The stryker is prettty pointless, it's kind of fast, but has very weak armor, they've put these big steel cages over them to detonate rpg's before they hit, without that they would be sitting ducks. The skin of the stryker can be pierced by a 50bmg round, so it's helpless against heavy machine gun fire.
On top of their weak armor they have a bad havit of sliding down embankments beceause they're too heavy. Esentially a stryker is just a huge humvie, not a light tank. The striker is well protected from small arms fire, and with the cages rpg's, but is helpless to; mines, heavy machine guns, and anti-tank rifles.
Rember these words "officer am I under arrest, am I free to leave." usally the answer is no, get out of here.
Here's how to keep from being arrested, cooperate with the cops, be polite, kiss ass, but give NO useful information, absoluteley nothing, tell as much of the truth as is harmless b.s. but no more.
be nice, but make it clear that you don't have anything to say, and that you'd like to carry on with your buisness unless you're under arrest.
rember johnny tight lips "who says I got a mother."
Here's my setup, amd athalon 1ghx with 256 megs of ram. via kt133+ chipset 40gig hd to boot from, 120 for media, adding more disks beceause this is full. (shame) windows xp pro, all hooked together by a linksys wireless router. no sound card no video card crappy generic network card
all you need to do is mount your network share as a disk, and there you go, just a big slow drive, plenty fast for mp3, I'm listening to them right now. I can watch most of my divx movies over the wireless, svcd playback is choppy.
going with linux and samba would be a better choice than windows. windows seems to need to takeup at least 2 gigs on the disk. The setup has been working great, suprisingley even though it runs windows I only have to reboot it about once every two weeks.proof that a windows server will work if it only has to support one user, and never really do anything.
I love it helps to get all the crap huge files that I had on my laptop over where I can still get them.
there have been several jets sold on ebay, the aforementioned cmdr warf, bought one this way, a gulfstream 4 went the same way. check out some of this guys other auctions, there's some stuff that the average slashdotter would be intrested in, http://www.stores.ebay.com/id=2445982
check out http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/2d-hi.html lot's of good info on 2d formats, tiff is a good read, bmp is a pretty shitty format anyway.
As for why it's upside down, why not?
let's get all the actors next, we could just show projections of them, oh wait that's called a movie. this is evil, who wants to be replaced by a computer, even worse this isin't a production line job, but art, we are becoming slaves to computer created art.
12.5 db is nothing. I live within shight of upwards of a dozen bars, in a college town, above a place called the pita pit, that's open until 4 in the morning, and is a very popular postfunc destination, in adition there is a homeless man who beats on the newspaper boxes at all hours of the night.
I sleep with 35db silicone earplugs, you can get them at your local gun store, they work great.
I think that the real solution for the two of you is to extend some curtisy to the other, you need to make it clear that from 1am to 8am is sleep time, trust me you'll be happier, more productive, and get better grades. This was the solution my first year at college, but my roommate and I knew each other.
I also think that as you get frustrated that you need to rember that it's just a small problem, I just this year had the roommates from hell. Blalsting the same 2pac song at all hours from blown speakers, stealing from me, taping up pictures of women cut out of magazines, having no respect for my space, I had three of them who where buddies that my university stuck me with, it was hell on earth. You know the bully from jr high imagine living with three of them, in a 700 sq ft apartment. I only lived there for about a month and a half, cost me I figure around $2000 betwene stuff "lost" moving, and breaking my lease.
I think you should rate the advice you're given by the life of those giving it, so I admit that I can't live by my own advice, hence I'm writing this at something like 5:30 in the morning, watching cartoons. I think the real solution is just to live alone, I do.
My biggest advice is to get off campus as fast as you can, people may say that the dorms are a great place to meet people, but look at the quality of people you meet. Get to know the people in your department, or join a club, both are much better sources of frends than the dorm crowd. Plus I don't know about you but I hate eating in the dining hall, there's nothing worse than watching the food as it cycles from main dish, down to soup over the course of a week. The clam chowder was good though.
I stand corrected, my source was wrong. here are the url's that I got my info from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsof t_ Windows
http://toastytech.com/guis/nt31.html
here is an bit of the text from wikipedia....
By the early 1990s, tensions developed in the Microsoft/IBM relationship. They co-operated with each other in developing their PC operating systems, and had access to each other's code. Microsoft wanted to further develop Windows, while IBM desired for future work to be based on OS/2. In an attempt to resolve this tension, IBM and Microsoft agreed that IBM would develop OS/2 2.0, to replace OS/2 1.3 and Windows 3.0, while Microsoft would develop a new operating system, OS/2 3.0, to later succeed OS/2 2.0.
