This is an inflammatory puff piece. Obviously there will need to be exceptions to the analog->digital rule, especially in cases where the MPAA's IP rights are in no danger. But this is an emergency situation, they are perfectly justified in getting out a blanket law right away and then tweaking it to allow certain behaviors afterwards.
Believe it or not, we use Lego all the time down at the lab. They are great for building pretty sophistimacated models of nuclear structures with motors even providing realistic 3d movement. The fundamental sizes of the pieces and placement of holes and such are used to implement h, the planck unit of action.
Some of our more brainy "Legheads" as we call them spend several weeks building Lego models of various particles, then ram them together to get a first order approximation of what they'll find during a (much more expensive!) accelerator run.
Down at the lab we of course use Linux for all our servers and workstations. It provides the power we need at an affordable prices[1]. Obviously we could never be a cool futuristic lab while running on the CLI, so we shopped around for a GUI that would give us much-needed features like metal themes and the ability to add Star Trek wav files to desktop activities.
We found KDE and have never been happier since. And the stability rivals that of Tru64, AIX, VMS or any of the other "big iron" OS's.
[1]Well, the admins are a little pricey. But they earn every penny of it.
He suggests that we can expand our bandwidth capabilities by shifting up down the spectrum a little farther. Well no duh, Sherlock, we all know that. But it's going to cut into radio astronomy on one end and cause cancer on the other. So maybe we should rethink that little proposal.
Due to Slashdots brain-dead comment history I can't find the link, but I've said many times that nano-research is a pseudo-science akin to ESP and fusion research.
Why can't the alternative science community be more like the cheap-but-effective alternative medicine community. Simple tests prove time and time again that things like ginkgo-balboa are effective in treating heart disease.
RF devices suffer from a great deal of interference in the high-end band from sources such as sun spots, satellite traffic and meteor showers. Headphones, being small amplifiers, will only make this static louder. I suggest you buy a longer cord.
that our society has devolved to the point where science is conducted through the issuing of press-releases written by marketdroids. There are only about 10 accurate words in this entire article and I'm including "a", "an" and "the" in that count.
First of all, nano is e-9, not e-12 like says. Second, the tubes don't carry electric charge on the interiors like a straw. It is carried on the surface--the interior is a vacuum. And fourth, the tubes are nano in length as well, which kind of makes making a ribbon cable moot.
Maxwell's equations are only four lines as well but they describe everything from magnetic fields to orbiting planets. I'm not at all surprised that Wolfram has found a way to reimplement these little beauties in a CA (cellular automota). What's surprising to me is that
1) Anybody is surprised and
b) It took so long
I predict a short life for this project
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As a physicist, I know the importance of taking credit for my work. My livelihood depends on my continuing to make advances in the field of science and I can't do that if other people are building on the foundations I keep laying down. IP law has it's flaws, yes, but the basic structure is sound. It keeps people away from my work until I've done all I can with it--and that's good for everybody.
The reptile brain is far to unsophisticated to be able to handle counting, let alone trigonometry. Please, Slashdot, apply a little common sense before posting these ridiculous claims.
If Nature wants to deny publication based on irrelevant allegations then the PR people are perfectly within their rights to make use of that idiocy. I'd even go so far as to call it a duty to point out Nature's hypocricy in this regard.
No indication on what they hope to learn or even what technology they are advancing. Just...dropping a list of names on a rock. That's Slashdot Science stories for you.
With 3.0 gcc is finally poised to be the compiler of choice for all operating systems. Consider this feature set:
-Just In Time assembling (JITa)
-pipeline overflow caching
-memory protection beyond the 4 MB barrier
-interlaced object replacement with error redundancy cycles
-and much, much more
It's a great time to jump in and learn to program which is just what I intend to do.
In the world of scientific research, openness reigns supreme. At least that's how it appears and over the long-haul that's correct. However, in day to day work and while a discovery is being published, the researchers involved are very secretive and hesitant to reveal anything at all, least of all any software models they've created of the processes they are studying.
That's why we at the lab have had to reluctantly shy away from the GPL and instead use a Microsoft-style EULA that forbids anyone from disassembling, reverse-engineering, etc the software we submit for peer review because there's nothing we can do to stem the viral nature of the GPL from overtaking everything we've worked so hard for.
As I understand it, TiVO is some kind of electronic VCR, right? And AOL is a popular version of the Internet. So we've got people who are too lazy to leave their computers to tape the shows they are going veg out on the couch later? Pathetic.
Another great idea we'll never see
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Must be a slow news day. Sure, this would be a great idea (for "media content" providers, anyway). Trouble is if you actually read the paper[1] you'll find that the paint is highly toxic to humans. So nix the clothing and wall ideas right away. And I don't think OSHA will let any workers near the stuff to apply it anywhere else even if the EPA OK'd it for a billboard-type application.
Ho, hum, another totally useless invention.
[1] Why do so many of the self-professed "science geeks" around here rely on Slashdot for science news rather than reading what real scientists have to say directly in magazines like Nature and Science?
