would it be possible to use an engine to turn these gliders into true flying suits? Similar to the Bell suit, but with real lift to allow it to fly for longer?
They make such a big deal of this because it is digital. Well, let's take their metaphor to analog medium. Why are they not demanding the post office to scan every package, letter or post card that comes through for illegal material?
the Uller is a nice setup. I used to rule online matches in my custom Assassin design as well. For some odd reason nobody expects the quad machineguns.....
Egads, this is getting rediculous. Eventually they'll start selling the Warcraft car, the Warcraft home, and even the Warcraft refrigerator, so you never have to give up your Warcraft addition for pesky things like driving to the grocery store or having a life.
Actually if you ever study climatology, you would run across the "Hockey Stick" that begins upon the industrial revolution. You see, you can take sun activity and combine it with volcanic activity, and map out tens if not hundreds of thousands of climate activity, down to the year, and it all matches. All until the 1850's, when suddenly the temperature started shifting upwards. According to volcanic/sun activity, this year *should* have given my area a peak temp of roughly 85, rather than the 115 that we did have.
So, something has to have happened in the 1850's to change the rules, so to say, to shift the teperatures away from the pattern which has existed for millenia beyond human memory. The only factor listed in the 1850's was... industrialization.
Quite right. However, the original AC was commenting on a running ISA slot, which the slots in the A2000/A3000/A4000 technically are not. All they are, in the end, is dummy headers for whatever controller you put in there. I know of people who have put some very radical things onto those slots which are not ISA complient. So, yes, you can have slots which could be ISA, with the right add-on, but by default they're just decoration.
Incidentally, the Voodoo5 is not the best Graphics card the A3000 can support. I know a few people sporting nVidia or ATI cards in theirs as well.
I've said much the same as he did in regards to system speeds. If I optimize my system, I can outperform the latest and greatest my friends have. But I can optimize only so far due to the hardware design. I long back to the old Amiga days, where the core of the system was integrated around the CPU, but still giving the user a completely flexible design. Heck, you can find decades old machines running very modern hardware, due to their innovative design. Ever tried to run a modern video card, soundcard or NIC in a PC from 1989? I've seen Amigas do it. And they did it through being smarter, not faster.
I got one better than that. I put Ubuntu on my sons laptop, ran like a champ. Tried XP, suddenly it couldn't find the sound card. Turns out Creative never made an XP driver for my particular card (CL PCI128) so I had to hunt to find a 3rd party created-from-the-linux-driver driver. Ubuntu, worked out of the box. Windows, refused to run it, and even with the driver it's still flaky.
Now that Linux can run my 1 Windows game, forget Windows.
My original online nick was Basilita, which immediately had men hitting on me, so it rapidly changed to Downes, my last name, but an IRC netsplit kept having me colliding with myself, so I shortened it to Down. Then the band Down came out, and all of their fanboys kept asking if I was part of "the band" and at the same time I was starting help with Enoch Linux (now Gentoo) and doing a lot of tinkering with AMIX and OpenBSD so I appended Linux into my name, hence, Downix.
And I jst googled myself. Only 997 entries for me.
IE D's are improvised in that they are being used in ways not intended by the original manufacturer. The majority of them are old howitzer shells, modified with a crude local detonator. Incidentally, 80-90% of the IE D's rolled off of US factories.
I'd note, he is not "sharing" his bandwidth with anyone else. P2P does not "magically" appear on his system. If his bandwidth is beig utilized, it is because he chose to opt-in.
So this guy is against any form of p2p promotions, such as downloadable (if you pay for it) movies (I purchased 300 in just this manner from the distributor, best $5 I've ever spent) music (indie bands rock my world) and even games (WARCRAFT! I want my Night Elf Mowhawk!) so this guy, with as much money as he has, hasn't a clue of how big P2P is. It is the future.
Who says the age of giants was only during the dinosaur era? It appears more and more that nature gets into these size races, then massive killing off, then start over. I wonder how long before we're standing at over 15 feet ourselves?
Saying "Linux can do it" when it's 15 years old does not diminish the accomplishment of Multics, at 30 years, by any stretch. So what if Linux can do the same things, it came after. The fun part is what Multics could do, at it's age.
I've never messed with a Multics system, but reading the code is facinating for me. Finding out about a dynamically changeable system, where you could plug in drives, CPU"s, and even RAM on the fly, amaazing stuff. In many ways, the design was more innovative than what we have today.
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would it be possible to use an engine to turn these gliders into true flying suits? Similar to the Bell suit, but with real lift to allow it to fly for longer?
And when the auction ends?
It has happened before, where the 800 lbs Gorilla in the room passed on.
Remember Commodore, the guys behind the Commodore 64, Amiga, and made the CPU in almost EVERY PC for almost 10 years?
They make such a big deal of this because it is digital. Well, let's take their metaphor to analog medium. Why are they not demanding the post office to scan every package, letter or post card that comes through for illegal material?
the Uller is a nice setup. I used to rule online matches in my custom Assassin design as well. For some odd reason nobody expects the quad machineguns.....
