No, the FN303 is a paintball gun. It is less-lethal to the point of being useless against a determined attacker. I would not want to defend my home from an intruder with an FN303. I have paintball guns made by the same company that designed the FN303. I can put the same type of ammunition in it and I can dial it up to similar velocities.
I also have a revolver...If my life and my family are depending on it I'd rather have the revolver instead of severely aggravating an intruder while they kill everyone.
If a crash is "inevitable" and there's no way out then change the game. If the potential impact is calculated to be fatal to the occupant then trigger explosive bolts and blow the wheels off the vehicle to increase friction as the body slams to the ground. Have an underbody plate that's built to be ready for this and is contoured and/or spiked to reduce spin and keep the vehicle on a straight path. Effectively just do what a turtle does. Pull up your legs and get ready for the impact.
Collision systems today only trigger once the crash is already happening. If you're in a guaranteed "no way out" scenario in a vehicle smart enough to know then you can slowly inflate the airbags to cushion the cabin (even at child-safe speeds). An extra second is a lot of time for collision mitigation.
If the crash is expected to be at a low enough speed where your survivability is not in question then there's probably more risk involved if you swerve off the road. That should keep you from plowing over pedestrians, but the underlying intent is to keep you from swerving into a river.
Like some have said above...do whatever is best to protect the occupant(s). Most of the time anywhere off the road has a high probability of getting you more seriously injured than on the road. If there are squishy pedestrians around there's also probably a lot of heavy anchored things like telephone poles and buildings. Those are not usually a better target than the car that's swerving into you.
I was the senior integration technician at a mid-large VAR. We processed about 12,000 custom systems annually comprised of HP, IBM, & the occasional Sun server.
In 2010 our division was purchased and moved across the country (I didn't move with it). I've got a lot of tips and even some photos of what our build rooms were like. We had a major uptick in volume in ~2008 and I was given a similar chance to do what you're doing now. We picked up a new blank warehouse and gutted offices to turn into build rooms. It was quite a fun project.
contact me at my spam address (my username@hotmail.com) or "friend" me on here and I'd be happy to chat about some of our lessons learned.I'll keep an eye on my junk bin for a day or two to see if I catch your notice.
been there, done that...the fingerprint loss is pretty rare from what I've heard. They told me about it, but mine never even changed temporarily...not that there weren't plenty of other terribly amusing and horrifying side effects for the next year to year and a half. Good luck w/the transplant. I'm ~8 years out and happy I chose the most aggressive options presented to me.
Yes they will...You just won't be buying from one entity anymore...
You'll be sending a cut to everyone with every purchase, even if you don't have multiple devices from multiple vendors.
Your cable company will show you that movie for free because you paid them $3 when you bought it for $65 at Best Buy (You also paid Sony, Disney, and whoever else wants in). Its not price fixing if everyone only sells the one product. Then it's just a monopoly with every company in for their chunk. If all the big kids play together then no one big enough to get lobbyists can go after them for cornering the industry.
Of course they still won't be able to plug what used to be called "the analog hole" since the community will build their own damn rippers/players from the chips up if they have to to avoid these schemes.
If the dude walked out without giving passwords to anyone and the system was poorly designed so that admin passwords had to be forcefully recovered via single user mode or the like, then the city should just eat crow, lick their wounds, and install a real network AAA system.
except that all the startup configs had been erased. any reboot of the routers would have caused them to bounce to factory defaults. They were set up this way specifically to prevent a password recovery attempt...
I used to think plasma had the best picture as well, but then I got an LG 47LH90...
The new local dimming LED backlight systems are amazingly high contrast. If the screen is black you can't tell that the TV is on at all (since you can also control the power light). The brights are also amazing, and the ability to have the two sitting immediately adjacent has made everything appear more crisply.
The ONLY gripe I have is with the somewhat diminished viewing angle. At very wide angles you can see a little glow around some things when they're on a pitch black background.
Sorry, but how does it not integrate well? I just installed GV mobile last night and when I go to the keypad and hit the contacts button I see only my iPhone contact list...I can dial just like I do with phone.app
If anything the seamless integration of the iPhone contact list is the thing that GV mobile does best...
Your average server rack is only 42U in height...50 discrete systems is extremely high density. Even with blades you rarely get past about 64 per rack...Most datacenters have a mix of machine sizes so the average density quickly drops below 40. This also drops again once you put in all the switching and routing necessary to support these networks.
