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Why should aliens probe every part of the galaxy, with probes that leave evidence in solar systems for millions of years. More likely, a nanosize probe, would be sent and send back results. More over is there any particular reason to colonize a whole galaxy, the distances been the stars are to big for any practical trade, so it economics is against it.

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Organic Food is a scam, to make rich people with a green leanings, to spend three times as much for there food. In the name of being kind to animals, and third worlders, supermarket create prestige organic brands to suckers shoppers into paying more.

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Organic Food is a scam, to make rich people with a green leanings, to spend three times as much for there food. In the name of being kind to animals, and third worlders, supermarket create prestige organic brands to suckers shoppers into paying more.

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As a builder of RSS processing technology, I'm really happy they like RSS snippets. As for the wrapper, I can only hope it contains some proper semantic tagging, for useful stuff, like the location of the event, the subject of the item. etc.

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As a builder of RSS processing technology, I'm really happy they like RSS snippets. As for the wrapper, I can only hope it contains some proper semantic tagging, for useful stuff, like the location of the event, the subject of the item. etc.

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Agree with the above. Also its not like the stock market will stay down, that long, come five years or something, it will be the middle of a boom again, and the plant owner will have the money to do the decommissioning, hopefully radproof robotics will have cut the price of decommissioning in that time. But it something that has to be done and done well, and governments should spend some research money on getting the decommissioning industry bootstrapped.

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Agree with the above. Also its not like the stock market will stay down, that long, come five years or something, it will be the middle of a boom again, and the plant owner will have the money to do the decommissioning, hopefully radproof robotics will have cut the price of decommissioning in that time. But it something that has to be done and done well, and governments should spend some research money on getting the decommissioning industry bootstrapped.

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Somewhere between an elliptical galaxy and a globular cluster sitting on there own, with a very high rate of star formulation. Oh, and a very odd color, there aren't any green stars (nothing glows green hot its doesn't fit in the color vs temperate diagram), and the only common gas thats green is one of particular types of oxygen ions. The green color is due to the red-shift of the objects. Full of new stars the green pees (hate the name), would shine bright blue, until the red shift, turns the blue to green, (is that clear?)

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Somewhere between an elliptical galaxy and a globular cluster sitting on there own, with a very high rate of star formulation. Oh, and a very odd color, there aren't any green stars (nothing glows green hot its doesn't fit in the color vs temperate diagram), and the only common gas thats green is one of particular types of oxygen ions. The green color is due to the red-shift of the objects. Full of new stars the green pees (hate the name), would shine bright blue, until the red shift, turns the blue to green, (is that clear?)

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Very possible. Elite doesn't really need state of the art graphics, because you're normally shotting at a tiny dot in the distance. Still it wouldn't hurt. Lets have planetary mining, ability to buy, sell, build and destroy base camps on planets and asteroids. And make it a massive multi-player on line game. Suddenly where miles from original Elite, but keep the trading and the space combat part of the original.

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Very possible. Elite doesn't really need state of the art graphics, because you're normally shotting at a tiny dot in the distance. Still it wouldn't hurt. Lets have planetary mining, ability to buy, sell, build and destroy base camps on planets and asteroids. And make it a massive multi-player on line game. Suddenly where miles from original Elite, but keep the trading and the space combat part of the original.

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This is only news here, because geek like to remember the funny but dire Star Trek IV. The aluminium stays transparent for fractions of a second, and its only transparent to extreme UV light. Not a brand new construction material. And such laser distorted materials are unlikely ever to be useful.

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This is only news here, because geek like to remember the funny but dire Star Trek IV. The aluminium stays transparent for fractions of a second, and its only transparent to extreme UV light. Not a brand new construction material. And such laser distorted materials are unlikely ever to be useful.

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I was hoping one of these groups would invite some new and powerful algorithm for categorisation. Its a nearest match/ similarity problem, so any algorithm would be very useful else where. But they just seem to have taken existing many techniques and merged them, by combining the votes/scores from each algorithm, in a way thats probably fits just the movie matching problem and not anything else.

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I was hoping one of these groups would invite some new and powerful algorithm for categorisation. Its a nearest match/ similarity problem, so any algorithm would be very useful else where. But they just seem to have taken existing many techniques and merged them, by combining the votes/scores from each algorithm, in a way thats probably fits just the movie matching problem and not anything else.

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Looks like the same robot (actually ROV) that the army was using for bomb disposal for years.

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Looks like the same robot (actually ROV) that the army was using for bomb disposal for years.

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Since it starts with 1990 games and only PC games at that, it misses out on some very early games, and its entirely 1st person centered, not a must read, but covers a lot of nostalgia for me. Plenty of games I never played. Just have to list my fav games. Unreal was just so amazingly beutiful compared with any i'd played before. Return to Castle Wolfstein wasn't even listed but was a great game. Then Half Life of course.

