I looked around a little, and for a granite mountain, you probably don't want a height to width ratio of more than 2.5:1 Given this ratio, and that the smallest mountain of that height would be a cone, then we can do a little math. The volume of a cone is (1/3)*pi*r**2*h where r is half the width of the mountain at the base and h is the height. With the above ratio, r = h/5, so you have volume = (1/75)*pi*h**3 So for the smallest 3000 metre mountain, only 1.13 cubic kilometres of granite. With lower strength rocks, you'd probably want a wider base, or perhaps, with semi-autonomous solar powered lasers, you could build a sintered mountain of glass. If people wanted to live inside the sintered glass mountain, you could then have some fun calculating the necessary exclusions to provide the appropriate infrastructure (air, water & sewage pipes & pumping stations, power conduit, living spaces, human transit spaces, etc) versus the necessary quantity of unexcluded material to provide structural strength to see how many people could safely make their home in the glass mountain. Then, with a cross sectional design, you could start the planet's biggest 3-D printing project so far.
If you have a fruit tree in Ras al Basit that bears no fruit, you might want to plant another tree. If you have a fruit tree in Qatrun that bears no fruit, you might want to find a different location for planting fruit trees. The rain that falls on mountains comes from moisture in the air. If the moisture is there, the rain will fall. If you see a big mountain and rain does not fall, this is a pretty clear indication that the moisture isn't there.
UAE has access to large amounts of sea water, large amounts of carbon and of methane (inside hydrocarbons). As it turns out a carbon product, graphene, is really efficient at desalination. UAE could build the world's biggest graphene factory and use some of that graphene to make lots of fresh water. The rest of the graphene could be used for the ninety zillion other fantastical miraculous things that graphene does amazingly well.
And the only information available came across like a manufacturer's product announcement press release, not like a description of first success in lab work. If you have better information, post a link.
I read the Google translate version of that document. It said they got e-ink to stick to graphene, and talked about how two companies had formed a partnership to find something to replace ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) in displays, suggesting that the e-ink is what they've used in the past and that the graphene will be the transparent surface layer in their product. Then, it talked about ITO, and it talked about graphene, and it talked about IP disputes and yota phone with Putin. So, it did have a little bit more to say about the product it's announcing. Not up to a full paragraph worth of information yet but now more than a single sentence.
I wanted to read about emerging technology. In this case, all the informational content about the nature of the emerging technology was in the headline. I have to read other articles if I do want to read about emerging technology.
When I thought of this at first, I thought that the idea with a mountain is to chill the air, and there may be easier ways. Then, I thought desalination is going to be cheaper to make water than refrigerating the air, are they afraid they'll run out of sea water? But, sea levels rise with global warming, and my first impression of UAE was that it's pretty flat, so I thought, maybe they also want some artificial high ground to which they can retreat. Before commenting on that, though, I asked Google, what is the highest point in UAE? It turns out that Jabal Al Jais (over on the Eastern point, by Oman) is 1910 meters tall, and the satellite view shows that it doesn't have a wet side. Hawaii is closer to the equator, and mountains that are less tall have a wet side. This leads me to strongly think that the air may not be the best available resource for getting potable water. I'd try desalination of the stuff in which the artificial islands are built.
No information on the switching speed.
No information on the pixel density.
No information on the energy consumption.
No information on the reflectivity or whether it's transmissive instead or whether it emits light.
No information on whether it's a straight on-off effect or whether they can do pixel level grayscale.
No description of how it works.
Just descriptions of graphene and the sentence "we used it to make electronic paper." One of the articles did say that their time scale for having a product is "within a year.". I think I'll forget about it until then.
to see the commercial broadcast channels encourage the government to push more viewers towards adopting online viewing. The notion of supporting something that benefits their ecosystem is going to look much better in hindsight. Netflix will be the beneficiary, even if they don't carry the displaced content.
According to the article, when he made contact with them without attempting to sue, they offered EUR 750 to settle. Now that there's a lawsuit, they're offering EUR 400k to settle. I feel confident in believing that had the suit been for EUR 400k, they would have offered less. Assuming the attorneys take 25% and reading that Austria takes 50% on income above EUR 51k, I don't think he's going to retire on this.
Have you considered resolving this dispute in a traditional Klingon manner? It would be fun to see a Paramount executive attempting to enforce copyright with a bat'leth.
What we really need is a regulation to determine whether it's better to do the official folk dance or better to do the official popular dance - in a bathroom. People who feel the urge to dance in bathrooms clearly need to be regulated on these matters.
