Problem in the UK is that there is a housing shortage... which leads to high rents. Even a room in London rents for £200/week. Looking to rent your own apartment requires at least £50,000, even more so for a safe area. Most of the country has prices like that now . If you don't want to live in ghetto you have to live a 10 minute drive away from a train station outside the M25.
Same in other cities. Apartments which rented for £350/month in the 1990's, now rent out for £850.
And with the availability of cheap labour from abroad, salaries remain at £15K/year.
I would hope they could use solar power. Otherwise, the energy used to create hot steam would be better off just driving a steam turbine, or just being fed directly into the grid if it electricity.
Hardware and software was a lot simpler back 30 years or more. One of our courseworks was to write keyboard and network card device drivers along with a text editor and simple chat programs. A keyboard driver could be written using BIOS interrupts in page of code. Same with a network card driver and text editor/chat program. Even source code control was done using SCCS which meant that only one file could be checked out at a time by one person.
Applications programming was straightforward - create a main window widget, some auxiliary screens and link everything together with callbacks and parent/child hierarchies. A large application might be split into a couple of threads; user input, background processing, and immediate commands.
Now, a modern application is going to split into multiple languages; plugins, scripts, CUDA/OpenCL and DirectX/OpenGL shaders, multi-threading API's, C++ class hierachies using STL/Boost/Boost++, other middleware API's, animated 3D GUI's. If one part of the application fails it can take everything else done with it. While changes can be reverted, it does cause slowdowns for everyone else.
If they went for electronic firing, then it would be easy to stick on a GPS receiver, compass, accelerometers, biometric ID, camera, and just about everything else that could be used to implement a black box recording system. Imagine having the preceding 10 seconds of time recorded for every shot fired.
Try measuring your wifi signal strength using a smartphone meter app. I did that in my apartment, and it seems there are standing wave patterns. I would imagine the signal gets reflected off cables, radiators, chairs, LCD screens, tables and whatever else.
What I never understood, is why the weapons couldn't have some mechanical indicator that there was a round in the chamber. Shotguns are supposed to be folded open so that the cartridges are visible and only armed when about to be shot. The copper case and paper cartridge are very obvious indicators. So why can't a rifle have a visual indicator (red/black cylinder that spins round) that is set when a round is inserted into the receiver, and cleared when the spent casing is released?
The goal of the project was to build a quadcopter with low-cost replaceable parts. If you have a one piece wood or carbonfibre chassis, and something breaks, that's the whole chassis needing replacing. If the quadcopter is made from modular parts, that's a bit better, but you would still need to purchase custom replacement parts if they break. Build the quadcopter chassis out of RV parts and regular bricks, you can buy a bucket of them for $50.
Not that the color really mattered to a kid. With regular bricks, you could make a delta wing fighter plane from the jumbo-jet wing sections. A missile defence system could be built from those 4x4 rotating turntables and a hinge joint. Use a couple of 8x1's or 8x2's for the missile and the sloping 2x1's for the missile wings.
As far as building tanks with Lego Technical kits, you could get the Technical Lego 856 Bulldozer. Strip the model down to a couple of long bars, axles, gears and the caterpillar treads, then add a couple of electric motors to drive each tread separately. Then with couple of battery packs, the whole tank could go at least 2 metres/second on carpet.
1. Get sleep between 10am and 2pm as well as whatever feels like a full nights sleep (6 to 8 hours). Having the feeling of being able to doze lightly for an hour or two before actually having to get up.
2. Have a well ventilated bedroom. I've heard people say how they were amazed they only needed six hours sleep when they stayed in a hotel room with combined air conditioning and filtering as well as blackout curtains (thick curtains that go all the way down to the floor and blockout sunlight entirely, as well as street lighting).
My last apartment gave me the choice of either leaving a window open and hearing everything from refuse collectors at 6am to students coming in home drunk at 3am, and neighbors starting to do the garden at 7am. There simply wasn't any six let alone eight hour slot where there was a quiet time to sleep. Had to throw up another blanket over the thin fabric curtains in order to block out the yellow glow from street and security lights.
3. Avoid the processed foods - some have up to 50% combined with salt as a preservative. The salt encourages water retainment which in turn encourages cells to expand with fat.
4. Avoid sugars. Muscles switch to fast burning of sugar that the slow consumption of protein.
5. Eat lots of vegetables like carrots, brussel sprouts and broccoli. They actually break down the toxins that the body can't expel and just encases in fat. If you figure that plants probably have had to find ways of avoiding being poisoned by decomposing critters, they would find a way of absorbing those nutrients.
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/scenario/tides.htm The "tidal trivia" summary below puts things into perspective. The so-called equatorial bulge due to the Earth's axial rotation lifts the equator about 23 kilometer. The moon's gravity gradient lifts water mid-ocean (where the ocean is deep) no more than 1 meter, that's 1.6 x 10-7% of the Earth radius. Why do we fuss about this? Because over an ocean of large area, that represents a very large volume of water. Also, it's the driving mechanism that controls the periods of the much larger tides at shorelines.
