So a subwoofer with a 1hz capability is nothing to get excited about, you could do that with a wide variety of subwoofers. And achieving such a low, inaudible frequency sure as hell doesn't make it the world's most powerful subwoofer.
Those low frequencies at a high enough power can effect things quite a bit.
I remember years ago I was in a town where there were serious problems people were having with objects falling off of shelves and other similar places. (These objects would only last a few days in places that they had been in for years without problems)
It turned out that it was a new local Wind Power Generator that was to blame. It's very low Hz wasn't audible in the slightest, but when it's wavelength matched up with {whatever} object, it caused quite a serious effect.
For those who can't be bothered to read the link, various armies have tried to find a bass frequency that, aimed at enemy soldiers, would cause them to involuntarily lose bowel control.
1. Yourself and everyone else who does not fall into 4, 3 or 2 but who (a) funds the MPAA and the artists by buying their crap, (b) funds the politicians with their taxes, and (c) allows the politicians to get away with it by being politically disengaged and reelecting them all the time.
The parent is correct. I would add that I think it's time for a Tea Party!
I can't believe that they mentioned Alone In The Dark. That and System Shock 2 often get missed in these sorts of articles although they were extremely scary games.
The matter here is that google is an American company, with American ideals. Supporting a nation that runs counter to your belief system, profitable or not, is unethical and self-destructive.
Well, looking at the $162 BILLION deficit we had with China last year that would make everyone guilty, not only Google.
Yes, that finger is pointing back at you.
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It's also likely that some of the motivation behind such fantasies is rooted in a 'purging' of a percentage of humanity, in the same way that a good war or disease bails some water from the boat of Mother Nature. If you take into account that you have to be quite dumb (or really unlucky) to be killed from a weak, shuffling zombie, then it's hard to deny that some people would wish for this as a Darwinistic chlorination of the gene pool.
Finally, I believe it also plays off of those fantasies that I'm sure everyone has had at some time, where everyone disappears from the face of the Earth, leaving you and perhaps a few friends to go anywhere you want, taking any car you fancy etc - an excuse for total freedom and perhaps anarchy.
Yes, the Zomie Invasion enables a lot of other fantasies. With Zomies stumbling about, we are suddenly as rich as we want to be, there aren't any authority figures present to limit what we can do, and of course, most important of all, there will be plenty of maidens in distress to save who will of then of course want to have sex with those who save them.
Yeah. Just replace "Scotty" with "Pile of ashes". and "Beamed up" with "rocket launched" and we'll have an title that reflects reality.
I was disappointed as well. I completely expected an article about how Scotty has been brought back to life and then, using a secretly developed teleportation system, scientists are going to beam him into the vacuum of space as part of a sick prank.
Yeah, it sure does, if you carry around 30 driver cds with your windows installation cd (which you still are required to use frequently).
Actually, that isn't true with WindowsXP. It's still junk but it's much better junk than previous incarnations.
As long as you have an internet connection, windows will find compatible drivers for almost every piece of hardware under the sun if you don't feel like putting in the original driver disk.
Also, ever since Windows 98, users have been able to copy the files from the installation CD onto the hard drive so that the installation CD is not necessary afterwards.
If a country like the US switched to true democracy yes in the first decade all hell would break out because people would vote based on silly ideas. HOWEVER, after people realize that their vote counts people will vote differently.
That's a nice thought, but it isn't even slightly true for the USA.
You do not understand how spoiled we are here.
In just a couple of years, our country would be in ruins. We'd have new laws that cap gas prices, lower taxes, public lynchings, zero unemployment laws, no space program, $10/month cable bills, authorization for the federal government to declare martial law on a whim, yadda yadda yadda. Sure, the supreme court would retroactively fix that until someone comes up with the bright idea that the supreme court is holding us back from making 'good' changes.
Please don't give us what we want because we want it all with the least amount of effort and cost.
These Benzodiazepines are clinically the most effective treatment for anxiety but many doctors shy away from perscribing them due to their addictive potential for some drug users.
Not to mention their interference with sleep patterns which may often result in more problems with the patient.
And yes, I previously struggled with periodic major anxiety/depression* problems. I good doctor helped me modify my sleeping, eating, and relaxation patterns which did MUCH more than any Benzodiazepines could do. In fact, in my case, those drugs only spread the anxiety/depression cycles apart but those same highs and lows were much worse when they did happen.
*Most people think depression/anxiety is just feeling bad or uneasy....it's much more horrible than what those people think.
ow marine wildlife have to deal with loud sounds! oh, the humanity!
