I've wondered about this before. It would probably work depending on the technology of the cameras, since most CCDs can see IR.
Those licesnse plate covers that cut down on the viewing angle or are tinted are illegal most places, but i wonder if active denial would be. Its not radio frequency jamming, so its not like radar jammers and other devices which are illegal, and it would be invisible to the naked eye...
Hmm.
I think i went through a MS sidewinder pro each for Mech2, Mech2GB and Mech2Mercs. Before i got into FPSs i couldnt play those without one, always losing track of where the mech was heading vs where the torso was pointed, since with the joystick you could just twist the thing and it would control the torso independantly, plus the slider switch for speed control, tap it back to go in reverse...
Wheres my Win98 laptop with Mercs on it.
Sort of. After a power outage, i hadnt rebuilt the settings on my wireless router. One day i went into my network places and there were a few new folders in there, as well as another shared printer. Checked the logs and sure enough "ScottsLaptop" or somebody was leeching my wireless. My own fault for not re-securing it, but i still printed several pages of goatse on his shared printer before i booted him off my network. Not really related at all, but a mildly amusing network printer story if there ever were such a thing.
I agree there is a bit of herd mentality, but is that really an issue if the product is actually good? Blizzard has a helluva reputation, and IMHO its well deserved. WoW has lured away hardcore EQ addicts, everyone i know who played city of heroes, guild wars, SWG, etc has since switched to WoW because its so much better. I found myself with a lot of downtime last summer and although id wanted to play an MMO, i hadnt seen any that interested me, im not that into fantasy and was looking for something more sci-fi. But i was sick of waiting for Stargate Worlds and decided to give WoW a try, i knew many of my friends played, but they were all hardcore and had multiple 70s, so i didnt even bother, i let it pick a server for me and started playing. The next week, i was maybe lvl 10 and got an email that i'd been invited to the Tabula Rasa beta, a sci-fi MMO that id been interested in. I played for about 2 hours before i got sick of it and went back to WoW.
Just because something is popular doesnt mean its bad or that its popular only because of the bandwagon effect. I liken it to iPods, yes they are a trend, but theres a reason theyre 90% of the MP3 player market, because theyre good players compared to the rest of the market which is 90% crap.
So Marcus Theaters, the only decent theaters in milwaukee, screwed up and broke some contract having to do with sweeny todd, and now they cant show cloverfield at all. The only non marcus places showing it are this tiny arthouse theater that has gross seats and shitty sound, why bother, and the mayfair mall theater which i refuse to go to for saftey reasons. Guess ill be waiting for the DVD...
Sort of, as many other people have said, about overclocking and such, its not necesarily a scam, it makes things more cost effective for the company and can benefit the consumer who would take the effort to overclock. Lets say Intel (or AMD, doesnt matter, they both do it) does a run of chips. The specs call for the chip to run at, for simplicities sake, 2Ghz, with stock AMD cooling. But no manufacturing process is perfect, and lets say 25% of the chips arent good enough to run at 2ghz without frying. They then clock these chips to 1.5Ghz and sell them as such. This allows them to do a smaller run of specced 1.5Ghz chips and save themselves money. Its not really a scam, theyve been doing this forever, and arent the only industry to do it either. In this case, the consumer can benifit. Someone can buy a 1.5Ghz chip (although they might have to exchange it till they get one of the ones from the 2Ghz production run), and most of the time it'll run fine at the 2Ghz speed with improved cooling.
I'm waiting for someone to put a water bottle of bleach and water bottle of amonia in one of those bins or something. Or better yet, suicide bomb the security line, hundreds of people in a crowded space... what are they going to do, have a security queue for the security queue?
for $100 for christmas. Spent that +$15 on 8 or 9 CDs i'd been meaning to get for a while. Went in with a list though and made certain none of the CDs i purchased had anything to do with the RIAA.
Bright infared sources tend to wash out CCD used in cameras. What about simply ringing your liscense plates with wide angle IR LEDs. Or if you had powerful enough/wide angle enough, your entire car. Would be completely invisible to the human eye and unreadable by any camera.
