Are you trying to plot your position on a map as you go along, like inertial navigation? Think more of plotting the path you think you followed on a clear sheet then place that sheet over a map to the same scale and stretch the clear sheet around to make the route fit over the possible roads on the map. Maybe in an american urban grid you would struggle, but here in the uk you would be able to recognise many routes and eliminate many others.
I reckon if you had enough info from the accelerometers to identify turns, combined with timing, you could do a 'best-fit' over a road map and get a damn good idea of the route taken.
That's put my mind at rest. Good job computer memory only gets more expensive and reduces in capacity over time or else it would be possible to use the acceleration forces to make a map of your route and overlay this on a real map to find out where and when. And god forbid global positioning hardware or mobile phone technology gets built into cars.
Someone somewhere will have published a novel about a bunch of lying thieving scumbag politicians working only to enrich themselves who bring in a load of legislation and powers that enable a police state. That person can then issue takedown notices against ALL government servers.
Overstimulating? A colour? I seriously cannot tell you what colour the other rooms in the house are without going and looking. You make me feel like I am missing out on something.
Yeah, this was one of my big gripes, too. That and stopping the entire bulk copy/move when just one file has a read error. I think win7 or vista has fixed this but I won't know for sure till i get given an obsolete pc in about 5 years.
Well heck now, when I were a youngster like you fellows, we didn't have no fancy cell telephones nor many kids' tv shows to distract us. We watched the news which was full of bombs being dropped and people being maimed or killed, plus the constant threat of a theatre nuclear war that would destroy our society even faster than the closing down of all the mining, steelworks and other industry. We had to go to arcades to play games that slaughtered masses of aliens or humans and when we didn't have the money for that we would borrow 'video nasties' full of gore from each other. Yup, i have been a-playing violent video games for over thirty years. I don't know when I am going to snap and slaughter the neighbourhood, but it had better be soon as I am declining in fitness, visual acuity, hand-eye coordination and hearing at an accelerating rate.
Bah! I hate having to dick around with stupid flash animated picture galleries etc. Give me a nice html page with ftp links to your content, I may be on a slow gprs link and viewing the content on a separate device. Too many duhsigners and arsetists.
It is not impossible to make only the banking asshats suffer. Declare them economic terrorists and seize their assets, waterboard the full story out of them, promote the innocent underlings. Those recently promoted will get a strong message not to take risks that could screw the economy up.
I would like to see open source used more, but it won't save taxpayers money. If the government has a billion pounds in tax money and spends £500 million on Microsoft Office and £500 million on limos, coke, whores and personal swiss bank accounts, what will happen if they ditch MS Office and get free software?
a) They reduce tax by £500 million. b) They reduce tax by more than £500 million by also paying back the money they embezzled. c) They spend £1 billion on limos, coke, whores and personal swiss bank accounts.
Well, if the drones can stun evildoers for collection by ground forces, just give them a cut of the Information Retrieval Procedure fees collected from the evildoer. Simple.
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With modern CGI techniques, surely faking moon landings should be getting cheaper?
I agree totally about the stupidity of the average person. Horrifyingly, nearly 50% of people are even stupider!
Ow! Ow! My hands and wrists are remembering that game. Ow!
Jeepers, those joysticks were sturdy.
I suspect that an _individual_ is being paid to risk losing his job if his _employers'_servers_ get kicked off the net.
I would argue that streaming is even worse as you have to download every time you watch. Cloud computing might just increase traffic too.
Are you trying to plot your position on a map as you go along, like inertial navigation? Think more of plotting the path you think you followed on a clear sheet then place that sheet over a map to the same scale and stretch the clear sheet around to make the route fit over the possible roads on the map. Maybe in an american urban grid you would struggle, but here in the uk you would be able to recognise many routes and eliminate many others.
I reckon if you had enough info from the accelerometers to identify turns, combined with timing, you could do a 'best-fit' over a road map and get a damn good idea of the route taken.
That's put my mind at rest. Good job computer memory only gets more expensive and reduces in capacity over time or else it would be possible to use the acceleration forces to make a map of your route and overlay this on a real map to find out where and when. And god forbid global positioning hardware or mobile phone technology gets built into cars.
Someone somewhere will have published a novel about a bunch of lying thieving scumbag politicians working only to enrich themselves who bring in a load of legislation and powers that enable a police state. That person can then issue takedown notices against ALL government servers.
Overstimulating? A colour? I seriously cannot tell you what colour the other rooms in the house are without going and looking. You make me feel like I am missing out on something.
In my day we studied full otics, you lazy youngster!
Really? I would imagine that people would be growing more cynical with each purchase which is glossily-advertised but proves disappointing in reality.
Yeah, this was one of my big gripes, too. That and stopping the entire bulk copy/move when just one file has a read error. I think win7 or vista has fixed this but I won't know for sure till i get given an obsolete pc in about 5 years.
Well heck now, when I were a youngster like you fellows, we didn't have no fancy cell telephones nor many kids' tv shows to distract us. We watched the news which was full of bombs being dropped and people being maimed or killed, plus the constant threat of a theatre nuclear war that would destroy our society even faster than the closing down of all the mining, steelworks and other industry. We had to go to arcades to play games that slaughtered masses of aliens or humans and when we didn't have the money for that we would borrow 'video nasties' full of gore from each other. Yup, i have been a-playing violent video games for over thirty years. I don't know when I am going to snap and slaughter the neighbourhood, but it had better be soon as I am declining in fitness, visual acuity, hand-eye coordination and hearing at an accelerating rate.
Thanks, but after re-reading, I think i should have said dark panels and night-time as that would have been funnier. The overrated was right.
All these idiots working on solar panels when what is really needed is overcast panels to get power from gloomy days when you use more light bulbs.
What would help is distance. Have clear open space so the energy can be dissipated over a longer time.
Nearly. You can only have your phone there during the day. Don't keep it there overnight as the LCI may be triggered by the dew.
..and your shit's all retarded.
Is it people preferring to pay thousands, or companies deciding to pay thousands?
Can they be any bigger than the emails dumbass users send around anyway? Single Lolcat pictures as ppt? A dozen numbers as a honking big Excel file?
Bah! I hate having to dick around with stupid flash animated picture galleries etc. Give me a nice html page with ftp links to your content, I may be on a slow gprs link and viewing the content on a separate device.
Too many duhsigners and arsetists.
It is not impossible to make only the banking asshats suffer. Declare them economic terrorists and seize their assets, waterboard the full story out of them, promote the innocent underlings. Those recently promoted will get a strong message not to take risks that could screw the economy up.
I would like to see open source used more, but it won't save taxpayers money.
If the government has a billion pounds in tax money and spends £500 million on Microsoft Office and £500 million on limos, coke, whores and personal swiss bank accounts, what will happen if they ditch MS Office and get free software?
a) They reduce tax by £500 million.
b) They reduce tax by more than £500 million by also paying back the money they embezzled.
c) They spend £1 billion on limos, coke, whores and personal swiss bank accounts.
Well, if the drones can stun evildoers for collection by ground forces, just give them a cut of the Information Retrieval Procedure fees collected from the evildoer. Simple.