Yeah, as I understand it the fact that they are made with computer resources just ensures that they're hard to counterfeit, right? There is no way for there to suddenly be released millions of bitcoins without money being spent on the electricity and the computers to manufacture them.
I did some physics behind the death ray they used at Mythbusters. It turns out all things considered the temperature of the cloth they were trying to burn scales linearly with the number of mirrors focused on it. They got the cloth to about 300 degrees and it needed to get to probably 500 so they just needed about twice as many mirrors to be sure. I sent it in to the website and never heard anything more about it. Basically the amount of solar energy a mirror can focus is a certain percentage of the total solar energy for a square meter, all the mirrors are directing that energy to about a square meter of cloth, and in the formula for increasing the temperature of the cloth the energy needed to go from 300 degrees to 600 was the same as from 0 to 300, so really they just needed twice as many mirrors.
Yeah I wrote a program that took the motion of the planets in the modern heliocentric model and moved the Earth to the center in every frame keeping the relative position of the planets, it was interesting to see the patterns of the Sun and planets as we see them from Earth. Mars makes something like a cartoid shape with a loop, where it loops around is where it appears to us to be in "retrograde" motion. I came to the conclusion that since all the motion is relative both the Heliocentric and Geocentric models are correct, just the Heliocentric is a little simpler, the Geocentric a little more complicated but more convenient because it shows the motions from our perspective. There's been so much controversy over which of the equivalent models is correct, it'd be funny if it weren't such a sad history.
That's why I wished the video showed some of him playing to see whether he was really good or not, all the clips of him playing were just of him walking around which even I could do as well and I get killed at those games.
I know right, did they not even think of the usage case of two 500 pound people trying to use this car? They probably didn't think about what would happen if someone were trying to drive in a 175 mph wind either, I guess in that case you would want 2 500 pound people squeezed in there to prevent it from flying away no matter what it brought the miles per gallon down to. What other fringe cases might they have overlooked?
That's weird I recognize people fairly well, but the way you went through the individual features of the face makes me think of when I'm trying to paint somebody, when I recognize someone I just know who they are I don't analyze their face at least consciously.
Do you remember the beginning of Office Space? He tries to get in the line that' s moving the fastest but by the time he gets over the line has slowed back to a crawl, as the speed of all the lines was periodic.
What if, you had a room with a bunch of objects and this camera in the article somewhere in the middle, and then you surrounded the room with a hemisphere of honeycombed mirrors so that your 360 degree camera in the center could look at the images on the mirrors to see the scene from every angle and somehow use software to reconstruct all the information?
But for a certain segment of the population paying say 10% of their total income to tax results in something pretty important that they can't afford after taxes whereas for the very richest, while 10% of their total is a lot more money, it only results in them not getting quite as nice of a second yacht.
I had an idea that artists could make small portable works of art in the same form factor as dollar bills. They would be worth more if they are from a better artist or are impossible to duplicate. The way I saw it the problem with cash is it's so much cheaper to make than it is supposed to be worth whereas this art cash would lock up a certain amount of labor in a non-machine duplicable fashion. Anyway my point is this seems kind of like BitCash to me, as duplicating a coin takes a certain amount of energy and resources equivalent to the value of the coin.
Except I think the PC is the vacuum invented before the broom and now people are using brooms for light work where before they were using vacuums. The article would be saying the broom is going to replace the vacuum for everything.
You seem to understand this well, what if you tried to sail into the wind? Collecting wind energy with a propeller to turn a propeller in the water, could you make any forward progress directly into the wind?
I think once you have it all hooked up to external monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and anything else and you're sitting at a desk using it... that is a desktop coimputer just one that happens to have a portable mode as well. At any rate I don't really see that that kills the "notion" of the desktop computing experience if you catch my drift.
Also when I went and saw Avatar a couple times during the previews it went from a while of a really dark picture to one that was pure white and I felt like I was being blinded. They crank up the lumens as well I guess.
It looks to me like if you halved the size of that computer 7 times it would be about the size of today's desktop. That is 7*1.5 years by Moore's law or about 10 years until a desktop computer is more powerful than the most powerful computer in the world as of right now.
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Yeah, as I understand it the fact that they are made with computer resources just ensures that they're hard to counterfeit, right? There is no way for there to suddenly be released millions of bitcoins without money being spent on the electricity and the computers to manufacture them.
Also where would philosophy be if it weren't for staring deeply into one's navel?
