Also sony are not the only ones. The DVD Mr and Mrs Smith we got from the library here in Vienna (1 Euro for 2 weeks..) had a warning on it not to use it on a pc because it installs a virus.
Its not just sony. Its all of them and sony just got caught.
but are talking about a large tube that new cable can be pulled through. Of course. The local government own quite big ones down the main street. The min size ones are pretty small IIRC, 3/4 inch or something...
I honestly thought thats what they were doing. At least in NZ and here thats what they do, why would the do anything else? The Problem is that the conduit is owned by the company and they charge a lot to let others use it.
I have come around on nuclear, and as a physicist's I always had a problem with the waste problem. But there are now solutions, they need developing but nothing to hard.
However there is still one huge barrier. Nuclear is still expensive. Its not clear that it will compete with say solar. However in northern Europe solar is not going to be too hot for the winter months.
So a nuclear co generation plant with waste heat being used for homes or something can really look nice on paper. But so far nuclear plants have got much more expensive than the paper equivalents.
You forget on/. Europe is a country. Well it seems that way, people in the US of A seem to forget that we are a lot of very very different countries.
Back OT: Unfortunately it is true for Austria. However contracts are so cheap and even prepay is really cheap anyway. 20Eu gets me by for 2+months and I'm calling/txting all the time.
Here in Austria we have similar prices to the USA. However by all accounts the bit torrent traffic is not throttled.
Unfortunately I cannot get connected because the previous tenant at my flat did not pay his bill. So they say they will connect us up once we pay the 500EU outstanding, but don't worry you get 300EU back when you return the modem and router! So wanky ISP is not just a USA thing.
I just brought a disk that won't play on my DVD player. The other day we got one from the library with a warning not to play it on a computer because it will install a virus (No it wasn't sony).
I find it particularly ironic with movies, since I almost never pay more than 10 Euros for a movie and mostly pay less than 5 Euro (less than a movie ticket). Why would i want a DVD shrink copy with all that effort of downloading when i can buy them for that. In other words, movies are cheap enough that buying from the shop is more convenient *until* they break compatibility like this.
Using a argument in a debate or discussion does not validate it, it raises the point. I make the assumption that we thinking here.
Jumping from secret illegal government interrogation methods to sweeping comments about my entire life and hard drive is dumb (although I don't really care about the HDD).
I'm afraid your wrong there when one considers large distances compared to the beam diameter. In this case lasers do follow the inverse square law. The diffraction limit means that it cannot be perfectly collimated. Once you are a few meters from the focus you can assume the wave fronts are spherically expanding (well for a Gaussian beam anyway) and hence must follow the inverse square law. However when considering short distance then yes they don't. But then neither do other light sources.
Please use paragraph breaks. This is very hard to read.
Also i did say that a group of cells will be more complex. Thats the point. We don't *even* understand basic cell regulation. We won't get anywhere fast with trail and error drug targets, and this is all we do really at this point (more or less).
You can't just say spend more money on labor and its more effective than spending it on expensive materials. Just saying does not make it true. Having a lot of bodies than then have no equipment to do experiments with is far from productive.
Also I think you may be confusing your own experience (if you have some, which I'm doubting) with what the whole industry is like.
Bear in mind that there are a lot of drugs from the 30's that would *not* pass current FDA trails due to there side effects. Drugs must be of a much higher quality than ever before. The Problem is we are no better at predicting what will work and what will the side effects be. Humans are not CPU's, we can't simulate then and "test" what happens when part of us doesn't work properly.
Much of the rest of the world enjoys drug prices far cheaper than what the same company charges in the US. Its called regulation. Also more and more countries are passing laws to tell companies to stick there patents where the sun don't shine if they are overcharging for there drugs. Don't forget companies use government money for a large bulk of there drug trials.
Yes, I may be dreaming, but if you want to, you can remain ignorant to the "noise". I intend to learn what I can from it and continue contributing results. And what results would they be?
There are more "data" collection laws here (Passports to check into hotels). But they can't sell the data to corporations and for the police to use the data they need a warrant. Personal data in the EU is protected by law in most member states and by the EU itself.
The odd thing with this law is this. What about trains? I recently visited Italy, Czech Republic, Hungry and Slovakia all on the train. I can get a train to any major city in the EU and most are within the overnight train distance from central Europe.
the structure of competition and cooperation in bio-research is somewhat different from other sciences, and it is a horrible system. I came from a atmospheric group that did some climate and weather modeling. I'm now in biomedical research. They are not different politically, they have the same problems and same politics. Its a condtion cause by the fact that funding is allocated by those who don't have a clue.
