Are you a flaming retard, or do you just play one on TV?
One Word - Tides
You have a mega UFO above a planet enhancing the gravity field of the UFO itself, thereby lowering the gravity beneath it towards the planet.
The gravity of the UFO pulls things toward it. This slightly reduces the gravity of the earth beneath it pulling things towards the Earth. Enhance this effect, and make sure the the UFO has damn strong engines so as to not get pulled into the planet itself.
Also, Storms are caused by low pressure areas. Reducing the gravity on a spot basis will tend to lower the atmospheric pressure in that one spot. This will at least cause wind as air molecules rise due to the lowered gravity. On a large enough area you'll generate storms.
The point is not to create antigravity by nuetralizing it. The point is to fake antigravity be having something above that is pulling things up using its own gravity beam, or whatever.
with a big enough vehicle, you could probably cause earthquakes as well. Need a mega giga tera watt beam, tho.
I wonder how tight a beam you could get from a thing like this.
I'll grant you that these points is not immediately intuitive.
Millipede still suffers a big drawback of mechanical systems. Reading and writing data with a single silicon tip takes about 1,000 times as long as with hard disks.
To compensate, a second prototype chip uses 1,024 silicon tips to read and write data in parallel, bobbing up and down like a flock of birds pecking at dirt over a square area about a tenth of an inch wide.
Why does this sound like the Google Page Ranking System based on Pigeon Technology?
If this works you won't be able to create antigravity fields.
Not that this wouldn't prevent the usual research into military applications. I wonder how much force is generated, how much enhancement of force is created per megawatt?
Insert visions of UFOs with terrawat gravity generators, using this as a weapon to nuetralize gravity at an area of the surface below them. Enemy troops go drifting off into vaccuum or fall from a substantial height back to the ground.
NB the weather effects as well, of all of that atmosphere going up an anti gravity shaft, creating a storm.
This was on the Cnet Radio Show "Kovsky & Crisis" about two or three weeks ago. They even had an extended interview with the guy responsible for putting together the action. If memory serves me correctly, someone associated with the show was also a major collector, and had all of this stuff. he died, hence the sell off.
Note - You can now listen to Cnet Radio on the air on 890 AM Radio in Boston. which is kinda cool, having a geek radio station to listen to in Boston. It is actually located in Dedham, and is a little under powered (You really can't hear it in providence, for example.)
well since most folks coming up through high school seem to come up with the "if it feels good, do it" school of ethics, it would probably do just as well to introduce them to other concepts of ethics in College.
heck most places do not even teach you to analyse your ideas in terms of what are the consequences of a particular thought pattern. (what would a person who thinks 'X' do?")
for that matter Morals and Ethics are usually jumbled together into a nicely packed wad.
You can see this just from the actions of folks, like that guy who was email stalking in the story.
they get into this "well since I don't like the rules of belief system 'Y', I think I'll try things without any rules whatsoever for a while" - which immediately invokes the LART school of social education.
Late night TV Like David Letterman, Jay Leno, and
Conan O'Brian. Not an original idea, but
nice to see it in practice.
What he needs now is something like a small model airplane or a ufo to go across every once in a while. or maybe a monorail or other futurama type decoration.
Or cutouts from magazines of small people to put into the windows of the sky scrapers. all kinds of little details that make it come alive.
This makes some good sense. unfortunately, with the hollywood types and lawyers, anything can be twisted around to make something a crime.
I can see someone deciding to make all TV shows, as presented by the networks, complete with commercials, as a separate copyrightable object. This would mean that no one could skip the commercials.
But this would lead to other copyright issues with the show's producers, and with the advertising agencies, especially when they went into syndication.
all of which is sheer madness, but that never stopped anyone before. (nb - link to another example of marketing mayhem)
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Why is energy an issue? We get lots of energy every day... from the sun.
So, if I were to stop perceiving time, does it cease to exist? Things happen while you're sleeping, you know.
Either this is a totally narcistic sense of time, or else this requies certain metaconditions, such as an immortal soul (or similar) with the ability to be unconscious.
There could be the ability to connect/disconnect from various time streams, etc. But this goes into discussions that many folks find uncomfortable. And most such subject definitions of time do not try to integrate these other factors.
With the Recent court ruling in the netherlands that Kazaa cannot be held reponsible for the actions of it's users, the Music industry has lost.
