I'm not sure if I've got this quite right. Let's say I have a car. In this case, I would guess a Ford would best approximate cream cheese. So I need to squash the Ford with a car crusher so thin that it covers an entire car lot? But instead of a cream cheese Ford we're doing it with a carbon Toyota?
But your chances of rolling at least one six in one of the three throws is not 1/6, it is 57.9%. The poster was talking about the probability that at least one of the two cards were faulty.
I don't think you understand what a Rosetta Stone/Disk is. The Genesis reproduction is not meant to convey information about our life, but to provide a key to deciphering languages, 1,500 of them in this case. Genesis is the obvious choice since it has survived for thousands of years already and is a common story in the three major religions. The historical and theological impact that Genesis has had on our civilization gives a high probability that the story will be known for hundreds/thousands of years in the future.
If they are doing a proof of concept flight here then it would be a bit pointless to schedule around the summer solstice, securing the most ideal conditions possible. Customers and other interested parties are not interested in what the system can do under ideal conditions, but under realistic conditions. They could have taken it up to the arctic regions to ensure constant daylight but that would not give an accurate indication on how it would behave in a typical environment.
So don't forget to wear you film badge. Because nothing says safety like a device that can tell you after the fact that you've received a fatal dose of radiation
At this point though, I would imagine that downgrading to Vista requires more effort than the average consumer is willing to exert. There was a recent article that compared the hoops that the author had to jump through to get XP after the retirement of XP. Lying, fighting with sales rep, and/or going through the business division of retailers is more than what most are willing to do. Granted though the posted article covers a time period prior to and including XP's retirement (I apologize in advance for reading the article).
I highly doubt ordinary users really know the difference. I would imagine that most of this is due to business clients who want to keep using XP. I doubt that the people who are discerning and savvy enough to get a retailer to install XP over Vista are in large enough numbers to make much of an impact.
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When were you a kid? I'm 25 and all I had were kits with instructions and what not as a kid. Didn't stop me from accruing a massive lego cache that served as the basis for my own projects. Nothing like using legos to enhance a child's ability to build weapons of mass annoyance.
I do not really like the idea of off shore drilling myself too. I do not think that we would be able to pull amounts of oil large enough to greatly impact gas prices. All it will do is deplete our national oil reserves. If we cannot decrease our dependence on oil, then in 50 years or so we will want to have as much oil reserves in North America as possible. If we don't tap the off shore reserves, it will provide more incentive to achieve better long term energy plans. If these plans do not pan out, well then at least we have some more reserves that we control during a time that resources will become very hotly disputed.
I thought it was because nobody actually cares enough to watch.
That's exactly what I thought too. I know no-one who is excited about the Olympics. I've never known anyone who is interested in the Olympics.
But why are there so many viral marketing Olympics stories on Slashdot? News for nerds? Only if stretching a point is an Olympic sport. If I wanted to visit Digg I'd go to Digg. I DO NOT. That's why I come to Slashdot -- so why does Digg come and visit me here?
Maybe, but rarity would certainly dictate the probability density of finding such systems which would affect the number of systems of that type that we can observe.
No, the light gets bent around it perfectly. The light coming in from the background enters the metamaterial, is bent around to the other side of the object and exits it just as if it had passed through the area enclosed by the metamaterial without any obstacles. Ideally, there is no way that an observer could tell the difference with the exception of knowing the time of travel. The path through the metamaterial is longer than that of the perceived path. I would think that if the shrouded object was in front of a large reflector of a known distance from a radar like source, then the added delay in the signal would add a very small amount of distance to the location of the reflector. An astute observer with very good equipment may notice a change in the position of the radar returns as a cloaked object crosses through. There are further exceptions that are introduced the more you start to use the theory in practice, the biggest problem being that the current solutions would require that an object be encased in a spherical shell of metamaterial, not the most convenient situation. In addition, the current crop of metamaterials have very small bandwidths, making the cloaked object perceptible to other detection methods. If you cloaked for the visible (and actually could cover the entire visible region) then you would probably be easily picked up via radar or infrared imaging.
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An abandoned, steaming and odoriferous object in plain view (and smell) on a public street has claims of privacy? Please tell me more.
I'm not sure if I've got this quite right. Let's say I have a car. In this case, I would guess a Ford would best approximate cream cheese. So I need to squash the Ford with a car crusher so thin that it covers an entire car lot? But instead of a cream cheese Ford we're doing it with a carbon Toyota?
But your chances of rolling at least one six in one of the three throws is not 1/6, it is 57.9%. The poster was talking about the probability that at least one of the two cards were faulty.
But what's the lag time between discovery and until the underpaid grad student has finished typing it into the web page?
