Secure the infrastructure that you expose to the internet. Make sure that no evil-doers can get in. If there *is* an attack and it all goes horribly wrong disconnect the infrastructure. No need to pull down the entire network.
If you want to stop burglars you put a lock on your door, you don't dig up the street that they use to get to your door.
What a stupid summary. The guy was facing the camera, and the meteor appeared behind his back. Are we expecting astronomers to have eyes in the back of their head now?
Airplanes go pretty fast on asphalt actually. A typical commerical airliner takes off at about 200 mph and lands at 150-175. The Concorde took off at 250 mph. The shuttle is well over 200 at touchdown.
making the the moon lighter should not (significantly) affect its orbit.
No, making the moon lighter doesn't create a problem. Making the Earth heavier, however... well... doesn't either. That is, not at the rate we'll be doing it.
... it sounds like a cool idea, but it seems like it would require either excessive movement on your part to do anything meaningful, or it would require you to sit almost absolutely still in order to keep your display even semi-stable...
I play a lot of flight simulators, and for those head-tracking is great. Movements are amplified (adjustable for every axis) so you only need to move your head a little bit for a much bigger movement on the screen. Precision is excellent, and it can be helped even more by setting a dead zone at the center. Check out some of the videos here:
Forests only absorb co2 as they grow, once they reach maximum density they become carbon neutral. When a forest reaches maximum density all carbon absorbed by new trees is offset by the trees that died and provided the room.
I saw an interview somewhere of an English concorde pilot and he talked about his flight with a french test pilot who told thim 'let me show you what condorde can do'. And he did a 707 style barrel roll.
What's more, he then told the English pilot to "unwind" it. And he did.
Obvious cheating (by the game). In one game I remember, a bunch of enemies came flooding out of a barracks building when you passed a certain point in the map. So the next time I enter the building first, eliminate all enemies and then continue, safe in the knowledge I wouldn't have that particular problem anymore. I pass the same trigger point, and... the door opens and the same enemies come streaming from the building that I cleared only moments before. That's a big no-no.
Another one (though less serious) is motivation of the main character. At a few points in Far Cry I found myself thinking why on Earth my character would be doing what he was doing. I would have gotten the hell out of there, but he seemed eager to seek out more danger. Why?
Making them easily available means that they are [...] not especially cool in any way
I think that's it. I can't imagine anyone here (in Amsterdam) nudging someone else, whispering "look what I got here" and surreptitiously showing a joint. The someone else would just shrug, wondering what the big deal was. There's no excitement, no sense of doing something "bad". Someone doing cannabis is not cool or a rebel, just a pothead.
I'm reminded of a story (don't know if it actually happened) of a university where the students made a sport of crashing the central computer system. Instead of draconian measures to reprimand the evil-doers the staff just installed a program called "crash" that did exactly what it promised: it crashed the computer. That took the challenge out of it, and there were no more crashes. Taking the "hey, look at me" out of something takes away a lot of the attraction.
Overpopulation will kill us all before anything else...
Right. Too many people living will kill all people. That's like saying severe flooding will cause droughts.
I know what you mean, but think it through: overpopulation may cause famine, disease, whatever. This kills off some percentage of humans (10%, 50%, 90%, whatever). The survivors have plenty of resources again and thrive, until the next crisis. It may be bad, but it's not going to be the end of humanity (don't even talk about the planet)
On a smaller level, societies where people own guns are usually more peaceful ones. Why? Because people can see them. Just the threat of being shot is enough to deter people from starting shit.
I didn't see much that was particularly Australian, so I'm not surprised that pitching it from that angle gets little support. But there's no doubt it has a lot of incredibly cool stuff. I'd love to have a little rummage around. I might even have one or two items to contribute.:)
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I'm frankly appalled at the lack of effort from the Dutch. Must try harder.
Assuming level flight:
R = v^2 / (g * sqrt(G^2 - 1))
R: turn radius in m
v: speed in m/s
g: acceleration due to gravity (~9.8 m/s^2)
G: g-load factor (standard gravity = 1)
Physics! Is there anything it can't do?
Secure the infrastructure that you expose to the internet. Make sure that no evil-doers can get in. If there *is* an attack and it all goes horribly wrong disconnect the infrastructure. No need to pull down the entire network.
If you want to stop burglars you put a lock on your door, you don't dig up the street that they use to get to your door.
What a stupid summary. The guy was facing the camera, and the meteor appeared behind his back. Are we expecting astronomers to have eyes in the back of their head now?
C is C++ for masochists.
I think you got that the wrong way around.
