I have adapted this technology to the Slashdot commenting system. Now, I will always have first post, always be the first to say In Soviet Russia...
I can already taste the Karma.
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PSP Not A Sellout Hit
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There could be a significant urban audience that you are missing. In an urban setting, people will have plenty of time to play the PSP, either walking destination to desination, riding the bus or taxi, or just sitting outside in a park rather than in the home. Also, the PSP would be attractive to the young professionals who do a lot of airplane travel.
If part of your reasoning is that you want to travel, it can easily wait until after college. If you want to see the world make sure you go into a field that will provide a job with lots of travel opportunities. That way you can see things and get paid for it at the same time!
Also, college could be the most enjoyable four years (or more) of your life. As long as you don't get too bogged down by the studies (which you shouldn't) you will have a blast. Remember that college is as much a social experience as an educational one.
You can open PDF files out of the browser pretty easily. Open the Acrobat application and go to Edit -> Preferences. Under Internet in the preferences menu there is a check box for "Display PDF in Browser". Simply uncheck this box.
For firefox users, go to Tools -> Options in the browser and in the Downloads menu change the action for PDF files to "open with acrobat.exe". That should do it.
"At which point the tech companies will reveal their plans for SDD-DVD (super-duper-density DVD)"
I know your post is largely a joke, but I'd just like to point out that Blu-Ray/HD-DVD will likely be the last incarnation of plastic disc optical storage media. Each improvement in memory density was based on a smaller wavelength of laser light used. Unfortunately, if the wavelength is increased much more, it tends to get very difficult for a plastic medium like the current discs to reflect the beam. This makes another generation physically impossible.
It may be more likely to see a brand new storage media or perhaps no portable media at all. Instead, databases would be accessable anywhere through some sort of wired or wireless comms.
You are quite right. I wish the discussion here focused more on the situation in Wisconsin that causes this tax. It is not some underhanded way to introduce a new tax on us internet users. Instead it is a desparate attempt to balance a budget that was doomed from the beginning especially since the freeze on property tax was proposed.
I am designing an RFID system using the ISO 15693 standard. The difference with the standards is the protocol used for communication. The physical implementation is still the same. Both work at 13.56 MHz. The cards and reader are coupled together like and air core transformer. The tag and reader "antennas" must be oriented parallel for optimum reading distance. Even with optimal orientation, the sensing distance usually very small especially with a low power portable device. I'm not sure what securtiy is used in the 14443 standard, but intercepting or even initiating an RFID transmission is very very difficult for an HF application.
You beat me to it. Most people don't realize this. RFID is, like you said, an air core transformer. So not only is it difficult to get a good reading range, but you also must have the correct orientation for best reading of the tags. The tag and reader "antenna" coil must be parallel for the flux to induce current in the tag. (slight angles will work, but will decrese read range)
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And I like MPAA's little adds in the movie theatres how they show this poor set designer who claims the pimply-faced hackers stole his money"
I was in the theater with my friend when we first saw this commercial. During the silence immediately after the commercial my friend burst out "Cool! I should download that when I get home." Everyone started laughing.
Good point. That's also the problem with Mars. Low magentic field means bad penetration by radiation. The only way to increase the magnetic field is to excite the cores of each planet. Good luck with that.
I read in a commnet that the thing would be going 60 km/s. This is a small number compared to the 3x10^8 m/s that light travels. Using the equations for time dilation, the difference in time would be only be.999999999 etc. seconds. No problem here. You would only see some significant relativistic effects if you were travelling somewhere at say.6c for a significant amount of time.
This seems to be the one thing on the list that I could not imagine as being endangered. A/D and D/A converters are essential components in todays digitized world. They are necessary to allow us to view our content in our analog environment while storing and processing it in the digital world. Don't expect these to disappear anytime soon.
Relativity got a good push from the "failure" of the Michelson Morley experiment. These two fellas set out to prove the existence of what was known back in the late 1800s as the "ether". This would be an inertial body through which everything moves. Therefore, absolute velocity could be measured based on using the ether as reference.
