Well, there are (almost) no devices that are more efficient at heating. Light bulbs are 90% efficient at that. Heaters can reach 99%, but try finding a 40W heater..
There are 40W heaters on the market that are 100% efficient. They're called light bulbs.
What do you think (eventually) happens to the 10% of energy emitted by the bulb as light? Heat.
(And yes, this means that you may as well use ordinary light bulbs during winter in an electrically heated house. You can even leave them on all night, it's free as long as your heating is on.)
Yes, it's just a variant of Monte Carlo, but don't knock it. Recent programs implementing the algorithm have improved their handicaps by up to 5 stones, which is huge. The top bots at the KGS Go server are now ranked up to 4 dan (like a good amateur player) in games against humans.
Facebook, as of February, was sitting at 700 status updates a second. Know how many google searches were made every second as of February? 34,000.
So no, not close. Not even close to close.
I'd argue that on the usual scales of internetiness, only 1.5 order of magnitude from Google is definitely close to close, and some would argue that it is even closer, perhaps even close. Especially given the fact that more effort is put into typical status updates than typical googling.
And this comes from someone who loathes Facebook as much as he loves Google.
The best example I can think of is with the word "forte." If you use the "correct" pronunciation by saying "fort," people are going to look at you like you're an idiot once they figure out that you meant "for-tay."
Er... "fort" would only be correct if it came from French and was specifically referring to a feminine word. But it was almost certainly imported from Italian (because it is a very common term in music, where Italian is the lingua franca), in which case "fortay" would be much closer to the origin. Even better would be "forteh".
Anyway, a sufficiently used pronunciation of any word in any language is correct, by definition. "Fortay" is now correct. Live with it.
You obviously don't read Slashdot on a WXGA screen like I do. After a few indent levels in a popular thread, the margins are wide enough to easily accommodate Wiles' general proof of Fermat's last theorem.
wHo says that life needs oxygen? Even on our planet are living beings who do not need oxygen at all. Black smoker bacterias for example.
Life develops according to outer circumstances. Darwin. Read it.
it's just plain stupid to believe extra-terrestial life can only develop on Earth 2.
Thank God we have enlightened ACs teaching scientists how to do things! I'm sure they never considered the points you raised.
To address your point: they do NOT assume that life needs oxygen. However, the presence of significant amounts of oxygen in a planetary atmosphere is a strong indicator of life. This is because the gas is so reactive that it gets removed from the atmosphere very quickly. The only reason we have oxygen in our air is because it is continuously put there by photosynthesis.
I think my mom is a typical Joe Sixpack computer user. She uses Firefox to access Gmail and read some newspapers. Chromium would be great if this was all she did. However, she also uses the computer to store and view her photos. Does Google seriously want us to upload all this data to the cloud? Several gigabytes every time you empty your camera or digital camcorder? What's Google's plan for multimedia?
There is too much competition from other fresh and well regarded "new" languages for yet another new entrant to gain much headway without something really novel to attract attention.
Personally I think that with C-like syntax, Javascript-like garbage collection, closures and general simplicity, ridiculously straightforward concurrent programming constructs, a novel relaxed approach to Object Orientation and backing by Google, this will be a language to keep an eye on.
It almost certainly will be frozen over, so weather won't be a problem. But with a population of 352, I suppose lack of infrastructure could be a problem for having Winter Olympics in Hell.
The game may well be the most difficult to master of all games in history, but it is simultaneously one of the easiest to learn and to enjoy. Which actually does bode well for the language. If Go (language) is to C as Go (game) is to chess, then they nailed it.
But, as I just posted in another thread here, there are other problems with the naming.
It's a small complaint, I'm sure.. but couldn't they have given it a name that you could, you know, Google?
Yeah, why couldn't they use unambiguous names like all other programming languages, like C, Java, Python and Ruby?
Sarcasm aside, I agree that the naming is unfortunate (although I love the Go Ogle debugger pun). The parent was probably referring to the common verb, but this will also make it much harder for Go players like myself to find books and stuff for the board game. This guy isn't happy either.
Cold weather, hot women, health care, and common sense. If their food is any good, maybe I'll move also
My ex-girlfriend is Norwegian. Once when I visited her in Norway I was treated to a traditional family dinner, consisting of pig's head on a plate - one head per person. Does that answer your question?
I can only imagine that Mr. and Mrs. McDonald were forbidden to use contraceptives and were *not* happy to have the baby. What other reason can there be for the cruelty in naming their son Donald?
This is right up there with the American soccer player in the 1994 World Cup called Tom Dooley...
