Heh, no, build it with a couple of paint buckets and some concrete, with a propane burner to heat it. Use that to cast components from moulds created by printing plastic, coating it in ceramic, packing around with sand, then melting out the plastic (you could also print in wax directly, easier to melt out). You now have solid cast parts you can clean up by hand to make your first heavy mill (&lathe, etc). Use your heavy mill to create parts for a stronger and more accurate heavy mill. And so on ad nauseum. Current limitations on this are the electronics (only a few people have made silicon chips at home), and the accuracy of your groundbar and screw drives are mostly dependant on the accuracy of the bar and screws already in your mill.
When that happens, *they* (the rich/powerful/police etc) will have all the guns/food, control of all purchases/transport/employment etc. And you'll be utterly fucked.
When that happens, you download an.stl file and print whatever object it is you wanted. It's already possible to build your own CNC mill/lathe, FDM machine, furnace, casting moulds, etc. With enough time and a bit of googling, you can make nearly anything at home (a few people have even fabricated and packaged their own microchips). That process will only become cheaper, faster and more automated.
I do not pay US taxes, but the US dollar still has value for me: because I can both pay for things using it (when ordering overseas), or exchange it for a more immediately exchangeable local currency. I can do the exact same thing with bitcoins: exchange them for objects, or exchange them for another currency I can exchange for objects.
"I would like to own a shotgun" is a sufficient reason to apply for a shotgun permit. It's the FAC that covers other firearms (.22 rimfire semi-automatics and bolt-action of larger calibre) that's somewhat more onerous in it's requirements; mainly that you need to be a member in good standing of a firearms club.
I was thinking "surely, they don't think just having vanes under the ducts will be enough to stabilise it?", but then I looked more closely at their photos. There aren't any. It has absolutely no roll control of any sort. I suppose you have some limited ability to balance using your body weight, but this is a kin to trying to balance a stationary unicycle.
And you think those forum goers actually thought up the idea themselves, rather than looking at previous examples of multi-user separated displays (some fixed viewing position ones have been used in cars for quite a while) and parroting it as ORIGINAL IDEA DO NOT STEAL.
If Al Qaida have allied with Neptune and control the Mighty Forces of the Ocean, then we're all pretty much screwed anyway. Any potential terrorist would have to get into a reactor complex, destroy the diesel backup generators, destroy the battery backups, destroy the incoming power lines, and destroy the coolant pumps. Flying a plane, or even several planes, into the place would not cut it: that's already a design criteria. It would have to be done from inside. All of this would take quite some time and effort, during which everyone is supposedly twiddling their thumbs. Never mind that they could do far more damage by breaking in, pilfering some irradiated waste material from the storage ponds, and detonating a dirty bomb in the middle of a city. In the UK at least, we have the CNC to deal with any possible cases of Terrorists Dicking About Near Reactors.
Nope, the universe just isn't made mostly of antimatter. Antimatter is created by natural (if staggeringly high energy processes) without human intervention.
Now if they'd created and confined matter with a negative energy, THEN I'd be very surprised.
Unless you use an OS that sends the TRIM command, or have an SSD that does garbage collection (read: didn't cheap out and buy something with a JMicron controller), you're data is so securely erased that no recovery company not lying through it's teeth will claim to be able to get it back. Hell, just getting data out of an SSD with just FAT corruption is a huge chore, and almost impossible with some controllers (especially for files much larger than the block size). It's one of those "Everyone Knows" things, just like Everyone Knows that you have to use dban with 32 random passes in order to securely erase your HDD, rather than run the faster and better (deletes areas listen in the G-list) ATA SECURE ERASE command built into the drive controller.
Remember that the energy pumped out by a microwave is roughly 1000 times that of the peak output of a CDMA phone. And that the energy of said phone is focussed away from your head (for the simply reason that you don't want to waste transmission power), whereas the energy of the microwave is bouncing around a small box. Radio antenna output can be orders of magnitude more than the microwave oven, depending on antenna application, and increased proximity causes an exponential increase in exposure (in addition to beam shaping, this is why hugging a mobile phone antenna is a Bad Idea, but standing under one is of little effect).
