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Reminds me a little of Starglider for the Atari ST -- pretty impressive to get real-time 3D perspective wireframe out of the Atari 800.

Sure, show me NUFLI on an A8...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I don't have time to look up the stats, but I'd assume that the Czech Republic has better mental health services, less income inequality, greater social mobility, ranks higher on happiness indexes, etc.. than the US.

Yes, of course.

(This is unfortunately rarely brought up, because to the right wing, public healthcare and other things necessary to reduce income inequality and improve social stability are anathema, and to the left wing, guns themselves are anathema.)

But it we aren't going to address some of the root causes of the absurdly high rates of gun violence in the US, then I don't see lowering clip capacity and banning a few more rifles as that big a deal. We already drawn the line at machine guns, grenades, rpgs (for the average person), moving the line down another notch or two isn't a big deal.

How big of a deal it is depends on whether you own any or not. To remind, there are several million of those types of guns in the country, and probably 10x if not more magazines. If you ban them, what are their owners supposed to do with them? Confiscation? It'd be unconstitutional. Or mandatory buyback like in Australia? If the latter, where does the money come from? It'll be quite expensive...

But, more importantly, why would you want to do it if it doesn't actually make any difference? Assault weapon bans in particular make zero sense, because they ban guns based on largely decorative features that have little to no relevance to how deadly a gun is in a spree killing. A stock Ruger Mini-14 is just as deadly as its "tactical" cousin with a pistol grip and flash hider, yet the latter is an "assault weapon" while the former is not, even under the strictest AWB proposals to date.

Unless, of course, by "assault weapons" you really just mean all semi-auto firearms. That would change things. But then why not call it what it is? And bear in mind that if the ban target is that broad, you'll have to amend the total count (and hence the number of people affected, and the amount of money you'd need for compensation purposes) to tens of millions, possibly even a hundred.

With respect to magazine capacity limits. For one thing, they also make very little sense, as most popular semi-auto firearms are very easy and quick to reload, and even more so with just a little practice. Remember that Columbine was done with legal 10-round-limited mags. Besides, it's also fairly hard to define correctly, and consequently easy to circumvent. For example, here is a magazine that holds at most 10 rounds - of the caliber that it is designated for, that is. However, because the dimensions of the magazine are the same as the standard AR-15 mag, it can also hold 30 rounds of 5.56. Should it be illegal to own, or is it only illegal to load it with more than 10 rounds, or shoot it, or none of that? If you don't know about such things in advance when you write laws (and let's face it, most politicians who write gun control bills have no clue about what they're regulating), you wouldn't clarify that; and under any sane legal system, what's not prohibited is legal - as Canada has found out. Another good example of that type of thing is the California "bullet buttons", which stem from an unsuccessful attempt to define the difference between a fixed and a removable magazine (as all magazines are ultimately removable in some manner, for cleaning purposes).

Also, magazines are actually extremely easy to manufacture - when you stop to think about it, it's basically just a box with a spring and a follower. A follower from any (even 2-round) legal capacity magazine will work without any changes, springs are obviously trivial to obtain, and the box itself can be made fr

The Last Starfighter game built from the 8-bit Orbiter game follows the film / game-within-the-film pretty closely. Obviously an Atari 800 couldn't hope to reproduce it visually but it is an excellent tie-in in terms of theme and play. It was leaked in the 80s and I played the hell out of it.

Atari's coin-op division also developed a Last Starfighter game that was very faithful to the game shown in the film. It was also unreleased.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Why neither game was released remains a matter of speculation.

Ted Cruz used to be the Republican candidate who I considered the most arrogant, and most annoying to listen to (he started running for president years ago!). Sometimes things change.

You better check his plans - He's a dominionist Whic means his plan is to declare war on most everyone he doesn't like, and distribute their money to himself and other dominioinists.

You better see just what you are supporting here.

