I dislike when people act as if you can solve all the world's problems by pressure with the pocketbook. There is something to be said for the maxim that the same reasoning that gets you into a problem can't get you out of one. Greed can't be fixed by more greed. Now I'm all for market freedoms, I support free trade and would like to get rid of farm subsidies because it is important for a business to be able to freely operate. However, their does come a time when ethics overturns profit even for a corporation. It just happens that Google was in the right this time. Say if they were writing software that operated gas chambers for political dissidents, is that still acceptable just because they are a corporation? I think not. You can disdain such idealism, but brazen corporatism is just as bad. In the end, it takes a balance of both. Google in this case is in the right on both sides. Let's just hope that holds true in the future.
It's hard to think objectively when you have "Google Votes Against Human Rights" as the headline. Did Google vote in favor of genocide or stoning dissidents? No. What they did do was to make a nuanced calculation that I think most reasonable people would agree with. I agree with Google that it is better to provide some information than none. Seriously, what is it going to harm the Chinese government if Google packed up. Google is in a far better position to do good now than if they were completely out of the country. Amnesty and the rest can't see the forest for the trees. Taking a stand in prinicple is just that, in principle with no effect on things in the real world. Pressure Google to use its position in China to lobby for more freedom, don't try and make them leave.
Dude what are you talking about!? The MESSIAH himself, Obama peace be upon his name, is all-knowing and can at the bat of an eyelash bring about such a transformative change that the whole intellectual property system will be at peak efficiency!
Kidding aside, Obama does speak about reforming the whole intellectual property system (especially patents, which I do realize are different from copyrights and trade marks), albeit with sort of vague language. It's hard to quantify what exactly he means when he talks about reform, but hey at least he realizes something is wrong with the way we're going. Don't take my word for it, though.
I've looked at the other two candidates statements and again find nothing definitive. So I see it breaking down like this. Obama talks about rewriting intellectual property, writes some dream bill, only to have it obliterated in Congress due equally to his lack of commitment and Congress's general distaste for effective legislation. McCain and Clinton would probably be open to reform, but would jump at the chance to think of the children and gravitate towards anything that hurts filing sharing due to the whole child pornography thing.
In the end, there just aren't enough people that care. Now if we could find some way to relate copyright reform to gasoline prices, we might have a shot. People don't realize how important competent legislation is when it comes to an economy that becomes more dependent on the rapid share of information every day. The legal morass doesn't end with the MPAA and RIAA. We have patent trolls and perpetual litigators making things worse for everyone.
Personally, I think you give these guys too much credit. Pimps are the epitome of coolness. Fancy, flamboyant suits, canes, and ostentatious jewelry are great. Plus, pimps are cultural hearths. The language of my generation was pretty much developed entirely by pimps and their siblings, "playas". These guys the article is talking about are more like the white cracker, slavemasters of ideas. In short, they are totally not cool.
Implementations have value. For example, I could probably sit down and write a decent enough patent for a perpetual motion machine to where the patent office would accept it. Now obviously no such machine could be implemented. So here in lies the problem with this company's approach and the general approach of any patent troll, it is easy to come with ideas when you sit there and detach your thinking from the scientific method. Such imaginations make for great novelists and storytellers, but they make for very poor engineers and businessmen. Anyone can look at a problem and identify a solution that would work. The real skill comes in finding a solution that works in reality and then being able to back up your findings by properly and effectively implementing your solution.
All in all, I agree with the parent, this company is a leech. It sucks value out of the economy while adding none in return.
Here we have the USB Camera pointing out of the front of the scooter where the horn normally would be.
I suppose this is so you can capture the final expressions of horror from your victims as you crush them under the weight of your super-accessorized, all-powerful scooter from hell.
In all seriousness, this is a pretty neat build. Convergence to the point of absurdity is always fun.
That's something I can behind. I've participated in the LHC@Home program, and I at least feel that this sort of thing is in keeping with the general spirit of the Internet. I just have this fear that the whole thing is going to be decimated by the entertainment industry with video on demand and the like. I prefer we keep the cable infrastructure in tact for video delivery. I think the Internet is much more useful in its current state.
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Generally, I disregard these book reviews, as I am an American and do not read. However, I vow to read this book and take it to every English teacher I have ever had to rub it in their face. For years I have labored to start a second-person movement. Oh they would whine about and bemoan my efforts, "Macbeth makes no sense when every noun is 'you'! You're just full of it!" WELL THE JOKE IS ON THEM! By the way, this is why I love/., as every now and then something pops up that completely vindicates you with regard to a childish feud you had with a teacher in school.
