Set the power supply on the ground, fold back the box top so that the top of box covers top of the PSU (if needed, put a book under the box to get height correct), mobo goes in the box, hard drive sits on cardboard over PSU. It works and stuff stays in one place. I've run boxes like this for years. I've never noticed any RF interference. Never had overheating either-- even when gaming.
Cases are just bent metal. Also, you don't need all those fans. As long as you're within the rated operating temperature, your processor doesn't care.
That was my favorite game, back in those days. What I loved is if you tried to attack with a limb that had been removed, you would spurt blood from the stump! Awesome game!
If you actually care about the environment, it's probably more productive to just bribe the correct Chinese officials to enforce their laws than to enact export bans or mandatory certification processes in the USA.
E-Waste that gets shipped to China and other places, sometimes ends up handled by facilities without adequate worker protection and polluting the environment. The journo doesn't provide any real information of what percentage of waste ends up handled in this way and how much is handled in a responsible manner. Nor does he make any mention of how Chinese law regards these activities. China is mentioned only as a bogeyman.
Oh, look! Someone right here in the good old USA has found a solution! Yay! The Chinese bogeyman can be defeated! But, wait... there are some fly-by-night operators who don't want to embrace this triumph of American ingenuity. Obviously, those fly-by-night folks are just looking for a quick buck while the larger businesses are really looking out for the environment.
Therefore, we should pass some kind of law to prevent export of e-waste. The large businesses that can afford to vertically integrate (through capital expenditures on the machinery for e-waste processing [NB: Investment in jobs vs machinery is related to cost of labor {Where labor is cheap (China, global south), work is done by workers. Where workers are expensive (USA, EU, etc.), work is done by machines}]) obviously have environmental interests at heart (never commercial interests.)
So, the article offers a problem (hellish conditions in some places receiving electronics exports from the USA), and offers a solution (requiring the processing of waste in the USA). Who will benefit from this? The large, vertically integrated e-waste companies in the USA. Who will lose? 1) All of the small e-waste collectors who will now be forced to sell their raw e-waste to the large domestic operators, and 2) all of the foreign e-waste processing centers.
The end result would be that all e-waste would be processed through a small number very rich e-waste processors. The barrier to entry (through investment in machinery and whatever certification process they create) will be so high and the economies of scale so large that perhaps 3 big companies will be processing all US e-waste if it's export were banned.
How much do you want to bet that some actors in the e-waste marketplace who aspire to be larger processors put something in the ear of the journalist?
That the thing-- how many infantry squads are carrying around a M2 or Mk19? That shit is heavy and takes a while to set up. M203 is nice, but the range is limited. The XM25 will do everything your M203 can do, but it will do it more quickly and accurately and out to at least 500M. Keep in mind that this weapon is magazine fed and fielded by a single soldier or marine.
Look-- I can understand the questioning of the physics behind a round moving 2000 feet per second exploding and killing people below it. It sounds like a difficult problem to solve. I'm certain that you're not the first person to wonder about this.
Still, this weapon has been in development for a long long time. Presumably, they've tested the ammunition at some point in the 10+ years that they've been developing it. During that testing, I'm sure they figured out how to make it kill things despite the physical challenges.
The cost of keeping men in theater is so great that if this (or any) weapon reduced the length of the conflict by 1%, it will likely have paid for itself. The real issue is whether the conflict can be solved by killing people.
Likewise, the cost of recruiting, training, and maintaining a soldier is so large that if this weapon saves some lives and prevents some injuries, it will pay for itself.
As far as how "revolutionary" the system is, well, I can't say for sure because I'm not using one. I'm guessing that this weapon will be issued to the guy in the team who would normally be carrying the M16/M4 with the M203 on it. The M203 is reasonably effective for firing on enemies behind cover. When I had the chance to fire one in Basic Training, I could very reliably put a round through a window out to about 100 meters. Landing a round a couple meters behind a berm or small wall was a bit more tricky but definitely doable. The sighting system on the XM25, the much flatter trajectory, and the air-burst feature should make these kinds of shots much much easier. It will also allow a soldier to shoot from the prone position, which isn't so easy with the M203. The important thing about this weapon is the range. Being about to put those grenade rounds out to 800 meters is a big advance over 150M with the M203.
