"[T]his new technology will really make wireless a possible alternative instead of a neat item to play with."
Excuse me, but an 11 megabit wireless connection isn't quite worthless just yet. How many home users, even with DSL or cable modems, are pushing this limit? And how many offices are still using 10baseT LANs, or 10baseT hubs on even faster LANs? To all these users, 802.11b is still 10% overkill. Will 400% overkill make us any happier or more productive?
Plus, 802.11a is much more power-hungry, making it a decidedly unattractive choice for wireless PDAs. What say ye?
Boy, you surely took him down a notch or two! I'd like to make a few points, though:
You caught the misuse of then, but not the missing apostrophe in cant.
You omitted the period in your abbreviation of versus.
All five lines of your corrective post are sentence fragments; none are grammatically correct.
The Jello® trademark is a proper noun; it should be capitalized.
Also, you didn't seem to notice that the original poster didn't even use punctuation in two out of three sentences. Obviously, it was a troll for anal grammarians. Based on your previous post, I'd say the trap has sprung, and caught us both.
...to the GhostScript open-source PDF reader, right beside the link for Adobe Acrobat. Sadly, though, the link is broken, thanks to an extra space at the end.
...was the one to the Slovenian association of tourist farms. Being a Nashvillian, I've often wondered where those brightly-colored perennial oddities are grown. Now I know!
Resistance, being futile, is not responsible for the light-speed limit for electron flow. That's Einstein's fault. However, if the circuit is considerably smaller than current designs, then all the electrical pathways get drastically shortened and processing gets faster anyway...
Excuse me, I just had an image of a 55-gallon drum of these things sitting by my computer, quietly self-replicating into a Beowulf cluster of a billion-odd submicroscopic quantum computers. It could solve every computational problem currently on the books in the blink of an aibo, render all cryptography (except OTP) useless, and probably faithfully emulate the intelligence of several myriad Ph.D.'s long enough to invent a higher consciousness for itself, becoming an unimaginably transcendent cerebral being to which humans would seem as advanced as bacteria.
I got a CD the other day with the only truly unbreakable copy protection I've seen. They did it by leaving out the metal layer and, apparrently, the pits which seem so easily copyable. The result is a disc which is almost completely transparent.
Sadly, the disc is unplayable on any of my equipment. Perhaps the publisher anticipated that kind of problem, and that's why they didn't label it, and included it for free on the top of a spindle of CD-R's I bought.
Hopefully, someday all copy-protected CD's will be distributed that way.
Do the math before you scoff.
The average human weight is 542.7 N (122 pounds), isn't it? That implies an average mass of 55.3 kg. Assuming an average density around 1 g/cm (since some folks float in water and some sink), that'd give an average human volume of around 55.3 liters, or 0.0553 m.
Now, divide a cubic kilometer of ice by the current population of the world, and you get about 0.161 m per person. So only about one third of that cubic kilometer would be occupied by human mass.
Of course, I'm sure no one would assume that they'd fit comfortably, and I'm also pretty sure that the original poster was not suggesting this as a standard for public housing, so let's all make like neutrino astronomers and chill out.
...I found this line in the original proposal: "These constraints lead to a strawman design consisting of 81 strings 125 m apart, arranged on a square 9×9 grid. Each string holds 60 optical modules separated by 16 m."
There are good graphics showing how they'll be arranged, and explanation of how this design will facilitate ~1 resolution in muon trail reconstructions. Impressive!
I also found elsewhere that faint Cherenkov radiation can travel more than 24 meters through deep Antarctic ice before being completely attenuated. So that question is answered.
They say there are going to be about 5000 detectors spaced throughout the cube; that's a spacing of about 55-60 meters between them. Is the "extraordinarily transparent Antarctic ice" so clear that the detectors can pick up Cherenkov light through that much of it, or is that distance sufficient to visually isolate each detector completely from its neighbors? I guess my question is, how much of the cube is really being used in the detector, and how much is just optical insulation?
...toward the end of the interview, where Olson states that more people know now about open source and the GPL than ever before, but also that they're almost all scared to death of it.
I suppose that's the basic difference: With Micro$oft, you know they're out to get you; with open source, you're never sure <g>.
Or has almost every astrophysics-related story I've seen lately included something like "this discovery will force scientists to rethink everything they know about [insert specialty here]?"
Is this a requirement for continued research funding? Or is our understanding of astrophysics in general so incomplete that none of our theories form a coherent system that can stand the addition of even one more observation?
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X is the 14th letter in the alphabet?
11 - 31 = 311?
Get your math right. K-PAX would equal the difference of K and the product of P, A and X.
Therefore, K-PAX = 11-16124 = 11 - 384 = -373.
373 is a palindromic prime. It is the only palindromic prime with all substrings prime.
It is the sum of the squares of five consecutive primes: 3,5,7,11, and 13.
An interesting number indeed. I'm sure they made it negative just to hide all these interesting facts from casual seekers.
Where the Nazi bit comes in, I don't know.
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"[T]his new technology will really make wireless a possible alternative instead of a neat item to play with."
Excuse me, but an 11 megabit wireless connection isn't quite worthless just yet. How many home users, even with DSL or cable modems, are pushing this limit? And how many offices are still using 10baseT LANs, or 10baseT hubs on even faster LANs? To all these users, 802.11b is still 10% overkill. Will 400% overkill make us any happier or more productive?
Plus, 802.11a is much more power-hungry, making it a decidedly unattractive choice for wireless PDAs. What say ye?
- You caught the misuse of then, but not the missing apostrophe in cant.
