If a bit of uncataloguged cruft on your storage is going to destroy your brain then you must be a bit of a snowflake. Smart human beings can cope with web sites like this https://viralzone.expasy.org/ and remember vast swathes of it. Check in your nerd card right now if your personal data has beaten you.
Semiconductor manufacturing is different to cell phone manufacturing. The cost of entry is orders of magnitude more expensive and each new generation has an investment cost that makes nuclear power look easy. You can count the number of contenders in the market now on one hand because of this. Intel having trouble moving on to another generation shows how difficult it is.
A more useful analysis would ask why the Japanese cars succeeded whilst the GM ones did not and what a modern manufacturing line depends on - the quality improvements that the workforce are instrumental in finding. Ironically the sucess of the Japanese manufacturers depended upon was technology invented in America by the likes of Deming, later taken up enthusiastically by the American semiconductor industry but apparently not by car manufacturing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Having a limited set of cloned plants to produce our food is indeed a terrible danger because of the risk of "potato blight" or similar. Fortunately we have developed the technology as illustrated by this story to free ourselves from this risk.
It is early days yet but gene manipulation will change the world at least as much in the next 50 years as semiconductors did in the last. In 50 years time bullshit ideas like extreme human lifetimes, plants, animals, viruses and bacteria made to order, sustainable farming, the end of human illness and disease etc etc - these ideas and many others will be reality.
Of course we will have many who insist that a "man walks in front of the new technology waving a red flag" for some time yet but like the automobile this technology will become all pervasive soon enough. Are you ready to adapt?
If "Extinction Rebellion" were responsible for this denial of service attack they could very well find themselves becomming their own name. The British public dislike plonkers who mess up their hollidays even more than people who ban bendy banana's. You have been warned drone people, you are becoming a nusiance that guarantees your message will be firmly rejected if you have one other than "Look at me, I am a plonker".
If this constitutes a valuable piece of intellectual property which deserves the protection of patent law then I suspect evolution has run its course and humanity is about to become extinct. Either that or the next populist dictator could do worse than round up the entirity of the "tech" world and execute them posthaste.
I Agree that the most interesting entertainment youtube channels are often about quite everyday things but it often helps if their presenters are a little eccentric or unusual. I follow a few on wild camping, one on nail polish (seriously, they just gave $10k to a cat cafe from sales of teeshirts so they must have something about them), some insane Ukranians playing about with very high voltages from microwave oven transformers, a housewife teaching how to cook chinese food, a senior Ham in Florida testing cheap radios and another explaining how mains or battery six tube radios work and how to restore them. Most of them are not making big bucks from their channels but they all have a passion for their subject. Maybe it is just me but most of the people who realy get my respect in this world are enthusiasts of some kind or another, not "Celebrity" entrepreneurs manufacturing random entertainment or doing bollocks like giveaways at subscriber number increments in order to increase "engagement" - a real turn off in fact.
On the other hand all this stuff is the entertainment side of things and my real interest in YouTube are the university talks, lectures and colloquia on various science subjects. You would be suprised just how interesting Dengue fever actually is. I have learned a lot about microbiology for example even though my background is in engineering. The knowledge available on YouTube is absolutely amazing and is actually the strongest reason for hoping the "cat videos" continue to pay for this side of its existence. I have saved playlists of videos I have watched by subject on a dedicated channel - the content out there is just mindblowing. Level ranges from Public to near graduate, (there are some exceptional teachers like Leonard Susskind who can get the guts of the idea over even if you could not repeat the math.) https://www.youtube.com/channe...
There are also historically important things on there like the first video of an actual rocket taking off and going into orbit to meet up with the ISS - as seen from the ISS. The first time in history that most of the planet can see for themselves what it looks like for an actual real rocket to take off and power up into orbit to join you. Not a "Star Wars" Hollywood movie or a cartoon. The real thing, and I saw it on YouTube. Ace.
The "outraged" need to fuck off and die because they are actually excluding the possibility of consensus from the public forum. Authoritarianism fails as the Soviet Union proved and as Putin will discover in the long run. The "outraged" are no less authoritarian than any other dictator.
