Big problem, you can't aim, focus, or do anything other with neutrinos than create them.
That's not exactly true.
While you can't aim or focus neutrinos, you can create an aimed and focus pion beam. When the pions decay, you end up with an aimed and (slightly less) focused neutrino beam. If the pion beam is of significant energy, the neutrino beam will still be relatively tight.
I got a Ph.D. doing this as part of the K2K experiment in Japan.
It uses the analog hole. The set-top-box provided by the cable company converts digital cable to analog component output suitable for display on (what the box thinks is) a TV. The HD PVR re-digitizes the analog signal, resulting in a DRM free digital copy of anything viewable on a TV, which includes premium channels/PPV and such.
What we need are cost effective input cards that can take HD signals over either HDMI/DVI or Component and still ignore the broadcast flag...key word being cost effective:)
Although PCI based CableCard readers aren't readily available, you can still avoid the IR emitter and get a full digital feed from many set top boxes using IEEE 1394 (Firewire). See the MythTV Firewire page. The FCC requires that all U.S. cable providers offer a box with a Firewire interface to any customer with an HD subscription who requests one.
Computers can't be made that way. They are a very diverse collection of parts, assembled in ways not meant to be disassembled, and the parts are so small and so numerous that even if you wanted to take them apart it would be very difficult work.
You could say the same about cars, but we've actually gotten quite good at recycling them. You don't hire a mechanic to disassemble the engine, you just feed the whole thing through a giant shredder, and then use a combination of magnets, heat and chemistry to separate out the component elements. The same could be done for computers.
it seems that most teenagers don't even know what a radio is, except for 88.7 FM or whatever station their FM transmitter for their iPod uses
But this is precisely one of the points of the article. Here in New Jersey, NPR's frequecies are right in the range of the FM transmitters commonly used by both ipods satellite radio receivers. I can't listen to these stations half the time because I end up driving near someone completely drowning them out, and it's incredibly annoying.
A properly operating power plant does not release any radioactive particles.
It does produce neutrinos, which should count as radioactive particles, despite very low interaction rates. These are remotely detectable. For example, the Kamland experiment measures neutrinos from multiple reactors across Japan and neighboring countries.
Is there a way to turn off "pausable tv" and just push the video straight through?
If you're using the RF output, then yes.
You Ask, We Answer Q. Our friend Jim (alongside many others out there in Newsletter-land) wrote to ask, "What is the benefit/purpose of the 'Standby' feature in TiVo?"
A. Remember that the TiVo DVR does not have an on/off switch; it can't, because it must remain on at all times in order to record your favorite shows. In Standby mode, your DVR remains "on"--it still records programs you have requested--but its outputs (with the exception of the RF Out, explained below) are turned "off." Because the DVR is still on, you may still hear the hard disk spinning, but because it's in Standby mode all the lights on its front will stay off.
If you have cable without a box, and you have used an RF coaxial cable to connect your cable television signal to the DVR and to connect the DVR to the TV, standby mode provides RF pass through. This means you can watch live TV from your cable provider while the DVR is in standby mode. In Standby mode, the RF Out jack on the back of the DVR just passes through whatever signal comes through the RF In jack, without altering it in any way. You can use your TV remote to change channels, and can watch one channel live, while your TiVo DVR is recording a second channel. Just remember, you won't have TiVo functionality to pause, rewind, and fast forward live TV on the live TV channel.
To put your DVR into Standby mode, go to TiVo Central by pressing the TiVo button on your remote control. Highlight Messages & Setup and press SELECT; then Standby.
To exit Standby mode, press either the TiVo button or the LIVE TV button. If you own a Sony DVR, press the POWER button to exit Standby mode.
Let's be generous and assume a very high 5 kw-Hr/m^2 solar intensity over our land mass
Solar intensity is usually measured in kw/m^2, not kw-Hr/m^2. A high estimate of solar intensity would therefor be 5 kw-Hr/m^2 per hour, so you only need something the size of Arizona if you want to capture a year's worth of energy in just one hour.
All the electrons have the same energy and are moving at the same speed (more or less).
* relativistic electron
The speed of the electron is almost the speed of light.
* plasma channel
An evacuated pipe with electromagnetic fields to hold high speed particles.
* accelerating gradient
The ratio of the electron energy to how long the accelerator has to be to get the particles up to that speed.
* GeV per meter
The units used to measure accelerating gradient. One GeV is the energy of one electron accelerated by a 1 billion volt electrical potential difference.
* compact staged particle accelerator
The accelerators don't have to be big, and you can build several and stick 'em together.
* next generation petawatt power
Bright light.
* TeV scale particle energy
1,000 times more than GeV.
