Gamma rays and X-Rays are basically the same thing - ionizing electromagnetic radiation. Electromagnetic radiation can induce currents in a piece of metal that is moved through its field and these unwanted currents can play havoc with the circuits inside a microchip, perhaps even overloading and burning them out. The gamma rays could also alter the bits in the memory chips so the software running the robot could crash.
Did anyone notice the irony of modern rats flying aeroplanes that can carry weapons of mass destruction, while rats of times-gone-by used to carry plague fleas - which is also a weapon of mass destruction?
When I glanced at this, I swear it said "Small Hotel Rooms in New York City" and I thought, "Well, that's probably because the real estate is so expensive." Do'h!
haha, I like the part in the wikipedia entry about how the Soyuz to be sold to America has some modification like " more latitude in the height and weight of the crew and improved parachute systems".
I guess Americans are the fattest^H^H^H^H^Hlargest people on the planet after all! LOL!!
I'm sure that there are plenty of Slashdot one handed web surfers out there that would require this coating on their monitors at those certain crucial moments...
Have you ever seen a jewellery store go out of business?
I went back to visit (one) of my old home towns from 20 years. Almost all the shops had changed hands, even some of the McDonalds had closed down but the jewellery stores were still in the exact same locations.
That's a fairly hefty price to pay by a tourist for 2hours in a city. I don't see the value in that. You wouldn't want to stop at any cafes/parks/restaurants along way - at USD25/hr! Perhaps these are rented to the same sorts of tourists that "do" the Louvre in 2 hours.:P
I'd happily rent a GPS enabled PDA with all the same tourist information for USD $50/day.
Or better still, I could buy a guide book (for all of Spain or Europe) for the same price and take a walking a tour with a local guide for a couple hours as well. At least I can interact with the local guide and I get to keep the guide book.
Quote from the article: "Flammability and temperature tolerance are also important: It doesn't matter how strong a spaceship's walls are if they melt in direct sunlight or catch fire easily."
I can imagine fleets of attacking Martian vessels with giant magnifying glasses all focussed on the NASA fleet of plastic spaceships - turning them into wobbling globs of soft plastic with tasty humans inside!
Maybe it's the worst but it's not the dumbest like Vista is...
At least doing a Google search for Viiv will probably get you what you want instead of doing a google search for Vista. Let's see...
Currently a Google search for Viiv returns the Intel product as the top result while a Google search for vista returns, um, AmeriCorps ... #@*^#!*9 wtf?
From a customer point of view, Viiv is a good choice.
Is it just me, or does this gadget come across as just... stupid and overpriced ? Seriously, you have to buy their "special" paper to use it!
Why would you pay so much for a device without a screen? You can pick up a Palm Zire 31 for around USD$130 and you get something that kids would think is SO much better than a talking pen.
"[the pen] can "see" what you write, read it out loud, and respond to written commands."
Oh yeah, I can just see kids using it to spell a whole load of non-educational words and have the pen read them out aloud in the classroom. LOL!
I recently came up with a good way to compare video card with a bang-for-buck type analysis.
* I went to the latest review of VGA cards at Tom's Hardware.
* I chose the top 12 video cards from ATI and nVIDIA
* I created a spreadsheet which calculated the relative rankings of each card across about 30 different tests for a range of games/benchmarks. i.e. the top scoring card in a category got 100% and the remaining 11 cards were expressed as a fraction of the top score.
* I averaged the rankings for the 30 categories
* I used a local hardware search tool to find the current "buy it today" best prices for each of those cards.
* I divided the average ranking by the price to get a bang/buck ratio that can help to compare the cards. i.e. so a card that averaged 90% but costs AUD$600 would have a lower final score than a card that came in at 50% but only cost AUD$200
Unfortunately, the spreadsheet is at work but the 6600GT was a clear winner in terms of bang-for-buck.
All these 12 cards were good, and most of them were the only ones remaining in the extreme tests like high-res DOOMIII with AA sort-of-tests. So, even if a card only came in at 50% average, it was still able to work with all the latest games at reasonable frame rates.
