Nah, I don't think ID / Creationism jokes are going to get old any time soon. It's always funny, in a scary sort of way, when a large group of people deliberately and systematically delude themselves.
So even heating a dummy would be useless -- all you would need is to find a material that has about the same reflectivity as human skin. I wonder how they measure the reflectivity? Human skin has markedly varied reflectivity in the visible range, is that not true for the infrared?
My grandma that has a license but will not drive because she is is a danger to all others on the road? You're lucky she's so reasonable. My Nanna had to write off two cars in the space of 4 hours before they'd take her license off her - ran one off the road, got a hire car as part of her insurance policy, and immediately rear-ended a parked car at 80km/h.
Requiring HOV lane passengers to have valid licenses is a can of worms so squirmy I'd not even go there.
Alternatively, you carve a bunch of boat-shaped pieces out of the block of wood, and then assemble them. But that would be thinking laterally.;)
"God Works in mysterious ways". "Shit Happens". Can anyone explain, obvectively, the difference? Partitioning of responsibility. "Shit happens" is simple acceptance of the universe's imperfection. "God works in mysterious ways" lets you know that if anything good happens, God did it. Of course, if anything bad happens, you deserved it. If despite all the Church has done for you, you still don't think you deserved it, then it's a test of your faith.
That guy don't know jack about rockets He doesn't seem to know jack about physics in general. Maybe it's because he's a biology teacher, and never did highschool physics, but this is pure nonsense:
When the driver hits the gas, the back end of the car tries to lift into the air due to the sudden force applied to the rear axle. But as soon as the ass end starts to lift, the tires lose traction, and the thrust decreases. The back end drops, thrust is restored, and the process starts all over again. [...] The only reason dragsters and funny cars pop wheelies is that they use oversized tires that screw up the relationship between torque and traction. Draw a free body diagram of a car taking off, and you can see that the thrust forwards is at the point the rear tyres contact the road, not at the axle. This is substantially below the center of mass of the car, and as such, applies a torque to the car that tends to raise the car's nose. The net result is that the weight shifts towards the rear of the car, putting more downward force on the rear tyres and correspondingly less on the fronts. This weight shift is the reason that, at high levels of performance and given equal engine power, rear wheel drive cars always accelerate faster than front wheel drive cars.
The reason that dragsters and funny cars can pop wheelies is that their center of mass is very close to the rear axle. This is by design, so that under full throttle all their weight is over the rear wheels, allowing maximum traction.
For *real* space combat, assuming you're not fighting in the space equivalent of a Cessna, I'd want a rack full of combat wasps. Never send a manned craft to do a machine's job.
...a feasible rational for the X-style "wings": maximizing rotational moment available from the thrust of the engines for maximum slew rate. Wait, that's NOT why they have them? Hmm... heat radiative panels would make sense too, I guess. You can always tell how much power an engine can output by the size of its radiator.
I always assumed the WW1-biplane-in-space handling was due to some kind of reactionless drive, possibly one working against 'zero-point particles' (yes, I made that up:P )
Hmm.. that's funny, because now you mention it, I only had those gaps on my horde characters. I have two pre-BC lvl 60 Alliance, and I didn't notice such a problem on either of them. Maybe it's just that there are less Horde quests around those levels, or that I did something else different just by coincidence? My first Alliance character was in a fairly hardcore raiding guild, and so we powerleveled a lot of the way in groups, and my second was an alt who was only played with rested XP and ground a fair bit, that could have something to do with it.
Funny you should mention hating EPL, I actually quite liked it there. Sure, it's kind of creepy and dreary, but very atmospheric, and there are some brilliant quest lines that really bring out the back-story. I'm thinking the Caer Darrow quests, Battle of Darrowshire (Little Pamela), and the Fordring quest chains. And to top it all off, you're finally getting out of 50-55 levels of making war on puppy dogs, raptors, the Syndicate, raptors, the Venture Co, more raptors, diseased bears etc. and getting back to the core of the Warcraft 3 conflict - the Scourge.
You know, I think I'd prefer justice. If I've done wrong, I'll pay the price - but I also deserve credit for all the right I've done in my life. I live according to the dictates of my conscience, which seems to me to be the highest moral authority to which I, personally, can appeal. The only thing that I do that's wrong according to modern, liberal Christianity is not believing in your deities. I've had philosophical discussions with people like you before, and we always come down to the assertion that blind, unreasoning, irrational faith is more important than your actions throughout your life. I can't help thinking that my philosophy does more good here, in this world, than yours. Everything I do counts towards my final score, if you will, whereas only your deathbed confession will count towards yours.
Everything you have ever done, especially things you knew were wrong and did them anyway, will be counted against you. It must be hard to live, believing that even when you KNOW that what you are doing is right, your deeds are counted against you. But then that's why your religion is so successful; your god has set you up to fail.
