It's really common for me to have 30-50 tabs open at the same time. How am going to fit them all now?
30-50 tabs? Amateur! I seldom have fewer than 200 open, and often the number is far, far higher than that. Of course, I'm using Pale Moon with Tab Mix Plus, not the botched abomination that Chrome misnames a UI; so for me, having a stupidly high number of tabs open at once is only marginally inconvenient.
So I am not the only one with a stupidly large number of TABs open in Pale Moon with Tab Mix Plus !!! My current count is somewhere above 1500 !!! Why can Pale Moon handle it and other browsers seem to bog down at 30 or so???
Download the "Mandriva Free DVD" not the "Mandriva ONE KDE" or "Mandriva ONE GNOME" The ONE editions are LIVE CDs that you can install from if you really need to. The free DVD edition contains MUCH more software, but more importantly, it contains the REAL Mandriva installer program, that lets you chose anything you want or need. It will handle what you wanted, either by selection XFCE and the Gnome apps you want, or just select both and after your first boot, just select XFCE at the log-in screen and it will default to it the next time. I usually install all of the desktops, so that I can try out the others. After you go online and go to add software, it will set up the repositories you need to download almost anything you could want, including a LOT of different desktop environments, like Enlightenment, IceWM, and almost any other you might want. The really nice thing about Mandriva is that when you add a program, it shows up in the menus of almost all of the different desktops, so you do not have to set each one up separately.
What I fail to understand, is how all these new rules are justified 'in universe'? How does a fighter(not a paladin) suddenly heal himself in the middle of a fight? I can accept the magic changes(though they do not mcuh FEEL like D&D), because, well, they are MAGIC, but changing non magic using (HUMAN)characters to have magic-like abilities does not make any sense... In our old AD&D games, we often used miniatures to clarify where everyone was during a battle, or in a trap filled area, but from what I read of this new system, it seems like it is ALMOST required to use them to play the game as it was intended. It is looking like the battles are the POINT of the game, and not just a means to an end. D&D evolved FROM miniatures/war games, and now it looks like it is moving back toward what it was trying to get away from. Insightful mod appreciated here...:-) The combat system is looking more like a fighter style arcade game, with fighting domanated by 'special moves' with very little 'normal' fighting involved. I like this idea for the rogue class, as it very much fits with the way you normally think about that type of character, with the character hiding in shadows, waiting for the perfect time to leap out and execute the perfect back stab, or setting a trap to delay the attacking forces... In short, using trickery, inteligence, and charisma to solve problems, rather than brute force.
How can fans run at different speeds, because they are both running off the same power source and are synced to the power grid... The clock on your pc is not synced to the power grid, it is just a crystal oscillator.
They even made a move out of 'The High Crusade.' It was not good, but it had it moments. They took the story and turned it into a Monty Python-esk romp through space!
Mack Reynolds already did it(somewhat) in his 'Section G United Planets' series. They found a planet where the inhabitants have VERY low IQ but VERY high technology. They could not understand why untill it was discovered that they had had civilation for about a 1,000,000(or 100,000) years! Not exactly the same(no indication that they were expert at enginering, but they shure were a lot better at it than basic science. They did KNOW a lot of science, but after that much time, who whouldn't!
Good series. It was about a secret organazion within a (human)federation with a rule very much like the Startrek Prime Directive.
!!!Spoiler Alert!!!
Everything is ok until an alien ship with technology that is much more advanced is discovered...The problem is that it looks like it was involved in a battle with a ship MUCH more advanced than it! So Section G is formed to (secretly) cause revolutions in many of the backword civilations so they could be prepaired for first contact with advanced aliens.
Sorry, but no one EVER used Nuclear(Hydrogen, eg. Fusion) bombs in WW2. We dropped 2 ATOMIC bombs (1 Uranium and 1 plutonium, eg. Fission.)
Sorry, but there is a MAJOR difference.
Come on moderators, what do you think you are doing???
Just because you do not agree with something does NOT make it flamebait!!!
I hate this 'only having a limited time to use your moderator points' stuff. I had points a few days ago and did not have time to use them, and NOW I see this injustice and cannot do anything about it... ARGHHHhhhh....
