Since 1969, according to the Wiki. I tell no lie here, I can never stop laughing when I realise we already have a Skynet. And it's for our Armed forces.
No, they call Improvised Explosive Devices IEDs. A bomb could be anything, which doesn't help when you want to distinguish between something that fell out of a plane that hasn't blown up for some unknown reason and may blow up while you're defusing it - or something that's been purposefully hidden and made out of smaller parts (grenade & tripwire etc). Hence Unexploded Ordnance and IEDs.
To answer the original question, no - no army would pay for the goldplating of a radiation-proof robot. The whole idea is you want it to be cheap - so you can buy lots of them. Radiation-hardening is really expensive. And yes, I know cheap is only a relative term - but the military do honestly believe they'd rather blow up a £100k robot than have to send a letter back. If nothing else, paperwork for new equipment is much smaller than death and pension.
Actually there aren't any large capacitors in the backlight of TFTs. I've worked with some invertors and they don't peak at more than 1000V and normally operate at 600V.
The key trick with this jazz is to find the part number and buy a new one. Much quicker.
Well, you'll also need them to make it UK-legal as well. I don't know if this one has FM-broadcast capabilities or not, but if it does, we won't get it without import tax. Mind you, mine was still worth it.
I enjoyed the Boomtown episode - mainly because they actually dragged the "Bad Wolf" thing out into the open for the first time. I've enjoyed every episode mainly for playing spot-the-reference.
However, that episode did annoy me slightly. Why the HELL would you name a nuclear power plant "Bad Wolf"? Why did none of the Welsh-speaking citizens wonder over this? The council would have a riot if bilingual signs suddenly started saying different things in different languages.
Also, I hope there are just as many stupid spinoff websites for the next series. Those were the best. My favourite would be UNIT, then Geocomtex's tech support page.
Everyone keep an eye on domain registrations by the beeb.
The battery is always at the same SMBus address, and the same SMBus commands are used to read the number of charge cycles, current, voltage, required charging current and voltage, number of minutes of power left at current charge.
I don't know whether the parent was making a subtle joke or not, but I do like the appearance of yet another bad wolf reference in dr who. Good old babelfish.
Mr Major is pretty happy - being one of the Chairmen of the Carlyle Group, a group who has bought, among other things, significant control of QinetiQ, the privatised part of the former Defence Research Agency.
That is an admirable goal - and something that does indeed make a lot of sense ..
But it doesn't work. I just find the space battles, that I was impressed with, for their realistic silences, just annoy the hell out of me. I don't feel that it's a real cameraman - I feel like I'm watching NYPD on crack.
It's a really nice idea - and would work especially well if they just toned it down a bit. There was an ep toward the beginning of the series where nobody's getting any sleep cos the Cylons keep attacking. It worked then, because even the cameraman appeared tired.
After that it becomes annoying, because documentaries are filmed better than that.
It would have been good if they didn't do it ALL THE TIME. I mean, you can't film space battles as if it's a documentary. If you're going to do that, then you may as well do it out of a porthole or something. It's like they think that filming it like it's 24 doesn't mean it's going to suddenly get the same ratings.
Saying that, I really like the new series of Battlestar Galactica - I'm just finding it honestly difficult explaining to my housemate that Starbuck used to be a guy.
There is a difference between software running on dedicated hardware such as a microcontroller, or an FPGA, and running a whole multi-tasking operating system.
For one thing, the first method is designed for its job, whereas the OS is totally extraneous.
Also, any software/firmware in the ECU of a vehicle will have undergone quite a lot of quality checking, code standardisation, and testing on dedicated hardware. I don't see many easy ways of testing the proposed modification to the car.
I would have thought software that has not been safety-reviewed by whatever organisation allows vehicles to go on the road is not road-legal.
I don't think your car would be road-legal with a software speedometer. What you might be able to do is use an FPGA as that does not strictly count as software (sometimes). Use an FPGA and an LVDS driver chip and not much else, and you might be able to get away with it.
If you don't know how to do that I would *seriously* reconsider your idea of replacing a piece of hardware that you trust with your LIFE.
Let's be honest, you don't want your eulogy to be "Well, he wanted his car to play the Back To The Future music when he got to 88 mph."
When I came to buying a £350 TFT a few years back, I found a nice LG one, and then emailed their customer sales dept, and said "What happens if it has a dead pixel? I'm not paying this much for a monitor with dead pixels" etc.
Their respoonse was "If it has a dead pixel, send it back."
PS It didn't have a dead pixel. It also rocks. I love LG TFTs.
No, they wouldn't. If, and it's a big if, it made it on the news, the story would be about how evil hackers are and nothing to do with the morality of keeping that information already.
People only watch TV to be told what they already know.
While I personally don't have any problem with nuclear power plants, I would point out that Japan also has nuclear related accidents every few years. There was one earlier this year, and then 2000ish there was the one where they put too much uranium compound in a bucket of nitric acid.
Also I'd need a lot of trust in the operating system too.
This story surprises me - as I saw this tech demonstrated many years ago on UK daytime TV. It was from a headset rather than a distance, but they were able to confirm the first thing a man looks at in a strange woman is her, ah, 'form factor'. Real dog bites man news there.
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Since 1969, according to the Wiki. I tell no lie here, I can never stop laughing when I realise we already have a Skynet. And it's for our Armed forces.
No, they call Improvised Explosive Devices IEDs. A bomb could be anything, which doesn't help when you want to distinguish between something that fell out of a plane that hasn't blown up for some unknown reason and may blow up while you're defusing it - or something that's been purposefully hidden and made out of smaller parts (grenade & tripwire etc). Hence Unexploded Ordnance and IEDs.
