... or loaded up my own backyard with hydrogen tanks. Until there is a safe technology to store massive amounts of hydrogen, I'd stay away from all this.
You are wrong. Christians do indeed have faith in their position. Atheists don't, they have knowledge about their position, but no faith (by definition of atheism).
A couple of things are really, really strange. First, if SVR/FSB wanted the death to look accidental, why would they use such deliberate method? Polonium poisoning just screams of a well-funded agency doing the job. Not covert at all. The only explanation is that they wanted it to be obvious, as a lesson to other guys. Then they might just admit "yeah, we did it", but they are denying everything. Second, why it took so long for British to recognize obvious symptoms of radiation sickness? Nobody tried to check Litvinenko with a Geiger counter while he was alive, but after his death he was diagnosed instantly. This is just weird. Both sides don't tell all they know. This is to be expected in a spy scandal, though.
Note that it's almost always the religious types that try to "coexist". Science, by its nature, doesn't need religion. Religion, on the other hand, needs all the support from the science it can get. It is much harder (while still possible) to find a scientist that supports "coexistence".
I am surprised nobody mentioned Einstein@home - http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/. This experiment uses distributed computing to process their results, and you can participate.
From TFA: Schindall says, "Small devices such as hearing aids that could be more quickly recharged where the batteries wouldn't wear out; up to larger devices such as automobiles where you could regeneratively re-use the energy of motion and therefore improve the energy efficiency and fuel economy."
He doesn't say it will replace the main battery of a hybrid car. The bulk of gas mileage gain of such car comes from the regenerative braking. Gas engine running at constant optimum RPM and load is another, smaller source of gain.
Regenerative braking requires an energy storage device with characteristics that precisely match those of ultracapacitors: moderate energy storage density and ability to take a huge spike of recharge current in seconds or faster. Toyota Prius still has the regular brakes for this reason - the battery can not absorb all the energy released during hard braking.
What will the ISP do with thr money saved? Because of competition, they'll spend it on service quality improvements for services their customers do use. If they pocketed it, they'd lose business.
This might have happened if Rogers weren't a monopoly in its market. In my area, DSL has much lower coverage and Rogers is the only choice for high-speed Internet. Yes, they will pocket the money and will not lose business. In fact, they have just increased their rates from 45 to 50 CAD/month for their 5Mbit service.
They carefully avoid the word "capacity" in the press release. This and the claim about faster charge makes me think that they somehow managed to reduce the internal resistance of the battery, but the capacity (measured in Ampere-hours) hasn't changed. "3 times the power" probably means that the battery can yield 3 times higher current when discharged into a short circuit (before exploding). But the energy storage capacity is the same. I believe that battery technology is already pretty close to the theoretical limit here.
This new development may allow to replace NiCd batteries in very high current applications, which is good.
These plans have nothing to do with end users. People will still go and buy a $3 CD with the full version on the street, and uninstall the crap that came with the PC. The real target here is the beige box guys. there may be enough incentive for them to pay the MS tax now, rather than take the risk of preinstalling pirated copies on the PCs they sell.
A local Aquatic Park had the lifegards surfing on their XP box until it was unusable.
Seems to me it takes only a minute of surfing on an XP box in an Aquatic Park (if possible at all) to make the box unusable. Even the most rugged laptop would be ruined pretty quickly.
Google might be able to make good money if they were the only company doing this stuff. I'm sure that they have some interesting patents that will give them some advantage, but this advantage will not last long.
Anybody can do indexing and search on the Internet. The barrier for entry is very low, as Google itself demonstrated. They can be overthrown as the market leader as quickly as they gained this position.
Microsoft can not make life too difficult for the people running unauthorized copies. If they make it impossible to run pirated Windows, there will be mass migrations to Linux, causing mass acceptance of it and an avalanche of legit Windows users and developers switching as well. This is a difficult choice for Microsoft. They lose either way, and can only think about minimizing the losses.
Intel can argue that their processors are not "accelerator boards" and thus are not subject to the claims. All of the claims talk about 3 distinct things: the motherboard, the accelerator board and the fast microprocessor installed on the accelerator board.
As for the frequency synthesis/multiplication, this is a well-known technique used by radio engineers probably since 1930-s if not earlier.
