Sounds of 165 dB would cause a person's hair to catch fire from the frictional heating caused by air undergoing such intense compression and expansion.
Thankfully, even if the fridge cracks open the vast sounds generated within will not escape because the intense noise can only be generated in the pressurised gas locked inside the cooling system.
Thats a damn scary sounding (no pun) fridge!
Damn you beat me to it!!! Damn damn damn; so much for me thinking I was all clever and such... Ah well, since I haven't read the actual article, what're the basic specs needed to use this?
Rather than have a computer interpret a person's speech, the software basically gives a representation of what the speaker's mouth is doing. This will allow the deaf person watching the device to do their own interpretation of what they see, which I'd imagine is much more reliable than speech-to-text could hope to be.
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You need to verify that you have a rope to pull-start the engine before you can order !? =)
I'm educated and am progressing nicely in my career. I've got an active and satisfying social life. When things slow down a little next semester (working part time on an IS Masters) I plan on resuming my search for a house to buy.
My point? I'm also a complete kid. I love cartoons both new and old, and at 25 am still quite interested in stories like these. What I mean is, lighten up. It's all in good fun, and its not like this is CNN, it's slashdot.
Have you asked your employer to find out if this sort of side (essntially hobby) work would truely be frowned upon? If not, then it woulld certainly be a good idea. Your anonimity might just be unneccesary. If they would in fact have a problem with this, then create a non profit company and have it own the copywrite.
Foo. Please complain about the right thing (if you really must). There is no French 'race'. Your beef is with an attack on national stereotypes. Yeah, its a nitpick, but to compare some national good natured ribbing to full blown racism either blows your complaint way out of proportion, or severly minimizes the impact of racism.
P.S. I fart in your general direction, your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!!!
Damn you for beating me to the punch on that comment.
The article doesn't explain how they go about detecting such a star (bring a compass into space and see where it points??), but I found the last line amusing:
"This neutron star could be as small as Winnipeg, but with a temperature several million times warmer," Prof. Safi-Harb said.
A star that is much warmer than Winnipeg; Imagine that!
Plucker looks pretty cool (downloading now to try it out), but aside from converting docs to be viewed, does anybody know a good source of content for it?
I've used the scrable pads before. They were cool, in an annoying sort of way. The cool part was obviously that they would rearrange themselves when you went to enter your password. The annoying part, (and this isn't really their fault) is that the security folks who issued the passcodes for them didn't give good directions for entering the codes which led to some frustration at first.
Doesn't quite fit the low power consumption requirement, or for that matter practicality, but the thought of a fully skinnable keyboard is really quite slick.
The 2-D scroller is still alive (mostly) on systems like gameboy, but that's a dying breed as well. A moment of silence for the very simple yet extremely addictive 2D platform game....
The site showed that the pen was capturing such crossing lines. My guess is it tracks the dots on either side of the line its crossing and figures out the rest. No biggie.
That's right, there could very well be a radio delay as well, which would mean you might luck out, or worse yet, you might find yourself needing to delay your video. A Tivo might help there, or simply dealing with it might be the best approach.
I guess I'm just not a big enough sports fan to understand...
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I plan on hanging onto my G4 for quite a while.
Anything orbiting a planet is a satelite, but not every satelite is considered a moon.
Yeah yeah, lame, I know, but I couldn't help myself...
Now I'll have an excuse for reading my PDA in my Java class.
Thankfully, even if the fridge cracks open the vast sounds generated within will not escape because the intense noise can only be generated in the pressurised gas locked inside the cooling system. Thats a damn scary sounding (no pun) fridge!
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Rather than have a computer interpret a person's speech, the software basically gives a representation of what the speaker's mouth is doing. This will allow the deaf person watching the device to do their own interpretation of what they see, which I'd imagine is much more reliable than speech-to-text could hope to be.
I just bet you are, buddy. Still, waiting seven years to get laid? These scientists are damn patient, I'll give them credit for that. =)
You need to verify that you have a rope to pull-start the engine before you can order !? =)
My point? I'm also a complete kid. I love cartoons both new and old, and at 25 am still quite interested in stories like these. What I mean is, lighten up. It's all in good fun, and its not like this is CNN, it's slashdot.
Next!!
P.S. I fart in your general direction, your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!!!
Uh maybe, but it also looks like she has hairy arms.
The article doesn't explain how they go about detecting such a star (bring a compass into space and see where it points??), but I found the last line amusing:
"This neutron star could be as small as Winnipeg, but with a temperature several million times warmer," Prof. Safi-Harb said.
A star that is much warmer than Winnipeg; Imagine that!
I've used the scrable pads before. They were cool, in an annoying sort of way. The cool part was obviously that they would rearrange themselves when you went to enter your password. The annoying part, (and this isn't really their fault) is that the security folks who issued the passcodes for them didn't give good directions for entering the codes which led to some frustration at first.
Doesn't quite fit the low power consumption requirement, or for that matter practicality, but the thought of a fully skinnable keyboard is really quite slick.
The site showed that the pen was capturing such crossing lines. My guess is it tracks the dots on either side of the line its crossing and figures out the rest. No biggie.
How many wives have you got?
Amazing what sort of price break you can achieve using near-slave labor.
I guess I'm just not a big enough sports fan to understand...
Add a flat panel display, and a battery and you can finally home brew a laptop of some sort.
I just tried it last week and thought it was some pretty foul stuff. Maybe its worth another taste, but the bottle I had took effort to finish.