Mossies love the color blue, so make sure you have no blue around your self, but place a blue light in the area you want them to be decoyed to, ie corner of the garden or away from where you want them to be.
This is why hotels which have 'blue' pools are stupid in tropical areas, it should be greenish, yes not as pretty but no mossies.
1. detect air presure, fire shute 2. failing that, check oxygen in the air 3. or check to see if the sky is blue, light sensor, DUHHHH!!! 4. or as a 4th backup, install a $300 GPS system to check your altitude, DUH!!!!
Can I say DUHHH! again!
But probably their failure was mechanical not operational logic.
yes, a plane flying towards WTC to be crashed into it.
Whats the point of locking the cockpit door, the dudes will just threaten to open a side door and really screw things up, or find a standard wall power socket (yes planes have them, how else do you think vacume cleaners work, but they are covered after use, look near the door on the floor for a socket cover )
What you need in a plane is an automated way by the pilot to put sleeping gas in the plane to KNOCK everyone out with in seconds, then you can walk in , and tie em up. How about a RED panic button near each door like trains have STOP pulleys, just put those on the plane and it will dump sleeping gas everywhere but the cockpit.
Its only worth that much if you charge a lot, though they should charge 10% of current energy costs to drive down the prices of everything that depends on power.
So , say 1cent/KWhr instead of the 8-10 they charge now.
But if they cannot patent it, then they WONT sell it because then any backyard person could then make his own gen and bypass paying the 'system' for power and avoid the minor taxes and feeding cash to the big corporate energy companies which have billions of stocks trading on the markets.
1. Id like to say to all those people that dissed CF, "looser moron conformists to the popular mob" , people should be more open minded and research EVERYTHING, not just take FoxNews as fact.
2. Those so called Peer-Review papers sound like a kernel coders list, not accepting "wierd" stuff out of hand rather than a real democractic vote. They call themselves scientists? more like political-ego-driver government scientists, ego and politics should be OUT when you are a scientist.
3. i can see china being interested in this, since they REALLY need more power badly, if every chineese family just bought 1 light globe, there would be a MASSIVE spike in usage, ie 30,000 MEG WATTS to be exact. Thats a lot of instant power that would be needed, and probably 5x that would be needed to manufacture that many light globes, they better use Compact Fluros then, which would still need 8000 MEGWATTS. But they probably would buy 4 of them, so its back to 30000MW.
Any one want to make their own home brew open sourced HD-DVD standard?
1. Keep Mpeg2. 2. lower the rate 20% to say 5mbs 3. increase resolution to 1080i 4. fit one movie on an 9gig Disk thats HD quality.
5. hopefully laptop/pc dvd players can manage it, or mod VLC to handle it. Now all we need next are retail dvd players to play mpeg2 at 1080i/HD.
6. beat blu-ray to the punch, use current disc/blanks technology, not 100% as good, but dam n 90% is close enough for the majority,anyone want to "beat" sony again like VHS/Beta did? Get cracking out with an homebrew HD-DVD standard.
safety is bogus, i mean every phone as a limited watt transmitter at a limited freq, how hard is that to "test" ? it doesnt take 9000 people and 4million flying hours to figure that out.
I like to think that, a skilled engineer could learn to be a skilled manager in under 12 months, but a skilled manager, could only become a skilled engineer in 12 years:) So who gets paid more?
99% of programmers I know are actually "out there" very social or good at the pub guys. Maybe its just the australian culture.
But what is a good manager? one that ignores human skills/people totally and just gives orders like a drill sargent? Gets things done I guess.
What I really hate though are lieing MF's managers that pretend to their programmers "oh yeah project going ahead well, all rosy for next release", when in the background he has spoken to head of R&D and knows your project baby thats 5 years old is gona get canned because of incompetent marketing which isnt yielding massive sales, and that some staff will get the ass too.
I do have to wonder if women with children would make a better manager?
