Comment Re:Not a very thorough evaluation (Score 1) 490
I machined an AR receiver from an aluminum casting using just a drill press.
I'm no machinist. Just a well informed hobbyist and amateur gunsmith.
LK
I machined an AR receiver from an aluminum casting using just a drill press.
I'm no machinist. Just a well informed hobbyist and amateur gunsmith.
LK
You need to read the article instead of just looking at the pictures.
He turned the shovel blade into the receiver.
It is an impressive build.
LK
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
If you happen to know, I noticed in the picture of the sheet of dies that there are a fair number of gaps. Are these failures in the die manufacturing process, or something else?
but you can suck a bag of dicks.
It's normal and natural for someone to feel frustrated when he or she has difficulty finding someone to date. It's normal to feel rejected when you get rejected. It's normal to resent being overlooked.
At one time or another, most if not all people have felt this way.
Because I have a male point of view, I'm going to add that it's normal for men to be frustrated and bewildered by the disconnect between what women say they want in a man and what kind of men they actually date.
Obviously, violence should never result from these feelings. This frustration should be motivation for self improvement.
The response should be more along the lines of "Oh, you're not interested? ok. Take care."
Me, I use the women who ignored me and the bitches who used me as motivation to treat the woman in my life even better.
My point is that being frustrated and angry are alright just so long as you don't cross the line and start hurting people.
LK
It looks like you are trying to move the ball down court.
Would you like to dribble it?
make a pass?
take a 3 point shot?
The 10% Ethanol fuels destroy the gaskets in the fuel pumps.
I have been going through gaskets every other year since I bought my house.
LK
tasty corn fattened bacon flavored apes.
every year seattlites eat all the blackberries they can pick. The only thing that cut that down was when people began spraying them. But you cold not possibly get more people eating them, and that didn't dent the population in 50 years. On the otherhand no thinks of them as invasive in the sense they were not natural to live there. the pacifc northwest is berry country. Just a thorny nuisance you have to keep cut back when it encroaches walkways not unlike choking vines on trees.
Descent was the first game that really blew my mind when it came to graphics and gameplay together. The difficulty curve was perfect, and the continued addition of new game elements made it stay fresh (and Descent II was even better at this than the first game).
It's also the reason I bought (or more acurrately, convinced my father to buy) a very nice joystick. There's a reason fighter pilots don't control their planes with WASD.
And who can forget the 3D wireframe maps which, towards the end of the game, got insanely complicated? I can't begin to guess how much time I spent trying to figure out just where the hell I was, where the hell I was trying to go, and how the hell to get there
Luckily precedent from the past shows that claim holds no water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
That's a fantastic point. Fixing your link: Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. In the same way that Game Genie didn't infringe on Nintendo's copyright, the court should rule that this game modification does not infringe on Blizzard's.
I like to think of it as a variation of Plato's Forms -- the copyrighted product "Starcraft II" exists only as what is on-disk -- a fixed collection of code, art, and everything else that makes up the game. However, once this "ideal" form of the product is loaded into the computer's memory, it becomes a separate and mutable thing. The game itself has become a different and derivative thing simply by executing it, and any number of things can cause that state to be changed. This one single participant of the "Starcraft II" form is ephemeral and isn't being distributed (redistribution being the one reason their suit might be reasonable).
Trust me, I hate people who cheat against others as much as anyone, but this is a much larger issue with far-reaching consequences. Restricting what someone can do with code running on their own computer is a slippery slope, and we have already had enough ignorant court rulings (such as Blizzard v. bnetd). There's also the question of single-player cheating -- should it be illegal for someone to mod their single-player game, to give themselves infinite health, for example?
Blizzard is attempting to rectify a relatively simple technical flaw through the court system, and that's just sad. I hope you're right, AC, that the Game Genie precedent will be upheld.
I just don't get that, though... surely you have something besides the TV - a bluray player that has Netflix apps on it, or a gaming machine. You don't need a dedicated computer for it. As others are mentioning, even if you just get a Roku or something, you can completely ignore the "smart" part of the TV. The only frustrating part is paying for extra features on your TV you won't use, but frankly, as devices like TVs become more software/firmware oriented anyway, they can just slap on the "apps" for little or no cost, just like for your smart phone or tablet... you're not really paying for it, since the TV is built to run it's own software for doing things like settings and channel set ups.
Some universal remotes can handle Roku... and besides, the trend is towards using your phone as a remote, you'll be able to get dynamically adjusted remote control. Even if that doesn't suit you, surely the violation of your privacy makes it worth the terrible "burden" of having a second remote?
When I was house shopping, my fiance asked me what me criteria were for choosing a house I told her "Location, Size, Price, Layout, Number of Bedrooms and Defensibility in the event of a Zombie Apocalypse."
Zombie outbreaks are a metaphor for civil unrest. Basically, anything that disrupts food delivery or utilities for a week will be the equivalent of a zombie apocalypse.
LK
Not until they do that for cash.
I hadn't really thought about that aspect of bitcoin before: no chargebacks. IN fact as a consume not a seller it seemed like the very reason I would not use it. It sounds too much like Western Union frauds. But in point of sale transactions where I know I have my goods, as opposed to remote transactions where I don't I can now suddenly see this as a killer advantage. On the other hand chargebacks are not that prolific for honest sellers. I've used two in my life and both for cheats.
On the other hand doesn't this actually put the merchant at more risk? I get my goods, hop in the car, and ten minutes later he finds out I gave him bad bit coins.
HOLY MACRO!