who ignored the rules or simply forgot to turn their phones off.
Most Digital cell phones, despite having a 300mW transmitter, only use it completely during transmission. (The whole 180 'talk' minutes versus 5 days 'standby' time)
Analog or digital receiving (or to a extent, analog standby) are what eat the juice and really use the transmitter power.
How many schoolchildren had to die in school shootings before the government realized that problems in schools and parenting need to be fixed?
Not enough yet
Medevo
Re:That would be about year 3005
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Life After Doom
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2.15 frames per week sweet! That is just like trying to doom 1 on a 8086
you would render it faster if you sold that computer, waited 10 years, bought a computer for the money you got (plus intrest) and play at a solid 1000FPS
Doom 3 graphics effects tend to be much better suited for Nvidia cards, this may be just the differences in GPU, or that ATi leaked a early inhouse DOOM 3 and this is there punishment.
The limit of computing is, as you say, on the developer's side, no argument here. It its at least partially reasonable that when quantum computers become more available, that ingenious developers will find ways to squeeze out more power.
Moreover, at the end of the day, you still extract bits from qubits. While one day in the distant future we may be able to interact computers entirely in a quantum environment, but it's a long way off.
The real potential in quantum computers is the problems of density, power, and heating, that have plagued development of faster CPU's seem to apply on a lesser scale to quantum circuits (not that they don't have there unique problems). At the same time, quantum computers could/would suffer a lot less problems with bandwidth/time delay (light/QE info transfer).
Traditional MOSFET based transistors, while powerful (look at today's advanced chips) have been around for a while; there is no harm in looking for something new and better.
Even if quantum computers provided a liner growth curve in processing power to qubits, we could expect a greater throughput in it (due to above stated factors).
The point of Quantum Entanglement is that two particles will assume the same quantum state no matter where they are in space. Change one, the other will change, no matter the distance separating them. While the effect is not well understood, it has been demonstrated with photons, and now atoms. This does not directly solve the 7-qubit barrier, but any advancements aren't going to hurt.
If this whole thing of instantaneous communication seems odd, it should. While we are yet to find anything near a economical way to apply QE in communication, it will be coming and lossy communication will be a thing of the past.
The best way I have found to think about quantum computations is that digital computers think in 1's and 0's
Quantum computers allow you to ad "decimal places" to this traditional logic (0.1, 0.2, 0.9, 1.0). As you increase the number of quantum bits, instead of just increasing the number of calculations a second you can do (like with our processors today) you are in fact adding new more "decimal places" by simply looking at the qubits in terms of accuracy. Even a simple quantum computer of 30 or 40 qubits could theoretically out power any single processor today depending on the quantum accuracy involved.
Yes, things like 10/3 and 10/6 are ugly and repeating, but they aren't that hard to thing about (1 or 2 thirds).
But there is always 12/9... 1 and 1/3
Metric when divided by the numbers below results in 3 whole numbers, 2 simple fractions (10/4 = 2.5), 3 nice repeating fractions, and 1 ugly fraction (10/7)
Imperial results in 5 whole numbers, 3 simple fractions, 1 nice repeating fraction, and 2 ugly fractions
While Imperial has a higher ratio of nice clean whole numbers when divided, can you tell me 12/7 or 12/11 without a calculator, 10/7? Isn't nice either but all you can really glean from this is that there will always be ugly numbers no matter what system you use.
Metric has a huge advantage with units and scientific notation, how many inches are in a light-year? With metric turning light-years into cm is a lot easier.
At the end of the day though, most of the advantages or disadvantages of using either are nullified by using technology. Creating a worldwide standard system is more important to remove issues in calculations between the two systems.
They are all relative systems as well, as long as unless one system has some "magic relationship" with nature I haven't heard of (metric is based off natural things yes, but water was a bad choice) its simply a choice and a system of standards.
Funny Thing about Canada One strange thing that happens here is when medical devices and drugs are approved, the government sets the cost. The manafacturer is asked what it would like to charge, and has to support its price with R&D info and production costs( and profit). Despite what the company may like, the federal government will set a price that balances the companys costs (and profit) with availiability and price to consumers.
As result of this system, many drugs approved both in Canada and the USA, by the same company and the same patent have a different price. This has created a market in Canada, where Canadian Pharamicies sell drugs to Americans for a lower (sometimes alot) Price.
How would this affect the pill? Say the R&D cost is about 25 mil USD and the production cost per pill is.25 USD even if there is a wide profit margin (100%) i doubt a mass market version (20mil+ with monthly) would cost more then $5-10 USD per pill and $60-120(USD) per year.
10 cents a pill does seem very low, but not entirly off base. This technology could allow drug treatment to be hormonally controlled (reacts to homeostasis/Blood Concentration's) and improve millions of people lives, for a cost that is not that high.
