Doesn't matter if something is shiny or not. There are no materials which can withstand the energy per unit area put on them by the world's most powerful lasers.
Your mirrors would only work so long as the mirror materials didn't ablate or boil off.;)
To put things in perspective...
For those of you comparing the maximum sentences for robbery, theft, arson, assualts and so on to this guy's maximum sentence, I'd like to point something out.
That maximum sentence quoted is for a summation of each count of the offense. You cause several tens of thousands of smaller offenses, and you can get charged for each and every one of them.
If I went to a bank, robbed it, and shot every person in sight with my fully automatic machine gun, and took out vehicles with my handy-dandy grenade launcher, then I could conceivably be charged for each individual death, destruction property, theft, assault and so on. The _maximum_ sentence for that kind of thing could very easily exceed several hundred years in prison (capital punishment notwithstanding).
Granted IANAL, but I do know enough of the US justice system to say the above with confidence.
The school I went to charged everyone a tech fee of $45. They said that it covered the use of the campus-wide computing resources. We had many computer labs, a few parallel clusters, and many libraries. They always said that's where the fee went.
Even though a couple of students protested that they never use the campus facilities, those students still had to pay the fee.
And it is the university's bandwidth, so they can do whatever they want with it. I even had to sign a little document that said that if I logged into the campus' network (or my department's network), then they could cut me off at any time for whatever reason.
This was the University of Washington's Seattle campus.
I thought the act of pointing a gun at someone and pulling the trigger was violent? (Okay maybe it's a mouse click.) It's still violent, it's just not gory with the settings turned down.
I'm all for the game as a recruiting tool by the way, so don't take this as an anti-AA stance. (I actually play it a few hours a week.)
The violence is there (it's inherent to the premise of the game).
One thing that the Russians do with their space hardware is make it sealed and pressurize it to 1 atm. These would be the avionics packages on everything from Soyuz, to Progress, to satellites.
There would have been had we had more. At the time, they were being made as fast as possible. But due to the fact that the technology was brand spakin new, there was no way they could have made them faster. With those two bombs, the US depleted their usable uranium and actually had to wait a few weeks for more enriched uranium to be manufactured at Hanford.
I thought the US was the single biggest food producing nation on the planet.
We produce so much food that we sell it to other countries. Or organizations will buy the food and distribute it to poorer countries. Last I heard, the only foods the US imports are ones that are specialty items (caviar, wines, etc.) and some supplemental food sources (like offseason fruits and such).
The problem was that the managers were using past history of "it returned before" to ASSUME that nothing was wrong.
If it's one thing that is consistently a problem in organizations is that people ASSUME things and don't have a solid basis for the assumptions.
People are pissed at the managers there because of the fact that they shut down the complaints by saying, "it's come back before! it will again!" to anyone that complained. If someone had brought a hard calculation or simulation results to one of them, I wonder if they would have actually paid heed to the comments.
It has that little "CD" symbol on it, right?
My home computer's cd rom drive has the little logo saying that it can read anything with the CD standard.
So, I think a case can be made for some sort of false advertising on the music company's part by using that logo (implying it abides by the CD standard).
Don't know about a lawsuit for any other thing associated with this.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. My statement is only a theory on how you could pursue some sort of legal action. =)
Oh yeah. People tend to think of certain things as necessities: cars, internet, computer, TV, etc.
None of that is necessary.
The other thing is that debt may not be seen as a bad thing. I know from talking with my dad that he doesn't view it as _that_ bad. I differ from him on that though. I don't like debt at all. So I'm putting in a good portion of my paycheck to pay off my car and my student loan. I'll be done in about three years, I think.
Someone has to say to these people that they don't need the latest and best thing out there. They just need what gets them by.
In other words, many people probably try to live above their means.
I think a good portion of it is the fact that many American families think they have to send their kids to college and pay for it out of their own pockets.
In my opinion, it's good for parents to save for their kid's futures. But the kid should only go to college if they want to. Too many times while I was teaching classes during my graduate schooling, I would see and talk with kids whose parents paid for everything. That's fine if the parents can afford it, I suppose. But the kids didn't usually have the desire to be in college.
College isn't for everyone.
The other thing that I noticed between my education and the education of people I know is that I paid out of my own pocket for the schooling. That means that I had some personal incentive to work my ass off and do well. Otherwise that 1200 per quarter (undergrad; 2000 per quarter, graduate) was meaningless. Having someone else pay for your classes doesn't allow you to appreciate the classes.
The one thing that parents _should_ teach their kids is to find something they like doing and do it. That's far more valuable than, "Here's 40 grand. Go to school."
