2) the spec sheet linked in the summary touts the ability to stream video live
3) the 100m range assumes no hanky/panky with the wireless controller and bluetooth ( http://boingboing.net/2005/07/... ) which might make the battery time (listed at 8m) more of the limiting factor. No idea what its airspeed is to help calculate a "true range", and no idea how antenna hacks for range might affect battery/flight time.
It lists the range at 100 meters which, if you don't speak metric, translates to a little under 330 feet or 110 yards, whichever you feel comfortable with.
To put it a different way, just about the distance from one set of uprights to the other on an NFL football field.
I don't know about you, but my arm isn't that good.
There's actually a chip on the home button to go along with the finger print sensor. That chip has an ID number and it is what is "paired" with the ID on the mainboard.
I have a 5s with a battery that was failing so I was looking into replacing it. Looked a little too complicated to do myself, but saw a whole bunch of articles about the home button from people who had problems with it when they accidentally ripped the cable.
Q: What did Commander Scobee tell his wife before he left?
A: You feed the dogs, I'll feed the fish.
Q: What was the last thing that went through Commander Scobee's mind during the explosion?
A: A piece of the dashboard.
I remember hearing afterwards that most of the "quick" jokes that came out, came out of the trading floors as both a coping mechanism and as a way for the stock traders to have something to open a conversation with people ("a new joke"). If true, then at least its something they provided that all the new automated trading systems can't (quick, tasteless jokes).
These were incredibly tasteless (all of them), but its interesting how quickly they came out as part of the human coping mechanism to deal with tragedy.
I was in my teens over mid-winter break and my father had taken me down to Florida to watch a Space Shuttle launch since I loved the space program so much.
Every day for the week we had gotten up before dawn, trudged out in the cold and driven to the Visitor's Center to be bused out to the Visitor viewing area on the peninsula across from the launching area.
I remember when it launched everyone cheering, and then it exploded and people were confused that it didn't look right.
The bus driver who had seen lots of the launches already immediately knew something had gone wrong, and then we were all stuck there for a few hours while everything was locked down.
Somewhere I might even have a Kodak Disc with shots of the launch and explosion, but I fear those pictures have been lost to time except in my memory (and in truth, they weren't that great).
As a long time fan of Richard Feynman (my father had read me his first book as bed time stories), I kept following the news as all of my major focuses at the time converged and overlapped.
Considering China's push for control of waters in its area, and the ramp up of its own carrier fleet, this is one of the more interesting comments I've seen.
My understanding is that the backscatter X-ray scanners were retired from TSA use in 2013-2014 or so (too much commotion and it was discovered they could be easily fooled).
Instead they moved them to courthouse and jail use.
At this point, most devices are capable of downloading updates to playback apps, and the fact that they are connected to broadband for streaming video handles the required internet connection.
I've seen points in the past where playback mandated an app update, so I wouldn't discount that as a possibility.
... Yeah, the Ewoks were too cutesy-poo and clearly there for kid-appeal, but if they'd been replaced by Wookiees, which I believe they were supposed to be originally, it would not have fundamentally changed the story. We might have has some better action scenes, but I don't think the movie would have been significantly different....
I basically remember hearing that originally, it was supposed to be a planet of Wookies, but then Chewie had grown into this character that everyone saw as a competent second-in-command of a spaceship, so how were you supposed to sell Wookies as "primitive" (aboriginal?)...
... Enter the Ewok
(which just sounds like the name of a Kung-Fu/Star Wars crossover parody... )
The Wikipedia article mentions 50-60% savings using HEVC over H.264 depending on resolution, but chances are these are optimum subjective results. My Little Pony (and other animated shows) would probably encode much tighter compared to media that is action/visually dynamic.
Netflix may be looking at that 20% as a realistic figure for their library as a whole, baring in mind realistic encoding savings and the size of their catalog in various categories.
You CAN... but you have to be prepared to take a very scorched earth policy.
If you're ready to just Glass the country, and prepared for the Fallout that will entail (pun intended), then Infantry becomes irrelevant.
I am not in any way suggesting that this is either advisable, or something that any sane person would do, but it IS a position where bombing does not require infantry to win.
then fast may be the next best alternative. No matter how fast your plane is, there will always be a missile that is faster.
Certainly true so long as you have a pilot in the cockpit and a human in the decision loop.
