I was at the Home Depot today and saw you can buy a device which emits TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY WATTS of ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION! Oooga boooga! The radiation is gonna git ya!

Link to the monstrosity in question: Home Depot Death Ray

To "fix" that they would need to do something like model the inertia of the weapon, that is your crosshairs would not be locked to the center of your screen. If you use crazy high mouse sensitivity to whip 180 degrees in a tenth of a second the crosshairs should lag way behind that and then continue moving past center after you stop. It's the difference in pointing a 2 ounce laser pointer versus a 15 pound rifle.

I took prices right off Newegg, imaginary magical sales were not taken into account.

$200 is a bargain for a midrange gaming video card. Computer part price vs performance is a hockey stick, it always has been. You pay 80% of the price for the last 20% of performance. But for some people that last 20% is worth paying for.

Right now you can get a GeForce 240 512MB card for $98.00 with a 3DMark Vantage score of 6130 or a Radeon 5670 that scores 6223 for $99.99. This GTX 460 gets a 3DMark Vantage score of 14700. So on a price per performance measure, yes, it is a bargain.

Legitimate? Intelligent? USEFUL? Blizzard forums? That's a good one!

All snarking aside - this is a case of Verizon forgetting who they work for. They work for the Shareholders - NOT the Customers. They have to keep "what is best for Shareholders" in mind when dealing with money.

All hail our gigantic corporate overlords.

A while back I ended up having to make a graph of MPG and gallons of fuel consumed assuming a fixed number of miles driven to illustrate this to people who didn't get it.

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My guess is the cloned version of Kim Jong is in the works. They'll use this drink to explain how he suddenly went from old and feeble to an 18 year old overnight.

For sailors: By using a propeller rather than a sail, the "sail" this boat is using is simulating a continuous optimal downwind tack (the propeller blades are at a tack angle to the wind)

Thank you. That made the entire concept ring like a giant bell in my head. So they're using the propeller angle to "fake" like an ideally tacking sail on a ship traveling perpendicular to the wind (since the blade is perpendicular to the wind, unlike a sail).

When the wind stops, so does the car?

So, black smoke monster; What was it?

The physical manifestation of the writer's lack of talent?

Erm, 12,000 feet is pretty damn deep water.

The REAL difference is you can fit 400,000 tons of explosive equivalent in a 2' by 1' package using nuclear fusion. The raw material cost is probably an order of magnitude cheaper as well. But I still think exploding nukes at a leaking oil well is still a retarded idea 50 miles off the Gulf coast.

Depends on the bomb. The small (10-12"-ish diameter) tactical "physics packages" were in the 250-500 kiloton range for max yield. Some even had a 'dial-a-yield' function where the warhead could be de-tuned in the field to lower the explosion size to fit the need at the time.

Once the MIRV concept in ICBMs and air launched cruise missiles in manned bombers were fielded the big honking single many-megaton warheads went away in favor of many independently targetable 400-500 kiloton warheads. The largest warhead ever fielded by the U.S. was the Mk-41 free-fall bomb with a 25 MT yield. It was huge, it weighed 10,000 pounds and had something like a 4 foot diameter.

I was waiting for that gem to get busted out. "Wind turbines as evil laser guided bird murderers" is my absolute favorite tree hugger argument against them. Domestic cats kill tens of millions to HUNDREDS of millions of birds per year, including the young of migratory species like ducks and geese. The University of Wisconsin did a predation study in the '90s where they found housecats killed at least 8 million birds per year in Wisconsin alone. A few dead birds per year per turbine is a joke compared to that.