I've had a 770 for a few months now, and love it. Haven't updated to the newest OS yet, but mostly due to time. My biggest gripe about it is finding an inexpensive (relatively) phone that will allow the 770 to connect via bluetooth and then surf using that.
Folks just aren't working in the right places. I get 2-3 weeks off every between the fall and spring semesters (christmas time), paid, since the college I work at is closed. I also get spring break off (usually the week of my birthday in March), paid, since the college is closed. And then all the little 3 and 4 day weekends for labor day, etc. And then I also get my "regular" paid time off/vacation time plus sick days. Sure, working in education doesn't pay as much as it could, but for the amount of time during the average week I have to work, plus the extra time off with pay, plus free courses for me, my wife, and my kids, it works out pretty good.
Strange, I have a 350mhz-ish iMac that came with os 9.something on it, ran OS X fine the day I tried it. Of course, it runs debian now since I didn't pay for OS X and wanted to run debian on it anyway...
Sure won't. Not sure about international or outside of US, but to take a firearm with you, you just have to declare it at check-in, and have it properly packed. Nothing about the fact that it is a firearm can be put on the outside, etc. Ammo has to go in a separate containter in other checked luggage.
Ever use a TRS-80? You were limited to 8.3 there, but the.3 wasn't shown and you had to know it in order to open/run the file - sorta like a password...
With a FPS though, the game is constantly changing (assuming you are playing w/ other real people online) because no bot can be like a human. Heck, I still play the original Quake.. sure, some of the maps are the same, but its the challenge the opponent(s) give you that makes it for me.
I haven't RTFA, but to keep people like you (and me) happy with minimal/no wait time, think of it as JIT manufacturing. Have all the movies already downloaded and sitting as disk images (or whatever) - do the updates at night, etc - and have 2 or 3 (or 20/30 for opening day big releases) copies of each already burned, ready to dispense. Replace them as they are bought. Minimal physical product that has to be kept around waiting for a buyer, no publisher warehousing, shipping, etc.
Of course, theres still that "won't play in all players, discs die quicker, etc" problem....
Pretty much. The smaller gauges are more challenging to shoot (less pellets to get on target) and recoil less, and are often available in guns that weigh less. Barrel length will help with tracking thru a target, and may help with getting a proper sight plane.
Shells are usually color coded by gauge - and the shot size and dram equivalent is typically printed on them. 12 gauge is typically red, 16 gauge purple, 20 gauge yellow, although there is no "spec" to it.
You'd want a tighter patteren when shooting at a distance (think geese/ducks at 45 yards - about the limit for a clean kill on a shotgun) or into a smaller target (think turkey hunting - aim for the head, get 5 or 6 pellets in it). Wider patterns help with skeet (targets move left to right or vice versa at 75-90mph) and closer range shooting, such as quail hunting over dogs (pointers).
Of course, there is no happy medium, but a 12 gauge with a modified choke is about as close as you can get to it.
Gauge is determined by how many "pure" lead balls of the bore diameter it would take to weigh one pound. For reference, a 12 gauge is about.73 inches. Lower gauge number == larger bore diameter.
Pellet size is described as a number or letter - 000, 00, 0, and 1-4 buckshot, and then the birdshot sizes T,F,BBB,BB,B,2-9 are birdshot. The letter birdshot is what is typically used for geese, large ducks, and turkey, as are #2s. The lower numbers (2-6) are typically used for smaller ducks, etc. with 5 or 6s beign used for things like pheasant or rabbits, 6s and 7s are longer-range quail/dove loads (larger pellet == more velocity retention == more penetration == "killing power"), and 7, 7 1/2, 8, and 9 being for small game (dove, squirrel, rabbits, etc) and target games like skeet, trap, or sporting clays (golf with a shotgun).
The dram equivalent (powder charge) will typically be higher with the lower gauge numbers, but that is black powder based. Black powder explodes, smokeless powder just burns really fast. So a lot of what will affect velocity is powder type/burn rate/etc. and how much of it there is, and what type of primer is used to ignite it.
