There were some attempts at universal mounts and adapters in film cameras. The "T" and "T4" systems allowed lens-only manufacturers to use one lens on many different camera types. As linkages to the lenses became more complicated and electronic, this became more difficult.
One camera brand, Miranda, had an especially thin body, which allowed other brands' lenses to be used with an adapter without losing infinity focus.
The Supreme Court has made some astonishingly bad decisions, some of which the "right" opposes. Consider the condition of property rights in New London, Connecticut. I don't see liberals supporting the Constitutional protection of property rights against eminent domain abuse.
My dictionary gives "individual" as a synonym for "person". An embryo simply cannot qualify as an individual; it is beyond the range which differences of opinion can cover.
Although cheaper, 2 heads per arm would not cut seek times in half. The arm assembly would be heavier. One limitation is arm acceleration, not arm speed, which means that two heads per arm cut track seek time by at best 1-sqrt(1/2), or 30%.
If half of access time is used by track seek and half by rotational latency, 2 heads per arm would give an overall improvement of 15%.
Separate arms on the opposite sides of the disk would cut rotational latency in half, for an improvement of 25%. I've read that this has actually been tried, but failed in the marketplace (probably due to cost).
"They could make the arm comming [sic] off the voice-coil rigid, and adjust it to exact specs in the factory. THEN they could vaccum-seal [sic] the drive."
I'm not a mechanical engineer, but it sounds like this would require an impractical degree of mechanical precision to be maintained over time, temperature, and shock.
The Kyoto treaty is a shortsighted trick in the guise of PC environmentalism, the goal of which is to hurt the economies of rich nations for the competitive benefit of poor nations.
Getting a patent automatically publishes the information in the patent. That publishing, in and of itself, constitutes "encouraging progress".
That RIM did not use NTP's patents to develop the blackberry is irrelevant. The blackberry uses technology protected by NTP's patent; nothing else is required for infringement to occur.
RIM had a responsibility to search for patents they might have been violating with their product.
When NTP learned its patents were being violated, it acted with reasonable speed.
RIM has consistently acted in bad faith, using deceit and delay to avoid paying what they should.
It is not difficult, using the same physical principles that underlie evolution, to extend the theory of evolution to the creation of life. The details of the chemistry are not known, but the rough outline is obvious.
a) Although libertarianism has never been fully employed in a modern civilization*, those regions with the freest markets tend to become the richest. (*There are some claims that Iceland had a libertarian society about a millenium ago.)
b) Have you ever heard of a major corporation contributing to the Libertarian Party? Because it is small, the LP is more vulnerable to crackpots, as can be seen by looking at a subset of their candidates. No staid corporation wants to be linked to the LP.
The idea that money could have been put aside for social security is completely bogus. In the large quantities required, removing that much money from circulation would have completely screwed the economy, so the gov't would have had to print more. The result? Same as today, with the gov't holding a large pile of green paper in a big vault. When it comes time to pay off, reverse the process.
If the gov't tried to accumulate a store of value by buying up assets (real estate, precious substances, businesses) the distortion to the economy would be even worse. In particular, it would destroy the businesses upon which the future payouts having any value would depend.
Most of what the recipients of social security receive is going to have to come out of production occurring at that time. If there isn't enough production then, no amount of government funding is going to make it happen.
The best way to assure that there will be enough for old people to survive well is to create conditions that allow the populace to become rich. This can only occur if the gov't stops draining the economy.
Democrats tend to the extremes in intelligence. The stupid are attracted to the victim ideology, the bright are swayed by exposure to left-wing college professors.
To the extent that Republicans are capitalistic, they are selfish. (I'm an Objectivist; I regard this as a good thing.) Don't confuse selfish with short-sighted.
Alas, you are correct that much that is bipartisan is bad: it results from both sides discarding the good parts of their philosophies, with a result that is both stupid and short-sighted.
On a miles per failure basis, bikes are much inferior to cars. Bikes' thinner tires wear out in about 2000 miles and are much more susceptible to flats. Even a thorn can deflate a bike tire. A small stick can wrap your deraileur around your rear axle. Nuts loosen and need to be checked every few weeks.
Manned planetary missions should be delayed until technology advances enough to make them a lot easier. Rushing them makes them expensive and risky. They need to be done eventually, because sooner or later there's going to be another all-earth catastrophe.
The highest resolution color negative film available the last time I bought film was Konica Impresa 50. When this is gone, the best available film quality gets one step worse, again.
AMD's price/sales is about 2.5, below Intel's 3.5. As AMD improves its profit margin and pays off its relatively high debt, P/E will fall to a more reasonable range. It is this expectation of future profits that is driving AMD's price.
Used view camera lenses can be had at reasonable prices. There's no good reason not to buy a lens that's a century old. 4x5 inch coverage, even 8x10 are not unreasonable. A look at eBay revealed 2 lenses below $160 for 4x5 coverage. You should be able to buy complete view cameras from an antique dealer.
