It really depends on the film type used. 3-strip dye-transfer prints, for example, are almost indestructible if stored correctly (i.e. negligible degradation over time).
- First, this is all predicated on Europeans moving on a massive scale to the Americas. The author writes "By the end of the 15th century, between 40 million and 80 million people are thought to have been living in the Americas." Given that Columbus sailed in 1492, does anyone seriously believe tens of millions of Europeans moved to the Americas in the next 8 years? Even in the next 100 years? Completely nonsensical numbers.
The 40-80 million population refers to the natives, not the settlers.
- Third, they got the direction wrong: if forests were chopped down, they would have been burned and not allowed to regrow - thus increasing CO2, not decreasing it.
If you read the article, you;d know that the effect is due to the growth of trees in cleared areas, not the burning of trees that occurred prior to that.
Or rather, it's green goo (with life by volume being predominantly chlorophyll-using). Note how the entire planet has not become a single lump of homogeneous cells. Considering why this is will quickly tell you why the Grey Goo scenario is rather silly. If there is any danger from unrestricted replication, it would be more akin to the introduction of a foreign species into an ecosystem. However, unless whoever builds aforementioned unrestricted (and pointless: unless the replicator itself is useful, why would you design it to only replicate more of itself rather than making something useful?) replicator designs it almost entirely out of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen, it would either be bought to it's knees without freely available Silicon and rare-earths, or simply not compete with organic life and form a parallel ecosystem.
I'm not sure the local constabulary would be too happy with you directing random packages their way. And a quick address look-up would scupper that plan quickly.
This seems to be different from a regular reshipper/escrow service: instead of a company that buys goods on your behalf, receives the shipment and sends it on to you, this scheme involves recruiting regular people to do the reshipping (but not the purchasing) and act as cut-outs.
If you're brazen enough, you could potentially sign on with one of these dodgy schemes, retain the valuables (or rather, report it to the original sellers and return them) and re-ship bricks* to the scammers. The obvious problem being that you have to tell some rather nasty people where you live.
*or other humorous objects, e.g. the P-P-P-Powerbook.
I wonder how they intend to prevent children from putting their hand inside and grabbing the 180+C extruder head, or embedding semimolten plastic into their skin?
Build a RepRap/Repstrap, it'll be cheaper and more fun, and not be encased in an ugly translucent purple bubble. Or maybe it could be; print your very own ugly plastic bubble in whatever colour you want!
Note that they aren't proposing replacing scroll bars, they're proposing adding "pages" as CSS element. They also say this lets user decide if they want to have pages (great for tablets) or the old style scroll bars.
I'm not sure how that differs from the current method of having a multi-page view and a 'print' view with everything on one page, other than renaming the 'print' view to a 'tablet' view.
No. Youtube gives under 4mbps for 1080p, which is frankly shit. 720p is about 2.5mbps, which is only the barest fraction better. Even with h.264 rather than MPEG2, to have video that is half DVD bitrate and try to encode it at 6 times the resolution is not going to result in anything that looks even halfway decent.
The big issue is stabilisation: You'd need active stabilisation to reliably launch 'up', which when on a rocket is a huge legal no-no. Passive stabilisation wouldn't cut it, even with an elaborate launch rig, once you reach thinner atmosphere.
They show what they call a 'blur kernal' the calculation of which takes up the majority of the processing time. I'm guessing they use that to perform a 2D deconvolution on the image (there is software that already does this). The interesting part is how they calculate the kernal.
One other interesting pointlet is that most of the PCBs seem to be COTS prototyping boards.
And importantly, almost entirely SMT boards. You may think that through-hole components are more robust, but SMT can survive much greater G-loads for the twin reasons of being generally much lower mass, and having a big flat plane of attachment rather than long legs with unattached sections free to bend and fatigue.This has important implications for gun-type space launches: very heavy and very, very expensive monolithic resin electronics blocks are unnecessary, properly mounted SMT boards are sufficient.
I wonder if the original dock connector design was a card-edge connector, that was replaced with the shielded pin connector when it proved to be more robust. If they'd decided on the dimensions already and then changed the connector (and soldered it to the traces already present)...
I'm still of the opinion that it's a wild coincidence, but it's certainly an interesting coincidence.
