Wow, thanks for that guys, I never really considered that.
Okay, but the original Moore's Law is based mainly on the ability of manufacturing/engineering to come up with the transistor density doubling every year, rather than being driven by market demand.
So then suppose industry is able to keep doubling the number of qubit ion components every year? Then we get some kind of exponential curve for performance improvement?
Does this mean all that Kurzweil singularity stuff can happen due to the exponential acceleration provided by Moore's Qubit Law?
Even before getting to any goal of practical power generation, the most important thing in a scientific investigation is to structure it to avoid doubts -- meaning either proving or disproving it completely. There's no dishonour in disproving it, if it helps to clarify what the remaining fusion possibilities are.
Dr Taleyarkhan should have specifically monitored the neutron outputs to see if they had any cyclicality that coincided with the bubble oscillation cycle. If you get neutron spikes when the bubbles implode, then that's a very helpful sign consistent with acoustic fusion occurring.
Why a big scientist like him didn't do such an obvious thing worries me. But the article says that Putterman et all will be working to duplicate his experiments. Duplication is really the essential thing for proving something. After all, if it only works when Taleyarkhan does it, but not for anybody else, then you know something's wrong.
The article says that the intense magnetic field of the Z-pinch machine might be able to test the theory on whether these gravitophotons can be generated from split-up virtual electron pairs. If this gravitional force were to be observed under the extreme magnetic field of the Z-pinch, then it would be consistent with the Heim theory's claims.
Somehow this reminds me of Hawking's radiation. Hawking said that the virtual photon pairs from Heisenberg's could be split up by the powerful gravity of a black hole's event horizon.
So isn't this latest paper on Heim's theory then stating something analogous to that, only using extreme electromagnetism to split the virtual gravitophotons instead of using the extreme gravity to split the virtual photons?
Could we say that "Heim Gravity" is a counterpart/cousin to Hawking radiation?
Comments?
Actually, I didn't see anything mentioned in the article on what resolution this thing offers. What does it offer? SVGA? In today's age, we need something that supports HDTV. Is that totally out of the question on a wearable viewer like this?
Why didn't they call it the iBud? Doesn't that fit with the nomenclature more? Or did some marketing type not see what was plainly in front of their i's?
Anyway, interfaces like this -- however good/bad this particular model is -- are the future way to go.
iPiece?
iLash?
iPatch?
Actually, an iPatch could look kinduv cool, in a Pirate sort of way. Pirates in the Slashdot crowd? Nah, perish the thought.
I read some article posted by a man whose son is serving over in Iraq. The guy posted that the Iraq insurgents are using laptops with Google Earth and GPS to coordinate their attacks. He says that Google Earth is one of their main tools for doing this. Google Earth may be making money, but it could be at the cost of people's lives. The fact is that it facilitates this kind of activity, making it much more convenient than other methods.
You said: "They should not be limited to any greater extent than to prevent one's activities from infringing on the rights of others."
And that's where the ebbing and flowing should come in. That is to say, in a period where some new change/innovation has occurred to change the lines where some can infringe upon the freedoms of others -- say, the invention of plastic explosives, or the emergence of radioactive dirty bombs -- then the market has to be able to change its parameters to cope with the new development.
Because those who seek to destroy security are indeed destroying the freedom of others. If that weren't the case, then we'd all yawn and keep on snoring, and security would never be an issue. But since security is part of freedom, then fundamental compromises on security represent fundamental compromises on freedom.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said freedom of speech doesn't extend to shouting "fire!" in a crowded theatre. It's a practical example of limiting freedom of speech.
Any freedom, when pursued to the maximum extent of the human imagination, can be transformed into an harassment or infringement upon someone else's freedom or well-being.
Absolute freedom of worship shouldn't translate into absolute freedom of action. If someone said it was within their religious values to disobey certain existing laws of their land of residence, then I think the state has a right to engage in pre-emptive monitoring, in order to intercept their action rather than merely dealing with it after the fact. Suppose I am a known member of a doomsday cult known for its desire to go out with a bang on New Year's Eve of 2006. The state should have a right to monitor me without fear of liability. My invoking religious freedom and allegations of persecution over my choice of belief system should not obtain automatic credibility.
