Right.. I had written essentially your same post, but it was just conjecture. Suffice to say that the only references I could find to "oil rig" and "tsunami" were this article (or others like it) and another by a company that makes the ballast pumps. They talk about an 80' wave, so I'm assuming it's a rogue wave.... which doesn't make much sense either, because from what I know of them, they're caused by constructive interference, which would only happen along the intersection of two crests. It's not something that would just travel across the ocean in plain sight. But whatever.
I don't think tsunamis are a big problem for offshore drilling platforms in the first place. From what I've read, they use the ballast tanks in daily operation, and they can also be used to rise above the waves. That seems a bit more practical than surrounding it with an enormous structure to provide protection against something that probably won't occur in the lifetime of the rig in the first place. AFAICT, this solves a problem that basically doesn't exist.
I was with you in the beginning, but then you started with the crazy talk:
Not everyone in California is a beautiful, sexy, wine-making goddes under 50 or a Silicon Valley millionaire.
The same applies to people descended from different places who have immigrated. Not all Germans are engineers, and not all Persians sell rugs or drive taxis. Not all Mexicans are illegal immigrants, and not all white men are rich or powerful.
Hmm.. people modded you funny, but I've suggested the same thing to my S/O.. They have them in pets, why not in kids? Of course, we'd have to establish some sort of agency that went around collecting stray kids and checking them for chips before destroying them, but I find that an acceptable compromise.
Video playback is not a very demanding task for the hard drive.. Assuming your recordings are untouched ATSC streams, that's 19mbit/sec max, or ~2.3MB/s. Even a poorly performing highly fragmented drive should be able to maintain that with ease, and the buffers should be able to mask any excessive seek times. Not that defragging is completely unnecessary, but once a week seems like overkill, and it really shouldn't affect your playback at all unless you're using a box with anemic amounts of RAM or some sort of RAID-1 with hundreds floppys (which elsewhere I'd consider out of the question, but on Slashdot you never know..)
It sounds more like you have some physical errors on your drive, and the drive is having trouble reading from certain sectors. Defragging could "cure" that by moving the data from the troublesome areas, making it look like fragmentation was the issue when it was really just moving the data that did the trick. You could try running a low-level test to map the bad sectors, but a) that won't necessarily map out "marginal" sectors, and b) like our bodies, hard drives never perform better with age. The problems will only get worse with time, so your best bet is probably to buy a new drive.
use a non-conductive liquid for cooling, such as oil. This has been done before, and even a cursory google turns up lots of interesting results.
Coating is a waste of time, and it's very difficult to get a good coating over empty expansion slots, USB slots, etc., let alone those with cards in them.
Really? I guess I'm just imagining all those 360 and Wii games floating around the net.
Granted, the PS3 has done a good job, but it's to be debated whether that's because the DRM was just that good, or whether the path of least resistance and the greatest reward for the resources simply lay elsewhere. I suspect that number of titles, popularity of the platform, and other factors have played at least as much a role in the PS3 maintaining its security as its implementation of DRM. Sort of the way Linux isn't a large target for virus/malware writers since it comprises less than 1% of the desktop. Why bother attacking a tougher platform with less results when you can attack a weaker one with much more to gain?
Look, everybody knows democracy only works because terrorists can't afford a subscription to Nature. You start putting that shit out there for everyone to read, and soon Google Bomb will take on a whole new meaning, most likely to describe the weapons created, but it could also come to mean "to shit oneself." As in, "Man, that article was CRAZY scary. I think I just dropped a Google Bomb."
Yeah, I heard that one when I was in college too. "Let's study while we're stoned, dude, then we can get baked again before class!" The only thing it really beat, not surprisingly, was getting stoned and not studying.
Agreed.. the Mazda is basically the best stock-handling car you can get for under $60k, let alone under $20k. The fact that its 0-60 is measured in minutes is more than surpassed by the fact that you can just drive with the pedal down the whole time. (Exaggerating.. please don't try that at home kids). Throw on a few aftermarket suspension components and you'll dust pretty much anything else in at least your price range, if not your racing class. And I say this with equal measures of contempt and admiration.
