I noticed this too. If a Google-sanctioned report had charts of which brands were more reliable, this would do serious damage to the brands that didn't perform so well. No wonder they sidestepped the whole issue!
Australian rock band Skyhooks summed it all up rather well with this hit way back in the 1970's:
Watch a horror movie right there on my TV Horror movie right there on my TV Horror movie right there on my TV Shockin' me right out of my brain Shockin' me right out of my brain
Watch horror movie right there on my TV Horror movie right there on my TV Horror movie right there on my TV Shockin' me right out of my brain Shockin' me right out of my brain
It's bound to get ya in, get ya under your skin Hit you right on the chin, oh yeah It's bound to be a thriller, it's bound to be a chiller It's bound to be a killer, oh yeah
Watch a horror movie right there on my TV Horror movie right there on my TV Horror movie right there on my TV Shockin' me right out of my brain Shockin' me right out of my brain
The planes are a-crashin', the cars are a-smashin' They cops are a-bashin', oh yeah The kids are a-fightin', the fires are a-lightin' The dogs are a-bitin', oh yeah
Watch a horror movie right there on my TV Horror movie right there on my TV Horror movie right there on my TV Shockin' me right out of my brain Shockin' me right out of my brain
You think it's just a movie on a silver screen And they're all actors and fake each scene Maybe you dont care whose gonna lose or win Listen to this and I'll tell you somethin'
It's a horror movie right there on my TV Horror movie right there on my TV Horror movie and there's known abuse Horror movie, it's the six-thirty news Horror movie, it's the six-thirty news...
...$25 million is nothing compared to the profit that his airlines make, for the unfettered right to spew tonnes of greenhouse gases into the air. In fact I think this figure is so low as to be almost insulting.
Sorry Sir Richard, if you ever read this, as much as I admire you (and fly on your planes) I think you should have offered a lot more.
Some years ago there were available sunglasses that did not use tinted lenses, or lenses at all. My mother had a pair. Instead of lenses they had a thin sheet of matt black plastic with a grid of tiny holes. Being so close to your retina, they worked like a bunch of pinhole cameras but the holes were not so small as to do image inversion. It would be easy to make a pair like this. I think they were sold as 'eye relaxation glasses' as their main function was to cut down on the amount of light entering the eyes.
Aerogel sounds good for small particles, but would require physical contact with the pieces. I propose a large coil, maybe 1km diameter that has a strong current running through it. This would fly through areas of microscopic space junk. The coil might induce eddy currents in the space junk and slow their orbital velocity, perhaps over many years. Maybe fly the coil at 45 degrees so the particles are directed toward earth. Well I'm sure someone will (pardon the pun) shoot my idea down as bad physics:)
This idea doesn't sound plausible to me. For one thing, they could track a coin in a mint more easily by just using a coloured coin and monitor it with tracking cameras, no need for any fuddy-duddy RFID stuff. The other is that any such tracking coins would be taken from the production line and accounted for long before they had a chance to get into circulation. Mints aren't amateurs, they have to have a degree of quality assurance that is above the norm.
Very neat, for the backend.
For the frontend, this technique for 3D laser scanning you can do at home using a cheap webcam would be a great match!: http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/rob/david.html
As a plastic scale model kit builder I can think of a number of parts I could scan and replicate!
Ironic that most other sites with an embedded video needs only one click to start it playing; I had to download the WMV then open it. I've even heard of some online bookstore patenting the idea for ordering with single click.
Too bad the poor fellow who put this page together couldn't have taken a leaf outta their book. Maybe he's afraid of the patent holder going after him?
This is old news. Here in Australia there is a company who makes beer glasses ('Head Master' brand) that are used by many pubs ('bars' in US-speak) and clubs, and have been for years. These glasses have been lightly sandblasted on the inside, just on the bottom. The irregular surface makes the beer bubble nicely.