And then for giggles, I'll mention chokes and back boring. Choke is a measurement of constriction near the muzzle - it will control to some degree how much hte shot will spread at any given distance, usually referenced in what percentage of pellets will be in a circle of a given diameter at a given distance. Full vs. modified vs. improved (aka improved cylinder or just cylinder) vs. skeet, and variations thereof (turkey hunters will sometimes use extra-full, skeet shooters want a large pattern to help hit the clays moving at 90mph close by... etc). Back boring is when the overall diameter (aside from any choke) is slightly larger than spec near the chamber, tapering back down to spec diameter and then choke diameter. Reduces pressure which supposedly reduces recoil, or at least changes the pressure curve which affects felt recoil.
Nope. Most of the differences between 10, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32 gauge (and 410) is the payload, not the velocity of the pellets. So a 12 gauge puts out 1 ounce of #8 pellets (popular size for skeet, trap, bird hunting) and a 20 gauge puts out about 3/4 or 7/8 of an ounce of #8 pellets, but they will both be at about the same velocity (1200-1300 f/sec). The larger gauge has more "killing" power because it is delivering more pellets to the target. Taken to extremes, a 2 3/4" 12 gauge shell loaded with 00 buck (double-ought) had 9 pellets in the load, a 3" 12 gauge magnum of 00 buck has 12 pellets. A 3" 410 has 3 or 4 pellets in the load. Both move at approximately the same velocity.
The technology is almost cheap too at $200 for a pair of adapters. Makes a great way to connect two disparate rooms in a house without having to get our your remote controlled car and tie some cable to it, then put it in the ac duct.
Why can't the game AI learn routes, etc. from the player? One of my biggest gripes with bots is that they either only follow a (few) set pattern, as opposed to a player displaying (to the game) many other diverse routes and locations.
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What, no Mynx? Dear Mynx was the one reason I kept going back to planetquake...
torrents too... download rates suck unless you are allowing some sort of upload...
I've had a 770 for a few months now, and love it. Haven't updated to the newest OS yet, but mostly due to time. My biggest gripe about it is finding an inexpensive (relatively) phone that will allow the 770 to connect via bluetooth and then surf using that.
community college in florida...
Folks just aren't working in the right places. I get 2-3 weeks off every between the fall and spring semesters (christmas time), paid, since the college I work at is closed. I also get spring break off (usually the week of my birthday in March), paid, since the college is closed. And then all the little 3 and 4 day weekends for labor day, etc. And then I also get my "regular" paid time off/vacation time plus sick days. Sure, working in education doesn't pay as much as it could, but for the amount of time during the average week I have to work, plus the extra time off with pay, plus free courses for me, my wife, and my kids, it works out pretty good.
Yup. You can have my Model M when you pry it - and the 3 spares in the garage - from my cold dead RSI laden hands
Until you use a hole punch to create a new notch on the other side, allowing you to flip it over and write to both sides.
Strange, I have a 350mhz-ish iMac that came with os 9.something on it, ran OS X fine the day I tried it. Of course, it runs debian now since I didn't pay for OS X and wanted to run debian on it anyway...
Sure won't. Not sure about international or outside of US, but to take a firearm with you, you just have to declare it at check-in, and have it properly packed. Nothing about the fact that it is a firearm can be put on the outside, etc. Ammo has to go in a separate containter in other checked luggage.
Ever use a TRS-80? You were limited to 8.3 there, but the .3 wasn't shown and you had to know it in order to open/run the file - sorta like a password...
Don't try to accept or send payment for *anything* firearm related with paypal. Quick way to get your account frozen with no recourse...
With a FPS though, the game is constantly changing (assuming you are playing w/ other real people online) because no bot can be like a human. Heck, I still play the original Quake.. sure, some of the maps are the same, but its the challenge the opponent(s) give you that makes it for me.
They still exist and make them - even name brand companies like Dell, HP, Gateway, and Alienware.
Ever seen what some folks will brign to a LAN party?
Heck, if I got back into playing, I could use it as an excuse to go to GenCon again... hrm... wonder if the wife would mind?
... They won't have Larry Elmore, Clyde Caldwells, or Gary Gygax's signatures on them like my old copies!
I haven't RTFA, but to keep people like you (and me) happy with minimal/no wait time, think of it as JIT manufacturing. Have all the movies already downloaded and sitting as disk images (or whatever) - do the updates at night, etc - and have 2 or 3 (or 20/30 for opening day big releases) copies of each already burned, ready to dispense. Replace them as they are bought. Minimal physical product that has to be kept around waiting for a buyer, no publisher warehousing, shipping, etc.
