Even better than making it the same colour as the background, is using CSS to hide it under something else:D
I know its possible, because I've seen far too many ass CSS pages where the person THINKS he knows how to use it, but is mistaken.
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Hehe, the only thing on MY case is a compiler construction textbook, the remote control for my industrial fan, and a pizza sauce encrusted plate. And the only thing PERMENANTLY on my case...is the pizza plate, sadly. I shoudln't have let the cheese set;)
They would have to result into a 50% gain in HL2 in order for the FX5900 Turbo to catch up to the Radeon 9800 Pro, not 100%. The graph with the customized nVidia code path has 40fps vs 60 fps. Although, of course, the nVidia path is lower quality, since the 5900 doesn't do 24bit precision.
Also, I wouldn't call it a CLEAR lead in Doom 3. The nVidia scores 20% higher on medium quality, but the Radeon takes the lead on high quality. Again, nVidia calls driver problem.
Myself, I will be upgrading for Christmas, when I will know for sure which one works best, and how the drivers are. This is also the time when the FX6000 Super Mega Turbo and Radeon10K Elite Pro Plus Plus(Or whatever) push the prices down on the "older" cards;)
So write a plugi....oh wait....;)
That aside, I agree. Animated gifs are WAY bigger than a flash animation. I think it is dumb when people say Flash shouldn't be allowed because you can make a crappy website with it. You can make a crappy website with anything.
It's true that you can't always get a plugin for your system. But I've never seen a good site with flash menus that didn't have a non-flash page, unless Flash is the whole point of the website in the first place (Such as various Flash cartoonists: Homestar, Killfrog, etc.)
They have discussed that sort of thing before. If it snaps, everything above the snap point will fly off into space. Everything below will fall. The "cable" would be more like a ribbon. A few feet across, but only a micron thick. It would have a surface area:weight ratio WAY higher than newspaper, and a dropped newspaper isn't very danagerous. A dropped STACK of newspapers may be, but they said that the design would not withstand the lateral stresses of falling down sideways (Since every inch of it would be falling at a different speed) and it would break apart. So you would get nasty black confette. You may say "Sounds danagerous, it is so thin it could cut you!" but there would be nothing to exert the force required to cut you, since it is so light.
Plus, this would have to be on the equator. So if you anchored it somewhere on a small island in the Pacific, it would mostly fall over water, anyways.
I agree with what you are saying in general, but there are some differences. First, a lead bullet's primary damage is due to a hole in you. The amount of lead it will introduce is minor, and can be treated via chelation, whereas uranium is one of the heavy metals which cannot be chelated. (Chelation is the process of introducing a chemical into the person which will bind with the heavy metals, so they can be flushed out. It works a lot like the stuff you can put in your gas tank if there is water in it) Being hit by a DU round will introduce more uranium than a lead round will lead. Of course, since they are so heavy, you are probably dead anyways. However, if it hits a tank, it will fragment and oxidize (burn) and spread toxic and radioactive uranium oxide dust over a wide area. I say it should be considered a poisoned weapon, but I concede that it is questionable, as it is hard to draw the line on how toxic a substance can be before it is TOO toxic. I wanted to show that they may violate EVERY rule, but I will admit that some of these "violations" are stretching the definitions. But the cloud of toxic and radioactive dust definatly poses a risk to people in the area. This violates the guideline on weapons which continue to act after combat has ceased. While the rules regarding bio/chem weapons may exclude side effects, the rules regarding weapons that continue to act do not. When US vehicles were struck by DU friendly fire in Gulf War I, they had to be burried in the desert because they were too radioactive to bring home, so I do not think that it can be argued that they do not continue to act.
Some reporters are claming radiation 1500 times background near targets hit by DU. Veterans are complaining of birth defects. Iraqis have been complaining of HUGE birth defect rates since 1991. I do not know that these are true, but they do merit investigation. And I think that, given the concern, it is irresponsible to continue to DU while the question is undecided. The Pentagon says that they are not safe, but I want an intependant study by somebody with no vested interest. Contractors have a vested interest because they can get DU for free. The Pentagon has a vested interest because they are highly effective. Peace group ALSO have a vested interest because they are highly effective. I would not trust a report from ANY of them.
