He is a businessman and a tinkerer that has managed to make it work in a commercially viable fashion.
He may very well end up being the world's first trillionaire.
There are problems, regulatory and safety issues, including thermal runaway. But, it does work.
The chief science writer for AP appears to be at the test, so we should hear a lot in the next day or two.
I am amazed at the amazing show of observation demonstrated by many on this forum. They can see that this is a fraud without actually viewing the demonstration or reading the reports from the 30 highly intelligent observers that were present!
Christianity
The belief that some cosmic jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
Makes perfect sense
This really is not a task for programmers. It is a task for an engineer that has done both logic and software design.
I've been programming FPGA's since Xilinx came out with their first chips. At the time, it was all schematic capture. Place and route never completed on its own, it always required user editing to finish.
FPGA design techniques depend on your constraints. For some projects, it is much cheaper to buy a very large FPGA and not worry about space optimization. If you are building thousands of the same device, then space optimization is critical. For other projects, logic timing is everything.
Every chip has it's own constraints as well, especially if speed is an issue. When speed is an issue, you have to really understand how your VHDL will be implemented, because it will make all the difference between sucess & failure.
Learning how to use constraint files is important. Learning how to test using simulations is critical. Time spent writing and runing simulations may exceed design time for an order of magnitude.
Faces are not unique enough to identify an individual.
Also, faces change with time, glasses, shaving habits, makeup, piercings, and who knows what else. People are much better than computers at face recognition, and it is a task that trained observers will often fail at. There is just no way that a computer can manage more than a wild guess.
Has nothing to do with the earth's age. The article is only talking about the formation of planets around a supernova - and that is not what happend in our solar system.
I think the idea will eventually catch on.
Think about what happens when the system keeps track of how accurate different users are on different topics and starts assigning weights based on past results.
Think about what happens as it becomes more real time and integrated with a wireless internet.
I think it will become an enourmously powerful tool for all sorts of things.
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Maybe because the penalty for operating an unlicensed nuclear power plant is 20 years in prison?
He is a businessman and a tinkerer that has managed to make it work in a commercially viable fashion. He may very well end up being the world's first trillionaire. There are problems, regulatory and safety issues, including thermal runaway. But, it does work. The chief science writer for AP appears to be at the test, so we should hear a lot in the next day or two.
I am amazed at the amazing show of observation demonstrated by many on this forum. They can see that this is a fraud without actually viewing the demonstration or reading the reports from the 30 highly intelligent observers that were present!
http://www.physorg.com/latest-news/
Christianity The belief that some cosmic jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. Makes perfect sense
This really is not a task for programmers. It is a task for an engineer that has done both logic and software design. I've been programming FPGA's since Xilinx came out with their first chips. At the time, it was all schematic capture. Place and route never completed on its own, it always required user editing to finish. FPGA design techniques depend on your constraints. For some projects, it is much cheaper to buy a very large FPGA and not worry about space optimization. If you are building thousands of the same device, then space optimization is critical. For other projects, logic timing is everything. Every chip has it's own constraints as well, especially if speed is an issue. When speed is an issue, you have to really understand how your VHDL will be implemented, because it will make all the difference between sucess & failure. Learning how to use constraint files is important. Learning how to test using simulations is critical. Time spent writing and runing simulations may exceed design time for an order of magnitude.
Faces are not unique enough to identify an individual. Also, faces change with time, glasses, shaving habits, makeup, piercings, and who knows what else. People are much better than computers at face recognition, and it is a task that trained observers will often fail at. There is just no way that a computer can manage more than a wild guess.
NOT believing in evolution takes a leap of faith believing in evolution only requires simple observation
Something that was almost a chicken laid an egg that hatched into a chicken. So, the egg had to have been first.
Has nothing to do with the earth's age. The article is only talking about the formation of planets around a supernova - and that is not what happend in our solar system.
How many dead cars would we find on the highway - particularly in areas that don't get good reception to start with?
I think the idea will eventually catch on. Think about what happens when the system keeps track of how accurate different users are on different topics and starts assigning weights based on past results. Think about what happens as it becomes more real time and integrated with a wireless internet. I think it will become an enourmously powerful tool for all sorts of things.