Actually, I did forget about SkyLab http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab which was a piece of American equipment that crashed into Australia. Skylab was America's first space station, maybe this means that we will get the ISS when it re-enters... ?
Prosauropoda or prosauropods were a group of early herbivorous dinosaurs that lived during the Late Triassic and early Jurassic periods. They were frequently the predominant herbivore in their environment, and quickly reached large size (6 to 10 meters long). All prosauropods had a long neck and small head, forelimbs shorter than the hindlimbs, and a very large thumb claw (inherited from the thecodontosaurs) for defense. Most were semi-bipedal, although at least one large form (Riojasaurus) was fully quadrupedal. They were originally thought to be the ancestors of the sauropods, but are now considered a parallel lineage.
The Prosauropoda were originally defined as the early, bipedal, Triassic ancestors of the great sauropod dinosaurs. More recently, cladistic analysis suggests that rather than being ancestral to sauropods, prosauropods were a sister clade. Recent studies of the genus Massospondylus reveal that the Prosauropoda is indeed monophyletic. This group is a sister group to the Sauropoda, not an ancestral group.
The problem however lies in what genera are considered prosauropods. More recently, on the basis of studies of early sauropodomorphs Adam Yates proposed a cladogram in which the primitive genera Saturnalia, Thecodontosaurus, and Efraasia (basically, a paraphyletic Thecodontosauridae) represent basal outgroups prior to the Prosauropod-Sauropod split. Anchisaurus (despite its classic "prosauropod" build) is now recognised as the most primitive sauropod. The melanorosaurs and blikanasaurs are very early members of the sauropod line.
Slashdot Mirror
Gamma rays and X-Rays are basically the same thing - ionizing electromagnetic radiation. Electromagnetic radiation can induce currents in a piece of metal that is moved through its field and these unwanted currents can play havoc with the circuits inside a microchip, perhaps even overloading and burning them out. The gamma rays could also alter the bits in the memory chips so the software running the robot could crash.
Did anyone notice the irony of modern rats flying aeroplanes that can carry weapons of mass destruction, while rats of times-gone-by used to carry plague fleas - which is also a weapon of mass destruction?
Imagine getting this bug in your gut. Lighting your farts would have *devastating* consequences!
NTSC - Never The Same Colour
Look out the window! You can see pigs flying!
When I glanced at this, I swear it said "Small Hotel Rooms in New York City" and I thought, "Well, that's probably because the real estate is so expensive." Do'h!
The guy doing the narration sounds like he's got a mouth full of cotton wool and he breathes heavy ...
haha, I like the part in the wikipedia entry about how the Soyuz to be sold to America has some modification like " more latitude in the height and weight of the crew and improved parachute systems".
I guess Americans are the fattest^H^H^H^H^Hlargest people on the planet after all! LOL!!
"Nabaztag" sound like the name of a demon or something to me ...
"Xis Xis Xis eehT nommuS I Nabaztag Xis Xis Xis"
How was this a "troll" ?!?!
I'm sure that there are plenty of Slashdot one handed web surfers out there that would require this coating on their monitors at those certain crucial moments ...
Have you ever seen a jewellery store go out of business?
I went back to visit (one) of my old home towns from 20 years. Almost all the shops had changed hands, even some of the McDonalds had closed down but the jewellery stores were still in the exact same locations.
I mean, really, "Aggregated diamond nanorods are a girl's best friend" just doesn't have the same catchy ring to it. :P
That's a fairly hefty price to pay by a tourist for 2hours in a city. I don't see the value in that. You wouldn't want to stop at any cafes/parks/restaurants along way - at USD25/hr! Perhaps these are rented to the same sorts of tourists that "do" the Louvre in 2 hours. :P
I'd happily rent a GPS enabled PDA with all the same tourist information for USD $50/day.
Or better still, I could buy a guide book (for all of Spain or Europe) for the same price and take a walking a tour with a local guide for a couple hours as well. At least I can interact with the local guide and I get to keep the guide book.
Step 5: Profit!
Hang on, wait .. that's Pokémon ...
