There is a very large difference in efficiency between helis and fixed wings. Try switching to a high glide ratio fixed wing aircraft and run power consumption calculations on that. There were several project that used solar, including a NASA one that was designed for indefinite solar powered flight.
Another good candidate to get more range from a vehicle that small is Microwave power, although it's more oriented towards larger get up high and loiter type drones.
I'd be more interested in what optics solution they're using to get decent intel out of a unit that small. They'd have to have some sort of image stabilization, and the engine better be mounted on a decent cushion to kill vibration. Are there any sensors that would fit in a package that small that can see through walls?
That was my immediate thought too. The problem is, the corporations fighting the case Want patents to continue because they've each built up their own costly portfolio of them. Even if new laws are proposed, the congressmen are in the pockets of those same corporations. The end result is a little money lost in lawsuits and no meaningful change to the laws.
Actually in the 1800's Arms were not limited to mere smoothbore guns. They had private ships armed with cannons.
As to being in the possession of anti-air weapons, the difference is that our society did not mature with private citizens owning them. If it had, our airports would be structured differently, our aircraft would be smaller and more maneuverable, and they would have anti-missile systems and ejection seats.
Heh, now that I think about I'd feel a whole lot SAFER in that kind of a present.
And I'll turn around and tell you to shut up. If you don't, I'll request the manager have you evicted. Anyone that tramples someone else on the way out should be held responsible for their actions. Don't go messing with our free speech to ensure your safety. "He who would sacrifice liberty for safety deserves neither." - Ben Franklin
No, add an analog track to the CD. Use it to error correct/average/overlay the digital copy. The quality of the output would end up being much higher than 44k/16 and would be impossible to reproduce using standard equipment. You could have several analog tracks, including one to restore the dynamic range that was destroyed by the nasty compression used by the commercial pablum producers. It would require a new type of CD player, but all you gotta do is pitch it as a business opportunity.
By adding an analog correction track and keeping the digital track, you maintain backwards compatibility. It can even be done with one read head. You just need to buffer the entire song first.
Interesting... so what you're saying is that music needs to go back to analog. Preferably some format that can't easily be matched digitally. Probably something like analog CD with analog error correction, with much higher fidelity than CD. You'd get the old school $500 turntable audiophiles back, and the new audio crazies with their $500 wooden knobs. The analog CD would lose fidelity when sampled down to a mere 44k-16, so it would prompt people that liked the music to buy the CD. The trick is getting a good analog error correction algorithm that doesn't take up much space.
I only thought it was weird that messing with the liver did it. I thought they did it all the time with certain types of leukemia with big doses of radiation, by killing off the patients existing immune system and then doing a bone marrow transplant. Maybe I misunderstood and they were using relatives to donate the bone marrow?
Dude... "Get out of the car, get back in the car." It's a classic.
Haven't heard it before? Here goes: A mechanical engineer, hydraulic engineer, electrical engineer and a computer programmer were riding together in the car, and it stops. They all get out and look at the car. The mechanical engineer checks the tires, the hydraulic engineer checks the brakes, and the electrical engineer checks the voltage on the battery. The computer programmer goes "Guys cmon, all we gotta do is get out of the car and get back in the car". They get back in the car, it starts right back up and they're on their way.
I would say its more about the easy migration path to Windows. See if all those linux users can see that it's easy to get the same experience running windows, they can be tempted back to windows slowly, before they're forced to use Explorer. After all, our DRM features will enable distribution of quality movies to their unwashed eyes, the rock-solid stability of our oh so shiny new Windows version, and the ability to host quality web content should definitely lock them into the Windows platform. After they get comfortable using Windows, we can coerce our gaming development partners to create new games that (due to cheat prevention mis-identification) will force them to use Explorer. Then it will simply be a matter of Security to require a reboot when switching between KDE and Explorer. After that, they're hooked I tell you Hooked! We PWN them, they are OURS! Muahahahahaa.
Using the LAN MAC address as the admin password is almost as stupid as using admin as the password. LAN MAC address is burned into an EEProm at time of manufacture. It is also reset to "Factory Default" when you reset the box. It should be trivial to burn a randomized default password at the same time, store it in a database and print it on the manual. If the customer calls up with an unresponsive router, customer service can read them the password out of the db.
Anarchy Online has been doing this for quite a while. They have two playfields, Rubi-Ka (free + ads) and the Shadowlands (paid). When you subscribe you have the option to shut off billboards. A few months ago they introduced a place to buy perks for your paid characters. They included stuff like vanity vehicles and pets. The game is totally awesome and sucked me in for over a year.
There are a couple of problems with the paid/non-paid system though: > Billboard system was very annoying and intrusive. They have the opportunity to make interactive, non-intrusive billboards and chose to make plain jane traditional ones with extremely loud sound that can't be disabled. > Paid players have HUGE advantages over non-paid players in weapon capabilities. This totally breaks PVP between them. They should allow paid players to sell items from the Shadowlands to free players to even the playing field, make weapons from SL less effective when PVPing, or have a global Paid vs Non-paid PVP damage differential nerf.
