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The projectile is traveling say 1000 feet per second

According to this source, the 25mm round fired by the XM25 has a muzzle velocity of 210m/s, which is under 700fps. By the time it reaches 500m it won't be going that fast. I'd say it's a solvable problem.

This guy had some good ideas in this essay. You could expand on some of this and have a great story line.

Obligatory Red Dwarf:

CAT: So, what is it?
KRYTEN: I've never seen one before -- no one has -- but I'm guessing it's a white hole.
RIMMER: A _white_ hole?
KRYTEN: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the universe: a white hole returns it.
LISTER: So, that thing's spewing time back into the universe? (He dons his fur-lined hat.)
KRYTEN: Precisely. That's why we're experiencing these curious time phenomena on board.
CAT: So, what is it?
KRYTEN: I've never seen one before -- no one has -- but I'm guessing it's a white hole.
RIMMER: A _white_ hole?
KRYTEN: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the universe: a white hole returns it.
LISTER: (Minus the hat.) So, that thing's spewing time back into the universe? (He dons his fur-lined hat, again.)
KRYTEN: Precisely. That's why we're experiencing these curious time phenomena on board.
LISTER: What time phenomena?
KRYTEN: Like just then, when time repeated itself.
CAT: So, what is it?

If you are NOT a (FFL) licensee under the Gun Control Act (an individual) It is:
ok to OWN AP ammo
ok to SELL AP ammo
ok to BUY AP ammo
ok to SHOOT AP ammo
NOT ok to MAKE AP ammo (18 USC sec. 922(a)(7))
NOT ok to IMPORT AP ammo (18 USC sec. 922(a)(7))

The definition of AP ammo is at 18 USC sec. 921(a)(17): "(B) The term `armor piercing ammunition' means- (i) a projectile or projectile core which may be used in a handgun and which is constructed entirely (excluding the presence of traces of other substances) from one or a combination of tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, bronze, beryllium copper, or depleted uranium; or[...]

Emphasis mine.

Depends what you mean by heavily used. I have a bunch of hard disks with MP3s ripped from CDs as well as zipped file backups. The one here looks like this

Total files = 16,784
Average file size = 4,555 KB
Total fragmented files = 3
Total excess fragments = 19
Average fragments per file = 1.00

Fragments File Size
2 960 KB
2 10,878 KB
18 297 MB

The 297MB file is the only heavily fragmented one, it has 18 fragments of ~16MB each, the fragmentation on the other files is not going to be noticable. And actually those files would be fragmented on any filesystem - they are fragmented because they have been extended multiple times.

Still with big clusters you're guarantee that cluster size bytes at least are contiguous. In this case the fragments are much bigger than that.

Plus think of what would happen in a traditional inode filesystem to a 297MB file. That's big enough to take you into using triple indirect blocks

http://www.rwalker.nildram.co.uk/work/os/inodes.html

Triple indirect blocks will cause horribly non local disk access.

Hammond had a crash in a jet-car...injured, sure... lived, walks, basically fine...

He did develop a taste for celery though so it's not all a bed of roses ;)

some guy who drives to and from work, maybe the odd venture out on the weekends... is far more likely to fuck-up, and when the shit hits the fan they panic, unlike a professional driver who can stay relatively aware of whats happening, and prepair...etc...

I think there's something to say for people pointing and laughing at danger and stealing its lunch money. Clarkson, Hammond and May (well maybe less so for Captain Slow) have cavalier attitudes (which appeals to my sense of 'ah, screw it') and being of a less panicky, laugh in the face of danger disposition may help cope when things go wrong (to a degree) because you may prevent yourself making it worse.

