What do you people think the Internet is? Its mostly a collection of Cisco routers and switches. Don't fool yourself if you think its this living breathing emergent organism that has evolved because of open source and Linux and all the techno weenie coders and packet kiddies circle jerking each other on IRC all night long. Its a network evolved BY corporations FOR corporations. The only difference is that they didn't have to pay royalties to any university for the idea.
Fax is patented and it is still used today worldwide and is unlikely to go away. What is so wrong with Coke and Pepsi? McDonalds and Burger King? All these are proprietary, patented products, that have created a market and inspired competition FOR that market share. If Internet was a commercial entity, then perhaps we would have faster expansion of various networks trying to compete with one another for the customers. Since there is a free networking standard, Cisco still managed to monopolize it, so did Microsoft and any other company. And what did they contribute to the basic research? Very little compared to what would've been contributed by a nonprofit entity.
And he is absolutely right. If Internet was patented by the Universities, today we would have more money centered around basic research and development. We would still have businesses competing to create an alternative and perhaps yield a better standard than HTML. Ultimately the price level and innovation are correlated and depend on consumer demand.
So this virtual 'doctor' earns about $561,600 salary a year for consulting services? There is no liability, no physical exam, no prescription services. This is a great business model!
If they disable the Internet access to their local community then we have less traffic to deal with. This, in my humble opinion, is a win for the rest of the enlightened world in the US
Upon waking up in the morning, Johnny stumbles to the bathroom to answer the call of nature using the household's amazing Matsushita-brand Smart Toilet, which automatically measures his weight, body fat, blood pressure and urine sugar and sends the results to the Sokko family physician via the Internet.
how many doctors in US would really want to know that in the morning.. no, really?
In 1995 Shor published a paper in which he devised an algorithm which would allow quantum factorization using qubits and gates. In short, his method would allow really [really-really] fast code breaking using quantum 'computers'.
back in 70's they spent trillions of dollars on ICBMs.. and today we have an ever-growing desire to develop more efficient weapons of mass destruction..
Imagine you lived in stone age - or simply there were no computers or power supply to run them?
All those people with MCSE/CCNA/etc and Computer Information Systems degrees.. end up being useless.. 'teh sucks' - nobodies. Unless of course they took Calculus and lot of other engineering courses and posess knowledge important to advance the technology forward, not just be a servant of the society, doing LAN administration or running UNIX - the kind of 'clerical' work in computers. Wake up! ALl your nerds not doing anything!! you just learning simple things - unix administration? firewalls? geez you created the problem. You created the need for IT departments and for IPSecs and for so many things - because of you dumb packet kiddies we are stuck here today from 1980s not having a single advancement in computers except that those from 80's packed the transistors, expanded the amount of memory and simply 'improved' the technology.. But the real 'geeks' are the engineers, professors - those 'nerds' who are advancing the field through their research and experiments, while all those 'unix geek hax0r l33t bizniatchees y000' are nothing but computer operators.
The New Alchemy Could semiconductor technology do for material science what it has for computing?
Imagine a solid wall that, as the occasion demands, becomes completely transparent or transforms on one side into a giant video screen while the other side becomes either a solar panel or a heat pump that cools a room on a hot day. This is the promise of programmable matter--and it could make the technology revolution wrought by semiconductors to date look like a warm-up for the main act.
The idea of programmable matter began to seep into the popular consciousness in recent years through the works of aerospace-engineer-turned-science-fiction-author Wil McCarthy [right], who dubbed the new material wellstone in novels like The Collapsium (Del Rey, 2000). Now McCarthy has written his first nonfiction book about programmable matter, Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms. Associate Editor Stephen Cass talked to him about this bleeding-edge technology and how McCarthy himself is helping to transform science fiction into science fact.
What is programmable matter? Programmable matter is fundamentally a solid-state technology--something that can change its optical, physical, magnetic, or electrical behavior without any moving parts except for electrons or photons. In that sense, there are certain things now that already qualify as programmable matter, like an LCD [liquid-crystal display] screen. This is an assembly of devices, but you can also look at it as carefully arranged material that has the interesting property of changing color under electrical stimulation. By adjusting quantum dots instead of pixels, you can make artificial atoms and adjust a lot more than just the color of the material.
What are quantum dots and how do you use them to make artificial atoms? A natural atom is a particular means for confining electrons--the positively charged nucleus gathers electrons around it and doesn't let them escape. By confining the electrons, you force them to behave as standing waves. And those standing waves are responsible for nearly all the chemical, electrical, and optical properties that we associate with atoms.
