His cruise altitude was 45,000 feet. Roughly 8 miles. With an efficient aircraft (which this is) you should have a glide ratio better than 30. So he should be able to glide 30 * 8 or 240 miles. The 200 miles figure seems much more likely than the 50 miles.
Actually they are testing it at full capacity. Right now. If it works, they finish the flight. If it doesn't, they modify the system. If you remember, the voyager only loaded full fuel on it attempt flight. And they pretty much ground off both winglets. Yet, the craft was still ok to fly around the world and set the record. Sometimes you have to take some exucated risks to set records.
Well, I notice that the top end has a button on the top. The bottom end doesn't. Take me about 0.7 seconds to determine if it is facing the right way when I pick it up. Once it is oriented, I don't have to look down at it for 98% of my TiVo operations. So yeah. It is an excellent remote.
It would not work as a video web cam. It would work as a still web cam. And why I said it was a waste, is that the mirror will slap up with each web cam picture. It is a physical thing. While I have taken over 20k images with my D70, I would want to relegate a $1000 camera to web cam use where images are snapped every second or so, only to be resized down to 640x480 or smaller. This is a waste IMHO.
Some cameras can be remote controlled via a USB connection. This usually required a proprietary program from the camera maker. For example, I can connect my Nikon D70 (DSLR) to the computer and tell it all the settings I want for the picture and then take the picture and download in real time (all from the computer interface). It would require hacking this protocal to make a web cam out of it. Unless you need a 6 Mp web cam, it would be a waste of the camera as well.
When anything is too cheap to meter (or it cost to much to meter down to the single consumer) then a blanket cost is applied to all. This occurs in apartment complexes for water and sewer. They can't track usage by unit, so they throw a little onto the rent to cover it.
Actually that would explain some things. I met a large portion of those out shopping this week. Now I remember why I order online and keep UPS and FedEx in business...
Well, DVD and CD don't have the same laser. CD is around 785 nm (very red), DVD is around 660 nm (almost orange red), and BR will be around 405 nm (blue:). Early DVD drives couldn't read some CD-R(W) disc because of these slight differences.
What are people using out there for performance gaming that also want to use dual monitors for other work? I would envision setting up the computer to single screen to play DOOM3, then changing back for other apps. But most performance 3D cards come with only a single VGA and single DVI port.
Or included on the next blockbuster X-Box 2 exclusive game for free. Which makes much more marketing sense. Consoles are purchased because of the games you can play on them.
They can't take you to court for photographing them in public. It is only actionable if you use the photo in a way that is not legal without a release. You own the copyright of the picture and you have to right to take it.
I can record something today and release it into public domain. It isn't just things that have expired copyrights. An example of this would be video from various scientific research and the like.
So instead of a 8.5 Gb decent looking movie, you get a 4.7 Gb movie that has been compressed to fit onto a DVD-R. Doesn't sound like a decent plan to me.
How is this academic? If they now own the rights just because of broadcasting it, you can now get sued for having a copy of something YOU HAVE THE FULL RIGHTS TO USE. That is insane. I'm really getting sick of legislation that is using a shotgun to swat a fly and not caring about the collateral damage.
That is very common on many radios. Some "HAM" radios in the 2m frequency range can be modified to receive the AM band, Aircraft, Police, etc. There are books out there detailing mods for all models of radios.
Actually there are plent of country boy geeks. When I went to Rose-Hulman a bunch of us geeks would head out to go shooting. We looked like typical rednecks. That is where we coined the phrase "high-tech redneck".
But this 33% less gas comes at a cost of replacing toxic batteries every couple years. Also, as the batteries get warn down, their efficiencies and capacities drop, lowering fuel efficiency. So the average improvement over a pure fuel vehicle will be less than 33%. I've still not been convinced that hybrids are "better".
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His cruise altitude was 45,000 feet. Roughly 8 miles. With an efficient aircraft (which this is) you should have a glide ratio better than 30. So he should be able to glide 30 * 8 or 240 miles. The 200 miles figure seems much more likely than the 50 miles.
Actually they are testing it at full capacity. Right now. If it works, they finish the flight. If it doesn't, they modify the system. If you remember, the voyager only loaded full fuel on it attempt flight. And they pretty much ground off both winglets. Yet, the craft was still ok to fly around the world and set the record. Sometimes you have to take some exucated risks to set records.
