The colour's not bad, but the spectrum is a bit weird, and some things look a little strange.
I've noticed that fluorescent lights have a discrete spectrum, versus the continuous one in incandescent bulbs. It's not surprising because the light is originally UV, which is converted into visible light by fluorescent materials, and you need basically one material for one wavelength. Thus there are a few different fluorescent materials to give an overall nice spectrum.
An object whose colour lies between these wavelengths would look black. It's not exactly the case in practice, as colours can be mixtures of wavelengths, but the visible colour will be distorted anyway to some extent.
You can easily compare the spectrum of lights by reflecting it off of a CD. At least the difference between discrete and continuous becomes apparent.
The package server is very snappy and compiles usually don't take too long, the workstations are mostly old p3's. Since they don't compile anything and the packages I build are optimized for them the workstations are all utilzed to their full potential (ie probably running solitaire via wine or some such).
I agree with the rest of your post, but this strikes me as a little strange. Why not use all of these machines for compiling with distcc? That's what I use anyway. And NFS for sharing the/usr/portage tree, but that doesn't probably matter as long as your solution works.
If the other machines are not doing anything useful, they might just as well be helping with compilation. Portage can take advantage of distcc readily, by specifying FEATURES="distcc" and MAKEOPTS="-j(2N)" for compiling on N machines. Ccache is another package that can help speed up compilation, and works with Portage likewise. By the way, and old P3 is the fastest machine I've got...
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However, when I get a new system to replace this miserable 1 GHz Celeron, I'll probably turn this machine into a Debian machine, since running Gentoo on it, with the attendant compiling, is increasingly painful given its speed.
You call that miserable? I have a P3-500, a P2-350 and a K6-400 all running Gentoo, and I'm happy as a clam. Gentoo is great with such a network, because you can distribute the compilation work using distcc. Moreover, you can build common packages with lowest common optimizations, and install the binaries on other machines.
The main bit for this all to work smoothly, is to have the/usr/portage tree shared as a network drive. It makes sense anyway, as it saves your network capacity.
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SETI is not a unique program, it's a general abbreviation (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) that covers every possible attempt to find SEnTIent life outside Earth. There are many SETI programs, Berkeley's SETI@Home is probably the most famous now.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there also a Portland in Maine? Portland, Oregon would be reasonable though. The state is not mentioned in the article, by the way, though it does say 'Northwest'.
Furthermore, as there is no birefringence in the ceramics, there is a potential for downsizing and advancement of optical devices with optical elements, such as lenses.
For those not familiar with birefringence, it means that the material would have different refractive indices for different polarizations of light. Since most light is usually a mixture of different polarization planes, a birefringent lens would create a blur of multiple images.
Many ceramics are birefringent, because the ordering of the atoms has a preferred axis of symmetry. This one is an exception, which means good optical properties for a lens. On the other hand, birefringence has several applications, for example in modulating laser light with ones and zeros in fiberoptic communication.
As other posters have pointed out, the lack of birefrincence may be due to the amorphous (as opposed to single crystal) phase of the lens material.
"..The complete work was taken down in 23 exercise books up to August 23, 1923. In 1923, Subbaraya Sastry also had a draftsman prepare some drawings.."
This sounds a little suspicious to me. A little like John Edward 'dictating' a new chapter of the Old Testament called "Moses had Laser Pistols"
With that many 23s in it, it's either highly suspicious, or it holds the very key to the secrets of the universe fnord...
Class D amps are not digital in the same sense as, for example, CD audio. Their inputs are analogue, and so is the output after the necessary filtering. There is a digital stage at the heart of the Class D technology (which makes them incredibly efficient) but that signal is not comparable to PCM or other digital audio encodings.
Even-order distortion is as unique to analogue amps as odd-order distortion is to digital amps, and this is completely unrelated to bass.
Even-order distortion usually comes from tube amps. Odd-order comes from solid-state amps. Both of these are analogue. In practice there's no such thing as a digital amp.
Very few amplifiers are actually completely digital. They are still in experimental stages, and none that I know of are produced commercially.
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I've noticed that fluorescent lights have a discrete spectrum, versus the continuous one in incandescent bulbs. It's not surprising because the light is originally UV, which is converted into visible light by fluorescent materials, and you need basically one material for one wavelength. Thus there are a few different fluorescent materials to give an overall nice spectrum.
