TTL chips? Luxury! When I was a lad we had to use coconuts and vine to fashion NAND gates.
Gilligan, don't forget the NOT gate that we fashioned out of the two transistors from the radio or the infinite power source that came out of it. Now why couldn't have that satellite flown overhead a few moments after we completed the digital telecommunicator device?
I can imagine the revival of the campaign right now. You know, go with the wife to McD out of pure excitement, get her to put on her Moon Man earrings. And this is exactly how it would go:
Me: Mmmm-hmmmmm! This is a TASTY BURGER! Katrina, ever have a Sewage Burger? [Wife shakes her head]
Me: Wanna bite? They're real tasty.
Wife: Ain't hungry.
Me: Well, if you like burgers give 'em a try sometime. I can't usually get 'em myself because my girlfriend's a vegeterian which pretty mu......
The average stupid person didn't have the right to vote in the original issuance of the Constitution. The "founding fathers" KNEW that the electorate had to be informed lest the people wouldn't end up with a corrupt and incompetent government. That truth hasn't changed in the 200 year meantime. I don't know how you're getting off on the supposition that you can have a bunch of fools somehow elect anyone with even a SHARD of credibility much less someone with mental capacity. Look at the US, the current president, the previous president, and the Congresses for the past fifteen years. How did they come to be?
Umm, NO. That's exactly NOT why we are a republic. The voting populace must be informed, or they will put a bunch of fools in office. The reason for having a republic is that a democracy requires a huge amount of time from every voter--imagine every citizen being in Congress, Parliament, etc.--and is thus incredibly hard to organize.
This is yet another FUD article on nuclear power submitted by mdsolar. I personally have nothing against publicizing the dangers of nuclear power, but this should be done in a fair way. User mdsolar has repeatedly posted FUD articles on nuclear power and frequently gets them through because of the mass volume of his submissions and the lack of attention paid by the moderators to specific users' agendas.
mdsolar, reveal yourself. What is your viable plan for generating electricity once you have wiped all the reactors off the map? How do you plan on dealing with the decommissioning and waste? Could you try easing up and submitting articles not chock-full of such alarmist banter? Are you a BP employee?
Yet another greenpeace troll by a greenpeace troll. GJ on getting yet another FUD article slipped through, md. Even I get a retarded submission through every now and then.
These days, you don't go to college to get an education. You go to college to get a piece of paper that gets you a job.
When that's the mentality, everyone has the assumption that you have to go to college to get a job, everyone goes to college, and college standards have to be lowered to give everyone an equal opportunity. At the same time, colleges have realized what a cash cow "educations" are and have been jacking up rates like no man's business. Let me tell you another secret. I went to GT for my bachelor's degree. Everything that I learned came from my own studying. I could have sat in my basement with textbooks and a computer, table, and desk lamp and learned the same materials because I was always either in the classroom or library anyway. Nothing special about these places. The only "special" thing required is to have a curriculum designed which amounts to little more than having a syllabus. Trade secrets from the professor? Didn't learn any. The lecturer's PowerPoint slides? Please. The few lab resources that I actually used? Sorry, but I had a more capable lab built by the time I was a sophomore with funds from my summer/part-time jobs and purchasing old equipment on eBay.
I'm still $42k in debt, and the wife is going crazy about it. I think that Pete Thiel is trying to make the statement that this whole college process is completely haywire and that you don't need a college degree to be successful. Just some intelligence, creativity, some books, and a desire to learn on one's own and a drive to innovate. But what would I know having been through this twice already?
The poster copied something from the article: "using low-frequency signals."
What does this mean? We are talking about UHF here, so they obviously aren't low-frequency signals. Do you mean low-bandwidth or low-amplitude signals? Slashdot is "News for Nerds," and such details truly do matter for those of us who are actually nerds and are trying to learn or understand something from the postings here.:\
Great thoughts. I totally agree with you. The beta "fad" got REALLY old after everyone immediately jumped on the bandwagon.
My curiosity is how F/OSS is this *really* going to be? To this very day, if I want to apply for a license on the FCC's ULS/ELS (mainly the ELS), if I'm trying to pay by credit card or upload exhibit files, the site doesn't work with Firefox. When I go to pay, the site just sits there with an everlasting "please wait" screen. When I go to upload a PDF, I get a message that I was trying to send a file with an invalid format. Using IE, I don't have these problems, but it says nowhere on the page that you have to use IE! I believe that these are CFM forms, so the further they can get away from these, the better!
So you think that a well-packaged ceramic PGA or a plastic QFP would be susceptible to corrosion down there? We're talking about packages that are about as inert as glass, and even if the pins were somehow corroded away--somehow corroded away--you could still open the package and bond new leads to the die. We're talking about something that might as well be as passive as glass sitting at the bottom of the ocean. Someone with a datasheet for the IC could come back in a hundred years and recover the data.
