reflection field + damper field + energy absorber + displacement device + inertial nullifier + wide area jammer + automated repair unit
damn near impossible to destroy.
Sometimes when I got bored I would make one of those ships (doom star class) and put a stellar converter on it. If I was feeling really sadistic I'd also put reinforced hull or heavy armor too. Then I'd send it out and watch it wreck havoc against an enemy fleet
True, late in the game it was whoever fired first wins.
But what it interesting was that there was always one weapon which totally would dominate in the game. Most of the time it would be heavy phasor + auto fire + shield piercing. (Achilles targetting units should be standard equipment on all ships)
but in some games I played the AI would build ships with displacement devices and energy absorbers, which really take alot away from the phasor. Heaven forbid they actually had hard shields to boot. Therefore in scenarios like that I tend to use Mauler devices and / or stellar converters. I actually had miniturized the stellar converter small enough to fit on a battleship.
Now imagine this, a fleet of battleships w/ stellar converters and time warp facilitators + half a dozen doom stars equipped with heavy auto fire phasors + high energy focus + hyper x capacitors + structural analyzers + achille targetting units + subspace teleporters & time warp facilitators. The enemy wouldn't have a chance to fire one shot against me.
The 1.31 patch with ship initiative turned on negated some of that though.. had to start re-thinking strategy due to that!
Try going down to the white house and cheering for Al-Quada and see what happens to you.
And tell me, do you actually believe that you are "free"? True freedom is chaos. Do what you want, when you want and no one can tell you otherwise. Just the mear fact that you are living in a society with laws already restrict your freedom to some degree.
China wanted to push this homegrown chip to reduce dependence on foreign chips for their economy and security (as it states in the article)
They know very well that their chip doesn't have the same brute force as today's Athlon or Pentium chips but it doesn't matter to them.
One of the target niche markets of this chip is for military use, and they would rather have hardware they trust for critical applications. Makes perfect sense to me.
I'm doing the same thing on my work machine which is running XP (hate all that crap also)
Look in a folder that contains only music files (as most people usually have a folder just for that).
At first, Windows treats it like any other folder and displays only the filename, size, type and mod date. After a while however, it seems to figure out that it contains music files and starts reading to ID tags. No idea how or why it happens.
Personally the only difference that I can hear between 128kbps and 192kbps is that the latter is louder.
So for me, I probably wouldn't care. Then again, I'm perfectly content using the onboard sound chip on my machine. Others probably wouldn't be. All depends on the how much of an audiophile you are I suppose.
I get all this shit spam from Korea and I can't read a single f*cking thing in them. Its really pissing me off and I have no idea how they even got my work email since I never use it to sign up for anything!
I totally agree.. when I was in university I had time to do shit like it was no one's business.
Now all of a sudden that time seems to have disappeared.
Life outside of your field of expertise starts to demand more of your attention and before you know it, you're spending more time worrying about mortgages, car repairs, bills, etc. than about the latest and greatest buzz word.
no fair.. we had a transformer take down part of our grid earlier this year, caused 24 hours of downtime at which time we turned off our solaris boxes...
What sun doesn't give in actual funds they give in hardware.
At the University of Toronto they started teaching Java for all the comp sci students after Sun furnished them with (sort of) brancd new workstations and servers for the 3 unix labs.
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reflection field + damper field + energy absorber
+ displacement device + inertial nullifier +
wide area jammer + automated repair unit
damn near impossible to destroy.
Sometimes when I got bored I would make one of
those ships (doom star class) and put a stellar
converter on it. If I was feeling really sadistic
I'd also put reinforced hull or heavy armor
too. Then I'd send it out and watch it wreck
havoc against an enemy fleet
but how is that possible?
every time I tried to board an antaran ship
it blows up...
...against the Guardian. And those can be had
very early in the game.
What skill level were you on? by all accounts
you should have been vaporized!
must have been damn lucky I tell you what..
BTW, did you know what you can avoid war all
together by simply ignoring the diplomats?
that was one little nice thing I liked to do when
I didn't want to be bothered with them asking
for demands or tributes or alliances and stuff
stellar converters on cruisers?
holy crap how high did you need on the advanced
research to get to that?
True, late in the game it was whoever fired first
wins.