I did Solo II for a while too, and there's nothing like being in a car. Racing takes at least 3 senses: Sight is obviously important, but mostly to look at what's coming next. To get through the present turn, you rely on the memory of what you saw on the approach or the practice laps, feeling the g's, and listening to the engine. There's not really any time to look at the speedometer, so without those sensations (as with "sims"), you're basically making an "blind guess" as to how hard you're turning or whether your rear end is about to slip out. At least, that was my experience.. maybe a more skilled driver can rely completely on sight.
This is definitely true of dick-waving young males, but the really successful MMORPGs also have _many_ players who are women and older men that have outgrown the desire to engage in pissing contests.
Are you joking? Women are the biggest show-offs of all; hair, makeup, clothes, shoes, purses, etc. And women are frequently the most vocal "motivators" in top-level guilds. Coincidence?
If this is the case, then please explain why RPGs from the likes of Bioware and Bethesda that incorporate the same basic elements and motivations as an MMORPG in a primarily (or in some cases exclusively) single-player game have been so successful.
Well I could speculate, but who knows for sure? My guess is that the RPG has experienced a surge in popularity thanks to WoW making it "ok" for non-geeks to play, and some of the other developers were in the right place at the right time to capitalize on the new celebrity status of RPGs. Although I'd argue that the popularity of the genre is probably waning in favor of more social games (as in face-to-face social) like the Rock Band and Wii type games. I think RPGs in general (and MMORPGs in particular) will suffer the same fate as FPSs, in that innovation will be stifled and people will start feeling that if you've played one, you've played them all. Once you get to that point, your audience is relegated to die-hards and people who've never played anything before (AKA kids).
Reaching the top in non-online games tends to result in people not wanting to play them as much too, and their players aren't expected to pay monthly fees for something they've grown bored with.
As always, the only safe way is abstinence! Not that anyone around here will listen to that
You're joking, right? Our userbase are the poster children for abstinence. "Abstinence through disciplined self-stimulation," that's our motto. Hell, I'm married and I've been abstinent for as long as I can remember. (Which actually isn't that long thanks to a rigorous diet of beer.) What was I saying?
it is doubtful that the myriad horror stories Zero Day Threat details will persuade Congress or the other players to do anything to curtail the problem with identity theft and internet fraud.
Congress already made it illegal. See: Fraud. That's pretty much all Congress can do. We don't call them the legislative branch for nothing.
The problem is that it's more expensive for society to enforce than to tolerate, and it's not very high on the list of "things people get upset over when it happens to a neighbor." Burglary, murder, rape, vehicular manslaughter, sure... but nobody's going to lose sleep because their neighbor was "identity thefted." Once society progresses to some sort of near-utopia where ID theft is the worst of our problems, or once it actually becomes more economical to enforce than to tolerate, I'm sure you'll see it in stump speeches and party platforms. Until then, monitor your own credit and/or lock it down. Oh, and don't give out your information to talking giraffes.
Well that's one theory. Another is that when there's nobody to show off to (or envy), collecting artificial status symbols is a poor motivator. The single biggest motivating factor in MMORPGs is to show off, which is accomplished by obtaining the "best" gear (which is itself, of course, a constantly moving target). Ironically, actually reaching the top at any given time frequently results in a lost subscriber, as it becomes painfully obvious that your Tier X gear is useful for absolutely nothing.. other than waiting for the next Tier or making previous encounters trivially easy.
That's not a "known" battery, that's a device that could have potentially been used as a battery, but the reasons they would want a battery are speculative at best. For all intents and purposes, the device we currently refer to as a battery has its roots in the 18th century.
