Seems german scientists beat those US scientists to it. The team from the Fraunhofer Institute received a german research award for creating an artificial insect eye over a year ago.
Find more technical infos here (sorry, german only).
You are of course aware that any Enterprise-type starship will break up upon entry into the atmosphere. So if we want to incorporate any ST on Google Earth, Moon or Mars, it has to be shuttles or Voyager-type ships...
This idea has already been implemented several years ago where this kind of setup (solar panels and holographic gratings) was incorporated into office windows, directing the usable light frequencies towards the panels but still leaving enough normal light through so rooms don't get too dark. I think they even deflected the far infrared away so the heat stayed out of the building!
Can't remember the report too clearly but I think it was an office building in France...
Sure, no online file system is going to ever be able to guarantee complete security.
That's what encryption is for. I don't care if such a service provider is going to hand over the data to somebody (because they will, soon or later). I only care if my data on the service is encrypted in a secure way. So we really should talk about if the client, the drive-mounting program can be trusted. And this can only be the case if it is open-sourced.
I hope that the developers of GMail Drive and libgmail will add encryption to their prgrams soon...
The bacterium Caulobacter crescentus uses the toughest glue on Earth to stick to river rocks, and now scientists are trying to figure out how to produce the stuff.
But isn't it obvious? You'd use bacteria to produce it...
Yes, it is a chemical reaction. hydrogen and oxygen combine to form a new molecule known as H2O. But instead of doing this violently like in a combustion engine it is done in a much more controlled way, so the energy from the reaction is directly transformed into electrical energy instead of heat.
All chemical reactions are based on electron exchange between the reactants. In fuel cells this electron exchange is directly funneled into producing electrical current.
To bring down the initial price of $129, just also offer the laptop in developed countries. I'm sure most parents will want to get one for their children (or themself), as it is
a) much cheaper than even an entry-level laptop b) more powerful than all those "educational" toy-laptops c) powerful enough to run most kiddy-games and educational software d) has a lot of hack-value
Heck, I'm willing to buy one for $150 - $200 just for d)...:-)
Didn't know about the Philips capabilities, I only know about Panasonic, Sony, JVC etc. and these are overpriced and have some customer-unfriendly details. The last DVD-Player was a 39 EUR no-name product, region-code free and everything skipable.
Why sue over a player that hasn't been comercially available for over a year? If they're going to sue over an unlockable player, why not sue Philips over the DVP642 which is still on the market and is region and macrovision unlockable through hidden menus. Or sue a company like Apex which has consistantly released an unlockable model, quickly followed by a "corrected" player, over and over again?
Pssssst!!! Will you PLEASE shut up?! Don't give them ideas... Seriously, that's why I prefer not to buy big-brand products. The cheap ones from taiwan or china have much better features like no region code or skipable intros...
Wrong. "Do no evil" clearly states something about the company.
See, each and every person (and thus corporation) has a list of priorities. And making money is the top-most priority for nearly everybody. BUT: there is a difference between
"Make as much money as possible"
and
"Make enough money to survive"
Now "Do no evil" simply means that while the top-most priority is still "Make enough money to survive", there are several other priorities that are higher on the list than "Make as much money as possible"...
Actually, his equations are all wrong. I'd guess he slept through his GR classes.
4-dimensional coordinates are given (c*t, x, y, z), so his "velocity" is (c, dx/dt,...) See? No more "dimensionless" time velocity.
And would he really been studying those equations, he then would have seen that by taking a very massive cylinder and rotating it so its velocity at the circumfence is larger than half the speed of light, it then IS possible to find a path around the cylinder that will take you back to the space coordinates but at a different time.
NOTE: only because you don't understand something it can still be perfectly true. Or false, that is...
Did somebody ever try to read a web page on a TV screen? Or type text? Or even read text?
Only in 40*25 character mode or in glorious 280*192 4-color mode...:-)
Right to the point, even modern TVs don't have pixel resolutions in excess of maybe 400*300 (I'm talking about the ones available to the poor), 320*240 being a more realistic number. There are handsets out there that have better resolution.
But this gives me an idea: an R/F receiver for those 100$ laptops, turning them into B/W-TVs!!
Naah, too easily retrofitted via USB...
Anyway, this proposal shows that they don't have the slightest clue as to how life is in the thrid world...
