Different benchmarks will produce a different fastest super computer list. 'Top 500' is a specific list that uses a specific benchmark, a benchmark that this particular machine is currently at the top of. Using a different benchmark could be just as valid and produce a completely different list.
The modern world is like a game of Civ III where everyone has the Great Library. Any important piece of research discovered somewhere will be usable by everyone at practically the same time. Oh, you might have to pay a little more for it than if you had discovered it yourself, or you might be 20 years behind everyone else, but you'll reap the benefits soon enough. Not everyone on the planet needs to be a creator for the system to work, I don't see why that shouldn't be true on a national level as well.
If you can't safely keep up with traffic you need to switch to a road where you can. If your work truck can't reach the speed limit, take a different route. IMO, there should be an implied minimum speed of 5 under the posted limit with very few exceptions. I'd be willing to bet that you'd see fewer accidents if that were the case.
I'd be willing to bet that fatalities correlates at least as well with speed differences as it does with absolute speeds. Raising the limit could easily see the slowest speed on the road move closer to the highest speed on the road, resulting in fewer accidents. Imagine how few accidents there could be if everyone went exactly 85 mph, with only small and temporary changes to let cars merge on and off.
Snow Crash - $10 from Amazon in paperback or kindle format, less than that from other sellers, and less than 1/5th that used. That's just one I know to be ridiculous from memory. How is it the same price to pulp a tree, print it, package it, and ship it to my house as it is to copy a digital file and send it over the internet (not even over wireless networks since most of the new Kindle's are WiFi only)?
"Makes" is an interesting choice of words. SW creators are offered the chance to be the app of the day, sometimes they get a portion of their regular price, sometimes they don't. But they are never "made" to do anything. If they don't want to be the app of the day, all they have to do is say 'no thanks'.
Because this is about science classrooms? God forbid we "force" science down their throats in a science classroom. Religion has no place in science, and creationism is nothing more than religion wearing a fake mustache and shady hat. I don't expect sunday schools to teach evolution (I'd be thrilled if they did of course) they shouldn't expect my child to sit through a lecture about how "some people think god did it" in science class.
You don't understand. We don't know everything about the universe or about physics but we do know some things beyond any reasonable doubt. Relativity is one of those things, specifically time dialation; GPS relies on it, we can put an atomic clock in an airplane and predict how much it will vary from a stationary one at ground level based on altitude and speed. It has been empirically verified.
You cannot have a universe with all three A) Time dilation in line with relativity B) FTL is possible and C) Causality. The three taken together are incompatible. FTL + Time dilation allows for sending messages into the past, breaking causality. Since we know A is true, either B or C must be false (or both I suppose). Therefore I have to choose, a universe that allows FTL or a universe that has causality. IMO assuming causality is true is the lesser assumption and via Occam's Razor I'm left with no FTL.
As has been reported recently on Slashdot (and known to people with circadian rhythm disorders for much longer) staring at a backlit screen at night can seriously screw up your sleep schedule. Not to mention many people have more eyestrain from backlit screens than non-emissive ones. For many people, a tablet is a terrible replacement for an eInk ereader. Does make me wonder if this Paperwhite will have the same problems though.
I have a choice, I believe in a world where FTL communication/travel is possible or I can believe in a world where causality holds. Even without all the math that says FTL is impossible, I'd still chose causality over FTL.
It's not teleportation, it's quantum teleportation. Complaining that it's not real teleportation is like complaining that an electron making a quantum leap isn't actually jumping. It's a compound word made up of two smaller words that, when taken together, have a different meaning.
There are some homeopathic treatments sold in stores that are not diluted to the point of total ineffectiveness, the most obvious being a sinus spray that is actually 1% pepper spray. Look at the back of the package for the dilution amount and keep in mind that some medicines (or even herbal remedies) are effective even in the micro-gram per kilogram dosing range. Alternatively, it could just be a coincidence you know... it's not like every ear ache developed into scarlet fever before the discovery of penicillin.
It's a waste of taxpayer money. It's a waste of patient and doctor time (including time that could have been used to actually treat the disease). And, most importantly, it legitimizes a branch of pathological science.
