Yes that's just what we need, targeted advertising based on the book you're reading; mid-way through reading Lady Chatterley's Lover and you're suddenly presented with a pop-ups advertising viagra & penis enlargement pills...
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The major difference between DNF & fuel cells is that the cells exist and are being used, even if in prototype form:
I saw the green bike pictured here at an electric bike event in Wales last year but more people were interested in the normal battery bikes because they could buy one there and then if they wanted (and some did).
I would love an electric bike that could do up to 100km on a single charge/refill but the (un)availability & price right doen't make it feasable. Hopefully when I've run my current electric bike into the ground I'll be able to get a full-cell powered bike. So far I've had my ebike 2 years, ridden daily & it's still going strong after the usual bike parts needed servicing/replacing, controller/motor are still going strong but I've pretty much given the year old lithium battery a hammering & it'll need to be replaced before the year is out.
If my name was Julie Moult I'd be looking to legally change it sharpish. Thankfully my name is pretty unique in that if you type my full name in speechmarks into a google search you won't get any web/forum/usenet posts by anyone else, but on the flip side it makes it easy to find what I've posted (if you know my real name that is)
I had a couple of IBM model M's till I sold em last year (got a pretty penny on eBay), would have kept them except they don't have Windows keys which I use fairly extensively.
Anyway I really like the keyboards on my Eee's as you don't have to move your fingers very far or have to press them down as hard as fullsize keyboards, even with my large hands I can touchtype on the Eee's.
One of the first things I do whenever I have to install Windows is turn off the AutoRun, because there's nothing more annoying than putting a CD/DVD/USB flash/USB harddrive in a machine and either having some software automatically run (when most of the time you don't want it to run) or a window popping up saying "oooh, you've got lots of pictures/videos/music on this device, let me play them all for you pleeeeeeeeeese"
So back to my post title, if a Skynet equivilant does decide it wants to rule us, it will have been able to gain the necessary power over us through the human race's apathy towards hands-on involvement of computers - having everything automated is not a wise choice, as the Conficker worm is so aptly demonstrating.
If you want to make a special card which lights up, I saw this great little project close to christmas and so I made 9 cards, but instead of watch batteries that would die after a week or so I wired in resistors & USB plugs (strangely the only place I can find solderable USB plugs online/offline is from Maplins!), all the recipients loved them and most wondered how the blinking flip they were lit up.
Edge lit holiday cards (the snowflake one looks much better with a black background & two blue LEDs, one at the top & other at the bottom)
Next christmas I'm going to have to make something even better - anyone have any simple circuit designs on using an LED as a light sensor and then making some more LEDs react by blinking?
So long as individuals & companies that design the camera systems get a percentage of the fines there will always be an incentive for them to rig the system by fair means or foul.
Ah well, nothing new in the world of business & politics then.
There will be a great disturbance in the US, as if millions of pocket tvs will cry out in white noise terror and suddenly be put away in a drawer never to be used again.
Back when Demon Internet had two Center Of World servers (COWs) they called one ermin-servers.router.demon.net and the other trude-servers.router.demon.net.
See this old usenet posting from way back in 1996.
Something tells me they'll try and figure out a way to tell the wealth of the viewer by what they're wearing, sofor example anyone who looks poor will get loan adverts whilst anyone who looks rich will get expensive car/house/holiday adverts.
I've found that filing down the sides of LEDs don't affect dramatically affect the amount of light thrown forward, in the case of using them for bike lighting a bit more light thrown sideways is a good thing.
If you can point me towards some 2mm LEDs with built-in collinators that are as bright as 3mm ones then those would be ideal. All 2mm ones I can find are flat-top and most are phyically wider than 2mm at the base or they're 2mm x 5mm in size.
The 60 LED array I put together does get a little warm but it hasn't been much of a problem because they're only turned on at night when it's naturally cooler than the day and only on for long periods when I'm moving along so the air flowing over it will help keep it cool.
I regularly solder SMD components including LEDs but the reason I like the 3mm LEDs is the beamspread they give, most cheap 5mm LEDs produce a spotlight effect where if an object isn't in the ~15-25 degree beam it can't be seen that well, whereas cheap 3mm LEDs have a nice smooth drop-off gradient which is ideal for night cycling as the path/unlit road in the distance is illuminated just as much as it is near you.
I made my own front light for my bike by embedding 60 3mm LEDs into a standard Cateye reflector, it works well & is nicely bright but I always have this want for more brightness, but not at the expense of increasing the physical size of the light by using Cree's or Luxeons whigh require a collinator to direct the light.
So does anyone have any ideas how I can easily file down a couple of hundred 3mm LEDs so they're identically rectangle or square to pack them tightly together?
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A much more simple & easier idea to 'watermark' a film would be to remove a single frame during a fast action sequence.
5 seconds of fast action would potentially give you the ability to distribute 120 different 'watermarked' versions of the film.
[red dots]...which are probably very easily removable with a good video editing package.
Now which theater did that camcorder copy come from?
That's because DC doesn't travel very well along long wires.
But grid-tie won't help at all when the grid goes down.
Yes that's just what we need, targeted advertising based on the book you're reading; mid-way through reading Lady Chatterley's Lover and you're suddenly presented with a pop-ups advertising viagra & penis enlargement pills...
You can name your kid anything you want...
