I tend to think of Brownian motion happening in a gas or liquid - which Wikipedia confirms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion Thermal diffusion of atoms in a device do cause problems and limit the temperature at which semiconductors can work. In fact, diffusion of dopants is one way a chip can 'wear out' with long term use. No doubt the smaller the scale the more problem diffusion will be, but it tends to be very temperature sensitive, so keeping the device at some reasonable temperature would prevent, or at least slow the problem.
I agree with what you say; but there is the issue of what causes the failure. Suppose that the disks are overheating, then the fact that it takes 10 times as long to read them will increase the likelihood of a failure during that longer time. Your argument assumes that there is already a problematic sector which is just waiting to be read and cause an error, while GPs argument seems based on a new failure being a function of time and a longer time increases the likelihood of a new failure.
I saw it. It is a press release. I even googled for a image of the spectacular collision; no joy. You be better off reading Finnegan's Wake. Though I prefer Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
Running out of fuel, or flying into weather that kills you, are both pilot error in the end. When I was getting my ticket I would read the NTSB Reporter regularly. For private pilots, those were the most common errors. And then you would read in the paper about some pilot who put his out of gas airplane down on a freeway being called a hero for his great landing skills!
Steve, being a sailplane pilot would have less trouble with engine issues than most power pilots. And on the lea side of the Sierras you can glide an very long distance east provided the rotor turbulence does not get you.
My understanding was that Hubble had a life expectancy of 20 years.
From where do you understand this?
Design Life: Designed for a 15 year life with on-orbit servicing. http://www.aerospaceguide.net/hubblespacetelescope.html
And naturally things would be going better if on-orbit servicing was still considered a regular option.
2) there aren't any Mini's on that page; primarily because they sell fast.
Hardware choice is a convenience. Convenience is a benefit people are often willing to pay for.
I was able to find them in the morning the few days that I looked, and they are gone in the afternoon. Of course they are about $650 new, and $600 refurbished for the low end model.
Well, you could say the same thing about Visual Studio and eclipse and all other IDEs. Back in my day, I developed in emacs and vi, but there's a developer out there who could scoff at me because he coded in binary using smoke signals.:P
For VS, it used to be that you could not easily edit the project files - I'm not even sure they were ASCII in '95. Regrettably I have recent experience with http://www.kc.com/products/iuml.php which professes to be an IDE, but the project files are binary blobs. No diff, no grep, and no use of any other command line tools. And I loved Prograph CPX, but again, all binary blobs.
I have no emacs skills, a little rmode though and I have created fonts directly in my code using
0%0011000
0%0011000
0%0011000
0%0011000
0%0011000
0%0011000
0%0000000
0%0011000
0%0000000
in the Merlin Macro Assembler by Glen Bredon.
XCode is just a UI for editing files and running command line build commands. So, one could probably do everything from the command line. But the whole thing comes configured for iPhone development, and it is nice to hit the button and have the app show up on the phone. I prefer to spend my time developing...at least until there is something that I can not do in XCode. I do prefer Eclipse, and the differences in completion and help are slightly annoying, but I would not say that XCode, or Obj-C are getting in the way.
[no camera because I'm] in and out of courtrooms and secure facilities all the time
I've had the same problem, and there are many places that will remove the camera for you. I've also seen one with a penny epoxied on the lens.
google "security cell phone remove camera" http://www.iresq.com/iphone/detail.php?prodID=P011036
Well, I only quote physicists, and am familiar with those quotes being one. But, I think that it is relevant to other topics; I would like to understand macro economics to a better degree and need explanations at the described level.
You are right that the explanation will not confer a great deal of knowledge, but at in my case, a good lecture spurred me to study in more depth.
As to our medicine majoring parent's original comment on dark matter, I think that we know quite a bit more about DM than we ever did the aether. We know that it exists, we know it is not likely MACHOS, we know its apparent magnitude and so on. He really needed to leave out 'unobserable' in his list.
I am not saying I know that she is guilty of anything, I am mostly saying that taking the word of the leet hakor that there was nothing in the email pertaining to government business is naive. And I am saying that government busness should not be done via private email; if she did in fact do so.
SuperKendell, there has been concern about her use of Yahoo long before the kid hacked the account. Note the FOIA request in the article I linked. And I don't know anything about the content of her Yahoo email. But why does she need to know if the account is safe from subpoena if she does not use it for gov business? No, of course I do not use my personal email for work related messages. Nor do I use my work account for personal email. And I am just a little drone in the private sector, a governor is a public servant and should certainly know better.
