Actually, quite the opposite depending on where you coming from. Generally customs officials tend to worry when you've made your bag embarrassing/unpleasant to search.
What total nonsense. The traction control is sensing when the road speed and wheel speeds are different and cutting back power accordingly. My mothers Mazda would refuse to move at all if the road was icy/covered in snow. I assume it was detecting that the wheels were starting to spin. Disengaging the traction control allowed normal driving.
Can anyone explain what they're doing/hope to do? The only time I've encountered the phrase 'Brownian ratchet' was Feynmans example of a Maxwells demon which turns out not to work.
But you're wrong. We're recreating big band like conditions. These conditions are also being replicated in our upper atmosphere all the time. Google 'high energy cosmic ray' and do some reading. Why not do something that is certainly safe just to appease the uninformed?
Having run my kit car the other day without it's windscreen I can attest to this. 80mph breathing is fine; it's the gravel that makes you wish for glass.
The summary reads like it's some kind of attempted cover up. Maybe it's because they thought that an equipment failure wasn't exactly news? The little accelerator I use has been down for a week because of a borked turbo pump. Should I phone Reuters?
It's a big, complicated machine - shit breaks. It gets fixed. I wouldn't worry about it unless you're waiting for beam time.
See, I expected that to be a link to that zero G porn movie they made in that commercial 'vomit comet'. I did NOT expect to see ET receiving a blowjob. I suppose 'et-sex' should have been a clue. There are some things I wish I could unsee and that just made the list.
"If they had hacked into a second computer network, they could have turned off parts of the vast detector "
"We have several levels of network, a general access network and a much tighter network for sensitive things that operate the LHC," said Gillies.
Basically they defaced a web page which is hosted on a server which is nothing to do with the LHC control network. Haven't we had enough ridiculous LHC scare stories yet?
The vast majority of the 'critics' you refer have no idea what they're actually scared of. This switch on should reassure them well enough. The loons that make up the other fraction of the 'critics' will carry on doomsaying. Fortunately the majority of the reporters giving them air time don't really understand either so this switch on should effectively shut them up too.
By the way the story is 'the LHC is switched on'. It heralds the beginning of one of the most interesting science experiments of our age. The story is not really 'we are still alive' as that is no surprise to anyone who is not a retard.
What the hell are you guys doing over there? You have a good list of stuff that the government should and shouldn't do. This is firmly in the 'shouldn't' camp. Sort it out.
To me the 'readers mail' has been the worst addition. Slashdot attracts intelligent people; story comments are worth reading because people who know what they're talking about pass on information. Drive away these people and this place will go down the tubes.
The gameplay movie looked awesome! These guys were just hoping to be able to say 'see I told you it was going to suck'. Now the gameplay video looks awesome they have to bitch that it's 'too cartoony'. Fuck those guys.
I can't wait until it comes out - I loved diablo 2 and I have a feeling I'm going to love this.
You get a full cross section of people on public transport in the UK too - more so on trains than buses. Some of the richest people in the country ride the tube in London as it's the only sane way of getting around.
Actually the common usage of evolution that upsets the god botherers, namely that species change over time and give rise to new species, is a fact not a theory. We have observed it. The mechanisms that determine and lead to these changes are the theories.
I would use a gravity analogy. Stuff is attracted to each other. This is fact. We have ideas that quantify and attempt to explain this attraction that are referred to as theories of gravity.
Not in my lab. I am a teaching assistant in undergraduate (and masters student) physics labs. The emphasis is on getting good data and if this data is at variance with the 'accepted' values trying to explain why. 'Fudging' or fabricating data would lead to failing the lab and possibly disciplinary action. This is how all of our labs are taught. Which labs are you talking about? Any student who doesn't realise that fudging data is unacceptable, in teaching labs or 'real life', is stupid.
I've seen both 'theories' touted in the press. I don't think that most people realise that the LHC, impressive as it is, is generating particle energies way lower than we observe ocasionally naturally.
