To be fair, at least greenpeace and apple arrive at the same numbers for the power generated by the wind and solar power plants.
10%*100MW = 10MW = 60%*20MW.
So the only difference is the total power consumption, which you have to guess anyway if you are not Apple.
First of all every people should get rid of of their own dictator. But educated masses are the first step for creating democracies and raise the awareness of political and social problems. Maybe it will help.
I hope you have your notification-email settings turned on - that is if you are really interested.
I think the answer pretty much depends on what you call "transparent". In the case of optical communications, often it is sufficient to just modulate (or switch) one particular wavelength (frequency). In this case, for example every (direct) semiconductor will do. The idea is as follows:
neutral semiconductor: light with a photon energy smaller than the semiconductor bandgap will not be absorbed.
neutral semiconductor: light with a photon energy bigger than the semiconductor bandgap will be absorbed and generate charge carriers.
with an applied current the conduction band of the semiconductor is not empty anymore. If the electron states near the conduction band edge are filled, photons at the bandgap energy cannot cause electron transitions anymore. As a result, the light will not be absorbed and the material is transparent again.
Of course, the problem with this is the speed at which you can modulate such a structure, as the electron lifetime is the limiting factor.
I'd say Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA, google for it) are better candidates for the amplification. And they are already at 40GBit/s, but again only on InP or GaAs basis.
All the posters that say: "I won't connect it to the internet" - what if it requires a "free service subscription" that works like the CD-key thing on battlenet? Then hacking the box means violating a service contract and will be punished.
At the moment if you buy a book it is yours and you can read it whenever you want, even be it in 100 years. For online-editions of journals and books this is different, you have to pay a (huge) yearly fee in order to read them and use the search engines.
So will the "digital information" of the future be "pay per book" or "pay per view?"
There a two different usage patterns concerning books in my humble opinion.
Research, where I really enjoy beeing able to full-text search through thousands of (e.g.) pdfs and online information (through spinweb etc.)
Reading a book I much prefer if it is for entertainment or if I have to dig deep into a subject. There I don't need full-text search and a book has no other fancy features that distract my attention.
I understood it in a different way: what if OpenOffice would have been written in Java right from the beginning - then porting would have been much easier.
Would it be possible to back-port NO/j to windows/linux?
Nokia was never keen to support their phones (even the models marked "business") for Macs. Despite the Series60 phones which are mostly supported I'd suggest they start with support for plain old nokia phones first before they try to develop new models.
And as a previous poster noted: they should concentrate on excellent phones. Maybe allow them to sync well, but that should be about it.
I would think an outdated security system is much worse than no security system at all. In this respect not updating something really means to kill it.
you can skip most of the os install and just tell your x-server to connect to your server. I'm not sure how small you can drive that, but I think with a ramdisk and some tftp you could boot of a floppy.
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Stock star wars? Ugh. Wake me if they add the 'uncut' versions to their vault...
To be fair, at least greenpeace and apple arrive at the same numbers for the power generated by the wind and solar power plants.
10%*100MW = 10MW = 60%*20MW.
So the only difference is the total power consumption, which you have to guess anyway if you are not Apple.
well, the HHI has incredibly fast photo diodes... you can buy a 100GHz PD for less than $20000 from them...
First of all every people should get rid of of their own dictator. But educated masses are the first step for creating democracies and raise the awareness of political and social problems. Maybe it will help.
this is a link to their JAP abstract
it seems that the novelty is that they were able to transfer strained silicon thin films to a polymer substrate.
but you realize that there are atoms with only half-filled inner shells, like for example the 3d transition metals (Fe, Mn, Cr, ...)?
I hope you have your notification-email settings turned on - that is if you are really interested.
I think the answer pretty much depends on what you call "transparent". In the case of optical communications, often it is sufficient to just modulate (or switch) one particular wavelength (frequency). In this case, for example every (direct) semiconductor will do. The idea is as follows:
Of course, the problem with this is the speed at which you can modulate such a structure, as the electron lifetime is the limiting factor.
This ist the first post that actually contains information, please mod up!
even if this comment comes much too late: don't use red dot. It is a horrible mess and you get all the beauty also with plone, as an example.
I'd say Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA, google for it) are better candidates for the amplification. And they are already at 40GBit/s, but again only on InP or GaAs basis.
All the posters that say: "I won't connect it to the internet" - what if it requires a "free service subscription" that works like the CD-key thing on battlenet? Then hacking the box means violating a service contract and will be punished.
how can you take this post as a troll? It is either funny or maybe insightful, but troll? seesh...
At the moment if you buy a book it is yours and you can read it whenever you want, even be it in 100 years. For online-editions of journals and books this is different, you have to pay a (huge) yearly fee in order to read them and use the search engines.
So will the "digital information" of the future be "pay per book" or "pay per view?"
There a two different usage patterns concerning books in my humble opinion.
Research, where I really enjoy beeing able to full-text search through thousands of (e.g.) pdfs and online information (through spinweb etc.)
Reading a book I much prefer if it is for entertainment or if I have to dig deep into a subject. There I don't need full-text search and a book has no other fancy features that distract my attention.
to stop bob geldof from organizing Live8 concerts every year?
Cairo then became XP, in greek Cai Rho, so it is not that long ago as many think.
I bet the original powerpoint presentation had WHOA sound effects, too...
holy crap, it could be the set of an X-Men movie or so :)
I understood it in a different way: what if OpenOffice would have been written in Java right from the beginning - then porting would have been much easier.
Would it be possible to back-port NO/j to windows/linux?
Nokia was never keen to support their phones (even the models marked "business") for Macs. Despite the Series60 phones which are mostly supported I'd suggest they start with support for plain old nokia phones first before they try to develop new models.
And as a previous poster noted: they should concentrate on excellent phones. Maybe allow them to sync well, but that should be about it.
Most important thing for this announcement is an updated list of iSync supported devices here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/isync/devices .html
at least there is progress concerning support for nokia phones :)
I would think an outdated security system is much worse than no security system at all. In this respect not updating something really means to kill it.
and Zooey Deschanel who plays Trillian is pretty promising too. (And of course she's damn pretty :) )
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you can skip most of the os install and just tell your x-server to connect to your server. I'm not sure how small you can drive that, but I think with a ramdisk and some tftp you could boot of a floppy.