This is WWAAAYYYYYY off topic, but when you retire, you might consider moving to Asia.
Here in Kuala Lumpur, i know of a British couple at the recrational club where my parents are members. They are retired British civil servants and they say get about 2,500 odd pounds a month as pension.
When asked why they moved here, they said that with the cost of living in the UK, that 2,500 doesn't get them much, but over here, they live in luxuary.
See, the exchange rate is about 8 Malaysian Ringgit to the pound (and getting higher, due to it's peg to the us dollar) and that will get about rm20K a month. This is in a country where a bank manager would make something around 4K/mo. So, said british couple have a bunglow (about rm 600K, but you can finance it reasonably), 2 maids (rm 900/mo each, philipino or indonesian) and thanks to mostly sunny weather, a year long tan (priceless). Plus speciality shopping areas have sprung up and KL is very metropolitan, so they don't miss home.
Oh and did i mention that we have 90 odd golf courses in the country?
Also, why doesn't the university make the student sign over their work? Like at the college i attend, we are made to sign over all right to the material we create in relation to our course. So if i were to create an artwork, it's image and form are property of the college.
But the article is an exception rather then the norm, and the reason they did it was because it had more pro's (getting past military security, the lateness in the shoot before editorial deadline) then usual.
Still, the NGS shoots an average of 27,000 frames per article, and most of it is on film. Plus you have to remember that the NGS has a massive system in place to take care of their photographic archive, which will take care of digital formats going obsolete and media degrading.
See the main issue here is that what we shoot carelessly today as mementoes will mean something to a historian one day when they want to know what life was like now. If we shoot on film, it might degrade, but it can be restored with a bit of chemistry wizardry.
But if you store your pictures, 1000's of them, in JPEG on a CD, assuming that decades from now JPEG is still around, they still can't do much if the CD it's on is damaged.
In short, film has less long term commitments to storage then digital.
Realize that this processor is a Prototype, fabbed on a process that doesn't reflect Intels true capabilities. So criticism as to it's heat dissipation is at best pre-mature and at worst, downright off topic.
Well i'd rather tell them i had a bad case of Diarrhoea then tell them that I was doing the wife of the president/prime minister of (insert name of desired country) in it.
Because we want to go to Mars. After that we want the rest of the solar system and beyond.
To get to mars and stay there, we need to send alot of rockets, and by getting to the moon, we can build and launch more efficiently, due to it's lack of gravity. That and we can do tonnes of research on living on a hostile rock.
Is problem you are talking about the same as where the pressure behind a moving object is lower then what is in front of it?
Maybe we can solve 2 problems at once. Let give our launcher the aceleration speed of X a maximum speed of Y. At speed of Y, pressure acting on train under atmosphere is Z.
What if we were to heat (somehow) the liquid so that it expands at a rate to fill the tube so that it's front accelerates at X and reaches the speed of Y as well as the final pressure of Z the very moment before the train leaves the tube?
I have the same idea you had about the maglev trains in a vacuum tube, but never considered it for space launch..
Thinking about it though (and it is just a thought, I'm no engineer) maybe you could do soemthing a little diffrent when opening one end of the tube to launch the spaceplane.
Imagine first you compress a gas tahts lighter then air until it's liquid and there is enough volume of gas when expanded to fill the entire tube at >1 atm. You place the outlet to this compressed gas tank at the starting end of the tube of the space plane.
Now, when you launch the plane, you time the relese of the compressed gas in such a manner that it would completely fill the tube the moment the plane is due to exit the tube.
What I think should happen is:
1) You get to accelerate to very high speed in the vacume tube. 2) By controlling the decompression of the compressed gas, you will be able to totally fill the tube after the plane has reached critical speed and it's nose is right about to hit the exit hatch. (remember to open it) 3) Because the air rushing to fill the vacume is travalling in the same direction as the plane, the "pressure shock" would aid in acceleration instead of deceleration/destruction. 4)Upon exit of the tube, because the pressure of the tube is greater then the atmosphere, the plane would exit the tube with an upward decaying bubble of high pressure that whould ensure a smooth exit from the tube.
Basicly, this is a railgun cum canon, where the acceleration (bulk of work) is provided by the maglev and the smooth exit is provided by the pressure diffrence (Mighty loud Bang).
I would think that a war between the US and the EU would go better then a war with radical terrorists.
At least if the US-EU war ever broke out (touchwood), it'd be a conventional war, with weapons both sides know how to deal with and both sides have a sense of self preservation as well as the brains to remember that it's cowardly to purposely kill innocent people.
As opposed to the current problem where you are fighting an army you cannot find, using weapons (suicide bomber) for which there is no countermeasure, against an enemy who is willing to die and looking to destroy un-armored civilian targets.