But what it interesting was that there was always
one weapon which totally would dominate in the
game. Most of the time it would be heavy
phasor + auto fire + shield piercing. (Achilles
targetting units should be standard equipment
on all ships)
but in some games I played the AI would build
ships with displacement devices and energy
absorbers, which really take alot away from the
phasor. Heaven forbid they actually had hard
shields to boot. Therefore in scenarios like
that I tend to use Mauler devices and / or
stellar converters. I actually had miniturized
the stellar converter small enough to fit on a
battleship.
Now imagine this, a fleet of battleships w/
stellar converters and time warp facilitators +
half a dozen doom stars equipped with heavy auto
fire phasors + high energy focus + hyper x
capacitors + structural analyzers + achille
targetting units + subspace teleporters & time
warp facilitators. The enemy wouldn't have a
chance to fire one shot against me.
The 1.31 patch with ship initiative turned on
negated some of that though.. had to start
re-thinking strategy due to that!
no no
a && !b = c
Try going down to the white house and cheering
for Al-Quada and see what happens to you.
And tell me, do you actually believe that you
are "free"? True freedom is chaos. Do what you
want, when you want and no one can tell you
otherwise. Just the mear fact that you are living
in a society with laws already restrict your
freedom to some degree.
China wanted to push this homegrown chip to
reduce dependence on foreign chips for their
economy and security (as it states in the
article)
They know very well that their chip doesn't have
the same brute force as today's Athlon or
Pentium chips but it doesn't matter to them.
One of the target niche markets of this chip is
for military use, and they would rather have
hardware they trust for critical applications.
Makes perfect sense to me.
yeah XP seems to want to do that, especially
with my control panel.
doesn't happen with 2000 though
I can post a screenshot of what I mean but I'm :)
afraid of being laughed at for my mp3 collection
at work
I'm doing the same thing on my work machine which
is running XP (hate all that crap also)
Look in a folder that contains only music files
(as most people usually have a folder just for
that).
At first, Windows treats it like any other folder
and displays only the filename, size, type and
mod date. After a while however, it seems to
figure out that it contains music files and starts
reading to ID tags. No idea how or why it
happens.
unless the malicious tag itself is has a virus
signature.
Your only real protection is backups incase of
data loss and something like zone alarm to tell
you if your machine has just become a zombie.
Personally the only difference that I can hear
between 128kbps and 192kbps is that the latter
is louder.
So for me, I probably wouldn't care. Then again,
I'm perfectly content using the onboard sound
chip on my machine. Others probably wouldn't
be. All depends on the how much of an audiophile
you are I suppose.
The above post has a good comment.
If so, then maybe I need to get you in touch
with our sys-admins.
we (they) have had a horrid time getting Tomcat
stable on development servers. Something about
not releasing memory or something.
I get all this shit spam from Korea and I can't
read a single f*cking thing in them. Its really
pissing me off and I have no idea how they even
got my work email since I never use it to sign
up for anything!
I totally agree.. when I was in university I had
time to do shit like it was no one's business.
Now all of a sudden that time seems to have
disappeared.
Life outside of your field of expertise starts to
demand more of your attention and before you know
it, you're spending more time worrying about
mortgages, car repairs, bills, etc. than about the
latest and greatest buzz word.
no fair.. we had a transformer take down part of
our grid earlier this year, caused 24 hours of
downtime at which time we turned off our solaris
boxes...
holy crap, I live in Toronto and I don't pay that
much.
I guess they were really caught off guard
with those uplift costs. I pay roughly $250
every 2 months so about $125/month for hydro.
Water on the other hand.. is a different story
Last I checked we had 52 operational fighters
left.
NOW THAT is an interesting idea!
But then again, if someone sues you for patent
infringement and you win, they'll have to pay
your legal fees anyway right?
So I guess it would be up to the patent issuee
to sue the USPTO, which I doubt they would do
since it would almost certainly invalidate their
patent.
What sun doesn't give in actual funds they give
in hardware.
At the University of Toronto they started
teaching Java for all the comp sci students after
Sun furnished them with (sort of) brancd new
workstations and servers for the 3 unix labs.
When a company is liquidized, the creditors
(i.e. banks) get paid first BEFORE any
shareholder sees a dime.
So, the CREDITORS own everything, the shareholders get whatever is left over.
*clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap*
:)
heh, I'm going to Europe in a couple of weeks,
I wonder how many Americans I'll see there with
Canadian flags on em