Sheesh - who rattled your cage! Having studied chemistry for 4 years, physics for 2, and running a subscription to pop-science crap like New Scientist, Nature, and Science since about 1985/6 I think I have a reasonable perspective on this stuff. Or maybe Im just being arrogant.
Superconducting is hard. Simple as that. That a room temp superconductor hasn't been created - even a tiny sliver in a lab - at all means applicable technology is guaranteed to be at least 30 - 40 years away. I'm less optimistic.
Its the Bose-Einstein condensate - and may I point out what a SHIT name this is for a form of matter.
When you're naming a star, a hurricane, or a child you know you have a good chance of some more coming along later - so hell - John or Mary will do nicely.
But with forms of matter I think they missed a trick. Plasma is a pretty cool name after all. I would have thought a few minutes spent searching for the phone number for Douglas Adams and a quick "Hey - Doug - can I call you Doug - No? - Okay - Mr Adams - You were joking? - cool - very funny - ANyway - we have a new form of matter - and we can only think up really shit scientificy names for it - any chance of you coming up with some options we can present to the board? - None of your stupid numbers or shit - a proper kick ass name.... etc... etc.... etc...
Presentation of this story suggests that this work is a step towards room temp superconductors. While this may be true, I suspect it is no more true of this that any other significant development of our understanding of that wierd stuff we call 'quantum'.
I really dont see superconductors becoming feasable at room temperatures anytime soon (i.e. 100 years) unless we all decide we actually like it when our rooms are well below freezing.
New forms of matter are interesting - but that they are found only at a billionth of a degree above absolute zero is no more interesting to me than the fact that we can build a fridge able to get stuff down to those temperatures in the first place. I'd be scared if we didn't find some spooky stuff going on!
please forgive me, I cannot resist saying this -- she's a stunning blonde, tall, gorgeous, busty, and has a degree in mathematics. Ca-Ching!
I have a good friend who insists HIS woman is a gorgeous busty blonde with a comp-sci degree. She certainly has a degree, and she is certainly a BIT blonde.... and so long as HE thinks shes gorgeous he's happy. In fact - she's rough as hell. Bung her onto hotornot and test your taste! Anything less than an 8.9 and your deluding yourself and should trade up!
I dont mind it - so long as the lead to the power supply is long enough that I can tuck the power brick away under my desk, behind my speakers or whatever.
Theres nothing worse than having to have the thing ON your desk as I've had a few times in the past with anything from a scanner or printer to the main CPU.
What next? As you come to, the paramedic leans in close to you and says, "This defibrullation has been brought to you by...."
YES. A lot of companies sponsor these things. Modern defribs are WAY cheaper than people think. So a big nasty oil company buys one for a school / health centre in the area and everyone thinks 'oooh - generous' thinking the donation is orders of magnitude greater than it actually is.
And that short pause as the thing goes pweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiip - kagououmph is just ripe for a bit of 'just do it' or 'haagen daaaz is to die for' or 'isnt it great when things just work'
clearly a joke - but I already have my nokia predictive text set up to shortcut various 'code like' phrases which I regularly have to send to collegues
this works well - but confuses the hell out of my better half when she tries to send a message on my phone. obvious words often come out as strange collections of odd characters (to her)
Just imagine how much BETTER it could be if perl was in the mix right there on the phone!
In fact, it seems there's even evidence that magnets help the circulation of blood.
Where? I've looked into this quite a bit and there are really very few published papers which demonstrate ANY macro effect on the human body from EM radiation exposure - including MRI.
There are plenty ads for 'magnets to improve circulation' - just as there are ads for 'herbal patches to make your dick huge'. Hocum!
Re:Everything is made cheap and unrepairable... (Score:2, Interesting) by Zeinfeld (263942) on Tuesday January 13, @01:27AM (#7958346) (http://slashdot.org/) As for plasma/LCD, why? Just because they are available doesn't mean that your CRT TVs are obsolete. $3000 plus for a TV is a heck of a lot, but $3000 on home repairs or decorating vanishes pretty damn quick.
I suspect that quite a few of the people buying plasma TVs are doing so because it is cheaper to buy a plasma TV at current rates than to try to work a decent sized CRT TV into a decor scheme.
