I have the same experience as sibling posts. Springfield 1911, thousands of rounds, and zero jams with properly-reloaded or factory rounds.
The only jams I did see were from a shitty batch of reloads that my ex-wife's father reloaded; a simple mic check on them led me to either recycle resize about half of the pile. This is why I can easily point to the cartridge as the most likely culprit when it comes to jamming on a clean pistol.
(I say "clean" for a specific reason: if you don't keep it reasonably clean, it will jam... just like any other semiauto firearm. I usually clean mine about once every two trips to the range, depending on how many rounds I burn through... if it wasn't a 1911 model, I'd probably clean it each and every time.)
Too heavy, not enough rounds, clunky as fuck. They CAN and DO jam no matter what the 1911 fanbois say.
I'll avoid the flame-bait to address a couple of things:
weight is relative, and it ain't *that* heavy. The "clunky" bit needs a more specific angle... clunky in what way?
As for the jamming, yeah - if you buy a cheap knock-off brand and then use shitty reloads (or ultra-cheap factory rounds) that aren't properly set for headspace, it will most certainly jam - that's guaranteed in damned near every semi-auto pistol in existence.
(I reload my rounds, and am religious about length. I also ground down the feedramp, which is where most of the jams occur in the first place, especially when you use halfassed reloads or cheap rounds.)
the standard military hardball in either case isn't so good.
The standard solid FMJ bullet was/is manufactured in accordance with rules in the Geneva Convention, IIRC. The other reason the military uses them is that a bullet passing through one enemy soldier still has the potential of hitting another enemy soldier before its energy is spent, whereas a by-now-mushroomed hollow-point will have expended most of its kinetic energy while still inside the first guy.
Agreed on the hollow-points otherwise though... they do come pretty close to providing actual stopping power. Call it slowing power?:)
Stopping power is all too often overrated (I say this as a.45 1911 pistol owner).
You'll never get someone to fall backwards (let alone fly backwards across the room), even if you used a.50 Desert Eagle to do it... that's Hollywood crap.
Fact is, even a well-placed 9mm round can kill instantly if you hit the attacker in the right spot... but most shootings don;t really involve accuracy.
Re: 1911... Gotta agree on the safety, but most of the unique problems can be mitigated. For instance, the too-narrow-for-most-folks grip can be bolstered with decent grip pads. The 'damn those rubber spring grommets wear out too fast' issue is fixed with polyurethane ones (or do what I do and just double-up the number of grommets used - lasts longer, softens the recoil, and it doesn't give you that little jitter/jarring effect on the slide return that polyurethane seems to present).
Tangent-time: I love using the.45 ACP hand-cannon, especially when compared to the (IMBO shitty little) 9mm Glock-style pistols... it may carry less rounds (that can be mitigated a little with a 10-round extended magazine), but it's drop-easy to disassemble, made of solid metal, has few moving parts to worry over, puts up with a ton of abuse, and still maintains a fair degree of accuracy. It's also way easier to customize (for instance, lightening the trigger w/o buying a kit to do it, grind-polish the feed-ramp for smoother loading of reloads, different springs for better recoil response, vented barrels, etc). Finally, I can get parts for it for next to nothing at most gun shows (e.g. a new barrel, grips, recoil mechanisms, etc).
** FWIW I have a Springfield and an ancient Colt (the latter is an heirloom Army-issue from WWII)
IIRC by default the Windows AD infrastructure has member clients/servers using the Domain Controllers as their local source, and then you only need to re-point the DCs to whatever you want (the registry info documentation for NTP was a bit hinkey as late as Win7/Win2k8, so if you go mucking around in there, do it at your own risk). On the Linux/BSD/*nix side, there's a zillion options to beef up security, and they are drop-easy to enforce with any competent orchestration software (puppet, cfengine, chef, whatever). I only remember the Windows side because a previous employer had a distributed BI system that demanded that all component client devices (a mixture of Windows and Linux) must remain within 5 seconds of each other time-wise (else the whole thing threw an error and stopped).
