Precisely, Carrier Differential GPS can be on the order of less than 10 centimeters on a good day. The other factor is that CDGPS works off of precision epemeredies that are released the next day. Good for survey, not handy for weapons. (There is real time kinematic GPS with such precision but not much in the civilian world.)
That being said P code recievers make differential and carrier differential easier.
Batteries are not large capacitors, the primary dangers of big capacitors are sudden complete discharges when sorted or electrolytics with reversed polarity. Explosive and dangerous (more for the shock and the electrolyte fumes) but not the same scope as batteries. Batteries are electrochemical storage devices, the power is derived from chemical reactions not capacitive storage. This in itself isn't particularly bad. The problem with the current crop of batteries is that that the chemicals employed get hot they release highly flammible chemicals and oxygen, and when those catch fire the heat caises the realase of more flammible chemicals and oxygen. This is known as a thermal runaway effect.
New formulations of lithium batteries avoid this problem by using a different mixture.
That's right, bubble pack computing, coming to a Target/WalMart impulse buy rack near you. Computers are nosing down below the $200 mark with the OLPC/CM1 leading the charge. Soon enough they'll be in bubblepacks next to the 5MP digital cameras, prepaid cellphones and DTV videogame units. Is there going to be a $150+ OS on them? Not likely. Tweaked linux distros and FOSS will dominate. Zero Maintenance zero support disposable computing. The fun part comes when they outnumber PCs and M$ and Apple realize that they've become the DEC of the new era.
1. Increase PS3 and Blu-Ray drive costs. 2. Declare ultimate hardware DRM system (no lasers) ensuring that drives cannot read or write any discs. 3. Openly fret that prices are too low. 4. ??? 5. Profit!
No they don't need a crisis on infinite earths. TOS, TNG, DS9 and even Voyager stuck to a reasonably close continuity. We need a gruesome public excecution of B&B.
But, but,... OsX sprung forth from St Jobs forehead, and was sprinkled with holy water and blessed, and free from original sin!
It cannot fail! It always works perfectly! In ensures enligtenment for anyone who uses it! To think that there is any other way to do things is blasphemy!
To say that it is merely that it is a well configured version of BSD running under a strictly constrained set of hardware and a fancy GUI is unpardonable!
We expect you to take the honorable way out, in front of your iSight so that St Jobs may see it. Just stay a reasonable distance away from the Mac so the blood doesn't stain the finish. Not that Macs stain or scratch!
Greenpeace, the organization which sends out tons of paper junkmail which so insults the intelligence of the recipient that even those who are pro-enviroment throws it away on sight. I do my best to be green, but the rockstar poseur tactics of greenpeace are prefectly in line with the apple 'tude.
The energy density of lithium batteries aren't the primary problem. They have a fraction of the energy density of body fat or a lump of coal. The problem is that the present generation of batteries have a problem with thermal runaway. Essentially when a cell shorts, it heats up, producing flamable chemical byproducts, and when these byproducts burn they release more flamable chemical byproducts. Basically a vicious circle. New formulations exist that greatly reduce the amount of flamible byproducts when heated although at a relatively small penalty in energy density.
Pretty much in line with my experience. The human factors design on Sony stuff used to be remarkably well thought out, but their implementation was always second rate to Matsushita (JVC, Panasonic, Technics). But recently the stuff has really gone down, particularly in terms of mechanical components.
He'd be facing federal charges, and a civil suit that would ruin him financially. But since he's a spammer who does real and quantifible damage to productivity, as well as making e-mail increasingly less viable he gets a slap on the wrist.
Having a PSP, I'm rather disenchanted with the GUI. It strikes me as a bad case of too elegant design. While the buttons make sense and are rather consistent, I find them counter intuitive and keep cancelling out menu choices. Mainly a problem of too few buttons.
...the relatively liberal DRM in the PSP... Liberal compared to what? With a new crippling "feature" with every patch? With people desprately downgrading their software at every turn? With UMD proving to be BetaMax2005?
Re:I'm reminded of what Colnel Kurtz said
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Are you out of your honking mind?
First off, most personnel are on their 3rd to 4th tour of duty, a circumstance unprecedented in recent history. Soldiers in WWII, Vietnam, and Korea had shorter tours of duty and a defined endpoint to their enlistment. With stop loss and arbitrary callup of the IRR, soldiers are forced to stay on or get called back up long past their existing commitments. Second, wheras soldiers in Vietnam could pull R&R in Siagon without excessive fear of harm, most units are presently bottled up on base for the length of their tours, with few creature comforts. The lack of stateside R&R has led to a very high rate of divorce. No sane individual can maintain combat operations for longer than 150 days in a row without complete breakdown.
