How about a plugin that fetches all subsequent pages of articles and condenses into a single webpage so a user doesn't have to follow five page links to read the whole article.
Ah yes Primer. I was waiting for that one to be mentioned. An excellent movie in my opinion.
For some reason, low budget movies seem to more consistently captivate my mind than the big bucks hollywood blockbusters. I figure the reason would be less flash, and more content. A movie with an intriguing, well developed idea/plot consistently outpaces flash and smash. Throw in a few good looking girl next door girls, some mudwrestling, cheap music... Oh wait... Tits and Ass always work too!
His Girlfriend notices every time she does his laundry. On second thought, since he is posting on Slashdot, His Mother notices every time she does his laundry.
Now that is a good post, made me chuckle. Seriously, I found that the time I spent setting up my mythbox to be alot more interesting than if the time was spent watching TV. Now that the MythTV box is setup and running smooth with all of my tweaks, it just sits there and records shows, which I find I don't watch anyways. It was the adventure of setting up the box, both hardware and software wise, and making it as quiet as possible (which the wife and myself greatly appreciate) that was the fun part. Watch TV? Meh. I'd rather fiddle.
This reminds me of a time when I asked a "teacher" the reason for the phases of the moon. He said it was because of the earth's shadow. This is what he taught in his classes about 20 years ago. After lengthy discussions, I resorted to showing him a model setup to demonstrate that no, the moons phases are not caused by the shadow of the earth he saw things differently.
I wonder how the infrastructure and mechanisms in place would stand up to severe weather (however, the larger the waves, the more power generated) and located in the ocean, salt water. Corrosion of moving parts (bearings) would be a huge issue in my opinion. Design, Construction and Material costs would probably be higher as a result. However, if this design proves to be cheap, robust and effective, this technology could go far.
"Most of the time, procrastination is a good way to get depressed."
I must be the odd one out here. Procrastination for me does not result in me getting down. If I dwell on the idea that I "should" be doing something (like whitening my teeth, buying an iPod, or watching TV), well then of course I will get depressed. Actually, now that I think about it, if I were to be concerned with filling my time by watching TV, buying an iPod, and whitening my teeth I would be depressed.
Ahh, it's Friday. I'm looking forward to a weekend of procrastination to cure the work week blues...
"Bushes, a family well-known for and even convicted of helping the Nazis?"
I am genuinely curious about this one. Does any slashdotter have a link for this. I do not want to do the search from within my country for fear of repercussions. Just kidding. I am at work right now and shouldn't be using the computer for anything other than work, err.. reading slashdot... must stop confusing reading/. with work.
Or quite possibly they have vibrated (buzzed) into a higher dimension. Or maybe they have discovered the singularity. I for one personally think this is a direct result of the Chupacabra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra
An interesting question to ask. How many crop fields in the affected areas are growing genetically modified crops? Didn't we see results in the past where genetically modified corn caused majorities of Monarch butterflies local to the corn fields to die.
Kind of off topic, or maybe not. I couldn't help notice that a tracking feature is contained within the last two cell phones I've uesd. A feature called "assisted GPS" seems to mysteriously and unobtrusively be enabled by default from the factory. From what I understand, this location tracking feature is in addition to tracking one's location via cell tower triangulation.
Scary thing about this is that the vast majority of the people I talk to do not even know this feature is available, less enabled by default.
Depending on the r-value of the insulating outer layer, this could be a pig when it comes to fuel consumption. Because after all, you have to keep the contained air hot enough to overcome effects of gravity. Also, the added weight of the fuel will be detrimental to maximum distance travelled.
Helium, on the other hand, once contained within a sealed bladder type system will not require any active means of interaction to achieve bouyancy. Height would most likely be regulated by pressure of the helium within the enclosed bladder.
The ISPs apparently incorporating these filters are the large ones. May not qualify as Monopolies, but in some areas, are the only service providers the customer can choose. If the choice comes down to broadband from a censoring ISP or dialup, which one would you go with?
Time Bombing a document. Like Mission Impossible's self destructing messages. For some nagging reason I don't really see how this could effectively work. There are too many ways to overcome this one. Just setting the system clock back on one's computer, or setting up a tweaked NTP time server if the time bombed document is advanced enough to query the server (which I highly doubt). Accessing the document via alternate application, mounting partition from within another OS, etc...
Whatever type of DRM scheme is used, it's just a matter of time and it'll be compromised...
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Why not just submerge arrays of these in the water. Tidal power alone should provide plenty of motion to achieve power generation...
There were ads on the site? Oh wait.. (Fires up Internet Explorer) There we go..
How about a plugin that fetches all subsequent pages of articles and condenses into a single webpage so a user doesn't have to follow five page links to read the whole article.
However, can the conversion between T-Negative and Type O be completed?
