but I don't want to be a tank. I like my 2handed sword spec arms warrior, and that setup relies a lot on the use of mortal strike + high crit rating.
not to mention rend + hamstring.
to make it so that a 2handed Warrior (who has a slower swing time then anybody else in the game) has to waste 2 or more swings (one for hamstring and at least 1 for pummel) and get no damage, fine! but I want frost nova to not do damage, I want entangling roots to not not damage.... and so on and so on...
Its bad enough that warriors still do not have an "escape" skill, now you are going to nerf the warriors few abilities that counteract other classes escape.
yes, yes it was
"The bowl of petunias was created during one occurrence when the Heart of Gold's Infinite Improbability Drive was activated. It appeared in mid-air, and promptly fell to the ground and shattered.
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that, we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now. "
"The whale has only one scene in the TV show and movie, but nevertheless he tries to make productive use of his limited time to attempt to come to terms with his existence, naming things that he discovers along the way, such as his tail and the wind whipping past him very rapidly as he approaches the large thing coming towards him very quickly that he names "ground", and wonders to himself whether or not it would like to be his friend."
Then you sir have to prove I am the one who clicked on this "agree" button on my computer. When ever I get an EULA that agree must be clicked before the program can be used, someone else clicks agree. I agreed to no such thing, and clicked no such button.
so until you show me video or photographic proof that it was I who clicked the agree button you have no leg to stand on.
And if you could successfully break my skull open (or the more likely situation where you attempt to assault me and you find your self on the floor) you would be the one in prison, and thats one less whiny person in the bar/restaurant/where ever and I still win.
your exactly the type of person I go stand next to and blow smoke in the faces of..
now if you would politely ask that I put out my cancer-stick (yes I am well aware of the negative impact of my addiction) I would.
shoot I'm the smoker on the street that holds his his drag in as children pass by, and tuck the coffin-nail behind my back to lessen the amount of smoke drifting towards them.
but I'll be damned if I will give in to your pathetic attempt to humiliate me or another smoker.
The problem with that is public schools highly discourage this behavior. To the schools (by schools i mean the administration of the school districts not the teachers) see every student as a walking dollar sign, the faster you move through the school system the less time they get money for your presence.
I don't think it's that easy. Mp3 is already lossy, once decompressed and re-encoded to compare with a watermarked version, it will lose quality and the binary information will be different so comparing won't be easy at all.
Even if you have the original CD, and you rip the track from it, encode it into the exact Mp3 format (same bitrate and all) as the watermarked one, what guarantees that iTunes used the same disc to encode it? What guarantees that iTunes rip the same exact way as you? Nothing, so the Mp3 file will be different even if encoded with same parameters.
You are working off the assumption that you would need to look at the binary. it would be much more easy to take audio editing software and look for the noises above the human hearing range (that is where the article says the watermark would be) and nix them.
In order to make a semi-solid beam of energy which could interact with both matter and energy would require containing a quasar and quantum singularity inside the hilt. The gravitational field would pull all the quasar's expelled plasma back moments after the quasar releases them. The speed of the returning plasma would form a chainsaw effect allowing it to cut through the matter with ease, while when being stopped by an opposing beam. A modulated gravity field would bounce allow for the reflection of energy beams.
http://www.starwars.com/databank/technology/lights aber/?id=eu br>
Once unleashed, the power channels through a positively charged continuous energy lens at the center of the handle. The beam then arcs circumferentially back to a negatively charged high energy flux aperture. A superconductor transfers the power from the flux aperture to the power cell. As a result, a lightsaber only expends power when its blade cuts through something. So efficient is the blade, that it does not radiate heat unless it comes into contact with something.
Hey, hey, hey, just because somebody has a critical opinion on something dose not make them flamebait!
Come on, everyone knows science is incremental. 99% of progress is unremarkable in and of itself, but quite often the process involved allows greater leaps to occur. For instance, the microlensing they are using in these systems are a good advance in optics -- now what other uses can we think of? And that doesn't even count what we can't even predict.
I would agree with you here but, the focus of the story is not the optic technology used in this find; it's the useless planet.
The tech of the find is thrown in the story like packing peanuts, just filling space, and is overshadowed by the icy-rocky-planet-thingy.
Your attitude is just demonstrative of what is wrong with people today, they cannot think past the immediate, and certainly don't understand how we got to where we are today (hint: it's not by only making major breakthroughs).
Nope sorry, didn't miss the interesting optic comments in the story, but this was not billed as a story about how they found the planet.
Plus I am not only looking for major breakthroughs here, just tired of hearing the same story rehashed every 2 weeks.
Look, if you would get off your butt and look at your options you would see
In your Preferences page, under home page a section labeled "Customize Stories on the Homepage" depending on how you rank the importance of each of the sections on/. it will make stories smaller or larger.
