I'd agree with starting at Mort for the DiscWorld books.
For the non-DiscWorld, start with the deliciously funny Good Omens (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman). Then on to the Nome trilogy of Truckers, Diggers & Wings.
Apparently, the ZEUS ROV is used by Odyssey Marine Exploration in the search for artifacts. It weighs 7.3 tonnes (in air) and is 3.2 metres long, and it can operate down to depths of 2500 metres.
It was originally designed for the maintenance of deep-ocean fibre optic cables, and has manipulators and high-resolution video feeds that allow items to be handled with great precision
It's sad to read the short posts on Slashdot that glibly assert that anthropogenic climate change is untrue and/or a conspiracy.
The wikipedia article (and the IPPC reports http://www.ipcc.ch/ ) are good places to start to find out about the complex nature of this issue, and to see that there is a global scientific consensus (all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries agree) that there is a serious problem.
1969: Series of UK military satellites called "Skynet" first launched
1997: Skynet, a neural net-based artificial intelligence built by Cyberdyne Systems, brought online and given control over the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal
2007: UK military ridiculed for choice of name for latest high-bandwidth series of "Skynet" satellites
Each of the ~1200 superconducting magnets is about 50 foot long. There's a photo here showing one being put in place (March 2005): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7119458/
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Apparently, many airports are planning to use 3 jetway bridges for simultaneous boarding on both decks of the A380
Kirk offers to surrender himself and beam over, if Khan will let the Enterprise and its crew go. Khan accepts if Kirk also turns over all information the Enterprise has on Project Genesis....
Kirk stalls, claiming difficulty in retrieving the data. This allows Kirk and Spock precious moments to retrieve the Reliant's security access prefix code from the Enterprise's computers. The transmitted code lowers the Reliant's shields, allowing the Enterprise to use its last bit of phaser power to damage the Reliant enough to force its retreat.
I think FSU are only claiming the record for a *superconducting* magnet, not for the highest continuous magnetic field generated using a hybrid magnet.
So yes... relatively speaking, I'm not so sure the FSU's world record is so impressive. Guess this advance could lead to advances in hydrid magnets though...?
It's possible to go to generate higher continuous (i.e. as opposed to pulsed) magnetic fields, using hydrids of superconducting and electromagnets.
I saw a hybrid magnet in the Insitutue of Materials Research (KINKEN) in Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan) with a maximum field of 31 T. http://www.imr.tohoku.ac.jp
I got the impression that there are other devices (worldwide) with even higher continuous fields.
As the AC reply says, this picture is of a small hydrogen cylinder connected to a PEM Fuel Cell (i.e. different to the Direct Methanol Fuel Cell devices that are the topic of the story).
See top left of this fuelcelltoday.com gallery page for a photo and some info on an NEC notebook computer with integrated fuel cell, unveiled in July 2003
So why have these companies opted for a methanol-based FC instead of hydrogen? One reason is that it is difficult to achieve high volumetric and gravimetric storage densities for hydrogen stores. However, this would change if a breakthrough occurred in the development of solid-state hydrogen storage materials; and there's a lot of R&D programmes around the world looking at this (including the one that pays me:-) so who knows...
Maybe it's the NV25?
According to an old article in The Register:
"The NV17 appears to be a 0.13 micron part too, as does the NV25, which is being described in some quarters as the GeForce 4."
One idea is for the machine to recognise the Thumbcode via switches placed at "...twelve contacts somewhere on the palm or thumb side of the phalanges and one the tip of the thumb."
>I bet a huge marketing campaign for Memory Sticks >is now under way in Japan,... >I would appreciate if any fellow Japanese Slashdot >reader is kind enough to write anything about >this...
The Memory Stick & Handicam TV commericals started a few months ago, and are still going strong.
One shows how easy it is to take pictures of your loved ones on your Handicam, store them on a Memory Stick, and then show collegues at work by sticking the.. errr... Stick into your Viao. Very practical!;-)
I agree that as many Japanese commute by public transport in the big cities, they have plenty of time to fiddle with their phones. Also I've seen many young people (usually girls... (or is it that I'm usually looking at girls and so I notice more?)) idley fiddling with their mobile phones in restaurants... scrolling through phone numbers... comparing their musical call tones. So it would seem likely that games would have a market here.
With regard to mp3s on phones, it sounds like a cool idea, but I haven't seen any mp3 players in any of the electronics store (I'd be grateful to be contradicted;-). Whether this is because MD is still so big, or a result of pressure by the Japanese music companies, I don't know. (Having said this, I guess there could be some imported Rio's in Akihabara..?)
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I'd agree with starting at Mort for the DiscWorld books.
For the non-DiscWorld, start with the deliciously funny Good Omens (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman). Then on to the Nome trilogy of Truckers, Diggers & Wings.
Thanks for the books & the afp posts.
Ditto
If you're Bill Murray, all you need is a cigarette case
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP-u6XWclKQ
A copy of his original article, has been archived here: http://svetlana14s.narod.ru/Simon_Singhs_silenced_paper.html
There's more information (videos, interview with creator) about the Rubik's Cube solving robot, here:
http://www.mechatrons.com/rubot.html
Insert joke about Cylons and Rubik's Cubes...
You can measure the ratio of different types of carbon in tree rings.
