what suspended animation? the pig was not frozen - this is on the same level as people drowning in sub-zero water, to be pulled an hour latter and survive (becase they were too cold to go brain dead).
wake me up when someone figures out a way to freeze mammals without cell membrane damage.
Actually, its physicly possible. There are several ice phases (http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/phase.html/, and just above 10e9 Pa pressure and less than 200 K there are two forms of amorphous ice (LDA and HDA) that dont form crystals (to rupture cell membranes). So actually, one needs to raise the pressure to 10e9 Pa fisrt and start lowering the temperature. Bingo.
And thats technologicaly feasible - dip a body in some fluid so that lungs are full of it, connect arteries to same fluid - start circulation to get rid of blood - then raise pressure to 10e9 Pa as fast as possible without creating shockwaves. Than cool as fast as possible to get to LDA.
HERE IT IS :) THE PRIOR KNOWLEDE :P
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ppps. I give up - the post had (iPod AND electrostatic AND buttons AND voice AND interface) in it, not sure about "patent", and isnt more than an year old, if anyone is interested in searching for it
pps. we were discussing the electrostatic buttons with someone else (he pointed out that they are patented) and I gave an example of a better interface (voice menues). damn it,/I still cant find that post, the search engine sucks:(
actually wrote this idea to Apple about 1.5-2 years ago, in their feedback page, after I got my first iPod (40gb). I complained that the interface is useless, as I keep it in my pocket, use my fingers to operate it without watching and always keep it on shuffle for that reason. and that I dont need more storage capacity than then 10 hours of music which is the battery capacity. I also pointed out that the best way to resolve this would be a voice interface (a talking ipod) which reads you the menues and the songs (if Apple 2 comps could pronounce words than an iPod surely has the computational power to do the same). Fisrt thing that happend was that the iPod shuffle came on the market some months latter. Now a voice iPod:) great:) actually, I did write this idea (voice menues) in slashdot as well (as anonimous, i think, or another nickname) in one of the patent discussions - I used it as example. I cant find it right now. Does this mean that the patent is null and void, as it is already public knowledge (with a date, in slashdot)? on the other hand - this was written less than a year ago, and the patent (if public now) is probably older than this.. not that I mind (I like apple and ipods) but... cant really use it my CV, can I:) Thats the end of giving you good ideas Apple, from now on Im writting them to mm.. Creative, i guess:). Unless you decide to hire me:) (and you have my e-mail)
ps. damn it, i posted this elsewhere first by mistake (one of the discussions I looked into to find my old post)
I actually wrote this idea to Apple about 1.5-2 years ago, in their feedback page, after I got my first iPod (40gb). I complained that the interface is useless, as I keep it in my pocket, use my fingers to operate it without watching and always keep it on shuffle for that reason. and that I dont need more storage capacity than then 10 hours of music which is the battery capacity.
I also pointed out that the best way to resolve this would be a voice interface (a talking ipod) which reads you the menues and the songs (if Apple 2 comps could pronounce words than an iPod surely has the computational power to do the same).
Fisrt thing that happend was that the iPod shuffle came on the market some months latter.
Now a voice iPod:)
great:)
actually, I did write this idea (voice menues) in slashdot as well (as anonimous, i think, or another nickname) in one of the patent discussions - I used it as example.
I cant find it right now.
Does this mean that the patent is null and void, as it is already public knowledge (with a date, in slashdot)?
on the other hand - this was written less than a year ago, and the patent (if public now) is probably older than this..
not that I mind (I like apple and ipods) but... cant really use it my CV, can I:)
Thats the end of giving you good ideas Apple, from now on Im writting them to mm.. Creative, i guess:). Unless you decide to hire me:) (and you have my e-mail)
As you may have gathered from previous posts, similar activities are going on in Bulgaria and Romania who are soon to join the EU. Before they join the EU, though, the EU have asked from both countries to do something about corruption, and that includes enforcing copyright laws. In Bulgaria you could, until recently, buy pirated CD on the street (but thats only because few people have broadband, i.e. BitTorrent). The final decision was to be made on 16 May, and was posponed until October, so that buggs can be ironed out. The Bulgarian government has argued that EU countries (such as Poland) have higher corruption indexes. The EU has argued that this may be true, but its not as blatant as in Bulgaria, the differece being that open/blatant corruption (such as Ferraris parked on sidewalks, and car bombings) leads to a general social and economical pesimism i.e. blatant corruption is much worse than hidden corruption regardeless of the actuall numbers, as it hinders enterprise and economic growth.