Also compare science funding to say the defense budget. You would be surprised what we really spend our money on.
And how does any of the above change the fundamental complexity of a single cell or a whole organism of 100's of different cell types. We simply don't have the tools (computers are still slow, my stuff runs for weeks on +100 nodes) and the theroy to efficiently deal with that yet.
Money doesn't make fundamental complexity problems go away. The more people railing about it usually just means more noise to ignore.
Its not that simple Is far worse than this. We are still a long way from understanding regulation even in a single cell. Working how 10^9 cells of different types interacts is even more difficult. Sure we are getting there but its going to take more than another 50 years or so to really get to grips with cell regulation.
So comparing a single cell to a CPU, is like comparing a 2 transistor radio to a modern CPU's. Living organisms are vastly more complex and you simply cannot ignore interactions with other cells and organisms. (aka HIV and immune response)
We havn't even begun to discuss the huge time frames it takes to drugs approved these days. Its (IIRC) 10 years of human trials which is after 10 years of animal trials. 20 years from discovery to a drug you can use. Or more.
Personally I think this Intel guy has let success get to his head. He clearly has no idea what hes talking about.
Excellent point. I can think of a lot of reasons to reduce CO2 and other emissions that are far better and more immediate that climate change.
Unfortunately its lost on a lot of people. Regardless what you believe the whole GW debate has got so... politically religious that a lot of people just don't want to know anymore. (note:/. is *not* a good reflection on what a lot of people think)
Fuel cells are about 70% total efficiency or more. Internal combustion engines are about 20-30%. Bigger co generation plants can get to 50%. At this point fuel cells that can compare to the robustness of normal engines are expensive. The rest are more or less at the research prototype level.
I think that they are already at that price point. Movies are made just for DVD because you *can* make a profit. That is copyright infringement is not a big deal in much of the western world compared to how many they sell.
But there is another angle that is often forgotten. Now perhaps we want to set up a company to make low price point DVD players? Well its not so bad, ASIC and FPGA allow some cheap low production volume options. You can even get mpeg decoder IP logic for low prices. But to get the license to be allowed some CSS/AAC keys, forget it. Its about controlling the hardware. You often have to join some group at a high price to be able to manufacture legal DVD/HDDVD/BluRay players. By joining you agree to make commercials unskipable and to respect the silly zone system etc.
Of course this does not yet work. I can buy zone free dvd players from Saturn here in Austria. Almost all players are zone free in NZ. Mod chipping is perfectly legal (you haven't stolen anything). Without the DMCA these "controls" don't work. My guess is that they want to get only hardware that can play the movies to be from 100% approved manufactures that will make it hard for joe blogs to get around zones and other dumb systems.
So in conclusion, I think they are from option b). They probably think that hardware manufactures should make money selling DVD players when its "there" content that people watch or something.
You can't change the laws of physics. Its the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Anything not in equilibrium (in this case Maxwellian velocity distribution) then is relaxes to this state. In this case it relaxes really fast. Electric fields change nothing. Magnetic fields change nothing.
But i went through other posts of yours. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. What is your academic background? Do you even have one?
I already know that you won't listen. Dam enough folk have said the same thing to you as i have. But you don't care, you have "faith" in your claims.
In God we trust. As for the rest of you, show me the data!
From the wiki article:
Commercial fusor devices can generate on the order of 109 neutrons per second
whos not reading the links?
As for the other comments. Where is the math? The charge density in the core can't be significantly far from equilibrium. There are a lot of electrons in there. Just saying they will fuse faster. Based on WHAT, oh yea a reference to his own paper that again just writes down a formula and asserts its correctness in this case. Other people in the field who have done the same math come up with a no go answer. If his math is correct we would get much larger yields from the pure fusor devices. The biggest loss in high energy plasmas is from Bremmstrahlung radiation from electrons, the ions thermalize via ion-electron collisions. Even Bussard claim that. Non equilibrium systems make it worse by having low energy electrons, and this pushes the probability of colliding with one up.
If on the other hand you have no electrons you can't get the plasma density to have any chance of useful fusion.
Oh I don't have my calculations handy, but i could dig them out. They are not publishable because its been published more than once or twice. But the cross sections of ion-electron collision are just too high. This is supported from experimental data.
