I wish him all the best, and hope he can still make more great contributions to theoretical physics.
He is an example for us all.
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Is it just me that noticed that he wouldn't be breaking the speed of sound at all? At such high altitudes the atmosphere is thinner, where the real speed of sound is faster than the ground speed (e.g. faster than 340ms, and almost certainly faster than he can travel at).
Correct me if I'm wrong (which I know of course you will)
Hahah, oh dear I misread the summary, this is about iPod microprocessors not iPhone microprocessors... excuse me I am quite drunk:P I will see you all in another life, when we are all cats!
Excuse me if I'm wrong, but would this not be more specifically a mobile microprocessor supercomputer than an iPhone supercomputer? I mean, its not as if only the iPhone uses mobile processors.
Hate to be an adjective nazi, but it wouldn't end xenophobia at all, since xenophobia is defined as the fear of aliens (where aliens are anything alien to a society) - it would however end racism!
What if the balloon pops? Isn't that a lot of incredibly expensive equipment thats going to go tumbling down? I can just see that advertisements of pranksters now...
Classified Ad: Looking to charter a private airplane flight and hire a professional marksman
Does anyone else find it ironic it that he most likely wrote this on a word processor or type writer, rather than the good old fashioned 'un-mechanised' way 'by hand' that he appears to be purporting as the correct method.
So how long do you think it will be before an inebriated collection of soccer-moms bands together and attacks Nintendo of America for trying to sell these consoles complete with "porn-access" (a.k.a. an internet connection) to their kids...
This can really only be seen as a good thing - although we may have to relearn large parts of HTML (or XHTML), it is a relatively simple language and the tradeoffs in browser compatability and interoperability we can get would be staggering, no more pages that are designed to work just in IE, and we could be sure that a web page would look the same in all modern browsers - no more testing them individually and tweaking code until it looks "acceptable" in all of them.
Is is quite possible that this new standard could also decrease the bandwidth required by the HTTP protocol throughout the internet's 'pipes', which gives us more space for those darned torrents!
While I don't believe that iPhones themselves are MP3 player killers, I definitely think the day of all these devices are numbered. It seems logical that a convergence device will eventually emerge which can perform the functions of a phone, mp3 player, PDA, WiFi internet device and goodness knows what (GPS maybe?) The length of time is something I wouldn't bet on, whether its measured in years or decades.
Oddly enough, it IS an internet startup, but it's still going strong today! It's the second most popular social networking site in the UK and ranks above the likes of IMDB, Microsoft, MSN and EBay.
That is very odd indeed. I'm afraid I can't cite my sources as memory has recently gone to pot:s but I have heard it from teachers themselves, the headteacher of my school, and seen advertisements in papers guaranteeing relatively high salaries straight out of university.
In Scotland at least (I can't speak for the rest of the UK) teaching still is a well paying and respected profession, I believe they are the 5th highest paid in the world, but they are required to have had at least 3 years of Higher education (e.g. university) to be a teacher in their chosen subject.
We are in a similar situation across the pond in the UK. There is a great shortage of a physics and chemistry teachers and the government is providing payment incentives to encourage graduates to take on the role of teaching... And why not? There is a shortage of an important commodity, and the market is willing to pay more for it. Those teacher unions should shut their traps!
What a total blunder. This "last line of defence" anti-biotics are not used in medicine for the very same reason they should NOT be used in these cattle: if we use them on any large scale before we need them then the bacteria will become resistant to one of our last defences against that particular bacterium strain. If there was a mass epidemic for one reason or the other before the resistant strain was prevalent, we could have used our back up antibiotic to effectively contain it - but if this goes through we lose that last line of defence as the antibiotic would most likely be useless against this new resistant bacteria.
His vindication is all well and good, but does it mean that their may still be some merit in pursueing his research further, now that it has been established that it wasn't fake?
"planning a definitive test with the future launch of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland that could disprove the current theory."
From the wording in the article it sounds like they actually want string theory to fail, despite the fact that we have few alternatives so far.
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What on Earth would make you say that? I see no similarities between this experiment and the Michelson-Morley experiment.
I wish him all the best, and hope he can still make more great contributions to theoretical physics. He is an example for us all.
