Actually, keys such as Home, Delete, Page Up, etc. are harder to find on a laptop. Every time I get a new system, I have to hunt around to find these often-used keys.
It's also a question of alignment. When getting used to a new keyboard, I often find myself hitting 'f' instead of 'd' and others. Especially in the dark.
On the other hand, this is yet another opportunity for all the ricers with little or no mechanical skills to further trick out their PCs/cars/dorm rooms. It's all the same useless crap.
For the ground-effect boats, the "wingspan" is a figure on the order of the length of the boat, and the altitude is the separation between the flexible skirt and the surface -- only a few inches. The ground effect parameter is somewhere down around 0.001-0.01.
Not quite what I had in mind. Refer to this and this; neither one is equiped with a skirt or any sort. Also, I recall reading about a model capable of operating at a height of several meters, though I can't find that reference at the moment.
I'm an engineer too, and even I think that was a bit much. That all could have been dumbed down and summarized for the slashdot crowd (average education level: high school) in a paragraph or less.
I'm not familiar with the 'half-wingspan' rule-of-thumb for significant ground effect phenomena. Wouldn't other simple factors, such as Reynold's number, aspect ratio, etc. be more important? It seems that the ground effect boats entering ferry service operate a bit higher than half-wingspan.
But what do I know, aerodynamics is not my area, and this is slashdot.
I'm not kidding, it worked fine for me. Strong tech sector, affordable housing, good wages for engineers, friendly people, world class recreation (biking, skiing, hiking, climbing, etc.) I was glad to escape California, it didn't even take much adjusting: considering the fact that most of the people living in my neighborhood are from California.
You know, I don't have the endless time to waste like our resident celebrity trolls. I'm a busy engineer, and speed trolling is all I have time for. YOU EXPECT QUALITY?? IN SOVIET RUSSIA...
If you take a laptop into places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Somolia, or Kenya, powering it will be the least of your problems. You'll find yourself in a shallow grave in no time. And your laptop will be sold for about $1.34 to the nearest warlord.
Unfortunately, this technology is only practical for use with very small systems. Sure, it might be able to cool a small ice cream cone, but this sort of system has no hope of scaling to the point that it cool 45 kg of groceries. Because of diminishing returns, the amount of power consumed would far outstrip the power needed for conventional Rankine cycle refrigeration units. However, this technology could be used in a laboratory to cool substances down to about -450 C. Very interesting indeed.
First off, this is not surprising, being that there is a lot of old crap in Mexico. What is surprising, however, is that they cite evidence of migration from a land bridge previously existing between Siberia -> Alaska. Everyone knows that humans have alway migrated out of Mexico, not in. I have seen this myself in the suburbs of San Diego. Furthermore, what's to say that this skull find isn't really a snitch killed by the mafia or somesuch??
Something about the gratuitous nudity, filthy planets, and entire orbits filled with space trash.. hrmm.
Actually, I read a lot of Clarke when I was a kid. I've always thought that songs of a distant Earth was great reading for a gloomy teenager. Just think: endless dust, and Earth at 6.5 billion years.
The system is only capable of tattooing arms, what about people who wish to have a big dragon tattooed on their chest? Or a large skull on their back?? What about MOM with an anchor on their ass???
This wouldn't work. Not only would the local atmospheric disturbance make it impossible to focus on the landing site, but there was evidence that the lower modules were destroyed during take-off. The entire landing sites are now buried in dust, leaving no trace of the landings.
Besides that, the article clearly states that all conspiracy theorists believe that robots were sent instead, because humans could never withstand the radiation and intense vacuum of space. Even if a telescope could be trained on some pile of trash and junk on the moon, it would still be impossible to prove that it was the result of human activity.
This could have a positive impact on the homeless population too. Imagine the dirty bum sauntering down the street, a chime sounding when he passes places to urinate in public, score some dope, sleep, pick up a hooker, or rob someone. The cart could even direct the direlect to prime places to spare for change and pan-handle.
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Actually, keys such as Home, Delete, Page Up, etc. are harder to find on a laptop. Every time I get a new system, I have to hunt around to find these often-used keys.
It's also a question of alignment. When getting used to a new keyboard, I often find myself hitting 'f' instead of 'd' and others. Especially in the dark.
On the other hand, this is yet another opportunity for all the ricers with little or no mechanical skills to further trick out their PCs/cars/dorm rooms. It's all the same useless crap.