Still have my redbox in a drawer somewhere, probably next to my beige box and attempted homemade autodialer. Also still keep redbox tones on my MP3 players, more for nostalga than practicality since i have a cell phone and they havnt worked in 10 years.
My shared folder for emule is pointed to a folder with 10gb of porn downloaded from the most popular results from a search for "porn". Went through everything and deleted anything where the girl looked like she could be underage, just in case. Emule lets you prioritize your uploads too, i set all this porn to High, and all the partial current downloads to very low. I download probably 250gb of TV shows a month, and i dont think i've ever seen anything in my uploads that wasnt from the porn honeypot. Finished downloads come out of the shared folder ASAP. Havn't recieved any takedown notices since i started doing that. Although none of the ones i recieved were legitimate, i certainly wasnt sharing the italian language version of Norbit...
Due to size restraints, it wouldnt be feasable for virtual console to support CD based games. The largest N64 cartridges were 512Mb (small b), compared to a potential 700MB for CDs, although i dont know how much space the average CD game used. The Wii only has 512MB of useable storage (the SD slot is for backups), so its unlikely we'll ever see games that were originally on CD on the Wii.
Even if OP meant disc drive, i'm pretty sure nintendo manufactures their own, considering its a slot loading drive like nothing else i've seen. Its operation, grabbing the disc at the very edge and also accepting the 6cm sized gamecube discs, is different from any other drive on the market.
565 hours / 9 months (sept to may i believe) is roughly 2 hours a day, so i averaged about 3 episodes a day, not as bad as it sounds.
And for the record, i have a job and live with my fiancee.
As for my overall opinions of the franchise...
Enterprise, definitely watchable and definitely underrated. Never watched it when it aired, but the 3rd and 4th seasons were better than a lot of Voyager.
TOS, good, has stood the test of time pretty well, but not fantastic.
TNG, also good, but soooo overrated. I was a little young when it was on (1yo and 8yo), so i hadnt seen much of it, its all pretty good and there are some classic episodes, but its definitely overrated IMO.
DS9 was a rewatch for me, but it was as good as i remember it and is still my favorite series.
VOY, another rewatch, worse than i remember since i was still only in middle school when it was on. It got off to less of a rocky start than TNG or DS9, whos first 2 seasons were pretty bad, but voyager got worse as it went along. Overall i think i liked enterprise better than voyager.
And the movies dont require much comment, i think the accepted order of best to worst is 4, 2, 8, 6, 3, 10, 1, 9, 7, 5.
It was a fun experience, and i recommend it, its not as daunting as it seems, 2 eps a day and you can do it in a year. Part of the fun for me was watching them in chronological order, which helped break up TNG, DS9 and VOY, although i still had to watch 2 seasons of voyager straight through. Interesting to note, the finale of TNG and the premier of VOY are only separated chronologically by the first 7 episodes of the third season of DS9.
While reading the summay. Last fall/winter/ this spring i watched all 6 star trek series and 10 movies in chronological order by episode. Memory alpha was an indispensible resource for getting the order right, as well as reading background info and things on just about evey episode while i was watching, i cant remember ever going to the official site...
When goblin devices do fail however, they tend to go boom. None of my devices have ever killed me directly. I've been shrunk at inoportune moments, or my transporter has beamed me a couple hundred feet in the air and i didnt have my parachute cloak equipped, but its not like reloading a goblin mortar.
As a side note, i wonder what percentage of slashdotters who play have engineering as their profession despite it being a complete money sink.
And what i wouldnt give for an epic [Engineer's belt of the Bat], with like 3 extra useable trinket slots...
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I've wondered about this before. It would probably work depending on the technology of the cameras, since most CCDs can see IR. Those licesnse plate covers that cut down on the viewing angle or are tinted are illegal most places, but i wonder if active denial would be. Its not radio frequency jamming, so its not like radar jammers and other devices which are illegal, and it would be invisible to the naked eye... Hmm.
