I dunno about that. I recently moved to Texas and found that their scheme of allowing multiple power companies to "compete" in the same market led to nothing but price collusion and more expensive power for the customer.
you're wearing cammo and are fully prone and not shooting
What? You can go prone?? Sure you're not just crouching. I think if they had added a decent stealth system the game would have been more interesting.
What is in the game is laughable. "OK, you bought the sneaky suit, that makes you sneaky if you're crouching, not moving and not shooting. Going prone? Nope. Moving slowly to be stealthy? Nope. Low-crawling to be stealthy? Nope. Effective knife attacks when catching enemies off guard? Nope. Effective suppressed weapons? Nope."
You have a point. Maybe if there was a potential for a diamond to respawn at a guard post I'd feel less annoyed to have to fight through the same f'ing post again and again and AGAIN. There's no reward for the repetition, only annoyance.
Far Cry 2 is TOTALLY different from the original. I liked the original as well.
FC2 is like... imagine GTA4, but you're always on the starting island and EVERYONE shoots at you. Just getting from point A to point B, every single goddamn person you come across is hostile and will chase you to until you kill them.
In the United States you pick a cell phone plan based on which sized iron girder you want rammed up your ass repeatedly. There's no good option, only "less rusty" vs. "less jagged".
The problem with hydrogen is energy volume density. Sure, batteries suffer from energy mass density, but at least there have been improvements. 1 liter of hydrogen still takes up the same amount of space as it did 100 years ago. The amount of power you can store in a kilogram of batteries has vastly improved in 100 years.
I wonder if they have some fridge-sized gizmo that trickle charges off the grid and then can dump into the batteries via... I don't know, friggin' arc furnace terminals?
Incidentally, what ever happened to flywheel energy storage? Did they decide that having multiple thousand kilowatts of kinetic energy sitting in a house was a bad idea?
With electric motors you pay heavily for "over sizing". Electric motors approach their max efficiency as they approach their maximum rated load. So using 1,000 HP of motors to generate 150 HP is pretty bad. (I admit it's also pretty bad-ass...)
If that's true it's disappointing, but I guess it's asking a lot to expect anything else. Top Gear is entertaining as hell, but isn't really a pinnacle of journalistic integrity.
I had a 1TB Seagate that would LOUDLY tick intermittently for a few seconds right out of the box. During that time the PC would hang. After a day it died. RMA'd it and went with a WD.
No, I don't. Airport runways and taxiways have maximum weight restrictions. There are many, many airfields that a 747 can operate at that the A380 will not be able to operate from.
The A380 is too big and heavy for the vast majority of runways in the world. They would be very limited as to which airports it could fly to.
While it would be "coooooool" and "totally rad" to have that monster painted up in Air Force One colors, it's just not going to happen. It'll be the 747-8 or 777-3 series.
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Exactly. It can be done... but don't let anyone tell you it'll be easy.
Speed takes thrust. Thrust takes fuel. Fuel costs money.
TANSTAAFL. There is no magic bullet that's been invented to make supersonic flight more efficient since the Concorde.
I dunno about that. I recently moved to Texas and found that their scheme of allowing multiple power companies to "compete" in the same market led to nothing but price collusion and more expensive power for the customer.
Cruise missiles aren't intercontinental and are much easier to defend against than ICBMs.
This makes the ABL project a little more interesting. Having 747s with frickin' lasers on them orbiting Iran 24/7 isn't all that practical though.
What does anti-matter have to do with it?
"We're too lazy to finish the damn game code, you think we're going to waste time making decent documentation? We'll 'let' you suckers do it."
you're wearing cammo and are fully prone and not shooting
What? You can go prone?? Sure you're not just crouching. I think if they had added a decent stealth system the game would have been more interesting.
What is in the game is laughable. "OK, you bought the sneaky suit, that makes you sneaky if you're crouching, not moving and not shooting. Going prone? Nope. Moving slowly to be stealthy? Nope. Low-crawling to be stealthy? Nope. Effective knife attacks when catching enemies off guard? Nope. Effective suppressed weapons? Nope."
You have a point. Maybe if there was a potential for a diamond to respawn at a guard post I'd feel less annoyed to have to fight through the same f'ing post again and again and AGAIN. There's no reward for the repetition, only annoyance.
I got it free with my video card. I'm glad I didn't pay more.
I'd classify it as "interesting failure". I mean, at least they tried something different. They failed, sure. But well, points for effort I guess.
Far Cry 2 is TOTALLY different from the original. I liked the original as well.
FC2 is like... imagine GTA4, but you're always on the starting island and EVERYONE shoots at you. Just getting from point A to point B, every single goddamn person you come across is hostile and will chase you to until you kill them.
In the United States you pick a cell phone plan based on which sized iron girder you want rammed up your ass repeatedly. There's no good option, only "less rusty" vs. "less jagged".
The problem with hydrogen is energy volume density. Sure, batteries suffer from energy mass density, but at least there have been improvements. 1 liter of hydrogen still takes up the same amount of space as it did 100 years ago. The amount of power you can store in a kilogram of batteries has vastly improved in 100 years.
I wonder if they have some fridge-sized gizmo that trickle charges off the grid and then can dump into the batteries via... I don't know, friggin' arc furnace terminals?
Incidentally, what ever happened to flywheel energy storage? Did they decide that having multiple thousand kilowatts of kinetic energy sitting in a house was a bad idea?
With electric motors you pay heavily for "over sizing". Electric motors approach their max efficiency as they approach their maximum rated load. So using 1,000 HP of motors to generate 150 HP is pretty bad. (I admit it's also pretty bad-ass...)
that ended in scandal. [jalopnik.com]
If that's true it's disappointing, but I guess it's asking a lot to expect anything else. Top Gear is entertaining as hell, but isn't really a pinnacle of journalistic integrity.
Already did it, but don't have it hosted anywhere.
GUIz!
Worse.
After watching it I started bleeding out of my anus.
I had a 1TB Seagate that would LOUDLY tick intermittently for a few seconds right out of the box. During that time the PC would hang. After a day it died. RMA'd it and went with a WD.
Does that include the text of all the ads?
And compared to the 747 introduction, how many A380s will be in service (use total seats if it makes you feel better.)
No, I don't. Airport runways and taxiways have maximum weight restrictions. There are many, many airfields that a 747 can operate at that the A380 will not be able to operate from.
T B damn it. Stupid pinky finger.
Were they those POS Seagate 1Tb drives? I got one of those from Newegg, puked during the initial format.
To Newegg's credit, they didn't put up any fuss about granting an RMA, I did get dicked out of 15% for "restocking" though...
The A380 is too big and heavy for the vast majority of runways in the world. They would be very limited as to which airports it could fly to.
While it would be "coooooool" and "totally rad" to have that monster painted up in Air Force One colors, it's just not going to happen. It'll be the 747-8 or 777-3 series.
Would you prefer we didn't talk about... cars
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down there pal. Not talking about cars on Slashdot is like... a car... with... no wheels.
Damn it! Slashdot analogy rule strikes again.