Well, that's just to confirm the article itself was just misleading talking about bombs, since what really matter's was to provide aircrafts with a very, very, very long lasting energy source to increase uptime. Also, given the fact petroleum energy must, on day, be replaced and fuel-batteries may not do the job to keep a jet in the air, it makes sense that AF was looking for an alternate energy container that can be filled with something produced by electricity which in turn may be produced by anything else...
Smith's storage effort is the "world's first attempt to store large quantities of positronium atoms in a laboratory experiment," Edwards noted in his March speech. "If successful, this approach will open the door to storing militarily significant quantities of positronium atoms."
Santa Fe Herald, September 28 2005
Yesterday morning, the Positronics Research LLC labs disappeared in a big flash. FBI is still investigating on the cause, but it seems Ossama bin Laden's organization, Al-Qaeda, is under the spots...
Of course, there is a limit and it's well known by scientits project leaders. Even if the price tag appears to be high, keep in mind research budgets still represent a fraction of the yearly expenditures of each participating country.
And CERN is in its turn a fraction of these budgets. Of course, it's larger than my personnal budget, but at the scale of countries budgets, it's a small fraction.
The day the humans will stop to be interested by the surrounding world they will commit a collective suicide. Imagination leads the world!
to make it a contest to fill up this space. Just think about the huge bandwidth wasted by all these customers trying to win 1TB to fill up with garbage, junk and spam mail.
leting people thinking I actually exist while I would not. Then, looking at them waiting indefinitely for miracles, trying to forgive for not doing anything to save them, looking at them spending 10% of their salairies on pointless preachers, etc.
I would definitely more real than the real stuff...
Well, thanks for these explainations. I was wondering if there was publicized trials on these issues that clarified some gray zones.
Well, when I mean contractor, sub-contractor, I am talking about the employee. For example, as a contractor, I am also an employee. Who is liable? The company or the employee? And since the law restrict the rights of the company, what will happen in such a case? I guess the rights in a contract should also be restricted, since it will be a little bit insane to render a company liable for something his/her employee is not to it. But, who knows, sometimes the law is insane until changed.
I was not talking about the US contract, my fault I should have specified it in the first place it was a contract signed in Canada.
So, that's nice to hear somewhere else there is better laws to protect employees than here. I was a little bit mixed up by your comment since you were talking about IP laws.
So, what would happen in a case where the employee will got an idea for a super-gizmo because he was working at IBM (or any other company) and decided to develop the super-gizmo on his spare time, but wasn't he an employee at this company he never ever had the idea? And what if it's not an employee, but an employee of a sub-contractor?
I am asking because these are real-life situations were I actually saw and in some cases signed contracts to cover these situations. Would the contract clauses be invalidated by a competent court?
No matter which country he is from, we are just talking about the contract he signed with IBM the day he was hired. Since I worked for IBM in the past, I think I can told you this contract is much restrictive in this specific field and I was told (ok, ok, being told is not really authoritative) the contracts are now even more restrictive. We I was hired a long time ago by IBM, there were so much less opportunities to write code and think about IT business off-hours, in fact, it was just expensive to enter the business wrt of today.
Bottom line, I would not be surprised at all his work is actually owned by IBM.
Well, the title is not misleading at all. You are required to flip a single electron spin to flip the whole atom magnetic field orientation. So, they actually mesured the energy required to flip a single electon. Of course, they don't know which one...
Most OSS coders are also, in the civilian, commercial coders. Some OSS coders are actually doing it for living, turning them into commercial coders. Nobody wish to produce buggy code. Buggy code happens.
Like the Sergio Leone's movie: The Good, the bad and the ugly. The good is not completely good, the bad is not so bad and the ugly is not always ugly.
If you dare, I will remind you the Royal Bank of Canada bug few months ago (in June) that cost them many million dollars (no jokes please because that was CDN $) for not having tested enough their software before doing a migration an turning it into production.
So, IBM is surely not alone on this side of the fence. In fact, I wonder how many are not on this side.
Also, don't assume upper-level management knew the details about the project and the bugs. And even if they were awared, they may already have told management there is no date slip possible at any price. This kind of things also happen often. I worked for IBM, I left IBM and I am still doing some contractual work for IBM. And I don't think IBM is worst than most other companies, big or small.
I am using the PVR-350 TV-Out to output to the TV. I am not using the integrated graphics adapter on my board (it is not having TV-Out) and don't have a display connected to it.
However, at boot time, I cannot get the messages, but that's really useful when doing your setup, after that, ssh to the box is all I need. I can also plug temporarily a VGA monitor or even a serial console to my Zaurus if really needed. I never ever had to do that to date.
The only real problem I see with my setup is on the game side. The PVR-350 is not doing it right for the game, but seems a hack is under development to ease a little bit this part.
Just to make things clear, the PVR-350 is almost the same as the PVR-250, except it is having a decoder used for its TV-Out and it is having as well a FM radio tuner. The TV and FM tuner cannot be used simultaneously.
However, you will have to add to the cost the spinach. Someone will have to grow and harvest it. On a large scale the price of spinach may sky-rocket and due to the life time of it, the price advantage may not be so evident. And, how will you replace these spinach in your device, how much time it will take or how much it will cost to have a contractor to do the spinach devices maintenance?
