Very interesting technology. This site seems to have all the articles that have appeared in the press about the EEStor capacitor. They seem to be building a prototype factory in preparation to licensing the production technology to manufacturers.
The real stats for this technology are about 187MJ and 520kW for the 336 lb./ 153 Kg array, => 340Wh/Kg and about 3.4 kW/Kg.
About half-way down the page I found this recent patent which is quite revealing:
Electrical-Energy-Storage Unit (EESU) Utilizing Ceramic and Integrated-Circuit Technologies for Replacement of Electrochemical Batteries
April 25, 2006
Weir, Richard D. (Cedar Park, TX); Nelson, Carl W. (Austin, TX)
Abstract:
An electrical-energy-storage unit (EESU) has as a basis material a high-permittivity composition-modified barium titanate ceramic powder. This powder is double coated with the first coating being aluminum oxide and the second coating calcium magnesium aluminosilicate glass. The components of the EESU are manufactured with the use of classical ceramic fabrication techniques which include screen printing alternating multilayers of nickel electrodes and high-permittivitiy composition-modified barium titanate powder, sintering to a closed-pore porous body, followed by hot-isostatic pressing to a void-free body. The components are configured into a multilayer array with the use of a solder-bump technique as the enabling technology so as to provide a parallel configuration of components that has the capability to store electrical energy in the range of 52 kWh. The total weight of an EESU with this range of electrical energy storage is about 336 pounds. * SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:
None of the EESU materials will explode when being recharged or impacted. Thus the EESU is a safe product when used in electric vehicles, buses, bicycles, tractors, or any device that is used for transportation or to perform work. It could also be used for storing electrical power generated from solar voltaic cells or other alternative sources for residential, commercial, or industrial applications. The EESU will also allow power averaging of power plants utilizing SPVC or wind technology and will have the capability to provide this function by storing sufficient electrical energy so that when the sun is not shinning or the wind is not blowing they can meet the energy requirements of residential, commercial, and industrial sites....
The EESU can also be rapidly charged without damaging the material or reducing its life. The cycle time to fully charge a 52 kWh EESU would be in the range of 4 to 6 minutes with sufficient cooling of the power cables and connections.... FIG. 1 indicates that a double array of 2230 energy storage components (9) in a parallel configuration that contain the calcined composition-modified barium titanate powder. Fully densified ceramic components of this powder coated with 100.ANG. [10 nm] of aluminum oxide as the first coating (8) and a 100.ANG. [10 nm] of calcium magnesium aluminosilicate glass as the second coating 8 can be safely charged to 3500 V. The number of components used in the double array depends on the electrical energy storage requirements of the application. The components used in the array can vary from 2 to 10,000 or more. The total capacitance of this particular array (9) is 31 F which will allow 52,220 Wh of energy to be stored as derived by Formula 1.
These coatings also assist in significantly lowering the leakage and aging of ceramic components comprised of the calcined composition-modified barium titanate powder to a point where they will not effect the performance of the EESU. In fact, the discharge rate of the ceramic EESU will be lower than 0.1% per 30 days which is approximately an order of magnitude lower than the best electrochemical battery.
A significant advantage of the present invention is th
It's called engineering, son - what counts is how well it works and how little it costs. Your "real programming" is often an excuse for screwing around reinventing bad ideas on somebody else's dime.
The US is presently running a huge budget deficit, but in contrast to the other countries I mentioned, economic growth is more than sufficient to make up for it. US government debt as a proportion of GDP is trending downwards
THe government is cooking the books on the deficit, the debt, the CPI, GDP and unemployment statistics. For information on how this is done and estimates of the true numbers, see: John Williams' articles.
Walter J. "John" Williams was born in 1949. He received an A.B. in Economics, cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1971, and was awarded a M.B.A. from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in 1972, where he was named an Edward Tuck Scholar. During his career as a consulting economist, John has worked with individuals as well asFortune 500 companies.
As detailed in this article, the actual annual shortfall in U.S. government operations for fiscal year 2003 (September 30) was $3.7 trillion. Put in perspective, that means if the U.S. Treasury had seized all wages and salaries in 2003 with a 100% income tax, there still would have been a deficit!....
As brief background, the $3.7 trillion number is from government financial statements prepared using generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), and a large portion of the expanded deficit is from the annual increase in the net present value of unfunded Social Security and Medicare obligations.....
