What if you never converted the light to electric in the first place. Just collect enough light from the sun and beam it into the fiber (assuming solar panels are too big/heavy for the drone...) I suppose the whole data transmission aspect of it would be quite a bit different in that case. It also wouldn't be as useful at night.
If you signed up for Chrome OS, even Google did this with a set of services under the Gilt Group umbrella. It took a threat to file with my attorney general before they'd delete my information. I got all kinds of kickback on how they couldn't delete my information, but they'd disable it. Of course, they shared it with everyone in their "network" which was actually what prompted me to pursue getting it actually deleted. Took about five emails over the span of two weeks to get someone to admit that they could and will delete my info. eHarmony is just as bad with their magazine offer. I never signed up, but I started getting them and I still (after 6 months) cannot get them to stop sending me that crap even after demanding a refund and cancellation of account.
Your shameful photos can end up anywhere on the web whether you want it or not. They can also end up on Youtube as animations. Facebook/G+ are no different.
I hope this doesn't kick out the Android Adfree app for patent infringement... the one that lets me block annoying AdMob ads that tell me "God cares about you" after "Find singles online" or some nonsense when I'm listening to TinyShark. Not sure if that's intentional or not, but it bugs the snot out of me when the ad pops up and changes the position of the play button.
I think a lot of the look of the object is based on the rather crude focal point of the lenses he setup and the fact that the depth was not fixed (he would skim sand over it seemingly at random with variable depths from the video. If you had a method of putting a finer layer of sand over a more controlled focal area it may come out nicer.
You could create a machine that has a consistent speed based on a variable input (like a water wheel/windmill/steam/Stirling engine [you got the sun already...]) by using centrifugal governors and a conical gear. With enough machinery it could operate almost entirely without solar panels and create repetitive simple shapes like bricks for the actual building. Doing something more complex though and you'll want some programmable mechanism like a computer.
I even wonder if you couldn't set up a mechanical sun tracker simply based on the heat it provides (ie, the sun moves over a plate which expands closing a circuit/friction plate that pushes itself out of the sun, cooling and opening back up.)
You could place a long arm on it with one end anchored to the ground and use wheels on the machine to keep it facing the sun. Let it build arches while it tracks the sun across the sand. You could have the machine focus the sun with an oscillator to increase the thickness. The hard part would be supplying sand to melt when it got higher up. I guess some sort of screw elevator would work for that while providing a ramp for the wheel to travel. Of course, one arch would take several days with that method.
The current time values are hard to use in calculations. Calculations for pay, calculations for project times, calculations for just about anything with direct ties to time. At their level it's easy to deal with but converting the number to another level requires that you remember a set of numbers that have no other meaning but that. (ie: 1440 for minutes in a day)
In our current system: it's 24 units, then 12, then 60, then 60, then 1000. There's no consistency. If you wanted to find the hours in a day it's 24, but minutes is 1440. The two numbers have no correlation but their relation to an arbitrary time measurement.
In base 10 operations everything is divisible by 10 to get to the next precision level or by 100 if you want to convert two precision levels. There's no thinking: "Gosh, I have to multiply this hour by 24, then 60 then add the current minutes to get the time in total minutes." If someone walked up to you in the street and said there was a sale at the store a block away starting in 178 minutes (they wouldn't... but still) you'd have to stop and think how many times 60 goes into 178, deal with remainders... Now if that same person used decimal times(.123), you could simply look at your watch and add 0.12 to the current time and know roughly when it started without having to convert the minutes to hours. It's much simpler to solve the answer in your head if all your precision units are consistent.
Shift workers think 8 hours, not 1/3 days. I'd even argue that a majority of those don't even account for those as 8 hour days but as start and end times. It's a subtle distinction, but I think a very important one. Using any arbitrary timescale you can still come up with a set of time that you have to work. For the start/end timers all they need is a time to start. For the hourly, all they are looking for is a number of time units to meet.
They could change how the plugins interface, giving the plugin the ability to attempt to run but if something happens it could throw an error and disable the extension with a little warning about a required update for it to work again.
The plugin would have to be written to assume that it's attempt may not work, but that should just make the thing more robust. Personally, I think letting plugins use the version number is really a crutch. Sure, it's simple to compare to and determine compatibility but it relies on a rather arbitrary numbering scheme instead of actual capability.
But what's the point of dividing a day into three or six parts? I can see 2 and 4 (half and quarter day) but I don't know many people who think in third or sixth of days.
I agree, 10 doesn't work so well, but 1 works great for time if you consider one rotation of Earth. At.500000 Greenwich would be through one half rotation. If you told someone to meet up in 2 and a half days you know how many time units it is already... (hint: 2.5)
I actually wrote a JavaScript clock for my desktop that uses UTC time converted to decimal for Earth rotations.
I will disagree that 12 is a reasonable number though. Sixteen I can see, but twelve does not evenly halve out to a round number. 12/2 = 6/2 = 3/2 = 1.5
All that will do is require lead plates be purchased (from the scanner company) and the scanners relocated to a position where no stray waves will escape. It's all for your safety...
"Every traveler is a critical partner in TSA's efforts to keep our skies safe," Administrator John Pistole, said last fall. "And I know and appreciate that the vast majority of Americans recognize and respect the important work we do."
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What if you never converted the light to electric in the first place. Just collect enough light from the sun and beam it into the fiber (assuming solar panels are too big/heavy for the drone...) I suppose the whole data transmission aspect of it would be quite a bit different in that case. It also wouldn't be as useful at night.
