Because the Swiss militia is small, they strongly emphasize individual marksmanship. In pursuit of this, their rifles are made to a high standard & are quite accurate. I've got a 1936-vintage K31 which, if I had a proper shooting rest, could get minute-of-arc accuracy with ordinary 7.5mm ammunition and the issue open sights. Most Swiss who still use this old bolt-action rifle have replaced those sights with peeps or a scope, which are inherently more precise.
The K31 is a couple generations old, but I don't imagine they've gotten worse since then.
There's lots of old custom cards on ISA for things like controlling scientific equipment. That was the beauty of ISA: any old electrical engineer could wire-wrap his own card & it'd probably work. Once you got the %$%(! IRQ and I/O channel and DMA channel jumpers set correctly, and woe betide you if it's an 8-bit card on a well-populated "newer" machine.
Downside is that my scientist users have to keep a stock of old Windows 9x-era computers around to drive the older equipment.
Wait, wait, what? Why would you do that when null-modem serial cables were pretty much standard? It's not like you can make use of the extra speed on that kind of game, and it'd avoid the crappy Novell software.
It's more correct to call that the 4-pin Molex power connector--people say "AT power connector" to mean the two connectors that go from the power supply to AT and Baby AT motherboards.
But yes, those molex connectors are a bastard. I'm glad they're finally going away.
Hardly, ignoring that the author meant 5400 RPM. In the Windows 3.x days our IDE hard drives were 3600 RPM and didn't even use DMA or multi-sector reads. We thought we had it good because it'd take over 100 floppies to store the same amount of data.
You tell kids that nowadays, and they wouldn't believe you.
Yes, well said. I'm planning on teaching my kids about guns when they're of age, and will probably do as you suggest, with the exception of shooting a chicken (not many chickens 'round here)[1]. Guns are tools, useful but very dangerous for those who don't understand them.
I wouldn't mind if firearms training was made mandatory in my area. Not ownership, mind, but training to use them safely.
There's nothing too odd about that! Hamal Ataturk had an entire menagerie called Abdul! No he didn't! Did, did, did, and did! All right. Spoken like a gentleman, sir.
Yup, we played right into Osama's hands, all right. Because we, collectively, are so cowardly that we'd throw away our freedoms for a chance of temporary security (until the government got powerful enough).
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OEMs won't sell it starting on 1 July; system builders can get it until the end of January, but they'll have to order XP copies in bundles of 50.
That's assuming Microsoft doesn't change its mind or give Asus a sweetheart deal for the Eee.
That's certainly true, but doesn't help you when you're plugging the cable into the motherboard.
What I really hate are those non-spec IDE cables with only 39 pinholes. Major pain to get attached to a motherboard connector with all 40 pins.
It'd be more meaningful if the researchers did:
How well do men read other men's nonverbal signals?
Ditto, but women to other women?
Men to women?
Women to men?
With a suitably large sample size, ideally a few thousand.
Except fling poop at the Other Party.
Because the Swiss militia is small, they strongly emphasize individual marksmanship. In pursuit of this, their rifles are made to a high standard & are quite accurate. I've got a 1936-vintage K31 which, if I had a proper shooting rest, could get minute-of-arc accuracy with ordinary 7.5mm ammunition and the issue open sights. Most Swiss who still use this old bolt-action rifle have replaced those sights with peeps or a scope, which are inherently more precise.
The K31 is a couple generations old, but I don't imagine they've gotten worse since then.
I'm going to go with "citation needed" for $400, Alex.
There's lots of old custom cards on ISA for things like controlling scientific equipment. That was the beauty of ISA: any old electrical engineer could wire-wrap his own card & it'd probably work. Once you got the %$%(! IRQ and I/O channel and DMA channel jumpers set correctly, and woe betide you if it's an 8-bit card on a well-populated "newer" machine.
Downside is that my scientist users have to keep a stock of old Windows 9x-era computers around to drive the older equipment.
Wait, wait, what? Why would you do that when null-modem serial cables were pretty much standard? It's not like you can make use of the extra speed on that kind of game, and it'd avoid the crappy Novell software.
It's more correct to call that the 4-pin Molex power connector--people say "AT power connector" to mean the two connectors that go from the power supply to AT and Baby AT motherboards.
But yes, those molex connectors are a bastard. I'm glad they're finally going away.
And... spit or swallow?
Hardly, ignoring that the author meant 5400 RPM. In the Windows 3.x days our IDE hard drives were 3600 RPM and didn't even use DMA or multi-sector reads. We thought we had it good because it'd take over 100 floppies to store the same amount of data.
You tell kids that nowadays, and they wouldn't believe you.
did Scientology have credibility?
Besides among the easily duped?
Mega Man was actually fun, though. Too hard, and cheesy, but fun.
You must be new here.
Yes, well said. I'm planning on teaching my kids about guns when they're of age, and will probably do as you suggest, with the exception of shooting a chicken (not many chickens 'round here)[1]. Guns are tools, useful but very dangerous for those who don't understand them.
;-)
I wouldn't mind if firearms training was made mandatory in my area. Not ownership, mind, but training to use them safely.
[1] Heh, maybe I'll substitute a spammer.
To reduce confusion, the thing that starts a bomb exploding is called a "fuze", with a "z". Many people get it wrong, though.
Ha, I've got a DOS machine.
There's nothing too odd about that! Hamal Ataturk had an entire menagerie called Abdul!
No he didn't!
Did, did, did, and did!
All right.
Spoken like a gentleman, sir.
How much did you pay for this?
McCain is going to campaign with the Decider, ffs. The two are practically good buddies.
You fucker, I didn't need that image. Oh well, I'd wanted an excuse to have some Macallan.
Yup, we played right into Osama's hands, all right. Because we, collectively, are so cowardly that we'd throw away our freedoms for a chance of temporary security (until the government got powerful enough).