During the few millionths of a second that it operated, the 650-ton Atlas pulsed-power generator discharged about 19 million amps of current through an aluminum cylindrical shell about the size of a tuna can.
That's one über wi-fi.
I can only imagine the wi-fi range they'd get with a Pringles can.
I can just imagine what the property development advert would read like:
Live on Mars!
This exclusive development of luxury apartments designed by an award wining architect is set to become reality. Each apartment is located in its own biodome with a 360 panoramic view of the martian surface. Access to communal area is provided by a underground tunnel which also doubles as storage space.
Other features include an private 10 kilometre wide ice lake with privacy guaranteed by a 17 kilometre crater ridge approximately 2 kilometres high.
Prices range from 1 billion to 10 billion dollars. For further information and a brochure contact your local Century 25 agent. Hurry, these properties won't be on the market for long!
There was somebody who was attacked by a machete. Fortunately, the machete bounced off the vertebrae, but the guy lost a chunk of skin betwen his head and back.
Just in case some nut decides to digitally scan in front page of a newspaper, rearrange the letters into a demand for 1 trillion dollars of gold bullion from Fort Knox, and uses Fed-Ex to send the demand to the Whitehouse.
By the same argument, playing 'nethack' would discourage people from shoplifting.
More likely, it depends on whether or not the player ultimately succeeds or not. If every time, the player takes a particular action, they end up worse off, that will discourage them from doing that action again.
People convicted of shoplifting have admitted that they did these crimes because it got their adrenalin going, even if they were caught the next day. If a game such as GTA reveals the end result of their actions far quicker than real life and kills their adrenalin rush, then it might just work.
This could be tried with a bank robbery simulator. The goal is to raid a bank, not be recognised and make it home. The risks include: the bank doesn't have any money, it's opposite a police station, at times it's pay-day for local law-enforcement, the get-away car gets blocked by a gridlock, CCTV pictures are posted on every TV channel.
Why spend all that money on education when we can just steal smart people from other countries?
The incentive for someone to leave Europe is to find a job that pays enough to buy a good quality home. We've got the democracy bit sorted out - but are starting to get long commutes and expensive housing on teeny-tiny plots of land, especially in England. And pensions in the UK are looking a bit wobbly.
if you want land, China has a lot more than we do!
And one of the latest housing developments in Shanghai is to have each suburb in the style of a particular country (English Tudor, Italian canals, German gingerbread).
In the space of three months, your neighborhood in the Bay Area can completely change...
I used to remember the route that taxi drivers should take from the airport to my apartment by informing the driver that he/she should take leave the freeway immediately after passing the three floor office block with the black windows and white stripes. After that it was straight along the main road until the apartment complex.
Unfortunately, while I was abroad for a couple of months, the building was demolished and replaced with a brand new ten floor office block. That led to an interesting twilight tour of the Bay Area for a hour or so.
According to the article, the union were posting pictures of non-union members crossing picket lines, internal telephone numbers to call-centres.
If this is a concern to Telus, then they should file a court order against the website ISP and union, and not act childishly by blocking a particular website.
Stopping their customers from accessing the one website is futile as the website can be accessed from a proxy server, Google's cache and archive.org.
I've worked in an office like that - the worst distractions are people slamming shut filing cabinets, scrunching up waste sheets of paper and dropping them in the recycling bins (couldn't they just drop the paper in the bin and avoid making that noise in the first place?), and keyboard bashing - where in frustration of some event, they start banging each key as loudly as possible. Not forgetting noisily flicking through any bound paper document, or after printing out a document on a laser printer, reading each sheet of paper, and hole-punching it individually.
Even if the streets are curved and are going up and down hills, one would hope that the buildings are all built vertically. At one place, there are two office blocks that appear to interest the same point in space.
It could be that the satellite imagery has been reprocessed so that areas photographed at an angle and would appear as trapezoids have been reprocessed as squares.
How on earth can one or two years be considered reasonable? For core technologies like Internet protocol stacks or graphics chips, that is at least four generations.
I believe both California and Massachusetts have outlawed such legislation, along with the European Union.
From the contracts written by European multinationals, the NCA's were only used to "lock-in" technical staff so that they could be forced into full-time management positions, and prevent them from working as contractors or becoming self-employed.
A better solution would be to have a state-owned company who sells gil at a fixed rate.
We have the same problem when local government tries to outsource school bus services. Outsource all 100% and the companies think they can charge whatever they like. Outsource 50% of the market, and the companies can't jack up the prices because they know that the customer knows the true cost of providing the service.
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During the few millionths of a second that it operated, the 650-ton Atlas pulsed-power generator discharged about 19 million amps of current through an aluminum cylindrical shell about the size of a tuna can.
That's one über wi-fi.
I can only imagine the wi-fi range they'd get with a Pringles can.
ambient volume also goes up when adverts are being played ... even with one of those TV's that attempts to modulate the volume level.
Usually, it's just the room number :)
I can just imagine what the property development advert would read like:
Live on Mars!
This exclusive development of luxury apartments designed by an award wining architect is set to become reality. Each apartment is located in its own biodome with a 360 panoramic view of the martian surface. Access to communal area is provided by a underground tunnel which also doubles as storage space.