On exactly the same hardware (GeForce 6800GT, P4 3.2GHz, 1GB of RAM) I get pretty similar rendering performance in WoW in both XP and Ubuntu/Wine. The networking, however, is unbelievably better under Linux - I tend to drop around 150ms latency, which when you're going from 500ms to 350ms is quite something. Not only that, but the Linux network stack has some scheduling fairness jibba-jabba that means I can download while playing without killing my latency. Of course that doesn't help the other computers on our home network...;)
Who has the courage to stand there before Him at the final judgment He talked about and there tell Him He is wrong? Well, given that Jesus isn't the only deity* to have said that, then one of them has to be wrong. If, indeed, I turn up at some 'final judgement' and Jesus (or someone else) is standing there saying "told you so" I'll quite happily admit to being wrong.
Just booting Vista Ultimate (32-bit) without running any additional software hogs 700MB of my 2GB of RAM. Aha! You were talking about Windows *Vista*. In that case your point becomes clear. I don't think there's any contention that Vista is a failure, full stop. It also happens to be a gaming failure but that gets lost in the crowds of other fail.
Islam started out by trying to convert the rest of the world at the end of a sword. You can't say THAT! *uninformed but righteous indignation!* YOU TROLL!
You think Muslim violence does more damage to Christians than Muslims? Whose stash have you been smoking? The Muslims'. They didn't need it any more, they got asploded by other Muslims.
Wouldn't the "carbon footprint" be smaller if you just trashed them now? If you're looking purely at carbon emissions, maybe, but an old computer uses about as much electricity as two to three incandescent light bulbs. Not very much carbon to be had there. Nothing like the modern 350-500W power supplies and video cards that need their own power plug. Any time one of these recycled PCs fills a role that would otherwise be taken by a new PC, we save masses of energy from manufacturing as well as a small amount due to lower power consumption.
On an economic level, we now have a substantial number of people who can learn about PCs, and possibly even gain employment with them, who couldn't before. That is 100% win.
This is just an ideological issue, and as such, it is completly irrelevant and, may I add, fanatical. It's like saying: everyone who helps spreading GOD'S word, the Holy Bible, is a heroe. Well, that depends now. I don't seem to recall Abraham's God ever giving me free stuff when I really needed it. You can't say the same about these guys, though.
You seem to think that patent protection on physical goods encourages innovation, but patent protection on system architecture does not. Why do you think that is? Good call. The two are analogous, but one is accepted as necessary and the other reviled as stifling innovation. Possibly the problem is that the Patent Office is good enough at denying stupid patents on physical devices, because they're more intuitive, but seem unable to detect the difference between a groundbreaking algorithm and the computer equivalent of Ball-in-a-Cup.
You'll probably feel equally angry when you try out Notes 8 and realize that CTRL+tab doesn't take you between tabs because they decided to update themselves to use the same shortcut keys Eclipse uses for that operation, but you can't be angry at BOTH decisions and maintain internal rational consistency. Sure you can. F5 is a pretty universal 'refresh' button. Ctrl+Tab is the standard "switch between tabs" hotkey and has been iirc since MS added tabbed dialog boxes to Windows. Just because Eclipse uses some shitty nonstandard hotkey doesn't excuse Notes copying it when there's a clearly defined standard.
Another, similar pet hate is undo/redo keys. Everyone uses Ctrl+Z to undo. So far so good. Nearly everything uses Ctrl+Y to redo. But TOAD uses Ctrl+Shift+Z to redo, and Ctrl+Y to DELETE THE CURRENT LINE! So you've not only lost your entire redo stack but you've also deleted a bunch of lines and the only way to get back to where you were is hope you saved the file and can reopen it. Fuck you, TOAD, fuck you.:(
The bunch of coprocessors specifically designed to handle multimedia tasks in the Amiga beg to disagree. And the GeForce 7300 GT in the Mac Pro offers a dazzling HDR-rendered normal-mapped riposte. Just because most of the specialized multimedia hardware is on (almost universally installed) add-on cards these days doesn't mean that modern systems with such cards aren't optimized for multimedia. Take a base system with onboard video and sound, and you have a server or desktop workstation. Add some more RAM, a flashy video card and maybe sound card (onboard is good enough for most gaming these days) and you've 'optimized' your computer for gaming.
Dual-booting into a pirated copy of Windows to play games (oh come on, do you know any Apple fanboy who BOUGHT the windows they're running? Although when ReactOS gets good enough this problem will go away.) solved the "minesweeper, simpletext and photoshop" gaming stable problem. Now if only I could buy Mac Pro-style hardware with Linux installed... scratch that, if I could afford it at all I'd spend the money on something else, like a Lear jet.:P
Sounds suspiciously like the Warden client that Blizzard use. Apparently that does basically the same thing, except it sifts through window titles etc. as well, but on the flip side only downloads hashes of the strings it's looking for, and doesn't send any data except a pass/fail through to Blizz.
People didn't receive Warden well either, there was a whole lot of complaining on the forums, many people were going to quit but then they realised they'd miss their raid on Thursday and STFU'd because they wanted their set pieces. These days we don't see half as many players using teleport/speed hacks, though, so I guess it worked.
