. ..there is no where for that energy to go and instead it is absorbed by things like . ..
The Faraday cage. That's the whole point of the thing. The cage disperses the energy it has absorbed by reradiating it at a different wavelength refered to in the vernacular as "heat."
Sooner or later all this "heat" gets radiated to the outside of the building (which is secure, because by this point it carries no information other than the pure carrier). There is a very, very small amount of this extra "heat" radiation absorbed by the body, but you may find that your building also has ways of evacuating exesses of it to the outside.
In fact, if you object to this "heat" stuff we can actually do something to keep most of it out of your room, but you might find that that too has certain negative effects on health.
On the whole I really wouldn't worry about it unless, . ..you are more massive than your walls.
Isn't it implicitly sexist to make such a big deal out of the first woman in space?
Well, it was 1963, you have to make some allowances for the attitudes of the time. Eileen Collins was the first shuttle commander after the Columbia disaster and Ansari will be the 40somthingth woman in space.
I know what you mean, I can never get away from the paparazzi!
I hear ya brother. The parazzi almost seem tame now though. Back in the day when you actually had to have a camera to take a picture I might get "snapped" a couple dozen times a month and the pros were often quite inobtrusive. I found a picture of myself on the web that I simply can't figure how it was taken. It's an indoor candid that looks taken at close range; and I never saw anyone with a camera of any sort, even though in the shot I'm looking in the direction the shot was taken from.
But now with cameras in cell phones I can have my picture taken that many times an hour, with many of the picture takers wanting to interupt my work to have their picture taken with their arm over my shoulder or something.
One of them even wanted me to take his picture playing my violin to show the folks back home. A man's violin is a very personal thing. You don't just hand it over to anyone who wants to impress the folks back home, especially since an old violin is essentially irreplacable.
If you ask me, Salinger is more famous for being a recluse...
Q.E.D.
Salinger is a recluse (and stopped publishing) in response to fame, not because he wants to be a recluse. Hiding in plain sight simply didn't work once he . . . came into sight.
Would he have gotten an article in the New Yorker by quietly accepting?
Probably not, but he would have gotten one in the New York Times. It isn't so easy to "quietly" accept.
And what is the answer for someone who does not wish fame, but does wish to contribute, and so begins to gather fame for eschewing fame? I've you've got the answer, please let me know, I haven't found it in decades of trying. Neither has Salinger. The best you can do is moderate your notoriety; and hide.
If he didn't want the medal he could have just shut the hell up, but then we wouldn't have the solution.
"There are better men than Diogones, but nobody has ever heard of them."
You, Sir, simply do not understand the inherent, underlying beauty of being able to spam personal entertainment devices. It's just like regular spam, only musical. You know how much everybody already enjoys getting free spam, only now it will be enhanced by singing . ..in Korea!
But wait, don't order now, there's more!
Instead of the old fashioned way of shoving the music down tubes the Wizards/Witches of Redmond (follow the black asphalt road) have figured out a way to distribute the music in buckets carried by flying monkeys! How cool is that?
Don't ask where the flying monkeys come from though, or someone is likely to send a picture of it to your Zune; and trust me, it isn't pretty.
Slashdot Mirror
I've never heard of you except seeing KFG in some slashdot comments.
.having heard of me.
So you've never heard of me, except for . .
That ain't fame, that is seeing the same guy outside the grocery store shouting every time you go in.
That ain't me. That's RMS. I work Times Square.
KFG
. . .there is no where for that energy to go and instead it is absorbed by things like . . .
.you are more massive than your walls.
The Faraday cage. That's the whole point of the thing. The cage disperses the energy it has absorbed by reradiating it at a different wavelength refered to in the vernacular as "heat."
Sooner or later all this "heat" gets radiated to the outside of the building (which is secure, because by this point it carries no information other than the pure carrier). There is a very, very small amount of this extra "heat" radiation absorbed by the body, but you may find that your building also has ways of evacuating exesses of it to the outside.
In fact, if you object to this "heat" stuff we can actually do something to keep most of it out of your room, but you might find that that too has certain negative effects on health.
On the whole I really wouldn't worry about it unless, . .
KFG
#1 American city in porn, St. Louis, located in the "Show Me" state.
KFG
. . .why would MS need to create so much additional complexity?
"Trusted" computing.
KFG
With that kind of grubstake you could go up on Virgin Galactic 5 times a year approximately. . .forever; and still have your twenty mil.
But, as has been pointed out, it ain't orbit.
Personally I'm waiting to be asked.
KFG
"It would be even cooler if she were going to head a project afterward to make a great, totally free Linux distro".
I told her we already got one.
KFG
Isn't it implicitly sexist to make such a big deal out of the first woman in space?
Well, it was 1963, you have to make some allowances for the attitudes of the time. Eileen Collins was the first shuttle commander after the Columbia disaster and Ansari will be the 40somthingth woman in space.
