Ummmm...quite a few organizations have chosen AKs over M-16s. Not just communist countries either. The AKs (there are several different models) are far superior to MacNamara's camel.
Sure - because you can buy the AK47 everybody can buy from his Uncle's cousin Oleg Gregorianovich and where he would not get the M16 from Uncle SAM.
That is actually another aspect of the AKs that make them superior. The 7.62 millimeter round is slightly larger and heavier than the 5.56 millimeter M-16 round, but this is good. The 7.62 millimeter round is the old "NATO" round from the Korean conflict. There's a LOT of ammunition floating around in that size. Try finding suitable quantities of 5.56 millimeter ammunition if you have an AR-16.
Wrong. The AK47 uses a special "short" version of the 7.62, so you can NOT your your standard machinegun ammo like with the H&K G3. And every single one of the newer NATO-Country rifles (Steyr, Enfield, H&K) are using 5.65 now.
I suppose you never carried a weapon around for more than 200feet, right? Nobody would choose the AK over the M16 for any foot-based combat.
And lets not forget that you can't fire the AK47 from prone position cause the mag is too long (Soviet doctrine didn't include that, only storming against your enemy...). Also the AK47 is not the same caliber (7.62 short instead of 5.56), therefore the better comparison would have been to the Heckler & Koch G36 - which is, in fact, superior to the M16.
How is the quality of those devices? I'm myopic and actually prefer DVI-only....
Cards are limited as well: I'm on a PowerMac G5, so my card choice is limited to a) AGP and b) mac-compatibility. Maybe I have to upgrade to those PCI-Express things.
Peronally, I'll never again go without my dual monitors (20"+17" TFT). I do a lot of writing up/comparing/analysing research data, and by having two monitors it feels at least 20% faster (compared to only 1 screen on my PowerBook.). I could imagine that one big TFT would be equal, but compared by price, dual head is the way to go.
At the moment I'm looking into expanding into a triple-head setup, but as I know so far that would require a new graphics card...
That's not entirely true. I'm aware that most of the/.-crowd is US-based, but in Europe this clause in the license is invalid. You can run your Vista as you wish - as long as it is only one copy.
Well, yes. Seems even the environmentalists are agreeing with that. I would say sequestering radioactive waste underground would be a lot better than releasing tons of carbon into the atmosphere. And the new reactor designs are meltdown resistant and far more safer than the old ones.
Most of the radioactive waste is actually not waste and can be reused, and sequestering waste in old salt mines is really safe. Kind of a SciFi alternative would be to launch it into the sun, but I don't know if that is possible.
Scientists already proposed that it could be possible to convert the Uranium into Iodide - but because of political reasons they got cut down on their funding.
So the point is not curing every illness known regardless of price- but setting a reasonable amount of tax dollars aside to cover a reasonable amount of medical expenses for the most people possible.
Very true. But that amount is an ethical question, which has to be decided better sooner than later. In the UK, there is the following limit for operations: approx. 40.000$ per additional year to life per person.
Get yourself a (good, expandable) Wiki solution. You can easily lern & tell how to introduce new tickets als WikiPages, then you have a really flexible solution. And you have something Intranet-like as well.
TWiki offers flexibility and lots of features with the integrated WikiForms. Add to that the RSS/E-Mail notification of Topics, and you are set.
The *most* beneficial investment however is building/buying a well-insulated house with balanced ventilation. This saves power in summer for AC, and in winther for heating. And a well-insulated house doesn't have higher maintenance-costs than a poorly insulated one.
Insulation is so good that these days, heating is the least of your problems. A friendly family of mine is living in a 2-story-energy-efficient (certified) house, they never need any heating (middle europe), normally they have cooling problems. even in winter. They have special "slots" to let in cold air, which are needed even in the winter.
Evaluate! It's to only way to be sure the product meets your needs completely. Yes, it costs alot of money and time. The alternative is to guess a product.
Depending on your available manpower, the nature of the project and you company-structure you could do the following:
Make a quick (1 week) selection of you available choices.
Select the n options of these, which look most promisin
Setup of each of them with one "pilotgroup"
Get feedback from them, then select the choice with the best feedback.
If you can have more transistors on a chip, then you can possibly let them run at a somewhat slower pace, such that cooling becomes a non-issue. Perhaps.
Like thats ever happened before.....
But yes, I agree, That would be good. But for the "normal" customer, pure speed is still the main selection criterium.
Disclaimer: I'm not using my room-heating-system since I got my G5 Dual;)
I hope the central portions of these chips have enough space to allow cooling to be achieved.
One could use special cooling-building blocks. These would even be placed right next to the most-heat producing parts of the overall system and enhance the overall cooling effect.
