Alcatel-Lucent's 802.11 wireless access points and controllers are OEM'd from Aruba Networks. This is interesting and relevant because Aruba also has a big "green island" initiative.
I don't know about sawdust, but whenever I'd complain, my mother would point out that at least I'm not eating Crisco sandwiches. (Not that she ever got quite to that point, but other kids at her school did).
Oh, and Roosevelt Island (in the river between Manhattan and Queens) has pneumatic garbage collection. It's the only place in the US besides Disneyworld to do that. Apparently it works somewhat-not-unlike a packet-switched network, periodically connecting garbage and recycling loads from different places to the appropriate suction via the same set of tubes.
New York City used to have pneumatic mail tubes. (They shut them down when it got to the point that adding mail trucks started to be cheaper than adding tubing. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck, magnetic tapes or paper.)
Heck, the first New York City subway was pneumatic. (It was also very short, and short-lived.)
Dude! Information is a perfectly useful theoretical property in theoretical physics, directly related to entropy.
Observe, for instance, all the cool stuff Stephen Hawking has done is related to black hole entropy in some manner or another.
(Black holes have to have entropy, otherwise you could violate the second law of thermodynamics by tossing stuff into them.... but if they have entropy, they should emit radiation.... hey, guys, look, a way for black holes to emit radiation and evaporate!!)
As Jacob Bekenstein put it, the trend in physics is to "regard the physical world as made of information, with energy and matter as incidentals." (Bekenstein came up with the Bekenstein bound, a fundamental limit on the amount of information/entropy which can be contained within a space. If you could come up with a system with more entropy in a given space, then you might be able to violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics by tossing it into a black hole.)
In his theory, gravity exists because of a difference in concentration of information in the empty space between two masses and its surroundings.
In his theory, gravity exists because of a difference in concentration of entropy in the empty space between two masses and its surroundings. Same darned thing.
It seems aimed at big "IT Infrastructure" companies like ISPs, search engines and mail providers: a way to be in touch with these people in the event of "cyberterrorism" and systematic DOS/takeover attempts. It seems like a much better idea than waiting for something to happen and then have no idea who you're supposed to get in touch with about it. Knowing who to call in an emergency shouldn't have to be half the battle.
With a spare layer of liquid crystals on top. Normal LCDs work something like [unpolarized light... vertical polarization filter... twisty crystal... horizontal polarization filter]. The liquid crystal rotates the light 90 degrees so that it can pass the second filter (or it doesn't, and the light is blocked). Now you just add another layer of liquid crystals and make them flip back and forth at 120Hz in sync with the rest of the picture.
which became further evidence against Aristotelian Cosmology, which led to problems with the Roman Catholic Church
To be fair, he also came up with this crazy-wrong idea about how the earth's motion was responsible for the tides. Also, making fun of any 17th-century Italian nobleman (Pope or otherwise) by naming a character in your book "Simpleton" (Simplicio) and strongly implying that you based it off of him.... after he's trying to give you a chance and says "write it up, try to fairly represent both points of view, okay?"... Well, that's the just sort of social/political ineptitude that's going to get you into serious trouble. (Think of that next time you stumble into office politics.)
I don't know that the typical "let's blow up a plane!" sort of terrorist we've run into of late is all that worried about getting away without trouble if they're caught. I mean, they're willing to die.
Take away the "water" and you have a modest proposal which is just this side of plausible (and hilarious to boot). Want to leave the secure zone? Go down this slide! You can slide your luggage down the luggage chute, next to the passenger chute - no worse treatment than it would get if it were checked. For the elderly or wheelchair-bound, have a staffed elevator. (Bonus: revenue from tips!) And no one's going to run through that one when they're not supposed to.
The point isn't the turning-bar-configuration per se, it's the fact that you're trying to control access with a modicum of hardware (instead of with people). Something like BART / the DC Metro (which have the folding (/ \) configuration) would be spiffy - have two gates in a lane, and enough room between them for a luggage cart or a couple giant suitcases.
The "glass door" configuration is a simple implementation of this, and would be fine for small airports, but it could suffer at very busy airports as people hold the doors open. Plus, it's annoying to push them open, and you'll need some obnoxious ADA-compliant wheelchair-button which would also hold it open. If you want to secure a major airport with and avoid major inconveniences, you can afford to install a few automated "airlock" gates which are smarter than that.
Why don't we take a page from other controlled-access systems and install some basic turnstiles-like gates? (With appropriate modifications so that they're not a major hassle for travelers). That would easily prevent casual, accidental intrusion, and make deliberate intrusion a little more difficult.
Collecting dust for an indefinite amount of time with little feedback only to be arbitrarily granted or denied in some process with impenetrable logic (if it even has any of *that*).... I just realized....
The patent office is a perfect analogy for the iTunes app store!
You seem to be implying that any bias or skew in your data sample renders it utterly useless. You know what? In the real world of web browsers you don't really have the alternatives of "statistically valid sample" and "not statistically valid sample." You have to choose between "not really statistically valid sample" and absolutely nothing whatsoever.
This is the real world, not academia. So take what you can get, realize it has limitations, and use it to form a tentative opinion on the relevant matters... or remain utterly ignorant and leave everything to chance. Your choice.
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Alcatel-Lucent's 802.11 wireless access points and controllers are OEM'd from Aruba Networks. This is interesting and relevant because Aruba also has a big "green island" initiative.
