how much would it cost to simply put well trained police on the planes? a couple of people, trained in hand to hand combat, and good with knives and stuff.
sorry, but this is not informative. charged anti-particles can be captured with electrostatic fields (and magnetic fields), whereas anti-atoms can only be confined with magnetic fields (because they have a magnetic moment). these particular atoms were contained with a magnetic field, they were not "cold enough" to not interact with the container.
they do not "cost" N euros. they WORK and they are payed for that work. if you think your own people should receive that money, then tell them to become qualified to do the work.
Bad idea. People have been applying math to the stock market for a while now, and, as far as I can see, their purpose is not to bring stability, but to get rich. One fundamental requirement of using classical mathematics to control some system is that the system is not aware of the model being used (this is why markets fail when you allow speculation based on models of the market). In order to treat humanity consistently, you need a math that can speak about itself consistently. Personally, I'm not sure if we have that yet (I know for sure that the language of set theory can't do that, and that means a lot of math).
how hard would it be to connect a light to a usb port, and have a driver for it that could be used to also wake you up in the morning? With the new ultramega efficient lights, low power output shouldn't be a real problem...
don't worry. in real life, we have both will smith and bruce willis to save humanity. unless chuck norris gets angry with them being more famous or something.
what does "handful" mean, in terms of percentage of solar systems? for instance, I understand that there are a lot of pluto sized objects orbiting our solar system. how close would a star (from another galaxy, which means it's moving in a completely different direction than the local surrounding stars) have to get to disturb those objects? I realize that in order to disturb a solar system, you need to disturb planet orbits (or destroy planets), but in order to seriously harm a civilization, considerably less disturbance is needed. For instance, a rogue moon sized object going through the asteroid belt might put a lot of them on different trajectories (that no longer correspond to the stable kepler orbits the planets are in).
more to the point. for some reason, society keeps paying teachers to copy books into kids' brains, but lawmakers keep saying it's bad to copy stuff. it's somehow interesting. it's also scary that this story is presented as if infringing copyrights is the same as writing malware.
you're missing the point. the guys who made the game want to sell it to the people objecting to the use of the word "taliban" also. it's not about political correctness or regulating art, it's about trying to sell stuff.
it's kind of like the catholic church says the earth is round now.
on a more serious note, the simple fact that we can tell we exist proves that there is a universe. and the universe can be seen as its own model. If he's trying to say that there is no simpler model than the universe itself... than it makes sense to say it (it might or it might not be true); other than that, it's just about semantics.
yes, the good old gradients. to tell you the truth, I never seriously went through the theory behind "nail is attracted by magnet". I probably should at some point.
the most interesting thing is that they don't actually work, because the force they exert on something is always perpendicular to the direction of motion of that something.
the thing is that throughout human history, strange things have been reported by a lot of people. at some point in time, "people with both feet on the ground" started to control technology and science, because money started being involved. My problem is that research into the "paranormal" is generally made by overexcited idiots or people who don't care about having a scientific career (once you put "UFO investigator" on your CV, there's a certain image...). Is this because "no nonsense" people control science, or because there are no paranormal phenomena? As a scientist who needs money, I am forced to do what society pays me to do, and I have no way of deciding if there is any truth in these reports, because I can't trust the investigators who give positive results, and when trustworthy people say things, they don't have any proof, with a good reason for not having proof. I admit I am a bit frustrated that I can't study these things myself, to be sure... For instance, I've seen UFOs: something that looks like stars, moving in the sky in straight lines, sometimes disapearing. I assume they're satelites. At some point, I've seen three of these lights moving in formation (again in a straight line, no weirdness), so I've begun to think some of them are high altitude planes (what would be the point of 3 satelites moving in formation? also, I didn't see these disapear), but I also know that plane lights usually flicker. to me they are UFOs because I'm not sure what they are, but there's nothing supernatural about them. What I would like is to be able to type "night UFO" in google (or another search engine), and be directed to the website of a respectable astronomical institute, where they list the types of moving lights that can be seen in the nightsky, with example photos and films. What I do find when searching "moving lights nightsky" is "unexplained-mysteries.com" (I didn't even click on it) and the like. So I'm a bit disapointed. I have to search "satellite night sky" to find the explanation, which means I already know the answer.
you seem to know these things. I have two types of problems I'm interested in: pseudo-spectral simulations and point particle trajectory integration. for the first, I need to perform many FFTs; for the second, I have many small single-process jobs (can only assign individual jobs to individual cores). would I be better off with the 6 core AMD, or the 4 core Intel?
let's rephrase that. If I had an aicraft that could handle 30g and move very fast, I would use it to monitor the most dangerous weapons of other countries in the world. I can't make it invisible yet...
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surely, you can't be serious!
how much would it cost to simply put well trained police on the planes? a couple of people, trained in hand to hand combat, and good with knives and stuff.
sorry, but this is not informative. charged anti-particles can be captured with electrostatic fields (and magnetic fields), whereas anti-atoms can only be confined with magnetic fields (because they have a magnetic moment).
these particular atoms were contained with a magnetic field, they were not "cold enough" to not interact with the container.
they do not "cost" N euros. they WORK and they are payed for that work. if you think your own people should receive that money, then tell them to become qualified to do the work.
