It reminds me a lot of the old Amiga magazines, and indeed has more than a few of the same writers. Though the cover disk is not as important these days it still comes in useful now and then.
You don't realise how cheap the sondes are. There are hundreds launched every day, and they don't get them back. They have to be incredibly cheap and there are no GSM technologies cheaper than a simple FM radio. There are technical limitations too - GSM only works up to about 5km, above that they will likely fail. Sondes usually fly to about 30km.
These are not difficult to get now, except if you order from RS. They're the only supplier that has failed to deliver one within a week. CPC and Farnell are pushing them out pretty quickly now. Not sure about Maplin.
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JPEG does do Huffman coding, or less commonly arithmetic coding.
LOL, no. Just... no.
Microsoft used to just hate Mac and Linux users. Good to see they're expanding that to Windows users too, they where beginning to feel left out.
I didn't even know they had mobile phones!
That would make the Sun and Jupiter a binary system.
Most new discoveries are still done through imaging rather than maths. It's fairly automated these days though.
I got it installed on my laptop a few hours ago, and so far no dramas. Nice work everyone.
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This would never work in the UK.
It's not the kids fault, why make them suffer for their parents stupidity?
The 1920x1080 / 1366x768 resolution curse has been the worst thing to happen to laptops in a long time. That and glossy screens.
It's not rising, it's already overhead.
The surveillance industry.
It reminds me a lot of the old Amiga magazines, and indeed has more than a few of the same writers. Though the cover disk is not as important these days it still comes in useful now and then.
It's a bit sad that I'm surprised the FBI response wasn't to shut down LiveATC.net.
I believe this covers the important aspects of this story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjNBzyLqDPM
I find this whole idea hard to swallow.
The newer MS keyboards are pretty awful, but their mice are not too bad still.
Right, so the real people responsible will be charged now? The ones who left seriously insecure military computers connected to the internet?
Hasn't this already happened?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme
I was one of those people on the beach. Stupid cloud :)
That won't work, most of them haven't watched it anyway.
You don't realise how cheap the sondes are. There are hundreds launched every day, and they don't get them back. They have to be incredibly cheap and there are no GSM technologies cheaper than a simple FM radio.
There are technical limitations too - GSM only works up to about 5km, above that they will likely fail. Sondes usually fly to about 30km.
These are not difficult to get now, except if you order from RS. They're the only supplier that has failed to deliver one within a week. CPC and Farnell are pushing them out pretty quickly now. Not sure about Maplin.
I've gotten one from a couple of different sellers now, the only one who so far hasn't delivered is RS. All the rest have been very quick.