Wow, really? I meant "going back to the main page to pick another article", but I guess I can see how your mental filter might make it look like something different.
FWIW, I was typing my reply while yours went up, and it wasn't meant as a response to yours.
My hackles go up a bit whenever I see posters foaming about "SJW" or variants thereon. Naturally, that means my hackles are up a good bit of the time when I'm reading here. Doesn't mean I want those posts deleted, though, or the subjects avoided; my "back" button works just fine.
Thanks for coming and listening in the thread. I wish you and your team luck, for reasons both selfish and selfless.
Yes, by all means, listen first to the angriest voices, and immediately pull any content that they complain about. That's what Slashdot is all about -- hiding content that gets on certain people's nerves, so that no one has to think about it or discuss it.
This is getting ridiculous. A moment's thought would make it obvious that the emission rates quoted in the summary are wrong by orders of magnitude. Are there even home printers today that can extrude as much as 180 g/min of material, never mind vaporize or aerosolize that much?
Yep, just like the world has pissed away TRILLIONS of dollars on all the lame, underpowered PCs made before 2000 or so, even though a cheap machine today is orders of magnitude faster. What a waste!
Apparently, StartsWithABang has heard our complaints about his incessant spamming of Forbes links, and responded... by submitting stories as "anonymous reader" instead of attaching his name to his submissions. Hooray for principled stands.
And we're assuming, of course, that this graphene coating will be able to hold up to the stresses and impacts encountered by helicopter blades. It seems like that would be much bigger news than "it can act like a resistor".
One nit: how is your minimum usage for this month higher than your minimum usage for this day?
Now that I think about it, given the nature of network traffic, I'm surprised that your "minimum" is anything other than zero. I guess "minimum" needs a bit more definition.
No, if I'm not mistaken, YOU are expecting your fellow citizens to pay more tax so ISPs can reap more private profit. That's what this is about -- ISPs want more lenient definitions of "broadband" so they can more easily qualify for subsidies extorted from telephone customers.
Or maybe I'm just stepping in a big pile of Poe again.
Or setting out to post AC and failing, which I seem to be developing as a minor specialty. Turns out I'd already posted in the thread anyhow, so nothing lost but a bit of dignity.
A common example of watches that never need batteries or winding. Yes, we know these aren't being powered by overunity/zeropoint black magic, but, watches that don't need winding under generally useful scenarios... I'll take it.
So did I. The watch cost me less than 20 bucks, and all I have to do is replace the battery every five years or so. Beats the heck out of winding it every day. Magic! er, Science!
Perhaps we could get rid of accented characters entirely, and use the resulting codespace for other much-needed symbols like the "sarcasm indicator".
I'm definitely not one to leap to English's defense, nor to hold it up as an example for other languages to emulate. It's a terrible mess, from top to bottom. Then again, few natural languages aren't.
Often, an accent is the only distinguishing factor between two similarly spelled words.
Why not just take the same approach English does, where often there is NO distinguishing factor between similarly spelled words -- they're simply spelled identically, even though they're pronounced differently and have different meanings? Read and read, abuse and abuse, permit and permit, wind and wind... the list goes on and on.
To the contrary, Minecraft represents a major breakthrough for the previously marginalized (to the point of near-invisibility) Cubic-American population.
And how DARE you speak of "non-standard" body types? What body type would you oppressively impose as "standard"?
Your linked article lists field strengths in V/m, which is conveniently identical to mV/mm. The field strengths in the abstract (2 to 6 mV/mm) are lower than most of the strengths in the WHO table.
Then again, your cell phone accurately detects and decodes signals thousands of times weaker than these, if I understand the numbers correctly. Your cell phone works fine even when there are refrigerators or toasters or TVs nearby, because its tuner blocks signals outside the frequency of interest. Perhaps the same thing happens in the brain. After all, the electric field from a nearby lightning stroke (1-2 km away) is hundreds of times higher than this, but we don't see people spontaneously rebooting whenever there's a thunderstorm. (Dogs, on the other hand...)
