"Researchers have created the world's thinnest pane of glass—and it looks oddly familiar. The glass, made of silicon and oxygen, formed accidentally when the scientists were making graphene, an atom-thick sheet of carbon, on copper-covered quartz. They believe an air leak caused the copper to react with the quartz, which is also made of silicon and oxygen, producing a glass layer with the graphene. The glass is a mere three atoms thick—the minimum thickness of silica glass—which makes it two-dimensional. [...] In addition to demonstrating how graphene makes it possible to produce previously unfeasible 2D-materials, ultra-thin glass could be used in semiconductor or graphene transistors."
How come I agree with that fuckup RMS, everytime! He is an asshole for thinking like me. I came up with those idas too, albeit later, yet independently. Fuck that, RMS.;)
"None of the lake's fish were killed or stunned by the shots, and instruments installed at a dam 1.4 kilometers away from the test site showed that peak ground accelerations were far below those detectable by humans"
Impressive, and probably cheaper and less risky than dynamite. No animals were harmed.
"While American troops guarded the Ministries of Oil"
That is what happens when you think cowboys are the epitome of culture. Still:
"In the months preceding the 2003 Iraq war, starting in December and January, various antiquities experts, including representatives from the American Council for Cultural Policy asked the Pentagon and the UK government to ensure the museum's safety from both combat and looting. Although promises were not made, U.S. forces did avoid bombing the site. On April 8, 2003 the last of the museum staff left the museum. Iraqi forces engaged U.S. forces from within the museum, as well as the nearby Special Republican Guard compound. Lt. Col. Eric Schwartz of the U.S. third Infantry Division stated that he was unable to enter the compound and secure it since they attempted to avoid returning fire at the building."
"According to museum officials the looters concentrated on the heart of the exhibition: "the Warka Vase, a Sumerian alabaster piece more than 5,000 years old; a bronze Uruk statue from the Acadian period, also 5,000 years old, which weighs 660 pounds; and the headless statue of Entemena. The Harp of Ur was torn apart by looters who removed its gold inlay."[3] Among the stolen artifacts is the Bassetki statue made out of bronze, a life-size statue of a young man, originally found in the village Basitke in the northern part of Iraq, an Acadian piece that goes back to 2300 B.C. and the stone statue of King Schalmanezer, from the eighth century B.C. In addition, the museum's aboveground storage rooms were looted; the exterior steel doors showed no signs of forced entry. Approximately 3,100 excavation site pieces (jars, vessels, pottery shards, etc.) were stolen, of which over 3,000 have been recovered. The thefts did not appear to be discriminating; for example, an entire shelf of fakes was stolen, while an adjacent shelf of much greater value was undisturbed."
I guess these cowboys did what they could to protect the museum, but "forgot" about other parts of culture, like the university library. Protecting that oil must have appeared as more important.
Researchers Misunderstand Confidence Intervals and Standard Error Bars. Belia, Sarah;Fidler, Fiona;Williams, Jennifer;Cumming, Geoff Psychological Methods, Vol 10(4), Dec 2005, 389-396.
Little is known about researchers' understanding of confidence intervals (CIs) and standard error (SE) bars. Authors of journal articles in psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and medicine were invited to visit a Web site where they adjusted a figure until they judged 2 means, with error bars, to be just statistically significantly different (p.05). Results from 473 respondents suggest that many leading researchers have severe misconceptions about how error bars relate to statistical significance, do not adequately distinguish CIs and SE bars, and do not appreciate the importance of whether the 2 means are independent or come from a repeated measures design. Better guidelines for researchers and less ambiguous graphical conventions are needed before the advantages of CIs for research communication can be realized.
It does make sense that the report should come from a Swedish scientist, for credibility.
It was probably planted. An American or South Korean scientist would not have gained the same credibility, even if they most likely have been in the knowing for very long.
Why Swedish? Well, Hans Blix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Blix), who screwed Geogre Bush "the lesser", when they spoke of weapons of mass destruction was Swedish. That made Bush "the lesser" look like a cunt without a hole.
Now, another, albeit younger Swede may provide the small-dicked brat in charge of North Korea with a look like that one too.