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Even better: "I am so sorry I'm such a weasel," she said.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010208163524/www.adn.com/elex/story/0,3109,204160,00.html
Right.. I had written essentially your same post, but it was just conjecture. Suffice to say that the only references I could find to "oil rig" and "tsunami" were this article (or others like it) and another by a company that makes the ballast pumps. They talk about an 80' wave, so I'm assuming it's a rogue wave.... which doesn't make much sense either, because from what I know of them, they're caused by constructive interference, which would only happen along the intersection of two crests. It's not something that would just travel across the ocean in plain sight. But whatever.
I don't think tsunamis are a big problem for offshore drilling platforms in the first place. From what I've read, they use the ballast tanks in daily operation, and they can also be used to rise above the waves. That seems a bit more practical than surrounding it with an enormous structure to provide protection against something that probably won't occur in the lifetime of the rig in the first place. AFAICT, this solves a problem that basically doesn't exist.
I was with you in the beginning, but then you started with the crazy talk:
beakless, clawless ... with enormous breasts.
Funny, that's exactly how I like my women.
Hmm.. people modded you funny, but I've suggested the same thing to my S/O.. They have them in pets, why not in kids? Of course, we'd have to establish some sort of agency that went around collecting stray kids and checking them for chips before destroying them, but I find that an acceptable compromise.
Video playback is not a very demanding task for the hard drive.. Assuming your recordings are untouched ATSC streams, that's 19mbit/sec max, or ~2.3MB/s. Even a poorly performing highly fragmented drive should be able to maintain that with ease, and the buffers should be able to mask any excessive seek times. Not that defragging is completely unnecessary, but once a week seems like overkill, and it really shouldn't affect your playback at all unless you're using a box with anemic amounts of RAM or some sort of RAID-1 with hundreds floppys (which elsewhere I'd consider out of the question, but on Slashdot you never know..)
It sounds more like you have some physical errors on your drive, and the drive is having trouble reading from certain sectors. Defragging could "cure" that by moving the data from the troublesome areas, making it look like fragmentation was the issue when it was really just moving the data that did the trick. You could try running a low-level test to map the bad sectors, but a) that won't necessarily map out "marginal" sectors, and b) like our bodies, hard drives never perform better with age. The problems will only get worse with time, so your best bet is probably to buy a new drive.
use a non-conductive liquid for cooling, such as oil. This has been done before, and even a cursory google turns up lots of interesting results.
Coating is a waste of time, and it's very difficult to get a good coating over empty expansion slots, USB slots, etc., let alone those with cards in them.
Really? I guess I'm just imagining all those 360 and Wii games floating around the net.
Granted, the PS3 has done a good job, but it's to be debated whether that's because the DRM was just that good, or whether the path of least resistance and the greatest reward for the resources simply lay elsewhere. I suspect that number of titles, popularity of the platform, and other factors have played at least as much a role in the PS3 maintaining its security as its implementation of DRM. Sort of the way Linux isn't a large target for virus/malware writers since it comprises less than 1% of the desktop. Why bother attacking a tougher platform with less results when you can attack a weaker one with much more to gain?
Not likely.. you see, that guy won't need them, and the guy who banged her in the bathroom 5 minutes prior already has them.
That's no space station.. it's a goatse moon!
Look, everybody knows democracy only works because terrorists can't afford a subscription to Nature. You start putting that shit out there for everyone to read, and soon Google Bomb will take on a whole new meaning, most likely to describe the weapons created, but it could also come to mean "to shit oneself." As in, "Man, that article was CRAZY scary. I think I just dropped a Google Bomb."
Next up, they'll own Innerspace Too. Starring Martin Short and other people you wish were dead.
Yeah, I heard that one when I was in college too. "Let's study while we're stoned, dude, then we can get baked again before class!" The only thing it really beat, not surprisingly, was getting stoned and not studying.
Agreed.. the Mazda is basically the best stock-handling car you can get for under $60k, let alone under $20k. The fact that its 0-60 is measured in minutes is more than surpassed by the fact that you can just drive with the pedal down the whole time. (Exaggerating.. please don't try that at home kids). Throw on a few aftermarket suspension components and you'll dust pretty much anything else in at least your price range, if not your racing class. And I say this with equal measures of contempt and admiration.
