The IRA are not a religious organisation, nor do they have any religious affiliation. The convention of referring to nationalists as Catholics is a generalization, as is calling unionists "protestants". If you want to call the IRA religious you'd have to do the same of the UVF. What they both are is scum.
I bought one of these for a bit of fun and hacking...last week. I'm not joking, the thing has arrived in my country and I expect it to be delivered in the morning. I'm kinda laughing now about this, after all hardware is hardware.
I think it's loss in popularity has less to do with Ubuntu being what it is and more to do with how badly openSUSE fell apart in the 10.x releases. It went from being one of the most solid and user-friendly distros to failing its own dependency checks and making codecs more difficult to install. That was quite sad as it pioneered in taking the approach of providing codecs in the repos where they couldn't ship on the disc.
And what's "ultraviolent" exactly? It's these kind of weasel-words that make these surveys dishonest. A reasonable person would probably support an age limit on games at the extreme end of the violence scale but with this vague description you can be guaranteed that if any action will be taken it'll just be on "anything with violence". What looks like a semi-reasonable idea will become an over-reaching all-encompassing bad on anything violent for anyone under 18.
What we really need is for this to be firmly the responsibility of the parent as it should have been all along. I remember a few years ago queuing for GTA:San Andreas after driving all over the city to try and get a copy on the release date. There was a fairly slovenly looking woman in the queue in front of me who asked my friend and I "Is this violent?". I replied "This is an outstanding game a revolution in gaming. It is quite violent; it involves drug-dealing, prostitution, murder and any violent rampage you can imagine any time you want. Are you buying this for someone young?". She answered "Yeah, it's my son. He's nine years old. I have to get it for him because he'll drive me mad if I don't". Now this is precisely the half-assed parent who doesn't care until their child gets into trouble and then gets to blame the game for all of the troubles. Instead of banning games we should be trying to figure out a way to have parents actually do some parenting. My own mother didn't mind me watching violent films when I was about ten or eleven years old because I had good grades, stayed out of trouble and didn't try to re-enact everything I saw on the big screen. The result of good parenting if I may be so bold. How about effective or not we put the onus back to the parents to decide what's appropriate.
This I actually believe. Intel have been doing some cool stuff recently. It's in their own interests to do things like this, just remember Powertop for Linux.
Magnanimous and self-serving at the same time, or as I like to call it "Good Business".
That's a fairly romanticised version of events there. If you talk to anyone who fought in the Falklands you'll hear tales of how they used captured Argentinian FALs because the SLRs were jamming and butts were cracking. I don't doubt that squaddies would take one over an SA-80 because they have been so troublesome (and the old brigade tend not to like Bullpup rifles), but there's no doubting that it was a cheaper weapon. Now I learned to fire by single shot unless I was the squad scout (always automatic, buy some time but probably take the first round anyway); I wouldn't say the FAL was useless in full auto. It's wasteful for sure, but firing from a bipod or just using it for suppressive fire at short range it's a lifesaver.
That jab may have been a slight overstatement but in reality there were some pretty bad things said about the SLR and many revisions were made to correct issues that didn't exist on the original FAL.
The real problem is that you're given the impression you can hold a rifle still the way you can hold your mouse. I get where you're coming from but it's all part of a bigger problem. I'm not even talking extreme cases where real physics are lost, I'm just talking basics. Try holding a baseball bat in the aiming position after running a few laps, you'll see what I mean.
Oh come on, the FN FAL (SLR) is the only one in the game that DOESNT reload like that. He (you) take a new magazine and use it to knock the eject mechanism to remove the spent magazine. The FN FAL is the only rifle in the game that does this (despite the AK having a similar eject mechanism, making it possible.
I don't think we're talking about the same thing. There are two controls by the magazine port, the magazine eject and the bolt hold-open device. Hitting the magazine eject is irrelevant to what I am talking about, it is the hold-open device that you release after you change magazine. The breach-block has been held to the rear and the ejection port is now open to view the open magazine; release the HOD when you affix the new mag and it will charge the breach from the new magazine. Essentially to the onlooker this can be one fluid motion where the magazine is affixed and the rifle appears to automatically ready itself. The AK47 famously does not have a hold-open device, it is famous for the old "Dead Man's Click".
I don't think you understand the weight of sniper rifles, they're often barrel heavy or at least they feel that way when you are holding them in the last 15% of their overall length. The truth is that I've seen people fire Browning pistols at 10m - people who have significant firearms training - and they will have 20cm groupings. And that's trained personnel, granted maybe not the most expert but certainly more than your typical xbox gamer.