True, it's not so bad. Invite me over sometime and we'll see how much blood comes out of your ears when I crank up "Peace Sells....But Who's Buying?" at a close distance why my l33t stereo equipment.
I try to avoid meat and eat a diet that consists primarily of organically-grown vegetables, fruits, and legumes, etc, etc, etc.
I'm glad that you are a sensible vegetarian.
I'm extremely disappointed with those vegans-vegetarians who see things in black/white terms and refuse to understand that even organically growing crops often murders quite a few living creatures in the process.
Veggies are great but the the millions of animals that get slaughtered by harvesting machines (also known as Reapers interestingly enough) will disagree quite a bit.
The most vocal vegans-vegetarians would be well advised to stop finger-pointing and clean up their own houses. And again, this is not pointed at you. It's easy to see that you're more sensible than that.
Data from supernovae distance measurements indicate that the Universe has been expanding for some time already.
That means that there has to exist a sort of anti-gravity (called dark energy by astrophysicists). Now, that is hard to explain by conventional means (although it is possible), and may involve either a "beyond Einstein" type of theory (e.g., an improved general relativity) or some exotic form of energy (or both).
Or, (playing Devils Advocate) it could be a lack of energy causing the expansion. ie: There isn't a force strong enough to stop the expansion so our universe could easily be acting like a filled balloon exposed to a low external pressure.
Our Universe could easily be a 'lucky' one that initially expanded past the point of no return.
I do not purchase anything or base my decisions on advertisements as much as consciously possible. I base them on hands-on familiarity with the company or recommendations by review sites or magazines.
It's a waste of their time and mine to show me advertisements.
Also, I refuse to have cable television because the constant interruptions and 'ur stupid' attitude of most advertisements are not only insulting, they actually make me NOT want to buy those products.
Of course, I will watch sports over at friends houses but usually we're babbling at each other during commercial breaks so it's not as annoying.
Just to be pedantic, most viruses can easily be killed by heat... which means that as long as they don't spread outside their container, they can easily be killed with the tip of a well-placed soldering gun.:-D
Kurt Russell tried that in the Antarctic quite a few years back and it just pissed the thing off.
That always irked me in FPS games. In the real world, bullets aren't instantaneous and travel in an arc. Red Orchestra [clanservers.com] (a UT2k4 mod) does a pretty good job of simulating bullet drop and real life physics.
FPS games are that way on purpose. It reduces the server load by quite a bit and reduces network traffic. Also, it's hard enough to deal with internet latency & client-side prediction of the action without throwing in craploads of flying bullets. (Most FPS games are now built on top of existing network-capable FPS engines).
For example, here is the basic outline of how a modern game server deals with networking for Counter-Strike:Source
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Maybe he's smoking Crack these days.
I can't believe that he not only heard about this and didn't laugh so hard that he couldn't see through the tears, but he also repeated obvious hoax as serious business.
The overwhelming majority of people will not purchase a concrete item that expires after one use especially when it comes to the Almighty Idiot Box. (think 'my precious, my precious' and what behavioral changes happen to most people when the remote control doesn't work)
Even if they might possibly fall for that on Planet Stupid, it's not likely that they'd buy a second DVD player as well just to have compatibility for those self-destructing DVDs.
Why is an integrated calendar and communications product a "good thing".
Perhaps I may want to use communications to let people know about my calendar and changes in it?
This is 2005 after all. For example, I shouldn't have to negotiate a time & place for a meeting with every single person who should be present by telephone. For 10 people, that could easily take a lot of time not to mention the multiple calls to each person.
Instead, I can schedule it for the most convenient time (least impact on their schedules).
According to TFA - people in China are looking for ways to evade the government's web controls. So despite differences in cultures they still value freedom.
That in itself doesn't reflect the attributes of any particular culture.
There are always people around who not only will want to do things they are not supposed to do, there will also be people who will actually act on those wants.
It's how often that people act on those wants thats a big difference between the cultures.
You might want to join irc channels and play in some pickup games to see how your skill level is.
As far as team games, doing well on public game servers is much easier than doing well on a server where the participants are specifically chosen to play. That vs a random set of people who drop in and out constantly and don't have any incentive to work with the team (yipee, high KD ration player but his team loses most of the time!)
irc://irc.gamesurge.net is one good place to look for challenging play.
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The same was true of the Tickle-me-Elmo. Pet Rocks. Beenie-Babies. It's well known in marketing that the appearance of scarcity increases demand.
Yes, convincing the public that there was a shortage of rocks was quite a feat.
So a subwoofer with a 1hz capability is nothing to get excited about, you could do that with a wide variety of subwoofers. And achieving such a low, inaudible frequency sure as hell doesn't make it the world's most powerful subwoofer.
