That wasn't my point. It's just that LaTeX is the de facto standard for generating professional publications in most of the sciences, mathematics, and CS. So when he says his journal's authors wouldn't know WTF tex is, I can draw the conclusion with reasonable confidence that his journal isn't in one of those fields.
That's only really the case for physics in the sciences. The chemists and biologists tend to use word or other things besides TeX/LaTeX.
The problem is less that there is no search function (with digital data all you're doing is matching one pattern to another), the problem is more that you don't know exactly what you are searching for!
My guess is that they are looking for anomalies within the data that would indicate the presence of one of these subatomic particles. My guess furthermore is that once they get enough data analyzed they will be able to form a model to base a search function around.
That or the summary lies (wouldn't be the first time) and in fact they know exactly what they are searching for, and they have a search function, but of course someone has to look at the output of those functions to determine what impact they have on their model/ideas.
For a lot of the physics, the researchers know what they are looking for. For example, with the Higgs boson, theories constrain the decay and production to certain channels that have characteristic signatures. So they would be looking for events that have a muon at a certain energy with a hadron jet with another given energy coming off x degrees away and so on. There have been monte carlo simulations and other calculations done to predict what the interesting events should look like using various different theories. Of course there maybe interesting events that pop up that no one has predicted but everyone has a fairly good idea of what the expected events should look like.
Gee, imagine only getting paid for results! We better not open THAT Pandora's box...
It's a little harder to justify that paying only based on results for research. The entire reason it's called research is that no one presumably knows the answer to the problem and therefore it may or may not be solvable. Not being assured some sort of payment for your efforts pretty much kills any incentive to do it in the first place.
Atlas had a luck. As the triplet is near to the CMS, there is a (small) possibility that gas shockwave damaged some of it's on-detector hardware (people are discussing it here at CERN, but not much is known yet about the schedule impact).
The news is unfortunate though. It might mean that there could be only a new cosmic run this year run instead of real beam if the repair of this takes time.
That's a bit ironic since fermilab is a CMS site with quite a few CMS people. If the CMS detector got damaged, the situation is reminiscent of the Super-K accident although probably no where near as bad.
The difference is that the closest black hole in the universe is lightyears away (at least that is the current conception) and the universe seems to be balanced out perfectly so all the dangerous stuff that is floating around doesn't consume the whole universe. It's a careful setup of universal laws that keep it together, just like the ecosystem on earth did for thousands of years.
There are cosmic particles hitting the atmosphere with more energy than the LHC will produce. If the LHC were going to cause a rift in the space time continuum, these particles would have done the same in the last 6 billion years that they've been hitting the atmosphere.
Interesting how this came out just a day after the ATLAS software and computing meetings in Munich concluded. I bet there are some interesting discussions happening there right now among the attendees that are still in town.
what exactly, did the state of the purchaser do, or provide to deserve 'their share'
seriously.. I pay property taxes to my community, which benefit my community..
if I don't like them, I can move- and pay taxes (or not) elsewhere...
Aside from providing services like roads, state police, labor and environmental protection to the purchaser, courts, etc. the state didn't do much to deserve the sales tax.
When the touchpad on my macbook pro broke, they overnighted me a dhl box, I packed it up and sent it in the next day, and they fixed and overnighted my laptop back to me the day that they received it. All told, it took about 2 days to get the laptop fixed (dhl picked the laptop up Monday evening and I got the laptop back on Wednesday morning).
The criticism that was also given after the article raises from valid points. Mainly whether the "mistakes" that were being counted have any effect on the clinical outcome and whether the the speed of the fastest surgeons indicate better skills or whether it indicated that they were not thinking of the test as a video game and not as a simulation of a procedure on a person.
The article is interesting and all but it's not that useful. Installing Etch on a laptop that has components more recent than a PIII 600mhz cpu would be a much useful writeup. Most people are working with much newer equipment and seeing how well Etch supports recent laptop hardware would be much more useful for them.
I still play board games when me and my siblings all congregate at a single house. A favorite for a few of us is Monopoly. However, I've been in search of a game similar to this but more complex.
You can make monopoly much more complicated fairly easily. Allow players to negotiate and sell options for purchasing properties, portions of future revenues from properties they may or may not have at the present, etc. A smart player and good negotiator can easily pick win and you can intelligently hedge your risks making it less likely that landing on a boardwalk with a hotel wipes you out.
I'd suggest getting a professional to do it or having a professional teach and supervise you. Fireworks are essentially explosives so I'd be very cautious.
The efficiency is only over the long haul. The advantage of a free-market system is that, when large organizations get sufficiently bad, they fail and are replaced by other, presumably more efficient, ones. It is painful and takes years to happen, but they do.
