It's called the ignition point. The point where the energy comming out of the reaction exceeds the energy needed to sustain it. For power generation, you have a net power output, which is energy harnessed to eletricity (still quite low, the best fission reactors work at about 30%) minus the support costs, things like pumps, facility power, monitoring equipment, all the stuff that runs it and keeps everything healthy. As far as reaching the ignition point, I think it was either the JET reactor or ITFR reactor that briefly had a self sustaing reaction. Tomak reactors can be fun, but produce an incredible amount of materials stress, and would draw tremendous amounts of power from an existing electrical grid to get going. (which means that if a fusion plant were to go off-line for some reason, even a minor repair to a containment wall or something, you'd have to wait till around 1 am or so to start the plant back up, when there is much draw on the grid)
Actually, not many people are aware ICF (inertia confinement fusion) even exists, much less that they're building a reactor right now, which is more than can be said for ITER. Basicly, you take a frozen pelet of hydrogen 2 and 3 (i'm not even going to try and spell them). put it in a chamber, then give a huge burst of laser power from all sides (solving the symmetry problem). Similar to what these other scientists are doing right now, except this concept has been around for many more years, and a test power generating facility is being constructed right now at los alamos. Very cool. While the ITER concept many sound cool to a reporter (ten story facility that generates super hot plasma dougnuts), its grossly inefficent, is still questionable if it will ever work, and has too much internation diplomatic squalbiling for it to get anywhere usefull. (strange beaurcratic rules like: a meeting of the four contries involved must have an equal number or representatives from each country, AND the total number must be a power of two: 4, or 8, or 16...).
except cold fusion is a joke. It never happened, a scam. Some scientists claimed to have done it in a mayonase jar, unshielded, at extreemly low temperatures (this is fusion here, extreemly low == room temp). Yet they refused to publish any results, or how they did it. That and there were huge inconsistancies in their claims, like the one that if they had actually produced the energy they claimed to have done, the radiation would have killed everyone in the room.
Interesting concept, but i have reservations about the idea of continuing the promotion a disposeable mentality. Of course, if they have anywhere near the popularity of disposeable cameras (remember those silly things, why would someone buy a camera to throw away?) she'll make a lot of money.
From what I understand, the message m is encrypted with a disk-specific encyption key, so the data on the disk is E(m). there are 400 40 bit D(), such that D(E(m)) = m. However, D() is encypted again 400 times, one for each vendor, for v(D()). Each player then applies a Vd, so that Vd(v(D())) = D(), and Vd(v(D(E(m)))) = m. each player is supposed to encrypt Vd() to a e(Vd()) to prevent reverse-engeneering, at which somepoint a 3rd decryption key is applied, and Vd2(e(Vd())) = Vd(). So when you hit 'play' the overall result is V2d(e(Vd(v(D(E(m)))))) = m, and you see the movie. Where Xing screwed up is they skipped the last step, for whatever reason, and left Vd() unaltered in the software, so that Xing plays it as Vd(v(D(E(m)))) = m. and from understanding how that one key worked, they were able to guess 120 or so other Vd()'s and the whole damn thing comes falling down. Sucks being Real Networks right about now, as most everyone in the DVD bussiness is about ready to kill them.
IMHO the woman dn the casino are both complete losers. Online (and RL) gambling companies are just sleazy, quasi-legal companies that intentionally try to addict people to a behavior that severly damages them financially. The woman is an idiot for runing up so much debt and then using a loophole to not accept responsibility for her actions. If I were VISA, I'd just say "to hell with both of you" and make it part of the card contract that one may not use their card for gambling of any kind, and cancel all merchant accounts with these OL casino companies. Would solve both problems in one swoop.
Reading all the commentary about Linux, everybody seems to be asking the same general question:
Can Linux really be successful if everything's free? How do you have a profitable bussiness model when you give your product away?
I would just like to ask this:
When did the measure of success become how much money one can squeeze out of something?!?! Wasn't Linux supposed to be different? What happened to the idea of doing something just to do something new and cool, and if you happened to get rich off it, thats great. Not the other way around. I hate to say it, but RH sold its soul starting at $14/share.
