Researchers jokingly name gene after franchise. Franchise owners ask that they change it. Researchers change it. STOP THE PRESSES! [/sarcasm]. Yeah, I'm cranky. Caffiene withdrawal.
True, but if you want a working 10000 qubit machine to experiment with, you'll save a lot of time by mass-producing them on a small scale instead of machining them one at a time.
You know, I'd read about that one (in something about the Reimann hypothesis, I think) and forgotten about it. The new upper bound is one heck of a punchline.
Ion traps aren't particularly clever in themselves, but making them small- and mass-producing them- is important for quantum computing, which is where the research in the article is pointing.
But questions over his data only surfaced last week, when Hwang told Science that the 2005 paper contains four instances in which the same photographs were mistakenly used to represent cells cloned from different patients.
In one case, one of two duplicated photographs is enlarged relative to the other.
In a second, one of two duplicated pictures is distorted by being enlarged to different extents along its horizontal and vertical axes, Science has confirmed. "This is a level of error beyond sending the wrong file," says Robert Lanza, who leads a rival cloning group at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Now questions are also being asked about DNA fingerprint plots in the paper. The plots were presented to demonstrate a match between nuclear DNA from the donors and the cells cloned from them. So they should look similar, with peaks at the same points. But a South Korean blog pointed out last week that in at least five of the matched plots, the peaks are also strikingly similar in shape and size - more so than would usually be expected if they came from different cells.
Internet users need to learn how good discursive writing works. Look at the above, for example. Vast, barren paragraphs neglecting to make any specific points, and not actually arguing the nebulous ideas it does present (and repeat, and repeat, and repeat). Has discursive writing been taken out of the curriculum?
Technically, it's just buying the night vision 100x scope for bird watching. You could probably go out and buy a rifle and stick the scope on it, and your mate Ted there seems rather keen to do just that, but then again you might not.
Alas, it seems to have been discontinued here, and presumably in the rest of Europe. I've not seen a new copy in months and even second-hand copies are hard to find. The same happened with the GBA titles.
I imagine the main reason they're opposed to the bundling of Messenger is that Windows Messenger can't actually be uninstalled in Windows (without command line or.bat work, anyway) and it launches itself automatically under various conditions.
Technically it's a licence for people who use a television to recieve TV broadcasts. If you don't have an aerial hooked up and are willing to claim you only use the TV for, say, DVDs and videogames, you don't have to pay a licence. Inspectors are quite clear on this although neither the TV licencing site nor the BBC's spokespersons are especially keen to be.
While the commenters above are right to point out that comparable PC games managed to do fine on single disks, this sort of memory-hogging is part and parcel of the sort of games (particularly console games) which are in the limelight right now. The PS3 and 360 hype is mostly about high-definition this and hundreds-of-characters that, so unless there are a series of sudden breakthroughs in procedural texturing, modelling, animation and dialogue, they're going to require more and more storage space.
Procedural assets are probably going to become more important in future anyway, due to RAM limitations (the rendering capacity of these machines is mismatched with the amount of room for things to render).
Imagine if there was a billion dollar industry dedicated to selling you hyenas to control the badgers in your garden. Imagine that, even though there are no badgers in your garden and never have been, these companies told you that you needed to have a snarling, vicious hyena patrolling your lawn in case one should ever appear. And not just one hyena either, imagine they told you to add another hyena every month to provide adequate protection. And imagine that the hyenas were bad-tempered, smelly, dug holes in the lawn and chewed on your leg whenever you stepped outside. Finally, imagine that your garden was surrounded by a high wall anyway and the only way for badgers to get in was for someone to post them to you in a conspicuous badger-shaped parcel that you could simply refuse to accept when the postman delivered it.
I wouldn't feel particularly threatened by a couple of law enforcement personnel pursuing me with wasps on leashes, for one. Although I suppose the inevitable case of giggles might give my position away.
You're right, they have it backwards. The building isn't causing earthquakes, it's a confounding factor: namely, countless evil villains have a new target for their earthquake machines.
