Neither of which is very much energy. Next question: how small an area is that energy applied to? Pretty damned small, I'm assuming, if it's going to punch a hole in a razor blade with that little energy.
Mmm, but the ideal position for a keyboard, mouse and screen when you're typing or playing a mouse/keyboard controlled game is on a desk or table, with you sitting close to it on an upright chair.
Whereas the ideal position for a screen and controller for a joypad controlled game, is for the large screen to be in a traditional TV-like position, the gamer to be slumped in a comfy soft chair/sofa, with the joypad in his hands.
If you set a PC up for "console-like" gaming, it's pretty much no use for traditional computing. You could have a dedicated home entertainment PC, sure. Or you could have some sort of multiple monitor setup. But that's getting more expensive and complicated than simply having a console.
MMOs only really work well on PCs because you need to be able to communicate via typing to other players and you generally have a LOT of interface buttons/skills to press.
Hmm, but even the Dreamcast had a keyboard option -- its problem being that typically a console gamer isn't playing somewhere with a convenient surface for typing at. Nonetheless, I used one for Phantasy Star Online.
The Xbox 360 has a mini-keyboard add-on for the controller, but developers should prefer to use voice, since you're pretty much expected to have a headset on Xbox Live.
I hear hemp is a very good biofuel crop, for all kinds of reasons. Fast growing, easy to process, not too fussy about where it's grown. Its reputation as a narcotic works against it, but the kind of hemp you'd grow for biofuel would be an extremely weak drug.
But by the same token, I'm never sure whether its proponents are just keen on it for druggy reasons.
Hard to tell without opening them up. I just assumed that a simple bimetallic strip thermostat, non-adjustable and set in the factory, would keep the slow cooker at temperature. But I found that if I wrapped it in a towel (because I was offended at how much heat was being leaked out of the sides) my food would come to a fairly vigourous simmer, which is when I got my screwdriver out.
Hmm, I was speculating that you could make a mass-market unit of, say, 3 litres, for under $100. Essentially it would be a crockpot with an accurate thermostat in it -- not difficult or expensive to make.
Maybe the obstacle to this is the risk of litigation if someone gets food poisoning due to misuse.
... but it's better to have more sensitivity than you need.
If you're measuring 200g of flour, say, you'd be happy with anywhere from 190 to 210 -- it's not a worry that the scale gives you more precision than you need.
The nicest thing about digital scales is that they usually have a "tare" button, so you can plonk your mixing bowl on top, tare, add an ingredient, tare, add the next ingredient, and so on.
It seems like sous vide cooking is quite the fashionable thing. I recently bought the cheapest slow-cooker in the shop, and was disappointed to discover that it just outputs a constant low heat, rather than containing a thermostat. Investigating the possibility of hacking a thermostat into it, I found a few references to people building a home-made sous vide bath using a slow-cooker, a temperature probe, and a temperature controlled switch.
Isn't it high time a consumer kitchen goods company made an affordable sous-vide bath? They hardly seem like the most complicated things to design or manufacture.
Some representation systems are more arbitrary than others; if you can memorise a system by rationalising it, it's clearly less arbitrary.
For example, you could settle on a postal address scheme that goes person -> number -> street -> town -> county -> country; it's an arbitrary choice to start with the smallest unit, but it makes sense. Starting the other end makes equal sense: country -> county -> town -> street -> number -> person.
It would be more arbitrary to shuffle one of the end values into the middle: number -> street -> person -> town -> county -> country... which is what the American MMDDYY system does.
Still, it does mean we get to do the "this is our 9/11" joke on the 9th November every year.
I acknowledge that postal addresses are necessarily more complicated than what I've given, and also acknowledge my regional bias in using British meanings of words like "town" and "county".
It feels a bit like cheating to generate music from a stream of numbers by consciously coercing them into our preconceived ideas of rhythm and scale.
We're often told that music has a strong mathematical foundation, so why not try to find the music in (say) pi from more fundamental maths.
