Why shots penetrating the vest is a Bad Thing.
on
Flexible Body Armor
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
Let us assume that you are about to be shot in the chest with a 12 gauge 3.5" super-magnum slug, which is overkill for anything short of a bear, or maybe a truck. Let's also assume that you have the option of either wearing the thinnest vest that will stop that slug or nothing at all.
If you wear the vest then when the slug hits it'll dump all it's energy into your chest. You'll sustain massive blunt trauma on the level of getting smacked with a sledgehammer. Lots of broken ribs, lots of bruising, possibly some organ damage and internal bleeding, if you're hit near the heart maybe death.
If you DON'T wear the vest then the slug enters the front of your chest, dumps part of it's energy into your tasty meats, exits your back, and continues on it's way into whatever was behind you. It breaks any ribs it hits near, creates a big ol' permanent cavity through whatever organs are in the way, and paints the wall behind you a lovely shade of red.
I don't know about you, but I think I'll take my chances with the vest TYVM. If I could get the vest lined with some of this stuff to help soak up some of the blow then even better.
It would be nice if we could dispense with smilies, emotes, fake markup code, et cetera, and depend only on our words to carry the message we intend. The problem lies in the fact that if we forsake these things and adopt a more formal style in our writing then by that choice alone we have already changed the feel of the message. There are people out there, unfortunately I don't know what percentage, so used to speaking informally at all times that they only seem to accept a formal tone when the message is automated.
Think of smilies not as a crutch, but as a safety net. The information contained in an emoticon is redundant, but that does not mean that they're useless. They're are an ugly linguistic hack, but they do work. Well, most of the time anyway.;)
Am I the only one who is alarmed by the phrase "it sort of feels like my brain is soaking in a warm jacuzzi" or by the idea that one might constantly feel like they just woke up in the morning?
Don't we drink coffee because it gets rid of those sensations?
Well, electricity follows the path of least resistance and all that. So assuming that an entire shirt was lined with this stuff, not just a patch somewhere, it would probably help. How much it helped would depend on the type of tazer (contact or wire probe) and the conductivity of this material compared to human flesh.
On the other hand I would wonder how much this stuff heats up when you put a serious current through it. Enough to burn you, or just to burn itself out? (hope it's not too flammable...)
-Fluffy- IANA-Electrical Engineer, YMMV, et cetera ad nausium
There are two options: Either sue the CD manufacturer for distributing non-standard disks with holes too large to use in a standard player... or laugh at the guy with the really small, but not quote small enough, penis.
Go dig up an old copy of Doom or Wolf3D and try to find the jump key. Or don't, because there isn't one. Come to think of it strafing wasn't too important either until keyboard+mouse became popular.
Your description of the failings of any control system other than the Revolution controller is filled with such marvelously amusing hyperbole that I could not help but laugh. All these years I've been playing Descent, with it's 6D control scheme, I never thought to question the fact that what I was doing was impossible! To be fair I must admit that I needed to use a shift function or two to fit all of D3's miscellaneous functions onto a gamepad (although not with keyboard or KB/M).
As for mice, I would point out that at least one of the problems you noted is actually an advantage. We do not pick up mice because we have to, we do it because absolute mouse control works better for first person shooters than relative control. You say you want the control system that allows you to spin around in circles forever without lifting your hand. Are you sure that's better than the one that can only do one and a half spins, but will never drift or overturn, and which responds instantly and accurately to your hand movements?
Oh... And that bit about excessive arm movement is, at least for some of us, complete bull. I, for one, never lift the back of my hand from the pad while playing.
I reserve judgement on whether or not the Revolution controller sucks until it hits the market and we can get our hands on it in the real world. It might effectively replicate the mouse for console gamers, but insisting that it will make the standard PC KB/M setup obsolete is stretching a bit far.
So he was joking about paying out $10K to charity? How special, I wonder if there are any Flash game makers out there who had already started projects. They might be able to sue for the cost of their wasted time.
My, how randomly insulting. Bush is to Libertarianism as sticking your hand in a box of dirty needles is to avoiding disease.
The 'War on Drugs':
Bush = For - LP = Against
Gun control:
Bush = For - LP = Against
Gay rights:
Bush = Against - LP = For
Freedom of religion (other than your own):
Bush = Against - LP = For
The list goes on, but I'll stop there in the interest of keeping things short. If you are actually serious then please, just go join the Republican party already. If not, then could you at least use some smilies or something so those of us with weak irony detectors can have some peace of mind?
Slashdot Mirror
Let us assume that you are about to be shot in the chest with a 12 gauge 3.5" super-magnum slug, which is overkill for anything short of a bear, or maybe a truck. Let's also assume that you have the option of either wearing the thinnest vest that will stop that slug or nothing at all.
