Poor graphics? A study doesn't have to be prettied up to be a good study.
You must never have attended public school.;) Seriously though, poor graphics, particularly when they're graphs and other statistical views, can really bring down an otherwise sweet presentation. Or, if sufficiently bad and misleading, bring up an otherwise dismal presentation.
Nuclear power (standard fission processes) is efficient. The fuel, U-230something, is quite expensive, but will generate insane amounts of power, such that even after much safety-related overhead it is many times cheaper than the cheapest coal power. Furthermore, I do not believe that plutonium in any form is has ever been used to generate electrical power... and I am rather sure that the only use for plutonium is in weapons systems. (Correct me if I'm wrong, please, and give documentation, so I can know better next time).
I think this is what cringley was getting at -- changing linux to reflect the fact that alot of the development is funded by major corporations now instead of hackers working on their free time.
I don't find this all that likely. Maybe that's what he SHOULD HAVE BEEN getting at... but you're giving him too much credit.
(a) A person may not drive a motor vehicle if a television receiver, a video monitor, or a television or video screen, or any other, similar means of visually displaying a television broadcast or video signal that produces entertainment or business applications, is operating and is located in the motor vehicle at any point forward of the back of the driver's seat, or is operating and visible to the driver while driving the motor vehicle.
So what about all those high-end family minivans with the built-in video systems that fold down from the top of the roof? Those are certainly installed ahead of the driver's seat. Chrysler/Dodge/whoever should complain...
And why can't my passanger use his laptop, anyway?!? (wait, that's because it's broken with a "fan error" and needs to be brought into the tech shop... I don't live anywhere near California anyway =)
Actually, I don't have a floppy drive on my new laptop. Which meant that when I went to install NetBSD on an old 486, I had to go down the hall and borrow the resident advisor's laptop (one of the only sophmores on the floor- the rest of us are frehmen, and are on a different laptop cycle...)
We've gotta ban that stuff, all the kids are gonna start using it, and then we'll never get them to stop. It's addictive... I've had like 5 doses today...
Man, be careful! It can be fatal if inhaled! It causes erosion, and is a primary component in acid rain! It's been found in the tumors of terminal cancer patients! It contributes to global warming! It's one of the world's top industrial chemicals... and it regularly works its way into our water supplies!
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The primary good thing to come from an increased abundance of junk in the atmosphere: plants get lusher. I've lost the good-looking legitimate article in Reason Magazine or The Economist or whatever it was, but this picture will give you an idea... taken from
this random website which I don't claim is legit in the least...
Hmm. But in a more structured fashion, perhaps.:) You know, when they needed to put out the fires at dozens of flaming oil wells after Gulf War 1, one of their primary tricks was to detonate a bunch of explosives around the mouth of the well. (Deprives it of oxygen and all that...)
It had to be said. Even (especially!) if they can pacel out their bandwidth by making you contact contact "Jeff Dechka, Remote Sensing Data and Product Coordinator at the Canadian Forest Service's Pacific Forestry Centre in Victoria at jdechka@pfc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca" to download it.
why the hell are you using your computer to look for little green men (who, even if they contact us, are near enough to come to us, and do so, will probably make us into gourmet ready-meals for their home planet, or smething)
Because it makes a spiffy screensaver. It's pretty nifty to see every machine in the school's computer lab decked out in the SETI@Home screensaver.
Forget the plugs for sponsors... the @#!*$^!! begging season is the *real* pain. Fortunately, it's all temporally colocated, so I can find somewhere else to listen to classical music for a month or so.
I've heard a lot of physics teachers complain about stuff like this. Mostly, it's about Star Trek episodes where the crew sees explosion on planet X as it happens, and gets sound effects at the same time, from several hundred thousand kilometers (or so) away. On the other hand, consider: if these Star Trek people have sophisticated enough technology to use transporter beams, surely their friendly computer can simulate the sound for them on the bridge, such that they can better interpret incoming video feeds. As for scenes outside the actual bridge, we can also suppose that the friendly audio engineers are doing something similar with our video feed: after all, they're both showing something that's happening quite some distance away... in a fictional universe, even!
