I don't remember where mine went and can't check until later tonight.. but i think mine was bottom left. Is it possible the cable is wrapped around something behind the other sidepanel? I don't know if anyone sells an extension cord for those, but i found some stuff that may work for you.
Even though that cable is out of stock, it looks like other suppliers are selling it as well. Or i could make you one this weekend if you're not in a rush? I can test it on my computer to make sure it will work and put it up on ebay for 3$.
The US Army is still reorganizing and changing to improve the ability to deploy more often and quickly.
I don't know about basic training but 19D/K OSUT (tanker/scout basic training + ait) has become easier on recruits and there is still a lot of experimentation going on. The thinking pre iraq/afghan was that converting civilians into soldiers was crushing them into hardened men. It's different now though.. anyone who signs up knows they are going into a conflict and face a career filled with fighting in front of them. So the training is easier now to compensate for the fact that anyone signing up is probably made of tougher material anyways.
This next generation of Cavalry is less regimented than previous ones. The current generation has seen more combat than any since WWII. Some from this current generation have been deployed longer than WWII though not in a continuous stretch. The previous generation still adheres to peacetime quality of life and garrison lifestyles (not everyone, but many). These three generations are at odds with each other.. each having a different perspective and way of operating.
I personally am hoping the current generation succeeds in keeping a regimented and orderly garrison (for supply and maintenance reasons) and allow FOBs to be cowboy style frontier outposts where personal style can express itself not only in your mission actions but in equipment and vehicle loads.
My reasons are simple. Combat is a fluid situation where skillsets can quickly trump by the book fights. However training, communication, supply, and support all need to be done by the book to ensure they happen properly and efficiently. Patterns and Rhythms are good ways to keep things synchronized and running but are easily exploited and become weaknesses in combat.
Examples: 1) Supply bookkeeping and admin meetings benefit from rhythms. Setting up your LP/OP in the same spot everyday is inviting disaster. Moving the LP/OP prevents an enemy from using a static plan and forces you to refresh the sector sketch each time. 2) Weapon and Vehicle inspections/layout ensure everything is properly maintained and in working order. Driving your convoy on the same roads everyday at set intervals is inviting ambush. Varied routes and vehicle distances look disorderly but prevents an enemy from making calculated ambushes. Of course ambushes still happen but they would now be opportunistic. The enemy can no longer muster all their forces at a specific time and place to attack.. they could still set a large ambush but there is no promise it would succeed or what exactly they would run into.
Anyways, i'm just typy-typing for fun now. Long story short is i don't think now is a good time for a big fight. Doctrine is still being developed and equipment being deployed/trained on. Give it a few years and maybe. You can also join the army now at the age of 42 without waiver. But the army is different now. You will probably see more combat before you reach sergeant than the last generation saw in their entire career. The thought of facing 20 years of that can be frightening.
*Generation being for 20 year military career spans and not life spans.
As a kid, I never really understood why they would attack our fleet. But now i realize just how long it would take to replace that fleet and it's pretty scary.
I bought and use that exact water cooler on an AMD965 (Phenom IIx4 3.4Ghz Black-Edition). It works great and i highly recommend it. My only advice for anyone is make sure your side panel doesn't have fans or protrusions in the back near your 120mm exhaust port. My case has a 180mm side fan that prevented the radiator (sandwiched between two 120mm fans) from being mounted inside the case. I dremeled out a slot so the coolant tubes could pass through the back (it's a closed coolant system, so you can't just dremel holes). Right now there is a 120mm fan inside, the case wall, radiator outside, then another 120mm fan. It's extremely quiet and i really enjoy it.
I'm of the opinion that most neckbeards predate napster. I don't know the average age of people acting for Anonymous but some of them must be atleast 30. Which means they were buying CDs in highschool (pre-napster and pre-mp3 player). But back then it was buying CDs, Rip them, share them at lan-parties. But we were atleast buying the things.
