Actually, yeah, it seems like they're taking it from the American political playbook...
We would like to violate your privacy because:
- It's for your own protection!
- It will help protect the children!
- We need it to prevent acts of terrorism!
The only good news is that it will take more than just rolling these all together into one law to nullify the 4th Amendment.
Innovation or not, I'm just excited by the prospect of using the PS3 controller's bluetooth capabilities with my PC. I've been waiting a while for a decent-quality gamepad for my PC/Mac, and if third-party drivers pop up to make it happen (assuming it doesn't get recognized as a generic HSI interface), I'm all for it taking advantage of sony's new toy.
Though, the rampant gadgetry present in the controller might reflect poorly on it's pricetag...
I originally had maybe half a dozen cuecats which were daisy-chained together and used to illuminate my desk at night. I never really went out of my way to get them, and I accumulated those few from magazines or friends who didn't know what to do with them. Several months after Digital:Convergance went out of business and stores stopped pushing the cuecats on consumers, I decided on a whim to ask a radio shack manger if he still had one or two. It turns out that there was an entire box of them in the back he was just itching to get rid of.
So, the obvious result of this was that I had a small christmas tree that year decorated with cuecats (it needed quite a bit of external power, and all the cords seemed to hide a lot of the tree anyway). Oh, the college days...
"I think this one's going to go down in the history books..."
25,000 people using bittorrent to download an hour-long C-SPAN special That should go down in the history books as "the day that the anti-filesharing lobbies collectively went: WTF??"
Whatever you say pal. Your misgivings certainly don't stop anyone from using an AR15/M16 at NRA-style highpower rifle matches. While firing a.223 bullet over 300 yards is a lob shot, that doesn't mean where it lands somehow defies the laws of physics.
Look! These guys shoot the M16 at 600 yards too! A couple pictures here too where some guys are shooting the AR15 at 600 yards.
Though, I'm obviously lying and making this all up, right?
Okay, it seems we have two different conversations going on.
1. Is the M16 accurate at 600+ yards?
Yes. The rear sight is easily adjustable with soldier-proof knobs. With a decent range estimation and some idea of what the wind is doing, you can reliably hit a static target at some distance. A standard NRA Highpower match goes out to 600 or 1000 yards, and it includes regular service rifles.
2. Is the M16 a practical choice for the average soldier in the field at 200+ yards?
Probably not. As soon as you throw moving, un-ranged targets into the mix, iron-sights estimation is a crapshoot at best. Additionally, the further the bullet goes, the less damage it may do (which generally isn't an issue with paper targets). Something scoped in.308 caliber is probably a better choice.
Who says you cant shoot anything beyond 300 yards?
I've shot bullseyes at 600 yards using a well-conditioned AR15/M16 and iron sights. The only thing is that you have to crank the hell out of the rear sight to account for the drop. The problem isn't the weapon's inherent accuracy, but correctly managing elevation and windage.
The AR15/M16 is a very popular service rifle in civilian and military competition. I've never had the opportunity to do a 1000 yard match, but I know plenty of people who have. While it isn't quite as point-and-click like a scoped "sniper" weapon, the rifle is probably more accurate than you're giving it credit for.
[Maybe I'm just biased from being on a Navy shooting team]
[Scopes are a crutch;) ]
Heh, for the longest time, I've always had this nagging feeling that there was supposed to be a red cross on the healing kits. Like, I thought I remembered seeing them in Neverwinter Nights... but couldn't exactly recall why.
[Wow, this change happened a long time ago. I've got a backup of my Override directory containing the modified iit_medkit_001.tga with a September 2002 timestamp.]
It might have been on digg, but was there actually any discussion of the matter?
I'd rather be a little behind the times in news, if I can get some meaningful comments beyond: "LOLL, the MPAA is so gay!!"
1. We (America) built many of the original "tallest" skyscrapers.
2. In order for the rest of the world to remain architecturally competitive, they were forced to build taller and taller buildings.
3. After a certain point, those tall buildings may eventually cause earthquake resulting in economic damage for that country.
Ah, I must have missed that one. It's hard to tell when there are so many articles on that site that basically try to say "Dig is teh better than slashdot!!1!"
Occasionally when I come here, I get the impression that some people feel that societies would magically get better if everyone just used Open Office and submitted kernel patches.
Technology is great and all, but it's a bit lower in priority compared to food, shelter, and medicine. The basics count, and if Bill Gates wants to donate a quarter of a billion dollars to help cut down on the millions of annual deaths from malaria, there really isn't any good reason to criticize him. Malaria certainly isn't a glamorous cause, but it is no less important.
It isnt "hidden," its just part of downloadable content mechanism. Though, to make it work, you need to find a way to redirect DNS queries for the WipeoutPure site to google or whatever.
Considering you have to set up the DNS redirect, press a lot of buttons, and generally wait a while before the browser is ready, it's a neat proof-of-concept trick; though, it is far from being practical.