According to the Treasury's 2003 financial statement, the U.S. government has a negative net worth of $34.8 trillion. That $34.8 trillion reflects $36.2 trillion in financial liabilities offset by $1.4 trillion in assets, of which only $0.4 trillion are liquid.
Part of the underlying reality-the actual operating cash shortfall-is reflected in the growth of the federal debt. During fiscal 2003, for example, gross federal debt increased from $6.2 trillion to $6.8 trillion, or by $600 billion, against the unified $374 billion deficit. As of the end of August 2004, the debt had increased to $7.3 trillion.....
With 2003 gross domestic product (GDP) (annual average for the government's fiscal year) at $10.83 trillion, that places the annual budget deficit and total government obligations at respectively 34.2% and 334.3% of GDP, negative extremes never before breached outside the environment of third-world, net-debtor nations....
As of August 2004, Fitch gave the "AAA" rating to only 15 countries, including the United States. The other 14 are Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Of those 14, five ran budget surpluses in 2003, including Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The worst deficit as a percent of GDP was for France at 4.1%, followed by Germany at 3.5%. In contrast, the not-generally-recognized GAAP U.S. deficit in 2003 was 34.2%.
Similarly, the highest level of debt to GDP seen among the 14 other "AAA" countries is at 75.6% for Canada, followed by France at 71.1%, Germany at 65.1% and Austria at 64.9%, versus a GAAP ratio of total financial obligations to GDP of 334.3% for the United States. The low ratio among the "AAA" countries is Luxembourg at 4.9%.
Where most of the other "AAA" countries have significant unfunded social insurance liabilities that are not included in the debt-to-GDP ratios, consistent 2003 numbers are not available. As a rough estimate, the high ratios mentioned for Canada, France, Germany and Austria would increase by two-to-three times, still well shy of the U.S. extreme.
I think we need to acknowledge how far from fiscal conservatism this supposedly conservative bunch in the Congress and the Executive really are. The difference is that runn
Hmm...that scruffy beard... those suspenders.. that smug expression... the low Slashdot ID number... You're one of those condescending UNIX users, aren't you!! (No need to give me that nickel - I do have a real computer.)
But in case you aren't a smug UNIX user, or are and happen to care, CTRL-x cuts highlighted text in any MSFT window and CTRL-z is "undo".
CTRL-c is cut, CTRL-v is paste (mnemonic: v is upside-down caret). CTRL-a is "select-all", CTRL-s is save. They are all in the lower left of the keyboard and quickly become reflex actions. These work in all windows, with rare exceptions. Notably, they almost always work in Windows file dialog boxes.
While the GP poster and many other comments have said that the 32 bits of precision on GPUs are not enough, there are ways around this limit for those applications that need higher precision while still maintaining increased speed. Accelerating Double Precision FEM Simulations with GPUs by Dominik Goddeke Proceedings of the 18th Symposium of Simulation Technique, Erlangen, Germany, September 2005:
Double arithmetics can be emulated with single floats, also on GPUs. But such emulations increase more than tenfold the operation count. This is only acceptable in otherwise bandwidth bound operations.
In this paper we, therefore, propose the revitalization of mixed precision defect correction approaches that have been known for almost 100 years: By iteratively computing residuals of a single precision approximate solution to a linear system in double precision, only few correction steps suffice to reduce approximation errors close to machine accuracy. In the context of scientific computing using GPUs, this approach translates to correcting a GPU result with just a few CPU-based iterations. In this way we obtain the full accuracy of CPUs with the high speed of GPUs.
Just what is innovative about the Wii? I keep seeing this, but it seems like the Wii is just a particularly unoriginal game-only box with an unattractive controller with a 2-axis acceleration/tilt-sensor that the PS3 controller also has. (I wish I had patented that controller idea when I thought of it 10 years ago.)
The PS3, on the other hand, has not only state-of-the-art graphics and sound hardware, but a decent-size hard disk, unprecedented openness to all sorts of hacking and accessories, Linux, a processor that is truly original and attractive for all sorts of serious simulation, financial and scientific uses, Blu-ray, multiple GigE ports for clustering, unprecedented graphic effects even beyond what the high poly counts would indicate, better capacity for non-player character simulation, high resolution and multiple monitor output.
As far as I can see, all the Wii has going for it is being cheap and being Nintendo.