What has been found is that 13C/12C ratios are the lowest they've been for 10000 years, and that there is a sharp decline starting in 1850.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/how-do-we-know-that-recent-cosub2sub-increases-are-due-to-human-activities-updated/
RJ Francey et al, Tellus 51B, pp.170-193, 1999
In general, it seems that UK and French territorial waters extend to twelve nautical miles (13.8 miles or 22.2 km) off their coasts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_Waters
Apparently, the ZEUS ROV is used by Odyssey Marine Exploration in the search for artifacts. It weighs 7.3 tonnes (in air) and is 3.2 metres long, and it can operate down to depths of 2500 metres.
It was originally designed for the maintenance of deep-ocean fibre optic cables, and has manipulators and high-resolution video feeds that allow items to be handled with great precision
http://shipwreck.net/zeus/
Absolutely.
It's sad to read the short posts on Slashdot that glibly assert that anthropogenic climate change is untrue and/or a conspiracy.
The wikipedia article (and the IPPC reports http://www.ipcc.ch/ ) are good places to start to find out about the complex nature of this issue, and to see that there is a global scientific consensus (all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries agree) that there is a serious problem.
1969: Series of UK military satellites called "Skynet" first launched
1997: Skynet, a neural net-based artificial intelligence built by Cyberdyne Systems,
brought online and given control over the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal
2007: UK military ridiculed for choice of name for latest high-bandwidth series of "Skynet" satellites
Time travel's a bitch..
Hmm.... sounds nasty.
Each of the ~1200 superconducting magnets is about 50 foot long. There's a photo here showing one being put in place (March 2005):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7119458/
Apparently, many airports are planning to use 3 jetway bridges for simultaneous boarding on both decks of the A380
v an_harkirat.pdf
This paper discusses A380 boarding efficiency:
http://www.math.washington.edu/~morrow/mcm/alex_e
Kirk offers to surrender himself and beam over, if Khan will let the Enterprise and its crew go. Khan accepts if Kirk also turns over all information the Enterprise has on Project Genesis....
a th_of_Khan
Kirk stalls, claiming difficulty in retrieving the data. This allows Kirk and Spock precious moments to retrieve the Reliant's security access prefix code from the Enterprise's computers. The transmitted code lowers the Reliant's shields, allowing the Enterprise to use its last bit of phaser power to damage the Reliant enough to force its retreat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_II:_The_Wr
There have been a number of prizes offered, to try to make up for the missing mathematics Nobel... the Abel, Shaw and Crafoord Prizes.
a _mathematics_prize
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_prize#Lack_of_
However, they don't appear to have captured the public or media's imagination, compared to the Nobel (or Fields)
frog movies
I think FSU are only claiming the record for a *superconducting* magnet, not for the highest continuous magnetic field generated using a hybrid magnet.
So yes... relatively speaking, I'm not so sure the FSU's world record is so impressive. Guess this advance could lead to advances in hydrid magnets though...?
It's possible to go to generate higher continuous (i.e. as opposed to pulsed) magnetic fields, using hydrids of superconducting and electromagnets.
I saw a hybrid magnet in the Insitutue of Materials Research (KINKEN) in Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan) with a maximum field of 31 T.
http://www.imr.tohoku.ac.jp
I got the impression that there are other devices (worldwide) with even higher continuous fields.
See top left of this fuelcelltoday.com gallery page for a photo and some info on an NEC notebook computer with integrated fuel cell, unveiled in July 2003
So why have these companies opted for a methanol-based FC instead of hydrogen? One reason is that it is difficult to achieve high volumetric and gravimetric storage densities for hydrogen stores. However, this would change if a breakthrough occurred in the development of solid-state hydrogen storage materials; and there's a lot of R&D programmes around the world looking at this (including the one that pays me :-) so who knows...
How about building your own?
Link here to an mp3 player (OK.. not a recorder, but it's a start)
http://www.h2go.co.uk/mp3home.htm
I used it a fews times from 1993 - 1995. The last time was in January 1995, and I believe it closed a few months later.
Very short trip, but functional (when it worked!)
Maybe it's the NV25?
According to an old article in The Register:
"The NV17 appears to be a 0.13 micron part too, as does the NV25, which is being described in some quarters as the GeForce 4."
http://Boole.Stanford.EDU/thumbcode
One idea is for the machine to recognise the Thumbcode via switches placed at "...twelve contacts somewhere on the palm or thumb side of the phalanges and one the tip of the thumb."
>I bet a huge marketing campaign for Memory Sticks
;-)
>is now under way in Japan,...
>I would appreciate if any fellow Japanese Slashdot
>reader is kind enough to write anything about
>this...
The Memory Stick & Handicam TV commericals started a few months ago, and are still going strong.
One shows how easy it is to take pictures of your loved ones on your Handicam, store them on a Memory Stick, and then show collegues at work by sticking the.. errr... Stick into your Viao. Very practical!
I agree that as many Japanese commute by public transport in the big cities, they have plenty of time to fiddle with their phones. Also I've seen many young people (usually girls... (or is it that I'm usually looking at girls and so I notice more?)) idley fiddling with their mobile phones in restaurants... scrolling through phone numbers... comparing their musical call tones. So it would seem likely that games would have a market here.
;-). Whether this is because MD is still so big, or a result of pressure by the Japanese music companies, I don't know.
With regard to mp3s on phones, it sounds like a cool idea, but I haven't seen any mp3 players in any of the electronics store (I'd be grateful to be contradicted
(Having said this, I guess there could be some imported Rio's in Akihabara..?)