As a famous economist said, in the long run we're all dead. Increased efficiency 10 years down the line is all well and good but that doesn't help the people that need the services now.
I agree. There are quite a few people working on really cool academic projects like celluar auotmata and grid computing working in academia and government labs. They may not be making as much but the work environment is probably much better and the problems and colleagues more interesting then the typical corporate workplace.
The USA: 280 millions ppl, somewhat educated for the most part.
India: 1 billion+ ppl, out of which a big bunch are poor and uneducated.
Educated people mostly disregard hate speech ('they know better') but we've all seen the kind of mass hysteria that can go through the poor/illiterates, whether it's in South-East Asia, the Middle-East, Africa, a football stadium or in Kentuky.
You're also ignoring the fact that the US hasn't had any recent incidents of major religious strife. India has had something like that in the last 60 years so people alive still remember having family injured or killed for religious reasons.
Northern Ireland has a relatively educated populace but it's still had quite of a bit of catholic vs. protestant strife so I don't think that education explains it all.
Only if the red and blue lights can catch up. Another likely problem is the slow driver that likes to drive in the fastlane. At the speeds that he's talking about, he won't be able to switch lanes in time. Or trucks passing - they're a plague sometimes while driving on the I-5.
It's really hard to beat radio waves telling someone to setup a roadblock 10 miles down the road.
It will NEVER be safe. If you have metallic implants, especially magnets, you can never get a CAT scan again. Woe betide you if you are unconscious when they bring you in, and they decide to scan you to find out if you've got internal injuries, because if you don't already, you certainly will then.
CAT scans are just a series of special xrays. There isn't any reason that your magnets would affect them since photons are not charged. Are you thinking MRI?
In addition to being expensive, titanium is NOT easy to work with.
Just as an illustration, welding titantium in a normal atmosphere will cause it to become brittle. You need an inert atmosphere (e.g. argon) at the weld point and on the cooling joint to protect it. Any iron or steel contamination will also screw things up.
i bet i can fix my human erors quicker than you find and fix bugs in your software.
You can also test and verify software to get rid of bugs so that in certain situations, the software will take certain actions. A person might screw something up that he or she has done correctly a thousand times before.
Besides, computers can react more quickly allowing to fix correct problems that might result in a crash if a human were required to react. E.g. wind shears when taking off or landing were the plane might be less than 100 feet off the ground.
It might not look like a big deal to English-speaking people, maybe also for Western Europe (they can usually get away with Latin-1). But the rest of us do need it... that, or going back to multiple charset/encoding hell.
That's pretty ironic given that ruby was developed by Japanese developers. I wonder what they did to deal with japanese characters.
Beyond that- you don't need to own a fab plant to take advantage of this, you just need to be able to purchase the output. While its not economic to buy 1 CPU off an open design, it would be economic for an embedded hardware manufacturer, or a PC manufacturer to buy a lot of CPUs. These CPUs would be cheaper as there is no middle man in the picture.
I don't see this at all. It costs a bunch of money (250+K) to create a mask to test your silicon. To produce a commercially viable cpu, you'll probably go through a few masks resulting in a fairly high cost for development.
A pc manufacturer or embedded hardware manufacturer would probably find it cheaper to just buy the cpus from a cpu maker like ARM or Intel then to finance cpu development. Besides any open source cores available would be pretty out of date due to time and financial constraints.
I'm a bit out of it on the latest design requirements for CPUs - is the technology of these folks actually good enough to make a reasonably modern CPU?
You could probably get something in the P3 coppermine range with the 130nm tech. The 90nm will get you theoretically get you P4 or opteron systems but Intel and AMD use a lot of custom tweaks that MOSIS won't do. I think you'll need to assume that you need a generation better to match commericial cpu cores. E.g. a commericial cpu produced in 130nm would need 110nm or better design rules to reproduce using MOSIS.
Packaging could be a problem since I'm not sure MOSIS will be able to package the cpu in the correct packaging for you.
Nice to see that more people than i think todays computers are pretty dull, boring and lame excuses of a calculator. I have an Amiga 500 that still performs better in some areas than a brand spanking new PC with Windows on it. Thats just sad.
Perhaps you would like to point out where your A500 performs better than a new PC? Hardware wise, the PC would completely outclass the Amiga in terms of speed, memory, graphics, and audio.
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That's only really the case for physics in the sciences. The chemists and biologists tend to use word or other things besides TeX/LaTeX.
For a lot of the physics, the researchers know what they are looking for. For example, with the Higgs boson, theories constrain the decay and production to certain channels that have characteristic signatures. So they would be looking for events that have a muon at a certain energy with a hadron jet with another given energy coming off x degrees away and so on. There have been monte carlo simulations and other calculations done to predict what the interesting events should look like using various different theories. Of course there maybe interesting events that pop up that no one has predicted but everyone has a fairly good idea of what the expected events should look like.
