I use to do that when I was in college years ago, except it was slightly more random stuff than/. comments as it came from/dev/urandom and I would send 1MB emails as fast as the schools network would transmit them.
I prefer it when they are out door knocking and you can tell them directly to their face why they screwed the pooch, if they are the incumbent, and won't be getting your vote or how they can not get your vote in the future. Politicians really don't seem to like a well informed voter and it is fun watching them squirm.
True, I was trying to point out that red meat doesn't seem to be as big of a problem that people make it out to be if you are getting the good quality stuff which isn't what most people are buying. What is mostly sold at the grocery stores where it is really fatty, raised a cheaply as possible, poor diet, lots of hormones and antibiotics, processed in mass, low quality, low cost stuff. At my last checkup I asked my doctor about the quantity of red meat I eat and he commented that it wasn't a problem as I am eating much leaner meat than most people and I am more active than most people. Bison and venison are incredibly lean and even the beef we get is leaner than the regular stuff in the stores.
My extended family and I (8 households of 2 to 5 people each) probably do eat more meat than we should but then it is all the high quality good stuff as we end up splitting a bison, a cow, and as much wild game as my uncle, cousin, and I can shoot. We hunt ducks, geese, pheasants, bear (these we don't get very often), deer, turkey, and grouse so there is a good variety of critters. Most of the wild game isn't available in the stores as you might see duck but that is farm raised just like the turkeys.
And eating good red meat is a completely different than eating the crap sold in the stores. Then again the red meat I eat comes from the deer I shoot, the cattle a family friend raises, or the bison another family friend raises. The beef and bison are small herds (10-14 cattle and 4-6 bison) on about 40 acres each that are fed a proper diet, aren't pumped full of hormones, never see a feed lot, aren't pumped full of antibiotics, and processed at a quality butcher.
I believe that changed with the instant background check they do now. I haven't had to wait to purchase any of my firearms that were purchased from a real store (I did buy one rifle from a friend of mine who is a cop who I have known for 15 years) and that includes the pistol that I purchased earlier this year. To buy the pistol I had to get a permit to purchase but that was fairly simple and took about a week and that was in Minnesota. My other rifle and shotgun were purchased without a wait the same day I decided to buy them. I think now it is basically handled at the state level.
And going even further, the US only considers the lower receiver the actual "firearm" for regulatory purposes - You can buy everything else totally unregulated.
Actually that would only be for AR-15 style weapons, not all weapons. Typically it is the receiver but for AR-15 style ones where there is a multi part receiver the choice was made to put the serial number on the lower instead of the upper. Also there are some other strange things that crop out of the law like classifying some Mosin-Nagent rifles the most strange being the 7.62 Tkiv 85 rifles as an antique firearm
I never said it that 7.62x54 doesn't pack a punch (it does especially with 203 grain soft points and the steel butt plate on those rifles) or that chopping one down was a good idea but it has been done in the past. There are also modern handguns that fire comparable rounds like the.500 Winchester magnum or the larger Thompson Contenders that shoot.30-06 or.308 but I don't think these are intended to be shot using one hand as I imagine the chopped Mosin-Nagents were either.
As far as impressive use of a Mosin-Nagent rifle you might want to check out the Finnish sniper Simo Hayha who has 505 confirmed sniper kills using a M28/30 (Finnish variant of the Mosin-Nagent). While Vasily Zaytsev achievements were notable and he became the poster child for Russian snipers Fyodor Okhlopkov, Ivan Sidorenko, and Lyudmila Pavlichenko (most successful female sniper ever) exceeded Zaytsev's count.
I often see it touted that Americans have poor health for the amount of money we spend and have poor rankings for overall health but part of me wonders how much of that is due to the poor quality of our system or the piss poor diet and activity levels of most Americans. I would love to see some analysis that would normalize the data for such things. I don't believe that our system is a good as it could be but I think that the US would have somewhat better standing.
I am not familiar with the the 5.7x28 cartridge but just because someone makes a handgun that chambers it doesn't mean that it is a handgun round. Besides there are already handguns chambered for rifle round, I would suggest checking out things like the Thompson Contender line or the Taurus Raging Bull line of handguns, or doing a Google search for AR pistol, AK pistol, or draco pistol.
