If you ride a bike on a shared footpath in Victoria you are required to warn pedestrians before you approach them. You can do this with a bell or a verbal warning. But the vast majority of pedestrians wear earphones.
So whats the point requiring a warning if it is not going to be heard? The only problem I have with the proposed changes is that it won't be applied to the drivers of vehicles too. Headphones and telephone use should be outlawed entirely.
As a bike rider I don't want distracted pedestrians stepping into my path. Thats as dangerous for me as it is for them.
Brings to mind a water powered extraction fan I saw a couple of years ago. You can install it in a shower cubicle and have it run the fan whenever the water is flowing, and you don't have to run mains power above a wet area.
I had to replace the capacitor in mine after about five years. Did you have the same problem? Its been about eight years on the new capacitor and it seems to be fading again, but not enough for me to want to replace it.
Of course the kinetic watch, and movement powered torches, are bad examples because they are both much more bulky than they need to be. Additionally they are fragile because of the large moving masses they contain.
I suppose the implication here is that if he has a girl or ten in every port, and many of the places he lives are in the third world, then he really could be carrying some serious STDs
I have lots of relatives who use facebook. They are mainly middle aged and most of them are women. They use it to keep an eye on what their peers are up to. Who is having a baby, who is going on holiday. That sort of thing. Facebook has found a use for the internet for these people. I am not sure you can make money off them though.
A better way might be to replace the dishes, cups, etc with little robots. Or possibly build RFID tags into them so that the household robot knows what to pick up, and what to leave alone.
By comparing the light absorbed by the atoms in the gas clouds with the light absorbed by the same species of atoms on Earth, researchers can attempt to calculate the value of the fine-structure constant at different distances and times in the universe.
The article doesn't say how they correct for radial movement (relative to us) in the gas clouds. A cloud experiencing time dilation should absorb different wavelengths of light.
I run linux so I can't use itunes, which partly blocks me from buying music on line. Lately if I want to listen to a track I search for it on youtube and watch a video. Once a week I seem to spend an hour or so clicking through links from one video to another. Youtube has a fantastic collection of early Kate Bush demo recordings.
I bet they charge a lot of money for targeted adds on videos. Google knows my wife wants to buy a new car...
Dell should sell a line of dirt cheap android phones direct to the consumer. Don't lock them down. Let the user install their own OS if they want. Go for quantity. This would work outside the USA where GSM dominates as a standard.
The only added value I see is that you can now completely waterproof a gadget.
I can see the added value for things like electric toothbrushes
My electric toothbrush is already completely waterproof and it's about ten years old (changeable heads).
Yeah but the secondary coil (in the brush) encloses the primary coil (in the stand) which is more efficient that a flat pad. Also the duty cycle of a toothbrush is exactly the opposite of a phone. The phone may have to charge quickly for a day of heavy use.
If you can charge something like a battery over the air with (i'm assuming) magnetic waves.. Is it somehow possible to have the same battery be drained by opposing magnetic waves or some other sort of interference while it is on or off the charger?
No, only if the device cooperates. One exception to note is that if you put the antenna of your phone close to a ground plane (like a metal table top) the transmitter will increase its transmission power, thus draining the battery.
Then there was this story I read about a guy who lived next door to an AM radio station and extracted energy from their cyclone wire fence. Not sure about that one.
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If you ride a bike on a shared footpath in Victoria you are required to warn pedestrians before you approach them. You can do this with a bell or a verbal warning. But the vast majority of pedestrians wear earphones.
So whats the point requiring a warning if it is not going to be heard? The only problem I have with the proposed changes is that it won't be applied to the drivers of vehicles too. Headphones and telephone use should be outlawed entirely.
As a bike rider I don't want distracted pedestrians stepping into my path. Thats as dangerous for me as it is for them.
Brings to mind a water powered extraction fan I saw a couple of years ago. You can install it in a shower cubicle and have it run the fan whenever the water is flowing, and you don't have to run mains power above a wet area.
