the only difference is that the astronauts' career is costing the taxpayers a god damned lot of money. let them join the ranks of folk who will never get to fly through space.
people have been doing this for years via XNA... that crappy indiana jones games is the demo platformer that comes with XNA and compiling for XBOX, Windows, or Zune is just a series of #ifndef XBOX blahblah #endif...
save/resume files that work on all platforms isn't impressive: text files have worked on lots of platforms for a while now;)
calling metamaterials periodic structures is NOT tautological: a great many periodic structures (as in all most all of them) are not metamaterials, and metamaterials are created by repeating metalic small metalic structures close enough to each other that certain wavelengths of EM radiation see perfect magnetic conductors (which are the same as perfect electric conductors, but a quarter-wavelength away.) this required periodicity is inherently narrow-band, because only a select range of wavelengths will be subject to the quarter-wavelength condition....the long and short of it is that you don't get a cloak of invisibility, because metamaterials are just periodic structures and as such are very much narrow band.
...vaporware!
all the peer reviewed work is hilariously narrow band, to the point that the claims of this article (and most others) equate to 'we have this flashlight, so obviously we can build HD tv and put a picture of you as a baby on it that would fool your mother.'
LAME.
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i have the euler identity on my arm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler's_identity. it says the most about the universe in the least amount of space :)
the only difference is that the astronauts' career is costing the taxpayers a god damned lot of money. let them join the ranks of folk who will never get to fly through space.
OLD STORY!! this is 2010!
WTH? Using email is a requirement of modern business and personal junk. Glad there is no protection, under the Constitution, for communication.
It's the return of IrDA!
only this version is Jonny Mnemonic compatible!
people have been doing this for years via XNA... that crappy indiana jones games is the demo platformer that comes with XNA and compiling for XBOX, Windows, or Zune is just a series of #ifndef XBOX blahblah #endif... save/resume files that work on all platforms isn't impressive: text files have worked on lots of platforms for a while now ;)
calling metamaterials periodic structures is NOT tautological: a great many periodic structures (as in all most all of them) are not metamaterials, and metamaterials are created by repeating metalic small metalic structures close enough to each other that certain wavelengths of EM radiation see perfect magnetic conductors (which are the same as perfect electric conductors, but a quarter-wavelength away.) this required periodicity is inherently narrow-band, because only a select range of wavelengths will be subject to the quarter-wavelength condition. ...the long and short of it is that you don't get a cloak of invisibility, because metamaterials are just periodic structures and as such are very much narrow band.
and they don't work at wide bands. setting mu_r and epsilon_r to -1 in an equation is not the same as making a physical metamaterial.
nature does its best to let you make beer-goggle copulation decisions
...vaporware! all the peer reviewed work is hilariously narrow band, to the point that the claims of this article (and most others) equate to 'we have this flashlight, so obviously we can build HD tv and put a picture of you as a baby on it that would fool your mother.' LAME.
or just add lithium and get over yourself.
my water provides mad voltage, bitches