Actually you can, a couple of times girls have noticed the white earphones and been like "wow, is that an iPod". Yeah it doesn't get you laid but it is a talking point.
VHS cassettes had one big advantage over DVDs: protective casings. Sure, people dropped and mishandled VHS tapes, but you could still watch them afterward. DVDs are more easily damaged, which makes rentals a far less reliable market.
The problem with VHS tapes was that the quality degrades the more times you watch the tape. Rental copies got watched probably once a day so unless it is a new release the quality isn't optimal. In the past I rented more than one video that just wasn't watchable because of the degraded quality. These weren't 10 year old movies either they were relatively new releases.
At least with DVDs you can inspect the media visually for scratches. If I rent a DVD or buy a used one I always check for scratches before handing my money over. If the disc isn't in decent condition then I ask for a different one.
Thats what I love about/. there are so many readers it only takes one or two layman opinions before someone who knows their stuff shows up to tell us how its really done. There should be an 'expert opinion' mod category.
However, to conteract wind gusts blowing the paint off target and making a sloppy mess, you would probably need some serious "on the fly" computing.
Wind could probably be stopped from affecting the nozzle just by having a screen around it to stop wind blowing in from the side.
You could probably reduce the wind moving the robot by using 4 ropes (2 anchored at the top, 2 at the bottom) instead of 2 so it is held in position more firmly.
Did you not look at the pictures and video? The robot is suspended from two fixed pullies, the amount of rope reeled in and out controls its position. If the rope stretches it will alter the position causing the picture to be distorted.(See wasn't that more polite than just saying RTFA!)
Your second point is true though wind would be hard to compensate for.
Yes and if you design a new paint brush you should have to make a cleaning cloth too. It is only called a graffiti robot because it paints designs on walls. I doubt they are planning to take it round town to tag bus shelters.
Actual uses would be numerous, interior design being an obvious one. Want a mural on your wall but can't paint, hire one of these from your local interior design place and put any design/picture you want on your walls. It could also be used for repainting billboards, no more sending a guy with to paste up huge strips of an advert. All the boards could have small sprayer robots which can be sent the new ad remotely.
This would work up to a point, but it wouldn't scale well for big structures. Rope stretches, even static ropes not designed for climbing still stretch a little. The longer the rope gets the heavier it is so the more it stretches. Unless you account for this when working out the position of the sprayer your pictures are going to be distorted.
You might be able to solve it using steel cables instead of rope which would stop the stretching problem but you might have trouble with their stiffness.
IIRC soldiers aren't meant to make any marks on their maps as if they fall into enemy hands they would give too much away. If you have the positions of all of your troops marked all over the map thats a lot of intelligence for the enemy.
Bootvis changes the order that services startup. It also can make them start concurrently opposed to consecutively IIRC. It essentially organises the startup in the most efficient way which can result in a quicker startup time.
The bootvis page explicitely says that it's a poor choice of a tool by end users for improving boot times. So, um... what do you use it for that makes you impressed with it?
It impresses me by shaving significant time off boot times. However Microsoft describe it bootvis can do a lot, depending of course on how fast your boot is already and the factor that is slowing it down. If you load a lot of services at startup then bootvis is a great help.
Or didn't you realise that what Microsoft say, and what actually happens aren't always the same?
Not if the crashes are caused by MythTV interacting with something else on your system which isn't setup properly. If your TVCard drivers are full of bugs or your system isn't stable in itself then you can't expect MythTV to run rock solid.
The reason he got similar results with all the compounds is probably that in all but one case he measured the temperatures straight after applying the paste. Almost all thermal transfer compounds need to 'cure' before they work at their full efficiency. So unless you allow each different compound to cure in between tests the study is somewhat meaningless.
Due to the unique shape and sizes of the particles in Arctic Silver's conductive matrix, it will take a up to 200 hours and several thermal cycles to achieve maximum particle to particle thermal conduction and for the heatsink to CPU interface to reach maximum conductivity. (This period will be longer in a system without a fan on the heatsink or with a low speed fan on the heatsink.) On systems measuring actual internal core temperatures via the CPU's internal diode, the measured temperature will often drop 2C to 5C over this "break-in" period. This break-in will occur during the normal use of the computer as long as the computer is turned off from time to time and the interface is allowed to cool to room temperature. Once the break-in is complete, the computer can be left on if desired.
People care about it because if something claims to be 99% silver then it should damn well have some silver in it. Otherwise it is false advertising which is illegal.
