The slow speed of analogue money is the buffer we all need, as electronic money move around too fast.
With ultrafast transactions only we would have the stock markets crash every few minutes, albeit after a few hundred millions, or billions of transactions.
The differently paced transactions may be a pain in the rear for stock brokers, but they have saved us all from even more disasters. Slow human brains cannot react within seconds to a system running amok.
Now, go away Bitcoin. It doesn't matter how much you track your Bitcoins. Speed kills. But this time it will be our common, globalized economy.
Thanks IBM for being in the forefront and publishing your research.
One thing though. I haven't read the paper, but are these results really reproducible today by other teams? Or is it something that only can bee seen with one particluar instrument as of today?
The step to other 'bad' texts is not far. Soon you can't say that Christians are really, really nice folks whereas the Jews and the Moslems are bad people and destroy the will Earth. Soon yoy can't say that atheists are the only well founded cynics. Soon you can't look for similarities between Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Dolly Parton, Patrick Dempsey, George W Bush, Pol Pot, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Johnny Weissmüller. Soon you can't find uncensored books. The step to other 'bad' texts is not far, so stop this reasoning about making it illegal to possess written accounts of child abuse. The small steps are more treacherous than you may think now.
Wrong... My fault. It is much, much more... They produce 57% of the theoretical maximum, which is a lot larger thanks to all the oxygen adding up with each carbon atom. Damn, I realized it right after pressing the send button...
"bacteria have consumed over 200,000 tons of oil and natural gas"
So, the bacteria have now produced over 114,000 tons of CO2...
As interpreted from "Effect of Environmental Parameters on the Biodegradation of Oil Sludge" (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC243289/pdf/aem00208-0071.pdf)
Here is an excerpt from an article called "Social Impact of an Eruption of Mount Fuji" (www.hiroi.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index-katudo-kyodo-kenkyu-hujisan-shakaiteki-eikyo-english.pdf)
"The current study focuses only on possible damage from ashfall in an eruption of Mt Fuji that is comparable to that in the Hoei Eruption. If there are other volcanic disasters such as landslides, lava flow and pyroclastic flow, the damage will be even greater. The important message sent out by this study is that even ashfall alone can cause severe damage: the social and economic impact will likely be felt by the entire nation, not just restricted to a local area around the mountain. The following topics will be important from a policy science perspective: 1) socioeconomic impact of interruptions to transportation and logistics including the expressways (Chuo, Tomei, Metropolitan), bullet trains, metropolitan and other train networks, and domestic as well as international air services; 2) verification of the primary and secondary types of damage postulated by this study; 3) closer study of damage to the manufacturing industry caused by the uncertainty perceived by suppliers and customers and damage to the tourism industry due to cancellations by consumers; and, 4) study of ash removal methods (based on experiences in past ashfalls) and their feasibility. The present paper is an interim report of the work to create an eruption scenario based on the interview-based surveys. It is our plan to conduct questionnaire studies of businesses, survey researches, interviews of local agencies in the areas of past ashfalls, and expert surveys in disaster-related fields. The scenario will be refined through critiques and discussions as a re sult of these further works. As far as the specific effects and implications of ashfall are concerned, the current study has based itself on interviews with disaster-prevention practitioners in companies, different levels of governments, and lifeline services. The following effects are left for future study: - implications on sewage-system overflow, flooding of rivers (problems in drainage when ashfall is followed by rain ); - estimated volume of ashfall that will settle on riverbeds (estimating the probability of flooding) ; - effects of volcanic ash on wireless communications and radio waves; - effects of volcanic ash on water quality; - effects of volcanic ash on outdoor precision equipment and automobiles and other machinery; - effects of volcanic ash on boilers and combustion systems (since ash affects airplane engines); and, - indoor pollution by volcanic ash and its effects on precision equipment indoors. It is, strictly speaking, important to conduct empirical studies in engineering and physical science on these topics, but apparently not too much has been done in this area. When more is known about these topics, the present scenario of ashfall damage equivalent to that in the Hoei Eruption could be further refined."
"Sweden’s development aid to Cambodia began in 1979. Humanitarian efforts have gradually given way to long-term cooperation. In the current cooperational strategy (2008-2010) our cooperation is focused on supporting reforms for decentralization and democratization, and human rights through support for the development of civil society and education."
"type RIGHT 90, FORWARD 100, LEFT 80 and within an hour he is programming and not realizing it"
Yes, you are correct. But remember, as long there is no GOTO statement it is a kind of programming. Otherwise it will end up as an Italian cooking class.
