Very good point. Another is that modern containment of antimatter is often done by freezing. The closer you get it to absolute zero, the less interaction there is with normal matter.
I have to take exception with that statement. They never measured anything from the explosion of the Kielce - they merely guess NOW that it was roughly equivalent to an earthquake measuring 4.5. Who knows how accurate that guess is. Second, the Richter scale is a log10 scale, so every step up the ladder is 10 times the force.
That's FedEx where I live. They dropped someone else's package on my front doorstep, and I called them to come get it three times over two months before I took it back myself. By the time I got home, their truck is in my driveway trying to drop that same damn package on my doorstep again!
When you invest in a corporation, there is an assumption that the corporation will act ethically and with your best interests in mind. When a corporation does illegal things, it is often without the knowledge of investors and is often contrary to their interests.
Wow, you haven't been to business school lately, have you?:)
Businesses feel no need for ethics or your best interests. The only thing they believe they have to do is make the most money possible in the short term. It's what all the business schools have been teaching for the last forty years.
Linux looks better than Windows XP, and you have FULL use of the SPUs in linux. It's VERY useful to many people. You can browse the net with your favorite browser (Firefox) and do email with better security than Windows. You can play all your multimedia files. There a variety of games that run fine without hardware accelerated 3D (not all games are HalfLife 2 or Halo). To dismiss linux on the PS3 out of hand just shows your lack of imagination.
The cell does have a PowerPC core in it, but it's not the same as the PowerPC that was used in Macs. It's considerably stripped down, and as such isn't that great for general-purpose computing.
All processors used to be this way until the P2. The benchmarks on the Cell in the PS3 put it's performance on general purpose tasks as about equal to the 1.8 GHz G5 iMacs. That's PLENTY powerful enough for a general purpose CPU. Is it a 3 GHz Core2Duo? No, but that doesn't mean it sucks.
A vote for one wing or the other of a two-party state is worse than useless. It lends an air of legitimacy to an illegitimate system.
Exactly! If a company works against the betterment of the people, I boycott them. Not voting is the SAME PRINCIPLE applied to the government. We don't need campaigns trying to "get out the vote", we need campaigns to make people stay home. When only 0.03 percent of US citizens vote, maybe they'll realize we're serious. In fact, the representatives to the Electoral College should all abstain so that NO ONE is elected regardless of how many vote.
This only occurs at temperatures of hundreds of millions Celsius.
You say that like we should be impressed. "Wow!! HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of degrees!!!" Too bad any engineer can tell you that's just several keV. Everything from TVs to neon lighting can reach or exceed those voltages. That's the big problem with hot fusion proponents - all temperature and pressure, overlooking the simple matter of electric fields. It's no wonder they've nothing to show for the HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of dollars spent. What idiots.:)
So while you claim this "cold fusion" method cannot work because it can't produce the needed heat or pressure, maybe it produces the needed electric fields. You never know unless someone looks into it instead of dismissing it out of hand because of ignorance of other fields of science.
You mean choose the "fresh" fruit with all its diseases and bugs and parasites, or the "treated" fruit with some artificial chemicals that may or may not be good for you after 50 years of eating said fruit to the exclusion of all else. Hmm... pass the chemically treated fruit this way.
It seems a lot of geeks try to "defend" using powers of two, as if it were somehow the "correct" way, without thinking whether or not it is really correct and logical (*).
It IS correct. All computer science is built on base-two math. Period. There are no base-10 computers. It takes a fairly complicated routine to even convert numbers into base-10 representative strings (and vice versa). So it's both correct and logical. It doesn't take a geek, only someone has had a minimum of one class on boolean logic (which you clearly have not).
You clearly have a VERY short memory. Hard drives were measured in base 2 units for more than a decade before switching to base 10 units. It wasn't until drives were more than a gigabyte in size that they switched. In fact, the first lawsuits over the switch were what prompted companies to produce that abortion known as kibi/mibi/gibi in an effort to fend of further lawsuits. That very switch is why the companies are losing their cases today. The precedent is the other way around.
For many decades, kilo, mega, and giga had VERY WELL UNDERSTOOD MEANINGS to the computer scientist. It was MARKETING by greedy corporations that introduced the "confusion" in an effort to rip people off. Trying to force programmers to use those asinine terms they invented to try to get around fraud laws is an insult to any programmer over the age of twenty.
They didn't forget about them. There is almost no chance a satellite will be struck. If you read the original FA, you'd see that a) the asteroid will pass inside the orbit of them, b) it will pass at a 40 degree angle to them, and c) when the satellite does reach the distance the satellites orbit at, it'll be well beyond the region the satellites are in.
The kid calculated the odds of the asteroid hitting the earth IF the asteroid hit a satellite JUST PERFECTLY. The odds of the asteroid hitting a satellite, much less just right for that to occur, are remote at best. This is just media hype to increase ratings.