I wouldn't worry about this being a source of cheap guns considering that you can get a real gun that actually works and shoots a powerful round for about $90 +tax. Granted that firearm would be a Russian M91/30 or M44 and would shoot the 7.62x54r cartridge but those are still more potent and probably more accurate than the stupid thing these guys are trying to make. If you really wanted a handgun you can cut down the barrel on one of those M91/30s or M44s and chop the stock like what was done during WWII by some resistance fighters who then had a bolt action pistol.
This would be an example of a small segment of of highly specialized code that can be hand optimized to great benefit as the parent pointed out. I have done similar things in the past and gotten similar results. This was for some AI code in college and yes it did wonders but that was only a small subset of functions that were run the most, the vast majority of the rest of the program was done in C as it allowed me to concentrate on the higher level design.
as can any code that does access the same memory location as long as that access is all read-only
Not entirely true. If reads on that block of memory are atomic it will work every time, otherwise you might get some strange results as it may be possible for values to change while reading part of it. This mostly happens with more complex data structures but it can happen with primitive ones depending on their size.
Actually on the gasoline you are wrong about the purpose of leaded gasoline and octane. The flame speed in the regular 87 octane pump fule and 100LL avgas is basically the same at the same compression ratio. What higher octane provides is better resistance to detonation or preignition. When there was the switch from leaded to unleaded fuel engines did have to get detuned as they couldn't run as high of compression ratios as they use to because of the preignition problems. Leaded fuel did provide protection for the valves and valve seats as it would deposit lead on them that would also wear away and when the switch to unleaded happened problems with valve seat erosion started happening but that was cured simply by installing hardened valve seats when doing the next valve job. You can run leaded fuel in a modern vehicle and you won't have issues with burned valves but may end up fouling the spark plug with lead and will poison the catalytic converter. If you want you can even get some really high octane unleaded fuels like the 100 octane non-oxy gasoline that one station near my house sells, but that is a bit on the spendy side (about $5 a gallon now) and you can't pump it directly into a modern gas tank (larger nozzle) but is works great in small engines where they will sit for a while unused with fuel in the tank.
I remember reading somewhere that by watching the older Thomas and Friends shows (the ones done with physical models and a single narrator) children with Aspergers/Autism can develop the skill of facial expression recognition. From what I remember reading it has to do with how over exaggerated the expressions are on the simplified faces of the engines. It also doesn't hurt that the narrator states what engines mood is while the expression is showing.
If he is like a buddy of mine from college who was notorious for smuggling food out of the college cafeteria I can understand. Seriously how does one manage to have almost 40 bananas shoved into their pockets?
As I am in the process of picking parts for a new computer and want to go the SSD route for the OS drives what would be the better ones to look at? I was aware of OCZ's reliability issues but hadn't heard much about other companies and would welcome any advice. My current thought was to go with the Micro Center branded (sound like it is a rebranded A-Data drive) 120GB ones that sell for about $80 but if there are substantially better drives I would gladly sacrifice size for reliability.
Well considering that in homeopathy the more dilute a substance is the strong the medicine is but it has to be diluted in the proper way, i.e. magic shake to imbue the essence of the medicine into the inert substance (inert substance is typically sugar, ethanol, distilled water, or saline solution). I might actually believe that there would be effects at x1 to x10 (parts per 10 down to parts per billion) I have a real hard time believing that the most potent homeopathic cures (x200 or anything beyond about x23 for that matter) provide anything other than an easy way to separate a gullible consumer from their money and dose of sugar, ethanol, distilled water, or salt water. My wife who as bad allergies tried a homeopathic nasal flush (lots of stuff at x20, x50 x100 and a couple of things at x200) and it worked but the inert ingredient was salt and you just mixed with warm water, interestingly warm salt water works just as well for a nasal flush and for the price she paid for a few doses of the homeopathic crap I could have bought several pounds of salt and gotten the same results. So please enlighten us on how the magic shaking imbues the inert substance with the essence of the cure because it sure sounds like homeopathy is just as much a work of fiction as the device that creates food from textured water molecules from the movie "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"
you can buy a decent laptop for the price of my first CD burner
I read that and what crossed my mind was no way, but then I remembered what I paid for my first CD burner and then I felt really old. That stupid external (6x read 2x write 1x rewrite or something like that) burner probably would still work if I had a machine with a parallel port and the drivers for it that would actually work on a modern machine.
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I wish I had mod points today.
I use to do that when I was in college years ago, except it was slightly more random stuff than /. comments as it came from /dev/urandom and I would send 1MB emails as fast as the schools network would transmit them.