Well, I notice that the top end has a button on the top. The bottom end doesn't. Take me about 0.7 seconds to determine if it is facing the right way when I pick it up. Once it is oriented, I don't have to look down at it for 98% of my TiVo operations. So yeah. It is an excellent remote.
It has streets created during the last year in others. It is more dependent on accurate surveys in your area, than Google.
It would not work as a video web cam. It would work as a still web cam. And why I said it was a waste, is that the mirror will slap up with each web cam picture. It is a physical thing. While I have taken over 20k images with my D70, I would want to relegate a $1000 camera to web cam use where images are snapped every second or so, only to be resized down to 640x480 or smaller. This is a waste IMHO.
Come on. You can have a slashdotter with a girl as long as the slashdotter's girl is a slashdotter. Geeks dig geeks.
Some cameras can be remote controlled via a USB connection. This usually required a proprietary program from the camera maker. For example, I can connect my Nikon D70 (DSLR) to the computer and tell it all the settings I want for the picture and then take the picture and download in real time (all from the computer interface). It would require hacking this protocal to make a web cam out of it. Unless you need a 6 Mp web cam, it would be a waste of the camera as well.
TiVo has HD models for Direct TV. You can most likely thank your cable company for why they don't have HD for cable.
When anything is too cheap to meter (or it cost to much to meter down to the single consumer) then a blanket cost is applied to all. This occurs in apartment complexes for water and sewer. They can't track usage by unit, so they throw a little onto the rent to cover it.
Actually that would explain some things. I met a large portion of those out shopping this week. Now I remember why I order online and keep UPS and FedEx in business...
Yeah, no kidding. A little more description might be nice. My RSS feed said "400,000 Additional DSs Available by Year's End"
I'm thinking Domain Servers? (Do we need them?)
Dhrystone per Second? (But shouldn't we concentrate on benchmarking Floating Point too?)
Data Sources? (There is already too much to read out there, I really don't need 400,000 more places to get data.)
Digital Signals? (I didn't think broadcasts in the US had to go digital until 2006?)
Just the word "Nintendo" would have been good for those of us too busy to play games all the time.
Should have included a link to Sony's page regarding a 3 laser head, which is interesting.
Well, DVD and CD don't have the same laser. CD is around 785 nm (very red), DVD is around 660 nm (almost orange red), and BR will be around 405 nm (blue :). Early DVD drives couldn't read some CD-R(W) disc because of these slight differences.
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What are people using out there for performance gaming that also want to use dual monitors for other work? I would envision setting up the computer to single screen to play DOOM3, then changing back for other apps. But most performance 3D cards come with only a single VGA and single DVI port.
Or included on the next blockbuster X-Box 2 exclusive game for free. Which makes much more marketing sense. Consoles are purchased because of the games you can play on them.
They can't take you to court for photographing them in public. It is only actionable if you use the photo in a way that is not legal without a release. You own the copyright of the picture and you have to right to take it.
NetFlix gets popular discs in a special run that are actually replicated, and not burned. They have a simplified logo, along with NetFlix on them.
I can record something today and release it into public domain. It isn't just things that have expired copyrights. An example of this would be video from various scientific research and the like.
So instead of a 8.5 Gb decent looking movie, you get a 4.7 Gb movie that has been compressed to fit onto a DVD-R. Doesn't sound like a decent plan to me.
How is this academic? If they now own the rights just because of broadcasting it, you can now get sued for having a copy of something YOU HAVE THE FULL RIGHTS TO USE. That is insane. I'm really getting sick of legislation that is using a shotgun to swat a fly and not caring about the collateral damage.
That is very common on many radios. Some "HAM" radios in the 2m frequency range can be modified to receive the AM band, Aircraft, Police, etc. There are books out there detailing mods for all models of radios.
I was in the Gun Club. Secretary '97, VP '98, President '99.
Actually there are plent of country boy geeks. When I went to Rose-Hulman a bunch of us geeks would head out to go shooting. We looked like typical rednecks. That is where we coined the phrase "high-tech redneck".
But this 33% less gas comes at a cost of replacing toxic batteries every couple years. Also, as the batteries get warn down, their efficiencies and capacities drop, lowering fuel efficiency. So the average improvement over a pure fuel vehicle will be less than 33%. I've still not been convinced that hybrids are "better".