It's rather funny that America is still Imperial.
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Our Friend, The Meter
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After all, they did have the worlds first Decimal Currency, introduced in 1792. (100 cents equals 1 dollar)
Thomas Jefferson proposed that America go to a Decimal system in 1790.
Why is it that America refuses to change to a simpler system when they've had the opportunity to do it and participate in it for over a Century?
You're all just super proud of your English heritage traditions!
And as we all know it, tradition is a method of doing something stupid for no real reason, for a long time..
Have a look at some of the dates involved with the metric system. If you're American, do you feel like you live in a country which adopts technology now?
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/dates.htm
It doesn't scale up to 1600x1200 on my laptop. It displays natively. I pixel per pixel.
He's a printer by trade, but can't understand resolution or dot pitch....
Why is it that no-one ever quotes their hearing test results when doing these subjective tests? It's just like when my co-worker tells me that watching DVD's on my 1600x1200 resolution screen is not as sharp as his German 100MHz standard television. The fact that his visual acuity has been compared to Mr Magoo never comes into the equation...
I've got a reasonably fool proof way of making use of these offset dishes, unless of course you're the more talented fool. The Australian Fox TV dishes are similar, but lend themselves to this technique. Aquire some mirrored perspex or something similar. Cut it into small squares, or just steal a mirrorball. Randomly cover the surface of the dish with these using double sided tape. The thinnner the tape, the better.
When you reckon you've got enough, point your dish at the sun so that the focal point, your tin can feed or quad, helical whatever is glowing quite well. Too many little mirrors and you'll melt it. All you want is to be certain that the focal point is exactly where it needs to go. Right on the signal feed.
If you know where the feed point is, you also know where the sun is. A pointer of some kind pointing directly into the sun, fixed to the dish so that it throws as little shadow as possible can be used to accurately align the dish with little effort.
Mount the dish on your roof. sight along your pointer at the source of the signal. Voila. Dish aligned. Jaycar in Australia sell sheets of tiny mirror squares that are perfect for this job.
http://www.freenet-antennas.com in WA has managed some big distances with a modified dish. He doesn't use my alignment method thow.
It never ceases to amaze me that as soon as one puts BS and D together on slashdot, you get the run of idiots. Why does this happen? Are there people who truly believe that it makes any importance to anyone other than themselves what OS they use?
In REAL LIFE, people who are able to see things from only one point of view are called SMALL MINDED.
I'd say the ability to use only one OS is a limiting factor, not an advantage.
As per the BSD is dead idiots, well at least get the right OS worked out. You're only showing your ignorance if you don't know which OS you're trying to talk down.
On the linked page http://www-math.mit.edu/%7Edhu/Striderweb/striderw eb.html
Someone has blotted out the intimate details of the waterstriders mating ritual. Is he seriously worried about offending someone, or is he worried about hosting a porn site? Who says political correctness has gone wrong... This is just pathetic.
Great. Just what I need. Now my wife won't only know where I am, she can tell me to get the hell OUT of there as well.
Talk to a real Forensic Investigator.
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The Rise of CSI
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It is always entertaining to see how close TV isn't to real life by asking someone in the trade. My friends wife is a Forensic Investigator and the logical thing for me to do was bait her with CSI. I remarked that I just BET it was her favourite show.
That proved to be a mistake. For the next half an hour I was treated to a torrent of slagging off about the shows portrayal of Forensic science. The effect on the average citizen's expectations of what is really done, and what evidence is required has also become twisted. She can't go to any crime scene without being asked if she wants to "Vacuum the carpet for fibres". She has even been asked if she wanted to DNA test a turd some reprobate had conveniently left in a bucket at the scene of the crime.
She much preferred when people didn't think they knew her job better than her.
Yep. Another story that mentions secrets that can never be substantiated, so anyone can make allegations without the fear of ever being held accountable. All of us are so interesting that resources would be targetted at us. If Australia did intercept calls while SASR were onboard, good on them. Do you think that the SAS are just paid to go and have fun? Just because things happen that you don't know about, do they become more justifiable? Wake up idiots. The world is a bigger place than your backyard.
