Law of averages. Sooner or later the Duelist would get killed (maybe a duelist relative of one of the deceased?). They'd end up being a small minority. Heck, if you allow champions (only for personal use!), then the 'duelist' would have to worry about the engineer hiring somebody goooood....
Indeed, this point was addressed in some of his storys, explaining that this was the reason that robots weren't as widely used, because the laws took up so much processor power.
Heh, I got to hold a piece. I agree the stuff is neat. I just think that going to the idea of minimizing the weight we try to put up (to the point of going with a lighter ballistic re-entry capsule), would be better than the shuttle. If the tiles work better/cheaper than the albative, then by all means use them.
USAF Janitor: Min 1/2 day weapons training/qualification during basic. It's a safety/operation/cleaning class for the AR15/M16 (we didn't even get true M16s, but it could have been worse. The USAF once used a.22 'adapter' for basic qualification. I at least fired.223 ammo).
I'm a comm troop, In my career, I've shot 3 times for qualification (basic, then before 2 deployments to the desert).
Erfurt, Germany. 17 Dead Victims, 6 wounded. The lone gunman shot himself. Columbine only had 13 dead victims, with 2 dead shooters. (more gun control is not necessarily effective)
Preventions: Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, California. A former police officer entered the school when he heard shots fired, preventing further injuries and deaths. There was a case where the vice principal of a school obtained a gun from his truck (parked more than 1,000 feet from the school per state gun law) and ran back to disarm the attacker. http://criterion.uchicago.edu/issues/iii4/naud.htm l
So you have to replace the shield after each mission, so what? The shuttle has to be largely rebuilt anyways after each flight with the tiles inspected/replaced during the process (they loose a bunch each flight). The people pushing for a return to ballistic re-entries (I'm one of them), is that putting stuff into space is so expensive and stressfull that trying to build/use reusable parts is a waste of weight and money (and weight=lots of money). If you have reusable parts, they should be light/sturdy/expensive enough to justify the 'expense' of any extra weight needed to bring them back. The shuttle is not.
That's what FLASH is for. Chances are, if the drive supports all the competing standards, and are built with some free flash available, that you'd be able to support the new standard with either just a driver upgrade or by flashing the bios of the drive. I don't think that there'd be a hardware incompatibility if one drive can support 5 standards already.
I don't get any 'free' offers from discover other than the pages stuffed in along with my bill (which also happens with every other CC I have). Tell them to not call you anymore and they should listen.
As for Spammers: I think the stocks would be an appropriate punishment.
Did you factor in speed? I know that the bigger printers can print complex graphics faster than a standard parallel port can feed it, resulting in slower printing in your case. It doesn't matter if you're printing in Truetype fonts only, but for big graphics, I'm sure the extra speed would be noticable.
Military Planes: If a terrorist gets ahold of one of these, they won't be concerned with flying it into a building. As for the transports (c-anything), they're generally protected by people with guns, on a military base. Helicopters: They're small. Also, flying a helo is a whole different affair than a plane (more training required). Remeber, 9/11 was done using planes far larger than the designers of the twin towers were familiar with. Air Force 1: Are you kidding?
It's the whole 'local calls are free' thing. In the free incoming countries, they generally pay by the minute for ALL calls, and cell phones are a different (higher cost) number zone. If the cell phone companies didn't charge for incoming calls, people would chat from fixed phone to cell phone all day long. (Not that they don't now, but they PAY to do that).
Heh, they tried 486's, it's just that they couldn't get any benchmarks below 100mhz. Even th sub 200 cpu's scored zero's on some tests. I just think it's great that some of those boards could take 512Mb.
According the the site, there's been 5 major asteroid extinction events since 'primitive fish'. A quick eyeball says that one of these happens ~50 million years. We're at 65 million right now, and we've entered the period for stuff captured when we passed through the thick part of our spiral arm to be coming in.
Around the year 535 AD, the Earth was pummeled by a swarm of cosmic debris, which produced two year long winters. Crops failed. Plague and famine decimated Italy, China and the Middle East. A 6th-Century Syrian bishop, John of Ephesus wrote, "The sun became dark... Each day it shone for about four hours and still this light was only a feeble shadow." This was the beginning of the Dark Ages. Researchers indicate similar environmental calamities occurred about 3200 BC, 2300 BC, 1628 BC and 1159 BC.
