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Comment how the loss in the air (Score 1) 58

by tomio on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @10:12AM (#65920580) Attached to: Researchers Beam Power From a Moving Airplane

Hm... if we do this for all energy needs, beaming down a few 10 GW, and lose only 10% in a single location in the air column above the surface... what can go wrong? How about changing the local wind pattern a bit?

Comment Re:LaTex Who? (Score 1) 328

by tomio on Saturday March 14, 2009 @04:48AM (#27191027) Attached to: Collaborative Academic Writing Software?

Well, just looking on the Elsevier website, you can find this. http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/howtosubmitpaper In this page there is:

2. Format your document Format your LaTeX document Ensure your text is properly formatted

Isn't this about LaTex?

Virtual Telescope Zooms In On Milky Way Black Hole 181

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 04, 2008 @03:04AM from the old-bob dept.

FiReaNGeL writes "An international team has obtained the closest views ever of what is believed to be a super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The astronomers used radio dishes in Hawaii, Arizona and California to create a virtual telescope more than 2,800 miles across that is capable of seeing details more than 1,000 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope. The target of the observations was the source known as Sagittarius A* ("A-star"), long thought to mark the position of a black hole whose mass is 4 million times greater than the sun. Though Sagittarius A* was discovered 30 years ago, the new observations for the first time have an angular resolution, or ability to observe small details, that is matched to the size of the event horizon."

Cell Phones For Easy App Development? 97

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 28, 2008 @03:46PM from the complexity-is-much-easier-to-achieve dept.

linnrose writes "When I purchased my current cell phone — a ATT/Samsung Sync — my primary reason for selecting it was Samsung told me I could install custom Java applications on it via USB or the microSD card; turns out they lied to me. I would really like to have a phone that is open enough for me to install simple Java (or whatever language; I'm primarily a C# developer) apps without having to download them from a server. And it doesn't have to be cutting-edge/feature-rich; gimme a nice color screen and good call quality. I'm thinking Nokia might have something useful, but I'm not sure. Any suggestions?"

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