Maybe there is a different gravitational field due to different terrain. CERN had a problem where their guide beams would go off target depending on the time of day. Turned out the moon was actually causing distortion to the surrounding land by a few metres, just like water tides. That was enough to change the shape of the collider ring.
I've worked with people like that, and some of my relatives don't understand satire. They can understand something like "given how crowded our trains already are, introduction of third class tickets could only involve passengers hanging off the sides or sitting on the roof". But something like, "One day, Alice was walking back through the forest with a picnic basket full of sugar cubes for Dougal, when she met a couple of soldiers standing guard by the bridge. He said 'The king had instructed us to stand guard here, as a lot of sugar cubes have started to go missing. Have you seen anyone stealing sugar cubes?". "Oh no, haven't seen anyone." said Alice and walked across the bridge."
They didn't understand what point that was making, the soldiers being unable to stop theft.
Every workstation and network technology vendor had their own network protocols at some time or another (DECnet, TCP/IP,...) Eventually they all decided to adopt a single theoretical model (ISO) to help standardize their designs by splitting everything into layers. Ultimately TCP/IP won out for the upper layers, allowing all sorts of different standards to exist at the hardware level (wi-fi, ethernet).
Bulletin Board Systems adopted Fidonet, which allowed long distance messaging.
I've found it the quickest way to transfer a web address bookmark off my PC and onto my smartphone, without the ******** hassle of going through about ten different menus, exiting application, entering system menu, enabling USB, confirming that I want to enable USB, confirming that I accept my applications being affected by not being able to write to the SD CARD, pulling out and pushing in the USB charger cable again, confirming that I am ready, then disabling USB.
Or if you live next to a quarry - my laptop once tested positive for explosive residue after I had left the window open and a cloud of dust had blown over our house.
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Problem in the UK is that there is a housing shortage ... which leads to high rents. Even a room in London rents for £200/week. Looking to rent your own apartment requires at least £50,000, even more so for a safe area. Most of the country has prices like that now . If you don't want to live in ghetto you have to live a 10 minute drive away from a train station outside the M25.
Same in other cities. Apartments which rented for £350/month in the 1990's, now rent out for £850.
And with the availability of cheap labour from abroad, salaries remain at £15K/year.
Alex DeLarge from Clockwork Orange, "... and dremcrumb, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up for a bit of the old ultraviolence".
They would have to replace that with "Buckfast" or Monster Energy drinks.
I would hope they could use solar power. Otherwise, the energy used to create hot steam would be better off just driving a steam turbine, or just being fed directly into the grid if it electricity.
Hardware and software was a lot simpler back 30 years or more. One of our courseworks was to write keyboard and network card device drivers along with a text editor and simple chat programs. A keyboard driver could be written using BIOS interrupts in page of code. Same with a network card driver and text editor/chat program. Even source code control was done using SCCS which meant that only one file could be checked out at a time by one person.
Applications programming was straightforward - create a main window widget, some auxiliary screens and link everything together with callbacks and parent/child hierarchies. A large application might be split into a couple of threads; user input, background processing, and immediate commands.
Now, a modern application is going to split into multiple languages; plugins, scripts, CUDA/OpenCL and DirectX/OpenGL shaders, multi-threading API's, C++ class hierachies using STL/Boost/Boost++, other middleware API's, animated 3D GUI's. If one part of the application fails it can take everything else done with it. While changes can be reverted, it does cause slowdowns for everyone else.
Quasi-periodic tiling of magnetic spin axii?
That was British farming practise - keep the weapon like this picture when outside but not actually firing:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/ShotgunAction.JPG
Even then people would still die in cleaning accidents in the same way that they would walking into spinning airplane propellors
If they went for electronic firing, then it would be easy to stick on a GPS receiver, compass, accelerometers, biometric ID, camera, and just about everything else that could be used to implement a black box recording system. Imagine having the preceding 10 seconds of time recorded for every shot fired.
Butterfly nets? Large laundry bag? Of course if they are shorter than 3" then you have real problems:
http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=77398
Or Judge Dredd and a Lawgiver.
http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2012/08/07/l-is-for-lawgiver-lawmaster/
Try measuring your wifi signal strength using a smartphone meter app. I did that in my apartment, and it seems there are standing wave patterns. I would imagine the signal gets reflected off cables, radiators, chairs, LCD screens, tables and whatever else.
What I never understood, is why the weapons couldn't have some mechanical indicator that there was a round in the chamber. Shotguns are supposed to be folded open so that the cartridges are visible and only armed when about to be shot. The copper case and paper cartridge are very obvious indicators. So why can't a rifle have a visual indicator (red/black cylinder that spins round) that is set when a round is inserted into the receiver, and cleared when the spent casing is released?
The goal of the project was to build a quadcopter with low-cost replaceable parts. If you have a one piece wood or carbonfibre chassis, and something breaks, that's the whole chassis needing replacing. If the quadcopter is made from modular parts, that's a bit better, but you would still need to purchase custom replacement parts if they break. Build the quadcopter chassis out of RV parts and regular bricks, you can buy a bucket of them for $50.
They did use green - they had trees and stuff.
