Looking through the article, I'm seeing that he dug up iron ore; was the deposit meteoric in nature, or was there just nothing meteoric about it at all? Where do the meteorites come into play here? 81kg of meteorite is a hefty chunk of material...
So either I have to use Red Bull's oddball sugar-enriched BS for a charge (which I'll probably build up a tolerance to), or seek out alternatives like - METH (it's what's for breakfast! Yummy mmmmmeth!).
What if everything you've just described came in A ROCKET CAN?
Marty: Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?
Doc Brown: No, no, no, no, no. This sucker's electrical. But I need a rat to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.
Anyone who remembers some of the old Sierra games knew how they occasionally had glitches or bugs that would cause the game to crash completely. Though Sierra would sometimes drag their asses about support, at one point or another the fans would patch the games themselves and publish the unofficial patch to the web. Quest For Glory IV was a perfect example of this; a fantastic game, but it had a few very memorable glitches that would cause the game to crash. The problem was that these fan patches were most often hosted on Geocities or Angelfire sites, most of which have since vanished from the world, leaving the games unplayable, unable to be completed, and unfixed hosts to whatever problems plagued them at the time of their publishing. Something that would have been a "popular" fix even just a few years ago is now irretrievable; forums point to dead links, users have long-since abandoned the posts, and the files themselves are nowhere to be found because of the death of the hosts. Obviously it's minor in the grand scheme of the history of the nation, but it *is* a good indicator of just how much can be culled within a very short period of time.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned the original Metroid yet. When you effectively glitched out the game to reach the secret zones, there was more glitched out content than was in the actual game itself. It was a pretty impressive glitch.
At this point in time, there is still an advantage to using print that many people tend to neglect. Sure it's easier and more efficient to post to the web, where content can be dynamically generated and altered on the fly as updated statistics come in, but by allowing newspapers to die out you're severing awareness of the community for the people without access to the internet, in essence forcing a change to the new lifestyle. As the internet is a relatively new thing, it would behoove us to stick with something traditional for the space of a generation or so, rather than switching to the "latest and best toys". Internet access is still not freely available in the way a newspaper might be found on the street - one has to actually have a computer to access any information at all about your community. While access is becoming widespread, it's still another level of abstraction that makes it that much more difficult to reach for people who refuse to use computers, who can't afford computers (or access), or who don't know where in the enormity of the world-wide web to search for local information.
This is similar to the argument from yesterday that the American lifestyle and physical community is built around having a car; most of the time those people without a vehicle are shafted by not having access to reliable public transportation systems and not being in reach of the jobs or services they need. At present, news is accessible in both formats, and should *stay* that way for awhile longer, through whatever means possible. Not sure if tax-exempt status is the answer, but the notion of keeping it afloat awhile longer interest me.
I don't know if they even make them any more, but I always had Robotix when I was a kid - they use a hex shaped connector and were a lot bigger and sturdier than Legos, but you could use them to build robots literally as tall as you were. The sets came with motors that connected to a battery pack and to a control panel that you could use from several feet away. I always had a lot of fun building things from the ground up using the raw materials and integrating the motors into the structures to give mobility to the construct, or to enable it to perform some kind of task. Like Legos, the sets come with guide books, but I always found that, even at that age, I could come up with new and better ways to build the thing they had pictured than the instructions gave.
Link to the first site that demos it: http://www.roboticsandthings.com/
On most computers, you have to hold down the power button to shut down the system, giving five unfiltered seconds of access to lewd material, derogatory language, and corrupting influences whilst you awkwardly try to cover the monitor with your body.
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So it's not the rabbits we need fear, but radioactive turtles?
Looking through the article, I'm seeing that he dug up iron ore; was the deposit meteoric in nature, or was there just nothing meteoric about it at all? Where do the meteorites come into play here? 81kg of meteorite is a hefty chunk of material...
Are you saying that Father Strand is acting in...bad faith ;)?
*Puts on his shades*
Can Lightbulbs Be Made To Work When They're Off?
What he said.
That's what the newly-formed "she" said.
