As an electronics engineer in the remote sensing and scientific imaging field, I'd be interested in seeing some total QE vs wavelength curves for this material, even one that's specific to a particular device. So far my colleagues generally write this off as vaporware and marketing claims. ("Black Silicon is BS," to quote one of my former bosses.)
Given the fact that it lives life under the sea at "over 700 atmospheres," and any attempt to bring it to the surface and prepare it for consumption would cause every cell in its body to rupture, then the answer to your question is very likely, "fish goo."
This article also clearly describes the methods necessary for a mad scientist (possessing lots of money and forethought, of course) to deflect an asteroid TOWARDS the Earth.
Not a cat. If you point at something for a cat, the cat will just look at your hand. At best. If they don't just ignore you.
What does that say about cats, then?
(On the other hand, I often use my cat to help me locate a strange sound, or identify whether a strange sound is a threat. Hear sound, check cat's reaction. If the cat shows interest, then it's a novel stimulus and may warrant my attention as well. If the cat runs away, it's probably a visitor or some other cat-threat. If the cat runs to the door, it's probably Mommy.)
All a publisher would have to do is to embed a code or passphrase or optical pattern on the pages of their copyrighted publication and then arrange with manufacturers such as Canon or Xerox not to duplicate those pages. The pattern could be a watermark in the background of the content, defeating attempts to obscure it with a post-it not or some such.
I predict a huge demand for older, dumber photocopiers.
However if there are issues simply from extended periods of being nicely toasty, that definitely isn't good
No, it isn't. And it doesn't even have to be "toasty" -- shortly after acquiring my 2006 Macbook Pro, I developed a case of Tinia cruris that defied treatment with Desenex and Tinactin.
You can see where this is going. It took a trip to the doctor's office and the question to be posed, "did you recently acquire a laptop computer?" before I realized the association.
Yes, Macbooks cause crotch rot. Swamp nuts. Rack rash. The itch. Taint thrush.
Laptop users, take my advice, and go buy a paperstone cutting board. Works great, weighs little, and fits in your laptop bag.
Aye, I played GS3 on AOL just after the "conversion" away from ICE intellectual property, when 100 people online at once brought the game to a crawl. I spent $400/month playing an elven rogue, and it remains the best online roleplaying experience of my life.
I, too, remember fondly the invasions, and the fire clouds drifting thru the center of town before the lockpickers were relegated to the city gate towers. I remember hunting alone, and the risk of dying and being resurrected in town, running back to my corpse and the pile of gear -- hoping that a player or a monster hadn't picked up my expensive sword or armor. I remember being disabled by the scars of healed wounds before being able to afford the herbs that removed them. I remember being ripped off by a thief who reassured me that she would trade me the gold if I just handed over the blade I was trying to sell.
By they time Dragonrealms was released, the GS3 game was becoming overpopulated with noobs and kiddies, but there was still a sense of community.
None of that exists anymore, and it probably never will again, now that games like WoW have dumbed it down and made everything "safe" for casuals... and profitability.
The funny thing was it wasn't anything romantic until we met in the real world. We just clicked mentally and she was coming up my way to Pittsburgh so we decided to get together.
Ahh. That's what she wanted you to believe.
(Grats, man. Not many people are as fortunate as you two.)
Depressingly, we'll never get there. At least not without some fundamental breakthrough in our understanding of physics and the technology of propulsion. Without a non-reactive means of propulsion, we are stuck in this solar system because there is simply not enough baryonic matter in the universe to provide the reaction mass necessary to travel even to Proxima Centauri within a human lifetime. (Unsure of the citation, but try here or perhaps here.)
Note the qualification of "within a human lifetime," (subjective, of course). The author of the second reference, Dr. Forward, has proposed a plausible means of propulsion using beamed photons and "sails," but there are still some huge hurdles to overcome (e.g., deceleration at your destination), and the mission duration is measured in units of centuries.
We have a long, long, LONG way to go - both literally and figuratively - before humans travel to other stars. So the search for terrestrial planets will remain an academic exercise far into the forseeable future.
The following is especially true on slashdot: You have to also consider the geek factor, or "the more a person knows about [compression|image sensors|filmmaking|professional audio|music|programming], the less they will tolerate poor quality [transmission|photography|sound|songwriting|software]."