My first smart phone last Christmas cost me $15, its fantastic! This is one market where you could tell that early adopters were going to pay for my great experience if I waited long enough. Posted from my second hand Xeon workstation.
I beg to differ. Newtonian gravity is not wrong and is still used in most physical modeling. But we know that there is a more nuanced description of gravity that works better across a larger range of scales. So most science is "correct" because it produces physical models that reflect the reality that we see. What is always true however is that a reformulation of the physical model may introduce new concepts that extend the domain of the previous understanding. Admittedly a lot of physics is moving in a direction where the domain extends beyond what is currently measurable so verification that this new science (e.g. inflation) is not yet available - but may become so as our understanding of what we see and access to things that have not been seen before (e.g. gravitational waves) improves. Reporting on unusual measurements and speculating on their implications does not invalidate previous physics automatically, it does open up new opportunities for investigation though.
I am bowled over by the 96 channel microfluidic cell sampling gadget. To paraprase in english. It sucks in a sample of the forest microbes and deposits them in bunches of 5 to 15 in individual chambers, dowses them with lysis (cell wall breaking) chemicals in another chamber, finishes them off with something that breaks up the DNA and then puts them in another chamber to amplifly the DNA fragments. The resulting soup then goes in a DNA strand reader. And get this Slashdotters - the resulting sequences then go on to be processed "in silico" which for those at the back is a biologists way of saying "in a computer". The computer then uses some math to join up the strand sequences, compare the sequences between the 96 chambers and then to come out with a bunch of full and partial genomes of the 5 to 15 different cells in each chamber making use of gene librarys of previously fully sequenced organisms and viruses. They then go on to point out that some of these sequences are previously unknown to science and interestingly some of them are previously unknown giant viruses - viruses that are so large that they might be mistaken for bacteria by their size alone. A giant virus contains apparantly DNA which is found in no other organism and is also mostly made up of what we regard as junk DNA - that is DNA that does not code for specific functional proteins. There is speculation that the use of junk DNA to create new functional genes rather than mutations of existing functional genes may be a very ancient mechanism that life used to evolve by. Giant viruses could be a key to unlock the most ancient history of how life came into being. This certainly beats the latest clock frequency on an intel microprocessor for nerd interest I would say. What say you?
I approve this message. Smartphone development has basically hit a technological endpoint for the moment that is not unlike that which consumer audio equipment reached in the 80s - the feature war. Expect 32 band graphic equalisers and mysterious magic bits of black tape to come next. Basically buy the cheapest phone that does the job and you are done, replace it when you accidentally drop it in the john or it falls out of your pocket. All smartphone manufacturers are doing is changing something on the phone - removing the headphone socket etc - for the next generation of product. In the same way that the workers output went up when the light was decreased as it did when increased, people will buy the new phone because it is differerent and not because it is better. Why not buy an electric scooter with the money you save instead of a new mobile phone - at least it will improve your health by giving you some excercise.
Indeed. People would buy a phone with a plastic banana stuck on the end of it if Apple sold one. This ladies and gentlemen is what the Hawthorn effect means in terms of marketing. Every year the brand has to change its product slightly and it will sell merely because it is different from last years product. They could sell a phone that sterilizes your gonads and people would still buy it if it was different from last years model. You just have to wait years for a phone with actual decent physical characteristics to come through the fashion cycle before you buy it. Otherwise you may as well buy a $20 Chinese phone - and pretty soon everybody will be buying the $20 phone that does the job. Leaving just YouTube Influencers to buy the Apple stuff.
Sticking to permanent summer time is something I would vote for Adolph Hitler if he were in a position to grant me it. I would even vote for Donald Trump if he were to implement it. I have spent my entire working life hating the sudden plunge into darkness in the evening that the autumn switch causes.
A technical heads up. Not only are ground based telescopes many magnitudes cheaper than space based ones (and offer the ability to combine to synthesize larger aperture) they have actually overtaken Hubble in their individual resolution. Agreed the atmosphere prevents wide band infra red capability which is why the next space telescope the James Webb is an infrared telescope. The technical advance which has led to the giant leap in ground based telescope capability is adaptive optics. This uses a laser pointing star and a deformable mirror to eliminate atmospheric turbulence on the largest and best located ground telescopes. See this great lecture from yesterday for example on the state of the art from The Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series by Dr. Claire Max (University of California Observatories) https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The comparison of the features on Neptune between the Keck 10M and the Hubble 2.4M thirteen minutes in makes this abundantly clear.