So either I have to use Red Bull's oddball sugar-enriched BS for a charge (which I'll probably build up a tolerance to), or seek out alternatives like - METH (it's what's for breakfast! Yummy mmmmmeth!).
What if everything you've just described came in A ROCKET CAN?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-3qncy5Qfk
Marty: Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?
Doc Brown: No, no, no, no, no. This sucker's electrical. But I need a rat to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.
A dome you say? Did they opt for diamondium or diamondilium?
Digital Artifacts: Save The Jaggies!
It's not a bug, it's a fixture!
Perhaps he was dictating!
Anyone who remembers some of the old Sierra games knew how they occasionally had glitches or bugs that would cause the game to crash completely. Though Sierra would sometimes drag their asses about support, at one point or another the fans would patch the games themselves and publish the unofficial patch to the web. Quest For Glory IV was a perfect example of this; a fantastic game, but it had a few very memorable glitches that would cause the game to crash. The problem was that these fan patches were most often hosted on Geocities or Angelfire sites, most of which have since vanished from the world, leaving the games unplayable, unable to be completed, and unfixed hosts to whatever problems plagued them at the time of their publishing. Something that would have been a "popular" fix even just a few years ago is now irretrievable; forums point to dead links, users have long-since abandoned the posts, and the files themselves are nowhere to be found because of the death of the hosts. Obviously it's minor in the grand scheme of the history of the nation, but it *is* a good indicator of just how much can be culled within a very short period of time.
What, they can't directly apply the compression methods they're simulating and create a 1byte file from the entire zip?
This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of Kenobi, it will soon see the end of Psystar.
I'm actually very curious to know more about this - have you got a link, article, citation anything for further reading?
I'm surprised no one's mentioned the original Metroid yet. When you effectively glitched out the game to reach the secret zones, there was more glitched out content than was in the actual game itself. It was a pretty impressive glitch.
to perching sharks >= )?!
Silly hospital. Any good programmer should have known to run a garbage collecting routine =).
At this point in time, there is still an advantage to using print that many people tend to neglect. Sure it's easier and more efficient to post to the web, where content can be dynamically generated and altered on the fly as updated statistics come in, but by allowing newspapers to die out you're severing awareness of the community for the people without access to the internet, in essence forcing a change to the new lifestyle. As the internet is a relatively new thing, it would behoove us to stick with something traditional for the space of a generation or so, rather than switching to the "latest and best toys". Internet access is still not freely available in the way a newspaper might be found on the street - one has to actually have a computer to access any information at all about your community. While access is becoming widespread, it's still another level of abstraction that makes it that much more difficult to reach for people who refuse to use computers, who can't afford computers (or access), or who don't know where in the enormity of the world-wide web to search for local information.
This is similar to the argument from yesterday that the American lifestyle and physical community is built around having a car; most of the time those people without a vehicle are shafted by not having access to reliable public transportation systems and not being in reach of the jobs or services they need. At present, news is accessible in both formats, and should *stay* that way for awhile longer, through whatever means possible. Not sure if tax-exempt status is the answer, but the notion of keeping it afloat awhile longer interest me.
It was the inevitable upgrade from the keyboard-free Mac that they released ;).
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary
I don't know if they even make them any more, but I always had Robotix when I was a kid - they use a hex shaped connector and were a lot bigger and sturdier than Legos, but you could use them to build robots literally as tall as you were. The sets came with motors that connected to a battery pack and to a control panel that you could use from several feet away. I always had a lot of fun building things from the ground up using the raw materials and integrating the motors into the structures to give mobility to the construct, or to enable it to perform some kind of task. Like Legos, the sets come with guide books, but I always found that, even at that age, I could come up with new and better ways to build the thing they had pictured than the instructions gave. Link to the first site that demos it: http://www.roboticsandthings.com/
Are you suggesting coca nuts migrate?
There. Fixed that for you :p.
On most computers, you have to hold down the power button to shut down the system, giving five unfiltered seconds of access to lewd material, derogatory language, and corrupting influences whilst you awkwardly try to cover the monitor with your body.
Immortal cells - the deadliest cleansing force in all of Asia. We put their name to the test.
Why mine trillions when we could mine...billions?