I am a paid scientist. I don't need/. to approve of my qualifications now do I.
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Also sony are not the only ones. The DVD Mr and Mrs Smith we got from the library here in Vienna (1 Euro for 2 weeks..) had a warning on it not to use it on a pc because it installs a virus.
Its not just sony. Its all of them and sony just got caught.
I honestly thought thats what they were doing. At least in NZ and here thats what they do, why would the do anything else? The Problem is that the conduit is owned by the company and they charge a lot to let others use it.
I have come around on nuclear, and as a physicist's I always had a problem with the waste problem. But there are now solutions, they need developing but nothing to hard.
However there is still one huge barrier. Nuclear is still expensive. Its not clear that it will compete with say solar. However in northern Europe solar is not going to be too hot for the winter months.
So a nuclear co generation plant with waste heat being used for homes or something can really look nice on paper. But so far nuclear plants have got much more expensive than the paper equivalents.
You forget on /. Europe is a country. Well it seems that way, people in the US of A seem to forget that we are a lot of very very different countries.
Back OT:
Unfortunately it is true for Austria. However contracts are so cheap and even prepay is really cheap anyway. 20Eu gets me by for 2+months and I'm calling/txting all the time.
I'm green with envy.
Here in Austria we have similar prices to the USA. However by all accounts the bit torrent traffic is not throttled.
Unfortunately I cannot get connected because the previous tenant at my flat did not pay his bill. So they say they will connect us up once we pay the 500EU outstanding, but don't worry you get 300EU back when you return the modem and router! So wanky ISP is not just a USA thing.
I just brought a disk that won't play on my DVD player. The other day we got one from the library with a warning not to play it on a computer because it will install a virus (No it wasn't sony). I find it particularly ironic with movies, since I almost never pay more than 10 Euros for a movie and mostly pay less than 5 Euro (less than a movie ticket). Why would i want a DVD shrink copy with all that effort of downloading when i can buy them for that. In other words, movies are cheap enough that buying from the shop is more convenient *until* they break compatibility like this.
I think perhaps you should live here first before making a rather incorrect statement. Also Europe is a lot more than on country and one rule...
Having moved from physics to Bioinformatics, you would think I'd agree. But I don't, one TLA: LHC!
Using a argument in a debate or discussion does not validate it, it raises the point. I make the assumption that we thinking here.
Jumping from secret illegal government interrogation methods to sweeping comments about my entire life and hard drive is dumb (although I don't really care about the HDD).
So you are all for a open government who only keeps secrets about interrogation methods?
The phrase "and they know how far and what we will do to them once captured" is very revealing.
Sounds like a Wookiee defense.
As they say, "If you are doing nothing wrong, then you have nothing to hide." If that can apply to me then it can apply to the government.
Unlike the Gestapo, the police will need a warrant to view the data.
I'm afraid your wrong there when one considers large distances compared to the beam diameter. In this case lasers do follow the inverse square law. The diffraction limit means that it cannot be perfectly collimated. Once you are a few meters from the focus you can assume the wave fronts are spherically expanding (well for a Gaussian beam anyway) and hence must follow the inverse square law. However when considering short distance then yes they don't. But then neither do other light sources.
Also i did say that a group of cells will be more complex. Thats the point. We don't *even* understand basic cell regulation. We won't get anywhere fast with trail and error drug targets, and this is all we do really at this point (more or less).
You can't just say spend more money on labor and its more effective than spending it on expensive materials. Just saying does not make it true. Having a lot of bodies than then have no equipment to do experiments with is far from productive.
Also I think you may be confusing your own experience (if you have some, which I'm doubting) with what the whole industry is like.
Bear in mind that there are a lot of drugs from the 30's that would *not* pass current FDA trails due to there side effects. Drugs must be of a much higher quality than ever before. The Problem is we are no better at predicting what will work and what will the side effects be. Humans are not CPU's, we can't simulate then and "test" what happens when part of us doesn't work properly.
Much of the rest of the world enjoys drug prices far cheaper than what the same company charges in the US. Its called regulation. Also more and more countries are passing laws to tell companies to stick there patents where the sun don't shine if they are overcharging for there drugs. Don't forget companies use government money for a large bulk of there drug trials.
Yes, I may be dreaming, but if you want to, you can remain ignorant to the "noise". I intend to learn what I can from it and continue contributing results. And what results would they be?
