Uh oh. Are you saying that they'd stab people with the soldering iron?
No. He's saying that people with a soldering iron don't need to buy a next-gen console or HDTV, they can build one out of some spare wire, a tube sock, and two bubblegum wrappers.
You get a pair of DLP projectors, put polarized filters in front of the projectors, and hand out glasses. Linear polarization works and is cheap, but the effect is lost if you tilt your head. Circular polarization is better. No need for expensive shutter glasses or high speed projectors, and it doesn't screw up the color like anaglyphs.
You basically just have to double your hardware costs, and add a few thousand for filters and glasses.
'Blu-Ray transcodes' are by no means CPU killing. Your X2 3800+ should be able to handle anything up to maybe 15Mbps h.264, which is higher than any transcode you're going to get from the internet. VDPAU lets you play the actual Blu-Ray on that computer, or lets you get away with something much smaller like an old single-core desktop or an Atom (see the ION platform).
Boxee looks interesting...are there any comparisons out there between it, Freevo and MythTV?
There is no comparison that can be made between it, Freevo, and MythTV. Freevo and MythTV are DVRs. They record TV. Boxee is simply a media player (if perhaps a very fancy one).
I have seen a number of CAPTCHAs that include a link to a wave file containing the word. If you're blind, you download the sound bit and listen instead.
Now why aren't LCD TVs as reliable as LCD monitors. I have a 9yr old IBM, that aside from a few dead lines due to an ill fated Windex incident, still works fine. My 5yr old Sony has had no problems since I bought it.
Correct. Modified. In that they added four extra boosters to increase the burn thrust of the first stage.
ICBMs don't have the capacity to put payload into orbit, but if you throw enough money at the problem, you can fairly rapidly strap a enough boosters at it to make it do so.
Local news vans don't have a satellite dish on top. They have a parabolic microwave transmitter that they put up on a 50ft boom to give them line-of-sight to a nearby tower.
On the back half of a wing, the boundary layer needs sufficient kinetic energy to remain attached to the surface. By sucking off the static air, moving air would take its place and keep the flow laminar out to the trailing edge.
The MEMS devices were small diaphragms inserted into cavities in the wing surface. Rather than remove the static boundary layer, they would oscillate and energize the existing boundary layer, achieving the same effect with considerably less power and substructure.
Not at all. Supercavitation puts a small high frequency oscillator at the front of the submersible. While cavitation creates small air bubbles which form and collapse, supercavitation produces an entire cavity of air in the water which the submersible now flies through with reduced drag. It's reduction of drag through reduction of medium density.
This method energizes the flow, and induces a premature shift from laminar to turbulent flow. When a laminar flow encounters an adverse pressure gradient (large cross section to small cross section), it detaches from the surface creating large drag inducing vorticies. Think of the suction behind a semi, or other flat backed truck. By inducing turbulence in the flow, it has sufficient kinetic energy to remain attached to the surface, preventing drag. So called 'vortex generators' have been used for decades on aircraft to improve airflow over wings, allowing higher lift and lower drag.
I initially dismissed this, thinking the flow should have become turbulent, but at those speeds, water becomes turbulent after about 5 meters. However that means it would be of marginal benefit for anything but the control surfaces on a submarine.
Unless you want to store it in a big sphere and gimbal mount it, gyroscopic forces are probably more of a danger. Try to drive uphill and the car rolls.
Except for the fact that a jet ski is in fact a jet. Its propulsion unit is something called a 'pumpjet', which uses a high pressure jet of water.
Are we supposed to trust our well being to this man when he doesn't know the difference between jet powered and turbine powered?
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This 'TRIM' procedure sounds like the 'garbage collect' routine run on the internal flash on my TI Calc when it fills up.
When this discharges rapidly, you get thrown through time, leaving a burning trail in your absence.
Uh oh. Are you saying that they'd stab people with the soldering iron?
No. He's saying that people with a soldering iron don't need to buy a next-gen console or HDTV, they can build one out of some spare wire, a tube sock, and two bubblegum wrappers.
You keep a gun in your fanny pack? Those are two things I never thought I would hear mix...
a 80 minute album.
CD albums are at maximum 74 minutes per disk...
