The latency between the pilot moving a control stick and the control surfaces moving on the UAV can be as high as 750 ms via satellite.
According a talk I attended by the US Airforce, a latency of 250 ms in a simulator is enough to lose control of the aircraft. I guess they use an autopilot.
(1) I've already looked into it, because I don't enjoy shopping. I prefer to do my purchases online, but online food costs about twice as much.
No difference in price here. I can even use coupons online. Some supermarkets even have iPhone applications to make ordering easy.
(2) Believe me - a UPS or other delivery truck makes a LOT more pollution than my 80 MPG ULEV Honda hybrid (insight). My car emits a few hundredths of a gram per mile, while those trucks emit about 1000 times more (per EPA regulations; or lack thereof).
In London, supermarkets such as Sainsbury's use electric-only vans.
(3) I don't trust that they can get spoil-sensitive food to my house as fast as I can. I have no desire to get soup instead of frozen yogurt/ice cream. Or curdled milk instead of fresh milk. I'd be afraid to eat it.
Wait, you don't have refrigerated delivery trucks in America?
For those who don't know how Facebook works, basically when one person installs an app, the app will pester them to request their friends also install it. You need to speak with your friends. When you install a Facebook application there is a choice at the end of the process whether or not to spam all your friends with an invite to use the application. You can't avoid Facebook itself placing a 'Person installed application Foo' into your friend's news-feeds. However you can set preferences on your own news-feed to avoid such items appearing, using the 'x' button beside the item.
I did this a few days ago on my 1.67GHz PowerBook G4. Yes I am insane.
All you need to do is ensure the RAM setting is at 512MB otherwise the installer refuses to work. Then just before booting hit the delete key and enable APCI in the BIOS. Once installed, you can lower the RAM setting to something like 256MB. You also need patience because it took almost four hours to install (although it only asks for information at the beginning and end.)
It's extremely pointless though. For starters the Aero Glass interface won't work because the best graphics card Virtual PC emulates is a 16MB generic VGA card.
The only thing I learnt is that Microsoft have created an installer that requires 512MB to merely display a fake Aero Glass interface, you get seemingly random error codes with less RAM. Vista seems to use about 300MB once booted.
How odd! I have an IXUS 50 and I've never touched the driver disc. Works flawlessly on a friend's Windows XP machine and my PowerBook. Nice to hear that Canon are downgrading their cameras...
My camera takes video in MJPEG format which isn't that compact, I guess the IXUS 55 is the same.
iBooks are not meant to be run with the lid closed, or at least that's what Apple says. So wouldn't this new permanently closed touchscreen lid cause the machine to overheat?
From the about page of the Acid2 browser test site:- Note: some 827 people (rough estimate, contents may have settled during shipping) have written to point out that the CSS used in the test is invalid. This is deliberate, as a means of exposing the ability of user agents to handle invalid CSS properly.
I'm just wondering how they would make claims from this - "See, the radiation at 2.5cm below the middle of the first left rib is X, therefore it will cause a mild nausea".
if you're after light and flexable spacesuits, you need to start looking at what parts of your body need the most protection.
take your example. if that was the only effect, they could make a new spacesuit which just protected the region below your ribs.
when i'm around the house, listening to the radio away from my machine and i hear a song i like, i take out my mobile phone, use the shortcut to load a text editor, tap the song name in using t9 predictive text input, and hit 'send via bluetooth' and it's on my machine for when i return. you can operate it single handedly, it has local file storage, a display and can trasmit data via bluetooth or irda or even email if you want to pay. it can also act as a telecommunications device. modern phones like the siemens s55 also act as dictation machines should you get the oppotunity to speak.
last time there was a tamagotchi craze, people actually died. there was this mum in europe driving along, looking after her sons tamogotchi. it beeped, distracted the mum from the road, and ended up with the car making ugly contact with a few cyclists. keep them away!
this is scary, although at least at the moment when you're plugged in you are able to communicate with the machine and the real world, unlike the matrix, where you are either fully in or fully out.
think what would happen if a virus made a leap from our reality to the machine reality; or the other way round...
didn't one of the russian venus probes fail dismally because the lensecap melted onto the lense? getting images of venus from the view of a melted lensecap is quite clever. must have been a different probe...
"The academy required its 5,803 eligible Oscar voters to sign forms promising to protect their screener tapes before they were received. About 80 percent of voters signed and returned the forms."
i take it Carmine Caridi didn't sign, therefore can the MPAA can't do much can they?
the specification seems similar to a nano-itx board, although the dimensions (145 x 86 x 23 mm) seem a tad too small.
instead of modding a mini-server into a cdrom drive, you could mod one of these boards into a floppy drive. add a microdrive and the ports you'd need and you'd be well on your way.
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The latency between the pilot moving a control stick and the control surfaces moving on the UAV can be as high as 750 ms via satellite.
