That allows for a certain amount of gradient, maybe even up to full 24 or 32 bit color.
Since these are DIGITAL subpixels, For 24 bit color, you'd need 256 sub-pixels just for the 'red' to mimic the 256 intensity levels per gun, and 768 sub-pixels in total PER PIXEL!
For 32 bit color (assuming 10 bits per gun), you'd need 1024 red sub-pixels, 1024 green sub-pixels an 1024 blue sub-pixels just to make ONE regular pixel.
each pixel requiring 3072 subpixels does NOT sound too feasable to me.... at least not off the top of my head. : )
I have to admit however, that these would make GREAT 8 color displays! ; )
This thing appears to claim that each storage bit takes on a broad range of values between 0 and 1, inclusive.
Actually, from the technology brief on their site, it appears that these ARE driven in binary format and that the distance between plates is physically restricted to a max value. (ie. They can manufacture sub-pixels of ANY frequency, but once constructed they're fixed at ONE particular frequency). That's why they say talk about it as a being bi-stable.
Yes, the progressive switching would be the way to go, but it would still require a formidable abmount of sub-pixel electronics not found in mosts current display devices. I'm sure it'll eventually be possible, but I'm not holding my breath.:)
Yes, you can get any wavelength, but WHITE doesn't correspond to any wavelength. To achieve the appearance of white, the distance would have to increase to many times the wavelength of visible light (see optical physics text), while bright color responce would require a distance on the order of the wavelength of light.
They just don't have THAT much control over the thickness. The technology preview on their website explains it pretty well.
. Consider a three-subpixel unit where each subpixel can be either white, red, or black
Well if you had looked at the technology at their web site, the subpixels CAN'T be White. Thay can be only Black or one specific color (eg. Red). The technology has the color of each subpixel fixed by it's physical properties. (ie. it's digital, not analog) so there are red/black, green/black, blue/black subpixel types. Same idea as the old CGA displays but without the intensity bit (ie. only one bit per gun.)
Sadly, no mention on the site of how they think they play to provide any INTENSITY information.
Yes, this does present a serious problem to the technology.
Although they may have many of these in each 'pixel' as mentioned earlier, the circuitry required to drive these sub elements to give each pixel even a modest pallette depth would be absurd (IMHO).
For good (24 bit) color (8 bits per gun), you'd need 768 (256x3) sub pixels driven with at least 768 times the number of connectors to the display and 768 times the bandwidth, or you'd need to have integrated decoder/driving circuitry for each element. You couldn't just send an analog signal as with an LCD. There IS NO ANALOG DRIVING in this device, period.
Now, if the the 'memory' of these devices is truely bistable, they may be able to achieve usable bandwidth using a good multiplexing, but the size of the sub elements along with the rediculous number of connectors per pixel is a SERIOUS issue and the fact that there is NO MENTION of driving levels gives me serious reservations.
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And then of course there is everything that has NOT been observed or postulated. So that usage does clearly imply that "universe" is not "everything".
Right... but you've just postulated that things exist which have not been postulated, so therefore they have.... But then... <crackling sound and odor of smoke>
but they keep calling. Is there any recourse for me, since they are in NY and I'm in the Bay Area?
Yes, there is recourse for you.
What they are doing is against federal law. You should gather a certain ammount of information about them, then file a complaint with the FCC and/or sue them... they are likely liable to you for $1500 or more.
As many have pointed out, even very efficient mirrors may not last too long under such intense laser radiation, but... there could be other strategies.
Imagine mounting a high precission set of corner cube reflectors on a decoy target. (corner cube reflectors reflect incoming light back toward the source). With 90%+ reflectivity, you may be able to destroy the laser bearing vehicle with it's own beam even if the reflector is ultimately destroyed.
... because financial statements are private until published by the person (company);
They WERE published by the company... on their own web server in fact. Reuters gave information on where the information was PUBLICALLY PUBLISHED BY THE COMPANY
A store can easily be protected by purchasing video cameras. That doesn't make it legal to burglarize a store that just uses lock-and-key.
