Thank you for confirming everything I've begun to believe over the past month about Google. Are you still using that Gmail account you've got listed here?
I want a workplace that employees are allowed to make a giant spray painted graffiti tag on the walls. Something that spells out the company's name in some illegible font, and looks as if it was created by MC Escher after a weekend long acid trip.
Embrace and extend. It's the same crap like usual. The 7 reasons article even specifies they support "open source" and not GPL'd "free software" like Linux. Nothing's changed in Redmond except Billy G's charitable donations, and fellow executives wanting to make space ships.
I largely listen to freely available music, and I've been looking at Creative Commons licensed music, some of which ain't bad at all.
If you like electronic music, and need something minimal while you work or play at your computer, you should check out Systrum Sistum, they have a large playlist of 'open source' music plus some other stuff. Unfortunately, with CC music, there needs to be more rock, metal, industrial, punk and hip hop. At least people who like electronic music have a large list of options for free music legally these days. The early demo scene musicians deserve some cred in this respect as many of them have been releasing music for free online for years, sometimes including the source file for the track allowing easy remixes and access to their samples.
So yes - the RIAA can become irrelevant if we desire.
I'm sure some nerd who is broke and has an interest in satellite communications could be bought for a reasonable price, especially if he/she is sympathetic to the Tamil Tigers. Like think of it - this is his/her chance to shine and show their more militant friends what they're capable of doing. To most people, and probably the majority of the Tamil Tigers, they would probably believe this would be impossible until their comm nerd friend figured it out.
Go take a look at a HP 2000C or the line based on that design. The ink cartridges supply print heads using think supply line tubes. These can eventually clog due to the ink drying in the supply line. It's not that common of a problem, but I've seen it happen enough. That printer uses 4 supply lines for each colour, I can only imagine how ink is supplied to this wide, multi nozzle beast. And by the way, many print heads that have micro nozzles will just get damaged or clogged when you run that q-tip across the print head. This will cause larger variations in the ink drop size causing improper colour mixing, OR banding from cotton filled nozzles. You want to use a lint free cloth and a little water (alcohol if it's particularly bad), dragging the wet cloth across the print head.
Maybe the reason for these dupes by the slashdot editors is because the person who can communicate information from a future time frame to a past time frame is passing information to slashdot editors so they can tip off the guy who gets the time machine working. Maybe it's a necessary act for the invention of the device itself sometime soon.:-) I imagine it would probably be someone working at Bell Labs with fiber optics and high power lasers, trying to do some power-over-fiber experiments.
Any tube filled with a gas needs a larger initial voltage to allow current to flow between the cathode and anode. As the tube continues to be operate, the resistance across the gap drops considerably, requiring a ballast resistor to keep the current lower. This is what the ballast basically does. I'm assuming this is what you're talking about when you mention 'kickstarting' a CFL.
As people play more online games that require centralized accounts, the less video game piracy will be an issue. Constant updates applied to the game should exclude a large portion of users with pirated accounts who can only play the game through the game company's servers. In a sense, if you make the game into a version dependent hell, that would leave only a small percentage of user's pirating the game.
I was happy pledging to buy one for 3 times the price, and apparently that's not good enough. I just don't understand the logic behind restricting consumer's from purchasing one. I don't care to own a cheap laptop, i'm more interested in developing software that will operate well on these laptops. The idea is to push the hardware to the limit, as I might want to work with some of these people who will be eventually owning these machines.
Hey, it's just Xerox doing what they do best - fucking it up for themselves.
No one will buy these things because:
a) reusable paper will need to be collect and placed back into the printer b) printer technology almost always makes the assumption that the paper being fed into the unit is from a fresh stack of paper c) wrinkles in the used paper d) deep desire to draw on it.
And sadly enough, Xerox developed many of the key technologies in the early stages of the PC that could lead to the paperless society, and instead decided that they do whatever they can to avoid being the company that leads the corporate world into the future.
I really hope a Xerox executive reads this...
btw: Xerox got rid of a lot of their service technicians, they have people hired through a service provider that are on contract instead.
Alright, he didn't face these symptoms over the first 28 years of teaching... the problem he's probably facing is a panic attack from the knowledge of the wireless device being present in the room.
He could be falsely attributing his symptoms to something in the class room.
Another poster is right - they should put fake ones that have blinking lights and see what he does.
Even though I'm replying to myself here, it should be noted that "True Black Metal" can only come from a Scandinavian country. Everyone else are just imitators.
"I like my coffee black just like my metal." --MSI
Most metals are highly reflective of infrared laser radiation until it begins to slag, at that point it tends to absorb a lot of the laser radiation. Right now, an initial higher pulse is used when trying to weld or cut metals. Maybe this technique will find use in making cleaner cuts in copper and aluminium, both of which like to reflect infrared wavelengths.
