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He's right. The Pioneer anomaly is a slight acceleration towards the sun that seemed to start outside the orbit of jupiter and has a constant magnitude. (Unlike gravity where the acceleration is inversal proportional to distance square.

The thing the Rosette probe might measure, is called the Flyby anomaly, which is occurs when a spacecraft flys close to a planet, the acceleration on the craft seems subtly different to what is predicted by gravity (Newton or Einsteins).

Both effects occur in our solar system and seem to show either theres something wrong with our theory of gravity or these some extra force at work in nature. But has yet we haven't got enough data to be sure or to correct categories either effect.

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He's right. The Pioneer anomaly is a slight acceleration towards the sun that seemed to start outside the orbit of jupiter and has a constant magnitude. (Unlike gravity where the acceleration is inversal proportional to distance square.

The thing the Rosette probe might measure, is called the Flyby anomaly, which is occurs when a spacecraft flys close to a planet, the acceleration on the craft seems subtly different to what is predicted by gravity (Newton or Einsteins).

Both effects occur in our solar system and seem to show either theres something wrong with our theory of gravity or these some extra force at work in nature. But has yet we haven't got enough data to be sure or to correct categories either effect.

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But it would be so COOL to have a base there. A moon base might be pointless from the view point of the earths physical economy. It would be very good for a space based economy, since with sun-light, water, and moon rock, would provide a near self substaining lunar economy (might be carbon short), that would provide cheaper earth satallites and fuel for exploring the rest of the solar system. From a science point of view, the far side of the moon, is a great place to put an observatory, optical, infrared or radio waves. Provided water is in polar Lunar craters in the gigaton quantities, it becames the source of cheap rocket fuel for the rest of the solar system. Finally until the human race are not limited to living from just one planet we have a very real risk of permant extinction, and that should be motivation enough to colonize the planets, even if it wasn't for the excitment and cultral stimulation to the earth human.

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But it would be so COOL to have a base there. A moon base might be pointless from the view point of the earths physical economy. It would be very good for a space based economy, since with sun-light, water, and moon rock, would provide a near self substaining lunar economy (might be carbon short), that would provide cheaper earth satallites and fuel for exploring the rest of the solar system. From a science point of view, the far side of the moon, is a great place to put an observatory, optical, infrared or radio waves. Provided water is in polar Lunar craters in the gigaton quantities, it becames the source of cheap rocket fuel for the rest of the solar system. Finally until the human race are not limited to living from just one planet we have a very real risk of permant extinction, and that should be motivation enough to colonize the planets, even if it wasn't for the excitment and cultral stimulation to the earth human.

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I concur. This is very specialised programming, they are ownly a few teams in the world making 3D game engines, once built, like the Unreal engine they tend to sell the engine to other game companies to be used. So only a very elite few progammers will every use OpenGL, unless you'll hoping for a job at ID or Epic games, its probably not worth learning OpenGL.

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I concur. This is very specialised programming, they are ownly a few teams in the world making 3D game engines, once built, like the Unreal engine they tend to sell the engine to other game companies to be used. So only a very elite few progammers will every use OpenGL, unless you'll hoping for a job at ID or Epic games, its probably not worth learning OpenGL.

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The reality engine isn't for real time gaming, its for artists, game and CAD designers to see the scenes rendered in near real time. It makes a lot of sense to the render on a remote server, most of time the artists computer will be just a user interface for modelling using very little CPU, only on the few rendering occassion will you need the vast ammout of CPU power that the remote render farm, can provide. Nvidia and Mental image have picked a great application for the cloud here. Even cleverer for Nvidia is decided to let 3d parties buy and host the render engines. No doubt the market will vastly overestimate the need for these engine, making Nvidia a lot of Telsa GPU sales, and a many cheap resources for rendering. I'm not sure what the payment system for using the render farms will be, it will probably vary from provider to provider, and settle down as cheap once there are enough render farms available.

Nvidia where also clever in buying Mental Ray, since there render plug-in, fits most of the industries main 3d packages, like Maya, 3D studio and Autocad, the reality engine farms will already be useable on most of the common software.

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The reality engine isn't for real time gaming, its for artists, game and CAD designers to see the scenes rendered in near real time. It makes a lot of sense to the render on a remote server, most of time the artists computer will be just a user interface for modelling using very little CPU, only on the few rendering occassion will you need the vast ammout of CPU power that the remote render farm, can provide. Nvidia and Mental image have picked a great application for the cloud here. Even cleverer for Nvidia is decided to let 3d parties buy and host the render engines. No doubt the market will vastly overestimate the need for these engine, making Nvidia a lot of Telsa GPU sales, and a many cheap resources for rendering. I'm not sure what the payment system for using the render farms will be, it will probably vary from provider to provider, and settle down as cheap once there are enough render farms available.

