You are as dangerously naive as many of our elected leaders have been. I know it can be surprising to your comfortable little worldview, but people LIE. Especially puppet leaders who come into office by state-sponsored election fraud. Especially when this puppet leader states his intention to violate the treaty in question. You're like a kid surprised when someone does something, and you say "But, but, but, he SAID he wouldn't!"
Reminds me of all the times during the cold war when the left would trust the communist propaganda over the leaders of the free world, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
I really don't understand people like you. Apparently you feel guilty for living in a successful, free civilization. You clearly don't deserve it.
That tells us that the definition of "drunk driving" is absurdly low*, not that talking on a cell phone while driving is extremely dangerous.
*Does anyone actually believe the propaganda that "buzzed driving" (having 2-3 drinks in an hour) is the same as drunk driving (binge drinking for many hours)?
You're half right. The chirped pulse, which is broadband, would undergo dispersion in a fiber (it is in fact this dispersion which initially compresses the beam). After this compression, the beam is de-chirped, so it is again narrowband.
Yes, there is of course a limit to what this can do, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. From the Nature Photonics article:
As seen in Fig. 4, features in the original waveform as short as 40 ps are transferred to the compressed waveform, resulting in a minimal compressed feature size of 1.5 ps. This indicates that the bandwidth of the compressed waveforms is limited primarily by the electro-optic modulator bandwidth and not by the temporal telescope, as expected from the >600-GHz bandwidth pump pulses used for the FWM time lenses.
Also, if you look at the plots they have, it's clear that the structure of the incoming beam is very well recreated. Any Nature journal is a top-notch research journal, they aren't going to publish anything that could be found in an old Bell Labs journal.
This is not at all an oversell (though admittedly bad journalism). It's not the same as chirped pulse amplification or prism compression.
In this case, you start out with an essentially monochromatic long pulse, whose intensity is modulated very slowly compared to the frequency of the light, but as fast as possible using typical telecom electrical modulators. A monochromatic pulse cannot be compressed using a grating or prism. Then the wavelength of the pulse is shifted, with the amount shifted depending on the relative position in the pulse (this is the "time-domain lens"). What you have now is similar to a chirped pulse, which is compressed using a long fiber (I don't know why they don't use prism compression or something else faster here). The time-domain lensing is then undone, "de-chirping" the pulse, leaving you with a much shorter essentially monochromatic pulse at the starting wavelength, with the same amplitude modulation (i.e., carrying the same information).
The point being a huge increase in the amount of information that can be carried in a fiber.
The supply of oil is not fixed. As the price increases, previously unprofitable sources become profitable. And you could make your argument for anything. Fat people? Eat 3-4 times what could feed a starving child! That should be illegal! Big house? That could shelter 3-4 more people! Small house? In other cultures, that would shelter 3-4 more people!
Or you could look into something called "freedom". Alternatively called "individual liberty" and things like that. It's good stuff.
I think they're more concerned with getting enough food, water, and shelter in rural Africa to worry about seeing Saturn's rings. I would hardly call that a net "benefit".
make Microsoft pay what they owe to maintain the infrastructure that their employees use.
Except this isn't about infrastructure costs. It isn't about court costs. It isn't even about really about education costs. According to this, over 1/3 of the state government budget goes to "Social and Health Services" (read: handouts). Microsoft employees, being paid on average a middle- to upper-middle-class salary, subsidize these handouts, not the other way around.
The impact on everyone else of my F-350 is made up, invented by people like you so you can control people like me. Why do you think far leftist big government types have always been hand in hand with the environmental extremists? Any invented environmental effect is an excuse for government to stick its nose in.
What do you mean by non-contradiction and causality? How do wavefunctions not obey those? Violations of Bell's inequalities show that wavefunctions do not obey realism and locality.
It's so cheap it could stand to get more expensive
Wow, you're actually just coming out and saying you want our quality of life to decrease. Well, at least you're straightforward and honest, unlike most of the environmentalist wackos trying to strangle society's progress! Still despicable though...
