Nature had a long time to come up with efficient methods of locomotion too, does that mean it is a safe guess that cars with legs would be more efficient than cars with wheels?
Well, legs do work much better on unpredictable terrain, so nature would have had to come up with paved roads first.
I'm fairly sensitive to flicker, and I have seen LED christmas lights that do flicker, but there are some available that don't.
In 2008, I picked up some "Holiday Time" brand icicle lights from Walmart; $10-ish per set of 70 lights. My kill-a-watt says they consume about 4W per set.
I was not able to notice any flicker on these lights. There's a little white box in the middle of the strand which gets warm when running, so I assume there's some kind of full-wave rectifier.
However, nowhere on the packaging does it say anything about being flickerless. Stupid marketers.
Well, Apple could sign the file with their private key after adding your user ID. It wouldn't stop people from blanking it out, but it would securely prevent impersonation.
If the pixels are black and white, 1.16 x 10^77 ways.
For 24-bit color, a helluvalot more.
I assume trademark/copyright will no longer apply here once humans colonize the entire universe, and the population starts to get closer to those numbers.
If your connection gets a/48 allocated to it, then you can have a relatively simple address, like:
2001:db8:a5b2::1
Where the last part is statically assigned by you. The addresses aren't really that messy unless you're using relying on autoconfiguration for the last 64 bits.
A lot of other wireless mice run forever on a battery. My G7 needs a swap every 1-3 days. I do like the hot-swappability, but the amount of power it consumes seems a bit kludgey.
"Hybrid memristor-transistor chip" doesn't really sound ridiculous to me. Would you have preferred he created a marketing name to describe a new fundamental technology?
Current technology contains stuff like "metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors," we just don't call them that very often.
But black holes exist within the universe. If time inside a black hole is stopped relative to the rest of the universe, then shouldn't a black hole take infinitely long to form?
As a corollary, shouldn't you be able to look behind you and watch the end of the universe?
Maybe you're just being short-sighted. If our goal is to eliminate our dependence on oil for transportation, then commercializing (partially) electric storage and drive systems is certainly a step in the right direction.
But time is moving slower inside the black hole than outside. Wouldn't you get a helluva sunburn from all the radiation ever to hit the black hole over the remaining life of the universe?
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You need a Smart Antenna, at least once the manufacturers figure out how to produce more decent ones. They're taking forever.
Actually, any piece large enough to pose a threat to anything we care about can be tracked
Well, they certainly didn't do a very good job of tracking the original satellite-sized pieces.
I doubt anyone cared much about 8675309 in 1970, considering the song was about -12 years old.
Nature had a long time to come up with efficient methods of locomotion too, does that mean it is a safe guess that cars with legs would be more efficient than cars with wheels?
Well, legs do work much better on unpredictable terrain, so nature would have had to come up with paved roads first.
I'm fairly sensitive to flicker, and I have seen LED christmas lights that do flicker, but there are some available that don't.
In 2008, I picked up some "Holiday Time" brand icicle lights from Walmart; $10-ish per set of 70 lights. My kill-a-watt says they consume about 4W per set.
I was not able to notice any flicker on these lights. There's a little white box in the middle of the strand which gets warm when running, so I assume there's some kind of full-wave rectifier.
However, nowhere on the packaging does it say anything about being flickerless. Stupid marketers.
commonly known as 'drifting'
... into the D-dimension!
Or, better yet, strips of IEC-C13 jacks. Anyone who's plugged in a computer will be familiar with those:
http://www.geistmfg.com/_Apps/catalog/images/items/Item_260_1.jpg
Well, Apple could sign the file with their private key after adding your user ID. It wouldn't stop people from blanking it out, but it would securely prevent impersonation.
If the pixels are black and white, 1.16 x 10^77 ways.
For 24-bit color, a helluvalot more.
I assume trademark/copyright will no longer apply here once humans colonize the entire universe, and the population starts to get closer to those numbers.
Complaining about Google's energy efficiency is like complaining about Walmart's product stocking efficiency.
That is, they have strong incentives to be really good at it.
In IPv4, a typical customer allocation is /32. In IPv6, it's /48. Thus, by a *very* rough estimate, IPv6 has an extra 16 bits, or 64k times more.
If your connection gets a /48 allocated to it, then you can have a relatively simple address, like:
2001:db8:a5b2::1
Where the last part is statically assigned by you. The addresses aren't really that messy unless you're using relying on autoconfiguration for the last 64 bits.
When the crunch comes, any ISP that isn't batshit insane will be deploying native IPv6 alongside their NAT.
The space may be astronomical, but astronomical amounts of space are wasted in order to simplify routing and such.
For all practical purposes, I would estimate that IPv6 is about 64k times larger than IPv4.
In general, the first half (64 bits) of the address identifies a subnet, and the last half is a host ID.
A typical end-user should get an allocation between a /48 and a /64. ISPs are typically given allocations in blocks of /32.
0.027% of the space is somewhere around a million /32's.
A lot of other wireless mice run forever on a battery. My G7 needs a swap every 1-3 days. I do like the hot-swappability, but the amount of power it consumes seems a bit kludgey.
I've seen a definite flicker in some cars' tail lights as well, so you're not crazy.
I think the cars pulse the lights at ~50% most of the time, then switch to 100% when the brakes are applied.
Someone should ask this question every time Slashdot runs an IPv6 story.
In related news, http://python.org/ is accessible via IPv6 now.
"Hybrid memristor-transistor chip" doesn't really sound ridiculous to me. Would you have preferred he created a marketing name to describe a new fundamental technology?
Current technology contains stuff like "metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors," we just don't call them that very often.
I'm pretty sure we already know how to distill water in the presence of gravity. It's just a question of how much energy you're willing to consume.
But black holes exist within the universe. If time inside a black hole is stopped relative to the rest of the universe, then shouldn't a black hole take infinitely long to form?
As a corollary, shouldn't you be able to look behind you and watch the end of the universe?
Maybe you're just being short-sighted. If our goal is to eliminate our dependence on oil for transportation, then commercializing (partially) electric storage and drive systems is certainly a step in the right direction.
But time is moving slower inside the black hole than outside. Wouldn't you get a helluva sunburn from all the radiation ever to hit the black hole over the remaining life of the universe?
But if time is moving infinitely slow, then how does matter ever get to the center? Shouldn't all the matter be concentrated at the event horizon?
You should learn about this magical new discovery known as "the third dimension." It lets you make flat things all squiggly and stuff.