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Kepler should keep its eye out for the planets that remove their rings and place them in their pockets. They show attraction, but part without saying goodbye the next morning.

But that would mean... converting the telescope to a cheaterscope, also known as a don't tell-(the partner)-oscope.

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Kepler should keep its eye out for the planets that remove their rings and place them in their pockets. They show attraction, but part without saying goodbye the next morning.

But that would mean... converting the telescope to a cheaterscope, also known as a don't tell-(the partner)-oscope.

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Good link, but its just a proposal and a test at the ice cube cosmic ray experiment so far. But yes it should be duplicated there. That will take some time though, DAMA took 13 years to get a decent signal (8 sigma I believe). So by 2020, we'll have a confirmation, maybe. And even then we'll still not really know what dark matter is.

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Good link, but its just a proposal and a test at the ice cube cosmic ray experiment so far. But yes it should be duplicated there. That will take some time though, DAMA took 13 years to get a decent signal (8 sigma I believe). So by 2020, we'll have a confirmation, maybe. And even then we'll still not really know what dark matter is.

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So does this mean we can custom extend the SQL language in MySQL, personally I like to be more aggregate functions, and ability to program aggregate functions at will.

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So does this mean we can custom extend the SQL language in MySQL, personally I like to be more aggregate functions, and ability to program aggregate functions at will.

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Yes I do hope there are enough reckless millionaires willing to fly in this thing, because it will take a lot of these flight before Virgin galactic could make anything genuinely useful like a sub orbital travel, or payload/humans to orbit.

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Yes I do hope there are enough reckless millionaires willing to fly in this thing, because it will take a lot of these flight before Virgin galactic could make anything genuinely useful like a sub orbital travel, or payload/humans to orbit.

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Can't believe this weird mix of shuttle hardware could work out cheaper than a new big dumb rocket stack. I suppose the factories making shuttle tanks and solid rocket booster won't need retooling, but even so, this beasty looks much more complex than Ares.

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Can't believe this weird mix of shuttle hardware could work out cheaper than a new big dumb rocket stack. I suppose the factories making shuttle tanks and solid rocket booster won't need retooling, but even so, this beasty looks much more complex than Ares.

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Yes, the RHIC is a much better machine for studying the quark gluon plasma in the early universe, at least while the LHC is in photon mode. The LHC can and we be schedule to collide heavy ions like the RHIC later its in life, and with its higher energy will look at QCD at much higher energies than the RHIC.

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Yes, the RHIC is a much better machine for studying the quark gluon plasma in the early universe, at least while the LHC is in photon mode. The LHC can and we be schedule to collide heavy ions like the RHIC later its in life, and with its higher energy will look at QCD at much higher energies than the RHIC.

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Don't know where you get the 12% number from. Sun Power solar cells are already 22% efficient, while the average commercial solar cells are 17 or 18% efficient.

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Solar Power Feed @ Feed Distiller

Don't know where you get the 12% number from. Sun Power solar cells are already 22% efficient, while the average commercial solar cells are 17 or 18% efficient.

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Solar Power Feed @ Feed Distiller

Yes fraid so, but i'm sure your know the reason why photovoltaic technologies very important, oil running out and global warming aren't exactly new news either.

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Solar Power Feed @ Feed Distiller

Yes fraid so, but i'm sure your know the reason why photovoltaic technologies very important, oil running out and global warming aren't exactly new news either.

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Solar Power Feed @ Feed Distiller

The shouldn't be any 60Hz flicker if the power supply circuit on the transformer is made properly, couple of capacitors to smooth the voltage, and an low frequency choke would fix it.

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Electronics Industry Feed @ Feed Distiller

The shouldn't be any 60Hz flicker if the power supply circuit on the transformer is made properly, couple of capacitors to smooth the voltage, and an low frequency choke would fix it.

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Well you right, that until the effect is proved, a theory about it doesn't have much justification. I happen to have a theory around already with is why I look for observations (however tenuous), that might prove or disprove it. More recent to bcrowell's links, http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3318 continues to show increasingly good statistics for decay rate variations matching the sun spot cycle.

The flare rate variation wasn't confirmed, http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.2295, showed other flares did nothing

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Well you right, that until the effect is proved, a theory about it doesn't have much justification. I happen to have a theory around already with is why I look for observations (however tenuous), that might prove or disprove it. More recent to bcrowell's links, http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3318 continues to show increasingly good statistics for decay rate variations matching the sun spot cycle.