I did Solo II for a while too, and there's nothing like being in a car. Racing takes at least 3 senses: Sight is obviously important, but mostly to look at what's coming next. To get through the present turn, you rely on the memory of what you saw on the approach or the practice laps, feeling the g's, and listening to the engine. There's not really any time to look at the speedometer, so without those sensations (as with "sims"), you're basically making an "blind guess" as to how hard you're turning or whether your rear end is about to slip out. At least, that was my experience.. maybe a more skilled driver can rely completely on sight.
Abit is a popular brand amongst PC hardware enthusiasts, many of who will be disappointed to see it leave the market.
In the late 90s and early 00s maybe. They've been more of a problem-child as of late. Frankly, I thought they were already out of the market.
This is definitely true of dick-waving young males, but the really successful MMORPGs also have _many_ players who are women and older men that have outgrown the desire to engage in pissing contests.
Are you joking? Women are the biggest show-offs of all; hair, makeup, clothes, shoes, purses, etc. And women are frequently the most vocal "motivators" in top-level guilds. Coincidence?
If this is the case, then please explain why RPGs from the likes of Bioware and Bethesda that incorporate the same basic elements and motivations as an MMORPG in a primarily (or in some cases exclusively) single-player game have been so successful.
Well I could speculate, but who knows for sure? My guess is that the RPG has experienced a surge in popularity thanks to WoW making it "ok" for non-geeks to play, and some of the other developers were in the right place at the right time to capitalize on the new celebrity status of RPGs. Although I'd argue that the popularity of the genre is probably waning in favor of more social games (as in face-to-face social) like the Rock Band and Wii type games. I think RPGs in general (and MMORPGs in particular) will suffer the same fate as FPSs, in that innovation will be stifled and people will start feeling that if you've played one, you've played them all. Once you get to that point, your audience is relegated to die-hards and people who've never played anything before (AKA kids).
Reaching the top in non-online games tends to result in people not wanting to play them as much too, and their players aren't expected to pay monthly fees for something they've grown bored with.
Couldn't agree more.
As always, the only safe way is abstinence! Not that anyone around here will listen to that
You're joking, right? Our userbase are the poster children for abstinence. "Abstinence through disciplined self-stimulation," that's our motto. Hell, I'm married and I've been abstinent for as long as I can remember. (Which actually isn't that long thanks to a rigorous diet of beer.) What was I saying?
it is doubtful that the myriad horror stories Zero Day Threat details will persuade Congress or the other players to do anything to curtail the problem with identity theft and internet fraud.
Congress already made it illegal. See: Fraud. That's pretty much all Congress can do. We don't call them the legislative branch for nothing.
The problem is that it's more expensive for society to enforce than to tolerate, and it's not very high on the list of "things people get upset over when it happens to a neighbor." Burglary, murder, rape, vehicular manslaughter, sure... but nobody's going to lose sleep because their neighbor was "identity thefted." Once society progresses to some sort of near-utopia where ID theft is the worst of our problems, or once it actually becomes more economical to enforce than to tolerate, I'm sure you'll see it in stump speeches and party platforms. Until then, monitor your own credit and/or lock it down. Oh, and don't give out your information to talking giraffes.
Well that's one theory. Another is that when there's nobody to show off to (or envy), collecting artificial status symbols is a poor motivator. The single biggest motivating factor in MMORPGs is to show off, which is accomplished by obtaining the "best" gear (which is itself, of course, a constantly moving target). Ironically, actually reaching the top at any given time frequently results in a lost subscriber, as it becomes painfully obvious that your Tier X gear is useful for absolutely nothing.. other than waiting for the next Tier or making previous encounters trivially easy.
That's not a "known" battery, that's a device that could have potentially been used as a battery, but the reasons they would want a battery are speculative at best. For all intents and purposes, the device we currently refer to as a battery has its roots in the 18th century.
I wonder if Comcast will call this technology ReadyRetard.
What?
You lost me after "while".
If by "own," you mean grep returns 0 matches.