As far as i remember phosphorous (or at least the pure kind) is highly reactive with air, so it is kept in water...perhaps the story could be true after all....
With the advent of these cells the manufacturers may no longer have the need to put in **more expensive** low power consumption components inside such as P4m and Radeon mobility...so would that mean that we may have to wear some sort of heat retardant clothes? Would that also reduce the incentives for low power consumption R&D? How about the fuel cell assembly itself...wouldn't it produce additional heat as well? Will we end up having water cooling on our laptops? Or better yet would they come with a power outlet as well so that we can charge our web-enabled 3G bluetooth (or wi-fi) phone while we surf the net?:)
There is a catch. If you've read the article you would have noticed how he rambles about the safety features of CDMA, such asits security which is embedded in the phone, thus preventing someone from stealing your SIM card and making a 40 hour long call to mozambique or 1-900 number... He also talked about how hard it would be to "intercept" the phone# and info. Here is what he said about security:
"The phone can't be used for anything else, because of a technical aspect of how CDMA works, which was actually put in there precisely to defeat this sort of thing. (What it actually defeats is phone cloning: it keeps someone else from using your phone number to make calls with their phone, thus making you pay the bill for their hour-long calls to Mozambique or Paraguay.)
A CDMA phone uses something called the long code to spread the chip sequence that it sends on the RF link. This works because the cell and phone both use exactly the same long code, precisely synchronized. On the reverse link the long code is modified using the phone ESN. The ESN is never transmitted by the phone to the cell, so it can't be intercepted by cloners snooping on the radio link. Rather, when the phone registers with the cell, it sends its NAM. The cell system then looks this up in its database and retrieves the ESN from there. The phone itself also knows the ESN because it is stored locally.
Thus both the cell and the phone modify the long code the same way because they're using the same ESN, and the signal gets through.
A cloner could conceivably intercept your NAM, but if he changed his NAM to match yours, he would not meet with the same success. His phone would register using your NAM, but his phone would use his ESN on the reverse link. The cell system, on the other hand, would use your ESN on the reverse link, and they wouldn't match. Without going into too much technical detail, the effect of this is to substantially reduce the amount of signal the cell can derive from the RF with its rake receiver. Usually there's too little to reconstruct the bit sequence, and after missing a certain number of packets in a row, the cell will give up and drop the call. At best the phone won't work reliably, at worst it won't work at all.
Well, with your old phone that's exactly the situation. The old phone still identifies itself to the cell system using the same NAM as was originally programmed into it, but the cell system has updated its records for that NAM to indicate the ESN from your new phone rather than the one from your old phone. Thus when you try to make a normal call with your old phone, the ESN doesn't match and the call won't work.
This does not apply to 911 calls because 911 calls are special. The reverse link is not modified using the phone's ESN on a 911 call, so the call will work normally. Equally, a call to the service provider using a *-code is not modified using the phone's ESN, so that too will work properly.
But nothing else will work.
The only way the old phone could continue to work was if its ESN could be changed to match the new phone. But that's both illegal and extremely difficult to do. In fact, the phone manufacturers make it as difficult as they possibly can, because if you could do it then a cloner could do it, and could steal service and stick you with the bill."
Actually there is another chip on the market now..it requires no slodiering at all, only patience (you have to arrange some contacts in right order before attaching it...but nothing serious). You can get it for 59$ @ easybuy2000.com... More info here
This is great progress for ATI, especially considering the weakness of it's main competitior in "home cinema" field...
Now if they could just get some **decent** drivers to go with this card (catalyst is a great step towards the goal, dont get me wrong, but ATI has always been a little weak in driver field)
is the continent (and country) that is least prone to earthquakes due to the location of the teutonic plates around it. Whereas Russia has a number of earthquakes most notably towards the east but due to the sheer size and the density of the populatinon most of the small ones are probably not even documented (and due to their dire finacial situation...)
Wouldn't you like to know what construction company built a collapsed building?
