FYI, downloading is legal in Hungary for private usage (NOT software), but uploading is not. So, torrent is a gray area, but no individual has been prosecuted for private usage, yet.
Exactly. All the elementary particles are 0-dimensional , point-like particles. As they are 0-dimensional they cannot have a shape. Also, this means only head-on collisions are possible in particle accelerators.
Some geniuses, like Feynman, tried to model the elementary particles as 3-dimensional bodies, but to no avail.
Anybody who has read "Atlas Shrugged" knows that this is not true. Who will decide whether the need of the many really more important than the need of the few? And on what base?
Fermi's paradox assumes that the alien civilizations out there sent radio signals in the directions of Earth when they were on the same technological level as we now. Or do you thing Earth's radio waves will be detected 1000 ly from us in 1000 years by some alien race which will be on the same level as us now? I pretty sure our radio waves will be undetectable from the cosmic background noise.
Also, any advanced alien civilization must have some kind of 'ansible' device and does not use radio waves. Let's face it, radio waves are _slow_ in space. You cannot build a space civilization with radio waves. So, if FTL is really not possible forget any star trek like fantasy.
In Hungary, downloading is legal, but uploading not. So, P2P is in a grey area. However, there is a levy on all recordable media, even on pendrives and memory cards. So, clueful hungarians buy their recordable media from Slovakia where there is no such levy.
As a hungarian I believe there will be nothing from this. It is just another firm which goes after free taxpayer money from the government rinding on the "green energy" bandwagon.
From wikipedia: Most of the debris consists of small plastic particles suspended at or just below the water surface, making it impossible to detect by aircraft or satellite images.
It looks like Scientific American never heard of Jevons paradox which states "technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource".
This whole causality thing will go away if we accept that time is not a dimension but only an illusion. In short, time does not exist. It is only the human brain (and some animal's) that cause the illusion because we remember the past and, to a certain extent, can predict (calculate) the future.
How does this affect the causality paradoxes? There will be no more paradoxes simply because the observers receive false information due to the fact the speed of light (which is the information carrier) is limited.
You provided a link to a paradox, but it does not explain anything. Why should Bob get the message from Carol at C? The FTL bullet paradox is much better explained. IIRC, the paradox is that the target of the bullet is dead in A person's time frame but still alive in B person's time frame. So, B can send an FTL message to the targeted person to save his life and this is a paradox as the person is already dead in A's time frame.
However, B obviously receives false information due to the information carrier's limitation (limited speed) and in reality the person is really dead. So, B cannot save him and there is no paradox here.
This is a classic example why patents are bad. When the time is ripe for a technology to emerge it will emerge in several people's minds and not just in a lone genius' mind. This is called progress and mere progress should not be patented. There are no inventions but there is progress.
In the communist countries actual production always exceeded planned production. This was not due to superior execution rather intentionally setting the goals too low. For example, if you have to draw 10 circles in a day, you can obviously exceed the "plan" as you can draw far more.
This may be the case here, too. The 90 days of operation seem to me intentionally low and it looks like the/. community hails the continuous operation as superior engineering achievement. I just like to remind the/. community that most likely this 90 days of operation was set by the management and not by the engineers.
So, the NASA management played it safe and shot for a very low goal. And it looks like the/. community fell for an old trick of the communist countries.
"You can also decide which CPU any given IRQ can be handled by (but not which core within a CPU as far as I know)"
With the usage of IOAPIC you can redirect the IRQ to any cores. We have a in-house-developed commercial OS for telephony applications and we use the IOAPIC with a simple round-robin fashion. I do not know why linux does not do this.
Period. They had a purpose in the era of "wild" capitalism, but those times are over. Also, in that times the workers didn't fight against their empolyer, but they fought against the government too (the government closed its eyes to the atrocities against workers). The "evil" capitalists used the help of the government to stump the workers' rights.
However, times changed and look who's striking? Mostly government employees. They basically blackmail the government to give them more money and benefits at the expense of all others.
I believe that our knowledge about the universe is quite limited. I can imagine the scientists of the future will laugh about how we could seriously consider dark matter and dark energy. I think it is quite possible that gravity behaves differently over great distances (and I know about the latest "evidence" of dark matter where the dark matter was "imaged" but it is an indirect evidence, there may be other things up in the universe's sleeve which causes this).
I believe there will be another Einstein who will shed light upon this "mistery" and everything will be simple again.
...this was the case from the beginning of cell phones. And it is not enough to show some ID, the service providers even photocopy it. I think this is standard practice in most european countries (maybe except the photocopy part).
how they want to "licence" their works. If some artist want to control their works with some kind of licencing (aka EULA) it is their choise. Of course you cannot restrict the usage of songs which are on eg. the radio. These songs can be considered advertising and as nobody agreed, who heard the song, to the licence you cannot claim licencing fees for them.
In a free market there will be artist who uses restrictive licencing and artists who give away their work for free. Let the free market decide which/who will be the more popular.
Dark energy may be an indicator that we live in a false vacuum. If this is the case and the true vacuum is speeding towards us with the speed of light then we are doomed. So, add another doomsday scenario to your list.
Slashdot Mirror
http://topnews.us/content/251574-ericsson-lay-1500-employees-sweden
No wonder Ericsson desperately wants money.
It looks like you have never heard of the Jevons paradox.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html
I do not believe in particle-wave duality. I believe in Feynman's path integral formulation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation
Read QED if you want to know more of this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED:_The_Strange_Theory_of_Light_and_Matter
Using path integral a particle does not need to interference itself in order to produce the interference pattern.
