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Based on just the subject line:
Woodworking, metalurgy, operation of a miller, metal shaper and blanchard grinder.
Screw programming. BUT I'm good at it so what the hell.
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Definitely those would be more useful for the upcoming zombie apocalypse.
Unless you can pop a zombie in the head with your l33t C++ 5k1llz, of course.
TTFN - Kent
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Imana take the 5th.
I've finally realized that making things in meatspace is what I really want to do. Moved to the country, set up a metal shop and a woodshop, making lots of sawdust and swarf. But making progress. Hopefully in a year or two I'll only have a computer for browsing the innert00bz every once in a while.
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The bad news is that in addition to the direct matter of users not being able to withdraw bitcoins, they say the technical issue that they're dealing with is something that pertains to the broader Bitcoin community. >Pop<</xml>
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Maybe I'm old fashioned but nothing will convince me to buy or use Bitcoins or anything else that comes along. Things I like about hard cash are that (a) you can negotiate with it, (b) you can turn the penny over several times before you spend it, (c) I like having some cash on me to call upon.
Virtual or real; a fool and his money are soon parted.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Bitcoin should've been a bit more careful.
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Oh, I wish we had downvoting for that pun. So, I'll just upvote it instead.
TTFN - Kent
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Oracle executive cites licensing issues and platform fragmentation as obstacles, will consider it for Java 9 Why would you stripe an implementation? Camouflage? Ohwait. Stripped? nevermind.
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"Quote: "You can imagine in Internet of things scenarios -- like thermostats, lamps, or maybe a coffee pot that tells you when it's finished browsing coffee -- that you'd want a stripped-down Java."
Browsing coffee? I think it may be drunk!
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Implores customers with technical know-how to help friends and family ditch Windows XP, but isn't that Microsoft's job? I don't know, but I've been told. Windows XP is plenty old.
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Aren't there battle-hardened Vista Vets out there screaming for revenge against Microsoft? They'd be willing to kill anything by Microsoft after having been ravaged by that pus-filled, halitosis spittled, bubonic plague organism called Vistaberculosis.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Vistaberculosis
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Ha! Guess what I did last night? Installed a clean version of XP Pro on an ageing Dell laptop. Runs like a charm! True story.
/ravi
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You're not still running Windows Update? Must have a great Internet connection
TTFN - Kent
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I am. Wiped the machine clean and installed from scratch + all updates. An oddly satisfying experience, followed by half a bag of Tostidos Rounds and spicy salsa, which really hit the spot at 2:00am.
/ravi
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Graf built a huge, powerful “gun” in his backyard that’s capable of shooting small payloads in a suborbital trajectory. "I know what you're thinking. 'Did he fire six shots or only five?'"
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Quote: This is your opportunity to fire potentially inappropriate or amusing items into space!) Should it reach its funding goal, the cannon testing should begin in May and run through September.
Can I pre-book a flight for my ex?
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Saddam Hussein was trying to build one to launch weapons toward other countries.
Look what happened to him!
Is Canada ready to be invaded?
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Oh, we're safe. We don't have any... oh.
We're in trouble now.
TTFN - Kent
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Saddam wasn't successful because he had a disagreement with his chief engineer about whether the weapon should have a pointy or round nose.
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Quote: Seriously, what is freaking wrong with you guys?!? This is your opportunity to fire potentially inappropriate or amusing items into space!
Earth already full of trash?! So we start send it out to space...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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But you can't do that. You could maybe shoot an object into space (if it doesn't burn up or lose all its momentum to aerodynamic heating), but you can't end up in orbit. You have to raise your periapsis somehow.
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well spotted.
I guess you'd have to shoot up a rocket. How much payload is left now?
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And if you read the article instead of just Kent's headline, you'd've seen: "Graf’s Kickstarter campaign is intended to fund a six shot test to ensure the cannon is functioning properly. The funds will also allow him to create a motorized rocket within the cannon’s bullet to push those objects into orbit once in space"
The size of a rocket needed to shift something from an earth intercepting parabola (or a one way deep space trajectory) into a stable orbit would be much smaller than that needed to reach orbit first. If I'm bored I might play with numbers later today after work.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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