What always makes me laugh is how people circle near the doors of the store and look for a close spot. Around and around they go clogging the aisles waiting for someone to pull out of a spot. Meanwhile toward the end of the parking rows, far from the doors there are more parking spots then you can imagine. Lazy jerk-offs.
But when you look at all of the handicap spots near the doors and they are mostly empty. So no wonder why they always get filled by non handicap cars. But to be fair, many large parking lots have security who constantly check the handicap spots and call the police when they find a vehicle in violation.
Max Payne. It was the first time I felt like I was playing a novel. The story was great and the graphic novel panels between scenes really immersed you into the story.
To be fair, you can build logic gates using diodes. The only drawback is that the devices operate on the principal of voltage drops across diodes and level shifting, bad for complex circuits.
Its free and a lot of the complex underpinnings are taken care of and hidden away. A simple to use scripting language is used to create the game mechanics. I have never used it but I have seen it used for the Global Game Jam.
I would keep away from teaching programming unless the students already have programming skills which I doubt is the case here. Keep it simple.
I honestly don't understand this big push towards expensive electronic "learning aids" in the class room. They are just handed out with the magic notion that they will somehow help a student learn better. The problem I have with computers/tablets in the class room is simple. First, they are shoe-horned into the existing class room to supplement text books or note books. That is the wrong approach and is doomed to fail. Why? Because today's teacher is teaching using the same methods they have for centuries. The classic teaching method is what our parents, grand parents and great grand parents went through. You sit while a teacher recites a lesson, and take notes. Its not a real interactive lesson. Its almost static with the slight chance that there might be a discussion but that rarely happens. Typically the teacher drones on for about an hour on a particular subject while students write down notes. Now introduce a tablet into that environment, what happens? Its simple, the tablet now becomes a distraction to the droning of the teacher. Why? Because it sure beats sitting there writing notes about something that a kid does not care about. The average 13 yo today doesn't really give a shit about the revolutionary war algebra or frog guts, they want to play with their friends or play video games. Put a tablet in front of them and they have two choices, play games or take boring notes. What do you think they will do?
If they want tablets to succeed they have to reinvent the classroom teaching methods to match the technology. Note taking is static, why force a student to write down notes when they are fully aware that electronic devices can download stuff. Throw note taking in the trash, it does not belong in the electronic classroom. The lessons should be "pre-compiled" and when a student walks into biology 101, there should be a lesson ready to download onto the students tablet. The content should be pushed so the student has no choice but to see the lesson, they can go back if necessary but for all intents and purposes, the content should be static unless an interactive lesson is necessary. It could be a web page so its easy to distribute and access from home. What the teacher has on the "black board" should also be on the students tablet. If the teacher writes something down, it should pop up on the tablet for the student to take home.
Home work, Quizes and testing should also be done electronically using the same device. Teachers could very quickly grade home work, tests and quizzes that are in electronic form (multiple choice questions are the devil but could be automatically graded as soon as it is submitted.) The lesson from that day is available for the student to research and answer homework questions or write papers. Text books should be web pages or better, a wiki so a student can easily search for the relative subject matter.
Immerse the student in the lesson! Throw some animations or video clips in if possible. A quiz can be snuck into a lesson by introducing a question at certain points during a lesson with a time limit. Example: your teaching kids about geography (a subject that Americans are lacking in). Say you are showing them a map of Europe and are naming some of its countries. As the teacher is going over the countries, their teaching app will highlight the country on the students app. Then after 10 minutes the country names are removed and the students are asked to tap on Belarus. Give them just 10 to 20 seconds to make their choice. Students who have not responded in the time allotted can them be flagged as possibly having problems learning or paying attention. As long as you keep their eyes on the lesson, they should be able to answer quick questions. And present a few questions throughout the lesson. Lessons like this will keep kids in focus. And tablets can bring the lesson strait to the student There should be no worrying whether junior in the back of the class room can see the black board or not. Maybe my example is crappy but it gives you an idea of how the lesson should be i
2) Performance has become about more than clock-speeds. The main advances in PC gaming technology over the last few years have come from successive versions of directx. You can't overclock a machine with a directx 9 graphics card so that it can "do" directx10. Same goes for dx10/11.
Not necessarily, video cards are the dominant force in today's gaming rigs. The CPU has taken a back seat to the GPU as both graphics and Physics calculations are ran on the GPU. If anything, GPU overclocking should be the focus. Memory speed is not as big a deal since its already fast enough to move data between the graphics memory and main memory. Hell I have one of those AMD A8 APU's with dual channel DDR3 1866 and its amazingly fast. The GPU is center stage.
4) Among "old school" PC gamers, I think there's been a growing recognition that overclocking has its downsides as well. In an economic downturn, when money is tight, you don't necessarily want to go risking a huge reduction in the lifespan of your expensive toys.
