Trouble with distilled / de-ionized water is that while it won't conduct when it's pure, it will find enough metal oxides and such out of the contacts on your motherboard or from the dust that it will gain some amount of conductivity. Fortunately since mobo's have 12 volts on them maximum, the amount of damage water will do if it hits the motherboard is minimal, so long as the water is removed before long.
Sony's videocameras do this at the touch of a switch - it's called Nightshot and it swaps the color filter for an infrared-only one, in addition to turning on an infrared light.
Just so you know, there is a miniature wireless videocamera mounted to that wall-climbing robot. That particular model sells for $500 but there are ones on eBay for about $50.
The US doesn't dictate who can own/operate cars. If you can buy/build a car, you are free to do so. If you want to drive it, you are free to do so... on your own land. The streets are owned by the government, and they have the right to say who drives on them and who doesn't.
Guns, however, are a different matter. I'll not argue that guns were not designed to kill; I can think of few non-killing uses of guns.
You're arguing that the Constitution doesn't mean anything today. Problem with that is it still governs our country. That's several hundred million people we're talking about, and I'll be damned if that means nothing.
Oh no! The evil fly-goblins have attacked me! Save me, Gecko-man, with your ultra-stretchy shotgun tongue of justice!
I dunno... does that sound exciting to you?
I've used this sort of thing for a very long time and can confirm that it is effective in preventing ad servers from getting to you. You don't have to worry about popups opening other popups when you close them, because the popup window will be empty.
I have a hard time thinking they can expect these systems to learn without a positive/negative feedback system - you know, do something wrong, get punished, do something right, get rewarded. Why should the cells be trained to go toward a light if they have no way of knowing (read: receiving feedback indicating) whether the light is good or bad? Another interesting thing to research is what the mechanism actually is that does this in people and animals.
It could be safe if they used parabolic dishes or yagis or whatever. Since they're using the same frequencies as microwave ovens, and those use the same frequencies as 802.11b, they can use all the WLAN antenna shapes (albeit beefed up a bit) to make sure the waves get focused into a tight beam.
Then just put them up on tall towers with an accompanying radio link, so when the receiving station stops getting power, it sends a signal for the sending station to stop sending it. This will prevent havoc caused by beam misalignment - a small price to pay for a temporary brownout.
Though I'm still wondering whether it would be powerful enough to fry birds as they flew through the beam. Look, daddy! It's a bald eagle! (BOOM!)
I developed another solution, also using a PIC - it's wireless, accepts commands from a computer, and runs with a nifty brightness-holding circuit that allows asynchronous setting of colors. I'm almost done with it, too - just have to work out some problems with the serial timing (apparently wireless doesn't send a perfect signal through... I just hope the powers that be consider it a good enough story when it finally is finished, along with a pretty web page.
Go for the Basic Stamp I - it's the cheapest and smallest; grab a starter kit if it's your first; subsequent ones only need another BS1-IC. If you want it wireless, you can find 433MHz low-power unlicensed transmitters and receivers for about $10 each by the model numbers TX433 and RX433 - you'll need to experiment with serial settings to get this to work.
One time I took my Visor out of my backpack to check something, and I dropped it from standing height onto a concrete floor. It bounced, and spun around valiantly, tossing the screen protector, the stylus, the batteries, and the HandSpring slot cover 15 feet in all directions (seriously - I'm not joking). I picked up the Visor to find it hadn't a scratch on it. I was amazed.
One month later, it suffered a similar fall but this time onto carpet. It did not survive.
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Google itself?
Perhaps Google isn't the most impartial engine after all.
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Kazaa didn't sue Google - they only sent a Cease and Desist letter to them.
I think I'll wait for the model that features ass-print recognition.
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Fasilmile? Is this some new form of communication that I've never been told about?
Why would I want to enrage my penis?
Trouble with distilled / de-ionized water is that while it won't conduct when it's pure, it will find enough metal oxides and such out of the contacts on your motherboard or from the dust that it will gain some amount of conductivity. Fortunately since mobo's have 12 volts on them maximum, the amount of damage water will do if it hits the motherboard is minimal, so long as the water is removed before long.
