I really HATE that people insist on getting all "creative" and arty-farty by first referring to it as "Mars" and thereafter insisting on calling it "The Red Planet". Its name is "Mars", so pigging well USE IT.
What makes it even worse is that Mars is nowhere near to being red anyway.
GET IT RIGHT, and stop being so limp-wristed.
All of the comments posted so far were supposed by their authors to be "funny".
Newsflash: None of them are funny.
I wish so many of the lamewads here who think they're like, SO FUNNY AND WITTY, would just put socks in their noise holes (at both ends).
Something interesting gets posted here, and near as I can tell, most of what comes back is infantile giggling and sniggering from a pack of retarded hyenas trying to be "funny".
Mod me down to -666; at least I'm being honest and NOT trying to be "funny".
By the way, the "script killer" image with letters: I'm human and very literate, and I can't read it. If you're reading this, I guessed right, that's all.
Yeah, what a bunch of buttwipes.
Hey, if you wrote code all fucked-up like that, would it work? NO.
What makes you think violating English like that produces anything valid or wothwhile? Eh?
SORT IT OUT!
Martin
Ah, so has Google unified String Theory, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy?
Friction Losses and Gain Stages
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Lego Logic Gates
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· Score: 4, Interesting
There is much friction inherent in these, and as shown, no "gain stages" to overcome these losses.
So the "fan-out" would be appalling as implemented here. This would preclude their use to build anything other than the simplest logic constructs.
However, I think it would not be too hard to add "gain stages" to act as "buffers", which could, for example, use falling weights to act as "supply rails" to increase "fan-out", thereby facilitating construction of far more complex circuits.
Martin
That episode where The EMH Doctor performs to audiences on some planet, but one of them produces a "superior" musical hologram, able to conort its voice around the grotesque compositions of its creator.
Seen that advert for Fosters, I think?
"Clean the house! Bye-bye!"
(Later, on returning...)
"Roboto-zhang? (or whatever it is)
Roboto-zhang?"
(Goes into bedroom and finds robot in bed with
vacuum cleaner and microwave oven, drinking lager.)
"Waaargh!!!"
Well, I don't do the advert justice here. Funny as fuck, it is!
People seem to be imagining this technology giving you decent-quality moving pics of people moving around. Impossible (IMNSHO) for the following simple but adequate reasons:
1) Phone masts are designed for 1.8GHz tops. At that freq, lambda is about 17cm. Therefore that's about your spatial resolution. Also, this may not apply in all directions. You might, in fact probably will, be worse off in some axes. In fact, I'm not sure you'll get more than a 2-D map out of it, since cellphone masts are laid out in a 2-D pattern, and there is no "grid" in the third dimension (height above ground, altitude).
2) So, it's impossible to identify an individual with that poor resolution
3) And, you can;t even track one moving individual reliably. Someone would (IMNSHO) only have to approach someone, embrace them, spin around a bit, and alk off again, and then I suspect the "viewer" wouldn't be able to tell which individual was which. Do that a few times with a few people, and the number of possible people the "baddie" could be goes up rapidly!
4) All the above assumes the system works really well even at that poor resolution (17cm). What's the temporal resolution, or "frame rate" of the system? Pretty crap, I bet!
5) So quit worrying. There's no way that this technology can be as sexy as it sounds just using existing cellphone masts.
Slashdot Mirror
"Boxen"
"Vaxen"
FUCK OFF!!! It's not clever, it's not grammatically correct as a plural
AND IT MAKES YOU SOUND LIKE THE TIT YOU TRULY ARE! You spoddy geek.
Also: "wibble". That just makes me want to hit people who say it.
It is pretty cool.
Such audacity and such a lot of effort!
This URL would seem to provide some hints about how to check whether you're infected.
d .html
It mentions some registry keys that the worm sets up.
