Insect size is limited by oxygen concentration. No lungs, they rely on diffusion. Arthropods you could grow giant though.
Or you could raise the insects in an enriched oxygen atmosphere - it isn't expensive to bump it up a bit. Added bonus: You can run a petting zoo. Because who wouldn't want to stroke the five-foot-wide butterfly?
Doesn't count. No guidance. A device like that you just point in the vague direction of the enemy and hope will hit. If you send a few thousand off, chances are a few will go the right way.
You're using the term wrong. Doublethink refered to the ability to believe two contradictory things simutainously, proposed as a vital skill to survive in an oppressive regime.
Eg, a person believing that the police were truely out do protect the public and as an innocent person he had nothing to hide... while at the same time knowing that he'd better never upset a police officer, because the last few people to publically insult them just happened to get arrested soon after.
There's another reason McCain is behind this: A la carte cable is a very popular idea with the social conservative faction that holds a lot of influence within the republican party. The FRC has frequently put out a public call for something like this. Their motivation is in obscenity and indecency: They really don't like the idea that good christian conservatives have to pay for the raunchy entertainment and liberal media channels because they happen to be in the same bundle as the Disney channel and Fox news.
The article refers to a '10-kilowatt fiber laser.' That's means electrical, and probably continuous operation too. 10KW isn't a huge amount of power for something that size. You could run it off of an ordinary engine and generator, though I expect it uses batteries or ultracaps with a generator or external power hookup for charging to avoid keeping an engine spinning all the time.
The last one, yes. After the release of 1.3C, the author received a phone call from Microsoft's legal department. According to the announcement he made it all went very politely: They asserted their patent and request he ceased distributing the software, and he agreed to remove the ASF reading capability from all subsequent versions and cease distributing the versions that did have the capability. That's why you had to get it from afterdawn.
I've never tried it. I gather it does much the same thing with a snazier interface - but it didn't exist when I wrote ASFView. I wrote it a long time ago, back when I was just learning C around the time I started university. Microsoft's utility wasn't released until some time later. I only gave the program as an example of something I couldn't have created with software patents in effect.
Besides, 'Windows Media ASF Viewer 9 Series' is a Windows-only utility. I should probably update the page to reference it though - judging by my webserver logs, there are a few people coming who might be searching for that on google and ending up at my site instead.
Little something I wrote years ago that reads an ASF file (Or WMA, or WMV) headers and decodes them all into a human-readable dump. Handy thing if you work with media in those formats.
Unless you're in the US. Can't use it there. That format is the subject of a patent. So I'm just going to sit here in the UK and look smug. If I were in the US, I wouldn't have been able to make that. The author of virtualdub is though, so he had to strip ASF-reading functionality out of his software when Microsoft threatened to sue.
Not worth it. Such a thing on the moon would endure for possibly millions of years, until the next time a meteor hit. On mars? Until the next dust storm, or a few weeks of thin-aired wind.
You could, though, throw a piece of plastic packaging material out the airlock. I can think of no more appropriate way to declare 'humans are here, this is our planet now.'
The Hunger Games was supposed to have a deeper meaning, criticising a celebrity- and media-driven culture. It's not even very subtle about it: The ruling nation is called Panem, as in "Panem et circenses." It's just that teenagers generally aren't very good at understanding that type of depth to a story, so all they see is a rather ordinary love story in a ridiculous setting.
You're missing the point. Lossless text compression basically comes down to probability estimates - a direct analog for artificial intelligence. Your estimates don't have to be perfect, but the closer they get the better your compression ratio will be.
Nowhere near that simple. Take just the distance/depth for example. Close one eye. Notice that you can stil fairly well judge how far away an object is? That's because your brain can still recognise those objects and, based on prior experience, know how big they should be. Then estimate distance based on image size and object size. A common class of optical illusion involves objects deliberately made much larger or smaller than is typical, causing errors in distance estimation.
And the iStuff in turn drives sales at iTunes. The two sides of the company feed each other. I think that is what pointy-haired bosses mean by 'synergy.'
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I rather doubt Intel managed to cram the inductor on-chip too, so doesn't that defeat the point?
Insect size is limited by oxygen concentration. No lungs, they rely on diffusion. Arthropods you could grow giant though.
Or you could raise the insects in an enriched oxygen atmosphere - it isn't expensive to bump it up a bit. Added bonus: You can run a petting zoo. Because who wouldn't want to stroke the five-foot-wide butterfly?
I was referring to the Chinese rockets.