Wow, you're really stupid. I talk about basic geometry and uncertainty in distance, and you start yammering about God. How tall is a tree? Well, if you know exactly how far from the tree you are and the angle from your viewpoint to the top, you can use geometry to compute the height. Turning that around, if we knew the height, we could instead figure out the distance to the tree. Now how far away is a star? You can use geometry for that as well, but there are things you have to know precisely to solve the equations, and there is uncertainty in those values. Any good book on astronomy will tell you that the distance to various stars is only approximate, and the further from Earth you go, the more guesswork there is in the values. Don't bring God into the discussion as it has no place here.
The space probe was an example. As to "observations regarding the entire universe", you forget perspective. Is it REALLY something billions of lightyears away and millions of lightyears in size, or is it something less than a lightyear away and correspondingly smaller? There are no precise measures of distance in astronomy outside the solar system. Even nearby stars are given a range in the presumed distance as we cannot say for certain exactly how far away they are. The further out you go, the worse it gets.
That was the GP's argument in a nutshell. How can we tell if it's really a distortion millions of lightyears across and billions of lightyears away due to dark matter, or just a small distortion in space nearby? Small meaning at least on the order of the orbit of the Earth around the sun, and nearby meaning outside the solar system.
Do you think that we are the ONLY intelligence in the universe? If not, then do you believe we are the only intelligent beings capable of getting into space? If not, then you MUST agree that eventually, we WILL observe the after-affects of space travel by other beings. Our own after-affects could be observed already. If an intelligent species was nearby and had sufficiently sensitive instruments looking in just the right direction, they might take one of our probes (like Voyager) for a natural body moving in an unnatural manner. Going to look at it would certainly tell them that it was just a probe and that changing their theories of the universe weren't needed. At some point, we will run into a similar situation.
Not everyone believes mainstream physics is correct. It's a decent enough MODEL, but it's not very likely that it REALLY explains what is actually going on.
Funny, the last time I had cable (three years ago), it did. Remember that the cable company normally gets all those channels - dramatic pause - via satellite! As such, they often have the same troubles that you get with satellite at your residence. Add in the mandatory "emergency broadcast" tests that ALWAYS occur at the worst possible time for viewers (middle of the premiere of the Battlestar Galactica mini-series, for example), and I'll take satellite over cable ANY TIME.
You noticed that as well. I replied as much to a post above. Scientists have ways of making their "discoveries" seem much more impressive than they really are. It helps keep the grant money coming in. After all, which sounds more impressive?
"I've made a 32 bit register that requires a room-size microscope and refrigerator to operate."
"I've made a molecular 'brain' that holds over FOUR BILLION states!"
You got confused by the article. It's not 4.3 billion states, it's ONE out of 4.3 billion states. In other words, it's equivalent to about 32 bits of storage, or log2(4^16). Similarly, the 1024 molecule structure will not hold the equivalent of 4^1024 bits, but only log2(4^1024) bits.
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Very good point. Another is that modern containment of antimatter is often done by freezing. The closer you get it to absolute zero, the less interaction there is with normal matter.
I have to take exception with that statement. They never measured anything from the explosion of the Kielce - they merely guess NOW that it was roughly equivalent to an earthquake measuring 4.5. Who knows how accurate that guess is. Second, the Richter scale is a log10 scale, so every step up the ladder is 10 times the force.
That's FedEx where I live. They dropped someone else's package on my front doorstep, and I called them to come get it three times over two months before I took it back myself. By the time I got home, their truck is in my driveway trying to drop that same damn package on my doorstep again!
Wow, you haven't been to business school lately, have you?
Businesses feel no need for ethics or your best interests. The only thing they believe they have to do is make the most money possible in the short term. It's what all the business schools have been teaching for the last forty years.
Err - except for a distinct lack of light. :)
Actually, it's more like driving your car to the MOON. I can drive to another country from where I live on one tank of gas.
Congratulations! You managed to find the ONLY major industry left in Europe. Aren't you the clever one! :)
Linux looks better than Windows XP, and you have FULL use of the SPUs in linux. It's VERY useful to many people. You can browse the net with your favorite browser (Firefox) and do email with better security than Windows. You can play all your multimedia files. There a variety of games that run fine without hardware accelerated 3D (not all games are HalfLife 2 or Halo). To dismiss linux on the PS3 out of hand just shows your lack of imagination.
All processors used to be this way until the P2. The benchmarks on the Cell in the PS3 put it's performance on general purpose tasks as about equal to the 1.8 GHz G5 iMacs. That's PLENTY powerful enough for a general purpose CPU. Is it a 3 GHz Core2Duo? No, but that doesn't mean it sucks.
Exactly! If a company works against the betterment of the people, I boycott them. Not voting is the SAME PRINCIPLE applied to the government. We don't need campaigns trying to "get out the vote", we need campaigns to make people stay home. When only 0.03 percent of US citizens vote, maybe they'll realize we're serious. In fact, the representatives to the Electoral College should all abstain so that NO ONE is elected regardless of how many vote.
You say that like we should be impressed. "Wow!! HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of degrees!!!" Too bad any engineer can tell you that's just several keV. Everything from TVs to neon lighting can reach or exceed those voltages. That's the big problem with hot fusion proponents - all temperature and pressure, overlooking the simple matter of electric fields. It's no wonder they've nothing to show for the HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of dollars spent. What idiots.
