After all, Tom Cochran changing his name to Zephram Cochrain and waiting for a nuclear holocaust just to make his Warp drive is nothing to worry about.
I remember seeing this technology well over a year ago (maybe 2 or 3) where they were using this "smart paper" for electronic price tags in stores. As prices changed (e.g. for a sale) the store computer would simply send a signal to the paper to change the content.
This was only available in black and white (well black and light grey anyway) but they were discussing how to do colour back then. This is mealy an extension of that technology.
This will be interesting for making redundant traditional billboards as they it will reduce the costs involved in bill posting (at the expense of jobs (I imaging) but that's technology) and obsolete billboards which display multiple adverts (usually by having a motorised system of rotating panels). Never the less I can't see it replacing certain screens in Time Square and London's Piccadilly as motion video still packs a greater advertising punch.
Now the only question is that when the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) complains that an adverts content is too raunchy and should be removed (e.g. those wonderbra adds that allegedly caused car crashes through driver distraction), can be removed as soon as the decision is taken which will either cause a reduction or a dramatic increase in shock advertising).
Actually the remote will have a rotate button for left/right and up/down.
Can't have people leaving the couch.
Next thing you know they will be going to the Gym and then where would all the telemarkerters be?
Spin may be easy to solve.
If you have a high enough frame capture and place ^ symbols on the ball a computer should be able to take into account spin.
Doing this with a neural net might be cool too.
We all live in a world where naming of computer related products has been somewhat obscure to the consumer for years if not decades.
examples are numerous such as 802.11b etc.
However Broadband has been an exception as the name reflects its purpose (has to be a deliberate decision by marketing).
What am I talking you may ask?
Well the term "broad".... I mean they are right...
90% of internet searches and downloads relate to broad's in one way or another:-)
Drat, Multiple Universes....
on
One of Many
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· Score: 2, Funny
And there I was thinking that I was special and unique.
Only to find out there may be more out there like me.
2000 kbps for 194 subs 384 kbps for 1013 subs 144 kbps for 2700 subs 64 kbps per 6075 subs
Note cell size is > 1Km but I don't have a figure for max cell size.
Source was from a industry report from an investment house.
384Kbps would probably be the most cost efficient and marketable solution giving a similar user experience as ADSL. However cost per Kbs will be hard to get as low as the monthly connection charges and unlimited connection time we see in most ADSL contracts these days.
Still, any to get money back into telco's cant be bad for the industry as a whole.
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It's hard to say.
A laser in water travels at approx 140000 miles per sec. (I'm excluding salt content and impurities).
Flipper is faster then lightning
which is upper end 87000 miles per sec.
Discounting any major currents giving flipper an advantage
140000 - 87000 = 53000
So the question is really whether Flipper is 53000 miles per second faster then lightning?
Answers on a postcard please to
Pressure Squished Dolphin Sanctuary
Coral Key Park and Marine Preserve
Florida
Actually falling and missing the ground is flying as any HHGTTG fan would know.
Actually Gasoline (Petrol) in Ireland is not Dyed.
Your thinking of untaxed Diesel which is dyed green.
It used to be dyed red but certain people developed a proceedure to remove the red dye therefore being able to use it on public roads.
Holy shit, I'm going to hide under my desk now. Call me when it's all over.
No Problem,
I'll email you an attachment that will explain what happened and why everything is ok.
Be sure to read it.
I thought you said NSFW, imagine my dissapointment!
Damm you google
I never realised that operating with only 1 nut increased your carbon (or is that methane? )emissions.
I wonder what the compression rating on the mp3 is?
Does the bit-rate affect it much?
We should always trust mad scientists.
After all, Tom Cochran changing his name to Zephram Cochrain and waiting for a nuclear holocaust just to make his Warp drive is nothing to worry about.
MMM pi
would be like? I've ran through this a couple of times in my mind and it brought a smile to my face.
Above comment reminds me of something my brother said.
He told an off colour joke and a girl sitting at the next table overheard and accused him of being homophobic.
He simply answered
"Don't be stupid. Why the f**k would I be afraid of houses?"
I was wondering how someone would get a reference to Bu$h in this thread :-)
Confuse everyone have a sign saying
"Drop the Bomb".
People can't decide if you want disarmanent or war.
(Spelling mistakes are a result of the fact that I can't be arsed to run a spellchecker, why doesn't slashdot have one built-in?
It is made from two pannels with particals between them.
This is essentially the paper.
The particals are coloured Red/Green/Blue on one side and Black on the other.
A static charge can cause a partical to rotate in it's position between the layers and show for instance either red or black.
Now just think of these as pixels and you get the idea.
I remember seeing this technology well over a year ago (maybe 2 or 3) where they were using this "smart paper" for electronic price tags in stores. As prices changed (e.g. for a sale) the store computer would simply send a signal to the paper to change the content.
This was only available in black and white (well black and light grey anyway) but they were discussing how to do colour back then. This is mealy an extension of that technology.
This will be interesting for making redundant traditional billboards as they it will reduce the costs involved in bill posting (at the expense of jobs (I imaging) but that's technology) and obsolete billboards which display multiple adverts (usually by having a motorised system of rotating panels). Never the less I can't see it replacing certain screens in Time Square and London's Piccadilly as motion video still packs a greater advertising punch.
Now the only question is that when the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) complains that an adverts content is too raunchy and should be removed (e.g. those wonderbra adds that allegedly caused car crashes through driver distraction), can be removed as soon as the decision is taken which will either cause a reduction or a dramatic increase in shock advertising).
Oh well time will tell.
Just my 0.02
Actually the remote will have a rotate button for left/right and up/down. Can't have people leaving the couch. Next thing you know they will be going to the Gym and then where would all the telemarkerters be?
Just a weird thought.
But if temperatures rise causing the ice caps to melt then won't the atmospheric temperature be higher?
To my mind this would mean that the atmosphere could contain a greater percentage of humidity (water).
However I don't know that the amount of water in the air will be => then the water in the icecaps.
Strange sensation....
:-)
Why do I want them both to lose?
This 10% saving in fuel costs is quite an advantage to the costs airlines face.
Don't forget many countries are considering removing the 0% tax status the aviation industry enjoys on aviation fuel.
Just my â0.02
Don't know about this.
I gotten my fastest time on minesweeper using a tablet PC. I find it much easier using the stylus rather then the mouse.
Spin may be easy to solve. If you have a high enough frame capture and place ^ symbols on the ball a computer should be able to take into account spin. Doing this with a neural net might be cool too.
We all live in a world where naming of computer related products has been somewhat obscure to the consumer for years if not decades. examples are numerous such as 802.11b etc. However Broadband has been an exception as the name reflects its purpose (has to be a deliberate decision by marketing). What am I talking you may ask? Well the term "broad".... I mean they are right ...
90% of internet searches and downloads relate to broad's in one way or another :-)
And there I was thinking that I was special and unique.
Only to find out there may be more out there like me.
Damm you Slashdot!!
No your wrong. It's 78.23%.
I checked on google.
Oh... wait; now I get it.
Details correct at time of going to press. :-)
bandwidth per cell is 388,800kbps
resulting in connection speeds of
2000 kbps for 194 subs
384 kbps for 1013 subs
144 kbps for 2700 subs
64 kbps per 6075 subs
Note cell size is > 1Km but I don't have a figure for max cell size.
Source was from a industry report from an investment house.
384Kbps would probably be the most cost efficient and marketable solution giving a similar user experience as ADSL. However cost per Kbs will be hard to get as low as the monthly connection charges and unlimited connection time we see in most ADSL contracts these days.
Still, any to get money back into telco's cant be bad for the industry as a whole.