You mean the way that the corners of the controller would dig into your palm? For me, the worst part was that thumb stretching effort of trying to hold the base of the controller in the palm of one hand, with the thumb on the top of the controller, and at the same time, keeping your other thumb over the fire button. Or if that became too tiring, using the thumb of the hand holding the base of the controller to control the fire button, and then use the other hand to move the controller, but that just seemed to make the controller too sensitive.
It is both - the actual gyroscope is housed in a 7mm x 7mm x 3 mm package. To quote the page Analog Devices Introduces World's First Integrated Gyroscope By integrating the sensor structure and all necessary signal conditioning circuitry onto a single integrated circuit, Analog Devices' iMEMS ADXRS gyro is smaller, more accurate, more reliable, and more economical than other angular rate sensors in its class. The ADXRS gyro is mounted inside a small 7 millimeters x 7 millimeters x 3 millimeters ball grid array (BGA) package, and consumes only 5 milliamps of current at 5 Volts.
That is believable - apparently, cats are one of most difficult animals to animate. They can do a 180 degree body twist in mid air. Not forgetting that freaky "leg-up-in-the-air-and-behind-the-head" move when cleaning.
And all the behaviour that they have - always choosing the best chair in the room to sleep on, running in from the other end of the garden the minute a food tin is opened, running out the minute the vacuum cleaner is switched on, trying to catch moths and eat them, bringing in food from the garden (still alive!), sleeping on some area of your bed, sitting at the window watching the world go by, chasing each other round the house, climbing up places that you would think would be impossible to reach and coming down again (chair->TV->fireplace mantelpiece->shelves->shoulder->lap), playing with cables, string, ribbons, thread, not forgetting always using the most expensive piece of furniture or wallpaper as a scratching post. Not forgetting that little bit of initiative like jumping on door handles.
Obviously if Nintendo can make such a game with dogs, they can also do the same with cats, mice, rats, rabbits. Taking some of these for a walk might be a problem, although I did have a neighbour who used to keep a cat indoors in her flat and take it out for a walk while on a leash.
But if anyone enjoys taking dogs out for walks for real while not having the space for a pet at home, then they should consider a visit to their local animal sanctuary. They are usually always in need for "dog walkers" - someone who will take one or more dogs out for a 30 minute walk, and occassionally "cat cuddlers" - someone who will give cats the attention they want.
Some companies will use devious tactics like "bait-and-switch" or "switch-and-wait" to recruit staff. And some companies just have bad managers who will "turn-and-burn" new recruits to the extent that the HR managers will bail out.
If the company has a good HR manager, then any prospective employees will know that the company is on the level, and will be more willing to accept a job offer.
Fedora Core 4 itself gives you at least four choices from the install CD's: server, desktop, developer and custom. The first three make assumptions about the web services and applications you want to run, and the last one gives you full control of the stuff you want to install (some of which is never installed regardless of which of the first three options you choose).
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It's just Microsoft marketing...
Windows 95/NT was marketed on the premise that it eliminated all the confusion of having different UI's for every text based application.
Windows XP was marketed on the premise that the user could customize the desktop to their suiting, and developers could provide custom skins for their applications.
Now we have completed a whole cycle, and now every developer provides their own GUI style for their application.
I always wondered whether it wouldn't have been possible to temporary fix the breach levees by pumping compressed air either through the water or through pipes in the water so that ice would form and block the water flow.
You can always place them in named directories - just by using the thumbnail images you can sort the files out without having to rename them all.And you can always organise these into categories (with Unix at least) using symbolic links.
The advantages of transferring all of these pages onto disk storage, is that you can store around 1000 pages onto a single CD-ROM, 4000 pages on a DVD, and 60K pages or more on a USB drive, and be able to take them with you wherever you go, without having to lug around a box of papers with you.
I did this with articles with old second-hand magazines that I had to throw out due to water damage.
And as other comments have pointed out, even if paper is stored somewhere high enough away from direct contact with water, humidity and cold will eventually give paper and books a musty smell.
And there's actually a scientific reasoning behind this. The oil helps increase the surface tension of the water preventing the wave crests from disintegrating and throwing spray all over the place. And this spray acts as a fluid layer between the atmosphere and the ocean, reducing air friction and allowing winds to gain speed.
The 1937 US Naval Academy textbook Modern Seamanship by Austin M. Knight gives specific instructions on the use of oil, with illustrations. It notes that the practice was so valuable that "all United States Registered machinery propelled ships of over two hundred tons must carry from 30 to 100 gallons (amount dependent on tonnage) of oil..."