...on any ISS construction mission on Nasa TV, whenever a spacewalker tightens a bolt or moves a plug from one socket to another, Mission Control goes into absolute paroxysms of congratulation? Is it really that difficult? These guys are in an air-conditioned environment, and as well as having trained for years to be able to do it in their sleep, have their 'boss' tell them exactly what to touch at every single minute step along the way, with no distraction from other work colleagues.
I reckon a vast majority of slashdotters shoved into that spacesuit and given a pouch full of toolbits would be capable of doing the same thing, without the years of training.
I can only wish I had a boss like Nasa leaning over my shoulder and congratulating me for every line of code I write!
Me either. I've been an eBay user for eight years and this is the first time I've heard they have a fixed-price site... seriously. Did they ever advertise it? If so, did they just say 'EBay Express' or give something that mentions 'a fixed price site'. And what's wrong with the workings of 'By It Now' anyway?
I was going to post about the misappropriation of microwaves to the space program, but the OP has already done so. Buderi's book about the history of MIT's Rad Lab is fantastic and well worth reading for any geek interested in the history of military electronics.
Well I can't decide whether my question is half-funny or half-serious. Will (or does) the US's Second Amendment ever apply in space? I'm wondering what the policy is for having firearms aboard the ISS? And the proposed Moon Base? Being a supposed international effort, surely the americans will want some form of protection and security there, and since they'll undoubtably be funding the majority of it they'll have the running of it it their way, under their laws. I'm not an american by the way.
You're applying US money-counting methods, where you have to see the face of the note, ie. take it out of your wallet or spread it wide enough to see the figures. You can count aussie currency without taking it out of your wallet and without spreading the wallet wide. It's less visible to others near you. Edge on, it's easy to count. So in this regard, it's more secure even from a personal carrying point of view.
I agree with all those points, including the hurdles in getting resources going such as icons - could be lot easier. Also, talking to legacy stuff via COM interop is really well done. As has been mentioned it takes almost no effort to do it. Building forms and dialogs is real easy and the IDE remarkably stable. I got sick of doing all the plumbing and myriad datatypes for COM in C++ but I can really get some work done in C#!
Saw this on 'The New Inventors' program here in Oz where it won last year's prize for best invention.
I was amazed at the amount of oil that can come out of a tire, as well as the steel, fibre and rubber:
http://www.molectra.com.au/technology.aspx
...Australia's universities turn out ten legal graduates for every medical graduate, so rest assured there'll be enough lawyers to go around. In the meantime, don't have a heart attack or a toothache.
Ahh yep, sorry, you're right - I shoulda looked on my bookshelf before posting;) It was some time ago I read it; also read Bear's work so I confused the two. Thanks for the clarification. 'Manifold' sounds like a good story too, similar to Blish's(?) story 'Bleep' or something like that, in which a 'Dirac transmitter' has an annoying squawk on each message which after analysis turns out to be every message sent in the future, compressed.
In this rather good novel a physicist attempts to use tachyons to send a signal back in time to stop a runaway ocean pollution reaction that kills off a lot of life on earth. They calculate where the earth was at a particular point in time and space decades earlier, where another researcher had an experiment set up. He thinks he's getting some random interference until he starts noting down the times and then realises it's Morse code. Quite a good story, surely others here have read it?
I had the same thought exactly - is this some sort of joke?
Why take the crew vertically down the side of the rocket, closer to the out-of-control conflagration before sending the carriage outwards from the pad?
How many seconds would be wasted getting into the carriage and strapping in?
What if one of the crew were injured and could not make it out the cabin as quickly - would the others hold the carriage until that person was out (thus endangering themselves more than necessary) instead of each crewmember individually performing their escape down a wire, taking them as fast as possible away from the pad,?
Alternately, what's wrong with the tried-and-tested solid rocket escape tower as others have mentioned?
Surely it is a joke.
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I noticed this too. If a Google-sanctioned report had charts of which brands were more reliable, this would do serious damage to the brands that didn't perform so well. No wonder they sidestepped the whole issue!
