a CGI movie good enough to get people to draw into the movie, and not be put off by the CGI, but as a whole, CGI is overused in budget films, in which case, it really damages the quality of the movie. (i use the second dragonheart movie as an example, the first movie had great CGI, but the second movie had horrible CGI, or the "ride someone else's hype" war of the worlds that was released just ahead of the tom cruise movie. painfully fake CGI in both.
well. at least its a FUN way to waste water, vs letting your toilet run, or your faucet drip, or ignore that leaky pipe in your lawn's sprinkler system that uses up 20,000 dollars worth of water in 2 months and creates a cavern twice the size of your house under your front lawn. (yes, that happened to someone i know) here's to hoping the heat engine thinger-ma-bob works as described.
i seem to recall the idea that it stops being about how fast your internet is, and becomes about how slow your hard drive is. thats a lot of data to scribble down on magnets in 4 minutes,
I was just thinking about how all this worked, and i'm confident what i'm thinking won't work with wii hardware, but i realized how to make fully functional 2 person VR with this technique. it would require two pairs of shutter glasses, and a system capable of pushing over 144fps, simply put, it broadcasts data set A for user 1 and datas et B for user 2, and closes A's shutters when B is on screen, and B's shutters when A's is on screen. at 144+ fps, each user gets 72fps, which is more than enough to make the dual broadcast un-noticeable. Only hard part is the hardware to do it. now i know there are lots of problems with shutter glasses and all that, what i just described would be the shortest path i can think of to achieve 2 person function on one screen.
that I see, is that at these speeds, you're on the verge of your passengers needing to pass a nasa physical to be able to take the flight without suffering a heart attack or some other problem. its one thing to go fast, its another to be able to go fast comfortably. your average 50+ CEO (the sort of person who can afford a flight like that) most likely will not be able to handle the stress of the flight.
there was an article in popular science some time ago about these suits, that went into some detail about the physics of it all. The trouble turns out to be, that if you built a suit with enough wing material to give you enough drag to go slow enough to land without a normal 'chute, you'd rip your arms and legs off when you jumped out of the plane. the wings we have at this point are just shy of the maximum size the human body can stand to open mid flight without loosing an appendage. Thus, as it stands now, the current basic design of the suit (wing between the legs, and under each arm to the leg, reverse delta wing style) won't work, and someone has to do some serious design work to come up with an alternate design/materials/technique of flying to create a way to fly, and then finally apply enough drag to land. the way I personally see it (and i am not a physicist ) the solutions may be some sort of imaginary material like in batman that when an electrical charge is applied, it becomes rigid, and has a tensile strength near that of steel, which would allow you to make a suit that became rigid on command. thus, you make the suit, where you launch with small wings, fly, ridgidize the suit, and then cause the wings to expand somehow, giving you enough drag to land, but short of a parachute.