That was no misprint, that was PR hackery at its worst.
Since we're using the elevation analogy here, we want "the trick is to catch the electron when it jumps up, then put it on a playground slide so it comes down where you want it to go instead of just falling back to earth with a dull thud-ouch."
As suspected, the only way these things are going to get you off the grid is if you use them to paint your windmill. Having to anneal the cells at 120C kind of rules out using them for housepaint. The 0.5% efficiency rules out the economics of prepainting them on aluminum siding. What's left?
Also interesting was the line:
The authors thank the US Army ARDEC for financial
support of this work.
on a paper that appears in J. Mat. Chem, a non-open journal in the UK.
Now I have two choices. If I buy the media/device in Canada I'm taxed for tunes the US says I don't own. If I buy it in the US, I have to inload/outload (c'mon you knew it's not really up or down!) the tunes there in the US so I'm not copying them illegally in Canada. This is really gonna put a crimp in travelling with your new iPhone. Might as well just blend it right now.
On the good side, it means more travel industry revenue, as all conference procedings recorded will now have to be transcribed in situ. Time to invest in a steno school.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Of course if it was Schrodinger's Cat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrodinger's_Cat the signal would have a quantum probability of getting there, but Einstein wouldn't accept that as possible.
I've got no objection to a WorldCat on steroids, but it would inspire more confidence if the project either *was* or *didn't pretend to be* a library. Frankly, I'd prefer the latter. An open catalogue shouldn't have a bias between repositories (or for that matter vendors.) The best and most credible way to do that is to be truly decoupled.
One thing I'd love to see added is a spine-recognition tool. I should someday be able to take a photo of a bookshelf and automagically convert that to a first-approximation catalogue. This would free up scads of librarian time for useful work.
Yes, I particularly enjoyed Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 08. Some fine reading there.
Even if *you* don't choose to read No8, you're probably still better off that it's open content, and PG is as good a place as any for that. I for one am not big on the idea of having my DNA be someone elses private property.
...someday it may save your life! - Geo. Carlin
Personally, I don't understand what all this fuss is over file formats. Microsoft has supported plain text saving in every version of Word they've made;\)
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If you can't say it in ASCII, is it really worth saying?
This suggests a more interesting meta-algorithm. Develop code. Compress old movies. Decompress. Diff. Lost anything but grain and scratches? Try again.
Turing Test Variation: Can you tell AI's colourized movies from Turner's?
Better variations: Compress movies via object understanding and 3D modeling. Regenerate from different perspective viewpoint. Automate facial mood recognition. Synthesize acting from first principles and a script. Improve on 'Citizen Kane'.
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But VOA told a different story: http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-07-24-voa23.cf m
Here's the challenge: identify the carrier with the most torque applied to the story.
thar be GOLD, matey!
All of your Betamax are belong to us!
In Soviet Russia, Fidonet connect YOU!
Transputers: Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those.
There. Fixed that.
You sure aren't a lawyer, or you'd know the difference between 'can' and 'may'.
That was no misprint, that was PR hackery at its worst.
Since we're using the elevation analogy here, we want "the trick is to catch the electron when it jumps up, then put it on a playground slide so it comes down where you want it to go instead of just falling back to earth with a dull thud-ouch."
No problem getting an 80mpg carb on a Vespa. For an SUV or crew cab YMMV.
As suspected, the only way these things are going to get you off the grid is if you use them to paint your windmill. Having to anneal the cells at 120C kind of rules out using them for housepaint. The 0.5% efficiency rules out the economics of prepainting them on aluminum siding. What's left?
Also interesting was the line:
on a paper that appears in J. Mat. Chem, a non-open journal in the UK.Now I have two choices. If I buy the media/device in Canada I'm taxed for tunes the US says I don't own. If I buy it in the US, I have to inload/outload (c'mon you knew it's not really up or down!) the tunes there in the US so I'm not copying them illegally in Canada. This is really gonna put a crimp in travelling with your new iPhone. Might as well just blend it right now.
On the good side, it means more travel industry revenue, as all conference procedings recorded will now have to be transcribed in situ. Time to invest in a steno school.
"Hotmail is a free service."
s/free/free \(beer\)/
There. Fixed that.
Me, I just back up my DVDs to my brain. It's simpler, plus it *always* fails in new and interesting ways.
You're right of course. It won't be a defeat until SCOTUS concurs.
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Of course if it was Schrodinger's Cat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrodinger's_Cat the signal would have a quantum probability of getting there, but Einstein wouldn't accept that as possible.
I've got no objection to a WorldCat on steroids, but it would inspire more confidence if the project either *was* or *didn't pretend to be* a library. Frankly, I'd prefer the latter. An open catalogue shouldn't have a bias between repositories (or for that matter vendors.) The best and most credible way to do that is to be truly decoupled.
One thing I'd love to see added is a spine-recognition tool. I should someday be able to take a photo of a bookshelf and automagically convert that to a first-approximation catalogue. This would free up scads of librarian time for useful work.
The real problem is that the oilcos need all the H2 they can get for the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Tropsch_proce ss to make synthetic crude oil from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_sands
Burn, baby, burn!
All true /.rs will by now have looked up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_129_Hindenburg#Dea th_toll
Particularly cool is the comparison to the USS Akron. Who'd have thought that He was more dangerous than H2?
Personally, I don't understand what all this fuss is over file formats. Microsoft has supported plain text saving in every version of Word they've made ;\)
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If you can't say it in ASCII, is it really worth saying?
Please explain why putting the water tank between the cabin and the sun is 'not feasible'. ========== By their fruits shall ye know them.
Factor in Kryder's law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kryder and the rate of scanning will decide the peak storage mass.
Or just fell in a hole in the ice. Haven't you seen 'Ice Age'?
Would you want the used car salesman to know what's in your bank account?
This suggests a more interesting meta-algorithm. Develop code. Compress old movies. Decompress. Diff. Lost anything but grain and scratches? Try again. Turing Test Variation: Can you tell AI's colourized movies from Turner's? Better variations: Compress movies via object understanding and 3D modeling. Regenerate from different perspective viewpoint. Automate facial mood recognition. Synthesize acting from first principles and a script. Improve on 'Citizen Kane'.