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No tank sims don't have any heat management stuff IIRC. #1 Most tanks run on diesel though, which burns cooler than a fission reactor. #2 Tanks fire big pieces of lead by means of a chemical reaction, nothing compared to the heat hotter than the sun plasma puts out.
As far as realism, yes this is all fantasy based on the battlemech universe. If you ever looked at the artists sketches of mech's and cockpits you would have seen that this controller resembles them in some way, thus why I used the word "realistic"
Sorry guys, this is about the coolest things i've seen to come out for any console in a while. I LOVE realistic mech sims, especially the capsules at dave & busters. Tossed salad those things are COOL. Imagine a big 'ol futuristic chamber you step in, with multiple monitors displaying the different systems in the mech universe (heat, weapons, damage, nav, ect) Managing all these different systems is what makes a mech game fun.
Back to the story though, yeah I really like this thing. It will probably be easy to cut the cable and adapt it to pc use (since xbox is usb) plus the price drop we had last week, I want one now.
Hehe, while we're on the subject of high ranking female ST officers, a few you missed are..
7of9, Tactical Lt. Torrez, Engineering Vulcan Science officer on Enterprise
And the female Admerial everyone keeps reffering too, she was in the TNG episode with the scorpions that buried in the back of your neck and took over your mind.
In the book 2001, maybe it was 2010, been a while since I read them, Arthur C. Clarke described there being a large diamond at the center of jupiter, from what i've read in science publications this is not too far fetched considering the amount of carbon in the universe and Jupiters high heat and gravity.
Don't be lulled into a feeling that they can't build things better in Japan.... imagine Honda v Harley Davidson in a race.
Actually it depends on what kind of bike/race you're talking about. For pure 0 to 60 speed, no Harley can beat a rice rocket, but once a Harley get's up to speed, it can go indefinetly.
I can really really see this being used in war. Yes I know, hand it to us humans to take something like this and make it a weapon for war, but anyways...
Imagine Osama broadcasting on Afghani telivision to his troops to surrender to the nearest US platoon. I'm probably overestimating the stupidity of your average afghani al quaida member but chances are, you might get a good number of them to actually buy it, and surrender.
Going even further, we could fake Osama's capture, have him broadcast to the country that america is a nice place and to quit being player haters. Yeah I know this all sounds far fetched but i'm sure the military would already be looking into this.
Doesn't IE consist of %90 of the browser market now? M$ obviously owns %90 of the delivery of panip's patent infringment, wake up man go where the money is! Hey PanIP I may not have a law degree but I can certainly tell you there's no sense in trying to squeeze blood from a turnip.
I think i'm close to the average price of a 802.11 tranciever. Back to my point, I can buy 1000 feet of cat5 for $50 dollars a box. Maybe 2.5 boxes per last mile? In quantity it would be cheaper of course.
So i'm lookin at $125 dollars per mile VS $200 dollars per mile and i'm asking myself, ARE THEY COMPLETELY OUT OF THEIR MINDS? How hard is it to run a cat5 cable over someone's fence? Hell I share my DSL with my neighbor that way (Pesky teenager d/l on kazza screwin with my CS games)
So point is, this is what I would classify as an overengineered idea. Too expensive, too much stuff can go wrong, no no no no. Look at what happened to metricom a.k.a. Ricochet. Same plan basically and it died because they needed something like 300,000 subscribers just to cover their equipment costs.
At least the cable can be recycled for scrap metal. Not sure what you can do with a 802.11 basestation.
--My Sig is a warning that it's 1:30am and I can't be held responsible for this ramble because i'm pretty flipped out.
I'm not going to reprint the page unless it get's slashdotted, but none of the models (HadAM3,HadSM3,HadCM3,HadCM3L) in the simulation take into account the biological factor.
It has been said, that both termites, cars, factories, cows, and Taco Bell produce huge amounts of greenhouse gas which do attribute to global warming. How can this lead to an accurate prediction model if these factors aren't accounted for?
40billion would go a long way towards that goal. That would be the ultimate "fuck you" to Osama and his gang of thugs. Take the richest, most capitolist company out there, and have them build "The Microsoft Towers" where the WTC once stood.
