The concept that wearing off or charging of magnets isn't a correct concept. Unless a magnet is driven past a certian energy level it simply remains. The problem of AlNiCo magnets and similar early on was that they were not of a stable crystal design. They were pretty stable but not completely. The NiB magnets are extremely stable.
I really appreciate a good question person. Good science is so rare today. We see on/. so many people who chose to heckle rather than to see. I have handled and seen in person the CMR demos. Their stuff works. The fundamental understanding here is that a magnetic field is (Shockingly) a magnetic field. Their lead guy noticed that magnetic fields worked exactly like EM Fields from RF. I know it is obvious once said but the discovery is that an EM Field (Electromagnetic Field) is well an EM Field. This allows all of the mix and match you see in standard RF stuff. The principal difference here is that a magnetic field operates like DC rather than RF as AC. Both the same otherwise.
One demo device they showed me (No disclosure of details because I am under NDA) would slide to attract just as if it were a standard magnet and then it would break away just upon being pushed past the lock point. Think of this one. Ponder it for a while. You mean I could have a motor pole that attracted in just like normal and then actually got repelled away as soon as it passed without any added energy? (no coils or electricity????) Thought you might like to think a long time on this one. This is much more of a discovery set than you might think. No CMR isn't publically proposing to use it for this. Just study on this for a while.
I appreciate your comments, I was in the belief that magnets in general could be very strong yet their fields were somewhat malleable to the stress of ferrous metals and other magnets.
In that case, I'm excited about the applications of these modified magnets and hope to see incredible uses for them. Magnetism is a natural force that is used often but poorly understood and it seems little imagination was put into them until this.
Few new ideas are genuinely patentable anymore... maybe this one is.
Impressive, but how do the modified magnets handle the constant stress of other magnetic fields? Magnets naturally have a general north/south pole because that's the tendency of magnetism. Aren't these magnets likely to "wear off" sooner? Used as gears, wouldn't the exertion of magnetic-kinetic force tear up the "programmed" array of magnetic fields? As gears I'm skeptical they could even be reliable without being staggeringly large. You'd never have to worry about stripped teeth but the weight of the gears is an important factor in energy transference.
War isn't as good at wiping out populations as it used to be and the places it decimates remain survivable homes that build contempt in the victims who will then be more likely to waste resource in retaliation with terrorist attacks and starting their own wars.
War also consumes more resources than most regular living conditions. The habits of members of industrialized countries might be the exception, but industrialized countries like the be involved in wars away from home.
so wait. does this mean that we're just going to be out of oil in 20 years? who cares? we have electric cars, and we have solar and wind farms! its not like we "NEEEEED" an entire new earth!!!
plus the likelihood of us finding a suitable world for us within 20 years is isn't looking very good. much less constructing transportation to ship necessary oil-gathering equipment there!! it would take a lot longer then 20 years!!! by the time it gets to the new earth. we'll already have adapted to what we have!
so i think that option is a no-go. imo
No one is suggesting that colonizing a new world is an appropriate option. The point is if we don't live more practically based on future loss of resources we take for granted now, we'll be up shit creek because there's nowhere to run to.
And for adapting... that's the problem, we aren't, we're using more and there's more of us. We should be begging people to turn to abstinence (of actual intercourse), contraceptives and abortion, especially if that person lacks their own fiscal resources to care for a resource consuming child (and future resource consuming adult). Unfortunately, and I blame this on religion-before-thought, society has been built on the idea of popping out babies and buying every piece of shit plastic whatever and eating more than we need.
Really though, the eating more than we need is the least of our problems. What we eat would probably be about right if we stopped depending on cars for every little trip and the mindless commutes that have somehow become "normal". Gasoline should be reserved for production of vital goods and distribution, not (me included) going to the other side of town for Taco Bell.
Matter can neither be created nor destroyed. The minerals still exist it's called recycling.
Ultimately the problem is a lack of energy. We could probably tear everything apart to their base elements but the work that would need to go into is astronomical.
What would be nice is if we could somehow smash matter into nothing but atomic fragments and reassemble them into the elements we need. I don't believe, though, that there's any evidence that this can be done with even all the energy of the sun that reaches the surface of the Earth.
