Zeus with velocigen is far, far faster than apache with mod_perl I believe: Unfortunately Zeus ain't free but it is a complete piece of piss to use, is secure and is the fastest webserver there is, by quite a long way.
All of my old favourites play on Linux: Elite, The Sentinel, Uridium (with contortionist key layout). Ahh those were the days, when playability mattered not graphics.
Ooops, it's tungsten. Reasonably biggish as metal centres go: Plus it has available d orbitals to be donated into and to electrons to donate to the p orbitals of the silicon atoms. Hmmm.
These aren't really bucky-like structures as they are apparently incapable of being 'freestanding' - the cage structure depends upon the central metal atom for support, just as many other types of atom/ion are capable of ligand binding to a metal (usually, though not always a transiion metal) centre.
The problem is that the article doesn't really give a huge amount of detail on the metal centre used, although if they are crowding 12 silicon atoms around it, I'd expect it to be fairly large. Nor is it explcitly stated that there are silicon-silicon bonds, although this is definitely implied by the diagram adjacent.
Without reading the actual paper itself, the existance of silicon buckballs is definitely unproven for me.
WOW! I am impressed, this is the best anti-UK rant I have ever seen. The UK has indeed done many unpleasant things (We invented the concentration camp, for example).
Made my day.
Oh, and don't throw stones when you live in glass houses.
I mostly shoot Palma so I'm limited to 308 Winchester only but to be honest I wouldn't go for the Barret, mainly because they aren't actually that accurate out of the box - you'd need to get some work done on it. The second reason is that shooting 50 BMG is hellishly expensive plus finding ranges who'll let you shoot them can be tricky as you need a biiig danger area.
The hot calibre of the moment for long range is 6.5mm/.264 Inches usually launched from a necked down 30-06 class case. There are lots of variants on this theme but you can't beat the 6.5-06 or 6.5-284 loaded with heavy (for the diametre) 142 Sierra Matchkings or the Lapua 139 grain match bullet - A friend uses his to 1200 yards with incredible accuracy.
All the parts and reloading equipment can be bought at mom'n'pop's gunstore or ordered from a supplier (You'll need to reload if you're serious).
As for the launcher? Well...here's my ideal rig: RPA Quadlock action, Krieger 34" barrel, Nightforce 12-42 variable scope, McMillan stock. You are talking serious money though, about 3000 US bucks minimum for this kind of kit, although buying second-hand can get you very good kit at a reasonable price.
I hate to rain on your parade but 10,000 fps is either a bullshit or a typo. No chemically driven cartridge is capable of more than about 75-80% of this velocity - simply because the velocity is limited by several factors, mostly due to gas temperature/pressure limits and hence velocity.
What is this mythical cartridge.
Elgon
Just in case you wish to argue the toss: I am three quarters of the way through a master's in chemistry, I have represented my country at long-range rifle shooting and I handload with an interest in wilcat calibres, okay?
The problem with chemical internal combustion propulsion weapons - let's call them guns - is that with conventional fuels (Nitroglycerine, nitrocellulose etc...) you cannot get a velocity of faster than about 7500 fps. The classic example is the 30/50 BMG - which uses a 50BMG cartridge to fire a 30 calibre bullet at about 7700 fps - the barrel internal surface is basically ablated by the gas and is useless afterwards. - it's also chronically innaccurate.
Creating barrels strong enough to withstand this isn't actually too much of a problem. It's when you try to go and use fuels which explode as opposed to burn very fast (there IS a difference) then you run into the problem that, basically, you just can't build a barrel which will withstand the force, even from exotic and expensive materials.
Right, withough projectile stabilisation your accuracy is going to SUCK bigsyle beyond 100 yards - and if you can make 100 gram tungsten lead cored projectiles fly at beyond 3k fps with this puppy you'll be able to pot oil drums at 2 kilometers.