Those low frequencies at a high enough power can effect things quite a bit.
I remember years ago I was in a town where there were serious problems people were having with objects falling off of shelves and other similar places. (These objects would only last a few days in places that they had been in for years without problems)
It turned out that it was a new local Wind Power Generator that was to blame. It's very low Hz wasn't audible in the slightest, but when it's wavelength matched up with {whatever} object, it caused quite a serious effect.
For those who can't be bothered to read the link, various armies have tried to find a bass frequency that, aimed at enemy soldiers, would cause them to involuntarily lose bowel control.
Woot, the brown noise
1. Yourself and everyone else who does not fall into 4, 3 or 2 but who (a) funds the MPAA and the artists by buying their crap, (b) funds the politicians with their taxes, and (c) allows the politicians to get away with it by being politically disengaged and reelecting them all the time.
The parent is correct. I would add that I think it's time for a Tea Party!
I can't believe nobody mentioned System Shock 2.
I can't believe that they mentioned Alone In The Dark. That and System Shock 2 often get missed in these sorts of articles although they were extremely scary games.
The matter here is that google is an American company, with American ideals. Supporting a nation that runs counter to your belief system, profitable or not, is unethical and self-destructive.
Well, looking at the $162 BILLION deficit we had with China last year that would make everyone guilty, not only Google.
Yes, that finger is pointing back at you.
It's also likely that some of the motivation behind such fantasies is rooted in a 'purging' of a percentage of humanity, in the same way that a good war or disease bails some water from the boat of Mother Nature. If you take into account that you have to be quite dumb (or really unlucky) to be killed from a weak, shuffling zombie, then it's hard to deny that some people would wish for this as a Darwinistic chlorination of the gene pool.
Finally, I believe it also plays off of those fantasies that I'm sure everyone has had at some time, where everyone disappears from the face of the Earth, leaving you and perhaps a few friends to go anywhere you want, taking any car you fancy etc - an excuse for total freedom and perhaps anarchy.
Yes, the Zomie Invasion enables a lot of other fantasies. With Zomies stumbling about, we are suddenly as rich as we want to be, there aren't any authority figures present to limit what we can do, and of course, most important of all, there will be plenty of maidens in distress to save who will of then of course want to have sex with those who save them.
Yeah. Just replace "Scotty" with "Pile of ashes". and "Beamed up" with "rocket launched" and we'll have an title that reflects reality.
I was disappointed as well. I completely expected an article about how Scotty has been brought back to life and then, using a secretly developed teleportation system, scientists are going to beam him into the vacuum of space as part of a sick prank.
Yeah, it sure does, if you carry around 30 driver cds with your windows installation cd (which you still are required to use frequently).
Actually, that isn't true with WindowsXP. It's still junk but it's much better junk than previous incarnations.
As long as you have an internet connection, windows will find compatible drivers for almost every piece of hardware under the sun if you don't feel like putting in the original driver disk.
Also, ever since Windows 98, users have been able to copy the files from the installation CD onto the hard drive so that the installation CD is not necessary afterwards.
If a country like the US switched to true democracy yes in the first decade all hell would break out because people would vote based on silly ideas. HOWEVER, after people realize that their vote counts people will vote differently.
That's a nice thought, but it isn't even slightly true for the USA.
You do not understand how spoiled we are here.
In just a couple of years, our country would be in ruins. We'd have new laws that cap gas prices, lower taxes, public lynchings, zero unemployment laws, no space program, $10/month cable bills, authorization for the federal government to declare martial law on a whim, yadda yadda yadda. Sure, the supreme court would retroactively fix that until someone comes up with the bright idea that the supreme court is holding us back from making 'good' changes.
Please don't give us what we want because we want it all with the least amount of effort and cost.
These Benzodiazepines are clinically the most effective treatment for anxiety but many doctors shy away from perscribing them due to their addictive potential for some drug users.
Not to mention their interference with sleep patterns which may often result in more problems with the patient.
And yes, I previously struggled with periodic major anxiety/depression* problems. I good doctor helped me modify my sleeping, eating, and relaxation patterns which did MUCH more than any Benzodiazepines could do. In fact, in my case, those drugs only spread the anxiety/depression cycles apart but those same highs and lows were much worse when they did happen.
*Most people think depression/anxiety is just feeling bad or uneasy....it's much more horrible than what those people think.
ow marine wildlife have to deal with loud sounds! oh, the humanity!
True, it's not so bad. Invite me over sometime and we'll see how much blood comes out of your ears when I crank up "Peace Sells....But Who's Buying?" at a close distance why my l33t stereo equipment.