For some examples, I deal with the details of video compression, signal transmission, CCD cameras, camera electronics and display technology for a living, looking at systems from photons in to photons out to optimize image quality for the users. So when I see crappy compression creating blockyness or pixillation, or skewing and compression from line scan cameras, or ghosting and edge artifacts from poor amplifier chain tuning, I am distracted from the story, no matter how good. My brother is a video producer, and he can't watch most movies without being distracted by poor lighting, sloppy continuity, or amateur camerawork. My dad is a singer, and autotune drives him nuts.
The thing that gets me the most is when it doesn't have to be bad, but it is. I can understand that things like multipath interference cause ghosting, and bandwidth limitations forces lossy compression, and atmospheric effects cause momentary bit error rate increases. Therefore I find their effects more tolerable. But ignorance and incompetence are less tolerable - like when ignorant compression settings cause noticeable periodicity in image quality (either temporal or spatial), or when sloppy calibration results in poor MTF or chroma accuracy, or amateur filmmaking results in crappy lighting and cameras wielded like firehoses (thanks, bro, now I see it everywhere, too).
It's gotten to the point where I can't watch most porn because the lighting and camerawork is so amateur, I'm distracted from the girls. (Thank God for Andrew Blake, though he does tend to like darker, moodier lighting...)
Hmm. I think that you have things a bit backward. Slashdot was compiling links and listing them with no added value or enlightenment long before Digg or Reddit were around.
Just because there's now an 'idle' section to which the drivel is relegated doesn't mean/. hasn't been driveling since Digg was in diapers.
If you don't like it that someone else is making more money than you are, well, maybe you should have taken the tougher classes in school.
You suggest salaries are proportional to the difficulty of ones' college curriculum.
Let's see. I took engineering classes, programming classes, thermodynamics, quantum physics and laser theory. I earn about $115k, -after- 30 years of experience.
But the guy who's pulling down $3M plus bonuses for hiring a team of programmers and quants majored in economics and political science. Perhaps he had to take some calculus and a couple of semesters of physics for frat boys. He's probably got a MBA and some other degrees in professional sociopathy.
None of those classes are "hard" compared to mine, but they somehow entitle him to 20 or 30 times what the people earn who actually enable him to make any money at all. If they manage to somehow threaten, sue, bargain or steal their way to a bigger peice of the action, then they have "earned" their share in the same way that the MBA did... but according to you, they're still not entitled to it because their college classes weren't as "tough."
No. It doesn't. Subby's cable monopolist is turning off analog cable entirely. He needs a digital decoder/multichannel analog modulator that will convert the digital signal back to a broadband clear QAM cable signal.
Quoting from your own page, the box you link to "is a multi channel QAM to analog RF converter. " That's analog to analog - it just changes modulation... a "re-modulator," apparently.
While your company may offer the product he needs, that ain't the one. Try again.
These are the folks with their desktop icons arranged in the shape of a penis, right?
You could satisfy most of them by giving them a Ubuntu machine with a wallpaper that looked like a windows desktop. The ones who can tell the difference will be promoted to project management, anyway.
Wow, you've managed to take a rational argument and turn it into an irrational flamebaiting screed that now will forever be associated with that argument in the minds of those who encountered it here the first time.
Good job. You've irreparably damaged your cause just a little bit more...
Trinn has it nailed. It's an addressing or contact problem for a whole row of pixels.
(We see this a lot with detectors, too, but we can post-process the artifacts out.)
The specific distribution of failed rows/columns is typically random from device to device, as is the number of failed rows. It's a yield issue that can be improved with a refinement of the manufacturing techniques and display (or detector) design.
In other words, it's an engineering problem that will be solved eventually by some clever person, not a fundamental technical limitation.
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This would be the complement to the Super Monkey Collider, no?
As an electronics engineer in the remote sensing and scientific imaging field, I'd be interested in seeing some total QE vs wavelength curves for this material, even one that's specific to a particular device. So far my colleagues generally write this off as vaporware and marketing claims. ("Black Silicon is BS," to quote one of my former bosses.)
You don't have to be vulnerable. The listed exploits were patched in Update 22, last spring.
Update available here.
DoublePlusKarmaWhoreGoodness: For best protection, run a Mozilla browser with the NoScript add-on. (AdBlockPlus and RemoveItPermanently make great complements to NoScript, too.)
OK - sorry. I'm still new here.
(But I'm already tired of billy goats for lunch, every. Damn. Day.)
You're still off. It's (troll/2)*(sqrt(-3)±1)^2.
I work for Trolls. I should know.