Wipeout Pure isnt all that hot either. While the whole "downloadable content" thing is cool, its repetitive nature and poor control layout dont help.
At least the tracks in Gran Turismo had substancial differences. The downloadable tracks in Wipeout Pure seem to be mostly the result of changing the color pallete and giving it some inane backstory ("This track accurately recreates the famous 2019 race through a public library" or something like that).
I have the VZ avenue service. Personally I find it a little overpriced for the bandwidth, but given that DSL and Cable aren't options (crap wiring in my area), its the only game in town.
Aside from occasional lag spikes (400-1000 ms), generally there are no issues.
If you re-arrange the "binary code" even more, it is even possible to discover such documents as the Communist Manifesto. Imagine if only McCarthy knew that the seeds of the Red Threat were hidden within games for children or pictures of kittens.
Personally, I'd can imagine that the group of people who would be attempting to replace a non-consumer-replaceable battery would coincide largely with those who would own a soldering iron.
/replaced a iPod battery once //own at least three soldering irons (that i know of)
This could really help out ham radio far more than the no-code beginner's license could. Personally, I still have my basic Tech license. It's not because I'm lazy or incompetent, but I really have no intention of ever using code.
The way I see it, morse code is more of an impediment to ambition than a sign that someone isn't intelligent enough to learn it. For instance, my no-code Tech license does just about everything I want to. I can already do lots of voice and data comm stuff that I find interesting. I could have "upgraded" to a license with a code requirement, but it really doesn't get me anything I'm looking for.
To me this isn't a sign that ham radio is "dying" like some people would have you believe, but a sign that it is adapting to the times. The more people there are interested in radio, the better the chance is that someone will come up with something interesting and break a few decades of stagnancy.
It's only for iTunes if you're too lazy to check out all the redirects that the "Full Screen" link brings you to. All that's going on is that the webpage attempts to use iTunes to open a specific weblink. In this case, the full-screen movie would be found here:
Slashdot Mirror
Are you really *that* willing to find out? I'm sure there are some mods with a sense of humor who might be able to hook you up..
Actually, yeah, it seems like they're taking it from the American political playbook...
We would like to violate your privacy because:
- It's for your own protection!
- It will help protect the children!
- We need it to prevent acts of terrorism!
The only good news is that it will take more than just rolling these all together into one law to nullify the 4th Amendment.
Another "feature" not mentioned is that is is apparently larger and heavier than the old Xbox.
PS3 from the press release:
Approximately 325mm (W) x 98mm (H) x 274mm (D)
Approximately 5 kg
The original Xbox
Dimensions: 320 × 100 × 260 milimeters (12.5 × 4 × 10.5 in)
Weight: 3.86 kilograms (8.5 lb)
Innovation or not, I'm just excited by the prospect of using the PS3 controller's bluetooth capabilities with my PC. I've been waiting a while for a decent-quality gamepad for my PC/Mac, and if third-party drivers pop up to make it happen (assuming it doesn't get recognized as a generic HSI interface), I'm all for it taking advantage of sony's new toy.
Though, the rampant gadgetry present in the controller might reflect poorly on it's pricetag...
I originally had maybe half a dozen cuecats which were daisy-chained together and used to illuminate my desk at night. I never really went out of my way to get them, and I accumulated those few from magazines or friends who didn't know what to do with them. Several months after Digital:Convergance went out of business and stores stopped pushing the cuecats on consumers, I decided on a whim to ask a radio shack manger if he still had one or two. It turns out that there was an entire box of them in the back he was just itching to get rid of.
So, the obvious result of this was that I had a small christmas tree that year decorated with cuecats (it needed quite a bit of external power, and all the cords seemed to hide a lot of the tree anyway).
Oh, the college days...
"I think this one's going to go down in the history books..."
25,000 people using bittorrent to download an hour-long C-SPAN special
That should go down in the history books as "the day that the anti-filesharing lobbies collectively went: WTF??"
Whatever you say pal. Your misgivings certainly don't stop anyone from using an AR15/M16 at NRA-style highpower rifle matches. While firing a .223 bullet over 300 yards is a lob shot, that doesn't mean where it lands somehow defies the laws of physics.
Look! These guys shoot the M16 at 600 yards too! A couple pictures here too where some guys are shooting the AR15 at 600 yards.
Though, I'm obviously lying and making this all up, right?
Okay, it seems we have two different conversations going on.
.308 caliber is probably a better choice.
1. Is the M16 accurate at 600+ yards?
Yes. The rear sight is easily adjustable with soldier-proof knobs. With a decent range estimation and some idea of what the wind is doing, you can reliably hit a static target at some distance. A standard NRA Highpower match goes out to 600 or 1000 yards, and it includes regular service rifles.
2. Is the M16 a practical choice for the average soldier in the field at 200+ yards?
Probably not. As soon as you throw moving, un-ranged targets into the mix, iron-sights estimation is a crapshoot at best. Additionally, the further the bullet goes, the less damage it may do (which generally isn't an issue with paper targets). Something scoped in
Who says you cant shoot anything beyond 300 yards?
