Given that solar cells (GaAs ones at least) pass relatively low amounts of current, this could have huge implications.
The endless hours spend soldering a solar array together could come to an end. Many of these could be shingled and encapsulated fairly easily, not worrying as much about materials shorting out all the time.
The patriot act has solved some of the problems associated with identity theft, as banks now have more information about their customers. Regardless if this is a violation of personal privacy or not.
Working in a bank, I often check to make sure the phone number being called from is one that matches and account or ask other information than a social security number. The most important method of identification is the personal relationship at a bank though. If you don't want your information stolen, find an employee that's been with the bank for a long time and deal only with that person. I know when I transferred locations, it was a very foreign atmosphere to me and people were upset when I'd ask them for ID because I did not yet know them.
The many many cases of identity theft are also due to people giving out their own information to scams, not leakage from corporate sources. I can't count the number of pay stubs that are discarded without being shredded each Friday. Each one often has a SSN, as well as other personal identifying information.
Only case of identity theft that I've heard of was one of the customers at the bank I work at. He did all the investigation himself and figured out how to steal his own identity. Turns out, he ended up calling the guy that stole his identity as the cops were on his front door. Yet again we see that to get anything done in the American legal system, you have to be anti-American and get up off you ass to do it yourself.
So all along, the cure for cancer was right underneath our noses? *dripping*
Shame on us all for not having thought of it sooner while we were sitting at home from work, watching TV and curing cancer at the same time.
"Hey, Miss Doesn't-find-me- attractive-sexually-anymore: I just tripled my productivity!" - Homer
Maybe light is only a particle after all! (Ignoring the De Broglie (sp) wavelength)
Supposing the frequency is zero, this means the 'photon energy' (E=hf) is zero as well. What kind of energy, then, does the photon have when it is motionless?
Unfortunately, Mozilla is sometimes too good. When editing in HTML, you have to make sure to view it with IE.
Granted, I'm sure everyone on/. is a god when it comes to HTML code. However, if you view your page with Mozilla, it's actually so kind as to clean up some open tags. Very cool, but you have to realize that using Mozilla makes you a minority, like so many/.ers are.
Unfortunately, the masses must be kept in mind. After all, dude, they're gettin a dell.
Looking at the Project Website linked in the article, the scope of the project is as follows.
This is a long-term project, and each stage will provide outstandingly interesting communication opportunities for sustainable development:
Announcement of the project on 28 th November 2003 ;
Design and construction of the first prototype in 2004-2005;
First flight tests of the first prototype early in 2006;
Complete night in the air during the first 36 hour solar flight in June 2007;
First flight tests of the second prototype from end 2007;
Solar flights lasting several days from start of 2009.
I'm on the University of Minnesota's Solar Vehicle Project team. The major concern with projects like these is not in running under total sunlight conditions, since most solar arrays would be able to run with the necessary efficiency. However, their mission is to be able to store power and fly at night, much as ours is to be able to "rayce" in any conditions.
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You try saying that when your tuition is paying to fill the University swimming pool with Syrup.
The TYME network's slogan was "TYME is Money"
TYME actually stands for Take Your Money Everywhere.
TYME has now been bought out and is PULSE, which makes no sense...or cents *rimshot*
My computer at work loads up Windows Media Player with visualization non other than...
Ambience: water
My computer fixed in India by tomorrow, I only trust UPS to get it there on time.
Not in the street outside my house anymore!
that google was just a juy sitting behind the wall that knows everything.
Just like the standardized testing grading machines...
The photovoltaics on the mars rover are likely triple junction GaAs/GaInP2 cells.
Similar products are sold by Spectrolab and Emcore.
Teams that "rayce" solar cars often purchase space-grade reject cells from these two companies.
How often would you have to re-orient the wing shape based on the consumption of fuel then??
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This sig brought to you by the things on my desk.
They tried to make one, but they had enough problems keeping the 12" PowerBook cool enough sit on Yao Ming's lap without burning his legs.
With how hot the wrist-rests (not to mention the rest of the parts) get on 12" powerbooks, I'm surprised someone would consider a dual processor.
"ICU? Yeah. We got another PowerBook user here in the ER."
If you can track the monsters coming to find you, just run away when you know you're low on ammo!
Given that solar cells (GaAs ones at least) pass relatively low amounts of current, this could have huge implications.
The endless hours spend soldering a solar array together could come to an end. Many of these could be shingled and encapsulated fairly easily, not worrying as much about materials shorting out all the time.
I look forward to more news!
I guess I better pull out my book of FORTRAN for Dummies.
Wait. Any FORTRAN book is FORTRAN for dummies
The patriot act has solved some of the problems associated with identity theft, as banks now have more information about their customers. Regardless if this is a violation of personal privacy or not. Working in a bank, I often check to make sure the phone number being called from is one that matches and account or ask other information than a social security number. The most important method of identification is the personal relationship at a bank though. If you don't want your information stolen, find an employee that's been with the bank for a long time and deal only with that person. I know when I transferred locations, it was a very foreign atmosphere to me and people were upset when I'd ask them for ID because I did not yet know them. The many many cases of identity theft are also due to people giving out their own information to scams, not leakage from corporate sources. I can't count the number of pay stubs that are discarded without being shredded each Friday. Each one often has a SSN, as well as other personal identifying information.
Only case of identity theft that I've heard of was one of the customers at the bank I work at. He did all the investigation himself and figured out how to steal his own identity. Turns out, he ended up calling the guy that stole his identity as the cops were on his front door. Yet again we see that to get anything done in the American legal system, you have to be anti-American and get up off you ass to do it yourself.
So all along, the cure for cancer was right underneath our noses? *dripping* Shame on us all for not having thought of it sooner while we were sitting at home from work, watching TV and curing cancer at the same time. "Hey, Miss Doesn't-find-me- attractive-sexually-anymore: I just tripled my productivity!" - Homer
Maybe light is only a particle after all! (Ignoring the De Broglie (sp) wavelength) Supposing the frequency is zero, this means the 'photon energy' (E=hf) is zero as well. What kind of energy, then, does the photon have when it is motionless?
"I think it's moving us in the right direction," he said. "Moving forward at the speed of light"? uh oh
Oh...wait. Voids allow light to travel faster. shame on me. What color is stopped light if it retains its energy?
Unfortunately, Mozilla is sometimes too good. When editing in HTML, you have to make sure to view it with IE.
/. is a god when it comes to HTML code. However, if you view your page with Mozilla, it's actually so kind as to clean up some open tags. Very cool, but you have to realize that using Mozilla makes you a minority, like so many /.ers are.
Granted, I'm sure everyone on
Unfortunately, the masses must be kept in mind. After all, dude, they're gettin a dell.
Anyone else seeing a convenient link between microsoft "longhorn" and Gateway PCs?
If you're going to market two crappy products, you might as well have them paired together!
Looking at the Project Website linked in the article, the scope of the project is as follows. This is a long-term project, and each stage will provide outstandingly interesting communication opportunities for sustainable development: Announcement of the project on 28 th November 2003 ; Design and construction of the first prototype in 2004-2005; First flight tests of the first prototype early in 2006; Complete night in the air during the first 36 hour solar flight in June 2007; First flight tests of the second prototype from end 2007; Solar flights lasting several days from start of 2009. I'm on the University of Minnesota's Solar Vehicle Project team. The major concern with projects like these is not in running under total sunlight conditions, since most solar arrays would be able to run with the necessary efficiency. However, their mission is to be able to store power and fly at night, much as ours is to be able to "rayce" in any conditions.