These are the same cool-guys with "2.2 L VTEC Sooper Duper Turbo Racer" stickers plastered all over their cars. Most of these guys couldn't tell a liter from a gallon, and think torque is just low RPM horsepower.
The B17 was a great plane. Intellivision had a game (oddly named "B-17 Bomber") that required the voice module. You could switch views between pilot, nav, and gunner I believe. The different characters would call out things like, "watch for flak", or "enemy in sight." I spent many hours as a kid gunning down Messerschmidts and bombing German factories. Great game for the early 80s.
Folks like you gave me failing grades in writing classes for not being able to write pretty cursive like Suzy Smarty Pants. Nevermind that I was left-handed, and who cares if the content was above grade-level, right?
I swore off cursive early on and even block-printed Cyrillic in college to avoid writing cursive, much to the chagrin of my instructors (all female). In fact, I showed them how to set up a phonetic keyboard so they could type up assignments in Word.
When I took the GRE, I had to sit there and think about how to form the letters, and my essay score suffered for that. Face it, cursive is dead. I hope biometrics replaces the signature so that we can forget that nonsense too!
BTW, your nick suggests you played Intellivision. True?
Apple Corp. reportedly will be closing its doors forever. The long time maker of the friendly Macintosh computer addressed investors on Thursday, "...we agreed some time ago that when Hubble goes, so do we."
Sorry to burst your bubble on this one. The media ran this story up like Rutan was doing something new. In fact, from a technical standpoint, he did nothing new. His claim to fame was that it was privately funded. When Dick and his buds are hauling satellites to geo for a fraction of the price, I'll be impressed.
I completely understand your reasoning and agree with you if we're talking high school calculus. But programming (or at least a working knowledge of) in Mathematica or Matlab is almost a requirement these days at the higher levels. I've noticed that now that I'm in grad school, we use numerical methods a whole lot more. In fact, I'm taking a numerical methods class next quarter.
Dude, thanks for jumping to conclusions about my life! Let me draw a few about you: you are younger, not married, and have no kids. By saying you volunteered in a shelter, you are probably an emotional liberal who is sympathetic to PETA. And given that you clearly have no respect for human offspring (by using "sprog" and "plan ahead"), you probably support abortion too. Now, how's that taste? Didn't like it? Isn't true? Don't make assumptions and generalizations about other people by reading what they post.
BTW, I was raised with a dog, two cats, and a brother. According to the doctor, my son may have been allergic to the cat. The cat was delivered to a good home.
Dog (Doberman) and cat did had existing interoperability issues. Dog has impressive firewall capabilities. Baby 1.0 comes along, hogs processes and causes Wife 1.0 to segfault and core dump at regular intervals. This caused cat to receive little processor time and eventually cat was mv'd to another directory. Rumor has it that Dog and firearm-type firewalls are incompatible with later versions of Child 1.0. Hopefully this will not cause Wife 1.0 to uninstall...
True Story: I almost slept through the Landers quake and shit was falling off the walls! I spent the night at a friend's house and he was trying to wake me up, but I told him, "you're full of shit!" They literally dragged me out of bed and I only came to once I heard the dishes breaking on the kitchen floor. I'll never forget that, and now as adults, he never lets me.
An Antenna for Visible Light
An antenna for visible light, analogous to antennas for radio waves, can be made with carbon nanotubes. In a radio antenna, whose size is equal to the wavelength of the incoming wave or a fair fraction of it, the wave excites electrons into meaningful currents . Such a response, amplified and tuned, is the backbone of radio and TV broadcasting.
At optical wavelengths, where the wavelength is hundreds of nm, this is harder to do. Nevertheless, a rudimentary antenna effect for visible light has now been observed by scientists at Boston College using an array of carbon nanotubes, in which infalling light excites miniature electrical currents.
According to Yang Wang (wangyq@bc.edu,617-552-3436) one would like to measure these electrical excitations directly, but this requires nano-diodes capable of processing electrical pulses oscillating at optical frequencies (1015 Hz), and these are not yet available. The next best thing is to observe the secondary radiation emitted by the faint excitations. The nanotubes used in the experiment are in effect little metallic antennas about 50 nm wide and hundreds of nm long (see figure).
Not only can the nanotubes respond in the manner of dipole radio antennas to incoming light, but they also exhibit a polarization effect; when the incoming light is polarized at right angles to the orientation of the nanotubes, the response disappears.