There are more than two points of view in the world. If you don't like Bush that doesn't mean you like Clinton, either. If you dislike Clinton it doesn't mean that you like Bush. If you dislike big business trampling on your rights it doesn't mean you worship Al Gore. If you have a firearm it doesn't mean you praise GWB as the second coming of Jesus.
Breaking everybody into two groups trivializes their opinions. It is done so you do not HAVE to answer the tough ones. If somebody asks you a good question to which you have no good answer, you can just say "It's better than Gore would have done! And we all know that all Clinton would have done is get a hummer and raise taxes!" People love to call other people liberals, because it means that anything they say is wrong. It is an ad hominum argument, and worse. You are not just attacking the argument by attacking the person, you are attacking the argument by attacking ANOTHER person or group who have similar opinions on some issues.
Finally, the point that the grandparent was trying to make isn't that you shouldn't trust somebody who is rich, but that you shouldn't trust somebody who has a vested interest in certain issues. For example, if there was an Enron-like scandal involving Fox, would you trust Fox news announcing that it is just a rumour, and completly unfounded?
" There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an
independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you
who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know
beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for
keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others
of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who
would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the
streets looking for another job.
If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper,
before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of
the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to
vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for his
daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting
an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men
behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and
we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the
property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. "
- John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Times, reveared by newsmen as "Dean of His Profession"
Uranium consists of u-235 and u-238. U-235 is used in nuclear reactors. Depleted uranium is u-238 that has been "depleted" of its nuclear fuel. u-238 is still 70% as radioactive. (Yes 238 is way less radioactive than 235, since removing 0.3% of the material removes 30% of the radioactivity. But it is still radioactive) Further more, uranium is a heavy metal. Like all heavy metals, it is highly toxic. Symptoms of heavy metal poisioning include: Frequent headaches, nausia, vomiting, cold sweating, and neurological degeneration which is often misdiagnosed as Lou Gehrig's disease. Symptoms of radiation damage to the lungs include: Weakened immune system, chronic fatigue, chronic cancer, difficulty breathing, fluid in the lungs.
The pentagon released an internal report warning about all of this, since DU rounds spray large clouds of uranium-oxide dust into the air, which can then be breathed in. The Pentagon now says "We were wrong, it is harmless" But crews of tanks equipt with DU are still told NOT to get out of the tank anywhere near a target that has been hit. Infantry is told not to go near a target that has been hit or they will get cancer.
And no, DU isn't illegal in the US. But it has been determined by the UN to be an illegal weapon, as it violates the Geneva convention. First, they cause undue suffering (Long lasting heavy metal toxicity). Second, they continue to affect the area after they are used (Millions of years, in fact) Third, they are toxic agents. Toxic, biological, and chemical weapons are all illegal.
On the subject of of the Geneva convention, it is also illegal to attack any building, city, or town that is undefended. (Such as the house of a general) Additionally, civilian targets may not be targeted, such as hospitals, orphenages, churches, and so on, UNLESS they are being used for protection by the enemey in a firefight. This means that even if there is a general directing the battle from inside a hospital, you CANNOT attack unless they start shooting. (This means that if you see an enemy soldier haning out with some civilians, you may not fire unless he is shooting back AND using a civilian for cover. If you take a shot with a sniper rifle and hit a civilian, you are not protected and can be tried for murder. If said soldier was engaged in hostilities, then you are protected as long as you did not intend to hit a civilian) Additionally, it is illegal to present POW's for "public interest." Which includes photographs and television. Further more, on the prisoners in Cuba. The Bush Administration says that the Geneva convention does not apply to them because they are "illegal combatants" but the Geneva convention specifically INCLUDES illegal combatants in protection of POW's rights. If you are a POW you have the right to send and receive mail. It may be read, but not witheld. If you are not then you have the same rights as any civilian prisoner. Right to your phone call, lawyer, etc.