You get a pair of DLP projectors, put polarized filters in front of the projectors, and hand out glasses. Linear polarization works and is cheap, but the effect is lost if you tilt your head. Circular polarization is better. No need for expensive shutter glasses or high speed projectors, and it doesn't screw up the color like anaglyphs.
You basically just have to double your hardware costs, and add a few thousand for filters and glasses.
'Blu-Ray transcodes' are by no means CPU killing. Your X2 3800+ should be able to handle anything up to maybe 15Mbps h.264, which is higher than any transcode you're going to get from the internet. VDPAU lets you play the actual Blu-Ray on that computer, or lets you get away with something much smaller like an old single-core desktop or an Atom (see the ION platform).
Boxee looks interesting...are there any comparisons out there between it, Freevo and MythTV?
There is no comparison that can be made between it, Freevo, and MythTV. Freevo and MythTV are DVRs. They record TV. Boxee is simply a media player (if perhaps a very fancy one).
Good job PS3/Cell bashing... except you forgot that Xenon chip is in-order, so no branch prediction.
I have seen a number of CAPTCHAs that include a link to a wave file containing the word. If you're blind, you download the sound bit and listen instead.
Now why aren't LCD TVs as reliable as LCD monitors. I have a 9yr old IBM, that aside from a few dead lines due to an ill fated Windex incident, still works fine. My 5yr old Sony has had no problems since I bought it.
Correct. Modified. In that they added four extra boosters to increase the burn thrust of the first stage. ICBMs don't have the capacity to put payload into orbit, but if you throw enough money at the problem, you can fairly rapidly strap a enough boosters at it to make it do so.
Local news vans don't have a satellite dish on top. They have a parabolic microwave transmitter that they put up on a 50ft boom to give them line-of-sight to a nearby tower.
Actually, its the spin that exploits the Bernoulli effect, and specifically backspin that gives it lift. Spin sideways and you end up with a slice.
Take out your pick axe and put some speed holes in your car.
On the back half of a wing, the boundary layer needs sufficient kinetic energy to remain attached to the surface. By sucking off the static air, moving air would take its place and keep the flow laminar out to the trailing edge. The MEMS devices were small diaphragms inserted into cavities in the wing surface. Rather than remove the static boundary layer, they would oscillate and energize the existing boundary layer, achieving the same effect with considerably less power and substructure.
Not at all. Supercavitation puts a small high frequency oscillator at the front of the submersible. While cavitation creates small air bubbles which form and collapse, supercavitation produces an entire cavity of air in the water which the submersible now flies through with reduced drag. It's reduction of drag through reduction of medium density.
This method energizes the flow, and induces a premature shift from laminar to turbulent flow. When a laminar flow encounters an adverse pressure gradient (large cross section to small cross section), it detaches from the surface creating large drag inducing vorticies. Think of the suction behind a semi, or other flat backed truck. By inducing turbulence in the flow, it has sufficient kinetic energy to remain attached to the surface, preventing drag. So called 'vortex generators' have been used for decades on aircraft to improve airflow over wings, allowing higher lift and lower drag.
I initially dismissed this, thinking the flow should have become turbulent, but at those speeds, water becomes turbulent after about 5 meters. However that means it would be of marginal benefit for anything but the control surfaces on a submarine.
Velociraptors are really just ankle-biters. Think of the little green poison shits in Deus Ex.
Unless you want to store it in a big sphere and gimbal mount it, gyroscopic forces are probably more of a danger. Try to drive uphill and the car rolls.
That, and MACs aren't a serial number
The only unique identifying number on my Intel NICs is the MAC address... so I guess in this case the MAC IS the serial number.
Sorry, but the X1 most definitely exists, and it's higher-end than a Tesla (it's only a touch slower than a Bugatti Veyron).
A touch slower being roughly half as fast. Oh, you meant almost as much acceleration...
Egosoft usually releases a NoCD patch for their games after about a year.
Except for the fact that a jet ski is in fact a jet. Its propulsion unit is something called a 'pumpjet', which uses a high pressure jet of water. Are we supposed to trust our well being to this man when he doesn't know the difference between jet powered and turbine powered?
I was always under the impression that running all that on your firewall was poor security practice.
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