OK, then try an evolution of it. Load a cargo plane with a kinetic missile, calculate the ballistics, and drop the thing on your target. Consider A 100-tonne steel kinetic missile dropped from 11km up, from a plane moving at 800km/h. These figures (cargo weight, altitude, velocity) are easily achievable by a 747 airliner.
According to the back of an envelope, this missile will strike the target at around 1600km/h vertically, giving an overall velocity of 1800km/h, 47 seconds after being released. The missile will travel around 10km laterally, allowing it to be released well away from the target. Energy released will be on the order of 12.5 GJ, which if Wiki and I are correct, is around the equivalent of 3 tonnes of TNT, but the majority of the destructive power will come from the pure mechanical pulverization of the target.
Swing and a miss. They're performing their artwork for all, and accepting donations. The parallel drawn by an earlier poster to a street musician busking on a corner is most apt.
I'd presume they're saying it's invisible due to its size, not its transparency. Make a sizable array of them and I guess they'd be a similar colour to other solar cells.
To reiterate what the GP said, the amount of downloads is irrelevant if the band made more money releasing the album this way than by going through a label. If other bands with large followings and name recognition see that Radiohead was more successful doing self-publishing over the internet they may do it also. To reiterate what the GP said, the amount of money is irrelevant if the band gains more listeners releasing the album this way than by going through a label. If other bands with large followings and name recognition follow suit then this move was a success.
The article also contains this gem:
Incoming light generates electrons in the outer shell, which are then swept into the second layer and the inner core along micropores. Nice to see that they're actually generating electrons instead of just moving them around like most of those lazy-ass photovoltaics. I hope they generate positrons at the same time to balance out the overall charge of the universe...
How does it benefit anyone to crush a car? You just end up with a pile of mostly unrecyclable car parts, a waste of resources and possibly the destruction of an item of historical interest. Sounds like jealousy of the rich. You'd get a lot more benefit to society if the cars were auctioned. Because it's so wonderfully emotive and take-that-you-bad-people-esque that the term 'truthiness' comes to mind. In actual fact, as you say, it's a terrible solution.
He passes a minivan in the carpool lane at 102 mph and merges onto California's I-10 headed into Los Angeles with blocks of lit towers to the right and oncoming halogens kaleidoscoping his bleary corneas. Sounds like perfect karmic revenge.
She tries vainly to see over the steering wheel, while combing her bottle-blonde hair with one hand and holding a cell phone to her ear with the other. Steering the ponderous Canyonero with her knees, she says "Yes, hang on, Melba. I'll just see if I have his number..." Looking down now at her phone as she tries to navigate the phone's unfamiliar menu system. "Mommy, mommy, I want an icecream!!", yells one of the kids in the back seat. As she turns to explain that no, Mommy doesn't have time to stop for an icecream now, you'll be late for the play, the Canyonero finishes sweeping across the innermost left-bound lane, and veers into oncoming traffic...
If you want to do something gutsy, go skyjumping, base jumping, downhill mountain-biking. Something that doesn't run the risk of injuring or killing innocent bystanders who want nothing to do with you. You're 100x more likely to be killed by some retard running a red light because they're talking on their cellphone than you are to be killed by a trained driver going at high speed on a deserted road in a carefully prepared and well instrumented car.
Don't let your fear of death stop you from living life.
Flame on...
So, I think it's fair to say that quantity of content does not translate into quality of experience. In fact, I think that if Portal had been longer, it would have been a less enjoyable experience. I agree wholeheartedly. I think the current trends in game design are (in part) due to measuring "content" in hours when it's really much more complex. A ten minute jaunt through an artistically brilliant level with unique enemy AIs and puzzles contains more content than an hour-long grindfest through cut'n'paste zombies. If I want repetition I'll go play WoW.
"A man can learn a lot about being a better lover through masturbation -- even if he has a regular partner," says Peter Sandor Gardos, Ph.D., a San Francisco clinical sexologist. You can also learn a great deal about what really gets your partner going by manually stimulating them. Set aside an evening to spend just playing with each other, learning what works and what doesn't and how to spot the signs of either (which can be difficult when you're just going for it), it's fun and can be very rewarding.;)
As for the topic, I never understood why the RIAA took so long to realise that usenet was there. I guess this is the start of it...
You can't include legal fees as part of damages, can you? I thought they were always listed separately ("ordered to pay damages of $X, plus legal fees" is the way it's often put). It certainly doesn't seem reasonable for the plaintiffs to get punitive damages equal to the legal fees that they volunteered to pay.
From the sounds of it, Sony-BMG have no idea how much actual monetary damage she did them, and pulled a ridiculously large figure out of their ass.
Each to their own, I thought the Starcraft cutscenes were great.:) And regardless of whether you're into it or not, the thing that really does set WoW apart from other MMO games is the depth of lore behind it, and the familiarity of that lore to the fanbase. Which, of course, results in sad unhappy players when the devs take a dump on the lore for the sake of finding new bosses to fight. In particular they've way overused the "...and then he went crazy and they had to kill him, oh and he drops epix" line to set players against a bunch of bosses that it really makes no sense for them to fight. For instance, Kael'thas and Illidan ended Frozen Throne on good terms, and by rights should be allied with the Horde.
Also, in the first few panels the orcs talk funny. Dumb orc talk like this. More educated orcs can be quite erudite. I've never heard o' an orc talkin' this way before, 'though.
