"The Trump Organization" is actually his father's apartment rental company, Elizabeth Trump & Son Co; he later renamed it after running it for years, as he wanted to diversify. His self-reported wealth in 1982 was $200M, when his company was still tied with his father. According to this calculator, that would be worth $4B today if invested in the market. Of course, that's not all that he got from his father - his father gave him (undisclosed) amounts of loans and gifts during his lifetime, and after his father's death in 1999, Donald and his siblings received most of Fred's assets; a portion of the real estate holdings alone were sold in 2003 for half a billion dollars. Much of Trump's other assets have come from his name - simple licensing rights (Trump pegs the value at $3,3B, Forbes says $253M); $241M from celebrity apprentice; etc. He also ditched a huge amount of debt through bankruptcy; before the proceedings, the Trump Organization owed $9B and Trump personally nearly $1B. When he settled with the banks after selling off assets, those figures were around $5B and $1B, respectively.
Once again, half your post focuses on your assumption that he was talking about voltage stability over a range of charge levels. That's your assumption. Great on you to make that assumption.
Lithium ion batteries are also stable at a wide range of temperatures, and retain over 90% of capacity between operating temperatures of 10C through 60C; below that, they drop off rather-quickly.
Good thing we don't live in a world where it's common to have temperatures below 10C.
For the record, I live in a place where our average daily high doesn't break 10C until June.
Because temperature of operation is typically acceptable
Thank YHVH that we never have batteries outside! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get into this electric car over here, where my cell phone has been sitting...
And FYI, the problem with operating a li-ion at high temperatures isn't that it "loses capacity" as you seem to think the problem is, it's that it dramatically shortens its lifespan.
although in mild cases we just cal them idiots.
Protip: next time you want to call someone else an idiot, learn to spell properly first.
Agreed. Lithium isn't even all that expensive, compared to the price of the batteries it goes into; it's so cheap that it's used in low value products like greases, glass, glazings, etc.Current reserves figures are not just based on limited exploration, but limited exploration at a very low dollar value.
That said, sodium metal is ridiculously cheap in bulk - like $3/kg or less. Cheaper still if it doesn't have to be packaged for transport (aka, used on-site). If you can make sodium-ion batteries with a several hundred watt-hours per kilogram energy density, and have the overall battery have the same value density as the sodium, you're storing electricity for almost nothing. We're talking whole EV battery packs that cost as much as a couple 12V batteries. Also, as you're removing the most common cation in seawater, you're also desalinating water at the same time. Picture a battery plant in the LA area, powered by solar, producing both EV batteries and freshwater (as well as byproduct hydrochloric acid for industry, and a concentrate (not counting water and residual sodium or chlorine) of around 41% magnesium, 29% sulfur, 13% calcium, 12% potassium, 2% bromine, 1% carbon, 0,4% strontium, 0,15% boron, 0,13% silicon, 621ppm aluminum, 458ppm fluorine, 294ppm nitrogen, 65ppm rubidium, 33ppm lithium, and so on down the line).
I don't know what "Shipstones" are, but I'll just point out that "Being able to deliver a lot of energy" and "being able to deliver a lot of energy quickly" are two entirely different things. The rusting of aluminum gives off a lot more energy than the detonation of an equivalent mass of TNT, but they occur on entirely different timescales.
You're assuming that "window" means "percentage charge window", as opposed to "window of time", "temperature window", or any of the other things that it could have meant.
If he doesn't feel like suing then he should troll. Detect when Google is scraping and feed them a long string of hilariously-fake data. Celebrities who come up as broke. Celebrities who come up so rich that they need exponential notation. Celebrities with exponential negative numbers in their assets. Celebrities whose net worths are mathematical or physical constants. And of course, don't just list your friends as fake celebrities - list popular search terms as celebrities, even if they're not people.
Bonus points if you can redirect nicknames to real names. If so, then you can redirect celebrity names to whatever plaintext message you want to send. Aka "Tom Hanks" as a nickname for "Google is stealing my data" or whatnot.
