The term machinegun was coined for a weapon intended to fill a support roll. The term gun, military, refered to a weapon intended for support. This is why, when they take an Assault rifle and add a long heavy barrel, bipod, and extended magazine to provide extended automatic fire support they often reclassify it as a Light Machine Gun. It becomes a support weapon. If you tell someone in the military to point to the machinegun and there's a MP5, an M-16, and an M60 in front of them, they aren't going to be confused. If they are ordered to take out a machinegunner, they'll know what you are talking about.
However I don't think that most people use the word that way anymore.
Using the term machinegun to describe anything that should probably be called an "automatic firearm" has been common since the 1920's despite efforts to restrict its definition it as a specific class of smallarms. Kinda like how the words Hacker, Rock Music, Sportscar, etc... have their definitions argued about.
Given the ridiculously limited budget and the extent of responsibility, he's probably the son or nephew of the owner or the boss himself. Underclocking the systems would protect the hardware and probably reduce current heat problems. Not getting caught would just be a BOFH=in-training field test. It was supposed to be funny BTW.
Here's another antisocial solution. Install the AC on an inside wall. It's cheaper to just cut through sheetrock.
85 Hz @ 2048 x 1536. 100Hz @ 2560x1024 falls in that range for the RAMDAC. I don't remember being limited to 1024x768 on my old dual monitor r9800pro setup. I think it ran at 1880x14xx and 1600x1200.
LFS is an older OGL game. It looked pretty good and played well though all things considered.
Or you could just underclock everything and blame it on heat related cpu throttling. If enough people bitch about the systems running slow maybe they'll up your budget.
I have to say I agree with you. I only recently upgraded to a new gaming system and went with a single ATi 4850 for most of these reasons. I happily game on a HDTV at 1920x1080 or 1360x768, so I'm not running the ultrahigh resolution tech demos that seem to be needed to show the "benefits" of a system that uses a KW PSU to power a pair (or trip or quad) of leet GPUs.
I have mixed feelings about the multislot cards though. Even though the 4850 uses a single slot design, only uses a single pci-e aux plug, and runs quietly enough for my tastes, it also runs hotter than I'm used to seeing. If they'd gone with a bigger chunk of copper and stuck with a quiet fan I wouldn't have complained.
Maybe not, but perhaps it makes your writing more salable to tv execs.
Speaking of TV shows, Entourage covered this pretty well. The character Turtle is doing some kind of XBox tournament thing and reveals to his buddies that he has to get baked to play well. In a typical act of brotherly love they inform him that there will be drug testing at the event. Hilarity ensues.
Personally, I think marijuana might provide an advantage in that it supposedly breaks down the users normal tendency to focus on single things. It used to be said that listening to music while stoned allowed you to hear each instrument more clearly. Don't know if any of that is true tho.
Here in Atlanta most of the cable companies have been much slower in turning off the analog side. Charter and Comcast are still offering most of the traditional "expanded" channels (like SciFi) as analog. I did get one digital box but all it offers is 2-3 extra channels (G3, Vs, ???) and VOD. FWIW Charter appears to be planning to cut off analog entirely in Feb, but I don't know what Comcast is going to do.
In the advert Charter runs supposedly to alert people to the Feb OTA analog cutoff, they state that after February CABLE SUBSCRIBERs with analog sets will also be affected and will be able to recieve service with a digital box.
I suspect that it'll come down to numbers of lost subscribers. I sure as heck would not pay to rent a box for each TV in the house. The only reason I use cable is because they offer analog in addition to digital.
I don't see any reason to try to remerge the army and the airforce. You would just wind up with SAC, ACC, material cmd and space cmd with a new service flag and wearing brown instead of blue. Air power is every bit as important as ground and sea power. It's not like our armed forces don't already share real estate. So, what do you gain?
That being said, I would like to see a wider expansion of dedicated air tools for the army (tactical attack craft like predators, ac130s, fighters, etc...) instead of trying to make a helecopter act like a jet.
"I'm sitting on (a subject you wouldn't normally sit on and which might be valuable or desirable)"
Usually refers to having something but NOT using it. Inferred is usually that you would like to do something with the subject, like sell it or invest with it.