Given the fact that it lives life under the sea at "over 700 atmospheres," and any attempt to bring it to the surface and prepare it for consumption would cause every cell in its body to rupture, then the answer to your question is very likely, "fish goo."
This article also clearly describes the methods necessary for a mad scientist (possessing lots of money and forethought, of course) to deflect an asteroid TOWARDS the Earth.
If you point at something, a dog will look.
Not a cat. If you point at something for a cat, the cat will just look at your hand. At best. If they don't just ignore you.
What does that say about cats, then?
(On the other hand, I often use my cat to help me locate a strange sound, or identify whether a strange sound is a threat. Hear sound, check cat's reaction. If the cat shows interest, then it's a novel stimulus and may warrant my attention as well. If the cat runs away, it's probably a visitor or some other cat-threat. If the cat runs to the door, it's probably Mommy.)
All a publisher would have to do is to embed a code or passphrase or optical pattern on the pages of their copyrighted publication and then arrange with manufacturers such as Canon or Xerox not to duplicate those pages. The pattern could be a watermark in the background of the content, defeating attempts to obscure it with a post-it not or some such.
I predict a huge demand for older, dumber photocopiers.
However if there are issues simply from extended periods of being nicely toasty, that definitely isn't good
No, it isn't. And it doesn't even have to be "toasty" -- shortly after acquiring my 2006 Macbook Pro, I developed a case of Tinia cruris that defied treatment with Desenex and Tinactin.
You can see where this is going. It took a trip to the doctor's office and the question to be posed, "did you recently acquire a laptop computer?" before I realized the association.
Yes, Macbooks cause crotch rot. Swamp nuts. Rack rash. The itch. Taint thrush.
Laptop users, take my advice, and go buy a paperstone cutting board. Works great, weighs little, and fits in your laptop bag.
Aye, I played GS3 on AOL just after the "conversion" away from ICE intellectual property, when 100 people online at once brought the game to a crawl. I spent $400/month playing an elven rogue, and it remains the best online roleplaying experience of my life.
I, too, remember fondly the invasions, and the fire clouds drifting thru the center of town before the lockpickers were relegated to the city gate towers. I remember hunting alone, and the risk of dying and being resurrected in town, running back to my corpse and the pile of gear -- hoping that a player or a monster hadn't picked up my expensive sword or armor. I remember being disabled by the scars of healed wounds before being able to afford the herbs that removed them. I remember being ripped off by a thief who reassured me that she would trade me the gold if I just handed over the blade I was trying to sell.
By they time Dragonrealms was released, the GS3 game was becoming overpopulated with noobs and kiddies, but there was still a sense of community.
None of that exists anymore, and it probably never will again, now that games like WoW have dumbed it down and made everything "safe" for casuals... and profitability.
The funny thing was it wasn't anything romantic until we met in the real world. We just clicked mentally and she was coming up my way to Pittsburgh so we decided to get together.
Ahh. That's what she wanted you to believe.
(Grats, man. Not many people are as fortunate as you two.)
Depressingly, we'll never get there. At least not without some fundamental breakthrough in our understanding of physics and the technology of propulsion. Without a non-reactive means of propulsion, we are stuck in this solar system because there is simply not enough baryonic matter in the universe to provide the reaction mass necessary to travel even to Proxima Centauri within a human lifetime. (Unsure of the citation, but try here or perhaps here.)
Note the qualification of "within a human lifetime," (subjective, of course). The author of the second reference, Dr. Forward, has proposed a plausible means of propulsion using beamed photons and "sails," but there are still some huge hurdles to overcome (e.g., deceleration at your destination), and the mission duration is measured in units of centuries.
We have a long, long, LONG way to go - both literally and figuratively - before humans travel to other stars. So the search for terrestrial planets will remain an academic exercise far into the forseeable future.
Wow. I thought they went the way of the dial-up.
(Also, I knew what most of the terms on that list meant. But I never should have googled "1 guy 1 jar." I'll have nightmares for a week, now.)
Egg white.
An egg white diluted with a tablespoon of water makes for far more realistic mock semen.
And if realistic flavor is also important, then add a tiny drop of chlorine bleach.
(My alt.tasteless days pay off in the most unexpected ways.)
ObT: This recipe is well known among madams, who occasionally entertain requests from patrons seeking something a little extra in their women.
The following is especially true on slashdot: You have to also consider the geek factor, or "the more a person knows about [compression|image sensors|filmmaking|professional audio|music|programming], the less they will tolerate poor quality [transmission|photography|sound|songwriting|software]."
