I think, among other things, that guns are one of the few modern machines that you can cheaply (depending on model) tinker with/maintain/etc that don't involve electronics, computers, etc. You can't even do nearly as much on cars anymore without having to deal with electronics. It can be refreshing to deal with springs, latches, etc.
Fear not. Perfectly aligned in the EM wave sense does not equal correct alignment in the mass/bullet sense. One must adjust for windage, for one thing. For another, even if you could get the range via bluetooth, the parabollic trajectory of the bullet (some calibres are 'flatter' than others, and even different manufacturers) must be taken into account based on that range.
It should be noted that most academic reactors still have large containment structures that, as an indirect result of their containment needs, can also withstand a truck bomb, among other things. I can't speak for OSU, but the reactor at Georgia Tech is like that, as is the one at MIT. Haven't seen the others.
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Yes, *exactly*. I think we are either in violent agreement or you are missing that I am making the same point as you.
The Insight is fine for what it is designed for, and I don't mean to malign it in re. the design purpose but compared to the hypothetical car-equivalent of an assault rifle (namely, an all purpose family car), it has been over optimized for fuel milage. While a Civic (including the Civic hybrid), is closer to that hypothetical car.
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Re. Insight acceleration vs. a Civic - it depends on the load. A single driver of average size with no cargo and yes a Insight will accelerate you on to the highway well enough. Add a wife and two kids, maybe some groceries in the trunk, and it's a different story. I'd say the Insight is a pure work commuting car, while a Civic DX, say, is a little more flexible. I don't mean to malign the Insight. It also does a good job at certain tasks. But I wouldn't consider it a candidate for being a general purpose "family" car used for both work and family.
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Indeed.
And at the risk of making a major stretch of a comparison, I think accuracy with rifles is like horsepower with cars. To go back to before, a Civic won't give you tons of horsepower, but it will give you enough to merge into traffic (unlike, say the Insight) but also give you great gas milage on regular gas when commuting (unlike, say, a high-end Lexus with twice the hp running on premium). Most people, with some training, can hit some part of a man at 150 yards with an AK, using cheap definitely not match grade ammo. You're not going to have placements inside a quarter like with a nice rifle with expensive ammo, but you don't need it.
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The AK47 was designed to be reliable even if abused and neglected by its user.
Of course, it's always interesting how there is a fine line between what the engineers consider "abuse" and the users consider "normal usage." Some designers might consider it "abuse" to not constantly perform preventative maintenance on their product. While users don't consider it abuse to spend more time using their item rather than ready-ing it for more use. The more engineers can make their products less fussy, the better the success in the real world. Honda has that down pretty well.
I'll add for the record that I own a Honda Civic (once owned two). And while I don't own an AK47, I do down an SKS, which was deigned with similar standards in mind. And I have made the comparison between the Civic and the SKS before.
No one uses JNI for normal programming... it's an integration thing. Bullshit. There are plenty of "normal" programs out there that may be written primarily in Java for many of its strengths but don't care about cross-platform coding. These programs may need to do OS-specific stuff - say make Win32 APIs, send IOCTLs, etc. Purely new native code, and executed using JNI.
JNI - native code run in the process that is the VM, full ability to muck with the memory space. ability, through overriding to call object VM methods with unexpected values.NET unmanaged code - native code run in the process that is the VM, full ability to muck with the memory space. ability, through overriding to call object VM methods with unexpected values
OK then. And excellent start. But I now hereby challenge someone to attempt a diagram for a *daytime* soap. Bonus points if it's Days of Our Lives and includes demonic possessions.
Um, no. You are confusing the Arabian Penninsula with the Middle East. When it comes to subregions of the Middle East, Israel is part of the Levant. Iraq is part of Mesopotamia. The Levant and Mesopotamia make up the bulk of what is considered the Fertile Cresent. The Arabian Penninsula is a large geographic subregion of the Middle East that includes Asian lands south of Mesopotamia, the Levant, and the Syrian Dessert. The Arabian Pennensula is itself a subdivided geographic region, the most important subdivision being the Hijaz.
Arab refers to people born on or who live on the Arabian Peninsula. Since the boundaries of where the Arabian Peninsula begins are really up to cartographers, it's not too much of a stretch to say that Jesus was probably Arab.
