Though what if the baloon itself were to drap and stay over the windshield of the cockpit...as far as I know, you can do just about anything but land on instruments alone.
I guess it could be done using ILS approach, but you better be DEAD on the money coming in. Or has aviation changed quite a bit since the days of barnstorming?
Not on a high horse, I just hate posers. Are you a poser? Posers on Harleys. Posers trying to be something their not. Posers just buying something new and shiney to fill some void they think is lacking in their lives. Shallow people living shallow lives.
As I said, if you want a gaming PC, get a Dell and be done with it...but no, gotta have the water-cooled, SLI, FX-55 based (which isn't all that great for overclocking nor does it really warrant a water-cooled system), cool green color, per-installed UV lighting system that you spend 4000 bucks on. What are you buying? You're buying a look...you're buying into the kind of guy that was profiled in the satirical movie American Psycho.
Unhappy with being that doctor? Think you made a mistake being a blood-sucking lawyer? Think your dick is too small? Throw money at the problem and buy new things...sure, that will make you feel better, right?
Also, another one that throws around "those of us with lives". Usually those that say that have no life of their own, and become terribly defensive sounding more like "I have a life...cut it out, I really do have a life! Stop picking on me".
BTW...mod me down...I don't care. Slashdot is dead and I can't believe I'm even wasting my time with this.
But building computers and playing games on them are hobbies in and of themselves. When you and people like you say idiotic things like "those folks have actual LIVES they'd like to live"...what do you refer to? How does building a computer, which takes no time at all unless you're a complete moron, equate to "not having a life"? Cause I don't go out with a bunch of loser friends to get drunk at a bar and try to hit on tubby girls with low self-esteme? So your hobbies are for people with "actual LIVES" and my hobbies are lesser...interesting. Is this how people with "actual LIVES" justify those lives?
And what outside things do you do? Please list them so I can cut them all down one by one. It's so easy for any moron to cut someone elses hobby down as you have clearly demonstrated...though in a very weak way.
Try going to www.myg0t.com to learn how to really rage and troll a forum, as you suck at it! Ba da bing!
I equate people that buy the souped up, tricked out systems from Alienware and others to doctors and dentists and lawyers who buy tricked out Harleys so they can seem "cool" yet have no idea how to even use these things, much less overclock them.
Build and maintain the system yourself and you'll:
a. Have a more powerful computer
b. Get that power at a much lower cost
c. Understand your system to where you don't need an added, trumped up service pack. YOU fix your system..which is quicker and easier than waiting on the phone for some flunky to kick you up to tier 2 support...to have them give you a RMA number to ship the stuff back or have some guy named Clive come to your house and remark "whoa, never seen one-a them before...they must be new".
If you want to be a gamer that doesn't want to fiddle with anything, just get a cheap Dell. Don't let the flash and eye-candy of these Alienware systems fool you.
THanks for the great info! I'm one, like millions, who only know the surface details of this story through the movie "Apollo 13"...and while I know it was a movie and they probably changed quite a few things...it's hard for someone, like myself, do see where the facts end and the fiction takes place.
What's even more impressive is that the problems with Apollo 13 weren't even simulated...hell, they weren't even thought about. It's amazing that they all got together and actually solved the problem by winging most of it.
All with computer systems with less power than the C64 and slide-rules...and yes, duct-tape!
Most of the CD-ROM's and DVD players on the computers I've bought have gone out on me, prompting me to replace them.
That is until I started building my own computers. Haven't had a problem...yet that is. I don't know if Gateway and Dell just cheap out when it comes to the CD-ROM drives they put into their machines, but I've had several go out on me over the years.
Put crap in, you're going to get a crap Drive. But honestly, I don't know why there were so many failed drives.
The art of hand writing is dead it seems. But then again, it wasn't very efficient. But when someone actually sits down and writes a letter using a pen, it does give you a warm, fuzzy feeling...that is if you can read their handwriting.
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Since it's college football, it simulates going to class, which can hurt your team if there is a cheating scandal or a star player has to sit it out due to bad grades.
It also simulates the players getting all the money on the side, the payola from the school to play for them. Shows how the players intimidate the legit students and get away literally with murder.
Shows the drunken parties with the hookers flown in by the booster clubs to keep their players happy. And then the drop out players who are so good they just bypass the un-needed education to go play for a pro team and get that endorsement deal from Nike while showing the real students struggling with college loans and debt while actually trying contribute something of substance to the world.
Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now, you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the earth, back along the line of gasoline to the can, or the sun itself. It will explode this source and spread to every place that gasoline, our sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here and a chain reaction will occur direct to the sun itself and to all the planets that sunlight touches, to every planet in the universe. This is why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used to stop you. In a friendly manner or as (it seems) you want it.