Pardon me for saying so, but that's a pretty crappy analogy. Let's try for a more accurate one...
A Intentia employee leaves copies of a certain file at their Public Relations Information desk. (The file is placed in a publicly accessible web directory.)
A Reuters employee goes to the desk and asks to see the file. (http request)
The Information desk attendant (web server) happily says "Sure, here you go." (http responce)
The Reuters employee decides to tell people that the information is publicly available (Reuters' published URL) and that they should go ask for themselves if they want to see a copy.
That's still a bad analogy, because the journalist doesn't really print it.
Try this:
An employee of a company takes their earnings report to a public place and posts it there, but doesn't tell anybody about it. A random person who happends to be a journalist notices it and reads it through. He realises that this is a dynamite exclusive so he decides to print a message telling people where it is.
I was under the impression that Microsoft was only developing the PM (Presentation Manager) GUI layer for OS/2 and didn't work on the OS/2 kernel or have rights to use it. The development agreement alowed Microsoft to reuse the PM code it developed for IBM so they hooked that up as front end for dos as the first incarnation of 'Windows'.
Agreed that OS/2 should have beat Windows 3.1 into the ground, but unfortunately, throwing millions of dollars into an agressive marketing campaign for an inferior product while using loads of FUD on your competitors does work.
16-bit scans of 4X5 inch film at 2400 dpi are over 2GB in size.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here by "16-bit scans". Are you're trying to say 16 bits per channel (RGB)? If so, that's 4*5*2400^2 pixels at a maximum of 8 bytes per pixel (if you count an alpha chanel) which gives only 0.86 GB for the raw data.
You go on to say that the 16-bit files are four times larger than 8-bit files (???), so that suggests you're talking about a scaling parameter, but you've defined that as 2400 dpi and distinct from your "16-bit" term.
To have over 2GB of raw data for that image, you'd have to have 160 bpp. for that size image (over 40bits per gun!).
Care to clarify what you mean by "16-bit scans"?:) Just trying to understand you.
I have to disagree. Any reasonably well designed program should be modular enough to _easily_ allow BOTH quick and efficient UI input (power) AND heirarchal menu based UI (ease-of-use). Many programs out there do both well now.
I personally doubt that it would be very hard to add a menu with command selection to the Blender... it's just that up until now, a need probably hasn't been felt. Now, if I were just finished with my thesis, I'd probably tackle it myself.:)
My, oh my. Who would have guessed... From your original post it seemed that you were actually trying to determine something usefull, but from the trailing diatribe of your last post, it's obvious you're living in a universe of your own.
"First of all, I used the right pi." blah blah blah...
Time to re-read chapter 0 of any science text for proper rounding technique and handling of significant digits.:)
"Of course, I then said the line was 10^6km long,...... NOT!:)
Not only did the original article clearly state that the length would need to be 100,000 km, but so did YOU!
From YOUR post: "If 100,000 km of it (that's how long it needs to be) weighs 40,000 kg or more, you're shot."...And you CLEARLY made the final comparison to 40,000 kg!... and then went off on how "this thing would be ridiculously stronger than needed."
Just in case you really believe you had a "10^6km" figure anywhere in your original post, here's a link.
This is the MATH POLICE! Please put your hands in the air and slowly step away from your calculator...
First off... looks like you used PI=3.4 Ouch!
(0.25/2)^2 * 3.14159 =.049... let's say 5e-2 cm^2 or 0.05 cm^2
Next, you have made a mistake converting your cable length...
The line is 100,000 km long which is 1e10 cm... so the volume is 5e8 cm^3 (you're only low by a factor of a hundred).
Using your 1.4 g/cm^3, we find that each strand would then be 7e5 kg.
700,000 kg is NOT significantly less than 40,000 kg.