That's the beauty of it though.
People can do what they want... work more hours, work less, buy a nice car, get a bicycle, have kids, run a business, travel, and so on. It's still their choice. Your opinion is your opinion. But I don't think those people would like being told how to live their lives, let alone being forced by some rules that take away from their lifestyle (except when that lifestyle can hurt other people).
At least I wouldn't like it if someone told me that I work too much. I put in a 40 hour work week, which is plenty. Sometimes I put in 60 or 80 hour work weeks, but only to get a job done.
use by pilots.
There are rules in place to limit the amount of EM radiation a device can emit. There are also rules on wirelengths, quality of wires, and wire shielding.
I don't see most consumer electronic devices being designed with EMI controls in mind.
However, there are literally tens if not hundreds of miles of wires in an aircraft. Most of them are data lines for the various systems. All of them are supposed to be shielded. But shielding sometimes breaks or gets worn out (when it's really old).
Since the wires are so long, it's pretty easy for them to pick up signals. And if they aren't grounded properly, (which happens) then the signals on the wire can be influenced by the other equipment on board the aircraft.
What people don't seem to realize is that unless their electronic device is grounded to the aircraft (along with the aircraft systems), then it's possible that the device will generate eddy currents (or image currents) in the aircraft skin and grounded systems. A tiny AC signal in the aircraft skin might not be much, but add up several AC signals and you can get an idea that things become a mess.
The possibility is conceivably there for trouble. No one has taken the time to put together an aircraft, put it in a EM isolated building, and have people inside it with cell phones going on and such. That's due to two things: cost, and the fact that EM analysis and testing is always done on the avionics that go into an aircraft. And when the aircrew tells people to not use their electronics, they kind of expect people to listen.
The possibility is real that there could be a problem.
As for cell phones working inside a plane...
That's because the EM wave hits the airplane skin, then is slowed just a hair while it propogates through the skin, and then the external surface of the aircraft becomes the new signal source (from the point of view of the outside world). That's proof that there are AC signals in the aircraft skin. Someone below stated: it could be that Flight 93 crashed because everyone was using their cell phone... that's possible.
No. There are two lagrange points for the sun-earth system which are relatively close. And there are two in the moon-earth system that are MUCH closer. The moon is only on the order of 275000 miles from the earth, and the lagrange point between the two is relatively close to the moon. They are points designated where the gravitational attraction on a mass between the two bodies is equal to zero.
There are other lagrange points, but you get the idea.
If you (as Congress) told NASA to take small moves, then nothing would get done. They've been doing small moves (for one reason or another) over the last 30 years.
The US went from having a manned suborbital program to having an all out mission to the moon.
Someone's gotta point them in the direction of an almost-but-not-quite-impossible goal, then kick them in the arse to get them moving. Maybe beating them with a stick along the way would help too.
They put the money up for it, and if it isn't pulling in a huge fan base (like X-Files or The Simpsons), or pulling in a lot of viewers (like that Millionaire show), then the show gets canned.
The good thing about FOX is that they seem to be the only mainstream network that is willing to put up the cash for these interesting shows. (Out of FOX, CBS, NBC, and ABC).
Some places in tornado country can't have basements. This is due to the soil having extra clay, the water table being a couple feet below the surface, or annual flooding.
Oops! Forgot that rule about the degrees of freedom!
You're right though about finding a good source for learning string theory. The best resource I've found was a book on M-theory a while back. It was at the college bookstore (university bookstore in seattle). I just glanced at it and decided to pick it up. It helped. I'm not a mathematician, but I could work through the book.
Finding the right notation helps too. If I remember that book, I'll post a reply tonight. =)
Have you seen the article in the august Scientific American about black hole entropy?
Well, to put it succinctly, someone mused that a burst of radiation on the surface of a universe is equivalent to the entropy of a black hole through a holographic transformation. So if we truly live in a 3D universe, then there is some 4 dimensional hypersurface out there that maps the entire 3D domain contained within it!
It's similar to Stoke's Theorem in principle from what little I could gather of the article.
This isn't funky science. It's derived from Stephen Hawking's work on the entropy of black holes. I don't know whether it's right or not. But I'm saying that it kind of makes you think.
Slashdot Mirror
No. According to physics if you dump a LOT of energy onto something (as a LASER does), then that energy has to go somewhere.
You dump more energy into something than it can be dissipated away and that something succumbs to the energy input.
Mirrors are not perfect; any mirror absorbs some of the energy that it reflects. It's a fact of EM physics.