It's long and nauseating, so your man starts at the 1:02:48 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Occupations, kings and priests reigning over the earth. Ted his son. is in their reckoning, a king. at 1:08:20, he outlines what Ted's plan is. "Kings who are annointed to take Dominion. Kings who are annointed to go to war, win the war, and bring the spoils of war to the priests. So the work of the Kingdom of God could be accomplished.

So if you want neverending war, with people who believe that it is their duty as commanded by God to go to war - Teddy boy is your man. By teh way, that war is not only in foreign lands - it's here as well.

Pastor Cruz's sermon sounds a whole lot like the kooks they want to go to war with. Except that they think a whole lot of Americans are kooks.

This is the talk that won me over. For now at least. Sorry for the lazy link https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

and puts together an argument very coherently.

If you have an example of that, I'd love to see it (especially if you have a transcript).
I think he got beat down pretty badly here. He was trying to argue on one very narrow aspect of the law, which I think would fail in court (and indeed, he lost the case he did argue before the supreme court). (also, sorry, I don't have a transcript :(

That was an old Tom's Hardware video from 2001. Can't find it on their site now, but here is a YouTube video of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06MYYB9bl70

... Watch me whip, now watch me nae-nae ...

I can't decide if The funky gibbon or Cactus in my Y-fronts is better than this but one of them must be.

... Watch me whip, now watch me nae-nae ...

I can't decide if The funky gibbon or Cactus in my Y-fronts is better than this but one of them must be.

... Watch me whip, now watch me nae-nae ...

I can't decide if The funky gibbon or Cactus in my Y-fronts is better than this but one of them must be.

that the copyright on a song whose melody was composed in 1893 and lyrics in the 30s is _still_ being contested. IIRC nothing has lapsed into the public domain since 2010, and that's not likely to change. Anyone remember when the Mouse is up for another extension?

If Mickey Mouse were to sing Happy Birthday, the clash of copyright forces would annihilate the known universe.

Wait, never mind. It happened already, with no catastrophic effects.

> It would be sweet if we could directly extract the energy

Supposedly these guys are trying for a more direct way to generate electricity from the plasma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

if you haven't heard much about the "stellarator", the twisted design is actually a resulting design from an evolutionary algorithm.

robotic evolution will happen quickly.

Space View Park in Titusville has line-of-sight to Pad 39, I was there for the last Shuttle launch. I don't know specific of other pads at the cape. There is the Space Walk of Fame, small but very interesting museum, http://www.spacewalkoffame.com... Though view will be miles away, and probably may not have 500,000 people including those that stop right in the middle of the freeways, maybe these SpaceX launches are like carnivals of enthusiasts like for Shuttle launches, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Feynman "attained a perfect score on the graduate school entrance exams to Princeton University in mathematics and physics—an unprecedented feat" - WP
However Feynman always insisted had no special talents. He credited curiosity and hard work for his success.

You forgot something: the Falcon Heavy, which begins launching next year, is basically two Falcon 9s hooked to an extra-long Falcon 9. Here's a video of the concept - basically, the side boosters simultaneously return and land, then the center booster returns and lands, while the third stage (which is the 2nd stage on the Falcon 9) isn't recovered. The design really stresses the SpaceX line of thinking - use as much duplication of parts as you can so that you can get economies of scale on production as well as and gather test data faster. Thankfully they don't take it as far as the OTRAG concept did! ;)

SpaceX is of course taking this incrementally. Right now they need to prove that they can reliably land the boosters and refurbish them. Only once they can show that returning and refurbishing them is a profitable activity will they need additional landing pads.

....the entire local area that's received radio broadcasts of Slim Whitman, obviously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Heh... I clicked your link which led me to find this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I'm sure there's some science to be had in that video but that's not even remotely important.

I was hoping someone else would remember! https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The Dragon Lady with no fuckin heart!