I haven't shot or handled one of these weapons, but I can imagine firing one. What I imagine is something similar to the feeling of firing a M2 or Mk19-- my feeling was 'Holy shit! There's nowhere to hide..." That's what I can imagine with this weapon.
The OP says "upgrade home computers." If the plan is to upgrade multiple computers, it would seem to make more sense to just build one badass box sitting in a closet somewhere and running ESX or other virtualization software. Use the existing machines to connect over RDP, X, VNC, or similar. I haven't used ESX, but the old GSX server was managed by a GUI client that could connect across the network and allowed direct control of the guest OS's. I never had problems with redraws, latency, or saturation of bandwidth when connecting over a GigE LAN.
If this game is about people crossing the Berlin Wall, wouldn't 150 km (or whatever the exact length was) be more appropriate? Technically west Berlin wasn't even part of the FRG-- it was a foreign occupation zone deep within the borders of the GDR.
You think Arc is "steaming pile of 'software'"? I've tried a few of the free alternatives (QGIS, MapWindow, Thuban), and, while ambitious projects, they don't come anywhere close to Arc. Can you suggest something better?
I wonder where you've been in Mozambique... Costa do Sol doesn't count. I was a contractor in Manica province a couple of years back. I got malaria four times in one year. Every other international I knew contracted malaria. Mozambican colleagues were also infected often. We had treated nets, sprayed pesticides in our facilities, didn't let water stand, etc., etc.
It doesn't work. Maybe you can point to some percentage decrease in an area, but people are still getting and dying from malaria. Relying on individual action (treated nets, spraying own facilities) or an on-going effort organized by the government (a national spraying campaign)... recipe for failure.
I'm not saying we shouldn't take those kinds of actions-- any reduction is good. I'm saying that we should work towards total eradication of malaria. Ending poverty should put the material conditions in place, but maybe GM mosquitoes could help along the way.
I wouldn't be so interested in running a graphics card. I'd be more interested in an enclosure/docking station with hardware raid controller that could accept a couple of 3.5" disks. Give me a couple of PCIe slots, so I could plug-in, for example, a quad port NIC. Built-in battery in the docking station would be nice.
I love the digital switch-over. I am one of those people who get better reception. Living in the middle of Sacramento, I received fuzzy, poor quality analog TV. Digital has been flawless on all channels. I also get more channels-- including 3 from PBS. That's with a small set of rabbit-ears sitting on top of my TV.
I used to run a minimal Debian install with OpenBox + fbpanel for the desktop. By not running non-essential services and careful software selection, total memory usage after booting into a GUI was only 20 MB.
Of course the network testing I've mentioned only works for one provider/device at a time, unless you do some kind of funky network configuration. I also doesn't measure signal strength,
If you're on Linux you can use gpsd for interacting with your GPS. If you're on Windows using the new Location API in Win7 would be nice, but, more realistically, you'll be listening on the serial port your GPS uses and parsing NMEA packets. No worries, this isn't that hard to do. After a either a certain interval or time or distance traveled, send a few pings to a server and download a reference file. Dump your data into a CSV or use OGR to make a shapefile, KML, PostGIS layer, whatever.
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Just buy a Latitude or Thinkpad. You can't go terribly wrong with either.
Set the power supply on the ground, fold back the box top so that the top of box covers top of the PSU (if needed, put a book under the box to get height correct), mobo goes in the box, hard drive sits on cardboard over PSU. It works and stuff stays in one place. I've run boxes like this for years. I've never noticed any RF interference. Never had overheating either-- even when gaming.
