Star Wars space battles are copied from WWI biplane battles, where nobody can hit targets consistently, even at short range.
YES! We have technology today that can keep a laser pointed at a car hood for multiple seconds, from a plane flying by. Why can't they have targeting computers IN THE FUTURE that can do anything like that????
Big pet peeve right there. Best episode though from DS9 was the season finale when Sisko tells Warf to enable auto-targeting and all the photon torpedos just start sailing out of the station. Great battle.
I HATED this in Stargate SG-1. Where Carter would have to explain everything to Jack, in every episode. I turned off of the series, just for this reason!
Firefily: Very good. Star Wars: Very good (hyperspanner was about it) Star Trek: horrible. as everyone else has pointed out.
Now wait. You are saying the Maunder Minimum, which corresponded with fewer solar flares (well, almost none, really) was from the same "mechanizm", ie increased cosmic rays?
Are you implying that cosmic rays influence the solar flares, or are you really that "cloud covered" (ie dim) to say same net effect from two independent sources is really the same source?
With Windows 7, you can load both drivers and have both cards in the computer at the same time, doing exactly what this article is talking about. I could have done this!
Was I planning on doing it? No. But, if a game came out with Physx support and I wanted to, I was hoping I could do it.
And, what about murder? Oh, Tom Clancy wrote a great book, that I want to publish? Pay the mob to knock him off, and it's free game.
14 years + a single 14 year renewal (if the original author is still alive and interested in it) is just fine, thank you.
Imagine, the original Star Wars would be in the Public Domain. The early Star Trek. Battlestar Galactica. How much fun would that be to have the freedom to pit a cylon army against storm troopers in a full movie?
Last time I checked, taking advantage of someone's enjoyment of their work by not paying them is called exploitation. How about, if because you like to program, your employer decided not to pay you.
Talk to Linus about that, will ya? With all the people in the world using Linux, he should be a millionaire. Oh ya, he voluntarily gave it away!
Artists work. They deserve to be paid for what they do.
You really believe that statement? They deserve to be paid? Wow. Please, read your statement over again. So, what if an artist puts their content up on a website for free, for anyone to download? Do they still deserve to be paid? If so, how much?
As soon as you say they "deserve to be paid" and the "how much" question comes into the equation, you know it's based on an incorrect principles.
If I look at a page like The Drudge Report, I can ctrl-click on 10 links, creating 10 background tabs. Then, I click on the first article tab, read a bit, close the tab. That shows me the 2nd article. Close it, and I get the 3rd. etc.
This way, I don't have to wait more than 50ms to go from article to article. They are already loaded in the background for me.
Watch out for condensation. Maybe put whatever you do in a few layers of zip-locs, with some anti-dessicant bags or something to keep the humidity down in the final, inside bag.
Probably your best bet is a a combination of several things to try your luck. A USB thumb drive, as the USB interface will probably be around a long time (like USB->parallel adapters even keep the parallel interface alive). But, flash memory might degrade.
I'd probably put a DVD+R disk in (that has an archive layer on it [the better disks you can buy]).
How about a small 2.5" hard drive with a SATA interface?
Does anyone else remember when Quicken a few years ago would overwrite the MBR or something like that, and break dual-boot systems?
What would that do in this case? Brick windows until reinstall?
I thought it was bad of Microsoft to intentionally not read Mac floppy disks. I feel the dual-boot issues (minus BitLocker security issues in this specific case) with windows and linux (or any other OS) are just another example of that same mentality: Make it difficult to work with other systems, to try and keep people locked into the MS trash can for as long as possible.
Unfortunately, there have been quite a few acts of terrorism in the US since 9/11 that officially they didn't want to link to anything organized or racial, but shootings in a Utah mall, California campuses, another mall in the midwest, and others have happened by muslim people for no apparent reason.
Am I afraid of a lone shooter at a mall? no. I'm not afraid to fly either. But, I am afraid to go through the TSA checkpoints at the airport, and they find something like a shampoo bottle that is 1oz too big and they want to examine my bags "more thoroughly".
Am I flying as often? No, because I hate the hassle the airport has become. Not because of fear of terrorist acts while on the plane.
I got a Qnap TS-409 a few months ago...
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and really like it. Small. It can take up to 4 disks. I have 2 750GB drives in a mirror raid, and back up to a 3rd 750GB drive weekly.
It's got DDR2 memory, pretty fast network access, and only takes ~30watts.
I can ssh in with putty and play around with it.