Not that the color really mattered to a kid. With regular bricks, you could make a delta wing fighter plane from the jumbo-jet wing sections. A missile defence system could be built from those 4x4 rotating turntables and a hinge joint. Use a couple of 8x1's or 8x2's for the missile and the sloping 2x1's for the missile wings.
As far as building tanks with Lego Technical kits, you could get the Technical Lego 856 Bulldozer. Strip the model down to a couple of long bars, axles, gears and the caterpillar treads, then add a couple of electric motors to drive each tread separately. Then with couple of battery packs, the whole tank could go at least 2 metres/second on carpet.
Isn't something like that curable. fMRI scan of the hip area to see where the pain is occurring? Then realign the bone or nerve to stop the pinching?
Those things are well known:
1. Get sleep between 10am and 2pm as well as whatever feels like a full nights sleep (6 to 8 hours). Having the feeling of being able to doze lightly for an hour or two before actually having to get up.
2. Have a well ventilated bedroom. I've heard people say how they were amazed they only needed six hours sleep when they stayed in a hotel room with combined air conditioning and filtering as well as blackout curtains (thick curtains that go all the way down to the floor and blockout sunlight entirely, as well as street lighting).
My last apartment gave me the choice of either leaving a window open and hearing everything from refuse collectors at 6am to students coming in home drunk at 3am, and neighbors starting to do the garden at 7am. There simply wasn't any six let alone eight hour slot where there was a quiet time to sleep. Had to throw up another blanket over the thin fabric curtains in order to block out the yellow glow from street and security lights.
3. Avoid the processed foods - some have up to 50% combined with salt as a preservative. The salt encourages water retainment which in turn encourages cells to expand with fat.
4. Avoid sugars. Muscles switch to fast burning of sugar that the slow consumption of protein.
5. Eat lots of vegetables like carrots, brussel sprouts and broccoli. They actually break down the toxins that the body can't expel and just encases in fat. If you figure that plants probably have had to find ways of avoiding being poisoned by decomposing critters, they would find a way of absorbing those nutrients.
The collider beams go off by a few millimetres. Oceans go up and down by as much as several meters.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/06/08/222247/how-the-moon-affects-lhc-operations
http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/06/07/is-the-moon-full-just-ask-the-lhc-operators/
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/scenario/tides.htm
The "tidal trivia" summary below puts things into perspective. The so-called equatorial bulge due to the Earth's axial rotation lifts the equator about 23 kilometer. The moon's gravity gradient lifts water mid-ocean (where the ocean is deep) no more than 1 meter, that's 1.6 x 10-7% of the Earth radius. Why do we fuss about this? Because over an ocean of large area, that represents a very large volume of water. Also, it's the driving mechanism that controls the periods of the much larger tides at shorelines.
Maybe there is a different gravitational field due to different terrain. CERN had a problem where their guide beams would go off target depending on the time of day. Turned out the moon was actually causing distortion to the surrounding land by a few metres, just like water tides. That was enough to change the shape of the collider ring.
I've worked with people like that, and some of my relatives don't understand satire. They can understand something like "given how crowded our trains already are, introduction of third class tickets could only involve passengers hanging off the sides or sitting on the roof". But something like, "One day, Alice was walking back through the forest with a picnic basket full of sugar cubes for Dougal, when she met a couple of soldiers standing guard by the bridge. He said 'The king had instructed us to stand guard here, as a lot of sugar cubes have started to go missing. Have you seen anyone stealing sugar cubes?". "Oh no, haven't seen anyone." said Alice and walked across the bridge."
They didn't understand what point that was making, the soldiers being unable to stop theft.
Every workstation and network technology vendor had their own network protocols at some time or another (DECnet, TCP/IP, ...) Eventually they all decided to adopt a single theoretical model (ISO) to help standardize their designs by splitting everything into layers. Ultimately TCP/IP won out for the upper layers, allowing all sorts of different standards to exist at the hardware level (wi-fi, ethernet).
Bulletin Board Systems adopted Fidonet, which allowed long distance messaging.
Don't forget the Barbary Corsairs, who took Europeans as slaves.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/white_slaves_01.shtml
In France, it would be the "illegal use of an interrogative pronoun by an Englishman while under the influence of alcohol".
Gray market seeks way around iPhone 5 restrictions
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/2012-09/20/content_15770744.htm
It's really a battle for unlocked mobile phones that don't have registered users. Locked-in phones have your government ID registered.
Same think happened to someone Iranian:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/06/21/does-apple-actually-understand-the-export-restriction-laws/
I've found it the quickest way to transfer a web address bookmark off my PC and onto my smartphone, without the ******** hassle of going through about ten different menus, exiting application, entering system menu, enabling USB, confirming that I want to enable USB, confirming that I accept my applications being affected by not being able to write to the SD CARD, pulling out and pushing in the USB charger cable again, confirming that I am ready, then disabling USB.
Or if you live next to a quarry - my laptop once tested positive for explosive residue after I had left the window open and a cloud of dust had blown over our house.
SNP is in favour of immigration of those with employable skills.