Jet engine turbine blades are sometimes made using an investment casting process. It can produce very high quality output with complex geometry, and even monocrystalline metal parts. Casting an upper and barrel from a 3D printed mold would take research but isn't beyond the realm of practicality.
No, it's about where you put things as well. Don't have 5 pages of power plans. Have either an "advanced settings" mode that can be toggled somewhere which shows extra settings for those users who want them, or a second settings configuration system (Gnome used to do the second, but I've not used it in a while.) The average user shouldn't see tons of confusing choices, and there should be sensible defaults. The advanced user should be ABLE to change what they want, but no one should be required to do so. And if an option in a "hidden" configuration menu/file is something users commonly access, either in testing or via anonymized usage tracking, you should probably make that setting easier to access.
The goal is to have the simplest interface be the most visible with the most commonly accessed functions, and the more complex interface accessible but not in your face. Google's homepage is a perfect example of this sort of design, it's quite simple, the most common function (search) is the majority of the interface, other services along the top, with the less accessed ones in the "more" menu and the least accessed ones relegated to "even more." There's even a way to get directly to each of the less-accessed functions: type or bookmark their URLs. Their account settings are similar.
Closing the laptop can be for several reasons: Want the laptop in sleep mode. Want the laptop in hibernate. Want the laptop to power off. Want the laptop to stay on with the screen off, say because I'm downloading/rendering something overnight.
Different people may have different default desires.
I have very small hands (17cm from wrist to tip of middle finger, 9cm long middle finger from base of knuckle to tip, 11cm from wrist to tip of thumb.) I can comfortably use a Note II with one hand. I tend to naturally palm the edge to help hold it up when I want to reach from one corner to the other. The movement doesn't feel odd to me, though I'm sure it would to some people.
I'd expect a troop carrier to weigh more than a tank actually. Both need similar amounts of armor to keep the crew safe. The troop carrier carries far more people, and their equipment. It also has its own mounted weapons, though those are much smaller than the ones on a tank. So it should be a bigger vehicle, with similar armor, less weaponry but more cargo. Depending on the number of troops carried it could reasonably weigh more than a tank.
Of course in the case of the GCV it's weight is probably more a case of shifting requirements from management adding more and more bulk to the thing than a reasonable way to carry lots of troops into combat. After all, it is only meant to carry 9 people.
It's technically the "Eurofigther EF-2000 Typhoon". Eurofighter GmbH is the company (consortium) that makes it, EF-2000 the model number, Typhoon the name.
I'd probably still file a police report. That way, if the leech has been doing something illegal through your connection you'll have evidence in the police records that it wasn't you.
Let N be the set of all IP-addressable nodes. Let d:NxN -> H be the number of hops from one node to another returned by traceroute. The metric space so defined is cyberspace.
Cyberspace is the space (in the mathematical sense) of all IP-addressable systems. Packets travel through the space via paths, having a source and a destination. It's not a vector space, but some aspects of it can be modeled like one.
That said, it's nothing like TRON. THAT is the stupid concept that gets conflated with cyberspace.
And I DO condemn all other cops for the same. I just take issue with somehow excepting him from being in the group of evil cops because he's fighting other evil cops. They're all evil.
And not knowing how to aim. There shouldn't have been any bullets fired, but if you're sure of your target* and going to fire at least hit the damn target. There should have been a nice big ragged hole where the driver's head is, not bullets all over the place.
*the vehicle shot was the wrong make and the wrong color. It looked nothing like the suspect vehicle. The police fired without warning. This is inexcusable. Not knowing how to aim is a training problem, firing on non-suspect targets should always result in jail time on felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon (or similar) and permanent removal from law enforcement.
There are 5 rules of gun use/safety. All are of equal importance.
All firearms are loaded. - There are no exceptions. Don't pretend that this is true. Know that it is and handle all firearms accordingly. Do not believe it when someone says: "It isn't loaded."
Never let the muzzle of a firearm point at anything you are not willing to destroy. - If you are not willing to see a bullet hole in it do not allow a firearm's muzzle to point at it. This includes things like your foot, the TV, the refrigerator, the dog, or anything else that would cause general upset if a hole appeared in it.
Keep your finger off the trigger unless your sights are on the target. - Danger abounds if you keep your finger on the trigger when you are not about to shoot. Speed is not gained by prematurely placing your finger on the trigger as bringing a firearm to bear on a target takes more time than it takes to move your finger to the trigger. Negligent discharges would be eliminated if this rule were followed 100% of the time.
Be sure of your target and what is behind it. - Never shoot at sounds or a target you cannot positively identify. Know what is in line with the target and what is behind it (bullets are designed to go through things). Be aware of your surroundings whether on a range, in the woods, or in a potentially lethal conflict.
Take nothing for granted. Check everything by sight and touch. EVERY TIME!
