Not to mention useful. I've fashioned all sorts of things out of paper clips when I'm in a bind. They are great for making mounts, or for opening CD trays that are stuck, etc. etc. etc.
Most likely they meant eV/c^2. This is a standard units used for mass of elementary particles (by physicists). Since E=mc^2, and eV is a measure of energy, eV/c^2 is a measure of mass.
In these units, the electron has a rest mass of 511 KeV/c^2.
Quite. ITER follows in the steps of the Joint European Torus (JET), and other research reactor. It is not aimed at achieve power plant break even (that is slated for the followon project, DEMO) nor economical breakeven (that would come after DEMO).
Or more likely, economical break-even fusion will come in some other form. There is a large sub-population of fusion researchers that don't expect tokomak fusion to ever be economically viable (particularly without a hybrid fusion-fission fuel cycle). However, almost all fusion researchers agree that it is still important to develop, possibly because it is the only one we know will actually work (achieve Q>1, AKA generate more heat-energy than is put in).
In my opinion, economical fusion will require a completely new design - particularly a non-steady-state design. Focus fusion is one example of a non-steady state design. However, it is currently unclear how much potential it has for economic power generation.
You realise sucrose is half fructose, right? HFCS also happens to be about half fructose (55% is the most common mix used in soft drinks). It's not a coincidence that they are both linked to the same cronic health issues.
I find formatting to be no less of a pain in Office. For anything over 20 pages or so, it's worth learning latex. Unfortunately, for the average user, that's not really an option. You have to be a somewhat technical user to get anything out of latex.
That would hardly help reduce heat generation in CMOS. At current gate lengths, a significant portion of the heat is generated due to leakage through the channel when the transistor is "off".
Maybe there is some switching device implementable with HTSCs that I am not familiar with, but it still wouldn't apply to silicon devices.
You're missing the important point that the embryo's have never been in a human uterus, and could therefore never mature into a human child. I don't understand how using the cells for research is worse than throwing them away.
I was about to post a counter argument, but on second thought I think you're right. I was previously thinking that the butane molecule was sitting at a local minimum in energy, and that it would actually release energy if disassociated. I realize now that it is at an absolute minimum, but that minimum is not as low as the minimum available in the form of CO2 and H20, thus the exothermic reaction with O2.
I wish there was something even remotely close to this in linux world. It's extremely frustration how much I have to go through to back up my linux desktop.
What if you want a decent ZFS implementation with all the recent goodies? Can any other distribution offer that? If so let me know, because I'm currently running an OpenSolaris server precisely for this reason.
I'm all for openness, but there's some reason to believe that the person taking the data is the person best fit to analyze the data. However, in the medical field, this may not be true. Since all good studies in medicine will be double blind, there should be no problem with outsiders analyzing the data. Let's not get carried away and assume this would work for all scientific fields, though.
Again, openness is good, but sometimes faulty data won't be discovered to be faulty until the scientist who took it has time to analyze it and think about it. If such faulty data were made immediately public, there would be all number of people trying to support their pet theory with said faulty data.
True, but if you could actually measure the mass of the butane molecule with enough precision, you would find that it is more massive than the constituent atoms alone. This extra mass (m=E/c^2) is actually due to the potential energy stored in the bonds.
... and piracy is not their "only choice". Since when are people entitled to have whatever they want no matter their ability to pay - especially things that are merely entertainment?
I think that was the GP's point: these people either pirate the game, or they don't play it at all. The GP wasn't saying it is moral justified, he's just saying it's reality.
I would go farther, though. In the digital world, where things can be copied at no expense, it is very difficult to say that someone pirating your game is worse than them not playing it at all. In fact, those people might have more disposable income in a few years and think "Hey - I remember that last game this company came out with. If this one is anywhere near as good, it is definitely worth buying." Of course, that requires the game to actually be good...
Not to mention that any pattern can be found in the digits of pi, if you look long enough. Yes, any pattern. Finding some pattern in pi is no more proof of god than finding the Virgin Marry on your toast.
I'm more worried about how any human civilization would survive more than a year without constant resupplying from Earth. Biosphere2 was a complete disaster, and it showed us how much we have to learn before we can successfully colonize another planet.
No, it's more of ARM (analog rights management). There is no digital software keeping the source code open.