Come on man. The police have the responsibility to stop a major crime from happening. If they didn't you'd be crying conspiracy. I know you're trolling cause you've always been a troll here.
But for someone to mod you up....
I have a similar reading list but I'm not collaborating with people who are planning to or have blown anything up. Plus I'm just too damn lazy to bother building a bomb, even for fun and profit.
I think the solution lies in subscription streaming. Large labels who have lots of artists at their disposal should move towards setting up streams that you can also download but hear the tracks for the first time. This way the precious single can return and carry the weight it once did. Then if you want you can buy the whole album on their website. Per track sales are lame cause I don't want to buy a single song. I want the artist to put together an album, even if it's a digital album. Just something I can download as a whole consistent piece of work.
So I propose:
Subscription to have a bunch of net streams by a specific label or mix of labels. Allow the "singles" that they play to be downloaded.
Then sell the full album online via CD or download. Fuck the DRM.
I buy an album because I like the artists work and would like to support them. I may have downloaded all their work before, but when I go to the store, I'll pick up at least one of their CDs.
The other problem is with credit cards. How do you get the underage market to buy music online when they don't have a credit card. They need to be able to go the Best Buy and buy a 'music card'.
The solution for powering a space elevator by laser certainly won't be trivial. It's not like you can just point a laser straight up and it'll hit the receiving dish/antenna/panel... there will be lateral movement the climber will be undergoing. So there will need to be some type of optics required to guide the beam. These optics have existed for a long time, they just need to be adapted for higher powers and probably wider laser beams. To compensate for refractive index changes in the atmosphere, some form of adaptive optics will be needed. This type of research was done in previous atmospheric studies, and projects like the Airborne Laser.
Right now the largest disadvantage for lasers is the inefficiency in creating electricity from photovoltiacs. The team i'm on - Punkworks is hoping to use a microwave rectenna array to convert 2.4 GHz RF energy into a few hundred watts of electricity. Right now we're lending our transmitter to another team, and have reached a deal to split the prize 50/50 if they win with our transmitter. The reason we're using microwaves is due to the conversion efficiency, there's lots of journal papers on microwave rectenna design indicating a maximum efficiency of 85%. This is a huge improvement over the ~30% you'd get from a solar panel.
My team has yet to compete, and I'm eagerly waiting to hear how our climber performs. Right now they made us move to another location at the test site despite our approved application from the FCC. Apparently the airport doesn't like the idea of us beaming 13 kW of microwaves into the sky...
unfortunately I'm not in New Mexico for the competition, but a number of my teammates did the 44 hour drive.
Are you saying that the benefit this provides outweighs the possible consequences of highly radioactive material falling down to Earth at random?
How would this magical material fall down to Earth? Well I imagine they would be in some hardened container that may or may not prevent spraying radioactive material all over the atmosphere if the rocket delivering it to orbit were to explode on lift-off, or somehow reenter the atmosphere and come burning down.
And who do we intend to use these nuclear weapons on? Yes yes first strike initiative... but against who? A rogue state? What's the idea... to nuke the launch site in the lift off stage? Why not just use a conventional warhead if it's to intercept an ICBM?
This sounds stupidly expensive too.
Do you want to be in orbit maintaining these nuclear orbital platforms? I imagine they will need some form of repairs over time... just like the current nuclear arsenals.
And people think I'm crazy for wanting to support the space elevator projects, meanwhile these people want to have nuclear weapons orbiting the planet. This sounds insane.
I think you're right. I went through the various questions being asked and instead I find that barely anyone is asking questions. This implies to me a serious lack of customers, suggesting the owner of the site is not making nearly enough money from this and has possibly resorted to making anonymous blog posts. A concerned professor? Over a site like Student of fortune? No one seems to be using it, what's the big deal? By publishing a letter of concern on a busy site like/., all this irresponsible professor has done is draw more attention to the SoF.
Plus I'm not going to spend my time getting paid $2 to answer questions of boxes on slopes.
despite the cheesiness of the image and story. Viral clothing? lol
People just briefly flashing a viral goatse image across their chest nailing all the people with the incorrect permissions.
This sounds stupid, cause no one will want to walk around with a giant battery strapped to themself. We need to have the pattern stay without a power source and just attempt to avoid issues like this. How do they attempt to conceal the circuitry?
I'm curious as to what chemicals they plan on using to create the display... toxic organic dyes? quantum dots? mutagenic/carcenogenic dye (rhodamine-6g style)? thin films on fabrics? Hell - I propose animated tatoos... have an OLED display tatooed into your arm!
Slashdot Mirror
How many bread boxes could you fit in an airplane?
:-)
Heh, I kept thinking "Depends on how many you're allowed to break."
Thank you for confirming everything I've begun to believe over the past month about Google. Are you still using that Gmail account you've got listed here?
