I don't think it is right to call this a game more than one would call Dear Esther a game. Games gives the player a choice and an ability to change the outcome of the game, even if the outcome means that you have to start over and play again.
So, what you're saying is, the only way to win is not to play?//rimshot
Often times, we would fire a Tartar missile at a target. The damned thing may or may not get a lock on target in the first minute of flight. If it failed to lock, it would start searching for a target. Far, far out at sea, far beyond sport fishermen's territory, when a missile starts searching for something to kill, what is the easiest target to spot? Oh yeah - that would be US - the platform from which it was launched.
We never fired a missile without the guns manned up, ready to fire. I never kept count, but I know that I witnessed at least a half dozen of those things coming back at us.
So, serious question: no IFF electronics in those missiles? how about modern navy missiles?
Just want to point out that if gambling were controlled via some uniform set of laws rather than varying wildly state-to-state, this sort of nonsense would be moot. And that includes the taxation laws, as it's easy to deduct a tax from online winnings, just difficult if you have to change the tax rate for every dang community or region.
You know it increases my paranoia, like looking in the rearview mirror and seeing a police car. (At my advanced age, not cutting my hair doesn't really achieve much).
Or, perhaps, "The paranoia is strong in this one."
I have avoided making a whitelist so far, on the theory that every now and then someone (maybe even a friend!:-) ) might call me from a different number, and I'd hate to block legit calls, but if the mere fact that I've had the same number for 20 years and occasionally call retailers from said number means I'm highly rated & thus a robocall target, it'll be time to block 'em all. (wow, that was a Faulknerian sentence:-) )
Are we really that far away from a device in your home that you can stand in front of and it take your measurements? Something kind of like Kinect (if not Kinect itself)
you can do that now, but only when trying to board an airplane. So buy your clothes when starting a vacation, and have them arrrive at your destination the next day?
I use three different modules: roof, gutter and barrel, which together take advantage of the synergistic features enabled by cloud-based desalination.
Sadly, there are parts of the US where collecting rainwater off your roof is illegal. Something about maintaining the water table to support farming, or whatever. Just warning you before you spend all that money on your patents:-)
When a government scientist gets sacked for stating an obvious fact you know things are fucked
You mean like when Clinton fired his Surgeon General for having the audacity to suggest that masturbation was preferable to unprotected sex with random partners?
I direct you to healthcare.gov.:) In my experience there's a lot of it NOT going on.
Not really a good example. healthcare.gov collapsed because of poor database and I/O management, leading to huge memory and CPU requirements for each request. The GUI itself may well be very user-friendly, but we won't know until the engines behind it are functional.
Is *anyone* going to post something which references Asimov?
At the very least, maybe "Feeling of Power" or that other story about the top military brass discussing just how they processed Field Intel, could be worth discussing as "FBI warning fodder."
If you could get direct cranial links to body part avatars, which parts would you like some extras of?//thinking of 2 more ears so could hear Quadrophenia the way it's supposed to be heard:-)
No, the main reason that AO is not used for atmospheric correction in satellite systems is the so-called "shower curtain" effect. The atmospheric aberration effect is strong for ground telescopes because the atmosphere is near the 'scope, and thus is in the region where the light's phase is important. Looking down from a satellite (analogous to looking from the far side of the room at a person just behind a shower curtain), the atmosphere is where the light's angle is important, not phase.
Pffft... if they were really rich, they'd have their own fulltime bonded limo drivers on staff. Before you laugh, remember that the suckily rich own huge yachts which have a permanent crew whose only job is to make sure the yacht shows up at whatever port the owner wants his next party to be at.
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I don't think it is right to call this a game more than one would call Dear Esther a game.
Games gives the player a choice and an ability to change the outcome of the game, even if the outcome means that you have to start over and play again.
So, what you're saying is, the only way to win is not to play? //rimshot
You may as well punch yourself in the face for real.
Mr. Durden, is that you? I have an idea for a club...
That way, the name sounds vaguely like a neighborhood bully in a Mike Royko column :-)
Often times, we would fire a Tartar missile at a target. The damned thing may or may not get a lock on target in the first minute of flight. If it failed to lock, it would start searching for a target. Far, far out at sea, far beyond sport fishermen's territory, when a missile starts searching for something to kill, what is the easiest target to spot? Oh yeah - that would be US - the platform from which it was launched.
