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Sounds great. The proprietary, non-removable battery does put me off a bit, though, but I guess that's a compromise you have to make when you want a small device. The Ethernet feature is interesting... does it have any sort of access control or can anyone on the same net do nasty stuff with the files? FLAC support is an important factor for me. I don't care about the lack of a recording feature, but a lot of other people probably do. I suppose this baby uses an embedded CPU (ARM?) for everything, so it'll be easy to hack the firmware, which would be really cool.
And if you use solar power to electrolyse water, you have a solar powered car. The point is to create an infrastructure where you're not dependent on the type of energy - it makes no difference for your hydrogen powered car if the hydrogen was created by using coal, nuclear, solar or wind power, cow methane, or your mom pedaling on a stationary bike. You can always use the cleanest or cheapest or most readily available (depending on what your priorities are) way to create your hydrogen. With current cars, you're limited to crude oil, from which gasoline is created.
Windows and the such only extend the ability to operate/read/write to the disks. Windows only sees what the BIOS shows it.
Nope, d00d. The BIOS has full control until it loads the boot sector off of the hard drive. Everything from then on has nothing to do with the BIOS, except if a program chooses to call BIOS code. E.g. DOS relied on BIOS routines for hard disk access, so if your BIOS didn't support drives > 512MB, and you had a 20GB drive, you couldn't use it in DOS. Linux (and other 32-bit OSs, heck, even Win95) OTOH use their own hard disk drivers. If your BIOS didn't support drives larger than 512MB, you only had to have your boot partition within that space, but once the kernel was loaded, you could access the complete drive.
Very funny. Minor nitpick: the caliber of the General Electric GAU-8/A "Avenger" is 30mm - using your antiquated measure this would be equivalent to cal..762.
As I realize that your comment was meant as a joke, I will forego the discussion of the aforementioned cannon's efficacy vs. paratroopers.
OTOH, Americans seem to treat their money differently. I've yet to come across a Euro that has been written on, whereas I've seen lots of US$ with stuff scribbled on them.
Also does anyone know where I can get a good repetive recording of 'Mind the gap' so my dream to replicate a london subway station can finally become a reality.
To get the real feeling you'd have to get a couple hundred rats as well.
As I always say, the louder the music, the less likely they're going to notice you're smashing up their car with a sledgehammer. Just remember to sync your strikes with the bass.
I recently bought an NEC LCD1760NX, which has one of those new 16ms panels. I have to say, I'm impressed by the speed. I had a Samsung 172T before, and fast games like e.g. Counter Strike were unplayable. Not so with the NEC, there's almost no difference to a CRT. The downside is, it uses a TN+film panel. Compared to high-class panels like the PVA panel in the 172T, the viewing angle isn't stellar. You get used to it, though, and the NEC has a really great foot that allows you to adjust the position of the monitor perfectly. The contrast is a bit worse than on the Samsung, but only slightly, and still much better than on a CRT.
Erm, probably as much as the radar at the airport, which has a power output more than twenty times than the magnetron of a microwave oven. You know, the magnetron thingie used in microwaves was invented by the British for use in radars. It's not some magical death-ray or something.
Ah, no. You see, the TOW is a guided anti-tank missile, while the Carl Gustaf is a recoilless rifle. As in, it has a rifled barrel. It's reusable and you can use different kinds of ammunition. It's also more portable than, say, a TOW, and much cheaper. The Carl Gustaf M3 is currently in service with the Rangers and the Navy SEALS, BTW. More info here.
Run your audio through an amp. You can then switch the inputs using the remote control, or the big knob on the front. I don't know how many computers you are going to connect, but there's a chance you don't need a KVM switch at all. Most non-cheap monitors come with at least two inputs. I bought two TFTs over the last four months, and both of them had two inputs, one analog, one digital, switchable with an extra button on the front. The Sony X72 even has three inputs: one digital, two analog, and it's a good monitor, too. So if you have only two or three computers to connect, and you consider the cost of a decent KVM switch, you might want to buy just a new monitor. In this case you could then get one of the cheap mouse/keyboard switches.
As to building your own... a bunch of analog multiplexers (or relays if you want it to be fancy), flipflops, pushbuttons and LEDs, and you should be done. Well OK, it might also be a good idea to use a microcontroller and program it to switch the signals in the proper sequence. Something like an AT89C2051 and a bunch of 'HC164s to control the multiplexers. You could then also add a serial port for configuration.
You mean benzpyrene. 3,4-benzpyrene looks like a base, chemically, and gets built into the DNA of the cells it comes into contact with. Basically, it's like writing random data on your hard drive. Each cigarette smoked causes about 20,000 mutations, but most of the time they are corrected by error correction mechanisms in the DNA replication process.
Surprisingly NO-One mentioned CS... COUNTERSTRIKE was big for me.
I second that... feels kinda weird when you realize that you don't want to walk across a city square (ot other open spaces) because there might be snipers in the buildings or on the rooftops.
"I know Kung Fu." I laughed so hard when I saw that scene that I missed the next 15 minutes wiping the tears from my eyes. Possibly the dumbest line in the history of film. Well, maybe it's a tie with "I burned my modem. We all did." from Alien IV (about as laughable as Matrix but without good F/X).
Nah, they're even more bad-ass. They killed all the terrorists long ago. Any 'attacks' are performed by themselves to justify their existence and/or increase their budgets.