Like sibling said though, most sysadmins don't dork around with NTP once they get a time source running - few will set up a local NTP relay of sorts, fewer still will have those sources use at least three different and vastly disparate sources to check against, and very few will set up a local authoritative stratum 1 box.
Lots of workarounds, and you really only have to set it up right once, with maybe an occasional (as in once-a-year-or-so) review and tuneup of the infrastructure.
If you're being stifled by women or people whining on the Internet the chances are you just suck at life.
The Internet I couldn't give two shits about. It's when they dox your ass and start harassing you (and especially your employer) in real life that a pretty important line gets crossed.
I didn't think to drag it out last night, but FYI, it's this model. The only difference is that mine has the fake woodgrain on the sides.
Funny part is, the damned thing is probably worth more now ($20) than the original purchase price. The word "vintage" made me recoil a little, though:)
Oh, and one correction - it was AM-only. I remember that because I once strung the internal antenna out to an aluminum window screen to try and get a better signal... managed to snag stations as far as 2-3 states away on a few nights when I did that.
Frankly I do not see why you would want to put these "edge" centers in cities. Is it that much cheaper than running dedicated fiber to one in a more rural or industrial area?
Given the price of real estate in Paris... maybe not.
Thank you for your recipe for how to ensure that systemic prejudices remain in place, that the world never changes for the better.
Fact 1: A whole lot of folks of the same religious persuasion have been busy across the globe building bombs and setting them off, usually in places where a lot of innocent people gather. They have been doing this for decades now, with no indication of stopping.
Fact 2: More than a handful of attempts have been made along similar lines in the US by people of the same persuasion. See also the Boston Marathon for a somewhat famous example.
Fact 3: Kid brings something into school that looks (to a non-military/non-techie) a whole lot like a bomb at first glance, complete with a clock... then the alarm in it goes off during class.
Given this, I think it'd be extremely hard to not revert to stereotype, especially when the price for failing to correctly identify and evacuate from an actual bomb is, well, instant death and mutilation.
Quite frankly, I'm surprised that the other teachers showed the restraint that they did. And while certainly, we'd all just love to override survival instinct with empathy and kindness, for some odd reason, we're hardwired a bit differently.
In my opinion, if folks are so sufficiently eager to be shed of a particular stereotype that applies to their particular grouping, it would probably be smarter to not try and antagonize it with a stunt like this.
Agreed with parent - my own 500GB Crucial BX100 cost me ~$215 on newegg back in March ($0.43/GB), and now retails on newegg for $180 ($0.36/GB)... a $35 drop in 7 months.
This leads to a question: Who the frig is stupid enough to still be paying $1/GB for SSD disk?
This is not about it being an invention. This is about him doing something interesting for his age and at the very least he did some re soldering there and instead of getting a pat on the head from his teachers, they overreacted the police.
To be fair, if you were technically not-literate, then saw a suitcase with a bunch of wires and what looked like a timer in it...
I agree they overreacted, but when you build something that looks passingly like an IED, and then you take it to school, what the hell else can you expect?
PS: In 1979, I disassembled my mother's one and only (analog!) alarm clock (It was a GE - came with an AM/FM radio) to see how it worked.
I was extremely careful about it, but that didn't stop her from issuing an ultimatum: re-assemble it into full working order, or get my ass beat into oblivion. I had three minutes to spare once I demonstrated it's functionality to her satisfaction.
My reward was to get it back and keep it after she went out and bought another one; I think I added a couple of little speakers to it and a small amplifier (courtesy of an old Radio Shack 120-in-1 electronics kit). Sounded like pure crap, if I recall.
(Strangest part of it all? I still have the damned thing...)
Sorry, but you need to be part of a celebrated group, re-assemble your clock into something that some people say resembles an IED, and then have the school go apeshit and overreact to it.
