Somehow I feel that this is a very important statement. I guess it is trying to tell me the next time I hear a loud thud, that it might not be my grandmother breaking a hip, but the war beginning.
I once lived opposite some warehouses converted into residental flats. Instead of internal staircaes, these buildings had metal staircases on the outside going all the way up to six floors. On one Saturday, repairs were being carried out by welders on the top floor. At this time, I had my computer on a desk in the corner of the room beside the window, and just about freaked out when I saw the reflection of an intense bright shimmering light being projected onto the wall opposite my window.
After first reading the title, I thought he was getting as many people as possible to photograph a single point in the sky from as many view points as possible, then doing a Matrix style spin-around of the resulting set of images.
Garbage collection. Some well-written Java applications allocate all the memory they will ever need at the start, and reuse these objects. Others rapidly create and discard temporary objects. Since garbage collection only occurs periodically, the system can end up with large blocks of unused memory.
I could never understand why Java couldn't allow the programmer to choose how often or when to perform garbage collection (end of function calls).
Wouldn't it take hours to photocopy a full textbook? Surely it'd make more sense to do something useful with your time and buy it used somewhere..
It be better using a digital camera with a 1024x768 resolution and digital zoom. Then you can copy an entire A4 page in colour within 3 seconds. Most of the time, the reader is only interested in a a single chapter, as most of the information is available publicly.
This has become commonplace in Japan, called "digital shoplifting", where customers are going up to the magazine racks, photographing clothes, hairstyles, reviews, and sending the copies to their friends, rather than buying the magazine.
An easy way to offend the residents of the islands offshore the UK mainland (Shetland, Hebrides, Isle of Man, Guernsey) is to provide a map of the country with the islands in a geographic inaccurate location.
Usually, this would be happen when a graphics artist would decide to crop an image of the country to fit into a target image frame. Unfortunately, they would then find that the Islands were inconveniently cropped out. So the artist would just cut and paste the islands to somewhere more geographically covenient. This was most likely to happen with superstore chains providing lists of all their stores, and manufacturers providing lists of retailers.
Wine emulates Win32 function calls. A second application QEMU emulates the Intel 386 instruction set and hardware environment. So a Mac can emulate an Intel PC.
I once knew a guy who had this great idea to use aluminum oxide on DVDs and CDs to prevent scratching. He said the disks could be bulletproof, scratchproof, and unbreakable, although I think he was exagerating...
I could just imagine the crime scene:
Police Officer: Can you describe the person who attempted to raid the bank?
Witness #1: Yes, he was covered in head to toe with CD's glued to his clothes.
Police Officer: Can you give me any further details?
Witness #1: I think the CD's had words on them "AOL trial account - 14 days free service".
I was curious about Scotland (posting this from Edinburgh...) which is largely dark as well. The central belt (Glasgow - Edinburgh, via Stirling) is well-lit, but the Highlands, particularly on the West Coast are dark. Geography, I'd guess, in Scotland's case - the region is very mountainous.
The Highlands (West coast of Scotland) are populated, but at a density of about 8 people per square kilometre. Compare that to Edinburgh (1725 per square kilometre) and Glasgow(3300 per square kilometre). Source: Scotland's population
It's mainly due to economic growth in the past; Glasgow and Edinburgh both attracted large numbers of rural workers when shipbuilding and manufacturing where at their peak. There were also the Highland clearances where the wealthy landowners sold their land to English landowners who then had the residents deported to either Australia or Canada (around 12 million people around the world claim Scottish ancestry).
At any rate, if you click the link, click the resulting image to get a bigger one, and then resize it, it makes pretty nice wallpaper. Unfortunately the aspect ratio isn't fit for a desktop, so you'll have to trim it or let the aspect ratio change to get the whole thing.
Alternatively, you could always upgrade your graphics card, buy a VGA/DVI converter connector and a couple of 20" LCD displays. That should sort out the aspect ratio problem.
Hell, spam has gotten so sophisticated that sometimes even after reading the whole message I still don't know if the e-mail is a legitimiate one from my bank, stock broker, etc.
If after reading the E-mail, you still don't know what product the spam is advertising, then the spammers are losing, since those E-mail's will not lead to a sale, and the spammers are simply wasting their own bandwidth.
The simplest way would be to take routes that go through steel bridges, underground tunnels, and/or travel during electrical storms.
