<sarcasm> Because they keep the terrorists from winning and killing you and your neighbor </sarcasm >
sorry - i fully agree with you this is bull shit and we are all way the hell too complacent for it - my wife is a school teacher.. when i hear the stories she has to tell me about how the school is run and you do the math on the $ they get.. then they are always complaining about needing money for education.. sorry but we need a way to make them show they are competent before we give them anything.
Read up on Single mode fiber - in multi mode yes its the same problem as with Electrical waves on wires. But in Single mode fiber it's more like a serialized pipe.
part of our problem is we are using electrical waves - you can't put a second wave into the pipe till the first is finished - where as if we could switch to optics we could in theory slam the photons as close together as we can and have them back to back in the pipe...
while now at 5Ghz we have 1 signal per 6cm with photons we could have near infinite in the same space.
while i agree on the productivity side.. Facebook also has other issue that it brings along
i've never seen a deck of playing cards send people messages "hey checkout what happened last night ---> Attachment (Topless.jpg.exe)"
i only reference that as it was very close to something that actually happened here where more than 1 person was dumb enough to download and install crap on their machines.
a problem with pogo.org is they are in inside the US.. so they are subject to National Security letters and gag orders.. if they had gone there - none of this stuff would have made the light of day except as a rumor before it was shut down.
honestly it has made things a little easier for me trying to get it in use - although the BIGEST hurdle is the lacking of a mail client/server combo that is comparable to outlook/exchange.
I'll bash MS with everyone else - but outlook/exchange/project just don't have good oss/gnu replacements
In particular I was compressing read-only hash tables of end states.
*cringe* so basically of all possible states? as in GO the game is over when both players pass twice in succession. their is no end game board layout(s).
i fee sorry for you especially if that guy was trying to go for a full 19x19..
to be fair you are referencing an EPA fine - which just about ANY manufacturing company can easily get hit with if the inspectors show up at the right time - and NASA i'm sure has just as much a chance as anyone else.
you realize you can get fined 10k by OSHA if you stack pallets to high? and thats 10k per stack - each is a violation.
that EPA fine has nothing to do with having less people but rather a break down of protocol. Or a lack of tainting in the regulations.
I just wish that someone would start taking laptop panels and putting them in a plastic case with a power supply and a DVI port. Seriously, how hard can that be?
Surprisingly hard - i've tired do ting this with laptop screens before - alot of the video processing is handed ASIC on the laptop (what your computer views as going from video out to the monitor - single chip to do the ramdac and video out and also handle the first level of decode for the screen so that the cable going to it are only for PLC?
basically to make that work you would need to figure out who makes the panel and then get a controller/decoder board for it and a power supply for it as all that is built into the laptop's main board.
laptops are designed to be built cost effectively - why have support for modular displays when in all reality they will never be upgraded?
not really - right now i'm using a 17in 4:3 with 1280x1024 res.. show me anything under 20in with more than 1k vertical? we are losing vertical - they might be gained on the horizontal.. but actually most of the new ones have overall less pixes for the same quoted screen size in inches..
also note the last time you saw a monitor quote it's dot pitch? LCD's don't apply to the prior way of measuring it because they don't have separate sub pixels but what dot pitch did enable was easy way of comparing pixel density from one monitor to another..
considering that higher density screens are more expensive to make and are more likely to have defects in large runs - there no doubt in my mind that monitor makers where happy to stop using dot pitch and not replace it.
the fact that when you go to buy a laptop you can get a 15in screen with a 1367x768 which which would be equivalent to a.278mm dot pitch - keep in mind you could get CRT's with dot pitch ~.2mm around 10 years ago. where is my LCD with that option?
sails are normaly measured in area not width and height..
the area of the cross section of earth is ~127,516,118 sqkm while the sail is ~8,400 sqkm (assuming MSNBC is stupid and added the -wide which i would bet on as they didn't have a height or a shape) would only be ~1/15,180 of the area and only ~92 km wide and tall as a square sale
if that is right.. given the chance of it providing power for the world - i think it could be made.. even if done in modules - make the initial transmitter and then the sales as pieces and launch and attach as needed.. much how the ISS was built.
