According to a CNN article, the prime minister of Norway is stranded as a result of the resulting travel chaos and "running the Norwegian government from the U.S. via his new iPad".
And what for? A 960x640 screen at that size would have an absurdly high pixel density, adding a lot to cost for no good reason. The iPhone screen resolution is already 163 dpi (per Apple's specs)! I think it's safe to say that we will never see a 960x460 screen on a consumer product the size of modern day cell phones. There's simply no point.
The problem with these kinds of projections is that they almost invariably forget to take technological change into account
This is especially true for the lanthanides (i.e. "rare earth" elements). They are not actually all that rare. Cerium is more abundant than zinc, and even the least abundant lanthanides (with the exception of promethium, which has no stable isotope) are quite plentiful. Their price is high not because of low natural abundance, but because of a low tendency to concentrate into readily exploited ores and difficulty of separation. If we could improve the separation chemistry, then their availability would improve tremendously.
I find it surprising that Alcoa is so high up the list, beating out big computer and communications tech names such as AMD, 3COM, Apple, and Cisco. I'm curious as to what compelled them to register a domain name way back in Nov 1986.
Regarding 2.7182's statement: I'm surprised you're not advocating e day (Feb 7? July 2?) instead. The combination would be good, though. Celebrate pi and e, and we get pie! How about pi + e day? At ~5.9, that would make May 9 or Sept 5 into Pie Day.
On the other hand, at work at a top research institute, I get the following. I routinely see these speeds downloading journal articles even during the middle of the day, when more people are online. I suspect the IT department caps each individual's external connection (to a very reasonable level).
Download speed: 9321 kbps
Upload speed: 8588 kbps
Latency: 40 ms
Jitter: 2 ms
Admittedly, it's 6:30 in the morning, when most of the apartment complex in San Diego (UTC area, 92122) is still asleep. Nonetheless, for basic high speed from Time Warner Cable, I'm quite surprised by the speed. I've always been happy with the speed they provide, but I didn't realize that it would burst so high. Of course, other than broadband.gov no one is pushing data down my connection at those speeds anyways.
Download speed: 29836 kbps
Upload speed: 964 kbps
Latency: 17 ms
Jitter 2 ms
Manual transmission drivers don't have three feet, they can't hold the break, clutch and gas at the same time.
Sure they can. The gas and brake pedals are close enough to be controlled simultaneously with the same foot. Inside of right foot on the brakes, outside of right foot on the gas. Steadily increase pressure on the gas pedal while letting out the clutch pedal, and as you feel the car going forward, roll the inside right foot off the brakes. Done properly, you can start up any incline without any rolling back and without using the parking brake or resorting to excessive clutch slip.
In many technology companies (not just software, but also other fields, such as biotech), a company's main value lies in IP. Therefore, IP has to be carefully protected. Where are their offsite backups? This project appears to be a sinking ship anyways (lack of pay should be a hint), but what if they had lost everything in their building (regardless of cause) during a more successful phase? How quickly would they be able to get back up and running?
Hi. I'm an alien.
I have found your golden record.
I'm thinking to share it with my race via an alien protocol similar to bit-torrent.
What's my legal status?
Given your location, definitely non-resident alien.
Microsoft has about $40 billion in cash. Surely interest income should be there somewhere, probably higher than Entertainment and Devices is on the graph.
How is this a coincidence? They are so successful at one area that it resulted in a sanctioned monopoly. If they weren't so successful in their core business, they wouldn't be a sanctioned monopoly in the first place.
Agreed. Furthermore, for e-mail, you can make switching providers completely transparent to the people with whom you communicate. I've been using my alma mater's forwarding service for the last decade. During that time, I have switched from Hotmail to my (former) ISP's e-mail service to GMail. The last move occurred only because I was switching ISPs. With all three services, I used IMAP or POP and a local mail program, using web access only when away from my own computers, so nothing really changed on my end. And nothing changes for people I'm in communication with. They keep sending e-mails to my alma mater's forwarding service, and I keep using that address as my outgoing address.
So failure of Google would be minimally disruptive to me. Failure of my alma mater would be far more disastrous. Given its track record, though, I'm willing to bet on my alma mater outliving me.
When I tried to obtain OS X 10.5 last November (buying a replacement for a dead computer running 10.3, some known software compatibility problems in 10.6), my local Apple store confirmed that the latest iMacs will run 10.5, but very apologetically told me that they no longer carried any OS X 10.5 discs (at any price). Admittedly, I needed it THAT DAY. They figured that they would have been able to help if I could wait a few days. It ended up possible for me to work around the problems in 10.6 (none of them show stoppers), but not everyone is in so fortunate a situation if a computer decides to die right after an Apple upgrade cycle.
