If sex crimes against one's self are illegal then I'm in big trouble. I regularly beat my dick as if it owes me money. I guess it's a good thing that it can't file a complaint...
Once you have the photonic chip installed, you will need to realign the deflector shield to output a graviton pulse through the arsenic trisulfide to create an anti-tachyon pulse which will modulate itself based upon the resonant frequency of the transport medium, thus allowing for longer distance transmittal of data than is currently possible.
Granted, it will take 15 years and research team of a hundred to complete, but it is doable.
No, they can do it in the middle of a pitched battle and before the next commercial.
Yes, the audio rights and text rights are sold separately. But if I buy the text rights and then read the text aloud, or have someone read the text aloud to me, or buy a product that will read the text aloud to me, then I only need the text rights to do that.
I'm not hiring James Earl Jones to do a voice over and trying to sell copies of it on e-bay. I'm taking the text that I paid for and having someone/something read it to me. I PAID for it! I PAID for the someone/something to read it to me! I'm not asking them to give it to me in audio format, I'm not reselling the audio format. I'm not even saving a copy of the audio format anywhere. There is no reason to pay them for the audio format. Fuck 'em.
My old roommate, a cop, has this advice when shooting an intruder:
1) Fire as many shots as you want, but don't hit him more than 3x (looks bad to the cops/DA/jury).
2) Regardless of #1 above, if all shots entered through the back then roll him over and shoot him at least once through the front and claim that as your first shot. CSI is just a TV show, they're not going to figure it out.
3) If he falls outside your door, drag his ass back into your house before the cops get there and describe a "scuffle".
The fact he had this list, and left his Glock on the coffee table while we watched Star Trek, always made me nervous...
SETI is looking for narrow band RF signals and some optical pulses, . They wouldn't likely even detect a digital spread spectrum transmission, much less whatever type of transmission optimized for interstellar communications that we haven't even thought of yet. In fact, their site says:
SETI researchers look for narrow-band signals, the type that are confined to a small (usually 1 Hz or less) spot on the dial. But if you have a cellular phone, you may be aware that a lot of communications on Earth are now done using a technique known as "spread spectrum." The broadcast signal is dispersed over a wide range of frequencies. What if ET is also engaged in spread spectrum broadcasting? Would our searches pick up his call?
That depends. If the signal is strong enough, it might still be detected with current SETI equipment, although weak broadcasts will be missed. There's little doubt that in the future, with greatly increased computer capability, our search will encompass these other types of communications.
Who wants to bet that when ET phones home that they don't bother pointing a powerful constant carrier wave at Earth while they're doing it, but instead make it very much point-to-point directional and use signaling techniques that we haven't thought of...
Matter being drawn into the black holes should be accelerated to damn close to the speed of light, and will emit massive amounts of gamma radiation, with a conversion rate that's higher than even fusion.
If we could harness the energy of the gamma emissions around artificial black holes, we'd be have vast energy generating capability, without the pesky fast neutrons that most fusion reactions generate.
...and the only waste by-product is a blackhole at the reactor site? Gee, sign me up...
The Ubuntu machine has 768MB of RAM, while the XP box has only 512MB of RAM... Can a little extra RAM make that much difference in Internet download speeds or does Ubuntu handles networking that much faster than Windows XP?
So, swap the memory sticks, run the test again and then you tell us.
50Hz, even if you had a wait a full cycle, is 20ms NOT 50ms. Assuming the filament is considered lit when the voltage first peaks then you only have to wait a maximum of a half of a cycle.
So really your lamp is even faster than you said, it has a FSL (Front Side Lamp) Speed of 100Hz and takes only 10ms to light!
You'd have to be an IT manager who had been living in an ice-cave w/o Internet connection for half a decade to actually want to support these ass-clowns.
Who is actually buying SCO products at this point? Is it just legacy customers who need ongoing support? Seriously, if a purchase-order to SCO crossed my desk I'd assume it was a practical joke... and if the person was serious he'd probably end up ostracized by everyone else at the company who can even spell "*nix".
I mean, some companies are afraid to do anything the least bit controversial for fear of generating backlash from their would-be customers, and these guys go ahead and crap the bed in the middle of the entire industry -- yet they are still doing 8-figures a year in sales. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=scoxq.pk.
Hammers might be a bad example, but guns are a lot less dangerous than cars. In fact, we are all much more likely to be killed by a car than a gun.
