This technology would not be used to build CPU's doing calculations at 500 GHz (at least not anytime soon), but for signal processing--i.e. sending, recieving, de/modulating, etc. on a band up to 500 GHz.
Putting two of these in paralell would not improve the frequency any more than holding two 2.4 Ghz cell phones and trying to talk on a 4.8 Ghz band.
[Yes, I know sin^2(x) -> sin(2x) + others, but that's a different story.]
Though many of the events allowed the use of remote-control devices, about half did require completely autonomous robots to be fielded (or at least penalized the teams that relied on human-control). In the FIRA soccer tournament, for instance, each team of robots was "managed" by a host computer that could communicate with each robot. However, the humans were not allowed to interact with the computer/robot network for the entirety of the event. Certain robot-battle events, as well as all of the navigation events and nearly all of the sumo events required fully autonomous robots to be fielded.
Actually, Singapore dominated the "Sumo" event, and Peru swept the gold medals in the solar-powered "Beam" obstacle course/race. Good to see so many competitors in an event that started in 2004, though. More information from their medal count.
Technically, yes. I'm assuming by "3-D chip" you are referring to stacked transistors (channels and gates in each layer, not just on the bottom, as it is now).
However, the issues you run into range from the silicon (you're either doing some amazing wafer bonding or finding a way to precisely re-grow single-crystal silicon on an already fabbed substrate) to the fabrication (each metal layer must have a lower melting point, otherwise you ruin all your previously depositied layers... not to mention that it's quite difficult to place the polysilicon layers after any metal is down) to the thermal (silicon just wouldn't transport heat to the surface that well) to the yield (tall things are error prone unless you are just etching holes) to the flat-out process price (more masks and steps exponentially increases the cost).
Not that it's not a field worth looking into, it's just one that's not yet "just around the corner".
The term "force field" appears in the article (in quotes, I might add), but the word "mysterious" certainly doesn't. In fact, after reading the article (or even the summary, for that matter), there's little sci-fi mystery remaining.
The article gives a good overview for the casual reader--if you're interested in the Riemann Zeta Function itself, look here (Zeta Funciton) or here (Zeroes)
I love reading about this stuff, but the actual relation between the zeroes and the prime number theorem must have passed right over my head. Anyone else get it?
I suppose if all you are doing is waiting for your turn, then yes, waiting in line for a video game could be quite boring.
However, I live in an apartment style dorm with a few friends, and, because of our crazy schedules, much of our best social time is spent watching someone play a game, be it a classic MegaMan or Final Fantasy or some newer hit like Jade Empire, etc. We root for (or against) the player, poke fun at the storylines, chat about (IRL) current events, give play-by-plays for the game...
Gaming can be social, too. And that, I think, is from what these guys are trying to 'Profit???'.
Current [as in "widely accepted"] physics states that such a black hole will not form in the collision planned, but, if string theory is correct and there are extra dimensions, gravity will be strong enough at the quantum level to cause a miniscule black hole to appear [extremely] briefly and then vanish suddenly in a fit of Hawking radiation.
By the way... think that extra dimensions are weird? How about a theory that says that volume is an illusion?
Step 1: Alter a few mosquitoes using this expensive process.
Step 2: Allow fluorescence gene to propagate in the wild.
Step 3: Introduce machine that effectively ends the genetic line of fluorescing males.
Do they intend to keep running Step 1? I'd like to know how they expect to keep these flourescent males in circulation when they are constantly employing natural selection to end their genetic lines.
(That, and I'd like to see the actual paper... I can't find the article on Nature Biotechnology, but that's just my lousy skills.)
I'm going to assume that most of us, reading the title and then clicking "Read more..." like a good slashdotter, came here expecting a showdown (or what passes for it in the comment sections) between programming languages.
As one who has played through I, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX [yes, I still have a life, a girlfriend, and a job] -- I must say that VIII was the greatest letdown of the bunch. It seems to be awash in teenage angst and lousy Emo lines.
It's engine seemed to suggest you needed way too much power-leveling and power-drawing, and the side quests were so far disconnected from the game as to render them a time-waste. It did have the saving grace of a rather addicting card game (and a few nice FMV's), though.
As a whole, though, if it's a tabletop RPG environment in a computer game that you're looking for, Final Fantasy is not the way to go. The plot lines are all done more "Adventure" style than "RPG" style, is the game mechanics that give them the "RPG" label.
And personally, I don't think that's a bad thing. Yes, there are times I like a free, open story, but at the same time, sometimes I prefer a story told to(-ish) me, as well. I compare it to reading a good-and-somewhat-interactive book... Even though the comparsion generally inspires pointing and laughing with me as the subject.
My favorite: it's a toss up between VI and IX. [I had to say it]
I think "precious" is a bit far to go in describing the tidbits of information offered us by this post.
The 6-hit-combo thingie the article mentions seems to be just their tried-and-true "critical hit" system with some extra graphics... The hit combos were in FF1, by the way. I believe one could, with luck and a good weapon, get anywhere between one and six hits.
