Who cares about the company? If he wants a story posted it's posted. If he wants your comment at -1 it's at -1. If he wants you to have fifteen mod points every day you get fifteen mod points every day. I don't care who's getting the money, it's Taco's site. He controls it.
Then the first one you saw was the first one I missed! We'd just moved back to Ilinois right before the disaster, and I was looking for work. I'd seen the previous ones from Orlando, one from Tampa, and two of them from the cape.
Did they still have that humungous Saturn V laying there at Kennedy? They had a Mercury capsule there and a bunch of other stuff, too.
I'm looking forward to commercial space outfits like Space-X. The only thing left on my bucket list is to visit space. That bright blue ceiling that's gray sometimes and black with white specks sometimes, and the fusion lamp is cool, but I want out of this basement, and the gravity well is a bitch.
Nerds aren't the only ones living in a basement, we're just the only ones that realize that we are.
I know that many people see NASA as some big money pit that provides little value
There are few technologies developed in the last half century that don't owe at least a little to the space program; especially medical technology. NASA's comparitively meager budget is money well spent.
Your hopes are not only almost guaranteed, but almost guaranteed to be exceeded. I lived in a time Man had yet to leave the atmosphere. When I was 14 and Star Trek came on TV, the communicators, flat screen monitors, self-opening doors, and lots of other stuff were fantasy none of us would ever live to see. It's commonplace now; you have your cell phone, flat screen computer (there were no PCs then), and it's been a long time since I've been in a supermarket that I had to open the door to.
In "Wrath of Khan" Kirk had to wear reading glasses because nobody knew that a mere 21 years after movie was shot the FDA would approve the crystalens, which cures nearsightedness, farsightedness (both kinds), astigmatism, and cataracts. I have one implanted in my left eye, McCoy could have beamed one into Kirk's eyes if anybody knew they would someday exist.
These are incredibly primitive times. In forty years you're going to look back and ask "how in the world did we ever get along without [technology that nobody today has yet imagined].
I envy you young folks, there's so much yet to come...
Nah, he just did minor work on one of the subroutines... fjords, wasn't it, slarti? Besides, his name is not important. What I'd like to know is if Earth's OS is open source or proprietary? I'm guessing that latter, since it's a corporate undertaking.
Yeah, I'd like to see that. Never saw one land. If you're young you might be interested in a first hand account of watching the first moon landing (I wrote that on the 40th anniversary of Armstrong and Aldrin's stroll).
You'll probably get downmodded for the "tearing up" joke, but I'm sure you can afford it.
I think the only thing remaining on my bucket list is to escape the basement; that gravity well is a bitch! But my grandmother was 6 months old when the Wright brothers flew and she had a chance to fly (and she saw the moon landing and most of the shuttle flights on TV) so perhaps I'll get the opportunity, now that space tourism is in its infancy. Ten years from now it might actually be affordable.
Because being a nerd has nothing to do with wanting to read boring walls of text?
Some of the most boring walls of texts I've seen were textbooks; interesting material not written in the least bit of an interesting way. Reports with the word "enumerate" six times in one paragraph without once using the word "count", and the rest of the book-sized report written the same way.
Slog through a few Linux man pages.
If you can't slog through walls of text you're not much of an intellectual. Hell, I read the Encyclopedia Britannica when I was 12, and this guy can't even make it through a Taco post?
Yes, willingness to slog through incomprehensible (to normtards) text is, in fact, a hallmark of a nerd. You're not going to learn much without the ability and willingness to slog through all sorts of arcane writing.
I never could understand you lexaphobes. TLDR and you still commented? Taco's writing isn't bad; you must have never been able to slog through a whole BOOK. f00 to you! How can someone who is scared off by a few paragraphs call himself a nerd?
You would absolutely HATE my journals. They're usually several paragraphs long and use multisyllable lexicon, I'm sure you would have trouble with them.
I wish I could have been there with you -- I saw the shuttle's maiden flight, although I didn't think I was going to be able to. I was working at Disney, and couldn't get off of work. I still got to see it, though -- it was visible from Orlando. The fire is extremely bright even 60 miles away. It was inspiring even from there.
