Dude, preschoolers on Star Trek so totaly have this down cold. Try to recal all that techno babble about this array or that conduit and the alignment of this anti-tachyon stream being routed through a quark(not the ferengi) filter, and delivered in an exotic glass vessle at Quarks bar(yes, the Ferrengi this time.)
As far as communication, the closest we have to those chunky communicators are even chunkier Iridium satellite phones. Remember, Kirk's communicator had to reach a starship in orbit.
Yeah, and a low power wifi access point with a "300 foot range" can't be used by someone with a laptop in a passing aircraft. Antennas today are amazing in what signal they can pluck out of the air. I'm shockd that an aircraft can cruise at 2000+ feet and get a great connection. But, think of the very low power signals coming from spacecraft that we pick up just fine here on earth. Voyager I and II sure as hell don't have megawatt transmitters, much less even killowat.
Furthermore, who cares how big the Firefox universe is?
Bill Gates and all the other folks at Microsoft in the Web Browser departmentare all greatly concenrned about how big the Firefox universe is in relation to the size of the I.E. universe.
'MYTHBUSTERS' did a show on this phenomenom, and basically said it wasn't valid.. but they were using trucks at slower speeds, and stuff. Though i think cars would make a larger difference it isn't going to be that big.
Big truck, poor CoF (Coefficent of Friction) in relation to the standing air. Poor aero-dynamics. There's another word for this... just can't recall it at the moment. In a system that's poorly tuned for aerodynamics the spoiling of the system by open windows will be less noticeable than it would be in a system that was highly tuned to reduce aerodynamic drag.
Basicly, the SUV they used was so un-areo dynamic that opening the windows couldn't do much to make things worse. Hypotheticly adding 10 units of drag to a SUV with 300 units of drag is a small percentage increase.
Do this in one of those super cars and the 10 units of drag from the open windows will be a large percentage change, as the car has about 50 units of drag when "clean."
If you want to go out in the woods playing super predator, tracking and stalking, have fun. When you catch your prey why not shoot it with a paintball gun and call it a day?
Wow, that 300lbs black bear I bagged 3 seasons ago would have just been royaly pissed off to be pelted by a paintball gun. Bad enough it was able to move about 10 meters before giving up the ghost when hit with a heavy broadhead arrow (scarry! No firearms allowed to be carried afield durring bow-hunting season.)
This way when you crash your virtual air-liner into an occupied landmark structure you'll be able to accurately determine which floor, even witch windows, will be hit as you commit you're holy jihad and make your way to the company of 72 (isn't 42 enough?) virgins.
To get a decently clear and detailed picture, your film speed would have to be high.
UNTRUE! ISO 3200 film at F64 and 1/30th of a second exposure will get you a shot just as bad as ISO 100 at 1/30th.
ISO 100 at 1/500th compared to ISO 3200 at 1/2000th will get you very little gain. Anything you get with the faster shutter will be lost due to the lack of resolving power in the higher speed film. Same goes for digital. Shoot at ISO 50, 64, or eevn 100 on some cameras and you get great quality. Shoot at 3200 (on the few cameras that even offer this) and you get sensor noise our your arse.
yes, google is a monopoly... Yahoo, Altavist, MSN, and at least a dozen others in the search business don't exist. When was the last time you used Google search and found yourself stuck with a certain search term because it was "tightly integrated" into the Google APIs?
I wish they would make simple devices that interconnect well. Like putting a "standard cellphone dock" on your ipod so you can download songs from itunes. Or the same for your PDA to download email or sync addresses. Or a iPod-PDA interconnect to let you use it as an external hard drive.
They call it UNIVERSAL serial bus. Too bad it's not universal.
tuupharr, you don't know how right you are. Unless the crossbar is very high and the string very long the angle of deflection you get will be far to small to accurately eyeball.
Right. Just like now in our modern times no one uses horses, or swords, or lives in farming communities.
In this modern era of satelite guide weapons (JDAMs) laser guided weapons and self flying weapon platforms (CAFVs) why do people use weapons aimed via the alignment of metal posts within iron rings(M-16, AK47, match-lock muskets)? Because it's dirt cheap, qiick, easy, and reliable. What the hell do you do with your fancy multi-megawatt laser when you lack a multi-megawat power supply to recharge it?
These maps are published a few times a year. The only requirement for pilots to update thir maps is anualy. Some TFRs only last for a few ours (sporting events for example.) They are generaly NOT on aviation maps. Things like the restricted airspace around some goverment buildings being quasi-permanent are often noted on maps, or in the index, or special sections of chartbooks.
Some nofly zones go up with very little notice (the airspace above the presidental motorcade as it motors from air-force one to it's destination off-airport for example, not published far ahead of time, as to avoid giving a sniper a road-map to the POTUSs movements.)
They currently DO seek in 3d. X and Y work for each platter. Z determines which platter is looked at. If a drive has more than one layer (anything not a CD or floppy or tape) then it already is a 3d storage device (even some DVDs are multi-layer.)
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Dude, preschoolers on Star Trek so totaly have this down cold. Try to recal all that techno babble about this array or that conduit and the alignment of this anti-tachyon stream being routed through a quark(not the ferengi) filter, and delivered in an exotic glass vessle at Quarks bar(yes, the Ferrengi this time.)
Glucose!
Seriously though, did I call it or what?
As far as communication, the closest we have to those chunky communicators are even chunkier Iridium satellite phones. Remember, Kirk's communicator had to reach a starship in orbit.
Yeah, and a low power wifi access point with a "300 foot range" can't be used by someone with a laptop in a passing aircraft. Antennas today are amazing in what signal they can pluck out of the air. I'm shockd that an aircraft can cruise at 2000+ feet and get a great connection. But, think of the very low power signals coming from spacecraft that we pick up just fine here on earth. Voyager I and II sure as hell don't have megawatt transmitters, much less even killowat.