because each sail would have a base cost that would make it unviable compared to existing power sources for cost.
the fact that it scales well means that they could scale it up to the point that the cost per unit produced drops below existing power sources and there for makes it viable..
i have no idea what that point would be and nor do i see them saying it - they also say they haven't done a lot of the other research it would take to make it work.
but i agree rather than 1 to power the world i could see 1 per continent or something like that or even 2 per.. what ever the groups want to do.. but the largest problem is going to be figuring out how to get the power back to earth..
before that the sun will go red giant and the earth will be nicely placed inside the corona.. there for the idea of renewable power till die as we all burn long before our "renewable" power source dies.. as we won't be here to know it dies..
the "X-ray" was brought into this by you and you alone. sure that refrence image was a back scater.
also you are now claiming that they emanate above the skin? where did that come from? is that your personal view on what an "aura" is? i original intentional said "aura"/"mask" because i have no idea how the human brain would process extra information..
so if you want to say that people see x-rays specifically and that they are coming from outside the skin feel free but don't put me to it as i have not once claimed it.
what i have been saying is that you shouldn't dismiss out of hand some ones claim to see something that isn't currently explained just because you don't see it. unless you can prove via physics that it isn't possible. you should take their claim ant test it.
if we jump back to the original post by BadAnalogyGuy - he was curious about each atom having it's own measurable EM field - that also happens to intensify in the presence of a larger field.. he also proposed (also stating he didn't agree with them) that maybe this has something to do with what people some times perceive as "auras".
Now if you would like to show proof that that isn't possible that would be fine - but instead you started attacking someone - and worse you couldn't even get your own facts and statements right - to the point that you said people would have to produce x-rays from their eyes for it to work.
if your going to attack someone - use their words and proof - do not inject your own statements and and try to pass them off as theirs.
NT never ran native on Apple hardware.. there where 3 flavors
x86 Alpha PPC
some people belived the PPC would work on Apple hardware but it wouldn't due to Apple using it's own implemntation.
while MacOS supported PReP and later CHRP - the apple hardware didn't.. meaning that you could have in theory installed MacOS on the same IBM PPC box that NT would go on.. but you would not have been able to install NT or AIX on the Apple PPC box.
are are reports of some apple hardware being CHRP compliant but you would be very hard pressed to figure out which ones it was and get your hands on them (if they even exist).
it's only recently with apples move to x86 that the cross platform to allow windows onto Apple hardware is possible - although it took the switch from BIOS to EFI or BIOS emulation over EFI (which i don't consider native) for it to work.
you do not need to produce the radiation - something must yes.. but the person who "sees" it doesn't. while in a dark room you turn on a light bulb - the light bulb produces the light for your eyes to receive you do not.
as for x-rays - they have to generate x-rays that are strong enough to pass through your body and then also expose a film on the other side.. the white areas are where the x-rays failed to pass through. while not easy/common it is possible for x-rays to be reflected/diffracted rather than absorbed - meaning in a way it could be viewed (using the right receptor).
i agree there has to be a source - and lucky for us there isn't an ambient one for x-rays.. but the electromagnetic spectrum is quite large - and the average human only sees a very small part of it - but considering we know there are other animals that see more than we do - why would we dismiss out of hand that 1 out of billions of people might be able to perceive a part of the spectrum that you or i can't?
If they claim it test it - until you can prove it isn't possible.. (not logic imposable but physics impossible)
i'd like to meet some of the people that can see "aura"s and have them actually demonstrate it repeatedly and consistently.
Those experiments have been done repeatedly for many decades, and in the properly controlled experiments have always resulted in zero evidence for auras or the detection of such. I don't have any links for you, but there's plenty on google if you can get past the hype.
