How about using it as a tip for drilling? If so, you'd need to work out how much pressure it could sustain, as well as its hardness factor (on the Mohs Hardness Scale). If it would have explosive tendencies at high pressure, I suggest it not be used to drill for oil. However, it could replace natural diamond to drill for metals, provided it is "harder" than them. If it should explode while drilling for metals, this could be rather useful...
Regarding the screen, it may be scratch resistant, but it's also touch screen. If it's designed for outdoor environments, wouldn't stray branches/falling leaves/rain drops get rather annoying for some if these keep being regarded as user mevements?
Great! So this means I can store all the stuff I need to know for my degree on a disc that one of my lecturers in the department has developed? So if I set up a video camera at the back of the lecture theatre, set it to record...
Say fifteen hours of lectures a week, for 25 weeks of lectures, that makes 375 hours of lectures this year... Should just do it.
Ah, extensive lie-ins await.
Yes, I study Physics at Imperial. Yes, Dr Torok is one of my lecturers. Yes, I should be posting this anonymously.
Given that nuclear power plants use Uranium as the fuel, and the half-lifes of the main isotopes range from 244,000 years to 4,500,000 years, and that you need 10 times the half-life to be sure...
Surely there's a limit as to how small you want everything? WIth mobile phones now being credit card sized, isn't there a limit when it's too expensive and time-consuming to make already-small things even smaller for the expected returns? Or is it just a case of "mine is smaller than yours!"?
Checklist:Got life insurance (limited term), travel insurance (possibly leaving the country's borders), vehicle insurance (protects it against bumps and dents on the way down). Damnit, I can't be the pilot after all. Still, parking attendant could be a dangerous job...
LISTER: Yeah, the Skutters managed to smuggles something out of the medi-lab for us, y'know that stuff that helps impotent guys put the zest back in their love lives?
KRYTEN: 'Boing!', the virility enhancement drug!?
LISTER: That's the stuff, and we've Mickey Finn'd their drinks.
RIMMER: Within seconds, you're harder than a quadratic equation, and, it doesn't wear off for seven hours.
KRYTEN: For seven hours those guys are going to be like catapults!
So it will only direct you to the "correct" page when Google decides that page is the "sure bet" of what you want. What happens when it can't find anything definitive enough from your search terms - would it take you to the Google search page or go to its closest match?
Similar story in the UK not so long ago, the Government wanted to use postal and telephone voting as a means of increasing turnout, but they were seen as open to fraud and abuse (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3602170.st m), including voter intimidation. What is wrong with making it compulsory for people to turn up to a voting station to cast their vote in person? I accept that some people cannot do this, for physical reasons (disabled, etc) or work (emergency services, etc), but if people are saying they're too busy to vote then why not reallocate a public holiday so they don't have to go to work that day? And if voting is compulsory, they cannot complain about who wins in the end. If you don't vote, don't complain!
But if the Judge has to hear the law and the reasons behind it, then the "secret" is out - or will they appoint a "friendly" Judge (a la Hutton) or invoke the US version of the Official Secrets Act? Therefore, what is wrong with releaasing it to the general public, provided they have all signed up to the OSA? And who says the Judge won't reveal it to colleagues, who in turn reveal it to the world? In short, how can the US State Deoartment prosecute somebody for something they cannot possibly know about? And how can Judges prosecute if they don't know the law themselves?
Kinda got one that sounds like that here... 98SE, 128MB RAM, and bugger all else. Oh, and a 28.8 dial-up connection to top it off. Probably the easiest way to get past the 2min posting thing - let the connection take 2min to load the bloody page up! Soe of us are a little reluctant to change...
I usually pick from "noneofyour@business.com", "sod@off.com" or the respective customer services address for the company. BUT they may send you an e-mail with a link you have to click on, in which case I use an unimportant Hotmail account. Always check the small print to see whether you need to read these e-mails, as there are a lot of sites that I visit where you need a valid e-mail address for correspondance/activating membership etc...
I always used to use IE, mainly because I never knew there was a good alternative. Then I met someone at Uni with a pathological dislike of Microsoft, and he showed me stuff like Firefox, GAIM, QCD etc... and I've stopped using the Windows equivalents (IE, MSN Messenger and Windows Media Player) except where absolutely necessary (Windows Updates and stuff like that). Really, just seeing the tabbed browsing and no pop-ups features got me switching that night, and he didn't force me at all. A few months later, of all the people we knew who used IE, all bar one had switched to the equivalent Mozilla one. All you have to do is demonstrate to people how easy it is to use, and that you get no pop-ups (a major irk for my family back home) and they'll soon change. If not, either they *have* to use IE (for whatever reason) or something's wrong with them.
Then when the pipe breaks, and everything crashes, what do you do? At least with everything split up into different services, you can cope if one or two go t**s up. If everything is provided through the same method, and something happens to it, you're kinda screwed.
At least you would only have to complain to one company though...
So the range is approx. 250 miles... On a completely unrelated note, Paris is about 110 miles from the coastline, Berlin is approx. 106 miles, London is about 100km... Oh, and Ottawa is too far from a coastline for it to work. Sorry.
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How about using it as a tip for drilling? If so, you'd need to work out how much pressure it could sustain, as well as its hardness factor (on the Mohs Hardness Scale). If it would have explosive tendencies at high pressure, I suggest it not be used to drill for oil. However, it could replace natural diamond to drill for metals, provided it is "harder" than them. If it should explode while drilling for metals, this could be rather useful...
