"Curiously, however, Evans notes that the theory behind the effect does not precisely match the results. According to their calculations, the perturbations should have released both particles and heat from the plasma. Instead, the heat was not bled off with the plasma but remained mostly contained within the magnetic field."
The experiment answered one question, but left another. Science in motion.
My father kept the cyclotron at Argonne in use, doing heavy metal creation and production for research, in the 70's-80's, so there are uses for the facility beyond the primary machine functions.
While Fermi may scale down, loose some prima donnas, change mission, it won't go away.
The idea of planning on setting up a base on the moon, or mars, doesn't seem to me to be a good idea, given that we can't even manage a station in low earth orbit. If there were flights to serve and support the ISS, then maybe a station further out is possible.
A moon base is the right next step, but the footing on our current step isn't that good.
Then all that is needed is a honking big web connection, and something that can be legally downloaded for a while. Seed a couple of thousand torrents, and let the world at it.
If everybody is wired up, or has wireless access, many people benefit.
Small towns are located in counties who are responsible for infrastructure over a wide area. The ability to have utility meters, and things like lift stations be monitored from afar. School busses, inspectors and police with laptops can report in. The combo of GPS and wireless is a boon to farmers.
Wireless co-ops should be a big thing in rural areas.
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Time to upgrade the ol' tin foil hat. Maybe some shiny stickers...
From TFA
"Curiously, however, Evans notes that the theory behind the effect does not precisely match the results. According to their calculations, the perturbations should have released both particles and heat from the plasma. Instead, the heat was not bled off with the plasma but remained mostly contained within the magnetic field."
The experiment answered one question, but left another. Science in motion.
Its a good program, the developers need to eat, so I purchased it after the trial.
AT&T isn't the only telecom left. Large retailers, banks, credit card companies also have a need to store trillions of records.
A machete or other knife big enough to chop the manager's finger off defeats the security totally, just chop off the thumb.
That is even easier than squeezing a password out of the guy.
It sounds like the magnetic core memory of the old days.
I had a 2l bottle of grape diet soda, again, just like sweetened.
The US government has been bought by big business these days, the FCC will do whatever they want.
What cable companies want is free access to stream video over the net, and to keep their monopoly while they do it.
All it takes is spending enough money in DC, and the desired legislation will magically appear in a must pass war spending bill.
One of my former employers did that, had cans brought in weekly via the commercial delivery.
Was a very nice perk. No clumsy vending machines. Also had coffee service.
The only snag was by buying wholesale and consuming it, they were liable for sales tax, which was kicked out in an audit. No big deal.
It is American tradition.
Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes.
Will capitalize on the phrase "not sold at Wal-Mart" or "banned from", and turn it into a plus.
Our new game is so sexy and violent it is banned from Wal-Mart.
How many IPods have been jacked in the same time? Or any other personally portable technology device, but thats all I can think of.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings/ for a time when students stood up against what they though was government screwing us over.
The power could be supplied by ac adapter, solar panel, windmill, treadmill, or many other alternatives, since it doesn't need a whole lot of power.
My father kept the cyclotron at Argonne in use, doing heavy metal creation and production for research, in the 70's-80's, so there are uses for the facility beyond the primary machine functions.
While Fermi may scale down, loose some prima donnas, change mission, it won't go away.
The idea of planning on setting up a base on the moon, or mars, doesn't seem to me to be a good idea, given that we can't even manage a station in low earth orbit. If there were flights to serve and support the ISS, then maybe a station further out is possible.
A moon base is the right next step, but the footing on our current step isn't that good.
From the BBC article another user posted, the hairs house lots of filter bacteria which make the toxic mineral vent water paleteable.
The rest of the media is reporting the Swedes won.
Anybody have any details on or about or from this conference? Hello, any U of NM folks in the /. crowd?
The ability to tell who accessed a document and when would be good for hi security government documents, to tell who did what when to them.
Maybe for some industries with real sensitive data as well, but of little use to the average person, except to please the *AA's.
Improvements to IE and Windows media player? I don't use them now, why would I be interested in an improved version to sit idle?
Then all that is needed is a honking big web connection, and something that can be legally downloaded for a while. Seed a couple of thousand torrents, and let the world at it.
If everybody is wired up, or has wireless access, many people benefit.
Small towns are located in counties who are responsible for infrastructure over a wide area. The ability to have utility meters, and things like lift stations be monitored from afar. School busses, inspectors and police with laptops can report in. The combo of GPS and wireless is a boon to farmers.
Wireless co-ops should be a big thing in rural areas.
Welcome to hell, have a beer.
It is the same thing, swimming through a liquid, just many orders of magnitude different in viscosity.