But typically the sysadmin isn't in a position to say "you break it, then fixing it is at the bottom of the priority list".
YES!! Exactly! If you spend %15 of your time on one user in a month because they constantly are breaking something, other people get jaded that they are not recieving enough attention. Collecting all the parts, getting the shipping, calling the vendor for a RMA#, shipping the thing back and imaging the software back onto the machine when the machine comes back takes TIME. Time that has to be balanced out or otherwise it just put's the admin in a position where he/she might be taking precious IT resources away from other departments. If you cannot balance yourself out between all the departments in a company because of one person, i'm sorry but they're an asshole for not being consciences. They're not thinking about the time it takes me to replace the equipment, the cost to the company, the CEO's and salespeoples time for making the money to pay for the damn equipment in the first place.
I got one last comment to all the asses who don't agree with me.
You obviously don't have any respect for how much burden is layed on a sysadmin. You don't realize when the shit hits the fan we're the one's cleaning up your mess. You just don't know how dumb all those people with the "Chief" something in front of their title (CEO CIO CFO) really are.
Corporate infrastructure would rot without us. We're the one's with the cell phones and pagers as a leash. You whine about how much we get paid? How many sales people are called down to the office at 2:00am because the people with the "Chief" in front of their title decided to pull an all nighter and need you there to show them how to minimize a window. We put in twice the work any of you morons do and we never get recognition for our work.
We have to answer to every department within a company. You are constantly walking on pins and needles because if one person is somehow offended by you telling them they're #10 in the que they throw a political shit fit getting your ass in a sling for not working fast enough. Sometimes you're asked to do things un-ethical like spying on employees. (I had a CEO ask me to spy on one of the girls he was bangin in the office because he thought she was banging another "Chief" You see things like an entire company get purposefully run into the ground so the CEO can hide his dangeruos liason from his wife.
I shouldn't worry about someone breaking 9 laptops in 3 months? You fucking ass, those were dell inspirions, at about 5k each that's 45k for some ditz bitch sales whore to make me work harder when all she had to do was carry it on. 45k COULD have bought another jr. admin. That's another thing too, you see shit like the "Chiefs" spending riduclous amounts of money on themselves and their butt buddies everything from top of the line laptops that will never fully be used to fancy dinners "Outside meetings"
It is that stupid user thinking that money and IT resources just grow on tree's that atrributed at least %30 to the downfall of the dot coms. Yeah go break another 5k laptop you bitch.
You have a good point, i'm not entirerly jobless, I do get people stopping in and paying me a pittance to fix their problems. I don't think i'm charging nearly what I should though.
Lighten up a little, learn to see the bigger picture, learn to see your co-workers (once you get a job again) with compassion and not this holier than thou crap and I bet you might start to notice a change.
You have no fucking clue...
Most admin's start out with the best of intentions, focus on being nice, focus on teaching your users so they don't rely on you so much. Then when things are gravy you can focus on fun stuff like bringing up new servers or network services.
Reality is just as I stated in my original comment. After 7 years of dealing with really stupid people, I don't have the urge to give them a coke and a smile. I ain't a fucking burger flipper you got that? The last people in the company that should be that stupid are the one's in charge.
By your logic, you're focusing the burden of responsibility to the admin and not the end user. So I guess it's MY fault they opened the attatchment. I guess it's MY fault that I have to order a new laptop everytime this paticular sales lady goes out on travel and returns with a mangled laptop because "It's too much trouble to carry it on" This paticular lady i'm thinking of DESTROYED 9 laptops in 3 months! You would think MAYBE after the first one she would wise up BUT SHE KILLED 8 MORE!
Lighten up my ass, i'm sick of being a sysadmin. Honestly, I don't think i'm ever going back to anything IT realated anymore because it is not me that is the one with the holier than thou attitude, it's them.
Like, "don't insult your coworkers if you want to stay employed"?
Hey fuck you, me and three hundred thousand other people in San Jose are laid off right now you cum guzzling jerk off. MIS/IT is a numbers game, you get 1 admin per 200 employee's. Since your obviously a dumbass anyways let me do the math for you. Thats 300,000 people in San Jose Unemployed Divide that by 200 That's 1500 Sysadmin's all trying for what jobs are left out there plus those other 298,500 assholes we had to support before the layoffs applying for MY JOB even though they don't have a clue. Do you really have any concept of reality motherfucker or do I have to beat it into your head for you?
