Stellar engine Stellar engines are a class of hypothetical megastructures which use a star's radiation to create usable energy. Some variants use this energy to produce thrust, and thus accelerate a star, and anything orbiting it, in a given direction. The creation of such a system would make its builders a Type-II civilization on the Kardashev scale. There are three variant classes of this idea. Class A (Shkadov thruster)[edit] Class B[edit] A Class B stellar engine is a Dyson sphere—of whichever variant—built around the star, which uses the difference in temperature between the star and the interstellar medium to extract usable energy from the system, possibly using the phenomenon of thermoelectricity (heat engines, or thermal diodes). Class C[edit] A 'Class C' stellar engine combines the two other classes, employing both the propulsive aspects of the Shkadov thruster, and the energy generating aspects of a Class B engine. Stellar engines in fiction[edit] See also[edit] Dyson spheres in popular culture
Romuald Karmakar Romuald Karmakar (born February 15, 1965) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Wiesbaden, Germany as the son of an Indian father and a French mother. From 1977 to 1982 he lived in Athens. Film career[edit] Romuald Karmakar discovered film in Munich in the 1980s with a group of friends who often met at the Werkstattkino, a legendary local underground cinema theater, and at the Filmmuseum Munich, then run by Enno Patalas, who became famous for his work with silent film restoration. His first feature length film, The Deathmaker (1995), was based on psychiatriatric interrogations with the serial killer Fritz Haarmann conducted by his prison psychiatrist in 1924. In 1998, Karmakar contributed an hour-long special, Frankfurt Millennium, to a special series on the French TV channel, ARTE, for the changing century. Karmakar has found critical praise for his attention to the harsh realities of modern history. Filmography[edit] Radio Plays[edit]
List of Eureka episodes The creators were able to make minor changes in editing and sometimes dubbed dialogue in later episodes (for instance, they removed the explicit mention of Zoe's first day at school) to minimize audience confusion. As of July 16, 2012[update], a total of 77 episodes of Eureka have been aired over five seasons. A fifth season was announced on August 17, 2010,[1] consisting of 13 episodes.[2] On August 8, 2011, Syfy announced that season 5 would be the final season.[3] On February 16, 2012, Syfy announced that the show's fifth and final season would premiere on April 16, 2012.[4] Series overview[edit] Episode list[edit] Season 1 (2006)[edit] Season 2 (2007)[edit] Season 3 (2008–2009)[edit] Season three production was interrupted/delayed by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, resulting in it being stretched over a much longer time than originally intended. Season 4 (2010–2011)[edit] Season 5 (2012)[edit] Webisodes[edit] Hide and Seek (2006)[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Shiver Bureau - How a Writer Should Contact an Artist What Artists Want From Writers: First Contact “Dear artist, I’m a writer. I saw your artwork online and think it would be a perfect fit for my story. Please contact me if interested.” Artists get emails like this all the time. “Dear random artist, I would like to write comics. To make sure the correct message is delivered include these points: BioStoryPlanPay This is the fairly straight forward piece of the puzzle. Having a regularly updated blog is a great way for an artist to get a feel for the personality of the writer. So what if the writer has no samples? Now that the story is done; tell the artist about it. What’s the point of doing the work? Potential plans 5 page teaser pitched to major publishers at these upcoming conventions.Webcomic updating twice a week, self publish and distribute through Diamond.2 page birthday present to Nana. Walk the artist through the plan. This is the first thing that pops into my head when I read the email. If there is pay, state the project budget.
I built a resume-padder and earned $700 in the process: what I learned : Entrepreneur I built a resume-padder and earned $700 in the process In January, I was transitioning from molecular neuroscience to freelance web development. To help pad my portfolio (and learn new technologies), I set upon building a number of side projects. ThemeSquirrel was one such project. It was a project so I could get my feet wet with jQuery and javascript. ThemeForest is a really great resource – you can find pretty awesome themes for $10-$20. Themes are listed in rows with tiny icons. ThemeForest hover “preview” You don’t really know what the theme looks like until you click through. ThemeSquirrel was a simple project to build an alternate browsing interface for ThemeForest. What I did right I built ThemeSquirrel fast. This was a side project meant to pad my resume. I built TS in about a weekend, with a little extra work over the next week. You can check my original post for technical details. I picked a project that had an affiliate program. I was inspired to build TS because of Scrollsy and the resulting Hacker News post. I sold it.
Video chat face-to-face-to-face with Hangouts in Gmail Posted by Fred Brewin, Product Manager Since the introduction of Gmail video chat back in 2008, many of you have told us that you love the direct, personal communication it provides. That's why we're excited to announce that video chat is being upgraded to a more modern video calling technology -- Google+ Hangouts. Unlike the old video chat, which was based on peer-to-peer technology, Hangouts utilize the power of Google’s network to deliver higher reliability and enhanced quality. All Gmail users will benefit from this upgrade, but if you and the person you're chatting with also use Google+, you’ll get even more from the Hangouts experience. We’ll be rolling out Hangouts in Gmail starting today and then gradually over the coming weeks.
10 New Features Coming To Your Chromebook Chrome OS gets new features every now and then. May be this is why Google loves to call them The Always New Computer. So what’s coming to your Chromebooks this season? Read on to find out! 1. Soon, you will be able to mute audio and control the screen brightness from the Ash Try. source 2. Ever thought about that? Source 3. Here it is! 4. A little bit of fun stuff. 5. Works similar to changing default application on Windows. Coming soon to your Chromebooks! 6. This is in the planning stage for now. 7. 8. 9. 10. Which one is your favorite? Thanks François Beaufort and Pedram Jabbari for inputs!! Related Posts