Posts by cortland

Painful asteroids?

The spam begins — "Buy our Solid Rock Creme, and stay hard forever." Or something like that.

Glass overkill

They could much more easily and reliably be able to control the windshield wipers with a low-power laser shooting edge-on from the bottom of the glass to the top, or one side to the other; refraction from raindrops on the glass could be detected as modulation of the laser beam and turn the wipers on.

I suspect the major difference between these rivals is due to what camera manufacturers would call "Art" settings; emphasizing contrast and color to please those who want a little more snap in their picture.

Getting enough stabilization to do a 50 times zoom is amazing – but my mirrorless camera,with both in- body and on-lens stabilization (depending on the lens) lets me shoot pictures down to 1/5th or even 1/4th of a second exposure indoors, with a 100 mm lens. The races are on, and the Percheron's still deliver more beer per night.

Sorry, Mike

There's a Wall that's more important -- and we'd have to buy Russian rockets because you haven't exactly been pushing money at us.

Coffee, anyone?

This unworthy servant of the Great Ghu Hytek is known to have solved a display problem with a set-top box using what in the US we call an electric hot-plate. Without even connecting it to the mains outlet.

It's Texas, Silly!

Between 1997 in 2002, I had an interesting position in Northern California with a firm based in Texas (since absorbed by others) . Telecom Valley has long since dried up and blown away, but I have a lot of memories of that time.

I was the de facto EMC expert in the R&D department there, and beside monitoring designs in progress, was often called on to fix problems that developed in the field. One such problem came up shortly before the inevitable layoffs began and one got me; equipment in Texas was shutting down mysteriously, not a cloud in the sky, nor high tension power lines collapsing on the telephone outside plant, no, not that.

Protective devices on telephone lines were just quietly dying of overload, burning out and and taking down-line equipment "off the net", as we would say now.

They had at the time other EMC engineers than myself, the headquarters being in Texas, so I am confident (ha!) somebody eventually fixed that – but here's my theory.

Clouds passing over the millions of miles of lines across the state carried quite sizable charges, despite never discharging via lightning until things REALLY got "charged up". And as they passed over portions of the network, the charge they carried induced a flow of current between different parts of the land-line system. Equipment protectors being designed to handle short if exceedingly high currents, were burning out because these slowly rising and slowly falling peaks of current exceeded their ability to dissipate it as heat.

It's a good theory, anyway. It's never nice to fool Mother Nature.

Radio?

Surely it's light, redshifted.

Not just video

Writing in the same style – anonymously – as any well-known public figure, actor or actress, etc. could be taken for writing by that person.

Who shall be first?

A WHAT curtain?

From Alaska to San Diego, an [idiot] curtain has descended on the United States...

Somewhere around here

Somewhere around here I have an upgraded Tandy Model 100 that will work just fine for basic word processing – and the batteries last 40 hours. Windows? I'm dragging out my DOS 3.1 computer next week.

Perhaps

Perhaps they should be tested where they'll be used in earnest, hmm?

It's possible

It's possible that a receiver able to demodulate these frequencies might allow confirmation by listening to its audio output. And yes, I own a few.

http://www.radio-electronics.com/info/wireless/wi-fi/80211-channels-number-frequencies-bandwidth.php

Still allowed:

http://www.londontypewriters.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Brother_Vintage_Manual_Typewriter-1.jpg

Al WHO?

Al Gebra has been sighted in a local school; takedown team has been dispatched.

Workarounds

If the content is available on the Web you can access it via your mobile provider direct without using Wifi.

Or Over... Somewhere , over the hard drive

Bluebirds fly.

Lock 'em up.

What about the Russians?

We don't talk about THEM.

Just BUY it

http://www.iflscience.com/technology/judges-porn-habits-and-politicians-medication-found-in-anonymous-browsing-data/

Yes, well

People would PAY for a "turn off video until requested' function.

Me, I junked my television in 1997 and refuse to watch movies -- films for you chaps. The occasional video? I pick 'em -- and fast forward to see if I WANT to see them in real time.

Transcripts are a blessing.

Didn't I see you the other day in the newspaper?

Up shows the law, with handcuffs.

Comes on a forklift, requires an industrial grade desk, and guarantees hernias and twisted necks.

That's

That's an *interesting* charge.

I'm imagining three officers with handcuffs standing by a dialysis machine reading their arrest warrant:

"You're charged with causing a security breach with code written forty years ago... You'll have to come with us, sir."

it may be

It may be they _do more code and make more money_ (heh) because spaces are faster. and it's easier to avoid errors using them than tabs due to the large space bar and more accurate placement of typing digits.

Still, I can't justify the reported income discrepancy to typing speed alone; did e. e. cummings earn more eschewing upper case?

Subscribers only?

The AFR article is by subscription.

That's interesting

As I understand the intent of these restrictions, it could also ban flash mobs organized by smartphone and Twitter.

Verizon delenda est, eh?

Look at it this way

"But they were just next door! I walk over there to fix their d**n server and keep 'em happy, and for this I get fired for not submitting some [%#XX(^&SS^] travel request?"

"Just as well, Sam, we already spent your pension money on executive bonuses."

Five neins...

– it was far from clear that even senior NASA management were actually capable of understanding the warnings their engineers were raising –

Five nines, is it? On a good day, you might get that out of a resistor.

You want it actually to run software and process data? This is the system that never fails, is it? Did you say "lowest bidder"? It was a really good bid?

Oh dear.

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Who?

Why?

This is NOT the android they are looking for.

The chalice from the palace?

Computer User Non Technical [Giving Into Foolish Things.]

http://www.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/Gift.html