Actually, I looked at the price of the Kindle, winced, and bought an Eee PC instead. It may be a little harder to read than the Kindle, but it's a hell of a lot more capable, and I've gotten pretty fond of it.;-)
Met a friend at a property I'm renovating, and gave him an old time-lapse VCR and video switching unit to play with. We were talking about how the technology's changed.
Ten years ago, even five years ago, you'd get an expensive VHS-based VCR with a time-lapse mode, and an expensive video switching unit that would alternate individual frames of video to send to the VCR, and to separate the playback.
Now, you buy a DVR with multiple inputs - or a full-fledged computer with a PCI card that lets you hook multiple video inputs into it.
Five years from now, it'll be a computer with a simple gigabit ethernet interface, plugged into a 802.11n+ wireless router, and the cameras will all send their video streams over the air, no analog wiring at all.
You don't need to do a STEM, but you do need to get an analog read off the data head, which of course requires you to disassemble the drive to connect to the wires. This is why reconstruction costs big bucks, and why no one is going to take this challenge to win $40.
First off, HDTVs have reached price points lower than the similar-sized CRTs were before flat panels were introduced. A 32" LCD HDTV at $600 is about the same as a 32" CRT was in 2000. And people love the bigger ones.
Second, with SDTV broadcasts ending really soon, the average Joe is using the switchover as an excuse to upgrade. (And when the average Jane asks her husband why not get a converter box, average Joe says it sucks.;-)
Blu-ray has remained very expensive; if Sony can't get more market penetration - and fast - there won't be any resistance to the introduction of newer technology. Winning the war against HD-DVD will have been a Pyrrhic victory.
For this chip to enter the US market, it needs two things:
(1) Speed. Depending on how fast it is, considering how much US CPUs have ramped up, we may wind up emulating their CPU in software for the few things we'd need to run.
(2) Software. Without a killer app that people in the US *have* to have, there's no reason for machines based on that CPU to come here. I can see it, though; some game that gets popular in China and becomes a grass-roots hit here.
We'll see how much infrastructure the chip requires. US introduction may range from something like the Mac Mini to a PCI-Express card to run stuff on our current consoles. (Can you say, HUGE security risk?;-)
The USDA has been a bane to freedom in agriculture since its inception.
One trick the USDA pulls is crop scheduling. When you join the USDA's system, they will tell you what crops to grow at what times, and they will also subsidize you. Joining their system is optional - but unless everyone in your region joins, no one gets the subsidies.
Therefore, you join and plant what they tell you, or you get lynched by your neighbors.
Yup. I'd suggest one of the older Asus EEE PC models, they're cheap and their primary storage is flash. If I remember right flash is even more durable than CD-Rs and DVD-Rs.
Permit me to introduce myself, my name is TheSHAD0W and I was an officer in a now defunct company that performed 419 advance fee fraud scams and was based in Nigeria. This company's bank account now holds $36 million dollars which was scammed from Australian citizens. I am the only officer who was not arrested and murdered in jail and I now seek assistance in transferring these funds to the United States. The person who will assist in transferring this money will receive $3 million dollars and my gratitude. If you are interested please email your full name, social security number, birth date, and bank routing and account number to scammer@iamadoodyhead.co.ng please.
Let's just hope people don't start making solar cells in their pizza ovens, then celebrate their success with pizza made in those ovens. I don't think the dopants used are good for one's health.
No, no, no. Seriously. It's a limitation of the design, not the idea of a fusion reactor.
Bussard's "whiffleball" reactor design looks promising, and there are a few others which may succeed, but building one of those which will actually generate power is (unfortunately) financially out of the reach of any mere hobbyist.
Adding one dimension to the mix can allow for more than one additional universe; visualize it like stacking plates. You're stacking plates one on top of another in one dimension, and you can stack them to the sky. With 7 dimensions you can stack those plates in a whole lot of different directions, each of them potentially infinite and transfinite in combination.
The real question is, what do these directions in dimensions *mean*? Can we measure differences in properties in those universes based on the distance along each dimension?
Cooking also destroys bacteria, which means the digestive tract isn't challenged so constantly. It also helps preserve meat, which means you don't have to eat it the same day. Once you learn to smoke meat you can keep it a much longer time.
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Actually, I looked at the price of the Kindle, winced, and bought an Eee PC instead. It may be a little harder to read than the Kindle, but it's a hell of a lot more capable, and I've gotten pretty fond of it. ;-)
Why are e-ink based e-books so expensive, while Esquire can afford to use it as a cover for their magazine? Something's missing here.
Met a friend at a property I'm renovating, and gave him an old time-lapse VCR and video switching unit to play with. We were talking about how the technology's changed.
Ten years ago, even five years ago, you'd get an expensive VHS-based VCR with a time-lapse mode, and an expensive video switching unit that would alternate individual frames of video to send to the VCR, and to separate the playback.