* proton beam cancer therapy
Like traditional radiation cancer therapy, but with protons rather than gamma rays or other types of radiation. Protons are better since they are most effective when relatively slow. They can penetrate the skin and other healthy tissue (slowing down in the process, but having little effect) and then have a large impact on a deeply embedded tumor. Current proton accelerators are too expensive to use on a large scale.
Remember how we all pointed and laughed when Mir got into trouble? Accident after accident befell the Russians and we made fun of their rickety old obsolete hardware.
No. No I don't. Maybe you laughed, but that's just mean. There were lives on the line, and I was genuinely concerned.
The Linux game market is not the number of Linux users who would buy a Linux based game. That is too simplistic. The real Linux game market is the number of Linux users who would buy a Linux based game and would never buy the Windows version, would never dual boot or emulate.
That's also too simplistic. It doesn't take marketplace competition into account. I'd bet the vast majority of people who buy games do not buy every single title on the store shelf. They'll choose a few to buy. A dual boot gamer may walk into a store and look at two similar games on the shelf and say, "Which one of these two games should I buy?" and the choice may very well be influenced by a penguin on the box.
So, yes, the availability of a Linux title may just replace a Windows sale with a Linux sale, but if you're replacing a Windows sale for game publisher A with a Linux sale for game publisher B, then there certainly is a financial incentive.
Actually there is. You can get them from Crucial, but so far they're only available in PC2100 speeds, while many boards require PC2700. Not to mention the fact that they're rediculously expensive.
You mean two hours in to the four hour miniseries? They're going to have to do some pretty quick filming to get the second half done between Monday and Tuesday night.
On the Alpha is was easy [] because the machines were 64-bit, period.
This is not strictly true. I believe Linux on Alpha is purely 64-bit, but other operating systems (such as OpenVMS) allow programs to be compiled to use either 32-bit or 64-bit virtual memory spaces. Link
I'm the maintainer of the msttcorefonts Debian package. This package has not been pulled (at least not yet).
There's some discussion of the situation and the EULA for these fonts in Debian bug report #156503.
As far as I know, it should be ok to redistribute these fonts without modification, but that means leaving them packaged in windows.exe self installer. Putting the fonts in a.tar/.deb/.rpm for easy installation, even without modifying the fonts themselves seems to violate the license.
So for Debian, the problem at this point is one of logistics. The fonts can be distributed, but Debian's mirrored ftp archive system isn't really set up to handle anything other than.deb files. Yes, there's a tools directory with fips and rawrite and similar non-deb packaged tools useful for installing, but there's not really any current place for these fonts to go. But I'm sure this will get solved before the next major Debian release.;)
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Big problem, you can't aim, focus, or do anything other with neutrinos than create them.
That's not exactly true.
While you can't aim or focus neutrinos, you can create an aimed and focus pion beam. When the pions decay, you end up with an aimed and (slightly less) focused neutrino beam. If the pion beam is of significant energy, the neutrino beam will still be relatively tight.
I got a Ph.D. doing this as part of the K2K experiment in Japan.
Trivial, but wrong.
In a tetrahedron, each pencil touches two other pencils at each end, for a total of four out of the five other pencils.
No, it's not necessary.
Because, if it doesn't, what the Hell good is it?
It uses the analog hole. The set-top-box provided by the cable company converts digital cable to analog component output suitable for display on (what the box thinks is) a TV. The HD PVR re-digitizes the analog signal, resulting in a DRM free digital copy of anything viewable on a TV, which includes premium channels/PPV and such.
The Hauppauge HD PVR is coming soon.
Although PCI based CableCard readers aren't readily available, you can still avoid the IR emitter and get a full digital feed from many set top boxes using IEEE 1394 (Firewire). See the MythTV Firewire page. The FCC requires that all U.S. cable providers offer a box with a Firewire interface to any customer with an HD subscription who requests one.
Computers can't be made that way. They are a very diverse collection of parts, assembled in ways not meant to be disassembled, and the parts are so small and so numerous that even if you wanted to take them apart it would be very difficult work.
You could say the same about cars, but we've actually gotten quite good at recycling them. You don't hire a mechanic to disassemble the engine, you just feed the whole thing through a giant shredder, and then use a combination of magnets, heat and chemistry to separate out the component elements. The same could be done for computers.
it seems that most teenagers don't even know what a radio is, except for 88.7 FM or whatever station their FM transmitter for their iPod uses
But this is precisely one of the points of the article. Here in New Jersey, NPR's frequecies are right in the range of the FM transmitters commonly used by both ipods satellite radio receivers. I can't listen to these stations half the time because I end up driving near someone completely drowning them out, and it's incredibly annoying.
In general, natural disasters are net positive for the economy
It scares me that people out there actually think like this.
This line of thinking is discussed in The Parable of the Broken Window and is easily dismissed as bunk in any serious analysis.