Why cant mozilla support animated JPEG, ie whats called MJPEG, or MPEG with only I frames.
The only code you need is A) JPEG still decoder (yes mozilla has that) B) and MPEG header decoder, oh too easy, a few pages of source there C) add a new mime type or detect it in the JPEG still decoder to check for headers.
BINGO and its done, where are all the smart coders? I thought theres lots of unemployed hacks out there and students, where are the usefull simple things:)
Maybe mozilla should get ex-game/demo scene coders to write up new ultra tight code for mozilla that would cause ZERO bloat.
Bright Idea #12313: lets mozilla have a coding contest to rewrite any component, but the winner must code it to have a smaller memory foot print, and/or be faster code execution too. Overall winner is by the amount of % the code is sped up by, or the % of ram it uses less.
Would it not be easier to improve on the gif format , rather than add new formats?
1. make a new header (GIF04) 2. add support for 24bit/32bit alpha channels 3. add 24bit/animated gif 4. send source to all GIF making programs/applications people and fax their head office too. 5. enjoy a new format for all (except MS taking 3 years to support it , not like they would add usefull things to windows update)
in my previous company, we used the gif codec in our application for 6 years, not that we cared about the patent at all, what patent?:) we were too small to be found out any way ( ~10000 customers ) Maybe since I dont work for those sorry-asses anymore, should I notify unisys?:)
1. its smaller if you stack up a 200 DVDs thats about the same space as 10 HDs 2. its a lot SAFER, the HD wont fail, especially if you use it like a BIGASS floppy as it wont be spinning 24/7 so MTBF will be like in 5000 years time. 3. no seek times, much faster
Im very warry of all those mp3 CDRs and burned DVDs or divx avis on CDRs/DVDs that just might NOT be readable on some of these elcheapo blanks. Pretty soon im going to go 100% HD, ill probably have em ofcourse in removeable trays, but lable one HD as mp3s and another as 2002-2004 movies or something. If I want to use it away from home, all i need to get is one of those usb/firewire cases and instant movie jukebox for all.
The only issue is what format to use so EVERY OS likes it, fat32 is a joke for large HDs, so its NTFS, what else will 'run' on windows OTB.
OSX, ok connect to remote printer shared on XP, Select Add Printer Select Server Select Printer Select Driver Select Other... ok Choose a file has locked up and cant hit cancel.
Yeah, ironicaly windows ran in 4meg, but if you wanted to push it to do usefull things, it wasnt that happy, so at the end of the day, probably the same as OS2 once pushed.
They should have optimized it to hell to work in 4megs, i mean look what amiga did in 512kb, (with less than 120kb used on boot, yes i know it has 512k ROMS, but still 90% of the OS was on disk)
So technically, amiga ran rings around everything, partly due to the nice cpu which was the greatest instruction set in the 90s.
Sometimes I wonder why some of todays code is soooo bloated and slow, perhaps its shoddy coding in C++ with people that have no clue how CPUs/ram is used and treat the language like java.
Compared to me borrowing my cousins CD to copy? Sure its 'cheating' but it isnt 'BAD' as in 10 commandmends from the bible bad. It wont be the death of commerce or society.
RIAA should ignore home downloaders/sharers, and ONLY go after "REAL" pirates that sell their CDS for $5/pop and make REAL TAX FREE MONEY.
re twinkies, if a million people steal 1 twinkie, thats a lot of $$$$$ lots to the bakery/shop, but if a billion people download one song each, NO ONE HAS LOST ANY $$$$$ at all. Is such a concept so hard to understand?
I hope RIAAs next victim has a high priced lawyer as an uncle or something.
If a judge cannot hear both sides and understand the issue in ONE HOUR, then his capacity of intellect and reasoning are at best as good as a chicken. Get rid of em, send em packing home.
freeing china is like trying to convince the usa fedgovt to legalize pot and give it out free at every sunday church group/gathering. Its not gona happen, you cant change a group of 30 peoples mind let alone 1.3 billion over night, these things take time.