The purpose of a heat sink is to.. radiate heat - not to look good on your wrist.
Which is exactly why you want it to contain silver, silver is one of the best conducters of heat there is. And you want it to conduct heat, not radiate it, the heatsink is to radiate the heat, the thermal transfer compound is just there to transfer the heat from the core to the heatsink.
Not sure where you heard that but according to MikeRoweSoft.com the site is staying up due to the kind offer of hosting from Deafening-Urge.net. So slashdot publicity helped the guy get new hosting after slashdot publicity caused him to lose his host. It all balances out in the end.
Try hand washing cars in winter, with no hose and no hot water. The water would freeze as soon as you poured in on the car. It took about 30 secs to lose all feeling in both hands and about 6 hours to get it back!
They don't need to region code as long as they maintain seperate stores for each country they can set the prices however they want. No doubt iTunes Europe will be selling tracks for 0.99GBP when it launches with no explanation of why we are paying more than a third more per track. Oh yeah its because 99 is a nice number, well that makes it all ok then.
If i hang a bed sheet over my door, and you walk in and take my stuff, you're still breaking and entering, even if the bedsheet wasn't the most secure door I could have used.
Whilst I agree with the rest of your post, this isn't really true. They would be guilty of trespass and if they took anything that would be theft. But it isn't breaking and entering unless something is damaged in order to gain access. If the sheet was firmly fixed and it they had to rip it to gain entry that would still be B&E, but just lifting it out of the way and walking in doesn't qualify.
I would say it was different from the nissan.com case because Nissan the car company have a trademark for 'nissan' whereas Microsoft don't have a trademark for 'MikeRoweSoft'. When you register a trademark you don't automatically get anything that sounds like it thrown in free.
If his domain had 'Microsoft' in it then yes they would have to enforce their trademark. But it doesn't, his domain is MikeRoweSoft which is nothing like their trademark except phonetically.
By your rational they should be challenging the hundreds of other sites which have similar names to microsoft trademarks. Most of which are using the name to increase web traffic for instance 'hotmale.com' or 'm1crosoft.com'. This guy registered a domain of his own name, with the word soft on the end. Microsoft don't have a trademark on the word soft. End of case.
Oh and I don't think you should give people credit for being more reasonable than the RIAA, its like giving someone an award for being kinder than Hitler.
Except most criminals aren't that dumb. The evidence suggests that CCTV cams just drive crime out of areas with CCTV.
Actually all the muggers do is wear baseball caps. As almost all CCTV cameras are mounted high up if you wear a baseball cap they have practically no chance of getting an identifiable shot of your face. For this reason a lot of pubs and clubs around where I live (Leicester) have now banned wearing them on the premises.
Also CCTV cameras don't always give an accurate portrayal of what happened. I know one case where someone was walking home from the pub when 3 guys attacked him. He defended himself and then the police arrived. When they played back the CCTV footage in court all it shows is him punching one of the guys, everything else happened off camera. Result, the 3 guys get off with cautions and the victim get 18 months for grevious bodily harm and loses his job as a pub landlord (he could no longer hold a license as he had a criminal record).
it's also ridiculous to charge 75 RMB per person, when you consider a taxi ride from Puxi is approximately 180 RMB.
You can say the same about taking a train to London. From Leicester it costs less than half the cost of a train ticket to take a taxi assuming you share with three other people. But then you are stuck in a taxi with three people for the whole journey and it takes longer. People pay ludicrous rail prices because it is quicker and normally their company is paying the expenses anyway.
It is now cheaper to fly to most destinations in the UK than it is to take the train. Example would be, Leicester to Edinburgh 18/01/04 Flying with easyJet = 22.50GBP, By train = 66.50GBP. The train takes 7 hours, whereas the flight is an hour. Which one would you choose?
MagLev offers a lot of the same advantages of air travel. Shorter journey times are better for the traveller, and allow a quicker turn around for the operator which means more tickets sold, presuming there is enough demand. Of course it also has the same disadvantage, high set up costs.
Maybe it doesn't make much sense for a 'normal person' to pay high maglev prices but if it is a business trip then your time is worth more. A client paying someone by the hour doesn't want them on a train for 7 hours doing nothing. Its about balancing different costs.
The heat from the welding could damage the LCD if you aren't careful. I am not sure how sensitive they are to heat but it would suck if you killed the LCD for the sake of repairing a crack in the surround.
