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[MaverickSawyer]

Happy Independence Day to our Americans!
Make sure the brain is in gear before handling fireworks.

You're funny. It's more a case of "Make sure you HAVE a brain before handling fireworks" these days.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Well, it looks like the Earth is about to get clobbered...

The view from Earth:

 

[Matias Saibene]

Well, it looks like the Earth is about to get clobbered...

???
Do not worry, the Olympus is not a warship. In the picture the ship was about to stop (I am not responsible for the effects of inertia):lol:.
The "warp" lines of the stars are actually a kind of energy flow like Back to the Future car, the flow is seen from near the ship.
Something like a scene from rapid braking is the scene of the meeting of the USS Enterprise and the USS Vengeance in the latest Star Trek movie.

 

[DaveS]

After twelve of hours of non-stop troubleshooting of a critical PC start up issue, I'm back! Everything is working great again. It was looking grim for a while there but my stubbornness payed of.

 

[Codz]

Just passed a huge fire in South Central LA. This is why un-licensed fireworks are illegal here!

 

[Andy44]

???
Do not worry, the Olympus is not a warship.

Doesn't matter what it is. A large object striking the Earth at relativistic speeds would be catastrophic. I recommend coming out of hyperspace in a safer direction...

Star Trek is guilty of dangerous practices all the time, so don't worry about it.

The fact that Starfleet thinks it's safe to park starships with antimatter bottles in low Earth orbit and operate antimatter-powered devices in the vicinity of habitable planets, for example. If just one of those bottles' containment field fails, BOOM! Everybody dies.

 

[Kozak]

More like common machine accident (not that they are common, but when they happen, they commonly go down like this).

I don't want to count how many fingers or even scalps have been ripped off people by CNC machines.

"I know this machine as well as I do my 3 fingers"

 

[Linguofreak]

Replacing one of these things is *SNIP* getting a new computer.

Your smartphone is roughly equal in performance to, if not a better than, the computer you had a decade or so ago. The only reason you can't dock it to a keyboard, mouse, and monitor and use it as a lightweight desktop out of the box is lack of vision, and possibly ulterior motives, on the part of the industry. Don't think of it as a smart phone, think of it as a pocket computer.

 

[RisingFury]

Don't think of it as a smart phone, think of it as a pocket computer.

I think of phones and tablet computers as "information stations", not computers. If you think about it, they don't really do anything else, other than transfer of information between people. Taking and viewing pictures, sending emails and texts, watching videos, listening to podcasts... Stuff like that is what the PC does while in sleep mode

 

[Quick_Nick]

Your smartphone is roughly equal in performance to, if not a better than, the computer you had a decade or so ago. The only reason you can't dock it to a keyboard, mouse, and monitor and use it as a lightweight desktop out of the box is lack of vision, and possibly ulterior motives, on the part of the industry. Don't think of it as a smart phone, think of it as a pocket computer.

Huh? You've been able to do that on Android for some time. HDMI out (or WiFi screen casting) and USB in (and/or out). There is stock support for mouse and keyboard.

 

[mojoey]

And gamepads. I've got a friend who has a N64 emulator and a USB capable N64 controller. It actually works pretty well.

 

[Quick_Nick]

And gamepads. I've got a friend who has a N64 emulator and a USB capable N64 controller. It actually works pretty well.

Unfortunately, I've never seen native support though. For anything I've used, the buttons get treated as a keyboard. So I never had a truly analog joystick, though I believe there was special software to make that work.
It has been years though, I would hope there are some universal solutions out there now.

 

[jedidia]

and USB in (and/or out)

Your phone has USB in?

 

[Fabri91]

Your smartphone is roughly equal in performance to, if not a better than, the computer you had a decade or so ago. The only reason you can't dock it to a keyboard, mouse, and monitor and use it as a lightweight desktop out of the box is lack of vision, and possibly ulterior motives, on the part of the industry. Don't think of it as a smart phone, think of it as a pocket computer.

It's not possible...yet:

EDIT: forgot that on Android with HDMI out it's been possible for some time.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Your phone has USB in?

The port can connect to an OTG adapter for USB host, or MHL adapter for HDMI out. Probably not both simultaneously on my phone.

 

[Matias Saibene]

Doesn't matter what it is. A large object striking the Earth at relativistic speeds would be catastrophic. I recommend coming out of hyperspace in a safer direction...

Star Trek is guilty of dangerous practices all the time, so don't worry about it.

The fact that Starfleet thinks it's safe to park starships with antimatter bottles in low Earth orbit and operate antimatter-powered devices in the vicinity of habitable planets, for example. If just one of those bottles' containment field fails, BOOM! Everybody dies.

True, even the Federation is dangerous at any time drops a gigantic spaceship and destroy half city of San Francisco. At least MS ships not strike Earth (except their aircraft):rofl:.

But back to the original topic, do you have any suggestions for improving the visual effects, or any effect that could improve the image? It looks good?
I am learning to use Inkscape and GIMP.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Your smartphone is roughly equal in performance to, if not a better than, the computer you had a decade or so ago. The only reason you can't dock it to a keyboard, mouse, and monitor and use it as a lightweight desktop out of the box is lack of vision, and possibly ulterior motives, on the part of the industry. Don't think of it as a smart phone, think of it as a pocket computer.

If you're willing to do some hard hacks you can turn a Raspberry Pi into a PiPhone:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/piphone-home-made-raspberry-pi-smartphone/

Something you could pull out of your pocket and park on a desktop kiosk with a full sized keyboard, mouse, and screen for those things you just can't do on a swipe screen would be awfully nice.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Well, history was made at the Pikes Peak race this year... The FASTEST car up the hill was all-electric.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Well, history was made at the Pikes Peak race this year... The FASTEST car up the hill was all-electric.

Rhys Millen Wins Pikes Peak First Electric Car Victory - YouTube

Very cool, but it is simply too quiet. All the sex appeal of a fast golf cart.

You know, an EV is a clean slate sound-wise. You could pipe ANY sound you want. A Model T, a TIE Fighter, horses, anything!

 

[Andy44]

Happy Independence Day to our Americans!
Make sure the brain is in gear before handling fireworks.

Before you ask, the answer is "Yes. Alcohol was involved."

http://news.yahoo.com/police-man-shoots-off-firework-top-head-dies-135937499.html