The crystals could also be used to create thermal diodes: materials in which heat can pass in one direction, but not in the reverse direction. Such a one-way heat flow could be useful in energy-efficient buildings in hot and cold climates.
Other variations of the material could be used to focus heat — much like focusing light with a lens — to concentrate it in a small area. Another intriguing possibility is thermal cloaking,
Some of the speculative uses seem pretty interesting. To date it is only 40% efficient at some of these tasks, but that's not bad for starters.
These things sound like beginnings of heat circuitry components. The method involves making alloys of silicon that incorporate nanoparticles of germanium in a particular size range, and layering these thin films. If they can find a dynamically controllable switch structure you could build most of the necessary components for simple circuits.
Then you run into this sentences from TFA:
Heat also spans a wide range of frequencies, he says, while sound spans a single frequency.
For the observable time of 2032, this means it already happened.
Further, it seems likely that Everything has already happened BEFORE, when we weren't paying attention.
After all, what is the likelihood what we happen to point our telescope at a planet that FOR THE FIRST TIME "starts to plough through a broad belt of debris that surrounds the star"?
(Yes, they did say, after just discovering this planet last week, that it will "for the first time" plough through an belt of debris. Such brilliant timing. Such Masterful scheduling to get that planet discovered Just in the nick of time! with a telescope we built just in the nick of time to see the first transit! Those guys must be rocket scientists!).
If nothing "Fomalhaut-b shattering" happened in the first billion trips through the debris belt, why expect anything THIS time?
Nothing more annoying than trying to come up with verbiage and staged photos for the Freelance Wed Developer' hired by management to invade every office and try to get a "broad picture" of what your section does on a day to day basis for some fluff piece in the Who We Are section for the 27th rewrite of the corporate web site.
And woe be to any department head that sends the web developer packing for interrupting actual WORK, after the whiny pimple faced kid reports back to management that they are getting resistance.
That helps some but you are still left with the internal wiring. Unless there are some mandates in that regard, the usefulness of that fiber connection will be limited.
Even relatively low end streamer appliances benefit from a real, wired ethernet connection.
Think of the backhaul capabilities fiber offers compared to copper. (Also think of the copper savings). Also think of digital TV capabilities.
The usefulness of the fiber may not be as limited as you think.
Sure, there may be some home monitoring capabilities as well because the backhaul allows easier monitoring capabilities (video or audio) within the household, office, or school.
You've already seen announcements of in-household video monitoring via cable boxes. Hard to tell if these are truthful simply planned for Skype support.
It seem they are only working the alluvial deposits, there do not seem to be any roads or excavations into the mountainous area. So it seems that they are not concerned with large tonnage.
It could also be gem stones, or dry gold separation, (no indication of water sluicing at any of these sites), no tank farm, no obvious pipe lines, no discharge.
No indication of smelting on a large scale, no smoke stacks, and not a big enough power grid to run electrical smelters, so that probably rules out metals. The lack of good roads or rail lines seems to rule out off-site ore processing as well.
Again, stepping back in time using Google Earth, you see the same linear structures in the large blue buildings (prior to it being roofed over) that you see in adjacent areas. I have no idea what those are, they could be some sort of separation facility, ball mills, hammer mills, shaker tables. or something. Perhaps someone with a mining background would be able to identify those structures.
There doesn't seem to be enough power lines into the plant to support fabrication processes.
In the latest picture on google earth the large blue topped building appears to have a coal pile (although not a very big one) in the north west corner. That might be for heating, but again, no significant smoke stacks.
Seriously I don't understand why MS isn't touting RemoteFX as the "killer app" of the entire "tablet" world. I'm not buying the Pro, because there is literally no reason when my RT still runs Remote Desktop.
That makes a lot of sense. Tie up TWO machines to do the work you could otherwise handle with the tablet alone. I think MS marketing department has an opening for you.
That they didn't lead the charge with a bunch of lawyers does not mean they won't try to fix the problem.
The guy did them a service, finding a hole that they can now try to patch. Further Microsoft knows that this will only be used by a quarter of the 28 existing Windows RT users, so its no big deal.
look like what I imagine two coal fired power units under construction would look like.
Its probably just a mining operation, of some kind because there is no major transport, no huge power lines, no stacks, convener belt systems. (Coal fired plants would have all of those, and aren't nearly so spread out).
No major rail lines. No paved roads, just low traffic low speed gravel roads (90 degree corners etc). Only the eastern most group of buildings seems to be fenced
There are "tailing pile" looking like humps, but not nearly enough for this to be a high burden mine requiring massive material removal, unless they are dumping the tailing back down the mine. There appear to be fields of spread out tailings with lots of bulldozer marks just east of the blue topped building.
