You correct. There are 10 Nimitz-class, and several other carriers of other classes.
From your link: Nimitz-class ships: USS Nimitz (CVN 68), San Diego, Calif. USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), Newport News, Va. USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Bremerton, Wash. USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), Norfolk, Va. USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), Everett, Wash. USS George Washington (CVN 73), Norfolk, Va. USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), San Diego, Calif. USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), Norfolk, Va. Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) (under construction) George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) (under construction)
Enterprise, JFK, Kitty Hawk, and Constellation are of a different class. Right?
Amen! Not to mention that all this "feed the children" stuff is about as shortsighted an approach as you can take. Feeding children is good, but spending the money on bleeding-edge technology will have much larger returns in the long run than making sure that a small town in BFE has clean water for a week.
No, I don't live in a small town without clean water, and yes, I work in the technology field. There's the disclaimer.
For me to read. At any rate, these are some awe-inspiring machines (Nimitz-class ships were #3 (IIRC) on TLC's Top 10 Military Machines of all time earlier this week). This makes 10, right?
SOmething like a minority report system might help some computer-bound slobs burn a calorie here and there.
Seriously, though, what would a gesture-based system be like for disabled people? Surely more diffucult than a mouse (which can be hooked up to a mouth-based control or something like that). ??
SO it looks like we're about 50/50 on love/hate VAIOs. I'm on my second (bought the first because it came with an ATI All-in-WOnder Pro which was shit-hot at the time) and the old one is still running strong as my linux box. Can't speak for their laptops, but Sony in my experience makes some good, very sturdy chassis with good-quality internals.
That said, half of us will love VAIO, half of us will hate it, and half of us won't care. THat's the way of the world.
There was a great article in a recent Game Developer mag about the what it takes to port from PC to console (the example they worked through was JK2). All kinds of problems, mostly dealing with controls; for example, that little joystick thing on a gamepad is way less accurate than a mouse, so they had to turn the auto-aim up to compensate, but not so much that the player felt like the game was being played for them. Also, anyone who's played JK2 knows that the lightsaber battles require a lot of buttons, say you want to force push while you're in a saber lock, so they actually had to change game rules to allow for lower functionality. Seems like a pretty crappy trade-off to me.
On a distantly related note, when Return to Castle Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory was released, I thought, "Hey, free game," and downloaded it. It turned out to be so great that I willingly paid the $35 bucks at Target the next day for RTCW. If someone had said, "Hey, want to burn a copy of my RTCW?" I'd have said, "Naw, it's a fun game, I'm okay with chumping out $35 since everything they've ever done has whomped ass." That's how to sell video games.
I don't remember ever signing anyting like that. I'm fairly sure sales and shrink are public information. Our store manager used to post shrink and weekly sales nubmers in very customer-visible places, as well as announcing them on the PA.
And some of the numbers are scary-- I worked a medium-volume Home Depot for a while, and if our shrink amount worked out to less than about $600,000 every six months, we were happy.
Although I agree that my argument is self-contridictory, inflammatory, naive, based on false premises, and conveys an attitude that would cause the most robust of societies to self-destruct, I don't see how voluntarily (remember, you don't HAVE to fly) walking through an x-ray device constitutes an invasion of privacy. That's the on-topic bottom line.
I'm sure that once I'm out of my irresponsible beer-guzzling just-barely-making-rent college days, my attitude will change and I will actually appreciate the freedoms I have. Until I can afford said freedoms, however, all bets are off.
Ah-ah-ah--you're inferring. "Knock down the door" falls into my disclaimer of "as long as it doesn't interfere with what I'm doing." Don't caught up in what you thought I said, read what I actually said.
What you're describing with your colonial example is at the best breaking & entering, at the worst raping & pillaging (no matter who does it). Both of those activities interfere with my life, and so are out. If I'm boffing a broad and someone looks through the window and the broad freaks out (thereby stopping the boffing) that interferes with my life, and so is out.
Feds want to search my house for no reason? Awesome! Knock on the door and ask to come in. Hell, knock on the door and demand to come in-- just don't do it during the middle of dinner or during the Simpsons, because that interferes with my life. Don't push, confiscate, pick my locks while I'm not home, or in any other way be a dick, because, you guessed it, that interferes.
Is it a bit sophomoric to wish that "Don't be a dick" was the highest law in the land? Hell, yeah. Does it bother me that someone in a van across the street (doesn't interfere) has a infrared camera aimed at my house? Hell, no.
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JFK also has a carrier named after him. SO it's kind of a moot point, don't ya think?
You correct. There are 10 Nimitz-class, and several other carriers of other classes.
From your link:
Nimitz-class ships:
USS Nimitz (CVN 68), San Diego, Calif.
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), Newport News, Va.
USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Bremerton, Wash.
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), Norfolk, Va.
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), Everett, Wash.
USS George Washington (CVN 73), Norfolk, Va.
USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), San Diego, Calif.
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), Norfolk, Va.
Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) (under construction)
George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) (under construction)
Enterprise, JFK, Kitty Hawk, and Constellation are of a different class. Right?