If you ever lived in china for more than a few months you will realise that dropping the govt control on information would yield to total utter civil war and people going nutso. Besides china doesnt have enough roads/cars/electricity to handle 1.3 billion people living suburban style modern economy, you gota do it slowly, even at 15% growth it takes time
What the mags need to do is have a runonly exe (no installer crap) of spybot or soemthing that will scan/fix their PC from the CDROM autostart.
Now if AOL did this it would be cool, but we dont expect their rich ferrari owning directors/managers to really have a clue with all those whores they have every weekend. Any one have a virtual vodoodoll website?
1. it takes infrastructure to make more oil, you cant double supply, where are the people/pumps/stations
2. you cant double the oil tankers to transport the stuff, it takes time/money and steel to build another 1000 oil tankers
3. china is increasing its energy use 15% up each year, its going to need another 5000% more if everyone just buys 1 more light bulb, thats 1.2billion lightbulbs dude. 15% increase in demand each year with 0% inrease in supply is equal to 15% decrease each year.
4. human price/labor will go up, more people will want their share of the profits, prices will go up.
So its mute if there is even unlimited (10000 cubic kilometers of oil in the earth, even if our magma is 10% oil) It still takes ENERGY to take it up and process it and store it and transport it. You cannot double your infrastructure overnight what took 100 years to build.
KEY WORD, C H I N A + MASSIVE DEMAND = stress on supplies.
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Mossies love the color blue, so make sure you have no blue around your self, but place a blue light in the area you want them to be decoyed to, ie corner of the garden or away from where you want them to be.
This is why hotels which have 'blue' pools are stupid in tropical areas, it should be greenish, yes not as pretty but no mossies.
1. detect air presure, fire shute
2. failing that, check oxygen in the air
3. or check to see if the sky is blue, light sensor, DUHHHH!!!
4. or as a 4th backup, install a $300 GPS system to check your altitude, DUH!!!!
Can I say DUHHH! again!
But probably their failure was mechanical not operational logic.
Dude, LONE GUNMEN, 6months before WTC/911, what was the pilot episode about?
7 88 7
http://imdb.com/title/tt0243069/board/nest/1010
yes, a plane flying towards WTC to be crashed into it.
Whats the point of locking the cockpit door, the dudes will just threaten to open a side door and really screw things up, or find a standard wall power socket (yes planes have them, how else do you think vacume cleaners work, but they are covered after use, look near the door on the floor for a socket cover )
What you need in a plane is an automated way by the pilot to put sleeping gas in the plane to KNOCK everyone out with in seconds, then you can walk in , and tie em up. How about a RED panic button near each door like trains have STOP pulleys, just put those on the plane and it will dump sleeping gas everywhere but the cockpit.
Yeah, and slashdot cant afford a built in spell checker toooooooooo.
:)
Not everyone at 4am can spell 100% ok coward
Its only worth that much if you charge a lot, though they should charge 10% of current energy costs to drive down the prices of everything that depends on power.
So , say 1cent/KWhr instead of the 8-10 they charge now.
But if they cannot patent it, then they WONT sell it because then any backyard person could then make his own gen and bypass paying the 'system' for power and avoid the minor taxes and feeding cash to the big corporate energy companies which have billions of stocks trading on the markets.
1. Id like to say to all those people that dissed CF, "looser moron conformists to the popular mob" , people should be more open minded and research EVERYTHING, not just take FoxNews as fact.
2. Those so called Peer-Review papers sound like a kernel coders list, not accepting "wierd" stuff out of hand rather than a real democractic vote. They call themselves scientists? more like political-ego-driver government scientists, ego and politics should be OUT when you are a scientist.
3. i can see china being interested in this, since they REALLY need more power badly, if every chineese family just bought 1 light globe, there would be a MASSIVE spike in usage, ie 30,000 MEG WATTS to be exact. Thats a lot of instant power that would be needed, and probably 5x that would be needed to manufacture that many light globes, they better use Compact Fluros then, which would still need 8000 MEGWATTS. But they probably would buy 4 of them, so its back to 30000MW.
yes, but 90% of their industrial needs are supplied by oil.
