I often see people use bogus statistical analysis, and making mistakes based on those results.
Part of it is due to the fact that it's not something that's integrated into any cirriculum when it should be.
Then an app window popped up warning me about how your java app is trying to gain unrestricted access to my computer and network! Of course I clicked exit since this is what the warning recommends.
Ran across this while metamoderating. Signed applets/webstart apps won't display that warning.
That's bad deployment, not bad platform architecture.
When you have a half dozen people on a server and the stats look something like "0-1-7-9-10-80", then there's only one person in there who's really having a lot of fun, and that person is either playing in the wrong league or cheating. You can bet those toward the lower end probably aren't coming back.
If you're good enough to "own" a map like that, surely you'd do just fine with a dayglo orange skin and a pistol. It's better than being booted, as the original poster suggested.
On the (rare) occasions I get to a #1 spot in a game, I pick up a searchlight and run around with it on to give the noobs something to shoot at.
I play Unreal INF and there's usually someone on each server that is so much better than the rest that it lowers the fun-factor for everyone else.
I think the player with the highest score should glow in some eye-popping color and have access to only the lowest hit weapons. When their score drops, they go back to normal and the next highest takes their place. Call it an equalizer.
You would get cut off within the day you started to exceed your bandwidth cap.
Are they watching for overall data transfer or burst rates? If my 256K upstream was uncapped to 3MB/sec, the daily/monthly transfer volume wouldn't change at all. Only a quick burst on the rare occasion that I send a file.
Running a 24/7 Kazaa server is a whole different story, of course.
Simply swapping the cables would probably produce a lot of smoke out of something.
If you can keep the radio chassis insulated from the vehicle body, why can't a normal radio be used? Granted, on a hot summer day, the jolt from the volume knob could be painful.
The only positive ground vehicle I've worked on is also 6 volt. As yet, Alpine hasn't released a DVD video player for 6 volt positive ground.. or a mounting kit for a Farmall.
The fact that members of Congress and the President routinely usurp powers not granted to them (or even worse, explicitly denied to them) is criminal and is a direct violation of their oaths of office. The fact that we, the citizens of the US, have allowed them to do so without punishment, is shameful.
So what do we do about it? Vote for the other party?
Toss the instructions, dump the contents of the new kit into the common bucket, and build away.
But... make sure the common bucket doesn't look like a cat litter box. I have bad childhood memories of digging around in the lego box only to find the cat had been there first...
The bike is a 1982 (?) Yamaha TT500 with many modifications. It was really ahead of it's time: Long travel suspension, front and rear disc brakes, etc.
Watching it tumble down the cliff at the end always brought a tear to my eye until I noticed that it's not the same bike. No mods and a duct-taped seat. I wonder where the rear one is today?
Now that helmet rocked. HUD, zoom, range finder, night vision, powered visor. Awesome, except whoever made the prop obviously has never used a full-face street style helmet in hot weather. I hope that thing included air conditioning.
If you want to spend less money, itemize everything you pay money for in a month, and realize that you could ELIMINATE 95% of it if you absolutely had to.
Anyone who that applies to still lives with their parents.
Sounds like you've watched Fightclub way too many times.
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Look, I'd rather die than live a long life in this system of metrics, insurance and taxes.
Octane rating doesn't affect fuel economy, unless the fuel has a drastically lower octane rating than what the vehicle requires.
A 4.2L Range Rover V8 produces 200HP at 4850rpm and achieves 12/16 mpg.
A 5.7L Chevrolet V8 produces between 285-345HP, depending on the vehicle (Camaro vs. Corvette) and achieves 22/28 mpg. Both figures are rated at the wheels, not crankshaft.
In the 1960's, automakers measured HP at the flywheel, with a balanced and blueprinted engine and no accessories or exhaust restrictions. After 70's gas crunch and 80's insurance crunch, they began rating output at the rear wheels of a showroom stock vehicle instead.
Thus, a 1972 Pontiac Trans Am 455HO is rated over 400HP (crankshaft). A 1989 Pontiac Trans Am 3.8L Turbo V6, rated at 250HP (rear wheels) will beat it in a drag race.
the cop had no trouble handing me a $30 ticket and sending me on my way
Have you witnessed anyone scanning the card since you blanked it? It might still be working.