Actually, earthquakes are pretty common in the area near Vatnajökull:) But to break it down:
jökull = glacier. fossar = waterfalls. foss = waterfall. á = river (ár is genitive / possessive) mor: in this context I can think of several possibilities. One is mor as in sediment, which seems perfectly reasonable coming off of a glacier. Another is short for mórauður (reddish brown - lit. "peat red"). But probably the former. mors is genitive / possessive.
So you have the Morsá (sediment river). What do you call the glacier that feeds it? Morsárjökull - the Sediment River Glacier. And if it develops a series of waterfalls? Morsárfossar - Sediment River Falls.
It's no different from what you do in English. If you saw the word - oh, let's say "Yellowstone" - and didn't know the words "yellow" or "stone", it'd look like gibberish. Your mind wouldn't even know where to break it up, where to put accents, etc.
"Yel Lows Tone"? "Yell Owst One"? "Ye Llows Ton E"? "Yell Ow Sto Ne?"... etc.
But once you know the words "Yellow" and "Stone", it's easy. It's no different with Icelandic. I'm sure Eyjafjallajökull looks scary too, but it's just Eyja (genitive of "Islands"), Fjalla (genitive of "Mountains") and Jökull (glacier) - three common, short words. Glacier of the Mountains of the Islands. The Island-Mountains' Glacier. Either referring to nearby Vestmannaeyjar or perhaps Landeyjar (Land Islands).
Agreed that it's a bad description. But the original also points out the weaknesses of their approach. It's a lot easier to give a third party the view of the person in the VR experience being perfectly constrained by walls than it is to give the person themselves that, for two reasons: one, protracted stimulation (aka they're feeling a wall) draws attention to the stimulation itself (tingling), and two, because it's done by activating opposing muscle groups, the force feels inverted, like someone's pulling their hand away with a magnet. So they were messing around with "visual means" to convey the concept, like "soft walls" that let your hand penetrate a bit, and "electric" walls to make it look like it's a force field pulling you away.
Neat concept, but not exactly right. Also, it goes without saying that any attempt to, say, lean on such a virtual wall will go badly;)
Here in Iceland we got a new highest waterfall out of the deal. Our highest used to be Glymur, but the glacier Morsárjökull receded up a cliff and in its place left a series of waterfalls that are higher than Glymur (now called Morsárfossar).
It doesn't matter if you have a laser sight (which, by the way, why would you use a visible laser?), the gun still has to rotate, meaning at least the hands have to rotate. Nothing moves; it's all perfectly still.
From the perspective of making more Firefly, the death of Ron Glass was really the best option of any of the cast. Because...
* He wasn't in the crew before Serenity (the episode)
* He left the ship after the episode "Objects in Space" around the same time Inara did, and apparently never traveled with the crew again (although they visited him from time to time)
* He died in Serenity (the movie), so he's not around after that.
* They could even handle one of the mentioned "visits" with him, because there were Serenity deleted scenes with him that are not specific to the plot of Serenity. Including a montage, which means that they have the individual clips used to make that montage. So long as the other actors haven't aged too much by then and the footage quality is roughly the same and/or can be remastered to match the ep's quality.
On the other hand, Wash was around before Serenity (the episode) and remained with the ship up until his death. So any prequils or "in-between" eps would have him (again, so long as Alan Tudyk doesn't get too old.. obviously if they wait too long they have to recast.)
Right, dead end, which is why they keep becoming better and better at various tasks, to the point that they're now entering our everyday lives? Because surely that's the very definition of a dead-end.
Does anyone remember how terrible voice recognition used to be 1-2 decades ago? Because I sure do. The concept that you could have things like Siri, Google Now, devices like Alexa, etc get it right the vast majority of the time would have been laughable. Neural nets used to be too bad to use in these tasks at all. When Google made their first neural-net based voice recognition system (rather than the algorithmic matching ones from before) it got a 25% error rate. Now it's down to 8%. They're cropping up everywhere - most recently Skype's real-time translation service. Which is starting out a bit imperfect, and I guarantee you, once the neural nets get better with time, people will promptly forget how they didn't used to be as good as they'll have become, just like happens with everything else neural nets do.
