Here: [Free Coffee] --Take this coupon and jump start your mental juices. If the mean is 70 and increasing, it is getting *FARTHER AWAY* from 70, not approaching it.
Yeah. No mention about how the shoddy hummer has no passenger room, that it's rusting, and gets poor mileage. Clearly he is hoping to score the chairs while everyone is focussed on a cheezy yuppie-mobile that no one in their right mind would bid on, if they looked past the glitzy exterior. In fact, I suggest that everyone just forget the hummer and bid on the chairs.
When you are born, your eye is shaped in such a way that the lens focusses behind the retina. As the eye grows, the retina moves away from the lens and reaches a point where the focus is perfect. This is detected by the number of sharp edges that the eye sees. In the real world, you will always be looking at different things at different depths. However, reading is a problem. As you read the surrounding text is a blurred grey, which your eye takes to mean "not in focus yet, keep growing". Eventually the lens focusses in front of the retina, and the eye will tend to keep growing and worsening because it is moving the retina in the wrong direction.
While this system may give you stereoscopic views from any angle in the horizontal plane, it will not give you different views along the vertical. If they were projecting a fish tank for example, you could walk all around the fish tank and see the fish from any angle, but you could not peek over the top of the tank to look at the fish from above. It has a three dimensional quality in the horizontal plane, but only a two dimensional quality in the vertical plane, thus 2.5D stereoscopic.
When Sobig was making the rounds, we were getting close to 6000 emails an hour, a large portion of which claimed to be from Microsoft. Let's see. $10/email times, say, 1000 emails/hr times several million people worldwide equals...
That's already been done. There was a website in India that downloaded malicious code to your machine just by going there. It didn't ask the user to download anything.
One of the Mars orbiters (Mars Global Surveyor) did extensive spectrographic mapping of the minerals on the surface of Mars. Opportunity has landed in an area that is apparently rich in hematite. Seven of the eight ways this hematite can be formed involve the presence of water. Opportunity will be used to determine if the hematite was water based or volcanically based. Some details here
According to the article, it uses an Intel PXA255. The creator has plans to open source the thing, so if you are truely interested, read the article and contact him. (His name is Gordon.)
Is this even a fantastic step forward? The guy has merely wired up a handful of off the shelf components onto a small circuit board, and stuck linux on it. Granted, it may be more complex than a SIMMSTICK, but it is hardly a "fantastic step" anywhere. In fact, the only novel thing is the suggestion to place a wearable computer in your collar.
I seem to recall the military declassifying a telescope in Hawaii to assure the public that the tiles on the first shuttle flight were OK.
A question I have though, is: Can a shuttle be landed by remote control? If they launched the Atlantis, and transferred the crew, could Columbia have been brought down without a crew?
True, space travel is dangerous, but it is far from silly to try and make it safe. Granted, having a "must be able to dock at ISS" requirement may be silly. But, would trying to develop a better heat shield technology be silly? Would carrying some form of ablative epoxy that could replace a missing or damaged tile be silly?
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Exactly! So quit electing them!
Simple: You ping the website in question. If the evil, or immoral bits are set in the echo, you know that the website is bad.
... or carry the install files for that rogue communist OS that claims to be not a unix clone.
And just how do you tell a knife carrying criminal from a knife carrying law abiding citizen? It is far easier to make knife carrying a crime.
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I'd rather spend the $3800 on a Heathkit Hero, or something similarly hackable
Thanks! I needed that.
Well, Jane Fonda is an actress. I'm in the dark about who John Kerry is. This is the first I'm hearing about him.
Yeah. No mention about how the shoddy hummer has no passenger room, that it's rusting, and gets poor mileage. Clearly he is hoping to score the chairs while everyone is focussed on a cheezy yuppie-mobile that no one in their right mind would bid on, if they looked past the glitzy exterior. In fact, I suggest that everyone just forget the hummer and bid on the chairs.
When you are born, your eye is shaped in such a way that the lens focusses behind the retina. As the eye grows, the retina moves away from the lens and reaches a point where the focus is perfect. This is detected by the number of sharp edges that the eye sees. In the real world, you will always be looking at different things at different depths. However, reading is a problem. As you read the surrounding text is a blurred grey, which your eye takes to mean "not in focus yet, keep growing". Eventually the lens focusses in front of the retina, and the eye will tend to keep growing and worsening because it is moving the retina in the wrong direction.
While this system may give you stereoscopic views from any angle in the horizontal plane, it will not give you different views along the vertical. If they were projecting a fish tank for example, you could walk all around the fish tank and see the fish from any angle, but you could not peek over the top of the tank to look at the fish from above. It has a three dimensional quality in the horizontal plane, but only a two dimensional quality in the vertical plane, thus 2.5D stereoscopic.
When Sobig was making the rounds, we were getting close to 6000 emails an hour, a large portion of which claimed to be from Microsoft. Let's see. $10/email times, say, 1000 emails/hr times several million people worldwide equals...
That's already been done. There was a website in India that downloaded malicious code to your machine just by going there. It didn't ask the user to download anything.
One of the Mars orbiters (Mars Global Surveyor) did extensive spectrographic mapping of the minerals on the surface of Mars. Opportunity has landed in an area that is apparently rich in hematite. Seven of the eight ways this hematite can be formed involve the presence of water. Opportunity will be used to determine if the hematite was water based or volcanically based. Some details here
According to the article, it uses an Intel PXA255. The creator has plans to open source the thing, so if you are truely interested, read the article and contact him. (His name is Gordon.)
Is this even a fantastic step forward? The guy has merely wired up a handful of off the shelf components onto a small circuit board, and stuck linux on it. Granted, it may be more complex than a SIMMSTICK, but it is hardly a "fantastic step" anywhere. In fact, the only novel thing is the suggestion to place a wearable computer in your collar.
How was that supposed to decode DVDs? I can't even get it to compile.
Since when is a haiku not a poem? A poem is a rythmic pattern of words.
Although I don't know the geography of the surrounding area, or the details of the re-entry protocol, I would have selected the salt flats.
I seem to recall the military declassifying a telescope in Hawaii to assure the public that the tiles on the first shuttle flight were OK.
A question I have though, is: Can a shuttle be landed by remote control? If they launched the Atlantis, and transferred the crew, could Columbia have been brought down without a crew?
True, space travel is dangerous, but it is far from silly to try and make it safe. Granted, having a "must be able to dock at ISS" requirement may be silly. But, would trying to develop a better heat shield technology be silly? Would carrying some form of ablative epoxy that could replace a missing or damaged tile be silly?
The rovers are no doubt using milspec chips which are radiation hardened. Don't forget, they have an onboard nuclear heater.
You spelled TANSTAAFL wrong.
Rover dimensions: 1.5 meter (4.9 feet) high by 2.3 meters (7.5 feet) wide by 1.6 meter (5.2 feet) long ( MERfacts
It's closer to the size of a riding lawn mower. It's only the camera mast that makes it tall.
That's it! It was made of corbomite.