If you can figure out how to produce an adjustable length fully coherent laser beam without some hardware at the other end, that'd be the invention to patent!:D The uses would be endless.
A discharge hole would be unnecessary if the laser ashes the grass after cutting it.
I think a circular configuration would be inefficient. A better one would probably be a laser that sweeps back and forth along an arc centered forward. I'm not an engineer, but I'd think it'd be easier to control your cutting height that way, especially on lumpy ground.
A laser lawnmower - one the public could afford - is a helluva idea tho. Think of the peaceful Sunday mornings:)
This sucker would have to have a pretty good sized battery tho...
My version of Firefox doesn't seem to be able to deal with that one, I still get the popup. I'm not sure whether it's settings or just another trick (haven't had time to look into it)
What's even funnier is that if you follow the suggestion, the top hit there gives:
Bandwidth Limit Exceeded The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
Hmm. What does this mean?;-)
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I'm glad you asked it - reading the thread reminded me of being a teenager reading about quicksorts and why they were better than bubble etc. A friend introduced the quicksort to me when I was in the middle of writing a game in pascal, and it improved the game immensely. This was in ~'84. In college a couple years later I finally understood why they were better, and it was an epiphany I've allowed myself to forget.
I'd forgotten not just the what, but how exciting it was to learn at the time, and how good a friend I had then. Thanks for the memories:)
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Isn't it not really the number of servers so much as it is their distribution and having different backbone routes?
Any suggestions tool-wise? I have a badly trojaned winME machine here and can't find the little bastard anywhere. I've gone thru and beyond the usual. Plenty of details if you're interested:) I got it cleaned up save for one nagging inconsistent popup that tries to load trojans on the box.
Yeah, and consider how incredibly slow these things run -- well, slow on the latest hardware, and slower than slow on somewhat older hardware.
That's true. But only because OS boot CDs aren't commonly user territory in the Windows world. If Windows was also distributed as a demo bootCD that tried to load the entire GUI, it'd be just as slow. Perhaps slower. (I've never really understood why Microsoft hasn't tried that approach yet)
A liveCD distro that can create and boot a file image on a FAT filesystem - like Knoppix, DSL and others can - can run nearly as fast as if it had it's own partition. But that brings up licensing issues:)
Meh, I'm really too tired to get into this tonite.
It's possible that it was deliberately destroyed to "kill" the program before a weaponed payload was launched, and it's possible that whoever was ordered to do that wasn't ordered until it was obvious the program was a boondoggle.
It's more likely that they simply fucked up. I lean toward that explanation, it's the simplest given the evidence. That was a complicated piece of hardware.
How can this be a troll? Is some moderator thinking that military personnel are perfect? If only that could be! That would mean that humans can be perfect! Yeesh...
Come on now, this deserves at least one insightful mod - because it's true, and anyone with any knowledge of US military history knows it.
So when an airplane crashes, it's ok to say it "de-flighted"?:-D
Actually, "de-orbit" by itself is also a broad term. A successful landing also "de-orbits". "Crash" is a subset of "deorbit", not the other way around. Fortunately:)
Crashing into another object up there is known as a "collision".
(which also a technically accurate term when a satellite catastrophically deorbits:)
To the GP: The damn thing crashed into the ocean, it didn't de-orbit. -- Obviously it did both, assuming it was technically in orbit at the time. If it wasn't, it simply followed it's ballistic trajectory to termination:)
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Not according to this guy
Not like the incoming munitions wouldn't be finishing him off any moment anyway.
Yup, if you're in the beam cone it's prolly time to grab yer ankles
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If you can figure out how to produce an adjustable length fully coherent laser beam without some hardware at the other end, that'd be the invention to patent! :D The uses would be endless.
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A couple points:
A discharge hole would be unnecessary if the laser ashes the grass after cutting it.
I think a circular configuration would be inefficient. A better one would probably be a laser that sweeps back and forth along an arc centered forward. I'm not an engineer, but I'd think it'd be easier to control your cutting height that way, especially on lumpy ground.
A laser lawnmower - one the public could afford - is a helluva idea tho. Think of the peaceful Sunday mornings
This sucker would have to have a pretty good sized battery tho...