I wonder if the hole is something that is recurring rather then just an effect of pollution...
The ozone hole is definitely a recurring phenomena. Ozone is a VERY reactive chemical, and is being destroyed by reactions all over the world all the time (wreaks havoc on rubber seals). It is also being produce all the time by the effect of UV rays in the upper atmosphere. (That's one reason why ozone shields from UV rays). There is a natural balance between these effects... except where the sun doesn't shine. At the poles during the 6 month winters, the ozone is not being produced by sunlight, so it naturally has a net depletion. At the north pole, ozone can be replaced by ozone rich air from arctic winds, but at the south pole, the extreme teperature differential at the continent boundary (obviously not present at the north pole) produces strong wind paterns which isolate much of the antarctic region during the winter. As soon as the sun starts shining again... more ozone!:)
It's too bad that it's so hard to find realistic information about what goes on.
BTW, CFC's are extremely stable (unreactive) compounds (and extremely heavy molecules). What's more, CFC's by themselves don't destroy ozone. The theory goes something like this: Even though CFC's are quite dense, they are carried high into the upper atmosphere, where the intense radiation breaks them down to release atomic chlorine. (I'm not aware of this theoretical breakdown ever being reproduced in a lab, even though it would be a simple feat if the theory is valid). It's the atomic chlorine that repeatedly reacts with the ozone to produce diatomic oxygen and oxygen compounds. I'm still not sure why the vast natural sources of atmospheric chlorine (far in excess of CFCs) aren't a greater concern. They should make it into the upper atmosphere far easier than the high density CFC. If anyone reading has insight into this, please let me know. I can always use more info!:)
Actually, as far as we can tell, life could exist using all right-handed amino acids also. It's quite possible that both types of life existed for a brief time, but one out-competed the other very early in earth's history.
You miss his point entirely... that the amino acids used arent't MIXED left and right handed. The question is that if life arose by chance, then selecting amino acids all of one handedness would exponentiate the improbabilty by an astronomical factor. Your idea of additional 'right-handed' organisms would square that astronomical improbability, and just shows that you don't understand the logic behind the statement at all.
... If God created the universe, what created God?...
ROTFLMAO!!! It always amazes me to hear BigBangers reason this way. Just ask a physicist the analogous question: "If the big bang created the universe, what what created the big bang?" It's amusing to hear the varied replies (which invariably sound just like the religionist's answers) usually along the lines of "That's unknowable/undefined because time didn't exist, blah, blah blah...".
In my experience, the Big Bang theory is a religon of it's own, with all that comes with religons in general... zealots, those who will defend their 'beliefs' in the face of a mountain of conflicting evidence, and entirely ignore anything that doesn't fit into their narrow paradigm (ie. the verified quantization of red-shift, extra-galactic superscale structures, etc, etc, etc...), but then they come up with just as fanciful and unprovable inventions to try to reconcile their beloved BB Theory with the ever increasing mountain of conflicting observation (ie. Cosmic strings, numerous unobserved/unobservable theoretical particles, dk matter, etc, etc, etc...)
Please note that I'm not advocating religon over science or science over religon, but just pointing out that the similarities between religons and certain dogmatic 'scientific' theories are compellingly similar.
Yes, gas hydrates do breakdown when they're pulled to the surface, but not immediately. They can exist for hours before melting and releasing their methane. About hydrates pulled from Oregon coastal waters:
"The hydrates were formed in the sea under conditions of high pressure and low temperatures, Collier said. They begin to decompose as soon as they are removed from the seafloor, within hours leaving scientists with only a smelly puddle of water." --http://osu.orst.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/1996/96Oct ober/methane.htm
These are true methane-hydrates that are brought to the surface and can be handled etc, until they slowly decompose.
How could they pull a chunk of pure methane hydrate to the surface without it decomposing? It breaks down when you reduce the pressure.
How fast it decomposes is due to it's temperature as well as pressure. I've seen videos of meth hydrate chunks being pulled up from underwater and handled/burned on the boat's deck.
