The whole reason for having a netbook is that it's tiny and portable. If you don't need super portability, you might as well get a more powerful machine. Market forces at work.
It would also add the possibility of moderating the force of an in-game hit by moderating the real hit... which might add a new dimension to the game play... only hit the zombies hard enough to stop them or you'll get tired and not be able to hit later ones hard enough.
Real bullets, a big dirt berm behind the particleboard wall.
The sad thing about the video was that they used a fully suppressed pistol so it didn't have the sound you'd expect from such a venture (nor the attention of police, I suppose).
They also tried shovels near the end.
They're probably counting how many were sold to their customers (the big chains and distributors), not sold to readers. They're probably also not un-counting the ones that end up as remainders.
And if you had the most efficient type of diesel engine and generator, that's about 11L of diesel fuel per hour per vehicle. All the time, not just when accelerating of climbing a grade. And between the generator and computer, a 100kW heat signature (computers do minimal "work", almost all of their consumed energy ends up as heat).
19 in x 19 in x 19 in cube is only about 4 cubic feet*
They're talking about 19" rack, not cube. That's about 150 cubic feet.
Combine it with sensors you could detect damage and minimize its effects by comparing the vehicle's response to a detailed finite element model. You could do on the fly aerodynamic analysis, allowing a fighter to keep performing to it's best even after damage has significantly altered it's shape.
CF-18's already do that, with no super computer.
I don't think this project is intended for vehicle mounted use.
"binning", not skipping... it's a very nice feature of CMOS sensors... 2x2 or 3x3 grids of pixels can be averaged before readout, increasing sensitivity and reducing noise.
Chances are that HD video camera that costs less that a K7, 5D, or D90 has a much smaller sensor (so no controlled depth of field effects) and does not have interchangeable lenses.
I bought a (Windows) Acer Aspire One 8+8 because that's the flash version that was available at all locally. I have to say, they screwed up big time with the default software. So much was loaded by default that the thing crawled. As it is, I never planned on running it with windows anyways; I need it as a technician's tool and I find Linux more productive for this use (may be based on having many years more experience with Linux than WinNT).
My experience with it has brought up some interesting thoughts...
Most of the netbooks seem to be set up and marketed on the assumption that they're being bought by unsophisticated users for web (facebook, twitter, etc.) and email access on the go. While this may be true for some, it's certainly not true of me and a sizeable (but low percentage) part of the market. There must exist a sizeable but diffuse niche of technicians and contractors who need a light-weight and robust technician's tool, not an adolescent's toy.
So here's my idea for a product that some manufacturer could probably market successfully via direct marketing: A netbook roughly the same specs and form factor as the Aspire One 8+8 but with a mainstream KDE based distro plus a few extra tools:
Minicom (for router maintenence), firefox (works better for me on the small screen), KOffice (.doc and.xls reading with less footprint than OOo),
A secondary SD slot where the card does not protrude,
an eSATA port,
internal 3G card,
Bluetooth support and included bluetooth headset,
3G card, CF Card hd0 (not proprietary hard to source SSD), and memory expansion slot all accessible via a door on the bottom
A hard-sided, watertight carry case, with included tools such as USB-Serial adapter, DB9-RJ45 console cable, USB-IDE adapter
Interestingly, my AP Chemistry Teacher was the gym teacher subbing for the chem teacher who moved to a new school. We taught him grade 12 chemistry so he could teach the next year, while we taught ourselves AP Chem (I got a 4).
The previous semester, our Chem 12 class had pooled our money to hire a university professor for 3 hours 1 day a week, since that teacher was so bad.
Next up, basketballs that bounce 10 times as high. Is gonna change the game!
Try this one on for size.... stack up a small playground ball on top of a medium one anmd stack those on top of a large one... drop the 3 of them from about six feet and watch the little one hit the ceiling...
Not to mention that high levels make it rediculously hard for a moderate longbowman with a good shot to kill a character (PC or otherwise). That's one of the nice things about GURPS; 2D6+2 (a 9mm pistol) is enough to possibly kill any normal human. In D&D any character over level 7 can shrug off the same amount of damage.
The third year OS course I took had us writing schedulers etc for a simulated Operating System. Maybe something of that sort would be good. It was very handy as the fourth year real-time systems class I took had us writing a scheduler with hard timing constraints in assembley for a robot.
I've had a repetitive strain injury in Canada. The best course of action is to take an asprin, and stop straining that joint. Maybe that's why it took so long to see a specailist; it wasn't really urgent or nescesary.
I've also had a traumatic wrist injury that required an immediate 2 hour operation. The doctor saw me within 30 seconds of me coming through the door, and went immediately to get an orthopedic surgeon. Within 4 hours of the accident I was going under anasthetic and I was operated on by the only surgeon on the island who had seen that type of injury before. At that point it was iffy whether I would bleed to death, lose my hand, or keep my hand with some loss of function. After three attempts at stabilizing and re-constructing my wrist, I came out of the OR with an external fixator, a K-Wire, and a splint. Five years later my right wrist hurts every day, has low grip strength, and reduced coordination and range of motion; much better than the alternatives.
The long delay you cite as evedence of the failure of the canadian medical system is in fact evidence of the success of triage.