I will laugh myself unconscious when some vile insignificant bug like nitrogen fixing bacteria suddenly go extinct and you starve to death. There is such a thing as too much of a good thing. If you become the most important species left standing then there is nothing else left to feed yourself with. Also expect to have to exterminate all those people living somewhere that changed to uninhabitable first because they will want your lunch too if you still have one. It is also far more cost effective to stop the biosphere from dying out than it is to be try and be a winner on a world with a failed biosphere.
Unless you are the 1% of course because they think their money will save them. You do know that most of what passes for political discourse these days is the paid for opinions of the 1%?
I point to the trade war with China, which American consumers are paying the tariffs for. Sometimes the goal can cost something to achieve. Surely if the Play Store is worth something then that opens the market up to competition?
Yet America voted in a President who discounts the opinion of scientists because he thinks they have a political agenda. And in the UK a leading proponent of Brexit advises "who needs experts" and the UK duly votes to leave against the advice of experts. People are keenly interested in the views of people they regard as leaders. Stephen Hawking was a brilliant thinker and I for one am interested in his conclusions.
Quite, very funny story. 19 out of 20 telephone calls who are not friends and family are scams, they all go to voicemail. Always look up the vendors phone number and call them direct if you actually think you need to speak to them. You must be completely bloody insane to answer any questions from a call to you, the odds of it not being a scam are almost infinitesimal. I hope Krebs lost his money, what a berk.
Vaccines are usually incubated in chicken eggs and some people are strongly allergic to the chicken egg protein, so there are good scientific reasons why some people cannot use the standard shot.
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If a bit of uncataloguged cruft on your storage is going to destroy your brain then you must be a bit of a snowflake. Smart human beings can cope with web sites like this https://viralzone.expasy.org/ and remember vast swathes of it. Check in your nerd card right now if your personal data has beaten you.
Semiconductor manufacturing is different to cell phone manufacturing. The cost of entry is orders of magnitude more expensive and each new generation has an investment cost that makes nuclear power look easy. You can count the number of contenders in the market now on one hand because of this. Intel having trouble moving on to another generation shows how difficult it is.
A more useful analysis would ask why the Japanese cars succeeded whilst the GM ones did not and what a modern manufacturing line depends on - the quality improvements that the workforce are instrumental in finding. Ironically the sucess of the Japanese manufacturers depended upon was technology invented in America by the likes of Deming, later taken up enthusiastically by the American semiconductor industry but apparently not by car manufacturing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Having a limited set of cloned plants to produce our food is indeed a terrible danger because of the risk of "potato blight" or similar. Fortunately we have developed the technology as illustrated by this story to free ourselves from this risk.
It is early days yet but gene manipulation will change the world at least as much in the next 50 years as semiconductors did in the last. In 50 years time bullshit ideas like extreme human lifetimes, plants, animals, viruses and bacteria made to order, sustainable farming, the end of human illness and disease etc etc - these ideas and many others will be reality.
Of course we will have many who insist that a "man walks in front of the new technology waving a red flag" for some time yet but like the automobile this technology will become all pervasive soon enough. Are you ready to adapt?
If "Extinction Rebellion" were responsible for this denial of service attack they could very well find themselves becomming their own name. The British public dislike plonkers who mess up their hollidays even more than people who ban bendy banana's. You have been warned drone people, you are becoming a nusiance that guarantees your message will be firmly rejected if you have one other than "Look at me, I am a plonker".
If this constitutes a valuable piece of intellectual property which deserves the protection of patent law then I suspect evolution has run its course and humanity is about to become extinct. Either that or the next populist dictator could do worse than round up the entirity of the "tech" world and execute them posthaste.
