Analog tape has a finite Nyquist limit because of grain size and transport speed, unlike a digital recording which in principal is only limited by the sampling rate.
Hey a big thrill as a new ham for me was to talk from Pacific Grove California to Haifa Israel on a IC 735 set down to 10 w into a 6 foot vertical copper tube. Considering the wave pattern I probably reached him on the wave going west over the Pacific... 73 ko6eb
Hey don't blame me! I submitted the story last night with URLs and everything, but it was rejected. And I did not submit it to Rights Online. I submitted to Englightenment.
Remember the memory prices then. I paid something like $500 for 256kb (yes, that is $2000 for one MB).
Also, I spoke with Andy (a great a guy personally as he is professionally -- he is the engineering team member you wish you could have) and he admitted that he might have done things differently if it weren't for the insane rush job in producing a real product. After the Lisa marketing and Apple/// "molex" and "National Semi clock chip" debacles, Steve (Jobs) was a more driven than those he drove.
(After all I heard from others in Bandley III, Steve told Wendell where to put the clock chip on the motherboard...oops.)
But look at the big picture. Regardless of how anyone might have done anything differently, the Apple II and Macintosh put the billions in the bank so Apple could do things like, say, the iPod.
A lot of perfectly engineered things are still in the closet because they missed a competitive opportunity window.
A fine soft drink product from Romania.
You know those fake cans that you can hide money and uh keys in? Well I think your computer wouldn't be nicked if it were inside a giant version of one.
Searching using keywords driving near-synonym lists has been done for more than a decade now.
The hot research right now are keywords driving a state machine composed of encyclopedic dictionaries, real-time text production as on the Internet (used similar to citations in the Oxford English Dictionary), and feedback nudges from the keyword originator (after all the concept the keyword originator is seeking may rapidly be evolving for *them*).
You want to use a dictionary rather than thesaurus because for the same reason you don't a priori page rank Google indices -- you don't want to selectively exclude dilute links that always exist between one concept and another.
It makes a wonderful living dance.
I agree. Politically we have no experience with this. Maybe I can find a secret natural cave that will survive the autoclave blast. Maybe have some means to use geothermal energy during a decade or more without the sun.
On the other hand, there will be a lot of downed wood for cosy campfires and plenty of "long pork" to re-prime the higher levels of the food chain.
The convenient thing about Slashdot is that contributors can often count on a higher level of natural intelligence and knowledge of popular culture than the mean wit of Unca Bubbas BBS. But not always.
Muffley: But look here doctor, wouldn't this nucleus of survivors be so grief stricken and anguished that they'd, well, envy the dead and not want to go on living?
Strangelove: No sir... [right arm rolls his wheelchair backwards.] Excuse me. [struggles with wayward right arm, ultimately subduing it with a beating from his left.] Also when... when they go down into the mine everyone would still be alive. There would be no shocking memories, and the prevailing emotion will be ne of nostalgia for those left behind, combined with a spirit of bold curiosity for the adventure ahead! Ahhhh! [Right hand reflexes into Nazi salute. He pulls it back into his lap and beats it again. Gloved hand attempts to strangle him.]
Clearly we need to start now to develop deep habitable mines to ensure the survival of our way of life. We must carefully select a few hundred thousand of those who should be protected at all costs.
A special committee would have to be appointed to study and recommend the criteria to be employed, but off-hand, I should say that in addition to the factors of youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross-section of necessary skills, it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included, to impart the required principles of leadership and tradition.
Naturally, they would breed prodigiously. There would be much time and little to do. With the proper breeding techniques, and starting with a ratio of, say, ten women to each man, I should estimate the progeny of the original group of 200,000 would emerge a hundred years later as well over a hundred million. Naturally the group would have to continually engage in enlarging the original living space.
[f. mu (l being conventionally used to denote permeability) + metal n. (and a.).]
The proprietary name of an alloy of iron that contains approximately 75 to 78 per cent nickel, 4 to 6 per cent copper, and 1 1/2 to 2 per cent chromium by weight and is a useful material for transformer cores and magnetic shields because of its high permeability...
First cited use: 1924 Trade Marks Jrnl. 16 Apr. 858 Mumetal. Metallic alloys, unwrought or partly wrought. The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, Limited, London
Every neek and gerd should have some Mu metal which offers superb shielding of the magnetic component of the EMF. And at the close range of typical detectors it is the magnetic component which needs the shielding the most.
I really liked Hedy Lamarr. A high school dropout at 16. She was both a 1930-1940s glamorous movie star but she *also* invented frequency hopping spread spectrum to foil WWII jammking efforts. She was awarded U.S. Patent # 2,292,387 for her work.
But in the spirit of the/. neandertals, she was also one hot lady:
http://www.rtspecialties.com/tobar/conex1/hedy4.jp g
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You mean the *actual* source...
Analog tape has a finite Nyquist limit because of grain size and transport speed, unlike a digital recording which in principal is only limited by the sampling rate.
