It happened to me as well with my Sony Vaio. Sony told me they won't support Linux systems or dual boot systems.
The funny thing is... if you have a broken hard drive you cannot even perform a recovery to bring the system to its original state.
Because of this, I won't buy a Vaio again.
All the improvements are very welcomed especially when you take into account the price of Open Office. How will Microsoft, at some point (or even now), justify the huge price tag of MS Office?
Is important that Open Office keeps getting improved and all the help from IBM is welcomed. At some point (if not already there), the dominant MS Office will have to make a revolutionary step in order to justify the price tag.
Users will look at the quality/price ratio although a bit difficult if you have to divide by zero for Open Office:)
They should have said that they don't know why. Simply. I agree with you that is good for the rest of the community to see the results and try to find an explanation but the author(s) should have been the first trying to find an explanation or admit they don't have any. But not that explaining why is "beyond the scope of this paper".
What I am trying to say is that the paper would have worth a lot more if the author(s) could answer "why".
I do belive he is a physicist and not a physician. In French, physicist is "physicien", I think. Because English is not his first languange, he mixed things up a little:) I might be wrong.
extra info from free.fr:
"Docteur en Electronique Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Michel Xhaard"
It was about time that something like this shows up. However, I am a bit suspicious.
Do they show that indeed we are talking about single crystal system, and not single crystals randomly oriented (on microscopic level)? If is the latter, then we are talking about thin films: an array of single crystals differently oriented and lots of grain boundaries in between.
Well, the results are nice but isn't a bit early to pretend you are changing the world? With thin films this was done before. Again I suspect that what they have is more closely related to thin films rather than single crystals.
If they can show that all of their crystals have the same orientation, then they are on the safe side. But I think they are not on the safe side:
Several further advances will be necessary before the team's progress translates into commercial technologies. Among them is controlling how the crystals line up across the electrodes when the crystals form. Another key step will be ensuring better electrical contact between crystals and electrodes.
When we will be able to reach planets outside of our solar system,... by that time, the poverty will be eradicated.
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Are you saying that top500.org is not reliable? That would be a rather bold statement.
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It seems that even the University in Groningen claims
that Stella is the fastest in Europe, which is not the case if you see top500.org (the link in the post above).
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It happened to me as well with my Sony Vaio. Sony told me they won't support Linux systems or dual boot systems. The funny thing is ... if you have a broken hard drive you cannot even perform a recovery to bring the system to its original state.
Because of this, I won't buy a Vaio again.
All the improvements are very welcomed especially when you take into account the price of Open Office. How will Microsoft, at some point (or even now), justify the huge price tag of MS Office?
Is important that Open Office keeps getting improved and all the help from IBM is welcomed. At some point (if not already there), the dominant MS Office will have to make a revolutionary step in order to justify the price tag.
:)
Users will look at the quality/price ratio although a bit difficult if you have to divide by zero for Open Office
They should have said that they don't know why. Simply. I agree with you that is good for the rest of the community to see the results and try to find an explanation but the author(s) should have been the first trying to find an explanation or admit they don't have any. But not that explaining why is "beyond the scope of this paper".
What I am trying to say is that the paper would have worth a lot more if the author(s) could answer "why".
exactly. "why" should have been the main issue but all the author wanted is just another paper out the door.
I do belive he is a physicist and not a physician. In French, physicist is "physicien", I think. Because English is not his first languange, he mixed things up a little :) I might be wrong.
extra info from free.fr:
"Docteur en Electronique Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Michel Xhaard"
Do they show that indeed we are talking about single crystal system, and not single crystals randomly oriented (on microscopic level)? If is the latter, then we are talking about thin films: an array of single crystals differently oriented and lots of grain boundaries in between.
Well, the results are nice but isn't a bit early to pretend you are changing the world? With thin films this was done before. Again I suspect that what they have is more closely related to thin films rather than single crystals.
If they can show that all of their crystals have the same orientation, then they are on the safe side. But I think they are not on the safe side: Several further advances will be necessary before the team's progress translates into commercial technologies. Among them is controlling how the crystals line up across the electrodes when the crystals form. Another key step will be ensuring better electrical contact between crystals and electrodes.
When we will be able to reach planets outside of our solar system, ... by that time, the poverty will be eradicated.
Are you saying that top500.org is not reliable? That would be a rather bold statement.
It seems that even the University in Groningen claims that Stella is the fastest in Europe, which is not the case if you see top500.org (the link in the post above).
I believe the most powerful supercomputer in Europe is in Spain rather than the Netherlands as mentioned on th BBC website.