The problem with global warming is that its effects are too slow to be perceived as a threat by a population that only cares about immediate events or at most within one year in the future.
So the border guards can steal your data without having to give any explanation and without having to fear consequences. And I'm not talking about "MP3 files", I'm talking about company documents, tax documents, industrial documents, all sorts of perfectly legal information that is private property of a company or an individual.
One more reason not to travel to the US, even to tourism.
I've always been curious about how the sun's gravity can affect objects so far away from itself as the Oort cloud. Consider that I am thinking in terms of distance versus force where the intensity of the force decreases with distance, at such distances the intensity of the gravitational force should be really really small right?
Optimization is not even the problem in most cases. I have seen idiots who, being unable to understand (or worse, not interested in learning) how to properly use the existing resources of the operating system, they decide to make their own frameworks/VMs and end up making a mess that uses three times more resources than the native operating system functions and with three times as many defects.
This. I still remember when a browser (for example purposes) just needed a few MB to work (actually, mostly static pages and just a few simple javascripts but being honest did not needed much else). Now a browser to do the same job starts at over 256MB of RAM, which is more than most of the desktops of the era dreamed of having.
I think it's important to remember that what NASA does is more expensive than SpaceX because NASA's designs are usually unique and meant to be used only once, while SpaceX develops a design that is "good enough" and then produces several units using this same design. And both approaches are valid depending on what you intend to do: Experimental things (NASA) or simplify access to space (SpaceX).
P.S: I'm disregarding the "pork barrel" factor in my example, I think everyone already knows this and then they can focus on the "good part" of what NASA does.
The thing is, if you really want to make a long-term self sufficient outpost on Mars (or another planet), you will need to think big. Small spaces can't have the "buffers" that an entire city would have (so if there is a problem of water shortage in one section it will not immediately be a catastrophic problem, same for food, air, etc).
Obviously it would not be possible to create a whole city from the very beginning, but it is necessary to start from somewhere and this is what is being the problem, nobody wants to take those initial steps.
If your consumer wants cell phones, sell cell phones. If your consumer wants spare parts for his cell phone, sell spare parts for him (and upgrades where possible).
Correction: I mean "him", not "her" on the last part. I should have used "her" (for "person"), but since I don't think Americans would understand the use of Portuguese verbal agreement then I decided to use a middle ground and use "him" since the Google literal translation insists on switching "him" to "it".
A bit of (Brazilian) Portuguese for you: In Portuguese a "pessoa" (person) can be either "he" or "her," for purposes of verbal agreement is used more "her" (person is a "feminine" word in portuguese). You american guys in English apparently use "it" in this case, but in Portuguese "it" is "coisa" (thing), and I do not think it's right to call a person a "thing". As the literal translation seems to use "it" then I preferred to use "her" as it is used in Brazilian Portuguese so I can make it clear that I am talking about a person and not a thing.
To be more exact you need both. Provide food for the person not to starve immediately, and when the person is no longer at risk of starvation then you go to the part of educating him.
A thought. If you really really do need a wireless power transfer, how about using a smaller induction coil in the cradle and another "receiving" coil oriented in such a way that the two coils are facing each other when the cellphone is put on the cradle? And maybe with one ferrite core in the inductor and one in the receiver in such a way that the two once together form the core of a conventional transformer (two "E" cores, put together to make a "8")? I believe this would help to focus the magnetic field where it matters (in the coils) and thus reduce the exposure of the rest of the cell phone.
Exactly that. Among other things I am a professional electrician, and I wonder how can be safe to have something like a radio frequency emitter strong enough to induce usable current in a coil (which is the operating principle of a transformer) leaning against a delicate electronic device (the cell phone). It's such a risky operation where so much can go wrong that I'm impressed how they might want this rather than a simple cable connecting the cell to a conventional charger.
Interesting, I thought this was only happening in Brazil. Here they are also constantly reducing the size of the products without reducing the prices, a little more and a bar of chocolate will be the size of a "free sample" but with the price of the full product.
Not exactly. The problem with the human species is that you always have that odd individual who wants to own everything and everyone and who can not see any problem in that. It worsens when these individuals achieve positions of power like the command of companies or countries.
Ooooooooohhhh.... go home to cry more, socketpuppet.;-)
Did you guys just see that? Classic socketpuppet like I had said. More generic offenses such as being a "Petista" (member of the worker's party) would be a "crime" (it never was) and the typical class offense of the slave owners, which is to call others "favelados" (slum dwellers). The Brazilian internet has a small but noisy amount of these creatures hidden in the most sordid corners accepting any offer to get some extra money.
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You do not have to worry, it's just one of my experiences that went slightly out of control. Everything is under control. Seriously!
the thief-turned-victim has your home address. Get too nasty and he might return the favor with a molotov cocktail or even a bullet.
That's why when you're dealing with criminals you do not "bother" them, you kill them.
honestly, I would have used semtex instead of glitter.
