You do realize that this is how an air conditioner works, right? Evaporator on the inside and condenser outside.
As long as there is enough thermal insulation between the inside and outside layers, you can heat up the outside layer enough for wind to do cool it down and lose heat. Add some sort of heat-sink fabric that can move a lot air through and you could do it.
The stilsuits also were supposed to have "pumps" moved by the legs and arms of the wearer during normal walking. You could move the hot water around, or maybe pump air instead though some porous, highly thermal conducting fabric/construction (heat sink).
Remember: air conditioners can pump more heat that the energy they consume, it's not against thermodynamics.
Which leads to my question to prompt discussion: just how the hell do you become a software engineer without being a programmer first, unless you're independently wealthy enough to work in Open Source for 5-10 years? Go to grad school?
I'm somewhat serious. You will still need some programming experience, but after a couple of years you can get an MS in CS and specialize in Software Engineering. It sounds corny, but actually going though classes were you discuss software lifecycle models (specs, design, development, testing, or a spiral model or XP) and compare them, or where you look at different testing metodologies, or where you look at more global concerns (CMM levels, loking at the metodology for development of the space shuttle software, etc). And then add some classes where you simply look more closely at object orientation or databases. And top it all off with some small bit of research (MS thesis/project) on cutting edge software engineering work. Many universities even allow your project to be work related, and you get to talk to your professors who might have some ideas to help your company.
Of course, this will not improve your skills on python/vb/technology for the week, but that is not what software engineering is about. And of course you need to combine everything with practical experience, so I'd suggest you work for a year or two and then go to grad school in parallel with your work. An extra title won't be helpful if you're really bad at what you do, but for the people who are good or even decent, the extra learning helps.
I mean, other professions do this, why do CS people think their only way to improve themselvees is to self-learn or work on open source projects. Both of these are important, but don't be afraid to get additional help.
And when dealing with beancounters, the extra paper helps.
I've read what he had to say before, and yes, he's someone to listen to. But moderation is not done on the reputation of the person, but on the post.
Read the comment. It WAS redundant. The guy already had a +1 karma mod for being him, that's all he should get. The post then ought to be modded as redundant. I know that's the first thing I thought when I clicked on the article and saw "Good Article" = +5 Insightful.
But what do I know. I'm new here (and just a caveman)
That's the core question. Will there be any content for this player? Will the studios release content for it? Actually, there is another way to work it: Dual players.
If the technology is so close to a DVD's, you should be able to make a DVD/VMD/HDDVD player, or DVD/VMD/Blue Ray player with maybe just a little bit more expense that one without the extra format. This would give you a much bigger installed base for free.
If you can then upgrade older DVD presses to VMD, you can be the second tier in the market. Hollywood movies would release on HD-DVD, but straight-to-video movies and TV shows would be released on the cheaper but still-HD VMD format, rather than DVDs. Factories with older DVD equipment would probably provide this cheaper service so as not to throw out their equipment.
I know a few retired rocket scientists. I'd love it if their unique knowledge didn't go to the grave with them. I'd rather be able to look up the definition of a "yardley" as a unit of pressure than a list of characters from Harry Potter. Unfortunately, wikipedia doesn't seem to be interested in anything that's "from personal knowledge or experience" these days. Because Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not an original publication. I agree that this kind of knowledge should be archived and documented, but there are better places for it.
For example, there's a wikibooks page. You could try building an open textbook on rocket science. There's wikia where you could build a rocket science Wiki. These are mostly pop-culture or community based wikis, but you could make a serious special interest wiki, with original content, if you wish.
Then you could link to it from wikipedia pages, but you'd probably be asked to point out it contains unverified claims or some such.
Raving lunacy might be an overstatement. I would guess he's bipolar.
One day he's the champion of all that is good and holy. Next day a single email asking reasonable questions scares him shitless Then he's up to debating with anyone or doing anything Then he assumes that a PAX invitation is a trap to kill him. Then he's above the FL justice system Then there's a conspiracy against him in Florida Then he's mighty enough that the president of the USA must answer to him personally.
I'm not even sure I'm even exaggerating with this list. This guy needs medication.
I'm hoping that Bush agrees to appear in court, but the Secret Service won't let them be in the same room until Thompson undergoes psychiatric evaluation. Which would then be public, of course.
interestingly, Wikipedia mentions Pinnacle - Nucflash, "refers to detonation or possible detonation of a nuclear weapon which creates a risk of an outbreak of nuclear war" which includes among other things:
Unauthorized flight of, or deviation from, an approved flight plan by a nuclear armed or nuclear-capable aircraft with the capability to penetrate the airspace of another nuclear-capable country.