I am sure (although too lazy to do the search) that Intel has patents of their own covering frequency multiplication inside microprocessors, most likely predating this one.
A jamming device is much more likely to interfere with the hospital equipment than a cell phone. By definition, jamming requires more power than communication, and it has to be spread over wider frequency range.
I could not get to allofmp3.com, but a similar site, mp3search.ru claims on their copyright page that they have a blanket license from the Russian equivalent of ASCAP (www.roms.ru). So while there seems to be a license from songwriters, they don't mention another necessary license, the one from publishers (RIAA). I suspect (but can not verify at the moment) that allofmp3.com has similar licensing issues.
The appearance of legality seems to fool many people. "Look! They have some kind of license!"
I could not get to allofmp3.com, but found some intersting info on mp3search.ru. They claim that they have a blanket license from RUSSIAN ORGANIZATION FOR MULTIMEDIA & DIGITAL SYSTEMS (ROMS) That organization is not the Russian equivalent of RIAA, it is the equivalent of ASCAP - organization of authors and composers.
The copyrights for the tracks on mp3search.ru may have been cleared with songwriters, but not with publishers. So this is half-legal (which means illegal).
Such collaboration in the high-energy physics area began during the Cold War and didn't stop even when all other relationships were at the all-time low in the early 80-s. I was with the USSR Academy of Science in 1988-1996, and visited Fermi National Lab several times in 1991-1995.
I couldn't find any info on this "most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space". I searched Russian sources as well (Russian is my native language). Anybody had more luck with this?
What I've found was the story about Reagan trying to expand technology sanctions against Western companies participating in the construction. This measure was indeed enacted in June 1982.
Here is one interesting link about the pipeline. As you can see, there is no mention of any disasters, and the project is considered as a major success of the USSR that brought it a significant steady stream of hard currency. This was in fact one of the few Soviet victories during the Cold War.
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... or loaded up my own backyard with hydrogen tanks.
Until there is a safe technology to store massive amounts of hydrogen, I'd stay away from all this.
You are wrong. Christians do indeed have faith in their position. Atheists don't, they have knowledge about their position, but no faith (by definition of atheism).
A couple of things are really, really strange.
First, if SVR/FSB wanted the death to look accidental, why would they use such deliberate method? Polonium poisoning just screams of a well-funded agency doing the job. Not covert at all. The only explanation is that they wanted it to be obvious, as a lesson to other guys. Then they might just admit "yeah, we did it", but they are denying everything.
Second, why it took so long for British to recognize obvious symptoms of radiation sickness? Nobody tried to check Litvinenko with a Geiger counter while he was alive, but after his death he was diagnosed instantly. This is just weird.
Both sides don't tell all they know. This is to be expected in a spy scandal, though.
Note that it's almost always the religious types that try to "coexist". Science, by its nature, doesn't need religion. Religion, on the other hand, needs all the support from the science it can get.
It is much harder (while still possible) to find a scientist that supports "coexistence".
Because there IS a "breasts" option.
I am surprised nobody mentioned Einstein@home - http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/.
This experiment uses distributed computing to process their results,
and you can participate.
From TFA:
Schindall says, "Small devices such as hearing aids that could be more quickly recharged where the batteries wouldn't wear out; up to larger devices such as automobiles where you could regeneratively re-use the energy of motion and therefore improve the energy efficiency and fuel economy."
He doesn't say it will replace the main battery of a hybrid car. The bulk of gas mileage gain of such car comes from the regenerative braking. Gas engine running at constant optimum RPM and load is another, smaller source of gain.
Regenerative braking requires an energy storage device with characteristics that precisely match those of ultracapacitors: moderate energy storage density and ability to take a huge spike of recharge current in seconds or faster.
Toyota Prius still has the regular brakes for this reason - the battery can not absorb all the energy released during hard braking.
Flash memory retention is not infinite. Usually it is spec'd as 10 years or so.
What will the ISP do with thr money saved? Because of competition, they'll spend it on service quality improvements for services their customers do use. If they pocketed it, they'd lose business.
This might have happened if Rogers weren't a monopoly in its market. In my area, DSL has much lower coverage and Rogers is the only choice for high-speed Internet.
Yes, they will pocket the money and will not lose business. In fact, they have just increased their rates from 45 to 50 CAD/month for their 5Mbit service.