Don't click on that link. It is the very real embodiment of the Billy Madison quote:

"Mr. Madison, what you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

Think I am being hyperbolic? OK,

Personally, I am against the construction of telescopes anywhere and I have lots of problems with western science. I am careful to emphasize the adjective “western” in western science because Kanaka Maolis often remind me that they’ve always known many of the things western science claims to have discovered. Remember, as Mauna Kea protector Hualalai Keohula has reminded me, that Kanaka Maoli navigated the world’s largest and greatest ocean in canoes built with wood and stone, aided with nothing more powerful than the naked human eye, centuries before the West realized the world was round. This, it should be said, is the right way, the least destructive way, the non-violent way to practice astronomy.

And honestly, that is where he's at his most cogent. He goes on to argue that science is fundamentally evil because:

The culture we live in is based on domination. How else do we account for the fact that one in five women will be raped in her lifetime? One in four girls and one in six boys sexually abused before they turn 18? How else do we account for the fact that 2.6 people are killed by American police every day?

Why, then, would we expect western science – a product of this culture – to be any different?

What you want is a socket AM1, I use them for all kinds of jobs where you want low power but still need decent performance. you can get a Sempron quad for $33 that maxes out at 25w (and this really means max, according to kill-a-watt these things are sub 10w most of the time) and for that, the board, and a couple GB of RAM you can easily get it for less than $100.

Sure its not as cheap as the Pi but you can do a hell of a lot more with it, they even do 1080P over HDMI quite well for those that want a low power HTPC, hell you can even play games like Counter Strike Global Offensive if you want, so its got more than enough power to be a torrent box. I've sold quite a few to be office PCs,media tanks,you can make great backup/file servers out of 'em, just versatile as hell little chips.

It's!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I have independent learning material on computing and know sites where I can find more material.

Is that a threat, Mr. Cyber-program-guy!? I can assure you we've prosecuted people for less--sent them away FOR LIFE.

We have a future cyber-terrorist in a holding cell in the back... 15 year old kid with irregular sleeping patterns who didn't like talking to his parents about his facebooks!

Probably picked up his cyber-hacking skills from a combination of television and the World Wide Web.

Dilbert - the Knack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

haha, true. That voice though - she sounds like Marge's sisters from the Simpsons.

Marissa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Patty and Selma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

haha, true. That voice though - she sounds like Marge's sisters from the Simpsons.

Marissa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Patty and Selma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You're not old or wrong. The hipsters just discovered UNIX pipes/sockets and decided that they should give them a trendy name... I shit you not, meet etcd (to be fair, it's pipes with a few extras, but nothing worthy of a name because I guarantee this has been done in the last 40 years once or twice). https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This is actually the problem I have with Design Patterns - not them in and of themselves; I don't think they needed names, but I'm okay with them having names. I came to figure out Inversion of Control in college before I knew it was a thing. Having common terminology doesn't hurt, but lately it's gone too far. The problem is that someone, somewhere decided that this idea could apply to EVERYTHING. Then we get Enterprise Design Patterns (hello, Spring, OSGI, Blueprints, etc. - each a very specific thing that is so incredibly abstract as if to mock the very idea of naming conventions), Enterprise Cloud Design Patterns, etc. An "Enterprise Cloud Design Pattern" used to be called a topology and they could be expressed in terms of their layout (star, bus, hub and spoke, etc) in terms everyone understood and was comfortable with. Adding virtual machines and "cloud" and load balancers doesn't change the fact that it's a star topology with redundant load balancers in front of it. You don't need a specific term for that.

Now, allow me to rant for a second... Related to the point, the worst quality software I've seen lately describes what it does in these terms. For instance, if you weren't familiar with J2EE, would you ever know what Karaf ( http://karaf.apache.org/ ) is? Don't bother looking for answers in the documentation, because it's sparse and often incorrect when not hand-wavy. I spent a day trying to just get the web interface up to launch something in Karaf (since they recommend that) only to find that "just launch the thing and then open your browser" isn't the way you launch something and you can't access it from your browser. I couldn't get to step two of the documentation that I had to look in Google caches for because their own links to the 2.4 documentation are dead. That's the version that the current version of OpenNMS ships, and they actually changed the command "features:xyz" to "feature:xyz" just so the only documentation where they got their links right is effectively useless until you figure out why nothing works.

wow.. you're still posting on this? and still can't extract the info you seek from what i posted.. LOL
now that's being deliberately obtuse!
however I do have this to say son..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No, quantum annealing only shares conceptual similarities to this macroscopic physical process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It is a cultural reference

No really, see the facts for yourself!