Don't show it to Apple, they will patent it. Oh no, it is the ever so anti-anttrustlaw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law) Microsoft-Apple pact behind it.. Ever so sorry, false flag.
EU has many more languages with a printing tradition than the US. Essentially USA is English with some influx from the myriad of minorities. EU has more than 30+ languages, each with a long and unique printing tradition. Because of the cultural diversity, and the slower pace with which ideas transfer cross the language barrier there is a greater diversity than in the printed monoculture of the US. Spanish Latin America is somewhat similar, yet more diverse than the US due to the fact that these are sovereign nations.
Still, this doesn't mean that UK magazines more readily borrows from the rest of Europe than American magazines do. So, I believe the number of EU languages has little to do with this, thinking of it again...:) [I didn't want to delete what I had just written, it _sounded_ nice...]
In fact, it has been my impression that American magazines have way more ads (sorry, way way more ads) but more readable content because the larger number of subscribers. Some monthly magazines have like 200+ pages, with perhaps 50% ads, which very few EU magazines have.
The reason is probably that the number of pan-US publishers has gone down, because of market forces. Dog-eat-dog. The headline "Because of the cultural diversity?" probably is misleading in one sense, but the governments in the EU tend to defend the small publishers using e.g. tax reductions, just to retain that headline cultural diversity, after all.
"Sorry, but anecdotal evidence of regional temperature changes do not a global average make."
Sorry, but the models predict that the global warming will lead to, hold on, regional temperature changes which actually do a global average make.
In fact, the changes will also be more severe around the northern hemisphere, as the Roaring 40s around Antarctica apparently level out the effect thee.
The main shifts in temperature are predicted to happen in the northern hemisphere, but still strong enough to change the mean global temperature.
The sea north of Siberia is opening up, for the benefit of transport! So, some in the industry are already using the global warming. Russia is planning expanding some of these harbors for summer traffic.
So, even if those WSJ jerks are wrong, there are some beneficial outcomes. Not all parts in the world suffer from droughts or desertification.
Still, the poor people in Nevada, California, Spain, Italy and elsewhere will suffer from an even drier climate.
The winners are the already affluent people in high latitudes, with an already booming industry.
The log at http://righthaven.com/ must be a Portuguese man o' war (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Man_o%27_War) which is a carnivore using its venomous tentacles, a man o' war traps and paralyzes its prey.
Soon these nuts will refer to Batman, Wolverine, Jesus, Jack Daniel's, Buddha, Green Lantern or whatever deity is in vogue in Texas. Santa Claus? Who knows.
Speaking of unconventional design, why don't we see hexagonal or triangular CPU-designs? All I have seen are the Manhattan-like designs. Are these really the best? Embedding the CPU inside a hexagonal/triangular DRAM design should be possible too. What would be the trade-offs?
Iran currently has one among the most insulting and desecrating governments on planet Earth.
It is one among many countries who detain foreign nationals without a proper legal system, and like many other 3rd world countries it has retained the death penalty.
How many countries act on these lethal principles? I don't know, but the list is long and is typically related to countries where the populace and those who believe in supernatural forces have a say on the political agenda.
Intel is a tremendous contributor the the open source world!
Intel, due the lacklustre performance of AMD CPU performance holds back on its releases of multiple CPUs; think of the two(!) inactive cores in the latest series. Not, because they think AMD are good guys, but Intel's CPU are so much better they could have readily killed off AMD, using bad tactics used by other comapnies. But, Intel are intelligent people, unlike many other's in the industry. Intel keeps the competition at a safe distance, in the CPU arena.
In the GPU corner it is a different matter. nVidia has some recent success in the top500 charts, and of course has a big chunk of the top-end of the GPU market. AMD also has a big chunk of the top end GPU market. In the mid and low segment, it is very different. There Intel has gained a very big chunk, thanks to its ever improving integrated graphic parts of the recent CPUs. AMD is showing some even more impressive steps, with their latest offerings. Unlike Intel or AMD, nVidia has no genuine part of the mass-market mid or low segment CPU market.