As much as I like my Macs, it's a little absurd that older OS versions become virtually unobtainable immediately after replacements come out. Give us at least a few months of overlap.
You can. But it's convenient to express data using the most common unit for related data. For example, you could state the distance between Los Angeles and Sydney in megameters, but you almost certainly would choose kilometers over megameters.
Modded very funny, but with some element of truth. The grandest experiments in physics often require significant international collaborations and highly specialized instrumentation (think Large Hadron Collider) that demand large-scale pooling of resources. On the other hand, at least at this time, there really are no projects with such requirements in chemistry. Sure, there are many vibrant chemistry collaborations, but not nearly of that scope. So you can easily end up working only with people nearby, competing with a similarly capable team in another country (or in the same building). There are plenty of interesting problems in chemistry where a single person or a small group could produce a significant breakthrough through the creative design and execution of simple experiments using readily available equipment and chemicals.
Oops... forgot about the hard drive. Stick an SSD in there and pull out the (non-essential) optical drive, and you no longer have moving parts. Still clearly a machine.
Presumably it's just different options being passed to the 264 codec, but without any obvious way for me to change them it's verging on painful to watch.
Are there actually different options to pass on? Seems to me that it's probably just different quality implementations of the codec. In my case, the results looked the same. As they should, since it's the same video being sent, in the same format. Just to a different player. If both players work correctly, the results should be indistinguishable.
Using Safari/OSX (latest version of each) on a first generation Core2 Duo laptop (2.33 GHz), I tried watching the same video (containing no ads, annotations, etc) at the same size using both the default Flash option and the beta HTML5 option. CPU use was a steady 33-34% during playback in Flash. A steady 12-13% in HTML5. Seems like a winner to me.
Nowadays, all the major publishers dont have an issue if you post a prepring on arxiv, prl included.
True in some fields, but not all. The two biggest chemistry journals, Angewandte Chemie and Journal of the American Chemical Society, both do not allow submission of communications for which preprints have been released. One also can't submit it elsewhere at the same time. (One can, though, submit a paper to either journal after another journal has already declined to publish it.) As for the major multidisplinary journals, Nature allows publication of preprints. Science does not.
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According to a CNN article, the prime minister of Norway is stranded as a result of the resulting travel chaos and "running the Norwegian government from the U.S. via his new iPad".
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And what for? A 960x640 screen at that size would have an absurdly high pixel density, adding a lot to cost for no good reason. The iPhone screen resolution is already 163 dpi (per Apple's specs)! I think it's safe to say that we will never see a 960x460 screen on a consumer product the size of modern day cell phones. There's simply no point.
The problem with these kinds of projections is that they almost invariably forget to take technological change into account
This is especially true for the lanthanides (i.e. "rare earth" elements). They are not actually all that rare. Cerium is more abundant than zinc, and even the least abundant lanthanides (with the exception of promethium, which has no stable isotope) are quite plentiful. Their price is high not because of low natural abundance, but because of a low tendency to concentrate into readily exploited ores and difficulty of separation. If we could improve the separation chemistry, then their availability would improve tremendously.
I find it surprising that Alcoa is so high up the list, beating out big computer and communications tech names such as AMD, 3COM, Apple, and Cisco. I'm curious as to what compelled them to register a domain name way back in Nov 1986.
Only if you insist on rounding up. If truncating digits, then he's planning for the correct year.
Regarding 2.7182's statement: I'm surprised you're not advocating e day (Feb 7? July 2?) instead. The combination would be good, though. Celebrate pi and e, and we get pie! How about pi + e day? At ~5.9, that would make May 9 or Sept 5 into Pie Day.
On the other hand, at work at a top research institute, I get the following. I routinely see these speeds downloading journal articles even during the middle of the day, when more people are online. I suspect the IT department caps each individual's external connection (to a very reasonable level).
Download speed: 9321 kbps
Upload speed: 8588 kbps
Latency: 40 ms
Jitter: 2 ms
Admittedly, it's 6:30 in the morning, when most of the apartment complex in San Diego (UTC area, 92122) is still asleep. Nonetheless, for basic high speed from Time Warner Cable, I'm quite surprised by the speed. I've always been happy with the speed they provide, but I didn't realize that it would burst so high. Of course, other than broadband.gov no one is pushing data down my connection at those speeds anyways.
Download speed: 29836 kbps
Upload speed: 964 kbps
Latency: 17 ms
Jitter 2 ms
Manual transmission drivers don't have three feet, they can't hold the break, clutch and gas at the same time.
