Think of this and then imagine rows and matrices of deuterium atoms, millions long, lined up on the surfaces of palladium, tugged different ways by electrical current. Those last few atoms on the end of a row might be moving pretty fast.
Yes, but think of the scale here. On the atomic level, it may be possible to have tiny, localized areas where particles can be accelerated to very high speeds. Granted, it would be extremely rare and definitely not generate energy on the scale of hot fusion, which basically depends on having a "nuclei soup".
How could we get a massive acceleration using only objects that repel each other? This is an interesting experiment: http://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/magnets/rin g_launcher/ring_launcher.html. Only a small force is actually added to each element, but the whiplash effect accelerates the last object to high speeds. What if the forces between palladium and deuterium are such that the deuterium atoms are arranged in straight rows and matrices on the surface of palladium? And what if the applied electrical current tugs each atom slightly, which when released allows a cascading whiplash effect on rows millions of atoms long? Pure conjecture, but it illustrates a mechanism by which a few atoms might be accelerated to very high speeds, and in a somewhate accurate linear way (as opposed to hot fusion which hopes for accidental collisions between randomly moving nuclei).
So...perhaps cold fusion doesn't actually work, but some of the theories developed might be useful in lowering the required fusion temperature. Therefore the hot fusion and cold fusion scientist meet in the middle and create warm fusion.
Unfortunately Firefox isn't the cure-all for avoiding web viruses. I haven't had a virus on a machine for years, but just last week a site somehow opened Internet Explorer from Firefox and thus installed some dialers and crap.
1. He doesn't have enough to do. I would be asleep moments after reaching any semi-horizontal position when I was in college.
2. His dorm is too quiet. Dorms are full of noise sources, from bass pumping up from two floors down to roommates talking loudly in your very room. That shouldn't keep you from sleeping.
3. Light? Bah. I would sleep with the full room lighting on, or at least a string of Christmas lights. You don't see a pulsing power LEDs when the room is already bright.
There's no way to prove that the rumor sites had anything to do with it. Maybe they didn't get any responses, and someone told HR that "we're looking for digital, analog, video, Bluetooth, WiFi, and ASIC" didn't mean find one superhuman with skills in all of those very specialized fields.
Only with a firmware hack, and mass-produced devices like mice probably only have mask-ROM microcontrollers. But I appreciate the coolness of the idea, even though with a CueCat I never came up with much use for barcodes anyway. Everything I have with a barcode has already been bought, and if you're printing a barcode label for something then you might as well print a text label anyway. It could only be useful if you have a lot of somethings to check in and out of your possession, all within a few feet of your computer. Like a store or library.
Re:Banana Bread, recipe courtesy of Emeril Lagasse
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Sheesh. It's easy as pie!
Forgive me, that was cheap. But really, even I have absorbed enough cooking knowledge to know what creaming butter and sugar together is. And it's really not hard to figure out, just like it's not that hard to figure out what new command you'll have to master to get that script working.
If anything, the Internet has probably affected the world of coding first, and the world of cooking next. Both fields require judicious application of ingredients and basic formulas, and both allow room for infinite creative variations from those formulas. In order to share this creativity, each has evolved a standard jargon that practicers of the art will learn. Both have benefitted amazingly from the free trade of information that the internet allows. A search on Google for practically any aspect of cooking or coding will produce thousands of examples and opinions, source code and recipes.
So a coder mentions doing a "simple quicksort algorithm" and a pastry maker mentions "cutting the flour into the butter until pea-sized." Neither indicates the methods or tools required. But in both cases, the barest of inquiries will reveal the meaning and logic behind them.
I have that ringtone. The only purpose of having polyphonic or sampled ringtones is the pure annoyance power, but I have yet to find one more effective. Bananaphone-ringtone elicits visceral cringes of revulsion at the pure cheesiness, and somehow brings shame upon the listener for having heard it and for knowing the person who would use such a ringtone. The brutal finishing move, usually resulting in a mad rush to the nearest sharp object, is to answer the phone excitedly and say the caller's name followed by "-chan."
Or, at the very least, stuck in the tube between McDonKFCWendyKingBell's and Wal-K-Tar-Depot-Bucks.
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So a light, shell-like structure would just ride the earthquake, as it does not have enough inertia to generate destructive internal stresses. But does this mean that anyone and anything inside the building would be shaken like beans in a maraca?
No, just wait until the FURRIES get ahold of this! Dog and fox muzzles, cat noses, animal legs, TAILS! At least they'll be permanently identifiable to the torch-and-pitchfork mobs.
