These nifty scientists have come up with a filter (which is made out of dye on glass) which concentrates and filters wavelengths of light. By concentrating the specific wavelengths they can increase efficiency two ways: 1) Concentrated light is better for solar cells (as in the mirrors solar plants use today) 2) Photovoltaic cells can apparently be tuned to work better for different wavelengths of light.
There are a lot of different numbers thrown around in the article, the simplest is that placing this filters on existing solar panels could increase their efficiency by 50%. By building specialized solar panels, using multiple filters, a much greater (4x? 40x?) efficiency gain can be achieved.
Think of the bigger picture man! Millions of dollars in damage could be saved from such a predictive system. A few obvious examples are:
Any major industrial process that handles dangerous materials - Hello refineries, Natural Gas Providers...
Museums and Private owners - art and sculptures could be saved
And the poor china-shop owners!
Fires that result from earthquakes can increase the damages from the quake significantly. By having early warning, measures could be taken to avoid these fires entirely.
Take it from a Californian, we'd really like to know beforehand!
From the article: "The huge capacity of these discs means that the new technology will be best suited for applications such large volume data archiving, rather than consumer use."
The tech they are using to read so many layers of information is impressive. However as the article states, this format is in no way intended for consumers.
Your BluRay hardware is probably safe for another five years or so.
If working with many computer illiterate baby boomers has taught me anything, no. This won't ever be a problem.
However, though I can perform research on the internet 5 times faster than most BBs by no means can I spell or do math in my head nearly as well as many of them. Not to mention my handwriting is terrible!
What skills will be lost to people who rely on this future tech too much?
Not the sound the Solar system makes as it travels through the galaxy, but the sound of this article going over my head.
So this boundry is what exactly? The limit to which the solar winds reach out from the Sun and the interaction that they have when they hit the expansive nothing out there?
If you skip down in the article past the really long discussion of number theory (imaginary numbers, which if you made it past umm the 10th grade is probably doable) and to the discussion about the Rieman function, the author sums it up very well. Probably helps if you know basic Calculus ideas like summations and limits, but he may have explained that too...
Here is a list of the "parents must know" acronyms (most of these are truly terrible and read at your own risk): POS Parents Over Shoulder PIR Parents In Room P911 Parent Alert PAW Parents are Watching PAL Parents are Listening (important for children of blind parents) ASL MorF Male or Female SorG Straight or Gay LMIRL Lets Meet IRL TD2M Talk Dirty to Me IWSN I Want Sex Now (isn't this redundant for teenagers?) NIFOC Nude in front of Computer (also redundant, but maybe just for me) GYPO Get your pants off ADR Address WYCM Will you call me KFU Kisses For you (sadly not Kentucy Fried Underpants as I expected) MOOS Member of Opposite Sex MOSS Member of Same Sex (Or potentially a nasty typo) NALOPKT Not a lot of people know this (Glad to see the younger generation notices a lot is two words)
As an upstanding member of the internet I am offended that this list leaves off many, many important internet terms. I leave it to the posters after me to create a more comprehensive list for parents.
It's not faster for transistors, but it is good for:
Switching between mediums that rely on photons and those that rely on electrons to transmit information.
Possible future uses: faster fiber to ethernet signal conversion and conversion in future-technology of photon based processors.
Basically like the guy said earlier, faster porn.
Given that this is a scientific article, I'd imagine Celsius would be more appropriate.
For daily living, where during the course of a day the temperature changes less than 30 degrees Fahrenheit from morning to night. Would I rather see the temperature change in smaller increments or larger ones? In casual conversation do we really need to go into decimal points describing something?
Temperature and a person's dimensions are in my opinion better in imperial measure. Someone who is 1.82 meters tall and someone who is 1.80 are about the same, but in America one of them is 6ft and one of them is 5' 11". I'll bet the person who is 5'11" rounds up all the time, but does the person who is 1.80? To me the significance of the information is lost with the metric measure, I supposed if you grow up with it works for you.
. ..sales of tissue and personal lubricant skyrocket!
. ..Blizzard adds hundreds of new WoW servers to cope with increased server load during "off peak" times.
. ..Oil prices plummet on Wall Street.
. ..teen pregnacy, drug use, and crime statistics experience double digit decreases.
. ..INWP becomes the new internet chatch phrase. (I'm not wearing pants)
You want to engage the consumer right? What consumer are we talking about!? A Gamer! Make finding an ad in a game like a secret area of a stage, which is equiped with its own special bonus!
Or how about minigames on loadscreens that involve a product or logo?
The real problem with in-game ads is trying to get marketing employees to do something creative in a nerd enclave like the gaming realm.
Slashdot Mirror
These nifty scientists have come up with a filter (which is made out of dye on glass) which concentrates and filters wavelengths of light. By concentrating the specific wavelengths they can increase efficiency two ways:
1) Concentrated light is better for solar cells (as in the mirrors solar plants use today)
2) Photovoltaic cells can apparently be tuned to work better for different wavelengths of light.
There are a lot of different numbers thrown around in the article, the simplest is that placing this filters on existing solar panels could increase their efficiency by 50%. By building specialized solar panels, using multiple filters, a much greater (4x? 40x?) efficiency gain can be achieved.
I think you might need to loosen your tinfoil hat there a little bit buddy...
