By contrast, for example, police radios can be dropped into puddles, thrown, kicked, etc. and they still work fine.
No, you can't. If you drop them from about knee height into a shallow puddle they might survive, particularly if they land on one bottom corner or on their backs - although you'll probably need to replace the battery.
If they land square on the bottom of the radio, you'll smash the battery clips.
If they land on the top, you'll smash the aerial socket and volume control (the latter frequently taking a chunk off the board).
If they land on their faces, you'll smash the screen and punch the speaker magnet through the control PCB.
Forget progress bars, give the user a game to play while they're waiting. You can implement Tetris in a couple of K, so that shouldn't bloat your installer too badly (and of course the game itself need not be installed).
Make it get harder as the installer progresses, so that it starts to become too difficult just as the job completes anyway.
The difficulty with replaceable battery packs is that you have to design some sort of connector that can handle a couple of hundred amps at a couple of hundred volts, and be safely disconnected and reconnected by unskilled people (possibly using some sort of special machine like a pallet jack) while it is soaked with salty muddy water.
Why not just get a Lotus Elise? They're not *that* expensive, and if you want better economy and better performance then you can bin the wheezy little petrol puttputt and put a proper diesel engine in there instead. There really are no good cars made with petrol engines these days, and I'm surprised that Lotus cripple their cars with them.
Electric cars that need frequent recharging *could* work, if you can get about two hour's driving out of the battery for about as much charging time as it takes to drink a cup of coffee.
I wonder how they're going to fit electric vehicle charging stations every 150 miles or so on all the little twisty mountain roads around here?
The Raspberry Pi isn't even remotely close to credit card-sized, especially not when it's cased up. It's closer to the size of a packet of playing cards.
Chances are you'll take out a couple nearby discrete 0402 components while you are at it. Hold the heat gun blowing air for a little too long.....poof they can blow right off, they are light enough.
Only if you don't know what you're doing. If you're blowing parts off the board near small components, you stick a bit of kapton tape over them to protect them.
This is basic stuff that anyone who says they know how to solder should know.
ATRAC as implemented by Sony has a lot of pretty restrictive DRM - i.e. a "prison".
In what way? An MD player spits out a stream of plain ordinary S/PDIF audio, and a recorder accepts plain ordinary S/PDIF audio. There is no DRM. There is no possibility of DRM. You can use it with anything.
So the prison had a nicer view than the halfway house. Enjoy your stay there.
I'm not really sure what you're saying here. I'm guessing it's an allusion to *something* but I can't work out what.
Here's a hint. Marginal improvements in sound quality are unimportant to most people most of the time. Enjoyment of music does not require being able to get every last bit (no pun intended) of nuance from the performance
As a musician, the actual sound quality isn't that important to me. I'm certainly not one of those golden-eared audiophiles that can tell the difference between different brands of mains fuses just by listening to the audio. However, I find mp3 pretty much unlistenable, even at 320kbps. ATRAC handles transients much more cleanly. You could actually hear percussion parts, rather than have them smeared out into a blurry slurred mud of noise.
What DRM? My Minidisc recorders all accepted and sent plain ordinary SP/DIF and had a menu option to ignore SCMS which is about the only thing close to DRM. These weren't the high-end ones intended for broadcast and theatre, they were just a plain ordinary MD walkman and MD hifi separate.
It was incredibly easy to copy to and from MD from DAT or from a PC with a soundcard that supported SP/DIF. At the time I was using an SB Live! Value which didn't have all its codecs populated - but the unpopulated ones could be set up as SP/DIF in and out so I made an optical adaptor for it.
ATRAC was bloody good for its day, and I still think it sounds better than MP3 did at far higher bitrates.
... and accordingly, under $other_country law, you plan to enact a plea of Incenderunt Ad Officium. Then ask them exactly *when* they'd like the five gallons of petrol delivered to their letterbox.
Depends where you are. A lot of them do a similar thing to the Sikh community do with gurdwara, where they will have their church service then all have something to eat while they discuss it. I could get to like a church where you spend most of the time eating veg curry and discussing the bits where the holy book is wrong;-)
That's just a case of finding (or writing) an app for your phone that uses the normal GPS receiver and a suitable pile of maps. The difficulty is not the data connection, it's storing and rendering all the map data.
Many of the main roads had one or more speed camera covering all lanes of traffic every mile for tens of miles.
Where was that? I can't think of *anywhere* that matches that description, unless you were driving through motorway roadworks which generally has a 40mph speed limit enforced with average speed cameras.
There are a lot of average speed cameras on the A77 in Ayrshire, maybe there? Even then, it's not "a camera every mile", it's about six average speed cameras covering 30-odd miles of extremely dangerous road.
That works if Glasgow is a Gaelic name, but it isn't. There are very convoluted translations of "Glasgow" as "Grey Hill" or "Grey Field" but none of them actually make sense.
I guess if you take the Glasgow Gael trendy-west-endie-hangs-around-in-the-Lismore dialect of Gaelic where if you don't find a word that suits you just make up a translation that fits your etymological theory, then you can get away with it. This part of the world was never Gaelic-speaking, and Gaelic only came here with the Highland Diaspora.
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By contrast, for example, police radios can be dropped into puddles, thrown, kicked, etc. and they still work fine.
No, you can't. If you drop them from about knee height into a shallow puddle they might survive, particularly if they land on one bottom corner or on their backs - although you'll probably need to replace the battery.
If they land square on the bottom of the radio, you'll smash the battery clips.
If they land on the top, you'll smash the aerial socket and volume control (the latter frequently taking a chunk off the board).
If they land on their faces, you'll smash the screen and punch the speaker magnet through the control PCB.