Episode 1 still stinks though.

Most people play SimCity with the disasters turned off too :-)

You a fan of "Das Rock" ? :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

perhaps they are using this as a theme song??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Considering how the government is trying to take them, it is a rational fear.

Of course the government needs to have the cops go door to door and collect all of those things.

Well, I believe how they did it in Australia, was they first required all weapons to be registered, so the govt knew where they were located and who had them.

Then, the confiscated them.

Mr. Obama, not long back, mentioned on TV (approx 1:36) specifically mentioned the models of Australia and the UK when it came to guns....I'm surprised more folks didn't catch onto that one.

If he's looking to those models for "sensible" gun laws, then confiscation is what he considers to be sensible.

He says it here again (first time I heard it)...at marker 5:26 and runs a few seconds.

If that is the model he wants, then, registration and then confiscation is what he considers "sensible" gun control laws.

I also am catching on to him more and more conflating gun "safety" with gun control....the two terms are not interchangeable, but he seems to be trying to steer the conversation that way.

Considering how the government is trying to take them, it is a rational fear.

Of course the government needs to have the cops go door to door and collect all of those things.

Well, I believe how they did it in Australia, was they first required all weapons to be registered, so the govt knew where they were located and who had them.

Then, the confiscated them.

Mr. Obama, not long back, mentioned on TV (approx 1:36) specifically mentioned the models of Australia and the UK when it came to guns....I'm surprised more folks didn't catch onto that one.

If he's looking to those models for "sensible" gun laws, then confiscation is what he considers to be sensible.

He says it here again (first time I heard it)...at marker 5:26 and runs a few seconds.

If that is the model he wants, then, registration and then confiscation is what he considers "sensible" gun control laws.

I also am catching on to him more and more conflating gun "safety" with gun control....the two terms are not interchangeable, but he seems to be trying to steer the conversation that way.

Mr. and Mrs. America, turn your guns in!

Example video here. Wait, no ... even models of B52s sound amazing!

This, my friends, is the geekiest thing you will see today. Trekkie plays Star Trek theme on Theremin.

You could always combine spam and video streaming.

He don't have Hitler's balls

Neither, allegedly, did Hitler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

He's like Hitler.

More like Gaddafi.

Be careful with EEVBlog if you have kids. Some of the language is... "unfortunate", and I don't mean swearing (although there is some of that too). Check out some of the HAM channels instead, there is a lot more practical and SFW/safe for kids stuff on them:

https://www.youtube.com/channe... (his Back to Basics series is really good)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (great repairs)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (lots of solar)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (DSP radio stuff)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (mainly LED light reviews, but some nice hacks too)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (lots of interesting projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Applied science)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (good advanced Arduino projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (fully DIY synths)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (interesting equipment teardowns)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (mostly digital)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (vintage stuff, theory)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Apollo era electronics)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (very in depth reviews of equipment)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Android/Arduino interfacing)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
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Be careful with EEVBlog if you have kids. Some of the language is... "unfortunate", and I don't mean swearing (although there is some of that too). Check out some of the HAM channels instead, there is a lot more practical and SFW/safe for kids stuff on them:

https://www.youtube.com/channe... (his Back to Basics series is really good)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (great repairs)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (lots of solar)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (DSP radio stuff)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (mainly LED light reviews, but some nice hacks too)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (lots of interesting projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Applied science)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (good advanced Arduino projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (fully DIY synths)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (interesting equipment teardowns)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (mostly digital)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (vintage stuff, theory)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Apollo era electronics)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (very in depth reviews of equipment)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Android/Arduino interfacing)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe...
https://www.youtube.com/channe...
https://www.youtube.com/channe...

