Temperature can be raised to enormously high levels.
Is that your plasma rocket in the newest Scientific American? I'm sure you have few tailgaters, considering what superheated hydrogen fuel does as it mixes with our reducing atmosphere.
"So there I was, Doctor, in the Avengers movie scenario, when I lost my balance in the middle of the river. Last thing I remember was dropping my Coke and then it's all flashes of water and the villain shooting..."
Such as when doing a calculation with algebraic methods -- for some problems, the answers will be different than when you use calculus. That's why Newton had to invent calculus in order to get satisfactory results for his theories of gravitation.
Notice the last two paragraphs of the BBC story describe an electromagnetic pulse effect. People heard sounds as the thing went past, many kilometers away. Apparently an electromagnetic effect was causing twisting or sparking of objects, causing assorted small sounds.
Why must they torture these creatures like this? Cooped up in a refrigerator? Set them free! Let them enjoy a tropical beach!
We don't need to study animal biology anyway, we can simulate anything in a computer anyway! We already know everything, and can learn how everything works by simulation!
ATeamOfLawyers.Com will file a class action suit, collect huge attorney's fees, and the domain owners who cannot be identified will lose their money to an organization who will put up billboards with snide remarks about ICANN...
Gee, why quibble about minor spelling and grammatical errors? It's the intent that is important, not the arrangement of letters. Just read what was typed and let it wash over you, absorbing what the author meant and felt without worrying about the delivery. What's important is that the author meant well and put so much effort into trying to express himself.
Incidentally, I have this 800-page short story that I'd like your opinion on...
We're both right. We certainly are working around many old physical laws. But often when we broke a law it was because new laws replaced the old ones. We do still have examples of broken laws, in some cases explained and others not. We've sort of explained electron tunnelling and photon interference. We haven't explained what happens inside a black hole (the current scientific definition is "Here There Be Dragons"). We know there should be more antimatter around, but not why there isn't.
We split the unbreakable atom. We move people faster than 30 MPH and they live. We rarely have people fall off the edge of the world, and it often takes NASA a fair amount of effort to do so.
That's right, it's the application that matters. Technical people will consider a relevant benchmark -- a database benchmark is of no interest to someone who needs to run weeks of floating point calculations. And a floating point benchmark is the wrong test when you're doing integer math on 20 processors.
Even then, only your own application is relevant. You might be doing multiple passes through an array -- but unfortunately you're sweeping memory addresses in a direction which is fast on one virtual memory system but requires a disk access for every calculation on another virtual memory system. (Yes, I've seen that happen.)
We don't see cars advertised by horsepower, but we do for number of doors. And many shoppers do look at the number of cylinders, because it gives you some idea of the relative power -- if you're moving to "hilly" Colorado you'll choose the station wagon with 6-8 cylinders rather than 4.
"I see the point, and we have found ways around physical laws before (Ok, in a laboratory)..."
We haven't found ways around physical laws. We have found physical laws that we hadn't previously known of. How things were made of molecules, how molecules were made of atoms, how atoms were made of particles, how particles were made of...well, quarks, probabilities, wave functions...
"At hyper frequencies (1.2ghz and higher) I could see some kind of a spread
spectrum system working, but anything lower is plain impossible."
There's nothing magical about high frequencies (well, except maybe popping corn). Spread spectrum can be done at any frequency, but does not allow any faster data transfer than if you had a similar transmitter locked on an unchanging frequency.
"You have a specific capacity at X frequency, Example
108 MHZ - you have a maximum of 108Mbps if you were able to encode on every cycle of the carrier (impossible
without generating nasty things)"
Well, maybe you have to define "nasty things", such as "bandwidth". You'll have to encode your signal somehow. A phone line has a bandwidth of about 3KHz, but we can send more than 3Kbps. Part of that is due to sending several frequencies, but most of it is due to using one signal change to indicate more than one bit signal. For example, using two tones to indicate four bits, loudness of the two tones to indicate more bits... You can see a summary of the technology, although real modems are more complex.
The hard part is knowing at what point engineering ends and fiction begins. Sometimes it's easier when someone points out the fiction to you, such as when a picture of a board for sale shows a chip is longer than the socket it is plugged into.
All linux Devices.com is running a pretty cool article about an X86 chip running on 1 AA battery.
Well, here's another answer to the recent question about why companies still tinker with x86 devices. Apparently the recent technologies still can improve upon the original behavior.
One-Click Stopping: Javascript or other technology detects your mouse passing over an icon or other part of the screen. An animated shopping cart or other device begins moving toward a door or other receptacle indicator. If you click on the moving object you stop the transaction.
Multiple-Click Stopping: Same as One-Click but with enhanced entertainment value by requiring multiple clicks to stop the transaction. The moving image may lost parts, change direction, or have other interactive reaction to the clicks.
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Will the Nobel Committee be sending nasty letters to other web sites to protect Bottomquark's coverage?
Whoa. The phrasing is that "most" of the ads were network space fillers. "Most", but not "all". If, say, 1 percent of the ads were income producers, why aren't they offering at least 1 percent of what they should have?
Incidentally, does this letter give such sites the status of a creditor, so they can demand payment, sue for the debt ("Ha, got your car!"), and stand in line at bankruptcy court for a share of the assets?
Will it matter if you change your ISP if the merchants are connected only through AT&T?
