Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 5]
Discussion
V8mate said:
They've been a staple of near-future films and TV for ages, so when will transparent monitors become a common and affordable reality?
Given that the Wii is 15 years old, I assume the hand gesture interface, which the film scenes associate with the natty monitors, is 'good to go'?
I think lack of demand may mean that it hasn't gone far enough to get to mass market yet. Given that the Wii is 15 years old, I assume the hand gesture interface, which the film scenes associate with the natty monitors, is 'good to go'?
You can imagine during a Teams call a fly starts pestering you in front of your face and you try to swat it and end up shar
ing the contents of your other window accidentally with the group (.)(.)
davhill said:
Some time ago, a bunch of Yanks was
claiming on the 'net that in Red Dwarf, Kryten
had a Canadian accent. I doubt Kryten came
from Canadia and couldn't make the distinction anyway.
The accent that British actor Robert Llewellyn uses for Kryten is described as "Mid-Atlantic". It is not meant to be Canadian.claiming on the 'net that in Red Dwarf, Kryten
had a Canadian accent. I doubt Kryten came
from Canadia and couldn't make the distinction anyway.
gazzarose said:
You know how nothing can go faster than the speed of light, even electricty. So if you wanted a Morse code type signal across a huge distance, like UK to Australia, a traditional electrical telegraph type setup takes a finite amount of time. If you had a reallllllllly long rod or a couple of hydraulic pistons and a long pipe, if you pushed one end, would the other end instantly move 5 miles away. I think for the sake of this problem we'll have to bend physics a bit to say that this hypothetical 10000 rod doesn't weigh a million ton so ignore any inertia, but keeping all other physics. Would a non compressible substance like either steel in the case of the rod or water in the case of the hydraulic system, compress slightly over that distance so that a wave of movement propagates along its length. On a small scale I can get my head around it, but visualising the far end of a 10k mile moving at the exact same moment as the end i poke makes my head hurt.
Just to mess with your head further. If you imagine a brake line. With Teflon coated internal walls, so that there was no friction between the oil and the wall, and a master cylinder at one end to compress the oil, you could have a theoretical pipe, which was long enough to provide a response immediately at the other end. No need for linkages. 4Q said:
Slightly OT but my daughter got accused of plagiarism on one of her PHD papers she submitted as the software picked it up as similar to an already published paper. It was only when she pointed out the paper she was quoting was actually her own work that she had had published two years earlier whist on a research project.
Firstly, the software tells you who you’ve copied so pointing it out isn’t really necessary. But mainly, it doesn’t matter - you can still plagiarise yourself. If you’re attempting to pass off work as original, when it’s already been published (by whom is irrelevant), then it’s a problem. Simply citing her own previous work would suffice.
Surely, as a phd student, she knows all this anyway.
kowalski655 said:
nonsequitur said:
GroundEffect said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Do Canadian actors affect a US accent when playing Americans?
Yes. Can't you hear the difference?nonsequitur said:
kowalski655 said:
nonsequitur said:
GroundEffect said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Do Canadian actors affect a US accent when playing Americans?
Yes. Can't you hear the difference?Doofus said:
nonsequitur said:
kowalski655 said:
nonsequitur said:
GroundEffect said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Do Canadian actors affect a US accent when playing Americans?
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