The question we should be asking is, "Who let these damn greedy bussiness suits in?"
I don't know how many people read the acticle in TIME several weeks ago, entitled "Silicon Valley: The Second Wave" but it really showed what the valley has become. No long a place where innovation drives people, but instead greed. Where the philospohy is "If you happaned to innovate while making money, that's great, a gold star for you."
This shows just how scared record companies are of the possibility of MP3. The whole idea of them losing fortunes through Internet piracy is complete nonsense. Go to just about any pirate MP3 site and you'll find low bandwidth, limited selection, broken links, and ratio servers. With these conditions it's impossible for the pirates to move anywhere near the amount of music as the major record stores. A legitimate artist, however, can easily set up a high band-width web site to distribute MP3 files and sell CD's, cutting out the record company completely. By using this contract clause, Sony can prevent that possibility from ever occurring. Giving them complete control over the electronic medium of the artist, even if things fall out later on (i.e. the artist get angry, and decides to go independent). Expect other record companies to follow suit now that the precedent has been set.
Katz got close, but still missed what really caused BWP to take off. It's not the internet that did it, nor the word-of-mouth, or youth culture, it's that the movie was captivating because it was completly different from any other movie. The Internet and BWP both owe their poularity to a common concept. They are more real. Our culture has become saturated with this glossed over, polished, stories of life. Take almost any show on TV today, and see how many people connect with it. Nobody has a life like that of "Friends" or "ER". The Internet changed that because it was created by real people, like 10,000 channels all broadcast from their respective basements. The worst part is that all these media companies, Yahoo!, msnbc, cnn, real networks, are jumping on the internet and creating content just like TV, just with more interaction and in digital form. The original grassroots are still there, but are oversahdowed, or clinging to places like geocities, where everytime you load a page, ad banners are shoved down your throght. Anyway, moving on to my original point, BWP was succefull because of the same reasons. It wasn't polished over with special effects, slick cineamatography, or celebrity actors. It was just some people with a camecorder trying to make a scary movie. It became a breath of fresh air in a movie industry that was sufficating it's audiences. It made the terror seem real because it felt real.
Sadly, Katz falls into the same trap he criticizes film makers of. Just as new movies will have astro-turf ad campaigns on-line and try to imitate BWP, Katz has found that saying "kids and/or geeks are the future rulers of the world" has got him a good respone one or two times. Reminds me of the scene in Julis Ceasar when the peasant folk agreed with whoever had spoken last.
The Hellmouth series was good, the movie essays had a good point, amongts the periods of rants about sneaking kids into theatres en mass (What the hell was that, btw??). This, I can't even seem to find what his point was.
Well that's what the lawsuit is about: Printing magazine ads screaming "56K!!! X2!!!!" and then putting "You'll only get 53K if you live next door to the phone company and you re-wire the entire phone lines in your house" on small print at the bottom of the box doesn't cut it as responsible advertising.
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It's called the ignition point. The point where the energy comming out of the reaction exceeds the energy needed to sustain it. For power generation, you have a net power output, which is energy harnessed to eletricity (still quite low, the best fission reactors work at about 30%) minus the support costs, things like pumps, facility power, monitoring equipment, all the stuff that runs it and keeps everything healthy. As far as reaching the ignition point, I think it was either the JET reactor or ITFR reactor that briefly had a self sustaing reaction. Tomak reactors can be fun, but produce an incredible amount of materials stress, and would draw tremendous amounts of power from an existing electrical grid to get going. (which means that if a fusion plant were to go off-line for some reason, even a minor repair to a containment wall or something, you'd have to wait till around 1 am or so to start the plant back up, when there is much draw on the grid)
Actually, not many people are aware ICF (inertia confinement fusion) even exists, much less that they're building a reactor right now, which is more than can be said for ITER. Basicly, you take a frozen pelet of hydrogen 2 and 3 (i'm not even going to try and spell them). put it in a chamber, then give a huge burst of laser power from all sides (solving the symmetry problem). Similar to what these other scientists are doing right now, except this concept has been around for many more years, and a test power generating facility is being constructed right now at los alamos. Very cool. While the ITER concept many sound cool to a reporter (ten story facility that generates super hot plasma dougnuts), its grossly inefficent, is still questionable if it will ever work, and has too much internation diplomatic squalbiling for it to get anywhere usefull. (strange beaurcratic rules like: a meeting of the four contries involved must have an equal number or representatives from each country, AND the total number must be a power of two: 4, or 8, or 16...).