I work for a VAR in our integration facility and the highest densities we ever see are 64 BL460c HP blades in a 42U rack.
skipping tracks is as simple as clicking the inline button on the earbuds. pause is a double click. The buds also double as your headset so that phone calls automatically pause the music and give you a chance to answer with another simple squeeze of the button. Hanging up is just one more squeeze again and then back to the music. It's not advanced, but it's perfectly sufficient...
(although I bet they sell less than 100 of them a year).
Are you kidding? I work for a Value Added Reseller and we sell well over 100 I & P boxes in a year...P-series and I-series is very big in the higher education, medical, state government, and heavy industries areas...Power6 and Cell are getting gobbled up by anyone financially stable enough to afford them today...Unfortunately we all know how rare those customers are at the moment.
We have whole teams of reps in different parts of the country that only cater to I, P, & Z series sales...
Thank god for Indiana. I was looking at buying a silenced.22 pistol a while back, so I decided to call the sheriff to see if he would have any of the objections you mention.
His only request was that I had to show up at the range as soon as I had it and let him shoot it immediately upon receiving it...
I agree 100% except for the point about cost. A few weeks ago I upgraded my first mythbox venture to the following for $307 shipped:
1TB HDD E7200 CPU 2GB memory Foxconn mATX board with HDMI out (nVidia 7100 onboard)
It runs a pair of Pinnacle 800i HD tuners and I haven't had any issues for it. I'm running mine in gentoo (control freak issues) and it even has the full support of the girlfriend...It's actually that simple.
It has taken a while to get it all tweaked out (3-4 weeks of intermittent playtime), but now it reliably grabs all my shows and I don't miss anything...
Get yourself familiarized with Microsoft ADS, Ghost over networks, and other PXE systems like redhat kickstart installs. Grab a copy of CentOS (a debranded redhat clone) to familiarize yourself with a bit of the larger class linux world. I'm a gentoo fan myself, but as you can imagine when we do customer installs it's MS, RedHat, or SUSE only...the bigger companies care far more about support of a product rather than how good it is on the global scale. They'll accept a program that works 60% as good if you guarantee that you'll be on site in one hour if it ever breaks.
What kind of servers do your new clients have (HP, Dell, IBM, Sun??) I work with HP and IBM and both provide great system management software to help take on massive quantities of machines. HP uses System Insight Manager, and IBM uses Director. Both have paid license based deployment tools (Remote Deployment Pack & Remote Deployment Manager respectively) that give you the capabilities of managing firmware and software installs network wide from a central server.
By leveraging IBM's Director, Ghost, MS ADS, Anaconda, and HP SmartStart scripting toolkit into one beast we manage to deploy several hundred machines on a busy day (still only 8 hours) with only 4 people in the build room. (I work in an integration facility for a large VAR of several major brands)
So now whenever something crappy happens we're supposed to set of huge "time leaking" EMR bursts? That way we'll warn our past selves who will ofcourse be monitoring for this kind of thing.
Sort of like a distress signal to tell us,"choose tails or else the world will end."
Whenever we see one of these leaky EMR bursts come back from the future we can just order everyone to do something different than what they had planned on doing. That way nothing bad will ever happen again.
Then again...that would require that EMR actually effects something before it happens...which ofcourse DOES NOT HAPPEN.
now I know what to make my IED look like so it looks like one of those coke cans on an X-ray...that'll help a lot with getting past security...doesn't anyone else think that giving EVERYONE photos of this to make sure you don't confuse one with an explosive is a bad idea? now people that may be interested in building explosives have a design to shoot for...sure that's all tinfoil hat kinda fear, but aren't those the people X-raying cans in the first place?
i used to run a 10 gallon tub behind my machine...was too cheap to buy a radiator...I just added a little (2-3 capfulls) bleach to it to keep anything from growing...it was a sealed tub in my dorm room, but with 10 gallons of water and a 250gph pump it kept my Duron 800 happy at 1050 and I even had blocks on my GeForce256 and my northbridge...made them out of copper plate and 1/2" acrylic sheet with patterns routed out...
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No, the FN303 is a paintball gun. It is less-lethal to the point of being useless against a determined attacker. I would not want to defend my home from an intruder with an FN303. I have paintball guns made by the same company that designed the FN303. I can put the same type of ammunition in it and I can dial it up to similar velocities.
