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They very different problems, the Cable and the Climbing module. I'm not sure that using laser power is the best way to power the lift capsule on a space elevator but it saves carrying a battery or other power sources. The LaserMotive system could just as easierly power an plasma rocket (needs upgrading to the Mega/Gigawatts though), so they not tied to a space elevator system. The cable problem isn't easy apparently carbon nanotech are strong enough but no one can yet make them long enough. The asteriod counterweight needed for a space elevator isn't exactly easy either.

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They very different problems, the Cable and the Climbing module. I'm not sure that using laser power is the best way to power the lift capsule on a space elevator but it saves carrying a battery or other power sources. The LaserMotive system could just as easierly power an plasma rocket (needs upgrading to the Mega/Gigawatts though), so they not tied to a space elevator system. The cable problem isn't easy apparently carbon nanotech are strong enough but no one can yet make them long enough. The asteriod counterweight needed for a space elevator isn't exactly easy either.

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Its might not be an inoviative program, but it would work with sufficient funding, with Ares, or a modern launcher, moon and mars exploration is most likely finished for the next decade at least. That is unless the US decides to help fund a international program for space. But an international program would more than likely be bogged down in politics.

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Its might not be an inoviative program, but it would work with sufficient funding, with Ares, or a modern launcher, moon and mars exploration is most likely finished for the next decade at least. That is unless the US decides to help fund a international program for space. But an international program would more than likely be bogged down in politics.

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Life savers indeed, anything that takes the browser variations (and there a zillions of them) out of javascript and lets you code with just one standard, makes the difference between debugging for each browser and debugging just the once.

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Life savers indeed, anything that takes the browser variations (and there a zillions of them) out of javascript and lets you code with just one standard, makes the difference between debugging for each browser and debugging just the once.

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Thanks for the Link, Google doesn't really store that much about you, the dashboard knows my you tube and blogger accouts, doesn't now my other google account for adsense, and since I never activate web history, doesn't rembember what i've searched for or what web pages i've visited. It does now all my email though, so if you privacy would be better served by using other services for that, but Gmail is just to good not to use. My web browser looks private from the dashboard, I wonder though if it really is.

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Thanks for the Link, Google doesn't really store that much about you, the dashboard knows my you tube and blogger accouts, doesn't now my other google account for adsense, and since I never activate web history, doesn't rembember what i've searched for or what web pages i've visited. It does now all my email though, so if you privacy would be better served by using other services for that, but Gmail is just to good not to use. My web browser looks private from the dashboard, I wonder though if it really is.

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Keep learning, an axon is the wiring between the brain cells, its a cord of tissue that grow out of nerve cells in as many as thousands, each one transfers nerve signal, by electrochemical gradients of potassium, sodium and calcium ions. The new enzyme is real breakthrough, by inject it in the required location in the body, we could reconnect broken nerves or incourage learning in the brain.

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Keep learning, an axon is the wiring between the brain cells, its a cord of tissue that grow out of nerve cells in as many as thousands, each one transfers nerve signal, by electrochemical gradients of potassium, sodium and calcium ions. The new enzyme is real breakthrough, by inject it in the required location in the body, we could reconnect broken nerves or incourage learning in the brain.

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So according to both article, there isn't going to be a signicant delay from the baguette, and the machine will still be switched on at the end of November. Looks like the "time travelling higg boson" (do we need a new theory for gremlins? and do we really need to supercede the law of Murphy, i think not), failed to cause any real damage this time.

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So according to both article, there isn't going to be a signicant delay from the baguette, and the machine will still be switched on at the end of November. Looks like the "time travelling higg boson" (do we need a new theory for gremlins? and do we really need to supercede the law of Murphy, i think not), failed to cause any real damage this time.

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For that you need to destroy brain cells, not grow them. I suggest vodka until you fall over.

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For that you need to destroy brain cells, not grow them. I suggest vodka until you fall over.

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Absolutely, Fear is the enemy of clear thinking. Fear leads to rash decisions. Fear is an easy way to manipulate the populas into obeying. The article shows that the despotic politians, are woried that the happy middle class can no longer to be controlled by the cheap intimation tatics.

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Absolutely, Fear is the enemy of clear thinking. Fear leads to rash decisions. Fear is an easy way to manipulate the populas into obeying. The article shows that the despotic politians, are woried that the happy middle class can no longer to be controlled by the cheap intimation tatics.

