This growing economy is presumably why the middle class and working population of America have seen no benefit from improvements in productivity since the early 1970s. http://www.epi.org/productivit... What you are missing about the 1% is that their wealth will logically move where the growth is - and that is not the USA, it is the Far East, Africa, China and other recently third world countries. You are very silly if you think the 1% are interested in investing in the American workforce whilst better returns are available elsewhere. Try looking at what has actually happened rather than some pie in the sky theory.
Correct, I think the moderator who scored this flamebait is wrong. I do not know if all you wailing Microsoft haters are all clueless accountants or marketing people but the big news these days is that Moore's law is dead - or will be in two more spins in about 2020 or 2022. There is only one direction for increased performance going forward - new architectures and new software tricks. It would be a good guess to say that Windows will become so tightly coupled to some next generation processor chips that it will not run at all on older generation chips. So stop your wailing and start finding out what Intel is cooking up because Linux is going to fall behind if it is not taking the same advantages as windows will be.
Probably better than working for the Daily Mail - it is well known that employees of the Daily Mail have been replaced by waxwork drones whilst the real employees are actually already in hell being spit roasted just for joining the paper - never mind making up anything to be printed in it. Horrible eh?
Only a pathetic wimp with a small penis and an ugly sister could say "In a political (sic) correct world, the only thing one can brag about is to be humble." Being humble and politically correct is awesome I can assure you, you should try it sometime.
I believe that you are being far too honest, if only you could overcome this terrible defect in your character all would be well. You can lie to Flux about your timezone, it does not use the windows default clock.
I agree, the Flux interface is neat and easy to use. I am not looking forward to Microsoft's version requiring four clicks to access and filling the whole screen with a brilliant white tile to make damn sure you cannot see the effect of the utility on the small text you are reading in the dark. It will of course be an "App" that sends un-encrypted screenshots to Redmond and is touch enabled without a mouse interface. I expect to be paid by Microsoft for these design tips....
Probably, I think Iraq, ISIS and a tidal wave of African refugees from Libya and Syrian refugees is quite enough defense for now. I assume by subsidizing "our" economies you mean that it is not just Apple who will be paying taxes in future. Being friends with America is certainly not cheap.
As for the topic, infantile behavior from alcohol consumption might be improved by restricting the supply of the stuff and replacing it with a less harmful psychoactive substance. Apparently however the world has to continue the Sharia law of the United States - namely the War on Drugs. So there is no prospect of replacing alcohol with anything else currently. I assume that all the careers of students that are blighted by being caught with the wrong quantity of alcohol in their possession are no longer of any import to the country as they will be replaced with H1B visa holders. Personally I would try to find a different way of solving the binge drinking problem, but hey why not try prohibition again, it worked out just fine the last time it was tried.
I can say unequivocally that I would rather buy this companies products than one that shipped regardless having discovered an issue with the product. You face a choice when something like this is discovered of shipping and expecting an expensive return rate or holding back the entire production batch for screening to remove the product with the issue. A good company like Samsung will go to the effort of pissing off the marketing department and the senior executives bonuses and fix the product, a bad company will ship regardless. Reputation is something that is probably managed by the "blogging" department that will take out any customers who complain and threaten the brand publicly. Caveat emptor.
Although the sun naturally "pollutes" the ionosphere every 11 years in the sunspot cycle and spread spectrum short wave communications is still a major military technology?
This is excellent news if true. Short wave broadcast radio has been in decline all my life and radio hams have increasingly turned to the more exciting fields of digital communications and microwave. If it livens up the bands again then I am all for it. I assume that the objective is to learn how to thicken it up enough to locally cut off communications from space thereby killing the enemies communications network. The only downside might be disruption of radio astronomy, but we should be doing that from the moon anyway.
I have taken a break from my account since October 2015 so totally agree. Tell you what Zuckerberg fuck off with the extra advertising. I wont be back unless someone finds a way to turn it off. Also if your company is only accessible on Facebook, well you can fuck off too.
