3e8 m/s speed of light
1.5e7 m/s is 5% of speed of light
v = at so t = v/a
t = (1.5e7 m/s) / (10 m/s^2) = 1.5e6 sec
(1.5e6 sec) / (3600 sec/hour) ~ 417 hours ~ 17 days
Your error is that 1 g is not 1 m/s^2 but rather 10 m/s^2.
You'll also find "burglarize" in American dictionaries. There's already a prefectly good verb - burgle - from which comes burglar, but you guys get all confused about shortening a noun to verberize it, so you have to make a new, bigger verb so you can feel safe about conjugaterizationerizing that. Does my head in.
It's funny that you mention that as we often discuss this issue at work. My coworkers and I have discussed how there are people who do this intentionally to sound more sophisticated. We even refer to this effect as "reverbification". (My apologies to reverb.) You start with a perfectly fine verb, turn it into a noun and then back into a verb that is a whole lot more awkward than the one you started with.
Your suggestions such as "extending applications by simply dragging and dropping features from one application to another" is unfortunately not possible with our current(or dreamed-about) tech.
That would truely be an awesome feature if it existed. Something headed in that direction existed with OpenDoc, but sadly that was a dead end.
OpenDoc is a cross-platform technology that replaces conventional applications with user-assembled groups of software components. OpenDoc allows users to create virtually any kind of custom software solution. OpenDoc is not supported in Carbon.
Virtual Console is Nintendo's name for the service that will allow them to provide roms of classic games to Wii customers. Along with NES, SNES, and N64 games there will also be Turbografix 16 titles available on the service.
The more I hear about this system the more I like about it. Now if the have Parasol Stars for it I'm completely sold.
A lot of comments seem to make a big deal out of the potential noisiness of the data. But if this thing can take ten snapshots per second, couldn't it take three shots in a third of a second and average the results to reduce noisiness without sacrificing resolution? I don't know much about photography, but it seems like this should be quite effective to me.
This will improve the noise level but will also result in signifigant bluring in the resulting picture if anything is moving during the exposure.
Currently on intel macs, all disk IO has to be byte swapped, degrading performance. ZFS on the other hand will store data in the machines native format.
While the non-native byte ordering does slow performance this only applies to metadata and not the contents of the files.
Funny you should mention that. The Intel 386 (and up) architecture has built in support for a floating point coprocessor, so it can offload floating point operations.
Actually, the FPU as an adjunct goes back on the Intel x86 architecture to at least the 8087
You may be interested in Shannon's channel coding theorem which relates the maximum possible bandwidth of a communications channel to the SNR. Increasing the deetctor sensitivity increases the SNR and hence the channel capacity.
I like using ImageMagick...but its scale feature doesn't look as good as when I use Gimp (or Photoshop for that matter). Why is that? There is a huge quality difference to my eyes when I put a picture scaled with Gimp next to one with ImageMagick. Am I doing something wrong? =/ Random_Amber
I have noticed the same thing. I may be missing a setting somewhere but I'm not sure. To my untrained eye, it looks like PS (and I guess the GIMP as well) does a better job of low pass filtering the images when scaling.
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While SCSI was used for hard drives and CD-ROM drives it was not used in as build Macintoshes for the floppy drive.
If there is one thing about MacOS X that I wish was standardized across Linux distribution, this is it.
3e8 m/s speed of light
1.5e7 m/s is 5% of speed of light
v = at so t = v/a
t = (1.5e7 m/s) / (10 m/s^2) = 1.5e6 sec
(1.5e6 sec) / (3600 sec/hour) ~ 417 hours ~ 17 days
Your error is that 1 g is not 1 m/s^2 but rather 10 m/s^2.
You're off by a factor of 10. Ignoring relativity, accelerating at 1 g for 1/2 of a year brings you to approximately 50% c and not 5%.
Do you live in NJ? Because that is the exact situation I'm thinking of.