Do you really want to have a scene where something flies by or explodes without any noise? The presence of a good fun "swoosh" is comforting to the viewer and makes the sequence seem more intense, vivid, and realistic, to the viewer who fails to overanalyze the situation. I like swooshing.
Well, consider... if you want to lay down surpressive fire with a bunch of kenetic-kill weapons, you'll need a lot of the bullets. This is space, however, and as such space is relatively limited, and I would imagine if you have a decent energy weapon system you'd have a better damage-to-weight ratio storing whatever fuel generates the the energy pulses. And those sorts of systems are not vulnerable to mechanical jams of any sort, either.
Additionally, this may impede legitimate unsolicited commercial e-mail as well as that of the "Free Vitamins 7538" variety."
But what kinds of "legitimate" unsolicited commercial email are you thinking of? I for one would consider any unsolicited advertisements in my inbox are spam, whether they're from Viagra Spammer #89723490, or whether they're from Sierra Entertainment, AOL or Microsoft or...
If I had actually wanted the email, I would have asked for it, and then it's not unsolicited, is it?
Well....
a) Consider that light has been traveling slower than the speed-of-light for billions of years- every time that light is traveling through something that's not a vacuum.
b) Consider that they didn't slow down the photons in the light, they just got this gas to "record" the light pulse and then play it back a millisecond later. Not quite the same thing.
See, the stopped light isn't stored as photons... it's stored as energy in a gas, which will then produce another pulse of light identical to the incoming one when tickled with a laser. If you tried to jam too many photons in there, the gas would stop absorbing the photons, what you'd end up is a gas that's probably rather hot and has lost all the data of the incoming light pulses. Rather useless.
Photons are quanta of energy; they are quite incapable of being split or combined. Consult your local library for books on quantam physics...
No, not really. Did you RTFA? What these people have done is to bounce a light pulse into a gas, have the gas store the data of the pulse, and then get it to spit it back out again. The actual photons have not been stopped, but they have been absorbed by the atoms in the gas. The problems with doing this en masse are probably related to the rather low energy capacity of the gas and what would be comparatively insane amounts of overhead required. Why not just stick up a solar panel/mirror/thingy?
They've stopped the light-as-information, really, more than they have stopped the light-as-energy.
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You must never have attended public school. ;) Seriously though, poor graphics, particularly when they're graphs and other statistical views, can really bring down an otherwise sweet presentation. Or, if sufficiently bad and misleading, bring up an otherwise dismal presentation.
Nuclear power (standard fission processes) is efficient. The fuel, U-230something, is quite expensive, but will generate insane amounts of power, such that even after much safety-related overhead it is many times cheaper than the cheapest coal power. Furthermore, I do not believe that plutonium in any form is has ever been used to generate electrical power... and I am rather sure that the only use for plutonium is in weapons systems. (Correct me if I'm wrong, please, and give documentation, so I can know better next time).
Easy to configure? Just how easy to configure could this behemoth be? O_O
I don't find this all that likely. Maybe that's what he SHOULD HAVE BEEN getting at... but you're giving him too much credit.
In other words...
Books don't kill people.... I do.
(based on Weird Al's NRA parody commercial in _UHF_)
So what about all those high-end family minivans with the built-in video systems that fold down from the top of the roof? Those are certainly installed ahead of the driver's seat. Chrysler/Dodge/whoever should complain...
And why can't my passanger use his laptop, anyway?!? (wait, that's because it's broken with a "fan error" and needs to be brought into the tech shop... I don't live anywhere near California anyway =)
Last time I checked, it was 'win.com' not 'windows.exe' :)
Actually, I don't have a floppy drive on my new laptop. Which meant that when I went to install NetBSD on an old 486, I had to go down the hall and borrow the resident advisor's laptop (one of the only sophmores on the floor- the rest of us are frehmen, and are on a different laptop cycle...)
If UserLinux is user-friendly, will it come with randomly generated background music?