"Do you know where I can get a laptop?" "I'm sitting on a laptop."
"I want to gather some VC to start up a buisness." "Well I'm sitting on a bunch of matured CDs"
This is in support of your argument. Every quarter or so I do the Valve hardware survey that logs our gaming systems' specs so that they can get a handle on what paying customers are using. The top 15 right now are...
About 1/3 of the top 15 cards are what the "Oooo Shiny Crysis Crowd" would call obsolete, and frankly the presence of a DX7 card even raises my eyebrow. This is the target audience for a powerful graphics card, but if Valve wants to sell to their customer base they can look at this and think, "Gee, maybe we should make a game that doesn't require a fuckton of curiously high bandwidth LMNOPRAM.and maybe make a fun game that at least scales down well.
I tried that first for the same reason, but I also found that this latest version is such a CPU hog that, on battery power, my notebook would slow to a crawl. Even unthrottled one of AVG8free's agents will usually be maxing out one of the processors, which means the battery dies after 1 hour of use (down from 3+ hours with normal use).
I've had to go around and remove it from dozens of systems that did the forced update and have been rendered useless because of it.
On the plus side it has encouraged me to do the wubi http://wubi-installer.org/ or set up a linuxVM on every system I own that didn't already have a Linux distro on it.
Slashdot Mirror
The term machinegun was coined for a weapon intended to fill a support roll. The term gun, military, refered to a weapon intended for support. This is why, when they take an Assault rifle and add a long heavy barrel, bipod, and extended magazine to provide extended automatic fire support they often reclassify it as a Light Machine Gun. It becomes a support weapon. If you tell someone in the military to point to the machinegun and there's a MP5, an M-16, and an M60 in front of them, they aren't going to be confused. If they are ordered to take out a machinegunner, they'll know what you are talking about. However I don't think that most people use the word that way anymore.
Using the term machinegun to describe anything that should probably be called an "automatic firearm" has been common since the 1920's despite efforts to restrict its definition it as a specific class of smallarms. Kinda like how the words Hacker, Rock Music, Sportscar, etc... have their definitions argued about.
I miss those.Also Levity Waves.
JKL, or IJKL for more sinister players.
#11 should be, "Thou shalt be allowed to remap our stupid keyboard control layout.
Son: Dad, why is the sky blue?
Dad: It's reflecting the ocean.
20 years pass.
Grandson: Dad, why is the sky blue?
Son: A wise man once told me that it is a reflection of the sea.
Religion is an extension of this conversation.
post to remove accidental troll mod.
Given the ridiculously limited budget and the extent of responsibility, he's probably the son or nephew of the owner or the boss himself. Underclocking the systems would protect the hardware and probably reduce current heat problems. Not getting caught would just be a BOFH=in-training field test. It was supposed to be funny BTW.
Here's another antisocial solution. Install the AC on an inside wall. It's cheaper to just cut through sheetrock.
In fact didn't the r9800pro have dual ramdacs?
85 Hz @ 2048 x 1536. 100Hz @ 2560x1024 falls in that range for the RAMDAC. I don't remember being limited to 1024x768 on my old dual monitor r9800pro setup. I think it ran at 1880x14xx and 1600x1200.
LFS is an older OGL game. It looked pretty good and played well though all things considered.
Or you could just underclock everything and blame it on heat related cpu throttling. If enough people bitch about the systems running slow maybe they'll up your budget.
I have to say I agree with you. I only recently upgraded to a new gaming system and went with a single ATi 4850 for most of these reasons. I happily game on a HDTV at 1920x1080 or 1360x768, so I'm not running the ultrahigh resolution tech demos that seem to be needed to show the "benefits" of a system that uses a KW PSU to power a pair (or trip or quad) of leet GPUs.
I have mixed feelings about the multislot cards though. Even though the 4850 uses a single slot design, only uses a single pci-e aux plug, and runs quietly enough for my tastes, it also runs hotter than I'm used to seeing. If they'd gone with a bigger chunk of copper and stuck with a quiet fan I wouldn't have complained.
Maybe not, but perhaps it makes your writing more salable to tv execs.
