I know of an electronics board from a satellite that was "launched" on one of the Ariane 5s that was self destructed 40 seconds after launch. Bits of the satelite were found in a swamp about 100 miles downrange and a month later, and returned to the makers. The electronics boards were found to respond to test signals ok, and would have still been working if the hardware they interfaced to was present.
I've recorded gigs from the sound desk with a minidisc player (using automatic gain control, to cover the predetermined processing bit of the patent). That invalidates (i) and (ii). (iii) is done by every small recording studio that has a multi-cd burner. Linking the two should be obvious to any recording engineer.
Nope, pencils have always used graphite. They were invented when shepherds started using lumps of graphite found in the Lake District, UK, to mark their sheep.
Unfortunately the tracks for platforms 9 and 10 are together, between platforms 9 and 10. So trying to run throught the gap in the middle will run you onto the tracks. There's no ticket barriers either. They're not in the same building as where they filmed the movies either. But there is a platform 9 3/4 sign on the wall.
I wonder if it would only be pronounced similarly to lindows in english. If it would be pronounced differently in Dutch etc. then it wouldn't infringe there, and they could keep using it. In english speaking countries, MS hasn't got much of a chance of enforcing the windows trademark, as it's generic.
On the other hand, BF 1942 never worked on my Windows XP box either, despite me changing all the hardware except CPU, RAM and Mobo, and reinstalling twice.
Or more accurately, provided hosting for them, employed Eric Weisstein to maintain it and paid for the lawyers to defend the copyright case against it.
Compared to the 4 million GBP bid we're about to put in for a telescope, it's quite cheap. Mind you, I don't know what an 16" optical telescope should cost.
I once spent a week helping convert an abandoned wood warehouse into a wind tunnel component factory. The place was full of pigeons (and doves) and therefore full of pigeon crap. Fortunately, someone else had the job of cleaning the pigeon crap out of the place (it was about the size of a soccer pitch), but I did have to clean out one of the drains.
Take the incoming stream of photons as your heat source, and the outgoing stream of photons as the heat sink. A Carnot engine can then be set up as follows.
Sun ----> Solar Sail (heat engine) ----> rest of universe.
The outgoing stream of photons will be doppler shifted downwards in frequency in the original rest frame of the mirror relative to the incoming stream, as they bounce off of the mirror that is moving away from them. If you take the temperature to be defined by the shape of the Maxwell Boltzmann distribution of photon energies, then the distribution of the outgoing photons is redshifted relative to the incoming photons. Shifting the Maxwell Boltzmann distribution down in frequency lowers its temperature, therefore the outgoing stream of photons is at a lower temperature than the incoming stream, and thermodynamics is satisfied.
As long as photons hit it doesn't matter how good a mirror the sail is. Photons have momentum in their direction of travel equal to hbar*k. If they bounce off of the mirror (assumed fixed at this point), then they leave the mirror with momentum -hbar*k, transferring 2hbar*k units of momentum to the mirror. If they are absorbed, then they end up with no momentum, tansferring hbar*k units of momentum to the mirror.
As for where the energy comes from in the system, the mirror will start to move when the photon strikes it, so the returning photon will be doppler shifted to a lower frequency, thereby reducing its energy. Obviously in this case the momentum transfer isn't exactly twice the momentum of the incoming photon, as the outgoing photon's momentum is reduced by the doppler shift as well.
I wonder if there might actually be a measurable effect from increased usage of groundwater in heavily populated areas. This kind of thing can cause local subsidance, so I wonder if it can cause a general shift over larger areas.
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I installed a fresh copy of XP with SP1 integrated and it crashed before I could install all the security updates, let alone any actual software.
I'm sure you can play polo on a scooter. You can play it on BMXs after all (as Jackass have proven).
I know of an electronics board from a satellite that was "launched" on one of the Ariane 5s that was self destructed 40 seconds after launch. Bits of the satelite were found in a swamp about 100 miles downrange and a month later, and returned to the makers. The electronics boards were found to respond to test signals ok, and would have still been working if the hardware they interfaced to was present.
Nah, it's a ZX80 for me.