Now, you buy a DVR with multiple inputs - or a full-fledged computer with a PCI card that lets you hook multiple video inputs into it.
Five years from now, it'll be a computer with a simple gigabit ethernet interface, plugged into a 802.11n+ wireless router, and the cameras will all send their video streams over the air, no analog wiring at all.
Ain't technology grand?
You don't need to do a STEM, but you do need to get an analog read off the data head, which of course requires you to disassemble the drive to connect to the wires. This is why reconstruction costs big bucks, and why no one is going to take this challenge to win $40.
First off, HDTVs have reached price points lower than the similar-sized CRTs were before flat panels were introduced. A 32" LCD HDTV at $600 is about the same as a 32" CRT was in 2000. And people love the bigger ones.
Second, with SDTV broadcasts ending really soon, the average Joe is using the switchover as an excuse to upgrade. (And when the average Jane asks her husband why not get a converter box, average Joe says it sucks. ;-)
Blu-ray has remained very expensive; if Sony can't get more market penetration - and fast - there won't be any resistance to the introduction of newer technology. Winning the war against HD-DVD will have been a Pyrrhic victory.
Here, actually.
Waiting to hear news that the movie's been unlocked in 3... 2... 1...
For this chip to enter the US market, it needs two things:
(1) Speed. Depending on how fast it is, considering how much US CPUs have ramped up, we may wind up emulating their CPU in software for the few things we'd need to run.
(2) Software. Without a killer app that people in the US *have* to have, there's no reason for machines based on that CPU to come here. I can see it, though; some game that gets popular in China and becomes a grass-roots hit here.
We'll see how much infrastructure the chip requires. US introduction may range from something like the Mac Mini to a PCI-Express card to run stuff on our current consoles. (Can you say, HUGE security risk? ;-)
Let me know how long it takes you to get rid of Google Update. When I uninstalled Chrome, it stayed with me. Took me a few minutes to eradicate it.
The USDA has been a bane to freedom in agriculture since its inception.
One trick the USDA pulls is crop scheduling. When you join the USDA's system, they will tell you what crops to grow at what times, and they will also subsidize you. Joining their system is optional - but unless everyone in your region joins, no one gets the subsidies.
Therefore, you join and plant what they tell you, or you get lynched by your neighbors.
Yup. I'd suggest one of the older Asus EEE PC models, they're cheap and their primary storage is flash. If I remember right flash is even more durable than CD-Rs and DVD-Rs.
Crackpot theories can be discussed elsewhere; please limit the discussion to the science here.
Hah! What an optimist.
http://bittornado.com/torrents/Dimensions-English.torrent
BitTorrent download for all the (English) movie files on the source website.
And speaking of the full videos...
http://bittornado.com/torrents/Dimensions-English.torrent
BitTorrent download for all the movies.
http://shambala.net/3d/tess3d1.gif
Permit me to introduce myself, my name is TheSHAD0W and I was an officer in a now defunct company that performed 419 advance fee fraud scams and was based in Nigeria. This company's bank account now holds $36 million dollars which was scammed from Australian citizens. I am the only officer who was not arrested and murdered in jail and I now seek assistance in transferring these funds to the United States. The person who will assist in transferring this money will receive $3 million dollars and my gratitude. If you are interested please email your full name, social security number, birth date, and bank routing and account number to scammer@iamadoodyhead.co.ng please.
Let's just hope people don't start making solar cells in their pizza ovens, then celebrate their success with pizza made in those ovens. I don't think the dopants used are good for one's health.
No, no, no. Seriously. It's a limitation of the design, not the idea of a fusion reactor.
Bussard's "whiffleball" reactor design looks promising, and there are a few others which may succeed, but building one of those which will actually generate power is (unfortunately) financially out of the reach of any mere hobbyist.
Because for every hobbyist who builds one of these hoping to get more power than they put in, there's someone in the background playing a violin...
LEEEEEROYYYYYYYYYYYYYY JHHEEENKKINSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCNJRfSZBU
Least I got chicken!
How on earth did five toilets for $5 million get green-lighted?
I guess Seattle's government is an easier crowd than Slashdot's moderators.
What I'm wondering is, is it any more efficient than using the 1.2 volt potential to just electrolyze the water?
Adding one dimension to the mix can allow for more than one additional universe; visualize it like stacking plates. You're stacking plates one on top of another in one dimension, and you can stack them to the sky. With 7 dimensions you can stack those plates in a whole lot of different directions, each of them potentially infinite and transfinite in combination.
The real question is, what do these directions in dimensions *mean*? Can we measure differences in properties in those universes based on the distance along each dimension?
Cooking also destroys bacteria, which means the digestive tract isn't challenged so constantly. It also helps preserve meat, which means you don't have to eat it the same day. Once you learn to smoke meat you can keep it a much longer time.