I assume that moving your eyes while wearing a headset doesn't work, instead, you have to move your whole head. So the FOV ought to be that of a human who is only looking forward. Increasing or decreasing the FOV would surely create dis-orientation for the user.
Has anyone considered a global, rather than national, power network? I would imagine something like that would allow solar energy generated during the day to be used elsewhere, without the problems of peak demand that can currently happen.
SpaceChem is excellent. I have had it for awhile, but only recently started it and got hooked immediately.
I haven't played any FPSes since Far Cry 3; looking forward to Destiny, and keeping my fingers crossed that Watchdogs will stand up to the hype.
IAMAP, but I'd have thought that the galaxy would flatten everything out to a certain degree, but as you move to smaller scales, local gravity conditions would take over, for example: the planets being more tightly bound to the sun than they are to the Milky Way as a whole.
Q for a physic-y person - The earth orbits around the sun's equator, but its own equator is at an angle to the sun-planet plane (hence, seasons). Does the moon, then orbit around earth's equator (at an angle to the sun), or in the same plane as the sun's equator (or some other plane entirely)?
In a search and rescue situation I can imagine a team of people each with one of these devices, as well as GPS. If the devices can communicate with each other (as a mesh network) they could pinpoint location based on the different times they see the same signal. Furthermore, if the mesh eventually reaches a position where GPS is available, this signal could then be used to establish an anchor position.
Finally, and I don't know if this was covered, but presumably this system would also allow for vertical location to be found as well.
Keck clip they are.
While these are almost certainly patented, maybe by changing the material clips could be printed without legal trouble. Keck clips can fall apart if exposed to (eg) HCl gas, so printing PTFE versions would be useful.
I like the adaptor idea - and it could be extended to any labware if someone figures out how to print glass. No more searching for that B24 condensor!
Althought the paper manages not to mention it, the chemistry they are doing here is (the alkyne azide cyclisation) is part of "click" chemistry, which is quite well known.
What the paper doesn't really say is whether they hope to accomplish anything further with this. As with all biomimetic reaction, it seems (to me) that synthesising a single step in the process may be intersting, without doing all the previous steps, is there any practical point?
Not a problem, we can outsmart them:
"Killbots have a pre-set kill-limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, 'till they reached their limit and shut down"
That was what I assumed it was too, and TFA didn't give any details ("Ride the Light" sounds like a new rollercoaster). I would imagine, with the amount of use this technology would get (i.e., number of launches) that any ozone created would be tiny as compared with the amount in the upper atmosphere.*
But I dont see how this will get us into space. The higher the craft, the less efficient the push per beam of light.
* This argument may have been made about CFCs, exhaust emission, etc so I may have to eat my words...
This is the same party that vetoed an £80 million loan to Forgemasters, the Sheffield steel company, that would have allowed them to make pieces for nuclear reactors. The loan was cut as a cost saving measure. I guess that saving will be wiped out when we have to buy from overseas. Good thinking!
I would say that a 'self-sustaining' system of chemical reactions is life, or at least as good a definition as possible that would encompass even the most basic of lifeforms we know of. Whether those lifeforms are selfcontained (cells) or just an amorphous goop of chemicals that can catalyst the formation of themselves (or each other) in such a way as to eventually convert a significant part of their local ecosystem into clones of themselves (a possible/probable starting point for abiogenesis) is not a distinction it is possible to make when defining the origins of life.
For today probably, in the long term certainly not.
You could say that about any technology. Pretty much everything we have made up until now will be replaced by something better in the long term. Even sliced bread seems to have been replaced by the wrap.......
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Anyone know what the FOV of a human is?
I assume that moving your eyes while wearing a headset doesn't work, instead, you have to move your whole head. So the FOV ought to be that of a human who is only looking forward. Increasing or decreasing the FOV would surely create dis-orientation for the user.
Has anyone considered a global, rather than national, power network? I would imagine something like that would allow solar energy generated during the day to be used elsewhere, without the problems of peak demand that can currently happen.
SpaceChem is excellent. I have had it for awhile, but only recently started it and got hooked immediately.
I haven't played any FPSes since Far Cry 3; looking forward to Destiny, and keeping my fingers crossed that Watchdogs will stand up to the hype.
Bitcoins are limited in number forever.
