You can generate electricity from temperature difference, resulting in a slower heat flow. Or you can increase the temperature differences at the expense of energy. You cannot improve the heat flow and at the same time generate electricity.
It is possible that electricity supply is abundant during the night, but insufficient during the day. In that case you help them out where they need it most, and they give you their excess power in return when they have it to spare.
Maybe yes. On the other hand: if this is a ground for a harsher sentence, why aren't all suspects always followed by the court, not only when the evidence falls out of the air? (not that I would advocate such system!) Moreover, why should better "actors" who play "sad" be punished more severely than the poor ones who show they don't care? I don't have any sympathy for this guy at all, but have some fear for ad-hoc reactions based on public perception.
I suspect these antennas are typically aimed at much lower frequencies (say HF/VHF), and require a ground plane. The reason why I think so is that for (super) high frequencies, antennas are mostly self-contained (one piece you can attach to a pole) and don't require a large garden and poles and the like.This is not the kind of structure you use for pleasure, but because you have to (at low frequencies).
Unfortunately the article is a bit low on details and even on their site I didn't find much info.
If I understand well they developed a fast optical switch. But how will this be controlled? And how can this increase fiber optic speeds 100 fold, when fiber throughput is limited anyway by e.g. PMD (polarisation mode dispersion). Does anyone know more about this?
Completely correct. Anyone taking his job seriously won't have the time to check on other's private stuff (or at least stuff that is none of their business), and the non-frustrated won't feel the need to abuse their power to that extent.
most average folks won't give FOSS a second look, no matter how worthwhile and valuable it may be to them, merely because they're turned off by the guy
Wrong. Average folks just don't trust something because is free and rather steal something you ought to pay for. (Actually, I don't know, never did a survey on this, just guessing, but hey...)
Even though this is not the answer the question submitter was looking for, Kudos to you for at least being true to the general/. spirit (which, btw I do not share).
It is refreshing and an eye-opener to see how the/. crowd (and yes, I know this is not a Borg-like continuum) that's always shouting "information, music and everything else copyable 'wants to be free'", is now more or less collectively on the other side, when it concerns 'one of their own'.
.. is that it means there is no out for buyers to change their mind either:)
Which is the way it always has been on eBay and the way it always should be. Bidders can only retract their bid if they mistyped or so, and only rather quickly iirc. the auction game is a fairly simple one. If you don't agree with the rules, don't play it.
If I would make one, it would be all electromechanical instead of electronic. The breaking of the enigma code (as excellently described in e.g. Simon Singh's The code book) was only possible by exploiting implementation details. Kodus to the makers of the electronics kit, but a machine with an implementation different to the original one, loses most of its appeal to me.
Even if the universe were filled with monkeys typing for all time, their total probability to produce a single instance of Hamlet would still be less than one chance in 10183800.
But... but... if they were octopuses? They type faster.
Also, in practice some of them would type The Tempest or The merchant of Venice for instance, so it's not so bad after all...
Imagine, your character sheet and virtual dice right in front of you; automated tracking for dice rolls, combat and spell recovery; fancy graphics for your map, characters, and monsters; maybe even a soundtrack and audio effects.
...No longer being able to cheat if the DM isn't paying attention or if a character sheet is 'barely legible'...
This may all be very correct and actually interesting, but afaik the Pentagon dates from after the times in which attackers ran shooting to the forts (instead of e.g. flying planes). The Pentagon doesn't have gun slits and I even wonder if it even has a lot of defense on the outer walls. Maybe it was a matter of habit?
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You can generate electricity from temperature difference, resulting in a slower heat flow. Or you can increase the temperature differences at the expense of energy. You cannot improve the heat flow and at the same time generate electricity.
It is possible that electricity supply is abundant during the night, but insufficient during the day. In that case you help them out where they need it most, and they give you their excess power in return when they have it to spare.
Maybe yes. On the other hand: if this is a ground for a harsher sentence, why aren't all suspects always followed by the court, not only when the evidence falls out of the air? (not that I would advocate such system!) Moreover, why should better "actors" who play "sad" be punished more severely than the poor ones who show they don't care? I don't have any sympathy for this guy at all, but have some fear for ad-hoc reactions based on public perception.
