ghostberry

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by ghostberry 11y ago
You took "reflective" too literally. I just meant more reflective to IR than dark green paint that most military stuff gets painted with. I never meant a mirror surface. Just the IR equivalent of white paint.
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by ghostberry 11y ago
I can't help thinking that in the anti-mortar role, there are very simple countermeasures that would severely reduce the laser's effectiveness. Reflective paint, ablative coatings, internal vacuum layer, heat insulation, thermally
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by ghostberry 11y ago
Have you got hardware acceleration switched on?
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by ghostberry 11y ago
Out of interest, why do you think there are so many valid criminals and lawbreakers in the US?
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by ghostberry 11y ago
A bad case of rose tinted spectacles.
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by ghostberry 11y ago
As the smaller party in a coalition, they got blamed for every unpopular decision and got no credit for anything popular.
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by ghostberry 11y ago
30 seconds of searching later http://udenfor.dk/uk/Menu/News/The+number+of+homeless+people...
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by ghostberry 11y ago
How do you give money to a poor homeless person?
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by ghostberry 11y ago
I read this story a few months ago, it had a few more details then. They tried giving them iron cookware, but they didn't like the weight. They then tried putting a random piece of iron in with their cooking, but not many kept up with
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by ghostberry 11y ago
It's 7.5° high and 5.5° wide. If you don't consider that huge, then that's up to you. But for me, that counts as huge, especially since it's fairly near the middle of vision. That's over half the width of my hand at
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by ghostberry 11y ago
That's just nature making the best it can of a historical accident. If you were designing the eye from scratch, you'd have the nerves coming out the back like in squid. Then if you wanted something that concentrates the red and gr
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by ghostberry 11y ago
It really, really isn't.
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by ghostberry 11y ago
There are always people thinking "Uh oh..." Sometimes they are right.
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by ghostberry 11y ago
"Internment/Resettlement (I/R) Specialists in the Army are primarily responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility. I/R Specialists provi
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by ghostberry 11y ago
A super Earth is a planet that's larger than Earth, but not large enough to be a gas giant.
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by ghostberry 11y ago
Evidence trumps theory. A theory can be as clever as you like, but if it disagrees with the evidence, the theory is wrong.
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by ghostberry 11y ago
By "most weren't really executed", are we talking 99%, 90%, 51%?
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by ghostberry 11y ago
Clock speed does not equal performance. For instance, the Z80's fastest instructions took four cycles, where the 6502's fastest instructions took two cycles. The Z80's slowest instructions took 23 cycles, and the 6502's
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by ghostberry 11y ago
Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi.
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by ghostberry 11y ago
I thought exactly the same, though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj0HDN82Pfo is the video that got me to subscribe. I love her channel.
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by ghostberry 11y ago
Out of interest, I looked up the motor used in the new Formula E racing cars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-Renault_SRT_01E#Electric... I'm sure there are details other than power and weight which makes a di
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by ghostberry 11y ago
Modern missiles cannot be dodged. It's mostly just a way to show off the plane's agility. It could just barely be useful for shooting at a target behind you, but you sacrifice a lot of energy moving your aircraft like that.
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The e-voting machine so easy to hack, it will take your breath away(arstechnica.com)
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by ghostberry 11y ago
The British Museum does a lot of work cataloguing artefacts so they're available for scientific study, as well as doing their doing their own research into techniques to date objects, preserve them or to figure out how they were made.
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by ghostberry 11y ago
Hopefully this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon will put us back in the space race.
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by ghostberry 11y ago
One difference between Motorola and Intel, is Motorola was less concerned with breaking backwards compatibility. If the 68k family had continued to evolve past the 1994s 68060, I'm sure they could have just dropped backwards compatibil
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by ghostberry 11y ago
"To have any chance of life – at least life like our own – a free-floating Earth would need liquid water. And to have liquid water, a planet needs to keep warm." Maybe, maybe not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by ghostberry 11y ago
You could also go beyond that by changing the image 50/60 times a second, which would then blur together. Enabling you to display colours that aren't even in the ST's palette.
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by ghostberry 11y ago
I thought it might be something like that. I've never been able to do them. I just find them frustrating and quit. I do play various puzzle games, but I'm not a huge fan of this particular type. For me personally, it would put me
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by ghostberry 11y ago
I don't know if it's too hard, since I can't figure out what you're supposed to do.

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