Dear Sir,
I would very much like to see what version of the Gutenberg Bible that you have been reading.
Should Slashdot only give reviews of books they liked? I think it is useful to be given recommendations of books that I should read and should avoid.
I don't think you understand what a Rosetta Stone/Disk is. The Genesis reproduction is not meant to convey information about our life, but to provide a key to deciphering languages, 1,500 of them in this case. Genesis is the obvious choice since it has survived for thousands of years already and is a common story in the three major religions. The historical and theological impact that Genesis has had on our civilization gives a high probability that the story will be known for hundreds/thousands of years in the future.
If they are doing a proof of concept flight here then it would be a bit pointless to schedule around the summer solstice, securing the most ideal conditions possible. Customers and other interested parties are not interested in what the system can do under ideal conditions, but under realistic conditions. They could have taken it up to the arctic regions to ensure constant daylight but that would not give an accurate indication on how it would behave in a typical environment.
We secretly replaced this group's sushi with Folger's crystals. Let's see if they notice...
Excuse me sir, did you know you're actually drinking Folger's decaf coffee crystals?
What?
Those are Folger's decaf coffee crystals. .... YOU SON OF A BITCH! You lied to me!
Ahhh that's right. Either way they'll kill us all in the end.
I believe it's a mob.
Maybe we should wait until private pioneers can actually launch something into space without catastrophic disintegration.
So don't forget to wear you film badge. Because nothing says safety like a device that can tell you after the fact that you've received a fatal dose of radiation
'less than one hundredth of 1% of Internet traffic is IPv6... equivalent to the allowed parts of contaminants in drinking water.'
Like that means anything to me. Can they compare that percentage in terms of the number of pages per Library of Congress?
At this point though, I would imagine that downgrading to Vista requires more effort than the average consumer is willing to exert. There was a recent article that compared the hoops that the author had to jump through to get XP after the retirement of XP. Lying, fighting with sales rep, and/or going through the business division of retailers is more than what most are willing to do. Granted though the posted article covers a time period prior to and including XP's retirement (I apologize in advance for reading the article).
I highly doubt ordinary users really know the difference. I would imagine that most of this is due to business clients who want to keep using XP. I doubt that the people who are discerning and savvy enough to get a retailer to install XP over Vista are in large enough numbers to make much of an impact.
When were you a kid? I'm 25 and all I had were kits with instructions and what not as a kid. Didn't stop me from accruing a massive lego cache that served as the basis for my own projects. Nothing like using legos to enhance a child's ability to build weapons of mass annoyance.
I do not really like the idea of off shore drilling myself too. I do not think that we would be able to pull amounts of oil large enough to greatly impact gas prices. All it will do is deplete our national oil reserves. If we cannot decrease our dependence on oil, then in 50 years or so we will want to have as much oil reserves in North America as possible. If we don't tap the off shore reserves, it will provide more incentive to achieve better long term energy plans. If these plans do not pan out, well then at least we have some more reserves that we control during a time that resources will become very hotly disputed.
That's exactly what I thought too. I know no-one who is excited about the Olympics. I've never known anyone who is interested in the Olympics.
But why are there so many viral marketing Olympics stories on Slashdot? News for nerds? Only if stretching a point is an Olympic sport. If I wanted to visit Digg I'd go to Digg. I DO NOT. That's why I come to Slashdot -- so why does Digg come and visit me here?
Because we don't like you.
I think you mean lasers.
What if a binary sun system were to grab it...
Maybe, but rarity would certainly dictate the probability density of finding such systems which would affect the number of systems of that type that we can observe.
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I don't think the two of us can be friends.
No, the light gets bent around it perfectly. The light coming in from the background enters the metamaterial, is bent around to the other side of the object and exits it just as if it had passed through the area enclosed by the metamaterial without any obstacles. Ideally, there is no way that an observer could tell the difference with the exception of knowing the time of travel. The path through the metamaterial is longer than that of the perceived path. I would think that if the shrouded object was in front of a large reflector of a known distance from a radar like source, then the added delay in the signal would add a very small amount of distance to the location of the reflector. An astute observer with very good equipment may notice a change in the position of the radar returns as a cloaked object crosses through. There are further exceptions that are introduced the more you start to use the theory in practice, the biggest problem being that the current solutions would require that an object be encased in a spherical shell of metamaterial, not the most convenient situation. In addition, the current crop of metamaterials have very small bandwidths, making the cloaked object perceptible to other detection methods. If you cloaked for the visible (and actually could cover the entire visible region) then you would probably be easily picked up via radar or infrared imaging.
Mr. Nesbitt has learnt the first lesson of not being seen... not to stand up. However, he has chosen a very obvious piece of cover.