Other features include an private 10 kilometre wide ice lake with privacy guaranteed by a 17 kilometre crater ridge approximately 2 kilometres high.
Prices range from 1 billion to 10 billion dollars. For further information and a brochure contact your local Century 25 agent. Hurry, these properties won't be on the market for long!
There was somebody who was attacked by a machete. Fortunately, the machete bounced off the vertebrae, but the guy lost a chunk of skin betwen his head and back.
That wouldn't work - people have lost (sometimes temporarily) those body parts and still lived.
You're not this guy by any chance? Looks like he used the cell-phone way too often.
Just in case some nut decides to digitally scan in front page of a newspaper, rearrange the letters into a demand for 1 trillion dollars of gold bullion from Fort Knox, and uses Fed-Ex to send the demand to the Whitehouse.
By the same argument, playing 'nethack' would discourage people from shoplifting.
More likely, it depends on whether or not the player ultimately succeeds or not. If every time, the player takes a particular action, they end up worse off, that will discourage them from doing that action again.
People convicted of shoplifting have admitted that they did these crimes because it got their adrenalin going, even if they were caught the next day. If a game such as GTA reveals the end result of their actions far quicker than real life and kills their adrenalin rush, then it might just work.
This could be tried with a bank robbery simulator. The goal is to raid a bank, not be recognised and make it home. The risks include: the bank doesn't have any money, it's opposite a police station, at times it's pay-day for local law-enforcement, the get-away car gets blocked by a gridlock, CCTV pictures are posted on every TV channel.
Maybe they should offer tickets to drive one of those remotely - $10,000 gets you 60 minutes of wandering around the Moon.
Remember children, there's no such thing as failure, only deferred success
Why spend all that money on education when we can just steal smart people from other countries?
The incentive for someone to leave Europe is to find a job that pays enough to buy a good quality home. We've got the democracy bit sorted out - but are starting to get long commutes and expensive housing on teeny-tiny plots of land, especially in England. And pensions in the UK are looking a bit wobbly.
if you want land, China has a lot more than we do!
And one of the latest housing developments in Shanghai is to have each suburb in the style of a particular country (English Tudor, Italian canals, German gingerbread).
In the space of three months, your neighborhood in the Bay Area can completely change...
I used to remember the route that taxi drivers should take from the airport to my apartment by informing the driver that he/she should take leave the freeway immediately after passing the three floor office block with the black windows and white stripes. After that it was straight along the main road until the apartment complex.
Unfortunately, while I was abroad for a couple of months, the building was demolished and replaced with a brand new ten floor office block. That led to an interesting twilight tour of the Bay Area for a hour or so.
According to the article, the union were posting pictures of non-union members crossing picket lines, internal telephone numbers to call-centres.
If this is a concern to Telus, then they should file a court order against the website ISP and union, and not act childishly by blocking a particular website.
Stopping their customers from accessing the one website is futile as the website can be accessed from a proxy server, Google's cache and archive.org.
HP Inert?
I've worked in an office like that - the worst distractions are people slamming shut filing cabinets, scrunching up waste sheets of paper and dropping them in the recycling bins (couldn't they just drop the paper in the bin and avoid making that noise in the first place?), and keyboard bashing - where in frustration of some event, they start banging each key as loudly as possible. Not forgetting noisily flicking through any bound paper document, or after printing out a document on a laser printer, reading each sheet of paper, and hole-punching it individually.
And this carving will probably be interpreted by our descendants as a pictogram with the meaning "Aim asteroid here".
And Agilent Technologies were also laying off staff.
Not forgetting the Forth Road Bridge, Heriot Watt University, and the Edinburgh Bypass while missing out Edinburgh Castle, Princes Street and Leith.
But they seem to have done the same thing with Glasgow and Aberdeen - missing half the city and outer suburbs.
Would that mean we would have:
Hacking for Dummies, or
Hacking Hacks?
Even if the streets are curved and are going up and down hills, one would hope that the buildings are all built vertically. At one place, there are two office blocks that appear to interest the same point in space.
It could be that the satellite imagery has been reprocessed so that areas photographed at an angle and would appear as trapezoids have been reprocessed as squares.
The high resolution images completed missed half of Edinburgh in Scotland, and imaged a large number of fields to the West instead
At least we know which field to use for a picnic.
The most minding bending image I've seen is of Wilshire Blvd in LA, where all the buildings seem to be leaning at different angles. I assume this is due to photographs being taken from different perspectives.
How on earth can one or two years be considered reasonable? For core technologies like Internet protocol stacks or graphics chips, that is at least four generations.
I believe both California and Massachusetts have outlawed such legislation, along with the European Union.
From the contracts written by European multinationals, the NCA's were only used to "lock-in" technical staff so that they could be forced into full-time management positions, and prevent them from working as contractors or becoming self-employed.
Do a Google search for "Non-Compete Agreement" - it seems somewhat appropriate...
A better solution would be to have a state-owned company who sells gil at a fixed rate.
We have the same problem when local government tries to outsource school bus services. Outsource all 100% and the companies think they can charge whatever they like. Outsource 50% of the market, and the companies can't jack up the prices because they know that the customer knows the true cost of providing the service.