Mod parent up!
I still have perfectly good floppy disks lying around. No way to read them.
And it's only been a couple of decades ago. Let alone billions of years!
I don't think there are any readily available solutions for your problem and it's not an easy one to solve either with an independent device. GPS is useless indoors and more so with the resolution you need (the few meters between bedroom and dining hall).
You would have to build your own solution for this problem, using Arduino, most likely. Relative positioning using accelerometers is your best bet for an independent device, but positioning error builds quickly and you would need it to reset the error by making a reference to an absolute marker every now and then.
Non independent solutions could use RFID tags placed at regular intervals on the walls, granted the living center would have to let you do that too.
As for the display, a circle made of LEDs should be fairly easy to make. Just light up the ones pointing in the correct direction.
Using any replacement parts for your car other than your car manufacturer's is patent infringement?
Burnt your break lights? Changed your AC filter? Used a generic brand name? I'll see you in court!
Half credit.
Assuming an imaginary balloon that never explodes and we're filling up with air at a constant rate, yes, you are right! The volume differential is less each time, so the overall inflating of the balloon is slower over time.
However, in the case of the universe, the balloon is being inflated faster as time passes by (current universe expansion is assumed to be accelerating). Furthermore, even in the case of a steadily inflating balloon, we're talking about relative speeds between dots on the surface, which still holds true even if the volume differential slows down. Points father away from each other separate faster than close one for any given delta time.
Yes!
The universe is expanding in every direction. Think of it as a balloon inflating. Any two spots on the surface become further and further apart. The farther they are from each other, the faster the move away from each other as the balloon inflates.
Similarly, as the universe expands, the objects that are the furthest away move the fastest away from us, thus causing more redshift than objects closer to us. Although you should not think as much as the object itself moving away, as much as the space between the objects becoming larger.
Long answer:
Peer-reviewed articles is a fairly new thing in science, and most often than not, and the review process is highly questionable. This is because the article is often not reviewed by someone that is interested or a major expert in the field, but instead publishers select reviewers at random and assign them papers to review. In some cases, professors and researches hand down the papers are then given to grad students, who have no expertise in the field, to actually review the papers (my thesis adviser gave me a couple to check a once or twice during my PhD). And as someone who has had his articles reviewed, the criticisms are poor and usually minor (readability is poor, maybe add a chart or more experimental results, etc)
Before the age of peer-reviewed journals, the scientific article was published openly an ANYONE in the same field with an invested interest could attack it. The reviews were helpful and really good science came out of it, because the publishing scientist would have to defend or give up his theory. Now this only happens in very rare cases.
Seems to be this is more related with the gender distribution in each major more than anything else.
Engineering and sciences have a high percentage of males vs females. Therefore is logical to think that any woman in that field has a lot of possible partners to choose from.
The backwards can be said about Nursery. Mainly a female oriented vocation, any male nurse will have a rather large pool to select a partner from.
Seems pretty obvious, I 'unno...
I was thinking the same thing. But the problem with the "paperless" office was portability. The idea behind the paperless office was that people would use digital files instead of printed documents. That is all fine and dandy as long as you're sitting in front of a computer. But when the time comes to do a presentation or hand something to a client, there's no other way around but to use paper.
Now with the proliferation of mobile screens and projectors this seems to be finally the case. I'm not saying we're quite there yet, but it looks like we're heading to a world where paper will be used less and less. I mean, look at any printed publication and how they're moving to digital ones. Newspapers, magazines.... they all now come for your kindle.
"The project is not intended to produce mushrooms targeted for human consumption, since the main objective is to get rid of diapers to avoid damaging the environment more"
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Mod parent up! I still have perfectly good floppy disks lying around. No way to read them. And it's only been a couple of decades ago. Let alone billions of years!
The shitty quality of the articles lately... or the fact that the editors miss to link to it.
....to BSOD
if ( CanTell(somePixels) && EnoughShopsSeen( time )) {
printf("THIS LOOKS SHOPPED");
}
Find the local nerd kid, give him a part time job as computer fixer. Shouldn't be that hard to find.
I don't think there are any readily available solutions for your problem and it's not an easy one to solve either with an independent device. GPS is useless indoors and more so with the resolution you need (the few meters between bedroom and dining hall).
You would have to build your own solution for this problem, using Arduino, most likely. Relative positioning using accelerometers is your best bet for an independent device, but positioning error builds quickly and you would need it to reset the error by making a reference to an absolute marker every now and then.
