Yea and selling this as the "first atrificial sun" just makes you look foolish. It's another piece of the pie and we'll need a lot more before this becomes a reality. More research cannot mebbe with 1.2 billion the Chinese just cannot wait for the oil supplies to run out and have to start looking NOW for things they can sell to the rest of the world when it does.
Actually it's the application of a specific property of prime numbers and "clock" algebra. It is non-trivial and was a specific work to make encryption from available tools.
It took lots of work by 3 very very clever people and if you honestly believe that YOU could have done it then by all means don't grant that patent.
Now navigating songs by 3 hierarchical screens is trivial and ANYONE could have come up with that.
Dewey decimal patentable but putting books in alphebetical order I don't think so.
You just need to ask yourself, could I have come up with that solution in about 2 minutes of thinking about it. If you can I would like to see a good reason why it deserves a patent.
"The cadmium atom that has lost an electron becomes a negatively charged ion, which can then be controlled with an electrical field," said Daniel Stick, a doctoral student in the University of Michigan's physics department who participated in the work.
I'm either being really stupid here or this is just plain wrong. As electrons are negatively charge (charge of electron = -1.6 x 10^-19 Coloumbs) so removing one would make a positive ion otherwise you've got an electron and a negative ion from the neutral initial atom (i'm assuming it was neutral beforehand).
Well, if you need useful results that you can TRUST then ANY encylopedia is not going to be enough. They are a tool for finding out where you should then investigate further.
If you want to be accurate you should always check your facts from several sources. ANY tome can be wrong, so check one against another; if it really matters that much to you. It'll give you a best guess, but nothing further, yes it SHOULD be accurate and it's nice to know that it is quite accurate compared with an established source of reference. But really if you want to be sure of what you are saying check the facts with something else to be sure.
Um not to put too fine a point on it but I think the point was made that Nvidia *might* stop making the 7800 in which case it would be all alone at the top of the heap. In this situation which was described had you read the article was the point being made not at the moment, but perhaps shortly, as long as nvidia don't come up with something better in the mean time.
just a thought, might have been a better idea to read closely.
at a guess the nazi party was created just after the second world war, but i have no clue, just using what figures were available. Don't see where you were going with these dates. The Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Ge rman_Workers_Party don't seem to give a definitive answer when the NAZI party was actually created and i think a date is purely arbitary any way.
you were right however at that not being relavent just thought i should point out that 496 wasn't far off the number (465 (31*15) would have been more acurate but still flawed).
don't know what the numbers and lines is actually referring to but i think you forgot to divide by two (unless each direction is separate then forget i said anything).
because there are only 10 straight lines between 5 points so the formula is far more simple being triangular numbers [n(n-1)/2] or if we're talking about vectors then n^2-n (double the previous number.
factorials are usually used in probability and generate HUGE numbers (6! = 720) you get the sort of numbers like 14 000 000 as the probability of winning the UK lottery
basically the first point has 31 other distinct points it can go to, using your own logis then it would be 32*31 (as each point can go to 31 others). but the second point would only have 30 others to which it did not have a straight line and the 29 and 28 and so on down to 0 for the last point.
of course i could be getting the wrong end of the stick but you can't be talking about different paths from a to b as there would be an infinite amount (to get to b from a go a-c-d-e-c-d-e-c-d-ec-d-e-c-e etc.... just don't finish or repeat snd there are an infinite number.
As i'm sure you're all aware thet office 11 change clippy forever. When you've got rid of him a few times he comes up with a nice little option, something like "I noticed you keep turning me off, would you like to turn me off forever?" (it does look quite sad when you do this, some attempt at emotional blackmail perhaps).
Although i'd rather have the option to turn him on not turn it off (because it'd be off by default).
although perhaps this time it's developed some form of autovivication, that would be an interesting feature.
Of course it could just be amassing all the worlds data (it pretty much reads everything you write, even when it's off i imagine) so it can become some sentient all knowing being.
yes but my point was that you need to lose energy (friction in Mir case and light in electrons) so the point still stands.
And you've also taken what i said out of context, I was just pointing out that this is still within the standard model we have just at lower energies than was previously recorded.
Um OK so an excited electron get's tired and goes to bed but he need's to lose some of that extra energy. I'm thinking he'll let off a little bit of light (one photon) and fall closer to the nucleus. So let's expand the theory, electron moves closer to nucleus, light given out. Therefore moving the electron closer will give out light (energy) using the experience we already have with atoms.