Forward wrote another novel, describing life on a neutron star. Now THAT's something...
And makes you think what "life" really means. There could be living streams of magnetically-controlled plasma inside our sun. Or amoeba consisting of suprafluid helium on Pluto.
"Life will find a way" should definitely be taken more broadly...
Have your webpages check to see what browser the client is using, and if it is IE7 (or hey, ANY version of IE) refuse to render the page...
Hehe, I did just that. Well, it was necessary, I had programmed some CGI forms and relied on W3C standard behaviour, only to find out that IE does not adhere to it. Told all colleagues to use Firefox, but people don't read their mail or wouldn't think that it applied to them.
After the database integrity got trashed when someone deleted data via IE, I just added a check for the user agent and denied IE with "412 Precondition failed". Added bonus: I got to swear at all those colleagues that complained...:o)
and at least once in recent years the German performer was an artist/comedian that went to the contest just to poke fun at it
excuse ME, but at least one of them was AUSTRIAN!:o)
Alf Poier made 4th place in 2003 with a really catchy and cute song
and would have also participated in 2004 if not the powers-that-are had stacked the votes against him (he got about twice the number of votes than the "winner", but the carefully crafted voting procedure made him come in second). Oh well...
The idea that OSS is always better than commercial software just isn't true.
I'm not talking absolutes...
Still, most OSS that gets off the ground (i.e. gets some following and manages to get a cooperation set up) can compare positively with commercial software, meaning that lack in features or user interface are not so severe that the price difference argument doesn't hold.:-)
Many OSS projects start with great ideas but fail to progress past version 0.2 because there is insufficient interest, either because there are other similar projects going or there are sufficient cheap-enough commercial projects or because the OSS projects fails to attract sufficient talent or the problem being solved is not important enough to anyone.
This is right. And IMHO this is good, because it's evolution in action. And that won't be seen in commercial projects often...
Why is OSS often better than commercial software? Because it is written by people who write it for themself. Think about it, most of the programmers at large companies are bound to do it for the money. Even if the project is technologically challenging and provides good hack-value, money is still high on the list of priorities.
But a lot of OSS started out because a person had a problem, solved it to her own satisfaction and then donated it to the public. And/or developed it further.
So think what type of software will be beter on the overall: the one written to get your paycheck or the one to solve your own problem to your own satisfaction?
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Seems german scientists beat those US scientists to it. The team from the Fraunhofer Institute received a german research award for creating an artificial insect eye over a year ago.
Find more technical infos here (sorry, german only).
You are of course aware that any Enterprise-type starship will break up upon entry into the atmosphere. So if we want to incorporate any ST on Google Earth, Moon or Mars, it has to be shuttles or Voyager-type ships...
This idea has already been implemented several years ago where this kind of setup (solar panels and holographic gratings) was incorporated into office windows, directing the usable light frequencies towards the panels but still leaving enough normal light through so rooms don't get too dark. I think they even deflected the far infrared away so the heat stayed out of the building!
Can't remember the report too clearly but I think it was an office building in France...
It burns, it burns!
;-)
Sounds like you need better antivirus protection.
no, this needs either a better hemorrhoid treatment or a severe cut-back on chilli intake...
Sure, no online file system is going to ever be able to guarantee complete security.
That's what encryption is for. I don't care if such a service provider is going to hand over the data to somebody (because they will, soon or later). I only care if my data on the service is encrypted in a secure way. So we really should talk about if the client, the drive-mounting program can be trusted. And this can only be the case if it is open-sourced.
I hope that the developers of GMail Drive and libgmail will add encryption to their prgrams soon...
from TFA:
The bacterium Caulobacter crescentus uses the toughest glue on Earth to stick to river rocks, and now scientists are trying to figure out how to produce the stuff.
But isn't it obvious? You'd use bacteria to produce it...
Yes, it is a chemical reaction. hydrogen and oxygen combine to form a new molecule known as H2O. But instead of doing this violently like in a combustion engine it is done in a much more controlled way, so the energy from the reaction is directly transformed into electrical energy instead of heat.
All chemical reactions are based on electron exchange between the reactants. In fuel cells this electron exchange is directly funneled into producing electrical current.