If you wear the vest then when the slug hits it'll dump all it's energy into your chest. You'll sustain massive blunt trauma on the level of getting smacked with a sledgehammer. Lots of broken ribs, lots of bruising, possibly some organ damage and internal bleeding, if you're hit near the heart maybe death.
If you DON'T wear the vest then the slug enters the front of your chest, dumps part of it's energy into your tasty meats, exits your back, and continues on it's way into whatever was behind you. It breaks any ribs it hits near, creates a big ol' permanent cavity through whatever organs are in the way, and paints the wall behind you a lovely shade of red.
I don't know about you, but I think I'll take my chances with the vest TYVM. If I could get the vest lined with some of this stuff to help soak up some of the blow then even better.
It would be nice if we could dispense with smilies, emotes, fake markup code, et cetera, and depend only on our words to carry the message we intend. The problem lies in the fact that if we forsake these things and adopt a more formal style in our writing then by that choice alone we have already changed the feel of the message. There are people out there, unfortunately I don't know what percentage, so used to speaking informally at all times that they only seem to accept a formal tone when the message is automated.
Think of smilies not as a crutch, but as a safety net. The information contained in an emoticon is redundant, but that does not mean that they're useless. They're are an ugly linguistic hack, but they do work. Well, most of the time anyway. ;)
Somewhat sincerely,
-Fluffy the attack kitty
It's even more funny because you were modded Informative.
Am I the only one who is alarmed by the phrase "it sort of feels like my brain is soaking in a warm jacuzzi" or by the idea that one might constantly feel like they just woke up in the morning?
Don't we drink coffee because it gets rid of those sensations?
Well, electricity follows the path of least resistance and all that. So assuming that an entire shirt was lined with this stuff, not just a patch somewhere, it would probably help. How much it helped would depend on the type of tazer (contact or wire probe) and the conductivity of this material compared to human flesh.
On the other hand I would wonder how much this stuff heats up when you put a serious current through it. Enough to burn you, or just to burn itself out? (hope it's not too flammable...)
-Fluffy-
IANA-Electrical Engineer, YMMV, et cetera ad nausium
"...The basement too - not that it's freezing cold down there this time of year or anything."
But how long would it stay cold with your 360 down there? :p
There are two options: Either sue the CD manufacturer for distributing non-standard disks with holes too large to use in a standard player... or laugh at the guy with the really small, but not quote small enough, penis.
Go dig up an old copy of Doom or Wolf3D and try to find the jump key. Or don't, because there isn't one. Come to think of it strafing wasn't too important either until keyboard+mouse became popular.
Your description of the failings of any control system other than the Revolution controller is filled with such marvelously amusing hyperbole that I could not help but laugh. All these years I've been playing Descent, with it's 6D control scheme, I never thought to question the fact that what I was doing was impossible! To be fair I must admit that I needed to use a shift function or two to fit all of D3's miscellaneous functions onto a gamepad (although not with keyboard or KB/M).
As for mice, I would point out that at least one of the problems you noted is actually an advantage. We do not pick up mice because we have to, we do it because absolute mouse control works better for first person shooters than relative control. You say you want the control system that allows you to spin around in circles forever without lifting your hand. Are you sure that's better than the one that can only do one and a half spins, but will never drift or overturn, and which responds instantly and accurately to your hand movements?
Oh... And that bit about excessive arm movement is, at least for some of us, complete bull. I, for one, never lift the back of my hand from the pad while playing.
I reserve judgement on whether or not the Revolution controller sucks until it hits the market and we can get our hands on it in the real world. It might effectively replicate the mouse for console gamers, but insisting that it will make the standard PC KB/M setup obsolete is stretching a bit far.
So he was joking about paying out $10K to charity? How special, I wonder if there are any Flash game makers out there who had already started projects. They might be able to sue for the cost of their wasted time.
My, how randomly insulting. Bush is to Libertarianism as sticking your hand in a box of dirty needles is to avoiding disease. The 'War on Drugs': Bush = For - LP = Against Gun control: Bush = For - LP = Against Gay rights: Bush = Against - LP = For Freedom of religion (other than your own): Bush = Against - LP = For The list goes on, but I'll stop there in the interest of keeping things short. If you are actually serious then please, just go join the Republican party already. If not, then could you at least use some smilies or something so those of us with weak irony detectors can have some peace of mind?
It actually runs quite nicely on Win2K, but you need to remove the version check from the msi file before it will install. You'll also need to download a DLL file. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=152318&cid=127 82556