I live in Altadena and have a good view of Mt Wilson. Most of the flames are on the North side of the ridge today, and are therefore beyond line of sight. Smoke completely obscures the mountains in the morning hours as well. The press has been reporting for two days now that the fire was "hours away" from the observatory, but the ground crews and helicopters have been successful in protecting it and the antenna farm.
This afternoon, however, we were treated to the impressive sight of a Martin JRM Mars aerial water tanker dropping 7,000 gallons of water at a pop on the Mt. Wilson blazes, and seeing the black smoke turn to white steam. Better images here (scroll down 1/3rd of the page).
I'm confident that the firefighters will be able to prevent any serious damage to the assets on Mt. Wilson, both scientific and commercial. The worst appears to be over.
I guess if you're OK trading off spelling and penmanship for early development of skills that they'll learn soon enough anyway, then sure. Get your toddler a Leapberry, or whatever-yacallit. (I did rtfa, but my retention is poor. I started using a web browser at an early age.)
Just don't blame anybody else when they start running around speaking in acronymese like "ell-oh-ell" and "eff-oh-ay-dee," and their handwriting looks worse than your physician's.
In Mein Kampf, Hitler goes on to long diatribes about how all Jews are Marxists and all Marxists are Jews, and why both should be disenfranchised (there's no call for extermination, though). He lambasts parliamentary democracy, and any idea of collegial rule in general, and promotes Fuhrerprinzip, the rule of the one "fittes" leaders with a strict hierarchy of smaller "fuhrers" underneath, and no place for rule of law. He rants about how "prostituizing" the country destroys society, and how morals should be made stricter, how the traditional family and gender roles within it should be promoted by the government, and how any "deviations" should be cracked down upon. He glorifies militarism, and states that expansion of the living space by aggressive means should always remain on the agenda of any healthy state.
Gee - replace "Jews" with "liberals" and "Marxists" with "socialists," and euphemize the imperialist language into "preemptive defense," it all sounds very, very familiar. Now, throw in a healthy dose of Godwinian projection, and you have described the contemporary neoconservative leadership in the USA since about 1993.
My first thought was "IMs? What about malware, etc?" In other words, a firewall on an embedded system in the NIC would be far more useful than something that lets your CPU sleep while you keep downloading porn.
And then my second thought was "Great, another vulnerability for attack. Why hack someone's PC, which could have any configuration, when you can hack the monoculture of embedded processors in consumer NICs?"
Either way, marketing this kind of NIC without addressing all of its security potentials/weaknesses would be hasty... and possibly even irresponsible.
It's this kind of arrogant attitude that's kept me away from Wikipedia the last few years - anything I add ends-up rejected because some stupid kid has a hard-on for his power position. You want to know why Wikipedia is not growing? It's because the new pack of cyber nerds is defending it's territory.
Oddly enough, that's exactly what it's like trying to contribute to many established community organizations, no matter how trivial their scope. Narcissistic politics dominate, and territorialism is the primary motive of most of the established "leaders." In fact, the more trivial the mission of the group, the more narcissism prevails. They want plenty of people to be followers but if you try to contribute any ideas or leadership, you're suddenly a threat to their territory. It's this kind of arrogant attitude that's kept me away from volunteering, except the ones that were new and still organizing.
On other words, Wikipedia has become your mother's PTA.
You jest... but reliable Electric Powerplants with satisfactory performance, range and efficiency brings us one step closer to the world of Steve Jackson Games' CAR WARS.
Now all we need is a grain blight. And an affordable forward-mounted VMG.
I did the same, but I used sodium chloride, and included some wood chips soaked in dihydrogen monoxide. Somewhat tastier, despite the use of the Earth's most deadly chemical.
Agreed. In fact, I maintain a personal property of NOT buying from firms that place advertisements in my email inbox or browser window. But then, I'm an old usenet grognard, and resent almost all unsolicited intersections of commercialism and internet.
I can think of several reasons without even trying very hard: to understand how the physical brain gives rise to emergent processes like consciousness; to understand the failure modes of the brain that underlie various psychological and cognitive disorders; to test interfaces on artificial brains before hooking up augmentations to real brains...
And I can think of a damn good reason not to "optimize" the design, as you put it: Do you really want to be outsmarted by your creations? Not yet. (Biological parenthood is bad enough!)