The device is likely to be mundane and ordinary, not some tool of awesome power and destruction.
My guess is that it is part of an aftermarket car alarm with wireless remote, an internal pressure-gradient sensing type. The LED displays the time left to shut the door before it will trigger the alarm.
This is NOT the world's first self-chilling can. Probably 10 years ago I read an article in Popular Mechanics (or Popular Science) about a company who was coming out with a self-chilling can. It fit into the lid of a normal soda can, displacing about an ounce of fluid. Inside the chiller was compressed carbon dioxide, which was released when the can was opened, thus using Charles' Law to reduce the temperature of the can.
If all you want to do is get your USB device working, I'm not so sure you really need this capability. USB analyzers are primarily useful for testing the device for compliance with USB signal standards. That way, you only have to get your device compliance-tested once.
I've developed a few USB devices, and frankly I haven't needed an analyzer just to get the device to work. If something's happening you don't understand, set breakpoints or toggle some status LEDs to see where you are in the firmware. That, and software-based sniffing for the occasional sanity check, has been all I really needed.
Learn the standard USB device types, and if you try to reverse-engineer a proprietary device, stock up on Advil.
It's actually kind of shaped the same, too, if I read the article correctly.
Basically this takes existing air-to-air and cruise missle targeting capabilities, and integrates it into a reusable agile platform. Combine this with some of the high-powered laser weapons under development, and we have a truly formidable weapon.
Without a cockpit, it can be designed with the absolute minimum radar signature. Without a pilot, it can do continuous high-G maneuvers, end-for-end flips, high-speed rolls, things that would render a human useless or dead.
They can also be mass-produced at high rates, and each retain full combat ability off the assembly line, as opposed to pilots who must be trained. During attacks they can also be perfectly coordinated in complex interactions for maximum effectiveness.
Defeating these things will become more like discovering the bugs in a video game.
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Well, 100 megawatts is about 134,000 horsepower...sounds about right to power my shopping-mall-sized nuclear battle tank.
Eh, the last thing we need to do is break the energy barrier for nanites. Fusion-powered goo is not a nice thought.
Think of this and then imagine rows and matrices of deuterium atoms, millions long, lined up on the surfaces of palladium, tugged different ways by electrical current. Those last few atoms on the end of a row might be moving pretty fast.
No, it's because the opposite of hot fusion is not cold fusion: it's ugly fusion.
Yes, but think of the scale here. On the atomic level, it may be possible to have tiny, localized areas where particles can be accelerated to very high speeds. Granted, it would be extremely rare and definitely not generate energy on the scale of hot fusion, which basically depends on having a "nuclei soup".
n g_launcher/ring_launcher.html. Only a small force is actually added to each element, but the whiplash effect accelerates the last object to high speeds. What if the forces between palladium and deuterium are such that the deuterium atoms are arranged in straight rows and matrices on the surface of palladium? And what if the applied electrical current tugs each atom slightly, which when released allows a cascading whiplash effect on rows millions of atoms long? Pure conjecture, but it illustrates a mechanism by which a few atoms might be accelerated to very high speeds, and in a somewhate accurate linear way (as opposed to hot fusion which hopes for accidental collisions between randomly moving nuclei).
How could we get a massive acceleration using only objects that repel each other? This is an interesting experiment: http://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/magnets/ri
So...perhaps cold fusion doesn't actually work, but some of the theories developed might be useful in lowering the required fusion temperature. Therefore the hot fusion and cold fusion scientist meet in the middle and create warm fusion.
Unfortunately Firefox isn't the cure-all for avoiding web viruses. I haven't had a virus on a machine for years, but just last week a site somehow opened Internet Explorer from Firefox and thus installed some dialers and crap.
I wonder if a first-post consisting only of "You must be new here." would still get modded to +5, Funny.
Right. Someone in college can't get to sleep?
1. He doesn't have enough to do. I would be asleep moments after reaching any semi-horizontal position when I was in college.
2. His dorm is too quiet. Dorms are full of noise sources, from bass pumping up from two floors down to roommates talking loudly in your very room. That shouldn't keep you from sleeping.
3. Light? Bah. I would sleep with the full room lighting on, or at least a string of Christmas lights. You don't see a pulsing power LEDs when the room is already bright.
Anybody know if someone has successfully made mechs for UT2004 yet?
There's no way to prove that the rumor sites had anything to do with it. Maybe they didn't get any responses, and someone told HR that "we're looking for digital, analog, video, Bluetooth, WiFi, and ASIC" didn't mean find one superhuman with skills in all of those very specialized fields.
