* Can't conduct "business" on a ham radio. My cellphone can, as can the BRS-licensed system I use at work.
* Autopatch calls aren't private and piss off everybody. Nobody cares if I use my cellphone while copying a honey-do list of stuff to get at the store.
* Range. My mobile rig reaches 20 miles. My cellphone doesn't have to.
* Callsigns. I really would hate having to mention my KG4--- callsign every so often during every cell call. Really would ruin those hot conversations.
Ham radio is fun for what it is, but it's not going to replace other forms of radio communication i.e. cellphones, FRS, etc.. nor should it. If everybody making casual cell calls suddenly went out and got tech tickets, the hams would have strokes about too many people on the air.
BTW, the gadget mentioned in this article is illegal in the USA. Having a ham ticket would not allow anyone to operate this thing, and in fact, if you had a licence, you'd get worse punishment because hams are supposed to KNOW the laws and act accordingly.
Possibly illegal, but you would have to determine what "minimum power" was for the conversation in progress. You'd almost have to BE a part of the conversation to effectively evaluate whether the operator could reduce power.
As with quantum cryptography, a third-party observer is not going to have exactly the same perspective on the conversation and its signal quality. In general, the FCC is not sitting in driveways attempting to do this sort of thing.
Just want to point out that Podcasts do not neccesarily have to be MP3s. Other audio formats such as WMA are supported along with at least a couple video formats and even still images.
Podcasting is only the method of delivery for content. What that content IS can be almost anything. I would be surprised if there aren't already some porn podcasts.
From time to time, my account rep at my bank calls just to say hi and offer more account add-ons.
She's Russian.
This would be major red-flag territory had I not MET her in person at the bank, seen that she actually works there, and is totally legit.
She's also cute as hell and has that accent. Grrr. I think it's a secret weapon.
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The war is over. Too many important companies have joined Blu-Ray. HP, Dell, Sony, Apple, two or three major hardware OEMs and some movie studios.
HD-DVD has zero (?) PC backers, a couple smaller hardware OEMs and a couple movie studios.
The porn industry is supposed to be tentatively backing Blu-Ray because of the storage capacity for multi-angles and such.
People say HD-DVD's one advantage is the legacy pressing equipment -but new equipment is ONLY one business expense tax write-off away.
Upgrade costs are simply not the issue they seem to be. If the media companies, the movie companies and the porn industry wants Blu-Ray, the pressing plants WILL install the machines, throw away their legacy presses and never look back. Amortized over the life of a pressing plant, the Blu-Ray cost differential drops to zero.
HD-DVD should be scared to death if their single saving grace is that it will cost more, initially, to switch to the competing format. That's not a technical HD-DVD advantage over Blu-Ray, only an economic one and history shows hardware only gets cheaper.
The Kumars at #42 is carried in the US on "BBC America" on digital satellite and some cable systems.
The channel is better than nothing but it is no true BBC. BBCA runs far too many reruns of Changing Rooms, Bargain Hunt, Cash in the attic, etc. Zero documentaries. Zero music shows. Barely any news. It's quite a pathetic little channel.
There is also a "BBC Canada" which is run by different people and seems much closer to the Beeb. Canada also gets a BBC Kids channel not available in the US.
Maybe I am the only one but I think HD and Blu-Ray (saw it called BD earlier today, guess that's the new name?) media will be out AT launch and for affordable prices.
The entire point of HD and Blu-Ray is the added capacity and myriad other advantages over current DVDs. To get at those advantages, you need the recordable media and you need it at launch, not months and months later.
What about DL drives that are still selling even though the media is not common or cheap? You can still burn plain old DVDs with a DL drive so you can still DO something with it while you wait for the media.
But the whole point of HD and Blu-Ray is how much BETTER they will be over regular DVD, so if all you can do with your fancy new drive is burn the same DVDs you have been burning, nobody is going to be happy buying one.
