I also would guess that you don't have to shoot ahead of your fast moving target. Once these things get real world experience, and tracking gets better, then they will be useful against even fast moving objects, much better than kinetic projectiles.
It would be quite interesting to see in future whether these can get fitted on large aircraft, as (assuming the emitter is nimble enough) you don't have to face your plane at the target, you could shoot sideways w/o worrying about recoil. Simply lock your target, engage the laser and then you are free to use whatever evasive manoeuvres you like while the gun tracks and fires.
Perhaps a prism would be more effective. High powered lazorz can burn through mirrors, but you might be able to take advantage of total internal reflection instead.
Well of course, didn't you know that the greatest praise/honour that Japanese politicians can get revolves around how selfless they can be? American politicians get praise for how rich they can become, how well they can "play the game".
The "how the transition works" video will be for people interested in how the transition works, not a regular user. Your comment is like saying a 30 minute video on "how the internal combustions engine works" is a pointless exercise, because the regular driver just wants it to work
What few people realise is that this may very well be exactly what the terrorists want.
Every day you hear a comment along the lines of "this now sets up the perfect scenario where a terrorist can blow up a big queue of people at a security checkpoint"
But what's not said is that this continuing erosion of free thinking, the indoctrination of "follow the rules, do as you are told" is the ultimate victory for the terrorist. We are in such constant fear of them that we have given up our freedom, surrendered it willingly to them.
I'm from, and living in, Ireland. For years we wouldn't go to Belfast for fear that that would be the one day a bomb would go off in a shopping centre. I also won't go to America for holidays, because I don't want to be finger-printed, scanned, groped whatever, treated like a criminal for wanting to spend money there. There are so many more places in the world I can visit (I haven't gone all around Europe yet) where they seem genuinely happy to have you come over and visit you. Even the French don't mind if you can't speak much French, when you are a paying customer!
Terrorists are not going to upset what they worked so hard to achieve. The cost to the US, both economically and socially is so high that the best thing for them is to keep it going as is.
Well of course. The amount of piracy atm is okay. But just like a trademark, you have to at least put up some level of defence otherwise you lose it altogether. While the amount of piracy going on right now is not so bad, in fact a boost, letting it run completely unchallenged would lead to an explosion of it and will eventually affect their profits.
This is a big admission, and we should applaud them for it, but still in many jurisdictions, piracy is illegal, so they really can't condone it, can they?
The question really should be, why do legal services cost so much? What amazing skill do these people have that allows them to charge so much? They are not Heart/Brain surgeons. The system is (can't think of a good word, but) cartel/monopoly where they have inflated the cost of their services so much you are forced to pay or lose.
My current phone is an S2, my contract up in a month and a bit. I'll get an S4. Anyone who got an S2 for Christmas 2011 on an 18 month contract may get this.
There has been a decline in the number of people smoking in Ireland over the last 2 decades. The retailers blamed it on counterfeit cigarettes. They did not blame it on the smoking ban or the fact that under 30 yo (the area they experienced the greatest decline) are simply just not smoking as much because it's being seen as a filthy killing habit.
It's not limited to movies and games that people will blame anything else but the product for their loss in sales. If nobody buys SimCity because of the DRM, EA will simply blame pirates. There's nothing new here.
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I also would guess that you don't have to shoot ahead of your fast moving target. Once these things get real world experience, and tracking gets better, then they will be useful against even fast moving objects, much better than kinetic projectiles.
It would be quite interesting to see in future whether these can get fitted on large aircraft, as (assuming the emitter is nimble enough) you don't have to face your plane at the target, you could shoot sideways w/o worrying about recoil. Simply lock your target, engage the laser and then you are free to use whatever evasive manoeuvres you like while the gun tracks and fires.
Perhaps a prism would be more effective. High powered lazorz can burn through mirrors, but you might be able to take advantage of total internal reflection instead.
You can't count in Collector's Editions, they don't get taken out of their packaging.