I think its because hardware is so cheap and fast its not worth it anymore. In the days when the CPU, memory and motherboard ran you $1000 and a full gaming rig cost 2 granny, it made sense to buy mid/low end CPU's, add a hundred or so bucks in cooling gear and have the same performance as the $2000 rig. Now you can get an 8 core 3.6 GHz AMD for what, $270 bucks? Then throw in a decent motherboard for about $100 and 8GB of ram is just $50 bucks. A pretty powerful video card is about $200. Hard drive/case/ps/dvd are the only accessories left and you can get those for about $200-250 total. So what you are now spending what, 800-900 dollars. THAT IS FUCKING NUTS! Go back 4 or 5 years and tell people we would have such powerful and cheap hardware and they'd laugh at you. I have a spare PC that has an AMD A8, 8GB ram 1TB disk with the case/dvd/ps that I put together from newegg for 400 dollars. FOUR HUNDERD DOLLARS. That is twice the cost of an XB360 and way more flexible and powerful. It runs most of my games just as well as my older quad core AMD rig with a PCIe Radeon 5770. Its just not worth it to overclock anymore.
Sure there are new crazy CPU's like the Socket 2011 i7 from intel, but in the end that isn't going to give you a huge boost in frame rate, the GPU will. Id love the new super quad channel i7 but what will I do with it? And AND gets the job done well for so little money. Low price high performance hardware killed overclocking.
Apparently Jupiter has 1/80th the necessary mass that is needed to become a star. Even if Jupiter were to combine with Saturn it would still lacks the necessary mass to "ignite".
You don't always see the bad driver coming. Rear end collisions, suddenly getting side swiped, equipment failure, etc. I have been driving for many years without incident, lucky maybe?
Wait, NOx emissions are reduced by either limiting the oxygen or proving complete combustion of the fuel in the combustion chamber. NOx forms under the intense pressure and heat when nitrogen bonds with leftover oxygen. Today that is done by exhaust gas re-circulation (EGR), efficient electronic fuel injection, catalytic converters and in diesel engines: selective catalytic reduction (SCR). EGR mixes some exhaust gas back into the air intake to cut down the oxygen levels. Better fuel injection atomizes the fuel so it can completely combust. In direct injection engines (like diesel), there can be multiple injections to increase the amount of fuel burnt limiting the amount of NOx. SCR injects urea into the exhaust stream and then into a catalytic converter to convert NOx to nitrogen, water and CO2. SCR is mandatory on all diesels sold in the US after 2010, in fact, current US NOx diesel emissions (known as EPA 2010) are more stringent than Euro 5 AND Euro 6.
Either I completely misunderstood what you were saying or you misunderstand engine emissions. Lower NOx has always been a goal and I think you may have been trying to say that the fuel consumption is so low that there is too much left over oxygen that enables it to bond with nitrogen. If that is the case, then I would say that those super clean and efficient cars arent as clean as they should be. That is a problem for the automakers to solve, not the fault of over zealous emissions laws.
I imagine most perps aren't wiping anything. They are selling it to someone that deals in stolen hardware and they are most likely computer savvy. There might be a small percentage of thieves who do keep the goods for themselves, but allot of them are addicts looking to sell what ever they can to get a fix. A guy I know bought a 250 dollar Snap-on tool set one the street from a crack head for 5 bucks (The junkie just walked up to him offering the set and he told the junkie he only had 5 bucks, the junkie had no problem with that). Smash and grabs sound more like addict behavior.
It literally becomes an unconscious process that you become unaware of. I used to drive a truck and I would find myself reaching for the shift lever or parking brake knob when I got into my automatic car after a days work.
GPS is actually pretty simple. You have a bunch of satellites orbiting with very accurate atomic clocks. Each satellite beams down a one way signal that has a time stamp so to speak. Your GPS receiver usually connects to four or more satellites and from there triangulates your position based on the time stamp from the satellites. Its also a 3D meaning you get latitude and longitude as well as altitude.
There is no magic behind GPS, its actually quite simple in theory but its implementation is quite complex. I would imaging its easy to spoof the GPS signals.
First off HDL vs. C or other HHL's is an apples to oranges comparison. There are ways to program an FPGA using C, but I believe it involves using soft CPU cores as a library of sort. You don't compile the C directly into an FPGA, but rather wrap a soft CPU core around it and then generate the HDL code. That or you just upload a soft cpu core and program that. I may be wrong but that is how it works from my understanding.
Second, most users are not going to write an entire configurable computing HDL design from the ground up. Most likely you are going to have an FPGA on the CPU, motherboard or expansion card along with drivers and API's that are invisible to the user. There are already PowerPC cores on FPGA chips and Xilinx just launched Zynq, an FPGA with a dual core ARM and tons of I/O. Intel is also going to offer an Atom CPU with an FPGA in the same package.
