I'll save you your sanity- there is. Right now it's limited to simple fondling, but they're not done yet. (Well, sort of- MS has already stated that it won't be available through any official means, so unless the devs are cool with it being released to the homebrew market, they're SOL.)
And hike across two rooms to reset when it crashes? No thank you.
In all seriousness, this is pretty cool. In some applications this could be tremendously helpful- Small spaces with little room for hardware and less for cords, for example. All the same, though, I won't be using it on my gaming rig- I rather enjoy my GTS 250.
It may not be drawn on her back, but the lower half rather directly shows that it's meant for her.
I'm not saying you should care about that. I'm saying that you shouldn't ignore reality on the sole reason that reality is stupid. On the contrary, you should watch it so you can see just how stupid it can get, and why it's getting stupid, so a cure might be thought up.
Palin made a map. Said map had crosshairs on Arizona. One of said crosshairs was set on Gabrielle Giffords. Mrs. Giffords was shot.
Yeah, it's a knee-jerk reaction, and yeah, it had nothing to do with anything. But the human mind lives on knee-jerk reactions, and come election season, lots of Americans are going to remember that flimsy association.
She was shot in the head and the bullet passed through her brain, but she's apparently out of surgery and I've heard some reports here and there that she's awake and responding to commands. (Why they'd wake her up that soon after brain surgery is beyond me- the only possible reason I can think of is they needed her lucid so they know which bits they're cutting into so they don't hit really important bits of brain.)
Fact of the matter is, Palin had this person on a map with a crosshair on her. Even if it wasn't motivated by that (as I'm hearing here and there), it still sends out a really nasty message.
Digital rights management (DRM) is a term for access control technologies that can be used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals to limit the usage of digital content and devices.
Anything that limits the usage of digital content is DRM, hardware or software.
Digital rights management (DRM) is a term for access control technologies that can be used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals to limit the usage of digital content and devices.
From TFA:
...it would mean that only those who use Intel's very latest Sandy Bridge CPUs would be able to stream movies.
So Intel Insider could be used to limit the usage of digital content.
It's a sad world when some money-grubbing fool can publish a fudged article claiming that a vital, lifesaving tool can cause horrible, debilitating disease, get international attention, and when he's finally disproven all the "concerned parents" of the world ignore him because The Man wants to keep their kids autistic, without sparing a thought to the possiblity that maybe The Other Man just wanted a quick buck.
Little Billy joins the army, goes over to Iraq and gets shot. If we'd had drones, the drone would have been shot up instead and Billy would have survived. Same with the UAV drones we've got flying for recon and air support- Not only are we saving pilot's lives, we're saving the ground-pounder's lives because of the recon they provide, and we're saving money to boot.
The battlefield is changing. First it was the advent of true guerrilla warfare. Now it's tactics to keep soldiers alive against enemies using such tactics. Either you accept it and start working it into your own forces, or you whine about how it's not fair and how they're cheating. Guess who's going to lose?
That's not what they're doing, you know it, and trivializing the issue like that doesn't help anything. What these systems are designed to do is save lives.
So far as the remote operator problem goes, the army wants to find a happy balance between making it easy for soldiers to kill and making it hard. Making it too easy means they'll fire on everybody, plausible threat or no, and end up with a press problem. Making it too hard (humanizing the enemy and such) means they won't shoot unless actively engaged, and with guerrilla warfare tactics, that's often too late.
Thousands died in WWII from friendly fire. Likely hundreds in Iraq. We only hear about them now because we have the technology to go back and say "Whoops, that guy we just dropped bombs on was British, not Iraqi!"
War is a bunch of excitable guys with itchy trigger fingers and high-caliber weapons- and they're twitchy because John Q. Average on that rooftop over there or Jane Doe driving by could be their enemies, and if they followed standard army ROE, they wouldn't be able to engage on time and they'd be shot/blown up/what-have-you. When the bad guys look like civvies, there's going to be civvie casualties.
Aiding the enemy. So far as the pilots knew, the guys they shot were bad guys, and in trying to help them out, the guys in the van became bad guys.
Also, go back and watch the tape. Unless you've got magic clairvoyant space eyes that can go back in time, the "kids" look like black specks, if even that. You can't blame the gunner for not seeing a black speck against a black background.
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I was going pretty soft on Obama- I think he'd done some not-very-bright things, but he could shape up.
Time to go complain on the internet.
I'll save you your sanity- there is. Right now it's limited to simple fondling, but they're not done yet. (Well, sort of- MS has already stated that it won't be available through any official means, so unless the devs are cool with it being released to the homebrew market, they're SOL.)
I imagine Max Payne might cause an inordinate amount of broken ribs with all that jumping around. L4D2 could be fun, though.
And hike across two rooms to reset when it crashes? No thank you.
In all seriousness, this is pretty cool. In some applications this could be tremendously helpful- Small spaces with little room for hardware and less for cords, for example. All the same, though, I won't be using it on my gaming rig- I rather enjoy my GTS 250.