To bring down the initial price of $129, just also offer the laptop in developed countries. I'm sure most parents will want to get one for their children (or themself), as it is
:-)
a) much cheaper than even an entry-level laptop
b) more powerful than all those "educational" toy-laptops
c) powerful enough to run most kiddy-games and educational software
d) has a lot of hack-value
Heck, I'm willing to buy one for $150 - $200 just for d)...
Didn't know about the Philips capabilities, I only know about Panasonic, Sony, JVC etc. and these are overpriced and have some customer-unfriendly details. The last DVD-Player was a 39 EUR no-name product, region-code free and everything skipable.
Why sue over a player that hasn't been comercially available for over a year? If they're going to sue over an unlockable player, why not sue Philips over the DVP642 which is still on the market and is region and macrovision unlockable through hidden menus. Or sue a company like Apex which has consistantly released an unlockable model, quickly followed by a "corrected" player, over and over again?
Pssssst!!! Will you PLEASE shut up?! Don't give them ideas...
Seriously, that's why I prefer not to buy big-brand products. The cheap ones from taiwan or china have much better features like no region code or skipable intros...
depends on how much they are willing to pay... :o)
See, each and every person (and thus corporation) has a list of priorities. And making money is the top-most priority for nearly everybody. BUT: there is a difference between
- "Make as much money as possible"
andNow "Do no evil" simply means that while the top-most priority is still "Make enough money to survive", there are several other priorities that are higher on the list than "Make as much money as possible"...
Actually, his equations are all wrong. I'd guess he slept through his GR classes.
...) See? No more "dimensionless" time velocity.
4-dimensional coordinates are given (c*t, x, y, z), so his "velocity" is (c, dx/dt,
And would he really been studying those equations, he then would have seen that by taking a very massive cylinder and rotating it so its velocity at the circumfence is larger than half the speed of light, it then IS possible to find a path around the cylinder that will take you back to the space coordinates but at a different time.
NOTE: only because you don't understand something it can still be perfectly true. Or false, that is...
Only in 40*25 character mode or in glorious 280*192 4-color mode... :-)
Right to the point, even modern TVs don't have pixel resolutions in excess of maybe 400*300 (I'm talking about the ones available to the poor), 320*240 being a more realistic number. There are handsets out there that have better resolution.
But this gives me an idea: an R/F receiver for those 100$ laptops, turning them into B/W-TVs!! Naah, too easily retrofitted via USB...
Anyway, this proposal shows that they don't have the slightest clue as to how life is in the thrid world...
that we do not understand the relationship between temperature, water vapor and air movements (aka weather) at all... :o)
And makes you think what "life" really means. There could be living streams of magnetically-controlled plasma inside our sun. Or amoeba consisting of suprafluid helium on Pluto.
"Life will find a way" should definitely be taken more broadly...
Hehe, I did just that. Well, it was necessary, I had programmed some CGI forms and relied on W3C standard behaviour, only to find out that IE does not adhere to it. Told all colleagues to use Firefox, but people don't read their mail or wouldn't think that it applied to them.
After the database integrity got trashed when someone deleted data via IE, I just added a check for the user agent and denied IE with "412 Precondition failed". Added bonus: I got to swear at all those colleagues that complained... :o)
excuse ME, but at least one of them was AUSTRIAN! :o)
Alf Poier made 4th place in 2003 with a really catchy and cute song and would have also participated in 2004 if not the powers-that-are had stacked the votes against him (he got about twice the number of votes than the "winner", but the carefully crafted voting procedure made him come in second). Oh well...
I'm not talking absolutes...
Still, most OSS that gets off the ground (i.e. gets some following and manages to get a cooperation set up) can compare positively with commercial software, meaning that lack in features or user interface are not so severe that the price difference argument doesn't hold. :-)
Many OSS projects start with great ideas but fail to progress past version 0.2 because there is insufficient interest, either because there are other similar projects going or there are sufficient cheap-enough commercial projects or because the OSS projects fails to attract sufficient talent or the problem being solved is not important enough to anyone.
This is right. And IMHO this is good, because it's evolution in action. And that won't be seen in commercial projects often...
But a lot of OSS started out because a person had a problem, solved it to her own satisfaction and then donated it to the public. And/or developed it further.
So think what type of software will be beter on the overall: the one written to get your paycheck or the one to solve your own problem to your own satisfaction?