Didn't see that movie, but two posts down SlappyBastard actually knew the name for this "practice"... I had hoped it didn't have a name. I really did. I had to google that and now I'm wondering if I can "choke away" my short-term memory.
TLDW -- Too Long; Didn't Watch?
How many forms of lazy can one cater to? If it were written down, others might say it was too long -- and most Slashdotters don't RTFA anyway, they barely skim the summary. Next we'll be slashdotting twitter messages.
Am I going to get a Nobel prize for all of my zany OCD's too?
If I don't turn the light on and off 23 times every time I leave the house, my family will be kidnapped. I don't want an award for this, I'm just glad I've finally found someone who can relate.
It responds to a magnetic field, so it'll effect the inductive characteristics of the circuit. This would seriously mess up any high-frequency circuit. Unless you can "remove" the ferromagnetic element from the solder once you're done shaping it, this is a big hurdle.
I'm feeling vitriolic, so I'll start the trolling thread:
Having a sheer amount of parents simply means that he's a frequent flier at the the parent office. The real question is how much of an impact his inventions have made. The storage-related inventions (like the floppy) are mostly attributed to other inventors, where he solved part of the problem, but didn't invent the whole package. Personally I wouldn't put much weight on the spring shoes (no pun intended), and anyone who even participated in the popularization of karaoke should be tried by an international court.
More verbose description --
Given that the signals arrive in optical form, you (will) have two choices:
1) Convert them into electrical signals, using optoelectronics, process the data, and then (sometimes) convert the signal back to optical.
2) Keep the signals in optical form and process them using these new materials.
Just because the first option has more steps, doesn't mean it's slower. If you have very fast converters, and then very fast transistors (like the graphene-based ones linked above), then you may get an overall system that's faster than the purely optical one.
I'd like to benchmark this against graphene. Since optical signals don't have to be converted to electrical first, then (I think) the bottleneck would be the optoelectronics.
Seriously though, this certainly isn't the first time this has been done. Previous methods also used similar 3D printing techniques, except that the printed organ was a "dud" that was impregnated (injected and suspended in fluids, as I remember) with cells, instead of the organ being printed in one pass.
Not that this isn't very interesting, it's just not as new as they make it seem.
a billion years ain't that long if you're a planet...
Yes, it is. Our sun's lifespan is about 10 billion years, and it's half-way through. In other word, the solar system should be having its mid-life crisis now.
You may not know this, but fishaxe does: when you reach high karma, you no longer get ads (or rather you get the "option" to turn them off). Basically, if you contribute to the site, they don't monetize you directly.
And spare me the reply saying that "yeah, instead you're the one providing content to the site, which they use to make money off of". There's always someone who says that, and there's always the same answer: If you don't want to be here, don't be here.
“It’s what we call the ice-skater effect,” David Kerridge, head of Earth hazards and systems at the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, said today in a telephone interview. “As the ice skater puts when she’s going around in a circle, and she pulls her arms in, she gets faster and faster. It’s the same idea with the Earth going around if you change the distribution of mass, the rotation rate changes.”
No, it's not. It's called the "bored to death at the office and nobody's watching" effect. You spin your chair rapidly and lift your legs from the ground. Then put your arms out -- you'll slow down. Pull them back in -- you'll speed up.
Also, "As the ice skater puts when she’s going around in a circle"? Did somebody miss a word there?
Shoddy writing, bad analogies, this is an embarrassment.
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Didn't see that movie, but two posts down SlappyBastard actually knew the name for this "practice"... I had hoped it didn't have a name. I really did. I had to google that and now I'm wondering if I can "choke away" my short-term memory.
I feel this way about /. too sometimes...
Kids today are doing something completely different just prior to choking.
(if you got that reference, I'm almost as sorry for you as I am for me)
TLDW -- Too Long; Didn't Watch?
How many forms of lazy can one cater to? If it were written down, others might say it was too long -- and most Slashdotters don't RTFA anyway, they barely skim the summary. Next we'll be slashdotting twitter messages.
