No need to worry about your roommate. You just need a shower. How could they rot after death with continuous gamma ray exposure killing all of the microbes?
Oh, I didn't mean for the politicians to be permanently attached to the blades.
Just use something similar to a shear bolt so that once a specific velocity is exceeded, the politician is flung away. Alternatively, you could use the politicians as a cheap break lining material to limit the speed.
You can build ground based radio telescopes or satellite antennas using this technique. I have an old Radio Electronics with an article and plans for a greater than 4 foot refraction based satellite antenna using concentric strips of plywood with the focus behind the flat surface. The advantage lies in not having to form a curved three dimensional surface. The math is relatively straightforward.
The difference with the space based proposal is using optical wavelengths instead of radio wavelengths so the edge spacing is much smaller.
Those are good possibilities, but makes the title "Hobbit 2" kinda silly.
Well, they did say "sequel" instead of part 2. Gollum's exodus from the Misty Mountains and search for his lost ring could figure into it as well. Aragorn and Gandalf caught up to him at some point during this time.
I mean, do these tales all have to be swords and destiny? How about a little simple daily life?
Is that like the episodes of Star Trek where they arrive at a planet, discover an ancient peaceful civilization, and have a good time with nothing untoward happening?
Bilbo's Log, Shire Date 1401.2: I am very fond of my nephew Frodo if for no other reason he is a thorn in the side of the Sackville-Baggins. I'm not so sure about his friend, the Gaffer's son, Samwise though. That lad is entirely too withdrawn. I suspect he and his delinquent Took friends are part of the local shroom racket that farmer Maggot has been complaining about.
Off the top of my head, there are a couple of ancillary stories from The Hobbit to the Lord of the Rings which could be told:
1. The activities of the White Council at Dol Guldur in southern Mirkwood. Conveniently this could include Gandalf, Saruman, Galadriel, Elrond, and others.
2. The dwarf Balin's attempted reopening of Moria.
3. The events and battles around Lonely Mountain before and during the Lord of the Rings.
A number of manufacturers including Asus made Socket 7 motherboards using Dallas Semiconductor clock/RAM chips which had internal lithium batteries for backup. Changing those requires unsoldering a 600 mil DIP package. The lithium batteries did not last even close to the specified 10 years either.
How does this 'Battle' of Athens of demonstrate how a population can successfully initiate an armed revolt against a relatively powerful, well organized government?
The governor of Tennessee mobilized the State national guard in preparation to support the town sheriff put down what was essentially a small scale rebellion but held off actually ordering them in because for among other reasons worries that at least some of the national guard would side with the Ex-GIs. Would not the national guard of Tennessee count as an overwhelming force compared to considerably fewer than 3000 GIs in open rebellion against the lawful local government?
What about Switzerland during WW2? How does Switzerland's status during WW2 have anything to do what we are talking about? Remember I said relevant examples!
Switzerland's successful deterrence against Nazi invasion (Their third and final invasion plan was interrupted by D-Day.) was based on mining the railroad tunnels connecting Germany with Italy, preemptively adopting a national command structure that could not surrender, and primarily arming the militia to make any invasion as costly as possible. The Swiss regular army was moved after the start of the war into the mountains where it could not defend against an invasion but instead best survive and inflict damage as a coherent force.
The American Revolutionary War would be an even better example but I am not used to suggesting it. England was the superpower of the time with the growing industry and sea power to match and a bunch of colonists with some French assistance made a war too costly even for them. Even better, the war started with the attempted confiscation of firearms of which the anniversary was just a few days ago. If they had been successful and the colonies disarmed, I would have expected the outcome to be very different not only because of the additional difficulty in mounting a resistance but because of the indicated character of the colonists.
You could be right about changing times having made the militia obsolete as a deterrence to tyranny however repeatedly since the invention of the rifle military tacticians and others have declared it obsolete in the face of some new technology but it has remained decisive. As I pointed out in a different post, only a fool attacks a tank or bomber or nuclear weapon with a rifle.
The following passage pretty much sums up my thoughts on the subject:
A women is confronted by a big, strong, stranger. She does not know what he is planning, and she is cautious. Getting away from him is not possible. They are in a room and he is standing in front of the only way out, or she is in a wheelchair - whatever. Leaving the area is not an option.
So now he starts to do things she does not like. He asks her for money. She can try to talk him out of it, just like we argue for lower taxes, and maybe it will work. If it does not, and she gets outvoted, she will probably choose to give in to him instead of getting into a fight to the death over ten dollars. You would probably choose to pay your taxes rather then have police arrive to throw you in jail.
Maybe this big man demands some other things, other minor assaults on this woman's dignity. When should she claw at his eyes or shove her ballpoint pen in his throat? When he tries to force her to kiss him? Tries to force her to let him touch her? Tries to force her to have sex with him?