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After all, they did have the worlds first Decimal Currency, introduced in 1792. (100 cents equals 1 dollar) Thomas Jefferson proposed that America go to a Decimal system in 1790. Why is it that America refuses to change to a simpler system when they've had the opportunity to do it and participate in it for over a Century? You're all just super proud of your English heritage traditions! And as we all know it, tradition is a method of doing something stupid for no real reason, for a long time.. Have a look at some of the dates involved with the metric system. If you're American, do you feel like you live in a country which adopts technology now? http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/dates.htm
It doesn't scale up to 1600x1200 on my laptop. It displays natively. I pixel per pixel. He's a printer by trade, but can't understand resolution or dot pitch....
Why is it that no-one ever quotes their hearing test results when doing these subjective tests? It's just like when my co-worker tells me that watching DVD's on my 1600x1200 resolution screen is not as sharp as his German 100MHz standard television.
The fact that his visual acuity has been compared to Mr Magoo never comes into the equation...
I've got a reasonably fool proof way of making use of these offset dishes, unless of course you're the more talented fool. The Australian Fox TV dishes are similar, but lend themselves to this technique. Aquire some mirrored perspex or something similar. Cut it into small squares, or just steal a mirrorball. Randomly cover the surface of the dish with these using double sided tape. The thinnner the tape, the better. When you reckon you've got enough, point your dish at the sun so that the focal point, your tin can feed or quad, helical whatever is glowing quite well. Too many little mirrors and you'll melt it. All you want is to be certain that the focal point is exactly where it needs to go. Right on the signal feed. If you know where the feed point is, you also know where the sun is. A pointer of some kind pointing directly into the sun, fixed to the dish so that it throws as little shadow as possible can be used to accurately align the dish with little effort. Mount the dish on your roof. sight along your pointer at the source of the signal. Voila. Dish aligned. Jaycar in Australia sell sheets of tiny mirror squares that are perfect for this job. http://www.freenet-antennas.com in WA has managed some big distances with a modified dish. He doesn't use my alignment method thow.
It never ceases to amaze me that as soon as one puts BS and D together on slashdot, you get the run of idiots. Why does this happen? Are there people who truly believe that it makes any importance to anyone other than themselves what OS they use? In REAL LIFE, people who are able to see things from only one point of view are called SMALL MINDED. I'd say the ability to use only one OS is a limiting factor, not an advantage. As per the BSD is dead idiots, well at least get the right OS worked out. You're only showing your ignorance if you don't know which OS you're trying to talk down.
On the linked page http://www-math.mit.edu/%7Edhu/Striderweb/striderw eb.html
Someone has blotted out the intimate details of the waterstriders mating ritual. Is he seriously worried about offending someone, or is he worried about hosting a porn site? Who says political correctness has gone wrong... This is just pathetic.
Great. Just what I need. Now my wife won't only know where I am, she can tell me to get the hell OUT of there as well.
It is always entertaining to see how close TV isn't to real life by asking someone in the trade. My friends wife is a Forensic Investigator and the logical thing for me to do was bait her with CSI. I remarked that I just BET it was her favourite show. That proved to be a mistake. For the next half an hour I was treated to a torrent of slagging off about the shows portrayal of Forensic science. The effect on the average citizen's expectations of what is really done, and what evidence is required has also become twisted. She can't go to any crime scene without being asked if she wants to "Vacuum the carpet for fibres". She has even been asked if she wanted to DNA test a turd some reprobate had conveniently left in a bucket at the scene of the crime. She much preferred when people didn't think they knew her job better than her.
Yep. Another story that mentions secrets that can never be substantiated, so anyone can make allegations without the fear of ever being held accountable. All of us are so interesting that resources would be targetted at us. If Australia did intercept calls while SASR were onboard, good on them. Do you think that the SAS are just paid to go and have fun? Just because things happen that you don't know about, do they become more justifiable? Wake up idiots. The world is a bigger place than your backyard.