Comment Re:Been there, done that... (Score 1) 239
I toured through a B-17 last month that was used as a drone control command ship for an other B-17 back in 1951 for nuke testing in the Pacific.
I toured through a B-17 last month that was used as a drone control command ship for an other B-17 back in 1951 for nuke testing in the Pacific.
I wouldn't exactly call their procedure spotting, they're running samples through a $300k GC-MS and found chemical markers distinctive to Kopi Luwak.
It would make it easy for a coffee company to verify that they're buying and selling the genuine product but doesn't exactly help the average consumer to spot the real thing. At least they're more likely to actually be getting what they pay for.
You can still visit the original sets from episode IV, someone is even restoring Luke's "home".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/alternateversions
It list all the alterations ever made, which makes for a very long list. There was a whole lot of changes made between the 77, 78, and 81 releases but are hidden in with all the new ones. Terrible record keeping and Lucas' habit of destroying old versions and footage makes it tough to watch the old releases, side by side. I remember seeing different versions of the opening crawl.
"When the original theatrical version was first released, it was simply titled Star Wars.The opening crawl was changed to "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" during the 1981 re-release. According to Sterling Hedgpeth, Lucasfilm film archivist: "I found a box with all the positive elements for the 'revised' opening crawl, and the assorted trim boxes are dated from October through December 1980. This, then, is consistent with the view that Episode IV: A New Hope was added for the first time to the opening crawl for the April 10, 1981 re-release." "
I ride the bus... I could take pictures almost constantly for 30-40 minutes every morning and afternoon.
Next country North and still under 20 ms. Probably the nice pipe into work though.
Exactly the problem I've been having for years at work on an entire set of gas chromatographs and mass spectrometers.
The interface cards need to use ISA slots. Newer interface cards and instruments use a newer communications protocol and aren't backwards compatible. The software and drivers refuse to work without DOS running in the background like it still did with '98. The only option is replacing entire systems, unfortunately until recently that's been a hard sell as they keep running and replacing them all totals about $500k.
Luckily a few recent failures and lucky donations finally has us moving forward.
Almost any kitchen-centric automation is more of a pain to implement or maintain for home users than it would be worth.
Really the only thing useful would be a device to keep the recipe I googled close at hand... oh look a tablet!
The Station Cash currency that is used for the real money transactions goes on sale pretty much monthly for a day at 2x or 3x, seems the next 3x sale is on the 21st, but usually there's no notice.
Items also come up on sale, the weekly ones usually as equipment packages and individual items daily usually for about 40-60% off if bought with Station Cash. So even the top priced $7 guns could cost as little as a dollar if you spend wisely and others as little as a quarter. You can also try all the weapons before you buy for 30 minutes. Only cosmetic items are cash only.
The only downside is that earning the top end items just through playing would take an extremely long time, but that's obviously the drive for the game to earn money. I've payed $60 for games that had less good play time than this one so I don't mind dropping some cash on items.
Usually referred to as "faint hope" in Canada... the idea being that if someone is sentenced to life in prison with absolutely no possibility of getting out there is pretty much no reason for them to behave or to not kill themselves. Crime in jail and suicides require additional investigations, court time, cost a lot of money and make things tougher on everyone in the system from guards to other prisoners.
So you're suggesting nuking east Texas would be a generally good idea?
I built an analog PID controller years ago in an industrial controls course exactly that way using opamps. We only used it to keep a couple of servos aligned but it could have been adapted to anything.
Tuning was a pain, as it was part of the whole point of the exercise we needed to swap out the individual resistors, caps, and inductors to achieve the tune values we had calculated for a proper response as well as specific improper responses each stage could cause. Even the small leakage in the capacitors caused some drifting until we switched from electrolytic ones to ceramics.
I recently made similar chambers to this brewing one using a little programmable PID controller and a couple of relays to replace the mechanical thermostat on a fridge so we could get tighter temperature control and a wider operating range (0-35 C). The $200 controller was overkill for basic control but we needed programmable temperature profiles too. Next time I'll have to look into this type of controller.
How do you know your account is getting "hacked"? E-mail notification?
Checking my spam folder I've found that my account gets hacked every couple of days and there's a easy link to verify my identity and login credentials... It seems you don't even need an account to get hacked!
I had a D size blow up just after leaving the pad, essentially the end caps blew out both ends of the engine gutting the model and melting the chute. I was about 12 at the time and been launching rockets with my dad probably since I was about 9. If I recall correctly he contacted Estes directly and received a replacement kit in the mail.
Worked fine for me last night out of western Canada.
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