For some examples, I deal with the details of video compression, signal transmission, CCD cameras, camera electronics and display technology for a living, looking at systems from photons in to photons out to optimize image quality for the users. So when I see crappy compression creating blockyness or pixillation, or skewing and compression from line scan cameras, or ghosting and edge artifacts from poor amplifier chain tuning, I am distracted from the story, no matter how good. My brother is a video producer, and he can't watch most movies without being distracted by poor lighting, sloppy continuity, or amateur camerawork. My dad is a singer, and autotune drives him nuts.
The thing that gets me the most is when it doesn't have to be bad, but it is. I can understand that things like multipath interference cause ghosting, and bandwidth limitations forces lossy compression, and atmospheric effects cause momentary bit error rate increases. Therefore I find their effects more tolerable. But ignorance and incompetence are less tolerable - like when ignorant compression settings cause noticeable periodicity in image quality (either temporal or spatial), or when sloppy calibration results in poor MTF or chroma accuracy, or amateur filmmaking results in crappy lighting and cameras wielded like firehoses (thanks, bro, now I see it everywhere, too).
It's gotten to the point where I can't watch most porn because the lighting and camerawork is so amateur, I'm distracted from the girls. (Thank God for Andrew Blake, though he does tend to like darker, moodier lighting...)
Hmm. I think that you have things a bit backward. Slashdot was compiling links and listing them with no added value or enlightenment long before Digg or Reddit were around.
Just because there's now an 'idle' section to which the drivel is relegated doesn't mean /. hasn't been driveling since Digg was in diapers.
Yeah whatever,
#10093
Awesome comment. I hope you [share|have shared] it as feedback with the dev team. Hell, you should be ON the dev team, imo.
Add the following lines to your "Documents\StarCraft II\variables.txt" file: frameratecapglue=30 frameratecap=60
That would be "My Documents\StarCraft II\variables.txt" for Windows, or on OS X, "Documents\Blizzard\StarCraft II\Variables.txt" -- to be accurate.
If you don't like it that someone else is making more money than you are, well, maybe you should have taken the tougher classes in school.
You suggest salaries are proportional to the difficulty of ones' college curriculum.
Let's see. I took engineering classes, programming classes, thermodynamics, quantum physics and laser theory. I earn about $115k, -after- 30 years of experience.
But the guy who's pulling down $3M plus bonuses for hiring a team of programmers and quants majored in economics and political science. Perhaps he had to take some calculus and a couple of semesters of physics for frat boys. He's probably got a MBA and some other degrees in professional sociopathy.
None of those classes are "hard" compared to mine, but they somehow entitle him to 20 or 30 times what the people earn who actually enable him to make any money at all. If they manage to somehow threaten, sue, bargain or steal their way to a bigger peice of the action, then they have "earned" their share in the same way that the MBA did... but according to you, they're still not entitled to it because their college classes weren't as "tough."
Right.
this system does do exactly what you want
No. It doesn't. Subby's cable monopolist is turning off analog cable entirely. He needs a digital decoder/multichannel analog modulator that will convert the digital signal back to a broadband clear QAM cable signal.
Quoting from your own page, the box you link to "is a multi channel QAM to analog RF converter. " That's analog to analog - it just changes modulation... a "re-modulator," apparently.
While your company may offer the product he needs, that ain't the one. Try again.
Baluga.
Bah-LOOOO-ga.
Gazebo.
If so, the marketing folks haven't heard of it.
These are the folks with their desktop icons arranged in the shape of a penis, right?
You could satisfy most of them by giving them a Ubuntu machine with a wallpaper that looked like a windows desktop. The ones who can tell the difference will be promoted to project management, anyway.
Wow, you've managed to take a rational argument and turn it into an irrational flamebaiting screed that now will forever be associated with that argument in the minds of those who encountered it here the first time.
Good job. You've irreparably damaged your cause just a little bit more...
This.
Trinn has it nailed. It's an addressing or contact problem for a whole row of pixels.
(We see this a lot with detectors, too, but we can post-process the artifacts out.)
The specific distribution of failed rows/columns is typically random from device to device, as is the number of failed rows. It's a yield issue that can be improved with a refinement of the manufacturing techniques and display (or detector) design.
In other words, it's an engineering problem that will be solved eventually by some clever person, not a fundamental technical limitation.