Infantry can take out tanks with a rifle. Not an ordinary rifle, mind, but a rifle small enough to reasonably include in thousands of personal armories. (esp. in a population in which there are almost as many guns as there are people.) Further, owing to their reduced mobility, tanks are vulnerable to even less sophisticated weapons wielded in sufficient supply.
A foot is a good weapon to take on ants, but you must be careful not to anger too many of them or your foot will be useless.
The downside is that CRTs are hard to find these days, and there will probably never be one that handles 720p or 1080p. Alas! But if you snag one today, you can ride out the early panel wars and buy a really nice panel in 5-10 years.
Yeah I'm a little confused about that since I'm typing this message using a 19" CRT which matches 1080p (and has a much greater framerate...)* which I purchased over five years ago for less than $250 at Best Buy.
*I never put it up that high though because for some reason UI and web page designers still expect lower resolution fonts...
Why does "but it's for TV" suddenly make everything five times more expensive?
That was the official policy in my state when I worked the polls one year. (and btw, it's not volunteer service. Poll workers do receive compensation.) Unfortunately it was undermined by the lack of sufficient volunteers from one of the parties. I was told, "You're a democrat" for the cases in which voters needed help. (especially odd since my state was predominantly democrat...)
Frankly though, I'm stymied as to a way to make sure the two (or more) representatives are actually representing the party they claim to represent.
How is that better than voting by marking up a heavy card stock ballot with a marker and running it through an optical scanner? If the goal is to minimize steps, why have the touch screen mumbo jumbo at all?
Plus, a sharpie is a lot cheaper than a tablet computer with built in printer.
So.. um.. go live in Virginia or Maryland. No part of DC is more than 5 miles from a place with voting rights. No one was supposed to live there year-round anyway.* It's a freakin' swamp.
*except the president. Though it's probably supposed to be some kind of ordeal that's supposed to have a humbling effect...
I mean, you can walk to either of those two states from anywhere in DC in less time than it takes to commute to Manhattan from long island.
If they want users, there are only two sources. Existing users of some operating system not their own, and users who have never used any operating system at all.
Since we're talking about desktops, The former happens to be the most immediately accessible group as they either already have the hardware, or are likely to purchase new hardware in the not-too-distant future. Further, windows dominates the desktop by a significant percentage.
If new-desktop designers want to have something people use (rather than just scratching their own itches a dark corner somewhere) then they are implicitly going after windows desktop users by definition.
Perhaps your girlfriend should stop using her mother's account. Or get her own account at a bank where her mother doesn't work. Having people be able to track your movement and purchases is irrelevant as long as they don't particularly care what those are, and won't sell the information to people who do. If your bank gives account records to anyone without a court order, you should probably consider legal action.
pre IP: 10,000 years of banging rocks at things, sometimes attached to sticks with animal parts.
followed by 5,000 years of "heating this lump that fell from the sky and banging on it with a rock" while "heating" got progressively hotter and "rocks" got progressively harder, larger
followed by about 200 years in which we've gone from "sharp and well balanced" being the ultimate in technology to "machines that do the yearly labor of 100 men in a day," buttons that when pushed destroy everything, farming techniques that are not only sustainable, but provide us with so much food that the greatest cause of death is no longer, "hunger and/or malnutrition," but "heart disease"
That 200 years also happened to coincide with the development of IP.
Well yeah, that's kind of the poster's point. While he can still use his hands, he should try and do some stuff that needs 'em. Video games are for when you're stuck inside.
also, speaking as a person who paid extra for the opportunity to dive with sharks, It's not as dangerous as you'd think, and then you have the story. (the reason I paid extra is that you almost never see sharks while diving under normal circumstances. Similarly, you almost never see bears or coyotes when hiking in the woods under normal circumstances)
What's the point of being alive if all you do is watch other people LIVE.
IIRC that was not a manufacturing error. It was a design flaw. One that is corrected by putting in an IR filter (as in, filters OUT IR). The CCDs themselves were (and still are) capable of sensing the near-IR light that caused the problems, though this was only apparent in their amplified "night-shot" mode.
