If the laces are an artificial fiber, a match can be used to melt the ends. If the laces are cotton, they won't melt, but you can use methylcyanoacrylate.
wtf are you going to do with a laptop in the middle of a jungle?
If we could IM to the animals, just imagine it, Chattin' to a chimp in chimpan-C++, Imagine finger(1) to a tiger, wall(1) to a cheetah, What a neat hack it would be!
If we could fopen(3) to the animals, learn their logical formalism, We could take an animal degree, We'd study elephant and BASIC, buffalo and TCL, Alligator, guinea pig, and C!
We would converse in polar bear and python, And we would curse in fluent kangaroo, If people ask us "can you speak rhinocerous?" We'd say "of courserous! Can't you?"
If we conferred with our furry friends, geek to Alan Cox, Think of all the things we could discuss If we could socket(3) with animals, write(1) with the animals, Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals, And they could BitchX to us!
That's a great suggestion! But I have just one question: is there a minimum size that the wall has to be? Remember, he's trying to fit his power supply into a backpack. Thanks.
they use disk images of punch cards to do the heavy lifting!!!!!
For a second there, my mind constructed the following absurdity: A file format defined as a directory full of *.gif file, numbered 1.gif, 2.gif, 3.gif, and so on. Each gif file contains a scanned image of a punch card. So to read the source to a program, the system loader would look at all the images of punch cards on the disk. Heh heh
How about a fuel cell electricity generator that runs off natural gas? -um... what?-
To answer your question: fuel cells that use natural gas to produce electricity are much more efficient than a power plant burning natural gas to boil water to drive a turbine to generate electricity to send over miles of wire with some resistance.
Generating the electricity locally with a fuel cell is more efficient and makes sense.
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Do we all have compact fluorescent lights in our houses? Or some other type of energy efficient lighting?
Do we have proper insulation in the walls? It's surprising that many houses do not.
How about a fuel cell electricity generator that runs off natural gas?
Or maybe even something as simple as kitchen cabinets that are big enough, and not made from particle board?
Cat 5 in the walls?
Front door security camera, with a truly secure way to access it from the Internet?
Stereo sound in every room?
A bathroom fan that actually will clear the stink out of the room?
I don't want the house of the future: I just want what's possible with the technology of TODAY.
And when the thing finally does wear out, it's so heavy that you can overhaul the thing practically for your entire lifetime without worrying too much about making the structure of the engine too thin/weak.
Wear it out after 400,000 miles, overhaul, and do it all over again.
X-Plane is the COOLEST flight simulator that exists for PC's. Don't get the Microsoft sim - it's not as good.
X-Plane uses finite blade element analysis to model the plane's aerodynamics real time. MS Flight sim uses a table driven model.
So what does that buy you? Flexibility. You can design a new plane and the flight characteristics will be modelled from the shape of the plane. There are literally hundreds of parameters on the plane to set, and you design the shape of the plane with 3D modelling tools.
On the other hand Microsoft flight sim requires a programmer to sit down with his new airplane and a book describing the flight parameters. He flies the plane at top speed, and compares it to the number he sees in a book. If it's off, he twiddles the numbers in a table to get the simulation to match the book. Obviously, if you don't have access to the internals of the program or if you're designing a new plane that doesn't exist in real life you're out of luck.
Point #6 - I do not consider New Scientist to be authoritative on anything. Once upon a time, I wrote a letter to New Scientist. They fucked it up. You can read all about it here.
So if New Scientist said it, they're wrong. Utterly wrong. To do a little bit of analysis, a millisievert is 100 millirems. That value of 1 millisievert a day is the same as 100 millirems a day. So in one year, according to the new scientist article, we get 36,500 millirems of radiation at the Earth's surface. When you dig a little bit, you realize that it's probably 100 times too large to be possible. New Scientist is obviously wrong. I bet their lousy illiterate editors changed the text to make it more poetic or some crap like that. They sure don't care for accuracy in reporting.