To answer the original question, no - no army would pay for the goldplating of a radiation-proof robot. The whole idea is you want it to be cheap - so you can buy lots of them. Radiation-hardening is really expensive. And yes, I know cheap is only a relative term - but the military do honestly believe they'd rather blow up a £100k robot than have to send a letter back. If nothing else, paperwork for new equipment is much smaller than death and pension.
Actually there aren't any large capacitors in the backlight of TFTs. I've worked with some invertors and they don't peak at more than 1000V and normally operate at 600V.
The key trick with this jazz is to find the part number and buy a new one. Much quicker.
How does one turn this off?
I think you mean "nazis", not "nazi's". And it's a proper noun as well.
It can access vcal calendars via ssh or ftp.
Well, you'll also need them to make it UK-legal as well. I don't know if this one has FM-broadcast capabilities or not, but if it does, we won't get it without import tax. Mind you, mine was still worth it.
I enjoyed the Boomtown episode - mainly because they actually dragged the "Bad Wolf" thing out into the open for the first time. I've enjoyed every episode mainly for playing spot-the-reference.
However, that episode did annoy me slightly. Why the HELL would you name a nuclear power plant "Bad Wolf"? Why did none of the Welsh-speaking citizens wonder over this? The council would have a riot if bilingual signs suddenly started saying different things in different languages.
Also, I hope there are just as many stupid spinoff websites for the next series. Those were the best. My favourite would be UNIT, then Geocomtex's tech support page.
Everyone keep an eye on domain registrations by the beeb.
I'd also add that my girlfriend cried through the WHOLE LAST EPISODE.
Twice!
There were keyboard shortcuts in B&W. Not for ALL gestures, but for quick things like choosing leashes and scrolling, zooming and rotating the view.
The battery is always at the same SMBus address, and the same SMBus commands are used to read the number of charge cycles, current, voltage, required charging current and voltage, number of minutes of power left at current charge.
Read some SMBus specs.
I don't know whether the parent was making a subtle joke or not, but I do like the appearance of yet another bad wolf reference in dr who. Good old babelfish.
I can't wait for the series finale now!
How does the playstation 3 manage 2.2 teraflops without being the size of a house then?
Surely?
Mr Major is pretty happy - being one of the Chairmen of the Carlyle Group, a group who has bought, among other things, significant control of QinetiQ, the privatised part of the former Defence Research Agency.
That is an admirable goal - and something that does indeed make a lot of sense . .
But it doesn't work. I just find the space battles, that I was impressed with, for their realistic silences, just annoy the hell out of me. I don't feel that it's a real cameraman - I feel like I'm watching NYPD on crack.
It's a really nice idea - and would work especially well if they just toned it down a bit. There was an ep toward the beginning of the series where nobody's getting any sleep cos the Cylons keep attacking. It worked then, because even the cameraman appeared tired.
After that it becomes annoying, because documentaries are filmed better than that.
It would have been good if they didn't do it ALL THE TIME. I mean, you can't film space battles as if it's a documentary. If you're going to do that, then you may as well do it out of a porthole or something. It's like they think that filming it like it's 24 doesn't mean it's going to suddenly get the same ratings.
Saying that, I really like the new series of Battlestar Galactica - I'm just finding it honestly difficult explaining to my housemate that Starbuck used to be a guy.
There is a difference between software running on dedicated hardware such as a microcontroller, or an FPGA, and running a whole multi-tasking operating system.
For one thing, the first method is designed for its job, whereas the OS is totally extraneous.
Also, any software/firmware in the ECU of a vehicle will have undergone quite a lot of quality checking, code standardisation, and testing on dedicated hardware. I don't see many easy ways of testing the proposed modification to the car.
I would have thought software that has not been safety-reviewed by whatever organisation allows vehicles to go on the road is not road-legal.
I don't think your car would be road-legal with a software speedometer. What you might be able to do is use an FPGA as that does not strictly count as software (sometimes). Use an FPGA and an LVDS driver chip and not much else, and you might be able to get away with it.
If you don't know how to do that I would *seriously* reconsider your idea of replacing a piece of hardware that you trust with your LIFE.
Let's be honest, you don't want your eulogy to be "Well, he wanted his car to play the Back To The Future music when he got to 88 mph."
When I came to buying a £350 TFT a few years back, I found a nice LG one, and then emailed their customer sales dept, and said "What happens if it has a dead pixel? I'm not paying this much for a monitor with dead pixels" etc.
Their respoonse was "If it has a dead pixel, send it back."
PS It didn't have a dead pixel. It also rocks. I love LG TFTs.
No, they wouldn't. If, and it's a big if, it made it on the news, the story would be about how evil hackers are and nothing to do with the morality of keeping that information already.
People only watch TV to be told what they already know.
I CBA to look it up to check, but let's say it was.
I'd still be thinking that if a company can't get STEAM workign safely, then nuclear reactions are DEFINITELY OUT.
But, if such problems were resolved to my satisfaction, roll on nuclear power.
Carefully.
While I personally don't have any problem with nuclear power plants, I would point out that Japan also has nuclear related accidents every few years. There was one earlier this year, and then 2000ish there was the one where they put too much uranium compound in a bucket of nitric acid.
Also I'd need a lot of trust in the operating system too.
I bought a Neuros a week back. The FM works perfectly fine in the UK.
This story surprises me - as I saw this tech demonstrated many years ago on UK daytime TV. It was from a headset rather than a distance, but they were able to confirm the first thing a man looks at in a strange woman is her, ah, 'form factor'. Real dog bites man news there.