Wouldn't this fall under "video?" I mean, if they were projecting, oh, The Fifth Element on those screens, it'd be called a "movie." I agree with the rest of the folks that say calling this "sculpture" is quite a stretch of the word. Now, if it were actually a sculpture that had, say, for example illuminated portions that could change color...maybe some kinetic parts, who knows what...but something with physical volume, then I'd be really impressed. Right now, it (to me) seems like little more than a cool winamp-esque visualization plugin for ethereal. Big deal.
I find it distracting when I have my computer on, but it's also distracting to the professor. Try talking to a room full of people busily browsing the web sometime.
Not to mention that scrawling notes on paper, though frequently less legible (particularly for engineering geeks, myself included), is a heck of a lot quieter (and thereby less distracting to everyone) than tackity tickity tackity tack tack ka-tickity ta--tacktacktacktacktacktacktack ka-tackity tack tick tack ka-tick tick tack...
No, he just illustrated what the IT staff have been complaining about. Users have no patience. "We'll unlock your account as soon as we have this virus under control" is not an acceptable answer to a user. "What? Unlock my account now so I can get my work done! Otherwise I'll take it up with your supervisor! And why is there a virus on our system anyway? Isn't it your job to prevent that from happening?"
(The sig, should he change it at some point, was:
while 0
puts "I'm loving ruby"
end
)
No, dummy. It's while 0, so he's puts-ing only while zero is true (and of course it never is). So he's saying he isn't loving ruby. So it'd have to be
#!/usr/bin/ruby
puts "I'm loving ruby" while false
Several folks have already mentioned the concept that voltage without current is useless...example being the 35kv static shock you get when you scrub your shoes on carpet on a dry day and touch a doorknob. That's thirty-five thousand volts, but since the current is so miniscule, all it gives you is a bit of a burn where the arc touches your skin and, if you're really lucky, a slight jerk in the muscles surrounding the discharge point.
Anyway, I digress. Point being, if you have a good bit of earth and quite a bit of tree between the contact points, and a contact area inside the tree of...1 inch depth times (let's be generous--an 1/4th-inch-diameter nail) roughly.8in circumference, or 0.8 square inches, the internal resistance of this battery (which, as has been pointed out by the parent, is all this "amazing discovery" is), is bound to be huge. Which, at two volts, of course means infinitesimal current.
WTF operating system are you using? If you're using NT-based (such as Win2k or WinXP), format the volume NTFS. If you're using Win98 (and therefore have no NTFS), do us a favor and take your spyware-, virus-, and vulnerability-riddled machine off the internet immediately.
..And you can format a partition larger than 32GB with FAT32 -- FAT32 can address drives up to 2 or 4 TB IIRC -- Windows just won't let you. You'll have to use another tool to do it.
[S]He does have a clue. Ever installed post-NT Windows? What's the first thing the installer says as it's loading the runtime environment? Say it with me, kids...
Loading...Windows Executive
Doesn't mean the word is right, of course, but that's what the installer says. It's fair for someone to use the same words the software itself uses.
You're missing the point. Bad parenting, in this case, == What the **** kind of parent lets a TODDLER hold an INFANT to even open the possibility of it being thrown or otherwise mishandled in the first place??
The only lawsuit risk here is criminal neglect on the part of the parent..
Wait, no, Christians have a 99.99999999% mortality rate, if you count the couple folks that were raptured as non-deaths.
I know, the percentage is probably wrong. I don't know exactly how many people can be said to have been raptured, nor the complete total Christian population since the dawn of time.
Yep, of course my mod points expire the day before this well-spoken, level-headed individual (spoken seriously, not sarcastically) presents his opinions.
(Disclaimer: Local American opinion. Your jurisdiction may vary.)
Traffic-light outages should cause snarls but not wrecks, if people would just freakin' treat them the way they're supposed to---driver's ed taught me to deal with an out traffic light as if it were a four-way stop. EVERYBODY stops, and one person goes at a time.
Well-said. Has a nice almost-but-not-quite film-noir feel to it as well.
