...And it's a lot faster to throw in another clip than it is to reload 300 rubber bands:)
If a few hundred dollars is too rich for your blood, you can also buy spring-powered (cock and shoot) airsoft pistols for $20-30. They don't shoot as hard as the more expensive ones, making them a little less cruel to use against your buddies in close quarters (with proper eye protection, of course!).
There's a decent selection of spring airsoft pistols here (no, I am not affiliated with them in any way).
For that price, I'd buy myself another airsoft gun...
For those who don't know what airsoft guns are: think highly detailed replica guns that shoot 6mm plastic BBs at 200-300fps. Mine looks something like this.
Full auto capability (600+ shots per minute) powered by a rechargable battery similar to those used for radio controlled cars.
I play with a group called PSAC. Beats the snot out of paintball on the fun scale... and much more affordable (once you make the initial investment).
Anybody who might want one: please, please, please don't do something stupid with one and get them banned. You'd be ruining a great hobby for a lot of people.
I can just see it now... get one of these bad-boys and use it lying face up on the gaming table top. DM could load images of the current area (complete with grid) and then players could move their mini's on the surface, or draw their location with pens. DM could draw things that happen.
It would be great.:)
How to Build a (cheap, simple) Railgun
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WARNING: Do not try this at home unless you are smart enough to not kill yourself and those around you.
A physics buddy of mine made a rail gun for his senior project. Ammunition: Pennies. I believe only older pennies worked. Basically, he had two metal rails attached to a flat, smooth surface. The rails were parallel, and were exactly the width of a penny apart. They were shaved off a little at one end so a penny could be easily slid in between the rails.
There was a BIG capacitor, and a power supply to charge it with. It was wired so that it could be easily switched between two modes: charging and firing. In charge mode, the power supply charged the capacitor. In firing mode, the capacitor has one terminal connected to each rail (and there was a "safety" switch between on of the terminals and one of the rails).
The firing process consisted of charging the capacitor, then switching into firing mode. The penny was then put on the flat surface flat surface near the end of the rails that had been tapered. The safety switch was closed, then using some sort of insulator, the penny was quickly shoved in between the rails completing a circuit: capactitor to rail to penny to rail back to capacitor. The result: A loud "crack".. some sparkage... and the penny was sent flying across the room... sometimes getting a good thirty feet of distance before hitting the ground (launched off of a table).
The penny tended to jump up out of the rails and fly not perfectly straight (often tumbling end over end), so the design could be impoved upon. Another problem was that the penny would melt a bit and leave residue on the rails, which had to be scraped off (and/or the rails turned over so that an unused surface contacted with the penny).
Definately not a practical device to go around fragging your enemies with (not even portable!), but definately a cool relatively low budget project. And when it's done you can say to all your friends: "Hey, want to come see my railgun?".
I personally think that we are going to see the rest of the "gift" scene as a flashback in one of the other two movies. If you think about it, none of the "gifts" really come into play until later... and it doesn't really serve any purpose to show that scene in THIS movie (which is already scrunching to get enough into three hours) because it isn't really all that relevant until later. I've seen what I'm pretty sure is the rest of the "gift" scene amongst the trailers... so I know the footage exists... so don't be suprised if we see it later.
To those who stayed until the end of the credits:
Right near the very end there were a couple of lines of what I presume to be elven text. Are there any elven-fluent Slashdotters who happen to know what they said?
I'm extremely curious, and haven't been find the answer anywhere...
...but how incredibly lame for a non-US citizen to have to go through jail/trial/etc for however many months/years in order to get rid of a stupid American law...
If somebody has to go through all that crap in order to get rid of the DMCA, I'd feel better if it were an American citizen-- somebody who would more directly benefit from it..
I don't see the big deal-- over ten years ago I had one of these, designed for the most important application of all.. Video games!
Power Glove, anybody?;)
w00t!
"Take this for example: a college junior goes around bragging to her friends and family about how she hasn't eaten anything but water and carrots for the past two weeks. Would people think this was a sign of maschismo? Or would they think this was a person who was endagering themselves, and needed medical attention? Now, take the same college junior and say that she has been going around bragging about how she has been pulling all nighters and has averaged 4 hours of sleep for the past two weeks. For a lot of people, this would be a normal sign of collegeiate bravado."
No no.. I'm a SENIOR, I haven't lived off of anything but water and RAMEN for the past two weeks, and I've averaged THREE hours of sleep on weeknights for the past MONTH..
Geeze, at least portray college life accurately...
After centuries of speculation on the existence of extraterrestrial life, first contact has been made. Unfortunately for humanity, our new visitors seem unfriendly. Thousands of comet-like spacecraft have taken up geosynchronous orbits around Earth. The craft are transmitting strange messages across a wide range of radio frequencies. Early translations seem to indicate that the alien craft are preparing to attack the planet in retaliation for an attack against one of their vessels. Government officials from all space faring nations are denying such an attack. World leaders are now scrambling to to avert war with the aliens, and quite possibly the destruction of the human race...
We use OSP at PLU as well. We use a book entitled (believe it or not) OSP by Michael Kifer and Scott A. Smolka (ISBN 0-201-54887-9). It only costs about 15 USD, and is pretty decent to work with. It explains pretty much what each module needs to do, while leaving room for students to have to figure things out on their own.