This page (too lazy to make a link) http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyP ages/R/Radiation.html describes the dosages in millirems for several things. Among them:
Normal background, Boston MA: 102 millirems/year X-ray technician: 320 millirems/year additional dose from living close to three mile island: 8 millirems/year Dosage from past nuclear tests: 0.06 millirems/year Dosage from Fiestaware pottery: 200 - 300 millirems per HOUR
If you have some of that old pottery, get rid of it. It's orange, made with a uranium pigment. It's pretty dangerous stuff. The newer stuff isn't radioactive. If you're in doubt, have it checked with a geiger counter.
Not true at all. Boa is much faster than apache on teeny hardware serving static pages. I've got it running on my own server (link in sig) and I doubt that the thing can be slashdotted easily. The pages are small, and text only for the most part.
The bottleneck that I have is my DSL line uplink speed. My webserver can handle several connections per second, and it's only a Celery 300A with 64 megs of RAM.
Boa definitely is a nice little program. I use it on my own website (link in my sig) and have no complaints. It doesn't do a lot, but it does it well. The biggest asset that it has in my opinion is that since it's so small and built with security in mind, I can feel good about running it. It will run CGI scripts, so there's always an opportunity to break security there.
1) There are some things that a bacteria will never be resistant to. Physical attacks against their cell wall, for example.
2) The bacteria on Mir was not a bacteria. It was a fungus.
3) The fungus did not evolve. It was a common earth strain.
4) The fungus did not eat anything. It secreted a corrosive substance.
5) The fungus did not eat throught titanium. Mir was aluminum.
6) During periods of high solar activity, astronauts on the space station might get 30 millirems of radiation in a single day. On the other hand, on the surface we pick up 350 millirems from background, and another 150 or so from cosmic radiation in a year. So, ISS occupants do NOT receive the same amount in a day as they would get on the surface in a year.
This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing.
Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny]
Hemos, you should just pick the 'n' option I think.
huh? did we win in Afghanistan? or are we still waiting on a win for that one?
The enemy has been destroyed, and there have been minimal friendly casualties. It's a total victory. Of course, we can't leave now or they'd come back!
i suppose you can define victory so that we have won, and the enemy has lost... but i believe that's the kind of thinking that the original poster was criticizing.
Completely out of turn, I might add. I wasn't even talking about that. He might have criticised me for thinking about any random topic. All I will say is WTF? What are you talking about? My statement wasn't even anything remotely like what you said.
what about the War on Drugs?
This is the kind of shit that gives liberals a bad name. And believe me, I'm a much bigger liberal than you. It makes me cringe. We all hate the war on drugs, but to even consider that it's an actual war gives away the fact that you know nothing of war. You haven't even taken the minimal amount of time to read a Tom Clancy novel! sheesh!
To repeat, the original poster claimed that a few dorks with EMP grenades could disrupt US military command and control. That's obviously complete bull, and you haven't made much of an argument against that point.
It's this sort of thinking that scares the hell out of me. Sooner or later somebody is going to give the US a bloody nose.
What kind of thinking would that be? I'm an anti-war pacifist, though you probably couldn't tell that from what I wrote.
The fact of the matter is that with the current tactics we use and adversaries we face, nobody can defeat the US military on the battlefield. They could cause a hell of a lot of trouble, but that would not give them victory.
I agree with you that someday someone will give us a serious bloody nose. But that doesn't reflect today's reality.
The arguments you gave are nice, but they're not related to what I was talking about. The first part of the post I was replying to was speaking of the possiblity of a few people with EMP bombs causing US military command and control to break down. There's not a chance in hell of that happening.
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No, don't make it stop. This is why I read Slashdot. But you can keep bitching about things - I read slashdot for that too.
The bad actor thing is completely ironic. An actor's job is to portray a character so realistically that you don't see the actor, only the character.
Now, is there ANY DOUBT in people's minds that Bill Shatner IS Captain Kirk?
There you go: Bill Shatner is a good actor.
Actually, it was this place called "space" that was in the big explosion. If you get it backwards, you will just confuse yourself.
If the laces are an artificial fiber, a match can be used to melt the ends. If the laces are cotton, they won't melt, but you can use methylcyanoacrylate.
wtf are you going to do with a laptop in the middle of a jungle?
