Re:Skill and not language used?
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That's what I was thinking too. Testing should be a major part of any project - and especially one where large pieces of metal hurtling through the air are involved:p
people build planes in all sorts of places and sometimes have to knock out walls to get them out I for one would certainly feel safe in a vehicle built and flown by someone who didn't realise that an airplane is generally bigger than a doorway;)
Wow.. this just got more interesting.. I had thought it was all about model aircraft until your post:) I can definitely see the fun in full sized aerobatic aircraft racing, though I'd probably still enjoy rally driving a lot more, unless someone figures out how to do handbrake turns in a plane (the one in Hotshots doesn't count:p )
Nothing wrong with having a rear wing on an FWD vehicle, it will still provide a bit of high speed stability... not much use for quarter mile drag racing of course.
What is your point, exactly? That's just stating the fact that if it's moving faster, it's moving faster? Are you possibly referring to the fact that the atmosphere is thinner and therefor provides less resistance? Even if you are I don't see what you're getting at:P
Yeah, I run Damn Fickle Linux on my underclocked MC68000 with 256KB of RAM. I didn't engineer a PCIx slot into my setup just to have nVidia spit in my face like this!
id seem to make all their games for Linux, and they also like using random accessories like that USB flak jacket thing that simulates you getting shot (by quickly puffing up pockets of air with pneumatic compressors). No doubt Quake 5 or whatever will support it at least.
Over here we just have a white sign with a diagonal black line across it meaning 'national speed limit'. I think that's kinda cool cuz then they can change the limit without changing any signs.. but I doubt they're going to, with all the revenue that they're generating from speeding fines. That's a lot of people, because the majority of us consider the limits too low, and basically for roads like motorways, they are.. roads in Europe have higher speed limits on their motorway equivalent roads - I know it's about 80mph in France (130 km/h in good weather), and on the Autobahn's in Germany there is just no limit:) The thing is that while there are still accidents on these roads, the majority of accidents in those countries and the UK are not on the motorways, but on country roads where people overtake without due attention, etc. Any arbitrary speed itself is not what causes danger, it's driving at a speed inappropriate for your current situation, which could mean that you should actually be doing 10mph in a 70mph of course, say if there is a queue of traffic or some cows have somehow managed to get onto the road..:p
I think quite a lot of people who've never used the internet could still see the humour in such things as the Darwin Awards. Outside of situations that were obviously highly dangerous, it is kind of twisted to laugh. I'd say I'm pretty desensetised to the horrors of death, and end up kind of treating the subject more lightly than most (though inwardly still being scared that I might lose another loved one to death, I was devastated when my dad died, and it's affected my life quite a lot in that I've pretty much lost most of my respect for authority). I'm not sure how much of that would be towards the internet itself, but a good pun is probably always going to elicit a bit of a smile, whether it's in bad taste or not. I was thinking that there are some things such as paedophilia that I'd just find incredibly sick to joke about, though then I remembered a coupla months ago, I made a kind of joke to do with the meaning of the original latin, with the supposed situation that someone who didn't know the modern meaning could write "paedophile" on a job application for a job working with children - paedophile of course literally meaning "one who loves children", though these days that has come to take on a mostly sexual connotation. I probably shouldn't have made that joke, it shows I joke about even one of the things that out of all human practices, I find most disturbing..
I'm glad that they soon worked out how to do it using only the energy output of a mouse, though those quakes could be quite fun if you had friends around
the Church of Scientology I dislike, not the people who simply believe in the underlying religious philosophy What is the actual underlying religious philosophy? You're saying you don't mind the members but you hate the organisation? Is that something akin to not liking McDonalds, but you don't mind speaking to people who are stupid enough to consider their food worth consuming?
Note: I do like other fast food places, just I always seem to end up with stomach problems after going to McDonalds, last time someone convinced me to go, I was off work for a few days.. and he was off for a couple of weeks:p
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/. now warns of redirects/links!? Awesome. Someone needs to combine goatse with rickrolling.. mmmmm...
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He said stringency, not lunacy..