I'd really like to know where this peception comes from of Wii's supposedly better gameplay and "innovation". Is there really some Apple-like quality that makes Nintendo software better despite its inferior hardware, or is it just the apparent astroturfing campaign seen on the anti-PS3 articles having an effect on perceptions?
The NSA's network sniffer, recently discovered at an AT&T broadband center, can only sniff up to 622MB. Sounds to me like if you use an InfiniBand switch, that would effectively make the output of the NSA's network sniffers complete gibberish.
My journal has more info on the latest Naurus, the Insight, as well as info gleaned from their website and links from their website on the connections between Naurus and intelligence agencies and contractors. The 6400 was installed 6 years ago at AT&T by the NSA - it has likely been upgraded. The Insight can do 2.5 Gbps (OC-48) at the application layer or 10 Gbps (OC-192) at the transport layer of the encapsulated TCP/IP stream. There are no faster WAN links in use than 2.5 Gbps at the regional carrier level or OC-192 at the continental carrier level AFAIK (last personal knowledge is 2 years old, but the network was at 10% capacity then, so I doubt they have upgraded). For undersea use they might use bigger pipes (I don't know), but generally there is enough dark fiber that the less-exotic equipment is more effective - just use more physical links and get greater redundancy.
Right you are. I don't see how Sony could not see this. It would take phone-company level stupidity to attempt to kill your own market this way.
I'm tempted to believe that this story and the astroturfesque comments from posters with short and one-issue comment histories against the PS3 are part of a dirty tricks campaign against Sony by Microsoft and perhaps Nintendo or those whose futures are tied to them or HD-DVD.
During the 1940s and 1950s, McClintock discovered transposition and used it to show how genes are responsible for turning physical characteristics on or off. She developed theories to explain the repression or expression of genetic information from one generation of maize plants to the next. Encountering skepticism of her research and its implications, she stopped publishing her data in 1953. Later, she made an extensive study of the cytogenetics and ethnobotany of maize races from South America. McClintock's research became well understood in the 1960s and 1970s, as researchers demonstrated the mechanisms of genetic change and genetic regulation that she had demonstrated in her maize research in the 1940s and 1950s. Awards and recognition of her contributions to the field followed, including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to her in 1983 for the discovery of genetic transposition; to date, she has been the first and only woman to receive an unshared Nobel Prize in that category.
Her discoveries still have not fully been absorbed into evolutionary theory.
Evolutionary theorists (at the slashdot level, at least) seem to operate with a very shallow understanding of genetic processes. The base sequence is not all that is inheirited - the whole structure of the egg (RNA, proteome, cytoskeleton, etc.)is passed on as well, and the pattern of activation or of portions of the genome depends on its cellular environment. The womb environment is largely pased on in placental mammals. "Epigenetic" effects such as methylation can have dramatic heiritable effects. The cytoskeleton seems to have the capacity for an informational and computational structure, even without the hypothesized quanum effects. (See Mershin and Nanopoulos)
The problem is that people try to pretend that everything is understood despite the fact that there are huge anomalies such as the 90% of the genome that is not expressed as proteins - "introns" which in many cases are actually functional and usually highly structured. (analogous to the reverse of the "missing mass" problem in cosmology) The mechanisms of rapid speciation and of conservation of species in the face of isolated populations with changing environments are both not understood. The supposed single ancestral cell is not supported over panspermia and/or multiple ultimate ancestors. Genetic flows beween species are overlooked. Endosymbiosis and co-evolution are ignored as much as possible. Wild genetic diversity of otherwise virtually indistinguishable species is not accounted for. Probabilities are not calculated and math is discarded in favor of superficially plausible "just-so stories", which may make the some of the most glaring anomalies effectively invisible.
The physicists of 1900 may have had fewer and less troubling anomalies than biology does today - the biologists have no way of knowing since they continue to refuse to make hypotheses which can be quantified and falsified (in a Bayesian rather than Popperian sense) even after the biochemical means have become available.
"MILLIONS of mutations, and only 700 were of the short that improved function..."
People keep saying this, but the part of the article which says "millions" was purely the invention of the writer, attempting to link the story to a previous story on c|net which itself said nothing about "millions" of mutations. So far as I know, no research group has the capability of identifying millions of distinct genetic variations in an experiment. Perhaps millions did occur, but these researchers are actually said in the article to have only identified 700 or so different mutations. If that is an accurate count and if the gene involved was longer than 7 base pairs, that means that at p0.05 the mutations themselves were not random. It should also be noted that of the ones that mutated at all, the percentage that were adapted to life at that level of the temperature ramp seems at first glance to have been anomalously high, and of those, the percentage that were adapted to the highest levels of temp. were also anomalously high.
