It isn't. Old Tech with a new name and twist. This all has to do not necessarily with the quantum properties, but more to do with matter being super cooled . For some reason matter behaves differently as it approaches absolute zero. This is similiar to the Bose-Einstein condensate and the Meissner effect as linked above.
although it is practical in the lab and in theory, there are still problems that occur when scaling it up. Like how to keep the track cooled for example. Its still a ways off.
I'm not sure but I think this may be at the kernal level. Still Android is just a modified nix platform so for most/. Users probably easily circumvented.
On another note the article didnt really say much but I love the shameless school plug and marketing in the last TWO paragraphs.
,,.guy who supplies you.
Not many will mourn you Dennis but know that to your true family and countless friends, you will always be remembered. We love you very much and thank you even more for what you gave the world. Sleep well my friend.
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For once I'd like to see software released with no changes, just a README file that says "Why bother, it works fine doesn't it?"
So sick of developers adding verbose, usually needless crap to good enough software.
Totally for boycotting paypal. And while we are at it, the traditional banking system as well. Though the latter will have to be phased out by most ppl. As far as I'm concerned they are all in collusion and get away with financial murder.
My Hydro company doesn't care what kinda business I have or what I use electricity for. I could be electrocuting my neighbour's chi wow wow or using it to power my laptop while I type out the next unification theory that unites QM and EM. Nor does my telephone company care whether I'm using their service to organize a war or to donate to mother Theresa's new fangled organization. Fzuck banks! it's about time they were brought to their knees along with the MAFIAA and Big Oil, Big Pharma and all the rest of these old school companies with their monopolies, draconian business laws and models.
The revolution will not be televised, it will be digitized. Thank god I can code:)
u.s. space shuttle era is ending AND they are about to default on thier debt and plunge deeper into a global financial crisis. Wow, end of the United States empire? I think we may be seeing it.
I'm not a big fan of this new fangled cloud thingamajig. I like to keep my data local where there are no worries of lockouts on sunday mornings due to maintenance. no worries employees are pillaging through my personal photos or clandestine goverment agencies rummaging through my data, making a dossier of me to see if I'm a likely al-queda candidate or have terrorist tendencies.
That aside, The introduction of the iphone forced carriers to upgrade their services and offer better consumer experience. With the arrival of everything in the cloud, netflix, icoud etc. I only see providers as realizing they HAVE to upgrade their services and start providing more bandwidth and better customer experience. Whether the carriers and the old business model hats like it, everything is going digital or already has and they must adapt, adopt or die. I'm not worried. I won't be an adopter of this cloud thingy but I do see it as a great way to get providers off their collective ip asses and have our service improved.
Yes regardless of the fact that we are using a non ionizing portion of the spectrum in the cell phone - it still causes biological effects . What this means long term we don't know yet. The point is it is still radiation.
I absolutely am stubborn and until we have 2 or more generations of data on the effects of cell phone radiation on individuals, this matter won't be resolved. Had Bohr or Dirac caved to the scientific consensus at the time, we wouldn't have QM as we know it today. I'm not afraid to buck the status quo or go against the dogmatic views of those in the "know", nor do I cave to the political lobbying.
No I'm not stubborn without reasons. The point of this article - and what the board claims - is that we don't know. So we should not be taking chances with our childrens lives in anyway shape or form. Just because it appears innocuous obviously doesn't mean that it is. If later years proves that cell phone radiation isn't insidious and hazardous then so be it. Until such time, treat it like it is. This is not even touching on the fact that kids don't even need cellphones in any case.
Try to remember people, our understanding of electromagnetism is still relatively new. Even Maxwell made mistakes in his assumptions of its energy levels until Planck came along. Science is not truth...it is best guess. we are only seeing a part of the story and if you're paying attention the next day you realize you knew a little more than the day before.
The problem with science and people who deem themselves scientific is they use it too much like a religion. Each generation thinking they know more than the previous and eating up dogmatic beliefs in already "proven" research. These beliefs are never changed until those scientist die out or some abrupt paradigm shift occurs. What I'm encouraging here is for the individuals on the board to not only employ critical thinking but to do their own research, failing that, play it safe. However I digress, this is a technology forum. My stance here is analogous to me arguing to PETA why its okay to slap your bitch dog around once in awhile. It falls on deaf ears.
The thing is that there is a threshold. It's not just a direct proportionality. Photons with energy below the threshold of breaking chemical bonds aren't "a little bit dangerous" they're just not (individually) dangerous at all.
Whether a cell phone has any [long term] effects chemically still remains to be seen. I think that's the issue here. However regardless if the energy levels of the radio photons can or can not break chemical bonds, collectively [ or alone] they cause molecular jitter, which is enough to disrupt basic homeostasis. plain and simple.