Only *then* you can get your medal... but you'd better hurry up, the political landscape will most likely change in the next 18 months.
On the OSX side - if you stick strictly to the App Store (the walled garden), *somebody* had to pay to get that dev license and the app submitted, so while not as excellent as a GPG trail, it does track back to some known entity... and while not perfect, the track record is pretty damned solid.
On Linux - unless you strictly limit your downloads from trusted and known YUM/APT/etc repos, you're just as much at risk in Linux as you are on any other OS. The good news is, nearly everything you need can be found on the trusted and known repos that come with your distro. That said, not everything a person wants will be found there.
On Windows - if you are sufficiently careful about where you get your executables (e.g. buy them at a trusted store, load them from known good media that you bought earlier, etc), you, well, nevermind... even the Microsoft app store isn't fully trustworthy yet.
Long story short? It all boils down to only installing things that you got from fully trusted sources (no, CNET's download.com is not a trusted source in my opinion, specifically because of the crapware/shovelware that they foist on the unwary user.) That, and avoid using fscking Windows, apparently...
You forgot the context of that first sentence - namely, that new software releases have (at least in previous releases) slowed down older hardware. That does not invalidate anything I've written.;)
What they fail to recognize is that software support for iOS devices stops the moment Apple stops selling the device (even when carriers may continue selling them for up to a year).
Fair question - in the past 12 months I went from an FTE to a contract job (was supposed to convert, but the culture shifted radically for the worse since I'd signed on, so I bailed), then to a contract->FTE position which I'd converted to. During that time I'd sat in a total of 7 interviews (out of 7 submittals), dumped two before they completed the process, and had 4 official job offers in that time (two of which I'd taken).
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I have the same experience as sibling posts. Springfield 1911, thousands of rounds, and zero jams with properly-reloaded or factory rounds.
The only jams I did see were from a shitty batch of reloads that my ex-wife's father reloaded; a simple mic check on them led me to either recycle resize about half of the pile. This is why I can easily point to the cartridge as the most likely culprit when it comes to jamming on a clean pistol.
(I say "clean" for a specific reason: if you don't keep it reasonably clean, it will jam... just like any other semiauto firearm. I usually clean mine about once every two trips to the range, depending on how many rounds I burn through... if it wasn't a 1911 model, I'd probably clean it each and every time.)
A lot of that has to do with zoning.
Residential or Commercial zoned land will usually go together pretty well, and it's relatively easy to convert Commercial into Residential.
Datacenters OTOH usually count as Industrial, which means bigger regulatory hurdles to overcome if you want to convert the land.
Too heavy, not enough rounds, clunky as fuck. They CAN and DO jam no matter what the 1911 fanbois say.
I'll avoid the flame-bait to address a couple of things:
weight is relative, and it ain't *that* heavy. The "clunky" bit needs a more specific angle... clunky in what way?
As for the jamming, yeah - if you buy a cheap knock-off brand and then use shitty reloads (or ultra-cheap factory rounds) that aren't properly set for headspace, it will most certainly jam - that's guaranteed in damned near every semi-auto pistol in existence.
(I reload my rounds, and am religious about length. I also ground down the feedramp, which is where most of the jams occur in the first place, especially when you use halfassed reloads or cheap rounds.)
That is true... a .22LR will do the same thing...
But I don't see anyone using them in the military...
...that's mostly because enemy soldiers tend to wear things that will try to stop an incoming round, so the extra 'oomph is designed to get past that.
Everything is a tradeoff, but usually in war, more is better.
Yup. :)
the standard military hardball in either case isn't so good.
The standard solid FMJ bullet was/is manufactured in accordance with rules in the Geneva Convention, IIRC. The other reason the military uses them is that a bullet passing through one enemy soldier still has the potential of hitting another enemy soldier before its energy is spent, whereas a by-now-mushroomed hollow-point will have expended most of its kinetic energy while still inside the first guy.