It remains a non-negligible possibility that the bacteria had mutations in response to increasing heat that were more likely to be adaptive than chance would predict. Since that result would be career suicide, the probability analysis is very unlikely to be done, and if it is, it will not be published if it contains such a heretical result. Science needs to look for disconfirming evidence to test its models, but the scientist who tries to publish such evidence faces entrenched opposition in peer-reviewers.
"What might be interesting is pairing this technology with 3D-goggles..."
Or use vertically oriented micro-prism screens (e.g. a prism over each column of pixels, directing odd columns left and even columns right) or Sharp's active parallelax screen.
Hear, hear! You might as well just be using a magic box if you don't understand the gist of transistors, lithographic processes, gates, registers, different architectures of processors (including not just CISC/ RISC but Harvard/von Neumann), analog-digital conversion, different types of memory, different types of binary coding and transmission, disk encoding and mechanics, electrical basics, power supply requirements, ESD mechanisms, OS structure; assembly language, interpreter and compiler elements and operation; OS, file and directory structures; basic data structure, information,and algorithm theory; functional, imperative and object-oriented approaches; debugging techniques, libraries, drivers; and command-line, graphical and keyboard interface conventions.
See my journal for information on some of the interesting people and companies working with Naurus, the makers of the intercept machine installed at AT&T centers.
Idiot. Legality is not a "thing". The laws are unknowable even to lawyers - they fill whole libraries of conflicting statutes and decisions. Even in cases with undisputed facts and simple statute law, even for a good lawyer there is no telling what a given judge on a given day will do. The judge's personal history and sympathy or antipathy towards the parties and their lawyers have more to do with rulings than any law.
Patriotism is being loyal and loving your country unconditionally...
I agree with your support of Wired's publishing these documents, but this statement reminded me of a quote:
My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
So all the information in all cases before the courts be made public? I'm sure rape and molestation victims will not appreciate having their ID's and details of the crime made public.
That is a seperate issue, but, yes, I think it is obscene that unaccountable accusations can be made against men, making their right to a public trial meaningless. False accusations are not uncommon when the accuser's credibility cannot be properly questioned. The defendant is put in a position of proving his innocence - an accusation alone may result in a conviction in sex cases.
Seals on court records are used in many different types of cases to hide bias and injustice. I once worked on a man's case to prevent his ex-girlfriend from selling his child in another state (NY) under the guise of a legal adoption. The man's parenthood was terminated despite there being no legal basis for doing so. The records were sealed to protect the purchasers and the man and his legal representatives prohibited from mentioning any aspect of the case to the press in order to hide the judge's injustice.
Clinical and anatomic pathologists are almost purely diagnosticians. Patients hardly ever see them - they are "doctors' doctors". The saying is: "GPs know nothing and do everything; pathologists know everything and do nothing."
I think that having lots of sites would be an advantage. When seeing is bad one place, others can fill in the data. In fact, I don't think the original poster goes far enough - a better system would use automated telescopes of the largest hobbyist size, about 24 inches (0.6 m) in clusters of dozens at hundreds of locations in both hemispheres and in as many time zones as possible. Lots of little telescopes are better for covering the sky quickly and do not need to be individually mounted.
Set up a factory to produce a standard telescope, standard mounts and enclosures and a standard, multi-purpose sensor package and the unit cost goes way down and the engineering of each one can be a lot better than one-off solutions. The software can be consistent and will reduce the requirements of the telescopes, mounts and sensors while increasing the usability of the data. Astronomers all over the world get jobs at local facilities and access to the data of the whole net.
Ultimately, the goal should be to have near-real-time data on the the whole dark sky with high temporal, spectral and spatial resolution.
I'm all for teaching using practical applications that require integrating a grreat deal of different areas of knowledge, but I think that there is a bit of bashing of CS students on the basis of matteres that are really more related to engineering than the what CS is really about.
Look at the problems of about average difficulty on the CS GRE practice subject test (the percentages of test-takers who answered each question correct ly are listed on page 48). I think you'll find many of them quite challenging, and the real test has gotten even harder.
