>And no one would produce anything, because people do actually need to eat. > >Do YOU go to work for free?
Yes I do. There are a load of things I do for no monetary reward that others get paid for, the same is probably true for most people. Some people get paid for writing out their opinions in print, for one example.
Music predates copyright by a few thousand years. People didn't need copyright to write or play it before, they don't need it now. Writing and playing music is fun and rewarding in and of itself, and there are plenty of ways that musicians have been financially supported in the past without copyright.
By the logic you put forward nobody would play sports anymore if you took away the professional leagues.
> The person firing the rifle doesn't absorb all of the kinetic energy of the round
The user masses more but he still recieves almost exactly as much KE as the sum of the bullet and gas going out of the gun have, it's manageable becaue its spread out over space (gun butt) and time (springs or other recoil management). Springs do not meaningfully reduce KE, they spread it over time.
Modern armours spread the impact over space via intenval plates. The nanoarmour is mentioned to have shock absorbing properties as well in TFA.
"...Barrett Light 50, aka M82A1/2/3. I've shot them, and it's not bad."
A gun hurts on the receiving end because:
1 there's a smaller impact point on the tip of a bullet than the butt of the gun, which spreads the impact over a larger area. 2 there's usually no shock absorber on the target like there are in many guns, the shock absorber (usually a spring or springs) spreads out the kick over time.
A bullet hurts more on the receiving end because the impact is more concentrated.
If you where wearing a suit of body armour made with internal plates to spread impact the kick of a round on the receiving end would be similar to that of a gun with no recoil suppression. The article was also praising the "nanoarmour" for being an efficient shock absorber. Also worth bearing in mind for automatic weapons is that usually you don't hit with all the bullets you fire.
Basicly to get enough KE to break the targets neck or ribs from impact on a helmet or armour plate you'd need a gun with enough kick to break your neck or ribs if you braced the butt against your head or ribs to fire it.
I also said that there are not many AP guns with that much KE, not that there are none. The Barrett Light 50 is one gun and not a typical or common one, most infantry are armed with assault rifles. It has as much or more kick per round as common vehicle mounted machine guns and may well be capable of breaking your neck if you braced the butt against your head to fire it. I'm sure a Mk 19 grenade launcher would do a fair job too on a direct hit, but most guns are not like these.
Every action has an opposite and equal reaction. A bullet actually puts less KE into the target than the person firring it feels. The KE of the kick is from the bullet and the hot gas from the propellant, the KE on the target is only from the bullet. There's also drag from the air that further reduces KE.
An AK-47 can be fired full auto without falling, therefore a person can absorb all the KE of every bullet fired without falling. The only way being hit would make you fall if you had impenetrable (to an AK) body armour is by tripping you because of the unexpected impact.
I don't think there are many non-vehicular antipersonnel guns that have enough KE to break your neck or ribs, as they'd often break the shoulder of the firer. If you need that much force you need something like an autocannon or explosive warhead. Also, the "nanoarmour" sounds like it's plates not cloth so in all likelihood chest hit's KE would get too spread out to break ribs.
An engine can be almost any sort of device. Think about these: search engine, steam engine, difference engine, seige engine, cotton engine. Only one manipulates a thermodynamic variable (temperature, volume, pressure, or density) to result in an output of mechanical energy.
> Sorry, but one of those works of the flesh listed is 'uncleanness'. So is this saying if I go and do a hard day's work that I'm par with adultery and fornication?
The word unclean in the bible is explicitly defined in biblical law, it doesn't mean dirty. Sweat doesn't count, neither does clean dirt. You could take a bath in mud and not be unclean.
Contact with stuff like human shit (going to the bathroom doesn't count), dead bodies, or someone with leprosy is what makes one unclean. You can also be made unclean by eating certain things if you're jewish, but not if you're christian. I think there may be a few more ways too, ask a Rabbi if you're interested.
In the mountains away from faults, significantly uphill from local rivers. Clear trees and long grass from around your house. Put a radiation counter (and carbon monoxide detector if you've got a gas furnace) in your basement.
