I wonder if the resolution on these mice is at all wavelength dependent. If it were, than a blue LED would be superior to a red LED, since blue is at about 400nm and red is closer to 700nm.
I do have to say that a blue LED mouse looks about 10X cooler than a red one. But it looks like this type of project will only interest serious modders who have some cash to spend.
During the explosion, a massive star dies and what remains is a compact stellar object that is composed entirely of neutrons -- the raw building blocks of matter.
Hmm, I never knew that neutrons were the raw building blocks of matter. Last I checked, they were just baryons (a class that also includes protons), and are themselves composed of constituent parts known as quarks (down and up quarks in this case).
This just goes to show the amount of science illiteracy that exists in our society. Even a journalist writing an article about a scientific discovery can't get basic concepts straight.
It also depends on how big the magnet is. For instance, I work with an 8 Tesla magnet, but it is actually only a uniform field over a very small distance (probably less than 2mm), and the field falls off quickly. There is a magnet at the Ohio State University Medical School that is also 8 Tesla, but has a considerably larger bore (big enough to fit a human body). This magnet is considerably more dangerous. It is so much larger that everything you are thinking of scales, but at a much 'slower' rate. In other words, you have to get much farther away from the big magnet than you do from the little one to escape magnetic field strengths strong enough to erase credit cards, even though both magnets have the same magnetic field.
Your eyes would be most likely accelerated at the same rate as the rest of your body, unless you were some how standing on your face on the surface of a very small, very cool, yet very massive star. Pretty bloody unlikely.
10^15 gauss is 10^11 Tesla. An MRI magnet (which is about the size of a large closet) puts out about 1.5 Tesla. The largest MRI magnet being proposed for use on humans is 8 Tesla, at the Ohio State University. This is still over 10 billion times smaller than 10^11 Tesla.
Just out of curiousity, where does that 100 billion Tesla number come from? I don't recall it from the article.
The worst of this whole debacle is when Fox had the "special" on TV about a year ago about whether the moon landing really was a hoax or not. Just adding fuel to a fire that should have burned itself out years ago.
Then again, since when our network executives concerned about what is good or bad TV, let alone good or bad science?
I wonder if they will be at all able to measure the speed of a graviton with this current setup. It seems as though they are having enough trouble just detecting them in the first place though. I think this is a first step towards a new branch of physics that uses gravitons in experiments. For instance, some spin-2 thermodynamics could be experimentally demonstrated if gravitrons could be isolated and easily detected. This is probably not going to happen any time soon, but LIGO is a big first step towards that goal.
I wonder what it tastes like... remember how when scientists found a few frozen wooly mammoth carcasses that they were able to get some meat and cook it? I don't think that is possible this time, but maybe in the future.
Interesting. I still am of the opinion that in the end a neural network model can be superior. Human chess players are not based on a deterministic model a la Fritz or Blue, yet still beat them. Then again, our neural network models do not accurately represent the network inside the human mind.
Think about a computer with the detmernisitic properties of Fritzy, coupled with an as-of-yet-unknown neural network model/algorithm, one superior to those of today. That could be a real challenge to the best of the best human players.
I'd really like to see a new breed of computer chess program. It seems that all of these programs such as Blue and Fritz are just brute force calculating machines. In a sense, they are purely deterministic.
I think it would be more interesting to see a chess program modeled after a neural network, that learns as humans do, via reinforcement. Or is it that these programs already do use neural networks to learn, rather than being strictly coded to follow a certain series of moves based on initial conditions?
I am not saying that this would be a better playing chess program, but it would seem more human-like.
Got it. Thank you much- you are an island of vocal reason in a sea of voiceless insanity. I think I will be taking a prolonged break from commenting for now- the smell of putridness still inundates my nostrils.
P.S. It's not that I accidently hit 'P' instead of 'A'- I just had a momentary brain fart, but I caught it after I posted within a minute, and fixed it. I said my bad. What more can one say? Wakko seems like the type that is unable to accept explanations or apologies- so the hell with him, and anyone else that is so caught up in themselves as to not see the forest thru the trees. So, till far in the future... goodbye.
Yeah no shit. Thanks for lowering my karma, but I guess I don't care what a bunch of geeks think about my faceless postings anyways. So once again, SUCK MY DICK. I ain't no troll, but if you do something bad to me for no good reason, goddamn right I am gonna bitch about it.
