Um, the laser is focused on the disc, not your eye or the front of the case and it's a tremendously low-power laser to boot, just a few milliwatts. The most you might get would be a cool monochromatic glow from light scattered by the disc surface. That would look kind of cool, actually.
Then you better live your life locked in a Faraday cage because your world is flooded with EM from all those FM and AM radio stations, cell phone towers, Satellite downlinks and television broadcast signals.
Um, my physics bells are sounding off on this one. Magnetism and electricity are two sides of the same coin. An EMI shield is nothing more than an electrical conductor that converts the incoming magnetic field to electricity and sends it to ground (kind of like how your car antenna works, only it takes a portion of the magentic field, converts it to an electrical current and sends it to your amplifier).
The idea that only iron can do this simply isn't true. Otherwise aluminum aerials or the copper antenna wires coming off your FM home stereo wouldn't work.
You don't need a solid sheet either. A grid of any conductor will work. Faraday cages are usually composed of a fine grid of thin copper wiring embedded in a wall or other substrate and connected to ground. No EM get in or out.
This got modded as insightful? Where's the mod points for ignorant?
Bush was duly elected according to the requirements of the Constitution. The court ruling was upholding the unconsitutionality of the FL. supreme's court trampling of the equal protection clause of the Constitution, and trying to usurp the Constitutionally granted power of State Legislatures to select Presidential electors.
A little civics lesson for you: Presidents are not selected by popular election, nor were they ever intended to be. Presidents are to be elected by the STATES. It just happens that states use popular elections to determine how they should name their slate of electors, but they can do it any DAMN way they please.
Bush won the presidential election for the simple fact that the Florida Secretary of State, authorized by the Florida State legislature declared the slate of electors for the state of Florida to be for Bush.
In case you weren't aware, the Florida State legislature was prepared to exercise their constitutional authority and simply set aside the popular election results and name the slate for Bush.
The only reason this has become an issue is because of the absolutely horrible condition of civics education in this country, and the continued asinine assumption that we are a democracy.
Hmmm. Let's see. Oh yeah, we can't make carbon nanotubes longer than a micron in the laboratory or more than half the required strength for the elevator.
That's not true. Windows GUI elements are tied to 96 PPI. If your screen resolution goes up to 144 DPI, then all your 16-pt fonts are now half again smaller.
Amen to that. How about giving us resolution-independent GUIs. Let me take that 1900x1200 pixel display and use it to display 1-inch high 72 point letters at 144 DPI.
Actually, what you're seeing is the difference between PPC and X86 processor architecture.
PPC chips are small and run significantly cooler than their X86 counterparts, so you can make smaller, lighter laptops with better battery life. This is pretty much the main reason that Apple is still competetive in Notebooks where size, weight, and battery life are more important than raw processor power.
Oh, I didn't realize this would be the only way to purchase music from this point forward. I guess we better grab those CDs before they're recalled and all the brick and mortar music stores shutter their doors.
You just contradicted yourself. If you have to pay for storage, and bandwidth, then there is a cost with storage and delivery, as well as managing the song database, handling billing transactions, verifying accounts, providing customer support, paying royalties to the artist, etc.
The $.99 per song is probably a value arrived at by an assessment of cost and what the market will bear.
Except that their will to fight and anything they will have to fight with will have been beaten out of them by the screeners on the ground.
The best way to take care of this is to pound the crap out of any nation that harbors terrorists or helps support them. So, after we pummel Iraq, we slap our hand with our big stick, look over at Syria and Palestine and Suadi Arabia and say: Are you ready to shape up, or do we pound you next?
The average cost of developing a drug from discovery to approved for use in humans is 1 billion (yes, that's billion with a b) dollars.
You transfer that to a government agency, which would be the only way eliminate your "private business is corrupt and exploitive" element, and you can probably safely triple or quadruple that amount plus throw in political opportunism (evil Republicans want to deny you this vaccine, liberal Democrats keep telling blacks that they care about inner city AIDS, but never do anything about it, etc.), bureaucratic waste and the general sloppiness of anything done by government.
The world is not a perfect place and never will be. Having private enterprise do drug development under heavy regulation and oversight, with charity and social programs picking up the drug costs for the poor is probably the best solution we have given reality.
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Actually, that's not true. Film captures color as realistically as the photochemicals can react to the incoming photons.
Add to that do music, digital photos and more, and more, digital video.
Spends money on tax cuts?!? Sheesh. Our Public Education system strikes again.
Um, the laser is focused on the disc, not your eye or the front of the case and it's a tremendously low-power laser to boot, just a few milliwatts. The most you might get would be a cool monochromatic glow from light scattered by the disc surface. That would look kind of cool, actually.
Then you better live your life locked in a Faraday cage because your world is flooded with EM from all those FM and AM radio stations, cell phone towers, Satellite downlinks and television broadcast signals.