I have a DL drive. I've yet to buy ONE piece of DL media because it's too damn costly, but at least I can burn plenty of single-layer discs and it does an OK job with that. I doubt I will ever buy any DL because HD or Blu-Ray will be on the store shelves before DL media is actually common or affordable, and there won't be any point in buying DL by then.
FWIW, I think Apple's support just won the war for Blu-Ray. There are now too many consumer electronics and PC makers on the Blu-Ray side.
What do you get from an IT job? Money, job satisfaction, stability, something that looks good on a resume?
IT is generally a low pay profession subject to the whims of bean counters and outsourcing, and only marginally rewarding if you aren't just into hardware.
Compare that to various aspects of health care where salaries are soaring, where they can't get enough workers (and won't be able to get enough for decades) and where the jobs might actually leave you feeling like you helped somebody.
One of my friends traded her decent IT job for medical school and became a pharmacist where she earns twice what I make in my IT job and she gets to help people and feel good about what she does.
That means more to her than hanging out with computers all day and hell, the pay is better. Why not leave IT?
Kids, hell. I was given a new winter jacket for Christmas. A well-meaning relative was involved.
The jacket has a nice inside pocket for a cellphone... directly over your heart. WTF!?
Worse, it's buried under flaps and zippers and crap so if you have dared to carry the phone in that spot and it actually rings -and you survive- you stand there waving arms like an idiot trying to unzip and unflap just to get AT the phone before it rolls to voicemail.
It's especially fun if the ringer is set to vibrate. Is it a heart attack or a booty call?
When a lot of us are spending long hours at work, that limits the number of people you can meet offwork. Work relationships that become personal are going to happen and there isn't anything inherently bad about that.
And the boss doesn't need to know either.
I was dating a coworker for a while and it was common office knowledge. It was a fairly intense relationship; went to lunch together, arrived at work in one car, went home together, that sort of thing.
My boss eventually took me aside and tried to "warn" me about the young lady in question, not because it was affecting work but because the boss considered the employees as her extended family and she felt that justified playing the "concerned mom" role. She just didn't approve of my girlfriend's morals.
Now THAT was improper. Nobody's business who I am seeing or what happens in our private lives.
In the interest of continued employment, we did tone down the relationship in the office but it had no impact on us otherwise. My significant other eventually left for a better job and that ended the boss's problems.
What about worrying when the boss doesn't like it when you date coworkers? Well, what's to stop them from not liking who you date away from work? Suppose you are married and the boss doesn't like your spouse or the color of your car or house?
At some point you have to persue what is right for you and not worry about the boss. There is always another job and I'd hate to work for someone so petty. Love matters a lot more to me than my job.
As far as blogging about work, I do that but I never, ever mention company names or enough specific details to identify anything. For example, "Server Prod14 was hacked tonight, totally goners. The MIS support staff had to get out of bed to come fix it and management is pissed." was blogged as "Man, it's a bad night at work. Why do computers break at 3:00AM?"
That's more or less true at the software company where I work. About half our branch office is women and I think that's the same in the company as a whole. Our local head of IT is a woman.
We are mostly a Windows shop with linux making inroads. By and large nobody, male or female, spends a LOT of time worrying about which OS they're using. It's all about what they are trying to DO with it, like write code, fix customer issues, etc.
Windows is it. It's a tool. All of our other dev tools are on Windows, so.... there you go.
I think women actually deal with computers better than men in some cases because they don't get emotionally attached to the PC as much. For women, it's just something you use. For men, it can become an obsession.
A friend of mine has a saying "never love something that can't love you back" that could be applied to computers, cars, everything else that people fall in love with.
From what I read on this, yes, there IS an expiration date on the package.
However, that date has little or nothing to do with the date programmed in the cart. What I read said the box may have a four-year expiry but the cart only carries a 2.5 year expiry.
This suit needs to get retailers and distributors in on the act. Surely some of them have pallets of ink sitting around unsold which has already expired. That's big bucks wasted.