There are more "data" collection laws here (Passports to check into hotels). But they can't sell the data to corporations and for the police to use the data they need a warrant. Personal data in the EU is protected by law in most member states and by the EU itself.
The odd thing with this law is this. What about trains? I recently visited Italy, Czech Republic, Hungry and Slovakia all on the train. I can get a train to any major city in the EU and most are within the overnight train distance from central Europe.
You clearly have not meet any English school kids. Really.
Also compare science funding to say the defense budget. You would be surprised what we really spend our money on.
And how does any of the above change the fundamental complexity of a single cell or a whole organism of 100's of different cell types. We simply don't have the tools (computers are still slow, my stuff runs for weeks on +100 nodes) and the theroy to efficiently deal with that yet.
Money doesn't make fundamental complexity problems go away. The more people railing about it usually just means more noise to ignore.
I think the point is that profit is the wrong motive to help the sick. The "free market" does not belong in health were morals should trump profits.
So comparing a single cell to a CPU, is like comparing a 2 transistor radio to a modern CPU's. Living organisms are vastly more complex and you simply cannot ignore interactions with other cells and organisms. (aka HIV and immune response)
We havn't even begun to discuss the huge time frames it takes to drugs approved these days. Its (IIRC) 10 years of human trials which is after 10 years of animal trials. 20 years from discovery to a drug you can use. Or more.
Personally I think this Intel guy has let success get to his head. He clearly has no idea what hes talking about.
Excellent point. I can think of a lot of reasons to reduce CO2 and other emissions that are far better and more immediate that climate change.
/. is *not* a good reflection on what a lot of people think)
Unfortunately its lost on a lot of people. Regardless what you believe the whole GW debate has got so... politically religious that a lot of people just don't want to know anymore. (note:
Fuel cells are about 70% total efficiency or more. Internal combustion engines are about 20-30%. Bigger co generation plants can get to 50%. At this point fuel cells that can compare to the robustness of normal engines are expensive. The rest are more or less at the research prototype level.
I think that they are already at that price point. Movies are made just for DVD because you *can* make a profit. That is copyright infringement is not a big deal in much of the western world compared to how many they sell.
But there is another angle that is often forgotten. Now perhaps we want to set up a company to make low price point DVD players? Well its not so bad, ASIC and FPGA allow some cheap low production volume options. You can even get mpeg decoder IP logic for low prices. But to get the license to be allowed some CSS/AAC keys, forget it. Its about controlling the hardware. You often have to join some group at a high price to be able to manufacture legal DVD/HDDVD/BluRay players. By joining you agree to make commercials unskipable and to respect the silly zone system etc.
Of course this does not yet work. I can buy zone free dvd players from Saturn here in Austria. Almost all players are zone free in NZ. Mod chipping is perfectly legal (you haven't stolen anything). Without the DMCA these "controls" don't work. My guess is that they want to get only hardware that can play the movies to be from 100% approved manufactures that will make it hard for joe blogs to get around zones and other dumb systems.
So in conclusion, I think they are from option b). They probably think that hardware manufactures should make money selling DVD players when its "there" content that people watch or something.
You can't change the laws of physics. Its the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Anything not in equilibrium (in this case Maxwellian velocity distribution) then is relaxes to this state. In this case it relaxes really fast. Electric fields change nothing. Magnetic fields change nothing.
But i went through other posts of yours. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. What is your academic background? Do you even have one?
I already know that you won't listen. Dam enough folk have said the same thing to you as i have. But you don't care, you have "faith" in your claims.
In God we trust. As for the rest of you, show me the data!
whos not reading the links?
As for the other comments. Where is the math? The charge density in the core can't be significantly far from equilibrium. There are a lot of electrons in there. Just saying they will fuse faster. Based on WHAT, oh yea a reference to his own paper that again just writes down a formula and asserts its correctness in this case. Other people in the field who have done the same math come up with a no go answer. If his math is correct we would get much larger yields from the pure fusor devices. The biggest loss in high energy plasmas is from Bremmstrahlung radiation from electrons, the ions thermalize via ion-electron collisions. Even Bussard claim that. Non equilibrium systems make it worse by having low energy electrons, and this pushes the probability of colliding with one up.
If on the other hand you have no electrons you can't get the plasma density to have any chance of useful fusion.
Oh I don't have my calculations handy, but i could dig them out. They are not publishable because its been published more than once or twice. But the cross sections of ion-electron collision are just too high. This is supported from experimental data.
I am a paid scientist. I don't need