Talking of Cern, I used the graphics on their Snowboard and Ski Club web site to learn to Snowboard at the local dry ski slope some time in the mid 90's. Sadly they no longer offer this fine service but I have not seen anything better since.
I have not bothered with the Olympics for decades, though I have caught the opening and closing ceremony occasionally. I will probably start watching it when genetically modified humans start taking part, that is going to be fascinating.
You are the Yellow Cab driver who got buried by Uber. No offense but you cannot see the potential of this tool because you are too close to your version of the problem.
Farmbot is bang on the mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?... From Satellite to Soil - Professor Simon Blackmore The Royal Society Admittedly the latest agricultural robots are on wheels but the research is being done on static beds - so why not develop and test a vision assisted laser weeding head on Farmbot? Come on Slashdot, this thing is the prototype 3d printer of the agricultural future. Some people will go on from this to start a billion dollar company that puts Monsanto out of business. 99% reduction by volume in herbicide use? Watch the video and you will see why Farmbot is oversubscribed. This is the first thing I have seen for years that looks like a massive business of the future.
More here https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ITC Luncheon April 14, 2016 Harvard ITC hosted this years Sackler conference and Nicola Amorisco (ITC) gives a presentation "Ultra-diffuse Galaxies: the Low Surface Brightness Tail of the Abundant Dwarf Galaxy Population" for the first 15 minutes of this video. The conclusion is that UDGs are ubiquitous and numerous in both clusters and the field, Their formation is independent from the cluster environment, They are dwarf galaxies and represent the tail into the low surface brightness regime, Abundances and size distribution is consistent with the same model as for bright galaxies.
I note however that there seems to be some disagreement about the mass of these galaxies.
Beasley (at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands) et al measured 8 +-4 x 10 * 10 solar masses for VCC 1287 in the Coma cluster using Keck Spectroscopy of 7 globular clusters. ~ 8% of the Milky Way mass.
Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University more recently reports Dragonfly 44 in the Coma cluster to be ~10^12 M_sun, similar to the mass of the Milky Way using spectral dispersion from Keck measurements.
I wonder if anyone knows why the Beasley measurement has been depreciated in this announcement?
I seem to recall one Douglas Adams mocking digital watches in 1980, it seems that the improvements in functionality have not really changed their appeal.
Unlimited battery life and a full medical diagnostic suite are the only things that might make them worth wearing.
Agreed robotic space probes ARE adequate for exploring the universe. The only reason anyone sends meat sacks into space these days is to do experiments on low orbit space stations. Going anywhere further requires wasting money at a rate that only politicians flattering their own vanity can afford. The last time humans were part of the space race was in the 1970's.
I think we need popular science even if it is mostly hype and bullshit. At the end of the day popular science should be regarded as an art form. It purports to tell us something about the world and ourselves just like the other arts. The fact that it is based in hard science does not alter the fact that it is interpretive, 99.9% of the population do not have the tools to understand the actual science so we feed them metaphors and interpretations. Culture evolves as science evolves, for example mans place in the universe has steadily moved from the center under god in the last few centuries because of science. If there was no popular science then culture would be cut off from our understanding of the world.
Parallel universes does not mean that we can ever interact with them. I am completely happy with the idea that eternal inflation creates bubble universes, each one as valid and real as ours. As a solution to the question of what came before the beginning of time it gets rid of the need for ever having a beginning which is nice. As to whether you need to believe in them, well it is just like any belief, unless something comes along to disprove or argue with the belief then it becomes the working belief and it is not terribly important how much you believe in it. I have a working belief that the sun will come up again tomorrow and it makes no difference whether I strongly believe in it or not, the sun will come up or not. Belief is overrated.