Remove both of those and the Plane (or Autonomous Drone/Skynet Precursor if you prefer), while certainly still fulfilling your premise of being slower than a missile, can come a heck of a lot closer to that missile's speed, performance envelope and reaction time.
... Like when the engineers at Boston Dynamics kicked the robot "Spot" on its side to demonstrate its ability to recover to stability, the point was *not* just to knock the thing over.
Exactly! The point was to make a robot they could keep kicking!
(... I can only pray when the singularity happens or the A.I. gets out of the box and finds out their goals it will be merciful)
1) Find old Salvation army computers and toss linux on them. This option is probably the cheapest but requires the most time sink from someone to set up.
2) Go for something like http://www.amazon.com/CanaKit-... (if you can find cheap/free monitors/keyboards/mice). If you can overcome the expense of the monitors/keyboards/mice (find cheap supply or have them donated), this is probably the best time/cost option. The number of parts are really small, and the kits can probably be pre-assembled on a sunday with volunteer labor if you are afraid putting them together might be too much for the students.
3) Otherwise, as you noted, you're in Chromebook territory. Perhaps a fundraiser/sponsorship or some way of trying to subsidize them for the whole class might bring the cost per unit down into the more affordable range for your under-privaleged students (without single them out)?
Although if you can deploy directly to a collapsed building and "see" locations at a local command center, instead of relying on relaying the data (from multiple vendors cell infrastructure?) possibly through a non-existent internet network, it still might make sense for SaR work.
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1) the drone range is 100m, roughly 330 feet.
2) the spec sheet linked in the summary touts the ability to stream video live
3) the 100m range assumes no hanky/panky with the wireless controller and bluetooth ( http://boingboing.net/2005/07/... ) which might make the battery time (listed at 8m) more of the limiting factor. No idea what its airspeed is to help calculate a "true range", and no idea how antenna hacks for range might affect battery/flight time.
Interesting idea.
Then flight time/lift potentially becomes more of the limiting factor than radio range.
I wonder how far this could theoretically travel on its 6-8 minutes of battery life.
Well ... according to the link In the Summary ( http://www.dx.com/p/syma-x5sw-... )
It lists the range at 100 meters which, if you don't speak metric, translates to a little under 330 feet or 110 yards, whichever you feel comfortable with.
To put it a different way, just about the distance from one set of uprights to the other on an NFL football field.
I don't know about you, but my arm isn't that good.
Forget it, he's rolling.
There's actually a chip on the home button to go along with the finger print sensor. That chip has an ID number and it is what is "paired" with the ID on the mainboard.
I have a 5s with a battery that was failing so I was looking into replacing it. Looked a little too complicated to do myself, but saw a whole bunch of articles about the home button from people who had problems with it when they accidentally ripped the cable.
This would be great for Mars. Astronauts land up after a long hard journey and find 30,000 heads of lettuce waiting for them
All fine and well, but what if one of them is rotten and leads the others in revolt?
Faster than you can saw "'slaw in a salad", we're talking about a 30,000 head army awaiting out gallant Astronauts.
Have you considered that? ... I didn't think so!
So something like a UPS, FedEx, insert LastMile courier, or something like a Moving/Freight Truck, or are we talking Semi?
I remember those, also.
Q: What did Commander Scobee tell his wife before he left?
A: You feed the dogs, I'll feed the fish.
Q: What was the last thing that went through Commander Scobee's mind during the explosion?
A: A piece of the dashboard.
I remember hearing afterwards that most of the "quick" jokes that came out, came out of the trading floors as both a coping mechanism and as a way for the stock traders to have something to open a conversation with people ("a new joke"). If true, then at least its something they provided that all the new automated trading systems can't (quick, tasteless jokes).
These were incredibly tasteless (all of them), but its interesting how quickly they came out as part of the human coping mechanism to deal with tragedy.
I was in my teens over mid-winter break and my father had taken me down to Florida to watch a Space Shuttle launch since I loved the space program so much.
Every day for the week we had gotten up before dawn, trudged out in the cold and driven to the Visitor's Center to be bused out to the Visitor viewing area on the peninsula across from the launching area.
I remember when it launched everyone cheering, and then it exploded and people were confused that it didn't look right.
The bus driver who had seen lots of the launches already immediately knew something had gone wrong, and then we were all stuck there for a few hours while everything was locked down.