My Sony Wega works really well in the corner we have put it in, but there is no way we could have a CRT TV of any decent size in any other room downstairs. The original plan was to mount a plasma screen in the library over the fireplace.
I see your point but have to say that the VAST majority of guys I know who have a big TV couldn't care less about the decor - white walls, whatever carpetting was there when they moved in, a sofa pointing straight at the TV. Somewhere to rest the beer and pizza. Big curtains to shut out the light for daytime viewing. Done.
The phrases 'in the library' and 'no room for a TV' don't quite match. Your not a bit of a hyacinth are you???
No idea what you're talking about. My guess is you were trying to be insulting.
Elephant polo comes from the old 'days of the Raj' films we used to see but seem to have disappeared. Its polo with elephants instead of horses. Its like saying 'watch the kaber tossing' about Scotland.
One of my posh mates took a house in India a few years back with 3 staff for about a grand a month. Amazing.
I'm miles from having my entire collection on my PC - let alone a device. I have roughly 3 feet of CDs still to encode, and have only just started on my vinyl. I will never need it all with me on the road.
The 2Gb iPod sounds like it will be my first portable player since my trusty old tape walkman died a couple of years back. I can hook it up, drop a playlist into it, and hit the road.
Unless Im going around the world - in which case wtf do I need an iPod for? am I going to be understimulated or something? I can survive a few days with only a day and a half of non stop tunes.
Me: Is this Kings of Leon CD copy protected? Shop: Yeah - it wont play on a PC Me: Shit - got anything that will? Shop: White Stripes will play - CD is even white like the KoL one Me: That'll have to do then Shop: White Stripes are shit though - but hey - at least it'll play! Me: Yeah - lifes a bitch
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Now feminist dogma is that men are evil
This is one of my favourite repeated arguements with 'chicks'. I argue that the media continually boosts women while knocking men and that if the positions were reversed there would be a pile of burning bras so high it'd melt the earths crust.
Chicks always say Im talking bollocks. Then I ask them to sit through an entire commercial break and count the number of people and categorise them by Male / Female and by Positive / Negative.
It doesnt matter if its the ad break during the football, oprah, or the news - the results are always that we see more positive women, and more negative men.
Examples - SHampoo - she's off having orgasms in the shower while her guy is sitting looking fat, puzzled, and unable to get a decent haircut Breakfast - she eats properly so fits little red pants while he is barely able to get out of bed. Cars - She's driving, he's letching at everything in a skirt, she's much funnier, prettier, and a better driver (he probably got banned or never passed his test)
I know - Spanish coffee generally should be pretty good - what with the latin american connections - but the only 3 coffee places near our villa sucked - being targeted at the british tourist Euro. It was all fake espresso, shit cappucino and tinny tasting water.
I'm not a doctor - but Addictions and Physical Dependancies are different things. I can be addicted to something without having a physical reaction to stemming the flow.
I drink a load of coffee - and get a slight headache if I skip coffee for a day - but after a fortnight in Spain where the coffee sucked I went 10 days without with no ill effects.
On return I had every intention of 'just staying stopped' but I didn't. I just started up again. Im addicted - but not physically dependent on the stuff.
Or maybe I'm just really hard and dont notice such measley symptoms {joke}
Not to mention that the White Stripes are awful. The only contribution they have made to my enjoyment of the past year has been the french and saunders piss take 'the poo stripes' from their Christmas special and an appearance on the Hootenany with Jools Holland. God I hope I never get to like the white stripes! Chicks just shouldn't be in bands.
But if you keep putting it off, you'll never buy anything.
There are wants and needs. Back in the day I was sure that I needed a MegaDrive, a N64, a Saturn, and a nice big surround sound system.
I haven't bought a new TV in...ooh... 5 or 6 years. To be honest the only time this bothers me is if I'm fortunate enough to have time to sit and watch a DVD with my better half and the picture is too small due to the super-wide screen format on the disk - and my old square TV showing it about 8 or 9 inches high.
Is it worth 1000 to get around this problem? No - thats a hell of a lot of cinema going - probably more than I'll spend going to the cinema before I retire!!
Would I rather spend a fortnight playing around in boats on the Med or have a new TV? Boats. Would I rather have all my New Scientist, Economist, New Internationalist, Edge etc... subscriptions or a new TV? The subs.