Also, whereas DRM pro-actively prevents you from using the software in an undesired way, copyleft retroactively does so (through legislation). You can go ahead and use the software in a commercial closed-source application, but if you get caught you must pay the consequences.
Most scientist don't deal with fundamental questions about the universe and existence. I hypothesize that the numbers would be very different if the poll were limited to particle physicists, string theorists, and astronomers. Unless forced to confront the issue head on, humans are perfectly capable of holding two diametrically opposed beliefs simultaneously.
I disagree. Oil will eventually be more expensive than alternatives. The amount of cheap to harvest oil is decreasing rapidly. Yes, there is a lot more oil out there, but it is much more expensive to drill for than the past billion barrels. At the same time, demand is rising as developing nations start to buy more and more cars. Unfortunately, coal will probably pick up a lot of the slack in commercial power plants (at least in the US, where coal is plentiful), but hopefully liquid coal is never implemented. I'm not sure if electric vehicles or ethanol combustion engines will dominate, but as oil prices skyrocket they will slowly begin to take over.
These is becoming another one of those stupid slashdot memes that gets repeated over and over again, any time liability or lawsuits are mentioned. However, this one isn't even funny...
The lower IQ threshold for new US graduates reflects the fact that the pool of US talent available to the company is smaller than the pool of Chinese talent, Bleum said.
Or the fact that the IQ test is intrinsically linked to culture, which is very different in China vs US.
Sagan was an astronomer. The macroscopic world tends to be much comfortable to the layman than the microscopic world. You can talk to the average person about planets, stars, and even black holes, but the minute you mention quantum mechanics, photons, or quarks you will lose them. In addition, the average person seems to be incapable of really understanding statistics (which is very important for climatology). A intelligent person told me just a few days ago that a skydiver who has 5000 jumps is more likely to have an accident on their next jump than one who has 500 jumps. Her argument was that the more experienced jumper was long over due to have an accident.
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Sounds like a decent education.
We had plastic scissors in elementary school... FML
Not to mention useful. I've fashioned all sorts of things out of paper clips when I'm in a bind. They are great for making mounts, or for opening CD trays that are stuck, etc. etc. etc.
Most likely they meant eV/c^2. This is a standard units used for mass of elementary particles (by physicists). Since E=mc^2, and eV is a measure of energy, eV/c^2 is a measure of mass.
In these units, the electron has a rest mass of 511 KeV/c^2.
Quite. ITER follows in the steps of the Joint European Torus (JET), and other research reactor. It is not aimed at achieve power plant break even (that is slated for the followon project, DEMO) nor economical breakeven (that would come after DEMO).
Or more likely, economical break-even fusion will come in some other form. There is a large sub-population of fusion researchers that don't expect tokomak fusion to ever be economically viable (particularly without a hybrid fusion-fission fuel cycle). However, almost all fusion researchers agree that it is still important to develop, possibly because it is the only one we know will actually work (achieve Q>1, AKA generate more heat-energy than is put in).
In my opinion, economical fusion will require a completely new design - particularly a non-steady-state design. Focus fusion is one example of a non-steady state design. However, it is currently unclear how much potential it has for economic power generation.
You realise sucrose is half fructose, right? HFCS also happens to be about half fructose (55% is the most common mix used in soft drinks). It's not a coincidence that they are both linked to the same cronic health issues.
I find formatting to be no less of a pain in Office. For anything over 20 pages or so, it's worth learning latex. Unfortunately, for the average user, that's not really an option. You have to be a somewhat technical user to get anything out of latex.
Or, you could hold off on forming an opinion until there is experimental evidence supporting the hypothesis.
That would hardly help reduce heat generation in CMOS. At current gate lengths, a significant portion of the heat is generated due to leakage through the channel when the transistor is "off".
Maybe there is some switching device implementable with HTSCs that I am not familiar with, but it still wouldn't apply to silicon devices.
You're missing the important point that the embryo's have never been in a human uterus, and could therefore never mature into a human child. I don't understand how using the cells for research is worse than throwing them away.
I was about to post a counter argument, but on second thought I think you're right. I was previously thinking that the butane molecule was sitting at a local minimum in energy, and that it would actually release energy if disassociated. I realize now that it is at an absolute minimum, but that minimum is not as low as the minimum available in the form of CO2 and H20, thus the exothermic reaction with O2.
