In the UK, they did a study to see how much money would make people happy. From a survey they figured that around four million pounds was enough (six million dollars). Enough for someone to make themselves and all their relatives happy.
Perhaps there should be a prize for the first person or company who can find a way of retrieving all that space junk. Some of it seems to be valuable (astronaut's glove, camera) and could probably ear n something if auctioned on E-bay.
Even more entertaining... Political Edition of Takeshi's Castle. Anyone who makes it to the final round gets to become a Senator. The first person to defeat Count Takeshi, becomes president.
And this is due to massive multinational corporations spending billions on R&D and infrastructure. The amateur computer geeks would be virtually nonexistent if giants like MS, Intel, and various Asian chipmakers weren't commoditizing the industry.
In some Computer Science/Electronics/Semiconducters unversity departments, it's possible for Masters/PhD students to be able to base a project on the design of an ASIC chip for a particular market. Even some undergraduate courses will give students the opportunity to gain experience using the design packages, and have a couple of chips fabricated for installation onto a socketed circut board. It may not exactly be a 220-million transistor graphics accelator, but there is always the chance of seeing how well a particular algorithm performs when implemented in hardware.
Cassette tapes were VERY easy to pirate. And the practice was much more common. Once DVDs become easy and cheap to copy, then you're statement might be correct.
I remember:) Just about every high-street electrical store back in the late 80's was selling dual cassette deck stereos, with features like synchro-copy, turbo-copy; which would play tape #1 at double/triple speed, but not start recording onto tape #2 until audio was heard on tape #1.
Going by the argument that Microsoft uses to justify the requirement that all PC's to be sold with Windows XX pre-installed, the movie industry could argue that all DVD players/video recorders be sold with a pre-supplied library of movie classics, as owners are more than likely than not to pirate them.
It could one of two things; Either the volcano's emitting a hallucingenic purple fog or it's a foggy dawn. I can't say for certain which one of the two it is.
Your experience was done completely wrong. Part of pairing a senior developer with a junior is to teach the junior developer things they didn't learn in school However, the junior developer constantly questioning the senior developer's judgement is equally as bad as the senior developer ignoring the junior developer. Neither developer is there for the other's amusement, and it's good to keep in mind that there should be no criticism; sometimes neither developer's idea is very good.
I would hope that any project large enough to require two or more programmers working in a team, would have a general design written up, and listing the basic architecture (libraries, user-interface, file formats) if nothing else. I can't see how this would help for the implementation for anything like file format readers, user interface dialogs (layouts, callbacks/slots/signals). Discussions on the design of the application should be done in the beginning of the project or at least the beginning of a particular module.
Thas was "Jasper Maskelyne". From the Discovery channel program I saw, he took a military spotlight, added a couple of conical mirrors so that the light would be reflected outwards in a starburst pattern. These mirrors would then rotate, causing the starburst pattern to rotate with it. Depending upon the weather conditions, this pattern would be visible for a radius of two to three miles up through the atmosphere. To completely conceal a particular area, dozens of these spotlights would be placed all over the desert.
We can only imagine how disorientating it would be for the pilots at that time to look out and just see alternating dark and white bands travelling at different speeds on each side of the plane. It would be a fairly simple to simulate this using an animation package.
CO2 emits @ ~ 10 microns wavelength. So far as I know (large) airplaine windows are made from polycarbonate or at least have a polycarbonate layer in them. That is going to mean almost 100% absorption and therefore 0% transmission.
In that case, I'd be worried about someone burning/melting/weakening the airplane window with a laser beam.
It wasn't the poop - the bathroom light was off, the camera nightsight was set on, and they were reflecting torchlight off a certain liquid they were pouring into the bowl. The reflection of the light off the little drops was forming a tracer style pattern.
Is there technology to see radiation (plutonium) signatures from space in real-time or near real-time?
Alpha particles (high speed helium nucleii ejected from the heavy elements) don't travel very far. Neither do Beta particles (high speed electrons). Even gamma rays only have a range measured in thousands of metres. The brilliant beam of blue light as described by the Chernobyl was never detected.