They will never again have the opportunity that they let slip through their fingers because they killed Napster. Napster had the widest selection where anyone could find anything, and it worked well. They threw away the opportunity of a lifetime because they got greedy.
Instead of working out a system where they could have gotten paid something somehow, they grasped for millions, throwing away billions
It is a typical case of the big fish in the small pond fearing the ocean
There will probably never be the same chance to create a market and integrate it all into one service again.
There was a pretty good interview with John Lanning on CnetRadio that is worth listening, goes into the history, and where he sees things going from here.
I really don't know why you explained all that stuff, I'm a ham radio operator and well familiar with it.
Sort of presumes that I could tell you were a ham operator from your comment.
unless you included the info in your sig line, this was not immediately apparent. Also sometimes explanations are given for the benefit of spectators.
Yes transparency of various things varies depending on frequency. But this does not negate the info on bandwidth. The technical difficulty in maintaining a higher precision signal in the giga hertz and high ranges is important as well.
The Microwave and the infrared spectrums have a wide area of overlap. While the FCC has regulations covering up to about 100 gigahertz, it is always good to keep perspective by noting that visible light has a frequency of 300,000 gigahertz.
That 300Mhz is a lot more important than 4.5Ghz-4.8Ghz, just because it is lower frequency. It's apples and oranges to compare PCS to a high microwave allocation.
I don't know that this is true. in that the 300 mhz of bandwidth is still 300 mhz of bandwidth.
That said, the original article I cited has this info:
The rules and regulations handed down by the FCC are surprisingly simple. Three 100-MHz wide bands were each designated with a different maximum-allowable transmit power. These are 5.15 to 5.25 GHz with a maximum power of 200-milliwatt EIRP, 5.25 to 5.35 GHz with a maximum power of 1-watt EIRP, and 5.725 to 5.825 GHz with a maxim um power of a quite respectable 4-watt EIRP. (EIRP stands for Effective Isotropic Radiated Power, which means that antenna gain is included.)
Please note that channels are not defined as a percentage of the total frequency, but are defined as the bandwidth needed for a specific application. A TV Video channel is much wider than an Audio channel because of the off the much wider bandwidth needed to handle video data. It is so much range of data signal communicated on or at a specific frequency.
You could very easily have AM radio in the gighertz band. 44khz band width (CD audio. etc) on a frequency of 4 giga hetrz. But it would be rather line of site, among other technical issues.
take a look at FM Radio. Frequency modulation only varies enough frequency enough to carrier the Audio as well as specialty signals like stereo information, etc. This makes an FM channel wider than AM (56khtz wide) but very small compared to a gigahertz range.
so there are a lot of channels there. This is why you see FM radio stationsd at 100.1, 100.3, 100.5, 100.7, 100.9, etc - Each of these are a single FM channel.
There is this article from 1997 indicating about the same thing, that spectrum scarcity is more politcal than anything else. but of course, at that time people were not as focused on wireless as they are now.
FCC Report and Order 96-102 - Dubbing it the Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) band, a recently issued FCC Report and Order opened up a hefty 300 MHz of bandwidth to all comers, with an unusually small number of strings attached (see www.fcc.gov). To put things in perspective, this is 2.5 times the total bandwidth allocated to Personal Communication Services (PC S), which brought in over 20 billion dollars at auction. That this much spectrum could be doled out for nothing is a fairly strong indication that spectrum scarcity is largely a political illusion--a fact likely to come back to haunt those deep-pocket real estate speculators who thought they were buying the last vacant lots in town. This seemingly inconsistent approach to spectrum management has kindled an interesting debate among advocates of spectrum privatization, not to mention continued wailing by die-hard statists who still believe the airwaves belong to "the people."
Although the prize money, which Archibald's team shared with Taylor Wall & Associates, barely covered the cost of the project, the publicity has boosted the firm's business. "It would have taken us years to get the recognition in North America that this project gave us overnight," he says.
These are the folks that came up with the 3D mine map - so it looks like it was a good investment for them.
And so it looks like the Open source model has been proven valid in areas outside of computing.
The story mentions ascii and ansi... but what about Avatar?! I know I was one of the few SysOps/users to use them, but, man, the speed ruled. Sigh... I guess maybe it's like my use of ogg and png today. Maybe the rest of the world will catch on.
I can remember reading mail using a QWK reader Blue Wave, which I still have around, and reading messages that had ANSI graphics. These could be animated and programmed to some degree. Of course, this could be used to play practical jokes.
