I've been complaining about this all day. We've got some Direct X product for the Mac, and VisiBone has added another color chart to their product line.
FUCK WHO CARES. This is marketing stuff, not news for nerds.
Can I submit some copy from anyone and get it published? Like this?
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Now you can prime your cells to maximize energy production with new Formula 3 Cell Activator. This improved formula contains even more of the vital nutritional factors your cells need to generate energy, plus rare botanicals that help support stamina and endurance. In addition, new Cell Activator helps your body better assimilate and make use of the nutrients in your diet, so your entire body can function more efficiently. Incorporate Cell Activator® with Formulas 1 and 2 to provide your body with the basic building blocks to a healthier, more energetic you.
Methinks the ads are not restricted to the previously defined advertising boxes...
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By insinuating that the Y2K problem was a scam by consultants to make money by scaring everyone, you do the security and Y2K consultants a huge disservice. Y2K was a REAL problem, and the reason that absolutely nothing happened was because thousands of people did their jobs very very well to fix the problems before the deadlines.
Cancel your current internet service and get a DSL line from DirectTV. They give you a static IP for the same price as everyone else's dynamic service. They explicitly allow you to run whatever the hell you want to run on your line.
You DO solder on a breadboard. You can also wirewrap the thing. Or you can wrap and solder it if you like. The thing that you just plug parts into is called a solderless breadboard. A breadboard is just a board with holes in it.
Oh, and those 100 ball bearings I just won on eBay
These would make a great "snooper detector". Next time you have a party, drill a hole in the top of your medicine cabinet in the bathroom. Close the mirror. Pour the bearings in the top.
If any of your guests get snoopy and open the mirror cabinet, you will know.
Two points: First, the Astroscan telescope shown on the front page of the Edmund Scientific site is TOP NOTCH STUFF for a beginner. It's super simple to use, the optics are superb, and it's an incredible bargain at $400-$450 for the scope with tripod. It looks strange, but form follows function.
Second, you're exactly right that telescope building is much different than astronomy. I'm in the Austin Astronomical Society, and we've got a few scope builders in the club. Trouble is, they hardly come to the meetings, and they don't bring their scopes. At the observing field, we can have more than 50 scopes on a clear summer night, and 99% of those are various commercial scopes: Meades, Celestrons, Obsessions, various small commercial dobs. By and large, these telescopes cost less than what it would take to build a similar instrument. Perhaps the best deals available right now are the 10 inch dobs. Meade makes a good one for less than $500 I believe. Orion Telescopes makes the best one available for $599 -link here. At those prices, there's absolutely no reason at all for an amateur to build their own telescope. 20 or 30 years ago, many people built their own scopes because a quality 10 inch reflector would cost approximately what a brand new car cost. That's all changed, and astronomy has become a lot more open to newcomers.
Here in Austin TX, and in most of the South, we've got fire ants which were imported in plants from South America in the 1920's. That's the same exact story given in the article about how the ants arrived in Europe. Are these the same species? If so, then somebody should check out our ants here. I bet we have more square miles of fire ants than the europeans. I bet we even have more square kilometers too.:-) Americans always have to have the biggest and the noisiest of everything, so why not the biggest ant colony?
Another consideration is that trees will grow more quickly in a CO2 rich environment, until they exhaust some *other* nutrient that they need, such as nitrogen in the soil. At that point, the growth of the tree will fall back again, limited by the shortage of that other nutrient. There's a limit to how quickly and for how long a forest can act as a CO2 sink.
Are you serious? There's hardly anything that can't stand to be improved, and that's what sequels and remakes are for. Take just about any black and white film - they are good candidates for remaking in color. Usually those old films had poor sound too, and that can be fixed with a new film made with modern technology. The attitude that something is "good enough" is about the worst thing to have. We should never settle for that. A great example is Star Wars. Everyone here can relate to that. The original was certainly good in 1977, but today, it stinks. Lucas was on the right track when he added some new CGI for the updated release, but he was a big chicken. He should have bought all the copies that are already out there and just made a new one with nothing but CGI actors. Progress is important, and the process of remaking movies and books, (and even old songs) with the latest technology is part of that.
Did it ever occur to you that the failure to laugh is the primary reason the world is as screwy as it is? When people take themselves and what they believe too seriously, they fly planes into buildings.
Get a dictionary. A troll is someone who writes something, usually from a Devil's advocate position, though not always, for the PURPOSE of getting a response. Being a pest is not being a troll.
Even if the device is hermetically sealed, it seems that contamination can't be avoided. For example, the little pump would have lubricants in it. No matter how the thing is sealed, eventually water will get in and the lubricants will get out. Even a solid glass sphere won't last forever. What the difference between contaminating Europe today, or doing it a million years from now? The point is to avoid contamination, right?
Hey, what is this, some kind of advertisement for a website or something? How the hell did THAT get there?
(BTW, check out my own ad for my website in my sig)
Ads are everywhere. Can't avoid them. They are free speech, so what you are objecting to is essentially having to listen to others. It's a lot of trouble to ignore people, true, but it's even more trouble to outlaw the transmission of ideas.
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I've been complaining about this all day. We've got some Direct X product for the Mac, and VisiBone has added another color chart to their product line.
FUCK WHO CARES. This is marketing stuff, not news for nerds.
Can I submit some copy from anyone and get it published? Like this?
--
Now you can prime your cells to maximize energy production with new Formula 3 Cell Activator. This improved formula contains even more of the vital nutritional factors your cells need to generate energy, plus rare botanicals that help support stamina and endurance. In addition, new Cell Activator helps your body better assimilate and make use of the nutrients in your diet, so your entire body can function more efficiently. Incorporate Cell Activator® with Formulas 1 and 2 to provide your body with the basic building blocks to a healthier, more energetic you.
