One can crack H2O into hydrogen and oxygen with electricity. Solar panels provide electricity. Hence, you fly over a crapload of solar panels, some hooge tanks, and a few electrolysis machines.
Then, you simply wait until you know for a damn fact that you have enough water and hydrogen to sustain a visit of however long, plus a return trip, plus a safety factor of however much. Meanwhile, you can be sending pallets of food, supplies, whatever you need. No human need step foot on the planet until you have everything they'll need.
I believe the cheating was detected by looking for students that did poorly in the previous grade, well in this grade,and poorly in the next grade. The cheating was then identified as a string of answers, toward the end of the test, that the teacher would just blindly fill in on as many sheets as they could before the tests were collected.
They did. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, wiimote for wand.
It suffers from the 'my way or the highway' design school; at one point, for example, you need to get a book from a shelf. What they want you to do is levitate a table beside the bookshelf, and climb up.
You can't grab the book magically, you can't knock it off by flinging something at it, you can't levitate a person up to grab it, nothing other than the way the Developers intended. That annoys me.
I stopped playing Black and White on a mission where some guys kidnapped a bunch of my villagers and said 'do as we say or they get it. And don't try grabbing us and flinging us into the ocean, you'll not be able to do it fast enough.' So I grabbed them and flung them into the ocean. And did it fast enough. And they magically reappeared and killed all my villagers. Bugger that.
Or Fallout Tactics for PC. Need to get to the roof. Here's a staircase with a barracade of sandbags, piled about three feet high. Can't move them, can't climb over them, can't blow them up, can't puncture them with a knife and let the sand out, nothing. You simply cannot get past that barrier. That's poor design.
[...] if we'd gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldn't have been anybody else with us. There would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq.
Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? That's a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it -- eastern Iraq -- the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you've got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey.
It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq.
The other thing was casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact we were able to do our job with as few casualties as we had. But for the 146 Americans killed in action, and for their families -- it wasn't a cheap war. And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth?
One side's freedom-fighters are the other side's terrorists.
To answer your question, I have no problem with the French Resistance. To my knowledge, they never went into Germany and bombed buildings, for example.
Nor do I have any problems with the occupying Germans executing partisans where they find them; that's how it works.
You know that famous picture of a South Vietnamese holding a snub-barrel revolver to a North Vietnamese's head, the NV being in civvie clothing? Few people ever comment that the NV was a NVA officer, in civvie clothes, in a conflict zone. By the Geneva Conventions, he was a spy liable for summary execution, and that's what he got.
The problem I have with the Iraqi insurgents is mainly that they refuse to acknowledge 'the rules.' They want to run around, shoot people while wearing civvie clothes, then hide in a Mosque and scream long and loud when somebody actually dares to return fire about how terrible it is. Well, you can't have it both ways.
The problem you get with somelike like Ethernet is that it is, inherently, digital. And there's a lot you can do to improve it's functioning, or it's margin-of-safety, which stage performers might want. Any network tech who's spent hours trying to track down an intermittant fault in a cat5 will tell you that.
That having been said, yes, most of the cable stuff is snake oil. 'Directionality?' Yeah, copper is directional to electric current.
One of my own personal favourites is 'in surround sound, all your speaker cables need to be the same length; if they're not, the sound won't be synced.' So, for example, if the cable to your left-front is twelve feet long, but the cable to your right-front (for some reason) is one hundred feet long, you'll be hearing the sound from the front-left ever-so-slightly before the right-front. So, if your longest run is 100 feet, you need five (or seven, or whatever) 100ft cables.
...unless you do the math. Then you find that with a difference of three hundred feet of cable, the positional error is less than that of your head moving due to your breathing.
Well, if they're on public land, what's the big deal with the local property owner driving along for a looksee, and noting the publicly displayed license-plates?
Yes, but interestingly enough, none of them would have prevented 9/11. For example, the hijackers would have passed all current TSA screening requirements, with the possible exception of being able to bring boxcutters in their carryon baggage.
3. Did we enact different policies towards our "enemy"
No.
