Comment Re:Canon's Diffractive Optics taken to a new level (Score 1) 60
Is it still a Fresnel lens, or is it more like the diffraction pattern you get on an exposed holographic plate?
Is it still a Fresnel lens, or is it more like the diffraction pattern you get on an exposed holographic plate?
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Remember: the first rule of Roko's Basilisk is you must never tell anyone about... oops, my bad.
...then "EMET" becomes "MET".
...but they STILL won't fly Frodo and Sam to Mount Doom. Damn you, Eagles!
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The ideal work/life ratio is 0.
Unless you're a zombie, in which case it's NaN.
I have nothing to hide, and neither should you. Anything to make this dangerous world a bit safer.
Either you're trolling, or the irony of you posting this as "Anonymous Coward" is completely lost on you.
That, and this:
The researchers are this week working on a camo version for use by the Russian military. The national army has already expressed interest in the bot, attracted by its ability to carry up to 10g – a potential option for carrying portable cameras into enclosed areas and tight spaces.
Exactly my thoughts. Also, stop with the "the protagonists are from Earth" framing nonsense. If it's a D&D fantasy story then set it in the fantasy world, period.
The story begins with Tom Boyman, a 23-year-old Californian who has finally saved up enough money to begin his studies at Yale.
I guess the name "Tom Manchild" was taken?
On his way to catch the bus east, he meets Milton "Fearless" Gilroy, a car racer who convinces him to go to a county fair before leaving.
If you race cars, it's important to have a nickname which tells people that you are brave, because otherwise they would have no way of knowing that.
At the fair, Tom chances upon Margot Champion, a senior at Wellesley who is summering in California at an archaeological dig
She was accompanied by her brother Victor Champion, her sister Hero Champion. and her cousin Winnie McWinsalot. But they don't do much in this movie.
The three of them strike up a friendship and visit the dig site that night, where, among howling winds, a mysterious power brings them all to another world.
It's called "peyote".
They awake near a strange body of water, where an oared galley awaits them. From this ship emerges Odo, a water-walking cleric, who bids them to come along. He then transfers the water-walking ability to the party, who join him on board--
Why does he need to walk on water if he has a ship? Is it that he's clumsy and falls overboard a lot, and can't swim? And why do Baby Manboy and his two friends need to walk on water to get to a ship that's supposedly been waiting for them? Don't they have docks, or gangplanks, or launches? How did all the oarsmen get on board? Do they need to walk on water too?
--to travel to the island of the Master. The Master explains that he, and this world, were created by the Onelord. Every seven hundred years, the power of the Master fades, and a Child will be found who is destined to replace the Master. However, because "nothing can exist without its opposite," the Onelord also created the Nightking, who is "dark beyond your powers to imagine," and whose strength grows as that of the Master fades. So a Chosen One is summoned from our world to help maintain the balance. The Master reveals that Tom is this Chosen One, and charges him with an urgent quest: the Child has been discovered, but has already been kidnapped by the Nightking, and can be saved only by Tom.
Ok, I totally want to watch this movie now.
Rocket Kitten, a cyber espionage group that mostly targets individuals in the Middle East...
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1573/
Well, that escalated quickly.
There's a lot of love for Amiga, but they never quite got a firm foothold. Sometimes good things don't make it, when other things already have public mindshare.
True. The Amiga "Boing" demo made heads turn even after the Mac had become established.
I certainly never had to do any of those things during years of using Macs. No, I'm talking about software like MacPaint, MacWrite, etc. If you put a 10-year-old in front of those, they would figure out the menus and toolbars pretty much immediately. There was nothing nearly as good in PC land at the time.
Many people are unenthusiastic about their work.
