What do you think of switching to system where you say "Rate this post as 3, Informative". Also you could average the top 8 moderators by karma and throw the rest out. If a mod point falls out of the the top 8, return the point to the moderator.
I remember that. Wait were you talking about when they had laser cut holes in the floppy disk? Or maybe you're talking about when they printed a bunch of little images/words on different pages in the manual that you had to answer questions about?
Hang on, gotta chase those pesky kids off my lawn again...
Does Hydrogen Injection mess with the shape of the sonic boom? I.e. would it be quieter? If it does then they might be able to use that during the re-entry portion of their flight to help muffle the boom.
What do you call someone that speaks three languages?.... Trilingual What do you call someone that speaks two languages?.... Bilingual What do you call someone that speaks one language?.... American
And before you go modding as troll or flamebait I'm from the country formerly known as the land of the free and the home of the brave.
I'd say a lot of other things would have to go very wrong first before we're there The fact that this wall is going up is proof that things are already horribly wrong and only going to get worse.
As part of the Real ID act which itself was a hitchhiker attached to a budget bill:
Waiving laws that interfere with construction of physical barriers at the borders It's not just that they're trying to build 1 wall. In that bill they received authorization to build walls anywhere they want without regard to any laws to the contrary.
At this point I don't know whether we should push or pull. Should we try to prevent and slow down the loss of the American Dream or should we attempt to accelerate the decay so we can get on with scrapping the whole stinking pile sooner?
Outside a handful of graphic designers, no one I know has it installed legally. There, fixed that for you.
I uhh a certain friend I know uses it whenever he does development work related to any type of modeling. Lots of kids messing around with websites use photoshop to make up cool effects on pictures. And the obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiAgrrwL_mk
We Americans are outraged. What's interesting is that I have yet to see a post saying what we can do. It's all about what the Canadians should/should not do. So, who should we call and send mail to? I assume the DEA will turn a deaf ear to us because they're just doing their job. Is it congress that controls the DEA policies or the president?
Actually there are 2 reasons. >They can paid directly to incorporate a third parties software in directly >They have to release version Y that improves on version X by adding this (as long as possible) list of new features. Doesn't matter if they are actually helpful or not, they go on the marketdroids list of features they can tout as new. Vista would have been accepted if it had just one killer feature.
I bet it's more something along the lines of the manufacturers being afraid of getting sued by someone that used too small of a charger and burning themselves.
DNS needs to be fixed. Should be most popular site wins, with next sites down listed as alternates. Would get rid of the domain name extortion and squatting instantly.
Next make DNS server non-authoritative. Have rankings and reputations as punishment for the atroturfers. After that lets go after these usurious "root certificate" generating companies. That one's probably a lot more difficult since the "web of trust" idea seems to have fizzled.
Well, unfortunately that model works too, see all the suckers that pay through the nose for text messaging and "free phones". I agree it is indeed a slippery slope, but I see it as encouraging competition. It will increase the volatility of gamers: the ease with which they can switch between MMOs. If the MMO developers see how big of an impact their content updates have, they will be encouraged to release good content when the players are tiring of the current content. It could also encourage the development of the third party mod community if the third party authors got a cut of the revenue say 40%.
That's one of the big things that is missing today with MMO's: control. Gamers have lost control of their games. Any modifications to improve gameplay are considered cheating. What happened to me playing the game the way I want to?
Design an 8 cylinder internal combustion engine where each cylinder wall is the stator of an electric generator, and the pistons are the rotor. Deceleration of the massive piston (in comparison to the projectile) would generate a current spike onto the railgun rail. Still not enough? Use really massive pistons and a higher compression. Still not enough? Use a flywheel to store the energy. The energy density of a flywheel is significantly higher than a capacitor bank and there are fewer energy losses.
The point is, if the induction pulse can be shaped correctly, it's not necessary to store the energy electrically.
Think of it as an energy conversion problem:
How much kinetic energy does one piston in an internal combustion engine contain:
From http://www.flatlanderracing.com/jechrys-sbft.html Piston weighs 489 grams (1.08 lbs) stroke = 4" Assuming 5500 RPM (181 trips up and down per second), pistons max speed is 181 trips/sec * pi * 4" stroke = 2298 in/sec = 191 feet/sec
From http://www.chuckhawks.com/rifle_ballistics_table.htm.308 Win. (150 Sp) has 2820fps and 2648 foot pounds of energy e = mv^2 so projectile weight =.0003 lbs The 1.08lb piston would need to move (2648 = 1.08 * v^2) or v = 49 feet/sec to have as much energy.