I also have a revolver...If my life and my family are depending on it I'd rather have the revolver instead of severely aggravating an intruder while they kill everyone.
If a crash is "inevitable" and there's no way out then change the game. If the potential impact is calculated to be fatal to the occupant then trigger explosive bolts and blow the wheels off the vehicle to increase friction as the body slams to the ground. Have an underbody plate that's built to be ready for this and is contoured and/or spiked to reduce spin and keep the vehicle on a straight path. Effectively just do what a turtle does. Pull up your legs and get ready for the impact.
Collision systems today only trigger once the crash is already happening. If you're in a guaranteed "no way out" scenario in a vehicle smart enough to know then you can slowly inflate the airbags to cushion the cabin (even at child-safe speeds). An extra second is a lot of time for collision mitigation.
If the crash is expected to be at a low enough speed where your survivability is not in question then there's probably more risk involved if you swerve off the road. That should keep you from plowing over pedestrians, but the underlying intent is to keep you from swerving into a river.
Like some have said above...do whatever is best to protect the occupant(s). Most of the time anywhere off the road has a high probability of getting you more seriously injured than on the road. If there are squishy pedestrians around there's also probably a lot of heavy anchored things like telephone poles and buildings. Those are not usually a better target than the car that's swerving into you.
I was the senior integration technician at a mid-large VAR. We processed about 12,000 custom systems annually comprised of HP, IBM, & the occasional Sun server.
In 2010 our division was purchased and moved across the country (I didn't move with it). I've got a lot of tips and even some photos of what our build rooms were like. We had a major uptick in volume in ~2008 and I was given a similar chance to do what you're doing now. We picked up a new blank warehouse and gutted offices to turn into build rooms. It was quite a fun project.
contact me at my spam address (my username@hotmail.com) or "friend" me on here and I'd be happy to chat about some of our lessons learned.I'll keep an eye on my junk bin for a day or two to see if I catch your notice.
been there, done that...the fingerprint loss is pretty rare from what I've heard. They told me about it, but mine never even changed temporarily...not that there weren't plenty of other terribly amusing and horrifying side effects for the next year to year and a half. Good luck w/the transplant. I'm ~8 years out and happy I chose the most aggressive options presented to me.
A Solar Powered Paper Airplane!
Tape a pager-motor with a small propeller onto it and you've got a paper airplane that can circumnavigate the globe !
How cool would that be?
-S
Only if it can move fast enough to stay in the sun....
Yes they will...You just won't be buying from one entity anymore...
You'll be sending a cut to everyone with every purchase, even if you don't have multiple devices from multiple vendors.
Your cable company will show you that movie for free because you paid them $3 when you bought it for $65 at Best Buy (You also paid Sony, Disney, and whoever else wants in). Its not price fixing if everyone only sells the one product. Then it's just a monopoly with every company in for their chunk. If all the big kids play together then no one big enough to get lobbyists can go after them for cornering the industry.
Of course they still won't be able to plug what used to be called "the analog hole" since the community will build their own damn rippers/players from the chips up if they have to to avoid these schemes.
If the dude walked out without giving passwords to anyone and the system was poorly designed so that admin passwords had to be forcefully recovered via single user mode or the like, then the city should just eat crow, lick their wounds, and install a real network AAA system.
except that all the startup configs had been erased. any reboot of the routers would have caused them to bounce to factory defaults. They were set up this way specifically to prevent a password recovery attempt...
I used to think plasma had the best picture as well, but then I got an LG 47LH90...
The new local dimming LED backlight systems are amazingly high contrast. If the screen is black you can't tell that the TV is on at all (since you can also control the power light). The brights are also amazing, and the ability to have the two sitting immediately adjacent has made everything appear more crisply.
The ONLY gripe I have is with the somewhat diminished viewing angle. At very wide angles you can see a little glow around some things when they're on a pitch black background.
Sorry, but how does it not integrate well? I just installed GV mobile last night and when I go to the keypad and hit the contacts button I see only my iPhone contact list...I can dial just like I do with phone.app
If anything the seamless integration of the iPhone contact list is the thing that GV mobile does best...
Your average server rack is only 42U in height...50 discrete systems is extremely high density. Even with blades you rarely get past about 64 per rack...Most datacenters have a mix of machine sizes so the average density quickly drops below 40. This also drops again once you put in all the switching and routing necessary to support these networks.