The only way to really detect such radiation sources is the flash from the explosions. Although meteorites burning up in the atmosphere can generate similar signals.
Reminds me of a sketch I saw on French TV, which was taking the mickey out of journalists who were make live reports on Iraq from their own homes back in England. They show this barrage of green lights constantly starting to flying upwards, then as the camera pans out, you see the camera was doing a zoom-in on the water in the bowl, as the chain was being pulled.
This is the assumption I've encountered when watching the science channels; "This luxury yacht is the length of twenty blue whales put nose-to-tail and contains the volume of two superbowl stadiums. The captain's deck is at a height equivalent to two-thirds of the Statue of Liberty".
More damage is done to our eyes due to the need to focus on close objects (LCD screens, CRT monitors). The biggest solution to solve this would be if said displays could support "focus at infinity" similar to the techniques used by flight simulators. Perhaps this can be done by the new 3D LCD displays.
What do we do when there's no sun hitting the earth's surface for six months?
Rely on oil, wave, wind and nuclear power sources for energy and invest in halogen/UV light bulbs to illuminate fields, and research atmospheric cleansing methods. I'm sure researchers would find chemicals that could be released into the atmosphere and make the dust particles condense into heavier particles and wash out of the sky.
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In the UK, they did a study to see how much money would make people happy. From a survey they figured that around four million pounds was enough (six million dollars). Enough for someone to make themselves and all their relatives happy.
Perhaps there should be a prize for the first person or company who can find a way of retrieving all that space junk. Some of it seems to be valuable (astronaut's glove, camera) and could probably ear n something if auctioned on E-bay.
We do have to wonder how long before someone patents a patenting method.
Even more entertaining ... Political Edition of Takeshi's Castle. Anyone who makes it to the final round gets to become a Senator. The first person to defeat Count Takeshi, becomes president.
And this is due to massive multinational corporations spending billions on R&D and infrastructure. The amateur computer geeks would be virtually nonexistent if giants like MS, Intel, and various Asian chipmakers weren't commoditizing the industry.
In some Computer Science/Electronics/Semiconducters unversity departments, it's possible for Masters/PhD students to be able to base a project on the design of an ASIC chip for a particular market. Even some undergraduate courses will give students the opportunity to gain experience using the design packages, and have a couple of chips fabricated for installation onto a socketed circut board. It may not exactly be a 220-million transistor graphics accelator, but there is always the chance of seeing how well a particular algorithm performs when implemented in hardware.
Ash nazg durbatulûk,
ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
I am guessing you have taken Fundamentals of Operating Systems and English Literature in the same semester?
Cassette tapes were VERY easy to pirate. And the practice was much more common. Once DVDs become easy and cheap to copy, then you're statement might be correct.
:) Just about every high-street electrical store back in the late 80's was selling dual cassette deck stereos, with features like synchro-copy, turbo-copy; which would play tape #1 at double/triple speed, but not start recording onto tape #2 until audio was heard on tape #1.
I remember
Going by the argument that Microsoft uses to justify the requirement that all PC's to be sold with Windows XX pre-installed, the movie industry could argue that all DVD players/video recorders be sold with a pre-supplied library of movie classics, as owners are more than likely than not to pirate them.
It could one of two things; Either the volcano's emitting a hallucingenic purple fog or it's a foggy dawn. I can't say for certain which one of the two it is.
Your experience was done completely wrong. Part of pairing a senior developer with a junior is to teach the junior developer things they didn't learn in school However, the junior developer constantly questioning the senior developer's judgement is equally as bad as the senior developer ignoring the junior developer. Neither developer is there for the other's amusement, and it's good to keep in mind that there should be no criticism; sometimes neither developer's idea is very good.
I would hope that any project large enough to require two or more programmers working in a team, would have a general design written up, and listing the basic architecture (libraries, user-interface, file formats) if nothing else. I can't see how this would help for the implementation for anything like file format readers, user interface dialogs (layouts, callbacks/slots/signals). Discussions on the design of the application should be done in the beginning of the project or at least the beginning of a particular module.
