Can't I just have a general-purpose 21.6Gbps hardware interface, with "supplemental built in support" for any video-specific items?
Maybe because displays doesn't need as much error correction as your data links do ?
Bad color for some pixels lasting 1/60th of a second won't change your visual experience.
One bad byte for a compressed file is a mess.
Actually they could face legal problems with some copyrighted materials, along with censorship / creativity tradeoff.
To bad you can't escape "Citizen Snoopers" with a special profile tag in real life...
I've read your journal entry and I'm quite the same kind of nerd at scholl...
When I was 16 I discovered how to make hydrogen from caustic soda, water and aluminium foil (I've never seen this in chemistry books).
I've made a mini hydrogen production unit with plastic bottles (PET) , plastic tubes and pots. I used it to inflate baloons with hydrogen which fly away (they can lift up a Lego man). The danger here is: hot caustic soda, hydrogen and a reaction that accelerate (need proper cooling).
Later when I was 18 I brought the device at the boarding school to inflate a baloon. A condom was used, it work as well, that was a nice idea because it was the world AIDS day...
I got no trouble, because I was in a educated and liberal environment.
Maybe dangerous but not as much as the student filling used bullet cases with gunpowder to make new bullets for a friend (at the boarding school too, for a few days).
Look at the original article picture: it's a fake. Being added to the para (man) : straps and dog, being added to the dog: mask. Good photoshoping, I didn't spot it at first glance.
And what about stuff no longer sold in store, without equivalent?
I just bought on ebay a Psion 5mx (NEW, not second hand) in its box, complete stuff, 20% of last store price, back in 2001.
Maybe this is old crap but...
Tell me where one can buy better palmtop with : *real* keyboard, running 50 days on two AA batteries (1h a day) ?
(this is not a toy, there is also a 32 bits multitask OS, 16 MB memory, half VGA touch screen, audio recording/playback, compact flash slot, IR com, serial com, linux available, hundreds of programs...)
I've merged free disk space on different windows PCs into one big samba share. Steps:
On each windows PC: 1) Create an ad-hoc account on each PC 2) Set up a shared folder on each PC with full control by the previous account 3) Create a 2GB file (or more) in each folder, with a serial number in the filename (I've written a small executable for this) On a linux box: 4) Mount the different windows shares 5) Set up a loopback device for each big file in the shares 6) Set up one device using all this space with device mapper. You can have the equivalent of RAID0, RAID1,... 7) Make a FS on the device 8) Mount it 9) Set up a share Et voilà!
I have two scripts to "mount" and "umount" such a device. The "mount" script does the 4-5-6-8 steps and the "umount" the opposite in reverse order.
If a windows PC needs to quit the group, put the big file on another windows member, that's easy.
Warning: it was so slow to make a ext2/ext3 (I don't remember which one I choose) that I've made a FAT32 file system, it was much faster to create (I still wonder why).
Of course I have very low performances with such a setup but a least I have a *lot* of space in one device.
I understand your point and mostly agree with the logic but again you missed one of my points.
In Europe, natural radioactivity gives an average dose per year between 1.5 and 3 mSv, also for USA. It depends on your place and habits.
India, China or Brasil have some places where 10mSv/y are common, and up to 50mSv per year (again natural radioactivity). That's twenty times the dose the other people get.
So according to the model and the way you use it, for such a dose raise (x20) we should clearly see a significant cancer rate raise in such places. I'm not talking of a small city but entire regions. Not a few months of small radiation leak but centuries of exposure for those people on many generations. So statistics are accurate here.
And what do we have ? No higher cancer rate. What ? Twenty times the dose and nothing noticeable on such a scale ! That doesn't fit in the model and the way you use it.
Radiation does increase the risk of cancer at any dose; it follows from the way it works Radiation makes damages, especially to DNA. Those damages constantly occur naturally and cells are repairing their DNA. They can repair because DNA has its own copy (remember: this is a double helix), DNA is unfolded, a bit striped on one of the pairs around the damage, and replicated locally to match the opposite pair. This is the way it works.
As long as the damage rate is below the repair capabilities of the cells there is no long term consequences. Otherwise cancer rate would be in correlation to local and natural radioactivity (and it is not).
