Or you could just walk over to your OSH garden center and buy a box of that stuff, as long as you don't need 100% purity that stuff is easy to get (used to improve soil acidity in alkaline soils).
Sulphur is the easiest element to collect. Just walk along train tracks and look for the yellow pebbles that fall through the sulphur cars. I was able to collect maybe 10 grams in about 5 mins.
Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! There is no renewal!!
Your idea will only work when you have your government-mandated RFID chip inserted at birth. Even then, it's a device, which means that it can be hacked by a smart teenager. I know, I was turning ten dollar transistor radios into guitar fuzzboxes and selling them for fifty (real ones were twice that much) when I was a teenager.
Reese: There was a nuclear war. A few years from now, all this, this whole place, everything, it's gone. Just gone. There were survivors. Here, there. Nobody even knew who started it. It was the machine, Sarah.
Sarah: I don't understand.
Reese: Defense network computers. New... powerful... hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination.
A computer that can solve problems using methods similar to ours will improve itself and reach scientific breakthroughs at a rate far faster than we can understand them.
...So what happens when it determines that the biggest problem with this planet is the ugly bags of mostly water...?
Don't worry, they assuredly will. And you(collectively) will support it, all in the name of security.
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country"
-Herman Goering
Mate, actually I'm British. My own government is rapidly descending further into its own privacy-blind Orwellian nightmare. I haven't got much nice to say about them either. As it happens, I really wasn't casting any aspersion on China. I was merely trying to point out the nonsense of the broader "catch the troublemakers" justification itself. I'd be no happier if the London 2012 Olympics tickets feature chips containing such a broad range of personal data either
Well that is problem is easy enough, you just have to light it on fire. Instant plastic decomposition. Do I get a patent award for this?
The idea is not to have a plastic-decomposing machine. The problem to be solved is how to deal with plastic that gets buried in a landfill. Even though many people today do a conscious effort to recycle, it's still not enough, there will always be some plastic in the garbage.
The ability to forget might be the only thing keeping us sane.
Or maybe its a performance optimization - keeping the dataset smaller makes retrieval faster.
Or part of a disaster recovery system, enabling you not to be permanently traumatised after seeing the goatse guy
BROWN PEASANT NEEDS FOOD BADLY!
BROWN PEASANT IS ABOUT TO DIE.
The only ways I know of to stop this particular out of control locomotive is to educate the poor farmers in basic soil retention and agricultural techniques the Europeans discovered hundreds of years ago and to convince the lumber mills to stop imports (I.E. Go out of business). Since 1 may well happen (In fact there are efforts to ensure it) but 2 will not, I don't see how anything will change.
You can't of course, but analog shoulder buttons have been around for rather a long time now. Off the top of my head, the earliest one I can remember is the NeGcon back around 1994. It didn't click, but maybe Namco can use their NeGcon patents and sue these trolls for their Wii moolah?
What kind of "variable depressive force" can you read out of a Super NES shoulder button's binary switch?
Damn, and I thought the lifeblood of today's terrorist organizations was shadow government support programs. I mean, it's not like all of those Katyusha rockets and shaped charges just magically appear in terrorist lunchboxes.
The Internet is literally the lifeblood of today's terrorist organizations, and a dDOS capability might be the most effective way to quickly shut down recruiting sites before they gain the momentum they need to be effective.
If we were using fast breeder tech (viva la France) to recycle our spent rods we wouldn't need nearly as much(~1/60th). As an added benefit we could drastically scale back our Yucca Flats facility since we'd have a lot less waste.
But their are not enough known nuclear material in the US to be self sufficient in nuclear, so it definitely can't (currently) solve the US energy problems either (unless were willing and able to kick South Africa's ass next.)
I'm not anti-nuke. With all of the desalination we'll need to do in the future, it really makes the most sense. However ocean based wind farms are a great idea and we really ought to pursue that too, since land cost is well, rather irrelevant, as is noise.
