They're the classic expression of not simply 'style over substance...' but actually 'psudeostyle at the EXPENSE of substance.' They're focused on mods that make their cars LOOK fast, instead of making them actually faster. (Come on. A two foot tall stainless steel spoiler? Please. Go spend the money daddy gave you to mod your car on some physics classes. You can meet girls at the junior college too... and you don't have to have a stupid looking car to do it.)
Cars that have actual performance mods aren't riced out. But aw MAN ya gotta have dem decals!!!! You'll get an extra 5hp out of them!!!!
If you want to talk computers... at least most casemodders don't insist that their mods make the computer faster... and tweakers actually get results.
Does a Tokamak use the same principle? Or is it entirely a heat reaction? I should clarify... is energy taken from the Lithium shielding in the reactor the same way this battery would? Or do they just pull the heat out of the reaction and use it to run a generator?
It IS, however, their job to revoke the access of people who violate the ISP's terms of service... especially when one has verifiable proof of harrassment and unsolicited commercial contact.
After all... won't most residential ISP's revoke your access if they find out you're running a business server on their network?
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The fact that it's one of the criteria doesn't make it a critical one... let's remember, 'important' is a relative term.
Hell, California has coastal access. It's not on the list, why?
Because there's no way in the Ninth Festering and Flaming Circle of Hell that they'd actually pull this off in California and they know it.
So clearly there are more important criteria than coastal access... which I'm sure they feel would be nice, and probably important. But not as important as being able to actually succeed.
What you're seeing here is the classic urban/rural split. Most of Oregon's population lives in the cities... Portland, Salem, Eugene, and Medford. This is primarily where the 'no religion' population is. (With some representation in smaller college towns like Corvallis, Monmouth and Ashland.)
The little town in the hills I grew up in? 60% mormon.
Oregon has a real dichotomy. Our liberal reputation comes mainly from our liberal urban population... but once you get out of the cities people are highly conservative, and highly religious. (Mostly either Mormon or one or another of the Pentecostal groups... Church of Christ or Assemblies of God... the people who gave us John Ashcroft...)
Besides... we have a strong anti-immigrant sentiment that would turn a lot of you off... comes from being directly north of California, and having to deal with the political and economic fallout of rich southern californians moving north to 'get away from LA' and then trying to... well... pass the same lamebrain laws and economic policies that are actually what makes LA unpleasant to begin with, such as driving housing costs up with their tax-shelter houses and trying to pass laws that would basically turn Oregon into LA. (Lon Mabon of the Oregon Citizens Alliance, the big anti-gay rights/anti-abortion group through the 80's and early 90's was an Orange County transplant.) But they try it anyway. After all... we can't let facts get in the way of ideaology, now can we?
'Oregon... enjoy your visit, but please don't stay.' - The late Tom McCall, Gov. D-OR.
We generally don't see linux geeks posting the following:
Poster1: Well... the economy is in the toilet. Blame the republicans.
Poster2: Republicans? HAH!!!! It's the leftover policies of the Clinton administration that are to blame!
Poster1: You're a shameless tool of the right wing.
Machead: But if both of them were using OSX they'd all be much more productive, would work faster, and would all be much happier!!!! They wouldn't be tied to WinTel iron!!!!
Try jumping, pulling a 180, and getting off three headshots with a thumbstick.
IF you can do it, at the same time you get to watch every mouse+keyboard user track you... before you eat a sniper shot.
Sticks have the major liability of being slow, and regular. Predictable. The one place where they shine is when you have true 3D movement, like in a flight sim. For anything else? You're just making sure you're predictable.
However, a game running at even 1024x768 looks much better.... and I don't care WHAT video chipset your console has, it's physically incapable of displaying a color image in more than 525 horizontal lines of resolution, and if you go with more than 480 lines, your color is going to suck. Bad.
Like I said.... for those of us who rebel at the thought of spending $3-5000 dollars for a damned television.... your argument doesn't hold up. I can get a monitor that can display a game at 1200x1600, crisp and clean, for less than $500 dollars, a video card that can drive that for less than 400, and I can do more than games and passively watch TV with it.
If you have a console plugged into an HDTV you might have an argument.... for those of us who morally rebel at spending $3000 for a freakin TELEVISION.... forget it.
Yet both of them used biblical and church doctrine to support their antisemitism... after all, who was allegedly responsible for the alleged execution of your alleged messiah? Oops. The Romans did it as a favor to the Jewish power structure.
The germans DID study their bibles.... as well as the horribly antisemetic writings of Martin Luther.
I know the 'no true scotsman' fallacy is amazingly popular with christians... but give us a bit of credit for not having fallen off the turnip truck yesterday.
If you do actually study The Bible, you'll see that the Isrealites never commited genocide without a direct order from God, as punishment on a completely corrupted race.
I'm reminded of someone else who used exactly the same line of reasoning.... but instead of a full beard he kept just a little strip of a moustache....
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They're the classic expression of not simply 'style over substance...' but actually 'psudeostyle at the EXPENSE of substance.' They're focused on mods that make their cars LOOK fast, instead of making them actually faster. (Come on. A two foot tall stainless steel spoiler? Please. Go spend the money daddy gave you to mod your car on some physics classes. You can meet girls at the junior college too... and you don't have to have a stupid looking car to do it.)