I think it's more along the lines of using everything we know, they mapped everything they could. And now they're done. So current methods can explain some kind of purpose (though I'd be willing to bet some regions have additional uses beyond what was found) for 80% of the human genome. It's possible that the remaining 20% actually does nothing (we know some of it at least is leftover from retro-virus infections for instance) or that it does stuff we don't understand yet or most likely some of each. This is equivalent to the first mapping of the genome in that it's using everything we know to look at the DNA that makes us what we are. They're not done yet, but then, they weren't done after they mapped all the genes either and we still celebrated that.
I have mental images of ordering asparin out of my replicator and getting LSD because some script kiddy managed to get a virus onto it. Hilarity will ensue no doubt.
Um, no. Larger wafers are a cost savings measure. 450mm means that you end up with fewer incomplete chips on the edges of your wafer, which in turn increases your yield. No one is stamping out a single CPU on a 450mm wafer.
Star Wars 3.0 will involve convincing the Russians that fusion can be used as a weapons platform, that ought to do the trick
Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but a weapons platform is pretty much all that today's fusion technology can be used for (and has been for about 50 years).
On the other hand, if said DNA comes from fresh blood at the crime scene, or semen, or skin flakes under the victim's nails, or [etc, etc, etc]. There are plenty of times when you can say, if not for certainty, then at least beyond a reasonable doubt, that the DNA came from the perpetrator (or at the very, very least, a witness).
Which, at least in my opinion, makes it not a space elevator at all. After all, we could probably make a ribbon strong enough for an ultra sonic sky hook today or at least quite soon. A space elevator is a completely different ballgame. Using misleading buzzwords to get your funding off the ground is a bit of a red flag IMO.
If this is true, the people I know must make up one heck of a screwed up sample because it is not what I see when I look around those I interact with on a regular basis.
To be fair, hair clippings wouldn't provide DNA and it would become quite obvious that they were planted when every hair found at the crime scene was found to be snipped rather than pulled/fallen out.
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Different benchmarks will produce a different fastest super computer list. 'Top 500' is a specific list that uses a specific benchmark, a benchmark that this particular machine is currently at the top of. Using a different benchmark could be just as valid and produce a completely different list.
The modern world is like a game of Civ III where everyone has the Great Library. Any important piece of research discovered somewhere will be usable by everyone at practically the same time. Oh, you might have to pay a little more for it than if you had discovered it yourself, or you might be 20 years behind everyone else, but you'll reap the benefits soon enough. Not everyone on the planet needs to be a creator for the system to work, I don't see why that shouldn't be true on a national level as well.
If you can't safely keep up with traffic you need to switch to a road where you can. If your work truck can't reach the speed limit, take a different route. IMO, there should be an implied minimum speed of 5 under the posted limit with very few exceptions. I'd be willing to bet that you'd see fewer accidents if that were the case.
I'd be willing to bet that fatalities correlates at least as well with speed differences as it does with absolute speeds. Raising the limit could easily see the slowest speed on the road move closer to the highest speed on the road, resulting in fewer accidents. Imagine how few accidents there could be if everyone went exactly 85 mph, with only small and temporary changes to let cars merge on and off.
Snow Crash - $10 from Amazon in paperback or kindle format, less than that from other sellers, and less than 1/5th that used. That's just one I know to be ridiculous from memory. How is it the same price to pulp a tree, print it, package it, and ship it to my house as it is to copy a digital file and send it over the internet (not even over wireless networks since most of the new Kindle's are WiFi only)?
"Makes" is an interesting choice of words. SW creators are offered the chance to be the app of the day, sometimes they get a portion of their regular price, sometimes they don't. But they are never "made" to do anything. If they don't want to be the app of the day, all they have to do is say 'no thanks'.
Because this is about science classrooms? God forbid we "force" science down their throats in a science classroom. Religion has no place in science, and creationism is nothing more than religion wearing a fake mustache and shady hat. I don't expect sunday schools to teach evolution (I'd be thrilled if they did of course) they shouldn't expect my child to sit through a lecture about how "some people think god did it" in science class.
You don't understand. We don't know everything about the universe or about physics but we do know some things beyond any reasonable doubt. Relativity is one of those things, specifically time dialation; GPS relies on it, we can put an atomic clock in an airplane and predict how much it will vary from a stationary one at ground level based on altitude and speed. It has been empirically verified.