Lastly, why on earth would you trust this kid to have done a complete check on her email - he is obviously not the brightest bulb in the room.
Dude, it has more power than the Win 95 Pentium II for which I once wrote games. It supports most of OpenGL; yes, the embedded version, but having started to use it, I actually like it more than 'normal' OpenGL. It really is not like any embedded device I've developed on.
* CPU: 620MHz ARM
* RAM: 128MB
* Nonvolatile storage: At least 4GB, up to 16GB, usually 8GB
It is pretty much like a real machine from 10 years ago, but with a nice API.
Do you know that she seems to have been using the account for gov business? No matter what the kid said or saw there is more to it than you seem to know.
Among the e-mails released as part of the records request in June were several from Frye asking a state official whether private e-mail accounts and messages sent to BlackBerry devices are immune to subpoena, then reporting the answer to the governor and her husband, Todd, who also uses a Yahoo! mail address.
Asking if Yahoo accounts are subject to subpoena and relaying the answer to the governor suggests to me that the accounts were not simple private email accounts.
When was a device built by Apple a democratic system?
Just to answer, when the Apple ][ was sold, the documentation included full schematics and a listing of the ROM. It also included a section on how to build an interface card that would work in one of the 8 slots. I don't think I have owned a machine that was more open than the Apple ][.
...until a decent spectrum of the object can be taken...
He implies that the spectra taken was not sufficient - sharper spectra is always better. And from the arxiv paper, it looks like they could have hoped for better spectra.
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I tend to think of Brownian motion happening in a gas or liquid - which Wikipedia confirms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion
Thermal diffusion of atoms in a device do cause problems and limit the temperature at which semiconductors can work. In fact, diffusion of dopants is one way a chip can 'wear out' with long term use. No doubt the smaller the scale the more problem diffusion will be, but it tends to be very temperature sensitive, so keeping the device at some reasonable temperature would prevent, or at least slow the problem.
the last person i heard of strapping a rocket to a car to see how fast they could go ended up driving into a mountain because he couldnt stop
The intention was not to stop, but an actual test of the Overthruster.
and this was in the salt flats of utah (at least thats where he started, clearly it wasnt so flat where he ended up)
Certainly the 8th dimension would not be described as flat!
One of the listings:
This 0 square foot property has 0 bedroom(s) and 0 bath(s).
The estimated sale price is $49900.
I knew Pacific Height was expensive, but this seems to be greater than infinite$$$/sq ft.
I agree with what you say; but there is the issue of what causes the failure. Suppose that the disks are overheating, then the fact that it takes 10 times as long to read them will increase the likelihood of a failure during that longer time. Your argument assumes that there is already a problematic sector which is just waiting to be read and cause an error, while GPs argument seems based on a new failure being a function of time and a longer time increases the likelihood of a new failure.
Are you Gumby from around '89? Old Scurvski
I saw it. It is a press release. I even googled for a image of the spectacular collision; no joy. You be better off reading Finnegan's Wake. Though I prefer Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
Running out of fuel, or flying into weather that kills you, are both pilot error in the end. When I was getting my ticket I would read the NTSB Reporter regularly. For private pilots, those were the most common errors. And then you would read in the paper about some pilot who put his out of gas airplane down on a freeway being called a hero for his great landing skills!
Steve, being a sailplane pilot would have less trouble with engine issues than most power pilots. And on the lea side of the Sierras you can glide an very long distance east provided the rotor turbulence does not get you.
I loved dumpster diving as a Caltech undergrad. EE labs, Phys labs. I stayed away from O'Chem and used a Geiger Counter on all the stuff.
My understanding was that Hubble had a life expectancy of 20 years.
From where do you understand this?
Design Life: Designed for a 15 year life with on-orbit servicing. http://www.aerospaceguide.net/hubblespacetelescope.html
And naturally things would be going better if on-orbit servicing was still considered a regular option.
2) there aren't any Mini's on that page; primarily because they sell fast.
Hardware choice is a convenience. Convenience is a benefit people are often willing to pay for.
I was able to find them in the morning the few days that I looked, and they are gone in the afternoon. Of course they are about $650 new, and $600 refurbished for the low end model.
If you want a laugh: check out my first App. [ Note - this will launch itunes ] http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?mt=8&id=287244848
I wanted to put something up; and it has paid for the mac mini I needed to buy.
