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I've heard that EFP's (Explosively-Formed Penetrators) do use copper... I have yet to figure out how that works. Copper doesn't seem dense enough to me, although I'm sure ductility is a major factor.
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Drop pipe bombs on an elevator, wait next to it for someone to call it... Detonate when elevator stops. Pipe bombs were the ultimate in sneaky. Tripmines aren't that useful because you can see the beam. They should have gotten rid of that for multiplayer.
Heh. The movie industry's even worse. They've got stuff literally rotting in vaults that will never see the light of day before the celluloid turns to dust... *sigh*
"The only factor that can influence price is volume, but not how much Microsoft likes you."
Interesting that you make that point... If that were all there were to it, Microsoft wouldn't need to threaten to wreck a company's competitiveness through preferential pricing. After all, if higher volume really does equal lower price, it's economically in the OEM's best interest to pre-install Windows on every box that goes out the door! (And it probably started out that way...)
The fact that OEMs are playing loose and fast with interpretations of their licensing contracts with Microsoft in order to sell a Windows-less PC in the face of economic advantage says volumes about how tired they're getting of having Bill Gates' Spiky Dildo of Death (TM) planted firmly up their asses.
Not only Democrat politicians, but two highly senior Democrat senators in a Senate controlled by the Democrats on the strength of one vote. I'd say that's too much of a co-incidence, but that's what the article is all about anyway.
"That's just an example so don't get hung up with that particular example. If someone thinks they can calculate these kinds of probabilities, the department of homeland security would love to have you:)"
Can you imagine the stink if a common sequence of numbers did come up in a lottery drawing?All of the investigations into charges of "fixing" would probably cost more than the jackpot...
Yeah, but these days the "fix" is usually replace the entire board or in some cases even replace the entire system. I wouldn't think that it's cost effective in any way to try to repair PCBs in this day and age.
"I always thought part of the genius of Star Wars is how in the cantina scene, so many of the aliens are totally non-humanoid. But it doesn't matter- they're sitting there playing poker, and Luke doesn't seem to notice that some of these things don't have arms. Alien races actually have a true diversity of forms, even if the humans are running things. It's a far cry from ST, where nearly everything is either humanoid or something amorphous."
I think the thing that bothers me the most about ST and the proliferation of the humanoid form-factor is that all these disparate "alien" races interbreed rather freely. Not being a trekkie, I'm not up on whatever bizarre explaination has been cooked up for that one...
You can get more direct than that. If you're alive, you have the ability to circumvent access control mechanisms. Thus by breathing, you are using an unlawful cracking tool to stay alive so you can break copyright controls. The only good media consumer is a dead media consumer, neh?
How about CPR? By attempting to to resuscitate an individual who is not breathing, you are trafficing in an illegal access control circumvention tool, as they could go and crack open an e-book or pirate a DVD as soon as they regain conciousness.
How about this... Perhaps you don't want to buy the software, take it home, open the box, find out you can't accept the EULA, and then discover on attempting to return it that you can't get your money back either? I think this concept is interesting because it opens up another front that software companies will need to compete on (at least for users who know enough to check the site first). After all, one of the most evil bits about EULAs in my opinion is that they don't let you see it until it's too late to decide whether or not to spend the money.
I'm not seeing a reply here, so I'll take a stab at it. My guess is that it's the size of the Z-buffer, which is used to tell how "deep" into the screen the pixel is located. 2 Kb per pixel seems like overkill to me, though... Numbers like 2^2048 make my brain hurt.
Actually, I beleive the British did provide, erm, "advisors" and other "military aid" to the Confederates. Just as the French did during the Revolutionary war. I'm not making excuses, but it's not as far-fetched as you make out.
Oh, and while we'rre on the subject, it might behoove you to go and find out where most of England's cotton was coming from around the 1850s...
So in the future if you get brutally gibbed, your first instinct should be to type.. "Woulda had you if it hadn't been for that stupid pop-up..." Or "Between the lag and the popups, I'm getting 0wn3d!"
