Over the long term, yes. But on shorter time scales there have been a lot of extended ups and downs, and some of the downs have been quite unpleasant for the people who had to live through them.
In general that is true, but it does not apply to thing like the tools required to produce the things that can be heavily monetized, and laptops for professionals are one of those tools. One cannot design the next generation of low-end laptops without powerful high end computers, and it is much easier to carry an high-end laptop to a factory or design meeting or brainstorming retreat than it is to ship a desktop system. Tools tend to be niche market, but without them there are no toys.
Barring a visit by a Class V space jellyfish there will almost certainly be future generations in 58 years. The real question is what will their quality of life be like?
> Socially, the 20xx years will probably be closer to the 18xx years than the 19xx years, without a Soviet Union that forces us to look like we're the good guys, there is exactly no reason that cutthroat capitalism shouldn't be employed to the full extent that we had in the 1800s. Only far, far more efficiently.
This is probably the most insightful comment that I have read today.
In many ways Putinist Russia is Tsarist Russia. The broad outlines of Russia's current governance and foreign policy would be immediately recognizable to people in 1911. The thing they would not have predicted was the 62-year hiatus in the middle of the 20th century.
On the other hand, the long-term demographic problems facing Austria-Hungary were known and both Russia and Germany were trying to get their ducks in a row in case the empire collapsed. Much of the lead-up to WWI, and the Balkans wars. was states jockeying for position in a post-AH world. It was widely assumed that Austria-Hungary would not survive in its (then) current form much beyond the death of Franz-Josef. Even his heir was openly talking about radically restructuring the empire.
The Cosmological Constant, which is the part of the equation that requires dark energy, is a fundamental part of the Einstein field equation. It is as real as a constant of integration is. There is no question mathematically that this term is required. The real question is what is its value, because theory does not predict that. Scientists tend to think it is one of 0, ~10^35, or ~10^88, but the question is very much open. The big range in predicted values is the problem, not the fact that there the field equation has a constant term.
Yes. Many people really thought that Apple was going to manufacture their own car. Realistically, though, I think you are right. Car companies will end up shopping around for the best software.
But there was clear economic benefit in setting up colonies in North America. The fishing ground off Newfoundland were making some people in Western Europe very rich. The gold and silver being looted from Central and South America created and maintained the Spanish Empire for over a century, and there was a wide-spread belief that there were similar "cities of gold" in North America. Many a man in Britain and France became wealthy from the North American fur trade. The economic benefits of the New World were very real and very clear to both the chattering classes and to the newly emerging capitalist class.
The plan is to crash Juno into Jupiter at the end of the mission, so we will get some nice close-up imagery at the end. This will require a manoeuver to change the orbit. The telemetry from the de-orbit burn may provide some useful information about the valves. The reason to de-orbit Juno into the planet is to be sure the probe does not contaminate any of the Jovian moons at some point in the future. After all, we do not want to (eventually) go to Europa and find e. coli spreading from the crash site.
Or, better yet, just ignore the little snowflakes that whine about the way the term is used. Anyone who is so insecure that they cannot accept that languages evolve can retreat to their safe spaces and quote Dirty Harry at each other while the rest of us get on with our lives
I disageee; if self-driving cars eventually work as well as some people expect them to they will become the norm very quickly. Whether or not the technology will be good enough to allow that is, as far as I can tell, still an open question. However, some of the largest and most successful companies on the planet are spending billions of dollars a year to develop self-driving cars, and these corporations are not known for having infinite cash reserves or chasing sci-fi fantasies like flying cars. Also, these car companies have a lot to lose if automobiles ever become a mere appliance. That they are investing so heavily in self-driving vehicles suggests that they see fully-autonomous cars as their best road to long-term profitability.