Well, you could say the same thing about Visual Studio and eclipse and all other IDEs. Back in my day, I developed in emacs and vi, but there's a developer out there who could scoff at me because he coded in binary using smoke signals. :P
For VS, it used to be that you could not easily edit the project files - I'm not even sure they were ASCII in '95. Regrettably I have recent experience with http://www.kc.com/products/iuml.php which professes to be an IDE, but the project files are binary blobs. No diff, no grep, and no use of any other command line tools. And I loved Prograph CPX, but again, all binary blobs.
I have no emacs skills, a little rmode though and I have created fonts directly in my code using
0%0011000
0%0011000
0%0011000
0%0011000
0%0011000
0%0011000
0%0000000
0%0011000
0%0000000
in the Merlin Macro Assembler by Glen Bredon.
XCode is just a UI for editing files and running command line build commands. So, one could probably do everything from the command line. But the whole thing comes configured for iPhone development, and it is nice to hit the button and have the app show up on the phone. I prefer to spend my time developing...at least until there is something that I can not do in XCode.
I do prefer Eclipse, and the differences in completion and help are slightly annoying, but I would not say that XCode, or Obj-C are getting in the way.
[no camera because I'm] in and out of courtrooms and secure facilities all the time
I've had the same problem, and there are many places that will remove the camera for you. I've also seen one with a penny epoxied on the lens.
google "security cell phone remove camera"
http://www.iresq.com/iphone/detail.php?prodID=P011036
Well, I only quote physicists, and am familiar with those quotes being one. But, I think that it is relevant to other topics; I would like to understand macro economics to a better degree and need explanations at the described level.
You are right that the explanation will not confer a great deal of knowledge, but at in my case, a good lecture spurred me to study in more depth.
As to our medicine majoring parent's original comment on dark matter, I think that we know quite a bit more about DM than we ever did the aether. We know that it exists, we know it is not likely MACHOS, we know its apparent magnitude and so on. He really needed to leave out 'unobserable' in his list.
'Can be understood by an interested layman' is definitely the wrong metric for measuring scientific advancement.
"If you can't explain your physics to a barmaid it is probably not very good physics."
Ernest Rutherford
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."
Albert Einstein
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't really understand it."
Richard Feynman
Of course Feynman thought of first year students as six year olds...
I am not saying I know that she is guilty of anything, I am mostly saying that taking the word of the leet hakor that there was nothing in the email pertaining to government business is naive. And I am saying that government busness should not be done via private email; if she did in fact do so.
SuperKendell, there has been concern about her use of Yahoo long before the kid hacked the account. Note the FOIA request in the article I linked. And I don't know anything about the content of her Yahoo email. But why does she need to know if the account is safe from subpoena if she does not use it for gov business?
No, of course I do not use my personal email for work related messages. Nor do I use my work account for personal email. And I am just a little drone in the private sector, a governor is a public servant and should certainly know better.
Lastly, why on earth would you trust this kid to have done a complete check on her email - he is obviously not the brightest bulb in the room.
J2ME/MIDP will not get you http://www.flightsimx.co.uk/xplane/iphone-x-plane-review/ [flightsimx.co.uk]
J2ME/MIDP will not get you http://www.flightsimx.co.uk/xplane/iphone-x-plane-review/
* CPU: 620MHz ARM * RAM: 128MB * Nonvolatile storage: At least 4GB, up to 16GB, usually 8GB
It is pretty much like a real machine from 10 years ago, but with a nice API.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/17/palins_yahoo_account_hacked.html
Among the e-mails released as part of the records request in June were several from Frye asking a state official whether private e-mail accounts and messages sent to BlackBerry devices are immune to subpoena, then reporting the answer to the governor and her husband, Todd, who also uses a Yahoo! mail address.
Asking if Yahoo accounts are subject to subpoena and relaying the answer to the governor suggests to me that the accounts were not simple private email accounts.
When was a device built by Apple a democratic system?
Just to answer, when the Apple ][ was sold, the documentation included full schematics and a listing of the ROM. It also included a section on how to build an interface card that would work in one of the 8 slots. I don't think I have owned a machine that was more open than the Apple ][.
...until a decent spectrum of the object can be taken...
He implies that the spectra taken was not sufficient - sharper spectra is always better. And from the arxiv paper, it looks like they could have hoped for better spectra.