This agreement soon however fell apart, and the Microsoft/IBM relationship was terminated. IBM continued to develop OS/2, while Microsoft changed the name of its (as yet unreleased) OS/2 3.0 to Windows NT. Both retained the rights to use OS/2 and Windows technology developed up to the termination of the agreement; Windows NT, however, was to be written anew, mostly independently (see below).
end
so although it was re-written, it started with ibm code, and we all know that's plenty for sco to sue over.
There's some cool shit on those bands, it'd be fun just to see what kind of stuff is out there. Watching network feeds in advance is fun.
Plus you'd have that cool dish, just to piss off the neibors.
actually if they did find infringing code in windows nt they could still sue ibm. windows nt is a derivitive of os/2. when microsoft and ibm broke up microsoft took it's share of the code and called it windows nt. I'm shure that there is some code in there contributed by ibm.
Honestley I think that sco started this whole thing in an attempt to get ibm to buy them out. They got a shit deal with novel and wanted to get out.
As for the whole claim that sco own's unix sys V, why would they give all the money they collect from lisenses to Novel. They bought the buisness of lisenseing unix not the actual code.
yes 1500 watts would cook you quite niceley, but I absolutley do not recomend it, 5-10 watts is plenty for nearley any kind of long range wireless project.
Also I suggested getting the lisence beceause studying for it opens up the door to understanding how radio works, also it's a great way to get to know your local ham comunity, and it allows you to operate at higher power, wich is really just a fringe benifit.
my info on the wireless regulations is a little old, but ya you can operate at 2.4ghz with the right lisence.
The Seattle Wireless project has a good page with information about wireless power, it seems that the regulations have been changed, to prevent flooding of the 2.4ghz band.
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/Interpr et ingFccRegulations?action=highlight&value=fcc+
is the page.
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/GetStar te d
has some good info about getting involved in the seattle wireless project but also has some good general information about setting up wireless base stations and using high gain antennas.
The pentium M also does this, my 1.3ghz Thinkpad throttles from 275mhz, all the way up to full speed on the battery.
I've used powerbooks and the centrino laptops side by side, and I'd have to say that for 3d rendering/modeling using blender, and for photoshop work that the centrino is somewhat faster.
a brief artical about laptop preformance is available at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1202685,00.as p
for me the choice was betwene a 15" powerbook and a thinkpad r40 and after doing some research and trying out systems I chose the thinkpad.
The apple does come with a superior operating system, but they tend to be price prohibitive.
do you have any idea of how moderation works, read about it before you complain too much. and if you don't like how people moderate meta moderate.
I have moderated several times and concider myself proof that you don't need great carma to get to moderate. just keep it at neutral or higher, and actually read slashdot and you'll probbly get to moderate a few times a year.
just know that when you complain about "the moderators" that you are talking about nearley every slashdot reader.
as for the wireless project it should be easy to do for about 300-400$ if you need great coverage.
my wap saturates about half of my building witch is about twice the size of your's.
Just pick out points for your wap's then run wire there, hook em all together and plug them into your cable modem. 2 acess points should do it just fine, and a hundred feet or so of cat 5 and there you go. if your coverage isin't as good as you'd like just add another point.
I woulden't even screw around with high gain antennas, most that I've seen that work well are directional, and the omni's that I've seen are way to expensive for one's that work.
if you're really serious about wireless you should get your fcc technition class lisence, it allows you to run your way at up to 1500 watts, or something rediclus, way better than screwing around with fancy antennas for just a hundred miliwatts or so.
I suggest that publishers start renting out books, they can keep getting income from the books, students will save money by not buying a book they only need for a few months, and we'll save a lot of trees.
It seems that the publishers could easely make the same profit they make now by renting books at 2-5$ a month, asuming that a book would stay current for 2-5 years, and have a life span of at least a few years.
Plus it's unsafe to take loose objects up to that kind of height, the theatre I work in has a policy that anyone working above the hemp gallery has to empty their pockets, and remove anything that could possably fall down.
Plus going to the grid during a preformance is a bad idea anyway, it's a good way to screw something up, or get hurt, I don't know about you but I don't like balenceing on beams in the dark, with lot's of aircraft cable, and pullys, all around, especially with people below.
When you're not in preformance shouting is the best way to comunicate when doing this kind of work.
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The stryker is prettty pointless, it's kind of fast, but has very weak armor, they've put these big steel cages over them to detonate rpg's before they hit, without that they would be sitting ducks. The skin of the stryker can be pierced by a 50bmg round, so it's helpless against heavy machine gun fire.
On top of their weak armor they have a bad havit of sliding down embankments beceause they're too heavy. Esentially a stryker is just a huge humvie, not a light tank. The striker is well protected from small arms fire, and with the cages rpg's, but is helpless to; mines, heavy machine guns, and anti-tank rifles.
