Look you could reduce the pollution from cars to 0 tomorrow and the CO2 emmissions to nothing and you would not put a dent in the CO2 and pollution we produce as humans. Look we can all SEE cars , and diesel trucks and think look at all that stuff it just put in the air. The fact of the matter is one large tanker ship is equal in pollution output as 1 million cars. 1 ship : 1 million cars
the 80's got us looking at the wrong thing and our heads are still stuck looking at the things we can see.
ahhh.... the science is not done on CRISPR-CAS9 -- it works -- kind of, 60% of the time. Oh and if the cell it touches is in the middle of mitosis all bets are off on what mutation it will produce -- oh yeah it also has big problems with gamete cells, you know eggs and sperm. Oh yeah that right it also has this other isssue with....
CRISPR-CAS9 works in a lab in a controlled environment. very controlled. the science is moving faster no doubt, but its not there yet.
the second they get it down pat, i would love for more efficient mitochondria.
Honestly the societies you listed had problems that communism was not the cause of
USSR - was in a arms race with the US, that it was never going to win, it pushed so much of it's countries production into making nukes that while it had thousands of more nuclear warheads than the USA at it's peak, it could do nothing else economically.
Those other counties listed - NK, Cuba, China... the only reason they are behind is because they were locked out economic markets for being communist. Look at a map of the Marshal Plan participants ( European Recovery Program ), these are the most advanced technologically and stable economies in the world next to the US.
China never promised it's people an easy life, China's government promises it's people safety from invaders and internal stability. We have a hard time understanding this as a primary driving mandate in the US because we have a very different value system. We are culturally very different, if the Chinese did not like they're government then if they chose to rise to the occasion there are too many of them ( x billion ) to not topple any government on Earth, just saying;-)
If you are stating that economic ability is - them getting close to the US - then China passed us a few years ago, and as there next half billion people move into the middle class they will be the only economic powerhouse on the planet... we in the US do not have the number of people to compete, our population is too small and this generation of rule makers do not like immigrants ( every generation has had a problem with this to be fair -- lookup Irish discrimination, Catholic discrimination, Italian discrimination - if your different and moved to the US recently the established blamed everything on you )
"In fact, their political policies reinforced* inequity," == as do ours in the US, where the middle class has been shrunk by half in the last 30 years due to changes in tax policy. Granted I like paying less in taxes, but I realize that as the more affluent pay less as well they get to buy more items for speculation purposes that raises the cost of items higher, like houses, cars, clothing, food, and travel, hotels, rentals and everything else. Their money flooding back into the economy has had good things happen to, like reinvestment, venture capitalism funding large gains in tech.
At the end of the day, if we create a society in which 90% of work is done and can be done by machines or the people that program and maintain machines, how do we evolve our way of thinking about our, humans, place in society. If we can only envision usefulness in terms of economics we are doomed to displacing billions into poverty. And if everyone is poor not because they are unable, but because it make no economic sense to employ them we need to rethink money and the role it plays. People are starting to have this conversation more and more as the US the second biggest economy the former king of the middle class looses it middle class to poverty.
this is in legislature -- a bill -- not a law, the courts only see things that are about a law.
And the bigger picture - to me is the fact that the scientific method is the basis for analysis. It is one of the greatest tools we have to test ideas, and theories. And it being taught in grade school forms the basis of how everyone thinks through problems they face in everyday life.
I have an issue, I think it is caused by this. I change that parameter, does the outcome of the issue change. If so I have found the right parameter and need to address it.
That line of thinking was not standardized before the scientific process. And we are greater after it's refinement, and poorer to contemplate displacing it with nothing.
as with most satellite missions gone wrong -- its was the gyroscope.... remember it was replaced on Hubble a few times... its seems to be the weakest link in a lot of missions as it has to be a moving part to induce counter rotation in the satellite. it's only feasible to put so many on board... so maybe a redesign of this one part will save future missions... but maybe its time to think outside the box now that we know ion drives work a kg of propellant and three exhuast ports would fix this issue with new tech
Unfortunately the government now funds NASA to find better ways of finding ever smaller pieces of space junk so that important items like the ISS don't get hit by stray debris.
