there had to be quite a few detonations to get the (small) craft moving anywhere at speed. A single blast won't do it.
now my quote from the wikipedia article on the machine you're talking about
The smallest 4000 ton model planned for ground launch from Jackass Flats, Nevada had each blast add 30 mph (50 km/h) to the craft's velocity.
If you call a 4000 spaceship small, i don't want to know what would be big for you....
As a side note, you're somewhat right, as the nukes had a built in reaction mass that "pushed" the ship. But the part about "blast chambers of precise dimensions" is a bit off too, a huge plain shield of a special material isn't a blast chamber and doesn't have precise dimensions at all (it just has to be huge enough to protect the ship).
Holly shit sherlock.... Over the course of 100 years we'll get the highest and the lowest temperatures of the century, no matter what you do about it...
Remember we're basically about something that takes ages to cycle, so we can't make statements with only 50-70 years of accurate measurements. Mainly because we can't be sure about what's normal and what isn't.
And please don't cite the antartic ice as a proof of previous eras climate, they're extracting the info of the last thousands of years from a few meters of ice... Have you heard about lossles compresion? here we have exactly the same problem, you get the general idea, but not the real values.
If they're off it's because the electric companie turns them off, maybe because the grid load is low and keeping them working would only wear them down with 0 advantage...
Well, considering I have to pay a burdensome digital canon in all digital storage devices except hard drives(between 50 cents for a blank dvd to 2-4 â for an ipod), just to cover the "personal copy" right that I have in the country I live (EU), yes I'm entitled to at least 100-300â of not so illegal downloads (counting all the cds, dvds, mp3 players, pendrives, etc... that i've bought).
Remeber that not everyone lives in your country, maybe somewhere else IT IS LEGAL TO DOWNLOAD MP3...(and divx, etc...)
What the article means is that even if the software was suited to do gateway virus scaning, since there is no proof that no one used it that way, then it doesn't count as prior art??
That's like someone using a car to demolish houses by smashing it at high speed against them and claiming that you have patented it as a new device, and since no one used it that way, you have a legit patent.
(complimentary car analogy included for the ease of understanding, i had a better one with a hammer used as a new "masage" device, but you know, cars are so much better)
Excuse me, but i won't touch a PC with 256megs of ram even with a 6 feet pole, ever. How in the hell are you going to do anything but basic browsing/office on that...
Excuse me but you're taking that 400-600$ number out of your ass, sir.
Lets take your asumption that to upgrade you have to replace motherboard,procesor ram and videocard (wich is somewhat false since a simple videocard upgrade can make wonders half the time and video standars don't change as fast as you try to convince us... AGP lasted no less than 6 years, and ram upgrades usually don't require changing other components...)
Nowadays you can get a decent motherboard,chip,ram and videocard combo for about 300$ bucks that will run you ALMOST any games (notable exceptions are freak items like crysis). And with that you can almost guarantee 2-3 years of playing games, maybe you don't get the superduperultimatemegaexperience, but you'll get a damn decent game experience.
The coment about the hard drives is totally false, there are very few motherboards, if any, that don't have at least an PATA interface, and every new motherboard has support to older speeds of the interfaces they use, it's called legacy support.
You don't need a new case, i've been using the same one for 7 years and only changed the power supply once because a power surge fried the old one. You might need a more powerfull power suply, yes, but that one should last you at least 3-6 years if you're smart and buy a decent powerfull one (of course if you're a cheap bastard you get what you pay for).
Now compare those 300-400 bucks to a last gen console, compare all the things a console can do with all the things a pc can do. And don't forget that those components you have just replaced together can make a second pc that you could give to your kids to make their homework and all those silly usefull stuff computers do, or you could sell them on ebay for a not so bad price (look at old type ram prices on ebay for example)
And that's why recent ID cards are more comonly made as credit card style, with your photo and several holograms embossed plus the usual chip, if someone can falsify those, you're screwed anyway because with that level of tech and supplies they can do all kind of really nasty things to you. (the photo is printed into the card with all the other features so no, you can't just put a idferent photo over yours, that would stand out a LOT).
Of course if your country is still using the old style cardboard-laminated IDs, then you're a bit more screwed. But anyway, here in spain we had ID cards since about 30 years ago or more, with all kinds of data like birth, addres, parents data, your photo and your legal signature. And i have yet to hear about a single identity theft case, we might have had one or two but i haven't heard about it, so i think we're prety safe.