You're at more danger from the thermal radiation emitted by the phone's electronics being absorbed by your skin than RF radiation absorbed by your brain.
And at this time in my life, I want freedom to eat non-GMO food.
Then go resurrect some crops from fossils a few thousand years old. Genetic modification through selective breeding has been around for as long as agriculture. Direct modification is the same in kind if not in technique. i.e. instead of breeding Regular Tasty Potatoes in the same field as Hardier Smaller Potatoes for a few years and replanting the ones with the least blight, you instead figure out how the hardier variety are resistant, isolate the genetic sequence(s) responsible for this, splice them into your Tasty Potatoes, and breed those for a while to make sure nothing untoward happens. The crops destroyed were at that latter stage. Personally, I'd rather eat 'GM food' that requires a lower number and quantity of pesticides than other crops of the same cost, especially when 'Organic' food requires a massive increased land-area and other resources to farm (and thus a higher direct sale price). Then there's the GM foods needed to prevent starvation in countries where regular crops just do not provide enough nourishment to sufficiently feed their populations.
This is separate from Monsanto et al's massively dickish moves in attempting to patent genetic sequences and impose ridiculous 'licensing terms' on crops.
Don't worry, Maplins is already far down the slope towards being a 'fog machine & PC components' store. All their components are double to triple the price of ordering the same parts online anyway (shameless plug: farnell offer free next-day delivery with no minimum order quantity. Yes, even for a 20p pack of LEDs).
There are already emulators for the few consoles and arcade games that used actual vector monitors (e.g. Vectrex). This filter looks quite similar to the existing HQnX series of filters, but with even more aggressive smoothing (from the paper, they appear to use a similar quantisation matrix approach then vector-smooth the result). As the paper shows, the results are fine for a few cases of a single isolated sprite, but for a whole display it looks really nasty, even worse than HQ4X.
My personal preference is CRT-emulated scaling. Yes, an LCD can display pixel-perfect data, but most consoles prior to the latest generation were designed with CRT displays in mind. 8-bit and 16-bit especially used some of the quirks of the way a beam scanned over discrete phosphors (bleeding, blooming, variable beam width, etc) as a way of blending edges and colours together to create additional effects.
A pile of molten Corium is still pretty nasty, and something that definitely needs to be actively cooled. The problem then comes with the very high-risk strategy of, completely blind, trying to raise the core temperature enough to initiate a core melt, then drop the core melt temperate again before it becomes dangerous. You've got a window of maybe a minute in which to do so, with little in the way of feedback, and no time to run an accurate simulation. And you better damn well hope your jury-rigged pumps respond perfectly first-time.
In the future, a 'controlled core melt' may become a designed-for scenario (melt-though bleed channel into a refractory chamber for easy cleanup?), but trying to do it on the spur of the moment would probably do more harm than good.
They did request outside aid. The problem was that the country, and especially the surrounding area, had just been hit with the largest earthquake in 1000 years followed by a tsunami bigger than the design maximum for every sea defence built on the east coast. There was no way to lay new power lines in the space of time available with the batter backup, especially when most of your construction equipment has been washed out to sea or upended inside a house, and the rest can't get anywhere because the roads are covered in debris and many of your bridges have collapsed or are otherwise unsound for moving heavy machinery.
'Airlifting in a few generators' wouldn't have helped much: the problem was with the pumps that fed the cooling water, and the drive systems that powered those pumps, being inundated with flood water and mostly rendered useless. Never mind that the generators may not even have provided the correct power output necessary to drive the pumps (and that Japan runs on two different power frequencies, to add yet another layer of difficulty).
I've had missing channels, missing sub-bass (with everything turned up to the point of clipping to compensate), and one all-night film festival where the projectors were 4K, the source was BD, but everything was sent via 480p (i.e. one device in the chain had been configured incorrectly). What really pissed me off was that I actually went to the trouble of finding someone to radio the projection room and tell them both what was wrong and how to fix it, and have them do nothing.
I'd reason that wiring up Natural Language when having a large database of objects(nouns) would still be rather difficult, but not as difficult as changing camera feeds into 3d world representation.