Quote from the article: "Flammability and temperature tolerance are also important: It doesn't matter how strong a spaceship's walls are if they melt in direct sunlight or catch fire easily."
I can imagine fleets of attacking Martian vessels with giant magnifying glasses all focussed on the NASA fleet of plastic spaceships - turning them into wobbling globs of soft plastic with tasty humans inside!
"Houston, we have a problem"
I see through your ruse Mr Gates and it won't work. You're not welcome here and take your stinking OS with you.
Go home! Run along! Shoo!
http://www.google.com/search?q=vista
At least doing a Google search for Viiv will probably get you what you want instead of doing a google search for Vista. Let's see ...
Currently a Google search for Viiv returns the Intel product as the top result while a Google search for vista returns, um, AmeriCorps ... #@*^#!*9 wtf?
From a customer point of view, Viiv is a good choice.
Is it just me, or does this gadget come across as just ... stupid and overpriced ? Seriously, you have to buy their "special" paper to use it!
Why would you pay so much for a device without a screen? You can pick up a Palm Zire 31 for around USD$130 and you get something that kids would think is SO much better than a talking pen.
"[the pen] can "see" what you write, read it out loud, and respond to written commands."
Oh yeah, I can just see kids using it to spell a whole load of non-educational words and have the pen read them out aloud in the classroom. LOL!
* I went to the latest review of VGA cards at Tom's Hardware.
* I chose the top 12 video cards from ATI and nVIDIA
* I created a spreadsheet which calculated the relative rankings of each card across about 30 different tests for a range of games/benchmarks. i.e. the top scoring card in a category got 100% and the remaining 11 cards were expressed as a fraction of the top score.
* I averaged the rankings for the 30 categories
* I used a local hardware search tool to find the current "buy it today" best prices for each of those cards.
* I divided the average ranking by the price to get a bang/buck ratio that can help to compare the cards. i.e. so a card that averaged 90% but costs AUD$600 would have a lower final score than a card that came in at 50% but only cost AUD$200
Unfortunately, the spreadsheet is at work but the 6600GT was a clear winner in terms of bang-for-buck.
All these 12 cards were good, and most of them were the only ones remaining in the extreme tests like high-res DOOMIII with AA sort-of-tests. So, even if a card only came in at 50% average, it was still able to work with all the latest games at reasonable frame rates.
Actually, I did forget about SkyLab http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab which was a piece of American equipment that crashed into Australia. Skylab was America's first space station, maybe this means that we will get the ISS when it re-enters ... ?
You guys in the Northern Hemisphere get all the cool stuff: the Aurora, meteor showers, Space Shuttle fireballs ...
Prosauropoda or prosauropods were a group of early herbivorous dinosaurs that lived during the Late Triassic and early Jurassic periods. They were frequently the predominant herbivore in their environment, and quickly reached large size (6 to 10 meters long). All prosauropods had a long neck and small head, forelimbs shorter than the hindlimbs, and a very large thumb claw (inherited from the thecodontosaurs) for defense. Most were semi-bipedal, although at least one large form (Riojasaurus) was fully quadrupedal. They were originally thought to be the ancestors of the sauropods, but are now considered a parallel lineage.
The Prosauropoda were originally defined as the early, bipedal, Triassic ancestors of the great sauropod dinosaurs. More recently, cladistic analysis suggests that rather than being ancestral to sauropods, prosauropods were a sister clade. Recent studies of the genus Massospondylus reveal that the Prosauropoda is indeed monophyletic. This group is a sister group to the Sauropoda, not an ancestral group.
The problem however lies in what genera are considered prosauropods. More recently, on the basis of studies of early sauropodomorphs Adam Yates proposed a cladogram in which the primitive genera Saturnalia, Thecodontosaurus, and Efraasia (basically, a paraphyletic Thecodontosauridae) represent basal outgroups prior to the Prosauropod-Sauropod split. Anchisaurus (despite its classic "prosauropod" build) is now recognised as the most primitive sauropod. The melanorosaurs and blikanasaurs are very early members of the sauropod line.
How about that.