Actually, the proliferation risk is very minimal. Production of U-233 from Thorium-232 yields a small amount of U-232, which is a hard gamma radiation source. This means that it fries electronics and is in general far more hazardous to work with.
Of course, one could isotopically separate the U-233 from the U-232 but if you have the infrastructure necessary for that, you might as well be making U-235 and Plutonium bombs.
I get the joke but the situation here is that "Caltech" is the official abbreviation of the Institute's name. It's as accurate as referring to MIT as MassTech.
As a student at Caltech in Prof. Nate Lewis' Chemistry class, I feel obligated to ask why the correct spelling of "Caltech" from the article was converted into the incorrect spellings of "CalTech" and "Cal Tech"?
I realize that we don't conform to the usual abbreviation for Tech schools but it's a "little t" for "Caltech"
The First Amendment protects your freedom of speech from the *government*. Microsoft is under no obligation to let you speak freely while you use their online service. As much as you would like this to be about you, this is about preventing the Xbox division from losing even more money due to trademark infringement.
That said, the 360 is an excellent system and I don't think that the inability to use "Linux" or other trademarked terms in your gamertag is a valid reason to not get Halo 3.
The Halo 3 Public Beta demonstrated a new feature that allows players to choose an alphanumeric "call sign" of the form A00. The call sign "N64" was not allowed due to trademark issues. I would imagine that such issues are the same reason why Linux is not allowed in gamer tags.
Mason Peck of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, US, has received a grant to study the idea, which is based on the fact that magnetic fields exert forces on electrically charged objects with a velocity that is not parallel with the field lines.
I'm guessing this system will work by having an orbit that travels over the magnetic poles, as the magnetic field lines are much closer there, and reversing the charge between poles so that it doesn't end up at the same altitude as it started. One problem, the further you get from Earth, the further apart the lines and therefore, less force. It seems as if it's going to take a very long time to get anything close to an escape velocity (if even possible). Who knows, it may even be more efficient to just shoot those charges out the back, aka ion drives.
>Halo 2 sold $100,000,000 in it's first couple of days, is he trying to say that people aren't hyped for Halo anymore?
The statistic Microsoft uses is that Halo 2 sold $125 million in the first 24 hours. I'm sure this includes preorders cause MS keeps claiming H2 was the top-selling entertainment item on a opening-day basis .
hope to see something like an iPod Video that can store movies at screen sizes greater than 320x240 just so they can be hooked up to TVs and played back anywhere.
You already can. If you want TV quality output, you have to save it to the iPod as that quality and the iPod will convert to 320x240 in real time when you use its screen. If you use an AV adapter and set the iPod to "video out" it will play it in the quality that you saved it as. Seems Apple has some fortunetellers working in R&D.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ppleStore.woa/72703/wo/Na399iwmd8cv2dV70ja18EmHd0d /2.SLID?mco=543CBB30&nplm=M9765G%2FA
Chimps can comprehend the effect of quantum entanglement on cause and effect better than human children? I'm really not surprised that human children can't quite comprehend Alain Aspect's experiment showing that effect can come before a cause (transmission of entanglement faster than the speed of light), but I'm really quite surprised that chimps can comprehend it. Maybe they've got someone better than my physics teacher to explain it to them...
Actually, it'd reduce the force by a lot less. Assuming a 100 kg (220 pound) person is sitting on a horizontal piece of glass, the force would be 980 Newtons (100kg times the force of gravity). Slanting the copier 45 degrees would reduce the force against the glass to 980/sqrt(2) or about 692.96 Newtons. That's a reduction factor of 1.414. Also, don't forget that slanting the glass would result a sliding force parallel to the surface of the glass of 692.96 Newtons, which I'm guessing is more than the static friction coefficient of ass cheek on glass. Anyone know the exact value?
The price of $300 should really help 360 sales, especially if the PS3 is coming out at $465 (as rumor says). There's a point where consumers will stop caring about numbers of polygons more than the number of dollars.
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Actually, the proliferation risk is very minimal. Production of U-233 from Thorium-232 yields a small amount of U-232, which is a hard gamma radiation source. This means that it fries electronics and is in general far more hazardous to work with. Of course, one could isotopically separate the U-233 from the U-232 but if you have the infrastructure necessary for that, you might as well be making U-235 and Plutonium bombs.