The problem with your proposal is that evolution tends to favor individuals who reproduce. And the "stupid" tend to reproduce far more frequently and promiscuously than the "smart." If you're going to propose eugenics as a viable method of improving the human race, at the minimum, your plan must provide either a mechanism for the "undesirables" to be removed from the reproductive population or unevenly increase the number of breeding opportunities for the "desirables."
I don't know what it is in other states, but in FL, it's not an implied consent at all. It's an express, contractual agreement that comes with obtaining a license to drive that has clear penalties, which include IIRC, a fine and a one-year suspension of said license.
You don't have to agree to a Breathalyzer test, but they don't have to agree to license you to drive either.
There was a case a few years ago in Volusia County in which a chief of police was driving drunk (quite drunk according to the reports) but only got the one-year suspension because he did not agree to the test. He got to keep his job even, but must've been pretty ridiculous-looking being driven around to perform all his duties.
The moral of the story is: If you're guilty, don't agree to the test. A year-long license suspension is a lot more livable than a felony conviction.
Yes, it's somewhat of a poor choice of words. It's actually land-level rising in certain areas due to plates tilting. Of course this complicates the whole "measuring sea level change" thing since there is no stable platform from which to measure.
Remember, we live on a thin skin of floating rock on top of a sea of dense liquid rock. Since water is less dense than rock, the real question is why is there any rock sticking out above the water at all.
I used to play WoW, and I never hunted after *any* specific loot item. But there was still plenty of grunt work involved in completing quite a few quests. Step 2 or 3 in any quest chain was almost always, "Gather 10 of " And the number of items kept going up while the drop rate and respawn rate kept going down.
And don't say I shouldn't have done the quests. Doing the quests was what I played the game for. Even the cheesy ones. Actually, I rather liked the cheesy ones...
That and the weekly fishing competition. That was the one grind I found interesting, briefly, because it wasn't just a grind. The trick was to figure out how to get to the spots quicker than everyone else. IOW, cleverness was rewarded. But as I wasn't interested in grinding, My character never made it up to the level of 60 which is required for the prizes I won at level 46.
I never played any of the endgame areas, but I think I would only have done them a couple of times: once all the way through for myself, and again for others having trouble finding groups.
Hard Drives have moving parts Optical Disks don't Which is more reliable?
well the disk itself has fewer moving parts, but surprisingly, hard drives are more reliable. But I don't think HDDs or optical disks are the future of transportable storage.
It's only a matter of time before someone figures out how to manufacture USB stick with permanent contents for cheaper than flash memory. I mean, if you don't need to be able to change the contents ever, that's gotta significantly reduce the number of transistors required. It would probably only work for very large runs, but printed CDs have a similar scale problem and they've worked out pretty well.
Anyway, by having a standardized, serial interface, (and perhaps equally importantly, an existing standard...) the storage capacity would be forever decoupled from the storage medium. One player would work for any sized movie you cared to watch until the sheer quantity of data becomes too much for it.
Obviously, you wouldn't put the antenna in the in-the-ear part. But you need that space for molded plastic comfort-fitting anyway. Unless you use speaker phone options and hold the phone at arm's length, you're not doing any worse than currently.
Is it better to have 50 different servers with different operating systems, different software configurations, different connections etc, or just replace a significant fraction with largely identical systems when increased load or hardware failure necessitates upgrading?
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Pre-distribution and storage during periods of "plenty" as a stockpile/deterrent against periods of "scarcity?"
If he's the only one standing up to the tanks, I think he'd be screwed even if he were in some kind of nuclear powered super tank.
Infantry can take out tanks with a rifle. Not an ordinary rifle, mind, but a rifle small enough to reasonably include in thousands of personal armories. (esp. in a population in which there are almost as many guns as there are people.) Further, owing to their reduced mobility, tanks are vulnerable to even less sophisticated weapons wielded in sufficient supply.
