There is a difference between static and dynamic friction! Once your car begins to slide (i.e. dynamic friction), the coefficient of friction is much lower. Thats why ABS immediately releases the break when the tire starts to slide, in order to restore static friction and avoid the lower coefficient.
.. the economic aspect of second life, the social aspect of WOW and the privateer engine... man that'd be THE game for me, having played Privateer over and over.. Privateer II was quite a disappointment..
I don't think there are any meaningful patterns to be found in a two-dimensional projection of the data. Maybe there can be found something interesting if the data is arranged in three or more dimensions.
I used to think of the DNA as a kind of a programming language for the physical laws that exist in the universe. DNA in its very basic function is a mechanism to assemble complex organic molecules from simpler molecules and / or atoms, so I'm not sure wether we can extract any information from it using a (2d/3d) spatial arrangement like in these images.
Maybe a tree-dimensional approach reveals more details / information about the structure of our genes, maybe we even need four dimensions (i.e. include the flow of time in our considerations).
TFA reminded me of something I stumbled across last year:
http://www.gfai.de/~heinz/. It's mostly german, but this guy's publications contain many new concepts and ideas and are definitely worth some time and consideration.
http://www.gfai.de/~heinz/historic/index.htm has more material on the topic.
I see that the topic is argumentative, but the fact that there is global warming cannot be denied. Science's credibility is doubted by those who benefit from certain facts being denied, but I don't think "in dubio pro reo" should apply here. The climatic change will have a very big impact on our economies, and firms who are likely to be held responsible for it do everything they can to avoid that information reaching the public, which I think is very bad, because it doesn't result in "it's not their fault", but in "there is no global warming".
The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere before the industrial revolution was 280 ppm, while it's more than 380 ppm nowadays. This is the highest concentration since at least 600.000
years (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/310/5 752/1313/).
I wonder why people start to worry about our environment now, when even 20 years ago it was obvious that something like that will happen.
But now, when it begins to get really expensive (think about damages caused by hurricanes, floodings etc.), people start to care. Before that, the attitude was "Uhh, greenhouse effect? Doesn't concern me, as long as I can live like I used to."
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I don't think building a new society with convicted murderers and other criminals would be such a good idea..
There is a difference between static and dynamic friction! Once your car begins to slide (i.e. dynamic friction), the coefficient of friction is much lower. Thats why ABS immediately releases the break when the tire starts to slide, in order to restore static friction and avoid the lower coefficient.
.. the economic aspect of second life, the social aspect of WOW and the privateer engine... man that'd be THE game for me, having played Privateer over and over.. Privateer II was quite a disappointment..
I don't think there are any meaningful patterns to be found in a two-dimensional projection of the data. Maybe there can be found something interesting if the data is arranged in three or more dimensions.
I used to think of the DNA as a kind of a programming language for the physical laws that exist in the universe. DNA in its very basic function is a mechanism to assemble complex organic molecules from simpler molecules and / or atoms, so I'm not sure wether we can extract any information from it using a (2d/3d) spatial arrangement like in these images.
Maybe a tree-dimensional approach reveals more details / information about the structure of our genes, maybe we even need four dimensions (i.e. include the flow of time in our considerations).
TFA reminded me of something I stumbled across last year: http://www.gfai.de/~heinz/. It's mostly german, but this guy's publications contain many new concepts and ideas and are definitely worth some time and consideration.
http://www.gfai.de/~heinz/historic/index.htm has more material on the topic.
I see that the topic is argumentative, but the fact that there is global warming cannot be denied. Science's credibility is doubted by those who benefit from certain facts being denied, but I don't think "in dubio pro reo" should apply here. The climatic change will have a very big impact on our economies, and firms who are likely to be held responsible for it do everything they can to avoid that information reaching the public, which I think is very bad, because it doesn't result in "it's not their fault", but in "there is no global warming".
The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere before the industrial revolution was 280 ppm, while it's more than 380 ppm nowadays. This is the highest concentration since at least 600.000 years (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/310/5 752/1313/).
0 742, our emission of carbon dioxide is likely a main factor for global warming.
According to http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/displaypagedoc.asp?id=2
I wonder why people start to worry about our environment now, when even 20 years ago it was obvious that something like that will happen.
But now, when it begins to get really expensive (think about damages caused by hurricanes, floodings etc.), people start to care. Before that, the attitude was "Uhh, greenhouse effect? Doesn't concern me, as long as I can live like I used to."
It's almost too late..