It's useful to remember that this is not the Supreme Court of 20-30 years ago. This is the Supreme Court of Citizens United. This is the Roberts Supreme Court. The number of decisions the present court has made that are injurious (as it were) to most of the American population is now adding up and I suspect that Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, et. al. are going to earn a very different place in history books than their predecessors.
It's interesting that the Tevatron is still producing scientific results even though the particle accelerator was shutdown Sept 30 of 2011. And that's because there's still a massive quantity of undigested data from the experiments that stopped running at that time.
If one reads about the LHC, one sees the same phenomenon. Which proposes that one of the things that could kick particle physics (and many other areas) forward the fastest is better software. Or maybe that's already obvious to everyone else?
"as long as you bring no harm to another". Which would imply that harming yourself, as part of whatever you want to try, is OK. I mean, "I'm going to bear the responsibilities - right?"
Umm, I've always had a problem with this. It assumes an atomized social existence. My assumption is that when someone harms him or her self, they usually harming someone else as well.
If you're a husband and a father and you kill yourself in a car crash (let's say because you were drunk) you haven't harmed the family the depends on you?
Whatever happened to:
"Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee."
So let me see - in the current dispensation we want to believe simultaneously that a) we're socially atomic and b) all beings on the planet are connected by a web of life and if you touch it at any point there's a ripple effect that spreads outwards.
Also look up some less well-known names like Allengheny Technologies. You're trafficking in the usual truisms about what the US economy has evolved into. The reality (which I don't pretend to have a full handle on) is much more complex.
You may be aware of that business about how the US share of world manufacturing "value added" is still the highest and has in fact been quite stable since WWII.
As a start, for the US data alone, I found it, of all places, at http://www.census.gov/mcd/. I'm still trying to make sense of it all, but one thing I think I've determined is that the largest industry in the US in terms of 'value added' is... Chemicals.
The industry classifications to be found in the Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) are an international standard and so those are comparable.
The thing that makes me most uncomfortable is exchange rates. But recently, I've developed the theory that while PPP is all the rage, it, in fact, applies only to domestic economies and that Nominal values are in fact the best current way to measure international trade. And therefore, in some sense, comparative advantage.
Another problem is that the theory is still new and doesn't have an quantitative predictions as of yet... there's a lot of math that needs to be done, and it's not clear that such calculation *can* be done given the contraints of his theory. At issue is something known as the "Coleman-Mandula" theorem, which basically says a lot of what Lisi does in his theory doesn't work if there are subgroups in the algenbra that are equivalent to what are known as Poincare groups. Lisi says this doesn't apply to his new theory because it posits that the vacuum of spacetime doesn't have Poincare symmetry but instead is deSitter space. Well, the idea of deSitter space is well-known and has been examined in theoretical physics for decades as well, but there are a lot of problems with it. One is that the "Smatrix", which physicists love so much in making calculations in theories with Poincare symmetries, no longer works and simply becomes an approximation. Um wait a minute. Both here on Slashdot as well as over at the 'original' telegraph.co.uk article, a very important point is that Lisi's theory does makes predictions. For paticles within the energy range that the LHC will open up.
So I suppose what you're trying to say is that yet more mathematics (and mathematics given to well-known pitfalls) will need to intervene between tying together Lisi's theory and any observations that result from LHC experiments?
If so, then elaborate.
Of course the possibility that string theory can make any predictions appears to be way in the future (if ever). Unless either some very 'indirect' method appears or we're able to see spacetime at the Planck scale. Which, in orders of magnitude stands to the atom to about the degree that the atom stands to ourselves (that is, the scale of a human body).
These were the guys who discovered the effect. And I suppose they deserve Nobel prizes of it.
But it was IBM's Almaden Research Lab - and a lot of blood, sweat, toil and materials science - that turned GMR into a commercial reality.
And then, some yrs later, IBM turned around and sold its whole disk drive division to Hitachi.
But I imagine they did so with something more than a gleam in their eye. And I doubt that gleam was flash memory.
Disk drives have become another brutal low/no margin business. In fact they've been that way for a long time. You can come up with something new like Toshiba's first 1" drive that made the first iPods possible. But even those drives commanded a premium for some finite period of time.
It's history maybe quite a few people don't know, but IBM invented RAM (aka DRAM). Randomly accessible memory. Prior to that, you actually had to sequentially read your way through main memory to find what you wanted. Something in the way tape drives used to work, and possibly still work (don't spend a lot of time keeping up on tape drive technology).
And it (RAM) cost (I think) something like $1 bln in 1970 dollars.
Slashdot Mirror
So just who the heck is Informational Security? http://muse.jhu.edu/about/cont...
So they're at John Hopkins? And what would be their motivations?