An object whose colour lies between these wavelengths would look black. It's not exactly the case in practice, as colours can be mixtures of wavelengths, but the visible colour will be distorted anyway to some extent.
You can easily compare the spectrum of lights by reflecting it off of a CD. At least the difference between discrete and continuous becomes apparent.
No.
Slashdot's politics section was launched to deal with the last US presidential election. So the Slashdot section is about American politics only.
I agree with the rest of your post, but this strikes me as a little strange. Why not use all of these machines for compiling with distcc? That's what I use anyway. And NFS for sharing the /usr/portage tree, but that doesn't probably matter as long as your solution works.
If the other machines are not doing anything useful, they might just as well be helping with compilation. Portage can take advantage of distcc readily, by specifying FEATURES="distcc" and MAKEOPTS="-j(2N)" for compiling on N machines. Ccache is another package that can help speed up compilation, and works with Portage likewise. By the way, and old P3 is the fastest machine I've got...
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But is it solid at P4/Opteron temperatures?-)
"My God, it's full of stars!"
"Nope, that's just a Beowulf cluster of optical Linux boxen. Nothing to worry about."
You call that miserable? I have a P3-500, a P2-350 and a K6-400 all running Gentoo, and I'm happy as a clam. Gentoo is great with such a network, because you can distribute the compilation work using distcc. Moreover, you can build common packages with lowest common optimizations, and install the binaries on other machines.
The main bit for this all to work smoothly, is to have the /usr/portage tree shared as a network drive. It makes sense anyway, as it saves your network capacity.
This post was generated by a Horde of Gentoo Boxen for TeknoHog ;)
SETI is not a unique program, it's a general abbreviation (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) that covers every possible attempt to find SEnTIent life outside Earth. There are many SETI programs, Berkeley's SETI@Home is probably the most famous now.
Imagine a local Beowulf supercluster of those...
Address space is one thing. Register size is another: I could be crunching lots of 64-bit numbers, yet stay within 1GB of memory consumption.
While users of all other distros somehow magically get the binaries without anyone ever spending compiler time on them.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there also a Portland in Maine? Portland, Oregon would be reasonable though. The state is not mentioned in the article, by the way, though it does say 'Northwest'.
For those not familiar with birefringence, it means that the material would have different refractive indices for different polarizations of light. Since most light is usually a mixture of different polarization planes, a birefringent lens would create a blur of multiple images.
Many ceramics are birefringent, because the ordering of the atoms has a preferred axis of symmetry. This one is an exception, which means good optical properties for a lens. On the other hand, birefringence has several applications, for example in modulating laser light with ones and zeros in fiberoptic communication.
As other posters have pointed out, the lack of birefrincence may be due to the amorphous (as opposed to single crystal) phase of the lens material.
This sounds a little suspicious to me. A little like John Edward 'dictating' a new chapter of the Old Testament called "Moses had Laser Pistols"
With that many 23s in it, it's either highly suspicious, or it holds the very key to the secrets of the universe fnord...
Are we suggesting electrons and photons are not physical entities?
Detroit auto industry sees competition to gasoline engines a hazard. Film at eleven.
Such as the 1:4:9 monolith?
Another problem with Flash is the limited number of read/write cycles compared to hard drives. It's something comparable to CDRW/DVD+-RW.
Well, herring, eggs, sausage, and herring. It's got not much herring in it.
If you cannot talk about problems with your housemates in a peaceful way, then you honestly have bigger problems than a fscking camera.
In this sense, negative is the ideal name.
It's ideal until someone uses the 'negative' effect in a photo manipulation program.
http://www.iki.fi/teknohog/hacks/gainhog/
Hey, you better test for updates and dependencies before you emerge for real (see my sig).
Class D amps are not digital in the same sense as, for example, CD audio. Their inputs are analogue, and so is the output after the necessary filtering. There is a digital stage at the heart of the Class D technology (which makes them incredibly efficient) but that signal is not comparable to PCM or other digital audio encodings.
Even-order distortion usually comes from tube amps. Odd-order comes from solid-state amps. Both of these are analogue. In practice there's no such thing as a digital amp.
Very few amplifiers are actually completely digital. They are still in experimental stages, and none that I know of are produced commercially.