To be honest, if I ever had to go into combat, I'd be begging for this stuff. If it works like I suspect it would, you'd avoid a lot of cases of shellshock that way. Okay, I'll be behind you, drug free, retaining the fear-instilled good sense to duck.
Possibly my favourite Star Trek episode was written by Sturgeon. I did not discover his work til years later and it was some time again later til I noticed his name on the writing credits. It could be coincidence that some of my favourite fiction in two different media is by the same author, but I tend to think it's more likely that it is the quality of the author his (or her) self because I can make the same claim with regards to Dorothy Fontana and others.
a third party necessarily has to perform the "service." Obviously, they don't actually know any tattoo artists. My friend and all his co-workers are covered in work they have done themselves, either as practice or because they don't trust others to do it 'right'. If any one of them decided they wanted a tattoo of any of GW's IP, they would not need a third party. I realize this is not a common case, but still, even one exception seems to disprove their claim of "necessarily".
Also, I know several people, including at least one GW staffer, who have tattoos of various GW IP (a list soon to include myself).
$100? Surely you jest, unless you're referring to the purchase of used models via a service like eBay (which does have some fantastic deals). A box of basic troops (W40k) or a core unit (WFB) is about $45 CDN and about $35 US. You need far more than two or three of these plus more to make even a basic army. The Batallion boxes are $90 US and $135 (or so) CDN; these are a good start, but still not enough to have more than a very simplistic army. $200 is certainly a good number for a reasonable start. At current market prices, my investment is well over $2000 for three armies.
While I agree with you that the pewter minis are higher quality (given the relative age of the sculpt i.e. Dark Eldar) overall, the plastics are far more enjoyable to work with from a customization angle. A limited edition pewter piece looks amazing as a centre piece to an army or a squad, but 15 of them don't stand out, they just blend in, especially when you consider that pewter models have very limited posability. And if you haven't seen some of the newest plastic moulds, you might be in for a suprise, the quality is leaps and bounds over those 1st generation plastic Space Marines or Gobbos (which haven't been retired quite yet)
The first thing I do when writing a piece of code is to create a basic error handling subroutine, even if it's (as often as not) as simple as "Input error, check your data and restart". Time later to expand and make a more robust handling system as the program grows in complexity.
A 12floz can down south is the same as a 355ml can here in Canada (and presumably overseas) so a can with 50mg/ 12floz becomes a more sensable measurement of about 1.7mg/ml.
As an aside, my favourite energy drink is Rockstar Juiced, in part because the can is labelled as containing "70% Juice"
Search all you want, they come out of the mail box and go straight into the shredder. If there are documents I don't want people reading, I make sure they're secured, either by being shredded, like my old bills, or by being locked in a secured container, like my tax returns, deeds, will, etc. The old newspapers, which I don't care about, are in a stack waiting to be recycled, and if you really want to read them go ahead (but be forewarned, I've already done the crossword).
Here's a hint: IT'S TOTALLY ARBITRARY AND SUBJECTIVE!
The first time I saw someone playing SoTC, I said: "Wow, that looks pretty boring and repetitive, I don't think I'd like a game like that." About an hour later, someone handed me a controller and 16 hours later, I beat the game the first time. Some people like it, some don't. I can't stand most FPSs so I wouldn't have put any on such a list, but it would be my perogative.
If it's the same Atari tank game that I own and still bust out at parties (the classic joysticks just can't be broken, no matter how drunk we get), it's just called "Combat".
They can get away with drinking beer on the Simpsons (and other animated shows) because the beer isn't a real brand, so (for some reason) it's not seen as promoting drinking. I guess if some kid saw Homer Simpson drinking a Bud and saw a can of the same he might think: "Well I saw it on TV..."
Working in a marine environment, I would be hung out to dry for using crimps. Or standard procedure is to solder a connection and heat shrink it with a inch overlap on each end (where possible).
Thank you to both that replied. I have never really dealt extensively with any technology that uses lasers so I don't know that much about the mechanics... well I do work with fibre now and again but laying cable doesn't require knowledge of how a laser works to beyond the basics.
