I've actually seen one of these on a US navy aircraft carrier. I was on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson when we were going through the Suez Canal, and one of the officers was showing off this device towards the forward end of the flight deck which looked like a speaker on a stand. It had a panel with a bunch of standard phrases and warnings and different languages to broadcast voice messages. It also had settings for unpleasant noises to ward the target off. He only demonstrated it with the volume turned down very low, but he basically said that with the volume turned up it's pretty painful.
Seriously, what was ever the point of the Turbo button back in the day? The only use I ever found was wait until someone was playing Wolfenstein 3D, secretly hit the turbo button to go back to normal, and then point out how slow their computer was compared to mine.
The Geforce 4s were known for using a certain low quality 2D filter setup in their circuitry. There were user mods to improve the 2D quality with minimal effort. I don't know how their current tech is, but I just wanted to let you know that your previous experience was tarnished by lackluster design. Whether or not this practice continues with the current generation, I can't say.
Those accidents were not caused by anything relating to the naval nuclear program. That's what he means. The Thresher was a problem with moisture in the ballast tanks freezing a valve crucial to blowing out the water and emergency surfacing the submarine. The thing the nuke program got out of that was that we shouldn't shut the main steam stops during a scram so that propulsion is always available in case there's an emergency (this was certainly drilled into our heads a lot). With the Thresher, they did shut them so when they couldn't surface with the ballast tanks, they couldn't restore propulsion quickly enough to just drive to the surface.
The Scorpion was an accident involving a torpedo which helped push for improvements to improve their safety. Now you can tell why I didn't volunteer for submarines.
Whew, well it's a good thing that the PAL key had to be inserted at room temperature, at freezing temperature, and then finally at almost boiling to be able to enter the code. There's no way any terrorist would've been able to figure that out once they realized the code was just zeroes.
In the first movie's theatrical trailer, there's that great chorus track going throughout most of it. The only hint of it being in the full movie is during the main menu on the DVD, and there it's only 1/4 of as much of what's in the trailer. That coupled with the quick pacing of the trailer does an awesome job of reminding anyone how awesome The Matrix was without having to watch the whole thing. It gets me all warm and fuzzy inside because it perfectly reminds me of the excitement and wonder of discovering The Matrix for the first time.
Yes, on a carrier we have scoop injection so that we don't need our main circ water pumps running. I have no idea what you're talking about on subs though.
Yeah, but SL-1 had control rods. With the control rods sticking all the time, the fault was found to be that the crew had to manually pull out a control rod to fix the control rod drive mechanism when it stuck. Well, some guy ended up pulling the control rod out too much, and the core went prompt critical (same thing that happened in the 1999 Japan accident when their mixture of uranium achieved critical mass). The coolant flashed to steam and shot the control rod out with the guy pinned to the ceiling. Because of SL-1, the navy changed all their reactor designs so that they could be shut down even with the most critical rod fully withdrawn, meaning that prompt criticality with one rod could never occur again. Obviously, Toshiba's reactor won't have the same problem since they're not even going to have control rods nor will they have any reactor coolant pumps. I'd be more worried about their new idea of using the reflector to control the power, not having any pumps, or using liquid sodium as the primary coolant.
I was just reading the other day on Weird Al's web page that he's married and has a daughter. I guess it had something to do with him getting rid of the glasses and moustache.
200 millirem from Radon and 100 millirem from solar radiation on average. That's what it is according to the Navy's annoying computer exams. Since when do cigarettes give off radiation?
No, the Aliens TC was somewhat flaky. You had to have the right version of Doom to get it to work completely. There might have been some other factors too, but I remember trying it many times and ending up with no aliens until I think I loaded it on an older version.
Get Proxomitron. It rewrites the HTML of incoming web pages before it reaches your browser to delete tags dealing with pop-up windows, banner ads, and anything else annoying. Set it up and write a simple custom filter to eliminate any embed tags with a file that has an extension identifying it as flash animation. I just went ahead and eliminated all embed tags since they're only used for evil.
