Very bright accompanied by a rapidly flashing strobe
Light intensity is a poor medium for conveying information to drivers. The lights accumulate dirt, there are various levels of background light, etc. It's already hard to discern brake lights from tail lights in some of the cars. I've read about a system where the shape on the LED display indicated the braking force. Something along the lines of: circle, triangle, circle + triangle (from lightest to hardest).
So how long will it be before somebody manufactures an industrial-grade inkjet printer with durable metal parts, which takes bulk ink (by flexible hoses, from litre bottles which can be hot-swapped) and incorporates PostScript Level 3 in hardware so absolutely no driver issues?
Maybe long, maybe soon, maybe never. Until then, let me pimp continuous flow systems. You get bulk ink, flexible hoses and hot-swappable bottles. No metal and hardware PostScript, though.
Even with older FM radios, keeping power to a minimum and using proper radio discipline can reduce the risk to friendly forces.
The modern ad-hoc networks have a huge advantage when it comes to minimalizing transmitter power: routing. A soldier in the battlefield communicating with the HQ only needs enough power to reach the nearest retransmitter, which can be one of many cheap units dumped on the battlefield from a plane.
Psst buddy, ever heard of a sting? Or an informant?
Sorry, I forgot to include the slashdotty "Oh, wait" line, that might have confused some of the irony impaired.
But seriously, I suspect in order to combat this, the spammers will roll out a web-of-trust network faster than we ever imagined possible. These guys are on the cutting edge of information security, and don't doubt that they have their own theory folks looking at the problem too.
Sort of like what drug traders did. Buying botnets will be (or already is) similar to buying drugs - know someone who knows someone. DEA & company have already tested the disruptive techniques against this business model. Go figure.
Let's have a look at a black market that has been around a little bit longer: drugs. Why hasn't anyone thought of using these techniques for disrupting this black market? Mhhhhm... okay.
Zones lag enough as it is. And updating every user's stats? Unless we all have 1000mbit internet connections, I don't think we even have enough bandwidth.
Not "we all" - only the game servers have to be connected with ultrafat low latency pipes. "We all" are supposed to log onto the nearest server and be happy with our current bandwidth. The technical problem is in making the distributed servers act transparently as one big server to "us all", so that Joe, Ivan and Taro from Australia, Russia and Japan can band together and kick a bosses ass in realtime, each one logged onto his own local server.
And hey: if you want to believe that every electronic election is rigged, no matter how eventually open source, now matter how eventualy trackable by paper-trail, etc., be my guest.
"Every" is a very strong word, but I'd say that it is very hard to get an electronic system right.
Open source? Sure - but how do I know that the machine is actually running the code I reviewed? Trackable by paper trail? Good, but you need to: 1) let the voters check their part of the paper trail 2) have someone check the paper trail with the electronic record. If you believe that this is not effectively doubling the traditional ballot, then be my guest.
Even if this hadn't been happening all the time, I doubt that a bacteria so old could seriously threaten us. Things have changed since 8000000 B.C. Its younger siblings have been hammering our ancestors' immunodefense systems, hardening them and getting better themselves. Present creatures vs 8 mo. years bacteria is like Slashdot moderation system versus pre-WWW trolls:-)
The vast majority of people run LCD monitors these days. For the most part they run with a backlight of constant brightness - so there is no energy saving with a black screen.
Poor excuse for not saving teh energy. Just use bloogle AND switch to CRT. Or else the whales will die!
Even if the universe were filled with monkeys typing for all time, their total probability to produce a single instance of Hamlet would still be less than one chance in 10183800.
How do you know there aren't 19,928,148,895,209,409,152,340,197,376 tiny monkeys living on each and every atom in the universe? Or maybe the same number of giant unobservable overlapping monkeys?
From what I remember, the reason that this lizard can walk on water is because of the surface tension, combined with the fact that it weighs so little.
I don't think that the surface tension alone is sufficient to keep the lizard above water. It's rather the speed of its feet moving downwards and the speed of its feet moving back up, before the water closes above the foot.
its a neat trick, but are there any commercial applications?
where does a robot that walks on water succeed over an autonomous boat?
This question becomes interesting when you point it back at the lizard. Why does it walk on water instead of just swimming? My guess is that it's energy-efficient since it only has to overcome the viscosity of the air, not water.
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French fine for free freight? Formidable.
Honeybee method? Now that's a good buzzword.
The modern ad-hoc networks have a huge advantage when it comes to minimalizing transmitter power: routing. A soldier in the battlefield communicating with the HQ only needs enough power to reach the nearest retransmitter, which can be one of many cheap units dumped on the battlefield from a plane.
Glad to see the OLPC project mooving on.
Let's have a look at a black market that has been around a little bit longer: drugs. Why hasn't anyone thought of using these techniques for disrupting this black market? Mhhhhm... okay.
Follow the money.
Well, it is actually, literally, nothing to see - robotlike insects flying near a big crowd and nobody took any pics?
Not "we all" - only the game servers have to be connected with ultrafat low latency pipes. "We all" are supposed to log onto the nearest server and be happy with our current bandwidth. The technical problem is in making the distributed servers act transparently as one big server to "us all", so that Joe, Ivan and Taro from Australia, Russia and Japan can band together and kick a bosses ass in realtime, each one logged onto his own local server.
Open source? Sure - but how do I know that the machine is actually running the code I reviewed? Trackable by paper trail? Good, but you need to: 1) let the voters check their part of the paper trail 2) have someone check the paper trail with the electronic record. If you believe that this is not effectively doubling the traditional ballot, then be my guest.
Even if this hadn't been happening all the time, I doubt that a bacteria so old could seriously threaten us. Things have changed since 8000000 B.C. Its younger siblings have been hammering our ancestors' immunodefense systems, hardening them and getting better themselves. Present creatures vs 8 mo. years bacteria is like Slashdot moderation system versus pre-WWW trolls :-)
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Water snakes have no such problems, but well - maybe the lizard lives at cooler waters.