own select-fire weapons there
Same over here "US". I'm not saying that our government honors the second ammendment as well as it does the 1st, 4th, and 5th (though it treats it better than it does the 10th), in that we have to register and buy a special license, but I have friends with AC556s (M-16 done right) and similar tools.
Wow! That's pretty cool. All I've got to do is get blatantly framed for murder, win the case, then, any subsequent murder is not prosecutable. I think I've found the solution to my financial problems. I'll be the most prolific assassin in the history of Earth. "Hello, your honor. Yeah, I shot him, standing right next to this find officer of the law. If you will check ECJ 2003-DK-164, you will see that I was acquitted of murder. Yes, nice to see you again too, sir. I've got 3 more jobs this week. Can you issue some sort of restraining order against the Gens d'armes, to stop this harassment? It's quite an inconvenience having to come in here and explain the law every time I do my job."
Well, OK, I admit, I just can't stand the idea of killing people who don't deserve it. I think I'll just beat a speeding ticket and become the world's fastest pizza deliveryman.
Yeah, the rhetoric is a bit overblown, but it is, in fact, in this case, correct. John is right, and the corporations and their property (the state) are wrong.
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Of course. Most European countries have governments that have evolved, rather than being built from scratch. They don't have specific provisions in their constitutions to prevent (or at least make logically unconstitutional) the most unfair advantages of the state over the individual. Without protection against n(where n>1)-tuple jeopardy, the bully (state) with (comparitively) infinite resources, gets to keep calling "do-overs" whenever they lose, exhausting the victim's resources. Sure, you can win once, but if you keep having to go back and fight the same fight every time you win, without resting, until you eventually lose, you will eventually reach that end condition. Can a Norweigian fill in some details here? Is there any provision against "ex post facto" laws? If not, the state can simply adjust the rules until they win. Sorry for the rant, but even here, we get crap like somebody getting acquitted of a crime, then re-tried for "conspiracy to commit" the crime they were acquitted of, essentially saying "well, maybe he didn't do it, but he wanted to, so let's punish him anyway". I do find intent to be infinitely more significant than the actual offense (Why does a murderer avoid capital punishment because he's incompetent?), and feel that attempted murder(and all other violent crimes - rape, assault) should be a capital offense, once someone is acquitted for an incident, that should be the end.
Anyway, what happenned to the "enlightened" europeans?
#3 is wrong. The rear is still on the ramp when the front is on the flat. The more of your weight on the rear, the less of it is on the flat, being pushed by whatever is on the rear axle. Also, the traps I've seen are partway up the slide stop, so getting less weight on the slide at the start of the slide, with the bulk of the weight still rolling on the rear wheels, lets you treat the first few inches of the slideout more like rolling track. Generally, you can stay stable anywhere below 80/20 distribution. Any more radical, and the little knobs on the sides of the tires sometimes climb the center rail. If you are permitted to do so, you can attenuate those bumps and try something more radical. I never got to put this into practice, as my father never permitted me to touch my car until time to carry it to the starting line (he always finished slowest or next to it), but it's only logical.
Static attracts electrically neutral and symmetrical atoms? Since when? How?
Balderdash! And don't think that it's ionized because it's radioactive, either. The moment it displays the radioactive property, it's no longer radon, but on its way to being lead, in the case of radon 220, in a few minutes (halflives total) or a few years for radon 222. Perhaps the short-lived decay products would be attracted to the front of your CRT, especially after a Beta emission. Is that what you meant? If so, it's still insignificant.
I was just going to insult you for your remarkably insightless statement, but there's a tiny grain of truth to it. Generally, people who need due sublimation probably use macs. The whole high-quality art thing. I'm not one of them, but even our (I should say their, as tomorrow, I'm laid off) high-end color laserjet can't do the subtlety of shading you can get with dyesub. Yeah, I'm sending inkjet copies of pictures of my kids to the farther-tier friends and relatives. I don't know any better.
Anyway, I'd love to see the "give away the razor, charge them blood for the blades" business model made untenable (On that example, I switched to electric long ago). I've got a Compaq IJ650, which is really just a rebadged lexmark. The damned color cartridges do a constant leakdown of yellow, which clogs the heads, and means that you end up throwing away a nearly-full set of magenta and cyan after a month in which you've printed maybe 3 color pages.