Well, I'm out of work now, but when I was working I had to deal with several virus outbreaks. It wasn't pretty or fun either. Usually it would happen like this.
I would get into work in the morning, read the latest advisory about some new virus. I would send out an e-mail to my users, "DONT OPEN ANY ATTATCHMENTS!" After which I would promptly apply fixes to the mail server.
My CIO would be reading her hotmail or yahoo mail, whatever. Point is it was a mail service outside of my control. She would see the subject, "I love you" and thinking it was a date, she would open it, from which it would spread like mad cow diesease. The rest of my day would be spent cleaning out her crap.
Wasn't this way at just one company, it was this way at every company I have ever worked at. No matter how much you try and warn these people they just don't listen. They have the attention span of a gerbil and it shows. And everytime it would happen I would always get the same answer from them, "But I swear I didn't open that attatchment" To which I would reply, "The computer must have MAGICALLY sprouted hands and fingers and opened the attatchment itself, oh don't forget it also typed in your webmail username and password for you too"
I dunno, being jobless all this time has made me realize a few things. There's no enjoyment in a job where you have to put out fires for 200+ people a day because they're too fucking stupid to figure out simple shit for themselves. They won't ever listen to your warnings, they don't seem to care that you have to spend several hours fixing their machines. They have an obvious lack of understanding that you have to actually concentrate to fix their problems, and this is made apparent by the 15 minute head pops they do into your cubicle, "Is it fixed yet? I have a really important blah blah blah for VIP blah blah blah."
I don't think CNN has any concept of what it's really like out there. The amount of single celled organisms in a corporation is astounding.
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I was thinkin more along the lines of a "Linus Linux" distro. He did write the core of the o/s didn't he?
cyber sled?
No tank sims don't have any heat management stuff IIRC. #1 Most tanks run on diesel though, which burns cooler than a fission reactor. #2 Tanks fire big pieces of lead by means of a chemical reaction, nothing compared to the heat hotter than the sun plasma puts out.
As far as realism, yes this is all fantasy based on the battlemech universe. If you ever looked at the artists sketches of mech's and cockpits you would have seen that this controller resembles them in some way, thus why I used the word "realistic"
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Sorry guys, this is about the coolest things i've seen to come out for any console in a while. I LOVE realistic mech sims, especially the capsules at dave & busters. Tossed salad those things are COOL. Imagine a big 'ol futuristic chamber you step in, with multiple monitors displaying the different systems in the mech universe (heat, weapons, damage, nav, ect) Managing all these different systems is what makes a mech game fun.
Back to the story though, yeah I really like this thing. It will probably be easy to cut the cable and adapt it to pc use (since xbox is usb) plus the price drop we had last week, I want one now.
Hehe, while we're on the subject of high ranking female ST officers, a few you missed are..
7of9, Tactical
Lt. Torrez, Engineering
Vulcan Science officer on Enterprise
And the female Admerial everyone keeps reffering too, she was in the TNG episode with the scorpions that buried in the back of your neck and took over your mind.
There may be a molten core in the center,
That may be debateable...
In the book 2001, maybe it was 2010, been a while since I read them, Arthur C. Clarke described there being a large diamond at the center of jupiter, from what i've read in science publications this is not too far fetched considering the amount of carbon in the universe and Jupiters high heat and gravity.
Don't be lulled into a feeling that they can't build things better in Japan.... imagine Honda v Harley Davidson in a race.
Actually it depends on what kind of bike/race you're talking about. For pure 0 to 60 speed, no Harley can beat a rice rocket, but once a Harley get's up to speed, it can go indefinetly.
Yet another reason for slash to implement some sort of cache ala google.
I can really really see this being used in war. Yes I know, hand it to us humans to take something like this and make it a weapon for war, but anyways...
Imagine Osama broadcasting on Afghani telivision to his troops to surrender to the nearest US platoon. I'm probably overestimating the stupidity of your average afghani al quaida member but chances are, you might get a good number of them to actually buy it, and surrender.
