I suppose it's a difference in perspective. To me, basic research means modeling and trying to just get the metals to stick to the virus. That took long time to figure out. Now that it's done, people are starting to implement these things on a small scale. We have individual circuits, sensors, etc. All that's left is finding a way to put a bunch of these things together in the proper order, kinda like going from single transistor to making a circuit board or CPU.
So in the grand scheme of things, perhaps this is still at the "basic" research stage, but it may not be there for too much longer.... Then again, OLEDs got caught up in that last step as well.
As someone who is working in a reseach group with people who are actually doing this stuff (but not myself)...
This research is beyond "basic". My own reseach group has developed methods for coating tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) with platinum, palladium, nickle, (a few other metals I can't remember) and also silica with metals on top. These things are 18 nm diameter rods that are 300 or more nm long (natural TMV is 300, modified varients can be up to 500nm or so). I believe it was a group in Florida that was sucessful making tiny oxygen sensors using the method our group developed for coating the things. And right now my classmate is working on aligning them in bulk to make wires.
This field is very hot and many groups are working on ways of making these things viable for sensors, wires and the like.
I may not know what technology these TMV will bring us, but they have already brought some things to the table.
So, when crapware hits Vista through some future IE flaw, they are going to blame workshop technicians again, until the release of the latest and greatest windows ever (in 2014?). It's sad but likely to happen.
Not unless Average Joe actually takes responsibility for what ends up on his machine... Right, not likely to happen.
Every nation I know of requires a license to drive, why not a license to use the internet? (Right, I know. A horrible analogy. Congress would never pass such a law for a requirement they couldn't pass.)
I manage hundreds of PCs without any malware problems. This is because of third party security! Who will protect consumers on Vista? M$? I think not!
(emphasis mine)
I'm going to assume you know how to protect the PCs you are managing. Good for you. However, I don't think you are managing everyone's home PC. I also don't think the average Joe knows how to either. Yadda, yadda, yadda, I believe lots of malware exists on a significant portion of home PCs. When those people get tired of their PC running slow, and think the local repair shop is cheating them out of their money (because they didn't do nothing! Those infections keep coming back. Hey, Bob, have you seen my cool new screensaver?), they will buy a new PC with Vista preinstalled.
Vista is dead before it even arrives. What would I possibly want it for that I don't already have?
Tell this to everyone who will buy a new PC as their old one becomes so infested with malware that it slows to a crawl. I bet MS will make sure any new computer will come with Vista once (maybe never, I hope) it comes out.
Slightly off topic, but I wonder how you feel about downloding content that was on broadcast TV. Take the show "Lost" for example. Lets say you missed it when it was broadcast. Now, you could have recorded it for free and stripped out the commercials. But you didn't for whatever reason. You could wait a year for the DVD to come out, but you don't want to wait. You could pay some "legit" online service for the convenience of downloading, but why should pay for something that was broadcast for free just yesterday? Is there anything wrong with downloading it or getting it from a friend?
Just following your logic... Since almost all of pop music is just broadcasted at any point in time, do you think RIAA would mind if I just downloaded all of those songs (not that I'd want to) and play them at my leisure?
My cell phone package is advertised as 35.99 USD per month. The actual bill is just a little over 50 USD per month.
When I had a land line, the cost was advertised as 15.99 USD per month. The bill each month (without long distance charged added in) was 21 USD per month.
They do not add in all fees unless you explicitly ask them to do so. They advertise a lower price.
The only way to not need so much regulation is to educate the people to start participating in the free market.
So you are for regulation (mandatory education) just you believe in pulling instead of pushing.
It's like forcing people to become motivated. I don't feel that all regulations are bad, just most of them. Vote what regulations you want in place. Encourage (educate) as many as you can to do the same.
Traditionally, i'm against government stepping in. I'm a firm believer that the market should (and will) regulate itself, only requiring laws breaking monopolies on limited necessities. But with consumer's getting more stupidly passive, and companies more ingeniously aggressive, i'm left without a force to join, and the companies, who as a result of frequent changeover and short-termed decisions, never think of the customers as more than a quick way to make money, we need a government body stepping in.
We are no longer practising Capitalism. This is more of a MoneyGrabism.
Unfortunately, the more we rely on the government to protect us, the lazier people will get thus perpetuating the need for laws and regulations. The only way to not need so much regulation is to educate the people to start participating in the free market.
Uhg, Labview. For the sake of current and future programmers, I hope they are not going to use the Labview 7 style of programming. Ridiculously complicated flowcharts should not be programs.
Besides, who conducts a survey comparing the preferences of men and women with a sample set of one group (men, in this case) half the size of the other.
Oh come on, this is Oxygen we are talking about. Feminists don't take kindly to "girly" jewelry.
