Was the girl chinese? Just wondering if it's partly due to culture (parents or something).
I prefer 'asshole' women. Someone assertive that I can push against and feel resistance. Sometimes she pisses me off and I get angry, but she just gets angry too and pushes back. So we both get angry, let out steam, cool off, and next day everything is cool. I'm not sure if I could cope with a fragile girl.
Having said that, when she gets angry I tend to just run away until she cools down;)
My brother used to work in a bowling place. He threw one of those bowling balls against the wall, and it broke. Those things aren't as strong as they look.
Ah. Yeah I use (or rather work against) swelling in holography. (It's my phd) I didn't really know how colours are formed for normal film. With holography film, the color doesn't always shift back after the film dries, but that's quite an involved topic. Getting the drying right can be a pita.
Couldn't you use normal film, then develop in warm developer (say 35 degrees C) and use chemical swelling to change the color? That would shift the frequency down. No idea if that works with normal film or not..
What do you mean "using EM to look inside my house" ? It is your house (the TV) that is doing the emitting. They are simply outside in the road picking up that transmission.
LCD and plasma TVs are kind of tricky for this, bcos they don't have the same hardware and so may not be detectable. PCs with TV cards are also not detectable, bcos a PC monitor runs at a different frequency, and also there's no way of proving a PC is being used to watch TV.
If my understand is correct, you're wrong:P
The detector vans detect the 1st order of the fourier transform of the wave that's emitted by the card to select the channel you want. Consider a big strong wave, then a high frequency weak wave added on top of it. This is what's emitted for tv/radio for each channel.
You can consider this as having a bar, then tying on several springs with a mass underneath each spring. Like so:
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| | | |
Z Z Z Z
| | | |
o o o o
Where Z is my ascii spring, and the o is my weight:)
The TV card/radio simply "vibrate the rod" at a certain frequency. You can see that if the different springs have different harmonics, then they will only respond (i.e. oscillate) if you vibrate the rod at the right frequency. So each channel requires a different frequency, and the circuitry tunes out just one channel by doing this. Then you can subtract that frequency by basically generating a wave of the same frequency but 90 degrees out of phase. What is left is the weak signal. This goes through a AC-DC, and bingo, your data signal.
A detector van simply detects this counter wave that you generate. This means they can pick up a tv/computer/video recorder/etc and know what channel you were watching.
As students, we get sent round a leaflet every year saying what our rights our about TV licensing. It's always clear that you do not have to let them in. However they can usually check from outside, just by listening for the emitted frequencies.
From what I understand of Feynman's lectures, this ties in with lenses I think.
Consider a photon going through a lens. Why does it bend? Because it's taking the quickest path from A to B. In the same way a human wanting to save someone drowning would run along the beach first before entering the water, rather than taking a straightline.
This can be explained as a photon taking all possible paths, and the shortest path is basically where all the probabilities add up nicely. A diffraction pattern of sorts.
What's wrong with "buying a service" instead? Just because you want to help others doesn't mean you can't help yourself as well. Consider all the aid workers that get paid to do their work.
KDE uses KDialogBase for dialogs, and it is totally up to the user which way round the Ok/Cancel buttons go. There's an option for it somewhere. ( Not sure if it's modifyable via a GUI, but it is modifyable).
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/c vs -api/kdeui/html/classKDialogBase.html#_details
One reason I think is for right-to-left languages. Not sure if it swaps them round for that or not.
A grating was my first thought. It only needs to be very very thin. Basically the idea is to have a micrometer thick layer that looks like this:
\ \ \ \ \ \
You can image the \ is a gap, and the white space is some material. Only light with the correct angle will fit perfectly into the gap and be bounced back.
This is roughly how holograms work, and is called a diffraction grating. (A grating produced from the diffraction between the object light and some reference light)
Another thought is that they use the brusters angle somehow. If the light is polarised, it would appear brightest (or dimmest, depending on which way is polarised) at exactly 34 degrees to the plate. (For glass that is anyway).
Holographic means that you are producing/storing a diffraction grating. It doesn't even mean it looks 3D (like the 3D laptop screens - they just have 2 images, that's not holographic).
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Uh, you make it whichever way you want it to be. Just because there's more than one way to design it doesn't mean it's ambiguous.
ambiguous?
It's a non-story because it's only affecting universities!? Dude, you've been in china too long.
What facts wrong? You use ulimit to set process quotas. Go look up on a dictionary what quota means.
Was the girl chinese? Just wondering if it's partly due to culture (parents or something).
;)
I prefer 'asshole' women. Someone assertive that I can push against and feel resistance. Sometimes she pisses me off and I get angry, but she just gets angry too and pushes back. So we both get angry, let out steam, cool off, and next day everything is cool. I'm not sure if I could cope with a fragile girl.
