They don't hurt. You can pour some in your hand and they just feel kind of slippery. Completely harmless unless you swallow them (or breathe them in (or get them in your eyes (or do something else stupid)), but they don't really stay suspended in air).
A handful looks kind of like fine sand.
They are actually very light-weight. They are often used (without the hydrogen absorbing additives) to make epoxy lighter. A quart of them weighs about 4oz.
Why can't we destroy it? We enriched the fuel from natural sources that weren't harming anyone, so how hard could it be to get it back to the way we found it?
It won't save any space compared to regular PV cells, but assuming that area of holorgam is cheaper than area of silicon (The article implied that), then it will save money.
If you have a 2-way radio (I don't know if a cellphone would work), go to Radioshack and get a low-current light bulb (not LED) and connect solid leads about 8" long to each lead of the bulb. Make them both into a coil, slip one over the 2-way radio antenna, and transmit. The lightbulb should glow bright.
Unfortnately RF energy decreases as inverse square.
"Looking back on 15 years or so of development of the Web is there anything you would do differently given the chance?
I would have skipped on the double slash - there's no need for it. Also I would have put the domain name in the reverse order - in order of size so, for example, the BCS address would read: http://uk.org.bcs/members. The last two terms of this example could both be servers if necessary."
He could do anything differently and he would drop a slash?
But think of laptops. They have external AC-DC supplies for heat, weight, and size reasons. The internal supplies can be tiny. And if this is in a data center, it wouldn't be too hard to make a central psu output all the voltages required.
"How come there is no real difference? Because both modern AC and modern DC supplies start out by converting the power to high frequency AC (on the order of several kHz), and operate on that. That's what you actually want as input, if anything."
Isn't it DC with pulse width modulation? Basically they take AC, filter it to make DC, switch it on and off quickly, then filter that to get the average voltage.
"In other words, the DC supplies they use are more efficient than standard AC supplies, which are the cheap crap and notoriously inefficient."
The power supplies in servers/data centers are not very cheap, and they are probably not too bad for efficiency.
In Norway they have free dialup internet! The company was called freesurf.no (or something). I don't know if they are still around; their website doesn't seem to work. The only thing you pay for is the phone call. There were no ads or bloatware to install. Oddly enough my house had ISDN, but I couldn't afford a modem for it (and I didn't know what I would need (like an ISP (and if there even is one (and I probably wouldn't have been able to find one easily(I don't speak Norwegian))))(and there was a digital --> analog converter so all the phones except one would be "normal", so I would have had to add a wire (but I couldn't because it was a rented house (and the landlord didn't like us)))).
Looks like it was made with parts from Radioshack. A project enclosure, barrier strip, alligator clips. Although it would make a great science fair project!
"He expects to find investors to help pay for the research needed to figure a way to increase the tree power from less than 2 volts to 12 volts sometime this year"
"He expects to find investors to help pay for the research needed to figure a way to increase the tree power from less than 2 volts to 12 volts sometime this year"
This will probably save millions of dollars and years of research:
Flyback or boost switching regulator
here's a link:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Flyback+OR+boost+sw itching+regulator
It can't do anything about power (watts or amps). For that you probably need a whole forest of trees.
What are all the fluctuations in the graph? It is especially noticeable for Wikipedia. It looks like there are about 52 peaks per year. I wonder if there is more traffic to Google on weekends or during the week?
"An option for/. readers is to host a blog on your own site..."
But if you use a blog service you still rely on them some of the time to generate the pages to send to your server. It isn't as much load as hosting pages, but it is probably still significant. The ideal option would to use a blog tool that is hosted and runs off your server. My Yahoo website includes MoveableType (http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/pricing). I haven't used it yet, but it seems OK. For non-Yahoo users it is fairly expensive.
And it was old even a few months ago! It was in the July 05 issue, which means the magazine came in the middle of June and the article was available on their website at least by the beginning of June, probably even before that.
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They don't hurt. You can pour some in your hand and they just feel kind of slippery. Completely harmless unless you swallow them (or breathe them in (or get them in your eyes (or do something else stupid)), but they don't really stay suspended in air). A handful looks kind of like fine sand.
They are actually very light-weight. They are often used (without the hydrogen absorbing additives) to make epoxy lighter. A quart of them weighs about 4oz.
Now the same thing is going on with Blue-ray vs. HD-DVD.
