Ya know, I didn't get the joke until I read his explaination, but I still agree with you. I think it was funny on its own merits (as a blindingly obvious understatement).
Yes! Accusative case! And you must have suspected that I would have known virus' case, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me, er, viri.
You're just stalling now.
You'd like to think that, wouldn't you! There are some people who upon hearing that virus is neuter mistake it for a third declension neuter noun and say that the plural of virus should be virora just as the plural of corpus is corpora. However, this cannot be the case since virus is known to have the genitive singular form viri and if it were a third declension noun it would have the form viroris, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But, there are other people who say that virus is a fourth declension noun but this doesn't make much sense since the genitive form doesn't match what would be expected for a fourth declension noun and as for as I know all fourth declension neuter nouns end in -u and not -us.
You're trying to trick me into giving away something. It won't work.
It has worked! You've given everything away! I know what the plural is!
Then make your choice.
I will, and I choose... What in the world can that be?
That sounds like letterboxing. It is a low-tech version of geocaching, although the reverse is probably more true, because letterboxing is older. Read more at Letterboxing North America.
Why a big red button? Don't they know we all want to push the big red button?
Is that a custom sig for this thread? I was thinking of asking why everyone who specified a color for the play button said it should be red, but I guess, deep down inside, I knew the answer all along. Thanks for pointing it out anyway.
8-track tapes are similar: they are one continuous loop, and they have a conductive strip at the 'end' of the loop that could be used to cue up the next play. Stock 8-track players will play continuously, if I remember correctly, but could probably be rewired to stop at the end of the channel to wait for the next visitor to push play.
(It should go without saying that 8-track players are cheap.)
Some similar aviation rescue technology could be used, though. There could be small charges set off to disconnect all the electrical equipment in the case of a rapid deceleration.
You probably wouldn't want them to be accessible from outside the vehicle, though (like a rescue handle) because then you'd eventually have a car lot full of disabled hybrids, thanks to ELF. (Don't try to tell me they wouldn't hurt hybrids just because they are better for the environment than SUVs. I don't believe it.)
Alternatively, you could heat your license plate to ridiculously hot temperatures. If anyone gets burned, you could call it a theft-deterrent, or, in cold climates, an anti-ice system.
And if the two kids sharing a matching set of two wristbands get too far away from each other, the wrist bands explode, severing their hands. That way, they are less likely to leave the group, assuming prior knowledge and rational behavior, of course.
This is why the clapper board is used before each take. The sound of the clap can be synched with the corresponding video action.
On the other hand, if you are referring to the actual cut and paste of film, I concede that there would be difficulty in including the audio portion from the preceding 27 frames. I'm sure there is a technological solution, though, that predates the digital age.
How do you deal with glare on the screen? When I use my laptop outdoors, I need to sit under a roof, with my back to the house, so the light furing the day doesn't wash out the screen. I suppose that's laptop dependent, though....
Well, if a microwave oven is about 2000 watts, and a WiFi access point is about 1 watt, and it takes about 10 minutes to cook a chicken in a microwave (depending on size, of course), then it should take about 20,000 minutes to cook a chicken. Some adjustment needs to be made for the 'gain' of the microwave, because all the energy is trapped inside the box, and WiFi is radiated into free space. An additional adjustment needs to be made for proximity, because it is probably not convenient to have your access point close to your chicken.
Well, I wouldn't try it after reviewing the (rough) numbers, because the chicken would definitely spoil before being cooked.
According to a Lufthansa itinerary I looked up on the web, the trip can be made in 12 hours and 25 minutes with a short layover in Frankfurt. This would require about 4000 DVDs to beat the posted bandwidth. This, of course, doesn't take into account time to burn the DVDs.
Would it be possible to use optics to reduce the apparant size of a larger printout?
That's pretty much what microfiche is. The lens in a camera also can capture a reduced-size copy of an original. You would then just use the negative where you need the small size.
Disclaimer: I know nothing about this game system.
Infact once the stuff starts boiling the system will probably lose efficiency. That's why most cooling systems work on the principle of circulating coolant rather than phase changes.
Actually, the most efficient heat transfer occurs when the steam bubbles are carried away from the cooled surface by the flow of liquid over that surface. The phase change of the bubble captures a lot of energy, which is then swept away by the flow.
