Given that we can cool stuff down to less than a nanokelvin IIRC, and it took some ingenuity (Nobel prize for Bose-Einstein condensate), I doubt this LED will come anywhere close.
Yeah, but man, a it's a completely solid state heat pump that dumps waste heat as usable light - now that's something. Just imagine: every server, instead of needing cooling, can have this stuck to the heatsink and mounted on a tall pole. No more datacenter, we'll have datapoles, and our streets will be full of them:)
Creating a "decompiler" isn't exactly trivial. The types of analyses you have to do on machine code compiled with today's optimizing compilers are fairly generic, they will give you some higher-level representation of the code no matter what was the underlying language. Those tools recognize certain patterns to provide even higher level information, but at a basic level they pretty much repeat what a compiler would do: there's data flow and control flow analysis, and a whole lot of inference based on those. I'm sure there's a whole lot of techniques and tricks published...
That's beside the point. Who the fuck cares what is the imaginary high level language this stuff was written in? They are analyzing the somewhat annotated disassembly anyway. To me it looks like it may be the output from some PLC environment. Perhaps it's CoDeSys output. It doesn't matter anyway, there are no tools that will take this and restore the source. It's not like you need something uber-fancy anyway to help with what's the key here: figuring out what the code does.
Hey, it might be, um, interesting, for you to call up your districts surely-to-exist fundie state rep or senator (they must be useful for something besides ridicule), and ask them WTF is going on and are they asleep at the helm or what;)
Only thing I found was that North Carolina has removed its sterilization law from the books in 2003. Apart from that, I have no idea what states still have such laws on the books. May be an interesting thing to research (and easy, too, in this day).
In any reasonably recent car, this stuff is all adjusted by a digital engine controller (ECU), and it normally doesn't require any sort of manual intervention. The initial tuning is done during the product engineering -- long before it leaves the factory doors, the tuning is then continually adjusted as the ECU gathers sensor data.
Ataturk is the father of modern Turkey. He pulled off feats such as transitioning the whole country from arabic to roman alphabets, in a couple of months IIRC.
The people who accuse emigrants of treason just rub me in all the wrong ways possible. Their worldview implies that you're supposed to be imprisoned in a country simply because that's where you were born and schooled. If a country can't figure out how to retain or even re-immigrate the bright/successful emigrants, it's not the emigrants' fault, sorry. Most of Eastern Europe had essentially closed borders for quite a while, and people had to literally escape to the West. Those treason-accusers believe that's the way to keep things, I guess. To hell with them.
I don't really know what's there to tune on a modern Diesel engine. Care to elaborate? There are no adjustments, if it doesn't work right then something is worn out -- say, injectors, fuel pump, air mass sensor, rings,...
You've missed the point. It's not about the scientific community, duh!! They want to do studies and publish! It's the industry bullies who suppress scientific output.
There are valid concerns about contamination of the long-ago plant deposits, a.k.a. petroleum, mostly by sulphur, a very abundant element. Fresh plant-derived oils aren't contaminated that way. Otherwise, just think about it. All of our diesel is plant derived. Every bit of it. There were plants that died off tens of millions of years ago, and now we burn what's left. You think that just because you're using fresh plants will make much difference except for contamination with what has been leached from the rocks?
Instruments, as in instrumentation, that's the stuff that's usually meant for measurement. If you insist that a pen might be a scientific "instrument" in a general sense, then I'd say a leather sofa and the leather toilet seat is, too;)
I don't know if that's about separation of church and state, seems like a stretch. To me it's simply that there are obligations both under the divine law and under the human law. Yeah, much to marvel at... </sarcasm> Alas, non-separation of church and state is impossible if there is to be any sort of representational fairness. How the heck do you get all the mainstream and whacko religions to be "with" the government, with atheists and agnostics to boot. It's a pipe dream. The oft-proposed deseparation of church and state is basically shoving one's religion down everyone's throat. If it's looked upon despicably, it's for all the right reasons.
many current sciences do much of their work without them (psychology, anthropology, social sciences, to name just a few).
