This guy is a complete and total lunatic. We're talking about someone who likens Linux users to international terrorists and thinks the Open Source community poses a grave risk to the economy and national security. I wouldn't be surprised if John Ashcroft and Tom Ridge were on the SCO payroll.
I've got the Dish Network, and only have problems with reception in exceptionally bad thunderstorms (few times a year at max). TiVo is expensive and redundant. Just get a good capture/graphics card with 1080i support and you can do all kinds of video capture/editing/compression on your PC.
The article sounds a bit alarmist. Nanotech is an extremely broad and interdisciplinary field. Most of it poses no more threat to health and the environment than any other technology. The main danger I see is a lack of government regulations to ensure workplace safety when working with nanotubes.
I've worked as a graduate student at a major nanotech research institute in the United States. Until recently, students were routinely exposed to SWCNT's and SWCNT derivatives without being informed of the suspected dangers to respiratory health. Researchers still carry out nanotube related work with no real guidelines for workplace safety. I've "scooped" nanotubes out of containers in the open air when weighing them for solution preparation, etc. There are no procedures for the proper handling of nanotube spills.
If SWCNT's really are as dangerous as some studies suggest, there should be an immediate halt to research until proper Federal guidelines are established.
Typical fluff piece. Fermionic condensates are about as useful as Bose-Einstein condensates, which is to say they aren't useful at all. The only thing Fermi condensates and Cooper pairs have in common is the fact that they're both collections of fermions which follow Fermi-Dirac statistics. These fermionic condensates exist at ultralow temperatures which can only be reached via sophisticated laser cooling methods. High Tc superconductors can function at temperatures above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen, and even then they still have limited practical applications. I'm sure these researchers will get millions of dollars in new grant money, but don't expect any technological breakthroughs as a result of this discovery.
Surprise, surprise...another Mars mission which will likely end in failure.
Our colleges are just cranking out too many worthless Humanities and Computer Science majors. Knowledge of Java programming and Shakespearean plays won't put American astronauts on the Moon. We need to start producing more physicists/engineers, and FAST.
If we don't get our act together, Chinese taikonauts will be eating sushi on Olympus Mons while the dying Theocratic States of America struggles to launch its last working rockets into low-Earth orbit.
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This guy is a complete and total lunatic. We're talking about someone who likens Linux users to international terrorists and thinks the Open Source community poses a grave risk to the economy and national security. I wouldn't be surprised if John Ashcroft and Tom Ridge were on the SCO payroll.
I've got the Dish Network, and only have problems with reception in exceptionally bad thunderstorms (few times a year at max). TiVo is expensive and redundant. Just get a good capture/graphics card with 1080i support and you can do all kinds of video capture/editing/compression on your PC.
Wikipedia kicks much booty.
The article sounds a bit alarmist. Nanotech is an extremely broad and interdisciplinary field. Most of it poses no more threat to health and the environment than any other technology. The main danger I see is a lack of government regulations to ensure workplace safety when working with nanotubes.
I've worked as a graduate student at a major nanotech research institute in the United States. Until recently, students were routinely exposed to SWCNT's and SWCNT derivatives without being informed of the suspected dangers to respiratory health. Researchers still carry out nanotube related work with no real guidelines for workplace safety. I've "scooped" nanotubes out of containers in the open air when weighing them for solution preparation, etc. There are no procedures for the proper handling of nanotube spills.
If SWCNT's really are as dangerous as some studies suggest, there should be an immediate halt to research until proper Federal guidelines are established.
Typical fluff piece. Fermionic condensates are about as useful as Bose-Einstein condensates, which is to say they aren't useful at all. The only thing Fermi condensates and Cooper pairs have in common is the fact that they're both collections of fermions which follow Fermi-Dirac statistics. These fermionic condensates exist at ultralow temperatures which can only be reached via sophisticated laser cooling methods. High Tc superconductors can function at temperatures above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen, and even then they still have limited practical applications. I'm sure these researchers will get millions of dollars in new grant money, but don't expect any technological breakthroughs as a result of this discovery.
Surprise, surprise...another Mars mission which will likely end in failure. Our colleges are just cranking out too many worthless Humanities and Computer Science majors. Knowledge of Java programming and Shakespearean plays won't put American astronauts on the Moon. We need to start producing more physicists/engineers, and FAST. If we don't get our act together, Chinese taikonauts will be eating sushi on Olympus Mons while the dying Theocratic States of America struggles to launch its last working rockets into low-Earth orbit.