I think we should all admit that we like it this way.
Yeah, I don't really see Ubuntu being shipped with desktops in Best Buy as any real success or what should be the goal.
There should never be one operating system, there should never be one browser, there should never be one processor architecture. Progress isn't one paradigm overpowering another and taking sole prominence.
Maybe I have limited imagination, but I can't see one OS ever to be able to satisfy every user.
I'm tempted to rewire the OBD-II connector in my car and anything else someone could just clip a tracking device in to. Maybe reverse the polarity or install an inverter and transformer to put out a few hundred AC volts. Doesn't help with the battery powered ones but a great trick against them using my gas, alternator and battery for their "security".
Fortunately for me though I'm white enough I don't have to worry about being suspected of a "bad guy" without doing anything.
Something suspiciously absent is any mentioning of license. I don't think it is necessary for me to describe why that's a problem.
See file LICENCE inside source package. It is 3-clause BSD licence.
That I am happy to see, but what about content converted by the program? Does that apply to the actual format of the image or only the tool that creates it?
They probably just did that to keep the servers from getting overloaded, like restricting the word "the".
Oh, wait, it doesn't ignore "the"...
Really though, it's probably for the better so you don't get a bunch of porn results when you pause on halfway typing "assume" or when looking for the different kind of cream pies you can make.
Honestly, I hope they find some better way for teens (or anyone, really) to send small bits of text to others with mobile devices in the near future. Text messaging with tiny numberpads/keyboards is a royal pain in the ass. I know that people like the portability of smart phones and the like, but at the same time, I really do feel privileged to have stuck by my desktop for as long as I have given the comparative robustness of communications options it has offered over the years.
I'm thinking we need some kind of stripped-down EEG device for mobile phones, because it's obvious that increasing the size of the interface/keypad isn't going to work out terribly well (unless they use something like a virtual keyboard that projects onto common surfaces and uses a scanner/camera to record keystrokes).
Too much accommodation for effortless, inaudible communication might one day leave us all voiceless... for better or for worse.
The difference being that software, games, music, TV shows, and movies can continue working as long as you have the media (and a suitable device for using them.) With an MMO, once the servers are shut down the software and everything you paid for in the game are worthless.
Yeah, I'm pretty fond of EVE Online and it's done pretty well for itself considering, but I know everything comes to an end eventually.
I literally use Google every day, many, many times a day, but I haven't viewed www.google.com in... years? Even using Google Chrome I only view search results and stuff like Google Calendar or Gmail. Even still it seems that going to the homepage is pointless. Ironically, this means Google has grown beyond ubiquitous.
Of course I miss out on all the cute, experimental stuff they do...
Is inductive charging different from a degaussing field? I just wonder because when I have to degauss hard drives they get HOT and degaussers don't just ruin the data on the platters but also annihilate ICs and most components on the PC board leaving little to salvage.
So, it just puts me off a little bit to intentionally do something similar with my expensive electronic devices...
The device seems impressive at a glance, particularly with the unbreakable vault that the PS3 has appeared to be, but it has little merit as an actual tool for breaking open the system and so far only seems to serve the purpose of copying games to play without the disk.
It's probably not even a stepping stone to a real hack. It does show that people are trying and this will certainly lead to a hack that doesn't involve buying something so the sources can't be eliminated with just a letter from an attorney.
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The concept that wearing off or charging of magnets isn't a correct concept. Unless a magnet is driven past a certian energy level it simply remains. The problem of AlNiCo magnets and similar early on was that they were not of a stable crystal design. They were pretty stable but not completely. The NiB magnets are extremely stable.
I really appreciate a good question person. Good science is so rare today. We see on /. so many people who chose to heckle rather than to see. I have handled and seen in person the CMR demos. Their stuff works. The fundamental understanding here is that a magnetic field is (Shockingly) a magnetic field. Their lead guy noticed that magnetic fields worked exactly like EM Fields from RF. I know it is obvious once said but the discovery is that an EM Field (Electromagnetic Field) is well an EM Field. This allows all of the mix and match you see in standard RF stuff. The principal difference here is that a magnetic field operates like DC rather than RF as AC. Both the same otherwise.