Even without using nuclear fusion hydrogen gas is explosive, and you have got alot of it in a pressurized tank in your car. Just hit the nozzle off of the tank and it will begin to spill out, after most of it is out, light a match. Seems simple enough
It seems that this is the likly trend with a lot of ebay fraud. That person most likly already has another ebay account and is defrauding more people.
My idea of a way to fix the system is that we should have the money and item go through ebay. Sure this will add overhead and costs, but it protects both the buyers and the sellers. If either person backs out of the deal, the other person gets there money back.
There is another kind of fraud on ebay too, false advertising, where someone says they are selling x and give you y. This is a little harder to control even if the stuff goes throught ebay, as quality is subjective with much of the stuff being sold.
About the best thing the US govt. could do would be to pay off or securitize NASA's debt, then sell it in an IPO. As a private company, it would be highly incentivized to both produce useful work and capture the public's imagination.
True, very true, but be wary as this could have negative problems. NASA should be privately audited, and have pieces of it split off to maintain cost/benefit. We still do need a solid PUBLIC organization for space and space related science, and NASA has done that (with a price tag). The conversion should be slow enough to not hamper research, but can still cut the crap off of NASA
I think NASA is doing the CORRECT thing by not allowing stuff like that, after all NASA is about science not shooting rich people into space. I was trying to imply that the corruption that is affecting Russia's space program has yet to spread, but I stand behind I belief that NASA need to do PR work and a lot of it.
Perhaps we need a Private Company that would allow people to go into space, and not interfere with science. The problem is that the technology for private corps is a few years away and people want to go into space NOW.
In these modern times, where money can control everything, it is not uncommon to see a former communist government letting this happen and supporting. Perhaps this is a downside to capitalism and reality TV that we want to shoot desperate competitive into space. Reality TV is already loosing a lot of its luster in the United States of America so I assume that this show will be marketed in other area's where the demand is still high.
Also is this a setback for NASA? Possibility, but I think there is a larger issue for NASA here. Some Stories from Scientific American I believe shed light on the issue Has the Space Age Stalled? and Lost in Space.
A larger issue that is discussed in both articles is that many young Americans are loosing their attachment to NASA and the space race. This could be a costly mistake. This prize winner wont help NASA, but I don't think they are going to kill the space program.
With placement of articles on the homepage of Slashdot resulting in investment in projects, its no small wonder that companies want to buy a "story" for the homepage.
I say that Slashdot should let them, as long as the product is good. I mean we get Slashdot without paying, they get product exposure, and a reader or a hundred might find a product that is useful to them.
However like many forms of advertising, some companies may pay to put crap on Slashdot, and others might abuse the exposure and make false claims to gain a quick profit. Despite this, if the admin of Slashdot is careful everything should work out great.
nah, it does grow on trees, its more like nuts and just grows in the soil
technical yes, but oh well
Medevo
Is Intel doing the right thing?
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A freaking 130 Amp Chip? Even with 220 million transistors in it that is a lot of power. Intel should consider that big companies and small users dint always want the BEST of the BEST, they want something that is cost effective. As the story mentions Google might prefer to use a lower power chip because they could save millions in power costs. This can apply to small users too as that chip alone could cost you up to $100 a month.
Think on the bright side, during the winter when you are on doom 3 you are also heating the house!
the reason they can heat up water is due to the frequency itself, and it's ability to cause water molecules to move around in the field. It's not, as some say, because it's the resonant frequency of a water molecule.
Wouldnt this mean that we could also make a large microwave, and use it as some sort of weapon (not realy).
Also do the home microwaves use a very specific frequency?, or else photoelectric effect could short circit the hearts electric timing system.
Yes, and i didnt deny this. Canada was more concerned about the coastal areas beside BC, even thought if britin had supported canada we would have got part of alaska.
Slashdot Mirror
Remember the old phrase, methanol makes you blind, propanol makes you sterile, and ethanol makes you forget chemistry!
At least somebody who is stupid enough to poison themselfs with isopropyl alcohol will be removing themselfs from the gene pool
Medevo
who ignored the rules or simply forgot to turn their phones off.
Most Digital cell phones, despite having a 300mW transmitter, only use it completely during transmission. (The whole 180 'talk' minutes versus 5 days 'standby' time)
Analog or digital receiving (or to a extent, analog standby) are what eat the juice and really use the transmitter power.
Medevo
well, the hl engine is a very modified quake 2 engine, so you could say that you just were still addicted to quake2
Medevo
How many schoolchildren had to die in school shootings before the government realized that problems in schools and parenting need to be fixed?