Yeah...steal_your_money_and_run Cheapo-INC. Though i believe that there is a standard for building high-rises (i think they have to be capable of withstanding 6.5 on richter scale). Someone correct me if im wrong. =P
Yes i realise the inefficiency of that, but why do u think they have those little Tesla coils in Red Alert? To KFC people! On a more serious note, there are 2 companys that are trying to fix the the problem, one is concentrating on loss of efficiency, while the other is trying to invent a fusion generator so that they would get unlimited power, and not be forced to rack their brains out by trying to fifure out how to curb inefficieny..i will post the URLS as soon as i find them
Your statement about Tesla sir is verry ignorant, and perhaps should you have paid more attention to his work/patents you would have noticed that even the most modern PC's have his inventions in them (IE electromotor, ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC) Transformers in your power supply....). And yes he made many bad mistakes in his life...while in germany working for edisons german subsidiary Eddison promised him 20 000$ (at that time!)to move to US and finish some work on his patents, upon completition Edison said: " We had no legal contract, welcome to America..and live with it". So his only problem was that he never acually worked on his image nor did he have thirst for money to charge thousans for kis inventions. Please make more informed judgement next time.
Yes Nikola Tesla should be credited with the invention of acuall notion-idea of transmission of data (IE morse code) wirelessly. There are many conspiracies and quasi theories bit a couple of years ago evidence has been produced that supports Tesla as the inventor of wireless telegraphy, whereas marconi was the first to publish/patent it and therefore get all the glory. What nobody mentioned is that Tesla has also Built an apparatus for wireless transmision of ELECTRICITY as well (think of earth being GND and air being AC...im not too familiar with the pysics of it but i saw a demo a year ago in tesla museum...it was acually pretty cool, they gave us a neon light, turned the generator in and on it went):)
...lay off the Celerons (now that AMD is pulling out of the economy proc. market), especially the first ones (CPU without a cache anyone?) and the world would be a whole lot better place...
LOL... i always wondered what a mixture od Star Trek TNG+Voyager would be like...though i presume gelpacks would be considerably faster than the IC chips =D
Oh well those things are far far away into the future, but there is one thing that isnt (or at least the article claims it is not) and that ia a hilodeck.../me starts planning holo-emmiter infrastructure....
Yeah i realize that, but think of it this way, if they continiue doing these open air tests the you will have to breathe radioactive dust and/or eat radioactive fis weather u like it or not...now i was not talking about giving them multi gigaflop machines, but rather something that will give them the impression that they are doing something, when in reality, it will take them at least 10 years to accomplish something that our ASCII can do in 1 month....
BTW Im a Commie, not a liberal (j/k) =P
I realize that we have such a huge piece of [ beowulf clustered**had to say it**] piece of hardware, which will be upgraded even further in a couple of months, but what about countries like India, China, Pakistan and other countries that cannot afford such an immense piece of hardware? They will still have to do this thing the old fashioned way, and they will be breaking the ban, i realise that this is a step in the right direction, but i believe we should do more to promote this sort of [virtual] testing, and not ignore it (which is something we did when Bush needed Indian and Pakistani support and when he lifted the sanctions, that were imposed on them after their tests a year or so ago)
I have read this, and i understand most of these conceps, but what bugs me is what will you do when the cincrete slab starts cracking? Then we'll end up with uneven disrtibution, crews will have to be called in to make repairs (if possible, nobody mentioned the method of repair) and finally let's not forget the bridges (the hottest topic of 'em all) the article (or someone) said that the conductive concrete will be "sandwiched" between the layers of "standard" concrete, which means that if any cracks are to occur crews will have to be called in to repair anyway (as they would with PVC pipes or stainless tubes) so i wonder if the whole thing will still work in about 15 years down the road...:)
I mean i read the page and the company was really interested in one thing: ADVERTSISNG. You can print your picrture on the CD, then you cam print one on the caddy, ad then put one on the slot adapter...Ok ok it does have its + sides (such as less polution on lanfills and faster productioon times) but in my opinion we are better off with another, better standard (AKA DVD or dwd+RW or...), than an improvement to the old one, whose sole purpose is to advertise even more (now you will see AOL on everything, from caddy, to CD, to case?)
Last year while in Europe i saw a similar series being shown...except they involved 13-17 year olds as actors (plot has been the same) and there were more than 40 episodes...Does anyone know the title?
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As far as i remember phosphorous (or at least the pure kind) is highly reactive with air, so it is kept in water...perhaps the story could be true after all....