I Agree that the most interesting entertainment youtube channels are often about quite everyday things but it often helps if their presenters are a little eccentric or unusual. I follow a few on wild camping, one on nail polish (seriously, they just gave $10k to a cat cafe from sales of teeshirts so they must have something about them), some insane Ukranians playing about with very high voltages from microwave oven transformers, a housewife teaching how to cook chinese food, a senior Ham in Florida testing cheap radios and another explaining how mains or battery six tube radios work and how to restore them. Most of them are not making big bucks from their channels but they all have a passion for their subject. Maybe it is just me but most of the people who realy get my respect in this world are enthusiasts of some kind or another, not "Celebrity" entrepreneurs manufacturing random entertainment or doing bollocks like giveaways at subscriber number increments in order to increase "engagement" - a real turn off in fact.
On the other hand all this stuff is the entertainment side of things and my real interest in YouTube are the university talks, lectures and colloquia on various science subjects. You would be suprised just how interesting Dengue fever actually is. I have learned a lot about microbiology for example even though my background is in engineering. The knowledge available on YouTube is absolutely amazing and is actually the strongest reason for hoping the "cat videos" continue to pay for this side of its existence. I have saved playlists of videos I have watched by subject on a dedicated channel - the content out there is just mindblowing. Level ranges from Public to near graduate, (there are some exceptional teachers like Leonard Susskind who can get the guts of the idea over even if you could not repeat the math.)
https://www.youtube.com/channe...
There are also historically important things on there like the first video of an actual rocket taking off and going into orbit to meet up with the ISS - as seen from the ISS. The first time in history that most of the planet can see for themselves what it looks like for an actual real rocket to take off and power up into orbit to join you. Not a "Star Wars" Hollywood movie or a cartoon. The real thing, and I saw it on YouTube. Ace.
The "outraged" need to fuck off and die because they are actually excluding the possibility of consensus from the public forum. Authoritarianism fails as the Soviet Union proved and as Putin will discover in the long run. The "outraged" are no less authoritarian than any other dictator.
Screw that. Lets vote for a government that regulates business so that they cannot treat employees like slaves. You have been warned.
My first smart phone last Christmas cost me $15, its fantastic! This is one market where you could tell that early adopters were going to pay for my great experience if I waited long enough. Posted from my second hand Xeon workstation.
There needs to be a lot more supporting stuff than a speculative idea. Show me an hour long lecture on YouTube outlining the supporting evidence.
I beg to differ. Newtonian gravity is not wrong and is still used in most physical modeling. But we know that there is a more nuanced description of gravity that works better across a larger range of scales. So most science is "correct" because it produces physical models that reflect the reality that we see. What is always true however is that a reformulation of the physical model may introduce new concepts that extend the domain of the previous understanding. Admittedly a lot of physics is moving in a direction where the domain extends beyond what is currently measurable so verification that this new science (e.g. inflation) is not yet available - but may become so as our understanding of what we see and access to things that have not been seen before (e.g. gravitational waves) improves. Reporting on unusual measurements and speculating on their implications does not invalidate previous physics automatically, it does open up new opportunities for investigation though.
I am bowled over by the 96 channel microfluidic cell sampling gadget. To paraprase in english. It sucks in a sample of the forest microbes and deposits them in bunches of 5 to 15 in individual chambers, dowses them with lysis (cell wall breaking) chemicals in another chamber, finishes them off with something that breaks up the DNA and then puts them in another chamber to amplifly the DNA fragments. The resulting soup then goes in a DNA strand reader. And get this Slashdotters - the resulting sequences then go on to be processed "in silico" which for those at the back is a biologists way of saying "in a computer". The computer then uses some math to join up the strand sequences, compare the sequences between the 96 chambers and then to come out with a bunch of full and partial genomes of the 5 to 15 different cells in each chamber making use of gene librarys of previously fully sequenced organisms and viruses. They then go on to point out that some of these sequences are previously unknown to science and interestingly some of them are previously unknown giant viruses - viruses that are so large that they might be mistaken for bacteria by their size alone. A giant virus contains apparantly DNA which is found in no other organism and is also mostly made up of what we regard as junk DNA - that is DNA that does not code for specific functional proteins. There is speculation that the use of junk DNA to create new functional genes rather than mutations of existing functional genes may be a very ancient mechanism that life used to evolve by. Giant viruses could be a key to unlock the most ancient history of how life came into being. This certainly beats the latest clock frequency on an intel microprocessor for nerd interest I would say. What say you?
