Yeah, I always try to explain to my wife that, to the software, those people should be nothing more than an ID number or something similar. However, I don't think she could care less.
See, it runs into problems with double letters. See double Bs as in "Dobbs" take favor over double G's as in "Kellogg" and double L's as in "Kellogg" and "Mills". Simple mistake.
OK, maybe my sarcasm detector isn't functioning today, but just in case it is and you were serious...
I haven't RTFA, but I imagine the 200 years is a realiability number, meaning it wouldn't break if you flipped it over twice a day, every day, for 200 years. It is supposed to provide light for 4 hours on a flip, which as another early poster calculated, probably isn't realistic either, but at least closer to realistic than 8 hours of light for 200 years.
Seems to me there is much more involved in networking and routing then a simple splitter (prism). Also, even if you do slow the light down, somehow you have to get information from the packet about its destination. Also, doesn't the dual nature of light suggest that light is the flow photons as well as electro-magnetic waves (flow of electrons)? Anyway, the point I was trying to get at is that I don't think the conversion from optical to electrical at the house has a significant effect on upstream/downstream capacity. Just doing some googling I wasn't able to quickly find any sources that compare the "velocity" of a signal in fiber versus the velocity of a signal in cat-6.
You do realize that an optical signal is an "electrical" signal right? So how are you going to make a router out of "optical" components, just a splitter? I don't see how that would work, but maybe I'm just dumb.
So you skipped the other points I was making, but anyhow... Do you think the NCAA cares that you no longer go to games with press credentials? In your long rant you act as though going to games without credentials is punishing them in some way, I fail to see how.
Wow, interesting post. My tax dollars pay for roads don't they? I am always envious of the snakes that get to sunbath in the road, so you know what, I'm gonna start sunbathing in the road!!! Lets see them kick me off of MY property. Furthermore, before NASA thinks about using my space shuttle again, they better come asking for my permission. I'm tired of them galavanting around the galaxy in MY space shuttle.
Another thing I must have missed, are you somehow punishing the NCAA by not getting press credentials? Have you ever had press credentials? You make it sound as if the NCAA would give a damn that you didn't get press credentials, but maybe I am just misinterpreting your rambling post.
I downloaded a free FPS game called Alien Arena (which I might have first seen on slashdot) and it has provided many hours of enjoyment through online play. It doesn't have a whole lot of eye candy, but I believe the game play engine is based off of Quake.
People always complain about battery monitors being inaccurate (spending 90% of their time at full charge and 10% of their time on the way down). I always wonder why people can't build a reasonable fuel gauge, as they seem to suffer the same problem. It would seem like these measurement biases could be calibrated out, but I guess it isn't that easy.
They are going to start configuring UPS vans like NASCAR vehicles, customized to turn in one direction. That way, they not only have to stop less, but they can also take turns at 50 MPH. Time to start buying stock in companies that specialize in left tires.
The issue is that in America, we go around our roundabouts counter-clockwise (looking from the top); therefore, to get out of the roundabout we turn right. On the other hand, I suppose in the UK (though I have never been) they go around the roundabouts clockwise; therefore, to get out of the roundabout they turn left. Not sure why you bring up the side of the car the steering wheel is on, as that is irrelevant.
I went to Oregon over the summer and they had the same setup. It was very confusing to me, having never seen a light on an entry ramp. Also, ramps are suppose to allow one to get up to speed and merge more easily, it seems that by brining people to a halt on the ramp, this becomes more difficult.
I believe the reason there is a deficit this year and not a deficit last year is that the ruling party has decided to fund two major programs, one new one (Health Care for the masses) and one old but previously unfunded or reduced funded one (Thornton). This is what I gather, but don't take it as the gospel (for lack of a better saying). The ruling party would like to turn Maryland into a socialist state it seems and they are off and running after the green light they got from the last election returning absolute power to the Democrats.