ARM? ARM is a newcomer to the consumer level market, in the sense of home PC, gaining traction from below, originally as the main force in the mass-production of low-end kitchen hardware CPU space. Recent progress in the mobile space has made it possible, in part thanks to the hardware abstraction of Android, to also get some attention from Microsoft and others. Now, they are also getting some attention from the server market. So, they, are after a new market,which traditionally was closed to them. ARM is very new to the graphics market and I wasn't really aware these processors had such capacity beyond the mobile space.
So, in light of that it was good to see some open source efforts on that hardware too!
If I understand the situation correct, Intel, AMD and nVidia all retain their closed, proprietary binaries in parallel with any open source effort. Where would ARM be different in that? Or did I misunderstand something. Maybe i did, but please enlighten me beyond referring to "the summary" or "the title", which do not contradict what i understood. Or do they? I just don't see it.
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But? What is the benefit of 24-bit Voxel over 32-bit or 64-bit voxels? Or was that name created when the 16-bit Voxels were all the rage?
"Researchers have created the world's thinnest pane of glass—and it looks oddly familiar. The glass, made of silicon and oxygen, formed accidentally when the scientists were making graphene, an atom-thick sheet of carbon, on copper-covered quartz. They believe an air leak caused the copper to react with the quartz, which is also made of silicon and oxygen, producing a glass layer with the graphene. The glass is a mere three atoms thick—the minimum thickness of silica glass—which makes it two-dimensional. [...] In addition to demonstrating how graphene makes it possible to produce previously unfeasible 2D-materials, ultra-thin glass could be used in semiconductor or graphene transistors."
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/scienceshot-two-dimensional-glass.html
How about three atoms thick glass as an insulator between graphene layers?
How come I agree with that fuckup RMS, everytime! He is an asshole for thinking like me. I came up with those idas too, albeit later, yet independently. Fuck that, RMS. ;)
"None of the lake's fish were killed or stunned by the shots, and instruments installed at a dam 1.4 kilometers away from the test site showed that peak ground accelerations were far below those detectable by humans"
Impressive, and probably cheaper and less risky than dynamite. No animals were harmed.
Good work!
"While American troops guarded the Ministries of Oil"
That is what happens when you think cowboys are the epitome of culture. Still:
"In the months preceding the 2003 Iraq war, starting in December and January, various antiquities experts, including representatives from the American Council for Cultural Policy asked the Pentagon and the UK government to ensure the museum's safety from both combat and looting. Although promises were not made, U.S. forces did avoid bombing the site. On April 8, 2003 the last of the museum staff left the museum. Iraqi forces engaged U.S. forces from within the museum, as well as the nearby Special Republican Guard compound. Lt. Col. Eric Schwartz of the U.S. third Infantry Division stated that he was unable to enter the compound and secure it since they attempted to avoid returning fire at the building."
"According to museum officials the looters concentrated on the heart of the exhibition: "the Warka Vase, a Sumerian alabaster piece more than 5,000 years old; a bronze Uruk statue from the Acadian period, also 5,000 years old, which weighs 660 pounds; and the headless statue of Entemena. The Harp of Ur was torn apart by looters who removed its gold inlay."[3] Among the stolen artifacts is the Bassetki statue made out of bronze, a life-size statue of a young man, originally found in the village Basitke in the northern part of Iraq, an Acadian piece that goes back to 2300 B.C. and the stone statue of King Schalmanezer, from the eighth century B.C. In addition, the museum's aboveground storage rooms were looted; the exterior steel doors showed no signs of forced entry. Approximately 3,100 excavation site pieces (jars, vessels, pottery shards, etc.) were stolen, of which over 3,000 have been recovered. The thefts did not appear to be discriminating; for example, an entire shelf of fakes was stolen, while an adjacent shelf of much greater value was undisturbed."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Iraq#Damage_and_losses_during_2003_war
I guess these cowboys did what they could to protect the museum, but "forgot" about other parts of culture, like the university library. Protecting that oil must have appeared as more important.
Researchers Misunderstand Confidence Intervals and Standard Error Bars.
Belia, Sarah;Fidler, Fiona;Williams, Jennifer;Cumming, Geoff
Psychological Methods, Vol 10(4), Dec 2005, 389-396.
