Anybody who reads my nsfw/. journals knows my favorite form of excersize, but I don't have a lot of opportunity to get much exersize that way. So I usually settle for the "twelve ounbce curl". Good for the forearms and biceps, not too good for the gut.
Living alone I get exersize mowing the lawn, sweeping, cleaning the toilet, etc.
I think I'll actually go to the Y and work out for real today. If I don't talk myself into goiing to the bar like I usually do.
My respect for Dick Durbin just went WAY up (he already had my respect, and my vote). I just found out a couple of weeks ago that he lives about ten blocks west of me. Five blocks east of my house is where the ghetto begins! The neighborhood he lives in is normal houses; the million dollar homes are on the far west side.
Is it possible that not only do we have an honest politician, but an honest politician in the state where we're so patriotic that even being dead doesn't keep us from voting?
Unfortunately I need some low friends in high places, but all I have is high friends in low places!
I imagine I know more people who have been in prison than the average slashdotter. I journal about some of them (but be forewarned that most of my journals are NSFW)
What makes one a "big-time drug user" as opposed to a small-time one?
The length of the prison sentence! Some users use so much that the quantities they possess for personal use automatically get them tried and convicted for dealing, even though they're not dealers.
Jimbo wasn't a user OR a dealer; a guy he went to high school with who had been dealing dope (everything from reefer to heroin to steroids) for twenty years got busted, so he let the feds tap his phone and he called up everybody he knew and tried to borrow money. Everyone who loaned him money went to prison.
Ted Stevens MIGHT be convicted. Until then he is innocent until proven guilty.
The summary didn't say he was convicted, it said he was indicted.
He might not be the most technologically savvy senator in the USA but he certainly has done a great deal for the state, much more than any other politician.
At MY expense, since I don't live in Alaska.
Our state certainly needs to rid itself of corruption.
Not mine; mine needs MORE corruption, so we can get rid of state taxes and have the rest of the nation pay our way like yours does.
If Stevens is convicted it will be a sad day
Only for Alaskans; everyone else in the nation will benefit.
Instead, the damage comes from the hurt this does to the Republican party in Alaska. You know, the people who want to explore and develop our natural resources like oil, gold and copper. Now that is unlikely to happen.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Some of us would like at least a little of our nation left unexploited, and a little of the oil, gold, and copper to be left to our decendants.
Well, they put Al Capone in prison for tax evasion, rather than murder, extortion, kidnapping, and other violent crimes. We have a strange system, don't we?
Federal prison is mainly big-time drug users and drug dealers.
State prison is mainly small-time drug users and drug dealers.
A friend's brother down in the St Louis area went to federal prison for loaning a cocaine dealer a thousand dollars; the charge was conspiracy to deliver cocaine (the dealer had been busted and was setting up innocent guys to lessen his own sentence; most of his high school graduating class went to Maximum Security Club Fed for twice as long as he did).
Violent criminals usually don't get caught. When they do, it depends on who they attacked.
A woman I know went to Dwight Correctional (Illinois hardcore women'sprison) for 4 months for nonviolent drug posession, while a guy I know and intensly dislike broke into a man's home and tried to kill him with a butcher knife. He spent two weeks in the county jail - but the man he attacked was a poor black man.
Translation: instead of a conventional curved lens, they use a fresnel lens. This allows them to carve the lens directly into the laser, make it flat, and possibly tune it.
You're at slashdot, where occasionally you're going to run into some articles that are writen at a postgraduate level instead of the eighth grade level sanity would logically insist on.
I once read a paper that used the word "enumerate" five times in a single paragraph, and didn't once use the word "count". The submitter could have communicated rather than obfuscated, but then he wouldn't have looked so smart.
The secret to reading postgrad level writing is look up any words you don't understand. The when you're done reading, read it again.
It means having the photons all travel in the same direction, rather than scattering. Non-solid state lasers are naturally collimated. With those lasers you need a lens to see a hologram, as you need the beam to be wider.
Wikipedia says... er, actually no, it doesn't. The only mention I could find of the word "Sex" in its article about sharks is an occurance of ASEXUAL reproduction (i.e., virgin birth).
It only mentioned the "Jesus Shark". Fish generally don't copulate like mammals, but instead the female lays eggs and the male then ejaculates on the eggs. I'm not sure if sharks reproduce like this, but if so, well, if the shark jumps you you will get laid -- TO REST.
