If so, then put your expensive chips at each connector, and put a single cheap memory ship in the cable. Perform whatever tuning is required, then store the coefficients on the memory. When you plug in the cable, the memory is interrogated and the coefficients sent to the fancy chips at either end.
Of course, this assumes that actual chip cost is a factor, rather than just a massive markup because of a pair of chips costing tens of pennies each.
No no no no, people are starting to realise that digital means you can't claim that sort of nonsense about cables anymore. No, you have to blame everything on jitter nowadays! Yep, them cheapy cables means that certain electrons will actually travel at a different speed somehow (fat electrons getting stuck in the kinks?) so the clock signal and the data become desynchronised. And of course nobody has ever even heard of a phase-locked-loop.
A good combination would then to build your new plants near high-altitude lakes. Not only can you pump water up into the lakes to store energy during lulls (and let it flow out through turbine generators during peaks), you can use them as a gravity-fed water source in case of off-site-and-on-site power failure scenarios.The turbines could also act as additional on-site power generators, giving you even more redundancy (off-site grid power, on-site diesel, on-site battery, on-site water turbine, on-site gravity-feed).
If this object is a solid body. There's a a good chance it's a pile of dirt and rubble just about held together by self-gravitation. It wouldn't take all that much tidal force to pull it apart, or at least shift bits of it around.
It'd be well inside Earth's Roche Limit at it's point of closest approach, but it's likely moving too fast for it to be inside it for long enough to come apart. Without knowing the density and composition of the object, it's hard to say for sure, but I'd bet against it.
I wonder how many Final Cut houses are thinking "FCP X is a new interface, a new format, and cannot work with our existing files. Why not just transition to another piece of software entirely?".
There is. However, because of so little interest in it up to this point, it would have to go through the test reactor phase for a decade or two before being commercially viable.
That is how the majority of credit & debit cards work in the UK. It can be a massive pain in the ass, especially when even after calling them and telling them you are visiting country X between dates Y and Z, they will still block your card and attempt to call you on a number in the wrong country. It;s not a bad idea in theory, but the implementation needs work.
When you rip the cd, you will get a different hash each time.
Only if you use different settings. If you're getting different hashes with the same settings, then your drive is faulty or your disc is so damaged that ECC is failing.
Closer would be placing your money in a bank, then later finding out - after the bank has been robbed and your money stolen - that their vault door was just painted onto a bit of plywood leant against the wall.
As far as I can tell, the difference between the official SDK and the homebrew SDK is that the official SDK uses Microsoft's own skeletal tracking algorithm using only the depth sensor, whereas the homebrew SDK uses skeletal tracking based around outline recognition using the imaging camera with a dash of using the depth sensor to clean up the input. Unless you have a specific reason to use MS skeletal tracking algorithm (which appears to be pretty nifty, a SLNN trained against a massive sample set), then you can use whichever SDK you're more comfortable with and get the same result.
Part of BitCoin is that ever transaction is followable to it's original creation (i.e. the batch of 50 bitcoins created when a block is created). While it may not be possible to tie the account holder to his key, it should be trivial to track the 'stolen' bitcoins through each transaction they are used in, as all transaction logs are public by design. Harder would be to tell whether the intermediaries in each transaction are dummy accounts involved in an attempt to 'launder' the bitcoins (even though they're uniquely identifiable), or innocent people not realising the bitcoins they are trading are stolen. Then there's the issue of fractional bitcoin trades. Finally, as it's impossible to 'reverse' a bitcoin transaction, the only way to recover the stolen coins would be via a court order to force the recipient to return them. The best that can be done otherwise is to host a blacklist that lists stolen coins, that all clients would agree to refuse transactions containing. This would be massively open to abuse so probably unworkable.
The thing is, geeks are geeks. If X breaks, the first thought isn't "Oh no, X is broken! Abandon X!", but "Huh, better fix that. Now, how did it happen?". I'm sure a lot of people who own bitcoins are now studying economic theory, and looking into how stock markets function (e.g. the automatic shutdown) in order to code better ones.
Except the reactors at the Fukushima no.1 complex include some of the oldest operating reactors in the world. Reactors 1-4, the ones involved in the Fukushima incident, were built BEFORE Reactor 4, the one involved in the Cernobyl incident.
Blue light? Photophores have you covered there. Biological mirrors might be a bit harder. Chitinous carapaces can form some lovely dichroic-like effects,as tdo the Calcium Carbonate shells of various marine creatures, so I'd not rule it out.
Why not instead of a weapon,actual eyes. You can do lots of fun things when you mix lasers with sensors, like phase shift sensitivity, chirped pulse ranging, LIDAR, etc.
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And we hadn't even got to the stage of harvesting organs from criminals yet. Take that, Niven!
HDMI certification is rather odd. You can certify a 2m cable of a certain line, then sell a 20m cable of that same line as certified. http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/certified-hdmi-cables.htm?hdmidept has more info, as well as a lot about the testing process.
Surely all you need to program in is a pointing gesture accompanied with a yell of "Attack, my swarming robot minions! AHAHAHAHA!"