Of course, theres still that "won't play in all players, discs die quicker, etc" problem....
Pretty much. The smaller gauges are more challenging to shoot (less pellets to get on target) and recoil less, and are often available in guns that weigh less. Barrel length will help with tracking thru a target, and may help with getting a proper sight plane.
Shells are usually color coded by gauge - and the shot size and dram equivalent is typically printed on them. 12 gauge is typically red, 16 gauge purple, 20 gauge yellow, although there is no "spec" to it.
You'd want a tighter patteren when shooting at a distance (think geese/ducks at 45 yards - about the limit for a clean kill on a shotgun) or into a smaller target (think turkey hunting - aim for the head, get 5 or 6 pellets in it). Wider patterns help with skeet (targets move left to right or vice versa at 75-90mph) and closer range shooting, such as quail hunting over dogs (pointers).
Of course, there is no happy medium, but a 12 gauge with a modified choke is about as close as you can get to it.
Gauge is determined by how many "pure" lead balls of the bore diameter it would take to weigh one pound. For reference, a 12 gauge is about .73 inches. Lower gauge number == larger bore diameter.
Pellet size is described as a number or letter - 000, 00, 0, and 1-4 buckshot, and then the birdshot sizes T,F,BBB,BB,B,2-9 are birdshot. The letter birdshot is what is typically used for geese, large ducks, and turkey, as are #2s. The lower numbers (2-6) are typically used for smaller ducks, etc. with 5 or 6s beign used for things like pheasant or rabbits, 6s and 7s are longer-range quail/dove loads (larger pellet == more velocity retention == more penetration == "killing power"), and 7, 7 1/2, 8, and 9 being for small game (dove, squirrel, rabbits, etc) and target games like skeet, trap, or sporting clays (golf with a shotgun).
The dram equivalent (powder charge) will typically be higher with the lower gauge numbers, but that is black powder based. Black powder explodes, smokeless powder just burns really fast. So a lot of what will affect velocity is powder type/burn rate/etc. and how much of it there is, and what type of primer is used to ignite it.
And then for giggles, I'll mention chokes and back boring. Choke is a measurement of constriction near the muzzle - it will control to some degree how much hte shot will spread at any given distance, usually referenced in what percentage of pellets will be in a circle of a given diameter at a given distance. Full vs. modified vs. improved (aka improved cylinder or just cylinder) vs. skeet, and variations thereof (turkey hunters will sometimes use extra-full, skeet shooters want a large pattern to help hit the clays moving at 90mph close by... etc). Back boring is when the overall diameter (aside from any choke) is slightly larger than spec near the chamber, tapering back down to spec diameter and then choke diameter. Reduces pressure which supposedly reduces recoil, or at least changes the pressure curve which affects felt recoil.
Nope. Most of the differences between 10, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32 gauge (and 410) is the payload, not the velocity of the pellets. So a 12 gauge puts out 1 ounce of #8 pellets (popular size for skeet, trap, bird hunting) and a 20 gauge puts out about 3/4 or 7/8 of an ounce of #8 pellets, but they will both be at about the same velocity (1200-1300 f/sec). The larger gauge has more "killing" power because it is delivering more pellets to the target. Taken to extremes, a 2 3/4" 12 gauge shell loaded with 00 buck (double-ought) had 9 pellets in the load, a 3" 12 gauge magnum of 00 buck has 12 pellets. A 3" 410 has 3 or 4 pellets in the load. Both move at approximately the same velocity.
Yup. My Nokia 770 has an option to configure default TLDs...
I kept a seed going over the weekend, with max upload rate set to 15k, and used almost 10gb of bandwidth...
A decent editor with good syntax highlighting would take care of that for you...
The technology is almost cheap too at $200 for a pair of adapters. Makes a great way to connect two disparate rooms in a house without having to get our your remote controlled car and tie some cable to it, then put it in the ac duct.
Not nearly as much fun though....
You had 1s? All I had was ls and os
Why can't the game AI learn routes, etc. from the player? One of my biggest gripes with bots is that they either only follow a (few) set pattern, as opposed to a player displaying (to the game) many other diverse routes and locations.