I want a workplace that employees are allowed to make a giant spray painted graffiti tag on the walls. Something that spells out the company's name in some illegible font, and looks as if it was created by MC Escher after a weekend long acid trip.
Embrace and extend. It's the same crap like usual. The 7 reasons article even specifies they support "open source" and not GPL'd "free software" like Linux. Nothing's changed in Redmond except Billy G's charitable donations, and fellow executives wanting to make space ships.
I largely listen to freely available music, and I've been looking at Creative Commons licensed music, some of which ain't bad at all.
If you like electronic music, and need something minimal while you work or play at your computer, you should check out Systrum Sistum, they have a large playlist of 'open source' music plus some other stuff. Unfortunately, with CC music, there needs to be more rock, metal, industrial, punk and hip hop. At least people who like electronic music have a large list of options for free music legally these days. The early demo scene musicians deserve some cred in this respect as many of them have been releasing music for free online for years, sometimes including the source file for the track allowing easy remixes and access to their samples.
So yes - the RIAA can become irrelevant if we desire.
I'm sure some nerd who is broke and has an interest in satellite communications could be bought for a reasonable price, especially if he/she is sympathetic to the Tamil Tigers. Like think of it - this is his/her chance to shine and show their more militant friends what they're capable of doing. To most people, and probably the majority of the Tamil Tigers, they would probably believe this would be impossible until their comm nerd friend figured it out.
hahahaha
Go take a look at a HP 2000C or the line based on that design. The ink cartridges supply print heads using think supply line tubes. These can eventually clog due to the ink drying in the supply line. It's not that common of a problem, but I've seen it happen enough. That printer uses 4 supply lines for each colour, I can only imagine how ink is supplied to this wide, multi nozzle beast. And by the way, many print heads that have micro nozzles will just get damaged or clogged when you run that q-tip across the print head. This will cause larger variations in the ink drop size causing improper colour mixing, OR banding from cotton filled nozzles. You want to use a lint free cloth and a little water (alcohol if it's particularly bad), dragging the wet cloth across the print head.
I think this experiment would be much more fun with some motherfucking gravity distortion or something.
...
:-) I imagine it would probably be someone working at Bell Labs with fiber optics and high power lasers, trying to do some power-over-fiber experiments.
Quick - someone call Dr. Mallett
Maybe the reason for these dupes by the slashdot editors is because the person who can communicate information from a future time frame to a past time frame is passing information to slashdot editors so they can tip off the guy who gets the time machine working. Maybe it's a necessary act for the invention of the device itself sometime soon.
I've resorted to pronouncing it 'et cee' like Yeti.
Any tube filled with a gas needs a larger initial voltage to allow current to flow between the cathode and anode. As the tube continues to be operate, the resistance across the gap drops considerably, requiring a ballast resistor to keep the current lower. This is what the ballast basically does. I'm assuming this is what you're talking about when you mention 'kickstarting' a CFL.
*shrug*
Maybe it's fun to use clichés once in a while?
As people play more online games that require centralized accounts, the less video game piracy will be an issue. Constant updates applied to the game should exclude a large portion of users with pirated accounts who can only play the game through the game company's servers. In a sense, if you make the game into a version dependent hell, that would leave only a small percentage of user's pirating the game.
I was happy pledging to buy one for 3 times the price, and apparently that's not good enough. I just don't understand the logic behind restricting consumer's from purchasing one. I don't care to own a cheap laptop, i'm more interested in developing software that will operate well on these laptops. The idea is to push the hardware to the limit, as I might want to work with some of these people who will be eventually owning these machines.
Hey, it's just Xerox doing what they do best - fucking it up for themselves.
...
No one will buy these things because:
a) reusable paper will need to be collect and placed back into the printer
b) printer technology almost always makes the assumption that the paper being fed into the unit is from a fresh stack of paper
c) wrinkles in the used paper
d) deep desire to draw on it.
And sadly enough, Xerox developed many of the key technologies in the early stages of the PC that could lead to the paperless society, and instead decided that they do whatever they can to avoid being the company that leads the corporate world into the future.
I really hope a Xerox executive reads this
btw: Xerox got rid of a lot of their service technicians, they have people hired through a service provider that are on contract instead.
Alright, he didn't face these symptoms over the first 28 years of teaching ... the problem he's probably facing is a panic attack from the knowledge of the wireless device being present in the room.
He could be falsely attributing his symptoms to something in the class room.
Another poster is right - they should put fake ones that have blinking lights and see what he does.
"ultra-intense laser blast creates true 'black metal'"
Even though I'm replying to myself here, it should be noted that "True Black Metal" can only come from a Scandinavian country. Everyone else are just imitators.
"I like my coffee black just like my metal." --MSI
Most metals are highly reflective of infrared laser radiation until it begins to slag, at that point it tends to absorb a lot of the laser radiation. Right now, an initial higher pulse is used when trying to weld or cut metals. Maybe this technique will find use in making cleaner cuts in copper and aluminium, both of which like to reflect infrared wavelengths.
