I recommend Asha for Education: http://www.ashanet.org/ They have 0% overhead on donations (overhead comes from volunteer donations). This means that you know your donations will not be going to pay some administrator's salary. They directly support schools and other education projects in India. I think education is the best way to make a lasting change. "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime"
And you sir are a bigger troll. The paper I cited was not the original paper, but rather a follow up that puts the memristor in a better context. If you allow for various combinations of the derivatives and integrals of just current and voltage you can get a capacitor, resistor, inductor, and memristor. However you can also get the memductor and memacitor as well. This is all explained in that paper.
Why are combinations of voltage, current, charge and flux fundamental?
According to Websters fundamental is: "a: serving as an original or generating source : primary (a discovery fundamental to modern computers) b: serving as a basis supporting existence or determining essential structure or function : basic"
The memristor is is just a way to model nonlinear circuit elements and is one of many components in a nonlinear expansion for circuit modeling. See this paper by Leon Chua, the memristor's inventor. Note that in this paper the fourth element of the four element torus is negative resistance and not the memristor. All of the publicity over the memristor has been (sucessfull) marketing by some researchers at HP..
"Resistance, Capacitance and Inductance are regarded as fundamental because to each there corresponds a different picture of what is going on with the energy. Resistance refers to the loss of energy to Joule heating. Capacitance refers to storage of energy in the electric field. Inductance refers to storage of energy in the magnetic field.
If memristance is the "fourth fundamental" circuit element then memristors must do something with the energy they are imparted other than turn it into heat, or store it in electric or magnetic fields. So what do memristor supporters have to say about this? nothing. This is not surprising, since the concept of memristance stems from a purely mathematical argument bent on taming the current/voltage relationships of nonlinear circuit elements. The concept of memristance was invented out of convenience to avoid dealing with frequency-dependent (time-dependent) resistance, inductance, and capacitance. Thus the memeristor is not "fundamental", unless in your book fundamental is synonymous with convenient."
If you read the journal articles http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2006.10.002 you'll find that this process esentially creates a large number of impurity states at the center of the band gap, creating an impurity band. What this means is that light is absorbed very very fast, but then its also turned to to heat very very fast. In other words you can excite electrons but that electron will decay back down before it creates any current. This could still work for a photodetector because you can apply a voltage to sweep out the excited carriers before they recombine/decay but not for a solar cell since you want to generate power.
It seems like the data is still there and the only reason they can't get to it is liscensing/ disagreements between companies... at this point I'd sue everyone until they're forced to cooperate and hand over the data
If Apple gets away with this and doesn't suffer a backlash from its customers then other companies might follow suit. Microsoft bans people with hacked XBOX's from playing online, but at least they don't brick the system. What if Microsoft, Sony or even Nintendo were to follow suit with their game systems?
It wont work because once you attempt to introduce your entangled electron to the atom you're going to break the entanglement. Since you're applying an external influence to that electron only, it's state will change but the other electron will remain unaffected.
As long as the truth is not known, microsoft can keep on threatening. If microsoft does prove some sort of infingement then they have to sue or else they will loose their threat as linux is changed. As such microsoft would never reply to it.
Thats true, but following the same analogy, couldn't the modem be replaced? I assume that its communicating through some wireless protocol and if another probe were to mimic that protocol, communications could be restored. However, I doubt that another probe has the same capabilites, in which case Sojourner would be useless.
If the rover is still functioning can it be used to take more measurements? Would there even be a point, or has the rover been made obselete by the newer ones?
I registered to vote, but then when I looked at the ballot I flustered by all the postions for which I new nothing about. Between classes I had maybe half an hour to try to research the positions and I could not find a consolidated unbiased source of information. As such I gave up in defeat and rationalized it by saying all the major races in my state are aldready determined anyways.
I realized that I've voted for officers in many student organizations on campus, and I have been a hundred time more confident about those then I have been about actual elections that matter. In most cases I based my judement of a short speech and a printed bio, yet even this paltry information is more than what I have for state elections. As such I propose creating a simple database in which each candidate can submit both a short (maybe 100 words) and a long article (perhaps a 1000 words) describing why we should vote for them. Granted these articles will be ridiculously biased, but they will be biased both ways and voters will at least have somethign to coompare. Of course it would be helpful if this was a government backed initiative and there was a mass effort to inform voters that such a database exists. As I was reading in other posts there are some sites, like the league of women voters that provide a good summary, but I did not know about this before the election and of course there is no way to know what sort of biases may be in these summaries.
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When will the publishers agree to a Netflix like model?
