Hmm. Well I don't think we disagree here, but I admit my choice of words was poor. If a fireman could hold the key down and block the channel for a lengthy time, then the system would have a design flaw. My point was that the codec has nothing to do with it.
The mouse I got with my 386DX40 was called a Witty Mouse. I think it was rhyming slang though. Sometimes the cursor would move by itself - it was very erratic, but then work normally for a while the next day. Eventually i discovered that the translucent plastic case was a little too transparent - it was my angle-poise lamp shining through the mouse body and affecting the sensor. It worked fine after I painted it;-)
I didn't exactly meet him, but he did nearly run me over in his dalek undercarriage when I staggered out of a pub, pissed, in Cambridge one night. I remember thinking that his wife was quite fit, but that could have been the beer goggles.
i heard the great Bob Monkhouse once say that mastering the art of faking sincerity was the most important of his accomplishments, although I must admit that I'm hard pushed to think of any others.
The more distant the target, the more you have to lead
Are you sure about this bit?
If a target is 100m away and moving perpendicularly to my line of sight at 1m/s, and my bullet travels at, say, 100m/s, i'd have to lead him by 1 milli-radian, roughly.
If the same target was 1km away, and moving in a similar fashion, my bullet would take 10 seconds to reach him, and he'd have travelled 10m in that time, subtending an angle of, wait for it... 1 milli-radian.
Now I suck at trigonometry, so I could be wrong, but I'd be willing to bet your life on it. Please stand next to the 100m marker (I'm not sure I'd make the shot at 1km) and get ready to run when I shout 'now'.
Yes, that's what I was thinking, although IANAP. This is more along the lines of the time-machine of HG Wells, isn't it? I assumed that inertia and the force counterbalancing gravity would persist throughout the duration of the temporal travel, which in the case of Wells machine, wasn't IIRC instantaneous. Then I wondered about what happens when you experience, say, 10,000 years of gravity in one second. Wouldn't you get flattened, or at least start to sag a bit?
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Hmm. Well I don't think we disagree here, but I admit my choice of words was poor. If a fireman could hold the key down and block the channel for a lengthy time, then the system would have a design flaw. My point was that the codec has nothing to do with it.
BTW, I'm a radio ham :)
Er, a fireman who holds a PTT down for 15 minutes would make the tactical public safety system useless by himself.
The mouse I got with my 386DX40 was called a Witty Mouse. I think it was rhyming slang though. Sometimes the cursor would move by itself - it was very erratic, but then work normally for a while the next day. Eventually i discovered that the translucent plastic case was a little too transparent - it was my angle-poise lamp shining through the mouse body and affecting the sensor. It worked fine after I painted it ;-)
fnord
I didn't exactly meet him, but he did nearly run me over in his dalek undercarriage when I staggered out of a pub, pissed, in Cambridge one night. I remember thinking that his wife was quite fit, but that could have been the beer goggles.
fnord
i heard the great Bob Monkhouse once say that mastering the art of faking sincerity was the most important of his accomplishments, although I must admit that I'm hard pushed to think of any others.
Don't forget the spam!
I thought that was just in the Russian Embassy, although according to the following link, it was probably all of them. http://www.editinternational.com/read.php?id=47ddf19823b89
fnord
Not all that surprising in a population of apes.
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Perhaps. But, you don't get up and move (strafe?) sideways to take the shot. You just point your weapon at a different angle.
Aargh. I thought I'd completely forgotten 'Prisoner - Cell Block H', but you've brought the memories of Bee Smith flooding back.
The more distant the target, the more you have to lead
Are you sure about this bit?
If a target is 100m away and moving perpendicularly to my line of sight at 1m/s, and my bullet travels at, say, 100m/s, i'd have to lead him by 1 milli-radian, roughly.
If the same target was 1km away, and moving in a similar fashion, my bullet would take 10 seconds to reach him, and he'd have travelled 10m in that time, subtending an angle of, wait for it ... 1 milli-radian.
Now I suck at trigonometry, so I could be wrong, but I'd be willing to bet your life on it. Please stand next to the 100m marker (I'm not sure I'd make the shot at 1km) and get ready to run when I shout 'now'.
Isn't it er, you know, "F"?
I remember seeing him come onto the stage at a Republican convention in the 1980's, to the sounds of the Monty python theme tune. I loved it!
I was waiting for the big foot to come out of the sky and squash him, but it didn't.
How about hiding your message in spam? Or a covert channel using timing patterns in port-scans from a botnet?
I am just as happy to call it a small underpowered laptop or whatever the term becomes.
My vote is for 'craptop'.
IANAB, but as I understand it, paying off debt destroys money so that's probably the last thing they want to do.
fnord
I stand corrected. Wikipedia notes that polar bears are so well insulated that they can hardly be seen on thermal imagers.
Ever heard of thermal imagers?
Or Coldplay.
1. Never believe totally in anybody else's BS.
2. Never believe totally in your own BS.
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Belief System = BS. Thus spake Bob. I think he was probably right.
So, faced with the GW debate, perhaps we are best served by being prudent, as parent suggests.
It depends how much weight you put on the lid.
Yes, that's what I was thinking, although IANAP. This is more along the lines of the time-machine of HG Wells, isn't it? I assumed that inertia and the force counterbalancing gravity would persist throughout the duration of the temporal travel, which in the case of Wells machine, wasn't IIRC instantaneous. Then I wondered about what happens when you experience, say, 10,000 years of gravity in one second. Wouldn't you get flattened, or at least start to sag a bit?
Where's the ANY key? I haven't got one, and I don't have a wheel either!