You have to consider that in real life often times the sights on a rifle are bigger than the target through perspective. Simply sticking a magnified scope onto a rifle doesn't magically make it better, even differences in the grain load of a round of ammunition pale in comparison to the effect of poor trigger-finger discipline. How you pull the trigger determines your accuracy hugely. And lets not forget that a wave of 2-3cm at the end of a rifle barrel at 5m from a target is more than the difference of a body's width. Yes you will miss your target if you are firing from the hip.
I like that this is being talked about. I was playing Modern Warfare 2 recently and ended up with an FN-FAL. This was great news as far as I was concerned as this is the rifle I first trained on during my own brief military stint. Of course come the last round being fired the character slowly changed magazine and recocked the rifle. Now this isn't some cheap British SLR, this is supposed to be an FN-FAL. Even cursory investigation would tell you that changing mags before empty requires no recocking and changing on an empty mag only requires a flick of the bolt-locking device to allow the breach to move forward; only a first load would require recocking.
On top of that the recoil was vastly understated and I can guarantee you that after putting two 7.62mm NATO rounds through someone they will not still be firing or running at you. I'll give you a laugh, the game that always impressed me in terms of rifle sound effects was Army Men on the first Playstation. I had to read a horrible review of the game from a UK magazine stating that the sound effects and shooting mechanics were unrealistic. I read that after returing from a weekend at a firing range and the only game I had ever seen capture a 7.62 or.303 sound to that point was Army Men. And they were just plastic soldiers! Here's some geek in an office who'd only ever played Doom and Duke3D telling a guy straight off the range what was realistic.
Next time a game promises more realism I expect more than just graphics and crazy Dirty Harrry style sound effects. Operation Flashpoint 2 got it right for the most part, firing a sniper rifle mid-air while running and jumping in CounterStrike is nonsense.
It's funny you ask that, we had a few days of sunshine here in Dublin when our airspace was closed and that was the first thing that was suggested. I mean, it's Ireland...sunshine is on backorder here.
It is well known locally on the Canary Islands that this happens. Almost all flights come in on Tuesdays and Saturdays if I remember correctly - they're almost all package deals and charters. By the afternoon on those two days the temperature drops several degrees celsius and you'll see clouds. I even saw a dribble of rain once.
I was a complete skeptic when I was told this as I arrived, but like clockwork on those days I always saw the same thing. The crazy thing is that any other day of the week around the summer you can expect mid-to-high thirties and rarely a cloud in the sky. So maybe not scientific, but anecdotal evidence anyway.
If you are paying line rental to Eircom still it is because you have at least in name retained their phone service. While it's an absolute joke that we have to do that I'd recommend moving your phone service to your new ISP. I am with Vodafone (formerly BT) and I get a pretty good deal.
Cable is not available everywhere in Ireland. UPC (formerlay NTL and/or Chorus) are the providers of cable broadband and TV in Ireland but they tend to stick to large urban areas like Dublin, Cork, Galway etc.
There are other smaller services such as Lastmile outside of the cities and Clearwire and IrishBroadband both supply wireless broadband - the problem being that all of these asshats seem to focus on the same areas and leaving rural and small-town Ireland with leftover scraps. ADSL is still one of the most widely available broadband services and again this may be indirectly through Eircom though without this three-strick nonsense.
Mobile broadband is taking off more and more here but costwise and in terms of cap it is not the most attractive service available.
It's grey and brown and sometimes lime
And it's spreadin' all over the land
And soon we'll be breathin' out of tanks
If somethin' ain't done about the squank
I have to agree. I got one almost two weeks ago. I had the choice of getting an iPhone 3GS for a similar price and I went with the Android instead. In terms of integration it just blows the iPhone away. Apple say "want to do X, there's an app for that" but on my Legend it's more like "there's an app, a widget displaying updates automatically and seamless integration between online platforms". Even things like HTC's Friendstream do for Social Networking what Pidgin/Empathy do for IM. I choose my words carefully here so please do not think I'm spreading hyperbole, but I think this is the best smartphone I've owned and it's all down to the integration.
This is the most important point. YouTube is still by far the leader in video online. It is now to video what Google is to search. If they switch to VP8 then it will be supported by browsers outside of Internet Explorer and in that case I'm sure Google can offer their own plugin for it. Once that's done all other content providers are free to implement it.
Yeah, in Europe SUVs are largely diesel powered because that type of vehicle has more demand for grunt than speed. With diesel engines putting out their power in the lower range and having far more torque they're the only ones that make sense. I'd much rather have a 3.0l turbodiesel than a 5l V8 running my SUV.
Even the Porsche Cayenne has become a running joke here, it's clear that whoever buys them doesn't know much about cars. Not even a Porsche fan would opt for one of those.