I think the goatse site has an article about bestiality with a dolphin. But no sharks.
I didn't RTF because... "plasmons"? Sounds fishy to me. Sounds like something a Jedi Knight uses.
Wikipedia says "In physics, a plasmon is a quantum of a plasma oscillation. The plasmon is the quasiparticle resulting from the quantization of plasma oscillations just as photons and phonons are quantizations of light and sound waves, respectively. Thus, plasmons are collective oscillations of the free electron gas density, often at optical frequencies. They can also couple with a photon to create a third quasiparticle called a plasma polariton.
"Since plasmons are the quantization of classical plasma oscillations, most of their properties can be derived directly from Maxwell's Equations."
With waves, whether light waves, sound waves, radio waves, or waves in water, if you have two waves combining in phase they will double. Two waves out of phase will cancel each other out. This is how a laser (Light Amplification by Stimulation of Emitted Radiation) works; the rod's material combined with an exact dimension of the rod bounces light waves back and forth, where in-phase waves double. When a certain power level is reached, the light escapes the rod, and because of the Maxwell effect the light will be entirely coherent; it will be a single frequency.
What these guys seem to have done is etch a fresnel lens directly into the laser's rod, rather than using a conventional lens.
And, another commenter in this thread theorized about how you could make an actual light saber using this technique!
Then why do the Scrabulous people have to pull the game? If it was a trademark thing all they would have to do was take away the "s" and call it "Crabble", or add an "m" and call it "scramble". Change the typeface and colors and I doubt there's a jury in the country that would call in favor of Hasbro.
I don't think that's correct. You know the flat fresnel lenses they put on rear windows of minivans, and make into credit card sized magnifying glasses you can stick in your wallet? This is about not only using the same technique as a fresnel lens instead of a conventional lens, but what's more doing away with the lens entirely by putting the grooves directly on the laser's rod.
Mod AC retarded and make sure he doesn't get any mod points! Yes, the word "anthropomorphise" was used before. So was the word "talk".
"I talk to my car when it runs bad. I don't expect it to hear me or comprehend" was NOT voiced or even implied before, and the link to the wiki article wasn't postd either.
Go troll somebody else, Mister Anonymous Flamebait.
More importantly, there is a big difference between expanding on previous ideas (as Newton and Disney did) and blatant copying, as the Scrabulous developers appear to have done
Yet I can blatantly copy Huckleberry Finn, and even sell copies of it. This is what the folks who wrote the US Constitution had in mind when they gave Congress the power to grant copyright. This is a point I was making, that copyright lasts way too long. Scrabble, Asimov's Foundation, "Steambpat Willie", all of Jimi Hendrix' works, these should not be owned by anyone. They should be in the public domain.
If it helps, I got my Game Gear when I was 16 or so.;-)
I was 33 before my oldest was born. I'm 56 now =(
So the kids are annoyed in the back and find out that they can mess with the radio using the voice activation
That would depend on how the feature was implimented. If it was like my old Razr phone, you would have to "teach" it your voice. My car has radio controls both on the dash and the column, and sometimes I have to war with a passenger over what station to play, so I see your point.
We really REALLY need copyright reform. I'm 56 years old. Nothing ever created in my lifetime will reach the public domain while I still breathe, and no matter how young you are nothing created in your lifetime will reach the public domain either. And as this Scabble thing shows, it stifles creativity. When Newton said "if I see farther than other men, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants" (and he wasn't the first to say that), the same could be said of art.
Where would engineering be if patents were endless, like copyrights are? Endless copyrights stifle creativity. Where would Disney be without the Brothers Grimm? And how can we convince our governments that they are hindering artistic progress?
My understanding is that in terms of speed, a Skyhook would be not that much different from a rocket
It took almost a week to get to the moon, and that was on a Saturn V rocket, a huge monster of a vehicle. Launched on July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on July 20, when Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited above. That's a five day trip, without stopping for gas or potty breaks.
The moon's a long way off. Here is more info about the Van Allen belts.
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Anybody who reads my nsfw /. journals knows my favorite form of excersize, but I don't have a lot of opportunity to get much exersize that way. So I usually settle for the "twelve ounbce curl". Good for the forearms and biceps, not too good for the gut.
Living alone I get exersize mowing the lawn, sweeping, cleaning the toilet, etc.
I think I'll actually go to the Y and work out for real today. If I don't talk myself into goiing to the bar like I usually do.