But all of this would only work for the local vicinity of a single ship. You would need a considerable lot more to cover an entire ocean.
Sure, all we've got to do, is drill a hole 30 miles through the crust. That will do two things; (1) drain all the water away, and (2) the rising magma wil raise New Orleans by the desired height.
Wasn't there some research project that discovered that you could mix together baking soda with wet concrete cement, force it underground and it would react with the groundwater to form a solid base?
i wonder if bionicfx took it under consideration the nvidia over-"optimizes" it's drivers. there's the recent shimmering example of the latest 7800gtx series just to name one example.
Probably. The shimmering problem only occurs with anisotropic textures ie. textures that are viewed from very nearly side on with MIP-mapping enabled. Then you are trying to look up the texture at normal resolution on one axis, but at a deep MIP map level in another (where each pixel will be an average of a whole strip of the original texture).
For image processing using FFT and IFFT signal process techniques, you will be working with normal resolution textures and only picking the nearest texel with no linear blending or MIP-mapping. So this shimmering problem won't have any affect.
Can one semi-affordable protect from all of the big dangers and not become a death trap in some of those conditions?
I'd put flotation tanks on the side of the shelter, and have the door on the roof. And and a satellite phone. For the climate of the South, you would need a generator, a large fresh water supply, a washing machine/drying machine and communications (TV/radio).
But if you had all those, you would have a luxury canal boat, not a shelter.
Well, they could, but these buildings on high land were built during the Victorian/Georgian era and so are listed buildings. And since there are also water shortages in Summer increasing the population density isn't going to help that much either.
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You mean the way that the corners of the controller would dig into your palm? For me, the worst part was that thumb stretching effort of trying to hold the base of the controller in the palm of one hand, with the thumb on the top of the controller, and at the same time, keeping your other thumb over the fire button. Or if that became too tiring, using the thumb of the hand holding the base of the controller to control the fire button, and then use the other hand to move the controller, but that just seemed to make the controller too sensitive.
It is both - the actual gyroscope is housed in a 7mm x 7mm x 3 mm package. To quote the page Analog Devices Introduces World's First Integrated Gyroscope
By integrating the sensor structure and all necessary signal conditioning circuitry onto a single integrated circuit, Analog Devices' iMEMS ADXRS gyro is smaller, more accurate, more reliable, and more economical than other angular rate sensors in its class. The ADXRS gyro is mounted inside a small 7 millimeters x 7 millimeters x 3 millimeters ball grid array (BGA) package, and consumes only 5 milliamps of current at 5 Volts.
And there's also a research paper published
I've always wondered what contour maps of property prices would look like, especially as they change over time.
That is believable - apparently, cats are one of most difficult animals to animate. They can do a 180 degree body twist in mid air. Not forgetting that freaky "leg-up-in-the-air-and-behind-the-head" move when cleaning.
And all the behaviour that they have - always choosing the best chair in the room to sleep on, running in from the other end of the garden the minute a food tin is opened, running out the minute the vacuum cleaner is switched on, trying to catch moths and eat them, bringing in food from the garden (still alive!), sleeping on some area of your bed, sitting at the window watching the world go by, chasing each other round the house, climbing up places that you would think would be impossible to reach and coming down again (chair->TV->fireplace mantelpiece->shelves->shoulder->lap), playing with cables, string, ribbons, thread, not forgetting always using the most expensive piece of furniture or wallpaper as a scratching post. Not forgetting that little bit of initiative like jumping on door handles.
Obviously if Nintendo can make such a game with dogs, they can also do the same with cats, mice, rats, rabbits. Taking some of these for a walk might be a problem, although I did have a neighbour who used to keep a cat indoors in her flat and take it out for a walk while on a leash.
But if anyone enjoys taking dogs out for walks for real while not having the space for a pet at home, then they should consider a visit to their local animal sanctuary. They are usually always in need for "dog walkers" - someone who will take one or more dogs out for a 30 minute walk, and occassionally "cat cuddlers" - someone who will give cats the attention they want.
Some companies will use devious tactics like "bait-and-switch" or "switch-and-wait" to recruit staff. And some companies just have bad managers who will "turn-and-burn" new recruits to the extent that the HR managers will bail out.
If the company has a good HR manager, then any prospective employees will know that the company is on the level, and will be more willing to accept a job offer.
Fedora Core 4 itself gives you at least four choices from the install CD's: server, desktop, developer and custom. The first three make assumptions about the web services and applications you want to run, and the last one gives you full control of the stuff you want to install (some of which is never installed regardless of which of the first three options you choose).
