As long as the charger comes with a simple timer I don't see why people wouldn't be willing to charge the car at night, especially if you're in an area that has different rates for different times of day. As for batteries being too expensive, that's probably true right now, but do they really think we'll still be using today's lithium ion batteries ten years from now?
The cars being showcased today aren't the ones that are going to solve our energy problems. They are little more than prototype, proof of concept vehicles. That's why GM is only producing 10,000 volts the first year they are in production. Lets start producing them now and work out the issues that are bound to come up so that in 5 years we can begin producing them seriously. Or we can think like we always have and look one year out at a time, never bothering to invest in the future.
Now they're willing to drop a whole channel that makes them a ton of money in order to hit back at the music industry's greed when most vendors would just bend over and take it.
Well, close. I think what you meant was that they are willing to say that they are willing to drop a whole channel. Now maybe they actually will if it comes down to it, but I doubt it. Would you throw away 8% of your revenues just to make a point?
an agent that does not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity could have been acquired.
Except that natural immunities do exist, they were first discovered when some people did not contract HIV despite having recieved multiple units of known to be tainted blood. HIV is also highly related to virusses which attach other species such as chimpanzees.
Finally, while maybe it would have been possible to create a virus at that time (and that is really stretching the imagination a bit) but I find it ludicris to believe that they could create a rapidly evolving virus which has gone uncured despite billions of dollars worth of research. Not to mention creating a virus that produces the incubation period, simptoms, and transmision methods you set out to create. We could maybe do these things now, if we put a significant (and by that I mean multi-billion dollar) effort behind them, but 40 years ago? I don't think so.
Here, application of the anthropic principle makes sense. Dark energy is just a force, and as far as we know does not interact with itself. Dark matter can only interact through gravitation and so can't support complex chemistry. Our 'regular' matter is the only thing we know of in the universe that could support life, therefore it shouldn't be suprising that we are made up of that kind of matter.
The key here is to remember that the percentage figures given are for the mass/energy budget of the universe and that dark energy and especially dark matter aren't matter the way we think of it. Perhaps dark mass would be a better name than dark matter, since dark matter has mass but doesn't appear to take up space or interact with normal matter in any way.
In the US anyway, knowingly deleting improperly handled classified information without notifying the athourities would fall under 'mishandling classified information'. Unfortunatly, I can't find any detailed information because a search for 'mishandling classified information' yeilds thousands of results about the US Atorney General and the US Vice President. What a wonderful country I live in.
You seem to think that the average, profit generating customer is the one who is affected by bandwidth caps and monopolistic behavior, but that simply isn't true. The only people that these limitations affect are the people who generate the least amount of profit for the ISPs. Imagine you own a business and you have a certain part of your customer base that actually costs you money to service, are you really going to worry about them leaving you for the competition?
The problem is that if you wipe the data and don't notify the athorities, you've just performed a very illegal act. Yep, that's right, it is extremely illegal to not report improperly handled classified information. I also hope you never need to get security clearance for your job, because you never will with that on your record.
Yeah, they'll probably never trace it back to you, but for all you know someone at MI6 is filling out an inventory card right this moment and noticing that a camera was checked out a never returned. Which leads them to the person who improperly sold the camera on eBay, which leads them to you. Take your pick, either the police come and take your computer (and reimburse you for it) or you can run the risk of going to prison.
That's what this article is about. This is the minimum number of peope who would have had to change their votes to change the elected president, in this case a couple hundred people in a specific state would have done the trick.
Apparently yes, you did miss something. It was a level design competition. A big part of the game is the fact that it allows massive and complex user created levels. They were given 24 hours to see what they could do.
Actually, according to my college phsycology teacher, that only works if the celebrity is a celebrity in the field that they are trying to advertize for. So, Tiger Woods advertising for Nike? Excellent effect. Tiger Woods advertising for McDonalds? Not so much.
Perhaps that is why our politicians are basically celebrities in the field of politics. Both sides of the isle try to leverage any celebrity status that their candidates may have. In this election, I think this gives Obama an inside edge. While McCain was already famous for several things (War hero, POW, 'maverick' senator) Obama has been able to build his fame as a part of his campaign. Basically, Obama is famous for having run for president without much of the baggage that many other candidates have. His fame is very closely linked to the presidential race, whereas McCain's is not.
Since you will only be aware of a universe if you are in it to experience it, you (as in yourself) will never die.
and
From my point of view, the bomb will never detonate...
and also
Also, the argument only works for you. If someone else does the experiment they will die
The difference between killing yourself off and winning the lottery is the anthropic principle, there is no you to observe that you are dead if you succeed in committing suicide. There is a you to observer that you lost the lottery. All universes that you observe, by definition, include you in them; all universes that you don't observe, by definition, don't include you in them.
