With a.01 micron pathway, strange quantum behavior would start taking over. IBM researchers are going to have to find a way arround the quantum effects that would render such a chip useless.
Yes, they are possible. Could this little "feature" be the Maxis answer to the SimCopter rumors a few years ago?* I do find it interesting that no one has tried to have gay male Sims.
Honestly, when you add in the AdultPatch, who wouldn't want to have two naked male Sims making out on their computer...
(crickets chirping)
* Rumor has it that a programmer at Maxis was pissed about their failure to recognize alternative lifestyles, so he inserted a bit of code into one of the later pressings... come 2/14, male Sims would be dressed only in Speedos, and show "interest" in other male Sims.
I used to be confident that most Y2K scenarios were far-fetched little stories created to scare viewers and nab ratings during sweeps.
Now I'm not so sure...
The City of Milwaukee, without telling anyone before hand, installed 12 huge emergency generators in strategic locations around the metro area. Their purpose? To provide emergency power to the sewage overflow pumps, thereby reducing the chance that sewage will back up into your basement if we suffer a prolonged outage. They'll pump the sewage into local streams and rivers... streams and rivers that will be frozen by the 1st.
This came just days after their "We're OK for Y2K" press conference.
Apparently, you didn't listen in science class. It has been held for many centuries that the speed of light was constant. This *fact* has been proven over and over, and in turn, it's been used to prove and disprove many theories (remember the aether?) Any body approaching the speed of light will exponentially increase in mass, approaching infinity. If the neutrons were moving faster than light, they would have been larger than the universe itself. Light bends in a lens due to diffraction and diffusion, not by variations in speed. From what I understand, the experiment conducted regarding the Bose-Einstein condensate did illustrate a reduction in the speed of light, and not just an illustration of reflectivity. Although, I'll be the first to say that I haven't read much about it and I may very well be mistaken.
Earlier this year, researchers discovered that a stream of photons can be slowed if passed through a dense concentration of Bose-Einstein condensate (5th form of matter, discovered in '94). In these experiments, they were able to slow the light particles to an extremely low 37 mph. So much for a constant speed of light. Reinstatement of a cosmological constant to explain the possible acceleration of the universe is very controversial. An accelerating model of universal expansion is something that doesn't sit well with a lot of physicists. I was a personal fan of the oscillating theory of the Universe (bang -> crunch -> bang -> crunch...), and this destroys that theory. Oh well... in this field, every six months, you have to be prepared to throw out all that you believe is true. Entropy will get us in the end, but at least it's toasty warm now.
The Italian government first recognized Y2K as a potential problem *very* late in the game. I would not be surprised if they, along with other European countries, suffer moderate disruptions due to their failure to recognize this problem.
One thing that came out of this report (or related research... I don't remember) is that only 50% of the US 9-1-1 systems have passed Y2K readiness tests. The idea that half of the country will be relying on a "fix on fail" philosophy for emergency services kinda sends a shiver up my spine.
If you think about it, Hollywood doesn't really portray *any* career correctly. Things have to be changed in order to keep the attention of the audience. Hospitals aren't always like "ER", Submarine XO's aren't always like Denzel Washington in "Crimson Tide". Although, if you want to see a movie where hackers/crackers are portrayed in a positive light, check out "Sneakers". Granted, the guys in that movie see more action than any shashdotter, the personality traits are almost dead-on.
It's sad that more people don't know how much David Huffman shaped today's world. Here's a prime example of someone that will pass on, and no one will notice... they're too busy using the machines that he helped create.
I called Sega a few muinets ago and asked for the U/P. Once I explained the Telnet thing, the customer service rep became *very* aggrivated, and said that Sega has left a lot of ports open, and the reason "will be announced at a later date". Right.
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With a .01 micron pathway, strange quantum behavior would start taking over. IBM researchers are going to have to find a way arround the quantum effects that would render such a chip useless.
Yes, they are possible. Could this little "feature" be the Maxis answer to the SimCopter rumors a few years ago?* I do find it interesting that no one has tried to have gay male Sims.
Honestly, when you add in the AdultPatch, who wouldn't want to have two naked male Sims making out on their computer...
(crickets chirping)
* Rumor has it that a programmer at Maxis was pissed about their failure to recognize alternative lifestyles, so he inserted a bit of code into one of the later pressings... come 2/14, male Sims would be dressed only in Speedos, and show "interest" in other male Sims.
What with continuing my education, I don't work as many hours as I should, but I'd say that the
number is still higher than 32h/week.
At least I still have time to nab first post...
I used to be confident that most Y2K scenarios were far-fetched little stories created to scare viewers and nab ratings during sweeps.
Now I'm not so sure...
The City of Milwaukee, without telling anyone before hand, installed 12 huge emergency generators in strategic locations around the metro area. Their purpose? To provide emergency power to the sewage overflow pumps, thereby reducing the chance that sewage will back up into your basement if we suffer a prolonged outage. They'll pump the sewage into local streams and rivers... streams and rivers that will be frozen by the 1st.
This came just days after their "We're OK for Y2K" press conference.
Apparently, you didn't listen in science class. It has been held for many centuries that the speed of light was constant. This *fact* has been proven over and over, and in turn, it's been used to prove and disprove many theories (remember the aether?) Any body approaching the speed of light will exponentially increase in mass, approaching infinity. If the neutrons were moving faster than light, they would have been larger than the universe itself. Light bends in a lens due to diffraction and diffusion, not by variations in speed. From what I understand, the experiment conducted regarding the Bose-Einstein condensate did illustrate a reduction in the speed of light, and not just an illustration of reflectivity. Although, I'll be the first to say that I haven't read much about it and I may very well be mistaken.
Earlier this year, researchers discovered that a stream of photons can be slowed if passed through a dense concentration of Bose-Einstein condensate (5th form of matter, discovered in '94). In these experiments, they were able to slow the light particles to an extremely low 37 mph. So much for a constant speed of light. Reinstatement of a cosmological constant to explain the possible acceleration of the universe is very controversial. An accelerating model of universal expansion is something that doesn't sit well with a lot of physicists. I was a personal fan of the oscillating theory of the Universe (bang -> crunch -> bang -> crunch...), and this destroys that theory. Oh well... in this field, every six months, you have to be prepared to throw out all that you believe is true. Entropy will get us in the end, but at least it's toasty warm now.
The Italian government first recognized Y2K as a potential problem *very* late in the game. I would not be surprised if they, along with other European countries, suffer moderate disruptions due to their failure to recognize this problem.
One thing that came out of this report (or related research... I don't remember) is that only 50% of the US 9-1-1 systems have passed Y2K readiness tests. The idea that half of the country will be relying on a "fix on fail" philosophy for emergency services kinda sends a shiver up my spine.
If you think about it, Hollywood doesn't really portray *any* career correctly. Things have to be changed in order to keep the attention of the audience. Hospitals aren't always like "ER", Submarine XO's aren't always like Denzel Washington in "Crimson Tide". Although, if you want to see a movie where hackers/crackers are portrayed in a positive light, check out "Sneakers". Granted, the guys in that movie see more action than any shashdotter, the personality traits are almost dead-on.
It's sad that more people don't know how much David Huffman shaped today's world. Here's a prime example of someone that will pass on, and no one will notice... they're too busy using the machines that he helped create.
I called Sega a few muinets ago and asked for the U/P. Once I explained the Telnet thing, the customer service rep became *very* aggrivated, and said that Sega has left a lot of ports open, and the reason "will be announced at a later date". Right.