I've always used BluTack to block unwanted LEDs. If I didn't, I'd have my room lit up like a fine summer's day at noon, even if it was the middle of the night and all room lights were off.
"Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.";)
Pretty exciting stuff. I understand it's possible to get anywhere in the world in around 45 minutes via space. Of course, the journey may not be all that pleasant (high-G, lots of discomfort on re-entry etc), but freight really doesn't mind that sort of thing. Given enough years at it, private enterprise would solve those problems, making space journeys the same as taking a plane now.
Suprised no one has designed/built inertial dampners, etc yet... that'd help with the comfort levels. Although the idea has been floating around for so long its virtually unpatentable. Any engineers feel up for the challenge?
Would it be possible to use suborbital craft such as this as a means to provide rapid transportation between distant terrestrial locations?
If I recall correctly, ICBMs take suborbital, not orbital trajectories, and they are quite time savers when you want to wipe out a city, so could the same approach be applied to less malevolent projects?
Hehehe... my first thought on seeing the parent post was the image of a slightly squashed person being fired into a suborbital trajectory in a modified ICBM.
My next thought was I hope that the modifications included parachutes to be deployed before landing... test flight anyone?:)
Out of all of the major Search/Email companies, Google seems to be the one with the best intentions. I haven't yet had a problem with anything Google has done and I see no harm in indexing the world. Who knows, maybe one day I'll be able to log onto Google and actually find the information I want, without having to go through all the dud results first:)
I'm in my early 20's and of similar opinion to you. Most of the FPS games now days seem to be more improvements in graphics than anything else. I grew up myself with Doom, Doom 2 and Wolfenstein3D, and since then I haven't seen FPS games get much better in anything but graphics. Sure, its nice having the decent graphics (Doom 3 absolutely freaked me out in some places, while Doom and Doom 2 wouldn't scare a two-year old). Most of the improvements in game-play/storyline are in your RPGs and strategy games now days (though I have to say, I found KotOR2 disappointing, I thought it was not as good as the first one) Microsoft/Bungie though have to be insane IMO to make Halo2 Vista-only. All it'll do is encourage wide-scale piracy, as people decide they don't want to fork out $250-300 for a new OS. Only reason I have XP now is because most of the people that I fix computers for have XP, so I upgraded so I actually knew where MS had moved all the settings (my previous OS was 98). Wells thats my 2c:p
I have a hotmail and a yahoo email address... with the yahoo email, I never see any spam in my inbox anymore... with the hotmail email, I see at least 2 spam emails a day (including the monthly emails from Hotmail itself... I can't seem to get them to deliver them to my Spam folder instead of my Inbox, despite repeatedly submitting them as spam).
So I would say Gates has failed his two-year target of "eliminating" spam:p
vi VS emacs arguments are pointless and a waste of time
cause both are as bad as each other:p (sorry, my bad, couldn't help but comment on that, have had fun in the past trying to use both of them when debugging friends code).
back on topic, was an interesting read, half-tempted to pass it onto my parents so I won't have to clean their computer of adware/spyware/etc next time I go home... of course, it would be even better if we could just stop the whole adware/spyware/etc thing altogether, but we won't get into that now.
Can't remember the last time I actually watched anything on a TV (directly anyway). Pretty much every show I watch now is downloaded off the internet. I just use Dark Horizons and TV.com to keep track of what shows are currently airing that I want to watch.
What gets me is how anyone could live in places so close to the coast where the land is less than 1m above sea level. All it would take is a moderate storm surge, and they'd all be floating.
Possibly the whole state bureaucracy, whole state machine is just like a Windows installation. It degrades over time and at some point you have to re-install from scratch.
Now there's an idea I like, deleting the current government and creating a new one from scratch...
but as previously pointed out, with a few minor additions (as to which it depends on whether you prefer salt or pepper:p) to the procedure, this database becomes a minor security concern.
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I've always used BluTack to block unwanted LEDs. If I didn't, I'd have my room lit up like a fine summer's day at noon, even if it was the middle of the night and all room lights were off.
It wouldn't be too much effort IMO
"Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing." ;)
True, maybe any modifications should include some way of distinguishing explosive ICBMs from transport modules ;)
Hehehe
My next thought was I hope that the modifications included parachutes to be deployed before landing
Out of all of the major Search/Email companies, Google seems to be the one with the best intentions. I haven't yet had a problem with anything Google has done and I see no harm in indexing the world. Who knows, maybe one day I'll be able to log onto Google and actually find the information I want, without having to go through all the dud results first :)
I'm in my early 20's and of similar opinion to you. Most of the FPS games now days seem to be more improvements in graphics than anything else. I grew up myself with Doom, Doom 2 and Wolfenstein3D, and since then I haven't seen FPS games get much better in anything but graphics. Sure, its nice having the decent graphics (Doom 3 absolutely freaked me out in some places, while Doom and Doom 2 wouldn't scare a two-year old). :p
Most of the improvements in game-play/storyline are in your RPGs and strategy games now days (though I have to say, I found KotOR2 disappointing, I thought it was not as good as the first one)
Microsoft/Bungie though have to be insane IMO to make Halo2 Vista-only. All it'll do is encourage wide-scale piracy, as people decide they don't want to fork out $250-300 for a new OS. Only reason I have XP now is because most of the people that I fix computers for have XP, so I upgraded so I actually knew where MS had moved all the settings (my previous OS was 98).
Wells thats my 2c
I have a hotmail and a yahoo email address ... with the yahoo email, I never see any spam in my inbox anymore ... with the hotmail email, I see at least 2 spam emails a day (including the monthly emails from Hotmail itself ... I can't seem to get them to deliver them to my Spam folder instead of my Inbox, despite repeatedly submitting them as spam).
:p
So I would say Gates has failed his two-year target of "eliminating" spam
cause both are as bad as each other :p (sorry, my bad, couldn't help but comment on that, have had fun in the past trying to use both of them when debugging friends code).
back on topic, was an interesting read, half-tempted to pass it onto my parents so I won't have to clean their computer of adware/spyware/etc next time I go home ... of course, it would be even better if we could just stop the whole adware/spyware/etc thing altogether, but we won't get into that now.
How about google open an office in Australia, that way there can be an "Aussie" Summer of Code for us coders in the southern half of the planet.
Can't remember the last time I actually watched anything on a TV (directly anyway). Pretty much every show I watch now is downloaded off the internet. I just use Dark Horizons and TV.com to keep track of what shows are currently airing that I want to watch.
:)
Just my two pence worth
ROFL, IMO the parent post should be modded funny :)
What gets me is how anyone could live in places so close to the coast where the land is less than 1m above sea level. All it would take is a moderate storm surge, and they'd all be floating.
hah, found it ... me googled it! ;)
... ah wells me mustn't be intelligent :D
hmmm, nothing about knowing how to google stuff in them definitions
Its only just turned spring here!
Person 1: Hey how do you copy something?
Person 2: Press Ctrl+C
Person 1: Which buttons are they?
Person 2: The black ones of course!
Why the Internet of course, where else?
but as previously pointed out, with a few minor additions (as to which it depends on whether you prefer salt or pepper :p) to the procedure, this database becomes a minor security concern.
While it is somewhat way over the top, it is amusing anyways, so if someone has a spare mod point or two, could you mod the parent "funny"?
hehehe, sorry I have a rotten sense of humour :)
guess i should rtfa more often :), although you'd think they'd be onto it fairly quickly so as to avoid as much confusion as possible.
0825 AEST and they're still all listed as down. wth??