So rather than think in terms of a C major scale, think in terms of frequencies -- how long do you make the virtual string, and how long do you wait before plucking it again? (extensible to all kinds of virtual instruments, played in ever more sophisticated ways with more variables). These are real numbers.
Of course, it's inevitable that the algorithm will be created by a human, but one could at least strive to recognise where you're just adding a random salt to something that's essentially a human composition.
After all, I could take the first 10 bars of Fur Elise, number them 1-10, then play them back in the order 3,1,4,1,5,9,2,6,5,... and claim "this is what pi sounds like"; but really it would be "almost what Beethoven sounds like".
It's really not strange to lump pro-lifers in with those anti-science nutters. They frequently take the position that a fetus is a person complete with all that entails and that a fetus exists from conception.
What you are doing is overgeneralising. It's like saying that vegetarians are animal rights nuts. Some are, but some people choose not to eat meat for reasons that are nothing to do with animal rights.
I bet you could find plenty of anti-abortion campaigners who fully accept the scientific consensus.
I'm sure I've done the same. I have a pet (completely hypothetical) theory of where in Birmingham, UK, you could plant a car bomb to have a catastrophic effect on the whole nation's transport, and I'm bound to have discussed it on some mailing list, newsgroup or forum at some point in the last 20 years.
It's possible to disagree with Stephen Fry, you know.
In the case of "less" vs "fewer", for me -- presumably because of lots of exposure to 'correct' English -- it jars and makes me feel uncomfortable when I hear it.
You'd think it odd if I asked for "fewer sugar" in my coffee, or that due to cuts the local council is getting "fewer money". For many of us it jars the same way if someone says the library is getting "less books". However, as I said, it seems to be a lost cause and I'm having to get used to it.
Quite why Fry would defend people using "infer" when they mean "imply", or vice versa, mystifies me. There are plenty of ways you could do that such that your meaning would *not* be obvious from context, and confusion *could* arise.
"Disinterested" is an interesting one. Its adoption to mean "uninterested" seems to be robbing us of a useful word -- just as, now that "enormity" just means "bigness", we have no word to mean enormity any more.
What if I were to say "windmill" instead of "window" throughout a conversation with you, or other spurious substitutions? "Yeah, I was looking out of the windmill yesterday, and I noticed a big stamen on it. So I went to get the windmill creamer from my creaming cupboard, and gave it a good shrub with a cloth; came up gloaming."
Would you feel it worth pointing out that I was misusing words willy nilly, or would I be justified in saying that only a dolt can't tell from context that I was telling a boring story about cleaning a stain off a window?
If you read enough (and that's not much), you don't need to know the fancy grammatical terminology. The bad grammar just sounds wrong.
That said, I'm having to lighten up and accept that the world at large is going to keep saying "less" instead of "fewer", and the word "gotten" is going to continue to encroach upon British English.
Can we try the reverse of the Apple/Windows malware for the OS X desktop market share idea?
No need to reverse it - Android has more market share than iOS, and it's growing.
There are more Blackberries than either at the moment, though. I guess Blackberries are more tighly locked down, and their users typically don't install frivolous apps, since they are usually work assets.
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If it fires 1,000 kW in a millisecond blast, once a second, then it would have equivalent power to your 1kW hair drier.
In fact this one fires 100 ns blasts -- that's 100 billionths of a second.
It's not all that interesting what the power is, without knowing how long it's applied for. TFA says 100ns.
1kW * 100ns = 0.0001 joules
1MW * 100ns = 0.1 joules
Neither of which is very much energy. Next question: how small an area is that energy applied to? Pretty damned small, I'm assuming, if it's going to punch a hole in a razor blade with that little energy.
Mmm, but the ideal position for a keyboard, mouse and screen when you're typing or playing a mouse/keyboard controlled game is on a desk or table, with you sitting close to it on an upright chair.
Whereas the ideal position for a screen and controller for a joypad controlled game, is for the large screen to be in a traditional TV-like position, the gamer to be slumped in a comfy soft chair/sofa, with the joypad in his hands.
