When you say the power will be 1/100th, I hope you aren't referring to the r^2 power law. That only applies for isotropic sources, which a laser is definitely not. A tightly focused laser passing through a medium that does not absorb any of the beam has the same power at any distance.
Maybe its just the best tool for the job?
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Sometimes paper is better than anything else. Certainly with paper, data security comes down to physical security, whereas with digital, security is a mix of physical and electronic security. Paper doesn't crash, paper doesn't need electricity.
Why does a computer have an external skin anyways? It's helpful for desktops to prevent damage from spills, but in the rack mounted environment, unless the skin increases cooling somehow, it's actually worse than useless.
The natural abbreviation for Plutonium is Pl, which was free since Platinum uses Pt. One of the discoverers, Glenn Seaborg, thought it would be funny to submit it with the abbreviation Pu. He figured the joke would be noticed and the abbreviation changed, but it never happened.
I'm a graduate student in physics and let me say that I feel that I've been able to go further and do more with my degree because of my knowledge of Fortran. There is a TON of code out there that is in Fortran and will always be in Fortran. My first undergraduate job was doing optimizations on 30yr old Fortran code. My current research uses about 30K of Fortran code.
I'm not a big fan of the language, but for the stuff we're doing, it works well and reliably and fast, so there's not much incentive to move to anything else.
Of course, it's completely dead from a CompSci perspective, so those students should be spared.
I went through the same thing. A squatter had "FABExec.com" (not the real name, but very similar) and when I inquired, he asked for $10,000. I countered with an offer of $800 and he then replied that the price was $10,000 non-negotiable.
What do you think the name is worth? $100? $500? They'll want at least 10x that much. If you're willing to pay through the nose, then go ahead, but these people will do whatever is necessary to squeeze every last penny from you.
I would suggest either a different TLD, a different name, or a variation on the name: "MyBizInc.com" instead of "MyBiz.com".
Somebody smarter than myself, please comment on why we need a cable over a distance of 11km? There's a ton of off-the-shelf radio equipment that can easily handle that distance with very high bitrates.
I can imagine two possible problems:
First, the ocean might simply be good at blocking transmissions.
Second, the varying pressures and temperatures might distort a signal to the point where it is unusable. I'm referring to dielectric effects and the fact that the dielectric constant would not be constant in this sort of operation. But would it be "constant-enough"?
Good point. I meant contribute in the sense that they are "contributing" to the development of open source software, not necessarily to the original project. Thanks for clarifying.
Most open source licenses say that as long as you don't modify the source, you don't have to contribute.
As long as companies are obeying the license agreement, then why complain?
I would say that as long as they obey the terms of the license agreement (and whether or not they contribute themselves) then this is a win for open source software.
Well that depends strongly on when the survey was done. The best movies come out in May, June, and July. And the best video games come out in September, October, and November. (I know I'm generalizing, but bear with me.)
So, if the survey was taken in February, then the best games came out within the last six months, but the best movies have not, and that should cause the survey to tilt toward the video game side.
One of the most unintentionally funny scenes is in the second half of the second season when John and Sarah are hiding out with Charley. He's making soup and pours John a bowl. John takes one bite. Charley pours him a second helping. Sarah walks in asks for soup and Charley tells her that it's all gone.
One bite of soup empties out two bowls? And who the hell makes only two bowls worth of soup when three people are staying at the house?
It's these details that frustrated me to no end with the show and made it hard to watch.
IBM did this already, right?
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I hope that someone who is more familiar with this will fill in the details, but as I recall one of IBM's mainframe did this back in the 1970's. Basically, every user who logged onto the system got their own virtualized private OS.
If Alienware has real reason to think its stolen, then shouldn't they collect all of the information they can about the thief (like the shipping address for the HDD caddy) and then forward everything to the cops?
The purpose of a company is to make money. The purpose of a hobby is to have fun and experience personal fulfillment. You need to decide which your organization is.
If it is a company, then you need to decide which path will make the company make more money. But, without knowing the numbers, it sounds to me like a big lump sum now plus jobs from Megacorp, Inc., will probably pay better than hoping that whatever it is that you're developing will someday be a viable product.
And if it is a hobby, then generally, I'd say don't sell. But there may a be reason to. Megacorp, Inc. might be able and willing to supply the development teams that you as an individual and a couple of friends cannot. In this case, by selling out, you could enable your product to be on the market that much sooner.
It's not of the scope of some of the other texts are and statistical mechanics is kind of dry to a non-physicist, but it's easy to read, short, available for under $10 and written by one of the greatest scientific minds ever.
Just breaking the license doesn't make it illegal. We've all seen unenforceable clauses in licenses and until Apple's license is tested in court, we won't know if the "Apple-branded" hardware bit is legitimate or not.
Of course, if you pirate a copy, instead of buying one that is illegal.
But if you buy a copy of OSX and install it on a non-Apple-branded computer, somehow I doubt that Apple will make too much of a fuss.
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You just suggested making cars narrower (which makes them less comfortable) rather than making aerodynamic (which makes them ugly).
Is form really more important than function for you?
Or like the anti-drug commercials that aired immediately after 9-11 that attempted to link smoking a joint with supporting Osama Bin Laden.
When you say the power will be 1/100th, I hope you aren't referring to the r^2 power law. That only applies for isotropic sources, which a laser is definitely not. A tightly focused laser passing through a medium that does not absorb any of the beam has the same power at any distance.