Because they don't know about firefox, and there's this icon with internet in the text under it on their shiny new computer
A woman drove for Brabham (I think) in 1992. She didn't qualify for at least some of the races she turned up at.
That's particularly silly for an article on MSN.
I'd suspect the ad blocking, as Microsoft are surely not _that_ dumb. Unless you failed to get a stylesheet due to ye olde Slafhdote effecte.
I've recorded gigs from the sound desk with a minidisc player (using automatic gain control, to cover the predetermined processing bit of the patent). That invalidates (i) and (ii). (iii) is done by every small recording studio that has a multi-cd burner. Linking the two should be obvious to any recording engineer.
I thought they told the EU that they couldn't even remove mediaplayer from windows, and they told the US DOJ that they couldn't remove IE?
So spray paint a big red circle with a line through it on top...
Nope, pencils have always used graphite. They were invented when shepherds started using lumps of graphite found in the Lake District, UK, to mark their sheep.
Unfortunately the tracks for platforms 9 and 10 are together, between platforms 9 and 10. So trying to run throught the gap in the middle will run you onto the tracks. There's no ticket barriers either. They're not in the same building as where they filmed the movies either. But there is a platform 9 3/4 sign on the wall.
I wonder if it would only be pronounced similarly to lindows in english. If it would be pronounced differently in Dutch etc. then it wouldn't infringe there, and they could keep using it. In english speaking countries, MS hasn't got much of a chance of enforcing the windows trademark, as it's generic.
Shirley you mean -1 Nasty Fucking?
On the other hand, BF 1942 never worked on my Windows XP box either, despite me changing all the hardware except CPU, RAM and Mobo, and reinstalling twice.
Hmm, despite having Red Hat as the OS, you still get a copy of Roxio EasyCD creator with the CDRW
How very useful
Or more accurately, provided hosting for them, employed Eric Weisstein to maintain it and paid for the lawyers to defend the copyright case against it.
> PARADIGEM.
as in a new paradigem of spelling?
Compared to the 4 million GBP bid we're about to put in for a telescope, it's quite cheap. Mind you, I don't know what an 16" optical telescope should cost.
Five minutes after you posted that, the Edison episode was on BBC2
I once spent a week helping convert an abandoned wood warehouse into a wind tunnel component factory. The place was full of pigeons (and doves) and therefore full of pigeon crap. Fortunately, someone else had the job of cleaning the pigeon crap out of the place (it was about the size of a soccer pitch), but I did have to clean out one of the drains.
Another argument against the article is this...
Take the incoming stream of photons as your heat source, and the outgoing stream of photons as the heat sink. A Carnot engine can then be set up as follows.
Sun ----> Solar Sail (heat engine) ----> rest of universe.
The outgoing stream of photons will be doppler shifted downwards in frequency in the original rest frame of the mirror relative to the incoming stream, as they bounce off of the mirror that is moving away from them. If you take the temperature to be defined by the shape of the Maxwell Boltzmann distribution of photon energies, then the distribution of the outgoing photons is redshifted relative to the incoming photons. Shifting the Maxwell Boltzmann distribution down in frequency lowers its temperature, therefore the outgoing stream of photons is at a lower temperature than the incoming stream, and thermodynamics is satisfied.
As long as photons hit it doesn't matter how good a mirror the sail is. Photons have momentum in their direction of travel equal to hbar*k. If they bounce off of the mirror (assumed fixed at this point), then they leave the mirror with momentum -hbar*k, transferring 2hbar*k units of momentum to the mirror. If they are absorbed, then they end up with no momentum, tansferring hbar*k units of momentum to the mirror.
As for where the energy comes from in the system, the mirror will start to move when the photon strikes it, so the returning photon will be doppler shifted to a lower frequency, thereby reducing its energy. Obviously in this case the momentum transfer isn't exactly twice the momentum of the incoming photon, as the outgoing photon's momentum is reduced by the doppler shift as well.
I wonder if there might actually be a measurable effect from increased usage of groundwater in heavily populated areas. This kind of thing can cause local subsidance, so I wonder if it can cause a general shift over larger areas.
All these people moving to the South and out of the North are the real reason why the country is tilting.