FYI, downloading is legal in Hungary for private usage (NOT software), but uploading is not. So, torrent is a gray area, but no individual has been prosecuted for private usage, yet.
Exactly. All the elementary particles are 0-dimensional , point-like particles. As they are 0-dimensional they cannot have a shape. Also, this means only head-on collisions are possible in particle accelerators.
Some geniuses, like Feynman, tried to model the elementary particles as 3-dimensional bodies, but to no avail.
At last, the Great Lord shall be free...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CX9Agzeh-c
Anybody who has read "Atlas Shrugged" knows that this is not true. Who will decide whether the need of the many really more important than the need of the few? And on what base?
Fermi's paradox assumes that the alien civilizations out there sent radio signals in the directions of Earth when they were on the same technological level as we now. Or do you thing Earth's radio waves will be detected 1000 ly from us in 1000 years by some alien race which will be on the same level as us now? I pretty sure our radio waves will be undetectable from the cosmic background noise.
Also, any advanced alien civilization must have some kind of 'ansible' device and does not use radio waves. Let's face it, radio waves are _slow_ in space. You cannot build a space civilization with radio waves. So, if FTL is really not possible forget any star trek like fantasy.
In Hungary, downloading is legal, but uploading not. So, P2P is in a grey area. However, there is a levy on all recordable media, even on pendrives and memory cards. So, clueful hungarians buy their recordable media from Slovakia where there is no such levy.
As a hungarian I believe there will be nothing from this. It is just another firm which goes after free taxpayer money from the government rinding on the "green energy" bandwagon.
From wikipedia: Most of the debris consists of small plastic particles suspended at or just below the water surface, making it impossible to detect by aircraft or satellite images.
It looks like Scientific American never heard of Jevons paradox which states "technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource".
In short, technology cannot save us.
This whole causality thing will go away if we accept that time is not a dimension but only an illusion. In short, time does not exist. It is only the human brain (and some animal's) that cause the illusion because we remember the past and, to a certain extent, can predict (calculate) the future.
How does this affect the causality paradoxes? There will be no more paradoxes simply because the observers receive false information due to the fact the speed of light (which is the information carrier) is limited.
You provided a link to a paradox, but it does not explain anything. Why should Bob get the message from Carol at C? The FTL bullet paradox is much better explained. IIRC, the paradox is that the target of the bullet is dead in A person's time frame but still alive in B person's time frame. So, B can send an FTL message to the targeted person to save his life and this is a paradox as the person is already dead in A's time frame.
However, B obviously receives false information due to the information carrier's limitation (limited speed) and in reality the person is really dead. So, B cannot save him and there is no paradox here.
This is a classic example why patents are bad. When the time is ripe for a technology to emerge it will emerge in several people's minds and not just in a lone genius' mind. This is called progress and mere progress should not be patented. There are no inventions but there is progress.
bush, bush, tree, bush, tiger, bush, oh wait...
In the communist countries actual production always exceeded planned production. This was not due to superior execution rather intentionally setting the goals too low. For example, if you have to draw 10 circles in a day, you can obviously exceed the "plan" as you can draw far more.
This may be the case here, too. The 90 days of operation seem to me intentionally low and it looks like the /. community hails the continuous operation as superior engineering achievement. I just like to remind the /. community that most likely this 90 days of operation was set by the management and not by the engineers.
So, the NASA management played it safe and shot for a very low goal. And it looks like the /. community fell for an old trick of the communist countries.
"You can also decide which CPU any given IRQ can be handled by (but not which core within a CPU as far as I know)"
With the usage of IOAPIC you can redirect the IRQ to any cores. We have a in-house-developed commercial OS for telephony applications and we use the IOAPIC with a simple round-robin fashion. I do not know why linux does not do this.
Period. They had a purpose in the era of "wild" capitalism, but those times are over. Also, in that times the workers didn't fight against their empolyer, but they fought against the government too (the government closed its eyes to the atrocities against workers). The "evil" capitalists used the help of the government to stump the workers' rights.
However, times changed and look who's striking? Mostly government employees. They basically blackmail the government to give them more money and benefits at the expense of all others.
I believe that our knowledge about the universe is quite limited. I can imagine the scientists of the future will laugh about how we could seriously consider dark matter and dark energy. I think it is quite possible that gravity behaves differently over great distances (and I know about the latest "evidence" of dark matter where the dark matter was "imaged" but it is an indirect evidence, there may be other things up in the universe's sleeve which causes this).
I believe there will be another Einstein who will shed light upon this "mistery" and everything will be simple again.
...this was the case from the beginning of cell phones. And it is not enough to show some ID, the service providers even photocopy it. I think this is standard practice in most european countries (maybe except the photocopy part).
The Great Attractor is another mistery. Entire galaxies are pulled toward it where there is nothing just empty space.
how they want to "licence" their works. If some artist want to control their works with some kind of licencing (aka EULA) it is their choise. Of course you cannot restrict the usage of songs which are on eg. the radio. These songs can be considered advertising and as nobody agreed, who heard the song, to the licence you cannot claim licencing fees for them.
In a free market there will be artist who uses restrictive licencing and artists who give away their work for free. Let the free market decide which/who will be the more popular.
Dark energy may be an indicator that we live in a false vacuum. If this is the case and the true vacuum is speeding towards us with the speed of light then we are doomed. So, add another doomsday scenario to your list.