This is mentioned in the article and is put down to relaxed memory timings decreasing performance. But the top overclock with the upgraded bios is higher, so it is worth it in the end.
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It's not like you can pick up chicks with an iPod
Actually you can, a couple of times girls have noticed the white earphones and been like "wow, is that an iPod". Yeah it doesn't get you laid but it is a talking point.
Oh yeah and apparently it plays music too.
VHS cassettes had one big advantage over DVDs: protective casings. Sure, people dropped and mishandled VHS tapes, but you could still watch them afterward. DVDs are more easily damaged, which makes rentals a far less reliable market.
The problem with VHS tapes was that the quality degrades the more times you watch the tape. Rental copies got watched probably once a day so unless it is a new release the quality isn't optimal. In the past I rented more than one video that just wasn't watchable because of the degraded quality. These weren't 10 year old movies either they were relatively new releases.
At least with DVDs you can inspect the media visually for scratches. If I rent a DVD or buy a used one I always check for scratches before handing my money over. If the disc isn't in decent condition then I ask for a different one.
Thats what I love about /. there are so many readers it only takes one or two layman opinions before someone who knows their stuff shows up to tell us how its really done. There should be an 'expert opinion' mod category.
However, to conteract wind gusts blowing the paint off target and making a sloppy mess, you would probably need some serious "on the fly" computing.
Wind could probably be stopped from affecting the nozzle just by having a screen around it to stop wind blowing in from the side.
You could probably reduce the wind moving the robot by using 4 ropes (2 anchored at the top, 2 at the bottom) instead of 2 so it is held in position more firmly.
Did you not look at the pictures and video? The robot is suspended from two fixed pullies, the amount of rope reeled in and out controls its position. If the rope stretches it will alter the position causing the picture to be distorted.(See wasn't that more polite than just saying RTFA!)
Your second point is true though wind would be hard to compensate for.
Yes and if you design a new paint brush you should have to make a cleaning cloth too. It is only called a graffiti robot because it paints designs on walls. I doubt they are planning to take it round town to tag bus shelters.
Actual uses would be numerous, interior design being an obvious one. Want a mural on your wall but can't paint, hire one of these from your local interior design place and put any design/picture you want on your walls. It could also be used for repainting billboards, no more sending a guy with to paste up huge strips of an advert. All the boards could have small sprayer robots which can be sent the new ad remotely.
Even bigger building, just a longer rope
This would work up to a point, but it wouldn't scale well for big structures. Rope stretches, even static ropes not designed for climbing still stretch a little. The longer the rope gets the heavier it is so the more it stretches. Unless you account for this when working out the position of the sprayer your pictures are going to be distorted.
You might be able to solve it using steel cables instead of rope which would stop the stretching problem but you might have trouble with their stiffness.
IIRC soldiers aren't meant to make any marks on their maps as if they fall into enemy hands they would give too much away. If you have the positions of all of your troops marked all over the map thats a lot of intelligence for the enemy.
Bootvis changes the order that services startup. It also can make them start concurrently opposed to consecutively IIRC. It essentially organises the startup in the most efficient way which can result in a quicker startup time.
The bootvis page explicitely says that it's a poor choice of a tool by end users for improving boot times. So, um... what do you use it for that makes you impressed with it?
It impresses me by shaving significant time off boot times. However Microsoft describe it bootvis can do a lot, depending of course on how fast your boot is already and the factor that is slowing it down. If you load a lot of services at startup then bootvis is a great help.
Or didn't you realise that what Microsoft say, and what actually happens aren't always the same?
Not if the crashes are caused by MythTV interacting with something else on your system which isn't setup properly. If your TVCard drivers are full of bugs or your system isn't stable in itself then you can't expect MythTV to run rock solid.
The reason he got similar results with all the compounds is probably that in all but one case he measured the temperatures straight after applying the paste. Almost all thermal transfer compounds need to 'cure' before they work at their full efficiency. So unless you allow each different compound to cure in between tests the study is somewhat meaningless.
From ArcticSilver.com
Who cares if it contains silver or not.
People care about it because if something claims to be 99% silver then it should damn well have some silver in it. Otherwise it is false advertising which is illegal.
The purpose of a heat sink is to .. radiate heat - not to look good on your wrist.
Which is exactly why you want it to contain silver, silver is one of the best conducters of heat there is. And you want it to conduct heat, not radiate it, the heatsink is to radiate the heat, the thermal transfer compound is just there to transfer the heat from the core to the heatsink.
