Looking for higher mass Higgs is easier than for this 120-ish GeV mass. E.g. if Higgs would be 150-200 GeV it would (via heavy vector bosons, which are 80-90 GeV) decay a lot into electrons and muons which are very easy to detect and see that they come from decay of Higgs. For 120-ish GeV Higgs, it decays mostly into two quarks and this is difficult to see because there are a *lot* of quarks flying around in proton-proton machine. So they have to use decays into two photons, which don't happen so often. Thus they need more time to discover Higgs of 125 GeV, than they would need for the one of 200 GeV.
Well, one improvement over PayPal would be global coverage. Just few days ago I was very impressed by a nice piece of software (mp3splt, BTW), and I decided to donate some money to the corresponding Sourceforge project via PayPal. Half way through I found out that my small European country (Croatia), was not covered by PayPal services.
Well, main main machine is Pentium 200 MMX, 96 MB RAM, and there Opera is really the only option. On other faster machines that I occasionally use, I must admit I switched to Firefox.
It's a pity that transfer of bookmarks is not trivial. For me bk_edit was big help there.
And yes, if you are not using mouse gestures you're missing a lot.
At PLOS Medicine and PLOS Biology, for example, authors pay $1,500 each [...]
Paying such money to publish your research? This is just outrageous. Why don't these people just set up online preprint archive, free of charge, available to anyone, like high-energy physicists did in the early '90. Now, 15 years later, this archive is practicaly the only "journal" that active high-energy physicists read. You should use taxpayers money for research and not for paying rediculous sums to some publishers, who will then disseminate your results far worse than a free web service.
It's nice to have Reader, but it's really shame that there is still, as far as I know, no Linux solution for enabling commenting tools. One needs Acrobat Pro (Windows only) to do that. I was under impression that PDF format is pretty much well understood. How hard it is to add this commenting layer? It seems to me that the ability to add comments to PDF would be extremely useful.
Actually, does anybody know whether, after one enables this in Acrobat Pro, commenting tools work in Linux Reader?
Ferm[i]lab is in the process of building an X million dollar project to send neutrinos 735km to minnesota to see if they oscilatte during the trip... Kinda pointless now.
This is not a pointless experiment. In both experiments that the article mentions (SNO and SuperKamiokande) neutrinos are produced by a natural process (either nuclear reactions in the Sun or cosmic rays in atmosphere). There is always a possibility that we don't understand these natural processes good enough and that we misinterpret the data.
In these planned terrestrial neutrino oscillation experiments (such as NOMAD, K2K,
OPERA,
MINOS, etc.) neutrinos will be produced in controlled reactions on Earth, making interpretation and measurements easier, more precise and more model-independent.
I would just like to mention that Yilmaz theory of gravity has been already discussed at length in sci.* USENET newsgroups several years ago. You can find these discussions archived here where you will find what are experts objections.
I have heard recently that you are behind the project of making a soap opera about scientists. Is there any truth in this? I'm a bit bored by all those police-lawyers-ER stuff so this could be an interesting change.
Am I the only person in the universe who thought that Matrix was way overrated? All it was was a shoot-em-up. Anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves. It had a thin plot and an even thinner message.
It is not always the message that makes a great movie. What was the message of the "Terminator" or "Paris, Texas" or "Casablanca" for that matter? What makes "Matrix" the great movie is that hard-to-pin-down visual-narative consistency that makes you so immersed into the whole thing that you feel like you're on drugs. [You feel strange mental acuity:-)] And then you want some more.
The same thing is with the "Blade Runner": You might argue that the message there (about the nature of the AI's life) is deeper than the one from the "Matrix", but what makes it really great is something else.
If the message and the plot were the whole essence then there would be no point in seeing the movie again and again. You know the score after the first seeing. So there must be something else. And there is.
When I was using elm I was annoyed by the fact that I am unable to reach other mails in the current folder while answering some mail. I never screwed up any of my mailboxes by opening them in two mutt sessions. (I just use the other session read-only.)
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Uhmph, sorry, that should have been ... Linux is like a Ferrari and *BSD is like a Mercedes....
(I accidentally pressed Submit instead of Preview button.)
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I like that comparison from one of the FreeBSD advocacy sites. It goes somewhat like this:
Linux is like a Ferrari and FreeBSD is like a Mercedes (OpenBSD comes with tinted bulletproof windows, NetBSD can go on any road and FreeBSD has a good diesel engine). NT is like '72 Yugo
This Ferrari-Mercedes comparison is, of course, not speed-wise but reffering to what are each of these OSes meant for.
