I wonder... would it be possible to build an automatic insect-tracking sensor using an array of microphoness, that automatically classifies insects by their sound-spectrum and locates them within the room by calculating their position from the phase-differences?
The Algorithms would be essentially the same as the ones used for nautical sonar tracking (of which a Free implementation exists). So all I'd need would be a strong Laser on an automatic turret. Or whatever I like to shoot at them litte bastards.
Sounds like a great a idea. Breakthrough. Revolutionary.
Until you learn that *the* major component of nearly all variants of white paint *already is* Titanum Dioxide. See for yourself how effective this method is.
So what are they going to to? Make the white houses even Whiter? Demand that all Windows be also covered in opaqe White layers?
Just use google.li, they provide the same results but without any censorship. Google.de appears to filter at least some radical Nazi sites an other forbidden conten for some time now.
The GEZ, who collects the monthly fee, is not a government organization (see many of the above comments for details). Therefore, they have no direct power to force you into paying the fees.
If you have not declared to them, how many radios / TVs you have in your home, they will send you a letter each Month, telling you to please do so. The letter's wording gets increasingly aggresive each time, but that's it.
Only after a long time of delaying your answer they will send a guy around to your home, to see for himself. And here comes the great part: Since they are not a government entity, they are not permitted to enter your home unless you allow them to. If you forbid it, bad luck.
This essentially means that you can postpone the fee indefinetely, which most of the people I know do.
Hmm Im thinking that if they managed to build this for 40 dollars, adding more digital cameras in a circular array one could make some very nice 3d rotating views of the aforementioned fleshy fruits exploding.
The guys from Frozen Reality have done it - they have a setup of 8 digital cameras in a semi-circle around the target.
Great 3D-Views of exploding balloons, shattering light bulbs (and other destructive events)
Nasa's project Helios (the unmanned solar-powered "flying wing") has had a similar Idea behind it:
Why clutter geostationary orbit when you can have unmanned planes circling metropolitian areas? Using solar power, these flying relays could operate nearly indefinitely at a fraction of the price.
The biggest problem that remains: What to do at night, when there is no sun powering the Solar Cells? Helios used Fuel Cells for backup power, but the technology is not yet advanced enough to sustain flight for longer than ~1 week.
I've been wondering for a long time whether it would be feasible to create any kind of liquid that is lighter than a gas. Imagine a room where blobs of fluid are floating around (just like in zero-g), while all other physical properties are at their "normal" states.
This would also simplify cpu cooling a lot - just immerse your cpu in the liquid (it would have to be perfectly fine-tuned to be just heavier than air at room temperature) and a small fountain would appear over the hot areas below.
Certainly a stylish way to cool your cpu, but I suspect the laws of physics prevent such a substance.
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I wonder... would it be possible to build an automatic insect-tracking sensor using an array of microphoness, that automatically classifies insects by their sound-spectrum and locates them within the room by calculating their position from the phase-differences?
The Algorithms would be essentially the same as the ones used for nautical sonar tracking (of which a Free implementation exists). So all I'd need would be a strong Laser on an automatic turret. Or whatever I like to shoot at them litte bastards.
Sounds like a great a idea. Breakthrough. Revolutionary.
Until you learn that *the* major component of nearly all variants of white paint *already is* Titanum Dioxide. See for yourself how effective this method is.
So what are they going to to? Make the white houses even Whiter? Demand that all Windows be also covered in opaqe White layers?
Just use google.li, they provide the same results but without any censorship. Google.de appears to filter at least some radical Nazi sites an other forbidden conten for some time now.
The GEZ, who collects the monthly fee, is not a government organization (see many of the above comments for details). Therefore, they have no direct power to force you into paying the fees.
If you have not declared to them, how many radios / TVs you have in your home, they will send you a letter each Month, telling you to please do so. The letter's wording gets increasingly aggresive each time, but that's it.
Only after a long time of delaying your answer they will send a guy around to your home, to see for himself. And here comes the great part: Since they are not a government entity, they are not permitted to enter your home unless you allow them to. If you forbid it, bad luck.
This essentially means that you can postpone the fee indefinetely, which most of the people I know do.
The guys from Frozen Reality have done it - they have a setup of 8 digital cameras in a semi-circle around the target.
Great 3D-Views of exploding balloons, shattering light bulbs (and other destructive events)
Using a quite similar approach, the guys from Frozen Reality take even more immpresive Pictures in 3D.
Their system is built from 8 identical digital cameras set up in a half-circle around the target object, all triggered by a single flash.
The images are processed my a morphing program and create stunning movies of exploding balloons, a metal ball crushing a stone plate etc.
Nasa's project Helios (the unmanned solar-powered "flying wing") has had a similar Idea behind it:
Why clutter geostationary orbit when you can have unmanned planes circling metropolitian areas? Using solar power, these flying relays could operate nearly indefinitely at a fraction of the price.
The biggest problem that remains: What to do at night, when there is no sun powering the Solar Cells? Helios used Fuel Cells for backup power, but the technology is not yet advanced enough to sustain flight for longer than ~1 week.
I've been wondering for a long time whether it would be feasible to create any kind of liquid that is lighter than a gas. Imagine a room where blobs of fluid are floating around (just like in zero-g), while all other physical properties are at their "normal" states.
This would also simplify cpu cooling a lot - just immerse your cpu in the liquid (it would have to be perfectly fine-tuned to be just heavier than air at room temperature) and a small fountain would appear over the hot areas below.
Certainly a stylish way to cool your cpu, but I suspect the laws of physics prevent such a substance.
Who knows what researchers come up with next.
... from presenting their evidence.
Every time they try to print the "offending code" their printer aborts with "DRM Error: You do not have permission to print this document."
Now they need all that money from the stock markets to buy the printer company.