Planes average 500 mph. Both sides of the airport "hassle" (travel to the airport, security, waiting to board, getting off the airplane, travel from the airport to the city) add about three to four hours to the plane trip.
If a train goes 200 mph then the distance must exceed 1000 miles for the airplane to be faster. That is short of cross country (in the US) but good for just about everything else.
Friction isn't the issue. In fact the limitation on acceleration with a standard wheeled train is friction. IE static friction between the driving wheels and the track.
A maglev train like this uses something akin to the linear motors on rollercoasters. The "friction" they use to accelerate involves pushing off the "bubbles" of magnetic repulsion that float the train (atleast as I understand it).
The track has aluminum inductor coils imbedded in the track that the train floats on after inducing a current. The field in the track dies out shortly after the train passes and actually never wanders far away. The field "lines" loop back to the adjacent coils with opposite spin.
Pls understand the technolgy before posting.
As for right of way... yes that is an issue but it is the same issue that virtually every other form of transportation has.
I found the name and phone number of the music artist for SC II while hacking around in the binary. My friends and I called him and talked to him for a while...
He was really nice and said that he puts his details in there as a way of "signing" his work and getting more jobs. We congradulated him on a great job and he admitted he was quite proud of his work.
Years later I remember hearing one of the themes on my local New York Fox News channel. I was shocked but not totally. I figured the studio guys that put those snippets together are very familiar with the MOD scene and the rips they did of SC II's music.
The Decal project for AC is phenominonally successful. There are hundreds of plugins for decal that take care of all the interface customization you could want.
The AC team takes the "the client is in the hands of the enemy" approach and therefore doesn't need to worry about packet sniffers. If someone comes out with something that damages gameplay that function is put back on the server in the next patch. Period.
I know Mills is very persuasive but he is also wrong... at best. At worst he is a frightfully good con-man. I studied his work in the context of assisting a PhD candidate on his thesis with the support of many professors.
The professors (even the young ones looking to make a name for themselves) pointed out mistakes and inconsistancies that even I could then recognize as a first year undergrad.
If Blacklight Power's method turns out to work it won't be from anything Mills has puzzled out of physics. It will be pure luck that his "forumlas" sent him into a profitable line of experimentation.
I think rad batteries are just thermoelecric couples (TECs or Peltiers in overclocking parlance) with warm radioactive material on one side and a cool heatsink on the other.
That would be fine if people were willing to isolate themselves when taking antibiotics. Because no one would want to do that for strep throat doctors prescribe a single common anti-biotic that shows promise in the petri dish.
If people took a cocktail of antibiotics for every sniffle we would find the super bug very fast.
Not only would the super bug have no "bacterial competition" in the host to slow its proliferation but any transmition of bacteria would have a very high likelihood of being from the superbug strain.
Basically its good to crowd out weak resistant bugs with stronger vulnerable ones.
Cocktails are a Bad Bad idea for the general public.
Having taken his class personally I can tell you he is brilliant.
Bose technology is designed against a psychoacoutic study which some people, especially audiophiles, believe is a poor data set from which to make engineering decisions.
You can hate his loudspeakers but still love other things about Bose technology.
1. His small form factor sound systems are tough to beat. 2. His noise reduction headphones are hard to beat. 3. Plus he has some cutting edge technology in another field that will wow you when it becomes public. (Google for auto industry stuff)
So he doesn't care enough about phase, high frequencies or harmonics... most people can't hear them or aren't discriminating enough yet to care. Get over it Mr. Audiophile. If Bose wanted to he could crush the audiophile companies.
Prof Bose knows exactly how his equipment screws up high freq, phase and harmonics. He could redo the math to fix that and pass through the extra costs for higher grade components, smaller market and the hassle.
I have personally seen him crank through dizzying equations without skipping a beat- think quadruple+ integrals. He uses mathematica to avoid numerical methods wherever possible.
Target criticism elsewhere pls.
PS best audio experience ever for me was listing to Shaggy's "That Girl" in his burn-in bunker. The ultra high dB's required commercial grade hearing protection to bring it down to listening level on the highs and mids... but the 4 12" x 12' base cannons came through no problem. Think cubic feet of air moving at 60 hertz and below directly into your bones.