Enough of them to cause heating can be dangerous, hence not standing near open furnaces nor putting oneself in the microwave, but at low intensity they just will not have the same effect on chemical substances that high frequency photons will have, no matter how long the exposure.
A cellphone to your head for n amount of time causes heating, or have you not spoken on the phone for that long a period? Even if it didn't, see the above paragraph. Even a short time produces molecular jitter and that is enough. Place that near a still developing child's skull and you have less shielding and a higher chance of "activity". yes I'm keeping that word;)
A cell phone is not a particle emitter (in the sense of a particle being a thing with mass, not something with a localized wave-function).
I understand you being specific here, maybe I should have said radiation emitter. I think someone on here said think it as being hit with a "air zooka":) sadly no, it is light so i don't think of it thus and because even oxygen seemingly kills us overtime.
Similar frequency, sure. The longer you're exposed to UV radiation the higher the chance of something bad (e.g. melanoma) happening. However, if the photons are below the threshold of causing chemical change, as those from radio transmitters are, the length of exposure doesn't matter at all. None of the photons have enough energy to do anything significant.
and that is what this is about right? Even if radio waves cause no immediate or calculated chemical change, molecular jitter can and does and we have no idea still of the long term biological effects. I believe a couple years ago you probably would have been one who filled up with leaded gasoline, enhaled asbestos and nicotine fumes secure in the knowledge of what you "knew". However snookums, you don't know what you don't know. There is already evidence of biological changes with a cell phone to your head, what that disrupts, what the long term consequences are we have no way of knowing.
I understand the majority of posts on here denouncing the action by this board. I get it. it is a ubiquitous, convenient and now a staple technology. Doesn't mean it's safe. Cars are great for time travel and savings but no one could have forseen the effects they would be having today. Just cause we can doesn't mean we should and history is always the best teacher. I err on the side of caution and abstract from the fundamental facts.
snookums. I value your time you took to reply and quote. I tend not to do that too much on/. saying that however. You're not really proving me wrong here, just getting specific about electromagnetism and its interactions and - no offense - using a bunch of $5.00 dollars words that the casual reader on here will just immediately mod up on a cursory glance. Which coincidentally is what happened.
That's quite wrong actually. You will get very different types of activity depending on the frequency, because the frequency determines the energy per photon, and a molecule can only absorb a photon of electromagnetic radiation if its energy corresponds to the energy gap between two quantum states.
C = lambda times nu...big deal, it's what I said without explaining how it works. You still haven't told me how an adverse effect is inversely proportional to a longer lambda. see I can use big words too. but still...explain if you want.
The first category of electromagnetic radiation, which includes wi-fi and mobile phones, is only dangerous if it is intense enough do deliver energy to your body faster than you can dissipate it. For example, if you're standing near a large fire. The latter type can trigger a cancer with a single "lucky" photon, which is why you should always wear a hat and sunscreen to minimise that chance.
and if your standing near a particle emiter - such as a cell phone - you should wear proper shielding as well then right? if one lucky photon can on the off chance give you "cancer" what's the likely hood that prolonged exposure to radiation at a similiar frequency won't get you "lucky" again. really?
I really wish people would understand this. Radiation is Radiation.
No. It's not. Really. This is true even without getting into the differences between electromagnetic radiation, particle-based radiation (alpha and beta rays), and radioactive material -- all of which are referred to as "radiation" in the popular media.
its called Electromagnetic Radiation for a reason. its Radiation whether that radiation is bad or good for you depends...once again on exposure, wavelength and frequency....and I will give you the type of matter you're exposing it to. This is why the sun is both good and bad for us, why chemo is both good and bad etc. etc. etc. I already posted the fact that molecular Jitter occurs as a result of exposure, why would you risk the chance of being a guinea pig when you already know the fundementals?
No offence, I'm very glad you took the time to read and respond to my post and I do aplogize if i did do it off my Iphone while en route, but its not enough to go to school and cram facts into your head, you have to employ critical thinking and read numerous sources and then formulate your opinion. You have to think for yourself given certain axioms from which you can deduce.
and for the record I am a graduate student in Cell and Molecular Biology changed over from Electrical Engineering.
Actually I specified that it's based on the frequency and the duration of exposure to that frequency, if you'd read that comment again. And yes, the sun actually does kill you. It is in essence a pharmakon, a cure and the cause in a way. We're saved from more damaging effects by the ozone layer - an electromagnetic shield it just so happens to be - but over time and exposure to it our skin degrades. this is manifested in collagen, elastin and cartillage degradation in our faces. which lo and behold is what is mostly exposed to the sun. FYI, the yellow in your eyes that comes with age is a result of exposure to the sun as well.