Ones that you rank as low importance will appear smaller, sometimes as small gray bars
I. There are approximately 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Jehovah's Witnesses, or Buddist religions, this reduces the workload on Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each.
II. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with at least one good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, jump out, go down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump in the sleigh, and move on to the next house. (That's why it's really pointless to stay up and wait for him....)
Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom breaks. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3000 times the speed of sound. For the purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a pokey 75.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour.
III. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child has nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull nothing more than 300 pounds. Even granted that "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or nine of them; Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the sleigh itself, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizibeth (the ship, not the monarch).
IV. 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance; this would heat up the reindeer in the same fasion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and causing deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.2 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reaches the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 miles per second in.001 seconds, would be subjected to centrifugal forces of 17,500 G's. A 250 pound Santa (which seem ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pound of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.
War is not pretty, and with Iraq on the tip of everybody's mind, most conversations lead there. Just look at this topic, not about the war directly, yet here we are debating the right and wrong of the war.
And a blessed Solstice to you as well. Have fun and enjoy your time with family.
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Good point Sir.
That was a thought I didn't have.
You win this round......
but I don't want to be a tank. I like my 2handed sword spec arms warrior, and that setup relies a lot on the use of mortal strike + high crit rating. not to mention rend + hamstring.
to make it so that a 2handed Warrior (who has a slower swing time then anybody else in the game) has to waste 2 or more swings (one for hamstring and at least 1 for pummel) and get no damage, fine! but I want frost nova to not do damage, I want entangling roots to not not damage.... and so on and so on...
Its bad enough that warriors still do not have an "escape" skill, now you are going to nerf the warriors few abilities that counteract other classes escape.
Way to screw the Warrior Blizzard.
I will highlight my "favs".
"Death Wish (Fury) no longer makes you immune to Fear effects."
Awww come on!?!? WTF!
"Hamstring now only has one rank and no longer causes damage" and "Pummel now only has one rank and no longer causes damage"
No damage?
"Improved Mortal Strike (Arms) now increases damage by 2/4/6/8/10%, no longer reduces cooldown"
Why the loss of a cooldown reduction?
"Overpower now only has one rank and no longer causes any bonus damage (i.e. weapon damage only)"
Again with a reduction in the damage a Warrior can do!
"Sword Specialization (Arms) can no longer trigger more than once per 6 seconds." (you missed some at the end of the list)
Again with a reduction in the damage a Warrior can do!
Generally the Arms Spec Warrior gets screwed.... looks like I am respecing
yes, yes it was
"The bowl of petunias was created during one occurrence when the Heart of Gold's Infinite Improbability Drive was activated. It appeared in mid-air, and promptly fell to the ground and shattered.
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that, we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now. "
http://www.hhgttgonline.com/html/petunias.html
"The whale has only one scene in the TV show and movie, but nevertheless he tries to make productive use of his limited time to attempt to come to terms with his existence, naming things that he discovers along the way, such as his tail and the wind whipping past him very rapidly as he approaches the large thing coming towards him very quickly that he names "ground", and wonders to himself whether or not it would like to be his friend."
http://www.hhgttgonline.com/html/whale.html
Um.... check your facts.
according to wikipedia
the current division is...
Senate 51% to 49% Democrat favor
House 54.3% 45.7% Democrat favor
Making the house and Senate majority Democrat
FYI that is 223 of the available 435 seats Democrat
That is more then enough to shut out the Republicans, the problem here is that frankly the elected officials are not doing their jobs.
Of the 49 Democrats that voted (one did not)
23 voted Yea
27 voted Nay
Of the 40 Republicans that voted (two did not)
40 voted Yea
0 voted Nay
source
So yes I do blame the Democrats
Red Tiger Stripe Camo!
Need.... mod...points...oh god thats the best response to the "dose it run Linux?"
Then you sir have to prove I am the one who clicked on this "agree" button on my computer. When ever I get an EULA that agree must be clicked before the program can be used, someone else clicks agree. I agreed to no such thing, and clicked no such button.
so until you show me video or photographic proof that it was I who clicked the agree button you have no leg to stand on.
now get out of my PC!
And if you could successfully break my skull open (or the more likely situation where you attempt to assault me and you find your self on the floor) you would be the one in prison, and thats one less whiny person in the bar/restaurant/where ever and I still win.
your exactly the type of person I go stand next to and blow smoke in the faces of..
now if you would politely ask that I put out my cancer-stick (yes I am well aware of the negative impact of my addiction) I would.
shoot I'm the smoker on the street that holds his his drag in as children pass by, and tuck the coffin-nail behind my back to lessen the amount of smoke drifting towards them.
but I'll be damned if I will give in to your pathetic attempt to humiliate me or another smoker.
grow up
The problem with that is public schools highly discourage this behavior. To the schools (by schools i mean the administration of the school districts not the teachers) see every student as a walking dollar sign, the faster you move through the school system the less time they get money for your presence.
