Dropping a block into the saw blade? Can't anyone imagine a PROXY blade on the motor shaft that can accept the stopping block. It should be either (1) cheap to replace or (2) able to survive multiple hard stops.
I recall a story from the dark ages about controllers for tape drive rewind motors. They had been controlled by gas/vaccuum tubes. The first test replacements using solid state electronics stopped the motor so fast and so hard that the tape reel kept turning and twisted the shaft.
Is there an electronic solution to this halting problem?
And as for detecting an impending dis-fingerment, is this finally the killer application for machine vision?
As Isaac Asimov demonstrated, writing clear entertaining informative articles about science and technology is possible, but it is HARD. Even for a genius like him.
We may have to wait a while for another IA or HST to come along.
As a technical-type guy, I should add that machines of any kind (indeed, any things of any kind) rarely can be made to operate any better by slamming one's fist against any part thereof.
bashing: probability of success: low
not bashing, that is, doing nothing: probability of success: zero.
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When in doubt, punch it out - it's the American way.
Traversing the last mile is an expensive waste. A commercial bit-torrent solution might be a swarm of peering/paying ISP nodes, then simple download to each pay-per-view broadband customer. Kind of like Akamai.
Or maybe somebody could buy up a lot of dark fiber and distribute the bits to conveniently located peering points around the world. And build the outlying buffering nodes in shipping containers.
I have 2200 Kbits/sec down, 256k Kbits/sec upload - a wild imbalance for torrenting. And an ISP that went broke budgeting 30-to-1 contention ratios - conservative for dial-up but disasterous when their customers upgraded to ADSL.
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... everyone is familiar with baseball terminology from which you derived "BullPen".
And I thought of what you find in a pen recently occupied by a bull.
That may be the origin of the baseball term, too.
... these can make the leap from infecting bacteria to infecting higher organisms, any more than a plant could suddenly start walking around.
Great. Now we need to be on the lookout for Triffids.
Any predictions of impending blindingly bright meteor showers?
The Daily Telegraph (London UK) reports that the US Bureau of Labor Statistics has a rounding problem.
m oney/2006/08/15/cnus15.xml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/
It seems that doubtful rounding practices have distorted US consumer price index figures.
Dropping a block into the saw blade? Can't anyone imagine a PROXY blade on the motor shaft that can accept the stopping block. It should be either (1) cheap to replace or (2) able to survive multiple hard stops.
I recall a story from the dark ages about controllers for tape drive rewind motors. They had been controlled by gas/vaccuum tubes. The first test replacements using solid state electronics stopped the motor so fast and so hard that the tape reel kept turning and twisted the shaft.
Is there an electronic solution to this halting problem?
And as for detecting an impending dis-fingerment, is this finally the killer application for machine vision?
is fine,if a little noisy.
Let's see that ball bearing robot go UP a flight of stairs.
And using the elevator/lift doesn't count.
You must be new around here.
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Well, somebody has to say that at least once a day.
... an entire separate gaming system....
This sounds like a job for VMware-Man!
As Isaac Asimov demonstrated, writing clear entertaining informative articles about science and technology is possible, but it is HARD. Even for a genius like him.
We may have to wait a while for another IA or HST to come along.
... or more than 640K of memory.
all your uploaded source may be processed in order to serve you targeted advertisements.
Perhaps this is to discourage FOSS developers from using their Gmail accounts as CVS.
As a technical-type guy, I should add that machines of any kind (indeed, any things of any kind) rarely can be made to operate any better by slamming one's fist against any part thereof.
bashing: probability of success: low
not bashing, that is, doing nothing: probability of success: zero.
--
When in doubt, punch it out - it's the American way.
My cells factor very large primes, therefore I am
Call back when they can rapidly factor large non-primes. Someone from NSA could make you an offer you cannot refuse.
You gotta remember...this is a union of STATES, each one actually, is similar to a small country joined together with the other states.
We fought a little Civil War about this and the STATES lost.
Abolition of slavery was a rabble-rousing side issue.
Maybe he bought it to show local teenagers the advantages of marrying into the NSA?
Think of the children!
that humans first crowded out neanderthals because we were skinnier and could survive on less food, and only later developed speech and culture.
Or that our human ancestors were more murderously bloody-minded than their smarter, kinder, whiny Neanderthal neighbors.
Show me a world with unkillable soldiers, and I will show you some seriously weird lifers.
Actually, the precise formula is
n.log(log(n))
This rule of thumb shows its age:
For COBOL programmers, multiply estimate by THREE.
For FORTRAN programmers, multiply estimate by PI.
the Wikipedia entry for Software Names.
You haven't seen bad OO code? ... There is an OO equivalent to spaghetti code, and it's fearsome.
Don't you mean "OO is equivalent to spaghetti code"?
Traversing the last mile is an expensive waste. A commercial bit-torrent solution might be a swarm of peering/paying ISP nodes, then simple download to each pay-per-view broadband customer. Kind of like Akamai.
Or maybe somebody could buy up a lot of dark fiber and distribute the bits to conveniently located peering points around the world. And build the outlying buffering nodes in shipping containers.
I have 2200 Kbits/sec down, 256k Kbits/sec upload - a wild imbalance for torrenting. And an ISP that went broke budgeting 30-to-1 contention ratios - conservative for dial-up but disasterous when their customers upgraded to ADSL.
i (j for real engineers) is imaginary. Weird is very, very real.
Without planning, all consequences would be unintended.
Looking back on it, I blame hindsight.
An alternative solution: individual headsets, as on commercial airline flights.
This could even add value - multiple languages, commentary tracks, just like the DVD at home.
Increased salinity? Less ice pack, more evaporation, increased salinity, higher density, lower elevation.
No evidence was harmed or disturbed by this response.