In other news NASA breathes a sigh of relief as someone has finally screwed up units in a more embarassing manner.
When asked about mistaking current and voltage in the article, the news editor responded "Sorry I don't have time for questions, I have to drive to a town 3 gigabits over. It'll take me at least 5 ohms to make the trip"
First of all the article states that they measured a current of 40,000 volts. . .
Second 40,000 volts isn't unreasonable, its current that kills. Lightning has a voltage 1-2 orders of magnitude higher, and people frequently survive lightning strikes.
3rd Ever done a demo with a Van de Graaf generator??? ~100,000 Volts. Watch out, hundreds of school children are in danger of spontaneously combusting!
I think a lot of the initial outcry over Wind Waker's style was that the initial screenshots for "the next Zelda game" looked realistic (similar to the upcoming title). Then, after a delay, the next set of screenshots were cartoonish.
If only there were some sort of method to collect this data and then sort through it. Some sort of Searching method, lets call it a "Search Engine" to track wi fi points and users connected to it. Heck maybe this "Search Engine" could then offer free Wi-Fi to make the tracking that much easier. Then maybe we could "map" these users on "Earth".
The California State Governement is investigating a 210 million mile long extension cord. One representative gave the date of 2030 as the estimated date of completion.
Of those 313 million numbers, a majority of them would belong to businesses and shouldn't be included. I wonder what percentage 28 million is of household phone numbers.
This technology only penetrates 1/10th of an inch of skin, It wouldn't be effective in seeing through a car or house. A more powerful device wouldn't be approved for general use because it would exceed safety levels. You'd need a shorter wavelength thus a higher frequency and higher energy.
Well someone was going to say it. . .
I think that they should add their web server as an honorable mention because I can still connect to it (it took a while) despite the/. effect
Thinking that it was complete bull. I mean yes I can go through the game now the same way that he did in the movie, but I mean really who plays a game for the first time and thinks hmmm if i duck down here for 3 seconds and run like heck i might be able to warp. . .
Clearly another Consipracy, Gumby was created in 1956 Gumby Site
Its all a conspiracy from the Federal Government and Major League Baseball!!!! Get your tin foil hats NOW
By a similar process we can calculate that 99% of all ocean-front homes are pirated.
Its where we settle down after a life on the high seas. . . . Landlubbers. . .
This is 7 times the size of Washington DC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2953420.s tm)
Going to the handy dandy CIA fact book(http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ fields/2023.html)that is
A little larger than Hong Kong
Twice the size of Bahrain
Twice the size of Singapore
It is amazing the originality that went into some of the games back in the 8-16 bit console days. There are plenty of nes-snes-genesis games that I still play today despite the aged technology/graphics. I think it'd be awesome to see some 3-d remakes of some of these games
River City Ransom
Legend of the Mystical Ninja
Double Dragon
Ninja Gaiden
Super DodgeBall
Wizards and Warriors
I don't think all the originality is gone. I mean mods at least serve as a testing ground for new ideas for FPS games. I mean after playing doom->doom2->quake quakeworld team fortress completely blew me away. TF2 is coming, TF2 will be released The same will happen with this generation of games after we get past the eye candy phase.I still think my favorite fps has to be Duke Nukem 3D, there was humor, great levels (Shop n Bag anyone) and even attitude.
BTW anyone remember the nintendo game "gotcha!" (that has to be the first FPS even though it was a side scroller)
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Ok this board has 6 usb 2.0 ports.
rant I have more than enough USB ports on the computer that i recently built. Maybe i missed something but whatever happened to the daisy chaining that USB promised when it was first introduced. If I recall correctly, theoretically 128 devices could be connected to a port. When i first heard about the standard i assumed that you wouldn't need a hub to connect devices, I thought that each would have a pass-through.
Did peripheral makers screw up by not including the "pass through"? I just am tired of all the wires going into my pc. Maybe I never fully jumped on the USB bandwagon, but who needs 6 simultaneous usb connections. (printer,scanner,camera,joystick,dig camera, etc. USB is hot swappable; if you just put 2 on the front most people won't mind unconnecting a camera for a joystick. 4(2 front 2 back) makes some sense to me, front ports are convenient, but why the extra? /rant
It has been brought up several times that an advanced civilization would have propagated throughout our galaxy. It is important to keep in mind the size of our galaxy.
I have been brought up believing in the unlimited nature of technology, but what if it really is impossible to travel at speeds greater than or close to c?
Using the technology from our sci-fi it is easy to spread throughout the galaxy; but if warp drives and jumping through wormholes isn't feasible, how far is it worth exploring?
Another interesting thought, if another civ has advanced to the point of interstellar travel, then clearly their tech is WAY beyond ours. Its pretty cocky to think that we could detect them, we just got to the point where we can detect radio waves (just a little over a hundred years) Perhaps they don't want us to detect them, maybe they don't want to interfere. Maybe they do interfere and we just aren't aware.
Just a long shot analogy here, but are ants cognizant of our lawnmower or if we dropped food. We may only be ants in comparison to a an alien race that has mastered interstellar travel.
