Yoshiaki Arata works for the Welding Research Institute of Osaka University. He is not a physicist, apparently.
Old story: He's been reporting this kind of thing since before October 13, 2006: A New Energy caused by "Spillover-Deuterium". Quote: "Intermittent operation over a period of two years using this structure proved the complete reproducibility of these results."
I hope no Slashdot reader invests in this. Would it be too much to ask Slashdot editor Scuttle Monkey to do a little research before he posts stories?
It's an old story, from February 2008. Quote: ' "The demonstrated live data looked just like data they reported in their published papers (J. High Temp. Soc. Jpn, Feb. and March issues, 2008)..." '
Quote: ' "Some people say we have reached the end of science, that there are no more great discoveries that remain. In my view, nature always has more secrets to reveal," Arata wrote.' My translation: "Please believe in this particular fantasy."
Apparently Slashdot editors don't do any research.
FRAUD? It has been known for more than 40 years, maybe much more, that putting Hydrogen or Deuterium into Platinum or Palladium causes some interesting effects. The metals absorb a huge amount of Hydrogen.
Apparently the only purpose for this that has ever been found, however, is confusing Slashdot editors.
There are a large number of people claiming to be "working" on cold fusion. No one has ever been able to demonstrate anything interesting.
However, there are also a lot of schemes to steal investor money. In my opinion, this is probably fraud, as others have been.
That is one of the few world problems that is already being solved.
Intel and AMD and others are working on the next generation of processors,
that use less power: Intel Says Chips Will Run Faster, Using Less Power. Intel is currently
delivering processors built on 45 nanometer rules. (At that size, there are
perhaps 1000 transistors in the width of a human hair.)
They are working on a 32 nanometer
process, which has already been demonstrated. The next after that is 22
nanometers and then 16 nanometers and 11 nanometers
as the Wikipedia articles say. The smaller conductor width rules use smaller
transistors which use less power.
At the same time, they will make processors with wider silicon wafers,
18 inches wide rather than the 12 inch wide wafers they
use now. The smaller devices and larger wafers mean that there will be many
more processors per wafer, making the costs go down.
What these companies are doing is VERY impressive.
The companies have not been as good at proposing new uses for the
greater processing power. Data centers need the greater processing power as
well as use of smaller amounts of energy, but where else is more processing
power needed? Will grandma's octo-core cell phone of the future not just
report the weather, but calculate it? Will games use full ray-tracing?
I suspect that the greater processing power is needed, but all the
needs haven't yet been discovered. To me, that's a very interesting problem.
"When people have no idea whatsoever what it is engineers do they have no way of assessing how much respect it deserves."
Good point. Fundamentally, though, I think that the worst abuse, and the abuse that loses the most money and causes the greatest business risk, is having technological companies run by managers who have no knowledge of, and little respect for, technology.
At the same time that technology is giving more than ever to humankind, respect from management for those who are knowledgeable about technology is lower than ever.
Part of the problem at Microsoft is that it is run by someone with little or no interest in technology, Steve Ballmer.
Releasing products that are unfinished because programmers have not had time to finish them seems to be normal top management policy at Microsoft. Microsoft Windows Vista is just the latest example. Microsoft employees say things like, "even a piece of junk will qualify". There's no joy in working at a place that doesn't allow you to do a good job.
It's not "magnetic stimulation". It's electrical stimulation. They are inducing a current in the brain, which not surprisingly interferes with the operation of the brain, since the brain partly operates with electrical currents.
In my opinion, there is more fraud. Here is a quote from the article: 'Prof Allan Snyder, at the University of Sydney believes TMS can act as "a creativity-amplifying machine".'
Roger Highfield, science editor of the Telegraph newspaper, should not let people experiment with his brain. Although he doesn't seem to be using it.
"Microsoft has the opposite problem, i.e. good technology that can convert traffic into advertising revenue, but it was much too late to the game, so it lacks a sufficiently large audience..."
What is the "good technology" from Microsoft?
I just used Microsoft's Live.com to search for "aardvark". Interesting: Google returns a link to Firefox's Aaadvark add-on as the second entry. But Microsoft's live.com never lists the Firefox extension in the first 10 pages.