Come on man. The police have the responsibility to stop a major crime from happening. If they didn't you'd be crying conspiracy. I know you're trolling cause you've always been a troll here.
But for someone to mod you up....
I have a similar reading list but I'm not collaborating with people who are planning to or have blown anything up.
Plus I'm just too damn lazy to bother building a bomb, even for fun and profit.
I think this follows in the direction of 23, not 42.
I think the solution lies in subscription streaming. Large labels who have lots of artists at their disposal should move towards setting up streams that you can also download but hear the tracks for the first time. This way the precious single can return and carry the weight it once did. Then if you want you can buy the whole album on their website. Per track sales are lame cause I don't want to buy a single song. I want the artist to put together an album, even if it's a digital album. Just something I can download as a whole consistent piece of work.
So I propose:
Subscription to have a bunch of net streams by a specific label or mix of labels. Allow the "singles" that they play to be downloaded.
Then sell the full album online via CD or download. Fuck the DRM.
I buy an album because I like the artists work and would like to support them. I may have downloaded all their work before, but when I go to the store, I'll pick up at least one of their CDs.
The other problem is with credit cards. How do you get the underage market to buy music online when they don't have a credit card. They need to be able to go the Best Buy and buy a 'music card'.
*shrug*
The solution for powering a space elevator by laser certainly won't be trivial. It's not like you can just point a laser straight up and it'll hit the receiving dish/antenna/panel ... there will be lateral movement the climber will be undergoing. So there will need to be some type of optics required to guide the beam. These optics have existed for a long time, they just need to be adapted for higher powers and probably wider laser beams. To compensate for refractive index changes in the atmosphere, some form of adaptive optics will be needed. This type of research was done in previous atmospheric studies, and projects like the Airborne Laser.
...
Right now the largest disadvantage for lasers is the inefficiency in creating electricity from photovoltiacs. The team i'm on - Punkworks is hoping to use a microwave rectenna array to convert 2.4 GHz RF energy into a few hundred watts of electricity. Right now we're lending our transmitter to another team, and have reached a deal to split the prize 50/50 if they win with our transmitter. The reason we're using microwaves is due to the conversion efficiency, there's lots of journal papers on microwave rectenna design indicating a maximum efficiency of 85%. This is a huge improvement over the ~30% you'd get from a solar panel.
My team has yet to compete, and I'm eagerly waiting to hear how our climber performs. Right now they made us move to another location at the test site despite our approved application from the FCC. Apparently the airport doesn't like the idea of us beaming 13 kW of microwaves into the sky
unfortunately I'm not in New Mexico for the competition, but a number of my teammates did the 44 hour drive.
Are you saying that the benefit this provides outweighs the possible consequences of highly radioactive material falling down to Earth at random?
... but against who? A rogue state? What's the idea ... to nuke the launch site in the lift off stage? Why not just use a conventional warhead if it's to intercept an ICBM?
... just like the current nuclear arsenals.
How would this magical material fall down to Earth? Well I imagine they would be in some hardened container that may or may not prevent spraying radioactive material all over the atmosphere if the rocket delivering it to orbit were to explode on lift-off, or somehow reenter the atmosphere and come burning down.
And who do we intend to use these nuclear weapons on? Yes yes first strike initiative
This sounds stupidly expensive too.
Do you want to be in orbit maintaining these nuclear orbital platforms? I imagine they will need some form of repairs over time
And people think I'm crazy for wanting to support the space elevator projects, meanwhile these people want to have nuclear weapons orbiting the planet. This sounds insane.
I think you're right. I went through the various questions being asked and instead I find that barely anyone is asking questions. This implies to me a serious lack of customers, suggesting the owner of the site is not making nearly enough money from this and has possibly resorted to making anonymous blog posts. A concerned professor? Over a site like Student of fortune? No one seems to be using it, what's the big deal? By publishing a letter of concern on a busy site like /., all this irresponsible professor has done is draw more attention to the SoF.
Plus I'm not going to spend my time getting paid $2 to answer questions of boxes on slopes.
I was wondering more about the power supply...
... have an OLED display tatooed into your arm!
despite the cheesiness of the image and story. Viral clothing? lol
People just briefly flashing a viral goatse image across their chest nailing all the people with the incorrect permissions.
This sounds stupid, cause no one will want to walk around with a giant battery strapped to themself. We need to have the pattern stay without a power source and just attempt to avoid issues like this. How do they attempt to conceal the circuitry?
I'm curious as to what chemicals they plan on using to create the display... toxic organic dyes? quantum dots? mutagenic/carcenogenic dye (rhodamine-6g style)? thin films on fabrics? Hell - I propose animated tatoos
Do people commonly refer to them as batty boys instead?