http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~biy/Selected%20papers/NanoLett-H@Cage.pdf
Tops out at about 130GPa. With a little cooling, this could be a feasible cage for a tiny little bit of superconducting hydrogen. Neat. However, what we want is buckytubes full of superconducting hydrogen.
What the hell is "Super 3D"? You take a picture, with some data about the 3D structure. That sounds like 3D. Super 3D would be, perhaps, 4D. Or maybe something that doesn't exactly give 4D data, but gives the impression of it. This isn't that -- this is 3D. Are all scientific journalists retards, or does Slashdot just pick the biggest ones?
That isn't true -- a secure method was submitted to slashdot a few years ago, but I can't find it for the life of me. Basically, ballots are printed with some randomness. "yes" is printed on the left half of the time, and on the right the other half. If you vote "yes", your receipt says, "you voted for the choice on the left", and has an identification number. You get online, and look up the ID number -- if it disagrees with your receipt, then you have evidence of fraud. Yet, you can't prove anything to anybody about who you voted for -- just that your vote was counted correctly.
Granted, I live in Seattle, so I might be biased -- this sounds like a great alternative to tanning. You go in, get some coffee sprayed on... it turns your skin a nice healthy brownish, and reduces damage from previous tans / burns. The color of coffee stained skin is *much* better than the fake orange stuff. (though... I would miss the sight of preppy girls that look like oompa loompas -- that never ceases to amuse me)
See, that's the great thing about space. In space, there's no gravity. So if we have a dude on Mars, he can throw samples back to Earth. It doesn't matter how much they weigh, or how far away the Earth is -- without gravity, such things don't matter. Much cheaper than building a robot to do that -- additionally, a human will be less likely to get his wheels stuck in the mud when crossing slightly uneven terrain. Also, there's the matter of what kind of samples he throws -- a robot would just pick up rocks willy-nilly and throw them back to Earth. A human could look for pretty ones to throw.
Re: stroke -- shitty.
Re: input device -- I recall an input system in which various letter choices would appear based on the probability that they'd be useful, and maybe split the choices into a binary tree, so that you could reasonably quickly "type" by just moving your mouse up and down (and possibly clicking). If you could capture 3 separate commands, this could be co-opted pretty easily.
Workstation? How bout a Cell-based thinkpad? Especially the little one they want to pit against the Air. You'd need an external battery, but it would be *so* worth it. I'm still annoyed by the complete lack of quad-core laptops (except for the $3000, 50lb XTremeNotebook) out there. A Cell-based mini-thinkpad would save the frikkin' day!
And you think it will be any better on this 12-port beast? The brick for my speakers is stupidly 3"x4" and well over a pound. In the configuration of this thing, the only way it would fit is on the top of the surge protector -- it would block off the handle, or take up 4 ports. Or, it would cover 2 or 3 of the side ports, and kinda flop off the side, and probably come unplugged on a regular basis. No thanks, I go with the squid.
Best job I've had; I wore t-shirts, jeans with holes (sometimes more holes than jeans), and never wore shoes when the sun was out. Best paying, too -- life was grand in the dot-com bubble. Now I'm back in school, and I still don't wear shoes when I don't feel like it. I was happy then, and I'm happy now -- I've got less money now, but I enjoy what I do (math) more than I ever liked that web dev gig.
Or, you could use a computer algebra system which has easy-to-use distributed computation built in already. Oh, did I mention, it's open source, so every single point above (with possible exception of software updates) is completely invalidated?
Actually, it's an AJ interface. Nobody actually uses XML. I think it's great -- of course, I'm one of the primary developers, so I've made it work pretty much how I like it. There are still some issues with it, but it's well over a year old, and pretty stable at this point. During the joint AMA/AMS meeting in San Diego, Eric Wesstein came up to the Sage booth, and said that he'd copied a bunch of stuff from Sage when he was working on the Combinatorica package. Now, it looks like they've copied a bunch of my ideas, too!
I think this is a beautiful thing. When William Stein started Sage, he wanted to beat Magma. Soon thereafter, he decided that he'd need to catch up to Mathematica. Now, less than 3 years later, they're racing to catch up to us...
So, you really couldn't take data OFF it... My memory is hazy... but I seem to recall these things called "interwebs" that were wildly popular back then -- do know if those are still around?
Maybe he uses a laptop, and is content with his trackpad, so has never had an opportunity with a mouse? I, for one, use a trackball, and I would never think to mate with it. I think I'll have to think twice before sitting down to a friend's computer from now on... thanks a lot.
Do you doubt that I could measure my car to within a range of +/- 1 micrometer? No sweat. My micrometer is about 3.5 inches long, and my car is 5' tall, plus or minus an inch. That puts it at a height of 17.15 +/- 0.28 micrometers. No wonder shuttles keep crashing... you Americans know nothing about the metric system!
I regularly wear two almost identical fleeces -- one has a zipper, one does not; also, I fly rather frequently. I've noticed that security *always* asks me to remove my zippered fleece, and never requires me to remove the one without the zipper. Every time, I think that I should wear a trench coat, and nothing more. They ask me to remove my coat, and I calmly comply, and proceed to the metal detector... but something tells me I'd get in *much* worse trouble than indecent exposure...
Have you seen the results of what you linked to? Shitty, every one. It goes from blurry, to grainy -- w00! No information (re)gained. There is no free lunch.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~biy/Selected%20papers/NanoLett-H@Cage.pdf Tops out at about 130GPa. With a little cooling, this could be a feasible cage for a tiny little bit of superconducting hydrogen. Neat. However, what we want is buckytubes full of superconducting hydrogen.