In the year 1490, a wave of meteorites impacted the Earth in Qingyang, Shaanxi, China, with such ferocity that stones were said to have fallen like rain, killing tens of thousands of people.
And don't forget June 30, 1908, where an asteroid,.05 miles wide hit Siberia with the force of a 10-15 megaton nuke and flattened over 1000 square miles of forest.
I think I'd rather not suffer an 'asteroid winter' if we could have prevented it by knocking some of these smaller asteroids out. And I'd also like to prevent an impact similar to Siberia's.
For several reasons. The primary, of course, is so we know what methods will work best for moving the asteroid's orbit enough so it doesn't hit. Secondly, knowing it's composition will allow us to better estimate it's effect. A mostly silicon (sand-ball) asteroid will have different impact characteristics than a lead/iron 'bullet'.
really fat pipes draw lots of traffic, while "pin-holes" don't.
But that's central to the article. By sending some traffic over the 'pinholes', you'd reduce traffic on the fat pipes a bit, resulting in an average increase in bandwidth/latency, due to better utilization of available lines. With a protocol like IGRP (which can take into account bandwidth, latency, utilization, cost, hop count), you can do alot of tweaking, but by default they only 'load balance' if the index for the lines is about the same. (It won't route over a modem link if it has a T-1 that can reach the same spot unless the admin has REALLY been tinkering with the weighing of the factors).
The whole problem I had with the article is that routers have a tough enough time already, it takes compution power to use a more complex routing system. So called 'selfish' routing is cheaper on CPU time...
Not if you set the ID tag to a microsoft version... That way, if they try to get around it, they'll break all the browers of that particular version...
Yeah, the US (and most other countries) had to drop the gold standard because it became impractical to store that amount of gold (and silver). Unless you want to pay double for electronics, and only multi-millionares to be able to afford gold jewelry. We'd be able to build Fort Knox (and a few other places, like rebuild the twin towers out of solid gold). And this is the amount of gold it'd take at current prices...
Heh, I understood about the fan. What I apparantly misunderstood was that you were cooling to below ambient in your example. I've used a box fan as a cooler before. The larger the fan, the more efficient it is, and quieter (at least for the amount of air it moves). Trick is, without a peltier or AC system, you aren't going to get your CPU below room temperature.
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Law of averages. Sooner or later the Duelist would get killed (maybe a duelist relative of one of the deceased?). They'd end up being a small minority. Heck, if you allow champions (only for personal use!), then the 'duelist' would have to worry about the engineer hiring somebody goooood....
Most of that identifies more closely with Libertine...
Indeed, this point was addressed in some of his storys, explaining that this was the reason that robots weren't as widely used, because the laws took up so much processor power.
Heh, I got to hold a piece. I agree the stuff is neat. I just think that going to the idea of minimizing the weight we try to put up (to the point of going with a lighter ballistic re-entry capsule), would be better than the shuttle. If the tiles work better/cheaper than the albative, then by all means use them.
USAF Janitor: Min 1/2 day weapons training/qualification during basic. It's a safety/operation/cleaning class for the AR15/M16 (we didn't even get true M16s, but it could have been worse. The USAF once used a .22 'adapter' for basic qualification. I at least fired .223 ammo).
I'm a comm troop, In my career, I've shot 3 times for qualification (basic, then before 2 deployments to the desert).
Erfurt, Germany. 17 Dead Victims, 6 wounded. The lone gunman shot himself. Columbine only had 13 dead victims, with 2 dead shooters. (more gun control is not necessarily effective)
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Preventions: Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, California. A former police officer entered the school when he heard shots fired, preventing further injuries and deaths.
There was a case where the vice principal of a school obtained a gun from his truck (parked more than 1,000 feet from the school per state gun law) and ran back to disarm the attacker. http://criterion.uchicago.edu/issues/iii4/naud.ht
Well, bring back dueling. If everybody (or a significant fraction) was armed, we'd return to being a more polite society.
A armed society is a polite society.
--T.CARPENTER
So you have to replace the shield after each mission, so what? The shuttle has to be largely rebuilt anyways after each flight with the tiles inspected/replaced during the process (they loose a bunch each flight). The people pushing for a return to ballistic re-entries (I'm one of them), is that putting stuff into space is so expensive and stressfull that trying to build/use reusable parts is a waste of weight and money (and weight=lots of money). If you have reusable parts, they should be light/sturdy/expensive enough to justify the 'expense' of any extra weight needed to bring them back. The shuttle is not.
