As far as I know AMS was built to look for antimatter, not for dark matter. The antimatter is just an explanation that they came up with to explain an excess of positrons. They were looking for anti-Helium to find out if there are larger amounts of antimatter somewhere in the universe.
Makes me wonder why cyan magenta and yellow sensors were not used from the beginning. It should be as easy to build as RGB, but it should also get more light since only a smaller part of the spectrum needs to be blocked for each pixel.
Also the Smart came out at about the same time as the Prius. That was the car that people with too much money bought for the city in Europe. I just see that its gas mileage is even better than that of the Prius, and it has the advantage that it is easier to find a parking place.
Yeah, I don't know the numbers.
In Germany the sales for the Prius are really bad. If you drive so much through cities and want to save money you are thinking about public transport, not a hybrid. And I remember reading that the fuel efficiency of the Prius becomes horrible when you go fast on the Autobahn, since the engine is not built for high power.
One important point is missing: If they are worth it depends on if you are driving in cities or on highways. On highways the hybrid design has no advantage over a conventional car, it only saves fuel when starting and stopping often or when driving slow.
I can't believe how bad the picture for the 3-EMCCD camera is. The better ones of these claim to be capable to count single photons.
On the other side I haven't seen these in a standard video camera yet, I only know them from scientific detectors. Already wondered why no one was building this.
I for one think it would make it interesting to pit legions of robot warriors against each other
Would be nice if the attacking robots would target only defending robots, but why would they? They will always target the Humans that are important for the enemy, otherwise the war would be pointless.
For the same launch mass an impact should result in a much larger change of orbit than if the orbit is changed with a rocket. There is no need to accelerate to th speed of the asteroid, the impactor just has to cross its orbit. And the impulse change resulting from the impact of a certain weight is probably larger than anything we can achieve with a rocket of the same weight. The actual impulse of any chemical rocket fuel colliding with an asteroid is larger than the specific impulse that it can generate when powering a rocket.
But if your SSD is nearly full with data that you never change, wouldn't all the writing happen in the small area that is left? This would significantly reduce lifetime.
I don't know about any meteor event before in the last thousand years where more than one person was injured. There was certainly no event with hundreds of injuries in that time.
Not really, just comments somewhere else. 2012DA14 goes about from the south to the north, while this one came about from the east goign to the west, probably this was guessed from the videos.
As I understood this asteroid came from a different direction than 2012 DA14, so that is why it is said that it is probably unrelated.
Still, I can't believe this. There is an asteroid passing very close to Earth, and on the same day we have this impact with hundreds of injuries. These are both very rare events, so it seems unlikely that they are unrelated. Maybe the orbits of both asteroids were linked somehow?
In the past a large fraction of all solar cells was produced in Germany, but that was mostly because the production chains were set up and improved earlier than in other countries. Nowadays the German solar industry has the same problems as the American. And the reaction of the government is just to cut the subsidies, by quickly lowering the guaranteed prices for power from solar cells. Still, that hurts the German companies more than the Chinese, since the Chinese have lower costs due to lower wages and newer production plants.
What needs to happen is the content owners need to have some higher burden of proof that they are the copyright holders, and that there's real infringement going on.
Or a fine for false claims, and a strong punishment for proven false claims.
EU citizen here. I have never seen a Mac Pro, and did not hear about problems with models from other manufacturers. I can't find informations on how relevant the Mac Pro is in Europe either, since my Google search is flooded with this news...
It's kind of silly to say curiosity is only powered by this tiny processor.... that processor is just accepting and implementing commands. All the data crunching is happening back here on earth by massive banks of computers.
P.S. Apple probably paid them to say this.
Could you give some details? I mean, as far as I know one of the most interesting purposes of the Curiosity software is that it is making decisions right on Mars, to steer the rover around obstacles and to stop if it finds something interesting. This is done on Mars and replacing Human control, because the transmission of control signals would take too long from earth. A computer on earth would have the same problem for that task. So which tasks are done by super computers on earth?
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I also agree with you about the start menu. That is something they messes up by making the scroll window so small.
You can turn everything off in Windows 7 and make it look like Windows XP. Actually that is what I did.
As far as I know AMS was built to look for antimatter, not for dark matter. The antimatter is just an explanation that they came up with to explain an excess of positrons. They were looking for anti-Helium to find out if there are larger amounts of antimatter somewhere in the universe.
