That will kill your mileage and maximize air pollution. Here's better idea start using european standards for diesels, and use the 43MPG Ford Galaxy if you need space. Or something smaller with better fuel economy. There is no need for driving less than 40MPG(hw) passanger car.
And get rid of any loop holes for SUV(s) and light trucks as passanger vehicles. TAX them to oblivion.
The Finland uses it in large scale for heating in cities. The overal efficiency is 80-90% of the energy of fuel gets used in heat or electricity. The overal market share for domestic heating is 50%. Its *NOT* used for domestic water. Oh and it HAD been used in 50's and 60s in united states according to wikipedia.
Okay lets consider what that 25Sv per year with half week staying there means. Above 6 Sv Everyone dies. 0.2Sv-2Sv is considered sub-lethal radiotion disease. 25SV per year means with week 0.25Sv per direction. And then there is cumulative aspect of getting the radiation so this is a real consern. On the other hand, its just a matter of engineering for the shields. It MIGHT mean that you can carry half as many passangers for given tonnage of passanger carrier weight compared to original simplistic design. Big deal per ton price getting to orbitjust drops by order of magnitude or two compared to rockets when the elevator will be ready.
Remember how much we save by going by 17" monitors instead of those expensive large screens! Our budget cannot hold it. Now go back to your [100k] salaried job and do your work!
The carbon nanotubes which this is supposed to be build upon break easily, with horizontal force against the elevator. The other point is that if you break it you have lots of tiny needles in the air. So tiny that they get into your lungs.
Firstly, the phrases original meaning fits this very well. Its not my problem that nazis misused a good phrase, and even less that some people are too ignorant to only know only one usage.
Write a letter which is addressed to families of patients who could potentially benefit his research in future, explaining how it might help in the future, and how it potentially could help such patients in future. Tell them what kind of acts of terror animal right activists have done...
Finish it with list of names, home addresses and phone numbers of people who you consider responsible for the acts, and ask them to ask the animal rights activists to stop. Then send it every family which has a member that could of potentially benefitted from the research. If thats too costly then send it to such families in California and Texas. California because its where the research is done. And Texas for some other reasons. If thats too costly, then pick 500 families in california and 1500 in Texas.
First you should make a video that explains in layman terms how the phone home feature works, and your efforts to find the guy, try making it look like it could potentially be broadcasted to large number of people. When filing the crime report, give them the video too.
Conversely I always couldn't understand how some people just didn't get algebra, despite them doing far more homework than me.
The lack of motivation and interest hurts learning more than just amount of work they do. It hurts concentration, and ability to put things in memory. If you are interested in something you will recall it far more easier than people who are not interested in it. Algebra is really badly hurt by lack of interest. I taught it in single evening to a girl who where supposed to learn that few years before in school. The truth is that I don't know what prevented her from learning that few years before. Maybe it was lack of motivation. Now she was desperate in her current mandatory math course, and got motivation to learn. I taught her and [4-10] she was turned from expected 4(failed) to and 8 [above average] student in the subject. The course she took wasn't algebra but I just identified her major problem with math was with algebra not with the subject at hand, and simply teaching her to do algebra was all that it took to get higher grades. The truth is that lots of people have problems with things they should have learned before hand and didn't. And now they have to go for a bruteforce method to compensate. They learn 100 special cases instead of 10 rules. Now they havent learn the rules of the course they took so they cannot learn the rules of the next course but learn 100 special cases again. I was probably the laziest guy in my math class and I got maximum grade of 10, and was clearly minority. The difference was that I had something to build upon, and was smart, and had correct learning strategy, and had real interest in the subject. I consider that my advantages here really multiplied each other at that time. I too did sweat with math, it was in elementary school. There I had to do a lots of calculations, but that gave me advantage later, because the "easy" parts of calculation was automated by huge amount of work done years before I even touched the new subject, and I got some math very well because I had very good base to build upon. For learning high school math there is BIG difference based on how much work you did in elementary school. And extra work they did in highschool is probably far higher than the difference of work they did earlier.