Maybe, it depends on the agreement between AT&T and the merchants. The "AT&T high speed network" is mentioned -- as if it's merchants who are connected to AT&T's circuits who will pay. As if the offer is "AT&T offers these customers at a faster speed than the rest of the Internet can reach you, and you'll pay AT&T for the customers who might like you because you're faster". Of course AT&T will also be trying to charge the merchants more for the high speed service...
There is some guy who has been saying that Microsoft (and others)
have actually been losing money based on the cost of stock options being exercised. The thing is that unlike salary the
cost to companies of employees exercising the stock options are not count considered an expense on the balance
sheet.
Maybe you're thinking of the Microsoft Financial Pyramid page. The stock market thinks Microsoft is making money because those stock options are not listed on the financial statements as expenses.
Psst... Hey, buddy... Wanna buy a new mail protection program? You can keep all your email for later reference, but after six months the cops can't use it. Sooner, if they don't notice the file timestamp is odd...
See this directory called "Deleted"? There's all your mail, nice and safe...
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Is that your plasma rocket in the newest Scientific American? I'm sure you have few tailgaters, considering what superheated hydrogen fuel does as it mixes with our reducing atmosphere.
"So there I was, Doctor, in the Avengers movie scenario, when I lost my balance in the middle of the river. Last thing I remember was dropping my Coke and then it's all flashes of water and the villain shooting..."
Geophysical Electrophonics
Such as when doing a calculation with algebraic methods -- for some problems, the answers will be different than when you use calculus. That's why Newton had to invent calculus in order to get satisfactory results for his theories of gravitation.
Did anyone check if Magneto is still in his cage?
Or get our eggs out of the basket.
We don't need to study animal biology anyway, we can simulate anything in a computer anyway! We already know everything, and can learn how everything works by simulation!
In water that cold, of course there are no males.
I C Obfuscated C Lives.
ATeamOfLawyers.Com will file a class action suit, collect huge attorney's fees, and the domain owners who cannot be identified will lose their money to an organization who will put up billboards with snide remarks about ICANN...
Incidentally, I have this 800-page short story that I'd like your opinion on...
Do you get points in Robot Wars if you use your opponent's components to make your own robot bigger? Maybe there are points for "assimilation".
We split the unbreakable atom. We move people faster than 30 MPH and they live. We rarely have people fall off the edge of the world, and it often takes NASA a fair amount of effort to do so.
Even then, only your own application is relevant. You might be doing multiple passes through an array -- but unfortunately you're sweeping memory addresses in a direction which is fast on one virtual memory system but requires a disk access for every calculation on another virtual memory system. (Yes, I've seen that happen.)
We don't see cars advertised by horsepower, but we do for number of doors. And many shoppers do look at the number of cylinders, because it gives you some idea of the relative power -- if you're moving to "hilly" Colorado you'll choose the station wagon with 6-8 cylinders rather than 4.
We haven't found ways around physical laws. We have found physical laws that we hadn't previously known of. How things were made of molecules, how molecules were made of atoms, how atoms were made of particles, how particles were made of ...well, quarks, probabilities, wave functions...
"At hyper frequencies (1.2ghz and higher) I could see some kind of a spread spectrum system working, but anything lower is plain impossible."
There's nothing magical about high frequencies (well, except maybe popping corn). Spread spectrum can be done at any frequency, but does not allow any faster data transfer than if you had a similar transmitter locked on an unchanging frequency.
"You have a specific capacity at X frequency, Example 108 MHZ - you have a maximum of 108Mbps if you were able to encode on every cycle of the carrier (impossible without generating nasty things)"
Well, maybe you have to define "nasty things", such as "bandwidth". You'll have to encode your signal somehow. A phone line has a bandwidth of about 3KHz, but we can send more than 3Kbps. Part of that is due to sending several frequencies, but most of it is due to using one signal change to indicate more than one bit signal. For example, using two tones to indicate four bits, loudness of the two tones to indicate more bits... You can see a summary of the technology, although real modems are more complex.
The hard part is knowing at what point engineering ends and fiction begins. Sometimes it's easier when someone points out the fiction to you, such as when a picture of a board for sale shows a chip is longer than the socket it is plugged into.
Well, here's another answer to the recent question about why companies still tinker with x86 devices. Apparently the recent technologies still can improve upon the original behavior.
Multiple-Click Stopping: Same as One-Click but with enhanced entertainment value by requiring multiple clicks to stop the transaction. The moving image may lost parts, change direction, or have other interactive reaction to the clicks.
Will the Nobel Committee be sending nasty letters to other web sites to protect Bottomquark's coverage?
Incidentally, does this letter give such sites the status of a creditor, so they can demand payment, sue for the debt ("Ha, got your car!"), and stand in line at bankruptcy court for a share of the assets?
Maybe, it depends on the agreement between AT&T and the merchants. The "AT&T high speed network" is mentioned -- as if it's merchants who are connected to AT&T's circuits who will pay. As if the offer is "AT&T offers these customers at a faster speed than the rest of the Internet can reach you, and you'll pay AT&T for the customers who might like you because you're faster". Of course AT&T will also be trying to charge the merchants more for the high speed service...
It burst forth from a virgin fission.
Maybe you're thinking of the Microsoft Financial Pyramid page. The stock market thinks Microsoft is making money because those stock options are not listed on the financial statements as expenses.
See this directory called "Deleted"? There's all your mail, nice and safe...