"It's fairly easy to build nanoscale objects that slide around on a surface," said Tour's colleague Kevin Kelly. "Proving that we were rolling - not slipping and sliding - was one of the most difficult parts of this project."
So just how do you make a nanocar go?
At room temperature, strong electrical bonds hold the buckyball wheels tightly against the gold, but heating to about 200 degrees Celsius frees them to roll.
So why go the "wheel" route if there is a better way to move stuff around?
seeing as they still don't have a replaceable battery
I have a Gen 1 iPod that I've used pretty much daily. Excellent device, but the battery is starting to go. Thought about retiring it and buying a new model, but then I Googled for a replacement battery and found one for $30. Comes with a clear and concise user's manual -- see here. From the manual, looks pretty easy to drop in a new one, so I went ahead and ordered one.
Just click on one of the media links. I think a right-mouse click on the logo in the applet will pop up a list of credits. Unfortunately, my name is no longer there, even though I was the creator. My name and others have been neatly edited out as people have left while the group has moved from Dragon to L&H and now to ScanSoft.
I spent many hours on that silly Java applet trying to keep it working under Mac, Linux, Solaris, and Windows. It appears that those working on it now have not been so dedicated. It does not run on my Solaris box.
Still Looking for Work...
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So, OK. I'm not a wiz at unit conversions. Who is?! Like the U.S. has tried time and time again to move over to metric. I'm no different.
And I still argue with potential employers that the second crash was really a bug at all...
I think the article has it right with respect to lawsuits, and the current pass companies seem to have wrt accountability and quality in their software performance. I can envision a future in which companies buy each other's product, beat the crap out of it, and if it fails to perform as advertised, sick a team of lawyers on the offending producer. Think of it as greenmail for the software industry.
For I/O, perhaps. But all of the STL containers I've seen are templates with no virtual functions. Vendors may do things differently, but I've used GNU, Sun's Forte (RogueWave), and STLport and a grep of all of the them show just I/O and related virtuals.
Since most of the STL type checking evaporates during compile time and potentially inlines, your code just might be faster and with less overhead than otherwise. I'm addicted to the std::for_each function myself.
Check out the link here to a letter Grouch Marx wrote to Warner Bros. in response to one they sent demanding that the Marx brothers change the title of their new film, "A Night in Casablanca".
Don't try this at home kids: apparently even Groucho's humor was lost on those dour lawyers.
BTW, does anyone know which Marx Brothers movie has something like the following exchange?
Woman: it's a gala day for you! Groucho: well a gal a day is enough for me. I don't think I could handle any more.
I'm not in a position to disagree with you. But isn't the practice of "dumping" similar, and frowned upon by competing countries? The U.S. has had trade disputes over steel and memory dumping. What's the difference?
I have the iPod, and love it. My only gripe with it is that names/albums are sorted with any existing 'A' or 'The' at the beginning of the string. If I want to play something by The Jam, I intuitively scroll to the Js, not the Ts. At least with iTunes, I can do radical ID tag surgery before I rip the CD...
I don't believe that that is the case. You may have an MP3 file on the hard drive, but its not in the iPod's database. How do you expect to access it from the interface?
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> And oh, by the way, your shiny new iPod is now obsolete. Wanna buy a new one?
Huh? I have one of the original iPods. In what way has it become obsolete with the introduction of others? Hmmm?
Forgot one:
6) Read "Database for Dummies"
That cat owes me five dollars!!!
I have a Gen 1 iPod that I've used pretty much daily. Excellent device, but the battery is starting to go. Thought about retiring it and buying a new model, but then I Googled for a replacement battery and found one for $30. Comes with a clear and concise user's manual -- see here. From the manual, looks pretty easy to drop in a new one, so I went ahead and ordered one.
Hey, my laptop does, so it must be true! I guess everything works better because of open source...
That'd put a major dent in my crack usage...
by same author (here)
A *much* better read in my opinion, and funny as hell.
I wrote a Java applet that you should be able to access here:
http://amdemo.audiomining.com/
Just click on one of the media links. I think a right-mouse click on the logo in the applet will pop up a list of credits. Unfortunately, my name is no longer there, even though I was the creator. My name and others have been neatly edited out as people have left while the group has moved from Dragon to L&H and now to ScanSoft.
I spent many hours on that silly Java applet trying to keep it working under Mac, Linux, Solaris, and Windows. It appears that those working on it now have not been so dedicated. It does not run on my Solaris box.
So, OK. I'm not a wiz at unit conversions. Who is?! Like the U.S. has tried time and time again to move over to metric. I'm no different.
And I still argue with potential employers that the second crash was really a bug at all...
Software Bugs and Crashes
Now, how can this post above be Redundant, when it is the first one (earliest) around at +1 filtering? WTF?
I think the article has it right with respect to lawsuits, and the current pass companies seem to have wrt accountability and quality in their software performance. I can envision a future in which companies buy each other's product, beat the crap out of it, and if it fails to perform as advertised, sick a team of lawyers on the offending producer. Think of it as greenmail for the software industry.
For I/O, perhaps. But all of the STL containers I've seen are templates with no virtual functions. Vendors may do things differently, but I've used GNU, Sun's Forte (RogueWave), and STLport and a grep of all of the them show just I/O and related virtuals.
Since most of the STL type checking evaporates during compile time and potentially inlines, your code just might be faster and with less overhead than otherwise. I'm addicted to the std::for_each function myself.
Brad
Taxes from the sale of trashy romantic novels should help pay for garbage pickup...
Don't try this at home kids: apparently even Groucho's humor was lost on those dour lawyers.
BTW, does anyone know which Marx Brothers movie has something like the following exchange?
Hormel has had a monopoly on Spam for far too long. Its about time that the FTC has noticed this.
I for one am glad that the FTC is on the ball and cracking down...
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> It isn't illegal to give away a product.
I'm not in a position to disagree with you. But isn't the practice of "dumping" similar, and frowned upon by competing countries? The U.S. has had trade disputes over steel and memory dumping. What's the difference?
This only works for a relatively cool CPU (G3's don't get very hot) and with a monitor in the case
I guess that's why Apple's Cube failed: it had a G4 and no monitor to cool it...
Yeah, this is way offtopic, but here goes:
I have the iPod, and love it. My only gripe with it is that names/albums are sorted with any existing 'A' or 'The' at the beginning of the string. If I want to play something by The Jam, I intuitively scroll to the Js, not the Ts. At least with iTunes, I can do radical ID tag surgery before I rip the CD...
I don't believe that that is the case. You may have an MP3 file on the hard drive, but its not in the iPod's database. How do you expect to access it from the interface?
What part of "Congress" don't you understand?
I think America is more of a comsumerist culture
than gift giving. We only conceal the consumerism
in the feel-good wrap of giving.
>> CPU fan that flaps in the breeze
So, um, how much breeze is needed? And if there's a breeze, why do you need a fan?...
> Since the last fanless G4 was 400MHz
Hmmm. My G4 Cube is 500 Mhz.