As pointed out in a previous comment, it's difficult to precisely address parallel tracks on different platters because of uneven thermal expansion in each of the platters. However, multi-bit perpendicular recording is a similar concept.
It's been done before, iirc, but they tend to be more expensive, and the multiple heads run the risk of creating unintended harmonics. Most of the time it would be cheaper and faster to use two drives with one set of heads, than one drive with two sets of heads.
Watch out for sun to buy out, or merge with Analog devices soon. If they get their lasers going, they could put them on those Analog Devices DSP parts too.
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I think you mean duality - as in wave-particle duality. Or non-collapsed quantum states.
So with the quantum argument (badly mangled), Santa is a wave function that allows him to be everywhere with a certain probability, and only when you look to see if you have a present or not do you collapse the wave function to detect whether or not Santa has actually visited you.
At only 70k feet, optical links between blimp and ground and blimp and blimp may be possible. We already have optical links that span distances of around 5 miles IIRC. The upside is higher potential datarates, and the downside is more accurate pointing technology to make sure your beam hits where it's supposed to, although the article does mention that the wind forces expericed up there aren't that strong. And clouds might do a number on you too, but again, at 70k feet, blimp to blimp might be possible.
in my defense, it was a bit late at night; but you're right of course.
However, how much power can you practically pump out of those 3 transmitting antennas (taking battery life into account)? And how much processing power can you spare to recover that singal (again, also taking battery life into account)?
If this is a free space system, they might have to compensate for the higher speeds with stronger signals (or live with shorter distances), shannon's law and all - of course we haven't approached those limits yet (I think), so it might be doable.
only on slashdot can truth and lying be turned into a discussion of how the hamming distance of a set of predicates from reality may be used to measure the magnitude of a lie
Took a quick scan at the architecture of the machine, and I'm suprised that it's so simple.
People say over and over again that simple handheld calculators are more powerful than that thing, and it seems that the oft-parroted line is more accurate than they realize.
Add to that: RTL (before TTL) and magnetic core memory bring up the nostalgic value.
You could pull the same thing back at them: send them a letter with an enclosed eula defined according to your own terms. Make sure you include some content of value to them just in case - perhaps some feedback from you.
Since switching speed is also a function of the size of the device (capacitance), this transistor probably wouldn't produce any benefit over the LED version.
The article seems to be saying that they could get higher switching speeds out of this transistor, but we still have inefficiencies here: either the amplified output is used, or the optical output is used. Why would it be necessary to use both? And if the benefits come from not having to drive interconnects between the transistor and LED, we already have integrated transistor/led packages on the same substrate. It might be a better idea to make the emitter current the light emmiting part because then you'd be able to save on component costs.
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As pointed out in a previous comment, it's difficult to precisely address parallel tracks on different platters because of uneven thermal expansion in each of the platters. However, multi-bit perpendicular recording is a similar concept.
It's been done before, iirc, but they tend to be more expensive, and the multiple heads run the risk of creating unintended harmonics. Most of the time it would be cheaper and faster to use two drives with one set of heads, than one drive with two sets of heads.
Watch out for sun to buy out, or merge with Analog devices soon. If they get their lasers going, they could put them on those Analog Devices DSP parts too.
ironically, it's all a house of cards
it would give new meaning to "turtles all the way down"
McDonalds canada provides a nutrition calendar And you're right - it's probably better not to know.
Cymbal crashes are the wideband of audio. Hard to compress with frequency transforms.
I think you mean duality - as in wave-particle duality. Or non-collapsed quantum states.
So with the quantum argument (badly mangled), Santa is a wave function that allows him to be everywhere with a certain probability, and only when you look to see if you have a present or not do you collapse the wave function to detect whether or not Santa has actually visited you.
At only 70k feet, optical links between blimp and ground and blimp and blimp may be possible. We already have optical links that span distances of around 5 miles IIRC. The upside is higher potential datarates, and the downside is more accurate pointing technology to make sure your beam hits where it's supposed to, although the article does mention that the wind forces expericed up there aren't that strong. And clouds might do a number on you too, but again, at 70k feet, blimp to blimp might be possible.
in my defense, it was a bit late at night; but you're right of course.
However, how much power can you practically pump out of those 3 transmitting antennas (taking battery life into account)? And how much processing power can you spare to recover that singal (again, also taking battery life into account)?
If this is a free space system, they might have to compensate for the higher speeds with stronger signals (or live with shorter distances), shannon's law and all - of course we haven't approached those limits yet (I think), so it might be doable.
according to the article, the bandwidth is only 100 MHz for the experimental setup that they have running.
1Gb/s is supposed to be what it's capable of in the future - or at least that's how I read it
only on slashdot can truth and lying be turned into a discussion of how the hamming distance of a set of predicates from reality may be used to measure the magnitude of a lie
sodium borohydride doesn't look like a very nice chemical
Took a quick scan at the architecture of the machine, and I'm suprised that it's so simple.
People say over and over again that simple handheld calculators are more powerful than that thing, and it seems that the oft-parroted line is more accurate than they realize.
Add to that: RTL (before TTL) and magnetic core memory bring up the nostalgic value.
if you had a beowulf cluster, you could use the excess heat to melt the accumulated snow off your roof
You could pull the same thing back at them: send them a letter with an enclosed eula defined according to your own terms. Make sure you include some content of value to them just in case - perhaps some feedback from you.
trivial perhaps, but a waveform updating at 300 (or even 9600) bps probably won't be too impressive.
have you been reading arthur c clarke?
then maybe we wouldn't have things like excel pacman
http://www.geocities.jp/nchikada/pac/
Who wants a nice way of modeling when you can have fun with your spreadsheets?
that, or people are conditioned to think in grids. Think css vs. table layout.
But all good and well if it works for them. Who can tell the difference once the thing is pdf'ed?
it seems that it was? Iowa Senate Proposes Making Spyware A Crime
Rosetta's heading out to drop the 'Philae' lander onto Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Curious name for a lander.
I wonder how the lander is going to stay on the comet once the comet gets closer to the sun and starts ejecting mass.
all these replies, and still no mention of lucy - in the sky with diamonds.
Since switching speed is also a function of the size of the device (capacitance), this transistor probably wouldn't produce any benefit over the LED version.
The article seems to be saying that they could get higher switching speeds out of this transistor, but we still have inefficiencies here: either the amplified output is used, or the optical output is used. Why would it be necessary to use both? And if the benefits come from not having to drive interconnects between the transistor and LED, we already have integrated transistor/led packages on the same substrate. It might be a better idea to make the emitter current the light emmiting part because then you'd be able to save on component costs.