Or so Alex Morgan Bell hopes. Mr. Bell began designing the system last year, when he was studying electric engineering at Columbia. After trying to get the idea going by himself and luring only several hundred people as users, Mr. Bell joined Densebrain, a Web development company that makes NYCMate, a transit map app (and is perhaps best known for SitorSquat, an app that maps public restrooms).
Which would prevent sending a resolution other than the native for the built-in screen to an external monitor (such as the wall monitor/TV an earlier poster mention) how, exactly?
The report from EETimes suggests Intel is only going after foundry business to produce the A-series processors for Apple, not that Apple is looking to change architectures.
It could be Apple leaving Samsung, or it could be they've decided to go with multiple suppliers for everything to reduce potential impacts from future disasters.
And when you ride it, do you exhale additional CO2? What people need to do is to cycle less, drive less and eat more. The more carbon you can tie up in fat reserves, the better for the planet. Burning off that carbon through exercise can only make things worse.
This displays a fundamental misunderstanding of CO2 emissions. Any CO2 you emit in your breath doesn't count - it was atmospheric CO2 a very short time previously that was absorbed either by the plants at the base of the food chain. It's the release of previously long term sequestered carbon (e.g. that which had been underground for millions of years as coal) that raises atmospheric CO2 levels.
I imagine some people might argue that the methodology used is just as important as coming to the right conclusion, but wouldn't the fact that you can consistently come to the right conclusion mean that the methodology is sound (or, at the worst, an incredible statistical fluke?)
Not really. You're trying to teach the technique and so you're testing for understanding of how to arrive at the answer, not the ability to come up with the answer. Now, you could argue it was poor test design, but I recall problems on calculus exams that were trivial to solve using trigonometry, but solving that way would have hardly displayed a comprehension of calculus.
And, yes, it did annoy the hell out of me as a student but I always understood the reasoning.
The tablet market is a different market from laptops. There is some stealing of share from the laptop market, but once a consumer says to himself, "Hey, I don't need a full laptop. I'll get a tablet.", and enters the tablet market his choice is between tablets. And there, at least currently, there's pretty much only Apple to take share away from.
Simple. If making a good tablet isn't enough to sell a good tablet, that means that the demand for tablets is being driven by Apple rather than a need for tablets. That seems, to me, to be a classic indicator that a product is meeting a fad-driven need as opposed to a real need.
Not really. Without saying anything about the quality of Apple's product, sometimes an established "good enough" product is unassailable even in the face of an arguably better product. External conditions matter. Thus, we're still stuck with the QWERTY keyboard layout, for example: it's good enough, even though there are "better" layouts out there due to QWERTY's design goal of slowing typists down. And, similarly, iPad's existing market position makes it difficult for competitors to make significant inroads.
Unlike the iPhone, the iPad wasn't trying to break in to an existing market where there were pre-existing alternatives. While the iPhone in some ways revolutionized the smart phone market (a market that had slowly evolved and so had a number of players), it wasn't defining a new market, like the iPad.
It was easier for Android to gain smart phone market share since there were a number of competitors from which to take market share (and note it can't be said Android has reduced iPhone's market share; both are still growing at the expense of others). Android didn't have to compete head-to-head with iPhone and beat it directly; Android only needed to beat RIM, Palm, Symbian, etc. and be roughly on par with iPhone to gain market share This is unlike the tablet market, where iPad basically owns the market and so any new competitor needs to compete directly against; non-iOS tablets simply don't have enough market share to make taking theirs worthwhile..
Where lava will spew out. I don't know what they plan to accomplish short of destroying their drill/probe. Well I guess that first fraction of a second before the sensors melt will let them know what "virgin" mantle 'tastes' like...
Not really.
1) The temperature of the upper mantle, near the boundary with the crust, is in the neighborhood of 750C/1400F. I think we can design sensors to handle these temperatures.
2) The mantle is mostly solid, not liquid. And even where it's not "solid", for most practical purposes you'd have a hard time telling it from solid..
Yep. And I fail to understand why we see so much of this when it's so easy to just enter "250 GB / 1 month" into Google and get: (250 gigabytes) / (1 month) = 99.6842342 kBps
Yes, I ham-fisted my calculations and came up with 42 TW, but it should be 4.2 GW which I would have approximated to 7 orders compared to the corrected 1 kW power of this laser.