Little is known about researchers' understanding of confidence intervals (CIs) and standard error (SE) bars. Authors of journal articles in psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and medicine were invited to visit a Web site where they adjusted a figure until they judged 2 means, with error bars, to be just statistically significantly different (p .05). Results from 473 respondents suggest that many leading researchers have severe misconceptions about how error bars relate to statistical significance, do not adequately distinguish CIs and SE bars, and do not appreciate the importance of whether the 2 means are independent or come from a repeated measures design. Better guidelines for researchers and less ambiguous graphical conventions are needed before the advantages of CIs for research communication can be realized.
(http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/met/10/4/389/)
It does make sense that the report should come from a Swedish scientist, for credibility.
It was probably planted. An American or South Korean scientist would not have gained the same credibility, even if they most likely have been in the knowing for very long.
Why Swedish? Well, Hans Blix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Blix), who screwed Geogre Bush "the lesser", when they spoke of weapons of mass destruction was Swedish. That made Bush "the lesser" look like a cunt without a hole.
Now, another, albeit younger Swede may provide the small-dicked brat in charge of North Korea with a look like that one too.
Don't show it to Apple, they will patent it. Oh no, it is the ever so anti-anttrustlaw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law) Microsoft-Apple pact behind it.. Ever so sorry, false flag.
What if we go there? 4.5 G?
It woukld take some excersise and quite a few generation in low gravity space before we reach that high gravity Earth2...
Just one of many practical issues.
(No, I don't think we'll ever reach it; 22 light years)
"Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist"
Or simply wanking to porn. Who wants to be disturbed by CIA/FBI when touching one's genitals?
"'Used to be' is a past tense."
Yes. Here are some trends.
List of Economies by Incremental Nominal GDP from 1990 to 2000
United States 41.37%
Japan 16.04%
European Union 14.48%
China 8.05%
List of Economies by Incremental Nominal GDP from 2000 to 2010
European Union 25.24%
China 15.25%
United States 14.91%
Brazil 4.72%
Predictive List of Economies by Incremental Nominal GDP from 2010 to 2016
China 20.59%
European Union 16.77%
United States 12.99%
Russia 5.61%
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_economy
I guess there is some relation to the viability of printed magazines in all this.
"'Medieval warming period' was NOT evidence of pre-industrial climate change."
Strange. Never heard that. To me it looks like a climate change. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/2000_Year_Temperature_Comparison.png
Still, the sharp rise the last century is not similar to the rise of the MWP.
"Oh, yea. I forgot that AGW is a religion."
I relegate religions to the religious.
AGW is testable and refutable and therefore has some true meaning, as part of science.
Religions have no virtues.
"the US isn't the ENTIRE WORLD, YOU KNOW"
No, but the US used to be one third of the world economy, i.e. before China came along.
EU has many more languages with a printing tradition than the US. Essentially USA is English with some influx from the myriad of minorities. EU has more than 30+ languages, each with a long and unique printing tradition. Because of the cultural diversity, and the slower pace with which ideas transfer cross the language barrier there is a greater diversity than in the printed monoculture of the US. Spanish Latin America is somewhat similar, yet more diverse than the US due to the fact that these are sovereign nations.
Still, this doesn't mean that UK magazines more readily borrows from the rest of Europe than American magazines do. So, I believe the number of EU languages has little to do with this, thinking of it again... :) [I didn't want to delete what I had just written, it _sounded_ nice...]
In fact, it has been my impression that American magazines have way more ads (sorry, way way more ads) but more readable content because the larger number of subscribers. Some monthly magazines have like 200+ pages, with perhaps 50% ads, which very few EU magazines have.
The reason is probably that the number of pan-US publishers has gone down, because of market forces. Dog-eat-dog. The headline "Because of the cultural diversity?" probably is misleading in one sense, but the governments in the EU tend to defend the small publishers using e.g. tax reductions, just to retain that headline cultural diversity, after all.
"Sorry, but anecdotal evidence of regional temperature changes do not a global average make."
Sorry, but the models predict that the global warming will lead to, hold on, regional temperature changes which actually do a global average make.
In fact, the changes will also be more severe around the northern hemisphere, as the Roaring 40s around Antarctica apparently level out the effect thee.
The main shifts in temperature are predicted to happen in the northern hemisphere, but still strong enough to change the mean global temperature.
False flag.
