Hah, those car manufacturers sure are a bunch of assholes! They put heaters on the INSIDE of the windshield to try and melt the ice on the OUTSIDE! Ha ha ha ha ha! Losers! You should write and tell them.
Heh! I guessed you meant gig but I couldn't resist.
Ah, back in the day, you could copy half a dozen hard disks onto one $10 removable medium. Those were simpler, happier times (once you had sorted the aspi out).
CCTV must have come on in leaps and bounds recently. The pictures from CCTV footage that are shown on tv (Does anyone recognise this man seen robbing a post office last week) are usually of appalling quality.
Ahah!
a)Smash the waste into its component atoms and separate by gravitic lensing (like a prism does for light).
or b) smash into component particles and build your own atoms (might be tricky to grab them if you can't know position and direction at same time).
Such a shame that all that money is spent on equipment and then it is used for dull-assed sports coverage. Why not cut back a little and buy an extra handicam for the news reporters so that they can produce more than 30 seconds of endlessly repeated news footage.
To the vast crowds of whiny would-be photographers bleating about how the lens on a camera phone is so much crummier than the one on a digital camera, I would like to say 'No Shit, Sherlock!'.
The phone manufacturers are competing on pixel count at the moment (because it is easy to measure and quote), when they all get to a few megapixels then they will compete on visual quality and you will see better lenses.
I will be glad when they put hard disks into phones so i can use it as data transport. Oh, and while I am ranting:"Make phones bigger and heavier by fitting more batteries and sockets! The western world is overweight and drives everywhere. We don't need to design phones to be so tiny that we sacrifice use time or keyboard operability FFS! "
I feel better now.
For me, it is when I am informed of the device's capabilities and price and this data provokes an involuntary choking laughter (which sounds a bit like a dog barking).
I was going to say something similar. I worked in a factory production line for 12 years doing 50 to 60 hours a week, then i drove light commercial vehicles for another 6 years doing 50 to 60 hour weeks. I am talking about EVERY week, not a 'death march' for a couple of months. It was worth it though, some months I got paid $1400.
IIRC the XB-70 Valkyrie was going to use a boron (although aluminium was mooted) based powder as fuel but it was more trouble than it was worth and it instead used 'ordinary' engines and fuel.
...vehicle that can go 200kph (125mph) to drive to K*Mart?
Well maybe if it can do 125mph on the flat, then it can do 55mph up a hill without overheating or overstressing everything.
If we can dangle a length of string from the visible face of the moon towards earth and put a brick on the end, making sure that the string is short enough so the brick dangles just outside the atmosphere: 1. The earths gravity will pull on the brick and keep the string taut.
2. The brick will skim the outer atmosphere at about (pulls figures from ass) 1500 to 2000 mph.
3. Any craft that can do 2000 mph at very high altitude can grab the brick and then climb to the moon.
I will leave others to spec the string and brick. And do the calculations. And which way to the patent office?
I still think that unless they employee will be communicating entirely by the medium of the resume, the weeding out process is sub-optimal if you are left with no staff.
Do you have time to cover for the staff you can't recruit?
Good luck with the bluffer who paid someone to professionally typeset and bind his resume. He will surely get the job.
How about asking the people with the right techie skills to write a report or send in a report they have done? Maybe they put in a poor resume because they are confident their massive abilities will get them the job at interview?
Weed out 70% because of something you don't need them to do in their job? Way to go! Do you can applicants with ginger hair, too?
Doh! Anyway, even 24 seconds isn't long. When the elderly or those encumbered with children/luggage use automobiles, they only slow down their own departure when they get back out of the car to check that they didn't leave their bag/keys/phone/shopping on the roof. With this lame transport system they will reduce the bandwidth of the whole station.
What? It takes 8 seconds for each car to pull up, open the doors, 3 people to get in, check they have all their crap (with kids, whether the child has dropped its teddy/mittens/drink/shoes)close the doors, select a destination and the car pull out of the bay for the next one?
Have the people who pulled this stat out of their asses never got in a vehicle?
Okay. How hard is it for government forces to get hold of the footage shot by privately owned cameras?
Contrast this by the ease with which a private citizen can get hold of footage from a government owned survillence camera.
..the british government will be demanding that ISP's alert them whenever one of its' serfs has control of a gun. The firearms unit will be helicoptering its way to your house before any deer show up on your monitor.
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Good point, But what was the atmosphere like in those days? was it more oxygen rich?
Hah, those car manufacturers sure are a bunch of assholes! They put heaters on the INSIDE of the windshield to try and melt the ice on the OUTSIDE! Ha ha ha ha ha! Losers! You should write and tell them.
Hmm... even if flapping wings are more effective than fixed wings, they can't scale too well or there would be more large flying things about, no?
Ok so you put voting machines in a buggy to harvest the Amish vote...