The real idiots are the people who see issues in such a black and white fashion and can't seem to grasp the othersides reservations. The whole issue is when to define the start of life, from my non-religiously derived point of view it seems the only logical place it can start is conception, any other starting point seems rather arbitrary to me. So can you define when you consider life to start and explain why? For me, while I can see the reservations against embryonic stem cell research, I cannot see reservations against this kind of research. I would imagine most people with reservations against embryonic stem cell research feel the same and you are just jumping to conclusions because you are just as guilty as the "us" vs "them" mentality.
Inverse square law applies for isotropic (all directions) as well as directional sources (focused beam). The way the difference is handled is by introducing an antenna gain term, where the gain at a given point in space is defined to be the ratio of the power density due to the directional source to the power density of an isotropic source. In communications applications, you use Friis' Transmission Formula to compute received signal-to-noise ratio which includes a factor Pt*Gt/(4*pi*R^2), which is the power density at a receiving antenna (lense) a distance R from the transmitter, where Pt is the Power Transmitted and Gt is the gain of the transmitting antenna (lense). For a laser it is easy to get a high Gt (very directive) with a small lense because the wavelength is so small, but that still does not get one around the R^2 relationship.
I was curious about the same comment, but they must just be referring to the higher bandwidth available at optical frequencies compared to radio frequencies. In other words, the latency would be the same, but once the first bit hits, you will get the next million bits "more rapidly" and the next trillion bits "far more rapidly."
How in the world did this get moderated interesting? As another person pointed out, all 31000 police officers aren't lined up on this guys route. A little common sense and personal experience should help people realize the parent post is non-sensical (spelling?). Say you average 1/4 the speed of this guy, how many have passed a cop every 14.8 seconds (on average), unless at a FOP lodge?
The sun won't last forever either, so should solar, wind, hydro, etc be abandoned as possible energy sources. Yes there are differences in time scales, but several centuries I would think at least qualifies as a long term solution. All future energy problems aren't going to be solved today, but other break throughs will happen in several centuries that will lead to other ways of of converting energy.
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Yeah, I always try to explain to my wife that, to the software, those people should be nothing more than an ID number or something similar. However, I don't think she could care less.
See, it runs into problems with double letters. See double Bs as in "Dobbs" take favor over double G's as in "Kellogg" and double L's as in "Kellogg" and "Mills". Simple mistake.
I haven't RTFA, but I imagine the 200 years is a realiability number, meaning it wouldn't break if you flipped it over twice a day, every day, for 200 years. It is supposed to provide light for 4 hours on a flip, which as another early poster calculated, probably isn't realistic either, but at least closer to realistic than 8 hours of light for 200 years.
I wonder if its like the shark attacks in the U.S. They have always been common (somewhat), but the media needs a story to over report about.
One word replies usually get moderated insightful.
I post this is in great fear of the Star Wars nuts responding with great rage about possible inaccuracies or inpossibilities of my suggestion.
Seems to me there is much more involved in networking and routing then a simple splitter (prism). Also, even if you do slow the light down, somehow you have to get information from the packet about its destination. Also, doesn't the dual nature of light suggest that light is the flow photons as well as electro-magnetic waves (flow of electrons)? Anyway, the point I was trying to get at is that I don't think the conversion from optical to electrical at the house has a significant effect on upstream/downstream capacity. Just doing some googling I wasn't able to quickly find any sources that compare the "velocity" of a signal in fiber versus the velocity of a signal in cat-6.
You do realize that an optical signal is an "electrical" signal right? So how are you going to make a router out of "optical" components, just a splitter? I don't see how that would work, but maybe I'm just dumb.
So you skipped the other points I was making, but anyhow... Do you think the NCAA cares that you no longer go to games with press credentials? In your long rant you act as though going to games without credentials is punishing them in some way, I fail to see how.
Wow, interesting post. My tax dollars pay for roads don't they? I am always envious of the snakes that get to sunbath in the road, so you know what, I'm gonna start sunbathing in the road!!! Lets see them kick me off of MY property. Furthermore, before NASA thinks about using my space shuttle again, they better come asking for my permission. I'm tired of them galavanting around the galaxy in MY space shuttle. Another thing I must have missed, are you somehow punishing the NCAA by not getting press credentials? Have you ever had press credentials? You make it sound as if the NCAA would give a damn that you didn't get press credentials, but maybe I am just misinterpreting your rambling post.