Thas was "Jasper Maskelyne". From the Discovery channel program I saw, he took a military spotlight, added a couple of conical mirrors so that the light would be reflected outwards in a starburst pattern. These mirrors would then rotate, causing the starburst pattern to rotate with it. Depending upon the weather conditions, this pattern would be visible for a radius of two to three miles up through the atmosphere. To completely conceal a particular area, dozens of these spotlights would be placed all over the desert.
We can only imagine how disorientating it would be for the pilots at that time to look out and just see alternating dark and white bands travelling at different speeds on each side of the plane. It would be a fairly simple to simulate this using an animation package.
CO2 emits @ ~ 10 microns wavelength. So far as I know (large) airplaine windows are made from polycarbonate or at least have a polycarbonate layer in them. That is going to mean almost 100% absorption and therefore 0% transmission.
In that case, I'd be worried about someone burning/melting/weakening the airplane window with a laser beam.
Or you could always send information encrypted on a CD-ROM, floppy-disk or flash card.
Alternatively, you could always use a wireless access points to transfer information between computers without actually meeting.
It wasn't the poop - the bathroom light was off, the camera nightsight was set on, and they were reflecting torchlight off a certain liquid they were pouring into the bowl. The reflection of the light off the little drops was forming a tracer style pattern.
Is there technology to see radiation (plutonium) signatures from space in real-time or near real-time?
Alpha particles (high speed helium nucleii ejected from the heavy elements) don't travel very far. Neither do Beta particles (high speed electrons). Even gamma rays only have a range measured in thousands of metres. The brilliant beam of blue light as described by the Chernobyl was never detected.
The only way to really detect such radiation sources is the flash from the explosions. Although meteorites burning up in the atmosphere can generate similar signals.
... a built-in swiss army knife.
but until the non-techincal start to understand, no, care about, the implications, things just plain won't change.
More importantly, the financial folk from respected institutions.
Complete sentences people. This statement doesn't even parse lexically, let alone make sense.
Obviously, visited anyone on the planet Dagobah, you have never.
Reminds me of a sketch I saw on French TV, which was taking the mickey out of journalists who were make live reports on Iraq from their own homes back in England. They show this barrage of green lights constantly starting to flying upwards, then as the camera pans out, you see the camera was doing a zoom-in on the water in the bowl, as the chain was being pulled.
This is the assumption I've encountered when watching the science channels; "This luxury yacht is the length of twenty blue whales put nose-to-tail and contains the volume of two superbowl stadiums. The captain's deck is at a height equivalent to two-thirds of the Statue of Liberty".
You need this handy table of International Units of Measurements:
Height of small objects: Pepsi/Coke cans
Height of medium objects: Two storey family home
Height of large buildings and astronomical objects: Statues of Liberties or Taj Mahal's
Volume of medium-sized objects: Ford pickup truck/Indian bull elephant
Volume of large objects: Superbowl stadium/Oil tanker
Volume of extremely large objects: Planet Earth
Slow speed objects: Garden snail
Medium speed objects: Grand Prix racing car
High speed objects: Artillery shell/Rifle bullet
Most if not all of these objects can be found around or near the typical family dwelling home.
... this stuff has been proved to last millions of years.
After having spent 30 years of research in order to conquer the complexities of making
train carriages tilt while travelling along a curve at 150 miles/hour, and taking 15 minutes off the travel time, it's only
a small step to having reusable space craft running shuttle flights to and from Mars.
More damage is done to our eyes due to the need to focus on close objects (LCD screens, CRT monitors). The biggest solution to solve this would be if said displays could support "focus at infinity" similar to the techniques used by flight simulators. Perhaps this can be done by the new 3D LCD displays.
What do we do when there's no sun hitting the earth's surface for six months?
Rely on oil, wave, wind and nuclear power sources for energy and invest in halogen/UV light bulbs to illuminate fields, and research atmospheric cleansing methods. I'm sure researchers would find chemicals that could be released into the atmosphere and make the dust particles condense into heavier particles and wash out of the sky.