Americans want Socialism without giving up their illusion of the "self made man". They want medicaire, medicaid, social security, guaranteed jobs, government loads for businesses, lots of cops, etc. But DON'T tell them it is Socialism.
Ground control to Major Tom, There is a crazed woman in diapers headed straight for you! Ground control to Major Tom, Roll up your car windows and call 911, who knows what she will do...
But I doubt that professionals doing intensive tasks like you mentioned would be bothering to overclock systems or rig up water cooling. They'd be more likely just to buy a powerful server or cluster and have a system that was designed for that kind of load instead of tweaking a PC.
I have mixed feelings about any jacks. I'm going to get myself in an accident someday because I'm fiddling with my mp3 player instead of watching the road.
I'd be more worried about suffication and having my blood boil due to the drop in vapor pressure. Maybe you are right about the temp issue but you be dead anyway.
I also like how war films make even hand grenades look like napalm bombs. Based on old war movies one hand grenade should level a building.
Yah yah, I know it is just a movie but I'll add my other fussy complaints anyway:
- People knocked unconcious with little effort. - People who were knocked out wake up with no injury. In real life people frequently have temporary anmesia, slurred speech, staggering, etc. Plus there may be a fractured skull to take care of. - People get shot without pain. This may be true briefly but watch any emergency room video and you'll see it quickly hurts a lot. - People get shot without any loss of function in shoulders, legs, etc. Patch 'em up and get going! - Laser bursts are visible in space from side angles and can be tracked by the eye and even dodged as they come at you. What travelled faster than the light to warn you? If you can see a laser burst in a space station they really need to invest in some dust filters. - Computer screens that display like teletypes (watch Alien for a good example) - Being able to sit down at a completely unknown computer system and instantly mastering it. We all know that even aliens use Unix. - Even when they aren't accelerating spaceships always have their engines on. 2010 actually didn't do this.
I'd like to see a realistic space battle scene someday (as far as sci-fi is realistic). Have the laser blasts only appear as flashes on the hulls of distant ships well out of sight and having debris from blasts endangering anyone nearby.
"This is actually incorrect. Radioactive "things" can emit light through two other methods:"
Add to this list Cherenkov radiation. This is photons produced by a charged particle travelling faster than the speed of light in a medium (which is less than c, which is light in a vacuum). It is a cone of light that is projected in front of the particle. This is the cause of the bluish glow around nuclear waste in storage pools.
"the physics of the situation don't prevent a kicker from delivering a blow hard enough to knock someone off their feet. Perhaps even to the point of sending them flying."
I can vouch for this from personal experience. I'm much bigger than most people I spar with and like a big ball striking a little one they go back while I barely move (even if they hit me). If I do strike someone I feel a loss of momentum while they get knocked backwards. I don't get recoiled backwards myself.
You can also touch on how people in movies always fly backwards when shot. From the few images of people being hit in war footage I've seen they tend to just fall like puppets without any dramatic flailing. I'd guess that most bullets nowadays pass right through the body anyway without imparting much energy unlike a musket ball that would stop in the body.
As for car jumps I recall a stunt man explaining that they weight the back end of stunt cars so that the front end of the car (where most of the weight is) doesn't drop so suddenly. Mythbusters did a jump without weighting the trunk and I noticed that the front of the car dived immediately very hard.
My favorite effect was when Bugs Bunny led his nemesis down a long dark tunnel then bricked it up just after Bugs got out. His enemy hit the wall with such force that he actually converted some of his energy into a flash of light. I'm still not sure if it was the piezoelectric effect or nuclear fusion.
I have to admit, if Hollywood was realistic and didn't have sound in space it would make sci-fi action films pretty dull. It would just have a lot of background music so I let them off on that one.
BTW, "2001, A Space Odyssey" was true to the no sound in space law and used it to dramatic effect. All you heard was the dull whir of systems in the pods or the astronaut's breathing.
One thing I have noticed is the very nature of reviewing vs daily use. Reviewers are in and out. They won't go indepth into a game or hardware and won't cover long term playing or use of an item. Very few revisit, say, hardware like tomshardware will do sometimes. I've seen hardware with good reviews come back with user reviews a few months later saying "such and such died after a few weeks" or something similar. Games also usually get a review based on graphics but not on deeper gameplay since they don't put the time into it (gotta get the review out fast!).
I'll use the mainstream reviews for screenshots, basic info, specs, etc. If something is horribly bad about it they'll usually admit it. I can wait a month or so for the users to come out with their reviews which are usually closer to the truth. You'll still have the whiners ("It won't run on my ancient box!!") and impatient to sift through though.
There is so much user content for NWN-1 and the reviews for NWN-2 are so lukewarm that I'm passing on NWN-2. What pushed you to buy it against your judgement?
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Americans want Socialism without giving up their illusion of the "self made man". They want medicaire, medicaid, social security, guaranteed jobs, government loads for businesses, lots of cops, etc. But DON'T tell them it is Socialism.
Ok, maybe not North Korea. More like DDR era East Germany. Say "hi" to the Stasi for me.
This is was clearly prompted by the US government many years ago as revenge for giving us ABBA.
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Are they sure it was Speed and not Racer-X?
They were just busy trying to find and burn all copies of the constitution before getting restarted.
Local activist groups are the worst for this.
"We need a snappy acronym"
"How about 'CARE'? It would stand for Concerned...Area...ummmm...Reaching...ahhhh..."
