Fuel cell-powered laptop prototypes have been developed by Toshiba (6502.T) and NEC (6701.T), who plan to start selling them as full-fledged products next year. Casio (6952.T), Sony (6758.T) and Hitachi (6501.T) and Samsung (00830.KS) of Korea are also working on micro fuel cell technology.
Goodman predicts that, in a matter of years, fuel cell batteries no bigger than a cigarette lighter will run for 10 hours or more before being replaced.
I suspect prostoalex might work in a PR department.
That experiment demonstrated the shifting of star positions as the light from them was affected by the sun's gravity. The sun is several orders of magnitude too small to act as a gravitational lens.
This page had some neat images. All of them involve distant galaxies.
That refers to the temperature they grow the diamond at. It's quite a bit lower than the parts of the earth where diamonds normally grow.
The article mentions that interest in diamond for chip manufacturing is partly because it has a much higher thermal conductivity than silicon. This means that, provided a good enough heat sink is available, heat will be conducted out of the chip more efficiently. If you had two equal sized blocks, one of diamond and one of silicon, heated them both to 200 degrees or whatever then left them on a bench the diamond would cool a lot quicker.
I wish you only had to read books when doing a PhD. However almost every PhD program requires you to complete original research. The skills you obtain learning how to do research are invaluable and would no doubt have enabled the guy to pick up whatever it is that needed to be done very quickly. And if you ever needed to implement something that nobody at your ISP had any experience in you'd end up having to do some research. PhDs are quite helpful then.
As for all this? we knew that we were coming out of the last mini-iceage already. It doesn't shock me in the least to see what the ice is still receeding on the whole.
Sure, that's possible. We don't really want to bet coastal cities on it though.
I think there needs to be an excemption in this case. One of my ancestors was murdered by Otzi. Because of this my great^98th grandmother had to raise my great^97th grandfather in abject poverty.
All my ancestors since then have been in the lowest socio-economic bracket. I demand compensation from all living descendants of Otzi.
MOD chips on the playstation were only good for circumvention. Could you be any more banal?
Circumvention of region encoding for DVD and games. And why should I not have the right to play backed up copies of games? They tend to get damaged quite easily when you have friends around for beer and video games.
And the playstation linux kit at $AU 500 is a rip off. I wish I'd just bought an XBox as I could happily run linux on it now. So I'm selling the PS2 on ebay.
You can file a complaint supporting OSV at http://www.accc.gov.au/about/fs-contact.htm - look for the complaint form.
Dear Sir / Madam
As the representative of a small business (XXXXXX) I am writing to support a recent complaint filed by the Open Source Victoria regarding the actions of the SCO Group.
SCO is making unspecific and unsubstantiated claims that it owns copyright pertaining to the Linux PC operating system. It is asking any companies using Linux to purchase licences or face the threat of legal action.
Would you please investigate the claims that SCO is making so that small businesses and other companies are not pressured into making unwarranted payments.
DirectX 9 was the first to allow the use of all the latest fancy pants shader stuff of the bleeding edge graphics cards. Actually there aren't many cards that support DX 9. And the vertex/pixel shader functionality has always been available in OpenGL as extensions.
Under a provision of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, passed by Congress to combat music piracy, music companies may issue the subpoenas without a judge's approval.
Far out. Anyone know exactly what the provision entails?
but I've been using Quark since version 3.8 (they're up to 6 now...just released it for the Mac), and it's been doing just about all of that since version 5.6.2
It would be pretty stupid of them to implement features that Quark doesn't have, wouldn't it?
if you're trying to scale best-of-breed users to engage proactive content
Lets run that through babelfish into German and then back again:
if you try to classify, good-of-breed you users, in order to engage itself proactive contents
The weird thing is it actually makes more sense now. That makes more sense if I run it on a return trip through bab
Plus, we have another advantage. We tend to think outside the box, propose better solutions, and have a certain inventiveness, creativity and business savvy that other cultures lack. Many of the cultures mentioned, unless you wish to micromanage these folks to the back teeth nothing will get done. Yes yes yes, they're VERY good at math, but unless you say "do problem 1-4 on page 9" nothing gets done.
If that doesn't deserve a +5 funny I don't know what does.
The main practical difficulty I see is stopping. You can't slap propelled rockets on the ship to do the job; if you did, I would want to know you didn't propell you ship with that to begin with.
Presumably you'd want to travel to another solar system. In that you'd set the sail in the other direction as you get closer.
Moreover, we wouldn't get very far away, because the force provided by sunlight diminishes exponentially as you move further away.