Whatever your job may be, you know what looks normal and you know when something strange is going on.
If something looks suspicious you should check it out. Not checking something out would preserve privacy, you are correct. It would also be removing an easy way to discover a problem.
I was pulled over once for my license plate light being out. But the policeman just asked a few questions and everything was good. Of course i'd rather not be "bugged" by a police officer about a light being out on my jeep. But it is amazing how sometimes a small thing can quickly lead to larger things.
On the other hand i was once riding with my girlfriend and she was pulled over by an undercover truck. Both officers were wearing plain clothes. One asked her for all her paperwork and the other one was on the passenger side pointing a light in my face and asking pointless questions. He even said to my GF "Your boyfriend looks scared." You have to understand that i am a combat vet and certainly not afraid of two men charged with keeping the peace. They were trolling us pretty much. I asked to his badge and he did show it to me. They said we didn't do anything wrong and that we were free to go. Routine traffic stop is what one of them called it. Total waste of time for everyone involved, unless they got enjoyment from the process.. which is more than likely.
What i'm trying to say is that pulling someone over for acting suspicious is something that can be articulated. Pulling someone over for a reason they cannot explain (hunch or feeling on their part is not suspicious acts on our part) is an abuse.
I'm sure that a bullet could puncture a silk cloth if it was held in a frame. But i have heard that it's possible that if someone is shot/stabbed while wearing a silk shirt, the knife will still pass into their body.. just not puncture the silk. So the victim will still have a deep hole in them but no hole in the silk shirt.
There is a similar effect with bullet proof vests (w/o plates).. the vest will usually deform and push an inch or two into the body (possibly cracking ribs and severely brusing) but no actual penetration occured of the vest.. in this scenerio the person "wasn't shot" but still sustained a minor injury.
I would like to argue the opposite. It's likely that steam communities will allow like minded people to play together. Existing friends can also play together and minimize the feeling that your team hates you. There is a lot of "meta-gaming" that goes on in steam that just doesn't happen with traditional non-steam games.
The only thing i can say about valve is you never know WTF they are doing but it will be great. When they first started working on TF2, it was realistic looking and nothing like what we have today. Before TF2 was released they came out with all kinds of great things. EP3 will be the same thing.. when it comes out, you'll be surprised and really enjoy it.
L4D2 is one of my favorite games, atm. When l4d2 came out a year after l4d1, i was thinking.. WTF valve, you barely finished the first l4d. But l4d2 really improved upon the ideas l4d1 created. I would still like to see the AI director more involved in the gameplay.. including versus mode. Even randomizing the maps a bit more would be great. Right now the big feature is tier2 weapon placement and goodies like pipebombs. You never know what exactly will be laying where.. which keeps the multiplayer games from turning into memorized mechanical unfun affairs.
It's usually very easy to mod valve games. Lately their games have been via match-making type things. You can host a dedicated server but it's usually not accessable via a server browser. What happens is people setup a lobby and search for an empty server (it could be official, dedicated, or local host). There has always been lan-play too, but it's not the way you remember from older games. You don't goto Multiplayer->Lan->create game. You just create a lobby, invite your friends, and play. This type of gameplay works well for "session" style games.. not for games like TF2 that are continuous with high player counts. Continuous games demand a real server browser, imo.
I looked at the Steam Stats the other day and the #1 game played was CS:S.. i was amazed! Guess what #2 was? plain old CS. Gah! #3 was Modern Warfare 2.
I loved the Public Quests.. what a fantastic idea. I played for a month or two and it was pretty low pop. The public quests were a great way to meet people. I would usually chat someone up and go "Hey, want to do that public quest together over there?" They'd go "Hmm, that would be nice because i've tried it solo and it's impossible." That's how friends are made!
