Actually, since they fall under the heading of incapacitating weapons, we're talking stun damage
There have been a several confirmed deaths from the use of Rubber and Plastic rounds, as well as serious injuries. And we haven't even mentioned Tasers yet
I will not comment on the lethal vs. non-lethal issue, but I can definitely comment on the total wrongness of your comparision with diving.
While it's true that you experience high levels of pressure while diving (up to 5.5bar at ~45m meters, which is somewhat approaching the limit of safe casual diving (it's all about Oxygen/Nitrogen saturation and nothing about pressure though)), the *change* of pressure is negligable.
With sound, the pressure change is several (depending on the pitch of the sound) tens/hundreds/thousands of times *per second*. I'm quite sure that makes a bit of a difference.
What the parent is hinting at is that Microsoft knows about a LOT of bugs in their operating system, but decided not to fix them, because that would break many many application already working around these bugs.
The quote I'll never forget came from one of my professors during an advising session: "I'll often get calls from IT managers asking if we have any graduating students who know COBOL. I always tell them that ANY of our graduates could know COBOL - and ask if they are hiring someone for their intellect and understanding of programming concepts, or for their knowledge of a particular language." Just how long do you want to wait until these people can start writing real code? Take C++ for example: Every CS graduate we hired started cranking out terrible terrible C++ code right away. The list of crimes includes bad use of copy constructors, assignment operators, templates, sometimes they even managed to misuse references. Some of these concepts don't exist in other languages, so how are universities supposed to teach them without doing C++ courses? And I can tell you, it takes a while to clean up the mess people make when they use them irresponsibly.
Most Europeans have no clue who bigfoot is, yet he's #1 on that list. There was a monster movie called bigfoot a couple of years ago, but it was forgotten quickly. Actually more famous are the pair of short skis with the same name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiboarding
Many of today's graphics heavy applications (e.g. games or medical visualization) are already bandwidth limited. It takes longer to move the data around then to do the actual computation (e.g. shading) on the data.
Hence adding more processing power (multiple cores etc.) will not give you a linear benefit, since at some point your bandwidth (memory/bus/network) is all eaten up and your processors sit idle waiting for more data.
- Consumables (flasks & elixirs & pots): 40-100g / night - Repairs: 30-50g / night (when learning new bosses) - Enchants: 25-50g / night. Most of your gear can be 'upgraded' by enchants, so every time you get a new item, you'll spend 100-300g on the enchant. The estimate assumes you get a new gear piece every 4-6 raids.
That's an average of 150g spent per night raiding (requires 1-2 hours of 'farming' to earn).
There's also crafted resistance gear, 200-1000g per piece (and you'll need to equip your tanks well when you do the 25-man dungeons), but that isn't bought so often.
I don't get it. Isn't fraud something you're supposed to go to jail for? Why just a fine? Someone in the process must have committed the fraud, i.e. lied, he should have to face *criminal* charges. No need for punitive damages.
> Noone is forcing GC and the associated idioms upon C++.
This is exactly why C++ is so difficult, and we have to live with so much crappy C++ code out there that needs to be maintained, fixed and generally suffered through.
Inexperienced programmer X sees cool feature Y (be it virtual functions, templates, multiple inheritance, exceptions, references, GC or any of the other cool 'shoot-yourself-in-the-foot' thingies that C++ added over C) and totally has no clue how to use it because he doesn't know the associated idioms (not an easy task anyway, because there are so many of them), and a few years later, it ends up on my desk with the usual "we can't maintain this program anymore, please fix it".
Good thing I quit programming and teach math now...:-)
I once hopped into the car to drive to a site after typing
#/sbin/ifconfig eth1 down
Upps, I wanted to shut down eth0 instead (eth1 was the connection to the outside world...). Turns out the old 'think before you type' advice from sudo is actually good. Oh, and I never made that (or a similiar) mistake again (so far...).
Yes, a 15 year old may be able to handle it, if he has the option to actually discuss it with someone else who's seen it. Leaving him alone with such disturbing material probably won't do him good.
The stuff you read in school doesn't just get thrown at you "here, read this, we'll do a test to check if you did and never talk about it again"-style, it's actually discussed in class and explained by an experienced teacher.
Did you even try doing some quests in Blade's Edge (a lot of them give CE rep). I was revered with Cenarion before I set foot into SV the first time (ok, I admit I had some 'leftover' unidentified plant parts from my main..., but still, more than 2-3 SV runs necessary sounds unrealistic, if you did the quest content).
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This proves beyond doubt that you're only pretending to be married.
So it's ok to carry one in your carry-on luggage?
There have been a several confirmed deaths from the use of Rubber and Plastic rounds, as well as serious injuries. And we haven't even mentioned Tasers yet
I will not comment on the lethal vs. non-lethal issue, but I can definitely comment on the total wrongness of your comparision with diving.