I never realised that's what DOS stood for.
Well of course, didn't you know that the greatest praise/honour that Japanese politicians can get revolves around how selfless they can be? American politicians get praise for how rich they can become, how well they can "play the game".
And you wonder how shit like Godzilla happens...
So this makes MtGOX the perfect exchange as it is immune to microsecond stock transactions!
I had heard the Big Bang created all gas giants and nebulae, but even I don't believe they can record it's flatulence.
The "how the transition works" video will be for people interested in how the transition works, not a regular user. Your comment is like saying a 30 minute video on "how the internal combustions engine works" is a pointless exercise, because the regular driver just wants it to work
What few people realise is that this may very well be exactly what the terrorists want.
Every day you hear a comment along the lines of "this now sets up the perfect scenario where a terrorist can blow up a big queue of people at a security checkpoint"
But what's not said is that this continuing erosion of free thinking, the indoctrination of "follow the rules, do as you are told" is the ultimate victory for the terrorist. We are in such constant fear of them that we have given up our freedom, surrendered it willingly to them.
I'm from, and living in, Ireland. For years we wouldn't go to Belfast for fear that that would be the one day a bomb would go off in a shopping centre. I also won't go to America for holidays, because I don't want to be finger-printed, scanned, groped whatever, treated like a criminal for wanting to spend money there. There are so many more places in the world I can visit (I haven't gone all around Europe yet) where they seem genuinely happy to have you come over and visit you. Even the French don't mind if you can't speak much French, when you are a paying customer!
Terrorists are not going to upset what they worked so hard to achieve. The cost to the US, both economically and socially is so high that the best thing for them is to keep it going as is.
*Whooosh*
It's GOOD!
Under new password rules, you now have to include a number and an uppercase letter. But this was quickly guessed anyway:
Kimjong1
It is available on iTunes? Sounds catchy.
An eye for an eye leaves one man with one eye, and we know already that in the land of the blind, the one-eye'd man is king.
Well of course. The amount of piracy atm is okay. But just like a trademark, you have to at least put up some level of defence otherwise you lose it altogether. While the amount of piracy going on right now is not so bad, in fact a boost, letting it run completely unchallenged would lead to an explosion of it and will eventually affect their profits.
This is a big admission, and we should applaud them for it, but still in many jurisdictions, piracy is illegal, so they really can't condone it, can they?
Read all the way down,
No Burma Shave.
I am dissapoint.
("you'll catch more flies with honey than you will with vinegar")
Unfortunately many of them are running with the idea that a steaming pile of shit attracts flies more than either, and for less.
The question really should be, why do legal services cost so much? What amazing skill do these people have that allows them to charge so much? They are not Heart/Brain surgeons. The system is (can't think of a good word, but) cartel/monopoly where they have inflated the cost of their services so much you are forced to pay or lose.
I feel like a real shit, because you typed in an excellent helpful piece in reply to an early-morning toss-off meant to be humorous -
GP is clearly a VERY clever Troll.
My current phone is an S2, my contract up in a month and a bit. I'll get an S4. Anyone who got an S2 for Christmas 2011 on an 18 month contract may get this.
Makes sense, once the world leaders in rape and pillage, now the Vikings have the best internet speeds instead.
15 Gamers are going to rent a house that has no internet connection? None of you has a mobile phone with data connection and wi-fi hotspot?
There has been a decline in the number of people smoking in Ireland over the last 2 decades. The retailers blamed it on counterfeit cigarettes. They did not blame it on the smoking ban or the fact that under 30 yo (the area they experienced the greatest decline) are simply just not smoking as much because it's being seen as a filthy killing habit.
It's not limited to movies and games that people will blame anything else but the product for their loss in sales. If nobody buys SimCity because of the DRM, EA will simply blame pirates. There's nothing new here.
Yeah, I thought they were going to try clear up all the space junk.
Why are they lumping in Gay people with Drug users and Republicans, as if it's a bad thing?