Disregarding the issue of using BMI to indicate a person's relative health, this begins the process of health insurance companies using more and more factors to decide how much you pay or whether you're covered at all. For now, it's BMI. Tomorrow it may be a full genome scan for latent genetic disorders or your susceptibility to other illnesses - obesity, alcoholism, sickle cell anemia, cancer, etc. Can you think of a better definition of a pre-existing condition?
Next they'll consider the likelihood of your offspring being healthy - do the parents carry genes for inherited diseases? What are the odds that a child will have a genetic disease? They can refuse to allow to cover your offspring if you and your spouse aren't genetically 'fit'.
"Medeco deadbolt locks... can be opened in seconds with a strip of metal and a thin screw driver..."
The thin strip of metal is called a "key" - you insert it into the "lock", and turn it. I'm not sure of the screwdriver's purpose. Perhaps you use it to scratch your head, wondering why you brought it along.
So you're a boat that is typically used for transporting goods, vehicles, and passengers across relatively short distances that has been pressed into service carrying magical paraphernalia for Hogwarts, I presume?
Perhaps you meant "The Spelling Faerie" or "The Spelling Fairy"?
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... been cracked, and no, it wasn't for lack of popularity. The original Divx security was never broken. It was as close to a perfect system as has been deployed in that it did not rely on information burned into the player and information burned on the disk. It actually updated its crypto keys every time it phoned home. The security processor was not part of the parent player - it was a separate, tamper-resistant gizmo with self-destruct tendencies. If you didn't pay your bill or the box couldn't phone home, it wouldn't play any Divx disks.
No problem. To your point, though, there's a little-used half-duplex standard called 100base-T4 that uses all 4 pairs. Current 10base-T and 100base-TX only use two pair, one in each direction.
The other side of the interconnect problem is latency. You have a delay of 3.33 nS per meter of cabling at the speed of light. At 96 Gbps (I'm assuming 96 Gibps, i.e. 96 * 2^30), that's 344 bits per meter 'in the pipe'. Most forms of cabling transmit pulses at anywhere from.66c to.9c, so it's actually worse in real life.
If I want to interconnect two machines across the street from each other (say 50m of fiber down to the street, another 50m across the street, and another 50m to the other machine), that's a microsecond round trip, ignoring processing time on the other side. In other words, you could send 103kb+ one way in the same time it takes to send a single bit and receive (instantaneous) acknowledgment.
Raw network speed isn't the only variable in the CPU-CPU interconnect equation. We can raise bit rates, but we're going to have a hard time raising the speed of light!
If we assume there are a half million plates as the article states (let's call it a 512K, i.e. 2^19), and there's a petabyte (2^50) worth of uncompressed data on them, that's 2^31 bytes (2GB) per plate. Assuming 3 bytes/pixel and square plates, that's about 26750x26750 pixels. With a 12x12 inch plate, that'd be about 2230 pixels/inch. If the plates are smaller, say 4 inches, that goes up to a more respectable 6700 pixels/inch.
Cost of storage? Free!!! They should get a few gmail accounts and store the scans there. Occasionally mail them between accounts for redundancy. 8-)
The OP is exactly right - stacking the film between orange Fiestaware dishes will render the cosmic ray problem moot. As you say, the radiation from the dinnerware will blast the film in no time, though.
I used to have a chunk of orange Fiestaware - it was significantly radioactive wrt background.
I just junked 30 cu yards of old computer junk - including some of those $12,000 80 MB drives and scads of removable disk packs. Seagate Sabre 368MB drives - the cat's meow at the time - tossed! LA120 printers, Concurrent Computer minicomputers, ancient PC motherboards/systems, literally tons of ancient history.
No kidding - I was simultaneously revolted and curiously attracted to that particular culinary delight. The overtly treat-your-employees-like-robots sound of 'nutrition carrier' juxtaposed with something as delicious-sounding as "Egg Yolk Pie" creeped me out.
I drive a 2k3 Cooper S like a demon possessed, and average 32 mpg between fill-ups. I'm sure if it weren't so fun to drive I could bump that figure to over 40. The Cooper S is quite a bit larger and more comfortable than the Smart car, I feel certain.
The attraction of using centripetal force is that over a small area, you can design a (very nearly) perfectly uniform gravitational field. Note that the strength of the field need not be any exact value, just uniform.