4. Has their been attacks anywhere else in the world since?
Yes.
5. Has the USA had any attacks locally?
No, but that's really a meaningless indicator.
6. Has there been reports of any thwarted attacks?
Yes.
Had that idiot Clinton actually acted, instead of bombing a school and pharmaceutical factory, we might not have HAD a 9/11 here
What an odd thing to say, considering that Clinton was so focused on Bin Laden, that he was attacked by Congress. He was often accused, for example, of exaggerating the danger of Bin Laden to draw attention away from the Lewinsky affair.
What an odd thing to say, as well, given that, say, Homeland Security was a Clinton inititive that the Republicans stonewalled.
By first grade most of the kids have learned that everyone but Columbus thought the world was flat.
I'm not sure if you're using Columbus as an example of somebody who was skeptical of the 'common wisdom,' or if you're using the idea that 'everybody thought the world was flat' as an example of something first graders should be skeptical of.
You are aware, of course, that not only did the ancient Greeks know the world was round, they had it's circumference worked out with something like 90 percent accuracy, yes? In 4th Century BCE? Or that it was common knowledge during Columbus's day? How do you think maritime navigation worked back then? Why, stars, spherical earth, and a good astrolabe or sextant.
And don't get me started on the idea that Columbus 'discovered' America when the Vikings had been fishing off of Newfoundland five hundred years previous.
Blue Dragon, I didn't care for. Lost Odyssey, however, is an excellent game. Both include the Japanese language track.
And with Star Ocean 4, Infinite Undiscovery and Last Remenant all coming to Xbox 360, it's a great day to be a JRPG fan.
Mark my words, we'll see both MGS4 and FFXIII on 360.
An emergency responder can have their phone set to vibrate too. If they're 'on call' to the point where they need to be that much of a disruption, they don't get to attend plays when they're 'on call.'
Although the technical details are interesting, they're ultimately irrelevant; for whatever reason, a part fails where it shouldn't, and the two most likely reasons both boil down to 'design flaw.'
Interestingly enough, also, you need to take relativistic distortion into account. General relativity speeds up the atomic clocks (due to less gravity) and special relativity slows down the clocks (due to their velocity); add them together, and the clocks run about 28 microseconds slower than they would sitting beside you on Earth.
Asst: His heart-drive isn't spinning up!
SysAdmin: How long had it been running?
Asst: Oh, forty-two years.
SysAdmin: Ah, the bearings are shot, won't take a cold start. Listen, stick him in the freezer for, oh, call it overnight. Then, take him out, lift him about a foot off the ground, and drop him. THEN turn on the juice.
One of the ways that consoles drop in price over the years is the manufacturer re-engineering the chips; the classic example is a 1st generation Playstation 1; crack one open, and it's literally stuffed. Open a last-generation Playstation One (in the same case design; not the PSOne) and it's an itty bitty circuit board with an itty bitty chip or two and a cable to the CD-ROM.
Or the entire PS1 then being used as the controller input chip in the PS2. And the PS2 then fitting, on a chip, in the PS3.
With the Xbox, Microsoft didn't have the ability to do this. The CPU was a OTS Celeron, and the graphics chips was being supplied, as-is, by Nvidia. Hence, the price could never really drop, as Microsoft couldn't come up with cheaper ways to manufacture.
Nor could they come to, shall we say, 'terms' with Nvidia.
They wanted to avoid this problem with the 360; hence, they made it a specific requirement that all rights for the chips (GPU in this case; I'm not sure about the CPU) go to Microsoft.
Oddly enough, to a certain extent, you're right; it's within living memory that a black man would have been executed (be it through the legal system or in a more, shall we say, informal manner) in many areas simply for taking up with a white woman, let alone for killing her.
Both of my posts claim that he is guilty, that evidence was planted and more importantly that when it comes to OJ people do not listen to each other.
Granted, but really, how can you claim he was innocent?
I kid, I kid. But I will point out that I've thought for twenty years now that debate, rhetoric and logic need to be mandatory fields in public school. Oh, and Latin, but that's not germaine to this particular discussion.