And, to be in the same neighborhood as a conventional pistol (at least in terms of energy delivered) with a 100 ns pulse you'd need around a 40-50 TW laser.
Take 9mm Parabellum. 115 grains at about 1100 ft/s is around 420 J. Delivering that over 100 ns gives about 42 TW so this "pistol" is out by 10 orders of magnitude.
Of course, Apache and GPL/LGPL are the only Open Source licenses? Of course, I'd be surprised if other licenses are that prevalent in this arena with at least 383 apps in the survey that had no Apache or GPL/LGPL code but had code from other OS licenses.
Slower than pretty much ANY smokeless powder rifle round (i.e. anything designed in the last 120 years or so), not just "high powered".
Mk 7.303 Brit, for example, from 1910 is kind of underpowered compared to the roughly contemporary 7.92 Mauser and.30-06, is a 2400-2500 ft/s cartridge. 7.62x39 Russian from 1943 is often derided for it's "rainbow" trajectory due to low muzzle velocity, is a 2400 ft/s cartridge from an AK-47.
So, it's faster than some bullets, and probably not faster than the average bullet in use.
Google, actually. Try it: "diameter of the moon / 24000".
Of course, I meant "back-of-the-envelope" to mean it was an approximation, not taking into account things like differing spatial resolution as you move across the image, etc.
This is a mosaic from the LROC's wide angle camera. A rough, back-of-the-envelope calculate dividing the diameter of the moon by 24000 pixels suggests a spatial resolution around 140m.
The 0.5m resolution is from the main camera. A 0.5m mosaic of the entire Earth-facing side of the moon would be on the order of 7000000x7000000 not 24000x24000.
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Or just a funny coincidence?
Or so Alex Morgan Bell hopes. Mr. Bell began designing the system last year, when he was studying electric engineering at Columbia. After trying to get the idea going by himself and luring only several hundred people as users, Mr. Bell joined Densebrain, a Web development company that makes NYCMate, a transit map app (and is perhaps best known for SitorSquat, an app that maps public restrooms).
Alex Bell, figuring out new uses for the phone.
In my state a top tier public university is about $350/credit hour in state. Not even in state grad school tuition tops $500/credit hour.
Which would prevent sending a resolution other than the native for the built-in screen to an external monitor (such as the wall monitor/TV an earlier poster mention) how, exactly?
Because there's no way in a modern OS to set the display resolution, right?
Heck, forget 1920x1200. I want to know where the 4:3 laptop display. So much more usable (for me) than any widescreen format.
eSATA?
Close enough it's not clear, anyway.
The report from EETimes suggests Intel is only going after foundry business to produce the A-series processors for Apple, not that Apple is looking to change architectures.
It could be Apple leaving Samsung, or it could be they've decided to go with multiple suppliers for everything to reduce potential impacts from future disasters.
Here's a similar report from EETimes.
My GF boards a horse in North Middletown, KY (actually, just north of North Middletown).
And when you ride it, do you exhale additional CO2? What people need to do is to cycle less, drive less and eat more. The more carbon you can tie up in fat reserves, the better for the planet. Burning off that carbon through exercise can only make things worse.
This displays a fundamental misunderstanding of CO2 emissions. Any CO2 you emit in your breath doesn't count - it was atmospheric CO2 a very short time previously that was absorbed either by the plants at the base of the food chain. It's the release of previously long term sequestered carbon (e.g. that which had been underground for millions of years as coal) that raises atmospheric CO2 levels.
I imagine some people might argue that the methodology used is just as important as coming to the right conclusion, but wouldn't the fact that you can consistently come to the right conclusion mean that the methodology is sound (or, at the worst, an incredible statistical fluke?)
Not really. You're trying to teach the technique and so you're testing for understanding of how to arrive at the answer, not the ability to come up with the answer. Now, you could argue it was poor test design, but I recall problems on calculus exams that were trivial to solve using trigonometry, but solving that way would have hardly displayed a comprehension of calculus.
And, yes, it did annoy the hell out of me as a student but I always understood the reasoning.
And these cameras won't flag on vehicles where they can't find a registration tag?
Yes...and no.
The tablet market is a different market from laptops. There is some stealing of share from the laptop market, but once a consumer says to himself, "Hey, I don't need a full laptop. I'll get a tablet.", and enters the tablet market his choice is between tablets. And there, at least currently, there's pretty much only Apple to take share away from.