Sony's videocameras do this at the touch of a switch - it's called Nightshot and it swaps the color filter for an infrared-only one, in addition to turning on an infrared light.
Just so you know, there is a miniature wireless videocamera mounted to that wall-climbing robot. That particular model sells for $500 but there are ones on eBay for about $50.
If I see a motorboat pulled by reindeer flying over my house, I'm getting out my shotgun.
That's nothing - my friend at college uses the heat in his computer to grow psychedelic mushrooms.
He was going to put a website up about it, but then he got high...
Don't forget that we use up oxygen as well.
The US doesn't dictate who can own/operate cars. If you can buy/build a car, you are free to do so. If you want to drive it, you are free to do so... on your own land. The streets are owned by the government, and they have the right to say who drives on them and who doesn't. Guns, however, are a different matter. I'll not argue that guns were not designed to kill; I can think of few non-killing uses of guns. You're arguing that the Constitution doesn't mean anything today. Problem with that is it still governs our country. That's several hundred million people we're talking about, and I'll be damned if that means nothing.
I'm surprised they named the person who came up with it. Usually Microsoft innovations just come from a large, heartless multinational corporation.
I find it refreshing that the person who came up with the idea is credited for it.
Oh no! The evil fly-goblins have attacked me! Save me, Gecko-man, with your ultra-stretchy shotgun tongue of justice! I dunno... does that sound exciting to you?
An excellent resource for this can be found here.
I have a hard time thinking they can expect these systems to learn without a positive/negative feedback system - you know, do something wrong, get punished, do something right, get rewarded. Why should the cells be trained to go toward a light if they have no way of knowing (read: receiving feedback indicating) whether the light is good or bad? Another interesting thing to research is what the mechanism actually is that does this in people and animals.
There's a big error here: This thin display is NOT a liquid-crystal display. Stop calling it that.
I'm sure mainstream DVD sales will die as soon as I can capture and save video streams from VOD...
It could be safe if they used parabolic dishes or yagis or whatever. Since they're using the same frequencies as microwave ovens, and those use the same frequencies as 802.11b, they can use all the WLAN antenna shapes (albeit beefed up a bit) to make sure the waves get focused into a tight beam.
Then just put them up on tall towers with an accompanying radio link, so when the receiving station stops getting power, it sends a signal for the sending station to stop sending it. This will prevent havoc caused by beam misalignment - a small price to pay for a temporary brownout.
Though I'm still wondering whether it would be powerful enough to fry birds as they flew through the beam. Look, daddy! It's a bald eagle! (BOOM!)
Seriously, though. It could work.
Well at least I was honest about it.
That may put it on par with the other orb solution posted on Slashback, but the schematics they give you do not make it wireless.
I developed another solution, also using a PIC - it's wireless, accepts commands from a computer, and runs with a nifty brightness-holding circuit that allows asynchronous setting of colors. I'm almost done with it, too - just have to work out some problems with the serial timing (apparently wireless doesn't send a perfect signal through... I just hope the powers that be consider it a good enough story when it finally is finished, along with a pretty web page.
Go for the Basic Stamp I - it's the cheapest and smallest; grab a starter kit if it's your first; subsequent ones only need another BS1-IC. If you want it wireless, you can find 433MHz low-power unlicensed transmitters and receivers for about $10 each by the model numbers TX433 and RX433 - you'll need to experiment with serial settings to get this to work.
If Keen could run on a 386, can't it run on my Palm? I want it on my Palm!
One time I took my Visor out of my backpack to check something, and I dropped it from standing height onto a concrete floor. It bounced, and spun around valiantly, tossing the screen protector, the stylus, the batteries, and the HandSpring slot cover 15 feet in all directions (seriously - I'm not joking). I picked up the Visor to find it hadn't a scratch on it. I was amazed. One month later, it suffered a similar fall but this time onto carpet. It did not survive.