OK, so if all matter came into being 14 Billion years ago in the big bang, and all space and the matter in it has been expanding since then, and new research shows that the universe will likely keep expanding as opposed to collapsing back in upon itself, how are two galaxies with the same approximate mass supposed to collide? Shouldn't we be getting further apart? I guess relatively close bodies of matter will continue to migrate towards each other even as the larger body of matter continues to expand, so matter will eventually be in larger clumps with more open space between them, but it still seems a bit counter-intuitive.
As long as a premium new release Blue Ray movie is $29.95 when I might find the DVD for $15, blue ray will not take hold the way some folks had projected. It really costs no more to produce the BlueRay version. When the technology was brand new there was a business case for a premium price, but that shold be close to level by now. Just another case of greedy studios shooting themselves in the foot.
I'm thinking that the first fold of the 13 total folds created a sheet with 2 layers, so the additional 12 folds would yield 2^12 or 4096 total layers. Not sure where they came up with 6000 in the article.
As to length, 15000 feet halved 13 times would be 1.83 feet, but the depth of the folds eats up a lot of length, which is why their bundle really couldn't fold that 13th time.
My New Verizon iPhone4 is my first Apple product other than an iPod. I don't upgrade phones until my contract is up, so I couldn't really get a smartphone until about 4 months ago. I could have gotten an Android then, but waited for the iPhone so I could re-use all my music and other stuff in iTunes. No-one has ever really convinced me that an Android or other phone is better than an iPhone, nor do I think the iPhone is better than an Android. It just made more sense to me for convenience sake.
My point is that I don't think I have a huge loyalty to Apple. My new phone does not seem to have a death grip issue (where shorting multiple antenna segments kills your signal). It does experience a degradation if you cradle the phone to hide the antenna, but all cell phones have this issue.
The point of the article is that ALL phones will experience a signal degredation when the antenna is shielded, including the Verizon iPhone4. The death grip on the original iPhone 4 was a specific legitimate design problem where the antenna could be bridged/shorted between multiple antenna segments to drastically reduce the signal. No real death grip or phone cradling required. The Verizon phone does not have this design flaw.
Please note that I'm not criticizing for inadequacy... I'm just informing the many readers who will check it out that, no matter how high the resolution, it still does not approach the visual impact these works can have in person. I wouldn't want people to think that they no longer need a museum trip because they have seen these works on Google!
BTW, I'm not an art snob, just a guy who happened into the Boston Museum of Fine Arts before a RedSox game one Sunday and found myself in front of some truly breathtaking paintings thinking "Wow, those full color prints in art books don't do this justice!"
I also did not rule out the possibility of improved digital renderings in the future.
Having seen several works by the major impressionists in person, I can say that no 2D rendering of a truly great painting can do it justice, no matter how high the resolution. Looking at a Van Gogh, for example, the paint depth in the brush strokes can be up to a centimeter thick, and this depth interactes with the light in person in a way that you can't capture in a 2D image.
Which is not to say the whole thing isn't still really cool.
I'm not an expert on relativity, but I'd love to understand your point if it's accurate. As pointed out by michaelwv, we know that the photons we are seeing now left that galaxy 13.2 billion years ago, so where we see it now is it's position then relative to our current position at this time. We also know that the universe has expanded a great deal since then (especially since the age of the universe is 13.75 billion years old give or take). Hence, from our perspective the actual current physical position of the galaxy should be much further away than it was then (for those of us who don't understand). I'm sure you do need to understand relativity to calulate exacly how far away that is likely to be, but I'd love to hear the justification for how it is curreently just that 13.2 billion miles away at this time, when we know there have been 13.2 billion years of expansion.
The interesteing thing not mentioned about the Distant Galaxy in the article. eventhough it's position 13.2 billion years ago was that far away from our current position, it is currently probably more like 45 billion light years away!
Very few people with the unlimitied AT&T plan switched away from it (statisticlly speaking anyway).
The reason that Verizon is offering a 'temporary' unlimited plan is to entice those AT&T users who can't see themselves surviving on a metered service, but hate their coverage, to switch over to Verizon secure in the knowledge that they can still have an unlimited plan. Once these folks have had enough time to jump over, Verizon kills the plan for new subscribers. It's a great marketing ploy.
I just don't see a large pool of existing frustrated AT&T users who dropped the unlimited plan clamoring to get back to it.
When Company A buys stuff from Company B, all existing agreements and contracts concerning that assett with external parties must remain in force when the assett is transferred. CNPT can't just change the playing field on an agreement already in effect.
Now, CNPT may be less likely to renew certain agreements that may have an expiration date than Novell may have been, but any agreement with an expiration is an at risk deal anyway, no matter who the original agreement was with.
In those vehicles, the other cylinders that are de-activated are still spinning and thus placing a drag load on the engine as they are all tied to the same crankshaft. This engine has an electro-actuated clutch between cylender segments so that they provide no drag on the active segments of the engine when not in use.
If we can send 35 billion to these banks every couple of weeks, we should damn well be able to afford $150 mill for some needed space probes. It's only the long term future of the continuing human instinct to explore our world and universe!