Makes me wonder why cyan magenta and yellow sensors were not used from the beginning. It should be as easy to build as RGB, but it should also get more light since only a smaller part of the spectrum needs to be blocked for each pixel.
Everyone knows that Obelix did it, at the time of Kleopatra's regency.
Or maybe charge people for these services?
Also the Smart came out at about the same time as the Prius. That was the car that people with too much money bought for the city in Europe. I just see that its gas mileage is even better than that of the Prius, and it has the advantage that it is easier to find a parking place.
Yeah, I don't know the numbers.
In Germany the sales for the Prius are really bad. If you drive so much through cities and want to save money you are thinking about public transport, not a hybrid. And I remember reading that the fuel efficiency of the Prius becomes horrible when you go fast on the Autobahn, since the engine is not built for high power.
One important point is missing: If they are worth it depends on if you are driving in cities or on highways. On highways the hybrid design has no advantage over a conventional car, it only saves fuel when starting and stopping often or when driving slow.
10^80 / 2^128 = 2.94 * 10^41
I think we should go for 256 bit adresses:
10^80 / 2^256 = 863.6
But in the Canon video it is explicitly called an EMCCD camera. Under that I understand something like this:
http://www.andor.com/scientific-cameras/ixon-emccd-camera-series
I think Canon used something worse, otherwise the images should be better.
I can't believe how bad the picture for the 3-EMCCD camera is. The better ones of these claim to be capable to count single photons.
On the other side I haven't seen these in a standard video camera yet, I only know them from scientific detectors. Already wondered why no one was building this.
I for one think it would make it interesting to pit legions of robot warriors against each other
Would be nice if the attacking robots would target only defending robots, but why would they? They will always target the Humans that are important for the enemy, otherwise the war would be pointless.
For the same launch mass an impact should result in a much larger change of orbit than if the orbit is changed with a rocket. There is no need to accelerate to th speed of the asteroid, the impactor just has to cross its orbit. And the impulse change resulting from the impact of a certain weight is probably larger than anything we can achieve with a rocket of the same weight. The actual impulse of any chemical rocket fuel colliding with an asteroid is larger than the specific impulse that it can generate when powering a rocket.
There is already a plan to test deflecting an asteroid by impact.
Yeah, people will not trust someone whose face they have forgotten. Of course unless their own device tells them who it is.
But if your SSD is nearly full with data that you never change, wouldn't all the writing happen in the small area that is left? This would significantly reduce lifetime.
I don't know about any meteor event before in the last thousand years where more than one person was injured. There was certainly no event with hundreds of injuries in that time.
Not really, just comments somewhere else. 2012DA14 goes about from the south to the north, while this one came about from the east goign to the west, probably this was guessed from the videos.
As I understood this asteroid came from a different direction than 2012 DA14, so that is why it is said that it is probably unrelated.
Still, I can't believe this. There is an asteroid passing very close to Earth, and on the same day we have this impact with hundreds of injuries. These are both very rare events, so it seems unlikely that they are unrelated. Maybe the orbits of both asteroids were linked somehow?
In the past a large fraction of all solar cells was produced in Germany, but that was mostly because the production chains were set up and improved earlier than in other countries. Nowadays the German solar industry has the same problems as the American. And the reaction of the government is just to cut the subsidies, by quickly lowering the guaranteed prices for power from solar cells. Still, that hurts the German companies more than the Chinese, since the Chinese have lower costs due to lower wages and newer production plants.
What needs to happen is the content owners need to have some higher burden of proof that they are the copyright holders, and that there's real infringement going on.
Or a fine for false claims, and a strong punishment for proven false claims.
EU citizen here. I have never seen a Mac Pro, and did not hear about problems with models from other manufacturers. I can't find informations on how relevant the Mac Pro is in Europe either, since my Google search is flooded with this news ...
It's kind of silly to say curiosity is only powered by this tiny processor.... that processor is just accepting and implementing commands. All the data crunching is happening back here on earth by massive banks of computers.
P.S. Apple probably paid them to say this.
Could you give some details? I mean, as far as I know one of the most interesting purposes of the Curiosity software is that it is making decisions right on Mars, to steer the rover around obstacles and to stop if it finds something interesting. This is done on Mars and replacing Human control, because the transmission of control signals would take too long from earth. A computer on earth would have the same problem for that task. So which tasks are done by super computers on earth?
Ok, but it was probably not known that integrated circuits will have much impact on daily life, particularly not to the masses