1) Fill a cookie tray with water
2) Pepper the top of the water in order to *see* the movements of the surface tension
3) Carefully place a small amount of soap in the center of the tray
4) Watch the pepper scatter to the edges of the pan as the tension breaks 5)???
6)Profit!!!
It says on amazon's website that the Kindle will actually have the ability to play Audible's books as well. So you can actually have your choice between reading or listening. Now what would be really great is if you could buy both of them together and have it switch between reading to you and you reading it to yourself at your convenience.
I thought with the new PS3 they changed the emulation from hardware to a software emulation. Wouldn't this development then already be sunk cost? It seems to me that it wouldn't be anything but adding a small bit of software whose development is already paid for in order to allow backwards compatibility. My guess is that they want to show a lower price for the PS3 but they're just trying to intentionally cripple it so everyone buys the more expensive one anyway.
BTW I'm not totally anti-PS3 here. In fact I bought one about a month after they came out (the 60Gb one).
This device probably won't actually constrict heart function. If you make it slack when the heart has contracted and elastic enough it will just help to squeeze the heart during ejection and decrease the force required for the contraction of the heart muscles. Basically since the heart muscle won't have to work as hard it doesn't increase its muscle mass (similar to lifting weights and then stopping). This reduction in afterload has been shown to decrease heart size in certain instances, specifically in some patients who have received Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs). This device is way less intrusive than an LVAD and doesn't require any electromechanical action.
Thanks for the link to this book. Being a CMU graduate myself this should be a very interesting read. I can tell you from my own experience that CMU has definitely improved recently in terms of female acceptance into their CS programs using affirmative action type processes
What's interesting to me is experiencing some of these issues first hand in college it doesn't seem to me that the females were discriminated against. Many CS majors (stereotypical at CMU at least) were intelligent but awkward and introverted (not that that's a bad thing). Therefore they tended to be more self concious about themselves and it has harder to socialize with a person of the opposite sex, especially if they were attractive. Since the male population was already dominant females became left out in social groups and activities unless they were outgoing enough to make the first move. On top of that hygiene was particularly atrocious among the male population. (there's actually a personal hygiene course you have to pass as a CS major at CMU). It seems to me that even if you are a female CS major you were more likely to at least keep youself respectable and able to interact with others. There's a reason why the widespread idiom among females at CMU was, "The odds are good, but the goods are odd."
Has anyone told Kimi Raikonen, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso how unsafe composite materials are? Perhaps they could've found it in Ferrari's documents?
Actually this is partially true as carbon fiber composites are used as radar absorbing materials for stealth fighters. I wonder what affect this has on radars? I'm sure Boeing has probably already figured this out and put some radar reflective paint on it or something, but it is an interesting thought.
The curing process for carbon fibers depends on the epoxy being used in conjunction with the carbon fiber weave, but it is typically at an extremely high temperature. However, after the epoxy becomes set the material is now in a different atomic configuration. If the epoxy were to be reheated it would not turn back into a liquid and return to its previous state (in most cases). This can happen at a much lower temperature than the original curing temperature. Also there is a difference between exposing a material to an open flame and to indirectly heating it.
Actually I'm basing it on this http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/17/0355218 from 2 days ago. If you'll notice I'm talking about Apple being able to give away free ringtones not the end user putting them on themself. I never said that it was illegal for you to take a song you already own and convert it and put it on your own phone. I said Apple couldn't distribute them for you for free as that would be them distributing work which the RIAA has a legal claim to collect on.
...they should be the ones providing such a ringtone app. I believe Apple's original intention was to release an app exactly like this. Unfortunately the pulled it back at the last min. most likely due to issues with copyright infringment and the RIAA. This is why they make users pay for it. I'm at work and don't have time to source a reference so someone else back me up here.
You must be new here. On Slashdot, only Google's "black box" search engine (and related products) and Apple's proprietary OS and hardware are considered "good".
My thought's exactly. Just look for a Slashdot article on Moonlight. I feel like there is someone with the exact comment except replacing Sun with Microsoft.
This is basically saying to me that antivirus packages and software systems have finally gotten to the point where they're being effective. In response to this, hackers have developed more sophisticated techniques in order to penetrate systems. It's not that anyone is doing their job worse. it's that technology is moving at such a rapid rate that it's nearly impossible for one person or a small group to keep up with all of the new attacks being implemented each day. I for one commend IT admins from doing as good of a job as they have done.