Firearms are involved in 0.6% of accidental deaths nationally. Most accidental deaths involve, or are due to:
motor vehicles (39%),
poisoning (18%),
falls (16%),
suffocation (5%),
drowning (2.9%),
fires (2.8%),
medical mistakes (2.2%),
environmental factors (1.2%),
and bicycles and tricycles (0.7%).
Among children:
motor vehicles (45%),
suffocation (18%),
drowning (14%),
fires (9%),
bicycles and tricycles (2.4%),
falls (2%),
poisoning (1.6%),
environmental factors (1.5%),
and medical mistakes (0.8%).
Clearly guns don't kill people -- cars kill people. Unlike a car, however, only a gun can protect you from an assailant.
As an aside, I have an assault rifle (in California, bought it just because it was being banned) a.45 and a 9mm. I also have an SUV. Believe me, I could kill a lot more people with the SUV than I could with all three guns and a wheelbarrow full of ammo. Just hit a crowded parade area, with jam-packed sidewalks, one fine day and start mowing people down. You can keep that up a lot longer in an SUV than you can shooting on the street corner (before a cop shoots you or the crowd jumps you). I can go 400 miles on a tank of gas, I could mow down most of a parade route before the cops boxed me in and shot me.
You want to keep your kids safe? Hide the keys. You want to keep society safe? Take away the cars.
Yup, when I buy a video card all I really care about is FPS at 1920x1200 resolution for my games. The only reason I consider its power consumption is to decide whether or not I need a bigger power supply. I think I'm a typical geek this way.
Any servers we rack-up at our colo, however, I *really* care about the power consumption -- power drives our hosting costs (because our broadband usage is very asymmetric we pay almost nothing for broadband). I think corporations will get green when it saves them money. I think consumers get green when it saves them money -- a furnace's efficiency, a refrigerator's power consumption, whether or not insulation in the attic pays for itself off of your heating/cooling bills, etc. *these* things will affect consumer buying habits.
Really, does anyone expect people to buy the "greenest" cellphone? No, they get a boner for the latest i-phone or blackberry and that's the phone they want -- no one is going to pick between the greener of the two.
No manned spaceflight means no warp-capable Starships, no green Orion slave women, no bare-knuckled fights on distant M-class planets, no time travel, no heart-warming self-sacrifice for the needs of the many...
Sendng an unmanned "V-ger" out is great and all of that, but we really want the Star Trek/Wars/etc fantasy and are loath to let it go.
Yes it would. Equatorial launch saves a lot of energy when it comes to getting into orbit, the centripetal force from the Earth's rotation is not insignificant.
Remember that the Earth is about 24,000 miles in circumference, making a revolution every 24hrs, that's 1,000mph at the surface -- a nice bit of initial velocity on your way to space. You get this full effect at the equator, you get none of it at the poles. New Mexico is about 32 degrees North of the equator, hardly optimal. There's a reason private companies put payloads into space from the equator.
VG isn't going orbital, so this isn't as big of a deal for them, but I'll bet they plan/hope to in the future. At that point they'll want to be a the equator for their launches. Also, I'm sure New Mexico kicked in some good stuff (rent free or at least rent deferred on the land, maybe some capital improvements on the land, etc...). So, NM is fine for now but in 20 yrs it may not matter.
Right, and I disqualify the Pope as a Catholic. Next I disqualify Obama as President Elect. Then I disqualify Earth as a planet and Claudia Schiffer as hot.
Dude, for an entire generation Star Wars has defined Sci-Fi. Transporters on Star Trek were no better explained than hover-craft in Star Wars. Ray guns in War of the Worlds were no better explained than Light Sabers.
Besides, before George Lucas was abducted by aliends and replaced with a replicant, he made the two best movies in the world (Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars, in order of greatness). In all good humor I hereby accuse you of blasphemy and disqualify you as a geek.
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I see we rent the same stuff.
It could have been Crap OR Leak Butt Eating Receptacle for the Toilette.
If sex crimes against one's self are illegal then I'm in big trouble. I regularly beat my dick as if it owes me money. I guess it's a good thing that it can't file a complaint...
Crash Different.
Once you have the photonic chip installed, you will need to realign the deflector shield to output a graviton pulse through the arsenic trisulfide to create an anti-tachyon pulse which will modulate itself based upon the resonant frequency of the transport medium, thus allowing for longer distance transmittal of data than is currently possible.