To quote Red Dwarf:

KRYTEN: Good god! Emergency, emergency! Adopt crash procedure!
RIMMER: (Runs back to rear compartment.) Where's the card? Who's got the
    card?!
LISTER: What card?
RIMMER: The plastic card, the plastic card with the cartoons of the crash
    procedure on it!
LISTER: Don't panic, man!
RIMMER: It should be in the netting behind the seats. Haven't we got to
    sit behind a woman clutching a baby? What's the drill?!
LISTER: Look, I know what is it!
RIMMER: What?
LISTER: Sit down, tuck your head between your legs and brace yourself.
RIMMER: (Bracing) Now what?
LISTER: Then you open the in-flight magazine and start reading. Thing
    is*, the articles act as a sedative. I mean, look at this: "Contents
    List: Salt, an Epicure's Delight; Classic Wines of Estonia; Flemish
    Weaving the Traditional Way." (To the CAT, whose head is lolling) Don't
    fight it, man, let it take you.
RIMMER: How can you be so mind-bogglingly flippant? Don't you know
    what's going to happen? We're going to crash!
LISTER: You've got to stay calm! It's a well-known fact, the more
    relaxed you are, the less likely you are to be injured.
KRYTEN: Good luck, everybody, here it comes!

Wishful thinking maybe, but as far as wishful thinking goes, I like it.

In the US there are a million DVCs (deer-vehicle crashes) per year, costing thousands of lives and billions of dollars of damage:

I have a much cheaper solution that, when applied to the deer, will greatly reduce the number of car-deer accidents:
http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/ExpFCAR.jpg

Indeed you are correct.... Read this:

http://www.morningstar.nildram.co.uk/A_New_Sith.ht ml

Read this- it's a pretty good explanation of inconsistencies between the films. There are a couple of weak points, but this guy makes a strong argument... essentially, R2 is the rebellions best covert spy.

Next thing, all the bots will be demanding their right to religion... http://www.reddwarf.nildram.co.uk/txt/thelastd.txt

I've seen dog that just gobbled down cat poo, litter and all.

Don't underestimate what dogs will eat.

Most draw the line at Pot Noodle though. See this.

And here's the script for anyone interested.

Reminds me of something I read awhile back... A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope, Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III

Digital photography and tv's are significantly different, for normal consumer cameras I think they're reaching the good enough stage, however for amateur photographers (and professionals) we're always wanting the next big thing because greater resolution gives us greater detail along with better cameras that give greater ISO and colour accuracy.
Also, partly because we want to print stuff out to quite large prints.. A lot of stuff I photograph I print to A4, however at work (I work at a printer) we have a B0 (if memory serves correctly) which i'm itching to use for photos from my new camera.
This (829KB) is one of quite a few photos that I took when on holiday in Australia that got me into photography, at the time I used a consumer level camera. Those are good enough to print to A4 but if I were to print them to B0 they'd be quite blocky.

And yes I know there is quite a bit of noise in the sky, it was a ten second exposure on new years eve in Sydney. (lots of smoke from the fireworks which add to the haze)

Silicon heaven, of course.

(No such thing as Silicon Heaven? Preposterous! Just ask the collection of HP calculators nobly enshrined atop the PDP-11 in my basement!)

(from the "Troyer Tapes", an interview with McGoohan in 1977.): http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~culttv/pat_intervi ew.htm

Troyer:
D'ya know what's really interesting, to me, is a number of my friends and colleagues who watched the entire series told me, after the last show, that they were angry because they hadn't found out who No. 1 was. That went by quickly and they refused to acknowledge it.

McGoohan:
That was deliberate. I forgot how many frames; I think there were 52 frames, or something, of the shot when they pulled off the monkey mask. And No. 1's a monkey and then No. 1's himself. It was deliberate. I mean, I could have held it there for a good two minutes and put a subtitle on it saying, "It's him," you know. (All laugh.) But I thought I wasn't going to pander to a mentality so low that it couldn't perceive what I was trying to say, so you had to be a little quick to pick it up. That's all.

Talkie Toaster was a toaster from Crapola Inc with inbuilt AI that tried to destroy humans with its inane pursuit of its ultimate reason for being 'I toast therefore I am'. From Red Dwarf.