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I'm sure you where just writing to be funny. But regenerative breaking is an incredible energy saving technology. An electric generator with (important) electromagnets is attached to one of the axles. When the electromagnets are off the axles can spin freely. When the car brakes the electromagnetics are turned on, and the generator starts converting the momentum of the car, back into electrical energy. In inner city, stop, start, traffic conditions this saves an enormous amount of power. Regenerative breaking makes the difference between eletric automobiles being a pipe dream, and an efficient inner city car.

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I'm sure you where just writing to be funny. But regenerative breaking is an incredible energy saving technology. An electric generator with (important) electromagnets is attached to one of the axles. When the electromagnets are off the axles can spin freely. When the car brakes the electromagnetics are turned on, and the generator starts converting the momentum of the car, back into electrical energy. In inner city, stop, start, traffic conditions this saves an enormous amount of power. Regenerative breaking makes the difference between eletric automobiles being a pipe dream, and an efficient inner city car.

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So that means we can slowly upgrade with normal graphic upgrade, or aptitude from the command line, on version per run. With that many versions and data to download, it might be faster to just download the full install of 9.10. Hope you got all you data on the /home partition that you don't overwrite.

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So that means we can slowly upgrade with normal graphic upgrade, or aptitude from the command line, on version per run. With that many versions and data to download, it might be faster to just download the full install of 9.10. Hope you got all you data on the /home partition that you don't overwrite.

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Surprisingly many respectable physicists talking, about this dumb nature abores the Higgs theory. You see there all very excited about the relaunch of the LHC, about finally finding the Higgs, super-symmetric particles, or maybe something new, that there hyping it up. They need it to, without a bit of public excitement, the enormous amounts of money needed for each big generation of collider, aren't going to get spent.

Hope the LHC finds something, and something mysterious and exacting. If nothing governments are very unlikely to fund a 100 billion for a 100 TeV collider. (that would be very strange, the Standard model need some new physics before about 10TeV, to stablise the masses of the W,Z particles).

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Surprisingly many respectable physicists talking, about this dumb nature abores the Higgs theory. You see there all very excited about the relaunch of the LHC, about finally finding the Higgs, super-symmetric particles, or maybe something new, that there hyping it up. They need it to, without a bit of public excitement, the enormous amounts of money needed for each big generation of collider, aren't going to get spent.

Hope the LHC finds something, and something mysterious and exacting. If nothing governments are very unlikely to fund a 100 billion for a 100 TeV collider. (that would be very strange, the Standard model need some new physics before about 10TeV, to stablise the masses of the W,Z particles).

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Most of the transuranic elements, are super unstable nucleii, that decay in second. According the nuclear shell theory, certain nucleii with magic numbers of either protons or neutron or both, would be extra stable, maybe stable enough to be a useful radioisotope. Proton numbers 110,114 and 126 are sure magic numbers. So finding element 114 should help confirm the theory, unfortunately its very hard to make such an element with enough neutrons, so the isotopes confirmed today are neutron short and only last a few second, 288 and 288 Uuq 114, better than the near by isotopes that only last milliseconds, but to short even to be chemically analysed. 298 Uuq 114, (ten neutrons more), is the on that is predicted to be to extra stable.

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Most of the transuranic elements, are super unstable nucleii, that decay in second. According the nuclear shell theory, certain nucleii with magic numbers of either protons or neutron or both, would be extra stable, maybe stable enough to be a useful radioisotope. Proton numbers 110,114 and 126 are sure magic numbers. So finding element 114 should help confirm the theory, unfortunately its very hard to make such an element with enough neutrons, so the isotopes confirmed today are neutron short and only last a few second, 288 and 288 Uuq 114, better than the near by isotopes that only last milliseconds, but to short even to be chemically analysed. 298 Uuq 114, (ten neutrons more), is the on that is predicted to be to extra stable.

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This is an easy mystery to solve. When a cosmic ray hits the atmosphere, it creates a shower of ionizing radiation, each of the secondary particles are enough to ionizing oxygen and nitrogen molecules in the atmosphere, forming nitrogen oxides, these react ready with water forming nitric acid, which will precipitate in dilute form in the rain. Only lightning and cosmic rays can form nitrogen oxide, and lightning is relatively rare, so the amount of available free nitrates in the soil, depends very much on the amount cosmic rays hitting the earth.

Plants of course need nitrogen to grow, the trouble is they can't absorb nitrogen from the atmosphere (except for Legumes (pea, and beans and similar plants)). So for the majority of plants and trees, not feed by human fertilizers, the amount of fertilizing nitrate available to them, is directly proportional the cosmic ray flux.