Those are questions that each woman has to answer for herself. There is one situation, though, where I tell the women to fight to the death. That is when the man pulls out a pair of handcuffs and says, "Come on, I promise I won't hurt you, this is just so you won't flail around and hurt either of us by accident. Come on, I just want to talk, get in the van and let me handcuff you to this eyebolt here, and I promise I won't touch you. I'm not asking you to put on a gag or anything, and since you can still scream for h
I actually think Switzerland during World War 2 is more significant but the Battle of Athens is closer to home.
As you point out of course "Chances are by the time you get to the point where you have to use the last resort, you won't have your firearms." which I agree with but that just means you have to fight while you are still able to effectively resist. Examples of resistance taking place too late to be effective abound of course.
Does anyone have any ideas about multiple heads? If the heads are swinging independently, the mechanics are quite complex, but what if the heads all swing in unison - all together at the same direction and speed? Then the heads can spend less time per cylinder. Heads can also be given a positional offset in order to be on different cylinders at the same time. Complex mechanics, but in today's level of technology, par for the course as the saying goes. Even a slower RPM drive can still have the performance of a fast RPM drive. If the drive isn't too busy, some heads can be kept parked. RPM Speedstep may also contribute to power savings.
Connor and Seagate produced a series of hard drives with dual actuator and head assemblies to help with high performance access time and throughput requirements. This was about the time that RAID was becoming popular and as it ends up it was more economical to use 2 single actuator drives then 1 dual actuator drive.
People sometimes ponder if parallel reading from multiple heads on the same actuator would help however for some time track tolerance has been such that thermal expansion and other effects prevent accurate head alignment on more then one surface. The servo signal that controls head alignment is embedded into every surface and has been so since about the time the 3 1/2 inch hard drive form factor displaced the 5 1/4 inch form factor. Research has been done into using a piezoelectric element on each head in addition to the main actuator for positioning which would allow for faster settling time after a seek (resonances in the head and arm assembly ultimately limit seek time) and possibly accessing multiple tracks however I am not aware of any such design going into production. Even if it did work, most of the benefit of multi-track access using only one actuator would be in raw transfer rate when the real limitation on performance at this point is access time.
In a way it's a shame that WD decided to bulk out the case with extra heatsinks... it would have been more fun for them to ship a properly sized 2.5" drive you could put in your laptop.
Consumer electronics manufacturers often design products to preclude stacking by using a rounded or irregular top because of heat dissipation requirements. It would not surprise me if WD had the same sort of thought for this drive because almost all existing laptops are not designed to handle the power dissipation of 10K RPM drives without higher then acceptable temperatures.
There are superconductors that work above the boiling point of nitrogen though right? Why not use those instead? Do the cost/problems offset the saving in coolant?
My understanding is that their lack of malleability as well as their very low critical current density prevents large scale use.
I dare you to give me a recent example where the population was able to successfully organize a resistance against a relatively well funded/organized government that was willing to use military force to remain in power.
Satelites and UAVs do not just see in the visible spectrum. What happens when they are capable of looking into our homes either actively or passively via different ranges of the spectrum? One one hand, if I am yelling inside my house and there are people outside who overhear, that's my own fault. If a UAV can discern objects and people through a roof, monitor radio emissions and so forth, is that the same thing? My intuition says no, but I doubt it's defined.
In 2001 the Supreme Court held in Kyllo v. United States that the use of a device from a public vantage point to monitor thermal radiation from a person's home was a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, and thus required a warrant.
This is different from using a radiation detector or drug sniffing dog because both of the later are much more selective about what is revealed.
Somewhere around half of the power used on a leading edge IC process is caused by leakage which can only be reduced by powering down an area of the chip. In some cases, the designers have included this ability in a coarse way like with AMD's Barcelona where the memory controller and CPU cores are powered separately but it requires external support and doing it for more then a small number of areas on the chip is very difficult. Some areas like the memory controller and interface can not be powered down at all.
If bodies in our solar system were obliterated by unknown interactions over BILLIONS of years, there is a good chance that we never observed that body's existence -- we don't really know how many bodies there _originally_ were in our solar system. We have astronomical observations of major bodies in our solar system for maybe the past few hundred years.
We also never observed their absence and the existing planets are in the positions current theory predicts. If there was a Mars sized black hole between Jupiter and Earth that would be mighty suspicious given our current theories for black hole formation. If Mars was missing that would also be suspicious.
There may be a variety of conditions experienced in thep ast, but accelerators like the LHC have the ultimate possibility of creating kinds of conditions and phenomena that our solar system _hasn't encountered_ for billions of years. It's kind of the whole point to mimick conditions that could not be observed otherwise.
