It's hard to beat free though. One person's junk is another person's treasure. I'll put random "junk" out with the trash that Goodwill won't even take and invariably one of my neighbors will grab it before the trash truck makes its rounds. It's kind of scary as I feel like I live in a fairly nice neighborhood and I would think my neighbors wouldn't want this "junk" either./shrug
And yes, a text or an e-mail is better... in theory. On my cell phone, the keyboard is a pain in the backside, and it's very easy to make a typo. And that's one of the rare phones that actually has a keyboard... it's worse with the touchscreen. If I'm in the field, it is usually faster to simply spell it phonetically over the phone, rather than trying to write a text or an e-mail on my phone. And gods help anybody who's stuck using T-9.
You don't have an iPhone, do you? I've had one for about 3 weeks now (employer issued) and I hate the auto-correct/predictive text on it vs a Droid based device. I am much more efficient with emails/text on a Droid device vs an iPhone. No clue if either use T-9, but I'm guessing that's more of an early Blackberry function?
If my memory isn't completely failing me, you could actually free up more usable RAM by loading the various drivers up in different orders. I think when some drivers loaded their memory usage initially expand and then contract. It seems like it was always best to load CDROM driver first, then sound, mouse and whatever else.
Again, it's been almost 20 years, so I could be full of crap.;-)
Craigslist is your friend. I got rid of a 36", 225lb Toshiba in less than an hour. I had multiple inquiries and had to pull the ad relatively quickly. I put it in the free section. It's amazing how much space was freed up in the room when I got rid of that beast.
Or, he's known enough hunters to know that that's what a good number of them do - wander out into the woods, get at least mildly "lubricated", and go "hunting."
And I've known enough hunters to know what a good number of them do - go out into the woods and hunt responsibly without a drop of alcohol in their system.
dude, you know that shooting a gun in the direction of people is stupid.
What the drunken idiot hunters (probably only 2 of them) did was wrong. the majority of the hunters were safe and put their firearms away and left.
I agree that what the hunters did was wrong, but not sure why you would imply they were drunken. As for shooting a gun in the direction of people, that happens all the time (in Dove hunting, for example) and is completely safe. From the video you can't tell exactly how high the RC is, but there did not appear to be any danger in shooting the RC at the perceived elevation. You are also implying the people were between the hunters and the RC, which I do not believe was the case either. It's all hard to tell from the POV of the video that was taken.
#6 Birdshot fired out of a 12 gauge has a maximum effective range of around 40 yards, when shooting birds. I can guarantee there was no danger posed to anyone on that highway, the birdshot never even got close.
Since the drone crashed on the highway, it was clearly shot from a close enough range to reach the highway...
From the YouTube video posted earlier, you don't actually see where the drone crashed.
It might be "crap science", but you must not be a pet owner or have spent much time around animals of any kind. It's very obvious if a dog, cat, pig, horse, human, etc has a pulled or strained muscle, regardless of how well they tried to hide it. Based on my own observations, there does seem to be something interesting going on when an animal that goes from zero to full tilt in a matter of seconds without stretching and not hurting itself in the process. Dozens others throughout this thread of already provided citations on how stretching can actually be bad./shrug
My GoogleFu is failing me right now, but years ago one of my professors spoke about how a dog could be asleep on a porch for hours, wake up when a car comes driving by and immediately haul ass after the car without any warm up, stretching, etc, and the dog would almost never pull a muscle or injure itself. I believe there was a study or at least some research as to why this was the case and might possibly be related to what you read at some point.
yup. Books in the home is another interesting metric.
Steven Levy addressed this in his book "Freakonomics". He found that although "books in the home" is correlated with better performance in school, once you correct for the IQ of the parents, it actually makes no difference at all.
People come up with a lot of "theory of the day" explanations for improving education, but the biggest determinants of a child's performance are the IQ of the biological parents, and their birth weight. Instead of spending billions on the schools, maybe we should first spend 0.001% of that on folic acid supplements for pregnant women, and encouraging breast feeding. It would make a bigger difference.
So what does birth weight and parent's IQ have to do with breastfeeding?
What kind of movies do you like? I find it shocking that you haven't seen a good one in 5 years.