- You omitted the period in your abbreviation of versus.
- All five lines of your corrective post are sentence fragments; none are grammatically correct.
- The Jello® trademark is a proper noun; it should be capitalized.
Also, you didn't seem to notice that the original poster didn't even use punctuation in two out of three sentences. Obviously, it was a troll for anal grammarians. Based on your previous post, I'd say the trap has sprung, and caught us both....to the GhostScript open-source PDF reader, right beside the link for Adobe Acrobat. Sadly, though, the link is broken, thanks to an extra space at the end.
Atention to detale is impotent!
...eXpensive Processor.
Other possibilities:
eXcessive Promotion
eXtensive Patchwork
eXplosive Packaging
eXtremely Patronizing
eXecutes Poorly
eXecutive Pacifier
And of course,
eXPires in a month.
Note: I'm a huge fan of AMD (I'm soaking in one right now!), but this whole name thing is a riot.
XP XP Bo Bex-P, Banana Fana Fo Fex-P, Fee Fi Mo Mex-P... XP!
Sing with me!
Athlon Athlon Bo Bathlon, Banana Fana Fo Fathlon, Fee Fi Mo Mathlon... Ath-lon!
The article is here, but only if you have a subscription to The Economist. You can get the >60% academic discount by subscribing here.
Oddly, the subscription form doesn't ask if you're a student. Apparently, as far as The Economist is concerned, it's all academic.
...was the one to the Slovenian association of tourist farms. Being a Nashvillian, I've often wondered where those brightly-colored perennial oddities are grown. Now I know!
Resistance, being futile, is not responsible for the light-speed limit for electron flow. That's Einstein's fault. However, if the circuit is considerably smaller than current designs, then all the electrical pathways get drastically shortened and processing gets faster anyway...
Excuse me, I just had an image of a 55-gallon drum of these things sitting by my computer, quietly self-replicating into a Beowulf cluster of a billion-odd submicroscopic quantum computers. It could solve every computational problem currently on the books in the blink of an aibo, render all cryptography (except OTP) useless, and probably faithfully emulate the intelligence of several myriad Ph.D.'s long enough to invent a higher consciousness for itself, becoming an unimaginably transcendent cerebral being to which humans would seem as advanced as bacteria.
And think of the Quake framerates!
I got a CD the other day with the only truly unbreakable copy protection I've seen. They did it by leaving out the metal layer and, apparrently, the pits which seem so easily copyable. The result is a disc which is almost completely transparent.
Sadly, the disc is unplayable on any of my equipment. Perhaps the publisher anticipated that kind of problem, and that's why they didn't label it, and included it for free on the top of a spindle of CD-R's I bought.
Hopefully, someday all copy-protected CD's will be distributed that way.
Your "Average" adult occupies 180,000 cm? Assuming 1 g/cm (neutral bouyancy in water), that masses him at 180 kg, or just under four hundred pounds.
Maybe some flaming troll could weigh that much, but certainly not the average human.
...igGLUE.
Now I see why they had to burrow a mile into the Antarctic ice to get away from the background noise. Shades of Slashdot!
Do the math before you scoff. The average human weight is 542.7 N (122 pounds), isn't it? That implies an average mass of 55.3 kg. Assuming an average density around 1 g/cm (since some folks float in water and some sink), that'd give an average human volume of around 55.3 liters, or 0.0553 m.
Now, divide a cubic kilometer of ice by the current population of the world, and you get about 0.161 m per person. So only about one third of that cubic kilometer would be occupied by human mass.
Of course, I'm sure no one would assume that they'd fit comfortably, and I'm also pretty sure that the original poster was not suggesting this as a standard for public housing, so let's all make like neutrino astronomers and chill out.
...I found this line in the original proposal: "These constraints lead to a strawman design consisting of 81 strings 125 m apart, arranged on a square 9×9 grid. Each string holds 60 optical modules separated by 16 m."
There are good graphics showing how they'll be arranged, and explanation of how this design will facilitate ~1 resolution in muon trail reconstructions. Impressive!
I also found elsewhere that faint Cherenkov radiation can travel more than 24 meters through deep Antarctic ice before being completely attenuated. So that question is answered.
They say there are going to be about 5000 detectors spaced throughout the cube; that's a spacing of about 55-60 meters between them. Is the "extraordinarily transparent Antarctic ice" so clear that the detectors can pick up Cherenkov light through that much of it, or is that distance sufficient to visually isolate each detector completely from its neighbors? I guess my question is, how much of the cube is really being used in the detector, and how much is just optical insulation?
...toward the end of the interview, where Olson states that more people know now about open source and the GPL than ever before, but also that they're almost all scared to death of it.
I suppose that's the basic difference: With Micro$oft, you know they're out to get you; with open source, you're never sure <g>.
Or has almost every astrophysics-related story I've seen lately included something like "this discovery will force scientists to rethink everything they know about [insert specialty here]?"
Is this a requirement for continued research funding? Or is our understanding of astrophysics in general so incomplete that none of our theories form a coherent system that can stand the addition of even one more observation?
X is the 14th letter in the alphabet?
11 - 31 = 311?
Get your math right. K-PAX would equal the difference of K and the product of P, A and X.
Therefore, K-PAX = 11-16124 = 11 - 384 = -373.
373 is a palindromic prime. It is the only palindromic prime with all substrings prime. It is the sum of the squares of five consecutive primes: 3,5,7,11, and 13.
An interesting number indeed. I'm sure they made it negative just to hide all these interesting facts from casual seekers. Where the Nazi bit comes in, I don't know.