The lack of security, transport, massive power, and distance to population centers (which themselves are not that big) all suggest small mining operations, perhaps by several different organizations.
Nothing was there in 2009, so it may be still in the process of drilling to deep ore bodies, and not actually in production yet. The thing about desert areas is every little truck track shows up forever.
and two, the assumption by manufacturers that factory floor equipment will be physically seperated from the public (and by implication, the Internet).
You have to really wonder how it is that 1) we are running out of IPV4 addresses, and 2) all these factory floor and crematoriums manage to expose their SCADA devices to the internet with public IPs
How much penetration did these researchers have to engage in to get access to things behind routers? (I ask this because I refuse to believe there are that many companies wasting public IPs on process control computers who have not heard about firewalls and VPNs).
How clueless would the IT departments have to be to allow such to happen? In an age where every high school kid can set up a router with reasonable (out of the box) security it seems ridiculous to assume some one with credentials would over look this.)
Even if there is a windows machine sitting directly on the internet (horrors) you still have to get past that to the SCADA controller.
Do we really have enough IP addresses for every valve, motor, and crematorium to be directly connected to the net?
Not true at all. Actually, the reason Linux exists is because of web and database servers. File serving came in because of the door opened by the previous two.
Your sense of history is sort of warped. The vast majority of businesses with in-house web servers probably stated with Microsoft web servers, and were forced to abandon that idea when growth (and insecurity) made it no longer tenable. Same for Database servers.
But to complete your education, walk into any modern office, and count the number of Linux desktops.
I'm talking about Main-Street businesses. Not Wall Street businesses. Look around you for pete sake. Business does not begin with GM and end at the NYSE.
Samba is absolutely still important. We just take SAMBA for granted now more than ever because it is pre-installed everywhere in almost every appliance. For example buy a $20 internet 'router' from Best Buy that can share a connected USB drive over a LAN and it probably uses SAMBA for functionality.
Agreed.
Samba is not seen as a big issue these days because it works so incredibly well. Software only gets your attention when it fails.
As for Windows not being as important, that simply is not the case in corporate america. In fact the only reason Linux exists in the corporate world is because of Samba. Any growth if Linux in the server or workstation role is due principally to Samba, and without it there would be virtually zero Linux adaptation in the workplace. Businesses are natural mono-cultures when it comes to computing systems.
until you find yourself in your car without a charger, and then you find out just how quickly the battery run out when your iphone has the maps app, gpsm and 3g running.
Worse, and far more often encountered is the great null zone (something you city folk never actually experience except in elevators) where there is no cell service or insufficient bandwidth, like Edge or GPRS) and you can't really use on-line maps. I use to think this only occurred in the boonies of the Western US, but driving around in Upstate New York off of freeways quickly disabused me of that notion.
A dedicated GPS, either built in or suction cupped on the dash is a far better solution.
What is needed is a bluetooth way to send an address to the damn thing directly from the phone. Why do they all forget this feature?
Maybe these pay sites see the ability and willingness to pay as a sincerity sieve? Perhaps they feel someone unwilling to sign up and pay money (with a traceable credit card) may have a reason to hide their identity?
True, but there is no point in trying to make a relation ship work when you can see fairly early that it is not going to.
The question addressed here is whether the internet can serve as that "first sieve", or if you have to wine and dine everyone that comes along just to find out the same information you could find on the internet dating site.
Internet dating might help find prospective partners easier, but does not guarantee success. Not everybody is looking for a 100% compatible mirror image.
Regardless of what you are looking for, (or THINK you are looking fo)r, the question under discussion is which method is likely to lead to success. If you were looking for an exact opposite, or a mostly like minded individual, or a Knight in White Armor, the question remains the same:
Did the internet work better for you than the bar scene or chance meeting?
Did it serve as a first sieve?
Did you have to work your way past a number of rejects prior to finding Mr Right?
Did you find Mr Right or settle for Mr OK?
Unless you are already divorced, or have moved on to your second or third husband, your situation seems to suggest internet dating worked for you, in spite of your protestations to the contrary.
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From TFA:
The crystals could also be used to create thermal diodes: materials in which heat can pass in one direction, but not in the reverse direction. Such a one-way heat flow could be useful in energy-efficient buildings in hot and cold climates.
Other variations of the material could be used to focus heat — much like focusing light with a lens — to concentrate it in a small area. Another intriguing possibility is thermal cloaking,
Some of the speculative uses seem pretty interesting. To date it is only 40% efficient at some of these tasks, but that's not bad for starters.
These things sound like beginnings of heat circuitry components. The method involves making alloys of silicon that incorporate nanoparticles of germanium in a particular size range, and layering these thin films. If they can find a dynamically controllable switch structure you could build most of the necessary components for simple circuits.