And stainless steel wire which is reactive as all get-out and has to be kept in a gas atmosphere is going to fare better? You may have a little chance with the wire recorded, but I wish you the best of luck with it!
Shouldn't something like this have existed 10 years ago? I understand it takes time to collect the data that goes into it but the engine itself? Be interesting to see if it turns any isolated murder cases into serial killer cases.
...Or that arrest that you had at age 19 when you were living across the US and just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. A crowd goes rowdy, the cops arrest everyone, and you can't get a job because you were arrested. Makes it kind of hard for those who have made a few mistakes here and there to ever leave something in the past.
Also, as I understand it, this information was more or less available to begin with. Now the FBI makes it a lot easier for LE to hassle you for nothing or to do a mass witch hunt.
You don't tend to think about these things until you've actually been in LE...
Now to perfect drinking beer from all our girlfriends' vaginas !!
Wait, like filling it up with beer or using it like a coozie? The former is obvious. Just use a straw. But be sure to only do it with pasteurized American swill because a good microbrew is much more likely to give her a yeast infection. YMMV.
Bananaphone? Lol, more like Apple has gone bananas.
Apple, thanks for creating a new market niche for the Chinese! Now, instead of buying that 99-in-1 screwdriver off eBay, I'll be stuck with paying $3.99 for the 100-in-1 and waiting two weeks for it to come in from Hong Kong.
Finishing this off? Please. We have only just seen the beginning.
I predict that the moment before the game is to be "released," a wormhole will open, occupying half the sky over Los Angeles. From it, millions of Octabrains will come forth, wreaking havoc and destruction while Battlelords appear and L.A.P.D. pigs are turned into L.A.R.D. cops. No, we have only just seen the early prophecy. In this Hollywood Holocaust, only those yielding laser tripmines, pipebombs, and microwave guns will survive.
I, for one, welcome our new DN3D Overlords. (Someone desperately needed to upgrade the sprites to DNF models!)
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TTL chips? Luxury! When I was a lad we had to use coconuts and vine to fashion NAND gates.
Gilligan, don't forget the NOT gate that we fashioned out of the two transistors from the radio or the infinite power source that came out of it. Now why couldn't have that satellite flown overhead a few moments after we completed the digital telecommunicator device?
--The Professor
I can imagine the revival of the campaign right now. You know, go with the wife to McD out of pure excitement, get her to put on her Moon Man earrings. And this is exactly how it would go:
Me: Mmmm-hmmmmm! This is a TASTY BURGER! Katrina, ever have a Sewage Burger?
[Wife shakes her head]
Me: Wanna bite? They're real tasty.
Wife: Ain't hungry.
Me: Well, if you like burgers give 'em a try sometime. I can't usually get 'em myself because my girlfriend's a vegeterian which pretty mu......
Yeah, I really can see this happening now.
No, what they really mean is: torrents and other p2p systems.
Hey, don't forget nmap!
Let's work to keep IT security admins in the dark so they can't figure out what sploits are out there.
DIAF, mdsolar.
Dear moron,
The average stupid person didn't have the right to vote in the original issuance of the Constitution. The "founding fathers" KNEW that the electorate had to be informed lest the people wouldn't end up with a corrupt and incompetent government. That truth hasn't changed in the 200 year meantime. I don't know how you're getting off on the supposition that you can have a bunch of fools somehow elect anyone with even a SHARD of credibility much less someone with mental capacity. Look at the US, the current president, the previous president, and the Congresses for the past fifteen years. How did they come to be?
Gratefully yours.
Umm, NO. That's exactly NOT why we are a republic. The voting populace must be informed, or they will put a bunch of fools in office. The reason for having a republic is that a democracy requires a huge amount of time from every voter--imagine every citizen being in Congress, Parliament, etc.--and is thus incredibly hard to organize.
This is yet another FUD article on nuclear power submitted by mdsolar. I personally have nothing against publicizing the dangers of nuclear power, but this should be done in a fair way. User mdsolar has repeatedly posted FUD articles on nuclear power and frequently gets them through because of the mass volume of his submissions and the lack of attention paid by the moderators to specific users' agendas.
mdsolar, reveal yourself. What is your viable plan for generating electricity once you have wiped all the reactors off the map? How do you plan on dealing with the decommissioning and waste? Could you try easing up and submitting articles not chock-full of such alarmist banter? Are you a BP employee?
Sell his left nut.
Try this.
Yet another greenpeace troll by a greenpeace troll. GJ on getting yet another FUD article slipped through, md. Even I get a retarded submission through every now and then.
These days, you don't go to college to get an education. You go to college to get a piece of paper that gets you a job.
