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Comment Re:It's not a law!!! (Score 1) 418

by neurophys on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @02:58AM (#29741691) Attached to: The Ultimate Limit of Moore's Law

If you want to make a product and you expect to hae it in the marked in two years, you would drop the idea if your product does not fit in the marked included effects of Moore's law. Nobody would make a product that don't comply with the "law". It is driving/regulating the marked.

Pål

Comment Again? What is the new take this time? (Score 1) 373

by neurophys on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @02:39PM (#28098629) Attached to: Company Claims EEG Scans Can Help Identify ADHD

One of the biggest and best attempts to diagnose psychiatry by EEG-measures was R. John in the 1980-1990. His methods failed in practical use.

There are no publications sited by Pubmed on this, but EImindAs website and the linked article gives an impression of this being the same again. Don't hold your breath.

PGL

Comment Re:Stupidy, stupidy, stupidy... (Score 1) 532

by neurophys on Thursday March 12, 2009 @11:00AM (#27167073) Attached to: Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox

I agree, but don't you think they have tried with a few independent testers first?

Pål

Comment Keep them in house? (Score 1) 237

by neurophys on Thursday December 25, 2008 @09:29AM (#26229647) Attached to: How Do You Monitor Documents?

When you let the documents out of the house, there are no way to prevent people from using the information. If the information was only available on a web-page with passwords and monitoring of user and IP-addresses you will at least have some control of the information.

pgl

Opening Quantum Computing To the Public 191

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 27, 2008 @09:15AM from the take-two-they're-small dept.

director_mr writes "Tom's Hardware is running a story with an interesting description of a 28-qubit quantum computer that was developed by D-Wave Systems. They intend to open up use of their quantum computer to the public. It is particularly good at pattern recognition, it operates at 10 milliKelvin, and it is shielded to limit electromagnetic interference to one nanotesla in three dimensions across the whole chip. Could this be the first successful commercial quantum computer?"

Liquid Mirror Telescopes Set For Magnetic Upgrade 64

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 17, 2008 @04:36PM from the calm-the-hubble-hubbub dept.

KentuckyFC writes "Liquid mirror telescopes start life as a puddle of mercury in a bowl. Set the bowl spinning and the mercury spreads out in a thin film giving the surface an almost perfect mirror finish. But these telescopes have two important limitations. First, they can only point straight up since tilting the mirror spills the mercury. And second, they cannot be made adaptive to correct for any blurring introduced by the Earth's atmosphere. But liquid mirror telescopes look set for an upgrade thanks to the work of a group of Canadian researchers. Their technique is to change the shape of the liquid mirror using powerful electromagnets. They use a ferromagnetic fluid of iron nanoparticles in oil instead of mercury which is too dense to be easily manipulated in this way. The work is just proof of principle at this stage but the idea is to use magnets to correct for the usual range of optical aberrations that telescopes have to deal with (abstract). And also to allow a liquid telescope to be tilted by using oil that is much more viscous than mercury and correcting any periodic deformation in the fluid that tilting might cause."

Rockets To Race Over Wisconsin Skies 210

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 17, 2008 @03:43PM from the nitro-burnin'-funny-ships dept.

Iron Condor writes with a reminder that that the first race of the Rocket Racing League (last mentioned here in April, after its 2005 founding) is set to take place later this month at Oshkosh AirVenture 08. This race, says Iron Condor, "is exactly what it sounds like: NASCAR 1000m above ground in rocket-propelled airplanes. Created by X-prize founder/CEO Peter Diamandis, this is 'the next evolution of racing' (at least according to the promo video, which is definitely worth watching)..."

Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market 1019

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 17, 2008 @02:03PM from the your-only-possible-choices-are-vista-and-os-x dept.

Tibor the Hun writes "According to Gartner and IDC, Apple now has between 7.8 and 8.5% of market share. While those numbers are not astonishing, they are not insignificant, and their growth does not seem to be slowing down. Will the pearly gates of acceptance open up for them once they reach the magic 10%, and will that have a positive effect on desktop Linux adoption? Hard to tell, but it's good to see that normal people (not just us geeks) are choosing to go with a different OS, rather than staying with the headache-inducing Windows."

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