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That depends, how often do you want to know what your altitude is if you're falling ~200ft/sec and it updates once a second, it'll jump in 200ft increments. I think these are designed for hiking more than anything else. be sure not to try and use one of these while skydiving "Gee, we don't seem to be falling very fast... in fact, I think we're going up very slowly!"
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haha, I just pictured you getting out and leading everyone straight for the center of the lake
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This bit of terminology came up in an RSL thread in refernce to spinning malfunctions. It's really more of a semantic clarification on the physics than real news. If you get into a spin under canopy you'll notice yourself staring to feel very heavy in your harness. The reason for this is because objects like travelling in straight lines. To get them to travel in a circle, you have to constantly pull them towards the middle of the circle, and this is what your canopy is doing, pulling you toward the center of your spin. This is called a "centripetal" force (I attatched a little simplified drawing) When you cutaway you'll fly off in the direction of the little velocity arrow. What you won't do is fly away from the center of the circle as is suggested by saying there is some "cetrifugal" force.
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Well then maybe you could use the practice... Tracking dives are fun, do it. Plus they last a lot longer than freefly jumps
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small pet peeve of mine... when spinning you are experiencing a cetripetal force, or one directed towards the central axis. According to this Pull Force Chart riser housings (metal with caps, and secured in the riser properly) should keep pull forces reasonable up til the point where you'd black out anyway and it wouldn't matter.
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Relative Workshop's Skyhook Page You can read up on it there. I was particularly impressed with the demonstration video.
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TAKE 2: For all you geeks, dweebs, speds, and freaks
champu replied to jeremyneas's topic in The Bonfire
hey Tomas, how are things? you'll appreciate this: Someone beating SMB3 in 11 minutes -
TAKE 2: For all you geeks, dweebs, speds, and freaks
champu replied to jeremyneas's topic in The Bonfire
Master of Orion /edit to add: crap, 1994... close enough though /edit to add: here's the kinda proof of concept in a free playable version, I'm going to pick it up... Star Lords -
Well aren't you just a regular forensic scientist... I actually noted the "dsc 15" in the filename as familiar (I have a sony camera as well) but didn't put 2 and 2 together. and btw, what is it about new digital cameras and taking self-portraits at arms length?
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They must get a bonus for "irritable spam-hating customers." There's really no excuse to put up with pop-ups anymore, there's plenty of software to block this in an all but fool-proof fashion. I just browse using Mozilla. For spam I use a fun method that prolly doesn't work for everyone. Since I have all the addresses under my namespace, I create aliases for every site I enter an address for (amazon@, paypal@, sprint@, etc) and point them to an address I never use anywhere. I get very little spam, but when I do I can see what bastards sold my address, or where it got harvested from. I delete that alias and don't put a real address there anymore.
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haha, freefall laser-tag, you get hit, your main deploys. Last person in freefall, um, wins?
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I'd watch.* /edit to add: Have you ever seen the movie Battle Royal? it's a Japanese film about a bunch of junior high kids put on an island and made to fight to the death, it's hilarious in a horrible kind of way.
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I just meant rinse off any signifigant chunks of food into garbage disposal.
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see this is a prime example of one of those give a man a fish/teach a man to fish kinda situations. Acronym Finder
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see I ask the same question about a clean empty sink. some people see a clean empty sink and think, "hey this looks nice! If I rinse my dish when I'm done with it and put it in the dishwasher, it will still look nice!" other people see a clean empty sink and think, "hey look at all this room for me to pile disgusting shit!"
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Zero-Tolerance policies, by definition, ban the use of common-sense. The only people the rule can effect that a more applicable, well thought out rule wouldn't are people that haven't actually done anything wrong. That said... If I went to a public school wearing a shirt with a man crouched on a rooftop holding a sniper rifle and the caption "I love a parade." and a teacher told me to turn it inside out, I probably wouldn't argue -too- much. On the other hand if I was wearing a t-shirt that said "Browning Sporting Clays: What You're Hunting For" and I got flak about it, I'd probably have a little longer discussion with them.
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I hope that's a perl regexp While it's the start of a great soliloquy. It doesn't make for a particularly useful regular expression. I always did like Hamlet though...
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I've been on loads where people get their bare feet stepped on during climbout - ouch I say picture the most unpleasant landing area in the general vicinity of your dropzone, and then picture yourself running barefoot through it...
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yeah, I recall seeing an ad for these, essentially it's a big bag you put shirts in and then you close it and put it on the floor and roll on it like an air-locked canopy. it's not quite vacuum packed but it looks to be smaller and you don't need anything special to pack it back up again.
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now, I can't help but point this out. I'm not superstitious but it is a kinda funny footnote to this. Carrie and Brad were discussing the off landings they've endured and how annoying it was to get back, and Marc said, "I haven't landed off here yet." I said, "yeah I haven't either, but we better knock on wood." I banged on the bench and he just kinda chuckled. ...as luck would have it...
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On any forum there exist what are sometimes referred to as "Holy Wars". These debates are perennial and tend, rather quickly, to become rote. You have just stumbled upon one such of the afore-mentioned. A search for RSL advantages/disadvantages should keep you in reading material for quite some time.
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Gary, I stowed my excess brake line through the top of the riser because an experienced individual at our dropzone (who shall remain nameless) showed me that way to do it. Although I never really read a good explaination as to how this would cause problems with a setup that didn't involve slinks, the bulletin from PD really got me pursuing other methods. This morning I mentioned I had been stowing it through the riser and I got a chorus of "yeah, don't do it that way." Very helpful considering it came -after- I'd been jumping my rig that way for months, chanced to read about a problem with that method on the internet, and had already decided to do something about it. As a suggestion for the future, if an issue like this arises, you and Jason (the DZO for you 3rd party readers) should try and reach a consensus on the matter and make a nice loud statement about your concern. While it may fall upon the deaf ears of a handful of people, I know at least one person who would appreciate it.
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I'm graduating in May and I'm going to be moving either to Ft Lauderdale or (fingers crossed) Redondo Beach. Either way I'm dreding the trip back to Chicago to go through all my junk that's sitting in closets and boxes back at my parent's house... ...I do have a winter break coming up where I'll be at home and should have some time to get a start on that. But, let's be honest with ourselves, I'm not going to get anything done.
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yeah definitely a little ground rush, especially at that speed.. holy crap
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I think they're probably a little more professional than that... To promote the hsr thread hijacking... teen girl squad is one of the funniest things I've ever seen