Yes, it'll shorten them. But if you take that into account when etching them in the first place, they'll shorten to the exact length needed. So shortening isn't a problem.
However...
Chips are made by building up layers that aren't all necessarily at the same height. So when it comes time to put a new layer down, the question becomes 'how do you only melt the top layer in contact with the shield, and not the bottom layer you already melted once?
Connect two lakes and pump up from lower to higher on off hours. Flow down generating electric power for demand periods. Already done in MO and CA.
You forgot to mention the above scheme is only 80% efficient. You then also forgot to mention that the cost of the electricity derived from hydro storage costs more, thus peak electricity costs more. Not to mention the cost of the storage infrastructure, switching equipment, maintenance, staffing, etc. that must be added to the cost.
No matter how you spin it, supplying peak demand *will* cost more.
Yeah, talk about 'speaking of duh'... Read about how the scientists attributed as having agreed upon the existence of global warming were named without their consent, nor had they voiced any such affirmation on the matter.
You have it exactly backwards. From TFA: "DeSmogBlog took it upon themselves to see what the scientists who are on the famed list of "500 scientists who don't believe in global warming" actually think and as it turns out, many of them didn't know they were on it."
If there's a different story you're talking about, by all means please post some linkage.
It would actually be even *more* efficient, and a total lower carbon footprint (if you're into the greenhouse gas thing) if most consumers with electric water heaters would switch to coal-fired water heaters.
Strange, eh? True though, because turning coal to electricity is only about 60% efficient. Plus transmission losses. Yet heating water with coal can be done easily with efficiencies of 90% and higher. Same deal with electric heat. We'd use less coal overall.
Had a neighbor in Pennsylvania that added a 'pea-coal' automatic boiler and a 500 gallon water tank. His new electric + coal bill was *half* his old electric-only bill. The downside was the upfront cost of the new gear, and storage for 2 tons of coal (which lasted him a year).
Bzzzzt, wrong, thank you for playing, have a nice day, next contestant please.
Sorry, that power plant was built back in 1975. Before big-screen TVs and before computers. Before always-ready-on-standby electronics and wall-warts everywhere. And when it was built is *was* scaleable, they *have* to be, because if you generate power that no one uses, it has to be dissipated as heat and *that* is wasteful. And costs money, which gets passed on to the consumers. Meanwhile they've got coal-fired plants that are completely shut down more than 75% of the time, because those plants are only needed during peak times - 8 hours a day for two months in the summer, and 8 hours a day for two months in the winter. Meanwhile the maintenance costs and staffing costs need to be paid 100% of the time, whether it's running or not.
Let the consumer be hit in the pocket with the true cost of that 50 inch plasma TV, or the true cost of leaving the computer on so they can have that torrented movie waiting for them when they get home from work. Either that, or the consumers will have to pay a *much* higher flat rate to pay for yet another power plant that will only get used for those 6 days a year during a heatwave when the power company has to brown out because of capacity. Yeah, real smart there... paying millions for a plant that sits idle... fully staffed and maintained... for 51 weeks of the year.
Figured it was frustrated total internal reflection at work and managed to find out that the concept is pretty much unpatentable due to prior art. Not very often you see that!
That video does go to show that 'nifty' goes a lot farther than just computer based interaction. I'm imagining some cool new video game concepts, like virtual air-hockey or pong, plus games whose imputs might be better based on touching a panel than joystick and buttons.
How fast is your processor? 3.73 GHz? Is that in binary or decimal Gigas? Do we all get to sue Intel and AMD now because their stuff is in a computer and therefore should be using base 2 notations? Creative got sued over something that wasn't even a computer! What's next, "I thought my petaflop supercomputer would be doing 1,125,899,906,842,624 operations per second, not a measly 1,000,000,000,000,000!" Do I get to sue Cisco too, because my gigabit ethernet seems to be 73 million bits per second short?
Is there even an ISO standard on what Kilo, Mega, Giga, etc. mean when applied to digital quantities?
