You're all sorta right.. here is one of my favorite aviation pages It'll tell you more than you ever wanted to know about airplane physics (from a pilot's point of view). Chapter 1 covers these altitude/speed/power concepts...
I have 3 PCs, and my computer room is nearly silent. All 3 are in the closet, and all the wires to the monitors, keyboards, mouses, etc go through a small hole drilled in the wall. Cheap and easy... The only cost was a bathroom vent fan that had to be installed in the closet for airflow. And as an added bonus my computer room is now the same temp as the rest of my house...
Cool, but is there a tivo-like computer available to run this kind of stuff on? I know there are small computers, but I haven't seen any real set-top box computers that are not proprietary (like Tivo, UltimateTV, etc...)
GRRR! Contrary to Pink Floyd's belief there is dark side of the moon.. Sure half the moon is dark and half is lit (except for lunar eclipses), but no portion of the moon is ALWAYS dark. There is a FAR side of the moon. The same side always faces earth, so the other side always faces away from earth, but this side is not dark. Where do you think the rest of the light is when the moon is not full? It doesn't just disappear:)
And you wouldn't have to worry about radiation only if you buryed the station under moondirt.. (and nobody would really know if that would be effective anyways.. maybe they'd have the same problems with that as they are with the ISS now...)
Cool.. much better than their poor explanation in the article. WTF are they talking about when they say "horseshoe" orbit. Doesn't look the least bit horseshoe like to me...
You think that's bad? As a student pilot, I've learned that the aviation industry has the biggest problem with unit consistency. Or maybe it's the weather industry... check out a _standard_ weather report...
KGTU 220115Z AUTO 15005KT 10SM OVC005 17/16 A3000 RMK AO1
here's what it all means:
kgtu = georgetown, tx airport
22nd of Oct, 0115Z, automated report
winds 150deg @ 5 KNOTS
visibility 10 STATUTE MILES
clouds overcast at 500 FEET
temperture 17deg CELCIUS, dewpoint 16deg CELCIUS
pressure 30.00 INCHES OF HG
remarks: A01=cannot distinguish liquid from frozen precip...
Anyways, as you just saw, the weather is reported using KNOTS, STATUTE MILES, FEET, CELCIUS, IN of HG. Damn! 3 painfully different systems of measurement.. and it seems the more i learn, the more stuff like this I see... I really wish us stubborn americans would just switch to SI...
I'd like to know how many people actually use these extras, though. Personally, the DVD interactivity pisses me off (forcing me to not skip the FBI warning, forcing me to waste time with some stupid menu system). I'd rather watch a VHS-sytle completely non-interactive video if it had the same picture/sound quality. I admit, i've watched a commentator track just to try it, but never again.
Of course, maybe this is like one of the napster/RIAA arguments. Maybe the people that are REALLY into movies (or music) will always buy the DVDs (CDs) for the extras that you get with the real thing...
Hmm.. Your nick is "drunky" and you complain about getting dizzy while playing 3D games at a theme park.
I used to play this game called Frat Party, but had to give up after 5 years. It would always make me dizzy, and I would usually not end up being able to do much at all near the end of the game..
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...by controlling the path of travel of light, makes it possible to separate the display images so that slightly different images reach the left and right eyes.
So does this mean that your head has to be in the right place to see the intended effect? It would suck to have to keep your head perfectly still to see the correct image. And that would make fast paced games tough...
Or does it just depend on the angular difference? If so, that'd be super cool, since several people could all crowd around a monitor and all see the same 3D image. Imagine a wall sized monitor at a FPS tournament. 10ft high 3D characters shooting at you. SWEET!
Tinkering and soldering has it's place in the world, but that place doesn't pay the bills. Some of our best stuff has probably come from tinkerers, but The Man isn't gonna pay you to tinker until something works. I think there are a good nubmer of engineers (like myself) who do the corporate-style engineering at work, and come home to do tinker-style engineering on their own projects...
An ebay pic with a click this to enlarge to 100MP link would be sweet. You could zoom in and see if what you were buying had any scratches, defects, or other problems.
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Also from the release notes it looks like you're lucky if you can get a CD-ROM to work at all...
* SCSI CD-ROM drives are not supported
* IDE drives may not work on x86...
