It is getting very old that EVERY science article turns into a debate about Evolution vs Intelligent Design. If we could harness the energy spent on beating this dead horse, we wouldn't need any other power sources for eons. I propose a new moderation scheme where any article that mentions Evolution or Intelligent Design be modded to Flamebait. We know the arguments for both, we have heard them over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over, so let the dead horse lie (wrong spelling?) already. I know the parent doesn't mention Intelligent Design, but his post has the clear intent of stirring up the same old argument (not worth the label debate).
Unless these sharks are drastically different than other creatures, the road to adulthood goes straight through childhood and with a cursory glance at your linked article I found that Great Whites prey on small Salmon Sharks.
You do know that HDTV is just a subset of Digital TV right? Shows can still be broadcast digitally in standard definition while saving a signficant amout of bandwidth over the analog broadcasting of the same shows.
These type of comments annoy me to no end. How does TV make people any dumber or lethagic than reading a book? So is it better if I sit back and read Harry Potter for 2 hours a day than if I watch TV for 2 hours a day? If so, why? Is learning about witches, warlocks and whatever else all that useful? Yes, some books may be educational, however, some TV shows are also educational. At one point in time, people looked at novels as people look at television today, a complete waste of time. People enjoy different ways of entertaining themselves.
I think you and the others are missing the point. Of course you can give a cd or song as a gift, but once you do that you know longer have any rights to that CD or song. So if you have a copy, you have an illegal copy.
I think you are incorrect. People all ready invest in technology to get HDTV because HDTV is that much better than SDTV and the same can probably be said for HD DVD.
The only problem I have with football in HD is the fairly uniform green field seems to cause problems with the compression algorithm. You get large blocks where it trys to make the field the exact same color green. But with that being said, watching football (or anything) in HD is always much better than standard analog broadcasts or even SD digital broadcasts.
And we all know that this lady is indicative of all of American society. Give her a Linux boot DVD and you will be talking to her every day to try to get things working. Last week I wanted to get FireWire working under Linux, was never able too, but worked fine under Windows. Also, last week I wanted to get a 802.11g card working under Linux, was able to after a few hours. Again, under Windows it just worked. Linux is a maturing operating system, but its ease of use cannot touch Windows at this point. Thats not to say it won't be able to in the future, just that it can't now.
This is one of the most incoherent posts I've ever seen. Time I asked myself why what? Why you keep asserting that everybody hates Windows, when I know many people that like Windows? You keep making comments and asserting that I should believe you because you say so. Does Microsoft spin things, I'm sure they do, as everybody company/project does. Go on slashdot and everything is spun against Microsoft and for open source projects such as Linux and Mozilla.
OK, I figured it out, any time you include "Microsoft" or "M$" in a post and in the same post use the word "crap" or any synonyms for "crap" the moderating computer automatically marks that post either +5 Insightful or +5 Interesting. Furthermore, the choice of Insightful or Interesting is a random process.
Anyhow, how is this post at all interesting. It is just another person claiming that everybody hates Microsoft, when Microsoft somehow still pulls a vast majority of market share. Does anybody in the world believe, that as Mr. Hudson says "Not one person said they liked using Windows". Just so you can stop using that line, I would like to say that I like using Windows.
What I'm saying is that citizens would want this service provided for free, they would see charging roaming to people that had just lost everything pretty insensitive. What I see eventually happening would be that they would have to cave to public opinion and they would have these trucks that wouldn't generate revenue, but would be seen as more of a charity. Now, they would be useful for festivals in remote areas, but I think it would be seen as bad taste to have them used for profit in areas that were just decimated.
I know, I know, any publicity is good publicity, but what will happen is that the news will report on this company making profit off of others peoples misery and a majority of people will have a negative opinion of said company and possibly take their business elsewhere.
I believe an argument can be made that 1 TB is either 10^9 or 2^40 Bytes. However, what annoys me is when people start using a lower case b for bytes, as in Mb. Mb is megabits and MB is megabytes.
Ok, lets weigh it up. 300 dollars every 3 years or so, or roughly 100 dollars a year and that assumes productivity remains the same for both OSs. Sounds pretty insignificant to me.
Question, does the "would" matter, when I and most computer users already have spent most of their lives using Windows. Like it or not, Microsoft was good at getting people using Windows from a young age (discounted prices to schools, etc...) and when the operating system we learned on does what we want, we see the cost of the operating system insignificant compared to the time it would take to learn another.
So the people that do know what they are doing in the fields they work, should be fired because they aren't spending half their time learning a different operating system, when the operating system they are using works fine for their everyday tasks? Makes a lot of sense to me.