I had to replace the capacitor in mine after about five years. Did you have the same problem? Its been about eight years on the new capacitor and it seems to be fading again, but not enough for me to want to replace it.
Of course the kinetic watch, and movement powered torches, are bad examples because they are both much more bulky than they need to be. Additionally they are fragile because of the large moving masses they contain.
No, they would be the Wrong Trousers.
I suppose the implication here is that if he has a girl or ten in every port, and many of the places he lives are in the third world, then he really could be carrying some serious STDs
What's a "right-ring female pundit"?
Some sort of birth control device I assume, but obviously not a condom.
I have lots of relatives who use facebook. They are mainly middle aged and most of them are women. They use it to keep an eye on what their peers are up to. Who is having a baby, who is going on holiday. That sort of thing. Facebook has found a use for the internet for these people. I am not sure you can make money off them though.
As long as it satisfies me sexually I don't really mind that much.
I've already got one of thoughs - it's called 'The Wife'.
You must be new to this marriage thing.
I think we will have robotic houses before we have household robots.
A better way might be to replace the dishes, cups, etc with little robots. Or possibly build RFID tags into them so that the household robot knows what to pick up, and what to leave alone.
Good luck with your quest.
I wouldn't mind having a vaguely humanoid robot around the house for when we are away. It could feed the pets and make the house look lived in.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest the British porn industry is the most daring in the industry.
By comparing the light absorbed by the atoms in the gas clouds with the light absorbed by the same species of atoms on Earth, researchers can attempt to calculate the value of the fine-structure constant at different distances and times in the universe.
The article doesn't say how they correct for radial movement (relative to us) in the gas clouds. A cloud experiencing time dilation should absorb different wavelengths of light.
Words which start with "I" are the property of Apple Corp.
Be sure to equip it with a working teleport, even though it does have a perfectly serviceable door.
I assume that profit is "revenue - operational cost", i.e. "advertising - server farm".
That's very different from "getting your money back".
On the other hand there is "not losing ad revenue to video streaming sites".
I run linux so I can't use itunes, which partly blocks me from buying music on line. Lately if I want to listen to a track I search for it on youtube and watch a video. Once a week I seem to spend an hour or so clicking through links from one video to another. Youtube has a fantastic collection of early Kate Bush demo recordings.
I bet they charge a lot of money for targeted adds on videos. Google knows my wife wants to buy a new car...
Dell should sell a line of dirt cheap android phones direct to the consumer. Don't lock them down. Let the user install their own OS if they want. Go for quantity. This would work outside the USA where GSM dominates as a standard.
The only added value I see is that you can now completely waterproof a gadget.
I can see the added value for things like electric toothbrushes
My electric toothbrush is already completely waterproof and it's about ten years old (changeable heads).
Yeah but the secondary coil (in the brush) encloses the primary coil (in the stand) which is more efficient that a flat pad. Also the duty cycle of a toothbrush is exactly the opposite of a phone. The phone may have to charge quickly for a day of heavy use.
The electricity most people use for small electronics pales in comparison to the energy they use for heating and cooling.
Doesn't mean its okay to splash the stuff around now.
If you can charge something like a battery over the air with (i'm assuming) magnetic waves.. Is it somehow possible to have the same battery be drained by opposing magnetic waves or some other sort of interference while it is on or off the charger?
No, only if the device cooperates. One exception to note is that if you put the antenna of your phone close to a ground plane (like a metal table top) the transmitter will increase its transmission power, thus draining the battery.
Then there was this story I read about a guy who lived next door to an AM radio station and extracted energy from their cyclone wire fence. Not sure about that one.
I hoped to see in my lifetime was the ability to safely transmit power wirelessly.
Didn't we have laser powered devices some time ago already?
And solar powered devices. Thats wireless.
I work with several very good programmers older than 60, but that is in a large engineering multinational where people tend to stay for a long time.
I'm SO gonna make a social networking stalker app, and call it Traceroute!
You mean google latitude?