The TVs were made that way on purpose, to allow the TV police to easily sniff the sets' internal oscillators to track them down for taxes, right? (I'm American.)
...and some of us have the drive to create stuff. I have been making electronic stuff since I was 8 years old. I'm over 50 and show no signs of letting up. I started a home business to sell the stuff I make, and one of my designs has recently been successful enough to pay more than my part-time day job (which is creating stuff for a university). Not so surprisingly, I grow tired of the work needed to make the same thing over and over, although it pays fabulously well.
There are also plenty of people with degrees, working at hell desks.
I'm one of those college dropouts that has made a successful career, although I am by no means rich. I have a part-time job at the university that I dropped out from 30 year ago. I'd quit that job entirely and concentrate on my money-making sideline (Nixie watches, which are marketed for me, for free, by a very rich college dropout), except that my family needs the health insurance provided by the cushy government job.
The older programmable logic chips of the seventies and eighties, such as bipolar PROMs and PALs, had a metal fuse for every programmed bit. Those fuses would be melted to program the chip. However, those days featured external programmers to do the melting.
I live in the desert. 75% humidity is unheard of here. I like to think that people are thinking about making water bottles for thirsty people in the desert. Oh, well.
Why, oh why, do coders think it's a good idea to waste time pretending that every computer page is a paper page by making the corner flip up and move over? It's slow and distracting and adds nothing to the user experience except aggravation.
The fact that rational explanation is not effective against people who adhere to a belief system put forth by their church indicates that what is needed is to get the people who run the church to change what they say. This would have to be done in imperceptibly small increments, perhaps by sneaky and subtle atheist copy editors at the printing house.
The truth doesn't matter. It's what they believe. That's Dawkins' whole point. These folks in the street are ignorant not just of other religions, but of their own was well. But if you call them on it, they'll claim that you are insulting their religion and are therefore evil.
That effect seems to be very strong in the Muslim faith; witness the Libya thing. For some strange reason, religious people often think that their religion is The One True Religion and the others are lies from Satan (or whoever).
I have no idea how one would show a person who's so heavily emotionally invested in this belief that their One True Religion is only one of dozens, is culturally-based, and is no more or less valid than any other religion.
The photo that the mirror lab emailed to me with this announcement showed them applying a blue sticky protective coating to the mirror. So don't worry; it's well protected. Furthermore, they don't even put the aluminum on it until it's at the telescope.
Both football and telescopes are multi-million dollar enterprises at the University.
The mirror lab is built under the nosebleed section of the stadium, so it's not a cellar at all. It's a five story building built on a former parking lot.
The 'real' PC, used for design and engineering work, is not likely to go away any time soon, as all our technological advances would grind to a halt without it.
The PC will get more expensive as the sales volume goes down from hundreds of millions to hundreds of thousands of 'real' computers per year. but then, those of us who use PCs for real work have been riding the coattails of the gamers for a decade now.
The RF transistors used to make a sizable fraction of a watt at 2.4 GHz tend to be made with many tiny transistor junctions in parallel on one die. Individual transistor junctions can fail, causing the output power to be reduced yet still non-zero.
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Movies are stored on 1/2" wide tape. Music is stored on flat, black plastic discs. What is this business about storing movies and music on computers?
That's the thing about storage - since it doubles in capacity every 1.5 years or so, the app writers happily double their app sizes at that rate.
The last I heard, there was a $1 billion damage award. Has that been overturned while I wasn't looking?
Given that my first disk drive held 72 kilobytes, I find your comment a bit funny.
There's a large, smoking hole in the ground where the price fell through the Earth's crust.
The TVs were made that way on purpose, to allow the TV police to easily sniff the sets' internal oscillators to track them down for taxes, right? (I'm American.)
Internal layers? What, do you think they used a 4-layer board on a $59 computer in 1980?
...and some of us have the drive to create stuff. I have been making electronic stuff since I was 8 years old. I'm over 50 and show no signs of letting up. I started a home business to sell the stuff I make, and one of my designs has recently been successful enough to pay more than my part-time day job (which is creating stuff for a university). Not so surprisingly, I grow tired of the work needed to make the same thing over and over, although it pays fabulously well.
There are also plenty of people with degrees, working at hell desks.
I'm one of those college dropouts that has made a successful career, although I am by no means rich. I have a part-time job at the university that I dropped out from 30 year ago. I'd quit that job entirely and concentrate on my money-making sideline (Nixie watches, which are marketed for me, for free, by a very rich college dropout), except that my family needs the health insurance provided by the cushy government job.
The older programmable logic chips of the seventies and eighties, such as bipolar PROMs and PALs, had a metal fuse for every programmed bit. Those fuses would be melted to program the chip. However, those days featured external programmers to do the melting.
I live in the desert. 75% humidity is unheard of here. I like to think that people are thinking about making water bottles for thirsty people in the desert. Oh, well.
Why, oh why, do coders think it's a good idea to waste time pretending that every computer page is a paper page by making the corner flip up and move over? It's slow and distracting and adds nothing to the user experience except aggravation.
So... people voluntarily do this to themselves? Weird.
The fact that rational explanation is not effective against people who adhere to a belief system put forth by their church indicates that what is needed is to get the people who run the church to change what they say. This would have to be done in imperceptibly small increments, perhaps by sneaky and subtle atheist copy editors at the printing house.
The truth doesn't matter. It's what they believe. That's Dawkins' whole point. These folks in the street are ignorant not just of other religions, but of their own was well. But if you call them on it, they'll claim that you are insulting their religion and are therefore evil.
It's not a problem with a pleasant solution.
That effect seems to be very strong in the Muslim faith; witness the Libya thing. For some strange reason, religious people often think that their religion is The One True Religion and the others are lies from Satan (or whoever).
I have no idea how one would show a person who's so heavily emotionally invested in this belief that their One True Religion is only one of dozens, is culturally-based, and is no more or less valid than any other religion.
The photo that the mirror lab emailed to me with this announcement showed them applying a blue sticky protective coating to the mirror. So don't worry; it's well protected. Furthermore, they don't even put the aluminum on it until it's at the telescope.
Both football and telescopes are multi-million dollar enterprises at the University.
The mirror lab is built under the nosebleed section of the stadium, so it's not a cellar at all. It's a five story building built on a former parking lot.
My workplace is me and only me. I would have to build a server to do this. Hmm.
Let me know when there's printed circuit board CAD software available on a 19" tablet.
The 'real' PC, used for design and engineering work, is not likely to go away any time soon, as all our technological advances would grind to a halt without it.
The PC will get more expensive as the sales volume goes down from hundreds of millions to hundreds of thousands of 'real' computers per year. but then, those of us who use PCs for real work have been riding the coattails of the gamers for a decade now.
The RF transistors used to make a sizable fraction of a watt at 2.4 GHz tend to be made with many tiny transistor junctions in parallel on one die. Individual transistor junctions can fail, causing the output power to be reduced yet still non-zero.
Do you think that it will ever happen that a society exists without religion?
I work as an engineer in the astronomy department where the original article came from (the U of Arizona).
The chief engineer in my group refers to the astronomers as astrologers in meetings frequently, to the delight of all the rest of us engineers.
The person didn't reveal the information themselves. Facebook allowed someone else to do so. That's the whole point of the article.