I live in NYC and can vouch for this. You can buy all kinds of cheapo', rinky-dink electronic gadgets along Canal Street.
It sucks for most current technolgy though... I tried to buy a palm pilot there a few years ago and the prices were obsurd. I thought they were designed for haggling but no luck. That reminds me...
Be sure to haggle on Canal street. Its offensive to the street vendors if you don't.
Lots of books aren't copyrighted anymore as the copyright expired. You see back before Disney bought legislation from people like Sonny Bono copyrights would be allowed to expire after about 50 years or so.
Beowulf, Moby Dick, Shakespearre's plays, etc are all free as in speach and beer. Edited versions of the original text can be copyrighted. Examples of that are edition of Shakespearre's plays with "translations" next to the original text. You can buy his complete works, unedited, for very little $ these days. The only cost for the publisher is printing and typesetting.
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Different book - different font - different problems.
It might help a bit but most OCR programs already tag letters that it is unsure about. They don't mention in the article if the distributed system incorporates OCR ambiguity in prioritising proofreading.
As an aside why not just store the raw image for any ambiguous text within the documents in the PG archive (Think of an HTML sort of thing). As people read the document just poll them as to what they think the letters in the bitmap are.
I guess a lot of the stategy rests on how frequently the ocr software makes an error or find ambiguity.
I agree... The US would be REALLY hard to invade. In the future it will be tougher - the current generation is learning military tactics playing Armica's Army.
Submarines deal with pressure gradiants with magnitudes exceeding 1 atmosphere because pressure increases without bound as one decends in the ocean. Pressure in the ocean is about one atmosphere per 32 feet. Considering how deep submarines go it is no surprise that they are made with thick laser wielded steel.
Vacuum is TOTALLY different in that regard. You can never have a pressure gradient larger than one atmosphere when pulling a vacuum in an environment with one atmosphere of pressure.
Rubber baffles pressurized @ several atmospheres should be sufficient to seal the vacuum around a "port hole" into the car. Periodic airlocks along the tube can prevent catastrophic repressurization.
Thank you for posting a link to OoTW, one of my favorite games of all time. It is/was a true masterpeace all in 720k (as I recall). For anyone that hasn't played this one check it out.
The technology is circa '93 but that game really had atmosphere. Anyone that dreams of writing their own game should look to it as a model of creative spirit.
Batman would take advantage of the relativistic mass increase of the near light speed Superman. he would use a gravity increasing field/beam whatever to completely fold space around Spuerman and send him into another dimension permenantly.... That or one of hundred other ways for Batman to trump Superman.
The interesting thing about Batman always winning is what is tells us about the story-telling process in the comic-book genre.
Batman represents the infinite potential inside ANY human being. Granted Bruce is a pretty gifted person but not in the same way other comic heros are. DC will always have Batman coming out on top because this concept of infinite human potential plays so well to their audience. That is that each of us could have a "superhero" trapped inside.
I think the appeal of Batman (which is not an accident) says a lot about how comics serve as an escape for the common man from their "quiet desparate lives".
Their is a lot more social commentary in this line of thinking but I think I'll stop here and see what some other folks, if any, have to say.
I believe it. American Airlines has a significant cost advantage in this area over other carriers because they don't paint the majority of the plane. Its lighter, less maintenance and easier to service.
With enough time I could pull together numebers but they are BIG. Paint is really toxic stuff and the military has to repaint for every region.
I think the main issue is that the driver isn't very flexible. Notice that the cable has to plug into something... that something addresses the pixels. I'm pretty sure there are more physically flexible ways to drive the screen, just not in the prototype.
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Planes average 500 mph. Both sides of the airport "hassle" (travel to the airport, security, waiting to board, getting off the airplane, travel from the airport to the city) add about three to four hours to the plane trip.
If a train goes 200 mph then the distance must exceed 1000 miles for the airplane to be faster. That is short of cross country (in the US) but good for just about everything else.
Friction isn't the issue. In fact the limitation on acceleration with a standard wheeled train is friction. IE static friction between the driving wheels and the track.
