Quantum tunneling (long distance quantum jumps) is not to be confused with teleportation which just another example of Star-Trek physics nonsense.
Note, however, that quantum tunneling of macroparticles was discovered in the mid-eighties. Macroparticle tunneling is just uncontrolled teleportation, so we're almost there.
Well, since the NSA is about 200 years ahead of the rest of the world in theoretical maths, I'd say their capabilites are significantly greater than those of the Open Source/Free Software community, unless we have some little gray men of our own to help us out.
I've recorded HDNet (premium cable/sat HD channel) on a Mac from my Moto 6200 (basically the 6412 sans DVR & 2nd tuner). Also, it's my understanding that local HD channels carried over cable are supposed to be unencrypted per a FCC ruling.
Exactly; back when I was a physics undergrad, my colleagues & I would make "nitrogen bombs" using LN and empty screw-top plastic soda bottles. Put a bit of LN in the bottle, screw the top down tight, and drop a heavy weight on the bottle. If you used thinner plastic (such as a milk bottle), it'd explode all by itself with no external input.
I had a similar situation in the early 80s when ATMs were still new, except that the ATM debited my account 8 times. They caught that one pretty quickly -- all 8 withdrawals were within a couple of seconds, way too fast for any human to do.
John McPhee wrote an excellent article on this project back in the 70s. It was originally published in the New Yorker, and later found its way into McPhee's anthology Giving Good Weight. Highly recommended.
The Curve of Binding Energy was written in the early 70s and first published in book form in 1974. IIRC, The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed came a year or two earlier.
There's a somewhat prophetic passage in The Curve of Binding Energy in which McPhee and Ted Taylor (a former nuclear weapons designer) are touring the then-under-construction World Trade Center towers and musing about how big a nuke (presumably of terrorist origin) would be sufficient to bring them down. This definitely places the book in the early 70s, as the WTC opened in 1975.
Tape? You must have had a newer TV set. The CRT on the mid-60's Magnavox TV/stereo console we used with our Odyssey generated enough static to keep the overlay well attached.
We had one of the original Odyssey units (none of this 2 nonsense). Mom worked for a Magnavox dealer so we got the first one that came into the store. IIRC it would have been in 1972/73 -- I was in grade school at the time.
In the original Odyssey, all the games were basically variants of Pong. The console only painted a few white squares (basically the game pieces -- no walls/obstacles), and you put a plastic overlay on your TV screen to simulate the court/maze/whatever.
they have FireWire built-in, and if you run OS X you can download Apple's FireWire SDK, which has a pretty functional DVHS application, which might accept DV (it accepts MPEG2-TS with no problem).
I use an ancient blue-and-white G3 to record HD video off my cable box -- it's more than equal to that task, so an older iBook such as you might find on eBay should be sufficient.
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Quantum tunneling (long distance quantum jumps) is not to be confused with teleportation which just another example of Star-Trek physics nonsense.
Note, however, that quantum tunneling of macroparticles was discovered in the mid-eighties. Macroparticle tunneling is just uncontrolled teleportation, so we're almost there.
Me too -- great minds read alike.
video of Bird-Man's first flight suit.
keep us from drinking anything at all.
the cause of cancer was discovered about a decade ago.
Well, since the NSA is about 200 years ahead of the rest of the world in theoretical maths, I'd say their capabilites are significantly greater than those of the Open Source/Free Software community, unless we have some little gray men of our own to help us out.
I've recorded HDNet (premium cable/sat HD channel) on a Mac from my Moto 6200 (basically the 6412 sans DVR & 2nd tuner). Also, it's my understanding that local HD channels carried over cable are supposed to be unencrypted per a FCC ruling.
The National Security Agency is the largest employer of degreed mathematicians in the world. They are not stupid people.
Plus, thanks to the little gray men, they're 200 years ahead of the rest of the world in mathematical theory.
Exactly; back when I was a physics undergrad, my colleagues & I would make "nitrogen bombs" using LN and empty screw-top plastic soda bottles. Put a bit of LN in the bottle, screw the top down tight, and drop a heavy weight on the bottle. If you used thinner plastic (such as a milk bottle), it'd explode all by itself with no external input.
Resistance is hardly futile -- in fact, toasters as we know them can't operate without it.
I was wondering if someone else noticed that too. I'm not a Cory Doctorow fan, but Themepunks is a damn good read.
I had a similar situation in the early 80s when ATMs were still new, except that the ATM debited my account 8 times. They caught that one pretty quickly -- all 8 withdrawals were within a couple of seconds, way too fast for any human to do.
I worked for Lotus's word processing division when eSuite was being developed. IIRC, its performance was less than stellar.
This failure is arguably the most important man on earth.
John McPhee wrote an excellent article on this project back in the 70s. It was originally published in the New Yorker, and later found its way into McPhee's anthology Giving Good Weight. Highly recommended.
Was it the Kubrick, the Clark or the Strauss that made that first viewing so good?
Or the drugs?
or this thread could get hyperbolic very quickly.
The Curve of Binding Energy was written in the early 70s and first published in book form in 1974. IIRC, The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed came a year or two earlier.
There's a somewhat prophetic passage in The Curve of Binding Energy in which McPhee and Ted Taylor (a former nuclear weapons designer) are touring the then-under-construction World Trade Center towers and musing about how big a nuke (presumably of terrorist origin) would be sufficient to bring them down. This definitely places the book in the early 70s, as the WTC opened in 1975.
Back in the 80s when I was an undergrad physics major, the price was about $0.05/liter. Maybe you're thinking of LOX?
Tape? You must have had a newer TV set. The CRT on the mid-60's Magnavox TV/stereo console we used with our Odyssey generated enough static to keep the overlay well attached.
We had one of the original Odyssey units (none of this 2 nonsense). Mom worked for a Magnavox dealer so we got the first one that came into the store. IIRC it would have been in 1972/73 -- I was in grade school at the time.
In the original Odyssey, all the games were basically variants of Pong. The console only painted a few white squares (basically the game pieces -- no walls/obstacles), and you put a plastic overlay on your TV screen to simulate the court/maze/whatever.
The store in Duluth, GA also has them at this price.
Well, they are about 200 years ahead of the rest of the world in mathematical theory, so you just might be onto something.
this is the first documented instance of spaghetti code, predating Basic by several centuries.
they have FireWire built-in, and if you run OS X you can download Apple's FireWire SDK, which has a pretty functional DVHS application, which might accept DV (it accepts MPEG2-TS with no problem).
I use an ancient blue-and-white G3 to record HD video off my cable box -- it's more than equal to that task, so an older iBook such as you might find on eBay should be sufficient.