The BG government has argued that there is blatant corruption in the EU as well (but this is just speculation on my side, unlike the above events and exchanges that are public) - ThePirateBay does not keep a very low profile, and indeed their e-mails section doesnt help.
So, to avoid being perceived as an institution (the EU) that is hypocritical or keeps double standards - TPB has had to be raided - the Swedes bought it. Sorry, folks:(
As you may have gathered from previous posts, similar activities are going on in Bulgaria and Romania who are soon to join the EU.
Before they join the EU, though, the EU have asked from both countries to do something about corruption, and that includes enforcing copyright laws. In Bulgaria you could, until recently, buy pirated CD on the street (but thats only because few people have broadband, i.e. BitTorrent). The final decision was to be made on 16 May, and was posponed until October, so that buggs can be ironed out.
The Bulgarian government has argued that EU countries (such as Poland) have higher corruption indexes. The EU has argued that this may be true, but its not as blatant as in Bulgaria, the differece being that open/blatant corruption (such as Ferraris parked on sidewalks, and car bombings) leads to a general social and economical pesimism i.e. blatant corruption is much worse than hidden corruption regardeless of the actuall numbers, as it hinders enterprise and economic growth.
The BG government has argued that there is blatant corruption in the EU as well (but this is just speculation on my side, unlike the above events and exchanges that are public) - ThePirateBay does not keep a very low profile, and indeed their e-mails section doesnt help.
So, to avoid being perceived as an institution that is hypocritical or keeps double standards - TPB has had to be raided - the Sweedes bought it. Sorry, folks:(
St. Francis Dam was no engineering mistake. People didnt know that the ground in California moved, at the time. And knowone knew it was actually built on a fault line.
Some people vote with their money (buying CDs and movie tickets). Some people vote in elections. Some people vote with their feet (and go get stuff from P2P).
Except that, voting with money is considerably more efficient in getting things done than the other two ways - the organisations with money have the means to persue their own ends. Voting in elections would be efficient only if there is a majority.
Oh, and yes, some people can't vote at all because they are a small minority (the artists).
Damn it! Could there be an open-source iTunes equivalent, where everyone can post music BUT where downloading an MP3 costs 5 cents (that goes to the artist)?
As to movies, I'd rather see them in a cinema. As to porn, I really believe that it should be about prostitution, rather than rape (and its the second if noone pays for it).
(True) amateur porn is, of course, nice, and for free - thank you folks.
As to games - I buy them.
As to Win XP, Id switch to Linux as soon as someone made a good Linux game.
And I use OpenOffice.
Books? I cant read a book on a computer screen. It's no fun. I need to be able to take it in the WC with me. I buy them on paper.
Patents? Patents as implemented nowadays suck. But its the implementation that sucks, not the idea of patents. And I dont think it can be much better. Id rather go without such implementation, if it wasnt for stupid venture capitalists who would not invest without "protection" and "patents". Really, what are they thinking? Nothing patented actually constitutes a million-bugs-making idea. Ingenius ideas are always obvious (in hindsight), so - not patentable. No idea about that...
And so, could you use your God given programming skills to make an E-bay/BitTorrent equivalent for free posting of music and video files? The laws dont need to change - whats needed is to put the the CD/DVD publishing industry out of the loop. First hey charge for burning CD, then they charge for distribution, then they charge for being the only node in the network (a monopoly), then they use it to enforce the dominace of the node - it ends here.
Oh and.. pls dont patent the above idea, will ya?:)
(..except that no novel publicity approaches on boring stuff will make it les boring). Actually, the problem is that only the mundane stuff done at/by NASA gets publicity. Woah, a rocket launch, woah, a space station, woah, people floating at zero-g. I think we've been seen those pictures 40 years ago. The difference is, 40 years ago they were cool, ano noone has woken up to the fact that they are not cool anymore.