My source for what the Genvea convention says is the USMC conduct guide, so it includes the Marine Corps' interperitation.
If you send out a search to the Kazaa network, their machine TELLS YOU that they have that song, along with their IP address. What are they wire tapping again?
They always do. It just happens sooner due to the "mysterious future"
Of course, the intersection between the set of people who read the article, and the set of people who post regularly is about 18;)
The BBC is right, I was mistaken. The site where I saw the ninja thing recently (as in somewhere between right now and 5 months ago) printed a correction. He did it for kicks using the school studio. Some friends found it and put it on Kazaa. And I guess the ninja guy found it and posted it as himself for a joke, or something.
Yeah, I didn't believe it either. The only thing I can think of is if there was too much water, or something else that expands rapidly when heated, in the plastic, and a rapidly toggling flip-flop heated it up and exploded the chip like popcorn.
Yes, I personally think that it only says that people are free to join a well regulated militia. The bit about arms is just making it clear what the milita DOES. But that isn't how a lot of people take it (Probably because of the confusing grammar combined with hearing what they want to hear)
My point was, it is a stupid way to look at the law, but that is how a lot of powerful people do. If people point OUT that it is a stupid interperitation, because it allows nukes and landmines just as easy as a pistol, they either have to admit that it doesn't make sense to take it that way, or that yes, joe sixpack CAN have a nuke. Most prefer to say "They didn't have nukes back then, so it doesn't apply," but they didn't have semi-automatic pistols, or automatic rifles, either.
Didn't mean to come off sounding like a gun nut;)
And remember, "Thermonuclear weapons of mass destruction don't disintigrate thousands of people in a searing burst of Hellfire, people disintigrate thousands of people in a searing burst of Hellfire";)
From what I've seen, the kid runs a "Ninja" website, where he goes on and on about how Ninjas rule, and his awesome skills in Ninjitsu. Somebody asked him to prove it, and he posted that video, showing off his skill with the "bow (sic) staff."
A friend of mine had a trident VC that belonged to a friend that had stopped working (The VC had stopped, not the friend) and he also had a trident. He figures the bios is blown, so he pulls his bios out and puts it in this other card. Sure enough, the card works fine now. "Alright, he just needs to order a new bios chip" and he puts it back in his card. Puts the card in his PC, turns it on, and...*BOOM!"
He put the chip in backwards, and it actually exploded. I got hit in the cheek with a chunk of microchip.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Does it say "Except kids"? No. Are kids people? By current law, yes, they are considered people. Does it say what kind of arms? No. It does not say "No assault rifles with teflon coated armour-piercing bullets" or "No casless DUP minigun" or "No three-stage thermonuclear weapons" or "No stinger missile launchers with HEAT munitions" or "No anti-personnel landmines" or "No biological or chemical weapons." It says "Arms." All of those things are arms. And children, criminals, terrorists, Saddam Hussein, and corporations such as Microsoft, Starbucks, and Coke, they are people.
There would be no point in trying to pass laws to prevent this sort of thing, as they would be unconstitutional. If you don't like it, you can either leave the USA, or get the Amendment changed. Good luck with that second one, though.
This is very true! You can also get out of speeding tickets by firing the cop! And get out of paying for groceries by firing the cashier! Hell, you can even get out of murder by firing the judge! Of course, there will be a mistrial, but you can just fire the next judge, too. If you keep it up, they will get bored and leave you alone!
Oh wait, that is all completely wrong and stupid! My bad.
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Hehe, Bella Coola. A nice little vally town in the mountains of BC. Very steep vally. Only gets direct sunshine for 1-2 hours per day.
Anyways, obviously this won't replace the power grid, but every little suppliment helps.