I know this sounds overly simple and stupid.. but if you've ever played lots of MMOs, you'd know that most of the time it is a Massively Multi-player yet Single-player game. The public quests forced people into groups in a way that wasn't uncomfortable and can last as long as each person wished. Having to join a guild just to have "friends" doesn't feel natural to me. Feels more like high-school where you're crammed into a group together.
oh gosh, you are crazy. If you think (even in a few years) that you can cram my desktop into a phone.. you're insane. The games i play daily are fairly demanding on a computer. I don't think a phone can even play HL1 at a decent resolution, that game is over 10 years old. A phone doesn't have the storage capacity to download my TV shows.. i can store about 20 good res episodes which means you NEED a pc to store and manage all that content. Unless you plan on paying a service to manage it for you. If you have your phone loaded up with music, that deeply cuts into your tv show storage.
Your phone is a communication device. If your phone becomes powerful enough to play high-end games and manage all your music/videos.. guess what? You have a portable Personal Computer (PC) that can also make phone calls.
I also doubt that people are migrating from PCs to Consoles. Consoles were the gaming machines before PCs were. The people who play on PCs like it that way and Consoles are for people who want something that "just works". They can also coexist together. Some people prefer their MMOs and RTSs on the PC and their FPS and RPGs on console.
Damn, i feel like i've been trolled.
I will agree though that smartphones will likely replace portable consoles like gameboy and psp.
I believe you. Not sure why terrible people are kept around like that. In that kind of situation, it's the good employees that leave.. the shitty ones will stay because they are atleast getting paid.
I'm dying for a good android phone that doesn't cost so much.. all the used ones on ebay are pricy. I've been hunting for a good android phone every other day for two weeks now. I consider myself a tech-person but i don't have gobs of money to spend on toys.. i usually get them used or just build them. Unfortunately hand-held things are horrible things to try building yourself.. very clunky.
When i was a kid, all the housing on post had clothes lines outback. My family would use them for drying sheets, blankets, towels, and stuff like that. But usually just used the dryer for normal clothes. When i was living in a city a few years ago and barely getting by, i would tie up lines of 550cord around my appartment. The washers and dryers were centrally located between the appartments and cost several dollars to use. That saved a ton of money and made my apartment smell great. Now i live in a three bedroom house and lazy as can be.
When i was in Iraq, the laundry situation depended greatly on where you were living. When i was in Hilla, we could get our clothes washed/dried/folded in 8 hours. When i was in Basra, it took 3 days. When i was in Tikrit, we lived in the "crack houses" and laundry took several days... but actually having homes that time around, my platoon purchased washing machines and re-built the plumbing systems. The buildings were only one story but the roof was like an open roof penthouse type thing. We strung up 550 cord for drying and had wash buckets and machines up there. The only downside was my clothes were usually full of powdery-sand-dust. We had working showers, toilets, sinks... that lasted one month. An officer from the 101st showed up and decided he wanted our home. They originally gave it to us to use because it was so far from the PX and public bathrooms.. nobody wanted it. Before we left we gutted the home and removed all the plumbing we installed : )
So this weekend, i will try to get a system set up for drying clothes.. bedsheets and towels atleast.
I'm with you that some social services are good, but this is also how we get "bridges to nowhere". If someone wants to live in the middle of nowhere and pay for (almost) zero services.. why not let him/her do it?
I'm with you but the specs are usually dictated and the exact material or building process doesn't matter. If it meets the specs, great.. if not, the military isn't interested. A good example is body army recalls. The flip side of this is sometimes the specs are followed to the letter where some common sense needed to be applied.
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Is this your mobo and that green spot (F_AUDIO) on the left by the audio jacks is where you need to plug in? http://www.orangeit.com.au/catalog/images/prodimg/img1338.jpg
I don't remember where mine went and can't check until later tonight.. but i think mine was bottom left. Is it possible the cable is wrapped around something behind the other sidepanel? I don't know if anyone sells an extension cord for those, but i found some stuff that may work for you.
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8535
and this to create a male end: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=117
Even though that cable is out of stock, it looks like other suppliers are selling it as well. Or i could make you one this weekend if you're not in a rush? I can test it on my computer to make sure it will work and put it up on ebay for 3$.