The right to be heard does not translate into a right to be believed. The idea of a "right to be believed" then itself impinges on the concept of 'marketplace of ideas'. The right to be heard should not automatically translate into a right to block traffic, or to make nuisance to others. The right to be heard on this site does not extend to a right for me to spam this site, for example.
Many real-world phenomena, such as our economy, are dynamic and even cyclical in their nature. Consequently, you'll see an agency under an activist leadership, like the Federal Reserve for example, tighten or loosen its policies in synch with the behavior of the economy.
Why shouldn't our restrictions on freedom also wax and wane in natural rhythm, not unlike the way economic policy does?
We can use macro-level indicators on crime for instance, to then set the tightness or looseness of our laws affecting crime.
In nature, sexual reproduction has in most cases come into dominance over asexual cloning type reproduction because sexual reproduction 'scrambles the locks' so to speak, by varying the genome to help make it harder for viruses to adapt, and to promote the diversity useful for natural selection to occur.
Likewise, if our laws and freedoms are absolute and unchanging, then the criminal elements will adapt (and already have) to those laws and to any deficiencies and loopholes in them, to take advantage. But if freedoms tighten and loosen cyclically, just like economic policy, it could become harder for people to take advantage of the laws.
If economic policy is not ossified into the constitution but left to periodic re-evaluation, then why can't our rights and freedoms be subject to periodic review and change without extreme difficulty?
Sounds awful. I wonder how the seals feel about it?
Anyway, if the Polar Bears can't find food the regular way, they may have to adapt by moving southward, which will bring them into contact with more people. Come to think of it, why didn't they just do that before?
My understanding is that bullets quickly lose velocity due to air resistance, and that while conically-shaped hyper-velocity bullets are on the drawing boards, there are still various issues about stability in flight/transit.
I think that open markets will eventually break down any elite entrenched interests in the face of natural market competition. Just like the rural outsourcing program in the US, likewise that's even starting to happen in India. Although a $25K salary might seem a low price for a US employer to pay for an Indian engineer, it's very high for an employer in Bangalore to be paying. The rampant cycle of wage-inflation as a rapidly increasing number of jobs chase a not-so-rapidly increasing number of engineers, means that Indian employers are having to take drastic steps to -- gasp -- educate people, including even the poor, in order alleviate the labor shortage and to contain costs. So there's a natural entropy at work that will eventually make its way to even the farthest corners of India.
They're asking for credit card, like a typical p0rn site. Forget this. If they want me to try it out for free, they can nix the credit card requirement.
Heh, liked that site, and some of the follow-up links posted in here. It would be interesting to discuss just how complicated a game/app one can make using this multi-user web app approach.
I've read that these "wisdom of crowds" apps tend to fall into chaos unless rigidly structured. I wonder how one could structure an app to get the most productive effect out of it, rather than the frustrating chaos that was the case in the "stealing letters" game, and even in the multi-user sketchpad app. In the sketchpad, for instance, there was one talented guy who was drawing amazing stuff, but other dopes were messing up his work.
Hivemind Vector Drawing? Hivemind CAD?
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What if this Hivemind approach could be applied to drawing a vector image. Or even CAD, for building a house/car/spaceship?
Suppose a webpage could feature a large vector-drawing canvas, sort of like a simplified version of Adobe Illustrate or the Macromedia Flash editor. Perhaps it could be built using AJAX.
Start off with a blank canvas, and allow a visitor to lay down a single vectorized stroke. Then see what everyone's strokes all add up to.
This 'wisdom of crowds' idea is pretty intriguing. Anyone have any links to other webpages based on this idea? Anyone have any ideas for what might make for a good webpage project based on this idea?
Hmm, well, if the coupling is superior due to volumetric interaction, then conceivably you'd be able to operate the microwave magnetron at lower power as compared to the heating coil. Wouldn't lower power be more efficient? Or is efficiency irrelevant here, as any losses are in the form of heat anyway?
