I did something similar about 10 years ago when I was still an engineering student working for one of the biochemistry professors at a university I attended. It was a remote sensor designed to gather environmental information of ocean waters using a laptop linked into a battery of sensors and a mobile phone. Essentially you logged into it like a BBS.
Only trouble was that the laptop tended to consumed quite a bit of power that drained even marine batteries fast. So unless you plan to change batteries on a regular basis.. consider using a solar array to help recharge it.
As I remember reading in some biology journal magazine, we may not be at the cusp of this warming trend either. So it is possible that no matter what we do, may not stop the increase in the temperatures.
Interestingly enough, the late 1600s/early 1700s was considered to be a period of excessive cooling.. a mini iceage if you will.
This is fascinating. Usually when NASA pulls the funding from a program, it stays pulled. Now they intend on restoring aid even though NASA may still leave most of the grunt work to private parties.
This seems to stem from several things... the discovery of life in extreme environments, increased interest of exploring Mars, and the discoveries of planets around other star systems. (Guess that NASA is rethinking that extraterrestrial life is not as farfetched a concept after all.)
Aren't there enough screwy laws already? Do we really need another one for the books? (And exactly how will this be enforced? Kids still manage to get cigarettes.)
I don't think it is the games that need to be looked at as opposed to how much interaction the kids get at home from the parents. It appears that quite a number of these kids that go off the deep end tend to have parents who didn't check up on them enough to make sure everything is fine.
Mosquitos find their targets from the trail of carbon dioxide left behind by exhaling. So I have heavy doubts about this Korean invention working at all. What does work so far are those traps with their own CO2 generators. (But even then it is not perfect.)
Those high frequency sound generators may repel mice and rats, but only for a short period of time. What happens is that their offspring will come back to re-infest the area. The difference between the off-spring and the parents is that the kiddie rodents will be born deaf. Rodents like roaches are highly adaptive. (Got that little tidbit of information from someone who used to work in the exterminator business.)
Wonder if the user would be able to shut off the computer fast enough should the water pump decide to buy the farm?
Why not just develop a Transmeta-type CPU that uses less power? That way there won't be such an extra need for the extra cooling capacity. What's next? Helium cooling? Not that there are THAT many users out there who really needs all the CPU cycles/sec. (Engineers and gamers don't count.:-))
After seeing all those stupid commercials and ads about lawyers that promise "big payoffs" off of ANY kind of litigation or insurance claim, I'm inclined to think that they are tying to drag in the videogame makers too for that extra quick buck.
Why don't they go after the bunch of maniacs that invented Furby? That obnoxious nightmare can drive anyone off the deep end.
I remember the good old days of BBSing where it required a photocopy of your driver's license or some other picture ID (submitted via snailmail) in order subscribe to more lucrative services.
Microsoft offering solutions to the spam problem is to Microsoft offering an OS that don't require rebooting every 2 hours.
One might consider using a method employed by Sneakemail which creates dynamic email addresses. Make a bunch of them.. have one for friends and family, and use seperate addresses for newsletters, or advertisements (you actually want.) If spam comes through one of them, then just delete that address so that spammers only see that big "No address" error pop up.:-)
But then again that doesn't stop spammers from spamming anyways, nor does it tell the blackhat ISPs to stop harboring the scum. In which case, I'd stick with using blacklists to block the idiots.
No, I am not part of the high and mightly Lumber Cartel (tinlc). I am not one of their secret agents involved in their super-secret black ops projects.;-)
Just remember folks.. approx. 16 minutes out of every hour of airtime is dedicated to commercials. And there is round-the-clock research going on to see how they can squeeze in even more. (Such as digital filtering of duplicate or near-duplicate frames.)
I know that TV stations rely on advertising as a source of their revenue, but the constant barrage of television advertisements appears to be grating on the public at large. (Particularly when you have to pay ever increasing costs for cable or satellite.)
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Does this mean that Khomeni will have a jihad against Castro? :-)
I did something similar about 10 years ago when I was still an engineering student working for one of the biochemistry professors at a university I attended. It was a remote sensor designed to gather environmental information of ocean waters using a laptop linked into a battery of sensors and a mobile phone. Essentially you logged into it like a BBS.
Only trouble was that the laptop tended to consumed quite a bit of power that drained even marine batteries fast. So unless you plan to change batteries on a regular basis.. consider using a solar array to help recharge it.
AOL trying to break into the DVD/CD market is going to end up what K-mart tried to do with its dial-up service. (We all know how that went.)