Yes and it is a great improvement as the ghosts and spirits were invented to back up another set of made up explanations of why shit happens - Religion. At least our stringy friends are basing their imaginary descriptions of the world on things they have actually found in the world and have no agenda other than dreaming up the prettiest solution.
Let go of any genesis theories - Effectively this has already been done in the thought experiment that postulates eternal inflation and the bubble universe multiverse that comes with it.
Just not measurable by human standards - agreed to even by eternal inflation speculators, they see few if any chances of measuring the existence of other universes outside ours as they lie beyond the observable horizon.
Forget the furthest objects. I have to agree, humanity will never reach the nearest star outside the solar system, the distance and the cost are beyond us. Warp drive is and will always be science fiction in our lifetimes.
Unfortunately our culture is more and more about money for the rich and a populist circus for the worker drones. There is little space left for academic study for it's own sake. It is a huge surprise that so much good science still gets done under this farcical primitive culture. I suspect that it has contributed to the string bandwagon rather more than it should have done and in this respect Smolin probably has a point. And before people start yelling at me that communism is a failure and dog eat dog capitalism is the only model that "works" I should remind you that there are a range of societies across the world that work quite well and are not describable as strictly capitalist or communist. If you are unable to comprehend this, then it indicates that your own society is probably some kind of dogma that does not allow free thought.
A lot of cosmology is actually on pretty solid ground these days. For example, the Planck satellite measured the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to one part in ten to the five. The logarithmic pattern it shows fits very well (12 sigma) with the physics invented by Viatcheslav Mukhanov which says that they are quantum fluctuations blown up onto the sky by the big bang. The lambda Cold Dark Matter (CDM) model also fits all of the observable data and the existence of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. I do not believe that you have studied cosmology in any depth to make the assertions that you do, a twelve sigma fit is pretty convincing.
The predictions of Solar Terrestrial physics is better thought of as Space Weather and is a hard physics problem to solve just like terrestrial weather. The problem is more to do with measuring the variables involved not the fundamental physics.
Slashdot Mirror
This growing economy is presumably why the middle class and working population of America have seen no benefit from improvements in productivity since the early 1970s. http://www.epi.org/productivit... What you are missing about the 1% is that their wealth will logically move where the growth is - and that is not the USA, it is the Far East, Africa, China and other recently third world countries. You are very silly if you think the 1% are interested in investing in the American workforce whilst better returns are available elsewhere. Try looking at what has actually happened rather than some pie in the sky theory.
Correct, I think the moderator who scored this flamebait is wrong. I do not know if all you wailing Microsoft haters are all clueless accountants or marketing people but the big news these days is that Moore's law is dead - or will be in two more spins in about 2020 or 2022. There is only one direction for increased performance going forward - new architectures and new software tricks. It would be a good guess to say that Windows will become so tightly coupled to some next generation processor chips that it will not run at all on older generation chips. So stop your wailing and start finding out what Intel is cooking up because Linux is going to fall behind if it is not taking the same advantages as windows will be.
Probably better than working for the Daily Mail - it is well known that employees of the Daily Mail have been replaced by waxwork drones whilst the real employees are actually already in hell being spit roasted just for joining the paper - never mind making up anything to be printed in it. Horrible eh?
Only a pathetic wimp with a small penis and an ugly sister could say "In a political (sic) correct world, the only thing one can brag about is to be humble." Being humble and politically correct is awesome I can assure you, you should try it sometime.
I believe that you are being far too honest, if only you could overcome this terrible defect in your character all would be well. You can lie to Flux about your timezone, it does not use the windows default clock.
I agree, the Flux interface is neat and easy to use. I am not looking forward to Microsoft's version requiring four clicks to access and filling the whole screen with a brilliant white tile to make damn sure you cannot see the effect of the utility on the small text you are reading in the dark. It will of course be an "App" that sends un-encrypted screenshots to Redmond and is touch enabled without a mouse interface. I expect to be paid by Microsoft for these design tips....