Hey a big thrill as a new ham for me was to talk from Pacific Grove California to Haifa Israel on a IC 735 set down to 10 w into a 6 foot vertical copper tube. Considering the wave pattern I probably reached him on the wave going west over the Pacific... 73 ko6eb
Sure, I can do that to with a 1:1 match into a 30dB gain antenna... of course at 80m that would be a big sucker... 73 k06eb
Hey don't blame me! I submitted the story last night with URLs and everything, but it was rejected. And I did not submit it to Rights Online. I submitted to Englightenment.
Also, I spoke with Andy (a great a guy personally as he is professionally -- he is the engineering team member you wish you could have) and he admitted that he might have done things differently if it weren't for the insane rush job in producing a real product. After the Lisa marketing and Apple /// "molex" and "National Semi clock chip" debacles, Steve (Jobs) was a more driven than those he drove.
(After all I heard from others in Bandley III, Steve told Wendell where to put the clock chip on the motherboard...oops.) But look at the big picture. Regardless of how anyone might have done anything differently, the Apple II and Macintosh put the billions in the bank so Apple could do things like, say, the iPod.
A lot of perfectly engineered things are still in the closet because they missed a competitive opportunity window.
I've used the free open source Wilbur from redtree.com for ten years now. Now that everybody's doing it, I can tell the secret.
A fine soft drink product from Romania. You know those fake cans that you can hide money and uh keys in? Well I think your computer wouldn't be nicked if it were inside a giant version of one.
Searching using keywords driving near-synonym lists has been done for more than a decade now.
The hot research right now are keywords driving a state machine composed of encyclopedic dictionaries, real-time text production as on the Internet (used similar to citations in the Oxford English Dictionary), and feedback nudges from the keyword originator (after all the concept the keyword originator is seeking may rapidly be evolving for *them*).
You want to use a dictionary rather than thesaurus because for the same reason you don't a priori page rank Google indices -- you don't want to selectively exclude dilute links that always exist between one concept and another.
It makes a wonderful living dance.
Damn! Rodney Holmes beat me to it! 1. hear about potential global castastrophe; 2. register domain name; 3. profit!!!!
I, for one, will give 100,000-to-1 odds that the favorite, earth, will survive 2004 MN4. Paypal accepted.
As a terran descendent of the hairdresser and telephone cleaner diaspora, this is a strangely appropriate idea.
I agree. Politically we have no experience with this. Maybe I can find a secret natural cave that will survive the autoclave blast. Maybe have some means to use geothermal energy during a decade or more without the sun.
On the other hand, there will be a lot of downed wood for cosy campfires and plenty of "long pork" to re-prime the higher levels of the food chain.
The convenient thing about Slashdot is that contributors can often count on a higher level of natural intelligence and knowledge of popular culture than the mean wit of Unca Bubbas BBS. But not always.
Muffley: But look here doctor, wouldn't this nucleus of survivors be so grief stricken and anguished that they'd, well, envy the dead and not want to go on living?
Strangelove: No sir... [right arm rolls his wheelchair backwards.] Excuse me. [struggles with wayward right arm, ultimately subduing it with a beating from his left.] Also when... when they go down into the mine everyone would still be alive. There would be no shocking memories, and the prevailing emotion will be ne of nostalgia for those left behind, combined with a spirit of bold curiosity for the adventure ahead! Ahhhh! [Right hand reflexes into Nazi salute. He pulls it back into his lap and beats it again. Gloved hand attempts to strangle him.]
Clearly we need to start now to develop deep habitable mines to ensure the survival of our way of life. We must carefully select a few hundred thousand of those who should be protected at all costs.
A special committee would have to be appointed to study and recommend the criteria to be employed, but off-hand, I should say that in addition to the factors of youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross-section of necessary skills, it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included, to impart the required principles of leadership and tradition.
Naturally, they would breed prodigiously. There would be much time and little to do. With the proper breeding techniques, and starting with a ratio of, say, ten women to each man, I should estimate the progeny of the original group of 200,000 would emerge a hundred years later as well over a hundred million. Naturally the group would have to continually engage in enlarging the original living space.
From Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Ed. (2002):
Mumetal
[f. mu (l being conventionally used to denote permeability) + metal n. (and a.).]
The proprietary name of an alloy of iron that contains approximately 75 to 78 per cent nickel, 4 to 6 per cent copper, and 1 1/2 to 2 per cent chromium by weight and is a useful material for transformer cores and magnetic shields because of its high permeability...
First cited use: 1924 Trade Marks Jrnl. 16 Apr. 858 Mumetal. Metallic alloys, unwrought or partly wrought. The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, Limited, London
You cleverly disguise it as the flash of a disposable camera.
A stun gun is portable, works great, leaves no marks, and has pretty blue dancing lights.
Every neek and gerd should have some Mu metal which offers superb shielding of the magnetic component of the EMF. And at the close range of typical detectors it is the magnetic component which needs the shielding the most.
I really liked Hedy Lamarr. A high school dropout at 16. She was both a 1930-1940s glamorous movie star but she *also* invented frequency hopping spread spectrum to foil WWII jammking efforts. She was awarded U.S. Patent # 2,292,387 for her work. But in the spirit of the /. neandertals, she was also one hot lady:
http://www.rtspecialties.com/tobar/conex1/hedy4.jp g