I have found a handful on the CMS experiment. While the physics and actual hardware is solid, the computer side of it is written a lot by grad students and others without any formal CS training. Bugs pop up.
You can patch in-memory in windows? That seems like a terribly easy way to get into a bunch of trouble. Is that a standard thing in the API, or is there some hack-fu involved?
That happens in Brazil if you rob in the slums, as a part of the vigilante justice enforced by the drug lords. It's called "the wave" (translated literally from portuguese) because of how it looks when they roll the still flaming tires down the hill. (Most slums in Rio, at least, are built on the mountains)
But the big draw of windows is the inertia of 1,000,000 one-off apps that businesses have written. Microsoft would be scared of people moving to another architecture just because if people were making a (painful) switch anyway, they might look at the alternatives.
Like it or not, that's not the law. You don't even have to touch it. If you open the door, the guy says, "Hi, are you ? You've been served" and tosses the letter in, that's a legal service.
>> Woah, you're going to have to explain how that works, because I have no clue how you came to that conclusion.
The plural of anecdote isn't data, but as a dual-citizen with Brazil who gets back as often as I can, take a look at Brazil's economy. That place is fucked and it stems very much from the gulf of wealth disparity in the country. Yes, it's possible to get rich in brazil, but if you can't enjoy your money without being mugged, what's the point. That's what I worry about when I read that America is going the same way.
I don't know what to say, I have the same 3 pronged headphone jack cable that I use to bring over episodes of the office to a friends house that doesn't have cable (also, no reception for that channel), works fine. I'm encoding the video myself, so maybe there's a flag in the fairplay wrapper that switches the "okay to tv-out" circuitry off.
Superconducting wires were a little-used oddity until the Tevatron (at Fermilab) caused enough demand to cause them to be commercially feasible to purchase a lot of it. After Tevatron got the wire it needed for magnets, GE (and others) used the newly developed manufacturing capacity to produce MRI machines. The research into superconducting wires and magnets has led to maglev trains and is being used to replace transmission lines in some instances (New York has a liquid nitrogen cooled superconducting transmission line). They're close to getting a formulation that doesn't use Yittrium (which is expensive). Considering ~half of the energy produced in a power plant (like your coal plants) are lost to resistive losses in transmission lines, it's good news for energy production.
A number of accelerators use their beams for clinical applications. (Usually by bombarding patients with ridiculously high fluxes of neutrons). Many accelerators use their beams to activate radioactive materials which are then later used in cancer treatment.
All the detectors used in high energy physics have _tons_ of uses ranging from medical applications to non-invasive scanning of cargo. Antineutrino detectors are used to verify that the cores of nuclear reactors haven't been tampered with.
By using ultra-sensitive detectors looking at flourescent bubbles, we've been able to fix many errors in our ideas of fluid dynamics. These detectors would've been unfeasible without the research performed to produce an accelerator.
Most of those things are things that were tangential to the actual goal of finding out the deeper mysteries of the universe, but just because people aren't going to build something out of the higgs boson, doesn't make the research worthless. If you looked at someone a while ago bombarding different metals with different wavelength X-Rays and called them an idiot, then you would've shut down the theory of electron bandgaps, the application of which is the foundation of all our modern conveniences.
windows CE is not windows. If the advantage of using windows CE is getting to use your old, familiar windows programs, good luck, because you're going to need at least a recompile if not a gigantic refactoring to get it to run on CE. If you're going to refactor anyway, then you don't necessarily have to choose CE.
I'm on my way to work, but it's short sighted to say that since there's not something we'll get out in 5-10 years, it's not worth doing. The whole idea behind science is to discover new ideas. If you don't look, you can't find it.
To correct you, if you're traveling at near-relatavistic velocities, you'll percieve that 70Ly journey as a significantly shorter journey. Which would make a lot of things further away more interesting for you (but the results less interesting to the people you've left behind)
If you ever end up in the vacuum of space, DONT hold your breath. It'll pop your lungs, which is a much more painful way to go than the alternative. (also, non-reversable)
It's not a waste because when those events happen in the upper atmosphere, we don't have a ridiculously sensitive sensor measuring the output products.
You should be able to use a simple resistor based dimmer, but it would be much sweeter to use a switching transistor that changes it's duty cycle to match how much light you're wanting to give it. That way, you're not losing energy through resistive losses.
Just because a black hole is very dense doesn't mean it can magically accrete matter any better than it's constituent parts. A black hole consisting of two protons isn't going to be able to accrete matter to itself any better than two protons would.
The earth is struck by 14 million particles every second with energies 1000 times greater than the LHC can produce. A significant fraction of those particles exceed 1,000,000x the energy of the LHC.
This has been happening for the past several billion years.
Excuse me if I'm not worried about a machine that will produce a) less particles/second than are striking the earth b) _severely_ less energy per particle.
It's not hubris on my part, it's just statistics. If there were something bad that could happen from high-energy particles, it would've happened by now.
Slashdot Mirror
software glitch.
I have found a handful on the CMS experiment. While the physics and actual hardware is solid, the computer side of it is written a lot by grad students and others without any formal CS training. Bugs pop up.
I guess you could read it and find out...
seriously?
Can non-Administrator processes modify other processes' ram?
You can patch in-memory in windows? That seems like a terribly easy way to get into a bunch of trouble. Is that a standard thing in the API, or is there some hack-fu involved?
