It was intended to work in a single, small enclosed area - you kill a MOB, you receive the effect/damage as result, and it spreads over everyone who participated. The unintentional element was that it can be carried away to the city, so that people far, far away, not involved in killing the monster contract it.
It's hunting that space junk that is the problem. It wouldn't pay because space junk is usually light (how much $ to lift 1 ton, junk or not, to orbit?) and flying around, trying to catch small pieces of it, say, 1 week and 5 tons of fuel to grab 200kg of the junk?
IMO the rope should be unrolled in two directions at once, from the orbit. This way, it wouldn't only allow for cheap transport to the orbit, but launching small ships from the end would give them a nice boost. Actually, quite possible that you could lob cargo with minimal thrusters at other planets. (think big bricks of ice from water pumped up the pipelines through the lift, launched at Mars. Water for terraforming Mars, ocean level rising problem solved:)
huh? Look deeper in prefs. Menu > Settings > Sounds > Camera sound = none. Most phones allow that. Digital cameras are silent, and the phone usually makes the noise just to let you know that it actually did make the photo.
In the works: New, government-approved DRM-enabled version of the zipper, that allows unzipping only after obtaining proper certificate from the local authority (e.g. public toilet). It is believed to reduce number of rapes by at least 98%.
New, improved, never-jamming zipper for use in trousers/jeans has been developed, which takes only 2s to take your pants off, and it is causing rape concerns.
They spend 500 millions from taxpayer's money. It cost them nothing, they just got the grant. Then the manager decides it won't be quite as profitable as they thought because only one in a million suffers from this particular disease and production of this drug probably won't cover the costs, so the project gets cancelled. But they have the patent already, and even if someone was willing to help these 1 in million, who suffer because there's no drug that would help them, the particular drug is patented, and the owner of the patent doesn't want to sell it. Or sues the fundation that researched the drug independently, for patent infringement. As long as patents help fund innovation, they are okay. But more and more often they just help profit from obstructing innovation, instead of getting profit from what you did, and staying ahead, you get profit from directly stopping others from doing what you did. Like a racer who wins a unit of race and gets a bonus, instead of using it to gain further on others or catch a break, they spend extra time to push others, trip them or stand in their way, not letting them pass.
Features always can be added. Compatibile apps can be written. That's the easy part. The real hurdle is getting an elephantine system like XP or Longhorn, with ready-made apps that are designed with such slow huge system in mind (that is, their design neglects possiblity of the system being much faster, so even system corrections won't speed them up) to act better. And if response times are shorter, to use them efficiently, the code MUST be faster. So compare difficulty of creating 200 lines of efficient, fast, lean code from scratch and then writing another 10000 lines of "any" code that should cooperate with it, but should be readable and flexible rather than ultra-fast, with difficulty of making 200 lines of existing sloppy code 5 times faster than they are, without breaking 10000 lines that depend on it.
Storage: 5 megabytes Weight: 4 pounds, Spin-up sound: Impressive, Geekness factor: High, Power Usage: Excessive, Shutdown method: c:\dos\park.com, Interface: ISA card, Linux support: Yes, Windows support: No, Badsectors: Probably, Transfer rates: Who cares?
Yep, and suddenly find out that your 64Kb iButton fits 8 kilobytes of data, then find out it actually is 64 kilobits... Sorry, whoever modded the above "informative" has no clue. Chip memory capacites are given in bits, not bytes. The chip is 2 gigabytes.
I wonder why the hell these toys don't include SD/CF card readers. Tiny removable storage, up to 2GB or so, don't need it - don't use it (and don't pay for it), speeds perfectly sufficient for stuff like MP3, and if you want more music, just buy a few more cards.
Sure stuff may be -smaller- now. But what about cheaper? Will it cost less than equivalent in smaller chips? As for memory density, 1 or 2GB SD cards are quite tiny already, stuffing the same technology in volume of a harddrive (well, CD-ROM maybe) would allow for a terabyte of solid state storage easily. But the price and speed are somewhat beyond reach... I really wish for CHEAP flash more than for BIG flash.
Except that the cheap batteries are like 100-300mAh, good rechargables are 900-2000, meaning at least three times longer without a change/recharge. So if you buy crappy batteries, don't complain you need to change them too often.
I've seen a smart mouse: The receiver was a lightweight recharge PLUG. When the mouse ran out of juice, you'd just plug the receiver in, and could continue using the mouse as a wired standard wired mouse, until recharged.