Because once again, it makes it look like the initial cost of the software is the only thing that determines the total cost of ownership. I am a fairly computer literate person, and every time I mess around with Linux there is some stumbling block that prevents me from doing what I am trying to do and I then have to spend hours googling or in chat rooms trying to figure out what the hell I need to do. Like it or not, accept it or not, I usually don't have to do this when running Windows, generally things just work. Now, I am not trying to bash Linux either, I run dual boot because I am interesting in learning and the reality is that there is a steep learning curve involved with Linux. And especially in the professional world, time is money.
Yes, ok, so the source and drain are another 90 nm each and we will say the well between two transistors is another 90 nm, that is still only 360 nm. If you look at the picture in the article, the tube appears to be about 500 nm in length. So tell me how this 500 nm carbon nanotube is 100s of times smaller than modern transistors?
I don't think this is correct, because if you look at the picture in the article it clearly has a scale that indicates 100 nm as being approximately 1/5 the width of the picture. Which points to the orginial interpretation of (100/1000000) m
Yes, the size they are saying doesn't make sense. They say a few hunder millionths, which as you state would be a few hundred nm, then they go on to say 100 times smaller than the transistors used in todays microprocessors, which use 90 nm technology. Since when is.090/100 > 100? They must be talking about the oh so prevalent vacuum tube microprocessors of today.
How about just using a heat pipe to transfer the energy from the processor to the case. Another possibility, make the motherboard so the chipset and cpu surfaces lie on the same plane underneath the motherboard so that when the motherboard is mounted they touch the case.
As far as what to do with the hot case. Car audio amplifiers aren't always mounted in the friendliest of environments. I've seen them under seats and I had a truck where they were mounted on the wall behind the front seat.
Seems to me the deep parts of the oceans are also a frontier that we know little about. However, getting down there isn't going to save us from a Red Giant sun.
Marilyn Von Savant (don't know how to spell her name, but she is the lady in the Sunday Parade magazine that comes inside newspapers and is supposed to be in the Guiness book of world records for highest IQ) actually said she thought engineers were the most important people in our society. Just thought that was interesting, because I agree with you that typically engineers are undervalued.
As another SprintPCS customer, I don't feel the same as you. I have had them for 4 years or so and have never had any problems that I can remember. Also, in Maryland, I haven't noticed any holes in coverage. For some reason it just seems vogue to bash Sprint. Sprint also has their new fair and flexible plans, which I think are fairly nice in that they adjust the number of minutes you are purchasing each month (in 100 minute incretments) to the number of minutes you used that month so one doesn't have to worry about overage as much. Finally, after looking at other companies offerings, I like Sprints Vision service for wireless internet access (which allows unlimited downloads) better than other companies service where the users pays by the MB or whatever unit they select.
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It is getting very old that EVERY science article turns into a debate about Evolution vs Intelligent Design. If we could harness the energy spent on beating this dead horse, we wouldn't need any other power sources for eons. I propose a new moderation scheme where any article that mentions Evolution or Intelligent Design be modded to Flamebait. We know the arguments for both, we have heard them over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over, so let the dead horse lie (wrong spelling?) already. I know the parent doesn't mention Intelligent Design, but his post has the clear intent of stirring up the same old argument (not worth the label debate).
Unless these sharks are drastically different than other creatures, the road to adulthood goes straight through childhood and with a cursory glance at your linked article I found that Great Whites prey on small Salmon Sharks.
You do know that HDTV is just a subset of Digital TV right? Shows can still be broadcast digitally in standard definition while saving a signficant amout of bandwidth over the analog broadcasting of the same shows.
These type of comments annoy me to no end. How does TV make people any dumber or lethagic than reading a book? So is it better if I sit back and read Harry Potter for 2 hours a day than if I watch TV for 2 hours a day? If so, why? Is learning about witches, warlocks and whatever else all that useful? Yes, some books may be educational, however, some TV shows are also educational. At one point in time, people looked at novels as people look at television today, a complete waste of time. People enjoy different ways of entertaining themselves.
I think you and the others are missing the point. Of course you can give a cd or song as a gift, but once you do that you know longer have any rights to that CD or song. So if you have a copy, you have an illegal copy.
I think you are incorrect. People all ready invest in technology to get HDTV because HDTV is that much better than SDTV and the same can probably be said for HD DVD.
The only problem I have with football in HD is the fairly uniform green field seems to cause problems with the compression algorithm. You get large blocks where it trys to make the field the exact same color green. But with that being said, watching football (or anything) in HD is always much better than standard analog broadcasts or even SD digital broadcasts.
And we all know that this lady is indicative of all of American society. Give her a Linux boot DVD and you will be talking to her every day to try to get things working. Last week I wanted to get FireWire working under Linux, was never able too, but worked fine under Windows. Also, last week I wanted to get a 802.11g card working under Linux, was able to after a few hours. Again, under Windows it just worked. Linux is a maturing operating system, but its ease of use cannot touch Windows at this point. Thats not to say it won't be able to in the future, just that it can't now.