I downloaded a free FPS game called Alien Arena (which I might have first seen on slashdot) and it has provided many hours of enjoyment through online play. It doesn't have a whole lot of eye candy, but I believe the game play engine is based off of Quake.
People always complain about battery monitors being inaccurate (spending 90% of their time at full charge and 10% of their time on the way down). I always wonder why people can't build a reasonable fuel gauge, as they seem to suffer the same problem. It would seem like these measurement biases could be calibrated out, but I guess it isn't that easy.
They are going to start configuring UPS vans like NASCAR vehicles, customized to turn in one direction. That way, they not only have to stop less, but they can also take turns at 50 MPH. Time to start buying stock in companies that specialize in left tires.
The issue is that in America, we go around our roundabouts counter-clockwise (looking from the top); therefore, to get out of the roundabout we turn right. On the other hand, I suppose in the UK (though I have never been) they go around the roundabouts clockwise; therefore, to get out of the roundabout they turn left. Not sure why you bring up the side of the car the steering wheel is on, as that is irrelevant.
I would say the majority of Americans know what a roundabout is. They may not be as prevalent as other contries, but we do have them here.
I went to Oregon over the summer and they had the same setup. It was very confusing to me, having never seen a light on an entry ramp. Also, ramps are suppose to allow one to get up to speed and merge more easily, it seems that by brining people to a halt on the ramp, this becomes more difficult.
I believe the reason there is a deficit this year and not a deficit last year is that the ruling party has decided to fund two major programs, one new one (Health Care for the masses) and one old but previously unfunded or reduced funded one (Thornton). This is what I gather, but don't take it as the gospel (for lack of a better saying). The ruling party would like to turn Maryland into a socialist state it seems and they are off and running after the green light they got from the last election returning absolute power to the Democrats.
This should either be modded up and the parent should be modded down.
The real idiots are the people who see issues in such a black and white fashion and can't seem to grasp the othersides reservations. The whole issue is when to define the start of life, from my non-religiously derived point of view it seems the only logical place it can start is conception, any other starting point seems rather arbitrary to me. So can you define when you consider life to start and explain why? For me, while I can see the reservations against embryonic stem cell research, I cannot see reservations against this kind of research. I would imagine most people with reservations against embryonic stem cell research feel the same and you are just jumping to conclusions because you are just as guilty as the "us" vs "them" mentality.
Yeah, everytime we have a leap second, it really ruins my day. We need something much less noticeable. When was the last leap second again?
Inverse square law applies for isotropic (all directions) as well as directional sources (focused beam). The way the difference is handled is by introducing an antenna gain term, where the gain at a given point in space is defined to be the ratio of the power density due to the directional source to the power density of an isotropic source. In communications applications, you use Friis' Transmission Formula to compute received signal-to-noise ratio which includes a factor Pt*Gt/(4*pi*R^2), which is the power density at a receiving antenna (lense) a distance R from the transmitter, where Pt is the Power Transmitted and Gt is the gain of the transmitting antenna (lense). For a laser it is easy to get a high Gt (very directive) with a small lense because the wavelength is so small, but that still does not get one around the R^2 relationship.
I was curious about the same comment, but they must just be referring to the higher bandwidth available at optical frequencies compared to radio frequencies. In other words, the latency would be the same, but once the first bit hits, you will get the next million bits "more rapidly" and the next trillion bits "far more rapidly."
Most likely Clark Griswald just turned on his Christmas lights.
How in the world did this get moderated interesting? As another person pointed out, all 31000 police officers aren't lined up on this guys route. A little common sense and personal experience should help people realize the parent post is non-sensical (spelling?). Say you average 1/4 the speed of this guy, how many have passed a cop every 14.8 seconds (on average), unless at a FOP lodge?
The sun won't last forever either, so should solar, wind, hydro, etc be abandoned as possible energy sources. Yes there are differences in time scales, but several centuries I would think at least qualifies as a long term solution. All future energy problems aren't going to be solved today, but other break throughs will happen in several centuries that will lead to other ways of of converting energy.