B.T.W. I do not agree with your comments about Mr. Katz, though I do agree with a LOT of what you said. In particular, I agree that we do NOT have a right not to die in a disaster.
Our other freedoms are meant to protect us from things like that happening, NOT to be traded for protection from those things happening!
James Ray Kenney
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Not Single-User systems but single-tasking systems.
If you are using DOS then I agree, but if you are using windows, windows9x/ME, windowsNT/2000, or windowsXP then it is more than likley that you have a LOT of tasks running in the background.
I will admit that most of them do not use the disk a lot, but some(like fastfind) do.
And ALMOST anytime more than one process tries to access the drive at the same time, SCSI will be faster.
Also SCSI(like Firewire) does have the CPU utilitizion problem. of IDE(or USB.)
It is almost the same as putting a win-modem in a system...At work they upgraded my 33k(hardware) modem to a 57.6k(software) modem and since the laptop was an old pentium, my actual online speed decreased. The pages take longer to render than they do to download, because the modem is taking up so many cpu cycles! Downloads are faster, of course, but the online 'experence' has degraded.
Yes, I know what you mean. If companies had started using SCSI in bulk, then the prices would have been MUCH lower, MUCH faster.
It is a shame that SCSI and Firewire are not included as standard equipment on everything except the VERY cheapest motherboards. If they were, the market for SCSI and Firewire devices would be MUCH larger and the prices would plummet, creating MORE demand, causing MORE price decreases, causing.... you get the idea.
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After reading the comments so far, I figured that there should be something on topic, SO...
The one problem with USB 2.0 is that it needs a computer to function. That makes it useless for many consumer uses.
Firewire does not need a computer in the loop. Each device is intelligent enough to talk to other devices in and of itself.
While USB 2.0 does not market itself for those purposes, it does market itself for purposes that firewire has worked fine for, for the last few years. Purposes like video transfer, high-speed data connection, etc. Fire wire is cheep enough these days that interface boards are being bundled along with low-end video editing software.
If more motherboards would provide it onboard, there would be NO need for USB 2.0, except in the few situations where a hub topology was really needed.
How is it not always on? You can have it auto-connect when you turn on your computer, or if you're like me, you can leave it running on a firewall box forever. I've been using PPPoE for a couple of years now, and I've had it stay connected for up to 6 months!
Always on means connected as soon as the power is on.
What if you want to remote install software on a new machine over the connection. With always on all you have to do is load the NIC drivers and whatever remote installation software you use, and start installing. With PPPoE you have to have a lot of extra software loaded. And that extra software may not fit on the floppy you are installing from. Probably not a problem if you are installing from CD, but without PPPoE you do not even have to have a CD in a machine that will not need one after install.
Also, in Windows, the PPPoE software does not always compleatly get connected before a LOT of clients are already requesting connections(Like AOL IM, ICQ, MSM, DialPad Agent, Etc..)
I had MAJOR problems with this when I was using Enternet(trash) software to connect, because it did not emulate windows dialup and so you could not tell programs to detect when you were connected to the internet and had to tell them you had a LAN connection. And when they tried to connect, and did not get an imedate connection(as they had every right to expect,) they reported that the LAN connection was down!
RASPPPoE emulates a modem and so you can tell your programs that you have a dial-up connection and that solves some of the problems. I find it strange though, that RASPPPoE starts up and connects faster than Enternet even though RASPPPoE is started up in the startup folder and Enternet starts up in the Registry!
I would give a LOT if Microsoft would allow you to set the startup order for programs AND allow you to set for some of them not to run UNTIL others had finished!!!!
In Linux PPPoE looks a LOT more like always on because it loads and connects WAY before the services that use it are even loaded.
Tell that to people 20-30 miles away that would not be blinded by the flash in a bombing with a stolen missle.
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The one thing people seem to forget about haveing solar water heaters is the HUMAN cost.
They are ALMOST always mounted on the roof, and must be kept clean to work their best. They also require mantance.
Working on a roof is one of the most dangerous common thing that most people will ever do.
I saw some estimates of the death rate of having solor collectors on every roof, and the death rate was frightening.