It's great way to try out a game to see if you like it. If you play it for a month and still like it, you can subscribe. Don't upgrade your current account though, make a new account and upgrade it. You can dual-log and buff yourself/mule etc, and leveling paid chars is at least 2x as fast as non-paid.
I was using a little ISP that was seriously overselling their bandwith, and got disconnected from them. Their terms of service had all the usual terms about not running servers, but they also included no VPN, VOIP, P2P, etc. So I followed the rules, only played TFC, D2, surfed websites etc. However, I was unemployed at the time, so was using it for a significant number of hours per day. They blocked me one day, so I called them up.
>Me: What's going on, did my internet got blocked? >Them: Hang on, let me check... >... >... >Them: Are you on like all the time? >Me: Yes >... >Them: Oh. One moment... >... >Them: Ok, you should be back online.
Just sorting them isn't enough. Cable modems have these rather large outgoing buffers, and when they fill up your latency goes upwards of 400ms. You also need rate filtering on outgoing bandwidth to keep this problem in check.
Use Freenet. They don't (can't) know what their caching (plausible deniability), it's Free (as in speech), and a node can be situated close each cluster of users. If someone were to create an ad-blocking proxy site on Freenet browsing the web would become 3x faster.
Unfortunately there must be some secrets, especially with the military. See with secrets comes uncertainty; the enemy doesn't know how many of which you have, and will be reluctant to risk an attack without a reasonable expectation of success. Unfortunately this would extend to protecting the secrecy of some of the presidents actions, which of course leads to abuse. I don't think such a simple solution is adequate for our needs.
Most self respecting geeks upon receiving their new DOS PC immediately edited config.sys to remove ansi.sys. Exactly! That was the first method of virus protection for Ansi bombs.
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There is a very large difference in efficiency between helis and fixed wings. Try switching to a high glide ratio fixed wing aircraft and run power consumption calculations on that. There were several project that used solar, including a NASA one that was designed for indefinite solar powered flight.
Another good candidate to get more range from a vehicle that small is Microwave power, although it's more oriented towards larger get up high and loiter type drones.
I'd be more interested in what optics solution they're using to get decent intel out of a unit that small. They'd have to have some sort of image stabilization, and the engine better be mounted on a decent cushion to kill vibration. Are there any sensors that would fit in a package that small that can see through walls?
That was my immediate thought too.
The problem is, the corporations fighting the case Want patents to continue because they've each built up their own costly portfolio of them. Even if new laws are proposed, the congressmen are in the pockets of those same corporations. The end result is a little money lost in lawsuits and no meaningful change to the laws.
And for the female version:
Hiiiiii.
Does this skirt make me look fat?
I know you do, what do you think you do that I know you do but don't?
Would you get the door for me please?
Nothing can go right, go right, go right.
What is HER deal?
I KNOW, it's totally like, like I mean GOSH that's so bad, I mean it's really good but it's SOOOO bad!
Bite my shiny metal ass!
Having the citizens revolt would be even more catastrophic. Raise the taxes high enough and we will.
They already have this for going down from above.
Actually in the 1800's Arms were not limited to mere smoothbore guns. They had private ships armed with cannons.
As to being in the possession of anti-air weapons, the difference is that our society did not mature with private citizens owning them. If it had, our airports would be structured differently, our aircraft would be smaller and more maneuverable, and they would have anti-missile systems and ejection seats.
Heh, now that I think about I'd feel a whole lot SAFER in that kind of a present.
And I'll turn around and tell you to shut up. If you don't, I'll request the manager have you evicted. Anyone that tramples someone else on the way out should be held responsible for their actions.
Don't go messing with our free speech to ensure your safety.
"He who would sacrifice liberty for safety deserves neither." - Ben Franklin
No, add an analog track to the CD. Use it to error correct/average/overlay the digital copy. The quality of the output would end up being much higher than 44k/16 and would be impossible to reproduce using standard equipment. You could have several analog tracks, including one to restore the dynamic range that was destroyed by the nasty compression used by the commercial pablum producers.
It would require a new type of CD player, but all you gotta do is pitch it as a business opportunity.
By adding an analog correction track and keeping the digital track, you maintain backwards compatibility. It can even be done with one read head. You just need to buffer the entire song first.
Interesting... so what you're saying is that music needs to go back to analog. Preferably some format that can't easily be matched digitally. Probably something like analog CD with analog error correction, with much higher fidelity than CD. You'd get the old school $500 turntable audiophiles back, and the new audio crazies with their $500 wooden knobs. The analog CD would lose fidelity when sampled down to a mere 44k-16, so it would prompt people that liked the music to buy the CD. The trick is getting a good analog error correction algorithm that doesn't take up much space.