Then, drivers could learn the cost of each individual section of road and plan their route accordingly. I could imagine drivers would go off the freeway before a complex intersection, take a surface road, then go back onto the freeway.
Why don't they just take down the miles of the odometer
Some people do try that. However, odometers are designed in such a way that it obvious to see when the number has been reversed (the gears have assymmetric shaped teeth that allow the odometer to count upwards). Odometers which have been "clocked back" usually have numbers that are misaligned like certain styles of web page counter.
Cool! Now I don't even have to put down the laptop, get up and switch on the air-conditioning. All we need now is an intelligent fridge-freezer which can deliver cool drinks direct to my chair.
I see no discussion in the article of the fact that the moon distorts the space around it so that when it is between us and the sun we are slightly further away from the sun than when it is not in line. This effect has to be incredibly small but it appears the allais effect, if it exists at all, is quite small, so perhaps this is the cause. Somebody should at least calculate it out.
Perhaps the curvature of space-time by the Moon, causes particles (neutrinos?) emitted by the Sun to be concentrated at the "umbra" of the eclipse? The graph in the paper (the rate of change of the azimuth) looks very similar to the first derivative of a Gaussian curve. This would make sense as whatever the cause, it should be proportional to the exact alignment of the Sun and Moon.
Wow, does that mean if the human seismic/mass hypothesis in the original paper hold true, that a flash mob near a high-energy physics facility could lead to mass devastation?
There's a much easier way. It only takes around 50 people to make a large office block sway. All they have to do is push on opposite sides at the right rate and they can use the resonant frequency of the building to build up amplitude.
Alternatively, you can do what Tesla did, and attach a Tesla oscillator onto one of the iron beams of a 10 story steel structure, and allow the resonance to build up. He managed to create a mini-earthquake.
And if you could get around 4.55 x 10^28 humans to form a flash mob, you could create an all-human black hole.
The individual effect of each of the Sun or the Moon on the Earth is to cause two tidal bulges of the oceans/lakes/rivers of the Earth (one facing the object, and the other on the opposite side). These lead to diurnal (24 hour cycle) and semi-diurnal (12 hour cycle) tides.
When the Moon and Sun are aligned together, you have Spring tides. Neap tides are caused when th e Moon and Sun are perpendicular to one another. There is also the Proxigean Spring Tide, when the moon is at its closest point to the Earth (perigee). This time is known as the "proxigee", and causes even higher tides than ordinary Spring Tides. Fortunately, these only occur once every 1.5 years.
The gravitational acceleration at the Earth's surface is 9.8 metres/second per second (towards the centre of the Earth).
The gravitational acceleration on Earth due to the Sun is 0.0059 metres/second per second. Or about 5.9 millimetres/second.
The gravitational acceleration on Earth due to the Moon is 0.000033 metres/second per second. Or about 0.033 millimetres/second.
These amounts are small, but research groups at one of the particle accelerator rings actually noticed a distortion in the targeting of the beams due to the stretching/squashing of the surrounding land caused by the changing positions of the Sun and Moon. This caused the beam to periodically go off target.
Intuitively, one would assume that gravity would be less when the Sun and Moon were overhead, and the pendulum would swing slightly higher and slower. Plus the behavior of the pendulum should vary according to the positions of the Sun and Moon.
If the "shielding effect" occurred with large objects, then it would also apply to Earth's ocean tides. The closest side of the Earth one should shield the opposite side, but the bulging effect can be explained by simple vector addition/subtraction.
Nope. The patent specifically applies to home consoles, not to anything else.
Now, that is going to have interesting consequences. As the latest economy laptops now support advanced texture mapping, they could make an good alternative to buying a console system + wide-screen TV.
It's also hard to believe that Nintendo would attempt to extract royalties from this patent, so it must be an attempt to build up a defensive patent portfolio.
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Somehow I feel that this is a very important statement. I guess it is trying to tell me the next time I hear a loud thud, that it might not be my grandmother breaking a hip, but the war beginning.
I once lived opposite some warehouses converted into residental flats. Instead of internal staircaes, these buildings had metal staircases on the outside going all the way up to six floors. On one Saturday, repairs were being carried out by welders on the top floor. At this time, I had my computer on a desk in the corner of the room beside the window, and just about freaked out when I saw the reflection of an intense bright shimmering light being projected onto the wall opposite my window.