On the image side, it's not just about image recognition (say, Google Photos). Facial recognition has gone from fringe to dangerously accurate. In my last job (medical imaging) we used neural nets to segment the brain. Which I find to be a rather amusing concept, artificial neural networks studying biological neural networks;) They started off rather poor at the job, but by the time I left they were doing a better job at it than humans. Neural nets are also better lipreaders than humans. Really, the number of fields they've been expanding into in the past decade, and the progress over the past decade, is really staggering. One "hard AI" task after the next, they're getting better than humans. Remember this XKCD comic from just a few years ago? You can now download software to do just that sort of thing. It's not just about computing power advances, either; the learning algorithms themselves have been advancing by leaps and bounds recently.
Now, if you don't mean neural networks when you say AI, then what the heck do you mean when you say AI?
I'm sorry, but the person gave two examples, both of which *have* undergone major advances and made their way into our everyday lives. And if neural nets (what drives the image recognition) aren't from AI research then what are they from?
Yeah, you tell em! AI is never going to amount to anything, and batteries haven't changed in decades!
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to pull out my phone with a 3200 mAh battery the size of a couple-millimeter-thick business card and tell Google Photos to search through my thousands of unlabeled photos to show me just those that contain pictures of an arbitrary object.
which describes this as "a breakthrough material" that will not only make smartphones faster and more durable, but also more energy-efficient. The University of Victoria calculates that's 10% of the world's electricity is consumed by "information communications technology," so LI-RAM phones could conceivably cut that figure in half.
Um, 10% of the world's electricity is not consumed by phones. And even if they actually meant all computing and networking equipment combined, how is a RAM advancement supposed to cut all power consumed by computers, switches, etc in half?
Remember Samsung’s burning phones? That won’t be an issue with the LI-RAM because the light system could produce almost no heat.
Everything about that video looks fake. The "robot" doesn't even appear to move at all as targets fall at significant angles relative to it. And what's up with those bullet casings falling at the end which don't appear to correspond with anything actually happening at the time?
Slashdot Mirror
Snicker.
"The Trump Organization" is actually his father's apartment rental company, Elizabeth Trump & Son Co; he later renamed it after running it for years, as he wanted to diversify. His self-reported wealth in 1982 was $200M, when his company was still tied with his father. According to this calculator, that would be worth $4B today if invested in the market. Of course, that's not all that he got from his father - his father gave him (undisclosed) amounts of loans and gifts during his lifetime, and after his father's death in 1999, Donald and his siblings received most of Fred's assets; a portion of the real estate holdings alone were sold in 2003 for half a billion dollars. Much of Trump's other assets have come from his name - simple licensing rights (Trump pegs the value at $3,3B, Forbes says $253M); $241M from celebrity apprentice; etc. He also ditched a huge amount of debt through bankruptcy; before the proceedings, the Trump Organization owed $9B and Trump personally nearly $1B. When he settled with the banks after selling off assets, those figures were around $5B and $1B, respectively.
You realize that that "droned by clinton" story was fake, don't you?
You forgot to add "get off my lawn!".
On that note, why aren't baby boomers eating pho?
Once again, half your post focuses on your assumption that he was talking about voltage stability over a range of charge levels. That's your assumption. Great on you to make that assumption.
Good thing we don't live in a world where it's common to have temperatures below 10C.
For the record, I live in a place where our average daily high doesn't break 10C until June.
Because temperature of operation is typically acceptable
Thank YHVH that we never have batteries outside! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get into this electric car over here, where my cell phone has been sitting...
And FYI, the problem with operating a li-ion at high temperatures isn't that it "loses capacity" as you seem to think the problem is, it's that it dramatically shortens its lifespan.
Protip: next time you want to call someone else an idiot, learn to spell properly first.
Agreed. Lithium isn't even all that expensive, compared to the price of the batteries it goes into; it's so cheap that it's used in low value products like greases, glass, glazings, etc.Current reserves figures are not just based on limited exploration, but limited exploration at a very low dollar value.