The real problem is that americans are over paranoid because identity theft is rampaging there, and that's because it's damn too easy to fake your identity because anyone can get a SSN and fake a lame ID to prove they're that person, if you had a REAL ID card issued by the government nationwide AND reasonably falsification-proof, you would have way less identity theft. And if you're worried about the big brother, make it so the ID cards oly have your SSN, name and photo, and you're served.
You know that nuclear subs have been traveling underwater for years before the existence of GPS tech, right?
You have things like inertial systems, the old magnetic compass, sonars that help you by telling you the features of the sea bottom (you know like the old age when you looked for a landmark you knew and used it to locate yourself) and other things...
and newer subs are not motorized, but nuclear-powered.
Excuse me but what do you think a nuclear reactor and a turbine are?
If they had 100 guys pulling a lever that moved the propeller, then you could say that they aren't motorized ( and you could argue that they have an human motor anyway...). But saying that a nuclear sub isn't motorized...
You know that some countries exchange the use of the coma and the decimal point (just check the regional config in windows and you'll see what i mean), and since he said "here in..." i bet he's from switzeland, wich gives him a good reason to have confused both. Specially considering the correct way in Switzeland would be 50'000 aparently.
So maybe you should stop being a grammar nazi with someone who doesn't have English as his first language, if those 2 are the only errors he made then i think he did a good job (and spare me about the use of non capital i, please don't burn me for it).
Imagines the amount of drive space consumed by sequences like:
"wwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaassssssssddddddddddddwwwwwwww wwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa[control][leftclick]
y die n00b"
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there had to be quite a few detonations to get the (small) craft moving anywhere at speed. A single blast won't do it.
now my quote from the wikipedia article on the machine you're talking about
The smallest 4000 ton model planned for ground launch from Jackass Flats, Nevada had each blast add 30 mph (50 km/h) to the craft's velocity.
If you call a 4000 spaceship small, i don't want to know what would be big for you.... As a side note, you're somewhat right, as the nukes had a built in reaction mass that "pushed" the ship. But the part about "blast chambers of precise dimensions" is a bit off too, a huge plain shield of a special material isn't a blast chamber and doesn't have precise dimensions at all (it just has to be huge enough to protect the ship).
You know that "decimated" means that a tenth was taken... so it was more than decimated...
That only aplies to the Open servers where you can fight everywhere without previous flagging
On the normal servers you can't go to a lower tier and fight.
I played the closed beta since Xmas and most of the time population was balanced in our server.
Percival was a blast, I loved that server for almost 3 years (Albion shield Armsman, Dupres).
:)
I hope WAR gets half the epic fights we got there
Holly shit sherlock.... Over the course of 100 years we'll get the highest and the lowest temperatures of the century, no matter what you do about it...
Remember we're basically about something that takes ages to cycle, so we can't make statements with only 50-70 years of accurate measurements. Mainly because we can't be sure about what's normal and what isn't.
And please don't cite the antartic ice as a proof of previous eras climate, they're extracting the info of the last thousands of years from a few meters of ice... Have you heard about lossles compresion? here we have exactly the same problem, you get the general idea, but not the real values.
If they're off it's because the electric companie turns them off, maybe because the grid load is low and keeping them working would only wear them down with 0 advantage...
:P
Or maybe tehy're playing mind tricks on you.
Well, considering I have to pay a burdensome digital canon in all digital storage devices except hard drives(between 50 cents for a blank dvd to 2-4 â for an ipod), just to cover the "personal copy" right that I have in the country I live (EU), yes I'm entitled to at least 100-300â of not so illegal downloads (counting all the cds, dvds, mp3 players, pendrives, etc... that i've bought).
Remeber that not everyone lives in your country, maybe somewhere else IT IS LEGAL TO DOWNLOAD MP3...(and divx, etc...)
Ok correct me if i'm too dense but...
What the article means is that even if the software was suited to do gateway virus scaning, since there is no proof that no one used it that way, then it doesn't count as prior art??
That's like someone using a car to demolish houses by smashing it at high speed against them and claiming that you have patented it as a new device, and since no one used it that way, you have a legit patent.
(complimentary car analogy included for the ease of understanding, i had a better one with a hammer used as a new "masage" device, but you know, cars are so much better)
Yeah, but that game was released last year ;)
Excuse me, but i won't touch a PC with 256megs of ram even with a 6 feet pole, ever. How in the hell are you going to do anything but basic browsing/office on that...
