I have to reply to this crap parent, as I can't post re: the article (how do I do that? missed many a 1st post from that:(
I've searched around the caltech site on this, but found nothing. Without rooting back to the original papers, does anyone know how this alloy performs at low temp? Many light metals and alloys become brittle at ultra low temps, so maybe the achilles heel of this metal becoming maliable at high temps, could become its hercules by outperforming the others at ultra-low temps.
Not thinking space crafts, but more in the line of super-conductors....
You will never see metals as their elements being used as surgical equipment because all metals rust. To quote a misnomer from the original article: ...it's where cracks can form and rust starts, for instance. No. Rust forms on ALL metals, just that for many metals, the metals' oxide has very similar properties to their original element.
Surgical steel is used for surgery because it is a composite of stainless steal and can hold its own in an autoclave. This magical metal will never make it to the operating table, since it becomes maliable at low tempatures, hence can never be sterilised by the conventional, cheap method of autoclaving. That's not to say that single-use scalpels will never make it, since these can be sterilised using radiation et al.
Ehm, scuse me, BUT when I lived in the states I couldn't get over how I had to pay for someone to call ME.
Here's my advise. Go live somewhere which has some logic like Europe (and probably every other continent in the world), where when you receive a call, only one person pays - the caller - and not the caller AND the receiver.
What a dumb ass (some americanisms stick) policy that is.
God I loved those daleks. They were so frikkin fun to watch, and those sound effects for shooting. I hope they keep the same style. I hope they keep them full stop (period).
Does anyone know how they 'saw'? They used that big toilet plunger thing on the top, but was it a true eye, or a motion detector, or heat sensor....
If I were the doc when I encountered those, I would have jumped on the back of one - they have jiant bumbers around the bottom. Very convenient for the feet. Those big bumps all over the body (dalek zits?) are useful to hold on to. Oh wait, they can sense that someone is on them? Tough, what can they do? spin around in a circle like a dog catching it's tail to spin you off?
Experts had previously theorized that Niepce, using the lens of a rudimentary camera, exposed the rural image outside his window onto a thin pewter plate coated with a thin layer of bitumen, a tar-like substance.
So some bloke was already developing the first camera, and would have the crown for the first photo if Monsieur Niepce hadn't whipped it?
Sacre blue!
Yes, but if you uncapped it, then split the line into many and sold off uncapped broadband to people in your building, your connection use would then amount to the total sum of all your users' bandwidth use.
This could be why the FBI are involved - the dutchcappers were selling off that broadband to others, taking away revenue from the ISPs as well as increasing their bwidth costs. Perhaps they were using their PCs as switches/routers, which is why they were confiscated.
It's unlikely given the 100m limit between switches on Cat5 cable, but who knows what goes on in those yankey apt blocks!
The way in which copyright protection is secured is frequently misunderstood. No publication or registration or other action in the Copyright Office is required to secure copyright.
So I would like to know how what my chances are when I get taken to court for DoSing a big company site because I believe they are infringing on my copyrights by copying some of my website design. Do I have to prove first that they have infringed on my copyright before I can DoS them, or can I state that I DoSsed them because they were infringing on my copyright (IMO)?
The P2P 'DoS'ing proposal by the big companies doesn't appear to require any prior court order allowing them to DoS till their hearts content, so why should mine?
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i am a blind dumbass
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not related to the topic, but i am
fair point - most surgical autoclaves go at 220oC for 40 mins, although 140oC for 20 mins is sufficient to gurantee sterility.
After consulting a converter, 220oC==428oF
I take back the sterility issue.
I have to reply to this crap parent, as I can't post re: the article (how do I do that? missed many a 1st post from that :(
I've searched around the caltech site on this, but found nothing. Without rooting back to the original papers, does anyone know how this alloy performs at low temp? Many light metals and alloys become brittle at ultra low temps, so maybe the achilles heel of this metal becoming maliable at high temps, could become its hercules by outperforming the others at ultra-low temps.
Not thinking space crafts, but more in the line of super-conductors....
You will never see metals as their elements being used as surgical equipment because all metals rust.
...it's where cracks can form and rust starts, for instance.
To quote a misnomer from the original article:
No. Rust forms on ALL metals, just that for many metals, the metals' oxide has very similar properties to their original element.
Surgical steel is used for surgery because it is a composite of stainless steal and can hold its own in an autoclave. This magical metal will never make it to the operating table, since it becomes maliable at low tempatures, hence can never be sterilised by the conventional, cheap method of autoclaving.
That's not to say that single-use scalpels will never make it, since these can be sterilised using radiation et al.
Asshole
Unless you never used a regular phone, you don't know what you're talking about.
I was referring to what the article was talking about - CELL PHONES
RTFA
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Die an ignoramus
Ehm, scuse me, BUT when I lived in the states I couldn't get over how I had to pay for someone to call ME.
Here's my advise. Go live somewhere which has some logic like Europe (and probably every other continent in the world), where when you receive a call, only one person pays - the caller - and not the caller AND the receiver.
What a dumb ass (some americanisms stick) policy that is.
--- don't die an ignoramus. culture yourself
Does anyone know how they 'saw'? They used that big toilet plunger thing on the top, but was it a true eye, or a motion detector, or heat sensor....
If I were the doc when I encountered those, I would have jumped on the back of one - they have jiant bumbers around the bottom. Very convenient for the feet. Those big bumps all over the body (dalek zits?) are useful to hold on to. Oh wait, they can sense that someone is on them? Tough, what can they do? spin around in a circle like a dog catching it's tail to spin you off?
Experts had previously theorized that Niepce, using the lens of a rudimentary camera, exposed the rural image outside his window onto a thin pewter plate coated with a thin layer of bitumen, a tar-like substance.
So some bloke was already developing the first camera, and would have the crown for the first photo if Monsieur Niepce hadn't whipped it? Sacre blue!
Yes, but if you uncapped it, then split the line into many and sold off uncapped broadband to people in your building, your connection use would then amount to the total sum of all your users' bandwidth use.
This could be why the FBI are involved - the dutchcappers were selling off that broadband to others, taking away revenue from the ISPs as well as increasing their bwidth costs. Perhaps they were using their PCs as switches/routers, which is why they were confiscated. It's unlikely given the 100m limit between switches on Cat5 cable, but who knows what goes on in those yankey apt blocks!
The way in which copyright protection is secured is frequently misunderstood. No publication or registration or other action in the Copyright Office is required to secure copyright.
So I would like to know how what my chances are when I get taken to court for DoSing a big company site because I believe they are infringing on my copyrights by copying some of my website design. Do I have to prove first that they have infringed on my copyright before I can DoS them, or can I state that I DoSsed them because they were infringing on my copyright (IMO)? The P2P 'DoS'ing proposal by the big companies doesn't appear to require any prior court order allowing them to DoS till their hearts content, so why should mine?
they should use it to run their webserver. It sucks like a banshee. Wonder what its uptime is?