One such joke mimicked a computer virus, which were just starting to become known.
You would click on the message, and you would see this full Red Screen with the big Label "Computer Killer" and the warning to not shut off the computer because it would hurt the hard drive. You would then see a series of progress bars marking how far along the computer was in erasing the drive, then the format, etc.
Of course, it was only a graphic display. If you had the presence of mind to look, you would see that the hard drive light would be completely idle.
But the sheer panic before figuring out what was going on....
It almost sounds like, "I would like to have the advantadges of a centralized database while keeping it distributed across random machines"
Now this is not totally fair, since it implies a pointy haired boss situation. All it really means is that that you would would have to have a better definition of the problem.
What it seems that you really need is an application, a database, that would constantly monitor in realtime the status and availablility of your various resources. This would tie into your other dataservices so that when you do a query on "XP sourcecode", or whatever, one of the result you get is from this resource monitor database saying that "the resource is offline" or "the data is available, but you don't have access rights", etc. depending of the resource status, and other realtime situations.
It occurs to me that clever design of the database may be able to do the resource availibily query in advance of the actual access of the data, so that you do not get a crash or whatever if a child record or whatever is unavailable.
Currently, I do not know of any tool that does this, although obviously this is not my area of expertise.
Daniel's project adds the ability to search for web pages within a particular geographic locale to traditional keyword searching. To accomplish this, Daniel converted street addresses found within a large corpus of documents to latitude-longitude-based coordinates using the freely available TIGER and FIPS data sources, and built a two-dimensional index of these coordinates. Daniel's system provides an interface that allows the user to augment a keyword search with the ability to restrict matches to within a certain radius of a specified address (useful for queries that are difficult to answer using just keyword searching, such as "find me all bookstores near my house"). We selected Daniel's project because it combined an interesting and useful idea with a clean and robust implementation.
This is impressive bit of database manipulation. Somehow I didn't think that all of the datatypes, etc would be so easily parsed.
Although I do recall telephone directories that used to give you results for a specified radius for certain types of businesses
Mr Spitzer's lawsuit against Niagara Falls-based MonsterHut.com accuses it of falsely telling clients that it sent the e-mails with consumers' consent. Under New York state's advertising laws, the company could be ordered to pay a $500 (£342; 538 euros) penalty for each unsolicited message.
I am "simply shocked" that a company would tell such lies to it's customers.
Thank God that we don't know of any other companies that would do something like that.
One appealing suggestion I heard a few years ago is that included in any crew should be a representative of the poorest nation on Earth and that this individual should make the first footfall on another world as a pledge to the poor of planet Earth.
And if this person did become the first human to stand on the red soil of Mars, what would they say? Discuss.
gak. sounds like a college professor.
but in any case, such considerations sound like something from the politically correct crowd, and tend to overlook the qualifications that such a person would have to have. It looks like to actually do something like this, you would have to preselect someone from the poorest nation on earth now, and groom them for the job 20 years from now. not very likely, considering how many administrations we'll have between now and then. Not very likely at all.
Oh and it appears to be slashdotted? Can't get any more results, at least.
So much for load testing - Did anyone give them a heads up? At least there should be someone on duty since France, etc does not have a Memorial Day, at least not on the USA schedule of holidays.
With technology advancing, I wonder about things like Solid State drives. I mean, with mechanical drives getting so small, you would think the next logical step would be to eliminate the mechanicals entirely.
I recall some things from some years ago where there were even transparent colored cubes that looked like things straight out of Star Trek, but they had problems with the registration. It was next to impossible to reseat the cube exactly correctly so that you could retain access to your data. but obviously, other solutions have worked well.
I would love for the cost of these things to come down to something reasonable for the consumer. Recalling the old Tandy laptops that some folks still use, one of advantadge of them is their virtual indestructability, all because of the solid state memory drives inside. (admitting they are small, but they work very very well indeed)
Thomas Edison, perhaps the archetype of the "Lone Inventor" had a huge operation employing hundreds of people at one point. It was his own company, though.
So the Lone Inventor can develop a business model based on emerging technologies. The first quick example here is Apple.
The other angle on this is the open source model, and seen with Linus Torvald, who gave away his work.
Of course, in some circles, they "eat their own young", in the sense that inventors will keep things secret so well that they will never get support or get funding. This falls into the category of "give me millions before I reveal my secrets", which not many business men will fall for.