Where I live there's only really danger from flooding rivers, forest fires, and radon gas buildup in basements.
I'll certainly agree that wars are to be avoided, but I belive the american leaders mostly made the right decissions. You can't stop someone from starting a war with you, many people can't be reasoned with. Tragicly often it comes down to kill or be killed, and it's rarely the leaders of either side who pay the highest price.
It's important to remember though, that fighting in wars is not immoral of itself. Just like people, nations have a right and responsiblity to defend themselves. If you permit all the theives, rapists, and murderers in a city to escape punishment for fear of using force what happens? The same thing that happens among groups, like nations: Bloodshed, chaos, and rule by strength alone.
Even if you showwed every man woman and child on earth "a nuclear bomb detonated in front of us and to see people dying all around us" some people would still make war, some people honestly don't care about their fellow humans.
The problem is, most prople won't stop a murderer, or a rapist, or a thief. Nobody can wage war without the consent of the people of their nation, but most people are happy to see a stranger die instead of risking their own safety to stop their leaders.
You don't reqire the commander view to issue orders as a squad leader, you can issue all orders with the "t" key. The map is usefull though, as you can issue an order on a location not within LOS. I like the command rings though, I can ask my commander for artillery or quickly order my squad to attack something with about 1/4 second worth of effort.
Not realy. Look at any number of african, asian or south american nations where guns are available to anyone: they don't have domestic peace and tranquility.
The right to bear arms as a militia protects you from the govenment, not criminals.
A good government writting good and fair laws, a culture that doesn't put up with criminal behavior, and competent honest police is what will protect you from crime.
Apathetic citezens, unjust laws, or corrupt police all lead to crime.
Do your part: look out for your fellow man, pay close atention to who you're voting for(if you're a voter), and try to help or reform your local police (whichever is more apropriate.)
anything that is so valuable that someone would actually "put a gun to your head solid snake style" to get to should have a guard anyway. Add 1 video camera and its:
Right or left hand normaly good.
Right or left hand with gun to head bad!
the american companies usually don't sell your information to burly men named boris and ivan who are planning to kick in your door and put guns to your house as they rob you. I find publishers clearing house sweepstakes and other junk mail to be a much smaller annoyance.
"burly men named boris and ivan" can buy your information in the US, all they have to do is hire a lawyer to buy it for them via a corporation the lawer made. Americans are safe from widespread home invasion robberies because they have an efective police force and a country with a history of relitive domestic peace and tranquility.
If you've got valid worries about solid snake style break-ins, hire a guard or 2 for the door! have a camera or armored glass window that shows the entire area around the door's handprint reader, and the guard looks out there before he allows the handprint to unlock the door.
Elecronic security is great, but physical security is better.
It's usually easyer to kidnap you and make you unlock something than to "re-animate" your hand for the scanner. You'd need to be kidnapped with a password also, so you don't just lie.
>Or they just force your ass over to the scanner with a gun to your head, Solid Snake style.
they can do that with a password, or keys, or almost anything else. I can't immediately think of anything that doesn't work with, other than well armed guards willing to perforate the hostage.
I'm not sure that even junk bin components are cheaper than a purchased router unless your time is free, and regardless of that you end up with a 2nd full PC cluttering up your desk. But people will pay a lot for gagetry, sometimes even more than it's worth.
I doubt it's worth $500 even for the purpose it's designed for. But like the OP said, a full PC on a card? That I could see spending a few hundred dollars on.
Now, give me a PCI or PCI-X card that has three IP's. One to connect to from the localhost, two going out to other machines/routers/switches. Make that card a system on a chip that boot with power taken from the mainboard... >I think you're confusing IPs (no apostrophe) with RJ45 jacks.
I think you are: 2 rj45s, 3 IPs. 1 for each of the card's rj45 ports and 1 for the PC. It probably would be good to have it be selectable which rj45 port the PC shares with the card. Have the card be a full but small server focused on routing.