Well, isn't it a shame that the term has been around since long before the comic book was ever thought of?
You can't patent it, because you can't patent software. Furthermore, this isn't while the program is loading, but while the program is installing.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the pinnacle of console gaming, on any platform - and it was particularly good on the Xbox.
Forget progress bars, give the user a game to play while they're waiting. You can implement Tetris in a couple of K, so that shouldn't bloat your installer too badly (and of course the game itself need not be installed).
Make it get harder as the installer progresses, so that it starts to become too difficult just as the job completes anyway.
The difficulty with replaceable battery packs is that you have to design some sort of connector that can handle a couple of hundred amps at a couple of hundred volts, and be safely disconnected and reconnected by unskilled people (possibly using some sort of special machine like a pallet jack) while it is soaked with salty muddy water.
Why not just get a Lotus Elise? They're not *that* expensive, and if you want better economy and better performance then you can bin the wheezy little petrol puttputt and put a proper diesel engine in there instead. There really are no good cars made with petrol engines these days, and I'm surprised that Lotus cripple their cars with them.
Electric cars that need frequent recharging *could* work, if you can get about two hour's driving out of the battery for about as much charging time as it takes to drink a cup of coffee.
I wonder how they're going to fit electric vehicle charging stations every 150 miles or so on all the little twisty mountain roads around here?
Who cares? They can own whatever trademarks they like, it's not relevant here. It hasn't got anything to do with comic book characters.
The Raspberry Pi isn't even remotely close to credit card-sized, especially not when it's cased up. It's closer to the size of a packet of playing cards.
Chances are you'll take out a couple nearby discrete 0402 components while you are at it. Hold the heat gun blowing air for a little too long.....poof they can blow right off, they are light enough.
Only if you don't know what you're doing. If you're blowing parts off the board near small components, you stick a bit of kapton tape over them to protect them.
This is basic stuff that anyone who says they know how to solder should know.
That's just a normal-size chip. They're not hard to do.
If it's a through-hole part, I'd be concerned that I don't have a big enough nozzle for my welding torch.
... and solder a socket in?
You're loading a third-party text file in a not-totally-arbitrary format into your app. Are you using any CCLeaner libraries?
What the hell has it got to do with CCleaner, other than it just so happens that it can read the same sort of file?
ATRAC as implemented by Sony has a lot of pretty restrictive DRM - i.e. a "prison".
In what way? An MD player spits out a stream of plain ordinary S/PDIF audio, and a recorder accepts plain ordinary S/PDIF audio.
There is no DRM. There is no possibility of DRM. You can use it with anything.
So the prison had a nicer view than the halfway house. Enjoy your stay there.
I'm not really sure what you're saying here. I'm guessing it's an allusion to *something* but I can't work out what.
Here's a hint. Marginal improvements in sound quality are unimportant to most people most of the time. Enjoyment of music does not require being able to get every last bit (no pun intended) of nuance from the performance
As a musician, the actual sound quality isn't that important to me. I'm certainly not one of those golden-eared audiophiles that can tell the difference between different brands of mains fuses just by listening to the audio. However, I find mp3 pretty much unlistenable, even at 320kbps. ATRAC handles transients much more cleanly. You could actually hear percussion parts, rather than have them smeared out into a blurry slurred mud of noise.
What DRM? My Minidisc recorders all accepted and sent plain ordinary SP/DIF and had a menu option to ignore SCMS which is about the only thing close to DRM. These weren't the high-end ones intended for broadcast and theatre, they were just a plain ordinary MD walkman and MD hifi separate.
It was incredibly easy to copy to and from MD from DAT or from a PC with a soundcard that supported SP/DIF. At the time I was using an SB Live! Value which didn't have all its codecs populated - but the unpopulated ones could be set up as SP/DIF in and out so I made an optical adaptor for it.
ATRAC was bloody good for its day, and I still think it sounds better than MP3 did at far higher bitrates.
... and accordingly, under $other_country law, you plan to enact a plea of Incenderunt Ad Officium. Then ask them exactly *when* they'd like the five gallons of petrol delivered to their letterbox.
Depends where you are. A lot of them do a similar thing to the Sikh community do with gurdwara, where they will have their church service then all have something to eat while they discuss it. I could get to like a church where you spend most of the time eating veg curry and discussing the bits where the holy book is wrong ;-)
How comfortable would you be if the only place in your town that had free internet was a mosque?
More comfortable than if the only place with free internet was McDonalds. In the mosque there's be less proselytising and the food is better.
That's just a case of finding (or writing) an app for your phone that uses the normal GPS receiver and a suitable pile of maps. The difficulty is not the data connection, it's storing and rendering all the map data.
... but I think it went over his head.
Cricket scores.
Who's going to buy the stuff if no one has any money left?
The entire rest of the world. China isn't particularly dependent on one country with no money.
Many of the main roads had one or more speed camera covering all lanes of traffic every mile for tens of miles.
Where was that? I can't think of *anywhere* that matches that description, unless you were driving through motorway roadworks which generally has a 40mph speed limit enforced with average speed cameras.
There are a lot of average speed cameras on the A77 in Ayrshire, maybe there? Even then, it's not "a camera every mile", it's about six average speed cameras covering 30-odd miles of extremely dangerous road.
That works if Glasgow is a Gaelic name, but it isn't. There are very convoluted translations of "Glasgow" as "Grey Hill" or "Grey Field" but none of them actually make sense.
I guess if you take the Glasgow Gael trendy-west-endie-hangs-around-in-the-Lismore dialect of Gaelic where if you don't find a word that suits you just make up a translation that fits your etymological theory, then you can get away with it. This part of the world was never Gaelic-speaking, and Gaelic only came here with the Highland Diaspora.