SB
I know He3 is rare - but it was a what if? style question - and i'm fully aware of the many studies done to show that that no one yet has been able to "aura" read.. trust me i don't get caught up in the hype.. if someone makes a claim i say test it..
until you can disprove the possibility of it - then you can't dismiss it out of hand without testing it. that is all i was saying.
And the only way a psychic could see _that_ kind of "aura" is if their eyes could produce such radiation. Which is trivial to measure with a geiger counter, if they want to make such a claim.
i'm not getting in the middle of this but Before you go on bashing someone get your head on straight.
to SEE something they need to be RECEPTIVE to it not PRODUCE it.. we all see light (except the blind) yet none of our eyes produce light.
lots of birds and animals are more sensitive to infrared than we are.
even in the case of back scatter radiation imaging - i wouldn't be surprised if someone out of the billions of people might have a slight difference in chemistry to have their eyes receptive to it - how their brain reacts to it is each's guess, but mine could see it being a "aura"/"mask". as for a source of x-rays.. sunlight works well.. for a low source.
hell one of the ways we detect radio active materials is by watching voltage variations of He3 as it interacts with neutrino radiation - so what would happen if my body put He3 in the cones/rods of my eyes? how would my brain read the data?
while i agree i'd like to meet some of the people that can see "aura"s and have them actually demonstrate it repeatedly and consistently. i'm also open to the idea that it could exist.
anything that you can build a mechanical detector for - i'm willing to bet that biology can build an organic (carbon or not) based version given the need for it.
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Why, again, are they entitled to that?
<sarcasm> Because they keep the terrorists from winning and killing you and your neighbor </sarcasm >
sorry - i fully agree with you this is bull shit and we are all way the hell too complacent for it - my wife is a school teacher.. when i hear the stories she has to tell me about how the school is run and you do the math on the $ they get.. then they are always complaining about needing money for education.. sorry but we need a way to make them show they are competent before we give them anything.
not a problem - personally i love Magnatune - they have some wonderful artists
http://www.magnatune.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Indie-Music-CDs/b?ie=UTF8&node=266023
http://www.itunes.com/indiespotlight
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Read up on Single mode fiber - in multi mode yes its the same problem as with Electrical waves on wires. But in Single mode fiber it's more like a serialized pipe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-mode_optical_fiber
part of our problem is we are using electrical waves - you can't put a second wave into the pipe till the first is finished - where as if we could switch to optics we could in theory slam the photons as close together as we can and have them back to back in the pipe...
while now at 5Ghz we have 1 signal per 6cm with photons we could have near infinite in the same space.
while i agree on the productivity side.. Facebook also has other issue that it brings along
i've never seen a deck of playing cards send people messages "hey checkout what happened last night ---> Attachment (Topless.jpg.exe)"
i only reference that as it was very close to something that actually happened here where more than 1 person was dumb enough to download and install crap on their machines.
because this "trusted" hardware will/can have a specialized chip that contains a non-tamperable key.
Its not easy - but TPM has been proven breakable.
http://hackaday.com/2010/02/09/tpm-crytography-cracked/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10625082
a problem with pogo.org is they are in inside the US.. so they are subject to National Security letters and gag orders.. if they had gone there - none of this stuff would have made the light of day except as a rumor before it was shut down.
honestly it has made things a little easier for me trying to get it in use - although the BIGEST hurdle is the lacking of a mail client/server combo that is comparable to outlook/exchange.
I'll bash MS with everyone else - but outlook/exchange/project just don't have good oss/gnu replacements
what wiki did you use that allowed you to replace the in program (office) document editing of remote files in share point? (in a work space)
Just wondering cause i'd like to take a look at it.
In particular I was compressing read-only hash tables of end states.
