$.99 is just wrong. I have mp3 music on a dvd. At 5MB/song, I can fit 9.6GB/5MB ~=2000 songs. I would be happy to pay $25 for disks like this, but no way I pay alomst $2k for a disk.
I notice also that in markets that sells pirated music they come as MP3 on CD's and contain over 100 songs for $1. The lagal CDs next to them costs $10, and contains 10 songs.
The legal product is certainly inferior. Unless the music industry can deliver a superior product, they can not win this.
If we look at how humans have discovered the earth, it is probably very good that we have not been 'discovered' yet.
Every time a primitive civilization have met a more advanced, the more advanced pretty much eradicated it.
Every time humans have met another species in their way, or useful for something like food or fur, they have been hunted to near extinction.
Maybe this is another anthropocentric observation: We wonder why the ET not been here yet, because as soon as they have, we are dead, and we will not be here to wonder anymore.
New definition: Freedom, the governments right to freely with no obstacles to do as they wish. This typically includes, but is not limited to trampling all over your individual rights.
1 micron is 1000nm, and will penetrate the eyeball just fine. It will not focus fully on the retina. 400-1400nm radiation will penetrate the eye ball and may cause heating of the retina, whereas exposure to laser radiation with wavelengths less than 400 nm and greater than 1400 nm are largely absorbed by the cornea and lens, leading to the development of cataracts or burn injuries.
The article does not mention that any reflection off whatever the laser is aiming at is many kW as well. A small polished piece of steel would reflect 80% in some random direction, and the beam will go until it reaches something. Only a few milli Watts would be sufficient to damage the eyes of civilian spectators, so a reflection could easily permanently blind everyone in a football stadium of 50000 people.
Apple boardroom: Let's just call it iPhone, and let it go as it may. Keep blabbing with Cisco so they think we are negotiating. They don't have a case anyway.
Cisco boardroom: We have to get on the consumer bandwagon, so lets use this trademark to force Apple to help us even if we don't really have a good case. Tell the media that we are almost in agreement.
Apple boardroom: The blabbing with Cisco resulted in an agreement that basically means nothing. At least they think they have something and have backed off.
Cisco boardroom: The "explore opportunities" agreement is of course worhtless, but maybe we can fool our stockholders at least that we got a good thing going here.
I know RIAA is enemy #1 here on/., but please realize that their entire business model has evaporated, and they are evaporating too. The treatment here on/. is like whipping a dying horse.
Music and song were thriving for thousands of years before the recording industry.
The only thing that brought the music industry to life was the ability to control distribution due to -cost of equipment- (recording studio, vinyl production, radio stations)
with technology advances, this control has gone away, and their entire business model has evaporated.
They really have no choice but to try to artificially create a business model based on DRM and legislation, but obviously, these measures are bound to fail.
Can anyone here at/. come up with a different solution for them?
I'll buy a stack of these for things like: -Universal remote -home automation -kids games -nursing room monitor -Entrance door camera/display/speaker/mic -Asterisk PBX -Picture frame for grandma -etc
Its a fun description of a topology, and maybe not too relevant to string theory (Which I think is screwed up anyway)
I would suggest thinking of space as seen by a photon. The x-dimension is rolled up to nothing (since it is moving at c) and it moves from its creation to its destruction in zero time (relative to the photon), so the t-dimansion is "rolled up" too.
So basically it sees a static two dimensional Y,Z universe. The other dimensions x,t, are huge and real,(take a photon travelling for 13 billion years through space) but to the photon, they are rolled up tightly into nonexistence.
Not to sound like a spokesperson for the movie industry, but their only options are: 1. Agressivley protect their content with DRM and lawsuits 2. Go out of business
They will probably go out of business anyway, and are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
The way it will look in some years is probably: 1. Few movie budgets over say $1M. Just no ROI 2. No mega rich movie stars. 3. No mega rich rock stars. 4. most content is direct from producer to you. See youtube
This is probably overall good and will not kill the music or movies. We will probably see an exponential growth in sophisticated works of art available for a fair price. See http://allofmp3.com/ for example
Speaker wire is gold plated to fool uneducated people to throw away money, not to improve performance.