But you don't have to have an atomic nucleus to get that sort of behavior out of electrons; you just have to confine them in a small space. There are a lot of ways to do this. One way is to use the standard techniques of semiconductor chip design to create junctions that will herd electrons into an area of choice, known as a quantum dot. Once confined, the electrons will form a structure known as an artificial atom. With artificial atoms, unlike natural atoms, there is no reason why you can't pump electrons in and out and change their characteristics dynamically, making them programmable.
But if these programmable atoms are buried in a semiconductor substrate, how do they interact with anything? How do you make the entire material behave like it's made out of, say, gold? With programmable atoms in a substrate, what you are really doing is creating controlled impurities--dopant atoms--so the properties of your semiconductors are going to be very important in determining the final properties of the programmable substance. You can get a very high level of doping with a properly designed quantum dot array and overwhelm the normal behavior of the semiconductor. You can never ignore the fact that the semiconductor is there, but you can change its properties almost beyond recognition.
So would you have to combine different types of artificial atoms to end up with a material whose net behavior is like that of gold? Probably. An artificial atom of gold-- pseudo-gold--is almost certainly going to be a lot larger than an atom of natural gold. One consequence of this is that its absorption and reflection spectrum will be redshifted, because the electrons are less tightly bound so they will be at lower energies. So even if you could somehow have atoms of pseudo-gold without any substrate, they'd be
You actually didnt understand the concept - the waves will vibrate your head, your bones and inner ear and it doesnt matter what you have - your whole body will feel tiny-bity vibrations that your ear will amplify thousand times and you'll get the message no matter what
Its fascinating how this guy comes up with such easy and common sense concepts without in-depth calculus analysis or any of those engineering proves one might go through before constructing a prototype. He is one of those guys like Einstein who just works by his instincts and achieves the results. Who would have thought of a club where you dont have a 30 kW sound system and you dont hear the beats thump the walls?> Or even better - now you dont need to build nightclubs in residential or abondoned places.
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How is this a 'Flamebait'? Get a sense of humor you Nazis
Obama has been spamming for donations from @whitehouse.gov for years!
What do you people think the Internet is? Its mostly a collection of Cisco routers and switches. Don't fool yourself if you think its this living breathing emergent organism that has evolved because of open source and Linux and all the techno weenie coders and packet kiddies circle jerking each other on IRC all night long. Its a network evolved BY corporations FOR corporations. The only difference is that they didn't have to pay royalties to any university for the idea.
Fax is patented and it is still used today worldwide and is unlikely to go away. What is so wrong with Coke and Pepsi? McDonalds and Burger King? All these are proprietary, patented products, that have created a market and inspired competition FOR that market share. If Internet was a commercial entity, then perhaps we would have faster expansion of various networks trying to compete with one another for the customers. Since there is a free networking standard, Cisco still managed to monopolize it, so did Microsoft and any other company. And what did they contribute to the basic research? Very little compared to what would've been contributed by a nonprofit entity.
And he is absolutely right. If Internet was patented by the Universities, today we would have more money centered around basic research and development. We would still have businesses competing to create an alternative and perhaps yield a better standard than HTML. Ultimately the price level and innovation are correlated and depend on consumer demand.
So this virtual 'doctor' earns about $561,600 salary a year for consulting services? There is no liability, no physical exam, no prescription services. This is a great business model!
If they disable the Internet access to their local community then we have less traffic to deal with. This, in my humble opinion, is a win for the rest of the enlightened world in the US
Oh this is great, over a year old news
http://greenupgrader.com/3119/discovery-vegetarian-spiders/
The NYPD's computers are so old, any attempt to flood the machine will result in an immediate segfault and a BSOD.
Upon waking up in the morning, Johnny stumbles to the bathroom to answer the call of nature using the household's amazing Matsushita-brand Smart Toilet, which automatically measures his weight, body fat, blood pressure and urine sugar and sends the results to the Sokko family physician via the Internet.
how many doctors in US would really want to know that in the morning.. no, really?
In 1995 Shor published a paper in which he devised an algorithm which would allow quantum factorization using qubits and gates. In short, his method would allow really [really-really] fast code breaking using quantum 'computers'.
8 .h tml
http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/doc/quprog/node1
In 35 years of internet posting.. there are still acquisition erorrs
back in 70's they spent trillions of dollars on ICBMs.. and today we have an ever-growing desire to develop more efficient weapons of mass destruction..
i wonder if people gone mad.
How about you read the article before posting something dumb?
Its a hardware Security, which most of you software 'nerds' have no clue about.
they not running the website on their Ericson cellphones, cause its already /.ed
I saw T3 on june 30th (monday)
you guys posting this after all ppl saw it and decided it was a big disappointed
I do believe my contempt is aimed at the packet kiddies, if you dont mind
Imagine you lived in stone age - or simply there were no computers or power supply to run them?