Basically you make your rails into a twisted pair in a constant spiral and machine the slug so that they have 'rifling' grooves which mate to the rails - your only problem is lubrication and sticking. Graphite coating could definitely help that.
Now all you need is to make the rails from something good 'n' tough and crank up the juice to 1 farad at 100kV and you can bust tanks in the next county.
As has been pointed out the prropriate conditions are pretty wide-ranging.
I am firmly of the belief that wherever there is a hand supply of the right kind of chemical materials and at least fair conditions, you will get life of one kind or another soone or later. The jury is out on whether water is absolutely necessary.
The truth is out there but the lies are all in your head.
Je ne le crois pas, et je n'en ai jamais dit parce que je ne suis pas américain. En générale je suis d'accord avec toi sur le système americain, mais le système français n'est plus mieux. Je n'ai aucun problème avec payer des impots pour donner de l'argent aux gens qui n'ont pas eu la meme chance que moi mais si tu regarde la disparité entre les salaires, bénéficies et retraites des employés du gouvernement en générale et celles des autres gens je crois que tu seras étonné(e). Finalement, pour un pays socialiste le système d'éducation universitaire est très élitiste: je suis un élève de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chmimie de Clermont-Ferrand, donc je connais le sujet dont je parle.
Donc, tu dois réflèchir un peu et peut etre lire ce que j'ai écrit avant que tu proposes des conneries.
T'as absolument raison, c'est de la merde, mais ce n'est pas le problème: le problème est la beaurocracie en France et les salaires, bénéficies et retraites des gens qui travaillent pour le gouvernement français. Le reste du pays payent pour leurs vies roses.
I live in France (Clermont-Ferrand) and insofar as I am aware the shops actually started charging extra for CD-R's a week ago. Although I don't use them personally, while I am over here anyway, friends of mine were talking about this the other day and at least one of them has had to buy them at the higher price since.
The point is that the NAZI party in Germany did some bad things, let's face it some very bad things...People must never be allowed to forget what this kind of extremism can incite people to do. This kind of stuff should be given the widest possible viewing on the grounds that it will show how full of shit assholes like this are.
You have a great opportunity here. A wonderful opportunity to help produce a kid and thence an adult who can make a contribution to the world being a slightly better place. Here are my views:
1. Don't neglect the arts. I hated english literature classes 'cause they suck but on the other hand I like to go and see plays. DO take the kid to see museums, art galleries, plays that you think are hard to understand.
2. Don't patronise him/her, maybe it's you who has completely missed the point. Be open minded.
3. Don't force the kid to learn too much but on the other hand make sure a minimum gets done on what would be normal schooldays.
4. Fun, don't neglect it. All kids like to go and watch ballgames/hang out at the mall etc... too.
5. Make sure he/she has a few hours a day playing with kids his/her own age. Musn't neglect those social skills.
6. Let the child lead their own education, don't prod them, poke them or grind down their ego by saying that something will be too hard for them.
7. Don't be afraid to tell the kid when he's wrong, but do it nicely.
</RANTMODE>
This is absolutely disgusting I mean of all the dickless, unpleasant lowlife scumbag things to do. This sounds like a tort-law version of forced plagiarism - yeah, you've invested time and effort in your website now we can come in and take you over. Don't wanna? Okay, see you in court - we can afford to lose, you can't even afford one day's worth of lawyer's fees.
Back in the old days whan 48k was a lot of memory for a computer I had a ZX Spectrum. Ultim8: Play the Game (TM) were the wasp's nipples - how much I would give to be able to present my brother (a real fan) with copies of Alien8, Knightlore, Sabrewulf, AticAtac, JetPac and Lunar Jet Man for his PC. (I personally would feel no guilt as I or he paid for all of these brand new at 10GBP or 16USD a throw). These games were largely in monochrome for the very good reason that the electronic beermat's colour attribute system was as dodgy as hell, but the bitmap graphics kicked arse and it was considered difficult by 95% of fiends. (Ahh, reminicence.)