The built-in air drying tries to achieve dryness through gentle evaporation using the warm air. This might do the job for the 15% that's left after an air knife scrapes off the first 85%, but it's way too slow to handle 100% of the initial left-over water.
I just want government to leave us the hell alone, so long as "us" are groups of 10 or fewer people. Big corporate entities that keep people employed full time for PR don't get the same automatic hands-off treatment.
Also, as previously mentioned, in any big overhaul of how voting is done, that winner-takes-all bullshit has to stop.
Imagine a bill to eliminate H-1Bs by providing free VR to companies so that those same workers could do the same jobs without leaving their home country. Think of the startups (In the world of corporate personhood, these are the children.) that could use this help in getting off the ground. Think of the dividends that could be paid to investors in American companies if CEOs had available this powerful tool. Daughters and Ducats - why move bodies at 560 mph when you could move minds at the speed of light!
Dyson needs to make an air knife (pair) that quickly shaves off 85% of the water left by those fancy butt washing toilet seats. I think he could do it with less than half the resources he put into this project.
...and advised their customers to buy what they were shorting. They aren't dumb, but they've demonstrated who it is that benefits when people trust them.
are soon parted. To the 14 year olds with $100k in bitcoin: The next scam would be to set yourselves up as an "email threat assessment service." It's a slightly longer con, but they're primed to buy in.
When I come home and browse the web using my monitor, keyboard and trackball, but my computing device is still the smartphone in my pocket, then we'll be closer to peak smartphone. When I'm playing my virtual reality videogames and doing my virtual reality tourism, and have ditched my monitor and television for my augmented reality display, and my computing device for these activities is the smartphone in my pocket, then we'll be closer still to peak smartphone. Peak smartphone is still quite a ways off.
It would surely be nice to at the same time hear statistics going the other way: what percentage of science students versus what percentage of Islamic studies students are jihadis.
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I looked around a little, and for a granite mountain, you probably don't want a height to width ratio of more than 2.5:1 Given this ratio, and that the smallest mountain of that height would be a cone, then we can do a little math. The volume of a cone is (1/3)*pi*r**2*h where r is half the width of the mountain at the base and h is the height. With the above ratio, r = h/5, so you have volume = (1/75)*pi*h**3 So for the smallest 3000 metre mountain, only 1.13 cubic kilometres of granite. With lower strength rocks, you'd probably want a wider base, or perhaps, with semi-autonomous solar powered lasers, you could build a sintered mountain of glass. If people wanted to live inside the sintered glass mountain, you could then have some fun calculating the necessary exclusions to provide the appropriate infrastructure (air, water & sewage pipes & pumping stations, power conduit, living spaces, human transit spaces, etc) versus the necessary quantity of unexcluded material to provide structural strength to see how many people could safely make their home in the glass mountain. Then, with a cross sectional design, you could start the planet's biggest 3-D printing project so far.
Cool, so how much taller than 1900 meters?
If you have a fruit tree in Ras al Basit that bears no fruit, you might want to plant another tree. If you have a fruit tree in Qatrun that bears no fruit, you might want to find a different location for planting fruit trees. The rain that falls on mountains comes from moisture in the air. If the moisture is there, the rain will fall. If you see a big mountain and rain does not fall, this is a pretty clear indication that the moisture isn't there.
UAE has access to large amounts of sea water, large amounts of carbon and of methane (inside hydrocarbons). As it turns out a carbon product, graphene, is really efficient at desalination. UAE could build the world's biggest graphene factory and use some of that graphene to make lots of fresh water. The rest of the graphene could be used for the ninety zillion other fantastical miraculous things that graphene does amazingly well.
And the only information available came across like a manufacturer's product announcement press release, not like a description of first success in lab work. If you have better information, post a link.
I read the Google translate version of that document. It said they got e-ink to stick to graphene, and talked about how two companies had formed a partnership to find something to replace ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) in displays, suggesting that the e-ink is what they've used in the past and that the graphene will be the transparent surface layer in their product. Then, it talked about ITO, and it talked about graphene, and it talked about IP disputes and yota phone with Putin. So, it did have a little bit more to say about the product it's announcing. Not up to a full paragraph worth of information yet but now more than a single sentence.
If you're interested, here's an article on attempts to use graphene to replace ITO in solar cells. Here's one on attempting to use thin films of correlated metals to replace ITO in displays And, here's one on ITO having properties that could make it good to use for optical data transmission.
