People in the UK (and presumably the rest of the EU) have always had to pay VAT on things they have physicially imported. Why should the internet be any different. VAT is an important component in the EU model of taxation and closing this loop hole can only be good for our public services like schools and hospitals. People always moan about taxes, it can't be that complicated to implement.
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I think Minotaur is a dead name. It's codname is now Thunderbird and once the app-suite is dead it'll get referred to as just Mozilla Mail
I'm feeling smug at the moment as I went to the official opening of the latest stage of this project last Monday and actually got to go down the mine!
There are a few experiments down there, the main three are Zeppelin I, Drift I and an NaI detector.
All three are looking for WIMPS - weakly interacting objects - heavy particles that provide extra gravitation to the universe but are hard to see. But there are differences between them. The NaI experiments main job is to rule out completely (or confirm) a possible discovery of WIMPs made at another such lab - Gran Sasso in Italy. The signal seen there is very strange and indiciates masses of particles we don't expect so I think most people expect it to have a problem with that experiment.
Drift I and Zeppelin I are both really R&D devices built to test technology to be used in bigger experiments (Drift II and Zeppelin II) that are being built now. Zeppelin is a conventional dark matter detector and can search for a bigger range of pssibe masses than Drift but Drift is the first WIMP "Telescope", if it sees anything it can tell which direction the WIMP came from which makes it easier to rule out background noise but will also tell us interesting things - is the dark matter in a disc like our visible galaxy or a sphere like some simulation predict it is.
The mine itself is very cool - deepest in Europe and they mine Potash and rock salt but the tunnels are rock salt so that you they feel soft to the touch, the tuneels are much bigger than I was expecting too! They drive vans around down there that have been lowered down the mine shaft nose first!
Mozilla's current suite is SeaMonkey. If there was another OSS project called SeaMonkey, there would be no confusion as outside the Mozilla development community, you never hear the word Seamonkey in relation to Mozilla.
Once the suite is split, it'll still be referred to as Mozilla and Mozilla Mail by Joe Bloggs.
But even if you disagree and think there would have been confusion about the name "SeaMonkey", it'll be free now so I'm sure we'll get tons of projects flocking to such a cool name...
I think that the proof of the Poincare Conjecture. Will get the first Millenium Prize (by a few days!) if it is correct (talked about here but hey if this gets the second then blimey! Two already!?! Could be a good decade for mathematics!
I don't think current physicists consider their work a homage to Einstein or would "pass it off" as that. That was just the interpretation of the article, most professional physicists would justify their work as a desire to understand the inner workings of the world around us.
Really, this is just PR for L.Q.G, not that I'm knocking that - string theory attempts to solve similar problems (quantum gravity) and although it is in a much more advanced state of understanding (hundreds if not thousands of physicists have been working on it for 20 odd years) it is still completely hypothetical without a shred of experimental evidence and yet, if you listen to the popular science guys, that's quite often put in the small print - giving the impression that string theory is accepted fact. Giving some popular airtime to some of it's (admittedly few) rivals can only be a good thing.
While this are beautiful experiments, the story doesn't make clear that this list is originally from Physics World and is only a list of physics experiments, taking "physics experiments" in it's most narrow form, it doesn't include astronomy observations (which admittedly is different to an experiment) like Hubble's recession of galaxies with lead to the Big Bang, of Penzias and Wilson's discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation which (admittedly accidently) confirmed it. If it was really "Science's" most beautiful experiments it misses out many experiments e.g. Crick & Watson's DNA Discovery.
This doesn't detract from it as a list of *physics* experiments though, although lots of people have suggested others to add (no modern particles physics experiments? discovery of quarks or W/Z bosons etc.?) I wouldn't personally advocate taking any of those off the list to make way for the other that I or anyone else has suggested so it's a great list as far as I'm concerned!
Well, Einstein claims he didn't actually know about the Michaelson-Morley experiment when he formulated S.R. so if he told the truth, then the experiment isn't that influential.
At the Cavendish Lab, where they discovered the electron, there used to be a toast: "To the electron, may it never be of use to anybody!". The applications (electronics in the case of the electron) only come later, once the theory is well understood.
The data is sent to universities and research centers for analysis by large computers and physicists not your average dial-up user. They can't write out this much data fast enough which is why they have a sequence of increasingly complicated systems called "triggers" to decide what to write out. This data is then analysised partially locally and partially remoted via the grid.