How pissed would you be, to be one of the people at NASA or US Air Force on the project and then reading this story.... or would you be thinking "Hey,.. job security"
This is a comment from a scientist that I can only hope was taken out of context...
The most common systems contain one or more planets one to three times bigger than Earth, all orbiting much closer to their parent stars than Earth circles the sun, says astronomer Andrew Howard, with the University of Hawaii."
Of the planets we have found, from observation with Kepler mission are the ones with the shortest revolutions. Basically Kepler counts how many times the star dims and looks for a pattern... every 90 days -- every 180 days... If Kepler was in Alpha Centauri it would not have been in operation long enough to find Earth yet if it was look directly at the Sun. It need up to 4 occurrences to be sure it has found a planet... it started in May 19 2009 -- If we passed in front of the Sun on the 19th --- it would not 'find' Earth until two week from now. Kepler has not been in operation long enough to find Earth yet... so the claim that most planets are orbiting closer to the Sun than Earth is because it will be in the next two years that the planets that orbit with a similiar period to Earth start to show up... It the MAIN reason the program was extended to 2016... That way we will see the Earth like orbits and a few Mars like orbits.
1) so we all know and love the modern US and European way of calendar generation. 24 hours in a day, 365 +1 on leap year this is called the Gregorian Calendar.
Well It took me by shock when I learned of the other different calendars when trying to create an international holiday calendar that correctly identified holidays that closed the trading markets. So here is a short summary.
2) Julian time is the integer assigned to a whole solar day in the Julian day count starting from noon Greenwich Mean Time, with Julian day number 0 assigned to the day starting at noon on January 1, 4713 BC. (copied from wikipedia) this is used by Astronomers ALOT. And serves as a basis for translating between different calendar systems.
3) The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar, incorporating elements of a lunar calendar with those of a solar calendar. ( from wikipedia ) So basically the days are subject to the sun rising and setting just like the Gregorian calendar.. But the months are tied to the winter equinox. So the winter equinox MUST always fall within a certain month and then the rest of the calendar is built backwards, with a set number of days each, and sometimes you need an extra month to accommodate. It works and is very complex. If you own the book Astronomical Algorithms and know programming you will have enough information to create a calendar as accurate as the Chinese produce.
4) The Hebrew or Jewish calendar ( , ha'luach ha'ivri) is a lunisolar calendar used today predominantly for Jewish religious observances.(taken from wikipedia). The current year of the Jewish calendar (16 September 2012 to 4 September 2013) is AM 5773. The Jewish day is of no fixed length. The Jewish day is modeled on the reference to "...there was evening and there was morning..." in the Creation account in the first chapter of Genesis. The really interesting thing I learned is that every hour is divided into 1080 halakim or parts. A part is 3 seconds or 1/18 minute. This makes predicting the moon extremely accurate to estimation. Also a Metonic cycle equates to 235 lunar months in each 19-year cycle. This gives an average of 6939 days, 16 hours, and 595 parts for each cycle. But due to the Rosh Hashanah postponement rules (preceding section) a cycle of 19 Jewish years can be either 6939, 6940, 6941, or 6942 days in duration. But this calendar is extremely easy to program.
5) Arabic calendar. I never could figure out this calendar system. It is similar to the Jewish calendar but where one allows months to move progressively throughout the year the other is fixed so that months happen around the same time every year. I forget which one does which. Sorry, it been a while. This calendar is supposed to be very computer friendly as well, however I could not figure it out within the time frames of the project I was doing.
6) The Hindi calendar is to my knowledge one of the most complex and complex, and complex... did I mention complex calenders in existence. I never figured it all out. But it has to do with a month starting depending on where the moon is when the sun rises on a given day. It can be figured out, but because it is based on very complex dimensions like sunrise which varies based on location, and perceived placement of the moon, which varies by location, the calender is fractured into different version for different regions. I am sure it is a good calendar, I just don;t understand how it fits in a 21st century setting. Basically if you have to deal with someone using a Hindu calendar or need to write a contract and guarantee payments that you will get, base it on days, not months or years. Trust me you will save you and your organization brutal misunderstandings. Everyone agrees a day consists of nighttime and daytime.