Not quite what I had in mind. Refer to this and this; neither one is equiped with a skirt or any sort. Also, I recall reading about a model capable of operating at a height of several meters, though I can't find that reference at the moment.
I'm an engineer too, and even I think that was a bit much. That all could have been dumbed down and summarized for the slashdot crowd (average education level: high school) in a paragraph or less.
I'm not familiar with the 'half-wingspan' rule-of-thumb for significant ground effect phenomena. Wouldn't other simple factors, such as Reynold's number, aspect ratio, etc. be more important? It seems that the ground effect boats entering ferry service operate a bit higher than half-wingspan.
But what do I know, aerodynamics is not my area, and this is slashdot.
Could this be used for evil world domination purposes??
Only unprofessional code, such as the linux kernel. This sort of thing would get a developer fired in any other situation.
Ugh. I hope that this is not what I can expect to happen with Firefly within the next few years. * VOMIT *
This first post is vaporware!
The last thing I need is to strap myself into the toolspace of some industrial robot. Last time I checked, carneys can't do inverse kinematics.
I'm not kidding, it worked fine for me. Strong tech sector, affordable housing, good wages for engineers, friendly people, world class recreation (biking, skiing, hiking, climbing, etc.) I was glad to escape California, it didn't even take much adjusting: considering the fact that most of the people living in my neighborhood are from California.
You know, I don't have the endless time to waste like our resident celebrity trolls. I'm a busy engineer, and speed trolling is all I have time for. YOU EXPECT QUALITY?? IN SOVIET RUSSIA ...
If you take a laptop into places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Somolia, or Kenya, powering it will be the least of your problems. You'll find yourself in a shallow grave in no time. And your laptop will be sold for about $1.34 to the nearest warlord.
Unfortunately, this technology is only practical for use with very small systems. Sure, it might be able to cool a small ice cream cone, but this sort of system has no hope of scaling to the point that it cool 45 kg of groceries. Because of diminishing returns, the amount of power consumed would far outstrip the power needed for conventional Rankine cycle refrigeration units. However, this technology could be used in a laboratory to cool substances down to about -450 C. Very interesting indeed.
Vhaaat a kuunntreee!
Haley Joel Osment was not performing in AI. Haley Joel Osment is a robot. Hasn't anyone noticed that he hasn't aged in the past ten years??
If you're serious about it, this might be a great resource. Came in quite handy when I visited Iraq last year to smuggle nuclear material.
First off, this is not surprising, being that there is a lot of old crap in Mexico. What is surprising, however, is that they cite evidence of migration from a land bridge previously existing between Siberia -> Alaska. Everyone knows that humans have alway migrated out of Mexico, not in. I have seen this myself in the suburbs of San Diego. Furthermore, what's to say that this skull find isn't really a snitch killed by the mafia or somesuch??
Something about the gratuitous nudity, filthy planets, and entire orbits filled with space trash.. hrmm.
Actually, I read a lot of Clarke when I was a kid. I've always thought that songs of a distant Earth was great reading for a gloomy teenager. Just think: endless dust, and Earth at 6.5 billion years.
The system is only capable of tattooing arms, what about people who wish to have a big dragon tattooed on their chest? Or a large skull on their back?? What about MOM with an anchor on their ass???
Not so. In fact, many of the developments first applied to games are usually directly applied to the medical field and other visualization fields.
SCOOBY DO
* shudder *
This wouldn't work. Not only would the local atmospheric disturbance make it impossible to focus on the landing site, but there was evidence that the lower modules were destroyed during take-off. The entire landing sites are now buried in dust, leaving no trace of the landings.
Besides that, the article clearly states that all conspiracy theorists believe that robots were sent instead, because humans could never withstand the radiation and intense vacuum of space. Even if a telescope could be trained on some pile of trash and junk on the moon, it would still be impossible to prove that it was the result of human activity.
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This coming from someone with the nickname flatface. Suddenly, the entire world makes sense.
This could have a positive impact on the homeless population too. Imagine the dirty bum sauntering down the street, a chime sounding when he passes places to urinate in public, score some dope, sleep, pick up a hooker, or rob someone. The cart could even direct the direlect to prime places to spare for change and pan-handle.
I can't wait to see these things in Las Vegas.
No, he means price to performance ratio.
0 / 0 = boom