This is one of the most incoherent posts I've ever seen. Time I asked myself why what? Why you keep asserting that everybody hates Windows, when I know many people that like Windows? You keep making comments and asserting that I should believe you because you say so. Does Microsoft spin things, I'm sure they do, as everybody company/project does. Go on slashdot and everything is spun against Microsoft and for open source projects such as Linux and Mozilla.
Anyhow, how is this post at all interesting. It is just another person claiming that everybody hates Microsoft, when Microsoft somehow still pulls a vast majority of market share. Does anybody in the world believe, that as Mr. Hudson says "Not one person said they liked using Windows". Just so you can stop using that line, I would like to say that I like using Windows.
What I'm saying is that citizens would want this service provided for free, they would see charging roaming to people that had just lost everything pretty insensitive. What I see eventually happening would be that they would have to cave to public opinion and they would have these trucks that wouldn't generate revenue, but would be seen as more of a charity. Now, they would be useful for festivals in remote areas, but I think it would be seen as bad taste to have them used for profit in areas that were just decimated.
I know, I know, any publicity is good publicity, but what will happen is that the news will report on this company making profit off of others peoples misery and a majority of people will have a negative opinion of said company and possibly take their business elsewhere.
I believe an argument can be made that 1 TB is either 10^9 or 2^40 Bytes. However, what annoys me is when people start using a lower case b for bytes, as in Mb. Mb is megabits and MB is megabytes.
Ok, lets weigh it up. 300 dollars every 3 years or so, or roughly 100 dollars a year and that assumes productivity remains the same for both OSs. Sounds pretty insignificant to me.
Question, does the "would" matter, when I and most computer users already have spent most of their lives using Windows. Like it or not, Microsoft was good at getting people using Windows from a young age (discounted prices to schools, etc...) and when the operating system we learned on does what we want, we see the cost of the operating system insignificant compared to the time it would take to learn another.
So the people that do know what they are doing in the fields they work, should be fired because they aren't spending half their time learning a different operating system, when the operating system they are using works fine for their everyday tasks? Makes a lot of sense to me.
Because once again, it makes it look like the initial cost of the software is the only thing that determines the total cost of ownership. I am a fairly computer literate person, and every time I mess around with Linux there is some stumbling block that prevents me from doing what I am trying to do and I then have to spend hours googling or in chat rooms trying to figure out what the hell I need to do. Like it or not, accept it or not, I usually don't have to do this when running Windows, generally things just work. Now, I am not trying to bash Linux either, I run dual boot because I am interesting in learning and the reality is that there is a steep learning curve involved with Linux. And especially in the professional world, time is money.
Yes, ok, so the source and drain are another 90 nm each and we will say the well between two transistors is another 90 nm, that is still only 360 nm. If you look at the picture in the article, the tube appears to be about 500 nm in length. So tell me how this 500 nm carbon nanotube is 100s of times smaller than modern transistors?
I don't think this is correct, because if you look at the picture in the article it clearly has a scale that indicates 100 nm as being approximately 1/5 the width of the picture. Which points to the orginial interpretation of (100/1000000) m
Glad you thought of this but Apples entire legal team didn't.
Yes, the size they are saying doesn't make sense. They say a few hunder millionths, which as you state would be a few hundred nm, then they go on to say 100 times smaller than the transistors used in todays microprocessors, which use 90 nm technology. Since when is .090/100 > 100? They must be talking about the oh so prevalent vacuum tube microprocessors of today.
As far as what to do with the hot case. Car audio amplifiers aren't always mounted in the friendliest of environments. I've seen them under seats and I had a truck where they were mounted on the wall behind the front seat.
Seems to me the deep parts of the oceans are also a frontier that we know little about. However, getting down there isn't going to save us from a Red Giant sun.
Marilyn Von Savant (don't know how to spell her name, but she is the lady in the Sunday Parade magazine that comes inside newspapers and is supposed to be in the Guiness book of world records for highest IQ) actually said she thought engineers were the most important people in our society. Just thought that was interesting, because I agree with you that typically engineers are undervalued.
As another SprintPCS customer, I don't feel the same as you. I have had them for 4 years or so and have never had any problems that I can remember. Also, in Maryland, I haven't noticed any holes in coverage. For some reason it just seems vogue to bash Sprint. Sprint also has their new fair and flexible plans, which I think are fairly nice in that they adjust the number of minutes you are purchasing each month (in 100 minute incretments) to the number of minutes you used that month so one doesn't have to worry about overage as much. Finally, after looking at other companies offerings, I like Sprints Vision service for wireless internet access (which allows unlimited downloads) better than other companies service where the users pays by the MB or whatever unit they select.