Actually takes 9 mouse clicks, and requires that you know where to look.
1) Click start 2) Click control panel 3+4) Double click User Accounts 5) Click "Turn User Account Control on or off" 6) Click Continue on the UAC dialog 7) Click to remove check mark from UAC 8) Click Okay 9) Click reboot now/later
Seriously. In a world where even the movie industry is moving to fewer regions (Blu-ray has 3 regions compared to the 6 on DVD), apple has decided to go with... uhm... USA, Canada, 50 sovereign European countries and wherever else they've sold the iPhone.
Actually, I forgot that Slashcode eats any < signs you simply type unless you include it in an html-tag. It was supposed to be "If the medium is transparent (to the particular wavelength) the speed is <= c.". The = as vacuum can be seen as a medium.
As for the speed of light in a medium not being constant, can you clarify on that? Does the photons speed up or slow down inside the medium? If so, how? Is it because the overwhelming part of anything isn't there (i.e. a vacuum between the nuclei and electron cloud)? Does it mean that if it takes light 1 second to travel through x meters of a particular medium, then it won't take 2 seconds to travel through 2x meters of that same medium?
I wasn't implying that speed travels at the constant c (299,792,458 m/s) through any medium, just that if you have light traveling through a medium at c_medium, then that speed is constant for that particular medium.
That being said 'no' isn't even close to being a useful answer to the question I asked.
I realize that I'm probably nitpicking, but isn't the speed of light constant in any medium? If the medium is transparent (to the particular wavelength) the speed is is c.
Writing " It is true that the speed of light, in a vacuum, is a constant." makes is seem like the speed of light in any other medium is either speeding up or slowing down.
And I picked the nVidia Tegra as the computer, as that's already been proven to be plenty capable of doing AR and HD playback.
You don't even need to mount batteries in the glasses. You can run power and data cables inside a tether for the glasses, similar to the thingie for the iPod with cables for the head phones. All you need then is input and bluetooth works well enough for mice. You could use a virtual keyboard, but I suspect that's suck horribly.
At least for what I have in mind for a personal project. I haven't been able to find a decent optical see-through HMD that is affordable for regular people.
Liteye makes a system for the military, but this seems like a rather limited system.
I wouldn't mind seeing an OLED system in this form factor. They're quite sturdy, allowing you to mount decent loads onto it, the bridge and resting pads are quite big making them rather comfortable even with a big load on them. The stems are wide allowing big mounting points for stuff like camera(s) and wires. Connect it to something like an nVidia Tegra and you'd have an optical see through display, head mounted cameras and a small computer that can handle augmented reality with apparent ease.
But I suspect I'd be better off hoping to see Megan Fox splayed across my bed.
Americans can be funny people but their lack of comprehension of irony is quite astounding.... [...] But then again I am German-Canadian
So... you, a Canadian, is pointing at Americans (presumably people from the US) as being unable to comprehend irony, when one of (if not) the best known examples of not comprehending irony is the song "Ironic" by Canadian singer Alanis Morissette
I'd call that quite ironic, but I fear the outcome of that.
The 10.08 was a 10.08% improvement over the original system. That's not exactly a minimal increase, and considering that the new leaders posted a 10.09% improvement over the original (0.0098% better than 10.08%) it's rather harsh to write off the 10.08% improvement as "pretty minimal".
365 volts at 1000 amps is about ten times the available power at the average house.
To fill up my hypothetical car takes about 3 minutes (10 gallons).
However, filling my car at home takes a lot longer. I only have a 1 gallon container, so I'd have to make 10 trips to the nearest gas station with the container.
Same thing here. Slow charge at home, fast charge at a filling station.
MIT is a university with huge amounts of essentially unpaid/underpaid researchers, all working 14 hours days every day. This is not something that Tesla or even GM can compete with.
