"To overcome this problem, the team investigated a special class of "non-radiative" objects with so-called "long-lived resonances".
When energy is applied to these objects it remains bound to them, rather than escaping to space. "Tails" of energy, which can be many metres long, flicker over the surface. "
Hmm i missed this paragraph when i first read it.. "non-radiative" objects, never heard of em.. hmm! I stand corrected but it seems bizarre stil. Cant find much on wikipedia either. Anyone work with these?
its just two 6mhz antennas transmitting to each other in the near-field range.. big freakin deal. Its just like inductive power transfer except the FCC is going to tell these guys to go to hell. The original problem as i see it is just how much power youre willing to blast and yes it will blast for miles and miles its a 6 mhz antenna! I mean it may be possible to orient the recieve antenna so the reradiated power from it causes some cancellation and the over all antenna pattern is small but that means you wont be able to move the transmitter and reciever relatively.. And its not even built, big suprise.
Dont forget to pour one out for your 500,000 homies in washington DC
who are disenfranchised and not represented in congress and therefore
wont be voting for anyone besides our corrupt crack-smoking city
officials and thus would gladly change places with any of you.:D
This would a perfect follow on to the Star Wars alternative defense system suggested in Bloom County.. instead of orbital laser platform just sew together a net of 100 dollar bills that would circle the planet in orbig to catch russian nukes!! Apparently it will also save us from global warming!! Yay money net!
Well one morning i was on a 6am flight and I hadnt had any coffee and I was 'randomly' searched for the billionth time. I kind of flipped out and asked the TSA people why the hell I was always searched. They calmly turned me around and showed me the back of the metal detector. Your response on the detector is zero to four indicated by 4 lights lighting up or not. When you walk through you will notice the guy/gal looking up above you at these lights. A big chunk of metal will get an obvious '4' and the thing will beep etc. But a 2 or 3 just means you have a bit more metal than usual and they will then ask you to step aside. Now heres the kicker, the response is higher based on how close you are to the detector so fat and tall people naturally set off a higher signature. Im 6'4 so they said I will always ring up a higher response, hence I get 'randomly' searched. Now i duck when i go through the detector and have not been pulled aside once since then. Hooray.
Oh im definatly for open access to what the government is doing. However "what we are doing" I define as what we have actually funded. When proposals are awarded, they should, generally, be made public. But not before-hand for the reasons above.
Exactly, I hate it when these sort of things hit the news. The government has all sorts of wacky proposals coming into it all the time. I review technology proposals for a particular agency and you wouldn't believe the wacky stuff that comes down the pipe. But they're just that, proposals and most never see the light of day. When the media says "the government is considering a proposal" it means theres simply a stack of paper on my desk that I've covered in red ink and usually thrown in the shredder and I and one other person are the only people who will ever have read the thing. Anyone and everyone can submit a proposal to a government grant system, and believe me they do. There should be better secrecy regarding proposal submission so as not to impede the free flow of ideas resulting from paranoia that your idea will land on the cover of the Post and make you look like a shmuck, much like this case.
USAJOBS is a great start. I'm an engineer at NASA and we always need people with strong mathematical backgrounds. All engineering research these days requires in-depth math to connect such projects to complicated science objectives. We've hired several math types to do analysis for us that do not require a large engineering background as many tough engineering problems often reduce to math problems that we can hand over. Linearizing non-linear detectors, flowing measurement uncertainty through a system, turning science requirements into engineering requirents, bla bla bla.
Whats a better way to do encryption, on the fly, on the back of a cadillac on a reciept with no dice, no playing cards bla bla and NO ELECTRONICS, and no way to hand out one-time pads to whoever needs an urgent message? Not to say there isnt another better way without tools but saying LAM3R USE 512 Bit KEYLOL!! is a missing the context.
How do other engineers deal with these patent problems at the design phase? When you first sit down with your notebook and pencil and start laying out a design, are you conscious at all that some portion of your design is patented? Do you do a system layout then have a patent guy check it? I'm really curious. I'm an EE and I never check this stuff out when im doing a design... I just build it and off it goes.