Slashdot Mirror
One Word - Tides
You have a mega UFO above a planet enhancing the gravity field of the UFO itself, thereby lowering the gravity beneath it towards the planet.
The gravity of the UFO pulls things toward it. This slightly reduces the gravity of the earth beneath it pulling things towards the Earth. Enhance this effect, and make sure the the UFO has damn strong engines so as to not get pulled into the planet itself.
Also, Storms are caused by low pressure areas. Reducing the gravity on a spot basis will tend to lower the atmospheric pressure in that one spot. This will at least cause wind as air molecules rise due to the lowered gravity. On a large enough area you'll generate storms.
The point is not to create antigravity by nuetralizing it. The point is to fake antigravity be having something above that is pulling things up using its own gravity beam, or whatever.
with a big enough vehicle, you could probably cause earthquakes as well. Need a mega giga tera watt beam, tho.
I wonder how tight a beam you could get from a thing like this.
I'll grant you that these points is not immediately intuitive.
So you are forgiven as well.
Why does this sound like the Google Page Ranking System based on Pigeon Technology?
I don't know, there may be some prior art here.
Not that this wouldn't prevent the usual research into military applications. I wonder how much force is generated, how much enhancement of force is created per megawatt?
Insert visions of UFOs with terrawat gravity generators, using this as a weapon to nuetralize gravity at an area of the surface below them. Enemy troops go drifting off into vaccuum or fall from a substantial height back to the ground.
NB the weather effects as well, of all of that atmosphere going up an anti gravity shaft, creating a storm.
http://www.theonion.com/onion3820/congress_threate ns.html
Complete with retractable dome diagram.
Note - You can now listen to Cnet Radio on the air on 890 AM Radio in Boston. which is kinda cool, having a geek radio station to listen to in Boston. It is actually located in Dedham, and is a little under powered (You really can't hear it in providence, for example.)
heck most places do not even teach you to analyse your ideas in terms of what are the consequences of a particular thought pattern. (what would a person who thinks 'X' do?")
for that matter Morals and Ethics are usually jumbled together into a nicely packed wad.
You can see this just from the actions of folks, like that guy who was email stalking in the story.
they get into this "well since I don't like the rules of belief system 'Y', I think I'll try things without any rules whatsoever for a while" - which immediately invokes the LART school of social education.
[grumble mode = infinite loop]
What he needs now is something like a small model airplane or a ufo to go across every once in a while. or maybe a monorail or other futurama type decoration.
Or cutouts from magazines of small people to put into the windows of the sky scrapers. all kinds of little details that make it come alive.
I can see someone deciding to make all TV shows, as presented by the networks, complete with commercials, as a separate copyrightable object. This would mean that no one could skip the commercials.
But this would lead to other copyright issues with the show's producers, and with the advertising agencies, especially when they went into syndication.
all of which is sheer madness, but that never stopped anyone before. (nb - link to another example of marketing mayhem)
actually, there is some evidence that oil reserves may be self replenishing if you wait a reasonable period of time.
The source would be microbes buried deep in the hot rocks of the earth.
Either this is a totally narcistic sense of time, or else this requies certain metaconditions, such as an immortal soul (or similar) with the ability to be unconscious. There could be the ability to connect/disconnect from various time streams, etc. But this goes into discussions that many folks find uncomfortable. And most such subject definitions of time do not try to integrate these other factors.
[shrug]
They will never again have the opportunity that they let slip through their fingers because they killed Napster. Napster had the widest selection where anyone could find anything, and it worked well. They threw away the opportunity of a lifetime because they got greedy.
Instead of working out a system where they could have gotten paid something somehow, they grasped for millions, throwing away billions
It is a typical case of the big fish in the small pond fearing the ocean
There will probably never be the same chance to create a market and integrate it all into one service again.
There was a pretty good interview with John Lanning on CnetRadio that is worth listening, goes into the history, and where he sees things going from here.
There is also this list of electronics flea markets for the North East
I imagine there are a few someplace near silicon valley as well as CalTech, etc.
;-)
Sort of presumes that I could tell you were a ham operator from your comment.
unless you included the info in your sig line, this was not immediately apparent. Also sometimes explanations are given for the benefit of spectators.
Yes transparency of various things varies depending on frequency. But this does not negate the info on bandwidth. The technical difficulty in maintaining a higher precision signal in the giga hertz and high ranges is important as well.