The *connector* on the other hand is gold plated to reduce resistance.
So buy speaker wire with no gold, but make sure the connectors are gold plated. Even look for thicker plating if you plan to insert them over 100 times.
And secondly, an electrolyte is much better than polypropylene, film, or even tantalum capacitors for one use: Large capacity for the money. In an audio amp, you use film or other to handle the signal, since you need well defined parameters, but to deliver the power, you use electrolytes. The comparison is what do you want to buy when you are *really8 thirsty: 1) A bottle of exactly 10ml of pure water, or a gallon, give or take a little, of drinking water?
The problems with electrolytes are just with a few companies using the wrong recipe for the sauce. ieee.org has had a few articles about this.
how is it possible to feature a story with glaring errors. The headline talks about a gas turbine. The BBC article talks about an electrical generator.
I wonder if the author is one of the unlucky Vonage customer who were offered stocks in Vonages IPO. I think they were offered at $16, and now they are $6.
BTW: Who the hell wants to use Vonage anyway? Broadvoice and a bunch of others allow unlimited international calling, and BYOD (Bring your own device) and asterisk.
The universities can easily own copyright to all your papers. And get used to it. Almost all companies you agree to work for make you sign agreements that everything you come up with while you work for them is their property.
If you dream up a new invention (Yes, at night in your free time) it belongs to your company; Copyright and patentablabe rights alltogether.
I am sure a fire in the luggage section of the plane is so much easier to control than a fire in the cabin.
Or is this rule to prevent someone from using the battery as a weapon? Powerbook terrorist: "Turn this plane around, or this battery will certainly explode"
First, using Tor is easy. Just use the Torbutton http://freehaven.net/~squires/torbutton/ Now turn Tor off when not needed, and turn it on with a click when you like to.
Since you go through other hosts, it is often slow, but usually OK.
Also, if a lot of your Google searches returns Wikipedia pages, just search directly in Wikipedia and so on.
Puhleease: Put Roland Piquepaille blog elsewhere
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The Nanopowers of Spinach
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· Score: 4, Insightful
I would like to just suggest a link to Roland Piquepailles blog somewhere where those who are interested can click. And *no more articles please*
I read/. to get real news and facts, and see discussions from people with insight. Roland Piquepailles submissions are usually vague quasiscience or fiction.
Is this latest news just "Yet Another Wishful Nano-manipulation", or are the something new here? The article, unfortunately, gives no added insight.
You should mod this up if you agree or mod away as flamebait/offtopic/troll if you dont agree, but at least mod it.
This study is a little bit backwards. The underlaying problem is that we can not detect if nearby stars have planets like ours. We only have resolution to find big planets that orbit hot. And of course, since this is the only thing we can see, we see this often. And of course since we can not see small rocky planets 150Mkm from a star, we do not see any solar systems like ours.
So now we have found a buch of "Hot Jupiters", and not earths with water, and what do we do?
Well, we do just like the drunk that is looking for his lost coin under the street-light, even though he lost it in the dark alley:
Just change the theory from "No earthlike planets in systems with a hot Jupiter" to "Many earthlike planets in systems with a hot Jupiter"
Here is my bet: As soon as instruments become sensitive enough to see extrasolar earthlike planets, we will find a lot of them. Further, they will be the ones we find life on. Not the ones with a close orbiting (i.e. hot) jupiter type planet.
Would be interesting to see the actual simulation they have done to see how this is modelled.
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I am sure you can find this on the net. It has all the books for 4 years of college.
$.99 is just wrong. I have mp3 music on a dvd. At 5MB/song, I can fit 9.6GB/5MB ~=2000 songs. I would be happy to pay $25 for disks like this, but no way I pay alomst $2k for a disk.
I notice also that in markets that sells pirated music they come as MP3 on CD's and contain over 100 songs for $1. The lagal CDs next to them costs $10, and contains 10 songs.