The new shield-guarding ability? They've had an "eva" (evade) stat since FF1 and introduced the shield as the primary blocker in FF6.
The enemy-fighting-enemy flair could add quite a bit to the game, though. After gamers erupted with joy in response to scenes of Covenant and Flood battling it out before their eyes in Halo, we've seen a new resurgence of this "I'm not the only one doing all the fighting" addition to games. [Not to say that Halo invented the idea, of course. They were just the first, IMHO, to do it breathtakingly in these latest graphical environments.]
Hmphh. Check out the tagline on one of their home pages:
Atom Chip Corporation: Welcome to the World of Nanomicrons and Beyond!
Nanomicrons? Since the adoption of "femto" in 1964, (and considering the fact that there were much fewer uses for it before then) this word was supposed to have died. Really... why don't they just use "Billiardth-inches" while they're at it. [--to say nothing about whatever groundbreaking processing techniques allowed them to fabricate a processor at 1/100,000 the wavelength of x-rays]
I've been seeing this word quite often in datasheets of chips we use in the lab. (Like here, in the Description.) My first impression was a small, black IC with a confederate flag painted on top... perhaps some unnecessary facial hair, as well.
Now, the word 'rugged' comes from the Scadanavian word for 'shaggy'. However, the popular cowboy mentality has managed to transform 'unkempt' into 'robust', as evidenced by the definition for 'ruggedize': --to strengthen (as a machine) for better resistance to wear, stress, and abuse--
I'm going to assume, then, that my chip contains a powerful Texan spirit that herds the current like the stampeding mass of electrons that it is.
The word that has been interpreted as "day" in Latin and later English is the Hebrew yom. The Biblical Hebrew language is composed of somewhere around 3000 non-proper words [as opposed to English's ~4 million], and yom was used to represent both a 24 hour period as well as an extended time period. [yom was preserved as "day" in translations such as "the day of the Romans" or "the day of God's wrath".]
So there you have it. *That* is what the Bible [originally] said about Creation. Take it any way you wish to prove whatever point you will, but that's where the words come from.
Slashdot Mirror
*sigh*
/me raises a glass of Crystal Pepsi to the good 'ol days.
This technology would not be used to build CPU's doing calculations at 500 GHz (at least not anytime soon), but for signal processing--i.e. sending, recieving, de/modulating, etc. on a band up to 500 GHz.
Putting two of these in paralell would not improve the frequency any more than holding two 2.4 Ghz cell phones and trying to talk on a 4.8 Ghz band.
[Yes, I know sin^2(x) -> sin(2x) + others, but that's a different story.]
Though many of the events allowed the use of remote-control devices, about half did require completely autonomous robots to be fielded (or at least penalized the teams that relied on human-control). In the FIRA soccer tournament, for instance, each team of robots was "managed" by a host computer that could communicate with each robot. However, the humans were not allowed to interact with the computer/robot network for the entirety of the event. Certain robot-battle events, as well as all of the navigation events and nearly all of the sumo events required fully autonomous robots to be fielded.
Actually, Singapore dominated the "Sumo" event, and Peru swept the gold medals in the solar-powered "Beam" obstacle course/race. Good to see so many competitors in an event that started in 2004, though.
More information from their medal count.
DNF... ... Did Not Finish?
Coincidence? I doubt it.
The magic of E3... transforming "Offtopic -1"'s to "Insightful +1"'s everywhere!
So, would it be possible to make a 3-D chip?
Technically, yes. I'm assuming by "3-D chip" you are referring to stacked transistors (channels and gates in each layer, not just on the bottom, as it is now).
However, the issues you run into range from the silicon (you're either doing some amazing wafer bonding or finding a way to precisely re-grow single-crystal silicon on an already fabbed substrate) to the fabrication (each metal layer must have a lower melting point, otherwise you ruin all your previously depositied layers... not to mention that it's quite difficult to place the polysilicon layers after any metal is down) to the thermal (silicon just wouldn't transport heat to the surface that well) to the yield (tall things are error prone unless you are just etching holes) to the flat-out process price (more masks and steps exponentially increases the cost).
Not that it's not a field worth looking into, it's just one that's not yet "just around the corner".
The term "force field" appears in the article (in quotes, I might add), but the word "mysterious" certainly doesn't. In fact, after reading the article (or even the summary, for that matter), there's little sci-fi mystery remaining.
The article gives a good overview for the casual reader--if you're interested in the Riemann Zeta Function itself, look here (Zeta Funciton) or here (Zeroes)
I love reading about this stuff, but the actual relation between the zeroes and the prime number theorem must have passed right over my head. Anyone else get it?
I believe you mean...
Brillant!
I suppose if all you are doing is waiting for your turn, then yes, waiting in line for a video game could be quite boring.
However, I live in an apartment style dorm with a few friends, and, because of our crazy schedules, much of our best social time is spent watching someone play a game, be it a classic MegaMan or Final Fantasy or some newer hit like Jade Empire, etc. We root for (or against) the player, poke fun at the storylines, chat about (IRL) current events, give play-by-plays for the game...
Gaming can be social, too. And that, I think, is from what these guys are trying to 'Profit???'.