It's a little harder to justify that paying only based on results for research. The entire reason it's called research is that no one presumably knows the answer to the problem and therefore it may or may not be solvable. Not being assured some sort of payment for your efforts pretty much kills any incentive to do it in the first place.
The news is unfortunate though. It might mean that there could be only a new cosmic run this year run instead of real beam if the repair of this takes time.
That's a bit ironic since fermilab is a CMS site with quite a few CMS people. If the CMS detector got damaged, the situation is reminiscent of the Super-K accident although probably no where near as bad.
There are cosmic particles hitting the atmosphere with more energy than the LHC will produce. If the LHC were going to cause a rift in the space time continuum, these particles would have done the same in the last 6 billion years that they've been hitting the atmosphere.
Interesting how this came out just a day after the ATLAS software and computing meetings in Munich concluded. I bet there are some interesting discussions happening there right now among the attendees that are still in town.
Aside from providing services like roads, state police, labor and environmental protection to the purchaser, courts, etc. the state didn't do much to deserve the sales tax.
RTFA, the oxygen content in the air would be the same as living at around 2000-3000m which people certainly do without ill effects.
When the touchpad on my macbook pro broke, they overnighted me a dhl box, I packed it up and sent it in the next day, and they fixed and overnighted my laptop back to me the day that they received it. All told, it took about 2 days to get the laptop fixed (dhl picked the laptop up Monday evening and I got the laptop back on Wednesday morning).
The criticism that was also given after the article raises from valid points. Mainly whether the "mistakes" that were being counted have any effect on the clinical outcome and whether the the speed of the fastest surgeons indicate better skills or whether it indicated that they were not thinking of the test as a video game and not as a simulation of a procedure on a person.
The article is interesting and all but it's not that useful. Installing Etch on a laptop that has components more recent than a PIII 600mhz cpu would be a much useful writeup. Most people are working with much newer equipment and seeing how well Etch supports recent laptop hardware would be much more useful for them.
You can make monopoly much more complicated fairly easily. Allow players to negotiate and sell options for purchasing properties, portions of future revenues from properties they may or may not have at the present, etc. A smart player and good negotiator can easily pick win and you can intelligently hedge your risks making it less likely that landing on a boardwalk with a hotel wipes you out.
I'd suggest getting a professional to do it or having a professional teach and supervise you. Fireworks are essentially explosives so I'd be very cautious.
As a famous economist said, in the long run we're all dead. Increased efficiency 10 years down the line is all well and good but that doesn't help the people that need the services now.
I agree. There are quite a few people working on really cool academic projects like celluar auotmata and grid computing working in academia and government labs. They may not be making as much but the work environment is probably much better and the problems and colleagues more interesting then the typical corporate workplace.
You're also ignoring the fact that the US hasn't had any recent incidents of major religious strife. India has had something like that in the last 60 years so people alive still remember having family injured or killed for religious reasons.
Northern Ireland has a relatively educated populace but it's still had quite of a bit of catholic vs. protestant strife so I don't think that education explains it all.
It's really hard to beat radio waves telling someone to setup a roadblock 10 miles down the road.
CAT scans are just a series of special xrays. There isn't any reason that your magnets would affect them since photons are not charged. Are you thinking MRI?
Just as an illustration, welding titantium in a normal atmosphere will cause it to become brittle. You need an inert atmosphere (e.g. argon) at the weld point and on the cooling joint to protect it. Any iron or steel contamination will also screw things up.
Does twin sister also work? If so, I'd be totally willing to try that.
You can also test and verify software to get rid of bugs so that in certain situations, the software will take certain actions. A person might screw something up that he or she has done correctly a thousand times before.
Besides, computers can react more quickly allowing to fix correct problems that might result in a crash if a human were required to react. E.g. wind shears when taking off or landing were the plane might be less than 100 feet off the ground.
That's pretty ironic given that ruby was developed by Japanese developers. I wonder what they did to deal with japanese characters.
You could probably get something in the P3 coppermine range with the 130nm tech. The 90nm will get you theoretically get you P4 or opteron systems but Intel and AMD use a lot of custom tweaks that MOSIS won't do. I think you'll need to assume that you need a generation better to match commericial cpu cores. E.g. a commericial cpu produced in 130nm would need 110nm or better design rules to reproduce using MOSIS.
Packaging could be a problem since I'm not sure MOSIS will be able to package the cpu in the correct packaging for you.
Perhaps you would like to point out where your A500 performs better than a new PC? Hardware wise, the PC would completely outclass the Amiga in terms of speed, memory, graphics, and audio.