Probably, I think Iraq, ISIS and a tidal wave of African refugees from Libya and Syrian refugees is quite enough defense for now. I assume by subsidizing "our" economies you mean that it is not just Apple who will be paying taxes in future. Being friends with America is certainly not cheap.
As for the topic, infantile behavior from alcohol consumption might be improved by restricting the supply of the stuff and replacing it with a less harmful psychoactive substance. Apparently however the world has to continue the Sharia law of the United States - namely the War on Drugs. So there is no prospect of replacing alcohol with anything else currently. I assume that all the careers of students that are blighted by being caught with the wrong quantity of alcohol in their possession are no longer of any import to the country as they will be replaced with H1B visa holders. Personally I would try to find a different way of solving the binge drinking problem, but hey why not try prohibition again, it worked out just fine the last time it was tried.
I can say unequivocally that I would rather buy this companies products than one that shipped regardless having discovered an issue with the product. You face a choice when something like this is discovered of shipping and expecting an expensive return rate or holding back the entire production batch for screening to remove the product with the issue. A good company like Samsung will go to the effort of pissing off the marketing department and the senior executives bonuses and fix the product, a bad company will ship regardless. Reputation is something that is probably managed by the "blogging" department that will take out any customers who complain and threaten the brand publicly. Caveat emptor.
Although the sun naturally "pollutes" the ionosphere every 11 years in the sunspot cycle and spread spectrum short wave communications is still a major military technology?
This is excellent news if true. Short wave broadcast radio has been in decline all my life and radio hams have increasingly turned to the more exciting fields of digital communications and microwave. If it livens up the bands again then I am all for it. I assume that the objective is to learn how to thicken it up enough to locally cut off communications from space thereby killing the enemies communications network. The only downside might be disruption of radio astronomy, but we should be doing that from the moon anyway.
I have taken a break from my account since October 2015 so totally agree. Tell you what Zuckerberg fuck off with the extra advertising. I wont be back unless someone finds a way to turn it off. Also if your company is only accessible on Facebook, well you can fuck off too.
Talking of Cern, I used the graphics on their Snowboard and Ski Club web site to learn to Snowboard at the local dry ski slope some time in the mid 90's. Sadly they no longer offer this fine service but I have not seen anything better since.
I have not bothered with the Olympics for decades, though I have caught the opening and closing ceremony occasionally. I will probably start watching it when genetically modified humans start taking part, that is going to be fascinating.
You are the Yellow Cab driver who got buried by Uber. No offense but you cannot see the potential of this tool because you are too close to your version of the problem.
Farmbot is bang on the mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?... From Satellite to Soil - Professor Simon Blackmore The Royal Society
Admittedly the latest agricultural robots are on wheels but the research is being done on static beds - so why not develop and test a vision assisted laser weeding head on Farmbot? Come on Slashdot, this thing is the prototype 3d printer of the agricultural future. Some people will go on from this to start a billion dollar company that puts Monsanto out of business. 99% reduction by volume in herbicide use? Watch the video and you will see why Farmbot is oversubscribed. This is the first thing I have seen for years that looks like a massive business of the future.
More here https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ITC Luncheon April 14, 2016
Harvard ITC hosted this years Sackler conference and Nicola Amorisco (ITC) gives a presentation "Ultra-diffuse Galaxies: the Low Surface Brightness Tail of the Abundant Dwarf Galaxy Population" for the first 15 minutes of this video. The conclusion is that UDGs are ubiquitous and numerous in both clusters and the field, Their formation is independent from the cluster environment, They are dwarf galaxies and represent the tail into the low surface brightness regime, Abundances and size distribution is consistent with the same model as for bright galaxies.
I note however that there seems to be some disagreement about the mass of these galaxies.
Beasley (at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands) et al measured 8 +-4 x 10 * 10 solar masses for VCC 1287 in the Coma cluster using Keck Spectroscopy of 7 globular clusters. ~ 8% of the Milky Way mass.
Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University more recently reports Dragonfly 44 in the Coma cluster to be ~10^12 M_sun, similar to the mass of the Milky Way using spectral dispersion
from Keck measurements.
I wonder if anyone knows why the Beasley measurement has been depreciated in this announcement?
I seem to recall one Douglas Adams mocking digital watches in 1980, it seems that the improvements in functionality have not really changed their appeal.
Unlimited battery life and a full medical diagnostic suite are the only things that might make them worth wearing.
Agreed robotic space probes ARE adequate for exploring the universe. The only reason anyone sends meat sacks into space these days is to do experiments on low orbit space stations. Going anywhere further requires wasting money at a rate that only politicians flattering their own vanity can afford. The last time humans were part of the space race was in the 1970's.
Very entertaining philosophy dude :-)
I think we need popular science even if it is mostly hype and bullshit. At the end of the day popular science should be regarded as an art form. It purports to tell us something about the world and ourselves just like the other arts. The fact that it is based in hard science does not alter the fact that it is interpretive, 99.9% of the population do not have the tools to understand the actual science so we feed them metaphors and interpretations. Culture evolves as science evolves, for example mans place in the universe has steadily moved from the center under god in the last few centuries because of science. If there was no popular science then culture would be cut off from our understanding of the world.
Parallel universes does not mean that we can ever interact with them. I am completely happy with the idea that eternal inflation creates bubble universes, each one as valid and real as ours. As a solution to the question of what came before the beginning of time it gets rid of the need for ever having a beginning which is nice. As to whether you need to believe in them, well it is just like any belief, unless something comes along to disprove or argue with the belief then it becomes the working belief and it is not terribly important how much you believe in it. I have a working belief that the sun will come up again tomorrow and it makes no difference whether I strongly believe in it or not, the sun will come up or not. Belief is overrated.
Yes and it is a great improvement as the ghosts and spirits were invented to back up another set of made up explanations of why shit happens - Religion. At least our stringy friends are basing their imaginary descriptions of the world on things they have actually found in the world and have no agenda other than dreaming up the prettiest solution.
Fair comment,
Let go of any genesis theories - Effectively this has already been done in the thought experiment that postulates eternal inflation and the bubble universe multiverse that comes with it.
Just not measurable by human standards - agreed to even by eternal inflation speculators, they see few if any chances of measuring the existence of other universes outside ours as they lie beyond the observable horizon.
Forget the furthest objects. I have to agree, humanity will never reach the nearest star outside the solar system, the distance and the cost are beyond us. Warp drive is and will always be science fiction in our lifetimes.
Unfortunately our culture is more and more about money for the rich and a populist circus for the worker drones. There is little space left for academic study for it's own sake. It is a huge surprise that so much good science still gets done under this farcical primitive culture. I suspect that it has contributed to the string bandwagon rather more than it should have done and in this respect Smolin probably has a point. And before people start yelling at me that communism is a failure and dog eat dog capitalism is the only model that "works" I should remind you that there are a range of societies across the world that work quite well and are not describable as strictly capitalist or communist. If you are unable to comprehend this, then it indicates that your own society is probably some kind of dogma that does not allow free thought.
A lot of cosmology is actually on pretty solid ground these days. For example, the Planck satellite measured the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to one part in ten to the five. The logarithmic pattern it shows fits very well (12 sigma) with the physics invented by Viatcheslav Mukhanov which says that they are quantum fluctuations blown up onto the sky by the big bang. The lambda Cold Dark Matter (CDM) model also fits all of the observable data and the existence of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. I do not believe that you have studied cosmology in any depth to make the assertions that you do, a twelve sigma fit is pretty convincing.
The predictions of Solar Terrestrial physics is better thought of as Space Weather and is a hard physics problem to solve just like terrestrial weather. The problem is more to do with measuring the variables involved not the fundamental physics.