If we could IM to the animals, just imagine it,
Chattin' to a chimp in chimpan-C++,
Imagine finger(1) to a tiger, wall(1) to a cheetah,
What a neat hack it would be!
If we could fopen(3) to the animals, learn their logical formalism,
We could take an animal degree,
We'd study elephant and BASIC, buffalo and TCL,
Alligator, guinea pig, and C!
We would converse in polar bear and python,
And we would curse in fluent kangaroo,
If people ask us "can you speak rhinocerous?"
We'd say "of courserous! Can't you?"
If we conferred with our furry friends, geek to Alan Cox,
Think of all the things we could discuss
If we could socket(3) with animals, write(1) with the animals,
Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals,
And they could BitchX to us!
That's a great suggestion! But I have just one question: is there a minimum size that the wall has to be? Remember, he's trying to fit his power supply into a backpack. Thanks.
they use disk images of punch cards to do the heavy lifting!!!!!
For a second there, my mind constructed the following absurdity: A file format defined as a directory full of *.gif file, numbered 1.gif, 2.gif, 3.gif, and so on. Each gif file contains a scanned image of a punch card. So to read the source to a program, the system loader would look at all the images of punch cards on the disk. Heh heh
So Jon Katz is playing with little trains and cameras now?
I wondered where that windbag went to...
50 inch flat televisions also cost over $10,000 for even the cheapest one.
What? You can find one cheaper than that? Oh hey! My catalog that I'm looking at is 2 years old! What do you know!
Mass production makes things cheaper.
How about a fuel cell electricity generator that runs off natural gas? -um... what?-
To answer your question: fuel cells that use natural gas to produce electricity are much more efficient than a power plant burning natural gas to boil water to drive a turbine to generate electricity to send over miles of wire with some resistance.
Generating the electricity locally with a fuel cell is more efficient and makes sense.
Do we all have compact fluorescent lights in our houses? Or some other type of energy efficient lighting?
Do we have proper insulation in the walls? It's surprising that many houses do not.
How about a fuel cell electricity generator that runs off natural gas?
Or maybe even something as simple as kitchen cabinets that are big enough, and not made from particle board?
Cat 5 in the walls?
Front door security camera, with a truly secure way to access it from the Internet?
Stereo sound in every room?
A bathroom fan that actually will clear the stink out of the room?
I don't want the house of the future: I just want what's possible with the technology of TODAY.
And when the thing finally does wear out, it's so heavy that you can overhaul the thing practically for your entire lifetime without worrying too much about making the structure of the engine too thin/weak.
Wear it out after 400,000 miles, overhaul, and do it all over again.
Fuck that. Anything that arrives unsolicited in the mail is considered a gift.
Wasn't that Bill Gates?
X-Plane is the COOLEST flight simulator that exists for PC's. Don't get the Microsoft sim - it's not as good.
X-Plane uses finite blade element analysis to model the plane's aerodynamics real time. MS Flight sim uses a table driven model.
So what does that buy you? Flexibility. You can design a new plane and the flight characteristics will be modelled from the shape of the plane. There are literally hundreds of parameters on the plane to set, and you design the shape of the plane with 3D modelling tools.
On the other hand Microsoft flight sim requires a programmer to sit down with his new airplane and a book describing the flight parameters. He flies the plane at top speed, and compares it to the number he sees in a book. If it's off, he twiddles the numbers in a table to get the simulation to match the book. Obviously, if you don't have access to the internals of the program or if you're designing a new plane that doesn't exist in real life you're out of luck.
Point #5, OK, I'll give it to you.
P ages/R/Radiation.html describes the dosages in millirems for several things. Among them:
Point #6 - I do not consider New Scientist to be authoritative on anything. Once upon a time, I wrote a letter to New Scientist. They fucked it up. You can read all about it here.