Be careful with EEVBlog if you have kids. Some of the language is... "unfortunate", and I don't mean swearing (although there is some of that too). Check out some of the HAM channels instead, there is a lot more practical and SFW/safe for kids stuff on them:

https://www.youtube.com/channe... (his Back to Basics series is really good)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (great repairs)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (lots of solar)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (DSP radio stuff)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (mainly LED light reviews, but some nice hacks too)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (lots of interesting projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Applied science)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (good advanced Arduino projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (fully DIY synths)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (interesting equipment teardowns)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (mostly digital)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (vintage stuff, theory)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Apollo era electronics)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (very in depth reviews of equipment)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Android/Arduino interfacing)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe...
https://www.youtube.com/channe...
https://www.youtube.com/channe...

Be careful with EEVBlog if you have kids. Some of the language is... "unfortunate", and I don't mean swearing (although there is some of that too). Check out some of the HAM channels instead, there is a lot more practical and SFW/safe for kids stuff on them:

https://www.youtube.com/channe... (his Back to Basics series is really good)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (great repairs)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (lots of solar)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (DSP radio stuff)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (mainly LED light reviews, but some nice hacks too)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (lots of interesting projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Applied science)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (good advanced Arduino projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (fully DIY synths)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (interesting equipment teardowns)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (mostly digital)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (vintage stuff, theory)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Apollo era electronics)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (very in depth reviews of equipment)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Android/Arduino interfacing)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe...
https://www.youtube.com/channe...
https://www.youtube.com/channe...

Be careful with EEVBlog if you have kids. Some of the language is... "unfortunate", and I don't mean swearing (although there is some of that too). Check out some of the HAM channels instead, there is a lot more practical and SFW/safe for kids stuff on them:

https://www.youtube.com/channe... (his Back to Basics series is really good)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (great repairs)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (lots of solar)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (DSP radio stuff)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (mainly LED light reviews, but some nice hacks too)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (lots of interesting projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Applied science)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (good advanced Arduino projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (fully DIY synths)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (interesting equipment teardowns)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (mostly digital)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (vintage stuff, theory)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Apollo era electronics)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (very in depth reviews of equipment)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Android/Arduino interfacing)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe...
https://www.youtube.com/channe...
https://www.youtube.com/channe...

Be careful with EEVBlog if you have kids. Some of the language is... "unfortunate", and I don't mean swearing (although there is some of that too). Check out some of the HAM channels instead, there is a lot more practical and SFW/safe for kids stuff on them:

https://www.youtube.com/channe... (his Back to Basics series is really good)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (great repairs)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (lots of solar)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (DSP radio stuff)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (mainly LED light reviews, but some nice hacks too)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (lots of interesting projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Applied science)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (good advanced Arduino projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (fully DIY synths)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (interesting equipment teardowns)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (mostly digital)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (vintage stuff, theory)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Apollo era electronics)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (very in depth reviews of equipment)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Android/Arduino interfacing)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe...
https://www.youtube.com/channe...
https://www.youtube.com/channe...

Be careful with EEVBlog if you have kids. Some of the language is... "unfortunate", and I don't mean swearing (although there is some of that too). Check out some of the HAM channels instead, there is a lot more practical and SFW/safe for kids stuff on them:

https://www.youtube.com/channe... (his Back to Basics series is really good)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (great repairs)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (lots of solar)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (DSP radio stuff)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (mainly LED light reviews, but some nice hacks too)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (lots of interesting projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Applied science)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (good advanced Arduino projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (fully DIY synths)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (interesting equipment teardowns)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (mostly digital)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (vintage stuff, theory)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Apollo era electronics)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (very in depth reviews of equipment)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (Android/Arduino interfacing)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... (projects)
https://www.youtube.com/channe...
https://www.youtube.com/channe...
https://www.youtube.com/channe...