true, engineering properly would help... to a point.
as you pointed out, there's more than just wind stress you have to watch out for; in the storm i mentioned earlier, we had cars flipped and thrown around, i doubt a well engineered wooden home could withstand that.
secondly, guam sits right on the edge of the mariannas terrace, so earthquakes were also rather common. it's like, taking the natural disasters of florida and l.a. and combining them to form one super disaster prone, f.e.m.a. sucking area to live in...
the day i bought command & conquer, we were hit by a 200mph hurricane on guam. it didn't keep us from playing online.. all the phone lines are buried, the power went out, but we had generators.
plus, the building codes there are terribly strict, seeing as they know to expect high winds... unlike florida, who for some reason still are allowed to build wooden homes, and then complain the next year when it gets torn apart.
"you just don't expect that kinda thing, you think that the last hurricane would have been the last one forever... oh well, the citizens of the u.s. will pay me to rebuild it."
i'm glad i'm not livin on guam anymore though... and i agree with you, it'd be difficult justifying a move to florida:p
i read this one... true to the form of physics books, there was an unexpected plot twist at the end.
it turns out everything we thought we knew and backed up with math and logic, was wrong. beware of the guy at the end of the universe, i hear he's real strict on who gets in...
personally, though, i think google rocks. they make it very easy to leave the google empire. or it would appear so anyway, you'd probably have to take me out in a static bag...
withdrawal symptons does not necessarily equal addiction.
psychologically, not phsyiologically.
secondly, this kinda illustrates my point. not everyone is addicted to sex.
i mean, perhaps i should have said" sex *can be* as addicting..." i dont know. i didn't just come up with that on my own, there are researchers saying the same thing.
if you go by the definition of "drug" as anything that alters your body chemistry nearly everything IS a drug.
it's those with dependency problems that blow things way out of proportion AND attract the most attention. it'd be a sad day if video games start getting regulated like any other drug.
sex is addictive as heroin. yet it's not regulated (yet). the difference being that most normal people (/.ers excluded;)) participate in it thereby rounding out the bell curve of addiction, where as heroin use is nowhere near as pervasive as sex. it attracts a certain personality and usually someone predisposed to addiction.
it's nearly the same w/video games. they're not the problem, they're the symptom of something larger.
Re:In case you don't follow M$'s every move like m
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Apache Rejects Sender ID
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industry standard?
isn't a bit early to be calling it a standard?
especially if apache is rejecting it.
The transistors in the new 65nm (a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter) technology have gates (the switch that turns a transistor on and off) measuring 35nm, approximately 30 percent smaller than the gate lengths on the previous 90nm technology. For comparison, about 100 of these gates could fit inside the diameter of a human red blood cell.
there you go.
a comparison of transister to body part sizes. they're even using smaller body parts...
i don't think there's anything legally to stop you from broadcasting rfids... however, getting stopped by security every time you walked in/out of a store would eventually get bothersome... and lose it's fun after the first time.
intangible: airline seats and japanese children!
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Moocowsia: But go forbid that the exact same engine with a different label is doing 20000 rpms no problem.
see, that's the caveat... the "no problem" part
mod me redundant, but obviously, intel does product testing and quality control. sure it may work with "no problem" on your board, but not every board. surely there's a threshold they try to hit...
when i first started slapping computers together, things were easy enough to do without too much worry... general rule of thumb: if it don't fit, don't force it.
Slashdot Mirror
sounds like the perfect movie for geeks...
his collection of spammers or of six figure piles of cash? :P
imagine getting for robotic arms complete with a.i. to assist you in the tedium of daily life surgically implanted and wired to your nervous system...
such a device would be a good for battling genetically mutated human/arachnids that have been plaguing the cityscape lately...
true, engineering properly would help... to a point.
as you pointed out, there's more than just wind stress you have to watch out for; in the storm i mentioned earlier, we had cars flipped and thrown around, i doubt a well engineered wooden home could withstand that.
secondly, guam sits right on the edge of the mariannas terrace, so earthquakes were also rather common. it's like, taking the natural disasters of florida and l.a. and combining them to form one super disaster prone, f.e.m.a. sucking area to live in...
the day i bought command & conquer, we were hit by a 200mph hurricane on guam. it didn't keep us from playing online.. all the phone lines are buried, the power went out, but we had generators.