When that's the mentality, everyone has the assumption that you have to go to college to get a job, everyone goes to college, and college standards have to be lowered to give everyone an equal opportunity. At the same time, colleges have realized what a cash cow "educations" are and have been jacking up rates like no man's business. Let me tell you another secret. I went to GT for my bachelor's degree. Everything that I learned came from my own studying. I could have sat in my basement with textbooks and a computer, table, and desk lamp and learned the same materials because I was always either in the classroom or library anyway. Nothing special about these places. The only "special" thing required is to have a curriculum designed which amounts to little more than having a syllabus. Trade secrets from the professor? Didn't learn any. The lecturer's PowerPoint slides? Please. The few lab resources that I actually used? Sorry, but I had a more capable lab built by the time I was a sophomore with funds from my summer/part-time jobs and purchasing old equipment on eBay.
I'm still $42k in debt, and the wife is going crazy about it. I think that Pete Thiel is trying to make the statement that this whole college process is completely haywire and that you don't need a college degree to be successful. Just some intelligence, creativity, some books, and a desire to learn on one's own and a drive to innovate. But what would I know having been through this twice already?
The poster copied something from the article: "using low-frequency signals."
:\
What does this mean? We are talking about UHF here, so they obviously aren't low-frequency signals. Do you mean low-bandwidth or low-amplitude signals? Slashdot is "News for Nerds," and such details truly do matter for those of us who are actually nerds and are trying to learn or understand something from the postings here.
Great thoughts. I totally agree with you. The beta "fad" got REALLY old after everyone immediately jumped on the bandwagon.
My curiosity is how F/OSS is this *really* going to be? To this very day, if I want to apply for a license on the FCC's ULS/ELS (mainly the ELS), if I'm trying to pay by credit card or upload exhibit files, the site doesn't work with Firefox. When I go to pay, the site just sits there with an everlasting "please wait" screen. When I go to upload a PDF, I get a message that I was trying to send a file with an invalid format. Using IE, I don't have these problems, but it says nowhere on the page that you have to use IE! I believe that these are CFM forms, so the further they can get away from these, the better!
So you think that a well-packaged ceramic PGA or a plastic QFP would be susceptible to corrosion down there? We're talking about packages that are about as inert as glass, and even if the pins were somehow corroded away-- somehow corroded away--you could still open the package and bond new leads to the die. We're talking about something that might as well be as passive as glass sitting at the bottom of the ocean. Someone with a datasheet for the IC could come back in a hundred years and recover the data.
And stainless steel wire which is reactive as all get-out and has to be kept in a gas atmosphere is going to fare better? You may have a little chance with the wire recorded, but I wish you the best of luck with it!
--TSP
You heard me! Mod parent up!
LOL! I just love that label. "Progressives."
Douche nozzle.
--TrisexualPuppy
Shouldn't something like this have existed 10 years ago? I understand it takes time to collect the data that goes into it but the engine itself? Be interesting to see if it turns any isolated murder cases into serial killer cases.
...Or that arrest that you had at age 19 when you were living across the US and just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. A crowd goes rowdy, the cops arrest everyone, and you can't get a job because you were arrested. Makes it kind of hard for those who have made a few mistakes here and there to ever leave something in the past.
Also, as I understand it, this information was more or less available to begin with. Now the FBI makes it a lot easier for LE to hassle you for nothing or to do a mass witch hunt.
You don't tend to think about these things until you've actually been in LE...
Let's get this guy to +5 before he is buried into oblivion via Slashdot 3.0.
GP has a point. And you have the literary sense of Terri Schiavo's corpse.
Disgusting. But you aren't too far off.
http://astronomer.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=challengerandcolumbia&action=print&thread=1734
Now to perfect drinking beer from all our girlfriends' vaginas !!
Wait, like filling it up with beer or using it like a coozie? The former is obvious. Just use a straw. But be sure to only do it with pasteurized American swill because a good microbrew is much more likely to give her a yeast infection. YMMV.
Bananaphone? Lol, more like Apple has gone bananas.
Apple, thanks for creating a new market niche for the Chinese! Now, instead of buying that 99-in-1 screwdriver off eBay, I'll be stuck with paying $3.99 for the 100-in-1 and waiting two weeks for it to come in from Hong Kong.
Item Listing: NIB screwdriver PhiLLips TORX slotted SAE L@@K pentalobular apple FREE SHIP
Finishing this off? Please. We have only just seen the beginning.
I predict that the moment before the game is to be "released," a wormhole will open, occupying half the sky over Los Angeles. From it, millions of Octabrains will come forth, wreaking havoc and destruction while Battlelords appear and L.A.P.D. pigs are turned into L.A.R.D. cops. No, we have only just seen the early prophecy. In this Hollywood Holocaust, only those yielding laser tripmines, pipebombs, and microwave guns will survive.
I, for one, welcome our new DN3D Overlords. (Someone desperately needed to upgrade the sprites to DNF models!)
You are a moron.
Come on. You know you want to. That guy known as TrisexualPuppy ain't no troll. Even I say so.
--TSP