That's very interesting... I thought the entire academic world (or at least the technical academic world) was standardized on LaTeX. At first, I was resistant to it when I started grad school, but I've grown to like the fact that I can just write and my thesis comes out nicely formatted.
I'm not an Apple user, though I have seen spotlight in use. I know that Google Desktop supports plugins to index files that aren't natively indexed by its own indexer. Does spotlight support third party plugins to extend what it is capable of indexing?
I'm thinking Google is the best people to ask to deal with this for 3 reasons:
1. Google indexes massive amounts of data. The telescope imagery will be a massive amount of data. 2. Google has huge data centers capable of a great amount of distributed processing. The telescope data will require a lot of possibly parallel data processing (multiple images, FFTs on the images, comparison between sequences, etc) 3. Google has a plethora of graduate level employees - who better than a bunch of PhD scientists to store / process / index massive amounts of scientific data?
More than likely, battery companies would first have to agree on a standard way of building their batteries. They could then sacrifice some battery real-estate to the induction charger. For the consumer, they would have a choice between a longer lasting battery, and a wireless rechargeable battery.
There is a reason that many CG Animation companies including Pixar prefer to take traditional animators and teach them computer skills than to take computer artists and teach them animation skills.
Actually, this theory could make the ramjet even more impractical. That anti-gravity beam would move all your hydrogen atoms out of the way of the collector making it even more difficult to collect the atoms!
The e-ink technology has also been used in colour displays: http://www.eink.com/news/images/eink_color_tft_dem o.jpg
To do the colour displays, they use several micro capsules with three orthogonal colours like cyan, magenta and yellow. On one half of the wall of the capsule are tiny white particles that are charged negative.
Since the capsules themselves are only about 100 microns wide, you can create different colours by adjusting the orientation of each capsule to face a given direction. This is done by applying an electric field.
You have to use cyan, magenta and yellow because the display generally reflects light and doens't produce light on its own.
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That's very interesting... I thought the entire academic world (or at least the technical academic world) was standardized on LaTeX. At first, I was resistant to it when I started grad school, but I've grown to like the fact that I can just write and my thesis comes out nicely formatted.
I'm not an Apple user, though I have seen spotlight in use. I know that Google Desktop supports plugins to index files that aren't natively indexed by its own indexer. Does spotlight support third party plugins to extend what it is capable of indexing?
Quite simply: the individuals who work at and maintain the port (either directly or indirectly) live in the homes built 14 feet below sea level.
This is of course assuming the user doesn't accidentally click "Allow" when the cursor exploit requests admin privileges to continue.
And if you're in physics, you should know math, and if you're in math, you should know Greek. :-)
I agree. Mod parent up.
People are missing the sarcasm because the issue falls to close to home.
I'm thinking Google is the best people to ask to deal with this for 3 reasons:
1. Google indexes massive amounts of data. The telescope imagery will be a massive amount of data.
2. Google has huge data centers capable of a great amount of distributed processing. The telescope data will require a lot of possibly parallel data processing (multiple images, FFTs on the images, comparison between sequences, etc)
3. Google has a plethora of graduate level employees - who better than a bunch of PhD scientists to store / process / index massive amounts of scientific data?
More than likely, battery companies would first have to agree on a standard way of building their batteries. They could then sacrifice some battery real-estate to the induction charger. For the consumer, they would have a choice between a longer lasting battery, and a wireless rechargeable battery.
Actually, this theory could make the ramjet even more impractical. That anti-gravity beam would move all your hydrogen atoms out of the way of the collector making it even more difficult to collect the atoms!
The e-ink technology has also been used in colour displays: http://www.eink.com/news/images/eink_color_tft_dem o.jpg
To do the colour displays, they use several micro capsules with three orthogonal colours like cyan, magenta and yellow. On one half of the wall of the capsule are tiny white particles that are charged negative.
Since the capsules themselves are only about 100 microns wide, you can create different colours by adjusting the orientation of each capsule to face a given direction. This is done by applying an electric field.
You have to use cyan, magenta and yellow because the display generally reflects light and doens't produce light on its own.