Once the tech has gone down as far as LG, A Korean Company specialization
in the cheap end of hi-tech products, you can be sure, that the product is
going to be everywhere. Personnelly I think E-book screens have a long
way to go, before the reading experience is as good as paper. But it will
get there.
Encoraging though. ""It's going to take the right engineering solution with the right species to make it commercially viable,"
Well maybe. Both the bioreactor and species designs will get better all the time. Meanwhile oil prices will go up. 7 years
seems slow. In fact i'll bet there'll be many semiproduction pilot plants by then. It all depends, like must alternative
energy solutions, on the predictions of future oil prices.
Isn't that what the comments boxes are for. Many bloggers
are naturally opionated people, who don't often change the
views, or have particular views to present. With such people
factoids (proven or otherwise), that accord with there opinons
get passed on, and factoid that are discordant with the opinons
either get dropped or argued about. Fortanantly there are so
many bloggers with so many different opinon that factoids will
be argued about until they been proven or otherwise (most of the
time). The early first wave of a piece of news, be very much unchecked.
It was always so with rumors. And i can't think of a obvious way to
fix it. Newspapers then will continue to be the more reliable sources
of information.
CERNs main operations, don't make radioactive materials in any great
quantities, so really the nothing for Al Quada to steal. However smaller
science labs in the faciality might have radioactive materials for testing
materials or for smaller science projects. So yeah, keep potential
terrorist out.
Like the poster said, hope these come done in price. They are
so many differicult microorganisms that we only way that humanity
is going to get near to cataloging, understanding and using them
all, is if many hobbist get labs capable of viewing, growing, gene
squencing and describing the life cycles of them. Until every
village in the world, has a guy that can identify new life forms,
and send them up to a central database, the world is going
full of unknown, possibly dangerous lifeforms.
The above microscope would be a great addition to any
microbiology lab, anywhere. Now we need a foolproof
home DNA sequencer.
For home backup, i can't see anything, being better than keeping a
spare hard drive somewhere. You can even get USB plugable box
so no excusses for lamers. If you COLOing or have a dedicated server
the question is, do you pay for a backup box at your hosting provider
or do you backup to another remote location. For COLOs you've got
a lot more bandwidth than a home user. My 4GB/s provider, means
that the example 1TB restore would only take about 40 minutes, which is easy.
And if the backup storage is $10 per month versus $100 more a spare box
at your hosting provider you can see it makes sense for the cloud storage
solution.
I use both Berkeley DB and MySQL. Berkeley is still open source, still
regularly updated, and works well enough. Its more like a disk backed
hashtable than a full database though. MySQL is an eccential part
of the current popular open source platform. Its the M in LAMP. So
its very important it stays safe. Fortantuately becuase Open Source
is Open Source, if Oracle break MySQL, another term could developed
a new fork of MySQL.
The composition of the planets and asteriods depend on how hot the space
dust was. Given the brighteness of the sun at the time. Out as far as
jupiter, this was hot enough for most the water to be vapourised, and
split into hydrogen and oxygen atoms and blow away by the solar wind.
So the earth and asteriods condensed from rocks. The water on the
inner planets came either from comets falling into the interior solar system
of from water chemically bound to rocks released under pressure. The
new asteriod Nasa found probably formed far enough away from the sun,
that some water remained unvapourised.
Not to ruin the joke, but the article did say without damaging surrounding normal cells.
80% of the cells isn't bad, but its a treatment not a cure, patients will need to repeat
the therapy again and again, as the remaining 20% start to grow back.
Quite right, burn straw makes smoke particles, atomospheric particulates in
various size ranges, and semitoxic Ash, and carbon dioxide of course. When
the said Nonpulluting furnaces, perphaps they ment ones designed to be
less polluting than a normal furnace would be. They lucky they can live on
2 watts per square meter, i couldn't imagine a large city living on 10 times
that much.
Yes it will be energy density. The power density will be fixed, depending only
on the decay rate of the radioactive material that is decaying. The same
energy will be present weither or not the battery is connected to anything. So
the battery will last far longer than an ordinary battery in use. But standing
on the shelf will waste it. And it might well not produce more current than
an ordinary battery of the same size. I can't think of anything except heat and
radiation damage limit the power of these things. So you could have very
powerful nuclear batteries, if your prepared to use radioactive substances with
a short enough half life.
The Fermi (great name, was it after Erico Fermi the italian nuclear
pioneer), want be out until next year, and early on it will be in the
$400 top range cards, more that what most of us spend). So ATI
has the lead for next 4 months and the christmas sales. The
Fermi might be quicker than the current 5870 Radeon, but although
ATI aren't ready for a new archicture or process bump. Chip Tweaking
will probably get a usual 20% boost for later versions of the Radeon.
ATI will be a lead of a bit. This a just as well as AMDs CPU are
falling behind a lot. So it will that the graphic lead to keep AMD
near profit.
Electric might not necessarily cheaper in America, at present. But oil
prices are about half there recent peak, and most of the rest of the
world pays a lot more tax on gasoline. So electric will be cheaper for
most and everyone again soon.
Charging overnight will be fine for house owners who have brought
the charge units. But for flat owners/renters, people with no
garages or for road parked second cars, will need garage charging.
Battery Technology limits the charging rate. But modern people are
vary impatient, at 30 minute charge, in a garage with a really great
cafe, might be exceptable to mums with time on there hands.