Then you run into this sentences from TFA:
Heat also spans a wide range of frequencies, he says, while sound spans a single frequency.
Wow. Journalism student I'm guessing?
Plus One.
The GP sounds like a classical example of Poisonous People.
For the observable time of 2032, this means it already happened.
Further, it seems likely that Everything has already happened BEFORE, when we weren't paying attention.
After all, what is the likelihood what we happen to point our telescope at a planet that FOR THE FIRST TIME "starts to plough through a broad belt of debris that surrounds the star"?
(Yes, they did say, after just discovering this planet last week, that it will "for the first time" plough through an belt of debris. Such brilliant timing. Such Masterful scheduling to get that planet discovered Just in the nick of time! with a telescope we built just in the nick of time to see the first transit! Those guys must be rocket scientists!).
If nothing "Fomalhaut-b shattering" happened in the first billion trips through the debris belt, why expect anything THIS time?
Nothing more annoying than trying to come up with verbiage and staged photos for the Freelance Wed Developer' hired by management to invade every office and try to get a "broad picture" of what your section does on a day to day basis for some fluff piece in the Who We Are section for the 27th rewrite of the corporate web site.
And woe be to any department head that sends the web developer packing for interrupting actual WORK, after the whiny pimple faced kid reports back to management that they are getting resistance.
That helps some but you are still left with the internal wiring. Unless there are some mandates in that regard, the usefulness of that fiber connection will be limited.
Even relatively low end streamer appliances benefit from a real, wired ethernet connection.
Think of the backhaul capabilities fiber offers compared to copper. (Also think of the copper savings).
Also think of digital TV capabilities.
The usefulness of the fiber may not be as limited as you think.
Sure, there may be some home monitoring capabilities as well because the backhaul allows easier monitoring capabilities (video or audio) within the household, office, or school.
You've already seen announcements of in-household video monitoring via cable boxes. Hard to tell if these are truthful simply planned for Skype support.
It could well be something like that.
It seem they are only working the alluvial deposits, there do not seem to be any roads or excavations into the mountainous area.
So it seems that they are not concerned with large tonnage.
It could also be gem stones, or dry gold separation, (no indication of water sluicing at any of these sites), no tank farm, no obvious
pipe lines, no discharge.
No indication of smelting on a large scale, no smoke stacks, and not a big enough power grid to run electrical smelters, so that
probably rules out metals. The lack of good roads or rail lines seems to rule out off-site ore processing as well.
Again, stepping back in time using Google Earth, you see the same linear structures in the large blue buildings (prior to it
being roofed over) that you see in adjacent areas. I have no idea what those are, they could be some sort of separation
facility, ball mills, hammer mills, shaker tables.
or something. Perhaps someone with a mining background would be able to identify those structures.
There doesn't seem to be enough power lines into the plant to support fabrication processes.
In the latest picture on google earth the large blue topped building appears to have a coal pile (although not a very big one)
in the north west corner. That might be for heating, but again, no significant smoke stacks.
Seriously, what the hell is your problem?
Seriously I don't understand why MS isn't touting RemoteFX as the "killer app" of the entire "tablet" world. I'm not buying the Pro, because there is literally no reason when my RT still runs Remote Desktop.
That makes a lot of sense. Tie up TWO machines to do the work you could otherwise handle with the tablet alone. I think MS marketing department has an opening for you.
That they didn't lead the charge with a bunch of lawyers does not mean they won't try to
fix the problem.
The guy did them a service, finding a hole that they can now try to patch.
Further Microsoft knows that this will only be used by a quarter of the 28 existing Windows RT users, so its no big deal.
if legal, would be dominated by those with money and resources.
Or the biggest network of other people's compromised machines.
And lets face it, that is what this is really about: legalizing bot nets as a free speech issue.
I paid for the damn internet connection better believe they're my property....
You paid for your half of the connection.
Nothing here is old or defunct.
Use Google Earth. Click the clock button, and drift back in time.
Nothing was here in 2009.
Its just a mining operation of some sort.
look like what I imagine two coal fired power units under construction would look like.
Its probably just a mining operation, of some kind because there is no major transport, no huge power lines, no stacks, convener belt systems. (Coal fired plants would have all of those, and aren't nearly so spread out).
No major rail lines.
No paved roads, just low traffic low speed gravel roads (90 degree corners etc).
Only the eastern most group of buildings seems to be fenced
There are "tailing pile" looking like humps, but not nearly enough for this to be a high burden mine requiring massive material removal, unless they are dumping the tailing back down the mine. There appear to be fields of spread out tailings with lots of bulldozer marks just east of the blue topped building.
