But what if we reroute the oscillator's output to the main deflector dish and convert it into a pulsed tachyon beam, thereby ignorng the impedance in the twelve lowest space dimensions? Of course the odd-order harmonics, if not compensated, might open a subspace rift, but if we tune the gravimetric scanning equipment to 139.47 THz we might be able to modulate the warp field to generate matching even-order harmonics perpendicular to the original waveguide, thereby reducing the chance of a catastrophic breach in the Li-Ion core to less than 0.5%.
Then again, every hyperspace physics student could have thought of that, so the cellphone manufacturers surely have already considered that approach.
In that case we obviously need to make the ships and anchors lighter. Cut it down to about, say, ten kilograms per ship and our undersea cables will be safe again.
You're not getting it. Those are speed holes. They make the font faster.
I'm waiting for the serif version of that font; there they'll replace the serifs with spoilers. I also think they will add a special Type-R sticker glyph in a Unicode Private Use Area to make it go even faster. Then the only thing that could possibly beat the font would be drift typing - but everyone knows that technique can be handled only by the most extreme Japanese fonts.
That's because you have an inkjet screen. It sprays small color droplets onto the backside of the glass pane; however, these droplets tend to bleed out, creating that jagged look. Invest a couple hundred dollars in an entry-level laser monitor and tell me if you still see those jaggies.
(Note: Laser monitors don't always work under Linux and in some cases might not display anything but PostScript documents.)
As for me, I'm still using an old dot matrix display, so I'm stuck with fixed-font text mode.
However, most of the time the people saying "that requires more energy than we can possibly get out of it" seem to think that their argument is self-evident and automatically applies. The closest to a supporting argument I've ever heard is "it is like that for corn ethanol" but nobody seems to even consider that other sources of fuel might work differently.
There seems to be some kind of knee-jerk reaction where some people disregard anything connected to alternative fuel sources out of hand - they will always consume more energy than they produce, they will always cost more than gasoline, it's better to be unemployed than to work producing them... That stance might have been appropriate in the 80s but oil becomes ever more expensive and we do need to mitigate that.
I know. My brother used to do this occasionally, although only for short conversations á la: "Wake up, it's time for lunch." - "Yeah, I'll be there in five minutes." Of course he would then go back to seep and not even remember I ever woke him up. Quite annoying until it stopped at some point.
As for this story: With more background links (such as a discussion in a medical journal) this would be a bona fide geeky news story. While it's been knwn for a while that people can act in their sleep (even to the point of semi-intelligent conversation), something as abstract as writing mails is new.
I think sleep and sleep disorders are a very interesting and discussion-worthy subject (even though I can't offer any medical/biological insight, I'd be interested in such posts from others with more knowledge than me). The story is just not presented that well.
So in essence my verdict is "Where's the beef?" and not "/. is the wrong place to post something like that".
No; due to copyright issues they will name it Tinytown, where Kent Clarke will grow up to be best friends with Lax Loser until the latter one becomes insane, at which time Carke will move into nearby large city Motrepolis. Remember to also tune in next time when we learn how the radioactive photographer Pete Karper bit a spider and turned into Arachno-Fellow.
Well, it works on Macs. I find it mazing that other people actually have to shut down their notebooks when they close them - on both my old G4 iBook and my current MacBook Pro suspend-to-RAM just works. Always. Period.
I'm also not aware of any software that might crash if I do that, although programs running inside a VM might.
Either Apple hardware is superior to that of other manufacturers in some way (maybe EFI can handle ACPI better than BIOS?) or OS X is simply better written in that regard. Whatever it is, Apple has proven that ACPI sleep states (both S3 and S4) are very much doable.
Given that the financial crisis has caused US unemployment figures to raise at a very fast rate I don't think that everyone willing to work has work. Of course this infrastructure wouls require investments but I think the government would be willing to contribute if it can expect oil prices to sink as a result.
As for the energy required to collect the waste: I'm fairly certain that it'd be possible to do so without expending more energy than we can generate from the process. Small distributed processing plants coupled to a decently-designed collection network that leverages trips that already happen anyway (eg. putting up coffee grounds containers where glass recycling containers are or collecting the stuff at malls) could do the trick. Of course driving a truck to everyone's front door to collect their used coffee grounds won't.
anyone actually interested in solving the energy crisis?
For example scientists working out ways to generate fuel from various kinds of waste, which, when combined, might fill a significant part of the gap that fossil oil leaves?
We're not going to find some magical process which will instantly replace fossil fuels. But if we find fifty renewable sources of oil that each produce 1% of our current need then we have already cut the problem in half. And if we find new technologies that allow us to reduce the amount of oil used then that further reduces the problem. Even a tiny step forward is a step forward.
Obviously we will mechanize as much of it as is reasonable but it's still going to require machines and people to operate them. Even if we use the best case of having the delivery drivers collect the used coffee we are still talking about some additional staff.
Seriously, any slightly-out-of-the-ordinary system will break this device. But then again they want this device to find evidence for things like "selling stolen goods" so I don't think their expectations are reasonable to begin with.
Ahhh arts students, the sort of people who fall for the "di-hydrogen monoxide is potentially lethal but the government are letting it into our water supplies".
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But what if we reroute the oscillator's output to the main deflector dish and convert it into a pulsed tachyon beam, thereby ignorng the impedance in the twelve lowest space dimensions? Of course the odd-order harmonics, if not compensated, might open a subspace rift, but if we tune the gravimetric scanning equipment to 139.47 THz we might be able to modulate the warp field to generate matching even-order harmonics perpendicular to the original waveguide, thereby reducing the chance of a catastrophic breach in the Li-Ion core to less than 0.5%.