The average time pressed commuter wouldn't even accept that. Parking
points with inductive chargers in city centers, good solve this. For any
of these thing to happen, we're going need a standardized charging
technology and years or decades of new infrastructure built to handle
electric charging.
Perhaps what we need is not longer lasting batteries, but batteries that
run on energy rich liquids. But thats a technology that is nowhere near
prime time yet. Good luck to the Batteries 500 Project, if it produces
cheap(ish) 500 mile rated batteries, we can begin build electric car
infrastructure, and begin phasing out gasoline, maybe as soon as 2020.
Which would save a lot of C02 emissions.
The surface area of a sphere, is 4pi r*2, so those 800M pixels,
match the surface of sphere 8000 pixels in radius, or 50132
pixels in circumference. So each pixel represents a square on
the night sky about 26 seconds of arc in each direction. That isn't
really very accurate, most objects in the sky are lot smaller than
that. It might just have enough resolution to show some structure
in the andromeda galaxy which is (178 by 63) arc min in size.
Forty years ago they could land stuff on the moon. Now
apparately, the best NASA could do is crash probes, and
look at the ejector. Surely what they really need is a
lunar rovers, complete with drills, robot arms, and a on
board mineralogy lab. If NASA could manage that for
Mars they should be able to manage it for the moon.
It certainly depends if an quantum algorithm has been made
for the problem, thats very hard, and not been done for
most things. Most of us have heard that a quantum computer
can solve factorisation in order n^3 thanks to Grovners algorithm.
While classical computer take exponential time in n.
Quantum computers (with Quantum storage), can also search
data in a unsorted database table, in order sqrt(n), compared
with the classical n. Neither of these are to be sniffed at, a
very strong increase in speed. Neither of the above are
probabilistic algorithm, there guaranteed to find a the exact
answer if one exists. As far as a know it not yet known if
a quantum computer can turn NP complete problems, in
polynomial problems at all, or for what problems this
is possible. However it looks like the travelling salesman
problem may be done in polynomial time on a quantum
computer, ArXiv:0601151.
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For those that don't understand the maths of the speed
of computer algorithms. The above goes to say, that
yes quantum computers are really much faster for
a lot of problems. They're very also good for education, as
each new algorithm is probably worth a PhD.
That series was a real classic. It amazing that a science show
from the 80s is still so remembered today. Carl Sagan died over twelve years ago. So let the song, be tribute to him.
Following the link from the May 10 Slashdot, gets you a dumb miniportal site
and nothing on HERF guns. Which is a pity because I wanted to know how
exactly an amateur could make one, giving time a bit of money and a small
budget. I far as know, most Radar and Microwave devices still use custom
thermonic valve type system, with components like cavity magnetrons and
Klystrons. Sure modern transistors do go up to high frequencies, but not
at very high power. So I want to know what an amateur could do without
access to this kind of rare glassware. Did our HERF builder just use a load
of high frequency transistors in parallel, or did he do something cleverer
to get the power from his Car stalling gun?
You might have been joking, but the US have indeed made
a microwave cannon, that cause incredible amounts of
pain to the exposed flesh of anyone in its path.
Its quite a bit of extra money lost from the test capsule if
the Falcon 9 blows up or fails. So it show a lot of confidence
in there rocket to had the capsule to the test launch. They've
only got a year or so, before SpaceX is supposed to be
supplying the ISS. They can't afford many failures. I wish then
the best of luck.
Another nation in on the ISS, from the wikipedia list
of future supply flights, they'll be one Japanese cargo
flight per year for the next 5 years. This is the
same as the number of European Arane/ATV flights. Not that
many really, is it even worth designing a craft for
that few flights. Russia will be doing 17 Soyaz
flights and Dragon/Falcon 9, 12 flights. I hope
the ISS mission will get extended 5 years at least,
so that we get moneys worth out of all these supply craft.
Which Eta Carina while you can, it a late stage unstable
supergiant and bound to go supernova (maybe hyper-nova)
in the next hundred thousand years or so. Lucky its axis
isn't pointing at earth, as that might get nasty in the hyper-nova
case, where much of the energy gets beams from the poles.
Ubuntu has been ported to ARM, i'd rather use that. For the
average non geek, a netbook aimed pretty GUI is probably
needed if Linux netbooks are ever to take off. And thats
despite the price of the Windows CE license.
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Charging overnight will be fine for house owners who have brought the charge units. But for flat owners/renters, people with no garages or for road parked second cars, will need garage charging. Battery Technology limits the charging rate. But modern people are vary impatient, at 30 minute charge, in a garage with a really great cafe, might be exceptable to mums with time on there hands. The average time pressed commuter wouldn't even accept that. Parking points with inductive chargers in city centers, good solve this. For any of these thing to happen, we're going need a standardized charging technology and years or decades of new infrastructure built to handle electric charging.
Perhaps what we need is not longer lasting batteries, but batteries that run on energy rich liquids. But thats a technology that is nowhere near prime time yet. Good luck to the Batteries 500 Project, if it produces cheap(ish) 500 mile rated batteries, we can begin build electric car infrastructure, and begin phasing out gasoline, maybe as soon as 2020. Which would save a lot of C02 emissions.
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For those that don't understand the maths of the speed of computer algorithms. The above goes to say, that yes quantum computers are really much faster for a lot of problems. They're very also good for education, as each new algorithm is probably worth a PhD.
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