Unauthorized loading of a nuclear weapon on an intercontinental bomber would probably apply. Are there regulations on Pinnacle - Nucflash? Does Congress have to be told? This might be the reason for the leak, they had to talk about it.
The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus is that the area under a function between two points is the difference of the antiderivative evaluated at those points.
Maybe you were talking about derivation, at which point yes, of course you can. But only a partial zero divided by a partial zero:)
Nuclear rockets are a political can of worms, and I don't mean in the PR sense.
An Orion drive is basically a stockpile of nuclear bombs, and some radiation shielding. Can you imagine the world climate when nations can have ships with hundreds of nukes orbiting earth. Sure, it's not for war, but adaptations would be fairly trivial.
Orion died when nuclear non-proliferation treaties got going. It is a shame, but personally I think it's acceptable collateral damage to not have orbiting nuclear missile platforms.
Now the question is whether a nuclear rocket can be built that uses materials useless for nuclear weapons.
In terms of spectroscopy, normal human vision divides the whole spectrum of visible light into three bands, while tetrachromats have four bands. So I wouldn't call it an extra dimension (though it's true in a way), but rather simply increased resolution. Compare this to spectrometers, which usually have hundreds of bands. Careful there. You're making the standard mistake that light is monocromatic. In that case you would be right, but most of the time it's not that simple.
Say you have two #888888 paints. Notice that this is a gray, made from the addition of multiple colors, not necessarily red, green and blue, but close enough that we perceive the addition as #888888. You can't make such a color with a single laser, for example. Now a tetrachromat might see the two paints as #88008888 and #00888888 or some mixture thereof, since they can better discern the components.
So, yes, the extra color would have to be considered an additional dimension, just like we use a 3d RGB color space rather than a simple wavelength to discern the colors we use.
Now, how you would modify the HSV color space for a tetrachromat is a good question.
Would you count tampering with ISO approval process for OOXML to standardize something only they can implement as furthering their monopoly? Suddenly they can keep locking in documents from government bodies that require an ISO standard file format
Err, no, the war on drugs/terror will make it harder to get certified as a pilot (especially now that they are worried about foreigners learning to fly into buildings).
But the MIT design is supposed to be able to take off with at 600kg if I understand it correctly, and it should cost $148,000, or $100,000 according to the GP. Sounds like a bad investment for transporting goods (evils?). Just purchase a couple kit planes and it'll be a lot cheaper.
That's a good reason to shoot for the light-sport aircraft category. It shows it's only supposed to transport people.
Looking at your post, I went to look at current proposals for flying cars and was disappointed.
Most of these struck me as trying to bolt together two very different things, just for buzzwords sake. A flying SUV? What on earth are they thinking. Trying to get a car under 600 kg to meet a less stringent license? That's less than half a normal car!
At least try to lift up something that's already designed for power and low weight. Grab a standard sports bike, that can do 1000 hp on 150kg, then make a modular design where you drive to the airport/airfield, mate up with the wing/propeller module (say another 200kg) and then go. Drop the wings at the other end (either rented space or company provided storage facility) and then just drive to your destination. Yes, you won't have a cockpit around you but it should be fine for a 20 minute flight. People already can handle it on a normal motorbike. Oh, and wear a parachute anyway. Put the glass cockpit on the helmet, add GPS and radio, both of which are useful on the ground (bluetooth helmet with display or HUD and microphone, etc). Antennas, transponder on the wing module, etc.
Market it to the daring and sportsmen. Don't try to go for the suburban housewife.
The hardest part would be the power linkage to connect to the bike engine (and possibly the different requirements on the engine), plus of course the structural requirements on the wing assembly.
So, you're saying that since the extra field is not invariant under rotational transformations then Noether's theorem doesn't have to apply to angular momentum? Or are the formulas not invariant under rotation?
Besides, even if you end up with a total non-zero angular momentum in the current universe, that wouldn't necessarily mean it's not conserved, but rather that the original big bang had a non-zero angular momentum too. After all, if total energy is non-zero, why assume angular momentum must be?
Just a suggestion: first partition the disk to add a d: drive and configure XP to put her documents there and keep the programs on the c: drive. Then when you reset the c: drive she won't lose all her documents.
It's less likely that a virus will stay (and be easily triggered) on the document folders, and it'll save you a lot of headaches the first time she forgets one file she wanted to keep.
Besides if the problem persists, you can back up, delete all files and do the reset again. This extra hassle is worth it compared to missing a file or two.