This is hardly front page Slashdot news here. Let's see, "motherboard chipmaker needs to fix some non-showstopping bugs with bios updates." yawn.
Everything mentioned in that article is minor. His summation is even minor:
We're pleased to see that NVIDIA has finally fixed the long-standing bug that caused its disk controller to hit a performance wall at 128 transactions per second, but the fix was a long time in coming. More notably, the ActiveArmor GigE implementation seems to have some strange problems still. We're encouraged by the fact that NVIDIA could demonstrate a fix for some of these problems with a new driver, but we're concerned about the current state of the Ethernet driver available to the public for AMD-based nForce4 boards that have been on the market for months now. These kinds of problems, which we readily acknowledge aren't total showstoppers, may pass muster for Athlon 64-based enthusiast systems. NVIDIA will probably find, however, that competing against Intel's chipsets requires a higher standard of competence.
OK...they fixed a bug and one of the Ethernet ports is "strange".
But that last statement seems to throw the entire review out of whack. So what he's basically saying is: "The minor Athlon fanbois may not mind this junk...but us Intel Professionals know it's crap and will stick with Intel".
While I look at my taxes this year, I'm reminded that anything we get from our government will NOT be free. I'm paying for it and so are you.
Also, what does having 4 kids have to do with getting a professional job? Not that I have 4 kids.
But as far as healthcare is concerned, I'm just looking how other places do it, that's all. Then I go down to the HMO that covers NOTHING. The only thing the HMO will cover is that if you're sick, at least you'll die in a bed. Change jobs for a better health care plan? Is that what we have to do to be covered?
And at the same time I'm paying for these idiots in Washington to see if baseball players use drugs or that iTunes plays fair.
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Yeah! WTF!
(tackles Frymaster)...shut him up! SHUT UP YOU FOOL!
Though what if the baloon itself were to drap and stay over the windshield of the cockpit...as far as I know, you can do just about anything but land on instruments alone.
I guess it could be done using ILS approach, but you better be DEAD on the money coming in. Or has aviation changed quite a bit since the days of barnstorming?
This is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
Would be fun if you actually were being sarcatic though...but "TheUz" gave you a way out and you took it.
Not on a high horse, I just hate posers. Are you a poser? Posers on Harleys. Posers trying to be something their not. Posers just buying something new and shiney to fill some void they think is lacking in their lives. Shallow people living shallow lives.
As I said, if you want a gaming PC, get a Dell and be done with it...but no, gotta have the water-cooled, SLI, FX-55 based (which isn't all that great for overclocking nor does it really warrant a water-cooled system), cool green color, per-installed UV lighting system that you spend 4000 bucks on. What are you buying? You're buying a look...you're buying into the kind of guy that was profiled in the satirical movie American Psycho.
Unhappy with being that doctor? Think you made a mistake being a blood-sucking lawyer? Think your dick is too small? Throw money at the problem and buy new things...sure, that will make you feel better, right?
Also, another one that throws around "those of us with lives". Usually those that say that have no life of their own, and become terribly defensive sounding more like "I have a life...cut it out, I really do have a life! Stop picking on me".
BTW...mod me down...I don't care. Slashdot is dead and I can't believe I'm even wasting my time with this.
Lol, is this how people troll now? Pretty weak.
But building computers and playing games on them are hobbies in and of themselves. When you and people like you say idiotic things like "those folks have actual LIVES they'd like to live"...what do you refer to? How does building a computer, which takes no time at all unless you're a complete moron, equate to "not having a life"? Cause I don't go out with a bunch of loser friends to get drunk at a bar and try to hit on tubby girls with low self-esteme? So your hobbies are for people with "actual LIVES" and my hobbies are lesser...interesting. Is this how people with "actual LIVES" justify those lives?
And what outside things do you do? Please list them so I can cut them all down one by one. It's so easy for any moron to cut someone elses hobby down as you have clearly demonstrated...though in a very weak way.
Try going to www.myg0t.com to learn how to really rage and troll a forum, as you suck at it! Ba da bing!
I equate people that buy the souped up, tricked out systems from Alienware and others to doctors and dentists and lawyers who buy tricked out Harleys so they can seem "cool" yet have no idea how to even use these things, much less overclock them.
Build and maintain the system yourself and you'll:
a. Have a more powerful computer
b. Get that power at a much lower cost
c. Understand your system to where you don't need an added, trumped up service pack. YOU fix your system..which is quicker and easier than waiting on the phone for some flunky to kick you up to tier 2 support...to have them give you a RMA number to ship the stuff back or have some guy named Clive come to your house and remark "whoa, never seen one-a them before...they must be new".
If you want to be a gamer that doesn't want to fiddle with anything, just get a cheap Dell. Don't let the flash and eye-candy of these Alienware systems fool you.
this story has been out for a while and let's face it, this isn't real. While it's funny, it's just not real.
