Earlier the only way to concentrate a beam was to use a concave (usually parabolic) reflector and the only way to direct them was to move the whole contraption of the reflector. It is very good solution, even today you see many radar towers with rotation antennae, and landing approach radars that oscillate.
But by using an array of transmitters and by using phase difference between them you could create constructive and destructive interference and radiate different amount of power at different directions.The power distribution will not be spherical front but in a "lobe" like fashion. Used heavily in fighter aircraft nose cones to have search radar without any moving parts. It can be done so that when they build TV tower on the sea shore, you dont waste half your transmitting energy over water. Yes, beams can now be "steered" by phase difference.
Language is fundamentally divisive. Language is the original IFF. Identify friend or foe device. Israelites and Ephraimites looed identical. When they Ephraimite city fell, and the residents tried to pretend to be Israelites to escape slaughter, how were they singled out? They were asked to say "shibboleth". Ephraimites said "sibboleth". 42000 of them who could not say it right were slain on the banks of river Jordan, according to the old testament.,
Some 75%% of all extant languages today, some 4000 of them are in the high lands of Papua New Guinea. Every tribe fights with every neighbor constantly, and they tell each other by language. Every grammar every syntax every linguistic device used anywhere in the world is found there. And some found there nowhere else. If, and when, Papua New Guinea becomes peaceful, we will lose anout 4000 languages.
In my home state the love for our mother tongue runs deep. We sing anthems for Mother Tamil. Name children Tamil-princess, Tamil-gem, Tamil-music. Only time Tamil Muslims disagree with Islamic orthodoxy is when Arabic is placed above Tamil. Only time Tamil brahmins disagree is when Sanskrit is placed above Tamil. National parties pledged to make Hindi the national language of India do not even garner 10% of the votes in my (former) home state.
Language is fundamentally divisive. Winners, military or economic or cultural will drive to extinction loser's languages. We started with one language 75000 years ago. We seem to be heading towards 100 languages in about 100 years.
Just yesterday we saw a thread about someone giving Alexa the skills to ask questions. Now we see Google home is answering them. Set one against another and watch the fun!
If the wavefront is spherical the power density (watts/m^2) will drop quadratically. That is, if you go ten times farther the power available will drop 100 fold. This is why Tesla's humongous tower near New York could not transmit any usable amount of power to anyone. We have not repealed that law in the last 100 years.
Unless there is a communication protocol between the devices and the charger and a pencil like beam could be created, steered and transmitted, the efficiency of this device likely to be very poor, and the range extremely limited.
Remember they recruited Howard Hughes, floating a cock and bull story about mining sea floor "noudles" for rare metals, as a cover story to hunt for the lost Russian submarine.
As the movie ended and as we were walking out I told my family, "Going to look up in the Wikipedia to know what I just saw", and about six people within ear shot we nodding, "I'm with you buddy!"
Isn't it interesting the personal body guards serving an evil personified show such great loyalty to him even after he was dead?
It is three generations after Anakin was burnt completely except his head. And they were able to keep him alive. They can't to that to Snoke?
What is there that could burn with such nice orange and yellow hydro carbon flames in space ships?
How come the dreadnought class battle cruiser or whatever it is can be split into two but still there is breathable atmosphere for all?
Why do I get flash backs of Guns of Navarone like barrels and recoils? and why do spacecraft bank when they turn?
I was hoping for an ultimate plot twist like, Rey is the daughter of a long living space being being that is the "father" of Anakin with Shmi (and erased her memory after). Thus making Rey a step sister of Anakin and an aunt for Luke. No such luck. I don't believe Kylo. There is a story behind Rey's origins.
They will pelt you with Ads. and If you listen to it and answer a quiz based on it to make sure you don't tune out, they will pay you some money and drive you wherever you want to go.
Now the idea is public. Prior art. No one should be able to patent this.
High time we stop government from engaging in such high handed tactics. The Constitution specifically prohibits the government taking property away from people without due process and compensation. Corporations are people. The contract they have with their customers is their property with great revenue potential. Government can not stop corporations from bilking their customers. It is against free markets.
Just get government off my back,( so that the corporations can stab me there without any impediment).
A class action suit has been filed against Dewy Chetham and Howe by members of the class ripped-off-twice. The ripped-off-twice were consumers who lost $10000 to $50,000 to misdeeds and dereliction of fiduciary responsibility by Fly-By-Night Financial Consultants. A class action suite was filed by Dewy Chetham and Howe and they obtained class action status and extracted 2.8 million dollars in damages. But they inflated their bill, 10$ to photocopy a page, 500$ an hour for para legal, 100,000$ for two lap tops etc. Further the puny offering of $3.84 for each member was so low no one bothered to collect it. Now the class memebers are suing Dewy Chetham and Howe for malpractice, and dereliction of duty to their clients, for botched negotiations and settling for unreasonably low damages. They are seeking punitive damages and restitution equal to their original loss.
Come on, we want the government to be small enough to be drowned in the bathtub.
