Having worked with holographic media for decades (which is about as fine resolution as you can get optically) the maximum resolution is on par with the grain size 40 nm (Afga 8e75) and considerably worse both due to the wavelength of light and the expansion of grains during exposure. To get 'molecular' resolution you'd have to go over to dichromate plates far too slow.
Due to speed considerations the grain of these plates would be much worse. But well within the resolution of the 'scope used for recording.
All that said these plates are a goldmine once digitized due to the ability to do massive searches both spatially and temporally.
Hey I regularly go out to dinner just because my friends need technical explanations and opinions, like today when I'll be explaining the tricks associated with holographic wdm. Now if they were only girls...
News has differing time constants and levels of abstraction. A blog entry can communicate things with less detail far more quickly than an in depth article. Secondly, the comments within a blog can provide useful insight on the topic. But even this varies considerably from blog to blog. While Atrios provides quick snippets, Digby and the late Steve Gilliard provided extended essays that often exceeded in-depth articles in both size and sophistication.
In depth articles, on the other hand, have the luxury of time and editing but are often obsoleted by blogging. Secondly articles often lack an effective feedback mechanism such as the comments within blogs.
Wiki's can straddle the two mediums, with a body of written and reviewed content allowing for in depth content while providing up to the minute content as well.
Reviewed scholarly articles are on the far end of this spectrum. Slow to come out, but often authoritative.
As a result, my position is that blogs and RSS feeds of blogs allow for one to get a handle on large amounts of breaking news. Wikis provide background. In-depth articles provide analysis. I.E. Blogs alert me to things, i then check Wikis for background and context, and if I deem the issue important enough, or the author credible enough I'll read the article.
Dead on, but I'd add one more thing. While telescope makers are usually not astrophysicists, those who are doing anything more than assemble components are optical engineers if not physicists. While one can often get by with raytracing, which can get pretty hardcore in itself, it's often necessary to go back to Maxwell's equations when dealing with material properties or polarization etc.
Um, good call, the US government used just that strategy for mid level teletype encryption in the 50's, and got pwnd by the Soviets who employed the regularity of initial headers. Closed source encryption is stupid because you can always devise a code you can't break, but somebody else can. Open source assumes that the million (honest)eyes will spot your mistake.
'some of them might be waking up now, wondering who they got in bed with.' More like some of them might be waking up now in a bathtub full of ice wondering where their kidney is at!
Which costs the music industry $1 Billion per year per person!!!. Once the RIAA can make everyone pay, the music industry will not only exceed the games industry, but the total world economy by several orders of magnitude. It will only be exceeded by the Movie industry which currently loses $2 Billion per year per person!!! due to piracy.
I agree if we are using the word "science" in the sense of "any systematic methodology which attempts to collect accurate information about the shared reality" which is the same sense as Christian Science (which is similar in many respects to Buddhism in its belief in the illusory nature of evil and suffering which distracts the individual from divine nature).
But, a better classification would be axiomatic reasoning, based upon basic precepts of faith (similar to Aquinas in many regards).
Now, this is more a rigorous scholasticism than science as presently define it. When left in the theological and philosophical spheres, this is can be very good. Thus if we use this reasoning to determine the most desirable means of living and how to conduct oneself with others it can be very good (or bad in the case of religious wars). On the other hand it is only peripheral to healing a compound fracture (i.e. have the doc set the bones, and ones philosophy help one abide the cast and pain). The Bhagavad Gita didn't help Oppenheimer build the bomb, but it help him deal with it.
I don't drive. But I do make cell phone calls in cabs, buses and while riding as a passenger in private cars. Often I'm making calls for the driver, (informing people that we're running late, handling incoming calls etc.) This is much safer for the driver. This system would tag such results. Secondly, many commercial vehicles (cabs, delivery trucks etc.) have GPRS telemetry to keep the central office apprised of their positions at regular intervals, this would trigger these systems (this also includes the covert police tracking modules).
Finally if I didn't like someone, I could always hide a prepaid cellphone ($20) rigged as silent and set for auto-answer in his car, and call silently at regular intervals. Triggering piles of tickets for the victim. Much wackyness ensues!
I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little sims don't amount to a hill of bits in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.
A really great package, but it needs more channels and better search capabilities. And a transcode module for transferring content to iPods, PSPs and Palms.
The basic concept, an instant on, no hard drive, Linux notebook is solid. I love my Palm T|X and find it preferable to a laptop for portability and simplicity, so a bigger screen, integrated keyboard, and linux support would be a big win. But: -5 hours is a tad dodgy on power, 'tho external battery packs would help. -The price is equally problematic, with the OLPC costing nearly half that.
If Palm held the price down to $300 it would be awesome.
He basically runs through most existing input devices including speech recognition and finds them wanting. He saves particular venom for speech recognition, particularly due to the difficult of finding homonym based errors in the transcribed text: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-old/2005/08/2 7/#input-devices-1
I use Sage-TV it's great, works just fine, has commercial skipping, unencrypted files etc. Most of the time I convert the files to Divx for my palm and watch when I have time.
Tivo has joined the ranks of companies that consider the customers the enemy . As such they should suffer and fail.
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As the astronauts consider if the calculations were made in metric or imperial units.
Having worked with holographic media for decades (which is about as fine resolution as you can get optically) the maximum resolution is on par with the grain size 40 nm (Afga 8e75) and considerably worse both due to the wavelength of light and the expansion of grains during exposure. To get 'molecular' resolution you'd have to go over to dichromate plates far too slow.
Due to speed considerations the grain of these plates would be much worse. But well within the resolution of the 'scope used for recording.
