Ah, my mistake. I had just been doing some reading on the Ares V and had it stuck in my head.
But the Ares I still has the same payload capacity as the shuttle at about 40% of the weight, so even with the "kludge" it's a huge improvement over what we're using now.
You know, the motors and controls could be *in* the canisters.
And considering the Ares V is such an improvement over older designs, a bit of dead weight is more than made up for by the overall efficiency of the vehicle.
The Ares V weighs 10% more than the Saturn V, but it carries 60% more payload. The Ares V weighs 50% more than the Space Shuttle, but it carries 700% more payload.
I doubt anyone will bemoan the loss of a tenth of a percent of the Ares V's ~200 ton payload capacity.
Depends on the dog. Mine doesn't mind seeing his own reflection in the mirror, and if I try to sneak up on him (while he's watching my reflection) he knows exactly where I'm at.
Still, it doesn't surprise me that domesticated animals aren't generally the brightest bulbs.
Here on 10.5.4/Safari 3.1.2, closing the browser window/tab or simply navigating to another page fixes it.
Still, it's disturbing that a web site can copy data to the clipboard without permission. Browser makers need to make plugin content opt-in (a la flashblock), or at least run plugins in a very limited sandbox until the user requests otherwise.
It's a nice idea, but any attacker with half a brain would pull the drive and work on the data using a trusted computer and trusted software, with all those pesky "self destruct" routines disabled.
Duress passwords and self-destructing volumes can work, but only if the mechanism is inseparable from the data like in the IronKey.
No, SD cards don't count because the Wii doesn't read SD cards bigger than 2 GB.
Really? My non-SDHC 4GB card works fine.
And the Wii has wifi and USB built in, so there's no reason Nintendo couldn't add a mass storage driver or a SMB client if storage space becomes an issue on their console.
(Consider the -X ending, implying DirectX, rather than something like PhysicsGL, or PhysL, implying OpenGL -- you know, the actually portable industry standard for graphics.)
...Or maybe PhysX just sounds a hell of a lot better than PhysL?
PhysX is actually not connected to DirectX at all; the PhysX SDK is even available for the Playstation 3 and Linux.
...is the faster switching speed. Considering this prototype has a ~1ms switching time, and LED backlights are already popular, it may be feasible to create, in effect, a flat panel DLP display by rapidly cycling the backlight color.
Current flat panel displays have three sub-pixels in every pixel. One only allows red light, one blue, and one green. It's very inefficient: You need three LCD elements to display each pixel, and two-thirds of the backlight is blocked outright by the color filters.
With a color-cycling display, every element displays every color in turn, so (all else being equal) you triple the resolution *and* the efficiency.
The only downside is a possible rainbow effect if the display does not cycle colors quickly enough.
I keep turning this over in my head, and keep coming back to the same scenario:
Steve Ballmer, in the Throne Room of his secret volcano lair:You begin to understand the true nature of my diabolic plan: If we cannot make Windows better, we will make Linux WORSE!
Anonymous Intel lackeys:Yes, master!
Steve Ballmer:Now go! Take these Fedora DVDs and install them on every Linux computer you find! Soon the foolish rebels will be BEGGING for Vista!
Steve Ballmer rips a bolted-down chair from the floor and holds it above his head, cackling devilishly, while his lieutenants and lackeys scramble for the exits.
== (...with apologies to all three happy Fedora users...)
Though the electric assist and regenerative braking mitigates bad driving to some degree, I won't deny that most (American) Prius owners are trying more to be trendy than efficient.
There's also this new one, which is basically the same size as the DelFly Micro, can hover, and has double the flight time. It doesn't have a camera, though, but considering TFA claims the Micro's camera only weighs 0.5 grams it would be easy to add one.
suddenoutbreakofcommonsense, but holyfreakingshit conveys my feelings better.
I haven't finished reading TFA yet, but this seems huge if it pans out — not only would software patents be invalidated, but essentially all "business process" patents would get tossed out as well.
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Ah, my mistake. I had just been doing some reading on the Ares V and had it stuck in my head.
But the Ares I still has the same payload capacity as the shuttle at about 40% of the weight, so even with the "kludge" it's a huge improvement over what we're using now.
You know, the motors and controls could be *in* the canisters.
And considering the Ares V is such an improvement over older designs, a bit of dead weight is more than made up for by the overall efficiency of the vehicle.
The Ares V weighs 10% more than the Saturn V, but it carries 60% more payload. The Ares V weighs 50% more than the Space Shuttle, but it carries 700% more payload.
I doubt anyone will bemoan the loss of a tenth of a percent of the Ares V's ~200 ton payload capacity.
