What about several layers of thin clear plastic that's tensioned?
You have each layer held down with tabs,and release them one by one as the cells accumulate dust. The released plastic curls up at one end of the cells when released.
You could probably do this at least several times.
Your post pointing out that the news article was easily confused was actually more confusing that the original source of confusion, as evidenced by multiple responses along the lines of my post. However, as expected, my post pointing out the irony in the confusing nature of your confusion-oriented post, is more confusing that the sum total of confusion in this branch of discussion altogether.
The inverse square law is a fairly basic consequence of the geometry of our universe. There's a reason it applies to gravitation and electric and magnetic fields as well.
Basically, for anything that can be considered a point source with isotropic flux of "whatever" eminating from it, the flux density will drop off as 1/R^2 in a flat 3D universe.
The theory is fairly simple compared to GR, and quite macroscopic of course, but it seems pretty well motivated to me.
"Einstein did not go out and measure the relationship of mass and speed and fit a curve to it. He made a few assumptions (some of which noone had dare make before) and worked out the physical consequences, arriving at something which just-so-happens to match reality far better than Newton's fitting-the-simplest-curve approach did."
I think you're selling classical physics short. Newton's laws are hardly just empirical rules of thumb. I think there's hardly anything as beautiful in its simplicity as the principle of least action, and classical mechanics is embodied in it.
Kepler's laws fit your description fairly well, but Newton's laws were and still are rather profound in their scope.
Have any links on this? I couldnt find anything in wikipedia. I thought that the nyquist info limit was enforced by the uncertainty principle, which is a rather hard limit to overcome.
While Helium is great, this is a bit of an overstatement. Other inert gases like Argon can be used for welding, though He is better in cases like welding nonferrous metals.
As a lifting gas, H2 from electrolysis will always be available, but the flammable aspect of it would make it less than ideal for balloons at parties. It's irreplacable in applications like cryogenics, however, and this applies to both 4He and the rarer 3He.
"I would go in the water to adjust the legs. I would spend about an hour in/out of the water with 15 minutes intervals for most(what was interesting was how tight the scrotum would get"
Do you refer to your genitals in the third person or was that someone else's scrotum you were feeling?
The only valuable service provided by publishers at this point is that they handle peer review. A reputable journal's review process is useful.
A reputable online journal could certainly cut publication costs, but I'm not sure how you get peer review without someone paying for it at some level.
It sure as hell isn't backing up if you keep the backup drives in the same PC as the original data! Your backup tapes wont be protecting you from fire/theft/flood/etc if you leave the tapes in the same machine you're supposedly backing up!
There's just one word for that. Idiocy.
You put the backup drives in another box in another place (preferably another building)
"Hard drive based have a disadvantage as there is no way to increase the offered storage space"
RTFA
Better yet, they record onto removable hard drives. These camcorders accept standard MicroDrives, which look just like the Compact Flash memory cards in many digital cameras but actually contain hard drives
Even if a manufacturer decided to use the ipod style mini HDs, there's no reason they couldn't make a tray that would let you swap them out. It works for regular 3.5" IDE drives, why not the smaller ones?
Claiming that the term hypoallergenic is subjective and therefore the claim should be taken with a grain of salt is totally reasonable. However, claiming that the term is totally meaningless, well, there's just one word for that. Idiocy.
Some things will, statistically speaking, aggravate the allergies of more people than other things. If item B is found to aggravate the allergies of far fewer people than item A while otherwise serving the same function, there ought to be a way to describe that positive aspect of item B.
well, considering that no game save vice city has collected songs from such popular bands before onto a game soundtrack, I can see why you like it.
Of course Bobby Prince didn't realize he was doing MIDI covers of metal bands for Doom, but if you've heard much Alice in Chains, Pantera, Slayer, etc. it's pretty damn obvious. To try to pass that stuff off as his own work was just shameless.
Of course, it's hilariously appropriate that the Doom3 title track is a ripoff of a Tool song.
