Grab an old microwave oven, short circuit the door safety lock and put the oven in the focus of your parabolic dish. Slice some potatoes and put them into a microwave container located a mile away from the dish. Beam the dish towards the potatoes, check that no alive creature is crossing the beam, and then turn on power....
Totally agree. I too find that the measurements reported in the paper are quite suspicious. Furthermore I have noticed that there is no mention about the oscillator frequency used for collecting the data shown in figure 2, so it is difficult to judge how much significant is the "kink" upon which most of the paper claims are standing. It is also questionable the fact that he had to use a current excitation signal at 20 Hz in order to improve the measurement. PZT is a well-known piezoelectric material, so I wonder if his measurements were simply contaminated by noise induced by periodical mechanical vibrations: unfortunately in the paper there is no mention about the physical setup of his experiment (neither he reports how many PZT strips he tested...).
By the way...IAAP, although not working on superconductors:-(
...for patent attorneys! Now they can start arguing if alien prior art exists about methods for synthetizing fullerene, thus voiding several patents. A good excuse for skyrocketing their bills.
Isotope-tracing methods have been existing for a long time. My thesis work (1987) concerned the development of an isotope-sensitive analytical method. We used it for analyzing fly ashes dispersed in the atmosphere by power plants. I remember that by looking at the isotope fingerprints of the dust found in a few cubic meters of air we could pinpoint which plant in Europe was emitting it.
So, since Microsoft designed it, if the battery-powered device does not work anymore, we can fix it by simply removing the batteries and inserting them again...
You make me remember that I wrote my thesis on a Commodore 64 using Vizawrite (it was in 1987), and it had plenty of equations....the result didn't look that bad, after all!
In our industrial field we daily compute several finite-difference simulations on a medium level scale of resolution, and each CPU shares with the others a piece of the simulation playground. The bottleneck is in the inter-cpu communications: whenever we graph the performance of our codes, we always see Amdalh's law say "hi!" to us.
Of course application examples exist where parallelism is predominant, and in this case the second part of the document I linked is verified, but unfortunately we do not have this kind of problems to solve in our daily business.
Microwave ovens
Cordless phones (this happened at my home - moving cordless base away from router solved the problem)
Surveillance cams (like baby watch monitors, etc.)
Domestic TV repeaters
Ham radio equipment (if the interference is on a 2.4 GHz WiFi device: part of the WiFI band is shared with them)
As somebody has already suggested, changing the channel of your access point might help to solve the problem. Good luck...
You take a photo of the book page with your smartphone, and then you get at once the embedded URL and a DMCA violation for taking an copy of a printed book page...
First time I visited my friend (he is an earthquake expert) at UBC ten years ago, he told me that they are waiting for their own "Big One" to happen, one day or another. Since the danger for the area is known, I hope that Vancouver area buildings conform to an appropriate construction code...it is a pity that such a lovely city is living with such a danger hanging over its future.
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Power lines over internet work much better. Your sysadmin can confirm it.
If John Cage's copyright were expired now, they could have started their music collection with a much, much smaller budget...
Grab an old microwave oven, short circuit the door safety lock and put the oven in the focus of your parabolic dish.
Slice some potatoes and put them into a microwave container located a mile away from the dish. Beam the dish towards the potatoes, check that no alive creature is crossing the beam, and then turn on power....
This prototype ?!?
Totally agree. I too find that the measurements reported in the paper are quite suspicious. Furthermore I have noticed that there is no mention about the oscillator frequency used for collecting the data shown in figure 2, so it is difficult to judge how much significant is the "kink" upon which most of the paper claims are standing. It is also questionable the fact that he had to use a current excitation signal at 20 Hz in order to improve the measurement. PZT is a well-known piezoelectric material, so I wonder if his measurements were simply contaminated by noise induced by periodical mechanical vibrations: unfortunately in the paper there is no mention about the physical setup of his experiment (neither he reports how many PZT strips he tested...).
By the way...IAAP, although not working on superconductors :-(
...for patent attorneys! Now they can start arguing if alien prior art exists about methods for synthetizing fullerene, thus voiding several patents. A good excuse for skyrocketing their bills.
Simply adapt it so that you use bottles launched into the sea rather avians. Implementing it is nothing but an hardware problem, after all.
Yes, but this works using different hues of green.
Was George W. Bush involved into the project ?!?
Given the amount of hellenic state deficit, I think that setting 1 hella = 10^27 is quite appropriate.
Aliens cleaned up dust from JAXA satellite using AJAX (If you are a housework-impaired linux geek, I refer to this).
You must be new here. This is Slashdot, and physics laws do not apply here.
Isotope-tracing methods have been existing for a long time. My thesis work (1987) concerned the development of an isotope-sensitive analytical method. We used it for analyzing fly ashes dispersed in the atmosphere by power plants. I remember that by looking at the isotope fingerprints of the dust found in a few cubic meters of air we could pinpoint which plant in Europe was emitting it.
So, since Microsoft designed it, if the battery-powered device does not work anymore, we can fix it by simply removing the batteries and inserting them again...
You make me remember that I wrote my thesis on a Commodore 64 using Vizawrite (it was in 1987), and it had plenty of equations....the result didn't look that bad, after all!
I didn't link that document by chance...
In our industrial field we daily compute several finite-difference simulations on a medium level scale of resolution, and each CPU shares with the others a piece of the simulation playground. The bottleneck is in the inter-cpu communications: whenever we graph the performance of our codes, we always see Amdalh's law say "hi!" to us.
Of course application examples exist where parallelism is predominant, and in this case the second part of the document I linked is verified, but unfortunately we do not have this kind of problems to solve in our daily business.
...it seemed to me that Amdahl's law was still alive and kicking.
...attorneys are not interested into people posting on Slashdot. Can you guess why ?!?
Here are the devices to look for:
Microwave ovens
Cordless phones (this happened at my home - moving cordless base away from router solved the problem)
Surveillance cams (like baby watch monitors, etc.)
Domestic TV repeaters
Ham radio equipment (if the interference is on a 2.4 GHz WiFi device: part of the WiFI band is shared with them)
As somebody has already suggested, changing the channel of your access point might help to solve the problem. Good luck...
...why weather is so awful in south Europe today.
You haven't read the printer EULA, isn't it ?!?
I hope they will be less reflective. Their flares cause troubles to astronomers.
You take a photo of the book page with your smartphone, and then you get at once the embedded URL and a DMCA violation for taking an copy of a printed book page...
First time I visited my friend (he is an earthquake expert) at UBC ten years ago, he told me that they are waiting for their own "Big One" to happen, one day or another.
Since the danger for the area is known, I hope that Vancouver area buildings conform to an appropriate construction code...it is a pity that such a lovely city is living with such a danger hanging over its future.
...for the Ig Nobel prize ?!?