While this may seem funny to some, it is dead on. Why do parents think that everyone ELSE has to watch over their damn kids? In addition to the newly formed Pirate Party, how about we start a "Don't make laws against Darwinism" party?
"'SanDisk is the first company to market its player as an ideological rather than technological alternative to the iPod. To do so is to fight Apple on their own terms.'"
"Fighting Apple on their own terms," they say? I see it as more of a "sinking to their level."
Well, you do have to go to where most of the potential customers are, don't you?
External SATA drives will probably be as popular as external SCSI drives. They have their small/niche market, but the masses don't need/want them. The only real advantage I can see is if they can put these out for about the same cost as the internal drives, which they won't.
USB works well enough for most people and it will also support their cameras, printers, scanners, thumb drives, gamepads, cell phones, etc. The last time something better came out (firewire), USB was just updated to faster speeds. This is not to say that USB is always better then the alternatives, it's just much more versatile, and it works.
I always prefered that little green/blue/red arrow in the top right corner. But some people never know what that means, so maybe it should still slap them with the popup on next start-up or an new tab.
Nope. I had heard about the vertical testings but haven't seen one. It appears to be basically the same thing except, as the previous replier stated, they didn't release the clamps. I'm sure there are still plenty of sensors and it's a full powered burn.
This is the kind that I'm used to. Just the rocket, not the whole assembly.
No, they probably fire it horizontally into a huge load sensor with brackets to keep it facing forward. At least, that's how the test the solid rocket boosters for the shuttle. I've had the opportunity to watch a test fire and it's a quite impressive 120s burn time.
Many books are not advertised on expensive TV commercials. They rely on people using word of mouth. People are loyal to book authors and authors usually respond and produce more content, which is purchased. Books are pretty cheap and you own them. You can let friends borrow them, and you can sell them easily.
The movie industry pays millions of dollars to advertise the bejesus out of every POS "blockbuster" they can come up with. Hype, Hype, HYPE!! watch the damn movie. They glorify actors and pay them millions. Most new movies (but certainly not all) are complete garbage. So much money is wasted in paying actors and advertising, they charge an arm at the theaters for a one time showing. Now, granted, theaters usually have better lights and sound, but they also have small whiny children and whiny people on whiny cellphones. Then the charge your other arm and a leg to purchase a DVD.
And rounding up the pack is the music industry, which doesn't advertise as much on TV, but still pays radio stations to favor songs. Then they charge an excessive amount of cash for a rootkit-ridden CD. They glorify any "artist" who has a single decent track and expect everyone to feel honored to be bent over to recieve a disc.
Moral of the story, I like books. I wish movies were not advertised more than once an hour. I wish all the radio stations around me didn't suck and play the same "pop" crap all the time.
I feel that prices could come down if they didn't advertise so much and just relied on friends to make recommendations to each other.
Which is why adblock+ and noscript are godsends for people on dialup. Most of my computer semi-literate friends can use these without much trouble at all.
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Leave it to the marketing drones to come up with great lines.
I suppose it's a difference in perspective. To me, basic research means modeling and trying to just get the metals to stick to the virus. That took long time to figure out. Now that it's done, people are starting to implement these things on a small scale. We have individual circuits, sensors, etc. All that's left is finding a way to put a bunch of these things together in the proper order, kinda like going from single transistor to making a circuit board or CPU.
So in the grand scheme of things, perhaps this is still at the "basic" research stage, but it may not be there for too much longer.... Then again, OLEDs got caught up in that last step as well.
As someone who is working in a reseach group with people who are actually doing this stuff (but not myself)...
This research is beyond "basic". My own reseach group has developed methods for coating tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) with platinum, palladium, nickle, (a few other metals I can't remember) and also silica with metals on top. These things are 18 nm diameter rods that are 300 or more nm long (natural TMV is 300, modified varients can be up to 500nm or so). I believe it was a group in Florida that was sucessful making tiny oxygen sensors using the method our group developed for coating the things. And right now my classmate is working on aligning them in bulk to make wires.
This field is very hot and many groups are working on ways of making these things viable for sensors, wires and the like.
I may not know what technology these TMV will bring us, but they have already brought some things to the table.
Not unless Average Joe actually takes responsibility for what ends up on his machine... Right, not likely to happen.
Every nation I know of requires a license to drive, why not a license to use the internet? (Right, I know. A horrible analogy. Congress would never pass such a law for a requirement they couldn't pass.)
(emphasis mine)
I'm going to assume you know how to protect the PCs you are managing. Good for you. However, I don't think you are managing everyone's home PC. I also don't think the average Joe knows how to either. Yadda, yadda, yadda, I believe lots of malware exists on a significant portion of home PCs. When those people get tired of their PC running slow, and think the local repair shop is cheating them out of their money (because they didn't do nothing! Those infections keep coming back. Hey, Bob, have you seen my cool new screensaver?), they will buy a new PC with Vista preinstalled.
