Where would you recommend grenades be stored? The only armored, easily accesible place on a soldier is the front of the vest. Would you rather put grenades on an unarmored part of the body? Personally, I'd rather have grenades on the front of my vest where I can reach them, not in a bullet-resistant case that I'd have to open up to access them. Anyway, the chances that a bullet would hit a grenade is small, and so is the chance that the grenade would explode if hit by a round.
True, it wasn't as effective as a normal taser, but with a larger capacitor it could have more than enough zap to stop a person's heart. Also, the victim was shocked on his arm, not his chest or head. I have a feeling a good torso hit would be much more effective.
And don't visit that link. Lucky for me I only fell for that trick once before I changed my hosts file to block most web servers that host those images.
...for Microsoft. At least my computer doesn't seem outdated even though I'm running Windows 2000, which is over 4 years old. That's like 50 in internet years.
Via does the same thing with their chips. The C3 has had cores codenamed after biblical figures such as Samuel, Eden, Esther, and Nehemiah. I think they use codenames from the bible because they can't be copyrighted.
Hey, the taser project was a good one. I made one and had lots of fun burning the chrome off of my screwdriver. I don't want to shock anyone because it looks pretty painful.
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Err... man I'm tired. That post should be: * Enermax 350W PSU. Not fan-adjustable.
* 40GB Maxtor D740X.
* 160GB Western Digital WD1600JB.
* 2xYS-Tech 80mm fans reduced to 10V and attached to the case with vibration-reducing spacers.
Anyway, these are probably your culprits. I'd be mostly suspicious of the hard drives, as ball bearing drives (which both of yours are) put out an insane amount of high pitched noise. I also went for a silent system similar to yours, but I cared more about noise than performance. I used a Celeron 1.2Ghz (Tualatin core, they are based on Intel's 130nm process and put out very little heat.), an ATI Radeon 7500 PCI, Seagate Barracuda IV 80GB (This is the quietest hard drive ever, I can't hear it seek.), and a 200W PSU salvaged from an old system made by Micron (It was really quiet.) to cool the CPU, I used a Zalman CNPS-6000 (AKA Flower cooler) with it's fan turned all the way down. I threw the whole shebang into a homemade clear case, and have been happy with it ever since. It's just barely powerful enough to play Battlefield 1942 and UT2K3 (at 1024x768, lowest graphics settings), but still quiet enough to leave on all the time. I've overclocked the CPU to a little over 1.5Ghz with no problems at all. I also have pictures of it here. They were taken during the winter when I took the heatsink off and tried to run it. It worked fine, in fact the CPU ran a cool 4C, with no heatsink and no cooling fan. Of course, it was -16F that night.
* Enermax 350W PSU. Not fan-adjustable.
* 40GB Maxtor D740X.
* 160GB Western Digital WD1600JB.
* 2xYS-Tech 80mm fans reduced to 10V and attached to the case with vibration-reducing spacers.
Why bother with something as dangerous as fluorine gas? Simple ultraviolet radiation should be sufficient.
Because you don't want UV rays, you want overkill.
To demonstrate my point, allow me to quote a bit of a page from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:
Direct skin exposure to pure fluorine can cause severe burns in 0.2 sec, and an exposure for as long as 0.6 sec can result in thermal flash burns comparable to those produced by an oxyacetylene flame.
After reading that, it is now clear that Fluorine is the right hazardous material for the job.
I think your governor might be lying just so he can get more votes while still receiving donations from larger companies (like the telephone company). Lying,in general, is pretty common among politicians. They can even lie and stay in office. Look at Nethercutt (a representative from Washington). He promised to stay in office for only three terms, but he was doing such a good job that he ran for office again, and won again. In that case it wasn't really a bad thing since most of the people loved him, but there are many other examples that are much worse.
I'd like to get your dealer's number, because you are smoking some fine drugs. Apple sent sourceforge a complaint. It pretty much said "You are violating the DMCA, if you continue to do so, we will sue you." So SF took the project down instead of risking getting sued. You are right about one thing, SF is afraid of Apple. Of course they're afraid of Apple! Apple just sent them a cease-and-desist letter threatening legal action, not an easter basket.
Why do people buy CDs or songs from iTMS when they can get MP3s for free? Because of quality control. When you buy a CD, it sounds good. There are no clicks or corrupted frames in an AAC from iTMS, unlike most stuff on P2P networks. In a perfect world for music listeners, music would be completely free. No DRM, no cost. In a perfect world for music distributors, there would be no piracy (due to customers always buying music, not due to DRM technologies) and they would make more money every year. Obviously, society comprimises between the two.
Toyota's method, at least on the Sienna, is to repeatedly quickly engage and disengage the clutch. So while the engine runs at higher RPMs, the clutch slips like crazy. This heats up the transmission and causes more wear and tear than normal. It's good for normal drivers who don't know how to drive in icy weather, but it really messes up anyone who is used to snow driving.