Can Microsoft be trusted not to be adversarial to customer interests in its search results? Apparently the answer is a big NO. Just that one random search convinced me to never use live.com.
My wife tried to register big_trash as a user name for Yahoo email. But that name was already taken.
Why is it that I know a merger between Yahoo and Microsoft won't be successful, but Steve Ballmer doesn't? Microsoft has proven, over many years, that it does not know how to run a search engine. Yahoo has proven, over many years, that...
When a mediocre, adversarial company merges into an another mediocre, adversarial company, what will be the result? Cute puppies?
It has been reported that Yahoo employees are against the merger. Maybe that is because many of them will lose their jobs.
Yes, lowest user ID, but I'll bet you're sad you called yourself "Pestilence".
On topic: I notice that almost every ad I see contains something dishonest or adversarial.
TV ads are a good source of information for me. They tell me what not to buy. If it's on TV, it's over-priced or unnecessary, with few exceptions. Otherwise the advertiser would not be able to pay, or be willing to pay, the huge cost of TV ads.
"The link you gave discusses a symptom that applies to SP2 users, not users who ran SP2 fine then 'upgraded' to SP3 and crashes."
Read the article referenced in the Slashdot story. Also, the Microsoft KB article says:
"APPLIES TO
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3, when used with:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Home Edition".
The story referenced by the Slashdot story rings true to me. The kind of sloppiness in programming we see from Microsoft sometimes re-activates stopped system services.
Rewrite: "Over time, Microsoft Windows XP tends to mysteriously... decrease stability and performance (in every way imaginable".
I've experienced that, many times. Windows is unstable. The instability helps Microsoft sell new versions of its operating system.
Summary of the Slashdot article about Windows XP SP3 crashes:
Microsoft has known about one of the underlying problems for a long time. See KB888372. It would have been easy to prevent the crashes merely by having SP3 installation do the work mentioned in the KB888372 article. However, apparently because of work avoidance, or an attempt to discourage people from using Windows XP, Microsoft did not do the necessary work.
I wish that Slashdot editors would not post stories by Roland Piquepaille. He is a
paid publicity manager. He is paid to place stories. Do Slashdot editors get paid
when they post his stories? They have never said they don't, apparently.
He has apparently succeeded in getting this story in many publications.
This sentence is nonsense: "He's now going further, saying that he
wants to build objects 100,000 times smaller than the atomic nucleus."
Someone made a mistake somewhere. If there are things that small, they have
nothing to do with making isotopes. Neither Roland Piquepaille nor the
Slashdot editors have enough knowledge of science that they could see the
mistake.
There is apparently nothing particularly new about the apparatus
described in the Michigan State University press release.
Apparently the writer of the Michigan State University press release,
"Sue Nichols", didn't have the slightest understanding of the subject either, and didn't care, because
she said, "Isotopes are the different versions of an element." Maybe
she was in a hurry to go shopping. She could have looked on Google for a
definition of isotope: "Atoms of the same element that have the same
number of protons (same atomic number) but different numbers of neutrons
(different atomic masses)."
The problem is not that Microsoft is trying to introduce a new technology. The
problem is that Microsoft is extremely adversarial toward customers,
sometimes, in my opinion. For example, Microsoft will soon begin FORCING
people to install Silverlight if they want to download files from microsoft.com/downloads/.
At least the first 2 versions of Microsoft products usually have very
severe bugs. For example, Windows XP and Windows XP SP1, and Windows Vista and
Windows Vista SP1 were or are full of grief for administrators.
Customers don't want to be beta testers for Microsoft, any longer.
After Microsoft has forced a significant number of its less
knowledgeable users to install Silverlight, Microsoft salesmen will begin
talking about "significant market share", if the past is any guide.
"I think Flash has just gone too far down the wrong route, as
application development in it seems like a hack." My experience with
Macromedia is that it was always a sloppy company. Unforunately, Adobe
management seems to be malfunctioning recently.
I just went and got a diskette hand-labeled "Windows for Workgroups 3.11, #1". Windows 95 replaced WFW, so the diskette is 14 years old. It is completely readable. Need evidence? Quote from SETUP.TXT:
"AT&T(R) Safari Computer
------
If you have an AT&T Safari computer, you cannot maintain two versions of
Windows on your system. You must upgrade over your previous version of
Windows, if you have one. If you set up Windows for Workgroups version 3.11
in its own directory, it will not use the special drivers required to run on the
computer."