I tried it with my license during a brief residence in the state of Iowuh. Local beverage retailers would swipe the card to verify age - I wanted them to type in the date and leave my SSN out of the database so I repeatedly passed the card over the heaviest magnet I could find. Still worked after several attempts.
Now I've got a VA license with a barcode. Oh well.
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High school electronics class. The power stations had an outlet on the back that was controlled by the main switch on the front.
At the end of class, we'd turn off the power and stick a 100 microfarad electrolytic cap into the rear outlet and then leave.
I still can't win!! And now my eyes hurt!! AAARRRGH!!
That's bad deployment, not bad platform architecture.
Funny, but nowhere near as cool as when Taco Bell planted the Mir target in the south pacific.
When you have a half dozen people on a server and the stats look something like "0-1-7-9-10-80", then there's only one person in there who's really having a lot of fun, and that person is either playing in the wrong league or cheating. You can bet those toward the lower end probably aren't coming back.
If you're good enough to "own" a map like that, surely you'd do just fine with a dayglo orange skin and a pistol. It's better than being booted, as the original poster suggested.
On the (rare) occasions I get to a #1 spot in a game, I pick up a searchlight and run around with it on to give the noobs something to shoot at.
I think the player with the highest score should glow in some eye-popping color and have access to only the lowest hit weapons. When their score drops, they go back to normal and the next highest takes their place. Call it an equalizer.
Running a 24/7 Kazaa server is a whole different story, of course.
You can usually reverse-resolve a phone number through google like this.
Simply swapping the cables would probably produce a lot of smoke out of something.
If you can keep the radio chassis insulated from the vehicle body, why can't a normal radio be used? Granted, on a hot summer day, the jolt from the volume knob could be painful.
The only positive ground vehicle I've worked on is also 6 volt. As yet, Alpine hasn't released a DVD video player for 6 volt positive ground.. or a mounting kit for a Farmall.
Toss the instructions, dump the contents of the new kit into the common bucket, and build away.
But... make sure the common bucket doesn't look like a cat litter box. I have bad childhood memories of digging around in the lego box only to find the cat had been there first...
The bike is a 1982 (?) Yamaha TT500 with many modifications. It was really ahead of it's time: Long travel suspension, front and rear disc brakes, etc.
Watching it tumble down the cliff at the end always brought a tear to my eye until I noticed that it's not the same bike. No mods and a duct-taped seat. I wonder where the rear one is today?
Now that helmet rocked. HUD, zoom, range finder, night vision, powered visor. Awesome, except whoever made the prop obviously has never used a full-face street style helmet in hot weather. I hope that thing included air conditioning.
Sounds like you've watched Fightclub way too many times.
Octane rating doesn't affect fuel economy, unless the fuel has a drastically lower octane rating than what the vehicle requires.
A 4.2L Range Rover V8 produces 200HP at 4850rpm and achieves 12/16 mpg.
A 5.7L Chevrolet V8 produces between 285-345HP, depending on the vehicle (Camaro vs. Corvette) and achieves 22/28 mpg. Both figures are rated at the wheels, not crankshaft.
I mentioned the Range Rover because it's listed as the worst gas guzzler. It's worse than even the largest of U.S. SUV's.
In the 1960's, automakers measured HP at the flywheel, with a balanced and blueprinted engine and no accessories or exhaust restrictions. After 70's gas crunch and 80's insurance crunch, they began rating output at the rear wheels of a showroom stock vehicle instead.
Thus, a 1972 Pontiac Trans Am 455HO is rated over 400HP (crankshaft). A 1989 Pontiac Trans Am 3.8L Turbo V6, rated at 250HP (rear wheels) will beat it in a drag race.
1995 Pontiac Trans Am, EFI, iron block, push rods (design dates to 1955): 28mpg highway, 300HP.
btw: There are no cars made/sold in the US that are not fuel injected. Emissions killed the carburetor.
I think they're catching on to us. I couldn't find a single email address at nytimes.com that wasn't 'already in use'.
I guess they figured out why so many readers are 90 year old CEOs of religeous organizations in beverly hills.
I tried it with my license during a brief residence in the state of Iowuh. Local beverage retailers would swipe the card to verify age - I wanted them to type in the date and leave my SSN out of the database so I repeatedly passed the card over the heaviest magnet I could find. Still worked after several attempts.
Now I've got a VA license with a barcode. Oh well.