If IP battles are going to go on in such a raging manner it will be decades before we (as consumers) see anything useful come out of these technologies.
Hmm... The plaintiffs are BP and DuPont. Do you think that "decades" might be the whole point?
DHS' $80-billion plus budget depends on keeping the people of the USA terrified. The small-timers would have to be blithering idiots not to leave that to the professionals.
is there any practical use for this new found knowledge?
Physics at this level is like abstract mathematics: it exists for its own sake. Practical applications of this physics is like practical applications of number theory: just not in the plan.
I remember seeing a job post 10 years ago that required 20 years of Java... do the math.
Once upon a time (1981) my then employer advertised for a programmer with five years of experience in 8088 (not 8086) assembly code. I pointed out that they were effectively screening out honest applicants, but they ran the ad that way anyhow.
Many, many years ago the HR manager who hired me for my first job had a sign on his wall:
A four-year degree means a man is trainable.
Universities are not trade schools. Employers who are expecting any new employee to be instantly productive are deluded.
Last week I interviewed a candidate with a Masters degree and 20 years of experience in the industry. We'll probably hire her, but we figure that she could be productive in three months and won't be worried if she takes six [1].
[1] That's net. In other words, she'll be doing useful work fairly soon, but by the time she's 100% up to speed we'll have invested three to six months of her terminal productivity getting her oriented, etc.
I know of a dutch ISP which has a setup where you point your MX to their mailserver which will relay all incoming mail to your server. That setup makes sure an open relay in their network is harmless while still allowing their users to run their own mailservers.
Which is dandy as long as you don't want to use DNSBL to block spam.
I run a small mailserver, and have the problems described -- but if I gave up my DNSBL filters, my incoming spam traffic would totally saturate my bandwidth (tried it).
Perhaps the film deities have shown us mercy just this once."
Alternately, the flood of responses gave them the idea that the public can't wait for more Matrix flix and (in the best SF paradox traditions) the horrible eventuality we sought to prevent has been caused by our own efforts.
.. or at least it won't be so long as we can hire techies from other countries. That way, the USA can play to its strengths: financial manipulation and lawyering.
Of course, when the day comes that Indian and Chinese scientists and engineers prefer to stay home rather than be second-class aliens in the USA we'll have to make other plans. Sue them, maybe.
What absolute rubbish from yet another climate scientist who fails to understand random numbers. Random numbers does not mean "evenly distributed" numbers - especially over such a small sample size. It could be the same number every year for 5 years in a row and still be random, just like you can throw "6" several times in a row with dice and it does not mean that the dice are loaded.
Of course it's possible -- that's called "the null hypothesis." The rather more interesting question is, "how likely is it?"
If I roll "6" ten times straight, the dice might not be loaded. After all, the odds of doing so (allowing the first time free, since it had to be something) are one in a mere 6^9 -- one in ten million. One in ten million events happen all the time (especially on Star Trek) and if you're a betting man by all means put your money on them and I'll match you on the other side.
800 barrels per acre per year. Hmmm. US oil imports run 15 million barrels per day, or about 5.5 billion barrels per year. Assuming that the 800 barrels per acre per year is accurate (such estimates are generally a optimistic) replacement would require 6.8 million acres, or about 11,000 square miles. With water, of course -- maybe Louisiana and Mississippi have a future after all; that would be about 20% of the land area of either state.
On the other hand, if we could just convert kudzu to oil they'd be all set right now.
Yeah, the power consumption might be a bit high, but you only need to make the cache and cores run faster.
Most of the freaking chip is cache. Have a look at the floorplan sometime.
Intel engineers sometimes joke that they're the biggest memory vendor that nobody heard of.
The fundamental problem with "doesn't turn off" is that leakage current (IDS(OFF)) is already a major component of chip dissipation, even when we use all sorts of tricks to reduce it. With graphene, that goes from "problem" to "useless." Except for analog, where the transistors don't turn off anyway.
Being scheduled on Friday night is the kiss of death to a science-fiction show.
For instance, I remember when I was in high school there was this SF show on Friday nights (thus in conflict with high school Date Night as well as football). Talk about doomed! If I recall it had some goofy name -- I think it was "Star Trek" or something like that.
... is that the same companies who are now claiming that the FCC doesn't have the authority to impose net neutrality were singing another tune just a few years ago. Back then, the States were requiring net neutrality from the carriers under their general business regulation authority and the carriers fought for -- and won -- the decision that only the FCC could do that.
While the potential exists for there to be a problem, it would appear the risk is low.
The risk may be "low," but it's not as low as the threat of another 9/11 attack -- and we're spending hundreds of billions on security theater purportedly guarding against that.
By comparison, a few minutes electronic shutdown at takeoff and landing are pretty small change.
Is this a new tradition? First KDE, now Firefox: release a "4.0" version that's intentionally not feature-complete and loaded with bugs so that the user community can start fixing it?
