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Eggy Lippmann

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01-01-2005 16:10

Ever coded a sensor grid?
Are you old enough to remember having to spend hours on a fancy llShout relay system due to the lack of global email comms?
Then check out this slashdot post... funny!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/01/182224&tid=126&tid=103

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Oedefe Silverman

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01-01-2005 17:23

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Alondria LeFay

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01-01-2005 18:12

lol!

Kurt Zidane

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Join date: 1 Apr 2004

Posts: 636

01-01-2005 18:58

lol in japan they are experimenting with a similar technology. Just it monitors traffic, each car reports info like speed, distance, position. in combination with a gps it's allowing for less traffic jams, more efficient use of lights, and and a major increase in emergence vehicle response time.

off topic, but japan has smart cars, a world simulator, the only station experimenting with interstellar particles (the one that can only be detected, after they have been slowed down by going through the earth, and then put into a sub zero pool of liquid), china just implemented probable the best country wide network ever. Utilizing the new version of tcp ip, taking two year to build the router to do it.

What about the usa. When was the last time the government encourage a revolutionary scientific advancement? All that comes to mind is the accidental development of ram.

Cross Lament

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Join date: 20 Mar 2004

Posts: 1,115

01-01-2005 20:26

From: Kurt Zidane

off topic, but japan has ... the only station experimenting with interstellar particles (the one that can only be detected, after they have been slowed down by going through the earth, and then put into a sub zero pool of liquid)...

Are you talking about the Japanese 'Super Kamiokande' neutrino observatory? Geez, sure, leave Canada out, whydon'tcha? We've got our very own SNO (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory) running up in northern Ontario.

Why do they need new buoys to do this, anyway? Can't they just repurpose components from the SOSUS network? Mmm... maybe not, different technologies, I suppose.

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Kurt Zidane

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01-02-2005 00:39

sorry, but i'm glad to hear there is another one out there

china and a fewnation are fighting over the new plazma reactor right? Kind of funny I rember after world war II america was working on one. But stoped it for some reson.

Cross Lament

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01-02-2005 00:46

I thought it were Japan and some of the EU nations squabbling over who gets the fusion research reactor... I think Japan has decided to build their own, regardless, but I might be wrong there.

The US probably ditched their own fusion projects, 'cause it's generally easier to let someone else do all the (expensive) research. In the economic world, nobody wants to be first, everyone wants to be the successful second, since you get to skip a lot of the R&D costs. Either that, or the administration are idiot lackeys of the entrenched power generation interests... either explanation works for me.

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Eggy Lippmann Wiktator Join date: 1 May 2003 Posts: 7,939	01-01-2005 16:10 Ever coded a sensor grid? Are you old enough to remember having to spend hours on a fancy llShout relay system due to the lack of global email comms? Then check out this slashdot post... funny! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/01/182224&tid=126&tid=103 _____________________ Help us document Second Life history at http://slhistory.org!
Oedefe Silverman Registered User Join date: 3 Oct 2003 Posts: 54	01-01-2005 17:23 chuckles
Alondria LeFay Registered User Join date: 2 May 2003 Posts: 725	01-01-2005 18:12 lol!
Kurt Zidane Just Human Join date: 1 Apr 2004 Posts: 636	01-01-2005 18:58 lol in japan they are experimenting with a similar technology. Just it monitors traffic, each car reports info like speed, distance, position. in combination with a gps it's allowing for less traffic jams, more efficient use of lights, and and a major increase in emergence vehicle response time. off topic, but japan has smart cars, a world simulator, the only station experimenting with interstellar particles (the one that can only be detected, after they have been slowed down by going through the earth, and then put into a sub zero pool of liquid), china just implemented probable the best country wide network ever. Utilizing the new version of tcp ip, taking two year to build the router to do it. What about the usa. When was the last time the government encourage a revolutionary scientific advancement? All that comes to mind is the accidental development of ram.
Cross Lament Loose-brained Vixen Join date: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 1,115	01-01-2005 20:26 From: Kurt Zidane off topic, but japan has ... the only station experimenting with interstellar particles (the one that can only be detected, after they have been slowed down by going through the earth, and then put into a sub zero pool of liquid)... Are you talking about the Japanese 'Super Kamiokande' neutrino observatory? Geez, sure, leave Canada out, whydon'tcha? We've got our very own SNO (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory) running up in northern Ontario. Why do they need new buoys to do this, anyway? Can't they just repurpose components from the SOSUS network? Mmm... maybe not, different technologies, I suppose. _____________________ - Making everyone's day just a little more surreal - Teeple Linden: "OK, where did the tentacled thing go while I was playing with my face?"
Kurt Zidane Just Human Join date: 1 Apr 2004 Posts: 636	01-02-2005 00:39 sorry, but i'm glad to hear there is another one out there china and a fewnation are fighting over the new plazma reactor right? Kind of funny I rember after world war II america was working on one. But stoped it for some reson.
Cross Lament Loose-brained Vixen Join date: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 1,115	01-02-2005 00:46 I thought it were Japan and some of the EU nations squabbling over who gets the fusion research reactor... I think Japan has decided to build their own, regardless, but I might be wrong there. The US probably ditched their own fusion projects, 'cause it's generally easier to let someone else do all the (expensive) research. In the economic world, nobody wants to be first, everyone wants to be the successful second, since you get to skip a lot of the R&D costs. Either that, or the administration are idiot lackeys of the entrenched power generation interests... either explanation works for me. _____________________ - Making everyone's day just a little more surreal - Teeple Linden: "OK, where did the tentacled thing go while I was playing with my face?"

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