Actually, I saw every shuttle flight until the Challenger disaster; we'd just moved back to Illinois and I was out looking for work at the time, so I didn't even see it on TV.
The best launches are the ones up close. The shuttle from five miles away is the second loudest sound I've ever heard, the loudest being an SR-71 from a mile off.
I'm jealous... but then, I saw the first moon landing!;P
I was told that 2600 press had been accredited for this event:
Until I finished the sentence I thought maybe they invited 2600.org. That would have been surprising!
I saw the VAB from miles away
That's the "vehicle assembly building" for those who don't belong at slashdot.
Is that photo of the goateed guy with the shades you? You look like a heavier, younger me.
I'd say they should need a warrant, but even then, the fifth amendment should shield them if there's anything incriminating on it. But considering how courts have made the entire bill of rights (except perhaps the third amendment) completely meaningless, I wouldn't bet on it.
If you haven't seen it before it's news. And, are book reviews news? Nope. Yes, this is news for nerds, but not all stuff that matters is news. If you don't like a topic, ignore it, there are lots more where they came from.
If you'd worded you comment like below you would have been modded up:
No, LEDs are only full brightness or off. To make an LED dim you pulse the current through it. It isn't actually dimmer, it just looks dimmer because it's turning on and off faster than you can see.
I found it interesting. Just because you've seen a similar article doen't mean everybody has. I see you were modded flamebait, if I were moderating today your comment would be at a -1.
Bad comment! Bad bad bad! *swats comment on nose with rolled up newspaper*
It depends on the kid. My oldest would have been five before she would grasp it (she's learning disabled), my youngest could have handled it at two (she's gifted).
I'm surprised they let you have paydough on planes.
What would be better than powering the circuit with batteries would be to make the batteries, too. You can make a battery from a lemon, a galvanized roofing nail, and a piece of thick copper wire. Not sure if it would power an LED (Although I'm pretty sure it would) but I suppose you could have a six (or more) lemon battery. A single lemon will power an LCD calculator, I did that with my kids when they were little. You can get around a volt from a lemon, not sure how many milliamps. And I don't remember if the copper side or the zinc side was positive; the kids are grown now and it was a long time ago.
The LED is good for demonstrating the workings of a diode, since it is a diode and lights up. A red/green diode is great for that, one of the ones that light red with one polarity, green with the opposite polarity, and yellow with AC.
Seems you could make a playdough capacitor, too. You could conceivably make playdough resistors by mixing the conductive and nonconductive doughs. I wish I'd known the conductive properties of playdough when my kids were little. Maybe if one of them makes me a grandpa...
It sounds like you need to upgrade from rabbit ears to a rooftop antenna.
Since it's a rented house that's not an option, but I do plan on buying a signal booster. I saw plans on the internet for an antenna that was supposed to be far superior to the UHF loop. If I run across it again I'll probably build one.
It might be ok in Chicago or LA or other large market, but in the middle of any state it sucks. I had a dozen analog channels, now I can get four digital channels, and one of them is a shopping channel and one is country music videos, leaving me with two -- and when the analog signal would ghost, the digital signal goes away completely. It's like it was in St Louis in 1960, albeit with a clear color picture if you get a picture at all.
I suspect in the middle of a large city it would be even worse, with interference and signal echoes from large buildings that would give you a ghost in analog and no picture whatever with digital.
Maybe if they boosted transmitter power, but I suspect that would introduce problems of its own.
What I wish they'd have done was kept the analog signals and added digital ones.
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Who cares about the company? If he wants a story posted it's posted. If he wants your comment at -1 it's at -1. If he wants you to have fifteen mod points every day you get fifteen mod points every day. I don't care who's getting the money, it's Taco's site. He controls it.
I saw Apollo 13 go from 3 miles out. Tha's right - suck on that, bitches. You don't forget.
You bastard! You jinxed them!!!! But the laugh's on you, they got home!
