Many methods for organic device deposition make use of inkjet printing which is extremely low-cost and easy to do (I'm guessing roughly several square miles per day).
They're using silver nanoparticles. Silver isn't cheap, but in that quantity it's not a big deal. Possible improvements to this method include using a different nanoparticle material (but silver is the best for surface plasmon effects, except for maybe gold) and incorporating inkjet printing to avoid high-cost vacuum environments. I don't think an inkjet deposition method would interfere with surface plasmon interactions on the nanoparticles so we should still see good efficiency.
TFA didn't mention lifetime, and I figure that it's not a huge issue anymore for OLEDs. Another big advantage with using silver is that it isn't susceptible to photocorrosion (silver oxides do not form readily).
A fresh install of XP (sin Service Packs) doesn't even support WPA security. A friend of mine brought his computer over and wondered why he couldn't connect and I almost died of laughter. Once we updated it and installed all the upgrades, it was just as slow as Vista.
Now compare to a clean Linux install. Updated and cleaned quite often, it doesn't require installing half as many updates compared to a clean XP install. Furthermore, it comes with all modern tools that you need, including that WPA security support that drove us up the wall. The Linux kernel is far more modern than the one equipped in XP, and that will cause lightyears of difference between the two systems.
There's a huge price to pay when you use something that outdated. Once you bring it up to speed, it's all for naught. You might as well use something modern if you want things to work without bringing your system to a crawl.
No, here's the real reason that you're an idiot to use the upgrade disc.
First of all, it will only work if you have an old MS (full) install disc lying around. Not hard to lose a couple years down the road. Second, even if you do have those old discs, remember how some of them carry that limit that only allows X number of installs? Makes that worthless. Instead, eventually when you do need to do that clean install, you're going to need a legit install disc. Long story short, MS comes up big with a free $50 cause eventually, you're just going to get a new license anyways (either through buying a clean install disc or buying a new computer with a new license).
That is why upgrading (and for that matter, using Windows at all) is a stupid idea.
Probably none if it doesn't become too widespread....
And I imagine that there will be many different methods for achieving this sort of encryption, so hopefully they won't be able to catch all of them. This is why a passphrase would be far more viable.
Parent is wise. It would be easy for any image hosting site to detect something like this. They would just have to scan it as they receive it. Nobody wins when you just encode it using a simple straightforward and one-time algorithm.
What the authors need to do is provide some sort of key to decoding the torrent file. Instead of creating an entire image of it, they should instead take a standard image, and use some cypher method that would slightly distort the it (blur, stretch, etc.) in some way that would allow recovery of the torrent data. Then it wouldn't be obvious to the naked eye and you could just post the information necessary to decode the information from some other location. But is this worth the effort when torrents are still easy to find? Probably not yet, but in the future it may be.
Let's be fair - it's not even out yet, and who knows what kind of reception that it will get. Why would they already start planning to deploy something that they haven't even seen yet? Would they base their decision-making off the RC? Sure....
It's too early for them to look at. While XP still has a long time to receive support, most IT dept's are just going to wait and see. Besides, no one wants to be the first to try it in a corporate environment. They'll want to see how it goes with other companies too, for sure.
In defense of Microsoft (someone smack me please), Win7 will have far fewer "features" (ie. bloat) than Vista (or so I hear). This may be a promise of fewer bugs, though that's not to say that there will be none. Besides, they've done more testing by offering free use of the beta/RC than any previous Windows version, so hopefully this will be more robust.
But whatever. Lamb in sheep's clothing, putting pig on a lipstick, etc./goes back to my super-stable Debian machine.
I feel almost certain that Spain will face an international backlash because of this. In all likelihood, I'm guessing that the international community will put pressure on them to reverse these decisions. Nevertheless, as a piracy supporter, I'm delighted by this news and hope that other countries will follow suit. I'm not getting my hopes up quickly though.
That's good to know. I'm using NoScript to block Google Analytics, and I'm willing to assume people on your site are using it too. There's a good chance that Firefox usage is higher than reported. Nobody using IE would do that.