Methinks the ads are not restricted to the previously defined advertising boxes...
By insinuating that the Y2K problem was a scam by consultants to make money by scaring everyone, you do the security and Y2K consultants a huge disservice. Y2K was a REAL problem, and the reason that absolutely nothing happened was because thousands of people did their jobs very very well to fix the problems before the deadlines.
Something really funky is going on. I type in www.perlbox.org, and the page that loads up is www.camelotnaturals.com
What the hell?
Cancel your current internet service and get a DSL line from DirectTV. They give you a static IP for the same price as everyone else's dynamic service. They explicitly allow you to run whatever the hell you want to run on your line.
VOTE WITH YOUR CHECKBOOKS PEOPLE
How tough is it to use the USB or firewire interfaces? When one interface gets too complicated, switch to another.
You DO solder on a breadboard. You can also wirewrap the thing. Or you can wrap and solder it if you like. The thing that you just plug parts into is called a solderless breadboard. A breadboard is just a board with holes in it.
Oh, and those 100 ball bearings I just won on eBay
These would make a great "snooper detector". Next time you have a party, drill a hole in the top of your medicine cabinet in the bathroom. Close the mirror. Pour the bearings in the top.
If any of your guests get snoopy and open the mirror cabinet, you will know.
Two points: First, the Astroscan telescope shown on the front page of the Edmund Scientific site is TOP NOTCH STUFF for a beginner. It's super simple to use, the optics are superb, and it's an incredible bargain at $400-$450 for the scope with tripod. It looks strange, but form follows function.
Second, you're exactly right that telescope building is much different than astronomy. I'm in the Austin Astronomical Society, and we've got a few scope builders in the club. Trouble is, they hardly come to the meetings, and they don't bring their scopes. At the observing field, we can have more than 50 scopes on a clear summer night, and 99% of those are various commercial scopes: Meades, Celestrons, Obsessions, various small commercial dobs. By and large, these telescopes cost less than what it would take to build a similar instrument. Perhaps the best deals available right now are the 10 inch dobs. Meade makes a good one for less than $500 I believe.
Orion Telescopes makes the best one available for $599 -link here. At those prices, there's absolutely no reason at all for an amateur to build their own telescope. 20 or 30 years ago, many people built their own scopes because a quality 10 inch reflector would cost approximately what a brand new car cost. That's all changed, and astronomy has become a lot more open to newcomers.
Here in Austin TX, and in most of the South, we've got fire ants which were imported in plants from South America in the 1920's. That's the same exact story given in the article about how the ants arrived in Europe. Are these the same species? If so, then somebody should check out our ants here. I bet we have more square miles of fire ants than the europeans. I bet we even have more square kilometers too. :-) Americans always have to have the biggest and the noisiest of everything, so why not the biggest ant colony?
Another consideration is that trees will grow more quickly in a CO2 rich environment, until they exhaust some *other* nutrient that they need, such as nitrogen in the soil. At that point, the growth of the tree will fall back again, limited by the shortage of that other nutrient. There's a limit to how quickly and for how long a forest can act as a CO2 sink.
The masculine would be seamster I suppose.
When was the last time you heard a european or a japanese person bitching that a game "ruined" their life.
You might be hearing these people saying that stuff ALL THE TIME, but if you don't speak Japanese, you'd never guess it.
And I'll just write "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" on the front cover.
This is off the top of my head, so I could be wrong...
The battle of the Somme was in 1916, no? Americans only entered the war in 1917. Therefore, those soldiers would be the 20,000 British killed there.
That explains a couple things.
Are you serious? There's hardly anything that can't stand to be improved, and that's what sequels and remakes are for. Take just about any black and white film - they are good candidates for remaking in color. Usually those old films had poor sound too, and that can be fixed with a new film made with modern technology. The attitude that something is "good enough" is about the worst thing to have. We should never settle for that. A great example is Star Wars. Everyone here can relate to that. The original was certainly good in 1977, but today, it stinks. Lucas was on the right track when he added some new CGI for the updated release, but he was a big chicken. He should have bought all the copies that are already out there and just made a new one with nothing but CGI actors. Progress is important, and the process of remaking movies and books, (and even old songs) with the latest technology is part of that.
Did it ever occur to you that the failure to laugh is the primary reason the world is as screwy as it is? When people take themselves and what they believe too seriously, they fly planes into buildings.
But having my friends call me only when they need to have a reaction catalyzed is a real drag.
The answer:
AOL (Anagrams, Obfuscations, Losers)
Dianetics?
I'm not in IT, im an engineer in patents
Oh you must LOVE what slashdot has to say about patents then.
War is immoral, but the hardware is cool. How to decide?
Get a dictionary. A troll is someone who writes something, usually from a Devil's advocate position, though not always, for the PURPOSE of getting a response. Being a pest is not being a troll.
Even if the device is hermetically sealed, it seems that contamination can't be avoided. For example, the little pump would have lubricants in it. No matter how the thing is sealed, eventually water will get in and the lubricants will get out. Even a solid glass sphere won't last forever. What the difference between contaminating Europe today, or doing it a million years from now? The point is to avoid contamination, right?
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Hey, what is this, some kind of advertisement for a website or something? How the hell did THAT get there?
(BTW, check out my own ad for my website in my sig)
Ads are everywhere. Can't avoid them. They are free speech, so what you are objecting to is essentially having to listen to others. It's a lot of trouble to ignore people, true, but it's even more trouble to outlaw the transmission of ideas.