It was useless also in the nineties...plenty of hype about connecting the world with AX25 packet radio, but no real end-user applications to justify this.
> who had the impressive motto 'Probando e Reprobando,' which in English means 'testing and retesting.'
Absoultely not...the motto of Accademia del Cimento was 'provando e riprovando', and it is a quote from Dante'sDivine Comedy. You can find it at the beginning of the third Canto of the Paradiso:
Quel sol che pria d'amor mi scaldò 'l petto,
di bella verità m'avea scoverto,
provando e riprovando, il dolce aspetto;
Whoever is familiar with ancient italian will correctly translate it as 'testing and rejecting', and not as 'testing and retesting'.
This verse became the motto of Accademia del Cimento for an obvious reason: a scientist makes an experiment, and after the result he rejects all theories who are in conflict with the experimental result. For sure he will not go on repeating indefinitely the experiment...
The motto can be found nowadays as a motto in the arms of the Italian Society of Physics
I'll look for the Nikolayeva's interpretation, thanks for the tip. I too am a bit obsessed with the Goldberg. Gould's interpretation is impressive, apart for his habit of humming while he plays....
May I suggest you Bruno Canino's interpretation ? I find it really outstanding. I also had the opportunity to hear a live performance of the Goldberg by Andras Schiff, and it was simply mesmerizing, but the recording isn't as amazing as the live performance I had the joy to attend.
To my experience most of the tablets/ebook readers are either limited (for example djvu format is usually missing), have a poor display, or are just too heavy to use (the iPad for example has an excellent display, but for me it is too heavy to be used as a book replacement). The Kindle Fire seems to me just a pretty good device, that encompasses all the limitations of other devices. Unfortunately here it is not yet available on the shelves but I want to try it as soon as possible. I only regret it has no webcam for skype.
Java floating point management is flawed by design. Using java for controlling anything serious opens up a Pandora box: just look at this (and look here if you don't know dr. Kahan)
One of the amazing consequences of the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem (KAM) is that the Earth orbit is stable, despite the influence of Jupiter. Stable in this context means that the orbit perturbations caused by Jupiter and the other planets don't cause the Earth orbit to move too close or too far from the Sun, causing dramatic changes of temperature. Chaos theory when gravitation is involved is not so chaotic as one could expect: the KAM theorem tells us that multi-body systems governed by gravitation law have intrinsic stability regions.
A few years ago, together with a friend, we reverse engineered a DVB-T usb pen by Hauppauge, and we were able to extract the raw data stream skipping the demodulation process. We did it since we wanted to test if it the device could be used as a DSP IF strip in a homemade spectrum analyzer. The device worked, but the analog IF strip we wanted to replace was actually drawing circles around its digital replacement, so we abandoned the project. 8 bit of resolution and an hardware designed for a very specific purpose couldn't bring us too far, as we feared.
It is nice to see that somebody else was capable to reverse engineer these devices, but as you can see from their results, they aren't actually that good. I saw somewhere that a USB pen for DVB had to hit the market, and its ADC has been announced to be 12 bit wide.This could be an interesting device to hack for SDR applications, hoping it isn't vaporware...
this is something new, so by definition this cannot have anything to share with ham radio.
TFA talks about angular momentum of the EM field. This has nothing to do with polarization, but with another property of the EM field. Since they are emitting waves with an angular momentum, they cannot be plane wave (it can be shown, see for example here for details) that plane waves have the angular momentum of the field equal to zero).
From the paper it is unclear how do they realize a field with an angular moment different from zero, I guess they used a technique similar to those described in this paper.
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And Eurozone is a pretty terrible zone to live in.
...please learn about the pork cycle.
Due to the use of a more efficient CPU, the clock hands in the iPad application rotate faster than the original ones.
The institute of momentum. As you probably know, current legislation requires momentum to be carefully preserved. Your money will help achieving this goal.
1) Buy Geeknet
2) ? ? ?
3) Profit!
Now I am curious to learn about phase two...
Pensioners have a static IP, working people instead have a dynamic IP...