Or sell your books and ebooks for whatever you want, and give them away for free as well. It works pretty damn well for Baen, and pretty damn well for me too. I can't count how many times I've bought the first book in a series, finished it, ordered the next, and then started reading it right away from the free version while I wait for it to be delivered.
Here's a man so sure of his results that he is willing to give us evidence.
No, he hasn't. He has stated that it works. When asked for proof, he's pointed to his own data and said "because I said it does". It is not independent, it is not testable (i.e. you couldn't go out and build your own to see if it works), it is not verified, it is not evidence.
I've used the "1l of water = 1kg" trick to weight a turkey using a 4-pack of bottled water, a broom, a tape-measure, and a chair-back as a pivot. When we found the scales, the value was only about 100g out.
Ssh, we can't have accuracy enter into our nuclear hysteria!
Now, the question is: will residents actually want to return, other than to maybe retrieve stuff they left behind?
Some of the residents of Pripyat and other town inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone have returned to their homes, against the wishes of the Ukrainian government, as unless you're eating food grown from the soil there (or regularly bathing in groundwater) the health dangers are minimal. And that was a for worse incident than in Fukushima, albeit one where many decay products have already decayed, and the majority of the remaining danger is from heavy metal poisoning.
Given that Facebook ALREADY tracks you via various methods between sites (usually with the little 'like' button, but also with cookies and non-displaying javascript), unless this is yet another tracking method, does their existing use not invalidate their patent? Does pushing client side code count as publishing? It looks like they're trying to patent the entire method, rather than just the unseen back-end.
You can't just buy a copy of an OS, make a copy, and then sell the copy.
As I understand it, this would only apply in Pystar's case if "installing OS X from it's original media" counts as "making a copy". IIRC, they purchased install media from Apple, installed it to non-apple hardware, then sold the hardware and the install media together. So far as I can tell, selling the bare system, the install media, and the method of installation alltogether as a bundle should be A-OK (install media under first-sale), but pre-installing it then selling the same thing is somehow doubleplusungood.
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It really depends on the film type used. 3-strip dye-transfer prints, for example, are almost indestructible if stored correctly (i.e. negligible degradation over time).
It will, however, significantly improve their flavour. Unseasoned glass substrate platters are particularly unappetising.
- First, this is all predicated on Europeans moving on a massive scale to the Americas. The author writes "By the end of the 15th century, between 40 million and 80 million people are thought to have been living in the Americas." Given that Columbus sailed in 1492, does anyone seriously believe tens of millions of Europeans moved to the Americas in the next 8 years? Even in the next 100 years? Completely nonsensical numbers.
The 40-80 million population refers to the natives, not the settlers.
- Third, they got the direction wrong: if forests were chopped down, they would have been burned and not allowed to regrow - thus increasing CO2, not decreasing it.
If you read the article, you;d know that the effect is due to the growth of trees in cleared areas, not the burning of trees that occurred prior to that.
Or rather, it's green goo (with life by volume being predominantly chlorophyll-using). Note how the entire planet has not become a single lump of homogeneous cells. Considering why this is will quickly tell you why the Grey Goo scenario is rather silly. If there is any danger from unrestricted replication, it would be more akin to the introduction of a foreign species into an ecosystem. However, unless whoever builds aforementioned unrestricted (and pointless: unless the replicator itself is useful, why would you design it to only replicate more of itself rather than making something useful?) replicator designs it almost entirely out of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen, it would either be bought to it's knees without freely available Silicon and rare-earths, or simply not compete with organic life and form a parallel ecosystem.
I'm not sure the local constabulary would be too happy with you directing random packages their way. And a quick address look-up would scupper that plan quickly.
This seems to be different from a regular reshipper/escrow service: instead of a company that buys goods on your behalf, receives the shipment and sends it on to you, this scheme involves recruiting regular people to do the reshipping (but not the purchasing) and act as cut-outs.
If you're brazen enough, you could potentially sign on with one of these dodgy schemes, retain the valuables (or rather, report it to the original sellers and return them) and re-ship bricks* to the scammers. The obvious problem being that you have to tell some rather nasty people where you live.
*or other humorous objects, e.g. the P-P-P-Powerbook.
I wonder how they intend to prevent children from putting their hand inside and grabbing the 180+C extruder head, or embedding semimolten plastic into their skin?
