My Pathetic Universe

Just a simple idea on how to make a multitouch monitor.

sources:
■ http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2011/11/29/tip-tuesday-express-yourself-with-emoji.aspx
■ http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2011/12/06/tip-tuesday-more-fun-with-emoticons.aspx

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300°C.

The Russians used a pencil.

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1. Format the USB Flash Drive
2. Run CMD.EXE (Win+R then type CMD) then type the following commands:

diskpart

Note: these commands assume that your USB flash drive is addressed as "disk 1", double check it by typing "list disk" (without quotation). Usually, the list includes all your hard drives, flash drives and SD cards, so be very careful.

select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=fat32
assign
exit

3. Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive
While still in DOS prompt, enter the following command:

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\

where:
d:\ is your physical DVD drive where Windows Vista DVD is inserted. A virtual drive can also be used as source drive.
e:\ is your newly formatted flash drive

Copying will take several minutes, when everything's done, just type exit to close the DOS prompt. You can now test your Vista installer by setting the BIOS to boot from USB device. Since the installer structure (BOOTSECT, etc.) of Vista and the latest Release Candidate of Windows 7 are very much the same, it should work also on Windows 7.

source: http://kurtsh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DA410C7F7E038D!1665.entry

Pat Maloney, an engineering planner, photographed an F-4 Phantom II at the mment it broke the sound barrier at the Annual Point Magu Naval Air Station Air Show.


August 8, 2005—A U.S. Navy photographer with lightning-fast reflexes captured this image of a fighter plane blasting through a “sonic boom cloud” as the jet broke the sound barrier.


F-15i breaking the sound barrier.


U.S. Navy Capt. Norbert Smurf Szarleta breaks the sound barrier in an F/A-18F Super Hornet strike fighter during an air power demonstration aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington in the Atlantic Ocean, April 17, 2008.


United States Fighter Jet from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 (VMFA-314), January 29, 2004, Pacific Ocean.


F14-B Tomcat Fighter Jet, United States Navy, Mediterranean Sea, April 22, 2003.


A F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet is pictured with a ring of water vapour around it as it comes within 200mph of breaking the sound barrier.


This photo released by the US Navy shows an F-14D Tomcat making a near supersonic fly-by above the flight deck of USS Theodore Roosevelt in a July 28, 2006.


Steve Roy captured this amazing shot in an air show with his  Canon EOS 5D with 100-400L zoom
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A US Marine Corps (USMC) F/A-18C, Strike Fighter Squadron 195 (VFA-195), Naval Air Station Atsugi, Japan, breaks the sound barrier during the Freedom through Friendship Air Show at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea.


The shockwave from breaking the sound barrier follows an F/A-18 Superhornet during an airshow for the crew during the USS Ronald Reagan’s maiden deployment.


Chuck Yeager, flying the Bell X-1, became the first man to travel faster than the speed of sound, he was flying at about 700 mph at an altitude of 43,000 feet — or Mach 1.06
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An F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing Five breaks the sound barrier during an air-power demonstration practice aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Sept. 11, 2006, which is under way in the East China Sea.


An F/A-18C Hornet attached to the “Raging Bulls” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 37 punches through a cloud of water vapor while breaking the sound barrier during an air power demonstration on board the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS.


An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the “Diamondbacks” of Strike Fighter Squadron One Zero Two (VFA-102) completes a super-sonic flyby as part of an air power demonstration for visitors aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), which is off the coast of Southern Japan.