Mystery Solved.

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This is an easy mystery to solve. When a cosmic ray hits the atmosphere, it creates a shower of ionizing radiation, each of the secondary particles are enough to ionizing oxygen and nitrogen molecules in the atmosphere, forming nitrogen oxides, these react ready with water forming nitric acid, which will precipitate in dilute form in the rain. Only lightning and cosmic rays can form nitrogen oxide, and lightning is relatively rare, so the amount of available free nitrates in the soil, depends very much on the amount cosmic rays hitting the earth.

Plants of course need nitrogen to grow, the trouble is they can't absorb nitrogen from the atmosphere (except for Legumes (pea, and beans and similar plants)). So for the majority of plants and trees, not feed by human fertilizers, the amount of fertilizing nitrate available to them, is directly proportional the cosmic ray flux.

Mystery Solved.

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The article was about a 200Kilowatt drive, and yes the Mars drives, was nearer 20MegaWatt. Thats a lots of Solar Panels, so it would probably need an on board nuclear reactor. A reactor would still be a lot less weight than towing around 3 years worth of food.

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The article was about a 200Kilowatt drive, and yes the Mars drives, was nearer 20MegaWatt. Thats a lots of Solar Panels, so it would probably need an on board nuclear reactor. A reactor would still be a lot less weight than towing around 3 years worth of food.

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The device is toy, its tiny, the resolution is small. I suppose it might be useful for 3d graphic designers, if they can get real time output into it. But it wouldn't be useful for scene design, just for sprite/character design.

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The device is toy, its tiny, the resolution is small. I suppose it might be useful for 3d graphic designers, if they can get real time output into it. But it wouldn't be useful for scene design, just for sprite/character design.

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Yeah I won't be able, to be distracted by phone cars, while braking from 70mph on to a runabout.

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Yeah I won't be able, to be distracted by phone cars, while braking from 70mph on to a runabout.

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Cuba couldn't afford the surveillance technology. Big government have been mining signals data for spying and counter spying since the second world war, and that doesn't bother me much. Its when the legal system/internal security, starts using this massive surveillance that I feel my privacy slipping away. INDECT sound like another massive government computing contract that will overrun its budget and fail its supposed purpose.

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Despite the glitzy advertising, and the upfront cheap price of a console, PCs are open, have cheaper games (no developer licenses cost), are upgradeable. All the same, just because consoles are owned by the one supplier doesn't mean consumers should have to put up with retrospective disablement of there systems. Its a really rotten piece of small print that allows a manufacturer to force downgrades on people. EULA aren't really proved in courts, so a big a legal case might reverse this sort of stuff.

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Despite the glitzy advertising, and the upfront cheap price of a console, PCs are open, have cheaper games (no developer licenses cost), are upgradeable. All the same, just because consoles are owned by the one supplier doesn't mean consumers should have to put up with retrospective disablement of there systems. Its a really rotten piece of small print that allows a manufacturer to force downgrades on people. EULA aren't really proved in courts, so a big a legal case might reverse this sort of stuff.

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You can also find the story on Physorg News and Space.com. The discoveries where not all at once BTW, the HARPS telescopes been running since 2004, and found the 32 planets over that period, using just 100 nights observing time per year.

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You can also find the story on Physorg News and Space.com. The discoveries where not all at once BTW, the HARPS telescopes been running since 2004, and found the 32 planets over that period, using just 100 nights observing time per year.

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Folding @ home is designed to solve the problem of protein folding. There are 21 different amino acid units that can make up a protein, and each of the amino acid has a very different shape and electrical (or hydrogen-bonding) structure. DNA only has 4 base, is tide to a primary helix form, and so it much much easier to work out how DNA folds. The DNA folding guys wrote the own program and didn't need the huge amount of computers Folding @ home needs.

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Folding @ home is designed to solve the problem of protein folding. There are 21 different amino acid units that can make up a protein, and each of the amino acid has a very different shape and electrical (or hydrogen-bonding) structure. DNA only has 4 base, is tide to a primary helix form, and so it much much easier to work out how DNA folds. The DNA folding guys wrote the own program and didn't need the huge amount of computers Folding @ home needs.

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No idea whats special. University's, Weather stations, and Cosmic Ray Physics have been sending observing equipment up on balloons over a hundred years. China is supposed to have unmanned balloons since 220BC.

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No idea whats special. University's, Weather stations, and Cosmic Ray Physics have been sending observing equipment up on balloons over a hundred years. China is supposed to have unmanned balloons since 220BC.