Secondly, GM and Tesla both use energy storage that exists to build their cars (for obvious reasons). MIT's car hasn't been built yet, and if the energy storage they end up using isn't quite good enough, they'll try to develop something that's better. They don't have a finite budget (see the first paragraph) to worry about, nor angry stockholders who will demand heads roll if they waste money on something that turns out to be a dead end.
Eric Sonnichsen, who founded Test Devices in 1972, points out that a wheel created from carbon fibers is safer than a steel wheel, because even if a few fibers break, the wheel won't come apart. On the other hand, if a flywheel does disintegrate, says Sonnichsen, "it's more like potentially lethal lumps of coal coming at you, traveling at kilometers per second."
His company helped to develop containment vessels to mitigate this worst-case scenario. Sonnichsen's team has overaccelerated flywheels and dumped them off their bearings; in each case, the wheel skidded to a stop harmlessly inside its container. They finally figured out how to blow a speeding flywheel apart by firing a bullet into it. "I tend to be the Cassandra of the high-speed spin world," he says. "But at this point I am satisfied with the centrifugal safety of flywheels. In fact, they are much less hazardous than other storage methods we have now. A can of gasoline can be dangerous. Even a car battery can blow up, if you reverse polarity."
In space, though, flywheels won't have the same containment structures, because the shielding would weigh too much. A sudden failure could be disastrous. So wheels must demonstrate through cycle testing and spin testing that mechanical components will last many times longer than expected use. The wheels are then derated to - that is, run at - 50 percent of maximum speed.
How do you figure? The reports say "after previous events [...] at the same premises", not "after previous events with the same people".
How would you feel if you visited a bank the day after it had been robbed, and random people accused you of being a bank robber, just because you happened to be at the scene of a previous robbery?
Just wait until someone posts an article talking about how lead poisoning is bad for people, the deadliness of digitalis or how reading improves your ability to understand written instructions!
Slashdot Mirror
Step 1) Make a blanket rule on any IP resolving to a .NL address
Step 2) The rule presents the users with the following message:
Alright, the last link might be a bit much, but still ...
I would think so - where else are geeks going to find women in real life willing to show them their breasts?
AWOL is Absent Without Leave.
Is he REALLY supposed to ask permission from the CentOS people before going somewhere?
Missing would be a much better term to use.
I'm fairly certain that if you tried to stick to that while driving in the UK, you'd get into some serious problems of your own ...
You know, liquids aren't the only thing that can smother a fire, right?
Actually takes 9 mouse clicks, and requires that you know where to look.
1) Click start
2) Click control panel
3+4) Double click User Accounts
5) Click "Turn User Account Control on or off"
6) Click Continue on the UAC dialog
7) Click to remove check mark from UAC
8) Click Okay
9) Click reboot now/later
Maintaining Slashcode is easy. Convinding Slashdot to use the updated Slashcode however ...
Per-market basis? Holy crap that's stupid.
Seriously. In a world where even the movie industry is moving to fewer regions (Blu-ray has 3 regions compared to the 6 on DVD), apple has decided to go with ... uhm ... USA, Canada, 50 sovereign European countries and wherever else they've sold the iPhone.
I suppose this is true for iTunes as well then?
I know how you feel. When I tried it I also got an ice cube stuck in my nose.
So ... every single non-US (and thus non-AT&T) iPhone user is at the mercy of the whims of a company, that they do no business with?
Or is the Apple store designed in such a way that people in Denmark only sees apps designed for the Danish market?
In other words, the speed of light at a particular wavelength through a particular medium remains constant?
Actually, I forgot that Slashcode eats any < signs you simply type unless you include it in an html-tag. It was supposed to be "If the medium is transparent (to the particular wavelength) the speed is <= c.". The = as vacuum can be seen as a medium.
As for the speed of light in a medium not being constant, can you clarify on that? Does the photons speed up or slow down inside the medium? If so, how? Is it because the overwhelming part of anything isn't there (i.e. a vacuum between the nuclei and electron cloud)? Does it mean that if it takes light 1 second to travel through x meters of a particular medium, then it won't take 2 seconds to travel through 2x meters of that same medium?
