Yes, that's an excellent solution. Google is playing the role of publisher and as such it is not unreasonable to hold them to the same standards. It is also reasonable to regard them as something new - a distributor that has no responsibility for the content they are distributing. If Italy wants to take the former approach then Google just has to only allow Italian access to content they have vetted.
It's not a "serious threat to the web." It's a threat to Google's advertising profit margin in Italy.
Einstein didn't directly do any work on the atomic bomb, but he did urge that it be developed and a lot of his work lays the foundation for both the quantum mechanics necessary to make the thing work and the mass-energy equivalency that suggests an atomic bomb should be particularly powerful.
Teller left Hungary when he was 18 and completed his undergraduate and graduate training in Germany. Wigner was also educated in Germany and worked there until he moved to the US, around the same time the Nazis were gaining power. Szilard also did much of his training in Germany and worked there for some time before fleeing the Nazis.
The article is about Germany trying to build an atomic bomb during WWII. Jewish scientists who fled Germany around that time include Einstein (E=mc^2, the basis for atomic bombs), Teller (father of the hydrogen bomb), Bloch (worked with neutrons, worked on the Manhattan project), Wigner (told Roosevelt about Nazi bomb plans, worked on the Manhattan project), Szilard (same as Bloch, one of the people who first conceived the a-bomb) and Frisch (same as Szilard).
Do you suppose some of those guys might have been kind of useful to a German atomic weapons program?
I hate to tell you, but your "inalienable" rights are only as inalienable as the appropriate court believes them to be. You can certainly sell yourself into slavery, just not in the US. Even in the US, in many states (not all) you can do the next best thing by signing a non-compete agreement.
Many of the athletes at the olympics probably can sign away their freedom of speech (if they have such a freedom to start with). Even for those who can't, there is no "inalienable right" to participate in the games, win medals, or (officially) keep those medals afterwards.
The IOC is pretty evil but don't kid yourself about how much your "inalienable" rights are worth when you're not at home, or how universal those rights are.
Yes. I haven't watched much Olympics since the early nineties. Each games just seems to get more and more insane. And they have the nerve to talk about the Olympic principles, and Olympic spirit.
No way, CIV IV teaches us that if you want to nuke somebody you just have to have a few workers around to clean up afterward. Then you can go nuke the next city, no problem.
I think it was CIV I that would nuclear winter you if you used too many nukes. And there was nothing you could do to prevent it, or to clean it up afterward.
You and the guy who was up until 1 am playing... bunch of noobs. When you see the sun rise and you realize it's not the first sunrise during that gaming session... THEN you've had the true Civ experience.
Ah, out exploring in Civ I with your phalanx and stumbling across the massive irrigated fields of the Babylonians just to the north. Or nuking Australia.
It wasn't very nice of the bible to steal the intro though.
Ah, not British. I'm actually from northern Canada where lakes can be froze and groceries can be boughten. We like our extra u though.
My post was a satire of the post I replied to, which you probably didn't see because it's been moderated into oblivion. If someone wants to say "spelled" that's fine, but "spelt" is NOT cringe worthy.
If you dug a little deeper you'd find that W. Edelstein is one of the pioneers of magnetic resonance imaging (my own field). "Physics" is an awfully big field. I couldn't find out what his original specialization was, but it's been a LONG time since he did any space-related work. He is certainly an outsider to the field of manned space travel.
I've never heard of his co-author, Arthur Edelstein. It looks like he's a programmer at UCSF, formerly UC Berkeley. William's son? Grandson? Google scholar only shows up a couple of hits. W and A Edelstein have a paper on MR in JMRI (looks like from W's lab, he's senior author, A buried in the middle). The two of them have been covering a lot of ground - they've also got an arxiv preprint on electronic voting machines. That's kind of weird too - it doesn't have much to do with physics and every one of the references are web pages, including Wikipedia.
His abstract seems a bit strange - I'd have thought you'd have to do something a little more in depth to get accepted to an APS meeting. I've seen much the same calculation in Slashdot posts over the years. Maybe those posters should have submitted something. It's also possible there's a lot more content in the actual presentation.
Now, what was it you were saying about presumptions?
If you're going to have a realistic acceleration (or even an unrealistic one like 4 or 5 g, as specified) and you want to go 4+ light years in less than a decade you're going to have to go pretty close to the speed of light.
"I want the polaroid technology, the glasses are light and cheap, require no batteries or electronics, with realistic colors. It would be hard to do with a plasma or LCD, but I think it could be done."
Go ahead and build yourself one. Just get a couple of data projectors, a silver screen and some filters: http://www.geowall.org/.
It's not hard to do with an LCD or plasma display either. Effectively an LCD display is already half of a polarized 3D display. TV manufacturers are already trying to convince us we all need one. The question is, does anybody?
"Professor William Edelstein of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine"
Sometimes an outsider notices something that everyone in a field really has overlooked, simply because they lack a fresh perspective. More often, the outsider is (a) mistaken, (b) just thinks he's found something worth noting because it's so obvious to everyone else that they don't bother mentioning it or (c) a combination of both.