Random Fact: The proper adjective form to refer to the 2nd solar planet is not Venusian but Venereal. However, the latter term doesn't get quite the desired reception from the general public.
(I learned this from a Tony Randall appearance on the tonight show in the early 1980s. I just wish my brain could retain practical facts the way it retains trivia like this.)
FTFA: You'll be forgiven if you find it difficult to square the reality of hNews with the AP's pronouncements about it. Ed Felten, the eminent Princeton computer security researcher, couldn't figure it out, either. [Felten blogs that] "hNews is a handy way of annotating news stories with information about the author, dateline, and so on. But it doesn't 'encapsulate' anything in a 'wrapper,' nor does it do much of anything to facilitate metering, monitoring, or paywalls."
IOW, zilch to do with enforcement. In fact, it sounds to me like just enough bullshit to make a DMCA circumvention claim in court, or better yet, send out a bunch of threatening letters to bloggers. (How very RIAA of them.)
Not necessarily true. Like most UGVs, it has autonomous terrain handling, station keeping and obstacle avoidance functions. But it requires a human navigator, and a human operator for the effectors and other payload delivery.
So, you can accurately say it's a "robotically piloted waldo" if you wish. The media likes to simplify this into simply "robot," granted, and not without some sensationalism.
It doesn't say, but the FLASH laser is a free-electron laser, which as I understand it is continuously tunable, see here. The FLASH wikipedia page says it it is tunable from 10 to 200 nm, which includes both SX and EUV parts of the spectrum.
The AeroVironment Posicharge ELT single vehicle charger comes close to delivering that kind of power. Given AVAV's business model, I daresay they'd be all over that market, if it were to emerge.
And the required stranded copper conductor is about 500k circular mils, which converts to a conductor about 1.8cm in diameter. Not too unweildy.
The problem isn't getting that much power from the charging station to the car, the problem is getting that much power from the grid to the charging station. Charging stations would necessarily be located at community electric substations.
It seems like the real answer is trickle charge overnight at home, rapid charge topoff for long trips or emergency return-to-home situations. Batteries generally store more energy from a C/10 or C/20 trickle charge than from a 10C fast charge, anyway.
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I live in Altadena and have a good view of Mt Wilson. Most of the flames are on the North side of the ridge today, and are therefore beyond line of sight. Smoke completely obscures the mountains in the morning hours as well. The press has been reporting for two days now that the fire was "hours away" from the observatory, but the ground crews and helicopters have been successful in protecting it and the antenna farm.
This afternoon, however, we were treated to the impressive sight of a Martin JRM Mars aerial water tanker dropping 7,000 gallons of water at a pop on the Mt. Wilson blazes, and seeing the black smoke turn to white steam. Better images here (scroll down 1/3rd of the page).
I'm confident that the firefighters will be able to prevent any serious damage to the assets on Mt. Wilson, both scientific and commercial. The worst appears to be over.
I guess if you're OK trading off spelling and penmanship for early development of skills that they'll learn soon enough anyway, then sure. Get your toddler a Leapberry, or whatever-yacallit. (I did rtfa, but my retention is poor. I started using a web browser at an early age.)
Just don't blame anybody else when they start running around speaking in acronymese like "ell-oh-ell" and "eff-oh-ay-dee," and their handwriting looks worse than your physician's.
Gee - replace "Jews" with "liberals" and "Marxists" with "socialists," and euphemize the imperialist language into "preemptive defense," it all sounds very, very familiar. Now, throw in a healthy dose of Godwinian projection, and you have described the contemporary neoconservative leadership in the USA since about 1993.
I'm confused. Are you implying that there's some sort of secret teabagger alphabet... a conservative cuneiform so to speak?
Or did you just forget a comma?
Yours is a fallacious interpretation of my statement. If I said "Eat your vegetables," an analogously false interpretation would be "Become a Vegan."
My first thought was "IMs? What about malware, etc?" In other words, a firewall on an embedded system in the NIC would be far more useful than something that lets your CPU sleep while you keep downloading porn.
And then my second thought was "Great, another vulnerability for attack. Why hack someone's PC, which could have any configuration, when you can hack the monoculture of embedded processors in consumer NICs?"
Either way, marketing this kind of NIC without addressing all of its security potentials/weaknesses would be hasty... and possibly even irresponsible.
