Re: Java?

"Java ... not endorsed as standard by the W3C"

And what exactly would it mean for the W3C to "endorsed Java as standard"? And what would it endorse? The Bytecode and Class file defintions? A particular implementation of a JVM? The Java language? Version 1.5 or 1.6? The whole Java library coaltrain? What?

Re: One thing not clear

Well, the result is a gaussian around zero:

http://dkue3ufa3e1f8.cloudfront.net/files/images/icarus_nuspeed.jpg

Taken from:

http://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/icarus_refutes_operas_superluminal_neutrinos_again-88060

The neutrinos have average energy of 3 GeV (unsure). This is enormous (solar neutrinos are < 18 MeV), the neutrino rest mass is < 0.10 eV/c², so I think no-one actually bothers to make a difference between v_nu and c.

Re: Lack of dividend — so what?

Wut? You "make money on stock" by disregarding its supposed value as given by the underlying assets and just selling it to some other guy in Armanis who is more eager to put it into his portfolio than you.

Note that "a dividend corresponding to the current stock price" is a rather subjective criterium. Would you be content with 1 dollar per share per annum at USD 300 per share for example?

"You might as well wonder why people try to accumulate these little pieces of paper called "money", considering they do not give back a dividend either"

"Money" par essence, does not give off a dividend. People "accumulate money" only insofar as they can exchange it for something else later. In this case, the friendly government actually forces you gun-in-hand to use its "paper money", which can conveniently be made worthless at the roll of a printing machine. Trade in gold is forbidden. Trade in bank-specific notes is forbidden, too. Instead you get EURO rammed up your backside. This tanks due to politicians not able to stop themselves paying off cronies and buying voters as well as banks handing out more money than they have in their coffers. Nice.

"What proves that the barman will be enough of a sucker to accept it in exchange of a beer?"

If you start asking yourself that question, you know that Zimbabwe or Weimar are near. Go to home depot and buy a wheelbarrow.

Re: Oh well, ...

That Asimov reference is ... obscure!

SAM serious sh*t right there

That must be some mighty SAM.

I hope it will have at least "TEAM AMERICA" painted on, in the requisite BLUE WHITE RED letters, directly underneath the Lockheed-Martin serial number.

Re: SETI

Why - sure.

Your could think of modulated gravity waves à la Larry Niven's "The Hole Man".

The "Neutrino Signal" was used by Stanislaw Lem in "His Master's Voice" (which buries Carl Sagan's 'Contact' under the threads of a T-34 btw.)

And for those who like to know things of no large real-world relevance: Didcha know that you can get Neutrino radiations burns from next-generation colliders? It's true!

http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/p99/PAPERS/THP52.PDF

"Intense highly collimated neutrino beams are created from muon decays at high-energy muon colliders causing significant radiation problems even at very large distances from the collider ring. A newly developed weighted neutrino interaction generator permits detailed Monte Carlo simulations of the interactions of neutrinos (and of their progeny) to be performed using the MARS code. Dose distributions in a human tissue-equivalent phantom (TEP) are calculated

when irradiated with neutrino beams (100 MeV–10 TeV). Results are obtained for a bare TEP, one embedded in several shielding materials and for a TEP located at various distances behind a shield. The distance from the collider ring (up to 60 km) at which recommended annual dose limits can be met is calculated for 0.5, 1, 2, 3 and 4 TeV muon colliders. The possibility to mitigate the problem via beam wobbling is investigated."

Re: costs the Exchequer

More to the point, this means State will hoover up £110m a year (best case, as said), which won't be in the private economy anymore and will probably go towards financing the grooves on the left rubber tire of the Eurofighter as opposed to more DVDs or maybe bean conserves.

Just print it up, why dontcha.

"if we got that 6 bn"

Who is that "we", why can he seize money from all over the place and why is he so altruistic????

That must be some swell guy·

Re: Scheme

Igor Soumenkov says it's not Lua.

My money is on some kind of Lisp.