The point is, any universe that I do care about, I'm alive in. I'm not saying that this is true, it's just a thought experiment that someone thought up of. Maybe the wikipedia article is better at explaining it than I am... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide/
Because if we were in one of the unlucky universes we wouldn't be having this conversation, that's what the thought experiment is. The idea goes like this, there are an infinate number of universes so anything that could even remotely happen will happen in one of them. Since you will only be aware of a universe if you are in it to experience it, you (as in yourself) will never die.
Lets say I hook a nuclear bomb up to a detector that detects whether a single radioactive atom has decayed yet. After each half life of the particle, a new universe is created, one in which I am dead, and one in which I am alive. Needless to say, I'm not around to care about the universes that I am dead in. From my point of view, the bomb will never detonate because if it does than that cannot be my point of view any longer.
Of course, this only works if the many worlds interpetation is correct, if it isn't then you will eventually die. Also, the argument only works for you. If someone else does the experiment they will die, at least according to your point of view. Luckily, anything that will destroy the world will also kill me, so the world is safe.
No, no. They're fine with most people linking to them, just not the people they don't like. Unfortunatly, what they really want is the power to sue anyone who dares say bad things about them. They may as well make breathing illegal, that way anyone the police don't like can be charged and everyone else won't be.
I think more extreme measures are needed. How about an entire week where all analog stations are required to broadcaste nothing but a blank screen with 'This Feb., this station will no longer be available without a digital tuner or digital converter box.'.
Everyone who watches TV that week will get the message, and we can have a miny riot now, rather than a major riot later. You could even gradually move up to this level. Say do an hour a day at first, then maybe a day a week, then a week at a time. Spread out the impact so we don't have 50 million people applying and waiting for the coupons to come in the mail all at the same time.
Put a little banner at the bottom of the screen and people will ignore it. Take thier 'grey's anatomy' (or whatever the 'must watch' show is these days) away, even for a day and I gaurantee that people will get their asses in gear and actually do something about it.
Nah, the world can't end, haven't you ever heard of the quantum suicide thought experiment? Clearly, this delay is just the first of many, eventually leading to the cancelation of the project. It's simply the most statistically likely thing that could happen that would avert the disaster.
Why? In my high school, all classes were graded based on four things.
1) Quizes and Tests. 2) Homework. 3) Attendence/Participation. 4) Improvement over the course of the class.
My gym class was based on three of the four (no homework obviously). Tests were acedemic tests about the rules and scoring of whatever sport you were currently studying. Participation was the amount of effort you put into the class. Improvement was based on the 'standardized' physical tests (presidents fitness tests and the like). The system worked fine. Like most classes, if you put in even a small amount of effort you passed with a B or C.
That's not exactly how it works, though that is the effect that will be seen when you set up your TV. The signals travel just as far, it's just that a 10% loss of an analog signal will give you some static and a fuzzy picture that is still watchable as long as you're patient. 10% loss of a digital signal will basically give you a blank screen, or at best a start and stop stuttering that is utterly worthless.
A bigger antenna could reduce that loss rate from 10% to 2%. It would have done the same thing for your analog signal as well, but it wasn't really necissary since you could still watch the channel as long as you didn't mind some static. Incedently, my in-laws have this problem. They used to be fine watching a fuzzy picture on 6 out of their 8 channels, after switching to DTV, they only recieve 3, the others are unwatchable.
I find it strange that so many people would rather have seen the high school student in court for libel than suspended for a few days. I understand the logic, that the principle shouldn't have any say in what happens outside of the school, but if I were the student's parent, I would be releived to find out that my child had only been suspended rather than sued.
Furthermore, the nature of the libel (a website accessible from anywhere) makes the idea that this occured outside of the schools jurisdiction kind of strange to me. Does everyone actually believe that the kid didn't tell all their friends at school about the site? In that light, it seems to me more like printing up a handout with the accusations and then giving it out to your friends at school. Yeah, you created the materiel at home, but in effect you distributed it on school grounds.
Actually, most of the designs that I've heard of do require the cable to be connected at the base. This is because the counterweight at the top isn't actually in orbit but is held taunt by the centrifugal force.
The counterweight is significantly higher than geosynchronous orbit, otherwise every time you brought mass up the cable the counterweight's orbital velocity would decrease slightly. Eventually, if you were bringing more mass up than down, you'd pull the counterweight lower, increasing it's speed. Once it is faster than geosynchronous orbit it's only a matter of time before it re-enters since the cable will be pulling it downwards.