(insert groans here)
Hmm. If it's rated poorly, and it's still overrated... it must be pretty bad! (Have not seen it... =/)
We've gotta ban that stuff, all the kids are gonna start using it, and then we'll never get them to stop. It's addictive... I've had like 5 doses today... Man, be careful! It can be fatal if inhaled! It causes erosion, and is a primary component in acid rain! It's been found in the tumors of terminal cancer patients! It contributes to global warming! It's one of the world's top industrial chemicals... and it regularly works its way into our water supplies!
The primary good thing to come from an increased abundance of junk in the atmosphere: plants get lusher. I've lost the good-looking legitimate article in Reason Magazine or The Economist or whatever it was, but this picture will give you an idea... taken from this random website which I don't claim is legit in the least...
Hmm. But in a more structured fashion, perhaps. :)
You know, when they needed to put out the fires at dozens of flaming oil wells after Gulf War 1, one of their primary tricks was to detonate a bunch of explosives around the mouth of the well. (Deprives it of oxygen and all that...)
It had to be said. Even (especially!) if they can pacel out their bandwidth by making you contact contact "Jeff Dechka, Remote Sensing Data and Product Coordinator at the Canadian Forest Service's Pacific Forestry Centre in Victoria at jdechka@pfc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca" to download it.
that's the point. Best I can remember is that most of the dot-coms weren't really making ANY money off anything.
I still AM on dialup, you insensitive clod!
:)
(well, at home, anyway. I got 10mbps at the office
Forget the plugs for sponsors... the @#!*$^!! begging season is the *real* pain. Fortunately, it's all temporally colocated, so I can find somewhere else to listen to classical music for a month or so.
I've heard a lot of physics teachers complain about stuff like this. Mostly, it's about Star Trek episodes where the crew sees explosion on planet X as it happens, and gets sound effects at the same time, from several hundred thousand kilometers (or so) away. On the other hand, consider: if these Star Trek people have sophisticated enough technology to use transporter beams, surely their friendly computer can simulate the sound for them on the bridge, such that they can better interpret incoming video feeds. As for scenes outside the actual bridge, we can also suppose that the friendly audio engineers are doing something similar with our video feed: after all, they're both showing something that's happening quite some distance away... in a fictional universe, even!
Do you really want to have a scene where something flies by or explodes without any noise? The presence of a good fun "swoosh" is comforting to the viewer and makes the sequence seem more intense, vivid, and realistic, to the viewer who fails to overanalyze the situation. I like swooshing.
Should have used BitTorrent. Then it'd be "I was in the process of downloading this already. Yay for Slashdot!!!"
Well, consider... if you want to lay down surpressive fire with a bunch of kenetic-kill weapons, you'll need a lot of the bullets. This is space, however, and as such space is relatively limited, and I would imagine if you have a decent energy weapon system you'd have a better damage-to-weight ratio storing whatever fuel generates the the energy pulses. And those sorts of systems are not vulnerable to mechanical jams of any sort, either.
If I had actually wanted the email, I would have asked for it, and then it's not unsolicited, is it?
Well....
a) Consider that light has been traveling slower than the speed-of-light for billions of years- every time that light is traveling through something that's not a vacuum.
b) Consider that they didn't slow down the photons in the light, they just got this gas to "record" the light pulse and then play it back a millisecond later. Not quite the same thing.
See, the stopped light isn't stored as photons... it's stored as energy in a gas, which will then produce another pulse of light identical to the incoming one when tickled with a laser. If you tried to jam too many photons in there, the gas would stop absorbing the photons, what you'd end up is a gas that's probably rather hot and has lost all the data of the incoming light pulses. Rather useless.
Photons are quanta of energy; they are quite incapable of being split or combined. Consult your local library for books on quantam physics...
No, not really. Did you RTFA? What these people have done is to bounce a light pulse into a gas, have the gas store the data of the pulse, and then get it to spit it back out again. The actual photons have not been stopped, but they have been absorbed by the atoms in the gas. The problems with doing this en masse are probably related to the rather low energy capacity of the gas and what would be comparatively insane amounts of overhead required. Why not just stick up a solar panel/mirror/thingy?
They've stopped the light-as-information, really, more than they have stopped the light-as-energy.