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I think you're thinking of Softporn Adventure, the precursor to Leisure Suit Larry.
One can crack H2O into hydrogen and oxygen with electricity. Solar panels provide electricity. Hence, you fly over a crapload of solar panels, some hooge tanks, and a few electrolysis machines.
Then, you simply wait until you know for a damn fact that you have enough water and hydrogen to sustain a visit of however long, plus a return trip, plus a safety factor of however much. Meanwhile, you can be sending pallets of food, supplies, whatever you need. No human need step foot on the planet until you have everything they'll need.
I believe the cheating was detected by looking for students that did poorly in the previous grade, well in this grade,and poorly in the next grade. The cheating was then identified as a string of answers, toward the end of the test, that the teacher would just blindly fill in on as many sheets as they could before the tests were collected.
They did. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, wiimote for wand.
It suffers from the 'my way or the highway' design school; at one point, for example, you need to get a book from a shelf. What they want you to do is levitate a table beside the bookshelf, and climb up.
You can't grab the book magically, you can't knock it off by flinging something at it, you can't levitate a person up to grab it, nothing other than the way the Developers intended. That annoys me.
I stopped playing Black and White on a mission where some guys kidnapped a bunch of my villagers and said 'do as we say or they get it. And don't try grabbing us and flinging us into the ocean, you'll not be able to do it fast enough.' So I grabbed them and flung them into the ocean. And did it fast enough. And they magically reappeared and killed all my villagers. Bugger that.
Or Fallout Tactics for PC. Need to get to the roof. Here's a staircase with a barracade of sandbags, piled about three feet high. Can't move them, can't climb over them, can't blow them up, can't puncture them with a knife and let the sand out, nothing. You simply cannot get past that barrier. That's poor design.
[...] if we'd gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldn't have been anybody else with us. There would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq.
Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? That's a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it -- eastern Iraq -- the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you've got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey.
It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq.
The other thing was casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact we were able to do our job with as few casualties as we had. But for the 146 Americans killed in action, and for their families -- it wasn't a cheap war. And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth?
--Dick Cheney, 1994, on why invading Iraq would be a terrible idea.
One side's freedom-fighters are the other side's terrorists.
To answer your question, I have no problem with the French Resistance. To my knowledge, they never went into Germany and bombed buildings, for example.
Nor do I have any problems with the occupying Germans executing partisans where they find them; that's how it works.
You know that famous picture of a South Vietnamese holding a snub-barrel revolver to a North Vietnamese's head, the NV being in civvie clothing? Few people ever comment that the NV was a NVA officer, in civvie clothes, in a conflict zone. By the Geneva Conventions, he was a spy liable for summary execution, and that's what he got.
The problem I have with the Iraqi insurgents is mainly that they refuse to acknowledge 'the rules.' They want to run around, shoot people while wearing civvie clothes, then hide in a Mosque and scream long and loud when somebody actually dares to return fire about how terrible it is. Well, you can't have it both ways.
Do you also bitch about it not being released on 3.5 inch floppy?
The problem you get with somelike like Ethernet is that it is, inherently, digital. And there's a lot you can do to improve it's functioning, or it's margin-of-safety, which stage performers might want. Any network tech who's spent hours trying to track down an intermittant fault in a cat5 will tell you that.
That having been said, yes, most of the cable stuff is snake oil. 'Directionality?' Yeah, copper is directional to electric current.
One of my own personal favourites is 'in surround sound, all your speaker cables need to be the same length; if they're not, the sound won't be synced.' So, for example, if the cable to your left-front is twelve feet long, but the cable to your right-front (for some reason) is one hundred feet long, you'll be hearing the sound from the front-left ever-so-slightly before the right-front. So, if your longest run is 100 feet, you need five (or seven, or whatever) 100ft cables.
...unless you do the math. Then you find that with a difference of three hundred feet of cable, the positional error is less than that of your head moving due to your breathing.
