They were dropping flares, so I'd assume it was a thermal tracking. Regardless of the technology; those missles were travelling pathetically slow and the whole scene was drawn out longer than I could believe.
I played a lot of Falcon 3.0 and Mig29, and I can say that these SAM missles travel at THOUSANDS of miles per hour. You only need to dodge these things ONCE; they can't turn around, sneak up on you, hide in the bushes, and then appear on your tail again. Your best bet is to head towards the missle, with the missle slightly above you, about 30 degrees, and then at the last instant pull up into the missle's trail; the missle can't possible make such a sharp turn and loses its lock.
haha.. better read the fine print and make sure you actuallu get your own *computer* including box and powersuppy, and motherboard-- or you may end up sharing your box with 100 other ppl:-P
I bought a sheet of "Sound Board" at Home Depot for about $5 bucks. Enough to outfit three computers with. works very well and is easy to cut (bread knife worked well)
it would be really useful to have a few cheap and small PCs thrown about the house
Small and cheap? These are hardly the latter, especially for what you described. I setup a 486 50mhz laptop for my mom to access the internet, I put barebones Xwindows with Blackbox and have all the programs launch from my 1.2ghz athlon. Run's very quick indeed. I'd like to see you install WinXP on that and try to do the same thing:-p
maybe i can use the kernel drivers for my sblive 5.1 card.. and perhaps my usb mouse won't freeze about once a week, requiring me to unplug it for a second.. then again... who knows-- im too lazy at the moment to break my system
excess money that monopolists extract from a market would ordinarily be money that would belong to other people
This is why I feel good about being a poor college student; the money that I *could* be making is distributed to the poor and needy and upper class... I feel quite charitable.
some ass actually convinced me that Vquake (and hence rendition) was much better than Glquake (voodoo) and i bought a diamond stealth 3d II with the rendition piece of shit.. Nevermind that it was nearly impossible to run in X, but besides Vquake I think I played exactly ONE other game that actually supported the chipset.
It's still sitting a box along with a gravis ultrasound and a number nine video card:-p
LEGO has been watching Microsoft for YEARS!
Of course they've introduced entirely proprietary lego pieces! LEGO doesn't want you to make a boat out of that X-Wing Fighter!
LEGO you to buy their boat model!
In effect, they've created a subscribtion based revenue model based on the fact that kids always want to build something new!
yup i was pissed off about the same thing.. Sensationalism on Slashdot is starting to piss me off.. Robotic Baseball pitcher. BAH. Pillars underwater. BAH.. I hate you!
I figured out another work-around-- you just need to put your name in the c:\windows\hosts file on your windows box and it will work.. also tell your friends to do that too... thats the easy way
Was the title "Indiana Jones, and The Last Crusade". It was like a death certificate. My hopes for a sequel were snuffed. But somehow I've always dreamed that George Lucas and Spielberg would create another. . .
I only hope that Lucas doesn't suck like Episode I, and Spielburg lays off the smack ala A.I.
The 5Watt pots are about $3 each at radioshack.com.... not expensive at all really.
Not sure what zener diodes are, but the pots are nice because you can mount them in a moment to the back of the case so you can adjust the fan speed whenever you want.
Get a sheet of "Sound Board" from any Home Depot for about 6 bucks. This material is very easily cut.. use a hot glue gun to mount the board to every wall in your case. the sheet metal is not the best sound absorber by itself. Next, go to your local Radioshack.com (Fry's electronics sucked) and pick up some potentiometers. Get 5W, 50ohm. Splice these into your case fan/cput fan, only using the positive wire only. (use the middle and left OR right connection only on the pots).
This will deaden any PC quite well.. without special equipment. I have an MC462 W/ Delta cpu fan. 80mm, and 120mm case fans. the pots let me quiet it down even more... while sacrificing a little cooling ability. (at least I can sleep at night now. ..)
A cool idea would be to move these things out of your shoes... and INTO your feet themselves. Hell, sew them all over inside your body-- your pacemaker would never need new batteries... and who knows, future electrical implants would have a perfectly reliable power source...
With a paper "lcd" monitor I will have to illuminate my screen just as I would a book. How strange. . . and how devasting to cave dwellers such as myself. . .
I'd be happy to pay 300/month to have the freedom from the Internet and actually enjoy life and old dos games that won't run on my fucking computer, such as syndicate which keeps saying I dont have enough XMI memory, or take for instance Star Control II, which runs great but locks up sporadically. . . and the fact that I can't find Alone in the Dark on ANY warez site. . . it's depressing, and. . . I'm done for now.
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They were dropping flares, so I'd assume it was a thermal tracking. Regardless of the technology; those missles were travelling pathetically slow and the whole scene was drawn out longer than I could believe.
