This would be true, if the brain has no influence over the body. The experience of pain causes the release of many chemicals from the brain, and this causes widespread systematic effects. Controlling the experience of pain - through whatever means - reduces this effect. Plus - behavioural effects - if moving will help an injury, but it's painful, then reducing perceived pain causes actual healing.
In principle, it may have slight speed benefits. It's the sort of thing you might do if given a clean-sheet, and nobody puts 'the user might want to pull the card out to read some data' on the spec-sheet.
To be fair - removable storage raises issues. For example - you have to deal with files going away - perhaps uncleanly - during operation. You have to cope with checking the content hasn't changed since the card was unplugged (and a 32G card, with ten thousand media files takes some time to scan). UI complications - you have to have some sort of seperate user-visible filesystem, so the user can put the file on the card, move it between internal and external,... Software installation on the SD raises other issues.
Frankly, a system that does this, and requires the user to spend a few minutes backing up to a computer before swapping out the card for a bigger one is a pretty small issue, compared to never ever being able to upgrade the storage.
To be a real helicopter, it needs to be able to fly out of ground effect. This would be at least a height equal to the diameter of the propellor, or 40 meters height about with the current prop.
Under this height, it gains significant advantage from being next to the ground - it's behaving like a hovercraft, not a helicopter.
For a helicopter - hovering is almost as hard as flying. If you increase the rotor thrust by 10%, and tilt it, you end up going sideways at a considerable speed.
This will not be the case, semiconductor processes can be optimised for one or the other. You get a more dense RAM or flash by not interleaving. And as area is proportional to cost, it would end up more expensive.
This will require essentially the same software infrastructure as normal suspend to RAM.
The system still has to go through the steps: Check to see if any critical tasks are running - if so, pause suspend, and ask user. Same with any communications tasks that may be interrupted. Stop tasks. Save state from all hardware to RAM. Suspend to RAM.
Just capturing an image of the running system does not result in a system that will resume.
It's not a case of put one of these magical DIMMs in, and you're fine for power cuts.
Is it possibly interesting - sure. But in real life, it may have very little advantage over a seperate flash device, for main memory.
Now, as a super-fast SSD - truly awesome.
Also - WTF - this should never be patentable. This is not an invention worthy of patent. It does nothing novel that is not implicit in the problem statement. 'I want a non-volatile RAM'.
The eye saccades (sweeps) at 720 degrees a second or so (for large changes)
For a half degree source (the apparent diameter of the sun), this is 1400 diameters of the sun per second, so you can fully resolve 700hz on/off. The sun is quite large, and it's easy to get a fair bit above this.
You actually can see up to a few kHz. Admittedly, not directly, but if you sweep your eye past a fast flashing light, it becomes a dotted, not solid line. (The brain tries to turn off the eyes for a hundred or two ms during a saccade (rapid sweep), but this does not quite work.)
I find that works. But. Almost all my devices will not dim adequately. Typical dim range is down to 1:128 or so. 1:1000 is much better for use in true dark. I have to in addition use extra software to increase the dimming, or set dark fonts and backgrounds to get it truly comfortable in a dark room. This would be a free mod to do in hardware.
The GP said 'dying now'. The person you mention with their ID stolen would have died over 28 years ago, or early eighties. Information systems were a _hell_ of a lot less advanced back then, and it would not surprise me that the above death notification was not in place at that time.
Of course, this means that this method becomes less and less useful, and approaches uselessness once you can't fake the age of the youngest person that dies without their death being centrally reported.
People dying in foreign countries without official notice are of course possible candidates.
Then there is the side-effect of ads meaning that _EVERY_ app (well, the majority) has all the permissions it needs to start scanning your network at 3AM, and reporting what it finds back to china. Fixing this would not be that involved, but it would mean that there is some cost. Devs would need to write a one-line explanation for every permission. You'd need to have someone slightly clueful to see if all the permissions are in fact required for the features mentioned. This is around a 2 minute task for most apps. Restricted versions of some permissions would be needed - for example if an app wanted ads, it can get them from the internet, but only from one address (whos reverse DNS must resolve to the same host).