Now if we start accounting the motivation in the 1-4th grade in elementary school, since if you lack motivation you learn somewhat less in similar time unit compared to others, it multiplies later because of the weaker base to build upon. So after a while, the lack of motivation will cause you either do a LOT more work than the motivated ones or have a lot worser grades.
Then I was taught how to count BEFORE I went to elementary school. To know the difference is that if someone has learned algebraic manipulation well enough to do things in few seconds in mind. Compared to other who has learned it well enough doing same thing in few minutes in paper. Now which one does calculations faster when they start doing calculus? Then consider algebra and adding and multiplying with numbers.
Learning algebra is not learning new skill its extending existing math skill to a new subject. For which you need to do less work if you already have high math skill in prerequisites.
If you go for fraction of integer you will either have to round them or potentially spend infinite amount of ram.
Think about this, if you multiply a number with a n fractional bits, with a number with n fractional bits. The end result has 2n fractional bits, or is rounded. Only escape is that if there multiplier gives zero:s in end result. But with lots of calculations you start either rounding things or there will be huge number of bits required to represent the value.
Connect desibel meter measuring the frequency, have computer computing the strength of the noise at source. The play a message at same desibel rating saying. "This device measures the strenth of continuous high frequency noise emitted by "neighbours name" that babies and kids can hear, it can cause hearing damage in babies". Following is the noise is the original noise at similar strenght converted to frequency that adults can hear too.[The original noise converted to frequency that annoys adults.] Please make him stop. This message will automaticly shutdown when his device shuts down. Please help. We are desperate, and cannot concentrate on our schoolwork because of his noise. "neighbours name hates kids and wants to damage their hearing, and prevent them from doing their schoolwork."...
What from the article it looks like they did special purpose asic that solved their problems, and those are controlled by standard cpu:s. Depending on algorithm you can get multiple orders of magnitude performance advantage for doing a special purpose chip instead of general purpose computing chip. Lets do order of magnitude computations here, pair of general purpose cpu cores use about 100M transistors not counting cache. An adder takes 1000 transistors. So with cpu:s transistor budget you get 100000 adders running in parallel. In overall the performance difference would be 1000x for the asic design over general purpose solution. As for not counting cache is important since you probably want the ondie storage for the temporary values, and caches transistor density is far higher than logics. And thats not the best case not worst case scenario but more or less what to expect in general rule if you don't saturate the memory in which case you should add more or faster memory channels or change algorithm for less bandwith limited, still can make trade offs that no off the shelf CPU could reasonably make. In overall you still get atleast 10x performance increase over going for standard cpus. So expect 1000x to 10x on code that runs EXTREMELY optimally on general purpose chip. Of course you CAN construct a case where general purpose computer beats the special purpose one. But more than often that case cannot use lots of processors as once you can parallerize the special purpose wins. The problem with special purpose is that you cannot do everything, you can do one thing and that thing VERY WELL. You just change the control logic to a logic solving the problem.
Does the new generation, born with these restrictions, feel the weight of these bonds and recoil from my fears as paranoia?
Yes. Whatever status quo will be by the time those new born citizens is when they are age of 6 ot 7 is what they accept as normal and standard. Changing little by little, the system can change considerably over long period of time, and most of the people don't even realize what has been changed, or are already accepting the status quo. All it takes a small change per year and over long period the change is huge. All it takes is generation or two and the standard of whats normal personal freedom could be changed completely from what it is now to something totally different. Computer is your friend. And what kind of invasion of privacy and personal rights we consider now unacceptable will be perfectly normal in 2100 and majority have accepted it as a normal practice, and consider our fears about that kind of future just Paranoia.
Following news item tells you all that you need to know about reliability of hizbollah rockets. Hizbollah has fired more than 900 missiles in total at dozens of towns and villages, killing 15 Israeli civilians.
I lived several months about that+rent in a western democracy. And if I wanted to optimize my spending I could do it today too after looking the price of the food.
Now everything is cheaper in india, I'm considering living temporary to india. In india living $ per day doesn't even have to make any sacrifices on lifestyle. I don't know much about rent and that short of costs of living in india but something tells me those are not in the same order of magnitude as in Finland. But the lack of infrastructure or pollution that was mentioned here might put me off...