This may be a foreign concept to you, but there's something to be said for a sense of community. Knowing your neighbors, inviting them to a barbecue, being able to ask them to keep an eye on your place while you're out of town, etc.
'Wasn't there a slashdot topic on how he claimed that larger file sizes were the cure for video "piracy"?'
Yeah, and the retarded part about this is, there's no "must have" added value to the larger file size. Sure it'll be better quality, but as it is, using current compression, video files of a reasonable size look pretty damn good on hidef tvs. He seems to be advocating files MUCH larger than that, and thats just idiocy. Pirates will reencode at a lower res, and you're back where you started. Until some drastically higher res TV standard comes along and takes hold, the larger file size idea is retarded. And, of course, by then most people will have more BW, storage will be cheaper, and compression will be better, so it's a losing game and he's too dumb to see it.
Keep in mind that radio transmissions from the earth fall off as 1/R^2, so as the probe gets very distant from the earth, the probe's signal will be significantly stronger for the local area at even a low power. A radiostation typically goes at 50kW or so I believe. Even a meager 1-10W transmitter on a probe would vastly outshine that radio station to the local area around it once it's outside the solar system.
the probe could be programmed to start transmitting whenever it got power to its solar cells and keep going until the power's gone. At least it would be talking whenever it's near another star
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It would have worked if you bought land in East Palo Alto 5-10 years ago. That place is still scary, but now it's both the residents AND the housing costs that make it scary.
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What about several layers of thin clear plastic that's tensioned?
You have each layer held down with tabs,and release them one by one as the cells accumulate dust. The released plastic curls up at one end of the cells when released.
You could probably do this at least several times.
Your post pointing out that the news article was easily confused was actually more confusing that the original source of confusion, as evidenced by multiple responses along the lines of my post. However, as expected, my post pointing out the irony in the confusing nature of your confusion-oriented post, is more confusing that the sum total of confusion in this branch of discussion altogether.
It doesn't sound like they're paying for bandwidth with it, it sounds like they drive is causing more bandwidth USAGE that they can't afford.
The inverse square law is a fairly basic consequence of the geometry of our universe. There's a reason it applies to gravitation and electric and magnetic fields as well.
Basically, for anything that can be considered a point source with isotropic flux of "whatever" eminating from it, the flux density will drop off as 1/R^2 in a flat 3D universe.
The theory is fairly simple compared to GR, and quite macroscopic of course, but it seems pretty well motivated to me.
"Einstein did not go out and measure the relationship of mass and speed and fit a curve to it. He made a few assumptions (some of which noone had dare make before) and worked out the physical consequences, arriving at something which just-so-happens to match reality far better than Newton's fitting-the-simplest-curve approach did."
I think you're selling classical physics short. Newton's laws are hardly just empirical rules of thumb. I think there's hardly anything as beautiful in its simplicity as the principle of least action, and classical mechanics is embodied in it.
Kepler's laws fit your description fairly well, but Newton's laws were and still are rather profound in their scope.
Have any links on this? I couldnt find anything in wikipedia. I thought that the nyquist info limit was enforced by the uncertainty principle, which is a rather hard limit to overcome.
While Helium is great, this is a bit of an overstatement. Other inert gases like Argon can be used for welding, though He is better in cases like welding nonferrous metals.
As a lifting gas, H2 from electrolysis will always be available, but the flammable aspect of it would make it less than ideal for balloons at parties. It's irreplacable in applications like cryogenics, however, and this applies to both 4He and the rarer 3He.
"I would go in the water to adjust the legs. I would spend about an hour in/out of the water with 15 minutes intervals for most(what was interesting was how tight the scrotum would get"
Do you refer to your genitals in the third person or was that someone else's scrotum you were feeling?
The only valuable service provided by publishers at this point is that they handle peer review. A reputable journal's review process is useful.
A reputable online journal could certainly cut publication costs, but I'm not sure how you get peer review without someone paying for it at some level.
Exactly. With all the drives connected to one old PC, you don't have to cycle anything, while cycling tapes is a pain in the ass.
That's what you were getting at, right?
