The alternatives do exist. I think the main problem is shipping these systems to Mars. For example, in Tamera, Portugal, there is a greenhouse that uses half-permeable mirrors to focus the direct sunlight on tubes filled with (vegetable) oil. This oil is used as a heat buffer and stored in an isolated tank. The oil from the tank is used to cook on, and to run a Striling engine on to produce electricity. The nice thing is that the diffuse light that remains is good for the plants in the greenhouse, while the direct sunlight that is used for the energy generation is the potentially harmful part. It is a beautiful system, but don't even try to calculate how much rocket fuel you would need to ship only the vegetable oil to Mars.
I once read that the native Americans in the U.S. and Canada were so vulnerable to our diseases because we kept domesticated animals, while they did not. The livestock agriculture seems to come with a lot of diseases. I know too little about the Aztecs to be able to say if they had domesticated animals or not.
While the OP is probably right, it is not something new. In the 80s and before, there was Rock 'n Roll and Disco. While Disco was very repetitive, most songs had a kind of storyline. A good song has a chorus that is a little bit ambiguous, so that it still fits if the last verse has a "twist".
In the 90s, the guitar was re-discovered, but all storylines were stripped, and that music was called Grunge. While the instruments of Grunge and Rock 'n Roll are the same, they couldn't be further apart.
Do they come with spyware like Management Engine / Trustzone / <insert buzzword here>? If so, why would I want to buy one? Wake up. Nowadays, we don't want extra features, we want to get rid of them.
I seem to recall that a processor without a coprocessor was one with it, but with the coprocessor burned away. Would it be possible to burn away the management engine?
Is the price rising because of a real value, or inflated because of people thinking they will get rich quick?
Since a bitcoin is nothing more than an answer to a riddle, that is an easy question. A bitcoin has no value. For some strange reason, is has a price, but please don't mix the two, as value and price have little in common nowadays. Value belongs to economy (things people do), while price belongs to finance (cashing big nonsense). If you want to get rich, don't make your hands dirty. If you want to be a member of society, by all means do.
Well, it sounds like kicking in an open door, but there could have been two scenarios:
1. For whatever reason ore got heated (because people accidentally built an oven out of ore or bog iron, for example), and later on they thought it was useful,
2. People knew iron before ore and started looking for more resources.
Glass was probably invented the first way. If you want to make iron, you will heat a clay oven so hot that sand in the clay turns to glass. Glass droplets were found in old finding sites, suggesting that the inhabitants back then did not know glass had any use.
So this study shows that with iron, the second scenario happened.
Not exactly. If you smelt iron from ore or from iron-rich soil, the iron is what is left behind in the oven. In other words: you melt the ore from the iron. The iron you have left in the oven is very porous and brittle, and contains a huge amount of carbon (making it extra brittle). It therefore takes quite some work to convert this iron into any workable steel or iron.
I propose the Blowfish emoji. For a pumped up message to poison public opinion. Off course, the "speak no evil monkey" and the "money bag" are somewhat more direct.
Off course, this is all fine and dandy for specially ordered corporate machines, but for consumer electronics it is plain scary. Whether someone has hidden a documenting pin in a haystack or not.
Not really. It would be more like a cryogenic sleep. You could always wake it up. On the other hand, reformatting or wiping any form of digital storage would be like destroying a body in cryogenic sleep. That surely is murder.
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The alternatives do exist. I think the main problem is shipping these systems to Mars. For example, in Tamera, Portugal, there is a greenhouse that uses half-permeable mirrors to focus the direct sunlight on tubes filled with (vegetable) oil. This oil is used as a heat buffer and stored in an isolated tank. The oil from the tank is used to cook on, and to run a Striling engine on to produce electricity. The nice thing is that the diffuse light that remains is good for the plants in the greenhouse, while the direct sunlight that is used for the energy generation is the potentially harmful part. It is a beautiful system, but don't even try to calculate how much rocket fuel you would need to ship only the vegetable oil to Mars.
I once read that the native Americans in the U.S. and Canada were so vulnerable to our diseases because we kept domesticated animals, while they did not. The livestock agriculture seems to come with a lot of diseases. I know too little about the Aztecs to be able to say if they had domesticated animals or not.
While the OP is probably right, it is not something new. In the 80s and before, there was Rock 'n Roll and Disco. While Disco was very repetitive, most songs had a kind of storyline. A good song has a chorus that is a little bit ambiguous, so that it still fits if the last verse has a "twist".
In the 90s, the guitar was re-discovered, but all storylines were stripped, and that music was called Grunge. While the instruments of Grunge and Rock 'n Roll are the same, they couldn't be further apart.
Express "is the overwhelmingly dominant solution...
Please tell me. What was the problem?
Sure we do. It means "Get a life". Funny that facepalm would send you away from your screen.
Well, probably the logical thing to do: they set the evil bit.
Do they come with spyware like Management Engine / Trustzone / <insert buzzword here>? If so, why would I want to buy one? Wake up. Nowadays, we don't want extra features, we want to get rid of them.
I seem to recall that a processor without a coprocessor was one with it, but with the coprocessor burned away. Would it be possible to burn away the management engine?
Not exactly. It would be good news if they had quit because of conscience problems.
I somehow don't think he was scammed by robinhood@sherwood.uk.
Well, if you compare it to IP over Avian Carrier, I think swinging a torch can mean "high speed, high capacity".
Does that mean we can expect X-men: The Rip-off, Avatar: the Rip-off, etc?
anything better than cat pictures
You mean like this one (site is in German)?
Is the price rising because of a real value, or inflated because of people thinking they will get rich quick?
Since a bitcoin is nothing more than an answer to a riddle, that is an easy question. A bitcoin has no value. For some strange reason, is has a price, but please don't mix the two, as value and price have little in common nowadays. Value belongs to economy (things people do), while price belongs to finance (cashing big nonsense). If you want to get rich, don't make your hands dirty. If you want to be a member of society, by all means do.
Well, it sounds like kicking in an open door, but there could have been two scenarios:
Glass was probably invented the first way. If you want to make iron, you will heat a clay oven so hot that sand in the clay turns to glass. Glass droplets were found in old finding sites, suggesting that the inhabitants back then did not know glass had any use.
So this study shows that with iron, the second scenario happened.
Not exactly. If you smelt iron from ore or from iron-rich soil, the iron is what is left behind in the oven. In other words: you melt the ore from the iron. The iron you have left in the oven is very porous and brittle, and contains a huge amount of carbon (making it extra brittle). It therefore takes quite some work to convert this iron into any workable steel or iron.
I propose the Blowfish emoji. For a pumped up message to poison public opinion. Off course, the "speak no evil monkey" and the "money bag" are somewhat more direct.
https://software.intel.com/shibboleet/apply-holy-handgranade/calculate-airpeed-of-a-swallow/buzzword-buzzword.html is not exactly "public knowledge". But the first chapter of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is. It shows the exact same issue.
Off course, this is all fine and dandy for specially ordered corporate machines, but for consumer electronics it is plain scary. Whether someone has hidden a documenting pin in a haystack or not.
Not really. It would be more like a cryogenic sleep. You could always wake it up. On the other hand, reformatting or wiping any form of digital storage would be like destroying a body in cryogenic sleep. That surely is murder.
Exactly. While most terrorists might be dumb, they are not too dumb to hire pure evil on the black market of programmers.
At Google, the report bugs you!
Can somebody please explain the TLA (Three Letter Abbreviation) when they post an article about it?
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Oh, rest assured. With systems like that, they can make you an offer you can't refuse.
So instead of "Follow the Money", the new investigator's dogma is "Follow the Phones". Nice.