We elect lawyers and don't complain about the conflict of interest when the feds deal with legal matters.
Anyway, I think there are many much bigger issues facing a president than what software the government uses.
Ground control to Major Tom,
There is a crazed woman in diapers headed straight for you!
Ground control to Major Tom,
Roll up your car windows and call 911, who knows what she will do...
Too bad she wasn't a guy. Any trucker could tell you about the great time saver known as the empty jug.
What's the problem? Companies are shipping jobs overseas so they don't need to immigrate here anyway. The jobs are coming to them. Win-win!
Will it involve digital micro dots?
Judging from some of the people I've met while gaming online I'd say many would be ineligable for anything that required connecting to a brain.
But I doubt that professionals doing intensive tasks like you mentioned would be bothering to overclock systems or rig up water cooling. They'd be more likely just to buy a powerful server or cluster and have a system that was designed for that kind of load instead of tweaking a PC.
I have mixed feelings about any jacks. I'm going to get myself in an accident someday because I'm fiddling with my mp3 player instead of watching the road.
I always thought the Milky Way was full of yummy nougat. Ummmmm....nougat
I agree. I'm reading your comment while driving right now$#*U#U*#FCG *CARRIER LOST*
I'd be more worried about suffication and having my blood boil due to the drop in vapor pressure. Maybe you are right about the temp issue but you be dead anyway.
I also like how war films make even hand grenades look like napalm bombs. Based on old war movies one hand grenade should level a building.
Yah yah, I know it is just a movie but I'll add my other fussy complaints anyway:
- People knocked unconcious with little effort.
- People who were knocked out wake up with no injury. In real life people frequently have temporary anmesia, slurred speech, staggering, etc. Plus there may be a fractured skull to take care of.
- People get shot without pain. This may be true briefly but watch any emergency room video and you'll see it quickly hurts a lot.
- People get shot without any loss of function in shoulders, legs, etc. Patch 'em up and get going!
- Laser bursts are visible in space from side angles and can be tracked by the eye and even dodged as they come at you. What travelled faster than the light to warn you? If you can see a laser burst in a space station they really need to invest in some dust filters.
- Computer screens that display like teletypes (watch Alien for a good example)
- Being able to sit down at a completely unknown computer system and instantly mastering it. We all know that even aliens use Unix.
- Even when they aren't accelerating spaceships always have their engines on. 2010 actually didn't do this.
I'd like to see a realistic space battle scene someday (as far as sci-fi is realistic). Have the laser blasts only appear as flashes on the hulls of distant ships well out of sight and having debris from blasts endangering anyone nearby.
In Aqua Teen Hunger Force ANY object that is thrown explodes.
"This is actually incorrect. Radioactive "things" can emit light through two other methods:"
Add to this list Cherenkov radiation. This is photons produced by a charged particle travelling faster than the speed of light in a medium (which is less than c, which is light in a vacuum). It is a cone of light that is projected in front of the particle. This is the cause of the bluish glow around nuclear waste in storage pools.
"the physics of the situation don't prevent a kicker from delivering a blow hard enough to knock someone off their feet. Perhaps even to the point of sending them flying."
I can vouch for this from personal experience. I'm much bigger than most people I spar with and like a big ball striking a little one they go back while I barely move (even if they hit me). If I do strike someone I feel a loss of momentum while they get knocked backwards. I don't get recoiled backwards myself.
You can also touch on how people in movies always fly backwards when shot. From the few images of people being hit in war footage I've seen they tend to just fall like puppets without any dramatic flailing. I'd guess that most bullets nowadays pass right through the body anyway without imparting much energy unlike a musket ball that would stop in the body.
As for car jumps I recall a stunt man explaining that they weight the back end of stunt cars so that the front end of the car (where most of the weight is) doesn't drop so suddenly. Mythbusters did a jump without weighting the trunk and I noticed that the front of the car dived immediately very hard.
My favorite effect was when Bugs Bunny led his nemesis down a long dark tunnel then bricked it up just after Bugs got out. His enemy hit the wall with such force that he actually converted some of his energy into a flash of light. I'm still not sure if it was the piezoelectric effect or nuclear fusion.
I have to admit, if Hollywood was realistic and didn't have sound in space it would make sci-fi action films pretty dull. It would just have a lot of background music so I let them off on that one.
BTW, "2001, A Space Odyssey" was true to the no sound in space law and used it to dramatic effect. All you heard was the dull whir of systems in the pods or the astronaut's breathing.
One thing I have noticed is the very nature of reviewing vs daily use. Reviewers are in and out. They won't go indepth into a game or hardware and won't cover long term playing or use of an item. Very few revisit, say, hardware like tomshardware will do sometimes. I've seen hardware with good reviews come back with user reviews a few months later saying "such and such died after a few weeks" or something similar. Games also usually get a review based on graphics but not on deeper gameplay since they don't put the time into it (gotta get the review out fast!).
I'll use the mainstream reviews for screenshots, basic info, specs, etc. If something is horribly bad about it they'll usually admit it. I can wait a month or so for the users to come out with their reviews which are usually closer to the truth. You'll still have the whiners ("It won't run on my ancient box!!") and impatient to sift through though.
There is so much user content for NWN-1 and the reviews for NWN-2 are so lukewarm that I'm passing on NWN-2. What pushed you to buy it against your judgement?