It was useless also in the nineties...plenty of hype about connecting the world with AX25 packet radio, but no real end-user applications to justify this.
At the voice prompt, yell "Format c" followed by "yes!".
> who had the impressive motto 'Probando e Reprobando,' which in English means 'testing and retesting.'
Absoultely not...the motto of Accademia del Cimento was 'provando e riprovando', and it is a quote from Dante's Divine Comedy. You can find it at the beginning of the third Canto of the Paradiso:
Quel sol che pria d'amor mi scaldò 'l petto,
di bella verità m'avea scoverto,
provando e riprovando, il dolce aspetto;
Whoever is familiar with ancient italian will correctly translate it as 'testing and rejecting', and not as 'testing and retesting'.
This verse became the motto of Accademia del Cimento for an obvious reason: a scientist makes an experiment, and after the result he rejects all theories who are in conflict with the experimental result. For sure he will not go on repeating indefinitely the experiment...
The motto can be found nowadays as a motto in the arms of the Italian Society of Physics
1) Find three more helicopters
2) Learn to play alltogether this
3) ? ? ?
4) Profit!
Those who are curious to hear the piece can find it here. Please don't play it over my home, thanks.
TornadoGuard
...Werner Heisenberg commented: your data may have been routed here.
Correct. Debugging scales down 3.8462 times when producing a final release.
In a related news, to keep the company afloat, corporate jets were replaced with hot air balloons.
Radio amateurs have a license for using their advanced technology radio equipment, but this does not protect them from misbehaving.
I'll look for the Nikolayeva's interpretation, thanks for the tip. I too am a bit obsessed with the Goldberg. Gould's interpretation is impressive, apart for his habit of humming while he plays....
May I suggest you Bruno Canino's interpretation ? I find it really outstanding. I also had the opportunity to hear a live performance of the Goldberg by Andras Schiff, and it was simply mesmerizing, but the recording isn't as amazing as the live performance I had the joy to attend.
I think that Elizabeth Moon and those who have such awful ideas about our future should be chopped.
If your life can be packed into a briefcase, you are missing somebody important in your life. Oh wait, this is slashdot...
...they let them slip on the floor. If only they could be a little more careful...
To my experience most of the tablets/ebook readers are either limited (for example djvu format is usually missing), have a poor display, or are just too heavy to use (the iPad for example has an excellent display, but for me it is too heavy to be used as a book replacement). The Kindle Fire seems to me just a pretty good device, that encompasses all the limitations of other devices. Unfortunately here it is not yet available on the shelves but I want to try it as soon as possible. I only regret it has no webcam for skype.
Java floating point management is flawed by design. Using java for controlling anything serious opens up a Pandora box: just look at this (and look here if you don't know dr. Kahan)
One of the amazing consequences of the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem (KAM) is that the Earth orbit is stable, despite the influence of Jupiter. Stable in this context means that the orbit perturbations caused by Jupiter and the other planets don't cause the Earth orbit to move too close or too far from the Sun, causing dramatic changes of temperature.
Chaos theory when gravitation is involved is not so chaotic as one could expect: the KAM theorem tells us that multi-body systems governed by gravitation law have intrinsic stability regions.
A few years ago, together with a friend, we reverse engineered a DVB-T usb pen by Hauppauge, and we were able to extract the raw data stream skipping the demodulation process. We did it since we wanted to test if it the device could be used as a DSP IF strip in a homemade spectrum analyzer. The device worked, but the analog IF strip we wanted to replace was actually drawing circles around its digital replacement, so we abandoned the project. 8 bit of resolution and an hardware designed for a very specific purpose couldn't bring us too far, as we feared.
It is nice to see that somebody else was capable to reverse engineer these devices, but as you can see from their results, they aren't actually that good. I saw somewhere that a USB pen for DVB had to hit the market, and its ADC has been announced to be 12 bit wide.This could be an interesting device to hack for SDR applications, hoping it isn't vaporware...
I am sorry to inform you that Apple just patented neutrino broadband communication. They will soon present the iNeutrino long range communicator.