The links you give claim a very attractive technology. It seems as if it is not very high voltage, which implies that they have improved the efficacy of low voltage phosphors (which has been a problem with the field emission technology I've read about in past years.)
Carbon dioxide helps plants. Trees, lawns, and most importantly, crops, grow faster, stronger, more disease-free and drought-resistant in high CO2 environments. Carbon dioxide helps farmers.
Many bus stops in Los Angeles are paved with concrete whereas the rest of the road's pavement is blacktop. Why? Take a look at some of the busy blacktop bus stops. The pavement has been squeezed away from the places that get run over a lot, leaving ruts of perhaps three inches depth.
At 1000 km/hr, a 0.1 meter wheel will be turning at 28,000 RPM. The force required to keep the wheel from flying apart is about 30 billion Gs.
Use a bigger wheel. Land speed record vehicles run at nearly 1000 km/hr, and they use specially designed tires not too different from passenger car tires. (Also, I think your calculation is two orders of magnitude too high. And G is not a force, it is a ratio of force to mass.)
Transistors can be easily made into more linear circuits because of their high transconductance at a given current and high bandwidth.
Taken as individual devices, especially when looking at transconductance, tubes are far more linear. In transconductance, bipolar transistors are exponential, FETs are square-law, and tubes are I~V^1.5.
Recent research has demonstrated that fully informed and rational consumers are not a requirement for the successful operation of a free market. The claim that a free market requires low barriers to entry is just false. A free market requires no artificial (i.e. government) barriers to entry.
Under a libertarian system there would be no limit to the liability of the owners, operators, insurers and manufacturers of nuclear power plants. Negligence bad enough to cause loss of life would probably lead to poverty or prison for those responsible. That's a powerful incentive to get it right.
The cheap microscopes I've owned have been unbearably poor quality: bubbles and dirt built into the lenses. It can't cost more than a few pennies to make better lenses.
Buy a few unmounted surplus lenses or some of the experimenter grade stuff from Edmunds. Encourage the kid to make his own telescope, microscope, or projector.
If you give a youngster a BB gun, you've got to be there when he uses it and make sure he understands the damage he can do. Make sure to impress upon him that he must think through all the consequences of its use each time he fires. Give examples: don't fire up into the air, don't fire in a direction such that if you miss you might hit someone, don't shoot pets, don't shoot mommy's flowers, etc..
1. Get a job with a different company as quickly as possible.
2. Slack off. Playing most of the time instead of working may get you fired eventually, but if you don't need the job you gain a measure of revenge while lowering your stress level and still getting paid.
3. Write major institutional stockholders informing them of employee abuse and the potential for lawsuits.
Legally controlled 40 hour work weeks and other similar laws are just the result of power politics and mass stupidity.
>I don't need some pointy-haired beuracrat telling me how to live my life.
>>How do you know that you don't? John Hinckley doesn't think that he belongs in a mental hospital, but that he believes that doesn't make it true.
The idea that one person in government can direct the lives of hundreds of individuals better than those indiviuals can is a falacy that has been debunked many times by free market economists. Hinkley's status is a matter of justice and law, not beaurocratic fiat.
For color, if Ciba is still producing Cibachrome, it is supposed to have a very long life, being based upon much more stable dies.
For black and white, longer life can be achieved with gold toning (expensive) which replaces vulnerable silver with more chemically inert gold. For B&W prints, gum-dichromate prints have lifetimes essentially limited by the backing material. Alas, this is a do-it-yourself approach; there isn't much commercial gum-dichromate work being done any more.
The proper role of a Supreme Court Justice is not to be moderate. Or liberal. Or conservative. Or a follower of any ideology. It is to judge evidence with respect to the law, and law with respect to the Constitution, and make decisions accordingly.
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The links you give claim a very attractive technology. It seems as if it is not very high voltage, which implies that they have improved the efficacy of low voltage phosphors (which has been a problem with the field emission technology I've read about in past years.)