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If IP battles are going to go on in such a raging manner it will be decades before we (as consumers) see anything useful come out of these technologies.
Hmm... The plaintiffs are BP and DuPont. Do you think that "decades" might be the whole point?
are backing this process? Because they're going to be up against some huge opposition from the big agribusiness firms plus Big Oil.
Is that you?
for starters as it would pretty much violate the Fourth Amendment.
Not a problem. The Supreme Court has ruled the 4th Amendment unconstitutional.
DHS' $80-billion plus budget depends on keeping the people of the USA terrified. The small-timers would have to be blithering idiots not to leave that to the professionals.
Better give everyone a full body cavity exam too.
The latest generation of scanners do that remotely as well.
For an extra charge, you can have Homeland Security tell you the gender of the baby you're going to have and how well your shoes fit.
You didn't get the part about number theory, did you? (See below)
is there any practical use for this new found knowledge?
Physics at this level is like abstract mathematics: it exists for its own sake. Practical applications of this physics is like practical applications of number theory: just not in the plan.
I remember seeing a job post 10 years ago that required 20 years of Java... do the math.
Once upon a time (1981) my then employer advertised for a programmer with five years of experience in 8088 (not 8086) assembly code. I pointed out that they were effectively screening out honest applicants, but they ran the ad that way anyhow.
Events proved me right.
Universities are not trade schools. Employers who are expecting any new employee to be instantly productive are deluded.
Last week I interviewed a candidate with a Masters degree and 20 years of experience in the industry. We'll probably hire her, but we figure that she could be productive in three months and won't be worried if she takes six [1].
[1] That's net. In other words, she'll be doing useful work fairly soon, but by the time she's 100% up to speed we'll have invested three to six months of her terminal productivity getting her oriented, etc.
I know of a dutch ISP which has a setup where you point your MX to their mailserver which will relay all incoming mail to your server. That setup makes sure an open relay in their network is harmless while still allowing their users to run their own mailservers.
Which is dandy as long as you don't want to use DNSBL to block spam.
I run a small mailserver, and have the problems described -- but if I gave up my DNSBL filters, my incoming spam traffic would totally saturate my bandwidth (tried it).
you can't cheat death.
Sure you can -- just like you can cheat the Mob. Long term, the results are about the same, too.
And then finding a worm in the seventh one ...
Alternately, the flood of responses gave them the idea that the public can't wait for more Matrix flix and (in the best SF paradox traditions) the horrible eventuality we sought to prevent has been caused by our own efforts.
Of course, when the day comes that Indian and Chinese scientists and engineers prefer to stay home rather than be second-class aliens in the USA we'll have to make other plans. Sue them, maybe.
What absolute rubbish from yet another climate scientist who fails to understand random numbers. Random numbers does not mean "evenly distributed" numbers - especially over such a small sample size. It could be the same number every year for 5 years in a row and still be random, just like you can throw "6" several times in a row with dice and it does not mean that the dice are loaded.
Of course it's possible -- that's called "the null hypothesis." The rather more interesting question is, "how likely is it?"
If I roll "6" ten times straight, the dice might not be loaded. After all, the odds of doing so (allowing the first time free, since it had to be something) are one in a mere 6^9 -- one in ten million. One in ten million events happen all the time (especially on Star Trek) and if you're a betting man by all means put your money on them and I'll match you on the other side.
You can't eat a promised sandwich.
On the other hand, if we could just convert kudzu to oil they'd be all set right now.
Most of the freaking chip is cache. Have a look at the floorplan sometime.
Intel engineers sometimes joke that they're the biggest memory vendor that nobody heard of.
The fundamental problem with "doesn't turn off" is that leakage current (IDS(OFF)) is already a major component of chip dissipation, even when we use all sorts of tricks to reduce it. With graphene, that goes from "problem" to "useless." Except for analog, where the transistors don't turn off anyway.
Not "Star Trek Enterprise" -- "Star Trek." Shatner, Nimoy, them. Bunch of losers.
For instance, I remember when I was in high school there was this SF show on Friday nights (thus in conflict with high school Date Night as well as football). Talk about doomed! If I recall it had some goofy name -- I think it was "Star Trek" or something like that.
... is that the same companies who are now claiming that the FCC doesn't have the authority to impose net neutrality were singing another tune just a few years ago. Back then, the States were requiring net neutrality from the carriers under their general business regulation authority and the carriers fought for -- and won -- the decision that only the FCC could do that.
The risk may be "low," but it's not as low as the threat of another 9/11 attack -- and we're spending hundreds of billions on security theater purportedly guarding against that.
By comparison, a few minutes electronic shutdown at takeoff and landing are pretty small change.
It's the "one DVD every two months" cap on downloads.
Is this a new tradition? First KDE, now Firefox: release a "4.0" version that's intentionally not feature-complete and loaded with bugs so that the user community can start fixing it?