I want a Kia because it's cheaper? Over here we pay this horrible 500% tax on cars and a $52,000 Kia is way more afforable then a $190,000 Range Rover.
Actualy, cell phones are a God send for the deaf community. For the 1st time in history, the deaf can actualy use a phone. How? Via SMS.
While the voice part of a phone is useless to them, they can get in touch and if need be get help by SMSing other. Also, instead of hualing around additional pen and paper to write out a message to communicate with those who don't understand sign language, they can just type (thumb?) it out and show the screen to whoever needs to see the message.
I don't know about where you are at, but in Kuala Lumpur where i live, one can SMS enabled land lines now, and also summon the cops via SMS.
Wouldn't the SPCA or something protest to the "Animal Testing" ? However, I don't dispute that as long as the source of said animals is the zoo that is SCO.
SCO bashing aside, if this works, would it mean that we would finally have a sure fire vaccine for all viruses? I.e AIDS etc. By simply using the same process as above, but with diffrent viruses?
The serial number doesn't have to be pressed along with it. If they developed their format, i'm sure thay can put aside a part of the media with a laser writeable area where they can burn in the serial number.
And even if there are data integrity issues withthe above, they could always use a very focused high power laser to punch a series of microscopic holes in the media and tune the reading laser to read the holes, ala punch cards.
It may be easier said then done, but it sure as hell isn't impossible. As it stands, because they arn't using a standard media like CD or DVD, they are going to have to develop a brand new manufacturing process for the media, so what is an extra million dollars in making the process more secure?
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This is WWAAAYYYYYY off topic, but when you retire, you might consider moving to Asia.
Here in Kuala Lumpur, i know of a British couple at the recrational club where my parents are members. They are retired British civil servants and they say get about 2,500 odd pounds a month as pension.
When asked why they moved here, they said that with the cost of living in the UK, that 2,500 doesn't get them much, but over here, they live in luxuary.
See, the exchange rate is about 8 Malaysian Ringgit to the pound (and getting higher, due to it's peg to the us dollar) and that will get about rm20K a month. This is in a country where a bank manager would make something around 4K/mo. So, said british couple have a bunglow (about rm 600K, but you can finance it reasonably), 2 maids (rm 900/mo each, philipino or indonesian) and thanks to mostly sunny weather, a year long tan (priceless). Plus speciality shopping areas have sprung up and KL is very metropolitan, so they don't miss home.
Oh and did i mention that we have 90 odd golf courses in the country?
The VCD compliant MPEG can be encoded in one of three profiles. 24fps PAL, 30fps NTSC or 30fps film.
It's not an LCD, it's a vacume tube display.
As it is Kazza is doing a decent job poisoning the town well with all those mp3 that have a horrible screech in them.
I think the hash will simply suffer the same fate of being broken up and reassembled in the wrong way, rendering it useless.
Also, why doesn't the university make the student sign over their work? Like at the college i attend, we are made to sign over all right to the material we create in relation to our course. So if i were to create an artwork, it's image and form are property of the college.
But the article is an exception rather then the norm, and the reason they did it was because it had more pro's (getting past military security, the lateness in the shoot before editorial deadline) then usual.
Still, the NGS shoots an average of 27,000 frames per article, and most of it is on film. Plus you have to remember that the NGS has a massive system in place to take care of their photographic archive, which will take care of digital formats going obsolete and media degrading.
See the main issue here is that what we shoot carelessly today as mementoes will mean something to a historian one day when they want to know what life was like now. If we shoot on film, it might degrade, but it can be restored with a bit of chemistry wizardry.
But if you store your pictures, 1000's of them, in JPEG on a CD, assuming that decades from now JPEG is still around, they still can't do much if the CD it's on is damaged.
In short, film has less long term commitments to storage then digital.
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Heres a picture of Carmine Caridi.
Thank You Google Images.
"I live in my parents basement, you insensitive clod!"
Cheers
Maybe .raw. Wave files, while large are still better then .wma because they are 1)DRM free, 2) Contain the contents of the orginally recorded sounds.
RTFA! Oh wait, this is SlahsDot.
Realize that this processor is a Prototype, fabbed on a process that doesn't reflect Intels true capabilities. So criticism as to it's heat dissipation is at best pre-mature and at worst, downright off topic.
Oi? A Real pirate is is someone with the job of raiding ships at seas. What you are looking for is a bootlegger.
Arrrr... Shiver me timbers....
Well i'd rather tell them i had a bad case of Diarrhoea then tell them that I was doing the wife of the president/prime minister of (insert name of desired country) in it.
I think all articles from now on should carry a PDF warning, akin to the NYT registration warning.
@#@#$@ PDF plugin crashed Moz.
Applo 13. They made a blockbuster movie out of it.