If our planet was just a few units further or closer to the sun there would be no life on this planet. Which again leads me back to, its based on how long you are exposed to that radiation and the frequency of that radiation. the point is that individuals are still divided over whether there there is damage done or not, doesn't mean radiation from your phone doesn't cause activity to where it is pointed.
People wake up and think for yourselves, each generation is the succesive's one guinea pig. Once the lobbying has been done and enough people have died I suppose then the truth will be out. In the interim, i use a wired connection when talking on my cell phone, I don't keep it in my lap and I don't quickly dismiss individuals who say they are sensitive to wifi signals either. Think for yourselves.
for the person pedantic enough to pic on my grammar and punctuation i was on my iphone but just for you...i'll keep writing this way. take that stick out your ass. if i was a world renowned physicist who couldn't speak english much less write and was posting on here would that make u take me less seriously? if you answered yes, we have nothing less to discuss.
i think u should head back and do some chem 101 and physics: electromagnetism. Radiation is radiation, if its at a low frequency for a long period of time you will have molecular activity, specifically what is called molecular jitter or vibration.
If you're exposed to a higher frequency for a shorter period of time, you'll just
get activity sooner. I say activity
because its based on where your're
applying the radiation - may not
necessarily be adverse. For a human
body either one is dangerous. I really
wish people would understand this.
Radiation is Radiation.
Aside from the fact it extrapolated data from the results of 5 tests and then asserted its truth with the statement "we tested it here in the PCmag labs".
The article itself was wordy. words rantogetherlikethis which speaks volumes for it being a pc related site. Im also reading the mobile version from my iphone which is even worse that they didnt take time to make sure it worked properly.
On top of that i just started yawning when they started with the numbers....who cares? Just tell me what u found in a concise a manner as u can. If i wanna duplicate ur work provide a link or reference to a more detailed steps. Shut uuuuuup.
Sea levels have risen and sea levels have fallen in the past.
Its just civilization has now cropped up and made these changes inconvenient. It used to be that man would migrate if his surroundings became inhospitable. Now they just try and control nature.
mod u up. Must have been a web developer who summarized the article. It's so irritating to me with the advent of web 2.0, that everyone is so focused on the web. Not the internet, the web. As a result i feel like innovation and creativity have been lost in a sea of AJAX, PHP scripts and social networks.
I'm very sad to see the commercialization of the internet and seeing us so focused on just this one aspect of computing - which is really just the GUI to the net. I'm hoping thinks like the Kinect will stir things up and bring along some much needed spice in this quagmire of hodgepodge technologies hacked togeter to create a pretty face.
As for the person who summarized the article. C my sig.
when you're done algebra 1 you should be able to solve complex quadratic equations. When you're finished algebra 2, you should be able to use synthetic division and a few other techniques to solve polynomials higher than a quadratic. You'll also have learned functions and operation on functions, including logarithmic and exponential functions. Then you should have a firm grasp of complex numbers, operating on them and using them to solve equations of various degrees.
distance, midpoint and circle formula should be covered in algebra 2 as well and you should be very comfortable with working on the cartesian plane, analyzing graphs and their properties and applying them to real world situations. for me algebra 2 is basically functions of any degree and their operations you should know these like the back of your hand. Then you move on to Trig, and then Calculus.
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although it is practical in the lab and in theory, there are still problems that occur when scaling it up. Like how to keep the track cooled for example. Its still a ways off.
I'm not sure but I think this may be at the kernal level. Still Android is just a modified nix platform so for most /. Users probably easily circumvented.
On another note the article didnt really say much but I love the shameless school plug and marketing in the last TWO paragraphs.
god yes and geeky. It's like a retainer for your shoulders.
,,.guy who supplies you. Not many will mourn you Dennis but know that to your true family and countless friends, you will always be remembered. We love you very much and thank you even more for what you gave the world. Sleep well my friend.
For once I'd like to see software released with no changes, just a README file that says "Why bother, it works fine doesn't it?" So sick of developers adding verbose, usually needless crap to good enough software.
ahh yeah. how about don't do that. start here. Then just browse and follow your interests, wherever it may take you.