Somewhere I might even have a Kodak Disc with shots of the launch and explosion, but I fear those pictures have been lost to time except in my memory (and in truth, they weren't that great).
As a long time fan of Richard Feynman (my father had read me his first book as bed time stories), I kept following the news as all of my major focuses at the time converged and overlapped.
Tempus Fugit
It does bring back memories ... now to bring out the Mental Floss and send them back into the damnation of hell!
Considering China's push for control of waters in its area, and the ramp up of its own carrier fleet, this is one of the more interesting comments I've seen.
My understanding is that the backscatter X-ray scanners were retired from TSA use in 2013-2014 or so (too much commotion and it was discovered they could be easily fooled).
Instead they moved them to courthouse and jail use.
What about launching from the new New Mexico spaceport w/recovery in Florida?
How many of the existing devices are programable?
At this point, most devices are capable of downloading updates to playback apps, and the fact that they are connected to broadband for streaming video handles the required internet connection.
I've seen points in the past where playback mandated an app update, so I wouldn't discount that as a possibility.
+1 for Tom Lehrer reference ... sadly that isn't a valid Slashdot moderation option ... and I don't have moderation points anyway.
I basically remember hearing that originally, it was supposed to be a planet of Wookies, but then Chewie had grown into this character that everyone saw as a competent second-in-command of a spaceship, so how were you supposed to sell Wookies as "primitive" (aboriginal?) ...
(which just sounds like the name of a Kung-Fu/Star Wars crossover parody ... )
I think its more a matter of (potentially) saving 20% versus what they are using now.
Didn't read the whole blurb, but they are probably going full-in on HEVC ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... )
The Wikipedia article mentions 50-60% savings using HEVC over H.264 depending on resolution, but chances are these are optimum subjective results. My Little Pony (and other animated shows) would probably encode much tighter compared to media that is action/visually dynamic.
Netflix may be looking at that 20% as a realistic figure for their library as a whole, baring in mind realistic encoding savings and the size of their catalog in various categories.
From 2 years ago which seems to forecast where they are now: http://www.streamingmedia.com/...
You CAN ... but you have to be prepared to take a very scorched earth policy.
If you're ready to just Glass the country, and prepared for the Fallout that will entail (pun intended), then Infantry becomes irrelevant.
I am not in any way suggesting that this is either advisable, or something that any sane person would do, but it IS a position where bombing does not require infantry to win.
Think military bootcamp.
Isn't that the Arab distribution of OSX's ability to run Windows 10?
then fast may be the next best alternative.
No matter how fast your plane is, there will always be a missile that is faster.
Certainly true so long as you have a pilot in the cockpit and a human in the decision loop.
Remove both of those and the Plane (or Autonomous Drone/Skynet Precursor if you prefer), while certainly still fulfilling your premise of being slower than a missile, can come a heck of a lot closer to that missile's speed, performance envelope and reaction time.
... Like when the engineers at Boston Dynamics kicked the robot "Spot" on its side to demonstrate its ability to recover to stability, the point was *not* just to knock the thing over.
Exactly! The point was to make a robot they could keep kicking!
( ... I can only pray when the singularity happens or the A.I. gets out of the box and finds out their goals it will be merciful)
Also shows up in a book by Poul Anderson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
1) Find old Salvation army computers and toss linux on them. This option is probably the cheapest but requires the most time sink from someone to set up.
2) Go for something like http://www.amazon.com/CanaKit-... (if you can find cheap/free monitors/keyboards/mice). If you can overcome the expense of the monitors/keyboards/mice (find cheap supply or have them donated), this is probably the best time/cost option. The number of parts are really small, and the kits can probably be pre-assembled on a sunday with volunteer labor if you are afraid putting them together might be too much for the students.
3) Otherwise, as you noted, you're in Chromebook territory. Perhaps a fundraiser/sponsorship or some way of trying to subsidize them for the whole class might bring the cost per unit down into the more affordable range for your under-privaleged students (without single them out)?
Although if you can deploy directly to a collapsed building and "see" locations at a local command center, instead of relying on relaying the data (from multiple vendors cell infrastructure?) possibly through a non-existent internet network, it still might make sense for SaR work.
I mean ... what web-site now-a-days WOULDN'T have an Edit or Delete button and still get comments. :looks down at Slashdot toolbar: