This is really cool, but it's not going to happen anytime soon. Most large scale materials engineering processes are still done using basic manufacturing techniques, from forging to sintering to pre-preg tape for composites. Manipulating matter at the quantum scale is way, way down the road. The main problem is there isn't really an engineering branch that connects the materials engineers to the theoretical physicists. They're kind of two different sides of the same coin. And forget about talking to the computer science people. As far as the metallurgists are concerned, you programming people speak in tongues and spend all your time writing code. The engineers hate the scientists and the scientists hate the engineers and everybody hates the materials scientists because they are somewhere in between. The trick will be writing a program that lets you go from macroscale structure property relations to molecular scale material properties like stacking faults and diffusion then down to atomic level interaction that causes the molecular scale effects and finally down to individual quantum scale assembly of the chosen material. Then back up and down the scales.
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Ufo Defense or UFO:Enemy Unknown in the UK, you could not beat the ambiance of that game. The closest I've been able to get since then has been the game version of John Carpenter's "The Thing." Night missions were great, your soldiers always ran the risk of being mind controlled and the aliens were fantastic. Then there were the weapons like the auto-cannon, three shot burst with incendiary ammo could set half the game screen on fire. You had environments from all over the world and just a great combination of features. Still remains one of my all time favorite games and was behind me writing my very first web page when I was in High School.
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I never do, it's too easy for the enemy to nail you like these kids. I just hit ftp sites whenever I want a song. Sure it takes longer and it's much more hit and miss, but that's what I like about it. I only have to be lucky once, the RIAA has to be lucky all the time. And yes, I am a criminal. And if the RIAA thinks hitting one form of theft will stop everybody, I beg to differ. I'm smart and immoral enough to get what I want and not get caught.
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They supply us with millions of dollars of goods produced by slave labor in gulag camps. If you speak out against the communists or do anything they don't like, you can get sent away for a very long time. But we certainly don't want to raise a fuss about that. Holding China accountable would be bad for business. And the Bush administration has a very succint motto, "Dissent is bad for business." We're one big happy global family folks. Just want to point out that we didn't beat the USSR by buying their stuff. [-)
From the perspective of a materials scientist, this looks like people worried that nanoparticles are going to be the next asbestos. It makes sense to look at the properties of these particles and test for toxicity, but if ultra-fine particles are going to kill us, the stuff we've been pumping into the atmosphere probably already would have. I haven't read the paper over completely, but I get the feeling that this is similar to the arguments over genetically engineered crops and the greenhouse effect. It's probably not going to be a serious problem until we're quite a ways down the road and once it is, we'll probably figure out a way to fix it. That's what scientists do. In the case of sunscreen, I'd say the nanoparticles are doing more good than harm right now. Would you like skin cancer now, or some unspecified disease that may or may not materialize later? That's not to trivialize the arguments being made, I just think the paper uses scare tactics more than it should. This reads like a "BE AFRAID, give us funding!" paper.
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Microsoft, the RIAA and the Ashcroft Justice Department have set aside their differences and announced a new campaign to enhance network security at home. The title of the campaign will be "Innovation: Isn't it suspicious?" "Anyone writing code that may infringe on current ideas and established doctrine will now be prosecuted extensively." Mr. Ashcroft said upon announcing the new campaign. "This new campaign will target academics in particular, given that those pinko commie student types are a threat to the homeland security of the United States anyway." "Remember", Mr. Ashcroft said as the Battle Hymn of the Republic played in the background, "When you download music files, you listen with Bin Laden." Mr. Ashcroft later declined to comment on his efforts to reopen Vatican investigation of Galileo Galilei for his heretical views published in "Commentary on two new sciences" several hundred years ago. [-)
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NASA is a wonderful place, they do accomplish a lot, but they have no business running what should be a civilian funded venture. These guys are holding up the works. They should shoot for core complete on the ISS and then sell it to the highest bidder. How much do you think Bill Gates would put up to own his own space-station? You'd have billionaires at each other's throats (always a good thing). It'll get the nitwit Delphi and Oracle CEOs to invest in something useful as opposed to World Cup yachts (losses 1 billion and counting). There are Universities and private materials companies who would sell their souls to use this facility. Better yet, get the government out of it completely and let a non-profit like Battelle administer the program. NASA should be folded imto the DOE and the Air Force, where it belongs. They've been allowed to be a road-block to the exploration of space long enough. Whatever is left of NASA can charge rent for laboratory space on the ISS and the profit will fund the space exploration side. Okay, flame away.
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Dr. Sheffield continued to work with Earth Satellite Corporation after he turned 40 and his mathematical work was the basis for a lot of Earthsat's early success. He's definitely made a mark in the geology/remote sensing community. Mr. Doug Hall, CEO of Earthsat, sent out a very moving e-mail addressing the man's achievements, which I don't think would be appropriate to post here. Maybe Chris Peterson, of Earthsat, is a slashdotter and could comment further. In answer to the troll above, don't bother. You're obviously far too dumb to know much about geology or the widely varied disciplines Dr. Charles Sheffield worked in. Reminds me of my own field of study, Materials Science. You've probably never heard of that either.
I think that's the biggest obstacle to a successful implementation of this system. The automobile is an icon of U.S. culture precisely because you can go wherever you want, whenever you want, pollution, politics, or energy costs, be you know what. There's more than technology or environmental issues tied up in this.
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That's one other thing, he's somewhat of a weapons collector (mainly replica's because of Japan's gun laws). I know there is a cast resin model of a "Seburo" (based on designs from Ghost in the Shell) sold by a Japanese company, thought I don't remember who and what off hand.
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Well, thank you for the lesson in semantics but I still don't see how you've disproved the primary point of my post. The word "Yakuza" can also be translated as "loser" and I don't think I would apply the American meaning of that word to a Japanese member of one of the families (especially not face to face). My point was, you don't buy a Louisville Slugger baseball bat just to buy a baseball bat, you get one with Sammy Sosa's or Barry Bond's signature on it. The same holds true here. And it's for the hard core fans that these devices have obviously been designed for, no matter what you call them.
The most common image I've seen is a "manga-style" self-portrait (him sitting in a chair with PS2 in background, and drawing board etc.). I'm not saying it isn't possible, but I'd be very surprised. If it is in there, it probably wasn't taken with Shirow's permission. The last interview I read involving him only included pictures of "buildings" in the area he lives and works in, in Kobe, Japan. That is how serious this guy is about personal privacy.
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Most of you aren't raving Manga fans. It said in the slashdot article that an interview with each of these two author's comes with the mouse. If it's DVD or has any type of pictures, it's worth the money to Manga fans. Shirow Masamune is the most reclusive "comics" artist in Japan. There is one known photo of him as "Shirow" and it was published something like ten years ago and is impossible to find. This guy is a hero to the "Otaku", Japanese kids with an obsession for printed manga and anime. "Shirow Masamune" is a pseudonym so getting anything like a live interview would be priceless to them (hell, me). And here you guys are complaining about ergonomics.
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Now everybody.. let's get a singalong going..
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Generation Wrecked
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· Score: 1
(Porgie and Bess for you technical folks... Tenors, Soprano's.. pay attention)
Oh.. I got plenty of nuthin
And nuthin's plenty for me
I got no house
I got no car
I got no.. misery..
The folks with plenty of plenty
They got a lock on they door
Fraid somebody gonna go and try and rob'em
While they goin out to make some more..
What for?
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What? You mean I don't have a chance to end up as rich and miserable as my parents? Oh the outrage and angst, my peak earning years are behind me, Wo is us! I hate to break it to everyone, but maybe this isn't such a bad thing? My parents are upper middle class, I'd say their "peak earning years" are behind them and what are they spending their money on? It sure ain't weed anymore. Nope, try "Precious Moments" and stuff for their grandchildren. I realize the Baby Boom generation has a real need to believe that their children are miserable because we can't be just like them, but that's all this is. Narcissistic, pathetic, old Boomers who have never quite figured out that we aren't as interested as they are in their consumerized McWorld. Does anyone really buy this tripe? I think I might just be able to keep myself from ordering that Super-sized Combo meal, thank you very much. And maybe I'll just go to the library or take a walk instead of out to the mall. The best things in life really are free folks. And our society really needs to rediscover that fact.
