MICROWAVE PLUS+ The reason why the cooking instructions are so vaguely is that although ovens may have the same amount of watts the food can heat up different depending on various conditions. Cooking is fun! I would never ever demand a turn-key-solution for one of my life essentials! PUNCH-IT-UP ALARM CLOCK Already exists BLIND DATA Hey, another way to find a relationship! Silly, everyone knows that the chemistry between two persons can not be expressed in "vital statistics". What about a "courage device" that gives a geek some balls to approach a woman? TIVOCORDER Hmm, what would other persons think if every word they say may be stored? MP-TEETHBRUSH Yah INTERCOM-PUTER Microsoft Netmeeting? FLUMAPPER.COM As if there is only one kind of germs at one place at a time. I have survived kindergarten. The greatest invention would be jail for parents who refuse to immunize their kids against measles. SNAPFLAT SCREEN This things still weigh pounds. Who shall carry them with the whole time? THE I-PODULE Now this isn't bad at all. The devices just would need a plug for it.
Another way to help speechless persons to communicate is the recognition and translation of sign language. If you're interested in that you might want to look here.
This means running your own cable. There's really no way around that. You're not going to find unrepeated, unused fiber just lying around.
Actualy between 1998 and 2001 comapnies spent 500 billion dollars for fiber optic lines, analists aproximate the surplus of fiber optic bandwith at 95%. Unfortunately I have no english sources for the figures. Anyway the system is not supposed to be used by every internet user, I think at first the embassies in capital cities will be connected with it.
And you are prevented from checking the website or even (gasp!) reading the book by what, exactly?
I searched the website for about 5 minutes without finding a page where the mechanism is explained in detail. The one-and-only issue that prevents an affordable mars-mission is taking enough fuel with to bring the crew back. Maybe my laughing was too impulsive, but the article did not explain the method without leaving out the main source of energy Zubrin wants to use to produce the methane making it physicaly impossible. I'm not familiar with the masses, but assuming that you need a quarter of the energy to leave mars gravity field than to leave the one of earth, by taking account of that the energy density of methane is lower than the of hydrogen used by the Saturn V Rocket, you still need a huge amount of fuel to be produced by a fully-automated-and-never-tested-under-mars-condit ions nuclear power plant. The key question is if NASA is willing to build this equipment and bring it to mars when there is the high risk that it may not function beacuse of one tiny stupid error.
Not to mention that methane has a higher level of energy than carbon dioxide, making it neccessary for the plant to have large - and by large I mean huge - solar cells to get any useable form of energy to process the CO2 to methane. This is just ridiculous.
The Martian atmosphere, Zubrin says, is 95 percent carbon dioxide. By combining that with a relatively small amount of hydrogen brought from Earth, the plant would be churning out an ample supply of methane, CH4, and water, H20. The methane would serve as a propellant to get the ERV and the astronauts back home.
Methane as propellant, uh hu. I'd like to know where the hell Zubrin wants to get the oxygen to burn the methane.
Was it ICANN that refused to introduce the highly demanded.kids and.sex TLD but instead brought up that useless.aero TLD, so that in the end the Congress discussed introducing a.kids.us SLD? IMHO ICANN is a useless good-will-bad-act organisation.
Hmm are you sure that it is a laser projection? The image is static, laser projection is useful for changing images only. It seems to me that it simply projects a mask. Unless it is possible to have multiple keyboard layouts of course.
AFAIK generic words can only be the trademarked in conjunction with the companys name, like 'Microsoft Word'. Otherwise Microsoft could have sent its lawyers to every place where the term "X Windows" is used long ago.
I wonder why there is even a discussion over it. A contract never needs a signature, every time you buy a quarterpounder at McD you make a contract. Even multi-million-dollar transactions at the NYSE are made without handwritten signatures. As long as it is clear who the two negotiators are there is no doubt that two declarations of intention are made.
Often gas that is emitting light is being falsely named plasma, but the atoms are only being stimulated by heat or light and emit light. A real plasma is a gas which is stimulated so high that the atoms are ionized and free electrons are floating between them.
Magnets right next to the CPU, eh? This is a good idea? Yeah, why not? There are no parts sensitive to magnetism in an IC at all. The only place it could be dangerous is at the harddisks, and only if there is a magnetic field outside the fan at all, which I doubt.
