Even though this bug probably gets to inconvenience millions of people
around the world. I can't help feeling a little happy as linux user each
time such a story comes out. Its that warm smug feeling of superiority
dispute all I did was choice to download an slightly rarer OS.
Only very few animal type make up most of human consumed meat, a few
breeds of cattle, sheep, birds and pigs. These animals live they short lives
in often rotten conditions, and a consume vast amounts of grains and
wheat. If people didn't eat meat, so much more land would be available,
that we could feed everyone and still have a lot more land to return to the
wild, thereby increasing biodiversity. Synthetic meat will no doubt save on
at least half the land needed to feed a populous, and might well led to
entirely new favours and textures of food.
Its a slow ramp up of energies. The LHC has already been doing a
few collisions at 450 GeV, here see here,
but since the injection energy to the ring 450 GeV, the LHC wasn't doing any acceleration at all there. The 1 TeV milestone show the LHC is in good
working order, and the'll be increasing the energy in steps, the few 14 TeV might not be until 2011, it will run at 10 TeV instead for most of 2010 barring
any more mishaps and do good physics. CERN have said the'll need to retrofit new quenching mechanisms (safety features for if the superconducting
magnets get to hot and cease to superconduct), before they can run at the few 14 TeV. Although it might seem like a shame not to be running at full
energy, the Higgs particles are expectable to be of mass 120-190 GeV, what CERN needs to find the Higgs is not high energy but high luminosity, large
statistics on a lot of collisions. So the lower energy isn't going to stop the Higgs boson discovery. Supersymmetric particles could have any mass or not
exist at all, but the losing the 10-14 TeV range, won't make much difference to begin with.
Considering NASA don't current have budget or permission for there
next generation rocket, asking for extra funding for safety seems
silly. Safety of what, a non existent rocket that will never get made.
Such a request doesn't look good. I would hope that Ares would be
designed with much better safety than shuttles (in practice) 2/129
failure rate.
I think they're exaggerating the lost of one particular set of data, from one set of researchers, in
one university, compared with thousands of different climate research around the world. So this
case of data mismanagement at one university, isn't going to make much difference to the case
for global warming being caused by humanities energy usage.
In case anyone missing the above authors obvious sarcasm. I'd like to add, that C is
the natural language for creating buffer overrun errors. Lets Sigfault the webserver
just by putting too long a string into your web form. Overruns or not, strings.h is not want I want
to be using when trying parse text from a web form.
I'm all for a Lunar Base and Lunar Mining, but its not easy and realistical its not
going to happen until at least 2030. In the mean that helium 4 comes from
the same places that natural gas comes from and contains traces of helium 3
so stocks of helium 3 will regrow slowly until we run out of natural gas. Perphaps
we can find some other way to detect radioactive materials.
Just how does it get power at night? Presummably on
a clouded day, it can get power once it get above
the clouds, but its batteries can't be good for very
long in the advent of lose of sun light. Planes really
need a constraited power source, and until wehttp://www.feeddistiller.com/blogs/Hydrogen%20Power/feed.html
can do better than chemical, fuel cells or
combustion seem best to me. For power/weight
ratio, hydrogen powered planes, must be best,
with methane or boranes beating all the other
hydrogen carbons. The weight of the cryogenic
storage, might be a problem though.
Both the elements Tungsten and Tantulum are off extreme stategic importances
to the electronics industry. Tungsten for good old fashioned incandestant light
bulbs. Tantulum for electrolytic capacitors. There isn't a room or modern consumer
item that doesn't use one all the other, so banning either item, would have
drastic effects on modern life. Off course, there are some modern replacements
for either element for instance LED bulbs and carbon based, supercapacitors.
Being that the C64 was an 80s computer, just about anything can
emulate and there lots of emulators about. I guess the story is
about Apples dumb, only there code policy. Maybe you should
run an iDon't instead of an Iphone,
Yes maybe, if you assume the all the matter particles are
fixed points and the black hole has a finite capture radius.
Next approximation up, the matter particles are moving
points and the black hole has an different escape velocity
at each distance from its center, (=c at event horizon), still
freshman. But to do the calculation correctly you'd need
the quantum mechanical cross-section for each particle
to fall into a black hole at given distance from it. And of
course first you'd have to have a theory of quantum gravity
which differently isn't freshman level.
I think this must be the first of a new kind of computer science.
Reverse engineer something from even an insect brain to
create a computer program, is completely new to me. As
you can see from the diagram, this is very different to the
neural networks some AI researchers (but no biologists)
claim mimic the human brain. It does look like an evolved
algorithm, in the sense that works very well and efficiently
but there no obvious design or understanding of how it
works.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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).
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