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You do realize that this is how an air conditioner works, right? Evaporator on the inside and condenser outside.
As long as there is enough thermal insulation between the inside and outside layers, you can heat up the outside layer enough for wind to do cool it down and lose heat. Add some sort of heat-sink fabric that can move a lot air through and you could do it.
The stilsuits also were supposed to have "pumps" moved by the legs and arms of the wearer during normal walking. You could move the hot water around, or maybe pump air instead though some porous, highly thermal conducting fabric/construction (heat sink).
Remember: air conditioners can pump more heat that the energy they consume, it's not against thermodynamics.
IIRC, Gutsy will include the ability to run Linux under a VM on Windows right from the CD. No need to install or even reboot.
Yet another post validating this argument
(yeah, yeah, it's old. So sue me)
just how the hell do you become a software engineer without being a programmer first, unless you're independently wealthy enough to work in Open Source for 5-10 years? Go to grad school?
I'm somewhat serious. You will still need some programming experience, but after a couple of years you can get an MS in CS and specialize in Software Engineering. It sounds corny, but actually going though classes were you discuss software lifecycle models (specs, design, development, testing, or a spiral model or XP) and compare them, or where you look at different testing metodologies, or where you look at more global concerns (CMM levels, loking at the metodology for development of the space shuttle software, etc). And then add some classes where you simply look more closely at object orientation or databases. And top it all off with some small bit of research (MS thesis/project) on cutting edge software engineering work. Many universities even allow your project to be work related, and you get to talk to your professors who might have some ideas to help your company.
Of course, this will not improve your skills on python/vb/technology for the week, but that is not what software engineering is about. And of course you need to combine everything with practical experience, so I'd suggest you work for a year or two and then go to grad school in parallel with your work. An extra title won't be helpful if you're really bad at what you do, but for the people who are good or even decent, the extra learning helps.
I mean, other professions do this, why do CS people think their only way to improve themselvees is to self-learn or work on open source projects. Both of these are important, but don't be afraid to get additional help.
And when dealing with beancounters, the extra paper helps.
I've read what he had to say before, and yes, he's someone to listen to. But moderation is not done on the reputation of the person, but on the post.
Read the comment. It WAS redundant. The guy already had a +1 karma mod for being him, that's all he should get. The post then ought to be modded as redundant. I know that's the first thing I thought when I clicked on the article and saw "Good Article" = +5 Insightful.
But what do I know. I'm new here (and just a caveman)
If the technology is so close to a DVD's, you should be able to make a DVD/VMD/HDDVD player, or DVD/VMD/Blue Ray player with maybe just a little bit more expense that one without the extra format. This would give you a much bigger installed base for free.
If you can then upgrade older DVD presses to VMD, you can be the second tier in the market. Hollywood movies would release on HD-DVD, but straight-to-video movies and TV shows would be released on the cheaper but still-HD VMD format, rather than DVDs. Factories with older DVD equipment would probably provide this cheaper service so as not to throw out their equipment.
For example, there's a wikibooks page. You could try building an open textbook on rocket science. There's wikia where you could build a rocket science Wiki. These are mostly pop-culture or community based wikis, but you could make a serious special interest wiki, with original content, if you wish.
Then you could link to it from wikipedia pages, but you'd probably be asked to point out it contains unverified claims or some such.
I doubt it. He's probably been hearing that joke all his life. Bringin it up again is not going to get you on his good side.
Finally, and interface I can play Black and White with.
Think about it.
Raving lunacy might be an overstatement. I would guess he's bipolar.
One day he's the champion of all that is good and holy.
Next day a single email asking reasonable questions scares him shitless
Then he's up to debating with anyone or doing anything
Then he assumes that a PAX invitation is a trap to kill him.
Then he's above the FL justice system
Then there's a conspiracy against him in Florida
Then he's mighty enough that the president of the USA must answer to him personally.
I'm not even sure I'm even exaggerating with this list. This guy needs medication.
I'm hoping that Bush agrees to appear in court, but the Secret Service won't let them be in the same room until Thompson undergoes psychiatric evaluation. Which would then be public, of course.
Rule 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more, no less.
interestingly, Wikipedia mentions Pinnacle - Nucflash, "refers to detonation or possible detonation of a nuclear weapon which creates a risk of an outbreak of nuclear war" which includes among other things:
Unauthorized flight of, or deviation from, an approved flight plan by a nuclear armed or nuclear-capable aircraft with the capability to penetrate the airspace of another nuclear-capable country.