So you're implying that you use PPPoE directly from the PC rather than through one of the many hardware router boxes?
Why do that instead of using a hardware router?
The built-in PPPoE client is part of the OS and therefore subject to any underlying flaws and bugs that the OS may have (and it sounds like it IS buggy from what you describe). A third-party PPPoE client such as RASSPPOE is another choice but again, it's software. Might be bugs.
I used to run a PPPoE dialer, then went to RASSPPPOE, and then I jumped to the hardware router because I don't want my LAN PCs having anything to do with the PPPoE connection. Let the router take the pounding from attacks on the net.
Suppose they pound and pound and get past the router? I also run a software firewall on each PC, each one running a different brand of firewall program so that a flaw in one will not, hopefully, take down any others. Same thing with different brands of antivirus. Name a major brand of antivirus and I've probably seen something get past it and hose a machine. I no longer trust any ONE brand for anything.
Since then I used a calling card and a public phone, until now, when I started a grad program at Georgia Tech and realized that Tech has removed all public phones from the campus. I'm wondering what wireless provider paid them to do so...
Are you kidding? This is not a GATECH campus issue. Try finding a payphone anywhere in Atlanta.
There are hardly any left, and where there ARE payphones, there will be one where four or five might have once been -and it probably won't be a Bellsouth phone so there's no telling what the cost-per-call will be. Some of them was $1 for three minutes of local calling! Insanity.
Where have all the phones gone? The reason is simple: Atlanta has one of the highest rates for cellphone usage in the country. Anybody worth two nickels has a cellphone. Nobody in Atlanta used payphones anymore so the telcos uninstalled most of the coin phones.
All the telcos expected payphones to be cash cows for, well, forever. None of them expected $40 all you can talk cell planes, or prepaid plans that were far cheaper than coin phones. None of them realized people wanted to use phones on the go.
Payphones are obsolete just as phonebooths went obsolete in the 70's.
On the other hand, in the U.S. Nuclear Reactors have killed how many civilians? So far as I know, the number of civilians killed in nuclear accidents at power plants is... zero.
Define U.S. Nuclear Reactors. I'd define that as any reactor operated by the USA. Reasonable? In that case, there indeed have been deaths and rather horrible accidents.
The 1961 SL-1 BWR experimental reactor accident in Utah comes to mind. Three fatalities, one was by control rod impalement and/or irradiation, the other two were from irradiation.
Some info about it here: http://www.radiationworks.com/sl1reactor.htm
The History channel has a documentary on this accident. Truly gruesome.
What happens? Probably not much because the sunlight is really, really weak at that distance. Any ship expecting to do useful work out that far would have to use another power source.
With our current technology, Mars is about the outer boundary for effective solar power.
Including all the fringe planetoids, Oort clouds and other leftover junk, the Solar system is roughly 9,000,000,000,000 miles in diameter. Big. Vast. Empty.
It's that reporter for Space.com, Robert Roy Britt.
He has a habit of using the word "solar" for non-solar topics, and of course the Space.com stories end up on the wire services and are repeated by hundreds of TV talking heads. All that does is make the problem worse. It's bad enough that most people don't even know the name of their star. We don't need them attaching that name to totally unrelated objects.
Here's an unedited quote from him regarding a complaint on the same subject from one of his previous stories: Thanks for your note. You are correct in the strict sense, but astronomy and language are evolving. We now know of many other systems that look familiar. And many astronomers have come use the term "solar system" to describe other planetary systems. It's becoming a bit like Kleenex in its generic usage.
I'm all for accuracy, but I think also that language is fluid, and if astronomers use the term interchangeably, then I think it's best I do so, too. I also find it the most convenient term to convey a system of planets with a central star -- and there are hints of lone, wandering planets not hosted by a star, so a distinction is helpful (at least until the latter situation is sorted out). I appreciate hearing from you because notes like yours help me frame my approach to writing.