Simple. If making a good tablet isn't enough to sell a good tablet, that means that the demand for tablets is being driven by Apple rather than a need for tablets. That seems, to me, to be a classic indicator that a product is meeting a fad-driven need as opposed to a real need.
Not really. Without saying anything about the quality of Apple's product, sometimes an established "good enough" product is unassailable even in the face of an arguably better product. External conditions matter. Thus, we're still stuck with the QWERTY keyboard layout, for example: it's good enough, even though there are "better" layouts out there due to QWERTY's design goal of slowing typists down. And, similarly, iPad's existing market position makes it difficult for competitors to make significant inroads.
Unlike the iPhone, the iPad wasn't trying to break in to an existing market where there were pre-existing alternatives. While the iPhone in some ways revolutionized the smart phone market (a market that had slowly evolved and so had a number of players), it wasn't defining a new market, like the iPad.
It was easier for Android to gain smart phone market share since there were a number of competitors from which to take market share (and note it can't be said Android has reduced iPhone's market share; both are still growing at the expense of others). Android didn't have to compete head-to-head with iPhone and beat it directly; Android only needed to beat RIM, Palm, Symbian, etc. and be roughly on par with iPhone to gain market share This is unlike the tablet market, where iPad basically owns the market and so any new competitor needs to compete directly against; non-iOS tablets simply don't have enough market share to make taking theirs worthwhile..
Not to mention the huge demand for petroleum to make the fertilizers, pesticides, etc. for American-style agribusiness.
where lava can spew out
Where lava will spew out. I don't know what they plan to accomplish short of destroying their drill/probe. Well I guess that first fraction of a second before the sensors melt will let them know what "virgin" mantle 'tastes' like...
Not really.
1) The temperature of the upper mantle, near the boundary with the crust, is in the neighborhood of 750C/1400F. I think we can design sensors to handle these temperatures.
2) The mantle is mostly solid, not liquid. And even where it's not "solid", for most practical purposes you'd have a hard time telling it from solid..
Yep. And I fail to understand why we see so much of this when it's so easy to just enter "250 GB / 1 month" into Google and get:
(250 gigabytes) / (1 month) = 99.6842342 kBps
I appreciate the correction.
Yes, I ham-fisted my calculations and came up with 42 TW, but it should be 4.2 GW which I would have approximated to 7 orders compared to the corrected 1 kW power of this laser.
And, to be in the same neighborhood as a conventional pistol (at least in terms of energy delivered) with a 100 ns pulse you'd need around a 40-50 TW laser.
Take 9mm Parabellum. 115 grains at about 1100 ft/s is around 420 J. Delivering that over 100 ns gives about 42 TW so this "pistol" is out by 10 orders of magnitude.
Of course, Apache and GPL/LGPL are the only Open Source licenses? Of course, I'd be surprised if other licenses are that prevalent in this arena with at least 383 apps in the survey that had no Apache or GPL/LGPL code but had code from other OS licenses.
Slower than pretty much ANY smokeless powder rifle round (i.e. anything designed in the last 120 years or so), not just "high powered".
Mk 7 .303 Brit, for example, from 1910 is kind of underpowered compared to the roughly contemporary 7.92 Mauser and .30-06, is a 2400-2500 ft/s cartridge.
7.62x39 Russian from 1943 is often derided for it's "rainbow" trajectory due to low muzzle velocity, is a 2400 ft/s cartridge from an AK-47.
So, it's faster than some bullets, and probably not faster than the average bullet in use.
That's how you test the oscillation overthruster.
Really?
1050 mph = 1540 ft/s = 470 m/s
Faster than most handgun bullets, yes, but rifles routinely launch bullets at twice (or more) that speed.
Well, HPA Motorsports did make 500+ HP AWD V6 twin turbo beetle not too long ago with a 4 second 0-60.
Google, actually. Try it: "diameter of the moon / 24000".
Of course, I meant "back-of-the-envelope" to mean it was an approximation, not taking into account things like differing spatial resolution as you move across the image, etc.
Not this image.
This is a mosaic from the LROC's wide angle camera. A rough, back-of-the-envelope calculate dividing the diameter of the moon by 24000 pixels suggests a spatial resolution around 140m.
The 0.5m resolution is from the main camera. A 0.5m mosaic of the entire Earth-facing side of the moon would be on the order of 7000000x7000000 not 24000x24000.