Totally for boycotting paypal. And while we are at it, the traditional banking system as well. Though the latter will have to be phased out by most ppl. As far as I'm concerned they are all in collusion and get away with financial murder. My Hydro company doesn't care what kinda business I have or what I use electricity for. I could be electrocuting my neighbour's chi wow wow or using it to power my laptop while I type out the next unification theory that unites QM and EM. Nor does my telephone company care whether I'm using their service to organize a war or to donate to mother Theresa's new fangled organization. Fzuck banks! it's about time they were brought to their knees along with the MAFIAA and Big Oil, Big Pharma and all the rest of these old school companies with their monopolies, draconian business laws and models. The revolution will not be televised, it will be digitized. Thank god I can code :)
Who cares. It's a sausage fest on there.
u.s. space shuttle era is ending AND they are about to default on thier debt and plunge deeper into a global financial crisis. Wow, end of the United States empire? I think we may be seeing it.
It's deja-vu. Vous means "you". Specifically when speaking to someone with a sign of respect. Vu means "saw" and deja is "before" thus deja-vu.
....so now facebook is big enough to buy judges. And the reign of the corporate overlords continues. *yawn*
I'm not a big fan of this new fangled cloud thingamajig. I like to keep my data local where there are no worries of lockouts on sunday mornings due to maintenance. no worries employees are pillaging through my personal photos or clandestine goverment agencies rummaging through my data, making a dossier of me to see if I'm a likely al-queda candidate or have terrorist tendencies.
That aside, The introduction of the iphone forced carriers to upgrade their services and offer better consumer experience. With the arrival of everything in the cloud, netflix, icoud etc. I only see providers as realizing they HAVE to upgrade their services and start providing more bandwidth and better customer experience. Whether the carriers and the old business model hats like it, everything is going digital or already has and they must adapt, adopt or die. I'm not worried. I won't be an adopter of this cloud thingy but I do see it as a great way to get providers off their collective ip asses and have our service improved.
who cares, it's Perl.
I absolutely am stubborn and until we have 2 or more generations of data on the effects of cell phone radiation on individuals, this matter won't be resolved. Had Bohr or Dirac caved to the scientific consensus at the time, we wouldn't have QM as we know it today. I'm not afraid to buck the status quo or go against the dogmatic views of those in the "know", nor do I cave to the political lobbying.
No I'm not stubborn without reasons. The point of this article - and what the board claims - is that we don't know. So we should not be taking chances with our childrens lives in anyway shape or form. Just because it appears innocuous obviously doesn't mean that it is. If later years proves that cell phone radiation isn't insidious and hazardous then so be it. Until such time, treat it like it is. This is not even touching on the fact that kids don't even need cellphones in any case.
Try to remember people, our understanding of electromagnetism is still relatively new. Even Maxwell made mistakes in his assumptions of its energy levels until Planck came along. Science is not truth...it is best guess. we are only seeing a part of the story and if you're paying attention the next day you realize you knew a little more than the day before.
The problem with science and people who deem themselves scientific is they use it too much like a religion. Each generation thinking they know more than the previous and eating up dogmatic beliefs in already "proven" research. These beliefs are never changed until those scientist die out or some abrupt paradigm shift occurs. What I'm encouraging here is for the individuals on the board to not only employ critical thinking but to do their own research, failing that, play it safe. However I digress, this is a technology forum. My stance here is analogous to me arguing to PETA why its okay to slap your bitch dog around once in awhile. It falls on deaf ears.
Whether a cell phone has any [long term] effects chemically still remains to be seen. I think that's the issue here. However regardless if the energy levels of the radio photons can or can not break chemical bonds, collectively [ or alone] they cause molecular jitter, which is enough to disrupt basic homeostasis. plain and simple.
A cellphone to your head for n amount of time causes heating, or have you not spoken on the phone for that long a period? Even if it didn't, see the above paragraph. Even a short time produces molecular jitter and that is enough. Place that near a still developing child's skull and you have less shielding and a higher chance of "activity". yes I'm keeping that word ;)
I understand you being specific here, maybe I should have said radiation emitter. I think someone on here said think it as being hit with a "air zooka" :) sadly no, it is light so i don't think of it thus and because even oxygen seemingly kills us overtime.
and that is what this is about right? Even if radio waves cause no immediate or calculated chemical change, molecular jitter can and does and we have no idea still of the long term biological effects. I believe a couple years ago you probably would have been one who filled up with leaded gasoline, enhaled asbestos and nicotine fumes secure in the knowledge of what you "knew". However snookums, you don't know what you don't know. There is already evidence of biological changes with a cell phone to your head, what that disrupts, what the long term consequences are we have no way of knowing.
I understand the majority of posts on here denouncing the action by this board. I get it. it is a ubiquitous, convenient and now a staple technology. Doesn't mean it's safe. Cars are great for time travel and savings but no one could have forseen the effects they would be having today. Just cause we can doesn't mean we should and history is always the best teacher. I err on the side of caution and abstract from the fundamental facts.
oh and some reading for those less in the know.