Australian rock band Skyhooks summed it all up rather well with this hit way back in the 1970's:
Watch a horror movie right there on my TV
Horror movie right there on my TV
Horror movie right there on my TV
Shockin' me right out of my brain
Shockin' me right out of my brain
Watch horror movie right there on my TV
Horror movie right there on my TV
Horror movie right there on my TV
Shockin' me right out of my brain
Shockin' me right out of my brain
It's bound to get ya in, get ya under your skin
Hit you right on the chin, oh yeah
It's bound to be a thriller, it's bound to be a chiller
It's bound to be a killer, oh yeah
Watch a horror movie right there on my TV
Horror movie right there on my TV
Horror movie right there on my TV
Shockin' me right out of my brain
Shockin' me right out of my brain
The planes are a-crashin', the cars are a-smashin'
They cops are a-bashin', oh yeah
The kids are a-fightin', the fires are a-lightin'
The dogs are a-bitin', oh yeah
Watch a horror movie right there on my TV
Horror movie right there on my TV
Horror movie right there on my TV
Shockin' me right out of my brain
Shockin' me right out of my brain
You think it's just a movie on a silver screen
And they're all actors and fake each scene
Maybe you dont care whose gonna lose or win
Listen to this and I'll tell you somethin'
It's a horror movie right there on my TV
Horror movie right there on my TV
Horror movie and there's known abuse
Horror movie, it's the six-thirty news
Horror movie, it's the six-thirty news...
...$25 million is nothing compared to the profit that his airlines make, for the unfettered right to spew tonnes of greenhouse gases into the air. In fact I think this figure is so low as to be almost insulting.
Sorry Sir Richard, if you ever read this, as much as I admire you (and fly on your planes) I think you should have offered a lot more.
Some years ago there were available sunglasses that did not use tinted lenses, or lenses at all. My mother had a pair. Instead of lenses they had a thin sheet of matt black plastic with a grid of tiny holes. Being so close to your retina, they worked like a bunch of pinhole cameras but the holes were not so small as to do image inversion. It would be easy to make a pair like this. I think they were sold as 'eye relaxation glasses' as their main function was to cut down on the amount of light entering the eyes.
Aerogel sounds good for small particles, but would require physical contact with the pieces. I propose a large coil, maybe 1km diameter that has a strong current running through it. This would fly through areas of microscopic space junk. The coil might induce eddy currents in the space junk and slow their orbital velocity, perhaps over many years. Maybe fly the coil at 45 degrees so the particles are directed toward earth. Well I'm sure someone will (pardon the pun) shoot my idea down as bad physics :)
"Please remember that there are many other significant changes in Windows Vista that fail outside the kernel proper and therefore won't be covered."
A friend of mine who has horses calls them 'Japanese riding boots'.
This idea doesn't sound plausible to me. For one thing, they could track a coin in a mint more easily by just using a coloured coin and monitor it with tracking cameras, no need for any fuddy-duddy RFID stuff. The other is that any such tracking coins would be taken from the production line and accounted for long before they had a chance to get into circulation. Mints aren't amateurs, they have to have a degree of quality assurance that is above the norm.
Very neat, for the backend.
For the frontend, this technique for 3D laser scanning you can do at home using a cheap webcam would be a great match!:
http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/rob/david.html
As a plastic scale model kit builder I can think of a number of parts I could scan and replicate!
Ironic that most other sites with an embedded video needs only one click to start it playing; I had to download the WMV then open it. I've even heard of some online bookstore patenting the idea for ordering with single click.
Too bad the poor fellow who put this page together couldn't have taken a leaf outta their book. Maybe he's afraid of the patent holder going after him?
This is old news. Here in Australia there is a company who makes beer glasses ('Head Master' brand) that are used by many pubs ('bars' in US-speak) and clubs, and have been for years. These glasses have been lightly sandblasted on the inside, just on the bottom. The irregular surface makes the beer bubble nicely.