That said, sodium metal is ridiculously cheap in bulk - like $3/kg or less. Cheaper still if it doesn't have to be packaged for transport (aka, used on-site). If you can make sodium-ion batteries with a several hundred watt-hours per kilogram energy density, and have the overall battery have the same value density as the sodium, you're storing electricity for almost nothing. We're talking whole EV battery packs that cost as much as a couple 12V batteries. Also, as you're removing the most common cation in seawater, you're also desalinating water at the same time. Picture a battery plant in the LA area, powered by solar, producing both EV batteries and freshwater (as well as byproduct hydrochloric acid for industry, and a concentrate (not counting water and residual sodium or chlorine) of around 41% magnesium, 29% sulfur, 13% calcium, 12% potassium, 2% bromine, 1% carbon, 0,4% strontium, 0,15% boron, 0,13% silicon, 621ppm aluminum, 458ppm fluorine, 294ppm nitrogen, 65ppm rubidium, 33ppm lithium, and so on down the line).
I don't know what "Shipstones" are, but I'll just point out that "Being able to deliver a lot of energy" and "being able to deliver a lot of energy quickly" are two entirely different things. The rusting of aluminum gives off a lot more energy than the detonation of an equivalent mass of TNT, but they occur on entirely different timescales.
Still contains lithium or sodium metal. So in short, don't crack it open and chunk it in a bucket of water.
Everything else is pretty tame.
You're assuming that "window" means "percentage charge window", as opposed to "window of time", "temperature window", or any of the other things that it could have meant.
What does their TOC say about Google stealing your data?
It wasn't my joke, so it doesn't hurt me if I ruin it ;)
If he doesn't feel like suing then he should troll. Detect when Google is scraping and feed them a long string of hilariously-fake data. Celebrities who come up as broke. Celebrities who come up so rich that they need exponential notation. Celebrities with exponential negative numbers in their assets. Celebrities whose net worths are mathematical or physical constants. And of course, don't just list your friends as fake celebrities - list popular search terms as celebrities, even if they're not people.
Bonus points if you can redirect nicknames to real names. If so, then you can redirect celebrity names to whatever plaintext message you want to send. Aka "Tom Hanks" as a nickname for "Google is stealing my data" or whatnot.
Actually, earthquakes are pretty common in the area near Vatnajökull :) But to break it down:
jökull = glacier.
fossar = waterfalls. foss = waterfall.
á = river (ár is genitive / possessive)
mor: in this context I can think of several possibilities. One is mor as in sediment, which seems perfectly reasonable coming off of a glacier. Another is short for mórauður (reddish brown - lit. "peat red"). But probably the former. mors is genitive / possessive.
So you have the Morsá (sediment river). What do you call the glacier that feeds it? Morsárjökull - the Sediment River Glacier.
And if it develops a series of waterfalls? Morsárfossar - Sediment River Falls.
It's no different from what you do in English. If you saw the word - oh, let's say "Yellowstone" - and didn't know the words "yellow" or "stone", it'd look like gibberish. Your mind wouldn't even know where to break it up, where to put accents, etc.
"Yel Lows Tone"? ... etc.
"Yell Owst One"?
"Ye Llows Ton E"?
"Yell Ow Sto Ne?"
But once you know the words "Yellow" and "Stone", it's easy. It's no different with Icelandic. I'm sure Eyjafjallajökull looks scary too, but it's just Eyja (genitive of "Islands"), Fjalla (genitive of "Mountains") and Jökull (glacier) - three common, short words. Glacier of the Mountains of the Islands. The Island-Mountains' Glacier. Either referring to nearby Vestmannaeyjar or perhaps Landeyjar (Land Islands).
Agreed that it's a bad description. But the original also points out the weaknesses of their approach. It's a lot easier to give a third party the view of the person in the VR experience being perfectly constrained by walls than it is to give the person themselves that, for two reasons: one, protracted stimulation (aka they're feeling a wall) draws attention to the stimulation itself (tingling), and two, because it's done by activating opposing muscle groups, the force feels inverted, like someone's pulling their hand away with a magnet. So they were messing around with "visual means" to convey the concept, like "soft walls" that let your hand penetrate a bit, and "electric" walls to make it look like it's a force field pulling you away.
