I don't quite understand where the high art aspect of this comes from
but the pictures on the site, are very blocky coloured cubes, and
don't look very artistic at all, to a philestein like me.
40 Miles on a charge seems fine to me. I'm willing to bet though
that a lot of lazy drivers will choose to power the car on gasoline,
whenever they have to go out of there way to get a electric charge
up. The article didn't say what mileage the Volt gets per gallon, hope
it better than regular gasoline cars.
Half of why movies are so expensive is actors and scriptwriters unions and the hollywood monopoly,
so far games have much more indepence. But i am suprised at the the cost of these Major
games, i'm old enough to rembember when one teenager could write a game on his home
computer with a budget of zero. But yes a modern computer game needs a room full
of visual design artists and a enough room full of programmers, and lets not forget game play
design and testing.
Rubbish, weepy love story movies limit birthrate, not porn. Its been many a year since men had much choice in weather to have children. Not tonight darling, i'm sticking to porn until you go back on the pill.
What i'm paranoid about is american multinational ignore the wishes of worldwide consumers and helping enforce local censorship policies at the expense of freedom. This has already happenned with china, where of course is political content rather than sexual content which is suppressed.
Lithographically etching silicon is something we have lot of experience with
but build molecules to order to build a chip is something we don't have
any infrastructure to do. Eric Dexler famously imagined nanotechnological
robots to be build at the molecular scale. And once we have such robot
we can use them to build molecular chips or more robots, but without
such scifi-esce technology its not obvious how we could build molecular
computer chips.
While most of the bacteria are harmless and some help us by using up
all the resource a more virulent bacteria might use. I wonder if there
are any useful bacteria, maybe even some essential ones. I except
soon enough will be drinking genetically engineered probiotics containing
bacteria specially designed for specific medical tasks. Its far safer
and easier to engineer a bacteria than it is to change the human DNA, and
if these bacteria can safely do there job in our skin or guts, why risk
modifying human DNA.
Average lifespan topped up to 35 in England between 1500 and 1700, on those
good years, where there wasn't much plague around, infant and childhood
mortality rates where horrifically high there.
and not once have the hosting company asked for a password
or tried to access the machine. You might want to change providers.
While its easy to set up remote access to a machine. Blocking off
access from the main keyboard and screen, might not be a good
idea, and you're regret it if there's a problem with the networking
system.
The politics of the world is such that if a drug that mimics alcohol
except for all its bad point was produced, it wouldn't be legalised,
it would just be lumped in with all the illegal recreation drugs, governments
don't have a set safety limit for recreational drug, they are normally
against them on principle, however safe they are.
But its also a concern that if synthehol was produced, how would we
know if it was safe of not, it would take usage by milliions over they
adult lifetime, before we genuinely know weather the chemical was
safe.
But good luck to Prof, Knut, who will probably have some very
wild parties testing outs his candiate benzodiazepines.
If you read the paper, they get between 7 and 30 microwatts per
square centimeter of body, thats a tiny ammount, thats not
going to power your laptop, and it isn't going to get much better.
The human body is only slightly hotter than the room its in,
say 38 Celius versus 20. That leads to a tiny Carnot efficenty
which is the best physics allows, then you need to factor
in that thermocouples and thermoelectric generators are only
a few percent efficient, so you end up with a tiny ammount
of power generated, it might run a very efficient wrist watch
but nothing more.
8 characters per second, and thats once the user are trained and
adjusted to the equipment. It this point it might just be useful
for the totally disabled, e.g. Stephen Hawking, but for everybody
else these no point. Having demostrated that its possible to
interact with a computer via brainwaves, i wonder how much
more it will take to produce a userable high speed connection,
perphaps it can only be down with new-borns or the very young
if the brain need to grow into the interface.
Should this be making NASA money. MMO games if they are popular make
big money, persummable NASA should be getting some cut of any profit
the game makes.
I'd wondered from the first article, how can a bacteria grow and reproduce
at the same time as dissolving. It doesn't of course, they need to
add a trace of nickel to start the cells dissolving and releasing there
fats. All very good. But 2 more years of research before it even gets
close to testing for commercial purposes. Shame we can't get this
sort of research done quicker, cheap energy is always something
we need, I wonder what the final price and conversion efficiency
will be?