I imagine that the best way to get one end hooked to a fast internet connection is to rent space/bandwidth at an ISP for your own server. I've seen ISPs offer the ability to pay a monthly fee to let your own computer sit at the ISP and be connected to their backbone with the purpose of hosting web pages. Couldn't you do this, and then have the server run NAT while also being hooked up to a dry line going to your house?
the FBI sent the keylogger to him in an e-mail message along the lines of "I send you this file in order to have your advice." They couldn't be held accountable as he willingly opened it.
I remember when I first heard that Epidose 1 would be called "The Phantom Menace". I thought it was a rather stupid B movie title, and no movie could take itself seriously with such a name. I wasn't very emotional about it though. This was when I still had faith in George Lucas. I waited with confidence that it would be changed to something more dramatic and fitting with Star Wars as everyone knows there were two other names for RotJ before the final name was chosen. Eventually, the release date for TPM arrived around the same time I realized that the title wasn't going to change after all. Now, I find myself in the same situation, minus the confidence in George Lucas. It's now obvious to me that The Attack of the Clones will remain as the official title when Ep 2 is released, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. I shall heed the warning that I received when I first heard "The Phantom Menace" and now "Attack of the Clones" and avoid this movie at all cost.
Lexx is indeed great. I think the second season episodes weren't that great as a whole because of that stupid villain, Mantrid. His robot arms were the only interesting concept. Now, they have Prince who is perfect. He's clever and menacing while still remaining mysterious. You never know exactly what he has planned. Thus, the third season was great. This season seems hopeful even though the first episode wasn't that great and the second was only okay. I'm confused why they're on earth though as I felt that the writers worked better in coming up with their own wacky planets.
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OMG, he doesn't know how to use the three seashells!
I've actually seen one of these on a US navy aircraft carrier. I was on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson when we were going through the Suez Canal, and one of the officers was showing off this device towards the forward end of the flight deck which looked like a speaker on a stand. It had a panel with a bunch of standard phrases and warnings and different languages to broadcast voice messages. It also had settings for unpleasant noises to ward the target off. He only demonstrated it with the volume turned down very low, but he basically said that with the volume turned up it's pretty painful.
Seriously, what was ever the point of the Turbo button back in the day? The only use I ever found was wait until someone was playing Wolfenstein 3D, secretly hit the turbo button to go back to normal, and then point out how slow their computer was compared to mine.
The Geforce 4s were known for using a certain low quality 2D filter setup in their circuitry. There were user mods to improve the 2D quality with minimal effort. I don't know how their current tech is, but I just wanted to let you know that your previous experience was tarnished by lackluster design. Whether or not this practice continues with the current generation, I can't say.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/
Those accidents were not caused by anything relating to the naval nuclear program. That's what he means. The Thresher was a problem with moisture in the ballast tanks freezing a valve crucial to blowing out the water and emergency surfacing the submarine. The thing the nuke program got out of that was that we shouldn't shut the main steam stops during a scram so that propulsion is always available in case there's an emergency (this was certainly drilled into our heads a lot). With the Thresher, they did shut them so when they couldn't surface with the ballast tanks, they couldn't restore propulsion quickly enough to just drive to the surface.
The Scorpion was an accident involving a torpedo which helped push for improvements to improve their safety. Now you can tell why I didn't volunteer for submarines.
Whew, well it's a good thing that the PAL key had to be inserted at room temperature, at freezing temperature, and then finally at almost boiling to be able to enter the code. There's no way any terrorist would've been able to figure that out once they realized the code was just zeroes.
"In The Next Generation, the crew was definately more loose then the US navy"
What?! You have yet to see the nuclear navy!
Empires mod for Battlefield 1942 is gonna be the closest to C&C in FPS mode yet. http://www.empiresmod.com
Thanks for letting me know the name of it though.