Neat concept, but not exactly right. Also, it goes without saying that any attempt to, say, lean on such a virtual wall will go badly ;)
Here in Iceland we got a new highest waterfall out of the deal. Our highest used to be Glymur, but the glacier Morsárjökull receded up a cliff and in its place left a series of waterfalls that are higher than Glymur (now called Morsárfossar).
Glymur is prettier though. Morsárfossar was prettier partially glaciated, like the cliffs to the right still are.
Has it really been 14 years already? Geez....
It doesn't matter if you have a laser sight (which, by the way, why would you use a visible laser?), the gun still has to rotate, meaning at least the hands have to rotate. Nothing moves; it's all perfectly still.
From the perspective of making more Firefly, the death of Ron Glass was really the best option of any of the cast. Because...
* He wasn't in the crew before Serenity (the episode)
* He left the ship after the episode "Objects in Space" around the same time Inara did, and apparently never traveled with the crew again (although they visited him from time to time)
* He died in Serenity (the movie), so he's not around after that.
* They could even handle one of the mentioned "visits" with him, because there were Serenity deleted scenes with him that are not specific to the plot of Serenity. Including a montage, which means that they have the individual clips used to make that montage. So long as the other actors haven't aged too much by then and the footage quality is roughly the same and/or can be remastered to match the ep's quality.
On the other hand, Wash was around before Serenity (the episode) and remained with the ship up until his death. So any prequils or "in-between" eps would have him (again, so long as Alan Tudyk doesn't get too old.. obviously if they wait too long they have to recast.)
Right, dead end, which is why they keep becoming better and better at various tasks, to the point that they're now entering our everyday lives? Because surely that's the very definition of a dead-end.
Does anyone remember how terrible voice recognition used to be 1-2 decades ago? Because I sure do. The concept that you could have things like Siri, Google Now, devices like Alexa, etc get it right the vast majority of the time would have been laughable. Neural nets used to be too bad to use in these tasks at all. When Google made their first neural-net based voice recognition system (rather than the algorithmic matching ones from before) it got a 25% error rate. Now it's down to 8%. They're cropping up everywhere - most recently Skype's real-time translation service. Which is starting out a bit imperfect, and I guarantee you, once the neural nets get better with time, people will promptly forget how they didn't used to be as good as they'll have become, just like happens with everything else neural nets do.
On the image side, it's not just about image recognition (say, Google Photos). Facial recognition has gone from fringe to dangerously accurate. In my last job (medical imaging) we used neural nets to segment the brain. Which I find to be a rather amusing concept, artificial neural networks studying biological neural networks ;) They started off rather poor at the job, but by the time I left they were doing a better job at it than humans. Neural nets are also better lipreaders than humans. Really, the number of fields they've been expanding into in the past decade, and the progress over the past decade, is really staggering. One "hard AI" task after the next, they're getting better than humans. Remember this XKCD comic from just a few years ago? You can now download software to do just that sort of thing. It's not just about computing power advances, either; the learning algorithms themselves have been advancing by leaps and bounds recently.
Now, if you don't mean neural networks when you say AI, then what the heck do you mean when you say AI?
I'm sorry, but the person gave two examples, both of which *have* undergone major advances and made their way into our everyday lives. And if neural nets (what drives the image recognition) aren't from AI research then what are they from?
Yeah, you tell em! AI is never going to amount to anything, and batteries haven't changed in decades!
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to pull out my phone with a 3200 mAh battery the size of a couple-millimeter-thick business card and tell Google Photos to search through my thousands of unlabeled photos to show me just those that contain pictures of an arbitrary object.
Um, 10% of the world's electricity is not consumed by phones. And even if they actually meant all computing and networking equipment combined, how is a RAM advancement supposed to cut all power consumed by computers, switches, etc in half?
Facepalm.
Yes, that would be the reason why they said that only one of the two magnets is particularly "interesting".
Cruise missiles and drone bombings do not substitute for ground troops. The GP is clearly talking about a robotic substitute for ground troops.
Everything about that video looks fake. The "robot" doesn't even appear to move at all as targets fall at significant angles relative to it. And what's up with those bullet casings falling at the end which don't appear to correspond with anything actually happening at the time?