By sucking around for unwise votes in response to well-groomed populist or alarmist nonsense. If all it takes is a mouseclick to "agree" with a position that's been slickly presented to you in a nice Flash-based web site that you just visited while reading your e-mail at home and having your fourth beer, then this makes matters worse, not better. I seem to recall something regarding mob opinion as being one of the most accurate predictors of hard-to-predict things. Ah, here it is. Maybe the sum total of all the votes of your general populous will actually turn out to be a *better* way of governing the country than the single vote of some guy who knows nothing about the matter at hand and whose main aim in life is to be popular?
Level up a bit and you get to kill raptors. They're like ostriches with tails and less feathers. And more teeth. Basically the same though.
(Been playing since Feb '04. Nope, there's not much more to the game, unless you count grouping up to kill bigger, more versatile ostriches of various shapes and sizes, or (my personal favorite) killing other players in battlegrounds or arenas. It's fun, though, in a mindless way.:)
To be fair, maybe he has a low level warrior. I'm levelling my second, and I had forgotten how horrible the early levels are. You basically have a few debuffs and that's it - you autoattack. Hell, paladins are more interactive at low levels.
Well, it is rare indeed that my lady isn't in the mood when I am, but on those occasions it's definitely a case of 'ask again later'. Then again I'm sure she wouldn't complain if I did the same, but for some reason I never do...:P I blame male physiology.
(As for wife plus slashdot, 11 months to the big day...;)
I think you were shooting for funny here, but in a way you're right. If she wants some, you have a duty to perform. If you want some and she doesn't, tough. Not that I'm saying that that's all a guy is to his girl, but things are definitely a bit one-sided in some respects.
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Well, not *always*. But right until the end, yes it will. :D
OK, then try an evolution of it. Load a cargo plane with a kinetic missile, calculate the ballistics, and drop the thing on your target. Consider A 100-tonne steel kinetic missile dropped from 11km up, from a plane moving at 800km/h. These figures (cargo weight, altitude, velocity) are easily achievable by a 747 airliner.
According to the back of an envelope, this missile will strike the target at around 1600km/h vertically, giving an overall velocity of 1800km/h, 47 seconds after being released. The missile will travel around 10km laterally, allowing it to be released well away from the target. Energy released will be on the order of 12.5 GJ, which if Wiki and I are correct, is around the equivalent of 3 tonnes of TNT, but the majority of the destructive power will come from the pure mechanical pulverization of the target.
Hobbes: Well look at that. It's two minutes later than when we started.
Calvin: We did it! The time machine worked! We travelled through time!
Swing and a miss. They're performing their artwork for all, and accepting donations. The parallel drawn by an earlier poster to a street musician busking on a corner is most apt.
I'd presume they're saying it's invisible due to its size, not its transparency. Make a sizable array of them and I guess they'd be a similar colour to other solar cells.
"deserted road". Capiche?
I'm not condoning the guy speeding excessively in traffic, or in a built up area.
Don't let your fear of death stop you from living life.
Flame on...
Wait, are you saying that Jar-Jar was GOOD?! 'cuz he certainly weren't popular!
As for the topic, I never understood why the RIAA took so long to realise that usenet was there. I guess this is the start of it...
My bad. Same shit, different asshole. :P
You can't include legal fees as part of damages, can you? I thought they were always listed separately ("ordered to pay damages of $X, plus legal fees" is the way it's often put). It certainly doesn't seem reasonable for the plaintiffs to get punitive damages equal to the legal fees that they volunteered to pay.
From the sounds of it, Sony-BMG have no idea how much actual monetary damage she did them, and pulled a ridiculously large figure out of their ass.
Each to their own, I thought the Starcraft cutscenes were great. :) And regardless of whether you're into it or not, the thing that really does set WoW apart from other MMO games is the depth of lore behind it, and the familiarity of that lore to the fanbase. Which, of course, results in sad unhappy players when the devs take a dump on the lore for the sake of finding new bosses to fight. In particular they've way overused the "...and then he went crazy and they had to kill him, oh and he drops epix" line to set players against a bunch of bosses that it really makes no sense for them to fight. For instance, Kael'thas and Illidan ended Frozen Throne on good terms, and by rights should be allied with the Horde.
Also, in the first few panels the orcs talk funny. Dumb orc talk like this. More educated orcs can be quite erudite. I've never heard o' an orc talkin' this way before, 'though.
You... will... DIE!! *force lightningz!*
I bet you a shiny nickel that that 'often' is more than someone with a BA in sociology or whatever will be able to match.
Level up a bit and you get to kill raptors. They're like ostriches with tails and less feathers. And more teeth. Basically the same though.
:)
(Been playing since Feb '04. Nope, there's not much more to the game, unless you count grouping up to kill bigger, more versatile ostriches of various shapes and sizes, or (my personal favorite) killing other players in battlegrounds or arenas. It's fun, though, in a mindless way.
To be fair, maybe he has a low level warrior. I'm levelling my second, and I had forgotten how horrible the early levels are. You basically have a few debuffs and that's it - you autoattack. Hell, paladins are more interactive at low levels.
*sigh* only 4 more levels until whirlwind axe...
Lore is died.
:(
Now we just kill central Warcraft characters in order to steal their shit.
Well, it is rare indeed that my lady isn't in the mood when I am, but on those occasions it's definitely a case of 'ask again later'. Then again I'm sure she wouldn't complain if I did the same, but for some reason I never do... :P I blame male physiology.
;)
(As for wife plus slashdot, 11 months to the big day...
I think you were shooting for funny here, but in a way you're right. If she wants some, you have a duty to perform. If you want some and she doesn't, tough. Not that I'm saying that that's all a guy is to his girl, but things are definitely a bit one-sided in some respects.