That's just Google being quick at indexing. Google finding it doesn't make it true. Somebody would have to do an calculation of
amounts of nitrogen oxides made by cosmic rays against other source and, measure what fraction of tree growth is rate limited by nitrate abundance,
to confirm it. But thanks mightily for the praise.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you need precise input on a touch surface, use a stylus or point pen,
but apart from art work, you won't need this.
I like this GUI system, because you have multiple separate fingers you
can teach the system gesture short cuts which will let you navigate much
more quickly around you system. There's no reason why touch panels
shouldn't become even cheaper than mice. The only thing I didn't like
about the system in the video, was attaching the keyboard to the touch
panel, i'd much prefer them separate, and spaced at and angle around
the desktop.
Not only would it not be "impossible" to play FPS on such a system, it
would be easier and more fun. Turn you hand to turn your character,
flick a finger forward to shoot a gun. Walk two fingers along the pad
to walk/run. Finger combos to change weapons, or activate special
abilities. It would soon be more obvious than using a mouse.
An improvement to the system I like to see, would be to have another
screen on the touch panel, as well the screen above, to show
basic control patterns, this would make it more obvious what the
interactions with the pad would be like.
So having established this is a good idea. We need a standard
interface for multi-touch in Linux (and other OSs), and gesture library
that interoperates with standard GUI components. Probably most
GUI apps would have to be rewritten to get the most out of multi-touch
and gestures. But its a start.
The paper referenced above is at arXiv, and doesn't give a maximum computer speed per see. It just proves that a quantum running at R computational steps per second, will generate Q = hR^2, of heat, where h is plancks constant. The other limits was that R < 4E/h, where E is the average energy of the system. You might get a maximum computing speed out of this, but only if you have a fundamental limit to how fast you can cool the computer. Not sure where the're fundamental limit come from if not in the above paper.
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To few buttons, touch screen letters smaller than fingers and no styless holder. Small Screen and only black and white. Since wikipedia is free, in theory, anyone can package it up to fit on any system. You course if got internet access you don't need to do that.
To few buttons, touch screen letters smaller than fingers and
no styless holder. Small Screen and only black and white.
Since wikipedia is free, in theory, anyone can package it
up to fit on any system. You course if got internet access
you don't need to do that.
You quoted "The more I see LHC fail and fail", what are you (and the Dr Nielsen)
talking about, the LHC failed, just once, this time last year. The Tevatron which might well
produce Higgs particles, but not enough for a statistically good observation,
has run very well. The SSC was ridiclously expensive and ahead of its time,
politics happens, that isn't unlikely. In short we're no where near the sort of
back luck, that might start people looking for paranoid explanations.
Yes, Its AC->DC->AC. SuperConducting Cable always run DC. If you run
alternating current through a superconductor, you'll get resistance (actually
impendence) again.
This is so close to room temperature, and could be used with standard refrigation no need from liquid nitrogen anymore. Room Temperature Superconductors
would completely change modern electronics and electromechanics. Motors and Generators waste lots of power, and RTS would be near 100% efficients, (
infinite conductiving only applies for constant currents, there is resistance to changes in currents in a superconductors).
The linked page, looks like its from a amature research group, and none of the earlier results, from 200Ks up, have been confirmed in the mainstream. The offical
world record temperature is 138K, still in liquid nitrogen range.
Yes, they seem to sample the image as a grid, and feed it straight into
the neural network. Its a really dumb way to do image recognition. However
a neural network library is useful for many identifcation tasks, and its free.
Even if its going to be useless for image recognition, it may be useful
for how general ai tasks.
Slashdot Mirror
That's just Google being quick at indexing. Google finding it doesn't make it true. Somebody would have to do an calculation of amounts of nitrogen oxides made by cosmic rays against other source and, measure what fraction of tree growth is rate limited by nitrate abundance, to confirm it. But thanks mightily for the praise.
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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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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I like this GUI system, because you have multiple separate fingers you can teach the system gesture short cuts which will let you navigate much more quickly around you system. There's no reason why touch panels shouldn't become even cheaper than mice. The only thing I didn't like about the system in the video, was attaching the keyboard to the touch panel, i'd much prefer them separate, and spaced at and angle around the desktop.
Not only would it not be "impossible" to play FPS on such a system, it would be easier and more fun. Turn you hand to turn your character, flick a finger forward to shoot a gun. Walk two fingers along the pad to walk/run. Finger combos to change weapons, or activate special abilities. It would soon be more obvious than using a mouse.
An improvement to the system I like to see, would be to have another screen on the touch panel, as well the screen above, to show basic control patterns, this would make it more obvious what the interactions with the pad would be like.
So having established this is a good idea. We need a standard interface for multi-touch in Linux (and other OSs), and gesture library that interoperates with standard GUI components. Probably most GUI apps would have to be rewritten to get the most out of multi-touch and gestures. But its a start.
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Personally I think, Moore's Law will run out somewhere the early 2020s, and have blogged about what such a computer might be specced as.
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The linked page, looks like its from a amature research group, and none of the earlier results, from 200Ks up, have been confirmed in the mainstream. The offical world record temperature is 138K, still in liquid nitrogen range.
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