You're all sorta right.. here is one of my favorite aviation pages It'll tell you more than you ever wanted to know about airplane physics (from a pilot's point of view). Chapter 1 covers these altitude/speed/power concepts...
I have 3 PCs, and my computer room is nearly silent. All 3 are in the closet, and all the wires to the monitors, keyboards, mouses, etc go through a small hole drilled in the wall. Cheap and easy... The only cost was a bathroom vent fan that had to be installed in the closet for airflow. And as an added bonus my computer room is now the same temp as the rest of my house...
Cool, but is there a tivo-like computer available to run this kind of stuff on? I know there are small computers, but I haven't seen any real set-top box computers that are not proprietary (like Tivo, UltimateTV, etc...)
did you mean ATRAC or 8-Track ;)
i meant there is NO dark side... :P
...on the surface of the moon (not the dark side)
:)
GRRR! Contrary to Pink Floyd's belief there is dark side of the moon.. Sure half the moon is dark and half is lit (except for lunar eclipses), but no portion of the moon is ALWAYS dark. There is a FAR side of the moon. The same side always faces earth, so the other side always faces away from earth, but this side is not dark. Where do you think the rest of the light is when the moon is not full? It doesn't just disappear
And you wouldn't have to worry about radiation only if you buryed the station under moondirt.. (and nobody would really know if that would be effective anyways.. maybe they'd have the same problems with that as they are with the ISS now...)
Cool.. much better than their poor explanation in the article. WTF are they talking about when they say "horseshoe" orbit. Doesn't look the least bit horseshoe like to me...
You think that's bad? As a student pilot, I've learned that the aviation industry has the biggest problem with unit consistency. Or maybe it's the weather industry... check out a _standard_ weather report...
KGTU 220115Z AUTO 15005KT 10SM OVC005 17/16 A3000 RMK AO1
here's what it all means:
kgtu = georgetown, tx airport
22nd of Oct, 0115Z, automated report
winds 150deg @ 5 KNOTS
visibility 10 STATUTE MILES
clouds overcast at 500 FEET
temperture 17deg CELCIUS, dewpoint 16deg CELCIUS
pressure 30.00 INCHES OF HG
remarks: A01=cannot distinguish liquid from frozen precip...
Anyways, as you just saw, the weather is reported using KNOTS, STATUTE MILES, FEET, CELCIUS, IN of HG. Damn! 3 painfully different systems of measurement.. and it seems the more i learn, the more stuff like this I see... I really wish us stubborn americans would just switch to SI...
I'd like to know how many people actually use these extras, though. Personally, the DVD interactivity pisses me off (forcing me to not skip the FBI warning, forcing me to waste time with some stupid menu system). I'd rather watch a VHS-sytle completely non-interactive video if it had the same picture/sound quality. I admit, i've watched a commentator track just to try it, but never again.
Of course, maybe this is like one of the napster/RIAA arguments. Maybe the people that are REALLY into movies (or music) will always buy the DVDs (CDs) for the extras that you get with the real thing...
Hmm.. Your nick is "drunky" and you complain about getting dizzy while playing 3D games at a theme park. I used to play this game called Frat Party, but had to give up after 5 years. It would always make me dizzy, and I would usually not end up being able to do much at all near the end of the game..
Dermatoglyphics (another 15 letter word without repeats)
...by controlling the path of travel of light, makes it possible to separate the display images so that slightly different images reach the left and right eyes.
So does this mean that your head has to be in the right place to see the intended effect? It would suck to have to keep your head perfectly still to see the correct image. And that would make fast paced games tough...
Or does it just depend on the angular difference? If so, that'd be super cool, since several people could all crowd around a monitor and all see the same 3D image. Imagine a wall sized monitor at a FPS tournament. 10ft high 3D characters shooting at you. SWEET!
Tinkering and soldering has it's place in the world, but that place doesn't pay the bills. Some of our best stuff has probably come from tinkerers, but The Man isn't gonna pay you to tinker until something works. I think there are a good nubmer of engineers (like myself) who do the corporate-style engineering at work, and come home to do tinker-style engineering on their own projects...
An ebay pic with a click this to enlarge to 100MP link would be sweet. You could zoom in and see if what you were buying had any scratches, defects, or other problems.