First, I've got to say - I love the paper tape idea - reminds me of the punched metal tape used by the US military for hyper-critical information. If we're talking about kV/M, that's going to overwhelm most frontends... at least, any I could design, and most system internals, too. Paper tape could pass through a thin slot, keeping that EM out of the system, but it's extremely-low bandwidth, and uses up physical supplies.
30 meters, not line-of-sight.... How about infrared? Maybe, if the path isn't particularly high albedo, do some custom hardware work to power-up the transmitter (in this case, there's not much you can do for the receiver)... an op-amp driving a BIG HONKING IR LED is probably all you need.... In fact, do that anyway, unless it works well with stock equipment. I've heard of functional ad hoc networks using IR. If the space seen by the receivers is not brightly-lit, and not super-hot, you can probably get a nice 96kbps network that doesn't fluctuate as people walk between the nodes (enough multipath to fill).
Incidentally... a nice feature of fiber networking is that it doesn't give a rats ass about electric fields or potentials. Can you just drop or hang fiber? That will make you all but bulletproof, with very large capacity.
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a certain Je ne sais qua..
EEEeeewwww!! If you must use foreign cliches, at least spell them right. AFAIK, there is no French word "qua". The word you want is "quoi". If you in speech, it wouldn't matter whether you can spell it, but if you write it down wrong, it's as annoying as "roast beef with au jus", or "soup of the du jour". You can always say "a certain I don't know what".
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Wind is easy. Ever hear of fans? Ducted squirrelcage blowers maybe?
What can't happen inside a simulator smaller than the real thing, at least until we get artificial gravity, is the big movements. Currently, the only way to simulate a 300-foot drop is with a 300-foot drop. All it can do is shake you around in a little box. Even trying to simulate a loop fails, because you can feel the difference in accelleration in different parts of your body. Once we can apply and control an accelleration like gravity, we can have simulators that really work. What we COULD do with current technology would be to build a large space, maybe a cube, with something along the lines of a big crane, like in factories, that can place the car in any place within that space. add 3-axis attitude control, and yhou can pretend your track is any shape you like. Since a place you were in the past need no longer exist, you can even do manoevers that pass through space you have previously used as track. But then, why not just leave out the track and call it a flight simulator?
only if each location was an earth station. This puppy isn't going to be running 802.11. There will be only a few approved earth stations, too. Otherwise, can you imagine the size of that collision domain. Worse yet, you can't hear the stations you're colliding with. I remember the time I almost worked Atlantis on 2 meters. I was up for the first pass of the day, heard the call and pounced. I can't remember the lady's name right now, but she comes back with "station ending in 9hmg, go ahead". We tried a couple more times, but she finally gave up and went ahead and worked the stations that wouldn't shut up and let us complete the QSO. We ground stations couldn't hear each other, but she could hear us all, and therefore, understand only the stations that were at least a couple DB stronger than all other stations transmitting at any one time. If it had been SSB instead of FM, ARISS couldn't be done at all.
Anyway, expect this address to remain unpublished, and for them to either move the address regularly, or configure the routers so that only certain addresses can even route to it. You and I won't be pinging it anytime soon.
I still think somebody will make glass MO archive media, with gold as the reflective surface, but if you're going to use paper, use 2d barcodes... about 1.1K/in^^2, for around 9.5K/side. Oh, and to be sort of on-topic for the actual story, My friends at Seagate say that modern drives should start up fine after many years proper storage. I still don't trust them (the drives, not the friends).
I missed the "It's Funny, Laugh" mark, and didn't decide it was crap until the.577 Nitro Express remark (in 1856, a cartridge that didn't come out until after the 1880s (popular blackpowder in 1880s, converted to smokeless sometime thereafter)). Still funny, though.
Yeah, I noticed that one myself. Aside from being lame, it sounds like a real hassle, chewing down the page, looking only at usernames, and ignoring the content, or verifying usernames whe you want to mod. I just pick an article about halfway down the page that I don't know much about (makes me end up giving >80% insightfuls and informatives), scores hidden, -1, and get it over with.
Even from the Google translation, I don't see why it must be mentioned twice that this statement
Out of standard, considering each one of these storage units integrates two hard disks and a bridge FW/RAID, it is possible to configure them in RAID 1 (Mirroring) or RAID 0 (Stripping).
is too difficult to understand. On the other hand, nowhere on LaCie's site could I find even the raid capability noted, which would have implied multiple discrete devices.
MicroSloth wmv encoder
Free, and works well.