I get the joke but the situation here is that "Caltech" is the official abbreviation of the Institute's name. It's as accurate as referring to MIT as MassTech.
As a student at Caltech in Prof. Nate Lewis' Chemistry class, I feel obligated to ask why the correct spelling of "Caltech" from the article was converted into the incorrect spellings of "CalTech" and "Cal Tech"? I realize that we don't conform to the usual abbreviation for Tech schools but it's a "little t" for "Caltech"
The First Amendment protects your freedom of speech from the *government*. Microsoft is under no obligation to let you speak freely while you use their online service. As much as you would like this to be about you, this is about preventing the Xbox division from losing even more money due to trademark infringement. That said, the 360 is an excellent system and I don't think that the inability to use "Linux" or other trademarked terms in your gamertag is a valid reason to not get Halo 3.
The Halo 3 Public Beta demonstrated a new feature that allows players to choose an alphanumeric "call sign" of the form A00. The call sign "N64" was not allowed due to trademark issues. I would imagine that such issues are the same reason why Linux is not allowed in gamer tags.
Mason Peck of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, US, has received a grant to study the idea, which is based on the fact that magnetic fields exert forces on electrically charged objects with a velocity that is not parallel with the field lines.
I'm guessing this system will work by having an orbit that travels over the magnetic poles, as the magnetic field lines are much closer there, and reversing the charge between poles so that it doesn't end up at the same altitude as it started. One problem, the further you get from Earth, the further apart the lines and therefore, less force. It seems as if it's going to take a very long time to get anything close to an escape velocity (if even possible). Who knows, it may even be more efficient to just shoot those charges out the back, aka ion drives.
Nanoknives To Be Used to Cut Cells, Wrists
Mod Parent up. DLG completely missed the sarcasm.
>Halo 2 sold $100,000,000 in it's first couple of days, is he trying to say that people aren't hyped for Halo anymore? The statistic Microsoft uses is that Halo 2 sold $125 million in the first 24 hours. I'm sure this includes preorders cause MS keeps claiming H2 was the top-selling entertainment item on a opening-day basis .
I'm being pedantic but it's "muchas problemas", as in: "Los gringos tienen muchas problemas con espanol"
To quote the Swedes: Do not stop windmill with hands or genitals.
hope to see something like an iPod Video that can store movies at screen sizes greater than 320x240 just so they can be hooked up to TVs and played back anywhere. You already can. If you want TV quality output, you have to save it to the iPod as that quality and the iPod will convert to 320x240 in real time when you use its screen. If you use an AV adapter and set the iPod to "video out" it will play it in the quality that you saved it as. Seems Apple has some fortunetellers working in R&D. http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ppleStore.woa/72703/wo/Na399iwmd8cv2dV70ja18EmHd0d /2.SLID?mco=543CBB30&nplm=M9765G%2FA
Chimps can comprehend the effect of quantum entanglement on cause and effect better than human children? I'm really not surprised that human children can't quite comprehend Alain Aspect's experiment showing that effect can come before a cause (transmission of entanglement faster than the speed of light), but I'm really quite surprised that chimps can comprehend it. Maybe they've got someone better than my physics teacher to explain it to them...
What other sites would be homepage for IE7? Possibly http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/?
Actually, it'd reduce the force by a lot less. Assuming a 100 kg (220 pound) person is sitting on a horizontal piece of glass, the force would be 980 Newtons (100kg times the force of gravity). Slanting the copier 45 degrees would reduce the force against the glass to 980/sqrt(2) or about 692.96 Newtons. That's a reduction factor of 1.414. Also, don't forget that slanting the glass would result a sliding force parallel to the surface of the glass of 692.96 Newtons, which I'm guessing is more than the static friction coefficient of ass cheek on glass. Anyone know the exact value?
Judging from the context, I believe VC is an abbreviation of "Venture Capital", which seems to be the nature of Sequoia Capital...
"n00b"? "noob"? "newb"? "newbie"? no wonder the top non-dictionary word isn't on the list
I thought Star Wars III had excellent acting. Their amazing acting made the dialogue look bad. Or maybe both were bad to begin with...
The price of $300 should really help 360 sales, especially if the PS3 is coming out at $465 (as rumor says). There's a point where consumers will stop caring about numbers of polygons more than the number of dollars.