Even better than making it the same colour as the background, is using CSS to hide it under something else :D
I know its possible, because I've seen far too many ass CSS pages where the person THINKS he knows how to use it, but is mistaken.
Hehe, the only thing on MY case is a compiler construction textbook, the remote control for my industrial fan, and a pizza sauce encrusted plate. And the only thing PERMENANTLY on my case...is the pizza plate, sadly. I shoudln't have let the cheese set ;)
They would have to result into a 50% gain in HL2 in order for the FX5900 Turbo to catch up to the Radeon 9800 Pro, not 100%. The graph with the customized nVidia code path has 40fps vs 60 fps. Although, of course, the nVidia path is lower quality, since the 5900 doesn't do 24bit precision.
Also, I wouldn't call it a CLEAR lead in Doom 3. The nVidia scores 20% higher on medium quality, but the Radeon takes the lead on high quality. Again, nVidia calls driver problem.
Myself, I will be upgrading for Christmas, when I will know for sure which one works best, and how the drivers are. This is also the time when the FX6000 Super Mega Turbo and Radeon10K Elite Pro Plus Plus(Or whatever) push the prices down on the "older" cards ;)
Half-Life 2 uses the Source engine, which Valve has been building from scratch for the past 5 years.
That aside, I agree. Animated gifs are WAY bigger than a flash animation. I think it is dumb when people say Flash shouldn't be allowed because you can make a crappy website with it. You can make a crappy website with anything. It's true that you can't always get a plugin for your system. But I've never seen a good site with flash menus that didn't have a non-flash page, unless Flash is the whole point of the website in the first place (Such as various Flash cartoonists: Homestar, Killfrog, etc.)
They have discussed that sort of thing before. If it snaps, everything above the snap point will fly off into space. Everything below will fall. The "cable" would be more like a ribbon. A few feet across, but only a micron thick. It would have a surface area:weight ratio WAY higher than newspaper, and a dropped newspaper isn't very danagerous. A dropped STACK of newspapers may be, but they said that the design would not withstand the lateral stresses of falling down sideways (Since every inch of it would be falling at a different speed) and it would break apart. So you would get nasty black confette. You may say "Sounds danagerous, it is so thin it could cut you!" but there would be nothing to exert the force required to cut you, since it is so light.
Plus, this would have to be on the equator. So if you anchored it somewhere on a small island in the Pacific, it would mostly fall over water, anyways.I agree with what you are saying in general, but there are some differences. First, a lead bullet's primary damage is due to a hole in you. The amount of lead it will introduce is minor, and can be treated via chelation, whereas uranium is one of the heavy metals which cannot be chelated. (Chelation is the process of introducing a chemical into the person which will bind with the heavy metals, so they can be flushed out. It works a lot like the stuff you can put in your gas tank if there is water in it) Being hit by a DU round will introduce more uranium than a lead round will lead. Of course, since they are so heavy, you are probably dead anyways. However, if it hits a tank, it will fragment and oxidize (burn) and spread toxic and radioactive uranium oxide dust over a wide area. I say it should be considered a poisoned weapon, but I concede that it is questionable, as it is hard to draw the line on how toxic a substance can be before it is TOO toxic. I wanted to show that they may violate EVERY rule, but I will admit that some of these "violations" are stretching the definitions. But the cloud of toxic and radioactive dust definatly poses a risk to people in the area. This violates the guideline on weapons which continue to act after combat has ceased. While the rules regarding bio/chem weapons may exclude side effects, the rules regarding weapons that continue to act do not. When US vehicles were struck by DU friendly fire in Gulf War I, they had to be burried in the desert because they were too radioactive to bring home, so I do not think that it can be argued that they do not continue to act.
