So exactly how precise are these geofences going to be? Because I see it one of two ways. Either they'll be so small they're pointless, or they'll be too large and spill over into a neighboring property, at which point if your neighbors have personal no-fly zones, you can't fly a drone over your own property.
Unless there were some sort of emulsification, the hydrocarbons would glob together and float to the surface. This is of course assuming the bacteria are being grown in some sort of aqueous environment.
They're talking about using this on gravestones, but I think it could be better used at places like Yucca Mountain. It seems that a place that will remain toxic for several thousand years would be a good place to keep information in a form that could be accessed for all that time. This would be especially important if, say, we somehow forget about it and then "discover" it again centuries or millenia down the road.
That was something that occured to me yesterday. How much are games going to be if they're on Blu-ray? I'm guessing they'll just be DVD initially, and when they need to make a switch disc production costs will have come down enough to not necessitate a price increase.
The PS3 is understandably expensive. Unfortunately that doesn't excuse the price. Sony decided to put the Blu-ray in, I'm guessing, not so much so that people would actually use it, but so they could make claims of supremacy over HD-DVD. I suspect the plan was, come a year or so from now, quote some high number of Blu-ray players in homes, most of which would be PS3's. Even though I doubt most of those PS3's would ever have had a high def movie in it, because there's still an overwhelming majority of the population who don't have an HDTV. It's one thing for people to have a player, it's another for them to actually use it.
Microsoft had a better plan, offer options and upgrades. Start with a $300 system... add a hard drive... add a HD-DVD... add who knows what to come. Eventually you have a really expensive system, without a huge onetime outlay of cash, and without being forced into an all or nothing proposition.
Then of course there's the controller. I won't claim the took the idea from Nintendo, but I think it was a bad idea. Nintendo was trying to simplify controls with motion sensing, whereas Sony decided to add it on top of an already complex button laden control scheme. I don't want to have to try to move the controller with my thumbs on both sticks and finger on the shoulder buttons. Even for someone whose been gaming since the 2600, and falls right into the target market, that's a bit much.
This is the obvious next step for Blizzard. Forget StarCraft II or even putting Ghost back into production. No one wants those; they want another crappy movie based on a video game.
It could exhibit plasticity lying somewhere between solid and liquid, like Silly Putty, which acts like a highly viscous fluid in a relaxed state, but solid properties under stress.
But the point is moot anyway. The Earth's core is made of creamy nougat.
That's just the genus, and means "like Monty Python". The full genus/species name being Montypythonoides riversleighensis, with Riversleigh being the town in Australia where the fossil was discovered.
Anyway, I prefer, the wooly lemur avahi cleesei, named for John Cleese, and having an ironically funny walk.
I'm not sure about atomatically (though a few might do it), but Citizen makes a whole line of solar powered Eco-Drive watches. I wore one constantly (even sleeping and showering) for 6 years until the seal gave out, water got in it and it died.
I've got the square binary from Thinkgeek and I go out to the bar all the time. It's a really nice watch and I've been complimented on it, even without having shown them that it's binary, since, without hitting the LED button, it just looks like a regular watch if you're not looking too closely. This allows me to wear it with clothes I'd be willing to be seen in a bar in (as opposed to the geekwear listed).
Usually I'm not asked what time it is, but when I happen to look for myself, more often than not someone (even "foxy chicks") will notice that there's something a little different. At which point I show them and explain that it's binary. Once in a while I get people who just think it's ridiculous and walk off, but usually I'm asked "How do you read that?" At which point I explain, but, usually get the response, "I could never do that". Even so, they think it's interesting, and it was a conversation starter.
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So exactly how precise are these geofences going to be? Because I see it one of two ways. Either they'll be so small they're pointless, or they'll be too large and spill over into a neighboring property, at which point if your neighbors have personal no-fly zones, you can't fly a drone over your own property.
The problem is how many get them even when they've proven they're not top talent, and haven't done a job well.
About 5 minutes before someone pirates one.
Exactly.
I had to double check the page to make sure I hadn't clicked over to The Onion for a second.
Unless there were some sort of emulsification, the hydrocarbons would glob together and float to the surface. This is of course assuming the bacteria are being grown in some sort of aqueous environment.
They're talking about using this on gravestones, but I think it could be better used at places like Yucca Mountain. It seems that a place that will remain toxic for several thousand years would be a good place to keep information in a form that could be accessed for all that time. This would be especially important if, say, we somehow forget about it and then "discover" it again centuries or millenia down the road.
Or because there are some web designers out there who seem to only test on IE, so their damn sites break in FF.
The difference between the PS2 as a DVD player and the PS3 as a Blu-ray player is that people didn't need to buy a new TV to be able to play DVDs.
That was something that occured to me yesterday. How much are games going to be if they're on Blu-ray? I'm guessing they'll just be DVD initially, and when they need to make a switch disc production costs will have come down enough to not necessitate a price increase.
The PS3 is understandably expensive. Unfortunately that doesn't excuse the price. Sony decided to put the Blu-ray in, I'm guessing, not so much so that people would actually use it, but so they could make claims of supremacy over HD-DVD. I suspect the plan was, come a year or so from now, quote some high number of Blu-ray players in homes, most of which would be PS3's. Even though I doubt most of those PS3's would ever have had a high def movie in it, because there's still an overwhelming majority of the population who don't have an HDTV. It's one thing for people to have a player, it's another for them to actually use it. Microsoft had a better plan, offer options and upgrades. Start with a $300 system... add a hard drive... add a HD-DVD... add who knows what to come. Eventually you have a really expensive system, without a huge onetime outlay of cash, and without being forced into an all or nothing proposition. Then of course there's the controller. I won't claim the took the idea from Nintendo, but I think it was a bad idea. Nintendo was trying to simplify controls with motion sensing, whereas Sony decided to add it on top of an already complex button laden control scheme. I don't want to have to try to move the controller with my thumbs on both sticks and finger on the shoulder buttons. Even for someone whose been gaming since the 2600, and falls right into the target market, that's a bit much.
This is the obvious next step for Blizzard. Forget StarCraft II or even putting Ghost back into production. No one wants those; they want another crappy movie based on a video game.
$3000? For a trip on the Concord? Who's your travel agent and how can I get deals like that.
Lowest I've heard for a ticket (besides the one flight a year they sold tickets for about $100) was about $4000 and ranged all the way up to $20,000
It could exhibit plasticity lying somewhere between solid and liquid, like Silly Putty, which acts like a highly viscous fluid in a relaxed state, but solid properties under stress.
But the point is moot anyway. The Earth's core is made of creamy nougat.
Anyway, I prefer, the wooly lemur avahi cleesei, named for John Cleese, and having an ironically funny walk.
I'm not sure about atomatically (though a few might do it), but Citizen makes a whole line of solar powered Eco-Drive watches. I wore one constantly (even sleeping and showering) for 6 years until the seal gave out, water got in it and it died.
I've got the square binary from Thinkgeek and I go out to the bar all the time. It's a really nice watch and I've been complimented on it, even without having shown them that it's binary, since, without hitting the LED button, it just looks like a regular watch if you're not looking too closely. This allows me to wear it with clothes I'd be willing to be seen in a bar in (as opposed to the geekwear listed). Usually I'm not asked what time it is, but when I happen to look for myself, more often than not someone (even "foxy chicks") will notice that there's something a little different. At which point I show them and explain that it's binary. Once in a while I get people who just think it's ridiculous and walk off, but usually I'm asked "How do you read that?" At which point I explain, but, usually get the response, "I could never do that". Even so, they think it's interesting, and it was a conversation starter.