I work for a VAR in our integration facility and the highest densities we ever see are 64 BL460c HP blades in a 42U rack.
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REMEMBER ME! (flames)
looks like Bender called it...or will call it in the year 3k
skipping tracks is as simple as clicking the inline button on the earbuds. pause is a double click. The buds also double as your headset so that phone calls automatically pause the music and give you a chance to answer with another simple squeeze of the button. Hanging up is just one more squeeze again and then back to the music. It's not advanced, but it's perfectly sufficient...
(although I bet they sell less than 100 of them a year).
Are you kidding? I work for a Value Added Reseller and we sell well over 100 I & P boxes in a year...P-series and I-series is very big in the higher education, medical, state government, and heavy industries areas...Power6 and Cell are getting gobbled up by anyone financially stable enough to afford them today...Unfortunately we all know how rare those customers are at the moment.
We have whole teams of reps in different parts of the country that only cater to I, P, & Z series sales...
Thank god for Indiana. I was looking at buying a silenced .22 pistol a while back, so I decided to call the sheriff to see if he would have any of the objections you mention.
His only request was that I had to show up at the range as soon as I had it and let him shoot it immediately upon receiving it...
I agree 100% except for the point about cost. A few weeks ago I upgraded my first mythbox venture to the following for $307 shipped:
1TB HDD
E7200 CPU
2GB memory
Foxconn mATX board with HDMI out (nVidia 7100 onboard)
It runs a pair of Pinnacle 800i HD tuners and I haven't had any issues for it. I'm running mine in gentoo (control freak issues) and it even has the full support of the girlfriend...It's actually that simple.
It has taken a while to get it all tweaked out (3-4 weeks of intermittent playtime), but now it reliably grabs all my shows and I don't miss anything...
Get yourself familiarized with Microsoft ADS, Ghost over networks, and other PXE systems like redhat kickstart installs. Grab a copy of CentOS (a debranded redhat clone) to familiarize yourself with a bit of the larger class linux world. I'm a gentoo fan myself, but as you can imagine when we do customer installs it's MS, RedHat, or SUSE only...the bigger companies care far more about support of a product rather than how good it is on the global scale. They'll accept a program that works 60% as good if you guarantee that you'll be on site in one hour if it ever breaks.
What kind of servers do your new clients have (HP, Dell, IBM, Sun??) I work with HP and IBM and both provide great system management software to help take on massive quantities of machines. HP uses System Insight Manager, and IBM uses Director. Both have paid license based deployment tools (Remote Deployment Pack & Remote Deployment Manager respectively) that give you the capabilities of managing firmware and software installs network wide from a central server.
By leveraging IBM's Director, Ghost, MS ADS, Anaconda, and HP SmartStart scripting toolkit into one beast we manage to deploy several hundred machines on a busy day (still only 8 hours) with only 4 people in the build room. (I work in an integration facility for a large VAR of several major brands)
You are my hero, mod parent way up...
it's like a fat joke, and a dead baby joke...all rolled into one...
So now whenever something crappy happens we're supposed to set of huge "time leaking" EMR bursts? That way we'll warn our past selves who will ofcourse be monitoring for this kind of thing.
Sort of like a distress signal to tell us,"choose tails or else the world will end."
Whenever we see one of these leaky EMR bursts come back from the future we can just order everyone to do something different than what they had planned on doing. That way nothing bad will ever happen again.
Then again...that would require that EMR actually effects something before it happens...which ofcourse DOES NOT HAPPEN.
now I know what to make my IED look like so it looks like one of those coke cans on an X-ray...that'll help a lot with getting past security...doesn't anyone else think that giving EVERYONE photos of this to make sure you don't confuse one with an explosive is a bad idea? now people that may be interested in building explosives have a design to shoot for...sure that's all tinfoil hat kinda fear, but aren't those the people X-raying cans in the first place?
i used to run a 10 gallon tub behind my machine...was too cheap to buy a radiator...I just added a little (2-3 capfulls) bleach to it to keep anything from growing...it was a sealed tub in my dorm room, but with 10 gallons of water and a 250gph pump it kept my Duron 800 happy at 1050 and I even had blocks on my GeForce256 and my northbridge...made them out of copper plate and 1/2" acrylic sheet with patterns routed out...