Hard drive development just hasn't been keeping place
with flash memory. And either portable/netbook owner
would rather have flash memory, of course i bet these
terabyte flash drives are expensive right now, But could
we have terabyte+ flash in average computers within 5 years
seems likely now, and my laptop will be that mush faster for it.
They have just found the missing link between asians
and red indians. I wish they could clone him, to see
how much mankind has changed since his time.
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Its a small problem and i bet there fix it. Then the
station has a observation and excerise room which
will do wonders for space tourism. No point paying
for the ride, if you don't get a great view which is
exactly what tranquillity with give astronaunts and
space tourists.
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But its the reports that like to post the problems not the
successes, its like there biases against NASA. Tranquillity
is the worlds biggest glass out house, plenty to see there
and plus there put the gym in there. Its usages to science
is probably quite low. But when it comes to space tourism
and making videos of astronauts in space, its the businesses.
When they get it working, and i'm sure the will. The ISS
can boost its film rights and tourism value, to get new heights
hopefully enough to keep it in space, for decades to come.
Of course you know that there weren't any robots in the orignal
foundation trilogy, which the two final books making foundation
a quintet explaining why. So there better not be any robots
in Roland's version, but somehow I think Daniel and Gascardhttp
will probably end up in the movies, just because kids like
robots. Sigh, I expect great special effects and the complete loss
of maxims like 'war is the last option of the incompendent
politian'.
Must as i don't mind pirate bay
and similar services telling
people where to find downloads, its wasn't very legal and
the guys doing it knew they where pushing the law. Now
one of these guys wants to set up a micropayment service
after his last site was shutdown by the law, i'm not sure
I trust his new site at all. Unless his account is Abraham
Lincion or Mahitma Gandi, i don't think i'll trust his payment
service with any of my money.
Seeing as a new born baby is a worry bomb for most parents,
and the infact morality rate in america is trival, all mums
and dads need is some text service to baby babble, until
they get used to it, (some 20 years later). Capitalism does
pretty well out of this sort of stuff, so i don't think the
government need pay for it, and its the sort publc guesture
that goes down well, until looked into.
Can't beat the where you put very small cows answer for funny. But a Barn is the unit of cross-sectional area, which is a directly related to the chance of getting a collision in a collider. The Barn is name after the "couldn't hit a Barn door from 10 foot", put down for sharpshooters, and is
10^-28 meters square, about the cross-sectional area
of a uranium atom to a neutron, (very big compared to most atomic interactions). Femto is 10^-15 in Si prefices. To get the number of collision, multiply the cross-section of the interactions, by the lumosity in inverse barns. So the LHC will give enough particles to split 10^15 uranium atoms next year (if that was the process theyhttp://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1536204&cid=31019954# where looking for), the Higgs cross-section is of course much smaller.
Interestingly the after Femtobarns the next smaller cross-section is 10^-48 aka a Shed (not kidding), so i'm looking forward to CERN upgrading the LHC to get Shedloads of collisons.
Perphaps a better description would be mars' forming earth
life forms. Now that we have bacteria which have a good
chance of surviving on parts of Mars, (not the parts of the
surface is highly oxidating soil, which would act like
bleach), that doesn't mean it would terraform Mars. We would
need to do a lot of simulations to find out what the effect
actually would be. Mars starts with such a low gravity
that it might not hold oxygen in its atmosphere for very
low. Adding a lot of C02 would help. Perphaps giant mirrors
aimed at the Poles of Mars, are the way to start.
Ok, the picture is an browny yellow circle with some
darker patches on it, not the impressive although at
least the circle is round to a good precession. But
pluto is a very long way away, and i think these
could be the first pictures showing any surface details
on pluto. In less than a year, the New Horizon
probe should pass pluto, and then i'm expecting
some proper photographs showing the minor-planet
to a good resolution, for the first time.
Most programs are very much not written to take advantage of multi-cores. Even advanced
3D games which might find the extra compute power useful, often can't deal with extra
cores. E.g. I had to set the affinity of Borderlands to 1 CPU only to stop it crashing.
Multithreaded programming is slowly getting easier as libraries to help it, become available.
Java is particularly easy for this, have a look at java.util.concurrent, with i've just started
using on the serverside. But most programs are miles behind in the move to being
able to work with multiprocessors. Right now 6 cores will have very little to offer the
desktop, on the server side however, i'm sure the extra core will have use, but only
if the server is particularly loaded with transactions, something with rarely happens.