Well, I am glad to know that our astromomers are idiots. Makes me feel better.
The term "mini solar system" is wrong. Solar -the word- is derived from Sol, the name of that thing we call "the sun" (cue CD7 joke about Sun, long a source of amusement) aka that great big yellow ball thing.
It is Sol. If you didn't know it had a name, blame your teachers.
Our happy family of planets is the Solar System. Because we all belong to Sol. There is one Sol and one Solar System in the entire universe.
This newly discoved system of planets is orbiting ANOTHER STAR which is not named Sol and has nothing to do with Sol. I guess calling it "strange star system" would have invoked too many B-grade actors or something.
aw dangit, what happened to the Armored Core PSP game? That was going to be my excuse to buy this thing. Guess I don't need to wait in line on launch day.
You make a good point that people tend to forget: the lock is only as strong as what it is attached to. Bad grammar. Sue me.
For example, here at work we have high security with heavy, solid steel doors, with pin-switches to detect when the door opens, and super-duty handles. Very hard to penetrate.
But those doors are mounted in a wall made from boring old drywall and thin metal studs. One good kick or a running slam and you've just made a nice hole for yourself.
The door? Who needs that? If you really, really want to break in, go around the damn door. You are not going to care about the drywall mess.
Hollywood loves to do complex lock-picking and breaking-in scenes. I have never seen a movie where somebody walks down to the office they want to rob, and simply trashes the wall to get in. No. They go through a stupid scheme to get the door key or something.
Am I the only person who looks at a locked room and laughs at the drywall? Maybe I have a criminal mind.
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Why not get a ham license?
* Can't conduct "business" on a ham radio. My cellphone can, as can the BRS-licensed system I use at work.
* Autopatch calls aren't private and piss off everybody. Nobody cares if I use my cellphone while copying a honey-do list of stuff to get at the store.
* Range. My mobile rig reaches 20 miles. My cellphone doesn't have to.
* Callsigns. I really would hate having to mention my KG4--- callsign every so often during every cell call. Really would ruin those hot conversations.
Ham radio is fun for what it is, but it's not going to replace other forms of radio communication i.e. cellphones, FRS, etc.. nor should it. If everybody making casual cell calls suddenly went out and got tech tickets, the hams would have strokes about too many people on the air.
BTW, the gadget mentioned in this article is illegal in the USA. Having a ham ticket would not allow anyone to operate this thing, and in fact, if you had a licence, you'd get worse punishment because hams are supposed to KNOW the laws and act accordingly.
signed, a generic KG4---
Possibly illegal, but you would have to determine what "minimum power" was for the conversation in progress. You'd almost have to BE a part of the conversation to effectively evaluate whether the operator could reduce power.
As with quantum cryptography, a third-party observer is not going to have exactly the same perspective on the conversation and its signal quality. In general, the FCC is not sitting in driveways attempting to do this sort of thing.
I know people love things that come in threes, but since when did Ask Jeeves have anything at all to do with RSS or blogging?
Last time I used it, Jeeves was still a sort of plain-language search engine.
Just want to point out that Podcasts do not neccesarily have to be MP3s. Other audio formats such as WMA are supported along with at least a couple video formats and even still images.
Podcasting is only the method of delivery for content. What that content IS can be almost anything. I would be surprised if there aren't already some porn podcasts.
From time to time, my account rep at my bank calls just to say hi and offer more account add-ons.
She's Russian.
This would be major red-flag territory had I not MET her in person at the bank, seen that she actually works there, and is totally legit.
She's also cute as hell and has that accent. Grrr. I think it's a secret weapon.
The war is over. Too many important companies have joined Blu-Ray. HP, Dell, Sony, Apple, two or three major hardware OEMs and some movie studios.
HD-DVD has zero (?) PC backers, a couple smaller hardware OEMs and a couple movie studios.
The porn industry is supposed to be tentatively backing Blu-Ray because of the storage capacity for multi-angles and such.