Next off, we are currently practicing officially sanctioned torture, engaging in indisriminate retalitory air-strikes and opening fire on vehicles approaching checkpoints at the slightest percieved provocation. How do we up the ante? Public beheading? Genocide? Tactical nukes? And if so, would it work? The experience with resistance movements under the SS tends to show that even the most brutal repression in occupied territories still meets up with resistance.
What will our standing in the world be if we renounce our humanity and engage in barbarism to achieve our goals? If we do produce soldiers capable of causal murder and brutality, who can only function in the chaos of war, what do we do with them after the war, how do we reassimilate them into the population?
Finally, why haven't you visited your local reciuiter? I'm certian they would be overjoyed to garantee an 11 Bravo MOS so you could test these theories in the real world.
Marc Andreessen, short of Jaron Lanier, the most overrated poseur in tech. Glory hound, marginal programmer, front man for Jim Clark, thew guy who threw away the biggest tech opprotunity since M$ sold IBM DOS. Check out this article "Imposter Boy": http://web.archive.org/web/20030212202753/http://w ww.chrispy.net/marca/gqarticle.html The fact that he gets glowing articles for wearing a suit is a true case of the soft bigotry of low expectations.
What you mean is a M42x1(42mm dia 1mm pitch Pentax, Practika, "universal" screw mount lens) to a M12x0.5(12mm dia 0.5mm pitch webcam and security cam) adapter. The trick is to get the adaptor from the astrophotography community which uses telephotolenses for astrophoto purposes. The adapters from Steven Mogg work well and incorporate a 1/4-20 tripod screw for mounting. http://webcaddy.com.au/astro/adapter.htm Also note that the FireWire Fire-I has an optional C mount lens adapter: http://www.unibrain.com/Products/VisionImg/Fire_i_ BC.htm
Firewire cameras such as the UniBrain Fire-I allow for synced capture along a firewire dasiychain. You have to adjust the framerate and dynamic range to allow for bandwidth issues
I reflashed my DS Phat a long time ago and have great fun with it. I'm going out tonight to get a Max Media Dock for my DS Lite for homebrew and video (using homebrew players)
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Great idea as long as we stipulate that we won't be bringing the jocks back.
...welcome our new information overloads!
Precisely, Carrier Differential GPS can be on the order of less than 10 centimeters on a good day. The other factor is that CDGPS works off of precision epemeredies that are released the next day. Good for survey, not handy for weapons. (There is real time kinematic GPS with such precision but not much in the civilian world.)
That being said P code recievers make differential and carrier differential easier.
I've got a home built 90" projector and DVD looks just fine with interpolation.
I still use my Reel Magic DVD decoder card. Bulletproof, great interpolation, 5.1 SPDIF output, support for remotes.
Not an EE or a chemist for sure.
Batteries are not large capacitors, the primary dangers of big capacitors are sudden complete discharges when sorted or electrolytics with reversed polarity. Explosive and dangerous (more for the shock and the electrolyte fumes) but not the same scope as batteries.
Batteries are electrochemical storage devices, the power is derived from chemical reactions not capacitive storage. This in itself isn't particularly bad. The problem with the current crop of batteries is that that the chemicals employed get hot they release highly flammible chemicals and oxygen, and when those catch fire the heat caises the realase of more flammible chemicals and oxygen. This is known as a thermal runaway effect.
New formulations of lithium batteries avoid this problem by using a different mixture.
Firefoxy!
http://firefoxy.vegard2.no/ slightly NSFW (but that's the point!)
That's right, bubble pack computing, coming to a Target/WalMart impulse buy rack near you.
Computers are nosing down below the $200 mark with the OLPC/CM1 leading the charge. Soon enough they'll be in bubblepacks next to the 5MP digital cameras, prepaid cellphones and DTV videogame units.
Is there going to be a $150+ OS on them? Not likely. Tweaked linux distros and FOSS will dominate. Zero Maintenance zero support disposable computing. The fun part comes when they outnumber PCs and M$ and Apple realize that they've become the DEC of the new era.
1. Increase PS3 and Blu-Ray drive costs.
2. Declare ultimate hardware DRM system (no lasers) ensuring that drives cannot read or write any discs.
3. Openly fret that prices are too low.
4. ???
5. Profit!
No they don't need a crisis on infinite earths. TOS, TNG, DS9 and even Voyager stuck to a reasonably close continuity. We need a gruesome public excecution of B&B.
But, but, ...
OsX sprung forth from St Jobs forehead, and was sprinkled with holy water and blessed, and free from original sin!
It cannot fail! It always works perfectly! In ensures enligtenment for anyone who uses it! To think that there is any other way to do things is blasphemy!
To say that it is merely that it is a well configured version of BSD running under a strictly constrained set of hardware and a fancy GUI is unpardonable!
We expect you to take the honorable way out, in front of your iSight so that St Jobs may see it. Just stay a reasonable distance away from the Mac so the blood doesn't stain the finish. Not that Macs stain or scratch!