FPGA's can contain multiple "cores" that can be anything as long as they fit within the logic cell count of the FPGA. The architecture I envision is an endpoint block that interfaces the FPGA to the computer (PCI, Hyper transport, QPI, etc.) And a driver that talks to the device allowing for a common API, or at the very least raw communication. Then a configuration application allows you to download cores and then program the FPGA with the cores. Its all transparent to the user. Applications could take advantage of the FPGA directly by using a configuration API that automatically loads its own core(s) for data processing. So a video editing suite can load video codecs for en/transcoding, math programs could compile user algorithms directly into an array of parallel cores for fast processing (MatLAB already does this), audio programs can apply real-time effects through DSP cores in addition to encoding.
FPGA's are logic chips that can do anything. They can Interface to just about any bus/device and tie them together. There are already plenty of PCIe cards with FPGA's, memory, I/O and even high speed multicore DSP's. People have added compact flash cards to Apple II's, hacked the original Xbox by using an fpga as a bus sniffer. Students have implemented the NES entirely in an FPGA, there is also an FPGA arcade emulator that emulates the actual arcade hardware instead of using software emulation. There are plenty of companies that offer INSANE FPGA platforms to build super computers, DSP farms and even emulation of complex hardware designs using FPGA farms. This tech is only going to get better and better.
I have a few FPGA boards myself. A small Cyclone board from Knjn and a 1.2M gate Spartan 3E board from Digilent. Knjn also has what I believe is the cheapest PCI(e) cards, there is one based on a cheaper Lattice chip that is 99 bucks but Its tied to a crippling and expensive annual license. These vendors have great starter kits: http://www.digilentinc.com/ (sweet student discounts and great tools that are available for Linux. Their boards are targeted at education and research, lots of I/O interfaces and add on's called "pmods") http://www.knjn.com/ (Cheap easy to program boards but I think their documentation is lacking. They are however, very helpful when you email them. I believe its a relatively small mom and pop company)
Gwar actually has talent unlike Kiss. Sure their vulgar lyrics, ridiculous costumes and whacky stage performances most likely keep them out of the mainstream, but fuck they are awesome. Only show I can go to and really have a good laugh. Its like a musical comedy.
This is a DIY project that I would love to see more of. I just hope that in my lifetime I would be able to witness amateur space flights that are "built in the back yard" so to speak. Its a throw back to early oceanic exploration. There will be accidents and possible loss of life but hopefully that will be quite rare.
I just hope they are good with vacuum leak detection. They should have a helium mass-spectrometer leak detector, pressurize the craft with a mixture of helium and some other inert gas and sniff for leaks. Once you work with vacuum, you quickly learn that sealing a closed system to atmosphere can be a tricky business. And that is even more apparent when the vessel undergoes thermal expansion and contraction which loosens otherwise tight seals. Lots of good tig welding is needed along with electron beam or laser welding for more intricate parts.
Imagine the opportunity for engineers and students if amateur space exploration ever gets off the ground (pun intended!). I cant wait for the day when garage hot rodding turns skyward.
Wear nothing but a thong and frequently drop something so you have to bend over to pick it up. Works great if you are: fat, covered in hair, very old or hideously deformed. Just make it as unpleasant as possible to look at you. After all, you are in your own home and you are free to even be naked if you like. Its their problem if they have to observe you in your personal space.
That drone looks like nothing more than a mock up. I viewed the video before reading any comments and my first reaction was that it was fake. No detailed shots of any interior components and no rear shots. Plus the simple explanation of "we took control of it and captured it" is absolutely absurd. If I captured a piece of my enemy's advanced military technology you bet you ass I would be displaying its guts (or just enough to let them know I do in fact have it) to embarrass the secrecy of my enemy. Its akin to running ones underwear up a flagpole, embarrassing undergarments that are kept private and out of view.
One theory I have as to why the US isnt answering claim may be because the US did in fact loose a drone but not to jamming or hacking but simple failure. Lets say a critical component of the drone failed resulting in a crash. The Air Force has no idea what happened, the signal just went dead. Iran learns of the crash, goes out, picks up the pieces and then fabricates a phony mock up along with an equally phony news conference. They then claim they hacked and took control of the aircraft while showing the phony in the background. This is a pretty good idea on their part, they have created a nice little information war with the US. The US might have no idea how the UAV was downed. They cant be sure so they don't want to admit anything yet. This might lead to the Airforce grounding all UAV's for extensive testing or upgrades keeping the skies over Iran clear of UAV's. The Iranian people are given hope that their government has technology capable of defeating the enemy. And Iran can try to reverse engineer the craft or sell it to another US hostile country or China. The act also makes Iran looks technologically stronger then it actually is. Since the Stuxnet worm destroyed their uranium enrichment plant(s), they want it to look like they have tech capable of hacking US military hardware. It gives the Iranian people something to be proud of while stirring doubt within your enemy's (and the world for that fact) populace.