A maglev train like this uses something akin to the linear motors on rollercoasters. The "friction" they use to accelerate involves pushing off the "bubbles" of magnetic repulsion that float the train (atleast as I understand it).
The magnets are on the train...
The track has aluminum inductor coils imbedded in the track that the train floats on after inducing a current. The field in the track dies out shortly after the train passes and actually never wanders far away. The field "lines" loop back to the adjacent coils with opposite spin.
Pls understand the technolgy before posting.
As for right of way... yes that is an issue but it is the same issue that virtually every other form of transportation has.
I found the name and phone number of the music artist for SC II while hacking around in the binary. My friends and I called him and talked to him for a while...
He was really nice and said that he puts his details in there as a way of "signing" his work and getting more jobs. We congradulated him on a great job and he admitted he was quite proud of his work.
Years later I remember hearing one of the themes on my local New York Fox News channel. I was shocked but not totally. I figured the studio guys that put those snippets together are very familiar with the MOD scene and the rips they did of SC II's music.
Mod me as redundant but I agree. It was simply fabulous. I hope the Timewarp project takes off.
The whole point of ShowEQ was to do this passively. The restriction is artificial but please respect what they were trying to do.
The Decal project for AC is phenominonally successful. There are hundreds of plugins for decal that take care of all the interface customization you could want.
The AC team takes the "the client is in the hands of the enemy" approach and therefore doesn't need to worry about packet sniffers. If someone comes out with something that damages gameplay that function is put back on the server in the next patch. Period.
I know Mills is very persuasive but he is also wrong... at best. At worst he is a frightfully good con-man. I studied his work in the context of assisting a PhD candidate on his thesis with the support of many professors.
The professors (even the young ones looking to make a name for themselves) pointed out mistakes and inconsistancies that even I could then recognize as a first year undergrad.
If Blacklight Power's method turns out to work it won't be from anything Mills has puzzled out of physics. It will be pure luck that his "forumlas" sent him into a profitable line of experimentation.
PS this research was done at MIT.
Powerbook uses lcd technolgy for its display. LCDs cannot display the alternating frames for each eye properly and the effet is lost.
Sorry no 3d glasses for the powerbook.
I agree... very good idea. You should patent that! (JOKE)
That moderation screams for meta moderation.
The above comment is actually inciteful and on topic. I have read many threads already advocating "voting with you dollars".
I think rad batteries are just thermoelecric couples (TECs or Peltiers in overclocking parlance) with warm radioactive material on one side and a cool heatsink on the other.
That is enough these days to get you kicked out of school 10 times over.
That would be fine if people were willing to isolate themselves when taking antibiotics. Because no one would want to do that for strep throat doctors prescribe a single common anti-biotic that shows promise in the petri dish.
If people took a cocktail of antibiotics for every sniffle we would find the super bug very fast.
Not only would the super bug have no "bacterial competition" in the host to slow its proliferation but any transmition of bacteria would have a very high likelihood of being from the superbug strain.
Basically its good to crowd out weak resistant bugs with stronger vulnerable ones.
Cocktails are a Bad Bad idea for the general public.
Having taken his class personally I can tell you he is brilliant.
Bose technology is designed against a psychoacoutic study which some people, especially audiophiles, believe is a poor data set from which to make engineering decisions.
You can hate his loudspeakers but still love other things about Bose technology.
1. His small form factor sound systems are tough to beat.
2. His noise reduction headphones are hard to beat.
3. Plus he has some cutting edge technology in another field that will wow you when it becomes public. (Google for auto industry stuff)
So he doesn't care enough about phase, high frequencies or harmonics... most people can't hear them or aren't discriminating enough yet to care. Get over it Mr. Audiophile. If Bose wanted to he could crush the audiophile companies.
Prof Bose knows exactly how his equipment screws up high freq, phase and harmonics. He could redo the math to fix that and pass through the extra costs for higher grade components, smaller market and the hassle.
I have personally seen him crank through dizzying equations without skipping a beat- think quadruple+ integrals. He uses mathematica to avoid numerical methods wherever possible.