I don't know if that is what you were after as far as documentation, but I hope this helps.
Slashdot Mirror
...And it's a lot faster to throw in another clip than it is to reload 300 rubber bands :)
If a few hundred dollars is too rich for your blood, you can also buy spring-powered (cock and shoot) airsoft pistols for $20-30. They don't shoot as hard as the more expensive ones, making them a little less cruel to use against your buddies in close quarters (with proper eye protection, of course!).
There's a decent selection of spring airsoft pistols here (no, I am not affiliated with them in any way).
For that price, I'd buy myself another airsoft gun...
For those who don't know what airsoft guns are: think highly detailed replica guns that shoot 6mm plastic BBs at 200-300fps. Mine looks something like this.
Full auto capability (600+ shots per minute) powered by a rechargable battery similar to those used for radio controlled cars.
I play with a group called PSAC. Beats the snot out of paintball on the fun scale... and much more affordable (once you make the initial investment). Anybody who might want one: please, please, please don't do something stupid with one and get them banned. You'd be ruining a great hobby for a lot of people.
I can just see it now...
:)
get one of these bad-boys and use it lying face up on the gaming table top.
DM could load images of the current area (complete with grid) and then players could move their mini's on the surface, or draw their location with pens.
DM could draw things that happen.
It would be great.
WARNING: Do not try this at home unless you are smart enough to not kill yourself and those around you.
A physics buddy of mine made a rail gun for his senior project. Ammunition: Pennies. I believe only older pennies worked. Basically, he had two metal rails attached to a flat, smooth surface. The rails were parallel, and were exactly the width of a penny apart. They were shaved off a little at one end so a penny could be easily slid in between the rails.
There was a BIG capacitor, and a power supply to charge it with. It was wired so that it could be easily switched between two modes: charging and firing. In charge mode, the power supply charged the capacitor. In firing mode, the capacitor has one terminal connected to each rail (and there was a "safety" switch between on of the terminals and one of the rails).
The firing process consisted of charging the capacitor, then switching into firing mode.
The penny was then put on the flat surface flat surface near the end of the rails that had been tapered. The safety switch was closed, then using some sort of insulator, the penny was quickly shoved in between the rails completing a circuit: capactitor to rail to penny to rail back to capacitor. The result: A loud "crack".. some sparkage... and the penny was sent flying across the room... sometimes getting a good thirty feet of distance before hitting the ground (launched off of a table).
The penny tended to jump up out of the rails and fly not perfectly straight (often tumbling end over end), so the design could be impoved upon. Another problem was that the penny would melt a bit and leave residue on the rails, which had to be scraped off (and/or the rails turned over so that an unused surface contacted with the penny).
Definately not a practical device to go around fragging your enemies with (not even portable!), but definately a cool relatively low budget project. And when it's done you can say to all your friends: "Hey, want to come see my railgun?".
I prefer the 3rd Edition PHB (Player's Handbook).
Having to figure out THAC0 was a pain in the ass..
I personally think that we are going to see the rest of the "gift" scene as a flashback in one of the other two movies. If you think about it, none of the "gifts" really come into play until later... and it doesn't really serve any purpose to show that scene in THIS movie (which is already scrunching to get enough into three hours) because it isn't really all that relevant until later. I've seen what I'm pretty sure is the rest of the "gift" scene amongst the trailers... so I know the footage exists... so don't be suprised if we see it later.
To those who stayed until the end of the credits:
Right near the very end there were a couple of lines of what I presume to be elven text. Are there any elven-fluent Slashdotters who happen to know what they said?
I'm extremely curious, and haven't been find the answer anywhere...
~Matt
...but how incredibly lame for a non-US citizen to have to go through jail/trial/etc for however many months/years in order to get rid of a stupid American law... If somebody has to go through all that crap in order to get rid of the DMCA, I'd feel better if it were an American citizen-- somebody who would more directly benefit from it..
I don't see the big deal-- over ten years ago I had one of these, designed for the most important application of all.. Video games! Power Glove, anybody? ;)
w00t!
August 3rd, 2005
After centuries of speculation on the existence of extraterrestrial life, first contact has been made. Unfortunately for humanity, our new visitors seem unfriendly. Thousands of comet-like spacecraft have taken up geosynchronous orbits around Earth. The craft are transmitting strange messages across a wide range of radio frequencies. Early translations seem to indicate that the alien craft are preparing to attack the planet in retaliation for an attack against one of their vessels. Government officials from all space faring nations are denying such an attack. World leaders are now scrambling to to avert war with the aliens, and quite possibly the destruction of the human race...
"We're doomed!" --C3P0
Abraxis
The book ncc74656 speaks of is the very same that I mentioned in my previous response: Blue, staple-bound, and 85 pages, to be exact.
Abraxis
We use OSP at PLU as well. We use a book entitled (believe it or not) OSP by Michael Kifer and Scott A. Smolka (ISBN 0-201-54887-9). It only costs about 15 USD, and is pretty decent to work with. It explains pretty much what each module needs to do, while leaving room for students to have to figure things out on their own.
I don't know if that is what you were after as far as documentation, but I hope this helps.
Abraxis