Why are we sending cell phones, a luxury product if ever there was one, to Third World nations when what they really need is to accept the Lord God as their Savior? Finding Jesus is the only way out of the cycle of poverty and he ain't reachable by cell phone.
Apple's slogan "Design Before Function" is taking the scientific world by storm as well as the consumer electronics world. Our 1980's era synchrotron was a bulky, wire-strewn behemoth. But a couple of years ago we bought the iAccel which comes in 5 delightful shades including Peach.
The new machine isn't quite as "high-end" as the old one was: we can only accelerate particles to 1/100th the speed of light. But at least we don't have a beige monster to deal with--and I hated tripping over those cords all the time.
All of us down here at the lab use Mozilla every day. We created a CGI app that lets us view the particles in the chamber in real time. We just point our browsers to http://particle.accelerator.net and we see the electrons, muons and gravitons in their orbits within the cyclotron.
Anyway, Moz 0.9.9 had a bug where we could only see positively charged particles. But the good folks at mozilla.org fixed that right up for us. Now if only they'd patch it so we could see particles with no mass...
Some of it is good, but the author's biases show through all too clearly.
For instance, they entirely reject the idea of homeopathic medicine. What they neglect to mention is the hundreds of studies proving the effectiveness of this treatment for everything from hangnails to brain tumors. Furthermore, you don't even need a degree to perform the simpler remedies (for such things as TB or polio).
Geeks don't pay much attention to the health care industry, so let me lay it out for you in a way you'll understand: alternative medicine is the Open Source Software of the medical world. The FAA and the AMA are the Microsofts trying to keep proven-better-but-less-expensive treatments down.
It's like we're not even reading the same story. I'm on Slashdot--where are you posting from? Jupiter?
I didn't make up that step. Check step 24. Also note step 21 where the he notes that the power strip is just for surge protection. The standup's power supply is still powered the *internal* speakers.
Of course, it's all irrelevant because this is an obvious hoax. Look again at the screenshot of the UI. Stolen right from a Visor, if I'm not mistaken.
From the article: However, the Altec Lansing speakers drew too many amps for the machine's power supply so I had to revert back to the speakers in the box.
This is a pretty obvious hoax. The speakers on a coin-op are crappy and totally unable to handle frequences that an MP3 is going to put out. Then look at the picture of the UI--is it obvious to anyone else where he photoshopped that from?
Good job, Slashdot. In your zeal to post Yet Another Homemade MP3 (That Probably Cost Four Times Retail) you've once again posted a hoax.
I'm sorry, but as the holder of the ridiculous claim the onus is on you to prove your statement that I need to force source on Joe Random who doesn't even know what a dereferenced pointer is and wouldn't give a crap if he tried.
However, before I became the world-renowned physicist I am today I was a lawyer for the Free Software Foundation (I was LawGenius back then). I wrote significant portions of the GPL as well as grooming ticks from RMS dense face foliage. I know whereof I speak and you are a troll.
I use the GPL for all my software from simple utilities to invert a construction matrix all the way up the the Perl program that I wrote that controls our linear accelerator--and I always release the source because that way everyone who has a linac can fix bugs for me.
However, Lindows is under no obligation to release the source. They only have to do that if a) they are selling the binaries and b) someone requests it. And of course, if somebody does they have to release both the source of those binaries as well as the source of any tools that helped created those binaries. That's why it's always a good idea to use gcc and emacs for your OS projects.
The really terrible thing is the kernel mods that are necessary to necessary to put the hooks in for their point-n-drool API. I know Linus has the guts to tell them no, but unfortunately all the major distros have started including those patches.
I guess that's the downside of Open Source. You can't make everyone learn the CLI like they should. *sigh*
I have nothing but the utmost respect for both teachers in general and for NASA. This program will continue to expand our intellectual frontiers beyond where we've ever gone before. The Teacher in Space program in particular will vastly increase our scientific knowledge of how children acquire knowledge in zero g.
