Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and television producer. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier days and became famous in his 1991 debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. I know I feel the temperature rising down below!
I have a sansa e270r that I am quite fond of. Much cheaper than a nano and more space and more features. However I have never used an ipod so, what do I know.
Criticisms of space guns always seem to revolve around not being able to deliver a payload to space without it suffering either extraordinarily high Gs or burning up in the atmosphere. But I would think providing some form of lift to a spacecraft would lower the amount of propellant and increase the workable payload of any spacecraft.
After all, how much energy does it take to accelerate a huge spacecraft resting on the ground to 50 mph?? I would think quite a lot! Why dump rocket fuel to accomplish that?
Should be much more efficient to give it a little push!
This already exists in many online FPSes. In Battlefield 2142, anyone can initiate a kick vote on another player. If the offending player has pissed off enough players, the other players (serving as judges and jury members) vote to kick and he gets kicked off the server. They could lock him up for a while but whats the point? Noone is going to sit in virtual jail - just join another server.
Security is nothing but a dance between accessibility and privacy. You want easy access to your information but you dont want everyone else to have the same easy access. This is built into what it means to be human. As long as we have humans being human, we will have a security industry. In fact, in the future, the security industry should be the only one to still exist since there is a technical solution to all other IT problems.
I am a decent FPS player but a middling paint-ball player. My style in both is to run out with guns a blazin'. Works OK for FPS, but not for paint-ball. The other problem I have with paint-ball is the cost to play at a range since they make you buy their ammo. Ouch! I'd play privately but I dont have 20 male friends with guns.
Interesting comment about BF2. I play BF2142 quite a lot, I dont cheat and I actually have a rather positive kill to death ratio. I therefore assume that noone is cheating in that game. I figured EA fixed the cheat problem in the Battlefield series but yeah, HL-based games seem.. well hell, I have not played them in a million years.
I think it would be in the best interests of the US to not make entering the US too cumbersome. Foreign visitors is good for a country. However, it is the right of any sovereign nation to deny foreigners anonymity when visitng and/or just plain not let them in. Your give-an-inch, take-a-mile argument is a little silly. Why dont we just abolish the criminal offender databases; License plates for automobiles; Social security numbers?!? They are all just the tip of the iceberg, man!!
Seriously, this could be a useful option for foreign nationals that show up at US entry points with no visa. Just give them the option to be tracked or they can stay out until they get a valid visa.
~6 years ago I got moved from OS2 to Windows 2000. I'm sure the biggest reason for that was that our customers run windows and we need to be able to recreate customer problems on our machines, etc. The particular product I support has a version for Linux but it is not widely used compared to the Windows version. I'm sure our primary workstations will remain some flavor of windows until our customers move off that platform.
An OS monopoly is a tough thing to break...
That C&C the guy owns is basically a light-weight racing sloop. I could imagine a hull breach in a 7-8 knot collision with a container. Still, there should have been time to set off the EPIRB or deploy the liferaft in that event.
WC3 has a bunch of RPG elements (heroes) that are completely superflous and distracting from what is at heart, a RTS game.
The characters in WC3 are not as distinct as they are in SC and WC2. In WC3 I could not tell the difference between a shamen and an archer.
I prefer the graphics of SC over WC3. The cutscenes from SC are waaaaaaay better than those from WC3.
I think the different camera views in WC3 are an entirely useless feature. The 3D-ness of WC3 made it perform poorly on all but the fastest machines (when it came out).
IMHO SC has very little that could be added to it to make it a better game: - Higher resolution and more screen real-estate - Better AI for character movement. - Smoother in-game animations Leave everything else as-is and I will buy it in a heart-beat. We need SC 1.1 !!!
Also, there are many games for Windows that were originally developed with a console-style control in mind. The two I've played are the GTA series and Lego Star Wars. A quality, standards-based controller for those console-port-type games would be great.
I like trains but we have the technology for an Autonomous Cruise Control system already. This type of system would provide all the benefits of a train : - less room for human error - the ability to create virtual trains of cars driving in each other's slip-stream. This would bring the "auto-train" close to a regular train in terms of energy efficiency. At 80 MPH, most of the energy expense is pushing the air out of your way.
But of course, the main advantage of ACC would be that cars could de-couple and drive the last mile that trains cannot get to. Also, you could use existing road infrastructure.
If your goal is truth, I would agree that humans brains are generally not so good at finding it.
But for stuff like survival and reproduction, the brain has served humanity well.
It is interesting to see the adapatations that the human brain has to make to fit in to a world where objective truth seems almost possible.
At least the science users among us seem to be the most successfull right now.
Nice bike.
I road a century over the summer on a diamond frame and had severe neck pain for the next week and a half. Never again! Now I have to decide between a regular 'bent and a fully faired machine capable of getting over 50 Mph. That would be cool!...but maybe impractical for my daily commute.
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Wow... thanks for the information but, how could you work for these assholes?
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and television producer. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier days and became famous in his 1991 debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
I know I feel the temperature rising down below!
Sheeesh! You're so new to /. you don't even have a UID yet!
Maybe he's designed this arm for his friend:
http://wongablog.co.uk/wb-images/cousinit.jpg
I have a sansa e270r that I am quite fond of. Much cheaper than a nano and more space and more features. However I have never used an ipod so, what do I know.