His worldly possessions, including his accounts and passwords, belong to those he left behind.
Um, close but no cigar. His MySpace account always has been and always will be owned by MySpace. Same with Hotmail and GMail, etc. Legally you cannot hack the passwords for those accounts. Now, if he had a domain, and paid for web hosting, that'd be different. Then you'd have a legal right to access those accounts. From experience, even writing in with a death certificate, etc., you won't be granted access to any of his online accounts from the big names. No GMail, Yahoo, MySpace, etc.
I was thinking along the lines of cPanel, actually.
Oddly enough, it's a proprietary app managing thousands of Linux based websites, and doing quite well for itself, and no one's complaining.
Now, imagine MS doing something along those lines, but with a more comprehensive feature set aimed at managing the whole system. If they come up with something that's as good as, if not better than cPanel, you *will* see admins lining up to license it. And you'll likely see productivity enhancements. And the occasional admin saying to themselves "Damn, I didn't know that option was available, glad I got this GUI app!".
Want to really get your knickers in a bunch? Imagine MS releasing a competitor to KDE and Gnome. In fact, don't imagine it, *expect it*.
Reading TFA and the details on the vulnerability, it seems to me that the attacker must first be able to sniff packets being sent to the DNS server from the desktop PC. This means the attacker apparently must have access to the network the desktop is on.
Now, forgive me if I'm missing the obvious, but why would an attacker, *who can read an outgoing request to a DNS server in real time*, not simply craft a reply using the outgoing packet data as a model? Why bother figuring out the transaction ID when an attacker, according to the scenarios given, *should already have it*, having gotten it from the sniffed packet.
I just don't see how being predictable makes this any worse, when you're apparently dealing with someone already on your own network, or on the route between you and your DNS server.
A 6-inch wide blotch is a pretty large one, I might add, not a simple cut.
Women have periods sometimes, ya know. What I don't know is if it's possible to tell how old that bloodstain was, or if it was menstrual (Reiser claimed it was a result of sex). Or, if it's possible, if the tests were done.
Current budget is 10 million? Sheesh, I'd no idea they'd even done anything other than provide computational services and technical expertise for others' findings.
I'm not sure where you get 1.5 degrees from for the asteroid belt. I'm assuming a 2 to 12 year orbital for the majority (Mars to Jupiter years), which gives me a.5 degree to.083 degree per diem change, relative to the background stars. True, I'm not counting parallax due to Earth's orbit, however if that results in more than a half degree apparent position change, it's either retrograde, or the object in the mirror is closer than you think. Mind you, I'm just best-guesstimating, I suppose I should break out the slide rule and do some real math for a change, but as an armchair/.er that'd be against the rules:-). That's why I'm not sure of just how much 'lag' the aim of the second scope should have.
As for exposure, I'm trying to extrapolate from the scant information available on current CIGS sensor research. My assumption was sensitivity in UBV + NIR, unfiltered since we're not looking for spectrum, just something that's tossing photons our way. Magnitude 35 gives me, I think, about two photons per minute in that spectrum range. Yeah, I know... I'd love to have that sensor in my dSLR too, but again this is all assuming advances in state-of-the-art. Right now a 10,000x improvement in sensitivity and huge s/n ratio gains are being reported. I'm probably being overoptimistic on IR imaging, but a small enough sensor at prime focus would hopefully be enough for magnitude 35. Even then, I don't think you could detect something as small as 140 meters past Saturn-ish distances.
Adaptive optics are nice for making things clearer, but they still do nothing about airglow and UV absorbtion. For true faint-object detection, you've simply got no choice other than a space based platform.
Notice I said a *pair* of telescopes. And look at my numbers and you'll see they only make sense for one telescope. Meaning I assumed most readers would catch on to the fact that one telescope would be aimed 'behind' the other, such that it covers the area of space previously covered anywhere from 1 to 7 days before, depending on what's deemed most effective. That gives you initial results within a week.