Think of the bigger picture man! Millions of dollars in damage could be saved from such a predictive system. A few obvious examples are:
Any major industrial process that handles dangerous materials - Hello refineries, Natural Gas Providers...
Museums and Private owners - art and sculptures could be saved
And the poor china-shop owners!
Fires that result from earthquakes can increase the damages from the quake significantly. By having early warning, measures could be taken to avoid these fires entirely.
Take it from a Californian, we'd really like to know beforehand!
"And don't forget the IT guys that cant get bonded due to a shady past but are technically competent who will turn to crime to feed their families."
Or they could just move out of Texas... no you're right, the ones who love Texas that much are already half-way there!
Ze German Engineerz, dey don't mind thiz zo much.
From the article:
"The huge capacity of these discs means that the new technology will be best suited for applications such large volume data archiving, rather than consumer use."
The tech they are using to read so many layers of information is impressive. However as the article states, this format is in no way intended for consumers.
Your BluRay hardware is probably safe for another five years or so.
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If working with many computer illiterate baby boomers has taught me anything, no. This won't ever be a problem.
However, though I can perform research on the internet 5 times faster than most BBs by no means can I spell or do math in my head nearly as well as many of them. Not to mention my handwriting is terrible!
What skills will be lost to people who rely on this future tech too much?
... I measure intelligence as total bandwidth capacity over my neural-net!
I run reality at 120mb/sec! Neener-neener, dial-up head!
Not the sound the Solar system makes as it travels through the galaxy, but the sound of this article going over my head.
So this boundry is what exactly? The limit to which the solar winds reach out from the Sun and the interaction that they have when they hit the expansive nothing out there?
Do it
If you skip down in the article past the really long discussion of number theory (imaginary numbers, which if you made it past umm the 10th grade is probably doable) and to the discussion about the Rieman function, the author sums it up very well. Probably helps if you know basic Calculus ideas like summations and limits, but he may have explained that too...
Good article.
Clearly there should be a poll that lets /. users pick the genes that are selected. Cowboy Neal gene will of course be included.
"You want to know how I did it!? I never saved anything for the swim back."
Here is a list of the "parents must know" acronyms (most of these are truly terrible and read at your own risk):
POS Parents Over Shoulder
PIR Parents In Room
P911 Parent Alert
PAW Parents are Watching
PAL Parents are Listening (important for children of blind parents)
ASL
MorF Male or Female
SorG Straight or Gay
LMIRL Lets Meet IRL
TD2M Talk Dirty to Me
IWSN I Want Sex Now (isn't this redundant for teenagers?)
NIFOC Nude in front of Computer (also redundant, but maybe just for me)
GYPO Get your pants off
ADR Address
WYCM Will you call me
KFU Kisses For you (sadly not Kentucy Fried Underpants as I expected)
MOOS Member of Opposite Sex
MOSS Member of Same Sex (Or potentially a nasty typo)
NALOPKT Not a lot of people know this (Glad to see the younger generation notices a lot is two words)
As an upstanding member of the internet I am offended that this list leaves off many, many important internet terms. I leave it to the posters after me to create a more comprehensive list for parents.
It's not faster for transistors, but it is good for: Switching between mediums that rely on photons and those that rely on electrons to transmit information. Possible future uses: faster fiber to ethernet signal conversion and conversion in future-technology of photon based processors. Basically like the guy said earlier, faster porn.
Dual boot is a good point, but don't you dual boot to play games on your other partion? Someday linux games.
Somehow I don't see very many linux user's picking these up for their machines. Maybe in 2-3 years when the price-point comes down.
Given that this is a scientific article, I'd imagine Celsius would be more appropriate.
For daily living, where during the course of a day the temperature changes less than 30 degrees Fahrenheit from morning to night. Would I rather see the temperature change in smaller increments or larger ones? In casual conversation do we really need to go into decimal points describing something?
Temperature and a person's dimensions are in my opinion better in imperial measure. Someone who is 1.82 meters tall and someone who is 1.80 are about the same, but in America one of them is 6ft and one of them is 5' 11". I'll bet the person who is 5'11" rounds up all the time, but does the person who is 1.80? To me the significance of the information is lost with the metric measure, I supposed if you grow up with it works for you.
Have you seen McCain's mother? Yes she is still alive. McCain plans to be there at their completion.
A guy guessing about people by their screen name.... is cooking spaghetti sauce and wearing gold jewelry!?
. . .sales of tissue and personal lubricant skyrocket!
. . .Blizzard adds hundreds of new WoW servers to cope with increased server load during "off peak" times.
. . .Oil prices plummet on Wall Street.
. . .teen pregnacy, drug use, and crime statistics experience double digit decreases.
. . .INWP becomes the new internet chatch phrase. (I'm not wearing pants)
Sokoban, I've determined the only way to stop the aliens from taking our "adsens" is to all have gay sex until all the aliens go away.
Please show your support and sign up for the man-orgy below.
You want to engage the consumer right? What consumer are we talking about!? A Gamer! Make finding an ad in a game like a secret area of a stage, which is equiped with its own special bonus! Or how about minigames on loadscreens that involve a product or logo? The real problem with in-game ads is trying to get marketing employees to do something creative in a nerd enclave like the gaming realm.