...on any ISS construction mission on Nasa TV, whenever a spacewalker tightens a bolt or moves a plug from one socket to another, Mission Control goes into absolute paroxysms of congratulation? Is it really that difficult? These guys are in an air-conditioned environment, and as well as having trained for years to be able to do it in their sleep, have their 'boss' tell them exactly what to touch at every single minute step along the way, with no distraction from other work colleagues.
I reckon a vast majority of slashdotters shoved into that spacesuit and given a pouch full of toolbits would be capable of doing the same thing, without the years of training.
I can only wish I had a boss like Nasa leaning over my shoulder and congratulating me for every line of code I write!
...is what I'd like to see. Well, if not the glass jug then at least the base part with motor and electronics.
Me either. I've been an eBay user for eight years and this is the first time I've heard they have a fixed-price site... seriously. Did they ever advertise it? If so, did they just say 'EBay Express' or give something that mentions 'a fixed price site'. And what's wrong with the workings of 'By It Now' anyway?
I was going to post about the misappropriation of microwaves to the space program, but the OP has already done so. Buderi's book about the history of MIT's Rad Lab is fantastic and well worth reading for any geek interested in the history of military electronics.
Well I can't decide whether my question is half-funny or half-serious. Will (or does) the US's Second Amendment ever apply in space? I'm wondering what the policy is for having firearms aboard the ISS? And the proposed Moon Base? Being a supposed international effort, surely the americans will want some form of protection and security there, and since they'll undoubtably be funding the majority of it they'll have the running of it it their way, under their laws. I'm not an american by the way.
You're applying US money-counting methods, where you have to see the face of the note, ie. take it out of your wallet or spread it wide enough to see the figures. You can count aussie currency without taking it out of your wallet and without spreading the wallet wide. It's less visible to others near you. Edge on, it's easy to count. So in this regard, it's more secure even from a personal carrying point of view.
I agree with all those points, including the hurdles in getting resources going such as icons - could be lot easier. Also, talking to legacy stuff via COM interop is really well done. As has been mentioned it takes almost no effort to do it. Building forms and dialogs is real easy and the IDE remarkably stable. I got sick of doing all the plumbing and myriad datatypes for COM in C++ but I can really get some work done in C#!
Saw this on 'The New Inventors' program here in Oz where it won last year's prize for best invention. I was amazed at the amount of oil that can come out of a tire, as well as the steel, fibre and rubber: http://www.molectra.com.au/technology.aspx
I believe the author of TFA has a mixed metaphor there. His title ought to be Digital DARK Age, not ICE Age.
...Australia's universities turn out ten legal graduates for every medical graduate, so rest assured there'll be enough lawyers to go around. In the meantime, don't have a heart attack or a toothache.
Ahh yep, sorry, you're right - I shoulda looked on my bookshelf before posting ;) It was some time ago I read it; also read Bear's work so I confused the two. Thanks for the clarification. 'Manifold' sounds like a good story too, similar to Blish's(?) story 'Bleep' or something like that, in which a 'Dirac transmitter' has an annoying squawk on each message which after analysis turns out to be every message sent in the future, compressed.
In this rather good novel a physicist attempts to use tachyons to send a signal back in time to stop a runaway ocean pollution reaction that kills off a lot of life on earth. They calculate where the earth was at a particular point in time and space decades earlier, where another researcher had an experiment set up. He thinks he's getting some random interference until he starts noting down the times and then realises it's Morse code. Quite a good story, surely others here have read it?
I had the same thought exactly - is this some sort of joke?
Why take the crew vertically down the side of the rocket, closer to the out-of-control conflagration before sending the carriage outwards from the pad?
How many seconds would be wasted getting into the carriage and strapping in?
What if one of the crew were injured and could not make it out the cabin as quickly - would the others hold the carriage until that person was out (thus endangering themselves more than necessary) instead of each crewmember individually performing their escape down a wire, taking them as fast as possible away from the pad,?
Alternately, what's wrong with the tried-and-tested solid rocket escape tower as others have mentioned?
Surely it is a joke.
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Give me hard copy right there.