Speaking of TV shows, Entourage covered this pretty well. The character Turtle is doing some kind of XBox tournament thing and reveals to his buddies that he has to get baked to play well. In a typical act of brotherly love they inform him that there will be drug testing at the event. Hilarity ensues.
Personally, I think marijuana might provide an advantage in that it supposedly breaks down the users normal tendency to focus on single things. It used to be said that listening to music while stoned allowed you to hear each instrument more clearly. Don't know if any of that is true tho.
Because grinding isn't playing. Why pay to not play?
They got theirs when they bought Cyrix which, iirc, had deal like AMD.
Here in Atlanta most of the cable companies have been much slower in turning off the analog side. Charter and Comcast are still offering most of the traditional "expanded" channels (like SciFi) as analog. I did get one digital box but all it offers is 2-3 extra channels (G3, Vs, ???) and VOD. FWIW Charter appears to be planning to cut off analog entirely in Feb, but I don't know what Comcast is going to do.
In the advert Charter runs supposedly to alert people to the Feb OTA analog cutoff, they state that after February CABLE SUBSCRIBERs with analog sets will also be affected and will be able to recieve service with a digital box.
I suspect that it'll come down to numbers of lost subscribers. I sure as heck would not pay to rent a box for each TV in the house. The only reason I use cable is because they offer analog in addition to digital.
I don't see any reason to try to remerge the army and the airforce. You would just wind up with SAC, ACC, material cmd and space cmd with a new service flag and wearing brown instead of blue. Air power is every bit as important as ground and sea power. It's not like our armed forces don't already share real estate. So, what do you gain?
That being said, I would like to see a wider expansion of dedicated air tools for the army (tactical attack craft like predators, ac130s, fighters, etc...) instead of trying to make a helecopter act like a jet.
It's not a new PC, it's an upgrade. Same case, keyboard and DVD-ROM drive as it had in 2000. Isn't that why the key is permawelded to the enclosure?
"I'm sitting on (a subject you wouldn't normally sit on and which might be valuable or desirable)"
Usually refers to having something but NOT using it. Inferred is usually that you would like to do something with the subject, like sell it or invest with it.
"Do you know where I can get a laptop?"
"I'm sitting on a laptop."
"I want to gather some VC to start up a buisness."
"Well I'm sitting on a bunch of matured CDs"
Hey! I've got a MAINBOARD in my computer, you insensitive clod!
What? Limit my swap to a mere 4GBPS? Pshaw...My RAMDISK will do double that!
This is in support of your argument. Every quarter or so I do the Valve hardware survey that logs our gaming systems' specs so that they can get a handle on what paying customers are using. The top 15 right now are...
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 166,588 9.37 %
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 101,218 5.70 %
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 95,619 5.38 %
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 79,478 4.47 %
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 64,704 3.64 %
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 59,544 3.35 %
ATI Radeon 9600 54,727 3.08 %
ATI Radeon 9200 45,585 2.57 %
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 44,134 2.48 %
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 42,834 2.41 %
ATI Radeon X1950 41,533 2.34 %
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 40,839 2.30 %
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 38,990 2.19 %
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 36,192 2.04 %
ATI Radeon X800 35,449 1.99 %
About 1/3 of the top 15 cards are what the "Oooo Shiny Crysis Crowd" would call obsolete, and frankly the presence of a DX7 card even raises my eyebrow. This is the target audience for a powerful graphics card, but if Valve wants to sell to their customer base they can look at this and think, "Gee, maybe we should make a game that doesn't require a fuckton of curiously high bandwidth LMNOPRAM.and maybe make a fun game that at least scales down well.
Are there any decent video cards that run without adding another casefan and a 1000W PSU to my system?
Don't they call that game Counter Strike?
I tried that first for the same reason, but I also found that this latest version is such a CPU hog that, on battery power, my notebook would slow to a crawl. Even unthrottled one of AVG8free's agents will usually be maxing out one of the processors, which means the battery dies after 1 hour of use (down from 3+ hours with normal use).
I've had to go around and remove it from dozens of systems that did the forced update and have been rendered useless because of it.
On the plus side it has encouraged me to do the wubi http://wubi-installer.org/ or set up a linuxVM on every system I own that didn't already have a Linux distro on it.