Easy enough for the single Slashdotter. Nigh-impossible for those with children.
I think it's been shown once a toddler hits 110dB, the synapses in your brain begin to decouple until you capitulate. Nature's way of ensuring... something.
Meanwhile all of your renewable examples are merely storage mechanisms for solar energy. And grotesquely inefficient ones at that. Keep thinking critically!
10% seems fairly drastic to me for a company that is still VERY profitable in 'bad' quarters, but large organizations also tend to over-staff during the best years.
Ads on the clothing could be used to reduce the price so people actually wear it...
Are you kidding me? The bigger the ad, the more likely you paid extra for the 'privilege' to wear it. It used to be a 1/2" alligator or polo horse. Now it 6" tall letters that proudly proclaim you shop at GAP or wear Tommy.
We're walking billboards already. No need to light those billboards up too.
I don't think it's suspicious that the article doesn't talk about energy density. Such articles rarely contain any real details.
If you go to discover.com and track down their version of this story you'll find the blurb below. It still doesn't say comparable energy density, but at least it says comparable amounts of energy.
More worrying to me is the dreaded "five years away".
A Better Energizer
An ultracapacitor is what really keeps going and going. . ..
By Alex Stone
DISCOVER Vol. 27 No. 05 | May 2006 | Technology
If you've ever had a cell phone suddenly die on you, you know that batteries are the weak link in mobile electronics. That's why MIT electrical engineer Joel Schindall thinks the time is ripe for capacitors. "They are better than batteries in almost every way, except in the amount of energy they store," he says. Schindall and his research group have licked that limitation.
Unlike batteries, which produce voltage from a chemical reaction, capacitors store electricity between a pair of metal plates. The larger the area of the plates, and the smaller the space between them, the more energy a capacitor can hold. Schindall's group had a radical idea: Cover the plates with millions of microscopic filaments known as carbon nanotubes. The tiny tubes vastly expand the surface area, creating a perfect sponge for electricity. "Now we can expect to store an amount of energy that is comparable to what batteries store," he says.
A capacitor-powered cell phone could be charged in minutes or seconds instead of hours. And since capacitors can be reused indefinitely, environmental waste from discarded batteries would become a thing of the past. Schindall says battery-free bliss may be less than five years away.
When you can get 300GB of flash memory for $100, maybe conventional harddrives will start to die out.
As it stands now, you're looking at $24/GB for flash media vs $0.33/GB for magnetic. You can nitpick the numbers, but it's currently close to 100x more expensive for flash.
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We're just part of a really big (optical?) storage medium for some larger megaverse. Just grooves and pits in the disc as it were...
I think it's been shown once a toddler hits 110dB, the synapses in your brain begin to decouple until you capitulate. Nature's way of ensuring ... something.
Time is not your problem. You are your problem. Get to work on that.
And in Wikipedia's case: hour, minutes, and seconds if available. That stuff changes too fast for mere dates.
Virgin is not a quantum state.
Meanwhile all of your renewable examples are merely storage mechanisms for solar energy. And grotesquely inefficient ones at that. Keep thinking critically!
Then he gets all preachy about how violence never solves anything while your bone marrow seeps into the carpet.
You missed a spot.
Measuring the noise is as important as measuring the signal.
Three would just be odd.
Think of the hang time!
The XGames participants just keep getting younger and younger.
http://news.com.com/Intel+axes+1,000+managers/2100 -1014_3-6093843.html
10% seems fairly drastic to me for a company that is still VERY profitable in 'bad' quarters, but large organizations also tend to over-staff during the best years.
Nah, it's not dead. I think they're just waiting for it to finish drawing.
Are you kidding me? The bigger the ad, the more likely you paid extra for the 'privilege' to wear it. It used to be a 1/2" alligator or polo horse. Now it 6" tall letters that proudly proclaim you shop at GAP or wear Tommy.
We're walking billboards already. No need to light those billboards up too.
It's just climate research and bad reporting. Nothing new there.
Honestly? A lot of scientists skip the lather and rinse steps. Not as bad as say a comic convention, but still a bit ripe.
I hope everyone in Mission Control turns off their cell phones and other electronic devices during landing.
Why would either be a bad trait? One is self-preservation, one is self-advancement. I'd say you need both.
We just didn't realize how low minimal could go until recently.
Sure sure, you've got the right to bear arms. Now ammunition, that's not really mentioned in the ol' 2nd Amendment.
Damnit, how long to I have to wait to get to be the first post?
Of course the latest security patch is the most important ever. It's the one you don't have!
You already have the previous patches. Once installed, it's unimportant how critical the original problem was (assuming the patch works).
Not having this patch is critical. Having it is benign. Just like all the others.
If you go to discover.com and track down their version of this story you'll find the blurb below. It still doesn't say comparable energy density, but at least it says comparable amounts of energy.
More worrying to me is the dreaded "five years away".
As it stands now, you're looking at $24/GB for flash media vs $0.33/GB for magnetic. You can nitpick the numbers, but it's currently close to 100x more expensive for flash.
And (until someone else hopefully takes up the spacefaring mantle) all of the human race.