They carefully avoid the word "capacity" in the press release. This and the claim about faster charge makes me think that they somehow managed to reduce the internal resistance of the battery, but the capacity (measured in Ampere-hours) hasn't changed.
"3 times the power" probably means that the battery can yield 3 times higher current when discharged into a short circuit (before exploding). But the energy storage capacity is the same. I believe that battery technology is already pretty close to the theoretical limit here.
This new development may allow to replace NiCd batteries in very high current applications, which is good.
when reading Slashdot.
These plans have nothing to do with end users. People will still go and buy a $3 CD with the full version on the street, and uninstall the crap that came with the PC.
The real target here is the beige box guys. there may be enough incentive for them to pay the MS tax now, rather than take the risk of preinstalling pirated copies on the PCs they sell.
So what's the solution for Jane Boxwine?
Switch!
A router (with built-in firewall) is obviosly a better solution than a switch in this case.
A local Aquatic Park had the lifegards surfing on their XP box until it was unusable.
Seems to me it takes only a minute of surfing on an XP box in an Aquatic Park (if possible at all) to make the box unusable. Even the most rugged laptop would be ruined pretty quickly.
Google might be able to make good money if they were the only company doing this stuff. I'm sure that they have some interesting patents that will give them some advantage, but this advantage will not last long.
Anybody can do indexing and search on the Internet. The barrier for entry is very low, as Google itself demonstrated. They can be overthrown as the market leader as quickly as they gained this position.
My opinion: this investment is VERY risky.
Microsoft can not make life too difficult for the people running unauthorized copies. If they make it impossible to run pirated Windows, there will be mass migrations to Linux, causing mass acceptance of it and an avalanche of legit Windows users and developers switching as well.
This is a difficult choice for Microsoft. They lose either way, and can only think about minimizing the losses.
I will live to play Half Life 3 and maybe even Duke Nukem Forever!
Intel can argue that their processors are not "accelerator boards" and thus are not subject to the claims. All of the claims talk about 3 distinct things: the motherboard, the accelerator board and the fast microprocessor installed on the accelerator board.
As for the frequency synthesis/multiplication, this is a well-known technique used by radio engineers probably since 1930-s if not earlier.
I am sure (although too lazy to do the search) that Intel has patents of their own covering frequency multiplication inside microprocessors, most likely predating this one.
A jamming device is much more likely to interfere with the hospital equipment than a cell phone. By definition, jamming requires more power than communication, and it has to be spread over wider frequency range.
I could not get to allofmp3.com, but a similar site, mp3search.ru claims on their copyright page that they have a blanket license from the Russian equivalent of ASCAP (www.roms.ru). So while there seems to be a license from songwriters, they don't mention another necessary license, the one from publishers (RIAA).
I suspect (but can not verify at the moment) that allofmp3.com has similar licensing issues.
The appearance of legality seems to fool many people. "Look! They have some kind of license!"
I could not get to allofmp3.com, but found some intersting info on mp3search.ru.
They claim that they have a blanket license from RUSSIAN ORGANIZATION FOR MULTIMEDIA & DIGITAL SYSTEMS (ROMS)
That organization is not the Russian equivalent of RIAA, it is the equivalent of ASCAP - organization of authors and composers.
The copyrights for the tracks on mp3search.ru may have been cleared with songwriters, but not with publishers. So this is half-legal (which means illegal).
The first documented scientific experiments were done by Popov in Russia. But he was too slow in publishing and patenting the results.
Cumberland is mostly rural area, with many people living outside of Rogers (cable) and Bell (DSL) service areas.
Such collaboration in the high-energy physics area began during the Cold War and didn't stop even when all other relationships were at the all-time low in the early 80-s. I was with the USSR Academy of Science in 1988-1996, and visited Fermi National Lab several times in 1991-1995.
I couldn't find any info on this "most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space". I searched Russian sources as well (Russian is my native language). Anybody had more luck with this?
What I've found was the story about Reagan trying to expand technology sanctions against Western companies participating in the construction. This measure was indeed enacted in June 1982.
Here is one interesting link about the pipeline.
As you can see, there is no mention of any disasters, and the project is considered as a major success of the USSR that brought it a significant steady stream of hard currency. This was in fact one of the few Soviet victories during the Cold War.