If you set a PC up for "console-like" gaming, it's pretty much no use for traditional computing. You could have a dedicated home entertainment PC, sure. Or you could have some sort of multiple monitor setup. But that's getting more expensive and complicated than simply having a console.
MMOs only really work well on PCs because you need to be able to communicate via typing to other players and you generally have a LOT of interface buttons/skills to press.
Hmm, but even the Dreamcast had a keyboard option -- its problem being that typically a console gamer isn't playing somewhere with a convenient surface for typing at. Nonetheless, I used one for Phantasy Star Online.
The Xbox 360 has a mini-keyboard add-on for the controller, but developers should prefer to use voice, since you're pretty much expected to have a headset on Xbox Live.
I hear hemp is a very good biofuel crop, for all kinds of reasons. Fast growing, easy to process, not too fussy about where it's grown. Its reputation as a narcotic works against it, but the kind of hemp you'd grow for biofuel would be an extremely weak drug.
But by the same token, I'm never sure whether its proponents are just keen on it for druggy reasons.
Hard to tell without opening them up. I just assumed that a simple bimetallic strip thermostat, non-adjustable and set in the factory, would keep the slow cooker at temperature. But I found that if I wrapped it in a towel (because I was offended at how much heat was being leaked out of the sides) my food would come to a fairly vigourous simmer, which is when I got my screwdriver out.
How about those fucking usage caps???
They don't seem to have put Netflix out of business.
However, it's true that demand for higher bandwidth applications will drive a market for higher caps, uncapped contracts, and faster pipes.
Hmm, I was speculating that you could make a mass-market unit of, say, 3 litres, for under $100. Essentially it would be a crockpot with an accurate thermostat in it -- not difficult or expensive to make.
Maybe the obstacle to this is the risk of litigation if someone gets food poisoning due to misuse.
... and his Big Fat Duck Cookbook is £150 RRP.
But it's a fabulous object to have around your home; like a family bible or something.
... but it's better to have more sensitivity than you need.
If you're measuring 200g of flour, say, you'd be happy with anywhere from 190 to 210 -- it's not a worry that the scale gives you more precision than you need.
The nicest thing about digital scales is that they usually have a "tare" button, so you can plonk your mixing bowl on top, tare, add an ingredient, tare, add the next ingredient, and so on.
It seems like sous vide cooking is quite the fashionable thing. I recently bought the cheapest slow-cooker in the shop, and was disappointed to discover that it just outputs a constant low heat, rather than containing a thermostat. Investigating the possibility of hacking a thermostat into it, I found a few references to people building a home-made sous vide bath using a slow-cooker, a temperature probe, and a temperature controlled switch.
Isn't it high time a consumer kitchen goods company made an affordable sous-vide bath? They hardly seem like the most complicated things to design or manufacture.
Some representation systems are more arbitrary than others; if you can memorise a system by rationalising it, it's clearly less arbitrary.
For example, you could settle on a postal address scheme that goes person -> number -> street -> town -> county -> country; it's an arbitrary choice to start with the smallest unit, but it makes sense. Starting the other end makes equal sense: country -> county -> town -> street -> number -> person.
It would be more arbitrary to shuffle one of the end values into the middle: number -> street -> person -> town -> county -> country ... which is what the American MMDDYY system does.
Still, it does mean we get to do the "this is our 9/11" joke on the 9th November every year.
I acknowledge that postal addresses are necessarily more complicated than what I've given, and also acknowledge my regional bias in using British meanings of words like "town" and "county".
It feels a bit like cheating to generate music from a stream of numbers by consciously coercing them into our preconceived ideas of rhythm and scale.
We're often told that music has a strong mathematical foundation, so why not try to find the music in (say) pi from more fundamental maths.
So rather than think in terms of a C major scale, think in terms of frequencies -- how long do you make the virtual string, and how long do you wait before plucking it again? (extensible to all kinds of virtual instruments, played in ever more sophisticated ways with more variables). These are real numbers.
Of course, it's inevitable that the algorithm will be created by a human, but one could at least strive to recognise where you're just adding a random salt to something that's essentially a human composition.