The parrent could also possibly have meant having the PC talk to the card over an internal equivilent of a crossover cable, but that'd probably mean using NAT for the IPs, and regardless it's then 4 IPs and 2 rj45s.
The water isn't really what's getting wasted, it's the energy to move the water around (out of the ground and into the water tower, for instance). The specifics really depend on where you live, but consider those people who have wells right in their backyard, and can then dump the water back in their backyard when they're done with it.
What if you live in the mountains? Around where I live many cities don't pump water at all, it's gravity fed.
Now all they have todo is make ink cartridges that hold more than 9mL of ink... 9mL does ~300 sheets, a 50mL would be more than enough for a home office then....
If you're concerned about ink then try something like this continuous ink flow system. You can buy ink in 4oz to 32oz bottles with one of these, that's up to 946ml. It's pretty much an ink IV drip for your printer.
This new card is for a small market segment I like to call "suckers". ATI, nVidia, and the publishers of games know this. New games are and will continue to be accessable to anyone who's willing to spend about $1000 every 2 years on computer parts. Why not put out a card for those with more money than sense?
PC gaming may die off, but it'll be cheap off the shelf PC equivilents that resemble the PS3 or 360 that'll kill it. All they need is MS Office 360 edition and the like. Next gen systems are a software DVD and some compatible usb mice and keyboards away from being home computers anyway.
>Already having some pieces of the puzzle is nice, but it's not an option for all of us. That's all I was trying to say.
And I was trying to say "That doesn't mean nobody should sugest ideas for those of us who do" have a spare windows licence.
There are probably a lot of people who have a spare copy of windows lying around who have no clue how to use linux, you exclude people either way. Skills are an factor too, for example: nobody would consider a project that required welding widely acessable no matter how cheap and available the materials.
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>And no one would produce anything, because people do actually need to eat.
>
>Do YOU go to work for free?
Yes I do. There are a load of things I do for no monetary reward that others get paid for, the same is probably true for most people. Some people get paid for writing out their opinions in print, for one example.
Music predates copyright by a few thousand years. People didn't need copyright to write or play it before, they don't need it now. Writing and playing music is fun and rewarding in and of itself, and there are plenty of ways that musicians have been financially supported in the past without copyright.
By the logic you put forward nobody would play sports anymore if you took away the professional leagues.
> The person firing the rifle doesn't absorb all of the kinetic energy of the round
The user masses more but he still recieves almost exactly as much KE as the sum of the bullet and gas going out of the gun have, it's manageable becaue its spread out over space (gun butt) and time (springs or other recoil management). Springs do not meaningfully reduce KE, they spread it over time.
Modern armours spread the impact over space via intenval plates. The nanoarmour is mentioned to have shock absorbing properties as well in TFA.
"...Barrett Light 50, aka M82A1/2/3. I've shot them, and it's not bad."
A gun hurts on the receiving end because:
1 there's a smaller impact point on the tip of a bullet than the butt of the gun, which spreads the impact over a larger area.
2 there's usually no shock absorber on the target like there are in many guns, the shock absorber (usually a spring or springs) spreads out the kick over time.
A bullet hurts more on the receiving end because the impact is more concentrated.
If you where wearing a suit of body armour made with internal plates to spread impact the kick of a round on the receiving end would be similar to that of a gun with no recoil suppression. The article was also praising the "nanoarmour" for being an efficient shock absorber. Also worth bearing in mind for automatic weapons is that usually you don't hit with all the bullets you fire.
Basicly to get enough KE to break the targets neck or ribs from impact on a helmet or armour plate you'd need a gun with enough kick to break your neck or ribs if you braced the butt against your head or ribs to fire it.
I also said that there are not many AP guns with that much KE, not that there are none. The Barrett Light 50 is one gun and not a typical or common one, most infantry are armed with assault rifles. It has as much or more kick per round as common vehicle mounted machine guns and may well be capable of breaking your neck if you braced the butt against your head to fire it. I'm sure a Mk 19 grenade launcher would do a fair job too on a direct hit, but most guns are not like these.