While I don't agree with every film on this list (and plenty I haven't seen or heard of), there are a few dozen good to great films I saw with a quick perusal -
http://www.films101.com/yl5r.htm
As for the ill-mannered heathens, I wait until a movie has been out for 2+ weeks, then go on an off night. I occasionally get surprised (~100 people at Sherlock last night), but usually there are only 5-10 people present, no cut-ups or screaming babies.
I use a similar strategy and go to the first viewing on Sunday morning (normally 10 or 11). Generally a dozen people or less, plus I save a buck or two since it's matinee pricing.
Ultima 7 was developed on something like a 386-33, but the target platform was a 386sx-16, if I remember the Ultima Dragons newsgroup correctly. The big problem they had was that the program was 16-bit, but needed to be able to access far more than the usual 640k in order to work correctly. After an enormous amount of optimisation, they got about 1 fps if they used swap, 4fps if they used XMS, 6fps via EMS and a whopping 16fps by using the flat-realmode hack on the 386. It was only that which allowed the game to ship, and it made the game pretty much impossible to run under Windows 95 and later until DOSbox came along.
Didn't you have to create a special boot disk to play U7 to enable the Voodoo memory management? Seems like those guys were always pushing the hardware limits back in the day.
Wouldn't the fire spread outward in all directions equally assuming no air movement? Since it would consume the oxygen next to the source (increasing the flame), which would then consume the oxygen next to it and so on? So maybe expanding out in a sphere, but only the outer edge is actually on fire?
I'm inclined to agree. The limitations of his style of software development are quite apparent. I think Minecraft is a great game with a concept behind it that hasn't been fully exploited yet, and I would agree that there are mods doing things the core game should be doing. Minecraft itself is a catalog of half-baked ideas. The core of the game--exploring, mining, crafting, and building--is very strong. Many of the other elements, however, feel half-finished.
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It's hard to beat free though. One person's junk is another person's treasure. I'll put random "junk" out with the trash that Goodwill won't even take and invariably one of my neighbors will grab it before the trash truck makes its rounds. It's kind of scary as I feel like I live in a fairly nice neighborhood and I would think my neighbors wouldn't want this "junk" either. /shrug
And yes, a text or an e-mail is better... in theory. On my cell phone, the keyboard is a pain in the backside, and it's very easy to make a typo. And that's one of the rare phones that actually has a keyboard... it's worse with the touchscreen. If I'm in the field, it is usually faster to simply spell it phonetically over the phone, rather than trying to write a text or an e-mail on my phone. And gods help anybody who's stuck using T-9.
You don't have an iPhone, do you? I've had one for about 3 weeks now (employer issued) and I hate the auto-correct/predictive text on it vs a Droid based device. I am much more efficient with emails/text on a Droid device vs an iPhone. No clue if either use T-9, but I'm guessing that's more of an early Blackberry function?
Again, it's been almost 20 years, so I could be full of crap. ;-)
Craigslist is your friend. I got rid of a 36", 225lb Toshiba in less than an hour. I had multiple inquiries and had to pull the ad relatively quickly. I put it in the free section. It's amazing how much space was freed up in the room when I got rid of that beast.
Or, he's known enough hunters to know that that's what a good number of them do - wander out into the woods, get at least mildly "lubricated", and go "hunting."
And I've known enough hunters to know what a good number of them do - go out into the woods and hunt responsibly without a drop of alcohol in their system.
dude, you know that shooting a gun in the direction of people is stupid.
What the drunken idiot hunters (probably only 2 of them) did was wrong. the majority of the hunters were safe and put their firearms away and left.
I agree that what the hunters did was wrong, but not sure why you would imply they were drunken. As for shooting a gun in the direction of people, that happens all the time (in Dove hunting, for example) and is completely safe. From the video you can't tell exactly how high the RC is, but there did not appear to be any danger in shooting the RC at the perceived elevation. You are also implying the people were between the hunters and the RC, which I do not believe was the case either. It's all hard to tell from the POV of the video that was taken.
#6 Birdshot fired out of a 12 gauge has a maximum effective range of around 40 yards, when shooting birds. I can guarantee there was no danger posed to anyone on that highway, the birdshot never even got close.
Since the drone crashed on the highway, it was clearly shot from a close enough range to reach the highway...
From the YouTube video posted earlier, you don't actually see where the drone crashed.