After all, I could take the first 10 bars of Fur Elise, number them 1-10, then play them back in the order 3,1,4,1,5,9,2,6,5,... and claim "this is what pi sounds like"; but really it would be "almost what Beethoven sounds like".
It's really not strange to lump pro-lifers in with those anti-science nutters. They frequently take the position that a fetus is a person complete with all that entails and that a fetus exists from conception.
What you are doing is overgeneralising. It's like saying that vegetarians are animal rights nuts. Some are, but some people choose not to eat meat for reasons that are nothing to do with animal rights.
I bet you could find plenty of anti-abortion campaigners who fully accept the scientific consensus.
(disclaimer: I am not anti-abortion)
The rules are simple: Scotland is part of Britain when Andy Murray is winning, but not when he's losing.
Which is why I no longer have ANY online discussions about shadowrun gaming anymore.
There are two ways to deal with this. One way is the way you've chosen; the other is the "I'm Spartacus" way.
Thousands of people tweeted their satirical intentions for Robin Hood Airport (i.e. to blow it sky high) during the Twitter Joke Trial here in the UK.
aw.
You know the classic romantic trope, where the girl is plain or even ugly, but over time reveals herself to be beautiful on the inside.
That's Brum.
He made a comment on Reddit about how easy it actually is to bomb shopping malls
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ciiag/so_if_my_deodorant_could_be_a_bomb_why_are_you/c0sve5q
I'm sure I've done the same. I have a pet (completely hypothetical) theory of where in Birmingham, UK, you could plant a car bomb to have a catastrophic effect on the whole nation's transport, and I'm bound to have discussed it on some mailing list, newsgroup or forum at some point in the last 20 years.
I don't think it would justify bugging me.
I couldn't find an appropriate moderation category, so I'm just going to call you an idiot.
There is a production breathalyser, used by real cops, which, if you short the right pins on its serial port, turns into a game of Simon.
I've played on one, having met the developer at a party. He'd noticed that the unit had 4 buttons, and there was room on the ROM for an easter egg.
It's possible to disagree with Stephen Fry, you know.
In the case of "less" vs "fewer", for me -- presumably because of lots of exposure to 'correct' English -- it jars and makes me feel uncomfortable when I hear it.
You'd think it odd if I asked for "fewer sugar" in my coffee, or that due to cuts the local council is getting "fewer money". For many of us it jars the same way if someone says the library is getting "less books". However, as I said, it seems to be a lost cause and I'm having to get used to it.
Quite why Fry would defend people using "infer" when they mean "imply", or vice versa, mystifies me. There are plenty of ways you could do that such that your meaning would *not* be obvious from context, and confusion *could* arise.
"Disinterested" is an interesting one. Its adoption to mean "uninterested" seems to be robbing us of a useful word -- just as, now that "enormity" just means "bigness", we have no word to mean enormity any more.
What if I were to say "windmill" instead of "window" throughout a conversation with you, or other spurious substitutions? "Yeah, I was looking out of the windmill yesterday, and I noticed a big stamen on it. So I went to get the windmill creamer from my creaming cupboard, and gave it a good shrub with a cloth; came up gloaming."
Would you feel it worth pointing out that I was misusing words willy nilly, or would I be justified in saying that only a dolt can't tell from context that I was telling a boring story about cleaning a stain off a window?
If you read enough (and that's not much), you don't need to know the fancy grammatical terminology. The bad grammar just sounds wrong.
That said, I'm having to lighten up and accept that the world at large is going to keep saying "less" instead of "fewer", and the word "gotten" is going to continue to encroach upon British English.
Yes, I think it's well wrote as well.
You may not earn £100 for yourself, but your employer might bill your time with customers at £100/hour.
Can we try the reverse of the Apple/Windows malware for the OS X desktop market share idea?
No need to reverse it - Android has more market share than iOS, and it's growing.
There are more Blackberries than either at the moment, though. I guess Blackberries are more tighly locked down, and their users typically don't install frivolous apps, since they are usually work assets.