We just recorded ~40 technical presentations at the division's annual conference with it, and it actually worked, quite well. /me punishes self for speaking well of "he who must not be named".
This pattern of claiming trademark territory in unrelated fields has gone so far, I'm glad J.K.Rowling lives in the U.K., else Fawkes would be a "burning bird".
But the result was just the same as regular socialists. "Let's pool all of our resources to be used for the greater good", which is, of course, the good of the ones in power. Again, very like unto the RIAA. Good analogy, just not the way you meant.
Like making people look like people.
When I read the post, I, like most here, thought of informational details, not how "pretty" it's drawn. Are you one of those people who likes "Gone in Sixty Seconds", AND gets bored by "Citizen Kane"? I'd just as soon have effort expended in plot and spared in the eye candy for the weak-minded. Once the story's good, sure, go hog wild on the special effects, but first things first.
hardware straping material is a roll of steel tape with holes in it. screw it into two studs nearest 19 inches apart, and leave enough hangdown to swing out or in to the correct spacing. A 1/4 twist lines them up on the screwholes on the front of the unit. Tools required - screwdriver and soemthing to cut the strap (hands work - flex at a bolthole until it breaks). Total cost, sstraps and lag screws (i assume you already have the machine screws to go into the unit) - $1.5 US. One caveat: some equipment has fans at the back, blowing out. Hanging down, convection will be fighting this action. You might want to cut and reverse the wires to the fans, if that's the case. Oh, and make sure the heat doesn't stay in that closet, or you are likely to lose the system, and maybe much more.
That's a petabyte of longterm storage, not working memory. Ram and ionizing radiation don't mix. What he needs is perhaps holographic storage, both for the density, and for the environment he's talking about, an orbital archive. Sounds like somebody's getting pessimistic about the future of the earth, and wants to put a copy of the LOC where it may be found someday. I'd suggest you also add lots of impact shielding. Even if you put up a bunch of replicas, over time, they're all going to get little holes poked in them. The alleged "joke" posted earlier (probably modded to oblivion... I don't know, i surf noscore, -1, hidemods) about clay tablets bore a grain of truth. Large area/byte, physically robust, soft enough to not shatter on impact from extremely small, high-velocity projectiles, large reading interface tolerances.
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own select-fire weapons there
Same over here "US". I'm not saying that our government honors the second ammendment as well as it does the 1st, 4th, and 5th (though it treats it better than it does the 10th), in that we have to register and buy a special license, but I have friends with AC556s (M-16 done right) and similar tools.
Wow! That's pretty cool. All I've got to do is get blatantly framed for murder, win the case, then, any subsequent murder is not prosecutable. I think I've found the solution to my financial problems. I'll be the most prolific assassin in the history of Earth. "Hello, your honor. Yeah, I shot him, standing right next to this find officer of the law. If you will check ECJ 2003-DK-164, you will see that I was acquitted of murder. Yes, nice to see you again too, sir. I've got 3 more jobs this week. Can you issue some sort of restraining order against the Gens d'armes, to stop this harassment? It's quite an inconvenience having to come in here and explain the law every time I do my job."
Well, OK, I admit, I just can't stand the idea of killing people who don't deserve it. I think I'll just beat a speeding ticket and become the world's fastest pizza deliveryman.
Yeah, the rhetoric is a bit overblown, but it is, in fact, in this case, correct. John is right, and the corporations and their property (the state) are wrong.
Of course. Most European countries have governments that have evolved, rather than being built from scratch. They don't have specific provisions in their constitutions to prevent (or at least make logically unconstitutional) the most unfair advantages of the state over the individual.
Without protection against n(where n>1)-tuple jeopardy, the bully (state) with (comparitively) infinite resources, gets to keep calling "do-overs" whenever they lose, exhausting the victim's resources. Sure, you can win once, but if you keep having to go back and fight the same fight every time you win, without resting, until you eventually lose, you will eventually reach that end condition.
Can a Norweigian fill in some details here? Is there any provision against "ex post facto" laws? If not, the state can simply adjust the rules until they win.
Sorry for the rant, but even here, we get crap like somebody getting acquitted of a crime, then re-tried for "conspiracy to commit" the crime they were acquitted of, essentially saying "well, maybe he didn't do it, but he wanted to, so let's punish him anyway". I do find intent to be infinitely more significant than the actual offense (Why does a murderer avoid capital punishment because he's incompetent?), and feel that attempted murder(and all other violent crimes - rape, assault) should be a capital offense, once someone is acquitted for an incident, that should be the end.