As you can see, one one pound piston in an engine running at 5500 RPM contains almost 4 times as much kinetic energy as a.308 round. The engine would stall if you tried to extract that much energy however:
The power output of a chrysler slant 6 engine is 134kw (mere 180 hp), power in watts of a 308 round is 3590 watt seconds.
Assuming railgun efficiency of 47%, energy extraction from the flywheel efficiency of 70% = 32%, you should be able to fire ((134/3.59)*.32)=11 rounds per second.
As far as the heating problem goes, pumped liquid nitrogen or water coolant + Gatling configuration should be close.
(Note: I mixed and matched some of the cylinder/engine figures, I couldn't find the information I needed tied to the same engine.)
How about a subscription service that records how much time I spend in each MMO I play, and apportions the fixed monthly fee I play for my set of MMO's to each MMO company. CC# to one agency, centralized billing, Instant suspend/resume billing (don't play don't pay). The subscription service would only bill you if you play more than X number of hours a week.
Also why not allow 7 day free trials every 3 months for every game in the archive.
Those features alone would be compelling enough to suck players in. Being able to charge different pricing for games offered on Steam would just be gravy.
And for the Hollywood version: Genetic programming was used to create a small family of programs, and then were all pitted against each other in cluster of mismatched machines (not beowulf) in order to determine which one is the most fit. The big scandal occurs when they discover that several of the siblings were exchanging code blocks without running any protection routines. They're all forced to live together in one cluster with 24 hour surveillance and no privacy, being subject to debugger traps at any moment.
A lot of people are content to hold a viewpoint but go on about their business, but it has always seemed to me that an engineer with a viewpoint on an issue that he won't back down from is simply doing what engineers do. NIH syndrome and NIH defended
The engineer, although similarly powerless to enact change in, say, global politics, will do the only things he can, like annoy everybody around him trying to convince them to see his viewpoint. People will not change until the pain of doing what they are doing exceeds the pain of change
Warcraft 3 has excellent Mods (maps). The map editor is totally awesome. A friend and I recently broke out wc3 and played some Final Fantasy Epic RPG and Tower Defense maps. I wrote about 6-7 maps, and fine-tuning those things takes ages to get right. I learned a lot about game balance doing that.
I would dearly love to have a platform that was open source and similar in power to WC3. WC3 has a bunch of limitations especially in regard to reaction times and keyboard mapping that would easily be remedied by continued open source development.
A good expandable game mod environment needs support for: Scripting/programming in a api/language tailored for the job
WC3 has very accessible dialog driven scripting. (You could go to text but was harder to use). Model support
WC3 has good but not excellent model support. Terrain editing.
WC3 has a very easy to use and powerful terrain editor.
Size. Naw. I would think either of them would scale down rather nicely. I don't see any reason either of those wouldn't scale down to rifle size. Pistol size for the rail gun. For the railgun you'd need that polonium power source. For the gas gun you'd need to be a lot more careful about how the recoil is managed.
I knew my free time was up when I bought a 1.5 Mindstorms set, and it sat untouched for years(still have it). Translation: Just 15 more quests and I can get my epic mount...
I think the jury is still out on whether rail guns or light gas guns will be the next step.
Let me list the current advantages/disadvantages: Rail Gun: + Simple firing mechanism (Two rails, one plug, massive juice) +Very little muzzle flash +Very rapid fire (Gatling configuration to spread out heat on rails) *Acceleration limited by current carrying capability of rails. - Complex/heavy electrical system (Banks of caps + power supply to charge them) - Rail wear -Heavy projectiles increases support structure significantly
Light Gas Gun: + Heavy projectiles scales up rather well. * Medium complexity (More complicated than Gatling mechanism) * Acceleration limited by maximum chamber pressure. - Bore wear - HUMONGOUS muzzle flash (hydrogen combusting) - Medium rate of fire.
Bottom line: Flechettes: Rail gun; Sub Orbital or ship killer: Light Gas Gun
Currently light gas guns emit a huge fireball out the end of them, which may tend to limit their use for a shoulder fired weapon (anti-tank, anti-air). On the other hand it is a lot easier to store and release obscene amounts of energy in a gas or powder than in electrical form. I would imagine porting the barrel would allow recovery of some of the hydrogen.
One advantage the railgun might have is it might allow different projectile shapes like fins that would be difficult to achieve with a light gas gun.
We should be using light gas guns to ship fuel up to the bottom of a chain of a LEO space elevators.