Continued tracking is simply continued observation, if needed. I'm sure that 99.9% of the objects detected wouldn't need a second look, and those that do can easily be retargeted after a survey, or targeted by other scopes.
25 minute exposures are hardly a waste, considering an object a mere 140 meters across somewhere around the orbit of Uranus or Neptune is going to be a magnitude 35, or even less. You're going to *need* as many photons as possible for something that small and that far away to be detected.
Okay, for your fifth point. How about budget of ZERO, and operational costs of ZERO. How? Like you said... "competetive". Why compete? Just let the other guys (like STARRS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-STARRS) do all your work for you. Only bad news there is the tracking limitations imposed by atmospheric blurring, and inability to detect the faintest objects.
And where'd the 10 million number come from anyhow? Did you have a solution that came in around 10 mil that could be started *now*? Or were you just throwing out unrealistically low numbers?
In 2005, the US Congress directed NASA to catalog 90 percent of potentially hazardous NEOs greater than 140 meters in diameter by the year 2020
Now, if I were a NASA decision maker, I'd put that job off too. Considering there are still 12 years to go before the deadline, the likelihood that technology developments will make the job faster, easier and cheaper probably exceeds 100%.
With all the competition from the private sector, getting a telescope into space dedicated to imaging asteroids will almost certainly be cheaper. And a space telescope should be more effective than a ground based one, even with adaptive optics. CIGS image sensors were just announced recently, with superb low light performance, exactly what's needed for low albedo object discovery. Lightweight foamed metal and graphite materials that have potential uses in mirrors are making progress, as is computing power and artificial intelligence. So, in 5 years, chances are NASA would be able to put together a package that does the job better, faster and at a lower price than anything they could do today.
Assuming a pair of 2 meter telescopes on a single orbiting platform, with a 25 minute exposure time and 5 minute re-aiming time, and a 1.5 degree field of view. Each scope could image a 1 degree square every 30 minutes. Or 24 degrees per day. Or a 360 degree circle in 15 days. Or 5 degrees above and below the ecliptic plane twice in under a year. With overlap. 2 years for a more comprehensive +/- 10 degree survey.
So, yeah. With 12 years remaining to complete a job that'll take 2 years, and the longer you wait the cheaper it gets, no wonder NASA hasn't budgeted anything for it.
Hah! When I was hired, I had to go and get a physical exam. You know, those complete physicals that assure the insurance company that'll be providing health insurance that you're healthy. And yeah, that included a prostate check, at my age. *You* had to get looked at with x-ray glasses. *I* had to bend over and cough.
On a non-funny note, why is this such a big deal? If you were ever injured in an accident, would you *prefer* the doctors not operate on you because they might see you (gasp) naked? Guys, as you get older do you skip things like prostate and hernia checks? Ladies, have you *never* gotten a mammogram or seen an OB-GYN?
Back to the funny side, how the hell can a woman who is wearing thong underwear, with pants with a too-low waistline so she's showing off her whale-tail, and who probably has worn a skin-tight bikini in public tens if not hundreds of times, complain about a blurry black and white shot of themselves?
Seriously, given a choice of "all passengers must go through screening in a bathing suit" or "get a t-ray scan", I'll gladly submit to a t-ray.
As I said below, from the InPhase website: "20MB/s-120 MB/s transfer rate and milliseconds data access time" So, current gen is one sixth as fast as an LTO tape drive. Stores less. Costs more both for the drive and media.
Also from the InPhase website: "True WORM Media" Meaning, write ONCE. So your straw man argument about a billion writes makes no sense, and highlights yet another advantage of tape. The $120 cartridge is *reusable*. The only advantage is, as I said above, the data can't be tampered with.
Also don't forget who their target market was. *Archival*. If you need to read from the media *that* often, you'll be reading from a hard drive instead, after reading the tape or holodisk just once.
Like I said, smells like fail. Milliscond access times are worthless for long term storage.