I see this an an information war. And Iran has the upper hand because the US isn't saying one word. Add to the fact that there are reports of cheap software being used to intercept un-encrypted video from drones as well as the US being known to have lost a few drones already. Its an attempt to discredit the US military and its technology.
From my standpoint, I find it highly unlikely they ever took any form of control of the UAV's flight electronics. I cant see how the military would not have security and encryption policies in place relating to communication with military hardware. Plus even if they could communicate with the UAV's computer, how do they know how to talk to the flight software to take control? This isn't some lame Hollywood or TV show where some hacker types furiously on a keyboard and lands the thing with an Xbox controller. You have to know how to communicate with the flight software which means you have to reverse engineer the software or steal its source code or documentation. They might have just been able to jam it or shoot it down, but that is all speculation.
MythBusters isn't at fault here, the Alameda County Sheriff's Department bomb range is. Its their job to ensure the safety of any tests conducted on their site. Half the time you see sheriff whats-his-name preparing the explosives and one of the MB crew pushes the button to make boom. This will probably result in a few sensationalist headlines, insurance claims and the bomb range building bigger hills out of dirt. Case closed.
I DVR everything now, I don't even bother with on demand (don't get me started with FOX's bullshit policy of disabling fast forward on their on demand.). There are PLENTY of watchable shows on TV. The problem is they are scattered about on different channels and shoved between drivel. The educational networks are as far from educational as possible and plenty of sitcoms aren't worth the digital tape they are recorded on.
But I am not one of the TV is for the mentally incapacitated. On the contrary, after a day of engineering work as well as having hobbies such as FPGA design, embedded hacking (arduino/mbed-ARM) antique semi truck and machinery restoration; its good to just plop down and numb your mind for a few hours before bed. I watch a wide variety of programming even some "kids" shows on cartoon network (adventure time, regular show and the new thunder cats) as well as some of the remaining interesting stuff on the "educational" channels and action/adventure like Dr. Who and Burn Notice.
I am satisfied with the shows on TV. There is plenty to watch but no perfect way to watch it when I want. DVR's are the key to my ability to watch cable TV, if they didn't exist or were banned I would drop cable in a heart beat. I can come home after a days work, putter around and be guaranteed I have recorded a few hours worth of stuff to watch. But they leave some thing to be desired and some of their functionality is pretty shitty.
I recently moved to an apartment in a friends house he just bought. He had FiOS installed and I got a DVR. Previously I had Time Warner Cable and I liked their DVR but it had some limitations that I hated. Now, the FiOS DVR makes the Time Warner DVR look like alien technology. The Fios DVR has two major flaws that make it far inferior to the TW DVR: Lets say you pause a show to use the toilet or grab a snack. You let 5-10 minutes pass and then un-pause the show. You are enjoying it then suddenly it cuts to the next show and your now watching real time. You try to rewind to actually finish the show but you cant, the hour long buffer is gone. WTF happened? It turns out that when the FiOS DVR is about to record a program on that channel you are watching, it just cuts to the recording wiping out the hour long buffer. TW allowed you to watch that hour buffer regardless of what was happening. If you were at the very tail of the buffer (1 hour delay) and it started recording, you didn't even know. If it is recording, you can rewind back into the buffer. The next major flaw is if a show in the buffer is past its time slot (eg the program you are watching aired at 5:00-5:30 PM yet it is now 5:40PM) you cant record it. Even if the full show is in the buffer, you can't record it because its a past show. Fuck that, TW lets you record any show in the buffer, even if its the last 10 seconds of the show, it saves it.
The biggest annoyance is the eSATA port that sits unused on many DVR's. An HD DVR with 20 hours of HD recording is shit. Why not let me plug in a 1-3 TB disk and have 100+ hours of DVR? Granted, disk prices are through the roof but that will be fixed in the coming months. FiOS has its eSATA port enabled yet TW does not.
And the last few gripes is the FiOS remote, a nicely laid out remote that only six or so fucking buttons light up. I memorized some of them by feel but I still sometimes hit the wrong button. TW has a fully illuminated remote that has a separate light button so I can light the key pad before pressing a button and then shut it off. It also has more functionality. The FiOS DVR VFD clock/channel display is brighter than the sun. I have to cover it at night because it lights the entire room up. I have enough electronics that I have to tape over lights, the cable box is yet another example of indoor light pollution. There is probably a dim option but I have yet to find it.
So that sums it up: let me watch what I want when I want. DVR's have really bought that ability to the masses but they are far from perfect. And I am not go
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Not all small, bare PCB embedded devices are Arduino's. The two are completely different animals.
What always makes me laugh is how people circle near the doors of the store and look for a close spot. Around and around they go clogging the aisles waiting for someone to pull out of a spot. Meanwhile toward the end of the parking rows, far from the doors there are more parking spots then you can imagine. Lazy jerk-offs.