For example, here is a styling of my second-person movement literature as if the previous portion of the post had been done in such a style: Generally, You disregard these book reviews, as You are an American and do not read. However, You vow to read this book and take it to every English teacher You have ever had to rub it in their face. For years You have labored to start a second-person movement. Oh you would whine about and bemoan your efforts, "Macbeth makes no sense when every noun is 'you'! You're just full of it!" WELL THE JOKE IS ON YOU! By the way, this is why You love/., as every now and then something pops up that completely vindicates you with regard to a childish feud you had with a teacher in school.
Wouldn't the world make much more sense if everyone spoke this way?!
What's really unfair is the fact that, being bred in Africa and all, Ubuntu uses guerilla tactics that border on terrorism.
Nothing is off-limits to Ubuntu's crazed, fundamentalist frenzy.
Ubuntu: Answer me this Mr. Suse, what good is that superior firepower of yours if you can't even boot. [cut away to a man masked with a smiley face mutilating an innocent young grub] OpenSUSE: St. Linus perserve me, I'll exact my revenge on you, all of you monsters!
There is absolutely nothing wrong with. There is also absolutely nothing wrong with someone desiring a movie to have a little more depth. Speed Racer was important to a lot of kids, and as such this movie is going to bring up a lot of feeling for them. It wasn't personally what I grew up with, but when Pinky and the Brain gets made into a film, I'm sure I'll feel the same.
In short, what I'm trying to say is that there is no one definitive way to view and think about a film. A film can be many things to many people. It's the interaction of these ideas that make the medium interesting. So never mind the flamers, and don't flame anyone else's feelings about a film (not that you were).
I am behind you all the way on Bladerunner and 2001, but The Matrix had a sound core science fiction theme along with a lot of great drama and situations...
The science of the Matrix was pretty laughable, I mean the machines are smart enough to build human farms, but too dumb to use satellites to capture solar power. A lot of stuff didn't add up. The films only saving grace, which more than made up for the plot holes, was it's deep philosophical questions, specifically about the nature of experience and what it truly means to be human. These are common threads alongside the other two films mentioned.
I think it is sort of obvious that Speed Racer isn't going to be tackling any sort of grandiose, fundamental question of philosophy. The whole cartoon was pretty campy, which the movie seems to have moved away from. This doesn't give make me hopeful about anything other than the visuals being worthwhile.
Sure, it will probably be an enjoyable film, but I would be very reluctant to mention 2001 or Bladerunner in the same breath.
I don't know about all that. Personally, I don't have all that much faith in Google. Granted it's a hard lesson to learn, but things do change and market variables do in fact vary. Online advertising is far from being a mature field and there is a great deal of value left in Yahoo. You may be right about them sort of just drifting listlessly, but again this whole market is crazy.
One thing I can tell you for sure is that being acquired by Microsoft would have ended Yahoo as we know it. Everything the company had to offer would cease to exist in order to be replaced by microsoft's own stuff. So don't be so sure about it being the best deal for investors. It's been profitable up to this point, and there is no reason it won't be for a long time. There is nothing wrong with investing in a company that has non-astronomical growth. They don't all have to be hedge funds.
Just because it costs less than 800 dollars in the rest of the world doesn't mean that it will be that cheap inside the country. Any market for importing old hardware is likely to be a black market, so the prices will be steep. It's the right step to allow personal computers in Cuba, but the majority of the people are a long way from it making any difference at all.
Just an idea, since my US government is all about supporting an open and free Cuba, it might not be bad idea to lead some sort of initiative to proliferate computers to the people. I know the government might frown upon something like this, but it would give America the moral high ground, which is something neither side has been worthy of so far.
Ebay is a minority shareholder in Craigslist. They aren't upset about any sort of competition. We don't know exactly what they are upset about, as the case is sealed. Most likely Craigslist has introduced a flood of new shares in order to reduce ebay's influence on the company.
P.S. I'm not sure if you are trolling or not, but not everything can be so easily summed up by jumping to conclusions about evil corporations and their anti-competitive nature.
ll those drives amounted to 79 million terabytes of capacity, enough for 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of MP3 songs."
I remember the first time I put the whole Library of Congress on a hard drive. It brought tears to my eyes, as I felt so lucky. Of course, this was in 2007, so I still had a few hundred more gigs to fill up with wares and music. Still it was an important experience.
The authors astutely note that security advertising often does a disservice to the security field because it glosses over complex problems and presents the illusions of a reality in which a security panacea exists. It makes the buyer believe they can reach that panacea by using their service or purchasing their product.