Nvidia where also clever in buying Mental Ray, since there render plug-in, fits most of the industries main 3d packages, like Maya, 3D studio and Autocad, the reality engine farms will already be useable on most of the common software.

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I don't think this is ready for prime time yet, while digital terestrially TV offers real time high definition TV for your set or wall screen, the computer (if the home has one), still sits in the bedroom and office. Bandwidth is usually low enough that you have to predownload programs before you watch them. When the BBC rolled out they Iplayer a custom player for all BBC programmes, ISP went nuts, complaining about the huge bandwidth increase. In fact the Iplayer repeat programmes while popular weren't so popular as to deluge broadband connections. I doubt Internet TV will be popular for quite a while, maybe creaping up in popularity slowly and being mainstream in the 2020s, but thats just my guess.

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I don't think this is ready for prime time yet, while digital terestrially TV offers real time high definition TV for your set or wall screen, the computer (if the home has one), still sits in the bedroom and office. Bandwidth is usually low enough that you have to predownload programs before you watch them. When the BBC rolled out they Iplayer a custom player for all BBC programmes, ISP went nuts, complaining about the huge bandwidth increase. In fact the Iplayer repeat programmes while popular weren't so popular as to deluge broadband connections. I doubt Internet TV will be popular for quite a while, maybe creaping up in popularity slowly and being mainstream in the 2020s, but thats just my guess.

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The law has changed as a result of the ruling. But it does show the importance of trademarks even on the internet. Typosquarting is a money making scheme, that offers nothing to the public, and i'm not sorry that the law is removing it. In your example with people reals name, yes your reasonibly ok with using your name, no matter that trademark. I believe that a Mister McDonalds own restrarant survived a trademark despute against larger clown logoed opposition.

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The law has changed as a result of the ruling. But it does show the importance of trademarks even on the internet. Typosquarting is a money making scheme, that offers nothing to the public, and i'm not sorry that the law is removing it. In your example with people reals name, yes your reasonibly ok with using your name, no matter that trademark. I believe that a Mister McDonalds own restrarant survived a trademark despute against larger clown logoed opposition.

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A global Mars mission would certainly have the sort of budget we'd need for a manned mission, and we've managed (just) to run an international station (without china though). However the more partners in the group, the more politics the more potential incompatiblity between different components. In someways it makes sense to go on from an International space station, to an international moon base, to an international mission to mars. Up to the politians first, and the trouble is that the often go back upon what they say.

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A global Mars mission would certainly have the sort of budget we'd need for a manned mission, and we've managed (just) to run an international station (without china though). However the more partners in the group, the more politics the more potential incompatiblity between different components. In someways it makes sense to go on from an International space station, to an international moon base, to an international mission to mars. Up to the politians first, and the trouble is that the often go back upon what they say.

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I wouldn't catgeorize nature as random or haphazard. Although in quantum mechanics particle movements are intrisically random, as soon as you get to thermodynamically significant ammounts of 'stuff'', physics acts very regularly. Even for non-living things, nature is often produces very regularly and mathematically precise objects from the spiral arms of a galaxy to the pattern of snowflakes.

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I wouldn't catgeorize nature as random or haphazard. Although in quantum mechanics particle movements are intrisically random, as soon as you get to thermodynamically significant ammounts of 'stuff'', physics acts very regularly. Even for non-living things, nature is often produces very regularly and mathematically precise objects from the spiral arms of a galaxy to the pattern of snowflakes.

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Amazing picture of the violent heart of our galaxy. There now obvious sign of a black hole there, but it hidden in the bright spot on the lower right middle of the picture.

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Amazing picture of the violent heart of our galaxy. There now obvious sign of a black hole there, but it hidden in the bright spot on the lower right middle of the picture.

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Its was shaky but stiffened up nice at the end. Serious Parkinson's diease is a killer, one of the slow degenerative ones, that destroys the brain of it victim so any hope for a cure is good. Ten years is to long.

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Its was shaky but stiffened up nice at the end. Serious Parkinson's diease is a killer, one of the slow degenerative ones, that destroys the brain of it victim so any hope for a cure is good. Ten years is to long.

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Even if a human being was easily describeable the shear number of people, time the number of items and choices that each person could make is so huge, I very much doubt that even with an effecient solution or algorithm, that we could ever get close to reliably modelling an economy.

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Even if a human being was easily describeable the shear number of people, time the number of items and choices that each person could make is so huge, I very much doubt that even with an effecient solution or algorithm, that we could ever get close to reliably modelling an economy.