All those people with MCSE/CCNA/etc and Computer Information Systems degrees.. end up being useless.. 'teh sucks' - nobodies. Unless of course they took Calculus and lot of other engineering courses and posess knowledge important to advance the technology forward, not just be a servant of the society, doing LAN administration or running UNIX - the kind of 'clerical' work in computers.
Wake up! ALl your nerds not doing anything!! you just learning simple things - unix administration? firewalls? geez you created the problem. You created the need for IT departments and for IPSecs and for so many things - because of you dumb packet kiddies we are stuck here today from 1980s not having a single advancement in computers except that those from 80's packed the transistors, expanded the amount of memory and simply 'improved' the technology.. But the real 'geeks' are the engineers, professors - those 'nerds' who are advancing the field through their research and experiments, while all those 'unix geek hax0r l33t bizniatchees y000' are nothing but computer operators.
Back to the topic : expand your horizons, folks!
The New Alchemy
Could semiconductor technology do for material science what it has for computing?
Imagine a solid wall that, as the occasion demands, becomes completely transparent or transforms on one side into a giant video screen while the other side becomes either a solar panel or a heat pump that cools a room on a hot day. This is the promise of programmable matter--and it could make the technology revolution wrought by semiconductors to date look like a warm-up for the main act.
The idea of programmable matter began to seep into the popular consciousness in recent years through the works of aerospace-engineer-turned-science-fiction-author Wil McCarthy [right], who dubbed the new material wellstone in novels like The Collapsium (Del Rey, 2000). Now McCarthy has written his first nonfiction book about programmable matter, Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms. Associate Editor Stephen Cass talked to him about this bleeding-edge technology and how McCarthy himself is helping to transform science fiction into science fact.
What is programmable matter?
Programmable matter is fundamentally a solid-state technology--something that can change its optical, physical, magnetic, or electrical behavior without any moving parts except for electrons or photons. In that sense, there are certain things now that already qualify as programmable matter, like an LCD [liquid-crystal display] screen. This is an assembly of devices, but you can also look at it as carefully arranged material that has the interesting property of changing color under electrical stimulation. By adjusting quantum dots instead of pixels, you can make artificial atoms and adjust a lot more than just the color of the material.
What are quantum dots and how do you use them to make artificial atoms?
A natural atom is a particular means for confining electrons--the positively charged nucleus gathers electrons around it and doesn't let them escape. By confining the electrons, you force them to behave as standing waves. And those standing waves are responsible for nearly all the chemical, electrical, and optical properties that we associate with atoms.
But you don't have to have an atomic nucleus to get that sort of behavior out of electrons; you just have to confine them in a small space. There are a lot of ways to do this. One way is to use the standard techniques of semiconductor chip design to create junctions that will herd electrons into an area of choice, known as a quantum dot. Once confined, the electrons will form a structure known as an artificial atom. With artificial atoms, unlike natural atoms, there is no reason why you can't pump electrons in and out and change their characteristics dynamically, making them programmable.
But if these programmable atoms are buried in a semiconductor substrate, how do they interact with anything? How do you make the entire material behave like it's made out of, say, gold?
With programmable atoms in a substrate, what you are really doing is creating controlled impurities--dopant atoms--so the properties of your semiconductors are going to be very important in determining the final properties of the programmable substance. You can get a very high level of doping with a properly designed quantum dot array and overwhelm the normal behavior of the semiconductor. You can never ignore the fact that the semiconductor is there, but you can change its properties almost beyond recognition.
So would you have to combine different types of artificial atoms to end up with a material whose net behavior is like that of gold?
Probably. An artificial atom of gold-- pseudo-gold--is almost certainly going to be a lot larger than an atom of natural gold. One consequence of this is that its absorption and reflection spectrum will be redshifted, because the electrons are less tightly bound so they will be at lower energies. So even if you could somehow have atoms of pseudo-gold without any substrate, they'd be
Gee i love slashdot Karma - its made up by idiots.
First this guy posts 2 hours AFTER me saying what i said, without any technical details, and gets a 1
and i get a 0
whoever rates these things - get a life
IS LAAAMEEE, get a life, stop reading someone's posts.
boooriiinngggggggggg
You actually didnt understand the concept - the waves will vibrate your head, your bones and inner ear and it doesnt matter what you have - your whole body will feel tiny-bity vibrations that your ear will amplify thousand times and you'll get the message no matter what
Its fascinating how this guy comes up with such easy and common sense concepts without in-depth calculus analysis or any of those engineering proves one might go through before constructing a prototype. He is one of those guys like Einstein who just works by his instincts and achieves the results. Who would have thought of a club where you dont have a 30 kW sound system and you dont hear the beats thump the walls?> Or even better - now you dont need to build nightclubs in residential or abondoned places.
Let the slashdotting begin./