The characteristic timescales are remarkably similar when you think about. The brain has massively parrelel transmissions but each packet is sent with delays measured in the low milliseconds and each "message" containing a few bytes at most. Typical ping times between servers with decent connectivity are going to give you delays around 10ms and the average package size is ~1.6kB. The only real difference is that the brain currently has orders of magnitude more nodes than the internet. But at some point in the near future, this may cease to be true.
OE is great... just like several MS games are great... just like NT is pretty good... the reason? 'Cause they were not originally developed internally but instead were purchased. Of course this argument only goes so far, as MS tend to purchase a lot of inferior products as well.
Where is the crest of a wave after the wave has broken on the shore? What is its speed?
Sort of depends on the shore, but generally speaking the wave is reflected with some attenuation (granted on the ocean shore the attenuation is large); thus, to answer your question, the crest of the wave is traveling away from the shore, at an angle normal to the angle of incidence, at its original speed.
Why are (were) there no devices for the Palm OS to have more than 8Mb? Simple, the Motorola MC68328 and MC68EZ328 were not capable of supporting more than 8Mb. This is not a problem for the new MC68VZ328 that is in the m500 and m505 as well as the Visor's.
While I'm talking hardware, I should point out that 90% of the current posts here are mute by the fact that Palm will be soon using Arm processors (either through Intel XScale or Motorola's up-and-coming Arm Dragonball hybrids.) The new generation of Palm's will have similar hardware performance to the PocketPC's The new chipsets will have at least 50x MIPS with less watts drawn. They will be 32-bit rather than 16/32-bit hybrids. They will have a much more modern architecture than the previous uP's including: superscalar pipeline, data and instruction caches, BPU, etc... The advantage of switching to modern hardware is that the Palm Os can be improved dramatically; in the next year, Palm will release a new OS designed for this hardware. Although the hardware is not backward compatible with the Dragonball series, the new devices will be backward compatible through emulation (think 68k -> PowerPC on Mac's.)
Ergo, in the next year we will either see Palm run out of money and fail utterly or have a hardware platform of performance similar to the PocketPC with a vastly improved OS to boot.
I had the very same thought, and looked through the paper for details. The closest this issue was addressed is as follows:
"If the cause is dark matter, it is hard to understand. A spherically-symmetric distribution of matter which goes as p~r^(-1)produces a constant acceleration inside the distribution. To produce our anomalous acceleration even only out to 50 AU would require the total dark matter to be greater than 3*10^(-4) solar masses. But this is in conflict with the accuracy of the ephemeris, which allows only of order a few times 10^(-6) solar masses of dark matter even within the orbit of Uranus."
Although this is in reference to dark matter rather than solar wind, I doubt the influence would be significantly different. So the total solar wind would have to have a mass of 330 earth masses within a radius of 50 AU, but only around 1 earth mass within the radius of Uranus (19 AU). This would require an average solar wind density of ~10^(-6) g/cm^3 within the 50 AU radius. Unfortunately this exceeds solar wind densities by many orders of magnitude (typically a few ions per cm^3.)
Oh, yeah noticed it right off the bat. The paper was a funny read for anyone with a background in signal processing. The SDMI should definitely be worried. While it took some ingenuity to determine what scheme was being employed. Most undergrad EE's and some CE's armed with this paper could write the necessary filters to remove the watermarks.
If the problem WERE the internet, violent games, media, etc. then wouldn't we also expect to see an alarming rise in school shootings in other 1st world coutries.
That we do not see this trend makes for a compelling case against placing the blame on these factors.
The article may not have mentioned matter transport, but the link to the IOP did. I know it is considered de rigueur to blast Hemos et al for not properly reading the articles before posting, but it is quite ironic for you to make the same mistake.
Experiments also indicate that microstructured fibres like holey fibres could be used to guide atoms. A fibre is made with four holes in a square and a central hole. A wire is inserted in each of the four outer holes and a current passed through it. This creates a magnetic field that can guide atoms through the central channel. Proof of principle experiments have shown that this is possible, but research here is only just beginning. Ultimately, the technique could provide a way of measuring gravitational fields with unprecedented accuracy.
If youf find Danikens interesting, then you want have much trouble stomaching the Aquatic Ape Theory. Although discredited by most mainstream anthropologist, if correct, it can answer many of the questions as to why how and where we 'poppep up'. see: Aquatic Ape Info
Nope the skull has a flatter face than the Australopithecus. 'Platy' comes from Greek and is a prefix for flat or broad (same root as plate, incidentaly). Kenyanthropus is a refference to Kenya, where the skull was found.
How about Analytic Geometry, courtesy of Descartes? What about Newton's fomulation of the Law of Gravity, that had some pretty profound effects and wasn't altogether incremental (though f=ma admittidly was.) Or better yet, how about the invention of the telescope (or do you presume that to be incremental from having lenses?) How about vaccinations, which were accidentally descovered. Or what about penicillin another accidental revolution? Some inventions were truly revolutionary. However most were certainly not. As Newton aptly put it in a letter to Robert Hooke, "If I had seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulder of giants."