The four best conductive metals at room temperature are (in order) silver (0.0163 ohm-meter), copper (0.0172), gold (0.0244), and alumin(i)um (0.0283). Not "many other metals in between the two". All other metals are worse than these four.
My memory is that silver oxide is only a mediocre conductor, but quite soft. Mating silver conductors cuts through the oxide, making a silver-silver connection. Silver also forms a sulfide easily.
The 68060 was announced as the end of the 68000 line before it ever entered production. Apple had the choice of abandoning the 68000s or be regarded as a dead-end company.
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One camera brand, Miranda, had an especially thin body, which allowed other brands' lenses to be used with an adapter without losing infinity focus.
I'm an atheist, but some of your claims are too enthusiastic. The officially atheist USSR had very little respect for individual human lives.
The Supreme Court has made some astonishingly bad decisions, some of which the "right" opposes. Consider the condition of property rights in New London, Connecticut. I don't see liberals supporting the Constitutional protection of property rights against eminent domain abuse.
My dictionary gives "individual" as a synonym for "person". An embryo simply cannot qualify as an individual; it is beyond the range which differences of opinion can cover.
If half of access time is used by track seek and half by rotational latency, 2 heads per arm would give an overall improvement of 15%.
Separate arms on the opposite sides of the disk would cut rotational latency in half, for an improvement of 25%. I've read that this has actually been tried, but failed in the marketplace (probably due to cost).
I'm not a mechanical engineer, but it sounds like this would require an impractical degree of mechanical precision to be maintained over time, temperature, and shock.
The Kyoto treaty is a shortsighted trick in the guise of PC environmentalism, the goal of which is to hurt the economies of rich nations for the competitive benefit of poor nations.
Please learn what the word "theory" means in a scientific context.
That RIM did not use NTP's patents to develop the blackberry is irrelevant. The blackberry uses technology protected by NTP's patent; nothing else is required for infringement to occur. RIM had a responsibility to search for patents they might have been violating with their product.
When NTP learned its patents were being violated, it acted with reasonable speed.
RIM has consistently acted in bad faith, using deceit and delay to avoid paying what they should.
It is not difficult, using the same physical principles that underlie evolution, to extend the theory of evolution to the creation of life. The details of the chemistry are not known, but the rough outline is obvious.
b) Have you ever heard of a major corporation contributing to the Libertarian Party? Because it is small, the LP is more vulnerable to crackpots, as can be seen by looking at a subset of their candidates. No staid corporation wants to be linked to the LP.
If the gov't tried to accumulate a store of value by buying up assets (real estate, precious substances, businesses) the distortion to the economy would be even worse. In particular, it would destroy the businesses upon which the future payouts having any value would depend.
Most of what the recipients of social security receive is going to have to come out of production occurring at that time. If there isn't enough production then, no amount of government funding is going to make it happen.
The best way to assure that there will be enough for old people to survive well is to create conditions that allow the populace to become rich. This can only occur if the gov't stops draining the economy.
To the extent that Republicans are capitalistic, they are selfish. (I'm an Objectivist; I regard this as a good thing.) Don't confuse selfish with short-sighted.
Alas, you are correct that much that is bipartisan is bad: it results from both sides discarding the good parts of their philosophies, with a result that is both stupid and short-sighted.
On a miles per failure basis, bikes are much inferior to cars. Bikes' thinner tires wear out in about 2000 miles and are much more susceptible to flats. Even a thorn can deflate a bike tire. A small stick can wrap your deraileur around your rear axle. Nuts loosen and need to be checked every few weeks.
They proofread 5000 patents.
How can it be a patent application if it hasn't been filed?
Manned planetary missions should be delayed until technology advances enough to make them a lot easier. Rushing them makes them expensive and risky. They need to be done eventually, because sooner or later there's going to be another all-earth catastrophe.
The highest resolution color negative film available the last time I bought film was Konica Impresa 50. When this is gone, the best available film quality gets one step worse, again.
AMD's price/sales is about 2.5, below Intel's 3.5. As AMD improves its profit margin and pays off its relatively high debt, P/E will fall to a more reasonable range. It is this expectation of future profits that is driving AMD's price.
Used view camera lenses can be had at reasonable prices. There's no good reason not to buy a lens that's a century old. 4x5 inch coverage, even 8x10 are not unreasonable. A look at eBay revealed 2 lenses below $160 for 4x5 coverage. You should be able to buy complete view cameras from an antique dealer.
How much serious search for oil has been done in the center of the Pacific Ocean?
The four best conductive metals at room temperature are (in order) silver (0.0163 ohm-meter), copper (0.0172), gold (0.0244), and alumin(i)um (0.0283). Not "many other metals in between the two". All other metals are worse than these four.
My memory is that silver oxide is only a mediocre conductor, but quite soft. Mating silver conductors cuts through the oxide, making a silver-silver connection. Silver also forms a sulfide easily.
The 68060 was announced as the end of the 68000 line before it ever entered production. Apple had the choice of abandoning the 68000s or be regarded as a dead-end company.