Yes I have.
As I remember reading in some biology journal magazine, we may not be at the cusp of this warming trend either. So it is possible that no matter what we do, may not stop the increase in the temperatures. Interestingly enough, the late 1600s/early 1700s was considered to be a period of excessive cooling.. a mini iceage if you will.
Maybe not so useless. It would certainly make a good dumb terminal if one needed it.
This is fascinating. Usually when NASA pulls the funding from a program, it stays pulled. Now they intend on restoring aid even though NASA may still leave most of the grunt work to private parties.
:-)
This seems to stem from several things... the discovery of life in extreme environments, increased interest of exploring Mars, and the discoveries of planets around other star systems. (Guess that NASA is rethinking that extraterrestrial life is not as farfetched a concept after all.)
This is going to be quite a century.
And people wonder why insurance is so expensive to boot. (Going along the lines of this metaphor that is.)
Aren't there enough screwy laws already? Do we really need another one for the books? (And exactly how will this be enforced? Kids still manage to get cigarettes.)
I don't think it is the games that need to be looked at as opposed to how much interaction the kids get at home from the parents. It appears that quite a number of these kids that go off the deep end tend to have parents who didn't check up on them enough to make sure everything is fine.
All I can say is that Sony should make this a feature. There is a BIG potential once the dildonics market comes around. :-)
Not to mention how much pr0n that can carry. Woohoo!
Not to mention what would happen if it ever comes in contact with air or water.
:-)
I know.. getting off topic. Hmmm.. a laptop with a miniature nuclear reactor core instead of batteries.. WHAT A CONCEPT!
Mosquitos find their targets from the trail of carbon dioxide left behind by exhaling. So I have heavy doubts about this Korean invention working at all. What does work so far are those traps with their own CO2 generators. (But even then it is not perfect.)
Those high frequency sound generators may repel mice and rats, but only for a short period of time. What happens is that their offspring will come back to re-infest the area. The difference between the off-spring and the parents is that the kiddie rodents will be born deaf. Rodents like roaches are highly adaptive. (Got that little tidbit of information from someone who used to work in the exterminator business.)
Wonder if the user would be able to shut off the computer fast enough should the water pump decide to buy the farm?
:-))
Why not just develop a Transmeta-type CPU that uses less power? That way there won't be such an extra need for the extra cooling capacity. What's next? Helium cooling? Not that there are THAT many users out there who really needs all the CPU cycles/sec. (Engineers and gamers don't count.
After seeing all those stupid commercials and ads about lawyers that promise "big payoffs" off of ANY kind of litigation or insurance claim, I'm inclined to think that they are tying to drag in the videogame makers too for that extra quick buck.
Why don't they go after the bunch of maniacs that invented Furby? That obnoxious nightmare can drive anyone off the deep end.
Ever wonder what happens to all that fat from those liposuction surgeries? Looks like it ended up on the coast of Chile.
With such a large antenna, I wonder if they use it to get the Playboy channel when they aren't observing some astronomical anomaly?
I remember the good old days of BBSing where it required a photocopy of your driver's license or some other picture ID (submitted via snailmail) in order subscribe to more lucrative services.
Microsoft offering solutions to the spam problem is to Microsoft offering an OS that don't require rebooting every 2 hours.
:-)
;-)
One might consider using a method employed by Sneakemail which creates dynamic email addresses. Make a bunch of them.. have one for friends and family, and use seperate addresses for newsletters, or advertisements (you actually want.) If spam comes through one of them, then just delete that address so that spammers only see that big "No address" error pop up.
But then again that doesn't stop spammers from spamming anyways, nor does it tell the blackhat ISPs to stop harboring the scum. In which case, I'd stick with using blacklists to block the idiots.
No, I am not part of the high and mightly Lumber Cartel (tinlc). I am not one of their secret agents involved in their super-secret black ops projects.
Has anyone actually used these types of programs for other than just flashing your "little general" (hint: not Ross Perot) at strangers?
Just remember folks.. approx. 16 minutes out of every hour of airtime is dedicated to commercials. And there is round-the-clock research going on to see how they can squeeze in even more. (Such as digital filtering of duplicate or near-duplicate frames.) I know that TV stations rely on advertising as a source of their revenue, but the constant barrage of television advertisements appears to be grating on the public at large. (Particularly when you have to pay ever increasing costs for cable or satellite.)
Okay.. nostalgia time for all you techie fuddy-duddies out there. (Hmmm.. +90% of the Slashdot community? :))
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/