I prefer it when they are out door knocking and you can tell them directly to their face why they screwed the pooch, if they are the incumbent, and won't be getting your vote or how they can not get your vote in the future. Politicians really don't seem to like a well informed voter and it is fun watching them squirm.
True, I was trying to point out that red meat doesn't seem to be as big of a problem that people make it out to be if you are getting the good quality stuff which isn't what most people are buying. What is mostly sold at the grocery stores where it is really fatty, raised a cheaply as possible, poor diet, lots of hormones and antibiotics, processed in mass, low quality, low cost stuff. At my last checkup I asked my doctor about the quantity of red meat I eat and he commented that it wasn't a problem as I am eating much leaner meat than most people and I am more active than most people. Bison and venison are incredibly lean and even the beef we get is leaner than the regular stuff in the stores.
My extended family and I (8 households of 2 to 5 people each) probably do eat more meat than we should but then it is all the high quality good stuff as we end up splitting a bison, a cow, and as much wild game as my uncle, cousin, and I can shoot. We hunt ducks, geese, pheasants, bear (these we don't get very often), deer, turkey, and grouse so there is a good variety of critters. Most of the wild game isn't available in the stores as you might see duck but that is farm raised just like the turkeys.
I thought they were rapidly approaching penny stock territory or has it leveled off recently.
And eating good red meat is a completely different than eating the crap sold in the stores. Then again the red meat I eat comes from the deer I shoot, the cattle a family friend raises, or the bison another family friend raises. The beef and bison are small herds (10-14 cattle and 4-6 bison) on about 40 acres each that are fed a proper diet, aren't pumped full of hormones, never see a feed lot, aren't pumped full of antibiotics, and processed at a quality butcher.
I believe that changed with the instant background check they do now. I haven't had to wait to purchase any of my firearms that were purchased from a real store (I did buy one rifle from a friend of mine who is a cop who I have known for 15 years) and that includes the pistol that I purchased earlier this year. To buy the pistol I had to get a permit to purchase but that was fairly simple and took about a week and that was in Minnesota. My other rifle and shotgun were purchased without a wait the same day I decided to buy them. I think now it is basically handled at the state level.
And going even further, the US only considers the lower receiver the actual "firearm" for regulatory purposes - You can buy everything else totally unregulated.
Actually that would only be for AR-15 style weapons, not all weapons. Typically it is the receiver but for AR-15 style ones where there is a multi part receiver the choice was made to put the serial number on the lower instead of the upper. Also there are some other strange things that crop out of the law like classifying some Mosin-Nagent rifles the most strange being the 7.62 Tkiv 85 rifles as an antique firearm
I never said it that 7.62x54 doesn't pack a punch (it does especially with 203 grain soft points and the steel butt plate on those rifles) or that chopping one down was a good idea but it has been done in the past. There are also modern handguns that fire comparable rounds like the .500 Winchester magnum or the larger Thompson Contenders that shoot .30-06 or .308 but I don't think these are intended to be shot using one hand as I imagine the chopped Mosin-Nagents were either.
As far as impressive use of a Mosin-Nagent rifle you might want to check out the Finnish sniper Simo Hayha who has 505 confirmed sniper kills using a M28/30 (Finnish variant of the Mosin-Nagent). While Vasily Zaytsev achievements were notable and he became the poster child for Russian snipers Fyodor Okhlopkov, Ivan Sidorenko, and Lyudmila Pavlichenko (most successful female sniper ever) exceeded Zaytsev's count.
I often see it touted that Americans have poor health for the amount of money we spend and have poor rankings for overall health but part of me wonders how much of that is due to the poor quality of our system or the piss poor diet and activity levels of most Americans. I would love to see some analysis that would normalize the data for such things. I don't believe that our system is a good as it could be but I think that the US would have somewhat better standing.
I am not familiar with the the 5.7x28 cartridge but just because someone makes a handgun that chambers it doesn't mean that it is a handgun round. Besides there are already handguns chambered for rifle round, I would suggest checking out things like the Thompson Contender line or the Taurus Raging Bull line of handguns, or doing a Google search for AR pistol, AK pistol, or draco pistol.
I wouldn't worry about this being a source of cheap guns considering that you can get a real gun that actually works and shoots a powerful round for about $90 +tax. Granted that firearm would be a Russian M91/30 or M44 and would shoot the 7.62x54r cartridge but those are still more potent and probably more accurate than the stupid thing these guys are trying to make. If you really wanted a handgun you can cut down the barrel on one of those M91/30s or M44s and chop the stock like what was done during WWII by some resistance fighters who then had a bolt action pistol.