The next TV I buy will be half way along the line at Dixons - neither cheap nor cutting edge. And it will probably last me another 10 years.
It bugs me that my single friends always talk about their TVs. Who cares if its the biggest, brightest new Wega with 327 speakers and an Aibo to fetch the remote for you! Its still just a TV. Its materialism of the highest order - only beaten by spending 750 on a pair of shoes to be worn maybe twice a year. Shocking! Bah humbug!
You mean having MADE A DECISION to swap, I need to MAKE A DECISION which email I use? How many fucking DECISIONS do you think I need to MAKE in a year!!! Do you know what I'm PAID?????
Could you explain what I assume to be a colloquial phrase. I'm assuming its a misplaced insult - given that my comment wasn't about the article - but about the dupe!
Last year Tony Hawkes the British Comedian actually gave his girlfriend the 12 days of Christmas for christmas.
I forget how much it cost - it was broadcast as a Radio 4 pre Christmas show.
ANYWAY - he used actual Lords and Ladies with ligislative power from the House of Lords. He bribed them with mince pies as I remember. Very funny if you can dig it out - which I cant be bothered to do this close to CHristmas.
The primary objective of advertising is to publicize your product, and not to track who is watching your publicity.
No. The primary objective of advertising is to increase the profitability of the franchise. And to bring that profit forward. If you can quote a larger number of downloads of your trailer than the last LOTR trailer then McDonalds / Pepsi / Whoever will pay more $$ to run a tie in.
Magazines spend an awful lot of time and energy and cash on getting their circulation figures up, and generating detaile demographics. They would rather sell another 10 copies to 'rich bastards' than another 100 copies to students.
I'd reject the 'fake trailer' point - but tracking whos watching your trailer is a big deal!
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Sheesh - who rattled your cage! Having studied chemistry for 4 years, physics for 2, and running a subscription to pop-science crap like New Scientist, Nature, and Science since about 1985/6 I think I have a reasonable perspective on this stuff. Or maybe Im just being arrogant.
Superconducting is hard. Simple as that. That a room temp superconductor hasn't been created - even a tiny sliver in a lab - at all means applicable technology is guaranteed to be at least 30 - 40 years away. I'm less optimistic.
Its the Bose-Einstein condensate - and may I point out what a SHIT name this is for a form of matter.
.... etc... etc.... etc...
When you're naming a star, a hurricane, or a child you know you have a good chance of some more coming along later - so hell - John or Mary will do nicely.
But with forms of matter I think they missed a trick. Plasma is a pretty cool name after all. I would have thought a few minutes spent searching for the phone number for Douglas Adams and a quick "Hey - Doug - can I call you Doug - No? - Okay - Mr Adams - You were joking? - cool - very funny - ANyway - we have a new form of matter - and we can only think up really shit scientificy names for it - any chance of you coming up with some options we can present to the board? - None of your stupid numbers or shit - a proper kick ass name
Presentation of this story suggests that this work is a step towards room temp superconductors. While this may be true, I suspect it is no more true of this that any other significant development of our understanding of that wierd stuff we call 'quantum'.
I really dont see superconductors becoming feasable at room temperatures anytime soon (i.e. 100 years) unless we all decide we actually like it when our rooms are well below freezing.
New forms of matter are interesting - but that they are found only at a billionth of a degree above absolute zero is no more interesting to me than the fact that we can build a fridge able to get stuff down to those temperatures in the first place. I'd be scared if we didn't find some spooky stuff going on!
please forgive me, I cannot resist saying this -- she's a stunning blonde, tall, gorgeous, busty, and has a degree in mathematics. Ca-Ching!
I have a good friend who insists HIS woman is a gorgeous busty blonde with a comp-sci degree. She certainly has a degree, and she is certainly a BIT blonde.... and so long as HE thinks shes gorgeous he's happy. In fact - she's rough as hell. Bung her onto hotornot and test your taste! Anything less than an 8.9 and your deluding yourself and should trade up!
I hate computers with an external PSU.
I dont mind it - so long as the lead to the power supply is long enough that I can tuck the power brick away under my desk, behind my speakers or whatever.
Theres nothing worse than having to have the thing ON your desk as I've had a few times in the past with anything from a scanner or printer to the main CPU.
What next? As you come to, the paramedic leans in close to you and says, "This defibrullation has been brought to you by...."