Know any tape drives that can slam back 300GB of data in a (literal) couple of minutes... as in 2 or 3? Nope. However, LTO-4 drives can write at 120 MB/sec, sustained. Which just happens to be faster than anything but a fast RAID array can deliver it.
I also happened to read InPhase's website: "300GB - 1.6TB Capacities 20MB/s-120 MB/s transfer rate and milliseconds data access time"
i.e. Their *current* device, at 300 GB, is *ONE SIXTH* as fast as current tape drives.
This thing will be LTO's lunch. --there, fixed that for you.
Hah! I'm in your boat. By the time I got through the registration and deposit the money process, it was taken. Okay, I'm open for suggestions. Peggy.su was available, but I'm an anti-Elvis, like Michael J. Fox (shout out if you actually got that joke). Sag.su and a few other 3 letter word domains are available.
Anyone know any good foreign words that end in su?
LTO-4 tape: A drive is $5000, and an 800 GB tape is $120. Magnetic tape has a very long, provable, verified and *good* track record at being able to retain data. I've read 30 year old 9-track reels, and have cassettes from the 70's that'll still play.
Their drive is 3x the price, and their media is 50% more expensive for half the space. Their only benefit is the holographic media is random access. Bah. If it's for archiving, who cares about random access?
This gadget smells like fail. Their *only* niche is providing a long term archiving solution with random access, that can't be modified once written (TFA mentions nothing about rewritability). Maybe nice for government or accountability work, but that's all I can think of.
The excitement isn't about superconductivity at 55K by itself. It's got everyone excited because, *finally*, there's something besides cuprates that superconducts above about 33K (which defines high temperature in the superconductor world).
Now, instead of having just one 'family' of HTSC materials to base hypotheses and theories upon, scientists now have TWO. Now they can compare similarities and differences between those two families. This gives them a HUGE boost towards figuring out the exact mechanism involved, plus potential leads on new materials that exhibit similar atomic structure which could also superconduct.
According to TFA, they have storage for unroasted beans, and roasted beans, to allow them to sit to 'degas', as they call it. Roasted beans get dumped in the top of a cylinder, slowly making their way downwards as 'degassed' beans are pulled from the bottom and more roasted beans are added on top.
"It is NOT, because as Monty will always pick a door with a goat behind it, your choices are always going to be two"
Your argument *only* works if Monty opens a door *before* you pick. *And*, you get to pick *twice*. First time from three doors, second time from two doors. You pick, from a choice of three, giving Monty a choice of two. Your argument is based on the reverse, Monty being able to pick from three doors, and you only get two.
Do you see it now? You 'lock' a door, precluding Monty from choosing it.
Remember, since you have first pick, your chances of getting a goat are 2/3. Meaning you most likely picked a goat. Meaning when Monty reveals a goat, the remaining door is most likely a car.
Actually, IP address allocations are handled by ARIN (http://www.arin.net/) and other regional registries (like RIPE http://www.ripe.net/) and the NRO (http://www.nro.net/). If you consider them the Phone Company, then ICANN is simply the Yellow and White Pages.
Register.com is just as expensive as NetSol, but lacking any evil qualities as far as I can tell. Real people answer the phone if you need to call, and are helpful to boot. If your domain is going to expire, you get a PHONE CALL reminding you to renew, after the traditional emails. I have never gotten spammed at the email address I used for registration, aside from the occasional pricing specials or new service announcements.
Granted, I don't own hundreds of domains, so price isn't a major issue. If it were, I'd probably be switching to a more evil registrar whose business plan includes making money off the backs of the domain owners. But for now, register.com seems to b truly 'non-evil'.
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Yes, it'll shorten them. But if you take that into account when etching them in the first place, they'll shorten to the exact length needed. So shortening isn't a problem.
However...
Chips are made by building up layers that aren't all necessarily at the same height. So when it comes time to put a new layer down, the question becomes 'how do you only melt the top layer in contact with the shield, and not the bottom layer you already melted once?