You cannot have a universe with all three A) Time dilation in line with relativity B) FTL is possible and C) Causality. The three taken together are incompatible. FTL + Time dilation allows for sending messages into the past, breaking causality. Since we know A is true, either B or C must be false (or both I suppose). Therefore I have to choose, a universe that allows FTL or a universe that has causality. IMO assuming causality is true is the lesser assumption and via Occam's Razor I'm left with no FTL.
As has been reported recently on Slashdot (and known to people with circadian rhythm disorders for much longer) staring at a backlit screen at night can seriously screw up your sleep schedule. Not to mention many people have more eyestrain from backlit screens than non-emissive ones. For many people, a tablet is a terrible replacement for an eInk ereader. Does make me wonder if this Paperwhite will have the same problems though.
I have a choice, I believe in a world where FTL communication/travel is possible or I can believe in a world where causality holds. Even without all the math that says FTL is impossible, I'd still chose causality over FTL.
It's not teleportation, it's quantum teleportation. Complaining that it's not real teleportation is like complaining that an electron making a quantum leap isn't actually jumping. It's a compound word made up of two smaller words that, when taken together, have a different meaning.
There are some homeopathic treatments sold in stores that are not diluted to the point of total ineffectiveness, the most obvious being a sinus spray that is actually 1% pepper spray. Look at the back of the package for the dilution amount and keep in mind that some medicines (or even herbal remedies) are effective even in the micro-gram per kilogram dosing range. Alternatively, it could just be a coincidence you know... it's not like every ear ache developed into scarlet fever before the discovery of penicillin.
It's a waste of taxpayer money. It's a waste of patient and doctor time (including time that could have been used to actually treat the disease). And, most importantly, it legitimizes a branch of pathological science.
I think it's more along the lines of using everything we know, they mapped everything they could. And now they're done. So current methods can explain some kind of purpose (though I'd be willing to bet some regions have additional uses beyond what was found) for 80% of the human genome. It's possible that the remaining 20% actually does nothing (we know some of it at least is leftover from retro-virus infections for instance) or that it does stuff we don't understand yet or most likely some of each. This is equivalent to the first mapping of the genome in that it's using everything we know to look at the DNA that makes us what we are. They're not done yet, but then, they weren't done after they mapped all the genes either and we still celebrated that.
By any reasonable definition, they have value. Someone is willing to pay for them, as evidenced by the exchange houses existing in the first place.
Not without installing it yourself you didn't.
http://www.mobilebloom.com/verizon-galaxy-nexus-4g-jelly-bean-4-1-on-the-way-unofficially-already-out/2221143/
Promising delivery by the end of September...
Right... so where's my Jelly Bean update Verizon? (Galaxy Nexus user since launch day)
I have mental images of ordering asparin out of my replicator and getting LSD because some script kiddy managed to get a virus onto it. Hilarity will ensue no doubt.
Um, no. Larger wafers are a cost savings measure. 450mm means that you end up with fewer incomplete chips on the edges of your wafer, which in turn increases your yield. No one is stamping out a single CPU on a 450mm wafer.
How does it limit customer choice?
You need to do a google search for the phrase "chilling effect".
Star Wars 3.0 will involve convincing the Russians that fusion can be used as a weapons platform, that ought to do the trick
Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but a weapons platform is pretty much all that today's fusion technology can be used for (and has been for about 50 years).
On the other hand, if said DNA comes from fresh blood at the crime scene, or semen, or skin flakes under the victim's nails, or [etc, etc, etc]. There are plenty of times when you can say, if not for certainty, then at least beyond a reasonable doubt, that the DNA came from the perpetrator (or at the very, very least, a witness).
Which, at least in my opinion, makes it not a space elevator at all. After all, we could probably make a ribbon strong enough for an ultra sonic sky hook today or at least quite soon. A space elevator is a completely different ballgame. Using misleading buzzwords to get your funding off the ground is a bit of a red flag IMO.
If this is true, the people I know must make up one heck of a screwed up sample because it is not what I see when I look around those I interact with on a regular basis.
To be fair, hair clippings wouldn't provide DNA and it would become quite obvious that they were planted when every hair found at the crime scene was found to be snipped rather than pulled/fallen out.