For a good photonic crystal, with or without incorporated waveguide, you need three things: 1) Two substances with an as high as possible difference in refractive index. Normally air and a semiconductor are used. 2) The substances that are used must not absorb light, so semiconductors with a high bandgap are necessary (depending on wavelength of courase) 3) A VERY regular crystal structure. This is very hard to achieve. Most research groups in the world use the trick with the spheres as shown in the article. The problem is that these spheres form fcc lattices and what you really want is a diamond lattice, which can not be obtained as easily. So the five years you mention may be a little optimistic!
Of course animals are 'better' in many ways, but there are a lot of people who would love the company of animals but for some reason can't care for them (because that requires work they're physically unable to do, or they are often away with nobody else to take care of the pet, or they are allergic to hairs...). For these people can be a gift from heaven. I would prefer a robot cat over a real one because the poor animal would die from starvation almost every weekend.
Just because something isn't forbidden it doesn't mean a government has thought about it. Here is a government that shows it's people that not only encryption may be used, but they also support it. That's a very good sign, compared to what's happening in the so-called 'land of the free' nowadays.
I never liked those old Sierra games. You could die because of very illogical things, like walking past the wrong side of a rock. Didn't make sense at all. I enjoyed the Gabriel Knight series immensely though. Anyone know if there will be a GK IV?
I think this is an outrageous waste of computing power and electricity. We have to put a stop to things like this. When I was young computers weren't used for frivolous things like this! When I was young computers were used to do what they were invented for: serious stuff like calculating where to aim to hit your enemy the hardest. They were improving societey! But now... Since the invention of the graphics terminal the world is deteriorating fast...
This actually is good news (well sort of). The fact that virii are written for Linux means that Linux is taken serious as an OS 'normal' people work with, AND that it is used by enough people to cause serious damage. Welcome to the real world, Linux users!
Recently I got a pacemaker, and therefore I can not be scanned with MRI anymore. CT scans are not a good alternative for MRI because it can not show soft tissue very well, and the patient is exposed to potentially dangerous radiation, so you can not use it as often as you would like. I hope and expect that advances in ultrasonic imaging will make it a valuable alternative to MRI in the near future. The sonic flashlight is certainly a step in the right direction!
With all this news about large organisations thinking about switching to Linux, I predict that Microsoft will reconsider their new licensing scheme and go back to their 'old' way of doing business. They're digging their own grave if they don't. One thing that interests me is that the 'the main cost is in the maintenancei, not in the price of the licences' argument against Linux doesn't seem to work anymore.
If MS is fined, I can imagine a new item on MS's financial charts: annual fines. They don't care about USD 2billion! And business continues as usual... A much better approach would be to force MS to open all file formats and API's all their programs use, for the next ten years or so. In this way the competition can make software that can read and write MS files, and can interact with the OS in a 'Microsoft' way. This paves the way for real competition.
John Schmoe is probably not even aware that IE is a seperate program. He clicks, and the computer shows the contents of the file. He doesn't give a shit about what happens inside the computer.
In a few years it takes more energy to calculate what happens to a new type of car when it crashes (using a mathematical model in a computer) than building a car and actually crashing it...
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I understood that they want to transform IR into visible light somehow.
For a good photonic crystal, with or without incorporated waveguide, you need three things:
1) Two substances with an as high as possible difference in refractive index. Normally air and a semiconductor are used.
2) The substances that are used must not absorb light, so semiconductors with a high bandgap are necessary (depending on wavelength of courase)
3) A VERY regular crystal structure. This is very hard to achieve. Most research groups in the world use the trick with the spheres as shown in the article. The problem is that these spheres form fcc lattices and what you really want is a diamond lattice, which can not be obtained as easily.
So the five years you mention may be a little optimistic!
What about this new kernel 2.4.x I keep hearing about? I still run 2.2.13. Do you think I should upgrade?
Of course animals are 'better' in many ways, but there are a lot of people who would love the company of animals but for some reason can't care for them (because that requires work they're physically unable to do, or they are often away with nobody else to take care of the pet, or they are allergic to hairs...). For these people can be a gift from heaven. I would prefer a robot cat over a real one because the poor animal would die from starvation almost every weekend.
I agree. If they want to do this right they have to put in a lot of efford and money. I hope this comes to Holland so I can see it though.
He! My computer is also called Betty! I thought I had a unique name...
Just because something isn't forbidden it doesn't mean a government has thought about it. Here is a government that shows it's people that not only encryption may be used, but they also support it. That's a very good sign, compared to what's happening in the so-called 'land of the free' nowadays.
I never liked those old Sierra games. You could die because of very illogical things, like walking past the wrong side of a rock. Didn't make sense at all. I enjoyed the Gabriel Knight series immensely though. Anyone know if there will be a GK IV?
I think this is an outrageous waste of computing power and electricity. We have to put a stop to things like this. When I was young computers weren't used for frivolous things like this! When I was young computers were used to do what they were invented for: serious stuff like calculating where to aim to hit your enemy the hardest. They were improving societey! But now... Since the invention of the graphics terminal the world is deteriorating fast...
Yeah, pity that loading the kernel takes around 0.25 s on my machine...
I don't know. Do you have to buy a device because it runs Linux? Maybe there are better OS-es for PDA's.
I had to give up WordPerfect 7.0 with the switch to the 2.2.x kernels. That was hard because WordPerfect 8 was not nearly as good.
I also heard there was this big alien base somewhere around there...
This actually is good news (well sort of). The fact that virii are written for Linux means that Linux is taken serious as an OS 'normal' people work with, AND that it is used by enough people to cause serious damage. Welcome to the real world, Linux users!
Yeaah! Cool! A new Microsoft bashing story! Get it on /., quick!
Enough said I think.
Recently I got a pacemaker, and therefore I can not be scanned with MRI anymore. CT scans are not a good alternative for MRI because it can not show soft tissue very well, and the patient is exposed to potentially dangerous radiation, so you can not use it as often as you would like. I hope and expect that advances in ultrasonic imaging will make it a valuable alternative to MRI in the near future. The sonic flashlight is certainly a step in the right direction!
That's one of the reasons they use methanol instead of ethanol. To prevent people drinking their fuel all the time.
It's not $23000 per PC. The savings of $116M can be had if all computers of the federal government run Linux, not only those of the Bundestag.
With all this news about large organisations thinking about switching to Linux, I predict that Microsoft will reconsider their new licensing scheme and go back to their 'old' way of doing business. They're digging their own grave if they don't. One thing that interests me is that the 'the main cost is in the maintenancei, not in the price of the licences' argument against Linux doesn't seem to work anymore.
That is indeed a better idea. But then you have to define 'healed significantly enough'.
If MS is fined, I can imagine a new item on MS's financial charts: annual fines. They don't care about USD 2billion! And business continues as usual... A much better approach would be to force MS to open all file formats and API's all their programs use, for the next ten years or so. In this way the competition can make software that can read and write MS files, and can interact with the OS in a 'Microsoft' way. This paves the way for real competition.
John Schmoe is probably not even aware that IE is a seperate program. He clicks, and the computer shows the contents of the file. He doesn't give a shit about what happens inside the computer.
In a few years it takes more energy to calculate what happens to a new type of car when it crashes (using a mathematical model in a computer) than building a car and actually crashing it...
We have pocket Crays already, in a manner of speaking. How fast was a Cray in the middle/late 80s?
I think it's a bit like two Sumo wrestlers banging into each other.