Posts by Stoneshop 5951 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Oct 2009
That was the worst action regarding interplanetary relations ever; I wonder why the Martians haven't unleashed horrible fiery death upon us.
Apparently they've found a way to put it to good use, running it through something like the Piss Processing Plant in the ISS, but optimised for horse urine.
desolder and remove the USB ports
That would include connecting keyboard and mouse directly to the motherboard, yes? And say goodbye to your vendor warranty.
If you think blocking unused USB ports is the way to go, then epoxy or hotglue is a much faster and equally effective way, and less likely to cause collateral damage. But if there's one available still for keyboard and mouse, your effort is worth zip unless you've disabled loading any other modules except HID. And even then a dedicated virus or worm can penetrate; the method is left as an excercise for the reader.
I haven't seen so many footbullets since the Operation Xenu/Scieno days.
You've missed the SCO matter? Discontent with shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly, and ultimately having to try too hard to hit anything substantial in the pedal department, they proceeded with machinegunning their knees with gay abandon, and were stopped from upgrading to a groin-pointing Gatling because their funds ran out.
There are these, eh, widgets that can stick, plunger-like, to a smooth flat surface such as the back of a fondleslab. They can be had in various sizes and colours; it makes sense that the optimal dimensions depend on the size of your hand. With one of these attached to your tabled you can hold it, like a mortarboard, and have the other free to perform those stroking gestures associated with viewing images.
Oracle's software support for Itanium processors, and therefore HP's HP-UX Unix variant
And OpenVMS, and although that doesn't figure in a HP-SUX port to x86 roadmap (or for that matter, in any HP roadmap except as lip service), it's equally affected by Oracle killing Itanium support.
Well yes, and that new architecture that Itanium was just wasn't twice as fast with half the watts compared to the x86 of the time, rather almost the other way round, half the speed with double the watts. And with several well-developed 64-bit CPUs around already, Intel should have done the smart thing and killed Itanium there and then.
I take it you mean a Soviet person flying, cat-copter like, because they have quite a few things that do or did fly, such as Soyuz rockets, the Antonov 226 and a variety of Ekranoplans.
I'd rather have Kim Jong Ill Dead Il retrofitted this way, then equipped with a high-resolution cam. That would breathe new life into http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/
You're kidding, right? It's not like the common moggie is an endangered species, so why would the legislature have to concern itself with disallowing taxidermification of same?
And yes, it's his own cat. I know the guy, and his prime motivation was to improve Orville's bird-chasing abilities, albeit posthumously. The latter condition slightly defeats the purpose, but the idea is laudable just the same.
Had to log in this morning, and got an error message that my password was incorrect. Which it wasn't, so I can only assume my account was one of the ones that had its password reset. But no mail, no message on the login page, no pertinent message in the ubiquitous password reset mail, no message after the reset and logging in again.
But no deluge of invitations either, nor any other spam (yet) that could be traced to this leak.
Even if you hate cucumbers, you may well choose to buy them first thing in the morning at 38p, expecting the price to hit 42p later in the day because the forecast says "hot and humid" from which you expect a lot of demand because everyone is wanting to make cucumber salad.
Turns out though the forecast was off.
Comprehension is hard, apparently.
This is not a compensation for gambling losses, this is a compensation for the NASDAQ systems croaking, with the result that trades didn't go through in a timely manner; a matter that NASDAQ may well be held accountable for, unlike the free fall of Farcebook's share price.
@Poor Coco, even digital signals over long wires suffer from signal degradation. This is mostly due to voltage drop over the wire due to resistance but also the wire capacitance.
Voltage drop along the length of the wire comes from V=I*R, and while the resistance may be several ohms (in case of lousy wire and contacts), current (into the controller input) doesn't have to exceed 0.1mA, so your voltage loss from that bit is negligible.
Signal shape is affected by the wire's capacitance, which will be in the order of 100pF for a meter of shielded signal wire like RG316. Current digital logic is well able to deal with that kind of load, and there's always the option to go for an interface driver that uses I2C (availabe on most microcontrollers), which has been developed for use in automotive environments.
Not good; here's why:
- the line to the upper balloon will chafe the lower balloon causing it to fail prematurely. Very.
- one image I've seen shows such a balloon disintegrating into dozens of separate strips. It would only be the neck left hanging from the line to the upper balloon, and not much more.
Why not have the failsafe line pull away a small piece of electrically isolating stuff that sits between the (normally closed) contacts? Or, as has been suggested several times before, use the pull on the suspension rope to keep one contact of a (normally-closed) switch away from the other.
Bah.
Clearly this is the next job for SPB after launching LOHAN. Apart from the increased lift capability, the project calls for a craft accomodating a 2-person crew, the by now well-experienced playmonaut to put the binoculars exactly there in orbit, accompanied by this fellow: http://vingelevics.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/playmobil-02.jpg?w=450 Because as everyone knows, there's still nothing beating those old-fashioned large-format cameras for image quality.
I'm not an astronomer, so the following is probably not at all what happens out there in the universe:
imagine a fireworks rocket. It goes up, and explodes into several sparkly bits. These (ignoring gravity and air resistance) fly out from the original explosion point, and would never meet as long as their trajectories don't fold back. But those sparkly bits tend to explode too, throwing stuff out radially from *that* point, and those sparkly remnants may now well be on a collision course with another sparkly bit, or the remnants of its explosion.
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