If you think the ISS isn't a "real space station" you should probably put down the Babylon 5 DVD and come visit the real world.
I have no idea what the OP was talking about there either, but perhaps he was taking issue with the ISS being in close proximity to Earth. So close in fact that Earth's gravity at the ISS is nearly 90% of that at sea level - it's only the freefall orbital velocity that gives the effect of zero-g.
Not that makes it any less a space station in my book. Just not a Deep Space station perhaps...
with T being the loss in transmission between the supply and demand.
I don't believe transmission loss is usually reversed to mean efficiency, so your formula would have the energy delivered increase as the transmission loss increases. Perhaps you mean:
E = R x I x L x (1.0-T)
or
E = R x I x L x F
Where F is the normalised efficiency of the transmission between the supply and demand.
Also, I assume you have allowed for the fact that more distant geostationary solar arrays spend less time in Earth's shadow so have more illumination per year.
Your position is idiotic for any functioning society.
This argument reduces to the assertion that any dress code is immoral, and that people should be able to wear anything they like, including nothing. You then use the absurd leap to liken such a society that has a dress code to an oppressive muslim regime.
I hope the next person who sits beside you on a bus thinks like you do.
That's a boldface lie and you know it. You clearly have no understanding of the Mars One project and should refrain from further participation in this discussion.
Make politics not about who has the most money for their campaign.
In this day and age of social networking, why is it that voters still only consider Kodos or Kang, and then grizzle when they end up on a serving platter?
GP is probably referring to the continuous spectrum of a black-body emitter.
Try putting a spectrometer (eg a CD) on an LED or CFL bulb and compare that with the spectrum of an incandescent. Now, that awful banding you see on the former applies to actual objects as well, which leads to things looking "unnatural".
That said, phosphors have improved a bit lately so the problem isn't quite as bad as it used to be.
I noticed that too. My two outdoor lights are presently one each of LED and CFL. Bugs flock to the CFL like, well, moths to the proverbial, but the LED one appears to be completely ignored.
Does anyone here have an idea why that might be? I wondered perhaps if the high frequency PWM strobing from the LED was perceived by the bugs as a flashing, rather than stable, light source.
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I guess this is needed for people who don't already have a Samsung Note.
If you think the ISS isn't a "real space station" you should probably put down the Babylon 5 DVD and come visit the real world.
I have no idea what the OP was talking about there either, but perhaps he was taking issue with the ISS being in close proximity to Earth. So close in fact that Earth's gravity at the ISS is nearly 90% of that at sea level - it's only the freefall orbital velocity that gives the effect of zero-g.
Not that makes it any less a space station in my book. Just not a Deep Space station perhaps...
It pits technologies against each other, and allows certain services to get away with paying little or nothing to artists.
Just like the record companies, you mean?
No holograms showed up. This is a pepper's ghost illusion apparently performed with a projector and semitransparent material.
But I guess "hologram" nets more clicks.
... does this mean that tetrachromacy might soon be possible in males?
The point, which you seem to have missed entirely, is this:
It's a start.
There's a reason I choose Debian Stable for my servers.
Interesting page.
A minor nitpick:
You present the equation E = R x I x L x T
with T being the loss in transmission between the supply and demand.
I don't believe transmission loss is usually reversed to mean efficiency, so your formula would have the energy delivered increase as the transmission loss increases. Perhaps you mean:
E = R x I x L x (1.0-T)
or
E = R x I x L x F
Where F is the normalised efficiency of the transmission between the supply and demand.
Also, I assume you have allowed for the fact that more distant geostationary solar arrays spend less time in Earth's shadow so have more illumination per year.
China uses imperial units?
Your position is idiotic for any functioning society.
This argument reduces to the assertion that any dress code is immoral, and that people should be able to wear anything they like, including nothing. You then use the absurd leap to liken such a society that has a dress code to an oppressive muslim regime.
I hope the next person who sits beside you on a bus thinks like you do.
I can't tell if you're joking or not.
Short answer: no.
A Fitbit, on the other hand...
I invoke most graphical programs at the command line in a terminal.
Doesn't make them command line programs.
Yes.
That has to be the silliest comment I have read on Slashdot this week. Are you actively trying to redefine the term "perv"?
Good point. How long, though, before RenderMan becomes another option in the renderer selection drop-down box in Blender?
That's a boldface lie and you know it. You clearly have no understanding of the Mars One project and should refrain from further participation in this discussion.
The prop will be styrofoam.
Make politics not about who has the most money for their campaign.
In this day and age of social networking, why is it that voters still only consider Kodos or Kang, and then grizzle when they end up on a serving platter?
This.
many, many times this
GP is probably referring to the continuous spectrum of a black-body emitter.
Try putting a spectrometer (eg a CD) on an LED or CFL bulb and compare that with the spectrum of an incandescent. Now, that awful banding you see on the former applies to actual objects as well, which leads to things looking "unnatural".
That said, phosphors have improved a bit lately so the problem isn't quite as bad as it used to be.
I noticed that too. My two outdoor lights are presently one each of LED and CFL. Bugs flock to the CFL like, well, moths to the proverbial, but the LED one appears to be completely ignored.
Does anyone here have an idea why that might be? I wondered perhaps if the high frequency PWM strobing from the LED was perceived by the bugs as a flashing, rather than stable, light source.
And this, boys and girls, is an excellent demonstration of why copyright law is simply not working.
Why do we have copyright terms longer than five years again?
I buy no Mac software, but I provide support for plenty of people who do.
They will occasionally buy software on DVD, want to watch a DVD, listen to/rip a CD, create a CD or DVD to give to a friend/relative.
Not everything is on iTunes, you know. Not by a long shot.
This is cool, but just imagine the fever that nutters would work themselves into if the pattern were close to the Fibonacci sequence.
What a visionary innovation for Apple. A wrist watch that talks to your smartphone. It's amazing that no one has thought of it before.