The parent shouldn't be so confident because he/she is obviously lacking a background in chemistry (or patent law, for that matter...)
Simply from the quotes he/she gave, it is likely both technologies are very similar. They both rely on vastly increasing the reactive surface area of chemicals in the battery using nano particles. For those not chemically inclined, if you wanted to soak a loaf of bread with water, it would be a lot easier if you chopped it up into tiny pieces. In this case, pieces on the scale of nanometers, or thousands of times smaller than the thickness of a human hair.
I can't comment on any specifics concerning the patents the companies hold, but suffice it to say that the information in the article certainly does not preclude both companies from using nano particles to increase surfaced area of a lithium ion battery. (For example, the short description of Altair's patent given appears to state that the patent covers a specific method for producing these nano particles for lithium ion batteries, not their use in lithium ion batteries period.)
I think what the parent was saying is that there is always an exchange. It can be argued that in the cases you described, the receiver is not paying with money/services/goods/etc, but he or she will be accruing a sort of social debt to you. You may claim that you are giving these things entirely without strings attached, but can you imagine any sort of relationship where one party is continuously giving and the other not returning anything at all? It just doesn't happen. I see it almost as a mathematical neccesity; there must always be an exchange
iSM processed all images and created photorealistic three dimensional surface models of the dressing room. Come for the virtual tour of the Natasha's dressing room:
Who else is excited to take a tour of Natasha's dressing room?
ARC (http://www.arc-hq.net/) was originally made by the Popcap guys? That's really awesome. That game was so fun back in the day as a quick pickup multiplayer game. Now it seems its last owner (Sierra) has abandoned it but of course, kept the source hostage.
Well... assuming that they did indeed mean only 1.2 megabytes for a string like that, it isn't as horrible as you might think at first. For example, 10 gigabytes worth, or 838m of 10 micron diameter wire weighs a mere 1 gram (assuming a density of 15g/cm^3, or a very heavy metal).
You may respond saying there is no way you can read such a long piece of wire quickly enough. Well, spiraled up on extremely fast moving disk, with a head that moves back and forth, you can fit quite a lot of data. In fact, on a 3" disk, you can fit approximately 4560m of wire, or about 54GB. Wait a minute, 3" disk, rotating extremely quickly, head moving back and forth, 10^1 GB range... sounds familiar, no?
Anyway, I'm sure they did mean 10GB, because I doubt anyone is going to cut a hard drive platter into an extremely thing spiral and call it new technology.
Mod parent up, +5 Funny. I cannot believe he can seriously use HA, CPU cycles, clustering, virtualization, etc, etc in a post and think he is talking about the "average user"
These arrays can record up to one trillion bits of data -- known as a terabit -- in a single square inch. That's the storage density that magnetic hard disk drive makers hope to achieve by 2010.
I'd be really surprised if we see this technology on the shelf in anything close to 5 years from now.
mod parent down. "XML" and "SGML" are not file formats. They are formats for formats. "I don't know of converters that turn XML,SGML->HTML, but they probably exist." Is horribly ridiculous because HTML is an SGML file format. XML based formats are useful because of XSLT as other posters mentioned. You can create and XML format and then automatically convert it into any other XML format (XHTML for one) or even to non XML formats.
At first, I thought, oh, great, someone else who is disgusted with the inefficiency of aid organizations, but then I realized that "lowest administration costs" might not really mean best efficiency. In fact, perhaps it means worse efficiency. As one poster mentioned, there is a surplus of clothes being donated. Just spending the most money doesn't mean you are doing the best job with that money.
I don't understand how there could possibly be a sudden need for so much transportation. Where will all the new cars, train riders, cargo, oil, and data come from?
That's retarded. You can't put a car marked car everywhere, and if people know that only marked cars are looking for people speeding, then they'd just slow when they see one and zoom away after they passed. What you described is just a simple extension of the speed trap police car waiting behind bushes, out of sight from would-be speeders.