Come on...
THanks for the great info! I'm one, like millions, who only know the surface details of this story through the movie "Apollo 13"...and while I know it was a movie and they probably changed quite a few things...it's hard for someone, like myself, do see where the facts end and the fiction takes place.
What's even more impressive is that the problems with Apollo 13 weren't even simulated...hell, they weren't even thought about. It's amazing that they all got together and actually solved the problem by winging most of it.
All with computer systems with less power than the C64 and slide-rules...and yes, duct-tape!
I'm in awe of these guys.
Same here, the one's I've built have been rock steady. One of the reasons I build my own now...cause I know exactly what's going into them.
Most of the CD-ROM's and DVD players on the computers I've bought have gone out on me, prompting me to replace them.
That is until I started building my own computers. Haven't had a problem...yet that is. I don't know if Gateway and Dell just cheap out when it comes to the CD-ROM drives they put into their machines, but I've had several go out on me over the years.
Put crap in, you're going to get a crap Drive. But honestly, I don't know why there were so many failed drives.
The art of hand writing is dead it seems. But then again, it wasn't very efficient. But when someone actually sits down and writes a letter using a pen, it does give you a warm, fuzzy feeling...that is if you can read their handwriting.
Screw that, I want my Frozen Lightcicle!
Mmmmmmm....frozen light....
Well, why can't it have The Rock AND be set where the Doom games were played?
I have a feeling this will be Doom in name only...like that Final Fantasy movie which had nothing to do with Final Fantasy.
Why not have a move called Half-Life and have it set in New York and center on the fast-paced world of international finance!
Any speculation what they're going to start calling the releases after they run through all the big cat names?
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Just thought it was interesting.
Since it's college football, it simulates going to class, which can hurt your team if there is a cheating scandal or a star player has to sit it out due to bad grades.
It also simulates the players getting all the money on the side, the payola from the school to play for them. Shows how the players intimidate the legit students and get away literally with murder.
Shows the drunken parties with the hookers flown in by the booster clubs to keep their players happy. And then the drop out players who are so good they just bypass the un-needed education to go play for a pro team and get that endorsement deal from Nike while showing the real students struggling with college loans and debt while actually trying contribute something of substance to the world.
Sounds great!
Obese biker-looking geek here too.
We need to find a place where they actually worship people like us.
actually, it's from "Plan 9 from Outer Space"
It's interesting in how they explain this:
Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now, you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the earth, back along the line of gasoline to the can, or the sun itself. It will explode this source and spread to every place that gasoline, our sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here and a chain reaction will occur direct to the sun itself and to all the planets that sunlight touches, to every planet in the universe. This is why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used to stop you. In a friendly manner or as (it seems) you want it.
Not sure I get this...
You're being sarcastic, right?
This is hardly front page Slashdot news here. Let's see, "motherboard chipmaker needs to fix some non-showstopping bugs with bios updates." yawn.
Everything mentioned in that article is minor. His summation is even minor:
We're pleased to see that NVIDIA has finally fixed the long-standing bug that caused its disk controller to hit a performance wall at 128 transactions per second, but the fix was a long time in coming. More notably, the ActiveArmor GigE implementation seems to have some strange problems still. We're encouraged by the fact that NVIDIA could demonstrate a fix for some of these problems with a new driver, but we're concerned about the current state of the Ethernet driver available to the public for AMD-based nForce4 boards that have been on the market for months now. These kinds of problems, which we readily acknowledge aren't total showstoppers, may pass muster for Athlon 64-based enthusiast systems. NVIDIA will probably find, however, that competing against Intel's chipsets requires a higher standard of competence.
OK...they fixed a bug and one of the Ethernet ports is "strange".
But that last statement seems to throw the entire review out of whack. So what he's basically saying is: "The minor Athlon fanbois may not mind this junk...but us Intel Professionals know it's crap and will stick with Intel".
And they laughed at me when I said I was going to just bury my money in a jar in the backyard!
Only now I forgot exactly where I buried it.
Yeah...exactly...er...SHUT UP!
While I look at my taxes this year, I'm reminded that anything we get from our government will NOT be free. I'm paying for it and so are you.
Also, what does having 4 kids have to do with getting a professional job? Not that I have 4 kids.
But as far as healthcare is concerned, I'm just looking how other places do it, that's all. Then I go down to the HMO that covers NOTHING. The only thing the HMO will cover is that if you're sick, at least you'll die in a bed. Change jobs for a better health care plan? Is that what we have to do to be covered?
And at the same time I'm paying for these idiots in Washington to see if baseball players use drugs or that iTunes plays fair.
Yep. That's "free" for ya.