Of course, you can't experimentally measure the increased risk of cancer at very low doses Well, we both agree: no scientific proof of what you assert about increased cancer at any dose.
and you may not care about the slight increase, but it's there It's there when it's statistically significant otherwise you just don't know and it is as if it has no affect (so who cares?).
About you saying "argue that... is simply insane": what I mean is that one should always be listened to in a scientific debate, without contempt but with rational minds, see in history of sciences how many times we had to change mainstream views (did my rogue waves example stroke you ?;-).
I'm not challenging you with the radioactive glass wool study but what strikes me is that you name it right away a poorly done study, without reading anything of it. That's the clue I needed to guess what kind of mind is making such comments.
radiation increases the risk of cancer and birth defects, at any dose. The mechanisms are understood, and there have been tens of thousands of experiments confirming that Wrong. You won't find any scientific experiment showing that radiation increase risks of cancer at very low dose.
But you may find interesting some experiments that show the opposite result: low radiation dose stimulate the DNA repair mechanism of cells and finally people become more resistant to some other cancer factors. Search for a study in Indonesia about houses insulated with glass wool recycling low activity wastes (my source is paper print).
Trying to argue that this isn't the case is simply insane. What is insane: refusing to be challenged by scientific experiments or new discoveries. It remind me people saying "rogue waves of 20m physically can't exist, it is proven, everybody know that". Still they do.
"This is an utterly new phenomenon to us, and we are still in the process of understanding the physics involved," said co-author Mark Seibert of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution So, basically they don't know what is pushing the star's matter ?
Really the article should have focused on this, it's a shame.
Mira's breakneck speed together with its outflow of material are responsible for its unique glowing tail. Images from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer show a large build-up of gas, or bow shock, in front of the star, similar to water piling up in front of a speeding boat. Scientists now know that hot gas in this bow shock mixes with the cooler, hydrogen gas being shed from Mira, causing it to heat up as it swirls back into a turbulent wake. As the hydrogen gas loses energy, it fluoresces with ultraviolet light, which the Galaxy Evolution Explorer can detect. Could someone explain this? It sounds lame to me.
Usual mistake in the article:
The data on a CD is stored as tiny indentations encoded in a spiral track moulded into the top layer of polycarbonate. CD tracks are concentric.
The rest seems correct.
(I know this is a late reply, already 1650 comments!)
The coolest answer to such a creationist "museum" is to build close to it:
a Fixed Earth museum (Copernicus was wrong, Ptolemy was right)
a Flat Earth museum (global conspiracy about round Earth)
another Creation museum with naked Adam and Eve, 3 miles long box shaped Noah's ark to hold enough species, flood simulation at 30 feet per hour rain and no dinosaurs (faked artifacts)
a Matrix museum (we're inside a matrix, that's the meaning of the fall of Adam and Eve, outside is real Earth, Hell and Paradise)
a Raellian museum (we're part of an alien experiment who seeded Earth to produce human beings)
In case no one wants to fund those builds we could set up some hoaxes to trap a few journalists... the more absurd it looked like the more realistic the project will be.
Exactly. I also have Psion 5mx, two AA betteries last 2-3 months (with almost daily use in public transport).
The Foleo really lacks battery life (5h at best?). Say 12h bat. life + a smaller size / lighter weight and I buy.
To read docs and write notes the greyscale screen with no backlight is fine. It would save a lot of power. I guess nobody will bet on a greyscale device nowdays when the most basic cell phone has a color screen. Too bad marketing closes this product branch, needs are still there.
Sure, but it seems to me that the interesting question is whether it's the subtle changes in letter forms created by using serifs that disambiguate otherwise similar-looking letters, or whether it's something else like context. Brain uses both to quickly guess: shape + language (vocabulary and phrase context).
If you read a word like "turning" in a serifed font, is it the serifs that prevent you reading it as "tuming", or is it the fact that you have learned that "tuming" isn't a word in English and "turning" is? Again both are important and serif improves performance. The experiment I described (see my GP post) will answer the question if you want to compare fonts only, with equal help from the linguistic factor.
Conversely, "tuming" with sans serif fonts will easily read "turning" (if read fast enough and with a matching context in the phrase). Whereas serif fonts will help you to spot the misspelled word and let you read others faster and with a lower error rate.