Violation of any of the 5 rules should be grounds for mandatory retraining at the minimum.
Economic Left/Right: -4.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.64
The economic side is the harder for me to be sure of, there's so little science to economics that having an accurate, evidence-based set of views there is nearly impossible. That said the nordic countries seem to be doing better than most of the rest of the world, and they're pretty well left.
Actually, the "es" is itself a contraction of the older form using "his" or "her" to indicate possessive. "Peter his cat" became "Peteres cat" became "Peter's cat." This practice died out with Old English.
And even if they're just using radio if the signals are highly compressed (or encrypted) they'll be indistinguishable from noise. Different noise than the background, but still not data. So it's not the interval between a civilization discovering radio and discovering some more advanced technology that matters, it's the interval between the discovery of radio and the discovery of sufficiently advanced compression techniques.
Since all the comments replying to this seem to have missed what I was replying to, the idea was to have various people on the internet send enough false takedown notices to effectively DDOS many sites as a protest. I was pointing out that those people sending the false requests either need to be large corporations or located outside the US. Just like this shell company is from India.
I do occasionally correct peoples' spelling and grammar, but I always try to do it in the most polite manner possible. If the forum in use allows private messaging I always use that, and if not I do my best to present it as an attempt to help the other person improve.
For example, Aceticon used "digesteable" instead of "digestible" above. That's a minor error that doesn't significantly reduce my ability to comprehend the meaning of his post. It did make me think something was odd about the statement, but otherwise his command of English seems quite excellent, especially for a non-native speaker. It certainly doesn't invalidate his statement in any way.
Not everyone who corrects spelling/grammar is using that as a form of ad hominem attack, some of us just think that English is a ridiculously complicated language and want to help others get better at using it when they must.
The problem is that takedown requests are made under penalty of perjury. That means a DA or other state prosecutor must file the charges, not the victim. If you're a large business and you make a false takedown request for profit no prosecutor is going to bother, but if you are a politically inconvenient protestor using the system to demonstrate the flaws you're much more likely to get arrested. So we need some Anonymous people from outside US jurisdiction to have fun with this.
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Jet engine turbine blades are sometimes made using an investment casting process. It can produce very high quality output with complex geometry, and even monocrystalline metal parts. Casting an upper and barrel from a 3D printed mold would take research but isn't beyond the realm of practicality.
No, it's about where you put things as well.
Don't have 5 pages of power plans. Have either an "advanced settings" mode that can be toggled somewhere which shows extra settings for those users who want them, or a second settings configuration system (Gnome used to do the second, but I've not used it in a while.) The average user shouldn't see tons of confusing choices, and there should be sensible defaults. The advanced user should be ABLE to change what they want, but no one should be required to do so. And if an option in a "hidden" configuration menu/file is something users commonly access, either in testing or via anonymized usage tracking, you should probably make that setting easier to access.
The goal is to have the simplest interface be the most visible with the most commonly accessed functions, and the more complex interface accessible but not in your face. Google's homepage is a perfect example of this sort of design, it's quite simple, the most common function (search) is the majority of the interface, other services along the top, with the less accessed ones in the "more" menu and the least accessed ones relegated to "even more." There's even a way to get directly to each of the less-accessed functions: type or bookmark their URLs. Their account settings are similar.
Closing the laptop can be for several reasons:
Want the laptop in sleep mode.
Want the laptop in hibernate.
Want the laptop to power off.
Want the laptop to stay on with the screen off, say because I'm downloading/rendering something overnight.
Different people may have different default desires.
I have very small hands (17cm from wrist to tip of middle finger, 9cm long middle finger from base of knuckle to tip, 11cm from wrist to tip of thumb.) I can comfortably use a Note II with one hand. I tend to naturally palm the edge to help hold it up when I want to reach from one corner to the other. The movement doesn't feel odd to me, though I'm sure it would to some people.
I'd expect a troop carrier to weigh more than a tank actually. Both need similar amounts of armor to keep the crew safe. The troop carrier carries far more people, and their equipment. It also has its own mounted weapons, though those are much smaller than the ones on a tank. So it should be a bigger vehicle, with similar armor, less weaponry but more cargo. Depending on the number of troops carried it could reasonably weigh more than a tank.
Of course in the case of the GCV it's weight is probably more a case of shifting requirements from management adding more and more bulk to the thing than a reasonable way to carry lots of troops into combat. After all, it is only meant to carry 9 people.
"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." -- Mark Twain
It's technically the "Eurofigther EF-2000 Typhoon". Eurofighter GmbH is the company (consortium) that makes it, EF-2000 the model number, Typhoon the name.
I'd probably still file a police report. That way, if the leech has been doing something illegal through your connection you'll have evidence in the police records that it wasn't you.
With some time such a joke will be well tempered.
Let N be the set of all IP-addressable nodes. Let d:NxN -> H be the number of hops from one node to another returned by traceroute. The metric space so defined is cyberspace.