With two cameras with a known separation, it's not that hard a problem at all. With one camera and a depth camera (Kinect), it's not hard at all. With one regular camera and a known motion, it's not that hard. With one camera and an unknown motion, it's a bit tricky. Mostof this is covered by Structure From Motion, or occasionally Structured Lighting.
3D data from 2D data is a bit tricky, but nowhere even close to being as hard as software that can understand natural language. Even PARSING natural language is hard enough for most systems. There are far more systems that can map a 3D environment than there are that can correctly recognise and respond to a simple sentence, e.g: "Computer, will it be rainy today?"
The 'recovery' software which reads a damaged disc, then recovers data to the same damaged disc? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
OK, so if you've accidentally deleted a partition via quick-format, then Spinrite can probably restore it (as can a whole pile of other OSS programs). If there's any actual damage to the disc, Spinrite is the best and fastest way to permanently destroy whatever might remain on that disc. Slamming the heads thousands of times over a surface defect is never a good idea. Never mind that writing recovered data onto the disc you're trying to recover from is just begging to have that data written over other data you're trying to recover.
Unlike when it was first written, discs are cheap, so recovering to the same disc is no longer worth the huge risk in exchange for the tiny saving of whatever an equivalent/larger spare drive would cost. Friends don't let friends use Spinrite on any drive smaller than 5 1/4".
Not only is it far from cheap, the chemicals used in the resin are far from cheap. Previous DIY versions (e.g. http://3dhomemade.blogspot.com) are much cheaper to build, though to my knowledge there has yet to be a breakthrough in finding a cheaper (near)UV-activated resin with the right characteristics.
If so, the past half century of TV transmissions has already let the cat out of the bag. At the very least, we could broadcast "sorry about the noise, we were just moving in".
No mention at all of Lensman, the root node of Space Opera, and the classic DeLameter? Or even the Stendish, a combined semiportable energy weapon/firearm? Pah!
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Or Ramiel. But as neither were lasers, the Beta are a better fit (the air defence sort, not the 'chow down on the supporting cast' sort).
Heh, no, build it with a couple of paint buckets and some concrete, with a propane burner to heat it. Use that to cast components from moulds created by printing plastic, coating it in ceramic, packing around with sand, then melting out the plastic (you could also print in wax directly, easier to melt out). You now have solid cast parts you can clean up by hand to make your first heavy mill (&lathe, etc). Use your heavy mill to create parts for a stronger and more accurate heavy mill. And so on ad nauseum.
Current limitations on this are the electronics (only a few people have made silicon chips at home), and the accuracy of your groundbar and screw drives are mostly dependant on the accuracy of the bar and screws already in your mill.
When that happens, *they* (the rich/powerful/police etc) will have all the guns/food, control of all purchases/transport/employment etc. And you'll be utterly fucked.
When that happens, you download an .stl file and print whatever object it is you wanted. It's already possible to build your own CNC mill/lathe, FDM machine, furnace, casting moulds, etc. With enough time and a bit of googling, you can make nearly anything at home (a few people have even fabricated and packaged their own microchips). That process will only become cheaper, faster and more automated.
I do not pay US taxes, but the US dollar still has value for me: because I can both pay for things using it (when ordering overseas), or exchange it for a more immediately exchangeable local currency. I can do the exact same thing with bitcoins: exchange them for objects, or exchange them for another currency I can exchange for objects.
"I would like to own a shotgun" is a sufficient reason to apply for a shotgun permit. It's the FAC that covers other firearms (.22 rimfire semi-automatics and bolt-action of larger calibre) that's somewhat more onerous in it's requirements; mainly that you need to be a member in good standing of a firearms club.
I was thinking "surely, they don't think just having vanes under the ducts will be enough to stabilise it?", but then I looked more closely at their photos. There aren't any. It has absolutely no roll control of any sort. I suppose you have some limited ability to balance using your body weight, but this is a kin to trying to balance a stationary unicycle.
And you think those forum goers actually thought up the idea themselves, rather than looking at previous examples of multi-user separated displays (some fixed viewing position ones have been used in cars for quite a while) and parroting it as ORIGINAL IDEA DO NOT STEAL.