Yup. This is what you get when you use software made by for-profit groups. Say what you will about how capitalism (greed) is good, how it promotes competition and growth. Sure - but it also puts a stopper in it. People that really care about making good software make it free. Between them, and corporate businesspeople, I think I trust the former when it comes to making my software.
My guess is that it's a lot more expensive. Semiconductor devices have to be processed in vacuum conditions and often at high temperatures; and the more precessing you use (triple junction has minimum 4 layers), the higher the cost. This is why there's interest in alternative, non-semiconductor devices like dye-based and conjugated polymer cells. Easy to produce in solution and at low temperature, no vacuum. There's a plethora of other undesirables in semiconductor solar cells too, like weight, inflexibility, etc.
All claim to be the record because there is no standardized way to measure power efficiency. However, the concept of quantum wells used in solar cells is a new concept.
I was under the impression that the next big thing in Bittorrent would be the introduction of distributed trackers. Are we there or not yet? Or is it just some wild fantasy of mine?
Get back to me when Facebook gives a damn what I want. Always changing the layout because of this stupid concept of 'sharing' every fucking detail of our lives. Tell me on the right side of the homepage that I should friend my 60-year-old former diffusion professor. Forcing me to use their stupid minifeeds and asshole applications. You know why people consult Google for shit? Because Google gives them what they want. Facebook is just for dicking around and bending over while millions of drones come back and bend over for Mark Zuckerberg to come up with some new fucked up idea for changing the layout and pissing off the userbase again. Whereas Google will always be the same old Google, typically (not always, of course) well in touch with their userbase, providing what you need and far more powerful than Facebook. And above all, Google gives me the entire web, whereas Facebook just constrains me to this stupid social networking concept. Seriously, if the entire web became personal profiles and Facebook fan pages, I wouldn't bother paying for my connection anymore.
I don't think that'll help very much. Ever watched someone try to play Mario Kart, and they just can't figure out how to take a jump or a turn? You'll always get those kinds of people; sometimes, they just don't get it, they can't learn how to play games and build logical mental constructs based on trial, observation and error. They just don't think that way.
Maybe it's politically incorrect to say this (and in all likelihood, unscientific as well, but I'm going with my gut): if you can't get it, then you'll probably never learn it, even if someone teaches it to you, so why even try. Even I myself wonder if I believe that.
Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I preferred the simpler games, the ones that didn't have as rigid physics and things of the nature. Compare modern first-person/third-person shooters and compare them to the classics like Perfect Dark, The Legend of Zelda or Goldeneye. They were so much fun because handling was so easy, you could move, you could strafe, etc. It was so much better! And yet, as games become more realistic, all that happens is that your character becomes more sluggish and less powerful, harder to manipulate. All for the sake of reality, and graphics which will always get old. But the gameplay never gets old. That's why classics are what they are - they're acceptable graphically and a hell of a lot of fun to play.
Want proof? They still have Street Fighter tournaments, Melee tournaments, etc. if you look around in the right places. On the other hand, who cares anymore about Metal Gear Solid 4? Man, even playing Super Mario World is much more fun than the New Super Mario Bros. on the DS, simply by virtue of the fact that the older one is simpler, freer, gives you more control, more imagination, more room to enjoy it.
Seriously? It's gameplay that makes you come back, not reality. I wish we'd drop the reality of things and just make games fun. But I guess now I'm old enough to just make my own games. Sigh. It had to come down to this, didn't it?
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Many methods for organic device deposition make use of inkjet printing which is extremely low-cost and easy to do (I'm guessing roughly several square miles per day).
They're using silver nanoparticles. Silver isn't cheap, but in that quantity it's not a big deal. Possible improvements to this method include using a different nanoparticle material (but silver is the best for surface plasmon effects, except for maybe gold) and incorporating inkjet printing to avoid high-cost vacuum environments. I don't think an inkjet deposition method would interfere with surface plasmon interactions on the nanoparticles so we should still see good efficiency.
