The driving test should have subtle questions in it to determine if the candidates fully understand
the equation
E = 0.5 * m * v**2.
If they cannot grasp this simple bit of physics they should not be allowed a driving license.
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The cosmic seeding idea. Absolutely, what is all that junk DNA really for. Bet its for a creature with a big brain, four arms (it lives in micro/very low gravity) and a 1000 year life span... we are mere monkeys compared to what the seeding has in store for us...
they took away the hardware interlocks on that to save money, because the regulators knew very little about safety they passed it.....
Software and safety technology have moved on considerably...
Without a computer to control the aircraft with CofG pushed right back, no pilot could control an aircraft now...
And its a red herring anyway because its
absolutely nothing to do with diagnosis.....
in the book that taught me DSP, written by people in the the US Navy electronics something or other
found it here
http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Processing-Addison-Wesley-Electrical-Engineering/dp/0201095181
it does do FFT analysis on helicopter sub-sonics. Most of it is 20Hz so some pretty big sub-woofers would be in order, but very doable.... esp as the turbines in helicopter engines are controlled to constant rotation, and controllable torque....
You missed out the one made by the makers or arcade games.
They knew how to make gaming hardware.
A sound chip that could do drum beats, and could be configured to high accuracy for pitch.
A graphics chip with a sophisticated display list (so you could scroll play fields using pointers), and superimpose 4 sprites (players) as vertical columns and missiles, represented in contiguous memory.
The players and missiles had h/w registers to indicate collissions between objects on the playfield and sprites and missiles.
That meant no programming of coordinates to detect collisions was required.
That meant the 1.79MHz 6502 could do more.
Play fort apocalypse on an atari and it was an experience. Play it on a commodore 64 and it was laggy.
By blocking a site this is denying information, not everything on pirate bay is copyright violation.
Whats next ? The only DVD burning software allowed are ones that cannot burn `copyrighted' material ? Going further, could they want to ban C compilers because we could write software that enables copyright enfringement ?
I think anonymous have a point. Banning pirate bay really is the thin end of the wedge.