Non independent solutions could use RFID tags placed at regular intervals on the walls, granted the living center would have to let you do that too.
As for the display, a circle made of LEDs should be fairly easy to make. Just light up the ones pointing in the correct direction.
Or you could stop putting your phone in your pants pockets. Either or :3
I can't help but to wonder how many of those switches are nothing but disconnected flickering UI elements.
Using any replacement parts for your car other than your car manufacturer's is patent infringement?
Burnt your break lights? Changed your AC filter? Used a generic brand name? I'll see you in court!
Half credit.
Assuming an imaginary balloon that never explodes and we're filling up with air at a constant rate, yes, you are right! The volume differential is less each time, so the overall inflating of the balloon is slower over time.
However, in the case of the universe, the balloon is being inflated faster as time passes by (current universe expansion is assumed to be accelerating). Furthermore, even in the case of a steadily inflating balloon, we're talking about relative speeds between dots on the surface, which still holds true even if the volume differential slows down. Points father away from each other separate faster than close one for any given delta time.
Yes!
The universe is expanding in every direction. Think of it as a balloon inflating. Any two spots on the surface become further and further apart. The farther they are from each other, the faster the move away from each other as the balloon inflates.
Similarly, as the universe expands, the objects that are the furthest away move the fastest away from us, thus causing more redshift than objects closer to us. Although you should not think as much as the object itself moving away, as much as the space between the objects becoming larger.
Sorry if your ears are bleeding now.
"Ocean Cleanup Project..."
:D"
:D :D :D"
...
...
- "Was about time. Good news!"
"...Completes..."
- "Already done?!. Great news!
"...Great Pacific Garbage..."
- "OMAIGOD!
"...Patch Research Expedition..."
*deadpan*
Can BLOG do peer review?
Short answer is: Yes.
Long answer:
Peer-reviewed articles is a fairly new thing in science, and most often than not, and the review process is highly questionable. This is because the article is often not reviewed by someone that is interested or a major expert in the field, but instead publishers select reviewers at random and assign them papers to review. In some cases, professors and researches hand down the papers are then given to grad students, who have no expertise in the field, to actually review the papers (my thesis adviser gave me a couple to check a once or twice during my PhD). And as someone who has had his articles reviewed, the criticisms are poor and usually minor (readability is poor, maybe add a chart or more experimental results, etc)
Before the age of peer-reviewed journals, the scientific article was published openly an ANYONE in the same field with an invested interest could attack it. The reviews were helpful and really good science came out of it, because the publishing scientist would have to defend or give up his theory. Now this only happens in very rare cases.
Jesus H Christ, the quality of the posts is going down the fucking drain.
To generate extra energy to power my devices? I could see myself enjoying that :D
Seems to be this is more related with the gender distribution in each major more than anything else.
Engineering and sciences have a high percentage of males vs females. Therefore is logical to think that any woman in that field has a lot of possible partners to choose from.
The backwards can be said about Nursery. Mainly a female oriented vocation, any male nurse will have a rather large pool to select a partner from.
Seems pretty obvious, I 'unno...
Oh no, he'll only be able to buy five Ferraris this year instead of six.
Don't you mean an ivory backscratcher?
Finally, I can use this
What? We have those on earth too!
Where are my mod points when I need them!
Well said, sir!
I was thinking the same thing. But the problem with the "paperless" office was portability. The idea behind the paperless office was that people would use digital files instead of printed documents. That is all fine and dandy as long as you're sitting in front of a computer. But when the time comes to do a presentation or hand something to a client, there's no other way around but to use paper.
Now with the proliferation of mobile screens and projectors this seems to be finally the case. I'm not saying we're quite there yet, but it looks like we're heading to a world where paper will be used less and less. I mean, look at any printed publication and how they're moving to digital ones. Newspapers, magazines.... they all now come for your kindle.
Grille
He could have a folded one in his wallet or whatever. If he loses his notebook, it's just a random set of letters.
"The project is not intended to produce mushrooms targeted for human consumption, since the main objective is to get rid of diapers to avoid damaging the environment more"
Under the same logic, Ferrari should start making affordable cars for people that earn less than 40k a year.
The University of Bradford has filed patents for the technology and a spin-out company, Oncascan, has been established to commercialise the research.
And they already have a website running.
I'd say under 5 years before we start seeing this applied in the wild.