You said, "The plastic carrier has become brittle..." That kind of plastic is a hazard to the environment, because it doesn't break down.
"... the magnetic media has flaked off..." The substrate is Mylar. The glue is intensely adherent.
' "the bits on the media itself have "floated" ' Not so, I think I can install Windows for Workgroups again any time I like.
I ran chkdsk a:/v/r/f. It found 512 bytes in a bad sector in one file, and said it fixed the problem. All other files were perfect.
Maybe you shouldn't be annoyed with Twitter, in this case. His extremely negative evaluation was only as negative as that of the New York Times. Quote:
"If you like to download the latest episodes of "Heroes" or other NBC shows from BitTorrent, maybe you shouldn't buy a Microsoft Zune to watch them on. [my emphasis]
"A future update of the software for Microsoft's portable media player may well include a feature that will block unauthorized copies of copyrighted videos from being played on it."
Consider this: Someone bought a Zune, believing that he understood the features of the product. But later, Microsoft, in an "update", changes the way it works. That's nasty. It teaches customers that they can't trust Microsoft or a Microsoft product.
"A clunky form factor that's trying hard to match competition from three years ago."
Is the Zune the Vista of music players, or is Vista the Zune of operating systems?
Microsoft seems unable to do business sensibly. Maybe Gates and Ballmer are getting tired of working every day. What motivates a billionaire to keep producing mediocre results?
Slashdot Mirror
Apparently the blog story was stolen from New Energy Times: Arata-Zhang LENR Demonstration, May 22, 2008
Yoshiaki Arata works for the Welding Research Institute of Osaka University. He is not a physicist, apparently.
Old story: He's been reporting this kind of thing since before October 13, 2006: A New Energy caused by "Spillover-Deuterium". Quote: "Intermittent operation over a period of two years using this structure proved the complete reproducibility of these results."
I hope no Slashdot reader invests in this. Would it be too much to ask Slashdot editor Scuttle Monkey to do a little research before he posts stories?
This is not the first complaint about Scuttle Monkey: Who is Scuttle Monkey?
This is a much better report of the same story: Arata-Zhang LENR Demonstration.
It's an old story, from February 2008. Quote: ' "The demonstrated live data looked just like data they reported in their published papers (J. High Temp. Soc. Jpn, Feb. and March issues, 2008)..." '
Quote: ' "Some people say we have reached the end of science, that there are no more great discoveries that remain. In my view, nature always has more secrets to reveal," Arata wrote.' My translation: "Please believe in this particular fantasy."
Apparently Slashdot editors don't do any research.
FRAUD? It has been known for more than 40 years, maybe much more, that putting Hydrogen or Deuterium into Platinum or Palladium causes some interesting effects. The metals absorb a huge amount of Hydrogen.
Apparently the only purpose for this that has ever been found, however, is confusing Slashdot editors.
There are a large number of people claiming to be "working" on cold fusion. No one has ever been able to demonstrate anything interesting.
However, there are also a lot of schemes to steal investor money. In my opinion, this is probably fraud, as others have been.
"their thermal design was 60c"
That slowed my reading until I realized that it means "60 degrees Centigrade".
"... enormous energy consumption of data centers"
That is one of the few world problems that is already being solved. Intel and AMD and others are working on the next generation of processors, that use less power: Intel Says Chips Will Run Faster, Using Less Power. Intel is currently delivering processors built on 45 nanometer rules. (At that size, there are perhaps 1000 transistors in the width of a human hair.)
They are working on a 32 nanometer process, which has already been demonstrated. The next after that is 22 nanometers and then 16 nanometers and 11 nanometers as the Wikipedia articles say. The smaller conductor width rules use smaller transistors which use less power.
At the same time, they will make processors with wider silicon wafers, 18 inches wide rather than the 12 inch wide wafers they use now. The smaller devices and larger wafers mean that there will be many more processors per wafer, making the costs go down.
What these companies are doing is VERY impressive.
The companies have not been as good at proposing new uses for the greater processing power. Data centers need the greater processing power as well as use of smaller amounts of energy, but where else is more processing power needed? Will grandma's octo-core cell phone of the future not just report the weather, but calculate it? Will games use full ray-tracing?