It's just Microsoft marketing...
Windows 95/NT was marketed on the premise that it eliminated all the confusion of having different UI's for every text based application.
Windows XP was marketed on the premise that the user could customize the desktop to their suiting, and developers could provide custom skins for their applications.
Now we have completed a whole cycle, and now every developer provides their own GUI style for their application.
This lawsuit has been brought to the attention of your lawyers by the letter G, and the numbers 0 and 5.
I always wondered whether it wouldn't have been possible to temporary fix the breach levees by pumping compressed air either through the water or through pipes in the water so that ice would form and block the water flow.
Is that why the dog is the one with two phone lines?
I would be extremely interested to know if cats can be trained as well. Perhaps with some catnip on the handset?
You can always place them in named directories - just by using the thumbnail images you can sort the files out without having to rename them all.And you can always organise these into categories (with Unix at least) using symbolic links.
The advantages of transferring all of these pages onto disk storage, is that you can store around 1000 pages onto a single CD-ROM, 4000 pages on a DVD, and 60K pages or more on a USB drive, and be able to take them with you wherever you go, without having to lug around a box of papers with you.
I did this with articles with old second-hand magazines that I had to throw out due to water damage.
And as other comments have pointed out, even if paper is stored somewhere high enough away from direct contact with water, humidity and cold will eventually give paper and books a musty smell.
Perhaps they could use biodegradable oil?
There's an old sailors' tale that pouring a teaspoonful of oil on troubled waters soothed them. Turns out that 1 teaspoonful of oil would cover 100 square metres. And for really troubled waters, they would use a whole barrel or more.
And there's actually a scientific reasoning behind this. The oil helps increase the surface tension of the water preventing the wave crests from disintegrating and throwing spray all over the place. And this spray acts as a fluid layer between the atmosphere and the ocean, reducing air friction and allowing winds to gain speed.
This happens around 5 on the Beaufort scale
New Scientist had an article on this subject, with a followup:
The 1937 US Naval Academy textbook Modern Seamanship by Austin M. Knight gives specific instructions on the use of oil, with illustrations. It notes that the practice was so valuable that "all United States Registered machinery propelled ships of over two hundred tons must carry from 30 to 100 gallons (amount dependent on tonnage) of oil..."
But all of this would only work for the local vicinity of a single ship. You would need a considerable lot more to cover an entire ocean.
But with harmonisation, everyone uses the same hand signals now...
It might be possible to wrap it in a large net (there are fishing nets that are over 16 kilometres long) and haul that around with thruster rockets.
So. All they will end up with is a PDA that can send input device movement wirelessly to the PC.
I'm still waiting for the mouse that has a built in 1" color LCD display to tell me what mood the mouse is in.
Sure, all we've got to do, is drill a hole 30 miles through the crust. That will do two things; (1) drain all the water away, and (2) the rising magma wil raise New Orleans by the desired height.
You mean there's a currency exchange that will convert nethack zorkmids into US dollars?
I've got about $100K gold pieces I'd like to exchange.
Wasn't there some research project that discovered that you could mix together baking soda with wet concrete cement, force it underground and it would react with the groundwater to form a solid base?
i wonder if bionicfx took it under consideration the nvidia over-"optimizes" it's drivers. there's the recent shimmering example of the latest 7800gtx series just to name one example.
Probably. The shimmering problem only occurs with anisotropic textures ie. textures that are viewed from very nearly side on with MIP-mapping enabled. Then you are trying to look up the texture at normal resolution on one axis, but at a deep MIP map level in another (where each pixel will be an average of a whole strip of the original texture).
For image processing using FFT and IFFT signal process techniques, you will be working with normal resolution textures and only picking the nearest texel with no linear blending or MIP-mapping. So this shimmering problem won't have any affect.
That should be luxury canal boat
Can one semi-affordable protect from all of the big dangers and not become a death trap in some of those conditions?
I'd put flotation tanks on the side of the shelter, and have the door on the roof. And and a satellite phone. For the climate of the South, you would need a generator, a large fresh water supply, a washing machine/drying machine and communications (TV/radio).
But if you had all those, you would have a luxury canal boat, not a shelter.
Well, they could, but these buildings on high land were built during the Victorian/Georgian era and so are listed buildings. And since there are also water shortages in Summer increasing the population density isn't going to help that much either.
Here's a link of a single unit - they are placed on a foundation stone, and earth piled around them.
Storm cellar #1, Storm cellar #2
To quote the website "Can be beautifully landscaped to your terrain".
Landscaped storm cellar