Remember, it is the Templeton Foundation (they of the Templeton Prize) funding this research. This is just a wild-goose-chase that will add another pseudo-argument to the quiver: "See, Intelligent Design it is plausible. "Science" has looked for Dyson Spheres and didn't find any! Therefore we must be alone in the universe and therefore we must be the special unique creations of God."
They even get to pretend to be impartial because they funded it. Ugh!
Having spent 2 days at a Renewable Energy conference talking to power generators, utilities and distributors recently, this is exactly what I asked of the people who are justifying building these projects.
Are these projects (wind, solar, landfill gas, waste-to-energy) cost effective without subsidies? ANSWER: No
Can the industry place some monetary present-value-of-future-worth on the reduced environmental impact from renewables? ANSWER: No
Unfortunately, while it seems logical that we should be able to take into account our children's children's fresh air/current coastline/climate/etc., nobody seems to be able to do this. Without some significant technological leap in efficiency or materials, it appears renewables cannot compete on a purely economic calculation without government subsidies. Unfortunately, that means we are dependent on the changing political will of each subsequent congress/administration.
What was particularly telling was the chart I saw showing MW of Wind Generation added per year. There would be significant installations (100s of MW) in one year, then almost nothing the next, because the Federal Installation Tax Credit was not renewed that year. The next year the installations spiked again due to new tax credits. The following year, bupkis, due again to no tax credits.
There are more targeted organizations to give your money to than a church if your goal is to help the needy. United Way, Habitat for Humanity, Red Cross come to mind. When you give your money to a church, however, you lose control of the end goal of your money. Presumably, some fraction will go to administrative costs (pastors would fall under this category) in either case, but churches do not exist solely for charitable causes. Your money will in some measure be supporting the message and recruitment of the churches next generation. This is the same issue with having the government handle your charitable money... the organization in question has many goals and once they have your money, they can funnel it wherever they want. For me, it is important to separate the message (potentially something like this anti-gay application) from the charitable action.
Who wants to look away from their monitor to figure out which icon they are clicking? There are plenty of multi-button, context-aware mice out there already. This seems wasteful and distracting.
My daughter has an iPod Touch. It's just a bit too small for my older eyes and big, fat fingers.
That said, it is what got me researching.
I know the iPad2 will be fabulous, but as I said in the submission, I need a little more hackability. I picked up an Arduino kit for Christmas and have seen some interesting stuff integrating those two platforms.
P.S. FWIW, I don't need to mow lawns to afford the iPad... I could get the 3G version now with the money I have reserved for this.
First, let me be clear that I wholeheartedly agree with you that this is a question of freedom, and neither side is legally restricted, either from burning the Quran, or building a mosque near Ground Zero.
The point is the same that I try to convey to my young children: we have the FREEDOM to do a lot of things, but there may be CONSEQUENCES to your actions that are negative. I think this is why you have Petraeus and Obama weighing in on this subject. If it was ILLEGAL, you'd have the FBI knocking on your door... as it is, it is UNWISE, so you have people publicly suggesting you don't do it.
The genome contains enough information to build the brain from raw materials. However, this data has already been losslessly compressed by countless generations of evolution. We would need to discover the evolved compression algorithm to "unpack" the 800 million bytes into the 3.2 billion bytes (using his factor-of-4 ratio) in order to begin understanding it.
Of-course this is just of top of the head and maybe stupid
^^ This ^^
30 years ago, drilling a well at this depth was not possible. Drilling technology has advanced to the point where drilling at this depth is now possible. Technology has also advanced to the point where the "same shit they tried 30 years ago" is even an available option at 5000+ ft down.
As an engineer, I take offense when people come up with stuff off the top of their head and assume that teams of professionals haven't considered the same options and rationally analyzed the feasibility.
I can assure you, all the crazy ideas you can possibly consider, and more, are being discussed among the engineers at BP who actually have experience in this industry. Yes, this spill is horrible. No, I can't believe BP doesn't want to have this fixed ASAP. The engineers on the front line simply don't have time to address the media, therefore you are left with execs so far removed from the actual work that they look like incompetent boobs
To what scale is this a "map of the Earth"? At some point this will become so small a 3D map of the Earth is going to be indistinguishable from a sphere.
Having lived 2 years in Switzerland, their security is assured very proactively. Every male 18 to 40ish is required to serve in their military. It's not unusual to see tanks rolling down the street midday, on the way to training. Soldiers are often seen on the trains in full uniform, with weapon, off to their weekend on-duty. At a colleague's home, his service rifle was propped up in the corner next to his Swatch collection. Police with automatic weapons are obvious on their patrols at the airport in Zurich.
The Swiss may be conservative, but afraid of violence, they are not.
Slashdot Mirror
This is a feature and future revenue stream for Google.
Imagine the number of YouTube cooked-cat videos and the resulting ad revenue!
Ideal, spherical cows, I presume in this case?
I interpreted this sentence to imply that these versions (prior to 4.1) can not even be PATCHED. Poorly worded to say the least.
And that is the likely goal!
Remember, it is the Templeton Foundation (they of the Templeton Prize) funding this research. This is just a wild-goose-chase that will add another pseudo-argument to the quiver: "See, Intelligent Design it is plausible. "Science" has looked for Dyson Spheres and didn't find any! Therefore we must be alone in the universe and therefore we must be the special unique creations of God."
They even get to pretend to be impartial because they funded it. Ugh!
