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Nissan Leaf[1], TomTom Live Traffic, GOOG(maps)... [1] http://seattlewireless.net/~casey/?p=97
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A phd in particle physics (even from caltech) can be as meaningless as journalism from yale/harvard. Entire careers have been based on strings ...which is famously not even wrong. As in every profession, there are lots of "artists". Some al
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To be fair, the metric for benchmarking is delivered/recorded luminosity. The machine delivers, and the detector records. It is this efficiency that funding agencies are shown in the periodic reports. Strictly speaking, (down)time can be "i
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...not to mention macsyma
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Generally you would fill the machine, then circulate beam "stable", until it wears out (loose luminosity), then dump the remaining, and start again. This is called a fill, and can last several hours. A fill has several runs, some experiment
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This is what is used very often: http://midas.psi.ch/elog/
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These are old basic ideas[1] on pursuing happiness, in a slightly rehashed way, with the ask culture (how does that work in Japan?) thrown in with some randian self determinism. [1] Schopenhauer http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10741
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Strangely, AMD had almost always better technical talent/product in terms of architectural design, but always stumbled on intel's business practices (see computer history museum panel) and manufacturing weaknesses. For the better part, they
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You are about to destroy the myth of Edison & Co...
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...to paraphrase Einstein, if they were right, even one person would be enough. But true, it needs "change", because it is seeding just more trouble. btw Slavoj Žižek argues, that capitalism cannot handle imaginary property, and actually th
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Thanks for your argument. Case closed. you see now too -- the alloy is not the problem.
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I think the issues were not only technical, as in P and fuel. The trouble was with those who were responsible for the pebble bed reactor project, and accountancy to the public. The moment management knowingly blamed accidents on Russians wi
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Watch Seaborg and some engineers from ex-USSR above before downvoting without reasoning. And imagine the powerlines in a play, where Seaborg himself feels he can only act as a puppet -- randian rationalism doesn't work in society. (I do not
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I do not think that corrosion is the showstopper. It rather seems to be the lack of irresponsible megalomania, which actually fuelled the GE/Westinghouse frenzy. And I can hardly blame anybody for the lack of it, because for all the better.
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This is project pursued by many[1]. The main hurdles are: 1. political [2], which Kirk mentions (it is no coincidence, that the pellets that the rods contain are as standard as the NATO bullet) -- the industry and power has a very different
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MS has money, which most people accept. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:AMD_K5_P... btw: there is a story about a company committed to Open stuff (Linux, Qt), just to [d|b]itch it.
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http://www.gitorious.org/
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do you think Ann was happy? are others whom have to live with stuff she was used to justify? btw Curtis is aware of random association games and their abuse (see Century of the Self). He is also aware of history (see blog entry about Eden/C
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http://michael-wheeler.org/2011/01/29/leaving-the-cloud/
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the Ayn Rand stuff doesn't work ... it didn't, not even for her. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz2j3BhL47c
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... and "code should read like prose". this is an old idea.
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One obvious problem is management. Nope. Contrary to its PR image, MSFT is not a software company, not in a full sense. They are more into management (yes, this is an euphemism). If you look at their core products, they are almost all ess
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It seems to be a common wisdom, that whatever "startup ecosystem" is in the Valley, MSFT is doing essentially the same thing, but internally , therefore it is not so visible for outsiders. My guess is AAPL is the same, only even more secre
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I'll just say, that this blog/paper is pseudoscience, with all the bells and whistles of the formalities [1]. [1] i.e. /“control group” to which the Habsburg “treatment group”/
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These "leading economists" have understood nothing about the Habsburg Empire. Nor the economic power of thereof (see China). Habsburgs were ruling by force, but it would have been a perpetual war without prosperity (see Iraq, Afghanistan) i
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...this is why Adobe and Qualcomm would want a deal to add hw support to their ARM fork.
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They are writing spec documents... http://developer.skype.com/resources/Skype_UVC_Specification... it would be nice to see linphone be able to talk to skype people...
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You are mentioning Compaq BIOS. Think Samba though. Even OOo/LO .doc support is based on 1-2 FTE revEngs (which btw is dumped mfc/w32 memory on a FAT, but read Sun/IBM anyway). The team will write a public spec, print it out on paper, and a
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Actually some worries are not about DNA damage/cancer, but mostly about demyelinisation due to the simmer cooking of the brain. Last time I checked, there still wasn't any serious public research on the topic.
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here is your invite to come down the rabbit hole... http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/05/all_watched_ov...

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