Or you could think of it like getting a satelite to a higher orbit, you have to really really push to get anywhere. But to get to a lower one you just have to stop for a second and you'll fall down (Mir just fell out the sky without any help).
You also seem to have missed some people who you'll have to convince. That would be everyone except the US. When 95% of the world is against you it really is just a matter of time. Enough people in the world 'hate' the US and having a "terrorist" president keeping control over what many countries now rely on is not something that we wish to do.
(OK so 95% of the world don't live in the US and i'm assuming that the number of countries that think the US shouldn't have one more thing over them is everyone. Sorry if this is wrong.)
It's not about what the US government has done up to this point. But rather what would stop them doing anything in the future. As they currently have control there is nothing (except a world revolt and, we've all seen how much the US cares about the rest of the world) to stop them doing anythign in the future.
When so much is based ona medium you don't want some silly bugger coming along and going "Your country spreads terrorist thinking we've decided you can't have the Internet". Especially given that terrorism exists because of injustice, which the US spreads like no-one else.
And it's not even as if the US actually won any wars recently (well the cold war but Russia lost that not the US winning it). So perhaps someone slightly more sane and definitely more inteligent should have final say over the Internet.
I just hope that they put someone useful in charge, that's what we all should really be debating because when the US loses "control" of the Internet we should have answered this question.
It is better that the US has control until we can organise a truely international party to take over effectively and impartially.
Well yes but I don't have a car and use public transport to get around. When i have used a car i used a small 1.3 litre skoda.
What I object to, and I realise that the Europeans are fast catching up, is the 5litre "SUV's" or 4x4's. Or more succinctly the Hummer (which we don't have in this country) and the lazy can't be arsed to walk for 5 minutes i'll take the H2.
And I think you will find that on average americans have larger engined cars than the Eurpoeans (can't find any stats for you but European engine average is ~1.8litre (2003)) Somehow i think that american cars are SUBSTANTIALLY bigger.
That being said anyone who uses a 4x4 for anything other than going over a mountain (you would obviously use a land rover) is really stupid and generally selfish. The world and the roads are there for all, lets keep them that way.
It's really hard to feel sorry for a nation that pays so much less for fuel now than we were paying before this crisis. Especially as americans are not renound for their economic cars, somehow someone using a hummer to run to the shops reallly does deserve to pay for the privilege of polluting the environment and generally making events like the past week more likely.
Personally i'd like to see the price of fuel in the states double from it's current level and the extra can go to finding clean technologies and bringing them to market. But you know we'd all like the impossible.
sorry but that should be enter american-shitty-fake-imperial to metric system as we brits used metric when doing maths with numbers as it's soooooo much easier and transportable because EVERYONE else uses it. The yanks messed it up with the inches, feet etc the last time it went splat.
Well it's nice to know all the posts seem to be championing the benifits of this modern technology. However the first maps of Great Britain by Ordinance Survey were published in the C18. The first map of the whole country using the method explained here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinance_Survey had an error of some 46 cm between the main two baselines. This method must have some merit.
Well if you consider that some statisticians have used statistics to *prove* (lets not get on to what is a proof and what is not far too big a topic) that statistics are false.
I'm really not supprised by all this. Especially when you consider that 87% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
You can and will *prove* anything with stats. It's all a case of who pays your wages really.
you make a good point but i feel that it's not a valid similie. way back when BBS systems were populated by hobbiests and geeks, now *everybody* has a computer and very few have a clue still, not that they care too much.
you may just get wider spread harder to track criminal gangs.
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They are attempting to limit the government's ability to freely publish the results of scientific work paid for by tax dollars.
So private business wants to charge me for something i have already paid for. I don't see how this is fair, if the private business pays for the research and then charges you to see it well they did pay for it so that is their right. And the government should not publish this data in this case.
However if the government has used my tax dollars to fund research then ALL results should be available to me FREE (as in beer).
Private business should not have ANY rights to charge for access to publiclly paid for research/data.
Well there are tens of millions of computers in the world, so i'd assume that my software company would do *something* if more than 1 million computers were infected.
Yes this is not a perfect solution but you know they could at least *try*.
It is nice to know that the money spent on M$ products just goes to shareholders (and a big pile of cash) and not on developing saftey measures on the single most hacked peice of software. (well updates are one thing but still 5 weeks till the bug in IE *may* get fixed)
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Yea and selling this as the "first atrificial sun" just makes you look foolish. It's another piece of the pie and we'll need a lot more before this becomes a reality. More research cannot mebbe with 1.2 billion the Chinese just cannot wait for the oil supplies to run out and have to start looking NOW for things they can sell to the rest of the world when it does.