Possible applications for visible-light antennas? Optical television: a TV signal, superimposed on a laser beam sent down an optical fiber, is demodulated at the customer end by an array of nanotubes (each functionalized by a fast diode). Or efficient solar energy conversion: incoming light is turned into charge which is stored in a capacitor.
I know exactly who these folks are. They're the ones who got a particularly good deal when buying a home-made computer from someone's garage...
Yep, you speak the truth. Many of my family members have gone this route--mainly to save money--but when it breaks on them (usually due to the builder's choices in hardware and their own downloading habits), they have little recourse but to start out fresh. I love the looks they give me when I ask, "Where's your XP disk?"
With any luck, I'd be guiding them through "installing" a power cord on a new iMac and telling them where to find the power button.
You should call Steve with that one for the next commercial!
I'm really hoping to do this with my mom and in-laws. Both are due for a new computer and I'll be recommending a Mac. Windows is great for enterprise, but not for for those who have trouble understanding how the microwave works.
The only advantage Hubble has is that it can see more
This statement is incorrect if you don't specify the difference between "seeing" and light gathering ability. Seeing is a function of (a) the atmosphere (or lack thereof) above, and (b) the optical instrument's Modular Transfer Function (MTF), which is basically the efficiency of image reproduction and related quantitatively to the system's resolution, which is proportional to 1/D.
Light gathering power is proportional to the area or r^2. Hubble's 94"(?) primary is much smaller and gathers about 10% of the light of Keck, but without the atmosphere scattering photons and shifting the phase of the incoming wavefront, it actually 'sees' better than Keck. If you put Keck in orbit, there would be no comparison--hence the desire to put Kecks on the Moon.
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While they did discover them using IR, the technique was looking at eclipse intensity depth rather than direct observation. Good stuff though!
These are the same cool-guys with "2.2 L VTEC Sooper Duper Turbo Racer" stickers plastered all over their cars. Most of these guys couldn't tell a liter from a gallon, and think torque is just low RPM horsepower.
The B17 was a great plane. Intellivision had a game (oddly named "B-17 Bomber") that required the voice module. You could switch views between pilot, nav, and gunner I believe. The different characters would call out things like, "watch for flak", or "enemy in sight." I spent many hours as a kid gunning down Messerschmidts and bombing German factories. Great game for the early 80s.
Folks like you gave me failing grades in writing classes for not being able to write pretty cursive like Suzy Smarty Pants. Nevermind that I was left-handed, and who cares if the content was above grade-level, right?
I swore off cursive early on and even block-printed Cyrillic in college to avoid writing cursive, much to the chagrin of my instructors (all female). In fact, I showed them how to set up a phonetic keyboard so they could type up assignments in Word.
When I took the GRE, I had to sit there and think about how to form the letters, and my essay score suffered for that. Face it, cursive is dead. I hope biometrics replaces the signature so that we can forget that nonsense too!
BTW, your nick suggests you played Intellivision. True?
the whole paradigm of 'xx-bit processor' will go out the window once the technology matures and software makes full use of the capabilities.
I remember we watched one of his videos in my high school physics class. Whatever happened to him?
Where oh where is Ms. Kensington? Surely they can't all be that bad. Or maybe that's why 007 always left the island...
Apple Corp. reportedly will be closing its doors forever. The long time maker of the friendly Macintosh computer addressed investors on Thursday, "...we agreed some time ago that when Hubble goes, so do we."
Sorry to burst your bubble on this one. The media ran this story up like Rutan was doing something new. In fact, from a technical standpoint, he did nothing new. His claim to fame was that it was privately funded. When Dick and his buds are hauling satellites to geo for a fraction of the price, I'll be impressed.
How many times is this story going to be posted? I swear this was up here just a few days ago. No wonder he posted AC...
I think it actually says, "NOAA Weather Satellite. No Military Value." :-) Great f-n movie!
I completely understand your reasoning and agree with you if we're talking high school calculus. But programming (or at least a working knowledge of) in Mathematica or Matlab is almost a requirement these days at the higher levels. I've noticed that now that I'm in grad school, we use numerical methods a whole lot more. In fact, I'm taking a numerical methods class next quarter.
Here's a link with more information for those who are interested in the event.
For those who aren't, it may not be visible to you anyway.
I watched that movie last night! Kent! Kent! This is Jesus...
yes, and it's called an accelerometer. Short and to the point.
'deceleration' Just acceleration in some direction. If it's opposite of what you define as positive, it's negative.