;) ]
I've shot bullseyes at 600 yards using a well-conditioned AR15/M16 and iron sights. The only thing is that you have to crank the hell out of the rear sight to account for the drop. The problem isn't the weapon's inherent accuracy, but correctly managing elevation and windage.
The AR15/M16 is a very popular service rifle in civilian and military competition. I've never had the opportunity to do a 1000 yard match, but I know plenty of people who have. While it isn't quite as point-and-click like a scoped "sniper" weapon, the rifle is probably more accurate than you're giving it credit for.
[Maybe I'm just biased from being on a Navy shooting team]
[Scopes are a crutch
Heh, for the longest time, I've always had this nagging feeling that there was supposed to be a red cross on the healing kits. Like, I thought I remembered seeing them in Neverwinter Nights... but couldn't exactly recall why.
[Wow, this change happened a long time ago. I've got a backup of my Override directory containing the modified iit_medkit_001.tga with a September 2002 timestamp.]
It might have been on digg, but was there actually any discussion of the matter?
I'd rather be a little behind the times in news, if I can get some meaningful comments beyond: "LOLL, the MPAA is so gay!!"
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
I find it slightly amusing that it's taken car manufacturers nearly 20 years to catch up with the latest in 80's t-shirt technology.
1. We (America) built many of the original "tallest" skyscrapers.
;)
2. In order for the rest of the world to remain architecturally competitive, they were forced to build taller and taller buildings.
3. After a certain point, those tall buildings may eventually cause earthquake resulting in economic damage for that country.
A rather dastardly plan, eh?
Ah, I must have missed that one.
It's hard to tell when there are so many articles on that site that basically try to say "Dig is teh better than slashdot!!1!"
Actually, if you take a look at the "article" they were talking about, digg.com got more hits than slashdot.com (not slashdot.org).
I'm sure that digg.com gets more hits than slashdot.gov too, thus proving digg's ultimate superiority...
Screw looking for little green men!
Canadians have better things to investigate such as:
- Are there other inhabitable planets in our galaxy?
- Can we put a hockey rink there?
Indeed.
Occasionally when I come here, I get the impression that some people feel that societies would magically get better if everyone just used Open Office and submitted kernel patches.
Technology is great and all, but it's a bit lower in priority compared to food, shelter, and medicine. The basics count, and if Bill Gates wants to donate a quarter of a billion dollars to help cut down on the millions of annual deaths from malaria, there really isn't any good reason to criticize him. Malaria certainly isn't a glamorous cause, but it is no less important.
It isnt "hidden," its just part of downloadable content mechanism. Though, to make it work, you need to find a way to redirect DNS queries for the WipeoutPure site to google or whatever.
Considering you have to set up the DNS redirect, press a lot of buttons, and generally wait a while before the browser is ready, it's a neat proof-of-concept trick; though, it is far from being practical.
Wipeout Pure isnt all that hot either. While the whole "downloadable content" thing is cool, its repetitive nature and poor control layout dont help.
At least the tracks in Gran Turismo had substancial differences. The downloadable tracks in Wipeout Pure seem to be mostly the result of changing the color pallete and giving it some inane backstory ("This track accurately recreates the famous 2019 race through a public library" or something like that).
I have the VZ avenue service. Personally I find it a little overpriced for the bandwidth, but given that DSL and Cable aren't options (crap wiring in my area), its the only game in town.
Aside from occasional lag spikes (400-1000 ms), generally there are no issues.
If you re-arrange the "binary code" even more, it is even possible to discover such documents as the Communist Manifesto. Imagine if only McCarthy knew that the seeds of the Red Threat were hidden within games for children or pictures of kittens.
Personally, I'd can imagine that the group of people who would be attempting to replace a non-consumer-replaceable battery would coincide largely with those who would own a soldering iron.
/replaced a iPod battery once
//own at least three soldering irons (that i know of)
This could really help out ham radio far more than the no-code beginner's license could. Personally, I still have my basic Tech license. It's not because I'm lazy or incompetent, but I really have no intention of ever using code.
The way I see it, morse code is more of an impediment to ambition than a sign that someone isn't intelligent enough to learn it. For instance, my no-code Tech license does just about everything I want to. I can already do lots of voice and data comm stuff that I find interesting. I could have "upgraded" to a license with a code requirement, but it really doesn't get me anything I'm looking for.
To me this isn't a sign that ham radio is "dying" like some people would have you believe, but a sign that it is adapting to the times. The more people there are interested in radio, the better the chance is that someone will come up with something interesting and break a few decades of stagnancy.
Come on... even google knows how many suns there are.
http://www.google.com/search?q=tatooine+suns
It's only for iTunes if you're too lazy to check out all the redirects that the "Full Screen" link brings you to. All that's going on is that the webpage attempts to use iTunes to open a specific weblink. In this case, the full-screen movie would be found here:
a tman_begins-tlr4a_ifs.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/wb/batman_begins/b