We need a good, old-school alien armada to show up in orbit in my opinion. With the U.S. at the top of the geopolitical heap right now, who else is going to force us to throw out the padlocks and unite for everlasting peace and love and all that other good Megaman type crap? Iraq? Osama? Yeah right! I suppose the "Grey's" might work if they dropped the occasional "anal-probe and cattle mutilation" gig and started terrorizing cities like in XCOM.
One of the big things that would make kids appreciate math more is tying it into practical engineering. I had zero interest in math in elementary school and High School because no one ever showed me it was good for things like flow in pipes and machining tolerances. Elementary vectors are not that hard and I would love to try teaching a kid that there are some neat things that happen when you push down on a chair. A lot of engineering can be done with basic algebra and I think it would make kids feel a lot better about this scary, overwhelming subject if they could see pictures and were taught practical applications based on mathematics principles. Even relatively young kids could probably understand that a vector has a number and a direction and the value of units like m/s distance etc.
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There is only one way to win this thing. The artists ally with a record company with a p2p based business model. Such a company starts small, signs normally unsigned bands with a superior profit cut from p2p subscriptions and advertising. Downside, nobody gets mega-huge or mega-rich, and the business model is unproven and would require substantial start-up capital. The artists have to be made comfortable with the technology and the geeks have to work with the businessmen and the artists. Tall order, but it's the way to wipe the RIAA off the face of the earth.
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"Why, that's as crazy as, I don't know,letting lawyers make laws." P.J. O'Rourke [-)
This is really cool, but it's not going to happen anytime soon. Most large scale materials engineering processes are still done using basic manufacturing techniques, from forging to sintering to pre-preg tape for composites. Manipulating matter at the quantum scale is way, way down the road. The main problem is there isn't really an engineering branch that connects the materials engineers to the theoretical physicists. They're kind of two different sides of the same coin. And forget about talking to the computer science people. As far as the metallurgists are concerned, you programming people speak in tongues and spend all your time writing code. The engineers hate the scientists and the scientists hate the engineers and everybody hates the materials scientists because they are somewhere in between. The trick will be writing a program that lets you go from macroscale structure property relations to molecular scale material properties like stacking faults and diffusion then down to atomic level interaction that causes the molecular scale effects and finally down to individual quantum scale assembly of the chosen material. Then back up and down the scales. [-)
Ufo Defense or UFO:Enemy Unknown in the UK, you could not beat the ambiance of that game. The closest I've been able to get since then has been the game version of John Carpenter's "The Thing." Night missions were great, your soldiers always ran the risk of being mind controlled and the aliens were fantastic. Then there were the weapons like the auto-cannon, three shot burst with incendiary ammo could set half the game screen on fire. You had environments from all over the world and just a great combination of features. Still remains one of my all time favorite games and was behind me writing my very first web page when I was in High School. [-)
I never do, it's too easy for the enemy to nail you like these kids. I just hit ftp sites whenever I want a song. Sure it takes longer and it's much more hit and miss, but that's what I like about it. I only have to be lucky once, the RIAA has to be lucky all the time. And yes, I am a criminal. And if the RIAA thinks hitting one form of theft will stop everybody, I beg to differ. I'm smart and immoral enough to get what I want and not get caught. [-)
They supply us with millions of dollars of goods produced by slave labor in gulag camps. If you speak out against the communists or do anything they don't like, you can get sent away for a very long time. But we certainly don't want to raise a fuss about that. Holding China accountable would be bad for business. And the Bush administration has a very succint motto, "Dissent is bad for business." We're one big happy global family folks. Just want to point out that we didn't beat the USSR by buying their stuff. [-)