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People in the UK (and presumably the rest of the EU) have always had to pay VAT on things they have physicially imported. Why should the internet be any different. VAT is an important component in the EU model of taxation and closing this loop hole can only be good for our public services like schools and hospitals. People always moan about taxes, it can't be that complicated to implement.
I think Minotaur is a dead name. It's codname is now Thunderbird and once the app-suite is dead it'll get referred to as just Mozilla Mail
I'm feeling smug at the moment as I went to the official opening of the latest stage of this project last Monday and actually got to go down the mine!
There are a few experiments down there, the main three are Zeppelin I, Drift I and an NaI detector.
All three are looking for WIMPS - weakly interacting objects - heavy particles that provide extra gravitation to the universe but are hard to see. But there are differences between them. The NaI experiments main job is to rule out completely (or confirm) a possible discovery of WIMPs made at another such lab - Gran Sasso in Italy. The signal seen there is very strange and indiciates masses of particles we don't expect so I think most people expect it to have a problem with that experiment.
Drift I and Zeppelin I are both really R&D devices built to test technology to be used in bigger experiments (Drift II and Zeppelin II) that are being built now. Zeppelin is a conventional dark matter detector and can search for a bigger range of pssibe masses than Drift but Drift is the first WIMP "Telescope", if it sees anything it can tell which direction the WIMP came from which makes it easier to rule out background noise but will also tell us interesting things - is the dark matter in a disc like our visible galaxy or a sphere like some simulation predict it is.
The mine itself is very cool - deepest in Europe and they mine Potash and rock salt but the tunnels are rock salt so that you they feel soft to the touch, the tuneels are much bigger than I was expecting too! They drive vans around down there that have been lowered down the mine shaft nose first!
Mozilla's current suite is SeaMonkey. If there was another OSS project called SeaMonkey, there would be no confusion as outside the Mozilla development community, you never hear the word Seamonkey in relation to Mozilla.
Once the suite is split, it'll still be referred to as Mozilla and Mozilla Mail by Joe Bloggs.
But even if you disagree and think there would have been confusion about the name "SeaMonkey", it'll be free now so I'm sure we'll get tons of projects flocking to such a cool name...
I think that the proof of the Poincare Conjecture. Will get the first Millenium Prize (by a few days!) if it is correct (talked about here but hey if this gets the second then blimey! Two already!?! Could be a good decade for mathematics!
Maybe you should make yourself more conspicious by wearing t-shirt and jeans so we will *definately* be able to find you ;)
I don't think current physicists consider their work a homage to Einstein or would "pass it off" as that. That was just the interpretation of the article, most professional physicists would justify their work as a desire to understand the inner workings of the world around us.
Really, this is just PR for L.Q.G, not that I'm knocking that - string theory attempts to solve similar problems (quantum gravity) and although it is in a much more advanced state of understanding (hundreds if not thousands of physicists have been working on it for 20 odd years) it is still completely hypothetical without a shred of experimental evidence and yet, if you listen to the popular science guys, that's quite often put in the small print - giving the impression that string theory is accepted fact. Giving some popular airtime to some of it's (admittedly few) rivals can only be a good thing.
While this are beautiful experiments, the story doesn't make clear that this list is originally from Physics World and is only a list of physics experiments, taking "physics experiments" in it's most narrow form, it doesn't include astronomy observations (which admittedly is different to an experiment) like Hubble's recession of galaxies with lead to the Big Bang, of Penzias and Wilson's discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation which (admittedly accidently) confirmed it. If it was really "Science's" most beautiful experiments it misses out many experiments e.g. Crick & Watson's DNA Discovery. This doesn't detract from it as a list of *physics* experiments though, although lots of people have suggested others to add (no modern particles physics experiments? discovery of quarks or W/Z bosons etc.?) I wouldn't personally advocate taking any of those off the list to make way for the other that I or anyone else has suggested so it's a great list as far as I'm concerned!
Well, Einstein claims he didn't actually know about the Michaelson-Morley experiment when he formulated S.R. so if he told the truth, then the experiment isn't that influential.
At the Cavendish Lab, where they discovered the electron, there used to be a toast: "To the electron, may it never be of use to anybody!". The applications (electronics in the case of the electron) only come later, once the theory is well understood.
The data is sent to universities and research centers for analysis by large computers and physicists not your average dial-up user. They can't write out this much data fast enough which is why they have a sequence of increasingly complicated systems called "triggers" to decide what to write out. This data is then analysised partially locally and partially remoted via the grid.