Sad part is that I'd have modded him "insightful" for the "why feminism instead of humanism?" comment. People is people, people. You start working to elevate one group over another, you're playing cynical power games. *sigh*
*shakes head* There's got to be more than just me that believe that...
Just to chime in on this, "compliant" being the operative word. Microsoft wanted to use SUN's trademark and still introduce incompatibilities that favor them.
Actually, now that I think about it, Brazil seems more prophetic than farcical... But I guess that shouldn't surprise me. I've always described it as "Terry Gilliam does 1984". Anyone who has seen it should be seeing eerie parallels to the current atmosphere in this country.
I think one of the scariest concepts to come out of that is the idea that it's illegal to fix your own air-conditioning, and anyone who tries is pursued as a terrorist...
Beautiful... So there's now tons of salvageable explosives lying around to be turned into homemade devices? Once the batteries die, it's free for the taking...
Well, that sucks. Considering that I've paid more per year to NPR than I would have for cable over the same time period, I'd have hoped that it actually meant something.
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I don't happen to have a copy at the moment, but I remember seeing this joke in Benford and Brin's Heart of the Comet... Which was first, the joke or the book?
I don't know that since serialization was popular in the past means that it will be popular now. First of all, as the information media we've consumed over the years has become increasingly frenetic, I don't think we've got the same level of patience as your typical 19th-Century "media consumer". Second, we have a lot more free time than Dickens' audience. And going back to the first point, I think people in the past took greater care and put more effort into certain things than we do today, such as reading. I'm an avid reader, but the rate I actually read at is almost skimming.
In short, I don't think that comparing the success of serials in the past to their success today is valid because there are substantial cultural differences with respect to the concept of time between then and now.
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I've heard that EFP's (Explosively-Formed Penetrators) do use copper... I have yet to figure out how that works. Copper doesn't seem dense enough to me, although I'm sure ductility is a major factor.
Drop pipe bombs on an elevator, wait next to it for someone to call it... Detonate when elevator stops. Pipe bombs were the ultimate in sneaky. Tripmines aren't that useful because you can see the beam. They should have gotten rid of that for multiplayer.
Heh. The movie industry's even worse. They've got stuff literally rotting in vaults that will never see the light of day before the celluloid turns to dust... *sigh*
Wow. Another fan of Le Fleur Fâchée. Who would have thought it? Props, dude.
"The only factor that can influence price is volume, but not how much Microsoft likes you."
Interesting that you make that point... If that were all there were to it, Microsoft wouldn't need to threaten to wreck a company's competitiveness through preferential pricing. After all, if higher volume really does equal lower price, it's economically in the OEM's best interest to pre-install Windows on every box that goes out the door! (And it probably started out that way...)
The fact that OEMs are playing loose and fast with interpretations of their licensing contracts with Microsoft in order to sell a Windows-less PC in the face of economic advantage says volumes about how tired they're getting of having Bill Gates' Spiky Dildo of Death (TM) planted firmly up their asses.
+1 funny for the moderator that gave this +1 insightful...
Not only Democrat politicians, but two highly senior Democrat senators in a Senate controlled by the Democrats on the strength of one vote. I'd say that's too much of a co-incidence, but that's what the article is all about anyway.
"That's just an example so don't get hung up with that particular example. If someone thinks they can calculate these kinds of probabilities, the department of homeland security would love to have you :)"
What, shot? *shakes head*
Can you imagine the stink if a common sequence of numbers did come up in a lottery drawing?All of the investigations into charges of "fixing" would probably cost more than the jackpot...
Man, how do you use those things??? I don't get it.
Yeah, but these days the "fix" is usually replace the entire board or in some cases even replace the entire system. I wouldn't think that it's cost effective in any way to try to repair PCBs in this day and age.