...defines a classic as having to break new ground? or is that just your personal opinion?
The original post doesn't say anything about limiting his readings to books announcing initial discoveries.
The Bryson book illuminates the context and connections between hundreds of scientific discoveries, as well as some of the coincidences or dumb luck that helped them come about. It somehow manages to do so in an engaging and entertaining fashion.
Keep in mind, also that many/. readers do NOT have 4 year degrees from institutions where they were forced to take a broad collection of science courses. As such, the quantity and variety of topics covered by Bryson could be a useful first exposure to many people in need of a little broader scientific perspective.
Writing biased to the Left? How? Unless you are talking about the places where he points out that it took 80 years to get the production of a harmful poluttant outlawed etc., which comes up a couple times, but that could hardly be called left leaning. He's just reporting the facts.
It's not a current classic, but will probably be one in 100 years. "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson is a phenominal read that covers all the main discoveries on most scientific disciplines. And it's somehow a page turner as well!
The original dutch article seems to show that the WRE 060 windmill actually was producing 6kW (6000 Kwh/year) as opposed to the 485kWh/year listed in the english summary. That seems to make sense as that design clearly has the most blade surface area.
At 6000Kwh one 3.3 meter diameter windmill could nearly power a US household. Add to that that the vertical shaft orientation lets you put the generator on the ground without an efficiency sapping 90 degree CV joint, plus it lets you increase capacity by adding another blade-set above the existing two without an increas in diameter (just height and horizontal loading).
So, that design seems to be the most promising to me unless I have gotten something wrong, which I'm sure someone will point out!
I also fail to see the point. Each server is going to add X amount of heat to the room as it operates, so the AC system needs to remove X amount of heat to maintain a stable temperature. Overall, the AC system has to do roughtly the same amount of work. The higher room temperature will give you a greater temperature difference for your exchnage medium (water usually), so that shouold give you some higher efficiency as you cool it with ambient outside air. Based on the previous post, however, it looks like this increased efficiency will be lost by the added power required for the CPUs to run at the higher temperature (they will actually be producing more heat than they would if running cooler).
End result... Basically no real savings, just a pissed off IT team. While there may be ways to reduce data center cooling costs, this isn't it!
From the post: "Great in theory but some of the industry already bases battery figures on a two-test measurement, and the results are still wildly inaccurate"
So What?... As long as they begin to publish true measured figures (Idle & Loaded) as opposed to some guess that they would make, then spin in the marketing department, no-one can complain if their own results vary. All the manufacturer can do is publish what they can measure. Any specific user who claims that their performance differs needs to understand that that there is no more reliable way to predict performance for their specific situation. Therefor, this can only be seen as an improvement.
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OK, so if all matter came into being 14 Billion years ago in the big bang, and all space and the matter in it has been expanding since then, and new research shows that the universe will likely keep expanding as opposed to collapsing back in upon itself, how are two galaxies with the same approximate mass supposed to collide? Shouldn't we be getting further apart? I guess relatively close bodies of matter will continue to migrate towards each other even as the larger body of matter continues to expand, so matter will eventually be in larger clumps with more open space between them, but it still seems a bit counter-intuitive.
I'm all for protecting real privacy, but worrying about this is just a huge waste of time and resources. People need to get a grip!
As long as a premium new release Blue Ray movie is $29.95 when I might find the DVD for $15, blue ray will not take hold the way some folks had projected. It really costs no more to produce the BlueRay version. When the technology was brand new there was a business case for a premium price, but that shold be close to level by now. Just another case of greedy studios shooting themselves in the foot.
I'm sure there are numbers, but from a completely un-informed standpoint it seems to me that the paraboloc trough designs where a slurry tube runs through a mirrored trough would be cheaper to produce and maintain? http://www.powermag.com/renewables/solar/Saguaro-Solar-Power-Plant-Red-Rock-Arizona_468.html
I'm thinking that the first fold of the 13 total folds created a sheet with 2 layers, so the additional 12 folds would yield 2^12 or 4096 total layers. Not sure where they came up with 6000 in the article. As to length, 15000 feet halved 13 times would be 1.83 feet, but the depth of the folds eats up a lot of length, which is why their bundle really couldn't fold that 13th time.
My New Verizon iPhone4 is my first Apple product other than an iPod. I don't upgrade phones until my contract is up, so I couldn't really get a smartphone until about 4 months ago. I could have gotten an Android then, but waited for the iPhone so I could re-use all my music and other stuff in iTunes. No-one has ever really convinced me that an Android or other phone is better than an iPhone, nor do I think the iPhone is better than an Android. It just made more sense to me for convenience sake. My point is that I don't think I have a huge loyalty to Apple. My new phone does not seem to have a death grip issue (where shorting multiple antenna segments kills your signal). It does experience a degradation if you cradle the phone to hide the antenna, but all cell phones have this issue.
The point of the article is that ALL phones will experience a signal degredation when the antenna is shielded, including the Verizon iPhone4. The death grip on the original iPhone 4 was a specific legitimate design problem where the antenna could be bridged/shorted between multiple antenna segments to drastically reduce the signal. No real death grip or phone cradling required. The Verizon phone does not have this design flaw.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379903,00.asp
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BTW, I'm not an art snob, just a guy who happened into the Boston Museum of Fine Arts before a RedSox game one Sunday and found myself in front of some truly breathtaking paintings thinking "Wow, those full color prints in art books don't do this justice!"