We never fired a missile without the guns manned up, ready to fire. I never kept count, but I know that I witnessed at least a half dozen of those things coming back at us.
So, serious question: no IFF electronics in those missiles? how about modern navy missiles?
Just want to point out that if gambling were controlled via some uniform set of laws rather than varying wildly state-to-state, this sort of nonsense would be moot. And that includes the taxation laws, as it's easy to deduct a tax from online winnings, just difficult if you have to change the tax rate for every dang community or region.
You know it increases my paranoia, like looking in the rearview mirror and seeing a police car.
(At my advanced age, not cutting my hair doesn't really achieve much).
Or, perhaps, "The paranoia is strong in this one."
I have avoided making a whitelist so far, on the theory that every now and then someone (maybe even a friend! :-) ) might call me from a different number, and I'd hate to block legit calls, but if the mere fact that I've had the same number for 20 years and occasionally call retailers from said number means I'm highly rated & thus a robocall target, it'll be time to block 'em all. :-) )
(wow, that was a Faulknerian sentence
These here coproliths in fact can be polished and made to shine. I bet someone's already got a line of coprolitic jewelry.
Well, since we (as humans) tend not to converse in math, why don't you explain it in English?
Actually, since this is /., someone needs to post a car analogy.
I think the universe expands faster than light. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, please.
No, you're correct, as light doesn't expand. (depending on whether it feels like being a wave or a particle just now)
more like the cellulite riddled butt cheek of a MILF
From that description, sounds more like a MINWTF (never want to)
My toothbrush handle is made of molybdenum, you insensitive clod.
Like we didn't see that one coming :-).
So... my molybdenum is made of toothbrush handles, you Soviet Russian clod.
One ring is enough
Yes, yes, Mr. Tolkien, we know.
Are we really that far away from a device in your home that you can stand in front of and it take your measurements? Something kind of like Kinect (if not Kinect itself)
you can do that now, but only when trying to board an airplane. So buy your clothes when starting a vacation, and have them arrrive at your destination the next day?
I use three different modules: roof, gutter and barrel, which together take advantage of the synergistic features enabled by cloud-based desalination.
Sadly, there are parts of the US where collecting rainwater off your roof is illegal. Something about maintaining the water table to support farming, or whatever. Just warning you before you spend all that money on your patents :-)
I don't know that I agree with the fact that lsd is safer than alcohol. Some people definitely have their brains fried from relatively little use.
AvitarX, meet Statistics. Statistics, this is AvatarX. He can't wait to learn all about you.
When a government scientist gets sacked for stating an obvious fact you know things are fucked
You mean like when Clinton fired his Surgeon General for having the audacity to suggest that masturbation was preferable to unprotected sex with random partners?
CSU better trademark "Crony State U" so they can shut down the new blog.
Meanwhile, color me surprised that the administration is showing no interest in resolving the faculty members' complaints.
I direct you to healthcare.gov. :) In my experience there's a lot of it NOT going on.
Not really a good example. healthcare.gov collapsed because of poor database and I/O management, leading to huge memory and CPU requirements for each request. The GUI itself may well be very user-friendly, but we won't know until the engines behind it are functional.
Ok, well, nice to see the junk faded out after a page or two.
Now let's see what the FCNBISIAA have on Stephenson and Gibson.
hasn't anyone besides me played on Google's front page today? #rorsachdoodle for you twittospherics.
Is *anyone* going to post something which references Asimov?
At the very least, maybe "Feeling of Power" or that other story about the top military brass discussing just how they processed Field Intel, could be worth discussing as "FBI warning fodder."
If you could get direct cranial links to body part avatars, which parts would you like some extras of? //thinking of 2 more ears so could hear Quadrophenia the way it's supposed to be heard :-)
No, the main reason that AO is not used for atmospheric correction in satellite systems is the so-called "shower curtain" effect. The atmospheric aberration effect is strong for ground telescopes because the atmosphere is near the 'scope, and thus is in the region where the light's phase is important. Looking down from a satellite (analogous to looking from the far side of the room at a person just behind a shower curtain), the atmosphere is where the light's angle is important, not phase.
Pffft... if they were really rich, they'd have their own fulltime bonded limo drivers on staff. Before you laugh, remember that the suckily rich own huge yachts which have a permanent crew whose only job is to make sure the yacht shows up at whatever port the owner wants his next party to be at.