A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.
Seriously, nothing to see here folks. Bush has had no compunctions about pulling the national security card thus far when it involved his dirty laundry, nothing is likely to change about that.
I think it's time to finally realize (or admit) that freedom and centralization of power are inversely proportional. The more centralization of power, the less freedom. The less centralization of power, the more freedom.
I can only think of one noteable exception. When EA bought out Distinctive Software in 91' we actually got a pretty outstanding driving sim (NFS). Unfortunately then the EA suits took over, and turned the sequels into lame arcade-physics race titles. Over the years EA has published some great titles, too bad they haven't figured out how to write any.
Every person I've worked with that was involved with EA takeover in some way pretty much took thier Cash and left.
A great number of good games could have been made had EA not done thier best to destroy them. Or release everything they make with Serious bug issues.
On the face of it that would seem to be logical, unfortunately doctors are beholden to their HMO overlords not to prescribe shiny new pills when there's an acceptable generic. Moreover, if your plan doesn't cover them they aren't even allowed to tell you that a drug/treatment exists. In your face Hippocratic oath.
They used to market only to doctors, and should go back to that. You don't just go to a doctor and say "I would like to order some of the pills I saw on TV." Any doctor who doesn't flatly refuse such a request should lose his license to practice medicine.
As some people have pointed out, 'strong as steel' is really not much of a definition. Since it's a layered clay composite, it's probably fairly brittle. This means in applications where it needs to bend it will shatter. This is probably not what you want your car to do. OTOH, as ablative armor or in your car's structural members this stuff might work really well.
So... why not make cars out of this stuff? Think, if it's as strong as steel, if the car body was made out of this then it would be like having a armored car, or at least a 50's American car.
Ah, but my point was that it doesn't make any perceptible difference so why bother?
Incidentally, Klipsch was quite interested in creating low distortion sound. Distortion is roughly proportional to the power input to any loudspeaker, so with less power you also get less distortion. If you're particularly interested in the subject you can purchase several relevant papers from the AES and IEEE.
It's the chase for the almighty bottom line again. Homeland Security generates very little, if any, income from their research, so their operating costs and salaries have to be paid from government slush funds and deficit spending. The rural terrorism-monitoring stations are being encroached on by imported labor, bringing them into immigrant cells, so you pull a 'correction figure' out of your ass (nobody's actually done research to determine whether the correction factor that security experts are applying for the immigrant cell is correct) that just happens to leave a measurable net terror gain, and you can flog 'muslim activities are driving terrorism' to whip up panic, which encourages the government to issue contracts to the security experts to study the effects muslims are having on terror and what can be done to reverse or halt it. Similarly, they've flogged the increase in terrorism for years now, again suggesting that we're causing terrorism to expand... but now that it shrinks, they have to downplay the event so that the public -- a notoriously fickle audience -- won't just say "Give us our constitution back; that problem is over" and start ignoring them, causing the government money to dry up; they have to discount the recent evidence that contradicts all their carefully-crafted theories in order to keep paranoia high and money coming in.
People, please repeat after me. If 16ga lamp cord was good enough for Paul Klipsch then why the hell am I buying this crap?
Actually, for a speaker cable (not so much for a sub) you may also want low inductance, since an inductor acts as a low pass filter (the coil in the speaker's crossover). It's not difficult or expensive to produce good speaker cables, though. And they certainly don't need expensive materials like silver and teflon coating.
Right, because if they'd only shot the Halo 3 footage in RAW format, there would be way more dynamic range.
All the complaints about Halo 3's resolution reminds me of all the "pixel peeping" that goes on when it comes to digital cameras. Everyone gets hung up on tech specs to the point that they stop looking at the image in question.
Well, since the prisoners aren't wearing uniforms and aren't part of any regular armed forces, I believe they fall into the
Unlawful Combatant category. If they'd like POW status, perhaps they should consider following the guidelines laid out below...
To qualify for prisoner of war status persons waging war must have the following characteristics to be protected by the laws of war:
1. Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict
2. or members of militias not under the command of the armed forces
* that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
* that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
* that of carrying arms openly;
* that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
3. or are members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.
4. or inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
If I recall correctly, actual prisoners of war, those captured on the battlefield, do not have the right of habeas corpus but are protected by the Geneva Conventions. Detainees are not prisoners of war and are not afforded Geneva Convention protections. Whose jurisdiction they fall under and what rights they have is somewhat tricky business.