How about some publicity on new propultion concept research (done at/by NASA), or actually doing something that has a WOPMPF? Like a mass-driver slasha catapult slash alternative to rockets?
..which makes you connect to P2P again/more often to download "da stuff" again i.e. helping the trojan spread, by increasing online time and P2P time.
OR makes you go out and play.
tsts. evil geniuses can be beneficial sometimes, when they miss something:)
He was funny. He told the truth. The truth is sad.
What would you rather be - funny, sad or truthfull? Can you be ALL at the same time?
Colbert rules..
they are out of their minds to state it this way
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hate to say this (and sound like a priest) but.. whats the point in meddling with human nature? Why? Who wants to be a freak with reproductive organs in their mouths? Because they think they can, doesnt necessarily mean that they "should".
This is a pointless goal - "lets do synthetic biology so that we can make an alternate human". Surely lots will be discovered and invented on the way to such a goal, that is in itself very usefull, but frankly I'd rather be immortal than a freak.
And synthetic biology might well have THIS goal - to make people immortal, rather than such a pathetic nonsense goal. The road to both is the same, but there is a big huge difference between the two ends.
(not that I think this is in any way acheivable in the near future, but such a goal ensures it will never get done)
On the other hand, theres James Blish's "The Seedling stars" where humans gets modified so that they can live in an alien environment. But they still "look" human. Otherwise there is no point, is there, to populate alien environments with aliens?
Quite a few jokes circulated after those news, such as:
"Two young astronomy students sit on a beach, watch the stars, until the guy says romantically "where would you rather be, on the ground (=Earth) or on Huya"..
Yeah, it sounds good on paper, BUT. Would you care to now write HOW you are going to implement "worthy patents with feasible implementation" ?:)))
100 years ago a single man could know, or at least understand an idea in all existing science fields. Nowadays there's so much science and technology research (and publications) that no single man can ever have an overview and judge what constitutes an "idea" and what is actually implementable. If its a crossdisciplinary idea then the patent clecr would lack overshight, and if its an invention in a very narrow specific field then the patent clerk would know what its all about. And most important of all - if you dont have hands on experience with the matter then you can never judge the validity of the "results" showing (possible) implementation. It could easily be a fluke/noise that got misinterpreted (even by the inventors) as "its working lets patent".
Why is everyone so obsessed with patents? Who says you actually need patents to spin something off? Trade secrets are perfectly OK with venture capitalists (you print it on a piece of paper - you show them at your first meeting), as long as you can prove you can keep them even after a product release on the market, i.e. that its not reverse engineerable. And that is simple: if you are the only person in the world who has a "secret recipe" how to make a particular nanotech device (like a device that uses infinite carbon nanotubes for instance) - then no ammount of looking at infinite nanotubes will help the competition copy your invention.
That does mean that you cant publish anything during the research (that actually works) BUT
a) you can publish on a non-moderated mongolian blog page where noone would find it(that counts for establishing priority, if needed, to defeat a later patent by competition), or in the local newspaper of a small village somwhere.
b) noone publishes research that works anyway (except for those few that do get patents tickets beforehand, so the value of the publication is zilch anyway)
One kilogram probe would not be able to beam info back. BTW the weight of the probe doesnt matter much. The desired max speed is what influences gross weight mostly, given some specific impulse for some rocket engine.
total mass (all stages) = mass of probe(i.e. payload) x e^(end speed/(specific impulse x 9.81))
(that holds for orbital launch, the g there is to get the dimensionality right)
So, lets take a 1 tons probe (nuclear reactor for power, lasers for comunication, instruments),
60 000 sec specific impulse for the rocket engines that would fling it towards Alpha Centauri (doable with Orion nuclear engine - the nuclear propulsion system that we have reserached mostly at the moment - in the '60s) and total launch weight of 200 tons (equal to the weight of the space station).
end speed is then 11 000 000 m/s.
Proxima Centauri is 4.3 light years away = 4e16 meters
So, the probe would get there in about 120 years:)
Perfectly doable with all the knowledge, technology and resources we have (and have put to good use for other applications) today
The Apollo missions have returned the taxpayers money many times over - cheap small personal computers were developed for those missions (LEMs nav comp). Bill Gate's owes it ALL to Apollo.