But when you look at all of the handicap spots near the doors and they are mostly empty. So no wonder why they always get filled by non handicap cars. But to be fair, many large parking lots have security who constantly check the handicap spots and call the police when they find a vehicle in violation.
Max Payne. It was the first time I felt like I was playing a novel. The story was great and the graphic novel panels between scenes really immersed you into the story.
In NYC the bums just drop drawers, squat and pinch one off. Saw it with my own eyes once and know two people who have witnessed it first hand.
And we dont have pay toilets.
To be fair, you can build logic gates using diodes. The only drawback is that the devices operate on the principal of voltage drops across diodes and level shifting, bad for complex circuits.
Have you looked at Unity? ahref=http://unity3d.com/rel=url2html-1549http://unity3d.com/>
Its free and a lot of the complex underpinnings are taken care of and hidden away. A simple to use scripting language is used to create the game mechanics. I have never used it but I have seen it used for the Global Game Jam.
I would keep away from teaching programming unless the students already have programming skills which I doubt is the case here. Keep it simple.
I honestly don't understand this big push towards expensive electronic "learning aids" in the class room. They are just handed out with the magic notion that they will somehow help a student learn better. The problem I have with computers/tablets in the class room is simple. First, they are shoe-horned into the existing class room to supplement text books or note books. That is the wrong approach and is doomed to fail. Why? Because today's teacher is teaching using the same methods they have for centuries. The classic teaching method is what our parents, grand parents and great grand parents went through. You sit while a teacher recites a lesson, and take notes. Its not a real interactive lesson. Its almost static with the slight chance that there might be a discussion but that rarely happens. Typically the teacher drones on for about an hour on a particular subject while students write down notes. Now introduce a tablet into that environment, what happens? Its simple, the tablet now becomes a distraction to the droning of the teacher. Why? Because it sure beats sitting there writing notes about something that a kid does not care about. The average 13 yo today doesn't really give a shit about the revolutionary war algebra or frog guts, they want to play with their friends or play video games. Put a tablet in front of them and they have two choices, play games or take boring notes. What do you think they will do?
If they want tablets to succeed they have to reinvent the classroom teaching methods to match the technology. Note taking is static, why force a student to write down notes when they are fully aware that electronic devices can download stuff. Throw note taking in the trash, it does not belong in the electronic classroom. The lessons should be "pre-compiled" and when a student walks into biology 101, there should be a lesson ready to download onto the students tablet. The content should be pushed so the student has no choice but to see the lesson, they can go back if necessary but for all intents and purposes, the content should be static unless an interactive lesson is necessary. It could be a web page so its easy to distribute and access from home. What the teacher has on the "black board" should also be on the students tablet. If the teacher writes something down, it should pop up on the tablet for the student to take home.
Home work, Quizes and testing should also be done electronically using the same device. Teachers could very quickly grade home work, tests and quizzes that are in electronic form (multiple choice questions are the devil but could be automatically graded as soon as it is submitted.) The lesson from that day is available for the student to research and answer homework questions or write papers. Text books should be web pages or better, a wiki so a student can easily search for the relative subject matter.
Immerse the student in the lesson! Throw some animations or video clips in if possible. A quiz can be snuck into a lesson by introducing a question at certain points during a lesson with a time limit. Example: your teaching kids about geography (a subject that Americans are lacking in). Say you are showing them a map of Europe and are naming some of its countries. As the teacher is going over the countries, their teaching app will highlight the country on the students app. Then after 10 minutes the country names are removed and the students are asked to tap on Belarus. Give them just 10 to 20 seconds to make their choice. Students who have not responded in the time allotted can them be flagged as possibly having problems learning or paying attention. As long as you keep their eyes on the lesson, they should be able to answer quick questions. And present a few questions throughout the lesson. Lessons like this will keep kids in focus. And tablets can bring the lesson strait to the student There should be no worrying whether junior in the back of the class room can see the black board or not. Maybe my example is crappy but it gives you an idea of how the lesson should be i
I was hoping it would show me how to build a dick ship that will take me to dick planet.
2) Performance has become about more than clock-speeds. The main advances in PC gaming technology over the last few years have come from successive versions of directx. You can't overclock a machine with a directx 9 graphics card so that it can "do" directx10. Same goes for dx10/11.
Not necessarily, video cards are the dominant force in today's gaming rigs. The CPU has taken a back seat to the GPU as both graphics and Physics calculations are ran on the GPU. If anything, GPU overclocking should be the focus. Memory speed is not as big a deal since its already fast enough to move data between the graphics memory and main memory. Hell I have one of those AMD A8 APU's with dual channel DDR3 1866 and its amazingly fast. The GPU is center stage.
4) Among "old school" PC gamers, I think there's been a growing recognition that overclocking has its downsides as well. In an economic downturn, when money is tight, you don't necessarily want to go risking a huge reduction in the lifespan of your expensive toys.