Here, with the logical symbols translated into standard ASCII is the easiest question on the test, 96% got it right:
6. Suppose that P(x, y) means "x is a parent of y" and M(x) means "x is male". If F(v,w) equals M(v) & Exists x Exists y(P(x,y) & P(x,v) & (y != v) & P(y,w)), what is the meaning of the expression F(v,w)? (A) v is a brother of w. (B) v is a nephew of w. (C) v is an uncle of w. (D) v is a grandfather of w. (E) v is a male cousin of w.
You haven't run a real network, as in an ILEC. Someone has to take care of the physical lines and equipment, and the stuff breaks all the time when you have millions of lines.
ILECs' captive ISPs do outsource the frontline stuff, but the customer ends up with lousy service.
Actually fixing something on the network side invariably requires a real tech in the US who can get at all the many weird systems that need to cooperate for anything to work, who can call anyone and knows when to do so and what to ask for, and most importantly one who can send a guy in a truck to replace the bad DSLAM card or cut the bridged tap.
Slashdot Mirror
The real stats for this technology are about 187MJ and 520kW for the 336 lb./ 153 Kg array, => 340Wh/Kg and about 3.4 kW/Kg.
About half-way down the page I found this recent patent which is quite revealing:
It's called engineering, son - what counts is how well it works and how little it costs. Your "real programming" is often an excuse for screwing around reinventing bad ideas on somebody else's dime.
THe government is cooking the books on the deficit, the debt, the CPI, GDP and unemployment statistics. For information on how this is done and estimates of the true numbers, see: John Williams' articles.
Walter J. "John" Williams was born in 1949. He received an A.B. in Economics, cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1971, and was awarded a M.B.A. from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in 1972, where he was named an Edward Tuck Scholar. During his career as a consulting economist, John has worked with individuals as well asFortune 500 companies.
Quotes from one of his articles:
Federal Deficit Reality
I think we need to acknowledge how far from fiscal conservatism this supposedly conservative bunch in the Congress and the Executive really are. The difference is that runn
Hmm...that scruffy beard... those suspenders..
that smug expression... the low Slashdot ID number... You're one of those condescending UNIX users, aren't you!! (No need to give me that nickel - I do have a real computer.)
But in case you aren't a smug UNIX user, or are and happen to care, CTRL-x cuts highlighted text in any MSFT window and CTRL-z is "undo".
CTRL-c is cut, CTRL-v is paste (mnemonic: v is upside-down caret). CTRL-a is "select-all", CTRL-s is save. They are all in the lower left of the keyboard and quickly become reflex actions. These work in all windows, with rare exceptions. Notably, they almost always work in Windows file dialog boxes.
"A la fuerza, ni los zapatos entran. "
The saying is perhaps a double-entendre now?
"A la fuerza, ni los Zapatistas entran. "
"Not even Zapatitstas enter by force"
Accelerating Double Precision FEM Simulations with GPUs by Dominik Goddeke Proceedings of the 18th Symposium of Simulation Technique, Erlangen, Germany, September 2005:
Big carriers use lots of lines going lots of places and won't risk a single point of failure.
Just what is innovative about the Wii? I keep seeing this, but it seems like the Wii is just a particularly unoriginal game-only box with an unattractive controller with a 2-axis acceleration/tilt-sensor that the PS3 controller also has. (I wish I had patented that controller idea when I thought of it 10 years ago.)
The PS3, on the other hand, has not only state-of-the-art graphics and sound hardware, but a decent-size hard disk, unprecedented openness to all sorts of hacking and accessories, Linux, a processor that is truly original and attractive for all sorts of serious simulation, financial and scientific uses, Blu-ray, multiple GigE ports for clustering, unprecedented graphic effects even beyond what the high poly counts would indicate, better capacity for non-player character simulation, high resolution and multiple monitor output.
As far as I can see, all the Wii has going for it is being cheap and being Nintendo.
I'd really like to know where this peception comes from of Wii's supposedly better gameplay and "innovation". Is there really some Apple-like quality that makes Nintendo software better despite its inferior hardware, or is it just the apparent astroturfing campaign seen on the anti-PS3 articles having an effect on perceptions?
The NSA's network sniffer, recently discovered at an AT&T broadband center, can only sniff up to 622MB. Sounds to me like if you use an InfiniBand switch, that would effectively make the output of the NSA's network sniffers complete gibberish.
