Mathematica on the Raspberry Pi was a funny little PR stunt to show off Mathematica's abilities without cannibalizing sales of that product for any platform that has appropriate CPU/RAM resources to usefully run it on.
This is really a bizarre move from Sony. I was already surprised they didn't manage to market a stand-alone UHD Blue-Ray player by now (while 4 other companies did), and now, despite the fact that Sony also sells movies, while Micro$oft doesn't, they save a very few bucks on the hardware of their new "premium" console product by putting a non-UHD-capable BluRay drive into it? And despite the fact that the PlayStation 3 back then got a real boost from being an early, affordable BluRay player? I really don't understand that strategy... but Micro$oft will certainly celebrate this evening.
Then you obviously missed https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - which is not even much less credible than the usual press coverage on "blood thirsty sharks hunting men". But jokes aside, creatures are posing the very least risk to you, down there.
Various nations have considered harvesting the deep sea floor for minerals, but so far the costs outweigh the value of the material by far. Also, if this was actually meant for commercial harvesting, they would certainly not bother the difficulties to bring humans there, and to keep them alive.
There is no gas humans can breath and survive on at 30 MPa pressure. Hydrox was barely survived (in COMEX experiments) at 7 MPa pressure. No, a deep-ocean habitat at 3000m would certainly contain ordinary "1 bar air", and need to have very very strong casing and very very dependable sealing.
Political circumstances aside, if someone actually plans to build a habitat for humans 3000m deep into the ocean that would be a pretty difficult, dangerous and expensive operation, which on the other hand is much more likely to find new exiting stuff than any of the "manned space exploration tours" to rocky deserts above. Building structures that withstand such pressure reliably is much more difficult than building structures to survive a vacuum. If anything goes slightly wrong in that depth, death is also more sudden and certain than in space.
"Modified mosquitos" have been tried already - you can decimate the population using this technique, but only temporarily, and for a relatively high price. And btw, decimation of mosquitos by removing unnecessary still water reservoires (like open garbage disposal) and placing traps using a (CO2/light/fan/zapper combination) around human settlements works just as good or better at a lower price.
That might be sufficient to become "employee of the month" at MicroSoft or HipsterApp Inc., but the company I work for actually deems it relevant how performant my software runs, how maintainable it is over decades of use, and that it runs flawlessly not just once, but every time, all the time - 24/7.
This news must be wrong. Everyone knows, if some US server is hacked, it was either the Russians or the North Koreans. And for reasons written down in some most evil master plan. It cannot possibly have been just some domestic jerk.
The press hype goes on despite results of two experimental results that clearly indicated the mythical drive to not thrust: A group of physicists at the university of Dresden measured miniscule thrust, but strangely enough the thrust went into the same direction when the "EMdrive" was rotated by 90. So they figured that what they measured was probably resulting from an interaction of the electric powering from the outside with the magnetic field of earth. They couldn't easily remove this probable source of error in their setup, but a chinese group of physicists managed to do so: They powered the "EM-drive" from a battery that was within the same enclosure - and voila - no more thrust to be measured.
Yes, exactly, and there was pretty good evidence for this, as when they repeated the experiment taking power from a battery inside the contraption, the "thrust" suddenly disappeared. I don't get how this result (AFAIR verified by two working groups in Australia and Germany) already got "forgotten"...
... how an overdose of concentration on one particular industry branch can turn your prospering city into a sort of a post-apocalyptic no-go-zone, quickly. I think there is good reason to ensure that there is more in a city than just one kind of employers.
So all a travelling "terror suspect" needs to do is wearing a Burqa. (For those who didn't follow the news in Germany: The same people proposing the facial recognition very recently rejected proposals to ban Burqas.) But that doesn't matter, anywhere, since all this surveillance crap was never about "fighting terrorism" from the start.If they wanted to "trade in freedom for security", they could make certain vaccinations mandatory and thus rescue magnitudes of lifes more than are taken by "terrorists". In reality, "freedom" is just an annoyance to the government, as much as "opposition" is.
They already have been used to attack me! On a daily basis, and for years, these tools have been used to violate my rights and the laws of the country I live in. By the NSA, who has proven time and again to be an evil organization that is committing crimes all over the world, continously.
Thus, I'm not concerned in the least that now also other criminals have access to these tools, making it more likely to speed up the fixing of the security holes.
It's just like the TV preachers always tell us - Bill gives away some seed money to the poor, and riches come back to him - it's a miracle! Praise be, praise be!
Slashdot Mirror
Mathematica on the Raspberry Pi was a funny little PR stunt to show off Mathematica's abilities without cannibalizing sales of that product for any platform that has appropriate CPU/RAM resources to usefully run it on.
... or only need to learn how to best please their AI overlords, who will do all the "computational thinking" required on their own?
A primary cell like in a "happy birthday"-playing-postcard is probably cheaper then utilizing a capacitor.
This is really a bizarre move from Sony. I was already surprised they didn't manage to market a stand-alone UHD Blue-Ray player by now (while 4 other companies did), and now, despite the fact that Sony also sells movies, while Micro$oft doesn't, they save a very few bucks on the hardware of their new "premium" console product by putting a non-UHD-capable BluRay drive into it? And despite the fact that the PlayStation 3 back then got a real boost from being an early, affordable BluRay player? I really don't understand that strategy... but Micro$oft will certainly celebrate this evening.