If I remember correctly, it was based on the death rate of PROFESSIONAL roof workers, and you can bet that a lot of people would not hire someone to do something so SIMPLE as to clean their collector.
There are costs assocated with ALMOST everything, they are just not always obvious.
I know what you mean. I had a Toyota Corona that I took EVERYWHERE.
Drove it into the woods to pull a friend's pickup truck(or Jimmy...it has been over 10 years) out of a ditch.
Raced a Mustang SVO down the local 'mudding' road. You have to AVOID the rutts because they are MUCH deeper than the clearance of a car. I ended up using this ~90HP car to pull a jacked up 3/4 ton pickup truck out of the mud! The driver seemed a bit embarassed. Took a while but finally managed to jerk the truck far enough for the wheels to be usefull(it was down to the axel(a tip: when you get stuck in DEEP wet mud, DO NOT spin you tires and dig in so far that the tires are just pushing aganst a vertical wall of mud, and can not get anywhere,)) and it was able to get traction. Another tip: when in a rear wheel drive car(never drove my 4wd in the mud(irony,) NEVER slow down if it is at all possible(and safe,) and if you see a realy wet part comming up the only thing you can do(short of stopping,) is to speed up so that you can hydrofoil/slide across before you sink. We use to have a lot of fun doing things like this(and running up outrageous compuserve bills playing online games at 300baud(at 300 baud and bps were the same thing, before I get flamed, because I DO know the difference.) I was very sad when they put a BIG metal gate up and blocked the road(it had been abandoned YEARS earler when they stopped running the ferry that the road was built for.
Well...We have got realy offtopic this time:-) , but it IS fun to remember the old days when we actually got out and did thing besides fool around with computers all day!
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Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606).
Kleck, Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America, (1991):111-116, 148.
"only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The 'error rate' for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high."
George F. Will, "Are We 'a Nation of Cowards'?," Newsweek (15 November 1993):93.
Yes, but we are ALREADY paying for the military, so why not let them get some free training while helping.
Having a small(which even today translates into 'weak',) is one of the fastest ways to become the victim of aggression.
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The science is laughable???
Compared to what show???
Star Trek LAL (and I like Star Trek)
Babylon 5 (ok, the humans had lower tech, but Andromeda is set MUCH farther in the future(even before the 300+ years since the fall of the Commonwealth.)
Farscape Pure Fantasy technology, with no attempt to explain it(but they do not need to because it is more of a space fantasy like Star Wars.)
SG1 Inconsistent, but at least they make some concessions to just HOW much the tech levels may be different from civilization to civilization(but don't get me going on how the most advanced race in this galaxy(the greys BTW) cannot manage to duplicate, or even understand how a projectile weapon(like a M16!!!) works!!!!)
Earth Final Conflict Have never got to see it, because NO local or Cable station in that TimeWarner caries in Beaumont, TX, caries it.
LEX, Pure Science Fantasy again, so no need.
Andromeda uses appropriate weapons for the situation:
Missiles for long range
Beam weapons only for VERY short range.
Most all hand weapons are projectile based, even though the special effects do not always make it seem so.
In fact the major problem I have with Andromeda is that the special effects people see to have free reign to create whatever they think looks good without regard to whether it is what is being described on screen.
For example, battles in Andromeda usually happen at ranges of light seconds to light MINITES apart(which is why they have to use missiles, because they are self guided... Lasers, etc. could not be aimed because you cannot see where the other ship is, let alone where it will be when the beam gets there)(also beam weapons would spread too far to have enough energy density to hurt anything at that kind of distance). Lasers, etc. are only used for point defense purposes.
They have gravity control(or maybe inertia control is more accurate). So??? What series does not? Even Babylon 5 had it. Not the humans but some other races had it. If B5 had been set in a space ship rather than on a rotating space station, I bet that they would have found some way for the Humans to have purchased, stolen, or been given gravity control devices, (or not have made it something that was rare.) It is just too much trouble to film a believable Zero G environment. The only show that did it all the time was(I think Tom Corbet Space Cadet!!!, which actually tried to get the physics correctly(for its day.))