Connect two lakes and pump up from lower to higher on off hours. Flow down generating electric power for demand periods. Already done in MO and CA.
You forgot to mention the above scheme is only 80% efficient.
You then also forgot to mention that the cost of the electricity derived from hydro storage costs more, thus peak electricity costs more. Not to mention the cost of the storage infrastructure, switching equipment, maintenance, staffing, etc. that must be added to the cost.
No matter how you spin it, supplying peak demand *will* cost more.
Yeah, talk about 'speaking of duh'...
Read about how the scientists attributed as having agreed upon the existence of global warming were named without their consent, nor had they voiced any such affirmation on the matter.
Please *do* read about it, with your comprehension cap on your head brim forward this time.
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/business/45-scientists-dump-global-warming-deniers-in-24-hours/1117
You have it exactly backwards. From TFA:
"DeSmogBlog took it upon themselves to see what the scientists who are on the famed list of "500 scientists who don't believe in global warming" actually think and as it turns out, many of them didn't know they were on it."
If there's a different story you're talking about, by all means please post some linkage.
Want to know a strange, but true fact?
It would actually be even *more* efficient, and a total lower carbon footprint (if you're into the greenhouse gas thing) if most consumers with electric water heaters would switch to coal-fired water heaters.
Strange, eh? True though, because turning coal to electricity is only about 60% efficient. Plus transmission losses. Yet heating water with coal can be done easily with efficiencies of 90% and higher. Same deal with electric heat. We'd use less coal overall.
Had a neighbor in Pennsylvania that added a 'pea-coal' automatic boiler and a 500 gallon water tank. His new electric + coal bill was *half* his old electric-only bill. The downside was the upfront cost of the new gear, and storage for 2 tons of coal (which lasted him a year).
Bzzzzt, wrong, thank you for playing, have a nice day, next contestant please.
Sorry, that power plant was built back in 1975. Before big-screen TVs and before computers. Before always-ready-on-standby electronics and wall-warts everywhere. And when it was built is *was* scaleable, they *have* to be, because if you generate power that no one uses, it has to be dissipated as heat and *that* is wasteful. And costs money, which gets passed on to the consumers. Meanwhile they've got coal-fired plants that are completely shut down more than 75% of the time, because those plants are only needed during peak times - 8 hours a day for two months in the summer, and 8 hours a day for two months in the winter. Meanwhile the maintenance costs and staffing costs need to be paid 100% of the time, whether it's running or not.
Let the consumer be hit in the pocket with the true cost of that 50 inch plasma TV, or the true cost of leaving the computer on so they can have that torrented movie waiting for them when they get home from work. Either that, or the consumers will have to pay a *much* higher flat rate to pay for yet another power plant that will only get used for those 6 days a year during a heatwave when the power company has to brown out because of capacity. Yeah, real smart there... paying millions for a plant that sits idle... fully staffed and maintained... for 51 weeks of the year.
I researched multi-touch homebrews a couple of years ago after seeing this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peWX0hcqGdc
Figured it was frustrated total internal reflection at work and managed to find out that the concept is pretty much unpatentable due to prior art. Not very often you see that!
That video does go to show that 'nifty' goes a lot farther than just computer based interaction. I'm imagining some cool new video game concepts, like virtual air-hockey or pong, plus games whose imputs might be better based on touching a panel than joystick and buttons.
How fast is your processor? 3.73 GHz? Is that in binary or decimal Gigas? Do we all get to sue Intel and AMD now because their stuff is in a computer and therefore should be using base 2 notations? Creative got sued over something that wasn't even a computer! What's next, "I thought my petaflop supercomputer would be doing 1,125,899,906,842,624 operations per second, not a measly 1,000,000,000,000,000!" Do I get to sue Cisco too, because my gigabit ethernet seems to be 73 million bits per second short?
Is there even an ISO standard on what Kilo, Mega, Giga, etc. mean when applied to digital quantities?
His worldly possessions, including his accounts and passwords, belong to those he left behind.