Why can't we destroy it? We enriched the fuel from natural sources that weren't harming anyone, so how hard could it be to get it back to the way we found it?
It won't save any space compared to regular PV cells, but assuming that area of holorgam is cheaper than area of silicon (The article implied that), then it will save money.
If you have a 2-way radio (I don't know if a cellphone would work), go to Radioshack and get a low-current light bulb (not LED) and connect solid leads about 8" long to each lead of the bulb. Make them both into a coil, slip one over the 2-way radio antenna, and transmit. The lightbulb should glow bright. Unfortnately RF energy decreases as inverse square.
1. Find IE hole /.
2. Write unofficial patch
3. Submit story to
4. Profit!
"Looking back on 15 years or so of development of the Web is there anything you would do differently given the chance?
I would have skipped on the double slash - there's no need for it. Also I would have put the domain name in the reverse order - in order of size so, for example, the BCS address would read: http://uk.org.bcs/members. The last two terms of this example could both be servers if necessary."
He could do anything differently and he would drop a slash?
I could be wrong, but I always thought it had to be positive and negative. I do agree that square waves can be AC.
This DC-DC PSU runs off an external source and is barely bigger than athe ATX connector. http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl?sc=8&category=13&it=A &id=417
But think of laptops. They have external AC-DC supplies for heat, weight, and size reasons. The internal supplies can be tiny. And if this is in a data center, it wouldn't be too hard to make a central psu output all the voltages required.
"How come there is no real difference? Because both modern AC and modern DC supplies start out by converting the power to high frequency AC (on the order of several kHz), and operate on that. That's what you actually want as input, if anything." Isn't it DC with pulse width modulation? Basically they take AC, filter it to make DC, switch it on and off quickly, then filter that to get the average voltage. "In other words, the DC supplies they use are more efficient than standard AC supplies, which are the cheap crap and notoriously inefficient." The power supplies in servers/data centers are not very cheap, and they are probably not too bad for efficiency.
What about fiberglass? Or even better, carbon fiber.
In Norway they have free dialup internet! The company was called freesurf.no (or something). I don't know if they are still around; their website doesn't seem to work. The only thing you pay for is the phone call. There were no ads or bloatware to install. Oddly enough my house had ISDN, but I couldn't afford a modem for it (and I didn't know what I would need (like an ISP (and if there even is one (and I probably wouldn't have been able to find one easily(I don't speak Norwegian))))(and there was a digital --> analog converter so all the phones except one would be "normal", so I would have had to add a wire (but I couldn't because it was a rented house (and the landlord didn't like us)))).
http://www.magcap.com/press.php
Looks like it was made with parts from Radioshack. A project enclosure, barrier strip, alligator clips. Although it would make a great science fair project!
"He expects to find investors to help pay for the research needed to figure a way to increase the tree power from less than 2 volts to 12 volts sometime this year"
w itching+regulator
This will probably save millions of dollars and years of research:
Flyback or boost switching regulator
here's a link: http://www.google.com/search?q=Flyback+OR+boost+s
It can't do anything about power (watts or amps). For that you probably need a whole forest of trees.
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"He expects to find investors to help pay for the research needed to figure a way to increase the tree power from less than 2 volts to 12 volts sometime this year" This will probably save millions of dollars and years of research: Flyback or boost switching regulator here's a link: http://www.google.com/search?q=Flyback+OR+boost+sw itching+regulator
It can't do anything about power (watts or amps). For that you probably need a whole forest of trees.
Celeron... What about putting a laptop in oil?
Speaking of lawsuits, I don't think NXT will like this. http://www.nxtsound.com/
That only leaves one option for Google... Buy Microsoft.
Firefox isn't there at all! What about the release of Firefox 1.5?
What are all the fluctuations in the graph? It is especially noticeable for Wikipedia. It looks like there are about 52 peaks per year. I wonder if there is more traffic to Google on weekends or during the week?
"An option for /. readers is to host a blog on your own site ..."
But if you use a blog service you still rely on them some of the time to generate the pages to send to your server. It isn't as much load as hosting pages, but it is probably still significant. The ideal option would to use a blog tool that is hosted and runs off your server. My Yahoo website includes MoveableType (http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/pricing). I haven't used it yet, but it seems OK. For non-Yahoo users it is fairly expensive.
Oh, And I've never used IM.
And it was old even a few months ago! It was in the July 05 issue, which means the magazine came in the middle of June and the article was available on their website at least by the beginning of June, probably even before that.