It's kind of like a high powered laser. It doesn't so much cut holes in you as blow holes in you. The beam itself would make a fairly small hole but the debris from those collisions would be like an explosion.
There's always a silver lining. While the rest of the world is running Flash within their web apps within their browsers under their OSes, Intel and AMD will be making faster chips so those of us who prefer a few less layers can have cool toys.
Hey, it's Vancouver. Vancouverites aren't quite sure what ice is. They've heard it's frozen water, but really, if the copious amounts of rain that fall on Vancouver froze that would really hurt, wouldn't it?
Apparently this thing called ice exists on top of those mountains you can see from the city, and there's lots of it on the other side of them on the "prairies," but those are just rumours.
As you point out, anyone who knows what a Kelvin is can easily do an accurate enough conversion. If the article did use Kelvin then everybody who doesn't know what a Kelvin is would be lost. Is that really hot? Cold? In the middle?
Because if you put your neutronium in your pocket you have to carry it onto the plane. If you put it in your suitcase, some poor sucker downstairs has to carry it on the plane for you.
There is a rare condition called "Tourette's" that, in a small number of sufferers, causes them to loudly blurt out offensive words and phrases. There is another, not so rare, condition that causes people to loudly blurt out offensive words and phrases. Call it "assholeism." The former condition is caused by genetic factors while the latter is entirely a matter of personal choices.
It can be difficult to distinguish these disorders but since expletive-blurting Tourette's is so rare we generally assume people who have the above symptoms are assholes. Since we want to have some negative feedback to control the spread of assholeism (for the good of everyone), we generally use social pressure to discourage these people. In the very rare event that we meet an expletive-blurting Tourette's sufferer this can lead to poor treatment of the sufferer but generally, with a simple explanation from the sufferer or from another person, we are happy to accept their condition as not their fault and fully accept them as valued members of our social group.
There wasn't much need until recently. In the past if you were fat you were also rich and could do whatever you wanted. Only recently has everyone had the opportunity to get fat, which means we need some negative feedback in the system to replace not being able to afford enough food.
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Considering the half lives of the ultra-heavy elements, they don't exist anywhere other than labs except for brief periods in supernovae.
Yes, that's an excellent solution. Google is playing the role of publisher and as such it is not unreasonable to hold them to the same standards. It is also reasonable to regard them as something new - a distributor that has no responsibility for the content they are distributing. If Italy wants to take the former approach then Google just has to only allow Italian access to content they have vetted.
It's not a "serious threat to the web." It's a threat to Google's advertising profit margin in Italy.
Einstein didn't directly do any work on the atomic bomb, but he did urge that it be developed and a lot of his work lays the foundation for both the quantum mechanics necessary to make the thing work and the mass-energy equivalency that suggests an atomic bomb should be particularly powerful.
I didn't say ANY of them were FROM Germany.
Teller left Hungary when he was 18 and completed his undergraduate and graduate training in Germany. Wigner was also educated in Germany and worked there until he moved to the US, around the same time the Nazis were gaining power. Szilard also did much of his training in Germany and worked there for some time before fleeing the Nazis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Wigner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leó_Szilárd
The article is about Germany trying to build an atomic bomb during WWII. Jewish scientists who fled Germany around that time include Einstein (E=mc^2, the basis for atomic bombs), Teller (father of the hydrogen bomb), Bloch (worked with neutrons, worked on the Manhattan project), Wigner (told Roosevelt about Nazi bomb plans, worked on the Manhattan project), Szilard (same as Bloch, one of the people who first conceived the a-bomb) and Frisch (same as Szilard).
Do you suppose some of those guys might have been kind of useful to a German atomic weapons program?
I hate to tell you, but your "inalienable" rights are only as inalienable as the appropriate court believes them to be. You can certainly sell yourself into slavery, just not in the US. Even in the US, in many states (not all) you can do the next best thing by signing a non-compete agreement.
Many of the athletes at the olympics probably can sign away their freedom of speech (if they have such a freedom to start with). Even for those who can't, there is no "inalienable right" to participate in the games, win medals, or (officially) keep those medals afterwards.
The IOC is pretty evil but don't kid yourself about how much your "inalienable" rights are worth when you're not at home, or how universal those rights are.
Yes. I haven't watched much Olympics since the early nineties. Each games just seems to get more and more insane. And they have the nerve to talk about the Olympic principles, and Olympic spirit.
No way, CIV IV teaches us that if you want to nuke somebody you just have to have a few workers around to clean up afterward. Then you can go nuke the next city, no problem.
I think it was CIV I that would nuclear winter you if you used too many nukes. And there was nothing you could do to prevent it, or to clean it up afterward.
You and the guy who was up until 1 am playing... bunch of noobs. When you see the sun rise and you realize it's not the first sunrise during that gaming session... THEN you've had the true Civ experience.