BTW, I have an '83 Yugo (really) and I'd really love to make a switch to Ferrari or Mercedes:-)
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Nice take on ethics of artificial wombs
Looking for higher mass Higgs is easier than for this 120-ish GeV mass. E.g. if Higgs would be 150-200 GeV it would (via heavy vector bosons, which are 80-90 GeV) decay a lot into electrons and muons which are very easy to detect and see that they come from decay of Higgs. For 120-ish GeV Higgs, it decays mostly into two quarks and this is difficult to see because there are a *lot* of quarks flying around in proton-proton machine. So they have to use decays into two photons, which don't happen so often. Thus they need more time to discover Higgs of 125 GeV, than they would need for the one of 200 GeV.
Well, one improvement over PayPal would be global coverage. Just few days ago I was very impressed by a nice piece of software (mp3splt, BTW), and I decided to donate some money to the corresponding Sourceforge project via PayPal. Half way through I found out that my small European country (Croatia), was not covered by PayPal services.
Nice, but how about Linux version? Skype itself works perfectly under Linux.
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Well, this is a nice discovery to celebrate the 100 years of the Einstein's miraculous year and 50 years since the guy passed away.
Oh, come on, Battlefield Earth has to be the worst movie ever!
But they have mostly succeeded in the Ring Trilogy case.
It's a pity that transfer of bookmarks is not trivial. For me bk_edit was big help there.
And yes, if you are not using mouse gestures you're missing a lot.
Paying such money to publish your research? This is just outrageous. Why don't these people just set up online preprint archive, free of charge, available to anyone, like high-energy physicists did in the early '90. Now, 15 years later, this archive is practicaly the only "journal" that active high-energy physicists read. You should use taxpayers money for research and not for paying rediculous sums to some publishers, who will then disseminate your results far worse than a free web service.
Yes. It's 1-800 MOBOCHICKS
I just hope they've put "Don't Panic!" in a large friendly letters on a cover.
It's nice to have Reader, but it's really shame that there is still, as far as I know, no Linux solution for enabling commenting tools. One needs Acrobat Pro (Windows only) to do that. I was under impression that PDF format is pretty much well understood. How hard it is to add this commenting layer? It seems to me that the ability to add comments to PDF would be extremely useful.
Actually, does anybody know whether, after one enables this in Acrobat Pro, commenting tools work in Linux Reader?
You got it wrong. COBE is also a NASA mission. So it's more like: My new broom sweeps much better than the old one.
This is not a pointless experiment. In both experiments that the article mentions (SNO and SuperKamiokande) neutrinos are produced by a natural process (either nuclear reactions in the Sun or cosmic rays in atmosphere). There is always a possibility that we don't understand these natural processes good enough and that we misinterpret the data.
In these planned terrestrial neutrino oscillation experiments (such as NOMAD, K2K, OPERA, MINOS, etc.) neutrinos will be produced in controlled reactions on Earth, making interpretation and measurements easier, more precise and more model-independent.
I would just like to mention that Yilmaz theory of gravity has been already discussed at length in sci.* USENET newsgroups several years ago. You can find these discussions archived here where you will find what are experts objections.
I have heard recently that you are behind the project of making a soap opera about scientists.
Is there any truth in this? I'm a bit bored by all those police-lawyers-ER stuff so this could be an interesting change.
Am I the only person in the universe who thought that Matrix was way overrated? All it was was a shoot-em-up.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves. It had a thin plot and an even thinner message.
It is not always the message that makes a great movie. What was the message of the "Terminator" or "Paris, Texas" or "Casablanca" for that matter? What makes "Matrix" the great movie is that hard-to-pin-down visual-narative consistency that makes you so immersed into the whole thing that you feel like you're on drugs. [You feel strange mental acuity
The same thing is with the "Blade Runner": You might argue that the message there (about the nature of the AI's life) is deeper than the one from the "Matrix", but what makes it really great is something else.
If the message and the plot were the whole essence then there would be no point in seeing the movie again and again. You know the score after the first seeing. So there must be something else. And there is.
Well, I must admit I consider it a feature :-)
When I was using elm I was annoyed by the fact that I am unable to reach other mails in the current folder while answering some mail. I never screwed up any of my mailboxes by opening them in two mutt sessions. (I just use the other session read-only.)
Uhmph, sorry, that should have been
... Linux is like a Ferrari and *BSD is like a Mercedes ....
(I accidentally pressed Submit instead of Preview button.)
I like that comparison from one of the FreeBSD advocacy sites. It goes somewhat like this:
:-)
Linux is like a Ferrari and FreeBSD is like a Mercedes (OpenBSD comes with tinted bulletproof windows, NetBSD can go on any road and FreeBSD has a good diesel engine). NT is like '72 Yugo
This Ferrari-Mercedes comparison is, of course, not speed-wise but reffering to what are each of these OSes meant for.
BTW, I have an '83 Yugo (really) and I'd really love to make a switch to Ferrari or Mercedes
Leslie Lampton? (LaTeX, sure, but he also invented the Lampton Clock, and much more)
I thought it was Leslie Lamport who is connected to LaTeX?