Addressing simply the practicalities. With the tablets speaker centred over my ear (yes, with the screen out), the mic is about 5cm from my mouth. It is not significantly harder to hold in this position than my phone. Sure, you may look a bit silly, and the point about wifi only is of course valid.
I have fairly normal sized (for a male) hands. I can comfortably hold the nexus 7, with one thumb to one side, four fingers on the other, in a very, very secure one-handed grip. If it's another 10mm, I can't do this securely with comfort, and 20mm, no way.
Urinary levels of bisphenol A, triclosan and 4-nonylphenol in a general Belgian population.
'Geometric mean concentration was determined for bisphenol A at 2.55ug/l and for triclosan at 2.70ug/l'
Now, Triclosans molar mass is around 300. 0.52uMol/l is therefore 300 times this - 150ug/l. So, this is lots higher - 50 times - that in the general population. (Assuming urine and blood are of similar concentration, I can find no papers on this in 2 mins)
However, 50* is not a stupid amount to exceed dosages by, especially given that it's likely that some humans will exceed the average by at least 5 times.
Agree totally on size However. I question if there isn't a way to shrink the bezel to near zero. With a display that extends more-or-less to edge, with a touch surface extending further, perhaps even round the edge,you can in principle extend the display where the user is not holding it.
The n7 I am using right now, for example. When simply reading, I am holding it by one edge.
The screen could expand to nearly 8", in principle in that case. Even simply ignoring touches that cross the device edge would allow some useful growth.
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This would be true, if the brain has no influence over the body.
The experience of pain causes the release of many chemicals from the brain, and this causes widespread systematic effects.
Controlling the experience of pain - through whatever means - reduces this effect.
Plus - behavioural effects - if moving will help an injury, but it's painful, then reducing perceived pain causes actual healing.
In principle, it may have slight speed benefits.
It's the sort of thing you might do if given a clean-sheet, and nobody puts 'the user might want to pull the card out to read some data' on the spec-sheet.
To be fair - removable storage raises issues. ...
For example - you have to deal with files going away - perhaps uncleanly - during operation.
You have to cope with checking the content hasn't changed since the card was unplugged (and a 32G card, with ten thousand media files takes some time to scan).
UI complications - you have to have some sort of seperate user-visible filesystem, so the user can put the file on the card, move it between internal and external,
Software installation on the SD raises other issues.
Frankly, a system that does this, and requires the user to spend a few minutes backing up to a computer before swapping out the card for a bigger one is a pretty small issue, compared to never ever being able to upgrade the storage.
It's still annoying.
To be a real helicopter, it needs to be able to fly out of ground effect.
This would be at least a height equal to the diameter of the propellor, or 40 meters height about with the current prop.
Under this height, it gains significant advantage from being next to the ground - it's behaving like a hovercraft, not a helicopter.
See the nice graph at http://www.copters.com/aero/ground_effect.html - two thirds of the way down.
At 1/4 (10m altitude for the above device) the thrust is 20% better than at altitude.
You could in principle make a free-flight helicopter by bolting two http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Daedalus 's to a light spar, so it's in principle possible.
For a helicopter - hovering is almost as hard as flying.
If you increase the rotor thrust by 10%, and tilt it, you end up going sideways at a considerable speed.
This will not be the case, semiconductor processes can be optimised for one or the other.
You get a more dense RAM or flash by not interleaving.
And as area is proportional to cost, it would end up more expensive.
This will require essentially the same software infrastructure as normal suspend to RAM.
The system still has to go through the steps:
Check to see if any critical tasks are running - if so, pause suspend, and ask user.
Same with any communications tasks that may be interrupted.
Stop tasks.
Save state from all hardware to RAM.
Suspend to RAM.
Just capturing an image of the running system does not result in a system that will resume.
It's not a case of put one of these magical DIMMs in, and you're fine for power cuts.
Is it possibly interesting - sure.
But in real life, it may have very little advantage over a seperate flash device, for main memory.
Now, as a super-fast SSD - truly awesome.
Also - WTF - this should never be patentable.
This is not an invention worthy of patent.