Granted, it will take 15 years and research team of a hundred to complete, but it is doable.
No, they can do it in the middle of a pitched battle and before the next commercial.
Yes, the audio rights and text rights are sold separately. But if I buy the text rights and then read the text aloud, or have someone read the text aloud to me, or buy a product that will read the text aloud to me, then I only need the text rights to do that.
I'm not hiring James Earl Jones to do a voice over and trying to sell copies of it on e-bay. I'm taking the text that I paid for and having someone/something read it to me. I PAID for it! I PAID for the someone/something to read it to me! I'm not asking them to give it to me in audio format, I'm not reselling the audio format. I'm not even saving a copy of the audio format anywhere. There is no reason to pay them for the audio format. Fuck 'em.
IANAL.... but my gf is =)
Nice to see someone screwing a lawyer for a change...
My old roommate, a cop, has this advice when shooting an intruder:
1) Fire as many shots as you want, but don't hit him more than 3x (looks bad to the cops/DA/jury).
2) Regardless of #1 above, if all shots entered through the back then roll him over and shoot him at least once through the front and claim that as your first shot. CSI is just a TV show, they're not going to figure it out.
3) If he falls outside your door, drag his ass back into your house before the cops get there and describe a "scuffle".
The fact he had this list, and left his Glock on the coffee table while we watched Star Trek, always made me nervous...
I think the perfect number of breasts would be three. Two in front, and one in the back -- for dancing/hugging/etc.
SETI is looking for narrow band RF signals and some optical pulses, . They wouldn't likely even detect a digital spread spectrum transmission, much less whatever type of transmission optimized for interstellar communications that we haven't even thought of yet. In fact, their site says:
SETI researchers look for narrow-band signals, the type that are confined to a small (usually 1 Hz or less) spot on the dial. But if you have a cellular phone, you may be aware that a lot of communications on Earth are now done using a technique known as "spread spectrum." The broadcast signal is dispersed over a wide range of frequencies. What if ET is also engaged in spread spectrum broadcasting? Would our searches pick up his call? That depends. If the signal is strong enough, it might still be detected with current SETI equipment, although weak broadcasts will be missed. There's little doubt that in the future, with greatly increased computer capability, our search will encompass these other types of communications.
http://www.seti.org/Page.aspx?pid=558#WrongType
Who wants to bet that when ET phones home that they don't bother pointing a powerful constant carrier wave at Earth while they're doing it, but instead make it very much point-to-point directional and use signaling techniques that we haven't thought of...
Matter being drawn into the black holes should be accelerated to damn close to the speed of light, and will emit massive amounts of gamma radiation, with a conversion rate that's higher than even fusion.
If we could harness the energy of the gamma emissions around artificial black holes, we'd be have vast energy generating capability, without the pesky fast neutrons that most fusion reactions generate.
...and the only waste by-product is a blackhole at the reactor site? Gee, sign me up...
The Ubuntu machine has 768MB of RAM, while the XP box has only 512MB of RAM ... Can a little extra RAM make that much difference in Internet download speeds or does Ubuntu handles networking that much faster than Windows XP?
So, swap the memory sticks, run the test again and then you tell us.
I'm tempted to hit it with a stun gun, just so it'll be completely down, and they can come out and fix it. Too bad I don't own a stun gun.
So, take it off and put it in the microwave for a few seconds...
buy a dog, learn to shoot heavy weapons, and move to Mexico.
50Hz, even if you had a wait a full cycle, is 20ms NOT 50ms. Assuming the filament is considered lit when the voltage first peaks then you only have to wait a maximum of a half of a cycle.
So really your lamp is even faster than you said, it has a FSL (Front Side Lamp) Speed of 100Hz and takes only 10ms to light!
What's Canada?
You'd have to be an IT manager who had been living in an ice-cave w/o Internet connection for half a decade to actually want to support these ass-clowns.
... and if the person was serious he'd probably end up ostracized by everyone else at the company who can even spell "*nix".
Who is actually buying SCO products at this point? Is it just legacy customers who need ongoing support? Seriously, if a purchase-order to SCO crossed my desk I'd assume it was a practical joke
I mean, some companies are afraid to do anything the least bit controversial for fear of generating backlash from their would-be customers, and these guys go ahead and crap the bed in the middle of the entire industry -- yet they are still doing 8-figures a year in sales. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=scoxq.pk.
