It's pretty generally accepted already by all those without blind faith that the piece of fabric known as the Turin Shroud is not what Jesus was wrapped in. Further experimentation with and investigation of it seems to me an extraordinary waste of money.
How does the second follow from the first? Maybe they are not trying to 'prove' Jesus or whoever was wrapped in it, but just trying to find out how old the thing really is. Lots of old artefacts are dated. This one is rather controversial, why not put some extra effort in it?
there is nothing you can stick on the outside of a battery to improve its performance.
Of course I get your point, but I can imagine some things may help, such as a thermally insulating coating such that they stay a little warmer during winter (due to internal dissipation). Cold batteries can generally only deliver a smaller current, etc. Admittedly devil's advocate here...
The nanoceramic material is extracted from a natural stone and depending on the version, layered between 2 protective silicon foils or on 1 or 2 sides of a conductive sheet.
They have made a great capacitor. Actually, if the stone would be very thin, or had micropores (like this one) they could indeed solve a lot of the current battery problem. Unfortunately they use it in a perfectly wrong way.
A Mouse-Person will not, cannot, by definition, have the same "experience" as a human. We can't even define a uniform meaning of what the "human experience" is in the first place. Your experience is yours, mine is mine. Ultimately, it is no more or less important, or meaningful (or relevant), than my dog's experience.
That was exactly the guys point. If you were to live inside a mouses body, wouldn't you feel cheated out of the human body all the others have?
Allow me to reword. People who now use a pirate copy will chose to continue to run an OS with security holes or buy a legal copy if they want to keep windows. It seems the worse the security problems, the more likely said people would buy the legal copy. In a normal market it seems people would be much more likely to move to a different OS.
This is an explanation I can agree with to some extent: it it weren't for the security bugs, pirates could go on undisturbed. And in a completely competitive market, this would not be true.
But still: it is not Microsoft's fault that:
1) Not more people use Mac, Linux, Unix...
2) People pirate. Maybe they did not enforce strict policies _years ago_, but that is no reason why you would be allowed to pirate the stuff. And if you do, you're on your own. Don't expect updates. Sounds fair to me.
I mostly use Linux myself. By coincidence, I have a license for XP, because it came with my laptop. I don't choose sides in this one, but imho common sense dictates that you should not complain about monopoly or whatelse. MS NEVER gave something that they are taking back now.
An interesting analogy: if you steal poison from a chemist, and he asks you to pay for the antidote, can you complain? He has a monopoly, but you should not have given it to him in the first place.
Now security holes sell windows. It's amazing what a monopoly can do isn't it?
Not true: security holes don't help sell Windows, security holes help getting money from people who use Windows illegally. Complain as much as you want about MS, but don't blame them for NOT helping people who steal their software.
What you said is just demagogical.
Then again, this is Slashdot. What's the point in expecting people to be unbiased and think for themselves...
Treat your "normals" as you would like to be treated if the positions were reversed
Completely to the point! The combination of:
1) Know your position. "A man has to do what a man has to do". When it is a 'serving' position, serve as you should. When it is a 'dictating' position, dictate as you should, which is not 'randomly'. Praise what is good, reject what is bad.
2) the "golden rule": treat others the way you would like to be treated yourself. Keeping in mind that 'normals' like other stuff than you, although I cannot imagine it being that different.
Many computer users are experts with the QWERTY layout, and can have a high amount of wpm (words per minute).
I switch constantly between QUERTY and AZERTY between my desktop and laptop (a good deal on eBay, but AZ). Moreover my parents only use AZ (because it is the prevailing standard in Belgium, due to the availability of accents) and at work we mostly have QU (due to the easy access of numbers). After a minute or so I am usually used to the change. My speed is not incredible but at least the typing is not in the critical path (the thinking is).
Please enlighten as to how you can whistle two tones at once.
It may not be easy, but you could try to whistle the average frequency and modulate this by opening and closing youy mouth very quikly (or humming) at half the difference frequency. This way you would create an AM signal with the two side bands at the right frequencies.
BTW, these strange frequencies have been chosen such that their higher harmonics and mixing products are as far away as possible...
So in an emergency, all you need to do is to tap the button/hanger on your phone's base with a slight pause between the dialing of the numbers.
An emergency, such as when you and your phone have fallen from a two story building, your
300lbs piano (on fire) on top of you, and the dial is broken because your phone was not completely up to spec...
I have two young children and I absolutely WILL NOT put up with them being shown any nudity without my permission [cut]
It's called responsible parenting. Never think of that, little 18 year old.
No it's not. It's called an unhealthy obsession for nudity.