I mean - "Brilliant Pebbles"? I'll say ... who spends money on a box of rocks?
Maybe they mean these: Brilliant Pebbles?
You'll also find "burglarize" in American dictionaries. There's already a prefectly good verb - burgle - from which comes burglar, but you guys get all confused about shortening a noun to verberize it, so you have to make a new, bigger verb so you can feel safe about conjugaterizationerizing that. Does my head in.
It's funny that you mention that as we often discuss this issue at work. My coworkers and I have discussed how there are people who do this intentionally to sound more sophisticated. We even refer to this effect as "reverbification". (My apologies to reverb.) You start with a perfectly fine verb, turn it into a noun and then back into a verb that is a whole lot more awkward than the one you started with.
Overpriced is being generous to say the least....
Being exposed to the near-vacuum of space for an extended period of time, aren't the bacteria likely to be "pulled apart" at the molecular level?
No, contrary to popular opinion, vacuum does not suck
They'll use it as a general purpose reducing agent where we presumably use something else ....
It has been speculated that some of the functionality has been replaced with Uric Acid. Take a look at the references (#2 or #3 I think).
Is that 40 terawatt (seconds, hours, months, years, centuries)
I'd guess that it is 40 terawatts and that the intended units were power and not energy.
I beleive you are thinking of Paricutin
Um, I believe RFC3514 is probably a joke.
Yeah, just check the date on the RFC: 1 April 2003
Your suggestions such as "extending applications by simply dragging and dropping features from one application to another" is unfortunately not possible with our current(or dreamed-about) tech.
That would truely be an awesome feature if it existed. Something headed in that direction existed with OpenDoc, but sadly that was a dead end.
Virtual Console is Nintendo's name for the service that will allow them to provide roms of classic games to Wii customers. Along with NES, SNES, and N64 games there will also be Turbografix 16 titles available on the service.
The more I hear about this system the more I like about it. Now if the have Parasol Stars for it I'm completely sold.
What happened to free speech
That is a forbidden question.
Have a jelly baby.
A lot of comments seem to make a big deal out of the potential noisiness of the data. But if this thing can take ten snapshots per second, couldn't it take three shots in a third of a second and average the results to reduce noisiness without sacrificing resolution? I don't know much about photography, but it seems like this should be quite effective to me.
This will improve the noise level but will also result in signifigant bluring in the resulting picture if anything is moving during the exposure.
NOTE...sounds like a your classic urban myth??????
It sure does unless someone can produce said patent.
Currently on intel macs, all disk IO has to be byte swapped, degrading performance. ZFS on the other hand will store data in the machines native format.
While the non-native byte ordering does slow performance this only applies to metadata and not the contents of the files.
I thought the software of space exploration was "Astroids"
More information on Asteroids.
I think Dell buying MAC and Duke Nukem Forever being released will officially begin the icing over of hell.
Why would DELL buy Macerich Co. (MAC)?
Hasn't Carnegie Mellon produced at least a couple of similar robots that give tours?
Yes. There is SAGE at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History which I've seen in person and there may be more of which I am not aware.
Funny you should mention that. The Intel 386 (and up) architecture has built in support for a floating point coprocessor, so it can offload floating point operations.
Actually, the FPU as an adjunct goes back on the Intel x86 architecture to at least the 8087
You may be interested in Shannon's channel coding theorem which relates the maximum possible bandwidth of a communications channel to the SNR. Increasing the deetctor sensitivity increases the SNR and hence the channel capacity.
I like using ImageMagick...but its scale feature doesn't look as good as when I use Gimp (or Photoshop for that matter). Why is that? There is a huge quality difference to my eyes when I put a picture scaled with Gimp next to one with ImageMagick. Am I doing something wrong? =/ Random_Amber
I have noticed the same thing. I may be missing a setting somewhere but I'm not sure. To my untrained eye, it looks like PS (and I guess the GIMP as well) does a better job of low pass filtering the images when scaling.