Is it just me that noticed that he wouldn't be breaking the speed of sound at all? At such high altitudes the atmosphere is thinner, where the real speed of sound is faster than the ground speed (e.g. faster than 340ms, and almost certainly faster than he can travel at). Correct me if I'm wrong (which I know of course you will)
Hahah, oh dear I misread the summary, this is about iPod microprocessors not iPhone microprocessors... excuse me I am quite drunk :P I will see you all in another life, when we are all cats!
Excuse me if I'm wrong, but would this not be more specifically a mobile microprocessor supercomputer than an iPhone supercomputer? I mean, its not as if only the iPhone uses mobile processors.
No.
Robot Composed of "Catoms" Can Assume Any Form Composed of "Catoms" Can "Catoms" Cat ... Mrowl :3
Hate to be an adjective nazi, but it wouldn't end xenophobia at all, since xenophobia is defined as the fear of aliens (where aliens are anything alien to a society) - it would however end racism!
Heh heh, since your so high up why not be green and use the power of the sun? *runs off to buy magnifying glass*
What if the balloon pops? Isn't that a lot of incredibly expensive equipment thats going to go tumbling down? I can just see that advertisements of pranksters now... Classified Ad: Looking to charter a private airplane flight and hire a professional marksman
Cue the Nazi Analogies in three...
two...
one...
Does anyone else find it ironic it that he most likely wrote this on a word processor or type writer, rather than the good old fashioned 'un-mechanised' way 'by hand' that he appears to be purporting as the correct method.
Huh, imagine that, people actually wanting to own what they buy? :)
So how long do you think it will be before an inebriated collection of soccer-moms bands together and attacks Nintendo of America for trying to sell these consoles complete with "porn-access" (a.k.a. an internet connection) to their kids...
This can really only be seen as a good thing - although we may have to relearn large parts of HTML (or XHTML), it is a relatively simple language and the tradeoffs in browser compatability and interoperability we can get would be staggering, no more pages that are designed to work just in IE, and we could be sure that a web page would look the same in all modern browsers - no more testing them individually and tweaking code until it looks "acceptable" in all of them. Is is quite possible that this new standard could also decrease the bandwidth required by the HTTP protocol throughout the internet's 'pipes', which gives us more space for those darned torrents!
While I don't believe that iPhones themselves are MP3 player killers, I definitely think the day of all these devices are numbered. It seems logical that a convergence device will eventually emerge which can perform the functions of a phone, mp3 player, PDA, WiFi internet device and goodness knows what (GPS maybe?) The length of time is something I wouldn't bet on, whether its measured in years or decades.
Is it just me or is this a bit like having a sign saying "Trespassers will be shot" on the INSIDE of your house?
Oddly enough, it IS an internet startup, but it's still going strong today! It's the second most popular social networking site in the UK and ranks above the likes of IMDB, Microsoft, MSN and EBay.
That is very odd indeed. I'm afraid I can't cite my sources as memory has recently gone to pot :s but I have heard it from teachers themselves, the headteacher of my school, and seen advertisements in papers guaranteeing relatively high salaries straight out of university.
In Scotland at least (I can't speak for the rest of the UK) teaching still is a well paying and respected profession, I believe they are the 5th highest paid in the world, but they are required to have had at least 3 years of Higher education (e.g. university) to be a teacher in their chosen subject.
We are in a similar situation across the pond in the UK. There is a great shortage of a physics and chemistry teachers and the government is providing payment incentives to encourage graduates to take on the role of teaching... And why not? There is a shortage of an important commodity, and the market is willing to pay more for it. Those teacher unions should shut their traps!
What a total blunder. This "last line of defence" anti-biotics are not used in medicine for the very same reason they should NOT be used in these cattle: if we use them on any large scale before we need them then the bacteria will become resistant to one of our last defences against that particular bacterium strain. If there was a mass epidemic for one reason or the other before the resistant strain was prevalent, we could have used our back up antibiotic to effectively contain it - but if this goes through we lose that last line of defence as the antibiotic would most likely be useless against this new resistant bacteria.
In Nuclear Iran, continent destabilise you! and sorry for my lack of self control ;)
His vindication is all well and good, but does it mean that their may still be some merit in pursueing his research further, now that it has been established that it wasn't fake?
"planning a definitive test with the future launch of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland that could disprove the current theory." From the wording in the article it sounds like they actually want string theory to fail, despite the fact that we have few alternatives so far.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but after reading the summary, do I see the contradiction they claimn that the synthetic compound they invented is "natural"?