Something else: damaged prints are more resilient with serif: you can read a faded, distorted, "noisy" text better with serif fonts. You can also try this: read a printed line (some new text to you) with a sheet of paper on either the lower or higher part of the characters' main body. Hide one fifth (it reads fine), one half (still not that bad). Try with serif and sans serif with the same percentage hidden. Difference is obvious.
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Can't I just have a general-purpose 21.6Gbps hardware interface, with "supplemental built in support" for any video-specific items?
Maybe because displays doesn't need as much error correction as your data links do ?
Bad color for some pixels lasting 1/60th of a second won't change your visual experience.
One bad byte for a compressed file is a mess.
After 3.0, I've had severe performance issues with firefox off of a flash drive.
Me too. I'm suspecting the url/keyword database, the one with the file keeping up growing.
"its probably not u or ur files"
is enougth, otherwise you need entropy from keyboard or mouse to generate output
Good idea: broken hard drives, thanks.
This LCD has 4x20x8x5 = 3200 pixels
That's over $15 per 1k pixels
Standard color LCD 1024*800 = 819200 pixels
That's less than $0.1 per 1k pixels
So you pay x150 more for those pixels without color just to have a few buttons ?
Not cheap enough for sure !
Actually they could face legal problems with some copyrighted materials, along with censorship / creativity tradeoff.
To bad you can't escape "Citizen Snoopers" with a special profile tag in real life...
I've read your journal entry and I'm quite the same kind of nerd at scholl...
When I was 16 I discovered how to make hydrogen from caustic soda, water and aluminium foil (I've never seen this in chemistry books).
I've made a mini hydrogen production unit with plastic bottles (PET) , plastic tubes and pots. I used it to inflate baloons with hydrogen which fly away (they can lift up a Lego man). The danger here is: hot caustic soda, hydrogen and a reaction that accelerate (need proper cooling).
Later when I was 18 I brought the device at the boarding school to inflate a baloon. A condom was used, it work as well, that was a nice idea because it was the world AIDS day...
I got no trouble, because I was in a educated and liberal environment.
Maybe dangerous but not as much as the student filling used bullet cases with gunpowder to make new bullets for a friend (at the boarding school too, for a few days).
Look at the original article picture: it's a fake. Being added to the para (man) : straps and dog, being added to the dog: mask. Good photoshoping, I didn't spot it at first glance.
I just bought on ebay a Psion 5mx (NEW, not second hand) in its box, complete stuff, 20% of last store price, back in 2001.
Maybe this is old crap but...
Tell me where one can buy better palmtop with : *real* keyboard, running 50 days on two AA batteries (1h a day) ?
(this is not a toy, there is also a 32 bits multitask OS, 16 MB memory, half VGA touch screen, audio recording/playback, compact flash slot, IR com, serial com, linux available, hundreds of programs...)
I've merged free disk space on different windows PCs into one big samba share.
...
Steps:
On each windows PC:
1) Create an ad-hoc account on each PC
2) Set up a shared folder on each PC with full control by the previous account
3) Create a 2GB file (or more) in each folder, with a serial number in the filename (I've written a small executable for this)
On a linux box:
4) Mount the different windows shares
5) Set up a loopback device for each big file in the shares
6) Set up one device using all this space with device mapper. You can have the equivalent of RAID0, RAID1,
7) Make a FS on the device
8) Mount it
9) Set up a share
Et voilà!
I have two scripts to "mount" and "umount" such a device. The "mount" script does the 4-5-6-8 steps and the "umount" the opposite in reverse order.
If a windows PC needs to quit the group, put the big file on another windows member, that's easy.
Warning: it was so slow to make a ext2/ext3 (I don't remember which one I choose) that I've made a FAT32 file system, it was much faster to create (I still wonder why).
Of course I have very low performances with such a setup but a least I have a *lot* of space in one device.
In Europe, natural radioactivity gives an average dose per year between 1.5 and 3 mSv, also for USA. It depends on your place and habits. India, China or Brasil have some places where 10mSv/y are common, and up to 50mSv per year (again natural radioactivity). That's twenty times the dose the other people get.
So according to the model and the way you use it, for such a dose raise (x20) we should clearly see a significant cancer rate raise in such places. I'm not talking of a small city but entire regions. Not a few months of small radiation leak but centuries of exposure for those people on many generations. So statistics are accurate here.
