Setanhotep

For those of you who might be interested ;-)


Eve Crafting Guide

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Sign up, join the fun, let me hook you up with some serious corporation fundage :)

Look for Azazael Malificarum or Selindria in-game...

My corp website here:

www.gamemastersinc.org/brothersinarms

Have fun and see you soon!

Aptera Motors

Looks like something out of Bladerunner (if only we had anti-grav) and the fully electric-version is slated to go into production in the new year.

The hybrid version (which is due in 2009) will have a 300-600mile range with an overall MPG rating of 150-200 (or more). The hybrid version can go up to 40 miles on batteries alone that can get an 80% charge in about 15 minutes (full charge in 2 hours). Since the car is a first run, there are bound to be bugs. I still don't know what the overall HP the car has, but each wheel has a 25hp motor in it. So I'll have to make sure its powerful enough to make it up my hill before buying it.

When I eat I have a choice of using a metal utensil or one of the plastic ones. From an environmental perspective, which is better in the long run? Granted, the recycled plastic is probably worse from an environmental perspective just based on landfill alone. However, the water, electricity, and chemicals that are used to wash the metal also have to be produced and processed.

 

So which is better for the environment, metal or plastic?

Imagine an internet where the communication speeds were limitless, where storage wasn’t a problem, and where all your applications and programs were processed by a global grid of computers, as opposed to being limited by your measly little desktop? The future of virtual reality, without its conceptual imagery, is right around the corner.

Within 5-10 years, Google will have in place a grid of cloud computers. Cloud computing is removing the processing from the desktop and distributing it to the internet. It’s similar as Grid computing, except Grids are privately owned and the cloud…well…is the “cloud” (the “cloud” for those let tech savvy of LJ’ers, is what us networking geeks call the Internet, because it is amorphous).

We already have serveral public Grids setup in the world. SETI has been running the Seti@home project for nearly 10 years now. Basically, the idea is that one computer is an island with limited resources, however, you connect a bunch of them together in a symmetrical processing array and you have a super-computer, processing more FLOPs that a single computer could in its entire lifetime.

The only limitation to Grid computing right now is the antiquated data lines of the “Internet”. Nothing else stands in its way. I-2 is around the corner, but isn’t being rolled out fast enough for demand. Even Verizon’s fiber initiative (FIOS) won’t solve the problem because it’s the backbone equipment (most of it being old AT&T and MCI routers) that are outdated.

However, in time, those will be upgraded as well and soon we'll have chips wet-wired into our brains that will allow us to interface with the glories that will truly become VR!

Move over Microsoft, hello Johnny “Google” Mnemonic!

Grrrr...I hate these people. I hate their organization, I hate their processes, I hate their poor service and solutions to problems. I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, them Sam, I am.

"I'm trying to log into my billing account, but its asking for the password to a different account?"
"That's the account we opened for you when you became a customer."
"That was six years ago, I don't even think I got a password for that account."
"To reset that password we're going to need your PIN."
"What PIN, you mean my password...I don't know my password, that's why I'm chatting with you."
"Comcast sent you a letter three weeks ago that contained a new PIN."
"Why do I need a PIN, I already have a PIN...it's called a "password"..."
"No, we've recently made changes to security that requires you to use your PIN to manage your Comast security settings and billing information."
"But I never got a PIN."
"Then we can't allow you access into your account. You'll have to wait for another letter to arrive in 3-5 business days with your PIN in it. Then, you'll use your PIN to reset your Comcast.net password. After you do that, you'll have to fill out the security questionaire and once that's finished you can then get access to your billing account."

HOW FUCKING RETARDED! I just want to get a receipt for my internet bill so I can submit it to finance for reimbursement. If I didn't have my bill setup to pay automatically and a payment was due, I'd go ballistic. As it is, I turned off paper bills on all my accounts so to save the trees and now I can't get a receipt. That means I'm actually going to have to speak to these fuckers and try to get them to fax me a copy of my bill. If it weren't for the 10Mbps connection speeds, I'd have gone with AT&T...god I can't wait for FIOS...

It's a Monday

I'm so glad they have finally finished the renovations at the Kabuki Theater in Japantown:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/12/DDIETS6M3.DTL

I've been there a few times (just saw Stardust there a bit ago) and really like the place. Now, you can go see all your favorite (or not so favorite) indie movies and get liquored up in the process! Nothing better than having a few drinks before a particularly weird, disturbing, or abstract film...well, there are a few other things ;)

But I've been wanting a theater to sell alcohol ever since I went and saw the remake of the Texas CS Massacre drunk...that movie is soooooo funny when you've had a few (or more).

"It is, you can easily argue, another disturbing exercise in fearmongering, in instilling in baffled children even more dread and anxiety about adulthood and God and life itself. "Don't talk to strangers" from the '70s morphs into "Don't IM with strangers" in the '90s to "Don't hang out with a priest too long lest he beseech you to nibble communion wafers off his pallid thighs" in the '00s. Nice world."

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

The Anti-pedophile Coloring Book...too funny!

BUSTED!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=20867043

Just goes to show that you can't trust what you read any more, especially at wikipedia. However, I would LOVE to know which office this came from...most likely it will be traced back to a lackey who was given orders by an aide to a congressperson. Back when I was working in the classified sector for the gov't, I could have had the phone number associated with the office that this IP address was assigned to in a heartbeat. Now I'm stuck wondering like everyone else: how much lower will the neo-cons stoop to try to re-write history?

Color me not surprised but still entirely frustrated...

The latest Sarah Michelle Gellar in her "not-so-anorexic" photo-shoot for Maxim:

http://www.maximonline.com/todays_girl/index_magnified.aspx?id=2398&ind=7