Posts by Parax 624 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jul 2007
Yup we have a staff wifi access point QR code too, only seems to allow connect on Android though, iphone reads it but does not allow you to connect.
We also have a QR code on our corporate headed paper, it contains a business card with our phone numbers Address, website and email. just scan and save our business to your phones address book. or just scan to call/email etc.
Simple explanation: yes the current thermal RTGs are weedy at 110W but they are also low efficiency, so say* a pellet gives of 1KW then the Radiators must emit 890W of heat.
If you use a more efficient Stirling Engine it can give out 300w of power from a pellet, but they will only give out 700w of heat, meaning the radiator can actually be smaller.
The pellet source is still outputting 1KW, by being more efficient in conversion you reduce the amount of heat you need to radiate.
Meaning the same size radiators as current thermocouples can cope with a larger heat source on stirling.
*numbers are example only for explanation purposes - not real figures!
Nasa Glenn have been researching free piston strirling engines for a few years now to replace thermocouple RTG's, they are using the same hot fuel pellet as the current thermocouple RTG's and are more efficient, curiosity nearly got the first but testing was not complete in time.
It's interesting to see that they have advanced from a waste pellet to a fissionable reactor.
It's also nice to see old ideas coming back with new methods. And why no one is considering farming all hot waste with many many stirling units is an interesting question.
It was always charted as a big island, even on Google maps. Google maps Satellite image has a blacked out area (suspiciously? or because they thought the photo of plain sea and no island was wrong?) although the island and its name has dissapeared from the map tab over the last 3 days.
haha.. but the channel 5 point is more valid.
The 'established method' is a bbc launcher thing only, you are going to need to get other channels to adopt this if you want it as a standard on the red button. then perhaps the tv's might be more inclined to work that way.
BUT what about 'IP only' tv channels which channels Red button would you put them on? or how else would you access it? or would this require a totally different method? surely one that does all is the best solution? instead of some on a menu and others via red button.
Personally I'd still like the option to place internet services onto specific channel numbers so I can dial up youtube or fetchtv or something else without menus at all.
That's just wrong. if the TV is off, or if the TV is tuned into channel 5, or if the tv was playing from a DVD Then it's Always going to be more than 2 pressess. The 2 button thing only works if your already on a BBC channel.
Anyway, My FreeviewHD+ box has iplayer mapped to channel 222 (thats BBC via a phone style alpha numeric pad) it also has sky player on 759 (again sky) thats very useful but its all preset.
I'll only be interested in a smart TV if I can configure it myself, it'd be nice if I could choose what to map to which chanel numbers then I'd be happy.
How unique is it? I was under the impression that all compound hybrid rockets had this star shaped chamber in the grain material. Specifically including the hybrid rocket on Burt Rutans Space ship one.
It's designed this way so that as the material burns away the star shape morphs to an enlarged circle but the surface area remains constant throughout the burn, providing nice constant pressure for the nozzle, and hence nice steady thrust.
Easy mistake to make, It's the same team after all, but it was Pixel that was built in a partnership agreement with Armadillo and flown out of Dallas. Morpheus is was the Nasa JSC's successor. More in the final paragraph here
Does say a lot about SpaceX doing it right first time though.. a skill they seem to be exhibiting a lot.
...It isn't!
Nexus is the Answer, proper fully patched Andriod.
The only way to get updates is to cut out the toss pots who cant be arsed. This is not a Google problem its a vendor and carrier problem.
The more layers you add the worse the support gets. Google are good at fixing the OS, the Vendors are worse than Google but better than Carriers.. the lower you go down the pyramid the worse the problem gets.
I was unaware of the plan to dig it up Bletchley Park and transport it so far, perhaps El Reg could elaborate on this hither to unknown transportation to The Midlands.
And so is this where the copy claim falls apart?? so if it's licenceable patented tech, then it's a patent infringement NOT a copy? unless your patents wont stand up and you know it, and hence are unwilling to claim infringement. Surely then this licensing evidence does not affect the original claims?
"we try very hard to keep our product roadmap secret and confidential, and we go to do extreme activities to try to do that [...] That, however, doesn't stop people from speculating or wondering and will never do that. "
IF you want to end SPECULATION don't keep SECRETS.
If the customers are all speculating over an iPhone 5 perhaps if you'd have delivered an iPhone 5 there would not have been a problem.
If you want to keep secrets AND meet expectations (deliver on speculation) you are either exceptionally talented or delusional...
Thermite can be a bugger to ignite. Go For Flash Powder! much faster burn, bit easier to light than Thermite and just as easy to make. (it'll still need a bonding agent like the thermite to hold it in place.)
Powdered Magnesium (Filings) & Powdered Potassium Permanganate Crystals (yes the Deep Purple ones)
Job Done.
They don't want OLED TV's yet because they put in 20+ year investments into LCD plants (and probably paid off Plasma Plants too) so they can't build new factories until they have sold LCD's for 20 years, to pay off the loans.
New technology can't come too quickly if you forecast long.
The only way to get OLED quickly is for a new comer (no existing debts to pay) to come to market and steal a lead, forcing their hand.
Does it matter where they are based? we still don't know for certain who fucked up yet. maybe the fuckup was a guy in Edinburgh... then, so what if half the team are in India?
The thing that concerns me most is that the whole system goes down from 1 point of failure.
And how many single points of failure 'COULD' be deliberately exploited by one operative working abroad?
Just imagine if Visa goes down during the olympics.. who needs a plane these days? when you can inconvenience several million people for a week or more...
Surely they are forgetting something? The phone in my pocket.
I don't need a second independent device, when all my accessories can connect to one master device.
I don't think this will work as a separate device, and I don't think it will work as a replacement to a phone. I think it will only work as an accessory to a touch screen smart phone.
I agree. But what would stop the manufactures pumping the price up? How could you get the money to the customer without it being nicked by the vehicle seller? The incentive still encourages the manufacturer to make and sell more electric cars its now in their interest so it still works as an incentive.
The only argument that ever stood up for not using tethering was it drained your phone Battery, so well done "D-Link Le Petit Router DWR-510" you win a prize. surely if the user brings along a power tank then tethering is the most viable solution once again.
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