Also, I would like congratulate NASA on not giving up. If you fall off the horse the thing to do is shoot the horse and buy another one twenty years later. Good job, guys!
We use DAKOTA (actually just the physics portion known as SOUTH DAKOTA) at our lab. That thing is a badlands of bug-addled crap, let me tell you.
For instance, last week one of the guys set up a simulation of particle density for the molecular cohesion group. He needed to calculate the kinetic flux and found that those government bozos had used E = mc^3 for calculating relativistic energy. No way to fix it without code so we had to do it all with the wrong equation and then multiply the result by 2/3.
Now we can change those errors, though it'll probably take a baker's dozen of us just to list them, let alone fix 'em.
In a molecular interface you have opposing charges facing each other which is isomorphic to a capactive situation which is measured in farads. Because computing power is linearly related to both heat and simulation speed it is easiest to measure PC case temperature in a standards way across the industry using farads rather than degrees.
You will also find faradic temperature measurement in such fields physical proton bombardment, torque pressurization and shotput.
Hearing about the wonderful performance, my lab picked up a bunchof these babies for our molecular interface simulations. As spec'd they are wonderful, trouble is, you can't use all that power without burning the case off.
We did a simple run of elastic polymer equilibria (for nitrogen, of course) and the RAM sub-bus gave out on us after registering a temperature of 87 farads. So we backed off to a simple newtonian extrapolation using quadrature-integrated gaussian kinetics and while it worked the results are no more accurate than we sould have gotten from DOS 5 on a 386.
In short, unless you are planning to run it above the Antarctic circle, don't buy one.
Note from the article that the "10 inches" applies to the maximum range of the wirelessness. I guess it'll keep wire clutter off the desk. No other real use. Except maybe a sensitive Tempest monitor.
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Studies have repeatedly shown that the "laying on of hands" is particularly effective in curing patients. But hospitals want nothing to do with controversial (and inexpensive) treatments so what do they do? Fire the doctors and hire robots.
They are putting the cart before the horse here. The shift of discussion to chlorophyll and away from water is misdirection.
Remember when everybody was all excited about cold-fusion but then it
turned out that Feldmeyer and Smythe had made some basic
methodological and even mathematical errors? Same thing here. Back
in the Sixties people speculated that there might be water on Mars
based on what they thought were icecaps on the poles (particular the
northern pole which is inclined towards Earth during the summer
months).
Only it turns out that water on Mars is an impossibility. Combining
H2 with O is an entropic process, meaning it requires quite a bit of
energy (specifically E = Lf*m where Lf is the heat of fusion of
water). Mars has been shown to be too far from the Sun to get enough
energy per square meter to build up any significant quantities of H2O.
(The little that does get formed quickly combines with the iron in the
soil to create the famous rust-red of color of Mars).
Unfortunately, much in the same way that valuable research dollars and
talent is being wasted in looking for free energy from desktop fusion,
some people cannot let go of the attractive idea that Mars might
contain some life-sustaining water.
I've been saying for years that our combinatorial place value system of numbers locks people into a limited mindset of numerical thinking. So I feel vindicated by the fact that this guy solved the Poincare Conjecture using Roman numerals. They are better all round and easily manipulable.
...I am an Christian. To anyone willing to examine the evidence it is obvious that the God of the Bible created the universe. Consider the muon: the spin value is totally arbitrary yet perfectly explains many issues in cosmology. The Hand of God at work, my son.
There is a paper due out in Science next week that presents a mathematical model of the universe as a distributed computation. The properties of the various masses (velocities, sizes, angular momenta, etc) can be considered to be the results of computations carried out by the interactions between them.
Of course, computation in a vacuum (ha ha) is useless. Information on the results of the computations is carried around via cosmic rays, neutrinos and the like.
The really exciting thing is that the conclusion of the paper calls for research into the general direction that cosmic rays are flowing which may lead us right to the location of God Himself!