Furthermore, who cares how big the Firefox universe is?
Bill Gates and all the other folks at Microsoft in the Web Browser department are all greatly concenrned about how big the Firefox universe is in relation to the size of the I.E. universe.
Funny, you'd mention that... check ou this link
And yes, that was supposed to be MPH (H and G being right next to eachother on the keyboard made for a confusing typo.)
'MYTHBUSTERS' did a show on this phenomenom, and basically said it wasn't valid.. but they were using trucks at slower speeds, and stuff. Though i think cars would make a larger difference it isn't going to be that big.
Big truck, poor CoF (Coefficent of Friction) in relation to the standing air. Poor aero-dynamics. There's another word for this... just can't recall it at the moment. In a system that's poorly tuned for aerodynamics the spoiling of the system by open windows will be less noticeable than it would be in a system that was highly tuned to reduce aerodynamic drag.
Basicly, the SUV they used was so un-areo dynamic that opening the windows couldn't do much to make things worse. Hypotheticly adding 10 units of drag to a SUV with 300 units of drag is a small percentage increase.
Do this in one of those super cars and the 10 units of drag from the open windows will be a large percentage change, as the car has about 50 units of drag when "clean."
At 45MPG in large Ford SUVs AC burns more gas than the open windows when driven on an oval shaped race-track. (Thankyou Mythbusters!)
Just quoting an often heard line from a few of my state reps. "If this saves just one life then it will be worth it."
I can't tell you how tired I am of hearing that used as a reason to pass all types of restrictive legislation.
If you want to go out in the woods playing super predator, tracking and stalking, have fun. When you catch your prey why not shoot it with a paintball gun and call it a day?
Wow, that 300lbs black bear I bagged 3 seasons ago would have just been royaly pissed off to be pelted by a paintball gun. Bad enough it was able to move about 10 meters before giving up the ghost when hit with a heavy broadhead arrow (scarry! No firearms allowed to be carried afield durring bow-hunting season.)
This would be awesome for flight sims.
This way when you crash your virtual air-liner into an occupied landmark structure you'll be able to accurately determine which floor, even witch windows, will be hit as you commit you're holy jihad and make your way to the company of 72 (isn't 42 enough?) virgins.
No, I think he is saying Lions are farmers.
To get a decently clear and detailed picture, your film speed would have to be high.
UNTRUE! ISO 3200 film at F64 and 1/30th of a second exposure will get you a shot just as bad as ISO 100 at 1/30th.
ISO 100 at 1/500th compared to ISO 3200 at 1/2000th will get you very little gain. Anything you get with the faster shutter will be lost due to the lack of resolving power in the higher speed film. Same goes for digital. Shoot at ISO 50, 64, or eevn 100 on some cameras and you get great quality. Shoot at 3200 (on the few cameras that even offer this) and you get sensor noise our your arse.
Ask the guy in the red tie, or the kid in the foreground if there's violence in this game.
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No, White Chicks, that's a twisted black comedy.
yes, google is a monopoly... Yahoo, Altavist, MSN, and at least a dozen others in the search business don't exist. When was the last time you used Google search and found yourself stuck with a certain search term because it was "tightly integrated" into the Google APIs?
I wish they would make simple devices that interconnect well. Like putting a "standard cellphone dock" on your ipod so you can download songs from itunes. Or the same for your PDA to download email or sync addresses. Or a iPod-PDA interconnect to let you use it as an external hard drive.
They call it UNIVERSAL serial bus. Too bad it's not universal.
80% of the respondants(sp) in the survey have pipes that handle at least 256.0 Kbps.
Over 56% have 768.0 Kbps.
The largest responding group has 1,024.0 Kbps.
It's certainly a broadband world in Valveville.
tuupharr, you don't know how right you are. Unless the crossbar is very high and the string very long the angle of deflection you get will be far to small to accurately eyeball.
Right. Just like now in our modern times no one uses horses, or swords, or lives in farming communities.
In this modern era of satelite guide weapons (JDAMs) laser guided weapons and self flying weapon platforms (CAFVs) why do people use weapons aimed via the alignment of metal posts within iron rings(M-16, AK47, match-lock muskets)? Because it's dirt cheap, qiick, easy, and reliable. What the hell do you do with your fancy multi-megawatt laser when you lack a multi-megawat power supply to recharge it?
- Cowboy Neil
- Breasts
- 1?2?3?4Profit
Last time I checked e-bay you couldn't get a justice of the peace for less than 2M$US (and that was only for a kidney!) $50 or $250 that's a bargain.
Why not skip all the steps and go straight to the flares?
I think the GP means decoy flares used by warbirds to fool IR guided missiles, not signal flares fired from handheld launchers.
They're all clearly marked on aviation maps.
These maps are published a few times a year. The only requirement for pilots to update thir maps is anualy. Some TFRs only last for a few ours (sporting events for example.) They are generaly NOT on aviation maps. Things like the restricted airspace around some goverment buildings being quasi-permanent are often noted on maps, or in the index, or special sections of chartbooks.
Some nofly zones go up with very little notice (the airspace above the presidental motorcade as it motors from air-force one to it's destination off-airport for example, not published far ahead of time, as to avoid giving a sniper a road-map to the POTUSs movements.)
Conductors allow for the passage of power from a generation station to the trains that utilize said power to move the trains.
They currently DO seek in 3d. X and Y work for each platter. Z determines which platter is looked at. If a drive has more than one layer (anything not a CD or floppy or tape) then it already is a 3d storage device (even some DVDs are multi-layer.)