My original thought was that by setting the velocity of the mass to exactly 1 m/s and and the length of the string to exactly 1 m you'd be left with the definition of a kg. It seems that what you're left with is 1 N.
the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.
and the meter:
the distance traveled by light in absolute vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second
Why not tie the kg to the second and meter via the Newton? 1 Newton is defined as 1 kg * m * s^-2. Using centripetal force in a plane normal to the earth's gravitational field eliminates gravity from the equation.
How much of that ejecta will end up in space, and how much will fall back onto Io? From what I could see, it looked like most of it was arcing back down onto the surface, although that might be the result of a trick of perspective.
Aren't the Schumann resonances centered more near 20 Hz (yes, Hertz. Not kHz)? Generally the frequencies are listed as 7.8, 13.8, 19.7, 25.7 and 31.7 Hz. They are true resonances, and don't seem to be a broad spectrum.
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Next they'll consider the likelihood of your offspring being healthy - do the parents carry genes for inherited diseases? What are the odds that a child will have a genetic disease? They can refuse to allow to cover your offspring if you and your spouse aren't genetically 'fit'.
A scary world, indeed.
The thin strip of metal is called a "key" - you insert it into the "lock", and turn it. I'm not sure of the screwdriver's purpose. Perhaps you use it to scratch your head, wondering why you brought it along.
So you're a boat that is typically used for transporting goods, vehicles, and passengers across relatively short distances that has been pressed into service carrying magical paraphernalia for Hogwarts, I presume?
Perhaps you meant "The Spelling Faerie" or "The Spelling Fairy"?
... been cracked, and no, it wasn't for lack of popularity. The original Divx security was never broken. It was as close to a perfect system as has been deployed in that it did not rely on information burned into the player and information burned on the disk. It actually updated its crypto keys every time it phoned home. The security processor was not part of the parent player - it was a separate, tamper-resistant gizmo with self-destruct tendencies. If you didn't pay your bill or the box couldn't phone home, it wouldn't play any Divx disks.
"...when the Germans invaded Pearl Harbor..."?
No problem. To your point, though, there's a little-used half-duplex standard called 100base-T4 that uses all 4 pairs. Current 10base-T and 100base-TX only use two pair, one in each direction.
If I want to interconnect two machines across the street from each other (say 50m of fiber down to the street, another 50m across the street, and another 50m to the other machine), that's a microsecond round trip, ignoring processing time on the other side. In other words, you could send 103kb+ one way in the same time it takes to send a single bit and receive (instantaneous) acknowledgment.
Raw network speed isn't the only variable in the CPU-CPU interconnect equation. We can raise bit rates, but we're going to have a hard time raising the speed of light!
My Kingdom for some mod points! please say you'll drive there in your Hummer, and sit in the drive-thru revving your engine needlessly. 8-)
Just use pre-seasoned shot!
Cost of storage? Free!!! They should get a few gmail accounts and store the scans there. Occasionally mail them between accounts for redundancy. 8-)
You can be sure that all those PETA-bytes are vegetarian!
I used to have a chunk of orange Fiestaware - it was significantly radioactive wrt background.
A link to a blog entry re: this product: http://toshuo.com/2006/truth-in-advertising-ii-th
Another brand of EYP: http://fuma.en.alibaba.com/offerdetail/57475826/S
I drive a 2k3 Cooper S like a demon possessed, and average 32 mpg between fill-ups. I'm sure if it weren't so fun to drive I could bump that figure to over 40. The Cooper S is quite a bit larger and more comfortable than the Smart car, I feel certain.
My original thought was that by setting the velocity of the mass to exactly 1 m/s and and the length of the string to exactly 1 m you'd be left with the definition of a kg. It seems that what you're left with is 1 N.
Don't forget Higgy Baby (as TC called him) from "Magnum, P.I.".
How much of that ejecta will end up in space, and how much will fall back onto Io? From what I could see, it looked like most of it was arcing back down onto the surface, although that might be the result of a trick of perspective.
Compare the concertina wire and steel on the right and the greenish facade on the building just in front of the graffiti in the flickr photo.
See this excellent VLF/ELF site for more info regarding the world below 100kHz.
I don't think ramblings about a Cheshire Cat count.
What? Oh, wrong Carroll. Sorry.
Rodents Of Unusual Size definitely exist.
They're even classified as fish (according to the Catholic Church), and can be eaten on Friday!
What's next, smart boobies? Please don't start growing neurons on anything made of silicone.
So is a drop of salt water somehow larger/smaller than a drop of fresh water?