I.e. that a tech company doesn't need much - just rented office space, a few computers and a payroll. If they go bust, there's nothing to sell (maybe some IP?)
A manafacturing company however may own machinery, premises, raw materials and finished products. When they are wound up, you can sell all the trucks and cranes and raw materials.
Even though it's for sale, it still feels like beta. they keep evolving and tweaking the rules.
Pros:
1) 200 player battles are not uncommon. 2) three empires with specific weapons 3) not as bandwidth hungry as BF1942 4) Air vehicles, tanks, buggies, atv's 5) character development means that newbies can drive most powerfull tanks etc, but not be as flexible as developed players (who can drive those, and also maybe planes and be snipers) 6) Flying mini-mechs (if you play VS like I do)
Cons:
1) 15 dollar monthly sub 2) need monster Memory,CPU and GFx card 3) Some balance issues with weapons 4) No way to "win" - the battles keep on going forever
It's a Science Fiction world. Lots of nano stuff to explain the fact you can respawn.
Due to the usefulness and utility of the internet many companies and individuals have come to rely upon it. These people want it "regulated"
Regulation of the internet is a BAD thing. It should stay unregulated, and people should put up with the spam. It was never designed to be a secure, safe medium.
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From my own experience, foods high in protien (meat, beans etc), make me feel fuller.
Therefore, try an Atkins -style diet, with high protien foods (meat, fish etcetera. Roast meat, grilled is all good ).
Eat less carbs (pasta, chips, bread)
Don't eat fat unrestrainedly as Atkins seems to reccommend. (i.e. you dont need to be paranoid about it, but avoid butter, lard, massive fry ups)
Eat more protien! Mmmm good.
Eat lots of fruit and salad
PS Drink Lots of water contary to poular belief it does not make you fatter (bloated) but helps you stay thinner.
You build a very very thin cable first, unspooling it from orbit. Anchor it to the planet, and then send up robots to spin another layer of cable (climbers)
http://www.isr.us/SEConcept.asp?m=2
" Climbers (230) are sent up the initial ribbon (one every 3 to 4 days) adding small ribbons alongside the first to increase its strength. After 2.3 years a ribbon capable of supporting 20,000 kg cargo climbers would be complete"
A steerable ram-air parachute is one of these http://www.ukskydiving.com/squarelge.htm
It's basically a nylon wing that stays rigid because of forward motion. Air is "Rammed" into the front, which makes the wing inflate, which in turn instead of just falling glides forward. This means it stays inflated.
If you look at the picture, you can see the dude has two handles. These allow him to pull down on the tail of the parachute, and change the shape of the parachute, changing the angle of attack. Pulling the left one makes it turn left, because the right side is now in a steeper dive than the left is. Pulling the right one makes it turn right and pulling both flares the canopy, so that just before you hit the ground you can make it plane out and go that bit more horizontal (whilst losing speed - so it's possible to stall the parachute)
a round parachute (aka the kind used on apollo etcetera to dump it in the sea is this)
dude! yet another reason for children not to have guns!
Seriously, he can now capitalise on his fame, and make a mint presenting and acting.
American style lawsuits ( yes i know this is Canada) are a complete joke. Why can the parents bring a suit?? In the UK recently a bloke who had suffered brain damage during birth because the doctors thought he was stillborn brought a suit only after he turned eighteen!
For exampe people who bring suits complaining that they were not warned about the coffee being hot or the hamburgers making you fat etcetera, should, if they win the court case be put in a special retirement home for the terminally stupid.
Heh heh... so is the climate wrong or something? Does the Coca plant wither and die?
How much do you think the Crack costs to produce? How much do the imported raw materials cost? Then consider the percentage profit that each indivdiual, from the importer, to dealer slaps on it....!
so.. I'm making this up off my head. But let's say that an ounce of pure cocaine costs less than a buck in Columbia. By the time it hits the streets, cut by 100, at $10-$15 per hit, you're looking at $1500 for the same ounce. A big commercial firm could put the same ounce out, in better purity, for $5.00 per hit, thus charging an exorbitant markup, but still undercutting your corner pusher.
Think about that for the cost of a handgun. I'm guessing here, but let's say you could knock out a gun in some country for $50.
Using the example of the crack cocaine, then that's a cost of 75000 dollars...
okay. so that proves my numbers are way off, but it illustrates my point, I hope. Handguns would be too expensive for the average small - time criminal.
Also in reply to the poster above (about constructing guns from pipes and stuff) - it would be possible, but you'd end up with an unreliable one shot ( or perhaps a derringer). Which would also cost a fair whack because someone with some skills would have to take at least a few hours to make it. Nobody could hand-make a weapon to the tolerances needed for an automatic.
in that case, it's more reliable to fall back on a knife. -- Of course, with a knife you have to get near your target.
If a country has a ban on handguns, then it will be impossible to law-abiding citizens to obtain them.
By the same measure, it will be very difficult for the average street hoodlum to get a handgun. The weapon either has to be specially manafactured, or imported - both expensive and risky.