KFG
I know what you mean, I can never get away from the paparazzi!
I hear ya brother. The parazzi almost seem tame now though. Back in the day when you actually had to have a camera to take a picture I might get "snapped" a couple dozen times a month and the pros were often quite inobtrusive. I found a picture of myself on the web that I simply can't figure how it was taken. It's an indoor candid that looks taken at close range; and I never saw anyone with a camera of any sort, even though in the shot I'm looking in the direction the shot was taken from.
But now with cameras in cell phones I can have my picture taken that many times an hour, with many of the picture takers wanting to interupt my work to have their picture taken with their arm over my shoulder or something.
One of them even wanted me to take his picture playing my violin to show the folks back home. A man's violin is a very personal thing. You don't just hand it over to anyone who wants to impress the folks back home, especially since an old violin is essentially irreplacable.
KFG
. . .are you just pointing out the counter-argument?
.
Bingo.
If you're arguing that children don't need exposure to computational ideas at an early age . .
No, but I might well argue that the schools aren't doing a very good job of it, while often wasting money that could be better used elsewhere.
KFG
Clearly, Stoll is FAR behind the times - his book was written more than a decade ago. . .
.he's apparently abandoned his original stance in favor of selling Klein Bottles on the internet (http://www.kleinbottle.com/). . .
His book is the more recent.
I don't see how it's possible today to argue that our children don't need exposure to computing to succeed.
Actually read both works, then think, before making up your mind.
. .
I've got a Klein coffee mug. At the time it was ordered he answered the phone himself. Perhaps he'd be willing to disucuss his current views with you.
KFG
Have you ever seen an impoverished, underfed third world child deriving some small measure of pleasure and sustenance by chewing on a stalk of grass?
KFG
. . .where is _my_ children's machine 1?
Silly rabbit . . .
KFG
. . . Seymour Papert, who wrote the book "The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in The Age of The Computer"
Counter argued by Cliff Stoll in "Silicon Snake Oil."
KFG
If you ask me, Salinger is more famous for being a recluse...
Q.E.D.
Salinger is a recluse (and stopped publishing) in response to fame, not because he wants to be a recluse. Hiding in plain sight simply didn't work once he . . . came into sight.
KFG
Would he have gotten an article in the New Yorker by quietly accepting?
Probably not, but he would have gotten one in the New York Times. It isn't so easy to "quietly" accept.
And what is the answer for someone who does not wish fame, but does wish to contribute, and so begins to gather fame for eschewing fame? I've you've got the answer, please let me know, I haven't found it in decades of trying. Neither has Salinger. The best you can do is moderate your notoriety; and hide.
If he didn't want the medal he could have just shut the hell up, but then we wouldn't have the solution.
"There are better men than Diogones, but nobody has ever heard of them."
KFG
You, Sir, simply do not understand the inherent, underlying beauty of being able to spam personal entertainment devices. It's just like regular spam, only musical. You know how much everybody already enjoys getting free spam, only now it will be enhanced by singing . . .in Korea!
But wait, don't order now, there's more!
Instead of the old fashioned way of shoving the music down tubes the Wizards/Witches of Redmond (follow the black asphalt road) have figured out a way to distribute the music in buckets carried by flying monkeys! How cool is that?
Don't ask where the flying monkeys come from though, or someone is likely to send a picture of it to your Zune; and trust me, it isn't pretty.
Arrrrrrrrrrrgh! My eyes!
KFG
. . .the question is not how much it costs to have a few milligrams of carbon fiber.
Exactly. There are are not only a number of other issues more important in the cost; every other issue is more important in the cost.
It's like getting all worked up over the cost of the wrapper on a chocolate bar.
KFG
What TFA doesn't mention is that they'll need a tri-color laser diode per mirror asembly.
Minor detail. What I was pointing out, without pointing it out, was that OP was focusing on the wrong cost issue; referencing an inappropriate model.
KFG
Thought you were more mature than that KFG.
.wrong.
You were, well. .
KFG
Be interesting to hear about how those random hand counts compare to the machine tabulations.
Well, that depends on how carefully you pick your "random" precint, doesn't it?
KFG
. . .they also don't have any iron in their head.
Coulda fooled me.
KFG
I'm told that chickens fly south to get to the other side.
Because that's about as far as they can make it.
KFG
My guess is that looking at per capita is irrelevant.
Oh, but it's quite relevant to who is going to make the largest percentage of growth:
To double it's expenditures Australia will have to up the ante to $400 per capita; China $2.
Predicting China and India to have the largest growth is a bit of no-brainer, slight of spreadsheet.
KFG
Lawyers suing a*****es?
Recursion; see recursion.
KFG
Does that mean that my file manager infringes on Creative's patent?
Got a hundred mil?
KFG