When the bubbles start to form, in what is known as nucleate boiling, the bubbles tend to grow until they break away from the surface (carried away by buoyancy or drag). The bubbles will often collapse as they transfer heat to the rest of the cooling liquid. As heat transfer increases, the bubbles can group together before breaking away from the surface, forming a layer of vapor that acts as an insulating barrier to heat transfer (film boiling). The temperature will then increase locally, causing any liquid that comes in contact with the surface to flash to vapor. Heat transfer can still be quite high, but the temperature difference required may have already cooked your hardware.
Integrated Publishing has a good explanation of heat transfer here.
Didn't I read something about Microsoft starting a database of geo-referenced photographs? One could access a web site and see what it looked like anywhere they had a photo, navigable by a map interface.
Also, there is a camera or two that stores GPS metadata for each photo taken. If this becomes popular enough, the common man will collect the data and the database will grow to a useful size.
Of course, to get people to send in their photos, the service must be somewhat useful without the geo-location ability. That is, before the database is big enough to support it.
I have long thought that an open-source map could become useful if people sent GPS logs to a central repository. Proper annotations would be needed, of course. This would get around the copyright restrictions on most maps. Government maps generally don't have that though, so this may not be needed.
However, increasing the size of the market would have the overall effect of reducing the salaries across the board. So, the salaries in India would increase, but the salaries here would drop to meet them half way before outsourcing becomes uncompetitive. Sometime in there before salary parity, though, I imagine other costs of global outsourcing would make it just as economical to keep jobs here.
Presumably, in this case, your lawn mower is negotiating with your irrigation system to reduce the amound of water for the grass. Not that I'm implying your lawn mower is lazy.
In the future, we will be able to optimize simple things like irrigation by allowing the stakeholders in the process to act as agents in a complex system. These agents will be able to optimize their system(s) by adapting their own (rule based) behavior to the behavior of other agents in the system. Ubiquitous communication is the first step in that direction. Robotic lawnmowers are the second.
In fact, I have been lamenting the wasted bandwidth I could be squeezing out of my sprinkler control wires during the daytime, when they are not used for irrigation. I could probably get 10Mbps to my sprinkler control valves if I installed the right hardware. My lawn mower, however, is another story; it is one of the old fashioned kind that can't even tell if the grass is too long in the first place. The only measurable bandwidth it has is about 22 inches.
Well, I've wasted enough of your time. I just wish I could have squeezed 'emergent behavior' into paragraph two.
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Ya know, I didn't get the joke until I read his explaination, but I still agree with you. I think it was funny on its own merits (as a blindingly obvious understatement).
Actually, cell phone-triggered remote bombs were quite popular with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and were fairly successfully jammed.
On the other hand, that was halfway around the world, so couldn't possibly happen here.... No, wait, it could happen here, it just hasn't yet.
Now that that's out of the way, continue with the meaningful debate.
Jamming would then pre-detonate the bomb. The target would not be in position, perhaps the crowds not yet assembled, etc. This is still useful.
Wait 'til I get going! ...Where was I?
Australia -- I mean, accusative case.
Yes! Accusative case! And you must have suspected that I would have known virus' case, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me, er, viri.
You're just stalling now.
You'd like to think that, wouldn't you! There are some people who upon hearing that virus is neuter mistake it for a third declension neuter noun and say that the plural of virus should be virora just as the plural of corpus is corpora. However, this cannot be the case since virus is known to have the genitive singular form viri and if it were a third declension noun it would have the form viroris, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But, there are other people who say that virus is a fourth declension noun but this doesn't make much sense since the genitive form doesn't match what would be expected for a fourth declension noun and as for as I know all fourth declension neuter nouns end in -u and not -us.
You're trying to trick me into giving away something. It won't work.
It has worked! You've given everything away! I know what the plural is!
Then make your choice.
I will, and I choose... What in the world can that be?
What?
Main screen turn on!
It's you!
How are you gentlemen !!
All your base are belong to us.
You are on the way to destruction.
What you say!!
You have no chance to survive make your time.
HA HA HA HA ....
Take off every 'zig'!!
You know what you doing.
Move 'zig'.
For great justice.
Equal time to geocaching.
Is that a custom sig for this thread? I was thinking of asking why everyone who specified a color for the play button said it should be red, but I guess, deep down inside, I knew the answer all along. Thanks for pointing it out anyway.
(It should go without saying that 8-track players are cheap.)