YES. A lot of companies sponsor these things. Modern defribs are WAY cheaper than people think. So a big nasty oil company buys one for a school / health centre in the area and everyone thinks 'oooh - generous' thinking the donation is orders of magnitude greater than it actually is.
And that short pause as the thing goes pweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiip - kagououmph is just ripe for a bit of 'just do it' or 'haagen daaaz is to die for' or 'isnt it great when things just work'
clearly a joke - but I already have my nokia predictive text set up to shortcut various 'code like' phrases which I regularly have to send to collegues
this works well - but confuses the hell out of my better half when she tries to send a message on my phone. obvious words often come out as strange collections of odd characters (to her)
Just imagine how much BETTER it could be if perl was in the mix right there on the phone!
In fact, it seems there's even evidence that magnets help the circulation of blood.
Where? I've looked into this quite a bit and there are really very few published papers which demonstrate ANY macro effect on the human body from EM radiation exposure - including MRI.
There are plenty ads for 'magnets to improve circulation' - just as there are ads for 'herbal patches to make your dick huge'. Hocum!
Re:Everything is made cheap and unrepairable... (Score:2, Interesting)
by Zeinfeld (263942) on Tuesday January 13, @01:27AM (#7958346)
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As for plasma/LCD, why? Just because they are available doesn't mean that your CRT TVs are obsolete.
$3000 plus for a TV is a heck of a lot, but $3000 on home repairs or decorating vanishes pretty damn quick.
I suspect that quite a few of the people buying plasma TVs are doing so because it is cheaper to buy a plasma TV at current rates than to try to work a decent sized CRT TV into a decor scheme.
My Sony Wega works really well in the corner we have put it in, but there is no way we could have a CRT TV of any decent size in any other room downstairs. The original plan was to mount a plasma screen in the library over the fireplace.
I see your point but have to say that the VAST majority of guys I know who have a big TV couldn't care less about the decor - white walls, whatever carpetting was there when they moved in, a sofa pointing straight at the TV. Somewhere to rest the beer and pizza. Big curtains to shut out the light for daytime viewing. Done.
The phrases 'in the library' and 'no room for a TV' don't quite match. Your not a bit of a hyacinth are you???
And you get to watch elephant polo!!!
No idea what you're talking about. My guess is you were trying to be insulting.
Elephant polo comes from the old 'days of the Raj' films we used to see but seem to have disappeared. Its polo with elephants instead of horses. Its like saying 'watch the kaber tossing' about Scotland.
One of my posh mates took a house in India a few years back with 3 staff for about a grand a month. Amazing.
Wait until some corporations get a gut full of having their code halfway across the globe
Yeah - they'll move to India too. You can get a seriously big house there, great food, and your kitchen staff won't be a: Expensive, or b: Illegal.
I'm guessing the tax advantages are pretty significant too. And you get to watch elephant polo!!!
I'm miles from having my entire collection on my PC - let alone a device. I have roughly 3 feet of CDs still to encode, and have only just started on my vinyl. I will never need it all with me on the road.
The 2Gb iPod sounds like it will be my first portable player since my trusty old tape walkman died a couple of years back. I can hook it up, drop a playlist into it, and hit the road.
Unless Im going around the world - in which case wtf do I need an iPod for? am I going to be understimulated or something? I can survive a few days with only a day and a half of non stop tunes.
Easier said than done.
Me: Is this Kings of Leon CD copy protected?
Shop: Yeah - it wont play on a PC
Me: Shit - got anything that will?
Shop: White Stripes will play - CD is even white like the KoL one
Me: That'll have to do then
Shop: White Stripes are shit though - but hey - at least it'll play!
Me: Yeah - lifes a bitch
Now feminist dogma is that men are evil
This is one of my favourite repeated arguements with 'chicks'. I argue that the media continually boosts women while knocking men and that if the positions were reversed there would be a pile of burning bras so high it'd melt the earths crust.
Chicks always say Im talking bollocks. Then I ask them to sit through an entire commercial break and count the number of people and categorise them by Male / Female and by Positive / Negative.
It doesnt matter if its the ad break during the football, oprah, or the news - the results are always that we see more positive women, and more negative men.