Every action has an opposite and equal reaction. A bullet actually puts less KE into the target than the person firring it feels. The KE of the kick is from the bullet and the hot gas from the propellant, the KE on the target is only from the bullet. There's also drag from the air that further reduces KE.
An AK-47 can be fired full auto without falling, therefore a person can absorb all the KE of every bullet fired without falling. The only way being hit would make you fall if you had impenetrable (to an AK) body armour is by tripping you because of the unexpected impact.
I don't think there are many non-vehicular antipersonnel guns that have enough KE to break your neck or ribs, as they'd often break the shoulder of the firer. If you need that much force you need something like an autocannon or explosive warhead. Also, the "nanoarmour" sounds like it's plates not cloth so in all likelihood chest hit's KE would get too spread out to break ribs.
An engine can be almost any sort of device. Think about these: search engine, steam engine, difference engine, seige engine, cotton engine. Only one manipulates a thermodynamic variable (temperature, volume, pressure, or density) to result in an output of mechanical energy.
> Sorry, but one of those works of the flesh listed is 'uncleanness'. So is this saying if I go and do a hard day's work that I'm par with adultery and fornication?
The word unclean in the bible is explicitly defined in biblical law, it doesn't mean dirty. Sweat doesn't count, neither does clean dirt. You could take a bath in mud and not be unclean.
Contact with stuff like human shit (going to the bathroom doesn't count), dead bodies, or someone with leprosy is what makes one unclean. You can also be made unclean by eating certain things if you're jewish, but not if you're christian. I think there may be a few more ways too, ask a Rabbi if you're interested.
>Hmm... where does that leave?
In the mountains away from faults, significantly uphill from local rivers. Clear trees and long grass from around your house. Put a radiation counter (and carbon monoxide detector if you've got a gas furnace) in your basement.
Where I live there's only really danger from flooding rivers, forest fires, and radon gas buildup in basements.
>This thing will probably trip a standard 15 amp breaker.
1.4kW of mains power @ (i assume) 110v is aprox. 12.3 amps because:
volts * amps = watts
therefore:
watts / volts = amps
1400 / 110 = 12.73 aprox.
That's not quite 85% of the circuit's rated load. It'd be fine so as long as you give it it's own circuit, like you do for microwaves.
I'll certainly agree that wars are to be avoided, but I belive the american leaders mostly made the right decissions. You can't stop someone from starting a war with you, many people can't be reasoned with. Tragicly often it comes down to kill or be killed, and it's rarely the leaders of either side who pay the highest price.
It's important to remember though, that fighting in wars is not immoral of itself. Just like people, nations have a right and responsiblity to defend themselves. If you permit all the theives, rapists, and murderers in a city to escape punishment for fear of using force what happens? The same thing that happens among groups, like nations: Bloodshed, chaos, and rule by strength alone.
Even if you showwed every man woman and child on earth "a nuclear bomb detonated in front of us and to see people dying all around us" some people would still make war, some people honestly don't care about their fellow humans.
The problem is, most prople won't stop a murderer, or a rapist, or a thief. Nobody can wage war without the consent of the people of their nation, but most people are happy to see a stranger die instead of risking their own safety to stop their leaders.
You don't reqire the commander view to issue orders as a squad leader, you can issue all orders with the "t" key. The map is usefull though, as you can issue an order on a location not within LOS. I like the command rings though, I can ask my commander for artillery or quickly order my squad to attack something with about 1/4 second worth of effort.
Not realy. Look at any number of african, asian or south american nations where guns are available to anyone: they don't have domestic peace and tranquility.
The right to bear arms as a militia protects you from the govenment, not criminals.
A good government writting good and fair laws, a culture that doesn't put up with criminal behavior, and competent honest police is what will protect you from crime.
Apathetic citezens, unjust laws, or corrupt police all lead to crime.