I'd also assume that more vapor bubbles would be formed on a heating surface, which would also impede convective heat transfer. I've read that microwave ovens can elevate water temperature with less occurrence of phase change as compared to boiling on a stovetop. Aren't there safety advisories about handling water that you've just heated in a microwave oven, because it can be in a superheated state and literally blow up on you when disturbed by your handling?
Well, I can see that microwaves will act on a volume of water, as compared to surface contact with a heating coil. Actually, what if you had a long length of pipe and had the magnetron positioned at one end, shooting upstream as the water moved past it? Theoretically, those microwaves could heat the water travelling down the entire length of the pipe span. Would this be more efficient than a helicon-style microwave coil? It would allow for more duration of microwave-on-water contact, don't you think?
So what if energy was wasted by the Microwave magnetron in making microwaves? That wasted energy would be heat, and of course it would be dumped into the water. The microwave magnetron is itself immersed in the water stream. Check the diagram in that Electro-silica article I posted below.
Alright, fair enough, now that you mention it, I had once heard something like that before, but using a piece of paper torn into 2 portions with each kept in separate envelopes. Mail them off to different places, and opening one will tell you how much paper is inside the other. Alright.
Fine, but you can't make a computer out of that. I thought entanglement means that you need some dynamic transmission going on between things. What good's a computer if it's not dynamic?
I still find the mysteries of the Quantum Vacuum to be more exciting.
AJAX is Open-Source Lotus Notes?
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So aren't the main attractions to Ajax that it has Lotus Notes type of functionality, but without that pricetag?
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Wow, thanks for that guys, I never really considered that. Okay, but the original Moore's Law is based mainly on the ability of manufacturing/engineering to come up with the transistor density doubling every year, rather than being driven by market demand. So then suppose industry is able to keep doubling the number of qubit ion components every year? Then we get some kind of exponential curve for performance improvement? Does this mean all that Kurzweil singularity stuff can happen due to the exponential acceleration provided by Moore's Qubit Law?
Will there be a Moore's Law for the quantum components (ie. the ions)?
Suppose we start off with 8 qubits, then how long will it take us before we get to 16, and then 32, etc?
How many qubits would you have to get upto, in order for a quantum microchip to catch on for mainstream business and consumer applications?
Even before getting to any goal of practical power generation, the most important thing in a scientific investigation is to structure it to avoid doubts -- meaning either proving or disproving it completely. There's no dishonour in disproving it, if it helps to clarify what the remaining fusion possibilities are. Dr Taleyarkhan should have specifically monitored the neutron outputs to see if they had any cyclicality that coincided with the bubble oscillation cycle. If you get neutron spikes when the bubbles implode, then that's a very helpful sign consistent with acoustic fusion occurring. Why a big scientist like him didn't do such an obvious thing worries me. But the article says that Putterman et all will be working to duplicate his experiments. Duplication is really the essential thing for proving something. After all, if it only works when Taleyarkhan does it, but not for anybody else, then you know something's wrong.
The article says that the intense magnetic field of the Z-pinch machine might be able to test the theory on whether these gravitophotons can be generated from split-up virtual electron pairs. If this gravitional force were to be observed under the extreme magnetic field of the Z-pinch, then it would be consistent with the Heim theory's claims. Somehow this reminds me of Hawking's radiation. Hawking said that the virtual photon pairs from Heisenberg's could be split up by the powerful gravity of a black hole's event horizon. So isn't this latest paper on Heim's theory then stating something analogous to that, only using extreme electromagnetism to split the virtual gravitophotons instead of using the extreme gravity to split the virtual photons? Could we say that "Heim Gravity" is a counterpart/cousin to Hawking radiation? Comments?
Actually, I didn't see anything mentioned in the article on what resolution this thing offers. What does it offer? SVGA? In today's age, we need something that supports HDTV. Is that totally out of the question on a wearable viewer like this?