Then again, every hyperspace physics student could have thought of that, so the cellphone manufacturers surely have already considered that approach.
In that case we obviously need to make the ships and anchors lighter. Cut it down to about, say, ten kilograms per ship and our undersea cables will be safe again.
It's amazing that nobody else ever had that idea.
Good idea. It would certainly be interesting to have a scientific analysis as to whether there is a human that actually likes "Last Christmas".
Given that sunspot activity peaks every couple years, probably not.
So you mean those are pie holes?
You're not getting it. Those are speed holes. They make the font faster.
I'm waiting for the serif version of that font; there they'll replace the serifs with spoilers. I also think they will add a special Type-R sticker glyph in a Unicode Private Use Area to make it go even faster. Then the only thing that could possibly beat the font would be drift typing - but everyone knows that technique can be handled only by the most extreme Japanese fonts.
That's because you have an inkjet screen. It sprays small color droplets onto the backside of the glass pane; however, these droplets tend to bleed out, creating that jagged look. Invest a couple hundred dollars in an entry-level laser monitor and tell me if you still see those jaggies.
(Note: Laser monitors don't always work under Linux and in some cases might not display anything but PostScript documents.)
As for me, I'm still using an old dot matrix display, so I'm stuck with fixed-font text mode.
Wait for your coworkers to gather around it and then fire it up. Now that's what I call an office prank.
However, most of the time the people saying "that requires more energy than we can possibly get out of it" seem to think that their argument is self-evident and automatically applies. The closest to a supporting argument I've ever heard is "it is like that for corn ethanol" but nobody seems to even consider that other sources of fuel might work differently.
There seems to be some kind of knee-jerk reaction where some people disregard anything connected to alternative fuel sources out of hand - they will always consume more energy than they produce, they will always cost more than gasoline, it's better to be unemployed than to work producing them... That stance might have been appropriate in the 80s but oil becomes ever more expensive and we do need to mitigate that.
I know. My brother used to do this occasionally, although only for short conversations á la: "Wake up, it's time for lunch." - "Yeah, I'll be there in five minutes." Of course he would then go back to seep and not even remember I ever woke him up. Quite annoying until it stopped at some point.
Wine32 or wine64? And which size Caviar? Caviar Green, Black, Blue, RE3...?
Come on man, this is a tech website. Or at least it used to be. You could at least sleep-post a bit more precisely.
As for this story: With more background links (such as a discussion in a medical journal) this would be a bona fide geeky news story. While it's been knwn for a while that people can act in their sleep (even to the point of semi-intelligent conversation), something as abstract as writing mails is new.
I think sleep and sleep disorders are a very interesting and discussion-worthy subject (even though I can't offer any medical/biological insight, I'd be interested in such posts from others with more knowledge than me). The story is just not presented that well.
So in essence my verdict is "Where's the beef?" and not "/. is the wrong place to post something like that".
No; due to copyright issues they will name it Tinytown, where Kent Clarke will grow up to be best friends with Lax Loser until the latter one becomes insane, at which time Carke will move into nearby large city Motrepolis. Remember to also tune in next time when we learn how the radioactive photographer Pete Karper bit a spider and turned into Arachno-Fellow.
So you mean the CXOs of record/movie companies are dead artists?
I just called the ESO and they told me that if they ever find a supermassive black hole inside the solar system they'll let you know.
So you think that alternative sources of oil are completely pointless and a waste of everyone's time?
Well, it works on Macs. I find it mazing that other people actually have to shut down their notebooks when they close them - on both my old G4 iBook and my current MacBook Pro suspend-to-RAM just works. Always. Period.
I'm also not aware of any software that might crash if I do that, although programs running inside a VM might.
Either Apple hardware is superior to that of other manufacturers in some way (maybe EFI can handle ACPI better than BIOS?) or OS X is simply better written in that regard. Whatever it is, Apple has proven that ACPI sleep states (both S3 and S4) are very much doable.
"Natural gas" doesn't imply "forced-air". You can also use a water boiler and (a) radiator(s) in each room - that's per-room as well.
Time zones. The GP clearly lives somewhere around UTC-96 or UTC-72.
Given that the financial crisis has caused US unemployment figures to raise at a very fast rate I don't think that everyone willing to work has work. Of course this infrastructure wouls require investments but I think the government would be willing to contribute if it can expect oil prices to sink as a result.
As for the energy required to collect the waste: I'm fairly certain that it'd be possible to do so without expending more energy than we can generate from the process. Small distributed processing plants coupled to a decently-designed collection network that leverages trips that already happen anyway (eg. putting up coffee grounds containers where glass recycling containers are or collecting the stuff at malls) could do the trick. Of course driving a truck to everyone's front door to collect their used coffee grounds won't.
For example scientists working out ways to generate fuel from various kinds of waste, which, when combined, might fill a significant part of the gap that fossil oil leaves?
We're not going to find some magical process which will instantly replace fossil fuels. But if we find fifty renewable sources of oil that each produce 1% of our current need then we have already cut the problem in half. And if we find new technologies that allow us to reduce the amount of oil used then that further reduces the problem. Even a tiny step forward is a step forward.
Care to quote your numbers?
So... additional jobs generated are bad now?
...Linux...
Seriously, any slightly-out-of-the-ordinary system will break this device. But then again they want this device to find evidence for things like "selling stolen goods" so I don't think their expectations are reasonable to begin with.
Well, it is and they are.