Not sure where you heard that but according to MikeRoweSoft.com the site is staying up due to the kind offer of hosting from Deafening-Urge.net. So slashdot publicity helped the guy get new hosting after slashdot publicity caused him to lose his host. It all balances out in the end.
Thats why they call it Karma
Try hand washing cars in winter, with no hose and no hot water. The water would freeze as soon as you poured in on the car. It took about 30 secs to lose all feeling in both hands and about 6 hours to get it back!
They don't need to region code as long as they maintain seperate stores for each country they can set the prices however they want. No doubt iTunes Europe will be selling tracks for 0.99GBP when it launches with no explanation of why we are paying more than a third more per track. Oh yeah its because 99 is a nice number, well that makes it all ok then.
If i hang a bed sheet over my door, and you walk in and take my stuff, you're still breaking and entering, even if the bedsheet wasn't the most secure door I could have used.
Whilst I agree with the rest of your post, this isn't really true. They would be guilty of trespass and if they took anything that would be theft. But it isn't breaking and entering unless something is damaged in order to gain access. If the sheet was firmly fixed and it they had to rip it to gain entry that would still be B&E, but just lifting it out of the way and walking in doesn't qualify.
Pedantic post over!
I would say it was different from the nissan.com case because Nissan the car company have a trademark for 'nissan' whereas Microsoft don't have a trademark for 'MikeRoweSoft'. When you register a trademark you don't automatically get anything that sounds like it thrown in free.
If his domain had 'Microsoft' in it then yes they would have to enforce their trademark. But it doesn't, his domain is MikeRoweSoft which is nothing like their trademark except phonetically.
By your rational they should be challenging the hundreds of other sites which have similar names to microsoft trademarks. Most of which are using the name to increase web traffic for instance 'hotmale.com' or 'm1crosoft.com'. This guy registered a domain of his own name, with the word soft on the end. Microsoft don't have a trademark on the word soft. End of case.
Oh and I don't think you should give people credit for being more reasonable than the RIAA, its like giving someone an award for being kinder than Hitler.
Except most criminals aren't that dumb. The evidence suggests that CCTV cams just drive crime out of areas with CCTV.
Actually all the muggers do is wear baseball caps. As almost all CCTV cameras are mounted high up if you wear a baseball cap they have practically no chance of getting an identifiable shot of your face. For this reason a lot of pubs and clubs around where I live (Leicester) have now banned wearing them on the premises.
Also CCTV cameras don't always give an accurate portrayal of what happened. I know one case where someone was walking home from the pub when 3 guys attacked him. He defended himself and then the police arrived. When they played back the CCTV footage in court all it shows is him punching one of the guys, everything else happened off camera. Result, the 3 guys get off with cautions and the victim get 18 months for grevious bodily harm and loses his job as a pub landlord (he could no longer hold a license as he had a criminal record).
it's also ridiculous to charge 75 RMB per person, when you consider a taxi ride from Puxi is approximately 180 RMB.
You can say the same about taking a train to London. From Leicester it costs less than half the cost of a train ticket to take a taxi assuming you share with three other people. But then you are stuck in a taxi with three people for the whole journey and it takes longer. People pay ludicrous rail prices because it is quicker and normally their company is paying the expenses anyway.
It is now cheaper to fly to most destinations in the UK than it is to take the train. Example would be, Leicester to Edinburgh 18/01/04 Flying with easyJet = 22.50GBP, By train = 66.50GBP. The train takes 7 hours, whereas the flight is an hour. Which one would you choose?
MagLev offers a lot of the same advantages of air travel. Shorter journey times are better for the traveller, and allow a quicker turn around for the operator which means more tickets sold, presuming there is enough demand. Of course it also has the same disadvantage, high set up costs.
Maybe it doesn't make much sense for a 'normal person' to pay high maglev prices but if it is a business trip then your time is worth more. A client paying someone by the hour doesn't want them on a train for 7 hours doing nothing. Its about balancing different costs.
It actually was pretty obvious....... i'll just be quiet now.
The heat from the welding could damage the LCD if you aren't careful. I am not sure how sensitive they are to heat but it would suck if you killed the LCD for the sake of repairing a crack in the surround.
This is mentioned in the article and is put down to relaxed memory timings decreasing performance. But the top overclock with the upgraded bios is higher, so it is worth it in the end.
how long until transmitters broadcast targeted advertising directly to your retinas or your inbox?
Advertising sent directly to your inbox what a silly idea, that will never happen.... oh wait.