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Certainly shows its quite easy to form the building blocks of life. The simpler Amino acids where shown to be made by simulating lightning bolts, through a aproximation of the earths early atmosphere, carbon dioxide, ammonia and methane, that was done in the sixties. Forming bases for RNA is another big step in showing that chemogenesis is possible. They also need to show that the bases, could combine with sugars and phosphates to form RNA.

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Certainly shows its quite easy to form the building blocks of life. The simpler Amino acids where shown to be made by simulating lightning bolts, through a aproximation of the earths early atmosphere, carbon dioxide, ammonia and methane, that was done in the sixties. Forming bases for RNA is another big step in showing that chemogenesis is possible. They also need to show that the bases, could combine with sugars and phosphates to form RNA.

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Really glad they scrapped the central email/phone call logging system, there really was no way they good do that for just 2Billion, and the UK is strapped for cash at the minute, no put wasting money on surviellance that doesn't work. Getting commuciation providers to log everything, is quite easy for phone companies with already track calls, but its going to be huge task for ISP to log where every IP packet comes and goes to, I hope ISP fight this in the courts.

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Really glad they scrapped the central email/phone call logging system, there really was no way they good do that for just 2Billion, and the UK is strapped for cash at the minute, no put wasting money on surviellance that doesn't work. Getting commuciation providers to log everything, is quite easy for phone companies with already track calls, but its going to be huge task for ISP to log where every IP packet comes and goes to, I hope ISP fight this in the courts.

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I'm odd enough that almost all of my lectures were on overhead projectors. Not exactly the most graphical perfect system, but it did have that advantage that you can copy by pen easily what the professor can drawn by pen. Don't underestimate the power of learning by rewriting, something about have to copy from eye to hand a viewed text or pictures, seams to load it into your brain memory very efficiently.

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I'm odd enough that almost all of my lectures were on overhead projectors. Not exactly the most graphical perfect system, but it did have that advantage that you can copy by pen easily what the professor can drawn by pen. Don't underestimate the power of learning by rewriting, something about have to copy from eye to hand a viewed text or pictures, seams to load it into your brain memory very efficiently.

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The world isn't exactly running short of uranium, but it aways going to be cheaper to reuse existing stock than mine and refining and concentrate any material. Fact is though the cost of the uranium is not the major fact in the cost of nuclear reactor, almost all the cost, is in paying back the building cost and in supervising and maintaining the reactor, to what has to be a very high safety standard.

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The world isn't exactly running short of uranium, but it aways going to be cheaper to reuse existing stock than mine and refining and concentrate any material. Fact is though the cost of the uranium is not the major fact in the cost of nuclear reactor, almost all the cost, is in paying back the building cost and in supervising and maintaining the reactor, to what has to be a very high safety standard.

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Its quite lamentable that an asteroid can get this close to the earth without us being able to spot it. 15 hours isn't enough time to get an accurate location on where it would hit, if it would, and not even time to get an evacuation order out to the its target location. We really need a deep space asteroid detection network, that can find these rocks before they hit us.

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Its quite lamentable that an asteroid can get this close to the earth without us being able to spot it. 15 hours isn't enough time to get an accurate location on where it would hit, if it would, and not even time to get an evacuation order out to the its target location. We really need a deep space asteroid detection network, that can find these rocks before they hit us.

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There's certainity a long grey scale about the uncertainity of future oil production, and the world economy gambles billions on this in the futures market. I could well believe that the situition is worse than major companies and governments make out as both have an interest in stablishing the market. It wasn't to long ago that Royal Dutch Shell has court out for doubling its estimates of oil reserves that it own. The bigest source of oil, Saudi Arabi is not exactly a democratic contry and might will upperwardly lie its estimates, in order to prevent discontent in the county.

I agree with you that there more oil to be found, prospectors have are still finding new source,. but the sources are smaller and smaller on average is time goes on. Once the price gets to a certain hieght, oil shale becomes a economic source, and the world economy could start using enormous ammout of shale available. That would be very bad for global warming, so I hope renewables get phased in rapidly.

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There's certainity a long grey scale about the uncertainity of future oil production, and the world economy gambles billions on this in the futures market. I could well believe that the situition is worse than major companies and governments make out as both have an interest in stablishing the market. It wasn't to long ago that Royal Dutch Shell has court out for doubling its estimates of oil reserves that it own. The bigest source of oil, Saudi Arabi is not exactly a democratic contry and might will upperwardly lie its estimates, in order to prevent discontent in the county.

I agree with you that there more oil to be found, prospectors have are still finding new source,. but the sources are smaller and smaller on average is time goes on. Once the price gets to a certain hieght, oil shale becomes a economic source, and the world economy could start using enormous ammout of shale available. That would be very bad for global warming, so I hope renewables get phased in rapidly.