Here's the picture, just to make sure we're looking at the same thing.
It may not be drawn on her back, but the lower half rather directly shows that it's meant for her.
I'm not saying you should care about that. I'm saying that you shouldn't ignore reality on the sole reason that reality is stupid. On the contrary, you should watch it so you can see just how stupid it can get, and why it's getting stupid, so a cure might be thought up.
Palin made a map. Said map had crosshairs on Arizona. One of said crosshairs was set on Gabrielle Giffords. Mrs. Giffords was shot.
Yeah, it's a knee-jerk reaction, and yeah, it had nothing to do with anything. But the human mind lives on knee-jerk reactions, and come election season, lots of Americans are going to remember that flimsy association.
Still sends a bad message, appropriate or not.
9mm, according to CNN. Could have been an automatic Glock handgun, especially with the extended mag. Not likely, but possible.
Hilariously enough, your statement is (at least partially) correct.
She was shot in the head and the bullet passed through her brain, but she's apparently out of surgery and I've heard some reports here and there that she's awake and responding to commands. (Why they'd wake her up that soon after brain surgery is beyond me- the only possible reason I can think of is they needed her lucid so they know which bits they're cutting into so they don't hit really important bits of brain.)
Fact of the matter is, Palin had this person on a map with a crosshair on her. Even if it wasn't motivated by that (as I'm hearing here and there), it still sends out a really nasty message.
Oh crap, I screwed up the quote. There's my genius shining through, I suppose.
WP sez:
Digital rights management (DRM) is a term for access control technologies that can be used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals to limit the usage of digital content and devices.
Anything that limits the usage of digital content is DRM, hardware or software.
WP sez:
Digital rights management (DRM) is a term for access control technologies that can be used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals to limit the usage of digital content and devices.
From TFA:
...it would mean that only those who use Intel's very latest Sandy Bridge CPUs would be able to stream movies.
So Intel Insider could be used to limit the usage of digital content.
Intel, you are dirty, dirty liars.
It's a sad world when some money-grubbing fool can publish a fudged article claiming that a vital, lifesaving tool can cause horrible, debilitating disease, get international attention, and when he's finally disproven all the "concerned parents" of the world ignore him because The Man wants to keep their kids autistic, without sparing a thought to the possiblity that maybe The Other Man just wanted a quick buck.
The second attack was an attack on an unknown force that was aiding the enemy.They contacted command to confirm the attack, so it was within ROE.
Little Billy joins the army, goes over to Iraq and gets shot. If we'd had drones, the drone would have been shot up instead and Billy would have survived. Same with the UAV drones we've got flying for recon and air support- Not only are we saving pilot's lives, we're saving the ground-pounder's lives because of the recon they provide, and we're saving money to boot.
The battlefield is changing. First it was the advent of true guerrilla warfare. Now it's tactics to keep soldiers alive against enemies using such tactics. Either you accept it and start working it into your own forces, or you whine about how it's not fair and how they're cheating. Guess who's going to lose?
That's not what they're doing, you know it, and trivializing the issue like that doesn't help anything. What these systems are designed to do is save lives.
So far as the remote operator problem goes, the army wants to find a happy balance between making it easy for soldiers to kill and making it hard. Making it too easy means they'll fire on everybody, plausible threat or no, and end up with a press problem. Making it too hard (humanizing the enemy and such) means they won't shoot unless actively engaged, and with guerrilla warfare tactics, that's often too late.
But now there's competition. That's the silver lining I see here.
Of course, that doesn't solidify anything- the whole plan could fall apart out of the starting gate, but it could be nice.
Wait, hold on, I don't get what you're saying. Didn't we invade March '03?
Thousands died in WWII from friendly fire. Likely hundreds in Iraq. We only hear about them now because we have the technology to go back and say "Whoops, that guy we just dropped bombs on was British, not Iraqi!"
War is a bunch of excitable guys with itchy trigger fingers and high-caliber weapons- and they're twitchy because John Q. Average on that rooftop over there or Jane Doe driving by could be their enemies, and if they followed standard army ROE, they wouldn't be able to engage on time and they'd be shot/blown up/what-have-you. When the bad guys look like civvies, there's going to be civvie casualties.
Aiding the enemy. So far as the pilots knew, the guys they shot were bad guys, and in trying to help them out, the guys in the van became bad guys.
Also, go back and watch the tape. Unless you've got magic clairvoyant space eyes that can go back in time, the "kids" look like black specks, if even that. You can't blame the gunner for not seeing a black speck against a black background.
They blasted the van because it was picking up the bodies of what the helicopter crew thought were terrorists. Aiding and abetting the enemy.
Perhaps they look the same because that's the most efficient build for a stealth aircraft and China would be morons not to build one like that.
Just spitballing here, you understand.
Oh, FORK THAT!