Those are the 6 calendars I dealt with. They represent the calendars in use by the biggest economies in the world. But there are more. What I learned that impressed me the most was that all of them outside of the Gregorian and Julian are anci
But the HUP is made for a case of a single strong measurement. This describes using multiple weak measurements which was proposed back in 1993. Good to see it is finally coming to light as a useful tool.
This is talking abou textending the school year -- no one said kids would never go outside....
And you only need five minutes of sun light to completely restore vitamin D levels in the body. kids stand outside waiting on the bus longer than that. Schools are not going anywhere. The need for social interaction while learning is common to all people. What kids don't need is more overly protective parents making them stay inside all day at a computer to learn.
Schools should be and are where you go ot be taught what humans know. To gain skills to approach analytical problems, and a place to gain basic skills that are common to all jobs.
Changing how the school year is formatted is fine go for it, but it would be better to make the minimum requirements for teaching to be a lot higher. That would improve everything a lot faster. Make all elementary teachers have a BS degree in a science field and a teaching certificate. make all secondary education teachers have a MS in the field they teach and a teachers certificate. have them teach courses that are close to college equivalent. This will give us better educated youth.
Like all colonies on Earth from the Imperialism era where there was the land grab in Africa to the American colonies: Once colonies become self sufficient their cultural base wants increased taxes because the colony operates like corp, but the people living there treat it as home and want independence from a culture that is not in touch with their day to day lives. How do you suppose to guarantee funding for Mars exploration while protecting the future of the endeavor from the issues of taxation and right of governance when the colony does become self sufficient?
Hello, related to this question, and the following question for that matter:
With Mars' lack of a magnetosphere and the MARIE experiment failing due to high radiation levels coupled with no ozone layer to absorb UV light, what hope do humans have of using the surface of the planet or introducing flora?
Would it not be more practical to send robots to the Moon and set up infrastructure in an experimental effort to identify problems. Granted the two are VERY different environments, atmosphere, and gravity, but surely the money saved on fuel and communication time would give the Moon a a very strong case to be first settled.
I have heard the arguments that rocket fuel can be easily made with late 1800's techniques from the CO2 rich atmosphere. Do those arguments hold any water?
So you never get to see the cars as they crash. We are dealing with E=mc^2 so matter and energy are exchangeable. They are literally looking at the resulting energy and particles and saying -- hmm what could make you be the outcome. unfortunately in this energy range ALMOST everything creates the same outcomes. With one possible exception. The Higgs would leave the same outcome but with a slightly bigger energy signature. You never get to see it. But if you find enough signatures that are slightly too big then it must be real.
So you never get that test drive.
And this would be the first 0 spin boson i think -- fact check me on that.
Also the Higgs is the first tachyon -- NOT FTL - just an inconsistency in a field.
Post Higgs -- look st the charts -- what is going on around 200 GeV -- something unexpected;-)
6 quarks 6 leptons 5 bosons --- odd man out -- perhaps the 6th boson is responsible for Dark Energy?
------------- the bosons are force carriers gloun - strongest, over shortest distance w+ w- and z -- strong up to 10^-18 m EM force -- controls everyday life up to the size of large asteroid Higgs -- gives mass to W/Z and if something is massive enough we call it's effect gravity ??? -- we now current theories of gravity fall apart on cosmic scales --- galaxies rotate to fast, space has an energy factor -- this points to another force... but how do you test for something that operates on galaxies?? it was hard as heck to find the Higgs.
the Hardware was never a question. A linux box or a windows box runs on the same hardware. It emulates directory setup, file system usage, dll and a lot of other little things.
A computer is by definition hardware -- or software. A computer is a machine defined by memory and a language that allows it to follow instructions and execute commands. A computer ceased to be hardware a long time ago, and began being able to fit into the pure software a long time ago. Depends on application of the word. But please understand that when you take a mathematics of computing course in grad school or undergrad you understand that a computer is a machine and a machine can be software.