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The characteristic timescales are remarkably similar when you think about. The brain has massively parrelel transmissions but each packet is sent with delays measured in the low milliseconds and each "message" containing a few bytes at most. Typical ping times between servers with decent connectivity are going to give you delays around 10ms and the average package size is ~1.6kB. The only real difference is that the brain currently has orders of magnitude more nodes than the internet. But at some point in the near future, this may cease to be true.
Another reason? Try this... do a traceroute and see if Amsterdam to Munich isn't really Amsterdam to US to Munich as happens frequently ;)
OE is great... just like several MS games are great... just like NT is pretty good... the reason? 'Cause they were not originally developed internally but instead were purchased. Of course this argument only goes so far, as MS tend to purchase a lot of inferior products as well.
Where is the crest of a wave after the wave has broken on the shore? What is its speed?
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Sort of depends on the shore, but generally speaking the wave is reflected with some attenuation (granted on the ocean shore the attenuation is large); thus, to answer your question, the crest of the wave is traveling away from the shore, at an angle normal to the angle of incidence, at its original speed.
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Why are (were) there no devices for the Palm OS to have more than 8Mb? Simple, the Motorola MC68328 and MC68EZ328 were not capable of supporting more than 8Mb. This is not a problem for the new MC68VZ328 that is in the m500 and m505 as well as the Visor's.
While I'm talking hardware, I should point out that 90% of the current posts here are mute by the fact that Palm will be soon using Arm processors (either through Intel XScale or Motorola's up-and-coming Arm Dragonball hybrids.) The new generation of Palm's will have similar hardware performance to the PocketPC's The new chipsets will have at least 50x MIPS with less watts drawn. They will be 32-bit rather than 16/32-bit hybrids. They will have a much more modern architecture than the previous uP's including: superscalar pipeline, data and instruction caches, BPU, etc... The advantage of switching to modern hardware is that the Palm Os can be improved dramatically; in the next year, Palm will release a new OS designed for this hardware. Although the hardware is not backward compatible with the Dragonball series, the new devices will be backward compatible through emulation (think 68k -> PowerPC on Mac's.)
Ergo, in the next year we will either see Palm run out of money and fail utterly or have a hardware platform of performance similar to the PocketPC with a vastly improved OS to boot.
I had the very same thought, and looked through the paper for details. The closest this issue was addressed is as follows:
"If the cause is dark matter, it is hard to understand. A spherically-symmetric distribution of matter which goes as p~r^(-1)produces a constant acceleration inside the distribution. To produce our anomalous acceleration even only out to 50 AU would require the total dark matter to be greater than 3*10^(-4) solar masses. But this is in conflict with the accuracy of the ephemeris, which allows only of order a few times 10^(-6) solar masses of dark matter even within the orbit of Uranus."
Although this is in reference to dark matter rather than solar wind, I doubt the influence would be significantly different. So the total solar wind would have to have a mass of 330 earth masses within a radius of 50 AU, but only around 1 earth mass within the radius of Uranus (19 AU). This would require an average solar wind density of ~10^(-6) g/cm^3 within the 50 AU radius. Unfortunately this exceeds solar wind densities by many orders of magnitude (typically a few ions per cm^3.)
Oh, yeah noticed it right off the bat. The paper was a funny read for anyone with a background in signal processing. The SDMI should definitely be worried. While it took some ingenuity to determine what scheme was being employed. Most undergrad EE's and some CE's armed with this paper could write the necessary filters to remove the watermarks.
If the problem WERE the internet, violent games, media, etc. then wouldn't we also expect to see an alarming rise in school shootings in other 1st world coutries.
That we do not see this trend makes for a compelling case against placing the blame on these factors.
The article may not have mentioned matter transport, but the link to the IOP did. I know it is considered de rigueur to blast Hemos et al for not properly reading the articles before posting, but it is quite ironic for you to make the same mistake.
Experiments also indicate that microstructured fibres like holey fibres could be used to guide atoms. A fibre is made with four holes in a square and a central hole. A wire is inserted in each of the four outer holes and a current passed through it. This creates a magnetic field that can guide atoms through the central channel. Proof of principle experiments have shown that this is possible, but research here is only just beginning. Ultimately, the technique could provide a way of measuring gravitational fields with unprecedented accuracy.
If youf find Danikens interesting, then you want have much trouble stomaching the Aquatic Ape Theory. Although discredited by most mainstream anthropologist, if correct, it can answer many of the questions as to why how and where we 'poppep up'. see: Aquatic Ape Info
Nope the skull has a flatter face than the Australopithecus. 'Platy' comes from Greek and is a prefix for flat or broad (same root as plate, incidentaly). Kenyanthropus is a refference to Kenya, where the skull was found.
How about Analytic Geometry, courtesy of Descartes? What about Newton's fomulation of the Law of Gravity, that had some pretty profound effects and wasn't altogether incremental (though f=ma admittidly was.) Or better yet, how about the invention of the telescope (or do you presume that to be incremental from having lenses?) How about vaccinations, which were accidentally descovered. Or what about penicillin another accidental revolution? Some inventions were truly revolutionary. However most were certainly not. As Newton aptly put it in a letter to Robert Hooke, "If I had seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulder of giants."
Yeah, ummm hello... Cloning. That is revolutionary, no evolutionary. In a few decades, we will all look back to Dolly as a major turning point.
Ohh, and what about Windows 2000... r-e-v-o-l-u-t-i-o-n (sigh).