But take that woman and let her play GTA:VC as well and then you've got pure gold.;-) I mean really, what gamer-geek guy wouldn't love a girl who writes him poetry the morning after an all-night Half-Life 2 Deathmatch frag session?:-D
fragged
My darling, so bold with thy grav-gun in hand,
When thou frag'st me, thou takest mine 'eart in thine 'and.
With thy pistol and crowbar, thy SMG too,
Thou pavest my way o'er the headcrab-filled zoo.
What bravery! What passion! What angst, O what guile!
'Tis all for the glory these hours we while,
As thy villains thou fell to thy left and thy right!
In thine HEV suit, my lover, my knight!
I'm looking at their advertising copy and datasheets, and it looks like stacking the drives does not connect them electrically. So far I haven't read anything that clearly indicates it. I hope I'm incorrect, otherwise...
Are you kidding me? The real LEGO made electrically-connecting bricks a long time ago. I think LaCie severely dropped the ball by not making the drives automatically link with each other when stacked. They have six "knobs" which seems perfect to me - +12V, +5V, USB+, USB-, GND, and one left over. Two GNDs if you want to separate power supply and USB grounds for noise considerations. Add an inverted-gender prong to "activate" the connections so that they're not active unless actually stacked (wouldn't want errant paperclips shorting out the connectors of unstacked drives) and you'd be golden.
Of course you'd have to make each drive's power supply a little beefier.. But it seems like it wouldn't be much more than trivial to add a bit of firmware code such that each stacked drive queries down the USB chain and if there are more than X drives stacked, drives X + 1 through X + n never spin up and possibly blink a warning LED.
The above design insight is distributed under the GPL, where applicable.
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Wouldn't this fall under "video?" I mean, if they were projecting, oh, The Fifth Element on those screens, it'd be called a "movie." I agree with the rest of the folks that say calling this "sculpture" is quite a stretch of the word. Now, if it were actually a sculpture that had, say, for example illuminated portions that could change color...maybe some kinetic parts, who knows what...but something with physical volume, then I'd be really impressed. Right now, it (to me) seems like little more than a cool winamp-esque visualization plugin for ethereal. Big deal.
The summary says it was a photo posted by a friend, not by the job-seeker.
Therefore you are not?
No, he just illustrated what the IT staff have been complaining about. Users have no patience. "We'll unlock your account as soon as we have this virus under control" is not an acceptable answer to a user. "What? Unlock my account now so I can get my work done! Otherwise I'll take it up with your supervisor! And why is there a virus on our system anyway? Isn't it your job to prevent that from happening?"
So was it Fred or Persephone?
(The sig, should he change it at some point, was:
while 0
puts "I'm loving ruby"
end
)
No, dummy. It's while 0, so he's puts-ing only while zero is true (and of course it never is). So he's saying he isn't loving ruby. So it'd have to be
#!/usr/bin/ruby
puts "I'm loving ruby" while false
...I have made the earth-shaking discovery that I can also power a digital clock by shoving a copper and a zinc spike into a lemon!
Several folks have already mentioned the concept that voltage without current is useless...example being the 35kv static shock you get when you scrub your shoes on carpet on a dry day and touch a doorknob. That's thirty-five thousand volts, but since the current is so miniscule, all it gives you is a bit of a burn where the arc touches your skin and, if you're really lucky, a slight jerk in the muscles surrounding the discharge point.
.8in circumference, or 0.8 square inches, the internal resistance of this battery (which, as has been pointed out by the parent, is all this "amazing discovery" is), is bound to be huge. Which, at two volts, of course means infinitesimal current.
Anyway, I digress. Point being, if you have a good bit of earth and quite a bit of tree between the contact points, and a contact area inside the tree of...1 inch depth times (let's be generous--an 1/4th-inch-diameter nail) roughly
Definitely in the "nothing to see here" category.
WTF operating system are you using? If you're using NT-based (such as Win2k or WinXP), format the volume NTFS. If you're using Win98 (and therefore have no NTFS), do us a favor and take your spyware-, virus-, and vulnerability-riddled machine off the internet immediately.
