This brings back the good old days of my youth and the nuclear bomb drills we had.. Everybody made their way, peacefully and in an orderly fashion, into the hallway, faced the inner wall and shielded their eyes against what light from the flash of the nuclear blast would have made its way there.
What's the feeling out there about There? I've been in on it since it was in beta in 2003 and I've had a lot of fun with it. Some things work better than others as far as what the designers intended.
A Nikon Super Coolscan 9000 will scan a 5 x 6 inch area at 4000 dpi and its available for about $1800. Same as metioned in parent: you can sell it after you're done with it.
but start putting highway signs in both on every sign
This was the plan in the '70s. Canada was going along with the plan and spent the millions it took to switch all of the country over to metric. Then the US balked with a resounding "SIKE!"
In all of this talk about Second Life, nobody has mentioned http://there.com/. Its a little more structured than Second Life. They have a PG-13 restriction on content. The only thing stopping you from cursing someone out or other griefing is the threat of being banned by their abuse team.
Welcome to my world. New York City has been like that for hundreds of years. First the area now known as mid-town Manhatten was considered the boonies, then the other borroughs (Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx and Staten Island) and parts of New Jersey across the Hudson River, then Nassau and Westchester.
Right now I live 50 miles (as the crow flies) from downtown Manhattan and if I left at 3am and drove with no traffic, it would take me 90 minutes to get there. Yet I know of people who live FURTHER than me and they commute DAILY into Manhatten for 2 or 3 hours in each direction.
I think they're crazy. My 25 mile drive takes me between 20 and 45 minutes depending on the time of day and I think that's still too long of a trip. I live where I do because that's the area where my wife's family is centered.
About Mazda/Wankel rotary engines.. I've owned a few and blown four of them (once because of low oil, and the others because of broken apex seals due to detonation).
They have a very low torque curve. In a piston engine the connecting rod and crankshaft combine to apply the piston's power at almost right angles to crankshaft. In a rotary, the power is applied in a more oblique way.
You can't compare the 1.3L displacement to a 1.3L piston engine because each rotor (there's two in there) fires once for every revolution and a piston only fires once every two revolutions. You could maybe compare it to a 2.6L engine.
On the upside, since the rotary doesn't have any valves to float and no pistons that have to stop and change direction 180 degrees, the rotary can rev quite high. That's where the rotary really shines.
I think an improvement on the Mazda/Wankel rotary is the Quasiturbine. I can't wait to see this developed and commercialized. As it is, it can be used to run a car on compressed air. That's sort of electric, if you fill the air tanks with an electric air pump in your garage.
In addition to a pencil and notebook, I'd bring a voice recorder. I know from using my Tivo that sometimes I miss something that someone said and being able to back up a few seconds is the best thing. Maybe I was just spacing out at the moment, or got distracted by a bird outside, or maybe it was someone's odd accent that I didn't quite understand.
I got one of the orginal 500MHz EPIA 5000 motherboards. I put it in a cube case with a full size dvd/cdr and 40G HD. I replace the 150W power supply (with noisy fan) with an external 60W brick and regulator board. After a few hours, I noticed that the HD was really hot. So I put in a 12v fan, run off the 5v line, slowed down to the minimum speed that would always spin up when powered on. It's quieter and cooler than my DirecTivo.
Its about time they release these boards. I think I read about them 6 months ago.
NFS:Porsche is still my favorite driving game. The later NFS games are also good, but driving that '55 356 is lots of fun, even though it tops out at 90mph.
That game taught me how to do a 360 one evening. The next day I was driving to work in my Civic on the highway, and I was thinking, "I'm going fast enough to do a 360." Luckily, I know the difference between a game and the real world.. it would only work if I were driving a Porsche, of course.
I think just a few networked in-wall (or wall mounted) computers would do the trick for me. Maybe add some video phone desktop extensions too. I don't know how many times I've been upstairs in my office and my wife yelled up to me from some other room downstairs, only to get frustrated that she had to come to the stairs for me to hear her. It would be nice if she could just page me on the intercom ("com" being for computer, not just communication). "Attention all house occupants, please come to the dinning room to commence the dining hour."
Darn it, I still had some credit with StarROMs. When they first started up, I read about them right here on Slashdot. I saw a bunch of games that I wanted so bought some "credits" and got them. At least with the old arcade tokens, I can keep them to take out and look at now and then. My virtual StarROM tokens are gone with the company.