According a talk I attended by the US Airforce, a latency of 250 ms in a simulator is enough to lose control of the aircraft. I guess they use an autopilot.
No difference in price here. I can even use coupons online. Some supermarkets even have iPhone applications to make ordering easy.
In London, supermarkets such as Sainsbury's use electric-only vans.
Wait, you don't have refrigerated delivery trucks in America?
I also have a Nokia E71 and this is the process I went through:-
Fairly easy, but not as swish as the App Store on the iPhone.
When you install a Facebook application there is a choice at the end of the process whether or not to spam all your friends with an invite to use the application. You can't avoid Facebook itself placing a 'Person installed application Foo' into your friend's news-feeds. However you can set preferences on your own news-feed to avoid such items appearing, using the 'x' button beside the item.
The tide is turning in the UK, with both Vodafone and Orange disabling VoIP on the Nokia N95.
My hometown of 35,000 recently got CCTV installed. I don't think that anywhere in the UK will be CCTV-free in a few years.
I suppose once they've install the loudspeakers, taunting the cameras will be a much more entertaining exercise.
I did this a few days ago on my 1.67GHz PowerBook G4. Yes I am insane.
All you need to do is ensure the RAM setting is at 512MB otherwise the installer refuses to work. Then just before booting hit the delete key and enable APCI in the BIOS. Once installed, you can lower the RAM setting to something like 256MB. You also need patience because it took almost four hours to install (although it only asks for information at the beginning and end.)
It's extremely pointless though. For starters the Aero Glass interface won't work because the best graphics card Virtual PC emulates is a 16MB generic VGA card.
The only thing I learnt is that Microsoft have created an installer that requires 512MB to merely display a fake Aero Glass interface, you get seemingly random error codes with less RAM. Vista seems to use about 300MB once booted.
How odd! I have an IXUS 50 and I've never touched the driver disc. Works flawlessly on a friend's Windows XP machine and my PowerBook. Nice to hear that Canon are downgrading their cameras...
My camera takes video in MJPEG format which isn't that compact, I guess the IXUS 55 is the same.
iBooks are not meant to be run with the lid closed, or at least that's what Apple says. So wouldn't this new permanently closed touchscreen lid cause the machine to overheat?
From the about page of the Acid2 browser test site:-
Note: some 827 people (rough estimate, contents may have settled during shipping) have written to point out that the CSS used in the test is invalid. This is deliberate, as a means of exposing the ability of user agents to handle invalid CSS properly.
opera can save sessions, and start-up with a default one of your choosing if i remember correctly...
I'm just wondering how they would make claims from this - "See, the radiation at 2.5cm below the middle of the first left rib is X, therefore it will cause a mild nausea".
if you're after light and flexable spacesuits, you need to start looking at what parts of your body need the most protection.
take your example. if that was the only effect, they could make a new spacesuit which just protected the region below your ribs.
when i'm around the house, listening to the radio away from my machine and i hear a song i like, i take out my mobile phone, use the shortcut to load a text editor, tap the song name in using t9 predictive text input, and hit 'send via bluetooth' and it's on my machine for when i return.
you can operate it single handedly, it has local file storage, a display and can trasmit data via bluetooth or irda or even email if you want to pay.
it can also act as a telecommunications device. modern phones like the siemens s55 also act as dictation machines should you get the oppotunity to speak.
last time there was a tamagotchi craze, people actually died. there was this mum in europe driving along, looking after her sons tamogotchi. it beeped, distracted the mum from the road, and ended up with the car making ugly contact with a few cyclists.
keep them away!
to receive a darwin award you need to remove yourself from the genepool. this boy with the iron bladder still lives.
weren't most scientific breakthrough's made by mistakes?
don't robots make very few mistakes?
this is scary, although at least at the moment when you're plugged in you are able to communicate with the machine and the real world, unlike the matrix, where you are either fully in or fully out.
think what would happen if a virus made a leap from our reality to the machine reality; or the other way round...
didn't one of the russian venus probes fail dismally because the lensecap melted onto the lense?
getting images of venus from the view of a melted lensecap is quite clever. must have been a different probe...
"The academy required its 5,803 eligible Oscar voters to sign forms promising to protect their screener tapes before they were received. About 80 percent of voters signed and returned the forms."
i take it Carmine Caridi didn't sign, therefore can the MPAA can't do much can they?
there has to be something scalable to bridge the gap between this and oracle. i guess mysql is trying to fill such a gap...
the specification seems similar to a nano-itx board, although the dimensions (145 x 86 x 23 mm) seem a tad too small. instead of modding a mini-server into a cdrom drive, you could mod one of these boards into a floppy drive. add a microdrive and the ports you'd need and you'd be well on your way.
anything to get rid of nat is worth it...