MARKETING causes problems?!! I'd have never dreamed of such a concoction of lunacy! This guy wants to make us think we'd actually be safer without the Nortons and McAfees of the world. I tell you this buddy, you can pry my annual $50 subscription from my cold dead hands!! I say we hunt down this guy with torches and rope in hand!
No,I do not work for Norton. What a silly question. That thousand bucks the guy in Norton shirt just gave me is totally normal, so never you mind it. Anyways, lynch the heretic!
Well holographic memory has faster access times than regular hard drives. That was supposed to be the selling point back when they debuted in prototype, like 7 years ago. Now that SSDs are popular and becoming cheaper, holographic memory looks to be headed off to novelty purgatory.
Perhaps a script that sends an email with the IP address every time the computer connects to the internet?
Dude, the scumbag just stole your laptop. Get creative. Instead of just having the a bot or something send you an email so you can identify them, go this route. Have it send an email to a bunch of.mil and.gov addresses that reads like this:
ALLAH ALLAH!!! I want to NUCLEAR BOMB the white house!!! I have a sleeper cell that already has a plan in place to kidnap beautiful AMERICAN CHILDREN and teach them ISLAM!!! DEATH TO GEORGE BUSH!!!
You could add in whatever else you feel like. That stuff was just off the top of my head.
I agree. This doesn't even seem to be as big a deal as the article makes it out to be.
Now wikipedia uses as its references the articles that came after the initial modification to Wikipedia itself
I found the summary particularly inflammatory for no apparent reason. I mean, wow! People sometimes misuse wikipedia! We had no idea! This isn't standard practice or any guideline set down by admins. It's one case where some anonymous editor acted foolishly.
You can take this and make a point about how lightly people these days treat information. They don't even consider verifiability and good practice like that. What you can't do is somehow take this and make it a crusade against wikipedia like the summary hints at.
Well some people do buy it, like it or not. While it does feel just plain wrong to give any praise to the devil, this move does give users of office a little more freedom. Isn't that what we're all shouting about all the time, freedom in software? I'm not so gullible as believe that MS is now pushing for more freedom in software, but this doesn't seem like a bad deal. It requires less of a commitment from users, and it allows them to adapt their usage to future requirements. In fact, I could also see this diversifying the market a lot. Since the initial investment in the software is so much less with this subscription based model, that it allows users more latitude, especially in enterprise. Think about how often this situation occurs: a manager has just spent $x (where x is large) on an office solution, and because of the fact the solution cost so much, the company then feels tied to it because the investment was so great. Lowering the capital investment will increase the openness of companies to more solutions, probably even open source ones.
The article specifically mentions 138 kelvins as the highest temperature where cuprates still hold on to superconductivity. That's roughly -115 degrees celsius. This greatly increases the viability of the material by greatly reducing the energy required to hold it at a critical temperature. Think about the wide extent to which liquid nitrogen is used.
Currently we are in the stage of trying to understand just what exactly is going on at the particle level. Once we move past this research stage (disclaimer: it's been going on for twenty years), the possibilities these materials provide are pretty much endless.
I was about to blast you for making a corny old joke, but I looked at your name and thought better of it. I understand your people's proud and ancient culture. We are accepting of all walks of life here. Your writing on stone tablets makes the whole of society richer. I want to thank to thank you for holding against the evils of technology and actually making life worthwhile.
By the way, GUIs nowadays really are so easy that a cave man could use them, if you ever got the inclination.
Which provides the greater threat to civilization: Dr. Octupus (insidious human intelligence in control of super, robotically enhanced strength) or Skynet (insidious artificial intelligence in control of super, robotically enhanced strength)?
Just make sure to say no if one these subjects starts asking for more tritium!
I know right!!! One time in a physics class I tried to argue that black body radiation was a result of the "heated" exchanges between particles resulting from domestic disturbances amongst ethnically darker sub-atomic units in objects. When he told to be quiet, I told him that he was committing his own brand of a holocaust and was just as guilty as Hitler for the murder of the Jews. The professor called me crazy and kicked me out of class and gave me a poor grade for the day!
Can you believe such barbarism exists in this day and age. It's outrageous. I'm sick and tired of these stiffs pushing "Dead White Male Science" that is little more than soma. ALL THEORIES DESERVE TO BE HEARD!! I will gladly become a martyr for any of my theories. We deserve the truth!