Agreed on the hollow-points otherwise though... they do come pretty close to providing actual stopping power. Call it slowing power? :)
Stopping power is all too often overrated (I say this as a .45 1911 pistol owner).
You'll never get someone to fall backwards (let alone fly backwards across the room), even if you used a .50 Desert Eagle to do it... that's Hollywood crap.
Fact is, even a well-placed 9mm round can kill instantly if you hit the attacker in the right spot... but most shootings don;t really involve accuracy.
Re: 1911... Gotta agree on the safety, but most of the unique problems can be mitigated. For instance, the too-narrow-for-most-folks grip can be bolstered with decent grip pads. The 'damn those rubber spring grommets wear out too fast' issue is fixed with polyurethane ones (or do what I do and just double-up the number of grommets used - lasts longer, softens the recoil, and it doesn't give you that little jitter/jarring effect on the slide return that polyurethane seems to present).
Tangent-time: I love using the .45 ACP hand-cannon, especially when compared to the (IMBO shitty little) 9mm Glock-style pistols... it may carry less rounds (that can be mitigated a little with a 10-round extended magazine), but it's drop-easy to disassemble, made of solid metal, has few moving parts to worry over, puts up with a ton of abuse, and still maintains a fair degree of accuracy. It's also way easier to customize (for instance, lightening the trigger w/o buying a kit to do it, grind-polish the feed-ramp for smoother loading of reloads, different springs for better recoil response, vented barrels, etc). Finally, I can get parts for it for next to nothing at most gun shows (e.g. a new barrel, grips, recoil mechanisms, etc).
** FWIW I have a Springfield and an ancient Colt (the latter is an heirloom Army-issue from WWII)
No, but he and someone else are working to improve it a little, IIRC
OTOH, this guy maintains it
Not only that, but there are loads of other options, the most basic being that you can use your own personal stratum 1 device, and point all your servers to that. Hell, you can even build your own if you're truly paranoid.
IIRC by default the Windows AD infrastructure has member clients/servers using the Domain Controllers as their local source, and then you only need to re-point the DCs to whatever you want (the registry info documentation for NTP was a bit hinkey as late as Win7/Win2k8, so if you go mucking around in there, do it at your own risk). On the Linux/BSD/*nix side, there's a zillion options to beef up security, and they are drop-easy to enforce with any competent orchestration software (puppet, cfengine, chef, whatever). I only remember the Windows side because a previous employer had a distributed BI system that demanded that all component client devices (a mixture of Windows and Linux) must remain within 5 seconds of each other time-wise (else the whole thing threw an error and stopped).
Like sibling said though, most sysadmins don't dork around with NTP once they get a time source running - few will set up a local NTP relay of sorts, fewer still will have those sources use at least three different and vastly disparate sources to check against, and very few will set up a local authoritative stratum 1 box.
Lots of workarounds, and you really only have to set it up right once, with maybe an occasional (as in once-a-year-or-so) review and tuneup of the infrastructure.
If you're being stifled by women or people whining on the Internet the chances are you just suck at life.
The Internet I couldn't give two shits about. It's when they dox your ass and start harassing you (and especially your employer) in real life that a pretty important line gets crossed.
I didn't think to drag it out last night, but FYI, it's this model. The only difference is that mine has the fake woodgrain on the sides.
Funny part is, the damned thing is probably worth more now ($20) than the original purchase price. The word "vintage" made me recoil a little, though :)
Oh, and one correction - it was AM-only. I remember that because I once strung the internal antenna out to an aluminum window screen to try and get a better signal... managed to snag stations as far as 2-3 states away on a few nights when I did that.
Frankly I do not see why you would want to put these "edge" centers in cities. Is it that much cheaper than running dedicated fiber to one in a more rural or industrial area?
Given the price of real estate in Paris... maybe not.