All that said these plates are a goldmine once digitized due to the ability to do massive searches both spatially and temporally.
Hey I regularly go out to dinner just because my friends need technical explanations and opinions, like today when I'll be explaining the tricks associated with holographic wdm. Now if they were only girls...
Apparently they're trying to tell you that the PS3 kills babies and will bring about the Eschaton.
Hell, had I known that, I'd have bought one already!
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/06/29/apple-kit teh-saiz/
News has differing time constants and levels of abstraction. A blog entry can communicate things with less detail far more quickly than an in depth article. Secondly, the comments within a blog can provide useful insight on the topic. But even this varies considerably from blog to blog. While Atrios provides quick snippets, Digby and the late Steve Gilliard provided extended essays that often exceeded in-depth articles in both size and sophistication.
In depth articles, on the other hand, have the luxury of time and editing but are often obsoleted by blogging. Secondly articles often lack an effective feedback mechanism such as the comments within blogs.
Wiki's can straddle the two mediums, with a body of written and reviewed content allowing for in depth content while providing up to the minute content as well.
Reviewed scholarly articles are on the far end of this spectrum. Slow to come out, but often authoritative.
As a result, my position is that blogs and RSS feeds of blogs allow for one to get a handle on large amounts of breaking news. Wikis provide background. In-depth articles provide analysis. I.E. Blogs alert me to things, i then check Wikis for background and context, and if I deem the issue important enough, or the author credible enough I'll read the article.
Dead on, but I'd add one more thing.
While telescope makers are usually not astrophysicists, those who are doing anything more than assemble components are optical engineers if not physicists. While one can often get by with raytracing, which can get pretty hardcore in itself, it's often necessary to go back to Maxwell's equations when dealing with material properties or polarization etc.
Um, good call, the US government used just that strategy for mid level teletype encryption in the 50's, and got pwnd by the Soviets who employed the regularity of initial headers.
Closed source encryption is stupid because you can always devise a code you can't break, but somebody else can. Open source assumes that the million (honest)eyes will spot your mistake.
'some of them might be waking up now, wondering who they got in bed with.'
More like some of them might be waking up now in a bathtub full of ice wondering where their kidney is at!
John Romero made you his beyoch!! and you just don't want to admit it!
Which costs the music industry $1 Billion per year per person!!! . Once the RIAA can make everyone pay, the music industry will not only exceed the games industry, but the total world economy by several orders of magnitude. It will only be exceeded by the Movie industry which currently loses $2 Billion per year per person!!! due to piracy.
Yeah, I have one. It's called the Palm TX running TCMP. It also has the google maps and browser capability. And 3rd party apps, and GPS.
I agree if we are using the word "science" in the sense of "any systematic methodology which attempts to collect accurate information about the shared reality" which is the same sense as Christian Science (which is similar in many respects to Buddhism in its belief in the illusory nature of evil and suffering which distracts the individual from divine nature).
But, a better classification would be axiomatic reasoning, based upon basic precepts of faith (similar to Aquinas in many regards).
Now, this is more a rigorous scholasticism than science as presently define it. When left in the theological and philosophical spheres, this is can be very good. Thus if we use this reasoning to determine the most desirable means of living and how to conduct oneself with others it can be very good (or bad in the case of religious wars). On the other hand it is only peripheral to healing a compound fracture (i.e. have the doc set the bones, and ones philosophy help one abide the cast and pain). The Bhagavad Gita didn't help Oppenheimer build the bomb, but it help him deal with it.
Damn, gotta build a lead Dyson sphere right now soon!!!
Johnny Depp as Iron Man!! Set during the Stark Drunk as a skunk period!
I don't drive. But I do make cell phone calls in cabs, buses and while riding as a passenger in private cars. Often I'm making calls for the driver, (informing people that we're running late, handling incoming calls etc.) This is much safer for the driver. This system would tag such results. Secondly, many commercial vehicles (cabs, delivery trucks etc.) have GPRS telemetry to keep the central office apprised of their positions at regular intervals, this would trigger these systems (this also includes the covert police tracking modules).
Finally if I didn't like someone, I could always hide a prepaid cellphone ($20) rigged as silent and set for auto-answer in his car, and call silently at regular intervals. Triggering piles of tickets for the victim. Much wackyness ensues!
It's to express the awesome grandeur of space!
While it's a considerable shift from the original series, SimCity XXX (in the fashion of BMX XXX) sounds like it would be a popular title.
I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little sims don't amount to a hill of bits in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.
But of course XP is also an MS product.
A really great package, but it needs more channels and better search capabilities. And a transcode module for transferring content to iPods, PSPs and Palms.
The basic concept, an instant on, no hard drive, Linux notebook is solid. I love my Palm T|X and find it preferable to a laptop for portability and simplicity, so a bigger screen, integrated keyboard, and linux support would be a big win.
But:
-5 hours is a tad dodgy on power, 'tho external battery packs would help.
-The price is equally problematic, with the OLPC costing nearly half that.
If Palm held the price down to $300 it would be awesome.
He basically runs through most existing input devices including speech recognition and finds them wanting.2 7/#input-devices-1
He saves particular venom for speech recognition, particularly due to the difficult of finding homonym based errors in the transcribed text:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-old/2005/08/
Connection Machine 5 stat!
I use Sage-TV it's great, works just fine, has commercial skipping, unencrypted files etc. Most of the time I convert the files to Divx for my palm and watch when I have time.
Tivo has joined the ranks of companies that consider the customers the enemy . As such they should suffer and fail.