In a press conference, the State Banning Commission reported that the fish were banned because of their insistence to refer to some genes as "masters" and others as "slaves".
This begs the question: in this world that is getting ever more technological, when is the geek vote going to come into play? Will there be an election in the next decade or so where an important issue is Linux vs. Microsoft? Technology has not been a major political issue much in history, will it ever? How big is the Slashdot community, compared to the entire constituency of the US?
The difference between a traditional electric car and one of those new-fangled hybrid cars is the power source only.
Actually, the hybrid vehicle is a completely different concept. More than just using two energy sources, a hybrid uses each source to complement the other. This means that low-speed high-torque conditions (just starting to move) are handled by the electrical system, which has full torque at all speeds, but long-range, constant-power conditions (highway driving) are handled by the internal combustion engine, which can carry more energy (due to the high energy density of hydrocarbons). Really, a hybrid requires much more engineering than a simple electric car.
Also, the inclusion of diesel engines is simply because diesel engines are more efficient than standard gasoline engines (and because they can use more alternative fuels, like biodiesel).
I wonder how long until we have nanotubes running all through the processor. There's a professor at my school doing research on 3-D photolithography, which would allow much more complex structures to be built out of crystalline silicon. This sounds like a good application.
In addition to calling them up, I rather like the idea of slashdotting their homepage (which, if you missed it earlier, is http://www.ataconnect.org/, just to make sure). I'm very happy to see that after I clicked the link about a minute ago, I've just now gotten the page title. I'm feeling like there should be a permanent link from slashdot to http://www.ataconnect.org/. That would be fun...
Despite the clear unfeasibility of this car in particular, I think it's good to see AC Propulsion making some waves and getting its name out. I was on my university's FutureTruck team (we called it the Hybrid Electric Vehicle team--the page is way out of date), and the team used an AC Propulsion motor the year before I was there (if I remember correctly...could be wrong here).
The FutureTruck competition is highly sponsored (read: "Ford"), and produces good research, but also good, experienced electrical and mechanical engineers (I'm neither, which lead to my quitting the team--oh well) who have faced the design challenges of a real vehicle. Anyway, we can sit here and pick apart why the Tzero isn't worthwhile, but the fact is that it's a concept car, pretty much, and it shows that it is possible to get great performance out of batteries.
Even a search of "Google" turns up "Search the Internet: Find it on the Web with MSN Search." as the number 2 result (after www.google.com, of course).
I think this is a good sign that we generally don't need to worry about systems like these invading our privacy. Whenever cameras are put up somewhere, people often get worried that The Government is going to somehow use it against Normal Innocent People. If that were the government's purpose, then it wouldn't have been taken down. The fact that it was taken down shows that the ostensible purpose, to catch criminals, was in fact the true purpose, and there's no conspiracy behind it all. There's a big difference between invading one's privacy by taking pictures in a changing room (ostensibly to prevent theft), and taking pictures on a crowded street (where you expect to be seen anyway, right?).
They can't use Symbol font as a substitution cypher!!! I did that in 3rd grade!!! I demand they pay me $699 for each character encrypted with the Symbol Font Substitution Cypher (tm)(R)(c)(MD)(DDS)!!!
Judging by the emails my grandparents send every day (from their home in Florida), I feel sorry for anyone working on this project...
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That's where the Rosetta Stone method could be helpful. A word-for-word translation might be stilted, but by comparing entire sentences, a system might learn that one idiom in one language translates (loosely, at least) to another idiom or phrase in the other.
Eli Maor's book e: The Story of a Number is an interesting read, and you can pick up a lot of calculus from it (I read it in high school before I had calculus, and learned a lot). It's may not be meant to convey understanding of the math so much as to explore the history (which is actually pretty interesting--did you know the inventor of the logarithm was excommunicated?), but there's still a lot of math to be learned from it (like the difference between Newton's and Leibniz's Calculus, and why we use Leibniz's, but still consider Newton to be the father/inventor of the Calculus [and why Calculus gets capitalized and a definite article]).
Although I don't know what the process is, the fact that titania is a ceramic means that there is probably some creative chemical conditions in which these things practically make themselves (sol-gel process, maybe). Ceramics are generally covalent networks--each atom is connected to the next with a bond like those which hold hydrogens to oxygens in water--and so by changing the conditions under which the titanium oxidizes, you probably have fairly good control over the size/shape of the final result. Not so with carbon nanotubes, which were originally manufactured pretty much by sifting through ashes...with an electron microscope. I know there are some more creative ways to make carbon nanotubes now, but most of them are still based on chance.
Maybe someone who has actually received a BS in Materials Science wants to back me up, or correct me?
Ozone created from lightning is different from the ozone in the ozone layer. How? Well, it's not in the ozone layer (nor would it really make its way there). Having ozone at ground level is a problem--particularly for asthma sufferers and the like--so ozone from lightning (or arc welding, for that matter) isn't going to help.
Of course, if one were to arc weld while riding an SR-71...
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In a press conference, the State Banning Commission reported that the fish were banned because of their insistence to refer to some genes as "masters" and others as "slaves".
This begs the question: in this world that is getting ever more technological, when is the geek vote going to come into play? Will there be an election in the next decade or so where an important issue is Linux vs. Microsoft? Technology has not been a major political issue much in history, will it ever? How big is the Slashdot community, compared to the entire constituency of the US?