Sure, a criminal who has the resources can buy a black market imported weapon, but that is expensive. puts it out of reach of many. Therefore there is less "casual" gun crime where people are shot.
of course, this cannot be applied to the US, because of the massive stockpiles of weapons that exist.
If guns are banned, but there are sufficent stockpiles to make them cheap to own, then legitimate citizens have no defense.
I remember reading this sort of idea in a Berserker Novel, by Saberhagen.
As I recall, the Berserkers (think alien terminator endoskeletons, built for a war that ended eons ago, but now trying to exterminate mankind) had captured a space ship.
So the captain had to destroy the galactic encyclopedia, so the Berserkers couldn't find any human planets.
However, he was stopped by one of the passengers, because the passenger was one of the authors of said encyclopedia. As an anti-piracy measure, fake "honeyplanets" had been added to the encylopedia, so if anyone brought out their own version, the authors could point out the fictious planet.
Of course, this fooled the machines and everyone was happy in the end.... the point is, people do this all the time anyway, with existing data (i.e books) , so they can find who plagurises them.....
My main point though to go along with the thread, china and india may have an *ambitious* space effort being planned, but I'd bet a silver dollar (real money) they suffer a lot of "unfortunate accidents" once they start to have any large scale successes.
The thing is, China is willing to accept the losses of men and materials to reach their goal. This puts them one up over western nations. Look at the reporting of (allied) deaths in Iraq, or even the public skepticism about the continuation NASA in the wake of Columbia.
I assume someone else has already mentioned this, but it seems much of what this book tells you you could find in "Running Linux" O'Reilly, which is a very good resource for the newbie.
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I'd argue that this is due to tangible assets.
I.e. that a tech company doesn't need much - just rented office space, a few computers and a payroll. If they go bust, there's nothing to sell (maybe some IP?)
A manafacturing company however may own machinery, premises, raw materials and finished products.
When they are wound up, you can sell all the trucks and cranes and raw materials.
If you haven't seen drive.. watch it!
It's Grrrrrrrrreaat!
Nobody's mentioned planetside yet?
,CPU and GFx card
the only true MMOFPS i know of.
Even though it's for sale, it still feels like beta. they keep evolving and tweaking the rules.
Pros:
1) 200 player battles are not uncommon.
2) three empires with specific weapons
3) not as bandwidth hungry as BF1942
4) Air vehicles, tanks, buggies, atv's
5) character development means that newbies can drive most powerfull tanks etc, but not be as flexible as developed players (who can drive those, and also maybe planes and be snipers)
6) Flying mini-mechs (if you play VS like I do)
Cons:
1) 15 dollar monthly sub
2) need monster Memory
3) Some balance issues with weapons
4) No way to "win" - the battles keep on going forever
It's a Science Fiction world. Lots of nano stuff to explain the fact you can respawn.
Heh heh. That's why it's a good idea to own a sword or two. Maybe a staff, and a baseball bat.
Okay.. so lets say 1% of the population.
Global population estimated at 6 Billion (american billion
1 percent of 6000000000 is 60000000.
so 60 million people. about 1/5 the pop of the US should be working in tech
Hmm.. that's something to think about.
Once you have the infrastructure (i.e. big pipe, specialised air-con, power supply)
Does it get much cheaper to "upgrade" yor Supercomputer, buying in a new one every ten years or so?
So can Rotor based craft. They can autorotate.
That's a bit silly, really.
Your quote talks about a single microprocessor.
Therefore a quad xeon monster is not a personal computer, because it has more than one microprocessor. I
Then again. Any PC has more than one microprocessor.
Burn the dictionary!!
Due to the usefulness and utility of the internet many companies and individuals have come to rely upon it. These people want it "regulated"
Regulation of the internet is a BAD thing. It should stay unregulated, and people should put up with the spam. It was never designed to be a secure, safe medium.
Therefore, try an Atkins -style diet, with high protien foods (meat, fish etcetera. Roast meat, grilled is all good ).
Eat less carbs (pasta, chips, bread)
Don't eat fat unrestrainedly as Atkins seems to reccommend. (i.e. you dont need to be paranoid about it, but avoid butter, lard, massive fry ups)
Eat more protien! Mmmm good.
Eat lots of fruit and salad
PS Drink Lots of water contary to poular belief it does not make you fatter (bloated) but helps you stay thinner.
PPS Exercise
If a pr0n movie plays in a player with no one to see, does it still cause a sticky mess??
Every accidentally carried a battery in the same pocket as your keys... it gets bloody hot i can tell you! I've burnt myself that way.
I'm wondering if the contacts on the phone used for charging may have been shorting against loose change or keys.
You build a very very thin cable first, unspooling it from orbit. Anchor it to the planet, and then send up robots to spin another layer of cable (climbers)
http://www.isr.us/SEConcept.asp?m=2
" Climbers (230) are sent up the initial ribbon (one every 3 to 4 days) adding small ribbons alongside the first to increase its strength. After 2.3 years a ribbon capable of supporting 20,000 kg cargo climbers would be complete"
Did you know that every man woman and child on this planet now has traces of Plutonium (a man made element) in their body?
Kewl, huh?
Yeah. I've got one of those VISA debit cards.