Not enough yet
Medevo
2.15 frames per week sweet! That is just like trying to doom 1 on a 8086
you would render it faster if you sold that computer, waited 10 years, bought a computer for the money you got (plus intrest) and play at a solid 1000FPS
Medevo
Doom 3 graphics effects tend to be much better suited for Nvidia cards, this may be just the differences in GPU, or that ATi leaked a early inhouse DOOM 3 and this is there punishment.
If it makes you feel any better Halflifeportal mentions something to the effect of "same generation nvidia cards will perform 50-75% as well at their ATi counterparts because of the nonstandard nature of the chips" so HL2 will be the other way around.
Basically
Doom 3 = Nvidia
HL2 = ATi
Medevo
The limit of computing is, as you say, on the developer's side, no argument here. It its at least partially reasonable that when quantum computers become more available, that ingenious developers will find ways to squeeze out more power.
Moreover, at the end of the day, you still extract bits from qubits. While one day in the distant future we may be able to interact computers entirely in a quantum environment, but it's a long way off.
The real potential in quantum computers is the problems of density, power, and heating, that have plagued development of faster CPU's seem to apply on a lesser scale to quantum circuits (not that they don't have there unique problems). At the same time, quantum computers could/would suffer a lot less problems with bandwidth/time delay (light/QE info transfer).
Traditional MOSFET based transistors, while powerful (look at today's advanced chips) have been around for a while; there is no harm in looking for something new and better.
Even if quantum computers provided a liner growth curve in processing power to qubits, we could expect a greater throughput in it (due to above stated factors).
Medevo
The point of Quantum Entanglement is that two particles will assume the same quantum state no matter where they are in space. Change one, the other will change, no matter the distance separating them. While the effect is not well understood, it has been demonstrated with photons, and now atoms. This does not directly solve the 7-qubit barrier, but any advancements aren't going to hurt.
If this whole thing of instantaneous communication seems odd, it should. While we are yet to find anything near a economical way to apply QE in communication, it will be coming and lossy communication will be a thing of the past.
Medevo
Somewhat, but you are a little off.
The best way I have found to think about quantum computations is that digital computers think in 1's and 0's
Quantum computers allow you to ad "decimal places" to this traditional logic (0.1, 0.2, 0.9, 1.0). As you increase the number of quantum bits, instead of just increasing the number of calculations a second you can do (like with our processors today) you are in fact adding new more "decimal places" by simply looking at the qubits in terms of accuracy. Even a simple quantum computer of 30 or 40 qubits could theoretically out power any single processor today depending on the quantum accuracy involved.
Medevo
Yes, things like 10/3 and 10/6 are ugly and repeating, but they aren't that hard to thing about (1 or 2 thirds).
But there is always 12/9... 1 and 1/3
Metric when divided by the numbers below results in 3 whole numbers, 2 simple fractions (10/4 = 2.5), 3 nice repeating fractions, and 1 ugly fraction (10/7)
Imperial results in 5 whole numbers, 3 simple fractions, 1 nice repeating fraction, and 2 ugly fractions
While Imperial has a higher ratio of nice clean whole numbers when divided, can you tell me 12/7 or 12/11 without a calculator, 10/7? Isn't nice either but all you can really glean from this is that there will always be ugly numbers no matter what system you use.
Metric has a huge advantage with units and scientific notation, how many inches are in a light-year? With metric turning light-years into cm is a lot easier.
At the end of the day though, most of the advantages or disadvantages of using either are nullified by using technology. Creating a worldwide standard system is more important to remove issues in calculations between the two systems.
They are all relative systems as well, as long as unless one system has some "magic relationship" with nature I haven't heard of (metric is based off natural things yes, but water was a bad choice) its simply a choice and a system of standards.
Medevo
Funny Thing about Canada
.25 USD
One strange thing that happens here is when medical devices and drugs are approved, the government sets the cost. The manafacturer is asked what it would like to charge, and has to support its price with R&D info and production costs( and profit). Despite what the company may like, the federal government will set a price that balances the companys costs (and profit) with availiability and price to consumers.
As result of this system, many drugs approved both in Canada and the USA, by the same company and the same patent have a different price. This has created a market in Canada, where Canadian Pharamicies sell drugs to Americans for a lower (sometimes alot) Price.
How would this affect the pill?
Say the R&D cost is about 25 mil USD and the production cost per pill is
even if there is a wide profit margin (100%) i doubt a mass market version (20mil+ with monthly) would cost more then $5-10 USD per pill and $60-120(USD) per year.
10 cents a pill does seem very low, but not entirly off base. This technology could allow drug treatment to be hormonally controlled (reacts to homeostasis/Blood Concentration's) and improve millions of people lives, for a cost that is not that high.