So far, I've installed an svn server on it and have all of my code in svn now.
He isn't saying every single person be a fire-fighter. He's saying, let fire departments be a private business, and not propped up by taxes. It's a service. Not a fundamental right.
If you don't want to pay for the fire station's fees, then you miss out on that service.
Easy, simple, and is working in many cities in America just fine, thank you.
So, the current list of half-decent cards to choose from is:
Creative X-Fi (PCI, $60+) Auzentech Prelude (PCI, uses the X-Fi chip, but should be better, but $180+) Asus Xonar DX (PCIExpress 1x, $90) Asus Xonar D2X (PCI, $200)
The X-Fi cards are nice, but not worth the price. I'm looking for some Linux support. I'm looking to hook it up to a digital 5.1 set of speakers and a headset on the front-audio of my case. I play 1st-person shooter games, so good DirectX support is required.
I currently have an X-Fi, with a hobbled front-audio solution, but decent windows support (both games and OS). But, it just is cranky to do anything with front-audio. Drivers suck, etc.
One more example that oil probably didn't come from decomposing plants and dead dinosaurs.
I'm really surprised more people don't know about abiogenic oil.
Pop quiz: How much plant/animal matter would it take to make a gallon of oil, using pressure as most people think of how oil is made? Now, how many billions of gallons of oil are there? See the problem?
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Star Wars space battles are copied from WWI biplane battles, where nobody can hit targets consistently, even at short range.
YES! We have technology today that can keep a laser pointed at a car hood for multiple seconds, from a plane flying by. Why can't they have targeting computers IN THE FUTURE that can do anything like that????
Big pet peeve right there. Best episode though from DS9 was the season finale when Sisko tells Warf to enable auto-targeting and all the photon torpedos just start sailing out of the station. Great battle.
I HATED this in Stargate SG-1. Where Carter would have to explain everything to Jack, in every episode. I turned off of the series, just for this reason!
Firefily: Very good.
Star Wars: Very good (hyperspanner was about it)
Star Trek: horrible. as everyone else has pointed out.
It just makes the series feel dated.
Now wait. You are saying the Maunder Minimum, which corresponded with fewer solar flares (well, almost none, really) was from the same "mechanizm", ie increased cosmic rays?
Are you implying that cosmic rays influence the solar flares, or are you really that "cloud covered" (ie dim) to say same net effect from two independent sources is really the same source?
My last video card was an 8800GTS (nVidia).
I recently bought a 4890 (ATI).
With Windows 7, you can load both drivers and have both cards in the computer at the same time, doing exactly what this article is talking about. I could have done this!
Was I planning on doing it? No. But, if a game came out with Physx support and I wanted to, I was hoping I could do it.
Now, no chance.
Like I said. I bought ATI this time. 'nough said.
And, what about murder? Oh, Tom Clancy wrote a great book, that I want to publish? Pay the mob to knock him off, and it's free game.
14 years + a single 14 year renewal (if the original author is still alive and interested in it) is just fine, thank you.
Imagine, the original Star Wars would be in the Public Domain. The early Star Trek. Battlestar Galactica. How much fun would that be to have the freedom to pit a cylon army against storm troopers in a full movie?
And, how much does it take to make a movie? $50 million? $100 million? And, how much does that DVD cost? $20, or even $10 at Walmart?
Talk to Linus about that, will ya? With all the people in the world using Linux, he should be a millionaire. Oh ya, he voluntarily gave it away!
You really believe that statement? They deserve to be paid? Wow. Please, read your statement over again. So, what if an artist puts their content up on a website for free, for anyone to download? Do they still deserve to be paid? If so, how much?
As soon as you say they "deserve to be paid" and the "how much" question comes into the equation, you know it's based on an incorrect principles.
If I look at a page like The Drudge Report, I can ctrl-click on 10 links, creating 10 background tabs. Then, I click on the first article tab, read a bit, close the tab. That shows me the 2nd article. Close it, and I get the 3rd. etc.
This way, I don't have to wait more than 50ms to go from article to article. They are already loaded in the background for me.
Very handy!
Doesn't everyone do this?
The big question is: Does it have enough legs to get it over the engineering hump and into real life.
Right now, it's questionable. Chicken and egg problem.
Even though it's feasible, is there enough money, need, and ambition in it *right now* to still get it to market?
Not sure.
And, considering some of the players are exiting, it doesn't bode well.