TFA didn't mention lifetime, and I figure that it's not a huge issue anymore for OLEDs. Another big advantage with using silver is that it isn't susceptible to photocorrosion (silver oxides do not form readily).
Don't make me laugh.
A fresh install of XP (sin Service Packs) doesn't even support WPA security. A friend of mine brought his computer over and wondered why he couldn't connect and I almost died of laughter. Once we updated it and installed all the upgrades, it was just as slow as Vista.
Now compare to a clean Linux install. Updated and cleaned quite often, it doesn't require installing half as many updates compared to a clean XP install. Furthermore, it comes with all modern tools that you need, including that WPA security support that drove us up the wall. The Linux kernel is far more modern than the one equipped in XP, and that will cause lightyears of difference between the two systems.
There's a huge price to pay when you use something that outdated. Once you bring it up to speed, it's all for naught. You might as well use something modern if you want things to work without bringing your system to a crawl.
No, here's the real reason that you're an idiot to use the upgrade disc.
First of all, it will only work if you have an old MS (full) install disc lying around. Not hard to lose a couple years down the road. Second, even if you do have those old discs, remember how some of them carry that limit that only allows X number of installs? Makes that worthless. Instead, eventually when you do need to do that clean install, you're going to need a legit install disc. Long story short, MS comes up big with a free $50 cause eventually, you're just going to get a new license anyways (either through buying a clean install disc or buying a new computer with a new license).
That is why upgrading (and for that matter, using Windows at all) is a stupid idea.
Probably none if it doesn't become too widespread....
And I imagine that there will be many different methods for achieving this sort of encryption, so hopefully they won't be able to catch all of them. This is why a passphrase would be far more viable.
Most people prefer to keep things that way.
Parent is wise. It would be easy for any image hosting site to detect something like this. They would just have to scan it as they receive it. Nobody wins when you just encode it using a simple straightforward and one-time algorithm.
What the authors need to do is provide some sort of key to decoding the torrent file. Instead of creating an entire image of it, they should instead take a standard image, and use some cypher method that would slightly distort the it (blur, stretch, etc.) in some way that would allow recovery of the torrent data. Then it wouldn't be obvious to the naked eye and you could just post the information necessary to decode the information from some other location. But is this worth the effort when torrents are still easy to find? Probably not yet, but in the future it may be.
Let's be fair - it's not even out yet, and who knows what kind of reception that it will get. Why would they already start planning to deploy something that they haven't even seen yet? Would they base their decision-making off the RC? Sure....
It's too early for them to look at. While XP still has a long time to receive support, most IT dept's are just going to wait and see. Besides, no one wants to be the first to try it in a corporate environment. They'll want to see how it goes with other companies too, for sure.
Also, you can't ignore the issue of where the workers are going to go. When companies restructure, many employees end up getting the axe.
I like Chair-chucking Chimp to be honest....
In defense of Microsoft (someone smack me please), Win7 will have far fewer "features" (ie. bloat) than Vista (or so I hear). This may be a promise of fewer bugs, though that's not to say that there will be none. Besides, they've done more testing by offering free use of the beta/RC than any previous Windows version, so hopefully this will be more robust.
But whatever. Lamb in sheep's clothing, putting pig on a lipstick, etc. /goes back to my super-stable Debian machine.
Yes, that's one of their new features, in response to similar concepts introduced by the Linux and Apple communities.
See: Copralalia
Swearing feels good. That's why we do it. Not surprising that some people with Tourette's do it uncontrollably.
I feel almost certain that Spain will face an international backlash because of this. In all likelihood, I'm guessing that the international community will put pressure on them to reverse these decisions. Nevertheless, as a piracy supporter, I'm delighted by this news and hope that other countries will follow suit. I'm not getting my hopes up quickly though.
That's good to know. I'm using NoScript to block Google Analytics, and I'm willing to assume people on your site are using it too. There's a good chance that Firefox usage is higher than reported. Nobody using IE would do that.