Even if you have the original CD, and you rip the track from it, encode it into the exact Mp3 format (same bitrate and all) as the watermarked one, what guarantees that iTunes used the same disc to encode it? What guarantees that iTunes rip the same exact way as you? Nothing, so the Mp3 file will be different even if encoded with same parameters.
You are working off the assumption that you would need to look at the binary. it would be much more easy to take audio editing software and look for the noises above the human hearing range (that is where the article says the watermark would be) and nix them.
soylent rice is people!
In order to make a semi-solid beam of energy which could interact with both matter and energy would require containing a quasar and quantum singularity inside the hilt. The gravitational field would pull all the quasar's expelled plasma back moments after the quasar releases them. The speed of the returning plasma would form a chainsaw effect allowing it to cut through the matter with ease, while when being stopped by an opposing beam. A modulated gravity field would bounce allow for the reflection of energy beams.
HA! try another one
http://www.starwars.com/databank/technology/lights aber/?id=eu
br> Once unleashed, the power channels through a positively charged continuous energy lens at the center of the handle. The beam then arcs circumferentially back to a negatively charged high energy flux aperture. A superconductor transfers the power from the flux aperture to the power cell. As a result, a lightsaber only expends power when its blade cuts through something. So efficient is the blade, that it does not radiate heat unless it comes into contact with something.
When I resonate at about 80Hz, after a few minutes, my girlfriend starts moaning.
:D
According to a few studies you would have better luck with 33Hz, just thought I would let you know
have fun with that
The previous poster was right -- SCIENCE IS INCREMENTAL. We can't shrug off discoveries like these simply because they don't "excite".
You and the AC are right science is incremental, but very step dose not need to be touted as a major breakthrough as been the norm as of late.
We don't need to hear about every stride the runner takes in the race, just the points of interest.
-1: Flamebait
Hey, hey, hey, just because somebody has a critical opinion on something dose not make them flamebait!
Come on, everyone knows science is incremental. 99% of progress is unremarkable in and of itself, but quite often the process involved allows greater leaps to occur. For instance, the microlensing they are using in these systems are a good advance in optics -- now what other uses can we think of? And that doesn't even count what we can't even predict.
I would agree with you here but, the focus of the story is not the optic technology used in this find; it's the useless planet.
The tech of the find is thrown in the story like packing peanuts, just filling space, and is overshadowed by the icy-rocky-planet-thingy.
Your attitude is just demonstrative of what is wrong with people today, they cannot think past the immediate, and certainly don't understand how we got to where we are today (hint: it's not by only making major breakthroughs).
Nope sorry, didn't miss the interesting optic comments in the story, but this was not billed as a story about how they found the planet.
Plus I am not only looking for major breakthroughs here, just tired of hearing the same story rehashed every 2 weeks.
You know this is why people are loosing interest in the space program! Useless findings after useless findings are boring people to death.
Honestly what impact will this find have on the scientific community?
We have found other planets like this before, this is not news.
Wake me up when we get people to Mars.
Evil Chinese guy: "take this doll, but beware it has a terrible curse."
Homer: "That's bad!"
Evil Chinese guy: "But it comes with a free Frogurt!"
Homer: "That's good!"
Evil Chinese guy: "the Frogurt is also cursed!"
Homer: "That's bad!"
Evil Chinese guy: "the Frogurt comes with your choice of toppings!"
Homer: "That's good!"
Evil Chinese guy: "the toppings contain potassium benzoate."
Homer: "......."
Evil Chinese guy: "That's bad."
Homer: "Can I go now?"
Look, if you would get off your butt and look at your options you would see
/. it will make stories smaller or larger.
In your Preferences page, under home page a section labeled "Customize Stories on the Homepage" depending on how you rank the importance of each of the sections on
Ones that you rank as low importance will appear smaller, sometimes as small gray bars
It took me like 10 seconds to figure this out
Santa Claus: An Engineer's Perspective
.001 seconds, would be subjected to centrifugal forces of 17,500 G's. A 250 pound Santa (which seem ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pound of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.
I. There are approximately 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Jehovah's Witnesses, or Buddist religions, this reduces the workload on Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each.
II. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with at least one good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, jump out, go down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump in the sleigh, and move on to the next house. (That's why it's really pointless to stay up and wait for him....)
Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom breaks. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3000 times the speed of sound. For the purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a pokey 75.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour.
III. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child has nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull nothing more than 300 pounds. Even granted that "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or nine of them; Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the sleigh itself, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizibeth (the ship, not the monarch).
IV. 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance; this would heat up the reindeer in the same fasion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and causing deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.2 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reaches the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 miles per second in
V. Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.
War is not pretty, and with Iraq on the tip of everybody's mind, most conversations lead there. Just look at this topic, not about the war directly, yet here we are debating the right and wrong of the war. And a blessed Solstice to you as well. Have fun and enjoy your time with family.