In the Italian Job, they gridlock a city by replacing the tape in the city's (Turin) traffic management system.
I have seen Die Hard 4, but I really wish I could un-see it. A terrible film, with a terrible plot, terrible portrayal of computer systems (even worse than the usual hollywood fair, and not even lampooned BPS-style), and it didn't even have decent enough mindless action to compensate.
Who in their right mind chooses a job based on "loving" to do it?
but most rational people want to make money so that they can live a relaxing life instead of a disgruntled on[sic]
I'd say that having a job you enjoy doing, even if it doesn't pay massive amounts, is better than pursuing a career simply to make money. I'd rather live within my means (a £20,000 pounds a year or so is enough for a quite comfortable life) and do a job I enjoy than earn £100,000 and hate my life.
Do you honestly think a half dozen audio codecs, and another half dozen video codecs would make for a "small" DLL?
Yes. e.g: CCCP: 5.9mb (plays damn near everything you'll encounter, including.mov if you rename them to.mp4, as for the past few revisions that's all they've been anyway) Quicktime Alternative: 17.8mb (just the quicktime codecs and the plugin, no player) Quicktime: 30.94mb
A simple implosion-triggered 'A-bomb' is still pretty simple to design, especially with modern technology. In the 1940s. yes, it was an incredible feat of engineering. Now, I could design the explosive lenses with matlab or the like.
Now, if they were trying to make a Teller-Ullam design H-bomb, that would be far more interesting.
Except that it works within the odd Quicktime framework, and thus requires you to pre-buffer an entire mkv file before you can play it properly. And makes the use of Ordered Chapters pretty much impossible.
After running Windows 7 for a while, one of my favourite things has been not needing to restart for installing updates. I've gone weeks on Vista with the "please restart to complete updating" message popping up periodically because it's just too much hassle to note down everything I have open and arranged, pause or cancel any running operations (if possible), then restart everything afterwards. This can take a good half an hour start to finish, which usually gets traded for half an hour of doing something useful. Hopefully, this should at least mean more people will keep Windows 7 up to date, even if it's just that average users will never even notice the automatic update process and thus never get annoyed and turn it off.
And, until a few years ago, it was almost open source too. OU programs used to air in the early mornings on TV for students to record (and thus for anyone else to watch too).
And thank goodness for that. Touch interfaces are acceptable where there isn't room for anything else (though the lack of a physical keyboard is always highly unpleasant), but I'd hate to see multitouch become the 'standard' interface for desktop computing. Sure, it's fun to throw about a few snapshots or fly about Google Earth. For all of 5 minutes. Try actually DOING anything, however, and you'll quickly switch back to a 'traditional' interface in order to avoid grief.
The point was that NASA continued to use the Shuttle far beyond it's intended service life because it was a nice safe tried-and-tested system, rather than developing new and untested (and thus 'risky') launch systems to replace it. And nowit;s bitten them in the ass with the Shuttle feet becoming unmaintainable in it's old age (a bolt recently got stuck between two window panels. This may permanently ground that shuttle as they have no way to replace or repair the windows if they prove unable to remove the bolt or if too much damage has occurred already) and with nothing sufficient to replace it.
If somebody managed to reverse engineer and open-source the NK-33, a lot of people would be VERY happy indeed. Nearly 40 years old, and still the highest thrust-to-weight ratio chemical rocket engine ever created.
They're already programmed at a particularly high level: they're swarm robots. Yout don;t give them instructions, you give them goals. Why would you want memory on board anyway when you can just broadcast it back to a central storage device? These are the sensor and manipulator portions of the swarm, they only NEED to sense and manipulate.
There is the option, and I disable it immediately on installation. What the 'awesome bar' fails to take into account is that if I'm typing in the URL bar, I'm typing a URL. If I wanted a bookmark, I'd be in the bookmark menu.
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I'm waiting for the Agricultural Ministry to suggest microgravity hydroponics as a solution to Japan's reliance on foreign food imports.
In the Italian Job, they gridlock a city by replacing the tape in the city's (Turin) traffic management system.
I have seen Die Hard 4, but I really wish I could un-see it. A terrible film, with a terrible plot, terrible portrayal of computer systems (even worse than the usual hollywood fair, and not even lampooned BPS-style), and it didn't even have decent enough mindless action to compensate.
Willis? I think you have the wrong movie.