IMHO responsible parenting means that you learn your children to think for themselves, be critical, open-minded, respect others and learn the difference between good and evil. Again imho, the human body is not evil.
But how can I explain this to someone who KNOWS his view is the only correct one, who KNOWS the GP was 18 years old, has never seen him before but still gives him a lesson...
Upon seeing the headline I was afraid this spectrum would be taken from non-commercial users, such as HAMs. But the article went something like "Ho, there's all this spectrum up for grabs. Let's get it". It is a bit unclear to me _what part_ exactly he is talking about. AFAIK most of the spectrum has already been assigned to someone. There is a mention of the TV broadcast bands, but I really cannot take this seriously, in view of backward compatibility.
What about us 40 years olds who have to fix the damn teenagers PCs filled with spyware.
Ho, the opposite also holds, I'm 29 and my dad is 54. Every time I need to use his PC, I am horrified to see he disabled virus scanners, ad-aware tools etc, and installed 'interesting' tools to connect to time servers on the internet etc. Worst of all, he's an engineer too, but doesn't seem to care too much (though he knows about these things). Mid-life crisis, I guess. His way of 'living on the edge'...
Is it flamebait for me to call you all snobs? Cant be any more flamebaitish then making fun of case modders.
We aren't making fun of modders here. Great mods have appeared on Slashdot before. What some people DO criticise is the uselessness of this particular mod: it doesn't speed up your PC, probably lowers the reliability of RAM, adds dissipation, apparently takes more slots than needed, and in the end is hardly visible at all.
(Just summarizing the comments I read here and there.)
Show us a nice mod which doesn't degrade the performance, and we'll applaud.
For starters: heat is not the same as IR. ALL bodies (except perfect reflectors) at nonzero temperature radiate ligth. For very hot ones, this is visible, for rather cold ones this is IR (i.e. 'below red'). You can also heat something by shining other than IR light on it.
These devices don't suck the radiation out of stuff, just like a (digital) camera doesn't suck light from the object you photograph. You can therefore not use them to cool anything, afaik.
CPU coolers suck heat out of your cpu because they offer it a lower temperature, and heat flows from low to high temperature.
These things are different from a thermalcouple in the sense that they are in a completely different ballpark. A thermocouply supplies you with electricity as long as you can maintain a temperature difference over it, or it will drain heat from its cold side and add it to its hot side (increasing the difference) if you supply electricity to it. The things in the article supply you with electricity when you shine a light on them and are probably destroyed when you supply electricity to them.
I'll remember to disregard anything I see from these morally challenged turdballs in the future.
IMHO that would be very unwise. It is not because they are "morally challenged" that they cannot make claims which can be checked by someone else (real security issue / boy cries wolf).
I would rather say they are a powerful player you should take into account. If you knew a poisoner was hanging around (and I am not saying they are), would you "disregard" him or keep an eye on him?
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Let me guess: war-segwaying. Definitely.
Can't they use a small amplifier? Hearing aids also use batteries, why should artificial vision be autonomous?
What it all these nerds had girlfriends? /. would not have existed!
How does the second follow from the first? Maybe they are not trying to 'prove' Jesus or whoever was wrapped in it, but just trying to find out how old the thing really is. Lots of old artefacts are dated. This one is rather controversial, why not put some extra effort in it?
Are you mocking the University of Elbonia?
Of course I get your point, but I can imagine some things may help, such as a thermally insulating coating such that they stay a little warmer during winter (due to internal dissipation). Cold batteries can generally only deliver a smaller current, etc. Admittedly devil's advocate here...
They have made a great capacitor. Actually, if the stone would be very thin, or had micropores (like this one) they could indeed solve a lot of the current battery problem. Unfortunately they use it in a perfectly wrong way.
That was exactly the guys point. If you were to live inside a mouses body, wouldn't you feel cheated out of the human body all the others have?
This is an explanation I can agree with to some extent: it it weren't for the security bugs, pirates could go on undisturbed. And in a completely competitive market, this would not be true.
But still: it is not Microsoft's fault that:
1) Not more people use Mac, Linux, Unix...
2) People pirate. Maybe they did not enforce strict policies _years ago_, but that is no reason why you would be allowed to pirate the stuff. And if you do, you're on your own. Don't expect updates. Sounds fair to me.
I mostly use Linux myself. By coincidence, I have a license for XP, because it came with my laptop. I don't choose sides in this one, but imho common sense dictates that you should not complain about monopoly or whatelse. MS NEVER gave something that they are taking back now.
An interesting analogy: if you steal poison from a chemist, and he asks you to pay for the antidote, can you complain? He has a monopoly, but you should not have given it to him in the first place.