Women get something more practical; The Boyfriend Arm Pillow
I don't know, but I'm sure Windows could do with a Format C: key
After first reading the title, I thought he was getting as many people as possible to photograph a single point in the sky from as many view points as possible, then doing a Matrix style spin-around of the resulting set of images.
Garbage collection. Some well-written Java applications allocate all the memory they will ever need at the start, and reuse these objects. Others rapidly create and discard temporary objects. Since garbage collection only occurs periodically, the system can end up with large blocks of unused memory.
I could never understand why Java couldn't allow the programmer to choose how often or when to perform garbage collection (end of function calls).
Wouldn't it take hours to photocopy a full textbook? Surely it'd make more sense to do something useful with your time and buy it used somewhere..
It be better using a digital camera with a 1024x768 resolution and digital zoom. Then you can copy an entire A4 page in colour within 3 seconds. Most of the time, the reader is only interested in a a single chapter, as most of the information is available publicly.
This has become commonplace in Japan, called "digital shoplifting", where customers are going up to the magazine racks, photographing clothes, hairstyles, reviews, and sending the copies to their friends, rather than buying the magazine.
An easy way to offend the residents of the islands offshore the UK mainland (Shetland, Hebrides, Isle of Man, Guernsey) is to provide a map of the country with the islands in a geographic inaccurate location.
Usually, this would be happen when a graphics artist would decide to crop an image of the country to fit into a target image frame. Unfortunately, they would then find that the Islands were inconveniently cropped out. So the artist would just cut and paste the islands to somewhere more geographically covenient. This was most likely to happen with superstore chains providing lists of all their stores, and manufacturers providing lists of retailers.
Or their son 'Bruce'. I've watched too many Paul Hogan Shows and Bizarre episodes.
Wine emulates Win32 function calls. A second application QEMU emulates the Intel 386 instruction set and hardware environment. So a Mac can emulate an Intel PC.
I once knew a guy who had this great idea to use aluminum oxide on DVDs and CDs to prevent scratching. He said the disks could be bulletproof, scratchproof, and unbreakable, although I think he was exagerating...
I could just imagine the crime scene:
Police Officer: Can you describe the person who attempted to raid the bank?
Witness #1: Yes, he was covered in head to toe with CD's glued to his clothes.
Police Officer: Can you give me any further details?
Witness #1: I think the CD's had words on them "AOL trial account - 14 days free service".
I was curious about Scotland (posting this from Edinburgh...) which is largely dark as well. The central belt (Glasgow - Edinburgh, via Stirling) is well-lit, but the Highlands, particularly on the West Coast are dark. Geography, I'd guess, in Scotland's case - the region is very mountainous.
The Highlands (West coast of Scotland) are populated, but at a density of about 8 people per square kilometre. Compare that to Edinburgh (1725 per square kilometre) and Glasgow(3300 per square kilometre). Source: Scotland's population
It's mainly due to economic growth in the past; Glasgow and Edinburgh both attracted large numbers of rural workers when shipbuilding and manufacturing where at their peak. There were also the Highland clearances where the wealthy landowners sold their land to English landowners who then had the residents deported to either Australia or Canada (around 12 million people around the world claim Scottish ancestry).
At any rate, if you click the link, click the resulting image to get a bigger one, and then resize it, it makes pretty nice wallpaper. Unfortunately the aspect ratio isn't fit for a desktop, so you'll have to trim it or let the aspect ratio change to get the whole thing.
Alternatively, you could always upgrade your graphics card, buy a VGA/DVI converter connector and a couple of 20" LCD displays. That should sort out the aspect ratio problem.
We don't take naps, we take ritalin for our self-diagnosed Asperger's syndrome.
That's just a placebo! I take six cans of Jolt cola and stay up for the whole week!
Hell, spam has gotten so sophisticated that sometimes even after reading the whole message I still don't know if the e-mail is a legitimiate one from my bank, stock broker, etc.
If after reading the E-mail, you still don't know what product the spam is advertising, then the spammers are losing, since those E-mail's will not lead to a sale, and the spammers are simply wasting their own bandwidth.
I'm already thinking of hacks...
The simplest way would be to take routes that go through steel bridges, underground tunnels, and/or travel during electrical storms.
Then, drivers could learn the cost of each individual section of road and plan their route accordingly. I could imagine drivers would go off the freeway before a complex intersection, take a surface road, then go back onto the freeway.