That's what FLASH is for. Chances are, if the drive supports all the competing standards, and are built with some free flash available, that you'd be able to support the new standard with either just a driver upgrade or by flashing the bios of the drive. I don't think that there'd be a hardware incompatibility if one drive can support 5 standards already.
I don't get any 'free' offers from discover other than the pages stuffed in along with my bill (which also happens with every other CC I have). Tell them to not call you anymore and they should listen.
As for Spammers: I think the stocks would be an appropriate punishment.
Lack of trust. Remember, it only takes 1 guy choosing X for you to lose points.
Did you factor in speed? I know that the bigger printers can print complex graphics faster than a standard parallel port can feed it, resulting in slower printing in your case. It doesn't matter if you're printing in Truetype fonts only, but for big graphics, I'm sure the extra speed would be noticable.
Military Planes: If a terrorist gets ahold of one of these, they won't be concerned with flying it into a building. As for the transports (c-anything), they're generally protected by people with guns, on a military base.
Helicopters: They're small. Also, flying a helo is a whole different affair than a plane (more training required). Remeber, 9/11 was done using planes far larger than the designers of the twin towers were familiar with.
Air Force 1: Are you kidding?
It's the whole 'local calls are free' thing. In the free incoming countries, they generally pay by the minute for ALL calls, and cell phones are a different (higher cost) number zone. If the cell phone companies didn't charge for incoming calls, people would chat from fixed phone to cell phone all day long. (Not that they don't now, but they PAY to do that).
Come on! Dying in the Sierra games was fun! I used to try to die in every way possible just for the death messages, they were hilarious!
Heh, they tried 486's, it's just that they couldn't get any benchmarks below 100mhz. Even th sub 200 cpu's scored zero's on some tests. I just think it's great that some of those boards could take 512Mb.
According the the site, there's been 5 major asteroid extinction events since 'primitive fish'. A quick eyeball says that one of these happens ~50 million years. We're at 65 million right now, and we've entered the period for stuff captured when we passed through the thick part of our spiral arm to be coming in.
And don't forget June 30, 1908, where an asteroid,
I think I'd rather not suffer an 'asteroid winter' if we could have prevented it by knocking some of these smaller asteroids out. And I'd also like to prevent an impact similar to Siberia's.
For several reasons. The primary, of course, is so we know what methods will work best for moving the asteroid's orbit enough so it doesn't hit. Secondly, knowing it's composition will allow us to better estimate it's effect. A mostly silicon (sand-ball) asteroid will have different impact characteristics than a lead/iron 'bullet'.
Heck, an incoming planet killing asteroid would tend to make the Orion project plausable.
Orion Project
really fat pipes draw lots of traffic, while "pin-holes" don't.
But that's central to the article. By sending some traffic over the 'pinholes', you'd reduce traffic on the fat pipes a bit, resulting in an average increase in bandwidth/latency, due to better utilization of available lines. With a protocol like IGRP (which can take into account bandwidth, latency, utilization, cost, hop count), you can do alot of tweaking, but by default they only 'load balance' if the index for the lines is about the same. (It won't route over a modem link if it has a T-1 that can reach the same spot unless the admin has REALLY been tinkering with the weighing of the factors).
The whole problem I had with the article is that routers have a tough enough time already, it takes compution power to use a more complex routing system. So called 'selfish' routing is cheaper on CPU time...
Not if you set the ID tag to a microsoft version... That way, if they try to get around it, they'll break all the browers of that particular version...
Except that without a military, we would quickly not be 'left alone'
Heh, you need to shop around a bit more, I don't have any monthly fees (or minimum balance). And I don't even need direct deposit.
Yeah, the US (and most other countries) had to drop the gold standard because it became impractical to store that amount of gold (and silver). Unless you want to pay double for electronics, and only multi-millionares to be able to afford gold jewelry. We'd be able to build Fort Knox (and a few other places, like rebuild the twin towers out of solid gold). And this is the amount of gold it'd take at current prices...
Heh, I understood about the fan. What I apparantly misunderstood was that you were cooling to below ambient in your example. I've used a box fan as a cooler before. The larger the fan, the more efficient it is, and quieter (at least for the amount of air it moves). Trick is, without a peltier or AC system, you aren't going to get your CPU below room temperature.