I saw Nightmare Before Christmas (filmed in 2D) in 3D. However, I can't comment on how good it was because I don't tend to be able to see the effect. It just doesn't work for me, instead it becomes blurry.
Must have been the 3D goggles. They obviously did nothing.
Because if they wouldn't pay, they wouldn't get the movie? The business model in that case would probably be, wait until X cinemas agreed to pay (contractually, so even without copyright they'd be forced to actually pay afterwards), and only then send the movie. The cinemas which pay would have the advantage to be the first to show it. The other cinemas would have to wait until someone makes a quality copy, if they don't want to pay the official distributor (a cinema probably won't have much success with showing a low-quality copy from the internet). And since those who at first have access to it would have paid for it, there's a good chance that they'd want money themselves for a copy, although less than they paid for their copy. So the price would probably not go to zero immediately, but follow a "decay curve" until it hits zero after a few weeks.
"Installing this plugin will give you great new features" is a much better argument to install it than "installing this plugin will help the owners of the web sites you're visiting to keep their costs down."
The atomic clocks which form the base of our official time are constantly monitored, and they are far more precise than any decay time measurement can be. I doubt any major disturbance in time would have gone unnoticed.
Moreover effects in time should go with gravitational effects. Note that the earth's gravity only has an effect on time of about 1e-16 per meter, and that already gives a clearly noticeable gravitational force. I couldn't find anything about the size of the effect, but the accuracy of the experiment described here was at 2*10^-3, which is extremely much larger. From that I conclude that any effect on time that could be detected by radioactive decay in relatively short time (the solar flare was just 43 minutes!) would cause gravitational effects of order larger than earths gravity; I guess that would have been noticed even if not specifically looking for it.
Now I admit that I'm not a GR expert (although I do know quite a bit about it), therefore there may be a flaw in that reasoning. However, the atomic clock argument is independent of that.
Kindle the hackers? While it might be an effective measure (however the church had to learn in the middle ages that it only works for some time; but then, I guess a few centuries would be enough for Sony), I don't think it's very legal. Also I think it would not give great publicity.
Maybe instead start a religion whose god demands cell towers on all their places of worship, and then complain that the regulations discriminate your religion because it doesn't allow you to fulfill the will of your god.:-)
It means there's no new physics at this point. So also no hope to exploit that new physics in new technology (e.g. to deal with nuclear waste). On the positive side, it means that we don't have to expect nasty surprises from this new physics for our existing technologies (e.g. we don't have to expect that an extraordinary large solar flare suddenly makes a nuclear reactor fail, or something like that).
I'd guess any variation in time so large that you can see it in decay time measurements would have created so many other clearly visible effects that it would not have gone unnoticed.
They did confirm nuclear decay rate constancy. A confirmation is not a proof. It's just what the word says: A strengthening of the claim. It makes you more confident that the claim is true.
Because most of the population doesn't know enough about the topic to understand
Yes, but this is slashdot. We DO know what absolute zero is. This story doesn't belong in here, it belongs in digg or reddit. No wonder the submitter is an anonymous reader.
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You mean, the devil will stop using fire, and just constantly show Jar Jar in 3D to the people in hell?
Must have been the 3D goggles. They obviously did nothing.
Because if they wouldn't pay, they wouldn't get the movie? The business model in that case would probably be, wait until X cinemas agreed to pay (contractually, so even without copyright they'd be forced to actually pay afterwards), and only then send the movie. The cinemas which pay would have the advantage to be the first to show it. The other cinemas would have to wait until someone makes a quality copy, if they don't want to pay the official distributor (a cinema probably won't have much success with showing a low-quality copy from the internet). And since those who at first have access to it would have paid for it, there's a good chance that they'd want money themselves for a copy, although less than they paid for their copy. So the price would probably not go to zero immediately, but follow a "decay curve" until it hits zero after a few weeks.
It will be released at December 21. The Maya predicted it.
Objects mysteriously moving around due to the gravitational fields connected with such time variations.
Well, if someone offered me a kilogram of gold in exchange of a kilogram of water, I'd immediately take it. :-)
ITYM automatic ATM machines.
"Installing this plugin will give you great new features" is a much better argument to install it than "installing this plugin will help the owners of the web sites you're visiting to keep their costs down."
Only if you can explain how cats doing funny things are useful for an educational purpose.
Depends on how the author was convinced to agree.
Agency: "We would like you not to publish this info."
Author: "OK, I'll change it."
-> No censorship.
Agency: "If you publish this, we will put you in jail."
Author: "OK, I'll change it."
-> Censorship.
Then they can even revoke already sold books.
No superpower is useless for picking up chicks.
What about the superpower to make anyone hate you without reason?
The atomic clocks which form the base of our official time are constantly monitored, and they are far more precise than any decay time measurement can be. I doubt any major disturbance in time would have gone unnoticed.
Moreover effects in time should go with gravitational effects. Note that the earth's gravity only has an effect on time of about 1e-16 per meter, and that already gives a clearly noticeable gravitational force. I couldn't find anything about the size of the effect, but the accuracy of the experiment described here was at 2*10^-3, which is extremely much larger. From that I conclude that any effect on time that could be detected by radioactive decay in relatively short time (the solar flare was just 43 minutes!) would cause gravitational effects of order larger than earths gravity; I guess that would have been noticed even if not specifically looking for it.
Now I admit that I'm not a GR expert (although I do know quite a bit about it), therefore there may be a flaw in that reasoning. However, the atomic clock argument is independent of that.
How will Sony stop people now from playing emulators on the PS3?
Lawyers.
Or politicians. Same thing, really.
No, not really the same thing. Politicians make new laws. Lawyers try to get existing laws do things they were originally not intended to do.
Adopt the kindle attitude to hacking.
Kindle the hackers? While it might be an effective measure (however the church had to learn in the middle ages that it only works for some time; but then, I guess a few centuries would be enough for Sony), I don't think it's very legal. Also I think it would not give great publicity.
And humans, too. Or what did you think is the infrared radiation you emit due to being warm?
Maybe instead start a religion whose god demands cell towers on all their places of worship, and then complain that the regulations discriminate your religion because it doesn't allow you to fulfill the will of your god. :-)
It means there's no new physics at this point. So also no hope to exploit that new physics in new technology (e.g. to deal with nuclear waste).
On the positive side, it means that we don't have to expect nasty surprises from this new physics for our existing technologies (e.g. we don't have to expect that an extraordinary large solar flare suddenly makes a nuclear reactor fail, or something like that).
I'd guess any variation in time so large that you can see it in decay time measurements would have created so many other clearly visible effects that it would not have gone unnoticed.
They did confirm nuclear decay rate constancy. A confirmation is not a proof. It's just what the word says: A strengthening of the claim. It makes you more confident that the claim is true.
Why not simply link to the image directly?
http://akbar.marlboro.edu/~jsheehy/FarSideCownCar.gif
In Soviet Russia, plants eat you!
Anthropogenic. :-)
That is, man-made.
Or man-and-woman-made, to be politically correct.
Because most of the population doesn't know enough about the topic to understand
Yes, but this is slashdot. We DO know what absolute zero is. This story doesn't belong in here, it belongs in digg or reddit. No wonder the submitter is an anonymous reader.
Yes, but this is Slashdot. Summaries are not written by the submitter, they are copy/pasted from the linked article.
Yes, Lasers are white - in the QCD sense (photons don't carry color charge) :-)