The Dutch television distribution system is kind of weird. The BBC does not allow any provider but the old fashioned cable companies to distribute BBC1 and 2. As a kind of compensation the alternatives offered by the digital-over-the-air-TV-providers and these fibre providers is to offer BBC world. Yeah right... that doesn't do it for me.
There is a lawsuit going on at the moment that challenges exactly this 'bbc1 and 2 only on cable' deal.
Some cities in the Netherlands already have broadband fibre options for residential connections. Living in one of the pilot areas in Amsterdam, I am currently enjoying 20 Mbit/s (symmetrical!), but could go up to 100 Mbit/s (also symmetrical) if I'm willing to pay more.
Internet service can be combined with telephone and radio/TV. RTV is converted to old fashioned cable signal in your home, which with good cabling (and proper channel separation (which they did take care of)) gives excellent TV image quality, without slow channel switching, digital artefacts, and one-TV-only downsides typical for other digital TV services.
The good thing is (IMHO) they separated the network itself from the service providers, so you can have your choice of who (and what) you pay for. I'm just getting internet, because the TV package is missing BBC1 and 2 due to stupid monopoly of the old fashioned cable companies.
Although your point is valid to a certain extent, I think you're exagarating the 'problem' of charge and voltage being proportional. Modern switched mode power converters can do a good job.
Additionally I could see a solution in which not all capacitors are use at the same time. By activating them in a proper order/way, one could make a more constant source that can then be the input for a SMPS.
I happen to live in a first-to-roll-out neighborhood for fibre to each home/appartment. Available in my street in 2 months, I get symmetric 20/20 internet bandwidth for some 30 euro/month. Speeds up to 100/100 Mbps are also available (. In addition the fibre carries your voip, radio and tv signals. So I'm guessing the 100/100 is just a convenient maximum speed for internet given that most people either have 10 or 100 stuff in their home.
Wonder what this 160 is supposed to be priced at and how the technology scales in the future.
The technique resembles coherent averaging: you know there is a still image which is degraded by atmospheric noise. By sampling over and over again and averaging, the noise (only gaussian!) is removed. It goes with the squareroot of the amount of samples used: i.e. for each quadrupling in samples, halve of the noise remains.
Of course there are other sources of error whose contribution also determine your detection limit.
scuba tanks are not just compressed air, they are a speacial mixture of gasses... Wrong. Your normal everyday scubatank filling is simple compressed air, albeit nicely filtered. And that's exaclty the catch, the filtering is the (relatively speaking) expensive part of filling a scuba tank.
If a battery can be recharged quickly (as in much much quicker than your Li-ion laptop battery) it could find good applications in mobile devices you use often. Not the torch you have laying around for a power outage, but say a mobile phone or mp3 player. Short charge times means high charge currents, so a laptop probably doesn't fit the category.
LaCie is selling an external unit where 1TB of storage capacity is fitted in 5.25" It's probably not one disk that's in there, or is it a 5.25"? Well, eihterway the laptop HD's still win when it comes to cap./vol., be it at slightly lower transfer rates.
A fixed width font like courier (new) is horrible to read when printed on paper. It's great for code or such things, not for actual documents.
A font like Times New Roman was developped specifically for newspapers. It has a serif, which improves readabilty by guiding your eyes acros the lines. It has a relatively high size of such letters as a,e,o,m,n when compared to l,k,j,g. (Sorry I'm not familiar with the correct terms in english) This is done to effectively enlarge the appearance and thus readability. It has large thick vs. thin contrasts. All this is done to improve readabilty in a newspaper: narrow collumn width, small size. It is even designed to compensate (or use) the effect of overprint: a small amount of ink allways flows out, making the thinnest parts of characters less thin. When printed on a laserprinter, the font actually becomes a bit to contrast rich in thick/thin, because of the lack of overprint.
Times New Roman is far from the best choice in my opinion. It's outdated (not really suitable for laserprinting). It's not meant to be used as 13 pt font in documents with long lines.
A lot of people underestimate or are even completely ignorant to the influence of document layout: font, size, pagemargins. If you value the readability it's worth it to invest some time in the subject.
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Because Amsterdam is not in the UK...
The Dutch television distribution system is kind of weird. The BBC does not allow any provider but the old fashioned cable companies to distribute BBC1 and 2. As a kind of compensation the alternatives offered by the digital-over-the-air-TV-providers and these fibre providers is to offer BBC world. Yeah right... that doesn't do it for me.