Going even further, we could fake Osama's capture, have him broadcast to the country that america is a nice place and to quit being player haters. Yeah I know this all sounds far fetched but i'm sure the military would already be looking into this.
The article make's one important point, if PANip succeeds in making these 10 settle, the lawers will have 300k or so.
Since M$ is %90 of the content deliver market, they're breaking panIP's patent %90 of the time.. Who knows maybe they'll go after them next.
Doesn't IE consist of %90 of the browser market now? M$ obviously owns %90 of the delivery of panip's patent infringment, wake up man go where the money is! Hey PanIP I may not have a law degree but I can certainly tell you there's no sense in trying to squeeze blood from a turnip.
I think i'm close to the average price of a 802.11 tranciever. Back to my point, I can buy 1000 feet of cat5 for $50 dollars a box. Maybe 2.5 boxes per last mile? In quantity it would be cheaper of course.
So i'm lookin at $125 dollars per mile VS $200 dollars per mile and i'm asking myself, ARE THEY COMPLETELY OUT OF THEIR MINDS? How hard is it to run a cat5 cable over someone's fence? Hell I share my DSL with my neighbor that way (Pesky teenager d/l on kazza screwin with my CS games)
So point is, this is what I would classify as an overengineered idea. Too expensive, too much stuff can go wrong, no no no no. Look at what happened to metricom a.k.a. Ricochet. Same plan basically and it died because they needed something like 300,000 subscribers just to cover their equipment costs.
At least the cable can be recycled for scrap metal. Not sure what you can do with a 802.11 basestation.
--My Sig is a warning that it's 1:30am and I can't be held responsible for this ramble because i'm pretty flipped out.
I'm not going to reprint the page ,HadSM3,HadCM3,HadCM3L)
unless it get's slashdotted, but none of the models (HadAM3
in the simulation take into account the biological factor.
It has been said, that both termites, cars, factories, cows, and Taco
Bell produce huge amounts of greenhouse gas which do attribute to global
warming. How can this lead to an accurate prediction model if these factors
aren't accounted for?
Wait a minute! That's the topic of the article! Moderators please disregard this post.
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--toq
Ever wanna pour gas on that rotten computer and set it a flame? I did.
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40billion would go a long way towards that goal. That would be the ultimate "fuck you" to Osama and his gang of thugs. Take the richest, most capitolist company out there, and have them build "The Microsoft Towers" where the WTC once stood.
Vampires can only come in if they're invited?
You are doing a service to unemployed geeks everywhere.
But typically the sysadmin isn't in a position to say "you break it, then fixing it is at the bottom of the priority list".
YES!! Exactly! If you spend %15 of your time on one user in a month because they constantly are breaking something, other people get jaded that they are not recieving enough attention. Collecting all the parts, getting the shipping, calling the vendor for a RMA#, shipping the thing back and imaging the software back onto the machine when the machine comes back takes TIME. Time that has to be balanced out or otherwise it just put's the admin in a position where he/she might be taking precious IT resources away from other departments. If you cannot balance yourself out between all the departments in a company because of one person, i'm sorry but they're an asshole for not being consciences. They're not thinking about the time it takes me to replace the equipment, the cost to the company, the CEO's and salespeoples time for making the money to pay for the damn equipment in the first place.
I got one last comment to all the asses who don't agree with me.
You obviously don't have any respect for how much burden is layed on a sysadmin. You don't realize when the shit hits the fan we're the one's cleaning up your mess. You just don't know how dumb all those people with the "Chief" something in front of their title (CEO CIO CFO) really are.
Corporate infrastructure would rot without us. We're the one's with the cell phones and pagers as a leash. You whine about how much we get paid? How many sales people are called down to the office at 2:00am because the people with the "Chief" in front of their title decided to pull an all nighter and need you there to show them how to minimize a window. We put in twice the work any of you morons do and we never get recognition for our work.
We have to answer to every department within a company. You are constantly walking on pins and needles because if one person is somehow offended by you telling them they're #10 in the que they throw a political shit fit getting your ass in a sling for not working fast enough. Sometimes you're asked to do things un-ethical like spying on employees. (I had a CEO ask me to spy on one of the girls he was bangin in the office because he thought she was banging another "Chief" You see things like an entire company get purposefully run into the ground so the CEO can hide his dangeruos liason from his wife.
