Posts by Captain DaFt

Nice prank, but if you wanna get wonky...

Should have gone like this;

"...scrapped the concept of read/write head and all of its mechanical failings with a rigid sensor bar spanning the full radius of the disc,

The sensor bar supports a lead just above the disc surface, through which a series of high frequency pulses are fed that can be switched between two discreet power levels.

Neither power level is high enough to affect or sense the data on the disc on their own, until Phase modulated to create a constructive peak at any precise point along the lead's length, coinciding with the desired read/write operation.

This effect is caused by the phase modulated pulse interacting with the previous pulse as it's reflected back along the lead's length, causing constructive interference.

The lower power peak would be used to read data from the disc , while the higher level peak would write to the disc.

In effect the the phase generated peak acts as virtual read/write head that can be instantly moved along the sensor bar's length."

There. that's just plausible enough to be believed.*

*Actually, if it turns out that this actually COULD work, please bookmark this post to show prior art when some asswipe tries to patent it! Hell, if it is feasible, the only stipulation I put on its use is that it must be called "DaFt Drive"!

Have they checked "Lost and Found"?

One of the iSecurity might have put it in storage, like they did at The McNamara Federal building in Detroit. (Honestly, Ya can't make up sillier stuff!)

http://detnews.com/article/20110323/METRO/103230388/Union--Guard-at-federal-building-stored-package-found-to-be-bomb-for-3-weeks

Am I the only one?

When I read the part in the article about a "purple pants berk" encouraging people to fill out their census forms, The first thing that flashed through my mind was "FILL FORM! OR HULK SMASH!"

Oh well, back to the recreational beverages...

I might try one

But I doubt I'll get one. I'm one of those people that gets severe headaches within minutes of viewing so called 3D.

I'm wondering

Was this sudden urge to have an adult rating related to the govt. pondering the effects of telling the citizens that they couldn't have Duke Nukem forever when it's finally relaesed?

XKCD has done a nice chart on its blog

It really helps put the whole thing in perspective.

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

For most people living near the plant, they're exposed to much higher levels daily generated by potassium isotopes in their own bodies.

Nobody, not even the workers at the affected site, are being exposed to anything remotely approaching the minimum yearly level shown to cause an increase in cancer.

So what's with all the hub-bub?

So who needs warheads?

Mach 22 = 7.48638 kilometers / second according to Google.

Quote: "The basic metric of kinetic weapons is that anything hitting you at 3 km/s - a rock, a throw pillow, whatever - delivers 4.5 megajoules of kinetic energy per kg of mass. For comparison, TNT delivers about 4.2 megajoules" - from http://www.rocketpunk-manifesto.com/2009/08/space-warfare-vi-kinetics-part-1.html

So an incoming hypersonic missile would deliver over twice the explosive force of an equal weight of TNT just by virtue of its speed and mass alone, Kind of makes the whole warhead thing obsolete.

Paris Hilton icon because.... Well why not?

Holy syncronicity batman!

I left this site for another, and went straight to this!:

http://drboli.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/advertisement-596/trackback/

Looks like life imitates art again!

Reminds me of one that happened near me

Robber held up a convenience store near where I used to live, and the clerk handed over the money. Then the thief demanded a 6-pack of beer as well, and the clerk demanded ID as he "could get in real trouble" handing over beer to a minor. The ID was produced, the beer was handed over.

The police were waiting for the thief when he got home.

Smiley face because I always enjoy reading cases about dumb criminals.

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Not only will 'company' "help drive and define the future of Windows 'product'", but "'company' and Microsoft will closely collaborate on development, joint marketing initiatives and a shared development roadmap."

OK. hands up from all you old timers that've read this many, many times before, and it's always ended up with Microsoft cutting the 'company' loose after it's milked it of all the IP it needs to go it alone.

Some numptys never learn from history, RIP Nokia.

I think I understand...

The community is changing the name of the original project to get out from under Oracle's heel, and informing Oracle that;

"With all due respect, you can keep the name, and go fork yourself. Feel free to keep in touch though!"

Is that about it?

Way to go Paul!

Welcome to America, Land of the "Free To Sue Any and All That Try to Innovate"!

Keep this type of BS up, and you guarantee that all future development in cutting edge electronics will be done in Asian, Indonesian, and even African companies, where they ignore all the "patent" nonsense of first world companies that'd rather sue than innovate!

(This really calls for multiple icons, such as "Troll", "Fail", "Flame", and even, "I one one welcome our new, innovative overseas tech masters", but I'll settle for an ironic "Thumbs up"!)

I can't believe nobody's mentioned the classic way to destroy a PC

Reboot, several times, with a sturdy steel toed boot.

(A laptop can catch some amazing air when rebooted this way!)

Smiley face because you feel so much better afterward!

And when they graduate?

Seriously, Is MS going to refrain from any major upgrade in their software in the future? Otherwise, you'll have a bunch of graduates versed in obsolete software.

A parable for the situation:

"Josh was ready for the world, having spent his junior and senior years becoming a highly-employable master of Microsoft Windows 95.

Windows 98 came out publicly June 25, 1998 so it was a short-lived victory. "

From here: http://www.saysomethingcryptic.com/spackleofthesoul/10106.htm

(And yes, I'm aware it's humor, but it does illustrate the point.)

Great job!

And Kudos for all involved!

Now, just waiting for the pics from the balloon, and a postmortem of the planes gear.

Frankly, I'm amazed that what amounts to a prototype craft performed as well as it did, and the pilot/playmonaut's a brave bugger for going up in a crate like that! (BTW, I never did catch his niame... )