The following is the honeypot link. I wonder -- if everybody on slashdot follows this, will they arrest us all?
http://uploader.sytes.net/12/05/4yo_suck.rar.html
And then, what would they charge us with? Perhaps, imitating criminal URL clicking?
You mean, super 3D is 3D. With "jazz hands".
What the hell is "Super 3D"? You take a picture, with some data about the 3D structure. That sounds like 3D. Super 3D would be, perhaps, 4D. Or maybe something that doesn't exactly give 4D data, but gives the impression of it. This isn't that -- this is 3D. Are all scientific journalists retards, or does Slashdot just pick the biggest ones?
Ah! No problem then. Chill it to below 161K, and we're in business! Liquid, room-temp... um... superconductor. damn.
I'm missing a key detail somewhere, I really wish I could find that link. Perhaps this still depends on paper.
That isn't true -- a secure method was submitted to slashdot a few years ago, but I can't find it for the life of me. Basically, ballots are printed with some randomness. "yes" is printed on the left half of the time, and on the right the other half. If you vote "yes", your receipt says, "you voted for the choice on the left", and has an identification number. You get online, and look up the ID number -- if it disagrees with your receipt, then you have evidence of fraud. Yet, you can't prove anything to anybody about who you voted for -- just that your vote was counted correctly.
Granted, I live in Seattle, so I might be biased -- this sounds like a great alternative to tanning. You go in, get some coffee sprayed on... it turns your skin a nice healthy brownish, and reduces damage from previous tans / burns. The color of coffee stained skin is *much* better than the fake orange stuff. (though... I would miss the sight of preppy girls that look like oompa loompas -- that never ceases to amuse me)
See, that's the great thing about space. In space, there's no gravity. So if we have a dude on Mars, he can throw samples back to Earth. It doesn't matter how much they weigh, or how far away the Earth is -- without gravity, such things don't matter. Much cheaper than building a robot to do that -- additionally, a human will be less likely to get his wheels stuck in the mud when crossing slightly uneven terrain. Also, there's the matter of what kind of samples he throws -- a robot would just pick up rocks willy-nilly and throw them back to Earth. A human could look for pretty ones to throw.
Re: stroke -- shitty.
Re: input device -- I recall an input system in which various letter choices would appear based on the probability that they'd be useful, and maybe split the choices into a binary tree, so that you could reasonably quickly "type" by just moving your mouse up and down (and possibly clicking). If you could capture 3 separate commands, this could be co-opted pretty easily.
Workstation? How bout a Cell-based thinkpad? Especially the little one they want to pit against the Air. You'd need an external battery, but it would be *so* worth it. I'm still annoyed by the complete lack of quad-core laptops (except for the $3000, 50lb XTremeNotebook) out there. A Cell-based mini-thinkpad would save the frikkin' day!
And you think it will be any better on this 12-port beast? The brick for my speakers is stupidly 3"x4" and well over a pound. In the configuration of this thing, the only way it would fit is on the top of the surge protector -- it would block off the handle, or take up 4 ports. Or, it would cover 2 or 3 of the side ports, and kinda flop off the side, and probably come unplugged on a regular basis. No thanks, I go with the squid.
If it isn't vaporware, you'll never get any gas out of it!
Best job I've had; I wore t-shirts, jeans with holes (sometimes more holes than jeans), and never wore shoes when the sun was out. Best paying, too -- life was grand in the dot-com bubble. Now I'm back in school, and I still don't wear shoes when I don't feel like it. I was happy then, and I'm happy now -- I've got less money now, but I enjoy what I do (math) more than I ever liked that web dev gig.
He admitted to copying ideas, not code. Sorry to get your hopes up. ;)
Or, you could use a computer algebra system which has easy-to-use distributed computation built in already. Oh, did I mention, it's open source, so every single point above (with possible exception of software updates) is completely invalidated?
Actually, it's an AJ interface. Nobody actually uses XML. I think it's great -- of course, I'm one of the primary developers, so I've made it work pretty much how I like it. There are still some issues with it, but it's well over a year old, and pretty stable at this point. During the joint AMA/AMS meeting in San Diego, Eric Wesstein came up to the Sage booth, and said that he'd copied a bunch of stuff from Sage when he was working on the Combinatorica package. Now, it looks like they've copied a bunch of my ideas, too!
I think this is a beautiful thing. When William Stein started Sage, he wanted to beat Magma. Soon thereafter, he decided that he'd need to catch up to Mathematica. Now, less than 3 years later, they're racing to catch up to us...
Maybe he uses a laptop, and is content with his trackpad, so has never had an opportunity with a mouse? I, for one, use a trackball, and I would never think to mate with it. I think I'll have to think twice before sitting down to a friend's computer from now on... thanks a lot.
Do you doubt that I could measure my car to within a range of +/- 1 micrometer? No sweat. My micrometer is about 3.5 inches long, and my car is 5' tall, plus or minus an inch. That puts it at a height of 17.15 +/- 0.28 micrometers. No wonder shuttles keep crashing... you Americans know nothing about the metric system!
Apparently, a thing needs only be measured in nanometers to be considered "nano". My car is also nano-scale, being a scant 1524000000 nanometers tall!
I regularly wear two almost identical fleeces -- one has a zipper, one does not; also, I fly rather frequently. I've noticed that security *always* asks me to remove my zippered fleece, and never requires me to remove the one without the zipper. Every time, I think that I should wear a trench coat, and nothing more. They ask me to remove my coat, and I calmly comply, and proceed to the metal detector... but something tells me I'd get in *much* worse trouble than indecent exposure...
Hmm... that wasn't what the engineers meant when they added "tang" to the pre-flight checklist... but hey, it'd do for me!
Have you seen the results of what you linked to? Shitty, every one. It goes from blurry, to grainy -- w00! No information (re)gained. There is no free lunch.