The flare rate variation wasn't confirmed, http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.2295, showed other flares did nothing

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As if, my data storage, wasn't unreliable enough. A built in wipe feature, that might go wrong, is just making matters worse. If you need the data protected, encrypt it, its hard enough recovering (possibly impossible) from a lost key. Hardware wipe is definitely not needed.

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As if, my data storage, wasn't unreliable enough. A built in wipe feature, that might go wrong, is just making matters worse. If you need the data protected, encrypt it, its hard enough recovering (possibly impossible) from a lost key. Hardware wipe is definitely not needed.

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The weight of the dark matter would increase the pressure on the star's core, increasing the burn speed of the baryons in the star, if dark matter can self annihilate though it will create enegery of its own is helping to support the star. So it very much depends on the properties of dark matter as to weather it would help a star bet the Eddington limit.

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The weight of the dark matter would increase the pressure on the star's core, increasing the burn speed of the baryons in the star, if dark matter can self annihilate though it will create enegery of its own is helping to support the star. So it very much depends on the properties of dark matter as to weather it would help a star bet the Eddington limit.

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Very much depends on the application that's running, most modern code is still not written to use multiple CPUs. In order to use the power of all the core, you need to have the task to be done, seperated into batches that are queued ready to be processed by which ever of the cores is available at any one time. But some tasks just don't parallelise in that way. When it comes to gaming however 3d rendering and collision detection are the main bottlenecks, and these are both highly paralleliseable is if extra cores don't speed it up, its because the programmers haven't caught up with the chip yet.

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Very much depends on the application that's running, most modern code is still not written to use multiple CPUs. In order to use the power of all the core, you need to have the task to be done, seperated into batches that are queued ready to be processed by which ever of the cores is available at any one time. But some tasks just don't parallelise in that way. When it comes to gaming however 3d rendering and collision detection are the main bottlenecks, and these are both highly paralleliseable is if extra cores don't speed it up, its because the programmers haven't caught up with the chip yet.

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In Acting role for an Iconic Hero, which will likely run continuously for years, but he thinks (vainly) that hollywood is crying out for actor, Leaving early would wreck his career not advance it.

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In Acting role for an Iconic Hero, which will likely run continuously for years, but he thinks (vainly) that hollywood is crying out for actor, Leaving early would wreck his career not advance it.

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Nicely rendered, main ship (was it blender), but well the hell is the fire button, (z who uses z). C64 level games on 2010 computer, except the C64 could scroll smoothly, so could a spectrum, why does a browser have a problem, netscape 3 had layers and a timer event didn't it. Bring back Java applets for this sort of stuff. Oh, and have those enemy waves move a bit. Defender was so much better. Remind me, what was the amiga Defender clone, with the giant skull, now that was a game.

LD HL,16384 LD C,192 LAB0: LD B,32 SUB A,A LAB1: RR (HL) INC HL DJNZ LAB1 DEC C JR NZ,LAB0

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HTML5 Games Feed Just added at Feed Distiller

Nicely rendered, main ship (was it blender), but well the hell is the fire button, (z who uses z). C64 level games on 2010 computer, except the C64 could scroll smoothly, so could a spectrum, why does a browser have a problem, netscape 3 had layers and a timer event didn't it. Bring back Java applets for this sort of stuff. Oh, and have those enemy waves move a bit. Defender was so much better. Remind me, what was the amiga Defender clone, with the giant skull, now that was a game.

LD HL,16384 LD C,192 LAB0: LD B,32 SUB A,A LAB1: RR (HL) INC HL DJNZ LAB1 DEC C JR NZ,LAB0

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Or taking DNA, for parking violation. Is there anyone whose never run a foul of some minor law? Only saints are unafraid.

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Or taking DNA, for parking violation. Is there anyone whose never run a foul of some minor law? Only saints are unafraid.

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Concentrator Mirrors still need scratch proof glass, and cleaning, from the sand.

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Solar Power Feed @ Feed Distiller

Concentrator Mirrors still need scratch proof glass, and cleaning, from the sand.

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I like it, Sand => Silicon => Solar Cells, So seems fair to put solar cells, in a hot sandy place.

Except of course, the cells will get covered and scratched by the sand storms.

They'll have to pay people to keep the cells clean uncovered and well polished.

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I like it, Sand => Silicon => Solar Cells, So seems fair to put solar cells, in a hot sandy place.

Except of course, the cells will get covered and scratched by the sand storms.

They'll have to pay people to keep the cells clean uncovered and well polished.