Then the first one you saw was the first one I missed! We'd just moved back to Ilinois right before the disaster, and I was looking for work. I'd seen the previous ones from Orlando, one from Tampa, and two of them from the cape.
Did they still have that humungous Saturn V laying there at Kennedy? They had a Mercury capsule there and a bunch of other stuff, too.
I'm looking forward to commercial space outfits like Space-X. The only thing left on my bucket list is to visit space. That bright blue ceiling that's gray sometimes and black with white specks sometimes, and the fusion lamp is cool, but I want out of this basement, and the gravity well is a bitch.
Nerds aren't the only ones living in a basement, we're just the only ones that realize that we are.
I know that many people see NASA as some big money pit that provides little value
There are few technologies developed in the last half century that don't owe at least a little to the space program; especially medical technology. NASA's comparitively meager budget is money well spent.
Your hopes are not only almost guaranteed, but almost guaranteed to be exceeded. I lived in a time Man had yet to leave the atmosphere. When I was 14 and Star Trek came on TV, the communicators, flat screen monitors, self-opening doors, and lots of other stuff were fantasy none of us would ever live to see. It's commonplace now; you have your cell phone, flat screen computer (there were no PCs then), and it's been a long time since I've been in a supermarket that I had to open the door to.
In "Wrath of Khan" Kirk had to wear reading glasses because nobody knew that a mere 21 years after movie was shot the FDA would approve the crystalens, which cures nearsightedness, farsightedness (both kinds), astigmatism, and cataracts. I have one implanted in my left eye, McCoy could have beamed one into Kirk's eyes if anybody knew they would someday exist.
These are incredibly primitive times. In forty years you're going to look back and ask "how in the world did we ever get along without [technology that nobody today has yet imagined].
I envy you young folks, there's so much yet to come...
Nah, he just did minor work on one of the subroutines... fjords, wasn't it, slarti? Besides, his name is not important. What I'd like to know is if Earth's OS is open source or proprietary? I'm guessing that latter, since it's a corporate undertaking.
Yeah, I'd like to see that. Never saw one land. If you're young you might be interested in a first hand account of watching the first moon landing (I wrote that on the 40th anniversary of Armstrong and Aldrin's stroll).
IINM he's still in charge.
You'll probably get downmodded for the "tearing up" joke, but I'm sure you can afford it.
I think the only thing remaining on my bucket list is to escape the basement; that gravity well is a bitch! But my grandmother was 6 months old when the Wright brothers flew and she had a chance to fly (and she saw the moon landing and most of the shuttle flights on TV) so perhaps I'll get the opportunity, now that space tourism is in its infancy. Ten years from now it might actually be affordable.
Because being a nerd has nothing to do with wanting to read boring walls of text?
Some of the most boring walls of texts I've seen were textbooks; interesting material not written in the least bit of an interesting way. Reports with the word "enumerate" six times in one paragraph without once using the word "count", and the rest of the book-sized report written the same way.
Slog through a few Linux man pages.
If you can't slog through walls of text you're not much of an intellectual. Hell, I read the Encyclopedia Britannica when I was 12, and this guy can't even make it through a Taco post?
Yes, willingness to slog through incomprehensible (to normtards) text is, in fact, a hallmark of a nerd. You're not going to learn much without the ability and willingness to slog through all sorts of arcane writing.
I've seen live launches and it was still interesting. I don't know what these wankers' problems are. Sour grapes, maybe?
This happens to be Taco's site, n00b. GOML.
I never could understand you lexaphobes. TLDR and you still commented? Taco's writing isn't bad; you must have never been able to slog through a whole BOOK. f00 to you! How can someone who is scared off by a few paragraphs call himself a nerd?
You would absolutely HATE my journals. They're usually several paragraphs long and use multisyllable lexicon, I'm sure you would have trouble with them.
Can I interest you in some Theodor Geisel?
I wish I could have been there with you -- I saw the shuttle's maiden flight, although I didn't think I was going to be able to. I was working at Disney, and couldn't get off of work. I still got to see it, though -- it was visible from Orlando. The fire is extremely bright even 60 miles away. It was inspiring even from there.