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The whole reason for having a netbook is that it's tiny and portable. If you don't need super portability, you might as well get a more powerful machine. Market forces at work.
In real life (and even paintball), at those distances there is basically no perceptible lag.
It would also add the possibility of moderating the force of an in-game hit by moderating the real hit... which might add a new dimension to the game play... only hit the zombies hard enough to stop them or you'll get tired and not be able to hit later ones hard enough.
Real bullets, a big dirt berm behind the particleboard wall. The sad thing about the video was that they used a fully suppressed pistol so it didn't have the sound you'd expect from such a venture (nor the attention of police, I suppose). They also tried shovels near the end.
They're probably counting how many were sold to their customers (the big chains and distributors), not sold to readers. They're probably also not un-counting the ones that end up as remainders.
Because most common web apps are only built on mySQL, because most ISPs only have mySQL, because most common web apps are only built on mySQL...
And if you had the most efficient type of diesel engine and generator, that's about 11L of diesel fuel per hour per vehicle. All the time, not just when accelerating of climbing a grade. And between the generator and computer, a 100kW heat signature (computers do minimal "work", almost all of their consumed energy ends up as heat).
They're talking about 19" rack, not cube. That's about 150 cubic feet.
CF-18's already do that, with no super computer.
I don't think this project is intended for vehicle mounted use.
"binning", not skipping... it's a very nice feature of CMOS sensors... 2x2 or 3x3 grids of pixels can be averaged before readout, increasing sensitivity and reducing noise.
Chances are that HD video camera that costs less that a K7, 5D, or D90 has a much smaller sensor (so no controlled depth of field effects) and does not have interchangeable lenses.
I bought a (Windows) Acer Aspire One 8+8 because that's the flash version that was available at all locally. I have to say, they screwed up big time with the default software. So much was loaded by default that the thing crawled. As it is, I never planned on running it with windows anyways; I need it as a technician's tool and I find Linux more productive for this use (may be based on having many years more experience with Linux than WinNT).
My experience with it has brought up some interesting thoughts...
Most of the netbooks seem to be set up and marketed on the assumption that they're being bought by unsophisticated users for web (facebook, twitter, etc.) and email access on the go. While this may be true for some, it's certainly not true of me and a sizeable (but low percentage) part of the market. There must exist a sizeable but diffuse niche of technicians and contractors who need a light-weight and robust technician's tool, not an adolescent's toy.
So here's my idea for a product that some manufacturer could probably market successfully via direct marketing: A netbook roughly the same specs and form factor as the Aspire One 8+8 but with a mainstream KDE based distro plus a few extra tools:
Guitars don't count. The whole point of guitar amps and their open-baffle speakers is to produce (controlled) distortion and coloration.
If the system is wrong... we fix it. We record that to keep the accountants happy, though.
Not to people who speak english.
Erm, Brain was the insane one; Pinky was the genius who consistently foiled the villain's plans.
Interestingly, my AP Chemistry Teacher was the gym teacher subbing for the chem teacher who moved to a new school. We taught him grade 12 chemistry so he could teach the next year, while we taught ourselves AP Chem (I got a 4).
The previous semester, our Chem 12 class had pooled our money to hire a university professor for 3 hours 1 day a week, since that teacher was so bad.
Why do you have a laptop if you don't take it with you? What do other people in the cube farm do? Why do you have your own equipment at work?
Monopod. The foot doesn't have to touch the ground for it to stabilize the shot.
Windows printer driver that outputs PDFs from any windows program that can print.Very handy.
Try this one on for size.... stack up a small playground ball on top of a medium one anmd stack those on top of a large one... drop the 3 of them from about six feet and watch the little one hit the ceiling...
OMG Ponies!
Because SSL doesn't work for UDP and IPSec is hard to set up.
Not to mention that high levels make it rediculously hard for a moderate longbowman with a good shot to kill a character (PC or otherwise). That's one of the nice things about GURPS; 2D6+2 (a 9mm pistol) is enough to possibly kill any normal human. In D&D any character over level 7 can shrug off the same amount of damage.
Buying the cheapest drive on the market.
The third year OS course I took had us writing schedulers etc for a simulated Operating System. Maybe something of that sort would be good. It was very handy as the fourth year real-time systems class I took had us writing a scheduler with hard timing constraints in assembley for a robot.
I've had a repetitive strain injury in Canada. The best course of action is to take an asprin, and stop straining that joint. Maybe that's why it took so long to see a specailist; it wasn't really urgent or nescesary.
I've also had a traumatic wrist injury that required an immediate 2 hour operation. The doctor saw me within 30 seconds of me coming through the door, and went immediately to get an orthopedic surgeon. Within 4 hours of the accident I was going under anasthetic and I was operated on by the only surgeon on the island who had seen that type of injury before. At that point it was iffy whether I would bleed to death, lose my hand, or keep my hand with some loss of function. After three attempts at stabilizing and re-constructing my wrist, I came out of the OR with an external fixator, a K-Wire, and a splint. Five years later my right wrist hurts every day, has low grip strength, and reduced coordination and range of motion; much better than the alternatives.
The long delay you cite as evedence of the failure of the canadian medical system is in fact evidence of the success of triage.