Can you do that in other OSs?
That happens in Brazil if you rob in the slums, as a part of the vigilante justice enforced by the drug lords. It's called "the wave" (translated literally from portuguese) because of how it looks when they roll the still flaming tires down the hill. (Most slums in Rio, at least, are built on the mountains)
But the big draw of windows is the inertia of 1,000,000 one-off apps that businesses have written. Microsoft would be scared of people moving to another architecture just because if people were making a (painful) switch anyway, they might look at the alternatives.
Like it or not, that's not the law. You don't even have to touch it. If you open the door, the guy says, "Hi, are you ? You've been served" and tosses the letter in, that's a legal service.
>> Woah, you're going to have to explain how that works, because I have no clue how you came to that conclusion.
The plural of anecdote isn't data, but as a dual-citizen with Brazil who gets back as often as I can, take a look at Brazil's economy. That place is fucked and it stems very much from the gulf of wealth disparity in the country. Yes, it's possible to get rich in brazil, but if you can't enjoy your money without being mugged, what's the point. That's what I worry about when I read that America is going the same way.
gotta run.
I thought unbound (single) quarks were didn't exist?
I don't know what to say, I have the same 3 pronged headphone jack cable that I use to bring over episodes of the office to a friends house that doesn't have cable (also, no reception for that channel), works fine. I'm encoding the video myself, so maybe there's a flag in the fairplay wrapper that switches the "okay to tv-out" circuitry off.
I'm not a dumbass. I have a 2nd gen ipod touch with an external volume control and everything.
My current iPod touch is, in fact, the 'newest' iPod. There are no newer ones, regardless of your point of reference.
[Citation Needed]
I have a new iPod touch that works fine with some handmedown generic cables.
Since when has ICANN been providing DNA?
Let's rock-
Superconducting wires were a little-used oddity until the Tevatron (at Fermilab) caused enough demand to cause them to be commercially feasible to purchase a lot of it. After Tevatron got the wire it needed for magnets, GE (and others) used the newly developed manufacturing capacity to produce MRI machines. The research into superconducting wires and magnets has led to maglev trains and is being used to replace transmission lines in some instances (New York has a liquid nitrogen cooled superconducting transmission line). They're close to getting a formulation that doesn't use Yittrium (which is expensive). Considering ~half of the energy produced in a power plant (like your coal plants) are lost to resistive losses in transmission lines, it's good news for energy production.
A number of accelerators use their beams for clinical applications. (Usually by bombarding patients with ridiculously high fluxes of neutrons). Many accelerators use their beams to activate radioactive materials which are then later used in cancer treatment.
All the detectors used in high energy physics have _tons_ of uses ranging from medical applications to non-invasive scanning of cargo. Antineutrino detectors are used to verify that the cores of nuclear reactors haven't been tampered with.
By using ultra-sensitive detectors looking at flourescent bubbles, we've been able to fix many errors in our ideas of fluid dynamics. These detectors would've been unfeasible without the research performed to produce an accelerator.
Most of those things are things that were tangential to the actual goal of finding out the deeper mysteries of the universe, but just because people aren't going to build something out of the higgs boson, doesn't make the research worthless. If you looked at someone a while ago bombarding different metals with different wavelength X-Rays and called them an idiot, then you would've shut down the theory of electron bandgaps, the application of which is the foundation of all our modern conveniences.
anyway, back to work.
windows CE is not windows. If the advantage of using windows CE is getting to use your old, familiar windows programs, good luck, because you're going to need at least a recompile if not a gigantic refactoring to get it to run on CE. If you're going to refactor anyway, then you don't necessarily have to choose CE.
positron emission tomography (PET scans)
I'm on my way to work, but it's short sighted to say that since there's not something we'll get out in 5-10 years, it's not worth doing. The whole idea behind science is to discover new ideas. If you don't look, you can't find it.
The new iPod touches and iPhone are not supported by amarok (libgpod doesn't support the hash that apple has on the database file)
To correct you, if you're traveling at near-relatavistic velocities, you'll percieve that 70Ly journey as a significantly shorter journey. Which would make a lot of things further away more interesting for you (but the results less interesting to the people you've left behind)
If you ever end up in the vacuum of space, DONT hold your breath. It'll pop your lungs, which is a much more painful way to go than the alternative. (also, non-reversable)
It's not a waste because when those events happen in the upper atmosphere, we don't have a ridiculously sensitive sensor measuring the output products.
You should be able to use a simple resistor based dimmer, but it would be much sweeter to use a switching transistor that changes it's duty cycle to match how much light you're wanting to give it. That way, you're not losing energy through resistive losses.
You clearly can't read.
Just because a black hole is very dense doesn't mean it can magically accrete matter any better than it's constituent parts. A black hole consisting of two protons isn't going to be able to accrete matter to itself any better than two protons would.
The earth is struck by 14 million particles every second with energies 1000 times greater than the LHC can produce. A significant fraction of those particles exceed 1,000,000x the energy of the LHC.
This has been happening for the past several billion years.
Excuse me if I'm not worried about a machine that will produce a) less particles/second than are striking the earth b) _severely_ less energy per particle.
It's not hubris on my part, it's just statistics. If there were something bad that could happen from high-energy particles, it would've happened by now.