The potential market for self-driving vehicles is huge. Most people are not auto enthusiasts. They drive because they have no choice. In places where public transit is a realistic option the rate of vehicle ownership drops dramatically. Many of these drive-because-they-have-to drivers are going to embrace self-driving cars as soon as they are convinced the technology is mature enough to keep them safe. The various delivery sectors are going to embrace self-driving vehicles too because they eliminates one of their largest recurring costs: paying human drivers. Then there is the aging population. Most people alive today in the US and Canada have been driving all their lives and are not going to want to give up that mobility as they become unable to drive safely. Aging baby boomers are numerous and a natural market for self-driving vehicles. And these are just the markets that come to mind immediately.
In my experience people who blame the victim of a crime are often either committing that crime themselves, or think that they may commit it (perhaps accidentally) in the future.
The observations are not wrong. Measuring the velocity dispersion of stars in a globular clusters is not a much harder, or more conceptually difficult, than measuring the colour of a fluorescent light. Determining a galactic rotation curve is a bit more complex, but not much so. These observations have been done tens of thousands of times using many different techniques, sometimes by groups of astrophysicists who hate each other and would like nothing more than to discredit the person who got to speak instead of them at last January's AAS meeting. The observational evidence for dark matter is overwhelming. The modeling, on the other hand, has more assumptions built in. The key assumption is that gravity, in the weak limit, follows Newton's law of gravity, and there is a 400 years of evidence to support that.
Many people have spent a lot of time looking for ways to explain single like galaxy rotation curves, stellar velocities in globular clusters and elliptical galaxies, the structure of galaxy clustering and what-not without success. The simplest explanation has always turned out to be that there is some sort of extra matter that we cannot see. Dark matter requires the smallest number of assumptions out of all explanations that people have proposed so far. By Ocham's Razor it is probably the right solution. And by Grabthar's Hammer you shall be avenged.
Bolides are moving fast enough that they do not even notice the atmosphere. The impact velocity is going to depend on the orbital dynamics of the planet and the rock.
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Over the long term, yes. But on shorter time scales there have been a lot of extended ups and downs, and some of the downs have been quite unpleasant for the people who had to live through them.
In general that is true, but it does not apply to thing like the tools required to produce the things that can be heavily monetized, and laptops for professionals are one of those tools. One cannot design the next generation of low-end laptops without powerful high end computers, and it is much easier to carry an high-end laptop to a factory or design meeting or brainstorming retreat than it is to ship a desktop system. Tools tend to be niche market, but without them there are no toys.
Barring a visit by a Class V space jellyfish there will almost certainly be future generations in 58 years. The real question is what will their quality of life be like?
> Socially, the 20xx years will probably be closer to the 18xx years than the 19xx years, without a Soviet Union that forces us to look like we're the good guys, there is exactly no reason that cutthroat capitalism shouldn't be employed to the full extent that we had in the 1800s. Only far, far more efficiently.
This is probably the most insightful comment that I have read today.
In many ways Putinist Russia is Tsarist Russia. The broad outlines of Russia's current governance and foreign policy would be immediately recognizable to people in 1911. The thing they would not have predicted was the 62-year hiatus in the middle of the 20th century.
On the other hand, the long-term demographic problems facing Austria-Hungary were known and both Russia and Germany were trying to get their ducks in a row in case the empire collapsed. Much of the lead-up to WWI, and the Balkans wars. was states jockeying for position in a post-AH world. It was widely assumed that Austria-Hungary would not survive in its (then) current form much beyond the death of Franz-Josef. Even his heir was openly talking about radically restructuring the empire.
I have no idea what type of fruit some drivers think the signs are, but I see human drivers running stop signs every day.
The Cosmological Constant, which is the part of the equation that requires dark energy, is a fundamental part of the Einstein field equation. It is as real as a constant of integration is. There is no question mathematically that this term is required. The real question is what is its value, because theory does not predict that. Scientists tend to think it is one of 0, ~10^35, or ~10^88, but the question is very much open. The big range in predicted values is the problem, not the fact that there the field equation has a constant term.
Fortran is a dead language.
Yes. Many people really thought that Apple was going to manufacture their own car. Realistically, though, I think you are right. Car companies will end up shopping around for the best software.
There isn't much point speculating about who will win after the winner has crossed the finish line.