It does nothing novel that is not implicit in the problem statement.
'I want a non-volatile RAM'.
The eye saccades (sweeps) at 720 degrees a second or so (for large changes)
For a half degree source (the apparent diameter of the sun), this is 1400 diameters of the sun per second, so you can fully resolve 700hz on/off.
The sun is quite large, and it's easy to get a fair bit above this.
On what grounds?
I find it quite relaxing, and do not suffer any effects whatsoever of eyestrain.
You actually can see up to a few kHz.
Admittedly, not directly, but if you sweep your eye past a fast flashing light, it becomes a dotted, not solid line.
(The brain tries to turn off the eyes for a hundred or two ms during a saccade (rapid sweep), but this does not quite work.)
I find that works.
But.
Almost all my devices will not dim adequately.
Typical dim range is down to 1:128 or so.
1:1000 is much better for use in true dark.
I have to in addition use extra software to increase the dimming, or set dark fonts and backgrounds to get it truly comfortable in a dark room.
This would be a free mod to do in hardware.
It doesn't exist. New Guinea was faked on a soundstage in mexico.
True, of course.
Three mobile phones on the ground can locate aircraft to within 3m from a long way away in clear weather.
A balloon that will carry 10 pounds to 30000 feet is under a hundred dollars.
The GP said 'dying now'.
The person you mention with their ID stolen would have died over 28 years ago, or early eighties.
Information systems were a _hell_ of a lot less advanced back then, and it would not surprise me that the above death notification was not in place at that time.
Of course, this means that this method becomes less and less useful, and approaches uselessness once you can't fake the age of the youngest person that dies without their death being centrally reported.
People dying in foreign countries without official notice are of course possible candidates.
LASERs.
It's an acronym.
Then there is the side-effect of ads meaning that _EVERY_ app (well, the majority) has all the permissions it needs to start scanning your network at 3AM, and reporting what it finds back to china.
Fixing this would not be that involved, but it would mean that there is some cost.
Devs would need to write a one-line explanation for every permission.
You'd need to have someone slightly clueful to see if all the permissions are in fact required for the features mentioned.
This is around a 2 minute task for most apps.
Restricted versions of some permissions would be needed - for example if an app wanted ads, it can get them from the internet, but only from one address (whos reverse DNS must resolve to the same host).
'Buyers husband was already a toad, therefore he was unchanged'
Addressing simply the practicalities.
With the tablets speaker centred over my ear (yes, with the screen out), the mic is about 5cm from my mouth.
It is not significantly harder to hold in this position than my phone.
Sure, you may look a bit silly, and the point about wifi only is of course valid.
I totally agree.
The next mission must be to return a square kilometer of martian surface, so we can accurately check the colour.
And bans delivery vehicles with large contact patches.
I have fairly normal sized (for a male) hands.
I can comfortably hold the nexus 7, with one thumb to one side, four fingers on the other, in a very, very secure one-handed grip.
If it's another 10mm, I can't do this securely with comfort, and 20mm, no way.
So chocolate makes zombie dogs, but onions kill them properly?
In context.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22885664
Urinary levels of bisphenol A, triclosan and 4-nonylphenol in a general Belgian population.
'Geometric mean concentration was determined for bisphenol A at 2.55ug/l and for triclosan at 2.70ug/l'
Now, Triclosans molar mass is around 300.
0.52uMol/l is therefore 300 times this - 150ug/l.
So, this is lots higher - 50 times - that in the general population.
(Assuming urine and blood are of similar concentration, I can find no papers on this in 2 mins)
However, 50* is not a stupid amount to exceed dosages by, especially given that it's likely that some humans will exceed the average by at least 5 times.
Agree totally on size
However.
I question if there isn't a way to shrink the bezel to near zero.
With a display that extends more-or-less to edge, with a touch surface extending further, perhaps even round the edge,you can in principle extend the display where the user is not holding it.
The n7 I am using right now, for example.
When simply reading, I am holding it by one edge.
The screen could expand to nearly 8", in principle in that case.
Even simply ignoring touches that cross the device edge would allow some useful growth.