So while you claim this "cold fusion" method cannot work because it can't produce the needed heat or pressure, maybe it produces the needed electric fields. You never know unless someone looks into it instead of dismissing it out of hand because of ignorance of other fields of science.
You mean choose the "fresh" fruit with all its diseases and bugs and parasites, or the "treated" fruit with some artificial chemicals that may or may not be good for you after 50 years of eating said fruit to the exclusion of all else. Hmm... pass the chemically treated fruit this way.
It IS correct. All computer science is built on base-two math. Period. There are no base-10 computers. It takes a fairly complicated routine to even convert numbers into base-10 representative strings (and vice versa). So it's both correct and logical. It doesn't take a geek, only someone has had a minimum of one class on boolean logic (which you clearly have not).
You clearly have a VERY short memory. Hard drives were measured in base 2 units for more than a decade before switching to base 10 units. It wasn't until drives were more than a gigabyte in size that they switched. In fact, the first lawsuits over the switch were what prompted companies to produce that abortion known as kibi/mibi/gibi in an effort to fend of further lawsuits. That very switch is why the companies are losing their cases today. The precedent is the other way around.
For many decades, kilo, mega, and giga had VERY WELL UNDERSTOOD MEANINGS to the computer scientist. It was MARKETING by greedy corporations that introduced the "confusion" in an effort to rip people off. Trying to force programmers to use those asinine terms they invented to try to get around fraud laws is an insult to any programmer over the age of twenty.
They didn't forget about them. There is almost no chance a satellite will be struck. If you read the original FA, you'd see that a) the asteroid will pass inside the orbit of them, b) it will pass at a 40 degree angle to them, and c) when the satellite does reach the distance the satellites orbit at, it'll be well beyond the region the satellites are in.
The kid calculated the odds of the asteroid hitting the earth IF the asteroid hit a satellite JUST PERFECTLY. The odds of the asteroid hitting a satellite, much less just right for that to occur, are remote at best. This is just media hype to increase ratings.
Wow, you're really stupid. I talk about basic geometry and uncertainty in distance, and you start yammering about God. How tall is a tree? Well, if you know exactly how far from the tree you are and the angle from your viewpoint to the top, you can use geometry to compute the height. Turning that around, if we knew the height, we could instead figure out the distance to the tree. Now how far away is a star? You can use geometry for that as well, but there are things you have to know precisely to solve the equations, and there is uncertainty in those values. Any good book on astronomy will tell you that the distance to various stars is only approximate, and the further from Earth you go, the more guesswork there is in the values. Don't bring God into the discussion as it has no place here.
The space probe was an example. As to "observations regarding the entire universe", you forget perspective. Is it REALLY something billions of lightyears away and millions of lightyears in size, or is it something less than a lightyear away and correspondingly smaller? There are no precise measures of distance in astronomy outside the solar system. Even nearby stars are given a range in the presumed distance as we cannot say for certain exactly how far away they are. The further out you go, the worse it gets.
That was the GP's argument in a nutshell. How can we tell if it's really a distortion millions of lightyears across and billions of lightyears away due to dark matter, or just a small distortion in space nearby? Small meaning at least on the order of the orbit of the Earth around the sun, and nearby meaning outside the solar system.
Do you think that we are the ONLY intelligence in the universe? If not, then do you believe we are the only intelligent beings capable of getting into space? If not, then you MUST agree that eventually, we WILL observe the after-affects of space travel by other beings. Our own after-affects could be observed already. If an intelligent species was nearby and had sufficiently sensitive instruments looking in just the right direction, they might take one of our probes (like Voyager) for a natural body moving in an unnatural manner. Going to look at it would certainly tell them that it was just a probe and that changing their theories of the universe weren't needed. At some point, we will run into a similar situation.
Not to some folks like Harold Aspden. :)
Not everyone believes mainstream physics is correct. It's a decent enough MODEL, but it's not very likely that it REALLY explains what is actually going on.
Funny, the last time I had cable (three years ago), it did. Remember that the cable company normally gets all those channels - dramatic pause - via satellite! As such, they often have the same troubles that you get with satellite at your residence. Add in the mandatory "emergency broadcast" tests that ALWAYS occur at the worst possible time for viewers (middle of the premiere of the Battlestar Galactica mini-series, for example), and I'll take satellite over cable ANY TIME.
Yes, but it would be those BRUTAL George Jetson jobs - pushing the button twice a day, four days a week. :D
Clearly, but every funny man needs a straight man. :D
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You noticed that as well. I replied as much to a post above. Scientists have ways of making their "discoveries" seem much more impressive than they really are. It helps keep the grant money coming in. After all, which sounds more impressive?
"I've made a 32 bit register that requires a room-size microscope and refrigerator to operate."
"I've made a molecular 'brain' that holds over FOUR BILLION states!"
You got confused by the article. It's not 4.3 billion states, it's ONE out of 4.3 billion states. In other words, it's equivalent to about 32 bits of storage, or log2(4^16). Similarly, the 1024 molecule structure will not hold the equivalent of 4^1024 bits, but only log2(4^1024) bits.
They clearly mean four different logical states as they call the molecules logical devices.