Really? I thought it was based on drumming up as many rediculous felony charges as you can to
1) raise the bail price
2) scare the defendant into a plea-bargain
3) show the sheeple you have zero tolerance (for anyone without money,influence or power)
Listen Mayberry, Andy Griffith is retired. Please give a warm welcome to our town sheriff Vick Mackey.
Don't forget- our "legal" system is NOT based on truth, but is based on $ and how you play their game. Anyway, those falsely arrested people seem to carry some deep, too-quiet anger.
Well, that's not strictly true. That's the way an HP inkjet works, Epson printers use micro-piezo nozzles, IIRC that's also the nozzle type on my Canon i960.
The way inkjets work, they heat a micro droplet of the ink so much so that it emerges from the nozzle explosively and hits the paper. I wonder how much of the potency of the delicate drugs would remain after they have been subjected to so much of pressure and heat. Would they react with the metal/plastic in the nozzle?
They could be, but I'd much rather see someone mention a well executed title from the last decade. Is that really too much to ask? It's not like this is advanced particle physics, and it's not like there haven't been loads of titles. Star Trek games have all the credibility that Robotech/Macross titles have, which is to say, none at all.
Hey, they could be relevant in 2007 if somebody ported them to PDAs
I can almost excuse the movie theaters for this, from my understanding the studios have priced these films such that practically the only profit centers the theaters have are commercials and concessions. But it any case it all boils down to corporate greed.
Congratulations on your setup, I have a nice STR333-ES/Klipsch heritage (forte) 5.1 system, but no monster screen as of yet. Since most movies and videos I choose to watch are older and therefore (at best) NTSC resolution, I hardly see the point. I guess I could use it to spot the food between John Madden's teeth, but why would I want to?
Corporate greed is 1) driving away consumers 2) causing people to "steal" or "cheat" to get what they would pay a fair and reasonable price for convinient use of 3) PISSING ME OFF 4) trying to compensate for #1, #2 but doing more things to cause them and 5) inundating peopel with so much advertizing that we're becoming immune so they increase it more. Throw in the idiotic theatres that start the commercials at the start time of the movie and...well guess who just gets it on netflix a month later? I have a 100" projector screen and 7.1 surround at home and MY popcorn costs me pennies, not $7.
Speaking of which, with all of the in-movie ad overlays, is it even worthwhile to view it? I like to keep an open mind, but when TNT overlays a 1/4 screen ad with biker noises during a film, I tend to change the channel. The preview/catalog channel now displays 2 channel listings + 3/4 screen ads, but our (basic) service now costs $60/mo. Any DVD I buy comes with 4+ minutes of uninterrupted ads (root menu blocked). With that kind of 'service', is it any wonder people are flocking to p2p sites?
Now, I can see the MPAA's argument if I don't subscribe to any of the "premium" channels and am doing this, but regardless of HOW I get the material, I'm paying to view it. Frankly, the more the MPAA argues these points, the greater the chance that people like me are just going to stop subscribing to the "premium" channels in the first place.
I'll second this, those were really well done. The scripting/storyline were very much in line with the TOS canon. I liked the ascii based super star trek too. Unfortunately the year 1992 called and it wants its games back.
IIRC, the old DOS graphical adventure Trek games (25th Anniversary Game, Judgement Rites) were relatively good.
I agree completely, but if you're not planning on doing sheet metal repairs, you can probably buy both an OA rig and an arc welder used for about the same money. That will give you a lot more flexibility (cut/heat/bend/weld/solder/braze), but OA really isn't a good process for car bodies, it causes too much heat deformation on thin sheet.
Personally, if you are going to get 1 welder, and have a car hobby, the first one to get is a MIG. pure 'arc' welding usually refers to stick welding, which is troublesome to use on sheet metal.
VMWare is fine for business applications, but for DX games it's questionable. It's quite limited as to what versions it can run (DX8.1 only IIRC).
I personally think VMWare is right and this will all be rendered moot. With virtualization getting better every day soon we'll be able to run Virtual "bottles" with just the components required to run whatever game we want.Then it won't matter what OS you use,as it will just be a host.
I went to a US public school where our principal told the senior class that we were damn well going to go to a prayer session before graduation or we wouldn't get our diplomas, despite a Supreme Court ruling the same year that held that even holding such a ceremony was definitely illegal.
No more hypocritical than his stance on anabolic steroids or his firm convictions on environmental reform (did I forget to mention this boy owns 6 humvees?).
Is it just me, or does it seem hypocritical that Arnold Schwarzenegger opposes this? He's been in some incredibly violent movies, after all.