Sometimes paper is better than anything else. Certainly with paper, data security comes down to physical security, whereas with digital, security is a mix of physical and electronic security. Paper doesn't crash, paper doesn't need electricity.
Why does a computer have an external skin anyways? It's helpful for desktops to prevent damage from spills, but in the rack mounted environment, unless the skin increases cooling somehow, it's actually worse than useless.
The natural abbreviation for Plutonium is Pl, which was free since Platinum uses Pt. One of the discoverers, Glenn Seaborg, thought it would be funny to submit it with the abbreviation Pu. He figured the joke would be noticed and the abbreviation changed, but it never happened.
Sort of. I've worked on experiments at both labs in the last five years that were using significant amounts of Fortran.
I'm a graduate student in physics and let me say that I feel that I've been able to go further and do more with my degree because of my knowledge of Fortran. There is a TON of code out there that is in Fortran and will always be in Fortran. My first undergraduate job was doing optimizations on 30yr old Fortran code. My current research uses about 30K of Fortran code.
I'm not a big fan of the language, but for the stuff we're doing, it works well and reliably and fast, so there's not much incentive to move to anything else.
Of course, it's completely dead from a CompSci perspective, so those students should be spared.
I should clarify - I'm referring to the additional $100 you pay for the additional 16GB to bring the iPhone to a total of 32GB.
Ouch, that's a costly upgrade, when the same thing in an SD card is roughly $20.
What kind of community college offers astrophysics? Hell, my four-year university doesn't even offer it!
I've submitted stories before to only have them accepted up to four days later. That's probably what happened here. Shame the editors didn't catch it.
In fifteen seconds of playing around with it, I already feel like I'm able to get better data and have better control than I do with Wolfram Alpha.
I went through the same thing. A squatter had "FABExec.com" (not the real name, but very similar) and when I inquired, he asked for $10,000. I countered with an offer of $800 and he then replied that the price was $10,000 non-negotiable.
What do you think the name is worth? $100? $500? They'll want at least 10x that much. If you're willing to pay through the nose, then go ahead, but these people will do whatever is necessary to squeeze every last penny from you.
I would suggest either a different TLD, a different name, or a variation on the name: "MyBizInc.com" instead of "MyBiz.com".
Somebody smarter than myself, please comment on why we need a cable over a distance of 11km? There's a ton of off-the-shelf radio equipment that can easily handle that distance with very high bitrates.
I can imagine two possible problems:
First, the ocean might simply be good at blocking transmissions.
Second, the varying pressures and temperatures might distort a signal to the point where it is unusable. I'm referring to dielectric effects and the fact that the dielectric constant would not be constant in this sort of operation. But would it be "constant-enough"?
Good point. I meant contribute in the sense that they are "contributing" to the development of open source software, not necessarily to the original project. Thanks for clarifying.
Most open source licenses say that as long as you don't modify the source, you don't have to contribute.
As long as companies are obeying the license agreement, then why complain?
I would say that as long as they obey the terms of the license agreement (and whether or not they contribute themselves) then this is a win for open source software.
Well that depends strongly on when the survey was done. The best movies come out in May, June, and July. And the best video games come out in September, October, and November. (I know I'm generalizing, but bear with me.)
So, if the survey was taken in February, then the best games came out within the last six months, but the best movies have not, and that should cause the survey to tilt toward the video game side.
One of the most unintentionally funny scenes is in the second half of the second season when John and Sarah are hiding out with Charley. He's making soup and pours John a bowl. John takes one bite. Charley pours him a second helping. Sarah walks in asks for soup and Charley tells her that it's all gone.
One bite of soup empties out two bowls? And who the hell makes only two bowls worth of soup when three people are staying at the house?
It's these details that frustrated me to no end with the show and made it hard to watch.
I hope that someone who is more familiar with this will fill in the details, but as I recall one of IBM's mainframe did this back in the 1970's. Basically, every user who logged onto the system got their own virtualized private OS.
If Alienware has real reason to think its stolen, then shouldn't they collect all of the information they can about the thief (like the shipping address for the HDD caddy) and then forward everything to the cops?
The purpose of a company is to make money. The purpose of a hobby is to have fun and experience personal fulfillment. You need to decide which your organization is.
If it is a company, then you need to decide which path will make the company make more money. But, without knowing the numbers, it sounds to me like a big lump sum now plus jobs from Megacorp, Inc., will probably pay better than hoping that whatever it is that you're developing will someday be a viable product.
And if it is a hobby, then generally, I'd say don't sell. But there may a be reason to. Megacorp, Inc. might be able and willing to supply the development teams that you as an individual and a couple of friends cannot. In this case, by selling out, you could enable your product to be on the market that much sooner.
It's not of the scope of some of the other texts are and statistical mechanics is kind of dry to a non-physicist, but it's easy to read, short, available for under $10 and written by one of the greatest scientific minds ever.
Just breaking the license doesn't make it illegal. We've all seen unenforceable clauses in licenses and until Apple's license is tested in court, we won't know if the "Apple-branded" hardware bit is legitimate or not.
Of course, if you pirate a copy, instead of buying one that is illegal.
But if you buy a copy of OSX and install it on a non-Apple-branded computer, somehow I doubt that Apple will make too much of a fuss.