Bitcoins are infinitely divisible.
Isn't this the same as printing more physical money?
Not to mention technically accomplished. They should apply for grants instead.
And like Chicago, the 'berg is shrinking daily.
The numbers from the pdf show 0.31% of the uk is pretends to be a jedi, and that somehow qualifies the religeon for a most popular tag?
You think he's smart? I standardized Chocolate Pudding for lunch and dinner, too.
Tim Cook said Apple's lower than forecast profits (last week) were blamed on people waiting for the iPhone 5.
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/07/25/0436256/apple-blames-earnings-miss-on-iphone-5-anticipation
IAMAP, but I'd have thought that the galaxy would flatten everything out to a certain degree, but as you move to smaller scales, local gravity conditions would take over, for example: the planets being more tightly bound to the sun than they are to the Milky Way as a whole.
Q for a physic-y person - The earth orbits around the sun's equator, but its own equator is at an angle to the sun-planet plane (hence, seasons). Does the moon, then orbit around earth's equator (at an angle to the sun), or in the same plane as the sun's equator (or some other plane entirely)?
In a search and rescue situation I can imagine a team of people each with one of these devices, as well as GPS. If the devices can communicate with each other (as a mesh network) they could pinpoint location based on the different times they see the same signal. Furthermore, if the mesh eventually reaches a position where GPS is available, this signal could then be used to establish an anchor position.
Finally, and I don't know if this was covered, but presumably this system would also allow for vertical location to be found as well.
I'll keep my fingers crossed fro something involving "Chiseled Spam"
Keck clip they are.
While these are almost certainly patented, maybe by changing the material clips could be printed without legal trouble. Keck clips can fall apart if exposed to (eg) HCl gas, so printing PTFE versions would be useful.
I like the adaptor idea - and it could be extended to any labware if someone figures out how to print glass. No more searching for that B24 condensor!
Shold have done something in base-4, because, you know, there's four bases in DNA :)
There is an interesting TED talk on presentations, and how they flow, that used jobs as an example:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks.html
Althought the paper manages not to mention it, the chemistry they are doing here is (the alkyne azide cyclisation) is part of "click" chemistry, which is quite well known.
What the paper doesn't really say is whether they hope to accomplish anything further with this. As with all biomimetic reaction, it seems (to me) that synthesising a single step in the process may be intersting, without doing all the previous steps, is there any practical point?
Not a problem, we can outsmart them:
"Killbots have a pre-set kill-limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, 'till they reached their limit and shut down"
Remember, this is the country that is putting its scientists on trial for failing to predict and earthquake.
That was what I assumed it was too, and TFA didn't give any details ("Ride the Light" sounds like a new rollercoaster).
I would imagine, with the amount of use this technology would get (i.e., number of launches) that any ozone created would be tiny as compared with the amount in the upper atmosphere.*
But I dont see how this will get us into space. The higher the craft, the less efficient the push per beam of light.
* This argument may have been made about CFCs, exhaust emission, etc so I may have to eat my words...
Apparently, you can put all those annoying loyalty cards on here too, which is nice, as I have loads of them and only one debit card.
600 euros? thats a lot of mars bars..............
This is the same party that vetoed an £80 million loan to Forgemasters, the Sheffield steel company, that would have allowed them to make pieces for nuclear reactors. The loan was cut as a cost saving measure. I guess that saving will be wiped out when we have to buy from overseas. Good thinking!
I would say that a 'self-sustaining' system of chemical reactions is life, or at least as good a definition as possible that would encompass even the most basic of lifeforms we know of. Whether those lifeforms are selfcontained (cells) or just an amorphous goop of chemicals that can catalyst the formation of themselves (or each other) in such a way as to eventually convert a significant part of their local ecosystem into clones of themselves (a possible/probable starting point for abiogenesis) is not a distinction it is possible to make when defining the origins of life.
For today probably, in the long term certainly not.
You could say that about any technology. Pretty much everything we have made up until now will be replaced by something better in the long term. Even sliced bread seems to have been replaced by the wrap.......
As an non-US citizen.....
I would expect you to stop putting spending bills and prisoner transfers bills into one package.
It seems such a weird way of doing business. If a measure can't stand on its own, it shouldn't stand at all.