NASA should try to do the impossible, period. The impossible is a) inspiring, b) the only way to ensure return of the investment through the need for inovative solutions.
Aiming directly for return of investment ensures stagnation; movement is often confused for progress.
And the impossible is:
1) Sending a 1 ton probe to Alpha Centauri (that would get there within 50 years:) (requires nuclear propulsion)
2) Sending a people to Mars (requires cheper alternatie to rockets - Linear accelerator/Space fountain/etc)
3) Building a space elevator (requires novel materials - mass produced infinite carbon nanotubes)
Im tired of rockets. Things are going nowhere with rockets, that they havent been before.
nah, you forget that launching 1 kg to jupiter and launching 1000kgs to jupiter costs just about the same, but launching 1000x1 kgs to 1000 points in the solar system costs 1000 times more. So, the optimal strategy lies with missions as big as possible, not small ones.
found it: http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/gsp/Experimental _Detection.pdf
both seem to be the case, and/or not adressed - the accelerometers do have metal on them (it does mention wires), and the setup is in a faradey cage (which does not eliminate the Earths magnetic field..um..off course nothing would anyway)
None of the articles related to the find describe the experimental setup in detail, and the articles discussing the abnormal experimental results (getting a wrong cooper-pair mass values) focus on possible theoretical explanation only (anti-gravity etc.). So, we can't know:).
http://arxiv.org/ftp/gr-qc/papers/0203/0203033.pdf
Slashdot Mirror
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/10/ 0345252&threshold=-1
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190729&c id=15694587
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167849 &cid=14013426
(first you tell Apple what to do, then everyone else what Apple might do :)
Actually, its physicly possible. There are several ice phases (http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/phase.html/, and just above 10e9 Pa pressure and less than 200 K there are two forms of amorphous ice (LDA and HDA) that dont form crystals (to rupture cell membranes). So actually, one needs to raise the pressure to 10e9 Pa fisrt and start lowering the temperature. Bingo. And thats technologicaly feasible - dip a body in some fluid so that lungs are full of it, connect arteries to same fluid - start circulation to get rid of blood - then raise pressure to 10e9 Pa as fast as possible without creating shockwaves. Than cool as fast as possible to get to LDA.
ps. turned out I posted it with this nickname, after all
ppps. I give up - the post had (iPod AND electrostatic AND buttons AND voice AND interface) in it, not sure about "patent", and isnt more than an year old, if anyone is interested in searching for it
pps. we were discussing the electrostatic buttons with someone else (he pointed out that they are patented) and I gave an example of a better interface (voice menues). damn it, /I still cant find that post, the search engine sucks :(
ps. damn it, i posted this elsewhere first by mistake (one of the discussions I looked into to find my old post)
I actually wrote this idea to Apple about 1.5-2 years ago, in their feedback page, after I got my first iPod (40gb). I complained that the interface is useless, as I keep it in my pocket, use my fingers to operate it without watching and always keep it on shuffle for that reason. and that I dont need more storage capacity than then 10 hours of music which is the battery capacity. I also pointed out that the best way to resolve this would be a voice interface (a talking ipod) which reads you the menues and the songs (if Apple 2 comps could pronounce words than an iPod surely has the computational power to do the same). Fisrt thing that happend was that the iPod shuffle came on the market some months latter. Now a voice iPod :)
great :)
actually, I did write this idea (voice menues) in slashdot as well (as anonimous, i think, or another nickname) in one of the patent discussions - I used it as example.
I cant find it right now.