HTML does have some control structures, for example the FRAMESET / NOFRAMES tags
I think the main causes why html is falsely seen as programming language are that html files can be made manualy and that the markup uses mnemonical tags. No one would think that a pdf or a word-document was a program. Similar to word using visual basic macros to extend its functionality html needs script languages.
Requiring a runtime interpreter doesn't stop something being a programming language. Consider VB, Java, etc
This is right, but if you look closely at my comment you will see that these interpreted programs still have to act the same way on every machine. In markup, only the content is specified using a structured markup and the apperance is given by some suggestions the webdesigner makes by specifing colors etc which the interpreter is free to ignore and render the page the way the user needs, for example by ignoring blink tags or using a custom style sheet. Also, the controll structures VB and other intrepreted languages have are still missing in html.
Why? Surely a web page is a sequence of instructions which the computer follows to perform a particular task
No, it is not.:-)
A programming language has controlling structures (IF...THEN...ELSE, FOR, WHILE, GOTO). Because html is a markup language it lacks of all this structures and this is why scripting languages were added to support webdesigners if they need some of them. A program has the same result on every computer it is been runned on, a HTML page has to be interpreted by a browser first to be displayed. Perhaps the good-webdesign-websites should make this clear for once: HTML is not a programming language.
Actual the definition of software applies to even a single web page, as HTML is a programming language.
HTML is a markup language! (For hypertext, you know?) Hint: Not every method with which you can print 'hello world!' on the screen is called programming.
He connected the drives parallel to the amp, without any filtering? A lowpass for the big one, highpass for the small and bandpass for other would sound much better as with all drives heads moving similar.
With these modules it would be easy to simulate those robots with a genetic algorithm. This way the compilation of modules which fits the task best is computed.
A simliar approach to that is the golem project Imagine you set the task to build a house and the robots that fulfil it best are copied with slight mutations. Then the simulation starts again until you have the perfect housbuilder robots.
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MICROWAVE PLUS+
The reason why the cooking instructions are so vaguely is that although ovens may have the same amount of watts the food can heat up different depending on various conditions.
Cooking is fun! I would never ever demand a turn-key-solution for one of my life essentials!
PUNCH-IT-UP ALARM CLOCK
Already exists
BLIND DATA
Hey, another way to find a relationship! Silly, everyone knows that the chemistry between two persons can not be expressed in "vital statistics". What about a "courage device" that gives a geek some balls to approach a woman?
TIVOCORDER
Hmm, what would other persons think if every word they say may be stored?
MP-TEETHBRUSH
Yah
INTERCOM-PUTER
Microsoft Netmeeting?
FLUMAPPER.COM
As if there is only one kind of germs at one place at a time. I have survived kindergarten. The greatest invention would be jail for parents who refuse to immunize their kids against measles.
SNAPFLAT SCREEN
This things still weigh pounds. Who shall carry them with the whole time?
THE I-PODULE
Now this isn't bad at all. The devices just would need a plug for it.
Another way to help speechless persons to communicate is the recognition and translation of sign language. If you're interested in that you might want to look here.
This means running your own cable. There's really no way around that. You're not going to find unrepeated, unused fiber just lying around.
Actualy between 1998 and 2001 comapnies spent 500 billion dollars for fiber optic lines, analists aproximate the surplus of fiber optic bandwith at 95%. Unfortunately I have no english sources for the figures.
Anyway the system is not supposed to be used by every internet user, I think at first the embassies in capital cities will be connected with it.
And you are prevented from checking the website or even (gasp!) reading the book by what, exactly?
t ions nuclear power plant.
I searched the website for about 5 minutes without finding a page where the mechanism is explained in detail. The one-and-only issue that prevents an affordable mars-mission is taking enough fuel with to bring the crew back.
Maybe my laughing was too impulsive, but the article did not explain the method without leaving out the main source of energy Zubrin wants to use to produce the methane making it physicaly impossible. I'm not familiar with the masses, but assuming that you need a quarter of the energy to leave mars gravity field than to leave the one of earth, by taking account of that the energy density of methane is lower than the of hydrogen used by the Saturn V Rocket, you still need a huge amount of fuel to be produced by a fully-automated-and-never-tested-under-mars-condi
The key question is if NASA is willing to build this equipment and bring it to mars when there is the high risk that it may not function beacuse of one tiny stupid error.