What machine translation has been missing is big dictionaries. We already have the grammar problem cracked--English can be expressed as a regexp. The trouble was that we were missing translations for all those masses of ordinary words that people use like "daisy" and "pencil". This project looks like the end of that issue once and for all.
I'd also like to applaud them finally including the lost language of Ur in their translation project. For too long the ancient Sumerians have been excluded from contributing to the global society due to their lack of knowledge of English, French, Spanish, Swahili or Chinese.
Where can I download the screensaver so that I can contribute?
Their stated mission was to be the premier source for Linux-enabled embedded computing in the science and technology sector. We bought a few of their accelerators and let me tell you, they sucked crap off the floor.
First, the particle reconfiguration matrices were hopelessly complicated to calculate using their UI. Second, the phase-alignment eigenvalues they used as defaults were circa 1974. But worst of all was the induction shielding--we had bitflips left and right including one memorable occasion when we lost a whole night's processing.
As I've mentioned before, I spearhead an effort to create a high-performance phase-stabilized hamiltonian-invariant file system here at the lab. I've worked with CIFS and SMB extensively. I don't particularly like the spec, what with restricted file name length and all, but I am forced to agree with Microsoft on one thing: They can't allow a GPLd version to get out.
Why not? Because any GPLd version would of necessity be a copy (in the moral if not the legal sense) of their work and would thus unethically divert profits from their business.
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Why are we sending cell phones, a luxury product if ever there was one, to Third World nations when what they really need is to accept the Lord God as their Savior? Finding Jesus is the only way out of the cycle of poverty and he ain't reachable by cell phone.
The new machine isn't quite as "high-end" as the old one was: we can only accelerate particles to 1/100th the speed of light. But at least we don't have a beige monster to deal with--and I hated tripping over those cords all the time.
Anyway, Moz 0.9.9 had a bug where we could only see positively charged particles. But the good folks at mozilla.org fixed that right up for us. Now if only they'd patch it so we could see particles with no mass...
For instance, they entirely reject the idea of homeopathic medicine. What they neglect to mention is the hundreds of studies proving the effectiveness of this treatment for everything from hangnails to brain tumors. Furthermore, you don't even need a degree to perform the simpler remedies (for such things as TB or polio).
Geeks don't pay much attention to the health care industry, so let me lay it out for you in a way you'll understand: alternative medicine is the Open Source Software of the medical world. The FAA and the AMA are the Microsofts trying to keep proven-better-but-less-expensive treatments down.
Fight the power.
I didn't make up that step. Check step 24. Also note step 21 where the he notes that the power strip is just for surge protection. The standup's power supply is still powered the *internal* speakers.
Of course, it's all irrelevant because this is an obvious hoax. Look again at the screenshot of the UI. Stolen right from a Visor, if I'm not mistaken.
So nyah!
Good job, Slashdot. In your zeal to post Yet Another Homemade MP3 (That Probably Cost Four Times Retail) you've once again posted a hoax.
I'm sorry, but as the holder of the ridiculous claim the onus is on you to prove your statement that I need to force source on Joe Random who doesn't even know what a dereferenced pointer is and wouldn't give a crap if he tried.
However, before I became the world-renowned physicist I am today I was a lawyer for the Free Software Foundation (I was LawGenius back then). I wrote significant portions of the GPL as well as grooming ticks from RMS dense face foliage. I know whereof I speak and you are a troll.
However, Lindows is under no obligation to release the source. They only have to do that if a) they are selling the binaries and b) someone requests it. And of course, if somebody does they have to release both the source of those binaries as well as the source of any tools that helped created those binaries. That's why it's always a good idea to use gcc and emacs for your OS projects.
The really terrible thing is the kernel mods that are necessary to necessary to put the hooks in for their point-n-drool API. I know Linus has the guts to tell them no, but unfortunately all the major distros have started including those patches.