Actually, I saw every shuttle flight until the Challenger disaster; we'd just moved back to Illinois and I was out looking for work at the time, so I didn't even see it on TV.
The best launches are the ones up close. The shuttle from five miles away is the second loudest sound I've ever heard, the loudest being an SR-71 from a mile off.
I'm jealous... but then, I saw the first moon landing! ;P
I was told that 2600 press had been accredited for this event:
Until I finished the sentence I thought maybe they invited 2600.org. That would have been surprising!
I saw the VAB from miles away
That's the "vehicle assembly building" for those who don't belong at slashdot.
Is that photo of the goateed guy with the shades you? You look like a heavier, younger me.
I'd say they should need a warrant, but even then, the fifth amendment should shield them if there's anything incriminating on it. But considering how courts have made the entire bill of rights (except perhaps the third amendment) completely meaningless, I wouldn't bet on it.
If you haven't seen it before it's news. And, are book reviews news? Nope. Yes, this is news for nerds, but not all stuff that matters is news. If you don't like a topic, ignore it, there are lots more where they came from.
If you'd worded you comment like below you would have been modded up:
+3 informative.
It makes no sense to word a comment is such a way that it's sure to be at a -1. If nobody is going to see it, why comment at all?
Now get off my lawn, kid. Sheesh.
Thanks
No, LEDs are only full brightness or off. To make an LED dim you pulse the current through it. It isn't actually dimmer, it just looks dimmer because it's turning on and off faster than you can see.
I found it interesting. Just because you've seen a similar article doen't mean everybody has. I see you were modded flamebait, if I were moderating today your comment would be at a -1.
Bad comment! Bad bad bad! *swats comment on nose with rolled up newspaper*
It depends on the kid. My oldest would have been five before she would grasp it (she's learning disabled), my youngest could have handled it at two (she's gifted).
Also they make great roach clips. Playing with kids and simple electronics is even more fun when you're stoned!
Alligator clips have a multitude of uses, most of which have nothing to do with electronics.
Mix in a little saltpeter and you do have an incendiary device. Saltpeter mixed with sugar will burn through a concrete block once lit.
Power it with enough lemons and it won't even look like a bomb, although a saltpeter bomb has to be under pressure (pipe bomb).
I'm surprised they let you have paydough on planes.
What would be better than powering the circuit with batteries would be to make the batteries, too. You can make a battery from a lemon, a galvanized roofing nail, and a piece of thick copper wire. Not sure if it would power an LED (Although I'm pretty sure it would) but I suppose you could have a six (or more) lemon battery. A single lemon will power an LCD calculator, I did that with my kids when they were little. You can get around a volt from a lemon, not sure how many milliamps. And I don't remember if the copper side or the zinc side was positive; the kids are grown now and it was a long time ago.
The LED is good for demonstrating the workings of a diode, since it is a diode and lights up. A red/green diode is great for that, one of the ones that light red with one polarity, green with the opposite polarity, and yellow with AC.
Seems you could make a playdough capacitor, too. You could conceivably make playdough resistors by mixing the conductive and nonconductive doughs. I wish I'd known the conductive properties of playdough when my kids were little. Maybe if one of them makes me a grandpa...
It sounds like you need to upgrade from rabbit ears to a rooftop antenna.
Since it's a rented house that's not an option, but I do plan on buying a signal booster. I saw plans on the internet for an antenna that was supposed to be far superior to the UHF loop. If I run across it again I'll probably build one.
It might be ok in Chicago or LA or other large market, but in the middle of any state it sucks. I had a dozen analog channels, now I can get four digital channels, and one of them is a shopping channel and one is country music videos, leaving me with two -- and when the analog signal would ghost, the digital signal goes away completely. It's like it was in St Louis in 1960, albeit with a clear color picture if you get a picture at all.
I suspect in the middle of a large city it would be even worse, with interference and signal echoes from large buildings that would give you a ghost in analog and no picture whatever with digital.
Maybe if they boosted transmitter power, but I suspect that would introduce problems of its own.
What I wish they'd have done was kept the analog signals and added digital ones.