I also did not rule out the possibility of improved digital renderings in the future.
Having seen several works by the major impressionists in person, I can say that no 2D rendering of a truly great painting can do it justice, no matter how high the resolution. Looking at a Van Gogh, for example, the paint depth in the brush strokes can be up to a centimeter thick, and this depth interactes with the light in person in a way that you can't capture in a 2D image. Which is not to say the whole thing isn't still really cool.
I'm not an expert on relativity, but I'd love to understand your point if it's accurate. As pointed out by michaelwv, we know that the photons we are seeing now left that galaxy 13.2 billion years ago, so where we see it now is it's position then relative to our current position at this time. We also know that the universe has expanded a great deal since then (especially since the age of the universe is 13.75 billion years old give or take). Hence, from our perspective the actual current physical position of the galaxy should be much further away than it was then (for those of us who don't understand). I'm sure you do need to understand relativity to calulate exacly how far away that is likely to be, but I'd love to hear the justification for how it is curreently just that 13.2 billion miles away at this time, when we know there have been 13.2 billion years of expansion.
The interesteing thing not mentioned about the Distant Galaxy in the article. eventhough it's position 13.2 billion years ago was that far away from our current position, it is currently probably more like 45 billion light years away!
Very few people with the unlimitied AT&T plan switched away from it (statisticlly speaking anyway). The reason that Verizon is offering a 'temporary' unlimited plan is to entice those AT&T users who can't see themselves surviving on a metered service, but hate their coverage, to switch over to Verizon secure in the knowledge that they can still have an unlimited plan. Once these folks have had enough time to jump over, Verizon kills the plan for new subscribers. It's a great marketing ploy. I just don't see a large pool of existing frustrated AT&T users who dropped the unlimited plan clamoring to get back to it.
When Company A buys stuff from Company B, all existing agreements and contracts concerning that assett with external parties must remain in force when the assett is transferred. CNPT can't just change the playing field on an agreement already in effect.
Now, CNPT may be less likely to renew certain agreements that may have an expiration date than Novell may have been, but any agreement with an expiration is an at risk deal anyway, no matter who the original agreement was with.
In those vehicles, the other cylinders that are de-activated are still spinning and thus placing a drag load on the engine as they are all tied to the same crankshaft. This engine has an electro-actuated clutch between cylender segments so that they provide no drag on the active segments of the engine when not in use.
Horse "Stealing"... (Darned Computers)
Here Here... String 'em up I say!
If we can send 35 billion to these banks every couple of weeks, we should damn well be able to afford $150 mill for some needed space probes. It's only the long term future of the continuing human instinct to explore our world and universe!
The original post doesn't say anything about limiting his readings to books announcing initial discoveries.
The Bryson book illuminates the context and connections between hundreds of scientific discoveries, as well as some of the coincidences or dumb luck that helped them come about. It somehow manages to do so in an engaging and entertaining fashion.
Keep in mind, also that many /. readers do NOT have 4 year degrees from institutions where they were forced to take a broad collection of science courses. As such, the quantity and variety of topics covered by Bryson could be a useful first exposure to many people in need of a little broader scientific perspective.
Writing biased to the Left? How? Unless you are talking about the places where he points out that it took 80 years to get the production of a harmful poluttant outlawed etc., which comes up a couple times, but that could hardly be called left leaning. He's just reporting the facts.
It's not a current classic, but will probably be one in 100 years. "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson is a phenominal read that covers all the main discoveries on most scientific disciplines. And it's somehow a page turner as well!
At 6000Kwh one 3.3 meter diameter windmill could nearly power a US household. Add to that that the vertical shaft orientation lets you put the generator on the ground without an efficiency sapping 90 degree CV joint, plus it lets you increase capacity by adding another blade-set above the existing two without an increas in diameter (just height and horizontal loading).
So, that design seems to be the most promising to me unless I have gotten something wrong, which I'm sure someone will point out!
I also fail to see the point. Each server is going to add X amount of heat to the room as it operates, so the AC system needs to remove X amount of heat to maintain a stable temperature. Overall, the AC system has to do roughtly the same amount of work. The higher room temperature will give you a greater temperature difference for your exchnage medium (water usually), so that shouold give you some higher efficiency as you cool it with ambient outside air. Based on the previous post, however, it looks like this increased efficiency will be lost by the added power required for the CPUs to run at the higher temperature (they will actually be producing more heat than they would if running cooler). End result... Basically no real savings, just a pissed off IT team. While there may be ways to reduce data center cooling costs, this isn't it!
So What?... As long as they begin to publish true measured figures (Idle & Loaded) as opposed to some guess that they would make, then spin in the marketing department, no-one can complain if their own results vary. All the manufacturer can do is publish what they can measure. Any specific user who claims that their performance differs needs to understand that that there is no more reliable way to predict performance for their specific situation. Therefor, this can only be seen as an improvement.