Then you obviously missed https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - which is not even much less credible than the usual press coverage on "blood thirsty sharks hunting men". But jokes aside, creatures are posing the very least risk to you, down there.
Various nations have considered harvesting the deep sea floor for minerals, but so far the costs outweigh the value of the material by far. Also, if this was actually meant for commercial harvesting, they would certainly not bother the difficulties to bring humans there, and to keep them alive.
No storm will be felt that deep.
Certainly not felt, but one might hear some faint rumbling noises.
You did notice they place a lot of concrete there to make those artificial islands durable? And that doesn't even require advanced technology.
There is no gas humans can breath and survive on at 30 MPa pressure. Hydrox was barely survived (in COMEX experiments) at 7 MPa pressure. No, a deep-ocean habitat at 3000m would certainly contain ordinary "1 bar air", and need to have very very strong casing and very very dependable sealing.
Political circumstances aside, if someone actually plans to build a habitat for humans 3000m deep into the ocean that would be a pretty difficult, dangerous and expensive operation, which on the other hand is much more likely to find new exiting stuff than any of the "manned space exploration tours" to rocky deserts above. Building structures that withstand such pressure reliably is much more difficult than building structures to survive a vacuum. If anything goes slightly wrong in that depth, death is also more sudden and certain than in space.
... and it overcame this by drying out swamps and improving healthcare. It can be done, if you fix your other social/economic problems, first.
"Modified mosquitos" have been tried already - you can decimate the population using this technique, but only temporarily, and for a relatively high price. And btw, decimation of mosquitos by removing unnecessary still water reservoires (like open garbage disposal) and placing traps using a (CO2/light/fan/zapper combination) around human settlements works just as good or better at a lower price.
so they can sell yet another "upgrade" to some HDMI-2.x transfer via USB-C, right? Vade retro, Satanas!
That might be sufficient to become "employee of the month" at MicroSoft or HipsterApp Inc., but the company I work for actually deems it relevant how performant my software runs, how maintainable it is over decades of use, and that it runs flawlessly not just once, but every time, all the time - 24/7.
The paper from Dresden is available in English: https://tu-dresden.de/ing/masc... Of the chinese paper, I only know English reports of the abstract, such as from https://www.reddit.com/r/EmDri...
This news must be wrong. Everyone knows, if some US server is hacked, it was either the Russians or the North Koreans. And for reasons written down in some most evil master plan. It cannot possibly have been just some domestic jerk.
The press hype goes on despite results of two experimental results that clearly indicated the mythical drive to not thrust: A group of physicists at the university of Dresden measured miniscule thrust, but strangely enough the thrust went into the same direction when the "EMdrive" was rotated by 90. So they figured that what they measured was probably resulting from an interaction of the electric powering from the outside with the magnetic field of earth. They couldn't easily remove this probable source of error in their setup, but a chinese group of physicists managed to do so: They powered the "EM-drive" from a battery that was within the same enclosure - and voila - no more thrust to be measured.
... since after all, there are much better, free operating systems out there that run well on both old and new CPUs.
(Correction: It was two working groups from the TU Dresden, Germany, and one from China.)
Yes, exactly, and there was pretty good evidence for this, as when they repeated the experiment taking power from a battery inside the contraption, the "thrust" suddenly disappeared. I don't get how this result (AFAIR verified by two working groups in Australia and Germany) already got "forgotten"...
... how an overdose of concentration on one particular industry branch can turn your prospering city into a sort of a post-apocalyptic no-go-zone, quickly. I think there is good reason to ensure that there is more in a city than just one kind of employers.
Actually De Maizière was the one speaking out for the ban the loudest.
But please don't let facts get in the way of your "Lügenpresse" rants.
Your so called "facts" are just the opposite of the truth - it was indeed Thomas "Die Misere", Germany's minister of interior, who spoke out against the Burqa ban.
So I guess as you chide others for blaming the press, you're part of the "Lügenpresse", right?
So all a travelling "terror suspect" needs to do is wearing a Burqa. (For those who didn't follow the news in Germany: The same people proposing the facial recognition very recently rejected proposals to ban Burqas.) But that doesn't matter, anywhere, since all this surveillance crap was never about "fighting terrorism" from the start.If they wanted to "trade in freedom for security", they could make certain vaccinations mandatory and thus rescue magnitudes of lifes more than are taken by "terrorists". In reality, "freedom" is just an annoyance to the government, as much as "opposition" is.
They're going to be used to attack you
They already have been used to attack me! On a daily basis, and for years, these tools have been used to violate my rights and the laws of the country I live in. By the NSA, who has proven time and again to be an evil organization that is committing crimes all over the world, continously.
Thus, I'm not concerned in the least that now also other criminals have access to these tools, making it more likely to speed up the fixing of the security holes.
It's just like the TV preachers always tell us - Bill gives away some seed money to the poor, and riches come back to him - it's a miracle! Praise be, praise be!