A foot is a good weapon to take on ants, but you must be careful not to anger too many of them or your foot will be useless.
Or when a lethal alternative wouldn't have been used, with severe negative consequences.
The downside is that CRTs are hard to find these days, and there will probably never be one that handles 720p or 1080p. Alas! But if you snag one today, you can ride out the early panel wars and buy a really nice panel in 5-10 years.
Yeah I'm a little confused about that since I'm typing this message using a 19" CRT which matches 1080p (and has a much greater framerate...)* which I purchased over five years ago for less than $250 at Best Buy.
*I never put it up that high though because for some reason UI and web page designers still expect lower resolution fonts...
Why does "but it's for TV" suddenly make everything five times more expensive?
That was the official policy in my state when I worked the polls one year. (and btw, it's not volunteer service. Poll workers do receive compensation.) Unfortunately it was undermined by the lack of sufficient volunteers from one of the parties. I was told, "You're a democrat" for the cases in which voters needed help. (especially odd since my state was predominantly democrat...)
Frankly though, I'm stymied as to a way to make sure the two (or more) representatives are actually representing the party they claim to represent.
Already are my friend. Already are.
How is that better than voting by marking up a heavy card stock ballot with a marker and running it through an optical scanner? If the goal is to minimize steps, why have the touch screen mumbo jumbo at all?
Plus, a sharpie is a lot cheaper than a tablet computer with built in printer.
So.. um.. go live in Virginia or Maryland. No part of DC is more than 5 miles from a place with voting rights. No one was supposed to live there year-round anyway.* It's a freakin' swamp.
*except the president. Though it's probably supposed to be some kind of ordeal that's supposed to have a humbling effect...
I mean, you can walk to either of those two states from anywhere in DC in less time than it takes to commute to Manhattan from long island.
If they want users, there are only two sources. Existing users of some operating system not their own, and users who have never used any operating system at all.
Since we're talking about desktops, The former happens to be the most immediately accessible group as they either already have the hardware, or are likely to purchase new hardware in the not-too-distant future. Further, windows dominates the desktop by a significant percentage.
If new-desktop designers want to have something people use (rather than just scratching their own itches a dark corner somewhere) then they are implicitly going after windows desktop users by definition.
Perhaps your girlfriend should stop using her mother's account. Or get her own account at a bank where her mother doesn't work. Having people be able to track your movement and purchases is irrelevant as long as they don't particularly care what those are, and won't sell the information to people who do. If your bank gives account records to anyone without a court order, you should probably consider legal action.
The 88-key keyboard precedes Hoffa's birth by quite a few decades.
So let's look at that history:
pre IP:
10,000 years of banging rocks at things, sometimes attached to sticks with animal parts.
followed by 5,000 years of "heating this lump that fell from the sky and banging on it with a rock" while "heating" got progressively hotter and "rocks" got progressively harder, larger
followed by about 200 years in which we've gone from "sharp and well balanced" being the ultimate in technology to "machines that do the yearly labor of 100 men in a day," buttons that when pushed destroy everything, farming techniques that are not only sustainable, but provide us with so much food that the greatest cause of death is no longer, "hunger and/or malnutrition," but "heart disease"
That 200 years also happened to coincide with the development of IP.
There's no sharks in video games.
Well yeah, that's kind of the poster's point. While he can still use his hands, he should try and do some stuff that needs 'em. Video games are for when you're stuck inside.
also, speaking as a person who paid extra for the opportunity to dive with sharks, It's not as dangerous as you'd think, and then you have the story. (the reason I paid extra is that you almost never see sharks while diving under normal circumstances. Similarly, you almost never see bears or coyotes when hiking in the woods under normal circumstances)
What's the point of being alive if all you do is watch other people LIVE.
IIRC that was not a manufacturing error. It was a design flaw. One that is corrected by putting in an IR filter (as in, filters OUT IR). The CCDs themselves were (and still are) capable of sensing the near-IR light that caused the problems, though this was only apparent in their amplified "night-shot" mode.