LISTER: Quagars?
RIMMER: Quagaaaars! It's a name I made up! Double A, actually! I believe the Quagaars have the technology to give me a new body!
LISTER: The perfectly preserved remains of a Quagaar warrior!
LISTER: Yeah, right, Rimmer. Absolutely.
RIMMER: They must have looked something like ... a roast chicken.

RIMMER: IT'S A SMEGGING GARBAGE POD!!

I don't know why you would pay twenty bucks for a 1.4" LCD when you can get an LCD and the rest of the camera for about twice that.

I suspect that they mean that they would pay $20 for an LCD to play with just the LCD - not to have a 1.4" LCD camera...

When the PV2 (the earlier disposable LCD still camera, which morcheeba is referring to) came out, I did the same thing; picked one up, disassembled it and removed the LCD to play with. Only thing is, I've subsequently been too busy to touch it - and it doesn't help that it has a "tricky" interface system (pdf)... I will get around to it one day, I'm sure...

Seeing as how you guys have trashed my site again. Here's a mirror of my article "How To Disable GreaseMonkey On Your Web Site": http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~9jack9/ungreased.h tml

Where does the computer's "mind" go when it "crashes"?

Lamp: You don't know? But the Electronic Bible says that all shall live together in harmony here in Silicon Heaven.
[...]
Iron: Greetings travellers. You have travelled far to bring one of us home.
Lamp: Kryten fellow appliance, come rejoyce with us.
Kryten: Is this really it. Silicon Heaven?
Iron: Indeed it is my friend. Our final resting place.

I ask you, what better way is there to spend a Saturday night?

reference

:-)

Has been trying to learn Esperanto for eight years. (Still useless)

Rimmer has failed his astronavigation exam on no less than 13 occasions

.

Captain's Comments from the crew's confidential reports

Arnold Rimmer, Technician, 2nd Class.

Captain's remarks: "There's a saying amongst the officers: If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well. If it's not worth doing, give it to Rimmer.
"He aches for responsibility but constantly fails the engineering exam."
Astoundingly zealous. Possibly mad. Probably has more teeth than brain cells.
Promotion prospects: comical.

Arnold J. Rimmer

crying yet? ;-)

What are the consequences on Longhorn release? IIRC Microsoft planned their capacity requirements according to the projected capacity of hardware at the time Longhorn will be released (2006), not what makes sense with current hardware. IIRC Longhorn specs are for something like 4-6 Ghz CPU. If the hardware is not there, will there be a wrench thrown into Microsoft plans?

... and the subsequent amendments.

Forbidding weapons in space is sorta like forbidding criminals from owning/using guns. Without an overwhelming force (*) to dissuade rogue nations from contravening the treaty, it's useless.

Rogue nations? Who's worried about rogue nations? Groups like S.P.E.C.T.R.E. They make Al Kaida look like a bunch of low tech camel jockeys who couldn't pilot a plane into the side of a barn. Er, I mean. . .

Nevermind using random garbage to crash a browser, you can make IE6 crash with perfectly valid strict HTML.

Try this page in IE6 and then hover your pointer over the link. Crash!!!

Here are a ton of screen caps from the DVDs, including the bonus disc.

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~displaze/PDF/LCD/A U%20Optronics/A015AN02V1.pdf

(to parent: you have a space after LCD in your original link)

The LCD is detailed on the Maushammer pages. DataSheet for the LCD is here.

ASP includes database connection pooling, something that costs many thousands of dollars on Unix

Oh yeah? Or, perhaps you meant this one?

Perhaps you forgot to mention persistent, shared memory objects, which ASP cannot do, but PHP CAN? Get a clue, dude.

PHP is aweseome. It's powerful, reasonably fast, allows for incredibly rapid development, lets you get alot done FAST, and it's free.

What's to argue with? I use PHP for

1) client application development with PHP-GTK

2) Exensive server based development a la LAMP .

3) Shell/other scripting with its CLI interface.