Anyway, what happenned to the "enlightened" europeans?
#3 is wrong. The rear is still on the ramp when the front is on the flat. The more of your weight on the rear, the less of it is on the flat, being pushed by whatever is on the rear axle. Also, the traps I've seen are partway up the slide stop, so getting less weight on the slide at the start of the slide, with the bulk of the weight still rolling on the rear wheels, lets you treat the first few inches of the slideout more like rolling track. Generally, you can stay stable anywhere below 80/20 distribution. Any more radical, and the little knobs on the sides of the tires sometimes climb the center rail. If you are permitted to do so, you can attenuate those bumps and try something more radical.
I never got to put this into practice, as my father never permitted me to touch my car until time to carry it to the starting line (he always finished slowest or next to it), but it's only logical.
Static attracts electrically neutral and symmetrical atoms? Since when? How?
Balderdash! And don't think that it's ionized because it's radioactive, either. The moment it displays the radioactive property, it's no longer radon, but on its way to being lead, in the case of radon 220, in a few minutes (halflives total) or a few years for radon 222. Perhaps the short-lived decay products would be attracted to the front of your CRT, especially after a Beta emission. Is that what you meant? If so, it's still insignificant.
I was just going to insult you for your remarkably insightless statement, but there's a tiny grain of truth to it. Generally, people who need due sublimation probably use macs. The whole high-quality art thing. I'm not one of them, but even our (I should say their, as tomorrow, I'm laid off) high-end color laserjet can't do the subtlety of shading you can get with dyesub. Yeah, I'm sending inkjet copies of pictures of my kids to the farther-tier friends and relatives. I don't know any better.
Anyway, I'd love to see the "give away the razor, charge them blood for the blades" business model made untenable (On that example, I switched to electric long ago). I've got a Compaq IJ650, which is really just a rebadged lexmark. The damned color cartridges do a constant leakdown of yellow, which clogs the heads, and means that you end up throwing away a nearly-full set of magenta and cyan after a month in which you've printed maybe 3 color pages.
First, I've got to say - I love the paper tape idea - reminds me of the punched metal tape used by the US military for hyper-critical information. If we're talking about kV/M, that's going to overwhelm most frontends... at least, any I could design, and most system internals, too. Paper tape could pass through a thin slot, keeping that EM out of the system, but it's extremely-low bandwidth, and uses up physical supplies. 30 meters, not line-of-sight.... How about infrared? Maybe, if the path isn't particularly high albedo, do some custom hardware work to power-up the transmitter (in this case, there's not much you can do for the receiver)... an op-amp driving a BIG HONKING IR LED is probably all you need.... In fact, do that anyway, unless it works well with stock equipment. I've heard of functional ad hoc networks using IR. If the space seen by the receivers is not brightly-lit, and not super-hot, you can probably get a nice 96kbps network that doesn't fluctuate as people walk between the nodes (enough multipath to fill).
Incidentally... a nice feature of fiber networking is that it doesn't give a rats ass about electric fields or potentials. Can you just drop or hang fiber? That will make you all but bulletproof, with very large capacity.
a certain Je ne sais qua..
EEEeeewwww!! If you must use foreign cliches, at least spell them right. AFAIK, there is no French word "qua". The word you want is "quoi". If you in speech, it wouldn't matter whether you can spell it, but if you write it down wrong, it's as annoying as "roast beef with au jus", or "soup of the du jour". You can always say "a certain I don't know what".
Wind is easy. Ever hear of fans? Ducted squirrelcage blowers maybe?
What can't happen inside a simulator smaller than the real thing, at least until we get artificial gravity, is the big movements. Currently, the only way to simulate a 300-foot drop is with a 300-foot drop. All it can do is shake you around in a little box. Even trying to simulate a loop fails, because you can feel the difference in accelleration in different parts of your body. Once we can apply and control an accelleration like gravity, we can have simulators that really work.
What we COULD do with current technology would be to build a large space, maybe a cube, with something along the lines of a big crane, like in factories, that can place the car in any place within that space. add 3-axis attitude control, and yhou can pretend your track is any shape you like. Since a place you were in the past need no longer exist, you can even do manoevers that pass through space you have previously used as track. But then, why not just leave out the track and call it a flight simulator?