There's been a 6000 foot mountain there for a thousand years. Check it out with the Google satellite view. It's dry.
If I'm doing biometric authentication, I think I like that better.
I wanted to read about emerging technology. In this case, all the informational content about the nature of the emerging technology was in the headline. I have to read other articles if I do want to read about emerging technology.
When I thought of this at first, I thought that the idea with a mountain is to chill the air, and there may be easier ways. Then, I thought desalination is going to be cheaper to make water than refrigerating the air, are they afraid they'll run out of sea water? But, sea levels rise with global warming, and my first impression of UAE was that it's pretty flat, so I thought, maybe they also want some artificial high ground to which they can retreat. Before commenting on that, though, I asked Google, what is the highest point in UAE? It turns out that Jabal Al Jais (over on the Eastern point, by Oman) is 1910 meters tall, and the satellite view shows that it doesn't have a wet side. Hawaii is closer to the equator, and mountains that are less tall have a wet side. This leads me to strongly think that the air may not be the best available resource for getting potable water. I'd try desalination of the stuff in which the artificial islands are built.
No information on the switching speed.
No information on the pixel density.
No information on the energy consumption.
No information on the reflectivity or whether it's transmissive instead or whether it emits light.
No information on whether it's a straight on-off effect or whether they can do pixel level grayscale.
No description of how it works.
Just descriptions of graphene and the sentence "we used it to make electronic paper." One of the articles did say that their time scale for having a product is "within a year.". I think I'll forget about it until then.
to see the commercial broadcast channels encourage the government to push more viewers towards adopting online viewing. The notion of supporting something that benefits their ecosystem is going to look much better in hindsight. Netflix will be the beneficiary, even if they don't carry the displaced content.
According to the article, when he made contact with them without attempting to sue, they offered EUR 750 to settle. Now that there's a lawsuit, they're offering EUR 400k to settle. I feel confident in believing that had the suit been for EUR 400k, they would have offered less. Assuming the attorneys take 25% and reading that Austria takes 50% on income above EUR 51k, I don't think he's going to retire on this.
Have you considered resolving this dispute in a traditional Klingon manner? It would be fun to see a Paramount executive attempting to enforce copyright with a bat'leth.
What we really need is a regulation to determine whether it's better to do the official folk dance or better to do the official popular dance - in a bathroom. People who feel the urge to dance in bathrooms clearly need to be regulated on these matters.
for bring your child's pet weasel to work day.
I have to blame online advertising.
The built-in air drying tries to achieve dryness through gentle evaporation using the warm air. This might do the job for the 15% that's left after an air knife scrapes off the first 85%, but it's way too slow to handle 100% of the initial left-over water.
I just want government to leave us the hell alone, so long as "us" are groups of 10 or fewer people. Big corporate entities that keep people employed full time for PR don't get the same automatic hands-off treatment.
Also, as previously mentioned, in any big overhaul of how voting is done, that winner-takes-all bullshit has to stop.
They could do them wrong and not at all.
Imagine a bill to eliminate H-1Bs by providing free VR to companies so that those same workers could do the same jobs without leaving their home country. Think of the startups (In the world of corporate personhood, these are the children.) that could use this help in getting off the ground. Think of the dividends that could be paid to investors in American companies if CEOs had available this powerful tool. Daughters and Ducats - why move bodies at 560 mph when you could move minds at the speed of light!
Dyson needs to make an air knife (pair) that quickly shaves off 85% of the water left by those fancy butt washing toilet seats. I think he could do it with less than half the resources he put into this project.
...and advised their customers to buy what they were shorting. They aren't dumb, but they've demonstrated who it is that benefits when people trust them.
are soon parted. To the 14 year olds with $100k in bitcoin: The next scam would be to set yourselves up as an "email threat assessment service." It's a slightly longer con, but they're primed to buy in.
When I come home and browse the web using my monitor, keyboard and trackball, but my computing device is still the smartphone in my pocket, then we'll be closer to peak smartphone. When I'm playing my virtual reality videogames and doing my virtual reality tourism, and have ditched my monitor and television for my augmented reality display, and my computing device for these activities is the smartphone in my pocket, then we'll be closer still to peak smartphone. Peak smartphone is still quite a ways off.
It would surely be nice to at the same time hear statistics going the other way: what percentage of science students versus what percentage of Islamic studies students are jihadis.
Funding for trolls! Why post your comments for free, when for just pennies FFT will hook you up with someone who will pay you nickles to express those same thoughts!