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hmm I see, just get a basic model for the sim and put it in my pda? that could work... what network is best? I'll have to check if my phone is compatible frequency/type wise

Hi, after a bit of advice really. Should be going over the 'West Side' later in the year. Got a PDA phone with web browser etc. What would be really excellent would be to have access to the internet (as well as regular phone) whilst I'm over there, any suggestions on the best way to do this? Not really bothered about 3g etc, just that it connects and works at a usable speed and doesn't cost the earth

yeah the headphones thing usually crops up pretty quick when practising lol most instruments are pretty hard to learn, the guitar is no exception. A little practise every day or as often as you can goes a long way though - keep it up and in 3 months time you'll be surprised how far you've come. Don't expect to be a Hendrix, Satriani, Santana, Via, Blackmore, Gillmore or Van Halen for a while to come lol

luckily not (and I asked just in case), woot!

I'm not sure it's really about the encryption tbh (i.e. there appears to be none and who cares), it's about hiding the data so it can't be detected. i.e. think of it from a spy/espionage perspective, you don't care that the data is encrypted necessarily, just that no one can find it - one way to achieve this traditionally would be encryption, another is to hide it somehow - like stenography and you don't have to use encryption to use stenography. I can see application for this sort of thing in the future even if it's rather confined to special situations. I'd not get caught up on the whole encryption thing, maybe the title of the article is a little misleading in that respect but the idea still has some merit all the same I suspect.

oh I missed that but it sounds interesting, I'm going to watch that tonight

lol well it looked like there was - quite weird what happened there

p is a pull off - i.e. 9 pull-off to 7 (a pull-off is playing a note then pulling your finger off to play the lower note without plucking it directly). r I think is a release, i.e. a bent note released from the note bent to be the same as that of the 15th fret, released to the plain 14th, with no bend

good race, mixed weather made it interesting! bit of a shocker from Raikonnen though and gutting for Sutil too! managed to watch it in the end by switching to digital freeview via laptop straight to projector, glad I did

normal tv? wtf is that - I don't even have a normal tv lol, well actually I do but it's stashed away, not used it for years

hey I used to have one of these, good luck with the sale and here is a free bump what will you get as a track car?

anyone else having Sky trouble? ITV1 not working? All other channels are working fine but the one thing I want to watch is coming up with a blue screen "technical fault"! and working intermittently! why why why! race starts in 25 mins now, hope it's working by then...

thanks for that, weather looks crap so if I'm stuck in today I might get a chance to try that program later

yeah practice makes perfect - you will find the worst thing initially your finger tips get sore - this passes after just a few days so just persevere finger strength, agility and mobility improves with practice. If you learn the main basic cords like E, Em, A, Am, C, F, D, Dm, G etc and start by practising chord changes between them (perhaps to a simple song) that's really good practice. Moving on from that you can start learning some scales and they give your fingers a great work out for lead guitar work If you want a small practice amp, I highly recommend the Roland microcube - small, great sound, build in effects and a headphone socket too all for I also play the drums, keyboards and time permitting write music too - I just wish there were more hours in the day lol

that's quite interesting - I used to work in cryptography but we didn't use dna lol

as for tuning - I recommend you get an electronic tuner - from £5 - £15 worth the money saves hassle with perfect results and gets you tuned in no time. If you have something to tune against like a piano / keyboard then the strings are tuned as follows: 6 E 5 A 4 D 3 G 2 B 1 E the number is the string, 6 being the thickest string at the top, 1 being the thinnest at the bottom. once you get one string in tune, you can tune all the others from it 5th fret on the bottom E 6th string gives A, tune the 5th string to it 5th fret on the A 5th string gives D, tune the 4th string to it 5th fret on the D 4th string gives G, tune the 3th string to it 4th fret on the G 3rd gives B, tune the 2nd string to it 5th fret on the B 2nd string gives E, tune the 1st string to it

I recently got a guitar to get into it - I'm not sure on a beginners guide but if you search for tab music you can get music to all the songs you might want to play, such as: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ http://www.911tabs.com/ which might give you something to practice and learn

cool, love Pink Floyd, I might record those if I get a chance to set the laptop up

makes my 50mW green semiconductor and 10W IR CO2 lasers seem a bit feeble

if you want to do it for cheap / not heavy use - you can get O2 GPRS with a web pack for just £7.50 a month payg - that's what I use, use my mobile as a modem and it works just fine. That £7.50 also gets me free texts and a working phone so it's a bargain way to do it - no contract either. Naturally you can pay much more and get more, depends what you're after really - just a thought

bit of a long shot but I know there are some IT people on here... Looking at finding / evaluating a CEP system along the lines of BEA CEP offering but hopefully free / open source. I've come across Esper - anyone used it, the BEA version or any equivalents? Any advice or information?