:p
plus, the building codes there are terribly strict, seeing as they know to expect high winds... unlike florida, who for some reason still are allowed to build wooden homes, and then complain the next year when it gets torn apart.
"you just don't expect that kinda thing, you think that the last hurricane would have been the last one forever... oh well, the citizens of the u.s. will pay me to rebuild it."
i'm glad i'm not livin on guam anymore though... and i agree with you, it'd be difficult justifying a move to florida
i read this one... true to the form of physics books, there was an unexpected plot twist at the end.
it turns out everything we thought we knew and backed up with math and logic, was wrong. beware of the guy at the end of the universe, i hear he's real strict on who gets in...
i, for one, welcome our digital empire overlords.
personally, though, i think google rocks. they make it very easy to leave the google empire. or it would appear so anyway, you'd probably have to take me out in a static bag...
welcome to the dark side.
actually, i too considered looking at real again.
i'm so ashamed.
must... resist... PR...
i'm doing something similar...
...including my yahoo and hotmail accounts. :)
i've got ALL of my accounts sending a copy to gmail.
nothing like being able to login to one place to check like.. 6 accounts when you're not home.
withdrawal symptons does not necessarily equal addiction.
psychologically, not phsyiologically.
secondly, this kinda illustrates my point. not everyone is addicted to sex.
i mean, perhaps i should have said" sex *can be* as addicting..." i dont know. i didn't just come up with that on my own, there are researchers saying the same thing.
if you go by the definition of "drug" as anything that alters your body chemistry nearly everything IS a drug.
;)) participate in it thereby rounding out the bell curve of addiction, where as heroin use is nowhere near as pervasive as sex. it attracts a certain personality and usually someone predisposed to addiction.
it's those with dependency problems that blow things way out of proportion AND attract the most attention. it'd be a sad day if video games start getting regulated like any other drug.
sex is addictive as heroin. yet it's not regulated (yet). the difference being that most normal people (/.ers excluded
it's nearly the same w/video games. they're not the problem, they're the symptom of something larger.
industry standard?
isn't a bit early to be calling it a standard?
especially if apache is rejecting it.
brains?
could you elaborate?
my curiousity will soon erupt into a murderous rage misdirected at felines...
i am a karma whore...
The transistors in the new 65nm (a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter) technology have gates (the switch that turns a transistor on and off) measuring 35nm, approximately 30 percent smaller than the gate lengths on the previous 90nm technology. For comparison, about 100 of these gates could fit inside the diameter of a human red blood cell.
there you go.
a comparison of transister to body part sizes. they're even using smaller body parts...
"full life" and slashdot membership are mutually exclusive.
the elusive second step:
1) collect underpants
2) sell vaporware
3) PROFIT!!!
almost reminds me of OQO and Duke Nukem Forever. The difference here is, soon, valve will be making money on THEIR vapor.
girlfriend has a G4 that i like a lot
so... you like the girlfriend, or the G4 ?
;)
just kidding. no doubt you like the G4.
i don't think there's anything legally to stop you from broadcasting rfids... however, getting stopped by security every time you walked in/out of a store would eventually get bothersome... and lose it's fun after the first time.
http://news.com.com/Japan%20school%20kids%20to%20b e%20tagged%20with%20RFID%20chips/2100-1012_3-52667 00.html
i, for one, welcome our rfid tagged japanese overlords.
put the transmitter on a high on bookshelf on the second floor and redirect all the signal broadcast up back down.
twice the signal going down into (and through) the house, no signal going through the roof.
[off topic]*lol* troll?![/off topic]
Moocowsia: But go forbid that the exact same engine with a different label is doing 20000 rpms no problem.
see, that's the caveat... the "no problem" part
mod me redundant, but obviously, intel does product testing and quality control. sure it may work with "no problem" on your board, but not every board. surely there's a threshold they try to hit...
companies release products fully powered...
"why can't i rev my engine past 12000rpms?! i bought it! the engine's surely can handle it..."
on that list there's "don't install windows" ;)
when i first started slapping computers together, things were easy enough to do without too much worry... general rule of thumb: if it don't fit, don't force it.