It could be rocks saturated with methane, similar to those found under the North Sea - but if that's the case, the deposit itself is practically worthless (how much rock would have to be brought to the surface and crushed/heated/whatever in order to release the methane?)
PLEASE... look up methane hydrates. It's NOT methane soaked rock. FYI, that word "hydrates", has somehting to do with its nature.
More likely, these are just (again as in the North Sea) just an indicator that there are deeper reserves of oil and/or gas below the seafloor, and little to do with methane hydrates.
So you really think that methane hydrates have little to do with methane hydrates??? For the love of...
... thought it would be pretty high (at least 64 bits).
Not even close! Time resolution may need to be high, but not sample resolution. Do you have any idea how many discrete levels you get with 64 bits???
That's a resolution of about 16 Quintillion to 1. AFAIK, there's no such thing as a 64bit DAQ. I'm sure the 12 to 16 bits in an audio card is more than enough by far.
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Since these are DIGITAL subpixels, For 24 bit color, you'd need 256 sub-pixels just for the 'red' to mimic the 256 intensity levels per gun, and 768 sub-pixels in total PER PIXEL!
For 32 bit color (assuming 10 bits per gun), you'd need 1024 red sub-pixels, 1024 green sub-pixels an 1024 blue sub-pixels just to make ONE regular pixel.
each pixel requiring 3072 subpixels does NOT sound too feasable to me. ... at least not off the top of my head. : )
I have to admit however, that these would make GREAT 8 color displays! ; )
Actually, from the technology brief on their site, it appears that these ARE driven in binary format and that the distance between plates is physically restricted to a max value. (ie. They can manufacture sub-pixels of ANY frequency, but once constructed they're fixed at ONE particular frequency). That's why they say talk about it as a being bi-stable.
Yes, the progressive switching would be the way to go, but it would still require a formidable abmount of sub-pixel electronics not found in mosts current display devices. I'm sure it'll eventually be possible, but I'm not holding my breath. :)
They just don't have THAT much control over the thickness. The technology preview on their website explains it pretty well.
Well if you had looked at the technology at their web site, the subpixels CAN'T be White. Thay can be only Black or one specific color (eg. Red). The technology has the color of each subpixel fixed by it's physical properties. (ie. it's digital, not analog) so there are red/black, green/black, blue/black subpixel types. Same idea as the old CGA displays but without the intensity bit (ie. only one bit per gun.)
Sadly, no mention on the site of how they think they play to provide any INTENSITY information.
The same way RGB monitors display white, of course. Or did you think RGB monitors had white phosphores somewhere in there? ; )
Yes, this does present a serious problem to the technology.
Although they may have many of these in each 'pixel' as mentioned earlier, the circuitry required to drive these sub elements to give each pixel even a modest pallette depth would be absurd (IMHO).
For good (24 bit) color (8 bits per gun), you'd need 768 (256x3) sub pixels driven with at least 768 times the number of connectors to the display and 768 times the bandwidth, or you'd need to have integrated decoder/driving circuitry for each element. You couldn't just send an analog signal as with an LCD. There IS NO ANALOG DRIVING in this device, period.
Now, if the the 'memory' of these devices is truely bistable, they may be able to achieve usable bandwidth using a good multiplexing, but the size of the sub elements along with the rediculous number of connectors per pixel is a SERIOUS issue and the fact that there is NO MENTION of driving levels gives me serious reservations.
Right ... but you've just postulated that things exist which have not been postulated, so therefore they have. ... But then ... <crackling sound and odor of smoke>
Yes, there is recourse for you.
What they are doing is against federal law. You should gather a certain ammount of information about them, then file a complaint with the FCC and/or sue them... they are likely liable to you for $1500 or more.