That's what I was thinking too. Testing should be a major part of any project - and especially one where large pieces of metal hurtling through the air are involved :p
Wow.. this just got more interesting.. I had thought it was all about model aircraft until your post :) I can definitely see the fun in full sized aerobatic aircraft racing, though I'd probably still enjoy rally driving a lot more, unless someone figures out how to do handbrake turns in a plane (the one in Hotshots doesn't count :p )
Nothing wrong with having a rear wing on an FWD vehicle, it will still provide a bit of high speed stability... not much use for quarter mile drag racing of course.
What is your point, exactly? That's just stating the fact that if it's moving faster, it's moving faster? Are you possibly referring to the fact that the atmosphere is thinner and therefor provides less resistance? Even if you are I don't see what you're getting at :P
Mmm.. bud ice..
Presumably not one of your better analogies.. and I reaaaally don't want to have this one explained to me.
Agree with the rest though
Hey, what OS do the Autobots run?
Not even joking, but I don't remember any Microsoft :P Maybe an Audi.. and yes, Scarlett Johansen :) mmmm
McDonald's had better look out!
*whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh*
That's the sound of the patriot act and its buddies who passed overhead a few years ago, I guess it took a while for the sound to catch up..
Yeah, I run Damn Fickle Linux on my underclocked MC68000 with 256KB of RAM. I didn't engineer a PCIx slot into my setup just to have nVidia spit in my face like this!
we'll never let go! Not until it freezes to death, at any rate..
Aye. That iceberg thing didn't have much to do with it after all, eh?
oh hai, I ated your lexical parser ._.
id seem to make all their games for Linux, and they also like using random accessories like that USB flak jacket thing that simulates you getting shot (by quickly puffing up pockets of air with pneumatic compressors). No doubt Quake 5 or whatever will support it at least.
Over here we just have a white sign with a diagonal black line across it meaning 'national speed limit'. I think that's kinda cool cuz then they can change the limit without changing any signs.. but I doubt they're going to, with all the revenue that they're generating from speeding fines. That's a lot of people, because the majority of us consider the limits too low, and basically for roads like motorways, they are.. roads in Europe have higher speed limits on their motorway equivalent roads - I know it's about 80mph in France (130 km/h in good weather), and on the Autobahn's in Germany there is just no limit :) The thing is that while there are still accidents on these roads, the majority of accidents in those countries and the UK are not on the motorways, but on country roads where people overtake without due attention, etc. Any arbitrary speed itself is not what causes danger, it's driving at a speed inappropriate for your current situation, which could mean that you should actually be doing 10mph in a 70mph of course, say if there is a queue of traffic or some cows have somehow managed to get onto the road.. :p
In Soviet Russia, government runs country! And moon lands on you!
I think quite a lot of people who've never used the internet could still see the humour in such things as the Darwin Awards. Outside of situations that were obviously highly dangerous, it is kind of twisted to laugh. I'd say I'm pretty desensetised to the horrors of death, and end up kind of treating the subject more lightly than most (though inwardly still being scared that I might lose another loved one to death, I was devastated when my dad died, and it's affected my life quite a lot in that I've pretty much lost most of my respect for authority). I'm not sure how much of that would be towards the internet itself, but a good pun is probably always going to elicit a bit of a smile, whether it's in bad taste or not. I was thinking that there are some things such as paedophilia that I'd just find incredibly sick to joke about, though then I remembered a coupla months ago, I made a kind of joke to do with the meaning of the original latin, with the supposed situation that someone who didn't know the modern meaning could write "paedophile" on a job application for a job working with children - paedophile of course literally meaning "one who loves children", though these days that has come to take on a mostly sexual connotation. I probably shouldn't have made that joke, it shows I joke about even one of the things that out of all human practices, I find most disturbing..
Why muck about? Fairly obvious extrapolation of G-PON:
Gigabit
Passive
Rural
Optical
Network
G-PRON! Or G-PORN if you will, but that is just crass.
Mods on crack.. yada yada..
I'm glad that they soon worked out how to do it using only the energy output of a mouse, though those quakes could be quite fun if you had friends around
Note: I do like other fast food places, just I always seem to end up with stomach problems after going to McDonalds, last time someone convinced me to go, I was off work for a few days.. and he was off for a couple of weeks