The US Army is still reorganizing and changing to improve the ability to deploy more often and quickly.
I don't know about basic training but 19D/K OSUT (tanker/scout basic training + ait) has become easier on recruits and there is still a lot of experimentation going on. The thinking pre iraq/afghan was that converting civilians into soldiers was crushing them into hardened men. It's different now though.. anyone who signs up knows they are going into a conflict and face a career filled with fighting in front of them. So the training is easier now to compensate for the fact that anyone signing up is probably made of tougher material anyways.
This next generation of Cavalry is less regimented than previous ones. The current generation has seen more combat than any since WWII. Some from this current generation have been deployed longer than WWII though not in a continuous stretch. The previous generation still adheres to peacetime quality of life and garrison lifestyles (not everyone, but many). These three generations are at odds with each other.. each having a different perspective and way of operating.
I personally am hoping the current generation succeeds in keeping a regimented and orderly garrison (for supply and maintenance reasons) and allow FOBs to be cowboy style frontier outposts where personal style can express itself not only in your mission actions but in equipment and vehicle loads.
My reasons are simple. Combat is a fluid situation where skillsets can quickly trump by the book fights. However training, communication, supply, and support all need to be done by the book to ensure they happen properly and efficiently. Patterns and Rhythms are good ways to keep things synchronized and running but are easily exploited and become weaknesses in combat.
Examples: 1) Supply bookkeeping and admin meetings benefit from rhythms. Setting up your LP/OP in the same spot everyday is inviting disaster. Moving the LP/OP prevents an enemy from using a static plan and forces you to refresh the sector sketch each time. 2) Weapon and Vehicle inspections/layout ensure everything is properly maintained and in working order. Driving your convoy on the same roads everyday at set intervals is inviting ambush. Varied routes and vehicle distances look disorderly but prevents an enemy from making calculated ambushes. Of course ambushes still happen but they would now be opportunistic. The enemy can no longer muster all their forces at a specific time and place to attack.. they could still set a large ambush but there is no promise it would succeed or what exactly they would run into.
Anyways, i'm just typy-typing for fun now. Long story short is i don't think now is a good time for a big fight. Doctrine is still being developed and equipment being deployed/trained on. Give it a few years and maybe. You can also join the army now at the age of 42 without waiver. But the army is different now. You will probably see more combat before you reach sergeant than the last generation saw in their entire career. The thought of facing 20 years of that can be frightening.
*Generation being for 20 year military career spans and not life spans.
As a kid, I never really understood why they would attack our fleet. But now i realize just how long it would take to replace that fleet and it's pretty scary.
I bought and use that exact water cooler on an AMD965 (Phenom IIx4 3.4Ghz Black-Edition). It works great and i highly recommend it. My only advice for anyone is make sure your side panel doesn't have fans or protrusions in the back near your 120mm exhaust port. My case has a 180mm side fan that prevented the radiator (sandwiched between two 120mm fans) from being mounted inside the case. I dremeled out a slot so the coolant tubes could pass through the back (it's a closed coolant system, so you can't just dremel holes). Right now there is a 120mm fan inside, the case wall, radiator outside, then another 120mm fan. It's extremely quiet and i really enjoy it.
My case, if anyone is interested: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4034179&CatId=32
you are still using the original iphone?
I'm of the opinion that most neckbeards predate napster. I don't know the average age of people acting for Anonymous but some of them must be atleast 30. Which means they were buying CDs in highschool (pre-napster and pre-mp3 player). But back then it was buying CDs, Rip them, share them at lan-parties. But we were atleast buying the things.
Whatever your job may be, you know what looks normal and you know when something strange is going on.
If something looks suspicious you should check it out. Not checking something out would preserve privacy, you are correct. It would also be removing an easy way to discover a problem.