People say HD-DVD's one advantage is the legacy pressing equipment -but new equipment is ONLY one business expense tax write-off away.
Upgrade costs are simply not the issue they seem to be. If the media companies, the movie companies and the porn industry wants Blu-Ray, the pressing plants WILL install the machines, throw away their legacy presses and never look back. Amortized over the life of a pressing plant, the Blu-Ray cost differential drops to zero.
HD-DVD should be scared to death if their single saving grace is that it will cost more, initially, to switch to the competing format. That's not a technical HD-DVD advantage over Blu-Ray, only an economic one and history shows hardware only gets cheaper.
The Kumars at #42 is carried in the US on "BBC America" on digital satellite and some cable systems.
The channel is better than nothing but it is no true BBC. BBCA runs far too many reruns of Changing Rooms, Bargain Hunt, Cash in the attic, etc. Zero documentaries. Zero music shows. Barely any news. It's quite a pathetic little channel.
There is also a "BBC Canada" which is run by different people and seems much closer to the Beeb. Canada also gets a BBC Kids channel not available in the US.
Maybe I am the only one but I think HD and Blu-Ray (saw it called BD earlier today, guess that's the new name?) media will be out AT launch and for affordable prices.
The entire point of HD and Blu-Ray is the added capacity and myriad other advantages over current DVDs. To get at those advantages, you need the recordable media and you need it at launch, not months and months later.
What about DL drives that are still selling even though the media is not common or cheap? You can still burn plain old DVDs with a DL drive so you can still DO something with it while you wait for the media.
But the whole point of HD and Blu-Ray is how much BETTER they will be over regular DVD, so if all you can do with your fancy new drive is burn the same DVDs you have been burning, nobody is going to be happy buying one.
I have a DL drive. I've yet to buy ONE piece of DL media because it's too damn costly, but at least I can burn plenty of single-layer discs and it does an OK job with that. I doubt I will ever buy any DL because HD or Blu-Ray will be on the store shelves before DL media is actually common or affordable, and there won't be any point in buying DL by then.
FWIW, I think Apple's support just won the war for Blu-Ray. There are now too many consumer electronics and PC makers on the Blu-Ray side.
What do you get from an IT job? Money, job satisfaction, stability, something that looks good on a resume?
IT is generally a low pay profession subject to the whims of bean counters and outsourcing, and only marginally rewarding if you aren't just into hardware.
Compare that to various aspects of health care where salaries are soaring, where they can't get enough workers (and won't be able to get enough for decades) and where the jobs might actually leave you feeling like you helped somebody.
One of my friends traded her decent IT job for medical school and became a pharmacist where she earns twice what I make in my IT job and she gets to help people and feel good about what she does.
That means more to her than hanging out with computers all day and hell, the pay is better. Why not leave IT?
Kids, hell. I was given a new winter jacket for Christmas. A well-meaning relative was involved.
The jacket has a nice inside pocket for a cellphone... directly over your heart. WTF!?
Worse, it's buried under flaps and zippers and crap so if you have dared to carry the phone in that spot and it actually rings -and you survive- you stand there waving arms like an idiot trying to unzip and unflap just to get AT the phone before it rolls to voicemail.
It's especially fun if the ringer is set to vibrate. Is it a heart attack or a booty call?
When a lot of us are spending long hours at work, that limits the number of people you can meet offwork. Work relationships that become personal are going to happen and there isn't anything inherently bad about that.
And the boss doesn't need to know either.
I was dating a coworker for a while and it was common office knowledge. It was a fairly intense relationship; went to lunch together, arrived at work in one car, went home together, that sort of thing.
My boss eventually took me aside and tried to "warn" me about the young lady in question, not because it was affecting work but because the boss considered the employees as her extended family and she felt that justified playing the "concerned mom" role. She just didn't approve of my girlfriend's morals.
Now THAT was improper. Nobody's business who I am seeing or what happens in our private lives.