Cases are just bent metal. Also, you don't need all those fans. As long as you're within the rated operating temperature, your processor doesn't care.
That was my favorite game, back in those days. What I loved is if you tried to attack with a limb that had been removed, you would spurt blood from the stump! Awesome game!
If you actually care about the environment, it's probably more productive to just bribe the correct Chinese officials to enforce their laws than to enact export bans or mandatory certification processes in the USA.
E-Waste that gets shipped to China and other places, sometimes ends up handled by facilities without adequate worker protection and polluting the environment. The journo doesn't provide any real information of what percentage of waste ends up handled in this way and how much is handled in a responsible manner. Nor does he make any mention of how Chinese law regards these activities. China is mentioned only as a bogeyman.
Oh, look! Someone right here in the good old USA has found a solution! Yay! The Chinese bogeyman can be defeated! But, wait... there are some fly-by-night operators who don't want to embrace this triumph of American ingenuity. Obviously, those fly-by-night folks are just looking for a quick buck while the larger businesses are really looking out for the environment.
Therefore, we should pass some kind of law to prevent export of e-waste. The large businesses that can afford to vertically integrate (through capital expenditures on the machinery for e-waste processing [NB: Investment in jobs vs machinery is related to cost of labor {Where labor is cheap (China, global south), work is done by workers. Where workers are expensive (USA, EU, etc.), work is done by machines}]) obviously have environmental interests at heart (never commercial interests.)
So, the article offers a problem (hellish conditions in some places receiving electronics exports from the USA), and offers a solution (requiring the processing of waste in the USA). Who will benefit from this? The large, vertically integrated e-waste companies in the USA. Who will lose? 1) All of the small e-waste collectors who will now be forced to sell their raw e-waste to the large domestic operators, and 2) all of the foreign e-waste processing centers.
The end result would be that all e-waste would be processed through a small number very rich e-waste processors. The barrier to entry (through investment in machinery and whatever certification process they create) will be so high and the economies of scale so large that perhaps 3 big companies will be processing all US e-waste if it's export were banned.
How much do you want to bet that some actors in the e-waste marketplace who aspire to be larger processors put something in the ear of the journalist?
That the thing-- how many infantry squads are carrying around a M2 or Mk19? That shit is heavy and takes a while to set up. M203 is nice, but the range is limited. The XM25 will do everything your M203 can do, but it will do it more quickly and accurately and out to at least 500M. Keep in mind that this weapon is magazine fed and fielded by a single soldier or marine.
Look-- I can understand the questioning of the physics behind a round moving 2000 feet per second exploding and killing people below it. It sounds like a difficult problem to solve. I'm certain that you're not the first person to wonder about this.
Still, this weapon has been in development for a long long time. Presumably, they've tested the ammunition at some point in the 10+ years that they've been developing it. During that testing, I'm sure they figured out how to make it kill things despite the physical challenges.
The cost of keeping men in theater is so great that if this (or any) weapon reduced the length of the conflict by 1%, it will likely have paid for itself. The real issue is whether the conflict can be solved by killing people.
Likewise, the cost of recruiting, training, and maintaining a soldier is so large that if this weapon saves some lives and prevents some injuries, it will pay for itself.
As far as how "revolutionary" the system is, well, I can't say for sure because I'm not using one. I'm guessing that this weapon will be issued to the guy in the team who would normally be carrying the M16/M4 with the M203 on it. The M203 is reasonably effective for firing on enemies behind cover. When I had the chance to fire one in Basic Training, I could very reliably put a round through a window out to about 100 meters. Landing a round a couple meters behind a berm or small wall was a bit more tricky but definitely doable. The sighting system on the XM25, the much flatter trajectory, and the air-burst feature should make these kinds of shots much much easier. It will also allow a soldier to shoot from the prone position, which isn't so easy with the M203. The important thing about this weapon is the range. Being about to put those grenade rounds out to 800 meters is a big advance over 150M with the M203.