ROTFL! That is one of the stupidest things I've seen posted on slashdot in quite a while! Ignorant sir, I salute you! Yes, yes. Karma burning.
It's kinda like asking Picasso to fix your 3 year old's child drawings. Yes, he could do it. And yes, it's an insult. Picasso fix the kid's drawings? Have you seen Picasso's work? =)
Congratulations for winning the cherry picking award. Of the many paragraphs in the two links of your post, you quote the only one -a quote within the original link- that makes this claim. Meanwhile, the same links have many cites showing how wrong you were. How long did it take you to finally find something? I know this is slashdot, but maybe you ought to admit to yourself that you don't know what you're talking about.
Congratulations! You can google! Here's a news flash: Israel refines the crude oil it imports (they don't have any significant native fields to speak of) so that people there can have gasoline for their cars. In order to refine oil, they have... oil refineries!
The U.S. certainly doesn't import signficant amounts of refined oil products from elsewhere - especially not from halfway around the world! We have our own refineries. (25% of which are in a little place called Houston - you might've heard of it...) What we import is crude.
"It's been a long time since our leading competitors actually made a computer," he said. "They have outsourced manufacturing computers a long time ago, but Dell continues to invest heavily in the manufacturing and design of computers."
I find this enormously funny.
Dell-speak translation:
IBM designs their own computers, and builds many of the parts, but has others actually assemble the parts. Dell finds people who build design and build computers and parts (often IBM, in fact), buys the parts and designs ("investing...") and then assembles them into a computer. The places where Dell "invests" in the design is in a snazzy Dell bezelplate, or shrinking the printer cartridge size to better rip off the consumer.
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I think, among other things, that guns are one of the few modern machines that you can cheaply (depending on model) tinker with/maintain/etc that don't involve electronics, computers, etc. You can't even do nearly as much on cars anymore without having to deal with electronics. It can be refreshing to deal with springs, latches, etc.
Fear not. Perfectly aligned in the EM wave sense does not equal correct alignment in the mass/bullet sense. One must adjust for windage, for one thing. For another, even if you could get the range via bluetooth, the parabollic trajectory of the bullet (some calibres are 'flatter' than others, and even different manufacturers) must be taken into account based on that range.
I second that.
2: Mobile phone antennas are designed to use your skull as part of the antenna system; they DELIBERATELY radiate into your head!
I call bullshit on this.
It should be noted that most academic reactors still have large containment structures that, as an indirect result of their containment needs, can also withstand a truck bomb, among other things. I can't speak for OSU, but the reactor at Georgia Tech is like that, as is the one at MIT. Haven't seen the others.
Yes, *exactly*. I think we are either in violent agreement or you are missing that I am making the same point as you.
The Insight is fine for what it is designed for, and I don't mean to malign it in re. the design purpose but compared to the hypothetical car-equivalent of an assault rifle (namely, an all purpose family car), it has been over optimized for fuel milage. While a Civic (including the Civic hybrid), is closer to that hypothetical car.
Re. Insight acceleration vs. a Civic - it depends on the load. A single driver of average size with no cargo and yes a Insight will accelerate you on to the highway well enough. Add a wife and two kids, maybe some groceries in the trunk, and it's a different story. I'd say the Insight is a pure work commuting car, while a Civic DX, say, is a little more flexible. I don't mean to malign the Insight. It also does a good job at certain tasks. But I wouldn't consider it a candidate for being a general purpose "family" car used for both work and family.
Indeed.
And at the risk of making a major stretch of a comparison, I think accuracy with rifles is like horsepower with cars. To go back to before, a Civic won't give you tons of horsepower, but it will give you enough to merge into traffic (unlike, say the Insight) but also give you great gas milage on regular gas when commuting (unlike, say, a high-end Lexus with twice the hp running on premium). Most people, with some training, can hit some part of a man at 150 yards with an AK, using cheap definitely not match grade ammo. You're not going to have placements inside a quarter like with a nice rifle with expensive ammo, but you don't need it.
The AK47 was designed to be reliable even if abused and neglected by its user.
Of course, it's always interesting how there is a fine line between what the engineers consider "abuse" and the users consider "normal usage." Some designers might consider it "abuse" to not constantly perform preventative maintenance on their product. While users don't consider it abuse to spend more time using their item rather than ready-ing it for more use. The more engineers can make their products less fussy, the better the success in the real world. Honda has that down pretty well.