For more detailed information see the Telephone Consumer Protection Act
Imagine mounting a high precission set of corner cube reflectors on a decoy target. (corner cube reflectors reflect incoming light back toward the source). With 90%+ reflectivity, you may be able to destroy the laser bearing vehicle with it's own beam even if the reflector is ultimately destroyed.
Just an idea. :)
They WERE published by the company... on their own web server in fact. Reuters gave information on where the information was PUBLICALLY PUBLISHED BY THE COMPANY
Pardon me for saying so, but that's a pretty crappy analogy. Let's try for a more accurate one ...
A Intentia employee leaves copies of a certain file at their Public Relations Information desk. (The file is placed in a publicly accessible web directory.)
A Reuters employee goes to the desk and asks to see the file. (http request)
The Information desk attendant (web server) happily says "Sure, here you go." (http responce)
The Reuters employee decides to tell people that the information is publicly available (Reuters' published URL) and that they should go ask for themselves if they want to see a copy.
Try this:
An employee of a company takes their earnings report to a public place and posts it there, but doesn't tell anybody about it. A random person who happends to be a journalist notices it and reads it through. He realises that this is a dynamite exclusive so he decides to print a message telling people where it is.
I was under the impression that Microsoft was only developing the PM (Presentation Manager) GUI layer for OS/2 and didn't work on the OS/2 kernel or have rights to use it. The development agreement alowed Microsoft to reuse the PM code it developed for IBM so they hooked that up as front end for dos as the first incarnation of 'Windows'.
Agreed that OS/2 should have beat Windows 3.1 into the ground, but unfortunately, throwing millions of dollars into an agressive marketing campaign for an inferior product while using loads of FUD on your competitors does work.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here by "16-bit scans". Are you're trying to say 16 bits per channel (RGB)? If so, that's 4*5*2400^2 pixels at a maximum of 8 bytes per pixel (if you count an alpha chanel) which gives only 0.86 GB for the raw data.
You go on to say that the 16-bit files are four times larger than 8-bit files (???), so that suggests you're talking about a scaling parameter, but you've defined that as 2400 dpi and distinct from your "16-bit" term.
To have over 2GB of raw data for that image, you'd have to have 160 bpp. for that size image (over 40bits per gun!).
Care to clarify what you mean by "16-bit scans"? :) Just trying to understand you.
I personally doubt that it would be very hard to add a menu with command selection to the Blender... it's just that up until now, a need probably hasn't been felt. Now, if I were just finished with my thesis, I'd probably tackle it myself. :)
Time to re-read chapter 0 of any science text for proper rounding technique and handling of significant digits. :)
Not only did the original article clearly state that the length would need to be 100,000 km, but so did YOU!
From YOUR post: "If 100,000 km of it (that's how long it needs to be) weighs 40,000 kg or more, you're shot." ...And you CLEARLY made the final comparison to 40,000 kg! ... and then went off on how "this thing would be ridiculously stronger than needed."
Just in case you really believe you had a "10^6km" figure anywhere in your original post, here's a link.
You're not very good at weaseling either. :)
Cheers!
First off... looks like you used PI=3.4 Ouch! .049 ... let's say 5e-2 cm^2 or 0.05 cm^2
(0.25/2)^2 * 3.14159 =
Next, you have made a mistake converting your cable length ...
The line is 100,000 km long which is 1e10 cm ... so the volume is 5e8 cm^3 (you're only low by a factor of a hundred).
Using your 1.4 g/cm^3, we find that each strand would then be 7e5 kg.
700,000 kg is NOT significantly less than 40,000 kg.
Thanks for playing! :)
The ozone hole is definitely a recurring phenomena. Ozone is a VERY reactive chemical, and is being destroyed by reactions all over the world all the time (wreaks havoc on rubber seals). It is also being produce all the time by the effect of UV rays in the upper atmosphere. (That's one reason why ozone shields from UV rays). There is a natural balance between these effects ... except where the sun doesn't shine. At the poles during the 6 month winters, the ozone is not being produced by sunlight, so it naturally has a net depletion. At the north pole, ozone can be replaced by ozone rich air from arctic winds, but at the south pole, the extreme teperature differential at the continent boundary (obviously not present at the north pole) produces strong wind paterns which isolate much of the antarctic region during the winter. As soon as the sun starts shining again... more ozone! :)
It's too bad that it's so hard to find realistic information about what goes on.