You probably wouldn't want them to be accessible from outside the vehicle, though (like a rescue handle) because then you'd eventually have a car lot full of disabled hybrids, thanks to ELF. (Don't try to tell me they wouldn't hurt hybrids just because they are better for the environment than SUVs. I don't believe it.)
I saw a pretty good infomercial/documentary sponsored by Clorox about how bleach breaks down into salt and not much else, with time.
Planet Klingon is a new series of theme restaurants from some of the galaxy's most noteworthy Klingons, like Worf, and, um, some other ones.
Alternatively, you could heat your license plate to ridiculously hot temperatures. If anyone gets burned, you could call it a theft-deterrent, or, in cold climates, an anti-ice system.
Or, in colloquial English, "When he drank the bad booze, he said 'It's nasty,' and dropped his head and barfed.
Relax, it way only a movie.
On the other hand, if you are referring to the actual cut and paste of film, I concede that there would be difficulty in including the audio portion from the preceding 27 frames. I'm sure there is a technological solution, though, that predates the digital age.
Think "imperative case," and don't assume people are wrong because one interpertation is wrong. The spelling error is to give you something to do.
I was just in CompUSA yesterday, and found that the situation was dramatically simpler than yours, yet no more agreeable: they were out of stock.
How do you deal with glare on the screen? When I use my laptop outdoors, I need to sit under a roof, with my back to the house, so the light furing the day doesn't wash out the screen. I suppose that's laptop dependent, though....
Well, I wouldn't try it after reviewing the (rough) numbers, because the chicken would definitely spoil before being cooked.
Actually, around here, spelling is impotent.
According to a Lufthansa itinerary I looked up on the web, the trip can be made in 12 hours and 25 minutes with a short layover in Frankfurt. This would require about 4000 DVDs to beat the posted bandwidth. This, of course, doesn't take into account time to burn the DVDs.
That's pretty much what microfiche is. The lens in a camera also can capture a reduced-size copy of an original. You would then just use the negative where you need the small size.
Disclaimer: I know nothing about this game system.
Actually, the most efficient heat transfer occurs when the steam bubbles are carried away from the cooled surface by the flow of liquid over that surface. The phase change of the bubble captures a lot of energy, which is then swept away by the flow.
When the bubbles start to form, in what is known as nucleate boiling, the bubbles tend to grow until they break away from the surface (carried away by buoyancy or drag). The bubbles will often collapse as they transfer heat to the rest of the cooling liquid. As heat transfer increases, the bubbles can group together before breaking away from the surface, forming a layer of vapor that acts as an insulating barrier to heat transfer (film boiling). The temperature will then increase locally, causing any liquid that comes in contact with the surface to flash to vapor. Heat transfer can still be quite high, but the temperature difference required may have already cooked your hardware.
Integrated Publishing has a good explanation of heat transfer here.
Also, there is a camera or two that stores GPS metadata for each photo taken. If this becomes popular enough, the common man will collect the data and the database will grow to a useful size.
Of course, to get people to send in their photos, the service must be somewhat useful without the geo-location ability. That is, before the database is big enough to support it.
I have long thought that an open-source map could become useful if people sent GPS logs to a central repository. Proper annotations would be needed, of course. This would get around the copyright restrictions on most maps. Government maps generally don't have that though, so this may not be needed.
However, increasing the size of the market would have the overall effect of reducing the salaries across the board. So, the salaries in India would increase, but the salaries here would drop to meet them half way before outsourcing becomes uncompetitive. Sometime in there before salary parity, though, I imagine other costs of global outsourcing would make it just as economical to keep jobs here.
In the future, we will be able to optimize simple things like irrigation by allowing the stakeholders in the process to act as agents in a complex system. These agents will be able to optimize their system(s) by adapting their own (rule based) behavior to the behavior of other agents in the system. Ubiquitous communication is the first step in that direction. Robotic lawnmowers are the second.
In fact, I have been lamenting the wasted bandwidth I could be squeezing out of my sprinkler control wires during the daytime, when they are not used for irrigation. I could probably get 10Mbps to my sprinkler control valves if I installed the right hardware. My lawn mower, however, is another story; it is one of the old fashioned kind that can't even tell if the grass is too long in the first place. The only measurable bandwidth it has is about 22 inches.
Well, I've wasted enough of your time. I just wish I could have squeezed 'emergent behavior' into paragraph two.