DAMN YOU VIRTUAL WORLD! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO EPHEMERAL!
I say no company is worth trusting. Even if they are worth trusting now, that's a reflection of the people in charge right now. Once those people start handing control to other people, that trust is diluted. Presumably they would choose other trustworthy people, but who knows what lurks in the hearts of men (and women).
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This brings back the good old days of my youth and the nuclear bomb drills we had.. Everybody made their way, peacefully and in an orderly fashion, into the hallway, faced the inner wall and shielded their eyes against what light from the flash of the nuclear blast would have made its way there.
What's the feeling out there about There? I've been in on it since it was in beta in 2003 and I've had a lot of fun with it. Some things work better than others as far as what the designers intended.
Disclaimer: I work for Nikon.
In all of this talk about Second Life, nobody has mentioned http://there.com/. Its a little more structured than Second Life. They have a PG-13 restriction on content. The only thing stopping you from cursing someone out or other griefing is the threat of being banned by their abuse team.
Welcome to my world. New York City has been like that for hundreds of years. First the area now known as mid-town Manhatten was considered the boonies, then the other borroughs (Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx and Staten Island) and parts of New Jersey across the Hudson River, then Nassau and Westchester. Right now I live 50 miles (as the crow flies) from downtown Manhattan and if I left at 3am and drove with no traffic, it would take me 90 minutes to get there. Yet I know of people who live FURTHER than me and they commute DAILY into Manhatten for 2 or 3 hours in each direction. I think they're crazy. My 25 mile drive takes me between 20 and 45 minutes depending on the time of day and I think that's still too long of a trip. I live where I do because that's the area where my wife's family is centered.
About Mazda/Wankel rotary engines.. I've owned a few and blown four of them (once because of low oil, and the others because of broken apex seals due to detonation).
They have a very low torque curve. In a piston engine the connecting rod and crankshaft combine to apply the piston's power at almost right angles to crankshaft. In a rotary, the power is applied in a more oblique way.
You can't compare the 1.3L displacement to a 1.3L piston engine because each rotor (there's two in there) fires once for every revolution and a piston only fires once every two revolutions. You could maybe compare it to a 2.6L engine.
On the upside, since the rotary doesn't have any valves to float and no pistons that have to stop and change direction 180 degrees, the rotary can rev quite high. That's where the rotary really shines.
I think an improvement on the Mazda/Wankel rotary is the Quasiturbine. I can't wait to see this developed and commercialized. As it is, it can be used to run a car on compressed air. That's sort of electric, if you fill the air tanks with an electric air pump in your garage.
Just laughing at your sig. BTW when you multiply four by ten, you get forty.
In addition to a pencil and notebook, I'd bring a voice recorder. I know from using my Tivo that sometimes I miss something that someone said and being able to back up a few seconds is the best thing. Maybe I was just spacing out at the moment, or got distracted by a bird outside, or maybe it was someone's odd accent that I didn't quite understand.
Its about time they release these boards. I think I read about them 6 months ago.
That game taught me how to do a 360 one evening. The next day I was driving to work in my Civic on the highway, and I was thinking, "I'm going fast enough to do a 360." Luckily, I know the difference between a game and the real world.. it would only work if I were driving a Porsche, of course.
Mostly I'm just afraid of the giant robot e-book reader and his scary voice.
I think just a few networked in-wall (or wall mounted) computers would do the trick for me. Maybe add some video phone desktop extensions too. I don't know how many times I've been upstairs in my office and my wife yelled up to me from some other room downstairs, only to get frustrated that she had to come to the stairs for me to hear her. It would be nice if she could just page me on the intercom ("com" being for computer, not just communication). "Attention all house occupants, please come to the dinning room to commence the dining hour."
DAMN YOU VIRTUAL WORLD! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO EPHEMERAL!
I say no company is worth trusting. Even if they are worth trusting now, that's a reflection of the people in charge right now. Once those people start handing control to other people, that trust is diluted. Presumably they would choose other trustworthy people, but who knows what lurks in the hearts of men (and women).
I guess I can throw out those caffeine pills now. And the diet Coke. And the coffee. Well maybe not the coffee.