I'm not aware of any state that has a ban on.50 BMG ammo. I believe there are some states with restrictions on the use of tracer ammo on state land due to fire danger.
The temperatures required to start "cooking off" ammo are never going to happen in the cargo hold of a plane unless it crashes and burns. Remember that this ammo is intended to be chambered in machine guns that get very hot after a few hundred prior rounds.
I've never heard of any legal requirements on ammunition shelf-life (In fact I regularly see pre-WWII surplus ammo advertised for sale). There is no licensing of AP or other exotic ammo, the only restrictions I'm aware of are that hollow points are illegal in New Jersey, and AP ammo is banned from importation or production in calibers for which handguns are chambered, there may be other state and local regulations. Buyers of ammunition must be 18yoa for rifle ammo and 21yoa for handgun ammo.
You can get 150 rounds of.50 BMG tracers sent to your house for $199 from right here, they're not any more restricted in most of the USA than any other ammo. I don't know why you would think they would be more of a problem to check on a plane than any other ammo. For info on firearms and ammo in checked baggage look here.
That 2mm piece of glass doesn't contain the water, it is the pump mechanism. Presumably it's fitted inside a tube with inlet and outlet holes for the water pipes/hoses. Also, modern liquid cooled cars don't seem to have too much trouble containg their coolant in an environment much nastier than the inside of your pc. (Yes, I know someone has a story about the radiator in their AMC Pacer blowing up).
Given the number of variables involved, that rule of thumb is so useless it's absurd. If somthing has a very long half-life it probably isn't too dangerous to start with. If it has a very short half-life it may still be very dangerous even when only.09765625% (the result of 10 half-lives going by) remains. Then there is the biggest factor of how much material did you start with?
Let's see you predict when a particle is going to come flying out of a radioactive sample then. If that's not truly random, then maybe you're right and nothing is.
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There was no 1992 RX-7. 1991 was the last year for the 2nd generation RX-7 and the 3rd genereation was introduced as a '93 model. On another note, no matter how fast it is, looking at an Olds Cutlass it makes me feel like gouging my eyes out with a spork. Looks like it crashed head on into the ugly tree.
My family was visiting Illinois several years ago and one of our friends there knew one of the scientists at Fermi Labs. We got a personal tour through the whole place, and I have never seen a similar concentration of such geeky delights! If you can possibly see it don't miss it.
GMRS is very similar to FRS, but with more channels and higher power limits. It seems many people aren't aware that in the U.S. users of GMRS radios are supposed to be licensed at ~$80/5 years. Most users of cheap GMRS radios don't know/care that they are supposed to be periodicaly broadcasting their callsign, and these can't be used just like high-power FRS radios.
Actually, BeOS did have accelerated support for the 3DFX VooDoo 3 cards. Not that that's a lot to brag about, but it did have *some hardware* 3D support.
I think he meant assuming 100% electrical efficency in the generator system rather than the efficency of the engine. If that corolla motor was 100% efficent it would be more like 250-500 Horsepower. Also most of the inefficency of internal combustion engines comes from thermal loss and friction - not poor combustion.
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I put this entry into the printers section of smb.conf on my Samba server. This lets everyone on the network create PDF files from any application that can print. The created PDFs are available in the shared/PDF directory on the server and are named for the user that made them. This could probably be improved, but it works pretty well as is.
[PS2PDF] comment = PS to PDF printable = yes public = yes guest ok =yes read only = yes create mode = 0700 directory =/tmp printer name = PS2PDF Printer printer driver = HP Color LaserJet PS print command = mv %s %s.ps;/usr/bin/ps2pdf %s.ps %s.pdf; rm -f %s.ps; mv %s.pdf/PDF/%m.$$.pdf
I suggest you read this article. I am not starting a "bitch session", my rely to the original post was only pointing out a particular fallacy that I didn't want to see spread, ie "UWB only works if you severly limit the range", I never intended to debate the merits of afidels idea of UWB wireless MIDI - I simply don't give a damn about that aspect of this threads original post.
First, the range of UWB isn't limited by the FCC at all, the transmission power(It is limited to power levels so low that they may be below the normal noise floor), and certain spectra that may interfere with systems like GPS are restricted.
Second, this application was never intended for "a critical environment like on-stage". From the article:
"Backers hope the approach could leapfrog efforts on 802.11 to provide a route for consumer electronics companies to send high quality video signals over wireless home networks."
I hate it when slashdotters imply that a technology is useless because it doesn't fit their pet application.
Like every other form of radio communication, UWB requires a trade-off between data-bandwidth and range. To say "UWB only works if you severly limit the range" is grossly misleading. Any conventional carrier based radio communication that works at these data rates is going to be of similarly short range.
For industrial environments with any vibration, normal ISA and PCI slots are a total nightmare, PC/104 connectors are very rugged due to large contact areas and very strong retention. For hobbiests, PC/104 isn't ideal because the volumes are so low compared to commodity PC hardware, making it seem unreasonably expensive. For the people who really need PC/104 it makes perfect sense.
Unfortunatley, you cannot build multi CPU systems by stacking multiple PC/104 motherboards. The PC/104 bus is just a 16-bit ISA bus (PC/104+ adds another connector for PCI) that runs through an unusual connector. See this from the PC/104 FAQ
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I'm not aware of any state that has a ban on .50 BMG ammo. I believe there are some states with restrictions on the use of tracer ammo on state land due to fire danger.