Rubbish. You are accelerating the whole time it takes you to leave the solar system. Just because you stop accelerating after that doesn't mean you stop. And the force acting on the sail drops off as 1/d*d which is polynomial, not exponential.
And going towards another star wouldn't help, because you can't sail against the "wind" in this case
You could collapse the sail.
We're getting to the point where it will just take too long to go where we want to go, and eventually it's going to make us ask if we really can go there. I mean, hundreds of years later, who's going to care that a probe, unable to communicate with us, is careening somewhere past Neptune? As for people, don't hold your breath on this transporting us; it just takes too long. I don't know about you, but going to another planet wouldn't be worth most of my life, if not the whole thing and part of my children's.
Not everyone is like you. (the kind of person who would sit back and say "impossible, the earth is flat" as Columbus sets sail.) I am kind of proud to think that the two Voyagers (both of which are still sending data) are out past Neptune. And the physicists who study the heliopause and the inter-stellar medium still find their data useful.
Actually at the earths distance from the sun the power output of the sun per unit area is about 1400 W/m2. The sail on the COSMOS spacecraft is about 1km2 and the total weight of the thing is about 1kg.
The force works out to be about 9N, and so the accelaration to 9m/s2. This is slightly less than the acceleration due to gravity.
If you jump off a bridge you should find that you accelerate to 100mph quite quickly.
Would it be better to place a black sheet there instead of a mirror-faced one? Unlike the mirror, this could absorb energy and the momentum associated with that.
No it wouldn't be better. If the photon is reflected then the solar sail craft gains twice as much momentum as it would if the photon is absorbed.
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Fuel cell-powered laptop prototypes have been developed by Toshiba (6502.T) and NEC (6701.T), who plan to start selling them as full-fledged products next year. Casio (6952.T), Sony (6758.T) and Hitachi (6501.T) and Samsung (00830.KS) of Korea are also working on micro fuel cell technology.
Goodman predicts that, in a matter of years, fuel cell batteries no bigger than a cigarette lighter will run for 10 hours or more before being replaced.
I suspect prostoalex might work in a PR department.
That experiment demonstrated the shifting of star positions as the light from them was affected by the sun's gravity. The sun is several orders of magnitude too small to act as a gravitational lens.
This page had some neat images. All of them involve distant galaxies.
This is a classic example of why Linux is still not quite ready for prime time on the desktop.
It's a beta. The whole point of a betas is to find problems like this.
It's clearly a major hurdle to widespread adoption.
I recommend you stick with Windows.
650-750 is a lower temperature? Oh my.
That refers to the temperature they grow the diamond at. It's quite a bit lower than the parts of the earth where diamonds normally grow.
The article mentions that interest in diamond for chip manufacturing is partly because it has a much higher thermal conductivity than silicon. This means that, provided a good enough heat sink is available, heat will be conducted out of the chip more efficiently. If you had two equal sized blocks, one of diamond and one of silicon, heated them both to 200 degrees or whatever then left them on a bench the diamond would cool a lot quicker.
I wish you only had to read books when doing a PhD. However almost every PhD program requires you to complete original research. The skills you obtain learning how to do research are invaluable and would no doubt have enabled the guy to pick up whatever it is that needed to be done very quickly. And if you ever needed to implement something that nobody at your ISP had any experience in you'd end up having to do some research. PhDs are quite helpful then.
As for all this? we knew that we were coming out of the last mini-iceage already. It doesn't shock me in the least to see what the ice is still receeding on the whole.
Sure, that's possible. We don't really want to bet coastal cities on it though.
I think there needs to be an excemption in this case. One of my ancestors was murdered by Otzi. Because of this my great^98th grandmother had to raise my great^97th grandfather in abject poverty.
All my ancestors since then have been in the lowest socio-economic bracket. I demand compensation from all living descendants of Otzi.
The problem with common sense is that it's too common to understand uncommon sense.
didn't take the fact that people live in what could be considered far worse cases of "too much light" than where they did study?
How does that change their study? It doesn't.
Read the article, not the title. It's about ecosystem damage caused by light pollution.
Instead of Everquest junkies spending all their time gaming they can spend all their time AND money gaming.
I believe Eclipse has such a completion feature.
When I first started using linux a really helpful guy on comp.os.linux.misc (or something) spent about a week helping me get my modem to work.
The only time I've seen newbies have problems on newsgroups is when they lose patience and start demanding that people help them immediately.
MOD chips on the playstation were only good for circumvention.