Sub-400 doesn't necessarily mean super-100 IQ, obviously. It's fucking amazing how an innocuous comment that was meant as a little joke can be turned into a flamewar by a geek more concerned with spelling and semantics than humor. Way to go, fuckface (Wacky). You only show why so many slashdotters are socially inept and fail in the real world as far as friends go. Definitely, you fall into this group.
Better my funny little comment than yet another genius saying first post or raving about bukkake. Don't forget that, loser. And for all those modder's out there, a big FUCK YOU to you too. Amazing how that post is off topic, trolling, over rated, etc. Just goes to show you how pessimistic and negative (not to be repetitive and redundant) you people are. Get back to your hand cream and internet porn, I know I will be bothering with./ a lot less in the future because of geek assholes like you.
Speaking of gripes, why don't you check out my self-correction underneath. My gripe is people who don't take the time to read the whole thread, just up to the part that ticks them off or somehow irritates them.
Yargh, talk about short notice- if you spent as much time reading as you did flapping your fingers on the keyboard, you might learn a thing or two.
Well, what do you expect when you take over a billion non-English speaking peeps and put them on an almost entirely English Internet. They must get hit by popups left and right when they go to out-of-country news sites, and the next thing you know, they are infected with spyware and/or viruses. Gotta pity those Chinamen.
I work on imaging biological proteins in micron to sub-micron regime. Very interesting technique that everyone here would be familiar with, but I won't say more about it till our group gets a published paper out. I just hope it works as well as we have seen so far in smaller and smaller length scales.
KFG, I find that fascinating. Makes me rescind something I have been telling people- that in order to succeed in physics at the Nobel level, you have to be a supergenius with an IQ over 160 (which I don't have). Guess that's no longer a good cop out for my mediocrity...especially since Feynman is one of my great personal physics heroes who drew me into this field in the first place.
Well, I guess my ethical IQ would be zero, since I have no religion.
That's bogus, and shows your bias. You don't need God/religion to be ethical. Most atheists are 10X more ethical than certain fundamentalists (especially kooky Christians who bomb abortion clinics, zealous Zionists who founded Israel via the terrorism they bitch about now, and morose Muslims that fly planes into tall buildings and blow up busses).
No shit. Thanks to the asshole who modded me down. Whatever- do you even read or have comprehension skills? Jackass.
PS- I feel bad for my mentor- I checked the Lucent roster and he somehow has managed to cling on after the many layoffs of thousands of workers. He also had several thousands of dollars tied up in stock options, which are now, of course, worthless. Stock options lead to corporate mismanagement, IMHO.
I worked at Bell Lab's for a summer as a physicist 2 years ago, and lemme tell you all, it was one of the most depressing job experiences of my life. Yeah, the pay was great, but the HR and finance has got a stranglehold on the scientists. It's all about meeting the bottom line now, and this is a result of that attitude. It's a simple equation:
Scientists+HR+business people==shit
People were getting laid off left and right, management had no idea what was going on, and the company was telling employees to buy stock options while the stock tanked from $60 to under a dollar. What a sad ending for one of the great American Research Labs.
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I do have to say that a blue LED mouse looks about 10X cooler than a red one. But it looks like this type of project will only interest serious modders who have some cash to spend.
Hmm, I never knew that neutrons were the raw building blocks of matter. Last I checked, they were just baryons (a class that also includes protons), and are themselves composed of constituent parts known as quarks (down and up quarks in this case).
This just goes to show the amount of science illiteracy that exists in our society. Even a journalist writing an article about a scientific discovery can't get basic concepts straight.
It also depends on how big the magnet is. For instance, I work with an 8 Tesla magnet, but it is actually only a uniform field over a very small distance (probably less than 2mm), and the field falls off quickly. There is a magnet at the Ohio State University Medical School that is also 8 Tesla, but has a considerably larger bore (big enough to fit a human body). This magnet is considerably more dangerous. It is so much larger that everything you are thinking of scales, but at a much 'slower' rate. In other words, you have to get much farther away from the big magnet than you do from the little one to escape magnetic field strengths strong enough to erase credit cards, even though both magnets have the same magnetic field.
Your eyes would be most likely accelerated at the same rate as the rest of your body, unless you were some how standing on your face on the surface of a very small, very cool, yet very massive star. Pretty bloody unlikely.
Just out of curiousity, where does that 100 billion Tesla number come from? I don't recall it from the article.
Then again, since when our network executives concerned about what is good or bad TV, let alone good or bad science?