Does this mean that the patent is null and void, as it is already public knowledge (with a date, in slashdot)?
on the other hand - this was written less than a year ago, and the patent (if public now) is probably older than this..
not that I mind (I like apple and ipods) but... cant really use it my CV, can I :)
Thats the end of giving you good ideas Apple, from now on Im writting them to mm.. Creative, i guess :). Unless you decide to hire me :) (and you have my e-mail)
As you may have gathered from previous posts, similar activities are going on in Bulgaria and Romania who are soon to join the EU. Before they join the EU, though, the EU have asked from both countries to do something about corruption, and that includes enforcing copyright laws. In Bulgaria you could, until recently, buy pirated CD on the street (but thats only because few people have broadband, i.e. BitTorrent). The final decision was to be made on 16 May, and was posponed until October, so that buggs can be ironed out. The Bulgarian government has argued that EU countries (such as Poland) have higher corruption indexes. The EU has argued that this may be true, but its not as blatant as in Bulgaria, the differece being that open/blatant corruption (such as Ferraris parked on sidewalks, and car bombings) leads to a general social and economical pesimism i.e. blatant corruption is much worse than hidden corruption regardeless of the actuall numbers, as it hinders enterprise and economic growth. The BG government has argued that there is blatant corruption in the EU as well (but this is just speculation on my side, unlike the above events and exchanges that are public) - ThePirateBay does not keep a very low profile, and indeed their e-mails section doesnt help. So, to avoid being perceived as an institution (the EU) that is hypocritical or keeps double standards - TPB has had to be raided - the Swedes bought it. Sorry, folks :(
The BG government has argued that there is blatant corruption in the EU as well (but this is just speculation on my side, unlike the above events and exchanges that are public) - ThePirateBay does not keep a very low profile, and indeed their e-mails section doesnt help.
So, to avoid being perceived as an institution that is hypocritical or keeps double standards - TPB has had to be raided - the Sweedes bought it. Sorry, folks :(
St. Francis Dam was no engineering mistake. People didnt know that the ground in California moved, at the time. And knowone knew it was actually built on a fault line.
Damn it! Could there be an open-source iTunes equivalent, where everyone can post music BUT where downloading an MP3 costs 5 cents (that goes to the artist)?
As to movies, I'd rather see them in a cinema. As to porn, I really believe that it should be about prostitution, rather than rape (and its the second if noone pays for it). (True) amateur porn is, of course, nice, and for free - thank you folks.
As to games - I buy them.
As to Win XP, Id switch to Linux as soon as someone made a good Linux game. And I use OpenOffice.
Books? I cant read a book on a computer screen. It's no fun. I need to be able to take it in the WC with me. I buy them on paper.
Patents? Patents as implemented nowadays suck. But its the implementation that sucks, not the idea of patents. And I dont think it can be much better. Id rather go without such implementation, if it wasnt for stupid venture capitalists who would not invest without "protection" and "patents". Really, what are they thinking? Nothing patented actually constitutes a million-bugs-making idea. Ingenius ideas are always obvious (in hindsight), so - not patentable. No idea about that...
And so, could you use your God given programming skills to make an E-bay/BitTorrent equivalent for free posting of music and video files? The laws dont need to change - whats needed is to put the the CD/DVD publishing industry out of the loop. First hey charge for burning CD, then they charge for distribution, then they charge for being the only node in the network (a monopoly), then they use it to enforce the dominace of the node - it ends here.
Oh and.. pls dont patent the above idea, will ya?:)
"Everyone is naked!", the king shouted ..
(..except that no novel publicity approaches on boring stuff will make it les boring). Actually, the problem is that only the mundane stuff done at/by NASA gets publicity. Woah, a rocket launch, woah, a space station, woah, people floating at zero-g. I think we've been seen those pictures 40 years ago. The difference is, 40 years ago they were cool, ano noone has woken up to the fact that they are not cool anymore. How about some publicity on new propultion concept research (done at/by NASA), or actually doing something that has a WOPMPF? Like a mass-driver slasha catapult slash alternative to rockets?
nice, the article needs a login.. -1 for the poster
..which makes you connect to P2P again/more often to download "da stuff" again i.e. helping the trojan spread, by increasing online time and P2P time. OR makes you go out and play. tsts. evil geniuses can be beneficial sometimes, when they miss something :)
He was funny. He told the truth. The truth is sad. What would you rather be - funny, sad or truthfull? Can you be ALL at the same time? Colbert rules..
hate to say this (and sound like a priest) but.. whats the point in meddling with human nature? Why? Who wants to be a freak with reproductive organs in their mouths? Because they think they can, doesnt necessarily mean that they "should". This is a pointless goal - "lets do synthetic biology so that we can make an alternate human". Surely lots will be discovered and invented on the way to such a goal, that is in itself very usefull, but frankly I'd rather be immortal than a freak. And synthetic biology might well have THIS goal - to make people immortal, rather than such a pathetic nonsense goal. The road to both is the same, but there is a big huge difference between the two ends. (not that I think this is in any way acheivable in the near future, but such a goal ensures it will never get done) On the other hand, theres James Blish's "The Seedling stars" where humans gets modified so that they can live in an alien environment. But they still "look" human. Otherwise there is no point, is there, to populate alien environments with aliens?
