Supposedly the "average wound" in this war is worse than in any previous war
You're kidding, right? I wish I could find an online version of the picture of the German Major who got his frickin face blown off in WWI. No upper jaw, no nose, his eyes were gone. He survived and lived to 80 years or something like that. Most injuries in WWI were like that - parts of people got blown off. That's the effect of massive artillery against infantry.
I don't think that WWI will ever be matched again (short of a nuclear holocaust). During the Somme offensive alone, which lasted about 6 months, over one million soldiers died. Compared to almost any other war in history, Iraq is a joke - 1500 dead American soldiers? More probably died in the first hour of most wars in the past. It just makes me wonder how today's media would deal with casualty numbers like the ones in WWI.
I don't get that. Wouldn't it be better if they sent an average looking hitman, so he would be less conspicuous? I mean, why does he have to be heavy or strong when has a gun? So he could kill the journalist "even better" or what? Doesn't make any sense.
Hell, if I ever wanted to take out a hit on someone, I'd hire a midget with a knife. Nobody would expect that. Even if the victim gets warned, nobody would take it seriously. "Dude, look out for a midget with a knife!" "Riiiight."
And how many users get to have their nick / handle linking to their homepage istead of their uid history on/. ??? Now I can't even find out what he's been posting recently.
The trouble is not with the immediate effects, but rather with the climatic change the impact would cause (assuming it strikes land).
I'd say it would suck more to starve to death a year after the impact, because the climate has changed so that the agricultural output is down to 10%, than to be vaporized right away.
Of course I pulled that number out of my ass, but nonetheless, the impact on the climate could be severe. Someone already mentioned Krakatoa.
How is this flamebait? If anything, history has shown us that since the days of the first typewriters, the keyboard comes very close to the ideal data input device. Even if you only type a URL every now and then, anything but a keyboard is inconvenient, slow and clumsy. The recent handwriting and speech recognition products actually work very well, yet all this stuff never really took off. I think the reason for that is simple: typing on a keyboard is still the best way to enter text, and likely always will be (well, until we get working thought recognition maybe).
As for water cooling in general, air cooling has always meant higher reliability for engines. Even after all those years, the water cooling is still one of the systems that fails most often in cars.
Nothing beats blowing cool air on a chunk of metal for simplicity and reliability. Well, except for convection cooling, but you'd have to use humongous heatsinks for that.
No, but it's linked to your medical data. So if you've used a leaked copy of Halo 2, and you have a medical emergency, you'll be turned away at every ER and left to die in the street.
I actually meant devices like washing machines, microwaves, etc. Cell phones and PDAs are multimedia devices, and I doubt that 512K Flash and 64K RAM would suffice for any current cell phone, let alone PDA.
The ARMs you're talking about are in a completely different league - the devices mentioned in the article have no provisions for external Flash or SDRAM, which you would need if you wanted more than the tiniest amount of memory.
Exactly, sounds like marketing hype... I mean, a lot of (most?) consumer electronics still use 4-bit MCUs.
Actually, I don't see much demand for these "medium speed" controllers. For control applications, they're overkill most of the time, and for multimedia stuff, they're too slow/small.
Why don't you get an iRiver H140? Plays ogg and flac, and has a FM radio. Oh, and longer battery life.
BTW, the iRiver H320/H340 (review) does all that the new iPod is supposed to, and it even includes a USB host function - you connect a USB storage device (like most cameras, or even a USB hard drive), and simply transfer files between the two devices.
Well, I never had a problem. Ammo was pretty tight, that's true, but it was manageable. Of course, you can't just use the spray & pray approach that might work in other games, where there's an ammo crate around every corner.
You also have to adapt your weapon usage to the types of enemies you expect to encounter - if most of the guys on a "level" use assault rifles, then you're better off using one as well.
Personally, I first specialized on my pistol skill, because that's the most prevalent ammo type at the beginning, and with the stealth pistol you can take out enemies from behind (or the front if you're quick) with a headshot without anyone noticing. Later on, it's a good idea to expand the sniper rifle skill - again, go for the one shot-one kill philosophy. Actually, with any weapon, go for the head. Of course, without the proper amount of skill for a weapon, you'd waste a lot of ammo, because you don't hit anything.
If you're careful, you can even avoid most confrontations. And maybe you forgot about the more unusual weapons? One of my faves was the pepper spray/baton combo - spray them in the face and then proceed to beat them unconscious while they gag helplessly.
Most of the world envies US economic and military might.
And you don't think US arrogance and hubris might slightly antagonise some people? No, of course not. "They just hate me because I'm beatiful." Yeah, those people are always popular.
I was gonna say this - if these whiny pussies complain about a frickin windmill, tear down the windmill and set up a huge soot spewing coal burning plant right in their frickin backyards, and after a year or so, ask them if they're sleeping better when they're coughing up several pounds of black bloody lumps every night. Sleep better now, punk? Huh?? Do ya???
Wouldn't this produce smarter birds though? I mean, if the landscape were plastered with windmills, all the stupid birds would die out after a few generations, resulting in a new species of hyper-intelligent birds that would take over the world and start a fast food franchise called Kentucky Fried Human!!1!!
That's what came to my mind first, too. They tout this as a means for building lunar and mars bases. Now, they say they have a new shielding technology. Maybe it's really good and keeps out high energy photons and particles. What remains are the neutrons. To shield these, there are basically two ways: thick layers of either water or solid rock.
IMHO the only viable way to build a habitat where people are supposed to live for an extended period of time (i.e. years) is underground.
Might work as a cheap way to build big LEO (below the Van Allen belt) space stations though...
Umm. The pixels on a LCD are always perfectly square. What you mean is that if you used the 1280x1024 mode on a standard 4:3 CRT, the image would be slightly distorted.