The problem with global warming is that its effects are too slow to be perceived as a threat by a population that only cares about immediate events or at most within one year in the future.
So the border guards can steal your data without having to give any explanation and without having to fear consequences. And I'm not talking about "MP3 files", I'm talking about company documents, tax documents, industrial documents, all sorts of perfectly legal information that is private property of a company or an individual.
One more reason not to travel to the US, even to tourism.
I've always been curious about how the sun's gravity can affect objects so far away from itself as the Oort cloud. Consider that I am thinking in terms of distance versus force where the intensity of the force decreases with distance, at such distances the intensity of the gravitational force should be really really small right?
Qt is not "shinny and new" enough for millennial programmers.
Next thing they will be replacing the Windows kernel with the Linux kernel with a Win32 compatibility layer for running Windows apps on Linux
Too much trouble.
Optimization is not even the problem in most cases. I have seen idiots who, being unable to understand (or worse, not interested in learning) how to properly use the existing resources of the operating system, they decide to make their own frameworks/VMs and end up making a mess that uses three times more resources than the native operating system functions and with three times as many defects.
This. I still remember when a browser (for example purposes) just needed a few MB to work (actually, mostly static pages and just a few simple javascripts but being honest did not needed much else). Now a browser to do the same job starts at over 256MB of RAM, which is more than most of the desktops of the era dreamed of having.
I think it's important to remember that what NASA does is more expensive than SpaceX because NASA's designs are usually unique and meant to be used only once, while SpaceX develops a design that is "good enough" and then produces several units using this same design. And both approaches are valid depending on what you intend to do: Experimental things (NASA) or simplify access to space (SpaceX).
P.S: I'm disregarding the "pork barrel" factor in my example, I think everyone already knows this and then they can focus on the "good part" of what NASA does.
The thing is, if you really want to make a long-term self sufficient outpost on Mars (or another planet), you will need to think big. Small spaces can't have the "buffers" that an entire city would have (so if there is a problem of water shortage in one section it will not immediately be a catastrophic problem, same for food, air, etc).
Obviously it would not be possible to create a whole city from the very beginning, but it is necessary to start from somewhere and this is what is being the problem, nobody wants to take those initial steps.
Interesting. I'm just speculating, but would you have described inertia in quite a different way?
If your consumer wants cell phones, sell cell phones. If your consumer wants spare parts for his cell phone, sell spare parts for him (and upgrades where possible).
...your encryption method does not use prime numbers to work?
Correction: I mean "him", not "her" on the last part. I should have used "her" (for "person"), but since I don't think Americans would understand the use of Portuguese verbal agreement then I decided to use a middle ground and use "him" since the Google literal translation insists on switching "him" to "it".
A bit of (Brazilian) Portuguese for you: In Portuguese a "pessoa" (person) can be either "he" or "her," for purposes of verbal agreement is used more "her" (person is a "feminine" word in portuguese). You american guys in English apparently use "it" in this case, but in Portuguese "it" is "coisa" (thing), and I do not think it's right to call a person a "thing". As the literal translation seems to use "it" then I preferred to use "her" as it is used in Brazilian Portuguese so I can make it clear that I am talking about a person and not a thing.
To be more exact you need both. Provide food for the person not to starve immediately, and when the person is no longer at risk of starvation then you go to the part of educating him.
A thought. If you really really do need a wireless power transfer, how about using a smaller induction coil in the cradle and another "receiving" coil oriented in such a way that the two coils are facing each other when the cellphone is put on the cradle? And maybe with one ferrite core in the inductor and one in the receiver in such a way that the two once together form the core of a conventional transformer (two "E" cores, put together to make a "8")? I believe this would help to focus the magnetic field where it matters (in the coils) and thus reduce the exposure of the rest of the cell phone.
Exactly that. Among other things I am a professional electrician, and I wonder how can be safe to have something like a radio frequency emitter strong enough to induce usable current in a coil (which is the operating principle of a transformer) leaning against a delicate electronic device (the cell phone). It's such a risky operation where so much can go wrong that I'm impressed how they might want this rather than a simple cable connecting the cell to a conventional charger.
I also noticed that. As example, a BigMac here is getting smaller and more and more tasteless.
Interesting, I thought this was only happening in Brazil. Here they are also constantly reducing the size of the products without reducing the prices, a little more and a bar of chocolate will be the size of a "free sample" but with the price of the full product.
Not exactly. The problem with the human species is that you always have that odd individual who wants to own everything and everyone and who can not see any problem in that. It worsens when these individuals achieve positions of power like the command of companies or countries.
I don't give a shit.
Ooooooooohhhh.... go home to cry more, socketpuppet. ;-)
Did you guys just see that? Classic socketpuppet like I had said. More generic offenses such as being a "Petista" (member of the worker's party) would be a "crime" (it never was) and the typical class offense of the slave owners, which is to call others "favelados" (slum dwellers). The Brazilian internet has a small but noisy amount of these creatures hidden in the most sordid corners accepting any offer to get some extra money.