Um, close but no cigar.
His MySpace account always has been and always will be owned by MySpace. Same with Hotmail and GMail, etc. Legally you cannot hack the passwords for those accounts. Now, if he had a domain, and paid for web hosting, that'd be different. Then you'd have a legal right to access those accounts. From experience, even writing in with a death certificate, etc., you won't be granted access to any of his online accounts from the big names. No GMail, Yahoo, MySpace, etc.
I was thinking along the lines of cPanel, actually.
Oddly enough, it's a proprietary app managing thousands of Linux based websites, and doing quite well for itself, and no one's complaining.
Now, imagine MS doing something along those lines, but with a more comprehensive feature set aimed at managing the whole system. If they come up with something that's as good as, if not better than cPanel, you *will* see admins lining up to license it. And you'll likely see productivity enhancements. And the occasional admin saying to themselves "Damn, I didn't know that option was available, glad I got this GUI app!".
Want to really get your knickers in a bunch? Imagine MS releasing a competitor to KDE and Gnome. In fact, don't imagine it, *expect it*.
Reading TFA and the details on the vulnerability, it seems to me that the attacker must first be able to sniff packets being sent to the DNS server from the desktop PC. This means the attacker apparently must have access to the network the desktop is on.
Now, forgive me if I'm missing the obvious, but why would an attacker, *who can read an outgoing request to a DNS server in real time*, not simply craft a reply using the outgoing packet data as a model? Why bother figuring out the transaction ID when an attacker, according to the scenarios given, *should already have it*, having gotten it from the sniffed packet.
I just don't see how being predictable makes this any worse, when you're apparently dealing with someone already on your own network, or on the route between you and your DNS server.
Women have periods sometimes, ya know. What I don't know is if it's possible to tell how old that bloodstain was, or if it was menstrual (Reiser claimed it was a result of sex). Or, if it's possible, if the tests were done.
Current budget is 10 million? Sheesh, I'd no idea they'd even done anything other than provide computational services and technical expertise for others' findings.
.5 degree to .083 degree per diem change, relative to the background stars. True, I'm not counting parallax due to Earth's orbit, however if that results in more than a half degree apparent position change, it's either retrograde, or the object in the mirror is closer than you think. Mind you, I'm just best-guesstimating, I suppose I should break out the slide rule and do some real math for a change, but as an armchair /.er that'd be against the rules :-). That's why I'm not sure of just how much 'lag' the aim of the second scope should have.
I'm not sure where you get 1.5 degrees from for the asteroid belt. I'm assuming a 2 to 12 year orbital for the majority (Mars to Jupiter years), which gives me a
As for exposure, I'm trying to extrapolate from the scant information available on current CIGS sensor research. My assumption was sensitivity in UBV + NIR, unfiltered since we're not looking for spectrum, just something that's tossing photons our way. Magnitude 35 gives me, I think, about two photons per minute in that spectrum range. Yeah, I know... I'd love to have that sensor in my dSLR too, but again this is all assuming advances in state-of-the-art. Right now a 10,000x improvement in sensitivity and huge s/n ratio gains are being reported. I'm probably being overoptimistic on IR imaging, but a small enough sensor at prime focus would hopefully be enough for magnitude 35. Even then, I don't think you could detect something as small as 140 meters past Saturn-ish distances.
Adaptive optics are nice for making things clearer, but they still do nothing about airglow and UV absorbtion. For true faint-object detection, you've simply got no choice other than a space based platform.
Notice I said a *pair* of telescopes. And look at my numbers and you'll see they only make sense for one telescope. Meaning I assumed most readers would catch on to the fact that one telescope would be aimed 'behind' the other, such that it covers the area of space previously covered anywhere from 1 to 7 days before, depending on what's deemed most effective. That gives you initial results within a week.
Continued tracking is simply continued observation, if needed. I'm sure that 99.9% of the objects detected wouldn't need a second look, and those that do can easily be retargeted after a survey, or targeted by other scopes.