The sad thing is that every time I read something about improving efficiency or consumption in the American car market it just seems to misplaced. Read this:
They may also push slightly downsized and small cars, such as the Ford Fiesta.
I've been to America several times and there are a few things that prevent this happening. First of all the Fiesta is far too small for your average American consumeer. These cars sell massively here in Ireland but they just won't work in America because you'll hear all of the horror stories about how they're not safe because they're small. Realistically the average weight and size of your average American citizen is a lot more too.
The problem is that I saw the VW Golf (you call it Rabbit now) all over the place in San Francisco, LA and Vegas. That sounds great except I only saw them in two sizes: 1.8l and 2.5l engines. You look at that same car in Europe and they sell better at the 1.4-1.8l range. What's the point in going to a smaller car if the engine is still big? I can only imagine if the Fiesta was to be pushed it'd have a 1.6l engine anyway.
Much in the same way that I think the Hybrid market was mostly lip service I think this isn't enough either. If you need a powerful car get one, if you don't then just get an economical one. Even with hybrids, it'd have made just as much sense for your averager American to switch to a 1.5l car to begin with because all of the cars out there are already overpowered or desperately inefficient - they're all automatic for a start! Just imagine the savings if every American switched down 30% in their engine size, more if your average Joe forget about his oversized petrol powered SUV and drove a modest saloon.
Let me put this another way; I look forward to electric or decent hybrid cars at a minimum. In the meantime I drive a SEAT Leon which is a badge-engineered VW Golf. I drive the 1.9TDI variant and on one 55l tank of diesel I drive 900-1050Km (550-650 miles roughly). I know that's diesel rather than petrol but the point is efficiency and it puts out the same horsepower as a 1.6l engine which would get you a good 450 miles plus per tank.
Forget the massive forced changes which will be rejected by the public - just start by reducing engine displacement and increasing efficiency. And hey, would it kill you to write the engine size on the back of your car like we do in Europe...awareness is half the battle!
Almost all of the enterprise software we buy charges by the CPU and by the seat. For this purpose a CPU core is the same thing as seperately socketed CPU. Whatever about OS savings I think you'd save more in hardware and running costs than you would on software.
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I sure was a fan of that other system that used a KERNAL.
The IRA are not a religious organisation, nor do they have any religious affiliation. The convention of referring to nationalists as Catholics is a generalization, as is calling unionists "protestants". If you want to call the IRA religious you'd have to do the same of the UVF. What they both are is scum.
Did someone say ponies? OMG I love ponies!
OMG Ponies!
In the UK and Ireland you can get Sky TV over your XBox. They even have Pay per view for sports and films.
I bought one of these for a bit of fun and hacking...last week. I'm not joking, the thing has arrived in my country and I expect it to be delivered in the morning. I'm kinda laughing now about this, after all hardware is hardware.
I think it's loss in popularity has less to do with Ubuntu being what it is and more to do with how badly openSUSE fell apart in the 10.x releases. It went from being one of the most solid and user-friendly distros to failing its own dependency checks and making codecs more difficult to install. That was quite sad as it pioneered in taking the approach of providing codecs in the repos where they couldn't ship on the disc.
And what's "ultraviolent" exactly? It's these kind of weasel-words that make these surveys dishonest. A reasonable person would probably support an age limit on games at the extreme end of the violence scale but with this vague description you can be guaranteed that if any action will be taken it'll just be on "anything with violence". What looks like a semi-reasonable idea will become an over-reaching all-encompassing bad on anything violent for anyone under 18.
What we really need is for this to be firmly the responsibility of the parent as it should have been all along. I remember a few years ago queuing for GTA:San Andreas after driving all over the city to try and get a copy on the release date. There was a fairly slovenly looking woman in the queue in front of me who asked my friend and I "Is this violent?". I replied "This is an outstanding game a revolution in gaming. It is quite violent; it involves drug-dealing, prostitution, murder and any violent rampage you can imagine any time you want. Are you buying this for someone young?". She answered "Yeah, it's my son. He's nine years old. I have to get it for him because he'll drive me mad if I don't". Now this is precisely the half-assed parent who doesn't care until their child gets into trouble and then gets to blame the game for all of the troubles. Instead of banning games we should be trying to figure out a way to have parents actually do some parenting. My own mother didn't mind me watching violent films when I was about ten or eleven years old because I had good grades, stayed out of trouble and didn't try to re-enact everything I saw on the big screen. The result of good parenting if I may be so bold. How about effective or not we put the onus back to the parents to decide what's appropriate.
This I actually believe. Intel have been doing some cool stuff recently. It's in their own interests to do things like this, just remember Powertop for Linux.