From the perspective of a materials scientist, this looks like people worried that nanoparticles are going to be the next asbestos. It makes sense to look at the properties of these particles and test for toxicity, but if ultra-fine particles are going to kill us, the stuff we've been pumping into the atmosphere probably already would have. I haven't read the paper over completely, but I get the feeling that this is similar to the arguments over genetically engineered crops and the greenhouse effect. It's probably not going to be a serious problem until we're quite a ways down the road and once it is, we'll probably figure out a way to fix it. That's what scientists do. In the case of sunscreen, I'd say the nanoparticles are doing more good than harm right now. Would you like skin cancer now, or some unspecified disease that may or may not materialize later? That's not to trivialize the arguments being made, I just think the paper uses scare tactics more than it should. This reads like a "BE AFRAID, give us funding!" paper. [-)
Microsoft, the RIAA and the Ashcroft Justice Department have set aside their differences and announced a new campaign to enhance network security at home. The title of the campaign will be "Innovation: Isn't it suspicious?" "Anyone writing code that may infringe on current ideas and established doctrine will now be prosecuted extensively." Mr. Ashcroft said upon announcing the new campaign. "This new campaign will target academics in particular, given that those pinko commie student types are a threat to the homeland security of the United States anyway." "Remember", Mr. Ashcroft said as the Battle Hymn of the Republic played in the background, "When you download music files, you listen with Bin Laden." Mr. Ashcroft later declined to comment on his efforts to reopen Vatican investigation of Galileo Galilei for his heretical views published in "Commentary on two new sciences" several hundred years ago. [-)
When web search engines are outlawed by the government because of the possibility of accessing sensitive or copyrighted material. Your browser will be provided with the approved corporate sites for your education and consuming purposes. Any code used to indiscriminately search the internet for data will be punishable by FBI prosecution. Your personal web page will allow you to post any pictures or material in the public domain (which effectively no longer exists) or that you have copyrighted to yourself. You may e-mail the location url to your friends so that they may view your web page. Any dissemination of non-government or corporate approved url's will be prosecuted. This message is brought to you by the RIAA. Advertisement: Britney Spears, the reunion tour! Everyone's favorite diva is back with new songs of hope and redemption. Her latest CD is available for only $25.99 at approved web sites. [-)
NASA is a wonderful place, they do accomplish a lot, but they have no business running what should be a civilian funded venture. These guys are holding up the works. They should shoot for core complete on the ISS and then sell it to the highest bidder. How much do you think Bill Gates would put up to own his own space-station? You'd have billionaires at each other's throats (always a good thing). It'll get the nitwit Delphi and Oracle CEOs to invest in something useful as opposed to World Cup yachts (losses 1 billion and counting). There are Universities and private materials companies who would sell their souls to use this facility. Better yet, get the government out of it completely and let a non-profit like Battelle administer the program. NASA should be folded imto the DOE and the Air Force, where it belongs. They've been allowed to be a road-block to the exploration of space long enough. Whatever is left of NASA can charge rent for laboratory space on the ISS and the profit will fund the space exploration side. Okay, flame away. [-)
Dr. Sheffield continued to work with Earth Satellite Corporation after he turned 40 and his mathematical work was the basis for a lot of Earthsat's early success. He's definitely made a mark in the geology/remote sensing community. Mr. Doug Hall, CEO of Earthsat, sent out a very moving e-mail addressing the man's achievements, which I don't think would be appropriate to post here. Maybe Chris Peterson, of Earthsat, is a slashdotter and could comment further. In answer to the troll above, don't bother. You're obviously far too dumb to know much about geology or the widely varied disciplines Dr. Charles Sheffield worked in. Reminds me of my own field of study, Materials Science. You've probably never heard of that either.