I think its because hardware is so cheap and fast its not worth it anymore. In the days when the CPU, memory and motherboard ran you $1000 and a full gaming rig cost 2 granny, it made sense to buy mid/low end CPU's, add a hundred or so bucks in cooling gear and have the same performance as the $2000 rig. Now you can get an 8 core 3.6 GHz AMD for what, $270 bucks? Then throw in a decent motherboard for about $100 and 8GB of ram is just $50 bucks. A pretty powerful video card is about $200. Hard drive/case/ps/dvd are the only accessories left and you can get those for about $200-250 total. So what you are now spending what, 800-900 dollars. THAT IS FUCKING NUTS! Go back 4 or 5 years and tell people we would have such powerful and cheap hardware and they'd laugh at you. I have a spare PC that has an AMD A8, 8GB ram 1TB disk with the case/dvd/ps that I put together from newegg for 400 dollars. FOUR HUNDERD DOLLARS. That is twice the cost of an XB360 and way more flexible and powerful. It runs most of my games just as well as my older quad core AMD rig with a PCIe Radeon 5770. Its just not worth it to overclock anymore.
Sure there are new crazy CPU's like the Socket 2011 i7 from intel, but in the end that isn't going to give you a huge boost in frame rate, the GPU will. Id love the new super quad channel i7 but what will I do with it? And AND gets the job done well for so little money. Low price high performance hardware killed overclocking.
Have a look here:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/jupiter_galileo.html
Apparently Jupiter has 1/80th the necessary mass that is needed to become a star. Even if Jupiter were to combine with Saturn it would still lacks the necessary mass to "ignite".
You don't always see the bad driver coming. Rear end collisions, suddenly getting side swiped, equipment failure, etc. I have been driving for many years without incident, lucky maybe?
Wait, NOx emissions are reduced by either limiting the oxygen or proving complete combustion of the fuel in the combustion chamber. NOx forms under the intense pressure and heat when nitrogen bonds with leftover oxygen. Today that is done by exhaust gas re-circulation (EGR), efficient electronic fuel injection, catalytic converters and in diesel engines: selective catalytic reduction (SCR). EGR mixes some exhaust gas back into the air intake to cut down the oxygen levels. Better fuel injection atomizes the fuel so it can completely combust. In direct injection engines (like diesel), there can be multiple injections to increase the amount of fuel burnt limiting the amount of NOx. SCR injects urea into the exhaust stream and then into a catalytic converter to convert NOx to nitrogen, water and CO2. SCR is mandatory on all diesels sold in the US after 2010, in fact, current US NOx diesel emissions (known as EPA 2010) are more stringent than Euro 5 AND Euro 6.
Either I completely misunderstood what you were saying or you misunderstand engine emissions. Lower NOx has always been a goal and I think you may have been trying to say that the fuel consumption is so low that there is too much left over oxygen that enables it to bond with nitrogen. If that is the case, then I would say that those super clean and efficient cars arent as clean as they should be. That is a problem for the automakers to solve, not the fault of over zealous emissions laws.
I imagine most perps aren't wiping anything. They are selling it to someone that deals in stolen hardware and they are most likely computer savvy. There might be a small percentage of thieves who do keep the goods for themselves, but allot of them are addicts looking to sell what ever they can to get a fix. A guy I know bought a 250 dollar Snap-on tool set one the street from a crack head for 5 bucks (The junkie just walked up to him offering the set and he told the junkie he only had 5 bucks, the junkie had no problem with that). Smash and grabs sound more like addict behavior.
It literally becomes an unconscious process that you become unaware of. I used to drive a truck and I would find myself reaching for the shift lever or parking brake knob when I got into my automatic car after a days work.
GPS is actually pretty simple. You have a bunch of satellites orbiting with very accurate atomic clocks. Each satellite beams down a one way signal that has a time stamp so to speak. Your GPS receiver usually connects to four or more satellites and from there triangulates your position based on the time stamp from the satellites. Its also a 3D meaning you get latitude and longitude as well as altitude.
There is no magic behind GPS, its actually quite simple in theory but its implementation is quite complex. I would imaging its easy to spoof the GPS signals.
First off HDL vs. C or other HHL's is an apples to oranges comparison. There are ways to program an FPGA using C, but I believe it involves using soft CPU cores as a library of sort. You don't compile the C directly into an FPGA, but rather wrap a soft CPU core around it and then generate the HDL code. That or you just upload a soft cpu core and program that. I may be wrong but that is how it works from my understanding.
Second, most users are not going to write an entire configurable computing HDL design from the ground up. Most likely you are going to have an FPGA on the CPU, motherboard or expansion card along with drivers and API's that are invisible to the user. There are already PowerPC cores on FPGA chips and Xilinx just launched Zynq, an FPGA with a dual core ARM and tons of I/O. Intel is also going to offer an Atom CPU with an FPGA in the same package.
