For you newcomers, a record was like a mechanical CD but larger. The diameter of a CD is about half that of a Long Playing Record, so "Record Distance" is a distance comparable to the width of two CDs. I don't know why astronomers are the ones studying lights at that distance.
It doesn't say they are having problems shrinking the components. Looks like the goal of this research is to perform the shrinking. So they're probably going to design some such tiny circuits and reprogram some existing small computers. We'll see. Or actually, if they're successful, maybe we won't see.
Sounds like an opportunity for propagandizing. Take a few thousand cheap USB keys, fill them with american media, put them in a water tight enclosure and drop them off outside cuban waters.
Actually, toss them in the Windward Passage off the northwest tip of Haiti. Current there tends to loop clockwise around Cuba. Cylindrical containers might be more likely to be urged to the inside of the loop.
If you were a physicist, you'd know that gravity does cause frame dragging around the Earth, where time runs at a different speed. But this has been measured before and whoever is measuring these satellites should be aware of frame dragging and included it in their calculations. I don't know what the effects are of a path which crosses the direction of frame rotation, but as the GPS constellation is affected they probably figured out the time effects a while ago (and probably their velocity effects also).
I'm not sure what people mean by TV nowadays. But surely multicast beats out every other method to distribute programming in the traditional scheduled sense.
Now if they'll wrap the broadcast signal with usable markers so receivers can identify the programs, P2P participants could seed their P2P servers with whatever programs they're tuned to. As soon as a broadcast happens the programs could be available without the network having to pay for much Internet bandwidth. Mark the commercials with ID and relevance ("offer valid in region X for time period T") and those could also be properly spread also.
Maybe the four states are not independent, so we're moving from "two" states to "four" storage states. 2 to 4 is a doubling. That is implied by the phrasing that these two new states lie between the other states.
Welcome our new femtosecond laser wielding butterfly overlords.
Before we start getting tattooed mysteriously on sunny summer days I'd better check the Bible Translator's Notes and see if the original can be translated as "the color of the beast insect".
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So.. overt operations? Such as with artillery?
You killed Arthur! You bastards!
Oh, good, an author with principles. Who was the principal author, though?
For you newcomers, a record was like a mechanical CD but larger. The diameter of a CD is about half that of a Long Playing Record, so "Record Distance" is a distance comparable to the width of two CDs. I don't know why astronomers are the ones studying lights at that distance.
It doesn't say they are having problems shrinking the components. Looks like the goal of this research is to perform the shrinking. So they're probably going to design some such tiny circuits and reprogram some existing small computers. We'll see. Or actually, if they're successful, maybe we won't see.
At first I thought the /. headline was too ambiguous. But it happens to be properly ambiguous.
So you're saying it would be assassins, ninjas, and pirates vs Giant Robot Bat?
What good is a six inch bat? You're not going to hit one out of the ballpark with that.
"Barada", you insensitive clod!
I'm more worried that we'll be seen as the demigods whose wise message of inspiration was the basis of the foundation of another world's civilization.
If you were a physicist, you'd know that gravity does cause frame dragging around the Earth, where time runs at a different speed. But this has been measured before and whoever is measuring these satellites should be aware of frame dragging and included it in their calculations. I don't know what the effects are of a path which crosses the direction of frame rotation, but as the GPS constellation is affected they probably figured out the time effects a while ago (and probably their velocity effects also).
"Wii Homebrew Takes Several Leaps Forward" ... I was expecting a footwear-related hack.
Well, it's almost English. Needs a different word than "routers". But it's not Pakistani.
Hunt and peck is the Columbus Method: Find 'em and land on 'em.
My personal preference is to avoid using a speakerphone in my space suit.
Maybe the Electrical Engineering Department is training device programmers, not the Computer Science Department.
Maybe the four states are not independent, so we're moving from "two" states to "four" storage states. 2 to 4 is a doubling. That is implied by the phrasing that these two new states lie between the other states.
Spinning bright lights, video feed, food, costs money.... yup, sounds like a party.
Imagine a Milky Way cluster of these...