Sure they can. The gas and brake pedals are close enough to be controlled simultaneously with the same foot. Inside of right foot on the brakes, outside of right foot on the gas. Steadily increase pressure on the gas pedal while letting out the clutch pedal, and as you feel the car going forward, roll the inside right foot off the brakes. Done properly, you can start up any incline without any rolling back and without using the parking brake or resorting to excessive clutch slip.
In many technology companies (not just software, but also other fields, such as biotech), a company's main value lies in IP. Therefore, IP has to be carefully protected. Where are their offsite backups? This project appears to be a sinking ship anyways (lack of pay should be a hint), but what if they had lost everything in their building (regardless of cause) during a more successful phase? How quickly would they be able to get back up and running?
Hi. I'm an alien. I have found your golden record. I'm thinking to share it with my race via an alien protocol similar to bit-torrent. What's my legal status?
Given your location, definitely non-resident alien.
Microsoft has about $40 billion in cash. Surely interest income should be there somewhere, probably higher than Entertainment and Devices is on the graph.
How is this a coincidence? They are so successful at one area that it resulted in a sanctioned monopoly. If they weren't so successful in their core business, they wouldn't be a sanctioned monopoly in the first place.
Agreed. Furthermore, for e-mail, you can make switching providers completely transparent to the people with whom you communicate. I've been using my alma mater's forwarding service for the last decade. During that time, I have switched from Hotmail to my (former) ISP's e-mail service to GMail. The last move occurred only because I was switching ISPs. With all three services, I used IMAP or POP and a local mail program, using web access only when away from my own computers, so nothing really changed on my end. And nothing changes for people I'm in communication with. They keep sending e-mails to my alma mater's forwarding service, and I keep using that address as my outgoing address.
So failure of Google would be minimally disruptive to me. Failure of my alma mater would be far more disastrous. Given its track record, though, I'm willing to bet on my alma mater outliving me.
When I tried to obtain OS X 10.5 last November (buying a replacement for a dead computer running 10.3, some known software compatibility problems in 10.6), my local Apple store confirmed that the latest iMacs will run 10.5, but very apologetically told me that they no longer carried any OS X 10.5 discs (at any price). Admittedly, I needed it THAT DAY. They figured that they would have been able to help if I could wait a few days. It ended up possible for me to work around the problems in 10.6 (none of them show stoppers), but not everyone is in so fortunate a situation if a computer decides to die right after an Apple upgrade cycle.
As much as I like my Macs, it's a little absurd that older OS versions become virtually unobtainable immediately after replacements come out. Give us at least a few months of overlap.
You can. But it's convenient to express data using the most common unit for related data. For example, you could state the distance between Los Angeles and Sydney in megameters, but you almost certainly would choose kilometers over megameters.
Modded very funny, but with some element of truth. The grandest experiments in physics often require significant international collaborations and highly specialized instrumentation (think Large Hadron Collider) that demand large-scale pooling of resources. On the other hand, at least at this time, there really are no projects with such requirements in chemistry. Sure, there are many vibrant chemistry collaborations, but not nearly of that scope. So you can easily end up working only with people nearby, competing with a similarly capable team in another country (or in the same building). There are plenty of interesting problems in chemistry where a single person or a small group could produce a significant breakthrough through the creative design and execution of simple experiments using readily available equipment and chemicals.
it's done a stellar job.
So that's what went wrong... a design spec flaw. It should have been assigned to a planetary job.
Oops... forgot about the hard drive. Stick an SSD in there and pull out the (non-essential) optical drive, and you no longer have moving parts. Still clearly a machine.
By that definition, a passively cooled computer wouldn't be a machine.
Full screen isn't supported yet. I definitely will try it once it's supported.
Presumably it's just different options being passed to the 264 codec, but without any obvious way for me to change them it's verging on painful to watch.
Are there actually different options to pass on? Seems to me that it's probably just different quality implementations of the codec. In my case, the results looked the same. As they should, since it's the same video being sent, in the same format. Just to a different player. If both players work correctly, the results should be indistinguishable.
Using Safari/OSX (latest version of each) on a first generation Core2 Duo laptop (2.33 GHz), I tried watching the same video (containing no ads, annotations, etc) at the same size using both the default Flash option and the beta HTML5 option. CPU use was a steady 33-34% during playback in Flash. A steady 12-13% in HTML5. Seems like a winner to me.
Nowadays, all the major publishers dont have an issue if you post a prepring on arxiv, prl included.
True in some fields, but not all. The two biggest chemistry journals, Angewandte Chemie and Journal of the American Chemical Society, both do not allow submission of communications for which preprints have been released. One also can't submit it elsewhere at the same time. (One can, though, submit a paper to either journal after another journal has already declined to publish it.) As for the major multidisplinary journals, Nature allows publication of preprints. Science does not.