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I think that's the biggest obstacle to a successful implementation of this system. The automobile is an icon of U.S. culture precisely because you can go wherever you want, whenever you want, pollution, politics, or energy costs, be you know what. There's more than technology or environmental issues tied up in this. [-)
That's one other thing, he's somewhat of a weapons collector (mainly replica's because of Japan's gun laws). I know there is a cast resin model of a "Seburo" (based on designs from Ghost in the Shell) sold by a Japanese company, thought I don't remember who and what off hand. [-)
Well, thank you for the lesson in semantics but I still don't see how you've disproved the primary point of my post. The word "Yakuza" can also be translated as "loser" and I don't think I would apply the American meaning of that word to a Japanese member of one of the families (especially not face to face). My point was, you don't buy a Louisville Slugger baseball bat just to buy a baseball bat, you get one with Sammy Sosa's or Barry Bond's signature on it. The same holds true here. And it's for the hard core fans that these devices have obviously been designed for, no matter what you call them.
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The most common image I've seen is a "manga-style" self-portrait (him sitting in a chair with PS2 in background, and drawing board etc.). I'm not saying it isn't possible, but I'd be very surprised. If it is in there, it probably wasn't taken with Shirow's permission. The last interview I read involving him only included pictures of "buildings" in the area he lives and works in, in Kobe, Japan. That is how serious this guy is about personal privacy. [-)
Most of you aren't raving Manga fans. It said in the slashdot article that an interview with each of these two author's comes with the mouse. If it's DVD or has any type of pictures, it's worth the money to Manga fans. Shirow Masamune is the most reclusive "comics" artist in Japan. There is one known photo of him as "Shirow" and it was published something like ten years ago and is impossible to find. This guy is a hero to the "Otaku", Japanese kids with an obsession for printed manga and anime. "Shirow Masamune" is a pseudonym so getting anything like a live interview would be priceless to them (hell, me).
And here you guys are complaining about ergonomics.
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(Porgie and Bess for you technical folks... Tenors, Soprano's.. pay attention) Oh.. I got plenty of nuthin And nuthin's plenty for me I got no house I got no car I got no.. misery.. The folks with plenty of plenty They got a lock on they door Fraid somebody gonna go and try and rob'em While they goin out to make some more.. What for? [-)
What? You mean I don't have a chance to end up as rich and miserable as my parents? Oh the outrage and angst, my peak earning years are behind me, Wo is us! I hate to break it to everyone, but maybe this isn't such a bad thing? My parents are upper middle class, I'd say their "peak earning years" are behind them and what are they spending their money on? It sure ain't weed anymore. Nope, try "Precious Moments" and stuff for their grandchildren. I realize the Baby Boom generation has a real need to believe that their children are miserable because we can't be just like them, but that's all this is. Narcissistic, pathetic, old Boomers who have never quite figured out that we aren't as interested as they are in their consumerized McWorld. Does anyone really buy this tripe? I think I might just be able to keep myself from ordering that Super-sized Combo meal, thank you very much. And maybe I'll just go to the library or take a walk instead of out to the mall. The best things in life really are free folks. And our society really needs to rediscover that fact.
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We need a good, old-school alien armada to show up in orbit in my opinion. With the U.S. at the top of the geopolitical heap right now, who else is going to force us to throw out the padlocks and unite for everlasting peace and love and all that other good Megaman type crap? Iraq? Osama? Yeah right! I suppose the "Grey's" might work if they dropped the occasional "anal-probe and cattle mutilation" gig and started terrorizing cities like in XCOM.
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One of the big things that would make kids appreciate math more is tying it into practical engineering. I had zero interest in math in elementary school and High School because no one ever showed me it was good for things like flow in pipes and machining tolerances. Elementary vectors are not that hard and I would love to try teaching a kid that there are some neat things that happen when you push down on a chair. A lot of engineering can be done with basic algebra and I think it would make kids feel a lot better about this scary, overwhelming subject if they could see pictures and were taught practical applications based on mathematics principles. Even relatively young kids could probably understand that a vector has a number and a direction and the value of units like m/s distance etc. [-)
There is only one way to win this thing. The artists ally with a record company with a p2p based business model. Such a company starts small, signs normally unsigned bands with a superior profit cut from p2p subscriptions and advertising. Downside, nobody gets mega-huge or mega-rich, and the business model is unproven and would require substantial start-up capital. The artists have to be made comfortable with the technology and the geeks have to work with the businessmen and the artists. Tall order, but it's the way to wipe the RIAA off the face of the earth. [-)