How'd you get that from the video? To me it looked like if you use the wiimote to guide it around the permimeter of the area you want it to mow, some guy will tape you guiding it around the rest in fast-forward while frantic bass muzak plays.
It's a remote controlled lawnmower. It's exactly like a frikkin Jet Hopper except (a) it has swirly blades, and (b) it connects using commodity hardware with a commodity controller over a popular, well known interface.
Sorry to sound sandy, but to quote my honours superviser at uni: "Where's the science"? This isn't even as cool as if he'd stuck a Basic STAMP on it and internet-enabled it.
I was simply illuminating the fact that a copy of a product that was made contrary to copyright law could be referred to as an "illegal copy". Of course I'm not a lawyer yada yada so it may not be strictly correct technical usage but it's definitely valid common usage.
XP forces you to activate your copy of windows within 30 days or cuts you off.
It does?...oh, you must have downloaded the home version. Get the pro one, MS knows better than to piss off big companies by making them do that shit; one big (10,000 desktops+) company switching away from MS is going to cost them a buttload more than a few home users getting a few more features.
Um, pretty sure that breaking copyright is illegal. It's not criminal but it's illegal. Copyright law is, well, law. And breaking the law is illegal, by definition. So yeah.
This is the main problem I'd have with wireless technology; wireless broadband makes a lot of sense in Australia because even our cities are relatively low population density and uptake is fairly low.
It might be able to fill in the gaps as long as overall load on the system is low. Unlike wired services, though, it doesn't work so well to just whack in more cell towers (unless you actually *lower* the power on them to create smaller cells) because the frequency bandwidth is still shared between them. Still, if a cheap enough "last mile" mobile unit was available that could just be stashed on a rooftop or telephone pole and cover an apartment block or a small section of suburban street (basically just a wireless modem/router on steroids), then that would certainly be more cost-effective than maintaining copper to every house.
For some reason this made me think of a scene from The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped, where a member of a village built in a huge chasm is told by an outsider that the wind in the chasm is caused by a glacier at one end and a desert at the other (hot and cold source generating a convection current). The villager had always believed that his god caused the wind to blow to clear smoke out of the village.
The outsider politely smiles and nods, then shrugs to herself and thinks that if god wanted to clear the smoke out of a village, why shouldn't he use a glacier and a desert to do it with?
I got grids of octarine elephants on a sphere rotating around a giant octarine elephant which was rotating the other way, myself.
I'd always wondered about the tiny specks you can see when you look at a solid, bright background for a while, turns out they're white blood cells moving through the vessels that supply your retina. Cool, huh?:)
Like one cell type senses a field that is circle shaped, the one right next to it, if it sensed a circle, would have overlap and would cause imaging problems, instead the cell right next to it senses a crescent shape, fitting with the one next to it to avoid overlap.
It looks to me more like a case of "random shaped squishy things squish together with no gaps". I'd say you have cause and effect mixed a little here - the crescent-sensing cells aren't crescent-sensing because they go "there's a circle next to me so I ought to check for crescents to improve the accuracy of the retina as a whole". They go "I'm squished into a crescent shape, so I'll naturally give a stand-out signal when a light pattern the same shape as me shines on me". The interesting question is how the shape of the cell is encoded into the output signal...
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How'd you get that from the video? To me it looked like if you use the wiimote to guide it around the permimeter of the area you want it to mow, some guy will tape you guiding it around the rest in fast-forward while frantic bass muzak plays.
It's a remote controlled lawnmower. It's exactly like a frikkin Jet Hopper except (a) it has swirly blades, and (b) it connects using commodity hardware with a commodity controller over a popular, well known interface.
Sorry to sound sandy, but to quote my honours superviser at uni: "Where's the science"? This isn't even as cool as if he'd stuck a Basic STAMP on it and internet-enabled it.
Wow, he obviously threw some sand into YOUR Wiigina.
Oh, I thought it was because a brand new workstation runs about as well as a celery 400 trying to run Office 2k. :(
Sorry, but I haven't seen *anything* bog a computer down like Outlook 2007. And I've seen a lot of badly coded games.