With the counterweight above geosynchronous orbit, the tether pulls the counterweight forward as the earth spins. As you bring payload up, the counterweight increases speed slightly, but it will still be well above orbital velocity, which means that the tether would remain taunt and force the counterweight back to it (relatively) original position.
Ok, go home from work tonight and make a fake MySpace page in your bosses name. On the site, call him a peadofilic sexual diviant who regularly hits on and has sex with children. Go in to work tomorrow and tell all your co-workers about it so they go check it out, then let us know how long it takes you to get fired.
Seriously, the kid showed a blattant disregard for authority. The principle could have easily lost his job over similar accusations and the kid could have easily been found guilty of libel in any case. Given the circumstances, there is no way that the kid would ever have a healthy relationship with the school administration ever again, no one would trust her and no one would respect her.
Is the school just soposed to just sit back and let this kind of thing happen? Or would you rather that the principle had sued her for libel and ruined her life for a couple of decades, rather than making her life difficult for the rest of high school?
I know, I know... goatse has been around forever and ever, but seriously, what happens when some poor twelve year old kid comes in here and is like "goatse? wtf is goatse? *click* OH DEAR GOD!? MY EYES... MY EEEEYYYEEES!!".
Average people supported drilling because they thought it would lower gas prices. When you come down to it, drilling might lower prices by 2-3%. The average american would save 2-3% of their gas bill by checking and inflating their tires regularly.
On an individual basis, you will save as much or more by properly inflating your tires as you would if and when drilling begins. Not to mention, you can check your tires today, whereas drilling is at best 5 and probably more like 10 years down the road.
It's one thing to risk your career, your money, and your freedom if the cause is worthwile (saving lives, exposing injustice, etc). It's another thing to throw it all away for the possibility of some money from the competition. Even that's pretty unlikely, since no large company would ever take the risk of illegally buying trade secrets from a competitor's employees.
You can go to jail for violating your companies trade secrets. Hell, you could go to jail for changing your investment strategies based off your companies trade secrets. Not to mention you'd be blacklisted across your industry even if you couldn't be charged.
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As long as the charger comes with a simple timer I don't see why people wouldn't be willing to charge the car at night, especially if you're in an area that has different rates for different times of day. As for batteries being too expensive, that's probably true right now, but do they really think we'll still be using today's lithium ion batteries ten years from now?
The cars being showcased today aren't the ones that are going to solve our energy problems. They are little more than prototype, proof of concept vehicles. That's why GM is only producing 10,000 volts the first year they are in production. Lets start producing them now and work out the issues that are bound to come up so that in 5 years we can begin producing them seriously. Or we can think like we always have and look one year out at a time, never bothering to invest in the future.
Now they're willing to drop a whole channel that makes them a ton of money in order to hit back at the music industry's greed when most vendors would just bend over and take it.
Well, close. I think what you meant was that they are willing to say that they are willing to drop a whole channel. Now maybe they actually will if it comes down to it, but I doubt it. Would you throw away 8% of your revenues just to make a point?
an agent that does not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity could have been acquired.
Except that natural immunities do exist, they were first discovered when some people did not contract HIV despite having recieved multiple units of known to be tainted blood. HIV is also highly related to virusses which attach other species such as chimpanzees.
Finally, while maybe it would have been possible to create a virus at that time (and that is really stretching the imagination a bit) but I find it ludicris to believe that they could create a rapidly evolving virus which has gone uncured despite billions of dollars worth of research. Not to mention creating a virus that produces the incubation period, simptoms, and transmision methods you set out to create. We could maybe do these things now, if we put a significant (and by that I mean multi-billion dollar) effort behind them, but 40 years ago? I don't think so.
Here, application of the anthropic principle makes sense. Dark energy is just a force, and as far as we know does not interact with itself. Dark matter can only interact through gravitation and so can't support complex chemistry. Our 'regular' matter is the only thing we know of in the universe that could support life, therefore it shouldn't be suprising that we are made up of that kind of matter.
The key here is to remember that the percentage figures given are for the mass/energy budget of the universe and that dark energy and especially dark matter aren't matter the way we think of it. Perhaps dark mass would be a better name than dark matter, since dark matter has mass but doesn't appear to take up space or interact with normal matter in any way.
In the US anyway, knowingly deleting improperly handled classified information without notifying the athourities would fall under 'mishandling classified information'. Unfortunatly, I can't find any detailed information because a search for 'mishandling classified information' yeilds thousands of results about the US Atorney General and the US Vice President. What a wonderful country I live in.
