I assume that some kind of mirrors are used in the generation and targeting of the laser beam, and that they don't immediately vaporise when the weapon is fired. Why not use the same material as a casing for your missile?
I can now announce, after years of research and thousands of mice, that it is possible to differentiate between them having being killed by a blender, a hacksaw or just plain deep-frying. I am now working on staple guns, sulfuric acid and gamma rays but as yet do not have a statistically significant sample because the pet shop has run out of mice and I have had to switch to fluffy bunnies.
Why have a nuclear reactor to power a magnetic field? Why not just some superconducting coils which have been pre-energised before launch and only require topping up from a solar generator?
Also, why does spending $billions on a particular software environment in any way guarantee that it will be mightily improved?
Microsoft have been doing that for the last 15+ years with Windows and look where that has ended up...
Massive, monolithic projects like that, worked on by 10,000 programmers, have a poor history of results. Doomed from the start, really.
Talking of DOOM, how many people wrote that? Think of something like Quake: Almost an operating system in it's own right but you could count the authors on the fingers of one hand. It was lean, mean, stable and fast. Could Microsoft have produced it, even on an unlimited budget?
Maybe I'm being incredibly dense here but what's stopping you filling up as many 100GB+ players as you need with as many tracks as you can download, then setting the date on all of them to Jan 1st 1990 and after that stopping your subscription?
It's generally recognised that Apple produce and disseminate updates to their OS as soon as they can after any major vulnerabilities are discovered in either the OSS or proprietary portions. The other 'way in' appears to be through 'social engineering', which involves the user overriding security features deliberately and could just as easily happen when using third party anti-whatever software.
The choice comes down to this: Do I want to pay for a (as yet) fairly unnecessary piece of software which interferes with the smooth running of my system (if previous experience means much) or do I want to get the latest protection, for free, from the original manufacturer of both the hardware & software? No-brainer I feel...
What about using it for the interface in a FPS? If you want to move forward, you actually have to do it. To shoot something behind you, turn around. Would keep you fit but might need a park-sized area to roam in. Sort of a 'viewport' onto a virtual world...
That's because it's not a solar panel, it's a security light. 120 Watts/in^2 @ 110V. Just a little strip should be all you need to floodlight the back yard.
I understand that there will always be collisions in any hashing algorithm when the data being hashed is larger than the hash. Is it possible that for a given hash value there is unique data, i.e. no collision? Also is it possible that there are hash values which cannot be generated from ANY data? Rather esoteric questions (to me) but there seem to a lot of knowledgeable posters on this thread who could answer...
Yes, exactly. If you had 1TB of important data to back up, would you be happy sticking it all on one disc and hoping the dye held out? Also, a rough calculation gives 22 1/2 hours to fill one of these at the published burn rates. (1TB @ 1Gb/s).
I've just looked at some of the catalogue and they have already been scanned at a reasonable resolution. I don't know if it is complete in terms of all the material but if you want to keep them for yourself I would mirror the site now...
And does it help you if either the sender or receiver are using compromised systems? If this software can slip itself in between your client & services, who is to say some malware hasn't done this already... I know this is outside the scope of the project but I feel (no stats to back this up) that a large %age of REAL (not imagined) security problems lie inside the user's domain. You will get a warm, fuzzy secure feeling but has it actually improved matters much?
I don't know about anyone else but I thought it was a sort of violation. Poor iPod Shuffle being ripped apart with industrial tools; made me feel sorry for the thing. What was wrong with some jewellers screwdrivers and a scalpel? I'm sure it wasn't put together with a 6lb lump hammer...
I was shopping for some high-power LED's for a home lighting project, when I came across these. 15KW should be just enough to stop next-door's cat peeing on my vegetable patch...
In Europe, more and more cars are being originally specified with HID headlamps - 'Xenons'. Maybe our regulations are different here but they provide a much better field of illumination than standard headlights and are less annoying to oncoming drivers when dipped. I have them on my car and it makes night driving so much easier (and safer). They are auto-stabilised so don't 'flash' at oncoming vehicles, even when on a bumpy road or with a heavy load in the rear.
Road markings and animals stand out much more clearly on country roads and the full-beam performance is immensely better than the old incandescent/halogen bulbs. Not to mention they will probably last the lifetime of the car.
Absolutely.
I find that the future/sci-fi films/books which give the most 'realistic' impression of what things will be like in the next few milllenia are not those featuring laser powered metal cubes covered in flashing lights.
The devices/procedures that people use are intuitive, maybe AI led and are pleasing to the hand/eye/brain/personality or whatever.
We have pretty much reached the stage where form is largely indepedent of function (as far as electronics is concerned). If we so desire.
All we need now is a new generation of enlightened designers to enthrall us with their latest productions. Or even create things which fufill their purpose so well we cease to think about them directly.
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I assume that some kind of mirrors are used in the generation and targeting of the laser beam, and that they don't immediately vaporise when the weapon is fired. Why not use the same material as a casing for your missile?
I can now announce, after years of research and thousands of mice, that it is possible to differentiate between them having being killed by a blender, a hacksaw or just plain deep-frying. I am now working on staple guns, sulfuric acid and gamma rays but as yet do not have a statistically significant sample because the pet shop has run out of mice and I have had to switch to fluffy bunnies.