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Actually it's the application of a specific property of prime numbers and "clock" algebra. It is non-trivial and was a specific work to make encryption from available tools.
It took lots of work by 3 very very clever people and if you honestly believe that YOU could have done it then by all means don't grant that patent.
Now navigating songs by 3 hierarchical screens is trivial and ANYONE could have come up with that.
Dewey decimal patentable but putting books in alphebetical order I don't think so.
You just need to ask yourself, could I have come up with that solution in about 2 minutes of thinking about it. If you can I would like to see a good reason why it deserves a patent.
enjoy
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"The cadmium atom that has lost an electron becomes a negatively charged ion, which can then be controlled with an electrical field," said Daniel Stick, a doctoral student in the University of Michigan's physics department who participated in the work.
I'm either being really stupid here or this is just plain wrong. As electrons are negatively charge (charge of electron = -1.6 x 10^-19 Coloumbs) so removing one would make a positive ion otherwise you've got an electron and a negative ion from the neutral initial atom (i'm assuming it was neutral beforehand).
Just a point.
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I direct you here as you obviously can't cope with google on your own.http://www.answers.com/learnt&r=67
Well, if you need useful results that you can TRUST then ANY encylopedia is not going to be enough. They are a tool for finding out where you should then investigate further.
If you want to be accurate you should always check your facts from several sources. ANY tome can be wrong, so check one against another; if it really matters that much to you. It'll give you a best guess, but nothing further, yes it SHOULD be accurate and it's nice to know that it is quite accurate compared with an established source of reference. But really if you want to be sure of what you are saying check the facts with something else to be sure.
Um not to put too fine a point on it but I think the point was made that Nvidia *might* stop making the 7800 in which case it would be all alone at the top of the heap. In this situation which was described had you read the article was the point being made not at the moment, but perhaps shortly, as long as nvidia don't come up with something better in the mean time.
just a thought, might have been a better idea to read closely.
Thanks, i found that out reading some of the other posts. was clearly being stupid, then whats new
um 2006 - 87 = 1919...
e rman_Workers_Party don't seem to give a definitive answer when the NAZI party was actually created and i think a date is purely arbitary any way.
at a guess the nazi party was created just after the second world war, but i have no clue, just using what figures were available. Don't see where you were going with these dates. The Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_G
Um I think you only need one (Move the 'A' from the end to the begining)
you were right however at that not being relavent just thought i should point out that 496 wasn't far off the number (465 (31*15) would have been more acurate but still flawed).
don't know what the numbers and lines is actually referring to but i think you forgot to divide by two (unless each direction is separate then forget i said anything).
because there are only 10 straight lines between 5 points so the formula is far more simple being triangular numbers [n(n-1)/2] or if we're talking about vectors then n^2-n (double the previous number.
factorials are usually used in probability and generate HUGE numbers (6! = 720) you get the sort of numbers like 14 000 000 as the probability of winning the UK lottery
basically the first point has 31 other distinct points it can go to, using your own logis then it would be 32*31 (as each point can go to 31 others). but the second point would only have 30 others to which it did not have a straight line and the 29 and 28 and so on down to 0 for the last point.
of course i could be getting the wrong end of the stick but you can't be talking about different paths from a to b as there would be an infinite amount (to get to b from a go a-c-d-e-c-d-e-c-d-ec-d-e-c-e etc.... just don't finish or repeat snd there are an infinite number.
As i'm sure you're all aware thet office 11 change clippy forever. When you've got rid of him a few times he comes up with a nice little option, something like "I noticed you keep turning me off, would you like to turn me off forever?" (it does look quite sad when you do this, some attempt at emotional blackmail perhaps).
Although i'd rather have the option to turn him on not turn it off (because it'd be off by default).
although perhaps this time it's developed some form of autovivication, that would be an interesting feature.
Of course it could just be amassing all the worlds data (it pretty much reads everything you write, even when it's off i imagine) so it can become some sentient all knowing being.
But then again it is M$...
yes but my point was that you need to lose energy (friction in Mir case and light in electrons) so the point still stands.
And you've also taken what i said out of context, I was just pointing out that this is still within the standard model we have just at lower energies than was previously recorded.
Um OK so an excited electron get's tired and goes to bed but he need's to lose some of that extra energy. I'm thinking he'll let off a little bit of light (one photon) and fall closer to the nucleus. So let's expand the theory, electron moves closer to nucleus, light given out. Therefore moving the electron closer will give out light (energy) using the experience we already have with atoms.