I suspect that the greater processing power is needed, but all the needs haven't yet been discovered. To me, that's a very interesting problem.
"...because he wants to hack his own system..."
No, he doesn't need to worry about he himself hacking his own system. But he does need to worry about using bad coding habits.
It often happens that some code that someone threw together is being used 20 years later on a big system.
I very much appreciated the grandparent comment.
Yahoo.com: "... shrill, desperate, needy software company..."
And Yahoo is worth how many billions of dollars to Steve Ballmer?
I like this quote from the article, about Apple QuickTime: "... what is this, Make Microsoft Look Good day?"
"When people have no idea whatsoever what it is engineers do they have no way of assessing how much respect it deserves."
Good point. Fundamentally, though, I think that the worst abuse, and the abuse that loses the most money and causes the greatest business risk, is having technological companies run by managers who have no knowledge of, and little respect for, technology.
Exactly. MOD PARENT UP.
At the same time that technology is giving more than ever to humankind, respect from management for those who are knowledgeable about technology is lower than ever.
Part of the problem at Microsoft is that it is run by someone with little or no interest in technology, Steve Ballmer.
Releasing products that are unfinished because programmers have not had time to finish them seems to be normal top management policy at Microsoft. Microsoft Windows Vista is just the latest example. Microsoft employees say things like, "even a piece of junk will qualify". There's no joy in working at a place that doesn't allow you to do a good job.
"Where can I give money for this idea?"
Yes, you guessed it. It's fraud, in my opinion.
It's not "magnetic stimulation". It's electrical stimulation. They are inducing a current in the brain, which not surprisingly interferes with the operation of the brain, since the brain partly operates with electrical currents.
In my opinion, there is more fraud. Here is a quote from the article: 'Prof Allan Snyder, at the University of Sydney believes TMS can act as "a creativity-amplifying machine".'
Roger Highfield, science editor of the Telegraph newspaper, should not let people experiment with his brain. Although he doesn't seem to be using it.
I searched for the word "aardvark", and got valid hits, but when I wrote the comment, there was an extra "a".
Thanks. Yes, I misspelled aardvark.
"Microsoft has the opposite problem, i.e. good technology that can convert traffic into advertising revenue, but it was much too late to the game, so it lacks a sufficiently large audience..."
What is the "good technology" from Microsoft?
I just used Microsoft's Live.com to search for "aardvark". Interesting: Google returns a link to Firefox's Aaadvark add-on as the second entry. But Microsoft's live.com never lists the Firefox extension in the first 10 pages.
Can Microsoft be trusted not to be adversarial to customer interests in its search results? Apparently the answer is a big NO. Just that one random search convinced me to never use live.com.
My wife tried to register big_trash as a user name for Yahoo email. But that name was already taken.
Why is it that I know a merger between Yahoo and Microsoft won't be successful, but Steve Ballmer doesn't? Microsoft has proven, over many years, that it does not know how to run a search engine. Yahoo has proven, over many years, that...
When a mediocre, adversarial company merges into an another mediocre, adversarial company, what will be the result? Cute puppies?
It has been reported that Yahoo employees are against the merger. Maybe that is because many of them will lose their jobs.
Yes, lowest user ID, but I'll bet you're sad you called yourself "Pestilence".
On topic: I notice that almost every ad I see contains something dishonest or adversarial.
TV ads are a good source of information for me. They tell me what not to buy. If it's on TV, it's over-priced or unnecessary, with few exceptions. Otherwise the advertiser would not be able to pay, or be willing to pay, the huge cost of TV ads.
"The link you gave discusses a symptom that applies to SP2 users, not users who ran SP2 fine then 'upgraded' to SP3 and crashes."
Read the article referenced in the Slashdot story. Also, the Microsoft KB article says:
"APPLIES TO
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3, when used with:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Home Edition".
The story referenced by the Slashdot story rings true to me. The kind of sloppiness in programming we see from Microsoft sometimes re-activates stopped system services.
Rewrite: "Over time, Microsoft Windows XP tends to mysteriously ... decrease stability and performance (in every way imaginable".
I've experienced that, many times. Windows is unstable. The instability helps Microsoft sell new versions of its operating system.