"I always thought part of the genius of Star Wars is how in the cantina scene, so many of the aliens are totally non-humanoid. But it doesn't matter- they're sitting there playing poker, and Luke doesn't seem to notice that some of these things don't have arms. Alien races actually have a true diversity of forms, even if the humans are running things. It's a far cry from ST, where nearly everything is either humanoid or something amorphous."
I think the thing that bothers me the most about ST and the proliferation of the humanoid form-factor is that all these disparate "alien" races interbreed rather freely. Not being a trekkie, I'm not up on whatever bizarre explaination has been cooked up for that one...
You can get more direct than that. If you're alive, you have the ability to circumvent access control mechanisms. Thus by breathing, you are using an unlawful cracking tool to stay alive so you can break copyright controls. The only good media consumer is a dead media consumer, neh?
How about CPR? By attempting to to resuscitate an individual who is not breathing, you are trafficing in an illegal access control circumvention tool, as they could go and crack open an e-book or pirate a DVD as soon as they regain conciousness.
Wow... Ab adsurdum is fun! Gimme another one!
How about this... Perhaps you don't want to buy the software, take it home, open the box, find out you can't accept the EULA, and then discover on attempting to return it that you can't get your money back either? I think this concept is interesting because it opens up another front that software companies will need to compete on (at least for users who know enough to check the site first). After all, one of the most evil bits about EULAs in my opinion is that they don't let you see it until it's too late to decide whether or not to spend the money.
I'm not seeing a reply here, so I'll take a stab at it. My guess is that it's the size of the Z-buffer, which is used to tell how "deep" into the screen the pixel is located. 2 Kb per pixel seems like overkill to me, though... Numbers like 2^2048 make my brain hurt.
Actually, I beleive the British did provide, erm, "advisors" and other "military aid" to the Confederates. Just as the French did during the Revolutionary war. I'm not making excuses, but it's not as far-fetched as you make out.
Oh, and while we'rre on the subject, it might behoove you to go and find out where most of England's cotton was coming from around the 1850s...
So in the future if you get brutally gibbed, your first instinct should be to type.. "Woulda had you if it hadn't been for that stupid pop-up..." Or "Between the lag and the popups, I'm getting 0wn3d!"
Wow. A whole new exuse for noobs. *chuckle*
Sad part is that I'd have modded him "insightful" for the "why feminism instead of humanism?" comment. People is people, people. You start working to elevate one group over another, you're playing cynical power games. *sigh*
*shakes head* There's got to be more than just me that believe that...
Just to chime in on this, "compliant" being the operative word. Microsoft wanted to use SUN's trademark and still introduce incompatibilities that favor them.
Actually, now that I think about it, Brazil seems more prophetic than farcical... But I guess that shouldn't surprise me. I've always described it as "Terry Gilliam does 1984". Anyone who has seen it should be seeing eerie parallels to the current atmosphere in this country.
I think one of the scariest concepts to come out of that is the idea that it's illegal to fix your own air-conditioning, and anyone who tries is pursued as a terrorist...
It doesn't surprise me... I certainly didn't look close enough to notice a detail like that...
"Augh! My eyes! Backbackbackback!"
Beautiful... So there's now tons of salvageable explosives lying around to be turned into homemade devices? Once the batteries die, it's free for the taking...
Talk about trading one problem for another.
Well, that sucks. Considering that I've paid more per year to NPR than I would have for cable over the same time period, I'd have hoped that it actually meant something.
I don't happen to have a copy at the moment, but I remember seeing this joke in Benford and Brin's Heart of the Comet... Which was first, the joke or the book?
Just curious...
I don't know that since serialization was popular in the past means that it will be popular now. First of all, as the information media we've consumed over the years has become increasingly frenetic, I don't think we've got the same level of patience as your typical 19th-Century "media consumer". Second, we have a lot more free time than Dickens' audience. And going back to the first point, I think people in the past took greater care and put more effort into certain things than we do today, such as reading. I'm an avid reader, but the rate I actually read at is almost skimming.
In short, I don't think that comparing the success of serials in the past to their success today is valid because there are substantial cultural differences with respect to the concept of time between then and now.