There is a lawsuit going on at the moment that challenges exactly this 'bbc1 and 2 only on cable' deal.
Some cities in the Netherlands already have broadband fibre options for residential connections. Living in one of the pilot areas in Amsterdam, I am currently enjoying 20 Mbit/s (symmetrical!), but could go up to 100 Mbit/s (also symmetrical) if I'm willing to pay more.
Internet service can be combined with telephone and radio/TV. RTV is converted to old fashioned cable signal in your home, which with good cabling (and proper channel separation (which they did take care of)) gives excellent TV image quality, without slow channel switching, digital artefacts, and one-TV-only downsides typical for other digital TV services.
The good thing is (IMHO) they separated the network itself from the service providers, so you can have your choice of who (and what) you pay for. I'm just getting internet, because the TV package is missing BBC1 and 2 due to stupid monopoly of the old fashioned cable companies.
Are you sure you want to suggest another wrong unit?
Although your point is valid to a certain extent, I think you're exagarating the 'problem' of charge and voltage being proportional. Modern switched mode power converters can do a good job.
Additionally I could see a solution in which not all capacitors are use at the same time. By activating them in a proper order/way, one could make a more constant source that can then be the input for a SMPS.
... is the direct translation of a dutch expression. Also encountered as "First see it, only then believe it."
But apparently we (the dutch) are completely wrong.
I happen to live in a first-to-roll-out neighborhood for fibre to each home/appartment. Available in my street in 2 months, I get symmetric 20/20 internet bandwidth for some 30 euro/month. Speeds up to 100/100 Mbps are also available (. In addition the fibre carries your voip, radio and tv signals. So I'm guessing the 100/100 is just a convenient maximum speed for internet given that most people either have 10 or 100 stuff in their home.
Wonder what this 160 is supposed to be priced at and how the technology scales in the future.
The technique resembles coherent averaging: you know there is a still image which is degraded by atmospheric noise. By sampling over and over again and averaging, the noise (only gaussian!) is removed. It goes with the squareroot of the amount of samples used: i.e. for each quadrupling in samples, halve of the noise remains.
Of course there are other sources of error whose contribution also determine your detection limit.
Finally I will be able to tell if camelot is only a model or not. .. o wait, nevermind.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
In Soviet Russia malicious software fights you!
Well it's not supposed to be a lottery, you see. And I think that's what you want it to be.
:-)
1. Pay insurance fee via credit card.
2. Be the one whose luggage has gone missing in KLM's price drawing.
3. Get rich!
Hey, wait this three-steps-thingy is actually complete?!
KLM and Air France are already running a pilot project (pun not intended) on their service between Paris and Amsterdam. (See for example http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/260 0/1/1/ or go google yourself)
If a battery can be recharged quickly (as in much much quicker than your Li-ion laptop battery) it could find good applications in mobile devices you use often. Not the torch you have laying around for a power outage, but say a mobile phone or mp3 player. Short charge times means high charge currents, so a laptop probably doesn't fit the category.
LaCie is selling an external unit where 1TB of storage capacity is fitted in 5.25"
It's probably not one disk that's in there, or is it a 5.25"? Well, eihterway the laptop HD's still win when it comes to cap./vol., be it at slightly lower transfer rates.
A fixed width font like courier (new) is horrible to read when printed on paper. It's great for code or such things, not for actual documents.
A font like Times New Roman was developped specifically for newspapers. It has a serif, which improves readabilty by guiding your eyes acros the lines. It has a relatively high size of such letters as a,e,o,m,n when compared to l,k,j,g. (Sorry I'm not familiar with the correct terms in english) This is done to effectively enlarge the appearance and thus readability. It has large thick vs. thin contrasts. All this is done to improve readabilty in a newspaper: narrow collumn width, small size.
It is even designed to compensate (or use) the effect of overprint: a small amount of ink allways flows out, making the thinnest parts of characters less thin.
When printed on a laserprinter, the font actually becomes a bit to contrast rich in thick/thin, because of the lack of overprint.
Times New Roman is far from the best choice in my opinion. It's outdated (not really suitable for laserprinting). It's not meant to be used as 13 pt font in documents with long lines.
A lot of people underestimate or are even completely ignorant to the influence of document layout: font, size, pagemargins. If you value the readability it's worth it to invest some time in the subject.
Hmm, That was not supposed to be posted here, but at the other story
Stupid me.
Quote from the article:
"I think there is too much entropy on Windows."
If only microsoft would put some energy into keeping the entropy at an acceptable level. Now they are just observing the laws of physics.