There, it's a mathematical space.
Cyberspace is the space (in the mathematical sense) of all IP-addressable systems. Packets travel through the space via paths, having a source and a destination. It's not a vector space, but some aspects of it can be modeled like one.
That said, it's nothing like TRON. THAT is the stupid concept that gets conflated with cyberspace.
And I DO condemn all other cops for the same. I just take issue with somehow excepting him from being in the group of evil cops because he's fighting other evil cops. They're all evil.
And not knowing how to aim.
There shouldn't have been any bullets fired, but if you're sure of your target* and going to fire at least hit the damn target. There should have been a nice big ragged hole where the driver's head is, not bullets all over the place.
*the vehicle shot was the wrong make and the wrong color. It looked nothing like the suspect vehicle. The police fired without warning. This is inexcusable. Not knowing how to aim is a training problem, firing on non-suspect targets should always result in jail time on felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon (or similar) and permanent removal from law enforcement.
There are 5 rules of gun use/safety. All are of equal importance.
All firearms are loaded. - There are no exceptions. Don't pretend that this is true. Know that it is and handle all firearms accordingly. Do not believe it when someone says: "It isn't loaded."
Never let the muzzle of a firearm point at anything you are not willing to destroy. - If you are not willing to see a bullet hole in it do not allow a firearm's muzzle to point at it. This includes things like your foot, the TV, the refrigerator, the dog, or anything else that would cause general upset if a hole appeared in it.
Keep your finger off the trigger unless your sights are on the target. - Danger abounds if you keep your finger on the trigger when you are not about to shoot. Speed is not gained by prematurely placing your finger on the trigger as bringing a firearm to bear on a target takes more time than it takes to move your finger to the trigger. Negligent discharges would be eliminated if this rule were followed 100% of the time.
Be sure of your target and what is behind it. - Never shoot at sounds or a target you cannot positively identify. Know what is in line with the target and what is behind it (bullets are designed to go through things). Be aware of your surroundings whether on a range, in the woods, or in a potentially lethal conflict.
Take nothing for granted. Check everything by sight and touch. EVERY TIME!
Violation of any of the 5 rules should be grounds for mandatory retraining at the minimum.
He murdered two innocent people. He's an evil (ex) cop.
I wonder if they count embassies, since those are always considered the territory of the nation they represent.
Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.64
The economic side is the harder for me to be sure of, there's so little science to economics that having an accurate, evidence-based set of views there is nearly impossible. That said the nordic countries seem to be doing better than most of the rest of the world, and they're pretty well left.
Actually, the "es" is itself a contraction of the older form using "his" or "her" to indicate possessive. "Peter his cat" became "Peteres cat" became "Peter's cat." This practice died out with Old English.
And even if they're just using radio if the signals are highly compressed (or encrypted) they'll be indistinguishable from noise. Different noise than the background, but still not data.
So it's not the interval between a civilization discovering radio and discovering some more advanced technology that matters, it's the interval between the discovery of radio and the discovery of sufficiently advanced compression techniques.
Since all the comments replying to this seem to have missed what I was replying to, the idea was to have various people on the internet send enough false takedown notices to effectively DDOS many sites as a protest. I was pointing out that those people sending the false requests either need to be large corporations or located outside the US. Just like this shell company is from India.
I do occasionally correct peoples' spelling and grammar, but I always try to do it in the most polite manner possible. If the forum in use allows private messaging I always use that, and if not I do my best to present it as an attempt to help the other person improve.
For example, Aceticon used "digesteable" instead of "digestible" above. That's a minor error that doesn't significantly reduce my ability to comprehend the meaning of his post. It did make me think something was odd about the statement, but otherwise his command of English seems quite excellent, especially for a non-native speaker. It certainly doesn't invalidate his statement in any way.
Not everyone who corrects spelling/grammar is using that as a form of ad hominem attack, some of us just think that English is a ridiculously complicated language and want to help others get better at using it when they must.
It's called Freenet, and due largely to a lack of users it's pretty slow. But it does work, even if there isn't that much content available.
The problem is that takedown requests are made under penalty of perjury. That means a DA or other state prosecutor must file the charges, not the victim. If you're a large business and you make a false takedown request for profit no prosecutor is going to bother, but if you are a politically inconvenient protestor using the system to demonstrate the flaws you're much more likely to get arrested.
So we need some Anonymous people from outside US jurisdiction to have fun with this.
The problem with morons and alcohol is that they tend to add heavy machinery to the mix and get others around them killed.
Google Maps has this, you can save areas to the phone. They take quite a bit of space though.
So install a second browser, just for Java. Disable the plugin on your other browsers, and sandbox the browser with Java as well as you can.
I use Chrome in a VM for Java (and some other probably insecure things, like viewing sites where I can't block ads.)