For the more complex systems (pretty much everything besides ABS) there are usually buttons or switches to turn them off. For example, in most Toyota vans, there is an automatic traction control system that will slow the wheels down if they slide from the driver pressing the gas too much. This is great for people who just don't want the car to slide when they hit the gas too much, but it really gives a feeling of being disconnected from the car. It can be turned off, but it's on by default every time the car is started. Also, the anti-slide feature puts a lot of stress on the transmission, and decreases its life. Normally, women leave it on and men turn it off.
Aren't the Slashdot editors concerned that this sort of behavior could damage their journalistic integrity?
When you're at the bottom, there's no where to go but up.
By the way, be glad you found out about this early in the morning, otherwise you could have made a total ass of yourself when the really crazy articles show up.
...the story does not resemble even the slights sign of a practical joke.
Like drinking 100 cups of coffee in a day? Nope, nothing strange about that. 100 cups of coffee is around the LD50 for a 75kg person. Also, while I agree with your definition of a practical joke, you must remember that this is Slashdot. The fact that it's not funny to us doesn't make it not funny to the editors (if I was on crack, I'd find the story funny too).
IT'S APRIL 1ST which means the/. editors post craploads of crazy stories. This happens every April 1st, due to the fact that in America April 1st is know as April Fool's Day. As you can see from this story from last year, the stories are simply preposterous. Usually they are dupes (that was the third time that day that the evil bit story was posted).
Yes, I had an extenstion cable and my headphones come with a very long cable. I make sure to have a long cable so that I don't break the headphones or the jack on the ipod. Also, the treadmill was about six inches from the wall behind it.
If people shopped around, or if Apple's competitors did a better job of marketing I don't think it would sell nearly as well.
I don't think so. I looked around a lot for different mp3 players, but I could find none with the same quality, reliability, and small size as the mini. I'm a cross country runner, so I wanted an mp3 player as small as possible, but I also wanted more than a few hundred megs of storage. Today I went on an 8 mile run (on a treadmill) and dropped the mini twice (I was just tired and it slipped out of my hand). Twice it hit the treadmill, twice it was shot back against the wall behind me. It didn't skip at all and it escaped with no marks whatsoever. I doubt most players could handle the same beating.
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Where would you recommend grenades be stored? The only armored, easily accesible place on a soldier is the front of the vest. Would you rather put grenades on an unarmored part of the body? Personally, I'd rather have grenades on the front of my vest where I can reach them, not in a bullet-resistant case that I'd have to open up to access them. Anyway, the chances that a bullet would hit a grenade is small, and so is the chance that the grenade would explode if hit by a round.
True, it wasn't as effective as a normal taser, but with a larger capacitor it could have more than enough zap to stop a person's heart. Also, the victim was shocked on his arm, not his chest or head. I have a feeling a good torso hit would be much more effective.
And don't visit that link. Lucky for me I only fell for that trick once before I changed my hosts file to block most web servers that host those images.
This has been discussed before.
...for Microsoft. At least my computer doesn't seem outdated even though I'm running Windows 2000, which is over 4 years old. That's like 50 in internet years.
We could call it The Death Ball.
Hafnium bullets would give a whole new meaning to armor piercing round. It would also make the motto of "one shot, one kill" obsolete.
Via does the same thing with their chips. The C3 has had cores codenamed after biblical figures such as Samuel, Eden, Esther, and Nehemiah. I think they use codenames from the bible because they can't be copyrighted.
Hey, the taser project was a good one. I made one and had lots of fun burning the chrome off of my screwdriver. I don't want to shock anyone because it looks pretty painful.
Err... man I'm tired. That post should be:
* Enermax 350W PSU. Not fan-adjustable.
* 40GB Maxtor D740X.
* 160GB Western Digital WD1600JB.
* 2xYS-Tech 80mm fans reduced to 10V and attached to the case with vibration-reducing spacers.
Anyway, these are probably your culprits. I'd be mostly suspicious of the hard drives, as ball bearing drives (which both of yours are) put out an insane amount of high pitched noise. I also went for a silent system similar to yours, but I cared more about noise than performance. I used a Celeron 1.2Ghz (Tualatin core, they are based on Intel's 130nm process and put out very little heat.), an ATI Radeon 7500 PCI, Seagate Barracuda IV 80GB (This is the quietest hard drive ever, I can't hear it seek.), and a 200W PSU salvaged from an old system made by Micron (It was really quiet.) to cool the CPU, I used a Zalman CNPS-6000 (AKA Flower cooler) with it's fan turned all the way down. I threw the whole shebang into a homemade clear case, and have been happy with it ever since. It's just barely powerful enough to play Battlefield 1942 and UT2K3 (at 1024x768, lowest graphics settings), but still quiet enough to leave on all the time. I've overclocked the CPU to a little over 1.5Ghz with no problems at all. I also have pictures of it here. They were taken during the winter when I took the heatsink off and tried to run it. It worked fine, in fact the CPU ran a cool 4C, with no heatsink and no cooling fan. Of course, it was -16F that night.