The problem with your proposal is that evolution tends to favor individuals who reproduce. And the "stupid" tend to reproduce far more frequently and promiscuously than the "smart." If you're going to propose eugenics as a viable method of improving the human race, at the minimum, your plan must provide either a mechanism for the "undesirables" to be removed from the reproductive population or unevenly increase the number of breeding opportunities for the "desirables."
I don't know what it is in other states, but in FL, it's not an implied consent at all. It's an express, contractual agreement that comes with obtaining a license to drive that has clear penalties, which include IIRC, a fine and a one-year suspension of said license.
You don't have to agree to a Breathalyzer test, but they don't have to agree to license you to drive either.
There was a case a few years ago in Volusia County in which a chief of police was driving drunk (quite drunk according to the reports) but only got the one-year suspension because he did not agree to the test. He got to keep his job even, but must've been pretty ridiculous-looking being driven around to perform all his duties.
The moral of the story is: If you're guilty, don't agree to the test. A year-long license suspension is a lot more livable than a felony conviction.
Why would you want to sleep while things that like to eat you are awake and prowling about?
Yes, it's somewhat of a poor choice of words. It's actually land-level rising in certain areas due to plates tilting. Of course this complicates the whole "measuring sea level change" thing since there is no stable platform from which to measure.
Remember, we live on a thin skin of floating rock on top of a sea of dense liquid rock. Since water is less dense than rock, the real question is why is there any rock sticking out above the water at all.
The President can sign treaties (which in this case, I believe it was Clinton who signed it). But only Congress has the power to ratify them.
I used to play WoW, and I never hunted after *any* specific loot item. But there was still plenty of grunt work involved in completing quite a few quests. Step 2 or 3 in any quest chain was almost always, "Gather 10 of " And the number of items kept going up while the drop rate and respawn rate kept going down.
And don't say I shouldn't have done the quests. Doing the quests was what I played the game for. Even the cheesy ones. Actually, I rather liked the cheesy ones...
That and the weekly fishing competition. That was the one grind I found interesting, briefly, because it wasn't just a grind. The trick was to figure out how to get to the spots quicker than everyone else. IOW, cleverness was rewarded. But as I wasn't interested in grinding, My character never made it up to the level of 60 which is required for the prizes I won at level 46.
I never played any of the endgame areas, but I think I would only have done them a couple of times: once all the way through for myself, and again for others having trouble finding groups.
But this only raises the most important question of all:
Why is there so much "grunt work" in what is ostensibly a game?
Hard Drives have moving parts
Optical Disks don't
Which is more reliable?
well the disk itself has fewer moving parts, but surprisingly, hard drives are more reliable. But I don't think HDDs or optical disks are the future of transportable storage.
It's only a matter of time before someone figures out how to manufacture USB stick with permanent contents for cheaper than flash memory. I mean, if you don't need to be able to change the contents ever, that's gotta significantly reduce the number of transistors required. It would probably only work for very large runs, but printed CDs have a similar scale problem and they've worked out pretty well.
Anyway, by having a standardized, serial interface, (and perhaps equally importantly, an existing standard...) the storage capacity would be forever decoupled from the storage medium. One player would work for any sized movie you cared to watch until the sheer quantity of data becomes too much for it.
This thing: http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-HS850-Bluetooth-Hea dset/dp/B0007WWAGI masses almost half an ounce more than my current cell phone, which has output power of something like .2 to .8 watt depending on conditions. What is the blue tooth headset power level anyway?
Obviously, you wouldn't put the antenna in the in-the-ear part. But you need that space for molded plastic comfort-fitting anyway. Unless you use speaker phone options and hold the phone at arm's length, you're not doing any worse than currently.
Is it better to have 50 different servers with different operating systems, different software configurations, different connections etc, or just replace a significant fraction with largely identical systems when increased load or hardware failure necessitates upgrading?