I really like Baen. When I'm browsing the used book stores I keep an eye out for their logo. Even if it's old and cheesy it's still interesting.
The trick to preventing an AI from taking over the world is to make several of them.
Then they form a committee.
Game over.
There is another way to cure Crohns disease, a hookworm infestation.
I would try that long before I did one of those invasive methods.
I only thought it was weird that messing with the liver did it. I thought they did it all the time with certain types of leukemia with big doses of radiation, by killing off the patients existing immune system and then doing a bone marrow transplant. Maybe I misunderstood and they were using relatives to donate the bone marrow?
http://www.neurologyreviews.com/dec04/nr_dec04_bonemarrow.html
http://www.chemcases.com/cisplat/cisplat20.htm
Dude... "Get out of the car, get back in the car." It's a classic.
Haven't heard it before? Here goes:
A mechanical engineer, hydraulic engineer, electrical engineer and a computer programmer were riding together in the car, and it stops. They all get out and look at the car. The mechanical engineer checks the tires, the hydraulic engineer checks the brakes, and the electrical engineer checks the voltage on the battery. The computer programmer goes "Guys cmon, all we gotta do is get out of the car and get back in the car". They get back in the car, it starts right back up and they're on their way.
I would say its more about the easy migration path to Windows. See if all those linux users can see that it's easy to get the same experience running windows, they can be tempted back to windows slowly, before they're forced to use Explorer. After all, our DRM features will enable distribution of quality movies to their unwashed eyes, the rock-solid stability of our oh so shiny new Windows version, and the ability to host quality web content should definitely lock them into the Windows platform. After they get comfortable using Windows, we can coerce our gaming development partners to create new games that (due to cheat prevention mis-identification) will force them to use Explorer. Then it will simply be a matter of Security to require a reboot when switching between KDE and Explorer. After that, they're hooked I tell you Hooked! We PWN them, they are OURS! Muahahahahaa.
/evil ms manager rant>
And unlike the current SS, the Space Trucks price will go down every launch.
Using the LAN MAC address as the admin password is almost as stupid as using admin as the password.
LAN MAC address is burned into an EEProm at time of manufacture. It is also reset to "Factory Default" when you reset the box. It should be trivial to burn a randomized default password at the same time, store it in a database and print it on the manual.
If the customer calls up with an unresponsive router, customer service can read them the password out of the db.
Anarchy Online has been doing this for quite a while. They have two playfields, Rubi-Ka (free + ads) and the Shadowlands (paid). When you subscribe you have the option to shut off billboards. A few months ago they introduced a place to buy perks for your paid characters. They included stuff like vanity vehicles and pets.
The game is totally awesome and sucked me in for over a year.
There are a couple of problems with the paid/non-paid system though:
> Billboard system was very annoying and intrusive. They have the opportunity to make interactive, non-intrusive billboards and chose to make plain jane traditional ones with extremely loud sound that can't be disabled.
> Paid players have HUGE advantages over non-paid players in weapon capabilities. This totally breaks PVP between them. They should allow paid players to sell items from the Shadowlands to free players to even the playing field, make weapons from SL less effective when PVPing, or have a global Paid vs Non-paid PVP damage differential nerf.
It's great way to try out a game to see if you like it. If you play it for a month and still like it, you can subscribe. Don't upgrade your current account though, make a new account and upgrade it. You can dual-log and buff yourself/mule etc, and leveling paid chars is at least 2x as fast as non-paid.
I was using a little ISP that was seriously overselling their bandwith, and got disconnected from them. Their terms of service had all the usual terms about not running servers, but they also included no VPN, VOIP, P2P, etc. So I followed the rules, only played TFC, D2, surfed websites etc. However, I was unemployed at the time, so was using it for a significant number of hours per day. They blocked me one day, so I called them up.
:)
>Me: What's going on, did my internet got blocked?
>Them: Hang on, let me check...
>...
>...
>Them: Are you on like all the time?
>Me: Yes
>...
>Them: Oh. One moment...
>...
>Them: Ok, you should be back online.
That pause after the yes was priceless
Just sorting them isn't enough. Cable modems have these rather large outgoing buffers, and when they fill up your latency goes upwards of 400ms. You also need rate filtering on outgoing bandwidth to keep this problem in check.
Use Freenet. They don't (can't) know what their caching (plausible deniability), it's Free (as in speech), and a node can be situated close each cluster of users. If someone were to create an ad-blocking proxy site on Freenet browsing the web would become 3x faster.
Unfortunately there must be some secrets, especially with the military. See with secrets comes uncertainty; the enemy doesn't know how many of which you have, and will be reluctant to risk an attack without a reasonable expectation of success. Unfortunately this would extend to protecting the secrecy of some of the presidents actions, which of course leads to abuse. I don't think such a simple solution is adequate for our needs.
Haha, I had to read the first couple of paragraphs of the inspiration for ratpoison before I figured out what it was talking about.
Rail or Light Gas Gun