Cerebral Stasis

I think this is one of the most pathetic things for anyone to pay good money for. If they have so much money that they can throw it away on a bunch of papers that appear to contain random numbers, I think there's a problem. What's really sad is that in the light of all the homeless people, people are still buying dumb crap (for example, not too long ago someone bought "the world's longest french fry" off Ebay for a few thousand dollars, while the very next day, a longer french fry was discovered).It seems to me that any number such as 100001 would be a prime number, so all one has to do is make something like 10^100000 + 1 and there's a nice, big prime number.

As in, use the same message, just different colors/background/transition speeds? Exhale, I wanted to make sure it could be read, so one wouldn't have to wait for it to rotate around again to see a part they missed because it went by too fast.

An excellent find, adriantc. I had turned off Windows' themes services and was running on the classic style, but with your find, I not only installed the new orbit/dock/clock, but also the theme. It's quite nice. Oh, and if anyone's interested on using the Orbit, I created a Firefox, Thunderbird, and Trillian button for it (see below). Feel free to use them if you so desire.

I made this banner for my website originally (BuffaloHELP suggested I post it here), and my website is "simple" to say to least (plain black background with only one or two images on a page), so I made this banner to reflect that. I could have had a shiny chrome device in the background with blinking lights that shout out how much Xisto rocks, but in this case, I think this works better for me.

The total size is approximately 22 Kb, and the animation itself lasts exactly 24.5 seconds before looping.

Microsoft hasn't published any official time of release to my knowledge, but it is suspected that the OS will come out sometime around the last quarter of 2006 (although this is just an estimate). As has been said pleanty of times, fancy interfaces and pretty eyecandy is for games; operating systems need clean, simple interfaces and styles that don't soak up all of the computer's resources (by all, I mean most).

The Old Yeller Chinese Restaurant - "Best Doggone Dog in the West!" I'm not sure if anyone is actually disgusted by people eating domesticated (food) animals (aside from the Hinduists). I'm pretty sure that anyone who is willing to eat wriggling bugs won't mind a slab of beef, unless they're partial to the idea of cooking their food.

First of all, the tanrantulas are, of course, dead when they are eaten. Secondly, the hairs on their body are singed off in the fire before they actually eat the spider.From the documentary I've watched, apparently the tribe's favorite is a pregnant female tarantula, since they can squeeze all the eggs out of the body and make a sort of bitter omlet.

As I said, if the bites became red and swollen, the "daddy long-legs" in question must have been a house/cellar spider. And Saint, as I have said, those "super misquitoes" are actually crane flies, which don't have any mouth parts and only live in their adult life cycle for a few days. I doubt this relates to me, since I almost always sleep with my mouth closed (although I HAVE noticed a strange lack of spiders in my room, lately). As my reference links show, no "daddy long-leg" has strong enough venom to kill a human, so it's perfectly harmless to eat one. Aside from that, I'm not sure exactly how ingesting a spider's venom affects it's victims, since most people don't eat spider and are instead bitten (causing the venom to flow directly into their blood stream). I do know that some tribes consider tarantulas a delicacy, and they eat every part (aside from the fangs, which they use as tooth picks), so I assume they end up eating some venom along with the spider.

I think they understood, but their point was that girls want love and sex but don't want to get pregnant, and thus they try lesbian experiences to get the same sexual thrill without as much risk. As for guys, I think it just has something to do with raging youth hormones and an urge to see what they can do (in other words, they're h*rny and want to f***, but there aren't any girls their age around, and the older girls don't care, so they turn to each other).

I'm guessing that they are supposing it is much harder to forget, lose, or be robbed of a cell phone than a wallet, which may be true if you keep your cell phone in your front shirt pocket and/or are almost constantly talking on it.The only problem would be if you needed money badly and your batteries were dead or if, as you mentioned, you were robbed of your "credit card", you wouldn't even have a phone to call your bank and cancel the card with.

I didn't say in all cases; I said probably in most. I've never attempted to pull a leg off of a normal spider, but, as I mentioned, most spiders use blood pumped into their legs to cause them to straighten, and then pull the blood back out to get them to retract, so one would then assume that, if they lost a leg, they would bleed to death (although I don't know for certain).I realise that spiders often lose legs when they grow larger, but if the leg is torn off by a predator before the spider is ready to lose it, it may have a different result than if it just drops off when the spider is ready.

Actually, there's supposedly no reported humans deaths from a tarantula bite, so he wouldn't have to fear for his life, although, as was mentioned, the sting and hairs can be quite a pain.I don't mind tarantulas so much (mostly because they are so passive), but more "wild" spiders (small as they may be) can still give me the shivers.

I realise that such a large system would be quite inefficient for close-quaters (fiber optics as they are is really the best one can do for data transfer within a computer, at the present time, anyway), but over a long distance, the most data that can be packed into as small of a space as possible results in nothing but an increase in efficiency (assuming, as I mentioned, that the cable would have the power the carry the beams for long distances, as fiber optics can).