I wasn't implying that speed travels at the constant c (299,792,458 m/s) through any medium, just that if you have light traveling through a medium at c_medium, then that speed is constant for that particular medium.
That being said 'no' isn't even close to being a useful answer to the question I asked.
I realize that I'm probably nitpicking, but isn't the speed of light constant in any medium? If the medium is transparent (to the particular wavelength) the speed is is c.
Writing " It is true that the speed of light, in a vacuum, is a constant." makes is seem like the speed of light in any other medium is either speeding up or slowing down.
Of course she'll say that. If we find medical cures for cancer, she'll be out of a job, won't she?
Of course it's feasible.
Samsung presented a transparent OLED display at CES 2009, another example from 2008. Sony presented a flexible OLED display in 2007, making a display following the glasses curvature easily doable.
And I picked the nVidia Tegra as the computer, as that's already been proven to be plenty capable of doing AR and HD playback.
You don't even need to mount batteries in the glasses. You can run power and data cables inside a tether for the glasses, similar to the thingie for the iPod with cables for the head phones. All you need then is input and bluetooth works well enough for mice. You could use a virtual keyboard, but I suspect that's suck horribly.
At least for what I have in mind for a personal project. I haven't been able to find a decent optical see-through HMD that is affordable for regular people.
Liteye makes a system for the military, but this seems like a rather limited system.
I wouldn't mind seeing an OLED system in this form factor. They're quite sturdy, allowing you to mount decent loads onto it, the bridge and resting pads are quite big making them rather comfortable even with a big load on them. The stems are wide allowing big mounting points for stuff like camera(s) and wires. Connect it to something like an nVidia Tegra and you'd have an optical see through display, head mounted cameras and a small computer that can handle augmented reality with apparent ease.
But I suspect I'd be better off hoping to see Megan Fox splayed across my bed.
So ... you, a Canadian, is pointing at Americans (presumably people from the US) as being unable to comprehend irony, when one of (if not) the best known examples of not comprehending irony is the song "Ironic" by Canadian singer Alanis Morissette
I'd call that quite ironic, but I fear the outcome of that.
The 10.08 was a 10.08% improvement over the original system. That's not exactly a minimal increase, and considering that the new leaders posted a 10.09% improvement over the original (0.0098% better than 10.08%) it's rather harsh to write off the 10.08% improvement as "pretty minimal".
To fill up my hypothetical car takes about 3 minutes (10 gallons).
However, filling my car at home takes a lot longer. I only have a 1 gallon container, so I'd have to make 10 trips to the nearest gas station with the container.
Same thing here. Slow charge at home, fast charge at a filling station.
MIT is a university with huge amounts of essentially unpaid/underpaid researchers, all working 14 hours days every day. This is not something that Tesla or even GM can compete with.
Secondly, GM and Tesla both use energy storage that exists to build their cars (for obvious reasons). MIT's car hasn't been built yet, and if the energy storage they end up using isn't quite good enough, they'll try to develop something that's better. They don't have a finite budget (see the first paragraph) to worry about, nor angry stockholders who will demand heads roll if they waste money on something that turns out to be a dead end.
Not much, considering that the ISS runs flywheels naked (no containment).
From a fairly old article on flywheels:
I always find it comforting when someone's signature is fitting to the subject of their post :)
I think you mean "no matter whether it was summer or summer. Oh .. I live in Phoenix."
How do you figure? The reports say "after previous events [...] at the same premises", not "after previous events with the same people".
How would you feel if you visited a bank the day after it had been robbed, and random people accused you of being a bank robber, just because you happened to be at the scene of a previous robbery?
Just wait until someone posts an article talking about how lead poisoning is bad for people, the deadliness of digitalis or how reading improves your ability to understand written instructions!