I think i went through a MS sidewinder pro each for Mech2, Mech2GB and Mech2Mercs. Before i got into FPSs i couldnt play those without one, always losing track of where the mech was heading vs where the torso was pointed, since with the joystick you could just twist the thing and it would control the torso independantly, plus the slider switch for speed control, tap it back to go in reverse... Wheres my Win98 laptop with Mercs on it.
Sort of. After a power outage, i hadnt rebuilt the settings on my wireless router. One day i went into my network places and there were a few new folders in there, as well as another shared printer. Checked the logs and sure enough "ScottsLaptop" or somebody was leeching my wireless. My own fault for not re-securing it, but i still printed several pages of goatse on his shared printer before i booted him off my network. Not really related at all, but a mildly amusing network printer story if there ever were such a thing.
For some reason when the dog is bad, they always chastise him in German.
"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse" (attributed to Charles V)
I agree there is a bit of herd mentality, but is that really an issue if the product is actually good? Blizzard has a helluva reputation, and IMHO its well deserved. WoW has lured away hardcore EQ addicts, everyone i know who played city of heroes, guild wars, SWG, etc has since switched to WoW because its so much better. I found myself with a lot of downtime last summer and although id wanted to play an MMO, i hadnt seen any that interested me, im not that into fantasy and was looking for something more sci-fi. But i was sick of waiting for Stargate Worlds and decided to give WoW a try, i knew many of my friends played, but they were all hardcore and had multiple 70s, so i didnt even bother, i let it pick a server for me and started playing. The next week, i was maybe lvl 10 and got an email that i'd been invited to the Tabula Rasa beta, a sci-fi MMO that id been interested in. I played for about 2 hours before i got sick of it and went back to WoW. Just because something is popular doesnt mean its bad or that its popular only because of the bandwagon effect. I liken it to iPods, yes they are a trend, but theres a reason theyre 90% of the MP3 player market, because theyre good players compared to the rest of the market which is 90% crap.
Never said it was a good thing, just making a point because the GP post was sounding like this was something new.
n/t
Hes definitly not an engineer...
So Marcus Theaters, the only decent theaters in milwaukee, screwed up and broke some contract having to do with sweeny todd, and now they cant show cloverfield at all. The only non marcus places showing it are this tiny arthouse theater that has gross seats and shitty sound, why bother, and the mayfair mall theater which i refuse to go to for saftey reasons. Guess ill be waiting for the DVD...
Sort of, as many other people have said, about overclocking and such, its not necesarily a scam, it makes things more cost effective for the company and can benefit the consumer who would take the effort to overclock. Lets say Intel (or AMD, doesnt matter, they both do it) does a run of chips. The specs call for the chip to run at, for simplicities sake, 2Ghz, with stock AMD cooling. But no manufacturing process is perfect, and lets say 25% of the chips arent good enough to run at 2ghz without frying. They then clock these chips to 1.5Ghz and sell them as such. This allows them to do a smaller run of specced 1.5Ghz chips and save themselves money. Its not really a scam, theyve been doing this forever, and arent the only industry to do it either. In this case, the consumer can benifit. Someone can buy a 1.5Ghz chip (although they might have to exchange it till they get one of the ones from the 2Ghz production run), and most of the time it'll run fine at the 2Ghz speed with improved cooling.
I'm waiting for someone to put a water bottle of bleach and water bottle of amonia in one of those bins or something. Or better yet, suicide bomb the security line, hundreds of people in a crowded space... what are they going to do, have a security queue for the security queue?
for $100 for christmas. Spent that +$15 on 8 or 9 CDs i'd been meaning to get for a while. Went in with a list though and made certain none of the CDs i purchased had anything to do with the RIAA.
Bright infared sources tend to wash out CCD used in cameras. What about simply ringing your liscense plates with wide angle IR LEDs. Or if you had powerful enough/wide angle enough, your entire car. Would be completely invisible to the human eye and unreadable by any camera.
Get to work on KotOR3. When that comes out (or maybe fable 2) and i can get an Xbox 360 with an built in HD-DVD drive i'll buy one.
