You divide the surface area of the reflector by the size of the focused area. If you can get a million mirrors all aimed at the same tiny spot then yes, it's a million times hotter.
Doing it would be quite challenging technically but the math doesn't lie.
Is their engineering ahead? I dunno but they're not stupid and they're licensing the German tech as a starting point so there's no reason to think it won't be better.
We should be glad that the only way to get this decades-old technology is for China to do it first...?
The fact that the USA is spending all its money on wars and bailouts instead of leading the world forwards is shameful. Whatever happened to the 1950's/1960's America that the entire world looked to and admired?
A product which industry sees as 'essential' with Intel branding on it will come in very handy when it comes to selling PCs with Intel Inside to pointy haired bosses. Remember, many PHBs still worry whether or not AMD chips will be 100% compatible with Windows.
I don't see any advantage in 'embedding AV' into Intel chips (whatever that would mean) but Intel might add a couple of instructions just for marketing reasons so they can claim 'hardware accelerated AV' or some such junk.
Yep. The major problem of consoles is that they stay static for ten years while everybody else follows Moore's law. By next Xmas smartphones will have caught up and the year after that this will just be 'meh' in terms of computing power.
PS: Yes... staying static has the advantage that developers have exact specs to develop/optimize for.
I didn't know they'd canceled it - which shows exactly how much attention I've been paying to it lately.
TV/Movies are supposed to be about escapism. I want a show which shows me the wonders of the cosmos through the imaginations of the worlds brightest sci-fi writers, not hours and hours of interpersonal conflict on a starship full of emos.
I'm dancing with you... common decency has prevailed!
Too much interpersonal relationship drama - the same thing that killed BSG.
I don't mind character subplots but they should be 'sub', not the main course for week after week after week. If I want to watch a soap opera I'll go watch a soap opera, thanks.
I've never even seen a home PC or laptop crash because of a cell phone. They make buzzing noises in unshielded speaker cables but they don't seem to be able to do much more.
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So what happens if they shut down Verisign (etc.)...? SSL requires a trusted third party, who you gonna trust?
A visit from the men in black SUVs will soon sort out all those "independent ISPs".
Luckily for them The Bible isn't scientific so they won't have to teach the weaknesses in that.
You divide the surface area of the reflector by the size of the focused area. If you can get a million mirrors all aimed at the same tiny spot then yes, it's a million times hotter.
Doing it would be quite challenging technically but the math doesn't lie.
If I'm a spammer I'll just filter all the dots out of gmail addresses (right after I trim off the part which begins with '+').
If I was a spammer I'd already be trimming any gmail address with a '+' in it.
5800 mirrors all focused on the same spot is over 5000 times normal incident sunlight.
(Assuming he used decent mirrors and not shards of a CD or something like that...)
It doesn't produce a ray and I didn't see any death in the video. All I saw was a home-made parabolic reflector being used to concentrate sunlight...
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I thought you meant the AVR reactor.
Is their engineering ahead? I dunno but they're not stupid and they're licensing the German tech as a starting point so there's no reason to think it won't be better.
"...more funding needed"
You're comparing nuclear physics of the 1960s with modern nuclear physics...?
Maybe you need a refresher course on the problems the early Uranium reactors had due to lack of physics knowledge, eg windscale
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We should be glad that the only way to get this decades-old technology is for China to do it first...?
The fact that the USA is spending all its money on wars and bailouts instead of leading the world forwards is shameful. Whatever happened to the 1950's/1960's America that the entire world looked to and admired?
Not if they're up a tree...
How is the worst possible DOS attack any worse than pulling the plug on the Internet?
Answer: It isn't...
Next year there'll be a new law requiring logging of NAT sessions.
The RIAA already knows who to bribe so the next round of laws will go through quickly.
A product which industry sees as 'essential' with Intel branding on it will come in very handy when it comes to selling PCs with Intel Inside to pointy haired bosses. Remember, many PHBs still worry whether or not AMD chips will be 100% compatible with Windows.
I don't see any advantage in 'embedding AV' into Intel chips (whatever that would mean) but Intel might add a couple of instructions just for marketing reasons so they can claim 'hardware accelerated AV' or some such junk.
Yep. The major problem of consoles is that they stay static for ten years while everybody else follows Moore's law. By next Xmas smartphones will have caught up and the year after that this will just be 'meh' in terms of computing power.
PS: Yes... staying static has the advantage that developers have exact specs to develop/optimize for.
Thing is....a lot of people bought PS3 *because* it could run Linux (or whatever).
It's _us_ who should be suing SONY for taking that away.
It's a doggy dog world...
I didn't know they'd canceled it - which shows exactly how much attention I've been paying to it lately.
TV/Movies are supposed to be about escapism. I want a show which shows me the wonders of the cosmos through the imaginations of the worlds brightest sci-fi writers, not hours and hours of interpersonal conflict on a starship full of emos.
I'm dancing with you ... common decency has prevailed!
Too much interpersonal relationship drama - the same thing that killed BSG.
I don't mind character subplots but they should be 'sub', not the main course for week after week after week. If I want to watch a soap opera I'll go watch a soap opera, thanks.
Maybe it's really aimed at pseudogeeks....
It's a joke, surely...
I've never even seen a home PC or laptop crash because of a cell phone. They make buzzing noises in unshielded speaker cables but they don't seem to be able to do much more.