Everyone is upset NVIDIA doesn't give away all it's secrets. There hard earned property. that they built. Why not go the more open route and create one set of driver standards for video cards. VESA -- everyone knows the standard and its up to the manufacturer to optimize their side and on the consumer side you get what you asked for.
This is actually a battle over special features -- my hardware can do some pretty sweet stuff, but I wanna control how you can access that stuff. the concept from above still applies, but there is no incentive for the hardware designer to devote resources (people and the salaries they have to pay those people) to help you bang out that new framework.
I love open source, but it's built on peoples free time. Companies have to justify how something makes them money. Saying this will build product sales in a 10% market share is not enough. So come halfway and get the framework done and they will optimize their side. This is the best of both world I get a product and they stay behind their doors, but it's a blackbox I can use.
Encrypt the hard drive all you wish, all they are asking for are the expected input and output specs. This does not have to change with an encrypted source.
Well then you should see Hawking in Intel's promotional video's --- he is making a lot of money promoting Intel lately. At the end of one video he state that Intel has always powered his wheelchair -- the video is quite gimmicky but it's Hawking so... I have no problem believing he has sold his soul to Intel, They are probably paying for his flight into space.
We know they had chemical weapons because we sold them to Iraq from the late seventies to the mid eighties... this wasn't a question of might and maybe -- but we knew they had chemical weapons because we gave them to Saddam. Hell Detroit gave Saddam the key to the city in 1979. He was a hero in the late seventies --- that all changed and we knew he still had some pretty good bombs --- now we were TOTALLY WRONG about having nukes.
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Look you could reduce the pollution from cars to 0 tomorrow and the CO2 emmissions to nothing and you would not put a dent in the CO2 and pollution we produce as humans. Look we can all SEE cars , and diesel trucks and think look at all that stuff it just put in the air. The fact of the matter is one large tanker ship is equal in pollution output as 1 million cars. 1 ship : 1 million cars
the 80's got us looking at the wrong thing and our heads are still stuck looking at the things we can see.
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ahhh.... the science is not done on CRISPR-CAS9 -- it works -- kind of, 60% of the time. Oh and if the cell it touches is in the middle of mitosis all bets are off on what mutation it will produce -- oh yeah it also has big problems with gamete cells, you know eggs and sperm. Oh yeah that right it also has this other isssue with....
CRISPR-CAS9 works in a lab in a controlled environment. very controlled. the science is moving faster no doubt, but its not there yet.
the second they get it down pat, i would love for more efficient mitochondria.
Honestly the societies you listed had problems that communism was not the cause of
USSR - was in a arms race with the US, that it was never going to win, it pushed so much of it's countries production into making nukes that while it had thousands of more nuclear warheads than the USA at it's peak, it could do nothing else economically.
Those other counties listed - NK, Cuba, China ... the only reason they are behind is because they were locked out economic markets for being communist. Look at a map of the Marshal Plan participants ( European Recovery Program ), these are the most advanced technologically and stable economies in the world next to the US.
China never promised it's people an easy life, China's government promises it's people safety from invaders and internal stability. We have a hard time understanding this as a primary driving mandate in the US because we have a very different value system. We are culturally very different, if the Chinese did not like they're government then if they chose to rise to the occasion there are too many of them ( x billion ) to not topple any government on Earth, just saying ;-)
If you are stating that economic ability is - them getting close to the US - then China passed us a few years ago, and as there next half billion people move into the middle class they will be the only economic powerhouse on the planet... we in the US do not have the number of people to compete, our population is too small and this generation of rule makers do not like immigrants ( every generation has had a problem with this to be fair -- lookup Irish discrimination, Catholic discrimination, Italian discrimination - if your different and moved to the US recently the established blamed everything on you )
"In fact, their political policies reinforced* inequity," == as do ours in the US, where the middle class has been shrunk by half in the last 30 years due to changes in tax policy. Granted I like paying less in taxes, but I realize that as the more affluent pay less as well they get to buy more items for speculation purposes that raises the cost of items higher, like houses, cars, clothing, food, and travel, hotels, rentals and everything else. Their money flooding back into the economy has had good things happen to, like reinvestment, venture capitalism funding large gains in tech.