Doesn't matter if something is shiny or not. There are no materials which can withstand the energy per unit area put on them by the world's most powerful lasers.
;)
Your mirrors would only work so long as the mirror materials didn't ablate or boil off.
To put things in perspective...
For those of you comparing the maximum sentences for robbery, theft, arson, assualts and so on to this guy's maximum sentence, I'd like to point something out.
That maximum sentence quoted is for a summation of each count of the offense. You cause several tens of thousands of smaller offenses, and you can get charged for each and every one of them.
If I went to a bank, robbed it, and shot every person in sight with my fully automatic machine gun, and took out vehicles with my handy-dandy grenade launcher, then I could conceivably be charged for each individual death, destruction property, theft, assault and so on. The _maximum_ sentence for that kind of thing could very easily exceed several hundred years in prison (capital punishment notwithstanding).
Granted IANAL, but I do know enough of the US justice system to say the above with confidence.
Which servers are these? (I would like to play on them some time.)
Because you are looking at the sun when you look towards the inside of earth's orbit. All the dim stuff gets washed out in the sun's light.
The school I went to charged everyone a tech fee of $45. They said that it covered the use of the campus-wide computing resources. We had many computer labs, a few parallel clusters, and many libraries. They always said that's where the fee went.
Even though a couple of students protested that they never use the campus facilities, those students still had to pay the fee.
And it is the university's bandwidth, so they can do whatever they want with it. I even had to sign a little document that said that if I logged into the campus' network (or my department's network), then they could cut me off at any time for whatever reason.
This was the University of Washington's Seattle campus.
Those are going to be some old people.
I thought the act of pointing a gun at someone and pulling the trigger was violent? (Okay maybe it's a mouse click.) It's still violent, it's just not gory with the settings turned down.
I'm all for the game as a recruiting tool by the way, so don't take this as an anti-AA stance. (I actually play it a few hours a week.)
The violence is there (it's inherent to the premise of the game).
One thing that the Russians do with their space hardware is make it sealed and pressurize it to 1 atm. These would be the avionics packages on everything from Soyuz, to Progress, to satellites.
There would have been had we had more. At the time, they were being made as fast as possible. But due to the fact that the technology was brand spakin new, there was no way they could have made them faster. With those two bombs, the US depleted their usable uranium and actually had to wait a few weeks for more enriched uranium to be manufactured at Hanford.
I thought the US was the single biggest food producing nation on the planet.
We produce so much food that we sell it to other countries. Or organizations will buy the food and distribute it to poorer countries. Last I heard, the only foods the US imports are ones that are specialty items (caviar, wines, etc.) and some supplemental food sources (like offseason fruits and such).
The problem was that the managers were using past history of "it returned before" to ASSUME that nothing was wrong.
If it's one thing that is consistently a problem in organizations is that people ASSUME things and don't have a solid basis for the assumptions.
People are pissed at the managers there because of the fact that they shut down the complaints by saying, "it's come back before! it will again!" to anyone that complained. If someone had brought a hard calculation or simulation results to one of them, I wonder if they would have actually paid heed to the comments.
It has that little "CD" symbol on it, right?
My home computer's cd rom drive has the little logo saying that it can read anything with the CD standard.
So, I think a case can be made for some sort of false advertising on the music company's part by using that logo (implying it abides by the CD standard).
Don't know about a lawsuit for any other thing associated with this.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. My statement is only a theory on how you could pursue some sort of legal action. =)
Oh yeah. People tend to think of certain things as necessities: cars, internet, computer, TV, etc.
None of that is necessary.
The other thing is that debt may not be seen as a bad thing. I know from talking with my dad that he doesn't view it as _that_ bad. I differ from him on that though. I don't like debt at all. So I'm putting in a good portion of my paycheck to pay off my car and my student loan. I'll be done in about three years, I think.
Someone has to say to these people that they don't need the latest and best thing out there. They just need what gets them by.
In other words, many people probably try to live above their means.
I think a good portion of it is the fact that many American families think they have to send their kids to college and pay for it out of their own pockets.
In my opinion, it's good for parents to save for their kid's futures. But the kid should only go to college if they want to. Too many times while I was teaching classes during my graduate schooling, I would see and talk with kids whose parents paid for everything. That's fine if the parents can afford it, I suppose. But the kids didn't usually have the desire to be in college.
College isn't for everyone.
The other thing that I noticed between my education and the education of people I know is that I paid out of my own pocket for the schooling. That means that I had some personal incentive to work my ass off and do well. Otherwise that 1200 per quarter (undergrad; 2000 per quarter, graduate) was meaningless. Having someone else pay for your classes doesn't allow you to appreciate the classes.