One thing that bothered me at first was the fact that no one seemed to be able to hit Dillon with a gun in the first 2 episodes, and the CREW seemed ALMOST immune to the internal defenses of the ship, but it is part of the back story that all Commonwealth solders have ECM devices built into their uniforms and since almost all projectile weapons in Andromeda use smart bullets, that is explained in a logical way. And it is clear that it was intentional because the person trying to shoot him had a VERY surprised look on his face when he missed, and when questioned about it tried to cover up.
Sorry about rambling on so long, but this kind of statement really bothers me, when it is not backed up by examples of what is bothering the person.
James Kenney
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These lights are so bright that you cannot force yourself to look in their direction at night(and it HURTS even on a sunny day!) You can feel the heat from across the room! And yes, they have IR filters to make these a strong source of IR.
Where full auto fire is avaliable(or you are facing multiple advosaries that are spread out,) I agree. The enemy can just spray the area you are in with supressing fire and either you get hit by the fire or an area weapon like a gernade.
Police action is USUALLY quite a bit different.
As the expression goes: 'You cannot hit what you cannot see.' And trust me, it this light is shined in you eyes unexpectedly, you can not help but turn your head(closing your eyes is usually not enough even in daylight,) and by the time you can look back, you can be filled with holes.
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I have one of these an I love it.
Built like a tank but very light(considering it has 6 bateries in it!)
Each battery is 3V so it has the equivalant of 12 penlights in it!
Comes with 2 bulbs so you can chose between BRIGHT and ^@@#@%^BRIGHT!
Cost me an arm and a leg(and 2 elbows,) but was worth it.
Surefire makes the best (conventional) flashlights I have ever used, and I collect them.
Their website says that it comes with OS version 3.5
What is with that? The main reason for V4.0(If I have heard correctly,) is to support removable memory in a standard way.
Does anyone know if they are going to upgrade?
James
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It's really common for me to have 30-50 tabs open at the same time. How am going to fit them all now?
30-50 tabs? Amateur! I seldom have fewer than 200 open, and often the number is far, far higher than that. Of course, I'm using Pale Moon with Tab Mix Plus, not the botched abomination that Chrome misnames a UI; so for me, having a stupidly high number of tabs open at once is only marginally inconvenient.
So I am not the only one with a stupidly large number of TABs open in Pale Moon with Tab Mix Plus !!!
My current count is somewhere above 1500 !!!
Why can Pale Moon handle it and other browsers seem to bog down at 30 or so???
Download the "Mandriva Free DVD" not the "Mandriva ONE KDE" or "Mandriva ONE GNOME"
The ONE editions are LIVE CDs that you can install from if you really need to.
The free DVD edition contains MUCH more software, but more importantly, it contains the REAL Mandriva installer program, that lets you chose anything you want or need.
It will handle what you wanted, either by selection XFCE and the Gnome apps you want, or just select both and after your first boot, just select XFCE at the log-in screen and it will default to it the next time.
I usually install all of the desktops, so that I can try out the others.
After you go online and go to add software, it will set up the repositories you need to download almost anything you could want, including a LOT of different desktop environments, like Enlightenment, IceWM, and almost any other you might want.
The really nice thing about Mandriva is that when you add a program, it shows up in the menus of almost all of the different desktops, so you do not have to set each one up separately.
What I fail to understand, is how all these new rules are justified 'in universe'? :-)
How does a fighter(not a paladin) suddenly heal himself in the middle of a fight?
I can accept the magic changes(though they do not mcuh FEEL like D&D), because, well, they are MAGIC, but changing non magic using (HUMAN)characters to have magic-like abilities does not make any sense...
In our old AD&D games, we often used miniatures to clarify where everyone was during a battle, or in a trap filled area, but from what I read of this new system, it seems like it is ALMOST required to use them to play the game as it was intended. It is looking like the battles are the POINT of the game, and not just a means to an end.
D&D evolved FROM miniatures/war games, and now it looks like it is moving back toward what it was trying to get away from. Insightful mod appreciated here...