Well, if they're on public land, what's the big deal with the local property owner driving along for a looksee, and noting the publicly displayed license-plates?
What an odd thing to say, as well, given that, say, Homeland Security was a Clinton inititive that the Republicans stonewalled.
I'm not sure if you're using Columbus as an example of somebody who was skeptical of the 'common wisdom,' or if you're using the idea that 'everybody thought the world was flat' as an example of something first graders should be skeptical of.
You are aware, of course, that not only did the ancient Greeks know the world was round, they had it's circumference worked out with something like 90 percent accuracy, yes? In 4th Century BCE? Or that it was common knowledge during Columbus's day? How do you think maritime navigation worked back then? Why, stars, spherical earth, and a good astrolabe or sextant.
And don't get me started on the idea that Columbus 'discovered' America when the Vikings had been fishing off of Newfoundland five hundred years previous.
Also, that
I came to say that what you usually see on Slashdot isn't skepticisim; it's outright rejection in an attempt to look intelligent.
Resident Evil 2 for N64 begs to disagree with you. To a certain extent, at least.
Blue Dragon, I didn't care for. Lost Odyssey, however, is an excellent game. Both include the Japanese language track. And with Star Ocean 4, Infinite Undiscovery and Last Remenant all coming to Xbox 360, it's a great day to be a JRPG fan. Mark my words, we'll see both MGS4 and FFXIII on 360.
An emergency responder can have their phone set to vibrate too. If they're 'on call' to the point where they need to be that much of a disruption, they don't get to attend plays when they're 'on call.'
Although the technical details are interesting, they're ultimately irrelevant; for whatever reason, a part fails where it shouldn't, and the two most likely reasons both boil down to 'design flaw.'
Interestingly enough, also, you need to take relativistic distortion into account. General relativity speeds up the atomic clocks (due to less gravity) and special relativity slows down the clocks (due to their velocity); add them together, and the clocks run about 28 microseconds slower than they would sitting beside you on Earth.
Asst: His heart-drive isn't spinning up!
SysAdmin: How long had it been running?
Asst: Oh, forty-two years.
SysAdmin: Ah, the bearings are shot, won't take a cold start. Listen, stick him in the freezer for, oh, call it overnight. Then, take him out, lift him about a foot off the ground, and drop him. THEN turn on the juice.
One of the ways that consoles drop in price over the years is the manufacturer re-engineering the chips; the classic example is a 1st generation Playstation 1; crack one open, and it's literally stuffed. Open a last-generation Playstation One (in the same case design; not the PSOne) and it's an itty bitty circuit board with an itty bitty chip or two and a cable to the CD-ROM.
Or the entire PS1 then being used as the controller input chip in the PS2. And the PS2 then fitting, on a chip, in the PS3.
With the Xbox, Microsoft didn't have the ability to do this. The CPU was a OTS Celeron, and the graphics chips was being supplied, as-is, by Nvidia. Hence, the price could never really drop, as Microsoft couldn't come up with cheaper ways to manufacture.
Nor could they come to, shall we say, 'terms' with Nvidia.
They wanted to avoid this problem with the 360; hence, they made it a specific requirement that all rights for the chips (GPU in this case; I'm not sure about the CPU) go to Microsoft.
At a completely off-the-cuff guess, thermal expansion bringing contact points back into contact.
Oddly enough, to a certain extent, you're right; it's within living memory that a black man would have been executed (be it through the legal system or in a more, shall we say, informal manner) in many areas simply for taking up with a white woman, let alone for killing her.
Granted, but really, how can you claim he was innocent?
I kid, I kid. But I will point out that I've thought for twenty years now that debate, rhetoric and logic need to be mandatory fields in public school. Oh, and Latin, but that's not germaine to this particular discussion.
Nah, he just finally managed to have a PI track down his wife in Russia or something.
Well hell, $60 in 1980 is the equivalent of about $170 now.
$60 dollars now was around $21 in 1980.
Seems like a deal to me!
I'll point out that bacteria have survived quite handily on equipment left on the Moon; the most radioactive desert you'll find handy.