Gotta love statistics
I recommend Asha for Education: http://www.ashanet.org/ They have 0% overhead on donations (overhead comes from volunteer donations). This means that you know your donations will not be going to pay some administrator's salary. They directly support schools and other education projects in India. I think education is the best way to make a lasting change. "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime"
And you sir are a bigger troll. The paper I cited was not the original paper, but rather a follow up that puts the memristor in a better context. If you allow for various combinations of the derivatives and integrals of just current and voltage you can get a capacitor, resistor, inductor, and memristor. However you can also get the memductor and memacitor as well. This is all explained in that paper.
Why are combinations of voltage, current, charge and flux fundamental?
According to Websters fundamental is:
"a: serving as an original or generating source : primary (a discovery fundamental to modern computers) b: serving as a basis supporting existence or determining essential structure or function : basic"
The memristor is is just a way to model nonlinear circuit elements and is one of many components in a nonlinear expansion for circuit modeling. See this paper by Leon Chua, the memristor's inventor. Note that in this paper the fourth element of the four element torus is negative resistance and not the memristor. All of the publicity over the memristor has been (sucessfull) marketing by some researchers at HP. .
From the talk page for the memristor on wikipedia
"Resistance, Capacitance and Inductance are regarded as fundamental because to each there corresponds a different picture of what is going on with the energy. Resistance refers to the loss of energy to Joule heating. Capacitance refers to storage of energy in the electric field. Inductance refers to storage of energy in the magnetic field.
If memristance is the "fourth fundamental" circuit element then memristors must do something with the energy they are imparted other than turn it into heat, or store it in electric or magnetic fields. So what do memristor supporters have to say about this? nothing. This is not surprising, since the concept of memristance stems from a purely mathematical argument bent on taming the current/voltage relationships of nonlinear circuit elements. The concept of memristance was invented out of convenience to avoid dealing with frequency-dependent (time-dependent) resistance, inductance, and capacitance. Thus the memeristor is not "fundamental", unless in your book fundamental is synonymous with convenient."
If you read the journal articles http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2006.10.002 you'll find that this process esentially creates a large number of impurity states at the center of the band gap, creating an impurity band. What this means is that light is absorbed very very fast, but then its also turned to to heat very very fast. In other words you can excite electrons but that electron will decay back down before it creates any current. This could still work for a photodetector because you can apply a voltage to sweep out the excited carriers before they recombine/decay but not for a solar cell since you want to generate power.
It seems like the data is still there and the only reason they can't get to it is liscensing/ disagreements between companies... at this point I'd sue everyone until they're forced to cooperate and hand over the data
If Apple gets away with this and doesn't suffer a backlash from its customers then other companies might follow suit. Microsoft bans people with hacked XBOX's from playing online, but at least they don't brick the system. What if Microsoft, Sony or even Nintendo were to follow suit with their game systems?
Does this arrogant behavior remind you of any one else? (RIAA??!!)
They want to get enough supporters to maintain a viable linux distro under the old license
It wont work because once you attempt to introduce your entangled electron to the atom you're going to break the entanglement. Since you're applying an external influence to that electron only, it's state will change but the other electron will remain unaffected.
Make sure they're actually a spammer before you start calling and not just a company that someone has a grudge against
Its called, would you like to call the police and have them verify the ID?
What would your reaction be if google started handing over IP addresses in China? Remind you a certain reporter and Yahoo?
As long as the truth is not known, microsoft can keep on threatening. If microsoft does prove some sort of infingement then they have to sue or else they will loose their threat as linux is changed. As such microsoft would never reply to it.
I wonder how long before they have to change the phone numbers and emails listed in that letter?
Thats true, but following the same analogy, couldn't the modem be replaced? I assume that its communicating through some wireless protocol and if another probe were to mimic that protocol, communications could be restored. However, I doubt that another probe has the same capabilites, in which case Sojourner would be useless.
If the rover is still functioning can it be used to take more measurements? Would there even be a point, or has the rover been made obselete by the newer ones?
I registered to vote, but then when I looked at the ballot I flustered by all the postions for which I new nothing about. Between classes I had maybe half an hour to try to research the positions and I could not find a consolidated unbiased source of information. As such I gave up in defeat and rationalized it by saying all the major races in my state are aldready determined anyways. I realized that I've voted for officers in many student organizations on campus, and I have been a hundred time more confident about those then I have been about actual elections that matter. In most cases I based my judement of a short speech and a printed bio, yet even this paltry information is more than what I have for state elections. As such I propose creating a simple database in which each candidate can submit both a short (maybe 100 words) and a long article (perhaps a 1000 words) describing why we should vote for them. Granted these articles will be ridiculously biased, but they will be biased both ways and voters will at least have somethign to coompare. Of course it would be helpful if this was a government backed initiative and there was a mass effort to inform voters that such a database exists. As I was reading in other posts there are some sites, like the league of women voters that provide a good summary, but I did not know about this before the election and of course there is no way to know what sort of biases may be in these summaries.