I know they're not "super misquitoes"; I was in third grade at the time it happened. Daddy long legs, of course, isn't a true name, and is just a nick-name. There are actually 3 "daddy long legs"; the Cellar, Vibrating, or House Spider (Pholcidae), the Harvestman (Opiliones), and the Crane Fly (Tipulidae). I'm assuming this topic was originally made with the Harvestman Spider in mind, and the image shown above, of course, is a Crane Fly. The Crane fly, as is mentioned above, lives only a few days, since it can't eat once it is an adult. The Cellar/House/Vibrating spider lives in dark areas, makes webs, and can bite, but apparently don't possess a poison toxic enough to harm humans. The Harvestman is not really a spider, since it's two body sections are almost combined, it has only two eyes (as can be seen here), it has no silk glands, and it secretes a strange-smelling fluid from scent glands when they are disturbed. Also, it's legs contain muscles that allow it to move (and will twitch from anywhere between a minute and an hour when pulled off, supposedly to keep the enemy entertained as the spider itself escapes; the removal of limbs is not fatal). Spiders, on the other hand, (for the most part) all have silk glands, some kind of venom, eight eyes, no scent glands, and move by pumping blood into their legs, causing the legs to stretch out (meaning if you pull the leg off a spider, chances are it won't survive). Few harvestman have venom, and those that do don't possess venom strong enough to harm a human. In other words, they're completely harmless. Now, hopefully that will clear up the little misunderstandings we've been having when referring to the "daddy long legs." Notice from saint-michael: edited as requested.

Well, this certainly gives me an idea for a website; powers.that.beThanks for the link. Perhaps I'll give one of these domains a try (what is there to lose, after all).

I don't see why it would burn it out. I don't believe they would use high-powered lasers (at least nothing much more powerful than would be use in a fiber optic system) that would be hot enough to fry the sensors. Just because there's a shutter regulating the laser wouldn't make the sensor any more likely to burn out than if the laser was shining into it in an uninterrupted beam.This certainly sounds like an excellent idea, but the big question is what the rate of deterioration of the data being transmitted. If it could work using a laser of the same power as fiber optics, this could be a revolutionary way to transmit information, but if, for some reason, a weaker laser is required, or the laser light that passes by the shutters is for some reason dimmed, it could cause problems with using the medium for long-distance communication.

I think a more accurate term would be that technology has been part of us since man first started using tools.And man is hardly exclusive to using tools; many primates, as well as some other animals, can as well (for example, chimpanzees fish out ants/termites with sticks), although non seem to have the mental capacity or imagination to use tools for anything but to directly acquire sustinance.

Well, the I believe this topic was originally made concerning the SPIDER with the name daddy longlegs. As for the thing posted above, I have seen those before, and I was always under the impression that they were some kind of misquito (after slapping at a few normal-sized misquitoes, I saw that big bugger and couldn't help but run from what I assumed was super-misquito). It may be a male of some kind of misquito species (male misquitoes don't suck blood, only the females do [i guess humans and misquitoes have more in common than meets the eye]), or, considering it's short lifespan, perhaps is related to the mayfly (they have no mouthparts as an adult).

I may have it send me an email in 10 years that tells me to quite screwing around with my email and get back to work.Seriously, although it's interesting, I doubt that there's much of interest for one to tell themselves, so to speak. I have no idea what I would possibly have to send myself, except maybe a few important files or something. I'm sure that if there's something important enough to know over the course of twenty years, I'll probably remember it, or at least write it down somewhere (hoping, of course, that I don't lose the note that I wrote it down on).

Although 1Tbps speed is quite fast, there's still the issue of storing the data on the hard disk(s). It seems to me that they should get hard-drive access rates up a bit before worrying about LAN speeds. Taking data from hard-drive speed to 1Tbps and then back sounds like cutting the bottoms off two bottles and connecting them together, and then pouring water through one end and expecting to get a bottle-sized stream out the other end. For once the bottleneck isn't in the middle; it's at the beginning and the end.

Well, being organic, certain parts would have to be "grown", so it all depends on what kinds of organics are being used and what they require to grow (I'm pretty sure the remaining materials can be constructed without too high a cost).

I don't see how the arm wouldn't be connected to the person's bone structure, unless it had a support structure complete wheels (which would be outrageously inefficient, since one would never be able to go anywhere, since with the combined width of the person and the arm/chassis, you could never get through doors or into elevators, and the weight would be far too great to actually lift the arm to take it anywhere on your own). And it's true that there's no such thing as a metal that neither breaks nor bends, but, in the case of cast iron and hydraulics, it can sure lift a heck of a lot more than any human could (which is, I'm assuming, how any arm that is expected to life moderate to heavy weights would work; a small electric motor just wouldn't do for everything). Concerning the airplane lifting, I suppose it depends on the size of the airplane; I'm sure that some cranes and/or hydraulic lifts can raise an airplane; perhaps even some kinds of hydraulic construction arms, once again depending on the size of the arm/hydraulic pump, the pressure applied, and the size of the airplane.

An iPod isn't really much more than an mp3 player with a fancy name, small size, many generations, and more publicity and advertising campaigns than you can shake a stick at.

I believe I've used a similar program in a technology camp I went to, only instead of making a gigantic image, the program created a Java applet that would allow one to scroll around and look at the combined images from all directions (kind of like standing inside of a painted sphere and looking around).