Amen! Not to mention that all this "feed the children" stuff is about as shortsighted an approach as you can take. Feeding children is good, but spending the money on bleeding-edge technology will have much larger returns in the long run than making sure that a small town in BFE has clean water for a week.
No, I don't live in a small town without clean water, and yes, I work in the technology field. There's the disclaimer.
For me to read. At any rate, these are some awe-inspiring machines (Nimitz-class ships were #3 (IIRC) on TLC's Top 10 Military Machines of all time earlier this week). This makes 10, right?
Seriously, though, what would a gesture-based system be like for disabled people? Surely more diffucult than a mouse (which can be hooked up to a mouth-based control or something like that). ??
Easy there, egghead.
Bearshit?
Of course, the single thing that had the greatest impact on human religion should be put in large, bold letters:SPACE TRAVEL
Read the Dune series (you can stop at the tripe his son wrote). It's impressive.
Five bucks says no one has the balls to mod those up as funny.
What' really ironic is that anything the butterfly would really block, they probably can't show on TV, so you never really see what you're missing...
That's the sequel:
Finding Nemo 2: Elbow Deep
or is it
Fondling Nemo
SO it looks like we're about 50/50 on love/hate VAIOs. I'm on my second (bought the first because it came with an ATI All-in-WOnder Pro which was shit-hot at the time) and the old one is still running strong as my linux box. Can't speak for their laptops, but Sony in my experience makes some good, very sturdy chassis with good-quality internals.
That said, half of us will love VAIO, half of us will hate it, and half of us won't care. THat's the way of the world.
There was a great article in a recent Game Developer mag about the what it takes to port from PC to console (the example they worked through was JK2). All kinds of problems, mostly dealing with controls; for example, that little joystick thing on a gamepad is way less accurate than a mouse, so they had to turn the auto-aim up to compensate, but not so much that the player felt like the game was being played for them. Also, anyone who's played JK2 knows that the lightsaber battles require a lot of buttons, say you want to force push while you're in a saber lock, so they actually had to change game rules to allow for lower functionality. Seems like a pretty crappy trade-off to me.
On a distantly related note, when Return to Castle Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory was released, I thought, "Hey, free game," and downloaded it. It turned out to be so great that I willingly paid the $35 bucks at Target the next day for RTCW. If someone had said, "Hey, want to burn a copy of my RTCW?" I'd have said, "Naw, it's a fun game, I'm okay with chumping out $35 since everything they've ever done has whomped ass." That's how to sell video games.
And it's loaded with pain in the ass redirects to try and steal your back button.
No shit. -1 pedantic to anyone who replied to that.
Oh, wait.
I don't remember ever signing anyting like that. I'm fairly sure sales and shrink are public information. Our store manager used to post shrink and weekly sales nubmers in very customer-visible places, as well as announcing them on the PA.
And some of the numbers are scary-- I worked a medium-volume Home Depot for a while, and if our shrink amount worked out to less than about $600,000 every six months, we were happy.
Rascist fiascos? In South Carolina? What is the world coming to?
Quit chunkin twenty bucks a night at an arcade and save some money to buy the fun toys. ??
I asked about this yesterday or the day before. See here
Excellent! How is it I've never heard of urbandictionary? Oh well.
Best part of Josey Wales: drink whenever Clint spits, kills someone, or says "I reckon." The gatling gun scene is a killer.
Can I get an etymology on "asshat"? I've been wondering about that for a while now...
Ha, dig that: "It usually works every time." WTF?
Although I agree that my argument is self-contridictory, inflammatory, naive, based on false premises, and conveys an attitude that would cause the most robust of societies to self-destruct, I don't see how voluntarily (remember, you don't HAVE to fly) walking through an x-ray device constitutes an invasion of privacy. That's the on-topic bottom line.
I'm sure that once I'm out of my irresponsible beer-guzzling just-barely-making-rent college days, my attitude will change and I will actually appreciate the freedoms I have. Until I can afford said freedoms, however, all bets are off.
Ah-ah-ah--you're inferring. "Knock down the door" falls into my disclaimer of "as long as it doesn't interfere with what I'm doing." Don't caught up in what you thought I said, read what I actually said.
What you're describing with your colonial example is at the best breaking & entering, at the worst raping & pillaging (no matter who does it). Both of those activities interfere with my life, and so are out. If I'm boffing a broad and someone looks through the window and the broad freaks out (thereby stopping the boffing) that interferes with my life, and so is out.
Feds want to search my house for no reason? Awesome! Knock on the door and ask to come in. Hell, knock on the door and demand to come in-- just don't do it during the middle of dinner or during the Simpsons, because that interferes with my life. Don't push, confiscate, pick my locks while I'm not home, or in any other way be a dick, because, you guessed it, that interferes.
Is it a bit sophomoric to wish that "Don't be a dick" was the highest law in the land? Hell, yeah. Does it bother me that someone in a van across the street (doesn't interfere) has a infrared camera aimed at my house? Hell, no.