*cringe* so basically of all possible states? as in GO the game is over when both players pass twice in succession. their is no end game board layout(s).
i fee sorry for you especially if that guy was trying to go for a full 19x19..
i'd rather go out with a tranquilizer gun and tag a black bear with it..
then we can see how much they really want it back, although they would probably jut kill the bear which would be sad.
to be fair you are referencing an EPA fine - which just about ANY manufacturing company can easily get hit with if the inspectors show up at the right time - and NASA i'm sure has just as much a chance as anyone else.
you realize you can get fined 10k by OSHA if you stack pallets to high? and thats 10k per stack - each is a violation.
that EPA fine has nothing to do with having less people but rather a break down of protocol. Or a lack of tainting in the regulations.
they where storing the books in a salt mine.. that pretty much ensures zero humidity and constant temp across seasons.
just people don't like going to salt mines to read.
I just wish that someone would start taking laptop panels and putting them in a plastic case with a power supply and a DVI port. Seriously, how hard can that be?
Surprisingly hard - i've tired do ting this with laptop screens before - alot of the video processing is handed ASIC on the laptop (what your computer views as going from video out to the monitor - single chip to do the ramdac and video out and also handle the first level of decode for the screen so that the cable going to it are only for PLC?
basically to make that work you would need to figure out who makes the panel and then get a controller/decoder board for it and a power supply for it as all that is built into the laptop's main board.
laptops are designed to be built cost effectively - why have support for modular displays when in all reality they will never be upgraded?
you know that never crossed my mind - good point though..
so where are my decent dpi 5:4's :)
not really - right now i'm using a 17in 4:3 with 1280x1024 res.. show me anything under 20in with more than 1k vertical? we are losing vertical - they might be gained on the horizontal.. but actually most of the new ones have overall less pixes for the same quoted screen size in inches..
also note the last time you saw a monitor quote it's dot pitch? LCD's don't apply to the prior way of measuring it because they don't have separate sub pixels but what dot pitch did enable was easy way of comparing pixel density from one monitor to another..
considering that higher density screens are more expensive to make and are more likely to have defects in large runs - there no doubt in my mind that monitor makers where happy to stop using dot pitch and not replace it.
the fact that when you go to buy a laptop you can get a 15in screen with a 1367x768 which which would be equivalent to a .278mm dot pitch - keep in mind you could get CRT's with dot pitch ~.2mm around 10 years ago. where is my LCD with that option?
sails are normaly measured in area not width and height..
the area of the cross section of earth is ~127,516,118 sqkm while the sail is ~8,400 sqkm (assuming MSNBC is stupid and added the -wide which i would bet on as they didn't have a height or a shape) would only be ~1/15,180 of the area and only ~92 km wide and tall as a square sale
if that is right.. given the chance of it providing power for the world - i think it could be made.. even if done in modules - make the initial transmitter and then the sales as pieces and launch and attach as needed.. much how the ISS was built.
because each sail would have a base cost that would make it unviable compared to existing power sources for cost.
the fact that it scales well means that they could scale it up to the point that the cost per unit produced drops below existing power sources and there for makes it viable..
i have no idea what that point would be and nor do i see them saying it - they also say they haven't done a lot of the other research it would take to make it work.
but i agree rather than 1 to power the world i could see 1 per continent or something like that or even 2 per.. what ever the groups want to do.. but the largest problem is going to be figuring out how to get the power back to earth..
before that the sun will go red giant and the earth will be nicely placed inside the corona.. there for the idea of renewable power till die as we all burn long before our "renewable" power source dies.. as we won't be here to know it dies..
the "X-ray" was brought into this by you and you alone. sure that refrence image was a back scater.
also you are now claiming that they emanate above the skin? where did that come from? is that your personal view on what an "aura" is? i original intentional said "aura"/"mask" because i have no idea how the human brain would process extra information..
so if you want to say that people see x-rays specifically and that they are coming from outside the skin feel free but don't put me to it as i have not once claimed it.
what i have been saying is that you shouldn't dismiss out of hand some ones claim to see something that isn't currently explained just because you don't see it. unless you can prove via physics that it isn't possible. you should take their claim ant test it.
if we jump back to the original post by BadAnalogyGuy - he was curious about each atom having it's own measurable EM field - that also happens to intensify in the presence of a larger field.. he also proposed (also stating he didn't agree with them) that maybe this has something to do with what people some times perceive as "auras".