Most (if not all maybe?) 720p TVs are this weird 1366x768 resolution, so even if you had a pure 720 signal, there would be scaling happening.
Still have my redbox in a drawer somewhere, probably next to my beige box and attempted homemade autodialer. Also still keep redbox tones on my MP3 players, more for nostalga than practicality since i have a cell phone and they havnt worked in 10 years.
My shared folder for emule is pointed to a folder with 10gb of porn downloaded from the most popular results from a search for "porn". Went through everything and deleted anything where the girl looked like she could be underage, just in case. Emule lets you prioritize your uploads too, i set all this porn to High, and all the partial current downloads to very low. I download probably 250gb of TV shows a month, and i dont think i've ever seen anything in my uploads that wasnt from the porn honeypot. Finished downloads come out of the shared folder ASAP. Havn't recieved any takedown notices since i started doing that. Although none of the ones i recieved were legitimate, i certainly wasnt sharing the italian language version of Norbit...
Due to size restraints, it wouldnt be feasable for virtual console to support CD based games. The largest N64 cartridges were 512Mb (small b), compared to a potential 700MB for CDs, although i dont know how much space the average CD game used. The Wii only has 512MB of useable storage (the SD slot is for backups), so its unlikely we'll ever see games that were originally on CD on the Wii.
Even if OP meant disc drive, i'm pretty sure nintendo manufactures their own, considering its a slot loading drive like nothing else i've seen. Its operation, grabbing the disc at the very edge and also accepting the 6cm sized gamecube discs, is different from any other drive on the market.
Even 30,000 is only 1.6 percent of their monthly sales...
The DS lite gets 18 hours of battery on the lowest backlight setting (personal experience), which is plenty bright for the cabin of a plane.
714 regular episodes * 45min
22 animated episodes * 25min
10 movies * ~120min
565 hours / 9 months (sept to may i believe) is roughly 2 hours a day, so i averaged about 3 episodes a day, not as bad as it sounds.
And for the record, i have a job and live with my fiancee.
As for my overall opinions of the franchise...
Enterprise, definitely watchable and definitely underrated. Never watched it when it aired, but the 3rd and 4th seasons were better than a lot of Voyager.
TOS, good, has stood the test of time pretty well, but not fantastic.
TNG, also good, but soooo overrated. I was a little young when it was on (1yo and 8yo), so i hadnt seen much of it, its all pretty good and there are some classic episodes, but its definitely overrated IMO.
DS9 was a rewatch for me, but it was as good as i remember it and is still my favorite series.
VOY, another rewatch, worse than i remember since i was still only in middle school when it was on. It got off to less of a rocky start than TNG or DS9, whos first 2 seasons were pretty bad, but voyager got worse as it went along. Overall i think i liked enterprise better than voyager.
And the movies dont require much comment, i think the accepted order of best to worst is 4, 2, 8, 6, 3, 10, 1, 9, 7, 5.
It was a fun experience, and i recommend it, its not as daunting as it seems, 2 eps a day and you can do it in a year. Part of the fun for me was watching them in chronological order, which helped break up TNG, DS9 and VOY, although i still had to watch 2 seasons of voyager straight through. Interesting to note, the finale of TNG and the premier of VOY are only separated chronologically by the first 7 episodes of the third season of DS9.
While reading the summay. Last fall/winter/ this spring i watched all 6 star trek series and 10 movies in chronological order by episode. Memory alpha was an indispensible resource for getting the order right, as well as reading background info and things on just about evey episode while i was watching, i cant remember ever going to the official site...
Since i've seen it, even though i have the last DVD release, but i forget, is Gaff a cylon, or what?
When goblin devices do fail however, they tend to go boom. None of my devices have ever killed me directly. I've been shrunk at inoportune moments, or my transporter has beamed me a couple hundred feet in the air and i didnt have my parachute cloak equipped, but its not like reloading a goblin mortar.
As a side note, i wonder what percentage of slashdotters who play have engineering as their profession despite it being a complete money sink.
And what i wouldnt give for an epic [Engineer's belt of the Bat], with like 3 extra useable trinket slots...