That is true. But I don't think they're using pulses of electrons that are that short. If they were, it would have been mentioned or even featured in the article.
Even this "high speed" 30 fps is still too slow to actually watch an individual chemical reaction. The amount of time it takes for a copper atom to bond to the electrode, once it gets there, should be much less than a microsecond. Most of the time in "slow" reactions is waiting for the next reactant to come along. At room temperature, a copper atom in a liquid moves at about 340 m/s = 760 MPH!
You can watch a cluster grow, though. So, they can watch where the first atom deposits, then the second, etc. Determining where and how a metal cluster forms is important. But catching an atom in the act of bonding would be quite difficult.
But maybe the judicial system will get tired of the same organization starting so many civil lawsuits at the same time. Remember, these are not criminal cases, and calling the defendants criminals may be slander. Even if they lose and have to pay RIAA money, that doesn't mean they're (legally) guilty of any crime.
This is exactly what I want to know. Is there some legal limit to how many lawsuits you can start at once? All the articles I see say that there are approximately 75 subpoenas filed per day. It is also written that the court is having trouble with the paperwork. I wonder if all of this is making it more difficult for more important federal cases (like antitrust, kidnapping, tax fraud) to be processed.
I use a router to share my DSL among housemates. Does this mean that because my particular computer may not be the one doing the file sharing they can't sue me? Cool. Especially considering I don't actually do any file sharing, but my housemates may.
From his abstract, "If crime and genius have the same underlying cause [(testosterone)], then it is unlikely that social control theory (or any other theory specific to criminal behavior) can explain why men commit crimes and why they desist."
He's mainly trying to get at criminal behavior by linking it to scientific behavior by showing that both fall off because testosterone does.
The article did seem vague. But going to NPD's press release on the study, the Desktop/Laptop numbers were for dollars while the CRT/LCD numbers were for units. I am duly impressed with LCDs.
Now, I'll be impressed when there are more LCDs in use than CRTs.
We geeks who build our own computers are actually a quite small fraction of total retail sales.
But you have a point in stressing *new* desktops. Because of the upgradability and the higher initial performance, a desktop can last a bit longer than a laptop. This factor would decrease the sales of new desktops.
Because if you want lots of resolution (like 1600x1200), you need a *BIG* display like 18" (viewable) that costs an insane amount in LCD form. I got such a display refurbished for $200, and the clarity and resolution are great. It would cost more than 3x that to get an LCD.
Not included in the article is discussion of the fact that, per unit, more desktops/CRTs are sold than laptops/LCDs because of the costs. When people buy more laptops/LCDs despite the price, then I'll be impressed.
out of date "Soft Wall" database that prevents a small plane from landing in a newly constructed airport
This is an excellent point. But, I would think the expensive system would only be installed on large planes that would only land at large airports. It wouldn't be too difficult to make sure every plane got the new PGP-signed smartcards (or whatever method) by a certain date to update the database.
And what about the manual override? There's ALWAYS a manual override.
Exactly. There are countless emergency situations mentioned in previous comments where this system would make matters worse if an override didn't exist. Any automatic avionics system I can think of has a way for the pilot to make an important decision if necessary.
The extreme acceleration is because the force due to the air is large while the mass of the foam is small. a = F / m can then produce a huge number.
But regardless, I believe the 500 mph was measured by looking at how far the foam moved between frames of video, relative to the shuttle. I don't think it was calculated from an acceleration.
With all this talk of foam coming off the feul tank, and recovering as much debris as possible for forensic analysis, why is nobody talking about recovering the feul tank itself?
Is its position not known accurately enough to find it (oops)? Would it provide no useful information anyway (how are you sure until you look)? Would a salvage effort take too long (not a good excuse)? Are there 10 other feul tanks in the same area, making identification difficult (not a good excuse)?
I wonder if the Matrix trailer will be straight-from-digital. On the website, they claim that the internet version is compressed directly from the 20 GB master digital copy, so my guess is that those fortunate enough to see Clones in digital will get the additional joy of seeing the Matrix trailer that way. Here's to living not too far from NYC!
DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) referrs to multiplexing multiple optical signals on a fiber by having them exist at different wavelengths of light. This is very similar to how the cable TV line carries 100 or so channels of TV signal by having them at different frequencies.
The D (for dense) means that there are many such channels, often 40+. This article referrs to having two 40Gb/s channels at the same wavelength, but with opposite polarizations so they don't interfere with each other much. This same signal could be used as a base for a DWDM system to effectively double the current maximum speed of like 10Tb/s (40Gb/s * 250 channels).
As I scan the cable television channels, the most real reminder of the disasters today is the black channels that used to be broadcast from One World Trade Center. You may at first feel that I am insensitive or in my own world, but think about it. I see disaster footage on that rectangular screen all the time. Sometimes it's real; sometimes it's not. But what I never see is a bunch of totally black channels. I guess this is similar to the emptiness that will appear to those familiar with the NY skyline, though I'll admit it's nothing as compared to the emptiness felt by those who have lost loved ones.
It looks like all 3 parts will run on Sunday
Dec 10 at 1PM EST. Check
http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/.
main(O){10<putchar((O--,102-((O&4)*16|
(31&60>>5*(O&3)))))&&main(2+O);}
Bzzzt. Your biggest problem was that you stored OUR passwords as plaintext.
Exactly! I just hope Slashdot doesn't get a lawsuit for negligence from somebody whose credit card account gets hacked because these guys took the password from Slashdot. Or from somebody who gets sued for a comment they didn't make on some other web site, or...
Yeah, you shouldn't repeat passwords on multiple sites, but who can remember them all without writing them down?
Go to your local high school, college, or university. Students are often required (or want to) do community service, so schools usually have a central office where they can find places to work. Call or go to these places and find out if they need computer work. A lot of them do. Maybe you can even offer to set up web sites for them on a cheesy free hosting service if they're lacking one already.
Slashdot Mirror
That is true. But I don't think they're using pulses of electrons that are that short. If they were, it would have been mentioned or even featured in the article.
You can watch a cluster grow, though. So, they can watch where the first atom deposits, then the second, etc. Determining where and how a metal cluster forms is important. But catching an atom in the act of bonding would be quite difficult.
But maybe the judicial system will get tired of the same organization starting so many civil lawsuits at the same time. Remember, these are not criminal cases, and calling the defendants criminals may be slander. Even if they lose and have to pay RIAA money, that doesn't mean they're (legally) guilty of any crime.
This is exactly what I want to know. Is there some legal limit to how many lawsuits you can start at once? All the articles I see say that there are approximately 75 subpoenas filed per day. It is also written that the court is having trouble with the paperwork. I wonder if all of this is making it more difficult for more important federal cases (like antitrust, kidnapping, tax fraud) to be processed.
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I use a router to share my DSL among housemates. Does this mean that because my particular computer may not be the one doing the file sharing they can't sue me? Cool. Especially considering I don't actually do any file sharing, but my housemates may.
He's mainly trying to get at criminal behavior by linking it to scientific behavior by showing that both fall off because testosterone does.
That's two stories in a row related to the AMNH (where the Hayden Planetarium is). Some groups get all the press.
Seems somebody's been doing the same web browsing as me for the last 5 minutes.
Now, I'll be impressed when there are more LCDs in use than CRTs.
But you have a point in stressing *new* desktops. Because of the upgradability and the higher initial performance, a desktop can last a bit longer than a laptop. This factor would decrease the sales of new desktops.
Because if you want lots of resolution (like 1600x1200), you need a *BIG* display like 18" (viewable) that costs an insane amount in LCD form. I got such a display refurbished for $200, and the clarity and resolution are great. It would cost more than 3x that to get an LCD.
Not included in the article is discussion of the fact that, per unit, more desktops/CRTs are sold than laptops/LCDs because of the costs. When people buy more laptops/LCDs despite the price, then I'll be impressed.