Actually when the big president tells his political appointee to "Go to Mars, heres no more extra money" that just sorta kinda slightly affects how money is spent at nasa. And the "increased funding" you mention happens with every single federal agency and is used to offset inflation.
Yes actually only verizon screws you in the ass with all these fees that you mention above. I have nextel/t-mobile and I dont pay a dime for any of the pay services that you have mentioned. What you say makes verizon alot of money right now in a near monopolistic environment but market forces are squashing all of that (thank god).
"they won't want to spend a couple of hundred bucks for extra memory when they likely already have an MP3 player, PDA, etc"
Youre busted son, turn in your Ti-85, and all your caffinated gum. If we ever see your like around/. again we'll hax0r you. Seriously. This turns your (well, apparently My) cell phone into an ipod nano.
"Fortunatly for the Boston Globe, all of the said papers were immediately used to line the shoes of bumbs and roll massive crack/turpentine spliffs, Worcester style."
user 1 states that X is great because it does A, B and C
user 2 replies X is totally lame because it doesnt do D and E, but Y does it awez0mex0rz
user 1 replies that Y is fine but if you want to do A youre up shit creak.
user 3 then makes the brilliant observation identical to the end of every other goddamn technical showdown that.. say it with me.. IT DEPENDS!!! OMFG +5 INSIGHTFUL! huzzah. Now move along, youre coffee is getting cold.
Heheh well i work for nasa, and altho as a junior engineer im payed ~60K/year, I charge 200K/year to whatever project im working on. So if some project is given a million bucks a year, you can afford to put 4 engineers on it full time and no more and you dont even have money left over for pizza. The extra 140 goes to keeping the lights on, paying human resources folks, etc. Senior engineers charge 250K/year to projects. As an aside, people dont seem to realize that the cost of engineering anything (spacecraft, ataris..) is mostly paying peoples salaries to sit there and tinker with Matlab for a year, then ordering the parts for the design theyve spec'd out is the cheap part.
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Hmm i missed this paragraph when i first read it.. "non-radiative" objects, never heard of em.. hmm! I stand corrected but it seems bizarre stil. Cant find much on wikipedia either. Anyone work with these?
its just two 6mhz antennas transmitting to each other in the near-field range.. big freakin deal. Its just like inductive power transfer except the FCC is going to tell these guys to go to hell. The original problem as i see it is just how much power youre willing to blast and yes it will blast for miles and miles its a 6 mhz antenna! I mean it may be possible to orient the recieve antenna so the reradiated power from it causes some cancellation and the over all antenna pattern is small but that means you wont be able to move the transmitter and reciever relatively.. And its not even built, big suprise.
I cant move! Stupid ankle bracelette..
Dont forget to pour one out for your 500,000 homies in washington DC who are disenfranchised and not represented in congress and therefore wont be voting for anyone besides our corrupt crack-smoking city officials and thus would gladly change places with any of you. :D
This would a perfect follow on to the Star Wars alternative defense system suggested in Bloom County.. instead of orbital laser platform just sew together a net of 100 dollar bills that would circle the planet in orbig to catch russian nukes!! Apparently it will also save us from global warming!! Yay money net!
that is all.
Its comments like these that should allow mods to use "+1 hell yea"
What kind of internet showdown is that?? Clearly he should have used the Bastard Sword of G'lyea with the +3 stamina mod.
Well one morning i was on a 6am flight and I hadnt had any coffee and I was 'randomly' searched for the billionth time. I kind of flipped out and asked the TSA people why the hell I was always searched. They calmly turned me around and showed me the back of the metal detector. Your response on the detector is zero to four indicated by 4 lights lighting up or not. When you walk through you will notice the guy/gal looking up above you at these lights. A big chunk of metal will get an obvious '4' and the thing will beep etc. But a 2 or 3 just means you have a bit more metal than usual and they will then ask you to step aside. Now heres the kicker, the response is higher based on how close you are to the detector so fat and tall people naturally set off a higher signature. Im 6'4 so they said I will always ring up a higher response, hence I get 'randomly' searched. Now i duck when i go through the detector and have not been pulled aside once since then. Hooray.