We want to get rid of job killing regulations
We don't want a bunch of unelected Washington bureaucrats telling us what to do and what not to do
On second thoughts, it is a good idea to pass such laws. The right thing to do is to cut funding and cut the balls of the regulatory agencies. We get the credit for passing the laws and photo ops and all the great campaign sound bites. Then we get to blame the dysfunctional government and stupid government bureaucrats. It is a great formula we have invented. We should continue to milk it.
It is a democracy. You will get the government you deserve.
It is insane. Our software is certified for the design of nuclear reactors and airplane structures and avionics. We have reporting requirements for our bugs to go to NTSB, FAA, DGCA, CRE a whole alphabet soup of agencies regulating nuclear power and airplanes from a dozen nations.
The high, mighty and the wise people, otherwise known as the sales team, have pushed for and won three month release cycles. Planning meetings are immediately followed by progress review meetings with no time in the interim to make any progress.
As long as you want to work with present pay and benefits, dont tell them anything.
Once your retirement is planned and you are really sure about accepting a pay cut for reduced hours, let them know and offer to stay as long as they need you to find replacement. Offer to train the replacement, and also to come in part time sliding down from 5 days a week to 4, and then 3 etc.
Snark and odious comparisons with Microsoft's foray into shoehorning desktop into phone UI aside, done correctly it would work.
Separating content from presentation, graceful degradation, etc have very strong unix roots. It was in the context of character terminals interacting with graphical displays, but still, nroff, troff, LaTeX, TeX, original HTML are all really markup languages interpreting data appropriately for the devices that consume them.
So done correctly, it could work
Apple has a track record of doing it right. So it could work for Apple, though a similar attempt by Microsoft was pathetic.
Intel CEO Tells Employees: 'We Are Going To Take More Risks'
Means:
Employees and the shareholders are going to take more risks. If the bet pays off all the stock options and the incentive pay will trigger and champagne corks will fly in the executive suites. If the bet blows up, they will shrug their shoulders and say, "Well, at least we tried. OK then, let us find some other company".
A man was walking in the park with his wife. Suddenly he took his cap off, and his wife asked, "why?". He said, "According to Apple Maps, I am smack bang dang in the middle of First Presbyterian".
If it's a $20 pair of Bluetooth headphones I suppose it doesn't matter. If it's a $600 phone, I think it very much does.
The phone makers agree with you, it matters. Where they differ is, you think it is bad and they think it is good.
It means a steady supply of rubes who will line up to buy a new model every two years. Make it user replaceable, and these skinflint users, with absolutely no loyalty or gratitude or appreciation for the phone makers, continue to use the phone for three, four or even five years. Wall street demands performance every quarter. Miss the wall street whisper numbers, thats it, they punish the stock, the price does not hit the trigger points, and stock options and bonuses dont get awarded, it is catastrophic.
And here you go crabbing about some user saving a few hundred dollars.... Tell me, in the bigger scheme of things, which is bigger, 600$ or several hundred million dollar bonuses?
The article will have you believe "It just works" no longer applies to Apple.
It still works. It's main job is not to be user friendly or make everything work seamlessly. "It just works" means the Apple brands works exceedingly well in extracting money from its fanbase. Sometimes it does by making a path breaking pioneer product or concept with great user friendliness, At other times by other means. In the end it just works, separating money from its users.
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Earlier the only way to concentrate a beam was to use a concave (usually parabolic) reflector and the only way to direct them was to move the whole contraption of the reflector. It is very good solution, even today you see many radar towers with rotation antennae, and landing approach radars that oscillate.
But by using an array of transmitters and by using phase difference between them you could create constructive and destructive interference and radiate different amount of power at different directions.The power distribution will not be spherical front but in a "lobe" like fashion. Used heavily in fighter aircraft nose cones to have search radar without any moving parts. It can be done so that when they build TV tower on the sea shore, you dont waste half your transmitting energy over water. Yes, beams can now be "steered" by phase difference.
You are correct about it.
Some 75%% of all extant languages today, some 4000 of them are in the high lands of Papua New Guinea. Every tribe fights with every neighbor constantly, and they tell each other by language. Every grammar every syntax every linguistic device used anywhere in the world is found there. And some found there nowhere else. If, and when, Papua New Guinea becomes peaceful, we will lose anout 4000 languages.
In my home state the love for our mother tongue runs deep. We sing anthems for Mother Tamil. Name children Tamil-princess, Tamil-gem, Tamil-music. Only time Tamil Muslims disagree with Islamic orthodoxy is when Arabic is placed above Tamil. Only time Tamil brahmins disagree is when Sanskrit is placed above Tamil. National parties pledged to make Hindi the national language of India do not even garner 10% of the votes in my (former) home state.
Language is fundamentally divisive. Winners, military or economic or cultural will drive to extinction loser's languages. We started with one language 75000 years ago. We seem to be heading towards 100 languages in about 100 years.
(Pardon typos, typing on a phone.)
Just yesterday we saw a thread about someone giving Alexa the skills to ask questions. Now we see Google home is answering them. Set one against another and watch the fun!
Unless there is a communication protocol between the devices and the charger and a pencil like beam could be created, steered and transmitted, the efficiency of this device likely to be very poor, and the range extremely limited.