Ars Technica recently had a great writeup on the state of wireless video, which included a lot of info on UWB.
It's worth a read.
Flash.
Most people don't know about Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q.
Very handy when you want to pause a program's output to look at it (or free up the CPU for a minute for something else, etc) and then to release it.
Very handy.
For Winders, you can do the same by dragging the scroll bar, and it will pause a perl script or whatever until you let go.
Plasmas have deeper blacks, to really show that cosmos better.
Watch out for condensation. Maybe put whatever you do in a few layers of zip-locs, with some anti-dessicant bags or something to keep the humidity down in the final, inside bag.
Probably your best bet is a a combination of several things to try your luck. A USB thumb drive, as the USB interface will probably be around a long time (like USB->parallel adapters even keep the parallel interface alive). But, flash memory might degrade.
I'd probably put a DVD+R disk in (that has an archive layer on it [the better disks you can buy]).
How about a small 2.5" hard drive with a SATA interface?
Do a couple, and one might be readable.
Unfortunately, symbolism is lost on most Western cultures.
We tend to try and read passages like that very literally, when they were meant as a metaphore.
Now, the question is: What message was the metaphore supposed to convey.
Ah, now you come to the hard part.
Does anyone else remember when Quicken a few years ago would overwrite the MBR or something like that, and break dual-boot systems?
What would that do in this case? Brick windows until reinstall?
I thought it was bad of Microsoft to intentionally not read Mac floppy disks. I feel the dual-boot issues (minus BitLocker security issues in this specific case) with windows and linux (or any other OS) are just another example of that same mentality: Make it difficult to work with other systems, to try and keep people locked into the MS trash can for as long as possible.
Unfortunately, there have been quite a few acts of terrorism in the US since 9/11 that officially they didn't want to link to anything organized or racial, but shootings in a Utah mall, California campuses, another mall in the midwest, and others have happened by muslim people for no apparent reason.
Am I afraid of a lone shooter at a mall? no. I'm not afraid to fly either. But, I am afraid to go through the TSA checkpoints at the airport, and they find something like a shampoo bottle that is 1oz too big and they want to examine my bags "more thoroughly".
Am I flying as often? No, because I hate the hassle the airport has become. Not because of fear of terrorist acts while on the plane.
and really like it. Small. It can take up to 4 disks. I have 2 750GB drives in a mirror raid, and back up to a 3rd 750GB drive weekly.
It's got DDR2 memory, pretty fast network access, and only takes ~30watts.
I can ssh in with putty and play around with it.
So far, I've installed an svn server on it and have all of my code in svn now.
Two thumbs up here.
or at best, it's a "word changing experiment". ;)
Shake tester?
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Can I have that job? I like chocolate, strawberry, and marshmallow. I will even eat shakes made with oreos or candy bar chunks.
I think I qualify as an "outside company"
Please see this article.
He isn't saying every single person be a fire-fighter. He's saying, let fire departments be a private business, and not propped up by taxes. It's a service. Not a fundamental right.
If you don't want to pay for the fire station's fees, then you miss out on that service.
Easy, simple, and is working in many cities in America just fine, thank you.
So, the current list of half-decent cards to choose from is:
Creative X-Fi (PCI, $60+)
Auzentech Prelude (PCI, uses the X-Fi chip, but should be better, but $180+)
Asus Xonar DX (PCIExpress 1x, $90)
Asus Xonar D2X (PCI, $200)
The X-Fi cards are nice, but not worth the price. I'm looking for some Linux support. I'm looking to hook it up to a digital 5.1 set of speakers and a headset on the front-audio of my case. I play 1st-person shooter games, so good DirectX support is required.
I currently have an X-Fi, with a hobbled front-audio solution, but decent windows support (both games and OS). But, it just is cranky to do anything with front-audio. Drivers suck, etc.
Hmmm. What to do.
The real question, is will it blend? ;)
Have you read the first amendment?
No, really. Have you read it?
Congress shall make no law...It's a limit only upon the federal government. Not even the state governments, let alone a city government.
Vertical separation of powers. You'd think nobody in America understands how it is supposed to work anymore. How disappointing.
Has anybody else heard of abiogenic hydrocarbons?
One more example that oil probably didn't come from decomposing plants and dead dinosaurs.
I'm really surprised more people don't know about abiogenic oil.
Pop quiz: How much plant/animal matter would it take to make a gallon of oil, using pressure as most people think of how oil is made? Now, how many billions of gallons of oil are there? See the problem?