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This could backfire on the casinos legally, they're allowed to offer games of chance. But betting on games of skill is illegal for them. If they need a computer to stop, skillful players, then the game might be reclassed as a game of skill.

Its not at all easy to card count you need the robotic attention that is indisctractable in order to do it. On the other hand, having that same eye in the sky computer, wi-fing in the results, to a staff's friends palmtop, is a very easy payout.

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This could backfire on the casinos legally, they're allowed to offer games of chance. But betting on games of skill is illegal for them. If they need a computer to stop, skillful players, then the game might be reclassed as a game of skill.

Its not at all easy to card count you need the robotic attention that is indisctractable in order to do it. On the other hand, having that same eye in the sky computer, wi-fing in the results, to a staff's friends palmtop, is a very easy payout.

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White hat spy bashes Black hat spy with a large stick, repeat. Please have at least half the gadgets (and humor) from spy vs spy. I

The Spy Genru is a very good idea for a MMO genru, more of us (probably) have grown up with spy movies than dungeon and dragons genru. Still D&D has been evolved for game player for many decades (from board to computer), while spy games haven't really. I hope they've done a good job creating a game environment. Looking at the trailer though, it look very much, like a point and shoot FFS shooting, just a like Quake, Wolfenstein and so many other, but without the speed or smoothness (things don't stay smooth, in lagging MM Games). More of an unreal tournament than a WoW, guess we'll see.

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White hat spy bashes Black hat spy with a large stick, repeat. Please have at least half the gadgets (and humor) from spy vs spy. I

The Spy Genru is a very good idea for a MMO genru, more of us (probably) have grown up with spy movies than dungeon and dragons genru. Still D&D has been evolved for game player for many decades (from board to computer), while spy games haven't really. I hope they've done a good job creating a game environment. Looking at the trailer though, it look very much, like a point and shoot FFS shooting, just a like Quake, Wolfenstein and so many other, but without the speed or smoothness (things don't stay smooth, in lagging MM Games). More of an unreal tournament than a WoW, guess we'll see.

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I don't think it need be that expensive. Certainly in the UK, you can patent without needing your own lawyer, a lawyer might help, but its not a necessity. Patents are written in a particular legal language, but you can learn how to write similarly just by reading plenty of other patents. You'll need to read many patents as you really ought to search for prior art before taking out a patents. Google and USPTO let you search patents databases for free, so its not difficult. Finally if you publish and don't patent, no one else should be able to patent you idea, so no-one could sue you for using you own idea.

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I don't think it need be that expensive. Certainly in the UK, you can patent without needing your own lawyer, a lawyer might help, but its not a necessity. Patents are written in a particular legal language, but you can learn how to write similarly just by reading plenty of other patents. You'll need to read many patents as you really ought to search for prior art before taking out a patents. Google and USPTO let you search patents databases for free, so its not difficult. Finally if you publish and don't patent, no one else should be able to patent you idea, so no-one could sue you for using you own idea.

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Maxwells equations are alive, magnetic flux was already pretty much equivalent to a current. It even has its equivalent to Ohms Law, Hopkinson's Law: Magnetomotive force = Flux * Reluctance. A real monopole world add a source term to Maxwell's second equation, the Guass Law for magnetism. But its important to release that this aren't real monopoles, instead its a dipole with a almost invisible thing middle. Even in these Spin Ice crystal, Div B = 0 everywhere. See, Slashdot from earlier in the september.

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Maxwells equations are alive, magnetic flux was already pretty much equivalent to a current. It even has its equivalent to Ohms Law, Hopkinson's Law: Magnetomotive force = Flux * Reluctance. A real monopole world add a source term to Maxwell's second equation, the Guass Law for magnetism. But its important to release that this aren't real monopoles, instead its a dipole with a almost invisible thing middle. Even in these Spin Ice crystal, Div B = 0 everywhere. See, Slashdot from earlier in the september.

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Intels Larabee, AMD Fusion both supposed to be out in 2010. Guess Nvdia couldn't be left behind. Without a x86 licence, they've been forced to use ARM. ARM might not be a bad move, it uses a lot less per per cycle than the x86 chips, and there is quite a bit of code for it. For handholds ARM/Tegra might make sense. Still a Larabee or Fusion system is bound to beat it software, possibly performance, and definitely in amount of software. Nintendo probably deliberately want a closed custom system through, has they sell developer licences for games, so they can sell systems at loss leader prices.

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