FOOLS! Amish won't use a MACHINE to vote!
Heh! I guessed you meant gig but I couldn't resist.
Ah, back in the day, you could copy half a dozen hard disks onto one $10 removable medium. Those were simpler, happier times (once you had sorted the aspi out).
CCTV must have come on in leaps and bounds recently. The pictures from CCTV footage that are shown on tv (Does anyone recognise this man seen robbing a post office last week) are usually of appalling quality.
Wow, tricky one! I can see dee problem. Can anyone see dee solution. Is the total less than 700 MB?
Ahah!
a)Smash the waste into its component atoms and separate by gravitic lensing (like a prism does for light).
or b) smash into component particles and build your own atoms (might be tricky to grab them if you can't know position and direction at same time).
Such a shame that all that money is spent on equipment and then it is used for dull-assed sports coverage. Why not cut back a little and buy an extra handicam for the news reporters so that they can produce more than 30 seconds of endlessly repeated news footage.
To the vast crowds of whiny would-be photographers bleating about how the lens on a camera phone is so much crummier than the one on a digital camera, I would like to say 'No Shit, Sherlock!'. :"Make phones bigger and heavier by fitting more batteries and sockets! The western world is overweight and drives everywhere. We don't need to design phones to be so tiny that we sacrifice use time or keyboard operability FFS! "
The phone manufacturers are competing on pixel count at the moment (because it is easy to measure and quote), when they all get to a few megapixels then they will compete on visual quality and you will see better lenses.
I will be glad when they put hard disks into phones so i can use it as data transport.
Oh, and while I am ranting
I feel better now.
For me, it is when I am informed of the device's capabilities and price and this data provokes an involuntary choking laughter (which sounds a bit like a dog barking).
Wow, I'd like to see Word 97 rewritten so that it only needed a 50MHz CPU. Back in the day, lots of graphic intensive games ran on a 50MHz CPU.
I was going to say something similar. I worked in a factory production line for 12 years doing 50 to 60 hours a week, then i drove light commercial vehicles for another 6 years doing 50 to 60 hour weeks. I am talking about EVERY week, not a 'death march' for a couple of months. It was worth it though, some months I got paid $1400.
IIRC the XB-70 Valkyrie was going to use a boron (although aluminium was mooted) based powder as fuel but it was more trouble than it was worth and it instead used 'ordinary' engines and fuel.
If the carbon nanotubes fragment then I shall be making my space elevator out of something else.
...vehicle that can go 200kph (125mph) to drive to K*Mart? Well maybe if it can do 125mph on the flat, then it can do 55mph up a hill without overheating or overstressing everything.
Bah! If you got the deal you want, the bastards would just blatently product place inside the shows and get another revenue stream.
If we can dangle a length of string from the visible face of the moon towards earth and put a brick on the end, making sure that the string is short enough so the brick dangles just outside the atmosphere:
1. The earths gravity will pull on the brick and keep the string taut.
2. The brick will skim the outer atmosphere at about (pulls figures from ass) 1500 to 2000 mph.
3. Any craft that can do 2000 mph at very high altitude can grab the brick and then climb to the moon.
I will leave others to spec the string and brick. And do the calculations. And which way to the patent office?
I still think that unless they employee will be communicating entirely by the medium of the resume, the weeding out process is sub-optimal if you are left with no staff.
Do you have time to cover for the staff you can't recruit?
Good luck with the bluffer who paid someone to professionally typeset and bind his resume. He will surely get the job.
How about asking the people with the right techie skills to write a report or send in a report they have done? Maybe they put in a poor resume because they are confident their massive abilities will get them the job at interview?
Weed out 70% because of something you don't need them to do in their job? Way to go! Do you can applicants with ginger hair, too?
Doh! Anyway, even 24 seconds isn't long. When the elderly or those encumbered with children/luggage use automobiles, they only slow down their own departure when they get back out of the car to check that they didn't leave their bag/keys/phone/shopping on the roof. With this lame transport system they will reduce the bandwidth of the whole station.
What? It takes 8 seconds for each car to pull up, open the doors, 3 people to get in, check they have all their crap (with kids, whether the child has dropped its teddy/mittens/drink/shoes)close the doors, select a destination and the car pull out of the bay for the next one?
Have the people who pulled this stat out of their asses never got in a vehicle?
If it can do that, then let's use geothermal power. Throw some of those Acoustic Stirling things down a hole and shut down the reactors.
Okay. How hard is it for government forces to get hold of the footage shot by privately owned cameras? Contrast this by the ease with which a private citizen can get hold of footage from a government owned survillence camera.
..the british government will be demanding that ISP's alert them whenever one of its' serfs has control of a gun. The firearms unit will be helicoptering its way to your house before any deer show up on your monitor.