Then, of course we have Uridium. How to describe it: the silky cutting edge of a katana, the fine nose of a Chateau Lafite, the raw nerve-jangling thrill of copious quantities of hard drugs. Undoubtedly one of the finest games ever compacted into less than 48k of RAM.
Right, enough memory lane, here's the problem - many modern games suck. The software guys have gotten so interested in 'content' that they have forgotten that the purpose of a game is to be played. Pretty images are fun to look at but if someone brought out a LAN-deathmatchable port of Elite or similar I would be among the first to buy it, chunky vector graphics and all. Playability FIRST, pretty pictures later!
I sort of have to agree here: Linux is useful, damned useful (as I discovered yesterday, when I finally started learning C - having a compiler more or less as standard is useful) and there are lots of cool things you can do with it.
I digress. Anyway any system must have a good software base available for it to be attractive to users. Linux does but much of it is available only online in the form of source which has to be linked and compiled. Your average user or business dude wants to pick up a CD or a pile of disks, insert the first one and see a prompt saying "Do you want to install foo?". He hits the "Y" key and ten minutes later he can do his accounts. Wanting people to change their ways is no good. It does not work. People who do not understand computers are unlikely to change, or at least, not easily.
People are shy of operating systems where you actually have to know anything about the computer to operate it. As I put it to a friend who was asking about Linux, "For someone who knows what they are doing Linux is incredibly powerful and useful but for a windows user it can be a frustrating experience."
This ties in with the whole problem of people using computers in the first place: getting them to realise that a computer system, rather like a car, needs maintenance - defrag once a month, update your virus defs once a week, clean up your filesystem to leave yourself plenty of drivespace.
I pointed this out to a great but thoroughly pointy-hair'd friend once about his company laptop, the response: "Oh we have techies to do that for us." *screams in anguish*
Unfortunately this is a very common idea - that computers will look after themselves and never go wrong. Like when my father recently had problems with his PC, "Isn't it supposed to do this for me, it's Windows."
"Oh yes, we know, it's Windows."
Elgon
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I'm surprised that if you can plow through UE's books then you found Dava Sobel's boring. Umberto just occasionally gets overly verbose.
First, I'll qualify that statement:-) I've been programming on and off for some 16 years starting from ZX Spectrum basic (at age 8), through Z80 machine code (age 12) to designing and building my own system and coding on bare metal (age 16) to get it to accept data from and send data to a terminal. I then learned visual basic (and I won't add that any skill I had was destroyed!).
Therein followed a break of quite a few years whereupon I learned Perl (a truly wonderful language, all praise be to Larry Wall and other deserving idividuals). I'm working on a couple of private projects at the moment (to keep my hand in and for fun too - visual control interface for CERN-HTTPD webserver and a simple program which uses Wigner's theorems to calculate the charcters of irreducible representations of a few simple point groups (much easier than it sounds)). The question is this: where do I progress to?
I tried reading a book on C++ when I was 17 and it made no sense to me whatsoever. The problem in part is that I am totally self-taught so when someone talks about dynamically scoped variables and other such bizarrely named thing I have no clue.
To quote Terry Pratchett "The statement that innocents have nothing to fear is guaranteed to, strike fear into the hearts of innocents everywhere."
I do not encrypt, mainly because I use a networked University computer over which I have little control. If I had the choice I would encrypt everything, firstly because of the reason given by the other answer to this foolish reply but mainly because I don't like any form of government (or other) interference in what I do.
Ad exemplum: I am a firearms user. Setting aside the gun/antigun issues for a moment, I wish to discuss firearms related stuff with a friend and not have it looked over by any jerk with a packet sniffer who can get access to my address etc... where I store my firearm. See? Nothing illegal or shady, just prudence.
Do you trust your government? I don't trust mine anymore (or yours assuming you're a merkin) on the grounds that they seem to think that they know what is right for 'oi polloi and not that they are the executors of the people's will.