It sure as hell isn't backing up if you keep the backup drives in the same PC as the original data! Your backup tapes wont be protecting you from fire/theft/flood/etc if you leave the tapes in the same machine you're supposedly backing up!
There's just one word for that. Idiocy.
You put the backup drives in another box in another place (preferably another building)
WTF are you talking about? Copying the data onto spare hard drives IS backing it up. Particularly if the backup hard drive setup is a RAID.
"Hard drive based have a disadvantage as there is no way to increase the offered storage space"
RTFA
Better yet, they record onto removable hard drives. These camcorders accept standard MicroDrives, which look just like the Compact Flash memory cards in many digital cameras but actually contain hard drives
Even if a manufacturer decided to use the ipod style mini HDs, there's no reason they couldn't make a tray that would let you swap them out. It works for regular 3.5" IDE drives, why not the smaller ones?
"21 minutes of video recording with 512MB SD memory card at 640x480 "
SD would be a funny acronym to use for a hard drive, particularly since secure digital memory cards already use it.
"Bush is against embryonic stem-cell research which is harvested from an aborted child"
That's funny, I thought they were harvested from embryos created during fertility treatments.
Now why would you want to go and throw out a loaded term like "aborted child"? Gee I wonder...
Maybe they'll give you a good deal on a trade-in?
"'Red' light is scientifically quantifiable quite precisely" ... "~625 - 740 nanometers"
-insert standard princess bride quote here-
Claiming that the term hypoallergenic is subjective and therefore the claim should be taken with a grain of salt is totally reasonable. However, claiming that the term is totally meaningless, well, there's just one word for that. Idiocy.
Some things will, statistically speaking, aggravate the allergies of more people than other things. If item B is found to aggravate the allergies of far fewer people than item A while otherwise serving the same function, there ought to be a way to describe that positive aspect of item B.
This is an ugly cat?
I'm thinking seriously about getting one of these as a family member is allergic to cats.
well, considering that no game save vice city has collected songs from such popular bands before onto a game soundtrack, I can see why you like it.
Of course Bobby Prince didn't realize he was doing MIDI covers of metal bands for Doom, but if you've heard much Alice in Chains, Pantera, Slayer, etc. it's pretty damn obvious. To try to pass that stuff off as his own work was just shameless.
Of course, it's hilariously appropriate that the Doom3 title track is a ripoff of a Tool song.
This may be a foreign concept to you, but there's something to be said for a sense of community. Knowing your neighbors, inviting them to a barbecue, being able to ask them to keep an eye on your place while you're out of town, etc.
'Wasn't there a slashdot topic on how he claimed that larger file sizes were the cure for video "piracy"?'
Yeah, and the retarded part about this is, there's no "must have" added value to the larger file size. Sure it'll be better quality, but as it is, using current compression, video files of a reasonable size look pretty damn good on hidef tvs. He seems to be advocating files MUCH larger than that, and thats just idiocy. Pirates will reencode at a lower res, and you're back where you started. Until some drastically higher res TV standard comes along and takes hold, the larger file size idea is retarded. And, of course, by then most people will have more BW, storage will be cheaper, and compression will be better, so it's a losing game and he's too dumb to see it.
He's supposed to be a tech wiz?
Yeah, optical discs will max out at 50GB just like silicon could never make it to 1GHz.
Keep in mind that radio transmissions from the earth fall off as 1/R^2, so as the probe gets very distant from the earth, the probe's signal will be significantly stronger for the local area at even a low power. A radiostation typically goes at 50kW or so I believe. Even a meager 1-10W transmitter on a probe would vastly outshine that radio station to the local area around it once it's outside the solar system.
the probe could be programmed to start transmitting whenever it got power to its solar cells and keep going until the power's gone. At least it would be talking whenever it's near another star
It would have worked if you bought land in East Palo Alto 5-10 years ago. That place is still scary, but now it's both the residents AND the housing costs that make it scary.
"MS is one step ahead in having off the shelf applications written for it."
More like 9 steps, but yeah, that's the big deal.