The one thing that parents _should_ teach their kids is to find something they like doing and do it. That's far more valuable than, "Here's 40 grand. Go to school."
That's the beauty of it though.
People can do what they want... work more hours, work less, buy a nice car, get a bicycle, have kids, run a business, travel, and so on. It's still their choice. Your opinion is your opinion. But I don't think those people would like being told how to live their lives, let alone being forced by some rules that take away from their lifestyle (except when that lifestyle can hurt other people).
At least I wouldn't like it if someone told me that I work too much. I put in a 40 hour work week, which is plenty. Sometimes I put in 60 or 80 hour work weeks, but only to get a job done.
use by pilots.
There are rules in place to limit the amount of EM radiation a device can emit. There are also rules on wirelengths, quality of wires, and wire shielding.
I don't see most consumer electronic devices being designed with EMI controls in mind.
However, there are literally tens if not hundreds of miles of wires in an aircraft. Most of them are data lines for the various systems. All of them are supposed to be shielded. But shielding sometimes breaks or gets worn out (when it's really old).
Since the wires are so long, it's pretty easy for them to pick up signals. And if they aren't grounded properly, (which happens) then the signals on the wire can be influenced by the other equipment on board the aircraft.
What people don't seem to realize is that unless their electronic device is grounded to the aircraft (along with the aircraft systems), then it's possible that the device will generate eddy currents (or image currents) in the aircraft skin and grounded systems. A tiny AC signal in the aircraft skin might not be much, but add up several AC signals and you can get an idea that things become a mess.
The possibility is conceivably there for trouble. No one has taken the time to put together an aircraft, put it in a EM isolated building, and have people inside it with cell phones going on and such. That's due to two things: cost, and the fact that EM analysis and testing is always done on the avionics that go into an aircraft. And when the aircrew tells people to not use their electronics, they kind of expect people to listen.
The possibility is real that there could be a problem.
As for cell phones working inside a plane...
That's because the EM wave hits the airplane skin, then is slowed just a hair while it propogates through the skin, and then the external surface of the aircraft becomes the new signal source (from the point of view of the outside world). That's proof that there are AC signals in the aircraft skin. Someone below stated: it could be that Flight 93 crashed because everyone was using their cell phone... that's possible.
No. There are two lagrange points for the sun-earth system which are relatively close. And there are two in the moon-earth system that are MUCH closer. The moon is only on the order of 275000 miles from the earth, and the lagrange point between the two is relatively close to the moon. They are points designated where the gravitational attraction on a mass between the two bodies is equal to zero.
There are other lagrange points, but you get the idea.
If you (as Congress) told NASA to take small moves, then nothing would get done. They've been doing small moves (for one reason or another) over the last 30 years.
The US went from having a manned suborbital program to having an all out mission to the moon.
Someone's gotta point them in the direction of an almost-but-not-quite-impossible goal, then kick them in the arse to get them moving. Maybe beating them with a stick along the way would help too.
Because he knows how to use a hammer?
Notice how it's always FOX?
They put the money up for it, and if it isn't pulling in a huge fan base (like X-Files or The Simpsons), or pulling in a lot of viewers (like that Millionaire show), then the show gets canned.
The good thing about FOX is that they seem to be the only mainstream network that is willing to put up the cash for these interesting shows. (Out of FOX, CBS, NBC, and ABC).
Some places in tornado country can't have basements. This is due to the soil having extra clay, the water table being a couple feet below the surface, or annual flooding.
Oops! Forgot that rule about the degrees of freedom!
You're right though about finding a good source for learning string theory. The best resource I've found was a book on M-theory a while back. It was at the college bookstore (university bookstore in seattle). I just glanced at it and decided to pick it up. It helped. I'm not a mathematician, but I could work through the book.
Finding the right notation helps too. If I remember that book, I'll post a reply tonight. =)
lol
That's why I cancelled my Discover subscription, and I never even look at Popular Science anymore.
Have you seen the article in the august Scientific American about black hole entropy?
Well, to put it succinctly, someone mused that a burst of radiation on the surface of a universe is equivalent to the entropy of a black hole through a holographic transformation. So if we truly live in a 3D universe, then there is some 4 dimensional hypersurface out there that maps the entire 3D domain contained within it!
It's similar to Stoke's Theorem in principle from what little I could gather of the article.
This isn't funky science. It's derived from Stephen Hawking's work on the entropy of black holes. I don't know whether it's right or not. But I'm saying that it kind of makes you think.