Who's buying their stuff?
so guns are in fact more dangerous than hammers.
Hammers might be a bad example, but guns are a lot less dangerous than cars. In fact, we are all much more likely to be killed by a car than a gun.
.45 and a 9mm. I also have an SUV. Believe me, I could kill a lot more people with the SUV than I could with all three guns and a wheelbarrow full of ammo. Just hit a crowded parade area, with jam-packed sidewalks, one fine day and start mowing people down. You can keep that up a lot longer in an SUV than you can shooting on the street corner (before a cop shoots you or the crowd jumps you). I can go 400 miles on a tank of gas, I could mow down most of a parade route before the cops boxed me in and shot me.
Firearms are involved in 0.6% of accidental deaths nationally. Most accidental deaths involve, or are due to:
motor vehicles (39%),
poisoning (18%),
falls (16%),
suffocation (5%),
drowning (2.9%),
fires (2.8%),
medical mistakes (2.2%),
environmental factors (1.2%),
and bicycles and tricycles (0.7%).
Among children:
motor vehicles (45%),
suffocation (18%),
drowning (14%),
fires (9%),
bicycles and tricycles (2.4%),
falls (2%),
poisoning (1.6%),
environmental factors (1.5%),
and medical mistakes (0.8%).
Clearly guns don't kill people -- cars kill people. Unlike a car, however, only a gun can protect you from an assailant.
As an aside, I have an assault rifle (in California, bought it just because it was being banned) a
You want to keep your kids safe? Hide the keys. You want to keep society safe? Take away the cars.
Yup, when I buy a video card all I really care about is FPS at 1920x1200 resolution for my games. The only reason I consider its power consumption is to decide whether or not I need a bigger power supply. I think I'm a typical geek this way.
Any servers we rack-up at our colo, however, I *really* care about the power consumption -- power drives our hosting costs (because our broadband usage is very asymmetric we pay almost nothing for broadband). I think corporations will get green when it saves them money. I think consumers get green when it saves them money -- a furnace's efficiency, a refrigerator's power consumption, whether or not insulation in the attic pays for itself off of your heating/cooling bills, etc. *these* things will affect consumer buying habits.
Really, does anyone expect people to buy the "greenest" cellphone? No, they get a boner for the latest i-phone or blackberry and that's the phone they want -- no one is going to pick between the greener of the two.
No manned spaceflight means no warp-capable Starships, no green Orion slave women, no bare-knuckled fights on distant M-class planets, no time travel, no heart-warming self-sacrifice for the needs of the many...
Sendng an unmanned "V-ger" out is great and all of that, but we really want the Star Trek/Wars/etc fantasy and are loath to let it go.
Sweet, everyone on /. spent 8 years hating on Bush. Now, in one posting, the next 4-8 will be spent hating on Obama. Can't wait to watch this.
what did they do wrong?
Bad Slashdot Karma...
Might be better to move his operations...
Yes it would. Equatorial launch saves a lot of energy when it comes to getting into orbit, the centripetal force from the Earth's rotation is not insignificant.
Remember that the Earth is about 24,000 miles in circumference, making a revolution every 24hrs, that's 1,000mph at the surface -- a nice bit of initial velocity on your way to space. You get this full effect at the equator, you get none of it at the poles. New Mexico is about 32 degrees North of the equator, hardly optimal. There's a reason private companies put payloads into space from the equator.
VG isn't going orbital, so this isn't as big of a deal for them, but I'll bet they plan/hope to in the future. At that point they'll want to be a the equator for their launches. Also, I'm sure New Mexico kicked in some good stuff (rent free or at least rent deferred on the land, maybe some capital improvements on the land, etc...). So, NM is fine for now but in 20 yrs it may not matter.
Tie him up and begin the unnecessarily slow-moving dipping mechanism!
... I disqualify Star Wars as sci-fi.
Right, and I disqualify the Pope as a Catholic. Next I disqualify Obama as President Elect. Then I disqualify Earth as a planet and Claudia Schiffer as hot.
Dude, for an entire generation Star Wars has defined Sci-Fi. Transporters on Star Trek were no better explained than hover-craft in Star Wars. Ray guns in War of the Worlds were no better explained than Light Sabers.
Besides, before George Lucas was abducted by aliends and replaced with a replicant, he made the two best movies in the world (Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars, in order of greatness). In all good humor I hereby accuse you of blasphemy and disqualify you as a geek.