I agree with this very much. I was taught from the algebra-based Serway and Faughn book. It was completely plug-and-chug.
However, in it's defense, it did provide some funny, (if glaringly wrong,) problems. One my physics teacher loved pointing out was a problem with a baby weighing 40 Newtons(about 10 pounds or 4 and a half kilograms) in a full-size swingset. I will remember that problem for a long time.
While I agree that these books should be at or near the top of the list, and I love them (as a physics major should...), I have heard complaints from some non-physics-minded friends. They found them somewhat difficult to read and/or imagine the concepts. It all depends on your comfort with science. I don't think that most/.ers would have problems.
For quantum mechanics, I highly recommend the books by John Gribbin - In Search of Schrodinger's Cat and the more up-to-date sequel, Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality. They both give a good historical background on quantum mechanics, and provide a decent background meant for the lay-person. He also has several other books on various topics in science, but I myself have not read them.
I too take pride in the discovery; Mark Erikkson (quoted in the article) was my professor this past year, and I will actually be working with him this fall in his research. If we come up with more news, I'll be sure to keep/. posted.
I recall reading that Dr. Kalam had become India's new president. That article also mentioned his autobiography, Wings of Fire. More than just an autobiography, it is also a history of India's scientific progress. I have it on special order from amazon.com, (B&N doesn't even have it!) and I look forward to reading it.
I think this story is rather funny since the poll this morning. I had been reading the comments for the poll, and through that, discovered that element 118 had not really been created. There was an interesting discussion about the noble gases and the evasive element 118 (the next supposed noble gas).
In addition to the convenience of only downloading one program, it's amazing to find that Trillian takes up less space that AIM alone. Admittedly, these programs typically aren't that large compared to the 20, 40, and 80 GB hard drives (or larger!) that are common today, but I appreciate how compact Trillian is.
However, Gaim only supports the AIM group of people. You still need to find something else for the MSN friends and the yahoo friends. This is what makes Trillian such a good deal. True, it would be wonderful if trillian supported tabbed conversations for less clutter on the desktop, but hopefully that will come in a later release. I think Trillian still is the best option for those of us with friends on many different services.
Speaking of heisenbugs, can bug-antibug pairs spontaneously create each other and get annihilated? And what happens when a black hole is near the created pair and the antibug gets trapped; is the black hole seen to be radiating bugs?
I definately agree that this is a serious situation. I myself have lost a fair amount of money on WorldCom. My father and broker had bought it at a lovely $76 a share long before I had control of my own accounts. After I turned 18, I sold it for around $15. And I'm glad I did. WCOM has just been a downhill slope, and frankly, I'm not that surprised to hear of the fraud.
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In terms of being nice to our own citizens, maybe we could just print the denomination in Braille right under the SecTreas's signature. Being nice to fully sighted foreigners seems a much weaker argument than doing something of minimal cost to help out the blind.
While I agree whole-heartedly that we ought to make it easier for our blind citizens to sort out their money, I'm not sure braille is the answer. After seeing how beat-up some bills get I think it would eventually be too difficult to tell which is which. I think it would be better to make them different in size, as long as they could still fit into a wallet.
Excuse me, but I read the BBC article which only said this:
Detecting Earth-sized planets is probably not possible using current ground-based techniques. That will have to wait for a new generation of satellite observatories, due in the next decade.
The article doesn't give much information about this, so I figured I'd put in my 2 cents from what I learned in astronomy this year:
Currently, they have 2 ways (that I'm familiar with) to find an extra-solar planet. First, they can look for a "wobble" in the path the star takes. This wobble is caused by the gravitational pull of a large planet orbiting the star. Earth is so small that the tiny wobble caused by a planet similar in size would be impossible to view; or at least it would disappear with the systematical error.
The other way I've heard of to find extra-solar planets is similar to an eclipse. When the planet comes between the star and Earth, we can measure the changes in luminosity of the star. Obviously, with planets with small orbits, we can determine how quickly the planet orbits the star because of the pattern in the luminosity. Again, we can't detect earth size planets since earth is just too small.
Personally, I don't think we're going to see silicon dioxide go away for quite some time. Yes, it does have some physical limitations, but few inexpensive alternatives seem possible within a 5 year time span.
Of course, new designs and materials will come (Toshiba is starting to use diagonal circuitry, helping efficiency). Silicon is just too cheap and abundant to give up on right now - we'll probably see it for a few decades into the future in things like appliances, calculators, and handheld computers because they're cheap to manufacture in mass quantities and the material itself is one of the most abundant substances on the surfaces of the planet (it's a large component of common sand).
Therefore, I think the prediction of silicon dioxide fading away in just a "few years" is a bit premature. If we've learned anything from the tech industry, old standards tend to stick around for a VERY long time (witness floppy drives, ISA slots, and serial ports).
A gentleman named Mitch Maddox legally changes his name to DotComGuy and spends a year living in a house filled with webcams, using only the Internet to interact with the outside world, an effort that conclusively proves... um, nothing.
Of course this proves something. It proves that people are idiots. But I think most of us knew that already.