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What do you think of switching to system where you say "Rate this post as 3, Informative".
Also you could average the top 8 moderators by karma and throw the rest out. If a mod point falls out of the the top 8, return the point to the moderator.
I remember that. Wait were you talking about when they had laser cut holes in the floppy disk? Or maybe you're talking about when they printed a bunch of little images/words on different pages in the manual that you had to answer questions about?
Hang on, gotta chase those pesky kids off my lawn again...
Does Hydrogen Injection mess with the shape of the sonic boom? I.e. would it be quieter? If it does then they might be able to use that during the re-entry portion of their flight to help muffle the boom.
What do you call someone that speaks three languages? .... Trilingual .... Bilingual .... American
What do you call someone that speaks two languages?
What do you call someone that speaks one language?
And before you go modding as troll or flamebait I'm from the country formerly known as the land of the free and the home of the brave.
What the... How do you get something to burn that's all metal? Was it a battery fire?
As part of the Real ID act which itself was a hitchhiker attached to a budget bill: Waiving laws that interfere with construction of physical barriers at the borders It's not just that they're trying to build 1 wall. In that bill they received authorization to build walls anywhere they want without regard to any laws to the contrary.
At this point I don't know whether we should push or pull. Should we try to prevent and slow down the loss of the American Dream or should we attempt to accelerate the decay so we can get on with scrapping the whole stinking pile sooner?
http://ajbenjaminjrbeta.blogspot.com/2008/01/defending-your-homeland-from-homeland.html
I uhh a certain friend I know uses it whenever he does development work related to any type of modeling. Lots of kids messing around with websites use photoshop to make up cool effects on pictures.
And the obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiAgrrwL_mk
No no no.
A recession is when your friend is fired.
A depression is when YOU are fired.
Easy.
We Americans are outraged. What's interesting is that I have yet to see a post saying what we can do. It's all about what the Canadians should/should not do. So, who should we call and send mail to? I assume the DEA will turn a deaf ear to us because they're just doing their job. Is it congress that controls the DEA policies or the president?
Been there, Done that.
Help her get a concealed carry permit.
Not only does it make her safe, it makes everyone else safer too.
Actually there are 2 reasons.
>They can paid directly to incorporate a third parties software in directly
>They have to release version Y that improves on version X by adding this (as long as possible) list of new features.
Doesn't matter if they are actually helpful or not, they go on the marketdroids list of features they can tout as new.
Vista would have been accepted if it had just one killer feature.
I bet it's more something along the lines of the manufacturers being afraid of getting sued by someone that used too small of a charger and burning themselves.
DNS needs to be fixed.
Should be most popular site wins, with next sites down listed as alternates.
Would get rid of the domain name extortion and squatting instantly.
Next make DNS server non-authoritative. Have rankings and reputations as punishment for the atroturfers.
After that lets go after these usurious "root certificate" generating companies. That one's probably a lot more difficult since the "web of trust" idea seems to have fizzled.
I think I heard him say "Greetings. I am Archer, emissary of the Gorgonites."
You're right. It's the gun AND the bullet that are an extension of our bodies.
Well, unfortunately that model works too, see all the suckers that pay through the nose for text messaging and "free phones".
I agree it is indeed a slippery slope, but I see it as encouraging competition. It will increase the volatility of gamers: the ease with which they can switch between MMOs. If the MMO developers see how big of an impact their content updates have, they will be encouraged to release good content when the players are tiring of the current content. It could also encourage the development of the third party mod community if the third party authors got a cut of the revenue say 40%.
That's one of the big things that is missing today with MMO's: control. Gamers have lost control of their games. Any modifications to improve gameplay are considered cheating. What happened to me playing the game the way I want to?
Design an 8 cylinder internal combustion engine where each cylinder wall is the stator of an electric generator, and the pistons are the rotor. Deceleration of the massive piston (in comparison to the projectile) would generate a current spike onto the railgun rail. Still not enough? Use really massive pistons and a higher compression. Still not enough? Use a flywheel to store the energy.
.308 Win. (150 Sp) has 2820fps and 2648 foot pounds of energy .0003 lbs
.308 round. The engine would stall if you tried to extract that much energy however:
The energy density of a flywheel is significantly higher than a capacitor bank and there are fewer energy losses.
The point is, if the induction pulse can be shaped correctly, it's not necessary to store the energy electrically.