They're working on it. It's not quite as far along as Orson Scott Card envisions it.
only if each location was an earth station. This puppy isn't going to be running 802.11. There will be only a few approved earth stations, too. Otherwise, can you imagine the size of that collision domain. Worse yet, you can't hear the stations you're colliding with. I remember the time I almost worked Atlantis on 2 meters. I was up for the first pass of the day, heard the call and pounced. I can't remember the lady's name right now, but she comes back with "station ending in 9hmg, go ahead". We tried a couple more times, but she finally gave up and went ahead and worked the stations that wouldn't shut up and let us complete the QSO. We ground stations couldn't hear each other, but she could hear us all, and therefore, understand only the stations that were at least a couple DB stronger than all other stations transmitting at any one time. If it had been SSB instead of FM, ARISS couldn't be done at all.
Anyway, expect this address to remain unpublished, and for them to either move the address regularly, or configure the routers so that only certain addresses can even route to it. You and I won't be pinging it anytime soon.
...and they will use maltose-derived acetic acid as reaction mass for the attitude control thrusters?
Pink slips. Not all around, but still, Merry Fscking Christmas. Feel free to use that to grab some points on fuckedcompany.com.
I still think somebody will make glass MO archive media, with gold as the reflective surface, but if you're going to use paper, use 2d barcodes... about 1.1K/in^^2, for around 9.5K/side.
Oh, and to be sort of on-topic for the actual story, My friends at Seagate say that modern drives should start up fine after many years proper storage. I still don't trust them (the drives, not the friends).
I missed the "It's Funny, Laugh" mark, and didn't decide it was crap until the .577 Nitro Express remark (in 1856, a cartridge that didn't come out until after the 1880s (popular blackpowder in 1880s, converted to smokeless sometime thereafter)). Still funny, though.
Yeah, I noticed that one myself. Aside from being lame, it sounds like a real hassle, chewing down the page, looking only at usernames, and ignoring the content, or verifying usernames whe you want to mod. I just pick an article about halfway down the page that I don't know much about (makes me end up giving >80% insightfuls and informatives), scores hidden, -1, and get it over with.
MicroSloth wmv encoder
/me punishes self for speaking well of "he who must not be named".
Free, and works well.
We just recorded ~40 technical presentations at the division's annual conference with it, and it actually worked, quite well.
This pattern of claiming trademark territory in unrelated fields has gone so far, I'm glad J.K.Rowling lives in the U.K., else Fawkes would be a "burning bird".
But the result was just the same as regular socialists. "Let's pool all of our resources to be used for the greater good", which is, of course, the good of the ones in power. Again, very like unto the RIAA. Good analogy, just not the way you meant.
Like making people look like people.
When I read the post, I, like most here, thought of informational details, not how "pretty" it's drawn. Are you one of those people who likes "Gone in Sixty Seconds", AND gets bored by "Citizen Kane"? I'd just as soon have effort expended in plot and spared in the eye candy for the weak-minded.
Once the story's good, sure, go hog wild on the special effects, but first things first.
hardware straping material is a roll of steel tape with holes in it. screw it into two studs nearest 19 inches apart, and leave enough hangdown to swing out or in to the correct spacing. A 1/4 twist lines them up on the screwholes on the front of the unit. Tools required - screwdriver and soemthing to cut the strap (hands work - flex at a bolthole until it breaks). Total cost, sstraps and lag screws (i assume you already have the machine screws to go into the unit) - $1.5 US.
One caveat: some equipment has fans at the back, blowing out. Hanging down, convection will be fighting this action. You might want to cut and reverse the wires to the fans, if that's the case. Oh, and make sure the heat doesn't stay in that closet, or you are likely to lose the system, and maybe much more.
But then I don't really fit into them
It's not the fit, it's that when you make it fit, they explode. Try wrapping them in duct tape first.
That's a petabyte of longterm storage, not working memory. Ram and ionizing radiation don't mix. What he needs is perhaps holographic storage, both for the density, and for the environment he's talking about, an orbital archive. Sounds like somebody's getting pessimistic about the future of the earth, and wants to put a copy of the LOC where it may be found someday.
I'd suggest you also add lots of impact shielding. Even if you put up a bunch of replicas, over time, they're all going to get little holes poked in them.
The alleged "joke" posted earlier (probably modded to oblivion... I don't know, i surf noscore, -1, hidemods) about clay tablets bore a grain of truth. Large area/byte, physically robust, soft enough to not shatter on impact from extremely small, high-velocity projectiles, large reading interface tolerances.