You are missing something. A certificate and a hash do exactly the same thing: they allow you to verify that you are getting what you think you are getting. (Of course, someone could by a certificate, then mirror a hacked version of some other software, but I suppose its VeriSign's job to find such misusers of there certificates and stop them) This does not mean that you aren't getting something bad, thats where hashes/certificates stop.
Wow, I had the exact same experience with my father's CADD SGI machine but I didn't even realize I was playing the ancestor to BZflag (or using an SGI machine) until your post. That's pretty cool.
Actually, we should be hoping that this is in widespread use with alien civilizations. This directed radiation leaks a lot less out of the solar system then relatively unfocused radio waves do. It has been speculated that we may not find advanced civilizations precisely because of reasons like this. There is no good reason to be just blasting radiation all over the place if you don't need to.
That UoM 512 CPU one is significantly smaller than the top 5 super computers. You should probably only be comparing in class. Costs do not increase proportionally with size of the computer.
PostNuke was split from the PHPNuke code a few years ago and they have gone very different ways. PostNuke is much more secure and better coded. It is also truly open source, unlike PHPNuke's pay-to-get-the-latest-version scheme.
Practice management systems (for patient scheduling and billing) have almost 100% market share already.
That may be true, but in real terms, it doesn't mean much. Much of the communication between insurance companies and billing companies, or practices and and billing companies is still done in paper. The entire system needs to be digitized before you can really say that paper has been removed from the system.
I have, in fact, been working on a project that is essentially much the same thing. A small electric vehicle with 3 degrees of freedom. I have written software to run on an embedded processor, designed some circuits and designed the mechanical parts of the machine. Anyway, since you are in my area and seem to be interested in this field, I encourage you to check out the link in my profile. We would be glad to have some help:)
As I have been getting more involved in engineering and specifically robotics, I begin to see how rudimentary things like this project really are. You can buy a small system-on-chip processor with built in USB support, hook up some simple relays to control some solenoid valves, and a few days of programming later, bam. I really hope this is a standard project for these students.
Maybe that's their plan. Get everybody to index their disks, and than offer killer p2p on Google.com.
A year or so ago, I remember reading a comment on/. about Google suggesting that Google would become the next big player in p2p because p2p is really mostly about searching, and that's what google does. I really think you are on to something with this one.
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The parent shouldn't be so confident because he/she is obviously lacking a background in chemistry (or patent law, for that matter...) Simply from the quotes he/she gave, it is likely both technologies are very similar. They both rely on vastly increasing the reactive surface area of chemicals in the battery using nano particles. For those not chemically inclined, if you wanted to soak a loaf of bread with water, it would be a lot easier if you chopped it up into tiny pieces. In this case, pieces on the scale of nanometers, or thousands of times smaller than the thickness of a human hair. I can't comment on any specifics concerning the patents the companies hold, but suffice it to say that the information in the article certainly does not preclude both companies from using nano particles to increase surfaced area of a lithium ion battery. (For example, the short description of Altair's patent given appears to state that the patent covers a specific method for producing these nano particles for lithium ion batteries, not their use in lithium ion batteries period.)
Why did they not keep their tactic of creating customized password dictionaries secret? Seems like they just gave potential criminals a big warning...
I think what the parent was saying is that there is always an exchange. It can be argued that in the cases you described, the receiver is not paying with money/services/goods/etc, but he or she will be accruing a sort of social debt to you. You may claim that you are giving these things entirely without strings attached, but can you imagine any sort of relationship where one party is continuously giving and the other not returning anything at all? It just doesn't happen. I see it almost as a mathematical neccesity; there must always be an exchange
ARC (http://www.arc-hq.net/) was originally made by the Popcap guys? That's really awesome. That game was so fun back in the day as a quick pickup multiplayer game. Now it seems its last owner (Sierra) has abandoned it but of course, kept the source hostage.