Yeah, but a lot of the time, I find myself telling people to bing shit too.
Yup. This is what you get when you use software made by for-profit groups. Say what you will about how capitalism (greed) is good, how it promotes competition and growth. Sure - but it also puts a stopper in it. People that really care about making good software make it free. Between them, and corporate businesspeople, I think I trust the former when it comes to making my software.
Now go ahead and mod me overrated.
My guess is that it's a lot more expensive. Semiconductor devices have to be processed in vacuum conditions and often at high temperatures; and the more precessing you use (triple junction has minimum 4 layers), the higher the cost. This is why there's interest in alternative, non-semiconductor devices like dye-based and conjugated polymer cells. Easy to produce in solution and at low temperature, no vacuum. There's a plethora of other undesirables in semiconductor solar cells too, like weight, inflexibility, etc.
It's true. The Fraunhofer Institute itself has produced more efficient cells. And all use multiple junctions.
Examples:
Fraunhofer - triple junction
NREL - triple junction
University of Delaware - bream splitting
All claim to be the record because there is no standardized way to measure power efficiency. However, the concept of quantum wells used in solar cells is a new concept.
I was under the impression that the next big thing in Bittorrent would be the introduction of distributed trackers. Are we there or not yet? Or is it just some wild fantasy of mine?
By the way, who constituted what they refer to as "people?"
Vi users of course.
That's because it's optimized for Canadian, not American.
Get back to me when Facebook gives a damn what I want. Always changing the layout because of this stupid concept of 'sharing' every fucking detail of our lives. Tell me on the right side of the homepage that I should friend my 60-year-old former diffusion professor. Forcing me to use their stupid minifeeds and asshole applications. You know why people consult Google for shit? Because Google gives them what they want. Facebook is just for dicking around and bending over while millions of drones come back and bend over for Mark Zuckerberg to come up with some new fucked up idea for changing the layout and pissing off the userbase again. Whereas Google will always be the same old Google, typically (not always, of course) well in touch with their userbase, providing what you need and far more powerful than Facebook. And above all, Google gives me the entire web, whereas Facebook just constrains me to this stupid social networking concept. Seriously, if the entire web became personal profiles and Facebook fan pages, I wouldn't bother paying for my connection anymore.
I don't think that'll help very much. Ever watched someone try to play Mario Kart, and they just can't figure out how to take a jump or a turn? You'll always get those kinds of people; sometimes, they just don't get it, they can't learn how to play games and build logical mental constructs based on trial, observation and error. They just don't think that way.
Maybe it's politically incorrect to say this (and in all likelihood, unscientific as well, but I'm going with my gut): if you can't get it, then you'll probably never learn it, even if someone teaches it to you, so why even try. Even I myself wonder if I believe that.
Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I preferred the simpler games, the ones that didn't have as rigid physics and things of the nature. Compare modern first-person/third-person shooters and compare them to the classics like Perfect Dark, The Legend of Zelda or Goldeneye. They were so much fun because handling was so easy, you could move, you could strafe, etc. It was so much better! And yet, as games become more realistic, all that happens is that your character becomes more sluggish and less powerful, harder to manipulate. All for the sake of reality, and graphics which will always get old. But the gameplay never gets old. That's why classics are what they are - they're acceptable graphically and a hell of a lot of fun to play.
Want proof? They still have Street Fighter tournaments, Melee tournaments, etc. if you look around in the right places. On the other hand, who cares anymore about Metal Gear Solid 4? Man, even playing Super Mario World is much more fun than the New Super Mario Bros. on the DS, simply by virtue of the fact that the older one is simpler, freer, gives you more control, more imagination, more room to enjoy it.
Seriously? It's gameplay that makes you come back, not reality. I wish we'd drop the reality of things and just make games fun. But I guess now I'm old enough to just make my own games. Sigh. It had to come down to this, didn't it?
He also happens to have a TV show.