"we had a hard time believing there was no prior art, that there wasn't something out there before Apple. In fact we skipped that one so we could go on faster. It was bogging us down"
The Cool Persian Empire... Iranians used to be founders eternal pieces of culture for the world. Sadly, history is not enough... History doesn't matter if a mullah cut off your head or replaced it with his own head. The current regime of Iran not only is shit but reeks of it, literally.
Iran is readily by-passing their opponents from same shitty league, the Israelis. Arrogant bigotry blended with double standards and self-deceit. Ironic, isn't it? Two fairly intelligent shit-heads colliding... Netanyahu & Ahmadinejad, both puppets for even darker forces. None of them better than the other. Two evils don't make one good.
I hope both countries will have less belligerent leaders, very soon!
Slashdot Mirror
RedHat -> Mandrake -> Peanut -> Gentoo -> Debian
Not looking anywhere else since many years.
"As there is an absolute minimum, and no maximum"
So, you got that wrong, too... ;)
No, there is no absolute minimum. The IQ never reaches 0, it just approaches it.
You are correct however that there is no maximum.
The reason? For both - it is a quotient.
The slow speed of analogue money is the buffer we all need, as electronic money move around too fast.
With ultrafast transactions only we would have the stock markets crash every few minutes, albeit after a few hundred millions, or billions of transactions.
The differently paced transactions may be a pain in the rear for stock brokers, but they have saved us all from even more disasters. Slow human brains cannot react within seconds to a system running amok.
Now, go away Bitcoin. It doesn't matter how much you track your Bitcoins. Speed kills. But this time it will be our common, globalized economy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/opinion/sunday/kristof-the-foreign-relations-fumbler.html
"Mitt Romney spent the last week blowing up his foreign policy credentials to be president"
Is Mitt a twit or actually a candidate for the BotPrize? Would Mitt stand a Turing test?
Thanks IBM for being in the forefront and publishing your research.
One thing though. I haven't read the paper, but are these results really reproducible today by other teams? Or is it something that only can bee seen with one particluar instrument as of today?
Please, notify the European Commission.
I am positively sure they will not like this.
(I don't have any appropriate channels, otherwise I would have done it)
You are under arrest for providing with this example, under the doctrine of promoting and assisting crime. /FBI
Had this decision been made in 1994 I would have understood that they discuss it, at all.
Seeing this Slashdot headline in 2012 makes me more embarrased than showing off my jewelry in a public bath.
This makes me wonder how ageing those judges were.
Sorry, the credibility of Dutch Courts in this particular case is rated: LOW
Don't underestimate the Egyptians. I saw a documentary with Kurt Russell when I was small, the pyramids are the tips dug down space rockets.
You never know when you need to relax with a movie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Calm_(film)
The step to other 'bad' texts is not far. Soon you can't say that Christians are really, really nice folks whereas the Jews and the Moslems are bad people and destroy the will Earth. Soon yoy can't say that atheists are the only well founded cynics. Soon you can't look for similarities between Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Dolly Parton, Patrick Dempsey, George W Bush, Pol Pot, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Johnny Weissmüller. Soon you can't find uncensored books. The step to other 'bad' texts is not far, so stop this reasoning about making it illegal to possess written accounts of child abuse. The small steps are more treacherous than you may think now.
Wrong... My fault. It is much, much more... They produce 57% of the theoretical maximum, which is a lot larger thanks to all the oxygen adding up with each carbon atom. Damn, I realized it right after pressing the send button...
"bacteria have consumed over 200,000 tons of oil and natural gas"
So, the bacteria have now produced over 114,000 tons of CO2...
As interpreted from "Effect of Environmental Parameters on the Biodegradation of Oil Sludge"
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC243289/pdf/aem00208-0071.pdf)
Here is an excerpt from an article called "Social Impact of an Eruption of Mount Fuji"
(www.hiroi.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index-katudo-kyodo-kenkyu-hujisan-shakaiteki-eikyo-english.pdf)
"The current study focuses only on possible damage from ashfall in an eruption of Mt Fuji
that is comparable to that in the Hoei Eruption. If there are other volcanic disasters such
as landslides, lava flow and pyroclastic flow, the damage will be even greater. The
important message sent out by this study is that even ashfall alone can cause severe
damage: the social and economic impact will likely be felt by the entire nation, not just
restricted to a local area around the mountain.