I try to avoid meat and eat a diet that consists primarily of organically-grown vegetables, fruits, and legumes, etc, etc, etc.
I'm glad that you are a sensible vegetarian.
I'm extremely disappointed with those vegans-vegetarians who see things in black/white terms and refuse to understand that even organically growing crops often murders quite a few living creatures in the process.
Veggies are great but the the millions of animals that get slaughtered by harvesting machines (also known as Reapers interestingly enough) will disagree quite a bit.
The most vocal vegans-vegetarians would be well advised to stop finger-pointing and clean up their own houses. And again, this is not pointed at you. It's easy to see that you're more sensible than that.
Data from supernovae distance measurements indicate that the Universe has been expanding for some time already.
That means that there has to exist a sort of anti-gravity (called dark energy by astrophysicists). Now, that is hard to explain by conventional means (although it is possible), and may involve either a "beyond Einstein" type of theory (e.g., an improved general relativity) or some exotic form of energy (or both).
Or, (playing Devils Advocate) it could be a lack of energy causing the expansion. ie: There isn't a force strong enough to stop the expansion so our universe could easily be acting like a filled balloon exposed to a low external pressure.
Our Universe could easily be a 'lucky' one that initially expanded past the point of no return.
I do not purchase anything or base my decisions on advertisements as much as consciously possible. I base them on hands-on familiarity with the company or recommendations by review sites or magazines.
It's a waste of their time and mine to show me advertisements.
Also, I refuse to have cable television because the constant interruptions and 'ur stupid' attitude of most advertisements are not only insulting, they actually make me NOT want to buy those products.
Of course, I will watch sports over at friends houses but usually we're babbling at each other during commercial breaks so it's not as annoying.
I didn't want to chance a "-1 Too Obvious".
Just to be pedantic, most viruses can easily be killed by heat... which means that as long as they don't spread outside their container, they can easily be killed with the tip of a well-placed soldering gun. :-D
Kurt Russell tried that in the Antarctic quite a few years back and it just pissed the thing off.
That always irked me in FPS games. In the real world, bullets aren't instantaneous and travel in an arc. Red Orchestra [clanservers.com] (a UT2k4 mod) does a pretty good job of simulating bullet drop and real life physics.
FPS games are that way on purpose. It reduces the server load by quite a bit and reduces network traffic. Also, it's hard enough to deal with internet latency & client-side prediction of the action without throwing in craploads of flying bullets. (Most FPS games are now built on top of existing network-capable FPS engines).
For example, here is the basic outline of how a modern game server deals with networking for Counter-Strike:Source
Maybe he's smoking Crack these days.
I can't believe that he not only heard about this and didn't laugh so hard that he couldn't see through the tears, but he also repeated obvious hoax as serious business.
The overwhelming majority of people will not purchase a concrete item that expires after one use especially when it comes to the Almighty Idiot Box. (think 'my precious, my precious' and what behavioral changes happen to most people when the remote control doesn't work)
Even if they might possibly fall for that on Planet Stupid, it's not likely that they'd buy a second DVD player as well just to have compatibility for those self-destructing DVDs.
Why bother?
Reporters often asked George Mallory a similar question about Mount Everest.
People do things because they can.
When it comes to security, this is doubly true because it isn't quite as exhausting or deadly as climbing Mount Everest is.
I haven't heard of a single useful thing that any astronomer has done in my lifetime.
I guess that Carl Sagan was a waste of (cough) Space then?
Why is an integrated calendar and communications product a "good thing".
Perhaps I may want to use communications to let people know about my calendar and changes in it?
This is 2005 after all. For example, I shouldn't have to negotiate a time & place for a meeting with every single person who should be present by telephone. For 10 people, that could easily take a lot of time not to mention the multiple calls to each person.
Instead, I can schedule it for the most convenient time (least impact on their schedules).
According to TFA - people in China are looking for ways to evade the government's web controls. So despite differences in cultures they still value freedom.
That in itself doesn't reflect the attributes of any particular culture.
There are always people around who not only will want to do things they are not supposed to do, there will also be people who will actually act on those wants.
It's how often that people act on those wants thats a big difference between the cultures.
All except Cindy Sheehan, who was arrested for protesting in Washington yesterday.
YM "wanted to be arrested" HTH.
You might want to join irc channels and play in some pickup games to see how your skill level is.
As far as team games, doing well on public game servers is much easier than doing well on a server where the participants are specifically chosen to play. That vs a random set of people who drop in and out constantly and don't have any incentive to work with the team (yipee, high KD ration player but his team loses most of the time!)
irc://irc.gamesurge.net is one good place to look for challenging play.