At the end of the day, if we create a society in which 90% of work is done and can be done by machines or the people that program and maintain machines, how do we evolve our way of thinking about our, humans, place in society. If we can only envision usefulness in terms of economics we are doomed to displacing billions into poverty. And if everyone is poor not because they are unable, but because it make no economic sense to employ them we need to rethink money and the role it plays. People are starting to have this conversation more and more as the US the second biggest economy the former king of the middle class looses it middle class to poverty.
So this algo is consistent 80% of the time and is correct 90%.... this is just a spin on numbers
this is in legislature -- a bill -- not a law, the courts only see things that are about a law.
And the bigger picture - to me is the fact that the scientific method is the basis for analysis. It is one of the greatest tools we have to test ideas, and theories. And it being taught in grade school forms the basis of how everyone thinks through problems they face in everyday life.
I have an issue, I think it is caused by this. I change that parameter, does the outcome of the issue change. If so I have found the right parameter and need to address it.
That line of thinking was not standardized before the scientific process. And we are greater after it's refinement, and poorer to contemplate displacing it with nothing.
~So says the God fearing Christian. [me]
as with most satellite missions gone wrong -- its was the gyroscope.... remember it was replaced on Hubble a few times... its seems to be the weakest link in a lot of missions as it has to be a moving part to induce counter rotation in the satellite. it's only feasible to put so many on board ... so maybe a redesign of this one part will save future missions ... but maybe its time to think outside the box now that we know ion drives work a kg of propellant and three exhuast ports would fix this issue with new tech
Other than that it was an awesome mission.
Unfortunately the government now funds NASA to find better ways of finding ever smaller pieces of space junk so that important items like the ISS don't get hit by stray debris.
How pissed would you be, to be one of the people at NASA or US Air Force on the project and then reading this story.... or would you be thinking "Hey,.. job security"
This is a comment from a scientist that I can only hope was taken out of context...
The most common systems contain one or more planets one to three times bigger than Earth, all orbiting much closer to their parent stars than Earth circles the sun, says astronomer Andrew Howard, with the University of Hawaii."
Of the planets we have found, from observation with Kepler mission are the ones with the shortest revolutions. Basically Kepler counts how many times the star dims and looks for a pattern ... every 90 days -- every 180 days... If Kepler was in Alpha Centauri it would not have been in operation long enough to find Earth yet if it was look directly at the Sun. It need up to 4 occurrences to be sure it has found a planet... it started in May 19 2009 -- If we passed in front of the Sun on the 19th --- it would not 'find' Earth until two week from now. Kepler has not been in operation long enough to find Earth yet ... so the claim that most planets are orbiting closer to the Sun than Earth is because it will be in the next two years that the planets that orbit with a similiar period to Earth start to show up... It the MAIN reason the program was extended to 2016 ... That way we will see the Earth like orbits and a few Mars like orbits.
1) so we all know and love the modern US and European way of calendar generation. 24 hours in a day, 365 +1 on leap year this is called the Gregorian Calendar.
Well It took me by shock when I learned of the other different calendars when trying to create an international holiday calendar that correctly identified holidays that closed the trading markets. So here is a short summary.
2) Julian time is the integer assigned to a whole solar day in the Julian day count starting from noon Greenwich Mean Time, with Julian day number 0 assigned to the day starting at noon on January 1, 4713 BC. (copied from wikipedia) this is used by Astronomers ALOT. And serves as a basis for translating between different calendar systems.
3) The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar, incorporating elements of a lunar calendar with those of a solar calendar. ( from wikipedia ) So basically the days are subject to the sun rising and setting just like the Gregorian calendar.. But the months are tied to the winter equinox. So the winter equinox MUST always fall within a certain month and then the rest of the calendar is built backwards, with a set number of days each, and sometimes you need an extra month to accommodate. It works and is very complex. If you own the book Astronomical Algorithms and know programming you will have enough information to create a calendar as accurate as the Chinese produce.