The following topics will be important from a policy science perspective:
1) socioeconomic impact of interruptions to transportation and logistics including the
expressways (Chuo, Tomei, Metropolitan), bullet trains, metropolitan and other train
networks, and domestic as well as international air services;
2) verification of the primary and secondary types of damage postulated by this study;
3) closer study of damage to the manufacturing industry caused by the uncertainty
perceived by suppliers and customers and damage to the tourism industry due to
cancellations by consumers; and,
4) study of ash removal methods (based on experiences in past ashfalls) and their
feasibility.
The present paper is an interim report of the work to create an eruption scenario based on
the interview-based surveys. It is our plan to conduct questionnaire studies of
businesses, survey researches, interviews of local agencies in the areas of past ashfalls,
and expert surveys in disaster-related fields. The scenario will be refined through
critiques and discussions as a re sult of these further works.
As far as the specific effects and implications of ashfall are concerned, the current study
has based itself on interviews with disaster-prevention practitioners in companies,
different levels of governments, and lifeline services. The following effects are left for
future study:
- implications on sewage-system overflow, flooding of rivers (problems in
drainage when ashfall is followed by rain );
- estimated volume of ashfall that will settle on riverbeds (estimating the
probability of flooding) ;
- effects of volcanic ash on wireless communications and radio waves;
- effects of volcanic ash on water quality;
- effects of volcanic ash on outdoor precision equipment and automobiles
and other machinery;
- effects of volcanic ash on boilers and combustion systems (since ash
affects airplane engines); and,
- indoor pollution by volcanic ash and its effects on precision equipment
indoors.
It is, strictly speaking, important to conduct empirical studies in engineering and physical
science on these topics, but apparently not too much has been done in this area. When
more is known about these topics, the present scenario of ashfall damage equivalent to
that in the Hoei Eruption could be further refined."
They have indeed had more than enough of natural disasters, as well as self-triggered disasters.
http://www.sida.se/English/Countries-and-regions/Asia/Cambodia/Our-work-in-Cambodia/
"Sweden’s development aid to Cambodia began in 1979. Humanitarian efforts have gradually given way to long-term cooperation. In the current cooperational strategy (2008-2010) our cooperation is focused on supporting reforms for decentralization and democratization, and human rights through support for the development of civil society and education."
Since 1979? Hmmm. It has not been that effective.
You should pick Debian for 'new hotness'.
You also will if you're running the Debian version named Sid.
That is in fact the version used by Mint and Ubuntu when they roll their distributions.
So, it is in fact both hotter and cooler.
Still read this http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/12/20/5-reasons-why-debian-unstable-does-not-deserve-its-name/
"type RIGHT 90, FORWARD 100, LEFT 80 and within an hour he is programming and not realizing it"
Yes, you are correct. But remember, as long there is no GOTO statement it is a kind of programming. Otherwise it will end up as an Italian cooking class.
"My Grandmother runs KDE on Debian testing... "
My Grandfather runs KDE on Debian testing... Don't worry. My Grandmother still lives with him. :)
Are there Penrose "buckyballs", i.e. a version of the buckyball using the Penrose tiling?
I am not sure if they exist mathematically and have never seen them discussed anywhere.
"doesn't seem particularly realistic"?
Huh? Sun Tzu: Never underestimate your opponent
"The smoking ruins of Samsung's case"? Nope.
Samsung's case is not in ruins. There are so many errors that it is an appeal's dream.
To begin:
1. Prior art have been abundant, from Samsung and LG
2. The jury ignored the prior art as it was too tedious...
3. The jury tried to punish Samsung
etc.
No, there are no ruins here. Wait and see what happens in the appeal.
If I calculate 135257x15643 in my head, the correct answer is found pretty close to zero in five attempts. Is that good?
"we had a hard time believing there was no prior art, that there wasn't something out there before Apple. In fact we skipped that one so we could go on faster. It was bogging us down"
LOL!
Go Samsung, go jugular!
The Cool Persian Empire... Iranians used to be founders eternal pieces of culture for the world. Sadly, history is not enough... History doesn't matter if a mullah cut off your head or replaced it with his own head. The current regime of Iran not only is shit but reeks of it, literally.
Iran is readily by-passing their opponents from same shitty league, the Israelis. Arrogant bigotry blended with double standards and self-deceit. Ironic, isn't it? Two fairly intelligent shit-heads colliding... Netanyahu & Ahmadinejad, both puppets for even darker forces. None of them better than the other. Two evils don't make one good.
I hope both countries will have less belligerent leaders, very soon!