The key is to see if a black hole even appears.
Current [as in "widely accepted"] physics states that such a black hole will not form in the collision planned, but, if string theory is correct and there are extra dimensions, gravity will be strong enough at the quantum level to cause a miniscule black hole to appear [extremely] briefly and then vanish suddenly in a fit of Hawking radiation.
By the way... think that extra dimensions are weird? How about a theory that says that volume is an illusion?
need to be smart not to hand the reigns over to them.
A very appropriate typo, methinks...
I'll read the content of the article after I construct a tin foil hat for my laptop.
...What happened to my wireless?
Hey!
damn... you know it's getting scary when the soviet russia joke is not only unfunny, but frightening....
... and "Insightful".
I'm interested to see the stats of Slashdot, myself. Any /.-deities out there have the stats/care to leave us the numbers for that?
So let me get this straight:
Step 1: Alter a few mosquitoes using this expensive process.
Step 2: Allow fluorescence gene to propagate in the wild.
Step 3: Introduce machine that effectively ends the genetic line of fluorescing males.
Do they intend to keep running Step 1? I'd like to know how they expect to keep these flourescent males in circulation when they are constantly employing natural selection to end their genetic lines.
(That, and I'd like to see the actual paper... I can't find the article on Nature Biotechnology, but that's just my lousy skills.)
I'm going to assume that most of us, reading the title and then clicking "Read more..." like a good slashdotter, came here expecting a showdown (or what passes for it in the comment sections) between programming languages.
...I know I did.
Ah. Mozilla has lept upon more discovered holes and promptly fixed them.
And somehow, these fixes make the browser all the less secure in the eyes of the big guys.
As one who has played through I, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX [yes, I still have a life, a girlfriend, and a job] -- I must say that VIII was the greatest letdown of the bunch. It seems to be awash in teenage angst and lousy Emo lines.
It's engine seemed to suggest you needed way too much power-leveling and power-drawing, and the side quests were so far disconnected from the game as to render them a time-waste. It did have the saving grace of a rather addicting card game (and a few nice FMV's), though.
As a whole, though, if it's a tabletop RPG environment in a computer game that you're looking for, Final Fantasy is not the way to go. The plot lines are all done more "Adventure" style than "RPG" style, is the game mechanics that give them the "RPG" label.
And personally, I don't think that's a bad thing. Yes, there are times I like a free, open story, but at the same time, sometimes I prefer a story told to(-ish) me, as well. I compare it to reading a good-and-somewhat-interactive book... Even though the comparsion generally inspires pointing and laughing with me as the subject.
My favorite: it's a toss up between VI and IX. [I had to say it]
I think "precious" is a bit far to go in describing the tidbits of information offered us by this post.
The 6-hit-combo thingie the article mentions seems to be just their tried-and-true "critical hit" system with some extra graphics... The hit combos were in FF1, by the way. I believe one could, with luck and a good weapon, get anywhere between one and six hits.
The new shield-guarding ability? They've had an "eva" (evade) stat since FF1 and introduced the shield as the primary blocker in FF6.
The enemy-fighting-enemy flair could add quite a bit to the game, though. After gamers erupted with joy in response to scenes of Covenant and Flood battling it out before their eyes in Halo, we've seen a new resurgence of this "I'm not the only one doing all the fighting" addition to games.
[Not to say that Halo invented the idea, of course. They were just the first, IMHO, to do it breathtakingly in these latest graphical environments.]
Hmphh. Check out the tagline on one of their home pages:
Atom Chip Corporation: Welcome to the World of Nanomicrons and Beyond!
Nanomicrons? Since the adoption of "femto" in 1964, (and considering the fact that there were much fewer uses for it before then) this word was supposed to have died. Really... why don't they just use "Billiardth-inches" while they're at it. [--to say nothing about whatever groundbreaking processing techniques allowed them to fabricate a processor at 1/100,000 the wavelength of x-rays]
I've been seeing this word quite often in datasheets of chips we use in the lab. (Like here, in the Description.) My first impression was a small, black IC with a confederate flag painted on top... perhaps some unnecessary facial hair, as well.
Now, the word 'rugged' comes from the Scadanavian word for 'shaggy'. However, the popular cowboy mentality has managed to transform 'unkempt' into 'robust', as evidenced by the definition for 'ruggedize':
--to strengthen (as a machine) for better resistance to wear, stress, and abuse--
I'm going to assume, then, that my chip contains a powerful Texan spirit that herds the current like the stampeding mass of electrons that it is.
And... and there was a Google AdSense advertisment showing on this very comment page.
/., why?
Why, oh
The word that has been interpreted as "day" in Latin and later English is the Hebrew yom. The Biblical Hebrew language is composed of somewhere around 3000 non-proper words [as opposed to English's ~4 million], and yom was used to represent both a 24 hour period as well as an extended time period. [yom was preserved as "day" in translations such as "the day of the Romans" or "the day of God's wrath".]
So there you have it. *That* is what the Bible [originally] said about Creation. Take it any way you wish to prove whatever point you will, but that's where the words come from.