Or am I being a hypocrite now?
I doubt it, isn't being hypercritical the *job* of a P. R. Editor? ;)
WTF is an illegal copy?
I was simply illuminating the fact that a copy of a product that was made contrary to copyright law could be referred to as an "illegal copy". Of course I'm not a lawyer yada yada so it may not be strictly correct technical usage but it's definitely valid common usage.
No, the biggest Hippocrates founded modern medicine.
XP forces you to activate your copy of windows within 30 days or cuts you off.
It does? ...oh, you must have downloaded the home version. Get the pro one, MS knows better than to piss off big companies by making them do that shit; one big (10,000 desktops+) company switching away from MS is going to cost them a buttload more than a few home users getting a few more features.
Um, pretty sure that breaking copyright is illegal. It's not criminal but it's illegal. Copyright law is, well, law. And breaking the law is illegal, by definition. So yeah.
Wow, mobile phones are even cooler than I thought! O.o Now I have something else to read up on...
This is the main problem I'd have with wireless technology; wireless broadband makes a lot of sense in Australia because even our cities are relatively low population density and uptake is fairly low.
It might be able to fill in the gaps as long as overall load on the system is low. Unlike wired services, though, it doesn't work so well to just whack in more cell towers (unless you actually *lower* the power on them to create smaller cells) because the frequency bandwidth is still shared between them. Still, if a cheap enough "last mile" mobile unit was available that could just be stashed on a rooftop or telephone pole and cover an apartment block or a small section of suburban street (basically just a wireless modem/router on steroids), then that would certainly be more cost-effective than maintaining copper to every house.
No, it's not. The device doesn't sense stimulation. An expanded title would be "Leg-Paralysis Sensing and Stimulation Device Steps Up".
No it's not, I'm hopping mad!
So if R. at the start of a name signifies a robot, what does W. signify? :P
He employed a professional rapist to rape the wives of anyone who spoke out against the regime...
Wait, what? Why wasn't THAT job in my voc. ed. handbook?
Except when this group twice votes into power people who
were very slightly 'less worse' than the alternative.
Oi, mate, leave kangaroos out of this!
You're hoping for "swung".
Being peed on would be much more enjoyable than trying to navigate that "stupid fun club" website.
For example, lets say one man developed telescopic vision today.
He did.
Sure thats an advantage, so how long before 99% of the population gets telescopic vision.
Maybe 500 years, why?
For some reason this made me think of a scene from The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped, where a member of a village built in a huge chasm is told by an outsider that the wind in the chasm is caused by a glacier at one end and a desert at the other (hot and cold source generating a convection current). The villager had always believed that his god caused the wind to blow to clear smoke out of the village.
The outsider politely smiles and nods, then shrugs to herself and thinks that if god wanted to clear the smoke out of a village, why shouldn't he use a glacier and a desert to do it with?
I have the first sigil painted on the hood of my car
Careful, or one morning your car won't start and you'll find that a squirrel has jabbed a stick into your bonnet, killing your car.
I got grids of octarine elephants on a sphere rotating around a giant octarine elephant which was rotating the other way, myself.
:)
I'd always wondered about the tiny specks you can see when you look at a solid, bright background for a while, turns out they're white blood cells moving through the vessels that supply your retina. Cool, huh?
You need to harmonise your synergies to leverage optimal domains. It's simple when you think about it.
Like one cell type senses a field that is circle shaped, the one right next to it, if it sensed a circle, would have overlap and would cause imaging problems, instead the cell right next to it senses a crescent shape, fitting with the one next to it to avoid overlap.
It looks to me more like a case of "random shaped squishy things squish together with no gaps". I'd say you have cause and effect mixed a little here - the crescent-sensing cells aren't crescent-sensing because they go "there's a circle next to me so I ought to check for crescents to improve the accuracy of the retina as a whole". They go "I'm squished into a crescent shape, so I'll naturally give a stand-out signal when a light pattern the same shape as me shines on me". The interesting question is how the shape of the cell is encoded into the output signal...