But there was clear economic benefit in setting up colonies in North America. The fishing ground off Newfoundland were making some people in Western Europe very rich. The gold and silver being looted from Central and South America created and maintained the Spanish Empire for over a century, and there was a wide-spread belief that there were similar "cities of gold" in North America. Many a man in Britain and France became wealthy from the North American fur trade. The economic benefits of the New World were very real and very clear to both the chattering classes and to the newly emerging capitalist class.
And happy little unicorns will frolic in my yard.
The plan is to crash Juno into Jupiter at the end of the mission, so we will get some nice close-up imagery at the end. This will require a manoeuver to change the orbit. The telemetry from the de-orbit burn may provide some useful information about the valves. The reason to de-orbit Juno into the planet is to be sure the probe does not contaminate any of the Jovian moons at some point in the future. After all, we do not want to (eventually) go to Europa and find e. coli spreading from the crash site.
So do I, and I try to avoid using the newer meaning. However, languages evolve and getting upset about it is not going to change that.
Or, better yet, just ignore the little snowflakes that whine about the way the term is used. Anyone who is so insecure that they cannot accept that languages evolve can retreat to their safe spaces and quote Dirty Harry at each other while the rest of us get on with our lives
They are probably planning to vapourize anyone who criticizes their products.
The last three JJ Abrams Star Trek movies (I think one of them may have been mis-labeled as a Star Wars movie) were beyond awful.
Grow up.
I disageee; if self-driving cars eventually work as well as some people expect them to they will become the norm very quickly. Whether or not the technology will be good enough to allow that is, as far as I can tell, still an open question. However, some of the largest and most successful companies on the planet are spending billions of dollars a year to develop self-driving cars, and these corporations are not known for having infinite cash reserves or chasing sci-fi fantasies like flying cars. Also, these car companies have a lot to lose if automobiles ever become a mere appliance. That they are investing so heavily in self-driving vehicles suggests that they see fully-autonomous cars as their best road to long-term profitability.
The potential market for self-driving vehicles is huge. Most people are not auto enthusiasts. They drive because they have no choice. In places where public transit is a realistic option the rate of vehicle ownership drops dramatically. Many of these drive-because-they-have-to drivers are going to embrace self-driving cars as soon as they are convinced the technology is mature enough to keep them safe. The various delivery sectors are going to embrace self-driving vehicles too because they eliminates one of their largest recurring costs: paying human drivers. Then there is the aging population. Most people alive today in the US and Canada have been driving all their lives and are not going to want to give up that mobility as they become unable to drive safely. Aging baby boomers are numerous and a natural market for self-driving vehicles. And these are just the markets that come to mind immediately.
Someone needs to police this thread...
In my experience people who blame the victim of a crime are often either committing that crime themselves, or think that they may commit it (perhaps accidentally) in the future.
They are just doing what Trump asked them to.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."
The observations are not wrong. Measuring the velocity dispersion of stars in a globular clusters is not a much harder, or more conceptually difficult, than measuring the colour of a fluorescent light. Determining a galactic rotation curve is a bit more complex, but not much so. These observations have been done tens of thousands of times using many different techniques, sometimes by groups of astrophysicists who hate each other and would like nothing more than to discredit the person who got to speak instead of them at last January's AAS meeting. The observational evidence for dark matter is overwhelming. The modeling, on the other hand, has more assumptions built in. The key assumption is that gravity, in the weak limit, follows Newton's law of gravity, and there is a 400 years of evidence to support that.
Many people have spent a lot of time looking for ways to explain single like galaxy rotation curves, stellar velocities in globular clusters and elliptical galaxies, the structure of galaxy clustering and what-not without success. The simplest explanation has always turned out to be that there is some sort of extra matter that we cannot see. Dark matter requires the smallest number of assumptions out of all explanations that people have proposed so far. By Ocham's Razor it is probably the right solution. And by Grabthar's Hammer you shall be avenged.
Bolides are moving fast enough that they do not even notice the atmosphere. The impact velocity is going to depend on the orbital dynamics of the planet and the rock.