I am in EXACTLY the same boat dude! Finished the build yesterday! Dont worry about this CPU SNAFU man, the dude abides... the dude abides...
Criticisms of space guns always seem to revolve around not being able to deliver a payload to space without it suffering either extraordinarily high Gs or burning up in the atmosphere. But I would think providing some form of lift to a spacecraft would lower the amount of propellant and increase the workable payload of any spacecraft.
After all, how much energy does it take to accelerate a huge spacecraft resting on the ground to 50 mph??
I would think quite a lot! Why dump rocket fuel to accomplish that?
Should be much more efficient to give it a little push!
I was a contractor at LLNL in early 2005. You could have personal cell phones. Just not in some secure buildings.
This already exists in many online FPSes. In Battlefield 2142, anyone can initiate a kick vote on another player. If the offending player has pissed off enough players, the other players (serving as judges and jury members) vote to kick and he gets kicked off the server.
They could lock him up for a while but whats the point? Noone is going to sit in virtual jail - just join another server.
Security is nothing but a dance between accessibility and privacy. You want easy access to your information but you dont want everyone else to have the same easy access. This is built into what it means to be human. As long as we have humans being human, we will have a security industry.
In fact, in the future, the security industry should be the only one to still exist since there is a technical solution to all other IT problems.
I am a decent FPS player but a middling paint-ball player. My style in both is to run out with guns a blazin'. Works OK for FPS, but not for paint-ball.
The other problem I have with paint-ball is the cost to play at a range since they make you buy their ammo. Ouch! I'd play privately but I dont have 20 male friends with guns.
Interesting comment about BF2. I play BF2142 quite a lot, I dont cheat and I actually have a rather positive kill to death ratio. I therefore assume that noone is cheating in that game.
I figured EA fixed the cheat problem in the Battlefield series but yeah, HL-based games seem.. well hell, I have not played them in a million years.
Because they dont cook it. hehehehe
You are just lazy. ;-)
Unfortunately, it seems most people are disabled in spirit. I blame TV.
I think it would be in the best interests of the US to not make entering the US too cumbersome. Foreign visitors is good for a country. However, it is the right of any sovereign nation to deny foreigners anonymity when visitng and/or just plain not let them in.
Your give-an-inch, take-a-mile argument is a little silly. Why dont we just abolish the criminal offender databases; License plates for automobiles; Social security numbers?!? They are all just the tip of the iceberg, man!!
Seriously, this could be a useful option for foreign nationals that show up at US entry points with no visa. Just give them the option to be tracked or they can stay out until they get a valid visa.
~6 years ago I got moved from OS2 to Windows 2000. I'm sure the biggest reason for that was that our customers run windows and we need to be able to recreate customer problems on our machines, etc. The particular product I support has a version for Linux but it is not widely used compared to the Windows version. I'm sure our primary workstations will remain some flavor of windows until our customers move off that platform. An OS monopoly is a tough thing to break...
That C&C the guy owns is basically a light-weight racing sloop. I could imagine a hull breach in a 7-8 knot collision with a container. Still, there should have been time to set off the EPIRB or deploy the liferaft in that event.
WC3 has a bunch of RPG elements (heroes) that are completely superflous and distracting from what is at heart, a RTS game.
The characters in WC3 are not as distinct as they are in SC and WC2. In WC3 I could not tell the difference between a shamen and an archer.
I prefer the graphics of SC over WC3. The cutscenes from SC are waaaaaaay better than those from WC3.
I think the different camera views in WC3 are an entirely useless feature. The 3D-ness of WC3 made it perform poorly on all but the fastest machines (when it came out).
IMHO SC has very little that could be added to it to make it a better game:
- Higher resolution and more screen real-estate
- Better AI for character movement.
- Smoother in-game animations
Leave everything else as-is and I will buy it in a heart-beat.
We need SC 1.1 !!!
Pocket change for the US war machine.
Also, there are many games for Windows that were originally developed with a console-style control in mind. The two I've played are the GTA series and Lego Star Wars. A quality, standards-based controller for those console-port-type games would be great.
literally: "Show us our little assholes how to use Linux with Dora." I'm not a native speaker but maybe cabrito could mean "little goat" as well?
I like trains but we have the technology for an Autonomous Cruise Control system already. This type of system would provide all the benefits of a train :
- less room for human error
- the ability to create virtual trains of cars driving in each other's slip-stream. This would bring the "auto-train" close to a regular train in terms of energy efficiency. At 80 MPH, most of the energy expense is pushing the air out of your way.
But of course, the main advantage of ACC would be that cars could de-couple and drive the last mile that trains cannot get to. Also, you could use existing road infrastructure.
If your goal is truth, I would agree that humans brains are generally not so good at finding it. But for stuff like survival and reproduction, the brain has served humanity well. It is interesting to see the adapatations that the human brain has to make to fit in to a world where objective truth seems almost possible. At least the science users among us seem to be the most successfull right now.
Nice bike. I road a century over the summer on a diamond frame and had severe neck pain for the next week and a half. Never again! Now I have to decide between a regular 'bent and a fully faired machine capable of getting over 50 Mph. That would be cool! ...but maybe impractical for my daily commute.