Or you could think of it like getting a satelite to a higher orbit, you have to really really push to get anywhere. But to get to a lower one you just have to stop for a second and you'll fall down (Mir just fell out the sky without any help).
You also seem to have missed some people who you'll have to convince. That would be everyone except the US. When 95% of the world is against you it really is just a matter of time. Enough people in the world 'hate' the US and having a "terrorist" president keeping control over what many countries now rely on is not something that we wish to do.
(OK so 95% of the world don't live in the US and i'm assuming that the number of countries that think the US shouldn't have one more thing over them is everyone. Sorry if this is wrong.)
It's not about what the US government has done up to this point. But rather what would stop them doing anything in the future. As they currently have control there is nothing (except a world revolt and, we've all seen how much the US cares about the rest of the world) to stop them doing anythign in the future.
When so much is based ona medium you don't want some silly bugger coming along and going "Your country spreads terrorist thinking we've decided you can't have the Internet". Especially given that terrorism exists because of injustice, which the US spreads like no-one else.
And it's not even as if the US actually won any wars recently (well the cold war but Russia lost that not the US winning it). So perhaps someone slightly more sane and definitely more inteligent should have final say over the Internet.
I just hope that they put someone useful in charge, that's what we all should really be debating because when the US loses "control" of the Internet we should have answered this question.
It is better that the US has control until we can organise a truely international party to take over effectively and impartially.
Well yes but I don't have a car and use public transport to get around. When i have used a car i used a small 1.3 litre skoda.
What I object to, and I realise that the Europeans are fast catching up, is the 5litre "SUV's" or 4x4's. Or more succinctly the Hummer (which we don't have in this country) and the lazy can't be arsed to walk for 5 minutes i'll take the H2.
And I think you will find that on average americans have larger engined cars than the Eurpoeans (can't find any stats for you but European engine average is ~1.8litre (2003)) Somehow i think that american cars are SUBSTANTIALLY bigger.
That being said anyone who uses a 4x4 for anything other than going over a mountain (you would obviously use a land rover) is really stupid and generally selfish. The world and the roads are there for all, lets keep them that way.
http://www.iter.org/site.htm/ They have finally chosen France over Japan, and hopefully this technology will prive to be useful comercially.
It's really hard to feel sorry for a nation that pays so much less for fuel now than we were paying before this crisis. Especially as americans are not renound for their economic cars, somehow someone using a hummer to run to the shops reallly does deserve to pay for the privilege of polluting the environment and generally making events like the past week more likely.
Personally i'd like to see the price of fuel in the states double from it's current level and the extra can go to finding clean technologies and bringing them to market. But you know we'd all like the impossible.
sorry but that should be enter american-shitty-fake-imperial to metric system as we brits used metric when doing maths with numbers as it's soooooo much easier and transportable because EVERYONE else uses it. The yanks messed it up with the inches, feet etc the last time it went splat.
Well it's nice to know all the posts seem to be championing the benifits of this modern technology. However the first maps of Great Britain by Ordinance Survey were published in the C18. The first map of the whole country using the method explained here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinance_Survey had an error of some 46 cm between the main two baselines. This method must have some merit.
Well if you consider that some statisticians have used statistics to *prove* (lets not get on to what is a proof and what is not far too big a topic) that statistics are false.
I'm really not supprised by all this. Especially when you consider that 87% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
You can and will *prove* anything with stats. It's all a case of who pays your wages really.
you make a good point but i feel that it's not a valid similie. way back when BBS systems were populated by hobbiests and geeks, now *everybody* has a computer and very few have a clue still, not that they care too much.
you may just get wider spread harder to track criminal gangs.
So private business wants to charge me for something i have already paid for. I don't see how this is fair, if the private business pays for the research and then charges you to see it well they did pay for it so that is their right. And the government should not publish this data in this case.
However if the government has used my tax dollars to fund research then ALL results should be available to me FREE (as in beer).
Private business should not have ANY rights to charge for access to publiclly paid for research/data.
enjoy
...if i'm really that interested in something I can go and find it on google (it's what it's there for).
Ads suck, on a page you *can* ignore them when you have to actually look at them to close them I get annoyed.
enjoy.
Well there are tens of millions of computers in the world, so i'd assume that my software company would do *something* if more than 1 million computers were infected.
Yes this is not a perfect solution but you know they could at least *try*.
It is nice to know that the money spent on M$ products just goes to shareholders (and a big pile of cash) and not on developing saftey measures on the single most hacked peice of software. (well updates are one thing but still 5 weeks till the bug in IE *may* get fixed)