It costs a lot to stop traffic (gas, a lot of peoples time, wear on a lot of cars), it doesn't cost that much to make you wait (one slighty aggravated peon). Until that changes, prepare to wait.
I always felt weird when intersections would stop traffic to let me cross, I always felt like an idiot walking across an 8 lane road packed with cars waiting for my worthless ass to get across the street.
We are losing a soldier for every 100 of the enemy killed. We are politically losing the war, but on the battlefield are troops are kicking ass and not bothering with names.
Be careful, I learned in my driving class (damn you san jose police department!) that the whole radar thing is mostly outdated and very few stations still use them. The laser technology is much more reliable and my instructor told me it actually reads the license plate (somehow) and shows the cop who you are, so they have a rcord that says something like:
2004-12-01 14:58 Bill AnyName, San Jose, CA - 98 MPH
I happened to have a cool instructor though and she explained ot us that if we simply spray some thick hair spray on our plate or buy a diffusing cover, it will diffues the laser and render the speed detector null.
I hate cops pulling you over for speeding and ticketing you, its one of the dumbest things ever, I cant think of any other small crime where you don't at least get a warning to stop first. Oh, and now that I've moved to Buffalo for college, the cops are EVEN WORSE here.
Sorry for being so off topic. Oh, and um, the RIAA can go **** itself! Viva la free advertising they should be happy for instead of suing!
*sniffle* I'll only drive a standard! I know I'm in the minority here in the states but some of us Americans do like to have control of our vehicles!!!
There can be a perfect woman for a given individual. If you could build a woman to exact specs then I see no reason why you couldnt custom tailor a woman for a specific person. The only problem I could see with this is... I like variety;)
No, the worls IS NOT over run by creature from Xen. The combine is a different alien species altogether. The portals from xen were only activated two times, once during the resonance cascade failure, and by Nihilith sending in aliens to try and kill you (Gordon Freeman). Well, that is slightly wrong as there are now the vortigaunts in City 17 as well, so they must have teleported too, but I can't think of a better way of wording it.
Anyway, the combine are a weirdo half machine half living flesh thingy that has enslaved a lot of the human race. They are NOT Xen aliens. I think the universe is much more expansive than we have seen in the first two games. I think Xen and Earth are just pawns in an interstellar story and HL3 and so on will only reveal more and more of a crazy mixed up universe. What these games have done is really quite incredible considering there aren't any cit scenes or books to read or anything. They have really crammed a lot into the players normal progression.
Even if the investigators KNOW you did it, unless they can prove it in court you wont go to jail. You are technically free to spray your house with almost anything you want as long as it's not dangerous.
The car will go for 200 miles. Assuming you dont have to run down the battery all the way, then you just have to top it off every night. I mean, really, how many miles is the commute to work and back and then maybe subsequent driving like going to restruants and such? Even when I was living in California, i would rarely hit the 100 mile mark on any given day. Now living in a much less sprawled out area I rarely hit fifty, with a lot of chauffering people around and random decisions to head down some random road. So you just plug it in when you get home, its no big deal really.
Of course it isn't the end all. People in rural areas and such will still need a gas powered or hybrid or what-not, but for the average commuter who just needs thier car to get them to work/school/movies/restraunts/grocery store/etc. its fine.
you obviously have no idea how battery charging works. It isnt linear. It tapers off when you get neat the capcity of the battery. I have no idea what these particular batteries do, but Im sure if you got 2000 miles to a charge it would have stated it somewhere as that is MUCH bigger news than 200 MPH.
Grrr... No one on slashdot seems to realize that one of the primary points of steam is NOT to stop piracy. The idea of being able to verify all the files on someone's computer adresses the much larger issue of CHEATING. Cheating in multiplayer games has been a huge issue with Half-Life and I think more than anything else valve wanted to make sure all the game files are un-edited to prevent cheatng by hacking the game.
C'mon twenty seconds.... cmon.... w00t! I can post now!
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C'mon, forty plus posts and no one's mentioned the glaring grammatical mistake yet???
The ExtremeTech series of Wiley books aims at the readers who are curious about technology and are willing to dedicate some time to personal to projects that educate and develop skills.
Um, ok, I hate traffic tickets just as much as the next guy... in fact, I complain about them daily, but the computer taking your picture at a red light is supposed to be protecting people. Its supposed to deter that asshole who runs the red light and kills your loved one becuase he was a little late for work.
And a little offtopic... I got my picture taken by one of those cameras and its been like two or three months and I never got a ticket in the mail or whatever... Im hoping it was too close to tell whether I ran the light or not. Does anyone know if a human being somewhere in between the picture being taken and the ticket being mailed looks at the picture to determine if the law was being broken?
Bigger is a really big thing with a portable MP3 player. So to answer your question, I care. I bought an Ipod becuase its so small and still has 40 gigs in it. When something has to fit in your pocket, almost all the time, it's nice to have it be slim and small.
Yeah, I cant wait until everyone is constantly running unrecycled water through thier computers... thats a GREAT use of a limited resource.
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No, the chicken cae first according to evolution, if the naming convention of eggs is that the egg is named for the animal it came from and not what it houses. Lets call the animal that came before the chicken, Animal X, then it is an Animal X Egg that a chicken hatched out of.
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It costs a lot to stop traffic (gas, a lot of peoples time, wear on a lot of cars), it doesn't cost that much to make you wait (one slighty aggravated peon). Until that changes, prepare to wait.
I always felt weird when intersections would stop traffic to let me cross, I always felt like an idiot walking across an 8 lane road packed with cars waiting for my worthless ass to get across the street.