Some reporters are claming radiation 1500 times background near targets hit by DU. Veterans are complaining of birth defects. Iraqis have been complaining of HUGE birth defect rates since 1991. I do not know that these are true, but they do merit investigation. And I think that, given the concern, it is irresponsible to continue to DU while the question is undecided. The Pentagon says that they are not safe, but I want an intependant study by somebody with no vested interest. Contractors have a vested interest because they can get DU for free. The Pentagon has a vested interest because they are highly effective. Peace group ALSO have a vested interest because they are highly effective. I would not trust a report from ANY of them.
There are more than two points of view in the world. If you don't like Bush that doesn't mean you like Clinton, either. If you dislike Clinton it doesn't mean that you like Bush. If you dislike big business trampling on your rights it doesn't mean you worship Al Gore. If you have a firearm it doesn't mean you praise GWB as the second coming of Jesus.
Breaking everybody into two groups trivializes their opinions. It is done so you do not HAVE to answer the tough ones. If somebody asks you a good question to which you have no good answer, you can just say "It's better than Gore would have done! And we all know that all Clinton would have done is get a hummer and raise taxes!" People love to call other people liberals, because it means that anything they say is wrong. It is an ad hominum argument, and worse. You are not just attacking the argument by attacking the person, you are attacking the argument by attacking ANOTHER person or group who have similar opinions on some issues.
Finally, the point that the grandparent was trying to make isn't that you shouldn't trust somebody who is rich, but that you shouldn't trust somebody who has a vested interest in certain issues. For example, if there was an Enron-like scandal involving Fox, would you trust Fox news announcing that it is just a rumour, and completly unfounded?
Uranium consists of u-235 and u-238. U-235 is used in nuclear reactors. Depleted uranium is u-238 that has been "depleted" of its nuclear fuel. u-238 is still 70% as radioactive. (Yes 238 is way less radioactive than 235, since removing 0.3% of the material removes 30% of the radioactivity. But it is still radioactive) Further more, uranium is a heavy metal. Like all heavy metals, it is highly toxic. Symptoms of heavy metal poisioning include: Frequent headaches, nausia, vomiting, cold sweating, and neurological degeneration which is often misdiagnosed as Lou Gehrig's disease. Symptoms of radiation damage to the lungs include: Weakened immune system, chronic fatigue, chronic cancer, difficulty breathing, fluid in the lungs.
The pentagon released an internal report warning about all of this, since DU rounds spray large clouds of uranium-oxide dust into the air, which can then be breathed in. The Pentagon now says "We were wrong, it is harmless" But crews of tanks equipt with DU are still told NOT to get out of the tank anywhere near a target that has been hit. Infantry is told not to go near a target that has been hit or they will get cancer.
And no, DU isn't illegal in the US. But it has been determined by the UN to be an illegal weapon, as it violates the Geneva convention. First, they cause undue suffering (Long lasting heavy metal toxicity). Second, they continue to affect the area after they are used (Millions of years, in fact) Third, they are toxic agents. Toxic, biological, and chemical weapons are all illegal.
On the subject of of the Geneva convention, it is also illegal to attack any building, city, or town that is undefended. (Such as the house of a general) Additionally, civilian targets may not be targeted, such as hospitals, orphenages, churches, and so on, UNLESS they are being used for protection by the enemey in a firefight. This means that even if there is a general directing the battle from inside a hospital, you CANNOT attack unless they start shooting. (This means that if you see an enemy soldier haning out with some civilians, you may not fire unless he is shooting back AND using a civilian for cover. If you take a shot with a sniper rifle and hit a civilian, you are not protected and can be tried for murder. If said soldier was engaged in hostilities, then you are protected as long as you did not intend to hit a civilian)
Additionally, it is illegal to present POW's for "public interest." Which includes photographs and television. Further more, on the prisoners in Cuba. The Bush Administration says that the Geneva convention does not apply to them because they are "illegal combatants" but the Geneva convention specifically INCLUDES illegal combatants in protection of POW's rights. If you are a POW you have the right to send and receive mail. It may be read, but not witheld. If you are not then you have the same rights as any civilian prisoner. Right to your phone call, lawyer, etc.