The Microwave and the infrared spectrums have a wide area of overlap. While the FCC has regulations covering up to about 100 gigahertz, it is always good to keep perspective by noting that visible light has a frequency of 300,000 gigahertz.
I don't know that this is true. in that the 300 mhz of bandwidth is still 300 mhz of bandwidth.
That said, the original article I cited has this info:
Please note that channels are not defined as a percentage of the total frequency, but are defined as the bandwidth needed for a specific application. A TV Video channel is much wider than an Audio channel because of the off the much wider bandwidth needed to handle video data. It is so much range of data signal communicated on or at a specific frequency.
You could very easily have AM radio in the gighertz band. 44khz band width (CD audio. etc) on a frequency of 4 giga hetrz. But it would be rather line of site, among other technical issues.
take a look at FM Radio. Frequency modulation only varies enough frequency enough to carrier the Audio as well as specialty signals like stereo information, etc. This makes an FM channel wider than AM (56khtz wide) but very small compared to a gigahertz range.
so there are a lot of channels there. This is why you see FM radio stationsd at 100.1, 100.3, 100.5, 100.7, 100.9, etc - Each of these are a single FM channel.
These are the folks that came up with the 3D mine map - so it looks like it was a good investment for them.
And so it looks like the Open source model has been proven valid in areas outside of computing.
I can remember reading mail using a QWK reader Blue Wave, which I still have around, and reading messages that had ANSI graphics. These could be animated and programmed to some degree. Of course, this could be used to play practical jokes.
One such joke mimicked a computer virus, which were just starting to become known.
You would click on the message, and you would see this full Red Screen with the big Label "Computer Killer" and the warning to not shut off the computer because it would hurt the hard drive. You would then see a series of progress bars marking how far along the computer was in erasing the drive, then the format, etc.
Of course, it was only a graphic display. If you had the presence of mind to look, you would see that the hard drive light would be completely idle.
But the sheer panic before figuring out what was going on ....
So then the question becomes how workable is Active Directory? And what are alternatives that could be open source?
I have heard a certain amount of discontent with it.
Now this is not totally fair, since it implies a pointy haired boss situation. All it really means is that that you would would have to have a better definition of the problem.
What it seems that you really need is an application, a database, that would constantly monitor in realtime the status and availablility of your various resources. This would tie into your other dataservices so that when you do a query on "XP sourcecode", or whatever, one of the result you get is from this resource monitor database saying that "the resource is offline" or "the data is available, but you don't have access rights", etc. depending of the resource status, and other realtime situations.
It occurs to me that clever design of the database may be able to do the resource availibily query in advance of the actual access of the data, so that you do not get a crash or whatever if a child record or whatever is unavailable.
Currently, I do not know of any tool that does this, although obviously this is not my area of expertise.
This is impressive bit of database manipulation. Somehow I didn't think that all of the datatypes, etc would be so easily parsed.
Although I do recall telephone directories that used to give you results for a specified radius for certain types of businesses
I am "simply shocked" that a company would tell such lies to it's customers.
Thank God that we don't know of any other companies that would do something like that.
gak. sounds like a college professor.
but in any case, such considerations sound like something from the politically correct crowd, and tend to overlook the qualifications that such a person would have to have. It looks like to actually do something like this, you would have to preselect someone from the poorest nation on earth now, and groom them for the job 20 years from now. not very likely, considering how many administrations we'll have between now and then. Not very likely at all.
So much for load testing - Did anyone give them a heads up? At least there should be someone on duty since France, etc does not have a Memorial Day, at least not on the USA schedule of holidays.
Looks like it is back to Ask Taco for me
;-)
I recall some things from some years ago where there were even transparent colored cubes that looked like things straight out of Star Trek, but they had problems with the registration. It was next to impossible to reseat the cube exactly correctly so that you could retain access to your data. but obviously, other solutions have worked well.
I would love for the cost of these things to come down to something reasonable for the consumer. Recalling the old Tandy laptops that some folks still use, one of advantadge of them is their virtual indestructability, all because of the solid state memory drives inside. (admitting they are small, but they work very very well indeed)
So the Lone Inventor can develop a business model based on emerging technologies. The first quick example here is Apple.
The other angle on this is the open source model, and seen with Linus Torvald, who gave away his work.
Of course, in some circles, they "eat their own young", in the sense that inventors will keep things secret so well that they will never get support or get funding. This falls into the category of "give me millions before I reveal my secrets", which not many business men will fall for.