I played a lot of Falcon 3.0 and Mig29, and I can say that these SAM missles travel at THOUSANDS of miles per hour. You only need to dodge these things ONCE; they can't turn around, sneak up on you, hide in the bushes, and then appear on your tail again. Your best bet is to head towards the missle, with the missle slightly above you, about 30 degrees, and then at the last instant pull up into the missle's trail; the missle can't possible make such a sharp turn and loses its lock.
Isn't "museum" a little too hard for the average net user to spell correctly?
This idea is only going to cause more problems...
Transparency, with lossy compression, layers and animation support.
Is that too much to ask?
haha.. better read the fine print and make sure you actuallu get your own *computer* including box and powersuppy, and motherboard-- or you may end up sharing your box with 100 other ppl :-P
I bought a sheet of "Sound Board" at Home Depot for about $5 bucks. Enough to outfit three computers with. works very well and is easy to cut (bread knife worked well)
The Government actually has to hire a company to restore damaged registry files. That makes me want to *puke*
Why not Cardboard? Cardboard!
Small and cheap? These are hardly the latter, especially for what you described. I setup a 486 50mhz laptop for my mom to access the internet, I put barebones Xwindows with Blackbox and have all the programs launch from my 1.2ghz athlon. Run's very quick indeed. I'd like to see you install WinXP on that and try to do the same thing
maybe i can use the kernel drivers for my sblive 5.1 card.. and perhaps my usb mouse won't freeze about once a week, requiring me to unplug it for a second.. then again... who knows-- im too lazy at the moment to break my system
excess money that monopolists extract from a market would ordinarily be money that would belong to other people
This is why I feel good about being a poor college student; the money that I *could* be making is distributed to the poor and needy and upper class... I feel quite charitable.
some ass actually convinced me that Vquake (and hence rendition) was much better than Glquake (voodoo) and i bought a diamond stealth 3d II with the rendition piece of shit.. Nevermind that it was nearly impossible to run in X, but besides Vquake I think I played exactly ONE other game that actually supported the chipset.
:-p
It's still sitting a box along with a gravis ultrasound and a number nine video card
heh
Name the chips according to it's MIPS performance
ie; ATHLON 3000
eh?
LEGO has been watching Microsoft for YEARS!
Of course they've introduced entirely proprietary lego pieces!
LEGO doesn't want you to make a boat out of that X-Wing Fighter!
LEGO you to buy their boat model!
In effect, they've created a subscribtion based revenue model based on the fact that kids always want to build something new!
I think a beer mug with a copper base plate in .. :-p
combination with a peltier embedded coaster
would be pretty damn cool.
yup i was pissed off about the same thing.. Sensationalism on Slashdot is starting to piss me off.. Robotic Baseball pitcher. BAH. Pillars underwater. BAH.. I hate you!
I figured out another work-around-- you just need to put your name in the c:\windows\hosts file on your windows box and it will work.. also tell your friends to do that too... thats the easy way
Was the title "Indiana Jones, and The Last Crusade". It was like a death certificate. My hopes for a sequel were snuffed. But somehow I've always dreamed that George Lucas and Spielberg would create another. . .
I only hope that Lucas doesn't suck like Episode I, and Spielburg lays off the smack ala A.I.
The 5Watt pots are about $3 each at radioshack.com.... not expensive at all really. Not sure what zener diodes are, but the pots are nice because you can mount them in a moment to the back of the case so you can adjust the fan speed whenever you want.
Get a sheet of "Sound Board" from any Home Depot for about 6 bucks. This material is very easily cut.. use a hot glue gun to mount the board to every wall in your case. the sheet metal is not the best sound absorber by itself. .)
Next, go to your local Radioshack.com (Fry's electronics sucked) and pick up some potentiometers. Get 5W, 50ohm. Splice these into your case fan/cput fan, only using the positive wire only. (use the middle and left OR right connection only on the pots).
This will deaden any PC quite well.. without special equipment. I have an MC462 W/ Delta cpu fan. 80mm, and 120mm case fans. the pots let me quiet it down even more... while sacrificing a little cooling ability. (at least I can sleep at night now. .
A cool idea would be to move these things out of your shoes... and INTO your feet themselves.
Hell, sew them all over inside your body-- your pacemaker would never need new batteries... and
who knows, future electrical implants would have a perfectly reliable power source...
Is this the same experiment?
With a paper "lcd" monitor I will have to illuminate my screen just as I would a book. How strange. . . and how devasting to cave dwellers such as myself. . .
I'd be happy to pay 300/month to have the freedom from the Internet and actually enjoy life and old dos games that won't run on my fucking computer, such as syndicate which keeps saying I dont have enough XMI memory, or take for instance Star Control II, which runs great but locks up sporadically. . . and the fact that I can't find Alone in the Dark on ANY warez site. . . it's depressing, and. . . I'm done for now.