Actually, it wouldn't be that hard to make sure nothing is communicating with the robots... just put them in a farady cage (you know, lots of grounded wire mesh)
+/- 6 meters isn't enough for locating a store in a mall? What mall are you in?
Anyways, differential GPS over IP is plenty enough accuracy for just about any application. You do not need much bandwidth at all to send a correction signal.
For example - there are parachutes, built for jet airliners, capable of safely bringing even a 747 or 757 to a safe(ish) landing, assuming enough altitude to slow the monster down.
First of all, this might work on planes that manage to have something like an engine fall off at high altitude, however this accident happened at low altitude. Second, you would need a hell of a lot of fabric (of some sort, probably some sort of high strength polyester) and "string" (kevlar most likely) to bring that large an airplane down safely, and it would have to be able to absorb the shock. That is very heavy and very bulky.
Another example - if a package holding eggs can be dropped from the top of the Empire State Building, and have the eggs intact at the bottom, you can figure that we know a lot about air resistance with various topologies, and that we know how to make a decent bubble-wrap. It should be possible to design an aircraft skin capable of absorbing significant amounts of energy, in the event of an impact.
Looks good on paper mainly, but is too heavy, and too expensive. If something blows off an airplane, air resistance predictability is screwed to hell and all aerodynamic calculations pretty much go out the window.
Lastly, aircraft are not built out of the safest of materials. Aluminium (aluminum for USians) burns with an intense ferocity. Those who remember the Falkland's War (damn it, it was a WAR, not a "Conflict") will remember the HMS Sheffield, which was built out of aluminium. One direct hit turned it into a giant, inescapable fireball. Many fireworks, and even some modern munitions, use aluminium as a component. Sure, it's light, but so are many other materials. Maybe it's time to change.
Aluminum is good for several reasons:
light
predictable
cheap
the problem with most alternatives is that their cons outweigh their pros when compared to aluminum
for example, magnesium, a metal that is even lighter than aluminum is more expensive, and burns even worse. However, aluminum and magnesium are both very hard (almost impossible) to ignite when in solid form. Fireworks have aluminum in powder form.
Composites, while with mass production probably able to become cheaper, lacks predictability. The strength of a composite is very hard to predict because it is highly dependent on quality of manufacturing. That, and maintence is very hard to do because a perfect looking part can be almost completely useless.
It looks like from the article that these speakers are designed to be used for touring concerts. If these are high enough quality for that, I should hope they would be high enough quality for a home system.
First of all, two make a radar system feasible, it would have to kick in several miles away. Those planes have terrible turning circles.
Second of all, a good pilot would be able to do a manuever called a "falling leaf" wherin the plane is stalled completely, and dropping fast with nose high... aiming would be kind of hard because you wouldn't be able to see out, but it would be possible.
The findings showed that the first cup had the most significant effect because caffeine levels in the blood had dropped during the night. The second and third cups caused only marginally worse hardening of the arteries.
Therefore, just have an I.V. drip giving you caffeine all night, and your caffeine levels won't drop! Problem Solved.
The arms and armor section of most large museums display examples of Damascus steel weapons. These steels are of two different types, pattern-welded Damascus and wootz Damascus, both of which were apparently first produced prior to around 500. These steels have in common an attractive surface pattern composed of swirling patterns of light-etched regions on a nearly black background. The pattern-welded steels were produced by forge welding alternating sheets of high- and low-carbon steels. This composite was then folded and forge-welded together, and the fold/forge cycle was repeated until a large number of layers was obtained.
These guys just rediscovered the wootz type of steel
If you studied search engine theory, you would note that many modern search engines (such as Google) ignore meta tags because people put useless things in them.
It's only as fast as a PIII 1 Ghz on certain tests, especially Graphics ones... and ones designed so they can beat Intel processors, but Apple never compares there hardware in ads to AMD... wonder why?
On sunny days, and on flat stretches of highway, the cars hit speeds as high as 110 kilometres an hour.
of course the cars are fairly flat sheets of carbon fiber composite that is only strong enough to support the solar panels, the drivers sits in a sling seat, the cars run on ultralight bicicle wheels and the need to either block of the road or have chase and tail cars to prevent them from getting damaged... definately not ready for prime time.
It would make sense, that if the University did not like the site they could most probably stop hosting it... However, eliminating all backups and trying to expel you is almost surely out of the realm of how far they can go...
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Eh, who need to use the internet?
IIRC, this was in Reader's Digest a while back.
There are, IMO, several reasons for getting bad grades in school:
1. Not as intelligent as other people; not getting the help they should be
2. Not caring about school(or anything else) do to depression/mental problems
3. Too intelligent for the level of courses that the school offers, the student become bored in classes and does not pay attention because it is too easy for him/her.
My experience with watercooling is though, that even if its more effective, it doesnt reduce the "total" sound of the box. The power supply and the disks makes quite a lot of noice as well... There's no real need to cool CPU in a quiet way, if disks still makes noice
The PSU is also going to be cooled with water, making the source of the noise of the PSU (the fan) pretty much nonexistant. The hard drives, however, are something that people just sort of have to live with, however if you shop around, some are quite a bit quieter then others.
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That's a pretty easy one:
- set bugs=0
;-)Actually, it wouldn't be that hard to make sure nothing is communicating with the robots... just put them in a farady cage (you know, lots of grounded wire mesh)
We're all gonna die.
+/- 6 meters isn't enough for locating a store in a mall? What mall are you in?
Anyways, differential GPS over IP is plenty enough accuracy for just about any application. You do not need much bandwidth at all to send a correction signal.