Finnish has a phonetic spelling. Its great for learning to read. The basic reason why its great is that it removes some of the things you need to write allowing you to concentrate on other issues. And it takes away things you need to learn in school and gives you time to learn other things. Our language has other complications, but still the concept of removing need for some of the learning for school kids is great. However if you DON'T put something usefull in its place in curriculum the benefit of simplifying the spelling is lost. However as in terms of language the any change is extremely hard to get through in huge scale. In Finnish where there is only one small country where its majority language and that there is official standards body for Finnish language makes it possible for alter any spelling.
As for the change, the real question is, how much it cost in time for *ALL* the living older generations to learn new spelling, and how much is saved by new future generations by not needing to learn the old spelling. Fact remains that the cost of change is FAR bigger in the short term than the benefit. Also going for the phonetical spelling creates problems for americans, aussies, and people living in britain to comprehend each others writing. And in worst case, only Americans go for new spelling and rest of the English speaking countries don't. The end result is that the languages grow to separate from each other more and more, and the amount of learning required to understand the writings of English speaking countries around the world increases. The BEST case would be that there would be a STANDARD english that is taught in every school with phonetic spellings, all English speaking countries agree the spelling of the different words and there would be ONE phonetic standard which to translate said spellings to pronounciations so that there would be one correct way of pronouncing each word. The local dialects wouldn't be used in official documents, and education would teach the one standard.
>> Because it wouldn't be something if you were psychic while in a coma, for 18 years. I mean, who would you tell?
>I guess it depends on what kind of psychic you're talking about... but I would assume the ability to recieve and broadcast... In which case it would be the perfect cover. Who's going to suspect the guy in the almost-coma of being the one secretly controlling the world, eh?
I don't really think its a secret. Except that the psychic part is not verified.
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That will kill your mileage and maximize air pollution.
Here's better idea start using european standards for diesels, and use the 43MPG Ford Galaxy if you need space.
Or something smaller with better fuel economy.
There is no need for driving less than 40MPG(hw) passanger car.
And get rid of any loop holes for SUV(s) and light trucks as passanger vehicles. TAX them to oblivion.
The Finland uses it in large scale for heating in cities. The overal efficiency is 80-90% of the energy of fuel gets used in heat or electricity. The overal market share for domestic heating is 50%.
Its *NOT* used for domestic water.
Oh and it HAD been used in 50's and 60s in united states according to wikipedia.
Okay lets consider what that 25Sv per year with half week staying there means.
Above 6 Sv Everyone dies. 0.2Sv-2Sv is considered sub-lethal radiotion disease. 25SV per year means with week 0.25Sv per direction. And then there is cumulative aspect of getting the radiation so this is a real consern.
On the other hand, its just a matter of engineering for the shields. It MIGHT mean that you can carry half as many passangers for given tonnage of passanger carrier weight compared to original simplistic design. Big deal per ton price getting to orbitjust drops by order of magnitude or two compared to rockets when the elevator will be ready.
Remember how much we save by going by 17" monitors instead of those expensive large screens! Our budget cannot hold it. Now go back to your [100k] salaried job and do your work!
The carbon nanotubes which this is supposed to be build upon break easily, with horizontal force against the elevator. The other point is that if you break it you have lots of tiny needles in the air. So tiny that they get into your lungs.
Firstly, the phrases original meaning fits this very well.
Its not my problem that nazis misused a good phrase, and even less that some people are too ignorant to only know only one usage.
Arbeit Macht Frei.
Thank you for an idea for a game.
Write a letter which is addressed to families of patients who could potentially benefit his research in future, explaining how it might help in the future, and how it potentially could help such patients in future. Tell them what kind of acts of terror animal right activists have done...
Finish it with list of names, home addresses and phone numbers of people who you consider responsible for the acts, and ask them to ask the animal rights activists to stop.
Then send it every family which has a member that could of potentially benefitted from the research. If thats too costly then send it to such families in California and Texas.