The combat system is looking more like a fighter style arcade game, with fighting domanated by 'special moves' with very little 'normal' fighting involved. I like this idea for the rogue class, as it very much fits with the way you normally think about that type of character, with the character hiding in shadows, waiting for the perfect time to leap out and execute the perfect back stab, or setting a trap to delay the attacking forces... In short, using trickery, inteligence, and charisma to solve problems, rather than brute force.
How can fans run at different speeds, because they are both running off the same power source and are synced to the power grid...
The clock on your pc is not synced to the power grid, it is just a crystal oscillator.
They even made a move out of 'The High Crusade.'
It was not good, but it had it moments.
They took the story and turned it into a Monty Python-esk romp through space!
Mack Reynolds already did it(somewhat) in his 'Section G United Planets' series.
They found a planet where the inhabitants have VERY low IQ but VERY high technology. They could not understand why untill it was discovered that they had had civilation for about a 1,000,000(or 100,000) years!
Not exactly the same(no indication that they were expert at enginering, but they shure were a lot better at it than basic science. They did KNOW a lot of science, but after that much time, who whouldn't!
Good series. It was about a secret organazion within a (human)federation with a rule very much like the Startrek Prime Directive.
!!!Spoiler Alert!!!
Everything is ok until an alien ship with technology that is much more advanced is discovered...The problem is that it looks like it was involved in a battle with a ship MUCH more advanced than it! So Section G is formed to (secretly) cause revolutions in many of the backword civilations so they could be prepaired for first contact with advanced aliens.
I guess you did not see her on the way to Tatoene(spelling?,) in that white outfit... It must have been COLD in that ship :-)
Sorry, but no one EVER used Nuclear(Hydrogen, eg. Fusion) bombs in WW2. We dropped 2 ATOMIC bombs (1 Uranium and 1 plutonium, eg. Fission.)
Sorry, but there is a MAJOR difference.
That was Bester not vestor.
Come on moderators, what do you think you are doing??? ... ARGHHHhhhh....
Just because you do not agree with something does NOT make it flamebait!!!
I hate this 'only having a limited time to use your moderator points' stuff. I had points a few days ago and did not have time to use them, and NOW I see this injustice and cannot do anything about it
B.T.W. I do not agree with your comments about Mr. Katz, though I do agree with a LOT of what you said. In particular, I agree that we do NOT have a right not to die in a disaster.
Our other freedoms are meant to protect us from things like that happening, NOT to be traded for protection from those things happening!
James Ray Kenney
Not Single-User systems but single-tasking systems.
If you are using DOS then I agree, but if you are using windows, windows9x/ME, windowsNT/2000, or windowsXP then it is more than likley that you have a LOT of tasks running in the background.
I will admit that most of them do not use the disk a lot, but some(like fastfind) do.
And ALMOST anytime more than one process tries to access the drive at the same time, SCSI will be faster.
Also SCSI(like Firewire) does have the CPU utilitizion problem. of IDE(or USB.)
It is almost the same as putting a win-modem in a system...At work they upgraded my 33k(hardware) modem to a 57.6k(software) modem and since the laptop was an old pentium, my actual online speed decreased. The pages take longer to render than they do to download, because the modem is taking up so many cpu cycles! Downloads are faster, of course, but the online 'experence' has degraded.
James Ray Kenney
Yes, I know what you mean. If companies had started using SCSI in bulk, then the prices would have been MUCH lower, MUCH faster. .... you get the idea.
It is a shame that SCSI and Firewire are not included as standard equipment on everything except the VERY cheapest motherboards. If they were, the market for SCSI and Firewire devices would be MUCH larger and the prices would plummet, creating MORE demand, causing MORE price decreases, causing
James Ray Kenney
After reading the comments so far, I figured that there should be something on topic, SO...
The one problem with USB 2.0 is that it needs a computer to function. That makes it useless for many consumer uses.
Firewire does not need a computer in the loop. Each device is intelligent enough to talk to other devices in and of itself.
While USB 2.0 does not market itself for those purposes, it does market itself for purposes that firewire has worked fine for, for the last few years. Purposes like video transfer, high-speed data connection, etc. Fire wire is cheep enough these days that interface boards are being bundled along with low-end video editing software.