There's a great offshore wind project in the Netherlands we would be well served to emulate. California is between a rock and a hard place since they're net power importers and (due to smog regs) the only conventional power plants they can build are natural gas powered, which sets us up for another Enron, only this time in the CNG market.
Unless of course you have OnStar, Lojack, a bridge toll Fastpass, or um..probably some other things I've forgotten about. I love my country, but damn if I trust the idiot squad we have in charge now.
No need for the pre-1990 car; the proposed OBD-III (with remote monitoring) still hasn't been implemented, so the only way you are going to be tracked from your car is the license plate. Obeying all traffic laws will get you interest from law enforcement, so that's not such a great idea either.
Crime lords and drug gangs only have power because our government gives it to them. Make gambling, drugs and sex legal and you take away a rather significant fraction of their revenue stream. Police and your friendly government agencies will be abusing their new found surveillance powers, it's not a question of if, it's merely a question of when.
Go live in a city where the crime lords and drug gangs run the place. Then you can come back and talk to us about thugs and bullies.
The M5 is a good vehicle, but it's too heavy. Certainly these designs have some logic to them, you can make engines as efficient as all heck, but the basic dynamics don't change. Moving 4000lbs of car requires more energy(hp/fuel) than moving 2000lbs of car.
All things being equal, that 4000lb car is safer in a crash, but you'll pay for it in acceleration, cornering, braking and economy.
Personally I'd never settle for this glorified tricycle design, but I would love to see some light and good handling RWD vehicles again (think BMW 2002). I'd certainly object to any mandate that people buy one, your car should be a personal choice. If you want to shell out for a 12mpg Hummer, well, fine. It's your money.
My current ride is great (and not terribly fuel efficient), but I've been commuting in a product of the last big fuel shortage (80'corolla/~2300lb). It's certainly not a beast (75hp), but acceleration and cornering are quite respectable once you replace the weak sauce pizza cutter rims. Economy is more than reasonable for a carbed vehicle (~24mpg avg), and while it lacks a good top end, low end torque is really quite decent. A modern injected version would certainly improve on those mpg/hp ratings, but for what I spent on that beater I can afford to pay a little more at the pump.
Look, if you want to go 60 years backwards in terms of automotive transportations, go ahead and get yourself the abovementioned beetle to enjoy its "fine" performance and the excellent 32 mpg. Nobody's stoppping you. I myself would take one of those M5 thingies the germans seem to be offering before people such as yourself will manage to destroy all that is good in this world.
Jumping ship at 1 year intervals look a bit questionable on a resume. Stick it out a bit and then go look for someone who will pay you what you're worth.
Learning is great, but try to stick to technologies that have a future. With the H1 craze, companies are addicted to hiring talent who already has the experience in whatever languages/dev environment they want, instead of say training people like we did before. After all, if these people don't work out you can deport them just like that.
Notes may be a dog with a UI designed for alien sock puppets, but I will give Lotus props for two things.
One, they had a secure multi-platform development environment in what, 1996?, and two, it supports mirroring right out of the box. You know, so you can't easily 'lose' those emails. No wonder they decided to upgrade.
Nothing wrong with Lotus Notes, the constant crashing, extremely unintuitive UI, bloat and countless other problems generate jobs by the tens of thousands at IT helpdesks.
Thank you IBM for bringing me a pretty darn good income with the monstrosity known as Lotus Notes.
Clearly we can trust comcast and our government to help us. This is just a means to
1) pacify the FCC and
2) help identify non-blessed p2p applications
I'll support surveillance just as soon as every public official has a camera and mic pointed at them 24x7.
Mayor(California,SF) Gavin Newsom proposed public surveillance cameras for San Franciso in November of 2005.
This is humorously ironic, since if he'd had surveillance cameras in his office, it's likely he wouldn't be mayor (due to a highly publicized affair with one of his married aides in 2006)
Self regulation is crap.
If comcast thinks they need to self-regulate, then what harm is there in making it as law?