Well, if you use 2 keyboards and 2 mice at once (or exchanging them in short intervals) and especially if you like to type while holding the keyboard on your lap, all the cables really fast form some kind of wild braid. Restricting your desktop to 2 wired and 2 wireless devices results at worst in a twisted pair, which is pretty easy to untangle.
On the other hand, I never found myself looking where the fuck is my keyboard, when I was using the wired one. One day I found my wireless keyboard in the kitchen, you tell me how I brought it there without even realizing...
And I never liked pressing down on the mouse wheel because it can turn unless you're careful about applying the pressure
That's exactly why I DO like pressing down on the mouse wheel. Install MozGest and map "scroll left" to:1+, "scroll right" to:1- and have vertical AND horizontal scroll with a single mouse button: Normal turn - vertical scroll. Turn while having it pressed - horizontal scroll.
Of course if you want just to press middle, thumb button is priceless.
Well, I made a friend's laptop to make an awful screech of a rusty gate when the lid is being open, and closing the lid emits a corresponding loud, heavy slam. All in software, mind you!
Why the fuck install 8 separate resistors on output?! These are light emitting DIODES, there's no way a "high" state output would short to the "low" state one, just put one friggin resistor between the outputs and Ground and be done with it!
Logitech Smart Mouse: Features: 10-key keyboard in QWERTY layout Stereo audio LCD color VGA display 8 signal LEDs WiFi Intel Pentium Centrino(tm) 2.5GHZ CPU 512MB RAM Weight: 3.1kg (not including batteries) Dimensions: 30x15x5cm Power usage: 40 Watt Battery: 2 Li-ion batteries of 40Ah each Battery life in sleep mode: 32h Battery life when mouse used: 4h DeLuxe model includes power steering allowing for almost frictionless and momentum-less movement.
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It was intended to work in a single, small enclosed area - you kill a MOB, you receive the effect/damage as result, and it spreads over everyone who participated. The unintentional element was that it can be carried away to the city, so that people far, far away, not involved in killing the monster contract it.
Now you can get pickpocketed without ever getting touched by the thief!
Knock knock...
Wake up, mOdQuArK!
The DMCA has you...
It's hunting that space junk that is the problem. It wouldn't pay because space junk is usually light (how much $ to lift 1 ton, junk or not, to orbit?) and flying around, trying to catch small pieces of it, say, 1 week and 5 tons of fuel to grab 200kg of the junk?
:)
IMO the rope should be unrolled in two directions at once, from the orbit. This way, it wouldn't only allow for cheap transport to the orbit, but launching small ships from the end would give them a nice boost. Actually, quite possible that you could lob cargo with minimal thrusters at other planets. (think big bricks of ice from water pumped up the pipelines through the lift, launched at Mars. Water for terraforming Mars, ocean level rising problem solved
huh? Look deeper in prefs. Menu > Settings > Sounds > Camera sound = none. Most phones allow that.
Digital cameras are silent, and the phone usually makes the noise just to let you know that it actually did make the photo.
In the works: New, government-approved DRM-enabled version of the zipper, that allows unzipping only after obtaining proper certificate from the local authority (e.g. public toilet). It is believed to reduce number of rapes by at least 98%.
New, improved, never-jamming zipper for use in trousers/jeans has been developed, which takes only 2s to take your pants off, and it is causing rape concerns.
They spend 500 millions from taxpayer's money. It cost them nothing, they just got the grant. Then the manager decides it won't be quite as profitable as they thought because only one in a million suffers from this particular disease and production of this drug probably won't cover the costs, so the project gets cancelled. But they have the patent already, and even if someone was willing to help these 1 in million, who suffer because there's no drug that would help them, the particular drug is patented, and the owner of the patent doesn't want to sell it. Or sues the fundation that researched the drug independently, for patent infringement.
As long as patents help fund innovation, they are okay. But more and more often they just help profit from obstructing innovation, instead of getting profit from what you did, and staying ahead, you get profit from directly stopping others from doing what you did. Like a racer who wins a unit of race and gets a bonus, instead of using it to gain further on others or catch a break, they spend extra time to push others, trip them or stand in their way, not letting them pass.