Tell this to everyone who will buy a new PC as their old one becomes so infested with malware that it slows to a crawl. I bet MS will make sure any new computer will come with Vista once (maybe never, I hope) it comes out.
Sir,
If I had any mod points, you would be getting them. MPU? (Mod Parent Up)
Seriously, there are those who research to copy and those who research to learn. All Wikipedia has done, is allow those who copy to do it easier.
Just following your logic... Since almost all of pop music is just broadcasted at any point in time, do you think RIAA would mind if I just downloaded all of those songs (not that I'd want to) and play them at my leisure?
My cell phone package is advertised as 35.99 USD per month. The actual bill is just a little over 50 USD per month.
When I had a land line, the cost was advertised as 15.99 USD per month. The bill each month (without long distance charged added in) was 21 USD per month.
They do not add in all fees unless you explicitly ask them to do so. They advertise a lower price.
It's like forcing people to become motivated. I don't feel that all regulations are bad, just most of them. Vote what regulations you want in place. Encourage (educate) as many as you can to do the same.
Unfortunately, the more we rely on the government to protect us, the lazier people will get thus perpetuating the need for laws and regulations. The only way to not need so much regulation is to educate the people to start participating in the free market.
Uhg, Labview. For the sake of current and future programmers, I hope they are not going to use the Labview 7 style of programming. Ridiculously complicated flowcharts should not be programs.
Oh come on, this is Oxygen we are talking about. Feminists don't take kindly to "girly" jewelry.
(Diamonds, she'll pretty much have to.)
While this may seem funny to some, it is dead on. Why do parents think that everyone ELSE has to watch over their damn kids? In addition to the newly formed Pirate Party, how about we start a "Don't make laws against Darwinism" party?
Well, you do have to go to where most of the potential customers are, don't you?
External SATA drives will probably be as popular as external SCSI drives. They have their small/niche market, but the masses don't need/want them. The only real advantage I can see is if they can put these out for about the same cost as the internal drives, which they won't.
USB works well enough for most people and it will also support their cameras, printers, scanners, thumb drives, gamepads, cell phones, etc. The last time something better came out (firewire), USB was just updated to faster speeds. This is not to say that USB is always better then the alternatives, it's just much more versatile, and it works.
I always prefered that little green/blue/red arrow in the top right corner. But some people never know what that means, so maybe it should still slap them with the popup on next start-up or an new tab.
Just my 2 cents.
For some reason, I read that as Hilary will ensue. Now why would you want to do that to someone?
No, I expect them to tell you to purchase a new computer with Windows preinstalled, sadly.
Nope. I had heard about the vertical testings but haven't seen one. It appears to be basically the same thing except, as the previous replier stated, they didn't release the clamps. I'm sure there are still plenty of sensors and it's a full powered burn.
This is the kind that I'm used to. Just the rocket, not the whole assembly.
No, they probably fire it horizontally into a huge load sensor with brackets to keep it facing forward. At least, that's how the test the solid rocket boosters for the shuttle. I've had the opportunity to watch a test fire and it's a quite impressive 120s burn time.
And how many slashdotters here have a WinXP box with the classic desktop? (and no categories on the control panel)
If it costs $100,000,000 to make a movie
And there is your problem.
Many books are not advertised on expensive TV commercials. They rely on people using word of mouth. People are loyal to book authors and authors usually respond and produce more content, which is purchased. Books are pretty cheap and you own them. You can let friends borrow them, and you can sell them easily.
The movie industry pays millions of dollars to advertise the bejesus out of every POS "blockbuster" they can come up with. Hype, Hype, HYPE!! watch the damn movie. They glorify actors and pay them millions. Most new movies (but certainly not all) are complete garbage. So much money is wasted in paying actors and advertising, they charge an arm at the theaters for a one time showing. Now, granted, theaters usually have better lights and sound, but they also have small whiny children and whiny people on whiny cellphones. Then the charge your other arm and a leg to purchase a DVD.
And rounding up the pack is the music industry, which doesn't advertise as much on TV, but still pays radio stations to favor songs. Then they charge an excessive amount of cash for a rootkit-ridden CD. They glorify any "artist" who has a single decent track and expect everyone to feel honored to be bent over to recieve a disc.
Moral of the story, I like books. I wish movies were not advertised more than once an hour. I wish all the radio stations around me didn't suck and play the same "pop" crap all the time.
I feel that prices could come down if they didn't advertise so much and just relied on friends to make recommendations to each other.
end of rant...
I solve that problem by driving everywhere at above-legal speeds.
I like to refer to them as super-legal speeds. Makes them seem safer.
Which is why adblock+ and noscript are godsends for people on dialup. Most of my computer semi-literate friends can use these without much trouble at all.