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s930305 .htm
Quite a few jokes circulated after those news, such as: "Two young astronomy students sit on a beach, watch the stars, until the guy says romantically "where would you rather be, on the ground (=Earth) or on Huya"..
mm doesnt quite work in English though..
Yeah, it sounds good on paper, BUT. Would you care to now write HOW you are going to implement "worthy patents with feasible implementation" ? :)))
100 years ago a single man could know, or at least understand an idea in all existing science fields. Nowadays there's so much science and technology research (and publications) that no single man can ever have an overview and judge what constitutes an "idea" and what is actually implementable. If its a crossdisciplinary idea then the patent clecr would lack overshight, and if its an invention in a very narrow specific field then the patent clerk would know what its all about. And most important of all - if you dont have hands on experience with the matter then you can never judge the validity of the "results" showing (possible) implementation. It could easily be a fluke/noise that got misinterpreted (even by the inventors) as "its working lets patent".
Why is everyone so obsessed with patents? Who says you actually need patents to spin something off? Trade secrets are perfectly OK with venture capitalists (you print it on a piece of paper - you show them at your first meeting), as long as you can prove you can keep them even after a product release on the market, i.e. that its not reverse engineerable. And that is simple: if you are the only person in the world who has a "secret recipe" how to make a particular nanotech device (like a device that uses infinite carbon nanotubes for instance) - then no ammount of looking at infinite nanotubes will help the competition copy your invention. That does mean that you cant publish anything during the research (that actually works) BUT a) you can publish on a non-moderated mongolian blog page where noone would find it(that counts for establishing priority, if needed, to defeat a later patent by competition), or in the local newspaper of a small village somwhere. b) noone publishes research that works anyway (except for those few that do get patents tickets beforehand, so the value of the publication is zilch anyway)
(that holds for orbital launch, the g there is to get the dimensionality right)
So, lets take a 1 tons probe (nuclear reactor for power, lasers for comunication, instruments), 60 000 sec specific impulse for the rocket engines that would fling it towards Alpha Centauri (doable with Orion nuclear engine - the nuclear propulsion system that we have reserached mostly at the moment - in the '60s) and total launch weight of 200 tons (equal to the weight of the space station). end speed is then 11 000 000 m/s.
Proxima Centauri is 4.3 light years away = 4e16 meters
So, the probe would get there in about 120 years :)
Perfectly doable with all the knowledge, technology and resources we have (and have put to good use for other applications) today
And the impossible is: 1) Sending a 1 ton probe to Alpha Centauri (that would get there within 50 years:) (requires nuclear propulsion)
2) Sending a people to Mars (requires cheper alternatie to rockets - Linear accelerator/Space fountain/etc)
3) Building a space elevator (requires novel materials - mass produced infinite carbon nanotubes)
Im tired of rockets. Things are going nowhere with rockets, that they havent been before.
nah, you forget that launching 1 kg to jupiter and launching 1000kgs to jupiter costs just about the same, but launching 1000x1 kgs to 1000 points in the solar system costs 1000 times more. So, the optimal strategy lies with missions as big as possible, not small ones.
found it: http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/gsp/Experimental _Detection.pdf
both seem to be the case, and/or not adressed - the accelerometers do have metal on them (it does mention wires), and the setup is in a faradey cage (which does not eliminate the Earths magnetic field..um..off course nothing would anyway)
None of the articles related to the find describe the experimental setup in detail, and the articles discussing the abnormal experimental results (getting a wrong cooper-pair mass values) focus on possible theoretical explanation only (anti-gravity etc.). So, we can't know :).
http://arxiv.org/ftp/gr-qc/papers/0203/0203033.pdf