Ah yes, Mozart's infamous fifth symphony. The horn theme in the third movement really exposes Wolfgang for the racist little 9-year old creep he was.
[Note to parent: point taken on racism, but you may want to review your music history.]
Name one large company that you'd trust to hold the reigns to your personal computing devices. Just one.
Google. Call me naive, but I think they sincerely mean "don't be evil". Not because of altruism, but because that will win market share in the long run, especially in the current ecosystem of corporations screwing their customers.
So wouldn't it be just awesome if Google developed its own OS for personal computing devices, secured major industrial support and then open-sourced it so we could be 100% sure they're not up to anything devious? Utopian pipe-dream, I know...
When you exclude lying assholes, there are exactly zero people in the world that think "America", in the absence of any other information, refers to anything other than The United States of America, yourself included.
Well done Sir, you just called all 329 million native speakers of Spanish lying assholes. If you don't believe me, take Pimsleur's first Spanish lesson online, for free.
As they will teach you in the lesson, and I quote:
The word "American" is not usually used in Spanish, because it is not clear whether you mean North American, Central American, or South American. A common word for a person from the United States is "norte americano". This literally means "North American".
My comment titles also appear white on white in some parts of slashdot (Firefox 3.0.10 on WinXP), but only when I am logged in. I suspected the problem was a missing stylesheet, and used Greasemonkey to reinject it successfully. An easier but temporary fix (for me) is to just click the "change" button in the threshold/sorting dialog.
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I think the moral of the story was "Don't stick your penis into the hornet's nest."
I'm all for citing Colbert, but you should at least give him the credit for the quote and provide a link, especially when the segment is so hilarious.
Well, there are (almost) no devices that are more efficient at heating. Light bulbs are 90% efficient at that. Heaters can reach 99%, but try finding a 40W heater..
There are 40W heaters on the market that are 100% efficient. They're called light bulbs.
What do you think (eventually) happens to the 10% of energy emitted by the bulb as light? Heat.
(And yes, this means that you may as well use ordinary light bulbs during winter in an electrically heated house. You can even leave them on all night, it's free as long as your heating is on.)
Monte Carlo
Yes, it's just a variant of Monte Carlo, but don't knock it. Recent programs implementing the algorithm have improved their handicaps by up to 5 stones, which is huge. The top bots at the KGS Go server are now ranked up to 4 dan (like a good amateur player) in games against humans.
You may want to read this short article in the Guardian about these recent improvements in the MoGo go bot. In October 2009 (6 months after this article appeared) a version of MoGo finally beat a top-ranking (9 dan) professional in an even game on a 9x9 board.
Facebook, as of February, was sitting at 700 status updates a second. Know how many google searches were made every second as of February? 34,000.
So no, not close. Not even close to close.
I'd argue that on the usual scales of internetiness, only 1.5 order of magnitude from Google is definitely close to close, and some would argue that it is even closer, perhaps even close. Especially given the fact that more effort is put into typical status updates than typical googling.
And this comes from someone who loathes Facebook as much as he loves Google.
The best example I can think of is with the word "forte." If you use the "correct" pronunciation by saying "fort," people are going to look at you like you're an idiot once they figure out that you meant "for-tay."
Er ... "fort" would only be correct if it came from French and was specifically referring to a feminine word. But it was almost certainly imported from Italian (because it is a very common term in music, where Italian is the lingua franca), in which case "fortay" would be much closer to the origin. Even better would be "forteh".
Anyway, a sufficiently used pronunciation of any word in any language is correct, by definition. "Fortay" is now correct. Live with it.
Note to self, don't invite Don Quixote to Iceland.
As always, xkcd is way ahead of us all.
But the margin is too narrow to contain it.
You obviously don't read Slashdot on a WXGA screen like I do. After a few indent levels in a popular thread, the margins are wide enough to easily accommodate Wiles' general proof of Fermat's last theorem.
wHo says that life needs oxygen? Even on our planet are living beings who do not need oxygen at all. Black smoker bacterias for example. Life develops according to outer circumstances. Darwin. Read it. it's just plain stupid to believe extra-terrestial life can only develop on Earth 2.
Thank God we have enlightened ACs teaching scientists how to do things! I'm sure they never considered the points you raised.
To address your point: they do NOT assume that life needs oxygen. However, the presence of significant amounts of oxygen in a planetary atmosphere is a strong indicator of life. This is because the gas is so reactive that it gets removed from the atmosphere very quickly. The only reason we have oxygen in our air is because it is continuously put there by photosynthesis.