Such as the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty?
Regarding the screen, it may be scratch resistant, but it's also touch screen. If it's designed for outdoor environments, wouldn't stray branches/falling leaves/rain drops get rather annoying for some if these keep being regarded as user mevements?
Great! So this means I can store all the stuff I need to know for my degree on a disc that one of my lecturers in the department has developed? So if I set up a video camera at the back of the lecture theatre, set it to record...
Say fifteen hours of lectures a week, for 25 weeks of lectures, that makes 375 hours of lectures this year... Should just do it.
Ah, extensive lie-ins await.
Yes, I study Physics at Imperial. Yes, Dr Torok is one of my lecturers. Yes, I should be posting this anonymously.
Given that nuclear power plants use Uranium as the fuel, and the half-lifes of the main isotopes range from 244,000 years to 4,500,000 years, and that you need 10 times the half-life to be sure...
Don't think I'll wait for it myself...
Could have many practical applications for those who are a bit crap at following DIY instructions...
Surely there's a limit as to how small you want everything? WIth mobile phones now being credit card sized, isn't there a limit when it's too expensive and time-consuming to make already-small things even smaller for the expected returns? Or is it just a case of "mine is smaller than yours!"?
Checklist:Got life insurance (limited term), travel insurance (possibly leaving the country's borders), vehicle insurance (protects it against bumps and dents on the way down). Damnit, I can't be the pilot after all. Still, parking attendant could be a dangerous job...
LISTER: Yeah, the Skutters managed to smuggles something out of the medi-lab for us, y'know that stuff that helps impotent guys put the zest back in their love lives?
KRYTEN: 'Boing!', the virility enhancement drug!?
LISTER: That's the stuff, and we've Mickey Finn'd their drinks.
RIMMER: Within seconds, you're harder than a quadratic equation, and, it doesn't wear off for seven hours.
KRYTEN: For seven hours those guys are going to be like catapults!
Red Dwarf, Series 8, Episode 6
It's been mentioned before.
In the UK, would this not count as driving without due care and attention, given that you already are banned from using mobile phones in a vehicle?
So it will only direct you to the "correct" page when Google decides that page is the "sure bet" of what you want. What happens when it can't find anything definitive enough from your search terms - would it take you to the Google search page or go to its closest match?
...didn't a little software company called Microsoft try that once?
If it dies, what are we going to do with all the Trekkies?
Similar story in the UK not so long ago, the Government wanted to use postal and telephone voting as a means of increasing turnout, but they were seen as open to fraud and abuse (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3602170.st m), including voter intimidation. What is wrong with making it compulsory for people to turn up to a voting station to cast their vote in person? I accept that some people cannot do this, for physical reasons (disabled, etc) or work (emergency services, etc), but if people are saying they're too busy to vote then why not reallocate a public holiday so they don't have to go to work that day? And if voting is compulsory, they cannot complain about who wins in the end. If you don't vote, don't complain!
Hopefully not using those electronic voting machines...
Maybe someone should tell Professor Liebstrom to explain it to him...
But if the Judge has to hear the law and the reasons behind it, then the "secret" is out - or will they appoint a "friendly" Judge (a la Hutton) or invoke the US version of the Official Secrets Act? Therefore, what is wrong with releaasing it to the general public, provided they have all signed up to the OSA? And who says the Judge won't reveal it to colleagues, who in turn reveal it to the world? In short, how can the US State Deoartment prosecute somebody for something they cannot possibly know about? And how can Judges prosecute if they don't know the law themselves?
Kinda got one that sounds like that here... 98SE, 128MB RAM, and bugger all else. Oh, and a 28.8 dial-up connection to top it off. Probably the easiest way to get past the 2min posting thing - let the connection take 2min to load the bloody page up! Soe of us are a little reluctant to change...
I usually pick from "noneofyour@business.com", "sod@off.com" or the respective customer services address for the company. BUT they may send you an e-mail with a link you have to click on, in which case I use an unimportant Hotmail account. Always check the small print to see whether you need to read these e-mails, as there are a lot of sites that I visit where you need a valid e-mail address for correspondance/activating membership etc...
I always used to use IE, mainly because I never knew there was a good alternative. Then I met someone at Uni with a pathological dislike of Microsoft, and he showed me stuff like Firefox, GAIM, QCD etc... and I've stopped using the Windows equivalents (IE, MSN Messenger and Windows Media Player) except where absolutely necessary (Windows Updates and stuff like that). Really, just seeing the tabbed browsing and no pop-ups features got me switching that night, and he didn't force me at all. A few months later, of all the people we knew who used IE, all bar one had switched to the equivalent Mozilla one. All you have to do is demonstrate to people how easy it is to use, and that you get no pop-ups (a major irk for my family back home) and they'll soon change. If not, either they *have* to use IE (for whatever reason) or something's wrong with them.
Then when the pipe breaks, and everything crashes, what do you do? At least with everything split up into different services, you can cope if one or two go t**s up. If everything is provided through the same method, and something happens to it, you're kinda screwed. At least you would only have to complain to one company though...
Parents - don't let your kids catch you dialing it up either!
So the range is approx. 250 miles... On a completely unrelated note, Paris is about 110 miles from the coastline, Berlin is approx. 106 miles, London is about 100km... Oh, and Ottawa is too far from a coastline for it to work. Sorry.
Ever heard of Spoonerisms? "Master Of Puppets" was taken already... And it's not a church leader, spelling is wrong. And you can't paste muppets.