As a consumer I don't really give a crap which formats are out as long as I can make use of the HDTV that I wasted $thousands on. After more than a year I still have not seen a HDTV signal displayed on it!
Stop screwing around and gimmie my movies in HDTV!
It could be perfectly "clean" if we use hydrogen-boron instead of deuterium-tritium. Then we would get out low energy particles that can do work directly against an EM field rather than irradiating blankets to boil water. That is, the energy would be converted almost directly to electricity. Of course a tokamak design would need to be much bigger than ITER for this to work.
The main reason that we've been "20+ years from having fusion power for about 50 years now" is because of the lack of funding. The entire fusion budget for the entire U.S.A. is a mere $250 million per year. Compare that with the funding of particle physics which is well into the billions. Or one could compare this with funding for weapons research under the guise of science. This distressing history coupled with the absolute necessity to move away from our dependence on fossil fuels for energy is what has led to such a massive international collaboration. And personally I feel that the actual scientists involved (who have no political problems with each other) should all be greatly commended for their contribution mankind.
He was an asshole by medievil standards (even though his time was technically post-medievil) which means that by today's standards he would be a tyrant. He was responsible for many deaths as a warden of the royal mint. He also used his power to suppress (and possibly steal) the work of other scientists. After Leibniz died Newton claimed to have enjoyed "breaking his heart".
Yes, but the receiver would get nothing but noise since you cannot control the direction of spin. You'll have only a probability of the spin being in a specific direction. So you cannot modulate the signal to send information. The receiver will only have corresponding results if you compare notes later. That is, sender and receiver will always have corresponding states of their entangled particles, but because the states are random they cannot carry information.
It's presently a metaphysical question about how entangled particles always match states over long distances. This "quantum nonlocality" is one of the greatest scientific mysteries of the world.
Have you seen the prices of textbooks lately? They keep making unnecessary new editions (that actually degrade the texts) so they can keep jacking up the prices. Even after the authors die they let other authors desecrate it to keep selling new editions. Few textbooks are under $100 nowadays. There is no way they can cost anywhere near that much to publish. They've also tried suing libraries numerous times.
And the publishers are constantly screwing authors. Look here for an example: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/erics_commentary.html
They're not looking for "radio" as in RIAA top 40. They're looking for modulated electromagnetic radiation - of which radio is only a particular subset. And our use of it is far from being "on the way out." All communications are based on it including optical. In fact, the amount of radiation we put out is increasing. Unless you're using sonar you're spilling EM radiation out into space.
There are way too many comparisons of information-sharers to hardened criminals. Don't you think there may be just a slight difference in magnitude?
A more appropriate analogy would be looking over someone's shoulder to get the time from their watch without their permission. This is quite a different "crime" than stealing the watch off their hand - or worse, killing them for it.
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It is correct that any number can come next in that sequence or any other. This is called the Matiyasevich-Robinson theorem.
They have 2 models: one that burns DVD-R/Ram and one that doesn't. They both have TIVO built-in.
Look here:
http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/news/newsarticle.asp?n ewsid=120
Toshiba will also release a similar recorder for $599 as well as a player/tivo device for only $299.
http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/news/newsarticle.asp?n ewsid=107
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As a consumer I don't really give a crap which formats are out as long as I can make use of the HDTV that I wasted $thousands on. After more than a year I still have not seen a HDTV signal displayed on it!
Stop screwing around and gimmie my movies in HDTV!
It could be perfectly "clean" if we use hydrogen-boron instead of deuterium-tritium. Then we would get out low energy particles that can do work directly against an EM field rather than irradiating blankets to boil water. That is, the energy would be converted almost directly to electricity. Of course a tokamak design would need to be much bigger than ITER for this to work.
... In the beautiful south of France or in the Japanese countryside 200km from anywhere?
The main reason that we've been "20+ years from having fusion power for about 50 years now" is because of the lack of funding. The entire fusion budget for the entire U.S.A. is a mere $250 million per year. Compare that with the funding of particle physics which is well into the billions. Or one could compare this with funding for weapons research under the guise of science. This distressing history coupled with the absolute necessity to move away from our dependence on fossil fuels for energy is what has led to such a massive international collaboration. And personally I feel that the actual scientists involved (who have no political problems with each other) should all be greatly commended for their contribution mankind.
because if they can do martial arts they can fsck your brains out..
He was an asshole by medievil standards (even though his time was technically post-medievil) which means that by today's standards he would be a tyrant. He was responsible for many deaths as a warden of the royal mint. He also used his power to suppress (and possibly steal) the work of other scientists. After Leibniz died Newton claimed to have enjoyed "breaking his heart".
That we like it is reason enough. Regardless, it is quite sad and shocking that the value of the internet is not obvious to most people.
Yes, but the receiver would get nothing but noise since you cannot control the direction of spin. You'll have only a probability of the spin being in a specific direction. So you cannot modulate the signal to send information. The receiver will only have corresponding results if you compare notes later. That is, sender and receiver will always have corresponding states of their entangled particles, but because the states are random they cannot carry information. It's presently a metaphysical question about how entangled particles always match states over long distances. This "quantum nonlocality" is one of the greatest scientific mysteries of the world.
Have you seen the prices of textbooks lately? They keep making unnecessary new editions (that actually degrade the texts) so they can keep jacking up the prices. Even after the authors die they let other authors desecrate it to keep selling new editions. Few textbooks are under $100 nowadays. There is no way they can cost anywhere near that much to publish. They've also tried suing libraries numerous times. And the publishers are constantly screwing authors. Look here for an example: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/erics_commentary.html
Damn! You're on your way to either a Nobel prize, or violent mental breakdown. In either case don't you think your solution is a bit too sociopathic?
They're not looking for "radio" as in RIAA top 40. They're looking for modulated electromagnetic radiation - of which radio is only a particular subset. And our use of it is far from being "on the way out." All communications are based on it including optical. In fact, the amount of radiation we put out is increasing. Unless you're using sonar you're spilling EM radiation out into space.
There are way too many comparisons of information-sharers to hardened criminals. Don't you think there may be just a slight difference in magnitude? A more appropriate analogy would be looking over someone's shoulder to get the time from their watch without their permission. This is quite a different "crime" than stealing the watch off their hand - or worse, killing them for it.
It is correct that any number can come next in that sequence or any other. This is called the Matiyasevich-Robinson theorem.
They have 2 models: one that burns DVD-R/Ram and one that doesn't. They both have TIVO built-in. Look here: http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/news/newsarticle.asp?n ewsid=120
Toshiba will also release a similar recorder for $599 as well as a player/tivo device for only $299. http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/news/newsarticle.asp?n ewsid=107