This is an excellent point. But, I would think the expensive system would only be installed on large planes that would only land at large airports. It wouldn't be too difficult to make sure every plane got the new PGP-signed smartcards (or whatever method) by a certain date to update the database.
And what about the manual override? There's ALWAYS a manual override.
Exactly. There are countless emergency situations mentioned in previous comments where this system would make matters worse if an override didn't exist. Any automatic avionics system I can think of has a way for the pilot to make an important decision if necessary.
Ladybugs eat other bugs. And there is a selection of the larger bugs; they usually just bounce off. Check out a radiator.
But regardless, I believe the 500 mph was measured by looking at how far the foam moved between frames of video, relative to the shuttle.
I don't think it was calculated from an acceleration.
With all this talk of foam coming off the feul tank, and recovering as much debris as possible for forensic analysis, why is nobody talking about recovering the feul tank itself?
Is its position not known accurately enough to find it (oops)? Would it provide no useful information anyway (how are you sure until you look)? Would a salvage effort take too long (not a good excuse)? Are there 10 other feul tanks in the same area, making identification difficult (not a good excuse)?
> WHY IN THE HELL IS NIST FUNDING THIS?
That was my exact first response. NIST has no business funding research targeted specifically to help rich corporations get richer.
Here's a simple AWK script to play the ASCII movie. Requires usleep. Play in an xterm and rezise it to cut off the bottom of the previous frame.
.jar and use unzip to get data/sw1.txt out of it.
#!/usr/bin/gawk -f
BEGIN {
delay = 1000000 / 15;
while (getline > 0) {
mult = $1 + 0;
for(i=0; i<13; i++) { getline; print; }
system(sprintf("usleep %d", delay*mult));
}
}
To get the text file, download the
I wonder if the Matrix trailer will be straight-from-digital. On the website, they claim that the internet version is compressed directly from the 20 GB master digital copy, so my guess is that those fortunate enough to see Clones in digital will get the additional joy of seeing the Matrix trailer that way. Here's to living not too far from NYC!
DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) referrs to multiplexing multiple optical signals on a fiber by having them exist at different wavelengths of light. This is very similar to how the cable TV line carries 100 or so channels of TV signal by having them at different frequencies.
The D (for dense) means that there are many such channels, often 40+. This article referrs to having two 40Gb/s channels at the same wavelength, but with opposite polarizations so they don't interfere with each other much. This same signal could be used as a base for a DWDM system to effectively double the current maximum speed of like 10Tb/s (40Gb/s * 250 channels).
As I scan the cable television channels, the most real reminder of the disasters today is the black channels that used to be broadcast from One World Trade Center. You may at first feel that I am insensitive or in my own world, but think about it. I see disaster footage on that rectangular screen all the time. Sometimes it's real; sometimes it's not. But what I never see is a bunch of totally black channels. I guess this is similar to the emptiness that will appear to those familiar with the NY skyline, though I'll admit it's nothing as compared to the emptiness felt by those who have lost loved ones.
It looks like all 3 parts will run on Sunday Dec 10 at 1PM EST. Check http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/.
main(O){10<putchar((O--,102-((O&4)*16| (31&60>>5*(O&3)))))&&main(2+O);}
Exactly! I just hope Slashdot doesn't get a lawsuit for negligence from somebody whose credit card account gets hacked because these guys took the password from Slashdot. Or from somebody who gets sued for a comment they didn't make on some other web site, or ...
Yeah, you shouldn't repeat passwords on multiple sites, but who can remember them all without writing them down?
main(O){10<putchar((O--,102-((O&4)*16| (31&60>>5*(O&3)))))&&main(2+O);}
Go to your local high school, college, or university. Students are often required (or want to) do community service, so schools usually have a central office where they can find places to work. Call or go to these places and find out if they need computer work. A lot of them do. Maybe you can even offer to set up web sites for them on a cheesy free hosting service if they're lacking one already.
main(O){10<putchar((O--,102-((O&4)*16| (31&60>>5*(O&3)))))&&main(2+O);}