Many people have pointed out that MP3 is good: I agree.
Many people have pointed out that any form of encryption is hackable (apart from perhaps one time pads): I agree.
Other people have said that if you can get the audio, and I hasten to add that it is difficult to listen to music without it, then you can copy it: I agree.
My final point is this: CD is not a huge improvement over vinyl IOCMHO (dynamic range is better, 'accuracy' is maybe better, sound isn't) so given a sufficiently good analogue setup it is easy to copy this kind of stuff and get a pretty good copy. Okay, not good enough to satisfy the industry's 'ears' maybe but then again if I want to listen to Metallica at volume 10 then this is hardly an issue.
Interesting one this. I note that it is based on MySQL, a lovely, wonderful, useful toy if ever there was one - may the contributors to it have fast ping times, high data tranfer rates and few systems crashes.
I am curious to know exactly how it sorts through the data though: does it refer to some kind of externally held central database server via the 'net which is continually updated? I fail to see how else such a system could be truly usefully maintained otherwise to an acceptable standard of accuracy.
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Elgon
Elgon
The problem is that the article doesn't really give a huge amount of detail on the metal centre used, although if they are crowding 12 silicon atoms around it, I'd expect it to be fairly large. Nor is it explcitly stated that there are silicon-silicon bonds, although this is definitely implied by the diagram adjacent.
Without reading the actual paper itself, the existance of silicon buckballs is definitely unproven for me.
Elgon
WOW! I am impressed, this is the best anti-UK rant I have ever seen. The UK has indeed done many unpleasant things (We invented the concentration camp, for example).
Made my day.
Oh, and don't throw stones when you live in glass houses.
The hot calibre of the moment for long range is 6.5mm/.264 Inches usually launched from a necked down 30-06 class case. There are lots of variants on this theme but you can't beat the 6.5-06 or 6.5-284 loaded with heavy (for the diametre) 142 Sierra Matchkings or the Lapua 139 grain match bullet - A friend uses his to 1200 yards with incredible accuracy.
All the parts and reloading equipment can be bought at mom'n'pop's gunstore or ordered from a supplier (You'll need to reload if you're serious).
As for the launcher? Well...here's my ideal rig: RPA Quadlock action, Krieger 34" barrel, Nightforce 12-42 variable scope, McMillan stock. You are talking serious money though, about 3000 US bucks minimum for this kind of kit, although buying second-hand can get you very good kit at a reasonable price.
What is this mythical cartridge.
Elgon
Just in case you wish to argue the toss: I am three quarters of the way through a master's in chemistry, I have represented my country at long-range rifle shooting and I handload with an interest in wilcat calibres, okay?
Creating barrels strong enough to withstand this isn't actually too much of a problem. It's when you try to go and use fuels which explode as opposed to burn very fast (there IS a difference) then you run into the problem that, basically, you just can't build a barrel which will withstand the force, even from exotic and expensive materials.
Elgon
Basically you make your rails into a twisted pair in a constant spiral and machine the slug so that they have 'rifling' grooves which mate to the rails - your only problem is lubrication and sticking. Graphite coating could definitely help that.
Now all you need is to make the rails from something good 'n' tough and crank up the juice to 1 farad at 100kV and you can bust tanks in the next county.
Elgon
I am firmly of the belief that wherever there is a hand supply of the right kind of chemical materials and at least fair conditions, you will get life of one kind or another soone or later. The jury is out on whether water is absolutely necessary.
The truth is out there but the lies are all in your head.
Elgon
Je ne le crois pas, et je n'en ai jamais dit parce que je ne suis pas américain. En générale je suis d'accord avec toi sur le système americain, mais le système français n'est plus mieux. Je n'ai aucun problème avec payer des impots pour donner de l'argent aux gens qui n'ont pas eu la meme chance que moi mais si tu regarde la disparité entre les salaires, bénéficies et retraites des employés du gouvernement en générale et celles des autres gens je crois que tu seras étonné(e). Finalement, pour un pays socialiste le système d'éducation universitaire est très élitiste: je suis un élève de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chmimie de Clermont-Ferrand, donc je connais le sujet dont je parle.
