Comment Re:does it work through walls? (Score 1) 155
So how is it different than infrared, which has been in use for quite some time?
It's not, it's different from infrared.
But mostly just in carrier frequency.
Comment Re:does it work through walls? (Score 1) 155
Only if you use laser LEDs that are powerful enough to burn through them.
Unfortunately lasers that powerful have to be cooled by a continuous saline solution stream.
Although I hear some research has been done in that area that involves mounting them on large, constantly moving ocean creatures.
Comment Re:does it work through walls? (Score 0) 155
But how do you get the sharks to hold still long enough to get a signal across???
Comment Re:Dupe (Score 1) 114
Yes, aside from the impressive 'reflexes' of the system and the speed with which it operates there really isn't much impressive about this. It isn't a win if it is cheating.
Comment Re:So get up early and send your boss email. (Score 1) 462
To be fair, not all places have flex time. Most do these days though, especially if you clear it with your boss first.
Journal Journal: Screen Capture in KDE
Ran across an article by Carla Schroder today on making screencasts on linux using Kdenlive and Audacity. I didn't know Kdenlive could do capture. Shoot - last time I used it a couple years ago it was pretty unstable when I tried to use it to edit videos I'd made with RecordMyDesktop. So I didn't have it installed on my current system. Fixed that pretty quickly and on the se
Comment I wish I could find his DOB... (Score 1) 1
...considering that his being commissioned in '90 puts him around the right age to have been born just as the original series was going off the air.
If two co-incidences are related, is that co-incidental?
Comment They really, really want you to upgrade (Score 1) 5
I suspect they want to move people away from Windows 8 to 8.1 even faster than they wanted to get people away past Vista and onto 7.
Why the nag banner? Because they're Microsoft, that's why.
I'm currently running OSX 10.8.5 Mountain Lion on my iMac. Even thought the upgrade to Mavericks (10.9) is free, I'm holding back until I'm certain that the various reported problems with Mavericks and various Adobe Creative Cloud applications have been ironed out. Thankfully, the only banner I see regarding Mavericks appears in the Updates area of the Mac App Store.
Comment Re:This (Score 1) 462
Cute folklore, but the 'original' reason was energy savings. It had nothing to do with agriculture. Farmers wake up with the Sun to work.
Journal Journal: Windows 8.1 Nag Banner 5
As I mentioned previously - trying to install Windows 8.1 makes my new Samsung turn into an expensive paperweight.
No problem - I just wont install it.
Comment Re:A great example for kids (Score 1) 214
You're either trolling or do not know many home schooled people. What you describe is a minuscule fraction of them.
Comment Re:clemency? (Score 2) 504
Feinstein is real "Game of Thrones" material. She'll have Snowden's head, impaled at the gates...
Comment Re: NOT posted as AC. (Score 1) 603
Not even close. Think about it. The Union is NOT the TSA.
Comment Re:It's really dumb once you understand the purpos (Score 1) 462
Making a living is hardly a waste. It's something people have been doing for oh, maybe a million years or more, depending on when you define the evolution of 'humans' to have taken place. Sounds like someone is just lazy.
Comment Re:This (Score 4, Insightful) 462
You require light in order to exercise? Interesting. I'd rather see DST completely abolished.