BTW, CFC's are extremely stable (unreactive) compounds (and extremely heavy molecules). What's more, CFC's by themselves don't destroy ozone. The theory goes something like this: Even though CFC's are quite dense, they are carried high into the upper atmosphere, where the intense radiation breaks them down to release atomic chlorine. (I'm not aware of this theoretical breakdown ever being reproduced in a lab, even though it would be a simple feat if the theory is valid). It's the atomic chlorine that repeatedly reacts with the ozone to produce diatomic oxygen and oxygen compounds. I'm still not sure why the vast natural sources of atmospheric chlorine (far in excess of CFCs) aren't a greater concern. They should make it into the upper atmosphere far easier than the high density CFC. If anyone reading has insight into this, please let me know. I can always use more info! :)
Linux is not an operating system, it's a kernal. ;) Oh... did you mean GNU/Linux? (puts on asbestos suit)
Sorry, couldn't resist! :)
You miss his point entirely... that the amino acids used arent't MIXED left and right handed. The question is that if life arose by chance, then selecting amino acids all of one handedness would exponentiate the improbabilty by an astronomical factor. Your idea of additional 'right-handed' organisms would square that astronomical improbability, and just shows that you don't understand the logic behind the statement at all.
ROTFLMAO!!! It always amazes me to hear BigBangers reason this way. Just ask a physicist the analogous question: "If the big bang created the universe, what what created the big bang?" It's amusing to hear the varied replies (which invariably sound just like the religionist's answers) usually along the lines of "That's unknowable/undefined because time didn't exist, blah, blah blah...".
In my experience, the Big Bang theory is a religon of it's own, with all that comes with religons in general... zealots, those who will defend their 'beliefs' in the face of a mountain of conflicting evidence, and entirely ignore anything that doesn't fit into their narrow paradigm (ie. the verified quantization of red-shift, extra-galactic superscale structures, etc, etc, etc...), but then they come up with just as fanciful and unprovable inventions to try to reconcile their beloved BB Theory with the ever increasing mountain of conflicting observation (ie. Cosmic strings, numerous unobserved/unobservable theoretical particles, dk matter, etc, etc, etc...)
Please note that I'm not advocating religon over science or science over religon, but just pointing out that the similarities between religons and certain dogmatic 'scientific' theories are compellingly similar.
How fast it decomposes is due to it's temperature as well as pressure. I've seen videos of meth hydrate chunks being pulled up from underwater and handled/burned on the boat's deck.
It could be rocks saturated with methane, similar to those found under the North Sea - but if that's the case, the deposit itself is practically worthless (how much rock would have to be brought to the surface and crushed/heated/whatever in order to release the methane?)
PLEASE... look up methane hydrates. It's NOT methane soaked rock. FYI, that word "hydrates", has somehting to do with its nature.
More likely, these are just (again as in the North Sea) just an indicator that there are deeper reserves of oil and/or gas below the seafloor, and little to do with methane hydrates.
So you really think that methane hydrates have little to do with methane hydrates??? For the love of ...
You've been watching too much tv. Methane can't explode without being mixed with an oxidizer, and they usually keep those out of tankers.
Think Fuel-Air bomb.
The tanks don't have any air in them! Sheesh! Haven't you ever used a gas barbecue before?
Not even close! Time resolution may need to be high, but not sample resolution. Do you have any idea how many discrete levels you get with 64 bits???
That's a resolution of about 16 Quintillion to 1. AFAIK, there's no such thing as a 64bit DAQ. I'm sure the 12 to 16 bits in an audio card is more than enough by far.