Oh im definatly for open access to what the government is doing. However "what we are doing" I define as what we have actually funded. When proposals are awarded, they should, generally, be made public. But not before-hand for the reasons above.
Exactly, I hate it when these sort of things hit the news. The government has all sorts of wacky proposals coming into it all the time. I review technology proposals for a particular agency and you wouldn't believe the wacky stuff that comes down the pipe. But they're just that, proposals and most never see the light of day. When the media says "the government is considering a proposal" it means theres simply a stack of paper on my desk that I've covered in red ink and usually thrown in the shredder and I and one other person are the only people who will ever have read the thing. Anyone and everyone can submit a proposal to a government grant system, and believe me they do. There should be better secrecy regarding proposal submission so as not to impede the free flow of ideas resulting from paranoia that your idea will land on the cover of the Post and make you look like a shmuck, much like this case.
USAJOBS is a great start. I'm an engineer at NASA and we always need people with strong mathematical backgrounds. All engineering research these days requires in-depth math to connect such projects to complicated science objectives. We've hired several math types to do analysis for us that do not require a large engineering background as many tough engineering problems often reduce to math problems that we can hand over. Linearizing non-linear detectors, flowing measurement uncertainty through a system, turning science requirements into engineering requirents, bla bla bla.
"In order to understand any subculture, be it al-Qaida, DDR players, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to know their own language."
In the words of the immortal Homer Simpson: "D'oh!"
Whats a better way to do encryption, on the fly, on the back of a cadillac on a reciept with no dice, no playing cards bla bla and NO ELECTRONICS, and no way to hand out one-time pads to whoever needs an urgent message? Not to say there isnt another better way without tools but saying LAM3R USE 512 Bit KEYLOL!! is a missing the context.
How do other engineers deal with these patent problems at the design phase? When you first sit down with your notebook and pencil and start laying out a design, are you conscious at all that some portion of your design is patented? Do you do a system layout then have a patent guy check it? I'm really curious. I'm an EE and I never check this stuff out when im doing a design... I just build it and off it goes.
Hahahaa yea I dont think anything has ever made me laugh so hard at work that you could hear me down the hallway.
Actually when the big president tells his political appointee to "Go to Mars, heres no more extra money" that just sorta kinda slightly affects how money is spent at nasa. And the "increased funding" you mention happens with every single federal agency and is used to offset inflation.
Yes actually only verizon screws you in the ass with all these fees that you mention above. I have nextel/t-mobile and I dont pay a dime for any of the pay services that you have mentioned. What you say makes verizon alot of money right now in a near monopolistic environment but market forces are squashing all of that (thank god).
Youre busted son, turn in your Ti-85, and all your caffinated gum. If we ever see your like around /. again we'll hax0r you. Seriously. This turns your (well, apparently My) cell phone into an ipod nano.
... hello William Gibson.
"Fortunatly for the Boston Globe, all of the said papers were immediately used to line the shoes of bumbs and roll massive crack/turpentine spliffs, Worcester style."
user 2 replies X is totally lame because it doesnt do D and E, but Y does it awez0mex0rz
user 1 replies that Y is fine but if you want to do A youre up shit creak.
user 3 then makes the brilliant observation identical to the end of every other goddamn technical showdown that.. say it with me.. IT DEPENDS!!! OMFG +5 INSIGHTFUL! huzzah. Now move along, youre coffee is getting cold.
Heheh well i work for nasa, and altho as a junior engineer im payed ~60K/year, I charge 200K/year to whatever project im working on. So if some project is given a million bucks a year, you can afford to put 4 engineers on it full time and no more and you dont even have money left over for pizza. The extra 140 goes to keeping the lights on, paying human resources folks, etc. Senior engineers charge 250K/year to projects. As an aside, people dont seem to realize that the cost of engineering anything (spacecraft, ataris..) is mostly paying peoples salaries to sit there and tinker with Matlab for a year, then ordering the parts for the design theyve spec'd out is the cheap part.
I dunno i think 'the brass' would think this was some pretty cool shit: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all& q=pcp+stabbing