When considering something like this report, it's useful to understand its provenance. Esp on such a politically-charged issue.
Of course, with all the cash it has Google may simply be paying to retire a competitor from the field.
> can't be made in/sold to/bought from other countries
That's what the Economic Complexity Index is about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_complexity_index
It's useful to remember that this is not the Supreme Court of 20-30 years ago. This is the Supreme Court of Citizens United. This is the Roberts Supreme Court. The number of decisions the present court has made that are injurious (as it were) to most of the American population is now adding up and I suspect that Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, et. al. are going to earn a very different place in history books than their predecessors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberts_Court
Upon learning of this, I thought it a clever idea for a next step in addressing the heat issue - at the level of rack servers; data centers; etc.
http://www.seamicro.com/
Not your One Ring that Rules Them All but some problems (most) need to be attacked in pieces.
It's interesting that the Tevatron is still producing scientific results even though the particle accelerator was shutdown Sept 30 of 2011. And that's because there's still a massive quantity of undigested data from the experiments that stopped running at that time.
If one reads about the LHC, one sees the same phenomenon. Which proposes that one of the things that could kick particle physics (and many other areas) forward the fastest is better software. Or maybe that's already obvious to everyone else?
Daniel Bell (a sociologist) coined the term 'post-industrial'. And in this book on that subject:
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Post-Industrial-Society-Venture-Forecasting/dp/0465097138/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2
he made the assertion that post-industrial society would need a worldwide network to connect individuals and organizations.
The book was first published in 1976.
Horizontal drilling isn't fracking. You frack frist to break rock which then allows horizontal drilling.
And of course the environmental impact of fracking is increasingly being called into question.
I think Ellison approves of Hurd's core values.
Allen was diagnosed last year with a non-Hodgkin lymphoma. This is about Microsoft but it may also be about Alllen's 'legacy'.
"as long as you bring no harm to another". Which would imply that harming yourself, as part of whatever you want to try, is OK. I mean, "I'm going to bear the responsibilities - right?"
Umm, I've always had a problem with this. It assumes an atomized social existence. My assumption is that when someone harms him or her self, they usually harming someone else as well.
If you're a husband and a father and you kill yourself in a car crash (let's say because you were drunk) you haven't harmed the family the depends on you?
Whatever happened to:
"Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee."
So let me see - in the current dispensation we want to believe simultaneously that a) we're socially atomic and b) all beings on the planet are connected by a web of life and if you touch it at any point there's a ripple effect that spreads outwards.
Also look up some less well-known names like Allengheny Technologies. You're trafficking in the usual truisms about what the US economy has evolved into. The reality (which I don't pretend to have a full handle on) is much more complex.
... Chemicals.
You may be aware of that business about how the US share of world manufacturing "value added" is still the highest and has in fact been quite stable since WWII.
As a start, for the US data alone, I found it, of all places, at http://www.census.gov/mcd/. I'm still trying to make sense of it all, but one thing I think I've determined is that the largest industry in the US in terms of 'value added' is
The industry classifications to be found in the Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) are an international standard and so those are comparable.
The thing that makes me most uncomfortable is exchange rates. But recently, I've developed the theory that while PPP is all the rage, it, in fact, applies only to domestic economies and that Nominal values are in fact the best current way to measure international trade. And therefore, in some sense, comparative advantage.
So I suppose what you're trying to say is that yet more mathematics (and mathematics given to well-known pitfalls) will need to intervene between tying together Lisi's theory and any observations that result from LHC experiments?
If so, then elaborate.
Of course the possibility that string theory can make any predictions appears to be way in the future (if ever). Unless either some very 'indirect' method appears or we're able to see spacetime at the Planck scale. Which, in orders of magnitude stands to the atom to about the degree that the atom stands to ourselves (that is, the scale of a human body).
These were the guys who discovered the effect. And I suppose they deserve Nobel prizes of it.
But it was IBM's Almaden Research Lab - and a lot of blood, sweat, toil and materials science - that turned GMR into a commercial reality.
And then, some yrs later, IBM turned around and sold its whole disk drive division to Hitachi.
But I imagine they did so with something more than a gleam in their eye. And I doubt that gleam was flash memory.
Disk drives have become another brutal low/no margin business. In fact they've been that way for a long time. You can come up with something new like Toshiba's first 1" drive that made the first iPods possible. But even those drives commanded a premium for some finite period of time.
It's history maybe quite a few people don't know, but IBM invented RAM (aka DRAM). Randomly accessible memory. Prior to that, you actually had to sequentially read your way through main memory to find what you wanted. Something in the way tape drives used to work, and possibly still work (don't spend a lot of time keeping up on tape drive technology).
And it (RAM) cost (I think) something like $1 bln in 1970 dollars.