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Since it starts with 1990 games and only PC games at that, it misses out on some very early games, and its entirely 1st person centered, not a must read, but covers a lot of nostalgia for me. Plenty of games I never played. Just have to list my fav games. Unreal was just so amazingly beutiful compared with any i'd played before. Return to Castle Wolfstein wasn't even listed but was a great game. Then Half Life of course.

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Its the best color for taking someones eye out. Adsorbed very well by your poor red retina. Rembember not to look into Laser beam with you remaining good eye.

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Its the best color for taking someones eye out. Adsorbed very well by your poor red retina. Rembember not to look into Laser beam with you remaining good eye.

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It teenagers wanting to look more cool than there friends. Hack the gamescore, they can look like there brilliant games, without bothering to play. Of course once there challenged to a game, and have there arse whipped, they'll look even less cool.

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It teenagers wanting to look more cool than there friends. Hack the gamescore, they can look like there brilliant games, without bothering to play. Of course once there challenged to a game, and have there arse whipped, they'll look even less cool.

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Absolutely music has been a hideous corporate game with big publisher, deciding the style and message of music, and marketing to the young, for far to long. Any step away from that has to be a good thing.

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Absolutely music has been a hideous corporate game with big publisher, deciding the style and message of music, and marketing to the young, for far to long. Any step away from that has to be a good thing.

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Yes, Immune Therapy has been tried for years, but that doesn't mean it will never amount to anything. It only means that its hard to get right. The first batch of Cancer, Immune Therapies are only now coming to market. One example is Provenge, for otherwise untreatable Prostate Cancer, by the Dendreon Corporation, its still awaiting FDA approval, in the first of its phase III trials, turned a 3 year survivial rate from around %20 to around %40, and added a mean 3 months of life. Thats hardly a cure all, but it is significant. If approved Provenge will probably be the first Cancer Immune Therapy on the market, likely leading to many of Vaccines for many other Tumors over the next ten or so years. (Drugs take that long or longer to market unfortunately).

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Yes, Immune Therapy has been tried for years, but that doesn't mean it will never amount to anything. It only means that its hard to get right. The first batch of Cancer, Immune Therapies are only now coming to market. One example is Provenge, for otherwise untreatable Prostate Cancer, by the Dendreon Corporation, its still awaiting FDA approval, in the first of its phase III trials, turned a 3 year survivial rate from around %20 to around %40, and added a mean 3 months of life. Thats hardly a cure all, but it is significant. If approved Provenge will probably be the first Cancer Immune Therapy on the market, likely leading to many of Vaccines for many other Tumors over the next ten or so years. (Drugs take that long or longer to market unfortunately).

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In the future a major proportion of the world economy will be lived in MMO style worlds. People with spend much of there time there, because in a polluted, expensive, miserable rule world, just doesn't have anything for them. Some people, like chinese gold farmers now, will slave in artificial game jobs, finding magic swords and a like for the spoiled teenagers of the richer classes. Gambling on gameplay might all spring up as a mini industry for the denizens of the MMO environments. It will be so much fun, that many people will neglect there real lives, usually spent alone in VR environment in dirty bed sits and ever smaller flats.

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In the future a major proportion of the world economy will be lived in MMO style worlds. People with spend much of there time there, because in a polluted, expensive, miserable rule world, just doesn't have anything for them. Some people, like chinese gold farmers now, will slave in artificial game jobs, finding magic swords and a like for the spoiled teenagers of the richer classes. Gambling on gameplay might all spring up as a mini industry for the denizens of the MMO environments. It will be so much fun, that many people will neglect there real lives, usually spent alone in VR environment in dirty bed sits and ever smaller flats.

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it Dies on common names and website, seems to find the wrong names most of the time. Its main info source is dbpedia, which is a ad hoc, system for turning wikipedia entries in database items, (since wikipedia isn't very semantic the dbpedia has to do some guessing). Maybe Sig.ma will get usable someday, it isn't now.

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it Dies on common names and website, seems to find the wrong names most of the time. Its main info source is dbpedia, which is a ad hoc, system for turning wikipedia entries in database items, (since wikipedia isn't very semantic the dbpedia has to do some guessing). Maybe Sig.ma will get usable someday, it isn't now.

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AI seems in the news again. Forbes recently ran a AI report special. Personnel despite the internet, i'm not seeing that much development of AI, I scan the ArXiv computer pre-print fairly regularly, and with current funding, most AI research is what can be done by a graduate student in his 3 years to get a thesis. Thats leads to a lot of small projects, done just well enough and very little reuse. Until researchers and programmers start working in mass to construct AI machines, Artificial Intelligence is going progress very slowly.