After all: http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/animation_graphics/naughtydog.lhtml

"With leading edge game systems like ours, you have to deal with complicated behaviors and real-time action. Languages like C are very poor with temporal constructs. C is just very awkward for a project like this. Lisp, on the other hand, is ideal."

Lateral thoughts: Anyone remember Thierry Breton's "Softwar" Cyberthrilling Cyberpotboiler back from the 80's?

Re: Remember the rumors that Stuxnet was written by the US military, CIA, etc.?

When was that class you took? Late 80's?

I'm sure there are pretty good Ada Compilers around now.

Re: Can I please buy one made in the UK

"This just doesn't add up! There's NO excuse to not make it in UK or USA. Especially since it's all a low scale production."

Well, there must be otherwise the production would be local, wouldn't it? Revealed preference and all that.

I can think at least of...

1) Expensive workforce relative to the skill set

2) Red tape everywhere

3) Strong labor unions (Would anyone want a union rep on the board who sees the company as the enemy? Hell NO.)

4) Companies that don't have inside lobbyists seen as whipping boys for politicians and tax money generators.

5) Don't know what's coming down the legislative pipe (the last thing I heard was mandatory quota of women on the board... wut?). Generally, companies are seen as subject to populist whim. "Then enforce or persuade them to have stayed." You see what I mean?

6) Uncertainty regarding the future of the EUR, inflation and general blowout.

You see

Re: I suppose it's too late to email the customers

These seem pretty complex. Here is the first link that pops up. Check out the wiring diagram on page 3:

http://www.molex.com/mx_upload/family/magnetic_modular_jacks/hypejak.pdf

Re: Sir

Maybe the pics here will enlighten you:

http://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/tevatron_higgs_results_confirm_lhc_signal-87751

So .... what kind of "powerful" do you want exactly? Fast compilation? Lots of third-party libraries? Extreme loop optimization? Not being fired for choosing a language with which your average company programhamster can deal?

Re: Confused

Nope.

int x = 12; x.toString()

Ouch time if you are not writing this in Groovy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_mechanism

Actually the old machine has been put out to pasture in September, so people are currently massaging the statistics.

Re: Operation Fast & Furious

It's hard to not be a thorn in Eric "I'm not responsible for my fascist decisions" Holder's side unless all defenses are indeed very much down.

Re: THIS GUY IS....

Yes

Re: Pure Comedy Gold.

Gold, indeed.

Technology does not play a large part. But Central Banking and Fractional Reserve Banking, yes.

Basically, Governments are the cause of the economic breakdowns and they know it. But they will never admit it. Just compare what Greenspan said BEFORE he managed to land his job at the Fed.

Just today, there was a nice writeup here:

http://mises.org/daily/5938/Seventeen-Years-of-Boom-and-Bust

I hope our several hundred western intelligence agencies and the IAEA and its inspectors would have told you in no uncertain terms (i.e. not using Amano's "I'm gonna freak people out using innuendo based on random faxes from the State Department and the 'smoking laptop' source from MEK") SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE THAT CAN HAPPEN that there was a possibility that Iran had:

1) A military nuclear program

2) The political intent to make a nuke

3) Enough 98% enriched uranium or even plutonium to make a nukes

4) Run tests on that nuke

5) Miniaturized the nuke far enough to put it on an ICBM tip

6) Built the ICBM in question

Currently we are stage 0)

Re: Beware America

I just hope their rocketeering effort is of higher QUALITY than their effort at imitating high-speed trains.

Or maybe Operation British?

There goes Australia!

Re: Just One Of Their Brainfarts

"Just taking away property rights to books completely incompatible with human rights"

Well, MY books are safely stored in a case made of wood in my living room. Problem?

>lack of knowledge

Don't be bashful. It just means "to all evidence, problems that are hard to solve for a classical computer will STAY hard to solve on a quantum computer (more generally, mother nature won't hand you over the keys to the car no matter what) except for some niche stuff like factorization - and simulation of physics"

Protection?

Nice young people with ADHD you got there... shame if something should happen to them...