It's a nice looking piece of equipment, well, until you put the 20GB attachment on it. Some things I noticed from the specifications though.
1st, as mentioned already, the device is USB1.1. Can you imagine synching your 20GB of music? Ooof.
2nd, you cannot transfer music from one neuros to another, but you can broadcast using FM, music from one Neuros to another. The receiving neuros then has the ability to record a 30 second snippet of that music. This isn't WiFi or Bluetooth, this is pure analog FM.
Beyond that, the built-in FM broadcaster is quite a convenient feature. As is the ability to create playlists right there on the device.
As a bit of reference, I personally have just under a 100 packs of fresh venison in the freezer right now. Cube-steak, ground, and sausage (in casing of course).
Point 1: "Lower power" does not mean "low power." A 338 or a 375 for hunting purposes is all fine, assuming you aren't using depleted uranium rounds. What isn't fine are the semi and fully automatic rifles, the disposable handguns at flea markets, etc...
Point 2: Most gun crime in the U.S. involves handguns. Illegal obtained or otherwise. The shooter in the D.C. area is a fluke. Obviously. If he weren't it wouldn't be national news. But the convenience store armed robber or the car-jacker aren't going to use a single shot hunting rifle for close up work.
Including the second one, which would ensure that people could have armed malitias, which would make the government think twice before abandoning those avenues of change and checks and ballances and such and switching to marital law.
So, where exactly in the second amendment does it say that "people could have armed militias?" Where does it say that the militia is there to "check" the government? The oh so short second amendment reads as follows.
A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. - Ammendment II of the Constitution
Notice the "well regulated" part? Also, notice that "Arms" is a proper noun? That means that WE can decide what regulations to place upon gun ownership and militias and WE can decide what the definition of "Arms" is. Do fully-automatic machine guns and rocket-launchers count as "Arms?" They most certainly are, but them being prohibited doesn't counter the 2nd Am. because "Arms" is defined by the individual States and by Congress itself.
Also, if you'll check out the bit of Am. 5 that says that persons cannot be held for a capital offense unless the offense is presented to a Grand Jury. One of the exceptions to that rule is if the person in question is "in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger." So, you can see right there in the Bill of Rights, the militia that we all talk about in the 2nd Am. is the same militia of the Revolutionary War. Citizens, non-professional soldiers.
Personally, I don't see a problem with limiting gun ownership to lower-powered hunting rifles. With pistols only for well-regulated (ie. registered and licensed) persons.
As far as the ACLU working against certain aspects of the Patriot Act, I'm all for them. Many people jokingly say the ACLU is the organization that fights for all out Bill of Rights except for Amendment 2. Well, someone has to right? There are so many people out there that think the ONLY right we apparently have is that of bearing arms.
>>Memory interleaving is a feature of my old (early 1996) PowerMac 7600's motherboard.... ...
>Well,if memory interleaving doesn't "make any difference", why include it as a feature? Oh, that's right, because you have no idea what you're talking about.
Memory interleaving was available to users who chose to install two identical dimms and install them in corresponding slots in the PowerMacs. I had this feature in my 7500, which like the earlier poster, I upgraded quite a bit. In my case I upgraded the CPU three times, going from a 66 mHz machine to a 450 MHz machine. It's not tweaking, it's a feature. There was nothing special I had to do. Just pull the old card out, put the new one in. I certainly didn't have to run down to Radio Shack or read the manual. I certainlly didn't have to do anything strange to have my 256MB DIMMS interleaved in a machine I bought in 1995.
You could probably call me installing a 1st gen and 2nd gen PC 3dfx card in that same computer a tweak, since I had to download development drivers to get them to work.:)
Not being familiar with Mother of Storms, I can't say much, but from what you state of its plot, the Cussler book has only "trapped methane" in common. In the Cussler book, the methane hydrate is used to cause underwater landslides which would cause a tsunami. The goal was to create tsunamis large enough and accurately enough to destroy major American east coast cities/ports (Boston, New York, D.C. Charleston).
There was no accident, there was no climate change, there were no hurricanes. I don't believe that one could label Cussler a plagiarist because he used the FACT that there are deposits of methane hydrate all over the seafloor. Using this logic, anyone writing a novel where a knife figures heaviliy in a murder would be a plagiarist. Or better yet, anyone who authors a novel about an FBI agent trying to solve a crime should be taken to the woodshed.
Beware the methane hydrate. Crazy megalomaniacal Cossack tries to destroy east coast with tsunamis caused by exploding "Fire Ice" on sea floor.
