I've seen plenty of companies just trying to save on personel costs by sobering down everything and just letting people leave. Just like the people protesting now, the guys leaving first are the people who are confident about themselves and their skills, your best workers. Sure there might be some idiots in the 1000 protesters, but people confident about themselves take a stand sooner, so the majority of the 1000 will be people you need.
Nokia said they dont think they can make distinctive products with android, but honestly i dont see why that makes MS a better choice, winmo7 market share is much lower then android, and i dont see that changing
Google has been buying dark fiber left and right, by now they probably have enough to connect themselves to several major ISPs. Pretty soon those ISPs would be offering you a choice between two internet connections
- The old internet, with the MPAA website on it - The Google Internet (tm), the one with youtube, google, gmail etc....
Well, in the n64 days nintendo was just beginning to take its more family oriented role, as the playstation started to market to the young hip gaming crowd, they were still counting on lots of sales from the traditional gaming crowd they had on the nes/snes
If you think apple is restrictive in what they allow into the app store, just think about what nintendo would require in terms of certification. Never mind licensing nintendo property like mario to third parties. Nintendo is very much about controlling the user experience on their consoles and keeping it family friendly, remember, the wii is succesfull because it has masses of family appeal with simple and colorfull games. And their own IP games generally also have a high level of quality. Allowing third party nobodies to make just about any game with mario in it would quickyl destroy nintendo's image
So the only failure-recovery option was to fly the orbiter to safety?
In that case, there are hardly any severe failure modes which are non-fatal (same as with the bail-out trick though), the thing sounds like a death-trap. Give me space-can on top of a rocket with a big honking escape-rocket attached anyday
Hell, i'm hoping samsung joins in and slaps Sony silly as well, i like their TVs slightly better;)
Not to mention the whole Oracle Vs Android stuff (which samsung is a part of), but that is slightly more paradoxical, since i make my living mostly with java..
honestly, Modern warfare 1 already was a major let-down compared to previous CODs
Instead of participating in monumental historical battles with awesome atmosphere, i found myself playing yet another generic "hunt the terrists" style game in yet including forced plotlines to show you some scenery other then generic middle eastern ruines...
I know we were all complaining when Medal of Honor got long in the tooth that we wanted something new and fresh, but please pretty pretty please, can i have another WWII shooter instead of all this "hunt the evil terrist" malarkey? I'd also LOVE a decent vietnam shooter, battlefield vietnam was AWESOME in terms of atmosphere, now if only someone could make a decent single player out of it
Gah, stupid slashdot eating my < signs with accompanying line
> Hello, Abrams taxi dispatch, how may we help you? < Hi, this is J. Johnson, i need to uh.... be driven to work > Ok sir, where can we pick you up? < Oh just two blocks away from the office will do
while challenger might have had a better chance if it had been sitting on top of the fuel tank rather than having it strapped to its belly, i really doubt it would be enough. An exploding tank behind the orbiter would probably destroy enough of the wings/control surfaces to make even a crash landing a pipe-dream. This would probably destabalize the thing so much that the regular escape method after an aborted launch (climb out of your astronaut seat and parachute out) would have been very very difficult.
Challenger was a process/management failure, not a technical one, and no amount of technical failsafes can protect you from a determined manager
i remember when people said the way to defeat totalitarian/hard-line islamic countries was not to drop bombs, but to drop TVs and fridges filled with coke...
Now we are talking about dropping smartphones with free pron subscriptions, progress!
Good luck with that, even if you manage to smuggle fast enough for your amazon session not to expire, all your neighbours in a 100m radius will be able to read your order in the printout-drops, never mind that hardcore porn...
So? never mind who the hell they blame, if enough people stop giving capcom money, capcom will fold.
Even if boycotting them doesnt cause them to fold, i prefer the feeling of not bowing my heads to these kind of shitty DRM-laden products over just going along with the crowd.
I liked Assisins creed, but ubisoft's DRM shit made me decide not to buy the second game, regardless of platform, and i still stand by my decision
the complete blog entry is posted somewhere above, and basically condenses to:
- first dish was good - second dish was meh, wouldnt order it again - third dish was bad, very chewey, possibly undercooked with bad aftertaste. no amount of sauce would help - teppan yaki chef show was sub-par
Conclusion: there are better teppan yaki/sushi places here, so i will not be visiting bennihana again.