My journal has more info on the latest Naurus, the Insight, as well as info gleaned from their website and links from their website on the connections between Naurus and intelligence agencies and contractors. The 6400 was installed 6 years ago at AT&T by the NSA - it has likely been upgraded. The Insight can do 2.5 Gbps (OC-48) at the application layer or 10 Gbps (OC-192) at the transport layer of the encapsulated TCP/IP stream. There are no faster WAN links in use than 2.5 Gbps at the regional carrier level or OC-192 at the continental carrier level AFAIK (last personal knowledge is 2 years old, but the network was at 10% capacity then, so I doubt they have upgraded). For undersea use they might use bigger pipes (I don't know), but generally there is enough dark fiber that the less-exotic equipment is more effective - just use more physical links and get greater redundancy.
Technically, it's voidable, not void. The contract existsts until the minor or his guardians choose to void it. IANAL, but took Business Law.
Right you are. I don't see how Sony could not see this. It would take phone-company level stupidity to attempt to kill your own market this way.
I'm tempted to believe that this story and the astroturfesque comments from posters with short and one-issue comment histories against the PS3 are part of a dirty tricks campaign against Sony by Microsoft and perhaps Nintendo or those whose futures are tied to them or HD-DVD.
From Wikipedia:
Her discoveries still have not fully been absorbed into evolutionary theory.
Evolutionary theorists (at the slashdot level, at least) seem to operate with a very shallow understanding of genetic processes. The base sequence is not all that is inheirited - the whole structure of the egg (RNA, proteome, cytoskeleton, etc.)is passed on as well, and the pattern of activation or of portions of the genome depends on its cellular environment. The womb environment is largely pased on in placental mammals. "Epigenetic" effects such as methylation can have dramatic heiritable effects. The cytoskeleton seems to have the capacity for an informational and computational structure, even without the hypothesized quanum effects. (See Mershin and Nanopoulos)
The problem is that people try to pretend that everything is understood despite the fact that there are huge anomalies such as the 90% of the genome that is not expressed as proteins - "introns" which in many cases are actually functional and usually highly structured. (analogous to the reverse of the "missing mass" problem in cosmology) The mechanisms of rapid speciation and of conservation of species in the face of isolated populations with changing environments are both not understood. The supposed single ancestral cell is not supported over panspermia and/or multiple ultimate ancestors. Genetic flows beween species are overlooked. Endosymbiosis and co-evolution are ignored as much as possible. Wild genetic diversity of otherwise virtually indistinguishable species is not accounted for. Probabilities are not calculated and math is discarded in favor of superficially plausible "just-so stories", which may make the some of the most glaring anomalies effectively invisible.
The physicists of 1900 may have had fewer and less troubling anomalies than biology does today - the biologists have no way of knowing since they continue to refuse to make hypotheses which can be quantified and falsified (in a Bayesian rather than Popperian sense) even after the biochemical means have become available.
"MILLIONS of mutations, and only 700 were of the short that improved function..."
People keep saying this, but the part of the article which says "millions" was purely the invention of the writer, attempting to link the story to a previous story on c|net which itself said nothing about "millions" of mutations. So far as I know, no research group has the capability of identifying millions of distinct genetic variations in an experiment. Perhaps millions did occur, but these researchers are actually said in the article to have only identified 700 or so different mutations. If that is an accurate count and if the gene involved was longer than 7 base pairs, that means that at p0.05 the mutations themselves were not random. It should also be noted that of the ones that mutated at all, the percentage that were adapted to life at that level of the temperature ramp seems at first glance to have been anomalously high, and of those, the percentage that were adapted to the highest levels of temp. were also anomalously high.
It remains a non-negligible possibility that the bacteria had mutations in response to increasing heat that were more likely to be adaptive than chance would predict. Since that result would be career suicide, the probability analysis is very unlikely to be done, and if it is, it will not be published if it contains such a heretical result. Science needs to look for disconfirming evidence to test its models, but the scientist who tries to publish such evidence faces entrenched opposition in peer-reviewers.
"When Adam delved and Eve span, who then was a gentleman?" Fr. John Ball, leader in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381
"What might be interesting is pairing this technology with 3D-goggles..."
Or use vertically oriented micro-prism screens (e.g. a prism over each column of pixels, directing odd columns left and even columns right) or Sharp's active parallelax screen.
Hear, hear!