except cold fusion is a joke. It never happened, a scam. Some scientists claimed to have done it in a mayonase jar, unshielded, at extreemly low temperatures (this is fusion here, extreemly low == room temp). Yet they refused to publish any results, or how they did it. That and there were huge inconsistancies in their claims, like the one that if they had actually produced the energy they claimed to have done, the radiation would have killed everyone in the room.
umm... let me think...
no, still don't get it.
return 0;
//BLiP
they may be communists.. yet the chinese spy chick from Tomorrow Never Dies was really hot!
;-D
return 0;
//BLiP
Interesting concept, but i have reservations about the idea of continuing the promotion a disposeable mentality. Of course, if they have anywhere near the popularity of disposeable cameras (remember those silly things, why would someone buy a camera to throw away?) she'll make a lot of money.
also, view the full patent text here
return 0;
//(BLiP)
At least they stopped poking fun at the "News for Nerds" tagline. I don't remember seeing a mention of it anywhere...
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Not that I don't like the tag line, its just really pathetic that that's what the "mainstream" media harps on when writing about
From what I understand, the message m is encrypted with a disk-specific encyption key, so the data on the disk is E(m). there are 400 40 bit D(), such that D(E(m)) = m. However, D() is encypted again 400 times, one for each vendor, for v(D()). Each player then applies a Vd, so that Vd(v(D())) = D(), and Vd(v(D(E(m)))) = m. each player is supposed to encrypt Vd() to a e(Vd()) to prevent reverse-engeneering, at which somepoint a 3rd decryption key is applied, and Vd2(e(Vd())) = Vd(). So when you hit 'play' the overall result is V2d(e(Vd(v(D(E(m)))))) = m, and you see the movie. Where Xing screwed up is they skipped the last step, for whatever reason, and left Vd() unaltered in the software, so that Xing plays it as Vd(v(D(E(m)))) = m. and from understanding how that one key worked, they were able to guess 120 or so other Vd()'s and the whole damn thing comes falling down. Sucks being Real Networks right about now, as most everyone in the DVD bussiness is about ready to kill them.
IMHO the woman dn the casino are both complete losers. Online (and RL) gambling companies are just sleazy, quasi-legal companies that intentionally try to addict people to a behavior that severly damages them financially. The woman is an idiot for runing up so much debt and then using a loophole to not accept responsibility for her actions. If I were VISA, I'd just say "to hell with both of you" and make it part of the card contract that one may not use their card for gambling of any kind, and cancel all merchant accounts with these OL casino companies. Would solve both problems in one swoop.
Reading all the commentary about Linux, everybody seems to be asking the same general question:
Can Linux really be successful if everything's free? How do you have a profitable bussiness model when you give your product away?
I would just like to ask this:
When did the measure of success become how much money one can squeeze out of something?!?! Wasn't Linux supposed to be different? What happened to the idea of doing something just to do something new and cool, and if you happened to get rich off it, thats great. Not the other way around. I hate to say it, but RH sold its soul starting at $14/share.
The question we should be asking is, "Who let these damn greedy bussiness suits in?"
I don't know how many people read the acticle in TIME several weeks ago, entitled "Silicon Valley: The Second Wave" but it really showed what the valley has become. No long a place where innovation drives people, but instead greed. Where the philospohy is "If you happaned to innovate while making money, that's great, a gold star for you."