I did some physics behind the death ray they used at Mythbusters. It turns out all things considered the temperature of the cloth they were trying to burn scales linearly with the number of mirrors focused on it. They got the cloth to about 300 degrees and it needed to get to probably 500 so they just needed about twice as many mirrors to be sure. I sent it in to the website and never heard anything more about it. Basically the amount of solar energy a mirror can focus is a certain percentage of the total solar energy for a square meter, all the mirrors are directing that energy to about a square meter of cloth, and in the formula for increasing the temperature of the cloth the energy needed to go from 300 degrees to 600 was the same as from 0 to 300, so really they just needed twice as many mirrors.
Yeah I wrote a program that took the motion of the planets in the modern heliocentric model and moved the Earth to the center in every frame keeping the relative position of the planets, it was interesting to see the patterns of the Sun and planets as we see them from Earth. Mars makes something like a cartoid shape with a loop, where it loops around is where it appears to us to be in "retrograde" motion. I came to the conclusion that since all the motion is relative both the Heliocentric and Geocentric models are correct, just the Heliocentric is a little simpler, the Geocentric a little more complicated but more convenient because it shows the motions from our perspective. There's been so much controversy over which of the equivalent models is correct, it'd be funny if it weren't such a sad history.
That's why I wished the video showed some of him playing to see whether he was really good or not, all the clips of him playing were just of him walking around which even I could do as well and I get killed at those games.
I know right, did they not even think of the usage case of two 500 pound people trying to use this car? They probably didn't think about what would happen if someone were trying to drive in a 175 mph wind either, I guess in that case you would want 2 500 pound people squeezed in there to prevent it from flying away no matter what it brought the miles per gallon down to. What other fringe cases might they have overlooked?
If she were going the speed of light it would only seem to her like it had taken a couple seconds to reach earth because of the time dilation.
Sounds like a cheap pussy?
That's so entertaining. We need something like that on the math pages... Topology in Anime? Is there anything like that?
That's weird I recognize people fairly well, but the way you went through the individual features of the face makes me think of when I'm trying to paint somebody, when I recognize someone I just know who they are I don't analyze their face at least consciously.
Do you remember the beginning of Office Space? He tries to get in the line that' s moving the fastest but by the time he gets over the line has slowed back to a crawl, as the speed of all the lines was periodic.
Is it possible that you don't even know you're a shill? How deep does this rabbit hole go? J/k
What if, you had a room with a bunch of objects and this camera in the article somewhere in the middle, and then you surrounded the room with a hemisphere of honeycombed mirrors so that your 360 degree camera in the center could look at the images on the mirrors to see the scene from every angle and somehow use software to reconstruct all the information?
But for a certain segment of the population paying say 10% of their total income to tax results in something pretty important that they can't afford after taxes whereas for the very richest, while 10% of their total is a lot more money, it only results in them not getting quite as nice of a second yacht.
If I'm sneaking into your garden and stealing your apples, I don't have the right to keep that information private.
I had an idea that artists could make small portable works of art in the same form factor as dollar bills. They would be worth more if they are from a better artist or are impossible to duplicate. The way I saw it the problem with cash is it's so much cheaper to make than it is supposed to be worth whereas this art cash would lock up a certain amount of labor in a non-machine duplicable fashion. Anyway my point is this seems kind of like BitCash to me, as duplicating a coin takes a certain amount of energy and resources equivalent to the value of the coin.
Except I think the PC is the vacuum invented before the broom and now people are using brooms for light work where before they were using vacuums. The article would be saying the broom is going to replace the vacuum for everything.
You seem to understand this well, what if you tried to sail into the wind? Collecting wind energy with a propeller to turn a propeller in the water, could you make any forward progress directly into the wind?
Is there really any place in the world where running linux can get chicks interested?
I think once you have it all hooked up to external monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and anything else and you're sitting at a desk using it... that is a desktop coimputer just one that happens to have a portable mode as well. At any rate I don't really see that that kills the "notion" of the desktop computing experience if you catch my drift.
Also when I went and saw Avatar a couple times during the previews it went from a while of a really dark picture to one that was pure white and I felt like I was being blinded. They crank up the lumens as well I guess.
It doesn't even take Ken Jennings, I just beat Watson 42-16 and Ken Jennings would crush me at Jeopardy.
I would think if it worked on even one person that has some kind of significance, I guess not statistical.
maybe they'll be able to make a transistor out of a quark or subatomic particle. I think I'm kidding but who knows.
It looks to me like if you halved the size of that computer 7 times it would be about the size of today's desktop. That is 7*1.5 years by Moore's law or about 10 years until a desktop computer is more powerful than the most powerful computer in the world as of right now.