* Enermax 350W PSU. Not fan-adjustable.
* 40GB Maxtor D740X.
* 160GB Western Digital WD1600JB.
* 2xYS-Tech 80mm fans reduced to 10V and attached to the case with vibration-reducing spacers.
Why bother with something as dangerous as fluorine gas? Simple ultraviolet radiation should be sufficient.
Because you don't want UV rays, you want overkill. To demonstrate my point, allow me to quote a bit of a page from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:
Direct skin exposure to pure fluorine can cause severe burns in 0.2 sec, and an exposure for as long as 0.6 sec can result in thermal flash burns comparable to those produced by an oxyacetylene flame.
After reading that, it is now clear that Fluorine is the right hazardous material for the job.
I think your governor might be lying just so he can get more votes while still receiving donations from larger companies (like the telephone company). Lying ,in general, is pretty common among politicians. They can even lie and stay in office. Look at Nethercutt (a representative from Washington). He promised to stay in office for only three terms, but he was doing such a good job that he ran for office again, and won again. In that case it wasn't really a bad thing since most of the people loved him, but there are many other examples that are much worse.
Wow, $28,500 would buy like 10GB of cache.
Who cares about the latest round of RIAA threats or MSFT hiring some goober?
I resent that!
I'd like to get your dealer's number, because you are smoking some fine drugs. Apple sent sourceforge a complaint. It pretty much said "You are violating the DMCA, if you continue to do so, we will sue you." So SF took the project down instead of risking getting sued. You are right about one thing, SF is afraid of Apple. Of course they're afraid of Apple! Apple just sent them a cease-and-desist letter threatening legal action, not an easter basket.
Why do people buy CDs or songs from iTMS when they can get MP3s for free? Because of quality control. When you buy a CD, it sounds good. There are no clicks or corrupted frames in an AAC from iTMS, unlike most stuff on P2P networks. In a perfect world for music listeners, music would be completely free. No DRM, no cost. In a perfect world for music distributors, there would be no piracy (due to customers always buying music, not due to DRM technologies) and they would make more money every year. Obviously, society comprimises between the two.
Toyota's method, at least on the Sienna, is to repeatedly quickly engage and disengage the clutch. So while the engine runs at higher RPMs, the clutch slips like crazy. This heats up the transmission and causes more wear and tear than normal. It's good for normal drivers who don't know how to drive in icy weather, but it really messes up anyone who is used to snow driving.
For the more complex systems (pretty much everything besides ABS) there are usually buttons or switches to turn them off. For example, in most Toyota vans, there is an automatic traction control system that will slow the wheels down if they slide from the driver pressing the gas too much. This is great for people who just don't want the car to slide when they hit the gas too much, but it really gives a feeling of being disconnected from the car. It can be turned off, but it's on by default every time the car is started. Also, the anti-slide feature puts a lot of stress on the transmission, and decreases its life. Normally, women leave it on and men turn it off.
Aren't the Slashdot editors concerned that this sort of behavior could damage their journalistic integrity?
When you're at the bottom, there's no where to go but up.
By the way, be glad you found out about this early in the morning, otherwise you could have made a total ass of yourself when the really crazy articles show up.
...the story does not resemble even the slights sign of a practical joke.
Like drinking 100 cups of coffee in a day? Nope, nothing strange about that. 100 cups of coffee is around the LD50 for a 75kg person. Also, while I agree with your definition of a practical joke, you must remember that this is Slashdot. The fact that it's not funny to us doesn't make it not funny to the editors (if I was on crack, I'd find the story funny too).
OK, let me give you another hint:
/. editors post craploads of crazy stories. This happens every April 1st, due to the fact that in America April 1st is know as April Fool's Day. As you can see from this story from last year, the stories are simply preposterous. Usually they are dupes (that was the third time that day that the evil bit story was posted).
IT'S APRIL 1ST which means the
You might want to look at the date. (Hint: It's not March anymore.)
Yes, I had an extenstion cable and my headphones come with a very long cable. I make sure to have a long cable so that I don't break the headphones or the jack on the ipod. Also, the treadmill was about six inches from the wall behind it.
If people shopped around, or if Apple's competitors did a better job of marketing I don't think it would sell nearly as well.
I don't think so. I looked around a lot for different mp3 players, but I could find none with the same quality, reliability, and small size as the mini. I'm a cross country runner, so I wanted an mp3 player as small as possible, but I also wanted more than a few hundred megs of storage. Today I went on an 8 mile run (on a treadmill) and dropped the mini twice (I was just tired and it slipped out of my hand). Twice it hit the treadmill, twice it was shot back against the wall behind me. It didn't skip at all and it escaped with no marks whatsoever. I doubt most players could handle the same beating.