Having spent 2 days at a Renewable Energy conference talking to power generators, utilities and distributors recently, this is exactly what I asked of the people who are justifying building these projects.
Unfortunately, while it seems logical that we should be able to take into account our children's children's fresh air/current coastline/climate/etc., nobody seems to be able to do this. Without some significant technological leap in efficiency or materials, it appears renewables cannot compete on a purely economic calculation without government subsidies. Unfortunately, that means we are dependent on the changing political will of each subsequent congress/administration.
What was particularly telling was the chart I saw showing MW of Wind Generation added per year. There would be significant installations (100s of MW) in one year, then almost nothing the next, because the Federal Installation Tax Credit was not renewed that year. The next year the installations spiked again due to new tax credits. The following year, bupkis, due again to no tax credits.
Jumping on the bandwagon...
I would appreciate an invitation please, if you have some left. jpyeck[at]gmail
Thanks in advance!
There are more targeted organizations to give your money to than a church if your goal is to help the needy. United Way, Habitat for Humanity, Red Cross come to mind. When you give your money to a church, however, you lose control of the end goal of your money. Presumably, some fraction will go to administrative costs (pastors would fall under this category) in either case, but churches do not exist solely for charitable causes. Your money will in some measure be supporting the message and recruitment of the churches next generation. This is the same issue with having the government handle your charitable money... the organization in question has many goals and once they have your money, they can funnel it wherever they want. For me, it is important to separate the message (potentially something like this anti-gay application) from the charitable action.
Scrolling isn't bad on my rooted Nook Color in Dolphin HD 4.2. The top bar seems to follow me with a major lag though.
Who wants to look away from their monitor to figure out which icon they are clicking? There are plenty of multi-button, context-aware mice out there already. This seems wasteful and distracting.
oh... also forgot something that a later post reminded me of:
SIP to access our phone account while traveling.
Some of the things I would like to use it for:
I'll reply to you to address all the "save the $" and "6 mo CD" comments.
I've already set aside >2x the amount I'm willing to spend on this "treat", plus payed some debt down.
This exercise is trying to maximize the remaining bang-for-the-buck.
My daughter has an iPod Touch. It's just a bit too small for my older eyes and big, fat fingers.
That said, it is what got me researching.
I know the iPad2 will be fabulous, but as I said in the submission, I need a little more hackability. I picked up an Arduino kit for Christmas and have seen some interesting stuff integrating those two platforms.
P.S. FWIW, I don't need to mow lawns to afford the iPad... I could get the 3G version now with the money I have reserved for this.
You need to upgrade to the "29 or" version of your "6 to 4".
BONUS: You're more likely to get laid if you use this in your college dorm.
I've already seen the bumper sticker for that: "Mean People Suck"
First, let me be clear that I wholeheartedly agree with you that this is a question of freedom, and neither side is legally restricted, either from burning the Quran, or building a mosque near Ground Zero.
The point is the same that I try to convey to my young children: we have the FREEDOM to do a lot of things, but there may be CONSEQUENCES to your actions that are negative. I think this is why you have Petraeus and Obama weighing in on this subject. If it was ILLEGAL, you'd have the FBI knocking on your door... as it is, it is UNWISE, so you have people publicly suggesting you don't do it.
And what kind of management are you doing that wears out your shoes? Can't you manage-by-email or manage-by-powerpoint?
He's doing the calculation the wrong direction!
The genome contains enough information to build the brain from raw materials. However, this data has already been losslessly compressed by countless generations of evolution. We would need to discover the evolved compression algorithm to "unpack" the 800 million bytes into the 3.2 billion bytes (using his factor-of-4 ratio) in order to begin understanding it.
You actually get to talk to a person on the phone?
Of-course this is just of top of the head and maybe stupid
^^ This ^^
30 years ago, drilling a well at this depth was not possible. Drilling technology has advanced to the point where drilling at this depth is now possible. Technology has also advanced to the point where the "same shit they tried 30 years ago" is even an available option at 5000+ ft down.
As an engineer, I take offense when people come up with stuff off the top of their head and assume that teams of professionals haven't considered the same options and rationally analyzed the feasibility.
I can assure you, all the crazy ideas you can possibly consider, and more, are being discussed among the engineers at BP who actually have experience in this industry. Yes, this spill is horrible. No, I can't believe BP doesn't want to have this fixed ASAP. The engineers on the front line simply don't have time to address the media, therefore you are left with execs so far removed from the actual work that they look like incompetent boobs
To what scale is this a "map of the Earth"? At some point this will become so small a 3D map of the Earth is going to be indistinguishable from a sphere.
I saw them a handful of times in Hinwil, ZH from our office building. I do believe we were near a depot though.
Sarcasm noted, however...
Having lived 2 years in Switzerland, their security is assured very proactively. Every male 18 to 40ish is required to serve in their military. It's not unusual to see tanks rolling down the street midday, on the way to training. Soldiers are often seen on the trains in full uniform, with weapon, off to their weekend on-duty. At a colleague's home, his service rifle was propped up in the corner next to his Swatch collection. Police with automatic weapons are obvious on their patrols at the airport in Zurich.
The Swiss may be conservative, but afraid of violence, they are not.
Did I fall asleep?
For a little while.
+1 Sadly Funny
I think the toon you're describing is in my guild! She's not a bot, that's her typical M.O. We just don't have the heart to boot her from the guild.