So basically, you are absolutely correct.
However, no matter how great ZFS is, you still need full backups of your ZFS storage
Backups of ZFS file systems are dead simple: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_backup
I wish there was something even remotely close to this in linux world. It's extremely frustration how much I have to go through to back up my linux desktop.
What if you want a decent ZFS implementation with all the recent goodies? Can any other distribution offer that? If so let me know, because I'm currently running an OpenSolaris server precisely for this reason.
I'm all for openness, but there's some reason to believe that the person taking the data is the person best fit to analyze the data. However, in the medical field, this may not be true. Since all good studies in medicine will be double blind, there should be no problem with outsiders analyzing the data. Let's not get carried away and assume this would work for all scientific fields, though.
Again, openness is good, but sometimes faulty data won't be discovered to be faulty until the scientist who took it has time to analyze it and think about it. If such faulty data were made immediately public, there would be all number of people trying to support their pet theory with said faulty data.
I never understood how you can know they aren't just taking the ashes, throwing them in the trash, and giving you an overpriced diamond in return.
True, but if you could actually measure the mass of the butane molecule with enough precision, you would find that it is more massive than the constituent atoms alone. This extra mass (m=E/c^2) is actually due to the potential energy stored in the bonds.
... and piracy is not their "only choice". Since when are people entitled to have whatever they want no matter their ability to pay - especially things that are merely entertainment?
I think that was the GP's point: these people either pirate the game, or they don't play it at all. The GP wasn't saying it is moral justified, he's just saying it's reality.
I would go farther, though. In the digital world, where things can be copied at no expense, it is very difficult to say that someone pirating your game is worse than them not playing it at all. In fact, those people might have more disposable income in a few years and think "Hey - I remember that last game this company came out with. If this one is anywhere near as good, it is definitely worth buying." Of course, that requires the game to actually be good...
Not to mention that any pattern can be found in the digits of pi, if you look long enough. Yes, any pattern. Finding some pattern in pi is no more proof of god than finding the Virgin Marry on your toast.
I'm more interested in dumping the firmware.
I'm more worried about how any human civilization would survive more than a year without constant resupplying from Earth. Biosphere2 was a complete disaster, and it showed us how much we have to learn before we can successfully colonize another planet.
No, it's more of ARM (analog rights management). There is no digital software keeping the source code open.
Also, whereas DRM pro-actively prevents you from using the software in an undesired way, copyleft retroactively does so (through legislation). You can go ahead and use the software in a commercial closed-source application, but if you get caught you must pay the consequences.
Most scientist don't deal with fundamental questions about the universe and existence. I hypothesize that the numbers would be very different if the poll were limited to particle physicists, string theorists, and astronomers. Unless forced to confront the issue head on, humans are perfectly capable of holding two diametrically opposed beliefs simultaneously.
I disagree. Oil will eventually be more expensive than alternatives. The amount of cheap to harvest oil is decreasing rapidly. Yes, there is a lot more oil out there, but it is much more expensive to drill for than the past billion barrels. At the same time, demand is rising as developing nations start to buy more and more cars. Unfortunately, coal will probably pick up a lot of the slack in commercial power plants (at least in the US, where coal is plentiful), but hopefully liquid coal is never implemented. I'm not sure if electric vehicles or ethanol combustion engines will dominate, but as oil prices skyrocket they will slowly begin to take over.
These is becoming another one of those stupid slashdot memes that gets repeated over and over again, any time liability or lawsuits are mentioned. However, this one isn't even funny...
The lower IQ threshold for new US graduates reflects the fact that the pool of US talent available to the company is smaller than the pool of Chinese talent, Bleum said.
Or the fact that the IQ test is intrinsically linked to culture, which is very different in China vs US.
Sagan was an astronomer. The macroscopic world tends to be much comfortable to the layman than the microscopic world. You can talk to the average person about planets, stars, and even black holes, but the minute you mention quantum mechanics, photons, or quarks you will lose them. In addition, the average person seems to be incapable of really understanding statistics (which is very important for climatology). A intelligent person told me just a few days ago that a skydiver who has 5000 jumps is more likely to have an accident on their next jump than one who has 500 jumps. Her argument was that the more experienced jumper was long over due to have an accident.