I wonder if they will be at all able to measure the speed of a graviton with this current setup. It seems as though they are having enough trouble just detecting them in the first place though. I think this is a first step towards a new branch of physics that uses gravitons in experiments. For instance, some spin-2 thermodynamics could be experimentally demonstrated if gravitrons could be isolated and easily detected. This is probably not going to happen any time soon, but LIGO is a big first step towards that goal.
I wonder what it tastes like... remember how when scientists found a few frozen wooly mammoth carcasses that they were able to get some meat and cook it? I don't think that is possible this time, but maybe in the future.
Think about a computer with the detmernisitic properties of Fritzy, coupled with an as-of-yet-unknown neural network model/algorithm, one superior to those of today. That could be a real challenge to the best of the best human players.
I think it would be more interesting to see a chess program modeled after a neural network, that learns as humans do, via reinforcement. Or is it that these programs already do use neural networks to learn, rather than being strictly coded to follow a certain series of moves based on initial conditions?
I am not saying that this would be a better playing chess program, but it would seem more human-like.
P.S. It's not that I accidently hit 'P' instead of 'A'- I just had a momentary brain fart, but I caught it after I posted within a minute, and fixed it. I said my bad. What more can one say? Wakko seems like the type that is unable to accept explanations or apologies- so the hell with him, and anyone else that is so caught up in themselves as to not see the forest thru the trees. So, till far in the future... goodbye.
Sub-400 doesn't necessarily mean super-100 IQ, obviously. It's fucking amazing how an innocuous comment that was meant as a little joke can be turned into a flamewar by a geek more concerned with spelling and semantics than humor. Way to go, fuckface (Wacky). You only show why so many slashdotters are socially inept and fail in the real world as far as friends go. Definitely, you fall into this group.
Better my funny little comment than yet another genius saying first post or raving about bukkake. Don't forget that, loser. And for all those modder's out there, a big FUCK YOU to you too. Amazing how that post is off topic, trolling, over rated, etc. Just goes to show you how pessimistic and negative (not to be repetitive and redundant) you people are. Get back to your hand cream and internet porn, I know I will be bothering with ./ a lot less in the future because of geek assholes like you.
Yargh, talk about short notice- if you spent as much time reading as you did flapping your fingers on the keyboard, you might learn a thing or two.
WTF indeed! I meant DMCA, so my bad, and a big ole DOH on me.
Hey, I ain't no troll. The jerkoff who modded me down as such CAN SUCK MY DICK. Learn how to use mod points correctly, jackass.
Watch out, the next thing you know the DMCP will be attacking scanners too, hand-held or not.
Well, what do you expect when you take over a billion non-English speaking peeps and put them on an almost entirely English Internet. They must get hit by popups left and right when they go to out-of-country news sites, and the next thing you know, they are infected with spyware and/or viruses. Gotta pity those Chinamen.
I work on imaging biological proteins in micron to sub-micron regime. Very interesting technique that everyone here would be familiar with, but I won't say more about it till our group gets a published paper out. I just hope it works as well as we have seen so far in smaller and smaller length scales.
KFG, I find that fascinating. Makes me rescind something I have been telling people- that in order to succeed in physics at the Nobel level, you have to be a supergenius with an IQ over 160 (which I don't have). Guess that's no longer a good cop out for my mediocrity...especially since Feynman is one of my great personal physics heroes who drew me into this field in the first place.
Well, I guess my ethical IQ would be zero, since I have no religion. That's bogus, and shows your bias. You don't need God/religion to be ethical. Most atheists are 10X more ethical than certain fundamentalists (especially kooky Christians who bomb abortion clinics, zealous Zionists who founded Israel via the terrorism they bitch about now, and morose Muslims that fly planes into tall buildings and blow up busses).
They could have Bob Barker as the host! Come on up!
Yikes! Think about how long it must have taken to partition that hard drive! Someone must have had a LOT of time on their hands...
PS- I feel bad for my mentor- I checked the Lucent roster and he somehow has managed to cling on after the many layoffs of thousands of workers. He also had several thousands of dollars tied up in stock options, which are now, of course, worthless. Stock options lead to corporate mismanagement, IMHO.
The implications!!!
Scientists+HR+business people==shit
People were getting laid off left and right, management had no idea what was going on, and the company was telling employees to buy stock options while the stock tanked from $60 to under a dollar. What a sad ending for one of the great American Research Labs.