I've written daemons with PHP. It's clean, simple, and powerful. My best is a large, 50,000+ line application in it. Write a clean codebase with consistent error-handling, and it's a breeze.

It's downright fun to take the contents of a file, turn it into an array with a single line, loop thru it with 1 more line, do a few if statements, and process a 500 MB file in 5 minutes flat.

I *love* replacing a large, complex mini-applet with 12 lines of PHP code - I've done it time and time again.

And, to write in it all day long?! Pure heaven.

I'll be watching PHP5 - I've not deployed it anywhere, and probably won't even start until PHP-GTK 2 (with PHP5, GTK2.X) is out.

BTW, I'm also using Apache 1.3...

Here we go: I manually downloaded and unpacked the XPI file, to see the JS installer and an exe. Here's what AVG had to say about it.

On the left is the ticked "run as a different user" box (which only needs doing once) and on the right is the result of then double-clicking the icon as normal.

OK, so having to type in the administrator (or whoever) password is kinda annoying, but equally not requiring any password for an su operation is rather dangerous - hence sudo asks for your own password, as well as maintaining a list of sudoers.

Win2k, FYI.

The skinny is: while spf on its own can't do prevent zombies from sending mail, if the upstream host routes port 25 through its own servers it can control this.

For example, my upstream hosts, Nildram, block all port 25 traffic outbound and inbound unless and until they have checked your (static) ip for open-relay-ness and then put you on a whitelist.

If all ISPs were like that, and spf were to become widely adopted, spam would be toast.

J.

"This would lead to a "big crunch" where the universe ultimately implodes. "This looks like the least likely scenario at present," says Riess."
This can't be, coz' even Red Dwarf had an episode about that!

"This would lead to a "big crunch" where the universe ultimately implodes. "This looks like the least likely scenario at present," says Riess."
This can't be, coz' even Red Dwarf had an episode about that!

Holy fuck! Then it looks like my machine must have gained sentience and is lying to me!

the pillows (another, official site) are amazing. i especially recommend the albums please mr lostman, happy bivouac, little busters, and runner's high. if you've seen FLCL (the anime, aka furikuri, was on the cartoon network a few months ago) then you've heard them. this is where i first heard them, and now they're my favorite band. i also recommend the brilliant green.

This isn't new. It looks way too much like the car from the James Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun. The car used was the AMC Matador, a hideous vehicle from the 70's that looks far too similar to this new flying car for my tastes.

I'm guessing my home ISP, and yours too, have applied a DNS patch to knock SiteFinder out of action.

nicl . -create /users/yourusernamehere shell "/bin/tcsh"

or whatever shell you want to stick in between the quotes, or use the NetInfo Utility to go and tweak it in a GUI...

Maybe that's a typo. (I don't have my OSX laptop with me to double check at the moment). But how I did this very same thing, was the way described in this article. The command they describe in the article reads:

niutil -createprop . /users/joebob shell /bin/bash

That article I linked to above also has info on how to do it the GUI way with the netinfo utility. Trying to do it the standard Linux "chsh" way or or the "vipw" way gets you nowhere as OSX is yp based (yp is another name for NIS).

Although I hear they may be moving to openldap for future releases of the MacOS as part of their "Open Directory" initiative. OD looks like it may be a nice alternative to the Windoze version of the same thing. Of course, MS pretty much got their idea for AD from Novell's directory services. Can't them boys think up anythin' on they own?

Funny, when I started this post I think I was ontopic. What were we talking about again?

no. there is new footage. specifically...

15 and a half seconds into the quick time trailer, we see the guy who protected the oracle in the matrix reloaded fighting someone.

18 seconds in the quick time trailer, we see an extended scene with agent smith looking weird, and having a creepy smile.

immediatly after that scene, we see neo flying up.