And dont forget too that OIL has 100000 other uses besides burning, re - plastics, ferts, etc.... it just doesnt come from rocks.
Any one want to make their own home brew open sourced HD-DVD standard?
,anyone want to "beat" sony again like VHS/Beta did? Get cracking out with an homebrew HD-DVD standard.
1. Keep Mpeg2.
2. lower the rate 20% to say 5mbs
3. increase resolution to 1080i
4. fit one movie on an 9gig Disk thats HD quality.
5. hopefully laptop/pc dvd players can manage it, or mod VLC to handle it. Now all we need next are retail dvd players to play mpeg2 at 1080i/HD.
6. beat blu-ray to the punch, use current disc/blanks technology, not 100% as good, but dam n 90% is close enough for the majority
7. become famous!
8. get interviews
9. improve your resume.
10. profit.
safety is bogus, i mean every phone as a limited watt transmitter at a limited freq, how hard is that to "test" ? it doesnt take 9000 people and 4million flying hours to figure that out.
Ask your CEO for answers.
I like to think that, a skilled engineer could learn to be a skilled manager in under 12 months, but a skilled manager, could only become a skilled engineer in 12 years :) So who gets paid more?
99% of programmers I know are actually "out there" very social or good at the pub guys. Maybe its just the australian culture.
But what is a good manager? one that ignores human skills/people totally and just gives orders like a drill sargent? Gets things done I guess.
What I really hate though are lieing MF's managers that pretend to their programmers "oh yeah project going ahead well, all rosy for next release", when in the background he has spoken to head of R&D and knows your project baby thats 5 years old is gona get canned because of incompetent marketing which isnt yielding massive sales, and that some staff will get the ass too.
I do have to wonder if women with children would make a better manager?
Why cant mozilla support animated JPEG, ie whats called MJPEG, or MPEG with only I frames.
:)
The only code you need is
A) JPEG still decoder (yes mozilla has that)
B) and MPEG header decoder, oh too easy, a few pages of source there
C) add a new mime type or detect it in the JPEG still decoder to check for headers.
BINGO and its done, where are all the smart coders? I thought theres lots of unemployed hacks out there and students, where are the usefull simple things
Maybe mozilla should get ex-game/demo scene coders to write up new ultra tight code for mozilla that would cause ZERO bloat.
Bright Idea #12313: lets mozilla have a coding contest to rewrite any component, but the winner must code it to have a smaller memory foot print, and/or be faster code execution too. Overall winner is by the amount of % the code is sped up by, or the % of ram it uses less.
Would it not be easier to improve on the gif format , rather than add new formats?
1. make a new header (GIF04)
2. add support for 24bit/32bit alpha channels
3. add 24bit/animated gif
4. send source to all GIF making programs/applications people and fax their head office too.
5. enjoy a new format for all (except MS taking 3 years to support it , not like they would add usefull things to windows update)
in my previous company, we used the gif codec in our application for 6 years, not that we cared about the patent at all, what patent? :) we were too small to be found out any way ( ~10000 customers ) Maybe since I dont work for those sorry-asses anymore, should I notify unisys? :)
Personally, id rather stick to a HD because;
1. its smaller if you stack up a 200 DVDs thats about the same space as 10 HDs
2. its a lot SAFER, the HD wont fail, especially if you use it like a BIGASS floppy as it wont be spinning 24/7 so MTBF will be like in 5000 years time.
3. no seek times, much faster
Im very warry of all those mp3 CDRs and burned DVDs or divx avis on CDRs/DVDs that just might NOT be readable on some of these elcheapo blanks.
Pretty soon im going to go 100% HD, ill probably have em ofcourse in removeable trays, but lable one HD as mp3s and another as 2002-2004 movies or something. If I want to use it away from home, all i need to get is one of those usb/firewire cases and instant movie jukebox for all.
