Comment Link to paper and video (Score 2) 111
It's a 2012 siggraph (Asia) paper. Here's the link with the video.
Submission + - Coffee With Apple CEO Tim Cook More Appealing Than Bieber, De Niro or Clinton (ibtimes.co.uk)
DavidGilbert99 writes: Who would you rather have coffee with? Global superstar Justin Bieber; Hollywood screen icon Robert De Niro; former US President Bill Clinton......or geeky CEO of Apple Tim Cook? Well despite many who may think otherwise, it seems as if Tim Cook is the most appealing of all, attracting bids of more than £100,000 for a one-hour coffee and chat — higher than any of the other celebrities taking part in the charity auction.
Submission + - Water dynamics simulations for the future of games and graphics cards (mashable.com) 1
ceview writes: Some impressive demonstrations of water fluid dynamics for 3D Games. From the article it explains that "a new fluid simulation algorithm, called "Position Based Fluids" (PBD) makes it look easy, with water bouncing off objects in a realistic fashion."
Laser Fusion's Brightest Hope 115
First time accepted submitter szotz writes "The National Ignition Facility has one foot in national defense and another in the future of commercial energy generation. That makes understanding the basic justification for the facility, which boasts the world's most powerful laser system, more than a little tricky. This article in IEEE Spectrum looks at NIF's recent missed deadline, what scientists think it will take for the facility to live up to its middle name, and all of the controversy and uncertainty that comes from a project that aspires to jumpstart commercial fusion energy but that also does a lot of classified work. NIF's national defense work is often glossed over in the press. This article pulls in some more detail and, in some cases, some very serious criticism. Physicist Richard Garwin, one of the designers of the hydrogen bomb, doesn't mince words. When it comes to nuclear weapons, he says in the article, '[NIF] has no relevance at all to primaries. It doesn't do a good job of mimicking secondaries...it validates the codes in regions that are not relevant to nuclear weapons.'"
Comment Re:But coal doesn't cause tsunamis like nuclear do (Score 4, Informative) 341
The nuclear accident of Fukushima has yet to kill *a single person* due to radiation. I don't know where you get your data, but surely it's not factual.
Comment Re:That's easy (Score 1) 299
This might very well be true, but does not stop me from dreaming (and salivating at the prospect).
Comment Re:That's easy (Score 5, Insightful) 299
My personal theory is that we killed all mammoths because they were delicious. Can't wait to taste one!
Comment Re:Wait a moment... (Score 5, Informative) 140
It is going to be free under the Olympics, but afterward you'll have to be a Virgin customer or pay £££.
Comment Re:Wait, what now? (Score 1) 462
Nope, it's a full fledged IDE, since I am compiling, running and debugging the program under windows. It is just that it will end up running on a linux box eventually.
Comment Re:Wait, what now? (Score 1) 462
The code you write can be compiled on multiple platforms, but the development is done in windows. Or you think xbox/ps3/wii dev is done using an IDE on the console?
Comment Re:Wait, what now? (Score 2) 462
Well, I use it for multi-platform C++ development and IMHO it is the best IDE for that language out there.
Comment Re:Chernobyl... (Score 1) 201
Compared to *any* other common energy source, coal is by far the worse.
Oh, and a quick google search returned this. Apparently, filter or not, Germany still made into the top 10.
Comment Re:Huh... (Score 1) 194
D'oh!!
Comment Re:Chernobyl... (Score 3, Informative) 201
We are still not a net importer
Is that perhaps because you're extending the life of extremely polluting coal plants?
Comment Re:That's just part of the concern.. (Score 1) 285
Well apparently not, and not for lack of trying. But why would you think cross-breeding is preferable? It would be a shotgun approach, since you could get the resistance as well as another set of undesired side-effects.
Besides, it's two viruses (CMV and TSWV) which are currently threatening that tomato. For the first we have the other variety. For the other we managed to identify a few genes that could give resistance. Would that be okay?