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I think a 69 would be more likely than seeing Social Security :D
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Awesome wifi kit :)
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My version of Firefox doesn't seem to be able to deal with that one, I still get the popup. I'm not sure whether it's settings or just another trick (haven't had time to look into it)
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(1.0 Preview Release)
Damn, wish we were closer. We could trade services - my wrenches and wrists for your coding tutoring :)
Nice website BTW.
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Always.
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What's even funnier is that if you follow the suggestion, the top hit there gives:
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Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
Hmm. What does this mean?
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I'm glad you asked it - reading the thread reminded me of being a teenager reading about quicksorts and why they were better than bubble etc. A friend introduced the quicksort to me when I was in the middle of writing a game in pascal, and it improved the game immensely. This was in ~'84. In college a couple years later I finally understood why they were better, and it was an epiphany I've allowed myself to forget.
:)
I'd forgotten not just the what, but how exciting it was to learn at the time, and how good a friend I had then. Thanks for the memories
SB
Isn't it not really the number of servers so much as it is their distribution and having different backbone routes?
(That's the way I understand it anyway)
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Any suggestions tool-wise? I have a badly trojaned winME machine here and can't find the little bastard anywhere. I've gone thru and beyond the usual. Plenty of details if you're interested
Sigh. I'd really rather not reinstall.
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Wake me up when an E.coli bacteria transforms into a non-E.coli bacteria.
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Where do you think E.coli came from, the ether?
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And it has hence been the source of some of the most ridiculous ideas to ever have fallen on the fallen ears of humanity.
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So has religion
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One could also substitute "drink"; although there seem to be an awful lot of people who don't need drugs of any sort for an excuse to be ignorant.
One could just as well, IMO, substitute "TV" for pain. So I fail to see your point.
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Such was my point.
:)
... and such is life :)
If you haven't listened to Carlin, you should. If he offends you without making you think, listen again
But really my point was that the truth is often taken for humor...
But then I'm semi-drunk, and my inpolitically uncorrect opinion is flying in fine skies today..lol
Cheers,
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Yeah, and consider how incredibly slow these things run -- well, slow on the latest hardware, and slower than slow on somewhat older hardware.
:)
That's true. But only because OS boot CDs aren't commonly user territory in the Windows world. If Windows was also distributed as a demo bootCD that tried to load the entire GUI, it'd be just as slow. Perhaps slower. (I've never really understood why Microsoft hasn't tried that approach yet)
A liveCD distro that can create and boot a file image on a FAT filesystem - like Knoppix, DSL and others can - can run nearly as fast as if it had it's own partition. But that brings up licensing issues
Meh, I'm really too tired to get into this tonite.
SB
Giving a linux disk to a family/friend newbie isn't more giving than receiving?
:)
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Come on, now. Have you actually done this?
Remember - THEY KNOW HOW TO FIND YOU
Sigh.
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Precisely. It's already happening. Wish I had mod points left :)
"Those who don't understand history...
Cheers,
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Carlin? Hey George, is that you?
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Read it and the parent (at -1) :)
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It's possible that it was deliberately destroyed to "kill" the program before a weaponed payload was launched, and it's possible that whoever was ordered to do that wasn't ordered until it was obvious the program was a boondoggle.
It's more likely that they simply fucked up. I lean toward that explanation, it's the simplest given the evidence. That was a complicated piece of hardware.
SB
How can this be a troll? Is some moderator thinking that military personnel are perfect? If only that could be! That would mean that humans can be perfect! Yeesh...
Come on now, this deserves at least one insightful mod - because it's true, and anyone with any knowledge of US military history knows it.
SB
So when an airplane crashes, it's ok to say it "de-flighted"? :-D
:)
:)
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Actually, "de-orbit" by itself is also a broad term. A successful landing also "de-orbits". "Crash" is a subset of "deorbit", not the other way around. Fortunately
Crashing into another object up there is known as a "collision".
(which also a technically accurate term when a satellite catastrophically deorbits
To the GP: The damn thing crashed into the ocean, it didn't de-orbit. -- Obviously it did both, assuming it was technically in orbit at the time. If it wasn't, it simply followed it's ballistic trajectory to termination
Cheers,
SB
Sounds excellent, and Thank You!! :-D
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