Who in their right mind chooses a job based on "loving" to do it?
but most rational people want to make money so that they can live a relaxing life instead of a disgruntled on[sic]
I'd say that having a job you enjoy doing, even if it doesn't pay massive amounts, is better than pursuing a career simply to make money. I'd rather live within my means (a £20,000 pounds a year or so is enough for a quite comfortable life) and do a job I enjoy than earn £100,000 and hate my life.
It means that if Amazon is indeed using a roaming system instead of localised carries, they are incredibly foolish.
Do you honestly think a half dozen audio codecs, and another half dozen video codecs would make for a "small" DLL?
Yes. e.g: .mov if you rename them to .mp4, as for the past few revisions that's all they've been anyway)
CCCP: 5.9mb (plays damn near everything you'll encounter, including
Quicktime Alternative: 17.8mb (just the quicktime codecs and the plugin, no player)
Quicktime: 30.94mb
Unless they're very clever with creating it, such that only wavelengths usable by the solar panel are refracted into the centre.
That happens by default. Metamaterials only operate correctly on a very narrow band of frequencies.
Only in the US, where there still exists the odd notion that health care is not a basic right.
A simple implosion-triggered 'A-bomb' is still pretty simple to design, especially with modern technology. In the 1940s. yes, it was an incredible feat of engineering. Now, I could design the explosive lenses with matlab or the like.
Now, if they were trying to make a Teller-Ullam design H-bomb, that would be far more interesting.
Except that it works within the odd Quicktime framework, and thus requires you to pre-buffer an entire mkv file before you can play it properly. And makes the use of Ordered Chapters pretty much impossible.
After running Windows 7 for a while, one of my favourite things has been not needing to restart for installing updates. I've gone weeks on Vista with the "please restart to complete updating" message popping up periodically because it's just too much hassle to note down everything I have open and arranged, pause or cancel any running operations (if possible), then restart everything afterwards. This can take a good half an hour start to finish, which usually gets traded for half an hour of doing something useful. Hopefully, this should at least mean more people will keep Windows 7 up to date, even if it's just that average users will never even notice the automatic update process and thus never get annoyed and turn it off.
All three will eventually be consumed by the Red Weed anyway.
And, until a few years ago, it was almost open source too. OU programs used to air in the early mornings on TV for students to record (and thus for anyone else to watch too).
Sorry, should have been: Smallest around a sun-like star.
Smallest maybe, and the first to have a confirmed radius value, but hardly the first rocky exoplanet discovered. PSR 1257+12 wins by about 18 years.
And thank goodness for that. Touch interfaces are acceptable where there isn't room for anything else (though the lack of a physical keyboard is always highly unpleasant), but I'd hate to see multitouch become the 'standard' interface for desktop computing. Sure, it's fun to throw about a few snapshots or fly about Google Earth. For all of 5 minutes. Try actually DOING anything, however, and you'll quickly switch back to a 'traditional' interface in order to avoid grief.
The point was that NASA continued to use the Shuttle far beyond it's intended service life because it was a nice safe tried-and-tested system, rather than developing new and untested (and thus 'risky') launch systems to replace it. And nowit;s bitten them in the ass with the Shuttle feet becoming unmaintainable in it's old age (a bolt recently got stuck between two window panels. This may permanently ground that shuttle as they have no way to replace or repair the windows if they prove unable to remove the bolt or if too much damage has occurred already) and with nothing sufficient to replace it.
If somebody managed to reverse engineer and open-source the NK-33, a lot of people would be VERY happy indeed. Nearly 40 years old, and still the highest thrust-to-weight ratio chemical rocket engine ever created.
Prey has some.. issues... in the "actually related to reality" department.
They're already programmed at a particularly high level: they're swarm robots. Yout don;t give them instructions, you give them goals. Why would you want memory on board anyway when you can just broadcast it back to a central storage device? These are the sensor and manipulator portions of the swarm, they only NEED to sense and manipulate.
If you heart is not weighed down by gravity... you may develop arrhythmia?
Who wants to? I can't think of anything dumber.
With the power of a computer attached to your mind, you would be able to think of many things that are dumber, several million times per second!
There is the option, and I disable it immediately on installation. What the 'awesome bar' fails to take into account is that if I'm typing in the URL bar, I'm typing a URL. If I wanted a bookmark, I'd be in the bookmark menu.
We can easily alter our relative flow of time ('speed in time plane') by altering our relative velocity.
That, or Osama Bin Laden has become a Dread Pirate Roberts.