I'd play more games if they cost $10 with ads instead of $50 without ads.
I'd play more games too if they cost $10 instead of $50. But the problem is that the games don't cost $10 instead of $50. The in-game advertising has been around for ages - Gran Turismo, Cool Boarders, etc, etc, etc. While these ads are unobtrusive, uneffective, and provide no inconvenience to the user, we will also see no benefit from them, since they don't drive down the cost. Sorry.
The first game to have ads might see success, but by the second game no one will notice the ads anymore.
These ads have already been in place for a long time. Anyone play Pokemon Stadium? Ever looked around the ring that you fight in? Lots of ads. Or play Gran Turismo or Cool Boarders. You race past ads when you play. I've played these games, and if I hadn't read the article, I couldn't tell you a single company that had an ad in those games. These ads are a waste of money, since nobody ever has paid attention to them.
If not, then you wouldn't know until you played it that a game pauses every 5 minutes to show you an ad for a fscking burger.
You miss the point. When this article was talking about product placement, they did not mean interruption based ads. They were talking about ads within the game itself - in a racing game, the car you're driving goes past a Coca-Cola billboard or the like. The article discussed the deal the game Cool Boarders made with companies like Motorola and Mountain Dew. I've played Cool Boarders many a time at my friends house. There were no interruptions to gameplay for an ad, and the only ones I remember, were a little Motorola logo on the start and finish banners, and maybe a billboard for Mountain Dew or something. This will not affect game play at all. I personally don't mind if the companies do this or not. I don't think they are effective or worth the companies money, however.
257,500,000 m/s isn't going faster than light - sorry. Light travels at around 300,000,000 m/s. Particles cannot travel faster than light, because their relativistic mass increases by a greater factor as it approaches the speed of light. It takes more energy to increase its speed since its mass also increases.
The article discusses two-planet systems. Just today, our physics teacher was describing how our "moon" is actually more of a planet, and we revolve around each other. Pluto and Charon are another set of double planets. Moons are more on the order of Phobos and Deimos, Mars' moons, which span about 22 miles laid end to end.
According to the article, they found a giant planet moving in an orbit around its Sun-like central star that is very similar to the one of the Earth and whose potential satellites (in theory, at least) might be "habitable".
I wonder if this could be a candidate for our new home when our sun blows up in 5 billion years.
That's what this article from CNN claims. They don't explain their logic for that very well, but at any rate they claim to have made something that does the opposite and increases the speed of light. Odd article, but interesting.
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I agree with this very much. I was taught from the algebra-based Serway and Faughn book. It was completely plug-and-chug.
However, in it's defense, it did provide some funny, (if glaringly wrong,) problems. One my physics teacher loved pointing out was a problem with a baby weighing 40 Newtons(about 10 pounds or 4 and a half kilograms) in a full-size swingset. I will remember that problem for a long time.
While I agree that these books should be at or near the top of the list, and I love them (as a physics major should...), I have heard complaints from some non-physics-minded friends. They found them somewhat difficult to read and/or imagine the concepts. It all depends on your comfort with science. I don't think that most /.ers would have problems.
For quantum mechanics, I highly recommend the books by John Gribbin - In Search of Schrodinger's Cat and the more up-to-date sequel, Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality. They both give a good historical background on quantum mechanics, and provide a decent background meant for the lay-person. He also has several other books on various topics in science, but I myself have not read them.
Lol...how about neither dead or alive, and yet both dead or alive?
I too take pride in the discovery; Mark Erikkson (quoted in the article) was my professor this past year, and I will actually be working with him this fall in his research. If we come up with more news, I'll be sure to keep /. posted.
I recall reading that Dr. Kalam had become India's new president. That article also mentioned his autobiography, Wings of Fire. More than just an autobiography, it is also a history of India's scientific progress. I have it on special order from amazon.com, (B&N doesn't even have it!) and I look forward to reading it.
I think this story is rather funny since the poll this morning. I had been reading the comments for the poll, and through that, discovered that element 118 had not really been created. There was an interesting discussion about the noble gases and the evasive element 118 (the next supposed noble gas).
In addition to the convenience of only downloading one program, it's amazing to find that Trillian takes up less space that AIM alone. Admittedly, these programs typically aren't that large compared to the 20, 40, and 80 GB hard drives (or larger!) that are common today, but I appreciate how compact Trillian is.
However, Gaim only supports the AIM group of people. You still need to find something else for the MSN friends and the yahoo friends. This is what makes Trillian such a good deal. True, it would be wonderful if trillian supported tabbed conversations for less clutter on the desktop, but hopefully that will come in a later release. I think Trillian still is the best option for those of us with friends on many different services.
Speaking of heisenbugs, can bug-antibug pairs spontaneously create each other and get annihilated? And what happens when a black hole is near the created pair and the antibug gets trapped; is the black hole seen to be radiating bugs?
I definately agree that this is a serious situation. I myself have lost a fair amount of money on WorldCom. My father and broker had bought it at a lovely $76 a share long before I had control of my own accounts. After I turned 18, I sold it for around $15. And I'm glad I did. WCOM has just been a downhill slope, and frankly, I'm not that surprised to hear of the fraud.
