Posts by tony2heads
174 posts • joined Thursday 1st April 2010 11:18 GMT
RFI
Any sensitive electronic equipment can be damaged by RFI (see icon).
The only what is the damage done and what sort of signal you need. If your pacemaker is damaged by a phone then a version with shielding is needed. But given enough 'oomph' - maybe an EMP device such as an Explosively pumped flux compression generator- you will fry electronics
Re: Yeah, but ...
You're holding it wrong
Re: Heating the air
The scale height for water vapour in the atmosphere is only about 2km; if you put your satellite dish 1 or 2km above sea level there is little left; hence the placement of radio telescopes for frequencies > 20GHz preferentially in high deserts. Second preference is for cold places where the water vapour has frozen out. The water vapour effect is very little below 10GHz so that is why most TV/GPS/GSM/WiFi stuff is there.
If you transmit strait up (or down) well above sea level you will only get a small atmospheric absorption; if you try this at sea level and then at ground level for many tens of kilometres (e.g in rural areas) it would be a different story. You could get 28GHz system to work well over short distances (like cities or towns with lots of towers)
Klingon code
That explains everything!
http://aumha.org/a/klingon.php
particularly Number 1: “Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!”
teaspoon
to quote spoon boy - There is no spoon
Re: fruit salad
I would like mine with a service of Ice Cream Sandwich
Posted in The UK's copyright landgrab: The FAQ
Re: Two sides to the orphan issue?
Let the children compose their own music
Sorry to appear harsh, but I expect my children to work for a living when I am gone; why are composers' kids different?
peering from above
Representatives of Ceiling Cat
Where to put it
Star Trek style - new front ear!
unspecified mince
anyone seen my horse recently?
Actually in South Africa it has been donkey appearing in the food chain.
Use less electricity
If this gets hacked and the power is switched off at your home you WILL use less electricity - like it or not!
dynamic IP
Can you set to authenticate on MAC address??
Look at the positive side
At least it stops you getting into infinite boot loops!
www,theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2013/04/19/bad_patch_bootable_repair_disk/
fail**fail
Tucker's Law has been invoked
Doesn't anyone test these patches before they get sent out?
Re: Once again...
You are of course referring to
http://xkcd.com/327/
On a serious note - how long?
The assumptions are
- google plan to keep this going (unlike reader etc)
- that google will still be there after you are gone
To quote businessweek
"The average life expectancy of a multinational corporation-Fortune 500 or its equivalent-is between 40 and 50 years"
Google was incorporated in 1998 so it is already 15 years old - perhaps 25-35 years left?
So if you compare that with the lifespan of human beings there seems no point in doing this if you are under 40.
re: boots
@irongut:
I once had my motorcycle engine block on a cooker; I want to try that one on his iPad
@MrT
I have to inform you that the ambassador has been diverted to Lagos
Any fule kno
You need ninjas to fight the pirates
maxwell's demon
but he's drunk
best chance to terraform mars
If we plan terraforming Mars it needs a load of volatiles (water, carbon dioxide etc.) so if this hit the planet it would be a great chance; if it heated up permafrost on impact even better.
icon - what we want to see on mars!
It drops off faster than inverse!
Like the old country proverb that goes: ‘One boy is a boy. Two boys are half a boy. And three boys are no boys at all.’
(Possibly the 'country' was originally China)
Re: Yes.
Sounds like a Faraday cage. Is he perhaps called Brill?
Heisenberg Compensator
The cat is working on it
"it lacks the secure element..."
Without the security who is going to trust their money to the system. All you need is a stronger wifi transmitter secreted somewhere
Letter to the Hebrews
To compare authorship you surely need to do this in the original language - so how would a translator be involved?
Re: No problems here
evince
http://projects.gnome.org/evince/
(also available for windows)
Dell
I just order a Dell laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed. So you didn't look very hard
@Ru
I know of an ex-colleague whose son was fired from his Saturday retail job at a computer store because he was too interested and knowledgeable.
Predictably the store went bust and he now works in IT (last heard of working on image recognition systems)
Moral: some store managers seem to want to fail.
Weather forecasts and Timetables
These are only works of fiction anyway.
Re: Who actually buys office anyway ?
Nobody buys OFFICE, just buy a license to use office
five men and a dog
The dog better watch out for pythons!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVXlPP1Q9Y0
Re: This is exactly what I expect from the Python community
Typical of pythonidae:
"When they feel threatened, many will hiss, ooze a bad-smelling material from the vent area at the beginning of the tail, and possibly strike and/or bite."
Posted in Tizen mobile OS releases v2.0 code
re: room at the bottom
for feature phones with good battery life there is indeed plenty of room in developing countries. However these will always be low-margin devices and I don't see much money in it for developers
should dispense Tactical Nuclear Penguin
http://www.brewdog.com/product/tactical-nuclear-penguin
That would bring down any civilized standards
logo - obvious
Re: Mercator
Other fields have noticed the problem with Mercator giving a huge area distortion, astronomers often use
Hammer-Aitoff or Mollweide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_projection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollweide_projection
valentines day
my first word connection is 'massacre'
Could that be the fate of RT?
Re: Sounds familiar
Sounds like first world war generals:
- over the top lads, this time we will really get through the barbed wire and past their trenches
re: next disaster will be:
Its hypervisors all the way down
dont use Adobe crap
this works
http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html
There are multiple complex roots
1+1j
1-1j
Freudian ??
"saving grave" - are you suggesting that Oracle is shambling about like a zombie ?
mirror
I like the mirror concept. You could put any picture of somebody you want to defame in front and then watch 'disreputable' channels.
Posted in Soak up CO2 with sponges, says CSIRO
density of liquid CO2
I checked the some online data- its about 77% the density of water at room temperature and deep ocean pressures
So it won't sink
can turn out badly
http://cheezburger.com/6981988864
Re: It is not a hacked machine issue, it is a virtual machine user space crack
You didn't give the full link
http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/scratch/brick_samsung.txt
I am surprise how few lines of C are needed
NFC??
Surely one has flunkies to pay for ones purchases
coat - one was wearing the ermine robe
I thought it was named after Captain Nemo
something to do with his 'detestation of the nations of the surface" - to quote wikipedia
Posted in Solar undercuts coal in New Mexico
similar peak in South Africa
At a similar climatic zone the peak is early evenings in summer - get home, switch airco on and start cooking the evening meal while others are still at the office with aircondition still on.
icon for what it feels like without airconditioning
