On many nights when I was studying Computer Science at Manchester University, I sat next to Turing's statue outside the college after going out in the village. The apology is "nice", but really means nothing at all..
Have you ever read about the physics of why that reactor failed? It was just about the worst design you could possibly imagine (shut it down even slightly incorrectly, and at low power mode, it'll suddenly spike to 10x maximum projected power output.. and go bang). It was just shit design.
Neither of those videos show what the poster was talking about - i.e. the SU-30 and its ability to literally fly back-to-front for a short while, due to spinning, using its thrust vectoring.
Please, please, please tell me you're not a scientist of any sort! I really hope the late Bussard's ideas come to fruition, but the data from their previous experiments is awful (check those error bars people), and the physics dubious (the consensus is mainly on the "it's not going to work" side, but it's not clear cut). ITER on the other hand is an engineering problem; we've done plasma containment. We don't know if a full scale polywell can work, and things look bad - we know tokamak fusion systems will work (better than break even), but we've no idea if we can engineer a reactor/generator system that's provides cheaper energy than say fission, with workable maintenance (how many times a decade will we have the reactor shield/energy recovery system destroyed by the neutron flux etc).
ITER will "work", but may not be a practical mass energy source. The polywell, is pretty much a yes/no experiment that nobody has done yet. I just wish someone would throw $200 million at EMC2 to build a full scale prototype so we can see if the physics is good or not.
I think what the submitter is looking for is something akin to the old Card & Field based consumer databases that were quite commonplace 10-15 years ago. e.g. there'd be a little GUI, you'd drag fields of various kinds onto a "Card" which would be the template for all data entry. The database would consist of filled cards. (I assume this idea came from the way old mainframe databases/UIs used to work.)
I was unable to find any modern implementations of this idea with a quick google search, which is annoying as they were a nice way to set up a little database of your CDs or books etc. Anyone know of projects like that? The only one I remember is from when I was a kid; "Supercard" on the Atari ST.
I agree with you - I'm quite happy to read about things I'm interested in, in any format and I'm quite happy to pay for a magazine, but, I stopped buying or being interested in most of the computer mags I used to read when I found that they were just chock full of net derived material and press releases.
I don't need to pay extra for that - I can find it myself.
Good writers (what happened to them in the mid 90s? Not getting paid I expect) and some insight, rather than plain fact reporting is enough to get me to shell out a few quid a month.
And it's taken us this long for "the people" [whom I mean no distrespect to with that] to realise that there are alternatives to the mainstream or current powers, and we're not even half way there [I'm a UK citizen].
Do you need central europe style country wide destruction in a war before people learn to make up their minds on merit rather than pathetic misreadings of recent history?
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If the search space was that simple, we'd know everything by now.
That's mainly because they don't work, and are horribly dangerous.
On many nights when I was studying Computer Science at Manchester University, I sat next to Turing's statue outside the college after going out in the village. The apology is "nice", but really means nothing at all..
Though at least our government made it. Finally.
Have you ever read about the physics of why that reactor failed? It was just about the worst design you could possibly imagine (shut it down even slightly incorrectly, and at low power mode, it'll suddenly spike to 10x maximum projected power output.. and go bang). It was just shit design.
Neither of those videos show what the poster was talking about - i.e. the SU-30 and its ability to literally fly back-to-front for a short while, due to spinning, using its thrust vectoring.
We have no access to out of print books. That's kinda the point.
Please, please, please tell me you're not a scientist of any sort! I really hope the late Bussard's ideas come to fruition, but the data from their previous experiments is awful (check those error bars people), and the physics dubious (the consensus is mainly on the "it's not going to work" side, but it's not clear cut). ITER on the other hand is an engineering problem; we've done plasma containment. We don't know if a full scale polywell can work, and things look bad - we know tokamak fusion systems will work (better than break even), but we've no idea if we can engineer a reactor/generator system that's provides cheaper energy than say fission, with workable maintenance (how many times a decade will we have the reactor shield/energy recovery system destroyed by the neutron flux etc).
ITER will "work", but may not be a practical mass energy source. The polywell, is pretty much a yes/no experiment that nobody has done yet. I just wish someone would throw $200 million at EMC2 to build a full scale prototype so we can see if the physics is good or not.
I really don't think you quite understand how we feel about that :)
South americans teaching their bots how to dive - whatever next? :)
No, we never really cared.
They've had IPv6 for a long long goddamn time.
Your system makes vote buying very very easy.
How many of you familiar with functional programming just *cringe* when you see how badly basic math is discussed in the programming mainstream?
He was on the UK main media tonight - though the Police will probably now take this up, I'd far rather have him working out what exactly went on.
Launch in approx 50 minutes. (01:55 BST)
I think what the submitter is looking for is something akin to the old Card & Field based consumer databases that were quite commonplace 10-15 years ago. e.g. there'd be a little GUI, you'd drag fields of various kinds onto a "Card" which would be the template for all data entry. The database would consist of filled cards. (I assume this idea came from the way old mainframe databases/UIs used to work.)
I was unable to find any modern implementations of this idea with a quick google search, which is annoying as they were a nice way to set up a little database of your CDs or books etc. Anyone know of projects like that? The only one I remember is from when I was a kid; "Supercard" on the Atari ST.
Eh, it means just the opposite - hacks and cheats found in the console versions will not be fixed as fast!
[btw, I prefer consoles for gaming - the amount of time it takes to get release certs is insane].
You can't compare power to get a metric for energy consumption :P What's the absolute energy of a Shuttle launch to LEO?
You must be British or Canadian, nobody else would make that joke!
Mrs Trellis? You win 128 geek points for bringing Radio 4 to slashdot :)
No.
Scrubbed. Doh.
Not so wishful - the latest Nvidia card is verging on that kind of functionality.
No bloody way we'll ever get low level access though.
I agree with you - I'm quite happy to read about things I'm interested in, in any format and I'm quite happy to pay for a magazine, but, I stopped buying or being interested in most of the computer mags I used to read when I found that they were just chock full of net derived material and press releases.
I don't need to pay extra for that - I can find it myself.
Good writers (what happened to them in the mid 90s? Not getting paid I expect) and some insight, rather than plain fact reporting is enough to get me to shell out a few quid a month.
Pay for decent writers you fools!
And it's taken us this long for "the people" [whom I mean no distrespect to with that] to realise that there are alternatives to the mainstream or current powers, and we're not even half way there [I'm a UK citizen].
Do you need central europe style country wide destruction in a war before people learn to make up their minds on merit rather than pathetic misreadings of recent history?
Unfortunately, I think we do.