Not to mention that methane has a higher level of energy than carbon dioxide, making it neccessary for the plant to have large - and by large I mean huge - solar cells to get any useable form of energy to process the CO2 to methane. This is just ridiculous.
The Martian atmosphere, Zubrin says, is 95 percent carbon dioxide. By combining that with a relatively small amount of hydrogen brought from Earth, the plant would be churning out an ample supply of methane, CH4, and water, H20. The methane would serve as a propellant to get the ERV and the astronauts back home.
Methane as propellant, uh hu. I'd like to know where the hell Zubrin wants to get the oxygen to burn the methane.
...should the biography of RMS not be under the GFDL?
There is also an article on the Register about this issue.
Was it ICANN that refused to introduce the highly demanded .kids and .sex TLD but instead brought up that useless .aero TLD, so that in the end the Congress discussed introducing a .kids.us SLD?
IMHO ICANN is a useless good-will-bad-act organisation.
Hmm are you sure that it is a laser projection? The image is static, laser projection is useful for changing images only. It seems to me that it simply projects a mask. Unless it is possible to have multiple keyboard layouts of course.
I think it detects that the contour of your finger doesn't move any more when it hits the surface.
AFAIK generic words can only be the trademarked in conjunction with the companys name, like 'Microsoft Word'. Otherwise Microsoft could have sent its lawyers to every place where the term "X Windows" is used long ago.
I wonder why there is even a discussion over it. A contract never needs a signature, every time you buy a quarterpounder at McD you make a contract. Even multi-million-dollar transactions at the NYSE are made without handwritten signatures. As long as it is clear who the two negotiators are there is no doubt that two declarations of intention are made.
...it's not a bug it's a mutation.
Often gas that is emitting light is being falsely named plasma, but the atoms are only being stimulated by heat or light and emit light. A real plasma is a gas which is stimulated so high that the atoms are ionized and free electrons are floating between them.
Magnets right next to the CPU, eh? This is a good idea?
Yeah, why not? There are no parts sensitive to magnetism in an IC at all. The only place it could be dangerous is at the harddisks, and only if there is a magnetic field outside the fan at all, which I doubt.
HTML does have some control structures, for example the FRAMESET / NOFRAMES tags
I think the main causes why html is falsely seen as programming language are that html files can be made manualy and that the markup uses mnemonical tags. No one would think that a pdf or a word-document was a program. Similar to word using visual basic macros to extend its functionality html needs script languages.
Requiring a runtime interpreter doesn't stop something being a programming language. Consider VB, Java, etc
This is right, but if you look closely at my comment you will see that these interpreted programs still have to act the same way on every machine. In markup, only the content is specified using a structured markup and the apperance is given by some suggestions the webdesigner makes by specifing colors etc which the interpreter is free to ignore and render the page the way the user needs, for example by ignoring blink tags or using a custom style sheet.
Also, the controll structures VB and other intrepreted languages have are still missing in html.
Why? Surely a web page is a sequence of instructions which the computer follows to perform a particular task
:-)
No, it is not.
A programming language has controlling structures (IF...THEN...ELSE, FOR, WHILE, GOTO). Because html is a markup language it lacks of all this structures and this is why scripting languages were added to support webdesigners if they need some of them. A program has the same result on every computer it is been runned on, a HTML page has to be interpreted by a browser first to be displayed.
Perhaps the good-webdesign-websites should make this clear for once: HTML is not a programming language.
Actual the definition of software applies to even a single web page, as HTML is a programming language.
HTML is a markup language! (For hypertext, you know?)
Hint: Not every method with which you can print 'hello world!' on the screen is called programming.
In the main specifications only the mpeg-2 is specified as video-codec. Has anybody an idea why they don't implement mpeg-4?
He connected the drives parallel to the amp, without any filtering? A lowpass for the big one, highpass for the small and bandpass for other would sound much better as with all drives heads moving similar.
giving Leonardo Photoshop to paint the Mona Lisa. Without the aid of technical experts no one will get the clue in millions of lines of sourcecode.
...consumer protection activist comment
here:
With these modules it would be easy to simulate those robots with a genetic algorithm. This way the compilation of modules which fits the task best is computed.
A simliar approach to that is the golem project
Imagine you set the task to build a house and the robots that fulfil it best are copied with slight mutations. Then the simulation starts again until you have the perfect housbuilder robots.