One demo device they showed me (No disclosure of details because I am under NDA) would slide to attract just as if it were a standard magnet and then it would break away just upon being pushed past the lock point. Think of this one. Ponder it for a while. You mean I could have a motor pole that attracted in just like normal and then actually got repelled away as soon as it passed without any added energy? (no coils or electricity????) Thought you might like to think a long time on this one. This is much more of a discovery set than you might think. No CMR isn't publically proposing to use it for this. Just study on this for a while.
I appreciate your comments, I was in the belief that magnets in general could be very strong yet their fields were somewhat malleable to the stress of ferrous metals and other magnets.
In that case, I'm excited about the applications of these modified magnets and hope to see incredible uses for them. Magnetism is a natural force that is used often but poorly understood and it seems little imagination was put into them until this.
Few new ideas are genuinely patentable anymore... maybe this one is.
Impressive, but how do the modified magnets handle the constant stress of other magnetic fields? Magnets naturally have a general north/south pole because that's the tendency of magnetism. Aren't these magnets likely to "wear off" sooner? Used as gears, wouldn't the exertion of magnetic-kinetic force tear up the "programmed" array of magnetic fields? As gears I'm skeptical they could even be reliable without being staggeringly large. You'd never have to worry about stripped teeth but the weight of the gears is an important factor in energy transference.
We could do mass sterilization of the conquered? How about just sterilizing all stupid people? (Ever seen Idiocracy?)
The problem with sterilizing people for being stupid is we'd be rapidly made extinct.
WAR!!!
War isn't as good at wiping out populations as it used to be and the places it decimates remain survivable homes that build contempt in the victims who will then be more likely to waste resource in retaliation with terrorist attacks and starting their own wars.
War also consumes more resources than most regular living conditions. The habits of members of industrialized countries might be the exception, but industrialized countries like the be involved in wars away from home.
so wait. does this mean that we're just going to be out of oil in 20 years? who cares? we have electric cars, and we have solar and wind farms! its not like we "NEEEEED" an entire new earth!!!
plus the likelihood of us finding a suitable world for us within 20 years is isn't looking very good. much less constructing transportation to ship necessary oil-gathering equipment there!! it would take a lot longer then 20 years!!! by the time it gets to the new earth. we'll already have adapted to what we have!
so i think that option is a no-go. imo
No one is suggesting that colonizing a new world is an appropriate option. The point is if we don't live more practically based on future loss of resources we take for granted now, we'll be up shit creek because there's nowhere to run to.
And for adapting... that's the problem, we aren't, we're using more and there's more of us. We should be begging people to turn to abstinence (of actual intercourse), contraceptives and abortion, especially if that person lacks their own fiscal resources to care for a resource consuming child (and future resource consuming adult). Unfortunately, and I blame this on religion-before-thought, society has been built on the idea of popping out babies and buying every piece of shit plastic whatever and eating more than we need.
Really though, the eating more than we need is the least of our problems. What we eat would probably be about right if we stopped depending on cars for every little trip and the mindless commutes that have somehow become "normal". Gasoline should be reserved for production of vital goods and distribution, not (me included) going to the other side of town for Taco Bell.
Matter can neither be created nor destroyed. The minerals still exist it's called recycling.
Ultimately the problem is a lack of energy. We could probably tear everything apart to their base elements but the work that would need to go into is astronomical.
What would be nice is if we could somehow smash matter into nothing but atomic fragments and reassemble them into the elements we need. I don't believe, though, that there's any evidence that this can be done with even all the energy of the sun that reaches the surface of the Earth.
I think we should all admit that we like it this way.
Yeah, I don't really see Ubuntu being shipped with desktops in Best Buy as any real success or what should be the goal.
There should never be one operating system, there should never be one browser, there should never be one processor architecture. Progress isn't one paradigm overpowering another and taking sole prominence.
Maybe I have limited imagination, but I can't see one OS ever to be able to satisfy every user.
Then in 2031 we'll need 4 Earths... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&p=6A1FD147A45EF50D&index=1&feature=BF
I'm tempted to rewire the OBD-II connector in my car and anything else someone could just clip a tracking device in to. Maybe reverse the polarity or install an inverter and transformer to put out a few hundred AC volts. Doesn't help with the battery powered ones but a great trick against them using my gas, alternator and battery for their "security".