I haven't shot or handled one of these weapons, but I can imagine firing one. What I imagine is something similar to the feeling of firing a M2 or Mk19-- my feeling was 'Holy shit! There's nowhere to hide..." That's what I can imagine with this weapon.
I had the same problem. Maybe she's busy chatting to so many people who found her on slashdot.
The OP says "upgrade home computers." If the plan is to upgrade multiple computers, it would seem to make more sense to just build one badass box sitting in a closet somewhere and running ESX or other virtualization software. Use the existing machines to connect over RDP, X, VNC, or similar. I haven't used ESX, but the old GSX server was managed by a GUI client that could connect across the network and allowed direct control of the guest OS's. I never had problems with redraws, latency, or saturation of bandwidth when connecting over a GigE LAN.
The headline says 'Berlin Wall Death Strip', but actually reading TFA shows that it's about the border between the two German states.
If this game is about people crossing the Berlin Wall, wouldn't 150 km (or whatever the exact length was) be more appropriate? Technically west Berlin wasn't even part of the FRG-- it was a foreign occupation zone deep within the borders of the GDR.
There was a media spoogefest over this software a while ago. It turns out that there are only 100 users and apparently it sucks in the first place.
You think Arc is "steaming pile of 'software'"? I've tried a few of the free alternatives (QGIS, MapWindow, Thuban), and, while ambitious projects, they don't come anywhere close to Arc. Can you suggest something better?
In other news, accused rapist, Julian Assange, has released new documents on his WikiLeaks website...
Are you talking about CO2 emissions or carbon particulate? They have different environmental effects.
The green advantage I see to diesel is the possibility to use plant based fuels without mileage going to shit.
I wonder where you've been in Mozambique... Costa do Sol doesn't count. I was a contractor in Manica province a couple of years back. I got malaria four times in one year. Every other international I knew contracted malaria. Mozambican colleagues were also infected often. We had treated nets, sprayed pesticides in our facilities, didn't let water stand, etc., etc.
It doesn't work. Maybe you can point to some percentage decrease in an area, but people are still getting and dying from malaria. Relying on individual action (treated nets, spraying own facilities) or an on-going effort organized by the government (a national spraying campaign)... recipe for failure.
I'm not saying we shouldn't take those kinds of actions-- any reduction is good. I'm saying that we should work towards total eradication of malaria. Ending poverty should put the material conditions in place, but maybe GM mosquitoes could help along the way.
I wouldn't be so interested in running a graphics card. I'd be more interested in an enclosure/docking station with hardware raid controller that could accept a couple of 3.5" disks. Give me a couple of PCIe slots, so I could plug-in, for example, a quad port NIC. Built-in battery in the docking station would be nice.
Best idea yet! Turn yourself in an export controlled munition.
I love the digital switch-over. I am one of those people who get better reception. Living in the middle of Sacramento, I received fuzzy, poor quality analog TV. Digital has been flawless on all channels. I also get more channels-- including 3 from PBS. That's with a small set of rabbit-ears sitting on top of my TV.
So, in ~700 years, they could fill a ZFS zpool. Awesome!
According to the article, it's SLC flash. It should have many more write-erase cycles than MLC.
I used to run a minimal Debian install with OpenBox + fbpanel for the desktop. By not running non-essential services and careful software selection, total memory usage after booting into a GUI was only 20 MB.
Of course the network testing I've mentioned only works for one provider/device at a time, unless you do some kind of funky network configuration. I also doesn't measure signal strength,
If you're on Linux you can use gpsd for interacting with your GPS. If you're on Windows using the new Location API in Win7 would be nice, but, more realistically, you'll be listening on the serial port your GPS uses and parsing NMEA packets. No worries, this isn't that hard to do. After a either a certain interval or time or distance traveled, send a few pings to a server and download a reference file. Dump your data into a CSV or use OGR to make a shapefile, KML, PostGIS layer, whatever.