Magnanimous and self-serving at the same time, or as I like to call it "Good Business".
That's a fairly romanticised version of events there. If you talk to anyone who fought in the Falklands you'll hear tales of how they used captured Argentinian FALs because the SLRs were jamming and butts were cracking. I don't doubt that squaddies would take one over an SA-80 because they have been so troublesome (and the old brigade tend not to like Bullpup rifles), but there's no doubting that it was a cheaper weapon. Now I learned to fire by single shot unless I was the squad scout (always automatic, buy some time but probably take the first round anyway); I wouldn't say the FAL was useless in full auto. It's wasteful for sure, but firing from a bipod or just using it for suppressive fire at short range it's a lifesaver.
That jab may have been a slight overstatement but in reality there were some pretty bad things said about the SLR and many revisions were made to correct issues that didn't exist on the original FAL.
The real problem is that you're given the impression you can hold a rifle still the way you can hold your mouse. I get where you're coming from but it's all part of a bigger problem. I'm not even talking extreme cases where real physics are lost, I'm just talking basics. Try holding a baseball bat in the aiming position after running a few laps, you'll see what I mean.
Oh come on, the FN FAL (SLR) is the only one in the game that DOESNT reload like that. He (you) take a new magazine and use it to knock the eject mechanism to remove the spent magazine. The FN FAL is the only rifle in the game that does this (despite the AK having a similar eject mechanism, making it possible.
I don't think we're talking about the same thing. There are two controls by the magazine port, the magazine eject and the bolt hold-open device. Hitting the magazine eject is irrelevant to what I am talking about, it is the hold-open device that you release after you change magazine. The breach-block has been held to the rear and the ejection port is now open to view the open magazine; release the HOD when you affix the new mag and it will charge the breach from the new magazine. Essentially to the onlooker this can be one fluid motion where the magazine is affixed and the rifle appears to automatically ready itself. The AK47 famously does not have a hold-open device, it is famous for the old "Dead Man's Click".
I don't think you understand the weight of sniper rifles, they're often barrel heavy or at least they feel that way when you are holding them in the last 15% of their overall length. The truth is that I've seen people fire Browning pistols at 10m - people who have significant firearms training - and they will have 20cm groupings. And that's trained personnel, granted maybe not the most expert but certainly more than your typical xbox gamer.
You have to consider that in real life often times the sights on a rifle are bigger than the target through perspective. Simply sticking a magnified scope onto a rifle doesn't magically make it better, even differences in the grain load of a round of ammunition pale in comparison to the effect of poor trigger-finger discipline. How you pull the trigger determines your accuracy hugely. And lets not forget that a wave of 2-3cm at the end of a rifle barrel at 5m from a target is more than the difference of a body's width. Yes you will miss your target if you are firing from the hip.
I like that this is being talked about. I was playing Modern Warfare 2 recently and ended up with an FN-FAL. This was great news as far as I was concerned as this is the rifle I first trained on during my own brief military stint. Of course come the last round being fired the character slowly changed magazine and recocked the rifle. Now this isn't some cheap British SLR, this is supposed to be an FN-FAL. Even cursory investigation would tell you that changing mags before empty requires no recocking and changing on an empty mag only requires a flick of the bolt-locking device to allow the breach to move forward; only a first load would require recocking.
.303 sound to that point was Army Men. And they were just plastic soldiers! Here's some geek in an office who'd only ever played Doom and Duke3D telling a guy straight off the range what was realistic.
On top of that the recoil was vastly understated and I can guarantee you that after putting two 7.62mm NATO rounds through someone they will not still be firing or running at you. I'll give you a laugh, the game that always impressed me in terms of rifle sound effects was Army Men on the first Playstation. I had to read a horrible review of the game from a UK magazine stating that the sound effects and shooting mechanics were unrealistic. I read that after returing from a weekend at a firing range and the only game I had ever seen capture a 7.62 or
Next time a game promises more realism I expect more than just graphics and crazy Dirty Harrry style sound effects. Operation Flashpoint 2 got it right for the most part, firing a sniper rifle mid-air while running and jumping in CounterStrike is nonsense.
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It's funny you ask that, we had a few days of sunshine here in Dublin when our airspace was closed and that was the first thing that was suggested. I mean, it's Ireland...sunshine is on backorder here.
It is well known locally on the Canary Islands that this happens. Almost all flights come in on Tuesdays and Saturdays if I remember correctly - they're almost all package deals and charters. By the afternoon on those two days the temperature drops several degrees celsius and you'll see clouds. I even saw a dribble of rain once.