Why didn't they call it the iBud? Doesn't that fit with the nomenclature more? Or did some marketing type not see what was plainly in front of their i's? Anyway, interfaces like this -- however good/bad this particular model is -- are the future way to go. iPiece? iLash? iPatch? Actually, an iPatch could look kinduv cool, in a Pirate sort of way. Pirates in the Slashdot crowd? Nah, perish the thought.
Sounds more fun than DanceDanceRevolution. Maybe it'll become a hit for weight-loss programs.
I just read this one: http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=95437 So if everybody else is getting the favors, then why can't India?
I read some article posted by a man whose son is serving over in Iraq. The guy posted that the Iraq insurgents are using laptops with Google Earth and GPS to coordinate their attacks. He says that Google Earth is one of their main tools for doing this. Google Earth may be making money, but it could be at the cost of people's lives. The fact is that it facilitates this kind of activity, making it much more convenient than other methods.
You said: "They should not be limited to any greater extent than to prevent one's activities from infringing on the rights of others." And that's where the ebbing and flowing should come in. That is to say, in a period where some new change/innovation has occurred to change the lines where some can infringe upon the freedoms of others -- say, the invention of plastic explosives, or the emergence of radioactive dirty bombs -- then the market has to be able to change its parameters to cope with the new development. Because those who seek to destroy security are indeed destroying the freedom of others. If that weren't the case, then we'd all yawn and keep on snoring, and security would never be an issue. But since security is part of freedom, then fundamental compromises on security represent fundamental compromises on freedom.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said freedom of speech doesn't extend to shouting "fire!" in a crowded theatre. It's a practical example of limiting freedom of speech. Any freedom, when pursued to the maximum extent of the human imagination, can be transformed into an harassment or infringement upon someone else's freedom or well-being. Absolute freedom of worship shouldn't translate into absolute freedom of action. If someone said it was within their religious values to disobey certain existing laws of their land of residence, then I think the state has a right to engage in pre-emptive monitoring, in order to intercept their action rather than merely dealing with it after the fact. Suppose I am a known member of a doomsday cult known for its desire to go out with a bang on New Year's Eve of 2006. The state should have a right to monitor me without fear of liability. My invoking religious freedom and allegations of persecution over my choice of belief system should not obtain automatic credibility. The right to be heard does not translate into a right to be believed. The idea of a "right to be believed" then itself impinges on the concept of 'marketplace of ideas'. The right to be heard should not automatically translate into a right to block traffic, or to make nuisance to others. The right to be heard on this site does not extend to a right for me to spam this site, for example.
Many real-world phenomena, such as our economy, are dynamic and even cyclical in their nature. Consequently, you'll see an agency under an activist leadership, like the Federal Reserve for example, tighten or loosen its policies in synch with the behavior of the economy. Why shouldn't our restrictions on freedom also wax and wane in natural rhythm, not unlike the way economic policy does? We can use macro-level indicators on crime for instance, to then set the tightness or looseness of our laws affecting crime. In nature, sexual reproduction has in most cases come into dominance over asexual cloning type reproduction because sexual reproduction 'scrambles the locks' so to speak, by varying the genome to help make it harder for viruses to adapt, and to promote the diversity useful for natural selection to occur. Likewise, if our laws and freedoms are absolute and unchanging, then the criminal elements will adapt (and already have) to those laws and to any deficiencies and loopholes in them, to take advantage. But if freedoms tighten and loosen cyclically, just like economic policy, it could become harder for people to take advantage of the laws. If economic policy is not ossified into the constitution but left to periodic re-evaluation, then why can't our rights and freedoms be subject to periodic review and change without extreme difficulty?
Sounds awful. I wonder how the seals feel about it? Anyway, if the Polar Bears can't find food the regular way, they may have to adapt by moving southward, which will bring them into contact with more people. Come to think of it, why didn't they just do that before?
My understanding is that bullets quickly lose velocity due to air resistance, and that while conically-shaped hyper-velocity bullets are on the drawing boards, there are still various issues about stability in flight/transit.