The temperatures required to start "cooking off" ammo are never going to happen in the cargo hold of a plane unless it crashes and burns. Remember that this ammo is intended to be chambered in machine guns that get very hot after a few hundred prior rounds.
I've never heard of any legal requirements on ammunition shelf-life (In fact I regularly see pre-WWII surplus ammo advertised for sale). There is no licensing of AP or other exotic ammo, the only restrictions I'm aware of are that hollow points are illegal in New Jersey, and AP ammo is banned from importation or production in calibers for which handguns are chambered, there may be other state and local regulations. Buyers of ammunition must be 18yoa for rifle ammo and 21yoa for handgun ammo.
I suggest you look over these FAQs from the BATF.
You can get 150 rounds of .50 BMG tracers sent to your house for $199 from right here, they're not any more restricted in most of the USA than any other ammo. I don't know why you would think they would be more of a problem to check on a plane than any other ammo. For info on firearms and ammo in checked baggage look here.
That 2mm piece of glass doesn't contain the water, it is the pump mechanism. Presumably it's fitted inside a tube with inlet and outlet holes for the water pipes/hoses.
Also, modern liquid cooled cars don't seem to have too much trouble containg their coolant in an environment much nastier than the inside of your pc. (Yes, I know someone has a story about the radiator in their AMC Pacer blowing up).
Given the number of variables involved, that rule of thumb is so useless it's absurd. If somthing has a very long half-life it probably isn't too dangerous to start with. If it has a very short half-life it may still be very dangerous even when only .09765625% (the result of 10 half-lives going by) remains. Then there is the biggest factor of how much material did you start with?
Let's see you predict when a particle is going to come flying out of a radioactive sample then. If that's not truly random, then maybe you're right and nothing is.
Ever heard of shielded cables?
Er...No they don't
There was no 1992 RX-7. 1991 was the last year for the 2nd generation RX-7 and the 3rd genereation was introduced as a '93 model. On another note, no matter how fast it is, looking at an Olds Cutlass it makes me feel like gouging my eyes out with a spork. Looks like it crashed head on into the ugly tree.
My family was visiting Illinois several years ago and one of our friends there knew one of the scientists at Fermi Labs. We got a personal tour through the whole place, and I have never seen a similar concentration of such geeky delights! If you can possibly see it don't miss it.
Yeah, but by the time it's released it will only look good running at least 64,000^3 in your 3d simulation tank.
I think id did start the "when it's done" trend. 3D Realms has just interpreted that as "just in time for the LAN party at the end of the universe".
GMRS is very similar to FRS, but with more channels and higher power limits. It seems many people aren't aware that in the U.S. users of GMRS radios are supposed to be licensed at ~$80/5 years. Most users of cheap GMRS radios don't know/care that they are supposed to be periodicaly broadcasting their callsign, and these can't be used just like high-power FRS radios.
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It's trademarks that have to be defended or lost, not copyrights or patents.
Actually, BeOS did have accelerated support for the 3DFX VooDoo 3 cards. Not that that's a lot to brag about, but it did have *some hardware* 3D support.
I think he meant assuming 100% electrical efficency in the generator system rather than the efficency of the engine. If that corolla motor was 100% efficent it would be more like 250-500 Horsepower. Also most of the inefficency of internal combustion engines comes from thermal loss and friction - not poor combustion.
I put this entry into the printers section of smb.conf on my Samba server. This lets everyone on the network create PDF files from any application that can print. The created PDFs are available in the shared /PDF directory on the server and are named for the user that made them. This could probably be improved, but it works pretty well as is.
/tmp /usr/bin/ps2pdf %s.ps %s.pdf; rm -f %s.ps; mv %s.pdf /PDF/%m.$$.pdf
[PS2PDF]
comment = PS to PDF
printable = yes
public = yes
guest ok =yes
read only = yes
create mode = 0700
directory =
printer name = PS2PDF Printer
printer driver = HP Color LaserJet PS
print command = mv %s %s.ps;
I suggest you read this article. I am not starting a "bitch session", my rely to the original post was only pointing out a particular fallacy that I didn't want to see spread, ie "UWB only works if you severly limit the range", I never intended to debate the merits of afidels idea of UWB wireless MIDI - I simply don't give a damn about that aspect of this threads original post.
First, the range of UWB isn't limited by the FCC at all, the transmission power(It is limited to power levels so low that they may be below the normal noise floor), and certain spectra that may interfere with systems like GPS are restricted.
Second, this application was never intended for "a critical environment like on-stage". From the article:
I hate it when slashdotters imply that a technology is useless because it doesn't fit their pet application.Like every other form of radio communication, UWB requires a trade-off between data-bandwidth and range. To say "UWB only works if you severly limit the range" is grossly misleading. Any conventional carrier based radio communication that works at these data rates is going to be of similarly short range.
For industrial environments with any vibration, normal ISA and PCI slots are a total nightmare, PC/104 connectors are very rugged due to large contact areas and very strong retention. For hobbiests, PC/104 isn't ideal because the volumes are so low compared to commodity PC hardware, making it seem unreasonably expensive. For the people who really need PC/104 it makes perfect sense.
Unfortunatley, you cannot build multi CPU systems by stacking multiple PC/104 motherboards. The PC/104 bus is just a 16-bit ISA bus (PC/104+ adds another connector for PCI) that runs through an unusual connector. See this from the PC/104 FAQ
I've had no luck getting anyone to call me "The Great and Terrible Root".
I bow my head in shame. I'm really much better at Simpsons quotes.
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