I think Netscapes "Talkback" is a step in the right direction, They may not be taking libility for the crash, but at least NS pretends to care
Unless, Talkback always crashes too. Suddenly I don't feel so warm and fuzzy then.
If thats not a misnomer, I don't know what is.
Makes me thinnk of scenarios from saturday morning cartoons where some wacky character labels a giant time bomb "not a bomb".
This shows just how scared record companies are of the possibility of MP3. The whole idea of them losing fortunes through Internet piracy is complete nonsense. Go to just about any pirate MP3 site and you'll find low bandwidth, limited selection, broken links, and ratio servers. With these conditions it's impossible for the pirates to move anywhere near the amount of music as the major record stores.
A legitimate artist, however, can easily set up a high band-width web site to distribute MP3 files and sell CD's, cutting out the record company completely. By using this contract clause, Sony can prevent that possibility from ever occurring. Giving them complete control over the electronic medium of the artist, even if things fall out later on (i.e. the artist get angry, and decides to go independent). Expect other record companies to follow suit now that the precedent has been set.
Oh, i've seen the win95 GPF dialogs at my local airport.
The only thing stupider than running flight information on NT, is running it on windows 9x.
Well it would help get rid of annoying AOLosers, most of whom probably shouldn't use a computer in the first place.
*whine* uh!... numbers are HARD to remember...
=)
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>But Linux doesn't support plug and play so it'll only work in Windows.
I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY hope you were being sarcastic there...
Katz got close, but still missed what really caused BWP to take off. It's not the internet that did it, nor the word-of-mouth, or youth culture, it's that the movie was captivating because it was completly different from any other movie. The Internet and BWP both owe their poularity to a common concept. They are more real. Our culture has become saturated with this glossed over, polished, stories of life. Take almost any show on TV today, and see how many people connect with it. Nobody has a life like that of "Friends" or "ER". The Internet changed that because it was created by real people, like 10,000 channels all broadcast from their respective basements. The worst part is that all these media companies, Yahoo!, msnbc, cnn, real networks, are jumping on the internet and creating content just like TV, just with more interaction and in digital form. The original grassroots are still there, but are oversahdowed, or clinging to places like geocities, where everytime you load a page, ad banners are shoved down your throght.
Anyway, moving on to my original point, BWP was succefull because of the same reasons. It wasn't polished over with special effects, slick cineamatography, or celebrity actors. It was just some people with a camecorder trying to make a scary movie. It became a breath of fresh air in a movie industry that was sufficating it's audiences. It made the terror seem real because it felt real.
Sadly, Katz falls into the same trap he criticizes film makers of. Just as new movies will have astro-turf ad campaigns on-line and try to imitate BWP, Katz has found that saying "kids and/or geeks are the future rulers of the world" has got him a good respone one or two times. Reminds me of the scene in Julis Ceasar when the peasant folk agreed with whoever had spoken last.
The Hellmouth series was good, the movie essays had a good point, amongts the periods of rants about sneaking kids into theatres en mass (What the hell was that, btw??). This, I can't even seem to find what his point was.
Well that's what the lawsuit is about: Printing magazine ads screaming "56K!!! X2!!!!" and then putting "You'll only get 53K if you live next door to the phone company and you re-wire the entire phone lines in your house" on small print at the bottom of the box doesn't cut it as responsible advertising.
So, for all our budding geniuses out there.. want to make a billion dollars?
Invent a bandwidth break through thats as cheap and accessable as a modem, but fast as a cable.
*sigh*... maybe one day...
Maybe they're Sith lords then. Always there are two, a master, and an apprentice.
There can only be two, because once one becomes as powerfull as the other, it will destroy the master.
IBM was the master, and Microsoft the apprentice. Once Microsoft became powerful enough to destroy IBM, it did so, to have all the power for itself.
he he... Darth Maulcrosoft.
AAAAAHHH!!
It's RoTJ, not ESB.
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I agree.
;)(But thats what makes star wars so great, those little quarks).
However, Lucas' hair fetish is borderline phsycotic this time.
Although, in fairness to Fisher, some on the stlye might be lost in the 20+ years.