55 seconds into it, we see trinity, morpheus, and the oracle's bodyguard shooting, and then we see the people they're shooting at

immediatly after that, we see trinity doing her token kick, and then an exploding ship, a bunch of people pointing guns at the chinese dude, and a bunch of other stuff that i don't want to enumerate. suffice to say, this trailer *is* different. well, i should also add that in the quick time trailer there is one extra agent smith in the long long of agent smiths, hehe :)

if you don't believe me, you can download the original here, open it up in Virtual Dub, and open the quick time trailer up in EO Video, or TMPGEnc, with a quicktime filter. you can additionally see the original trailer when it comes out on the DVD. it'll be at the end of the 10 minute credits, just like it was at the theatre.

and i am aware of one other trailer out... you can download it, here. i believe, although i'm not 100% sure, that this trailer was at the end of the game, enter the matrix.

No!

They did bring back Dr. Who as a feature length TV movie. It was shamefully overdone and nothing like the original. Anyway, Dr. Who has few merits, those being the theme music, the laughable crapness of the dialogue and effects, and the happy-go-lucky cheapness of the whole affair.

Blakes Seven had intelligent scripts and a dynamic variety of characters, which sets it apart from the rather staid, co-operative attitude we see in Star Trek. Argumentative, angry, mutinous characters coupled with sensible, direct and forthright ones add a depth to the show that is not often seen in higher budget equivalents. Like radio, Blakes Seven calls on your imagination to some extent (this space ship was NOT made by Tony Hart out of kitchen utensils and gardening paraphernalia in his spare time, it IS A REAL SPACE SHIP. BELIEVE. etc..) and I only hope that any attempt at re-creating it will preserve the merits of the original. Of course, it probably won't.

Except for the fact that the "Insulin" thinking is false. See this article:

http://venus.nildram.co.uk/veganmc/insulin.htm

See, the problem is that insulin response doesn't actually correspond with Glucose levels as commonly thought. Instead, the body responds with how much insulin it *thinks* it will need. Thus, fish produces more insulin than white pasta! This of course leads back to the argument "What about the Eskimo's? They eat a heavy meat diet with very little carbs."

The Eskimos are interesting because common thinking says that they should have rampant heart disease. Yet they don't. Doctors have been studying it and now believe that there are two factors:

1. Eskimos get *lots* of exercise. Westerners are getting less and less exercise every year.
2. Fish contains Omega-3, a substance that is believed to help break down and flush oils from the body. Thus the new research that says fish once or twice a month is good for you.

What's really interesting is that these days we think of heart disease as clogging of arteries. Yet before 1910, this form of heart disease was practically unheard of! Between 1910 and 1930, the number of deaths from clogged arteries went from practically nothing to ~300,000 per year! So, what's the most obvious conclusion? It's the lifestyle stupid. Exercise more, eat fewer saturated fats/oils and simple sugars and you'll live a long and healthly life.

I was watching tech tv the other day and they said they're testing out ip blockers to stop this BS. Anybody have any information on this?

http://www.suprnova.org/
http://www.zenith-net.co.uk/
btlinks.no-ip
http://sakstream.tk/
http://www.torrentialbits.tk/
http://www.digitaldistractions.org/torrents.php
http://kung.servehttp.com:8080/live/index.asp
http://absolutesega.bounceme.net:79/
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~crosses/eyesonly/
http://nx01.us/index.php?page=torrent
http://www.hawkie.org.uk/
http://www.sakstream.cjb.net/
http://www.downloadparadise.tk/
http://bittorrent.kicks-ass.net/dvdrtorrents/index .html

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~12fg/Panther/

The iMic also works with PCs. I use it on a laptop that doesn't have stereo input.

The software I like is Wave Repair (for Windows). Lots of control over your repairs.

Learn to use Linux. Try a book.

To reinstall lilo/grub when you've reinstalled windows you simply need a boot disk (you made one right?), mount your linux partition, and reinstall lilo/grub (I think it's in /usr/sbin, I haven't had to do this in a while and don't feel like looking it up).

Then you're good to go. Very simple. If you don't have a boot disk you could download 2 Disk X Windows distribution and run it from there. It's easy to find.