It is called "joining a secret cult" and predates everyone alive today. SUCKERS!
Wankers would employ flat earthers though, so it is just virtue signalling.
The list is copied to the comments on the first Ars link in the article. https://arstechnica.com/inform...
The source is said to be a pdf on the Netlab 360 site which is currently very slow to respond.
A copy of the list will not post here because it is too few characters per line to get past the spam checker.
I approve this message. Smartphone development has basically hit a technological endpoint for the moment that is not unlike that which consumer audio equipment reached in the 80s - the feature war. Expect 32 band graphic equalisers and mysterious magic bits of black tape to come next. Basically buy the cheapest phone that does the job and you are done, replace it when you accidentally drop it in the john or it falls out of your pocket. All smartphone manufacturers are doing is changing something on the phone - removing the headphone socket etc - for the next generation of product. In the same way that the workers output went up when the light was decreased as it did when increased, people will buy the new phone because it is differerent and not because it is better. Why not buy an electric scooter with the money you save instead of a new mobile phone - at least it will improve your health by giving you some excercise.
Indeed. People would buy a phone with a plastic banana stuck on the end of it if Apple sold one. This ladies and gentlemen is what the Hawthorn effect means in terms of marketing. Every year the brand has to change its product slightly and it will sell merely because it is different from last years product. They could sell a phone that sterilizes your gonads and people would still buy it if it was different from last years model. You just have to wait years for a phone with actual decent physical characteristics to come through the fashion cycle before you buy it. Otherwise you may as well buy a $20 Chinese phone - and pretty soon everybody will be buying the $20 phone that does the job. Leaving just YouTube Influencers to buy the Apple stuff.
Sticking to permanent summer time is something I would vote for Adolph Hitler if he were in a position to grant me it. I would even vote for Donald Trump if he were to implement it. I have spent my entire working life hating the sudden plunge into darkness in the evening that the autumn switch causes.
A technical heads up. Not only are ground based telescopes many magnitudes cheaper than space based ones (and offer the ability to combine to synthesize larger aperture) they have actually overtaken Hubble in their individual resolution. Agreed the atmosphere prevents wide band infra red capability which is why the next space telescope the James Webb is an infrared telescope. The technical advance which has led to the giant leap in ground based telescope capability is adaptive optics. This uses a laser pointing star and a deformable mirror to eliminate atmospheric turbulence on the largest and best located ground telescopes. See this great lecture from yesterday for example on the state of the art from The Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series by Dr. Claire Max (University of California Observatories)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The comparison of the features on Neptune between the Keck 10M and the Hubble 2.4M thirteen minutes in makes this abundantly clear.
I will laugh myself unconscious when some vile insignificant bug like nitrogen fixing bacteria suddenly go extinct and you starve to death. There is such a thing as too much of a good thing. If you become the most important species left standing then there is nothing else left to feed yourself with. Also expect to have to exterminate all those people living somewhere that changed to uninhabitable first because they will want your lunch too if you still have one. It is also far more cost effective to stop the biosphere from dying out than it is to be try and be a winner on a world with a failed biosphere.
Unless you are the 1% of course because they think their money will save them. You do know that most of what passes for political discourse these days is the paid for opinions of the 1%?
I point to the trade war with China, which American consumers are paying the tariffs for. Sometimes the goal can cost something to achieve. Surely if the Play Store is worth something then that opens the market up to competition?
Yet America voted in a President who discounts the opinion of scientists because he thinks they have a political agenda. And in the UK a leading proponent of Brexit advises "who needs experts" and the UK duly votes to leave against the advice of experts. People are keenly interested in the views of people they regard as leaders. Stephen Hawking was a brilliant thinker and I for one am interested in his conclusions.
Quite, very funny story. 19 out of 20 telephone calls who are not friends and family are scams, they all go to voicemail. Always look up the vendors phone number and call them direct if you actually think you need to speak to them. You must be completely bloody insane to answer any questions from a call to you, the odds of it not being a scam are almost infinitesimal.
I hope Krebs lost his money, what a berk.
Vaccines are usually incubated in chicken eggs and some people are strongly allergic to the chicken egg protein, so there are good scientific reasons why some people cannot use the standard shot.