If more motherboards would provide it onboard, there would be NO need for USB 2.0, except in the few situations where a hub topology was really needed.
James Ray Kenney
How is it not always on? You can have it auto-connect when you turn on your computer, or if you're like me, you can leave it running on a firewall box forever. I've been using PPPoE for a couple of years now, and I've had it stay connected for up to 6 months!
Always on means connected as soon as the power is on.
What if you want to remote install software on a new machine over the connection. With always on all you have to do is load the NIC drivers and whatever remote installation software you use, and start installing. With PPPoE you have to have a lot of extra software loaded. And that extra software may not fit on the floppy you are installing from. Probably not a problem if you are installing from CD, but without PPPoE you do not even have to have a CD in a machine that will not need one after install.
Also, in Windows, the PPPoE software does not always compleatly get connected before a LOT of clients are already requesting connections(Like AOL IM, ICQ, MSM, DialPad Agent, Etc..)
I had MAJOR problems with this when I was using Enternet(trash) software to connect, because it did not emulate windows dialup and so you could not tell programs to detect when you were connected to the internet and had to tell them you had a LAN connection. And when they tried to connect, and did not get an imedate connection(as they had every right to expect,) they reported that the LAN connection was down!
RASPPPoE emulates a modem and so you can tell your programs that you have a dial-up connection and that solves some of the problems. I find it strange though, that RASPPPoE starts up and connects faster than Enternet even though RASPPPoE is started up in the startup folder and Enternet starts up in the Registry!
I would give a LOT if Microsoft would allow you to set the startup order for programs AND allow you to set for some of them not to run UNTIL others had finished!!!!
In Linux PPPoE looks a LOT more like always on because it loads and connects WAY before the services that use it are even loaded.
James Kenney
Tell that to people 20-30 miles away that would not be blinded by the flash in a bombing with a stolen missle.
The one thing people seem to forget about haveing solar water heaters is the HUMAN cost.
They are ALMOST always mounted on the roof, and must be kept clean to work their best. They also require mantance.
Working on a roof is one of the most dangerous common thing that most people will ever do.
I saw some estimates of the death rate of having solor collectors on every roof, and the death rate was frightening.
If I remember correctly, it was based on the death rate of PROFESSIONAL roof workers, and you can bet that a lot of people would not hire someone to do something so SIMPLE as to clean their collector.
There are costs assocated with ALMOST everything, they are just not always obvious.
I know what you mean. I had a Toyota Corona that I took EVERYWHERE. :-) , but it IS fun to remember the old days when we actually got out and did thing besides fool around with computers all day!
Drove it into the woods to pull a friend's pickup truck(or Jimmy...it has been over 10 years) out of a ditch.
Raced a Mustang SVO down the local 'mudding' road. You have to AVOID the rutts because they are MUCH deeper than the clearance of a car. I ended up using this ~90HP car to pull a jacked up 3/4 ton pickup truck out of the mud! The driver seemed a bit embarassed. Took a while but finally managed to jerk the truck far enough for the wheels to be usefull(it was down to the axel(a tip: when you get stuck in DEEP wet mud, DO NOT spin you tires and dig in so far that the tires are just pushing aganst a vertical wall of mud, and can not get anywhere,)) and it was able to get traction. Another tip: when in a rear wheel drive car(never drove my 4wd in the mud(irony,) NEVER slow down if it is at all possible(and safe,) and if you see a realy wet part comming up the only thing you can do(short of stopping,) is to speed up so that you can hydrofoil/slide across before you sink. We use to have a lot of fun doing things like this(and running up outrageous compuserve bills playing online games at 300baud(at 300 baud and bps were the same thing, before I get flamed, because I DO know the difference.) I was very sad when they put a BIG metal gate up and blocked the road(it had been abandoned YEARS earler when they stopped running the ferry that the road was built for.
Well...We have got realy offtopic this time
Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606).
Kleck, Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America, (1991):111-116, 148.
"only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The 'error rate' for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high."
George F. Will, "Are We 'a Nation of Cowards'?," Newsweek (15 November 1993):93.
Yes, but we are ALREADY paying for the military, so why not let them get some free training while helping.