Evolution has had 4 billion years to fine tune self replication on this planet with huge resources and sunlight, and yet even the fastest growing bacteria still grow slower than the human eye can resolve. There's no reason to assume an artificial system could manage it much faster given similar constraints.
Evolution isn't goal-driven. Well, I guess it is now, if you (quite sensibly) consider human activity as part of the evolutionary process.
I don't think there's something magical about self-replication that makes it immune to technological improvement. Look at the rate of increase in human population over the last couple of centuries.
If you're willing to believe in a civilization capable of building a Dyson sphere, how much more of a stretch is it to believe they could do it in a few centuries? (We've just been seeing a dimming signal over that period, not complete extinction of the star's light.)
I mean, yeah, I have some idea of the energies involved, and I'm not sure I can envision a process that would run at that pace producing anything other than streams of plasma at gamma-ray temperatures. But then again, I'm not sure I can envision a process that would digest entire planets worth of material and cast it into a shell at any pace. Good thing I didn't accept that particular process-design gig, I guess.
Yep. And the government can pass laws to make melting coins illegal -- I think there's such a law still in place for nickels, even though their scrap value has fallen back below face value -- but if even theoretical scrap value exceeds face value, or if new coins with a different composition start to appear, the old ones will disappear quickly. Gresham's Law is a valid observation, even if it begs the question of what is "good" or "bad" money.
Of course, if you want to minimize change (both the volume of coins changing hands per transaction, and the number of denominations replaced), you could just replace the dime with an 18-cent piece. As a bonus, this turns up natural selection pressure for people who are good at math.
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Wow, really? I meant "going back to the main page to pick another article", but I guess I can see how your mental filter might make it look like something different.
FWIW, I was typing my reply while yours went up, and it wasn't meant as a response to yours.
My hackles go up a bit whenever I see posters foaming about "SJW" or variants thereon. Naturally, that means my hackles are up a good bit of the time when I'm reading here. Doesn't mean I want those posts deleted, though, or the subjects avoided; my "back" button works just fine.
Thanks for coming and listening in the thread. I wish you and your team luck, for reasons both selfish and selfless.
Yes, by all means, listen first to the angriest voices, and immediately pull any content that they complain about. That's what Slashdot is all about -- hiding content that gets on certain people's nerves, so that no one has to think about it or discuss it.
This is getting ridiculous. A moment's thought would make it obvious that the emission rates quoted in the summary are wrong by orders of magnitude. Are there even home printers today that can extrude as much as 180 g/min of material, never mind vaporize or aerosolize that much?
Yep, just like the world has pissed away TRILLIONS of dollars on all the lame, underpowered PCs made before 2000 or so, even though a cheap machine today is orders of magnitude faster. What a waste!
Apparently, StartsWithABang has heard our complaints about his incessant spamming of Forbes links, and responded... by submitting stories as "anonymous reader" instead of attaching his name to his submissions. Hooray for principled stands.
Resistance is the whole point of "electrothermal heat".
And we're assuming, of course, that this graphene coating will be able to hold up to the stresses and impacts encountered by helicopter blades. It seems like that would be much bigger news than "it can act like a resistor".
As opposed to "batch", perhaps, if the submitter is old like me?
One nit: how is your minimum usage for this month higher than your minimum usage for this day?
Now that I think about it, given the nature of network traffic, I'm surprised that your "minimum" is anything other than zero. I guess "minimum" needs a bit more definition.
No, if I'm not mistaken, YOU are expecting your fellow citizens to pay more tax so ISPs can reap more private profit. That's what this is about -- ISPs want more lenient definitions of "broadband" so they can more easily qualify for subsidies extorted from telephone customers .
Or maybe I'm just stepping in a big pile of Poe again.
...you know, They might just be upmodding you in hopes that you'll grow complacent.
I don't suppose you're posting from a rural area, by any chance?