Medevo
I hope you aren't using ch3, as that is a unbalanced methyl group that would not be stable.
CH4 - Methane
C2H6 - Ethane
C3H8 - Propane
C4H10 - Butane
Are the most simple Alkane Hydrocarbons that we use fuel, and because of there saturation they are relatively stable, just flammable.
Medevo
Even without using nuclear fusion hydrogen gas is explosive, and you have got alot of it in a pressurized tank in your car. Just hit the nozzle off of the tank and it will begin to spill out, after most of it is out, light a match.
Seems simple enough
Medevo
What happens if one gets laid off and gets pissed? Having that much hydrogen in a car could sure put a dent in the LA skyline.
Don't mod this down if you think it might happen, follow the mod rules.
Medevo
It seems that this is the likly trend with a lot of ebay fraud. That person most likly already has another ebay account and is defrauding more people.
My idea of a way to fix the system is that we should have the money and item go through ebay. Sure this will add overhead and costs, but it protects both the buyers and the sellers. If either person backs out of the deal, the other person gets there money back.
There is another kind of fraud on ebay too, false advertising, where someone says they are selling x and give you y. This is a little harder to control even if the stuff goes throught ebay, as quality is subjective with much of the stuff being sold.
Medevo
With the winter coming, and only me and quake 3 at home I might be next.
Oh well, worse ways to go.
Medevo
About the best thing the US govt. could do would be to pay off or securitize NASA's debt, then sell it in an IPO. As a private company, it would be highly incentivized to both produce useful work and capture the public's imagination.
True, very true, but be wary as this could have negative problems. NASA should be privately audited, and have pieces of it split off to maintain cost/benefit. We still do need a solid PUBLIC organization for space and space related science, and NASA has done that (with a price tag). The conversion should be slow enough to not hamper research, but can still cut the crap off of NASA
Medevo
I think NASA is doing the CORRECT thing by not allowing stuff like that, after all NASA is about science not shooting rich people into space. I was trying to imply that the corruption that is affecting Russia's space program has yet to spread, but I stand behind I belief that NASA need to do PR work and a lot of it.
Perhaps we need a Private Company that would allow people to go into space, and not interfere with science. The problem is that the technology for private corps is a few years away and people want to go into space NOW.
Medevo
In these modern times, where money can control everything, it is not uncommon to see a former communist government letting this happen and supporting. Perhaps this is a downside to capitalism and reality TV that we want to shoot desperate competitive into space. Reality TV is already loosing a lot of its luster in the United States of America so I assume that this show will be marketed in other area's where the demand is still high.
Also is this a setback for NASA? Possibility, but I think there is a larger issue for NASA here. Some Stories from Scientific American I believe shed light on the issue Has the Space Age Stalled? and Lost in Space.
A larger issue that is discussed in both articles is that many young Americans are loosing their attachment to NASA and the space race. This could be a costly mistake. This prize winner wont help NASA, but I don't think they are going to kill the space program.
Medevo
With placement of articles on the homepage of Slashdot resulting in investment in projects, its no small wonder that companies want to buy a "story" for the homepage.
I say that Slashdot should let them, as long as the product is good. I mean we get Slashdot without paying, they get product exposure, and a reader or a hundred might find a product that is useful to them.
However like many forms of advertising, some companies may pay to put crap on Slashdot, and others might abuse the exposure and make false claims to gain a quick profit. Despite this, if the admin of Slashdot is careful everything should work out great.
Medevo
nah, it does grow on trees, its more like nuts and just grows in the soil
technical yes, but oh well
Medevo
A freaking 130 Amp Chip?
Even with 220 million transistors in it that is a lot of power. Intel should consider that big companies and small users dint always want the BEST of the BEST, they want something that is cost effective. As the story mentions Google might prefer to use a lower power chip because they could save millions in power costs. This can apply to small users too as that chip alone could cost you up to $100 a month.
Think on the bright side, during the winter when you are on doom 3 you are also heating the house!
Medevo
the reason they can heat up water is due to the frequency itself, and it's ability to cause water molecules to move around in the field. It's not, as some say, because it's the resonant frequency of a water molecule.
Wouldnt this mean that we could also make a large microwave, and use it as some sort of weapon (not realy).
Also do the home microwaves use a very specific frequency?, or else photoelectric effect could short circit the hearts electric timing system.
Medevo
Just sign up for a cable modem and get the attached basic cable, that i assume will still be TiVo supported.
If this fails, someone will design a $10-$20 signil filter that will remove the DO NOT RECORD, signil from your cable service.
Medevo
Yes, and i didnt deny this. Canada was more concerned about the coastal areas beside BC, even thought if britin had supported canada we would have got part of alaska.
Medevo