Having a small(which even today translates into 'weak',) is one of the fastest ways to become the victim of aggression.
look at the episode guide at http://www.andromedatv.com or the postings at www.slipstreambbs.com
James Kenney
They did after a few episodes.
James Kenney
The science is laughable???
... Lasers, etc. could not be aimed because you cannot see where the other ship is, let alone where it will be when the beam gets there)(also beam weapons would spread too far to have enough energy density to hurt anything at that kind of distance). Lasers, etc. are only used for point defense purposes.
Compared to what show???
Star Trek LAL (and I like Star Trek)
Babylon 5 (ok, the humans had lower tech, but Andromeda is set MUCH farther in the future(even before the 300+ years since the fall of the Commonwealth.)
Farscape Pure Fantasy technology, with no attempt to explain it(but they do not need to because it is more of a space fantasy like Star Wars.)
SG1 Inconsistent, but at least they make some concessions to just HOW much the tech levels may be different from civilization to civilization(but don't get me going on how the most advanced race in this galaxy(the greys BTW) cannot manage to duplicate, or even understand how a projectile weapon(like a M16!!!) works!!!!)
Earth Final Conflict Have never got to see it, because NO local or Cable station in that TimeWarner caries in Beaumont, TX, caries it.
LEX, Pure Science Fantasy again, so no need.
Andromeda uses appropriate weapons for the situation:
Missiles for long range
Beam weapons only for VERY short range.
Most all hand weapons are projectile based, even though the special effects do not always make it seem so.
In fact the major problem I have with Andromeda is that the special effects people see to have free reign to create whatever they think looks good without regard to whether it is what is being described on screen.
For example, battles in Andromeda usually happen at ranges of light seconds to light MINITES apart(which is why they have to use missiles, because they are self guided
They have gravity control(or maybe inertia control is more accurate). So??? What series does not? Even Babylon 5 had it. Not the humans but some other races had it. If B5 had been set in a space ship rather than on a rotating space station, I bet that they would have found some way for the Humans to have purchased, stolen, or been given gravity control devices, (or not have made it something that was rare.) It is just too much trouble to film a believable Zero G environment. The only show that did it all the time was(I think Tom Corbet Space Cadet!!!, which actually tried to get the physics correctly(for its day.))
One thing that bothered me at first was the fact that no one seemed to be able to hit Dillon with a gun in the first 2 episodes, and the CREW seemed ALMOST immune to the internal defenses of the ship, but it is part of the back story that all Commonwealth solders have ECM devices built into their uniforms and since almost all projectile weapons in Andromeda use smart bullets, that is explained in a logical way. And it is clear that it was intentional because the person trying to shoot him had a VERY surprised look on his face when he missed, and when questioned about it tried to cover up.
Sorry about rambling on so long, but this kind of statement really bothers me, when it is not backed up by examples of what is bothering the person.
James Kenney
These lights are so bright that you cannot force yourself to look in their direction at night(and it HURTS even on a sunny day!) You can feel the heat from across the room! And yes, they have IR filters to make these a strong source of IR.
Where full auto fire is avaliable(or you are facing multiple advosaries that are spread out,) I agree. The enemy can just spray the area you are in with supressing fire and either you get hit by the fire or an area weapon like a gernade.
Police action is USUALLY quite a bit different.
As the expression goes: 'You cannot hit what you cannot see.' And trust me, it this light is shined in you eyes unexpectedly, you can not help but turn your head(closing your eyes is usually not enough even in daylight,) and by the time you can look back, you can be filled with holes.
I have one of these an I love it.
Built like a tank but very light(considering it has 6 bateries in it!)
Each battery is 3V so it has the equivalant of 12 penlights in it!
Comes with 2 bulbs so you can chose between BRIGHT and ^@@#@%^BRIGHT!
Cost me an arm and a leg(and 2 elbows,) but was worth it.
Surefire makes the best (conventional) flashlights I have ever used, and I collect them.
Their website says that it comes with OS version 3.5
What is with that? The main reason for V4.0(If I have heard correctly,) is to support removable memory in a standard way.
Does anyone know if they are going to upgrade?
James