California because its where the research is done. And Texas for some other reasons. If thats too costly, then pick 500 families in california and 1500 in Texas.
First you should make a video that explains in layman terms how the phone home feature works, and your efforts to find the guy, try making it look like it could potentially be broadcasted to large number of people. When filing the crime report, give them the video too.
Conversely I always couldn't understand how some people just didn't get algebra, despite them doing far more homework than me.
The lack of motivation and interest hurts learning more than just amount of work they do. It hurts concentration, and ability to put things in memory.
If you are interested in something you will recall it far more easier than people who are not interested in it. Algebra is really badly hurt by lack of interest.
I taught it in single evening to a girl who where supposed to learn that few years before in school. The truth is that I don't know what prevented her from learning that few years before. Maybe it was lack of motivation. Now she was desperate in her current mandatory math course, and got motivation to learn. I taught her and [4-10] she was turned from expected 4(failed) to and 8 [above average] student in the subject. The course she took wasn't algebra but I just identified her major problem with math was with algebra not with the subject at hand, and simply teaching her to do algebra was all that it took to get higher grades.
The truth is that lots of people have problems with things they should have learned before hand and didn't. And now they have to go for a bruteforce method to compensate. They learn 100 special cases instead of 10 rules. Now they havent learn the rules of the course they took so they cannot learn the rules of the next course but learn 100 special cases again. I was probably the laziest guy in my math class and I got maximum grade of 10, and was clearly minority. The difference was that I had something to build upon, and was smart, and had correct learning strategy, and had real interest in the subject.
I consider that my advantages here really multiplied each other at that time.
I too did sweat with math, it was in elementary school. There I had to do a lots of calculations, but that gave me advantage later, because the "easy" parts of calculation was automated by huge amount of work done years before I even touched the new subject, and I got some math very well because I had very good base to build upon. For learning high school math there is BIG difference based on how much work you did in elementary school. And extra work they did in highschool is probably far higher than the difference of work they did earlier.
Now if we start accounting the motivation in the 1-4th grade in elementary school, since if you lack motivation you learn somewhat less in similar time unit compared to others, it multiplies later because of the weaker base to build upon. So after a while, the lack of motivation will cause you either do a LOT more work than the motivated ones or have a lot worser grades.
Then I was taught how to count BEFORE I went to elementary school. To know the difference is that if someone has learned algebraic manipulation well enough to do things in few seconds in mind. Compared to other who has learned it well enough doing same thing in few minutes in paper. Now which one does calculations faster when they start doing calculus? Then consider algebra and adding and multiplying with numbers.
Learning algebra is not learning new skill its extending existing math skill to a new subject. For which you need to do less work if you already have high math skill in prerequisites.
If you go for fraction of integer you will either have to round them or potentially spend infinite amount of ram.
Think about this, if you multiply a number with a n fractional bits, with a number with n fractional bits.
The end result has 2n fractional bits, or is rounded. Only escape is that if there multiplier gives zero:s in end result. But with lots of calculations you start either rounding things or there will be huge number of bits required to represent the value.
Is it Al'kesh , Puddle jumper, or Stargate.
Do not underestimate the power of the force!
Its like millions of cup holders had screamed, and then silence.
Connect desibel meter measuring the frequency, have computer computing the strength of the noise at source. ...
The play a message at same desibel rating saying. "This device measures the strenth of continuous high frequency noise emitted by "neighbours name" that babies and kids can hear, it can cause hearing damage in babies". Following is the noise is the original noise at similar strenght converted to frequency that adults can hear too.[The original noise converted to frequency that annoys adults.] Please make him stop. This message will automaticly shutdown when his device shuts down. Please help. We are desperate, and cannot concentrate on our schoolwork because of his noise. "neighbours name hates kids and wants to damage their hearing, and prevent them from doing their schoolwork."
What from the article it looks like they did special purpose asic that solved their problems, and those are controlled by standard cpu:s. Depending on algorithm you can get multiple orders of magnitude performance advantage for doing a special purpose chip instead of general purpose computing chip.