Depends on the dog. Mine doesn't mind seeing his own reflection in the mirror, and if I try to sneak up on him (while he's watching my reflection) he knows exactly where I'm at.
Still, it doesn't surprise me that domesticated animals aren't generally the brightest bulbs.
Just about anything can be a "weight". It's in their best interests to make the weights serve (another) function.
Also, the weights are almost all at the bottom of the rocket, so they should only affect the first stage.
Here on 10.5.4/Safari 3.1.2, closing the browser window/tab or simply navigating to another page fixes it.
Still, it's disturbing that a web site can copy data to the clipboard without permission. Browser makers need to make plugin content opt-in (a la flashblock), or at least run plugins in a very limited sandbox until the user requests otherwise.
It's a nice idea, but any attacker with half a brain would pull the drive and work on the data using a trusted computer and trusted software, with all those pesky "self destruct" routines disabled.
Duress passwords and self-destructing volumes can work, but only if the mechanism is inseparable from the data like in the IronKey.
No, SD cards don't count because the Wii doesn't read SD cards bigger than 2 GB.
Really? My non-SDHC 4GB card works fine.
And the Wii has wifi and USB built in, so there's no reason Nintendo couldn't add a mass storage driver or a SMB client if storage space becomes an issue on their console.
Yes, well, giant fighting robots need enterprise-grade hardware too.
Linked. But only because you're lazy.
http://xkcd.com/149/
Actually, we already had Star Fox.
(Consider the -X ending, implying DirectX, rather than something like PhysicsGL, or PhysL, implying OpenGL -- you know, the actually portable industry standard for graphics.)
...Or maybe PhysX just sounds a hell of a lot better than PhysL?
PhysX is actually not connected to DirectX at all; the PhysX SDK is even available for the Playstation 3 and Linux.
That's an interesting combination of post and sig.
True, but I can't say a holiday from thermodynamics would be any more enjoyable.
I also propose a 90-day gravity holiday, during which time I will get rich selling flying cars.
VOIP is peer-to-peer. A server is only used for matchmaking, and bandwidth is minimal.
Besides, OSS != guy in basement. Mozilla, Canonical and Red Hat somehow manage to pay for a few servers and a bit of bandwidth.
...is the faster switching speed. Considering this prototype has a ~1ms switching time, and LED backlights are already popular, it may be feasible to create, in effect, a flat panel DLP display by rapidly cycling the backlight color.
Current flat panel displays have three sub-pixels in every pixel. One only allows red light, one blue, and one green. It's very inefficient: You need three LCD elements to display each pixel, and two-thirds of the backlight is blocked outright by the color filters.
With a color-cycling display, every element displays every color in turn, so (all else being equal) you triple the resolution *and* the efficiency.
The only downside is a possible rainbow effect if the display does not cycle colors quickly enough.
That would be the Scion xB, which is made by Toyota.
It's a great car for environmentally-conscious geeks looking to reduce their polygon footprint.
What? They are now open sourcing Steve Jobs and then making him go BOOM!?!?!?!?
No, he does that all on his own.
I keep turning this over in my head, and keep coming back to the same scenario:
Steve Ballmer, in the Throne Room of his secret volcano lair: You begin to understand the true nature of my diabolic plan: If we cannot make Windows better, we will make Linux WORSE!
Anonymous Intel lackeys: Yes, master!
Steve Ballmer: Now go! Take these Fedora DVDs and install them on every Linux computer you find! Soon the foolish rebels will be BEGGING for Vista!
Steve Ballmer rips a bolted-down chair from the floor and holds it above his head, cackling devilishly, while his lieutenants and lackeys scramble for the exits.
==
(...with apologies to all three happy Fedora users...)
Though the electric assist and regenerative braking mitigates bad driving to some degree, I won't deny that most (American) Prius owners are trying more to be trendy than efficient.
Yes, it needs to look like a Hummer H1. And still have a 0.11 drag coefficient.
Seriously, what's wrong with form-follows-function? The Prius was considered ugly when it was first released; now it's the sexy, trendy car to own.
...is for companies to employ a "physical object" provision in their patent filings. Google's PageRank patent, for example, may change from:
"A computer implemented method of scoring a plurality of linked documents"
to:
"A computer implemented method of scoring a plurality of linked documents with possible applications as a shower curtain"
There's also this new one, which is basically the same size as the DelFly Micro, can hover, and has double the flight time. It doesn't have a camera, though, but considering TFA claims the Micro's camera only weighs 0.5 grams it would be easy to add one.
suddenoutbreakofcommonsense, but holyfreakingshit conveys my feelings better.
I haven't finished reading TFA yet, but this seems huge if it pans out — not only would software patents be invalidated, but essentially all "business process" patents would get tossed out as well.