vacuum energy, yeah again related to the creation and annihilation of the particle pairs - evidence such as evaporating black holes and other effects, has a relationship with symmetry breaking. In simple terms everything is quantised, and what we consider to be zero energy can actually be a energy plateau as I understand it - this is again related to higgs and the creation of the universe. The idea being that matter has mass - why? because it's within a higgs field which is stuck in a state that it came to rest in from the creation of the universe - this state contains energy that is realised by giving mass to mass particles - I suppose an analogy is giving charge yielding energy to charged particles when in an electric field. there is quite an old theory of quantum mechanics that uses a transactional model, symmetric in time where particles are exchanged from the past to the future and from the future to the past - symmetrically giving rise to phenomenon in the present such as intertia and the forces, IIRC - which is a really interesting subject in it's own right. I could recommend some books if anyone is interested. anyway, discovery of the higgs would be a monumental discovery and insight into the creation and physics behind the universe and would validate a whole branch of physics - it's hard to compare just how important it would be, at least equal to relativity and quantum mechanics I'd have thought I'll get back later with more on the Higgs etc, my explanation is a bit poor but I'm in a hurry - busy debugging some server code here lol

it depends what theory you look at. Theories such as string and M are exact mathematical frameworks/models that are worked out to solve particular problems in physics when a certain number of additional dimensions are invoked. i don't think any credible theory says, lets just add in more dimensions or even "infinite" dimensions, that helps us solve something - it's more the other way around, in trying to unify and generalise observations mathematicians and physicists have deduced that things like String theory can explain things more cohesively when the right number of additional dimensions are introduced into the math. these typically being 10, 11 or 26 (but other variants exist). The multidimensional spaces are types of Kaluza-Klein and manifolds. So the underlying reason is concrete, in maths and mathematical models - nothing as vague as to say - there might be "infinite" dimensions (not saying there isn't, it's just there is no evidence of that, that would be a bit of a cop out, basically admitting we haven't got the faintest idea but in fact the (theoretical) extra dimensions are finite and come from real theories rooted in heavy math!). I'll get back on some more points in a bit, busy working at the moment, interesting stuff though

I see what you mean. It's a little like string theory I guess but the key idea behind string theory is to provide a unified theory uniting quantum and relativistic effects - by removing the impossible infinities that occur when points in space and point particles are used, when the two great theories are united within a traditional framework. It's sounding a little metaphysical to me, I can't really comment on that specifically (in terms of ghosts and all that stuff). With string theory points in space maybe one one facet of multidimensional object, the other dimensions are curled up. The dimensions we experience (the extended dimensions) are meant to be the ones that unfolded when the universe was created, according to some theory anyway. I don't think string theory would attempt to account for anything like ghosts or anything metaphysical. If real, it means the fabric of the universe is made up of something we only see in a small number of dimensions - I can buy into that with no problems. However that's not to say you could walk into the other dimensions using a device - even if you could it wouldn't be a reality as we know it and we certainly couldn't exist there in any form lol the things that really get me are - non-locality and 'sum over paths' type experiments - which are really weird, that tells me there's something very strange in our universes that we don't really get yet. When people talk about being on the verge of a GUT and solving everything, I can't help but wonder if we are on the brink of discovering a whole load more unknown unknowns - like Victorian scientists were when they started to believe they'd just about cracked everything. One of the most interesting things the LHC can do is possibly discover evidence for the existence of the Higgs - if so that will be a monuments occasion, the sort of thing that goes down in history very occasionally and will be remembered and effect the course of science from that day on. Of course, chances are they won't find evidence, but then plans are laid to build bigger and better accelerators until they do

well ZPE is the minimum energy state in a quantum system - I'm not aware of any other meaning for it, but there might be. Matter and antimatter, when they come together they release energy, conversely creation of matter requires energy - the old mass-energy relationship. If matter could be turned into energy whole sale then that would be a whole lot of energy for not a lot of matter - I don't want to be around the day that experiment is performed lol! there is energy in everything, matter has energy regardless of it's quantum state (e.g. ZPE) or temperature (e.g. absolute zero) - I'm not sure if I am misunderstanding you or we have our wires crossed somewhere. the idea of particle - antiparticle pairs is that they are constantly being created and destroyed (net energy level is zero) in the quantum 'foam' as people refer to it - I think maybe this is what you're referring too. I'm not sure you could release energy from it since it's an equilibrium that exists because it's undisturbed - to disturb it you'd have to put energy in - probably at least as much as you'd get out - but who knows, maybe there is a way! at the edge of black holes the particle antiparticles are meant to be torn apart, one going into the black hole, the other appearing to radiate away, making black holes not actually black - this effect is meant to result in black holes 'evaporating' over time until they disappear, which is an interesting idea.