Above Ordinary theories are "Natural Laws". Those are the theories that have been analyzed to death and tested extensively and still hold up.
No, thats wrong. I might look like a nitpicker, but this is just not true. "Natural Laws" are assumptions which have been made, and work in all testable situations but can never be truly scientifically proven (not like a theory, which can be.) Like Newtons Laws: They obviously explain everything but can never be proven wrong by any experiment one could design.
I'm not talking about SIM-locked phones (phone which only work with the carrier who subsidized the phone), I'm confining my comments to branding, which is mainly about carrier-custom-icons, themes, removing hardware functions.
But thanks for that Information, I never thought about just reflashing the firmware (don't need it anyway, cause I have a free phone). Does this affect the warranty?
The Vodafone-"branded" phones I saw only allowd to use ringtones which where transfered over the integrated internet/sms/wap/... connection, not bluetooth or USB-based file transfers. Which makes sense from a carrier point of view (money by data transfer) and leaves the Jamba/Jamster option open.
It also depends on the brand of the cell. My Siemens phone all did that flawlessly.
Sorry, you just don't have this kind of shit dictated by European phone networks. Phones sold here (with and without plans) have no such restrictions.
Sorry to tell you, but you are wrong. I can only speak for german carriers, but they all do a varying amount of "branding". Including crippling the ability to use own sounds as ringtones, or firmware-coded keys which take you directly to the carriers WAP-portal.
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Sure - because you can buy the AK47 everybody can buy from his Uncle's cousin Oleg Gregorianovich and where he would not get the M16 from Uncle SAM.
Wrong. The AK47 uses a special "short" version of the 7.62, so you can NOT your your standard machinegun ammo like with the H&K G3. And every single one of the newer NATO-Country rifles (Steyr, Enfield, H&K) are using 5.65 now.And lets not forget that you can't fire the AK47 from prone position cause the mag is too long (Soviet doctrine didn't include that, only storming against your enemy...). Also the AK47 is not the same caliber (7.62 short instead of 5.56), therefore the better comparison would have been to the Heckler & Koch G36 - which is, in fact, superior to the M16.
Germany is already doing that...
How is the quality of those devices? I'm myopic and actually prefer DVI-only.... Cards are limited as well: I'm on a PowerMac G5, so my card choice is limited to a) AGP and b) mac-compatibility. Maybe I have to upgrade to those PCI-Express things.
Peronally, I'll never again go without my dual monitors (20"+17" TFT). I do a lot of writing up/comparing/analysing research data, and by having two monitors it feels at least 20% faster (compared to only 1 screen on my PowerBook.). I could imagine that one big TFT would be equal, but compared by price, dual head is the way to go.
At the moment I'm looking into expanding into a triple-head setup, but as I know so far that would require a new graphics card...
That's not entirely true. I'm aware that most of the /.-crowd is US-based, but in Europe this clause in the license is invalid. You can run your Vista as you wish - as long as it is only one copy.
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of LaserSharks!
Nuclear waste? Not risky. You can even fly it safely.
One word: Nuclear.
Get yourself a (good, expandable) Wiki solution. You can easily lern & tell how to introduce new tickets als WikiPages, then you have a really flexible solution. And you have something Intranet-like as well. TWiki offers flexibility and lots of features with the integrated WikiForms. Add to that the RSS/E-Mail notification of Topics, and you are set.
AFAIK, the cellphones in the US are far less subsidized than over in Europe. I think cingular gives around 150$.
Make a quick (1 week) selection of you available choices.
Select the n options of these, which look most promisin
Setup of each of them with one "pilotgroup"
Get feedback from them, then select the choice with the best feedback.
So, you value one murder like 100.000 times fraud? or more like one to 100.001 times? Whats the value of life?
One could use special cooling-building blocks. These would even be placed right next to the most-heat producing parts of the overall system and enhance the overall cooling effect.
I'm not talking about SIM-locked phones (phone which only work with the carrier who subsidized the phone), I'm confining my comments to branding, which is mainly about carrier-custom-icons, themes, removing hardware functions.
But thanks for that Information, I never thought about just reflashing the firmware (don't need it anyway, cause I have a free phone). Does this affect the warranty?
The Vodafone-"branded" phones I saw only allowd to use ringtones which where transfered over the integrated internet/sms/wap/... connection, not bluetooth or USB-based file transfers. Which makes sense from a carrier point of view (money by data transfer) and leaves the Jamba/Jamster option open.
It also depends on the brand of the cell. My Siemens phone all did that flawlessly.
Sorry to tell you, but you are wrong. I can only speak for german carriers, but they all do a varying amount of "branding". Including crippling the ability to use own sounds as ringtones, or firmware-coded keys which take you directly to the carriers WAP-portal.