However, it's my other account, which has about 10 quid in it at the moment. If i ever want to use it i stick some money in it first
A steerable ram-air parachute is one of these
http://www.ukskydiving.com/squarelge.htm
It's basically a nylon wing that stays rigid because of forward motion. Air is "Rammed" into the front, which makes the wing inflate, which in turn instead of just falling glides forward. This means it stays inflated.
If you look at the picture, you can see the dude has two handles. These allow him to pull down on the tail of the parachute, and change the shape of the parachute, changing the angle of attack. Pulling the left one makes it turn left, because the right side is now in a steeper dive than the left is. Pulling the right one makes it turn right and pulling both flares the canopy, so that just before you hit the ground you can make it plane out and go that bit more horizontal (whilst losing speed - so it's possible to stall the parachute)
a round parachute (aka the kind used on apollo etcetera to dump it in the sea is this)
http://www.ukskydiving.com/images/round.jpg
non-steerable.
doh! but twelve months ago, you would have said the battery was not invented until Alessandro Volta in 1800!
just because they haven't found the clay sony walkman doesn't mean they didn't exist!
of course, the translation software will get it wrong, and innocent people will be locked up in cuba!
dude! yet another reason for children not to have guns!
Seriously, he can now capitalise on his fame, and make a mint presenting and acting.
American style lawsuits ( yes i know this is Canada) are a complete joke. Why can the parents bring a suit?? In the UK recently a bloke who had suffered brain damage during birth because the doctors thought he was stillborn brought a suit only after he turned eighteen!
For exampe people who bring suits complaining that they were not warned about the coffee being hot or the hamburgers making you fat etcetera, should, if they win the court case be put in a special retirement home for the terminally stupid.
Heh heh... so is the climate wrong or something? Does the Coca plant wither and die?
How much do you think the Crack costs to produce?
How much do the imported raw materials cost?
Then consider the percentage profit that each indivdiual, from the importer, to dealer slaps on it....!
so.. I'm making this up off my head. But let's say that an ounce of pure cocaine costs less than a buck in Columbia. By the time it hits the streets, cut by 100, at $10-$15 per hit, you're looking at $1500 for the same ounce. A big
commercial firm could put the same ounce out, in better purity, for $5.00 per hit, thus charging an exorbitant markup, but still undercutting your corner pusher.
Think about that for the cost of a handgun.
I'm guessing here, but let's say you could knock out a gun in some country for $50.
Using the example of the crack cocaine, then that's a cost of 75000 dollars...
okay. so that proves my numbers are way off, but it illustrates my point, I hope. Handguns would be too expensive for the average small - time criminal.
Also in reply to the poster above (about constructing guns from pipes and stuff) - it would be possible, but you'd end up with an unreliable one shot ( or perhaps a derringer). Which would also cost a fair whack because someone with some skills would have to take at least a few hours to make it. Nobody could hand-make a weapon to the tolerances needed for an automatic.
in that case, it's more reliable to fall back on a knife. -- Of course, with a knife you have to get near your target.
Okay. Here's my logic. Follow it if you will.
If a country has a ban on handguns, then it will be impossible to law-abiding citizens to obtain them.
By the same measure, it will be very difficult for the average street hoodlum to get a handgun. The weapon either has to be specially manafactured, or imported - both expensive and risky.
Sure, a criminal who has the resources can buy a black market imported weapon, but that is expensive. puts it out of reach of many. Therefore there is less "casual" gun crime where people are shot.
of course, this cannot be applied to the US, because of the massive stockpiles of weapons that exist.
If guns are banned, but there are sufficent stockpiles to make them cheap to own, then legitimate citizens have no defense.
it's a vicious circle.
I remember reading this sort of idea in a Berserker Novel, by Saberhagen.
... the point is, people do this all the time anyway, with existing data (i.e books) , so they can find who plagurises them.....
As I recall, the Berserkers (think alien terminator endoskeletons, built for a war that ended eons ago, but now trying to exterminate mankind) had captured a space ship.
So the captain had to destroy the galactic encyclopedia, so the Berserkers couldn't find any human planets.
However, he was stopped by one of the passengers, because the passenger was one of the authors of said encyclopedia.
As an anti-piracy measure, fake "honeyplanets" had been added to the encylopedia, so if anyone brought out their own version, the authors could point out the fictious planet.
Of course, this fooled the machines and everyone was happy in the end.
My main point though to go along with the thread, china and india may have an *ambitious* space effort being planned, but I'd bet a silver dollar (real money) they suffer a lot of "unfortunate accidents" once they start to have any large scale successes.
The thing is, China is willing to accept the losses of men and materials to reach their goal. This puts them one up over western nations. Look at the reporting of (allied) deaths in Iraq, or even the public skepticism about the continuation NASA in the wake of Columbia.
>The man is a UNITED STATES SENATOR. He has a responsibility to the people he represents. If he cannot fulfill that, than WTF is he doing there?
Awww C'mon! In country we KNOW the politicans are all crooked idiots. I'm suprised the American people haven't learnt that yet.
I assume someone else has already mentioned this, but it seems much of what this book tells you you could find in "Running Linux" O'Reilly, which is a very good resource for the newbie.