So if New Scientist said it, they're wrong. Utterly wrong. To do a little bit of analysis, a millisievert is 100 millirems. That value of 1 millisievert a day is the same as 100 millirems a day. So in one year, according to the new scientist article, we get 36,500 millirems of radiation at the Earth's surface. When you dig a little bit, you realize that it's probably 100 times too large to be possible. New Scientist is obviously wrong. I bet their lousy illiterate editors changed the text to make it more poetic or some crap like that. They sure don't care for accuracy in reporting.
This page (too lazy to make a link) http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/Biology
Normal background, Boston MA: 102 millirems/year
X-ray technician: 320 millirems/year
additional dose from living close to three mile island: 8 millirems/year
Dosage from past nuclear tests: 0.06 millirems/year
Dosage from Fiestaware pottery: 200 - 300 millirems per HOUR
If you have some of that old pottery, get rid of it. It's orange, made with a uranium pigment. It's pretty dangerous stuff. The newer stuff isn't radioactive. If you're in doubt, have it checked with a geiger counter.
Not true at all. Boa is much faster than apache on teeny hardware serving static pages. I've got it running on my own server (link in sig) and I doubt that the thing can be slashdotted easily. The pages are small, and text only for the most part.
The bottleneck that I have is my DSL line uplink speed. My webserver can handle several connections per second, and it's only a Celery 300A with 64 megs of RAM.
Boa definitely is a nice little program. I use it on my own website (link in my sig) and have no complaints. It doesn't do a lot, but it does it well. The biggest asset that it has in my opinion is that since it's so small and built with security in mind, I can feel good about running it. It will run CGI scripts, so there's always an opportunity to break security there.
This is just SO wrong in so many ways.
1) There are some things that a bacteria will never be resistant to. Physical attacks against their cell wall, for example.
2) The bacteria on Mir was not a bacteria. It was a fungus.
3) The fungus did not evolve. It was a common earth strain.
4) The fungus did not eat anything. It secreted a corrosive substance.
5) The fungus did not eat throught titanium. Mir was aluminum.
6) During periods of high solar activity, astronauts on the space station might get 30 millirems of radiation in a single day. On the other hand, on the surface we pick up 350 millirems from background, and another 150 or so from cosmic radiation in a year. So, ISS occupants do NOT receive the same amount in a day as they would get on the surface in a year.
Hemos, you should just pick the 'n' option I think.
huh? did we win in Afghanistan? or are we still waiting on a win for that one?
The enemy has been destroyed, and there have been minimal friendly casualties. It's a total victory. Of course, we can't leave now or they'd come back!
i suppose you can define victory so that we have won, and the enemy has lost... but i believe that's the kind of thinking that the original poster was criticizing.
Completely out of turn, I might add. I wasn't even talking about that. He might have criticised me for thinking about any random topic. All I will say is WTF? What are you talking about? My statement wasn't even anything remotely like what you said.
what about the War on Drugs?
This is the kind of shit that gives liberals a bad name. And believe me, I'm a much bigger liberal than you. It makes me cringe. We all hate the war on drugs, but to even consider that it's an actual war gives away the fact that you know nothing of war. You haven't even taken the minimal amount of time to read a Tom Clancy novel! sheesh!
To repeat, the original poster claimed that a few dorks with EMP grenades could disrupt US military command and control. That's obviously complete bull, and you haven't made much of an argument against that point.
root-tail sounds like a sexual service.
gcc actually is pretty crappy for optimization. gcc is a portable compiler and getting it to be fast on all platforms is hard.
Hell yea. I'd rather die in my sleep like the pilot.
It's this sort of thinking that scares the hell out of me. Sooner or later somebody is going to give the US a bloody nose.
What kind of thinking would that be? I'm an anti-war pacifist, though you probably couldn't tell that from what I wrote.
The fact of the matter is that with the current tactics we use and adversaries we face, nobody can defeat the US military on the battlefield. They could cause a hell of a lot of trouble, but that would not give them victory.
I agree with you that someday someone will give us a serious bloody nose. But that doesn't reflect today's reality.
The arguments you gave are nice, but they're not related to what I was talking about. The first part of the post I was replying to was speaking of the possiblity of a few people with EMP bombs causing US military command and control to break down. There's not a chance in hell of that happening.