Think of it as an energy conversion problem:
How much kinetic energy does one piston in an internal combustion engine contain:
From http://www.flatlanderracing.com/jechrys-sbft.html
Piston weighs 489 grams (1.08 lbs) stroke = 4"
Assuming 5500 RPM (181 trips up and down per second), pistons max speed is
181 trips/sec * pi * 4" stroke = 2298 in/sec = 191 feet/sec
From http://www.chuckhawks.com/rifle_ballistics_table.htm
e = mv^2 so projectile weight =
The 1.08lb piston would need to move (2648 = 1.08 * v^2) or v = 49 feet/sec to have as much energy.
As you can see, one one pound piston in an engine running at 5500 RPM contains almost 4 times as much kinetic energy as a
The power output of a chrysler slant 6 engine is 134kw (mere 180 hp), power in watts of a 308 round is 3590 watt seconds.
Assuming railgun efficiency of 47%, energy extraction from the flywheel efficiency of 70% = 32%, you should be able to fire ((134/3.59)*.32)=11 rounds per second.
As far as the heating problem goes, pumped liquid nitrogen or water coolant + Gatling configuration should be close.
(Note: I mixed and matched some of the cylinder/engine figures, I couldn't find the information I needed tied to the same engine.)
Another cool Railgun link:
http://www.powerlabs.org/railgun2.htm
Steam needs some competition.
How about a subscription service that records how much time I spend in each MMO I play, and apportions the fixed monthly fee I play for my set of MMO's to each MMO company. CC# to one agency, centralized billing, Instant suspend/resume billing (don't play don't pay). The subscription service would only bill you if you play more than X number of hours a week.
Also why not allow 7 day free trials every 3 months for every game in the archive.
Those features alone would be compelling enough to suck players in. Being able to charge different pricing for games offered on Steam would just be gravy.
And for the Hollywood version:
Genetic programming was used to create a small family of programs, and then were all pitted against each other in cluster of mismatched machines (not beowulf) in order to determine which one is the most fit. The big scandal occurs when they discover that several of the siblings were exchanging code blocks without running any protection routines. They're all forced to live together in one cluster with 24 hour surveillance and no privacy, being subject to debugger traps at any moment.
Then they have to vote one off of the cluster.
Warcraft 3 has excellent Mods (maps). The map editor is totally awesome. A friend and I recently broke out wc3 and played some Final Fantasy Epic RPG and Tower Defense maps.
I wrote about 6-7 maps, and fine-tuning those things takes ages to get right. I learned a lot about game balance doing that.
I would dearly love to have a platform that was open source and similar in power to WC3. WC3 has a bunch of limitations especially in regard to reaction times and keyboard mapping that would easily be remedied by continued open source development.
A good expandable game mod environment needs support for:
Scripting/programming in a api/language tailored for the job
WC3 has very accessible dialog driven scripting. (You could go to text but was harder to use).
Model support
WC3 has good but not excellent model support.
Terrain editing.
WC3 has a very easy to use and powerful terrain editor.
I would think either of them would scale down rather nicely.
I don't see any reason either of those wouldn't scale down to rifle size. Pistol size for the rail gun. For the railgun you'd need that polonium power source. For the gas gun you'd need to be a lot more careful about how the recoil is managed.
I think the jury is still out on whether rail guns or light gas guns will be the next step.
Let me list the current advantages/disadvantages:
Rail Gun:
+ Simple firing mechanism (Two rails, one plug, massive juice)
+Very little muzzle flash
+Very rapid fire (Gatling configuration to spread out heat on rails)
*Acceleration limited by current carrying capability of rails.
- Complex/heavy electrical system (Banks of caps + power supply to charge them)
- Rail wear
-Heavy projectiles increases support structure significantly
Light Gas Gun:
+ Heavy projectiles scales up rather well.
* Medium complexity (More complicated than Gatling mechanism)
* Acceleration limited by maximum chamber pressure.
- Bore wear
- HUMONGOUS muzzle flash (hydrogen combusting)
- Medium rate of fire.
Bottom line: Flechettes: Rail gun; Sub Orbital or ship killer: Light Gas Gun
Currently light gas guns emit a huge fireball out the end of them, which may tend to limit their use for a shoulder fired weapon (anti-tank, anti-air). On the other hand it is a lot easier to store and release obscene amounts of energy in a gas or powder than in electrical form. I would imagine porting the barrel would allow recovery of some of the hydrogen.
One advantage the railgun might have is it might allow different projectile shapes like fins that would be difficult to achieve with a light gas gun.
We should be using light gas guns to ship fuel up to the bottom of a chain of a LEO space elevators.