That's sort of what I thought about, not the exact game, but I was just wondering what the differences, if any, would be between the 3rd person death compared to the 1st person death sequence.
Yet another reason that if/when I have kids, I'm homeschooling. They don't have to put up with juvenile behavior, learn how to socialize from adults and kids I get to choose, and generally stay ahead of the mediocrity known as public education.
Damn that mediocre public education. All it got me was a college degree.
Homeschooling just segregates them even more and inhibits their socialization. The fact that you want to choose with whom they socialize is kind of disturbing. They aren't some sort of pet that you get to train. You should allow children to grow and develop with guidance, rather than follow some sort of path that you want to vicariously travel. In my opinion it's homeschooling that will hinder your potential child's socialization, rather than public schools.
Is that device basically a moisture gauge that calls you? If so, your plants aren't saying shiat. Keep playing the Mozart though, they like that.
Botanicalls was developed to provide a new way for plants and people to communicate in order to develop better, longer-lasting relationships between them.
People can have relationships with plants? I suppose The Professional comes to mind now.
If I had an extra 1500 sitting around I would not use it on a keyboard. A $10 does all I need. The computers I've built have never even exceeded US$900, why bother all that on a single peripheral?
It isn't so much a question of reflection, but more of capturing the excitation of electrons in the atoms that make up the sample by absorbing the irradiated energy. The electrons are excited into higher orbits, which gives off light that the "camera" on this microscope captures and resolves into a cleaner image. That is why organic samples are pretty much goners in EMs. They can't survive that much radiation.
I doubt that they still survive the process. Organic cells are destroyed due to the direct irradiation with electrons necessary to produce the "photograph" from the microscope. There are ways around this, such as only focusing the beam on a small part of a specimen or to use a deflection technique that minimally exposes the specimen and deflects the electron beam to the viewing stage. Others are preirradiating the specimens at low doses to stabilize them for increased irradiation. There are other complex techniques outside the realm of my understanding, but I think it still is really tough to preserve organic cells during electron microscopy.
I would think household wireless routers could utilize this since most small-medium sized houses will have a radius of about 10m from the router, or even businesses that would rather have an indoor WiFi(GiFi) available to customers rather than broadcasting outside of their building.
I would hope that this drops the price of wireless routers from what they are now, about US$60? The only drawback I could see is how the signal is transmitted through materials, as I live in a three story townhouse and I have a room in the furnished basement. I have a Wireless-G router that I have had no trouble with but from the article it says it is for short distances/= 10m with a 60GHz frequency. I would assume this is a high enough frequency to penetrate most household materials including any cement or cinderblocks. I'm all for it since most routers today just create a lot of noise and/or interference and confuse the laptop I have for some reason.
Then you would have to worry about how to keep them afloat for such a long period of time and how high to let them float to send an optimal signal over distance. Plus putting lights on it for night visibility for low-flying aircraft. Just letting them go seems more practical, yet impractical in other areas, such as cost like you mention, as well as balloons that crash in remote areas that no one will ever find. That's an awful lot of equipment to just send up in the air and hope to get it returned.
Space Data's business model is to provide low cost platforms for rural and remote data and voice communication applications via its high altitude SkySite network, which basically consists of an array of balloons equipped with a box of transceivers and other gadgets.
This does seem pretty cool, except since they probably have a short lifespan, as well as being manipulated by weather and wind, that these won't be extremely reliable. It's well intentioned but I am just not sure how this will get off the ground (no pun intended).
Balloon-borne transceivers are launched every 8 to 12 hours and last for about 24 hours before bursting and floating gently back down to earth. Each box of tricks carries a $100 reward for whoever finds it and returns it safely.
So they are sending out a constant stream of weather balloons that may or may not cause concerns with air traffic (I'm not sure how high these go) that will end up just sitting in remote areas when they crash. It kind of seems like a pipe dream to me.
'Immediately after receiving reports of this error, we made the decision to temporarily suspend automatic distribution of the update to avoid further customer impact while we investigate possible causes.'
It's Vista. Just downgrade to XP. Problem solved. Profit!
Speech, speech, speech (obligatory Arrested development quote). Ok down to business.
The version after Vista is a big step forward in terms of speech. It's a big step forward in terms of ink. It's a big step forward in terms of touch. I'd say that the likelihood is that touch will become mainstream on certain form factors very quickly, because we're working hand-in-hand with the hardware companies.