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Actually, quite the opposite depending on where you coming from. Generally customs officials tend to worry when you've made your bag embarrassing/unpleasant to search.
That's truely awful standard of performance. Not moved on much from Eliza have they?
What total nonsense. The traction control is sensing when the road speed and wheel speeds are different and cutting back power accordingly. My mothers Mazda would refuse to move at all if the road was icy/covered in snow. I assume it was detecting that the wheels were starting to spin. Disengaging the traction control allowed normal driving.
Can anyone explain what they're doing/hope to do? The only time I've encountered the phrase 'Brownian ratchet' was Feynmans example of a Maxwells demon which turns out not to work.
I've got a 'Vindicator'. It's lotus 7 style but has the engine sat slightly further back- it's great fun!
But you're wrong. We're recreating big band like conditions. These conditions are also being replicated in our upper atmosphere all the time. Google 'high energy cosmic ray' and do some reading. Why not do something that is certainly safe just to appease the uninformed?
Having run my kit car the other day without it's windscreen I can attest to this. 80mph breathing is fine; it's the gravel that makes you wish for glass.
Some of the high end EVO's only run on 98+ RON. They're pretty specialist though - running ~400hp on a 2 liter engine doesn't give many options!
He's religious and therefore obviously at least slightly delusional and prone to ignoring logic.
I don't know but at least getting rescued is an option. I prefer the 'stuck in elevator' failure mode to 'fiery death' that current rockets offer.
It's a big, complicated machine - shit breaks. It gets fixed. I wouldn't worry about it unless you're waiting for beam time.
But what if the wrong lizard gets in?
Creationism isn't a theory. It cannot make predictions and is impossible to falsify.
See, I expected that to be a link to that zero G porn movie they made in that commercial 'vomit comet'. I did NOT expect to see ET receiving a blowjob. I suppose 'et-sex' should have been a clue. There are some things I wish I could unsee and that just made the list.
"If they had hacked into a second computer network, they could have turned off parts of the vast detector "
"We have several levels of network, a general access network and a much tighter network for sensitive things that operate the LHC," said Gillies.
Basically they defaced a web page which is hosted on a server which is nothing to do with the LHC control network. Haven't we had enough ridiculous LHC scare stories yet?
By the way the story is 'the LHC is switched on'. It heralds the beginning of one of the most interesting science experiments of our age. The story is not really 'we are still alive' as that is no surprise to anyone who is not a retard.
The size of turkey? ~770 square kilometers is a hefty mosquito alright.
What the hell are you guys doing over there? You have a good list of stuff that the government should and shouldn't do. This is firmly in the 'shouldn't' camp. Sort it out.
To me the 'readers mail' has been the worst addition. Slashdot attracts intelligent people; story comments are worth reading because people who know what they're talking about pass on information. Drive away these people and this place will go down the tubes.
The gameplay movie looked awesome! These guys were just hoping to be able to say 'see I told you it was going to suck'. Now the gameplay video looks awesome they have to bitch that it's 'too cartoony'. Fuck those guys. I can't wait until it comes out - I loved diablo 2 and I have a feeling I'm going to love this.
You get a full cross section of people on public transport in the UK too - more so on trains than buses. Some of the richest people in the country ride the tube in London as it's the only sane way of getting around.
I would use a gravity analogy. Stuff is attracted to each other. This is fact. We have ideas that quantify and attempt to explain this attraction that are referred to as theories of gravity.
Not in my lab. I am a teaching assistant in undergraduate (and masters student) physics labs. The emphasis is on getting good data and if this data is at variance with the 'accepted' values trying to explain why. 'Fudging' or fabricating data would lead to failing the lab and possibly disciplinary action. This is how all of our labs are taught. Which labs are you talking about? Any student who doesn't realise that fudging data is unacceptable, in teaching labs or 'real life', is stupid.
I've seen both 'theories' touted in the press. I don't think that most people realise that the LHC, impressive as it is, is generating particle energies way lower than we observe ocasionally naturally.
You missed the whole point.