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AI seems in the news again. Forbes recently ran a AI report special. Personnel despite the internet, i'm not seeing that much development of AI, I scan the ArXiv computer pre-print fairly regularly, and with current funding, most AI research is what can be done by a graduate student in his 3 years to get a thesis. Thats leads to a lot of small projects, done just well enough and very little reuse. Until researchers and programmers start working in mass to construct AI machines, Artificial Intelligence is going progress very slowly.

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Could be carbon dust, if the impactor was a carbonaceous asteroid. Might also be sulphur compounds blown up from the lower reaches of Jupiters atmosphere.

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Could be carbon dust, if the impactor was a carbonaceous asteroid. Might also be sulphur compounds blown up from the lower reaches of Jupiters atmosphere.

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Yes, start adding the latesh fastest and most expensive components add you've easierly over $1000, probably nearer $2000. A core 2 extreme qx9775 starts at $1175, before you've added anything else. A geforce qtx295 is another $500. There are also workstation premium graphics cards like the quadro fx, that run as expensive as $2500. No you don't need that sort of power for most things, but it easierly spent if you've got it.

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Yes, start adding the latesh fastest and most expensive components add you've easierly over $1000, probably nearer $2000. A core 2 extreme qx9775 starts at $1175, before you've added anything else. A geforce qtx295 is another $500. There are also workstation premium graphics cards like the quadro fx, that run as expensive as $2500. No you don't need that sort of power for most things, but it easierly spent if you've got it.

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I've often wanted to build one of these. I got as far as a working 10,000 Marx generator (20*450 capacitors charge in parallel and discharge in series. Made a nice spark but that all. I gave up before I got a output transformer and a aiming antenna built. I don't think it was anyway near a practicle EMP, but it was fun to play the high voltage stuff.

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I've often wanted to build one of these. I got as far as a working 10,000 Marx generator (20*450 capacitors charge in parallel and discharge in series. Made a nice spark but that all. I gave up before I got a output transformer and a aiming antenna built. I don't think it was anyway near a practicle EMP, but it was fun to play the high voltage stuff.

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Don't Windows games almost entirely run upon the DirectX layer, so it doesn't much matter what the window version is under that. Just as long as it stable and Windows 7 promises to be much stabler, at least thats what microsoft say. Knowing microsoft it would probably take until the service release before it actually stable.

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Don't Windows games almost entirely run upon the DirectX layer, so it doesn't much matter what the window version is under that. Just as long as it stable and Windows 7 promises to be much stabler, at least thats what microsoft say. Knowing microsoft it would probably take until the service release before it actually stable.

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If the wind companies are to need special transportion vehicles in order to transport the pieces of the wind towers and turbines. I wonder if it would be worth redesigning the machines to be transportable on more standard vehicles. On second thoughts perphaps not, the average wind turbine has a twenty five year design life, and payback time. So it is based to maximize the power output to price ratio, in the design. But perphaps they should give some thought to transportion on the drawing board.

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If the wind companies are to need special transportion vehicles in order to transport the pieces of the wind towers and turbines. I wonder if it would be worth redesigning the machines to be transportable on more standard vehicles. On second thoughts perphaps not, the average wind turbine has a twenty five year design life, and payback time. So it is based to maximize the power output to price ratio, in the design. But perphaps they should give some thought to transportion on the drawing board.

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Wouldn't you hate it if, Swine Flu killed models but left fat people alive.

In Other news the mortality rate of H1N1 has apparently stablised at 0.45% so it not that deadly really.

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Wouldn't you hate it if, Swine Flu killed models but left fat people alive.

In Other news the mortality rate of H1N1 has apparently stablised at 0.45% so it not that deadly really.

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The designers should have known, and any RFID system, can be read without the owner knowing it, making it a security risk. Bad choice of technology from the outset.

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The designers should have known, and any RFID system, can be read without the owner knowing it, making it a security risk. Bad choice of technology from the outset.

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The BBC has the story here

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Nasa can't afford to many delays in there program, if there are to get the ISS finished before the Shuttle program shutdowns down in september next year. The launch is now rescheduled to Sunday.

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The BBC has the story here

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Nasa can't afford to many delays in there program, if there are to get the ISS finished before the Shuttle program shutdowns down in september next year. The launch is now rescheduled to Sunday.

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First we'd have to go back to the drawing board with Silicon Chips, to create titanium oxide memristor chips of a similar density to current chips. Then we could start designing these memristor AI circuit. Why are these like the brain? A Memristor decreases its resistance as more current flows through it, like a synpases in the brain strengthen as the stimulated more often. But memristor aren't enough, we still need something to act like a neuron to sum over the inhibitory and stimulatory input synapses and to then fire when a great enough signal is achieved (is this a real neuron?, its the Neuron scientist simulate in Neural Networks, the actual brain could be much cleverer). This still hasn't made something like a brain though. Brain cells grow new synapses attaching to others in its learning process, a chip acting like a brain, would need to do this to, and it isn't at all obvious how to do it. So all in all, where a long way from brain like chips, even if memristor might help.

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