You seem to think that the average, profit generating customer is the one who is affected by bandwidth caps and monopolistic behavior, but that simply isn't true. The only people that these limitations affect are the people who generate the least amount of profit for the ISPs. Imagine you own a business and you have a certain part of your customer base that actually costs you money to service, are you really going to worry about them leaving you for the competition?
The problem is that if you wipe the data and don't notify the athorities, you've just performed a very illegal act. Yep, that's right, it is extremely illegal to not report improperly handled classified information. I also hope you never need to get security clearance for your job, because you never will with that on your record.
Yeah, they'll probably never trace it back to you, but for all you know someone at MI6 is filling out an inventory card right this moment and noticing that a camera was checked out a never returned. Which leads them to the person who improperly sold the camera on eBay, which leads them to you. Take your pick, either the police come and take your computer (and reimburse you for it) or you can run the risk of going to prison.
That's what this article is about. This is the minimum number of peope who would have had to change their votes to change the elected president, in this case a couple hundred people in a specific state would have done the trick.
Apparently yes, you did miss something. It was a level design competition. A big part of the game is the fact that it allows massive and complex user created levels. They were given 24 hours to see what they could do.
Actually, according to my college phsycology teacher, that only works if the celebrity is a celebrity in the field that they are trying to advertize for. So, Tiger Woods advertising for Nike? Excellent effect. Tiger Woods advertising for McDonalds? Not so much.
Perhaps that is why our politicians are basically celebrities in the field of politics. Both sides of the isle try to leverage any celebrity status that their candidates may have. In this election, I think this gives Obama an inside edge. While McCain was already famous for several things (War hero, POW, 'maverick' senator) Obama has been able to build his fame as a part of his campaign. Basically, Obama is famous for having run for president without much of the baggage that many other candidates have. His fame is very closely linked to the presidential race, whereas McCain's is not.
Dude, from one of my earlier comments...
Since you will only be aware of a universe if you are in it to experience it, you (as in yourself) will never die.
and
From my point of view, the bomb will never detonate...
and also
Also, the argument only works for you. If someone else does the experiment they will die
The difference between killing yourself off and winning the lottery is the anthropic principle, there is no you to observe that you are dead if you succeed in committing suicide. There is a you to observer that you lost the lottery. All universes that you observe, by definition, include you in them; all universes that you don't observe, by definition, don't include you in them.
Wait, don't you mean value = quality - price?
The point is, any universe that I do care about, I'm alive in. I'm not saying that this is true, it's just a thought experiment that someone thought up of. Maybe the wikipedia article is better at explaining it than I am... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide/
Because if we were in one of the unlucky universes we wouldn't be having this conversation, that's what the thought experiment is. The idea goes like this, there are an infinate number of universes so anything that could even remotely happen will happen in one of them. Since you will only be aware of a universe if you are in it to experience it, you (as in yourself) will never die.
Lets say I hook a nuclear bomb up to a detector that detects whether a single radioactive atom has decayed yet. After each half life of the particle, a new universe is created, one in which I am dead, and one in which I am alive. Needless to say, I'm not around to care about the universes that I am dead in. From my point of view, the bomb will never detonate because if it does than that cannot be my point of view any longer.
Of course, this only works if the many worlds interpetation is correct, if it isn't then you will eventually die. Also, the argument only works for you. If someone else does the experiment they will die, at least according to your point of view. Luckily, anything that will destroy the world will also kill me, so the world is safe.
No, no. They're fine with most people linking to them, just not the people they don't like. Unfortunatly, what they really want is the power to sue anyone who dares say bad things about them. They may as well make breathing illegal, that way anyone the police don't like can be charged and everyone else won't be.
I think more extreme measures are needed. How about an entire week where all analog stations are required to broadcaste nothing but a blank screen with 'This Feb., this station will no longer be available without a digital tuner or digital converter box.'.
Everyone who watches TV that week will get the message, and we can have a miny riot now, rather than a major riot later. You could even gradually move up to this level. Say do an hour a day at first, then maybe a day a week, then a week at a time. Spread out the impact so we don't have 50 million people applying and waiting for the coupons to come in the mail all at the same time.
Put a little banner at the bottom of the screen and people will ignore it. Take thier 'grey's anatomy' (or whatever the 'must watch' show is these days) away, even for a day and I gaurantee that people will get their asses in gear and actually do something about it.