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Thats kind of what the ellipses were pointing out. . . I covered that with "First"
In other news NASA breathes a sigh of relief as someone has finally screwed up units in a more embarassing manner. When asked about mistaking current and voltage in the article, the news editor responded "Sorry I don't have time for questions, I have to drive to a town 3 gigabits over. It'll take me at least 5 ohms to make the trip"
First of all the article states that they measured a current of 40,000 volts. . . Second 40,000 volts isn't unreasonable, its current that kills. Lightning has a voltage 1-2 orders of magnitude higher, and people frequently survive lightning strikes. 3rd Ever done a demo with a Van de Graaf generator??? ~100,000 Volts. Watch out, hundreds of school children are in danger of spontaneously combusting!
I think a lot of the initial outcry over Wind Waker's style was that the initial screenshots for "the next Zelda game" looked realistic (similar to the upcoming title). Then, after a delay, the next set of screenshots were cartoonish.
If only there were some sort of method to collect this data and then sort through it. Some sort of Searching method, lets call it a "Search Engine" to track wi fi points and users connected to it. Heck maybe this "Search Engine" could then offer free Wi-Fi to make the tracking that much easier. Then maybe we could "map" these users on "Earth".
The California State Governement is investigating a 210 million mile long extension cord. One representative gave the date of 2030 as the estimated date of completion.
Of those 313 million numbers, a majority of them would belong to businesses and shouldn't be included. I wonder what percentage 28 million is of household phone numbers.
This technology only penetrates 1/10th of an inch of skin, It wouldn't be effective in seeing through a car or house. A more powerful device wouldn't be approved for general use because it would exceed safety levels. You'd need a shorter wavelength thus a higher frequency and higher energy.
Xray Vision is overrated . . . .
Infrared is where the action's at (tm)
Well someone was going to say it. . . /. effect
I think that they should add their web server as an honorable mention because I can still connect to it (it took a while) despite the
Yes more space, to the tune of ONE Hundred Million Bytes, muahhahahahahahaha </Dr. Evil>
Thinking that it was complete bull. I mean yes I can go through the game now the same way that he did in the movie, but I mean really who plays a game for the first time and thinks hmmm if i duck down here for 3 seconds and run like heck i might be able to warp. . .
Clearly another Consipracy, Gumby was created in 1956
Gumby Site
Its all a conspiracy from the Federal Government and Major League Baseball!!!! Get your tin foil hats NOW
I would like to patent the idea of having a department that has the power to review and revoke a patent. . . .
By a similar process we can calculate that 99% of all ocean-front homes are pirated.
Its where we settle down after a life on the high seas. . . . Landlubbers. . .
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This is 7 times the size of Washington DC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2953420.s tm)
/ fields/2023.html)that is
Going to the handy dandy CIA fact book(http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook
A little larger than Hong Kong
Twice the size of Bahrain
Twice the size of Singapore
It is amazing the originality that went into some of the games back in the 8-16 bit console days. There are plenty of nes-snes-genesis games that I still play today despite the aged technology/graphics. I think it'd be awesome to see some 3-d remakes of some of these games River City Ransom Legend of the Mystical Ninja Double Dragon Ninja Gaiden Super DodgeBall Wizards and Warriors I don't think all the originality is gone. I mean mods at least serve as a testing ground for new ideas for FPS games. I mean after playing doom->doom2->quake quakeworld team fortress completely blew me away. TF2 is coming, TF2 will be released The same will happen with this generation of games after we get past the eye candy phase.I still think my favorite fps has to be Duke Nukem 3D, there was humor, great levels (Shop n Bag anyone) and even attitude. BTW anyone remember the nintendo game "gotcha!" (that has to be the first FPS even though it was a side scroller)
Ok this board has 6 usb 2.0 ports.
/rant
rant
I have more than enough USB ports on the computer that i recently built. Maybe i missed something but whatever happened to the daisy chaining that USB promised when it was first introduced. If I recall correctly, theoretically 128 devices could be connected to a port. When i first heard about the standard i assumed that you wouldn't need a hub to connect devices, I thought that each would have a pass-through.
Did peripheral makers screw up by not including the "pass through"?
I just am tired of all the wires going into my pc. Maybe I never fully jumped on the USB bandwagon, but who needs 6 simultaneous usb connections. (printer,scanner,camera,joystick,dig camera, etc. USB is hot swappable; if you just put 2 on the front most people won't mind unconnecting a camera for a joystick. 4(2 front 2 back) makes some sense to me, front ports are convenient, but why the extra?
It has been brought up several times that an advanced civilization would have propagated throughout our galaxy. It is important to keep in mind the size of our galaxy. I have been brought up believing in the unlimited nature of technology, but what if it really is impossible to travel at speeds greater than or close to c? Using the technology from our sci-fi it is easy to spread throughout the galaxy; but if warp drives and jumping through wormholes isn't feasible, how far is it worth exploring? Another interesting thought, if another civ has advanced to the point of interstellar travel, then clearly their tech is WAY beyond ours. Its pretty cocky to think that we could detect them, we just got to the point where we can detect radio waves (just a little over a hundred years) Perhaps they don't want us to detect them, maybe they don't want to interfere. Maybe they do interfere and we just aren't aware. Just a long shot analogy here, but are ants cognizant of our lawnmower or if we dropped food. We may only be ants in comparison to a an alien race that has mastered interstellar travel.