Uh-Oh, New Zealand building Weapons of Mass Destruction. Next thing you know Osama has been spotted in Wellington. I bet the B2s are already being fueled up as I write this.
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Sounds great. The proprietary, non-removable battery does put me off a bit, though, but I guess that's a compromise you have to make when you want a small device. The Ethernet feature is interesting ... does it have any sort of access control or can anyone on the same net do nasty stuff with the files? FLAC support is an important factor for me. I don't care about the lack of a recording feature, but a lot of other people probably do. I suppose this baby uses an embedded CPU (ARM?) for everything, so it'll be easy to hack the firmware, which would be really cool.
And if you use solar power to electrolyse water, you have a solar powered car. The point is to create an infrastructure where you're not dependent on the type of energy - it makes no difference for your hydrogen powered car if the hydrogen was created by using coal, nuclear, solar or wind power, cow methane, or your mom pedaling on a stationary bike. You can always use the cleanest or cheapest or most readily available (depending on what your priorities are) way to create your hydrogen. With current cars, you're limited to crude oil, from which gasoline is created.
Nope, d00d. The BIOS has full control until it loads the boot sector off of the hard drive. Everything from then on has nothing to do with the BIOS, except if a program chooses to call BIOS code. E.g. DOS relied on BIOS routines for hard disk access, so if your BIOS didn't support drives > 512MB, and you had a 20GB drive, you couldn't use it in DOS. Linux (and other 32-bit OSs, heck, even Win95) OTOH use their own hard disk drivers. If your BIOS didn't support drives larger than 512MB, you only had to have your boot partition within that space, but once the kernel was loaded, you could access the complete drive.
I presume you're talking about DOS games. In this case, use VDMSound.
Sir, you are indeed a well-traveled man! You obviously have laid pipe across the globe.
As I realize that your comment was meant as a joke, I will forego the discussion of the aforementioned cannon's efficacy vs. paratroopers.
Yeah, but did you notice how there are virtually no stray cats or dogs in that part of the city?
The point is not that the Germans had no contingency plans; the point is that an Enigma w/ books was captured despite the contingency plans.
Umm, OK.
OTOH, Americans seem to treat their money differently. I've yet to come across a Euro that has been written on, whereas I've seen lots of US$ with stuff scribbled on them.
Also does anyone know where I can get a good repetive recording of 'Mind the gap' so my dream to replicate a london subway station can finally become a reality. To get the real feeling you'd have to get a couple hundred rats as well.
As I always say, the louder the music, the less likely they're going to notice you're smashing up their car with a sledgehammer. Just remember to sync your strikes with the bass.
I recently bought an NEC LCD1760NX, which has one of those new 16ms panels. I have to say, I'm impressed by the speed. I had a Samsung 172T before, and fast games like e.g. Counter Strike were unplayable. Not so with the NEC, there's almost no difference to a CRT. The downside is, it uses a TN+film panel. Compared to high-class panels like the PVA panel in the 172T, the viewing angle isn't stellar. You get used to it, though, and the NEC has a really great foot that allows you to adjust the position of the monitor perfectly. The contrast is a bit worse than on the Samsung, but only slightly, and still much better than on a CRT.
Wrong again. The M1 Bazooka is an unguided rocket.
Erm, probably as much as the radar at the airport, which has a power output more than twenty times than the magnetron of a microwave oven. You know, the magnetron thingie used in microwaves was invented by the British for use in radars. It's not some magical death-ray or something.
Ah, no. You see, the TOW is a guided anti-tank missile, while the Carl Gustaf is a recoilless rifle. As in, it has a rifled barrel. It's reusable and you can use different kinds of ammunition. It's also more portable than, say, a TOW, and much cheaper. The Carl Gustaf M3 is currently in service with the Rangers and the Navy SEALS, BTW. More info here.
So would this (scroll down to Carl Gustaf). Probably much more fun to watch, too.
As to building your own ... a bunch of analog multiplexers (or relays if you want it to be fancy), flipflops, pushbuttons and LEDs, and you should be done. Well OK, it might also be a good idea to use a microcontroller and program it to switch the signals in the proper sequence. Something like an AT89C2051 and a bunch of 'HC164s to control the multiplexers. You could then also add a serial port for configuration.
You mean benzpyrene. 3,4-benzpyrene looks like a base, chemically, and gets built into the DNA of the cells it comes into contact with. Basically, it's like writing random data on your hard drive. Each cigarette smoked causes about 20,000 mutations, but most of the time they are corrected by error correction mechanisms in the DNA replication process.
Yeah, those British blokes in their Tornado never knew what hit them.
I second that ... feels kinda weird when you realize that you don't want to walk across a city square (ot other open spaces) because there might be snipers in the buildings or on the rooftops.
"I know Kung Fu." I laughed so hard when I saw that scene that I missed the next 15 minutes wiping the tears from my eyes. Possibly the dumbest line in the history of film. Well, maybe it's a tie with "I burned my modem. We all did." from Alien IV (about as laughable as Matrix but without good F/X).
Nah, they're even more bad-ass. They killed all the terrorists long ago. Any 'attacks' are performed by themselves to justify their existence and/or increase their budgets.
Uh-Oh, New Zealand building Weapons of Mass Destruction. Next thing you know Osama has been spotted in Wellington. I bet the B2s are already being fueled up as I write this.