Why do people see the two mediums as being so distant? What passes as an R for a movie, would be an AO for a game, like Manhunt.
You make it almost sound like Democrats genuinely want to protect your rights. Face facts man, Republicans want your rights, Democrats want your rights, voting for either simply becomes a question of which rights you're most willing to give up this election season. Would you rather have legal abortions or legal guns? Would you rather have big media or big oil own your politician's vote? Would you like a tax and spend government or do you prefer our current print and spend government?
You mean like the naive Bush cheerleaders in the Democrat controlled house? I don't disagree with anything you're saying, but I think ignoring the fact that both parties are at least ok enough with it to get it passed worries me somewhat. The Democrats, if they had a backbone, could've stopped it.
Atari lent them money, with a stipulation that if they couldn't pay it back the following year Atari would own the technology. Since Amiga was hemorrhaging cash they agreed. Later, Tramiel aquired Atari after his own board kicked him out, and used this agreement in a gambit (which worked) to nullify Commodore's proprietary secrets lawsuit.
No. Commodore didn't create the Amiga. The original Amiga was created by a small group of people, and Atari attempted to screw them out of the technology. After a weird and bitter struggle, Commodore purchased Amiga
Look at those ammo counters go. It's a shooting gallery down there. B gun's dry. Twenty on A. Ten. Five. That's it. They're at the fire door
"killbots have a preset kill limit. once i realized that, i sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their kill limits and shut down!"
As someone who grew up with the NES and SNES, Nintendo has always been "gadget-happy" and looking for alternate interfaces. I know back home I have the following:
NES: Zapper, Power Pad, Advantage (Arcade joystick styled controller), Max ("Analog" style controller.. also has wings like a PlayStation controller)
SNES: Mouse, Super Scope
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Seriously, nothing to see here folks. Bush has had no compunctions about pulling the national security card thus far when it involved his dirty laundry, nothing is likely to change about that.
Ah, but my point was that it doesn't make any perceptible difference so why bother?
Incidentally, Klipsch was quite interested in creating low distortion sound. Distortion is roughly proportional to the power input to any loudspeaker, so with less power you also get less distortion. If you're particularly interested in the subject you can purchase several relevant papers from the AES and IEEE.
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=2018
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1166350
It's the chase for the almighty bottom line again. Homeland Security generates very little, if any, income from their research, so their operating costs and salaries have to be paid from government slush funds and deficit spending. The rural terrorism-monitoring stations are being encroached on by imported labor, bringing them into immigrant cells, so you pull a 'correction figure' out of your ass (nobody's actually done research to determine whether the correction factor that security experts are applying for the immigrant cell is correct) that just happens to leave a measurable net terror gain, and you can flog 'muslim activities are driving terrorism' to whip up panic, which encourages the government to issue contracts to the security experts to study the effects muslims are having on terror and what can be done to reverse or halt it. Similarly, they've flogged the increase in terrorism for years now, again suggesting that we're causing terrorism to expand... but now that it shrinks, they have to downplay the event so that the public -- a notoriously fickle audience -- won't just say "Give us our constitution back; that problem is over" and start ignoring them, causing the government money to dry up; they have to discount the recent evidence that contradicts all their carefully-crafted theories in order to keep paranoia high and money coming in.
To qualify for prisoner of war status persons waging war must have the following characteristics to be protected by the laws of war:
1. Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict
2. or members of militias not under the command of the armed forces
* that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
* that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
* that of carrying arms openly;
* that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
3. or are members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.
4. or inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
1) raise the bail price
2) scare the defendant into a plea-bargain
3) show the sheeple you have zero tolerance (for anyone without money,influence or power)
Listen Mayberry, Andy Griffith is retired. Please give a warm welcome to our town sheriff Vick Mackey.
Wow, in oda' news, terro'ists are now translatin' all uh deir anonymous postin's into JIBE, snatch dat mr. Ah be baaad... man. 'S coo', bro.
Congratulations on your setup, I have a nice STR333-ES/Klipsch heritage (forte) 5.1 system, but no monster screen as of yet. Since most movies and videos I choose to watch are older and therefore (at best) NTSC resolution, I hardly see the point. I guess I could use it to spot the food between John Madden's teeth, but why would I want to?
DC: twin-stick, maracca controller, fishing controller, dance pad, seaman mic, driving controller, light gun, arcade stick, mouse, keyboard
PS2:eyetoy, singstar mic, dual shock pad, fishing controller, driving controller, rez vibrator,novelty chainsaw and katana controllers, dance pad, guitar controller, beatmania controller, keyboard, mouse