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How would quality control/testing catch this one though? Sound like an issue that could very easily slip through. The game is not broken, it is just performing slower than it potentially could (and quality control doesn't have any reference to compare performance to). There are valid reasons to...

rsync + standard windows scheduling tool?

I meant publishing, as in putting it on the exhibition's youtube channel. It's new enough for the general public, and its probably not that often that they get to see such superconducting 'installations' in action.

Wow, you're one sore science student. The goal of this ASTC conference/exhibit is to get the public engaged in science. It seems they succeeded in that, it's a very cool demo. It's a shame that they misnamed the effect, but these things happen in popular science publishing.

I've never said that computer science cannot be applied as a tool. As a computer scientist I regularly apply math, physics, psychology, bio-mechanics and linguistics as a tool. That does not mean they are not valuable research fields on their own or that I would not value the opinion of an...

AI is regarded a subfield of computer science, at least nowadays. Of course AI builds upon mathematical knowledge. Double checking (who would do the check?) would not be good enough for me. I would want a formal proof that such code works according to specification. Of course the specification...

There is a lot of interesting subfields in computer science that can evolve without requiring any advances in other sciences. For example: AI, language understanding, information retrieval, software engineering, formal verification of software programs, automatic translation, speech synthesis...

Of course you can always replace computing by manual labor. That's the whole point of computing: remove error prone and slow manual labor by computing. Most of the principles of computing are not hundreds of years old (e.g. object oriented programming, turing machines, modeling parallel...

That atomic force microscope still builds upon principles of computing to get results. These principles do not get outdated. So what scientific tools do you think are more useful?

And quite an essential tool for nearly all sciences. Mathematics is also a 'tool'. Advances in mathematics and (theoretical) computer science do drive advances in other fields though.

Uhm, you do realize that recent advances in all kinds of fields are made possible by computing? Computing is currently nearly as essential as a 'supporting' science as math.

If the character is a white dwarf, he can make a nova http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova with the sun :) Sun based powers are boring though. Can't he get his power from raping pets?

By fall you mean get tired of having waffle ninjas for breakfast?

Except for Phil. If you feed your youngest sibling to your rabbit, it will make him smirk.

Can someone ban Sky? A bot took over his account.

*waves cane and complains about education of youngsters*

Not really, a simple bisection as I explained above will do and is (on average) the most efficient way to do it.

Drawing out the right questions is the relevant point, why are you guys so obsessed on the data representation? You have a list of character candidates, with certain binary properties (linked to questions). You start out with the full list, then ask a question (=select a property) that no matter...

In before the audiophiles smite you for expecting great quality sound for $55 and calling logitech and creative excellent.

Source is first post in this thread. Germany is getting rid of 17 nuclear reactors, which means France would have to build the equivalent of those 17 reactors (could be less with modern/larger reactors). France currently has 59 reactors, so this would mean building over a 4th of that extra...