If Al Qaida have allied with Neptune and control the Mighty Forces of the Ocean, then we're all pretty much screwed anyway.
Any potential terrorist would have to get into a reactor complex, destroy the diesel backup generators, destroy the battery backups, destroy the incoming power lines, and destroy the coolant pumps. Flying a plane, or even several planes, into the place would not cut it: that's already a design criteria. It would have to be done from inside. All of this would take quite some time and effort, during which everyone is supposedly twiddling their thumbs. Never mind that they could do far more damage by breaking in, pilfering some irradiated waste material from the storage ponds, and detonating a dirty bomb in the middle of a city.
In the UK at least, we have the CNC to deal with any possible cases of Terrorists Dicking About Near Reactors.
Nope, the universe just isn't made mostly of antimatter. Antimatter is created by natural (if staggeringly high energy processes) without human intervention.
Now if they'd created and confined matter with a negative energy, THEN I'd be very surprised.
SSD not being securely erased
Unless you use an OS that sends the TRIM command, or have an SSD that does garbage collection (read: didn't cheap out and buy something with a JMicron controller), you're data is so securely erased that no recovery company not lying through it's teeth will claim to be able to get it back. Hell, just getting data out of an SSD with just FAT corruption is a huge chore, and almost impossible with some controllers (especially for files much larger than the block size).
It's one of those "Everyone Knows" things, just like Everyone Knows that you have to use dban with 32 random passes in order to securely erase your HDD, rather than run the faster and better (deletes areas listen in the G-list) ATA SECURE ERASE command built into the drive controller.
Remember that the energy pumped out by a microwave is roughly 1000 times that of the peak output of a CDMA phone. And that the energy of said phone is focussed away from your head (for the simply reason that you don't want to waste transmission power), whereas the energy of the microwave is bouncing around a small box.
Radio antenna output can be orders of magnitude more than the microwave oven, depending on antenna application, and increased proximity causes an exponential increase in exposure (in addition to beam shaping, this is why hugging a mobile phone antenna is a Bad Idea, but standing under one is of little effect).
You're at more danger from the thermal radiation emitted by the phone's electronics being absorbed by your skin than RF radiation absorbed by your brain.
And at this time in my life, I want freedom to eat non-GMO food.
Then go resurrect some crops from fossils a few thousand years old. Genetic modification through selective breeding has been around for as long as agriculture. Direct modification is the same in kind if not in technique. i.e. instead of breeding Regular Tasty Potatoes in the same field as Hardier Smaller Potatoes for a few years and replanting the ones with the least blight, you instead figure out how the hardier variety are resistant, isolate the genetic sequence(s) responsible for this, splice them into your Tasty Potatoes, and breed those for a while to make sure nothing untoward happens. The crops destroyed were at that latter stage.
Personally, I'd rather eat 'GM food' that requires a lower number and quantity of pesticides than other crops of the same cost, especially when 'Organic' food requires a massive increased land-area and other resources to farm (and thus a higher direct sale price). Then there's the GM foods needed to prevent starvation in countries where regular crops just do not provide enough nourishment to sufficiently feed their populations.
This is separate from Monsanto et al's massively dickish moves in attempting to patent genetic sequences and impose ridiculous 'licensing terms' on crops.
Don't worry, Maplins is already far down the slope towards being a 'fog machine & PC components' store. All their components are double to triple the price of ordering the same parts online anyway (shameless plug: farnell offer free next-day delivery with no minimum order quantity. Yes, even for a 20p pack of LEDs).
To to mention the FeliCa system, a NFC payment system used in Japanese phones for the past 6-7 years.
Blargg's NTSC filter (used in Nestopia) can be placed in front of the CRT filter in the chain.
There are already emulators for the few consoles and arcade games that used actual vector monitors (e.g. Vectrex).
This filter looks quite similar to the existing HQnX series of filters, but with even more aggressive smoothing (from the paper, they appear to use a similar quantisation matrix approach then vector-smooth the result). As the paper shows, the results are fine for a few cases of a single isolated sprite, but for a whole display it looks really nasty, even worse than HQ4X.