4) The Hebrew or Jewish calendar ( , ha'luach ha'ivri) is a lunisolar calendar used today predominantly for Jewish religious observances.(taken from wikipedia). The current year of the Jewish calendar (16 September 2012 to 4 September 2013) is AM 5773. The Jewish day is of no fixed length. The Jewish day is modeled on the reference to "...there was evening and there was morning..." in the Creation account in the first chapter of Genesis. The really interesting thing I learned is that every hour is divided into 1080 halakim or parts. A part is 3 seconds or 1/18 minute. This makes predicting the moon extremely accurate to estimation. Also a Metonic cycle equates to 235 lunar months in each 19-year cycle. This gives an average of 6939 days, 16 hours, and 595 parts for each cycle. But due to the Rosh Hashanah postponement rules (preceding section) a cycle of 19 Jewish years can be either 6939, 6940, 6941, or 6942 days in duration. But this calendar is extremely easy to program.
5) Arabic calendar. I never could figure out this calendar system. It is similar to the Jewish calendar but where one allows months to move progressively throughout the year the other is fixed so that months happen around the same time every year. I forget which one does which. Sorry, it been a while. This calendar is supposed to be very computer friendly as well, however I could not figure it out within the time frames of the project I was doing.
6) The Hindi calendar is to my knowledge one of the most complex and complex, and complex ... did I mention complex calenders in existence. I never figured it all out. But it has to do with a month starting depending on where the moon is when the sun rises on a given day. It can be figured out, but because it is based on very complex dimensions like sunrise which varies based on location, and perceived placement of the moon, which varies by location, the calender is fractured into different version for different regions. I am sure it is a good calendar, I just don;t understand how it fits in a 21st century setting. Basically if you have to deal with someone using a Hindu calendar or need to write a contract and guarantee payments that you will get, base it on days, not months or years. Trust me you will save you and your organization brutal misunderstandings. Everyone agrees a day consists of nighttime and daytime.
Those are the 6 calendars I dealt with. They represent the calendars in use by the biggest economies in the world. But there are more. What I learned that impressed me the most was that all of them outside of the Gregorian and Julian are anci
all experiments are subject to error...
But the HUP is made for a case of a single strong measurement. This describes using multiple weak measurements which was proposed back in 1993. Good to see it is finally coming to light as a useful tool.
And this is fundamentally different from Apple's OS -- FreeBSD + changes
This is talking abou textending the school year -- no one said kids would never go outside....
And you only need five minutes of sun light to completely restore vitamin D levels in the body. kids stand outside waiting on the bus longer than that. Schools are not going anywhere. The need for social interaction while learning is common to all people. What kids don't need is more overly protective parents making them stay inside all day at a computer to learn.
Schools should be and are where you go ot be taught what humans know. To gain skills to approach analytical problems, and a place to gain basic skills that are common to all jobs.
Changing how the school year is formatted is fine go for it, but it would be better to make the minimum requirements for teaching to be a lot higher. That would improve everything a lot faster. Make all elementary teachers have a BS degree in a science field and a teaching certificate. make all secondary education teachers have a MS in the field they teach and a teachers certificate. have them teach courses that are close to college equivalent. This will give us better educated youth.
[insert definition of pedantic here]
Could you expand on this question:
Like all colonies on Earth from the Imperialism era where there was the land grab in Africa to the American colonies: Once colonies become self sufficient their cultural base wants increased taxes because the colony operates like corp, but the people living there treat it as home and want independence from a culture that is not in touch with their day to day lives. How do you suppose to guarantee funding for Mars exploration while protecting the future of the endeavor from the issues of taxation and right of governance when the colony does become self sufficient?
Hello, related to this question, and the following question for that matter:
With Mars' lack of a magnetosphere and the MARIE experiment failing due to high radiation levels coupled with no ozone layer to absorb UV light, what hope do humans have of using the surface of the planet or introducing flora?
Would it not be more practical to send robots to the Moon and set up infrastructure in an experimental effort to identify problems. Granted the two are VERY different environments, atmosphere, and gravity, but surely the money saved on fuel and communication time would give the Moon a a very strong case to be first settled.
