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  1. it is nice to see the different options. Raspberry pi is fine for small applications. But what if I wanted facial recognition for hundreds of employees surely having the facial recognition run by a large server would be necessary to test fast enough.
  2. There is also the raspberry pi tutorial https://thinkrpi.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/opencv-and-camera-board-csi/ I would imagine you could make your own operating system to do the job.
  3. Yeah but like i said arduino is an entry level device for people learning robotics. You merely combine that with and you're good to go
  4. I wouldn't be so sure http://www.instructables.com/id/Face-detection-and-tracking-with-Arduino-and-OpenC/
  5. There are still people working on the net albeit very few. I knew a lecturer who wrote an algorithm for faster video streaming than was previously available etc. Generally there are the internet architects which are very highly skilled people then there is the internet engineering task force etc. Along with all the internet service providers rolling out internet across the globe. The next major rollout will be ipv6 which ISPs are still not capable of providing globally. The main reason being because the ipv4-ipv6 switch costs a significant amount of money which ISPs may or may not have.
  6. There is notable differences between the two boards as you are probably aware. Arduino comes with an atmel produced microcontroller and is really made for factory based robotics etc. The raspberry pi on the other hand is made to be a fully functional mini computer. Made to allow you to run lightweight operating systems such as xbmc, android etc. It can be hooked up to a high definition television via the hdmi port and allows for the streaming of video content from the internet. No arduino product is made for playing high definition video on a high definition television as of yet.
  7. Do you seriously have that many though? I have at most seven or eight at any one time just throw them in the fire after a while. Which you can pick up in your local tesco for about £2.50
  8. Would you not use a plastic pocket?? It is more likely to have been typed in word as many of these companies hire secretaries and get them to do the invoicing too. A programmer could just table {margin-left:30px;}
  9. Like an implosion??
  10. No it also occurs on the atomic scale in the interactions between individual atoms. It is also why it is impossible to make a perpetual motion machine you are always losing energy somewhere. Not that people haven't tried really hard to figure out how to change that.
  11. Whether it leaves the system or not energy will be lost to the container enclosing the closed system through hysteresis loses.
  12. The matter referred to in mind over matter is subject matter http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/subject-matter
  13. 'Mind over matter' is nondescriptive of scientific matter as the word has more than one meaning. For the rest you can consult a text-book. The word originates from Roman rule where the philosophers discussed the nature of things. They used to believe everything was made up of elements fire, earth, air and water. Things have changed since then including our definition of matter. It is one of the more confusing English words. Scientific matter could be defined as Matter is the Stuff Around You. Matter is everything around you. Atoms and molecules are all composed of matter. Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space. If you are new to the idea of mass, it is the amount of stuff in an object. So now we know things are made of atoms and we can see them under a microscope but for a long time it was a lot of theories.
  14. Research. It is slow work as there isn't a ready supply of live brains. We know a lot and it is an area of active study. But the brain is weird you can blow a hole right through it and as long as you miss vital stuff you'll live. There is a lot of ethical barriers which make study slow. Recently there was a post about the first full head transplant on a monkey in china. This has been attempted only a few times before but it also shows how little we know about things like gluing spinal cords together to restore movement to a person. Which could potentially make a massive difference to people whose spines are damaged in car accidents etc.
  15. Okay well I totally lost the old one so I am in the process of making a new one you can see what it looks like here http://davidmather.github.io/
  16. Religion used to be a set of rules people followed religiously to keep them safe. For instance we don't eat animal a because it is poisonous . It became filled with it isn't raining because we angered god a or b and completely went out of control.
  17. If it were in a factory you could make a spring attachment from the ceiling of each room with the power cables inside the lack of a battery would make it light enough to be portable around a workstation and could be plugged in like a lightbulb.
  18. The reason I am asking is in order for me to work in the healthcare service here I have to be vaccinated against hepatitis b but when they tested my blood on multiple occasions they couldn't find any antibodies after multiple vaccination attempts. I'm scared I won't be allowed work in healthcare as a result. I doubt I have ever acquired hep b because I had never had sex at the time, had blood contact I should be worried about etc. It is weird because my other vaccinations worked out okay and when they gave me the twinrex vaccine I was vaccinated against hep a but not hep b. So they are worried that maybe my body was killing off the anti hep bs but that maybe they needed to wait and test me in a few months to make sure as my levels did rise to 240 but they need at least 1000.
  19. Yeah it is. The file was removed from their site they don't keep them forever. It's okay though I have a github account now so I will put it there.
  20. As far as I understand it the sunlight would not be directly hitting earth. The suggestion was to convert the energy into a non-harmful form of radiation and capture this radiation on earth. This wouldn't make the earth warmer as global warming comes from fossil fuels being burned and CFCs. In fact it could possibly reduce global warming by lowering reliance on fossil fuel. As a side note my concern would be that should the idea prove valid the same satellite could be weaponized and prove a valuable weapon for the country that controls it.
  21. They are supposed to allow you to navigate in the dark. You should be able to point one of the lines in the direction you want to travel. Found a book https://books.google.ie/books?id=deRKF5kv5wwC&pg=PA509&lpg=PA509&dq=compass+long+and+short+lines&source=bl&ots=EvolFta8VK&sig=cwolP5K0Itga6tubK1QOLw12tp0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhvYeG1LnKAhXEvxQKHVo1DRoQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=compass%20long%20and%20short%20lines&f=false
  22. Um well the numbers around the outside are circle degrees and the marschzahl
  23. To me it is fairly simple. I study science simply because I enjoy science. I am not a fabulous artist, musician or singer nor am I great at languages and I never will be. I want to learn new ideas because I find them interesting and I hope that something that I learn will be useful. It is not about being the smartest person ever or taking credit for ideas to become famous and I would hope that if my ideas were to be useful that somebody would be able to expand on the idea and make it even better. Sure looking ignorant isn't nice but if you don't share your ideas with others you will always be ignorant. Say if I could make a pill to help cure HIV or cancer it would be pretty ignorant of me to not share it and let people die for no reason. Worse would be if somebody was capable of improving on that pill and I stopped them because it was my idea. References are good because of responsibility. If I claim an idea is completely mine and somebody dies then I am immediately responsible for that person's death. If however I can say I followed a standardised procedure developed by a large team of scientists known to carry a small margin of error. Then that person could have been informed of the known risks of that procedure and I am not immediately responsible for what happened.
  24. Try something simple like an arduino powered robotic arm. You can build your own arduino if you want but the bought one comes on a neat circuit board. http://lifehacker.com/build-a-kickass-robot-arm-the-perfect-arduino-project-1700643747 If you are feeling adventurous the arduino is actually using a chip made by atmel the atmega 328 chip. However you can use visual studio to program atmel chips and they even have their own ide which allows you more options than an arduino will but is harder for beginners https://youtu.be/XyHctU31vas
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