Fortunately for me though I'm white enough I don't have to worry about being suspected of a "bad guy" without doing anything.
So really, "Unencumbered by patents" really means "We don't think it's encumbered but no guarantees."
Good point... unfortunately...
Something suspiciously absent is any mentioning of license. I don't think it is necessary for me to describe why that's a problem.
See file LICENCE inside source package. It is 3-clause BSD licence.
That I am happy to see, but what about content converted by the program? Does that apply to the actual format of the image or only the tool that creates it?
Yeah, especially since no one on /. RTFAs... Since linked articles do cover this question.
Hey, I at least glance over TFA. I did look over the Google Code page and saw zero mention of licensing.
I'm guessing that since it is the same algorithm used in WebM, wouldn't it have the same licensing (BSD) ?
Well, I don't believe the BSD license requires derivations to be similarly licensed so it could be anything. Worse... it could be nothing.
Yeah, considering that this is /. I'm surprised not more people are asking about that right away.
Something suspiciously absent is any mentioning of license. I don't think it is necessary for me to describe why that's a problem.
They probably just did that to keep the servers from getting overloaded, like restricting the word "the".
Oh, wait, it doesn't ignore "the"...
Really though, it's probably for the better so you don't get a bunch of porn results when you pause on halfway typing "assume" or when looking for the different kind of cream pies you can make.
Honestly, I hope they find some better way for teens (or anyone, really) to send small bits of text to others with mobile devices in the near future. Text messaging with tiny numberpads/keyboards is a royal pain in the ass. I know that people like the portability of smart phones and the like, but at the same time, I really do feel privileged to have stuck by my desktop for as long as I have given the comparative robustness of communications options it has offered over the years.
I'm thinking we need some kind of stripped-down EEG device for mobile phones, because it's obvious that increasing the size of the interface/keypad isn't going to work out terribly well (unless they use something like a virtual keyboard that projects onto common surfaces and uses a scanner/camera to record keystrokes).
Too much accommodation for effortless, inaudible communication might one day leave us all voiceless... for better or for worse.
The difference being that software, games, music, TV shows, and movies can continue working as long as you have the media (and a suitable device for using them.) With an MMO, once the servers are shut down the software and everything you paid for in the game are worthless.
Yeah, I'm pretty fond of EVE Online and it's done pretty well for itself considering, but I know everything comes to an end eventually.
"Are you in favor of, neutral to or against the potential sale and promotion of games that may occasionally exhibit mischief and violence to minors?"
Versus
"Are you in favor of games that expose children to graphic violence, or do you hate America? Why do you hate America?"
So how many times faster is it than an 8086? I need numbers that make sense, bamnit!
Google has a homepage?!
I literally use Google every day, many, many times a day, but I haven't viewed www.google.com in... years? Even using Google Chrome I only view search results and stuff like Google Calendar or Gmail. Even still it seems that going to the homepage is pointless. Ironically, this means Google has grown beyond ubiquitous.
Of course I miss out on all the cute, experimental stuff they do...
The idea that this hack happened because Linux was removed is absurd.
Yeah, the price for the original device speaks for itself, I don't think it even enabled "Other OS".
Is inductive charging different from a degaussing field? I just wonder because when I have to degauss hard drives they get HOT and degaussers don't just ruin the data on the platters but also annihilate ICs and most components on the PC board leaving little to salvage.
So, it just puts me off a little bit to intentionally do something similar with my expensive electronic devices...
Umm, since it puts you in factory repair mode, couldn't you just, you know, write a package other than the backup manager and run that?
I don't really know, actually, but it is disappointingly obvious that the intent is entirely to "steal" games.
The device seems impressive at a glance, particularly with the unbreakable vault that the PS3 has appeared to be, but it has little merit as an actual tool for breaking open the system and so far only seems to serve the purpose of copying games to play without the disk.
It's probably not even a stepping stone to a real hack. It does show that people are trying and this will certainly lead to a hack that doesn't involve buying something so the sources can't be eliminated with just a letter from an attorney.