I guess that's the downside of Open Source. You can't make everyone learn the CLI like they should. *sigh*
Also, I would like congratulate NASA on not giving up. If you fall off the horse the thing to do is shoot the horse and buy another one twenty years later. Good job, guys!
For instance, last week one of the guys set up a simulation of particle density for the molecular cohesion group. He needed to calculate the kinetic flux and found that those government bozos had used E = mc^3 for calculating relativistic energy. No way to fix it without code so we had to do it all with the wrong equation and then multiply the result by 2/3.
Now we can change those errors, though it'll probably take a baker's dozen of us just to list them, let alone fix 'em.
You will also find faradic temperature measurement in such fields physical proton bombardment, torque pressurization and shotput.
We did a simple run of elastic polymer equilibria (for nitrogen, of course) and the RAM sub-bus gave out on us after registering a temperature of 87 farads. So we backed off to a simple newtonian extrapolation using quadrature-integrated gaussian kinetics and while it worked the results are no more accurate than we sould have gotten from DOS 5 on a 386.
In short, unless you are planning to run it above the Antarctic circle, don't buy one.
Note from the article that the "10 inches" applies to the maximum range of the wirelessness. I guess it'll keep wire clutter off the desk. No other real use. Except maybe a sensitive Tempest monitor.
Studies have repeatedly shown that the "laying on of hands" is particularly effective in curing patients. But hospitals want nothing to do with controversial (and inexpensive) treatments so what do they do? Fire the doctors and hire robots.
Remember when everybody was all excited about cold-fusion but then it turned out that Feldmeyer and Smythe had made some basic methodological and even mathematical errors? Same thing here. Back in the Sixties people speculated that there might be water on Mars based on what they thought were icecaps on the poles (particular the northern pole which is inclined towards Earth during the summer months).
Only it turns out that water on Mars is an impossibility. Combining H2 with O is an entropic process, meaning it requires quite a bit of energy (specifically E = Lf*m where Lf is the heat of fusion of water). Mars has been shown to be too far from the Sun to get enough energy per square meter to build up any significant quantities of H2O. (The little that does get formed quickly combines with the iron in the soil to create the famous rust-red of color of Mars).
Unfortunately, much in the same way that valuable research dollars and talent is being wasted in looking for free energy from desktop fusion, some people cannot let go of the attractive idea that Mars might contain some life-sustaining water.
I've been saying for years that our combinatorial place value system of numbers locks people into a limited mindset of numerical thinking. So I feel vindicated by the fact that this guy solved the Poincare Conjecture using Roman numerals. They are better all round and easily manipulable.
You cannot counter my scientific arguments so you resort to attacking me personally. "Know the truth and it shall set ye free", brother.
...I am an Christian. To anyone willing to examine the evidence it is obvious that the God of the Bible created the universe. Consider the muon: the spin value is totally arbitrary yet perfectly explains many issues in cosmology. The Hand of God at work, my son.
Of course, computation in a vacuum (ha ha) is useless. Information on the results of the computations is carried around via cosmic rays, neutrinos and the like.
The really exciting thing is that the conclusion of the paper calls for research into the general direction that cosmic rays are flowing which may lead us right to the location of God Himself!
I'd also like to applaud them finally including the lost language of Ur in their translation project. For too long the ancient Sumerians have been excluded from contributing to the global society due to their lack of knowledge of English, French, Spanish, Swahili or Chinese.
Where can I download the screensaver so that I can contribute?
First, the particle reconfiguration matrices were hopelessly complicated to calculate using their UI. Second, the phase-alignment eigenvalues they used as defaults were circa 1974. But worst of all was the induction shielding--we had bitflips left and right including one memorable occasion when we lost a whole night's processing.
I'm not sorry OR surprised to see them go under.
Why not? Because any GPLd version would of necessity be a copy (in the moral if not the legal sense) of their work and would thus unethically divert profits from their business.