Nothing to bad i would say, he didnt even used words like "sucks" or anything, compared to what normally passes for free speech on the tubes, this guy wrote like a regular shakespeare
dont take the guy so literal. Mario Kart is still a racing game in that it depicts moving cars, and the first across the finish is the winner, but it has so incredibly little to do with actual racing (not how i didnt say the fastest is the winner), that it is more of a party-game then actual racing.
Mario Kart is to racing what McDonalds hamburgers are to good beef
At the time i was playing Project gotham racing 4. In that game, they just introduced bikes. The easiest way to win against a bike was when given the chance, just bodyslam them into the railing with your car when comming out of a corner or something, making them lose about 6-7 seconds, giving you a comfortable lead and breathing space to worry about car-driving competition.
Then one day i sat at the traffic lights, and a bike pulled up beside me, my first reaction was "if i just slam him to the side right of the line, i wont have to worry about him", thankfully it took about a tenth of a second for my brain to catch up and correct myself:)
Also, fuck medling with egypts internal politics, it's been tried time and time again (both by the soviets/russians and the various TLAs from the US), and it never fricking works out, let them sort their own shit out
the wiki link suggests 25 foot accuracy, and the X37B already has demonstrated ability to change its orbit multiple times. The upside of orbital bombardment would be that if you have a platform over target, time to impact is just a few minutes.
Also, i think an X37B is hardly a slow moving, easy to hit target, you would need a kill-vehicle (missile, heavy metal rod etc..) capable of reaching orbit, and it would need to cope with active avoidance/countermeasures from the target.
I still agree that it is a bit far-fetched and probably not very efficient in real world usage, but that is about the only scenario in which i can make any sense of the whole "spaceplane more dangerous then nuke" quote
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that is a shitty suggestion if i ever saw one.
I've seen plenty of companies just trying to save on personel costs by sobering down everything and just letting people leave. Just like the people protesting now, the guys leaving first are the people who are confident about themselves and their skills, your best workers. Sure there might be some idiots in the 1000 protesters, but people confident about themselves take a stand sooner, so the majority of the 1000 will be people you need.
Nokia said they dont think they can make distinctive products with android, but honestly i dont see why that makes MS a better choice, winmo7 market share is much lower then android, and i dont see that changing
Google has been buying dark fiber left and right, by now they probably have enough to connect themselves to several major ISPs. Pretty soon those ISPs would be offering you a choice between two internet connections
- The old internet, with the MPAA website on it
- The Google Internet (tm), the one with youtube, google, gmail etc....
guess which one i would be signing up for
or just a small redirect page, like firefox/chrome does for possible malicious sites.
I bet google has the server capacity to do that for all requests, taking it out of the browser and making it universal
Well, in the n64 days nintendo was just beginning to take its more family oriented role, as the playstation started to market to the young hip gaming crowd, they were still counting on lots of sales from the traditional gaming crowd they had on the nes/snes
it wouldnt work, especially not for nintendo.
If you think apple is restrictive in what they allow into the app store, just think about what nintendo would require in terms of certification. Never mind licensing nintendo property like mario to third parties. Nintendo is very much about controlling the user experience on their consoles and keeping it family friendly, remember, the wii is succesfull because it has masses of family appeal with simple and colorfull games. And their own IP games generally also have a high level of quality. Allowing third party nobodies to make just about any game with mario in it would quickyl destroy nintendo's image
So the only failure-recovery option was to fly the orbiter to safety?
In that case, there are hardly any severe failure modes which are non-fatal (same as with the bail-out trick though), the thing sounds like a death-trap. Give me space-can on top of a rocket with a big honking escape-rocket attached anyday
Hell, i'm hoping samsung joins in and slaps Sony silly as well, i like their TVs slightly better ;)
Not to mention the whole Oracle Vs Android stuff (which samsung is a part of), but that is slightly more paradoxical, since i make my living mostly with java..
Someone better tell sony/RIAA/MPAA that in the US, a jury is also supposed to be comprised of the defendant's peers!
Damn the government for legislating a maximum pixel limit!!
honestly, Modern warfare 1 already was a major let-down compared to previous CODs
Instead of participating in monumental historical battles with awesome atmosphere, i found myself playing yet another generic "hunt the terrists" style game in yet including forced plotlines to show you some scenery other then generic middle eastern ruines...
I know we were all complaining when Medal of Honor got long in the tooth that we wanted something new and fresh, but please pretty pretty please, can i have another WWII shooter instead of all this "hunt the evil terrist" malarkey? I'd also LOVE a decent vietnam shooter, battlefield vietnam was AWESOME in terms of atmosphere, now if only someone could make a decent single player out of it
Or rent it out to shoot space porn.
ding ding ding!!!
we have a winner!
