Posts by Naughtyhorse 2416 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2010
And it's not such a long time since 'we' all made a long nose at the East Germans and Russians and all 'that lot' for their oppressive societies riddled with mass surveillance. Didn't need no steeeeenkin UN to tell us it was wrong back then.
go figure.
(not a comfortable parallel to draw is it?)
Isn't that the sad irony.
Bin Laden has won. He'd won on September the 12th, but our betters and wisers were too full of their own cleverness to spot this.
that's the trouble with democracy :-) look around you.... how would you feel about those people organising your pension? picking a retirement home for you? what's the odds that collectively they couldn't even sit the right way round on a toilet.
and they decide who gets to play with the big levers.
.. all we need now is to find a better way to do it :-D
Are you speaking with forked tongue about the killing fields? That could end up with you being sent to the gulags, if Robespierre does not drive you across the Atlantic on the mayflower, and no one expects that (their chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our four...no... amongst our weapons.... amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... ).
<can I stop now please?>
go read a history book, preferably one the ex minster of education would disapprove of
Radar - most likely no. The cops have mostly switched to IR laser guns and this should be perfect for them. Ditto for any laser rangefinder - there will be nothing to return back, so this clearly has some very obvious applications.
I think not.
as a stripling i recall fucking around with phase conjugate mirrors - used in loads of laser applications and 99.96% is no great shakes. (think high energy - if you have 0.04% of the output of a 600W co2 laser heating up a few sq mm of the layer of a mirror a few microns thick... thats a 2 bucket fire right there!)
reflection being 1/absorption we can say that if 0.04% gets bounced. that's probably enough to be detected pretty easily.
I was wondering about that one, I installed itunes once, last century some time. looked at it got 1/2 hour said 'fuck that for a game of soldiers' uninstalled it. filed it away as the sort of thing people who watch the x factor would use, and never looked back.
instead I use this amazing app.... windoze exploder :-) had to kick it in the goolies a few times when it tried to get all 'itunes' on my ass. But now it knows whos the boss.
cos killing people is soooooo much more important than say educating the ignorant, or providing sheltered accommodation to the mentally enfeebled.
both subjects I should have thought would be close to your heart* <kiss kiss>
* silly me, old fashioned thatcherite - no heart in the first place.
Shirly if (presumably) your mates in the defence industry weren't such an incompetent bunch of theving vagbonds, footpads and skulking loafers, and could manage to just once fulfil a contract at least in the same decade it was supposed to be delivered in and at a cost within say 5000% of the original estimate, then we could have all the jump-jets and carriers we want... and still have enough money left over for me and the rest of the electorates schools and hospitals.
just a thought.
get yourself a function generator, and one of those crappy old speakers, you can quite clearly hear a square wave(well the fundamental & harmonics)... In fact get a bunch of function generators and an oscilloscope and you can make your own square wave! from scratch :-) and then compare it to the one on the FG.
you ears may vary
In a pedestrian/cyclist situation the cyclist _clearly_ takes priority. They are bigger, stronger, harder and faster than you! so you'd better look out.
Now in a car/cyclist situation, the cyclist _clearly_ takes priority. They are smaller, weaker, softer and slower so that car driver has to take care.
At least that's how it works on planet trick-cyclist
Haven't seen anyone prosecuted for running a red?
than I suggest you look a bit harder, it happens all the time. what do you think those enforcement cameras are for?
so spake the man who carried 3 points for running the lights in bilarickay about 10 years ago.
(yes I know, I would have thought being in bilarickay was punishment enough too!)
100 million points for a fairly low res model of a single building?
standard file format for this sorta fing uses about 40 chrs per point
so thats 1/2 a gig per building.....
Sure you can compress it, but that just increases processor load at runtime.
that means the next CoD will come on about 150 dvd's!
Being a bit odd, having graduated as an engineer i got a job as a truck driver for a couple of years.
I was vaguely aware of NP-C, and wondered what a practical approach to it was.
Turns out it's a shitload of experience and insight on the part of the dispatcher :-)
May not be THE optimum route, but it's bloody close to it. and there are another 20 or so to plot out before everyone sets off, in an hour or so.
Likewise with loading the truck, broadly in reverse order of the drops, but also aware of the type of equipment available at the other end - is a fork truck available, or has the load got to come off the back on the tail lift.
A graphic demonstration of the difference between science and engineering. NP-C? fuck it! just drive where I tell you to, and I scheduled drop 5 & 6 like that so you avoid the roadworks. see you at 5:30.
mindblowing.
Oh dear....
no we won't
as of last year the 1GW offshore wind generation input (offshore tends to feed in at 400kV) required 500MW of diesel jennys standing by for when the wind didn't blow.
the paltry amount generated by onshore wind (generally fed in to the 132kV network) really didn't matter.
As of now, the capacity for embedded generation (mostly solar, but some wind, biomass.. hamsters in wheels etc etc) on the 11 & 33 networks is maxed out, even using suicide tactics like dynamic line rating wont buy much more, and the overall capacity could run a few calculators (assuming the sums weren't too hard).
the renewables business in this country is about subsidy farming and that is ALL.
Kill the subsidy and get serious about meeting demand (this will happen in a couple of years after regular power cuts become de-rigeur) and we'll be in the nuke building business again.
1) if you like electric you are not a motoring enthusiast
2) quieter cars makes for more pedestrian accidents and people who have lived next to main roads for any length of time get used to the noise and find it hard to sleep without it.
3) because pollution you cant see is not polluting??
4) Is reliability an issue with modern cars? I cant think of a single instance where my car failed to start or broke down in the last 15 years
5) Not necessarily less mass - there's a fucking great big battery to lug around, if gear changes slow you down... see point 1
6) the tesla only did well in those tests because the battery went flat before it reached the wall and it slowed to almost a halt before impact.
7) see elsewhere in this thread for the problems relating to loading even a small proportion of road traffic to the grid.
8) you do know where the batteries are made right?
there fixed it for you, with only 1/2 my tongue in my cheek
Helpdesk: I see, do you still have the original packaging the machine came in?
Luser: Yes...
Helpdesk: Okay, I suggest you repack everything and take it back to the shop you bought it at.
Luser: Will they replace it?
Helpdesk: No. You are just too fucking stupid to own a computer.
Isn't the tweed jacket with leather elbow patches an early 20th century form of lab coat?
Oh and I propose Alan Blumlein for archetypal boffin.
unheard off (mostly)
self taught (entirely)
wide portfolio of unimaginably important inventions/discoveries (undoubtedly)
like a latter-day Tesla.....
Ooooh! Telsa!
unheard of (pretty bloody famous akshualy!)........
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