From my understanding then as long as the electron remains in an excited state then the exotic atom would stay stable and not annihilate itself. Would it then be possible to keep the electron in an excited state and create a stable atom and then molecules? Along this line then it would seem to me if you created a large enough amount of atoms you could create a gamma ray emitting material where gamma rays emitted as atoms annihilated each other would excited the electrons of the other remaining atoms to remain in a higher state. Eventually all of this matter would still annihilate itself but it seems to me to be a way of creating it for a long enough time for study. Also if you could find another way of keeping the electrons in a higher state you could use it as some type of anitmatter fuel.
They're not the only company doing this. Diamonex http://www.diamonex.com/ a subsidiary of Morgan Advanced Ceramics has been making diamond on silicon for years. I should know as I have a part of a wafer sitting on my desk at home. As for the people worried about heat dissipation, these things move heat amazingly well (better than copper). I've taken the wafer and on edge it will cut through an ice cube like a knife through warm butter. Unfortunately it will turn your fingers numb in about 3 seconds too from the heat transfer.
While absolutely hilarious I'd just like to let you and all of the other science and math nerd here (I include myself in that) know that haikus follow a 5, 7, 5 syllable format. Consider:
Haikus can be fun!
But sometimes they don't make any sense.
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I actually had to go RTFA when I heard that the CD is providing DRM-FREE songs. Where exactly in the article does it state this? Maybe it's DRM free to you after you use some "illegal" ripping program to take it from the CD to your computer, but then you'll most likely end up compressing it anyway which nulls the uncompressed aspect which is the other stated advantage. This doesn't even delve into all over the other disadvantages (you don't like all of the songs, extra stuff to carry, inconvenience of going to the store, incompatible ringtone with phone, etc..) mentioned in other posts here. I can honestly see no reason for buying one of these disks. My money is still going to Apple and itunes.
That said, I'm kind of curious to shee how far this tolerance goes.
I can tell you from what I know there was a group actually called F**k (insert name) of a specific person who a lot of people at my college didn't like. This group was banned from facebook. So it seems to me that being hateful towards a specific group is tolerated, but towards a specific person is not. That being said I wonder if this would extend from a normal Joe to someone more famous such as a major political figure. An example of this would be if you created a group called F**k Bush because a group of you didn't like President Bush.
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2) Pepper the top of the water in order to *see* the movements of the surface tension
3) Carefully place a small amount of soap in the center of the tray
4) Watch the pepper scatter to the edges of the pan as the tension breaks
5)???
6)Profit!!!
fixed that for you
It says on amazon's website that the Kindle will actually have the ability to play Audible's books as well. So you can actually have your choice between reading or listening. Now what would be really great is if you could buy both of them together and have it switch between reading to you and you reading it to yourself at your convenience.
Recycles food. (I don't even want to know)
I thought with the new PS3 they changed the emulation from hardware to a software emulation. Wouldn't this development then already be sunk cost? It seems to me that it wouldn't be anything but adding a small bit of software whose development is already paid for in order to allow backwards compatibility. My guess is that they want to show a lower price for the PS3 but they're just trying to intentionally cripple it so everyone buys the more expensive one anyway.
BTW I'm not totally anti-PS3 here. In fact I bought one about a month after they came out (the 60Gb one).
This device probably won't actually constrict heart function. If you make it slack when the heart has contracted and elastic enough it will just help to squeeze the heart during ejection and decrease the force required for the contraction of the heart muscles. Basically since the heart muscle won't have to work as hard it doesn't increase its muscle mass (similar to lifting weights and then stopping). This reduction in afterload has been shown to decrease heart size in certain instances, specifically in some patients who have received Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs). This device is way less intrusive than an LVAD and doesn't require any electromechanical action.
Did anyone else immediately think of Live Free or Die Hard when reading this?
haha yeah that is what I was referring too. That's too bad though, that graduation shower poof sure came in handy...
Thanks for the link to this book. Being a CMU graduate myself this should be a very interesting read. I can tell you from my own experience that CMU has definitely improved recently in terms of female acceptance into their CS programs using affirmative action type processes
What's interesting to me is experiencing some of these issues first hand in college it doesn't seem to me that the females were discriminated against. Many CS majors (stereotypical at CMU at least) were intelligent but awkward and introverted (not that that's a bad thing). Therefore they tended to be more self concious about themselves and it has harder to socialize with a person of the opposite sex, especially if they were attractive. Since the male population was already dominant females became left out in social groups and activities unless they were outgoing enough to make the first move. On top of that hygiene was particularly atrocious among the male population. (there's actually a personal hygiene course you have to pass as a CS major at CMU). It seems to me that even if you are a female CS major you were more likely to at least keep youself respectable and able to interact with others. There's a reason why the widespread idiom among females at CMU was, "The odds are good, but the goods are odd."
