No sorry, it can't. A rail gun works by having the projectile complete a circuit between the rails in the gun, and using the electromagnetic force to propel it. That also means you can't just coat it with anything, it has to be electrically conductive.
It wouldn't be impossible to have the projectile floating using a mag-lev like gun, or a coil gun, but it's a lot more advanced to time precisely.
You could also look at it in another wavelength than the current 700 nm. While it works at that wavelength, the materials are very hard (impossible?) to tune to a broader spectrum. So it might be useful against, say, radar, but too impractical to cover visible light.
If you haven't tried anything later than RC1, it's your own fault. RC2 has a huge performance increase compared to RC1, and people say the RTM-build is even better than RC2.
I wouldn't know - some keywords are still to this day restricted in Windows.
Running Windows XP SP2, I can't create folders named "prn" or "con". It's outrageously silly.
As to TPB aiding in copyright infringements, they were aiding about as much as google or any other seach engine would. They were just a specialized search engine that happened to return a lot of results pointing to copyrighted materials.
That's like saying [Assault rifles] were aiding [in killing] about as much as [Remingtons] or any other [rifle] would. They were just a specialized [weapon] that happened to return a lot of [bullets in a short time] pointing to[wards people].
Yes, slap me for using silly analogies.
Yes. I have more legs than the average human population, I have 2. If we say that 1 out of every 1,000 people only have one leg, no people have zero legs, and that 1 out of every 10,000,000 people have three legs, and the current world population is 6.5 billion (10^9), that'd make the average number of legs 1.9997:)
2 is greater than 1.9997, therefore I have more legs than the average, woohoo!
It would also be nice if you could activate the light without the other hand, like by knocking it or shaking it a few times.
My "old" Casio Protrek watch does this. However it's ridicously large, and the when enabled, the backlighting tend to go off pretty often, as it's just a simple flip that's required.
While I agree with your point, remember that when looking at a CRT you aren't seeing the electrons. That is impossible (wavelengths and such). What you're seeing is photons emitted by a layer of phosphorous (or similar material) that is excited by an electron.
No, I wouldn't extend this to saying "You can't see anything, as all you see is photons reflected or emitted by whatever you're looking at", as this is different. If, in a game of pool, a cue ball hits the eight ball, and the eight ball gets pocketed, you wouldn't say it was the cue ball.
I have an old Casio Protrek - while it has a regular LCD display, it does feature the ability to turn on the backlight simply by tilting the watch. Pretty neat, and doesn't get activated by mistake *too much*. However, the watch itself is fairly big and bulky, so I rarely wear it.
Imo the different package managers far outweighs the Windows method of distribution programs. Sure, it's nice to be able to download one single file and install it, but doing a pacman -Syu (or whatever), and getting a 100% updated system is a lot smarter.
I have a Sony Ericsson phone, and use FMA (http://fma.sourceforge.net/).
Microsoft has also made a free program for Windows XP (One of the Powertoys, IIRC), that should work with any bluetooth phone and computer. My computer doesn't have bluetooth capability, so I haven't tried it.
Well, first of all, there's no tires on the rovers;).
But I don't think there's problems with cameras, arms and whatever the rover has got, many such things back on earth often last much longer than a year - granted, they aren't in such a harsh environment, but then again, they weren't designed by NASA engineers.
I believe the biggest problem is the capacity of the battery, which, due to the memory-effect ought to be way lower than it is, but the big surprise is that it isn't. The fact that dust can be rumbled off the solar panels when driving upwards probably helps on the powerlevels too.
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I do believe you meant page 43. Page 48 is the last slide.
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No sorry, it can't.
A rail gun works by having the projectile complete a circuit between the rails in the gun, and using the electromagnetic force to propel it. That also means you can't just coat it with anything, it has to be electrically conductive.
It wouldn't be impossible to have the projectile floating using a mag-lev like gun, or a coil gun, but it's a lot more advanced to time precisely.