Thanks for that. I hadn't really thought of that kind of encryption because RSA's so omnipresent these days. I'm pleased to see it's not the irresistable force/immovable object scenario that it's often described as.
Today, a qubit. In a couple of decades, a functional quantum computer. At the risk of being hyperbolic, it will do for secrecy and privacy what the atomic bomb did for international conflict.
Unless quantum cryptography gets there first. The race is on.
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Researchers jokingly name gene after franchise. Franchise owners ask that they change it. Researchers change it. STOP THE PRESSES! [/sarcasm]. Yeah, I'm cranky. Caffiene withdrawal.
True, but if you want a working 10000 qubit machine to experiment with, you'll save a lot of time by mass-producing them on a small scale instead of machining them one at a time.
I'm going to pitch that to Fox. "It's like Lost, but with Darwin instead of John Locke".
You know, I'd read about that one (in something about the Reimann hypothesis, I think) and forgotten about it. The new upper bound is one heck of a punchline.
Is there another candiate?
Ion traps aren't particularly clever in themselves, but making them small- and mass-producing them- is important for quantum computing, which is where the research in the article is pointing.
Groovy. You can hide things from the reviews, you can hide things from the journalists, but the internet sees all.
Put together by an automatic script, unfortunately. Good ranting is hard to come by, it seems. I reccomend Maddox.
Well, that certainly explains the poor form on display. Would it really be so hard to write a script which wrote good complaining?
Internet users need to learn how good discursive writing works. Look at the above, for example. Vast, barren paragraphs neglecting to make any specific points, and not actually arguing the nebulous ideas it does present (and repeat, and repeat, and repeat). Has discursive writing been taken out of the curriculum?
Technically, it's just buying the night vision 100x scope for bird watching. You could probably go out and buy a rifle and stick the scope on it, and your mate Ted there seems rather keen to do just that, but then again you might not.
Alas, it seems to have been discontinued here, and presumably in the rest of Europe. I've not seen a new copy in months and even second-hand copies are hard to find. The same happened with the GBA titles.
I imagine the main reason they're opposed to the bundling of Messenger is that Windows Messenger can't actually be uninstalled in Windows (without command line or .bat work, anyway) and it launches itself automatically under various conditions.
Don't you mean iPod Kilo? I mean, if it's going to be getting bigger. ;)
Technically it's a licence for people who use a television to recieve TV broadcasts. If you don't have an aerial hooked up and are willing to claim you only use the TV for, say, DVDs and videogames, you don't have to pay a licence. Inspectors are quite clear on this although neither the TV licencing site nor the BBC's spokespersons are especially keen to be.
Man, I'm pedantic.
While the commenters above are right to point out that comparable PC games managed to do fine on single disks, this sort of memory-hogging is part and parcel of the sort of games (particularly console games) which are in the limelight right now. The PS3 and 360 hype is mostly about high-definition this and hundreds-of-characters that, so unless there are a series of sudden breakthroughs in procedural texturing, modelling, animation and dialogue, they're going to require more and more storage space.
Procedural assets are probably going to become more important in future anyway, due to RAM limitations (the rendering capacity of these machines is mismatched with the amount of room for things to render).
I don't know how parents will take to a toy with four spinning pointy wheels and a rotating hammer on top.
Ah, so that's who Neo's talking to at the end of The Matrix.
I wouldn't feel particularly threatened by a couple of law enforcement personnel pursuing me with wasps on leashes, for one. Although I suppose the inevitable case of giggles might give my position away.
You're right, they have it backwards. The building isn't causing earthquakes, it's a confounding factor: namely, countless evil villains have a new target for their earthquake machines.
Thanks for that. I hadn't really thought of that kind of encryption because RSA's so omnipresent these days. I'm pleased to see it's not the irresistable force/immovable object scenario that it's often described as.
You know, I knew that except for the 30 seconds in which I posted. D'oh. Let "there" = "into widespread use".
Today, a qubit. In a couple of decades, a functional quantum computer. At the risk of being hyperbolic, it will do for secrecy and privacy what the atomic bomb did for international conflict.
Unless quantum cryptography gets there first. The race is on.