In the interest of continued employment, we did tone down the relationship in the office but it had no impact on us otherwise. My significant other eventually left for a better job and that ended the boss's problems.
What about worrying when the boss doesn't like it when you date coworkers? Well, what's to stop them from not liking who you date away from work? Suppose you are married and the boss doesn't like your spouse or the color of your car or house?
At some point you have to persue what is right for you and not worry about the boss. There is always another job and I'd hate to work for someone so petty. Love matters a lot more to me than my job.
As far as blogging about work, I do that but I never, ever mention company names or enough specific details to identify anything. For example, "Server Prod14 was hacked tonight, totally goners. The MIS support staff had to get out of bed to come fix it and management is pissed." was blogged as "Man, it's a bad night at work. Why do computers break at 3:00AM?"
That's more or less true at the software company where I work. About half our branch office is women and I think that's the same in the company as a whole. Our local head of IT is a woman.
We are mostly a Windows shop with linux making inroads. By and large nobody, male or female, spends a LOT of time worrying about which OS they're using. It's all about what they are trying to DO with it, like write code, fix customer issues, etc.
Windows is it. It's a tool. All of our other dev tools are on Windows, so.... there you go.
I think women actually deal with computers better than men in some cases because they don't get emotionally attached to the PC as much. For women, it's just something you use. For men, it can become an obsession.
A friend of mine has a saying "never love something that can't love you back" that could be applied to computers, cars, everything else that people fall in love with.
From what I read on this, yes, there IS an expiration date on the package.
However, that date has little or nothing to do with the date programmed in the cart. What I read said the box may have a four-year expiry but the cart only carries a 2.5 year expiry.
This suit needs to get retailers and distributors in on the act. Surely some of them have pallets of ink sitting around unsold which has already expired. That's big bucks wasted.
So you're implying that you use PPPoE directly from the PC rather than through one of the many hardware router boxes?
Why do that instead of using a hardware router?
The built-in PPPoE client is part of the OS and therefore subject to any underlying flaws and bugs that the OS may have (and it sounds like it IS buggy from what you describe). A third-party PPPoE client such as RASSPPOE is another choice but again, it's software. Might be bugs.
I used to run a PPPoE dialer, then went to RASSPPPOE, and then I jumped to the hardware router because I don't want my LAN PCs having anything to do with the PPPoE connection. Let the router take the pounding from attacks on the net.
Suppose they pound and pound and get past the router? I also run a software firewall on each PC, each one running a different brand of firewall program so that a flaw in one will not, hopefully, take down any others. Same thing with different brands of antivirus. Name a major brand of antivirus and I've probably seen something get past it and hose a machine. I no longer trust any ONE brand for anything.
damn, I was gonna say that.
*pout*
Like three people will get the joke though.
Since then I used a calling card and a public phone, until now, when I started a grad program at Georgia Tech and realized that Tech has removed all public phones from the campus. I'm wondering what wireless provider paid them to do so...
Are you kidding? This is not a GATECH campus issue. Try finding a payphone anywhere in Atlanta.
There are hardly any left, and where there ARE payphones, there will be one where four or five might have once been -and it probably won't be a Bellsouth phone so there's no telling what the cost-per-call will be. Some of them was $1 for three minutes of local calling! Insanity.
Where have all the phones gone? The reason is simple: Atlanta has one of the highest rates for cellphone usage in the country. Anybody worth two nickels has a cellphone. Nobody in Atlanta used payphones anymore so the telcos uninstalled most of the coin phones.
All the telcos expected payphones to be cash cows for, well, forever. None of them expected $40 all you can talk cell planes, or prepaid plans that were far cheaper than coin phones. None of them realized people wanted to use phones on the go.
Payphones are obsolete just as phonebooths went obsolete in the 70's.
On the other hand, in the U.S. Nuclear Reactors have killed how many civilians? So far as I know, the number of civilians killed in nuclear accidents at power plants is... zero.