Ekhm, I think mathematicians would like to have a word with you. Computer scientists, too. They don't need any instruments for measurement, all you essentially need is a comfy chair and paper and pencil. Instruments come not for measurements, but for reducing the tedium.
Vioxx has side effects, but then, hey, quite a few chemotherapy drugs have even worse side effects. The brouhaha about Vioxx was that it was overprescribed. IMHO it should have never been taken off the market. There are quite a few patients for whom the potential side effects are acceptable, given their quality-of-life improvements. IOW: they gladly trade off risk of death for better life before death. I think this decision should be ultimately left to the patients -- for some of them there are no alternatives to Vioxx. And I have nothing to do with pharma anything.
In the US, the law says that anything that is used to cure, prevent, or ameliorate disease is by definition a drug.
I guess it's good to know that (insert random surgical procedure here) is a drug. No, sorry, you don't know what you're talking about, you have no clue.
A string theory is a mathematical theory. It's OK in the sense of mathematical formalism, but otherwise fairly useless. Mathematical theories are fairly special, because the testable predictions they make are directly only useful in mathematics. In a most basic sense IIRC, a mathematical theory doesn't even need to have predictive power, it only needs to satisfy some soundness criteria. Applying mathematical theories is sometimes possible; yet sometimes we just don't know how we can apply a particular piece of mathematics. There's a whole lot of mathematics that we don't know how to apply outside of mathematics! The physicists who work on string theories are pretty much taking the job away from mathematicians:)
Suffice to say that such things aren't called alternative medicine for a reason. If it's medicine, it's medicine. If it's not, it's "alternative". That's actually somewhat logically correct: you have the medicine, and alternatives to it. By implication the latter will not work, not on any large population, otherwise they'd be considered medicine. Ta-dam.
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Given that we can cool stuff down to less than a nanokelvin IIRC, and it took some ingenuity (Nobel prize for Bose-Einstein condensate), I doubt this LED will come anywhere close.
Yeah, but man, a it's a completely solid state heat pump that dumps waste heat as usable light - now that's something. Just imagine: every server, instead of needing cooling, can have this stuck to the heatsink and mounted on a tall pole. No more datacenter, we'll have datapoles, and our streets will be full of them :)
Creating a "decompiler" isn't exactly trivial. The types of analyses you have to do on machine code compiled with today's optimizing compilers are fairly generic, they will give you some higher-level representation of the code no matter what was the underlying language. Those tools recognize certain patterns to provide even higher level information, but at a basic level they pretty much repeat what a compiler would do: there's data flow and control flow analysis, and a whole lot of inference based on those. I'm sure there's a whole lot of techniques and tricks published...
Good point, although compared to mainstream tools like MSVC, almost everything has a "small" user base.
+1 insightful. I haven't thought of Erlang!
That's beside the point. Who the fuck cares what is the imaginary high level language this stuff was written in? They are analyzing the somewhat annotated disassembly anyway. To me it looks like it may be the output from some PLC environment. Perhaps it's CoDeSys output. It doesn't matter anyway, there are no tools that will take this and restore the source. It's not like you need something uber-fancy anyway to help with what's the key here: figuring out what the code does.
Hey, it might be, um, interesting, for you to call up your districts surely-to-exist fundie state rep or senator (they must be useful for something besides ridicule), and ask them WTF is going on and are they asleep at the helm or what ;)
Well said! +1 Insightful and +1 Informative.
You mean, the freezer will get burned? Hmm, with those people, you're right, we need to put some insulation into the freezer to protect its walls.
Only thing I found was that North Carolina has removed its sterilization law from the books in 2003. Apart from that, I have no idea what states still have such laws on the books. May be an interesting thing to research (and easy, too, in this day).
In any reasonably recent car, this stuff is all adjusted by a digital engine controller (ECU), and it normally doesn't require any sort of manual intervention. The initial tuning is done during the product engineering -- long before it leaves the factory doors, the tuning is then continually adjusted as the ECU gathers sensor data.