You could also look at it in another wavelength than the current 700 nm. While it works at that wavelength, the materials are very hard (impossible?) to tune to a broader spectrum. So it might be useful against, say, radar, but too impractical to cover visible light.
If you haven't tried anything later than RC1, it's your own fault. RC2 has a huge performance increase compared to RC1, and people say the RTM-build is even better than RC2.
Some gain a second, some lose a second. It'll all even out in the end, I hope.
I wouldn't know - some keywords are still to this day restricted in Windows. Running Windows XP SP2, I can't create folders named "prn" or "con". It's outrageously silly.
As to TPB aiding in copyright infringements, they were aiding about as much as google or any other seach engine would. They were just a specialized search engine that happened to return a lot of results pointing to copyrighted materials.
That's like saying [Assault rifles] were aiding [in killing] about as much as [Remingtons] or any other [rifle] would. They were just a specialized [weapon] that happened to return a lot of [bullets in a short time] pointing to[wards people]. Yes, slap me for using silly analogies.
Nullsoft Beep perhaps?
Solar activity is supposed to peak at the end of '12 too. Appearantly it's going to be more powerful than usual. It's surely the end of the world!
Yes. I have more legs than the average human population, I have 2. If we say that 1 out of every 1,000 people only have one leg, no people have zero legs, and that 1 out of every 10,000,000 people have three legs, and the current world population is 6.5 billion (10^9), that'd make the average number of legs 1.9997 :)
2 is greater than 1.9997, therefore I have more legs than the average, woohoo!
When the keypad is locked, certain combinations of buttons still work. This seems to be the cause of a number of dud entries into my phonebook.
I have no idea if it's related, but on my Sony Ericsson phone, emergency numbers (000, 112, 911 etc) still works, even if the keypad is locked.
It would also be nice if you could activate the light without the other hand, like by knocking it or shaking it a few times. My "old" Casio Protrek watch does this. However it's ridicously large, and the when enabled, the backlighting tend to go off pretty often, as it's just a simple flip that's required.
While I agree with your point, remember that when looking at a CRT you aren't seeing the electrons. That is impossible (wavelengths and such). What you're seeing is photons emitted by a layer of phosphorous (or similar material) that is excited by an electron. No, I wouldn't extend this to saying "You can't see anything, as all you see is photons reflected or emitted by whatever you're looking at", as this is different. If, in a game of pool, a cue ball hits the eight ball, and the eight ball gets pocketed, you wouldn't say it was the cue ball.
I bet Tokyo Sexwale can't register either!
I have an old Casio Protrek - while it has a regular LCD display, it does feature the ability to turn on the backlight simply by tilting the watch. Pretty neat, and doesn't get activated by mistake *too much*. However, the watch itself is fairly big and bulky, so I rarely wear it.
Imo the different package managers far outweighs the Windows method of distribution programs. Sure, it's nice to be able to download one single file and install it, but doing a pacman -Syu (or whatever), and getting a 100% updated system is a lot smarter.
I have a Sony Ericsson phone, and use FMA (http://fma.sourceforge.net/). Microsoft has also made a free program for Windows XP (One of the Powertoys, IIRC), that should work with any bluetooth phone and computer. My computer doesn't have bluetooth capability, so I haven't tried it.
Well, first of all, there's no tires on the rovers ;).
But I don't think there's problems with cameras, arms and whatever the rover has got, many such things back on earth often last much longer than a year - granted, they aren't in such a harsh environment, but then again, they weren't designed by NASA engineers.
I believe the biggest problem is the capacity of the battery, which, due to the memory-effect ought to be way lower than it is, but the big surprise is that it isn't. The fact that dust can be rumbled off the solar panels when driving upwards probably helps on the powerlevels too.
Opportunity? That's got to be about as old, hasn't it?
That would most likely be either the 5408th, 37322nd, 56446th or the 74353rd.
A beowulf cluster of those, only used by old people in South Korea.
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