FPGA's can contain multiple "cores" that can be anything as long as they fit within the logic cell count of the FPGA. The architecture I envision is an endpoint block that interfaces the FPGA to the computer (PCI, Hyper transport, QPI, etc.) And a driver that talks to the device allowing for a common API, or at the very least raw communication. Then a configuration application allows you to download cores and then program the FPGA with the cores. Its all transparent to the user. Applications could take advantage of the FPGA directly by using a configuration API that automatically loads its own core(s) for data processing. So a video editing suite can load video codecs for en/transcoding, math programs could compile user algorithms directly into an array of parallel cores for fast processing (MatLAB already does this), audio programs can apply real-time effects through DSP cores in addition to encoding.
FPGA's are logic chips that can do anything. They can Interface to just about any bus/device and tie them together. There are already plenty of PCIe cards with FPGA's, memory, I/O and even high speed multicore DSP's. People have added compact flash cards to Apple II's, hacked the original Xbox by using an fpga as a bus sniffer. Students have implemented the NES entirely in an FPGA, there is also an FPGA arcade emulator that emulates the actual arcade hardware instead of using software emulation.
There are plenty of companies that offer INSANE FPGA platforms to build super computers, DSP farms and even emulation of complex hardware designs using FPGA farms. This tech is only going to get better and better.
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I have a few FPGA boards myself. A small Cyclone board from Knjn and a 1.2M gate Spartan 3E board from Digilent. Knjn also has what I believe is the cheapest PCI(e) cards, there is one based on a cheaper Lattice chip that is 99 bucks but Its tied to a crippling and expensive annual license. These vendors have great starter kits:
http://www.digilentinc.com/ (sweet student discounts and great tools that are available for Linux. Their boards are targeted at education and research, lots of I/O interfaces and add on's called "pmods")
http://www.knjn.com/ (Cheap easy to program boards but I think their documentation is lacking. They are however, very helpful when you email them. I believe its a relatively small mom and pop company)
The Papilio is the Arduino of FPGA boards:
http://papilio.cc/index.php?n=Papilio.Papilio
Happy hardware hacking.
Gwar actually has talent unlike Kiss. Sure their vulgar lyrics, ridiculous costumes and whacky stage performances most likely keep them out of the mainstream, but fuck they are awesome. Only show I can go to and really have a good laugh. Its like a musical comedy.
No, its over 9000/11!
This is a DIY project that I would love to see more of. I just hope that in my lifetime I would be able to witness amateur space flights that are "built in the back yard" so to speak. Its a throw back to early oceanic exploration. There will be accidents and possible loss of life but hopefully that will be quite rare.
I just hope they are good with vacuum leak detection. They should have a helium mass-spectrometer leak detector, pressurize the craft with a mixture of helium and some other inert gas and sniff for leaks. Once you work with vacuum, you quickly learn that sealing a closed system to atmosphere can be a tricky business. And that is even more apparent when the vessel undergoes thermal expansion and contraction which loosens otherwise tight seals. Lots of good tig welding is needed along with electron beam or laser welding for more intricate parts.
Imagine the opportunity for engineers and students if amateur space exploration ever gets off the ground (pun intended!). I cant wait for the day when garage hot rodding turns skyward.
Wear nothing but a thong and frequently drop something so you have to bend over to pick it up. Works great if you are: fat, covered in hair, very old or hideously deformed. Just make it as unpleasant as possible to look at you. After all, you are in your own home and you are free to even be naked if you like. Its their problem if they have to observe you in your personal space.
Sir, bravo. You win the "Slashdot post that made me cry with laughter" award this week. I am actually wiping away tears as I type this. Good show.
That drone looks like nothing more than a mock up. I viewed the video before reading any comments and my first reaction was that it was fake. No detailed shots of any interior components and no rear shots. Plus the simple explanation of "we took control of it and captured it" is absolutely absurd. If I captured a piece of my enemy's advanced military technology you bet you ass I would be displaying its guts (or just enough to let them know I do in fact have it) to embarrass the secrecy of my enemy. Its akin to running ones underwear up a flagpole, embarrassing undergarments that are kept private and out of view.
One theory I have as to why the US isnt answering claim may be because the US did in fact loose a drone but not to jamming or hacking but simple failure. Lets say a critical component of the drone failed resulting in a crash. The Air Force has no idea what happened, the signal just went dead. Iran learns of the crash, goes out, picks up the pieces and then fabricates a phony mock up along with an equally phony news conference. They then claim they hacked and took control of the aircraft while showing the phony in the background. This is a pretty good idea on their part, they have created a nice little information war with the US. The US might have no idea how the UAV was downed. They cant be sure so they don't want to admit anything yet. This might lead to the Airforce grounding all UAV's for extensive testing or upgrades keeping the skies over Iran clear of UAV's. The Iranian people are given hope that their government has technology capable of defeating the enemy. And Iran can try to reverse engineer the craft or sell it to another US hostile country or China. The act also makes Iran looks technologically stronger then it actually is. Since the Stuxnet worm destroyed their uranium enrichment plant(s), they want it to look like they have tech capable of hacking US military hardware. It gives the Iranian people something to be proud of while stirring doubt within your enemy's (and the world for that fact) populace.