There has to be some sort of sex, even if the sex doesn't involve copulation, or parthenogenesis. Wikipedia had no details, however.
useit.com, Jacob Nielson's site. Everyone having anything to do with interface design should read the whole thing.
There's no way software can design or test a user interface. Use smaller design teams, and make sure there is at least one expert in useability.
It doesn't sound like you're doing too much too wrong.
My respect for Dick Durbin just went WAY up (he already had my respect, and my vote). I just found out a couple of weeks ago that he lives about ten blocks west of me. Five blocks east of my house is where the ghetto begins! The neighborhood he lives in is normal houses; the million dollar homes are on the far west side.
Is it possible that not only do we have an honest politician, but an honest politician in the state where we're so patriotic that even being dead doesn't keep us from voting?
Wow.
Unfortunately I need some low friends in high places, but all I have is high friends in low places!
I imagine I know more people who have been in prison than the average slashdotter. I journal about some of them (but be forewarned that most of my journals are NSFW)
What makes one a "big-time drug user" as opposed to a small-time one?
The length of the prison sentence! Some users use so much that the quantities they possess for personal use automatically get them tried and convicted for dealing, even though they're not dealers.
Jimbo wasn't a user OR a dealer; a guy he went to high school with who had been dealing dope (everything from reefer to heroin to steroids) for twenty years got busted, so he let the feds tap his phone and he called up everybody he knew and tried to borrow money. Everyone who loaned him money went to prison.
Ted Stevens MIGHT be convicted. Until then he is innocent until proven guilty.
The summary didn't say he was convicted, it said he was indicted.
He might not be the most technologically savvy senator in the USA but he certainly has done a great deal for the state, much more than any other politician.
At MY expense, since I don't live in Alaska.
Our state certainly needs to rid itself of corruption.
Not mine; mine needs MORE corruption, so we can get rid of state taxes and have the rest of the nation pay our way like yours does.
If Stevens is convicted it will be a sad day
Only for Alaskans; everyone else in the nation will benefit.
Instead, the damage comes from the hurt this does to the Republican party in Alaska. You know, the people who want to explore and develop our natural resources like oil, gold and copper. Now that is unlikely to happen.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Some of us would like at least a little of our nation left unexploited, and a little of the oil, gold, and copper to be left to our decendants.
Well, they put Al Capone in prison for tax evasion, rather than murder, extortion, kidnapping, and other violent crimes. We have a strange system, don't we?
Federal prison is mainly big-time drug users and drug dealers.
State prison is mainly small-time drug users and drug dealers.
A friend's brother down in the St Louis area went to federal prison for loaning a cocaine dealer a thousand dollars; the charge was conspiracy to deliver cocaine (the dealer had been busted and was setting up innocent guys to lessen his own sentence; most of his high school graduating class went to Maximum Security Club Fed for twice as long as he did).
Violent criminals usually don't get caught. When they do, it depends on who they attacked.
A woman I know went to Dwight Correctional (Illinois hardcore women'sprison) for 4 months for nonviolent drug posession, while a guy I know and intensly dislike broke into a man's home and tried to kill him with a butcher knife. He spent two weeks in the county jail - but the man he attacked was a poor black man.
That is American justice.
Translation: instead of a conventional curved lens, they use a fresnel lens. This allows them to carve the lens directly into the laser, make it flat, and possibly tune it.
You're at slashdot, where occasionally you're going to run into some articles that are writen at a postgraduate level instead of the eighth grade level sanity would logically insist on.
I once read a paper that used the word "enumerate" five times in a single paragraph, and didn't once use the word "count". The submitter could have communicated rather than obfuscated, but then he wouldn't have looked so smart.
The secret to reading postgrad level writing is look up any words you don't understand. The when you're done reading, read it again.
A rich powerful man only goes to prison if a richer, more powerful man wants him there. I wonder who he pissed off? Gates? Branson?
It means having the photons all travel in the same direction, rather than scattering. Non-solid state lasers are naturally collimated. With those lasers you need a lens to see a hologram, as you need the beam to be wider.
Look it up on wikipedia.
Wikipedia says... er, actually no, it doesn't. The only mention I could find of the word "Sex" in its article about sharks is an occurance of ASEXUAL reproduction (i.e., virgin birth).
It only mentioned the "Jesus Shark". Fish generally don't copulate like mammals, but instead the female lays eggs and the male then ejaculates on the eggs. I'm not sure if sharks reproduce like this, but if so, well, if the shark jumps you you will get laid -- TO REST.