This would be an example of a small segment of of highly specialized code that can be hand optimized to great benefit as the parent pointed out. I have done similar things in the past and gotten similar results. This was for some AI code in college and yes it did wonders but that was only a small subset of functions that were run the most, the vast majority of the rest of the program was done in C as it allowed me to concentrate on the higher level design.
as can any code that does access the same memory location as long as that access is all read-only
Not entirely true. If reads on that block of memory are atomic it will work every time, otherwise you might get some strange results as it may be possible for values to change while reading part of it. This mostly happens with more complex data structures but it can happen with primitive ones depending on their size.
Actually on the gasoline you are wrong about the purpose of leaded gasoline and octane. The flame speed in the regular 87 octane pump fule and 100LL avgas is basically the same at the same compression ratio. What higher octane provides is better resistance to detonation or preignition. When there was the switch from leaded to unleaded fuel engines did have to get detuned as they couldn't run as high of compression ratios as they use to because of the preignition problems. Leaded fuel did provide protection for the valves and valve seats as it would deposit lead on them that would also wear away and when the switch to unleaded happened problems with valve seat erosion started happening but that was cured simply by installing hardened valve seats when doing the next valve job. You can run leaded fuel in a modern vehicle and you won't have issues with burned valves but may end up fouling the spark plug with lead and will poison the catalytic converter. If you want you can even get some really high octane unleaded fuels like the 100 octane non-oxy gasoline that one station near my house sells, but that is a bit on the spendy side (about $5 a gallon now) and you can't pump it directly into a modern gas tank (larger nozzle) but is works great in small engines where they will sit for a while unused with fuel in the tank.
I remember reading somewhere that by watching the older Thomas and Friends shows (the ones done with physical models and a single narrator) children with Aspergers/Autism can develop the skill of facial expression recognition. From what I remember reading it has to do with how over exaggerated the expressions are on the simplified faces of the engines. It also doesn't hurt that the narrator states what engines mood is while the expression is showing.
I laugh because that is me but just change the details.
If he is like a buddy of mine from college who was notorious for smuggling food out of the college cafeteria I can understand. Seriously how does one manage to have almost 40 bananas shoved into their pockets?
The micro center branded drive states that it has a sandforce controller so it sounds like I should steer clear of those.
As I am in the process of picking parts for a new computer and want to go the SSD route for the OS drives what would be the better ones to look at? I was aware of OCZ's reliability issues but hadn't heard much about other companies and would welcome any advice. My current thought was to go with the Micro Center branded (sound like it is a rebranded A-Data drive) 120GB ones that sell for about $80 but if there are substantially better drives I would gladly sacrifice size for reliability.
I think you mean Duke Nukem Forever now polity hand over your geek card.
Well considering that in homeopathy the more dilute a substance is the strong the medicine is but it has to be diluted in the proper way, i.e. magic shake to imbue the essence of the medicine into the inert substance (inert substance is typically sugar, ethanol, distilled water, or saline solution). I might actually believe that there would be effects at x1 to x10 (parts per 10 down to parts per billion) I have a real hard time believing that the most potent homeopathic cures (x200 or anything beyond about x23 for that matter) provide anything other than an easy way to separate a gullible consumer from their money and dose of sugar, ethanol, distilled water, or salt water. My wife who as bad allergies tried a homeopathic nasal flush (lots of stuff at x20, x50 x100 and a couple of things at x200) and it worked but the inert ingredient was salt and you just mixed with warm water, interestingly warm salt water works just as well for a nasal flush and for the price she paid for a few doses of the homeopathic crap I could have bought several pounds of salt and gotten the same results. So please enlighten us on how the magic shaking imbues the inert substance with the essence of the cure because it sure sounds like homeopathy is just as much a work of fiction as the device that creates food from textured water molecules from the movie " Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs "
I do, it is called the placebo effect which is why sugar pills seem to cause and cure every disease under the sun.
you can buy a decent laptop for the price of my first CD burner
I read that and what crossed my mind was no way, but then I remembered what I paid for my first CD burner and then I felt really old. That stupid external (6x read 2x write 1x rewrite or something like that) burner probably would still work if I had a machine with a parallel port and the drivers for it that would actually work on a modern machine.
Why waste ammo/time shooting the drone
For the same reason that I shoot old pop cans and old milk jugs filled with lake water, because it is fun.