I suspect these antennas are typically aimed at much lower frequencies (say HF/VHF), and require a ground plane. The reason why I think so is that for (super) high frequencies, antennas are mostly self-contained (one piece you can attach to a pole) and don't require a large garden and poles and the like.This is not the kind of structure you use for pleasure, but because you have to (at low frequencies).
Unfortunately the article is a bit low on details and even on their site I didn't find much info. If I understand well they developed a fast optical switch. But how will this be controlled? And how can this increase fiber optic speeds 100 fold, when fiber throughput is limited anyway by e.g. PMD (polarisation mode dispersion). Does anyone know more about this?
How fortunate you filtered at -1 or you would have missed it!
If there is no possibility it destroys earth, why build one in the first place?
Baldrick: Should we drink each other's or stick to our own?
Edmund: Is Captain Rum joining us for this bring-a-sample party,
or is he going to sit this one out?
Percy: Oh no, he's been swigging his for ages. He says he likes it.
Actually, come to think of it, he started before the water
ran out.
And while glowing oaks might be cool, their carbon emissions are just way too high.
Anti photosynthesis would obviously lead to CO2 emissions, not carbon emissions.
Sigh. You know you're a nerd when your comments are even to nerdy for a news for nerds website. Damn.
Completely correct. Anyone taking his job seriously won't have the time to check on other's private stuff (or at least stuff that is none of their business), and the non-frustrated won't feel the need to abuse their power to that extent.
"Damn hippies, say they want to save the world, but really just want to smoke pot and smell bad." - E. C.
They also want free sex and, what's even worse, usually get it...
Don't agree that RMS is a worthless potsmoker, though. The guy did a lot for the community.
"If you [...] and appreciate only powerful reliable software, you are making a terrible mistake." -RMS
Phew. At least Microsoft isn't making terrible mistakes.
most average folks won't give FOSS a second look, no matter how worthwhile and valuable it may be to them, merely because they're turned off by the guy
Wrong. Average folks just don't trust something because is free and rather steal something you ought to pay for. (Actually, I don't know, never did a survey on this, just guessing, but hey...)
Even though this is not the answer the question submitter was looking for, Kudos to you for at least being true to the general /. spirit (which, btw I do not share).
It is refreshing and an eye-opener to see how the /. crowd (and yes, I know this is not a Borg-like continuum) that's always shouting "information, music and everything else copyable 'wants to be free'", is now more or less collectively on the other side, when it concerns 'one of their own'.
Respect!
Indeed, this is nothing new. Special junction boxes for installation in a sewer manhole have been around for years.
we can finally cross the beams?
Which is the way it always has been on eBay and the way it always should be. Bidders can only retract their bid if they mistyped or so, and only rather quickly iirc. the auction game is a fairly simple one. If you don't agree with the rules, don't play it.
Pretty sure the parent was makign a reference to Civilisation, the game.
Pyros for porn
If I would make one, it would be all electromechanical instead of electronic. The breaking of the enigma code (as excellently described in e.g. Simon Singh's The code book) was only possible by exploiting implementation details. Kodus to the makers of the electronics kit, but a machine with an implementation different to the original one, loses most of its appeal to me.
Even if the universe were filled with monkeys typing for all time, their total probability to produce a single instance of Hamlet would still be less than one chance in 10183800.
But... but... if they were octopuses? They type faster. Also, in practice some of them would type The Tempest or The merchant of Venice for instance, so it's not so bad after all...
Hope this wasn't posted yet. I wouldn't want to be redundant in a discussion about randomness...
Would indeed be a nice add-on to this rubbing-based device.
Imagine, your character sheet and virtual dice right in front of you; automated tracking for dice rolls, combat and spell recovery; fancy graphics for your map, characters, and monsters; maybe even a soundtrack and audio effects.
This may all be very correct and actually interesting, but afaik the Pentagon dates from after the times in which attackers ran shooting to the forts (instead of e.g. flying planes). The Pentagon doesn't have gun slits and I even wonder if it even has a lot of defense on the outer walls. Maybe it was a matter of habit?