Airplanes go pretty fast on asphalt actually. A typical commerical airliner takes off at about 200 mph and lands at 150-175. The Concorde took off at 250 mph. The shuttle is well over 200 at touchdown.
Sure, but the cornering is crap.
making the the moon lighter should not (significantly) affect its orbit.
No, making the moon lighter doesn't create a problem. Making the Earth heavier, however... well... doesn't either. That is, not at the rate we'll be doing it.
I'm struggling to come up with a good analogy...
Nvidia / 3dfx?
First chance I had, I got a hold of the 5500 beast and had to use the Dremel on my case to squeeze that mother in.
But it was a killer card, giving killer frame rates at high quality.
Don't know if it was actually the first card to do FSAA, but it did it so well there was really no competition. It just looked so gorgeous.
Interesting, considering the Voodoo2 had a 800x600 resolution limitation
As I recall, that depended on the amount of on-board memory. The 8MB version was limited to 800x600, the 12MB version could do 1024x768.
... it sounds like a cool idea, but it seems like it would require either excessive movement on your part to do anything meaningful, or it would require you to sit almost absolutely still in order to keep your display even semi-stable...
I play a lot of flight simulators, and for those head-tracking is great. Movements are amplified (adjustable for every axis) so you only need to move your head a little bit for a much bigger movement on the screen. Precision is excellent, and it can be helped even more by setting a dead zone at the center. Check out some of the videos here:
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I couldn't imagine going back again.
They're biodegraded by various organisms which release the co2 via their respiration.
Right. In that case I'd be curious about your theory on how coal, oil and natural gas are formed, if it isn't from dead vegetation.
Forests only absorb co2 as they grow, once they reach maximum density they become carbon neutral. When a forest reaches maximum density all carbon absorbed by new trees is offset by the trees that died and provided the room.
Really? So the dead trees evaporate or something?
They make laptops and printers, and that (especially the printer cartridges) is why they're alive.
IFYP4U.
I saw an interview somewhere of an English concorde pilot and he talked about his flight with a french test pilot who told thim 'let me show you what condorde can do'. And he did a 707 style barrel roll.
What's more, he then told the English pilot to "unwind" it. And he did.
Obvious cheating (by the game). In one game I remember, a bunch of enemies came flooding out of a barracks building when you passed a certain point in the map. So the next time I enter the building first, eliminate all enemies and then continue, safe in the knowledge I wouldn't have that particular problem anymore. I pass the same trigger point, and... the door opens and the same enemies come streaming from the building that I cleared only moments before. That's a big no-no.
Another one (though less serious) is motivation of the main character. At a few points in Far Cry I found myself thinking why on Earth my character would be doing what he was doing. I would have gotten the hell out of there, but he seemed eager to seek out more danger. Why?
At Uncyclopedia we made fun of it.
Well, I never... That would be the first time Uncyclopedia is funny.
1 : 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Says the average Joe: well then it isn't zero, is it? You maniacs!
I'd have to think twice before donating any part of my body to a Dr. Breen.
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that "The Pragmatic Programmer" by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas isn't mentioned more. Awesome book.
No, you just have to drink lots of water: a potent cure for everything!
Making them easily available means that they are [...] not especially cool in any way
I think that's it. I can't imagine anyone here (in Amsterdam) nudging someone else, whispering "look what I got here" and surreptitiously showing a joint. The someone else would just shrug, wondering what the big deal was. There's no excitement, no sense of doing something "bad". Someone doing cannabis is not cool or a rebel, just a pothead.
I'm reminded of a story (don't know if it actually happened) of a university where the students made a sport of crashing the central computer system. Instead of draconian measures to reprimand the evil-doers the staff just installed a program called "crash" that did exactly what it promised: it crashed the computer. That took the challenge out of it, and there were no more crashes. Taking the "hey, look at me" out of something takes away a lot of the attraction.
Overpopulation will kill us all before anything else...
Right. Too many people living will kill all people. That's like saying severe flooding will cause droughts.
I know what you mean, but think it through: overpopulation may cause famine, disease, whatever. This kills off some percentage of humans (10%, 50%, 90%, whatever). The survivors have plenty of resources again and thrive, until the next crisis. It may be bad, but it's not going to be the end of humanity (don't even talk about the planet)
On a smaller level, societies where people own guns are usually more peaceful ones. Why? Because people can see them. Just the threat of being shot is enough to deter people from starting shit.
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I didn't see much that was particularly Australian, so I'm not surprised that pitching it from that angle gets little support. But there's no doubt it has a lot of incredibly cool stuff. I'd love to have a little rummage around. I might even have one or two items to contribute. :)