25 minute exposures are hardly a waste, considering an object a mere 140 meters across somewhere around the orbit of Uranus or Neptune is going to be a magnitude 35, or even less. You're going to *need* as many photons as possible for something that small and that far away to be detected.
Okay, for your fifth point. How about budget of ZERO, and operational costs of ZERO. How? Like you said... "competetive". Why compete? Just let the other guys (like STARRS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-STARRS) do all your work for you. Only bad news there is the tracking limitations imposed by atmospheric blurring, and inability to detect the faintest objects.
And where'd the 10 million number come from anyhow? Did you have a solution that came in around 10 mil that could be started *now*? Or were you just throwing out unrealistically low numbers?
In 2005, the US Congress directed NASA to catalog 90 percent of potentially hazardous NEOs greater than 140 meters in diameter by the year 2020
Now, if I were a NASA decision maker, I'd put that job off too. Considering there are still 12 years to go before the deadline, the likelihood that technology developments will make the job faster, easier and cheaper probably exceeds 100%.
With all the competition from the private sector, getting a telescope into space dedicated to imaging asteroids will almost certainly be cheaper. And a space telescope should be more effective than a ground based one, even with adaptive optics. CIGS image sensors were just announced recently, with superb low light performance, exactly what's needed for low albedo object discovery. Lightweight foamed metal and graphite materials that have potential uses in mirrors are making progress, as is computing power and artificial intelligence. So, in 5 years, chances are NASA would be able to put together a package that does the job better, faster and at a lower price than anything they could do today.
Assuming a pair of 2 meter telescopes on a single orbiting platform, with a 25 minute exposure time and 5 minute re-aiming time, and a 1.5 degree field of view. Each scope could image a 1 degree square every 30 minutes. Or 24 degrees per day. Or a 360 degree circle in 15 days. Or 5 degrees above and below the ecliptic plane twice in under a year. With overlap. 2 years for a more comprehensive +/- 10 degree survey.
So, yeah. With 12 years remaining to complete a job that'll take 2 years, and the longer you wait the cheaper it gets, no wonder NASA hasn't budgeted anything for it.
Hah! When I was hired, I had to go and get a physical exam. You know, those complete physicals that assure the insurance company that'll be providing health insurance that you're healthy. And yeah, that included a prostate check, at my age. *You* had to get looked at with x-ray glasses. *I* had to bend over and cough.
On a non-funny note, why is this such a big deal? If you were ever injured in an accident, would you *prefer* the doctors not operate on you because they might see you (gasp) naked? Guys, as you get older do you skip things like prostate and hernia checks? Ladies, have you *never* gotten a mammogram or seen an OB-GYN?
Back to the funny side, how the hell can a woman who is wearing thong underwear, with pants with a too-low waistline so she's showing off her whale-tail, and who probably has worn a skin-tight bikini in public tens if not hundreds of times, complain about a blurry black and white shot of themselves?
Seriously, given a choice of "all passengers must go through screening in a bathing suit" or "get a t-ray scan", I'll gladly submit to a t-ray.
As I said below, from the InPhase website:
"20MB/s-120 MB/s transfer rate and milliseconds data access time"
So, current gen is one sixth as fast as an LTO tape drive. Stores less. Costs more both for the drive and media.
Also from the InPhase website:
"True WORM Media"
Meaning, write ONCE. So your straw man argument about a billion writes makes no sense, and highlights yet another advantage of tape. The $120 cartridge is *reusable*. The only advantage is, as I said above, the data can't be tampered with.
Also don't forget who their target market was. *Archival*. If you need to read from the media *that* often, you'll be reading from a hard drive instead, after reading the tape or holodisk just once.
Like I said, smells like fail. Milliscond access times are worthless for long term storage.
Know any tape drives that can slam back 300GB of data in a (literal) couple of minutes... as in 2 or 3?
Nope. However, LTO-4 drives can write at 120 MB/sec, sustained. Which just happens to be faster than anything but a fast RAID array can deliver it.