I disagree. The LHC is not going to create any condition the bodies of the solar system have not already experienced. Its purposes is to recreate conditions where we can get at them for measurement.
The mere fact we don't know of a blackhole forming on earth due to millions of years particle bombardment doesn't tell us much about the probability going forward, as conditions of earth also change.
We also know that none of the observed bodies in the solar system which as it happens have each experienced BILLIONS of years of particle bombardment under a variety of conditions have been destroyed by any unknown interactions.
The LHC is just a handy tool for creating phenomena we are interested in at a place and time convenient to watch provided one does not stand in the way to observe directly. Do not observe within the beam path using remaining tissue.
I'm wondering if it will be immune to a blast from a microwave oven with the door removed.
Only if it flies into it.
Even with a good beam antenna, shielding versus damaging EMI is not prohibitively difficult or expensive and I certainly would have thought of it so the designers probably did also. You could interfere with the radio link or the GPS receiver though.
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For good measure, just bar the original poster.
Spring piston air rifles in .20 and .177 caliber can be supersonic and make a noticeable crack.
No need to worry about your roommate. You just need a shower. How could they rot after death with continuous gamma ray exposure killing all of the microbes?
Oh, I didn't mean for the politicians to be permanently attached to the blades.
Just use something similar to a shear bolt so that once a specific velocity is exceeded, the politician is flung away. Alternatively, you could use the politicians as a cheap break lining material to limit the speed.
Only if you mounted the politicians to the blades.
You can build ground based radio telescopes or satellite antennas using this technique. I have an old Radio Electronics with an article and plans for a greater than 4 foot refraction based satellite antenna using concentric strips of plywood with the focus behind the flat surface. The advantage lies in not having to form a curved three dimensional surface. The math is relatively straightforward.
The difference with the space based proposal is using optical wavelengths instead of radio wavelengths so the edge spacing is much smaller.
Well, they did say "sequel" instead of part 2. Gollum's exodus from the Misty Mountains and search for his lost ring could figure into it as well. Aragorn and Gandalf caught up to him at some point during this time.
Is that like the episodes of Star Trek where they arrive at a planet, discover an ancient peaceful civilization, and have a good time with nothing untoward happening?
Bilbo's Log, Shire Date 1401.2: I am very fond of my nephew Frodo if for no other reason he is a thorn in the side of the Sackville-Baggins. I'm not so sure about his friend, the Gaffer's son, Samwise though. That lad is entirely too withdrawn. I suspect he and his delinquent Took friends are part of the local shroom racket that farmer Maggot has been complaining about.
Off the top of my head, there are a couple of ancillary stories from The Hobbit to the Lord of the Rings which could be told:
1. The activities of the White Council at Dol Guldur in southern Mirkwood. Conveniently this could include Gandalf, Saruman, Galadriel, Elrond, and others.
2. The dwarf Balin's attempted reopening of Moria.
3. The events and battles around Lonely Mountain before and during the Lord of the Rings.
A number of manufacturers including Asus made Socket 7 motherboards using Dallas Semiconductor clock/RAM chips which had internal lithium batteries for backup. Changing those requires unsoldering a 600 mil DIP package. The lithium batteries did not last even close to the specified 10 years either.
Prove you did not acquire this laptop with proceeds from illegal drugs!
The problem is solved.
The governor of Tennessee mobilized the State national guard in preparation to support the town sheriff put down what was essentially a small scale rebellion but held off actually ordering them in because for among other reasons worries that at least some of the national guard would side with the Ex-GIs. Would not the national guard of Tennessee count as an overwhelming force compared to considerably fewer than 3000 GIs in open rebellion against the lawful local government?
Switzerland's successful deterrence against Nazi invasion (Their third and final invasion plan was interrupted by D-Day.) was based on mining the railroad tunnels connecting Germany with Italy, preemptively adopting a national command structure that could not surrender, and primarily arming the militia to make any invasion as costly as possible. The Swiss regular army was moved after the start of the war into the mountains where it could not defend against an invasion but instead best survive and inflict damage as a coherent force.
The American Revolutionary War would be an even better example but I am not used to suggesting it. England was the superpower of the time with the growing industry and sea power to match and a bunch of colonists with some French assistance made a war too costly even for them. Even better, the war started with the attempted confiscation of firearms of which the anniversary was just a few days ago. If they had been successful and the colonies disarmed, I would have expected the outcome to be very different not only because of the additional difficulty in mounting a resistance but because of the indicated character of the colonists.
You could be right about changing times having made the militia obsolete as a deterrence to tyranny however repeatedly since the invention of the rifle military tacticians and others have declared it obsolete in the face of some new technology but it has remained decisive. As I pointed out in a different post, only a fool attacks a tank or bomber or nuclear weapon with a rifle.