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I dislike when people act as if you can solve all the world's problems by pressure with the pocketbook. There is something to be said for the maxim that the same reasoning that gets you into a problem can't get you out of one. Greed can't be fixed by more greed. Now I'm all for market freedoms, I support free trade and would like to get rid of farm subsidies because it is important for a business to be able to freely operate. However, their does come a time when ethics overturns profit even for a corporation. It just happens that Google was in the right this time. Say if they were writing software that operated gas chambers for political dissidents, is that still acceptable just because they are a corporation? I think not. You can disdain such idealism, but brazen corporatism is just as bad. In the end, it takes a balance of both. Google in this case is in the right on both sides. Let's just hope that holds true in the future.
It's hard to think objectively when you have "Google Votes Against Human Rights" as the headline. Did Google vote in favor of genocide or stoning dissidents? No. What they did do was to make a nuanced calculation that I think most reasonable people would agree with. I agree with Google that it is better to provide some information than none. Seriously, what is it going to harm the Chinese government if Google packed up. Google is in a far better position to do good now than if they were completely out of the country. Amnesty and the rest can't see the forest for the trees. Taking a stand in prinicple is just that, in principle with no effect on things in the real world. Pressure Google to use its position in China to lobby for more freedom, don't try and make them leave.
Dude what are you talking about!? The MESSIAH himself, Obama peace be upon his name, is all-knowing and can at the bat of an eyelash bring about such a transformative change that the whole intellectual property system will be at peak efficiency!
Kidding aside, Obama does speak about reforming the whole intellectual property system (especially patents, which I do realize are different from copyrights and trade marks), albeit with sort of vague language. It's hard to quantify what exactly he means when he talks about reform, but hey at least he realizes something is wrong with the way we're going. Don't take my word for it, though.
I've looked at the other two candidates statements and again find nothing definitive. So I see it breaking down like this. Obama talks about rewriting intellectual property, writes some dream bill, only to have it obliterated in Congress due equally to his lack of commitment and Congress's general distaste for effective legislation. McCain and Clinton would probably be open to reform, but would jump at the chance to think of the children and gravitate towards anything that hurts filing sharing due to the whole child pornography thing.
In the end, there just aren't enough people that care. Now if we could find some way to relate copyright reform to gasoline prices, we might have a shot. People don't realize how important competent legislation is when it comes to an economy that becomes more dependent on the rapid share of information every day. The legal morass doesn't end with the MPAA and RIAA. We have patent trolls and perpetual litigators making things worse for everyone.
Personally, I think you give these guys too much credit. Pimps are the epitome of coolness. Fancy, flamboyant suits, canes, and ostentatious jewelry are great. Plus, pimps are cultural hearths. The language of my generation was pretty much developed entirely by pimps and their siblings, "playas". These guys the article is talking about are more like the white cracker, slavemasters of ideas. In short, they are totally not cool.
Implementations have value. For example, I could probably sit down and write a decent enough patent for a perpetual motion machine to where the patent office would accept it. Now obviously no such machine could be implemented. So here in lies the problem with this company's approach and the general approach of any patent troll, it is easy to come with ideas when you sit there and detach your thinking from the scientific method. Such imaginations make for great novelists and storytellers, but they make for very poor engineers and businessmen. Anyone can look at a problem and identify a solution that would work. The real skill comes in finding a solution that works in reality and then being able to back up your findings by properly and effectively implementing your solution.
All in all, I agree with the parent, this company is a leech. It sucks value out of the economy while adding none in return.
Here we have the USB Camera pointing out of the front of the scooter where the horn normally would be.
I suppose this is so you can capture the final expressions of horror from your victims as you crush them under the weight of your super-accessorized, all-powerful scooter from hell.
In all seriousness, this is a pretty neat build. Convergence to the point of absurdity is always fun.
That's something I can behind. I've participated in the LHC@Home program, and I at least feel that this sort of thing is in keeping with the general spirit of the Internet. I just have this fear that the whole thing is going to be decimated by the entertainment industry with video on demand and the like. I prefer we keep the cable infrastructure in tact for video delivery. I think the Internet is much more useful in its current state.
Generally, I disregard these book reviews, as I am an American and do not read. However, I vow to read this book and take it to every English teacher I have ever had to rub it in their face. For years I have labored to start a second-person movement. Oh they would whine about and bemoan my efforts, "Macbeth makes no sense when every noun is 'you'! You're just full of it!" WELL THE JOKE IS ON THEM! By the way, this is why I love /., as every now and then something pops up that completely vindicates you with regard to a childish feud you had with a teacher in school.