Excuse me but you're taking that 400-600$ number out of your ass, sir.
Lets take your asumption that to upgrade you have to replace motherboard,procesor ram and videocard (wich is somewhat false since a simple videocard upgrade can make wonders half the time and video standars don't change as fast as you try to convince us... AGP lasted no less than 6 years, and ram upgrades usually don't require changing other components...)
Nowadays you can get a decent motherboard,chip,ram and videocard combo for about 300$ bucks that will run you ALMOST any games (notable exceptions are freak items like crysis). And with that you can almost guarantee 2-3 years of playing games, maybe you don't get the superduperultimatemegaexperience, but you'll get a damn decent game experience.
The coment about the hard drives is totally false, there are very few motherboards, if any, that don't have at least an PATA interface, and every new motherboard has support to older speeds of the interfaces they use, it's called legacy support.
You don't need a new case, i've been using the same one for 7 years and only changed the power supply once because a power surge fried the old one. You might need a more powerfull power suply, yes, but that one should last you at least 3-6 years if you're smart and buy a decent powerfull one (of course if you're a cheap bastard you get what you pay for).
Now compare those 300-400 bucks to a last gen console, compare all the things a console can do with all the things a pc can do. And don't forget that those components you have just replaced together can make a second pc that you could give to your kids to make their homework and all those silly usefull stuff computers do, or you could sell them on ebay for a not so bad price (look at old type ram prices on ebay for example)
And that's why recent ID cards are more comonly made as credit card style, with your photo and several holograms embossed plus the usual chip, if someone can falsify those, you're screwed anyway because with that level of tech and supplies they can do all kind of really nasty things to you. (the photo is printed into the card with all the other features so no, you can't just put a idferent photo over yours, that would stand out a LOT).
Of course if your country is still using the old style cardboard-laminated IDs, then you're a bit more screwed. But anyway, here in spain we had ID cards since about 30 years ago or more, with all kinds of data like birth, addres, parents data, your photo and your legal signature. And i have yet to hear about a single identity theft case, we might have had one or two but i haven't heard about it, so i think we're prety safe.
The real problem is that americans are over paranoid because identity theft is rampaging there, and that's because it's damn too easy to fake your identity because anyone can get a SSN and fake a lame ID to prove they're that person, if you had a REAL ID card issued by the government nationwide AND reasonably falsification-proof, you would have way less identity theft. And if you're worried about the big brother, make it so the ID cards oly have your SSN, name and photo, and you're served.
You know that nuclear subs have been traveling underwater for years before the existence of GPS tech, right?
You have things like inertial systems, the old magnetic compass, sonars that help you by telling you the features of the sea bottom (you know like the old age when you looked for a landmark you knew and used it to locate yourself) and other things...
and newer subs are not motorized, but nuclear-powered. Excuse me but what do you think a nuclear reactor and a turbine are? If they had 100 guys pulling a lever that moved the propeller, then you could say that they aren't motorized ( and you could argue that they have an human motor anyway...). But saying that a nuclear sub isn't motorized...
As far as i know Sapin is in the list too. Here you can only use a bluetooth hands free system, headsets are forbidden too.
Ok, lest make a truce then and get some beers :P
You know that some countries exchange the use of the coma and the decimal point (just check the regional config in windows and you'll see what i mean), and since he said "here in..." i bet he's from switzeland, wich gives him a good reason to have confused both. Specially considering the correct way in Switzeland would be 50'000 aparently.
So maybe you should stop being a grammar nazi with someone who doesn't have English as his first language, if those 2 are the only errors he made then i think he did a good job (and spare me about the use of non capital i, please don't burn me for it).
It's me or someone is looking for a new stepmother?
I meant manual labor when i said non executive, brain fart, sorry :P
You know these guys are some of the best paid non-executive people in the world, Right?
And that nobody forces them to do it, Right?
Making their job illegal would only piss them and make some silly holier-than-thou people more happy because the world would be a better place (tm)
And while you're at it, why not forbid people making other dangerous things, like... you know being cops or soldiers.
Imagines the amount of drive space consumed by sequences like:
"wwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaassssssssddddddddddddwwwwwwww wwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa[control][leftclick] y die n00b"
well, you know what they say:
"shit happens"
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