Could you be any more banal?
Circumvention of region encoding for DVD and games. And why should I not have the right to play backed up copies of games? They tend to get damaged quite easily when you have friends around for beer and video games.
And the playstation linux kit at $AU 500 is a rip off. I wish I'd just bought an XBox as I could happily run linux on it now. So I'm selling the PS2 on ebay.
Reasonably priced? It's a rip off.
Smalltalk has been around longer than C++. It is still far slower than C++.
If you have any benchmarks to the contrary please provide them. Otherwise comments like
"are old enough to have had enough research that they are now as fast as C++."
should be dismissed like the rubbish they are.
You can file a complaint supporting OSV at http://www.accc.gov.au/about/fs-contact.htm - look for the complaint form.
Dear Sir / Madam
As the representative of a small business (XXXXXX) I am writing to support a recent complaint filed by the Open Source Victoria regarding the actions of the SCO Group.
SCO is making unspecific and unsubstantiated claims that it owns copyright pertaining to the Linux PC operating system. It is asking any companies using Linux to purchase licences or face the threat of legal action.
Would you please investigate the claims that SCO is making so that small businesses and other companies are not pressured into making unwarranted payments.
Sincerely,
DirectX 9 was the first to allow the use of all the latest fancy pants shader stuff of the bleeding edge graphics cards.
Actually there aren't many cards that support DX 9. And the vertex/pixel shader functionality has always been available in OpenGL as extensions.
Under a provision of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, passed by Congress to combat music piracy, music companies may issue the subpoenas without a judge's approval.
Far out. Anyone know exactly what the provision entails?
Does anybody know of linux drivers for ANY card that supports 808.11g?
but I've been using Quark since version 3.8 (they're up to 6 now...just released it for the Mac), and it's been doing just about all of that since version 5.6.2
It would be pretty stupid of them to implement features that Quark doesn't have, wouldn't it?
if you're trying to scale best-of-breed users to engage proactive content
Lets run that through babelfish into German and then back again:
if you try to classify, good-of-breed you users, in order to engage itself proactive contents
The weird thing is it actually makes more sense now.
That makes more sense if I run it on a return trip through bab
Plus, we have another advantage. We tend to think outside the box, propose better solutions, and have a certain inventiveness, creativity and business savvy that other cultures lack. Many of the cultures mentioned, unless you wish to micromanage these folks to the back teeth nothing will get done. Yes yes yes, they're VERY good at math, but unless you say "do problem 1-4 on page 9" nothing gets done.
If that doesn't deserve a +5 funny I don't know what does.
The main practical difficulty I see is stopping. You can't slap propelled rockets on the ship to do the job; if you did, I would want to know you didn't propell you ship with that to begin with.
Presumably you'd want to travel to another solar system. In that you'd set the sail in the other direction as you get closer.
Moreover, we wouldn't get very far away, because the force provided by sunlight diminishes exponentially as you move further away.
Rubbish. You are accelerating the whole time it takes you to leave the solar system. Just because you stop accelerating after that doesn't mean you stop. And the force acting on the sail drops off as 1/d*d which is polynomial, not exponential.
And going towards another star wouldn't help, because you can't sail against the "wind" in this case
You could collapse the sail.
We're getting to the point where it will just take too long to go where we want to go, and eventually it's going to make us ask if we really can go there. I mean, hundreds of years later, who's going to care that a probe, unable to communicate with us, is careening somewhere past Neptune? As for people, don't hold your breath on this transporting us; it just takes too long. I don't know about you, but going to another planet wouldn't be worth most of my life, if not the whole thing and part of my children's.
Not everyone is like you. (the kind of person who would sit back and say "impossible, the earth is flat" as Columbus sets sail.) I am kind of proud to think that the two Voyagers (both of which are still sending data) are out past Neptune. And the physicists who study the heliopause and the inter-stellar medium still find their data useful.
Actually at the earths distance from the sun the power output of the sun per unit area is about
1400 W/m2. The sail on the COSMOS spacecraft is about 1km2 and the total weight of the thing is about 1kg.
The force works out to be about 9N, and so the accelaration to 9m/s2. This is slightly less than the acceleration due to gravity.
If you jump off a bridge you should find that you accelerate to 100mph quite quickly.
Would it be better to place a black sheet there instead of a mirror-faced one? Unlike the mirror, this could absorb energy and the momentum associated with that.
No it wouldn't be better. If the photon is reflected then the solar sail craft gains twice as much momentum as it would if the photon is absorbed.
The first half of your sentence was great :)