Remember they recruited Howard Hughes, floating a cock and bull story about mining sea floor "noudles" for rare metals, as a cover story to hunt for the lost Russian submarine.
Whatever you do, please dont call your "plant based" beef "Soylent Beef". That brand name has some baggage.
By counting cards. The bouncers will have it thrown out in a minute.
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Isn't it interesting the personal body guards serving an evil personified show such great loyalty to him even after he was dead?
It is three generations after Anakin was burnt completely except his head. And they were able to keep him alive. They can't to that to Snoke?
What is there that could burn with such nice orange and yellow hydro carbon flames in space ships?
How come the dreadnought class battle cruiser or whatever it is can be split into two but still there is breathable atmosphere for all?
Why do I get flash backs of Guns of Navarone like barrels and recoils? and why do spacecraft bank when they turn?
I was hoping for an ultimate plot twist like, Rey is the daughter of a long living space being being that is the "father" of Anakin with Shmi (and erased her memory after). Thus making Rey a step sister of Anakin and an aunt for Luke. No such luck. I don't believe Kylo. There is a story behind Rey's origins.
Now the idea is public. Prior art. No one should be able to patent this.
Most adults in Japan still read manga comics. This must have something to do with the low birth rate.
Just get government off my back,( so that the corporations can stab me there without any impediment).
A class action suit has been filed against Dewy Chetham and Howe by members of the class ripped-off-twice. The ripped-off-twice were consumers who lost $10000 to $50,000 to misdeeds and dereliction of fiduciary responsibility by Fly-By-Night Financial Consultants. A class action suite was filed by Dewy Chetham and Howe and they obtained class action status and extracted 2.8 million dollars in damages. But they inflated their bill, 10$ to photocopy a page, 500$ an hour for para legal, 100,000$ for two lap tops etc. Further the puny offering of $3.84 for each member was so low no one bothered to collect it. Now the class memebers are suing Dewy Chetham and Howe for malpractice, and dereliction of duty to their clients, for botched negotiations and settling for unreasonably low damages. They are seeking punitive damages and restitution equal to their original loss.
We want to get rid of job killing regulations
We don't want a bunch of unelected Washington bureaucrats telling us what to do and what not to do
On second thoughts, it is a good idea to pass such laws. The right thing to do is to cut funding and cut the balls of the regulatory agencies. We get the credit for passing the laws and photo ops and all the great campaign sound bites. Then we get to blame the dysfunctional government and stupid government bureaucrats. It is a great formula we have invented. We should continue to milk it.
It is a democracy. You will get the government you deserve.
The high, mighty and the wise people, otherwise known as the sales team, have pushed for and won three month release cycles. Planning meetings are immediately followed by progress review meetings with no time in the interim to make any progress.
Once your retirement is planned and you are really sure about accepting a pay cut for reduced hours, let them know and offer to stay as long as they need you to find replacement. Offer to train the replacement, and also to come in part time sliding down from 5 days a week to 4, and then 3 etc.
Who comes up with such stupid ideas like using the camera and face detection as authentication method?
Separating content from presentation, graceful degradation, etc have very strong unix roots. It was in the context of character terminals interacting with graphical displays, but still, nroff, troff, LaTeX, TeX, original HTML are all really markup languages interpreting data appropriately for the devices that consume them.
So done correctly, it could work
Apple has a track record of doing it right. So it could work for Apple, though a similar attempt by Microsoft was pathetic.
Apple should not have hired the Windows Vista/8 product manager.
Intel CEO Tells Employees: 'We Are Going To Take More Risks'
Means:
Employees and the shareholders are going to take more risks. If the bet pays off all the stock options and the incentive pay will trigger and champagne corks will fly in the executive suites. If the bet blows up, they will shrug their shoulders and say, "Well, at least we tried. OK then, let us find some other company".
Who is the "we" you are talking about Kemo Sabe?
A man was walking in the park with his wife. Suddenly he took his cap off, and his wife asked, "why?". He said, "According to Apple Maps, I am smack bang dang in the middle of First Presbyterian".
Well, just don't read these messages and you'll be amazed how much shit you can do during that time.
I use the potty time to read these messages, you insensitive clod!
If it's a $20 pair of Bluetooth headphones I suppose it doesn't matter. If it's a $600 phone, I think it very much does.
The phone makers agree with you, it matters. Where they differ is, you think it is bad and they think it is good.
It means a steady supply of rubes who will line up to buy a new model every two years. Make it user replaceable, and these skinflint users, with absolutely no loyalty or gratitude or appreciation for the phone makers, continue to use the phone for three, four or even five years. Wall street demands performance every quarter. Miss the wall street whisper numbers, thats it, they punish the stock, the price does not hit the trigger points, and stock options and bonuses dont get awarded, it is catastrophic.
And here you go crabbing about some user saving a few hundred dollars.... Tell me, in the bigger scheme of things, which is bigger, 600$ or several hundred million dollar bonuses?
It still works. It's main job is not to be user friendly or make everything work seamlessly. "It just works" means the Apple brands works exceedingly well in extracting money from its fanbase. Sometimes it does by making a path breaking pioneer product or concept with great user friendliness, At other times by other means. In the end it just works, separating money from its users.