I shouldn't worry about someone breaking 9 laptops in 3 months? You fucking ass, those were dell inspirions, at about 5k each that's 45k for some ditz bitch sales whore to make me work harder when all she had to do was carry it on. 45k COULD have bought another jr. admin. That's another thing too, you see shit like the "Chiefs" spending riduclous amounts of money on themselves and their butt buddies everything from top of the line laptops that will never fully be used to fancy dinners "Outside meetings"
It is that stupid user thinking that money and IT resources just grow on tree's that atrributed at least %30 to the downfall of the dot coms. Yeah go break another 5k laptop you bitch.
You have a good point, i'm not entirerly jobless, I do get people stopping in and paying me a pittance to fix their problems. I don't think i'm charging nearly what I should though.
Lighten up a little, learn to see the bigger picture, learn to see your co-workers (once you get a job again) with compassion and not this holier than thou crap and I bet you might start to notice a change.
You have no fucking clue...
Most admin's start out with the best of intentions, focus on being nice, focus on teaching your users so they don't rely on you so much. Then when things are gravy you can focus on fun stuff like bringing up new servers or network services.
Reality is just as I stated in my original comment. After 7 years of dealing with really stupid people, I don't have the urge to give them a coke and a smile. I ain't a fucking burger flipper you got that? The last people in the company that should be that stupid are the one's in charge.
By your logic, you're focusing the burden of responsibility to the admin and not the end user. So I guess it's MY fault they opened the attatchment. I guess it's MY fault that I have to order a new laptop everytime this paticular sales lady goes out on travel and returns with a mangled laptop because "It's too much trouble to carry it on" This paticular lady i'm thinking of DESTROYED 9 laptops in 3 months! You would think MAYBE after the first one she would wise up BUT SHE KILLED 8 MORE!
Lighten up my ass, i'm sick of being a sysadmin. Honestly, I don't think i'm ever going back to anything IT realated anymore because it is not me that is the one with the holier than thou attitude, it's them.
Like, "don't insult your coworkers if you want to stay employed"?
Hey fuck you, me and three hundred thousand other people in San Jose are laid off right now you cum guzzling jerk off. MIS/IT is a numbers game, you get 1 admin per 200 employee's. Since your obviously a dumbass anyways let me do the math for you.
Thats
300,000 people in San Jose Unemployed
Divide that by 200
That's 1500 Sysadmin's all trying for what jobs are left out there plus those other 298,500 assholes we had to support before the layoffs applying for MY JOB even though they don't have a clue. Do you really have any concept of reality motherfucker or do I have to beat it into your head for you?
Well, I'm out of work now, but when I was working I had to deal with several virus outbreaks. It wasn't pretty or fun either. Usually it would happen like this.
I would get into work in the morning, read the latest advisory about some new virus. I would send out an e-mail to my users, "DONT OPEN ANY ATTATCHMENTS!" After which I would promptly apply fixes to the mail server.
My CIO would be reading her hotmail or yahoo mail, whatever. Point is it was a mail service outside of my control. She would see the subject, "I love you" and thinking it was a date, she would open it, from which it would spread like mad cow diesease. The rest of my day would be spent cleaning out her crap.
Wasn't this way at just one company, it was this way at every company I have ever worked at. No matter how much you try and warn these people they just don't listen. They have the attention span of a gerbil and it shows. And everytime it would happen I would always get the same answer from them, "But I swear I didn't open that attatchment" To which I would reply, "The computer must have MAGICALLY sprouted hands and fingers and opened the attatchment itself, oh don't forget it also typed in your webmail username and password for you too"
I dunno, being jobless all this time has made me realize a few things. There's no enjoyment in a job where you have to put out fires for 200+ people a day because they're too fucking stupid to figure out simple shit for themselves. They won't ever listen to your warnings, they don't seem to care that you have to spend several hours fixing their machines. They have an obvious lack of understanding that you have to actually concentrate to fix their problems, and this is made apparent by the 15 minute head pops they do into your cubicle, "Is it fixed yet? I have a really important blah blah blah for VIP blah blah blah."
I don't think CNN has any concept of what it's really like out there. The amount of single celled organisms in a corporation is astounding.