Posts by DayDragon 48 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Apr 2011
"If you receive such a communication, please do not respond to it and report it to the police."
Anyone else think this is bad English?
I know they probably mean report the scam to the Police and don't send the scammers any money but to me it seems to read "don't tell the police and don't send any money to the scammers"
Oh i don't know, 25k sounds quite good for a replacement forearm.
Going with this and the prosthetic legs people have these days i guess we know figures when someone says "it costs an arm and a leg"
It doesn't show you how far his amputation is so i'll assume he has his natural elbow and half his forearm.
If i had to have one i think i'd prefer to have a foam-latex or rubber grip on the palm and fingers, the egg-cracking wasn't great (though still impressive) and the beer holding looked like it could slip out but i haven't looked at the arm apart the article and video.
Being interested in prosthetics i did wonder about the use of pain-receptors to sense touch-grip pressure
at last...
I remember walking into a Starbucks for the first time and looking at all the types of coffee you could get and being utterly confused. You see, i was just used to drinking Instant so all these Expresso, Latte's and Cappucino's meant nothing to me (and there were no explanations of what they were).
Anyway, i said to the lass behind the counter "can i have a normal coffee" which there followed a list of the usual suspects, i said "have you got anything like Instant". Her face dropped and she looked at me as though i'd just dropped out of a dogs bum... "oh, you want an Americano, What do you want it in?" i looked at her blankly and said "A cup"...
@ Capt Underpants
What you're saying is correct, it is a stupid rule to enforce but we just work for the University and have to follow it's rules/policies/guidelines. I take back my first statement, you do seem to know what you're talking about. :)
Basically it's something along to lines of what Ian Johnstone states on this thread, about not receiving more credit for a piece of work already credited rather than plagiarism.
May be cite is the wrong word, i can't think of the correct one, you're allowed to 'refer' to a piece of your own work if it adds to the assignment. Whoever is marking will possibly have access to the work and of course it is cached on TII (i think).
@Crisp No idea :)
@ Capt. Underpants
I've not upvoted or downvoted you but you don't quite seem to get Academia do you.
What apr400 stated "If you copy your own previous work rather than producing new and original material then that is still a problem." is correct, at least in our University anyway.
You are not allowed/meant to copy previous work, even if it is by your own hand.
You can 'cite' you previous work as you can 'cite' bits from other works.
I read this and thought 'back on form, Simon'
"And then there’s the cost. The budget for the company’s 50-odd retail-priced iPads has to come from somewhere... and because everyone from the Boss up feels it’s crucial IT material and so shouldn’t come out of the department’s expense account – and since the Corporate Wasting-Money-on-Pointless-Shit account doesn’t exist – they just raid the IT Budget instead.
Even this wouldn’t matter if I didn’t know, deep down in my heart of hearts, that I’m going to find half of these devices with about quarter-of-an-hour's worth of use, stuffed into the back of a cupboard with a dead battery three years from now.
I’ve seen it happen many times. Some crusty from upper management retires, steps in front of a bus (or is helped in front of a bus by a friendly IT professional) and then suddenly a box full of IT detritus turns up in Mission Control in case we "want it for something"."
Funny because it's true.
I could probably find the answer to this by Googling but thought i'd ask here and make myself look stupid.
What kind of light travels at the speed of light? i mean, there are different wavelengths right?
Infrared-visible light spectrum-ultraviolet. Do they all travel at the same speed but only go different distances??
I don't know if anyone else has already said, i couldn't be arsed to trail through the waffle & snide comments. Some people have got some good ideas for what to do with them.
I registered my interest on both sites (being that i purchase from them anyway they already have my details)..
But like anything new, i'm not going to be first to buy one, i'll wait till everyones bought one and they find problems with it and then Raspberry Pi bring out a new revision or workarounds, then i'll buy the updated one.
"but taking out the root DNS of the net is not the group's style. After all, such a action would throw a spanner in the works of the hacktivists' favourite playground"
Err, no it wouldn't. Since the servers and routers will still be there they only need to use IP addresses. Proper hackers would be able to get around the net without having to use nameservers.
I'd certainly agree with the building and launching of rockets from the moon due to it's lowered gravity but not the mining.
The Moon is too important to Earth to start mining it, however as a launch platform for other mining vessels.
The main thing would be the NEW research that could be done in laboratories on the moon in low gravity or perhaps in zero-g lab orbiting the moon?
We could finally work on intergalactic space travel drive systems
Someone pointed out above that the reverse side of the panel is used for expelling heat however couldn't they have a small solar cell that would only power the rotating motor (with enough power to turn the panel towards the sun) thus activating the computer?
Another question: if it's been sat in the cold dark regions of space for so long not receiving any heat will the electronic/computer components be any good now?
Where's the entertainment value gone out of the BOFH. I remember eagerly waiting for the next issue of Networking Week, or whatever it was called, to read the next exciting installment of the BOFH.
There have been some brilliant ones over the years but this isn't one of them.
I say bring back Maureen the Serial Whiner :)
If people would bother to check privacy settings, Facebook has had this for ages. At least for a year i've been able to assign different friends to different groups and limit that group to what they could see by using Custom rights.
I've separated out casual acquaintances and put them in a group that has limited access to my profile already.
I've not checked out the 'new' feature yet, i hope they haven't messed anything up.
I'm not an electrician but you state you have Solar-PV panels and pump excess back into the grid.
I'm not exactly sure how your house is wired but, having looked up some info on this, couldn't you put the clamp on anywhere before it goes into the main consumer unit or fuseboard?
I'm interested in Space travel and exploration, but i'm also a Sci-Fi fan so maybe this idea is too basic.
We have no MANNED space craft, why don't we send lots of Honda ASIMO's (or similar automated devices) up there programmed to keep it maintained and operating?
One of my other ideas was, why couldn't we start to use the ISS or similar, as a Space-Dock, like in StarTrek, where they research, design and build space-craft that cannot be built on Earth...
(I did say i was a Sci-Fi fan :o) )
Serious question, what would it take to put an object in space in a parallel lunar orbit and maintain it in that position?
Human brains would be better to do tests on however it comes down to Ethics, Morals and the law preventing it from happening.... as well as the fact you'd have to find willing volunteers to have their heads cut open and their brains probed whilst you're doing your tests.
Whilst i don't fully agree with taking another living (sentient) creatures life (apart from wasps) rodents are an abundant source of test material...
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