The following passage pretty much sums up my thoughts on the subject:
A women is confronted by a big, strong, stranger. She does not know what he is planning, and she is cautious. Getting away from him is not possible. They are in a room and he is standing in front of the only way out, or she is in a wheelchair - whatever. Leaving the area is not an option.
So now he starts to do things she does not like. He asks her for money. She can try to talk him out of it, just like we argue for lower taxes, and maybe it will work. If it does not, and she gets outvoted, she will probably choose to give in to him instead of getting into a fight to the death over ten dollars. You would probably choose to pay your taxes rather then have police arrive to throw you in jail.
Maybe this big man demands some other things, other minor assaults on this woman's dignity. When should she claw at his eyes or shove her ballpoint pen in his throat? When he tries to force her to kiss him? Tries to force her to let him touch her? Tries to force her to have sex with him?
Those are questions that each woman has to answer for herself. There is one situation, though, where I tell the women to fight to the death. That is when the man pulls out a pair of handcuffs and says, "Come on, I promise I won't hurt you, this is just so you won't flail around and hurt either of us by accident. Come on, I just want to talk, get in the van and let me handcuff you to this eyebolt here, and I promise I won't touch you. I'm not asking you to put on a gag or anything, and since you can still scream for h
You asked for a specific modern example.
I actually think Switzerland during World War 2 is more significant but the Battle of Athens is closer to home.
As you point out of course "Chances are by the time you get to the point where you have to use the last resort, you won't have your firearms." which I agree with but that just means you have to fight while you are still able to effectively resist. Examples of resistance taking place too late to be effective abound of course.
Connor and Seagate produced a series of hard drives with dual actuator and head assemblies to help with high performance access time and throughput requirements. This was about the time that RAID was becoming popular and as it ends up it was more economical to use 2 single actuator drives then 1 dual actuator drive.
People sometimes ponder if parallel reading from multiple heads on the same actuator would help however for some time track tolerance has been such that thermal expansion and other effects prevent accurate head alignment on more then one surface. The servo signal that controls head alignment is embedded into every surface and has been so since about the time the 3 1/2 inch hard drive form factor displaced the 5 1/4 inch form factor. Research has been done into using a piezoelectric element on each head in addition to the main actuator for positioning which would allow for faster settling time after a seek (resonances in the head and arm assembly ultimately limit seek time) and possibly accessing multiple tracks however I am not aware of any such design going into production. Even if it did work, most of the benefit of multi-track access using only one actuator would be in raw transfer rate when the real limitation on performance at this point is access time.
Consumer electronics manufacturers often design products to preclude stacking by using a rounded or irregular top because of heat dissipation requirements. It would not surprise me if WD had the same sort of thought for this drive because almost all existing laptops are not designed to handle the power dissipation of 10K RPM drives without higher then acceptable temperatures.
My understanding is that their lack of malleability as well as their very low critical current density prevents large scale use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YBCO
Battle of Athens
The gun is not for attacking the plane or the bomb. It is appropriate for must softer targets.
In 2001 the Supreme Court held in Kyllo v. United States that the use of a device from a public vantage point to monitor thermal radiation from a person's home was a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, and thus required a warrant.
This is different from using a radiation detector or drug sniffing dog because both of the later are much more selective about what is revealed.
Somewhere around half of the power used on a leading edge IC process is caused by leakage which can only be reduced by powering down an area of the chip. In some cases, the designers have included this ability in a coarse way like with AMD's Barcelona where the memory controller and CPU cores are powered separately but it requires external support and doing it for more then a small number of areas on the chip is very difficult. Some areas like the memory controller and interface can not be powered down at all.
Just name it Weeble. Then it can wobble all it wants.
We also never observed their absence and the existing planets are in the positions current theory predicts. If there was a Mars sized black hole between Jupiter and Earth that would be mighty suspicious given our current theories for black hole formation. If Mars was missing that would also be suspicious.
I disagree. The LHC is not going to create any condition the bodies of the solar system have not already experienced. Its purposes is to recreate conditions where we can get at them for measurement.
So that is why nobody has a working time machine!
We also know that none of the observed bodies in the solar system which as it happens have each experienced BILLIONS of years of particle bombardment under a variety of conditions have been destroyed by any unknown interactions.
The LHC is just a handy tool for creating phenomena we are interested in at a place and time convenient to watch provided one does not stand in the way to observe directly. Do not observe within the beam path using remaining tissue.
Maybe they will go the Philadelphia route and use them to drop fire bombs on people they do not like.
Only if it flies into it.
Even with a good beam antenna, shielding versus damaging EMI is not prohibitively difficult or expensive and I certainly would have thought of it so the designers probably did also. You could interfere with the radio link or the GPS receiver though.