Thank you for your recipe for how to ensure that systemic prejudices remain in place, that the world never changes for the better.
Fact 1: A whole lot of folks of the same religious persuasion have been busy across the globe building bombs and setting them off, usually in places where a lot of innocent people gather. They have been doing this for decades now, with no indication of stopping.
Fact 2: More than a handful of attempts have been made along similar lines in the US by people of the same persuasion. See also the Boston Marathon for a somewhat famous example.
Fact 3: Kid brings something into school that looks (to a non-military/non-techie) a whole lot like a bomb at first glance, complete with a clock... then the alarm in it goes off during class.
Given this, I think it'd be extremely hard to not revert to stereotype, especially when the price for failing to correctly identify and evacuate from an actual bomb is, well, instant death and mutilation.
Quite frankly, I'm surprised that the other teachers showed the restraint that they did. And while certainly, we'd all just love to override survival instinct with empathy and kindness, for some odd reason, we're hardwired a bit differently.
In my opinion, if folks are so sufficiently eager to be shed of a particular stereotype that applies to their particular grouping, it would probably be smarter to not try and antagonize it with a stunt like this.
Emannuel Goldstein, the guy edited 2600?
No.
It's manufacturing... Intel employs around 107,600 people to make chips, so...
Agreed with parent - my own 500GB Crucial BX100 cost me ~$215 on newegg back in March ($0.43/GB), and now retails on newegg for $180 ($0.36/GB)... a $35 drop in 7 months.
This leads to a question: Who the frig is stupid enough to still be paying $1/GB for SSD disk?
This is not about it being an invention. This is about him doing something interesting for his age and at the very least he did some re soldering there and instead of getting a pat on the head from his teachers, they overreacted the police.
To be fair, if you were technically not-literate, then saw a suitcase with a bunch of wires and what looked like a timer in it...
I agree they overreacted, but when you build something that looks passingly like an IED, and then you take it to school, what the hell else can you expect?
PS: In 1979, I disassembled my mother's one and only (analog!) alarm clock (It was a GE - came with an AM/FM radio) to see how it worked.
I was extremely careful about it, but that didn't stop her from issuing an ultimatum: re-assemble it into full working order, or get my ass beat into oblivion. I had three minutes to spare once I demonstrated it's functionality to her satisfaction.
My reward was to get it back and keep it after she went out and bought another one; I think I added a couple of little speakers to it and a small amplifier (courtesy of an old Radio Shack 120-in-1 electronics kit). Sounded like pure crap, if I recall.
(Strangest part of it all? I still have the damned thing...)
Sorry, but you need to be part of a celebrated group, re-assemble your clock into something that some people say resembles an IED, and then have the school go apeshit and overreact to it.
Only *then* you can get your medal... but you'd better hurry up, the political landscape will most likely change in the next 18 months.
Well...
Long story short? It all boils down to only installing things that you got from fully trusted sources (no, CNET's download.com is not a trusted source in my opinion, specifically because of the crapware/shovelware that they foist on the unwary user.) That, and avoid using fscking Windows, apparently...
You forgot the context of that first sentence - namely, that new software releases have (at least in previous releases) slowed down older hardware. That does not invalidate anything I've written. ;)
What they fail to recognize is that software support for iOS devices stops the moment Apple stops selling the device (even when carriers may continue selling them for up to a year).
Small point of order - what you wrote is completely wrong.
Games may donate to Democrats, but make no mistake, he is a corporatist, globalist oligarch.
So is roughly 90% of Congress, and thanks to the TPP, the White House as well.
Fair question - in the past 12 months I went from an FTE to a contract job (was supposed to convert, but the culture shifted radically for the worse since I'd signed on, so I bailed), then to a contract->FTE position which I'd converted to. During that time I'd sat in a total of 7 interviews (out of 7 submittals), dumped two before they completed the process, and had 4 official job offers in that time (two of which I'd taken).
crap - posting to canx bad mod...