I wasn't reacting to his anti-nuclear stance so much as his anti-capitalism (and therefore anti-freedom) stance. Based on your statement about a monopoly (and you're apparent belief that a coal monopoly is already screwing us) as well as your signature, you're probably as anti-freedom as him. Please correct me if wrong =)
You raise a good point that seems to be ignored: computers are complex. It takes a good amount of education poured into many smart people to make it go. The education isn't cheap. Employing bright, well-educated people also isn't cheap. These costs are always ignored, but they are real. Does anyone really believe computers are going to get cheaper? It's not. Any savings denser computers might bring will be passed on to chairmans of the board and computer moguls. Computer mogels will replace oil mogels as the new robber barons. There's plenty of oil, but the cost will stay up. When there's plenty of computers, the same sort of supply/demand/price-fix shennanigans will come into play. Too many computers, not enough profit? Pull it back so there's not as many computers, keep the price up there where people are used to it. They know we'll pay. New computers are not going to change anything, afa the cost of one to the end user.
Oh I'm sorry, that's an incredibly stupid thing to say.
Parent is modded +5? Do none of you have any idea how a free market works? Or how supply and demand work? Or have noticed what has happened every single time a new technology comes along? It gets cheaper as more are built. Always. The same thing will happen with nuclear power plants. The reason the same thing doesn't happen with oil is because it is a limited resource. There's enough nuclear fuel for many centuries, if not millenia.
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You are as dangerously naive as many of our elected leaders have been. I know it can be surprising to your comfortable little worldview, but people LIE. Especially puppet leaders who come into office by state-sponsored election fraud. Especially when this puppet leader states his intention to violate the treaty in question. You're like a kid surprised when someone does something, and you say "But, but, but, he SAID he wouldn't!"
Reminds me of all the times during the cold war when the left would trust the communist propaganda over the leaders of the free world, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
I really don't understand people like you. Apparently you feel guilty for living in a successful, free civilization. You clearly don't deserve it.
Those telephone polls don't grow on trees
I can't decide if that was stupid, an oversight, or just a very subtle troll...
no national safety agency is going to allow ten thousand times that much power wandering around our houses
Uh oh, someone better tell the FCC about this invention!
That tells us that the definition of "drunk driving" is absurdly low*, not that talking on a cell phone while driving is extremely dangerous.
*Does anyone actually believe the propaganda that "buzzed driving" (having 2-3 drinks in an hour) is the same as drunk driving (binge drinking for many hours)?
You're half right. The chirped pulse, which is broadband, would undergo dispersion in a fiber (it is in fact this dispersion which initially compresses the beam). After this compression, the beam is de-chirped, so it is again narrowband.
As seen in Fig. 4, features in the original waveform as short as 40 ps are transferred to the compressed waveform, resulting in a minimal compressed feature size of 1.5 ps. This indicates that the bandwidth of the compressed waveforms is limited primarily by the electro-optic modulator bandwidth and not by the temporal telescope, as expected from the >600-GHz bandwidth pump pulses used for the FWM time lenses.
Also, if you look at the plots they have, it's clear that the structure of the incoming beam is very well recreated. Any Nature journal is a top-notch research journal, they aren't going to publish anything that could be found in an old Bell Labs journal.
This is not at all an oversell (though admittedly bad journalism). It's not the same as chirped pulse amplification or prism compression.
In this case, you start out with an essentially monochromatic long pulse, whose intensity is modulated very slowly compared to the frequency of the light, but as fast as possible using typical telecom electrical modulators. A monochromatic pulse cannot be compressed using a grating or prism. Then the wavelength of the pulse is shifted, with the amount shifted depending on the relative position in the pulse (this is the "time-domain lens"). What you have now is similar to a chirped pulse, which is compressed using a long fiber (I don't know why they don't use prism compression or something else faster here). The time-domain lensing is then undone, "de-chirping" the pulse, leaving you with a much shorter essentially monochromatic pulse at the starting wavelength, with the same amplitude modulation (i.e., carrying the same information).
