I work in radiobiology; I'm essentially a physicist who works with biologists and clinical types. All of the physicists, without exception, use LaTeX. All of the clinical people and biologists use Word with EndNote.
Actually, now that it's relatively easy to keep track of a players winnings over time, being a consistent winner at blackjack will get you ID'd as a counter very quickly.
None of that's true. Firstly, you CAN dim an LED by reducing the current through it. Secondly, incandescent dimmer switches are not variable resistors they are triacs.
You know how you can get people to download from you legally? Make it cheaper. So cheap that it's not even worth the minimal hassle to find it free. Don't like that? Not going to buy you your next Porsche? Tough; that's your only option to reduce piracy.
You've made a lot of money out of other peoples hard work for too long. I for one am not sorry to see your slow, struggling death. Evolve or die, bitches.
I think having something we love throughly fucked for the mainstream is common to pretty much all geeks. For me it's probably the Hitchhikers Guide movie. 'I am legend' was a close second though.
I had the exact same experience. The first 'so the internet is down' question on the phone support flow chart was 'what version of windows do you use'. 'I don't' got me put on hold for about 20 minutes. I then got put through to someone who sounded like they were stood in a server room and who solved my problem in about 30 seconds.
I think that drug dealing is the same as any other business. The smart, business savvy, guys can make a lot of money. The stupid and/or unambitious scrape by on near minimum wage. This is certainly supported by the dealers I have encountered.
The increase in knife crime has nothing to do with the ban on handguns. The handgun ban was just a government PR exercise post Dunblane; the number of privately owned, legal, handguns was in the low thousands and most of those were.22's. The rules pre ban were incredibly restrictive anyway.
We have a totally different situatation in the UK than you do in the US. Firearms (handguns especially) have been heavily restricted for over 80 years here. There has never been a large quantity of guns in circulation so the 'if you make owning a gun a crime only criminals will have guns' argument simply doesn't hold here. Even criminals determined to get a gun find it difficult - most are converted blank firers/air guns firing badly homemade ammunition. I totally agree that banning guns in the US would not have a positive effect on gun crime. I don't think we should legalise them here though, even though I would like to own one.
My housemate works in an accident and emergency operating theater. They had some guy in the other night who was stealing copper from a substation. His tools of choice? Axe and a kitchen knife with an uninsulated handle. Apparently he looked a bit like a pretzel.
A network feed from a second country would have made things more interesting. I always thought that the weakness in their model was that it was easy to shut down the feed without physically taking the platform. The cable/wireless feed has to come from somewhere on the mainland. This was the major difference from pirate radio in my opinion.
They talked a good game and had 'coolness factor' going for them but that was about it. I don't think they had all that many clients really. What were their advantages? They didn't offer anything over a normal provider. You couldn't host anything really inflamatory (i.e. normally illegal) there because you'd just get their link cut.
Nonsense. The problem is that drug laws and enforcement (particulary in the US) are insanely draconian. Prohibition doesn't work; I think we have enough empirical evidence of that now. Legalise currently illegal drugs and we can actually start tackling problem drug use in a sensible way.
I know. What kind of 'biggest impact on gaming'/'best mods' list includes some kind of Battlefield 2 Warcraft mod and skips over Team Fortress? Desert Combat?
I remember watching a brilliant (BBC I think) documentary on crop circles. The first half was some crop circle 'experts' talking about how a particularly complex circle was obviously constructed by extra terrestrials. Much reading of 'energy meters' and talk of how such a design was only feasible if you could see your work from the air.
The second half was footage from the night before of a group of cidered up locals constructing the circle with the aid of some lengths of string and wooden planks.
To be fair, hell is the 3rd time through. It's fair to assume that you're fairly hardcore if you're completing the game for the third time. I take your point though - stinkin' physical immune, lightening enchanted beasts.
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I work in radiobiology; I'm essentially a physicist who works with biologists and clinical types. All of the physicists, without exception, use LaTeX. All of the clinical people and biologists use Word with EndNote.