C = lambda times nu...big deal, it's what I said without explaining how it works. You still haven't told me how an adverse effect is inversely proportional to a longer lambda. see I can use big words too. but still...explain if you want.
and if your standing near a particle emiter - such as a cell phone - you should wear proper shielding as well then right? if one lucky photon can on the off chance give you "cancer" what's the likely hood that prolonged exposure to radiation at a similiar frequency won't get you "lucky" again. really?
its called Electromagnetic Radiation for a reason. its Radiation whether that radiation is bad or good for you depends ...once again on exposure, wavelength and frequency....and I will give you the type of matter you're exposing it to. This is why the sun is both good and bad for us, why chemo is both good and bad etc. etc. etc. I already posted the fact that molecular Jitter occurs as a result of exposure, why would you risk the chance of being a guinea pig when you already know the fundementals?
No offence, I'm very glad you took the time to read and respond to my post and I do aplogize if i did do it off my Iphone while en route, but its not enough to go to school and cram facts into your head, you have to employ critical thinking and read numerous sources and then formulate your opinion. You have to think for yourself given certain axioms from which you can deduce.
and for the record I am a graduate student in Cell and Molecular Biology changed over from Electrical Engineering.
If our planet was just a few units further or closer to the sun there would be no life on this planet. Which again leads me back to, its based on how long you are exposed to that radiation and the frequency of that radiation. the point is that individuals are still divided over whether there there is damage done or not, doesn't mean radiation from your phone doesn't cause activity to where it is pointed. People wake up and think for yourselves, each generation is the succesive's one guinea pig. Once the lobbying has been done and enough people have died I suppose then the truth will be out. In the interim, i use a wired connection when talking on my cell phone, I don't keep it in my lap and I don't quickly dismiss individuals who say they are sensitive to wifi signals either. Think for yourselves.
for the person pedantic enough to pic on my grammar and punctuation i was on my iphone but just for you...i'll keep writing this way. take that stick out your ass. if i was a world renowned physicist who couldn't speak english much less write and was posting on here would that make u take me less seriously? if you answered yes, we have nothing less to discuss.
i think u should head back and do some chem 101 and physics: electromagnetism. Radiation is radiation, if its at a low frequency for a long period of time you will have molecular activity, specifically what is called molecular jitter or vibration. If you're exposed to a higher frequency for a shorter period of time, you'll just get activity sooner. I say activity because its based on where your're applying the radiation - may not necessarily be adverse. For a human body either one is dangerous. I really wish people would understand this. Radiation is Radiation.
Aside from the fact it extrapolated data from the results of 5 tests and then asserted its truth with the statement "we tested it here in the PCmag labs". The article itself was wordy. words rantogetherlikethis which speaks volumes for it being a pc related site. Im also reading the mobile version from my iphone which is even worse that they didnt take time to make sure it worked properly. On top of that i just started yawning when they started with the numbers....who cares? Just tell me what u found in a concise a manner as u can. If i wanna duplicate ur work provide a link or reference to a more detailed steps. Shut uuuuuup.
yeah this doesn't mean shit till apple creates it. Then everyone will jump on the bandwagon. Oh wait...
Sea levels have risen and sea levels have fallen in the past.
Its just civilization has now cropped up and made these changes inconvenient. It used to be that man would migrate if his surroundings became inhospitable. Now they just try and control nature.
where the hell are my mod points /.
mod u up. Must have been a web developer who summarized the article. It's so irritating to me with the advent of web 2.0, that everyone is so focused on the web. Not the internet, the web. As a result i feel like innovation and creativity have been lost in a sea of AJAX, PHP scripts and social networks. I'm very sad to see the commercialization of the internet and seeing us so focused on just this one aspect of computing - which is really just the GUI to the net. I'm hoping thinks like the Kinect will stir things up and bring along some much needed spice in this quagmire of hodgepodge technologies hacked togeter to create a pretty face. As for the person who summarized the article. C my sig.
Yea seriously. To the f-ing authour: STFU!
when you're done algebra 1 you should be able to solve complex quadratic equations. When you're finished algebra 2, you should be able to use synthetic division and a few other techniques to solve polynomials higher than a quadratic. You'll also have learned functions and operation on functions, including logarithmic and exponential functions. Then you should have a firm grasp of complex numbers, operating on them and using them to solve equations of various degrees. distance, midpoint and circle formula should be covered in algebra 2 as well and you should be very comfortable with working on the cartesian plane, analyzing graphs and their properties and applying them to real world situations. for me algebra 2 is basically functions of any degree and their operations you should know these like the back of your hand. Then you move on to Trig, and then Calculus.