As a big-time Mac user I really loved this book and its explication of Mac users as a cutting edge minority. Here's the way I like to explain it to people: Everybody goes to a regular doctor. But hip people who really care about their bodies seek out alternative therapies of wellness like herbal remedies and additives. Macs are kinda like that--the less popular but low-cost alternative to the overpowering majority.
I have a lot of Excel spreadsheets[1] but upgrading the format every time M$ decides to release a new version is the pits. Every one of our users needs to spend about a week every 18 months tweaking spreadsheets. The existence of a standard, open format for this kind of data/calculation is a godsend.
[1]For high-accuracy nuclear bomb simulations, particle interactions, that sort of thing.
PGP is widely used in the physics community for disseminating "sensitive" material Whenever a physicist makes a discovery that could lead to a military application and can't be released to the general public, we have instructions to notify the CIA/DoD ASAP. Basically we take all our data and logbooks, digitize them all, zip them up, PGP them and then email them to XXXXXXXXXXXX[Editor's Note by CmdrTaco: I've been asked to hide this email address]
The loss could mean a huge increase in terrorism against loyal American citizens.
I've seen the specs for that baby and let me tell you it is gonna tear up the marketplace.
They've upped the bus-side RAM capacity and totally reworked the cache input engine. Then they reduced the logic overflow register but managed to hold the memory-mapped video ports at a constant value.
It is a work of genius. Much kudos to Intel on this one.
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This is an inflammatory puff piece. Obviously there will need to be exceptions to the analog->digital rule, especially in cases where the MPAA's IP rights are in no danger. But this is an emergency situation, they are perfectly justified in getting out a blanket law right away and then tweaking it to allow certain behaviors afterwards.
Some of our more brainy "Legheads" as we call them spend several weeks building Lego models of various particles, then ram them together to get a first order approximation of what they'll find during a (much more expensive!) accelerator run.
We found KDE and have never been happier since. And the stability rivals that of Tru64, AIX, VMS or any of the other "big iron" OS's.
[1]Well, the admins are a little pricey. But they earn every penny of it.
What a moron.
Those people are a liberal myth, dude.
Why can't the alternative science community be more like the cheap-but-effective alternative medicine community. Simple tests prove time and time again that things like ginkgo-balboa are effective in treating heart disease.
This article is a joke. "Dr Villanueva" is the giveaway. Villa = town, nueva = new. Newtown. Dr Newton. Get it?
RF devices suffer from a great deal of interference in the high-end band from sources such as sun spots, satellite traffic and meteor showers. Headphones, being small amplifiers, will only make this static louder. I suggest you buy a longer cord.
First of all, nano is e-9, not e-12 like says. Second, the tubes don't carry electric charge on the interiors like a straw. It is carried on the surface--the interior is a vacuum. And fourth, the tubes are nano in length as well, which kind of makes making a ribbon cable moot.
1) Anybody is surprised and
b) It took so long
As a physicist, I know the importance of taking credit for my work. My livelihood depends on my continuing to make advances in the field of science and I can't do that if other people are building on the foundations I keep laying down. IP law has it's flaws, yes, but the basic structure is sound. It keeps people away from my work until I've done all I can with it--and that's good for everybody.
The reptile brain is far to unsophisticated to be able to handle counting, let alone trigonometry. Please, Slashdot, apply a little common sense before posting these ridiculous claims.
Besides, the allegations are true, are they not?
No indication on what they hope to learn or even what technology they are advancing. Just...dropping a list of names on a rock. That's Slashdot Science stories for you.
-Just In Time assembling (JITa)
-pipeline overflow caching
-memory protection beyond the 4 MB barrier
-interlaced object replacement with error redundancy cycles
-and much, much more
It's a great time to jump in and learn to program which is just what I intend to do.
That's why we at the lab have had to reluctantly shy away from the GPL and instead use a Microsoft-style EULA that forbids anyone from disassembling, reverse-engineering, etc the software we submit for peer review because there's nothing we can do to stem the viral nature of the GPL from overtaking everything we've worked so hard for.
No, I tried this and the universe wasn't destroyed. See last month's issue for details.
Slashdot - what a waste of time, but we all read it!
As I understand it, TiVO is some kind of electronic VCR, right? And AOL is a popular version of the Internet. So we've got people who are too lazy to leave their computers to tape the shows they are going veg out on the couch later? Pathetic.
Ho, hum, another totally useless invention.
[1] Why do so many of the self-professed "science geeks" around here rely on Slashdot for science news rather than reading what real scientists have to say directly in magazines like Nature and Science?
As a big-time Mac user I really loved this book and its explication of Mac users as a cutting edge minority. Here's the way I like to explain it to people: Everybody goes to a regular doctor. But hip people who really care about their bodies seek out alternative therapies of wellness like herbal remedies and additives. Macs are kinda like that--the less popular but low-cost alternative to the overpowering majority.
[1]For high-accuracy nuclear bomb simulations, particle interactions, that sort of thing.
The loss could mean a huge increase in terrorism against loyal American citizens.
They've upped the bus-side RAM capacity and totally reworked the cache input engine. Then they reduced the logic overflow register but managed to hold the memory-mapped video ports at a constant value.
It is a work of genius. Much kudos to Intel on this one.