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Nah, I don't think ID / Creationism jokes are going to get old any time soon. It's always funny, in a scary sort of way, when a large group of people deliberately and systematically delude themselves.
But if you do that, then the terrorists have already won!
Requiring HOV lane passengers to have valid licenses is a can of worms so squirmy I'd not even go there.
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The only reason dragsters and funny cars pop wheelies is that they use oversized tires that screw up the relationship between torque and traction. Draw a free body diagram of a car taking off, and you can see that the thrust forwards is at the point the rear tyres contact the road, not at the axle. This is substantially below the center of mass of the car, and as such, applies a torque to the car that tends to raise the car's nose. The net result is that the weight shifts towards the rear of the car, putting more downward force on the rear tyres and correspondingly less on the fronts. This weight shift is the reason that, at high levels of performance and given equal engine power, rear wheel drive cars always accelerate faster than front wheel drive cars.
The reason that dragsters and funny cars can pop wheelies is that their center of mass is very close to the rear axle. This is by design, so that under full throttle all their weight is over the rear wheels, allowing maximum traction.
For *real* space combat, assuming you're not fighting in the space equivalent of a Cessna, I'd want a rack full of combat wasps. Never send a manned craft to do a machine's job.
...a feasible rational for the X-style "wings": maximizing rotational moment available from the thrust of the engines for maximum slew rate. Wait, that's NOT why they have them? Hmm... heat radiative panels would make sense too, I guess. You can always tell how much power an engine can output by the size of its radiator.I always assumed the WW1-biplane-in-space handling was due to some kind of reactionless drive, possibly one working against 'zero-point particles' (yes, I made that up
This story must be tagged 'warmdummies'. Really. Go do it now!!
Hmm.. that's funny, because now you mention it, I only had those gaps on my horde characters. I have two pre-BC lvl 60 Alliance, and I didn't notice such a problem on either of them. Maybe it's just that there are less Horde quests around those levels, or that I did something else different just by coincidence? My first Alliance character was in a fairly hardcore raiding guild, and so we powerleveled a lot of the way in groups, and my second was an alt who was only played with rested XP and ground a fair bit, that could have something to do with it.
Funny you should mention hating EPL, I actually quite liked it there. Sure, it's kind of creepy and dreary, but very atmospheric, and there are some brilliant quest lines that really bring out the back-story. I'm thinking the Caer Darrow quests, Battle of Darrowshire (Little Pamela), and the Fordring quest chains. And to top it all off, you're finally getting out of 50-55 levels of making war on puppy dogs, raptors, the Syndicate, raptors, the Venture Co, more raptors, diseased bears etc. and getting back to the core of the Warcraft 3 conflict - the Scourge.
On exactly the same hardware (GeForce 6800GT, P4 3.2GHz, 1GB of RAM) I get pretty similar rendering performance in WoW in both XP and Ubuntu/Wine. The networking, however, is unbelievably better under Linux - I tend to drop around 150ms latency, which when you're going from 500ms to 350ms is quite something. Not only that, but the Linux network stack has some scheduling fairness jibba-jabba that means I can download while playing without killing my latency. Of course that doesn't help the other computers on our home network... ;)
* don't quibble. you guys treat him as a deity.
Windows XP is a winning platform for gaming.
On an economic level, we now have a substantial number of people who can learn about PCs, and possibly even gain employment with them, who couldn't before. That is 100% win.
Drop-R.O.U.S.? *shakes head slightly* I don't think they exist. Shall we go?
Another, similar pet hate is undo/redo keys. Everyone uses Ctrl+Z to undo. So far so good. Nearly everything uses Ctrl+Y to redo. But TOAD uses Ctrl+Shift+Z to redo, and Ctrl+Y to DELETE THE CURRENT LINE! So you've not only lost your entire redo stack but you've also deleted a bunch of lines and the only way to get back to where you were is hope you saved the file and can reopen it. Fuck you, TOAD, fuck you.
Dual-booting into a pirated copy of Windows to play games (oh come on, do you know any Apple fanboy who BOUGHT the windows they're running? Although when ReactOS gets good enough this problem will go away.) solved the "minesweeper, simpletext and photoshop" gaming stable problem. Now if only I could buy Mac Pro-style hardware with Linux installed... scratch that, if I could afford it at all I'd spend the money on something else, like a Lear jet.
Sounds suspiciously like the Warden client that Blizzard use. Apparently that does basically the same thing, except it sifts through window titles etc. as well, but on the flip side only downloads hashes of the strings it's looking for, and doesn't send any data except a pass/fail through to Blizz.
People didn't receive Warden well either, there was a whole lot of complaining on the forums, many people were going to quit but then they realised they'd miss their raid on Thursday and STFU'd because they wanted their set pieces. These days we don't see half as many players using teleport/speed hacks, though, so I guess it worked.