Lets do order of magnitude computations here, pair of general purpose cpu cores use about 100M transistors not counting cache. An adder takes 1000 transistors. So with cpu:s transistor budget you get 100000 adders running in parallel. In overall the performance difference would be 1000x for the asic design over general purpose solution. As for not counting cache is important since you probably want the ondie storage for the temporary values, and caches transistor density is far higher than logics. And thats not the best case not worst case scenario but more or less what to expect in general rule if you don't saturate the memory in which case you should add more or faster memory channels or change algorithm for less bandwith limited, still can make trade offs that no off the shelf CPU could reasonably make. In overall you still get atleast 10x performance increase over going for standard cpus. So expect 1000x to 10x on code that runs EXTREMELY optimally on general purpose chip. Of course you CAN construct a case where general purpose computer beats the special purpose one. But more than often that case cannot use lots of processors as once you can parallerize the special purpose wins.
The problem with special purpose is that you cannot do everything, you can do one thing and that thing VERY WELL.
You just change the control logic to a logic solving the problem.
Yes. Whatever status quo will be by the time those new born citizens is when they are age of 6 ot 7 is what they accept as normal and standard. Changing little by little, the system can change considerably over long period of time, and most of the people don't even realize what has been changed, or are already accepting the status quo. All it takes a small change per year and over long period the change is huge.
All it takes is generation or two and the standard of whats normal personal freedom could be changed completely from what it is now to something totally different. Computer is your friend. And what kind of invasion of privacy and personal rights we consider now unacceptable will be perfectly normal in 2100 and majority have accepted it as a normal practice, and consider our fears about that kind of future just Paranoia.
I'd rather send them this site
No. The best analogy would be "watching scifi for the acting is like using slashdot for the social contact.".
Watching scifi for the acting is like reading slashdot for the comments.
Ugly and reliable like a Hizbollah rocket.
Following news item tells you all that you need to know about reliability of hizbollah rockets.
Hizbollah has fired more than 900 missiles in total at dozens of towns and villages, killing 15 Israeli civilians.
If you download enough free beer you will eventually upload.
I lived several months about that+rent in a western democracy.
And if I wanted to optimize my spending I could do it today too after looking the price of the food.
Now everything is cheaper in india, I'm considering living temporary to india. In india living $ per day doesn't even have to make any sacrifices on lifestyle. I don't know much about rent and that short of costs of living in india but something tells me those are not in the same order of magnitude as in Finland. But the lack of infrastructure or pollution that was mentioned here might put me off...
Finnish has a phonetic spelling. Its great for learning to read.
The basic reason why its great is that it removes some of the things you need to write allowing you to concentrate on other issues. And it takes away things you need to learn in school and gives you time to learn other things. Our language has other complications, but still the concept of removing need for some of the learning for school kids is great. However if you DON'T put something usefull in its place in curriculum the benefit of simplifying the spelling is lost.
However as in terms of language the any change is extremely hard to get through in huge scale. In Finnish where there is only one small country where its majority language and that there is official standards body for Finnish language makes it possible for alter any spelling.
As for the change, the real question is, how much it cost in time for *ALL* the living older generations to learn new spelling, and how much is saved by new future generations by not needing to learn the old spelling. Fact remains that the cost of change is FAR bigger in the short term than the benefit.
Also going for the phonetical spelling creates problems for americans, aussies, and people living in britain to comprehend each others writing. And in worst case, only Americans go for new spelling and rest of the English speaking countries don't. The end result is that the languages grow to separate from each other more and more, and the amount of learning required to understand the writings of English speaking countries around the world increases.
The BEST case would be that there would be a STANDARD english that is taught in every school with phonetic spellings, all English speaking countries agree the spelling of the different words and there would be ONE phonetic standard which to translate said spellings to pronounciations so that there would be one correct way of pronouncing each word. The local dialects wouldn't be used in official documents, and education would teach the one standard.
>I guess it depends on what kind of psychic you're talking about... but I would assume the ability to recieve and broadcast... In which case it would be the perfect cover. Who's going to suspect the guy in the almost-coma of being the one secretly controlling the world, eh?
I don't really think its a secret. Except that the psychic part is not verified.