I'll add for the record that I own a Honda Civic (once owned two). And while I don't own an AK47, I do down an SKS, which was deigned with similar standards in mind. And I have made the comparison between the Civic and the SKS before.
No one uses JNI for normal programming... it's an integration thing.
Bullshit. There are plenty of "normal" programs out there that may be written primarily in Java for many of its strengths but don't care about cross-platform coding. These programs may need to do OS-specific stuff - say make Win32 APIs, send IOCTLs, etc. Purely new native code, and executed using JNI.
That's not all. Even natively compiled Java code has additional overhead in casting operations and in object instantiation.
Huh? What exactly is the difference?
.NET unmanaged code - native code run in the process that is the VM, full ability to muck with the memory space. ability, through overriding to call object VM methods with unexpected values
JNI - native code run in the process that is the VM, full ability to muck with the memory space. ability, through overriding to call object VM methods with unexpected values
OK then. And excellent start. But I now hereby challenge someone to attempt a diagram for a *daytime* soap. Bonus points if it's Days of Our Lives and includes demonic possessions.
Um, no. You are confusing the Arabian Penninsula with the Middle East. When it comes to subregions of the Middle East, Israel is part of the Levant. Iraq is part of Mesopotamia. The Levant and Mesopotamia make up the bulk of what is considered the Fertile Cresent. The Arabian Penninsula is a large geographic subregion of the Middle East that includes Asian lands south of Mesopotamia, the Levant, and the Syrian Dessert. The Arabian Pennensula is itself a subdivided geographic region, the most important subdivision being the Hijaz.
Arab refers to people born on or who live on the Arabian Peninsula. Since the boundaries of where the Arabian Peninsula begins are really up to cartographers, it's not too much of a stretch to say that Jesus was probably Arab.
ROTFL! That is one of the stupidest things I've seen posted on slashdot in quite a while! Ignorant sir, I salute you!
Yes, yes. Karma burning.
It's kinda like asking Picasso to fix your 3 year old's child drawings. Yes, he could do it. And yes, it's an insult.
Picasso fix the kid's drawings? Have you seen Picasso's work? =)
And if the car is used in a crime, you, the owner, are held responsible unless it was stolen AND reported.
No, you're not.
Congratulations for winning the cherry picking award. Of the many paragraphs in the two links of your post, you quote the only one -a quote within the original link- that makes this claim. Meanwhile, the same links have many cites showing how wrong you were. How long did it take you to finally find something? I know this is slashdot, but maybe you ought to admit to yourself that you don't know what you're talking about.
Dude, get a clue. You mean mountain, not sky.
Congratulations! You can google!
Here's a news flash: Israel refines the crude oil it imports (they don't have any significant native fields to speak of) so that people there can have gasoline for their cars. In order to refine oil, they have... oil refineries!
The U.S. certainly doesn't import signficant amounts of refined oil products from elsewhere - especially not from halfway around the world! We have our own refineries. (25% of which are in a little place called Houston - you might've heard of it...) What we import is crude.
Yes, I'm sure it wouldn't, as they aren't...
I believe alot of the 'laws' of calculus, I even believe Fermat's Last Theorem, even though I, personally, can not prove them.
You know, I have a really great proof for Fermat's last theorem, but it won't make it through the lameness filter...
If you wrapped a cellphone in ham, would it no longer work?
I don't know that, but I'm sure your phone would no longer be kosher...
its not humane, but rather than calling him a troll i'd like to see an intelectual retort to the "dont have anything to offer society" part.
Here's one (I hate to risk feeding the trolls, but the following can't be said too often):
I hold as self evident that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights. Among them: life, liberty, and property.
"It's been a long time since our leading competitors actually made a computer," he said. "They have outsourced manufacturing computers a long time ago, but Dell continues to invest heavily in the manufacturing and design of computers."
I find this enormously funny.
Dell-speak translation:
IBM designs their own computers, and builds many of the parts, but has others actually assemble the parts. Dell finds people who build design and build computers and parts (often IBM, in fact), buys the parts and designs ("investing...") and then assembles them into a computer. The places where Dell "invests" in the design is in a snazzy Dell bezelplate, or shrinking the printer cartridge size to better rip off the consumer.