Summary of the Slashdot article about Windows XP SP3 crashes:
Microsoft has known about one of the underlying problems for a long time. See KB888372. It would have been easy to prevent the crashes merely by having SP3 installation do the work mentioned in the KB888372 article. However, apparently because of work avoidance, or an attempt to discourage people from using Windows XP, Microsoft did not do the necessary work.
I wish that Slashdot editors would not post stories by Roland Piquepaille. He is a paid publicity manager. He is paid to place stories. Do Slashdot editors get paid when they post his stories? They have never said they don't, apparently.
He has apparently succeeded in getting this story in many publications.
This sentence is nonsense: "He's now going further, saying that he wants to build objects 100,000 times smaller than the atomic nucleus." Someone made a mistake somewhere. If there are things that small, they have nothing to do with making isotopes. Neither Roland Piquepaille nor the Slashdot editors have enough knowledge of science that they could see the mistake.
There is apparently nothing particularly new about the apparatus described in the Michigan State University press release.
Apparently the writer of the Michigan State University press release, "Sue Nichols", didn't have the slightest understanding of the subject either, and didn't care, because she said, "Isotopes are the different versions of an element." Maybe she was in a hurry to go shopping. She could have looked on Google for a definition of isotope: "Atoms of the same element that have the same number of protons (same atomic number) but different numbers of neutrons (different atomic masses)."
See this Flex development example.
My comments about Adobe's management were intended to apply to before Flex 3, which apparently fixes problems.
The problem is not that Microsoft is trying to introduce a new technology. The problem is that Microsoft is extremely adversarial toward customers, sometimes, in my opinion. For example, Microsoft will soon begin FORCING people to install Silverlight if they want to download files from microsoft.com/downloads/.
At least the first 2 versions of Microsoft products usually have very severe bugs. For example, Windows XP and Windows XP SP1, and Windows Vista and Windows Vista SP1 were or are full of grief for administrators.
Customers don't want to be beta testers for Microsoft, any longer.
After Microsoft has forced a significant number of its less knowledgeable users to install Silverlight, Microsoft salesmen will begin talking about "significant market share", if the past is any guide.
"I think Flash has just gone too far down the wrong route, as application development in it seems like a hack." My experience with Macromedia is that it was always a sloppy company. Unforunately, Adobe management seems to be malfunctioning recently.
I just went and got a diskette hand-labeled "Windows for Workgroups 3.11, #1". Windows 95 replaced WFW, so the diskette is 14 years old. It is completely readable. Need evidence? Quote from SETUP.TXT:
/v /r /f. It found 512 bytes in a bad sector in one file, and said it fixed the problem. All other files were perfect.
"AT&T(R) Safari Computer
------
If you have an AT&T Safari computer, you cannot maintain two versions of Windows on your system. You must upgrade over your previous version of Windows, if you have one. If you set up Windows for Workgroups version 3.11 in its own directory, it will not use the special drivers required to run on the computer."
You said, "The plastic carrier has become brittle..." That kind of plastic is a hazard to the environment, because it doesn't break down.
"... the magnetic media has flaked off..." The substrate is Mylar. The glue is intensely adherent.
' "the bits on the media itself have "floated" ' Not so, I think I can install Windows for Workgroups again any time I like.
I ran chkdsk a:
Maybe you shouldn't be annoyed with Twitter, in this case. His extremely negative evaluation was only as negative as that of the New York Times. Quote:
"If you like to download the latest episodes of "Heroes" or other NBC shows from BitTorrent, maybe you shouldn't buy a Microsoft Zune to watch them on. [my emphasis]
"A future update of the software for Microsoft's portable media player may well include a feature that will block unauthorized copies of copyrighted videos from being played on it."
Consider this: Someone bought a Zune, believing that he understood the features of the product. But later, Microsoft, in an "update", changes the way it works. That's nasty. It teaches customers that they can't trust Microsoft or a Microsoft product.
MOD PARENT UP.
"A clunky form factor that's trying hard to match competition from three years ago."
Is the Zune the Vista of music players, or is Vista the Zune of operating systems?
Microsoft seems unable to do business sensibly. Maybe Gates and Ballmer are getting tired of working every day. What motivates a billionaire to keep producing mediocre results?