Posts by Full Mental Jacket
24 posts • joined Friday 28th May 2010 14:00 GMT
The cosmic equivalent of a belly button perhaps?
This technique reveals details that are not "seen" with a single light source.
See here for a image showing results of the technique - http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/ptm/
There was a programme on the BBC recently, showing that they have scanned the Anitkythera Mechanism in the same way and revealed previously unnoticed detail.
Re: Dock
If you'd actually looked at the Asus mains adaptor, you'd have noticed it can output 15 volts. Standard USB it isn't (hence the many pinned connector).
CRC checking
Would such a device need CRC aplenty, to counter say cosmic rays, static, other environmental effects?
Posted in Ten... smartphone survival accessories
Re: I want the biolite stove thingy
You're* dammit...
Posted in Ten... smartphone survival accessories
Re: I want the biolite stove thingy
Your going to want some heat-proof and longer cables too. The phones in the video are scarily close to the flames, melting marshmellows, boiling water etc!
Re: Re: Included software
"The Sony camera group is producing excellent, innovative products."
Have you used a HX9V? The pictures look great until you zoom in and you see the awful washy watercolour effect from compression/noise reduction. Awesome video capture though :/ It has put me off buying another Sony camera for quite some time.
Posted in Galaxy is teeming with homeless planets
Re: Re: Re: Does this answer some of that unexplained mass
Maybe discoveries such as this will prompt new thought on these THEORIES.
Posted in 2011's Best... compact cameras
Smudgy pics
I've got one and I'm love it - mostly. It's the smeary pics from the JPEG compression/noise reduction that let it down. It'd be an amazing bit of kit otherwise.
Posted in Churlish gadget cusses those who use it
it's on rathergood
Here you go - http://www.rathergood.com/swearotron.html
Also as old as the digital hills
So...
you're using a wiimote. That's obviously not a controller...
Area
Neither does the report mention the area of the material needed to produce the same amount of light as the other methods. It won't be yet practical in a house to replace a bulb with a panel a meter square, for example.
I am 100% sure those savings will be passed onto the customer...
National Geographic commentator
I was expecting serious David Attenborough style narration. Why does he sound like he is doing a voiceover for Sesame Street?
Going to have to call you out on this one
Science can be just as dogmatic as religion, as the guy who discovered quasicrystals found out.
From - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15181187
"Dr Shechtman had to fight a fierce battle against established science to convince others of what he had first seen in his lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Washington - formerly called the National Bureau of Standards - on an April morning in 1982.
For years, the researcher was "ridiculed" and "treated badly" by his peers, he recounts."
This years Nobel Chemistry prize winner...
Posted in Stars say relativity still works
No mention of
No mention of red shift due to absorbtion/retransmission through more galactic dust. Was that factored in?
XY
This study concentrated on a section of genes present in the Y chromosome, which most women tend to lack.
Missing mass
Is it possible that the "missing mass" in the universe could also be room temperature or lower and hence not previously visible? (I've always suspected something like this)
technicolour
No mention of whether they licked it or not...
Noise
The issue I have with distributed compute apps is that they will cause your machines to run at full tilt, meaning the fans kick in, producing noise and heat 24 x 7. Maybe if I could get a server in the shed, I wouldn't mind so much.
Checkout
Yes, Pocket Legends uses Google Checkout to buy in-game credits. Should kids really be allowed to spend money on games by that method? I'm getting flashbacks to premium rate ringtone operators.
Guinness?
I think you can foil this pretty easily. Just drink Guinness and that means you've spent your life on the Emerald Isle!
Xenomorphs
Just as long as the junk hasn't been anywhere near LV-426...