Maybe there is some truth to the story of Rasputin after all. From what I recall, the guy was nearly impossible to poison.
Ah yes Primer. I was waiting for that one to be mentioned. An excellent movie in my opinion.
For some reason, low budget movies seem to more consistently captivate my mind than the big bucks hollywood blockbusters. I figure the reason would be less flash, and more content. A movie with an intriguing, well developed idea/plot consistently outpaces flash and smash. Throw in a few good looking girl next door girls, some mudwrestling, cheap music... Oh wait... Tits and Ass always work too!
I know what we can do. We can create a new operating system. We should call it stridix. It will be, well, like unix.
His Girlfriend notices every time she does his laundry. On second thought, since he is posting on Slashdot, His Mother notices every time she does his laundry.
Doesn't McDonalds already own this patent in Germany?
Now that is a good post, made me chuckle. Seriously, I found that the time I spent setting up my mythbox to be alot more interesting than if the time was spent watching TV. Now that the MythTV box is setup and running smooth with all of my tweaks, it just sits there and records shows, which I find I don't watch anyways. It was the adventure of setting up the box, both hardware and software wise, and making it as quiet as possible (which the wife and myself greatly appreciate) that was the fun part. Watch TV? Meh. I'd rather fiddle.
This reminds me of a time when I asked a "teacher" the reason for the phases of the moon. He said it was because of the earth's shadow. This is what he taught in his classes about 20 years ago. After lengthy discussions, I resorted to showing him a model setup to demonstrate that no, the moons phases are not caused by the shadow of the earth he saw things differently.
Some of us are still on DialUp you insensitive clod!
For me, installing a Sonic Tower and Zalman GPU cooler drew blood.
I wonder how the infrastructure and mechanisms in place would stand up to severe weather (however, the larger the waves, the more power generated) and located in the ocean, salt water. Corrosion of moving parts (bearings) would be a huge issue in my opinion. Design, Construction and Material costs would probably be higher as a result. However, if this design proves to be cheap, robust and effective, this technology could go far.
"Most of the time, procrastination is a good way to get depressed."
I must be the odd one out here. Procrastination for me does not result in me getting down. If I dwell on the idea that I "should" be doing something (like whitening my teeth, buying an iPod, or watching TV), well then of course I will get depressed. Actually, now that I think about it, if I were to be concerned with filling my time by watching TV, buying an iPod, and whitening my teeth I would be depressed.
Ahh, it's Friday. I'm looking forward to a weekend of procrastination to cure the work week blues...
"Bushes, a family well-known for and even convicted of helping the Nazis?"
/. with work.
I am genuinely curious about this one. Does any slashdotter have a link for this. I do not want to do the search from within my country for fear of repercussions. Just kidding. I am at work right now and shouldn't be using the computer for anything other than work, err.. reading slashdot... must stop confusing reading
Or quite possibly they have vibrated (buzzed) into a higher dimension. Or maybe they have discovered the singularity. I for one personally think this is a direct result of the Chupacabra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra
An interesting question to ask. How many crop fields in the affected areas are growing genetically modified crops? Didn't we see results in the past where genetically modified corn caused majorities of Monarch butterflies local to the corn fields to die.
I know, I know. GM food is safe. heh.
Soylent Green anyone?
Ahh, First time I read this phrase, I interpreted it as...
"and using more of the RAM to crash applications"
Be expecting a visit from the Door Police.
Kind of off topic, or maybe not. I couldn't help notice that a tracking feature is contained within the last two cell phones I've uesd. A feature called "assisted GPS" seems to mysteriously and unobtrusively be enabled by default from the factory. From what I understand, this location tracking feature is in addition to tracking one's location via cell tower triangulation.
Scary thing about this is that the vast majority of the people I talk to do not even know this feature is available, less enabled by default.
Depending on the r-value of the insulating outer layer, this could be a pig when it comes to fuel consumption. Because after all, you have to keep the contained air hot enough to overcome effects of gravity. Also, the added weight of the fuel will be detrimental to maximum distance travelled.
Helium, on the other hand, once contained within a sealed bladder type system will not require any active means of interaction to achieve bouyancy. Height would most likely be regulated by pressure of the helium within the enclosed bladder.
The ISPs apparently incorporating these filters are the large ones. May not qualify as Monopolies, but in some areas, are the only service providers the customer can choose. If the choice comes down to broadband from a censoring ISP or dialup, which one would you go with?
Time Bombing a document. Like Mission Impossible's self destructing messages. For some nagging reason I don't really see how this could effectively work. There are too many ways to overcome this one. Just setting the system clock back on one's computer, or setting up a tweaked NTP time server if the time bombed document is advanced enough to query the server (which I highly doubt). Accessing the document via alternate application, mounting partition from within another OS, etc...
Whatever type of DRM scheme is used, it's just a matter of time and it'll be compromised...