I think its funny that both problems are easily solvable simply by throwing enough momey at them. Alas, the world makes some sort of sick sense.
If I am an average joe (and am not hiding a secret porn stash)
That's a pretty BIG if. Plus, there are many websites on-line that store huge amlounts of porn. So that aspect is/can be held on-line too.
We are losing a soldier for every 100 of the enemy killed. We are politically losing the war, but on the battlefield are troops are kicking ass and not bothering with names.
Be careful, I learned in my driving class (damn you san jose police department!) that the whole radar thing is mostly outdated and very few stations still use them. The laser technology is much more reliable and my instructor told me it actually reads the license plate (somehow) and shows the cop who you are, so they have a rcord that says something like:
2004-12-01 14:58 Bill AnyName, San Jose, CA - 98 MPH
I happened to have a cool instructor though and she explained ot us that if we simply spray some thick hair spray on our plate or buy a diffusing cover, it will diffues the laser and render the speed detector null.
I hate cops pulling you over for speeding and ticketing you, its one of the dumbest things ever, I cant think of any other small crime where you don't at least get a warning to stop first. Oh, and now that I've moved to Buffalo for college, the cops are EVEN WORSE here.
Sorry for being so off topic. Oh, and um, the RIAA can go **** itself! Viva la free advertising they should be happy for instead of suing!
Yeah, so this is offtopic, but what the hell. That last line you typed could really just be your signature... this is slashdot after all =)
*sniffle* I'll only drive a standard! I know I'm in the minority here in the states but some of us Americans do like to have control of our vehicles!!!
The Jetta is a chick car.
There can be a perfect woman for a given individual. If you could build a woman to exact specs then I see no reason why you couldnt custom tailor a woman for a specific person. The only problem I could see with this is... I like variety ;)
Children aren't stupid. They are ignorant. There is a fine and very important distincion in those two words.
No, the worls IS NOT over run by creature from Xen. The combine is a different alien species altogether. The portals from xen were only activated two times, once during the resonance cascade failure, and by Nihilith sending in aliens to try and kill you (Gordon Freeman). Well, that is slightly wrong as there are now the vortigaunts in City 17 as well, so they must have teleported too, but I can't think of a better way of wording it.
Anyway, the combine are a weirdo half machine half living flesh thingy that has enslaved a lot of the human race. They are NOT Xen aliens. I think the universe is much more expansive than we have seen in the first two games. I think Xen and Earth are just pawns in an interstellar story and HL3 and so on will only reveal more and more of a crazy mixed up universe. What these games have done is really quite incredible considering there aren't any cit scenes or books to read or anything. They have really crammed a lot into the players normal progression.
Even if the investigators KNOW you did it, unless they can prove it in court you wont go to jail. You are technically free to spray your house with almost anything you want as long as it's not dangerous.
The car will go for 200 miles. Assuming you dont have to run down the battery all the way, then you just have to top it off every night. I mean, really, how many miles is the commute to work and back and then maybe subsequent driving like going to restruants and such? Even when I was living in California, i would rarely hit the 100 mile mark on any given day. Now living in a much less sprawled out area I rarely hit fifty, with a lot of chauffering people around and random decisions to head down some random road. So you just plug it in when you get home, its no big deal really.
Of course it isn't the end all. People in rural areas and such will still need a gas powered or hybrid or what-not, but for the average commuter who just needs thier car to get them to work/school/movies/restraunts/grocery store/etc. its fine.
you obviously have no idea how battery charging works. It isnt linear. It tapers off when you get neat the capcity of the battery. I have no idea what these particular batteries do, but Im sure if you got 2000 miles to a charge it would have stated it somewhere as that is MUCH bigger news than 200 MPH.
Japan.
The bird doesnt eat the worm for sport.
Grrr... No one on slashdot seems to realize that one of the primary points of steam is NOT to stop piracy. The idea of being able to verify all the files on someone's computer adresses the much larger issue of CHEATING. Cheating in multiplayer games has been a huge issue with Half-Life and I think more than anything else valve wanted to make sure all the game files are un-edited to prevent cheatng by hacking the game.
Perhaps that is why it already needs to be going so fast?
Maybe it needs to make up for the thin atmosphere by going through a lot of it.
I run gaim on windows.
C'mon twenty seconds.... cmon.... w00t! I can post now!
C'mon, forty plus posts and no one's mentioned the glaring grammatical mistake yet???
The ExtremeTech series of Wiley books aims at the readers who are curious about technology and are willing to dedicate some time to personal to projects that educate and develop skills.
First thing I noticed... =/
Um, ok, I hate traffic tickets just as much as the next guy... in fact, I complain about them daily, but the computer taking your picture at a red light is supposed to be protecting people. Its supposed to deter that asshole who runs the red light and kills your loved one becuase he was a little late for work.
And a little offtopic... I got my picture taken by one of those cameras and its been like two or three months and I never got a ticket in the mail or whatever... Im hoping it was too close to tell whether I ran the light or not. Does anyone know if a human being somewhere in between the picture being taken and the ticket being mailed looks at the picture to determine if the law was being broken?
Adult swim is your reason for watching TV? *shudder*
Bigger is a really big thing with a portable MP3 player. So to answer your question, I care. I bought an Ipod becuase its so small and still has 40 gigs in it. When something has to fit in your pocket, almost all the time, it's nice to have it be slim and small.
Yeah, I cant wait until everyone is constantly running unrecycled water through thier computers... thats a GREAT use of a limited resource.
No, the chicken cae first according to evolution, if the naming convention of eggs is that the egg is named for the animal it came from and not what it houses. Lets call the animal that came before the chicken, Animal X, then it is an Animal X Egg that a chicken hatched out of.