The cells also convert only about 12% of the absorbed light energy into electricity. Still, the researchers believe that it should be possible to reach 20% efficiency, which is better than typical values for commercial silicon solar cells.
I hope is true, unless this device surpass the silicon solar-cells, I don't see much interest for it.
Why should we monopolize valuable fields to grow spinach for these devices while we can use deserts to install silicon solar panels and carry the electricity where it is needed, included rechargeable battery packs?
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Oh! And I forgot to say number 6 is also false, don't leave your pet robot paid a few thousands boxes anywhere you wish and unlocked in your house if you don't want it to be stolen. So, rent a safe at the bank for it while on vacations.
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4 and 5 are completely false statements. A robot consumes electricity, so its battery need to be recharged. Statement 5 assumes your robot will never ever break. If a dishwasher can break, I think it's highly presomputous to said a robot will not. And the repair bill is likely to be big.
But, anyway, let us assume they are all true. Why would you like to have a pet robot? Because, it seems obvious if you just don't want to dress and care your pet cat or dog, you just don't need a pet cat, dog or robot.
Well, I don't really see why you can apply this logic in one direction and not in the other. For example, you are saying the America's market is becoming less free because interacting with closed markets like China, Mexico and India.
On another hand, if I was chinese, I could say: The Chinese, Mexican and Indian markets are becoming more open and free because interacting with the Western open markets.
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Well, that's just to confirm the article itself was just misleading talking about bombs, since what really matter's was to provide aircrafts with a very, very, very long lasting energy source to increase uptime. Also, given the fact petroleum energy must, on day, be replaced and fuel-batteries may not do the job to keep a jet in the air, it makes sense that AF was looking for an alternate energy container that can be filled with something produced by electricity which in turn may be produced by anything else...
And the money will go in the Gates Fundation charity fund...
CERN is a perfectly valid acronym since 1954, when the steering committee decided to keep this handy acronym to designate the research center.
And CERN is in its turn a fraction of these budgets. Of course, it's larger than my personnal budget, but at the scale of countries budgets, it's a small fraction.
The day the humans will stop to be interested by the surrounding world they will commit a collective suicide. Imagination leads the world!
Get us a smoke and pass along...
*** NIB * BlueGene prototype ***
I would definitely more real than the real stuff...
But, I agree we are not yet there, but not too far either.
Well, when I mean contractor, sub-contractor, I am talking about the employee. For example, as a contractor, I am also an employee. Who is liable? The company or the employee? And since the law restrict the rights of the company, what will happen in such a case? I guess the rights in a contract should also be restricted, since it will be a little bit insane to render a company liable for something his/her employee is not to it. But, who knows, sometimes the law is insane until changed.
So, that's nice to hear somewhere else there is better laws to protect employees than here. I was a little bit mixed up by your comment since you were talking about IP laws.
So, what would happen in a case where the employee will got an idea for a super-gizmo because he was working at IBM (or any other company) and decided to develop the super-gizmo on his spare time, but wasn't he an employee at this company he never ever had the idea? And what if it's not an employee, but an employee of a sub-contractor?
I am asking because these are real-life situations were I actually saw and in some cases signed contracts to cover these situations. Would the contract clauses be invalidated by a competent court?
Bottom line, I would not be surprised at all his work is actually owned by IBM.
Who cares to carry the phone and a cable when he already carry a laptop...
Like the Sergio Leone's movie: The Good, the bad and the ugly. The good is not completely good, the bad is not so bad and the ugly is not always ugly.
So, IBM is surely not alone on this side of the fence. In fact, I wonder how many are not on this side.
Also, don't assume upper-level management knew the details about the project and the bugs. And even if they were awared, they may already have told management there is no date slip possible at any price. This kind of things also happen often. I worked for IBM, I left IBM and I am still doing some contractual work for IBM. And I don't think IBM is worst than most other companies, big or small.
However, at boot time, I cannot get the messages, but that's really useful when doing your setup, after that, ssh to the box is all I need. I can also plug temporarily a VGA monitor or even a serial console to my Zaurus if really needed. I never ever had to do that to date.
The only real problem I see with my setup is on the game side. The PVR-350 is not doing it right for the game, but seems a hack is under development to ease a little bit this part.
Just to make things clear, the PVR-350 is almost the same as the PVR-250, except it is having a decoder used for its TV-Out and it is having as well a FM radio tuner. The TV and FM tuner cannot be used simultaneously.
I hope is true, unless this device surpass the silicon solar-cells, I don't see much interest for it.
Why should we monopolize valuable fields to grow spinach for these devices while we can use deserts to install silicon solar panels and carry the electricity where it is needed, included rechargeable battery packs?
But, anyway, let us assume they are all true. Why would you like to have a pet robot? Because, it seems obvious if you just don't want to dress and care your pet cat or dog, you just don't need a pet cat, dog or robot.
On another hand, if I was chinese, I could say: The Chinese, Mexican and Indian markets are becoming more open and free because interacting with the Western open markets.