Here, we see that Apple has learned the following lesson:
If you make your product available to the general public, and not just a close niche of (ultra)loyal customers, you can profit.
The question is, can they apply this lesson to other products like, say, computers?
May I point out, you're asking the entirely wrong crowd.
The difference between a traditional electric car and one of those new-fangled hybrid cars is the power source only.
Actually, the hybrid vehicle is a completely different concept. More than just using two energy sources, a hybrid uses each source to complement the other. This means that low-speed high-torque conditions (just starting to move) are handled by the electrical system, which has full torque at all speeds, but long-range, constant-power conditions (highway driving) are handled by the internal combustion engine, which can carry more energy (due to the high energy density of hydrocarbons). Really, a hybrid requires much more engineering than a simple electric car.
Also, the inclusion of diesel engines is simply because diesel engines are more efficient than standard gasoline engines (and because they can use more alternative fuels, like biodiesel).
Somehow the use of "Mac" and "overzealous" in the same post fails to surprise me. (It's okay, you don't need to flame me, it's just a joke.)
I believe the primary issue in Linux+Windows interoperabiltiy is Windows operability, actually.
I wonder how long until we have nanotubes running all through the processor. There's a professor at my school doing research on 3-D photolithography, which would allow much more complex structures to be built out of crystalline silicon. This sounds like a good application.
In addition to calling them up, I rather like the idea of slashdotting their homepage (which, if you missed it earlier, is http://www.ataconnect.org/, just to make sure). I'm very happy to see that after I clicked the link about a minute ago, I've just now gotten the page title. I'm feeling like there should be a permanent link from slashdot to http://www.ataconnect.org/. That would be fun...
The FutureTruck competition is highly sponsored (read: "Ford"), and produces good research, but also good, experienced electrical and mechanical engineers (I'm neither, which lead to my quitting the team--oh well) who have faced the design challenges of a real vehicle. Anyway, we can sit here and pick apart why the Tzero isn't worthwhile, but the fact is that it's a concept car, pretty much, and it shows that it is possible to get great performance out of batteries.
You can bet there'll be a blaster worm for Linux soon. Why do you think Microsoft recently started a Linux lab?
Seriously, though, I can imagine Microsoft doing this (albeit very secretively). After all, who knows how to crash a computer better than Microsoft?
Even a search of "Google" turns up "Search the Internet: Find it on the Web with MSN Search." as the number 2 result (after www.google.com, of course).
I think this is a good sign that we generally don't need to worry about systems like these invading our privacy. Whenever cameras are put up somewhere, people often get worried that The Government is going to somehow use it against Normal Innocent People. If that were the government's purpose, then it wouldn't have been taken down. The fact that it was taken down shows that the ostensible purpose, to catch criminals, was in fact the true purpose, and there's no conspiracy behind it all. There's a big difference between invading one's privacy by taking pictures in a changing room (ostensibly to prevent theft), and taking pictures on a crowded street (where you expect to be seen anyway, right?).
They can't use Symbol font as a substitution cypher!!! I did that in 3rd grade!!! I demand they pay me $699 for each character encrypted with the Symbol Font Substitution Cypher (tm)(R)(c)(MD)(DDS)!!!
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That's where the Rosetta Stone method could be helpful. A word-for-word translation might be stilted, but by comparing entire sentences, a system might learn that one idiom in one language translates (loosely, at least) to another idiom or phrase in the other.
And I thought the funny taste was from the haloacetic acid.
Also, keep in mind that most folks are running Windows.
A good Linux distribution usually does the trick.
Eli Maor's book e: The Story of a Number is an interesting read, and you can pick up a lot of calculus from it (I read it in high school before I had calculus, and learned a lot). It's may not be meant to convey understanding of the math so much as to explore the history (which is actually pretty interesting--did you know the inventor of the logarithm was excommunicated?), but there's still a lot of math to be learned from it (like the difference between Newton's and Leibniz's Calculus, and why we use Leibniz's, but still consider Newton to be the father/inventor of the Calculus [and why Calculus gets capitalized and a definite article]).
I'm just surprised that William Shatner "sings"
Although I don't know what the process is, the fact that titania is a ceramic means that there is probably some creative chemical conditions in which these things practically make themselves (sol-gel process, maybe). Ceramics are generally covalent networks--each atom is connected to the next with a bond like those which hold hydrogens to oxygens in water--and so by changing the conditions under which the titanium oxidizes, you probably have fairly good control over the size/shape of the final result. Not so with carbon nanotubes, which were originally manufactured pretty much by sifting through ashes...with an electron microscope. I know there are some more creative ways to make carbon nanotubes now, but most of them are still based on chance.
Maybe someone who has actually received a BS in Materials Science wants to back me up, or correct me?
Although "Why" might pertain to ethics, I somehow doubt that "How" would...
Ozone created from lightning is different from the ozone in the ozone layer. How? Well, it's not in the ozone layer (nor would it really make its way there). Having ozone at ground level is a problem--particularly for asthma sufferers and the like--so ozone from lightning (or arc welding, for that matter) isn't going to help.
Of course, if one were to arc weld while riding an SR-71...
Will this require headphones with 7 speakers and a subwoofer? Will I need to grow five more ears???