Donc, tu dois réflèchir un peu et peut etre lire ce que j'ai écrit avant que tu proposes des conneries.
Elgon
Elgon
Elgon
The point is that the NAZI party in Germany did some bad things, let's face it some very bad things...People must never be allowed to forget what this kind of extremism can incite people to do. This kind of stuff should be given the widest possible viewing on the grounds that it will show how full of shit assholes like this are.
Elgon
I went to school with his one of his great-nephews and got taught latin by another relative (The truly great 'Mad' Mike Tolkien).
Elgon
Elgon
You have a great opportunity here. A wonderful opportunity to help produce a kid and thence an adult who can make a contribution to the world being a slightly better place. Here are my views:
1. Don't neglect the arts. I hated english literature classes 'cause they suck but on the other hand I like to go and see plays. DO take the kid to see museums, art galleries, plays that you think are hard to understand.
2. Don't patronise him/her, maybe it's you who has completely missed the point. Be open minded.
3. Don't force the kid to learn too much but on the other hand make sure a minimum gets done on what would be normal schooldays.
4. Fun, don't neglect it. All kids like to go and watch ballgames/hang out at the mall etc... too.
5. Make sure he/she has a few hours a day playing with kids his/her own age. Musn't neglect those social skills.
6. Let the child lead their own education, don't prod them, poke them or grind down their ego by saying that something will be too hard for them.
7. Don't be afraid to tell the kid when he's wrong, but do it nicely. </RANTMODE>
Hope this is vaguely useful.
Elgon
This is absolutely disgusting I mean of all the dickless, unpleasant lowlife scumbag things to do. This sounds like a tort-law version of forced plagiarism - yeah, you've invested time and effort in your website now we can come in and take you over. Don't wanna? Okay, see you in court - we can afford to lose, you can't even afford one day's worth of lawyer's fees.
Elgon
Back in the old days whan 48k was a lot of memory for a computer I had a ZX Spectrum. Ultim8: Play the Game (TM) were the wasp's nipples - how much I would give to be able to present my brother (a real fan) with copies of Alien8, Knightlore, Sabrewulf, AticAtac, JetPac and Lunar Jet Man for his PC. (I personally would feel no guilt as I or he paid for all of these brand new at 10GBP or 16USD a throw). These games were largely in monochrome for the very good reason that the electronic beermat's colour attribute system was as dodgy as hell, but the bitmap graphics kicked arse and it was considered difficult by 95% of fiends. (Ahh, reminicence.)
Then, of course we have Uridium. How to describe it: the silky cutting edge of a katana, the fine nose of a Chateau Lafite, the raw nerve-jangling thrill of copious quantities of hard drugs. Undoubtedly one of the finest games ever compacted into less than 48k of RAM.
Right, enough memory lane, here's the problem - many modern games suck. The software guys have gotten so interested in 'content' that they have forgotten that the purpose of a game is to be played. Pretty images are fun to look at but if someone brought out a LAN-deathmatchable port of Elite or similar I would be among the first to buy it, chunky vector graphics and all. Playability FIRST, pretty pictures later!
Elgon
I sort of have to agree here: Linux is useful, damned useful (as I discovered yesterday, when I finally started learning C - having a compiler more or less as standard is useful) and there are lots of cool things you can do with it.
I digress. Anyway any system must have a good software base available for it to be attractive to users. Linux does but much of it is available only online in the form of source which has to be linked and compiled. Your average user or business dude wants to pick up a CD or a pile of disks, insert the first one and see a prompt saying "Do you want to install foo?". He hits the "Y" key and ten minutes later he can do his accounts. Wanting people to change their ways is no good. It does not work. People who do not understand computers are unlikely to change, or at least, not easily.