/., as every now and then something pops up that completely vindicates you with regard to a childish feud you had with a teacher in school.
For example, here is a styling of my second-person movement literature as if the previous portion of the post had been done in such a style:
Generally, You disregard these book reviews, as You are an American and do not read. However, You vow to read this book and take it to every English teacher You have ever had to rub it in their face. For years You have labored to start a second-person movement. Oh you would whine about and bemoan your efforts, "Macbeth makes no sense when every noun is 'you'! You're just full of it!" WELL THE JOKE IS ON YOU! By the way, this is why You love
Wouldn't the world make much more sense if everyone spoke this way?!
What's really unfair is the fact that, being bred in Africa and all, Ubuntu uses guerilla tactics that border on terrorism.
Nothing is off-limits to Ubuntu's crazed, fundamentalist frenzy.
Ubuntu: Answer me this Mr. Suse, what good is that superior firepower of yours if you can't even boot. [cut away to a man masked with a smiley face mutilating an innocent young grub]
OpenSUSE: St. Linus perserve me, I'll exact my revenge on you, all of you monsters!
There is absolutely nothing wrong with. There is also absolutely nothing wrong with someone desiring a movie to have a little more depth. Speed Racer was important to a lot of kids, and as such this movie is going to bring up a lot of feeling for them. It wasn't personally what I grew up with, but when Pinky and the Brain gets made into a film, I'm sure I'll feel the same.
In short, what I'm trying to say is that there is no one definitive way to view and think about a film. A film can be many things to many people. It's the interaction of these ideas that make the medium interesting. So never mind the flamers, and don't flame anyone else's feelings about a film (not that you were).
I am behind you all the way on Bladerunner and 2001, but The Matrix had a sound core science fiction theme along with a lot of great drama and situations...
The science of the Matrix was pretty laughable, I mean the machines are smart enough to build human farms, but too dumb to use satellites to capture solar power. A lot of stuff didn't add up. The films only saving grace, which more than made up for the plot holes, was it's deep philosophical questions, specifically about the nature of experience and what it truly means to be human. These are common threads alongside the other two films mentioned.
I think it is sort of obvious that Speed Racer isn't going to be tackling any sort of grandiose, fundamental question of philosophy. The whole cartoon was pretty campy, which the movie seems to have moved away from. This doesn't give make me hopeful about anything other than the visuals being worthwhile.
Sure, it will probably be an enjoyable film, but I would be very reluctant to mention 2001 or Bladerunner in the same breath.
I don't know about all that. Personally, I don't have all that much faith in Google. Granted it's a hard lesson to learn, but things do change and market variables do in fact vary. Online advertising is far from being a mature field and there is a great deal of value left in Yahoo. You may be right about them sort of just drifting listlessly, but again this whole market is crazy.
One thing I can tell you for sure is that being acquired by Microsoft would have ended Yahoo as we know it. Everything the company had to offer would cease to exist in order to be replaced by microsoft's own stuff. So don't be so sure about it being the best deal for investors. It's been profitable up to this point, and there is no reason it won't be for a long time. There is nothing wrong with investing in a company that has non-astronomical growth. They don't all have to be hedge funds.
Just because it costs less than 800 dollars in the rest of the world doesn't mean that it will be that cheap inside the country. Any market for importing old hardware is likely to be a black market, so the prices will be steep. It's the right step to allow personal computers in Cuba, but the majority of the people are a long way from it making any difference at all.
Just an idea, since my US government is all about supporting an open and free Cuba, it might not be bad idea to lead some sort of initiative to proliferate computers to the people. I know the government might frown upon something like this, but it would give America the moral high ground, which is something neither side has been worthy of so far.
Ebay is a minority shareholder in Craigslist. They aren't upset about any sort of competition. We don't know exactly what they are upset about, as the case is sealed. Most likely Craigslist has introduced a flood of new shares in order to reduce ebay's influence on the company.
P.S. I'm not sure if you are trolling or not, but not everything can be so easily summed up by jumping to conclusions about evil corporations and their anti-competitive nature.
ll those drives amounted to 79 million terabytes of capacity, enough for 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of MP3 songs."
I remember the first time I put the whole Library of Congress on a hard drive. It brought tears to my eyes, as I felt so lucky. Of course, this was in 2007, so I still had a few hundred more gigs to fill up with wares and music. Still it was an important experience.
The authors astutely note that security advertising often does a disservice to the security field because it glosses over complex problems and presents the illusions of a reality in which a security panacea exists. It makes the buyer believe they can reach that panacea by using their service or purchasing their product.