After all as Bush often claims, why do you worry about surveillance, if you are not breaking the law?
Please explain how we go from coast to coast (~3000 miles in the USA) without fossil fuels in the next 50 years. The only possible solution is nuclear powered cars. Given the current CYA 9/11 bullshit we have to put up with now that is just not going to happen.
We could make alcohol powered cars, but creating alcohol requires energy. We currently get most of that from coal, a fossil fuel. This means we pump more Co2 and carbon in the atmosphere in order to avoid using oil, which makes this equation eco-friendly how exactly? Incidentally, this is the same argument I'd use against electric cars because that's where our electricity comes from.
We can all be hippie tree-huggers and hold grateful dead revival concerts using wind driven turbines, but if we actually want to make stuff and deliver it to people we need a fuel that can drive vehicles of some kind and works all the time, instead of when it's incredibly windy or sunny outside. Nobody in China or the UK is going to buy our love beads and incense, so if we'd like their crap we need to make something they want. And don't even get me started on Al Gore, with his ginormous air conditioned mansion in Georgia, preaching to us all about global warming.
Even if we all decide today that we're going to swear off fossil fuels, the process of converting our society to the alternatives will take decades, decades in which we will still rely on millions of barrels of oil every day.
Which is why that decision should've been made decades ago. The switch will never be painless, just like switching from MS Office or Windows to the competition will never be painless.
It's nothing different than sound synthesis on my crusty apple II+. It wasn't beautiful, but it was certainly possible using the stock beep-beep speaker. The one people probably remember is the max headroom demo.
Even back to the olden days this was possible, the intellivision game major league baseball did this back in 79' without the benefit of the intellivoice add-on (83').
Instead of beeps and simplistic
noises, the game used the PC speaker to play actual wave data, including REAL music and sound effects. I was quite amazed at the time that my computer could actually produce semi-realistic sounds without a sound card.
Damn straight. If your computer was running DOS, and you didn't have SB16 support, you were boned. That was their big competitive advantage. Regardless of whether you had Turtle Beach, or some other semi-compatible with better features, it was a hassle and you never saw much benefit from it since the software didn't recognize anything but SB or Adlib. The SB16 just worked.
Of course we haven't been running DOS for a while now, even on board sound is fairly reasonable these days. So they no longer matter, just like say, 3Com, and for pretty much the same reason.
Don't hate on the SB16. Regardless of whether or not it was true 16-bit it was the de facto standard for PC gaming for many years. In fact I remember wanting one quite badly when they first hit the market and I was stuck with my PoS Adlib card.
I remember those, I even had one with the cheaper wooden wheels at one point.
We certainly had fire, since I got to play with OMG *real* fireworks as a kid. We had lead in our paint and asbestos in our floor tiles and we liked it.
You know, before we invented lawyers and decided toasters needed labels saying 'do not immerse in water'.
Damn, when I was a kid, roller skates and skateboards were only metal.
We also had strap on skate wheels that were also metal.
What 2D console games? I mean, I have a few vintage consoles that have scads of great 2D games (ex. Sega Saturn, NeoGeo), but that's hardly fashionable these days. Assuming you're not talking about a GBA/PSP anyway, since portables often recycle content from earlier consoles, that or the limited selection of download items for the Wii.
I myself really love manic shooters. A genre that was highly popular in japan a while ago now. Buying a new console does not give me much access to that.
On the PC side I can have emulators for the old systems and (while not legal) every rom they ever got.
On the console side unless you're willing to find and buy all of the older systems and potentially rare (and therefore expensive) games, make illegal hardware modifications to the systems to fix any region issues, clean/fix oxidation and capacitor or other old hardware issues you just can't get at that content. You get what the business wants to sell you today and that's it.
For newer/3D titles I definitely understand the appeal of consoles, likewise from a usability point of view. I still remember upgrading, buying $$ video cards (starting from the ET6000/3dfx), reconfiguring my system ram/drivers (DOS) and direct-X versioning (Windows) to run higher end games. Configuration issues are still not easy (for older titles) even today.