Ah, out exploring in Civ I with your phalanx and stumbling across the massive irrigated fields of the Babylonians just to the north. Or nuking Australia.
It wasn't very nice of the bible to steal the intro though.
I don't remember ever having that problem in Civ IV. The phalanxes also stopped shooting down my stealth bombers.
Ah, not British. I'm actually from northern Canada where lakes can be froze and groceries can be boughten. We like our extra u though.
My post was a satire of the post I replied to, which you probably didn't see because it's been moderated into oblivion. If someone wants to say "spelled" that's fine, but "spelt" is NOT cringe worthy.
If you dug a little deeper you'd find that W. Edelstein is one of the pioneers of magnetic resonance imaging (my own field). "Physics" is an awfully big field. I couldn't find out what his original specialization was, but it's been a LONG time since he did any space-related work. He is certainly an outsider to the field of manned space travel.
I've never heard of his co-author, Arthur Edelstein. It looks like he's a programmer at UCSF, formerly UC Berkeley. William's son? Grandson? Google scholar only shows up a couple of hits. W and A Edelstein have a paper on MR in JMRI (looks like from W's lab, he's senior author, A buried in the middle). The two of them have been covering a lot of ground - they've also got an arxiv preprint on electronic voting machines. That's kind of weird too - it doesn't have much to do with physics and every one of the references are web pages, including Wikipedia.
His abstract seems a bit strange - I'd have thought you'd have to do something a little more in depth to get accepted to an APS meeting. I've seen much the same calculation in Slashdot posts over the years. Maybe those posters should have submitted something. It's also possible there's a lot more content in the actual presentation.
Now, what was it you were saying about presumptions?
If you're going to have a realistic acceleration (or even an unrealistic one like 4 or 5 g, as specified) and you want to go 4+ light years in less than a decade you're going to have to go pretty close to the speed of light.
"I want the polaroid technology, the glasses are light and cheap, require no batteries or electronics, with realistic colors. It would be hard to do with a plasma or LCD, but I think it could be done."
Go ahead and build yourself one. Just get a couple of data projectors, a silver screen and some filters: http://www.geowall.org/.
It's not hard to do with an LCD or plasma display either. Effectively an LCD display is already half of a polarized 3D display. TV manufacturers are already trying to convince us we all need one. The question is, does anybody?
"Professor William Edelstein of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine"
Sometimes an outsider notices something that everyone in a field really has overlooked, simply because they lack a fresh perspective. More often, the outsider is (a) mistaken, (b) just thinks he's found something worth noting because it's so obvious to everyone else that they don't bother mentioning it or (c) a combination of both.
This appears to be a case of (c).
GGP specified the trip was to take years, not decades.
It's kind of like a high powered laser. It doesn't so much cut holes in you as blow holes in you. The beam itself would make a fairly small hole but the debris from those collisions would be like an explosion.
Personal Pet Peeve:
Americans who butcher the queen's english and then cringe when they hear/see it spoken/written correctly.
There's always a silver lining. While the rest of the world is running Flash within their web apps within their browsers under their OSes, Intel and AMD will be making faster chips so those of us who prefer a few less layers can have cool toys.
It's kind of like the idea of having an OS within the OS. Now the sub-OS gets to run a browser.
Hey, it's Vancouver. Vancouverites aren't quite sure what ice is. They've heard it's frozen water, but really, if the copious amounts of rain that fall on Vancouver froze that would really hurt, wouldn't it?
Apparently this thing called ice exists on top of those mountains you can see from the city, and there's lots of it on the other side of them on the "prairies," but those are just rumours.
As you point out, anyone who knows what a Kelvin is can easily do an accurate enough conversion. If the article did use Kelvin then everybody who doesn't know what a Kelvin is would be lost. Is that really hot? Cold? In the middle?
Because if you put your neutronium in your pocket you have to carry it onto the plane. If you put it in your suitcase, some poor sucker downstairs has to carry it on the plane for you.
There is a rare condition called "Tourette's" that, in a small number of sufferers, causes them to loudly blurt out offensive words and phrases. There is another, not so rare, condition that causes people to loudly blurt out offensive words and phrases. Call it "assholeism." The former condition is caused by genetic factors while the latter is entirely a matter of personal choices.
It can be difficult to distinguish these disorders but since expletive-blurting Tourette's is so rare we generally assume people who have the above symptoms are assholes. Since we want to have some negative feedback to control the spread of assholeism (for the good of everyone), we generally use social pressure to discourage these people. In the very rare event that we meet an expletive-blurting Tourette's sufferer this can lead to poor treatment of the sufferer but generally, with a simple explanation from the sufferer or from another person, we are happy to accept their condition as not their fault and fully accept them as valued members of our social group.
There wasn't much need until recently. In the past if you were fat you were also rich and could do whatever you wanted. Only recently has everyone had the opportunity to get fat, which means we need some negative feedback in the system to replace not being able to afford enough food.