... familiar. Anyways, here are some obligatory links:
Koolance
Overclockers.com
[H]ard|OCP
- For example - there are parachutes, built for jet airliners, capable of safely bringing even a 747 or 757 to a safe(ish) landing, assuming enough altitude to slow the monster down.
First of all, this might work on planes that manage to have something like an engine fall off at high altitude, however this accident happened at low altitude. Second, you would need a hell of a lot of fabric (of some sort, probably some sort of high strength polyester) and "string" (kevlar most likely) to bring that large an airplane down safely, and it would have to be able to absorb the shock. That is very heavy and very bulky.- Another example - if a package holding eggs can be dropped from the top of the Empire State Building, and have the eggs intact at the bottom, you can figure that we know a lot about air resistance with various topologies, and that we know how to make a decent bubble-wrap. It should be possible to design an aircraft skin capable of absorbing significant amounts of energy, in the event of an impact.
Looks good on paper mainly, but is too heavy, and too expensive. If something blows off an airplane, air resistance predictability is screwed to hell and all aerodynamic calculations pretty much go out the window.- Lastly, aircraft are not built out of the safest of materials. Aluminium (aluminum for USians) burns with an intense ferocity. Those who remember the Falkland's War (damn it, it was a WAR, not a "Conflict") will remember the HMS Sheffield, which was built out of aluminium. One direct hit turned it into a giant, inescapable fireball. Many fireworks, and even some modern munitions, use aluminium as a component. Sure, it's light, but so are many other materials. Maybe it's time to change.
Aluminum is good for several reasons:light
predictable
cheap
the problem with most alternatives is that their cons outweigh their pros when compared to aluminum
for example, magnesium, a metal that is even lighter than aluminum is more expensive, and burns even worse. However, aluminum and magnesium are both very hard (almost impossible) to ignite when in solid form. Fireworks have aluminum in powder form.
Composites, while with mass production probably able to become cheaper, lacks predictability. The strength of a composite is very hard to predict because it is highly dependent on quality of manufacturing. That, and maintence is very hard to do because a perfect looking part can be almost completely useless.
Just stop slow downloads from your computer.. sheees
It looks like from the article that these speakers are designed to be used for touring concerts. If these are high enough quality for that, I should hope they would be high enough quality for a home system.
First of all, two make a radar system feasible, it would have to kick in several miles away. Those planes have terrible turning circles.
Second of all, a good pilot would be able to do a manuever called a "falling leaf" wherin the plane is stalled completely, and dropping fast with nose high... aiming would be kind of hard because you wouldn't be able to see out, but it would be possible.
IAAP (I am a pilot)
- The findings showed that the first cup had the most significant effect because caffeine levels in the blood had dropped during the night. The second and third cups caused only marginally worse hardening of the arteries.
Therefore, just have an I.V. drip giving you caffeine all night, and your caffeine levels won't drop! Problem Solved.oh, here is another one by the same company:
http://www.visiblesolutions.com/phantomv5.html
It can do 1,000 fps at 1024x1024...
Here is a camera that is fairly nice:
http://www.visiblesolutions.com/phantom.html
It can do 1,000 fps at 512x512 or up to 32051 fps at 128x32, and others in between, in color or b&w and it has firewire out... sounds pretty cool...
Alright, here is a link with a little more info and a couple more pictures:e d1.html
e ed_rovers.html
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/behind/tumblewe
And here is a place with a video of a test(Realplayer):
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/technology/tumblew
Anyway, here is a quote from the article:
These guys just rediscovered the wootz type of steel
Here is a very in depth article about this whole thing:e n-9809.html
http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9809/Verhoev
Quite the interesting read
The breakthrough is that they found a method of getting fairly decent efficiency with organic materials, not so much the method of application.
If you studied search engine theory, you would note that many modern search engines (such as Google) ignore meta tags because people put useless things in them.
It's only as fast as a PIII 1 Ghz on certain tests, especially Graphics ones... and ones designed so they can beat Intel processors, but Apple never compares there hardware in ads to AMD... wonder why?
I had a good time watching this one and hope Katz is right about it being a franchise (something they elude to in the outtakes.)
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Empire Online has an announcement here: http://www.empireonline.co.uk/news/news.asp?story
On sunny days, and on flat stretches of highway, the cars hit speeds as high as 110 kilometres an hour.
of course the cars are fairly flat sheets of carbon fiber composite that is only strong enough to support the solar panels, the drivers sits in a sling seat, the cars run on ultralight bicicle wheels and the need to either block of the road or have chase and tail cars to prevent them from getting damaged... definately not ready for prime time.
logs can be faked.
It would make sense, that if the University did not like the site they could most probably stop hosting it... However, eliminating all backups and trying to expel you is almost surely out of the realm of how far they can go...
Eh, who need to use the internet?
IIRC, this was in Reader's Digest a while back.
There are, IMO, several reasons for getting bad grades in school:
1. Not as intelligent as other people; not getting the help they should be
2. Not caring about school(or anything else) do to depression/mental problems
3. Too intelligent for the level of courses that the school offers, the student become bored in classes and does not pay attention because it is too easy for him/her.
I'd say that this kid fell into category 3
- My experience with watercooling is though, that even if its more effective, it doesnt reduce the "total" sound of the box. The power supply and the disks makes quite a lot of noice as well... There's no real need to cool CPU in a quiet way, if disks still makes noice
The PSU is also going to be cooled with water, making the source of the noise of the PSU (the fan) pretty much nonexistant. The hard drives, however, are something that people just sort of have to live with, however if you shop around, some are quite a bit quieter then others.