I see this an an information war. And Iran has the upper hand because the US isn't saying one word. Add to the fact that there are reports of cheap software being used to intercept un-encrypted video from drones as well as the US being known to have lost a few drones already. Its an attempt to discredit the US military and its technology.
From my standpoint, I find it highly unlikely they ever took any form of control of the UAV's flight electronics. I cant see how the military would not have security and encryption policies in place relating to communication with military hardware. Plus even if they could communicate with the UAV's computer, how do they know how to talk to the flight software to take control? This isn't some lame Hollywood or TV show where some hacker types furiously on a keyboard and lands the thing with an Xbox controller. You have to know how to communicate with the flight software which means you have to reverse engineer the software or steal its source code or documentation. They might have just been able to jam it or shoot it down, but that is all speculation.
MythBusters isn't at fault here, the Alameda County Sheriff's Department bomb range is. Its their job to ensure the safety of any tests conducted on their site. Half the time you see sheriff whats-his-name preparing the explosives and one of the MB crew pushes the button to make boom. This will probably result in a few sensationalist headlines, insurance claims and the bomb range building bigger hills out of dirt. Case closed.
The delivery is.
I DVR everything now, I don't even bother with on demand (don't get me started with FOX's bullshit policy of disabling fast forward on their on demand.). There are PLENTY of watchable shows on TV. The problem is they are scattered about on different channels and shoved between drivel. The educational networks are as far from educational as possible and plenty of sitcoms aren't worth the digital tape they are recorded on.
But I am not one of the TV is for the mentally incapacitated. On the contrary, after a day of engineering work as well as having hobbies such as FPGA design, embedded hacking (arduino/mbed-ARM) antique semi truck and machinery restoration; its good to just plop down and numb your mind for a few hours before bed. I watch a wide variety of programming even some "kids" shows on cartoon network (adventure time, regular show and the new thunder cats) as well as some of the remaining interesting stuff on the "educational" channels and action/adventure like Dr. Who and Burn Notice.
I am satisfied with the shows on TV. There is plenty to watch but no perfect way to watch it when I want. DVR's are the key to my ability to watch cable TV, if they didn't exist or were banned I would drop cable in a heart beat. I can come home after a days work, putter around and be guaranteed I have recorded a few hours worth of stuff to watch. But they leave some thing to be desired and some of their functionality is pretty shitty.
I recently moved to an apartment in a friends house he just bought. He had FiOS installed and I got a DVR. Previously I had Time Warner Cable and I liked their DVR but it had some limitations that I hated. Now, the FiOS DVR makes the Time Warner DVR look like alien technology. The Fios DVR has two major flaws that make it far inferior to the TW DVR:
Lets say you pause a show to use the toilet or grab a snack. You let 5-10 minutes pass and then un-pause the show. You are enjoying it then suddenly it cuts to the next show and your now watching real time. You try to rewind to actually finish the show but you cant, the hour long buffer is gone. WTF happened? It turns out that when the FiOS DVR is about to record a program on that channel you are watching, it just cuts to the recording wiping out the hour long buffer. TW allowed you to watch that hour buffer regardless of what was happening. If you were at the very tail of the buffer (1 hour delay) and it started recording, you didn't even know. If it is recording, you can rewind back into the buffer.
The next major flaw is if a show in the buffer is past its time slot (eg the program you are watching aired at 5:00-5:30 PM yet it is now 5:40PM) you cant record it. Even if the full show is in the buffer, you can't record it because its a past show. Fuck that, TW lets you record any show in the buffer, even if its the last 10 seconds of the show, it saves it.
The biggest annoyance is the eSATA port that sits unused on many DVR's. An HD DVR with 20 hours of HD recording is shit. Why not let me plug in a 1-3 TB disk and have 100+ hours of DVR? Granted, disk prices are through the roof but that will be fixed in the coming months. FiOS has its eSATA port enabled yet TW does not.
And the last few gripes is the FiOS remote, a nicely laid out remote that only six or so fucking buttons light up. I memorized some of them by feel but I still sometimes hit the wrong button. TW has a fully illuminated remote that has a separate light button so I can light the key pad before pressing a button and then shut it off. It also has more functionality. The FiOS DVR VFD clock/channel display is brighter than the sun. I have to cover it at night because it lights the entire room up. I have enough electronics that I have to tape over lights, the cable box is yet another example of indoor light pollution. There is probably a dim option but I have yet to find it.
So that sums it up: let me watch what I want when I want. DVR's have really bought that ability to the masses but they are far from perfect. And I am not go
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