I'm rooting for panspermia.
Naw, too messy.
On a side note, can someone tell me the best way to clean my monitor?
I think my mom is a typical Joe Sixpack computer user. She uses Firefox to access Gmail and read some newspapers. Chromium would be great if this was all she did. However, she also uses the computer to store and view her photos. Does Google seriously want us to upload all this data to the cloud? Several gigabytes every time you empty your camera or digital camcorder? What's Google's plan for multimedia?
There is too much competition from other fresh and well regarded "new" languages for yet another new entrant to gain much headway without something really novel to attract attention.
Personally I think that with C-like syntax, Javascript-like garbage collection, closures and general simplicity, ridiculously straightforward concurrent programming constructs, a novel relaxed approach to Object Orientation and backing by Google, this will be a language to keep an eye on.
It almost certainly will be frozen over, so weather won't be a problem. But with a population of 352, I suppose lack of infrastructure could be a problem for having Winter Olympics in Hell.
The game may well be the most difficult to master of all games in history, but it is simultaneously one of the easiest to learn and to enjoy. Which actually does bode well for the language. If Go (language) is to C as Go (game) is to chess, then they nailed it.
But, as I just posted in another thread here, there are other problems with the naming.
It's a small complaint, I'm sure.. but couldn't they have given it a name that you could, you know, Google?
Yeah, why couldn't they use unambiguous names like all other programming languages, like C, Java, Python and Ruby?
Sarcasm aside, I agree that the naming is unfortunate (although I love the Go Ogle debugger pun). The parent was probably referring to the common verb, but this will also make it much harder for Go players like myself to find books and stuff for the board game. This guy isn't happy either.
Cold weather, hot women, health care, and common sense. If their food is any good, maybe I'll move also
My ex-girlfriend is Norwegian. Once when I visited her in Norway I was treated to a traditional family dinner, consisting of pig's head on a plate - one head per person. Does that answer your question?
I can only imagine that Mr. and Mrs. McDonald were forbidden to use contraceptives and were *not* happy to have the baby. What other reason can there be for the cruelty in naming their son Donald?
...
This is right up there with the American soccer player in the 1994 World Cup called Tom Dooley
Wait, "serendipity" is a pretentious word now?
Sometimes strange, wonderful, coincidental things happen.
I take it "serendipity" means "shit".
Buzzkill.
Ah yes, Mozart's infamous fifth symphony. The horn theme in the third movement really exposes Wolfgang for the racist little 9-year old creep he was. [Note to parent: point taken on racism, but you may want to review your music history.]
Stop me if someone else has already addressed this point-but why not re-animate him as a zombie?
"BRAAAAIIIINS - or CPUUUUUUUS, whatever, I can't tell them apart anyway."
Name one large company that you'd trust to hold the reigns to your personal computing devices. Just one.
Google. Call me naive, but I think they sincerely mean "don't be evil". Not because of altruism, but because that will win market share in the long run, especially in the current ecosystem of corporations screwing their customers.
...
So wouldn't it be just awesome if Google developed its own OS for personal computing devices, secured major industrial support and then open-sourced it so we could be 100% sure they're not up to anything devious? Utopian pipe-dream, I know
When you exclude lying assholes, there are exactly zero people in the world that think "America", in the absence of any other information, refers to anything other than The United States of America, yourself included.
Well done Sir, you just called all 329 million native speakers of Spanish lying assholes. If you don't believe me, take Pimsleur's first Spanish lesson online, for free.
As they will teach you in the lesson, and I quote:
The word "American" is not usually used in Spanish, because it is not clear whether you mean North American, Central American, or South American. A common word for a person from the United States is "norte americano". This literally means "North American".
"Grön asfalt" = "Green cement" (Sven Melander, Nöjesmassakern 1985)
... what have they done here? Green cement - and with a yellow pattern!" ... uneven. It's so hard to walk on!"
Rough transcript in English:
00:10 - "But
00:20 - "It's all bubbly
I found it hilarious at the time, but maybe you had to be there (and be a Swedish pre-teen in 1985).
I really don't want to know why these Pre-verts need their phones to be one-hand friendly.
</holds ears> (with both hands)
That said, just out of curiosity: how does one perform a thumb-drive?
My comment titles also appear white on white in some parts of slashdot (Firefox 3.0.10 on WinXP), but only when I am logged in. I suspected the problem was a missing stylesheet, and used Greasemonkey to reinject it successfully. An easier but temporary fix (for me) is to just click the "change" button in the threshold/sorting dialog.