Because we want to go to Mars. After that we want the rest of the solar system and beyond.
To get to mars and stay there, we need to send alot of rockets, and by getting to the moon, we can build and launch more efficiently, due to it's lack of gravity. That and we can do tonnes of research on living on a hostile rock.
I did say it was a crazy idea. But whats to stop someone from making the train more like a shuttle and re-enter the normal way?
Is problem you are talking about the same as where the pressure behind a moving object is lower then what is in front of it?
Maybe we can solve 2 problems at once. Let give our launcher the aceleration speed of X a maximum speed of Y. At speed of Y, pressure acting on train under atmosphere is Z.
What if we were to heat (somehow) the liquid so that it expands at a rate to fill the tube so that it's front accelerates at X and reaches the speed of Y as well as the final pressure of Z the very moment before the train leaves the tube?
I have the same idea you had about the maglev trains in a vacuum tube, but never considered it for space launch..
Thinking about it though (and it is just a thought, I'm no engineer) maybe you could do soemthing a little diffrent when opening one end of the tube to launch the spaceplane.
Imagine first you compress a gas tahts lighter then air until it's liquid and there is enough volume of gas when expanded to fill the entire tube at >1 atm. You place the outlet to this compressed gas tank at the starting end of the tube of the space plane.
Now, when you launch the plane, you time the relese of the compressed gas in such a manner that it would completely fill the tube the moment the plane is due to exit the tube.
What I think should happen is:
1) You get to accelerate to very high speed in the vacume tube.
2) By controlling the decompression of the compressed gas, you will be able to totally fill the tube after the plane has reached critical speed and it's nose is right about to hit the exit hatch. (remember to open it)
3) Because the air rushing to fill the vacume is travalling in the same direction as the plane, the "pressure shock" would aid in acceleration instead of deceleration/destruction.
4)Upon exit of the tube, because the pressure of the tube is greater then the atmosphere, the plane would exit the tube with an upward decaying bubble of high pressure that whould ensure a smooth exit from the tube.
Basicly, this is a railgun cum canon, where the acceleration (bulk of work) is provided by the maglev and the smooth exit is provided by the pressure diffrence (Mighty loud Bang).
Yes it's a crazy idea.
I would think that a war between the US and the EU would go better then a war with radical terrorists.
At least if the US-EU war ever broke out (touchwood), it'd be a conventional war, with weapons both sides know how to deal with and both sides have a sense of self preservation as well as the brains to remember that it's cowardly to purposely kill innocent people.
As opposed to the current problem where you are fighting an army you cannot find, using weapons (suicide bomber) for which there is no countermeasure, against an enemy who is willing to die and looking to destroy un-armored civilian targets.
I want a Kia because it's cheaper? Over here we pay this horrible 500% tax on cars and a $52,000 Kia is way more afforable then a $190,000 Range Rover.
Actualy, cell phones are a God send for the deaf community. For the 1st time in history, the deaf can actualy use a phone. How? Via SMS.
While the voice part of a phone is useless to them, they can get in touch and if need be get help by SMSing other. Also, instead of hualing around additional pen and paper to write out a message to communicate with those who don't understand sign language, they can just type (thumb?) it out and show the screen to whoever needs to see the message.
I don't know about where you are at, but in Kuala Lumpur where i live, one can SMS enabled land lines now, and also summon the cops via SMS.
Ah, the world we live in.
Wouldn't the SPCA or something protest to the "Animal Testing" ? However, I don't dispute that as long as the source of said animals is the zoo that is SCO.
SCO bashing aside, if this works, would it mean that we would finally have a sure fire vaccine for all viruses? I.e AIDS etc. By simply using the same process as above, but with diffrent viruses?
...if he had just published it as freeware rather then shareware.
I'm not saying that Shareware is bad, it's a good way for striving developers to make a living/financially support their project.
But if he smelt impending doom, wouldn't publishing it be better then letting it be 'borgified' by a mindless corporation?
Pixar and Monsters Inc should have won that Oscar, not Shrek. All Shrek is a melting pot of childrens stories as told by a green guy and his Ass.
Not only was Monsters Inc an orginal story and equally if not more funny, it was also innovative from a technical aspect.
I don't know about you, but to me, the 1st Shrek already failed.
The serial number doesn't have to be pressed along with it. If they developed their format, i'm sure thay can put aside a part of the media with a laser writeable area where they can burn in the serial number.
And even if there are data integrity issues withthe above, they could always use a very focused high power laser to punch a series of microscopic holes in the media and tune the reading laser to read the holes, ala punch cards.
It may be easier said then done, but it sure as hell isn't impossible. As it stands, because they arn't using a standard media like CD or DVD, they are going to have to develop a brand new manufacturing process for the media, so what is an extra million dollars in making the process more secure?