My source for what the Genvea convention says is the USMC conduct guide, so it includes the Marine Corps' interperitation.
In conclusion, two wrongs does not make a right.
If you send out a search to the Kazaa network, their machine TELLS YOU that they have that song, along with their IP address. What are they wire tapping again?
They always do. It just happens sooner due to the "mysterious future" ;)
Of course, the intersection between the set of people who read the article, and the set of people who post regularly is about 18
wats ur prob? lngwg alwys evolvs. lemme ax u somfin, do u use cntractns? prolly do, sinc u sed "I'll". dis is no diffrnt, u only sav 2 lttrs.
Ow. That sprained my language center.
There are already watches than run off of bioelectricity from your wrist.
The BBC is right, I was mistaken. The site where I saw the ninja thing recently (as in somewhere between right now and 5 months ago) printed a correction. He did it for kicks using the school studio. Some friends found it and put it on Kazaa. And I guess the ninja guy found it and posted it as himself for a joke, or something.
Yeah, I didn't believe it either. The only thing I can think of is if there was too much water, or something else that expands rapidly when heated, in the plastic, and a rapidly toggling flip-flop heated it up and exploded the chip like popcorn.
Yes, I personally think that it only says that people are free to join a well regulated militia. The bit about arms is just making it clear what the milita DOES. But that isn't how a lot of people take it (Probably because of the confusing grammar combined with hearing what they want to hear)
My point was, it is a stupid way to look at the law, but that is how a lot of powerful people do. If people point OUT that it is a stupid interperitation, because it allows nukes and landmines just as easy as a pistol, they either have to admit that it doesn't make sense to take it that way, or that yes, joe sixpack CAN have a nuke. Most prefer to say "They didn't have nukes back then, so it doesn't apply," but they didn't have semi-automatic pistols, or automatic rifles, either.
Didn't mean to come off sounding like a gun nutAnd remember, "Thermonuclear weapons of mass destruction don't disintigrate thousands of people in a searing burst of Hellfire, people disintigrate thousands of people in a searing burst of Hellfire"
From what I've seen, the kid runs a "Ninja" website, where he goes on and on about how Ninjas rule, and his awesome skills in Ninjitsu. Somebody asked him to prove it, and he posted that video, showing off his skill with the "bow (sic) staff."
A friend of mine had a trident VC that belonged to a friend that had stopped working (The VC had stopped, not the friend) and he also had a trident. He figures the bios is blown, so he pulls his bios out and puts it in this other card. Sure enough, the card works fine now. "Alright, he just needs to order a new bios chip" and he puts it back in his card. Puts the card in his PC, turns it on, and...*BOOM!"
He put the chip in backwards, and it actually exploded. I got hit in the cheek with a chunk of microchip.
There might not be something to complain about in the next article ;)
Does it say "Except kids"? No. Are kids people? By current law, yes, they are considered people. Does it say what kind of arms? No. It does not say "No assault rifles with teflon coated armour-piercing bullets" or "No casless DUP minigun" or "No three-stage thermonuclear weapons" or "No stinger missile launchers with HEAT munitions" or "No anti-personnel landmines" or "No biological or chemical weapons." It says "Arms." All of those things are arms. And children, criminals, terrorists, Saddam Hussein, and corporations such as Microsoft, Starbucks, and Coke, they are people.
There would be no point in trying to pass laws to prevent this sort of thing, as they would be unconstitutional. If you don't like it, you can either leave the USA, or get the Amendment changed. Good luck with that second one, though.
The reason they arn't used is that whenever a company buys some, DirecTV sues them ;)
This is very true! You can also get out of speeding tickets by firing the cop! And get out of paying for groceries by firing the cashier! Hell, you can even get out of murder by firing the judge! Of course, there will be a mistrial, but you can just fire the next judge, too. If you keep it up, they will get bored and leave you alone!
Oh wait, that is all completely wrong and stupid! My bad.
I believe he should die after deactiving the file system checker.