Um, my physics bells are sounding off on this one. Magnetism and electricity are two sides of the same coin. An EMI shield is nothing more than an electrical conductor that converts the incoming magnetic field to electricity and sends it to ground (kind of like how your car antenna works, only it takes a portion of the magentic field, converts it to an electrical current and sends it to your amplifier).
The idea that only iron can do this simply isn't true. Otherwise aluminum aerials or the copper antenna wires coming off your FM home stereo wouldn't work.
You don't need a solid sheet either. A grid of any conductor will work. Faraday cages are usually composed of a fine grid of thin copper wiring embedded in a wall or other substrate and connected to ground. No EM get in or out.
There's a big difference between someone hating you while waving a nuclear bomb and someone hating you while waving a baseball bat.
That's because we're the biggest. Wait a while. You're on the list.
This got modded as insightful? Where's the mod points for ignorant?
Bush was duly elected according to the requirements of the Constitution. The court ruling was upholding the unconsitutionality of the FL. supreme's court trampling of the equal protection clause of the Constitution, and trying to usurp the Constitutionally granted power of State Legislatures to select Presidential electors.
A little civics lesson for you: Presidents are not selected by popular election, nor were they ever intended to be. Presidents are to be elected by the STATES. It just happens that states use popular elections to determine how they should name their slate of electors, but they can do it any DAMN way they please.
Bush won the presidential election for the simple fact that the Florida Secretary of State, authorized by the Florida State legislature declared the slate of electors for the state of Florida to be for Bush.
In case you weren't aware, the Florida State legislature was prepared to exercise their constitutional authority and simply set aside the popular election results and name the slate for Bush.
The only reason this has become an issue is because of the absolutely horrible condition of civics education in this country, and the continued asinine assumption that we are a democracy.
Hmmm. Let's see. Oh yeah, we can't make carbon nanotubes longer than a micron in the laboratory or more than half the required strength for the elevator.
The pixel density is uniform throughout the panel. The way you figure it is:
SQRT(1920^2 + 1200^2)/15.4
That gives you just over 144 ppi.
That's not true. Windows GUI elements are tied to 96 PPI. If your screen resolution goes up to 144 DPI, then all your 16-pt fonts are now half again smaller.
Amen to that. How about giving us resolution-independent GUIs. Let me take that 1900x1200 pixel display and use it to display 1-inch high 72 point letters at 144 DPI.
Actually, what you're seeing is the difference between PPC and X86 processor architecture.
PPC chips are small and run significantly cooler than their X86 counterparts, so you can make smaller, lighter laptops with better battery life. This is pretty much the main reason that Apple is still competetive in Notebooks where size, weight, and battery life are more important than raw processor power.
No, instead you pay for jpeg images which are to pictures what MP3 is to sound.
You know, folks, you can encode at bit rates higher than 128k.
Oh, I didn't realize this would be the only way to purchase music from this point forward. I guess we better grab those CDs before they're recalled and all the brick and mortar music stores shutter their doors.
You just contradicted yourself. If you have to pay for storage, and bandwidth, then there is a cost with storage and delivery, as well as managing the song database, handling billing transactions, verifying accounts, providing customer support, paying royalties to the artist, etc.
The $.99 per song is probably a value arrived at by an assessment of cost and what the market will bear.
Except that their will to fight and anything they will have to fight with will have been beaten out of them by the screeners on the ground.
The best way to take care of this is to pound the crap out of any nation that harbors terrorists or helps support them. So, after we pummel Iraq, we slap our hand with our big stick, look over at Syria and Palestine and Suadi Arabia and say: Are you ready to shape up, or do we pound you next?
I guess the fact that the Cylons couldn't hit a planet at 500 feet was the only things that kept the humans alive.
The average cost of developing a drug from discovery to approved for use in humans is 1 billion (yes, that's billion with a b) dollars.
You transfer that to a government agency, which would be the only way eliminate your "private business is corrupt and exploitive" element, and you can probably safely triple or quadruple that amount plus throw in political opportunism (evil Republicans want to deny you this vaccine, liberal Democrats keep telling blacks that they care about inner city AIDS, but never do anything about it, etc.), bureaucratic waste and the general sloppiness of anything done by government.
The world is not a perfect place and never will be. Having private enterprise do drug development under heavy regulation and oversight, with charity and social programs picking up the drug costs for the poor is probably the best solution we have given reality.
Unless, of course the statistics support your position, like the chances of being shot while armed...
Use laws to force people to think the correct way? Orwell would be proud.
Hmm. Murders per 100,000 in Germany, Gun control heaven: 1.18.
Murders per 100,000 in Switzerland, where each home is required to have a military rifle with ammunition: 1.06.
What was the point you were trying to make?
I guess all the folks who said Linux was great because there were a zillion and one ways to configure it didn't really mean it.
You can only sue AFTER the fact. I'd rather prevent it by giving my little sister a .357 magnum and teaching her how to use it.