Do your part: look out for your fellow man, pay close atention to who you're voting for(if you're a voter), and try to help or reform your local police (whichever is more apropriate.)
anything that is so valuable that someone would actually "put a gun to your head solid snake style" to get to should have a guard anyway. Add 1 video camera and its: Right or left hand normaly good. Right or left hand with gun to head bad!
the american companies usually don't sell your information to burly men named boris and ivan who are planning to kick in your door and put guns to your house as they rob you. I find publishers clearing house sweepstakes and other junk mail to be a much smaller annoyance.
"burly men named boris and ivan" can buy your information in the US, all they have to do is hire a lawyer to buy it for them via a corporation the lawer made. Americans are safe from widespread home invasion robberies because they have an efective police force and a country with a history of relitive domestic peace and tranquility.
If you've got valid worries about solid snake style break-ins, hire a guard or 2 for the door! have a camera or armored glass window that shows the entire area around the door's handprint reader, and the guard looks out there before he allows the handprint to unlock the door.
Elecronic security is great, but physical security is better.
It's usually easyer to kidnap you and make you unlock something than to "re-animate" your hand for the scanner. You'd need to be kidnapped with a password also, so you don't just lie.
>Or they just force your ass over to the scanner with a gun to your head, Solid Snake style.
they can do that with a password, or keys, or almost anything else. I can't immediately think of anything that doesn't work with, other than well armed guards willing to perforate the hostage.
I'm not sure that even junk bin components are cheaper than a purchased router unless your time is free, and regardless of that you end up with a 2nd full PC cluttering up your desk. But people will pay a lot for gagetry, sometimes even more than it's worth. I doubt it's worth $500 even for the purpose it's designed for. But like the OP said, a full PC on a card? That I could see spending a few hundred dollars on.
Now, give me a PCI or PCI-X card that has three IP's. One to connect to from the localhost, two going out to other machines/routers/switches. Make that card a system on a chip that boot with power taken from the mainboard...
>I think you're confusing IPs (no apostrophe) with RJ45 jacks.
I think you are: 2 rj45s, 3 IPs. 1 for each of the card's rj45 ports and 1 for the PC. It probably would be good to have it be selectable which rj45 port the PC shares with the card. Have the card be a full but small server focused on routing.
The parrent could also possibly have meant having the PC talk to the card over an internal equivilent of a crossover cable, but that'd probably mean using NAT for the IPs, and regardless it's then 4 IPs and 2 rj45s.
The water isn't really what's getting wasted, it's the energy to move the water around (out of the ground and into the water tower, for instance). The specifics really depend on where you live, but consider those people who have wells right in their backyard, and can then dump the water back in their backyard when they're done with it.
What if you live in the mountains? Around where I live many cities don't pump water at all, it's gravity fed.
Choice of court venue is in the EULA, go ahead and check it.
Now all they have todo is make ink cartridges that hold more than 9mL of ink... 9mL does ~300 sheets, a 50mL would be more than enough for a home office then....
If you're concerned about ink then try something like this continuous ink flow system. You can buy ink in 4oz to 32oz bottles with one of these, that's up to 946ml. It's pretty much an ink IV drip for your printer.
This new card is for a small market segment I like to call "suckers". ATI, nVidia, and the publishers of games know this. New games are and will continue to be accessable to anyone who's willing to spend about $1000 every 2 years on computer parts. Why not put out a card for those with more money than sense?
PC gaming may die off, but it'll be cheap off the shelf PC equivilents that resemble the PS3 or 360 that'll kill it. All they need is MS Office 360 edition and the like. Next gen systems are a software DVD and some compatible usb mice and keyboards away from being home computers anyway.
>Already having some pieces of the puzzle is nice, but it's not an option for all of us. That's all I was trying to say.
And I was trying to say "That doesn't mean nobody should sugest ideas for those of us who do" have a spare windows licence.
There are probably a lot of people who have a spare copy of windows lying around who have no clue how to use linux, you exclude people either way. Skills are an factor too, for example: nobody would consider a project that required welding widely acessable no matter how cheap and available the materials.
Sorry, we don't all have "extra" Windows licenses lying around.
A lot of people don't have an extra computer lying around either. That doesn't mean nobody should sugest ideas for those of us who do.