The legal product is certainly inferior. Unless the music industry can deliver a superior product, they can not win this.
If we look at how humans have discovered the earth, it is probably very good that we have not been 'discovered' yet.
Every time a primitive civilization have met a more advanced, the more advanced pretty much eradicated it.
Every time humans have met another species in their way, or useful for something like food or fur, they have been hunted to near extinction.
Maybe this is another anthropocentric observation: We wonder why the ET not been here yet, because as soon as they have, we are dead, and we will not be here to wonder anymore.
New definition: Freedom, the governments right to freely with no obstacles to do as they wish. This typically includes, but is not limited to trampling all over your individual rights.
See also "minilove" and "minitruth"
1 micron is 1000nm, and will penetrate the eyeball just fine. It will not focus fully on the retina. 400-1400nm radiation will penetrate the eye ball and may cause heating of the retina, whereas exposure to laser radiation with wavelengths less than 400 nm and greater than 1400 nm are largely absorbed by the cornea and lens, leading to the development of cataracts or burn injuries.
The article does not mention that any reflection off whatever the laser is aiming at is many kW as well. A small polished piece of steel would reflect 80% in some random direction, and the beam will go until it reaches something. Only a few milli Watts would be sufficient to damage the eyes of civilian spectators, so a reflection could easily permanently blind everyone in a football stadium of 50000 people.
Apple boardroom: Let's just call it iPhone, and let it go as it may. Keep blabbing with Cisco so they think we are negotiating. They don't have a case anyway.
Cisco boardroom: We have to get on the consumer bandwagon, so lets use this trademark to force Apple to help us even if we don't really have a good case. Tell the media that we are almost in agreement.
Apple boardroom: The blabbing with Cisco resulted in an agreement that basically means nothing. At least they think they have something and have backed off.
Cisco boardroom: The "explore opportunities" agreement is of course worhtless, but maybe we can fool our stockholders at least that we got a good thing going here.
I know RIAA is enemy #1 here on /., but please realize that their entire business model has evaporated, and they are evaporating too. The treatment here on /. is like whipping a dying horse.
/. come up with a different solution for them?
Music and song were thriving for thousands of years before the recording industry.
The only thing that brought the music industry to life was the ability to control distribution due to -cost of equipment- (recording studio, vinyl production, radio stations)
with technology advances, this control has gone away, and their entire business model has evaporated.
They really have no choice but to try to artificially create a business model based on DRM and legislation, but obviously, these measures are bound to fail.
Can anyone here at
Let me guess: It is a regular computer that solves a regular problem the regular way. One function needed is a number generator.
You could pick any device that returns different numbers at different times. It could be a microphone, a geiger counter, a clock og a quantum device
Now pick the quantum device, and call the whole device a "Quantum computer"
This is normal in marketing departments. The only unusual thing here is that they got the engineering department to go with them.
I'll buy a stack of these for things like:
-Universal remote
-home automation
-kids games
-nursing room monitor
-Entrance door camera/display/speaker/mic
-Asterisk PBX
-Picture frame for grandma
-etc
Its a fun description of a topology, and maybe not too relevant to string theory (Which I think is screwed up anyway)
I would suggest thinking of space as seen by a photon. The x-dimension is rolled up to nothing (since it is moving at c) and it moves from its creation to its destruction in zero time (relative to the photon), so the t-dimansion is "rolled up" too.
So basically it sees a static two dimensional Y,Z universe. The other dimensions x,t, are huge and real,(take a photon travelling for 13 billion years through space) but to the photon, they are rolled up tightly into nonexistence.
Not to sound like a spokesperson for the movie industry, but their only options are:
1. Agressivley protect their content with DRM and lawsuits
2. Go out of business
They will probably go out of business anyway, and are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
The way it will look in some years is probably:
1. Few movie budgets over say $1M. Just no ROI
2. No mega rich movie stars.
3. No mega rich rock stars.
4. most content is direct from producer to you. See youtube
This is probably overall good and will not kill the music or movies. We will probably see an exponential growth in sophisticated works of art available for a fair price. See http://allofmp3.com/ for example
The thin client over the net is really a poor way to organize an office suite. The only reason to use it is to save $$.