I think the goatse site has an article about bestiality with a dolphin. But no sharks.
Or lasers.
Actually the Brothers Grimm AND Shakespeare.
I didn't RTF because... "plasmons"? Sounds fishy to me. Sounds like something a Jedi Knight uses.
Wikipedia says "In physics, a plasmon is a quantum of a plasma oscillation. The plasmon is the quasiparticle resulting from the quantization of plasma oscillations just as photons and phonons are quantizations of light and sound waves, respectively. Thus, plasmons are collective oscillations of the free electron gas density, often at optical frequencies. They can also couple with a photon to create a third quasiparticle called a plasma polariton.
"Since plasmons are the quantization of classical plasma oscillations, most of their properties can be derived directly from Maxwell's Equations."
With waves, whether light waves, sound waves, radio waves, or waves in water, if you have two waves combining in phase they will double. Two waves out of phase will cancel each other out. This is how a laser (Light Amplification by Stimulation of Emitted Radiation) works; the rod's material combined with an exact dimension of the rod bounces light waves back and forth, where in-phase waves double. When a certain power level is reached, the light escapes the rod, and because of the Maxwell effect the light will be entirely coherent; it will be a single frequency.
What these guys seem to have done is etch a fresnel lens directly into the laser's rod, rather than using a conventional lens.
And, another commenter in this thread theorized about how you could make an actual light saber using this technique!
Then why do the Scrabulous people have to pull the game? If it was a trademark thing all they would have to do was take away the "s" and call it "Crabble", or add an "m" and call it "scramble". Change the typeface and colors and I doubt there's a jury in the country that would call in favor of Hasbro.
I don't think that's correct. You know the flat fresnel lenses they put on rear windows of minivans, and make into credit card sized magnifying glasses you can stick in your wallet? This is about not only using the same technique as a fresnel lens instead of a conventional lens, but what's more doing away with the lens entirely by putting the grooves directly on the laser's rod.
Mod AC retarded and make sure he doesn't get any mod points! Yes, the word "anthropomorphise" was used before. So was the word "talk".
"I talk to my car when it runs bad. I don't expect it to hear me or comprehend" was NOT voiced or even implied before, and the link to the wiki article wasn't postd either.
Go troll somebody else, Mister Anonymous Flamebait.
More importantly, there is a big difference between expanding on previous ideas (as Newton and Disney did) and blatant copying, as the Scrabulous developers appear to have done
Yet I can blatantly copy Huckleberry Finn, and even sell copies of it. This is what the folks who wrote the US Constitution had in mind when they gave Congress the power to grant copyright. This is a point I was making, that copyright lasts way too long. Scrabble, Asimov's Foundation, "Steambpat Willie", all of Jimi Hendrix' works, these should not be owned by anyone. They should be in the public domain.
If it helps, I got my Game Gear when I was 16 or so. ;-)
I was 33 before my oldest was born. I'm 56 now =(
So the kids are annoyed in the back and find out that they can mess with the radio using the voice activation
That would depend on how the feature was implimented. If it was like my old Razr phone, you would have to "teach" it your voice. My car has radio controls both on the dash and the column, and sometimes I have to war with a passenger over what station to play, so I see your point.
We really REALLY need copyright reform. I'm 56 years old. Nothing ever created in my lifetime will reach the public domain while I still breathe, and no matter how young you are nothing created in your lifetime will reach the public domain either. And as this Scabble thing shows, it stifles creativity. When Newton said "if I see farther than other men, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants" (and he wasn't the first to say that), the same could be said of art.
Where would engineering be if patents were endless, like copyrights are? Endless copyrights stifle creativity. Where would Disney be without the Brothers Grimm? And how can we convince our governments that they are hindering artistic progress?
My understanding is that in terms of speed, a Skyhook would be not that much different from a rocket
It took almost a week to get to the moon, and that was on a Saturn V rocket, a huge monster of a vehicle. Launched on July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on July 20, when Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited above. That's a five day trip, without stopping for gas or potty breaks.
The moon's a long way off. Here is more info about the Van Allen belts.
Agreed, but it's a human trait. I know good and well that cursing isn't going to make the car start, but it improves the mood.
Agreed. I never really cared for Clarke, but Pohl was a really good one.
Asimov and Heinlein, however, were the top two on my reading list.