The point being a huge increase in the amount of information that can be carried in a fiber.
The supply of oil is not fixed. As the price increases, previously unprofitable sources become profitable. And you could make your argument for anything. Fat people? Eat 3-4 times what could feed a starving child! That should be illegal! Big house? That could shelter 3-4 more people! Small house? In other cultures, that would shelter 3-4 more people!
Or you could look into something called "freedom". Alternatively called "individual liberty" and things like that. It's good stuff.
It's the same reason every movie at a theater costs the same, regardless of the budget.
I think they're more concerned with getting enough food, water, and shelter in rural Africa to worry about seeing Saturn's rings. I would hardly call that a net "benefit".
make Microsoft pay what they owe to maintain the infrastructure that their employees use.
Except this isn't about infrastructure costs. It isn't about court costs. It isn't even about really about education costs. According to this, over 1/3 of the state government budget goes to "Social and Health Services" (read: handouts). Microsoft employees, being paid on average a middle- to upper-middle-class salary, subsidize these handouts, not the other way around.
The state's been extorting them for years and it needs to stop.
Fixed that for you.
The impact on everyone else of my F-350 is made up, invented by people like you so you can control people like me. Why do you think far leftist big government types have always been hand in hand with the environmental extremists? Any invented environmental effect is an excuse for government to stick its nose in.
Condone != condemn.
Why are you so determined to tell other people how to live? I prefer freedom. If you try to tell me how to live, you can go fuck yourself.
I don't see anything in there about rocky or not, just "Earth-mass"
What do you mean by non-contradiction and causality? How do wavefunctions not obey those? Violations of Bell's inequalities show that wavefunctions do not obey realism and locality.
I don't think raising the price of electricity actually correlates necessarily with quality of life
Then you're an idiot. Increased cost of living means lower quality of life. It's not hard.
Yes, let's combine an idea that the hippies hate with an idea that the capitalists hate...everyone will be happy!
It's so cheap it could stand to get more expensive
Wow, you're actually just coming out and saying you want our quality of life to decrease. Well, at least you're straightforward and honest, unlike most of the environmentalist wackos trying to strangle society's progress! Still despicable though...
I wasn't reacting to his anti-nuclear stance so much as his anti-capitalism (and therefore anti-freedom) stance. Based on your statement about a monopoly (and you're apparent belief that a coal monopoly is already screwing us) as well as your signature, you're probably as anti-freedom as him. Please correct me if wrong =)
You raise a good point that seems to be ignored: computers are complex. It takes a good amount of education poured into many smart people to make it go. The education isn't cheap. Employing bright, well-educated people also isn't cheap. These costs are always ignored, but they are real. Does anyone really believe computers are going to get cheaper? It's not. Any savings denser computers might bring will be passed on to chairmans of the board and computer moguls. Computer mogels will replace oil mogels as the new robber barons. There's plenty of oil, but the cost will stay up. When there's plenty of computers, the same sort of supply/demand/price-fix shennanigans will come into play. Too many computers, not enough profit? Pull it back so there's not as many computers, keep the price up there where people are used to it. They know we'll pay. New computers are not going to change anything, afa the cost of one to the end user.
Oh I'm sorry, that's an incredibly stupid thing to say.
Parent is modded +5? Do none of you have any idea how a free market works? Or how supply and demand work? Or have noticed what has happened every single time a new technology comes along? It gets cheaper as more are built. Always. The same thing will happen with nuclear power plants. The reason the same thing doesn't happen with oil is because it is a limited resource. There's enough nuclear fuel for many centuries, if not millenia.
Don't be such an idiot. Garbage is buried in most places. No one is saying that dumping in an ocean is acceptable.
How much memory is addressable using 32 bits? 4 GB, or 4.1940304 GB?
It's not arbitrary. It makes perfect sense if you understand why counting in a binary-friendly system can be useful when you're working in binary.
Maybe it's because the Japanese are known to be extremely racist, and never accepting of any outsider?