Egads, this is getting rediculous. Eventually they'll start selling the Warcraft car, the Warcraft home, and even the Warcraft refrigerator, so you never have to give up your Warcraft addition for pesky things like driving to the grocery store or having a life.
I'm more a fan of the Highlander myself. 95 tons landing on you would ruin anyones day.... 8)
Actually if you ever study climatology, you would run across the "Hockey Stick" that begins upon the industrial revolution. You see, you can take sun activity and combine it with volcanic activity, and map out tens if not hundreds of thousands of climate activity, down to the year, and it all matches. All until the 1850's, when suddenly the temperature started shifting upwards. According to volcanic/sun activity, this year *should* have given my area a peak temp of roughly 85, rather than the 115 that we did have.
So, something has to have happened in the 1850's to change the rules, so to say, to shift the teperatures away from the pattern which has existed for millenia beyond human memory. The only factor listed in the 1850's was... industrialization.
Quite right. However, the original AC was commenting on a running ISA slot, which the slots in the A2000/A3000/A4000 technically are not. All they are, in the end, is dummy headers for whatever controller you put in there. I know of people who have put some very radical things onto those slots which are not ISA complient. So, yes, you can have slots which could be ISA, with the right add-on, but by default they're just decoration.
Incidentally, the Voodoo5 is not the best Graphics card the A3000 can support. I know a few people sporting nVidia or ATI cards in theirs as well.
The next headline from a Venusian lander will be "Lander finds newspaper with headline 'President claims Global Warming a myth'".
Amigas have ISA slots?
I've said much the same as he did in regards to system speeds. If I optimize my system, I can outperform the latest and greatest my friends have. But I can optimize only so far due to the hardware design. I long back to the old Amiga days, where the core of the system was integrated around the CPU, but still giving the user a completely flexible design. Heck, you can find decades old machines running very modern hardware, due to their innovative design. Ever tried to run a modern video card, soundcard or NIC in a PC from 1989? I've seen Amigas do it. And they did it through being smarter, not faster.
Privacy is becoming a fleeting thing in this interconnected world. Perhaps we should reanalyze our perspective on it all?
Come on Microsoft. Vista is #10 on the index. You need to try harder, that #1 slot can be yours within an SP or two!
I got one better than that. I put Ubuntu on my sons laptop, ran like a champ. Tried XP, suddenly it couldn't find the sound card. Turns out Creative never made an XP driver for my particular card (CL PCI128) so I had to hunt to find a 3rd party created-from-the-linux-driver driver. Ubuntu, worked out of the box. Windows, refused to run it, and even with the driver it's still flaky.
Now that Linux can run my 1 Windows game, forget Windows.
I thought it was gentoo-based, not Ubuntu based.
My original online nick was Basilita, which immediately had men hitting on me, so it rapidly changed to Downes, my last name, but an IRC netsplit kept having me colliding with myself, so I shortened it to Down. Then the band Down came out, and all of their fanboys kept asking if I was part of "the band" and at the same time I was starting help with Enoch Linux (now Gentoo) and doing a lot of tinkering with AMIX and OpenBSD so I appended Linux into my name, hence, Downix.
And I jst googled myself. Only 997 entries for me.
IE D's are improvised in that they are being used in ways not intended by the original manufacturer. The majority of them are old howitzer shells, modified with a crude local detonator. Incidentally, 80-90% of the IE D's rolled off of US factories.
I'd note, he is not "sharing" his bandwidth with anyone else. P2P does not "magically" appear on his system. If his bandwidth is beig utilized, it is because he chose to opt-in.
So this guy is against any form of p2p promotions, such as downloadable (if you pay for it) movies (I purchased 300 in just this manner from the distributor, best $5 I've ever spent) music (indie bands rock my world) and even games (WARCRAFT! I want my Night Elf Mowhawk!) so this guy, with as much money as he has, hasn't a clue of how big P2P is. It is the future.
Who says the age of giants was only during the dinosaur era? It appears more and more that nature gets into these size races, then massive killing off, then start over. I wonder how long before we're standing at over 15 feet ourselves?
Let the flame wars begin
Admit that why you're mad is that you didn't think of it first!
For years the self-titled King of all Media has been Howard Stern. Does this mean Microsoft has decided on going after Howard?
Now that would be a cage fight worth watching, Ballmer vs Stern! Let the Monkey Boy fights, begin!
Saying "Linux can do it" when it's 15 years old does not diminish the accomplishment of Multics, at 30 years, by any stretch. So what if Linux can do the same things, it came after. The fun part is what Multics could do, at it's age.
I've never messed with a Multics system, but reading the code is facinating for me. Finding out about a dynamically changeable system, where you could plug in drives, CPU"s, and even RAM on the fly, amaazing stuff. In many ways, the design was more innovative than what we have today.