Greenpeace, the organization which sends out tons of paper junkmail which so insults the intelligence of the recipient that even those who are pro-enviroment throws it away on sight.
I do my best to be green, but the rockstar poseur tactics of greenpeace are prefectly in line with the apple 'tude.
The energy density of lithium batteries aren't the primary problem. They have a fraction of the energy density of body fat or a lump of coal. The problem is that the present generation of batteries have a problem with thermal runaway. Essentially when a cell shorts, it heats up, producing flamable chemical byproducts, and when these byproducts burn they release more flamable chemical byproducts. Basically a vicious circle. New formulations exist that greatly reduce the amount of flamible byproducts when heated although at a relatively small penalty in energy density.
Don't forget BluRay drives which won't play BluRay movies!
Pretty much in line with my experience. The human factors design on Sony stuff used to be remarkably well thought out, but their implementation was always second rate to Matsushita (JVC, Panasonic, Technics). But recently the stuff has really gone down, particularly in terms of mechanical components.
He'd be facing federal charges, and a civil suit that would ruin him financially. But since he's a spammer who does real and quantifible damage to productivity, as well as making e-mail increasingly less viable he gets a slap on the wrist.
Death, come quick come quick come quick...
Is there a Seppuku option for the Wimote?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harikari
Having a PSP, I'm rather disenchanted with the GUI. It strikes me as a bad case of too elegant design. While the buttons make sense and are rather consistent, I find them counter intuitive and keep cancelling out menu choices. Mainly a problem of too few buttons.
...the relatively liberal DRM in the PSP...
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Liberal compared to what? With a new crippling "feature" with every patch? With people desprately downgrading their software at every turn? With UMD proving to be BetaMax2005?
Oh wait, we're dealing with Sony, the company that has shipped BluRay drives which won't play BluRay disks:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08
Yeah, in comparison the PSP is relatively liberal with it's DRM.
Are you out of your honking mind?
First off, most personnel are on their 3rd to 4th tour of duty, a circumstance unprecedented in recent history. Soldiers in WWII, Vietnam, and Korea had shorter tours of duty and a defined endpoint to their enlistment. With stop loss and arbitrary callup of the IRR, soldiers are forced to stay on or get called back up long past their existing commitments. Second, wheras soldiers in Vietnam could pull R&R in Siagon without excessive fear of harm, most units are presently bottled up on base for the length of their tours, with few creature comforts. The lack of stateside R&R has led to a very high rate of divorce. No sane individual can maintain combat operations for longer than 150 days in a row without complete breakdown.
Next off, we are currently practicing officially sanctioned torture, engaging in indisriminate retalitory air-strikes and opening fire on vehicles approaching checkpoints at the slightest percieved provocation. How do we up the ante? Public beheading? Genocide? Tactical nukes? And if so, would it work? The experience with resistance movements under the SS tends to show that even the most brutal repression in occupied territories still meets up with resistance.
What will our standing in the world be if we renounce our humanity and engage in barbarism to achieve our goals? If we do produce soldiers capable of causal murder and brutality, who can only function in the chaos of war, what do we do with them after the war, how do we reassimilate them into the population?
Finally, why haven't you visited your local reciuiter? I'm certian they would be overjoyed to garantee an 11 Bravo MOS so you could test these theories in the real world.
Remember Kurtz was the villian.
Three words:
Super Monkey Ball
Marc Andreessen, short of Jaron Lanier, the most overrated poseur in tech. Glory hound, marginal programmer, front man for Jim Clark, thew guy who threw away the biggest tech opprotunity since M$ sold IBM DOS. Check out this article "Imposter Boy":w ww.chrispy.net/marca/gqarticle.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20030212202753/http://
The fact that he gets glowing articles for wearing a suit is a true case of the soft bigotry of low expectations.
What you mean is a M42x1(42mm dia 1mm pitch Pentax, Practika, "universal" screw mount lens) to a M12x0.5(12mm dia 0.5mm pitch webcam and security cam) adapter._ BC.htm
The trick is to get the adaptor from the astrophotography community which uses telephotolenses for astrophoto purposes. The adapters from Steven Mogg work well and incorporate a 1/4-20 tripod screw for mounting.
http://webcaddy.com.au/astro/adapter.htm
Also note that the FireWire Fire-I has an optional C mount lens adapter:
http://www.unibrain.com/Products/VisionImg/Fire_i
Firewire cameras such as the UniBrain Fire-I allow for synced capture along a firewire dasiychain. You have to adjust the framerate and dynamic range to allow for bandwidth issues
I reflashed my DS Phat a long time ago and have great fun with it. I'm going out tonight to get a Max Media Dock for my DS Lite for homebrew and video (using homebrew players)