If you're hiring electrical engineers go ahead and post it here, because I'm looking. If Slashdot posts one want ad, might as well keep going!
Only with a firmware hack, and mass-produced devices like mice probably only have mask-ROM microcontrollers. But I appreciate the coolness of the idea, even though with a CueCat I never came up with much use for barcodes anyway. Everything I have with a barcode has already been bought, and if you're printing a barcode label for something then you might as well print a text label anyway. It could only be useful if you have a lot of somethings to check in and out of your possession, all within a few feet of your computer. Like a store or library.
Sheesh. It's easy as pie!
Forgive me, that was cheap. But really, even I have absorbed enough cooking knowledge to know what creaming butter and sugar together is. And it's really not hard to figure out, just like it's not that hard to figure out what new command you'll have to master to get that script working.
If anything, the Internet has probably affected the world of coding first, and the world of cooking next. Both fields require judicious application of ingredients and basic formulas, and both allow room for infinite creative variations from those formulas. In order to share this creativity, each has evolved a standard jargon that practicers of the art will learn. Both have benefitted amazingly from the free trade of information that the internet allows. A search on Google for practically any aspect of cooking or coding will produce thousands of examples and opinions, source code and recipes.
So a coder mentions doing a "simple quicksort algorithm" and a pastry maker mentions "cutting the flour into the butter until pea-sized." Neither indicates the methods or tools required. But in both cases, the barest of inquiries will reveal the meaning and logic behind them.
I have that ringtone. The only purpose of having polyphonic or sampled ringtones is the pure annoyance power, but I have yet to find one more effective. Bananaphone-ringtone elicits visceral cringes of revulsion at the pure cheesiness, and somehow brings shame upon the listener for having heard it and for knowing the person who would use such a ringtone. The brutal finishing move, usually resulting in a mad rush to the nearest sharp object, is to answer the phone excitedly and say the caller's name followed by "-chan."
Modded as flamebait? HAHA! Face the fury of a flustered furry Mod!
No, I'm pretty sure that given the choice, the lethal werewolf option would be passed up for catgirls. I mean, catgirl-men. Fat ones.
Give me that, and I can die happy.
Or, at the very least, stuck in the tube between McDonKFCWendyKingBell's and Wal-K-Tar-Depot-Bucks.
So a light, shell-like structure would just ride the earthquake, as it does not have enough inertia to generate destructive internal stresses. But does this mean that anyone and anything inside the building would be shaken like beans in a maraca?
No, just wait until the FURRIES get ahold of this! Dog and fox muzzles, cat noses, animal legs, TAILS! At least they'll be permanently identifiable to the torch-and-pitchfork mobs.
Interesting, though I notice Bram's avoided updating his donate, this is my only job page that pops up randomly when you use the bittorrent client.
The device is likely to be mundane and ordinary, not some tool of awesome power and destruction.
My guess is that it is part of an aftermarket car alarm with wireless remote, an internal pressure-gradient sensing type. The LED displays the time left to shut the door before it will trigger the alarm.
This is NOT the world's first self-chilling can. Probably 10 years ago I read an article in Popular Mechanics (or Popular Science) about a company who was coming out with a self-chilling can. It fit into the lid of a normal soda can, displacing about an ounce of fluid. Inside the chiller was compressed carbon dioxide, which was released when the can was opened, thus using Charles' Law to reduce the temperature of the can.
If all you want to do is get your USB device working, I'm not so sure you really need this capability. USB analyzers are primarily useful for testing the device for compliance with USB signal standards. That way, you only have to get your device compliance-tested once.
I've developed a few USB devices, and frankly I haven't needed an analyzer just to get the device to work. If something's happening you don't understand, set breakpoints or toggle some status LEDs to see where you are in the firmware. That, and software-based sniffing for the occasional sanity check, has been all I really needed.
Learn the standard USB device types, and if you try to reverse-engineer a proprietary device, stock up on Advil.
It's actually kind of shaped the same, too, if I read the article correctly.
Basically this takes existing air-to-air and cruise missle targeting capabilities, and integrates it into a reusable agile platform. Combine this with some of the high-powered laser weapons under development, and we have a truly formidable weapon.
Without a cockpit, it can be designed with the absolute minimum radar signature. Without a pilot, it can do continuous high-G maneuvers, end-for-end flips, high-speed rolls, things that would render a human useless or dead.
They can also be mass-produced at high rates, and each retain full combat ability off the assembly line, as opposed to pilots who must be trained. During attacks they can also be perfectly coordinated in complex interactions for maximum effectiveness.
Defeating these things will become more like discovering the bugs in a video game.