Posts by Tom 7 8318 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
Well thanks Roger but can you just disable that bit.
That's the security you hired me to code in from the beginning.
I know but I cant be arsed to go through the hoops to get to this bit of information so if you'll just turn it off I'll let you know when I've done so you can switch it back on.
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Not sure how 35 transposed to 51. Because its a shit data entry system. Have you ever been in a cockpit? Light comes in from all angles and even with the best gullibility in the world an iPad (or any other tablet) would be more likely to show clouds than whatever is written on the screen.
And not to have any form of sanity checking in the software...
FFS dont let this crap near anything of importance.
Ignoring the possibility of a solid core most of the planet will not be gas but liquid. This can become tidally locked* (especially if its viscous) but this still leaves the atmosphere to move around. As one side is facing its sun it gets very hot and the other side is cold. This is all is a small butterfly to flap its wings and the temperature differences will whip up massive storms and winds - especially when you have glass precipitating out.
Even the small rotation as it rotates round the sun is enough to generate a pretty hefty Coriolis effect.
* there's probably a surface layer of relatively free moving liquid.
I was using a high speed bipolar process at the end of the 80's and found a design for 16bit processor that used either 600 gates (or was it (cmos) transistors). I re-modelled it using the bipolar process and it would have been the fastest cpu in the world at the time (we could do 2.4GHz with ease then). Couldn't find any RAM for it thou...
Re the freeloading. The early patents on graphene come from using sellotape to peel already existing graphene from graphite. Cost - fuck all compared with applying for the patent.
So the development costs of graphene are near zero. For someone else to make graphene in useful quantities is going to be fucking enormous and they will have to pay the patent holder if they can get a license. Not worth the risk.
If I could produce sizeable sheets of graphene I would be very rich - but nowhere near as rich as if I wait for the patents to run out and the patent holder is not freeloading of and actual design for making the bloody stuff rather than extracting something they didnt invent from is natural source.
A heavy material is useful on a valve amp that is under sonic attack - if you have some speakers turned up loud next to a valve amp they will exhibit a microphone effect.
Given this is feeding into headphones it highlights Sennheisers desire to confuse the customer and con them out of some more money.
I doubt there's a transformer in there. For electrostatic headphones you'd only need 300V a side - the sound goes straight into your ear so there's no square law to worry about and 1/2w will push you eardrums together in the middle.
The thing is it wont be long before you get an annoying hiss from things that get into them and cause low level discharge. I get that in my electrostatics and its OK if you play music much louder than the hiss but loud music really requires physical bass so its quite shit in headphones.
Mind you most sennheiser headphones are disappointing for the price.
I'm a great ARM fan but in a drone power is not really a problem - if it is Adapteva Parallela gives you best bang for watt.
Is there a reason why everyone uses batteries in drones when its really easy to get watts from glow plugs which are much better power to weight and pretty reliable. And no they are no noisy if you feed the exhaust into a decent silencer.
Nothing wrong with Coral-66! Used to write extensions to our chip design software in it.
I'd love to work on something like that - take a while to work round the innards (I'm guessing theres a lot of clever shit in there) but is there really a requirement for US residency? Seems a bit dumb requiring you to work in the US of something nearly out of the fucking solar system.
I remember seeing some ghost forest in Oregon that was killed by a Tsunami from the fault going up there. From 1700 - thats only 300 years ago and there was 2' of sand a couple of miles inland.
Hated having a Dad who showed you this shit rather than take you to Disneybollx but it stops you investing in sea side property!
I've worked in a place where the accountant vetoed any IT budget, cancelled any pay rises and then came to work (from 200 yds away) in a new car where the wheels would have paid for all the above. He, and other management couldn't work out why moral and productivity were so low...
It was at a time when there were about 3 IT jobs in the whole country so moving was not easy.
The joy of sex is just mans exploitation of evolutions power to get us to reproduce. Having teenage kids will make you realise that sex merely turns intelligent people into reproductively aligned morons.
If the wheel is an invention ( some think it merely the result of over-enthusiatic pushing) I'd say the next thing would be reciprocation - the realisation that one form of energy can be converted to another. Windmills/watermills were around for 3000* years or so before someone worked out how to really make things go.
Boats - I'd put money on boats being the GREATEST invention ever - man got to Australia in them 50,000 years ago. They were used to transport a lot of stuff around the UK even before the canals and seem to have largely been lost to history but almost everywhere big had river or maritime access - even stonehenge ffs.
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