Oddly enough, that's exactly what it's like trying to contribute to many established community organizations, no matter how trivial their scope. Narcissistic politics dominate, and territorialism is the primary motive of most of the established "leaders." In fact, the more trivial the mission of the group, the more narcissism prevails. They want plenty of people to be followers but if you try to contribute any ideas or leadership, you're suddenly a threat to their territory. It's this kind of arrogant attitude that's kept me away from volunteering, except the ones that were new and still organizing.
On other words, Wikipedia has become your mother's PTA.
You jest... but reliable Electric Powerplants with satisfactory performance, range and efficiency brings us one step closer to the world of Steve Jackson Games' CAR WARS.
Now all we need is a grain blight. And an affordable forward-mounted VMG.
/drive offensively
We chemistry nerds tend to party among ourselves. And we know all the best chemicals.
So yes, our parties are quite entertaining.
Plus, we like to blow shit up.
/hold my ethyl alcohol solution and watch this
I did the same, but I used sodium chloride, and included some wood chips soaked in dihydrogen monoxide. Somewhat tastier, despite the use of the Earth's most deadly chemical.
... to invent something that turns orthopedic surgeons into woody boners.
(Yes. I went there.)
Sounds to me like the Underpants Gnomes have found their niche on the internets.
I have over 1 Quadrillion pornographic images on my computer.
Yes, I'm a Petaphile.
Enlighten yourself: Tactical Air Control Party ("Tack P.") Not all USAF personnel are jet jocks in socks, my friend.
Agreed. In fact, I maintain a personal property of NOT buying from firms that place advertisements in my email inbox or browser window. But then, I'm an old usenet grognard, and resent almost all unsolicited intersections of commercialism and internet.
There ain't no such thing!
I can think of several reasons without even trying very hard: to understand how the physical brain gives rise to emergent processes like consciousness; to understand the failure modes of the brain that underlie various psychological and cognitive disorders; to test interfaces on artificial brains before hooking up augmentations to real brains...
And I can think of a damn good reason not to "optimize" the design, as you put it: Do you really want to be outsmarted by your creations? Not yet. (Biological parenthood is bad enough!)
I stand corrected. On two points. In fact, I find Cytherian most aesthetic of all. But unfortunately, it now has a rather sordid connotation as well.
Random Fact: The proper adjective form to refer to the 2nd solar planet is not Venusian but Venereal. However, the latter term doesn't get quite the desired reception from the general public.
(I learned this from a Tony Randall appearance on the tonight show in the early 1980s. I just wish my brain could retain practical facts the way it retains trivia like this.)
FTFA: You'll be forgiven if you find it difficult to square the reality of hNews with the AP's pronouncements about it. Ed Felten, the eminent Princeton computer security researcher, couldn't figure it out, either. [Felten blogs that] "hNews is a handy way of annotating news stories with information about the author, dateline, and so on. But it doesn't 'encapsulate' anything in a 'wrapper,' nor does it do much of anything to facilitate metering, monitoring, or paywalls."
IOW, zilch to do with enforcement. In fact, it sounds to me like just enough bullshit to make a DMCA circumvention claim in court, or better yet, send out a bunch of threatening letters to bloggers. (How very RIAA of them.)
(UAV engineer here)
Not necessarily true. Like most UGVs, it has autonomous terrain handling, station keeping and obstacle avoidance functions. But it requires a human navigator, and a human operator for the effectors and other payload delivery.
So, you can accurately say it's a "robotically piloted waldo" if you wish. The media likes to simplify this into simply "robot," granted, and not without some sensationalism.
It doesn't say, but the FLASH laser is a free-electron laser, which as I understand it is continuously tunable, see here. The FLASH wikipedia page says it it is tunable from 10 to 200 nm, which includes both SX and EUV parts of the spectrum.
The AeroVironment Posicharge ELT single vehicle charger comes close to delivering that kind of power. Given AVAV's business model, I daresay they'd be all over that market, if it were to emerge.
And the required stranded copper conductor is about 500k circular mils, which converts to a conductor about 1.8cm in diameter. Not too unweildy.
The problem isn't getting that much power from the charging station to the car, the problem is getting that much power from the grid to the charging station. Charging stations would necessarily be located at community electric substations.
It seems like the real answer is trickle charge overnight at home, rapid charge topoff for long trips or emergency return-to-home situations. Batteries generally store more energy from a C/10 or C/20 trickle charge than from a 10C fast charge, anyway.
This movie is for casuals. Hardcores have the script on farm status already.