While it's true that you experience high levels of pressure while diving (up to 5.5bar at ~45m meters, which is somewhat approaching the limit of safe casual diving (it's all about Oxygen/Nitrogen saturation and nothing about pressure though)), the *change* of pressure is negligable.
With sound, the pressure change is several (depending on the pitch of the sound) tens/hundreds/thousands of times *per second*. I'm quite sure that makes a bit of a difference.
What the parent is hinting at is that Microsoft knows about a LOT of bugs in their operating system, but decided not to fix them, because that would break many many application already working around these bugs.
Lenovo shipped my Thinkpad pre-installed with Vista, and a set of recovery CDs (why it's not on DVD is beyond me) for the upgrade to XP.
Grandparent poster is right, it looks like women really do easily give up on the first flirt.
Most Europeans have no clue who bigfoot is, yet he's #1 on that list. There was a monster movie called bigfoot a couple of years ago, but it was forgotten quickly. Actually more famous are the pair of short skis with the same name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiboarding
Also, what about the Yeti?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti
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Not always. Some anti-aliasing algorithms require you to consider neighboring pixels, others do not.
Many of today's graphics heavy applications (e.g. games or medical visualization) are already bandwidth limited. It takes longer to move the data around then to do the actual computation (e.g. shading) on the data.
Hence adding more processing power (multiple cores etc.) will not give you a linear benefit, since at some point your bandwidth (memory/bus/network) is all eaten up and your processors sit idle waiting for more data.
The true reason Blizzard switched from 40-man to 25-man raids in the Burning Crusade.
> Every night I back up the internet to my RAID array to protect myself from this and similar eventualities.
Not everyone is working for the NSA.
The wealth disappears when you replace the bought item with a better one (and throw away the old one or sell it for a tiny amount back to the NPC).
By far the most gold is spend by raiders I guess
- Consumables (flasks & elixirs & pots): 40-100g / night
- Repairs: 30-50g / night (when learning new bosses)
- Enchants: 25-50g / night. Most of your gear can be 'upgraded' by enchants, so every time you get a new item, you'll spend 100-300g on the enchant. The estimate assumes you get a new gear piece every 4-6 raids.
That's an average of 150g spent per night raiding (requires 1-2 hours of 'farming' to earn).
There's also crafted resistance gear, 200-1000g per piece (and you'll need to equip your tanks well when you do the 25-man dungeons), but that isn't bought so often.
I don't get it. Isn't fraud something you're supposed to go to jail for? Why just a fine? Someone in the process must have committed the fraud, i.e. lied, he should have to face *criminal* charges. No need for punitive damages.
> Noone is forcing GC and the associated idioms upon C++.
:-)
This is exactly why C++ is so difficult, and we have to live with so much crappy C++ code out there that needs to be maintained, fixed and generally suffered through.
Inexperienced programmer X sees cool feature Y (be it virtual functions, templates, multiple inheritance, exceptions, references, GC or any of the other cool 'shoot-yourself-in-the-foot' thingies that C++ added over C) and totally has no clue how to use it because he doesn't know the associated idioms (not an easy task anyway, because there are so many of them), and a few years later, it ends up on my desk with the usual "we can't maintain this program anymore, please fix it".
Good thing I quit programming and teach math now...
Mod parent up. If it wasn't for the nice people at CERN we'd still be using gopher.
Or you could only run ads for games you actually liked. I hear it works for http://www.penny-arcade.com/some peeople
I once hopped into the car to drive to a site after typing
/sbin/ifconfig eth1 down
#
Upps, I wanted to shut down eth0 instead (eth1 was the connection to the outside world...). Turns out the old 'think before you type' advice from sudo is actually good. Oh, and I never made that (or a similiar) mistake again (so far...).
Alas, they removed that from the manpage.
/bin/ed /usr/ucb/vi /usr/bin/emacs
Now:
ED(1)
NAME
ed, red - text editor
SYNOPSIS
ed [-] [-Gs] [-p string] [file]
red [-] [-Gs] [-p string] [file]
DESCRIPTION
ed is a line-oriented text editor....
It used to be:
ED(1)
ed - text editor
SYNOPSIS
ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor.
Also worthy note is:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990
Actually, I've been in a public school today (albeit in Switzerland), as I teach :-)
Granted, I'm not teaching literature (I'm a mathematician), but I trust my colleagues to do their job well enough...
Yes, a 15 year old may be able to handle it, if he has the option to actually discuss it with someone else who's seen it. Leaving him alone with such disturbing material probably won't do him good.
The stuff you read in school doesn't just get thrown at you "here, read this, we'll do a test to check if you did and never talk about it again"-style, it's actually discussed in class and explained by an experienced teacher.
I'm surprised noone has mentioned it yet, but: ...That's all the airport security left him with.
Did you even try doing some quests in Blade's Edge (a lot of them give CE rep). I was revered with Cenarion before I set foot into SV the first time (ok, I admit I had some 'leftover' unidentified plant parts from my main..., but still, more than 2-3 SV runs necessary sounds unrealistic, if you did the quest content).