Rember these words "officer am I under arrest, am I free to leave." usally the answer is no, get out of here.
Here's how to keep from being arrested, cooperate with the cops, be polite, kiss ass, but give NO useful information, absoluteley nothing, tell as much of the truth as is harmless b.s. but no more.
be nice, but make it clear that you don't have anything to say, and that you'd like to carry on with your buisness unless you're under arrest.
rember johnny tight lips "who says I got a mother."
Here's my setup,
amd athalon 1ghx with 256 megs of ram.
via kt133+ chipset
40gig hd to boot from, 120 for media, adding more disks beceause this is full.
(shame) windows xp pro,
all hooked together by a linksys wireless router.
no sound card
no video card
crappy generic network card
all you need to do is mount your network share as a disk, and there you go, just a big slow drive, plenty fast for mp3, I'm listening to them right now. I can watch most of my divx movies over the wireless, svcd playback is choppy.
going with linux and samba would be a better choice than windows. windows seems to need to takeup at least 2 gigs on the disk. The setup has been working great, suprisingley even though it runs windows I only have to reboot it about once every two weeks.proof that a windows server will work if it only has to support one user, and never really do anything.
I love it helps to get all the crap huge files that I had on my laptop over where I can still get them.
there have been several jets sold on ebay, the aforementioned cmdr warf, bought one this way, a gulfstream 4 went the same way. check out some of this guys other auctions, there's some stuff that the average slashdotter would be intrested in, http://www.stores.ebay.com/id=2445982
check out http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/2d-hi.html lot's of good info on 2d formats, tiff is a good read, bmp is a pretty shitty format anyway. As for why it's upside down, why not?
good torrent, nice and fast.
let's get all the actors next, we could just show projections of them, oh wait that's called a movie. this is evil, who wants to be replaced by a computer, even worse this isin't a production line job, but art, we are becoming slaves to computer created art.
Read it, just don't tell anyone you did.
Xbox is assembled in mexico, from parts made in tiwan.
12.5 db is nothing. I live within shight of upwards of a dozen bars, in a college town, above a place called the pita pit, that's open until 4 in the morning, and is a very popular postfunc destination, in adition there is a homeless man who beats on the newspaper boxes at all hours of the night.
I sleep with 35db silicone earplugs, you can get them at your local gun store, they work great.
I think that the real solution for the two of you is to extend some curtisy to the other, you need to make it clear that from 1am to 8am is sleep time, trust me you'll be happier, more productive, and get better grades. This was the solution my first year at college, but my roommate and I knew each other.
I also think that as you get frustrated that you need to rember that it's just a small problem, I just this year had the roommates from hell. Blalsting the same 2pac song at all hours from blown speakers, stealing from me, taping up pictures of women cut out of magazines, having no respect for my space, I had three of them who where buddies that my university stuck me with, it was hell on earth. You know the bully from jr high imagine living with three of them, in a 700 sq ft apartment. I only lived there for about a month and a half, cost me I figure around $2000 betwene stuff "lost" moving, and breaking my lease.
I think you should rate the advice you're given by the life of those giving it, so I admit that I can't live by my own advice, hence I'm writing this at something like 5:30 in the morning, watching cartoons. I think the real solution is just to live alone, I do.
My biggest advice is to get off campus as fast as you can, people may say that the dorms are a great place to meet people, but look at the quality of people you meet. Get to know the people in your department, or join a club, both are much better sources of frends than the dorm crowd. Plus I don't know about you but I hate eating in the dining hall, there's nothing worse than watching the food as it cycles from main dish, down to soup over the course of a week. The clam chowder was good though.
IBM makes a usb keyboard with the same pointer as the thinkpad, which as the parent pointed out is just about silent.
e rvlet/P roductDisplay?catalogId=-840&langId=-1&partNumber= 31P8950&storeId=1
A product link:
http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/s
I like nurbs myself, sexy name. Bump maping is for the weak, so what if it takes forever to render, I like them to be real, not just pasted on.
I stand corrected, my source was wrong. here are the url's that I got my info from.
f t_ Windows
...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microso
http://toastytech.com/guis/nt31.html
here is an bit of the text from wikipedia.
By the early 1990s, tensions developed in the Microsoft/IBM relationship. They co-operated with each other in developing their PC operating systems, and had access to each other's code. Microsoft wanted to further develop Windows, while IBM desired for future work to be based on OS/2. In an attempt to resolve this tension, IBM and Microsoft agreed that IBM would develop OS/2 2.0, to replace OS/2 1.3 and Windows 3.0, while Microsoft would develop a new operating system, OS/2 3.0, to later succeed OS/2 2.0.