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Zinc is the more electropositive element, so the potato acid, will bind to the zinc, forming a salt. The copper would remain unaffected. But yes, the zinc would have to be replaced. Most of the energy in the battery would have come from the process of smelting zinc ore.

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Zinc is the more electropositive element, so the potato acid, will bind to the zinc, forming a salt. The copper would remain unaffected. But yes, the zinc would have to be replaced. Most of the energy in the battery would have come from the process of smelting zinc ore.

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The situation described by the paper, don't allow changing of the inertial mass, only a measurement of it, separate to the gravitational mass, so you won't be able to use it to create such perpetual motion machines. Further any difference in inertial mass and gravitational mass, will only appear in measurement of averages of observables of the particles. A semi-classical measurement of how the centre of mass of the particle, will still obey newtons rules, thus CoM will move with a common mass for inertial and gravitational movements, however other measurement like how the uncertainty in the position of particle changes, will allow a measurement of some combination of the too different masses.

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Quantum Mechanics Feed @ Feed Distiller

The situation described by the paper, don't allow changing of the inertial mass, only a measurement of it, separate to the gravitational mass, so you won't be able to use it to create such perpetual motion machines. Further any difference in inertial mass and gravitational mass, will only appear in measurement of averages of observables of the particles. A semi-classical measurement of how the centre of mass of the particle, will still obey newtons rules, thus CoM will move with a common mass for inertial and gravitational movements, however other measurement like how the uncertainty in the position of particle changes, will allow a measurement of some combination of the too different masses.

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Personally with work, I find its the would be having to work extra hours, unpaid overtime that would get me down. Our questioner has had to switch into a more technical role, which he's assumes should be better paid. That's moving up in the CV would, which would be a plus to me, now if he has to work longer hours, because of his extra responsibility that would suck. Its likely to take years for his extra responsibility to turn into extra pay, but at least it is moving upwards.

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Personally with work, I find its the would be having to work extra hours, unpaid overtime that would get me down. Our questioner has had to switch into a more technical role, which he's assumes should be better paid. That's moving up in the CV would, which would be a plus to me, now if he has to work longer hours, because of his extra responsibility that would suck. Its likely to take years for his extra responsibility to turn into extra pay, but at least it is moving upwards.

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If there charging for the movie, I think they should donate to the software developers, for writing the software to make it possible. On thing about open software is that it can't pay for marketing so the rule, free for those you know, very expensive to everyone else applies.

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If there charging for the movie, I think they should donate to the software developers, for writing the software to make it possible. On thing about open software is that it can't pay for marketing so the rule, free for those you know, very expensive to everyone else applies.

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We can't observe outside of light cone of course, but we can assume that matter obeys physically law, continuing in at the same speed unless something else makes it stop. Cosmology takes as a assumption that the universe is smooth and obeys the same laws of physics over its history. Given that, we can predict that the matter outside are light core, (further away than we can see), is still expanding, and nothing has happened to chance this, because nothing has happened nearby to change the local expansion.

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We can't observe outside of light cone of course, but we can assume that matter obeys physically law, continuing in at the same speed unless something else makes it stop. Cosmology takes as a assumption that the universe is smooth and obeys the same laws of physics over its history. Given that, we can predict that the matter outside are light core, (further away than we can see), is still expanding, and nothing has happened to chance this, because nothing has happened nearby to change the local expansion.

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We measure the expansion of the universe, by the red shift of the late from galaxies. If we look at nearby galaxies (but outside our supercluster), we find there are still moving away, so the universe is still expanding. If fact the results of detailed measurements of galaxies red shifts and distances, show that the in fact the universe if not only still expanding, but that the expansion is speeding up despite the attraction of gravity. Sciencist have had to investigate the mysterious substance called dark energy, which is causing this acceleration of the expansion of the universe.

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We measure the expansion of the universe, by the red shift of the late from galaxies. If we look at nearby galaxies (but outside our supercluster), we find there are still moving away, so the universe is still expanding. If fact the results of detailed measurements of galaxies red shifts and distances, show that the in fact the universe if not only still expanding, but that the expansion is speeding up despite the attraction of gravity. Sciencist have had to investigate the mysterious substance called dark energy, which is causing this acceleration of the expansion of the universe.

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What about Interviews, being a geek, I give terrible interview. I also seem to sit with bored interviewers, and try and catch there interest something that oft seem impossible.

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Job Hunting Feed @ Feed Distiller

What about Interviews, being a geek, I give terrible interview. I also seem to sit with bored interviewers, and try and catch there interest something that oft seem impossible.

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