If you signed up for Chrome OS, even Google did this with a set of services under the Gilt Group umbrella. It took a threat to file with my attorney general before they'd delete my information. I got all kinds of kickback on how they couldn't delete my information, but they'd disable it. Of course, they shared it with everyone in their "network" which was actually what prompted me to pursue getting it actually deleted. Took about five emails over the span of two weeks to get someone to admit that they could and will delete my info. eHarmony is just as bad with their magazine offer. I never signed up, but I started getting them and I still (after 6 months) cannot get them to stop sending me that crap even after demanding a refund and cancellation of account.
It's a shame that people feel they need to propagate this type of ignorant rhetoric.
Your shameful photos can end up anywhere on the web whether you want it or not. They can also end up on Youtube as animations. Facebook/G+ are no different.
Only when used in combination with marquee while on the same page with *.gif.
I hope this doesn't kick out the Android Adfree app for patent infringement... the one that lets me block annoying AdMob ads that tell me "God cares about you" after "Find singles online" or some nonsense when I'm listening to TinyShark. Not sure if that's intentional or not, but it bugs the snot out of me when the ad pops up and changes the position of the play button.
The Internet has sides? I thought tubes only had one continuous side.
We "do so many things in base ten to begin with" because that's how many fingers we have. The numbers were created afterwards.
Each one would be .03 with a .003 intermission. .0003 is so insignificant it doesn't matter.
I think a lot of the look of the object is based on the rather crude focal point of the lenses he setup and the fact that the depth was not fixed (he would skim sand over it seemingly at random with variable depths from the video. If you had a method of putting a finer layer of sand over a more controlled focal area it may come out nicer.
You could create a machine that has a consistent speed based on a variable input (like a water wheel/windmill/steam/Stirling engine [you got the sun already...]) by using centrifugal governors and a conical gear. With enough machinery it could operate almost entirely without solar panels and create repetitive simple shapes like bricks for the actual building. Doing something more complex though and you'll want some programmable mechanism like a computer.
I even wonder if you couldn't set up a mechanical sun tracker simply based on the heat it provides (ie, the sun moves over a plate which expands closing a circuit/friction plate that pushes itself out of the sun, cooling and opening back up.)
Sorry, meant this post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2277666&cid=36601332 but the above also applies to the complexity of the current system.
The problem is that nobody uses thirds of an day/hour/minute. They talk in hours/minutes/seconds, respectively. The same argument applies from this post:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2277666&cid=36602144
You could place a long arm on it with one end anchored to the ground and use wheels on the machine to keep it facing the sun. Let it build arches while it tracks the sun across the sand. You could have the machine focus the sun with an oscillator to increase the thickness. The hard part would be supplying sand to melt when it got higher up. I guess some sort of screw elevator would work for that while providing a ramp for the wheel to travel. Of course, one arch would take several days with that method.
If that's the goal, 2520 would be your magic number. It's divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
The current time values are hard to use in calculations. Calculations for pay, calculations for project times, calculations for just about anything with direct ties to time. At their level it's easy to deal with but converting the number to another level requires that you remember a set of numbers that have no other meaning but that. (ie: 1440 for minutes in a day)
In our current system: it's 24 units, then 12, then 60, then 60, then 1000. There's no consistency. If you wanted to find the hours in a day it's 24, but minutes is 1440. The two numbers have no correlation but their relation to an arbitrary time measurement.
In base 10 operations everything is divisible by 10 to get to the next precision level or by 100 if you want to convert two precision levels. There's no thinking: "Gosh, I have to multiply this hour by 24, then 60 then add the current minutes to get the time in total minutes." If someone walked up to you in the street and said there was a sale at the store a block away starting in 178 minutes (they wouldn't... but still) you'd have to stop and think how many times 60 goes into 178, deal with remainders... Now if that same person used decimal times(.123), you could simply look at your watch and add 0.12 to the current time and know roughly when it started without having to convert the minutes to hours. It's much simpler to solve the answer in your head if all your precision units are consistent.
Shift workers think 8 hours, not 1/3 days. I'd even argue that a majority of those don't even account for those as 8 hour days but as start and end times. It's a subtle distinction, but I think a very important one. Using any arbitrary timescale you can still come up with a set of time that you have to work. For the start/end timers all they need is a time to start. For the hourly, all they are looking for is a number of time units to meet.
They could change how the plugins interface, giving the plugin the ability to attempt to run but if something happens it could throw an error and disable the extension with a little warning about a required update for it to work again.
The plugin would have to be written to assume that it's attempt may not work, but that should just make the thing more robust. Personally, I think letting plugins use the version number is really a crutch. Sure, it's simple to compare to and determine compatibility but it relies on a rather arbitrary numbering scheme instead of actual capability.
But what's the point of dividing a day into three or six parts? I can see 2 and 4 (half and quarter day) but I don't know many people who think in third or sixth of days.
I agree, 10 doesn't work so well, but 1 works great for time if you consider one rotation of Earth. At .500000 Greenwich would be through one half rotation. If you told someone to meet up in 2 and a half days you know how many time units it is already... (hint: 2.5)
I actually wrote a JavaScript clock for my desktop that uses UTC time converted to decimal for Earth rotations.
I will disagree that 12 is a reasonable number though. Sixteen I can see, but twelve does not evenly halve out to a round number. 12/2 = 6/2 = 3/2 = 1.5
All that will do is require lead plates be purchased (from the scanner company) and the scanners relocated to a position where no stray waves will escape. It's all for your safety...
"Every traveler is a critical partner in TSA's efforts to keep our skies safe," Administrator John Pistole, said last fall. "And I know and appreciate that the vast majority of Americans recognize and respect the important work we do."
Your respect is noted.
Nope, completely understand. What kills me are the replies I'll get tomorrow over the blunder. ;)
I think he means the hole created from a torpedo hitting the ship not using said "cloaking."