I have heard the arguments that rocket fuel can be easily made with late 1800's techniques from the CO2 rich atmosphere. Do those arguments hold any water?
Almost:
you had it up to the whoops
So you never get to see the cars as they crash. We are dealing with E=mc^2 so matter and energy are exchangeable. They are literally looking at the resulting energy and particles and saying -- hmm what could make you be the outcome. unfortunately in this energy range ALMOST everything creates the same outcomes. With one possible exception. The Higgs would leave the same outcome but with a slightly bigger energy signature. You never get to see it. But if you find enough signatures that are slightly too big then it must be real.
So you never get that test drive.
And this would be the first 0 spin boson i think -- fact check me on that.
Also the Higgs is the first tachyon -- NOT FTL - just an inconsistency in a field.
Post Higgs -- look st the charts -- what is going on around 200 GeV -- something unexpected ;-)
rewrite:
6 quarks
6 leptons
5 bosons --- odd man out -- perhaps the 6th boson is responsible for Dark Energy?
------------- ... but how do you test for something that operates on galaxies?? it was hard as heck to find the Higgs.
the bosons are force carriers
gloun - strongest, over shortest distance
w+ w- and z -- strong up to 10^-18 m
EM force -- controls everyday life up to the size of large asteroid
Higgs -- gives mass to W/Z and if something is massive enough we call it's effect gravity
??? -- we now current theories of gravity fall apart on cosmic scales --- galaxies rotate to fast, space has an energy factor -- this points to another force
they have also targeted London and Paris -- UK and France two other nuclear states
the Hardware was never a question. A linux box or a windows box runs on the same hardware. It emulates directory setup, file system usage, dll and a lot of other little things.
A computer is by definition hardware -- or software. A computer is a machine defined by memory and a language that allows it to follow instructions and execute commands. A computer ceased to be hardware a long time ago, and began being able to fit into the pure software a long time ago. Depends on application of the word. But please understand that when you take a mathematics of computing course in grad school or undergrad you understand that a computer is a machine and a machine can be software.
Everyone is upset NVIDIA doesn't give away all it's secrets. There hard earned property. that they built. Why not go the more open route and create one set of driver standards for video cards. VESA -- everyone knows the standard and its up to the manufacturer to optimize their side and on the consumer side you get what you asked for.
This is actually a battle over special features -- my hardware can do some pretty sweet stuff, but I wanna control how you can access that stuff. the concept from above still applies, but there is no incentive for the hardware designer to devote resources (people and the salaries they have to pay those people) to help you bang out that new framework.
I love open source, but it's built on peoples free time. Companies have to justify how something makes them money. Saying this will build product sales in a 10% market share is not enough. So come halfway and get the framework done and they will optimize their side. This is the best of both world I get a product and they stay behind their doors, but it's a blackbox I can use.
Encrypt the hard drive all you wish, all they are asking for are the expected input and output specs. This does not have to change with an encrypted source.
Well then you should see Hawking in Intel's promotional video's --- he is making a lot of money promoting Intel lately. At the end of one video he state that Intel has always powered his wheelchair -- the video is quite gimmicky but it's Hawking so... I have no problem believing he has sold his soul to Intel, They are probably paying for his flight into space.
We know they had chemical weapons because we sold them to Iraq from the late seventies to the mid eighties... this wasn't a question of might and maybe -- but we knew they had chemical weapons because we gave them to Saddam. Hell Detroit gave Saddam the key to the city in 1979. He was a hero in the late seventies --- that all changed and we knew he still had some pretty good bombs --- now we were TOTALLY WRONG about having nukes.
impose a transaction tax (eg 0.01%) on every trade of any kind performed on the stock markets
that is done already -- through capitol gains tax , transactions fees, commision, and SEC fees
capitol gains is what 15% on any gain but not on losses, cause come on how can you tax loss of money?
transaction fees, a per trade fee that is imposed by banks for processing the transaction
commissions, a per trade fee either in cents per share or basis points ( percent of a percent) for executing orders
SEC fee $19 on every million dollars traded in equities for payment to a federal agency that monitors markets to keep them fair to all.
--- what new tax do you desire and who gets that money?