Doesn't count. No guidance. A device like that you just point in the vague direction of the enemy and hope will hit. If you send a few thousand off, chances are a few will go the right way.
You're using the term wrong. Doublethink refered to the ability to believe two contradictory things simutainously, proposed as a vital skill to survive in an oppressive regime.
Eg, a person believing that the police were truely out do protect the public and as an innocent person he had nothing to hide... while at the same time knowing that he'd better never upset a police officer, because the last few people to publically insult them just happened to get arrested soon after.
Not me though. I block their 'like' button and just about anything from a facebook domain. If they've a file on me, it's a very short one.
There's another reason McCain is behind this: A la carte cable is a very popular idea with the social conservative faction that holds a lot of influence within the republican party. The FRC has frequently put out a public call for something like this. Their motivation is in obscenity and indecency: They really don't like the idea that good christian conservatives have to pay for the raunchy entertainment and liberal media channels because they happen to be in the same bundle as the Disney channel and Fox news.
Concrete. Lots and lots of concrete.
The article refers to a '10-kilowatt fiber laser.' That's means electrical, and probably continuous operation too. 10KW isn't a huge amount of power for something that size. You could run it off of an ordinary engine and generator, though I expect it uses batteries or ultracaps with a generator or external power hookup for charging to avoid keeping an engine spinning all the time.
The last one, yes. After the release of 1.3C, the author received a phone call from Microsoft's legal department. According to the announcement he made it all went very politely: They asserted their patent and request he ceased distributing the software, and he agreed to remove the ASF reading capability from all subsequent versions and cease distributing the versions that did have the capability. That's why you had to get it from afterdawn.
Bet it costs a fortune, though.
I've never tried it. I gather it does much the same thing with a snazier interface - but it didn't exist when I wrote ASFView. I wrote it a long time ago, back when I was just learning C around the time I started university. Microsoft's utility wasn't released until some time later. I only gave the program as an example of something I couldn't have created with software patents in effect.
Besides, 'Windows Media ASF Viewer 9 Series' is a Windows-only utility. I should probably update the page to reference it though - judging by my webserver logs, there are a few people coming who might be searching for that on google and ending up at my site instead.
It's an old program. ASF was still in very common use when I wrote it.
ASF, WMA and WMV are actually the same format. The extension difference is only for convenience, to tell which ones have video in.
http://birds-are-nice.me/programming/asfview.shtml
Little something I wrote years ago that reads an ASF file (Or WMA, or WMV) headers and decodes them all into a human-readable dump. Handy thing if you work with media in those formats.
Unless you're in the US. Can't use it there. That format is the subject of a patent. So I'm just going to sit here in the UK and look smug. If I were in the US, I wouldn't have been able to make that. The author of virtualdub is though, so he had to strip ASF-reading functionality out of his software when Microsoft threatened to sue.
British, then?
Most of Europe runs at 230V, but only the UK has 13A sockets - and it was 240V back in the seventies, before the EU agreed on a common voltage.
Technology can be the problem. But if it is, then it must also be the solution.
Not worth it. Such a thing on the moon would endure for possibly millions of years, until the next time a meteor hit. On mars? Until the next dust storm, or a few weeks of thin-aired wind.
You could, though, throw a piece of plastic packaging material out the airlock. I can think of no more appropriate way to declare 'humans are here, this is our planet now.'
The Hunger Games was supposed to have a deeper meaning, criticising a celebrity- and media-driven culture. It's not even very subtle about it: The ruling nation is called Panem, as in "Panem et circenses." It's just that teenagers generally aren't very good at understanding that type of depth to a story, so all they see is a rather ordinary love story in a ridiculous setting.
Make sure you think of some good first words on mars then. Something to rival 'one small step.'
I'd keep it simple: "First!"
With an earth-shattering kaboom.
You're missing the point. Lossless text compression basically comes down to probability estimates - a direct analog for artificial intelligence. Your estimates don't have to be perfect, but the closer they get the better your compression ratio will be.
Nowhere near that simple. Take just the distance/depth for example. Close one eye. Notice that you can stil fairly well judge how far away an object is? That's because your brain can still recognise those objects and, based on prior experience, know how big they should be. Then estimate distance based on image size and object size. A common class of optical illusion involves objects deliberately made much larger or smaller than is typical, causing errors in distance estimation.
It doesn't do a thing to stop pirates anyway, so what's the point of it?
This may be a very rare thing indeed: The commerce clause being used as intended.
And the iStuff in turn drives sales at iTunes. The two sides of the company feed each other. I think that is what pointy-haired bosses mean by 'synergy.'