The only issue is what format to use so EVERY OS likes it, fat32 is a joke for large HDs, so its NTFS, what else will 'run' on windows OTB.
OSX, ok connect to remote printer shared on XP,
Select Add Printer
Select Server
Select Printer
Select Driver
Select Other... ok Choose a file has locked up and cant hit cancel.
Stupid Finder...
Yeah, ironicaly windows ran in 4meg, but if you wanted to push it to do usefull things, it wasnt that happy, so at the end of the day, probably the same as OS2 once pushed.
They should have optimized it to hell to work in 4megs, i mean look what amiga did in 512kb, (with less than 120kb used on boot, yes i know it has 512k ROMS, but still 90% of the OS was on disk)
So technically, amiga ran rings around everything, partly due to the nice cpu which was the greatest instruction set in the 90s.
Sometimes I wonder why some of todays code is soooo bloated and slow, perhaps its shoddy coding in C++ with people that have no clue how CPUs/ram is used and treat the language like java.
Compared to me borrowing my cousins CD to copy? Sure its 'cheating' but it isnt 'BAD' as in 10 commandmends from the bible bad. It wont be the death of commerce or society.
RIAA should ignore home downloaders/sharers, and ONLY go after "REAL" pirates that sell their CDS for $5/pop and make REAL TAX FREE MONEY.
re twinkies, if a million people steal 1 twinkie, thats a lot of $$$$$ lots to the bakery/shop, but if a billion people download one song each, NO ONE HAS LOST ANY $$$$$ at all. Is such a concept so hard to understand?
I hope RIAAs next victim has a high priced lawyer as an uncle or something.
If a judge cannot hear both sides and understand the issue in ONE HOUR, then his capacity of intellect and reasoning are at best as good as a chicken. Get rid of em, send em packing home.
And apple qt using sorenson and that other audio one isnt proprietry?
freeing china is like trying to convince the usa fedgovt to legalize pot and give it out free at every sunday church group/gathering. Its not gona happen, you cant change a group of 30 peoples mind let alone 1.3 billion over night, these things take time.
If you ever lived in china for more than a few months you will realise that dropping the govt control on information would yield to total utter civil war and people going nutso. Besides china doesnt have enough roads/cars/electricity to handle 1.3 billion people living suburban style modern economy, you gota do it slowly, even at 15% growth it takes time
Sounds just like a mafia family/soprano business, oh wait, the govt is the mafia, but the current in charge, that tax you more than mafia ;)
What the mags need to do is have a runonly exe (no installer crap) of spybot or soemthing that will scan/fix their PC from the CDROM autostart.
Now if AOL did this it would be cool, but we dont expect their rich ferrari owning directors/managers to really have a clue with all those whores they have every weekend. Any one have a virtual vodoodoll website?
They should have used duct tape, it would have worked better ;)
(only jk)
Fussion reactor is planned, but by 2030.
But it will only solve american power problems, not 'the planets' or tokya/asia area or europe whereever its planned to be built.
1. it takes infrastructure to make more oil, you cant double supply, where are the people/pumps/stations
2. you cant double the oil tankers to transport the stuff, it takes time/money and steel to build another 1000 oil tankers
3. china is increasing its energy use 15% up each year, its going to need another 5000% more if everyone just buys 1 more light bulb, thats 1.2billion lightbulbs dude. 15% increase in demand each year with 0% inrease in supply is equal to 15% decrease each year.
4. human price/labor will go up, more people will want their share of the profits, prices will go up.
So its mute if there is even unlimited (10000 cubic kilometers of oil in the earth, even if our magma is 10% oil) It still takes ENERGY to take it up and process it and store it and transport it. You cannot double your infrastructure overnight what took 100 years to build.
KEY WORD, C H I N A + MASSIVE DEMAND = stress on supplies.
Got it man?