What is with M$ and their big interest in speech recognition these days? I keep seeing commercials with cars and their speech-recognition stereos and navigation systems. I have never really desired to use speech recognition, but I do see its applications for those who have motor skill disabilities or limited/no use of their hands. I'm not too experienced with it but anytime phones have that pesky voice dial it's 99% useless, of course it's probably not a n M$ software running it. Commercials make their speech recognition look great, but those are just that: commercials.
I'd say that the likelihood is that touch will become mainstream on certain form factors very quickly, because we're working hand-in-hand with the hardware companies.
I suppose that is the paradigm for things now, with the iPhone, and the Wii and touchscreens (although those have been around for a long time). I'm not so sure what he's trying to get at with that whole touch on certain form factors, is that writing on tablets???. Maybe someone else can enlighten me.
If the Americans were really serious about making their airports safe they would turn the whole operation over to the Israelis or even the British. After all, this would give them more time to go around tasering random young people found in the presence of molecular traces of 'drugs'.
You seem to be under the impression that American citizens run things over here. And especially in airports? Please refer to the FREEDOM Act, I mean LIBERTY Act, I mean PATRIOT Act. Sorry, a lot of emotion invoking buzz words to remember.
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That's sort of what I thought about, not the exact game, but I was just wondering what the differences, if any, would be between the 3rd person death compared to the 1st person death sequence.
Homeschooling just segregates them even more and inhibits their socialization. The fact that you want to choose with whom they socialize is kind of disturbing. They aren't some sort of pet that you get to train. You should allow children to grow and develop with guidance, rather than follow some sort of path that you want to vicariously travel. In my opinion it's homeschooling that will hinder your potential child's socialization, rather than public schools.
Just like that good ol' dictatorship of the UK.
First to sell my HD-DVD, listed as Blu-Ray, on ebay.
If I had an extra 1500 sitting around I would not use it on a keyboard. A $10 does all I need. The computers I've built have never even exceeded US$900, why bother all that on a single peripheral?
I forgot to mention, the electrons are in the sample, not shot by the microscope. It uses EM radiation to excite the electrons in the sample.
It isn't so much a question of reflection, but more of capturing the excitation of electrons in the atoms that make up the sample by absorbing the irradiated energy. The electrons are excited into higher orbits, which gives off light that the "camera" on this microscope captures and resolves into a cleaner image. That is why organic samples are pretty much goners in EMs. They can't survive that much radiation.
I doubt that they still survive the process. Organic cells are destroyed due to the direct irradiation with electrons necessary to produce the "photograph" from the microscope. There are ways around this, such as only focusing the beam on a small part of a specimen or to use a deflection technique that minimally exposes the specimen and deflects the electron beam to the viewing stage. Others are preirradiating the specimens at low doses to stabilize them for increased irradiation. There are other complex techniques outside the realm of my understanding, but I think it still is really tough to preserve organic cells during electron microscopy.
I was actually thinking of Gyroscope, but the sandwich did come to mind. So I guess (Hee)-Fi would be an alternative??
My vote would be for (Gy as in Gyro) Gi-Fi.
I would think household wireless routers could utilize this since most small-medium sized houses will have a radius of about 10m from the router, or even businesses that would rather have an indoor WiFi(GiFi) available to customers rather than broadcasting outside of their building.
That was supposed to be (less than/= 10m). That'll teach me to preview even if I don't use html.
I would hope that this drops the price of wireless routers from what they are now, about US$60? The only drawback I could see is how the signal is transmitted through materials, as I live in a three story townhouse and I have a room in the furnished basement. I have a Wireless-G router that I have had no trouble with but from the article it says it is for short distances /= 10m with a 60GHz frequency. I would assume this is a high enough frequency to penetrate most household materials including any cement or cinderblocks. I'm all for it since most routers today just create a lot of noise and/or interference and confuse the laptop I have for some reason.
Is this going to get federal class action status if out of staters join in with the defendent? If not, count me in to make it federal.
Easy, just use hydrogen
Then you would have to worry about how to keep them afloat for such a long period of time and how high to let them float to send an optimal signal over distance. Plus putting lights on it for night visibility for low-flying aircraft. Just letting them go seems more practical, yet impractical in other areas, such as cost like you mention, as well as balloons that crash in remote areas that no one will ever find. That's an awful lot of equipment to just send up in the air and hope to get it returned.
how the hell did this troll get modded insightful?
You're right. I was looking at the Pioneer Blu-ray reader/DVD-r combo, like the reply below you noted.