Here's the next NYT article following that Mile by Mile article from the other day: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/05/international/as ia/05highway.html
Here's the accompanying audio slideshow:
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2005/12/05/i nternational/20051205_HIGHWAY_FEATURE.html
I think that open markets will eventually break down any elite entrenched interests in the face of natural market competition. Just like the rural outsourcing program in the US, likewise that's even starting to happen in India. Although a $25K salary might seem a low price for a US employer to pay for an Indian engineer, it's very high for an employer in Bangalore to be paying. The rampant cycle of wage-inflation as a rapidly increasing number of jobs chase a not-so-rapidly increasing number of engineers, means that Indian employers are having to take drastic steps to -- gasp -- educate people, including even the poor, in order alleviate the labor shortage and to contain costs. So there's a natural entropy at work that will eventually make its way to even the farthest corners of India.
They're asking for credit card, like a typical p0rn site. Forget this. If they want me to try it out for free, they can nix the credit card requirement.
Heh, liked that site, and some of the follow-up links posted in here. It would be interesting to discuss just how complicated a game/app one can make using this multi-user web app approach. I've read that these "wisdom of crowds" apps tend to fall into chaos unless rigidly structured. I wonder how one could structure an app to get the most productive effect out of it, rather than the frustrating chaos that was the case in the "stealing letters" game, and even in the multi-user sketchpad app. In the sketchpad, for instance, there was one talented guy who was drawing amazing stuff, but other dopes were messing up his work.
What if this Hivemind approach could be applied to drawing a vector image. Or even CAD, for building a house/car/spaceship? Suppose a webpage could feature a large vector-drawing canvas, sort of like a simplified version of Adobe Illustrate or the Macromedia Flash editor. Perhaps it could be built using AJAX. Start off with a blank canvas, and allow a visitor to lay down a single vectorized stroke. Then see what everyone's strokes all add up to. This 'wisdom of crowds' idea is pretty intriguing. Anyone have any links to other webpages based on this idea? Anyone have any ideas for what might make for a good webpage project based on this idea?
Hmm, well, if the coupling is superior due to volumetric interaction, then conceivably you'd be able to operate the microwave magnetron at lower power as compared to the heating coil. Wouldn't lower power be more efficient? Or is efficiency irrelevant here, as any losses are in the form of heat anyway? I'd also assume that more vapor bubbles would be formed on a heating surface, which would also impede convective heat transfer. I've read that microwave ovens can elevate water temperature with less occurrence of phase change as compared to boiling on a stovetop. Aren't there safety advisories about handling water that you've just heated in a microwave oven, because it can be in a superheated state and literally blow up on you when disturbed by your handling?
Well, I can see that microwaves will act on a volume of water, as compared to surface contact with a heating coil. Actually, what if you had a long length of pipe and had the magnetron positioned at one end, shooting upstream as the water moved past it? Theoretically, those microwaves could heat the water travelling down the entire length of the pipe span. Would this be more efficient than a helicon-style microwave coil? It would allow for more duration of microwave-on-water contact, don't you think?
So what if energy was wasted by the Microwave magnetron in making microwaves? That wasted energy would be heat, and of course it would be dumped into the water. The microwave magnetron is itself immersed in the water stream. Check the diagram in that Electro-silica article I posted below.
Apparently, a similar competing microwave water-heating device is being offered by Electro-Silica: http://www.pmengineer.com/CDA/ArticleInformation/f eatures/BNP__Features__Item/0,2732,96706,00.html
Alright, fair enough, now that you mention it, I had once heard something like that before, but using a piece of paper torn into 2 portions with each kept in separate envelopes. Mail them off to different places, and opening one will tell you how much paper is inside the other. Alright. Fine, but you can't make a computer out of that. I thought entanglement means that you need some dynamic transmission going on between things. What good's a computer if it's not dynamic? I still find the mysteries of the Quantum Vacuum to be more exciting.
So aren't the main attractions to Ajax that it has Lotus Notes type of functionality, but without that pricetag?