If it lives up to its title they be to much fun stuff, and to much mystery
in this one journal. All the experiments which don't turn out like it
was predicting will end up being documented in the JoSaUR. If we're
unlucky these strange results will get burried in is ths journal and
no one will bother to try to reproduce the unexpected. The serendipitous
and unexpected is of course, exactly what moves science forward, so
I hope experiments that end up in JoSaUR do get looked at again and hard.
I very much doubt that the LHC will find the Higgs in its 2011, 7TeV
is plenty of power to find a Higgs between 100 and 200 GeV, however
the luminosity of the LHC and the number of collisions it will make
is a lot lower too. The LHC will only deliver about 1 inverse femtobarns
in that time. But the Tevatron has will a built up to 8.5 inverse femtobarns
of collisions in that time. That means that the first years run of the LHC
will be a drop in the ocean of the already existing Higgs data from the
Tevatron. So hard luck Europe, but the LHC won't detect a Higgs before
2013. The Tevatron might just see the beginnings of a signal, but probably
not enough to confirm anything.
At least this plan (that all it is, the demo propulsion system, hasn't
been built yet). We allow the Cubesats to steer themselves away
from potential collisions.
Not sure how well it describes out galaxy, but then even with years
of be 'into astronomy' I don't think I could find the suns spiral arm
on a real map of our galaxy. Somethings don't seem to fit in the
plan though, whats that arm doing going backwards on the 'new outer
junction'? And Omicron Centuri is show as on the opposite side of
the galaxy from us, but wikipedia lists it as a only 3200 light years
aways, the other side of the galaxy is more like 20000 lights years away.
Thanks for the details. None of these contracts is the sort of
big money needed for viable space development, but at least
they'll keep the industry chugging along development plans.
It would be cool to have a Dream Chaser space plane as
a shuttle successors. And the Bigelow funding may keep
the space tourism dream alive too. Of all the contracts I'll
bet the only one that completed on time, and gets into
space, is the life support system.
If the substance they found in the meteorite is indeed harder than
carbon, then it probably isn't Londsaleite, as Londsaleites only
as a Moh hardness of 7 to 8, where Diamond is 10 on the Moh scale.
Shocked graphite with bonds between the layers certainly sounds a lot like
Londsaleite though, but that wouldn't be a new form of Carbon.
Apparently a theoretically perfect Lonsdaletite crystal
would be 58% harder than diamond, but why would the meteorite crystal be likely to have a near perfect structure.
I've oft thought that you measure duration, by how many interesting
events have happened in the time span, you've been measuring.
Although boring times, drag by, when you in them. Looking backward
you rembember so little of them, that the time has almost disappeared
from you mind. Of course as you get older, there's less and less that
you haven't already seen before, and so looking back time seems to
be moving so much quicker.
This goes to show that Apple's policy of lockdown down
applications only to come from Apple's own store has
down nothing to make its iPhone more secure. Its perphaps
unlucky that a white hat researcher found the flaw first, as
Apple needs someone to shock it out of its Apple applicances
only use Apple allowed code policy.
I'm very please that the ISS will get its extension, and that
the Webb Telescope is likely to launch now. Space Science
looks well funded. This will also be good news for SpaceX
as they will now get there chance to make manned launchers.
Still is now likely that China will land on the moon before
america does again. Which will be only thing likely to kickstart
manned exporilation in america again.
Nasa wouldn't need more budget if the politican could keep the plans constant enough to
finish what they start. 9 Billion where spent on the Ares rockets, they only needed
another 2.5 billion to finish. But now they're have to restart from scratch to build
any new launch.
That not bad storage per chip. Now they need to be able to pack 16
of them into a standard flash stick, for 128GB flash sticks. I'll bet they
top out at 64GB per stick though. Flash memory is obeying Moore's law
and doubling every 1.5 years, Hard Disks aren't growing as quickly any more,
so Flash is catching up, all the same, it will probably be 2020 before Flash
drives match hard drives for cost.
Each of end of the antenna is a 6 foot wides, geodesics sphere. The
caver has to put it together to be able to comminucate with the
surface. I guess its not that easy sending signals though solid
rock, without a big antenna. Maybe they could make it smaller
with a neutrino beam?
It is quite fun, when these things go wrong is it. Provided your not
the one in the driving seat. Obviously Toyota didn't expect any of these
systems to fail. Emergency shut-offs probably won't end up in cars, unless
someone legislates for it, even if the effected models did have Emergency
shutoffs, they'd still have to be recalled, as the having an accelerator pedal
not do behave as expected, is a show stopper for any car.
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