Well... assuming that they did indeed mean only 1.2 megabytes for a string like that, it isn't as horrible as you might think at first. For example, 10 gigabytes worth, or 838m of 10 micron diameter wire weighs a mere 1 gram (assuming a density of 15g/cm^3, or a very heavy metal). You may respond saying there is no way you can read such a long piece of wire quickly enough. Well, spiraled up on extremely fast moving disk, with a head that moves back and forth, you can fit quite a lot of data. In fact, on a 3" disk, you can fit approximately 4560m of wire, or about 54GB. Wait a minute, 3" disk, rotating extremely quickly, head moving back and forth, 10^1 GB range... sounds familiar, no? Anyway, I'm sure they did mean 10GB, because I doubt anyone is going to cut a hard drive platter into an extremely thing spiral and call it new technology.
Mod parent up, +5 Funny. I cannot believe he can seriously use HA, CPU cycles, clustering, virtualization, etc, etc in a post and think he is talking about the "average user"
I'd be really surprised if we see this technology on the shelf in anything close to 5 years from now.
You'd think people piloting vessels over 300 tons would know how start an emergency response. How hard could it be?
mod parent down. "XML" and "SGML" are not file formats. They are formats for formats. "I don't know of converters that turn XML,SGML->HTML, but they probably exist." Is horribly ridiculous because HTML is an SGML file format. XML based formats are useful because of XSLT as other posters mentioned. You can create and XML format and then automatically convert it into any other XML format (XHTML for one) or even to non XML formats.
At first, I thought, oh, great, someone else who is disgusted with the inefficiency of aid organizations, but then I realized that "lowest administration costs" might not really mean best efficiency. In fact, perhaps it means worse efficiency. As one poster mentioned, there is a surplus of clothes being donated. Just spending the most money doesn't mean you are doing the best job with that money.
I don't understand how there could possibly be a sudden need for so much transportation. Where will all the new cars, train riders, cargo, oil, and data come from?
That's retarded. You can't put a car marked car everywhere, and if people know that only marked cars are looking for people speeding, then they'd just slow when they see one and zoom away after they passed. What you described is just a simple extension of the speed trap police car waiting behind bushes, out of sight from would-be speeders.
You are missing something. A certificate and a hash do exactly the same thing: they allow you to verify that you are getting what you think you are getting. (Of course, someone could by a certificate, then mirror a hacked version of some other software, but I suppose its VeriSign's job to find such misusers of there certificates and stop them) This does not mean that you aren't getting something bad, thats where hashes/certificates stop.
Wow, I had the exact same experience with my father's CADD SGI machine but I didn't even realize I was playing the ancestor to BZflag (or using an SGI machine) until your post. That's pretty cool.
...Slashdot Headlines Consistently Sensationalize Everything!!!
I don't think the NOAA is publishing the raw data, so competing predictions would not really be possible.
Actually, we should be hoping that this is in widespread use with alien civilizations. This directed radiation leaks a lot less out of the solar system then relatively unfocused radio waves do. It has been speculated that we may not find advanced civilizations precisely because of reasons like this. There is no good reason to be just blasting radiation all over the place if you don't need to.
This is not a flame:
That UoM 512 CPU one is significantly smaller than the top 5 super computers. You should probably only be comparing in class. Costs do not increase proportionally with size of the computer.
PostNuke was split from the PHPNuke code a few years ago and they have gone very different ways. PostNuke is much more secure and better coded. It is also truly open source, unlike PHPNuke's pay-to-get-the-latest-version scheme.
I have, in fact, been working on a project that is essentially much the same thing. A small electric vehicle with 3 degrees of freedom. I have written software to run on an embedded processor, designed some circuits and designed the mechanical parts of the machine. Anyway, since you are in my area and seem to be interested in this field, I encourage you to check out the link in my profile. We would be glad to have some help :)
As I have been getting more involved in engineering and specifically robotics, I begin to see how rudimentary things like this project really are. You can buy a small system-on-chip processor with built in USB support, hook up some simple relays to control some solenoid valves, and a few days of programming later, bam. I really hope this is a standard project for these students.
According to some basic probability, his games should last 1/.3 or 3.3333 hits on average. I don't see this guy topping any scoreboards...