..And you can format a partition larger than 32GB with FAT32 -- FAT32 can address drives up to 2 or 4 TB IIRC -- Windows just won't let you. You'll have to use another tool to do it.
Get it? Your anus?
- He doesn't get it, Ty.
Get it? Your anus?
- He doesn't get it!
Giving up my mod privs on this thread to mod this one textually (since I don't think the options presented are targeted enough..)
-1 Asinine
[S]He does have a clue. Ever installed post-NT Windows? What's the first thing the installer says as it's loading the runtime environment? Say it with me, kids...
Loading...Windows Executive
Doesn't mean the word is right, of course, but that's what the installer says. It's fair for someone to use the same words the software itself uses.
*ahem* Yes, hello, your attention please... *ahem*
In Soviet Russia...
Indictments sign up for YOU!
You're missing the point. Bad parenting, in this case, == What the **** kind of parent lets a TODDLER hold an INFANT to even open the possibility of it being thrown or otherwise mishandled in the first place??
The only lawsuit risk here is criminal neglect on the part of the parent..
Yep. 100%. They all die eventually.
Wait, no, Christians have a 99.99999999% mortality rate, if you count the couple folks that were raptured as non-deaths.
I know, the percentage is probably wrong. I don't know exactly how many people can be said to have been raptured, nor the complete total Christian population since the dawn of time.
s/Christian/God's chosen people/ where necessary.
Yep, of course my mod points expire the day before this well-spoken, level-headed individual (spoken seriously, not sarcastically) presents his opinions.
I'd sure mod up if I could.
(Disclaimer: Local American opinion. Your jurisdiction may vary.)
Traffic-light outages should cause snarls but not wrecks, if people would just freakin' treat them the way they're supposed to---driver's ed taught me to deal with an out traffic light as if it were a four-way stop. EVERYBODY stops, and one person goes at a time.
Well-said. Has a nice almost-but-not-quite film-noir feel to it as well.
;-) I mean really, what gamer-geek guy wouldn't love a girl who writes him poetry the morning after an all-night Half-Life 2 Deathmatch frag session? :-D
But take that woman and let her play GTA:VC as well and then you've got pure gold.
fragged
My darling, so bold with thy grav-gun in hand,
When thou frag'st me, thou takest mine 'eart in thine 'and.
With thy pistol and crowbar, thy SMG too,
Thou pavest my way o'er the headcrab-filled zoo.
What bravery! What passion! What angst, O what guile!
'Tis all for the glory these hours we while,
As thy villains thou fell to thy left and thy right!
In thine HEV suit, my lover, my knight!
Never claimed I was brilliant in poetry.. heh.
I'm looking at their advertising copy and datasheets, and it looks like stacking the drives does not connect them electrically. So far I haven't read anything that clearly indicates it. I hope I'm incorrect, otherwise...
Are you kidding me? The real LEGO made electrically-connecting bricks a long time ago. I think LaCie severely dropped the ball by not making the drives automatically link with each other when stacked. They have six "knobs" which seems perfect to me - +12V, +5V, USB+, USB-, GND, and one left over. Two GNDs if you want to separate power supply and USB grounds for noise considerations. Add an inverted-gender prong to "activate" the connections so that they're not active unless actually stacked (wouldn't want errant paperclips shorting out the connectors of unstacked drives) and you'd be golden.
Of course you'd have to make each drive's power supply a little beefier.. But it seems like it wouldn't be much more than trivial to add a bit of firmware code such that each stacked drive queries down the USB chain and if there are more than X drives stacked, drives X + 1 through X + n never spin up and possibly blink a warning LED.
The above design insight is distributed under the GPL, where applicable.
Gah. Idiot. If you're going to make a joke about the Konami code, at least get it right.
It's Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A B A
I think it was canned because the Lone Gunmen actually die in an X-Files episode. I almost cried.
Of course, it could be the other way 'round -- they died in the X-Files to justify canning the series..
What? Sounds like business as usual to me...
In Soviet Russia, USENET talks on you!!
A well-thought, well-said position without political sway or slander.
I'm sorry, sir; I'll have to ask you to leave. That sort of behavior will not be tolerated here.