My personal preference is CRT-emulated scaling. Yes, an LCD can display pixel-perfect data, but most consoles prior to the latest generation were designed with CRT displays in mind. 8-bit and 16-bit especially used some of the quirks of the way a beam scanned over discrete phosphors (bleeding, blooming, variable beam width, etc) as a way of blending edges and colours together to create additional effects.
A pile of molten Corium is still pretty nasty, and something that definitely needs to be actively cooled. The problem then comes with the very high-risk strategy of, completely blind, trying to raise the core temperature enough to initiate a core melt, then drop the core melt temperate again before it becomes dangerous. You've got a window of maybe a minute in which to do so, with little in the way of feedback, and no time to run an accurate simulation. And you better damn well hope your jury-rigged pumps respond perfectly first-time.
In the future, a 'controlled core melt' may become a designed-for scenario (melt-though bleed channel into a refractory chamber for easy cleanup?), but trying to do it on the spur of the moment would probably do more harm than good.
They did request outside aid. The problem was that the country, and especially the surrounding area, had just been hit with the largest earthquake in 1000 years followed by a tsunami bigger than the design maximum for every sea defence built on the east coast. There was no way to lay new power lines in the space of time available with the batter backup, especially when most of your construction equipment has been washed out to sea or upended inside a house, and the rest can't get anywhere because the roads are covered in debris and many of your bridges have collapsed or are otherwise unsound for moving heavy machinery.
'Airlifting in a few generators' wouldn't have helped much: the problem was with the pumps that fed the cooling water, and the drive systems that powered those pumps, being inundated with flood water and mostly rendered useless. Never mind that the generators may not even have provided the correct power output necessary to drive the pumps (and that Japan runs on two different power frequencies, to add yet another layer of difficulty).
I've had missing channels, missing sub-bass (with everything turned up to the point of clipping to compensate), and one all-night film festival where the projectors were 4K, the source was BD, but everything was sent via 480p (i.e. one device in the chain had been configured incorrectly). What really pissed me off was that I actually went to the trouble of finding someone to radio the projection room and tell them both what was wrong and how to fix it, and have them do nothing.
I'd reason that wiring up Natural Language when having a large database of objects(nouns) would still be rather difficult, but not as difficult as changing camera feeds into 3d world representation.
With two cameras with a known separation, it's not that hard a problem at all. With one camera and a depth camera (Kinect), it's not hard at all. With one regular camera and a known motion, it's not that hard. With one camera and an unknown motion, it's a bit tricky. Mostof this is covered by Structure From Motion, or occasionally Structured Lighting.
3D data from 2D data is a bit tricky, but nowhere even close to being as hard as software that can understand natural language. Even PARSING natural language is hard enough for most systems. There are far more systems that can map a 3D environment than there are that can correctly recognise and respond to a simple sentence, e.g: "Computer, will it be rainy today?"
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The 'recovery' software which reads a damaged disc, then recovers data to the same damaged disc? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
OK, so if you've accidentally deleted a partition via quick-format, then Spinrite can probably restore it (as can a whole pile of other OSS programs). If there's any actual damage to the disc, Spinrite is the best and fastest way to permanently destroy whatever might remain on that disc. Slamming the heads thousands of times over a surface defect is never a good idea. Never mind that writing recovered data onto the disc you're trying to recover from is just begging to have that data written over other data you're trying to recover.
Unlike when it was first written, discs are cheap, so recovering to the same disc is no longer worth the huge risk in exchange for the tiny saving of whatever an equivalent/larger spare drive would cost. Friends don't let friends use Spinrite on any drive smaller than 5 1/4".
Not only is it far from cheap, the chemicals used in the resin are far from cheap. Previous DIY versions (e.g. http://3dhomemade.blogspot.com) are much cheaper to build, though to my knowledge there has yet to be a breakthrough in finding a cheaper (near)UV-activated resin with the right characteristics.
If so, the past half century of TV transmissions has already let the cat out of the bag. At the very least, we could broadcast "sorry about the noise, we were just moving in".
No mention at all of Lensman, the root node of Space Opera, and the classic DeLameter? Or even the Stendish, a combined semiportable energy weapon/firearm? Pah!
Structurally unsound.