Particularly in the days of DOS/Win3.1 it was painful even for a software guy to deal with these kind of configuration issues. Expecting mass-market appeal was just silly, but that's what it takes to make big profits.
I bought my voodoo board, I reconfigured my extended memory, I had a ton of fun playing things like thexder, duke nukem, doom, mechwarrior 2 and interstate 76. Expecting joe-6pack to do this is fucking insane.
And I guess he got severe depressions from the experience that 2D console games always looked better and ran smoother than games developed for his beloved DirectDraw architecture
I concur. Loud music describing death, sex, religion and power-chords also keeps me fairly alert. If those things no longer keep me alert when my radio is set to 11, it is time for me to pull over and take a goddamn nap. Blue LEDs are not going to save me.
Of course, with our lovely zero-tolerance laws (what, sleeping in your car instead of a tax generating residence???) that's illegal, just like everything else that doesn't generate tax revenue and/or threatens the first (government) and/or second estate(big business).
Just try to remember that our current president would be a unelectable felon if today's laws were in place when he was young or nobody cared who his daddy was.
You could just play death-metal at full volume. It more than keeps me awake. In fact, every time I listen to DethKlok, I feel like head-butting an ox.
Um, have you been to Europe sir? You know, where they have roads that don't need repairs after 2 years? Going with the low priced bid is often good, and it can also have bad consequences.
I won't use a car analogy this time. I'll be good. Do you want to spend $80 on a Hitachi drive and have it blow up in a year, or would you like to spend a little more for something with a 5 year warranty?
Calling on the free market is all well and good if it is a free market, but this is,at best, a government granted oligopoly. Comcast doesn't care about the free market, they care about money.
Actually, our country has the largest highway system in the world (by far) and it is widely regarded as a modern marvel of engineering.
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Happy birthday my Intel overlords, and a pox on whomever designed that ugly memory map.
Sarah: I don't understand.
Reese: Defense network computers. New... powerful... hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination.
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country"
-Herman Goering
BROWN PEASANT IS ABOUT TO DIE.
I'm not anti-nuke. With all of the desalination we'll need to do in the future, it really makes the most sense. However ocean based wind farms are a great idea and we really ought to pursue that too, since land cost is well, rather irrelevant, as is noise.
There's a great offshore wind project in the Netherlands we would be well served to emulate. California is between a rock and a hard place since they're net power importers and (due to smog regs) the only conventional power plants they can build are natural gas powered, which sets us up for another Enron, only this time in the CNG market.
All things being equal, that 4000lb car is safer in a crash, but you'll pay for it in acceleration, cornering, braking and economy.
Personally I'd never settle for this glorified tricycle design, but I would love to see some light and good handling RWD vehicles again (think BMW 2002). I'd certainly object to any mandate that people buy one, your car should be a personal choice. If you want to shell out for a 12mpg Hummer, well, fine. It's your money.
My current ride is great (and not terribly fuel efficient), but I've been commuting in a product of the last big fuel shortage (80'corolla/~2300lb). It's certainly not a beast (75hp), but acceleration and cornering are quite respectable once you replace the weak sauce pizza cutter rims. Economy is more than reasonable for a carbed vehicle (~24mpg avg), and while it lacks a good top end, low end torque is really quite decent. A modern injected version would certainly improve on those mpg/hp ratings, but for what I spent on that beater I can afford to pay a little more at the pump.
Well said sir. The only things I'd add is
Jumping ship at 1 year intervals look a bit questionable on a resume. Stick it out a bit and then go look for someone who will pay you what you're worth.
Learning is great, but try to stick to technologies that have a future. With the H1 craze, companies are addicted to hiring talent who already has the experience in whatever languages/dev environment they want, instead of say training people like we did before. After all, if these people don't work out you can deport them just like that.