People are shy of operating systems where you actually have to know anything about the computer to operate it. As I put it to a friend who was asking about Linux, "For someone who knows what they are doing Linux is incredibly powerful and useful but for a windows user it can be a frustrating experience."
This ties in with the whole problem of people using computers in the first place: getting them to realise that a computer system, rather like a car, needs maintenance - defrag once a month, update your virus defs once a week, clean up your filesystem to leave yourself plenty of drivespace. I pointed this out to a great but thoroughly pointy-hair'd friend once about his company laptop, the response: "Oh we have techies to do that for us." *screams in anguish*
Unfortunately this is a very common idea - that computers will look after themselves and never go wrong. Like when my father recently had problems with his PC, "Isn't it supposed to do this for me, it's Windows." "Oh yes, we know, it's Windows." Elgon
I'm surprised that if you can plow through UE's books then you found Dava Sobel's boring. Umberto just occasionally gets overly verbose.
Elgon
First, I'll qualify that statement :-) I've been programming on and off for some 16 years starting from ZX Spectrum basic (at age 8), through Z80 machine code (age 12) to designing and building my own system and coding on bare metal (age 16) to get it to accept data from and send data to a terminal. I then learned visual basic (and I won't add that any skill I had was destroyed!).
Therein followed a break of quite a few years whereupon I learned Perl (a truly wonderful language, all praise be to Larry Wall and other deserving idividuals). I'm working on a couple of private projects at the moment (to keep my hand in and for fun too - visual control interface for CERN-HTTPD webserver and a simple program which uses Wigner's theorems to calculate the charcters of irreducible representations of a few simple point groups (much easier than it sounds)). The question is this: where do I progress to?
I tried reading a book on C++ when I was 17 and it made no sense to me whatsoever. The problem in part is that I am totally self-taught so when someone talks about dynamically scoped variables and other such bizarrely named thing I have no clue.
Any ideas?
Elgon
WRONG!
To quote Terry Pratchett "The statement that innocents have nothing to fear is guaranteed to, strike fear into the hearts of innocents everywhere."
I do not encrypt, mainly because I use a networked University computer over which I have little control. If I had the choice I would encrypt everything, firstly because of the reason given by the other answer to this foolish reply but mainly because I don't like any form of government (or other) interference in what I do.
Ad exemplum: I am a firearms user. Setting aside the gun/antigun issues for a moment, I wish to discuss firearms related stuff with a friend and not have it looked over by any jerk with a packet sniffer who can get access to my address etc... where I store my firearm. See? Nothing illegal or shady, just prudence.
Do you trust your government? I don't trust mine anymore (or yours assuming you're a merkin) on the grounds that they seem to think that they know what is right for 'oi polloi and not that they are the executors of the people's will.
Elgon
Many people have pointed out that MP3 is good: I agree.
Many people have pointed out that any form of encryption is hackable (apart from perhaps one time pads): I agree.
Other people have said that if you can get the audio, and I hasten to add that it is difficult to listen to music without it, then you can copy it: I agree.
My final point is this: CD is not a huge improvement over vinyl IOCMHO (dynamic range is better, 'accuracy' is maybe better, sound isn't) so given a sufficiently good analogue setup it is easy to copy this kind of stuff and get a pretty good copy. Okay, not good enough to satisfy the industry's 'ears' maybe but then again if I want to listen to Metallica at volume 10 then this is hardly an issue.
Elgon
Interesting one this. I note that it is based on MySQL, a lovely, wonderful, useful toy if ever there was one - may the contributors to it have fast ping times, high data tranfer rates and few systems crashes.
I am curious to know exactly how it sorts through the data though: does it refer to some kind of externally held central database server via the 'net which is continually updated? I fail to see how else such a system could be truly usefully maintained otherwise to an acceptable standard of accuracy.
Elgon