The experiment used an interferometer which basically splits light in perpendicular directions then brings the two beams back together again. If the ether existed, it was assumed that the light of one beam would be travelling at a different speed than the light of the other beam because of the motion of the earth. Therefore, when the two beams were combined again, they would be out of phase and would interfere with each other.
Everyone at the time was certain of the ether, but it turns out that through this experiment, no interference was detected. Therefore they had to conclude that the speed of light was the same in both directions in reference to the observer. Lorentz brought forward his transformation equations which explained that your means of measuring the speed would be distorted because of your relative motion. Einstein formed his theory from these observations and it has held true to experimentation to this day.
I'm guessing this is a typo. Any geek would know that the first 7 digits after the three are 1415926. Actually, the 6 should be rounded up since the next digit would be 5 so the value is 3.1415927.
The strategy is a matter of not only the optimal fielder configuration(were to place the players based on each batters hitting trends), but is also that of personnel management. Who would be best in each situation? What's this guys average against left handed pitchers who throw the heat, what's the on base percentage for this leadoff batter, when do you pull the pitcher etc. These take a lot of studying of opposing players and a good understanding of your own players' abilities.
Baseball has many cheerleaders. In fact I am one of them. You know what I mean. I'm the guy in the outfield bleachers with a beer in hand and my shirt off yelling and trying to start the wave.
Seriously though, I think its the strategy that makes baseball appealing. Not to mention the fact that games are cheap to attend, the dynamic of the game is that at any half of the inning, the momentum can change with a grand slam or a batting rally. Also, it is a good excuse to eat and drink like crazy (drinking is especially big here in Milwaukee, WI. Our team is the Brewers after all).
It's all a matter of opinion I guess. After all, I don't see the fun of watching a bunch of people running up and down a field kicking a ball around and only scoring 2 or 3 times a game.
Perhaps they were referring to the discrete energy levels in an atom. An atom emits a photon when an electron falls from a higher energy level to a lower one. The frequency of the photon is determined by the bandgap energy (E in your equation) of the atom for the transition of the electron. Each type of element has only certain discrete bandgaps thus it can only produce certain discrete wavelengths. This is how you explain the various spectra of different elements.
Granted if you examine all elements you may be able to discover a continuous variation of wavelengths. However, when examining INDIVIDUAL elements it is clear that only discrete wavelengths may be produced.
On a side note, some (negligible)variance in the wavelengths of a spectrum can occur due to the uncertainty of the energy levels, and other phenomenon such as the doppler effect(electron is moving fast when it releases an electron in the direction of motion thus the frequency is increased).
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I can already taste the Karma.
There could be a significant urban audience that you are missing. In an urban setting, people will have plenty of time to play the PSP, either walking destination to desination, riding the bus or taxi, or just sitting outside in a park rather than in the home. Also, the PSP would be attractive to the young professionals who do a lot of airplane travel.
Also, college could be the most enjoyable four years (or more) of your life. As long as you don't get too bogged down by the studies (which you shouldn't) you will have a blast. Remember that college is as much a social experience as an educational one.
You missed it. It was called Star Treck The Next Generation.
I don't get it. President or precedent?
For firefox users, go to Tools -> Options in the browser and in the Downloads menu change the action for PDF files to "open with acrobat.exe". That should do it.
I know your post is largely a joke, but I'd just like to point out that Blu-Ray/HD-DVD will likely be the last incarnation of plastic disc optical storage media. Each improvement in memory density was based on a smaller wavelength of laser light used. Unfortunately, if the wavelength is increased much more, it tends to get very difficult for a plastic medium like the current discs to reflect the beam. This makes another generation physically impossible.
It may be more likely to see a brand new storage media or perhaps no portable media at all. Instead, databases would be accessable anywhere through some sort of wired or wireless comms.
Ahhh Minnesota, the wannabe Wisconsin...
You wish. It's a state that's IBM dominated. "
Hah It's a state that's dominated by the Green Bay Packers and Cheese and Sausage. What is this M$ anyway?
I suppose cheese production plays a part in this since we all need something to put on our heads during the game.