Clive Cussler wrote a book about this stuff, released this year.
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It's a nice looking piece of equipment, well, until you put the 20GB attachment on it. Some things I noticed from the specifications though.
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1st, as mentioned already, the device is USB1.1. Can you imagine synching your 20GB of music? Ooof.
2nd, you cannot transfer music from one neuros to another, but you can broadcast using FM, music from one Neuros to another. The receiving neuros then has the ability to record a 30 second snippet of that music. This isn't WiFi or Bluetooth, this is pure analog FM.
Beyond that, the built-in FM broadcaster is quite a convenient feature. As is the ability to create playlists right there on the device.
As a bit of reference, I personally have just under a 100 packs of fresh venison in the freezer right now. Cube-steak, ground, and sausage (in casing of course).
Point 1: "Lower power" does not mean "low power." A 338 or a 375 for hunting purposes is all fine, assuming you aren't using depleted uranium rounds. What isn't fine are the semi and fully automatic rifles, the disposable handguns at flea markets, etc...
Point 2: Most gun crime in the U.S. involves handguns. Illegal obtained or otherwise. The shooter in the D.C. area is a fluke. Obviously. If he weren't it wouldn't be national news. But the convenience store armed robber or the car-jacker aren't going to use a single shot hunting rifle for close up work.
So, where exactly in the second amendment does it say that "people could have armed militias?" Where does it say that the militia is there to "check" the government? The oh so short second amendment reads as follows.
Notice the "well regulated" part? Also, notice that "Arms" is a proper noun? That means that WE can decide what regulations to place upon gun ownership and militias and WE can decide what the definition of "Arms" is. Do fully-automatic machine guns and rocket-launchers count as "Arms?" They most certainly are, but them being prohibited doesn't counter the 2nd Am. because "Arms" is defined by the individual States and by Congress itself.
Also, if you'll check out the bit of Am. 5 that says that persons cannot be held for a capital offense unless the offense is presented to a Grand Jury. One of the exceptions to that rule is if the person in question is "in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger." So, you can see right there in the Bill of Rights, the militia that we all talk about in the 2nd Am. is the same militia of the Revolutionary War. Citizens, non-professional soldiers.
Personally, I don't see a problem with limiting gun ownership to lower-powered hunting rifles. With pistols only for well-regulated (ie. registered and licensed) persons.
As far as the ACLU working against certain aspects of the Patriot Act, I'm all for them. Many people jokingly say the ACLU is the organization that fights for all out Bill of Rights except for Amendment 2. Well, someone has to right? There are so many people out there that think the ONLY right we apparently have is that of bearing arms.
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>>Memory interleaving is a feature of my old (early 1996) PowerMac 7600's motherboard.... ...
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>Well,if memory interleaving doesn't "make any difference", why include it as a feature? Oh, that's right, because you have no idea what you're talking about.
Memory interleaving was available to users who chose to install two identical dimms and install them in corresponding slots in the PowerMacs. I had this feature in my 7500, which like the earlier poster, I upgraded quite a bit. In my case I upgraded the CPU three times, going from a 66 mHz machine to a 450 MHz machine. It's not tweaking, it's a feature. There was nothing special I had to do. Just pull the old card out, put the new one in. I certainly didn't have to run down to Radio Shack or read the manual. I certainlly didn't have to do anything strange to have my 256MB DIMMS interleaved in a machine I bought in 1995.
You could probably call me installing a 1st gen and 2nd gen PC 3dfx card in that same computer a tweak, since I had to download development drivers to get them to work.
From the huge compressed O2 tank that's attached to the detonation device. :)
Not being familiar with Mother of Storms, I can't say much, but from what you state of its plot, the Cussler book has only "trapped methane" in common. In the Cussler book, the methane hydrate is used to cause underwater landslides which would cause a tsunami. The goal was to create tsunamis large enough and accurately enough to destroy major American east coast cities/ports (Boston, New York, D.C. Charleston).
There was no accident, there was no climate change, there were no hurricanes. I don't believe that one could label Cussler a plagiarist because he used the FACT that there are deposits of methane hydrate all over the seafloor. Using this logic, anyone writing a novel where a knife figures heaviliy in a murder would be a plagiarist. Or better yet, anyone who authors a novel about an FBI agent trying to solve a crime should be taken to the woodshed.
Beware the methane hydrate. Crazy megalomaniacal Cossack tries to destroy east coast with tsunamis caused by exploding "Fire Ice" on sea floor. Clive Cussler wrote a book about this stuff, released this year.