The difference between an xray tube and CRT tube is disturbingly subtle.
Fortunately most of the EM radiation from a CRT monitor goes out the back, not through the screen. You're frying the guy sitting in front of you, and you need to worry about the monitor behind you. However, it is most not all. You still get a dose from your own monitor too.
This story seems to have the lowest average user ID for posters of any story on/. in a long while. Makes me feel like a youngster. I recall the issues of begging for time on the PDP-11 machine in the Engineering Department at my college. As a biology major, I was WAY down the list.
Why would you want to write off 10-20% of your potential market (and piss off 50%) before you even start competing with Sony?
That seems to be Sony's marketing strategy, and it seems to work for them. Frankly, I expect that both of these new consoles will root everything on your home network.
>the pole drifted southeast towards northern Labrador
Isn't any movement away from the pole always due south? How can this be "southeast? From the perspective of a person in Edmonton, it may have moved southeast, but from the perspective of a person in Edinburgh, it has moved southwest.
I read two kinds of magazine. One group I subscribe to for the content, Vanity Fair, Cooks Illustrated, Backpacker. The other group comes because of my membership in professional organizations.
According to the video, there are now more high schools in Michigan with FIRST teams than with hockey teams. Also, be warned. The video contains shots of nerd "dancing." It all looks like great fun.
One nice thing about the Wii was the free multiplayer gaming; no subscription to xbox live or any such. Granted the game play was a little less stellar than other consoles, but you could still play COD online with no hassle. I hope that isn't being killed along with the rest of this.
He was fired. At the CEO level, they don't hand you a check and take your key and have the security droid escort you out of the building. He's being paid what his contract says he will be paid when he is terminated, and the face-saving fiction is that he is allowed to resign effective March 30. However, make no mistake; he was fired.
It helps to plug them into a sound producing source playing the aforementioned Pink Floyd and Phish, or something to your taste. Alternatively, regular speakers playing Wayne Newton or Lawrence Welk will empty your room and leave you in peace (once you build up immunity.) Also joining in the aforementioned bong hits will help also. It IS college.
>That's hyperbole, I'm afraid. It's a bacterium, just a very distant cousin.
I know. Which is still very cool. Sometimes you just want it to be something extra, extra cool; like a bacterium-like organism that got there from some ancient Martian meteorite and thrived there. Even better would be some spawn of Cthulhu that escaped the Mountains of Madness and hid beneath the ice. Me, I keep looking for a fossil bryophyte with a branching sporophyte.
Go to Paris (not the one in Texas.) Seek out the company of amiable women (or whatever you're into.) Drink, eat, sleep, repeat. Do not take your laptop with you. Take the train to Barcelona of Brussels.
I will trust them if and only if their "positronic brains" can only be manufactured incorporating Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. Otherwise... well, we've all seen those movies.
Short term, I agree completely. In the longer term, it may make sense to mine and refine minerals into construction materials for space vehicles on the moon. The smaller gravity well and lack of atmosphere may make it much cheaper to get construction materials into space from the moon rather than from Earth. Railgun launch into lunar orbit is an old idea.
From the Wikipedia article on raw file formats: "Providing a detailed and concise description of the content of raw files is highly problematic. There is no single raw format; formats can be similar or radically different. Different manufacturers use their own proprietary and typically undocumented formats, which are collectively known as raw format. Often they also change the format from one camera model to the next. Several major camera manufacturers, including Nikon, Canon and Sony, encrypt portions of the file in an attempt to prevent third-party tools from accessing them.[29]"
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Google for Nikon encryption and look at all the stuff beginning April 2005. Nikon changed the file format written by the new DX2. This was widely seen as an attempt to lock out third-party RAW converters. While the encryption was relatively easy to crack, there was widespread concern about DMCA action by Nikon. Adobe and others resisted at first and then caved and licensed the format.
I can't help but think this is just a bit of karma comeback for Nikon. A few years ago, they decided to change their RAW file format to NEF (Nikon Encrypted Format), which could be read by nothing but their own software. They graciously allowed MS, Adobe and all to purchase licenses, so that Photoshop and such could read and work with the new.nef files. To be fair, Pentax, Canon and everyone seems to be doing this now.
The kiloton unit came into use to describe the explosive energy of the early nuclear bombs. A one kiloton nuclear explosion released the same energy as a 1000 ton (kiloton) TNT explosion. For people in the 1950's who were used to reading about 500 lb. and 1000 lb bombs used in WWII, it provided a useful mental scale.
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The difference between an xray tube and CRT tube is disturbingly subtle.
Fortunately most of the EM radiation from a CRT monitor goes out the back, not through the screen. You're frying the guy sitting in front of you, and you need to worry about the monitor behind you. However, it is most not all. You still get a dose from your own monitor too.