Target criticism elsewhere pls.
PS best audio experience ever for me was listing to Shaggy's "That Girl" in his burn-in bunker. The ultra high dB's required commercial grade hearing protection to bring it down to listening level on the highs and mids... but the 4 12" x 12' base cannons came through no problem. Think cubic feet of air moving at 60 hertz and below directly into your bones.
That is a really good question. Perhaps Hubble is "Far-sighted?" and couldn't focus on something that close?
What kind of telescope would you need to spot a 10 foot wide lander on the moon?
I live in NYC and can vouch for this. You can buy all kinds of cheapo', rinky-dink electronic gadgets along Canal Street.
It sucks for most current technolgy though... I tried to buy a palm pilot there a few years ago and the prices were obsurd. I thought they were designed for haggling but no luck. That reminds me...
Be sure to haggle on Canal street. Its offensive to the street vendors if you don't.
Lots of books aren't copyrighted anymore as the copyright expired. You see back before Disney bought legislation from people like Sonny Bono copyrights would be allowed to expire after about 50 years or so.
Beowulf, Moby Dick, Shakespearre's plays, etc are all free as in speach and beer. Edited versions of the original text can be copyrighted. Examples of that are edition of Shakespearre's plays with "translations" next to the original text. You can buy his complete works, unedited, for very little $ these days. The only cost for the publisher is printing and typesetting.
Different book - different font - different problems.
It might help a bit but most OCR programs already tag letters that it is unsure about. They don't mention in the article if the distributed system incorporates OCR ambiguity in prioritising proofreading.
As an aside why not just store the raw image for any ambiguous text within the documents in the PG archive (Think of an HTML sort of thing). As people read the document just poll them as to what they think the letters in the bitmap are.
I guess a lot of the stategy rests on how frequently the ocr software makes an error or find ambiguity.
I agree... The US would be REALLY hard to invade. In the future it will be tougher - the current generation is learning military tactics playing Armica's Army.
Submarines deal with pressure gradiants with magnitudes exceeding 1 atmosphere because pressure increases without bound as one decends in the ocean. Pressure in the ocean is about one atmosphere per 32 feet. Considering how deep submarines go it is no surprise that they are made with thick laser wielded steel.
Vacuum is TOTALLY different in that regard. You can never have a pressure gradient larger than one atmosphere when pulling a vacuum in an environment with one atmosphere of pressure.
Rubber baffles pressurized @ several atmospheres should be sufficient to seal the vacuum around a "port hole" into the car. Periodic airlocks along the tube can prevent catastrophic repressurization.
Thank you for posting a link to OoTW, one of my favorite games of all time. It is/was a true masterpeace all in 720k (as I recall). For anyone that hasn't played this one check it out.
The technology is circa '93 but that game really had atmosphere. Anyone that dreams of writing their own game should look to it as a model of creative spirit.
Batman would take advantage of the relativistic mass increase of the near light speed Superman. he would use a gravity increasing field/beam whatever to completely fold space around Spuerman and send him into another dimension permenantly.... That or one of hundred other ways for Batman to trump Superman.
The interesting thing about Batman always winning is what is tells us about the story-telling process in the comic-book genre.
Batman represents the infinite potential inside ANY human being. Granted Bruce is a pretty gifted person but not in the same way other comic heros are. DC will always have Batman coming out on top because this concept of infinite human potential plays so well to their audience. That is that each of us could have a "superhero" trapped inside.
I think the appeal of Batman (which is not an accident) says a lot about how comics serve as an escape for the common man from their "quiet desparate lives".
Their is a lot more social commentary in this line of thinking but I think I'll stop here and see what some other folks, if any, have to say.
I believe it. American Airlines has a significant cost advantage in this area over other carriers because they don't paint the majority of the plane. Its lighter, less maintenance and easier to service.
With enough time I could pull together numebers but they are BIG. Paint is really toxic stuff and the military has to repaint for every region.
I think the main issue is that the driver isn't very flexible. Notice that the cable has to plug into something... that something addresses the pixels. I'm pretty sure there are more physically flexible ways to drive the screen, just not in the prototype.