I was pulled over once for my license plate light being out. But the policeman just asked a few questions and everything was good. Of course i'd rather not be "bugged" by a police officer about a light being out on my jeep. But it is amazing how sometimes a small thing can quickly lead to larger things.
On the other hand i was once riding with my girlfriend and she was pulled over by an undercover truck. Both officers were wearing plain clothes. One asked her for all her paperwork and the other one was on the passenger side pointing a light in my face and asking pointless questions. He even said to my GF "Your boyfriend looks scared." You have to understand that i am a combat vet and certainly not afraid of two men charged with keeping the peace. They were trolling us pretty much. I asked to his badge and he did show it to me. They said we didn't do anything wrong and that we were free to go. Routine traffic stop is what one of them called it. Total waste of time for everyone involved, unless they got enjoyment from the process.. which is more than likely.
What i'm trying to say is that pulling someone over for acting suspicious is something that can be articulated. Pulling someone over for a reason they cannot explain (hunch or feeling on their part is not suspicious acts on our part) is an abuse.
BobisOnlyBob pointed out that "Darwin's Bark Spider has silk with an ultimate tensile strength of 27,600 MPa" and cited his source as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_tensile_strength#Typical_tensile_strengths
27,600 MPa is very close to 10x the highest number for steel that you put down. Easily more than 10x kevlar too.
I'm sure that a bullet could puncture a silk cloth if it was held in a frame. But i have heard that it's possible that if someone is shot/stabbed while wearing a silk shirt, the knife will still pass into their body.. just not puncture the silk. So the victim will still have a deep hole in them but no hole in the silk shirt.
There is a similar effect with bullet proof vests (w/o plates).. the vest will usually deform and push an inch or two into the body (possibly cracking ribs and severely brusing) but no actual penetration occured of the vest.. in this scenerio the person "wasn't shot" but still sustained a minor injury.
I would like to argue the opposite. It's likely that steam communities will allow like minded people to play together. Existing friends can also play together and minimize the feeling that your team hates you. There is a lot of "meta-gaming" that goes on in steam that just doesn't happen with traditional non-steam games.
The only thing i can say about valve is you never know WTF they are doing but it will be great. When they first started working on TF2, it was realistic looking and nothing like what we have today. Before TF2 was released they came out with all kinds of great things. EP3 will be the same thing.. when it comes out, you'll be surprised and really enjoy it.
L4D2 is one of my favorite games, atm. When l4d2 came out a year after l4d1, i was thinking.. WTF valve, you barely finished the first l4d. But l4d2 really improved upon the ideas l4d1 created. I would still like to see the AI director more involved in the gameplay.. including versus mode. Even randomizing the maps a bit more would be great. Right now the big feature is tier2 weapon placement and goodies like pipebombs. You never know what exactly will be laying where.. which keeps the multiplayer games from turning into memorized mechanical unfun affairs.
It's usually very easy to mod valve games. Lately their games have been via match-making type things. You can host a dedicated server but it's usually not accessable via a server browser. What happens is people setup a lobby and search for an empty server (it could be official, dedicated, or local host). There has always been lan-play too, but it's not the way you remember from older games. You don't goto Multiplayer->Lan->create game. You just create a lobby, invite your friends, and play. This type of gameplay works well for "session" style games.. not for games like TF2 that are continuous with high player counts. Continuous games demand a real server browser, imo.
I looked at the Steam Stats the other day and the #1 game played was CS:S.. i was amazed! Guess what #2 was? plain old CS. Gah! #3 was Modern Warfare 2.
That was the best, thanks!
I loved the Public Quests.. what a fantastic idea. I played for a month or two and it was pretty low pop. The public quests were a great way to meet people. I would usually chat someone up and go "Hey, want to do that public quest together over there?" They'd go "Hmm, that would be nice because i've tried it solo and it's impossible." That's how friends are made!