Most of the time, the calculation usually goes more along the lines of: "I'll buy this printer on sale for $40 and instead of buying the $50 replacement refills (because usually the black and colour cartridges cost about $25 each), I'll just toss it and buy this month's $40 printer."
And actually, I can usually pack the thing back in the box and take it down to the pawn shop and get $15-20 for it thus further offsetting the cost of replacing the printer every month.
It seems like you just cut the wires and splice in a new battery. Go turn in your geek card. Better yet, go explain your plan to an electrician or electronics technician and watch them have a heart attack.
But seriously, splices are the worst possible idea in any situation: they are the worst electrical and physical connection you could make. Soldering takes so little time and looks so much better.
I doubt it. Given the size of even a standard HD you're going to end up with the laser hitting the surface of the disk at an angle very far from the normal. You might have better luck with an array of lasers offset so that each only has a small range of motion/tilt but covers the whole surface of the disk.
More fun:
1 - Take the CD out of the packaging
2 - Paste a stamp on it and write the nearest AOL office address on the back side with a Sharpie (the CD, not the packaging)
3 - Drop it in the nearest mailbox
While this sounds good, looking at the video of the 777 wings, I doubt they would hold up under windspeed after that kind of damage. The aluminium panels buckled and ripped free of the rivits and the way the aircraft sagged as they did suggests that the panels are a signifigant structural component of the wings. This 150% number they keep throwing around is 150% greater than the maximum load the aircraft wings would be expected to face (which probably has it's own safety margin thrown in). Given that aircraft can and have been flown into hurricanes, and hurricanes can have maximum sustained winds of over 300 kph, I don't think I'll be worrying about the wings failing the next time I get on a Boeing aircraft.
From what I've seen, today's future IT people measure their geekdom by the amount of Red Bull (or similar energy drinks) consumed. The coffee bar in the CS building at my old school had a mini-fridge literally stuffed full of the stuff. Some of my co-geeks still drink mass quantities of Red Bull, a few have discovered coffee, but I can't think of one of them (not a statistically large sample to be sure) that drink as much coffee as we do in the run of a normal day (which may not be day at all or may, at times, be several). ^>^
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And now, I'm going to walk down the street and buy a bicket of chicken.
Possibly my favourite Star Trek episode was written by Sturgeon. I did not discover his work til years later and it was some time again later til I noticed his name on the writing credits. It could be coincidence that some of my favourite fiction in two different media is by the same author, but I tend to think it's more likely that it is the quality of the author his (or her) self because I can make the same claim with regards to Dorothy Fontana and others.
Also, I know several people, including at least one GW staffer, who have tattoos of various GW IP (a list soon to include myself).
$100? Surely you jest, unless you're referring to the purchase of used models via a service like eBay (which does have some fantastic deals). A box of basic troops (W40k) or a core unit (WFB) is about $45 CDN and about $35 US. You need far more than two or three of these plus more to make even a basic army. The Batallion boxes are $90 US and $135 (or so) CDN; these are a good start, but still not enough to have more than a very simplistic army. $200 is certainly a good number for a reasonable start. At current market prices, my investment is well over $2000 for three armies.
While I agree with you that the pewter minis are higher quality (given the relative age of the sculpt i.e. Dark Eldar) overall, the plastics are far more enjoyable to work with from a customization angle. A limited edition pewter piece looks amazing as a centre piece to an army or a squad, but 15 of them don't stand out, they just blend in, especially when you consider that pewter models have very limited posability. And if you haven't seen some of the newest plastic moulds, you might be in for a suprise, the quality is leaps and bounds over those 1st generation plastic Space Marines or Gobbos (which haven't been retired quite yet)
Well, that's fine, as long as everyone knows that Web (2.0 + i) = Web ( sqrt(5),0.4637rad ) and Web (2.0 + 2.0i) = Web ( sqrt(8),0.7854rad )
You'd get my mod points if you weren't an AC. ^>^
The first thing I do when writing a piece of code is to create a basic error handling subroutine, even if it's (as often as not) as simple as "Input error, check your data and restart". Time later to expand and make a more robust handling system as the program grows in complexity.