ObLink for any pre-ff7 Final Fantasy:
http://www.nuklearpower.com/
Features always can be added. Compatibile apps can be written. That's the easy part. The real hurdle is getting an elephantine system like XP or Longhorn, with ready-made apps that are designed with such slow huge system in mind (that is, their design neglects possiblity of the system being much faster, so even system corrections won't speed them up) to act better. And if response times are shorter, to use them efficiently, the code MUST be faster. So compare difficulty of creating 200 lines of efficient, fast, lean code from scratch and then writing another 10000 lines of "any" code that should cooperate with it, but should be readable and flexible rather than ultra-fast, with difficulty of making 200 lines of existing sloppy code 5 times faster than they are, without breaking 10000 lines that depend on it.
Storage: 5 megabytes
Weight: 4 pounds,
Spin-up sound: Impressive,
Geekness factor: High,
Power Usage: Excessive,
Shutdown method: c:\dos\park.com,
Interface: ISA card,
Linux support: Yes,
Windows support: No,
Badsectors: Probably,
Transfer rates: Who cares?
Yep, and suddenly find out that your 64Kb iButton fits 8 kilobytes of data, then find out it actually is 64 kilobits...
Sorry, whoever modded the above "informative" has no clue. Chip memory capacites are given in bits, not bytes.
The chip is 2 gigabytes.
I wonder why the hell these toys don't include SD/CF card readers. Tiny removable storage, up to 2GB or so, don't need it - don't use it (and don't pay for it), speeds perfectly sufficient for stuff like MP3, and if you want more music, just buy a few more cards.
Sure stuff may be -smaller- now. But what about cheaper? Will it cost less than equivalent in smaller chips? As for memory density, 1 or 2GB SD cards are quite tiny already, stuffing the same technology in volume of a harddrive (well, CD-ROM maybe) would allow for a terabyte of solid state storage easily. But the price and speed are somewhat beyond reach... I really wish for CHEAP flash more than for BIG flash.
Except that the cheap batteries are like 100-300mAh, good rechargables are 900-2000, meaning at least three times longer without a change/recharge. So if you buy crappy batteries, don't complain you need to change them too often.
I've seen a smart mouse: The receiver was a lightweight recharge PLUG. When the mouse ran out of juice, you'd just plug the receiver in, and could continue using the mouse as a wired standard wired mouse, until recharged.
Well, if you use 2 keyboards and 2 mice at once (or exchanging them in short intervals) and especially if you like to type while holding the keyboard on your lap, all the cables really fast form some kind of wild braid. Restricting your desktop to 2 wired and 2 wireless devices results at worst in a twisted pair, which is pretty easy to untangle.
On the other hand, I never found myself looking where the fuck is my keyboard, when I was using the wired one. One day I found my wireless keyboard in the kitchen, you tell me how I brought it there without even realizing...
Be sure Microsoft will follow with a 103 button version closely.
And I never liked pressing down on the mouse wheel because it can turn unless you're careful about applying the pressure
:1+, "scroll right" to :1- and have vertical AND horizontal scroll with a single mouse button: Normal turn - vertical scroll. Turn while having it pressed - horizontal scroll.
That's exactly why I DO like pressing down on the mouse wheel.
Install MozGest and map "scroll left" to
Of course if you want just to press middle, thumb button is priceless.
Well, I made a friend's laptop to make an awful screech of a rusty gate when the lid is being open, and closing the lid emits a corresponding loud, heavy slam.
All in software, mind you!
Why the fuck install 8 separate resistors on output?! These are light emitting DIODES, there's no way a "high" state output would short to the "low" state one, just put one friggin resistor between the outputs and Ground and be done with it!
WEll, I HAve thiS WInAmP PLUgin thaT BLInkS KEyBoARD leds WITh thE MUsic!
Logitech Smart Mouse:
Features:
10-key keyboard in QWERTY layout
Stereo audio
LCD color VGA display
8 signal LEDs
WiFi
Intel Pentium Centrino(tm) 2.5GHZ CPU
512MB RAM
Weight: 3.1kg (not including batteries)
Dimensions: 30x15x5cm
Power usage: 40 Watt
Battery: 2 Li-ion batteries of 40Ah each
Battery life in sleep mode: 32h
Battery life when mouse used: 4h
DeLuxe model includes power steering allowing for almost frictionless and momentum-less movement.
Well, in this gravity, just lifting your fork with a piece of it would be enough.
So... 10% is 1 in 9? What the hell is going on? Is pi equal to 3 now?
No, no, no. The article got it wrong! 10% is 1 in 10, and pi remains to be 3.333333... as it's always been/
On the bright side, this is vastly better success ratio than SCO had.