Extending the golden hour to ten seem pretty good for soldiers, but
I wonder if this would help the cryo-preservation of corpses to be
brought back to life later, like in woody aliens sleeper.
Don't worry the food manufacturers will do the screening for you. Coming
soon to health shops at ridiculous prices low methionine soya and anything
else they can think of changing. That this will happen weather or not, the
study is confirmed.
Is it just my memory, or is this over five years on one upgrade.
An upgrade with too many changes, apocapses, and major
changes in grammer and usage. I'm getting old, and don't
really want to relearn my languages just to stay put. So keep
on delaying perl 6, and i can safely use perl 5 for the rest of
my life.
Hopefully an international treaty which would let any government police
sea traffic for speed will never happen. Meantime the space antenna
can help prevent collisions by setting a sea traffic control, with an
early warning system for ships that get to close, it needn't be that
quick, oil tankers and stopped times of the order an hour!
That wouldn't prove cloaking impossible, it would require that a cloaking screen
be powered in some way so that the dissipation of energy from the power
source makes up for the extra entropy gained by the refracted light. Marl's
proof can't apply that negative refraction is impossible for all frequencies, because
we've have experimentally seen negative refraction at specific frequencies, including
optical frequencies.
What he disproved must a unpowered clock that operates over all frequencies
at the same time.
When it comes to use electrons to see cloaked items, there is science fiction
and computer game presidence. In Alien vs Predator, the switching to Electric vision, the Alien
can easily see a cloaked Predator.
Kilgore Trout was Kurt Vonnguts fictional science fiction writer, a character
from Kurts novel's, that is, and not a writer of fictional science fiction, which
would be doubly fantastical.
Looking forward the Quantum Dot heat engine, it nothing to do with
the Helskini project and deserves a thread of its own. The authors claim
up to 90% Carnot efficency is possible. Even at 40% this is better than
almost every heat to electricity generator mankind has made so far. It
would replace turbines and generators everywhere (if they can run that
hot), and doubling the efficiency of gas/coal/oil and nuclear power
stations. That's fantastic, and probably decades aways.
Its really just amazing how quickly we've come in those 350 Years, when the
Royal Society was founded we had no theory of gravity, electricity, heat, air
magnetism or engines. The most complex machines, we're clocks and windmills.
It make you think how far and how quickly man kind has come.
That very much depends on the specific LED, now that blue, and ultraviolet LEDs
have been produce, LEDs can create any spectrum that we wish. In practice
a white light combo LED is unlikely to have more that three specific emitters,
but for tasks, like hydroponics, custom LEDs are likely to have the advantage.
By contrast, florescent bulbs have a very blue tint that is probably unhelpful
for growing.
I'm actually rather surprised that LED have only the same life time cost as
fluorescents, I expected LED to be much cheaper, especially because of there
longer life. Increasing there use and better manufacture will likely bring down
the cost of LEDs in the futures, while fluorescents have been around so long i
doubt there's much improvement to be had.
If client-side scripting went away, we'd lose a lot of functionality from
websites. For example, editors for blogs and many forums, need javascript
to work they link buttons. Widgets and many interactive website can
dynamically update parts of a page using Ajax again javascript based. The
web would be a poorer place without JS. Yes I agree that JS is a rather poor
language, it grew into the browser, without any great design thoughts, and
has many annoying language faults, i particular don't like declaring everything
as 'var' instead of give a type for it, it leads to errors and hurts readability.
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But its also a concern that if synthehol was produced, how would we know if it was safe of not, it would take usage by milliions over they adult lifetime, before we genuinely know weather the chemical was safe.
But good luck to Prof, Knut, who will probably have some very wild parties testing outs his candiate benzodiazepines.
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I'm actually rather surprised that LED have only the same life time cost as fluorescents, I expected LED to be much cheaper, especially because of there longer life. Increasing there use and better manufacture will likely bring down the cost of LEDs in the futures, while fluorescents have been around so long i doubt there's much improvement to be had.
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