Like soap then?
Why have a nuclear reactor to power a magnetic field? Why not just some superconducting coils which have been pre-energised before launch and only require topping up from a solar generator?
Also, why does spending $billions on a particular software environment in any way guarantee that it will be mightily improved?
Microsoft have been doing that for the last 15+ years with Windows and look where that has ended up...
Massive, monolithic projects like that, worked on by 10,000 programmers, have a poor history of results. Doomed from the start, really.
Talking of DOOM, how many people wrote that? Think of something like Quake: Almost an operating system in it's own right but you could count the authors on the fingers of one hand. It was lean, mean, stable and fast. Could Microsoft have produced it, even on an unlimited budget?
Exactly. For those who are never going to open the box, the real performance has increased far more than a hard drive or processor upgrade...
What about RAID? 8 x 16GB flash in RAID 0 config: voila, nearly an order of magnitude improvement...
So true.
The next headline will be:
"$2.7 Trillion lost in productivity a year by people going home to sleep at night."
Maybe I'm being incredibly dense here but what's stopping you filling up as many 100GB+ players as you need with as many tracks as you can download, then setting the date on all of them to Jan 1st 1990 and after that stopping your subscription?
Absolutely.
It's generally recognised that Apple produce and disseminate updates to their OS as soon as they can after any major vulnerabilities are discovered in either the OSS or proprietary portions. The other 'way in' appears to be through 'social engineering', which involves the user overriding security features deliberately and could just as easily happen when using third party anti-whatever software.
The choice comes down to this: Do I want to pay for a (as yet) fairly unnecessary piece of software which interferes with the smooth running of my system (if previous experience means much) or do I want to get the latest protection, for free, from the original manufacturer of both the hardware & software? No-brainer I feel...
What about using it for the interface in a FPS? If you want to move forward, you actually have to do it. To shoot something behind you, turn around. Would keep you fit but might need a park-sized area to roam in. Sort of a 'viewport' onto a virtual world...
That's because it's not a solar panel, it's a security light. 120 Watts/in^2 @ 110V. Just a little strip should be all you need to floodlight the back yard.
I understand that there will always be collisions in any hashing algorithm when the data being hashed is larger than the hash. Is it possible that for a given hash value there is unique data, i.e. no collision? Also is it possible that there are hash values which cannot be generated from ANY data? Rather esoteric questions (to me) but there seem to a lot of knowledgeable posters on this thread who could answer...
Thanks for the link; one of the best things I've read in ages. Should be required reading for Humanities students.
Yes, exactly. If you had 1TB of important data to back up, would you be happy sticking it all on one disc and hoping the dye held out? Also, a rough calculation gives 22 1/2 hours to fill one of these at the published burn rates. (1TB @ 1Gb/s).
I've just looked at some of the catalogue and they have already been scanned at a reasonable resolution. I don't know if it is complete in terms of all the material but if you want to keep them for yourself I would mirror the site now...
Yeah, ironic isn't it: the guy who most needs some stem cells in his brain pulls the plug on the research...
And does it help you if either the sender or receiver are using compromised systems? If this software can slip itself in between your client & services, who is to say some malware hasn't done this already... I know this is outside the scope of the project but I feel (no stats to back this up) that a large %age of REAL (not imagined) security problems lie inside the user's domain. You will get a warm, fuzzy secure feeling but has it actually improved matters much?
I don't know about anyone else but I thought it was a sort of violation. Poor iPod Shuffle being ripped apart with industrial tools; made me feel sorry for the thing. What was wrong with some jewellers screwdrivers and a scalpel? I'm sure it wasn't put together with a 6lb lump hammer...
No, it's made of chocolate. The ridge is where the two halves of the mould met.
I was shopping for some high-power LED's for a home lighting project, when I came across these. 15KW should be just enough to stop next-door's cat peeing on my vegetable patch...
In Europe, more and more cars are being originally specified with HID headlamps - 'Xenons'. Maybe our regulations are different here but they provide a much better field of illumination than standard headlights and are less annoying to oncoming drivers when dipped. I have them on my car and it makes night driving so much easier (and safer). They are auto-stabilised so don't 'flash' at oncoming vehicles, even when on a bumpy road or with a heavy load in the rear.
Road markings and animals stand out much more clearly on country roads and the full-beam performance is immensely better than the old incandescent/halogen bulbs. Not to mention they will probably last the lifetime of the car.
Absolutely. I find that the future/sci-fi films/books which give the most 'realistic' impression of what things will be like in the next few milllenia are not those featuring laser powered metal cubes covered in flashing lights. The devices/procedures that people use are intuitive, maybe AI led and are pleasing to the hand/eye/brain/personality or whatever. We have pretty much reached the stage where form is largely indepedent of function (as far as electronics is concerned). If we so desire. All we need now is a new generation of enlightened designers to enthrall us with their latest productions. Or even create things which fufill their purpose so well we cease to think about them directly.
I blame extreme overclockers: Transcript from last few seconds "I think I can get 2 more Mhz out of the FSB, loo..."
Simple. Just wait for allofusa.com to start up in Russia...