Ataturk is the father of modern Turkey. He pulled off feats such as transitioning the whole country from arabic to roman alphabets, in a couple of months IIRC.
The people who accuse emigrants of treason just rub me in all the wrong ways possible. Their worldview implies that you're supposed to be imprisoned in a country simply because that's where you were born and schooled. If a country can't figure out how to retain or even re-immigrate the bright/successful emigrants, it's not the emigrants' fault, sorry. Most of Eastern Europe had essentially closed borders for quite a while, and people had to literally escape to the West. Those treason-accusers believe that's the way to keep things, I guess. To hell with them.
I don't really know what's there to tune on a modern Diesel engine. Care to elaborate? There are no adjustments, if it doesn't work right then something is worn out -- say, injectors, fuel pump, air mass sensor, rings, ...
You've missed the point. It's not about the scientific community, duh!! They want to do studies and publish! It's the industry bullies who suppress scientific output.
There are valid concerns about contamination of the long-ago plant deposits, a.k.a. petroleum, mostly by sulphur, a very abundant element. Fresh plant-derived oils aren't contaminated that way. Otherwise, just think about it. All of our diesel is plant derived. Every bit of it. There were plants that died off tens of millions of years ago, and now we burn what's left. You think that just because you're using fresh plants will make much difference except for contamination with what has been leached from the rocks?
Instruments, as in instrumentation, that's the stuff that's usually meant for measurement. If you insist that a pen might be a scientific "instrument" in a general sense, then I'd say a leather sofa and the leather toilet seat is, too ;)
I don't know if that's about separation of church and state, seems like a stretch. To me it's simply that there are obligations both under the divine law and under the human law. Yeah, much to marvel at... </sarcasm> Alas, non-separation of church and state is impossible if there is to be any sort of representational fairness. How the heck do you get all the mainstream and whacko religions to be "with" the government, with atheists and agnostics to boot. It's a pipe dream. The oft-proposed deseparation of church and state is basically shoving one's religion down everyone's throat. If it's looked upon despicably, it's for all the right reasons.
many current sciences do much of their work without them (psychology, anthropology, social sciences, to name just a few).
Ekhm, I think mathematicians would like to have a word with you. Computer scientists, too. They don't need any instruments for measurement, all you essentially need is a comfy chair and paper and pencil. Instruments come not for measurements, but for reducing the tedium.
Vioxx has side effects, but then, hey, quite a few chemotherapy drugs have even worse side effects. The brouhaha about Vioxx was that it was overprescribed. IMHO it should have never been taken off the market. There are quite a few patients for whom the potential side effects are acceptable, given their quality-of-life improvements. IOW: they gladly trade off risk of death for better life before death. I think this decision should be ultimately left to the patients -- for some of them there are no alternatives to Vioxx. And I have nothing to do with pharma anything.
In the US, the law says that anything that is used to cure, prevent, or ameliorate disease is by definition a drug.
I guess it's good to know that (insert random surgical procedure here) is a drug. No, sorry, you don't know what you're talking about, you have no clue.
A string theory is a mathematical theory. It's OK in the sense of mathematical formalism, but otherwise fairly useless. Mathematical theories are fairly special, because the testable predictions they make are directly only useful in mathematics. In a most basic sense IIRC, a mathematical theory doesn't even need to have predictive power, it only needs to satisfy some soundness criteria. Applying mathematical theories is sometimes possible; yet sometimes we just don't know how we can apply a particular piece of mathematics. There's a whole lot of mathematics that we don't know how to apply outside of mathematics! The physicists who work on string theories are pretty much taking the job away from mathematicians :)
Now we need something on rainbows and ponies. That was informative and funny, though. Thanks!
Presently, US law outright forbids scientific study of these remedies.
Yeah, sure. Links to the law, please. Otherwise, you're full of it.
Suffice to say that such things aren't called alternative medicine for a reason. If it's medicine, it's medicine. If it's not, it's "alternative". That's actually somewhat logically correct: you have the medicine, and alternatives to it. By implication the latter will not work, not on any large population, otherwise they'd be considered medicine. Ta-dam.