Cars that have actual performance mods aren't riced out. But aw MAN ya gotta have dem decals!!!! You'll get an extra 5hp out of them!!!!
If you want to talk computers... at least most casemodders don't insist that their mods make the computer faster... and tweakers actually get results.
It records when you use a bunch of extra shit.
And I guess those of us who don't want to be bothered, and just want the damned thing to work? Just outta luck, right?
Yeah I want to spend 5-10 minutes editing a text file every time I want to record a program.
Not.
The current version is useful for watching TV, AVIs, DVDs, playing MP3/OGG and viewing images. TV recording should be coming shortly.
So.... you're recording? Might one ask how exactly?
Yeah that's what I thought.
Does a Tokamak use the same principle? Or is it entirely a heat reaction? I should clarify... is energy taken from the Lithium shielding in the reactor the same way this battery would? Or do they just pull the heat out of the reaction and use it to run a generator?
People tend to forget that the invisible hand is connected to a blind, deaf, amoral idiot who doesn't care about humanity one way or the other.
Oh THAT'S right.... it comes from the atomic decay of Uranium.
The fact that what we normally think of as a nuclear 'reactor' speeds up the process, and this battery idea wouldn't is irrelevant.
Is there something in the water down there or something?
After all... won't most residential ISP's revoke your access if they find out you're running a business server on their network?
Hell, California has coastal access. It's not on the list, why?
Because there's no way in the Ninth Festering and Flaming Circle of Hell that they'd actually pull this off in California and they know it.
So clearly there are more important criteria than coastal access... which I'm sure they feel would be nice, and probably important. But not as important as being able to actually succeed.
The little town in the hills I grew up in? 60% mormon.
Oregon has a real dichotomy. Our liberal reputation comes mainly from our liberal urban population... but once you get out of the cities people are highly conservative, and highly religious. (Mostly either Mormon or one or another of the Pentecostal groups... Church of Christ or Assemblies of God... the people who gave us John Ashcroft...)
Besides... we have a strong anti-immigrant sentiment that would turn a lot of you off... comes from being directly north of California, and having to deal with the political and economic fallout of rich southern californians moving north to 'get away from LA' and then trying to... well... pass the same lamebrain laws and economic policies that are actually what makes LA unpleasant to begin with, such as driving housing costs up with their tax-shelter houses and trying to pass laws that would basically turn Oregon into LA. (Lon Mabon of the Oregon Citizens Alliance, the big anti-gay rights/anti-abortion group through the 80's and early 90's was an Orange County transplant.) But they try it anyway. After all... we can't let facts get in the way of ideaology, now can we?
'Oregon... enjoy your visit, but please don't stay.' - The late Tom McCall, Gov. D-OR.
It's the 'I MUST interject the Wisdom of Steve and the Joy of Macintosh(tm) into all conversations' bit that's annoying as all hell.
Linux geeks, (in my experience anyway) generally don't stick this stuff into conversations that have NOTHING AT ALL to do with computers.
But then when you have nothing else to contribute to a conversation.......
Poster1: Well... the economy is in the toilet. Blame the republicans.
Poster2: Republicans? HAH!!!! It's the leftover policies of the Clinton administration that are to blame!
Poster1: You're a shameless tool of the right wing.
Machead: But if both of them were using OSX they'd all be much more productive, would work faster, and would all be much happier!!!! They wouldn't be tied to WinTel iron!!!!
Poster1: ???
Poster2: ???
It's exponential in both cases.
In the case of the bomb that exponent is just a HELL of a lot higher. ;)
Atomic decay is atomic decay. The only difference is in 'how quickly does it decay and how much energy does it release?'
Decay rates can be increased in a reactor. (Of which a bomb is technically a type.) But it's still an exponential rate in both cases.
How exactly?
Oh, that's right.... it won't.
Moron.
Speed, accuracy, and unpredictability are what a mouse gives you.
IF you can do it, at the same time you get to watch every mouse+keyboard user track you... before you eat a sniper shot.
Sticks have the major liability of being slow, and regular. Predictable. The one place where they shine is when you have true 3D movement, like in a flight sim. For anything else? You're just making sure you're predictable.
Like I said.... for those of us who rebel at the thought of spending $3-5000 dollars for a damned television.... your argument doesn't hold up. I can get a monitor that can display a game at 1200x1600, crisp and clean, for less than $500 dollars, a video card that can drive that for less than 400, and I can do more than games and passively watch TV with it.
If you have a console plugged into an HDTV you might have an argument.... for those of us who morally rebel at spending $3000 for a freakin TELEVISION.... forget it.
Newsflash you self-deluded fundie... Genocide is WRONG. Slavery is WRONG. And IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT'S GOD THAT'S DOING IT IT'S STILL WRONG!!!!!
Yet both of them used biblical and church doctrine to support their antisemitism... after all, who was allegedly responsible for the alleged execution of your alleged messiah? Oops. The Romans did it as a favor to the Jewish power structure.
I know the 'no true scotsman' fallacy is amazingly popular with christians... but give us a bit of credit for not having fallen off the turnip truck yesterday.
I'm reminded of someone else who used exactly the same line of reasoning.... but instead of a full beard he kept just a little strip of a moustache....