And what do we have ? No higher cancer rate. What ? Twenty times the dose and nothing noticeable on such a scale ! That doesn't fit in the model and the way you use it.
So arguing about this should not be "insane".
typo: affect => effect
As long as the damage rate is below the repair capabilities of the cells there is no long term consequences. Otherwise cancer rate would be in correlation to local and natural radioactivity (and it is not).
Of course, you can't experimentally measure the increased risk of cancer at very low doses Well, we both agree: no scientific proof of what you assert about increased cancer at any dose. and you may not care about the slight increase, but it's there It's there when it's statistically significant otherwise you just don't know and it is as if it has no affect (so who cares?).About you saying "argue that
I'm not challenging you with the radioactive glass wool study but what strikes me is that you name it right away a poorly done study, without reading anything of it. That's the clue I needed to guess what kind of mind is making such comments.
But you may find interesting some experiments that show the opposite result: low radiation dose stimulate the DNA repair mechanism of cells and finally people become more resistant to some other cancer factors. Search for a study in Indonesia about houses insulated with glass wool recycling low activity wastes (my source is paper print).
Trying to argue that this isn't the case is simply insane. What is insane: refusing to be challenged by scientific experiments or new discoveries. It remind me people saying "rogue waves of 20m physically can't exist, it is proven, everybody know that". Still they do.Parent is 100% right.
The first question that immediately struck me about this star's tail is:
The start is going through what? A cloud ? A dark matter thing? A particle wind ?
There is something, otherwise no tail, as for our Sun.
From the article linked to the news:
"This is an utterly new phenomenon to us, and we are still in the process of understanding the physics involved," said co-author Mark Seibert of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution So, basically they don't know what is pushing the star's matter ?Really the article should have focused on this, it's a shame.
Another linked article states:
Mira's breakneck speed together with its outflow of material are responsible for its unique glowing tail. Images from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer show a large build-up of gas, or bow shock, in front of the star, similar to water piling up in front of a speeding boat. Scientists now know that hot gas in this bow shock mixes with the cooler, hydrogen gas being shed from Mira, causing it to heat up as it swirls back into a turbulent wake. As the hydrogen gas loses energy, it fluoresces with ultraviolet light, which the Galaxy Evolution Explorer can detect. Could someone explain this? It sounds lame to me.It seems that Abloy also owns Mul-T-Lock. Along with Medeco.
It seems that Abloy now owns Medeco. Of course this doesn't change the design of Medeco locks.
The coolest answer to such a creationist "museum" is to build close to it:
-
a Fixed Earth museum (Copernicus was wrong, Ptolemy was right)
-
a Flat Earth museum (global conspiracy about round Earth)
-
another Creation museum with naked Adam and Eve, 3 miles long box shaped Noah's ark to hold enough species, flood simulation at 30 feet per hour rain and no dinosaurs (faked artifacts)
-
a Matrix museum (we're inside a matrix, that's the meaning of the fall of Adam and Eve, outside is real Earth, Hell and Paradise)
-
a Raellian museum (we're part of an alien experiment who seeded Earth to produce human beings)
In case no one wants to fund those builds we could set up some hoaxes to trap a few journalists... the more absurd it looked like the more realistic the project will be.It is based on vlc I think.
The Foleo really lacks battery life (5h at best?). Say 12h bat. life + a smaller size / lighter weight and I buy.
To read docs and write notes the greyscale screen with no backlight is fine. It would save a lot of power. I guess nobody will bet on a greyscale device nowdays when the most basic cell phone has a color screen. Too bad marketing closes this product branch, needs are still there.
being able to type in text (ideas, book) on a real keyboard without charging for weeks.
These are students from universities with a Microsoft partnership.
That's an easy way to add more official sales.
Conversely, "tuming" with sans serif fonts will easily read "turning" (if read fast enough and with a matching context in the phrase). Whereas serif fonts will help you to spot the misspelled word and let you read others faster and with a lower error rate.
Something else: damaged prints are more resilient with serif: you can read a faded, distorted, "noisy" text better with serif fonts. You can also try this: read a printed line (some new text to you) with a sheet of paper on either the lower or higher part of the characters' main body. Hide one fifth (it reads fine), one half (still not that bad). Try with serif and sans serif with the same percentage hidden. Difference is obvious.