Dude, thanks for jumping to conclusions about my life! Let me draw a few about you: you are younger, not married, and have no kids. By saying you volunteered in a shelter, you are probably an emotional liberal who is sympathetic to PETA. And given that you clearly have no respect for human offspring (by using "sprog" and "plan ahead"), you probably support abortion too. Now, how's that taste? Didn't like it? Isn't true? Don't make assumptions and generalizations about other people by reading what they post.
BTW, I was raised with a dog, two cats, and a brother. According to the doctor, my son may have been allergic to the cat. The cat was delivered to a good home.
Dog (Doberman) and cat did had existing interoperability issues. Dog has impressive firewall capabilities. Baby 1.0 comes along, hogs processes and causes Wife 1.0 to segfault and core dump at regular intervals. This caused cat to receive little processor time and eventually cat was mv'd to another directory. Rumor has it that Dog and firearm-type firewalls are incompatible with later versions of Child 1.0. Hopefully this will not cause Wife 1.0 to uninstall...
True Story: I almost slept through the Landers quake and shit was falling off the walls! I spent the night at a friend's house and he was trying to wake me up, but I told him, "you're full of shit!" They literally dragged me out of bed and I only came to once I heard the dishes breaking on the kitchen floor. I'll never forget that, and now as adults, he never lets me.
Although he called it the 'Bologna Detection Kit' and applied it to pseudo-science. It actually works quite well here on /.
An Antenna for Visible Light An antenna for visible light, analogous to antennas for radio waves, can be made with carbon nanotubes. In a radio antenna, whose size is equal to the wavelength of the incoming wave or a fair fraction of it, the wave excites electrons into meaningful currents . Such a response, amplified and tuned, is the backbone of radio and TV broadcasting. At optical wavelengths, where the wavelength is hundreds of nm, this is harder to do. Nevertheless, a rudimentary antenna effect for visible light has now been observed by scientists at Boston College using an array of carbon nanotubes, in which infalling light excites miniature electrical currents. According to Yang Wang (wangyq@bc.edu,617-552-3436) one would like to measure these electrical excitations directly, but this requires nano-diodes capable of processing electrical pulses oscillating at optical frequencies (1015 Hz), and these are not yet available. The next best thing is to observe the secondary radiation emitted by the faint excitations. The nanotubes used in the experiment are in effect little metallic antennas about 50 nm wide and hundreds of nm long (see figure). Not only can the nanotubes respond in the manner of dipole radio antennas to incoming light, but they also exhibit a polarization effect; when the incoming light is polarized at right angles to the orientation of the nanotubes, the response disappears. Possible applications for visible-light antennas? Optical television: a TV signal, superimposed on a laser beam sent down an optical fiber, is demodulated at the customer end by an array of nanotubes (each functionalized by a fast diode). Or efficient solar energy conversion: incoming light is turned into charge which is stored in a capacitor.
I know exactly who these folks are. They're the ones who got a particularly good deal when buying a home-made computer from someone's garage...
Yep, you speak the truth. Many of my family members have gone this route--mainly to save money--but when it breaks on them (usually due to the builder's choices in hardware and their own downloading habits), they have little recourse but to start out fresh. I love the looks they give me when I ask, "Where's your XP disk?"
With any luck, I'd be guiding them through "installing" a power cord on a new iMac and telling them where to find the power button.
You should call Steve with that one for the next commercial!
I'm really hoping to do this with my mom and in-laws. Both are due for a new computer and I'll be recommending a Mac. Windows is great for enterprise, but not for for those who have trouble understanding how the microwave works.
The only advantage Hubble has is that it can see more
This statement is incorrect if you don't specify the difference between "seeing" and light gathering ability. Seeing is a function of (a) the atmosphere (or lack thereof) above, and (b) the optical instrument's Modular Transfer Function (MTF), which is basically the efficiency of image reproduction and related quantitatively to the system's resolution, which is proportional to 1/D.
Light gathering power is proportional to the area or r^2. Hubble's 94"(?) primary is much smaller and gathers about 10% of the light of Keck, but without the atmosphere scattering photons and shifting the phase of the incoming wavefront, it actually 'sees' better than Keck. If you put Keck in orbit, there would be no comparison--hence the desire to put Kecks on the Moon.
Mac Word 2004 on a PB 667 w/10.3.5
First time: 10s
Second time: 3s
I curious, how long does caching last? Logout or is it time based?