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Free Charged Particle Texts
Chuut-Riit writes "Go here to download free PDF format copies of the out-of-print texts "Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration" and "Charged Particle Beams" by Stanley Humphries. Evidently a company called Field Precision and Los Alamos Laboratories are making these available."
I wonder if these texts would help a terrorist build a vehicle-mobile weapon capable of screwing our technological infrastructure. Such a thing might be good for more than one shot, as opposed to some EMP devices that use chemical explosives to drive their EMP wave. At least a one-shot weapon is used up.
(See http://orbat.com/site/agtwopen/dirtybomb.html for an article that briefly describes a explosive powered EMP device.)
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
The more free science books on the web, the better!
This one looks particulary nice. It may not be that accessible to novices, but it is authoritative, and the price (my tax dollars at work) looks good.
Free book: Science Toys You Can Make
About as useful as the Plastic Hydrogen Bomb.
Free book: Science Toys You Can Make
This release of intellectual property sounds a lot like MIT's OpenCourseWare. Hopefully future publishers will start the timebomb license: This book is copyrighted till 2005, after which it becomes completely free (public domain). After all, this would be better than rotting in libraries.
These free releases have bigger implications than it might first seem. Its competition value will push the quality of future text (unless say, its an obsolete text on pre-Quantum Mechanics physics in 1910s language). Such releases should also popularize the author.
Now I'll get back to my project of Home Cyclotron...
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You're so cool you could keep a slab of meat in you for a week.
It seems someone has taken the advice...
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OMG, is that the Carbon Rod?!?
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Free Charged Particle Texts
Well which is it? Are they free or charged?
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Reveiws on The Assayer would be greatly appreciated.
Find free books.
Hopefully future publishers will start the timebomb license: This book is copyrighted till 2005, after which it becomes completely free (public domain).
This is how copyright initially worked in common-law countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom: a 14-year copyright, and possibly a 14-year renewal term if the author is still alive and thinks it's worth it, then PD. This promotes the progress of knowledge by giving the author a chance to make a return on investment of effort into a work in exchange for letting the public make unlimited use of a work after a short time. But over the last two centuries, the apparent influence of French "right of author" (not to mention that of DisneyCo) has corrupted the system to the point where it is today, where copyright doesn't expire for two lifetimes, and the copyright owner keeps 99.8 percent of the value of the work, giving almost nothing to the public.
I believe in time bombs.
Will I retire or break 10K?
I'm all for freely distubuted works, but this seems like the kind of thing that if you could use it, you already have it. I don't think there are many students struggling to get their reactor finished, but cant afford the textbook.
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
Great to see.
I first read this as "Free of Charge, Particle Texts". But overall i think it's a good idea. even better if I read it right