The lack of security, transport, massive power, and distance to population centers (which themselves are not that big) all suggest small mining operations, perhaps by several different organizations.
Nothing was there in 2009, so it may be still in the process of drilling to deep ore bodies, and not actually in production yet.
The thing about desert areas is every little truck track shows up forever.
I suggest you look at the link I posted. I think you will find you are utterly and hopelessly misinformed.
and two, the assumption by manufacturers that factory floor equipment will be physically seperated from the public (and by implication, the Internet).
You have to really wonder how it is that 1) we are running out of IPV4 addresses, and 2) all these factory floor and crematoriums manage to expose their SCADA devices to the internet with public IPs
How much penetration did these researchers have to engage in to get access to things behind routers? (I ask this because I refuse to believe there are that many companies wasting public IPs on process control computers who have not heard about firewalls and VPNs).
How clueless would the IT departments have to be to allow such to happen? In an age where every high school kid can set up a router with reasonable (out of the box) security it seems ridiculous to assume some one with credentials would over look this.)
Even if there is a windows machine sitting directly on the internet (horrors) you still have to get past that to the SCADA controller.
Do we really have enough IP addresses for every valve, motor, and crematorium to be directly connected to the net?
FLASH: Man with Linux colored classes sees only Linux machines.
Film at 11.
Not true at all. Actually, the reason Linux exists is because of web and database servers. File serving came in because of the door opened by the previous two.
Your sense of history is sort of warped.
The vast majority of businesses with in-house web servers probably stated with Microsoft web servers, and were forced to abandon that idea when growth (and insecurity) made it no longer tenable. Same for Database servers.
But to complete your education, walk into any modern office, and count the number of Linux desktops.
I'm talking about Main-Street businesses. Not Wall Street businesses.
Look around you for pete sake. Business does not begin with GM and end at the NYSE.
If for some reason all Windows system die tomorrow,
Other than that 800 pound gorilla in the room, there is nobody else around....
Hand waiving away 90% of the desktop OS users to make a point about samba being less important seems reaching at best.
I think you could safely make the if for some reason Samba dies tomorrow, Linux in the workplace gets shoveled into the same grave.
Samba is absolutely still important. We just take SAMBA for granted now more than ever because it is pre-installed everywhere in almost every appliance. For example buy a $20 internet 'router' from Best Buy that can share a connected USB drive over a LAN and it probably uses SAMBA for functionality.
Agreed.
Samba is not seen as a big issue these days because it works so incredibly well. Software only gets your attention when it fails.
As for Windows not being as important, that simply is not the case in corporate america. In fact the only reason Linux exists in the corporate world is because of Samba. Any growth if Linux in the server or workstation role is due principally to Samba, and without it there would be virtually zero Linux adaptation in the workplace. Businesses are natural mono-cultures when it comes to computing systems.
That's all I need, to have someone compromise my oven with malware and burn my roast.
Ha Ha Ha Ha How else are we going to Ma Ma Ma Make the world safe for Ma Ma Ma Max Headroom?
until you find yourself in your car without a charger, and then you find out just how quickly the battery run out when your iphone has the maps app, gpsm and 3g running.
Worse, and far more often encountered is the great null zone (something you city folk never actually experience except in elevators) where there is no cell service or insufficient bandwidth, like Edge or GPRS) and you can't really use on-line maps. I use to think this only occurred in the boonies of the Western US, but driving around in Upstate New York off of freeways quickly disabused me of that notion.
A dedicated GPS, either built in or suction cupped on the dash is a far better solution.
What is needed is a bluetooth way to send an address to the damn thing directly from the phone. Why do they all forget this feature?
Maybe these pay sites see the ability and willingness to pay as a sincerity sieve?
Perhaps they feel someone unwilling to sign up and pay money (with a traceable credit card) may have a reason to hide their identity?
True, but there is no point in trying to make a relation ship work when you can see fairly early that it is not going to.
The question addressed here is whether the internet can serve as that "first sieve", or if you have to wine and dine everyone that comes along just to find out the same information you could find on the internet dating site.
Internet dating might help find prospective partners easier, but does not guarantee success. Not everybody is looking for a 100% compatible mirror image.
Regardless of what you are looking for, (or THINK you are looking fo)r, the question under discussion is which method is likely to lead to success.
If you were looking for an exact opposite, or a mostly like minded individual, or a Knight in White Armor, the question remains the same:
Did the internet work better for you than the bar scene or chance meeting?
Did it serve as a first sieve?
Did you have to work your way past a number of rejects prior to finding Mr Right?
Did you find Mr Right or settle for Mr OK?
Unless you are already divorced, or have moved on to your second or third husband, your situation seems to suggest internet dating worked for you, in spite of your protestations to the contrary.