In the first movie's theatrical trailer, there's that great chorus track going throughout most of it. The only hint of it being in the full movie is during the main menu on the DVD, and there it's only 1/4 of as much of what's in the trailer. That coupled with the quick pacing of the trailer does an awesome job of reminding anyone how awesome The Matrix was without having to watch the whole thing. It gets me all warm and fuzzy inside because it perfectly reminds me of the excitement and wonder of discovering The Matrix for the first time.
Yes, on a carrier we have scoop injection so that we don't need our main circ water pumps running. I have no idea what you're talking about on subs though.
Yeah, but SL-1 had control rods. With the control rods sticking all the time, the fault was found to be that the crew had to manually pull out a control rod to fix the control rod drive mechanism when it stuck. Well, some guy ended up pulling the control rod out too much, and the core went prompt critical (same thing that happened in the 1999 Japan accident when their mixture of uranium achieved critical mass). The coolant flashed to steam and shot the control rod out with the guy pinned to the ceiling. Because of SL-1, the navy changed all their reactor designs so that they could be shut down even with the most critical rod fully withdrawn, meaning that prompt criticality with one rod could never occur again. Obviously, Toshiba's reactor won't have the same problem since they're not even going to have control rods nor will they have any reactor coolant pumps. I'd be more worried about their new idea of using the reflector to control the power, not having any pumps, or using liquid sodium as the primary coolant.
It's Reload by Rob Zombie off the Matrix Reloaded soundtrack.
I was just reading the other day on Weird Al's web page that he's married and has a daughter. I guess it had something to do with him getting rid of the glasses and moustache.
200 millirem from Radon and 100 millirem from solar radiation on average. That's what it is according to the Navy's annoying computer exams. Since when do cigarettes give off radiation?
No, the Aliens TC was somewhat flaky. You had to have the right version of Doom to get it to work completely. There might have been some other factors too, but I remember trying it many times and ending up with no aliens until I think I loaded it on an older version.
Get Proxomitron. It rewrites the HTML of incoming web pages before it reaches your browser to delete tags dealing with pop-up windows, banner ads, and anything else annoying. Set it up and write a simple custom filter to eliminate any embed tags with a file that has an extension identifying it as flash animation. I just went ahead and eliminated all embed tags since they're only used for evil.
I imagine that the best way to get one end hooked to a fast internet connection is to rent space/bandwidth at an ISP for your own server. I've seen ISPs offer the ability to pay a monthly fee to let your own computer sit at the ISP and be connected to their backbone with the purpose of hosting web pages. Couldn't you do this, and then have the server run NAT while also being hooked up to a dry line going to your house?
I hope this means we'll be getting flying cars sooner.
the FBI sent the keylogger to him in an e-mail message along the lines of "I send you this file in order to have your advice." They couldn't be held accountable as he willingly opened it.
I remember when I first heard that Epidose 1 would be called "The Phantom Menace". I thought it was a rather stupid B movie title, and no movie could take itself seriously with such a name. I wasn't very emotional about it though. This was when I still had faith in George Lucas. I waited with confidence that it would be changed to something more dramatic and fitting with Star Wars as everyone knows there were two other names for RotJ before the final name was chosen. Eventually, the release date for TPM arrived around the same time I realized that the title wasn't going to change after all. Now, I find myself in the same situation, minus the confidence in George Lucas. It's now obvious to me that The Attack of the Clones will remain as the official title when Ep 2 is released, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. I shall heed the warning that I received when I first heard "The Phantom Menace" and now "Attack of the Clones" and avoid this movie at all cost.
There was an article at Sci Fi Wire that stated there was going to be a Stargate SG-1 movie. I can't wait.
Lexx is indeed great. I think the second season episodes weren't that great as a whole because of that stupid villain, Mantrid. His robot arms were the only interesting concept. Now, they have Prince who is perfect. He's clever and menacing while still remaining mysterious. You never know exactly what he has planned. Thus, the third season was great. This season seems hopeful even though the first episode wasn't that great and the second was only okay. I'm confused why they're on earth though as I felt that the writers worked better in coming up with their own wacky planets.