Not true: security holes don't help sell Windows, security holes help getting money from people who use Windows illegally. Complain as much as you want about MS, but don't blame them for NOT helping people who steal their software.
What you said is just demagogical. Then again, this is Slashdot. What's the point in expecting people to be unbiased and think for themselves...
Completely to the point! The combination of:
1) Know your position. "A man has to do what a man has to do". When it is a 'serving' position, serve as you should. When it is a 'dictating' position, dictate as you should, which is not 'randomly'. Praise what is good, reject what is bad.
2) the "golden rule": treat others the way you would like to be treated yourself. Keeping in mind that 'normals' like other stuff than you, although I cannot imagine it being that different.
I switch constantly between QUERTY and AZERTY between my desktop and laptop (a good deal on eBay, but AZ). Moreover my parents only use AZ (because it is the prevailing standard in Belgium, due to the availability of accents) and at work we mostly have QU (due to the easy access of numbers). After a minute or so I am usually used to the change. My speed is not incredible but at least the typing is not in the critical path (the thinking is).
It may not be easy, but you could try to whistle the average frequency and modulate this by opening and closing youy mouth very quikly (or humming) at half the difference frequency. This way you would create an AM signal with the two side bands at the right frequencies.
BTW, these strange frequencies have been chosen such that their higher harmonics and mixing products are as far away as possible...
An emergency, such as when you and your phone have fallen from a two story building, your 300lbs piano (on fire) on top of you, and the dial is broken because your phone was not completely up to spec...
Of course it should extract something general and not make a big look-up table of all known-good wavs...
[cut] It's called responsible parenting. Never think of that, little 18 year old.
No it's not. It's called an unhealthy obsession for nudity.
IMHO responsible parenting means that you learn your children to think for themselves, be critical, open-minded, respect others and learn the difference between good and evil. Again imho, the human body is not evil.
But how can I explain this to someone who KNOWS his view is the only correct one, who KNOWS the GP was 18 years old, has never seen him before but still gives him a lesson...
Z (29 yrs, no kids)
Upon seeing the headline I was afraid this spectrum would be taken from non-commercial users, such as HAMs. But the article went something like "Ho, there's all this spectrum up for grabs. Let's get it". It is a bit unclear to me _what part_ exactly he is talking about. AFAIK most of the spectrum has already been assigned to someone. There is a mention of the TV broadcast bands, but I really cannot take this seriously, in view of backward compatibility.
Why not? I would guess you are good at it. Would you do it when you had another job?
You forgot the obvious first rule:
1) Don't talk about simPC
Ho, the opposite also holds, I'm 29 and my dad is 54. Every time I need to use his PC, I am horrified to see he disabled virus scanners, ad-aware tools etc, and installed 'interesting' tools to connect to time servers on the internet etc. Worst of all, he's an engineer too, but doesn't seem to care too much (though he knows about these things). Mid-life crisis, I guess. His way of 'living on the edge'...
Z
LOL. At a later stage they may say ... _._ (SK, Silent Key)
We aren't making fun of modders here. Great mods have appeared on Slashdot before. What some people DO criticise is the uselessness of this particular mod: it doesn't speed up your PC, probably lowers the reliability of RAM, adds dissipation, apparently takes more slots than needed, and in the end is hardly visible at all.
(Just summarizing the comments I read here and there.)
Show us a nice mod which doesn't degrade the performance, and we'll applaud.
Z
How useful.
For starters: heat is not the same as IR. ALL bodies (except perfect reflectors) at nonzero temperature radiate ligth. For very hot ones, this is visible, for rather cold ones this is IR (i.e. 'below red'). You can also heat something by shining other than IR light on it.
These devices don't suck the radiation out of stuff, just like a (digital) camera doesn't suck light from the object you photograph. You can therefore not use them to cool anything, afaik. CPU coolers suck heat out of your cpu because they offer it a lower temperature, and heat flows from low to high temperature.
These things are different from a thermalcouple in the sense that they are in a completely different ballpark. A thermocouply supplies you with electricity as long as you can maintain a temperature difference over it, or it will drain heat from its cold side and add it to its hot side (increasing the difference) if you supply electricity to it. The things in the article supply you with electricity when you shine a light on them and are probably destroyed when you supply electricity to them.
Z
I'll remember to disregard anything I see from these morally challenged turdballs in the future.
IMHO that would be very unwise. It is not because they are "morally challenged" that they cannot make claims which can be checked by someone else (real security issue / boy cries wolf).
I would rather say they are a powerful player you should take into account. If you knew a poisoner was hanging around (and I am not saying they are), would you "disregard" him or keep an eye on him?
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