Loosing the ability to use it if your net connection fails is a show stopper right there.
Speaker wire is gold plated to fool uneducated people to throw away money, not to improve performance.
The *connector* on the other hand is gold plated to reduce resistance.
So buy speaker wire with no gold, but make sure the connectors are gold plated. Even look for thicker plating if you plan to insert them over 100 times.
And secondly, an electrolyte is much better than polypropylene, film, or even tantalum capacitors for one use: Large capacity for the money. In an audio amp, you use film or other to handle the signal, since you need well defined parameters, but to deliver the power, you use electrolytes. The comparison is what do you want to buy when you are *really8 thirsty: 1) A bottle of exactly 10ml of pure water, or a gallon, give or take a little, of drinking water?
The problems with electrolytes are just with a few companies using the wrong recipe for the sauce. ieee.org has had a few articles about this.
I think you miss the point of the parent post. He gives the recipe for you to be successfull too.
how is it possible to feature a story with glaring errors. The headline talks about a gas turbine. The BBC article talks about an electrical generator.
I wonder if the author is one of the unlucky Vonage customer who were offered stocks in Vonages IPO.
6 .html "Some VoIP services surpass traditional phones". Only cable providers have better quality than regular landlines. Vonage does not.
I think they were offered at $16, and now they are $6.
Accrding to http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060922-780
BTW: Who the hell wants to use Vonage anyway? Broadvoice and a bunch of others allow unlimited international calling, and BYOD (Bring your own device) and asterisk.
The universities can easily own copyright to all your papers. And get used to it. Almost all companies you agree to work for make you sign agreements that everything you come up with while you work for them is their property.
If you dream up a new invention (Yes, at night in your free time) it belongs to your company; Copyright and patentablabe rights alltogether.
Just get used to it
Friends don't let friends buy Sony. They probably embed the geodata in the image pixels so they can always find you.
..nuff said
The article did not mention how many times he got laid in college.
Or how much beer drank, or how many...
I am sure a fire in the luggage section of the plane is so much easier to control than a fire in the cabin.
Or is this rule to prevent someone from using the battery as a weapon? Powerbook terrorist: "Turn this plane around, or this battery will certainly explode"
First, using Tor is easy. Just use the Torbutton http://freehaven.net/~squires/torbutton/
Now turn Tor off when not needed, and turn it on with a click when you like to.
Since you go through other hosts, it is often slow, but usually OK.
Also, if a lot of your Google searches returns Wikipedia pages, just search directly in Wikipedia and so on.
I would like to just suggest a link to Roland Piquepailles blog somewhere where those who are interested can click. And *no more articles please*
/. to get real news and facts, and see discussions from people with insight.
I read
Roland Piquepailles submissions are usually vague quasiscience or fiction.
Is this latest news just "Yet Another Wishful Nano-manipulation", or are the something new here? The article, unfortunately, gives no added insight.
You should mod this up if you agree or mod away as flamebait/offtopic/troll if you dont agree, but at least mod it.
This study is a little bit backwards. The underlaying problem is that we can not detect if nearby stars have planets like ours. We only have resolution to find big planets that orbit hot. And of course, since this is the only thing we can see, we see this often. And of course since we can not see small rocky planets 150Mkm from a star, we do not see any solar systems like ours.
So now we have found a buch of "Hot Jupiters", and not earths with water, and what do we do?
Well, we do just like the drunk that is looking for his lost coin under the street-light, even though he lost it in the dark alley:
Just change the theory from "No earthlike planets in systems with a hot Jupiter" to "Many earthlike planets in systems with a hot Jupiter"
Here is my bet: As soon as instruments become sensitive enough to see extrasolar earthlike planets, we will find a lot of them. Further, they will be the ones we find life on. Not the ones with a close orbiting (i.e. hot) jupiter type planet.
Would be interesting to see the actual simulation they have done to see how this is modelled.