A 12floz can down south is the same as a 355ml can here in Canada (and presumably overseas) so a can with 50mg/ 12floz becomes a more sensable measurement of about 1.7mg/ml.
As an aside, my favourite energy drink is Rockstar Juiced, in part because the can is labelled as containing "70% Juice"
Search all you want, they come out of the mail box and go straight into the shredder. If there are documents I don't want people reading, I make sure they're secured, either by being shredded, like my old bills, or by being locked in a secured container, like my tax returns, deeds, will, etc. The old newspapers, which I don't care about, are in a stack waiting to be recycled, and if you really want to read them go ahead (but be forewarned, I've already done the crossword).
Here's a hint: IT'S TOTALLY ARBITRARY AND SUBJECTIVE!
The first time I saw someone playing SoTC, I said: "Wow, that looks pretty boring and repetitive, I don't think I'd like a game like that." About an hour later, someone handed me a controller and 16 hours later, I beat the game the first time. Some people like it, some don't. I can't stand most FPSs so I wouldn't have put any on such a list, but it would be my perogative.
If it's the same Atari tank game that I own and still bust out at parties (the classic joysticks just can't be broken, no matter how drunk we get), it's just called "Combat".
And if I ever produced the soldering seen on this page, I'd be asked to hand in my soldering iron and go mop the floor.
They can get away with drinking beer on the Simpsons (and other animated shows) because the beer isn't a real brand, so (for some reason) it's not seen as promoting drinking. I guess if some kid saw Homer Simpson drinking a Bud and saw a can of the same he might think: "Well I saw it on TV..."
Working in a marine environment, I would be hung out to dry for using crimps. Or standard procedure is to solder a connection and heat shrink it with a inch overlap on each end (where possible).
Thank you to both that replied. I have never really dealt extensively with any technology that uses lasers so I don't know that much about the mechanics... well I do work with fibre now and again but laying cable doesn't require knowledge of how a laser works to beyond the basics.
Most of the time, the calculation usually goes more along the lines of: "I'll buy this printer on sale for $40 and instead of buying the $50 replacement refills (because usually the black and colour cartridges cost about $25 each), I'll just toss it and buy this month's $40 printer."
And actually, I can usually pack the thing back in the box and take it down to the pawn shop and get $15-20 for it thus further offsetting the cost of replacing the printer every month.
But seriously, splices are the worst possible idea in any situation: they are the worst electrical and physical connection you could make. Soldering takes so little time and looks so much better.
I doubt it. Given the size of even a standard HD you're going to end up with the laser hitting the surface of the disk at an angle very far from the normal. You might have better luck with an array of lasers offset so that each only has a small range of motion/tilt but covers the whole surface of the disk.
Oh wait, I forgot:
4 - ???
5 - Profit!
More fun: 1 - Take the CD out of the packaging 2 - Paste a stamp on it and write the nearest AOL office address on the back side with a Sharpie (the CD, not the packaging) 3 - Drop it in the nearest mailbox
Whoops, spelling errors FTL. Should have been "... could always buy...
While this sounds good, looking at the video of the 777 wings, I doubt they would hold up under windspeed after that kind of damage. The aluminium panels buckled and ripped free of the rivits and the way the aircraft sagged as they did suggests that the panels are a signifigant structural component of the wings. This 150% number they keep throwing around is 150% greater than the maximum load the aircraft wings would be expected to face (which probably has it's own safety margin thrown in). Given that aircraft can and have been flown into hurricanes, and hurricanes can have maximum sustained winds of over 300 kph, I don't think I'll be worrying about the wings failing the next time I get on a Boeing aircraft.
From what I've seen, today's future IT people measure their geekdom by the amount of Red Bull (or similar energy drinks) consumed. The coffee bar in the CS building at my old school had a mini-fridge literally stuffed full of the stuff. Some of my co-geeks still drink mass quantities of Red Bull, a few have discovered coffee, but I can't think of one of them (not a statistically large sample to be sure) that drink as much coffee as we do in the run of a normal day (which may not be day at all or may, at times, be several). ^>^