Nah, the world can't end, haven't you ever heard of the quantum suicide thought experiment? Clearly, this delay is just the first of many, eventually leading to the cancelation of the project. It's simply the most statistically likely thing that could happen that would avert the disaster.
Why? In my high school, all classes were graded based on four things.
1) Quizes and Tests.
2) Homework.
3) Attendence/Participation.
4) Improvement over the course of the class.
My gym class was based on three of the four (no homework obviously). Tests were acedemic tests about the rules and scoring of whatever sport you were currently studying. Participation was the amount of effort you put into the class. Improvement was based on the 'standardized' physical tests (presidents fitness tests and the like). The system worked fine. Like most classes, if you put in even a small amount of effort you passed with a B or C.
That's not exactly how it works, though that is the effect that will be seen when you set up your TV. The signals travel just as far, it's just that a 10% loss of an analog signal will give you some static and a fuzzy picture that is still watchable as long as you're patient. 10% loss of a digital signal will basically give you a blank screen, or at best a start and stop stuttering that is utterly worthless.
A bigger antenna could reduce that loss rate from 10% to 2%. It would have done the same thing for your analog signal as well, but it wasn't really necissary since you could still watch the channel as long as you didn't mind some static. Incedently, my in-laws have this problem. They used to be fine watching a fuzzy picture on 6 out of their 8 channels, after switching to DTV, they only recieve 3, the others are unwatchable.
I find it strange that so many people would rather have seen the high school student in court for libel than suspended for a few days. I understand the logic, that the principle shouldn't have any say in what happens outside of the school, but if I were the student's parent, I would be releived to find out that my child had only been suspended rather than sued.
Furthermore, the nature of the libel (a website accessible from anywhere) makes the idea that this occured outside of the schools jurisdiction kind of strange to me. Does everyone actually believe that the kid didn't tell all their friends at school about the site? In that light, it seems to me more like printing up a handout with the accusations and then giving it out to your friends at school. Yeah, you created the materiel at home, but in effect you distributed it on school grounds.
Actually, most of the designs that I've heard of do require the cable to be connected at the base. This is because the counterweight at the top isn't actually in orbit but is held taunt by the centrifugal force.
The counterweight is significantly higher than geosynchronous orbit, otherwise every time you brought mass up the cable the counterweight's orbital velocity would decrease slightly. Eventually, if you were bringing more mass up than down, you'd pull the counterweight lower, increasing it's speed. Once it is faster than geosynchronous orbit it's only a matter of time before it re-enters since the cable will be pulling it downwards.
With the counterweight above geosynchronous orbit, the tether pulls the counterweight forward as the earth spins. As you bring payload up, the counterweight increases speed slightly, but it will still be well above orbital velocity, which means that the tether would remain taunt and force the counterweight back to it (relatively) original position.
Ok, go home from work tonight and make a fake MySpace page in your bosses name. On the site, call him a peadofilic sexual diviant who regularly hits on and has sex with children. Go in to work tomorrow and tell all your co-workers about it so they go check it out, then let us know how long it takes you to get fired.
Seriously, the kid showed a blattant disregard for authority. The principle could have easily lost his job over similar accusations and the kid could have easily been found guilty of libel in any case. Given the circumstances, there is no way that the kid would ever have a healthy relationship with the school administration ever again, no one would trust her and no one would respect her.
Is the school just soposed to just sit back and let this kind of thing happen? Or would you rather that the principle had sued her for libel and ruined her life for a couple of decades, rather than making her life difficult for the rest of high school?
I know, I know... goatse has been around forever and ever, but seriously, what happens when some poor twelve year old kid comes in here and is like "goatse? wtf is goatse? *click* OH DEAR GOD!? MY EYES... MY EEEEYYYEEES!!".
Average people supported drilling because they thought it would lower gas prices. When you come down to it, drilling might lower prices by 2-3%. The average american would save 2-3% of their gas bill by checking and inflating their tires regularly.
On an individual basis, you will save as much or more by properly inflating your tires as you would if and when drilling begins. Not to mention, you can check your tires today, whereas drilling is at best 5 and probably more like 10 years down the road.
It's one thing to risk your career, your money, and your freedom if the cause is worthwile (saving lives, exposing injustice, etc). It's another thing to throw it all away for the possibility of some money from the competition. Even that's pretty unlikely, since no large company would ever take the risk of illegally buying trade secrets from a competitor's employees.
You can go to jail for violating your companies trade secrets. Hell, you could go to jail for changing your investment strategies based off your companies trade secrets. Not to mention you'd be blacklisted across your industry even if you couldn't be charged.