Take that, Mr. Standard-Of-Living.
Oh, and Roosevelt Island (in the river between Manhattan and Queens) has pneumatic garbage collection. It's the only place in the US besides Disneyworld to do that. Apparently it works somewhat-not-unlike a packet-switched network, periodically connecting garbage and recycling loads from different places to the appropriate suction via the same set of tubes.
Heck, the first New York City subway was pneumatic. (It was also very short, and short-lived.)
Dude! Information is a perfectly useful theoretical property in theoretical physics, directly related to entropy. Observe, for instance, all the cool stuff Stephen Hawking has done is related to black hole entropy in some manner or another. (Black holes have to have entropy, otherwise you could violate the second law of thermodynamics by tossing stuff into them.... but if they have entropy, they should emit radiation.... hey, guys, look, a way for black holes to emit radiation and evaporate!!)
As Jacob Bekenstein put it, the trend in physics is to "regard the physical world as made of information, with energy and matter as incidentals." (Bekenstein came up with the Bekenstein bound, a fundamental limit on the amount of information/entropy which can be contained within a space. If you could come up with a system with more entropy in a given space, then you might be able to violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics by tossing it into a black hole.)
In his theory, gravity exists because of a difference in concentration of information in the empty space between two masses and its surroundings.
In his theory, gravity exists because of a difference in concentration of entropy in the empty space between two masses and its surroundings.
Same darned thing.
It seems aimed at big "IT Infrastructure" companies like ISPs, search engines and mail providers: a way to be in touch with these people in the event of "cyberterrorism" and systematic DOS/takeover attempts. It seems like a much better idea than waiting for something to happen and then have no idea who you're supposed to get in touch with about it. Knowing who to call in an emergency shouldn't have to be half the battle.
Sure. So, suppose the universe is discrete. Okay, now suppose the Fibbonaci sequence is discrete. (It is.) Now read Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio#Relationship_to_Fibonacci_sequence
With a spare layer of liquid crystals on top. Normal LCDs work something like [unpolarized light ... vertical polarization filter... twisty crystal... horizontal polarization filter]. The liquid crystal rotates the light 90 degrees so that it can pass the second filter (or it doesn't, and the light is blocked). Now you just add another layer of liquid crystals and make them flip back and forth at 120Hz in sync with the rest of the picture.
which became further evidence against Aristotelian Cosmology, which led to problems with the Roman Catholic Church
To be fair, he also came up with this crazy-wrong idea about how the earth's motion was responsible for the tides. Also, making fun of any 17th-century Italian nobleman (Pope or otherwise) by naming a character in your book "Simpleton" (Simplicio) and strongly implying that you based it off of him.... after he's trying to give you a chance and says "write it up, try to fairly represent both points of view, okay?" ... Well, that's the just sort of social/political ineptitude that's going to get you into serious trouble. (Think of that next time you stumble into office politics.)
Galileo!
Cape Cod ladies don't use no books -
Haul away, haul away!
Well they read their stories on robotic Nook®s
and we're bound away for Australia!
... I'll </whoosh> myself, thank you.
Silverlight didn't work, and we still want to kill Flash.
I don't know that the typical "let's blow up a plane!" sort of terrorist we've run into of late is all that worried about getting away without trouble if they're caught. I mean, they're willing to die.
I don't know about that specifically, but IBM has filed a patent for weighing a bus to estimate how many people are on it, and using that data for planning purposes. ... I was an intern at the time. It was my boss's idea to hold a "patent-brainstorming" session. I'm sorry. :P
Why rotate when you can do it airlock-style?
Take away the "water" and you have a modest proposal which is just this side of plausible (and hilarious to boot). Want to leave the secure zone? Go down this slide! You can slide your luggage down the luggage chute, next to the passenger chute - no worse treatment than it would get if it were checked. For the elderly or wheelchair-bound, have a staffed elevator. (Bonus: revenue from tips!) And no one's going to run through that one when they're not supposed to.
The "glass door" configuration is a simple implementation of this, and would be fine for small airports, but it could suffer at very busy airports as people hold the doors open. Plus, it's annoying to push them open, and you'll need some obnoxious ADA-compliant wheelchair-button which would also hold it open. If you want to secure a major airport with and avoid major inconveniences, you can afford to install a few automated "airlock" gates which are smarter than that.
This won't work for one reason: The employees will fear for their jobs and not report dangerous incidents.
Why don't we take a page from other controlled-access systems and install some basic turnstiles-like gates? (With appropriate modifications so that they're not a major hassle for travelers). That would easily prevent casual, accidental intrusion, and make deliberate intrusion a little more difficult.
In the wild? Tax form PDFs. That's about it.
The patent office is a perfect analogy for the iTunes app store!
I'm waiting for the iSlate 3G.
Btw: Chalk/pencils/paper never run out of batteries, never get badly damaged when dropped.
I call shenanigans. If you were really a teacher, you would have dropped chalk before and known this statement to be FALSE!
You seem to be implying that any bias or skew in your data sample renders it utterly useless. You know what? In the real world of web browsers you don't really have the alternatives of "statistically valid sample" and "not statistically valid sample." You have to choose between "not really statistically valid sample" and absolutely nothing whatsoever.
This is the real world, not academia. So take what you can get, realize it has limitations, and use it to form a tentative opinion on the relevant matters... or remain utterly ignorant and leave everything to chance. Your choice.