Shatner, is that you?
Actually, now that it's relatively easy to keep track of a players winnings over time, being a consistent winner at blackjack will get you ID'd as a counter very quickly.
Depends on the rat. My pet rat yums down jalapenos...
None of that's true. Firstly, you CAN dim an LED by reducing the current through it. Secondly, incandescent dimmer switches are not variable resistors they are triacs.
10 minutes from what power supply? 10 minutes on 240V, 100amps would allow it to produce 1000hp for an impressive ~0.5 seconds.
His book also contains a exact engineering description of Fat Man.
There is no such thing as a low security lab in possession of more than a fraction of a gram of plutonium.
Hey, current record labels?
You know how you can get people to download from you legally? Make it cheaper. So cheap that it's not even worth the minimal hassle to find it free. Don't like that? Not going to buy you your next Porsche? Tough; that's your only option to reduce piracy.
You've made a lot of money out of other peoples hard work for too long. I for one am not sorry to see your slow, struggling death. Evolve or die, bitches.
I think having something we love throughly fucked for the mainstream is common to pretty much all geeks. For me it's probably the Hitchhikers Guide movie. 'I am legend' was a close second though.
I had the exact same experience. The first 'so the internet is down' question on the phone support flow chart was 'what version of windows do you use'. 'I don't' got me put on hold for about 20 minutes. I then got put through to someone who sounded like they were stood in a server room and who solved my problem in about 30 seconds.
I think that drug dealing is the same as any other business. The smart, business savvy, guys can make a lot of money. The stupid and/or unambitious scrape by on near minimum wage. This is certainly supported by the dealers I have encountered.
Staying off the crack probably helps too.
Doesn't matter. Not providing the key is an offense, regardless of reason. You go to jail.
We have a totally different situatation in the UK than you do in the US. Firearms (handguns especially) have been heavily restricted for over 80 years here. There has never been a large quantity of guns in circulation so the 'if you make owning a gun a crime only criminals will have guns' argument simply doesn't hold here. Even criminals determined to get a gun find it difficult - most are converted blank firers/air guns firing badly homemade ammunition. I totally agree that banning guns in the US would not have a positive effect on gun crime. I don't think we should legalise them here though, even though I would like to own one.
My housemate works in an accident and emergency operating theater. They had some guy in the other night who was stealing copper from a substation. His tools of choice? Axe and a kitchen knife with an uninsulated handle. Apparently he looked a bit like a pretzel.
A network feed from a second country would have made things more interesting. I always thought that the weakness in their model was that it was easy to shut down the feed without physically taking the platform. The cable/wireless feed has to come from somewhere on the mainland. This was the major difference from pirate radio in my opinion.
They talked a good game and had 'coolness factor' going for them but that was about it. I don't think they had all that many clients really. What were their advantages? They didn't offer anything over a normal provider. You couldn't host anything really inflamatory (i.e. normally illegal) there because you'd just get their link cut.
Nonsense. The problem is that drug laws and enforcement (particulary in the US) are insanely draconian. Prohibition doesn't work; I think we have enough empirical evidence of that now. Legalise currently illegal drugs and we can actually start tackling problem drug use in a sensible way.
Yep. According to the interview I saw he's going to be pulling about 2.5g when the rocket kicks in.
I know. What kind of 'biggest impact on gaming'/'best mods' list includes some kind of Battlefield 2 Warcraft mod and skips over Team Fortress? Desert Combat?
All of his risk estimates are based on analysis of 40 year old quotes. He may as well have just plucked figures from the air.
The second half was footage from the night before of a group of cidered up locals constructing the circle with the aid of some lengths of string and wooden planks.
The scariest thing about that whole thing is that "interfering with a religion." is apparently a crime.
To be fair, hell is the 3rd time through. It's fair to assume that you're fairly hardcore if you're completing the game for the third time. I take your point though - stinkin' physical immune, lightening enchanted beasts.
The news is that it sounds like moles, not that vibration brings worms to the surface.