In terms of being nice to our own citizens, maybe we could just print the denomination in Braille right under the SecTreas's signature. Being nice to fully sighted foreigners seems a much weaker argument than doing something of minimal cost to help out the blind.
While I agree whole-heartedly that we ought to make it easier for our blind citizens to sort out their money, I'm not sure braille is the answer. After seeing how beat-up some bills get I think it would eventually be too difficult to tell which is which. I think it would be better to make them different in size, as long as they could still fit into a wallet.
Will they program female World Cup robots to take off their shirts if they win?
Excuse me, but I read the BBC article which only said this:
Detecting Earth-sized planets is probably not possible using current ground-based techniques. That will have to wait for a new generation of satellite observatories, due in the next decade.
The space.com article does give more information.
The article doesn't give much information about this, so I figured I'd put in my 2 cents from what I learned in astronomy this year:
Currently, they have 2 ways (that I'm familiar with) to find an extra-solar planet. First, they can look for a "wobble" in the path the star takes. This wobble is caused by the gravitational pull of a large planet orbiting the star. Earth is so small that the tiny wobble caused by a planet similar in size would be impossible to view; or at least it would disappear with the systematical error.
The other way I've heard of to find extra-solar planets is similar to an eclipse. When the planet comes between the star and Earth, we can measure the changes in luminosity of the star. Obviously, with planets with small orbits, we can determine how quickly the planet orbits the star because of the pattern in the luminosity. Again, we can't detect earth size planets since earth is just too small.
Personally, I don't think we're going to see silicon dioxide go away for quite some time. Yes, it does have some physical limitations, but few inexpensive alternatives seem possible within a 5 year time span.
Of course, new designs and materials will come (Toshiba is starting to use diagonal circuitry, helping efficiency). Silicon is just too cheap and abundant to give up on right now - we'll probably see it for a few decades into the future in things like appliances, calculators, and handheld computers because they're cheap to manufacture in mass quantities and the material itself is one of the most abundant substances on the surfaces of the planet (it's a large component of common sand).
Therefore, I think the prediction of silicon dioxide fading away in just a "few years" is a bit premature. If we've learned anything from the tech industry, old standards tend to stick around for a VERY long time (witness floppy drives, ISA slots, and serial ports).
A gentleman named Mitch Maddox legally changes his name to DotComGuy and spends a year living in a house filled with webcams, using only the Internet to interact with the outside world, an effort that conclusively proves ... um, nothing.
Of course this proves something. It proves that people are idiots. But I think most of us knew that already.
I'd play more games if they cost $10 with ads instead of $50 without ads.
I'd play more games too if they cost $10 instead of $50. But the problem is that the games don't cost $10 instead of $50. The in-game advertising has been around for ages - Gran Turismo, Cool Boarders, etc, etc, etc. While these ads are unobtrusive, uneffective, and provide no inconvenience to the user, we will also see no benefit from them, since they don't drive down the cost. Sorry.
The first game to have ads might see success, but by the second game no one will notice the ads anymore.
These ads have already been in place for a long time. Anyone play Pokemon Stadium? Ever looked around the ring that you fight in? Lots of ads. Or play Gran Turismo or Cool Boarders. You race past ads when you play. I've played these games, and if I hadn't read the article, I couldn't tell you a single company that had an ad in those games. These ads are a waste of money, since nobody ever has paid attention to them.
If not, then you wouldn't know until you played it that a game pauses every 5 minutes to show you an ad for a fscking burger.
You miss the point. When this article was talking about product placement, they did not mean interruption based ads. They were talking about ads within the game itself - in a racing game, the car you're driving goes past a Coca-Cola billboard or the like. The article discussed the deal the game Cool Boarders made with companies like Motorola and Mountain Dew. I've played Cool Boarders many a time at my friends house. There were no interruptions to gameplay for an ad, and the only ones I remember, were a little Motorola logo on the start and finish banners, and maybe a billboard for Mountain Dew or something. This will not affect game play at all. I personally don't mind if the companies do this or not. I don't think they are effective or worth the companies money, however.
257,500,000 m/s isn't going faster than light - sorry. Light travels at around 300,000,000 m/s. Particles cannot travel faster than light, because their relativistic mass increases by a greater factor as it approaches the speed of light. It takes more energy to increase its speed since its mass also increases.
The article discusses two-planet systems. Just today, our physics teacher was describing how our "moon" is actually more of a planet, and we revolve around each other. Pluto and Charon are another set of double planets. Moons are more on the order of Phobos and Deimos, Mars' moons, which span about 22 miles laid end to end.
According to the article, they found a giant planet moving in an orbit around its Sun-like central star that is very similar to the one of the Earth and whose potential satellites (in theory, at least) might be "habitable".
I wonder if this could be a candidate for our new home when our sun blows up in 5 billion years.
That's what this article from CNN claims. They don't explain their logic for that very well, but at any rate they claim to have made something that does the opposite and increases the speed of light. Odd article, but interesting.
sorry...I misread something. Question 1) If distributing porn via a web server will be illegal in Australia, why won't this?