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Its a major reversing engineering effect to find out a botnet is controlled. First you'd need to a get access to a computer running the bot, and get the code, decompile it, and find out we're its reporting to, then you have to take down every controlling system. Not easy, and not something down for fun. ISP should club together and fund more security operations against botnets. Like the impressive effect in the article.

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Its a major reversing engineering effect to find out a botnet is controlled. First you'd need to a get access to a computer running the bot, and get the code, decompile it, and find out we're its reporting to, then you have to take down every controlling system. Not easy, and not something down for fun. ISP should club together and fund more security operations against botnets. Like the impressive effect in the article.

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Will this was the Royal Bank of Scotland, a formally solid institution, but one that went bust last year and had to be bailed out to the tune of 10 billion. You wouldn't expect much security out of a bank that managed they financial affairs that baddly. Actually though RBS where one of the first UK banks, to provide on-line payments and where very forward looking in providing electronic money management. So its a shame for the hack, and needing the bailout.

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Will this was the Royal Bank of Scotland, a formally solid institution, but one that went bust last year and had to be bailed out to the tune of 10 billion. You wouldn't expect much security out of a bank that managed they financial affairs that baddly. Actually though RBS where one of the first UK banks, to provide on-line payments and where very forward looking in providing electronic money management. So its a shame for the hack, and needing the bailout.

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Oil is also running out, and mainly comes from stragetically dubious sources. Its good to wind technology has come far enough to be a signicant part of a countries energy supply. Yes is does remain necessary to get wind power economicly efficientive, this only needs the price of tubines to half or so, of the other energy sources to double, so its very near, quite a bit nearer than solar power, which is at least double again the current cost of wind.

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Oil is also running out, and mainly comes from stragetically dubious sources. Its good to wind technology has come far enough to be a signicant part of a countries energy supply. Yes is does remain necessary to get wind power economicly efficientive, this only needs the price of tubines to half or so, of the other energy sources to double, so its very near, quite a bit nearer than solar power, which is at least double again the current cost of wind.

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Japanese nuclear radiation has stirred up Godzilla into an attack on one of the Cephalopod kings of the Major Arcana. The world is doomed. The only question is how we will die. Screaming Mad from Cthulhu, or Alien inversion from Waking Kraken.

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Japanese nuclear radiation has stirred up Godzilla into an attack on one of the Cephalopod kings of the Major Arcana. The world is doomed. The only question is how we will die. Screaming Mad from Cthulhu, or Alien inversion from Waking Kraken.

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Makes me wonder, why there are a lot more cheap electronic microscopes around, if there that simple to make, everyone should have a USB microscope, to connect to the computer, complete with a neural network program to detect know microorganism, and especially pathogens. Every hypochrondic in the world could then join in a global pathogen detection network.

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Makes me wonder, why there are a lot more cheap electronic microscopes around, if there that simple to make, everyone should have a USB microscope, to connect to the computer, complete with a neural network program to detect know microorganism, and especially pathogens. Every hypochrondic in the world could then join in a global pathogen detection network.

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Its quite cheap to buy wireless headphones, its much harder to find a good long range remte control. Of course there always the teenages favourite "turn it up to really f***ing loud" for long range audio. Since your only in one room at a time, not sure why you'd want a multiroom hifi system. Mp3 are so great for on the move, and don't annoy the whole street.

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Its quite cheap to buy wireless headphones, its much harder to find a good long range remte control. Of course there always the teenages favourite "turn it up to really f***ing loud" for long range audio. Since your only in one room at a time, not sure why you'd want a multiroom hifi system. Mp3 are so great for on the move, and don't annoy the whole street.

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Just as AMD started turning back into profit, and gained the graphics card they had to run out of chip production. Its a pity really the're using TMC, I believe global foundaries can do 40nm standard silicon either now or soon, so AMD should perphaps switch to there part owned foundary. Hope AMD sort out the problem soon, i'd hate to be on a one cpu maker planet.

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Just as AMD started turning back into profit, and gained the graphics card they had to run out of chip production. Its a pity really the're using TMC, I believe global foundaries can do 40nm standard silicon either now or soon, so AMD should perphaps switch to there part owned foundary. Hope AMD sort out the problem soon, i'd hate to be on a one cpu maker planet.

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Great so many more 3d games all with the same technology behind them will be made. Unfortantantly many will have really cheap artistry and gameplay design, making the engine look bad. Hopefully a few really good independent games will come out of this through.

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Great so many more 3d games all with the same technology behind them will be made. Unfortantantly many will have really cheap artistry and gameplay design, making the engine look bad. Hopefully a few really good independent games will come out of this through.

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