Getting the anti-protons and anti-electrons to combine into a single atom that stays at a low enough energy level that it can be contained for a significant amount of time is hard, especially since it is neutral and can't be contained with magnetic fields.
I believe you can, by manipulating the dipole moment. Not easy.
Not yet. First they have to figure out how to either create it on top of silicon dioxide or make it elsewhere and transfer it there. Getting the formation temperature down below the point where doped silicon is damaged is progress, though.
We had an even simpler one that took only dimes and worked by gravity. If you didn't have a dime you could make a slug out of aluminum sheet with tinsnips (you put your initials on it so that the guy who refilled the machine would know who to come to with it).
The over fifties have lived long enough to have at least some chance of having acquired some wisdom about trust and overconfidence. They also sometimes know a hell of a lot more than you give them credit for and are often willing to listen to reason. More dangerous are the twenty-something know-it-alls who are utterly confident of their own abilities because, after all, they "grew up in the digital age" (that is, they were taught how to misuse Excel in school and have had a cellphone since they were four).
Linux users having to chose between installing native OpenOffice or a virtual machine with MS Office.
What gives you that idea? Most Linux distributions have been shipping go-oo for quite a while now and it is the basis for LibreOffice. For us there is no change. We're there already. It's just a name change. The software is the same.
That just means that the kernel maintainers don't want any bug reports from you since you are running a kernel that contains code that they do not have access to the source of. When you install a closed-source driver you become dependent on the supplier of that driver since only they have have full access to the source code for your kernel. If you trust that supplier that's cool but the kernel maintainers can't help you.
I have a domain that I currently use only for email but it is still in use. The Web is not the Net.
And who is going judge what constitutes "use" anyway? Are you going to visit each of millions of Web sites and determine which are "real" and which are merely parked?
Slashdot Mirror
> ... would you want a phone that couldn't send or receive SMSes?
Because you never send or receive SMSes.
> ...they might open a whole new market up in the Amish community!
Our Amish farrier carries a smartphone, actually.
We knew what number we were dialing simply by knowing what the hell we were doing, actually.
I believe you can, by manipulating the dipole moment. Not easy.
Ah. Thank you.
...just to be impressed by technical tricks? Are you disappointed by Citizen Kane because the clever camera work doesn't jump out at you?
Not yet. First they have to figure out how to either create it on top of silicon dioxide or make it elsewhere and transfer it there. Getting the formation temperature down below the point where doped silicon is damaged is progress, though.
There are a vast number of applications for graphene which will become practical as soon as it can be made inexpensively.
WTF?
n/t
All hash functions producing hashes shorter than the text must necessarily have collisions.
There are applications for hashes that have nothing to do with security.
Escept that as someone else noted if you were moving toward it at .8c it would only be 25 million light years away.
> Neutron Stars can have accretion disks too.
Yes, but I don't think that they would emit large amounts of X-rays.
Phil Plait didn't say it couldn't. Link
The big bang happened right here, for any value of "here".
You don't see any pulses from a pulsar unless you are in the plane of the beam.
We had an even simpler one that took only dimes and worked by gravity. If you didn't have a dime you could make a slug out of aluminum sheet with tinsnips (you put your initials on it so that the guy who refilled the machine would know who to come to with it).
> Good luck with that, Facebook.
Yes. The sooner that everyone who thinks that Facebook is wonderful ceases to use anything else the better.
The over fifties have lived long enough to have at least some chance of having acquired some wisdom about trust and overconfidence. They also sometimes know a hell of a lot more than you give them credit for and are often willing to listen to reason. More dangerous are the twenty-something know-it-alls who are utterly confident of their own abilities because, after all, they "grew up in the digital age" (that is, they were taught how to misuse Excel in school and have had a cellphone since they were four).
That's because these consumers know better than to trust anything free. "You get what you pay for", right?
What gives you that idea? Most Linux distributions have been shipping go-oo for quite a while now and it is the basis for LibreOffice. For us there is no change. We're there already. It's just a name change. The software is the same.
How about "quantum MITMs"?
That just means that the kernel maintainers don't want any bug reports from you since you are running a kernel that contains code that they do not have access to the source of. When you install a closed-source driver you become dependent on the supplier of that driver since only they have have full access to the source code for your kernel. If you trust that supplier that's cool but the kernel maintainers can't help you.
I have a domain that I currently use only for email but it is still in use. The Web is not the Net.
And who is going judge what constitutes "use" anyway? Are you going to visit each of millions of Web sites and determine which are "real" and which are merely parked?
> Tying one's career to ideology isn't always a smart thing to do.
I see. So learning to write malware would be smart move, right?