And the mode caught on because it's the largest mode using standard pixel numbers that fits into a 4MB framebuffer at a depth of 24 bits. It's been a standard for a lot of Unix workstations (which used fixed frequency 5:4 CRT monitors for this).
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You're kidding, right? I wish I could find an online version of the picture of the German Major who got his frickin face blown off in WWI. No upper jaw, no nose, his eyes were gone. He survived and lived to 80 years or something like that. Most injuries in WWI were like that - parts of people got blown off. That's the effect of massive artillery against infantry.
I don't think that WWI will ever be matched again (short of a nuclear holocaust). During the Somme offensive alone, which lasted about 6 months, over one million soldiers died. Compared to almost any other war in history, Iraq is a joke - 1500 dead American soldiers? More probably died in the first hour of most wars in the past. It just makes me wonder how today's media would deal with casualty numbers like the ones in WWI.
Hell, if I ever wanted to take out a hit on someone, I'd hire a midget with a knife. Nobody would expect that. Even if the victim gets warned, nobody would take it seriously. "Dude, look out for a midget with a knife!" "Riiiight."
You don't get diabetes from eating lots of sweet stuff. Obesity is a risk factor though.
That's standard procedure if you submit a story.
Anyway, this will satisfy your curiosity.
So yes, the IR receiver wasn't really necessary (maybe he did it for the learning experience though, or maybe he can use the code for something else).
But Win98, WTF? This is probably the first picture frame that has to be rebooted daily.
I'd say it would suck more to starve to death a year after the impact, because the climate has changed so that the agricultural output is down to 10%, than to be vaporized right away.
Of course I pulled that number out of my ass, but nonetheless, the impact on the climate could be severe. Someone already mentioned Krakatoa.
Or just build this handy Sextant.
How is this flamebait? If anything, history has shown us that since the days of the first typewriters, the keyboard comes very close to the ideal data input device. Even if you only type a URL every now and then, anything but a keyboard is inconvenient, slow and clumsy. The recent handwriting and speech recognition products actually work very well, yet all this stuff never really took off. I think the reason for that is simple: typing on a keyboard is still the best way to enter text, and likely always will be (well, until we get working thought recognition maybe).
As for water cooling in general, air cooling has always meant higher reliability for engines. Even after all those years, the water cooling is still one of the systems that fails most often in cars.
Nothing beats blowing cool air on a chunk of metal for simplicity and reliability. Well, except for convection cooling, but you'd have to use humongous heatsinks for that.
Let's just hope they watch out for giants from Turkmenistan. Last I heard Azamat Bagatov still isn't able to walk.
Didn't you get the news? MPAA and RIAA have merged. They're called the Music And Film Industry Association now.
FWIW, there's also a dedicated rescue distro based on Knoppix and Damn Small Linux - INSERT.
No, but it's linked to your medical data. So if you've used a leaked copy of Halo 2, and you have a medical emergency, you'll be turned away at every ER and left to die in the street.
The ARMs you're talking about are in a completely different league - the devices mentioned in the article have no provisions for external Flash or SDRAM, which you would need if you wanted more than the tiniest amount of memory.
Actually, I don't see much demand for these "medium speed" controllers. For control applications, they're overkill most of the time, and for multimedia stuff, they're too slow/small.
Why stop there? Why not call it rape? 'Identity rape'. Has a nice ring to it.
BTW, the iRiver H320/H340 (review) does all that the new iPod is supposed to, and it even includes a USB host function - you connect a USB storage device (like most cameras, or even a USB hard drive), and simply transfer files between the two devices.
You also have to adapt your weapon usage to the types of enemies you expect to encounter - if most of the guys on a "level" use assault rifles, then you're better off using one as well.
Personally, I first specialized on my pistol skill, because that's the most prevalent ammo type at the beginning, and with the stealth pistol you can take out enemies from behind (or the front if you're quick) with a headshot without anyone noticing. Later on, it's a good idea to expand the sniper rifle skill - again, go for the one shot-one kill philosophy. Actually, with any weapon, go for the head. Of course, without the proper amount of skill for a weapon, you'd waste a lot of ammo, because you don't hit anything.
If you're careful, you can even avoid most confrontations. And maybe you forgot about the more unusual weapons? One of my faves was the pepper spray/baton combo - spray them in the face and then proceed to beat them unconscious while they gag helplessly.
Heck, I think I'm going to have to play it now ...
You know, I've actually noticed that before. My take on this is that they simply beam the shit right out of their guts.
And you don't think US arrogance and hubris might slightly antagonise some people? No, of course not. "They just hate me because I'm beatiful." Yeah, those people are always popular.
The word you're looking for is saplings.
I was gonna say this - if these whiny pussies complain about a frickin windmill, tear down the windmill and set up a huge soot spewing coal burning plant right in their frickin backyards, and after a year or so, ask them if they're sleeping better when they're coughing up several pounds of black bloody lumps every night. Sleep better now, punk? Huh?? Do ya???
Wouldn't this produce smarter birds though? I mean, if the landscape were plastered with windmills, all the stupid birds would die out after a few generations, resulting in a new species of hyper-intelligent birds that would take over the world and start a fast food franchise called Kentucky Fried Human!!1!!
IMHO the only viable way to build a habitat where people are supposed to live for an extended period of time (i.e. years) is underground.
Might work as a cheap way to build big LEO (below the Van Allen belt) space stations though ...
Umm. The pixels on a LCD are always perfectly square. What you mean is that if you used the 1280x1024 mode on a standard 4:3 CRT, the image would be slightly distorted.
And the mode caught on because it's the largest mode using standard pixel numbers that fits into a 4MB framebuffer at a depth of 24 bits. It's been a standard for a lot of Unix workstations (which used fixed frequency 5:4 CRT monitors for this).