This story seems to have the lowest average user ID for posters of any story on /. in a long while. Makes me feel like a youngster. I recall the issues of begging for time on the PDP-11 machine in the Engineering Department at my college. As a biology major, I was WAY down the list.
Why would you want to write off 10-20% of your potential market (and piss off 50%) before you even start competing with Sony?
That seems to be Sony's marketing strategy, and it seems to work for them. Frankly, I expect that both of these new consoles will root everything on your home network.
Wally has it right.
The reservoir used to be a cool place to go drink beer back in the day.
>the pole drifted southeast towards northern Labrador
Isn't any movement away from the pole always due south? How can this be "southeast? From the perspective of a person in Edmonton, it may have moved southeast, but from the perspective of a person in Edinburgh, it has moved southwest.
My revolver doesn't have a safety. Pull the trigger, and it fires. Cock it and pull the trigger, and it fires much more easily.
This is very interesting, but it seems quite complicated. I wonder how many points of failure there are that transition it to brick mode.
I just tried both of those and was given correct answers with no ads. The prime number question gave results from Wolfram Alpha.
I read two kinds of magazine. One group I subscribe to for the content, Vanity Fair, Cooks Illustrated, Backpacker. The other group comes because of my membership in professional organizations.
According to the video, there are now more high schools in Michigan with FIRST teams than with hockey teams. Also, be warned. The video contains shots of nerd "dancing." It all looks like great fun.
One nice thing about the Wii was the free multiplayer gaming; no subscription to xbox live or any such. Granted the game play was a little less stellar than other consoles, but you could still play COD online with no hassle. I hope that isn't being killed along with the rest of this.
>An assistant professor at Ohio State University who recently earned her Ph.D. in literature writes...
Where I come from, Assistant Professor == Tenure Track. Non-tenure track is called adjunct professor or lecturer.
He was fired. At the CEO level, they don't hand you a check and take your key and have the security droid escort you out of the building. He's being paid what his contract says he will be paid when he is terminated, and the face-saving fiction is that he is allowed to resign effective March 30. However, make no mistake; he was fired.
It helps to plug them into a sound producing source playing the aforementioned Pink Floyd and Phish, or something to your taste. Alternatively, regular speakers playing Wayne Newton or Lawrence Welk will empty your room and leave you in peace (once you build up immunity.) Also joining in the aforementioned bong hits will help also. It IS college.
You are right. Eukaryotic cells are quite evolved from what are thought to be the earliest cells to form.
>That's hyperbole, I'm afraid. It's a bacterium, just a very distant cousin.
I know. Which is still very cool. Sometimes you just want it to be something extra, extra cool; like a bacterium-like organism that got there from some ancient Martian meteorite and thrived there. Even better would be some spawn of Cthulhu that escaped the Mountains of Madness and hid beneath the ice. Me, I keep looking for a fossil bryophyte with a branching sporophyte.
Go to Paris (not the one in Texas.) Seek out the company of amiable women (or whatever you're into.) Drink, eat, sleep, repeat. Do not take your laptop with you. Take the train to Barcelona of Brussels.
I will trust them if and only if their "positronic brains" can only be manufactured incorporating Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. Otherwise... well, we've all seen those movies.
Short term, I agree completely. In the longer term, it may make sense to mine and refine minerals into construction materials for space vehicles on the moon. The smaller gravity well and lack of atmosphere may make it much cheaper to get construction materials into space from the moon rather than from Earth. Railgun launch into lunar orbit is an old idea.
From the Wikipedia article on raw file formats: "Providing a detailed and concise description of the content of raw files is highly problematic. There is no single raw format; formats can be similar or radically different. Different manufacturers use their own proprietary and typically undocumented formats, which are collectively known as raw format. Often they also change the format from one camera model to the next. Several major camera manufacturers, including Nikon, Canon and Sony, encrypt portions of the file in an attempt to prevent third-party tools from accessing them.[29]" article
Google for Nikon encryption and look at all the stuff beginning April 2005. Nikon changed the file format written by the new DX2. This was widely seen as an attempt to lock out third-party RAW converters. While the encryption was relatively easy to crack, there was widespread concern about DMCA action by Nikon. Adobe and others resisted at first and then caved and licensed the format.
I can't help but think this is just a bit of karma comeback for Nikon. A few years ago, they decided to change their RAW file format to NEF (Nikon Encrypted Format), which could be read by nothing but their own software. They graciously allowed MS, Adobe and all to purchase licenses, so that Photoshop and such could read and work with the new .nef files. To be fair, Pentax, Canon and everyone seems to be doing this now.
The kiloton unit came into use to describe the explosive energy of the early nuclear bombs. A one kiloton nuclear explosion released the same energy as a 1000 ton (kiloton) TNT explosion. For people in the 1950's who were used to reading about 500 lb. and 1000 lb bombs used in WWII, it provided a useful mental scale.