"The lack of warming for more than a decade" is contradicted by e.g.
"An increasing amount of seaborne traffic is moving along a new Siberian coastal route, cutting journey time and boosting trade prospects"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/05/arctic-shipping-trade-routes
The sea north of Siberia is opening up, for the benefit of transport! So, some in the industry are already using the global warming. Russia is planning expanding some of these harbors for summer traffic.
So, even if those WSJ jerks are wrong, there are some beneficial outcomes. Not all parts in the world suffer from droughts or desertification.
Still, the poor people in Nevada, California, Spain, Italy and elsewhere will suffer from an even drier climate.
The winners are the already affluent people in high latitudes, with an already booming industry.
The log at http://righthaven.com/ must be a Portuguese man o' war (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Man_o%27_War) which is a carnivore using its venomous tentacles, a man o' war traps and paralyzes its prey.
Brilliant!
I hope Apple won't patent bandwidth guzzling, as it would make their application steal the room left for others. But, since it is Apple, who knows...
Microsoft's Scarface, yes that is how I first read it, honestly. That it may also be considered offensive, I take that as a bonus.
What can you think of rhyming with "Microsoft's Scarface"?
"Mind you, I've tried, IIRC, 4.1, 4.2 or 4.3 and 4.4 or 4.5 and haven't liked it in any of those, over 3.5"
Mind you, I've tried, IIRC, Gnome 1.x and haven't liked it in any of those, over 1.0x
so, what or where does this matter? KDE is better, but not the main target funding for RedHat or Ubuntu. That is it.
Soon these nuts will refer to Batman, Wolverine, Jesus, Jack Daniel's, Buddha, Green Lantern or whatever deity is in vogue in Texas. Santa Claus? Who knows.
Speaking of unconventional design, why don't we see hexagonal or triangular CPU-designs? All I have seen are the Manhattan-like designs. Are these really the best? Embedding the CPU inside a hexagonal/triangular DRAM design should be possible too. What would be the trade-offs?
Yet another 3rd world reaction to the eternal pornographic issue - my deity is larger than yours.
Globalized injustice...
Iran currently has one among the most insulting and desecrating governments on planet Earth.
It is one among many countries who detain foreign nationals without a proper legal system, and like many other 3rd world countries it has retained the death penalty.
How many countries act on these lethal principles? I don't know, but the list is long and is typically related to countries where the populace and those who believe in supernatural forces have a say on the political agenda.
The way I saw it:
Intel is a tremendous contributor the the open source world!
Intel, due the lacklustre performance of AMD CPU performance holds back on its releases of multiple CPUs; think of the two(!) inactive cores in the latest series. Not, because they think AMD are good guys, but Intel's CPU are so much better they could have readily killed off AMD, using bad tactics used by other comapnies. But, Intel are intelligent people, unlike many other's in the industry. Intel keeps the competition at a safe distance, in the CPU arena.
In the GPU corner it is a different matter. nVidia has some recent success in the top500 charts, and of course has a big chunk of the top-end of the GPU market. AMD also has a big chunk of the top end GPU market. In the mid and low segment, it is very different. There Intel has gained a very big chunk, thanks to its ever improving integrated graphic parts of the recent CPUs. AMD is showing some even more impressive steps, with their latest offerings. Unlike Intel or AMD, nVidia has no genuine part of the mass-market mid or low segment CPU market.
ARM? ARM is a newcomer to the consumer level market, in the sense of home PC, gaining traction from below, originally as the main force in the mass-production of low-end kitchen hardware CPU space. Recent progress in the mobile space has made it possible, in part thanks to the hardware abstraction of Android, to also get some attention from Microsoft and others. Now, they are also getting some attention from the server market. So, they, are after a new market,which traditionally was closed to them. ARM is very new to the graphics market and I wasn't really aware these processors had such capacity beyond the mobile space.
So, in light of that it was good to see some open source efforts on that hardware too!
If I understand the situation correct, Intel, AMD and nVidia all retain their closed, proprietary binaries in parallel with any open source effort. Where would ARM be different in that? Or did I misunderstand something. Maybe i did, but please enlighten me beyond referring to "the summary" or "the title", which do not contradict what i understood. Or do they? I just don't see it.