Unauthorized loading of a nuclear weapon on an intercontinental bomber would probably apply. Are there regulations on Pinnacle - Nucflash? Does Congress have to be told? This might be the reason for the leak, they had to talk about it.
The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus is that the area under a function between two points is the difference of the antiderivative evaluated at those points.
:)
Maybe you were talking about derivation, at which point yes, of course you can. But only a partial zero divided by a partial zero
Nuclear rockets are a political can of worms, and I don't mean in the PR sense.
An Orion drive is basically a stockpile of nuclear bombs, and some radiation shielding. Can you imagine the world climate when nations can have ships with hundreds of nukes orbiting earth. Sure, it's not for war, but adaptations would be fairly trivial.
Orion died when nuclear non-proliferation treaties got going. It is a shame, but personally I think it's acceptable collateral damage to not have orbiting nuclear missile platforms.
Now the question is whether a nuclear rocket can be built that uses materials useless for nuclear weapons.
Say you have two #888888 paints. Notice that this is a gray, made from the addition of multiple colors, not necessarily red, green and blue, but close enough that we perceive the addition as #888888. You can't make such a color with a single laser, for example. Now a tetrachromat might see the two paints as #88008888 and #00888888 or some mixture thereof, since they can better discern the components.
So, yes, the extra color would have to be considered an additional dimension, just like we use a 3d RGB color space rather than a simple wavelength to discern the colors we use.
Now, how you would modify the HSV color space for a tetrachromat is a good question.
Would you count tampering with ISO approval process for OOXML to standardize something only they can implement as furthering their monopoly? Suddenly they can keep locking in documents from government bodies that require an ISO standard file format
/. all week
Seriously, this has been on
Err, no, the war on drugs/terror will make it harder to get certified as a pilot (especially now that they are worried about foreigners learning to fly into buildings).
But the MIT design is supposed to be able to take off with at 600kg if I understand it correctly, and it should cost $148,000, or $100,000 according to the GP. Sounds like a bad investment for transporting goods (evils?). Just purchase a couple kit planes and it'll be a lot cheaper.
That's a good reason to shoot for the light-sport aircraft category. It shows it's only supposed to transport people.
Looking at your post, I went to look at current proposals for flying cars and was disappointed.
... quaint.
Most of these struck me as trying to bolt together two very different things, just for buzzwords sake. A flying SUV? What on earth are they thinking. Trying to get a car under 600 kg to meet a less stringent license? That's less than half a normal car!
At least try to lift up something that's already designed for power and low weight. Grab a standard sports bike, that can do 1000 hp on 150kg, then make a modular design where you drive to the airport/airfield, mate up with the wing/propeller module (say another 200kg) and then go. Drop the wings at the other end (either rented space or company provided storage facility) and then just drive to your destination. Yes, you won't have a cockpit around you but it should be fine for a 20 minute flight. People already can handle it on a normal motorbike. Oh, and wear a parachute anyway. Put the glass cockpit on the helmet, add GPS and radio, both of which are useful on the ground (bluetooth helmet with display or HUD and microphone, etc). Antennas, transponder on the wing module, etc.
Market it to the daring and sportsmen. Don't try to go for the suburban housewife.
The hardest part would be the power linkage to connect to the bike engine (and possibly the different requirements on the engine), plus of course the structural requirements on the wing assembly.
To me flying cars just seem
So, you're saying that since the extra field is not invariant under rotational transformations then Noether's theorem doesn't have to apply to angular momentum? Or are the formulas not invariant under rotation?
Besides, even if you end up with a total non-zero angular momentum in the current universe, that wouldn't necessarily mean it's not conserved, but rather that the original big bang had a non-zero angular momentum too. After all, if total energy is non-zero, why assume angular momentum must be?
In this article: Too many people playing Bioshock waaay too much.
Just a suggestion: first partition the disk to add a d: drive and configure XP to put her documents there and keep the programs on the c: drive. Then when you reset the c: drive she won't lose all her documents.
It's less likely that a virus will stay (and be easily triggered) on the document folders, and it'll save you a lot of headaches the first time she forgets one file she wanted to keep.
Besides if the problem persists, you can back up, delete all files and do the reset again. This extra hassle is worth it compared to missing a file or two.
I just looked at the wikipedia page on Brans-Dicke theory and it shows nothing about angular momentum. Perhaps you care to explain?
Except that UT3 is also coming out for the PC at the same time. I'd rather spend those $600 getting my PC up to spec than dump it into a PS3.
But then again, maybe that's just me.