You might as well just be using a magic box if you don't understand the gist of transistors, lithographic processes, gates, registers, different architectures of processors (including not just CISC/ RISC but Harvard/von Neumann), analog-digital conversion, different types of memory, different types of binary coding and transmission, disk encoding and mechanics, electrical basics, power supply requirements, ESD mechanisms, OS structure; assembly language, interpreter and compiler elements and operation; OS, file and directory structures; basic data structure, information,and algorithm theory; functional, imperative and object-oriented approaches; debugging techniques, libraries, drivers; and command-line, graphical and keyboard interface conventions.
See my journal for information on some of the interesting people and companies working with Naurus, the makers of the intercept machine installed at AT&T centers.
Idiot. Legality is not a "thing". The laws are unknowable even to lawyers - they fill whole libraries of conflicting statutes and decisions. Even in cases with undisputed facts and simple statute law, even for a good lawyer there is no telling what a given judge on a given day will do. The judge's personal history and sympathy or antipathy towards the parties and their lawyers have more to do with rulings than any law.
I agree with your support of Wired's publishing these documents, but this statement reminded me of a quote:
So all the information in all cases before the courts be made public? I'm sure rape and molestation victims will not appreciate having their ID's and details of the crime made public.
That is a seperate issue, but, yes, I think it is obscene that unaccountable accusations can be made against men, making their right to a public trial meaningless. False accusations are not uncommon when the accuser's credibility cannot be properly questioned. The defendant is put in a position of proving his innocence - an accusation alone may result in a conviction in sex cases.
Seals on court records are used in many different types of cases to hide bias and injustice. I once worked on a man's case to prevent his ex-girlfriend from selling his child in another state (NY) under the guise of a legal adoption. The man's parenthood was terminated despite there being no legal basis for doing so. The records were sealed to protect the purchasers and the man and his legal representatives prohibited from mentioning any aspect of the case to the press in order to hide the judge's injustice.
"In not sure what you are trying to say."
CS grads still are being taught a lot of good stuff, just not always the specific engineering-type stuff you were lucky enough to be taught.
Clinical and anatomic pathologists are almost purely diagnosticians. Patients hardly ever see them - they are "doctors' doctors". The saying is: "GPs know nothing and do everything; pathologists know everything and do nothing."
I think that having lots of sites would be an advantage. When seeing is bad one place, others can fill in the data. In fact, I don't think the original poster goes far enough - a better system would use automated telescopes of the largest hobbyist size, about 24 inches (0.6 m) in clusters of dozens at hundreds of locations in both hemispheres and in as many time zones as possible. Lots of little telescopes are better for covering the sky quickly and do not need to be individually mounted.
Set up a factory to produce a standard telescope, standard mounts and enclosures and a standard, multi-purpose sensor package and the unit cost goes way down and the engineering of each one can be a lot better than one-off solutions. The software can be consistent and will reduce the requirements of the telescopes, mounts and sensors while increasing the usability of the data. Astronomers all over the world get jobs at local facilities and access to the data of the whole net.
Ultimately, the goal should be to have near-real-time data on the the whole dark sky with high temporal, spectral and spatial resolution.
I'm all for teaching using practical applications that require integrating a grreat deal of different areas of knowledge, but I think that there is a bit of bashing of CS students on the basis of matteres that are really more related to engineering than the what CS is really about.
Look at the problems of about average difficulty on the CS GRE practice subject test (the percentages of test-takers who answered each question correct ly are listed on page 48). I think you'll find many of them quite challenging, and the real test has gotten even harder.
Here, with the logical symbols translated into standard ASCII is the easiest question on the test, 96% got it right:
6. Suppose that P(x, y) means "x is a parent of y" and M(x) means "x is male". If F(v,w) equals
M(v) & Exists x Exists y(P(x,y) & P(x,v) & (y != v) & P(y,w)),
what is the meaning of the expression F(v,w)?
(A) v is a brother of w.
(B) v is a nephew of w.
(C) v is an uncle of w.
(D) v is a grandfather of w.
(E) v is a male cousin of w.
You haven't run a real network, as in an ILEC. Someone has to take care of the physical lines and equipment, and the stuff breaks all the time when you have millions of lines.
ILECs' captive ISPs do outsource the frontline stuff, but the customer ends up with lousy service.
Actually fixing something on the network side invariably requires a real tech in the US who can get at all the many weird systems that need to cooperate for anything to work, who can call anyone and knows when to do so and what to ask for, and most importantly one who can send a guy in a truck to replace the bad DSLAM card or cut the bridged tap.