Bad idea. People have been applying math to the stock market for a while now, and, as far as I can see, their purpose is not to bring stability, but to get rich. One fundamental requirement of using classical mathematics to control some system is that the system is not aware of the model being used (this is why markets fail when you allow speculation based on models of the market).
In order to treat humanity consistently, you need a math that can speak about itself consistently. Personally, I'm not sure if we have that yet (I know for sure that the language of set theory can't do that, and that means a lot of math).
also, you could say this is shocking news.
how hard would it be to connect a light to a usb port, and have a driver for it that could be used to also wake you up in the morning? With the new ultramega efficient lights, low power output shouldn't be a real problem...
if there is one, I assume it grows faster than the passage of time, just like copyright terms.
don't worry. in real life, we have both will smith and bruce willis to save humanity. unless chuck norris gets angry with them being more famous or something.
so change the stupid work schedule.
i can't see if the school study was a long term one or not. and i think it's relevant for the conclusion.
and Yahoo chicks?
I saw a similar presentation he gave in 2007. We need more people like him.
my mistake. i thought there weren't any liberal arts majors on slashdot.
yes, I keep telling people 11 is not a prime, but they won't listen.
what does "handful" mean, in terms of percentage of solar systems?
for instance, I understand that there are a lot of pluto sized objects orbiting our solar system. how close would a star (from another galaxy, which means it's moving in a completely different direction than the local surrounding stars) have to get to disturb those objects? I realize that in order to disturb a solar system, you need to disturb planet orbits (or destroy planets), but in order to seriously harm a civilization, considerably less disturbance is needed. For instance, a rogue moon sized object going through the asteroid belt might put a lot of them on different trajectories (that no longer correspond to the stable kepler orbits the planets are in).
more to the point. for some reason, society keeps paying teachers to copy books into kids' brains, but lawmakers keep saying it's bad to copy stuff.
it's somehow interesting.
it's also scary that this story is presented as if infringing copyrights is the same as writing malware.
no, that's where they'll release them (from).
you're missing the point. the guys who made the game want to sell it to the people objecting to the use of the word "taliban" also.
it's not about political correctness or regulating art, it's about trying to sell stuff.
it's kind of like the catholic church says the earth is round now.
on a more serious note, the simple fact that we can tell we exist proves that there is a universe. and the universe can be seen as its own model. If he's trying to say that there is no simpler model than the universe itself... than it makes sense to say it (it might or it might not be true); other than that, it's just about semantics.
yes, the good old gradients. to tell you the truth, I never seriously went through the theory behind "nail is attracted by magnet". I probably should at some point.
the most interesting thing is that they don't actually work, because the force they exert on something is always perpendicular to the direction of motion of that something.
I liked this video very much http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_the_pattern_behind_self_deception.html , because it explains a lot.
the thing is that throughout human history, strange things have been reported by a lot of people. at some point in time, "people with both feet on the ground" started to control technology and science, because money started being involved. My problem is that research into the "paranormal" is generally made by overexcited idiots or people who don't care about having a scientific career (once you put "UFO investigator" on your CV, there's a certain image...). Is this because "no nonsense" people control science, or because there are no paranormal phenomena?
As a scientist who needs money, I am forced to do what society pays me to do, and I have no way of deciding if there is any truth in these reports, because I can't trust the investigators who give positive results, and when trustworthy people say things, they don't have any proof, with a good reason for not having proof. I admit I am a bit frustrated that I can't study these things myself, to be sure...
For instance, I've seen UFOs: something that looks like stars, moving in the sky in straight lines, sometimes disapearing. I assume they're satelites. At some point, I've seen three of these lights moving in formation (again in a straight line, no weirdness), so I've begun to think some of them are high altitude planes (what would be the point of 3 satelites moving in formation? also, I didn't see these disapear), but I also know that plane lights usually flicker. to me they are UFOs because I'm not sure what they are, but there's nothing supernatural about them.
What I would like is to be able to type "night UFO" in google (or another search engine), and be directed to the website of a respectable astronomical institute, where they list the types of moving lights that can be seen in the nightsky, with example photos and films. What I do find when searching "moving lights nightsky" is "unexplained-mysteries.com" (I didn't even click on it) and the like. So I'm a bit disapointed. I have to search "satellite night sky" to find the explanation, which means I already know the answer.
you seem to know these things. I have two types of problems I'm interested in: pseudo-spectral simulations and point particle trajectory integration. for the first, I need to perform many FFTs; for the second, I have many small single-process jobs (can only assign individual jobs to individual cores).
would I be better off with the 6 core AMD, or the 4 core Intel?
let's rephrase that. If I had an aicraft that could handle 30g and move very fast, I would use it to monitor the most dangerous weapons of other countries in the world. I can't make it invisible yet...