Build a RepRap/Repstrap, it'll be cheaper and more fun, and not be encased in an ugly translucent purple bubble. Or maybe it could be; print your very own ugly plastic bubble in whatever colour you want!
Well, let's see if the Lib Dems can keep at least one of their pre-election promises. Not holding my breath though.
Note that they aren't proposing replacing scroll bars, they're proposing adding "pages" as CSS element. They also say this lets user decide if they want to have pages (great for tablets) or the old style scroll bars.
I'm not sure how that differs from the current method of having a multi-page view and a 'print' view with everything on one page, other than renaming the 'print' view to a 'tablet' view.
quite good quality
No. Youtube gives under 4mbps for 1080p, which is frankly shit. 720p is about 2.5mbps, which is only the barest fraction better. Even with h.264 rather than MPEG2, to have video that is half DVD bitrate and try to encode it at 6 times the resolution is not going to result in anything that looks even halfway decent.
The big issue is stabilisation: You'd need active stabilisation to reliably launch 'up', which when on a rocket is a huge legal no-no. Passive stabilisation wouldn't cut it, even with an elaborate launch rig, once you reach thinner atmosphere.
The algorithm is simple:
if (videohost=youtube) {bitrate=too_low;}
They show what they call a 'blur kernal' the calculation of which takes up the majority of the processing time. I'm guessing they use that to perform a 2D deconvolution on the image (there is software that already does this). The interesting part is how they calculate the kernal.
One other interesting pointlet is that most of the PCBs seem to be COTS prototyping boards.
And importantly, almost entirely SMT boards. You may think that through-hole components are more robust, but SMT can survive much greater G-loads for the twin reasons of being generally much lower mass, and having a big flat plane of attachment rather than long legs with unattached sections free to bend and fatigue.This has important implications for gun-type space launches: very heavy and very, very expensive monolithic resin electronics blocks are unnecessary, properly mounted SMT boards are sufficient.
I wonder if the original dock connector design was a card-edge connector, that was replaced with the shielded pin connector when it proved to be more robust. If they'd decided on the dimensions already and then changed the connector (and soldered it to the traces already present)...
I'm still of the opinion that it's a wild coincidence, but it's certainly an interesting coincidence.
Yeah, giving your browser the ability to completely control your machine. Brilliant idea. No possible exploits there!
Or sell your books and ebooks for whatever you want, and give them away for free as well. It works pretty damn well for Baen, and pretty damn well for me too. I can't count how many times I've bought the first book in a series, finished it, ordered the next, and then started reading it right away from the free version while I wait for it to be delivered.
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Ah, a reputable and authoritative source.
Here's a man so sure of his results that he is willing to give us evidence.
No, he hasn't. He has stated that it works. When asked for proof, he's pointed to his own data and said "because I said it does". It is not independent, it is not testable (i.e. you couldn't go out and build your own to see if it works), it is not verified, it is not evidence.
If it's a fully manned Sunprobe, International Rescue would be obligated to save them. You can't get rid of politicians THAT easily!
I've used the "1l of water = 1kg" trick to weight a turkey using a 4-pack of bottled water, a broom, a tape-measure, and a chair-back as a pivot. When we found the scales, the value was only about 100g out.
Now, the question is: will residents actually want to return, other than to maybe retrieve stuff they left behind?
Some of the residents of Pripyat and other town inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone have returned to their homes, against the wishes of the Ukrainian government, as unless you're eating food grown from the soil there (or regularly bathing in groundwater) the health dangers are minimal. And that was a for worse incident than in Fukushima, albeit one where many decay products have already decayed, and the majority of the remaining danger is from heavy metal poisoning.
Given that Facebook ALREADY tracks you via various methods between sites (usually with the little 'like' button, but also with cookies and non-displaying javascript), unless this is yet another tracking method, does their existing use not invalidate their patent? Does pushing client side code count as publishing? It looks like they're trying to patent the entire method, rather than just the unseen back-end.
You can't just buy a copy of an OS, make a copy, and then sell the copy.
As I understand it, this would only apply in Pystar's case if "installing OS X from it's original media" counts as "making a copy". IIRC, they purchased install media from Apple, installed it to non-apple hardware, then sold the hardware and the install media together.
So far as I can tell, selling the bare system, the install media, and the method of installation alltogether as a bundle should be A-OK (install media under first-sale), but pre-installing it then selling the same thing is somehow doubleplusungood.