I know this sounds overly simple and stupid.. but if you've ever played lots of MMOs, you'd know that most of the time it is a Massively Multi-player yet Single-player game. The public quests forced people into groups in a way that wasn't uncomfortable and can last as long as each person wished. Having to join a guild just to have "friends" doesn't feel natural to me. Feels more like high-school where you're crammed into a group together.
oh gosh, you are crazy. If you think (even in a few years) that you can cram my desktop into a phone.. you're insane. The games i play daily are fairly demanding on a computer. I don't think a phone can even play HL1 at a decent resolution, that game is over 10 years old. A phone doesn't have the storage capacity to download my TV shows.. i can store about 20 good res episodes which means you NEED a pc to store and manage all that content. Unless you plan on paying a service to manage it for you. If you have your phone loaded up with music, that deeply cuts into your tv show storage.
Your phone is a communication device. If your phone becomes powerful enough to play high-end games and manage all your music/videos.. guess what? You have a portable Personal Computer (PC) that can also make phone calls.
I also doubt that people are migrating from PCs to Consoles. Consoles were the gaming machines before PCs were. The people who play on PCs like it that way and Consoles are for people who want something that "just works". They can also coexist together. Some people prefer their MMOs and RTSs on the PC and their FPS and RPGs on console.
Damn, i feel like i've been trolled.
I will agree though that smartphones will likely replace portable consoles like gameboy and psp.
I believe you. Not sure why terrible people are kept around like that. In that kind of situation, it's the good employees that leave.. the shitty ones will stay because they are atleast getting paid.
I have to ask though, you say "Libertarianism doesn't preclude ethics in business". Does that mean there would be laws to enforce those ethics?
I use dry-erase markers to remove permanent marker. Not sure why it works (alcohol in the marker?), but it's almost effortless.
I'm dying for a good android phone that doesn't cost so much.. all the used ones on ebay are pricy. I've been hunting for a good android phone every other day for two weeks now. I consider myself a tech-person but i don't have gobs of money to spend on toys.. i usually get them used or just build them. Unfortunately hand-held things are horrible things to try building yourself.. very clunky.
I just googled it and top link said you are wrong:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/08/12/analysts.say.android.passing.ios.near.blackberry/
http://gorumors.com/crunchies/how-many-smartphones-does-nokia-sell-worldwide/
When i was a kid, all the housing on post had clothes lines outback. My family would use them for drying sheets, blankets, towels, and stuff like that. But usually just used the dryer for normal clothes. When i was living in a city a few years ago and barely getting by, i would tie up lines of 550cord around my appartment. The washers and dryers were centrally located between the appartments and cost several dollars to use. That saved a ton of money and made my apartment smell great. Now i live in a three bedroom house and lazy as can be.
When i was in Iraq, the laundry situation depended greatly on where you were living. When i was in Hilla, we could get our clothes washed/dried/folded in 8 hours. When i was in Basra, it took 3 days. When i was in Tikrit, we lived in the "crack houses" and laundry took several days... but actually having homes that time around, my platoon purchased washing machines and re-built the plumbing systems. The buildings were only one story but the roof was like an open roof penthouse type thing. We strung up 550 cord for drying and had wash buckets and machines up there. The only downside was my clothes were usually full of powdery-sand-dust. We had working showers, toilets, sinks... that lasted one month. An officer from the 101st showed up and decided he wanted our home. They originally gave it to us to use because it was so far from the PX and public bathrooms.. nobody wanted it. Before we left we gutted the home and removed all the plumbing we installed : )
So this weekend, i will try to get a system set up for drying clothes.. bedsheets and towels atleast.
Good article, thanks.
I'm with you that some social services are good, but this is also how we get "bridges to nowhere". If someone wants to live in the middle of nowhere and pay for (almost) zero services.. why not let him/her do it?
I'm with you but the specs are usually dictated and the exact material or building process doesn't matter. If it meets the specs, great.. if not, the military isn't interested. A good example is body army recalls. The flip side of this is sometimes the specs are followed to the letter where some common sense needed to be applied.