I also happened to read InPhase's website:
"300GB - 1.6TB Capacities
20MB/s-120 MB/s transfer rate and milliseconds data access time"
i.e. Their *current* device, at 300 GB, is *ONE SIXTH* as fast as current tape drives.
This thing will be LTO's lunch. --there, fixed that for you.
Hah! I'm in your boat. By the time I got through the registration and deposit the money process, it was taken. Okay, I'm open for suggestions. Peggy.su was available, but I'm an anti-Elvis, like Michael J. Fox (shout out if you actually got that joke). Sag.su and a few other 3 letter word domains are available.
Anyone know any good foreign words that end in su?
she.su, the.su and you.su are all for sale though:
http://auction.nic.ru/torgi/list.cgi?keyword=*.su&sort=price&start=351
Oh, and to garner both +informative *and +funny mods, I'll also point out that PORN.SU is also for sale, at an apparently reasonable price:
http://auction.nic.ru/torgi/lot.cgi?id=16262 or http://auction.nic.ru/torgi/list.cgi?keyword=*.su&sort=price&start=401
LTO-4 tape:
A drive is $5000, and an 800 GB tape is $120. Magnetic tape has a very long, provable, verified and *good* track record at being able to retain data. I've read 30 year old 9-track reels, and have cassettes from the 70's that'll still play.
Their drive is 3x the price, and their media is 50% more expensive for half the space. Their only benefit is the holographic media is random access. Bah. If it's for archiving, who cares about random access?
This gadget smells like fail. Their *only* niche is providing a long term archiving solution with random access, that can't be modified once written (TFA mentions nothing about rewritability). Maybe nice for government or accountability work, but that's all I can think of.
The excitement isn't about superconductivity at 55K by itself. It's got everyone excited because, *finally*, there's something besides cuprates that superconducts above about 33K (which defines high temperature in the superconductor world).
Now, instead of having just one 'family' of HTSC materials to base hypotheses and theories upon, scientists now have TWO. Now they can compare similarities and differences between those two families. This gives them a HUGE boost towards figuring out the exact mechanism involved, plus potential leads on new materials that exhibit similar atomic structure which could also superconduct.
According to TFA, they have storage for unroasted beans, and roasted beans, to allow them to sit to 'degas', as they call it. Roasted beans get dumped in the top of a cylinder, slowly making their way downwards as 'degassed' beans are pulled from the bottom and more roasted beans are added on top.
In a nutshell, 'they already thought of that'.
You're missing something.
"It is NOT, because as Monty will always pick a door with a goat behind it, your choices are always going to be two"
Your argument *only* works if Monty opens a door *before* you pick. *And*, you get to pick *twice*. First time from three doors, second time from two doors.
You pick, from a choice of three, giving Monty a choice of two.
Your argument is based on the reverse, Monty being able to pick from three doors, and you only get two.
Do you see it now? You 'lock' a door, precluding Monty from choosing it.
Remember, since you have first pick, your chances of getting a goat are 2/3. Meaning you most likely picked a goat. Meaning when Monty reveals a goat, the remaining door is most likely a car.
Actually, IP address allocations are handled by ARIN (http://www.arin.net/) and other regional registries (like RIPE http://www.ripe.net/) and the NRO (http://www.nro.net/). If you consider them the Phone Company, then ICANN is simply the Yellow and White Pages.
Register.com is just as expensive as NetSol, but lacking any evil qualities as far as I can tell. Real people answer the phone if you need to call, and are helpful to boot. If your domain is going to expire, you get a PHONE CALL reminding you to renew, after the traditional emails. I have never gotten spammed at the email address I used for registration, aside from the occasional pricing specials or new service announcements.
Granted, I don't own hundreds of domains, so price isn't a major issue. If it were, I'd probably be switching to a more evil registrar whose business plan includes making money off the backs of the domain owners. But for now, register.com seems to b truly 'non-evil'.