I was a complete skeptic when I was told this as I arrived, but like clockwork on those days I always saw the same thing. The crazy thing is that any other day of the week around the summer you can expect mid-to-high thirties and rarely a cloud in the sky. So maybe not scientific, but anecdotal evidence anyway.
If you are paying line rental to Eircom still it is because you have at least in name retained their phone service. While it's an absolute joke that we have to do that I'd recommend moving your phone service to your new ISP. I am with Vodafone (formerly BT) and I get a pretty good deal.
Cable is not available everywhere in Ireland. UPC (formerlay NTL and/or Chorus) are the providers of cable broadband and TV in Ireland but they tend to stick to large urban areas like Dublin, Cork, Galway etc.
There are other smaller services such as Lastmile outside of the cities and Clearwire and IrishBroadband both supply wireless broadband - the problem being that all of these asshats seem to focus on the same areas and leaving rural and small-town Ireland with leftover scraps. ADSL is still one of the most widely available broadband services and again this may be indirectly through Eircom though without this three-strick nonsense.
Mobile broadband is taking off more and more here but costwise and in terms of cap it is not the most attractive service available.
It's grey and brown and sometimes lime
And it's spreadin' all over the land
And soon we'll be breathin' out of tanks
If somethin' ain't done about the squank
Just ask Billy Gibbons about the Squank.
I have to agree. I got one almost two weeks ago. I had the choice of getting an iPhone 3GS for a similar price and I went with the Android instead. In terms of integration it just blows the iPhone away. Apple say "want to do X, there's an app for that" but on my Legend it's more like "there's an app, a widget displaying updates automatically and seamless integration between online platforms". Even things like HTC's Friendstream do for Social Networking what Pidgin/Empathy do for IM. I choose my words carefully here so please do not think I'm spreading hyperbole, but I think this is the best smartphone I've owned and it's all down to the integration.
This is the most important point. YouTube is still by far the leader in video online. It is now to video what Google is to search. If they switch to VP8 then it will be supported by browsers outside of Internet Explorer and in that case I'm sure Google can offer their own plugin for it. Once that's done all other content providers are free to implement it.
Yeah, if you my other comment I'm driving a 1.9TDI and I'm getting 60mpg+.
Yeah, in Europe SUVs are largely diesel powered because that type of vehicle has more demand for grunt than speed. With diesel engines putting out their power in the lower range and having far more torque they're the only ones that make sense. I'd much rather have a 3.0l turbodiesel than a 5l V8 running my SUV.
Even the Porsche Cayenne has become a running joke here, it's clear that whoever buys them doesn't know much about cars. Not even a Porsche fan would opt for one of those.
They may also push slightly downsized and small cars, such as the Ford Fiesta.
I've been to America several times and there are a few things that prevent this happening. First of all the Fiesta is far too small for your average American consumeer. These cars sell massively here in Ireland but they just won't work in America because you'll hear all of the horror stories about how they're not safe because they're small. Realistically the average weight and size of your average American citizen is a lot more too.
The problem is that I saw the VW Golf (you call it Rabbit now) all over the place in San Francisco, LA and Vegas. That sounds great except I only saw them in two sizes: 1.8l and 2.5l engines. You look at that same car in Europe and they sell better at the 1.4-1.8l range. What's the point in going to a smaller car if the engine is still big? I can only imagine if the Fiesta was to be pushed it'd have a 1.6l engine anyway.
Much in the same way that I think the Hybrid market was mostly lip service I think this isn't enough either. If you need a powerful car get one, if you don't then just get an economical one. Even with hybrids, it'd have made just as much sense for your averager American to switch to a 1.5l car to begin with because all of the cars out there are already overpowered or desperately inefficient - they're all automatic for a start! Just imagine the savings if every American switched down 30% in their engine size, more if your average Joe forget about his oversized petrol powered SUV and drove a modest saloon.
Let me put this another way; I look forward to electric or decent hybrid cars at a minimum. In the meantime I drive a SEAT Leon which is a badge-engineered VW Golf. I drive the 1.9TDI variant and on one 55l tank of diesel I drive 900-1050Km (550-650 miles roughly). I know that's diesel rather than petrol but the point is efficiency and it puts out the same horsepower as a 1.6l engine which would get you a good 450 miles plus per tank.
Forget the massive forced changes which will be rejected by the public - just start by reducing engine displacement and increasing efficiency. And hey, would it kill you to write the engine size on the back of your car like we do in Europe...awareness is half the battle!
Almost all of the enterprise software we buy charges by the CPU and by the seat. For this purpose a CPU core is the same thing as seperately socketed CPU. Whatever about OS savings I think you'd save more in hardware and running costs than you would on software.