Nope he's on the internet so we know that he must not be having sex http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/20/0437247
Actually this is partially true as carbon fiber composites are used as radar absorbing materials for stealth fighters. I wonder what affect this has on radars? I'm sure Boeing has probably already figured this out and put some radar reflective paint on it or something, but it is an interesting thought.
The curing process for carbon fibers depends on the epoxy being used in conjunction with the carbon fiber weave, but it is typically at an extremely high temperature. However, after the epoxy becomes set the material is now in a different atomic configuration. If the epoxy were to be reheated it would not turn back into a liquid and return to its previous state (in most cases). This can happen at a much lower temperature than the original curing temperature. Also there is a difference between exposing a material to an open flame and to indirectly heating it.
Actually I'm basing it on this http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/17/0355218 from 2 days ago. If you'll notice I'm talking about Apple being able to give away free ringtones not the end user putting them on themself. I never said that it was illegal for you to take a song you already own and convert it and put it on your own phone. I said Apple couldn't distribute them for you for free as that would be them distributing work which the RIAA has a legal claim to collect on.
My thought's exactly. Just look for a Slashdot article on Moonlight. I feel like there is someone with the exact comment except replacing Sun with Microsoft.
Or the metaverse a la Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
This is basically saying to me that antivirus packages and software systems have finally gotten to the point where they're being effective. In response to this, hackers have developed more sophisticated techniques in order to penetrate systems. It's not that anyone is doing their job worse. it's that technology is moving at such a rapid rate that it's nearly impossible for one person or a small group to keep up with all of the new attacks being implemented each day. I for one commend IT admins from doing as good of a job as they have done.
From my understanding then as long as the electron remains in an excited state then the exotic atom would stay stable and not annihilate itself. Would it then be possible to keep the electron in an excited state and create a stable atom and then molecules? Along this line then it would seem to me if you created a large enough amount of atoms you could create a gamma ray emitting material where gamma rays emitted as atoms annihilated each other would excited the electrons of the other remaining atoms to remain in a higher state. Eventually all of this matter would still annihilate itself but it seems to me to be a way of creating it for a long enough time for study. Also if you could find another way of keeping the electrons in a higher state you could use it as some type of anitmatter fuel.
Hi my name is Bob and I'm a WoW addict. I used to be 3rd in my guild as a level 60 night elf mage. I played so much that I grew these b*tch t*ts...
Now I'm in recovery and am once again a productive member of society.
I seriously thought the article would be something like this based on the title. Imagine my disappointment...
They're not the only company doing this. Diamonex http://www.diamonex.com/ a subsidiary of Morgan Advanced Ceramics has been making diamond on silicon for years. I should know as I have a part of a wafer sitting on my desk at home. As for the people worried about heat dissipation, these things move heat amazingly well (better than copper). I've taken the wafer and on edge it will cut through an ice cube like a knife through warm butter. Unfortunately it will turn your fingers numb in about 3 seconds too from the heat transfer.
You're right. It should be but sometimes they don't make sense. no "any" in there
While absolutely hilarious I'd just like to let you and all of the other science and math nerd here (I include myself in that) know that haikus follow a 5, 7, 5 syllable format. Consider:
Haikus can be fun!
But sometimes they don't make any sense.
refrigerator
I actually had to go RTFA when I heard that the CD is providing DRM-FREE songs. Where exactly in the article does it state this? Maybe it's DRM free to you after you use some "illegal" ripping program to take it from the CD to your computer, but then you'll most likely end up compressing it anyway which nulls the uncompressed aspect which is the other stated advantage. This doesn't even delve into all over the other disadvantages (you don't like all of the songs, extra stuff to carry, inconvenience of going to the store, incompatible ringtone with phone, etc..) mentioned in other posts here. I can honestly see no reason for buying one of these disks. My money is still going to Apple and itunes.
I can tell you from what I know there was a group actually called F**k (insert name) of a specific person who a lot of people at my college didn't like. This group was banned from facebook. So it seems to me that being hateful towards a specific group is tolerated, but towards a specific person is not. That being said I wonder if this would extend from a normal Joe to someone more famous such as a major political figure. An example of this would be if you created a group called F**k Bush because a group of you didn't like President Bush.
Exactly it's Trellium D! Man why didn't I think of that before... Now wait was that radiation or did it absorb spacial anomalies? Damn Star Trek!