Nice link. Just wasted 10 minutes watching a good portion of those commercials! :/
It might be "crap science", but you must not be a pet owner or have spent much time around animals of any kind. It's very obvious if a dog, cat, pig, horse, human, etc has a pulled or strained muscle, regardless of how well they tried to hide it. Based on my own observations, there does seem to be something interesting going on when an animal that goes from zero to full tilt in a matter of seconds without stretching and not hurting itself in the process. Dozens others throughout this thread of already provided citations on how stretching can actually be bad. /shrug
My GoogleFu is failing me right now, but years ago one of my professors spoke about how a dog could be asleep on a porch for hours, wake up when a car comes driving by and immediately haul ass after the car without any warm up, stretching, etc, and the dog would almost never pull a muscle or injure itself. I believe there was a study or at least some research as to why this was the case and might possibly be related to what you read at some point.
Since when is 3rd place in the EPL a "mid ranking" team?
yup. Books in the home is another interesting metric.
Steven Levy addressed this in his book "Freakonomics". He found that although "books in the home" is correlated with better performance in school, once you correct for the IQ of the parents, it actually makes no difference at all.
People come up with a lot of "theory of the day" explanations for improving education, but the biggest determinants of a child's performance are the IQ of the biological parents, and their birth weight. Instead of spending billions on the schools, maybe we should first spend 0.001% of that on folic acid supplements for pregnant women, and encouraging breast feeding. It would make a bigger difference.
So what does birth weight and parent's IQ have to do with breastfeeding?
Same for me. I've had more mod points in the last 4-6 weeks than the previous 52 weeks combined...
Why not clip-on lenses instead of a new pair of glasses? I see people use those instead of a separate pair of prescription sunglasses.
Hah! Me too. Although the overall feel was more Half-Lifish IMO. Looks like it could be a model for an interesting FPS level/design.
What kind of movies do you like? I find it shocking that you haven't seen a good one in 5 years. While I don't agree with every film on this list (and plenty I haven't seen or heard of), there are a few dozen good to great films I saw with a quick perusal - http://www.films101.com/yl5r.htm
As for the ill-mannered heathens, I wait until a movie has been out for 2+ weeks, then go on an off night. I occasionally get surprised (~100 people at Sherlock last night), but usually there are only 5-10 people present, no cut-ups or screaming babies.
I use a similar strategy and go to the first viewing on Sunday morning (normally 10 or 11). Generally a dozen people or less, plus I save a buck or two since it's matinee pricing.
Can you provide a link please? I can't find 4GB stick of PC2700-PC3200 RAM for less than $50.
Citation needed?
Ultima 7 was developed on something like a 386-33, but the target platform was a 386sx-16, if I remember the Ultima Dragons newsgroup correctly. The big problem they had was that the program was 16-bit, but needed to be able to access far more than the usual 640k in order to work correctly. After an enormous amount of optimisation, they got about 1 fps if they used swap, 4fps if they used XMS, 6fps via EMS and a whopping 16fps by using the flat-realmode hack on the 386. It was only that which allowed the game to ship, and it made the game pretty much impossible to run under Windows 95 and later until DOSbox came along.
Didn't you have to create a special boot disk to play U7 to enable the Voodoo memory management? Seems like those guys were always pushing the hardware limits back in the day.
Wouldn't the fire spread outward in all directions equally assuming no air movement? Since it would consume the oxygen next to the source (increasing the flame), which would then consume the oxygen next to it and so on? So maybe expanding out in a sphere, but only the outer edge is actually on fire?
Never heard of this before. I hate you right now. My childhood is flooding back into my head.
Terrible childhood?
And what does that have to do with my comment exactly? I fail to see where I implied you can only use LEGOs to build game boards.
Take a closer look at that second link. You literally build your game board with LEGOs and then play a game with LEGO characters and LEGO dice.
I'm inclined to agree. The limitations of his style of software development are quite apparent. I think Minecraft is a great game with a concept behind it that hasn't been fully exploited yet, and I would agree that there are mods doing things the core game should be doing. Minecraft itself is a catalog of half-baked ideas. The core of the game--exploring, mining, crafting, and building--is very strong. Many of the other elements, however, feel half-finished.
I think Notch agrees with you - http://notch.tumblr.com/post/12551870085/inspiration-motivation-stress-and-abandonment