If so, then put your expensive chips at each connector, and put a single cheap memory ship in the cable. Perform whatever tuning is required, then store the coefficients on the memory. When you plug in the cable, the memory is interrogated and the coefficients sent to the fancy chips at either end.
Of course, this assumes that actual chip cost is a factor, rather than just a massive markup because of a pair of chips costing tens of pennies each.
No no no no, people are starting to realise that digital means you can't claim that sort of nonsense about cables anymore.
No, you have to blame everything on jitter nowadays! Yep, them cheapy cables means that certain electrons will actually travel at a different speed somehow (fat electrons getting stuck in the kinks?) so the clock signal and the data become desynchronised. And of course nobody has ever even heard of a phase-locked-loop.
A good combination would then to build your new plants near high-altitude lakes. Not only can you pump water up into the lakes to store energy during lulls (and let it flow out through turbine generators during peaks), you can use them as a gravity-fed water source in case of off-site-and-on-site power failure scenarios.The turbines could also act as additional on-site power generators, giving you even more redundancy (off-site grid power, on-site diesel, on-site battery, on-site water turbine, on-site gravity-feed).
Sounds more like the Pandora than the GP2x.
Not if I complete my First-In-Never-Out data structure first! I'm thinking of calling it a 'pile'.
Here you go: this video includes it walking, climbing, lifting and moving objects, and not crushing a lightbulb.
Failsafe fails safely, mass gibbering ensues.
If this object is a solid body. There's a a good chance it's a pile of dirt and rubble just about held together by self-gravitation. It wouldn't take all that much tidal force to pull it apart, or at least shift bits of it around.
It'd be well inside Earth's Roche Limit at it's point of closest approach, but it's likely moving too fast for it to be inside it for long enough to come apart. Without knowing the density and composition of the object, it's hard to say for sure, but I'd bet against it.
I wonder how many Final Cut houses are thinking "FCP X is a new interface, a new format, and cannot work with our existing files. Why not just transition to another piece of software entirely?".
There is. However, because of so little interest in it up to this point, it would have to go through the test reactor phase for a decade or two before being commercially viable.
That is how the majority of credit & debit cards work in the UK. It can be a massive pain in the ass, especially when even after calling them and telling them you are visiting country X between dates Y and Z, they will still block your card and attempt to call you on a number in the wrong country.
It;s not a bad idea in theory, but the implementation needs work.
If you no longer own the original media, then according to the *IAA your digitised versions constitute EVIL PIRACY.
When you rip the cd, you will get a different hash each time.
Only if you use different settings. If you're getting different hashes with the same settings, then your drive is faulty or your disc is so damaged that ECC is failing.
But with one hand weighed down by a wrist computer, how will we operate our digital watches?
Closer would be placing your money in a bank, then later finding out - after the bank has been robbed and your money stolen - that their vault door was just painted onto a bit of plywood leant against the wall.
As far as I can tell, the difference between the official SDK and the homebrew SDK is that the official SDK uses Microsoft's own skeletal tracking algorithm using only the depth sensor, whereas the homebrew SDK uses skeletal tracking based around outline recognition using the imaging camera with a dash of using the depth sensor to clean up the input.
Unless you have a specific reason to use MS skeletal tracking algorithm (which appears to be pretty nifty, a SLNN trained against a massive sample set), then you can use whichever SDK you're more comfortable with and get the same result.
Part of BitCoin is that ever transaction is followable to it's original creation (i.e. the batch of 50 bitcoins created when a block is created). While it may not be possible to tie the account holder to his key, it should be trivial to track the 'stolen' bitcoins through each transaction they are used in, as all transaction logs are public by design. Harder would be to tell whether the intermediaries in each transaction are dummy accounts involved in an attempt to 'launder' the bitcoins (even though they're uniquely identifiable), or innocent people not realising the bitcoins they are trading are stolen. Then there's the issue of fractional bitcoin trades.
Finally, as it's impossible to 'reverse' a bitcoin transaction, the only way to recover the stolen coins would be via a court order to force the recipient to return them. The best that can be done otherwise is to host a blacklist that lists stolen coins, that all clients would agree to refuse transactions containing. This would be massively open to abuse so probably unworkable.
The thing is, geeks are geeks. If X breaks, the first thought isn't "Oh no, X is broken! Abandon X!", but "Huh, better fix that. Now, how did it happen?". I'm sure a lot of people who own bitcoins are now studying economic theory, and looking into how stock markets function (e.g. the automatic shutdown) in order to code better ones.
Except the reactors at the Fukushima no.1 complex include some of the oldest operating reactors in the world. Reactors 1-4, the ones involved in the Fukushima incident, were built BEFORE Reactor 4, the one involved in the Cernobyl incident.
Blue light? Photophores have you covered there. Biological mirrors might be a bit harder. Chitinous carapaces can form some lovely dichroic-like effects,as tdo the Calcium Carbonate shells of various marine creatures, so I'd not rule it out.
Why not instead of a weapon,actual eyes. You can do lots of fun things when you mix lasers with sensors, like phase shift sensitivity, chirped pulse ranging, LIDAR, etc.