Howard Hughes did this with his urine. In the end, it didn't help much.
Am I going to get a Nobel prize for all of my zany OCD's too?
If I don't turn the light on and off 23 times every time I leave the house, my family will be kidnapped. I don't want an award for this, I'm just glad I've finally found someone who can relate.
Wow, I actually repeated the error. Freudian?...
It responds to a magnetic field, so it'll effect the inductive characteristics of the circuit. This would seriously mess up any high-frequency circuit. Unless you can "remove" the ferromagnetic element from the solder once you're done shaping it, this is a big hurdle.
I'm feeling vitriolic, so I'll start the trolling thread:
Having a sheer amount of parents simply means that he's a frequent flier at the the parent office. The real question is how much of an impact his inventions have made. The storage-related inventions (like the floppy) are mostly attributed to other inventors, where he solved part of the problem, but didn't invent the whole package. Personally I wouldn't put much weight on the spring shoes (no pun intended), and anyone who even participated in the popularization of karaoke should be tried by an international court.
*pouts and crosses arms*
More verbose description --
Given that the signals arrive in optical form, you (will) have two choices:
1) Convert them into electrical signals, using optoelectronics, process the data, and then (sometimes) convert the signal back to optical.
2) Keep the signals in optical form and process them using these new materials.
Just because the first option has more steps, doesn't mean it's slower. If you have very fast converters, and then very fast transistors (like the graphene-based ones linked above), then you may get an overall system that's faster than the purely optical one.
Yes. This keeps the data in "optical form", which has additional ramifications. Once (if?) this becomes practical, additional uses will crop up.
I'd like to benchmark this against graphene. Since optical signals don't have to be converted to electrical first, then (I think) the bottleneck would be the optoelectronics.
Now I want a bacon printer!
It'll have to make two passes:
1) Print
2) Fry
This would work great with eggs too.
Mmmm..... Doughnut printer....
Just one?...
At which point, prepare for this graph to become an understatement.
So you're saying they need to implement an anti-aliasing algorithm?...
You're gonna need Milla Jovovich's hand first. Got that "handy"?
I can't believe someone thought of that before I did...
Not that I need any hair. I'm set. No, really, I was just inquiring for a friend...
This mouse called dibs 8 years ago.
Seriously though, this certainly isn't the first time this has been done. Previous methods also used similar 3D printing techniques, except that the printed organ was a "dud" that was impregnated (injected and suspended in fluids, as I remember) with cells, instead of the organ being printed in one pass.
Not that this isn't very interesting, it's just not as new as they make it seem.
Printing penis jokes in 3, 2, 1...
I wonder... Compare the total weight of the entire chinese population to the total weight of the entire population of the US. Who's heavier?
a billion years ain't that long if you're a planet...
Yes, it is. Our sun's lifespan is about 10 billion years, and it's half-way through. In other word, the solar system should be having its mid-life crisis now.
You may not know this, but fishaxe does: when you reach high karma, you no longer get ads (or rather you get the "option" to turn them off). Basically, if you contribute to the site, they don't monetize you directly.
And spare me the reply saying that "yeah, instead you're the one providing content to the site, which they use to make money off of". There's always someone who says that, and there's always the same answer: If you don't want to be here, don't be here.
Sir, please don't bring your heliocentric propaganda into this scientific discussion.
“It’s what we call the ice-skater effect,” David Kerridge, head of Earth hazards and systems at the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, said today in a telephone interview. “As the ice skater puts when she’s going around in a circle, and she pulls her arms in, she gets faster and faster. It’s the same idea with the Earth going around if you change the distribution of mass, the rotation rate changes.”
No, it's not. It's called the "bored to death at the office and nobody's watching" effect. You spin your chair rapidly and lift your legs from the ground. Then put your arms out -- you'll slow down. Pull them back in -- you'll speed up.
Also, "As the ice skater puts when she’s going around in a circle"? Did somebody miss a word there?
Shoddy writing, bad analogies, this is an embarrassment.