Define U.S. Nuclear Reactors. I'd define that as any reactor operated by the USA. Reasonable? In that case, there indeed have been deaths and rather horrible accidents.
The 1961 SL-1 BWR experimental reactor accident in Utah comes to mind. Three fatalities, one was by control rod impalement and/or irradiation, the other two were from irradiation.
Some info about it here: http://www.radiationworks.com/sl1reactor.htm
The History channel has a documentary on this accident. Truly gruesome.
What happens? Probably not much because the sunlight is really, really weak at that distance. Any ship expecting to do useful work out that far would have to use another power source. With our current technology, Mars is about the outer boundary for effective solar power. Including all the fringe planetoids, Oort clouds and other leftover junk, the Solar system is roughly 9,000,000,000,000 miles in diameter. Big. Vast. Empty.
It's that reporter for Space.com, Robert Roy Britt.
He has a habit of using the word "solar" for non-solar topics, and of course the Space.com stories end up on the wire services and are repeated by hundreds of TV talking heads. All that does is make the problem worse. It's bad enough that most people don't even know the name of their star. We don't need them attaching that name to totally unrelated objects.
Here's an unedited quote from him regarding a complaint on the same subject from one of his previous stories:
Thanks for your note. You are correct in the strict sense, but astronomy and language are evolving. We now know of many other systems that look familiar. And many astronomers have come use the term "solar system" to describe other planetary systems. It's becoming a bit like Kleenex in its generic usage.
I'm all for accuracy, but I think also that language is fluid, and if astronomers use the term interchangeably, then I think it's best I do so,
too. I also find it the most convenient term to convey a system of planets with a central star -- and there are hints of lone, wandering planets not
hosted by a star, so a distinction is helpful (at least until the latter situation is sorted out). I appreciate hearing from you because notes like
yours help me frame my approach to writing.
Well, I am glad to know that our astromomers are idiots. Makes me feel better.
The term "mini solar system" is wrong. Solar -the word- is derived from Sol, the name of that thing we call "the sun" (cue CD7 joke about Sun, long a source of amusement) aka that great big yellow ball thing.
It is Sol. If you didn't know it had a name, blame your teachers.
Our happy family of planets is the Solar System. Because we all belong to Sol. There is one Sol and one Solar System in the entire universe.
This newly discoved system of planets is orbiting ANOTHER STAR which is not named Sol and has nothing to do with Sol. I guess calling it "strange star system" would have invoked too many B-grade actors or something.
And here I was thinking Baryon was a Raiden-like shooter game for the PC.
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http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?name=Bary
Used to waste lots of time playing that one.
aw dangit, what happened to the Armored Core PSP game? That was going to be my excuse to buy this thing. Guess I don't need to wait in line on launch day.
It is possible if songs in languages other than English are considered.
There are probably more of those songs than songs in English.
You make a good point that people tend to forget: the lock is only as strong as what it is attached to. Bad grammar. Sue me.
For example, here at work we have high security with heavy, solid steel doors, with pin-switches to detect when the door opens, and super-duty handles. Very hard to penetrate.
But those doors are mounted in a wall made from boring old drywall and thin metal studs. One good kick or a running slam and you've just made a nice hole for yourself.
The door? Who needs that? If you really, really want to break in, go around the damn door. You are not going to care about the drywall mess.
Hollywood loves to do complex lock-picking and breaking-in scenes. I have never seen a movie where somebody walks down to the office they want to rob, and simply trashes the wall to get in. No. They go through a stupid scheme to get the door key or something.
Am I the only person who looks at a locked room and laughs at the drywall? Maybe I have a criminal mind.
Guess you have NO idea how easy it is to remove a Club. It's insanely easy. A dumb child can do it.
Defeating a club ranks right up there with that Bic pen trick for bicycle locks. Piece of cake.
I drive a 10-yr-old butt-ugly, junker car. That seems to keep the thieves away.