With the advent of these cells the manufacturers may no longer have the need to put in **more expensive** low power consumption components inside such as P4m and Radeon mobility...so would that mean that we may have to wear some sort of heat retardant clothes? Would that also reduce the incentives for low power consumption R&D? How about the fuel cell assembly itself...wouldn't it produce additional heat as well? Will we end up having water cooling on our laptops? Or better yet would they come with a power outlet as well so that we can charge our web-enabled 3G bluetooth (or wi-fi) phone while we surf the net? :)
There is a catch. If you've read the article you would have noticed how he rambles about the safety features of CDMA, such asits security which is embedded in the phone, thus preventing someone from stealing your SIM card and making a 40 hour long call to mozambique or 1-900 number... He also talked about how hard it would be to "intercept" the phone# and info. Here is what he said about security:
"The phone can't be used for anything else, because of a technical aspect of how CDMA works, which was actually put in there precisely to defeat this sort of thing. (What it actually defeats is phone cloning: it keeps someone else from using your phone number to make calls with their phone, thus making you pay the bill for their hour-long calls to Mozambique or Paraguay.)
A CDMA phone uses something called the long code to spread the chip sequence that it sends on the RF link. This works because the cell and phone both use exactly the same long code, precisely synchronized. On the reverse link the long code is modified using the phone ESN. The ESN is never transmitted by the phone to the cell, so it can't be intercepted by cloners snooping on the radio link. Rather, when the phone registers with the cell, it sends its NAM. The cell system then looks this up in its database and retrieves the ESN from there. The phone itself also knows the ESN because it is stored locally.
Thus both the cell and the phone modify the long code the same way because they're using the same ESN, and the signal gets through.
A cloner could conceivably intercept your NAM, but if he changed his NAM to match yours, he would not meet with the same success. His phone would register using your NAM, but his phone would use his ESN on the reverse link. The cell system, on the other hand, would use your ESN on the reverse link, and they wouldn't match. Without going into too much technical detail, the effect of this is to substantially reduce the amount of signal the cell can derive from the RF with its rake receiver. Usually there's too little to reconstruct the bit sequence, and after missing a certain number of packets in a row, the cell will give up and drop the call. At best the phone won't work reliably, at worst it won't work at all.
Well, with your old phone that's exactly the situation. The old phone still identifies itself to the cell system using the same NAM as was originally programmed into it, but the cell system has updated its records for that NAM to indicate the ESN from your new phone rather than the one from your old phone. Thus when you try to make a normal call with your old phone, the ESN doesn't match and the call won't work.
This does not apply to 911 calls because 911 calls are special. The reverse link is not modified using the phone's ESN on a 911 call, so the call will work normally. Equally, a call to the service provider using a *-code is not modified using the phone's ESN, so that too will work properly.
But nothing else will work.
The only way the old phone could continue to work was if its ESN could be changed to match the new phone. But that's both illegal and extremely difficult to do. In fact, the phone manufacturers make it as difficult as they possibly can, because if you could do it then a cloner could do it, and could steal service and stick you with the bill."
Actually there is another chip on the market now..it requires no slodiering at all, only patience (you have to arrange some contacts in right order before attaching it...but nothing serious). You can get it for 59$ @ easybuy2000.com... More info here
This is great progress for ATI, especially considering the weakness of it's main competitior in "home cinema" field...
Now if they could just get some **decent** drivers to go with this card (catalyst is a great step towards the goal, dont get me wrong, but ATI has always been a little weak in driver field)
is the continent (and country) that is least prone to earthquakes due to the location of the teutonic plates around it. Whereas Russia has a number of earthquakes most notably towards the east but due to the sheer size and the density of the populatinon most of the small ones are probably not even documented (and due to their dire finacial situation...)
Wouldn't you like to know what construction company built a collapsed building?
Yeah...steal_your_money_and_run Cheapo-INC. Though i believe that there is a standard for building high-rises (i think they have to be capable of withstanding 6.5 on richter scale). Someone correct me if im wrong. =P
If you've wondered what a car from Microsoft might be like, the 7 offers a clue. You half expect it to ask, "Where do you want to go today?"
Lol...How true, lets just hope it is more reliable than M$.