MARKETING causes problems?!! I'd have never dreamed of such a concoction of lunacy! This guy wants to make us think we'd actually be safer without the Nortons and McAfees of the world. I tell you this buddy, you can pry my annual $50 subscription from my cold dead hands!! I say we hunt down this guy with torches and rope in hand!
No,I do not work for Norton. What a silly question. That thousand bucks the guy in Norton shirt just gave me is totally normal, so never you mind it. Anyways, lynch the heretic!
Well holographic memory has faster access times than regular hard drives. That was supposed to be the selling point back when they debuted in prototype, like 7 years ago. Now that SSDs are popular and becoming cheaper, holographic memory looks to be headed off to novelty purgatory.
Perhaps a script that sends an email with the IP address every time the computer connects to the internet?
.mil and .gov addresses that reads like this:
Dude, the scumbag just stole your laptop. Get creative. Instead of just having the a bot or something send you an email so you can identify them, go this route. Have it send an email to a bunch of
ALLAH ALLAH!!! I want to NUCLEAR BOMB the white house!!! I have a sleeper cell that already has a plan in place to kidnap beautiful AMERICAN CHILDREN and teach them ISLAM!!! DEATH TO GEORGE BUSH!!!
You could add in whatever else you feel like. That stuff was just off the top of my head.
I agree. This doesn't even seem to be as big a deal as the article makes it out to be.
Now wikipedia uses as its references the articles that came after the initial modification to Wikipedia itself
I found the summary particularly inflammatory for no apparent reason. I mean, wow! People sometimes misuse wikipedia! We had no idea! This isn't standard practice or any guideline set down by admins. It's one case where some anonymous editor acted foolishly.
You can take this and make a point about how lightly people these days treat information. They don't even consider verifiability and good practice like that. What you can't do is somehow take this and make it a crusade against wikipedia like the summary hints at.
Well some people do buy it, like it or not. While it does feel just plain wrong to give any praise to the devil, this move does give users of office a little more freedom. Isn't that what we're all shouting about all the time, freedom in software? I'm not so gullible as believe that MS is now pushing for more freedom in software, but this doesn't seem like a bad deal. It requires less of a commitment from users, and it allows them to adapt their usage to future requirements. In fact, I could also see this diversifying the market a lot. Since the initial investment in the software is so much less with this subscription based model, that it allows users more latitude, especially in enterprise. Think about how often this situation occurs: a manager has just spent $x (where x is large) on an office solution, and because of the fact the solution cost so much, the company then feels tied to it because the investment was so great. Lowering the capital investment will increase the openness of companies to more solutions, probably even open source ones.
The article specifically mentions 138 kelvins as the highest temperature where cuprates still hold on to superconductivity. That's roughly -115 degrees celsius. This greatly increases the viability of the material by greatly reducing the energy required to hold it at a critical temperature. Think about the wide extent to which liquid nitrogen is used.
Currently we are in the stage of trying to understand just what exactly is going on at the particle level. Once we move past this research stage (disclaimer: it's been going on for twenty years), the possibilities these materials provide are pretty much endless.
Here (PDF warning) is an in depth look at high temperature superconductors, especially the cuprate families, for those not well versed in the subject.
I was about to blast you for making a corny old joke, but I looked at your name and thought better of it. I understand your people's proud and ancient culture. We are accepting of all walks of life here. Your writing on stone tablets makes the whole of society richer. I want to thank to thank you for holding against the evils of technology and actually making life worthwhile.
By the way, GUIs nowadays really are so easy that a cave man could use them, if you ever got the inclination.
Which provides the greater threat to civilization: Dr. Octupus (insidious human intelligence in control of super, robotically enhanced strength) or Skynet (insidious artificial intelligence in control of super, robotically enhanced strength)?
Just make sure to say no if one these subjects starts asking for more tritium!
I know right!!! One time in a physics class I tried to argue that black body radiation was a result of the "heated" exchanges between particles resulting from domestic disturbances amongst ethnically darker sub-atomic units in objects. When he told to be quiet, I told him that he was committing his own brand of a holocaust and was just as guilty as Hitler for the murder of the Jews. The professor called me crazy and kicked me out of class and gave me a poor grade for the day!
Can you believe such barbarism exists in this day and age. It's outrageous. I'm sick and tired of these stiffs pushing "Dead White Male Science" that is little more than soma. ALL THEORIES DESERVE TO BE HEARD!! I will gladly become a martyr for any of my theories. We deserve the truth!