The major difference between DNF & fuel cells is that the cells exist and are being used, even if in prototype form:
I saw the green bike pictured here at an electric bike event in Wales last year but more people were interested in the normal battery bikes because they could buy one there and then if they wanted (and some did).
I would love an electric bike that could do up to 100km on a single charge/refill but the (un)availability & price right doen't make it feasable. Hopefully when I've run my current electric bike into the ground I'll be able to get a full-cell powered bike. So far I've had my ebike 2 years, ridden daily & it's still going strong after the usual bike parts needed servicing/replacing, controller/motor are still going strong but I've pretty much given the year old lithium battery a hammering & it'll need to be replaced before the year is out.
Q: How many Vietnam vets does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: You don't know because you weren't there man!
If my name was Julie Moult I'd be looking to legally change it sharpish. Thankfully my name is pretty unique in that if you type my full name in speechmarks into a google search you won't get any web/forum/usenet posts by anyone else, but on the flip side it makes it easy to find what I've posted (if you know my real name that is)
I had a couple of IBM model M's till I sold em last year (got a pretty penny on eBay), would have kept them except they don't have Windows keys which I use fairly extensively.
Anyway I really like the keyboards on my Eee's as you don't have to move your fingers very far or have to press them down as hard as fullsize keyboards, even with my large hands I can touchtype on the Eee's.
I think I'm safe, the IBM keyboard I'm typing this on was made in Thailand.
One of the first things I do whenever I have to install Windows is turn off the AutoRun, because there's nothing more annoying than putting a CD/DVD/USB flash/USB harddrive in a machine and either having some software automatically run (when most of the time you don't want it to run) or a window popping up saying "oooh, you've got lots of pictures/videos/music on this device, let me play them all for you pleeeeeeeeeese"
So back to my post title, if a Skynet equivilant does decide it wants to rule us, it will have been able to gain the necessary power over us through the human race's apathy towards hands-on involvement of computers - having everything automated is not a wise choice, as the Conficker worm is so aptly demonstrating.
If you want to make a special card which lights up, I saw this great little project close to christmas and so I made 9 cards, but instead of watch batteries that would die after a week or so I wired in resistors & USB plugs (strangely the only place I can find solderable USB plugs online/offline is from Maplins!), all the recipients loved them and most wondered how the blinking flip they were lit up.
Edge lit holiday cards (the snowflake one looks much better with a black background & two blue LEDs, one at the top & other at the bottom)
Next christmas I'm going to have to make something even better - anyone have any simple circuit designs on using an LED as a light sensor and then making some more LEDs react by blinking?
Oh FFS, not those bloody clowns again...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/27/canada_rocker/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/14/prince_b3ta_dmca/
http://torrentfreak.com/village-people-hire-web-sheriff-080215/
http://stereogum.com/archives/web-sheriff-to-mp3-bloggers-happy-easter-thanks-fo_008539.html
etc.
etc.
But I've figured out a way to defeat them: someone should take Bob Marley's lyrics literally.
What?
An OS that actively limits the number of concurrent running apps? This isn't a phrase I really ever use online but; that's just fucking retarded!
On the up side it'll give Linux/Apple etc. a neat little advertising slogan: "This OS can run more apps than Windows can"
So long as individuals & companies that design the camera systems get a percentage of the fines there will always be an incentive for them to rig the system by fair means or foul.
Ah well, nothing new in the world of business & politics then.
There will be a great disturbance in the US, as if millions of pocket tvs will cry out in white noise terror and suddenly be put away in a drawer never to be used again.
I don't get it, what's so bad about some superb owl porn?
Back when Demon Internet had two Center Of World servers (COWs) they called one ermin-servers.router.demon.net and the other trude-servers.router.demon.net. See this old usenet posting from way back in 1996.
Something tells me they'll try and figure out a way to tell the wealth of the viewer by what they're wearing, sofor example anyone who looks poor will get loan adverts whilst anyone who looks rich will get expensive car/house/holiday adverts.
I've found that filing down the sides of LEDs don't affect dramatically affect the amount of light thrown forward, in the case of using them for bike lighting a bit more light thrown sideways is a good thing.
If you can point me towards some 2mm LEDs with built-in collinators that are as bright as 3mm ones then those would be ideal. All 2mm ones I can find are flat-top and most are phyically wider than 2mm at the base or they're 2mm x 5mm in size.
The 60 LED array I put together does get a little warm but it hasn't been much of a problem because they're only turned on at night when it's naturally cooler than the day and only on for long periods when I'm moving along so the air flowing over it will help keep it cool.
I regularly solder SMD components including LEDs but the reason I like the 3mm LEDs is the beamspread they give, most cheap 5mm LEDs produce a spotlight effect where if an object isn't in the ~15-25 degree beam it can't be seen that well, whereas cheap 3mm LEDs have a nice smooth drop-off gradient which is ideal for night cycling as the path/unlit road in the distance is illuminated just as much as it is near you.
I made my own front light for my bike by embedding 60 3mm LEDs into a standard Cateye reflector, it works well & is nicely bright but I always have this want for more brightness, but not at the expense of increasing the physical size of the light by using Cree's or Luxeons whigh require a collinator to direct the light.
So does anyone have any ideas how I can easily file down a couple of hundred 3mm LEDs so they're identically rectangle or square to pack them tightly together?