Now if you would like to show proof that that isn't possible that would be fine - but instead you started attacking someone - and worse you couldn't even get your own facts and statements right - to the point that you said people would have to produce x-rays from their eyes for it to work.
if your going to attack someone - use their words and proof - do not inject your own statements and and try to pass them off as theirs.
NT never ran native on Apple hardware.. there where 3 flavors
x86
Alpha
PPC
some people belived the PPC would work on Apple hardware but it wouldn't due to Apple using it's own implemntation.
while MacOS supported PReP and later CHRP - the apple hardware didn't.. meaning that you could have in theory installed MacOS on the same IBM PPC box that NT would go on.. but you would not have been able to install NT or AIX on the Apple PPC box.
are are reports of some apple hardware being CHRP compliant but you would be very hard pressed to figure out which ones it was and get your hands on them (if they even exist).
it's only recently with apples move to x86 that the cross platform to allow windows onto Apple hardware is possible - although it took the switch from BIOS to EFI or BIOS emulation over EFI (which i don't consider native) for it to work.
you do not need to produce the radiation - something must yes.. but the person who "sees" it doesn't. while in a dark room you turn on a light bulb - the light bulb produces the light for your eyes to receive you do not.
as for x-rays - they have to generate x-rays that are strong enough to pass through your body and then also expose a film on the other side.. the white areas are where the x-rays failed to pass through. while not easy/common it is possible for x-rays to be reflected/diffracted rather than absorbed - meaning in a way it could be viewed (using the right receptor).
i agree there has to be a source - and lucky for us there isn't an ambient one for x-rays.. but the electromagnetic spectrum is quite large - and the average human only sees a very small part of it - but considering we know there are other animals that see more than we do - why would we dismiss out of hand that 1 out of billions of people might be able to perceive a part of the spectrum that you or i can't?
If they claim it test it - until you can prove it isn't possible.. (not logic imposable but physics impossible)
He3 is incredibly rare.
i'd like to meet some of the people that can see "aura"s and have them actually demonstrate it repeatedly and consistently.
Those experiments have been done repeatedly for many decades, and in the properly controlled experiments have always resulted in zero evidence for auras or the detection of such. I don't have any links for you, but there's plenty on google if you can get past the hype.
SB
I know He3 is rare - but it was a what if? style question - and i'm fully aware of the many studies done to show that that no one yet has been able to "aura" read.. trust me i don't get caught up in the hype.. if someone makes a claim i say test it..
until you can disprove the possibility of it - then you can't dismiss it out of hand without testing it. that is all i was saying.
And the only way a psychic could see _that_ kind of "aura" is if their eyes could produce such radiation. Which is trivial to measure with a geiger counter, if they want to make such a claim.
i'm not getting in the middle of this but Before you go on bashing someone get your head on straight.
to SEE something they need to be RECEPTIVE to it not PRODUCE it.. we all see light (except the blind) yet none of our eyes produce light.
lots of birds and animals are more sensitive to infrared than we are.
even in the case of back scatter radiation imaging - i wouldn't be surprised if someone out of the billions of people might have a slight difference in chemistry to have their eyes receptive to it - how their brain reacts to it is each's guess, but mine could see it being a "aura"/"mask". as for a source of x-rays.. sunlight works well.. for a low source.
hell one of the ways we detect radio active materials is by watching voltage variations of He3 as it interacts with neutrino radiation - so what would happen if my body put He3 in the cones/rods of my eyes? how would my brain read the data?
while i agree i'd like to meet some of the people that can see "aura"s and have them actually demonstrate it repeatedly and consistently. i'm also open to the idea that it could exist.
anything that you can build a mechanical detector for - i'm willing to bet that biology can build an organic (carbon or not) based version given the need for it.