Having said that, when she gets angry I tend to just run away until she cools down
My brother used to work in a bowling place. He threw one of those bowling balls against the wall, and it broke. Those things aren't as strong as they look.
Ah, the sound of another microsoft excuser whining "but everyone else doing iiiittt!".
Gnumeric's .gnumeric file is a single xml file that also has 3rd party programs that can generate the xml file and manipulate it.
Ah. Yeah I use (or rather work against) swelling in holography. (It's my phd) I didn't really know how colours are formed for normal film.
With holography film, the color doesn't always shift back after the film dries, but that's quite an involved topic. Getting the drying right can be a pita.
Couldn't you use normal film, then develop in warm developer (say 35 degrees C) and use chemical swelling to change the color? That would shift the frequency down.
No idea if that works with normal film or not..
Lol. I thought the exact opposite. I want to watch something with a story, and not stupid pod races and hours of light sabre fights.
Even RMS says that he's fighting for a 10 year copyright ownership on music.
I always wondered how much of the leakage goes through the aeriel.
What do you mean "using EM to look inside my house" ? It is your house (the TV) that is doing the emitting. They are simply outside in the road picking up that transmission.
LCD and plasma TVs are kind of tricky for this, bcos they don't have the same hardware and so may not be detectable. PCs with TV cards are also not detectable, bcos a PC monitor runs at a different frequency, and also there's no way of proving a PC is being used to watch TV.
:P
:)
If my understand is correct, you're wrong
The detector vans detect the 1st order of the fourier transform of the wave that's emitted by the card to select the channel you want.
Consider a big strong wave, then a high frequency weak wave added on top of it. This is what's emitted for tv/radio for each channel.
You can consider this as having a bar, then tying on several springs with a mass underneath each spring. Like so:
----------
| | | |
Z Z Z Z
| | | |
o o o o
Where Z is my ascii spring, and the o is my weight
The TV card/radio simply "vibrate the rod" at a certain frequency. You can see that if the different springs have different harmonics, then they will only respond (i.e. oscillate) if you vibrate the rod at the right frequency.
So each channel requires a different frequency, and the circuitry tunes out just one channel by doing this. Then you can subtract that frequency by basically generating a wave of the same frequency but 90 degrees out of phase.
What is left is the weak signal. This goes through a AC-DC, and bingo, your data signal.
A detector van simply detects this counter wave that you generate. This means they can pick up a tv/computer/video recorder/etc and know what channel you were watching.
No, TV Licensing people can not enter your home.
As students, we get sent round a leaflet every year saying what our rights our about TV licensing. It's always clear that you do not have to let them in. However they can usually check from outside, just by listening for the emitted frequencies.
While I agree with you, I think it's best to use open arms etc. It is good for us on many levels for companies to do this, ulteria motives or not.
From what I understand of Feynman's lectures, this ties in with lenses I think.
:)
Consider a photon going through a lens. Why does it bend? Because it's taking the quickest path from A to B. In the same way a human wanting to save someone drowning would run along the beach first before entering the water, rather than taking a straightline.
This can be explained as a photon taking all possible paths, and the shortest path is basically where all the probabilities add up nicely. A diffraction pattern of sorts.
At least that's how I understood it
What's wrong with "buying a service" instead?
Just because you want to help others doesn't mean you can't help yourself as well. Consider all the aid workers that get paid to do their work.
KDE uses KDialogBase for dialogs, and it is totally up to the user which way round the Ok/Cancel buttons go. There's an option for it somewhere. ( Not sure if it's modifyable via a GUI, but it is modifyable).
c vs -api/kdeui/html/classKDialogBase.html#_details
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/
One reason I think is for right-to-left languages. Not sure if it swaps them round for that or not.
Heh yeah. The funny thing is that I was editing that wikipedia page the day before.
w00t, we know how they do it then :)
Heh, email me - john @ geola.co .uk
A grating was my first thought. It only needs to be very very thin. Basically the idea is to have a micrometer thick layer that looks like this:
\ \ \ \ \ \
You can image the \ is a gap, and the white space is some material. Only light with the correct angle will fit perfectly into the gap and be bounced back.
This is roughly how holograms work, and is called a diffraction grating. (A grating produced from the diffraction between the object light and some reference light)
Another thought is that they use the brusters angle somehow. If the light is polarised, it would appear brightest (or dimmest, depending on which way is polarised) at exactly 34 degrees to the plate. (For glass that is anyway).
Exactly.
:)
Holographic means that you are producing/storing a diffraction grating. It doesn't even mean it looks 3D (like the 3D laptop screens - they just have 2 images, that's not holographic).
Btw, my job is to make holograms