Or setting out to post AC and failing, which I seem to be developing as a minor specialty. Turns out I'd already posted in the thread anyhow, so nothing lost but a bit of dignity.
Bravo. And me without mod points. Posting AC just in case more arrive.
A common example of watches that never need batteries or winding. Yes, we know these aren't being powered by overunity/zeropoint black magic, but, watches that don't need winding under generally useful scenarios... I'll take it.
So did I. The watch cost me less than 20 bucks, and all I have to do is replace the battery every five years or so. Beats the heck out of winding it every day. Magic! er, Science!
Perhaps we could get rid of accented characters entirely, and use the resulting codespace for other much-needed symbols like the "sarcasm indicator".
I'm definitely not one to leap to English's defense, nor to hold it up as an example for other languages to emulate. It's a terrible mess, from top to bottom. Then again, few natural languages aren't.
Often, an accent is the only distinguishing factor between two similarly spelled words.
Why not just take the same approach English does, where often there is NO distinguishing factor between similarly spelled words -- they're simply spelled identically, even though they're pronounced differently and have different meanings? Read and read, abuse and abuse, permit and permit, wind and wind... the list goes on and on.
"Debilitating"? To the contrary, that's exactly the adaptation I would want if *I* were forced to stick my head up there like that.
"Hey, y'all, watch this!"
Unless the cars are entirely autonomous, AND automatically sedate the driver upon entry, I think they'll have a hard time achieving this goal.
To the contrary, Minecraft represents a major breakthrough for the previously marginalized (to the point of near-invisibility) Cubic-American population.
And how DARE you speak of "non-standard" body types? What body type would you oppressively impose as "standard"?
Your linked article lists field strengths in V/m, which is conveniently identical to mV/mm. The field strengths in the abstract (2 to 6 mV/mm) are lower than most of the strengths in the WHO table.
Then again, your cell phone accurately detects and decodes signals thousands of times weaker than these, if I understand the numbers correctly. Your cell phone works fine even when there are refrigerators or toasters or TVs nearby, because its tuner blocks signals outside the frequency of interest. Perhaps the same thing happens in the brain. After all, the electric field from a nearby lightning stroke (1-2 km away) is hundreds of times higher than this, but we don't see people spontaneously rebooting whenever there's a thunderstorm. (Dogs, on the other hand...)
Evolution has had 4 billion years to fine tune self replication on this planet with huge resources and sunlight, and yet even the fastest growing bacteria still grow slower than the human eye can resolve. There's no reason to assume an artificial system could manage it much faster given similar constraints.
Evolution isn't goal-driven. Well, I guess it is now, if you (quite sensibly) consider human activity as part of the evolutionary process.
I don't think there's something magical about self-replication that makes it immune to technological improvement. Look at the rate of increase in human population over the last couple of centuries.
If you're willing to believe in a civilization capable of building a Dyson sphere, how much more of a stretch is it to believe they could do it in a few centuries? (We've just been seeing a dimming signal over that period, not complete extinction of the star's light.)
I mean, yeah, I have some idea of the energies involved, and I'm not sure I can envision a process that would run at that pace producing anything other than streams of plasma at gamma-ray temperatures. But then again, I'm not sure I can envision a process that would digest entire planets worth of material and cast it into a shell at any pace. Good thing I didn't accept that particular process-design gig, I guess.
Yep. And the government can pass laws to make melting coins illegal -- I think there's such a law still in place for nickels, even though their scrap value has fallen back below face value -- but if even theoretical scrap value exceeds face value, or if new coins with a different composition start to appear, the old ones will disappear quickly. Gresham's Law is a valid observation, even if it begs the question of what is "good" or "bad" money.
Nice callback, but you should really link to the source.
Of course, if you want to minimize change (both the volume of coins changing hands per transaction, and the number of denominations replaced), you could just replace the dime with an 18-cent piece. As a bonus, this turns up natural selection pressure for people who are good at math.