One, they had a secure multi-platform development environment in what, 1996?, and two, it supports mirroring right out of the box. You know, so you can't easily 'lose' those emails. No wonder they decided to upgrade.
1) pacify the FCC and
2) help identify non-blessed p2p applications
I'll support surveillance just as soon as every public official has a camera and mic pointed at them 24x7.
Mayor(California,SF) Gavin Newsom proposed public surveillance cameras for San Franciso in November of 2005.
This is humorously ironic, since if he'd had surveillance cameras in his office, it's likely he wouldn't be mayor (due to a highly publicized affair with one of his married aides in 2006)
But after all, as Bush has said circa 2005 "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it's just a goddamned piece of paper"
Please explain how we go from coast to coast (~3000 miles in the USA) without fossil fuels in the next 50 years. The only possible solution is nuclear powered cars. Given the current CYA 9/11 bullshit we have to put up with now that is just not going to happen.
We could make alcohol powered cars, but creating alcohol requires energy. We currently get most of that from coal, a fossil fuel. This means we pump more Co2 and carbon in the atmosphere in order to avoid using oil, which makes this equation eco-friendly how exactly? Incidentally, this is the same argument I'd use against electric cars because that's where our electricity comes from.
We can all be hippie tree-huggers and hold grateful dead revival concerts using wind driven turbines, but if we actually want to make stuff and deliver it to people we need a fuel that can drive vehicles of some kind and works all the time, instead of when it's incredibly windy or sunny outside. Nobody in China or the UK is going to buy our love beads and incense, so if we'd like their crap we need to make something they want. And don't even get me started on Al Gore, with his ginormous air conditioned mansion in Georgia, preaching to us all about global warming.
Even back to the olden days this was possible, the intellivision game major league baseball did this back in 79' without the benefit of the intellivoice add-on (83').
Of course we haven't been running DOS for a while now, even on board sound is fairly reasonable these days. So they no longer matter, just like say, 3Com, and for pretty much the same reason.
We certainly had fire, since I got to play with OMG *real* fireworks as a kid. We had lead in our paint and asbestos in our floor tiles and we liked it.
You know, before we invented lawyers and decided toasters needed labels saying 'do not immerse in water'.
I myself really love manic shooters. A genre that was highly popular in japan a while ago now. Buying a new console does not give me much access to that.
On the PC side I can have emulators for the old systems and (while not legal) every rom they ever got.
On the console side unless you're willing to find and buy all of the older systems and potentially rare (and therefore expensive) games, make illegal hardware modifications to the systems to fix any region issues, clean/fix oxidation and capacitor or other old hardware issues you just can't get at that content. You get what the business wants to sell you today and that's it.
For newer/3D titles I definitely understand the appeal of consoles, likewise from a usability point of view. I still remember upgrading, buying $$ video cards (starting from the ET6000/3dfx), reconfiguring my system ram/drivers (DOS) and direct-X versioning (Windows) to run higher end games. Configuration issues are still not easy (for older titles) even today.
Particularly in the days of DOS/Win3.1 it was painful even for a software guy to deal with these kind of configuration issues. Expecting mass-market appeal was just silly, but that's what it takes to make big profits.
I bought my voodoo board, I reconfigured my extended memory, I had a ton of fun playing things like thexder, duke nukem, doom, mechwarrior 2 and interstate 76. Expecting joe-6pack to do this is fucking insane.
Of course, with our lovely zero-tolerance laws (what, sleeping in your car instead of a tax generating residence???) that's illegal, just like everything else that doesn't generate tax revenue and/or threatens the first (government) and/or second estate(big business).
Just try to remember that our current president would be a unelectable felon if today's laws were in place when he was young or nobody cared who his daddy was.
I won't use a car analogy this time. I'll be good. Do you want to spend $80 on a Hitachi drive and have it blow up in a year, or would you like to spend a little more for something with a 5 year warranty?
Calling on the free market is all well and good if it is a free market, but this is