How about a Beowulf cluster of intelligent sinkholes?
Carbon dioxide helps plants. Trees, lawns, and most importantly, crops, grow faster, stronger, more disease-free and drought-resistant in high CO2 environments. Carbon dioxide helps farmers.
Many bus stops in Los Angeles are paved with concrete whereas the rest of the road's pavement is blacktop. Why? Take a look at some of the busy blacktop bus stops. The pavement has been squeezed away from the places that get run over a lot, leaving ruts of perhaps three inches depth.
It's close. 120 MByte/sec is 0.96 Gbit/sec.
Ringworld did have the shadow panels, and other structures requiring immensely strong materials.
I've read that Clark tried to patent the idea, but the application was rejected.
Use a bigger wheel. Land speed record vehicles run at nearly 1000 km/hr, and they use specially designed tires not too different from passenger car tires. (Also, I think your calculation is two orders of magnitude too high. And G is not a force, it is a ratio of force to mass.)
Taken as individual devices, especially when looking at transconductance, tubes are far more linear. In transconductance, bipolar transistors are exponential, FETs are square-law, and tubes are I~V^1.5.
It's been more that 150 years. America's first military action after the revolution was against the Barbary pirates in 1801.
Perhaps not spinning ICBMs, but some early missiles were spun on the launchpad for stability.
Integrated circuit design needs lots of processing power for simulation and autorouting.
"Right to work" states prohibit mandatory union membership as a condition of employment.
The percentage of the workforce in the USA that is unionized has been falling for about 50 years.
Recent research has demonstrated that fully informed and rational consumers are not a requirement for the successful operation of a free market. The claim that a free market requires low barriers to entry is just false. A free market requires no artificial (i.e. government) barriers to entry.
Under a libertarian system there would be no limit to the liability of the owners, operators, insurers and manufacturers of nuclear power plants. Negligence bad enough to cause loss of life would probably lead to poverty or prison for those responsible. That's a powerful incentive to get it right.
Some unions are large organizations. In a large organization it is quite possible for many members to be corrupt without all being corrupt.
Buy a few unmounted surplus lenses or some of the experimenter grade stuff from Edmunds. Encourage the kid to make his own telescope, microscope, or projector.
If you give a youngster a BB gun, you've got to be there when he uses it and make sure he understands the damage he can do. Make sure to impress upon him that he must think through all the consequences of its use each time he fires. Give examples: don't fire up into the air, don't fire in a direction such that if you miss you might hit someone, don't shoot pets, don't shoot mommy's flowers, etc..
2. Slack off. Playing most of the time instead of working may get you fired eventually, but if you don't need the job you gain a measure of revenge while lowering your stress level and still getting paid.
3. Write major institutional stockholders informing them of employee abuse and the potential for lawsuits.
If you do 2 or 3, be sure to CYA.
Tire slashing time.
>I don't need some pointy-haired beuracrat telling me how to live my life.
>>How do you know that you don't? John Hinckley doesn't think that he belongs in a mental hospital, but that he believes that doesn't make it true.
The idea that one person in government can direct the lives of hundreds of individuals better than those indiviuals can is a falacy that has been debunked many times by free market economists. Hinkley's status is a matter of justice and law, not beaurocratic fiat.
For black and white, longer life can be achieved with gold toning (expensive) which replaces vulnerable silver with more chemically inert gold. For B&W prints, gum-dichromate prints have lifetimes essentially limited by the backing material. Alas, this is a do-it-yourself approach; there isn't much commercial gum-dichromate work being done any more.
Too bad that people who call themselves liberals support massive theft by taxation, racism by quotas, etc.. That's why I use it as an insult.
The proper role of a Supreme Court Justice is not to be moderate. Or liberal. Or conservative. Or a follower of any ideology. It is to judge evidence with respect to the law, and law with respect to the Constitution, and make decisions accordingly.