Examples - SHampoo - she's off having orgasms in the shower while her guy is sitting looking fat, puzzled, and unable to get a decent haircut
Breakfast - she eats properly so fits little red pants while he is barely able to get out of bed.
Cars - She's driving, he's letching at everything in a skirt, she's much funnier, prettier, and a better driver (he probably got banned or never passed his test)
the list is endless.
And why is EVERYONE Human Resources female????
I know - Spanish coffee generally should be pretty good - what with the latin american connections - but the only 3 coffee places near our villa sucked - being targeted at the british tourist Euro. It was all fake espresso, shit cappucino and tinny tasting water.
Coastal spain sucks!
I'm not a doctor - but Addictions and Physical Dependancies are different things. I can be addicted to something without having a physical reaction to stemming the flow.
I drink a load of coffee - and get a slight headache if I skip coffee for a day - but after a fortnight in Spain where the coffee sucked I went 10 days without with no ill effects.
On return I had every intention of 'just staying stopped' but I didn't. I just started up again. Im addicted - but not physically dependent on the stuff.
Or maybe I'm just really hard and dont notice such measley symptoms {joke}
sheds a "few" question on this "survey"
Not to mention that the White Stripes are awful. The only contribution they have made to my enjoyment of the past year has been the french and saunders piss take 'the poo stripes' from their Christmas special and an appearance on the Hootenany with Jools Holland. God I hope I never get to like the white stripes! Chicks just shouldn't be in bands.
Well done sir! Pun of the year!
because its Star Wars - and its Christmas. And Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without some Star Wars trivia to spice things up now would it!
But if you keep putting it off, you'll never buy anything.
...ooh... 5 or 6 years. To be honest the only time this bothers me is if I'm fortunate enough to have time to sit and watch a DVD with my better half and the picture is too small due to the super-wide screen format on the disk - and my old square TV showing it about 8 or 9 inches high.
There are wants and needs. Back in the day I was sure that I needed a MegaDrive, a N64, a Saturn, and a nice big surround sound system.
I haven't bought a new TV in
Is it worth 1000 to get around this problem? No - thats a hell of a lot of cinema going - probably more than I'll spend going to the cinema before I retire!!
Would I rather spend a fortnight playing around in boats on the Med or have a new TV? Boats.
Would I rather have all my New Scientist, Economist, New Internationalist, Edge etc... subscriptions or a new TV? The subs.
The next TV I buy will be half way along the line at Dixons - neither cheap nor cutting edge. And it will probably last me another 10 years.
It bugs me that my single friends always talk about their TVs. Who cares if its the biggest, brightest new Wega with 327 speakers and an Aibo to fetch the remote for you! Its still just a TV. Its materialism of the highest order - only beaten by spending 750 on a pair of shoes to be worn maybe twice a year. Shocking! Bah humbug!
lots of Open Source alterna...
You mean having MADE A DECISION to swap, I need to MAKE A DECISION which email I use? How many fucking DECISIONS do you think I need to MAKE in a year!!! Do you know what I'm PAID?????
I guess what I'm trying to say is, your mom.
Could you explain what I assume to be a colloquial phrase. I'm assuming its a misplaced insult - given that my comment wasn't about the article - but about the dupe!
Merry Christmas!
Last year Tony Hawkes the British Comedian actually gave his girlfriend the 12 days of Christmas for christmas.
I forget how much it cost - it was broadcast as a Radio 4 pre Christmas show.
ANYWAY - he used actual Lords and Ladies with ligislative power from the House of Lords. He bribed them with mince pies as I remember.
Very funny if you can dig it out - which I cant be bothered to do this close to CHristmas.
Its a Christmas treat for us all!! Nothing like a bit of bitchin about /. editors to brighten an otherwise dull day!
The primary objective of advertising is to publicize your product, and not to track who is watching your publicity.
No. The primary objective of advertising is to increase the profitability of the franchise. And to bring that profit forward. If you can quote a larger number of downloads of your trailer than the last LOTR trailer then McDonalds / Pepsi / Whoever will pay more $$ to run a tie in.
Magazines spend an awful lot of time and energy and cash on getting their circulation figures up, and generating detaile demographics. They would rather sell another 10 copies to 'rich bastards' than another 100 copies to students.
I'd reject the 'fake trailer' point - but tracking whos watching your trailer is a big deal!