A properly operating power plant does not release any radioactive particles.
It does produce neutrinos, which should count as radioactive particles, despite very low interaction rates. These are remotely detectable. For example, the Kamland experiment measures neutrinos from multiple reactors across Japan and neighboring countries.
Valgrind can debug problems with both the stack and the heap.
If you're using the RF output, then yes.
You're way off.
Let's be generous and assume a very high 5 kw-Hr/m^2 solar intensity over our land mass
Solar intensity is usually measured in kw/m^2, not kw-Hr/m^2. A high estimate of solar intensity would therefor be 5 kw-Hr/m^2 per hour, so you only need something the size of Arizona if you want to capture a year's worth of energy in just one hour.
* monochromatic beam
All the electrons have the same energy and are moving at the same speed (more or less).
* relativistic electron
The speed of the electron is almost the speed of light.
* plasma channel
An evacuated pipe with electromagnetic fields to hold high speed particles.
* accelerating gradient
The ratio of the electron energy to how long the accelerator has to be to get the particles up to that speed.
* GeV per meter
The units used to measure accelerating gradient. One GeV is the energy of one electron accelerated by a 1 billion volt electrical potential difference.
* compact staged particle accelerator
The accelerators don't have to be big, and you can build several and stick 'em together.
* next generation petawatt power
Bright light.
* TeV scale particle energy
1,000 times more than GeV.
* proton beam cancer therapy
Like traditional radiation cancer therapy, but with protons rather than gamma rays or other types of radiation. Protons are better since they are most effective when relatively slow. They can penetrate the skin and other healthy tissue (slowing down in the process, but having little effect) and then have a large impact on a deeply embedded tumor. Current proton accelerators are too expensive to use on a large scale.
...creating an impactful environment...
I'd think the last thing you'd want when architecting a road crossing would be an impactful environment...
That's around 160 KB/s, not Kb/s. That works out to 1.2Mb/s, which is passable for basic quality video.
Remember how we all pointed and laughed when Mir got into trouble? Accident after accident befell the Russians and we made fun of their rickety old obsolete hardware.
No. No I don't. Maybe you laughed, but that's just mean. There were lives on the line, and I was genuinely concerned.
The Linux game market is not the number of Linux users who would buy a Linux based game. That is too simplistic. The real Linux game market is the number of Linux users who would buy a Linux based game and would never buy the Windows version, would never dual boot or emulate.
That's also too simplistic. It doesn't take marketplace competition into account. I'd bet the vast majority of people who buy games do not buy every single title on the store shelf. They'll choose a few to buy. A dual boot gamer may walk into a store and look at two similar games on the shelf and say, "Which one of these two games should I buy?" and the choice may very well be influenced by a penguin on the box.
So, yes, the availability of a Linux title may just replace a Windows sale with a Linux sale, but if you're replacing a Windows sale for game publisher A with a Linux sale for game publisher B, then there certainly is a financial incentive.
Wrong.
Fair Use allows you _one_ copy
Show me where in copyright law it says that.
Note that clause 2 of paragraph 117 refers to the archival copies in the plural sense.
I have done a great deal of research on the topic of Fair Use
It doesn't really sound like it.
Is this all it requires to get /. to advertise a product? Release it under the Creative Commons?
No, you also need to have sufficient wuffie.
there is no standard 4GB dimm out
Actually there is. You can get them from Crucial, but so far they're only available in PC2100 speeds, while many boards require PC2700. Not to mention the fact that they're rediculously expensive.
Where's the boards I can cram 32 or more into?
Here.
...half way through the season...
You mean two hours in to the four hour miniseries? They're going to have to do some pretty quick filming to get the second half done between Monday and Tuesday night.
This is not strictly true. I believe Linux on Alpha is purely 64-bit, but other operating systems (such as OpenVMS) allow programs to be compiled to use either 32-bit or 64-bit virtual memory spaces. Link
Somehow, even during the blackout, it doesn't look as bad as North Korea on a normal night.
I'm the maintainer of the msttcorefonts Debian package. This package has not been pulled (at least not yet).
.exe self installer. Putting the fonts in a .tar/.deb/.rpm for easy installation, even without modifying the fonts themselves seems to violate the license.
.deb files. Yes, there's a tools directory with fips and rawrite and similar non-deb packaged tools useful for installing, but there's not really any current place for these fonts to go. But I'm sure this will get solved before the next major Debian release. ;)
There's some discussion of the situation and the EULA for these fonts in Debian bug report #156503.
As far as I know, it should be ok to redistribute these fonts without modification, but that means leaving them packaged in windows
So for Debian, the problem at this point is one of logistics. The fonts can be distributed, but Debian's mirrored ftp archive system isn't really set up to handle anything other than