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32nyxem
I really HATE that people insist on getting all "creative" and arty-farty by first referring to it as "Mars" and thereafter insisting on calling it "The Red Planet". Its name is "Mars", so pigging well USE IT. What makes it even worse is that Mars is nowhere near to being red anyway. GET IT RIGHT, and stop being so limp-wristed.
Nice one! I was just gonna point that out! How funny is that when Phyllis Stein gets her tooth-phone stuck on and she can't turn the damn thing off?!
I wonder how many "Easter Eggs" are hidden in this baby's handwriting / command recognition system.
Like:
"Tell me a rude joke"
"Fart!"
etc.
If I were a programmer devloping that thing, I'd find it hard to resist sticking a few in!
Jeez! A blast from the past! I had that book (the 1979 edition) when I was a kid, about 8! Wow! Weird feeling seeing that again! Martin
All of the comments posted so far were supposed by their authors to be "funny".
Newsflash: None of them are funny.
I wish so many of the lamewads here who think they're like, SO FUNNY AND WITTY, would just put socks in their noise holes (at both ends).
Something interesting gets posted here, and near as I can tell, most of what comes back is infantile giggling and sniggering from a pack of retarded hyenas trying to be "funny".
Mod me down to -666; at least I'm being honest and NOT trying to be "funny".
By the way, the "script killer" image with letters: I'm human and very literate, and I can't read it. If you're reading this, I guessed right, that's all.
Martin
Modded "Overrated" (and SO...!). They are only "firing" RADIO WAVES, that is, LOW_ENERGY PHOTONS. NOT ions.
Yeah, what a bunch of buttwipes. Hey, if you wrote code all fucked-up like that, would it work? NO. What makes you think violating English like that produces anything valid or wothwhile? Eh? SORT IT OUT! Martin
Ah, so has Google unified String Theory, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy?
There is much friction inherent in these, and as shown, no "gain stages" to overcome these losses. So the "fan-out" would be appalling as implemented here. This would preclude their use to build anything other than the simplest logic constructs. However, I think it would not be too hard to add "gain stages" to act as "buffers", which could, for example, use falling weights to act as "supply rails" to increase "fan-out", thereby facilitating construction of far more complex circuits. Martin
That episode where The EMH Doctor performs to audiences on some planet, but one of them produces a "superior" musical hologram, able to conort its voice around the grotesque compositions of its creator.
It reminds me a lot of the mercury ripple tank storage devices they used to have with _old_ computers.
UK notes already have holograms; reflective shiny silvery ones like on credit cards. They seem quite durable.
Seen that advert for Fosters, I think? "Clean the house! Bye-bye!" (Later, on returning...) "Roboto-zhang? (or whatever it is) Roboto-zhang?" (Goes into bedroom and finds robot in bed with vacuum cleaner and microwave oven, drinking lager.) "Waaargh!!!" Well, I don't do the advert justice here. Funny as fuck, it is!
People seem to be imagining this technology giving you decent-quality moving pics of people moving around. Impossible (IMNSHO) for the following simple but adequate reasons:
1) Phone masts are designed for 1.8GHz tops. At that freq, lambda is about 17cm. Therefore that's about your spatial resolution. Also, this may not apply in all directions. You might, in fact probably will, be worse off in some axes. In fact, I'm not sure you'll get more than a 2-D map out of it, since cellphone masts are laid out in a 2-D pattern, and there is no "grid" in the third dimension (height above ground, altitude).
2) So, it's impossible to identify an individual with that poor resolution
3) And, you can;t even track one moving individual reliably. Someone would (IMNSHO) only have to approach someone, embrace them, spin around a bit, and alk off again, and then I suspect the "viewer" wouldn't be able to tell which individual was which. Do that a few times with a few people, and the number of possible people the "baddie" could be goes up rapidly!
4) All the above assumes the system works really well even at that poor resolution (17cm). What's the temporal resolution, or "frame rate" of the system? Pretty crap, I bet!
5) So quit worrying. There's no way that this technology can be as sexy as it sounds just using existing cellphone masts.
Martin "Fleetie"