Why don't they just take down the miles of the odometer
Some people do try that. However, odometers are designed in such a way that it obvious to see when the number has been reversed (the gears have assymmetric shaped teeth that allow the odometer to count upwards). Odometers which have been "clocked back" usually have numbers that are misaligned like certain styles of web page counter.
Cool! Now I don't even have to put down the laptop, get up and switch on the air-conditioning.
All we need now is an intelligent fridge-freezer which can deliver cool drinks direct to my chair.
8.30AM: Wake up as Ozzie the mechanic starts work at the garage.
9.00AM: Get pulled out and made to remove some nuts from a 1950's Chevvy.
10.00AM: Get pulled out again and made to tighten same nuts.
10.30AM: Get put back in the toolbox along with all my cousins, as Ozzie has his coffee-break.
11.00AM: Get pullled out and made to remove the differential from an off-roader which went off-terrain.
12.00PM: Made to put differential back on off-roader, and used as a paper-weight as Ozzie goes for his lunch-break and reads the newspaper.
I see no discussion in the article of the fact that the moon distorts the space around it so that when it is between us and the sun we are slightly further away from the sun than when it is not in line. This effect has to be incredibly small but it appears the allais effect, if it exists at all, is quite small, so perhaps this is the cause. Somebody should at least calculate it out.
Perhaps the curvature of space-time by the Moon, causes particles (neutrinos?) emitted by the Sun to be concentrated at the "umbra" of the eclipse?
The graph in the paper (the rate of change of the azimuth) looks very similar to the first derivative of a Gaussian curve. This would make sense as whatever the cause, it should be proportional to the exact alignment of the Sun and Moon.
Unfortunately, there's waaaay tooooo much "prior art" out in the field.
Wow, does that mean if the human seismic/mass hypothesis in the original paper hold true, that a flash mob near a high-energy physics facility could lead to mass devastation?
There's a much easier way. It only takes around 50 people to make a large office block sway. All they have to do is push on opposite sides at the right rate and they can use the resonant frequency of the building to build up amplitude.
Alternatively, you can do what Tesla did, and attach a Tesla oscillator onto one of the iron beams of a 10 story steel structure, and allow the resonance to build up. He managed to create a mini-earthquake.
And if you could get around 4.55 x 10^28 humans to form a flash mob, you could create an all-human black hole.
The individual effect of each of the Sun or the Moon on the Earth is to cause two tidal bulges of the oceans/lakes/rivers of the Earth
(one facing the object, and the other on the opposite side). These lead to diurnal (24 hour cycle) and semi-diurnal (12 hour cycle) tides.
When the Moon and Sun are aligned together, you have Spring tides. Neap tides are caused when th e Moon and Sun are perpendicular to one another. There is also the Proxigean Spring Tide, when the moon is at its closest point to the Earth (perigee). This time is known as the "proxigee", and causes even higher tides than ordinary Spring Tides. Fortunately, these only occur once every 1.5 years.
The gravitational acceleration at the Earth's surface is 9.8 metres/second per second (towards the centre of the Earth).
The gravitational acceleration on Earth due to the Sun is 0.0059 metres/second per second.
Or about 5.9 millimetres/second.
The gravitational acceleration on Earth due to the Moon is 0.000033 metres/second per second.
Or about 0.033 millimetres/second.
Source: Space Talk Forum
These amounts are small, but research groups at one of the particle accelerator rings actually noticed a distortion in the targeting of the beams due to the stretching/squashing of the surrounding land caused by the changing positions of the Sun and Moon. This caused the beam to periodically go off target.
Intuitively, one would assume that gravity would be less when the Sun and Moon were overhead, and the pendulum would swing slightly higher and slower. Plus the behavior of the pendulum should vary according to the positions of the Sun and Moon.
If the "shielding effect" occurred with large objects, then it would also apply to Earth's ocean tides. The closest side of the Earth one should shield the opposite side, but the bulging effect can be explained by simple vector addition/subtraction.
Nope. The patent specifically applies to home consoles, not to anything else.
Now, that is going to have interesting consequences. As the latest economy laptops now support advanced texture mapping, they could make an good alternative to buying a console system + wide-screen TV.
It's also hard to believe that Nintendo would attempt to extract royalties from this patent, so it must be an attempt to build up a defensive patent portfolio.
But does their counting improve with a Cooling Helmet?
This means that they can't count up to 42. Obviously they must be descendants of the second spaceship.