You are quite right. I wish the discussion here focused more on the situation in Wisconsin that causes this tax. It is not some underhanded way to introduce a new tax on us internet users. Instead it is a desparate attempt to balance a budget that was doomed from the beginning especially since the freeze on property tax was proposed.
I am designing an RFID system using the ISO 15693 standard. The difference with the standards is the protocol used for communication. The physical implementation is still the same. Both work at 13.56 MHz. The cards and reader are coupled together like and air core transformer. The tag and reader "antennas" must be oriented parallel for optimum reading distance. Even with optimal orientation, the sensing distance usually very small especially with a low power portable device. I'm not sure what securtiy is used in the 14443 standard, but intercepting or even initiating an RFID transmission is very very difficult for an HF application.
You beat me to it. Most people don't realize this. RFID is, like you said, an air core transformer. So not only is it difficult to get a good reading range, but you also must have the correct orientation for best reading of the tags. The tag and reader "antenna" coil must be parallel for the flux to induce current in the tag. (slight angles will work, but will decrese read range)
I can't help it. It's ISO 15963 for vicinity tags.
I was in the theater with my friend when we first saw this commercial. During the silence immediately after the commercial my friend burst out "Cool! I should download that when I get home." Everyone started laughing.
Good point. That's also the problem with Mars. Low magentic field means bad penetration by radiation. The only way to increase the magnetic field is to excite the cores of each planet. Good luck with that.
I read in a commnet that the thing would be going 60 km/s. This is a small number compared to the 3x10^8 m/s that light travels. Using the equations for time dilation, the difference in time would be only be .999999999 etc. seconds. No problem here. You would only see some significant relativistic effects if you were travelling somewhere at say .6c for a significant amount of time.
This seems to be the one thing on the list that I could not imagine as being endangered. A/D and D/A converters are essential components in todays digitized world. They are necessary to allow us to view our content in our analog environment while storing and processing it in the digital world. Don't expect these to disappear anytime soon.
The experiment used an interferometer which basically splits light in perpendicular directions then brings the two beams back together again. If the ether existed, it was assumed that the light of one beam would be travelling at a different speed than the light of the other beam because of the motion of the earth. Therefore, when the two beams were combined again, they would be out of phase and would interfere with each other.
Everyone at the time was certain of the ether, but it turns out that through this experiment, no interference was detected. Therefore they had to conclude that the speed of light was the same in both directions in reference to the observer. Lorentz brought forward his transformation equations which explained that your means of measuring the speed would be distorted because of your relative motion. Einstein formed his theory from these observations and it has held true to experimentation to this day.
I'm guessing this is a typo. Any geek would know that the first 7 digits after the three are 1415926. Actually, the 6 should be rounded up since the next digit would be 5 so the value is 3.1415927.
The strategy is a matter of not only the optimal fielder configuration(were to place the players based on each batters hitting trends), but is also that of personnel management. Who would be best in each situation? What's this guys average against left handed pitchers who throw the heat, what's the on base percentage for this leadoff batter, when do you pull the pitcher etc. These take a lot of studying of opposing players and a good understanding of your own players' abilities.
Seriously though, I think its the strategy that makes baseball appealing. Not to mention the fact that games are cheap to attend, the dynamic of the game is that at any half of the inning, the momentum can change with a grand slam or a batting rally. Also, it is a good excuse to eat and drink like crazy (drinking is especially big here in Milwaukee, WI. Our team is the Brewers after all).
It's all a matter of opinion I guess. After all, I don't see the fun of watching a bunch of people running up and down a field kicking a ball around and only scoring 2 or 3 times a game.
Heh I guess that's why this is news for nerds and not sports fans. Just FYI NBA = National Basketball Association.
That's the oddest pronunciation that I've ever seen. Where are all the vowels?
Granted if you examine all elements you may be able to discover a continuous variation of wavelengths. However, when examining INDIVIDUAL elements it is clear that only discrete wavelengths may be produced.
On a side note, some (negligible)variance in the wavelengths of a spectrum can occur due to the uncertainty of the energy levels, and other phenomenon such as the doppler effect(electron is moving fast when it releases an electron in the direction of motion thus the frequency is increased).