This agreement soon however fell apart, and the Microsoft/IBM relationship was terminated. IBM continued to develop OS/2, while Microsoft changed the name of its (as yet unreleased) OS/2 3.0 to Windows NT. Both retained the rights to use OS/2 and Windows technology developed up to the termination of the agreement; Windows NT, however, was to be written anew, mostly independently (see below).
end
so although it was re-written, it started with ibm code, and we all know that's plenty for sco to sue over.
There's some cool shit on those bands, it'd be fun just to see what kind of stuff is out there. Watching network feeds in advance is fun. Plus you'd have that cool dish, just to piss off the neibors.
actually if they did find infringing code in windows nt they could still sue ibm. windows nt is a derivitive of os/2. when microsoft and ibm broke up microsoft took it's share of the code and called it windows nt. I'm shure that there is some code in there contributed by ibm.
Honestley I think that sco started this whole thing in an attempt to get ibm to buy them out. They got a shit deal with novel and wanted to get out.
As for the whole claim that sco own's unix sys V, why would they give all the money they collect from lisenses to Novel. They bought the buisness of lisenseing unix not the actual code.
yes 1500 watts would cook you quite niceley, but I absolutley do not recomend it, 5-10 watts is plenty for nearley any kind of long range wireless project.
Also I suggested getting the lisence beceause studying for it opens up the door to understanding how radio works, also it's a great way to get to know your local ham comunity, and it allows you to operate at higher power, wich is really just a fringe benifit.
Hi my spelling is bad.
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my info on the wireless regulations is a little old, but ya you can operate at 2.4ghz with the right lisence.
The Seattle Wireless project has a good page with information about wireless power, it seems that the regulations have been changed, to prevent flooding of the 2.4ghz band.
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/Interp
is the page.
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/GetSta
has some good info about getting involved in the seattle wireless project but also has some good general information about setting up wireless base stations and using high gain antennas.
The pentium M also does this, my 1.3ghz Thinkpad throttles from 275mhz, all the way up to full speed on the battery.
s p
I've used powerbooks and the centrino laptops side by side, and I'd have to say that for 3d rendering/modeling using blender, and for photoshop work that the centrino is somewhat faster.
a brief artical about laptop preformance is available at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1202685,00.a
for me the choice was betwene a 15" powerbook and a thinkpad r40 and after doing some research and trying out systems I chose the thinkpad.
The apple does come with a superior operating system, but they tend to be price prohibitive.
do you have any idea of how moderation works, read about it before you complain too much. and if you don't like how people moderate meta moderate.
I have moderated several times and concider myself proof that you don't need great carma to get to moderate. just keep it at neutral or higher, and actually read slashdot and you'll probbly get to moderate a few times a year.
just know that when you complain about "the moderators" that you are talking about nearley every slashdot reader.
as for the wireless project it should be easy to do for about 300-400$ if you need great coverage.
my wap saturates about half of my building witch is about twice the size of your's.
Just pick out points for your wap's then run wire there, hook em all together and plug them into your cable modem. 2 acess points should do it just fine, and a hundred feet or so of cat 5 and there you go. if your coverage isin't as good as you'd like just add another point.
I woulden't even screw around with high gain antennas, most that I've seen that work well are directional, and the omni's that I've seen are way to expensive for one's that work.
if you're really serious about wireless you should get your fcc technition class lisence, it allows you to run your way at up to 1500 watts, or something rediclus, way better than screwing around with fancy antennas for just a hundred miliwatts or so.
I suggest that publishers start renting out books, they can keep getting income from the books, students will save money by not buying a book they only need for a few months, and we'll save a lot of trees.
It seems that the publishers could easely make the same profit they make now by renting books at 2-5$ a month, asuming that a book would stay current for 2-5 years, and have a life span of at least a few years.
Evryone will benifit from this kind of system.
halfy-"I Would."
"oh shut up halfy you don't have any legs you coulden't screw anything."
Halfie
note, link is a clip from a different episode, but it has the same point.
I like many /. readers never iorn my cloths anyway.
I think he ment the really thin plastic ones that you place over a page of text to make it apear bigger.
The real benifit to fresnel lenses is the reduction of manufacturing costs vs a planoconvex lens, as well as the reduced heat.
The ones he's talking about have ridges about 1/16 of an inch, and are used mostley in contact with the page of text.
Sand blasting on real glass has I think the best look. I would think that you could sand blast the lexan just about as well as the glass.
Plus it's unsafe to take loose objects up to that kind of height, the theatre I work in has a policy that anyone working above the hemp gallery has to empty their pockets, and remove anything that could possably fall down.
Plus going to the grid during a preformance is a bad idea anyway, it's a good way to screw something up, or get hurt, I don't know about you but I don't like balenceing on beams in the dark, with lot's of aircraft cable, and pullys, all around, especially with people below.
When you're not in preformance shouting is the best way to comunicate when doing this kind of work.