A form of self heating can has been on sale in the UK for a while. Its from Nescafe, Nestle's instant coffee brand. It looks like a normal drinks can, but about 1/3 of the 330ml is taken up by the heating device. I've not tried it myself, but am told that its at least passable. It comes as white coffee only, with or without sugar. Quite why there's no black I don't know.
Re:All that Data and no-one to look at it?
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Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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SDSS has been running for quite some time, and has already produced some spectacular results. These include the most distant quasars known, and the largest most homogeneous quasar survey yet (in fact I'm working with some of this data at this very moment).
Whilst much of the data is not eyeballed by a person it is still processed, so there isn't a vast amount of data sitting on disk being ignored. Yes, people can look at the images, but there are too manmy of them and the human eye and mind are too inconsistent to be able to select items of interest in a coherent way. That's why we have computers! Particle physics operates in much the same way - you get a vast number of reactions in an accelarator and only a few of these are of interest, so you use computer-based filters to just select these. In much the same way with the SDSS images, most of them are of blank sky or of stars and galaxies that aren't of interest to the project. They're still cataloged and characterised though, and put into lists to be scanned by later data miners, while the specific goals of SDSS are dealt with at higher priority.
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If patents go to processes, then wny not patent the process of turning DNA into music and then sue anyone who tries it for patent violation?
Or does this thread constitute prior art?
A form of self heating can has been on sale in the UK for a while. Its from Nescafe, Nestle's instant coffee brand. It looks like a normal drinks can, but about 1/3 of the 330ml is taken up by the heating device. I've not tried it myself, but am told that its at least passable. It comes as white coffee only, with or without sugar. Quite why there's no black I don't know.
SDSS has been running for quite some time, and has already produced some spectacular results. These include the most distant quasars known, and the largest most homogeneous quasar survey yet (in fact I'm working with some of this data at this very moment).
Whilst much of the data is not eyeballed by a person it is still processed, so there isn't a vast amount of data sitting on disk being ignored. Yes, people can look at the images, but there are too manmy of them and the human eye and mind are too inconsistent to be able to select items of interest in a coherent way. That's why we have computers! Particle physics operates in much the same way - you get a vast number of reactions in an accelarator and only a few of these are of interest, so you use computer-based filters to just select these. In much the same way with the SDSS images, most of them are of blank sky or of stars and galaxies that aren't of interest to the project. They're still cataloged and characterised though, and put into lists to be scanned by later data miners, while the specific goals of SDSS are dealt with at higher priority.