I seem to recal that apollo capsules had built-in inflatabale floatation devices, it would be idiocy not to have them on any water-landing craft
I just want to let you know i did not click your first link because you used an url shortener
Please use direct links in slashdot posting, most of us read at work and can not risk NSFW content (or the occasional hello.jpg)
Gah, stupid slashdot eating my < signs with accompanying line
> Hello, Abrams taxi dispatch, how may we help you?
< Hi, this is J. Johnson, i need to uh.... be driven to work
> Ok sir, where can we pick you up?
< Oh just two blocks away from the office will do
a taxi service based on the M1 battle tank.
If you got to operate the turret/gun and got say, a complementary HE round for each mile, i'm sure there would be a market for it...
> Hello, Abrams taxi dispatch, how may we help you?
Ok sir, where can we pick you up?
while challenger might have had a better chance if it had been sitting on top of the fuel tank rather than having it strapped to its belly, i really doubt it would be enough. An exploding tank behind the orbiter would probably destroy enough of the wings/control surfaces to make even a crash landing a pipe-dream. This would probably destabalize the thing so much that the regular escape method after an aborted launch (climb out of your astronaut seat and parachute out) would have been very very difficult.
Challenger was a process/management failure, not a technical one, and no amount of technical failsafes can protect you from a determined manager
i remember when people said the way to defeat totalitarian/hard-line islamic countries was not to drop bombs, but to drop TVs and fridges filled with coke...
Now we are talking about dropping smartphones with free pron subscriptions, progress!
Good luck with that, even if you manage to smuggle fast enough for your amazon session not to expire, all your neighbours in a 100m radius will be able to read your order in the printout-drops, never mind that hardcore porn...
So? never mind who the hell they blame, if enough people stop giving capcom money, capcom will fold.
Even if boycotting them doesnt cause them to fold, i prefer the feeling of not bowing my heads to these kind of shitty DRM-laden products over just going along with the crowd.
I liked Assisins creed, but ubisoft's DRM shit made me decide not to buy the second game, regardless of platform, and i still stand by my decision
the complete blog entry is posted somewhere above, and basically condenses to:
- first dish was good
- second dish was meh, wouldnt order it again
- third dish was bad, very chewey, possibly undercooked with bad aftertaste. no amount of sauce would help
- teppan yaki chef show was sub-par
Conclusion: there are better teppan yaki/sushi places here, so i will not be visiting bennihana again.
Nothing to bad i would say, he didnt even used words like "sucks" or anything, compared to what normally passes for free speech on the tubes, this guy wrote like a regular shakespeare
dont take the guy so literal. Mario Kart is still a racing game in that it depicts moving cars, and the first across the finish is the winner, but it has so incredibly little to do with actual racing (not how i didnt say the fastest is the winner), that it is more of a party-game then actual racing.
Mario Kart is to racing what McDonalds hamburgers are to good beef
i had this same effect, but a bit more subtle.
At the time i was playing Project gotham racing 4. In that game, they just introduced bikes. The easiest way to win against a bike was when given the chance, just bodyslam them into the railing with your car when comming out of a corner or something, making them lose about 6-7 seconds, giving you a comfortable lead and breathing space to worry about car-driving competition.
Then one day i sat at the traffic lights, and a bike pulled up beside me, my first reaction was "if i just slam him to the side right of the line, i wont have to worry about him", thankfully it took about a tenth of a second for my brain to catch up and correct myself :)
that explains the 32 bit IPs, but it doesnt explain the extra 14 /8s which are reserved for "future use"
seriously, who the hell would put that in his firmware? it takes up extra space and limits functionality..
Isreal != europe
Also, fuck medling with egypts internal politics, it's been tried time and time again (both by the soviets/russians and the various TLAs from the US), and it never fricking works out, let them sort their own shit out
the wiki link suggests 25 foot accuracy, and the X37B already has demonstrated ability to change its orbit multiple times. The upside of orbital bombardment would be that if you have a platform over target, time to impact is just a few minutes.
Also, i think an X37B is hardly a slow moving, easy to hit target, you would need a kill-vehicle (missile, heavy metal rod etc..) capable of reaching orbit, and it would need to cope with active avoidance/countermeasures from the target.
I still agree that it is a bit far-fetched and probably not very efficient in real world usage, but that is about the only scenario in which i can make any sense of the whole "spaceplane more dangerous then nuke" quote