Yes i realise the inefficiency of that, but why do u think they have those little Tesla coils in Red Alert? To KFC people! On a more serious note, there are 2 companys that are trying to fix the the problem, one is concentrating on loss of efficiency, while the other is trying to invent a fusion generator so that they would get unlimited power, and not be forced to rack their brains out by trying to fifure out how to curb inefficieny..i will post the URLS as soon as i find them
Your statement about Tesla sir is verry ignorant, and perhaps should you have paid more attention to his work/patents you would have noticed that even the most modern PC's have his inventions in them (IE electromotor, ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC) Transformers in your power supply....). And yes he made many bad mistakes in his life...while in germany working for edisons german subsidiary Eddison promised him 20 000$ (at that time!)to move to US and finish some work on his patents, upon completition Edison said: " We had no legal contract, welcome to America..and live with it". So his only problem was that he never acually worked on his image nor did he have thirst for money to charge thousans for kis inventions. Please make more informed judgement next time.
Yes Nikola Tesla should be credited with the invention of acuall notion-idea of transmission of data (IE morse code) wirelessly. There are many conspiracies and quasi theories bit a couple of years ago evidence has been produced that supports Tesla as the inventor of wireless telegraphy, whereas marconi was the first to publish/patent it and therefore get all the glory. What nobody mentioned is that Tesla has also Built an apparatus for wireless transmision of ELECTRICITY as well (think of earth being GND and air being AC...im not too familiar with the pysics of it but i saw a demo a year ago in tesla museum...it was acually pretty cool, they gave us a neon light, turned the generator in and on it went) :)
Just my 2
...lay off the Celerons (now that AMD is pulling out of the economy proc. market), especially the first ones (CPU without a cache anyone?) and the world would be a whole lot better place...
LOL... i always wondered what a mixture od Star Trek TNG+Voyager would be like...though i presume gelpacks would be considerably faster than the IC chips =D
/me starts planning holo-emmiter infrastructure....
Oh well those things are far far away into the future, but there is one thing that isnt (or at least the article claims it is not) and that ia a hilodeck...
Yeah i realize that, but think of it this way, if they continiue doing these open air tests the you will have to breathe radioactive dust and/or eat radioactive fis weather u like it or not...now i was not talking about giving them multi gigaflop machines, but rather something that will give them the impression that they are doing something, when in reality, it will take them at least 10 years to accomplish something that our ASCII can do in 1 month.... BTW Im a Commie, not a liberal (j/k) =P
I realize that we have such a huge piece of [ beowulf clustered**had to say it**] piece of hardware, which will be upgraded even further in a couple of months, but what about countries like India, China, Pakistan and other countries that cannot afford such an immense piece of hardware? They will still have to do this thing the old fashioned way, and they will be breaking the ban, i realise that this is a step in the right direction, but i believe we should do more to promote this sort of [virtual] testing, and not ignore it (which is something we did when Bush needed Indian and Pakistani support and when he lifted the sanctions, that were imposed on them after their tests a year or so ago)
I have read this, and i understand most of these conceps, but what bugs me is what will you do when the cincrete slab starts cracking? Then we'll end up with uneven disrtibution, crews will have to be called in to make repairs (if possible, nobody mentioned the method of repair) and finally let's not forget the bridges (the hottest topic of 'em all) the article (or someone) said that the conductive concrete will be "sandwiched" between the layers of "standard" concrete, which means that if any cracks are to occur crews will have to be called in to repair anyway (as they would with PVC pipes or stainless tubes) so i wonder if the whole thing will still work in about 15 years down the road... :)
I mean i read the page and the company was really interested in one thing: ADVERTSISNG. You can print your picrture on the CD, then you cam print one on the caddy, ad then put one on the slot adapter...Ok ok it does have its + sides (such as less polution on lanfills and faster productioon times) but in my opinion we are better off with another, better standard (AKA DVD or dwd+RW or...), than an improvement to the old one, whose sole purpose is to advertise even more (now you will see AOL on everything, from caddy, to CD, to case?)
Last year while in Europe i saw a similar series being shown...except they involved 13-17 year olds as actors (plot has been the same) and there were more than 40 episodes...Does anyone know the title?